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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Real Meaning of Emmanuel Macron’s Victory</strong> - The fact is that, in difficult circumstances, Macron has managed to win the Presidency twice. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-real-meaning-of-emmanuel-macrons-victory">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>After a COVID Expert Struggled to Obtain New Treatments for His Parents, He Tweeted a Road Map</strong> - Older, disabled, and chronically ill Americans who could benefit from novel therapeutics are scrambling to find them easily. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/after-a-covid-expert-struggled-to-obtain-new-treatments-for-his-%20parents-he-tweeted-a-road-map">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Ordinary Americans Resettling Migrants Fleeing War</strong> - After Trump eviscerated the refugee-resettlement system, the government was unprepared for Afghans displaced by their country’s collapse. A new program lets civilians step up to help. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/us-journal/the-ordinary-americans-resettling-migrants-fleeing-war">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What Da Homeless Hero Makes of Eric Adams’s Policies</strong> - Shams DaBaron was a fierce critic of former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s treatment of homeless New Yorkers. Now he’s collaborating with the new Mayor. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/what-da-homeless-hero-makes-of-eric-adamss-policies">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Jubilant Glory of Albert Ayler’s “Revelations”</strong> - A pair of concerts toward the end of the jazz musician’s life capture his quest for new styles. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/the-jubilant-glory-of-albert-aylers-revelations">link</a></p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-vox">From Vox</h1>
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<li><strong>One Good Thing: The cartoon dog who taught me how to be a dad</strong> -
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The Heeler family in <em>Bluey</em>. | BBC Studios/Disney
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Bluey opened up my imagination and made the most boring part of parenting fun.
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I am not what you might term an imaginative person. As a child, I liked to read the World Book encyclopedias gathering dust in our attic, editions so old that the Korean War was covered as an ongoing conflict. In high school, my history teacher referred to me as a “concrete sequential thinker,” which apparently meant that I <a href="https://hayesgibson.com/your-thinking-determines-your-results-part-ii-what-kind-of-
thinker-are-you/">processed information</a> in an ordered, linear way. He meant this as a compliment, I think, but keep in mind this was a guy who wore ties and a short-sleeved dress shirt to the classroom every day.
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I wasn’t much fun at parties, but these habits of mind served me well enough in my career as a journalist and editor for nearly 20 years. Then, in 2017, my wife and I had a son we named Ronan, followed a few years later by the puppies.
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The puppies, I should make clear, aren’t real. (There’s that concrete sequential thinking at work.) One day they simply emerged, fully formed, from our son’s mind. They were invisible companions and all-purpose explanations for any and all phenomena. How did he know that he liked mac and cheese and disliked most other foods? His puppies told him. Why was he tired when he woke up in the morning? He’d spent the night at his puppies’ house, which was in Australia, or maybe South America, or possibly down the street from us in Brooklyn. How many puppies were there? Twelve, or a thousand, or “an infinity.”
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My wife Siobhan, who can see beyond the surface of the world with perfect 20/20 vision, adapted to this easily. But not me. Change a diaper, read a bedtime story (or five), give comfort after a skinned knee or hurt feelings, all of that I could do. But enter fully into a child’s imaginative world, temporarily abandon the facts and rules of adulthood to live on his level? That I struggled with.
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And then I met Bandit Heeler.
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Bandit really does live in Australia, in the coastal city of Brisbane, with his wife Chili and their two young daughters Bluey and Bingo. I believe he has a job of some sort; we never actually see him work, though at one point he strolls into the kitchen in a short-sleeved shirt and tie combo that would not have been out of place in my high school history class.
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Also, Bandit is a dog. They’re all dogs (blue heelers, actually, a common and beloved Australian breed). And they’re on what Vulture <a href="https://www.vulture.com/2021/05/bluey-best-kids-tv-show.html">rightly called</a> “the best kids’ show of our time”: <em>Bluey</em>.
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Our family discovered <em>Bluey</em> in the depths of the pandemic, when the world had seemed to shrink to the size of our apartment and the only window to the outside was the flat-screen TV in the living room. Created by the Australian animator Joe Brumm and streaming in the US on Disney+, each episode of <em>Bluey</em> runs about seven minutes, and centers on the imaginative games played by Bluey and Bingo. Their suburban home is transformed into a hotel; Bluey turns a set of chairs into a taxi taking harried passengers to the airport; a stick of asparagus at dinner becomes a magic wand that turns family members into (other) animals.
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Bluey, Bingo, and their friends have no trouble losing themselves in imaginary games without getting bored or calling for a screen. But what sets the show apart is the role the adults — and especially Bandit, the dad — play in those games.
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Unlike me, Bandit can instantly become an eager participant in whatever his kids dream up, almost as though some part of him is still 4-and-three-quarters-years old. In the hotel game, he’s an overly picky guest; in the taxi game, he’s the passenger desperate to get to the airport; when struck by the magic asparagus, he transforms into a highly convincing walrus. My brother — who has two young boys himself — jokes that the only problem with Bandit is that he sets the bar too high for the rest of us dads who might be tempted to give the occasional look at Twitter, rather than get down on the carpet for yet another toddler game with no rules and no end.
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But that isn’t quite true. Watch the show enough times — and in our home we have watched it many, many, many times — and you can see the tugs of impatience and frustration begin to edge into the screen. How many times, after all, can an adult play “Postman” or pretend that the floor is lava? But each time Bandit still does it — in part because, as the Australians say, “it’s gotta be done,” but also because he loves his children. And more than that, because he loves to live in the worlds they create.
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In a <a href="https://www.vox.com/vox-
conversations-podcast/22999708/vox-conversations-david-spangler-childhood-parenting-spirituality">recent conversation</a> with Vox’s Sean Illing on the spiritual practice of parenting, the writer David Spangler touched on the challenge of navigating the in-between aspects of parenthood — one foot in reality and one foot in the world of the child. “It’s about being large enough to encompass both at the same time,” Spangler said. “I’m not surrendering my adult responsibilities, but I’m also giving myself the gift of being open to those moments.”
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That’s the gift my son has offered me, one I’ve learned to appreciate with the help of a blue dog with an enviable amount of patience and imagination. That doesn’t mean there isn’t some part of my mind, as bedtime approaches and Ronan begins telling stories of his puppies, that begins to think about just where you might put an infinite number of imaginary puppies, and if they live in Brooklyn, how much they’re paying in rent. But there’s another, growing part, that embraces a second chance at being the child I never really was.
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In the second-season episode “<a href="https://www.bilibili.tv/en/video/2014630590">Rug Island</a>,” Bandit actually does have to go to work, only to be pulled back into the backyard game Bluey and Bingo are playing. They’ve turned a rug into a desert island — hence, “Rug Island” — and Bandit becomes a castaway trying to get home. A box of felt pens becomes everything from tropical fruit to a canoe oar, and Bandit spends the morning increasingly engrossed in his children’s game.
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In the end, though, work calls, and Bandit is “rescued” back into the adult world — but not before Bingo gives him one last felt pen wrapped in a leaf. As he climbs up the stairs of the porch, a waiting Chili asks, “What did she give you?” Bandit unwraps the leaf and smiles.
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“Everything.”
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Bluey<em> is available </em><a href="https://www.disneyplus.com/series/bluey/1xy9TAOQ0M3r?distributionPartner=google"><em>on Disney+</em></a><em> and Hulu Premium. For more recommendations from the world of culture, check out the </em><a href="https://www.vox.com/one-
good-thing"><em>One Good Thing</em></a><em> archives.</em>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Selling Sunset is fantastical, absurdist office drama</strong> -
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Christine Quinn and Chelsea Lazkani on <em>Selling Sunset</em> are ready to sell some sunsets. | Netflix
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Selling Sunset and the irresistible allure of Barbie-on-Barbie pettiness.
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In the world of <em>Selling Sunset</em>, very beautiful women do most of the business of selling multimillion-dollar homes for an entity known as the Oppenheim Group, a real estate firm owned by twin bald men.
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These women run that business in heels that are not made for running, though some have said they could sprint in their towering heels if needed. That’s all hypothetical, though, since they’re never in a rush, never pressed for time, never stuck in traffic in their expensive candy-colored cars. They move effortlessly between Hollywood Hills estates and their impeccable office, wearing very beautiful outfits — short pencil skirts that seem risky to sit in, puffed royal sleeves, sparkly sharp sequins, monogrammed trench coats, skinny suits — that are never repeated.
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Created by Adam DiVello, the man who gave us the hall-of-fame fake reality show <em>The Hills</em>, <em>Selling Sunset</em> sparked itself to life in 2019. It was initially billed as giving us an authentic peek into the sun-soaked universe of high-end Los Angeles real estate — a sphere of existence hidden from normies who don’t have enough money to access it.
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But the show made a self-aware turn into a fantasy office drama, and it’s incredible TV. The pressure to sell these massively expensive homes has all but vaporized, and no one is really that keen on being the top seller of sunsets at Oppenheim. Instead, the show offers a heightened look at what happens at work when most of the average worker’s concerns — money, stability, even professional goals — disappear, and the beautiful and poreless can instead focus on their allies and their very, very annoying enemies.
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It’s in this mode that <em>Selling Sunset</em> becomes something cannily accessible.
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While the average person might not be dressed in designer down to their socks or zip around Los Angeles talking about closing deals, normal people in all sorts of careers do engage in pettiness for all sorts of reasons, including fostering alliances (<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/11/have-you-heard-gossip-is-actually-good-and-
useful/382430/">studies have shown that gossip</a> can bring people closer together), alleviating boredom, and the sheer enjoyment of cooperative complaining. It’s only natural that a show that invites you to partake in glossy workplace drama is absurdly irresistible.
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At the center of <em>Selling Sunset </em>is protagonist Chrishell Stause. The name Chrishell is a portmanteau, created by <a href="https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/selling-sunsets-chrishell-stause-i-wasnt-born-in-a-gas-
station/">Chrishell’s mom</a> to honor a gas station (Shell) and a gas station attendant (Chris) who helped her during her unexpected delivery.
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Chrishell began on the show as an actress who’s brand new to real estate, a Nick Carraway in this Gatsbian Malibu Barbie world. Chrishell spends a lot of time in the first seasons learning how to sell mansions, but more importantly, getting along with the rest of the agents and assimilating into the fantastic plastic life of luxury real estate merchants.
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As she learns, we learn too.
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When she has to make alliances within the office, we find out which agents will be the easiest to win over. When she starts to speak in real estate agent, we pick up the differences between the Valley, the Hills, and Calabasas. When she has to wear pumps, we know which ones will go with her outfit.
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The tension of the early seasons is whether Chrishell’s winsome, sunny attitude will be enough to succeed at Oppenheim. Any suspense is extremely minimal, however, because Chrishell is one of the show’s two main characters. The show would not go on without her, and she receives what is known in the reality show world as “an extremely favorable edit.”
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Chrishell’s diametric opposite is Christine Quinn, an icy veteran at Oppenheim. Christine’s candid approach to her own artificiality makes her arguably the show’s realest character. She freely admits that she got her breasts done and that the Botox in her face makes it slightly difficult to emote. If people aren’t as forthcoming about their own fakeness as she is, Christine posits, then they must have something to hide.
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Chrishell, with her organic earnestness and free-range sunniness, perturbs Christine. Christine’s territorial nature and gossip-laundering bug Chrishell.
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The first couple of seasons of the show wrapped Chrishell and Christine’s antagonistic dynamic around the premise of real estate- related competition. Whoever could sell the most sunsets, I guess. Early on, the show framed Christine’s numerous listings as an assertion of dominance and Chrishell’s closings as small victories, signs that she would one day rival Christine’s success. The tension was pinned on who could make more money.
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But as the show progressed, the producers and people behind the camera, and perhaps Chrishell and Christine themselves, began to abandon the charade that the show is about selling homes and lean into the superior, soapy office drama about two coworkers who would like nothing more than the other one to die. The overarching storyline over the past two seasons is that Christine can’t stop talking to the press about Chrishell’s love life, following the end of Chrishell’s marriage to <em>This Is Us</em> actor Justin Hartley.
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The fight between Chrishell and Christine splits most of the remaining employees at Oppenheim into two camps. Heather and Mary, who are slightly interchangeable and tired of Christine’s queen bee status, gravitate toward Chrishell. Davina, a terminally sour human, becomes Christine’s henchwoman for a couple of seasons before switching sides. Chelsea, a new recruit this season, slides into Davina’s old role and terrorizes Davina for being disloyal.<strong> </strong>Amanza, who is disinterested in selling homes and good at reality television, and Maya, who is good at selling homes but disinterested in reality television, float in the middle. Emma, who owns an empanada empire but still sells homes, and <a href="https://pagesix.com/2022/04/26/selling-
sunsets-emma-hernan-clarifies-ben-affleck-raya-claim/">didn’t date Ben Affleck</a>, fails to distinguish herself at all.
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Thankfully, there is no HR department at Oppenheim, and because <em>Selling Sunset </em>is a television show, these very beautiful women just sort of exist to be mean to each other and never really get in trouble.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-
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Christine and Chelsea are very beautiful, but they probably have kompromat on you.
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A darkly hilarious recurring conceit this season — that perfectly summarizes the trivial rudeness of their work relationships — is the desk assignments. Christine’s desk was given away during maternity leave, and there’s a mess about who’s sitting where when she returns. The women who don’t like Christine hem and haw, and it’s all sort of relatable because moving desks is a pain — all those cords, phones, monitors, computers, papers, everything that’s stuffed into drawers. It’s especially annoying if you’re moving to accommodate someone who doesn’t like you. The women talk about the act as an ordeal, an arduous chore that would take all day. After much complaining, the dust settles and deeply forgettable Emma tells her coworkers that she will be the bigger person and “move” desks.
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She huffs. She puffs. Then she just folds her laptop up and takes five steps to her new desk.
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Clack. Clack. Clack.
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Just because these women aren’t particularly concerned with being the best seller on the show, it’d be a grievous mistake to say that the show is completely devoid of ambition. Plenty of reality television stars have parlayed their fame into becoming celebrities. Think about the Kardashians, or the stars of DiVello’s previous big hit <em>The Hills</em>. <em>Selling Sunset’s </em>agents aren’t outliers. I’d wager that they have a keen eye on parlaying their show personalities into real-life stardom, and knowing that adds a glorious layer of self- awareness to the show. They’re in on their joke, the camp of dressing up like Barbie dolls, never eating at their endless lunches, and throwing their heels into every clack.
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In doing so, they’ve heightened petty drama to absurdist proportions just for our enjoyment. It’s the joy of office politics and eavesdropping without actually being in that dysfunctional office. They’re meaner and prettier than we’ll ever be, and somehow have turned committing OSHA violations on their coworkers into full-time jobs. I hope they’re getting paid handsomely to do so.
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Give them raises. Give them the world. <em>Selling Sunset</em> is perfect and I can’t look away.
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Why Joe Biden is losing young voters</strong> -
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Student loan borrowers hold signs about student debt at a gathering outside the White House on January 13. | Paul Morigi/Getty Images for We, The 45 Million
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The president’s support among young people is collapsing. Why?
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President Joe Biden has a young voter problem.
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If you look at just about any poll from the last year, the president’s support among Americans aged 18-34 has dropped significantly. The decline has been worse among young people of color, and like the country in general, young Americans’ dissatisfaction with him is growing.
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The drop isn’t that surprising. Young Americans never really loved Biden, and they think he’s broken a lot of his campaign pledges. They’re also still recovering from two of the most disruptive years in American history.
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The youngest of these voters came of political age isolated, away from school and friends, uncertain of their job and school prospects, and unsure of whom to trust. The oldest are saddled with student loan and credit card debt, unable to purchase homes, and priced out of metropolitan areas. They’ve seen life get more expensive, inflation outpace their raises, and their labor become less valuable.
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Many were already tuned out of politics. Now, they’ve seen one political party fail to act on the generational change they expected, and another radicalize against democracy. Together, these factors represent a growing tide of disillusionment with electoral politics and dissatisfaction with the status quo.
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With midterms around the corner, this dissatisfaction could drag Democratic candidates already expected to struggle (the president’s party <a href="https://www.vox.com/22899204/midterm-elections-president-biden-thermostatic-
opinion">historically does poorly in midterms</a>) down further. Young voters are an especially important group for Democrats: They delivered Biden’s biggest margins in 2020, a year that saw half of them turn out (<a href="https://circle.tufts.edu/latest-research/half-youth-voted-2020-11-point-increase-2016">an 11 percentage-point increase</a> from 2016), including in battleground states that will feature competitive races.
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After numerous conversations with activists, advocacy groups, organizers, pollsters, and young people, three theories have emerged that attempt to unify the various strains of the youth’s discontent with Biden specifically, and Democrats generally: frustration with the lack of progressive policy successes, concern about the state of the economy, and disenchantment with government due to leaders’ chaotic response to the pandemic.
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Biden started off his term with a respectable level of support from Americans aged 18-34. Polling from <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/391733/biden-job-approval-down-among-younger-generations.aspx">Gallup</a> and data the progressive research firm Navigator assembled for Vox both placed his support among youth in the 60 percent range just after his inauguration. And the president’s support was decent even in the surveys with Biden’s worst youth numbers, like those<strong> </strong>conducted by <a href="https://poll.qu.edu/images/polling/us/us02032021_uszn68.pdf">Quinnipiac</a> and <a href="https://civiqs.com/results/approve_president_biden?uncertainty=true&amp;annotations=true&amp;zoomIn=true&amp;age=18-34">Civiqs</a>, which showed 44 percent and 49 percent support,<strong> </strong>respectively.
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But since, Biden’s approval rating has plunged in every one of those polls’ tracking: by 13 points (Navigator), 21 points (<a href="https://civiqs.com/results/approve_president_biden?uncertainty=true&amp;annotations=true&amp;zoomIn=true&amp;age=18-34">Civiqs</a>), or 23 points (<a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/391733/biden-job-approval-down-among-younger-
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The decline has been steady in the last year, broadly, and worse when looking at young Black or Latino Americans’ perceptions; it stands in stark contrast to Biden’s support among <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/14/why-has-
bidens-approval-plunged-with-young-people/">the oldest voters</a>, which remains steady. And as the Washington Post’s Philip Bump <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/14/why-has-bidens-approval-plunged-with-young-
people/">wrote about</a> Gallup’s data, the drops in Biden’s Gen Z and millennial support overlap with his losses among non-white Americans and independents, both of whom make up significant portions of this younger age cohort, “so a bigger decline in support from Black and Hispanic adults is going to show up more in younger groups.”
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For now, Biden’s youth problem is still reversible, Dakota Hall, the executive director of the political advocacy group Alliance for Youth Action, told me: “I would say we’re not in the danger zone but we’re fastly approaching it.”
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What can Biden do about that? Address these three (sometimes overlapping) reasons for his diminishing support:
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<strong>1) Some young voters want Biden to be more progressive</strong>
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Ask an activist or advocacy group focused on politically engaging young people about Biden’s polling,<strong> </strong>and you’ll hear a similar refrain: Biden was never a popular president among young people, and his inability to keep several of the bold and dramatic promises he made during the 2020 presidential primaries are to blame.
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Some of those promises require Congress’s action, something an evenly divided Senate has made difficult for Biden. But young voters believe that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/29/democrats-
progressives-biden-execuitve-orders-midterms">many of the things</a> they’d like to see Biden do, such as forgiving some student debt and declaring a climate emergency, could be accomplished in part by <a href="https://www.vox.com/21557717/joe-biden-executive-order-student-debt-climate">executive action</a>. According to reporting by <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/04/26/biden-cancel-student-loans/">the Washington Post</a>, Biden is exploring the idea of canceling at least some of that debt by executive order. He reportedly may continue to extend a pause on student loan payments until a final decision is made, likely before the end of August.
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Young voters, however, don’t want Biden to think about getting rid of debt. They want him to do it.
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“They feel they are let down in this moment, due to [Biden’s] lack of executive action, and changes that young people care about, namely, the student debt crisis, and the failure to eliminate and eradicate some student loan debt,” Hall, of the Alliance for Youth Action, told me. “The continuation of the delays, while providing economic relief to some young Americans, it’s not enough. It’s not what they voted for.”
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About a third of young Americans have student debt, according to the <a href="https://educationdata.org/student-loan-debt-by-age">Education Data Initiative</a>, and the Biden administration’s recent <a href="https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/biden-harris-
administration-extends-student-loan-pause-through-august-31">extension</a> of the pause on payments has broad support.
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Though he never promised to unilaterally cancel all student loan debt, the president supported congressional action to forgive up to $10,000 of it. Progressive members of Congress and activists, in turn, have asked him to consider an executive order by <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-biden-cant-do-
on-student-debt-and-what-he-wont-do">reinterpreting</a> the Higher Education Act to grant the secretary of education authority to “release” loans.
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That legal debate remains murky and untested.<strong> </strong>Nevertheless, many youth voters want Biden to at least try:<strong> </strong>In the Alliance for Youth Action’s <a href="https://allianceforyouthaction.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2022/01/Civiqs-AYO-survey-results-memo-
January-2022.pdf">polling with Civiqs</a>, nearly two-thirds of young people support Biden’s student loan<strong> </strong>actions so far, and 35 percent want full debt cancellation; that number rises to <a href="https://allianceforyouthaction.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2022/01/National-Survey-Results-Young-People-on-
the-State-of-the-Nation.pdf">50 percent</a> among young Democrats.
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The Civiqs data also suggests that simply canceling student debt might not solve Biden’s problem with youth. Pollsters found<strong> </strong>about a third of young Americans oppose any action on student loan forgiveness. Only young Democrats support complete loan forgiveness by large margins; more than a third of young independents and 75 percent of young Republicans oppose any forgiveness.
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But progressives also argue that student debt isn’t the only reason that has young voters abandoning Biden.<strong> </strong>Youth activists and organizers pointed to inaction on other progressive priorities, like comprehensive immigration reform, gun control, and downsized climate efforts in the bipartisan infrastructure law — as well as failed attempts at passing voting rights, criminal justice, and policing reforms.
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<strong>2) The economy’s not great, and young voters blame Biden</strong>
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Inflation is the <a href="https://poll.qu.edu/poll-release?releaseid=3841">top</a> concern of most Americans today — and that includes young Americans.
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The current inflationary spike is the first time many millennials and Gen Zers are confronting this kind of economy. Coupled with rising rent, debt, and ultra-hot housing markets in the country’s <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/04/metro-areas-shrinking-population-
loss/629665/">20 largest metropolitan areas</a>, the current affordability crisis is hitting young people especially hard: In part due to the last recession,<strong> </strong>millennials were already a <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/millennials-are-new-lost-generation/609832/">lost generation</a> financially, and Gen Zers both graduating into a recession and dealing with a pandemic economy saw <a href="https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/young-millennials-and-gen-zers-face-employment-insecurity-and-hardship-during-
pandemic">higher rates of job instability</a>, causing them to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/millennials-gen-
z-savings-hardest-hit-pandemic-2022-2">dip into their savings</a> more than older generations.
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When the economy roared back in 2021, many young people felt respite: Their <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/24-gen-
z-trends-40-millennial-spending-changing-economy-2021-9">purchasing power</a> increased, and their <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-04/gen-z-is-now-spending-more-than-it-ever-did-before-the-
pandemic">spending</a> rose as well. But inflation, and <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22977663/gen-z-
antiwork-capitalism">dissatisfaction with capitalism</a>, caught up.
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Gen Z and millennials were <a href="https://www.axios.com/gen-z-great-resignation-generation-job-
hopping-1ea166c8-0fba-4479-8278-16c05217c15f.html">more willing</a> to switch jobs and career paths during the Great Resignation, seeking better pay and flexibility — only to see rising costs eat away at that progress. In metro areas, pandemic-induced rent relief and discounts disappeared; prospective homebuyers have been priced out of markets; and a growing number of Americans, <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2022/03/24/the-demographics-of-
multigenerational-households/">especially young people</a>, live in multi-generational households now, in part because of financial constraints. Today’s <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/02/28/most-in-the-u-s-say-young-
adults-today-face-more-challenges-than-their-parents-generation-in-some-key-areas/">consensus</a> is that young people are having a harder time saving money, paying for college, and buying a home.
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“They have real deep economic anxiety and pain in this moment,” Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez, the president of the liberal youth-vote organization NextGen America, told me. “Many young people feel worried about the future. Young American adults are the first generation in American history to be worse off than their parents.”
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Some of that economic hardship has also crystallized into dissatisfaction with a society centered around capitalism and work, especially on social media, as my colleague Terry Nguyen has <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/22977663/gen-z-antiwork-
capitalism">written</a>. Gen Z especially “has adopted more anti-capitalist language to express these discontents,” Nguyen writes, and that could translate into a rejection of capitalist figures like Biden — and America’s current economic order.<strong> </strong>Whether it translates into political action or voting may become clear this year.
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Overall, for young voters, as with older voters,<strong> </strong>the president, as the country’s most visible leader, and head of the party in power, is the default object of economic fears and they don’t think he’s doing enough to address affordability.
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<strong>3) A poorly managed pandemic eroded trust in the government</strong>
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Two years into the coronavirus pandemic, no one knows exactly what’s happening. Are cases up? It might depend on where you live, but even the way governments track risk and reality has changed.
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Biden has suggested Americans learn to live with the coronavirus, even as cases once again begin to rise. By prematurely <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/27/biden-to-wear-mask-in-areas-of-us-where-new-cdc-guidance-will-
apply.html">declaring</a> a “summer of freedom,” getting out ahead of the CDC on <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/10/psychological-benefits-
covid-19-boosters/620259/">boosters</a>, and telling people masking is now “<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/19/us/politics/biden-masks-public-transportation.html">up to them</a>,” he muddled the image of a unified government approach.
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That’s not to say Biden completely failed on the pandemic — his administration has overseen a fairly successful mass vaccination campaign, distributed free rapid tests, and has <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/04/26/fact-sheet-biden-
administration-increases-access-to-covid-19-treatments-and-boosts-patient-and-provider-awareness/">revamped efforts</a> to increase access to antiviral medicines.<strong> </strong>Still, young people have seen deaths and illnesses in their families, have experienced the dysfunction of American health care, and faced incredible disruptions during key years of early adulthood. Those lost months delayed key life moments and transitions, uprooted friendships, and turned Gen Z into the <a href="https://www.ibmadison.com/loneliness-epidemic-hits-gen-z-hardest-1-in-4-are-lonely-at-
work/">loneliest</a><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/gen-z-most-accomplished-loneliest-generation-blame-parents-
fault-2022-4"> generation</a>.
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In 2020, pandemic chaos helped fuel a historic jump in young voters’ participation in electoral politics, with record numbers of young people turning out to vote against Donald Trump. Part of Biden’s pitch was a promise to get the virus under control and return to normal — and until the delta and omicron variants hit, a quick end to the pandemic seemed plausible. But things went downhill around the time Biden promised Americans would be able to declare victory by 2021’s Fourth of July.
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Instead, young people saw massive failures by government leaders to provide clear guidance and sensical rule-making. Variants diminished the gleam of vaccines, more people contracted the virus than ever, and young people lost trust in institutions to handle everything from big-picture recommendations on masking and vaccines, to localized decisions about closing schools and ending college semesters early, quarantining and testing regimens, and how hard to police social life.
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At the national level, the president began to <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/06/individualism-still-spoiling-pandemic-
response/619133/">shift</a> the tone of the federal response from a more communitarian effort to care for each other and get vaccinated, to leaving <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/03/covid-cdc-guidelines-
masks/623337/">everyone to fend for themselves</a>. The result is malaise, confusion, and dissatisfaction with Biden’s performance.
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<strong>The vibes are off</strong>
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These three explanations have a lot of overlap and all speak to a sense of frustration with Democrats, America’s system of government, and political parties, and fear about being worse off than older generations.
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They also describe a cohort of voters who are not apathetic or disengaged from politics, but rather tuned in to current events — even if they don’t follow all of the policy debates in Washington or know about each mechanism that limits government action. Broadly,<strong> </strong>they appear to pin blame for the country’s status quo on the president in power.
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Underlying that takeaway is<strong> </strong>a sense of disappointment, and even betrayal. A pandemic that threatened their lives and a president who threatened their futures brought youth out to vote in 2020, but they have felt cheated by social, economic, and political developments since.
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“We keep being told that something better is coming,” Rahhel Haile, the executive director of the Minnesota Youth Collective, told me. “With Joe Biden, it was ‘Oh, this is going to be better than Trump,’ and the approach is the lesser of two evils. And people are dissatisfied with that, and want a leader that can actually change things and can actually think about the precariousness of the future of a young person’s life.”
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Some of this isn’t Biden’s fault — what his administration can accomplish is limited by the Senate filibuster, how House seats are distributed, internal party dynamics, the federal judiciary’s composition, and checks on executive action. That doesn’t matter to the most idealistic, progressive young people who want their conditions improved, however.
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It may be that there’s little Biden can do to win over the most progressive young voters. But<strong> </strong>that doesn’t mean he can’t win back the youth in general: This cohort of voters is not as monolithic as they are often described.
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They <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/12/07/younger-u-s-adults-less-likely-to-see-big-differences-between-
the-parties-or-to-feel-well-represented-by-them/">tend</a> to not identify with a political party — identifying more commonly with social issues like <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2021/05/26/gen-z-millennials-stand-out-
for-climate-change-activism-social-media-engagement-with-issue/">climate</a> action and marijuana <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/11/14/americans-support-marijuana-legalization/">legalization</a> — and though they’re more liberal than other generations, are still <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/388988/political-
ideology-steady-conservatives-moderates-tie.aspx">more moderate</a> ideologically than many leaders claim. The student loan debate shows this divide: Though the most progressive wing of young voters back loan forgiveness, about a third of young people still oppose it.
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Biden still has the support of the most ardent liberal young Democrats, who are willing to back his current agenda in part due to identifying with his party. However, he’s bleeding support among young independents and Republicans, both moderate and conservative, who might prioritize the government addressing economic worries right now, but see no action and feel ignored.
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Given recent court rulings and the collapse of Biden’s Build Back Better plan in Congress, it’s useful to ask if the country is entering an era when presidents will also forever be stymied by courts and narrow congressional majorities<strong> </strong>— worsening the appearance that government can not be a force for progress or improving material conditions, and giving young people less of a reason to trust political leaders who invoke the language of hope, change, and a moral battle.
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Pollsters and activists told me Biden’s decline doesn’t have to be an irreversible trend, and that the governing party still has time to tackle inflation, affordability, debt, and the pandemic before young voters refuse to change their minds.
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If Democrats fail to do so,<strong> </strong>some of the pollsters I spoke with said this dissatisfaction has a real chance of going beyond lower Democratic turnout and into active vote-switching in midterm elections. That could intensify the risk Democrats already face of being locked out of power for <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/world/americas/north-america/2021/08/democrats-risk-being-out-power-next-decade-
david-shor-how-his-party-must">the next decade</a>, a situation that could hurt young voters as well, as GOP control of Congress would likely<strong> </strong>only hinder the very reforms and changes many young people want.
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ukraine war: Russia halts gas exports to Poland and Bulgaria</strong> - Moscow says ‘unfriendly’ countries must start paying for its gas in roubles.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Transnistria and Ukraine conflict: Is war spreading?</strong> - Mysterious explosions in Transnistria raise fears that the Ukraine conflict may spread to Moldova.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Trevor Reed: US marine released in prisoner swap with Russia</strong> - Held in a Russian prison since 2019, Trevor Reed is safely on his way back to the US.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Anti-Semitism: Dramatic rise in 2021, Israeli report says</strong> - The Israeli study says social media and conspiracy theories about Covid are among factors to blame.</p></li>
<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ukraine war: Statue symbolic of Ukraine-Russia friendship destroyed</strong> - A statue that once represented friendship between the two countries is pulled down in Kyiv.</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>New EV vs. old beater: Which is better for the environment?</strong> - EVs require more energy to build, but they are far more efficient to operate. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1850462">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>SpaceX sends four astronauts into orbit for the second time in a month</strong> - “I just want to reiterate that safety is still and always the top priority.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1850412">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>This horizontal mouse concept claims to be ergonomic—we’re not so sure</strong> - Kickstarter claims to reduce strain and boost comfort, but we have our doubts. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1850571">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>75% of US children have now had COVID, up from 44% due to omicron</strong> - A third of all US children were newly infected with COVID during omicron wave - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1850641">link</a></p></li>
<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Microsoft finds Linux desktop flaw that gives root to untrusted users</strong> - Elevation of privilege vulnerabilities can be used to gain persistent root access. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1850608">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>After sex with my new girlfriend last night she snuggled up next to me and said, “You are definitely the biggest I’ve ever had.”</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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Apparently “ditto” wasn’t the correct response.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">  submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/YZXFILE"> /u/YZXFILE </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/ucprer/after_sex_with_my_new_girlfriend_last_night_she/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/ucprer/after_sex_with_my_new_girlfriend_last_night_she/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
<li><strong>How can you tell the difference between an Indian and African elephant?</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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One of them is an elephant
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">  submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/AnimePrimeMinister"> /u/AnimePrimeMinister </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/ucx5wc/how_can_you_tell_the_difference_between_an_indian/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/ucx5wc/how_can_you_tell_the_difference_between_an_indian/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
<li><strong>Amber Heard is like the 4th Pirates movie</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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It looked damn good
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was expensive as hell
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but ultimately just ended up shitting the bed.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">  submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/InferringAmateur"> /u/InferringAmateur </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/ucpgty/amber_heard_is_like_the_4th_pirates_movie/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/ucpgty/amber_heard_is_like_the_4th_pirates_movie/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
<li><strong>How does a hippie polygamist count his wives?</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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One Mrs. Hippie, two Mrs. Hippie, three Mrs. Hippie…
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom">  submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/airbornemedic325"> /u/airbornemedic325 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/uctb7i/how_does_a_hippie_polygamist_count_his_wives/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/uctb7i/how_does_a_hippie_polygamist_count_his_wives/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
<li><strong>A Chinese Drunk and a Jewish Drunk are sitting together on a park bench…</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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After finishing his drink the Jew takes his bottle and <em>smashes</em> it over the head of the Chinese drunk.
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“What the hell was that for?” ask the Chinese man, rubbing his head.
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“That was for Pearl Harbor!” replies the Jewish drunk.
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“Pearl Harbor? That was the Japanese! I’m Chinese!” he exclaims in return.
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“Eh, Chinese, Japanese, Korean… you’re all the same to me,” the Jewish man explains as he gets up to leave.
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The next day, the two drunks are back on the same park bench. The Chinese drunk suddenly takes his bottle, and <em>smashes</em> it over the head of the Jew.
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“Why the hell did you do that?” the Jewish man stammers.
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“That was for the Titanic!” explains the Chinese drunk.
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“The Titanic? What are you talking about? No one attacked it, it sunk when it hit an iceberg!” the Jew replies.
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“Eh, Iceberg, Goldberg, Greenberg…. you’re all the same to me,” the Chinese drunk happily retorts.
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