Rule Clarifications

Howdy all, given what we've been seeing in the mod queue and what you've certainly all been seeing out and about we wanted to be clear on our stance here.

r/neoliberal is a liberal sub, we support liberal values. These include but are not limited to supporting a person's right to live their lives free of discrimination or interference.

We've seen a large uptick in comments stating that democrats should abandon certain groups (specifically transgender people) in order to gain votes. Let's be clear, this is not our sub's position - we support trans rights, we support minority rights, we support freedoms of movement and expression.

Anyone making these comments will be permanently banned, we've had enough. Like Jesus fricking Christ, be better.

Example of what's okay to say: "I'm afraid democrats will abandon X group to earn votes"

Example of what's not okay to say: "democrats should abandon X group to earn votes"

This feels straightforward but apparently has to be said. Please use the report button to help us enforce this policy, as there are many comments we otherwise don't see (there are maybe a dozen of us active, and the sub has gotten tens of thousands of comments in the past 24 hours).

Just be kind. It's easy. God bless.

According to Wikipedia Neoliberalism is "both a political philosophy and a term used to signify the late-20th-century political reappearance of 19th-century ideas associated with free-market capitalism". Apparently caring about free markets more than legalizing over the counter puberty blockers is incompatible with neoliberalism, though. Incidentally, did anyone else really like Bernie's policies but not vote for him because he's a priviliged white man???? !neolibs

Prior thread: https://rdrama.net/post/335949/tariq-nasheed-and-other-fba-patriots

FBA lessons:

There is a Nigerian dude who is selling online courses on how to look like FBAs and how to talk with Foundational Black American accents#smh pic.twitter.com/hS6wztF5Sv

— Tariq Nasheed 🇺🇸 (@tariqnasheed) January 29, 2025

True & Honest FBA's unpleased by this, but some respect the hustle

in its time as one of the deadest( but best) esports of all time, competitive tf2 has had numerous dramas, some funnier than others. most of these are libertarian drama. one notable one occurred back in 2016

b4nny

Grant "B4nny" Vincent is the most successful competitive tf2 player of all time, having at least 30 tournament wins, 4 international tournament wins and numerous other meaningless trophies for his collection since 2008, racking up over 28,000 hours in the game. (no seriously) He is notable for being perhaps the only tf2 player to have made a career from streaming and for his enormous ego, creating numerous moments of hilarity.

(there will be more.)

one of b4nny's most redeeming traits (at least in the past) remains his penchant for tweeting.

his tweet game was so prolific that there is a 15 page thread on the main competitive tf2 forum compiling people's favorites

https://www.teamfortress.tv/32408/favorite-b4nny-tweet

some of these have caused immense seethe.

some of my favourites include:

(ok, this one is pretty funny, hes making fun of someone for not going to lan because of school or something lol)

despite his mastermind X antics b4nny has had a rough relationship with the community through the years.

initially starting off well liked, something seemed to snap in b4nny's heart, turning it cold.

maybe this was when he got cucked by his teammate and continued to play with him after finding out because he loves winning that much. Maybe it was his own teammate leaving mid-playoffs match due to him insisting on swapping the team's roles around for some reason, causing his team to get upset, get 3rd place (up to this point b4nny hadnt been either 1st or second in the top division for 4 years!) and disband immediately after. This also happened again like 7 years later but thats a different story.

B4nny immediately rebuilt his team with new up and coming players (including some who would go on to play in theoverwatch league (lolll)

all was well in b4nny's camp. He had recently met his funding goal to attend the 2016 international lan hosted in some shithole in england idk lol

one fateful day, b4nny decided to beat his liver and stream drunk. Clearly intoxicated, b4nny streamed on. meanwhile an up and coming top european player by the name of thalash decided to do some trolling by insinuating that b4nny was getting carried by his now ex-teammate who had cucked him in the past. B4nny's ego, already more inflated than the hindenburg (RIp crodies) reached nuclear meltdown levels. how dare a player who has never gone to LAN talk down on me like this!

b4nny also has a bizarre half-joking hatred for european players, berating their playstyle constantly for being slow and boring (true)

these factors lead to b4nny going on a legendary drunken tangent raving about europeans, accolades and how thalash is the equivalent of what someone might call a plumber or taxi driver driver in the UFC.

the most notable part of this autism fueled rant is b4nny's legendary statement that he requests his new found foe utter when he loses to him on lan(0:33 seconds in video 1 :) )

im sorry im not good i apologize for my ego please forgive me, im just europeean.

uh oh!

this sparks huge drama in the community, with some pointing out that thalash was provoking an obviously deathly drunk b4nny while others laughed at his ego about an already small esport.

august 26, 2016

b4nny has arrived in europe with his team to smite the europeeans once and for all.

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at his sexiest, he is ready to take the win and prove why blumpfkenstiltskin needs to stop giving aid to twink european panhandlers.

can you guess what happens?

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b4nny loses, becoming a laughing stock and likely killing some hobo in retaliation (he lived in la).

b4nny later returns to his uncrushable winning ways, winning every single major tournament in NA until 2021 and eventually getting his getback on thalash in 2018 and 2019 at lan, one being in NA one being in ingerland.

b4nny still plays to this day. i think despite his insufferable ego, its quite impressive hes been able to dedicate himself to this without roping or moving on to another esport. hes clearly a talented team leader and team builder.

ill probably never post again on this site but theres so much funny drama from this esport holy shit lol

!crossword

LA Times, Sun, Jan 26, 2025 - "Quality Time"

https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6898590-swug

SOLVED

NY Times, Sun, Jan 26, 2025 - "Letter Openers"

https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6898597-vosk

SOLVED

LA Times, Sat, Jan 25, 2025

https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6898606-glaff

SOLVED

NY Times, Sat, Jan 25, 2025

https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6898604-glemp

SOLVED

rDrama themed crossword

https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6793417-jisk

SOLVED

NY Times, Sun, Jan 3, 2010 - "Antique Finish"

https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6898609-plusk

SOLVED

NY Times, Sun, July 4, 2024 CRYPTIC

https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6898623-vosk

SOLVED

THANKS FOR PLAYING EVERYONE

As you can see, this week we will do the usual Sat & Sun crosswords, then our special drama-themed crossword made by @ShriekingGeek , then we will do a Sunday NY Times crossword from 2010 which was uploaded this week, and then we will finally end on a cryptic crossword printed last year in The NY Times and uploaded this week, which was fortunate for us since we are going to start adding some cryptic crosswords to line up.

If you are not familiar with cryptic crosswords, I highly recommend you familiarize yourself with how they work if you want to help us solve them. Otherwise, the clues will look like gibberish. Here is a guide from The New Yorker:

https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/articles/a-starter-pack-for-the-cryptic-crossword-curious

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She is despicable for using her position to talk politics. Shameful (-123)

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Episcopalian here. Where she's not the Bishop of my Diocese, Bishop Budde has already had stern words for Trump, since it was one of the churches in her Diocese that Trump took that photo op with a bible in front of, after tear gas disbursed a number of priests from the campus from giving aid to folk caught up in the protest... after another set of protesters set fire to part of the building the day before. So it's been rock vs. hard place all the way down. (3322)

Well for all the children who had no choice but to attend an episcopal church were caught between a cult and hard place as well. It's why almost nobody came back as adult  (-90)

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I think you're trying to be insulting, but it just came off as amusing. Bless you, friend. (74)

And I find the death of that horrible church amusing. Bless you  (-68)

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I won't forget the rioters who set the church of the presidents ON FIRE out of deep hatred. But she didn't have a problem with it. she diverted and said "it's just a building" I agree. But it is the hatred that is burning this country to the ground. it spreads when we let it take hold. Read about, think about it, talk about, and then eventually demonstrate it. I'm talking killings, burnings, looting, abusing. I am so disgusted with the lies and corruption. but the hatred and finger pointing has to stop. And we have to forgive (1)

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I liked her remarks about LGBT children, but her well-meaning racism upset me."The people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meat-packing plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals. They may not be citizens, or have the proper documentation, but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals."It just gets so old. My wife is Latinx, and we have had to deal with so much discrimination from every direction.One side assumes my wife is illegal and scamming the government and should leave. The other side assumes my wife is illegal and a dishwasher and that she should work for less than minimum wage. My wife entered the US as a legal immigrant and she is now a citizen, she's an accountant FFS.I hate all these racists. (0)

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Died by CrucifixionThe fact that Jesus was crucified is a historical fact. The evidence for this historical event is found in various historical sources.The Jewish Historian Josephus (ca. A.D. 37-ca. 100)Josephus reports the crucifixion of Jesus with the words: "When Pilate, upon hearing him accused by men of the highest standing amongst us, had condemned him to be crucified . . . ."(4) Roman Historian Cornelius Tacitus (A.D. 55?-117)Tacitus, also reported the crucifixion of Jesus as an historical event: "Nero fastened the guilt [of the burning of Rome] and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Christus, from whom the name had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus."(5) Mara Bar-Serapion (ca. A.D. 73)Bar-Serapion wrote a letter to his son from prison. In this letter, he wrote "What advantage did the Jews gain from executin... (0)

2) The tomb was emptyThe Jerusalem FactorIf Jesus' body was not absent from the tomb, the enemies of Christianity could have easily stomped out the movement by removing Jesus' body from the tomb and showing it to everyone. If they did that, Christianity would have died before it even began. It did not die back then. We can infer from this fact that they did not take Jesus' body out of the tomb in order to parade it down the street to prove to everyone that the resurrection claims of the disciples were false. Why didn't they do this? Most likely because Jesus' body was not even in the tomb to be taken out.*All four gospels feature women as witnesses to the empty tomb.Women were considered second class citizens back then and their testimony was considered worthless. The empty tomb narrative is most likely historical because it would have been awkward for the early church to have women as the chief witnesses when their testimony wasn't considered valid back then. They would have made m... (0)

Biggest Lolcow: /u/Kennytime

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Yes, I said all didn’t I?

— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) January 29, 2025

I'd assemble it and distribute the PDFs and maybe make some writing/comics too if we did

SO EVERY TIME THE FAKECELS OF !INCELS REJECT MY APPLICATION I CAN INVITE THEM TO !FAKELARPERCUTE TWINKCELS

This is distessing news.

Are you nerds going to let someone driving a Subaru mock you?

the same elon musk that supports the IA despite having a 'ton of negative bs' about him lmao

even as recently as September he still was supporting them when he was campaigning for Trump

per usual,

Elon musk's tweets are so hot, the UK intelligence services are diverting taxpayer resources to reading them

Meanwhile:

I genuinely feared for Jess Phillips' life after his post about her

I feel the same. I truly hope she can stay safe in these times.

wow he must've said something truly heinous

I hope she can stay safe not white schoolgirls though they can get fricked I am the compassionate one

she looks like one of the background ogres in shrek 4 btw

In the Electoral Dysfunction podcast, she said that while Labour is calibrating their response to Musk and everyone else, they have to take her safety into account because of the amount of threats that she has received in the past week. It's sickening.

meanwhile Nige after getting his 34th death threat of the day

Yea, It is litteraly the whole point of Mi6 to monitor forign threats the UK and deal with them if nessesary.

That Manchester bomb plot can wait, Elon Musk's just been rude to Keir on twitter

The Home Office can prevent someone from entering the UK if their presence is not considered conducive to the public good.

OH THEY CAN???

I must've fricking imagined all of this!

Some twit posts on Facebook: 'jail! And death is what you truly deserve!'

Musk tries to destroy democracy: 'well, it's a complex area and we want to prioritise free speech'

The Police and Crown Prosecution Service doing their 'one rule for you and one for the rich' routine.

>call politician a name

>democracy destroyed

Hans Herman Hoppe bros... was it this easy?

Is what he posted actually illegal? Or just terrifying and unacceptable

Watch as a bong realises he cannot enforce his Naughty Words Laws across national borders

There are things which the UK government can do on a global scale, that Musk cannot

What, like get scammed out of hundreds of millions by Paul 'No Refunds' Kagame?

I suppose it is technically true that Musk cannot repeatedly embarrass and subvert himself by selling or scrapping all of his overseas land, bases and materiel

Let's just call musk what he is - a stochastic terrorist.

SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT

Maybe they should consider banning twitter all together in this country like America is doing with TikTok.

Censorship is never the answer.

Is that the sort of thing a Sith would say?

THIS IS JUST LIKE SOY WARS

IYKYK

Sheila has been vet approved to chill with other cats the boys have had majority contact. Mostly positive, but the size differences piss Sheila off!

!animalposters !cats

Trump frees another neighbor from the tyrannical Dems

The letter notes "independent reasons" as to why Adams' case was being tossed — including that the case was retribution for him speaking out against the Biden administration for its handling of the migrant crisis.

"It cannot be ignored that Mayor Adams criticized the prior Administration's immigration policies before the charges were filed, and the former US Attorney's public actions created appearances of impropriety…"

https://old.reddit.com/r/nyc/comments/1imksh1/justice_dept_to_seek_dismissal_of_federal/

https://old.reddit.com/r/newyorkcity/comments/1iml2n0/justice_department_to_drop_federal_corruption/

this site is so stupid, they talk like literal apes. i tried to find infighting for mbux but it's so fricking hard cause they talk exactly how they claim "bipoc" talk.

The thread starts out posing this question:

Next reply gives his very detailed analysis that repeats the same exact points but with different words:

We ALMOST had cuckposting but thankfully in this guy's story tyrone actually gets ignored

heh, bipoc are actually better than me because their parents aren't from the same mother

Now we get (somewhat) cuckposting in reply to 2 and 3

Those minnesota links are to a channel/playlist that just redirects to a channel (not an actual livestream)

right now some guy is talking about midwifes

>33 people watching

DRUMPF is finished

What is even going on anymore pic.twitter.com/mQYO88jRi0

— captive dreamer (@captivedreamer7) February 15, 2025

Null is in an neurodivergent arms race against the users who desperately want to know how much edgy reddit karma they've accumulated. This thread is apparently the second time a user debuted a userscript that can calculate a user's reaction score, and the previous one was foiled by Null disabling something. Now reactions are completely unviewable except on a post by post level.

A man working at a cemetery in North Dakota was stopped in his tracks recently by the peculiar sight of three turkeys repeatedly circling a gravestone. pic.twitter.com/avV0HjO3kU

— New York Post (@nypost) February 16, 2025

What did the mean by this?

I have 2FA on (authenticator based not phone number based), I use a randomly generated password, I've removed all active sessions, but someone keeps changing the password somehow and adding a new phone number. I don't know why either they haven't tried to buy anything.

How tf are they doing it. If it happens again I'm probably just gonna close the account as I barely ever use it.