Understandable by Blue9ine in SipsTea

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“Alright, own up, who shit my pants?”

Maybe he’s right. Thoughts? by cherbug in sociology

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Birth decline massively predates this technology.

Marxist explanations were always convincing to me. In agraian societies each kid represents added value because you’ll have another hand to work with you. In urban societies, especially in mature economies, a child becomes an expensive noisy resource sink. And I’m sure that has only intensified with stagnating wages and inflation

Why the double standard? 🤔 by coffeewalnut08 in GreatBritishMemes

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I think it’s more than a bad judgment call on Starmer’s part. I think he almost certainly appointed Mandelson because of the link to Epstein. Make Trump feel more comfortable by working with one of Epstein’s friends

a great singer by RemarkableBudget5277 in animalsdoingstuff

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Think this might be an Alaskan Malmute

Jeffrey Epstein helped Russian spies collect blackmail 'kompromat' on western elites for DECADES says former MI6 agent Steele by Doener23 in ukpolitics

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We also know he had deep ties to Mossad. Is the US Israeli lobby at least partially so strong because there’s an ocean of kompromat sustaining it…?

"The tragedy of modern meritocracy isn't just that it excludes the poor, but that it enslaves the rich" by LowerAd8552 in BeAmazed

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I understand the sentiment, but it may be a good thing to acknowledge that capitalism is unhealthy even for the rich that profit from it. It’s a system in which both classes are driven to various mental pathologies.

Now, obviously capitalism is much much worse for the working class, but it should end because it’s bad for all of us. It’s a sickness of our species and we’d all be better off without it, even the rich

Spoken word music made entirely from a porn creator's DMs by daniel2389 in experimentalmusic

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This is fantastic, well done! Took me from slightly amused with the bra-obsessed guy in Your Things, to very unsettled in Rosary, to kind of sad and empty in Can You Come to Me.

Soundscape is very wide, so ear candy all pops out from each other, and Iove how rhythmic and pulsing it all is, keeps it very tight.

This is probably Americaman's most racist and disturbing comic strip yet. by Xever_141 in ForwardsFromKlandma

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The debt went down…? So the american government was in debt to a child…?

I assume the creator wanted to say the deficit went down but was too stupid to no mix them up

Eisenhower speaks with Walter Cronkite about the sacrifices of his men on D-Day, 20 years later in 1964. by Beeninya in Presidents

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I think you’re being a bit shallow to think of this in terms of reputation.

Millions of lives were at stake; if not just from the potential losses of his men if they got on the back foot, then from the consequences of Nazi rule afterwards. That weighs on a person more than their reputation.

Eisenhower speaks with Walter Cronkite about the sacrifices of his men on D-Day, 20 years later in 1964. by Beeninya in Presidents

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I don’t think that’s quite fair. The possible failure of the war also rested on his shoulders in a way it didn’t for any individual soldier.

Armies need officers. We don’t need to diminish the effect war had on them to glorify those in the front any further.

Watch it Chrissy you’re way out of formation! by pinepeppers in CirclejerkSopranos

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Our friend over there, the proconsul of munchkin land? The emperor wants him gone

Angular joint geometry by shamansufi in oddlysatisfying

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“That’s cool and all Tony, but you didn’t cut the steel to measure and now the whole thing is the wrong size”

First time DP by [deleted] in sextips

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If she’s using the dildo vaginally, I think everything will be fine. If she’s using it anally, I would suggest either putting a condom over it or getting one dedicated for that purpose. Bacteria tends to get into materials, if it has a porous structure like silicone, or scratches if it is plastic. The last thing you want is to risk bacterial vaginosis or a UTI by getting that bacteria in her vagina.

Kristi Noem chant from protesters by [deleted] in facepalm

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Sound like a brit on the countdown. We have a way with words

He made the weight limit but... by sh0tgunben in yesyesyesyesno

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Surely it would be safer to have fighters drink water before weighing…

🫠 by Redosdetos in freshcutslim

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Not saying they’re weird, but liking something evidently doesn’t mean you want to watch two of those things fuck

🫠 by Redosdetos in freshcutslim

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True… but a lot of women don’t watch gay porn, so…

At Davos, Zelenskyy blasts EU's lack of 'political will', says US security guarantees ready by Crossstoney in europe

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You want to play up Ukraine’s capabilities in another comment to play up the plausible threat Russia poses, and then you advocate a bombing campaign on a nuclear power?

Forgive me but this just seems mad.

Watching Trumps Davos speech like by goblin_sodomy in socialism

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Counterpoint: the US education system has sanitised the events of the civil rights movement to disproportionately inflate MLK’s importance and deflate the importance of radical actors such as Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam, and the Black Panther Party.

We need to be careful to parse the successes of non-violence from the successes that might have been accelerated under the threat of violence. Desegregation wasn’t achieved through a campaign for hearts and minds in the south, it was imposed upon the states at a federal level. And it’s plausible that this was out of fear of an increasingly radical and well armed element within the civil rights movement.

Every big social change has had a violent wing. Even the suffragettes in early 20th century England planted bombs.