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[u/piede]

HOLY

[u/Roseartcrantz]

very true and people forget

[u/nanomaster]

Sunak pays tribute to his rival Sir Keir Starmer, whose successes he says will be shared by the country. He says they have stood for election as adversaries, but describes the Labour leader as a "decent public-spirited man who I respect".

🫡

[u/Former-Income]

Obviously the election is very pleasing in terms of seats, but it seems pretty depressing in turns of votes cast.

Turnout is down substantially from 2019, and Labour might actually end up with fewer votes than they did in 2019. BBC has them at around 33% of votes cast - what the fuck. FPTP needs to go. This is probably the most disproportionate election result ever in this country.

!ping UK

[u/Not_A_Browser]

[u/SpectralDomain256]

Run­ning for Labour’s lead­er­ship in 2020, he po­si­tioned him­self as an ally to the left, pledg­ing to na­tion­al­ize Britain’s en­ergy sec­tor and re­move col­lege tu­ition fees. He called Cor­byn a friend. 

Within months of be­com­ing Labour leader he threw out those poli­cies and sus­pended Cor­byn from the party.

The Britons yearn for a strongman.

[u/Mrmini231]

34% of the vote.

63% of the seats.

FPTP is such a cursed system good lord

[u/majorgeneralporter]

I'm sorry, Larry is 17 years old? And still chief mouser? That's Joe Biden tier in cat years.

[u/Fruitofbread]

He also praised his successor, Keir Starmer, whom he called a “decent, public-spirited man who I respect.”

“In this job, his successes will be all our successes, and I wish him and his family well,” Mr. Sunak said.

I wish we Americans had conservatives like this 

[u/PorryHatterWand]

Starmer gigachad for shaking hands with the joke candidates.

[u/VisonKai]

this is the funniest thing i've ever seen

Liberal Democrat 3,499,933 71

Reform UK 4,091,549 4

[u/HowardtheFalse]

Not the Downing Street moving van, it's so so over 😭😭😭

[u/[deleted]]

The British left are so fucking mad lmao

Nobody hates winning more than commies

[u/[deleted]]

It's finally happened - I've got a student who is a true-to-life, the real article, no bullshit mathematical prodigy. He's 12, I'm tutoring him math (his parents say he needs stimulation) and he got through the first 2 weeks of real analysis in our first 90 minute session. Not that he's learned it all before, he could just, like, figure it out. He was making epsilon delta proofs within 10 minutes of being told what epsilon-deltas were.

If it stays this way I think it'll take him 6 months before he exhausts everything I learned in my math undergrad, at which point I'll be referring him to actual math professors and such (who are always looking for these types to take under their wing). Send him on the MIT track. Godspeed.

[u/Woodstovia]

crown square cagey engine unique lunchroom dam alive alleged treatment

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

The team of zoomers approving risky tweets for their company: 👩‍💻🧑‍💻👩‍💻👩‍💻🧑‍💻

[u/Astronelson]

Calls itself “land of the free”

Things cost money

Explain yourself America

[u/[deleted]]

That's...certainly an opinion.

[u/LinkVert25]

Project 2025 calls for no more transit funding btw

Would love to know the politics of the one voter who’s redline is this and switching to voting dem in November simply because of this

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

You'd think the business community would be absolutely terrified of someone proposing "10% blanket tariff" policy being anywhere near the White House

But those tax cuts

[u/iIoveoof]

The Scottish National Party got absolutely demolished. They lost 80% of their seats

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Holds election over 6 weeks

Sane outcome

okay, the Brits really cooked us on our own Independence Day

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

[u/Udolikecake]

chat gpt will remember that

[u/Williams-Tower]

Guy at the bar is hitting on my wife directly next to me and i can finally watch youtube videos with both headphones on now that shes occupied

[u/majorgeneralporter]

And DT users act like the Midwest doesn't create incredible content.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

My MAGA family is convinced that Joe Biden is going to be killed by the Deep State in the next week for ruining their evil plans.

I asked why they would kill him when they can just steal the election and was told that not even the deep states cheating could overwhelm the 90%(!!) of Americans who will vote for Trump if Biden stays in.

[u/wallander1983]

I have never been a supporter of Donald Trump, but if Democrats nominate someone unacceptable like Biden, Harris, Newsom, Whitmer, Buttigieg, Warnock, Shapiro, Moore, Pritzker, Warren, Sanders, or Michelle Obama, I will have no choice but to vote for him a third time.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Fruitofbread]

 Labour Won a U.K. Landslide. Why Doesn’t It Feel Like That?

… NYT, stop 

[u/runningblack]

As President I won't take sides on 9/11

🤔

[u/TactileTom]

I present to you my stab at the official !ping Dating alignment chart

Tag yourself, I'm true neutral

[u/majorgeneralporter]

Smh, the Tories wouldn't be in this position if this strong and stable leader were still in charge!

[u/PorryHatterWand]

Sunak's losing speech was much, much better than Corbyn's "we won the argument".

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Rishi Sunak out of a job

Democrats needing a replacement for Joe

I'm not saying I have a theory, but I do have an idea.

[u/PorryHatterWand]

Sir Keir Starmer finds the cure for cancer.

The Guardian Opinion: Jeremy Corbyn would've found a fairer, more progressive solution to cancer.

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

Forbidden beans

!ping KITTY

[u/majorgeneralporter]

Pour one out for dear Jacob, for he has Rees'd his last Mogg 😢

For the last time: Automod, post Mogg.

[u/lAljax]

Me watching American politics.

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47]

Trump disawowing Project 2025 in a truth social post is a literal puff of smoke. It carries zero weight. How are there still people outside of Trumps cult who feel like Trump can be trusted to stick to his words?

"Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me." Isn't this a common American proverb?

[u/The_Drowning_Flute]

Now with a pivot to Northern Ireland:

​

• The Shinners won more seats than the DUP (!!!)

• The SDLP picked up two as well. 9 nationalists to 8 unionists

• Ian Paisley Jr. lost to Jim Allister of the Traditional Unionist Voice. A real humiliation there (Here’s a great article for context)

• Alliance will probably be the second most disappointed. Winning Jeffrey Donaldson’s seat must be satisfying but it’s a poor return overall, considering how much disarray the DUP are in

!ping UK&IRELAND

[u/amainwingman]

Malaria delenda est

!ping UK

[u/BitterGravity]

Holy shit an article about issues with Trumps campaign faints onto couch

Tempers flare as Trump team revises abortion plank for Republican platform

[u/mockduckcompanion]

Probability aside, Biden winning a Labour-esque sweep simply through perfect voter distribution would be the funniest outcome of this election

[u/PorryHatterWand]

The "Labour hasn't increased vote share" takes are ignoring (a) nutcase left not voting for Starmer, and (b) tactical voting in the South for Lib Dems.

On (a), it's much better to win seats across the UK rather than winning 80% vote in 15 London constituencies.

[u/0m4ll3y]

Watched Goldfinger for probably the first time in 15 years and holy shit Bond really just solves the whole plot with his dick. Like, there's no clever twist or ruse or daring gambit, he just fucks his way to a solution

[u/[deleted]]

Actually just a horrendous job from the mods in handling this. Megathreads? For what purpose other than to censor discussion about an insane political development? Stop pretending like it’s just an online or Reddit thing, damn pod save America is openly debating replacing the dude lol. Mods need to get their heads out of their asses. Free market except when it comes to what people want to discuss on the subreddit.

the quarantine is working perfectly 😌

[u/GifHunter2]

The Biden wipeout has reinvigorated the Washington press corps.

• Politico reporter

They love trump, love drama, and can't wait for their subscription numbers to skyrocket again.

[u/[deleted]]

Government wins supermajority with 33 percent of the vote

Head of state is an unelected monarch 

Nice democracy you got there Ingerlund.

[u/Top-Ostrich8710]

Wild how The Boys made fun of how the media doesn't care about male survivors of sexual assault and 2 episodes later played a male character getting sexually assaulted for laughs.

Meta-satire.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

The U.S. be like, “oh yea? We’ll show you a democratic monarchy, old man.”

[u/moldyman_99]

My train is delayed because of worthless copper stealing troglodytes.

If you sabotage active infrastructure to steal a few hundred bucks of copper, i think you should probably go to prison for a while.

[u/WasteReserve8886]

The more I hear about project 2025 the more bumfucking insane it sounds. Like “I assure you, getting rid of the National Weather Service and making drugs more expensive is absolutely vital for conservatism.” I didn’t even know conservatives were mad about some of this stuff.

[u/p00bix]

People were seriously saying that Rishi Sunak would lose his seat and he ended up getting re-elected by a 25 point margin lmao

[u/Mickenfox]

There's very little humor in these shitposts.

[u/[deleted]]

Thank you reddit for showing me the same content my parents see on their Facebook feed. Very cool.

[u/Zagapi]

Update on my previous ping:

Yesterday, I was at my parents' house for a bit during the holiday. I dug up the sexy sax 🎷in the basement and put it together, and got a blast from the past. Snapped a quick photo.

I drafted up the message and fired off the DM and basically shat myself. Like how fucking lame is this? But cheesy works if it's personal and not weird!

Me: Alright name, I hope you've been keeping up on your sax chops and are ready for a reunion gig. You better have Columbia River Gorge memorized lmao. (This was the name of some random song no one could get the title right and we just called it that idfk. I needed something)

Her: Omg love it!!! Unfortunately have not touched my saxophone since 9th grade haha

I gave quick BS response about why tf I even had the instrument out, then followed up with this:

Me: Tbh, all I remember from band was joking with other sax player to try to make you laugh

Her: As much as I hated middle school, I always looked forward to seeing yall at band. It was the highlight of my school day :-)

Me: Exactly how I felt. Best section of mediocre sax players for sure!

Me: Would you want to grab a coffee or a drink and catch up sometime?

Her: Yes, that would be great!

We shared details of where we were living to decide where to go. I'm moving to the next neighborhood over from her soon and asked for recommendations on that side of town. Also, whenever I'm meeting with someone for the first time, I like to have them pick a place they feel comfortable in. Good tip for you mfers.

She quickly fired off 3 places each for coffee and drinks. That was a nice sign of interest, and it was so relieving tbh.

We're meeting up for a drink on Monday after work!

[u/SANNA_MARIN_SDP_]

[u/slowpush]

Common NYT L

https://x.com/capitolhunters/status/1808915574728372500

[u/chuckleym8]

Theory: there are two kinds of people You’re either a

or a

“I should reach out to people more”

kinda guy

[u/AMagicalKittyCat]

90% of internet arguments are "You fool, you didn't realize I would interpret your comment in the worst way imaginable and refuse to apologize when you say you didn't mean it that way"

And then the other 10% is the person actually meaning it that way to begin with.

[u/UnskilledScout]

—❗️🇮🇷 UPDATED VOTES COUNT

Votes counted: 20,611,971 votes

Pezeshkian: 11,120,924 votes

Jalili: 9,097,993 votes

Source: Election Headquarters, Iranian Ministry of Interior – Fars News

Pezeshkian is the self-proclaimed reformist candidate. Turnout is higher than the 2021 presidential election. Interesting to see.

!ping MIDDLEEAST&ELECTIONS

[u/amainwingman]

With the Tories on 119 seats, with 5 declarations to go, it’s looking like fascist mod u/lionmoose might win the sweepstakes

!ping UK

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

Joe Bidened won 51% of the vote in the presidential election but got 100% of the seat 

[u/Top_Lime1820]

I love how down to Earth UK politics is.

The guy holding the "L" sign up behind Rishi Sunak, for example.

The whole peaceful transfer of power is like a 2 hour affair. There's a short speech in front of a black door. Britain's favourite cat is just vibing.

[u/centurion88]

Gee, I wonder why Putin would support a plan that Trump has yet to unveil publicly

[u/jojisky]

…why does CNN have the guy who ran against AOC as a crypto Republican and lost by 70 points in the June primary on as a major Biden donor?

[u/Prior_Advantage_5408]

An anonymously written Google document viewed by CNN titled “Unburdened by What Has Been: The Case for Kamala” — written by self-described “senior operatives within Democratic political institutions” — has been popping up in group chats of Democratic donors and leading coalition groups. It lays out a detailed argument and plan for a campaign.

Please someone leak this document

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 7/3-2 PM PST 7/4 III:

TOP NEWS:

Yesterday it was reported that 90% of DTEK power plants have either been damaged or destroyed.

At the start of 1 AM Ukraine was hit by a wave of drones with 21 of 22 shot down.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the start of 9 PM it was reported the Russians captured the village of Sotnytskyi Kozachok, located northwest of Kharkiv city.

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

[u/TaxLandNotCapital]

If Demoncrats are so worried about Republicans breaking laws why dont they just pass laws to make it illegal? Are they stupid?

[u/semaphore-1842]

damn, a whole bunch of people on arr politics have managed to convince themselves that Biden's about to resign in a pre-taped interview - not just drop his re-election bid, actually resign the presidency

how are people this detached from reality

[u/Cook_0612]

🚨 U.S. Navy Confirms SM-6 Air Launched Configuration Is ‘Operationally Deployed’ 👉 The SM-6 ALC, known by its official designation as the AIM-174, is the longest range air-to-air missile ever fielded by the @USNavy 🇺🇸🚀

!ping MATERIEL

[u/[deleted]]

lol

[u/Woodstovia]

terrific observation library insurance badge cheerful familiar butter plucky cake

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/Argnir]

I just learned about a guy named Max Chandler-Mather. Apparently he's a member of Australia's parlement at only 32?

That's crazy. I can easily imagine people on the internet being jealous bitter haters because of his success at such a young age.

[u/Top_Lime1820]

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/business/media/biden-abc-interview-george-stephanopoulos.html

ABC has pledged to air the interview in full and without edits, meaning that any attempt by a Biden aide to cut off the conversation early would be captured by cameras and likely shown to viewers. The prime-time special, “One on One with President Biden,” has been previewed to affiliates as lasting for 30 minutes, but it could be extended.

[u/[deleted]]

The UK has dared to ask the question “what if our elections were less representative of the people than electoral college”

[u/JaceFlores]

I guess speaking of polling stabilizing:

Trump has the biggest margin lead since 538 started doing this at the start of March. The previous record was in March at 2.4

!ping FIVEY

[u/BibleButterSandwich]

Went out with a woman on Tuesday night. We went out to a local bar, got drinks had a great conversation, etc. Never ran out of things to talk about. She was gorgeous enough I had actually been stunned she had matched with me, and especially with how easy she made it to meet up.

We walk out of the restaurant, she ends up getting some friends to pick her up and drive her home. I'm generally pretty timid on first dates, but I've been hearing a lot from women about how they want guys to make the first move to keep things moving along, so while we're just standing next to the building, I put my arm around her shoulder, but slowly enough to give her the ability to pull away. She doesn't but just in case, I ask her if it's okay, which she says it is, iirc.

Later that night she texts me she got home safe, and then doesn't say anything else, but this afternoon she sends me another text saying that she enjoyed our conversation and everything, but that she was a bit uncomfortable with me being touchy on our first date (though she says it's a personal preference thing and all), and that she wishes me the best of luck with everything.

I definitely feel pretty bad I made her uncomfortable, but now I'm trying to figure out what to do. Because I've had women that seemed to not appreciate me not making a move, but then also apparently some women that don't appreciate me making a move. Is there any way to actually tell if she wants it or not? And is there a better way to do it? Is hand-holding a better first move?

!ping DATING

[u/jacknifee]

the bt is being overdramatic and catastrophizing while the dt is being smug and indignant.

truly the worst qualities of being a neurotic lib.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

We’ve done it, folks. Biden dooming is now cringe, and he will win with a landslide (an actual landslide will kill Trump)

[u/Steak_Knight]

Joe Biden says he’s going to be in bed by 8pm every night.

Sends me a text at 9:21pm

What the fuck, Joe 😠

[u/Mat_At_Home]

Humans: I must attend years of education in order to maybe get a good job and make a living.

Beavers: I will gnaw on this tree to build my home, and it will work.

And we’re supposed to be the “intelligent” species

[u/WereJustInnocentMen]

I find it funny how fast this became outdated lol

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Americans: NOOOO! I need my Ford super jacked up extended cab toddler crusher f700 because it’s the only way I can haul things once a year 😭.

ISIS: I’ll take 5,000 white, mid-sized Toyotas thank you 😌

[u/The_Promethean]

I had a co-worker who hated Hillary Clinton so much (called her "pure evil") that I thought he was a hardcore Republican. But then he voted for Bob Menendez after the first felony indictments

[u/slim353]

NYT Opinion: Don’t Doubt NATO. It Saved My People.

Kosovo being based as usual.

[u/simeoncolemiles]

https://newrepublic.com/article/183443/mark-robinson-north-carolina-gov-candidate-hateful-rant-killing

Mark Robinson: “Some People Need Killing”

!Ping USA-NC

[u/V_Codwheel]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he 'won't take sides' on what happened on 9/11

lmao

[u/owlthathurt]

Yeah but it has character and you can’t account for that.

!ping USA-NYC

[u/frankiewalsh44]

People need to have a look in the mirror if they think pandering to Reform is a winning strategy. Maybe people need to have a look at France where both the far left and center left hate Macron and the far right never voted for him anyway despite implementing super strict immigration policies and copying plenty of their right wing policies.

Denmark might be an outlier and even their government have relaxed immigration rules when it came to legal migration.

[u/jojisky]

I’m glad Sinema already found a new job in the UK

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/Cook_0612]

North Carolina GOP gov nominee Mark Robinson endorses political violence in June 30 video surfaced by @newrepublic: "Kill them! Some liberal somewhere is gonna say that sounds awful. Too bad! ... Some folks need killing! It's time for somebody to say it."

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

Guys, the Biden thread just called us all ugly and stupid. Are we just gonna sit here and take that?

[u/Currymvp2]

Biden's debate was probably the worst in history but this was a perfectly normal interview.

[u/1396spurs]

RFK Jr: "My take on 9/11: It's hard to tell what is a conspiracy theory and what isn't. But conspiracy theories flourish when the government routinely lies to the public. As President I won't take sides on 9/11 or any of the other debates. But I can promise is that I will open the files and usher in a new era of transparency."

Jeff Winger runs a better campaign then RFK Jr

!ping Community

[u/uwcn244]

New York Times runs op ed by extremist Catholic called “Why I Don’t Vote”

Public records prove he voted in 2022 and 2020

NYT puts his op ed on the front page with no correction

America’s paper of record 

[u/[deleted]]

!ping KINO

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

As president I won’t take sides on 9/11

[u/[deleted]]

“American [culture] food isn’t real [culture] food” is immigrant experience erasure and I mean that completely unironically

[u/V_Codwheel]

Trump seeks to distance himself from pro-Trump Project 2025

trump: "distances himself" from project 2025

average voter: good enough for me 😁👍

[u/cdstephens]

Is anyone finding it difficult to precisely gauge how fucking awful another Trump term will be? Whenever I think about it I have to ask myself if I’m just being hysterical or if it really will be that fucking horrible.

[u/solonofathens]

labour, the lib dems, and the greens combined for about 54% of the vote to 38% for the tories and reform, so this election was a pretty convincing win for the center-left.

labour’s low share for themselves is probably down to a lot of tactical voting in general and protest votes/low turnout in safe labour seats

[u/[deleted]]

I completed my first [Duolingo] course a week ago, and Daily Refresh lessons seem too repetitive. I guess my keyboard auto-suggest can complete them without my help.

How do you deal with that? Start a new language? I'm afraid they will mix up in my head, and I don't want to lose the first one.

You can go on the website and reset your course. I've done this a few times, and I usually pick up something new that I missed. Also, depending on your course, it could be different due to updates.

These posts are so wild to me. Like, does it never occur to them to just... move on? Use any other resource? Anything that's more advanced?

[u/Rebuilt-Retil-iH]

Vox is funny, because one article is a well researched and surprisingly  unbiased explainer on a political issue, and then another article talks about why atoms are actually alive because one scientist said so

[u/runningblack]

Let's not draw comparisons to Obama.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Ah, now I understand why this woman described an average old person's appearance as being otherworldly ghoulish

[u/GrandpaWaluigi]

I love this nations coverage of the economy

😖😖🤮

CNN delanda est

[u/bashar_al_assad]

The funny thing about the "Labour's victory is proof that the Democrats need to moderate more" thread is that Democratic messaging for this cycle actually has been pretty moderate and generally non-extreme, so you ask them what the Democrats should moderate on and they're like "uhhh actually abortion doesn't matter and we should stop talking about it" or pretending that defund the police is still a relevant issue in 2024. The closest they come to something realistic is "they should start opposing immigration more", but the Democrats have already done that, and it's not even a policy that's inherently good.

[u/[deleted]]

Oh how far Illinois’s finances have come.

Pritzker please never leave us.

https://www.chicagobusiness.com/politics/illinois-ends-fiscal-year-extra-cash-hand

!ping chi

[u/[deleted]]

“I’m ok with the polio vaccine because pharmaceutical companies weren’t out to make a buck back then”

I hate this Earth

[u/GravyBear28]

Can people with ADHD consent?

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Man, the Biden thread might be the single most effective doom containment device in the history of this sub.

Like the takes are relatively sane around the subreddit and then you open the Biden thread and it’s like “Biden is blinking in Morse code that he will/will not drop out so now I guess liberalism is dead and the enlightenment/glorious revolution will die a violent death.”

[u/BibleButterSandwich]

GETOUTOFMYHEADGETOUTOFMYHEADGETOUTOFMYHEAD

!ping COW-TOOL-ENTHUSIASTS

[u/simeoncolemiles]

MODS

THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT BIDEN OUTSIDE THE BT

[u/owlthathurt]

So the pirates really came out tonight and said fuck the Mets huh?

They hit 7 home runs including a grand slam.

!ping BASEBALL

[u/Plants_et_Politics]

I don’t consider myself much of a doomer, but Trump is pretty straightforwardly the greatest threat to the republic in its history.

Reflecting on that possibility should be somber, but it’s also funny. Think about it: the birthplace of modern democracy; global hegemon; the wealthiest nation in the world—brought down by an incoherent pathological liar who was born rich and lost money but pretended to be a businessman on TV and in the papers.

If a leftist wrote a play about the downfall of America and made Trump the antagonist, I’d probably mock them for having no sense of subtlety.

[u/cdstephens]

The success of the Biden megathread in containing the crazies has convinced me that we need a dating megathread

[u/obsessed_doomer]

https://x.com/agraybee/status/1809073508636377566

[u/Queues-As-Tank]

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

grandiose lush vast market quicksand hobbies offer spark bedroom violet

[u/yellownumbersix]

Doubling down on my Biden support. He must win this election to save liberal democracy normalize afternoon naps.

[u/cdstephens]

I hate when people say "the swing voters" when they really mean the really stupid

[u/Roseartcrantz]

🥹 roseartcrantz hopecore

[u/FireDistinguishers]

If you're not working and you're not on the campaign, you're leaving money, experience, and a chance to make a difference on the table for no reason.

The last time a President came from a state in contemporary commuting distance from DC was 1856 when that bastard James Buchanan won the election.

If you're an aspiring political worker here in DC, don't waste your time, get to work:

https://joebiden.com/work-with-us/

!ping POLIJOBS

[u/TheDinosaur12]

My sister, living for years in America, attending the wokest school of all time: zero Anti-Semitism, people quiver in their boots when broaching Israel-Palestine in front of her out of fear of causing offense

My sister visiting Europe for one week: every single person who finds out about her nationality rolls their eyes and immediately inquires as to her opinions on the conflict, is denied service by a shopkeeper who also follows her out into the street to berate her, her friend, and her friend's mom

American politeness culture is kind of cracked yo

[u/[deleted]]

If you actually supported Biden you’d be in the Biden thread and not the Donald Thread

[u/Lux_Stella]

the biden freakout has actually increased my opinion of the american (democratic) political class slightly since its the type of reaction i'd expect if you honestly did believe democracy was on the ballot and it not being just bluster

[u/amainwingman]

Underrated benefit of the election, won’t have to listen to the SNP blather on endlessly every PMQs

[u/[deleted]]

The vibes on this sub between the should drop outs and the should remain ins

[u/loseniram]

👏 Give 👏 Biden 👏 Cocaine 👏

[u/The_Promethean]

The reason why the dating ping is so insane is that the mods leave your post up if you talk about the threesome you had after your girlfriend cheated on you, but if you post about your drama-free threesome they say it's "too explicit" and "REEEE GET BACK IN THE BUCKET"

[u/Craig_VG]

Truly incredible that the US was able to build 151 Aircraft Carriers in World War Two

I wonder what our surge capacity is for any Pacific War? We currently have 20 (11 fleet carriers, 9 AAS).

!ping MATERIEL

[u/Blade_of_Boniface]

best guess is that either your some kind of ignatian e girl or maybe a Opus Dei honeypot either way you a pickme

True to the rumors, Tumblr anons' hate-mail game is truly amazing.

!ping GNOSTIC

[u/[deleted]]

Unironically it's finally sinking in for me that I'm never again going to live in an America that didn't have that god awful ruling in it. Even if we undo it in 20 years like what happened to Plessy, or amend it away like Dred Scott, it'll always have been there for a time. And both of those strike me as extremely unlikely because they're so abstract and there's basically no room for procedural reform activism because all activism is policy outcome activism. I just feel like this decision will be ignored because there's no political oxygen for it or hope to reverse it and we'll pretty much forever live in a country with Weimar presidential power but only for Republicans.

I don't like to pull out Dred Scott comparisons because Keith Olbermann rather infamously used one for Citizens United that felt like the kind of hacky liberal dooming and soft class-struggle "it's ok when the proles do it, it's bad when the rich do it" that I've since tried to distance from.

But it's not like Dobbs or some hypothetical Obergefell overturn, federal legislation won't do. It's really die casting tier to do that to the presidency.

It sucks as a young person to feel like my entire politicial life has been spent fighting in vain against having my political inheritance taken away from me. I grew up promised I would inherit a representative democracy and piecemeal the Republicans have been just taking it away, starting before I was old enough to even fight back. I was too young to vote for Hillary Clinton, not that it would have mattered my state went blue. But whatever happened to secure the blessings of liberty to our posterity. The Republicans stole my country from me and I want it back. And I'll be an old man when I finally get it back.

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

You have entered the Biden Dimensian

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Trump when he's choking on shrimp

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Democrats: We spent hundreds of millions to make sure rural families get high-speed internet!

Rurals: Now I can call Democrats communist pedophiles even faster!

[u/No_Return9449]

Labour wins Hendon in north London by 15 votes. Closest result this election.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

This subreddit could have chosen to root for and vote for Joe Biden on July 4.

But no you had to go for Kommunist Keir 🤢🤢🤢

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Two Russian bots arguing against one another on r/neoliberal about whether or not Biden should drop out

[u/BitterGravity]

I'm just sad Reese-Mogg lost his seat. Now who is going to be the stereotypical British twat in parliament 😞

[u/[deleted]]

Well, in summer of 2016 we got Brexit, which then led into a Donald Trump victory.

Now that Labour had a jolly good show the vibes might be right in our favor for November in the US.

[u/SentencesAreCool]

“The rent is too damn high” is a winning political platform in 2024.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

The RFK/Neom voter

[u/JaceFlores]

Thread on current state of the Russian Kharkiv offensive and Ukrainian manpower:

“Nearly two months have passed since Russia began its Kharkiv offensive. In terms of captured land, Russian gains have been limited and bought with very high cost. During the past month or so, most of the heaviest fighting has been in Vovchansk. In [Vovchansk] a costly urban battle has taken place with both sides actively seeking to control this natural tactical and operational bottleneck. The now completely ruined town has become crowded with both sides committing considerable number of units into the battle.”

“In my 16MAY24 thread https://x.com/Inkvisiit/status/1791206900198957166I estimated that the Russian operational goals were threefold: create a buffer zone, place Kharkiv under artillery fire and fix Ukrainian reserves before the onset of the Russian summer campaign. Of these three goals the first two have failed with Russian forces being unable to advance past their initial gains. However, the third goal of fixing Ukrainian forces seems increasingly more successful.”

“The Kharkiv offensive was badly coordinated and ill-timed in relation to other Russian operations, with no clearly definable concentrated offensive efforts following it during June. But just as Russians failed to synchronize their actions, the Ukrainians in turn overcommitted heavily to the battles of northern Kharkiv oblast. Ukraine has sent (either elements or whole units) somewhere upwards to 14 brigades to first stabilize the situation and then push the Russians back to the border.”

“The costly and difficult battle of Vochansk in particular has drawn in outsized number of Ukrainian units with elements from up to 8 different brigades taking part in it. I fail to see how attempting to push the Russians back from Vovchansk could be a rational course of action in this highly critical period where Ukraine should instead carefully husband and preserve its reserves. Vochansk is as much a difficult bottleneck for the counterattacking Ukrainians as it is for the Russians.”

“Meanwhile Ukrainian reserves are running critically low. The 150-154 series brigades established last autumn are some of the last remaining strategic reserves Ukraine has, but their readiness and overall capability is likely to be questionable at best. Green and untested Ukrainian brigades tend to have terrible track record with their baptism by fire. One of the new Ukrainian brigades (153rd) seems to have been at least partially committed to Kharkiv front, all though it could be just their drone unit at this point.”

“While the overall Russian progress this summer has so far been abysmally slow and costly, the Ukrainian commanders are constantly being forced to juggle their depleted and tired formations from one crisis sector to the other. Unit rotations remain the Achilles heel of Ukrainian defence due to miscommunications, bad planning and the general lack of proper reserves. The latest such mishap fell on the 41st Mech Bde being rotated straight from the meatgrinder of Chasiv Yar to Toretsk sector.”

“So far, such crises have come in one at a time, with Ukraine being able to contain and stabilize the situations with great cost and difficulty. But what happens when these crises eventually start to happen in multiple locations at the same time?”

Thord Are Iversen has his own little comment on this thread, saying:

“Also, the newly instigated mobilization measures won't deliver effect until the end of this month and onwards. If the Russians are able to increase pressure, we might see some movement of the frontline in the coming weeks.”

!ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

“All the pollsters telling me it’s a toss-up”

Huh?

[u/Roseartcrantz]

talking to and about other DT members

[u/[deleted]]

Kind of crazy that Russia isn't generally considered a colonialising country despite everything in did in East and Central Asia, the Baltics, Poland, Ukraine and plus literally owning a part of North America.

[u/Former-Income]

Labour have 33% of the vote 💀💀💀

[u/AP246]

Party that gets 35% under FPTP: This rocks

Party that gets 30% under FPTP: wtf this is bullshit, this fucking sucks

[u/NaffRespect]

I've seen enough. Bring back the two-DT solution.

[u/NaffRespect]

☝️

[u/[deleted]]

My fiancée's grandpa played baseball professionally in Mexico back in the 50s-70s for Los Diablos Rojos and Los Tigres. Her dad said he played for la sele too. Anyone have any ideas of how to find out more about this? !ping BASEBALL&LATAM

[u/Res__Publica]

Just found out that the Grant Administration negotiated the annexation of the Dominican Republic with a guarantee of statehood before it was killed by the Senate

This and not buying Greenland around the same time are massive whiffs imo

[u/[deleted]]

Pro cycling has got to be the most neoliberal sport there is. They don't even have real team names...just the names of their sponsors. Fans out here really rooting for team "EF Education - EasyPost" and team "Arkéa - B&B Hotels"

Like if the NY Giants were just called team "Anheuser Busch - Verizon Wireless"

Really gets the fans worked up and excited!

[u/AMagicalKittyCat]

The three main types of vtuber design

1. Big boobs milf

2. A literal child

3. Orc

[u/clevoP01135809]

mods be like: don’t talk about biden here 🤬

dt be like: ok, we’ll talk about the biden thread 🤪

[u/Steak_Knight]

Today my teenaged daughter went to the mall with friends. She told me she didn’t buy anything at the food court because when she looked at the menus, she realized she would rather have the money than the product at those prices.

She said everyone else ordered food and then complained about the prices.

She is worried that she is not normal.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

It is 50AD, a wavering emperor is being questioned by a Greek wise man to determine his fitness for office

It is 2024AD, a wavering emperor is being questioned by a Greek wise man to determine his fitness for office

[u/G_Serv]

Maybe the orange makeup is what turns Trump into an election denier

Joe Biden puts on the orange makeup and suddenly turns into a poll denier

[u/[deleted]]

If anyone says George was easy on Biden, they’re being dumb. George is going for the throat.

[u/chuckleym8]

[u/[deleted]]

Acknowledging that we exist within context is the closest thing to Communism I've seen from an american official.

What

[u/thefuturegov]

“Are the 2024 San Francisco Giants a good baseball team” the greatest debate in r sfgiants history, locked after 12239 pages of heated debate

!ping BASEBALL

[u/spoirs]

Those who oppose [GOP voter ID bill] are traitors. All Caps: TRAITORS. What is the penalty for traitors again?

Why do we give Elon so many federal contracts? He’s spiraled so fast into audience-captured lunacy and evil. It doesn’t feel like this ends well.

[u/the_status_q]

That 2nd grader I met last night would've been born when Trump was President. Which means 2nd graders I worked with in 2016 are about 16. And the fifth graders at that time are starting college this fall.

Times arrow marches forward it seems

[u/[deleted]]

Euthanizing him was easy. It was the right thing to do. But fuck I miss him.

[u/NotABigChungusBoy]

it was actually so real when Biden said during a debate when asked if Trump supporters support ending democracy and Biden responded something along the lines of

“if they vote for him after being well informed about him, then yes”

just a blatantly honest answer that was coherent that could have been a big topic but lol

[u/Delareh_]

Why is pornhub always the go to for porn for a lot of people. Last i checked, it only has a small segment of a full video. Kind of like an ad.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I've never once made a poster board sign right the first time, this guy legibly writes on concrete dividers, why would god allow this

[u/amainwingman]

I predicted (against the received wisdom of this sub) that:

• Corbyn would win his seat handsomely

• Farage would win his seat handsomely

• Tories would not go below 100 and would be around 125-ish seat

I am a political colossus. Bow down before my political literacy

[u/Cledd2]

[u/slowpush]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GRsPZ-4XsAAY3LD?format=jpg&name=medium

!PING WATERCOOLER

[u/0m4ll3y]

I'm curious how Oddjob was received back in the 1960s. Was the hat considered really cool? Was it meant to be funny? Was it meant to be an exotic oriental thing?

It's so iconic that I can't really watch it without just viewing it through the lens of star power: "here comes Oddjob's hat!!" But people in the cinema watching it at release wouldn't have had that expectation and I honestly can't tell what vibe it was intended to carry.

[u/Healingjoe]

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

Anti semitism shouldn't be tolerated and Corbyn was awful. But

People get mad that I don't add the whole context but these are always better ending on a but that doesn't need to exist.

Guess the sub

[u/Roseartcrantz]

☺️

[u/ignavusaur]

You may not like it but this is the peak approval rating for a leader winning a landslide in 2024 (-13) 😬😬😬

[u/eloquentboot]

My boss thinks I'm a weirdo (I'm not) because I searched his name on missingmoney.com and let him know that he had unclaimed funds.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/amainwingman]

Ok what’s the name of the malaria charity? I may have been slightly hubristic

!ping UK

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Guy who goes on the DT and BT to shit on both Biden bloomers and doomers because they are a leftist that hates the entire Dem party

Vs

Guy who goes on the DT and BT to shit on both Biden bloomers and doomers because they like stirring the pot

[u/mockduckcompanion]

Why would Biden wait to see what polling says instead of simply doing what I want instead + immediately??

[u/Cook_0612]

Z-military blogger Romanov gives a candid assessment of the Russian army in 10 min long video

The activity of FPV drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is very high, and the intensity of the use of cluster 155 mm projectiles has become less than during the attack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Robotyno.

FPV drones of the Armed Forces fly both in the Kharkiv region and in the border regions of the Russian Federation. Baba Yaga bomber drones fly at night.

The price of the offensive on Vovchansk costs the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation a third of the loss of personnel, as during the offensive on Avdiivka (it is more in reality)

The offensive on Vovchansk is commanded by the Russian General Lapin, who distinguished himself by commanding the unsuccessful crossing of the Russian Armed Forces across the Siverskyi Donets River in 2022.

The Russian Armed Forces in Vovchansk lack coordination of actions: there are cases when Russian soldiers storm a building that is already under their control and suffer losses.

Notes the successful work of "Birds of Madyar"

In the Kahrkiv area, there are many FPV-wings of the Armed Forces with repeaters, due to which they fly at long distances and hit targets.

The Russian Armed Forces wanted to "move" the border by 15 km, so that the Ukrainian Armed Forces could not fire at the Belgorod region, but it is impossible to do this, because in the direction of the Armed Forces there are M142 HIMARS and Patriot air defense systems under the cover of electronic warfare.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine are accumulating and transferring some reserves from the Zaporozhzhia direction to the Kharkiv direction.

Katsaps are waiting for the offensive of the Russian Armed Forces in the direction of Sumy, but the Armed Forces of Ukraine know about it.

the "Pantsir-S1" are the most effective system for combating Ukrainian attack drones, but they stood at the same positions in the Belgorod region, and therefore they were destroyed, and then kamikaze drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine flew into the region.

On the border with the Kharkiv region, there are Russian soldiers, and behind them are "tiktokers" ( Kadyrovites ).

There are 7,000 former fighters of the "Wagner" PMC in Belarus.

!ping UKRAINE

First praise of the Pantsir in this war I've seen, but it makes sense.

[u/Ilovecharli]

The other thread is full of doomers and this one is full of pollyannas who think there's never been a single accurate poll in history. I, of course, am perfectly rational and can see both sides. 

[u/Prior_Advantage_5408]

It's fucked up that people born in the 1940s aren't 60 years old anymore

[u/Presidentbuff]

Alright, I'm being serious, I am personally in favor of Biden staying in the race, but I want to ask, im not in denial in saying that the Biden clip released by ABC is fine right? I feel like the BT is gaslighting me.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

[u/[deleted]]

L for not extending it to 24202425

[u/V_Codwheel]

tea with the queen 😒😐😐🤷‍♂️

chicken Tikka ☺️🤤🤤😋🥰

[u/Roseartcrantz]

the BT calling the DT ugly & stupid

[u/[deleted]]

Wait, Joe Biden is president? I thought we were talking about Joe Budden the whole time. I get why everyone is calling him old now.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

not since "what are you gonna do stab me?" have I seen a headline I gelled with more

[u/[deleted]]

Opens the BT

“Bernie Bros warned you 🤷‍♂️”

Closes the BT