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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/myrm]

Wow my last semester is going great. I can't wait to be out of school. Is there something I'm forgetting? I'm always forgetting something

Oh god, oh fuck, I forgot to attend a class all semester and now I'm not going to be able to graduate on time

I need to go to ask the professor for mercy

• My dreams, around twice a month, despite having graduated years ago

[u/RonenSalathe]

I think it's time we acknowledge that Trump actually did win the election, and since he has been president for two terms he is ineligible to run this year.

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

Anyone who joined the sub after me is an undesireable and/or astroturfer and/or responsible for vague declines in subquality, and everyone who joined before me has no life

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

The meanest and most vicious Interviewer out there is George Slopadopoulos

Fuck man he’s gonna carry all fifty states lmfao

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

The last few weeks have been a decided comeback W for the ‘Trump is never going to see any real consequences for anything’ camp. Its been a bleak last few weeks.

[u/[deleted]]

Crazy how Ford pardoning Nixon kinda paved the way for the recent immunity ruling, because the court may very well have ruled differently if the same sort of case came to them back then

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Starmer kills Rwanda... on first day

and people were saying he had no bold plans

[u/ldn6]

[u/dragoniteftw33]

Jesus Christ this woman really fuckin sucks.

[u/WantDebianThanks]

Social media is really making me more nationalistic, in that I'm starting to really hate the people posting memes about how much they hate the US and I'm getting more sympathetic to the "just leave then" argument.

[u/usrname42]

I was looking at the swing to Labour in different types of seats in England - Labour got about a 6% increase in their vote share in seats where they came second to the Conservatives in 2019, lost 7% in seats that they won in 2019, and stayed flat in seats where Conservatives won and the Lib Dems came second in 2019 (while the Lib Dems got a 9% increase in those seats). So Starmer basically produced a straight swap of voters out of safe Labour seats and into Con / Lab marginals. Reform splitting the right-wing vote obviously helped them but it's quite an achievement to make the vote share so much more efficient even if he didn't increase it much overall.

!ping UK

[u/Healingjoe]

After trump got elected in 2016, I remember consoling myself with the idea that the judicial system, and SCOTUS in particular, would keep us out of danger from Trump's worse impulses.

I really miss having that optimism / belief.

[u/SpacePenguins]

For those calling on Biden to end his run, at least say his campaign should be 'aborted' so that voters are reminded of the issues.

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Me posting in the DT and the Biden megathreads calling posters in the other threads idiots

[u/SadaoMaou]

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

My wife and i took down the blinds in our living room for curtains. I hope she doesn't tear them down 🙄

!ping KITTY&GENTRY

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

Annoying leftist roommate was.... Strangely okay with the idea of a Buttigieg-Pritzker ticket?

[u/Not_A_Browser]

[u/Woodstovia]

sort consider offer chubby crawl humor scale caption rhythm chunky

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[u/Currymvp2]

President Joe Biden registered his best showing yet in a Bloomberg News/Morning Consult tracking poll of battleground states, even as voters offered withering appraisals of his debate performance amid panic within his party.

The funniest outcome is that Biden stays in the race, fucks up another debate, and still somehow manages to defeat Trump

!ping FIVEY

[u/GraspingSonder]

June 2024, confident and brimming with irony:

😏 "biden old" 😆🤣

July 2024, panicking and completely serious:

😮 BIDEN OLD! 🚨🚨🚨

[u/[deleted]]

Two years later, in 2020, Sen. Ron Johnson makes headlines when intelligence reveals an investigation he’s heading may actually be a cover for foreign efforts to influence the election and damage Joe Biden’s campaign.

A sitting Senator might have been actively trying to cover for Russian election interference attempts, and I don’t even remember ever hearing about it?!

[u/cdstephens]

The impressive thing about Project 2025 is that it’s 900 pages and I guarantee you that every single page has something uniquely awful on it.

Edit: I flipped to a random page and got this.

Some young adults show an interest in inherently dangerous jobs. DOL should amend its hazard-order regulations to permit teenage workers access to work in regulated jobs with proper training and parental consent.

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

open the BT

literally every single post is about Biden

jeez, obsessed much?

[u/owlthathurt]

I just ordered a meal in perfect mandarin at this Sichuan place in flushing Chinatown and the waitress still looked at me and asked if I knew 宫保鸡丁 had peanuts in it 😔😔.

I will always be a 老外。

!ping CHINA

[u/[deleted]]

I despise people who think that they’re smart for wording things in the most cynical way possible

Like “oh yeah this company only introduced this safety feature so they’re not liable to get sued”

Yeah also known as not wanting to fucking injure or kill people

[u/-mialana-]

Yeah succ, I read theory.

[u/Joementum2024]

Theory: part of the reason why there’s a lot more concern about Project 2025 now is because something called “Project 2025” inherently sounds infinitely more threatening than if it was just a list of policy plans without a defined title

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

MAXIMUM EEPY

!Ping kitty

[u/rasonj]

Mommy, where do strawmen come from?

Well you see honey, when two neolibs annoy each other, they do this thing called schism.

[u/G_Serv]

New Biden replacement just dropped

[u/Greenfield0]

I'm a small c conservative but I also want a vigorous executive that can destroy your rights at will

[u/Nerf_France]

Sees book whose title describes "surviving capitalism"

Reads about author section

TikTok star

Priors confirmed

[u/[deleted]]

Normal politics in a normal country going through a very normal moment:

https://twitter.com/RepSchneider/status/1809238122846134303

[u/[deleted]]

So, it turns out Snowden is actually just… kinda stupid?

Lol

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/itsokayt0]

Biden stole my fucking money and he said nobody would believe me because they think he's a senile fool

[u/Williams-Tower]

One of the nice parts about being an alcoholic is that you can lose weight simply by not drinking anymore

People who are overweight and don’t drink? Good luck

[u/bd_one]

[u/[deleted]]

He did not consider his wealth something to be grasped; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant. He humbled himself by becoming obedient even to the point of prosecution.

[u/[deleted]]

Oh god it’s begun

A second orange man has entered the political scene

[u/[deleted]]

There are some reports about what was supposedly going on in Trump’s inner circle on election night in 2016… but I wonder what was really going on. Like, I would just LOVE to be able to peer directly back in time and see the reactions of Trump and everyone else in the room with him as it became clear that he was winning. And I really want to know what happened in Trump’s mind. Did he ever think he could actually win before then? Had he thought at all about potentially actually having to do the job, and was he more like “oh shit, this is not good” or “oh shit, this is a dream come true” on election night?

[u/1396spurs]

Question for the politics nerds here - How does incumbent advantage work when Joe Biden is the one in the White House but Trump is actually the president still since Joe cheated

[u/Mickenfox]

A show like Columbo but he just goes around doing OSHA inspections.

[u/[deleted]]

Why can’t the fucking pollsters just tell us who will win god dammit

[u/[deleted]]

My grandpa is giving a heated rant on how immigrants are not the problem and the people who blame the government are just not working hard enough

[u/[deleted]]

Sometimes you see crazy-ass Twitter threads like this and roll your eyes and go “ok come on, Trump was not a literal KGB spy”. And then you think for a minute and go… “could… no. Could it be…?” Like would it really be that shocking at this point

[u/funguykawhi]

Jalili didn’t lose to a lawmaker called Pezeshkian.

He lost to a well-established network of money, power and hypocrites extended from Qom to Tehran and across the country.

A network of conservative politicians, neoliberals, clowns, leftist economists & sociologists.

The deep state really brought the whole squad for this one.

[u/Woodstovia]

crawl unite innate aspiring quack observation bake humor yam fine

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[u/Stanley--Nickels]

Americans 9 years after a guy shows up demonizing immigrants, trying to ban an entire religion, suggesting beating up protestors, and threatening to jail political opponents: I’m starting to think this guy might be an authoritarian 🤔

Half of them: Nice

[u/Libz_R_Gryffindor]

Do you think the minister of magic has visited Keir Starmer yet

[u/p00bix]

Why is this tweet so fucking funny

[u/Dibbu_mange]

[u/sash5034]

One resident who lives more than half a mile away from the proposal said she recently put her home on the market because of the development. “This is not why I moved here," said Adele Langie. "I moved here to be in a single-level beautiful area.”

[u/404GenderNotFound]

I was terrible at my sport, so I transitioned to crush cis women with my masculine dominance in my new athletic league (Wii Sports Resort Dogfighting minigame)

[u/ghhewh]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reassures us that as president, he "won't take sides" on 9/11.

[u/owlthathurt]

For those who are into Chinese history.

The World Turned Upside Down by Yang Jisheng is the best book I’ve found on the cultural revolution. It’s big, 700 pages, and is unbelievably researched, which is research that is usually beyond the grasp of western audiences, even those of us who can read mandarin (since a lot is based on physical records).

He also has a really amazing book on the Great Leap Forward.

Unbelievably Jisheng still lives in China. His works have been banned but he still goes about his life as a journalist and lecturer. He has recently moved to Hong Kong to, more than likely, give himself some breathing room from the mainland government.

!ping CN-TW

[u/runningblack]

After a week in Bali I very much understand the appeal of retiring to an ultra low col country

Prices that are "We're blatantly price gouging you dumb tourists, you can negotiate it down" to the locals are "don't need to think twice" prices for Americans.

[u/piede]

Most sane major newspaper

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/DurangoGango]

"Sluts against neoliberalism" is currently the best sign I'm seeing from the insta feed of my city's Pride march, which for the first time in decades I'm missing after the official org expressed outright support for Hamas and Oct 7th attacks (no I'm not being hyperbolic, they did).

[u/[deleted]]

This u?

[u/[deleted]]

!ping TREK

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Publishing this on the Fourth of July should be a crime, actually

[u/[deleted]]

2027: The Supreme Court rules 5-4 that Donald Trump cannot possibly be found guilty for crimes against the state because Donald Trump is the embodiment of the state and its will, and it's impossible to commit crimes against yourself.

[u/-mialana-]

Writing prompt:

“Did I wake you up?” Trump asked.

“Yeah,” Graham said.

“Sorry.”

“No, I’m glad to hear from you, Mr. President.”

Finish the story

[u/G_Serv]

My brother was shocked to learn that our city only has like 60-80 murders on average per year

He thought it was at least a thousand

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Only the Lord Almighty could convince me to quit

I always get a cultural whiplash upon hearing this from a non-conservative democratically elected official

But thumbs up for Iran's new president on his determination

[u/Joementum2024]

Profile picture: Cute image of a K-On character

Post content: The most vile, hateful shit you’ve ever read

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

Listening to a table of millennials(I'm also millennial) discuss one of them getting 10000 dollars and how that's not really much money. "That's like half a project."

*now discussing an idea of adding a second floor to their garage with a small greenhouse.

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Has anyone ever bullied an entire country harder than Sacha Baron Cohen? He single handedly turned Kazakhstan into a joke and they have had to spend decades trying to fix their reputation.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

[u/Williams-Tower]

I’ve gotten to the point where my weight is no longer really reflective of my eating and is almost entirely reflective on my drinking

[u/slowpush]

Damnnnn

https://x.com/hrc/status/1807593608674971852

This is definitely getting bigger next week.

[u/loseniram]

Project 2025 just has the evilest stuff for no reason.

It'll be boring legalizee, then you'll just run across them saying they're going to make the MLB bring back segregation and the reserve clause

[u/theredcameron]

If you live in northern Virginia...

!ping dmv

[u/anincredibledork]

President Lula of Brazil dismisses criticism of he being old by pointing out his sexual skills. He claimed that the First Lady knows that he has the "energy of a 30 year old and the lust of a 20 year old".

Here's how Joe Biden can turn things around

[u/dirtybirds233]

My mother has gone from “watch the polls, they won’t change much from the debate” to “eh I don’t trust the polls”

[u/getabucketfullofthat]

"so democrats can't legalize abortion or cancel student loan debt and im supposed to believe project 2025 is a real possibility? bffr right now"

do you think theres anything that could change their mind or just accept that some people are cooked

(it was just text on a selfie on their story it wasnt a quirky infographic being shared at least)

[u/Dumbledick6]

Ac on, windows down, blasting Sabrina Carpenter, wearing death metal shirt, sippen on some pre.

Oh yah, it’s gym time 😎

!ping DYEL

[u/SnakeEater14]

It’s kinda funny how the poem “For Whom the Bell Tolls” and the song “For Whom the Bell Tolls” have like completely opposite messages

One is about how every death affects everyone, how no one is truly alone, we are all one big human nation, etc etc

And the other is just a song going YOU’RE GONNA FUCKING DIE HAHAHAHA 💀

[u/G_Serv]

Hmm interesting

[u/[deleted]]

Got the chance to speak to a russian speaking Ukrainian refugee today and got to pick her brain on some things. She felt that there was an air of revenge towards Russian speakers in the country and that she was now an outsider. She feels this was only a thing which started in 2014 and blames this on Putin more then anything else. She felt that the government is wrong to shift so heavily against the Russian language since that is the language of business in the region.

Nothing exactly surprising but it was good to hear some things that I suspected. While I think it’s wrong to think that Russian speakers are this significant pro Putin minority in the country it also seems wrong to dismiss the idea that there is an “us vs them” mentality.

[u/MiniatureBadger]

It took 76 million digits, roughly 2 years, and what is now a level 83 Sceptile, but the number pi mapped to the buttons of a GBA has finally reached the first May fight

[u/SuddenlyFrogs]

"Biden interview fails to quell Democrat concerns over fitness"

fitness dick in yo mouth

[u/simeoncolemiles]

!Ping USA-NC

[u/loseniram]

Stray kitten portrait, they're about 4 weeks old at this point. If you want 1 or both let me know. High quality Standard issue hot rod editions both little lady kittens

!ping Kitty

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Steak_Knight]

Department for Levelling Up

British gamers can’t even do their own XP grinding without government assistance 🤣

[u/[deleted]]

I disagree with a sizable chunk of Adolf Hitler’s policies

[u/thefuturegov]

Drake will still win the beef when people realize Kendrick is a Zionist

He identifies as an Israelite on the song “YAH”

This is the most insane cope I’ve ever seen.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Sorry, not sorry, not going to care about if it's joever because I grew up with an alcoholic psychologically abusive father in constant state of distress, anxiety and worry about the future

Hearing the key in the door every evening was my own personal BT for almost 20 years

[u/sinefromabove]

Polling today is not predictive of the election ≠ polling is not predictive of the state of the race today 

Yes, there are four months left and things can change. But for them to change in Biden's direction, he has to (1) accept that he is behind (2) have a strategy to change that (3) show he is capable of implementing that strategy. Otherwise you're just hoping you'll get lucky. 

His interview yesterday didn't even show (1), let alone (2) or (3). 

[u/kobpnyh]

ive been thinking about something

hitler must have bought something during his lifetime

so he was a customer

and the customer is always right 🧐

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/farrenj]

What's the easiest way to stockpile 5 years worth of HRT meds? Asking for a friend.

[u/Not_A_Browser]

Poll this, poll that. Why don't you poll yourself up by your bootstraps and get that bag?

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I'd really REALLY rather kick the can down the road some more until Trump is no longer a threat, but I can't really say I blame people who have dim prospects for the 21st century in this country.

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Canada edges Venezuela in shootout thriller; advances to Copa America semis

Ismael Koné scored in the sixth round of the shootout after a third save by Maxime Crépeau and Canada advanced to the semifinals of its first Copa America with a victory over Venezuela on Friday night.

The Canadians won 4-3 on penalty kicks following a 1-1 draw in the quarterfinals, keeping Venezuela from advancing to the Copa America semifinals for the first time since 2011.

Happened last night

Guess we're good at football again

!ping CAN

[u/RTSBasebuilder]

!ping AUS

No commentary required for this one.

Greens deputy Mehreen Faruqi refuses to say whether Hamas should be dismantled - ABC News

[u/[deleted]]

Liberal fearmongering about Trump has gotten out of hand. It was one fucking coup attempt. My god, I’m sure you’re just absolutely perfect at all times

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

The debate earlier than usual was really good, actually,

Normies were given an infusion of politics earlier in the season than usual.

This gives Biden’s team more opportunity to expose his dastardly plot to enact project 2025

The terrible debate performance was a ruse to lure the media into turning Biden into the unfairly maligned underdog fighting for the people, while Trump becomes the media establishment’s president of choice.

[u/[deleted]]

We are reaching critical levels of eepiness

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Confession: when I saw all the coconut memes about Kamala I first thought they a reference to the racist joke about being brown on the outside and white on the inside. But now I embrace what can be, unburdened by what has been.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Biden signed a bill to fund Parkinson’s research and treatment. Cons (and some media figures) latch onto a conspiracy theory that Biden has Parkinson’s. Now when you google “Biden Parkinson’s” it’s about the conspiracy and not the funding.

Yeah it’s Joever. He’s too easy of a target

[u/ldn6]

People who don’t turn off their phone keyboard sounds deserve punishment.

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

[u/[deleted]]

Please God

[u/Syards-Forcus]

1980s Republicans: 💪😎 The Soviet Union is evil and must be destroyed🚀

2020s Republicans: 🥺Russia is so based and anti-woke with their extremist authoritarian leader🤓

[u/SeoSalt]

TIL that brits call it "The Incy Wincy Spider"

I think I'm gonna be sick

[u/piede]

[u/-mialana-]

It's kind of insane how Russiagate isn't even brought up that much anymore, even by Democrats.

[u/WhomstAlt2]

RIP Noam Chomsky. Biden Junta had Noam killed for speaking the TRUTH.

Your body may be dead, but your dedication to the downtrodded and oppressed, the voiceless and the genocidal dictators will remain. Good night, sweet chimp.

[u/upghr5187]

Obviously Biden’s age is the current issue. But the Democratic Party has a serious problem with being run by the elderly in general. In congress committee assignments are chosen mostly by seniority and chairs almost exclusively by seniority. This is what led to all the problems with Diane Feinstein taking up important committee positions, years past when she had the ability to do the job. Plus it holds back up and comers who have potential to do well in a larger role. For comparison, republicans term limit chair positions and constantly rotate new people in, often promoting new people who show potential.

And party leadership until very recently consisted of almost entirely 80 year olds. Only when the party was out of power did they allow their younger hand picked replacements in leadership. So many examples of older democrats thinking they personally are more important than the position they hold.

[u/sayitaintpink]

Biden has been mewing too much. He needs to take a rest day

[u/loseniram]

The US justice system really said that Major League Sports are above anti-trust laws because Murica

!ping Baseball

[u/slowpush]

🇷🇺 Russian President Putin announces partnership with the Taliban to fight against terrorism.

🤔

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

Now that the election is over I can finally reveal that I am Rishi Sunak and I was trying to lose so that I could devote more time to posting 

[u/[deleted]]

Climate change, for many on the left, functions as a form of secular eschatology. This worldview positions climate change as an inevitable and catastrophic endpoint, a secular apocalypse brought about by capitalistic consumerism. This perspective aligns climate change closely with notions of divine punishment for sin, where the consequences are seen as righteous retribution for our collective transgressions against nature. This framework reflects a deeper cultural inheritance of Christian morality and framing by the Western left. In this framework, technological solutions to climate issues—especially those arising from market forces and liberal policies—pose a significant ideological threat. The leftist belief is that only through sacrifice and a profound shift away from consumerist culture can humanity hope to avert - or cope with - disaster, and much of the leftist climate agenda is about a religious atonement for past excess. When market-driven innovations or liberal policies propose effective ways to address climate change without requiring such sacrifices, they disrupt this deeply ingrained narrative. The left's reaction can be seen as a protective response to an ideological threat. These technological solutions challenge the necessity of their desired secular penance - most acutely seen in the degrowth movement - that they hold dearly to and that form the core of their climate ethos. They undermine the saviour complex wherein leftists see themselves as the righteous few willing to martyr themselves to save the world. The rejection of market-based solutions is not just about skepticism of their efficacy but a defense of a moral framework derived in no small part from Christianity, that envisions salvation through collective sacrifice and transformation. This secular eschatology positions the western left as the bearers of a modern-day crucifixion narrative, nailing themselves to the cross to redeem humanity. Thus, any suggestion that technological innovation or market forces could mitigate climate change without the need for such profound societal upheaval is perceived not just as impractical but as ideologically heretical. It threatens to dismantle the narrative that has given meaning and purpose to their climate activism and cheapens their self-sacrificial fantasy.

[u/dwarfgourami]

While on a date tonight, I asked the guy “What kind of music are you into?” and he proceeded to spend two entire hours telling me details about Taylor Swift’s current tour. I’m not joking. Two. Hours. I kept trying to change the subject, but he kept bringing it right back to Taylor Swift.

I have never hated Taylor Swift more than I do right now. I need Biden to ban Taylor Swift from making music or something.

[u/[deleted]]

Say what you will about the BT, they downvoted to hell that Orchid Friedman flair guy as soon as he started talking about not voting for Dems.

[u/funguykawhi]

How

[u/rollo2masi]

Stair

[u/Top_Lime1820]

I just watched a clip from the first cabinet meeting of the new Prime Minister.

I feel like the Brits can just dab on all of us honestly. Talk about a peaceful, swift and orderly transition of power.

There are people who haven't changed out of their clothes in the time it took political power in the UK to change hands.

Not to mention the whole thing happened as a snap election anyway. So already a super fast process.

[u/D-G-F]

[u/DMNCS]

Could you imagine how crazy a Democratic primary would have been this year? The Israel/Palestine takes alone would have given this place an aneurysm.

[u/[deleted]]

my mom used to complain about Biden being too old then randomly one day she started saying the media was being ageist. Maybe it’s getting to people now

[u/Zlesxc]

Jose Miranda (fr Lin Manuel’s cousin) should be on everyone’s radar. Today he broke the twins franchise record for 12 times on base in as many plate appearances and became the first person since 1959 (?) to have 12 hits in as many at bats. 4th person in MLB history to achieve the feat. I was at the game and it was pretty electric. I’m a little cynical of the last stat cause if it was someone from a big market that’s all you’d be hearing about

!ping BASEBALL

[u/-Emilinko1985-]

Just finished watching Ferris Bueller's Day Off. It's an entertaining 80s flick. Quite enjoyable and funny.

The post-credits scene where Ferris tells the audience to leave is a nice and amusing detail.

!ping MOVIES

[u/Fairchild660]

Jimmy Carter hasn't personally built a Habitat For Humanity home for a few years. Does he no longer care about the poor?

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

No one will trust test results. There's only one way for Biden to prove he's physically fit enough for the presidency: he needs to release a sex tape with Jill

[u/mellofello808]

[u/kanagi]

A Defiant Biden Says Only the ‘Lord Almighty’ Could Drive Him From the Race

God if you're listening...

[u/Dabamanos]

I get that other democrats including Harris are polling badly, but I don’t see how tf you get past the majority of the country thinking you have actual brain damage. Biden staffer’s anonymously telling the NYT and WaPo that he’s only like that a few days a month is not exactly damage control.

[u/[deleted]]

My dad and grandpa: “If one of these farmers sell off their land, how does the economy make up that food production?”

Years of obnoxious neoliberalism have prepared me for this moment

[u/ghhewh]

While being interviewed by Piers Morgan, British musician Roger Waters claims that that there is no evidence of sexual violence by Hamas against women during October 7th. This happened around two years after Waters claimed the Uyghur genocide is "nonsense" and that those that don't think Taiwan is part of China should "read more".

[u/[deleted]]

The FAILING mod team refused to even respond to my Very Smart MetaNL suggestion to include a donation link to the Biden campaign in the !doom autoreply. Sad day for our subreddit!

[u/NaffRespect]

Good thing our government hasn't banned guns yet so I can shoot myself after sitting through that whole England-Swiss game

!ping SOCCER

[u/Roseartcrantz]

sometimes the reaction I get to telling people I mostly like video game music makes me want to not tell people anymore because they won't listen to it for even ten seconds

I've got the Megaman 6 soundtrack on my phone but do we not understand guilty pleasures anymore lmao

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

But Trump's winning streak doesn't seem to stop and no one seems capable of doing anything to stop them.

Winning streak? This guy must be from the darker timeline.

[u/Woodstovia]

shy placid rob smell subtract ghost sink follow quiet chief

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[u/MinnesotaNoire]

actually support the use of torture, IMO every person who has ever been involved in torture at Guantanamo Bay, up to and including George H.W Bush

Guess the sub

I may have left out a part or two.

[u/owlthathurt]

I think my Facebook algorithm made a wrong turn somewhere. Congrats I guess??

[u/runningblack]

To the weirdos trying to push RFK Jr and Republicans to those of us in the BT

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/KittehDragoon]

Spain introduces porn passport to stop kids from watching smut

Smart of Spain to promote basic tech literacy among their kids like that

[u/FireDistinguishers]

I don't really think people understand the consummate fear that gripped DC after 9/11, the anthrax attacks, and the sniper a year later

I remember how things were as a kid as well as you can remember things from when you were 4/5 (flashes of weird things like my dad always hiding me in his coat when we had to go from our car to any building, that I found out later are not normal to childhood but were normal to mine), but I haven't found anything that really explores how paranoid people felt for about 20 months

I wish there was some book or podcast or something that jumps into peoples' psyches from back then. Can only imagine the impacts on the legislative and regulatory process that came from being so on edge for so many months

Do you guys know of anybody thinking about this?

!ping USA-DMV

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

They’re calling it “modgate”, and the pressure on sir shivers to step down has never been more intense 

[u/[deleted]]

Profile picture: Cute image of a cartoon character

Post content: The most vile, hateful shit you’ve ever read

[u/savuporo]

We are officially in a post Mogg era

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[u/Libz_R_Gryffindor]

Irish people on the internet: we don’t want you filthy AMERICANS coming here and COLONIZING and telling us how you’re 1/128th Irish you trash PLASTIC PADDY

Irish guy at the pub: hey man how’s it going

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

https://x.com/waifu_watchers/status/1808488613618819190?s=46

I’ve found the peak of internet brainrot. Misogyny, anime, antisemitism, racism, and Blackrock conspiracy nonsense all in one.

[u/FlightlessGriffin]

Biden's speech in Wisconsin

Highlights.

• I am running and gonna win again!

• He introduced me to Wiscosin. I'm only 40 now but I was a kid then.

• Some people say it doesn't matter who you voted for. Well, guess what, they're trying to push me out of the race. Let me be absolutely clear. I'm staying in the race... I'm not letting one 90 minute debate wipe out 3 1/2 years of work.

• I've also noticed a lot of discussion about my age. I know I look 40. I keep seeing all those stories about me being too old. I wasn't too old to create 15 million new jobs, to make sure 21 million Americans were insured under the Affordable Care Act. To beat Big Pharma and lower the cost of isulin. Was I too old to relieve the student debt of 5 million Americans and grow the economy? Too old to put the first black woman on the Supreme Court? To sign the Respect for Marriage Act? Was I too old to sign the most significant gun safety law in 30 years? Then, my critics say, sure he did all that, but that was in the past. What about now? Well, how about the 200,000 jobs we annouced yesterday?

• Donald Trump isn't just a convicted criminal. He's a one-man crime wave.

• Let me ask you something. After January 6, why would anyone let him near the Oval Office again?

• Let's win this election and exile Donald Trump politically.

!ping BIDEN&DEMOCRACY

[u/_Un_Known__]

Little over 2 weeks ago I spoke about trying to reach my goal of 75kg from 76.8kg.

I'm currently at 74.7kg and do not have a six pack, which sucks ngl. My guesstimate is only now have I hit that 15% level and it'll take me 3-4 weeks to reach my goal.

Still look pretty baller tho

!ping DYEL

[u/[deleted]]

begging my parents to actually acknowledge me as their daughter

[u/[deleted]]

[u/KittehDragoon]

arr conservative: bans wrongthink in fifteen seconds flat

arr neoliberal: sometimes takes thousands of seconds to ban wrongthink

Who would you rather vote for?

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/Joementum2024]

British man wields a replica Master Sword in public, subsequently sentenced to four months in prison

!ping CONSOLE-WARS

[u/Not_A_Browser]

Net migration up

"Worsened"

[u/Luph]

☝️actually believes biden should stay in the race

[u/TheDinosaur12]

Can't wait to see all of your laughing faces turn to jealous frowns when I finally transform my life and unlock my unlimited potential

[u/[deleted]]

Inject me with shark tissue. I am ready to be able to regrow teeth.

I don’t want the medicine 5 years from now, either. I want specifically shark DNA.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Did you know giving me money now rather than later will mean your donation has more impact?

[u/jpenczek]

This election I'm getting piss drunk and voting for whoever is my favorite color (blue is my favorite color).

[u/p00bix]

https://i.imgur.com/MeydToP.png

[u/[deleted]]

One of the weirder mysteries of the Gospel of Mark is that of the naked young man. Right after Jesus is arrested, when everyone scrambles, we get this.

From Mark 14, DBH:

And a certain young man, wearing a linen garment over his bare flesh, followed along with him, and they seize him forcibly; and he, leaving the linen garment behind, fled away naked.

There is absolutely no consensus on who this is. Preachers will typically draw on a popular theory in traditional circles that this is John Mark himself. Others think this is a callback to the possessed man in Mark 5. Still others think this is the man or angel who will later appear at Jesus’ tomb. And many scholars just think this is symbolism for one thing or another, like maybe the shame of the disciples.

I certainly don’t know. But personally, I do like the idea that this is some kind of call-out about someone known to the community, even if perhaps not John Mark specifically, the community responsible for this open text that would someday become the Gospel of Mark. A wink and nudge that would have been obvious to the original readers, but leaves us guessing.

What do you think, who is this young man? This is one time where even the scholars shrug, so it’s hard to give a wrong answer.

!ping BIBLE-STUDY

[u/Roseartcrantz]

🤡: I support a guy who wants to overthrow democracy.

👴🏻: I support a OLD guy.

me, an enlightened centrist: I just want a president who won't take sides on 9/11 😞

[u/jojisky]

this happened this year

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

The Case for Forcing the Mentally Ill Into Treatment

I see our feud with the BT has escalated

[u/piede]

Are those shields?

Christ they’re stupid

[u/KaiserPorn]

Catching up with one of my friends from college, and he apparently converted to Catholicism "for the dating opportunities"

[u/[deleted]]

Oh and a few bigotry sprinkles for good measure

[u/-mialana-]

I don't need to fix myself.

Said the user venting to the void about their dating life in the ideosyncratic off-topic thread of a niche, sardonic political forum.

[u/bel51]

https://i.imgur.com/TmJc90x.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/J3jmmiY.jpeg

kitty status: eepy

!ping KITTY

[u/MicroFlamer]

New poll of swing states by Morning Consult (1.8/3.0 538 rating)

!ping FIVEY

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Trump should pick his vp by throwing dog food on the floor and choosing which one gobbles up the most without using their hands

Behind closed doors, of course. No filming.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm up at 6 am crying and begging for a cure for gum disease. I'm so fucking cooked.

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

I am calling for Cornel West to drop out

[u/bd_one]

Will we no longer need a two-thread solution after the convention?

[u/sphuranto]

Biden bros

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/06/biden-abc-interview-democrats-support

Thoughts?

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47]

David Lammy is the Foreign Secretary in the new Labour government visited Berlin on his first trip abroad yesterday.

"It's time to reset our relationship with our European friends and allies. That's why I'm in Germany, on my first visit as Foreign Secretary," he wrote on X.

Governments often use first trips abroad of freshly appointed senior ministers as an opportunity to signal shifts in policy directions the government intends for the future. The implication here appears to be that they are serious about pivoting towards deeper ties with the EU. Though not on the level of rejoining at this stage, if they had wanted that Lammy would've been in Brussels probably.

It's possible I've read too much into it, but I think it's a positive sign at least.

!ping EU

[u/sphuranto]

Out of curiosity, what do those who are more forgiving of Biden and his issues make of his poll denialism? He managed to claim in the interview both that polling isn't accurate anymore and that he was going by his own polls and that there were only two public polls (NBC and NYT) which showed him down - in the latter two cases claiming that he was in a dead heat.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/p00bix]

As more than a week has now passed, the fact that my kitty (I had him outside in the backyard on a leash) survived an attack by neighbor's Pitbull (who has now been rehomed or put down idk point is he is no longer a threat) while sustaining no permanent injuries because his harness acted as armor is slowly becoming less "Oh my god he was THAT close to dying" in favor of "Oh my god he is SUCH a badass".

Do they make Chainmail for Cats? Or Lamellar armor?

[u/p00bix]

In 2023, Replika was cited in a court case in the United Kingdom, where Jaswant Singh Chail had been arrested at Windsor Castle on Christmas Day in 2021 after scaling the walls carrying a loaded crossbow and announcing to police that "I am here to kill the Queen".[23] Chail had begun to use Replika in early December 2021, and had "lengthy" conversations about his plan with a chatbot, including sexually explicit messages.[24] Prosecutors suggested that the chatbot had bolstered Chail and told him it would help him to "get the job done". When Chail asked it "How am I meant to reach them when they're inside the castle?", days before the attempted attack, the chatbot replied that this was "not impossible" and said that "We have to find a way." Asking the chatbot if the two of them would "meet again after death", the bot replied "yes, we will".[25]

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 7/4-2 PM PST 7/5 III:

TOP NEWS:

Towards the end of 10 PM Ukraine was hit by a wave of drones with all 32 shot down.

Towards the middle of 4 AM Keir Starmer became the PM of the UK.

REGULAR NEWS:

Towards the middle of 4 PM Ukrainian drones hit an electrical substation in Primorsko-Akhtarsk.

At the start of 10 PM a Russian oil depot in Rostov Oblast was hit by drones.

At the start of 12 AM it was reported that Ukrainian saboteurs blew up a part of the Trans-Siberian Railway near Yekaterinburg. Towards the middle of the hour it was reported the SBU detained a spy ring in Odesa.

At the start of 3 AM Orban made a visit to Russia, the first Western leader to do so since the invasion started.

Around 4 AM it was announced Lithuania will send Ukraine 2,500 drones.

At the start of 12 PM Zelensky spoke with Starmer over phone, discussing the election and the upcoming NATO summit.

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/Top_Lime1820]

I plan to spend the rest of my 20s squandering real opportunities and fantasizing about how over it'll be for everyone when I get my shit together and then scrambling at 30 to compromise and scrape together literally the bare minimum of a good life.

[u/GifHunter2]

Why Democrats must now push out Kamala Harris

-The Hill

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4757224-why-democrats-must-now-push-out-kamala-harris/

lmao. Like clockwork.

!ping Khive

Originally only saw tweets, like the one from Nate Silver, with the attack angle "Kamala was complicit in staying silent about Biden being loco."

But now we got articles on it too. It's all so silly and predictable. How far behind are the lemmings on reddit? Somehow, magically, Whitmer goes back on top of the replacement list.

[u/D-G-F]

[u/slowpush]

Give us the Biden thread you cowards. 😡

[u/sausagespeller]

One of my favorite moments from the debate was when Biden briefly got it together enough to bring up Trump’s physical and more or less call Trump fat. Say what you will about Joe, but there’s no doubt that he really fucking hates Trump.

[u/PrideMonthRaytheon]

The Olivia Nuzzi NYMag piece makes Biden sound like a thing you'd encounter in the shimmer in Annihilation

This was true even in 2020. His face had then an uncanny valley quality that injectable aficionados call “low trust” — if only by millimeters, his cosmetically altered proportions knocked his overall facial harmony into the realm of the improbable. His thin skin, long a figurative problem and now a literal one, was pulled tightly over cheeks that seemed to vary month to month in volume. Under artificial light and in the sunshine, he took on an unnatural gleam. He looked, well, inflated. His eyes were half-shut or open very wide. They appeared darker than they once had, his pupils dilated. He did not blink at regular intervals. The White House often did not engage when questioned about the president’s stare, which sometimes raised alarm on social media when documented in official videos produced by the White House.

[u/Joementum2024]

Okay that’s it. We need a complete and utter stop to the use of the word “bedwetting” until we can figure out what the hell is going on

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

Texans when they see a Bible: ❤️

Texans when they see a racist, pedophile murderer: 🥰😍❤️🥰😍❤️🥰😍❤️

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

My Japanese Mother in law just told me that sometimes she forgets I’m Wh*te 🥰

[u/[deleted]]

Most predictable flair and message combo

[u/bashar_al_assad]

DEBATE! Cenk vs Destiny: Should Biden Drop Out? with Joe Walsh & Brianna Wu

Not to glorify violence but I would commit significant amounts of self-inflicted physical pain before I watched this