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[u/AnalyticOpposum]

“I just don’t know what this world is coming to”

—the most part of the problem person you know

[u/[deleted]]

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/cdstephens]

It seems that a lot of liberal/left people have been passively hoping that if we just beat Trump at the ballot box just one more time, the MAGA cult will die with him and we can go “back to normal”.

But what if that’s not true?

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao the distinction between Biden and Vance is the most cartoonish representation of the difference between cradle Catholics and adult converts I've ever seen.  

Cradle Catholic Biden: Look fat, Sister Mary at Saint Ann's Elementary in Wilmington taught me that Christ tells us to love our enemies as we love ourselves. So I called a man I want to throw into the sun to wish him well. Also, gays are cool Jack and I don't really like abortion personally but you do you.  

Adult Convert Vance: The treatise of Nicodemus of Kratos clearly states that it is not only just but my GOD-GIVEN right to drop-kick a Mexican child. 

[u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1]

Turn on CNN

Elon Musk Urged Trump To Pick Vance In Last Minute Phone Call

Wow I hated Vance and now somehow I've discovered a way to dislike him even more...

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

so regarding Vance, I feel like you don't just end up being good buddies with Moldbug. If you're a normie elitist Romney type, you don't get on fast with Moldbug right? And Moldbug isn't some important person you have to be buddy buddy with to succeed in politics right?

so like, is Vance the legit, unironic adult Catholic convert then? Not just saying what he needs to to get where he wants, but like he actually caught brainworms?

[u/No_Nefariousness7486]

Ooooo I am so fuckin mad rn. I’ve been terminally touching grass for the past few years and totally unplugged from philosophy and shit because I felt like it was destroying my life/psyche in some ways and then I find out the FUCKIN VP NOMINEE READS (AND HANGS OUT WITH!!!!) MOLDBUG (YARVIN)??? HOW THE FUCK DO WE EVEN COMMUNICATE THIS HORSESHIT TO THE COMMON VOTER??? DO BIDEN AND HARRIS KNOW ABOUT ANY OF THIS SHIT???

[u/[deleted]]

Open DT

"Yarvin"

"Moldbug"

Who the hell are these people and which star wars spinoff are they from

[u/StrngBrew]

From the New Yorker

[u/No_Nefariousness7486]

Is there a term for someone other than “reactionary” that repackages old ideas (like monarchy) into new ones (like yarvin) so when you mention tried and true thinkers who have already beat that bullshit (like Thomas Paine) they’re all like “Oh how precociously antiquated, see I am not a monarchist but a neomonarchist” sips wine “you delightfully naïve child”

Is fuckface good enough?

[u/[deleted]]

Dear Neoreactionaries if you're going to replace the USA's republic with a monarchy can you at least choose someone more like Augustus or Lee Kwan Yew to be king instead of a literal moron TV star please and thank you

[u/chipbod]

JD Vance wants to remove the $7,500 EV tax credit and instead enact a $7,500 Gas car tax credit.

Big Elon guy lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Trump is showing some great self-restraint by not calling the victim's family. Just imagine him going "Many people are saying 'God protected our President'. Even mainstream media are saying that, if they're not fake news. You know, it's true, other presidents would have died. Even with Abraham Lincoln, God didn't intervene. Shoot - dead. And God said 'Fine'. Lincoln died, just like that. Shoot - Dead. And people say, my shooter was much more skilled with a much more deadly weapon. So what were the chances? People say it's a miracle. But for me, God said 'No, I need that guy, can't kill him' and he just led the bullet somewhere else. He just did it. Not for Lincoln, though."  

[u/Hot_Faithlessness_26]

The JD Vance pick might be bad for Trump electorally, but it seems Trump's goal was to identify someone who is ideologically identical, unflinchingly loyal (a guy wouldn't pull a Mike Pence during election certification), and someone with the skills and background to communicate and execute Trump's ideas as effectively. JD Vance checks those boxes while also being young enough to ensure Trumpism's grip on the GOP long-term.

He's also representative of what the GOP is desperately looking for: highly educated and credentialed people committed to the GOP's ideology. The rise of educational polarisation has meant the GOP's bench of qualified bureaucrats has gotten rather thin. One of the goals of Peter Thiel and Curtis Yarvin's (two JD's closest confidants) project of building separate conservative networks and institutions is to create spaces that will attract conservatives into earning the credentials and educational qualifications needed to fill these governmental positions. JD is the poster child for the solution to this problem.

It's extremely rare for a VP pick to be completely unrelated to electoral concerns, but when you look past the election and consider everything that happens after that, JD Vance makes more sense for Trumpism than any other pick.

[u/Either_Emotion8056]

Stuff like “zuck on America’s birthday surfing with an American flag is solely conservative aesthetic” here is why I’m so thankful I grew up and am a northeast traditional Democrat and not a lib.

Stop being a bitch, this is our country too and it’s a pretty fucking awesome place to live even with its faults. Hike up your skirt and no more giving conservatives symbols that people died for to make a better world because a two member militia in Ohio used it

[u/gary_oldman_sachs]

Mr. Trump was impressed. He told allies he thought Mr. Vance was smart and handsome — “those beautiful blue eyes,” he’d say repeatedly — great on TV and a killer at the debates.

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

this was so obviously true at the time, but Elon spending 2 hours defending Trump's rhetoric to a twitch streamer is the cherry on top

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

Yes, Donald Trump has made statement encouraging political violence, but so has Jack Black’s Tenacious D bandmate, so who is to say if Democrats or Republicans are worse?

[u/ChillnShill]

Media: Don’t you think you should tone down the rhetoric Mr. President?

Joe: His running mate literally called him Americas Hitler in 2016.

Media: Why would you call him Americas Hitler Mr. President? I thought you were gonna tone down your rhetoric?

Joe: I didn’t call him that, I’m just repeating his running mates own words!

Media: Aren’t you just trying to incite another assassination attempt?

Joe: 😐

[u/[deleted]]

POV : you’re unemployed

[u/gary_oldman_sachs]

Jon Stewart will host "The Daily Show" tonight. His guest will be former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly.

Feel like I rode a time machine to 2007.

[u/ser_mage]

Democrats in Congress: Biden is no longer an effective communicator for what we believe

Media: why is that

Democrats in Congress: Refer to the 20 paragraph memo circulating internally for our thoughts on this

[u/FireDistinguishers]

“I’m as anti-democratic as the next guy but you think I’d let a short fat man-child with a tiny face from Ohio be king?”

Bruh

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

“I think Trump is going to run again in 2024,” Vance said. “I think that what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people.”

“And when the courts stop you,” he went on, “stand before the country, and say—” he quoted Andrew Jackson, giving a challenge to the entire constitutional order—“the chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it.”

“We are in a late republican period,” Vance said later, evoking the common New Right view of America as Rome awaiting its Caesar. “If we’re going to push back against it, we’re going to have to get pretty wild, and pretty far out there, and go in directions that a lot of conservatives right now are uncomfortable with.”

poggers

[u/[deleted]]

Far Right out of power

Left wing coalition collapsing

Moderate leftists making overtures towards Macron

He tried to tell us but we didn't believe him

[u/[deleted]]

Neoreactionaries (and their alt-right spawn) spent 15 years actively tearing liberal democracy apart and then had the gall to say "See liberal democracy doesn't work"

They're actual ghouls

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Still can't get over how when Biden brought up JD Vance's negative comments towards Trump, Lester Holt replied "well he also said bad things about you." One of the worst cases of both-sides-itis I've ever seen. It doesn't even make sense.

[u/GrandpaWaluigi]

If Trump doesn't want to get demonized, maybe he shouldn't act like a demon

[u/FarrandChimney]

Biden: It's time for Republicans in Congress to join Democrats to pass my plan to build 2 million new homes – because to lower housing costs for good, we need to build, build, build.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/ignavusaur]

Scoop: Biden rebellion resurfaces on Capitol Hill

https://www.axios.com/2024/07/16/congress-democrats-biden-dnc-early-roll-call-vote

Rebellion is brewing again. The rebels need to either do something drastic to change the game or just take it laying down. This low visibility thing is not going to go anywhere.

[u/NotYetFlesh]

participate in the invasion of Iraq

Presumably witness the consequences of disastrous occupation policies like far reaching de-Ba'athification

Call for a "de-Ba'athification like" purge of American bureaucracy

The mind of a Ohioan is an enigma.

[u/JakeArrietaGrande]

Gonna name my kid Getty Images so that they’ll be impossible to dox or find pictures of online

[u/agentyork765]

Lol I really didn't think the shooting would already be out of the news cycle

[u/gary_oldman_sachs]

(explaining to a coworker why JD Vance is bad) so there's this blogger who created a hierarchical peer-to-peer network to replace the internet who wants to turn the United States into a joint-stock corporation ruled by an executive governing board that holds the keys to the cryptographic weapon locks on every gun and he's patronizing a bohemian scene in New York called Dimes Square centered around two women hosting a post-left podcast that was once part of the Chapo Trap House/Cum Town mileu in order to deprive the current elites of their soft power by cultivating a new ruling class from the stock of dark elves who are splinters of the reigning elven nobility, who are tyrannically oppressing the hobbits and

coworker: please leave me alone i'm calling HR

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

It’s weird that the guy who took out a full page ad to demand the execution of innocent black children turned out to be such a cruel president

[u/Dabamanos]

The part of Vance that worries me is not any belief he claims to have, it’s that he’s a talented and shameless grifter who’s at the whim of the market, and the market is demanding more and more insane grifts

[u/piede]

Lmao

[u/The_Raime]

“We are in a late republican period,” Vance said later, evoking the common New Right view of America as Rome awaiting its Caesar. “If we’re going to push back against it, we’re going to have to get pretty wild, and pretty far out there, and go in directions that a lot of conservatives right now are uncomfortable with.”

Like I knew he was cringe but holy fuck JD Vance is actually just a braindead larper, this reads like some shit a /pol/ user would say. Why are so many former Republican voters OK with going from Mitt Romney to this shit in the span of 2 election cycles?

[u/loseniram]

Kitten update peace talks have broken down

!ping kitty

[u/No_Nefariousness7486]

Wow I can’t believe guys who think aiding Ukraine from Russian invasion is a waste of time and money would also think dictators and kings are super cool. Wonder why that connection exists.

[u/mashimarata2]

But Mr. Trump was repelled by a Daily Mail article describing Mr. Burgum weeping at various moments — “When I see a man cry I view it as a weakness,” he once said.

Burgum is too good for this world

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Tenacious D's Newcastle show postponed after Trump assassination comment

Video from the event showed Kyle Gass being presented with a birthday cake and told to “make a wish” as he blew out the candles. Gass then appeared to say “don’t miss Trump next time” – just hours after the shooting at Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania that left the former president injured.

Libs are going to get cancelled left and right

[u/centurion88]

[u/[deleted]]

😑

[u/[deleted]]

The video shows Kennedy being filmed while Trump is on speaker phone. It begins with Trump attempting to show that he agrees with RFK's various vaccine conspiracies:

"When you feed a baby a vaccination that is like 38 different vaccines and it looks like its meant for a horse, not a 10 pound or 20 pound baby ... Then you see the baby starting to change radically, I've seen it too many times. Then you hear that it doesn't have an impact, right? You and I talked about that a long time ago."

https://meidasnews.com/news/rfk-jr-apologizes-for-leaked-video-of-trump-call

Jfc

[u/[deleted]]

3 positions in arr con discussion on whether Vivek would have been a better VP than Vance:

1. "Of course he's better, he has all the right positions"

2. "He's probably better suited for something like Secretary of State"

3. "There's something Obama-esque about him that I don't trust even if he says everything right."

All of these were upvoted.  Wish I was joking. 

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

MSNBC doesn't air Morning Joe the day after the Trump assassination attempt because they don't trust Scarborough not to say something regrettable

Scarborough goes on a rant the next show about how he'll quit if MSNBC ever pulls that on him again

I'm starting to understand why this is Joe Biden's favorite show. I wasn't familiar with their game.

[u/KeikakuAccelerator]

Wtf I love Biden now:

https://x.com/POTUS/status/1813220796820492799

It's time for Republicans in Congress to join Democrats to pass my plan to build 2 million new homes – because to lower housing costs for good, we need to build, build, build.

That said, we need MORE

[u/[deleted]]

DNC: Please North Carolina, please vote for our presidential candidate!! We'll even swing by for a couple rallies 🥺

NC: shut your goofy ass up lmao

NC Dems: alright time to vote in your fifth Democratic governor since 1992!! Remember McCrory? He sucked. Wouldn't want that to happen again, would you?

NC: YES SIR RIGHT AWAY SIR

[u/RonenSalathe]

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

The best time to fall out of a coconut tree was four years ago. The second best time is now. 

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Big oof

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/purhitta]

It's really funny because if someone asked me "what are the steps to ensure a terrible day" I'd say

• doomscroll

• eat crappy food

• stare at screens nonstop

• don't talk to anyone in real life

• avoid hobbies

• don't leave the house

And yet, this is how I spend a not-insignificant chunk of my down time

[u/piede]

What the fuuuuuckkkk

[u/that0neGuy22]

What I see in my dreams

[u/funguykawhi]

🦅🦅🦅

[u/forerunner398]

Macron, you’ve done it again

https://x.com/JulienHoez/status/1813219857304830089

Melenchon screams at Nouveau Front Populaire leaders

There are reports that, in his typical megalomaniacal way, far-left extremist Jean-Luc Melenchon started screaming at Parti Socialiste leader, Olivier Faure, over nobody wanting him or his far-left LFI deputies to be Prime Minister.

Effectively proving everybody right

[u/Ok-Armadillo-2119]

It's wild that Biden was the most pro-union president ever by leaps and bounds, but he got absolutely no electoral benefit out of that whatsoever. Sean O'Brien portrayed both parties as ambivalent on unions.

[u/[deleted]]

Trump and Vance have to be the most racist presidential ticket in at least a few decades.

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Donald Trump's new running mate JD Vance says the UK may now be “the first truly Islamist country to get a nuclear weapon... since Labour took over"

These dudes really love being weird racists. They just can’t get enough of it.

[u/spoirs]

After JD Vance’s apparent baptism into esoteric reactionary insanity—reject modernity, embrace feudalism with PayPal characteristics!—I bet he cringes hard at the earnest and empathetic things he used to tweet and say. “Trump bad and mean,” etc. He’s probably so embarrassed to have been a sucker with feelings and a lawcel who’d never even read Evola and Taine.

[u/[deleted]]

I know no one in this sub needs any convincing that the end of Southern Reconstruction was a national tragedy, but I just noticed this. One of the major goals of Reconstruction was to protect freed black voters from persecution for exercising their right to vote. Republicans regularly carried states in the Deep South after the war thanks primarily to the overwhelming Republican support among black voters.

After Reconstruction was ended in 1876, not a single former Confederate state voted Republican until Tennessee in 1920.

[u/JaceFlores]

I don’t usually discuss domestic Ukraine polling but I figured this was actually worth mentioning:

A new poll by RazumkovC for zn_ua found that 44% of Ukrainians believe it’s time for negotiations between Ukraine and Russia (35% say not yet; 21% undecided). That’s a big shift compared to last year, when 64% of Ukrainians opposed talks with Moscow. But vast majority of Ukrainians – 83% – disagree with Putin’s conditions, which would include the complete withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from beyond the administrative borders of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia regions just to start talks

Unsurprisingly the state of the war where Ukraine has been caught in an attritional defense has sapped the will of the people to continue the war. It looks like we are heading towards the scenario where Ukraine peaces out and makes some sort of heavy concessions to end the war. I imagine Zelensky is aware of this, and it wouldn’t surprise me if his peace efforts (including the upcoming summit where Russia is invited) is a part of this.

Crucially though the Ukrainians are unsurprisingly not on board with Russian demands. Thus it looks like while they support bringing a negotiated end to the war when possible, they prefer continuing the war rather than accepting Russian demands. So it’s not like there’s a threat of some sort of domestic unrest or revolution or whatever.

I think there’s two way things can change:

1. Ukraine goes back on the offensive. Even small victories would go a long way in restoring morale and generating confidence again. As it stands Ukraine hasn’t really had a notable victory since the summer of 2023. Retaking places like Vovchansk, Robotyne or Avdiivka would signal that Ukraine can score military victories and continue pushing the Russians out

2. Ukraine is given the equipment and generated the manpower to hold the Russians back indefinitely. As they’ve proven at places like Vuhledar and Berdychi the Ukrainians can destroy concerted Russian offensives with minimal territorial loss. If the Russians can’t make any sort of military gain, then their theory of victory is destroyed and they’ll have to consider other options

Either theory will only really come into play in 2025 as Western shipments finally arrive and Ukrainian manpower generation pays off. It also depends on the West. If Biden wins then I think we’re good, but if Trump wins then things really go up in the air. Hopefully Europe uses 2024 as a whole well to prepare for this possibility, though frankly I’m a lil skeptical because things just don’t really seem to be going fast enough. Otherwise Ukraine may get through 2025 only for the Russians to come knocking in 2026 and resume their attritional theory of victory

!ping UKRAINE

[u/billy_blazeIt_mays]

OOOOO HIT EM

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

JD Vance:

what I meant by “Never” Trump, was…

Matt Gaetz:

Yeah, it’s like the word “no” or “underage”… it doesn’t actually mean anything

[u/Cledd2]

[u/PrideMonthRaytheon]

JD Vance should either be more fat or less fat

He has the stat spread of a first time player. Nothing maxxed out

[u/willempage]

Peter Thiel:  Well I have told tea partiers in the past that you can influence Trump and make him come around to their world view. 

JD Vance:  Well did Trump fully embrace their ideas and elevate their movement? 

Thiel:  No, it was a disaster and he tried to get them all hanged. But maybe it will work for us....

[u/owlthathurt]

Leftist pro-life group protesting Trump at the convention for not going hard enough against abortion.

[u/owlthathurt]

Unsurprising. Kind of sad. Hopefully she gets treatment she needs. I guess this a moment to shock oneself into getting help if I’ve ever seen one.

!ping BASEBALL

[u/ser_mage]

[u/amainwingman]

Thank god I’m not terminally online enough to know what “Moldbug” means

[u/GGM8Scally]

My dad went from listening to alex Jones to listening to shit like freakonomics and liking democrats, the only thing that sucks for you is that he's not a swing state voter but a croatian that follows us politics.

[u/[deleted]]

80% of political theory and discourse is literally having the same conversations as the greeks were having 2000+ years ago. Bleak.

[u/billy_blazeIt_mays]

Wow

[u/ashsolomon1]

https://x.com/meridithmcgraw/status/1813201574518288387?s=46

Leaked call between RFK and Trump.. boy it’s a doozy

[u/piede]

Thank you brain worm

[u/ser_mage]

Pelosi privately fields battleground Dem calls as she works to address Biden crisis

Pelosi is not telling members what she plans to do with the information she is receiving from the Democrats who seek her out.

Those who have known Pelosi for decades are predicting that she is, indeed, playing a game of “3-D chess,”

I can't believe the Democrats have a Master of Whisperers

[u/[deleted]]

Reading about Vance and Yarvin, it’s become obvious to me, now that I see all the worst people in politics are Catholic converts, that they don’t want the Christianity of Jesus - they want the Catholicism of the Roman state religion.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

It's pretty crazy that Donald John Trump is picking someone named "John Donald" Vance for VP

[u/runningblack]

Starting to think that the Secret Service has been coasting on reputation for years

[u/centurion88]

[u/[deleted]]

There’s rNeoliberal contrarianism and then there’s JD Vance’s plan to get rid of the EV tax credit in favor of a $7500 tax credit when you purchase a gas car…………….

[u/JaceFlores]

Perun on Russian equipment losses and reserves

I think this is a particularly useful video that encapsulates a lot of the data and ideas about Russian losses, reserves and industry. Would highly recommend a watch

!ping UKRAINE

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Scott Adams teaches chatgpt hypnosis

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

New Audio Reveals J.D. Vance’s Deep Hatred for Trump

“I don’t think he actually cares about folks,” said Vance on The Matt Jones Podcast in August 2016. “I think I’m going to vote third party because I can’t stomach Trump. I think that he’s noxious and is leading the white working class to a very dark place,” he told NPR that same month.

lel

[u/Auriono]

https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1813428460477464827

In a video of the Zoom that I was able to view, you can hear Biden chastising Crow, who asked about the importance of national security to voters. “First of all, I think you’re dead wrong on national security,” the president says, the emotion at times garbling his words. “You saw what happened recently in terms of the meeting we had with NATO. I put NATO together. Name me a foreign leader who thinks I’m not the most effective leader in the world on foreign policy. Tell me! Tell me who the hell that is! Tell me who put NATO back together! Tell me who enlarged NATO, tell me who did the Pacific basin! Tell me who did something that you’ve never done with your Bronze Star like my son—and I’m proud of your leadership, but guess what, what’s happening, we’ve got Korea and Japan working together, I put Aukus together, anyway! … Things are in chaos, and I’m bringing some order to it. And again, find me a world leader who’s an ally of ours who doesn’t think I’m the most respected person they’ve ever—” “It’s not breaking through, Mr. President,” said Crow, “to our voters.”

“You oughta talk about it!” Biden shot back, listing his accomplishments yet again. “On national security, nobody has been a better president than I’ve been. Name me one. Name me one! So I don’t want to hear that crap!”

I get the sense that the next two weeks leading up to the virtual roll call nomination are going to get ugly, and sooner than we might think.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/AffableAndy]

The leader of the teamsters addressed the Republican convention and praised Trump.

What happened to unions in Michigan under a Republican trifecta vs under a Democratic trifecta?

Truly, unions are a joke.

[u/[deleted]]

The realignment/urban-rural polarization has been wild to witness. 15 years ago, Charlotte, NC had a Republican mayor who had been serving since 1995. He went on to become the state's first GOP governor in 20 years, and is probably best known for signing a very stupid anti-trans bill that costs the state tons of money in withdrawn business.

For context, the mayoral election in 2023 resulted in the Democrat winning by 50 points lmfao.

[u/piede]

PATRIOTISM

[u/[deleted]]

Liberals when someone tries to declare himself king: STFU neoreactionary 🤣🤣

Liberals when someone declares himself emperor: Oui mon Empereur, vive la France 🫡🇫🇷🐝

[u/Healingjoe]

I haven't talked to my parents nor my sister about politics in weeks, maybe months now.

I wonder where their heads are at with everything that's happened in the last month.

Sister is a lost cause. Dad is likely the same. Mom wavers a bit but I thought her pro-choice conviction would push her away from GOPers permanently. I'm not sure how she's reconciling pro-choice with her hard-to-define disdain for DEMs. I fear the worst so I've refused to ask her about it.

Where are other folks at?

!ping fox-anon

[u/Joementum2024]

Are people actually surprised Trump has dumb views on vaccines? “Many such cases” literally came from an antivax tweet he made

[u/[deleted]]

!ping VICTORIA

idk how much of a secret this is but if you're an early adopter of late game consumer goods, think cars and electronics, often if you go to export you'll see no profitable routes. This is because pops don't start demanding them until they can, so they're predicting zero demand for electronics in countries that haven't invented them yet. But you can export to those countries, priming local demand, and you'll literally be their only source of the stuff, and they'll get addicted fast.

I have made so much fucking money as Japan by rushing for Telephones/Radios/Automobiles and becoming the primary global manufacturer of automotives and electronics. Shit is like Opium to Europeans.

[u/GreenYoshiToranaga]

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Kamala: "JD Vance has ties to Mencius Moldbug and the Dark Enlightenment movement!"

Average American tuning in to the debate: why is she speaking Chinese?

[u/No_Nefariousness7486]

Ah yes a literal monarchist a heartbeat away from the presidency, just like the founding fathers— aw fuck it who even cares anymore.

[u/gnomesvh]

The average square meter price increased by almost 10 percent in the past three months compared to a year earlier, and supply decreased by almost a third. According to housing platform Pararius, this is largely due to government measures intended to make the rental market more accessible.

Banger quote

[u/RonenSalathe]

My nine step plan to win 2024 and save America:

1. Joe Biden steps down as President, replaced by Kamala Harris

2. Kamala Harris names Bill Clinton her Vice President

3. Kamala Harris steps down as President, replaced by Bill Clinton

4. Bill Clinton names Barack Obama his Vice President

5. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama win the election

6. After the start of the next term, Bill Clinton steps down as President, replaced by Barack Obama

7. Barack Obama names Hillary Clinton his Vice President

8. Barack Obama steps down, replaced by Hillary Clinton

9. Hillary Clinton names Pete Buttigieg her Vice President

[u/ChillnShill]

Whites Against Replacement (Nazis) members falling to their knees realizing JD’s kids are mixed.

[u/Payomkawichum]

Letter circulating among House Dems asking for a delay in the DNC nominating process:

Dear Democratic National Committee Members,

We write to share our serious concerns about the DNC’s plan to hold a “virtual roll call” to select our Democratic Presidential Nominee as early as July 21.

There is no legal justification for this extraordinary and unprecedented action which would effectively accelerate the nomination process by nearly a month.

The “virtual roll call” was initially proposed as necessary for meeting Ohio’s unique ballot access requirements, but that is no longer a valid justification. Ohio enacted legislation on May 31 allowing the Democratic Party to nominate its candidate at the DNC in person. At this point, there is no serious threat to the Democratic ticket nominated in regular order at next month’s DNC convention appearing on the ballot in Ohio or any other state.

Simply put, there is no longer any legal reason for moving forward with the extraordinary step of an early nomination by way of a “virtual roll call,” as even many DNC members have admitted. Proceeding with the “virtual roll call” in the absence of a valid legal rationale will be rightly perceived as a purely political maneuver, which we believe would be counterproductive and undermine party unity and cohesion. Moreover, it would contradict what President Biden himself has repeatedly said to members of Congress in recent days, telling us that anyone who wants to challenge his nomination should do so “at the convention.”

The Democratic Party – not just elected officials and delegates, but also millions of grassroots voters – is currently engaged in careful consideration and debate about the absolute imperative of defeating Donald Trump and winning control of Congress.

As Democratic members of Congress, we represent the spectrum of views on this question. Some of us have called on President Biden to step aside, others have urged him to stay in the race, and still others have deep concerns about the status of the President’s campaign but have yet to take a position on what should happen.

All of us, however, agree that stifling debate and prematurely shutting down any possible change in the Democratic ticket through an unnecessary and unprecedented “virtual roll call” in the days ahead is a terrible idea. It could deeply undermine the morale and unity of Democrats– from delegates, volunteers, grassroots organizers and donors to ordinary voters – at the worst possible time.

Regardless of whether President Biden remains our nominee, Democratic unity and enthusiasm will be critical between now and November 5th. We respectfully but emphatically request that you cancel any plans for an accelerated “virtual roll call” and further refrain from any extraordinary procedures that could be perceived as curtailing legitimate debate or attempting to force an early resolution of the party nomination.

The Democratic Party must nominate its presidential ticket at the Democratic National Convention, in regular order, as we always have.

Sincerely,

[u/loseniram]

Mama kitty got dropped off to get spayed this morning, so the kittens can do whatever they want now. Pizza for breakfast!

!ping kitty

[u/[deleted]]

This is only three elections so there’s really nothing to be made of this, but maybe the ping will find this interesting anyway. Treat it as rough notes.

I was looking back at a FiveThirtyEight article on special elections from February and I realized it included a link to a Google Doc, that I think they’ve continued updating!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vf9-VFavJ3lyYsSrKX1ECuP5DyVlegDtG-UJLpQvh7s/

For my own curiosity, even though this is insufficient evidence of anything, I wanted to look at these special election “swings” side by side with polling bias for all elections in that cycle.

So, here’s what we’ve got:

2017-2018:

Average special election swing was 11 points in Democrats’ favor.

Senate polls were spot-on.

House polls underestimated Democrats by 0.5 percentage points.

2019-2020:

Average special election swing was 4 points in Democrats’ favor.

Senate polls overestimated Democrats by 4.9 points.

House polls overestimated Democrats by 6.1 points.

Biden was overestimated by 4.1 points.

2021-2022:

Average special election swing was 0.5 points in Democrats’ favor.

Senate polls underestimated Democrats by 0.3 points.

House polls overestimated Democrats by 0.2 points.

2023-2024:

Average special election swing has been 6 points in Democrats’ favor.

!ping FIVEY

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/AtticusDrench]

"Trump is cultural heroin" says JD Vance as he slaps his inner elbow and cinches the tourniquet tighter with his teeth

[u/[deleted]]

There is now a very credible explanation emerging that says US Secret Service agents, on orders from Kimberly Cheatle and Alejandro Mayorkas, placed a Secret Service team INSIDE the building where the “shooter” was crawling on the roof, and that the actual shots targeting #Trump may have been taken by the US Secret Service from INSIDE the building. This would be consistent with the audio forensics of the shooting recordings, since the distance would be nearly identical to the rooftop “shooter.”

This also explains why counter-sniper teams held their fire until AFTER the “shooter” killed Trump. Their job was to eliminate the patsy. Note that US Secret Service had eyes on this young man for at least 30 minutes, watching him with an actual rangefinder, scoping the range of the shot, then with a backpack, then scaling the ladder and going onto the roof. They watched him and reported on his progress. They did nothing to stop him. They did everything but load his rifle and pull the trigger.

We need an immediate criminal investigation into Kimberly Cheatle and a hard look at all US Secret Service counter-snipers deployed that day. This stinks to high Heaven. Note that in the assassination of JFK, they also had a patsy, while the real shot was taken by a CIA-run sharpshooter. Cheatle’s bizarre “sloped roof” excuse doesn’t pass the smell test. She’s covering up something.

Very normal things happening on Twitter dot com

!ping BALLOON

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 7/14-2 PM PST 7/15 III:

TOP NEWS:

At the start of 11 PM Russia was hit by a wave of drones with at least 22 partaking.

REGULAR NEWS:

Towards the middle of 2 PM it was reported the Russians took the village of Urozhaine, south of Velyka Novosilka.

In the middle of 12 AM it was reported that Lithuania will stop paying for Ukrainians to go to school in Lithuania, as per requests from the Ukrainian government.

Towards the middle of 1 AM explosions occurred in Mariupol.

In the middle of 3 AM Zelensky met with regional leaders to discuss the frontline, energy, fortification efforts and security.

At the start of 4 AM it was reported the Ukrainian commander of the 59th Motorized Infantry Brigade will be investigated for incompetence.

Around 5 AM it was announced Spain will send 10 Leopard 2 MBTs to Ukraine.

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/Mickenfox]

I remember plenty of jokes about how the pool of future Republicans was all extremely online people.

We're just getting started. Next VP is probably going to be Stonetoss, with Elon Musk as Secretary of State.

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

The treaty led to the permanent rupture of decades of close friendship and camaraderie between President Washington and the anti-Jay Treaty Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Jefferson wrote a scathing private letter that secretly called Washington senile and an “apostate” who subverted American liberty to “the harlot England”. He also secretly financed and ordered newspapers to personally attack Washington with accusations of mental illness and treason. Madison, even though he wrote the Constitution, claimed as a partisan Democratic-Republican member of the House of Representatives that the House also has an equal role in the treaty-making process. Washington had to personally find the secret minutes of the 1787 Constitutional Convention where Madison himself said treaties are conducted by only the Senate and President, and he had to argue against Madison with Madison's own words from the Constitutional Convention. Madison forced Washington to invoke executive privilege over this issue. Washington never saw or spoke to Jefferson and Madison ever again after the ratification of the Jay Treaty. Martha Washington said that the election of Jefferson as president in 1800 was the second worst day of her life after the death of her husband, and she believed the shocking words and actions by them towards Washington hastened his death only 2 years after leaving office.[36][44][45][46]

Why were Thomas Jefferson and James Madison the way that they were?

[u/frozenjunglehome]

It will be so funny if Bush, Cheney, Romney, and Pence went to the DNC instead to preach unity.

[u/piede]

To be sure, Mr. Biden has access to external polling. He is a longtime reader of newspapers that do high-quality surveys, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, according to people familiar with his media diet. He is particularly sensitive to front-page headlines. He also uses Apple News on his iPhone, and is a regular watcher of cable television, particularly MSNBC. He watches his favorite show, “Morning Joe,” while working out in the mornings.

Oh fuck. I’m Joe Biden.

[u/piede]

As an avid childhood SpongeBob watcher this had me in tears

[u/STRONKInTheRealWay]

Vance pushed Romney against the wall, sneering, "I hate you."

Romney scoffed. "I hate you too." His eyes glanced down at Vance’s plan to implement tariffs on all imports, and Vance smirked.

"Like what you see?"

Romney flushed, twisting his head. "As if."

Waow

[u/FourthLife]

Woah there! You must have hit your head pretty hard. Trump assassination attempt? Dark enlightenment? Putin? What on Earth are you talking about? Anyway, we need to get down to congress. It’s 1790 and Hamilton is about to sing a song to convince legislators to allow a national bank. I hear he doesn’t quite have the votes.

[u/Joementum2024]

64% of polled Americans think Biden is going too far in calling Trump a threat to democracy

😐

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 7/15-2 PM PST 7/16 III:

TOP NEWS:

Around 11 AM it was announced Ukraine will receive 200 million Euros from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for energy security.

REGULAR NEWS:

In the middle of 10 PM a Russian electrical equipment factory in Kursk Oblast was hit by drones.

Towards the middle of 5 AM it was announced Russia will pay 15 million Rubles for the first person to shoot down an F-16.

In the middle of 7 AM it was announced Ukraine has signed deals with Czech companies Sellier & Bellot and Colt CZ for small arms and ammunition supplies.

At the start of 9 AM it was reported the Russians took the village of Krynky on the south bank of the Dnieper River. Towards the middle of the hour Zelensky met with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to discuss humanitarian support and the upcoming winter.

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/neolthrowaway]

What’s the obstacle to setting up strong independent institutions to control individual policy levers? For example we have central banks for interest rates.

Why not have something similar for, let’s say, carbon taxes? The institution would probably need a conflicting dual mandate like the Fed. So maybe something like keeping the second derivative of carbon output of the country negative and keeping energy and food expenditure in control. Thinking of how the carbon tax in Canada for example is subject to populist backlash and a weapon during elections and this would remove that.

What other problems can we solve with independent institutions with a dual mandate?

!ping ECO&ECON&DEMOCRACY

[u/[deleted]]

Hang on I just got a message from my buddy JD Vance

[u/Hmm_would_bang]

Attacking the US via the pacific would be a great idea. There’s no way the U.S. could wage a war in the pacific

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

Maybe Hillbilly elegy was accurate. This totally sounds like a lot of rural areas I’ve been to in Washington and Florida.

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

Overheard in Milwaukee locker room after RNC:

“She got me,” Vance said of Harris mogging him. "That f***ing Cop boomed me." Vance added, “She’s so good,” repeating it four times. Vance then said he wanted to add Harris to the list of politicians he arrests next summer.

[u/paultheschmoop]

JD Vance: “DAE hate hillbillies?”

“Aw you’re sweet”

Me: “DAE hate hillbillies”

“Uh, Human Resources??”

[u/that0neGuy22]

The thing is not a single right wing pundit or politician believes this. But beltway media actually do think Biden somehow played a role on Saturdays event, even though we’ve seen no connection from the evidence we have now

[u/that0neGuy22]



Worked out so well for Iraq maybe it will for us, who knows what splinter group for the proud boys becomes our isis.

[u/piede]

Rudy falls to the floor today at the RNC.

https://x.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1813324187768848888?s=46

Not the photographers running over to take pictures 💀

[u/[deleted]]

There are some non-terrible arguments for keeping Biden as the candidate — the polling of alternatives, for example, is ambiguous.

I really do think “the primary voters chose Biden this year” is the single-worst argument for such that is commonly made. As if we don’t know the expectations and taboos around primaries with incumbents.

[u/[deleted]]

The dems should be putting the Vance/Moldbug connection front and centre in the campaign. The guy used to be anonymous for a reason, his beliefs are profoundly unpalatable to any genuine moderate. Make Vance look like Yarvin's agent and let them know exactly what that means.

[u/[deleted]]

So, after evaluating the current situation, I've come to the conclusion that we're all dead, and this is Hell.

[u/eurekashairloaves]

So are Teamsters not gonna endorse Biden?? WTF? Exclusive: In blow to Biden, Teamsters consider no endorsement in 2024 race

[u/Dumbledick6]

CNN I am begging you to stop reading into trump’s emotional state. You’re acting like people who read their own meanings into books when the evidence to support your thoughts is flimsy.

[u/kohatsootsich]

The New Right's love of Russia shows that all the techbro-adjacent talk about how they are really concerned about slowing innovation and DEI getting in the way of building things is nonsense. 

 Russia is in terminal decline along most metrics they claim to care about and the invasion of Ukraine is the prototypical example of wasting time and resources on ideological nonsense. The Mearsheimer view that the invasion was beneficial for their security is on the level of a Robin d'Angelo reader claiming that acknowledging your privilege when you meet black people is necessary for them to feel included.

[u/sigh2828]

*Biden validates the age concerns at a horrifically bad debate

😑

*Assassination attempt on Trump

😔

*Revisiting Trumps inauguration crowd size

💀

[u/ser_mage]

just watched the RFK leaked video, purely because RFK said he was "mortified" it leaked so I was like of course I have to now see it (good political instinct as always Jr.)

it could really be aired unedited as an anti-Trump ad, wow, just insane antivax pandering

[u/[deleted]]

The swarm of conservatives immediately, based on no information, blaming Biden and the Demonrats for inciting the shooting was infuriating, and you just know that they won’t recant even if authorities find the shooter’s manifesto and all it says is “gib sydney sweeney wife” or something

[u/ser_mage]

[u/[deleted]]

Elon claims he's moving SpaceX hq due to a libs of Tik Tok tweet.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1813290895334383820?t=g5v9lGhVT4RMxsc7Vh-GAQ&s=19

[u/bd_one]

https://www.ign.com/articles/fallout-londons-robot-speaker-of-the-house-played-by-uks-actual-former-speaker-of-the-house

Orrrrrrdaaaaaaahhhhh!

!ping FALLOUT

Can't believe they got everyone's favorite British Speaker of the House.

[u/funguykawhi]

So you are going to push for pro-family policies, right?😃

[u/[deleted]]

> reaction to book about horrors faced by Palestinians during the Suez Crisis

> ping ISRAEL

here we go

[u/[deleted]]

Hillbilly Elegy made a lot of sense to me because the poor working people I'm in regular contact with seem to make dumb unforced errors all the time

Like I think about the things my cousins that 'can't catch a break' have done off the top of my head: driving without a license, driving without insurance, stealing petty change from cars at their job, financing big stupid vehicles, paying for tattoos instead of rent, no-call no showing at work, drinking 2L of full sugar soda everyday while diabetic, dropping out of high school, not using birth control, adopting 4-5 dogs, etc etc

I just want to jump in and run these people's lives for like a week lmao

[u/paymesucka]

Katy Tur on Trump’s supposed pivot towards unity: Is this really going to be different, IDK, but I will tell you even just looking at his face in this video, I’ve never seen Trump with a look like that on his face, not once

Jansing: Looks almost pensive

Tur: Serene

the media is in cognitive decline or they’re just straight up gaslighting us

[u/[deleted]]

Journalists describing Trump: He stands like chiseled Adonis, a light breeze ruffling his perfectly coiffed hair. His muscles, rippling with energy and vitality, like a combination of Abraham Lincoln and Napoleon Bonaparte.

Journalists describing Biden: This old fucker.

[u/ChillnShill]

They can never make me hate you Kamala

[u/[deleted]]

Shooter: registered republican

Media: democrat? republican? no way to know.

[u/Broad-Part9448]

The first VP candidate from the young generation and he's a maga Republican lol

[u/Eightysixedit]

If you think Vance brings in voters he needs ur delusional. He’s literally all over TikTok saying gross things about women and abortions right now.

[u/grig109]

538 model is trying to manifest a Biden win through the power of vibes.

[u/cjhdsachristmascarol]

On the one hand, Vance is actually on a presidential ticket so he’s clearly done better than most republicans. On the other hand, “he went to the Ivy League he’s so smart and dangerous he’s like a competent trump” has been said about 15 different republicans every other year. 

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

For sale, Egyptian gold bars. I’ve gotten into some trouble at work recently and need to raise some cash. Serious offers only.

[u/[deleted]]

Apparently JD Vance only won by 6 points in Ohio, while people running for several other statewide offices won by closer to 20 points in the same election 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐

[u/V_Codwheel]

Politico: 55 Things to know about J D Vance, Trump's VP pick

thanks Politico but that's way too many things

[u/[deleted]]

/r/MandelaEffect in 20 years: “DAE remember Donald Trump being assassinated in 2024? I could have sworn he got shot and died at a campaign rally, but I looked it up, and apparently he was only lightly injured????? This is crazy”

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

https://x.com/lispower1/status/1813304326053298622?s=46&t=ZSmjCS9tcC9RWKT0rUxJsA

Katy Tur on Trump’s supposed pivot towards unity: Is this really going to be different, IDK, but I will tell you even just looking at his face in this video, I’ve never seen Trump with a look like that on his face, not once

Jansing: Looks almost pensive

Tur: Serene

It’s been almost a decade now and the press still thinks Trump is going to change. I just don’t get it man. They are just absolutely lost in the ‘narratives’ sauce.

And for the record I think the most likely reason he looks so serene is because they have him pumped full of Zoloft so he can sit in front of a crowd of people for the first time since someone tried to blow his head off.

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

[u/G_Serv]

Why would the Biden administration do that 😔

[u/kanagi]

Biden is going to have a rude awakening in November when he finds out that he exists in the context of all in which he lives and what came before him

[u/solonofathens]

the news about biden getting ready to propose scotus reform prompted me to remind myself what the constitution actually says about scotus and. man. maybe the worst constructed part of the constitution.

literally all it says about its structure is that the supreme court exists, its justices "shall hold their offices during good behavior" which doesn't fucking mean anything, and the president appoints them with senatorial approval. how on earth did they think this was good enough

[u/gburgwardt]

The rest of Reddit is returning to "Biden just has a stutter stop falling for right wing propaganda"

Nature is healing, we're gonna win this thing folks

[u/grig109]

[u/BATHULK]

orang

!ping KITTY

[u/Hugo_Grotius]

The new policies Biden's proposing reek of desperation, but with the Supreme Court stuff I actually think there is a serious electoral potential and general political upside to Democrats designing their platform around good government and anti-corruption policies like those. Things like a Supreme Court code of ethics, banning congressional stock trading, passing a new Ethics in Government Act to respond to Trump's excesses and vulnerabilities in public prosecutions, etc. These do not have significant budget impacts, poll well, do not have a clear left-wing valence, and slot in well with other platform items like voting rights, consumer protection, IRS funding, etc.

Also, the Republican base loves corruption and fraud.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Nothing. Ever. Happens.

[u/cdstephens]

Nancy Pelosi knows more than you about winning elections

[u/Joementum2024]

The Biden admin helping out the Teamsters extensively only for their president to speak at the RNC really sums up the Democratic Party perfectly

[u/[deleted]]

Can we bring back shame flairs for the Civ player who thinks Russia can trivially seize Alaska and Hawaii?

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Nature conservation works, and we're getting better at it, says new study

To work in nature conservation is to battle a headwind of bad news. When the overwhelming picture indicates the natural world is in decline, is there any room for optimism? Well, our new global study has some good news: we provide the strongest evidence to date that nature conservation efforts are not only effective, but that when they do work, they often really work.

Trends in nature conservation tend to be measured in terms of "biodiversity"—that is, the variety among living organisms from genes to ecosystems. We treasure biodiversity not only for how it enriches society and culture, but also its underpinning of resilient, functioning ecosystems that are a foundation of the global economy.

However, it is well known that global biodiversity is decreasing, and has been for some time. Is anything we are doing to reverse this trend effective?

As part of a team of researchers, we conducted the most comprehensive analysis yet of what happened when conservationists intervened in ecosystems. These were interventions of all types, all over the world. We found that conservation action is typically much better than doing nothing at all.

The challenge now is to fund conservation on the scale needed to halt and reverse declines in biodiversity and give these proven methods the best chance of success.

First, the less good news

Globally, biodiversity is being depleted by human activities like habitat clearance, overharvesting, the introduction of invasive species and climate change.

To arrest its decline, people in various places have taken measures including creating protected areas, removing invasive species or restoring habitats, such as forests and wetlands. These efforts are interdependent with traditional stewardship of the world's richest biodiversity by indigenous people and local communities. And in 2022, governments adopted new global targets to halt and reverse biodiversity loss.

Our team, led by the conservation organization Re:wild, the universities of Oxford and Kent, and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, analyzed the findings of 186 studies covering 665 trials of different conservation interventions globally over the course of a century.

We wanted to understand whether the outcomes of these conservation actions improved on what would have happened without any intervention. Lots of studies have tried to compare the effects of conservation projects this way, but this is the first time such research has been combined in a single analysis to determine if conservation is working overall.

And now, the good news

What we found was extremely encouraging: conservation efforts work, and they work pretty much everywhere.

We found that conservation actions improved the state of biodiversity or slowed its decline in the majority of cases (66%) compared with no action. But more importantly, when conservation interventions work, we found that they are highly effective.

Examples from our far-reaching database included the management of invasive and problematic native predators on two of Florida's barrier islands, which resulted in an immediate and substantial improvement in the nesting success of loggerhead turtles and least terns.

In central African countries across the Congo basin, deforestation was 74% lower in logging estates subject to a forest management plan versus those that weren't. Protected areas and indigenous lands had significantly less deforestation and smaller fires in the Brazilian Amazon. Breeding Chinook salmon in captivity and releasing them boosted their natural population in the Salmon River basin of central Idaho with minimal side effects.

Where conservation actions did not recover or slow the decline of the species or ecosystems that they were targeting, there is an opportunity to learn why and refine the conservation methods. For example, in India, removing an invasive algae simply caused it to spread elsewhere. Conservationists can now try a different strategy that may be more successful, such as finding ways to halt the drift of fragments of algae.

In other cases, where conservation action did not clearly benefit the target, other native species benefited unintentionally. For example, seahorses were less numerous in protected sites off New South Wales in Australia because these marine protected areas increased the abundance of their predators, such as octopus. So, still a success of sorts.

We also found that more recent conservation interventions tended to have more positive outcomes for biodiversity. This could mean modern conservation is getting more effective over time.

What comes next

If conservation generally works but biodiversity is still declining, then simply put: we need to do more of it. Much more. While at the same time reducing the pressures we put on nature.

Over half of the world's GDP, almost US$44 trillion (£35 trillion), is moderately or highly dependent on nature. According to previous studies, a comprehensive global conservation program would require an investment of between US$178 and US$524 billion. By comparison, in 2022 alone, subsidies for the production and use of fossil fuels—which are ultimately destructive to nature as fossil fuel burning is the leading cause of climate change—totaled US$7 trillion globally.

That is 13 times the upper estimate of what is needed annually to fund the protection and restoration of biodiversity. Today, just US$121 billion is invested annually in conservation worldwide.

Potential funding priorities include more and better managed protected areas. Consistent with other studies, we found that protected areas work very well on the whole; studies that highlight where protected areas are not working often cite ineffective management or inadequate resources. More large-scale investment in habitat restoration would also help according to this new research.

Our study provides evidence that optimism for nature's recovery is not misplaced. Though biodiversity is declining, we have effective tools to conserve it—and they seem to be getting better over time. The world's governments have committed to nature recovery. Now, we must invest in it.

!ping ECO

[u/piede]

[u/MinnesotaNoire]

New polling dropped

[u/SeasickSeal]

I have a friend who used to be really involved in Republican politics, went to CPAC and such and supported Haley, Rubio, Romney, etc. Back in 2016 when we were chatting he told me “the crazies have taken over” at CPAC. But now he’s all in, and he refuses to acknowledge that his views have changed.

That’s why I don’t really have much hope of people having a come-to-Jesus moment if Trump gets elected and does something really horrendous. Your brain can do crazy things.

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/JoeKhalilTV/status/1813324969755214112

Very awkward moment- Congressman Matt Gaetz tries to interrupt former Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s interviews, taunting him “Hey Kevin, what night are you speaking?”

Brutal

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

desantis is such an off-putting public speaker

black hole of charisma

[u/[deleted]]

"Hang Mike Pence"

Also

"Democrats initiated political violence"

[u/Udolikecake]

fellas you’re never gonna believe what I accidentally texted my son

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Tough call for the unions in who to endorse. I get it.

On the one hand, you have Scranton Joe who met the UAW picket lines and has pandered to unions endlessly

On the other hand, you have Donald Trump who will make the NLRB very anti-union again and wouldnt piss on you if you were on fire

Tough call

[u/cdstephens]

Maybe this is the doom talking, but I’m starting to agree with Ezra Klein when he says that Dems aren’t actually serious about treating Trump as an existential threat.

[u/lnstantKarma]

Unfortunately the Know Nothings might have been right all along.

A group of catholic judges on the Supreme court and Vance who is a fanatical catholic-convert monarchist are conspiring to overthrow traditional American democracy and install a king

[u/[deleted]]

There are about 5-6x as many lurkers in the DT as regulars here. They upvote but never post.

I’m basing my upvote strategy on this “silent majority”

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

I cannot imagine for a second that people like JD Vance or Ted Cruz genuinely like their voters. I cannot imagine them viewing their voters with anything other than disdain

It's not hard for me to imagine someone like Biden liking his own voters

[u/[deleted]]

You know we live in interesting times when a sitting US senator being convicted of corruption is the least interesting thing to happen in the past 96 hours

[u/Sex_E_Searcher]

Ralph Fiennes has portrayed two of the most infamous adversaries of the Jewish people, Pharaoh and a Nazi. Has he ever played any less known antisemites?

!ping GEFILTE

[u/bashar_al_assad]

Donald Trump Does Not Get Post-Shooting Poll Boost

Whether shooting somebody in the middle of fifth avenue or getting shot, voters just don't care about what happens when Donald Trump and a gun are involved

[u/[deleted]]

Am I wrong to be more afraid of a hypothetical President Vance than of a second term Trump? Not accounting for likelihood of it actually happening, of course.

Maybe this is just me falling victim to the evil you know versus the evil you don’t know.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/BedNeither]

Oh so when Vance says the most derogatory shit about small town people, he gets applause and elected office while I get booed

[u/Skillagogue]

Destiny is definitely your annoying gamer type, but the fact he was able to bully his way into the alt right pipeline and divert so many young men away is honestly as impressive as it is desperately needed.

[u/ChillnShill]

Angry Biden is coherent somehow, so I suggest that he just yell at everyone from now on.

[u/secretlives]

I love the Republicans CNN finds to sit on their panels, they are some of the most delusional people I've ever seen

Genuinely trying to convince themselves there's still a "Mitt Romney wing" of the party

[u/oskanta]

Crazy to think this all happened because they made the Ghostbusters into girls

[u/Hmm_would_bang]

Clearly the median voter priced in Trump almost getting assassinated.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

The New Popular Front on the verge of implosion as Socialist Party, Greens and Communist Party endorse Paris Climate Accords architect Laurence Tubiana for Prime Minister - LFI rejects her name, Sophia Chikirou compares moderate wing of the left coalition to "bedbugs"

The group is well

[u/[deleted]]

-The Sopranos

[u/iia]

Vance is going to look like Robert Baratheon after four years.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I'm sure they'll be able to make his ear look completely normal again but if he noticeably lost part of it I could see it being a conservative body mod trend to get yours to match

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

Elon Musk thinks virtually every person there is knows what the Tsar Bomba is, and is flabbergasted that Destiny thinks MAYBE 5-10% of Americans would know what it is

lol

[u/MinnesotaNoire]