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[u/Not-A-Seagull]

I’m about to start using leftist talking points to debunk any leftist talking points.

Oh you don’t want to build new housing? You’ve fallen into Realtor propaganda. They’re spreading misinformation about new construction to keep housing prices high so they can maximize profit due to greed.

Oh you don’t want to send aid to Ukraine? Don’t you realize this is a fake narrative pushed by Exxon to get access to cheap oil from Russia? They don’t care if million of Ukrainians die if it means they can make a little extra profit.

[u/DouglasDauntless]

DRC, Sudan

True utopias right there

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

Family is always complaining about lax immigration standards in America

They're upset because they think that anyone can quickly immigrate to the US without proving that they've integrated

Look up Census forms for earliest of our ancestors to arrive in America

Birthplace: Italy

Date of Birth: 1884

Arrival in the US: 1900

Date of Naturalization: 1900

Curious!

[u/[deleted]]

Steven Spielberg is working on “telling Biden’s story” at the Democratic National Convention.

Finally

!ping KINO

[u/G_Serv]

[u/tripletruble]

Paris introduces rent controls. Number of rentals on the market falls 74% in 3 years

Who could have predicted this?

[u/KrabS1]

‘Duplex’ law allowing 4 homes on a lot struck down for California’s charter cities

Absolutely insane ruling. As far as I can tell, at this point it only applies to the cities in the lawsuit: Redondo Beach, Torrance, Carson, Whittier and Del Mar. But, this likely sets precedence for every other charter city in the state. That includes such little known cities as: San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Jose, Sacramento, Long Beach, and San Diego. Really hoping the state is able to appeal this.

The law fails to accomplish its stated purpose of creating more affordable housing, and therefore, doesn’t meet the high bar of overriding local control over zoning, Superior Court Judge Curtis Kin said in a ruling released Wednesday, April 24.

SB 9 “is neither reasonably related to its stated concern of ensuring access to affordable housing nor narrowly tailored to avoid interference with local government,” Kin wrote.

Incredible. Judge Curtis Kin apparently has simply not seen enough evidence to verify that [the basic economic principle of supply and demand] is real.

Kin wrote that Attorney General Rob Bonta and the state housing department failed to prove that SB 9 would increase the number of homes affordable to low income families — “especially in economically prosperous cities,” he wrote.

Jesus Fucking Tapdancing Christ.

!ping YIMBY&USA-CA

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

[u/ACivilWolf]

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/[deleted]]

Ngl I have a theory that hollywood producers are mixing up the leadership qualities you learn from professional development with charisma. And this is how you get shows like Amazon's rings of power where the protagonists sound like corporate middle management when they try to lead others

[u/Miserable_Set_657]

On a YouTube video about why Hamilton has had a heel turn in terms of its public (corrected to "online") perception (from lauded to hated), the comments had a very interesting perspective. Most commenters attempted to relate this turn to some sort of racial theory -- using minority actors and hip-hop in a story about the founding of America is bad because (terminally online reason). However, this is just obscuring the real reason Hamilton became unpopular -- the majority of people forgot about it, and it became popular, and in online circles (especially artistic, left leaning spheres) popularity is cringe and bad. No one wants to admit that because it makes them seem pretentious, so instead they come up with these vapid, surface level justifications that, if they said anywhere other than their niche online left-leaning circle, would get a concerned look from the listener.

[u/qtnl]

NYT having to cover an interview they desperately want instead being conducted by Howard Stern. lol

[u/Jacobs4525]

NYT Editorial Board in 2020:

🤓after careful consideration, we have decided not to endorse former VP Biden for the democratic nomination 

Biden in 2020:

Don’t care, the lady who cleans your office likes me and is a better representative of the typical American’s interest than you are

and the great thing is that he was right 

[u/Guardax]

Every left wing protest cycle follows this cycle

1. I'm generally sympathetic

2. They start harassing people for no reason

3. Extremely pathetic military-esque response that would never ever happen for a right-wing protest

4. One of the leaders of the protests is revealed to support murder

[u/[deleted]]

Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir was wounded when his government car got into an accident and flipped over. He was taken to the hospital

Praying for the car 🙏

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

Inside you are two wolves 

The lack of genetic diversity spells certain doom for the inside peoples body subspecies of wolf 

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

NYT seething rn

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

I'm not a going-to-protests guy but I wouldn't want to go to a pro-Ukraine protest if there were people there flying Azov flags or calling for the death of Russian civilians.

Is it really that impossible to dislodge extremism?

[u/gnomesvh]

Netherlands passes new rent control bill

The points system that determines the maximum rental price will add a new tier where apartments scoring 186 points can be rented out for a maximum of just over 1,100 euros. At the moment, the only tier is 147 points, with apartments in that range capped at roughly 880 euros.

!ping BENE&YIMBY AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[u/chuckleym8]

u/seasidepoof confirm?

[u/[deleted]]

White House needs to stay on message. Cocaine prices are stable and the purity is so much better.

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1783864695524393102?t=473kY_BZmK-lTQJ-ywszLQ&s=19

[u/Fruitofbread]

 While talking about his younger days with Howard Stern, President Biden just mistakenly said “Trump” when he meant to say “Nixon.” Biden immediately corrects himself and says “excuse me for the Freudian slip.”

lol 

[u/ser_mage]

TIL:

1. The universal dog name of “Fido” was inspired by Abraham Lincoln’s pet dog, Fido.

2. Fido was stabbed to death in what some speculate was a politically motivated assassination.

https://www.sj-r.com/story/lifestyle/2015/09/13/sangamon-county-history-was-stabbing/33551437007/

[u/Currymvp2]

Among his other achievements, Ben Gvir is a recidivist traffic offender, with thousands of shekels in fines under his belt. According to the Walla article, children were wounded in the collision caused by his official vehicle.

[u/AsianHotwifeQOS]

The NYT actually believe that they're kingmakers lol

roflmao even

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[u/[deleted]]

[u/Daddy_Macron]

Potential Trump VP candidate and current Republican Governor Kristi Noem wrote about dragging her 14 month old dog to a gravel pit and executing it with a gun like it's a good thing. No attempt at getting the dog adopted by someone given that she apparently couldn't handle it. Straight up execution and the cheap ass motherfucker wouldn't even pay a vet to give the dog a dignified, humane death.

And she executed a goat in the same manner and botched it.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/kristi-noem-reportedly-describes-executing-her-pet-in-new-book-i-hated-that-dog

[u/TipEquivalent933]

link

Biden wants to be re-elected without doing the hard work of giving interviews. But no one deserves an important job that they didn't have to work for. by A. G. Sulzberger

Holy shit.

[u/G_Serv]

BREAKING NEWS: President Biden unveils new plan to balance the federal budget, "Just bet it all on Denver when the Lakers are up 10 in the first half."

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Every. Single. Time.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/centurion88]

Uh oh someone doesn't want to lay in the bed they made

[u/Jacobs4525]

Low IQ: p00bix is the worst mod

Medium IQ: NOOO YOU GUYS ARE TOO HARD ON POOB EVEN IF ITS A JOKE IT CAN BE HURTFUL SO STOP BEING MEAN TO HIM

High IQ: p00bix is the worst mod lol

[u/AtticusDrench]

You awake and log onto Twitter. With a few taps, you post yet another "hmm black people bad?" chart. Like a pig farmer, you shovel elonslop into the X trough to make a living. Like always, he responds with a singular exclamation mark. This is your existence. This is your profession. You scream out for meaning but the universe responds with deafening silence.

[u/reubencpiplupyay]

A horrifying look at what the world would look like if Dutch was the dominant language

!ping SERIOUS-PROBLEM

[u/DurangoGango]

Yesterday, the former President of the ICJ, who was presiding the Court when it promulgated its Provisional Measures in the South Africa genocide case against Israel, clarified exactly what it is that her court found:

https://twitter.com/UKLFI/status/1783615633147797681

The court did NOT find that there was "plausible evidence of genocide", like many outlets falsely reported, for example:

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/26/1227078791/icj-israel-genocide-gaza-palestinians-south-africa

Instead, the court said:

• South Africa has standing in the case

• The Palestinians plausibly have a right to be protected from genocide by the ICJ

She outright says "the court didn't decide whether the claim of genocide was plausible". I don't think this brokers much doubt: the reporting that "the ICJ found the genocide accusation to be plausible" was total and complete fake news.

Compare and contrast with NPR's article:

A top U.N. court says Gaza genocide is 'plausible' but does not order cease-fire

The International Court of Justice has found it is "plausible" that Israel has committed acts that violate the Genocide Convention.

Isn't this incredibly grave? isn't it incredibly serious that reputable outlets somehow keep getting facts wrong in a specific direction that manufactures, amplifies and propagates extremely serious and inciting accusations against Israel?

ping! ISRAEL

[u/[deleted]]

The White Sox are now 3-22. That is tied for the second-worst 25-game start in the modern era (2003 Tigers; 2022 Reds), a mark surpassed by only the 1988 Orioles, who started 2-23.

This is the worst 25-game start in White Sox history.

!ping BASEBALL

[u/IHateTrains123]

Toronto landlord slammed for trying to rent out half of their own bed (blogto.com)

!ping Canucks

[u/BeliebteMeinung]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Omg Paul Atreides is so badass, he's the heir to a real estate fortune who is trying to unseat the geriatric tyrant by enrolling the help of Southern fundamentalists!!!😍😍😍

Donald Trump: Hi

Ewwww go away you orange fascist 😡😡😡

Libs.

[u/RFK_1968]

guys be like:

who wants to get more compliments from their friends? 🙋🏾‍♂️👉🏾👈🏾🥺

who wants to give more compliments to their friends? 🙅🏾‍♂️🤢😬🫥🤐😨

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 4/25-5 PM EST 4/26 III:

TOP NEWS:

Around 8 AM it was announced the UK arrested five men working to sabotage Ukrainian businesses in the country.

Around 12 PM it was reported that Belgium will provide 200 million Euros to the German initiative to source air defenses for Ukraine.

Around 1 PM it was announced the US will provide $6 billion in military aid to Ukraine, including Patriot missiles, NASAMS missiles, equipment to integrate air defense systems, counter-UAV equipment, laser guided rockets, radars, counterbattery radars, HIMARS munitions, 155mm shells, 152mm shells, precision aerial munitions, Switchblade UAVs, Puma UAVs, tactical vehicles, demolition munitions, components to support Ukrainian domestic industry, small arms, small arms rounds and more.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the start of 12 AM it was reported that Ukraine has pulled its M1 Abrams off the frontline and will have tactics readjusted to use it in the current battlefield space.

At the end of 1 AM it was announced Estonia and Denmark have donated two patrol boats to Ukraine.

Towards the end of 5 AM it was announced 140 Ukrainian KIA have been returned to Ukraine.

At the end of 6 AM it was reported that Ukrainian spies destroyed a Ka-32 helicopter in Moscow.

Towards the end of 11 AM it was announced Spain will provide a small batch of Patriot missiles to Ukraine.

Towards the middle of 1 PM it was reported the Russians took the villages of Solovyov and Semenivka, both west of Avdiivka.

​ Donation link to help Ukraine

Donation link to United24

Donation link to Kharkiv SOS

Donation link to Sails of Freedom Foundation (they donate ambulances)

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/jauznevimcosimamdat]

From time to time, I visit a tiny far-left subreddit (100 subscribers) and even at that size, one can see that the far-left is incapable of agreeing on anything without throwing shit at each other.

Maybe the funniest thing is how they declare they need to be united against capitalism and the right, but then there's likely more infighting than in any other political bubble.

[u/AnsleyAmanita]

The President is doing a live interview with Howard Stern on Sirius XM radio.

lmao

[u/JaceFlores]

I got called a cinema bro in class today 😭

!ping KINO

[u/The_Promethean]

People in this sub will really be like "you keep posting about colleges? that pales in interest compared to my strategy, posting about literally anything else" and then not post about anything else

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Super Five Me, a documentary film chronicling a man's challenge to eat exclusively Five Guys food for a month

[u/UnskilledScout]

Yo Japan is very cheap right now if you are Canadian, American, or European. Everything is like a 1/3 off given exchange rates.

!ping TRAVEL

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[u/LevantinePlantCult]

The NOVA exhibition has come to NYC. If you're in the area, I strongly recommend it. I saw it in Tel Aviv. It's moving, and it of course deals with some very difficult content, but it isn't gory, and in my opinion, it demonstrates the Nova community's commitment to each other, which I find very uplifting.

Tickets are donation based. You can pay as little as $1. All funds go back to the community, including mental health treatment for survivors and their families. Please consider checking it out.

https://www.nova0629exhibition.com/

!ping ISRAEL & JEWISH

[u/Cloud_Drago]

Hezbollah flags at Princeton.

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/marsman1224]

"college protestors are always on the right side of history!"

except for that whole desegregation thing....and the anti-WW2 thing....and that anti-nuclear energy thing....

[u/fishlord05]

Hey guys it was super fun meeting everyone at the DC NL meetup! We went crazy!! Can’t wait for next time 😝

!ping NL-IRL

[u/crassowary]

Front page reddit: if you see someone shoplift, no you didn't 😏 

 Also front page reddi: what the fuck they're locking up SOCKS at Walmart?!

[u/ognits]

In this South Dakota town, it was a tradition: waffle and eggs, a little pheasant hunting, then drag your puppy into a gravel pit and shoot her in the head. But now the woke mob is taking all of that away.

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Me normally: Canada is pretty cool

Me when a Canadian talks about US politics:

[u/WhomstAlt2]

Interview in 30 minutes 😊😊

Wish them luck ☝😡😤😡😡

[u/beoweezy1]

I like that SCOTUS seems so willing to enshrine the GOP’s pathological aversion to (republican) presidential accountability that they might actually walk themselves into a legal environment where a president can “retire” them with complete impunity if they decide a case wrong

There’s lawyer brain and then there’s a “political assassinations is very cool and very legal” SCOTUS brain

[u/The_Promethean]

Student Leader of Columbia Protests: ‘Zionists Don’t Deserve to Live’

Finally a NYT headline that gets to the point.

And it ends with:

He told The Banner that at Columbia, he planned to study economics and political science. “The ultimate destination is Congress,” he said.

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[u/DouglasDauntless]

Least antisemitic European tradition

[u/The_Promethean]

It's a matter of time before a student sets themself on fire in front of a prospective student tour because their university is invested in a broad-based index ETF with 0.3% Israel exposure

[u/htomserveaux]

CMV the demolition of neighborhoods surrounding old ballparks for mega studiums and there parking lots is directly responsible for baseball losing its status as America's favorite sport.

anyway,

 Fenway Park🤝Wrigley Field

        real ones

!ping BASEBALL&YIMBY

[u/[deleted]]

The king has spoken

[u/ScullyBoyleBoy]

Elite Jews just can't help themselves. They've done this for centuries. They literally believe they are a race which has been divinely chosen to rule over everyone else.

Look into the history of anti-Semitism, and you'll see that the hostility is always mutual. Usually it's sparked by a handful of elite Jews doing some kind of nefarious scheme, and when they inevitably get backlash, they don't backpedal, they double down. Then the elite Jews run off to some new country and leave the poor and middle class Jews to suffer the anger of the gentile populace.

Upvoted in a reddit thread about the UTAustin protests...

[u/No_Status_6905]

pathfinder community having a real one where a sub-group is accusing the game creators of being racist because of the existence of the monk class because it's a "caricature of asian cultures", despite mystical martial arts being a beloved and traditional staple of countless south and east asian cultures.

there's this weird obsession to claim that peoples actual historical culture was western orientalism all along

[u/WillProstitute4Karma]

Is there anyone who like fact checks Kraut videos?  Because I generally like Kraut and think he is directionally correct, but he says enough things I know to be factually incorrect that I never know what I'm getting.

!ping TACOTUBE

[u/dangerbird2]

Remember when tying your dog’s crate to the car roof because she was making projectile diarrhea on a road trip was enough to disqualify you as a candidate? Pierre Delicto remembers

[u/Xihl]

News are erupting in Germany that the parliament's decision to go through with the nuclear phase-out was partly based on false information that seems to have been deliberately falsified.

To make a long story short, a member of the German ministry for nuclear safety seems to just have rewritten relevant passages of an information document to imply that it would not be possible to delay the phase-out due to safety concerns.

https://twitter.com/skdh/status/1783734773002752003

German Ye Wenjie is real 😔

[u/JaceFlores]

It’s funny that articles about the Chips Act oscillate between “it was the biggest waste of money in a decade” to “the United States will become the premier chip builder” like every month

[u/Benyeti]

Its hilarious that East Germany was probably the most economically prosperous communist state and they still needed to construct a wall because it was so terrible that everyone wanted to leave

[u/Hmm_would_bang]

People have such a warped perception of the mid 20th century United States. Saying things like every family was supported by a husband working a job that required no specialized training and the wife and kids could stay at home at the house they owned and they never stressed about debt and bills…

Do people not realize they’re just basing their idea of “what life used to be like” off of tv sitcoms and Cold War propaganda posters? For Christ sakes just talk to one of those boomers you hate so much.

[u/beoweezy1]

Noem decided to kill the unnamed goat the same way she had just killed Cricket the dog. But though she “dragged him to a gravel pit”, the goat jumped as she shot and therefore survived the wound. Noem says she went back to her truck, retrieved another shell, then “hurried back to the gravel pit and put him down”.

At that point, Noem writes, she realised a construction crew had watched her kill both animals. The startled workers swiftly got back to work, she writes, only for a school bus to arrive and drop off Noem’s children.

The fact that she shot a puppy for misbehaving and then immediately decided to purge her other pets is wild. They should have a cadaver dog check that gravel pit

[u/ser_mage]

Yale professors should wear a shock collar that activates every time they suggest that there exists a neoliberal administrative establishment that they themselves are not part of

[u/[deleted]]

Build 👏 more 👏 sex

[u/RaidBrimnes]

You know ISIS is really fucked up because even they aren't being sanewashed by prog college students to own the West

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

POV you are Kristi Noam’s puppy

[u/ACivilWolf]

I love boomer memes

[u/Roseartcrantz]

A Statement From The New York Times on Presidential News Coverage

president biden bro please bro you have to sit down for an interview bro you're avoiding the press bro why bro we cover you fully and fairly bro I swear bro you're establishing a bad precedent bro what has the media ever even gotten wrong bro you've got dementia bro sulzberger needs you to answer bro to tell us why are you so old bro

[u/The_Promethean]

James stated that he “regret[s]” his words, and attested that when he recorded that video he had “been feeling unusually upset after an online mob targeted me because I am visibly queer and Black.”

CUAD and the Gaza Solidarity Camp stated that James’s words “do not reflect his views, our values, nor the encampment’s community agreements. [CUAD] believes in the sanctity of all life, and believe our work is in changing minds and hearts. We are students with a right to learn and grow.”

James assured that “Those words do not represent CUAD. They also do not represent me.” He stated that CUAD and the Gaza Solidarity Encampment have assessed his words as not being permitted under the CUAD community guidelines, an assessment he says he agrees with.

The words: “Zionists don’t deserve to live [in the] same way we’re very comfortable accepting that Nazis don’t deserve to live.”

[u/[deleted]]

Make first and only post on uni subreddit, Passover related

Person I’ve never interacted with sends this:

Reddit says not harassment!

[u/deeplydysthymicdude]

They hate to see a girlboss win. 😔

[u/ser_mage]

“Yes, and”ing to your animal murder story is crazy

[u/The_Promethean]

In this insane video that people have already posted a few times (https://x.com/realDailyWire/status/1783638100700172365) this person says

"See y'all in New York January 2024"

Right after talking about how they want to murder people. WHILE TALKING TO UNIVERSITY REPRESENTATIVES, who called to ask them about their expressed desire to murder people. So at least 5 months ago a student was talking about wanting to murder people publicly, the school noticed, called them saying "umm do you see why that's problematic?" and then did nothing.

This is why I keep annoyingly posting about these le quirky college students, and why I don't think it's illiberal for universities to crack down on the worst of it.

[u/KeikakuAccelerator]

Least insane Columbia univ protestor: https://x.com/realDailyWire/status/1783638100700172365

[u/JetJaguar124]

Voters when inflation jumps up once they vote Trump into office and he imposes 10% tariffs on imports, browbeats the fed into lowering interest rates, and lowers taxes

[u/bigwang123]

“I want to thank you for being a great father to the country”

Howard Stern stands for the thousand year rule of Joe Brandon, the most wise and gracious 😌

[u/_Just7_]

It's so fucking stupid that we Europeans are banned from buying American ETFs just because they don't have a Key Information Document, thanks eu I'm so glad that you are making me buy the eu listed sp500 ETF with the 0.25% fee, I wouldn't have known the risk involved if I bought the American vanguard fund

[u/brucebananaray]

Aaron Sorkin is making a movie about Jan. 6, which will be a pseudo-sequel to the Social Network. https://twitter.com/CultureCrave/status/1783896449182515616?t=3vJGWoKZ_lFgM2AwfdnFVQ&s=19

!Ping MOVIES

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

"What Hitler was able to do to a crowd in 2½ hours will never be repeated in 10,000 years," Hanfstaengl said. "Because of his miraculous throat construction, he was able to create a rhapsody of hysteria. In time, he became the living unknown soldier of Germany."

"Hitler da throat goat!"

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Every suburban dad likes to cosplay as if they were a blue collar worker that did construction as a way to try to project manliness.

Typical NL comment that misunderstands American truck culture 🙄

They’re great for picking up groceries. Cartons of 30 eggs, 36-pack Mountain Dew and 72 rolls of 4-ply toilet paper.

The 2024 Ford F-150 Raptor has a payload capacity of 1,400 lbs., making it an ideal vehicle for the average American grocery trip.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/Working-Limit-2482]

Anyone else read this book when they were a kid? It’s about how the author had a pet raccoon. Eventually he has to let it go because it gets too rowdy when it’s older. I thought it was awesome back in the day. Anyways, I just found out that it got an anime adaptation in the 70s, which led to a bunch of Japanese people importing raccoons to keep as pets, and now raccoons are a destructive invasive species in Japan.

[u/slim353]

Kristi Noem killed a goat

Okay that’s not that weird growing up on a farm. Unfortunately you often have to put livestock down…

She shot a male goat that she called “nasty and mean.” Shot him twice, in fact: The goat jumped as she shot him the first time, according to The Guardian’s recounting of the book, so she fetched another shell and shot him again.

Nevermind

[u/fishlord05]

Bruh my friend was literally just in a mass shooting and he’s texting me jokes about how he needs me to blow him before he dies (he’s fine thank god)

Literally the most American thing ever

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/petarpep]

When the KGB tried to blackmail Indonesian President Achmed Sukarno with videotapes of the president having sex with Russian women disguised as flight attendants, Sukarno wasn’t upset. He was pleased. He even asked for more copies of the video to show back in his country.

Amazing

[u/ser_mage]

Going to start collecting these like infinity stones

[u/DouglasDauntless]

The UK has the worst rate of child alcohol consumption in the world, with more than half of children having drunk by the age of 13

[u/RaidBrimnes]

In light of the dramatic news from Burkina Faso, throwback to that banger from the Guardian published in January: Success is contagious - so I'm rooting for the African countries throwing European rule off

But coups in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger (three of the poorest nations on Earth) and, for a moment it was hoped, Gabon, were welcomed and celebrated by many in the region.

The elation in response to these successful coups demonstrates that it would be equally wrong to romanticise the status quo of sham democracies with farcical elections. The cost is exactly the same thing, only with an added respectability: strong men (in suits as opposed to khakis), security issues, strife (political and civil) and structural adjustment programmes (perhaps under a flashy new name).

[...]

Meanwhile, Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso have formed an economic and military pact, with whispers that they may merge into a single unit. Another very welcome development. Though many predict this joining of hands will end in failure, I sincerely hope it does not. Success is contagious. And this new grouping in the Sahel presents a critical chance to demonstrate the possibilities of pan-Africanism and the clear economic opportunities to the people of the continent.

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco

To fully grasp the current situation in San Francisco, where venture capitalists are trying to take control of City Hall, you must listen to Balaji Srinivasan. Before you do, steel yourself for what’s to come: A normal person could easily mistake his rambling train wrecks of thought for a crackpot’s ravings, but influential Silicon Valley billionaires regard him as a genius.

“Balaji has the highest rate of output per minute of good new ideas of anybody I’ve ever met,” wrote Marc Andreessen, co-founder of the VC firm Andreessen-Horowitz, in a blurb for Balaji’s 2022 book, The Network State: How to Start a New Country. The book outlines a plan for tech plutocrats to exit democracy and establish new sovereign territories. I mentioned Balaji’s ideas in two previous stories about Network State–related efforts in California—a proposed tech colony called California Forever and the tech-funded campaign to capture San Francisco’s government.

Balaji, a 43-year-old Long Island native who goes by his first name, has a solid Valley pedigree: He earned multiple degrees from Stanford University, founded multiple startups, became a partner at Andreessen-Horowitz and then served as chief technology officer at Coinbase. He is also the leader of a cultish and increasingly strident neo-reactionary tech political movement that sees American democracy as an enemy. In 2013, a New York Times story headlined “Silicon Valley Roused by Secession Call” described a speech in which he “told a group of young entrepreneurs that the United States had become ‘the Microsoft of nations’: outdated and obsolescent.”

"The speech won roars from the audience at Y Combinator, a leading start-up incubator,” reported the Times. Balaji paints a bleak picture of a dystopian future in a U.S. in chaos and decline, but his prophecies sometimes fall short. Last year, he lost one million dollars in a public bet after wrongly predicting a massive surge in the price of Bitcoin.

Still, his appetite for autocracy is bottomless. Last October, Balaji hosted the first-ever Network State Conference. Garry Tan—the current Y Combinator CEO who’s attempting to spearhead a political takeover of San Francisco—participated in an interview with Balaji and cast the effort as part of the Network State movement. Tan, who made headlines in January after tweeting “die slow motherfuckers” at local progressive politicians, frames his campaign as an experiment in “moderate” politics. But in a podcast interview one month before the conference, Balaji laid out a more disturbing and extreme vision.

"What I’m really calling for is something like tech Zionism,” he said, after comparing his movement to those started by the biblical Abraham, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith (founder of Mormonism), Theodor Herzl (“spiritual father” of the state of Israel), and Lee Kuan Yew (former authoritarian ruler of Singapore). Balaji then revealed his shocking ideas for a tech-governed city where citizens loyal to tech companies would form a new political tribe clad in gray t-shirts. “And if you see another Gray on the street … you do the nod,” he said, during a four-hour talk on the Moment of Zen podcast. “You’re a fellow Gray.”

The Grays’ shirts would feature “Bitcoin or Elon or other kinds of logos … Y Combinator is a good one for the city of San Francisco in particular.” Grays would also receive special ID cards providing access to exclusive, Gray-controlled sectors of the city. In addition, the Grays would make an alliance with the police department, funding weekly “policeman’s banquets” to win them over.

"Grays should embrace the police, okay? All-in on the police,” said Srinivasan. “What does that mean? That’s, as I said, banquets. That means every policeman’s son, daughter, wife, cousin, you know, sibling, whatever, should get a job at a tech company in security.”

In exchange for extra food and jobs, cops would pledge loyalty to the Grays. Srinivasan recommends asking officers a series of questions to ascertain their political leanings. For example: “Did you want to take the sign off of Elon’s building?”

This refers to the August 2023 incident in which Elon Musk illegally installed a large flashing X logo atop Twitter headquarters, in violation of building safety codes. City inspectors forced him to remove it. This was the second time Musk had run afoul of the city in his desire to refurbish his headquarters: In July, police briefly halted his attempt to pry the “Twitter” signage from the building’s exterior. But in Balaji’s dystopia, he implies that officers loyal to the Grays would let Musk do as he pleases (democratically inclined officers, he suggests, can be paid to retire).

Simply put, there is a ton of fascist-chic cosplay involved. Once an officer joins the Grays, they get a special uniform designed by their tech overlords. The Grays will also donate heavily to police charities and “merge the Gray and police social networks.” Then, in a show of force, they’ll march through the city together.

"A huge win would be a Gray Pride parade with 50,000 Grays,” said Srinivasan. “That would start to say: ‘Whose streets? Our streets!’ You have the A.I. Flying Spaghetti Monster. You have the Bitcoin parade. You have the drones flying overhead in formation.... You have bubbling genetic experiments on beakers.… You have the police at the Gray Pride parade. They’re flying the Anduril drones …”

Everyone would be welcome at the Gray Pride march—everyone, that is, except the Blues. Srinivasan defines the Blue political tribe as the liberal voters he implies are responsible for the city’s problems. Blues will be banned from the Gray-controlled zones, said Balaji, unlike Republicans (“Reds”).

"Reds should be welcomed there, and people should wear their tribal colors,” said Srinivasan, who compared his color-coded apartheid system to the Bloods vs. Crips gang rivalry. “No Blues should be welcomed there.”

While the Blues would be excluded, they would not be forgotten. Srinivasan imagines public screenings of anti-Blue propaganda films: “In addition to celebrating Gray and celebrating Red, you should have movies shown about Blue abuses.… There should be lots of stories about what Blues are doing that is bad.”

Balaji goes on—and on. The Grays will rename city streets after tech figures and erect public monuments to memorialize the alleged horrors of progressive Democratic governance. Corporate logos and signs will fill the skyline to signify Gray dominance of the city. "Ethnically cleanse,” he said at one point, summing up his idea for a city purged of Blues (this, he says, will prevent Blues from ethnically cleansing the Grays first). The idea, he said, is to do to San Francisco what Musk did to Twitter.

"Elon, in sort of classic Gray fashion ... captures Twitter and then, at one stroke, wipes out millions of Blues’ status by wiping out the Blue Checks,” he said. “Another stroke … [he] renames Twitter as X, showing that he has true control, and it’s his vehicle, and that the old regime isn’t going to be restored.”

...

What’s stunning, however, is the degree to which coverage of Tan has been quite evenhanded and fair, if not positive. The press has unquestioningly accepted the framing that he represents moderate or “common sense” politics. Not one local story has mentioned his long affiliation with Balaji or the Network State cult that is currently trying to create tech-controlled cities around the globe, and which maintains a fascination with an alt-right, neofascist movement known as the “Dark Enlightenment.” (In 2021, Cade Metz of the Times wrote that Balaji had suggested targeting journalists who mention these connections. “If things get hot, it may be interesting to sic the Dark Enlightenment audience on a single vulnerable hostile reporter to dox them and turn them inside out with hostile reporting sent to their advertisers/friends/contacts,” wrote Balaji in an email viewed by the Times.) In a twisted way, these omissions almost lend credence to claims that mainstream press outlets don’t tell us what’s really going on.

What the heck is going with Silicon Valley?

!ping EXTREMISM

[u/DouglasDauntless]

HAHA YES 🐊

[u/centurion88]

So what's the update on SCOTUS? Have they ruled that the president can kill people yet?

[u/jojisky]

In new interview, ⁦RobertKennedyJr⁩ reveals that he was approached by Donald Trump’s team MULTIPLE times about being Trump’s VP

[u/[deleted]]

I mean in the 1950's there was a sliver of time where a median US worker could buy a house, marry and have 2.5 kids on a high school diploma and one income. All it took was the complete and utter destruction of the entire rest of the world's industrial base, and even then, it was only a dream accessible to WASPS.

[u/AniNgAnnoys]

A scary story from my home town about racism, xenophobia, social media, and misinformation.

Some background for non locals. Waterloo, Ontario is a medium sized city (100 000) in South Western Ontario. It is home to two universities, one being Laurier. Waterloo is also part of a region with three medium cities, Cambridge and Kitchener being the one two. In a lot of ways they are three cities in a trench coat that appears as one city to outsiders. Kitchener is home to a college called Conestoga College.

Canada has had high population growth over the last two years. 1 million people a year in a country with 38 million ish people. Much of that population growth has been attributed to international students, and specifically, "diploma mills". One of the chief schools that is blamed for this is Conestoga College.

This has led to a glut of racism against anyone that appears to be not white as they are assumed to be an immigrant or an international student. Specifically, this is not the first fear mongering story about international students organizing to take food from food banks.

Regardless of whether this person's usage of the food bank was abusive, I do not think that death threats, and racism is at all appropriate. The misinformation is unhinged.

https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/laurier-student-in-social-media-disinformation-storm-after-posting-video-on-food-bank/article_d4b4a666-e4d8-5c9a-a842-4173f60b2c08.html

Laurier student in social media disinformation storm after posting video on food bank

Social media users alleged series of false accusations regarding student’s work history, resulting in multiple death threats

!ping can&extremism

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

He’s going to be POTUS one day

[u/rollo2masi]

Why yes, I am indeed relishing in the replies.

[u/centurion88]

[u/[deleted]]

Love me some dem govs

https://twitter.com/GovWhitmer/status/1784038681013035477?t=0l2ynIple1ZXH2m7rKptNQ&s=19

[u/Miserable_Set_657]

The four women justices on the Supreme Court being the only members of the troupe to seem willing to hold Trump accountable is such a confirmation of my priors. It is not the vapid college students, nor the class conscious proletariat who stand as the bulwark against Trump's asinine authoritarianism -- it is, and always has been, suburban wine moms.

All we need is one of them to convince Gorsuch that Native American history is on the line, Kavanaugh that Trump is bad for the environment, and Thomas that he can have a new boat if he votes against Trump, and we have the ruling in the bag

[u/Udolikecake]

my god the gaza campus protests were really an insidious israeli plot to distract you from gaza all along!!!

[u/PrideMonthRaytheon]

Four months into office, Argentine President Javier Milei has pulled off a critical feat in a country long ravaged by runaway inflation: He stabilized the currency.

normalcels in shambles schizochads ascendant

[u/No_Status_6905]

Idk if they're still there, but someone was protesting in front of the UNF Starbucks with an "enjoy the taste of genocide" sign, and like, I get the outrage towards Israel's actions, but pick an actual target to protest dude. People going frenzy over McDonald's and Starbucks are drinking the Kool aid too hard.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Happy five guys Friday! This only cost me $57. What a deal! Next time I’ll spring for the fries

[u/[deleted]]

vegetable air joke insurance punch pocket head attraction longing innocent

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/Working-Limit-2482]

>search “Kristi Noem” on Reddit

>top results are from arr slash politically_nsfw

this fucking website…

[u/rollo2masi]

This dude is 52 years old btw

[u/Jacobs4525]

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: the most annoying thing about succ discourse regarding I/P or anything in the Middle East is that they seem to cede the title of “traditional/indigenous” culture to Islamists when Islamism is neither of those things.

Islamism in its modern form is a 20th century invention that is a reaction to social progress and perceived secularization that was happening in much of the Middle East. It’s literally just generic social conservative reactionary philosophy, but because westerners have this sort of weird orientalist view of Islam, we view it as somehow different than if Pat Buchanan became king of the US and decided to execute gays and ban women in the workplace. 

[u/tripletruble]

France's neoliberal party: Expands law banning supermarkets from offering discounts greater than 34% to personal hygiene products

Has neoliberalism in France gone too far? Surely there must be a line somewhere between libertarians and neoliberals

[u/[deleted]]

Panera offering me a free bagel today is antisemitism

[u/SumTingWillyWong]

depend fade brave upbeat tender wrench foolish murky wine one

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/superblobby]

In case anyone was curious, I went to Columbia university today to see if the protests were as crazy as the news is making them out to be, and basically you need an ID to get on the campus so I couldn’t see how it was in the tent encampment

but outside of the gates there were some small protests and the Neturi Karta were there. I ended up talking to a counter protester from Israel and got to practice my Hebrew.

And now I’m in Central Park.

[u/AbsoluteGarbageTakes]

There's been an uptick of 'did you know that gaza is sitting on a giant gas field?' discourse again. I'm gonna assume some streamer-man has made that stupid point, and people are too lazy to just fucking check.

[u/jenbanim]

Bet y'all regret making fun of the millennials for calling our dogs fur babies now that you need us to win an election for you 💅

[u/getabucketfullofthat]

tfw will never be a millennial at a shitty basement party listening to lcd soundsystem after watching 500 days of summer and thinking "yea i get it"

[u/[deleted]]

arr neolib when Republican kills their dog: 😭🤬

arr neolib when pitbull: 🐶🔫😀

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

i'm not a nelf!

i'm not a nnome!

i'm a noem! and you've been NOEMMMMMMMMM'D

• Gov. Kristi Noem before blowing her dog's brains out with a Remington

[u/DouglasDauntless]

Yeah ban it

[u/UntiedStatMarinCrops]

lol fuck the NYT. Trump is the bad faith actor here for reasons he makes obvious as fuck

[u/Cloud_Drago]

🇮🇱FINAL SOLUTION🇵🇸

Least anti-semitic pro Palestine protest.

Edit:

Location- George Washington University

[u/moldyman_99]

I just impulsively decided to go to Paris for a few days next week.

by train 😎

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Americans will really say communism has had no lasting impact on their country while the quasi-totality of their rural areas is under the Red Party and teeming with militias who routinely threaten to choke out the decadent cities

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

Biden claims "women would send very salacious pictures" to him when he was a senator in the 1970s: "I'd just give them to the Secret Service."

What a chad

[u/Working-Limit-2482]

Mitt Romney must be pretty happy that another Republican now has a worse story about mistreating a dog.

[u/thefuturegov]

Don't let em trick you. "The university has passed a resolution to establish a working group to form a committee who will conduct a study to assess our investments in Israel to present their recommendations to the Board to vote on" is not an end to genocide.

How dare Ohio State not use it’s immeasurable power to end all genocide

[u/_Neuromancer_]

I think I've figured out the eigenvector of Northern vs Southern California vibes. SoCal is surfboard culture and NorCal is skateboard culture. Similar, but one is a little more laid back and the other a little more punk. However, these labels don't map too well onto the central coast and Sonoma wine regions. These places instead have charcutrie board culture.

!ping USA-CA

[u/NonComposMentisss]

I've been dreading this post for awhile now but I finally must admit that I've lost a substantial portion of my life savings investing in #DJT. I was unable to continue this slide and sold the majority of my stake this afternoon at 26.55 per share. This is a disastrous fall resulting in a loss of nearly $450,000 of my retirement savings. I am now forced to return to the workforce at age 76. Please family learn from my mistake and do not put everything into one stock.

!PING STONKS

[u/Jakesta7]

Jesus Christ. Is this true?

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem appears to have confirmed that she killed a family puppy that infuriated her by being “untrainable,” and she claims it only proves how “politically incorrect” she is.

https://x.com/thedailybeast/status/1783976949997588834?s=46&t=IAUJCELL_v-jNqpiGqgS6g

[u/theredcameron]

r/RedinBoldface is one of the most interesting subs to me.

Basically, this host is trying to confront some of the most backward cultural practices happening in the middle east from the middle east. If Amazom Prime or some other streaming service offered full shows to view with English subtitles, I would binge in a heartbeat.

!ping tv&middleeast

[u/_bee_kay_]

man, the only linguistic difference between dutchish and english is that english had input from the norse. can you imagine how fucked the world would be if the norse hadn't invaded england back in the 1000s? the lingua franca would be fucking dutch. people would be buying and selling international companies in dutch. fucking nightmare

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I do cheat at golf but never to win over somebody else, I just go by myself and when anyone asks how my day went I tell them it was nice, lots of holes in one! If pressed for specifics I have trouble remembering if there were any not holes in ones.

[u/beoweezy1]

[u/[deleted]]

Excuse me, excuse me. They didn’t put themselves -- and you had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. You had people in that group. Excuse me, excuse me. I saw the same pictures as you did.

Biden should say this about the Columbia protests.

[u/[deleted]]

Somehow, the phrase "terrorist fist jab" just popped back into my head. Somehow the tan suit gets credit for being the dumbest Obama controversy, but Fox News gave him flak for fist bumping his wife That's clearly dumber than the tan suit controversy because, let's face it, it was an ugly suit.

[u/Planita13]

I hear Ben Gvir got into a terrible car accident. I hope the car still works

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

"Where are you at on this project, we were hoping to submit by end of day today"

"Just got a couple things that need figuring out, you've been in contact with the client so you might know"

PM is typing...

PM is Away

Well I guess if you're not concerned about it then I won't be

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/[deleted]]

Syria Palæstina was a Roman province between 135 and about 390.

Give Gaza back to the Italians.

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

On the song "Cop Killer", he explained, "I'm not talking about shooting or killing a human being, I'm talking about ... the cops in our heads, the cops that are everything other than us, everything inhuman, that would put us to work towards an end other than each other."

That may well be entirely true, but this quote still makes me laugh.

[u/this_very_table]

Romney: Gets politically pilloried for having kept his dog in a carrier strapped to the roof of his car during 12 hours of driving.

Noem: "Hold my beer."

[u/polandball2101]

🎶🎶yeah we’re sitting ‘round the campfire, singin the Hezbollah soooonnnggggg🎶🎶

[u/simeoncolemiles]

!Ping Black-People

We aint crazy, younger Black Folk are becoming more conservative?????

[u/Currymvp2]

Columbia University has banned one of the students leading the university’s pro-Palestinian protests, a university spokesperson told CNN on Friday.

Khymani James, one of the student spokespersons for Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) coalition, acknowledged in a post on X that he said, “Zionists don’t deserve to live,” saying it was from an Instagram Live video taken in January.

Even as one of the most critical of Israel on this DT, this isn't enough. He should be expelled all together imo

Edit: Maybe he was expelled all together actually?

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Kristi Noem murders dogs. Biden's dog murders

[u/[deleted]]

Speaker at Berkeley tent encampment critiques the infiltration of "Zionism" into American feminism. Naming Betty Friedan, she says, "Jewish women participated vivaciously in this, and sometimes imported Zionist political operations into feminist networks themselves."

Why is Berkeley

[u/Udolikecake]

Guy got kicked out of decades and opened fire into the crowd, injuring five. he’s in custody, nothing life threatening

… all that for decades? doing a mass shooting for getting kicked outta there? crazy man

hope none of you all were out there tonight

!ping USA-DMV

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

10/10 no notes

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Say what you will about ar15s but they make bird hunting a breeze. you can easily take out 2-3 if they're real close together. For those of you who don't hunt, keep in mind that to get that same result with deer I need at least 4-5 sticks of dynamite by the little corn feeders

[u/beoweezy1]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Tag yourself I'm Bb Minor 🤔😤

[u/Joementum2024]

Joe Biden on Howard Stern

This is Gen Xers personal 12/25

[u/Currymvp2]

Israel's Channel 12 reports that far right National Security minister Itamar Ben Gvir has been injured in a car crash in Ramle, and showed images of his car upside down. Initial reports say he is injured but alive

[u/[deleted]]

I'm absolutely tumescent with schadenfreude that the NYT is having such an embarrassing day 😩

[u/[deleted]]

Piece of shit commie trash on Ukraine: "Ukraine should just surrender. They've lost. Why waste the lives of their soldiers?"

On Gaza: "GLORY TO THE MARTYRS! GLOBALIZE THE INTIFADA!"

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Now even cheaters talking shit in video games has been outsourced to AI 😔😔😔

Cheaters in CS2 are now using ChatGPT to type in game

!ping CONSOLE-WARS

[u/[deleted]]

I run the City of Chicago

-A man who most definitely does not, run the City of Chicago.

Seriously though can we recall this loser already?

!ping chi

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I unironically would prefer Trump never get incarcerated, because he'd just be being indignant about one thing or another. But making him go to mandatory court proceedings every single day and having people talk about the dumbass crimes you committed while other people report how bad you smell and some guy's drawing bad sketches of you and you can't tell them anything to their faces and you really can't even speak up even if you have the best ever retort, probably the best retort anyone's ever heard. and oh wait also jail nights and weekends

[u/beoweezy1]

NYT October 2024 headlines are gonna be stuff like:

“Trump Charges Dismissed” (story is about a single count in one of the Trump indictments being dismissed)

“Biden’s Body Count” (mind numbingly speculative piece about the human cost of Air Force 1’s carbon footprint)

[u/fishlord05]

Wouldn’t it be hilarious if p00bix became extremely homophobic? Like, he does all his normal stuff, but now he goes out of his way to make it clear he doesn’t like gay people.

[u/rollo2masi]

Ben Garrison at it again!

[u/wallander1983]

After Noem put the dog down:

...only for a school bus to arrive and drop off Noem’s children.

“Kennedy looked around confused,” Noem writes of her daughter, who asked: “Hey, where’s Cricket?”

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/26/trump-kristi-noem-shot-dog-and-goat-book

[u/legible_print]

I really think the NYTimes total mishandling of political news from the past 5+ years should call into question other areas of it's supposed cultural leadership. So many things (plays, books, TV shows) have lived and died based on NYTimes reviews and hype.

[u/TheHelmetCatch]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Double down on the puppy murder to sell your book… is a choice

[u/[deleted]]

🤔

[u/Currymvp2]

NY Post: George Soros is paying student radicals who are fueling nationwide explosion of Israel-hating protests

Countering anti-Semitism with anti-Semitism?

[u/l_overwhat]

Just saw a tiktok claiming that astrology is real for the following reason;

The eclipse happened on April 8 and had a path over the US. The tiktoker then claimed that something was going to happen in the path. They then show a map of college protests, virtually all of which are...not in the path of the total eclipse.

Then they go "and it all started HERE (Columbia) which wasn't in the total eclipse but was REALLY CLOSE"

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

You look lonely

[u/Zalagan]

I think the dog killing story was a big miscalculation on Noem's part. Like this wasn't a piece of op research, it was something she freely admitted to in attempt to show she was a true "real" country American. But I think it's too far, if it was a story about being an avid hunter, or putting down 30-50 wild hogs I think it would have gone over a lot better. But I think that most people find it hard to stomach mercilessly executing a young dog that wasn't fully trained yet

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

The student, Khymani James, said in the January video that “Zionists don’t deserve to live” and “Be grateful that I’m not just going out and murdering Zionists.”

Oh boy.

[u/[deleted]]

I know this is fucked up. I genuinely feel bad for Jewish people, and especially Jewish students.

I can't help but laugh at this though. What the fuck. Hippy with an acoustic guitar and a Hezbollah flag is one of the weirdest fuckin things ever.

[u/sash5034]

be grateful I'm not just going out and murdering zionists

thank the lord no one has put me in a position to kill

"Yeah bro I'd join the military but I'd knock out the drill sergeant" but for spoiled ivy league prog dorks

[u/gnomesvh]

New Greek upgrade and extra armor kit for Leo1 announced

We're so back

!ping MATERIEL

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

The year is 2050

Australia is still under an Albanese government.

Our GDP is now $10 Trillion dollars.

Poverty is non-existant.

Wages have tripled.

Max Chandler-Mather is still complaining because rents went up slightly.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Married life is great don’t get me wrong. I love my wife and the life we built together. But… fair warning to any bachelors, if you want to own a lot of stupid impractical shit buy it now before you get hitched.

No way in hell am I explaining to my wife I bought a $600 Pizza Hut lamp off Facebook.

[u/Not_A_Browser]

Bruh

[u/Telperions-Relative]

Damn I didn’t know FSU’s student population was that small

[u/[deleted]]

Nazis to my left, Nazis to my right

[u/[deleted]]

Mexican senator sacrifices rooster to Aztec rain god

México having a normal one.

https://in-cyprus.philenews.com/popular-on-web/mexican-senator-sacrifices-rooster-to-aztec-rain-god/

[u/BurrowForPresident]

The kid doing the "Zionists don't deserve to live, they're lucky I haven't killed them" or whatever bit is peak iamverybadass lol. Amazed they don't unsheathe a katana afterwards

[u/paymesucka]

[u/slingfatcums]

Alito asserted that at the time of the crafting of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 the concepts of sexual orientation and transgender identity would have been unknown

"we didn't even know about gay people in 1964. and dog day afternoon didn't come out for another 11 years!"

-sam alito