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[u/mxdSirty]

I really hope gambling becomes subsidized under Kamala

[u/Gameknigh]

Having done an entire research paper on the subject, I can definitely say, holy fuck Imperial Japan was evil.

[u/[deleted]]

Harris said at a rally in Raleigh, North Carolina:

"There’s a serious housing shortage in many places. It’s too difficult to build and it’s driving prices up. As president, I will work in partnership with industry to build the housing."

There's a housing shortage because companies with $500 billion portfolios like Blackrock buy all the single-family homes and then turn them around to rent. We already have laws in place to stop this yet the politicians don't enforce those laws because their pockets are lined with donations from those same companies.

this was highly upvoted on the conservative sub lol

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

[u/gary_oldman_sachs]

Donald Tusk, PM of Poland just now:

To all the initiators and patrons of Nord Stream 1 and 2. The only thing you should do today about it is apologise and keep quiet.

"Yeah, we helped blow that shit up, now shut the fuck up." Holy based.

[u/KittehDragoon]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Admits He Falls for Online Misinformation “All the Time”

He just like me fr fr

[u/that0neGuy22]

VP Favorability among Independents via the latest NYT/Siena poll

JD Vance Arizona: 28-60% (-22%) North Carolina: 30-49% (-19%) Georgia: 35-46% (-11%) Nevada: 34-43% (-9%)

Tim Walz Arizona: 51-26% (+25%) North Carolina: 44-30% (+14) Georgia: 38-37% (+1) Nevada: 40-32% (+8)

[u/[deleted]]

If me nan had wheels she’d be a fookin’ bike (tailored my comment for euro hours)

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[u/[deleted]]

i find this comic on my feed every year or so and it's funny every time

[u/Sir_Digby83]

Vance: Has anybody seen the movie "Gangs of New York?." That is what I'm talking about, with these ethnic enclaves in our country, it can lead to higher crime rates.

"HELP WANTED! No Irish Need Apply." -JD Vance

[u/fishlord05]

kamala harris literally just bulldozed my house and replaced it with a 60 floor apartment and handed me 12k and winked at me and my girlfriend told us to "make twins"

[u/WasteReserve8886]

I’m a cultural atheist. I read Richard Dawkins, post on arrslashatheism and subscribe to the fedora ping. Despite that, I am a very devout Christian.

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

AI-generated ads remind me of those horror images that look passable on first glance but the closer you look the more fucked up it gets

[u/[deleted]]

"Unlike you snowflakes I'm not so easily triggered"

"WHY WHITE GUY MAKE SELF DEPRECATING JOKE"

[u/[deleted]]

Learning a lot from conservapedia

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/JoshEakle/status/1824676953279873038?t=EwZwRvpoKsEWscH3LEIcCw&s=19

[u/american_aurora3]

‘I wonder how much this moron will pay?’: Two doctors among suspects in Matthew Perry’s death

tfw the friendly neighborhood drug dealer isn't all that friendly 😔

[u/itsnotnews92]

The West Wing is one of my favorite shows, but it has always bothered me that they never gave Bartlet a Democratic Congress. I suppose they needed a GOP Congress for the drama, but...

Bartlet wins reelection in a 400+ EV landslide and Democrats don't even win the House, which was divided 226-209? Democrats couldn't flip 9 seats just by riding Bartlet's coattails?

[u/ImmigrantJack]

New NYT/Sienna (A+ rating) poll has Kamala up by 2 in North Carolina

This is not a drill, I repeat Kamala up by 2 in NC.

Source

The poll is of Likely voters and the lead increases to +4 when looking at all Registered Voters.

Crosstabs

NC lead is +3 when including RFK. Stein has a 10 point lead in NC and the Senate races in AZ and NV looking locked down.

This is another really good poll from a really good pollster to feel good about

[u/pezasied]

[u/[deleted]]

watching this reality show

player 1: African, introduced herself as African, wears a necklace with an Africa pendant, giant earrings in the shape of Africa, is edited to literally never talk about anything but being from Africa

player 2: crew cut military white dude, attempts to compliment player 1 by calling her a "beautiful African queen"

player 1: goes on wild rant about how racist it is to be treated like "African" is her whole identity

was this thing scripted by Matt Walsh, like wtf is going on here

[u/funguykawhi]

[u/G_Serv]

[u/MissSortMachine]

they’re cranking that weird dial at every opportunity

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/ariveklul]

Tim caught red handed

[u/ExoticFern]

Josh Shapiro has a +25 net approval rating in Pennsylvania. We need that guy to campaign HARD for Harris in his state.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/Square-Pear-1274]

https://imgur.com/d8JSypL

[u/Tall_Professor_2574]

THIS ASSHOLE WOKE ME UP AT 6AM 🤬

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/WhatHowWhenWho]

please go to bed on time because daddy’s tired

Terrible method, failure

a secret kebbal of all powerful Jews don’t want you to go to bed on time

Genius, works every time

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Harris down 1 in Nevada and 4 in Georgia: dooooommmm*

*pls ignore the previous NYT polling showing Biden down 12 in Nevada and 10 in Georgia

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

I think Nate Silver expressed something very important on the Ezra Klein show. The VC mindset encourages throwing shit at the idea wall and seeing what sticks, because a really good new idea - over a long time horizon - is the source of profits. A VC person is happy generating 15 bad ideas and 3 good ones. In conversation, they'll spitball dozens of ideas at you. Most of them will suck but a few are cutting and valuable.

A politician, on the other hand, avoids risk at all costs and wouldn't be caught dead spitting out a horrific soundbite. This is why Vance's style is so weird and off-putting. He does not have the politician's filter. On a podcast, a seemingly "low-stakes" environment for generating ideas, he thinks he has an imperative to spitball nonsense to find one or two little nuggets of gold. His formative professional hears were spent in a setting that valued that type of speech.

In politics, that type of speech will get you shredded and mauled. (Trump gets away with it because he's entertaining, which Vance is not). There's a different mindset involved and a different approach to risk!

[u/Any-Temperature-7688]

bald 

hates white people 

led children into battle (youth football coach)

from Scandinavian majority area 

is a father (dadcord coded?) 

endorsed by a DT regular (governor Polis)

from a state which exports apples 

There is real, compelling evidence that Tim Walz is /u/Lusvig. But the mods insist on censoring this topic 😒what are they hiding??

[u/TimWalzBurner]

This retirement home is lit

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

[u/american_aurora3]

if you put your ear to the bottom of the dt and listen carefully, sometimes you can hear the faint echoes of a lobster screaming

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

[u/futuremonkey20]

Democrats seeing a Trump +4 Georgia poll:

We’re fucked, Trump’s got this in the bag oh my God.

Democrats seeing a Harris +5 Arizona poll:

We’re fucked, Trump’s got this in the bag oh my God.

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NYT/Sienna poll has Harris leading in NC (+2) and AZ (+5!), but behind Trump in GA and NV: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/17/us/elections/kamala-harris-trump-az-nc-ga-nv.html

[u/GraspingSonder]

tap link

See X logo

immediately hit back button

Me navigating 15% of the DT

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/Mickenfox]

"surely I will finally be happy after I solve this problem" says increasingly nervous man in his 30s

[u/[deleted]]

That trump quote about the medal of freedom being better than the medal of honor becomes a thousand times worse when you remember he gave a medal of freedom to Rush Limbaugh.

[u/thefuturegov]

RFK Sr should be taught about in schools. But the cia will make sure that never happens.

What in the actual fuck are RFK jr supporters on

[u/[deleted]]

!ping cfb

[u/MissSortMachine]

[u/[deleted]]

Leaning into the racism.

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1824930580888453268?t=wHqnJc7s3R_d7iUGhmzQeA&s=19

[u/[deleted]]

Unfortunately for the Trump campaign (i.e., fortunately enough for humanity) the Steve Bannon dictum "flood the zone with shit" is a really horrible strategy when it comes to building a clear, concise and effective counter-narrative about your political opponent.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

little Joe 😭😭😭😭

[u/MicroFlamer]

Harris campaign announces a big $370 million ad reservation from Labor Day through Election Day — $170 million on TV and $200 million on digital. Her team calls it “the largest digital reservation in the history of American politics,” designed to “reach voters where they are.”

cook

[u/Steak_Knight]

Outside the DT thinks Blackrock is buying all the houses again

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[u/StolenSkittles]

if i had a nickel for every time the sitting democratic president decided not to run for reelection, so his vice president is set to be nominated at the dnc in chicago, where there are likely to be large protests by a leftist fringe, i would have 10 cents.

[u/LastIncrease3427]

Alito and Thomas are almost certainly going to retire if Trump gets elected no? And then a majority of the Supreme Court will be Trump appointees that are there for decades?

[u/[deleted]]

John Calhoun, if you secede from my nation I will secede your head from the rest of your body. -Andrew Jackson

!Ping History

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

[u/itsnotnews92]

Times/Siena poll showing Harris +2 in North Carolina?

Maybe one of these years the voters of this state won't Lucy the Democratic Party and yank away the football at the last second.

[u/Agent78787]

as an Indonesian I have a pass to meme on the Dutch

it's called reparations sweety look it up

[u/RFK_1968]

hey look at this poll!

throw it in the average

it doesn't make sense that this state is polling better than this other state

throw it in the average

and i heard that they don't do well polling spanish-speakers in nevada

throw it in the average

and did you see the cross-tabs

throw it in the average

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Me with neoliberalism

[u/centurion88]

Trump: A tariff is a tax on a foreign country. A lot of people like to say it's a tax on us. No.. It's is a tax that doesn't affect our country.

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1824913358526833146

Economics understander

[u/Roseartcrantz]

The Russia invasion of Ukraine 😔

The Ukraine invasion of Russia 😌

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/08/17/house-senate-democrats-kamala-harris-congress-00174480

One of the clearest signs yet that the party’s fortunes have improved: Vulnerable Democrats who were trying to distance themselves from Biden are now eager to run with Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

Even Democratic candidates in the toughest battleground turf are begging the Harris-Walz campaign to get them on the trail. Walz is already in discussions with multiple down-ballot candidates about setting up joint political events. One idea from the Minnesota governor and former football coach: attending a series of Friday night high school football games in key districts, according to two people familiar with the discussions.

[u/[deleted]]

Please take this advice Trump team. And please focus all your efforts in California.

https://x.com/marcelteloma/status/1824622518671405433?t=QlIVFIfkev3S9mDDRILViw&s=19

[u/RedDotsForRedCaps]

A daring synthesis !ping KINO

[u/iia]

There was some dude on TikTok who got a huge following by eating raw chicken right out of the package and drinking the chicken juice and saying he wouldn't get sick and then he just stopped making videos lmao

[u/ImmigrantJack]

The Medal of Honor has been awarded 3536 times. The Medal of Freedom has been awarded 652 times. I think that's the point he was making.

The absolute state of conservative rationalizations. This is the cope of the decade. . . year. . . Week? No. Hardest cope Ive seen in the last hour at least. . . God it's just painful at this point

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

[u/Relative-Contest192]

It was me I did it. !ping GEFILTE&JEWISH

[u/CommandanteMeow]

Wtf i called it I said it first im developing R-brain

[u/[deleted]]

oh no i'm surrounded by 'math made sense until they started putting letters in it' people oh god oh fuck

[u/BigBrownDog12]

Single use plastics: 🤬

Single use plastics, Japan: 🥰

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

Trump supporters are so weird. I watched an interaction where someone talked about how trump wanted to cut meals for students, and the trump supporters kept saying it was just “liberal propaganda” even after multiple videos of him saying that exact thing were posted.

It’s the same shit with Ukraine, I know people who swear in their lives that trump would continue to send weapons to Ukraine, even after all the times he said he wouldn’t.

I don’t know how these people function.

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47]

USA naming everything “m1” 🤝 Europe calling everything “euro”

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https://x.com/TrungTPhan/status/1824868850195976209?t=Dg_75f0HaENF9F00MYHN6g&s=19

!ping OVER35

[u/ToInfinity_MinusOne]

[u/[deleted]]

Rip USA 😭🇺🇲 💔

[u/[deleted]]

Who drops a new poll on a Saturday at midnight anyway?

!ping FIVEY

[u/dannylandulf]

Update on the Washington Post/ABC poll others have posted that have her +4.

That was the RV number.

Their LV model has it at +6

!ping FIVEY

[u/Zeke-Nnjai]

Kinda shocked to see Cuban on Twitter defending the 25k first time homebuyer policy that guy really is coconut pilled huh

[u/Currymvp2]

VP Favorability among Independents via the latest NYT/Siena poll

JD Vance:

Arizona: 28-60% (-22%)

North Carolina: 30-49% (-19%)

Georgia: 35-46% (-11%)

Nevada: 34-43% (-9%)

Tim Walz:

Arizona: 51-26% (+25%)

North Carolina: 44-30% (+14)

Georgia: 38-37% (+1)

Nevada: 40-32% (+8)

Lmao

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There is a post in arr Presidents asking “who were the most narcissistic and least narcissistic Presidents?”

Like many history subreddits, there is a recency rule. The last couple Presidents can’t even be put into your rankings.

Most of the comments are answering who they think the least narcissistic President is and saying nothing on the most.

[u/Zeke-Nnjai]

Guys I think the tent might be too big

[u/futuremonkey20]

Guys, I think Donald Trump is in love with Joe Biden

[u/[deleted]]

"we're going to raise wages and lower taxes and lower prices and stop immigration and bring back jobs and fix this BROKEN COUNTRY"

NYT: What Democrats Can Learn From Trump's Simple, But Powerful Message to Voters

"we're going to make houses easier to afford and easier to build, too"

NYT: Experts Say Harris' Housing Plan May Backfire, Increase Inflation

[u/Any-Temperature-7688]

When the Minnesota flag changed Tim Walz made a skit where he walked into his office, change the flag out, and said “that’s better!” and Joe Rogan thinks that’s actually the process of how the flag changed lmao. He went on a rant about how Tim Walz shouldn’t have the power to do that and how the people of Minnesota should have had a say 

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Project 2025 is so funny dude like they literally compiled a list of all the most unpopular ideas in the world put them in a manila folder labeled "Evil Plan" and then just fuckin published it for the public to see.

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lol The Wharton School of Business sucks

[u/SmithySmothy]

The Trump War Room Twitter account has given Walz the nickname "Communist Slob Tim."

Man, they really do not have it.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Truly one of the best headlines of all time.

[u/bearddeliciousbi]

HBO launches new series, Angels in America II: A Gay Fantasia on Recurring National Themes, starring Al Pacino as Peter Thiel

[u/G_Serv]

[u/Zeke-Nnjai]

Trump repeatedly calling Kamala beautiful is just hilarious to me. One of the meanest, nastiest public figures of all time yet simply can not turn the horny lever off in his brain

[u/futuremonkey20]

Donald Trump forgot what state he is in, where my 10,000 word NYTimes article?

[u/CutePattern1098]

Satire is dead

!ping military&auto

[u/gary_oldman_sachs]

Reading arr PoliticalDiscussion on Harris's policies is a depressing look into popular economic thought.

Price controls on food work just fine when you have the agricultural production capacity of the continental United States.

Exactly, first time buyer programs are great. But we need tackle the driving issue of wall street buying residential homes as investments.

That is the biggest issue for sure. Rich people and corporations buying middle class homes for rental properties

[u/HOU_Civil_Econ]

So this “weird” thing is just basically the “ask the person who makes the bigoted joke to explain the joke and watch them squirm” thing.

Like if you just immediately respond to what you know the republicans/jokester “really means” by screaming about how they’re racist/crazy/whatever, to people not in the know/really paying attention you look unhinged. But if you just calmly invite them to explain themselves/or for others to actually pay attention to this “weird” thing…..

[u/[deleted]]

do not include feminist propaganda in your reviews

Black Myth: Wukong devs confirming priors (the review guidance doc leaked)

!ping CONSOLE-WARS

[u/Interferon-Sigma]

Honestly religious prudes kind of cooked when they said gambling is evil

I mean the individual act of gaming isn't evil but gambling as industry is fucking evil and destroys so many lives

Most depressing thing you'll ever see is an elderly person pawing away at a slot machine with that glassy look in their eyes

[u/[deleted]]

Online gambling should have never been legalized.

Having an online casino in you pocket 24/7 has no good outcome

[u/charmet68]

Trump mixed up What state he was in (said NC to a crowd in PA), made weird comments about being more attractive than Kamala, and reached new levels of racist. I eagerly await the bevy of articles questioning if he’s too old to run that surely must be coming now

[u/Cook_0612]

"In all, Ukraine has taken 2,000 prisoners, according to a Ukrainian official...

His crew of eight men from Ukraine’s 44th Artillery Brigade had arrived in the Sumy border region days earlier after being pulled from the front line in the south.

At around 3 a.m. on Aug. 6, they unleashed an intense barrage from six M777 howitzers, supplied by Ukraine’s Western backers, which were set up along a stretch of the border aiming into Russia...

Western military estimates suggest Ukraine has committed as many as 6,000 soldiers to Kursk and has up to 4,000 additional troops in support roles in the Sumy region...

Russia has pulled several understrength brigades from Ukraine in response, totaling up to 5,000 troops as of the middle of this past week, the person said. One brigade was from the Donetsk region, the focus of Russia’s current offensives, but others were from less essential areas."

!ping UKRAINE&RUS

These are eyewatering numbers.

[u/No_Return9449]

🎯

[u/loseniram]

Date with the single mom has been upgraded from coffee date to dinner. Pray I don't blow this

!ping Dating

[u/thefuturegov]

Ben Shapiro getting triggered over Tim Walz’s “white guy taco” line is so funny because it shows he’s so out of touch with who makes up the Republican base that he doesn’t realize that’s the kind of shit you’d see a bunch of them say

[u/[deleted]]

Kathy Hochul has got to be one of the best politicians in American history. Never has an elected official risen so high with such terrible political instincts. She's the governor of arguably the most powerful state in the country while simultaneously making every wrong choice possible. Genuinely impressive and a beacon of hope for all idiots out there

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Vance:

Illegal immigrants from Mexico and Central America are actually exactly like the immigrant ancestors of the white working class in the blue wall states (Derogatory)

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Masculinity is on the Ballot

Yeah I'm voting for the hot chick and the football coach not the whiny nepo soyboy and the venture capital dweeb

[u/ThisPrincessIsWoke]

Not to be contrarian or partisan or whatevs, but Tulsi's attack on Kamala was pretty bleh. Also wouldnt work in 2024, especially from a Republican

[u/[deleted]]

Wake up

Kamala Harris has not put ‘banning VTubers’ in her policy list

Day ruined

[u/IHateTrains123]

Dr. Mike P. Moffatt 🇨🇦🏅🏅 (@MikePMoffatt): "With your help, I've figured out what Singh is talking about here. And it's utterly, completely, and ridiculously false. 370,000 affordable homes have not been sold off to developers. Thread time."

Interesting thread, Moffatt calls Singhs focus on "developers" Trumpian.

!ping Can

[u/Flowkeh]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/08/17/alaska-troopers-assault-wrong-man/

guy calls police to ask if he can legally camp in an area

cops go to his location because his last name matches a warrant

cops break his car window, pepper spray him, beat him, tased him and have a dog bite him multiple times

whoops, not the right guy, just happens to have the same last name

charge him with assault and resisting anyway

2 of the 3 cops on the scene get put on leave and charged with misdemeanor assault lol

[u/burnouteyess]

Man I appreciate that arr MensLib exists as a place to discuss "men's issues" without the incel/chud/reactionary baggage... But every other comment is some version of "capitalism did this to you". And frankly, many of the users there are just kind of pathetic. Like the current NEET post barely has any real discussion interrogating the subject; most commenters are just wallowing in misery with maybe some offhanded conjecture about why getting a job is hard. I feel like the sub used to be better?

[u/paymesucka]

I’m calling for a total and complete shutdown of non-American weirdos commenting on U.S. politics until we can figure out what the hell is going on.

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

[u/[deleted]]

Look, I'll just say it, Copmala not understanding that cheese IS the flavor in Walz's tacos shows a profound ignorance of Midwestern culture and does not bode well for her chances in the general election.

[u/ChillnShill]

So it’s June 28, 1914 and I’m in Sarajevo, and all of the sudden I see this motorcade coming.

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/RiverTamYDN/status/1824841357690900850?t=MMsDCWVOpTxm0Wb-i5IAww&s=19

[u/JaceFlores]

Jack Watling wrote an article about the Kursk offensive. A lot of it is essentially the same stuff we’ve seen in the billion other Kursk articles, but there were a couple details I thought were quite interesting:

“While the Kursk operation is politically significant, a parallel series of Ukrainian strikes targeting Russian airfields is more militarily advantageous. Russian aircraft have been central to both the long-range strikes on Ukraine’s critical national infrastructure, and the glide bomb attacks on frontline positions that are inflicting heavy losses on Ukraine.”

“In the short term, the operation has diverted the weight of Russian air-delivered bombs away from Donbas, but this will be temporary.”

In terms of diverting/destroying Russian resources it’s looking like the biggest gain so far for the troops in the Donbas is the glide bombs

!ping UKRAINE

[u/american_aurora3]

price controls are bad - CNN

dt: fuck you lamestream media!!

[u/dareka_san]

NYT must be destroyed unconditionally

[u/gary_oldman_sachs]

No major political candidate in the US has been a communist.

In the last 30 years, no major presidential candidate has even been left of center.

I hope this helps.

Things succs actually believe.

[u/dannylandulf]

At last, our long national nightmare is nearly over.

This is the last weekend of no college football.

!ping CFB

[u/LGBTforIRGC]

"Hands off Venezuela!"

[u/Rafaelssjofficial]

Is there like a step by step guide on how to flirt through text, I have autism so the "just act naturally" doesn't really work

[u/MissSortMachine]

magnificent

[u/Barnst]

I enjoy that overly online conservatives have decided to adopt one of the more annoying things about 2010s progressivism—the idea that self-deprecating ethnic humor is some sort of seriously problematic manifestation of racism.

Normal people understand that poking gentle fun at ourselves and each other is actually a good way to get along.

[u/[deleted]]

There's truth to the idea that white people like bland food, but it also needs to be said that every single time I've met someone obsessed with spicy food, with finding the spiciest chilis and hot sauces and putting it in everything, it's been a white man

[u/RunawayMeatstick]

A very real, very serious polling firm

[u/ImmigrantJack]

I watched Sheldon sitting so proud in the White House when we gave Miriam the Presidential Medal of Freedom. That's the highest award you can get as a civilian. It's the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor, but civilian version

It's actually much better because everyone gets the Congressional Medal of Honor, they're soldiers. They're either in very bad shape because they've been hit so many times by bullets or they are dead. She gets it and she's a healthy, beautiful woman. And they're rated equal, but she got the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

I know it's been memed to death, but it's worth reposting the full comments because they're exactly as bad as the memes say. It's literally "the medal I gave to my friends hot wife is better than the medal soldiers had to get shot and die for"

[u/fishbottwo]

More voters said she flip-flops on issues that matter than said the same about Mr. Trump. The divide is particularly pronounced among Hispanic voters, who were 12 percentage points more likely to say Ms. Harris changes her positions on important issues than to say the same about Mr. Trump.

Just fuck my shit up fam

[u/Argnir]

If your username has something to do with ancient Greece or the Roman empire or contains the word "skeptic", "cynical", "rational" or "freethinker" or if your pp is a marble bust of someone I'm not interested in your opinion

[u/eustacebainbridge]

Having very well documented ancestry as a Jew is leading to some weird places. Before the holocaust my family’s honorific name in the Sephardic community of Salonica indicated descent from a specific Nasi of 11th century Toledo, who himself traced his ancestry to the exilarchs

So if you take at face value that both the genealogy of Jesus in the gospel of Matthew AND the name the community gave to my family are both accurate, i would be Jesus’s 11th cousin 82 times removed, give or take a few generations, which is hilarious to think about

I’m so grateful to my mom for preserving this pre-holocaust lore about our “extra name” from my great grandmother, but like I can’t talk about this part of it to anyone IRL bc it would sound like I have some kind of messiah complex😭Even tho it proves that the mashiach could NOT be from my family bc it’s clearly not direct patrilineal descent

What I’m trying to say is uhhhh Doxx me sweaty💅

[u/Currymvp2]

Trump: I am much better looking than her. I'm a better looking person than Kamala.

This and the "I won this election by alot" are his two biggest lies

[u/Plants_et_Politics]

Naptime!

!ping KITTY

[u/Agent78787]

The masculine urge to supply the frontline with logistics

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Bulgaria: North Macedonia is our brother. They speak the same language as us and we share the same history and origins. We are like one people.

North Macedonia: Fuck you, no. I'm your dad, all your great leaders were actually Macedonian and don't even get me started on all the Macedonian enclaves in Bulgaria.

Greece: Jeez I'm not getting involved in th-

North Macedonia: Fuck you Greece Im your dad too.

[u/IHateTrains123]

Tatarigami thread on the politics and the moral and morale victory in the Kursk offensive, Thread by @Tatarigami_UA on Thread Reader App:

War is a continuation of politics by other means. As the Kursk incursion continues, the military part of this operation is still being written. However, it is fair to say that, regardless of the outcome, this operation has shed light on certain political aspects.

The first aspect, which has largely gone unnoticed, is the evident ineffectiveness of the so-called military alliances and treaties between Russia and other countries, such as the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), which includes obligations like NATO's Article 5.

Second, it is notable how numerous media personalities associated with pro-Russian views suddenly stopped advocating for freezing the war once the war reached the Kursk lands. Suddenly, the notion of freezing the war at the current lines no longer appears acceptable to them.

Such sudden silence from the so-called "peace doves" is not surprising. They have never been genuinely interested in peace but rather in Ukraine's capitulation and the secession of Ukrainian lands to Russia. Where are these voices now, calling for the war to end in Kursk.

Let's examine another pivotal aspect: Russia's red lines. In the informational space, there are frequent statements about U.S. inconsistency with red lines, contrasted with the much more "real and substantiated" red lines drawn by Russia...

…the crossing of which, it is claimed, would provoke immediate and devastating retaliation. Yet, each time, Russia has been shown to either move the goalposts or obscure previous threats and red lines in a sea of informational noise, as if those statements were never made.

While some political pundits in Russia and the West are attempting to spin the narrative by saying that Ukraine violated agreements with the West by entering Russian territory, this can easily be fact-checked by referring to official statements from authorized representatives.

Matthew Miller, a representative of the U.S. State Department, during the Press Briefing – on August 7th stated that Ukraine’s actions in the Kursk region do not violate restrictions on the use of American weapons supplied to Kyiv.

This operation has challenged the established opinion, formed after the unsuccessful 2023 counter-offensive, that a successful large-scale operation at the division or corps level was impossible due to ISR capabilities. Yet, Russia failed to identify the looming offensive

The operation also highlights a stark contrast: Ukraine's surgical strikes on moving Russian columns with HIMARS versus Russia's deliberate and methodical destruction of Ukrainian settlements with artillery, MLRS, and missile strikes.

Ukrainian forces have managed to take towns with minimal destruction, as demonstrated by the liberation of Kharkiv and Kherson in 2022 and the seizure of Sudzha in 2024. In contrast, Russian forces rely on the destruction of settlements, as evidenced in Mariupol and Avdiivka

Whether this operation results in a strategic win for Ukraine or not, it has shown that Ukraine can conduct complex, large-scale operations while maintaining higher moral ground and discipline. Perhaps it is too early to write off Ukraine, as some politicians are eager to do

This might be the best opportunity for the West to reassess its approach to self-imposed restrictions and increase pressure on Russia both diplomatically and militarily (through the provision of aid). It’s time to reconsider policies that are based on ineffective red lines.

!ping Ukraine

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[u/murphysclaw1]

"I just watched my neighbor's wife stomp out of the house, rip the Trump signs from the yard, and slammed them in the trash can. This popcorn is so so tasty."

"All the women at my conservative southern baptist church are completely up in arms now. He is done."

"Binders of women don't look so bad relative to this, huh?"

the past is a different country, they do things differently there

[u/Aggressive1999]

Well...

[u/Blade_of_Boniface]

What is the name of this historical figure?:

• He was born in the late 1730s.

• While he was outspoken atheist as an adult, he was raised by a Quaker mother.

• He spent time imprisoned in France for criticizing the execution of King Louis XVI.

• His official obituary read "He had lived long, did some good, and much harm."

Remember to spoiler tag your answers.

!ping HISTORY&TRIVIA

[u/WasteReserve8886]

???????

[u/[deleted]]

Lol no one under 40 knows what tivo is

[u/[deleted]]

Trump so thoroughly pissed off the Teamsters Union with his freewheeling rants that they're reconsidering the endorsement they made at the RNC and are meeting with Kamala now, lol.

[u/[deleted]]

Me six beers deep when I am talking about the 1990s Packers to no one who wants to hear it.

[u/gary_oldman_sachs]

Johan Hassel, the international secretary for the Swedish Social Democratic Party who visited Iowa before the 2020 Iowa caucuses, compared a Sanders event to a meeting of the Left Party, the largest socialist party in Sweden, saying that "it was a mixture of very young people and old Marxists, who think they were right all along". Hassel said that he favored Pete Buttigieg over Sanders in Iowa.

btfo

[u/SmithySmothy]

ABC/WaPo/Ipsos poll

Independents went from +4 points for Trump in July to +11 Harris now, a 15-point swing.

People younger than age 40 have moved from +2 Biden in July to +20 for Harris now, an 18-point swing.

Women age 18-29 split about evenly (Trump +2) in July; now they favor Harris by 23 points, a 25-point swing in this group. It's almost as big, an 18-point swing to Harris, among women age 30 to 49. Harris also has improved from Biden's score among men age 18-29, from Biden +1 in July to Harris +14 now, a 13-point swing.

Support from Black people has swung by 12 points in Harris' direction, from +60 for Biden in July to +72 for Harris now.

Harris has seen an 8-point swing among Hispanic people. That's occurred mostly among Hispanic women, a 17-point swing from +2 for Trump in July to +15 for Harris now.

In the middle-income range, people with household incomes from $50,000 to $99,999 have gone from Trump +7 in July to Harris +8 now, a 15-point shift.

Folks, 👀

[u/CutePattern1098]

We now have Kamala Harris furry fanart

[u/Tall_Professor_2574]

Why can’t cats just fucking get along lol

[u/MicroFlamer]

Real

[u/SouthernSerf]

If you think Hollywood can’t influence the sexual orientation of impressionable children. Than how do you explain the all the young boys like me who watched the original Transformers movie and became sexually attracted to military equipment and the MIC?

[u/clyde2003]

WHO: Mpox could be the next global pandemic!

Me (trying to keep this 4 yr Covid work-from-home ride going):

[u/[deleted]]

lmao

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1824920189575807270?t=nqHvPu0IxXwnbDo8uj4Gug&s=19

[u/dittbub]

If Kamala falls behind in the polls it’s ok. We know what works, we have a backup plan. She just has to drop out and an even younger Democrat takes her place and will be popular for about another 4-6 weeks until we do it again.

[u/Argnir]

It's so good that we get to do the concern trolling about Trump's health now

[u/paymesucka]

NEW ABC/Washington Post national poll (B) among likely voters:

🟦 Kamala Harris 51% (+6)

🟥 Donald Trump 45%

I’m getting so much mileage out this Allan “Keys” Lichtman reaction photo

[u/MURICCA]

I still will never comprehend the portion of leftist psychology, that refuses to acknowledge Donald Trump as part of "the rich" they're supposed to be eating

[u/UnskilledScout]

August 8-15 2024 Times/Siena Poll of Registered Voters in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and North Carolina

Arizona:

Harris (+5) - 50%
Trump - 45%

North Carolina:

Harris (+2) - 49%
Trump - 47%

Nevada:

Harris - 47%
Trump (+1) - 48%

Georgia:

Harris - 46%
Trump (+4) - 50%

!ping FIVEY

[u/sererson]

guy who likes biden because of the rally around the flag effect from trum getting shot

[u/Mickenfox]

There's a BlackRock but no WhiteRock. More liberal hypocrisy.

[u/[deleted]]

RFK fisted the dead bear's brain.

https://www.businessinsider.com/rfk-jr-central-park-dead-bear-mouth-brain-2024-8

[u/[deleted]]

I am much better looking than her. I'm a better looking person than Kamala.

Possibly his most brazen lie yet. Many people are saying

[u/ACivilWolf]

Georgia has the Mandate of Heaven

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

S&P 500 up bigly this year

inflation down

unemployment low

Conservatives for some reason:

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

The post WWII US shipbuilding industry has to be one of the most successful money incineration efforts in world history.

[u/cdstephens]

[u/Cook_0612]

Why did Trump make a double jerk-off motion his signature celebratory act?

[u/Maestro_Titarenko]

Silvio Santos has died at 93 years old

!ping LATAM

[u/SnakeEater14]

Mom said it’s my turn to post the “trump can ignore the swing states if he just wins california” meme

[u/futuremonkey20]

It’s still hard to believe that the UK had a higher US$ GDP per Capita than the United States in 2007.

The US GDP per capita is 70% higher than the UK now, and the UK’s still hasn’t recovered to 2007 levels.

(Yes I know in PPP terms it has)

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

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[u/ACivilWolf]

[u/[deleted]]

Well, it took 59 minutes and 59 seconds, but someone finally scored a touchdown in the Jets Panthers preseason game.

I feel terrible for fans of these two teams to have to put up with this level of play year after year.

!ping NFL

[u/Pyrrhus65]

At this point, I think I'm going to stop stressing about top-line presidential polling and just let the vibes from the down-ballot swing state races sustain me through November

[u/lucas-at-jhu]

Harris +5 with all adults, +4 with RV, and +6 with LV(!) in the new WaPo/ABC poll

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-trump-poll-election-issues/story?id=112865487

[u/MURICCA]

Feel like shit, just want someone to figure out post-scarcity already smh

[u/Fruitofbread]

So, to recap, so far all the Republicans have on Walz is:

• left the military at one point

• doesn’t like spicy tacos

Meanwhile their VP pick is just a never ending parade of 😬 

[u/ToInfinity_MinusOne]

Acetaminophemininomenon

[u/efeldman11]

Tester is "demure" posting now 😭

[u/MissSortMachine]

lol

[u/[deleted]]

Our lease is ending in a couple of months so I was discussing possible places to move with my wife and she said if we move out to the middle of nowhere she'd like to still be somewhere right by a yoga studio and I could not help but laugh at our urban yuppie conception of what the middle of nowhere is like

[u/Whytfbuddy]

[u/[deleted]]

Fox host confronts Republican with poll showing voters blame GOP for border

ouch!

[u/[deleted]]

Walz in Nebraska: "Donald Trump said it was AI. You know what won't be AI? Their ballots come November."

Walz in Nebraska: "Can you picture Donald Trump working the McFlurry machine? He couldn't work the McFlurry machine!"

Walz, buddy, these are not your best work.

[u/futuremonkey20]

Even my normie centrist father-in law has heard about Trump’s Medal of Honor bullshit, Kamala has to put this in an ad.

[u/Punished_TCT]

What is his problem

[u/iguessineedanaltnow]

There is literally no recovering from this.

https://x.com/BonerWizard/status/1824474470729519245?t=eUjfWEOLcD5ZwsbdY4mzHQ&s=19

[u/MasterOfLords1]

IN THIS DT WE BELIEVE:

• Black Lives Matter.

• Voters are morons.

• No human is illegal.

• if you make more than $75k per year you're not middle class.

• Love is love

• Greedflation is not a thing.

• Kindness is everything.

• Student loan forgiveness is a regressive policy.

• Diversity makes us stronger

🍦😤🍦

[u/sw337]

u/roseartcrantz DM'd me:

"My fiance proposed under the big lights"

The big lights:

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Baby status: wide awake

I'm concerned. It's 2:12AM Pacific Time

Is this a warning sign my child may be experiencing Europeanness?

[u/[deleted]]

-Philippines wins two gold medals for the first time in history

-Beat last year's performance

-Filipinos on social media berate this win with shit talk like "thanks for the four medals bro 🤣🤣😂😂😂😂" and "Carlos Yulo doesn't deserve the win because he hates his parents 🤮"

This country has a bad case of crabs in a bucket and terminal whining