We like to joke about Reddit and TikTok here but the wildest things happen on Snapchat. I saw a vid this week of a woman filming herself stabbing another woman for sleeping with *someone else's* boyfriend.
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LIGHT AND SHADE-An old street lamp in the ancient Polish town of Wroclaw. Currently not doing its job
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Thank God we got rid of that Chinese spy balloon. Anyways, time to take out my Huawei phone and watch some good old fashioned TikToks.
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We should be honest enough to admit that many people have had to abandon dreams on becoming parents, rather than through the slower and less traditional means of insufficient talent, inadequate resources and extreme imbalances of supply and demand.
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"Buccal fat removal" is an interesting euphemism for "doing meth".
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Chilly morning.
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There’s nothing better than a nice Sunday morning spent sipping coffee, eating croissants and gloating about young men being annihilated.
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A dog insists on sitting outside the bathroom when you’re in there because you’re always with it when it it’s doing its business so it thinks it’s an activity that demands protection.
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Anyone who’s only been half paying attention would think this woman said a mild slur on a reality TV show.
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Peterson's much better argument for family — not original to him of course — was that it helps people to weather the pain and anxiety of existence. That might be a bit too bleak but it makes far more sense than 90s sitcom utopia, featuring a mash-up of Al Bundy and Superman.
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I’m all for people getting married and having kids — better, more useful people than I in most cases — but looking over human history, art, philosophy et cetera and drawing the conclusion that people are simple and easily satisfied is odd.
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. surveys the field for Republican party nominees: “Something of a hawk when it comes to foreign policy, Mr Jolton has advocated regime change in Russia, Syria, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, France, Ethiopia, Australia and Montenegro”
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Sensitivity reader: Okay, so I’ve read the book and I have one or two concerns.
Marquis de Sade: Go on...
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There’s an amazing genre of lifestyle column that can be reduced to, "I’m a sociopath! Here's why..."
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Alex Rosenberg's "The Atheist's Guide to Reality" has the most hilariously blunt introduction.
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"But officer, I said *white* women!"
*I’m released with a fulsome apology*
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| NEW: Online misogyny will be made ILLEGAL under new Government plans
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Student: White people do be evil tho
Me: Fascinating. She must have internalised Hegel's Gnosticism via Foucault's theory of power. A child of the Frankfurt School if there ever was one, raised on Adorno's conception of the authoritarian personali—
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[Phenomenon I disliked already] has a hostile culture for women, critics say
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Fucking hell
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Niektórzy z was kłamią, bracia.
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I firmly believe that people who use this 👇 GIF should be denied the vote. I can’t quite explain it but you know I’m right.
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Posting 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to earn $7.99 and invest it right back into Twitter Blue.
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Guys who wear beanie hats all the time, they're always c-section babies. They never experienced the birth canal gripping their skull so they need an artificial cloth mother to maintain mental stability.
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This man used to be a ceaseless architect of war and now he’s raving on Twitter in the middle of the night. A sad image of decline.
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If the balloon had anti-black history messages stenciled on it, or if it were dropping anti-trans pamphlets down to earth, or if it were broadcasting denunciations of wokeness non-stop, MAGA would be pro-balloon. They’d be welcoming the balloon. They’d be worshipping the balloon.
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New blog post! It's about optimal R&D tax policy, how to reduce childcare costs and the best songs by Taylor Swift from the 1989 era (2 likes)
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*Finally*. If there's one thing I think when I think "South Korea" I think "slackers who have too much time with their families".
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What do South Koreans think about the government's plan to increase the workweek from 52 to 69 hours? A new survey asked.
Disapproval was much higher in all age groups except over 60s -- only group where approval was higher (just by 4.6%)
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Just read someone say "mutual abuse doesn't exist" and I'd love to inhabit the world where scumbags were so rare that it's inconceivable that two could come together.
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Have I lost my mind. Am I hallucinating. Is that what’s happening
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If you think about it, we should bring back polio, because who are we to say that polio is something to be "solved". Were the children who were vaccinated against polio consulted about how they felt to have a potential illness "treated as a problem"?
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As far as I can tell, the only real advantage of not being blind is not having to read opinion commentary like this.
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“ReSantis is despised by liberals,” observes, “who blame him for not persecuting beachgoers during the pandemic”
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The entire British establishment is high on a concern for 'optics': appearances are their reality.
To a chief constable, stopping people singing about murder is little different than stopping people murdering, but it's much, much easier to enforce.
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These instances are DELIBERATELY silly.
The agenda is not genuine, it's about taking things from you in a surreal way, then making you waste energy floundering to get them back against waves of paid, professionals activists.
This is how power operates.
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I can't stand this channel, but it has less to do with charity being a cold and loveless thing than his aesthetics being absolutely gross.
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100% this. Cameron, Osborne, Gove and all the rest of the rest of the thirteen Tory years: they didn’t just keep Harman’s Equality Act, they expanded, deepened and championed it.
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No. It’s a blatant limited hangout to try and claw back traditional Tory voters before the elections.
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Wow, a Western politician has worked out what a woman is. Is it possible we're approaching or, whisper it quietly, have maybe even reached peak woke?
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