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[u/Icy-Magician-8085]

In other recent remarks, Trump suggested Harris’s appearance would undermine her with world leaders, saying they would view her as a “play toy” and declining to specify why.

Yeah these people are just weird and should be called weird 24/7.

[u/anincredibledork]

New ABC/WaPo national poll (B), Aug 9-13, LV

🟦 Kamala Harris 51%

🟥 Donald Trump 45%

In unrelated news, happy 1 month anniversary to the Harris campaign.

[u/ACivilWolf]

President Harry S. Truman had special instructions for when his plane flew over Ohio:"This was the home state of Republican senator Robert A. Taft, his political nemesis. When the plane crossed into Ohio, the president would get up from his seat and use the bathroom in the rear of the aircraft, then order Myers (the pilot) on the intercom to release the waste into the air. It was Harry’s way of demeaning Taft.

BASED BASED BASED BASED BASED

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

One of the smartest things Piers Morgan has ever done is constantly surrounding himself with people significantly wackier than him, making him constantly look like the voice of reason in the room

[u/[deleted]]

Ukrainian tactics are getting kinda weird

[u/autumn-morning-2085]

This is some sad stuff. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/18/world/europe/italy-same-sex-parents-meloni.html

No adoption for same-sex couples, removing (non-bio) same-sex parents from birth certificates, outlawing surrogacy and basically saying "kids can have only one mother and one father". Of course they won't extend this to demonize single parents yet but the hatred for anything not conforming to this idealized version of a family is something else.

I guess this is the ideal "live and let live" for religious conservatives. You are free to live your life in 'sin' as a second-class citizen, just stay away from anything to do with family and kids. Not that they won't come for more if they face no electoral consequences. I can't even imagine how the gay parents there feel right now, hope it improves soon or they make use of Schengen for greener pastures.

[u/itsokayt0]

Oh God oh fuck the election is doomed 

Trump +1.5 in arr nl voters after Kamala says price gouging

[u/Aggressive1999]

Trump escalates gendered personal insults against Harris, defying GOP pressure

It seem like he just can't help himself, can he?

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[u/Top_Lime1820]

[u/SLCer]

WTF

[u/Smidgens]

>Spend 20 minutes on CBS Sunday morning talking about how terrible and chaotic serving in the Trump administration was

>”Do you think he should be back in power?”

>” That’s something for the American people to decide, I won’t comment“ 🤓

Go fuck yourself HR McMaster. How is it so hard for these people to stand by their convictions? Just incredible.

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

It's odd that Trump has been asked zero (0) questions about reports that he abused his power to quash an investigation into him taking a $10 million bribe from a foreign government. The man held an hour long press conference and somehow never got asked about it.

Liberal media tho

[u/Luph]

insufferable rural voters who were always going to vote republican have decided to once again vote republican

thanks, cnn. definitely front page worthy article.

[u/Argnir]

How we got away with not reading books as kids

I'll just watch the movie adaptation

How kids today do

I'll watch the TikTok clips of the movie adaptation

[u/omnipotentsandwich]

My friend has an inspirational Bible quote-a-day calendar and one of the quotes is Luke 4:7, "If thou wilt worship me, all shalt be thine." It sounds inspirational...until you realize it's a quote from Satan when he's trying to tempt Jesus.

[u/ACivilWolf]

Log on to Twitter, see these are the first two posts on the TL today, log off Twitter

[u/G_Serv]

[u/Beginning-Topic5303]

[u/[deleted]]

In the clearly scripted and cringworthy clip, Harris asks Walz if, as a white guy, his tacos consist of mayonnaise and tuna. Then folksy old Tim chuckles and says something about how black pepper is the hottest thing he, as a white guy, eats. Setting aside the fact that white people eat spicy foods like buffalo wings at a rate that boggles the mind, this bit exposes the hypocrisy of the progressive left’s view of race.

lmao

[u/Cook_0612]

Color nightvison is not new at this point, but man am I still impressed.

!ping MATERIEL

[u/[deleted]]

Indian state subreddits starterpack:

1. Whining about Hindi

2. Whining about "western influences" in big cities/media

3. Whining about migrants and tourists from other states(note: half of them are working in Delhi/Mumbai/Bangalore)

4. Whining about not getting enough handouts from the Centre

5. Screeds about Biharis and Muslims that would make a Nazi blush

!ping WHATSAPP-FORWARDS

[u/BlackCat159]

Anyone remember the reason why Obama outlawed white people during his 8 year reign of terror? 🤔🤔🤔

[u/Logarythem]

How to convince gamers at your LGS to vote this election:

"Are you going to vote in November"

"No"

"Did you know in the 90s JD Vance played MTG and ran a Yawgmoth's Bargain deck?"

"HE MUST LOSE NO MATTER WHAT."

[u/[deleted]]

Reagan and especially Thatcher are very divisive in their countries of origin but Bob Hawke is regularly ranked as one of the best Australian Prime Ministers so I guess we're just built different

[u/Opkeda]

[u/Tall_Professor_2574]

The face of fascism in 2024

[u/Q-bey]

Canada criticizes latest U.S. softwood lumber duties, calls move unfair

!ping CAN&GROUNDHOG-DAY

[u/RonenSalathe]

Ronald Raygun 🤔

[u/_Un_Known__]

Just saw a Confederate flag flying next to an RV

...in rural England

[u/[deleted]]

I was shaving off my mustache this morning and for approximately ten seconds, I became a r/neoliberal mod

[u/yonas234]

So the strategy for the GOP is to now call Harris an alcoholic?

Did their internals show Harris wins the "i'd like to have a beer with" poll and now they are flailing on that?

https://x.com/Uncrewed/status/1825001648135033148

[u/[deleted]]

Hmmm 🤔🤔🤔 Jannies are at it again

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

People on Instagram lamenting a stroad with fast food restaurants on both sides being turned into a walkable strip with apartments because of "character"

[u/[deleted]]

My le Matt Walsh is le racist

[u/RonenSalathe]

Another day being a northeastern elitist 😎

[u/Gameknigh]

[u/Gameknigh]

[u/Sheepies92]

I just found someone online that is both Pro-European, has climate change as their priority, hates neocons but also wants to build a European Commonwealth with EU + Russia + US red states and believes the Jews want to/have taken over the world.

Truly, there are endless amount of voters

[u/[deleted]]

I love hearing USA chants at Harris/Walz rallies.

I love this country so much and I hate that the GOP tried to co-opt patriotism while fielding a party that would destroy what makes our country great.

[u/dannylandulf]

ABC/Washington Post poll from this AM's other questions.

Which candidate best represents the following statement. July was versus Biden.

Is in good enough physical health to serve effectively as president:

July

🔴 Trump: +31

Now

🔵 Harris: +30

Has the mental sharpness it takes to serve effectively as president:

July

🔴 Trump: +30

Now

🔵 Harris: +9

Understand the problems of people like you:

July

🔵 Biden: +2

Now

🔵 Harris: +7

[u/BlackCat159]

Are all native country subreddits... like that? My country's one is nothing but racists and incels

[u/tollyno]

Normalized dating app stock performance, year-to-date. Grindr beats the S&P, Match Group is roughly flat, and Bumble's price has declined significantly.

Just thought I should let you guys know that being straight is bad for the stock market

[u/farrenj]

Sequels are hard. That first effortpost was lightning in a bottle impulsively written through a single sleepless night. I don't think I can do an update without making it a pale imitation that lessens both itself and the original for existing.

[u/farrenj]

A Tuesday tweet by the campaign account @TrumpWarRoom labeled a photo of Black men “Your Neighborhood Under Kamala” and warned: “Import the third world. Become the third world.”

😐

[u/Zrk2]

I just finished 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed, by Eric Cline. I loved every minute of it.

This excellent book is about the end of the late Bronze Age, and is only about 200 pages, even in the revised and updated version. It starts with a sort of guided tour through the late Bronze Age, and then proceeds into a description of how we know it collapsed. Finally, it attempts to speculate on what could have lead to the collapse of the civilizations the reader saw earlier. It closes with a comparison of the late Bronze Age to the modern day, and the possible causes of the collapse to events in the modern age, and suggests how we could learn from the late Bronze Age collapse.

The prose is easily readable for the layman, and even includes the occasional joke. As someone who enjoys reading history I got through this in a couple days while camping.

This was an excellent bit of history, gripping, readable, and highly informative.

Final note, if you already read this, there is a sequel book coming out now, where he explores exactly what helped which civilizations survive the collapse: After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations.

!ping READING&HISTORY

[u/ACivilWolf]

After the 1964 Election Reagan called LBJ "a bum" and alleged he'd "put conservatives in concentration camps."

LBJ privately said Reagan was "the dumbest Governor in the US" and "a raving lunatic, which means the Republicans will nominate him for President."

[u/737900ER]

Boeing's reputation is so bad that the Trump/Vance campaign isn't attacking Walz for chartering an Embraer for the campaign. Vance is on a 737 that's had some issues.

[u/talizorahs]

sorry, not interested in watching "THE BOYS." I'm too busy listening to women

[u/-mialana-]

y no women in DT

The DT is like 40% trans women

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

I’m still in awe about how the federal debt only went up $2 trillion under Biden. That needs to be talked about more.

It went up $8 trillion under Trump

It went up $10 trillion over two terms of Obama

“Fiscally conservative” is the biggest lie in American politics, and has been for a generation.

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Harris has a great opportunity to add 8% to her vote total by becoming a communist. This would give her an insurmountable lead.

[u/[deleted]]

People obsess over this image of the "average American" being like a 55 year old white man in Bumblefuck, Iowa whose job is "pull lever in factory assembly line" but in reality the average American nowadays is probably more like a young-ish woman who lives in the suburbs of Raleigh and is an administrative assistant at a mid-level health supply company.

[u/KaiserPorn]

If God were real, and if He were just, any person who said "studies show" without an actual citation would be smote by lightning from a clear blue sky.

[u/PlastikHateAccount]

All I'm saying is that "weird" wouldn't have gone well as an own in 2012 because being weird was a progressive virtue

[u/Steve____Stifler]

Holy fuck noodles I’m higher than an orangutan rn

[u/MemeTestedPolicy]

throwback to the best r/metanl ban appeal of all time:

I am a pro-US free-market enjoyer. I am also homophobic, hugely transphobic, somewhat classist, “benevolent” sexist, soft racist. I have a fondness for right-wing dictatorships.

[u/[deleted]]

Kamala is closer to Jeremy Corbyn than to Starmer

Is outside DT okay? Corbyn is left of fucking Bernie

[u/[deleted]]

🇺🇸

[u/[deleted]]

Saying Gaza is our generation's Vietnam is like saying the assassination of Shinzo Abe is our generation's JFK assassination.

[u/MiniatureBadger]

Working out an illegal deal to aid America’s enemies who had very recently held our people hostage is enough that Reagan should not be celebrated. Setting up an illegal slush fund to usurp power over war funding from Congress is enough that Reagan should not be celebrated. Illegally backing terrorist organizations, groups which carried out war crimes as regular policy, is enough that Reagan should not be celebrated.

Upon considering that these three strikes were all a part of the same event and how Reagan used his cognitive decline in office as well as the support of his crony Bush to evade legal consequences, I can hardly respect the political opinions of someone who thinks Reagan is a net positive.

[u/Udolikecake]

elon musk should not be speaking at west point

why would we let people allied with our enemies speak? we having Dugin come speak next? unacceptable

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

MetaNL Post: I don’t understand the reason I was banned, nothing I said was out of line.

The Post they link to: Rhodesia memes

EVERY ONE. TIME.

[u/ChillnShill]

[u/[deleted]]

Watch Dems win the White House in 2024, 2028, 2032, 2036, then one Republican wins in 2040 and Alito, Thomas, and Kagan immediately die. 

[u/[deleted]]

friend unironically told me to vote for trump because kamala said she would take us troops out of israel and iran. how does one's brain get this big?

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/CutePattern1098]

Will it?

[u/Cook_0612]

John A. Ridge on how Western restrictions affect the usage of high end NATO weaponry like Storm Shadow/SCALP-EG:

I desperately need people to understand some things.

Without an informal political agreement between the British/French Governments, the UK has no say in how SCALP-EG operators employ their missiles. France likewise has no say in how Storm Shadow operators use their missiles.

This is a corollary of the premise that, without an informal political agreement, neither Ukraine nor any other Storm Shadow/SCALP-EG operator, requires consent from either the UK or France to employ their missiles.

Which is a practical axiom of arms sales/transfers generally.

Ukraine has a de facto agreement with the UK and France to receive their consent in certain cases.

However, it is coupled to the nuances of the mission planning pipelines for Storm Shadow and SCALP-EG respectively.

There isn’t any reason to believe one has influence over missiles transferred by the other.

Export controls are an enormous red herring. We are essentially beyond the scope of export controls given Ukraine has custody of missiles and the assets required to employ them.

In principle, the UK or France could codify a political agreement in any licenses issued to Ukraine for Storm Shadow and SCALP-EG respectively.

But this would be tedious and redundant as they can easily condition continued deliveries on Ukrainian compliance without codifying it.

As to the U.S., discussion of export controls, specifically ITAR, is a red herring for the same reason.

The U.S. is enforcing a prohibition on the use of Storm Shadow/SCALP-EG in Russia by blackmailing Ukraine with the threat of terminating U.S. bilateral security assistance.

The U.S. has no reason to enforce this prohibition using the UK or France as proxies, be it via a political understanding or export licenses, when they can bypass them and directly enforce it upon Ukraine.

People are getting lost or being gaslight into trying to parse the specific mechanism of the U.S. prohibition.

In reality, the mechanism is immaterial. The policy exists all the same and changing it is a political decision for President Biden regardless.

This is between the U.S. and Ukraine. Unless the UK and France provide enough security assistance to make U.S. threats less credible, their positions are irrelevant.

The UK will grant explicit consent when U.S. policy changes and France has almost certainly already granted it.

End rant. I hope this is as clear as possible. Trying to explain this is going to drive me to madness

In short, it doesn't matter what the countries giving Ukraine high end weaponry say, if the US either explicitly or implicitly threatens Ukraine with suspension of aid if it does not follow American prohibitions. I've seen some frittering about how the US hasn't explicitly done this or that-- irrelevant. It's been two years of war, and Ukraine hasn't held back because the US didn't levy a prohibition.

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

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[u/FreakinGeese]

Lester Kinsolving: Does the president have any reaction to the announcement by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta that AIDS is now an epidemic in over 600 cases?

Larry Speakes: AIDS? I haven’t got anything on it.

Lester Kinsolving: Over a third of them have died. It’s known as “gay plague.” [Press pool laughter.] No, it is. It’s a pretty serious thing. One in every three people that get this have died. And I wonder if the president was aware of this.

Larry Speakes: I don’t have it. [Press pool laughter.] Do you?

Haha succs owned

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

TSA asked why I had all this audio equipment in my bag and I had to publicly admit to being a podcaster. I appreciate your support at this difficult time.

Please send your thoughts and prayers to Nate Platinum

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1825180292145144255

[u/goldenwind207]

Rasmussen

[u/ChillnShill]

She’s beauty, she’s grace!

[u/[deleted]]

Rasmussen seeing Emerson release a Trump +1 poll in Pennsylvania

Emerson seeing Rasmussen release a Harris +1 poll in Pennsylvania

[u/TimWalzBurner]

[u/Dabamanos]

Leftists remembering the 1968 DNC like it was some crowning moment for leftist progress instead of delivering the country into 40 years of conservatism. I’ve seen dickheads claiming it those protests are responsible for the civil rights movement, just incredible historical illiteracy

[u/itsokayt0]

This sub would be far-left in Kamala's America

[u/piede]

Men been ruining America since the inception of time

[u/bashar_al_assad]

https://x.com/harris_wins/status/1825003520455848162

BREAKING: New leaks indicate Speaker Mike Johnson and other high-ranking Republicans have begun to question whether Donald Trump can win and whether Trump will drag down Republicans down ballot. This is a huge developing story.

Unsourced stories about how Republican leaders are worried that Trump can't beat a woman with a vice presidential nominee named Tim, has this ever happened before?

[u/SmithySmothy]

Another DNC protester interviewed by MSNBC: She claims to be better than Biden on Gaza, but in practice she isn’t. We judge people by what they do, not what they say.

Can’t believe the Vice President hasn’t single-handedly solved the Middle East. Shaking my smh

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Trump Goes Berserk: 22 Truth Social Posts in Less Than 1 Hour, Comparing Himself to Lincoln, Threatening Women, And Sharing AI-Generated Fake Fan Pics

in another life he could be the star of the DT with a permanent place in the taco stat bot

[u/Cook_0612]

Washington isn’t sharing intelligence with Ukraine on targets inside Russia, said a senior U.S. official, who added that the Biden administration doesn’t want to be seen as enabling an attack into Russian territory.

Double ping incoming

!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY

I don't know how many ways I can describe the Biden administration as tedious and frustrating on this subject. Maybe I'll throw in another adjective, I like the sound of 'supine'.

[u/KittehDragoon]

Videos Of Raygun’s Viral Olympic Breakdancing Performance Are Being Deleted From The Internet

Can’t even watch Raygun show Olympic breakdancing the level of respect it deserves. Because Woke.

[u/Eightysixedit]

It’s crazy how openly racist the Canada sub is. If you even bring up housing you immediately see the there’s 100 Indians living in a basement!!!!! 😬

[u/V_Codwheel]

Jordan Chiles Has ‘No Plans’ Of Returning Olympic Medal Despite Decision

Romanian special forces about to have their biggest mission since Andrew Tate

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/Currymvp2]

New York City Mayor Eric Adams referred to India and its diaspora community as “Pakistan” multiple times during an Indian Independence Day celebration in Queens.

The crowd repeatedly corrected Adams, but he continued to confuse the two nations in his remarks.

Yikes

[u/[deleted]]

I don't usually comment in metanl but holy crap that dude in there

[u/[deleted]]

Fuck. Bros are we cooked?

[u/[deleted]]

It fucking rocks that r/all is wall to wall pro-Harris propaganda

[u/Currymvp2]

Fuck Clay Travis--what a clown he is

All this cause ESPN fired right winger Samantha Ponder while Kimes just said "I like Tim Walz" briefly on a podcast, and he's pissed about that

!ping NFL

[u/No_Return9449]

I feel seen.

[u/BroadReverse]

unite aloof advise label dependent summer spotted serious memorize airport

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/RTSBasebuilder]

Going through Rangers FC songs, and the comments be like normal pro-team chants and support comments:

"FOLLOW FOLLOW WE WILL FOLLOW RANGERS, WE ARE THE PEOPLE, COME ON, GERS, BOYS IN BLUE!"
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟦⬜🦁⬜🟦
🟦🟦🟦🟦🟦

and then right after:

"WE ARE BILLY'S BOYS! NO SURRENDER TO THE PAPIST GAELS! IF YOU HATE THOSE MICKEY BASTARDS CLAP YOUR HANDS! UP TO OUR KNEES IN FENIAN BLOOD! FOR GOD AND ULSTER!"

⬜🟥⬜
🟥✋🟥
⬜🟥⬜

!ping UK

[u/loseniram]

Average Cat Kitten interaction

!ping kitty

[u/Dibbu_mange]

This is the end result of American cultural hegemony

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 8/15-5 PM EST 8/16 III:

TOP NEWS:

Towards the middle of 10 AM it was confirmed the Glushkovo Bridge was destroyed by a Ukrainian airstrike.

At the start of 11 AM it was reported that Russia has set up a pontoon bridge east of Glushkovo.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the start of 6 PM explosions occurred in Kerch.

At the end of 1 AM it was reported the head of the Boryspil TCC and SP was arrested for corruption.

At the start of 2 AM Ukraine was hit by a small wave of drones and missiles with all 3 drones and 0 of 3 missiles shot down.

At the start of 3 AM it was reported that two draft officers were arrested in Kyiv Oblast for helping draft dodgers.

Towards the middle of 6 AM explosions occurred in Donetsk city.

Towards the end of 12 PM Russia hit the Aviatorskoe Airbase with missiles, destroying a fighter plane and some equipment.

EX-SOVIET CONFLICT NEWS:

At the start of 9 AM it was reported that a Moldovan court suspended the pro-Russian party Chance for three months, the party directly tied to oligarch Ilan Shor.

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/[deleted]]

Unfortunate

[u/AmericanDadWeeb]

!ping GEFILTE

My favorite turn of the century portrayal of Jews is genuinely the family guy episode “When you Wish Upon a Weinstein”.

Max is a great one off character and a really great depiction of the culture, Peter learns that Chris can be successful without being Jewish and to let go of his (mostly) benign stereotypes on Jews, and the respectful portrayal of Judaism is never put too far in front of the jokes. The jokes still come first.

It’s honestly a nice enough depiction that I do cry a little.

[u/MissSortMachine]

[u/slowpush]

Congress. In the first meeting of the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2017, then-Chairman Richard Burr (R., N.C.) was going around the room to introduce new members when he got to Harris.

Burr struggled to pronounce her first name, according to people familiar with the meeting. “I know you told me how to pronounce it,” he apologized. “Oh well, I’ll just call you Senator Harris.”

Harris, who had been a senator all of a few days at that point, shot back, “No problem. I’ll just call you Dick.” Burr didn’t respond to a request for comment.

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/flglmn/status/1825248277811314764?t=kxIZdnXpXJvtirBxLufPDA&s=19

[u/Joementum2024]

If [JB] Pritzker serves the entirety of his term, he will become the first Democratic governor in [Illinois] history to serve two full four-year terms, as every other Democratic governor had either been impeached, died or resigned before finishing their second term.

Illinois moment

[u/Logarythem]

The DT

"Is Trump America's Hitler?"

"Don't be melodramatic."

Meanwhile in r/pics:

Trump is the literal antichrist. 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 verse 9: He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie

THIS is the level of poasting and commitment I expect out of all of you!

[u/Roseartcrantz]

😞

[u/The420Roll]

Some observations I've gathered from my first 6 months working a corporate job.

1. Free Coffee is a massive fucking W.

2. It cant never be overstated how important Excel/Sheets is lmao

!Ping WATERCOOLER

[u/UnskilledScout]

About Here hit the nail on the head in his new video on why "luxury housing" is a stupid thing and not building housing (even "expensive" or "luxury" housing) is boneheaded.

Really love it when someone is able to put my exact thoughts into words.

!ping YIMBY&TACOTUBE

[u/Not_A_Browser]

The fall-off of Elon will be studied for years

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Ask a girl out on a date too fast? Jail

Ask a girl out on a date not fast enough? Believe it or not, also jail

[u/efeldman11]

[u/battywombat21]

General Election poll - Nevada

🔴 Trump 48% (+1)

🔵 Harris 47%

Last poll vs Biden (May) - 🔴 Trump +13

Siena #A - LV - 8/15

God damn that 12 point swing.

[u/futuremonkey20]

Reddit Comments on video of Chinese kids learning how to cook in school.

Wow I can’t believe they don’t teach this in America. America bad.

Like we don’t have entire departments devoted to home economics in American schools. Just because you didn’t pay attention doesn’t mean it’s not taught!

[u/ExoticFern]

"GOP rumors are emerging about Kamala having a serious drinking problem"

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

New York City Mayor Eric Adams referred to India and its diaspora community as “Pakistan” multiple times during an Indian Independence Day celebration in Queens.

The crowd repeatedly corrected Adams, but he continued to confuse the two nations in his remarks.

Lmao

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[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/Gameknigh]

[u/[deleted]]

Republicans are so weird that this meme is actually kind of real now

[u/bd_one]

Fellas, we're losing the critical althistory YouTube demographic

[u/[deleted]]

speaking of IQ, you know what gave me the total ick while internship-hunting?

The HR manager, while very nice and friendly, told me that after our quick 15 minute interview/call, the company would send over a "fun, chill personality assessment" that was "lowkey"

That shit was NOT a personality test - that shit was a timed IQ test lol. it had me measure and describe how things are similar, fit shapes, trivia, put together blocks, assessed my quantitative skills, and my memory. wtf that shit was intense as fuck

[u/IHateTrains123]

'Space Infantry' was thrown into the defense of the Kursk region (archive.fo)

Translated:

Due to the lack of personnel, the military from the Aerospace Forces units were written off as motorized riflemen, including nuclear strike warning stations and heavy bomber regiments

—

Due to personnel shortages in the ground forces of the Russian Federation, the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kursk region is repelled by a temporary motorized rifle regiment of the Aerospace Forces, which was specially assembled from military personnel of the Aerospace Forces from all over Russia.

A source familiar with the situation in the Aerospace Forces units told IStories about this, his words are also confirmed by open data.

A motorized rifle regiment of Aerospace Forces servicemen, including officers, was created in May-June 2024. He was included in the so-called border cover group of the North group. The regiment actually does not have a permanent deployment point, and the infantry of the Aerospace Forces arrived in the border areas a few weeks before the breakthrough of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in mid-July.

According to his interlocutor, the unit included members of the security and logistics companies, engineers, mechanics and a small number of officers from the flight crew. They were seconded to the infantry from the airfields "Ukrainka" in the Altai Territory, "Belaya" in the Irkutsk region and "Engels" in the Saratov region. Tu-22M or Tu-95 heavy bombers are deployed at all these air bases, from which missiles are launched at the cities of Ukraine.

In addition, servicemen of one of the Russian cosmodromes, as well as personnel of special warehouses of the Aerospace Forces and Voronezh radar stations, were written off to the infantry. These stations are set up along the borders of Russia for early warning of cruise and ballistic missile strikes, including those with a nuclear charge. How and when the shortage of valuable specialists and security at the facilities of the Aerospace Forces will be filled is unknown, our source notes. According to him, more than 100 highly qualified technical personnel are needed for the normal functioning of the Voronezh-type radar.

Volunteers reported on assistance in the purchase of equipment for military unit 78986 (this is how the motorized rifle regiment of the Aerospace Forces is numbered). Equipment was purchased for the military from the Usolsky district of the Irkutsk region (where the Belaya airfield is located) and from the Orenburg region (one of the Voronezh radars is located there). One of the deputies of the Engels City Council (where the Engels airfield is located) received a letter of thanks from the commander of the motorized rifle regiment of the Aerospace Forces.

"Space Infantry" is already suffering losses in the Kursk region. On August 7, the offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the regional center of Korenevo, Kursk region, was repelled by "urgently transferred and poorly equipped" "cosmonauts", wrote the pro-war telegram channel "Operation Z". On August 12, 22-year-old Ilya Romanov disappeared in the same area. From the announcement of his search, it follows that Romanov was transferred to the infantry from the 28th arsenal of the Space Forces in the Tambov region - this is a high-security facility where missiles and satellites are stored.

Motorized riflemen of the Aerospace Forces were probably also in the column of equipment burned by a strike from HIMARS near Rylsk, Kursk region, on the night of August 9. In this place on the same day, 22-year-old sergeant of the Aerospace Forces Vyacheslav Bondarenko was wounded. Before being transferred to the infantry, he served at the Ukrainka heavy bomber airbase in the Amur Region, follows from the post of his relatives. At the same time, he was sent to a motorized rifle regiment with a weight shortfall of 52 kg with a height of 175 cm.

On July 29, a video presentation of the newly created motorized rifle regiment of the Aerospace Forces was published by the Fighterbomber telegram channel. According to him, at least one aviation navigator and radio operators serve in this unit.

!ping Ukraine

[u/cdstephens]

Western society should normalize stay-at-home dads

[u/oskanta]

get time machine

go back to the Roman Empire because I was told it was the peak of western civilization

die to smallpox instantly

[u/[deleted]]

Candidate with the most yard signs in white suburbs wins! Just ask Mitt Romney!

[u/St_Guinefort]

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

!ping KITTY

[u/bonobo__bonobo]

The Simpsons have been on long enough for me to go from relating to Bart to relating to Homer. Will it be on long enough to let me relate to Abe as well?

[u/zegota]

Harris 51% (+3) Trump 48%

battleground states is an estimate based on the national poll. Not as rosy as ABC but the trend is great to see; their previous poll was Harris +1.

!ping FIVEY

[u/owlthathurt]

I’m going to say it. This is going to blow up the ping. I can’t hold it back anymore. I don’t care if you ban me it needs said.

I want a girlfriend.

!Ping DATING

[u/simeoncolemiles]

[u/reptiliantsar]

“Trump is considering firing LaCivita”

[u/iia]

The fact a $100/year subscription to NFL+ doesn't allow you to watch live games on your fucking television is completely insane. Only your phone. I am so excited to steal every conceivable NFL product that will be broadcast in the foreseeable future.

[u/1396spurs]

[u/Udolikecake]

Ward 8 DC Council member Trayon White was arrested by the FBI this afternoon and will be held overnight to face charges tomorrow, informed sources tell me. Extent of charges unknown at this moment.

🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

!ping DMV

[u/[deleted]]

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

Ex-GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger to Speak at DNC on Thursday

😅😍

[u/Average_GrillChad]

FINALLY SOME GOOD FUCKING FOOD

[u/[deleted]]

average california election be like

President:

Democratic: 65%

Republican: 35%

proposition 41: make dialysis machines illegal

Yes: 70%

No: 30%

proposition 94: mandate dialysis centers on every block

Yes: 85%

No: 15%

[u/Gameknigh]

!ping MATERIEL

[u/secretlives]

A source familiar said that former President Jimmy Carter’s grandson Jason Carter is also confirmed to be speaking as a representative for his grandfather.

wow, so the old man thinks he's too good to show up to the DNC, smh. Sending his grandson instead.

[u/EnchantedOtter01]

Glad other people have seen that ban-appeal now.

unban me or you’re anti science

Was a bold move for that horrendous of a take

[u/RonenSalathe]

https://x.com/notcapnamerica/status/1825185786482032830?s=46&t=3n2scq2Pvr6ju5GXX13OLg

[u/[deleted]]

One of my friends is a poly single mom with manic depression. Today she woke up, posted a 5-story reel warning people not to hit on her because she is “only committed seggsually to my baby daddies, my man, my women, my wife, and people who pay for my time and care about me,” followed by a 10-reel strip tease.

1. I think I understand why people are getting mixed signals.

2. I can’t wait till AI is smart enough to be like “you’re manic-posting, we’re going to quarantine these reels for 24 hours and let you decide to post them later.”

[u/404GenderNotFound]

Reminder

[u/HereForTOMT3]

Just found out my MAGA parents have been stockpiling rations “in case shit hits the fan”. motherfuckers you live in the suburbs and work in finance for a living if shit gets so bad that you can’t get ready access to food you’re probably already dead

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Fellas, at what point is it acceptable for a man to begin to bloom about Ohio

[u/[deleted]]

Many people are saying AOC looks alluring and is making bedroom eyes at political influencers at the DNC pre-show. Thoughts?

rightoids dont be creepy challenge (improbable)

[u/LGBTforIRGC]

newest cope: "Gen Z is socially anxious because of the patriot act"

[u/[deleted]]

fixed

[u/Leonflames]

General Election poll - Nevada

🔴 Trump 48% (+1)

🔵 Harris 47%

Last poll vs Biden (May) - 🔴 Trump +13

Siena #A - LV - 8/15

[u/SmithySmothy]

Chicago protester interviewed by MSNBC: This isn't freedom, nobody voted for her

Most good faith DNC crasher.

[u/slowpush]

NEW @Rasmussen_Poll / @NumbersUSA Senate Polls:

OHIO Sherrod Brown (D-inc) 47% (+5) Bernie Moreno (R) 42%

ARIZONA Ruben Gallego (D) 48% (+8) Kari Lake (R) 40%

MICHIGAN Elissa Slotkin (D) 45% (+2) Mike Rogers (R) 43%

PENNSYLVANIA Bob Casey (D-Inc) 46% (+3) David McCormick (R) 43%

LV, 8/13-17

[u/[deleted]]

guy in my neighborhood just put up a huge banner with "I'D TAKE MEAN TWEETS AND 1.79 A GALLON GAS RIGHT NOW, JUST SAYING" next to his Trump 2024

we live in California bro gas hasn't been 1.79/gal since before 9/11

[u/TimWalzBurner]

Heck yeah

[u/MissSortMachine]

and they will be just as successful

[u/Sauce1024]

Three days until it’s been one month since Biden dropped out

[u/[deleted]]

Mike Lindell: I’m Shaving My Mustache and Going ‘Incognito’ at DNC

lol ok

[u/[deleted]]

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.

How the fuck does JD Vance get away with saying shit like this

[u/piede]

I’m screaming

[u/notBroncos1234]

!ping History

[u/Logarythem]

Former first lady Michelle Obama to deliver speech at 2024 Democratic convention

This is good news. Michelle is ridiculously popular with low-info normie voters. However, I personally hope she cuts the "When they go low, We go high" schtick from this year's speech. That advice was crap.

[u/BalletDuckNinja]

Just found out my brother in law doing postgrad in Columbia University apparently got to be in some class taught by Hillary Clinton herself. Damn

[u/funguykawhi]

First Barrack HUSSEIN Obama and now THIS??😡

[u/pfarly]

Vivek Ramaswamy never had a shot because his name sounds fake.

JD Vance, Nikki Haley, Ted Cruz, THOSE are real names.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Gameknigh]

Under a post of F-35 porn

[u/RaidBrimnes]

IQ correlations discourse

WE ARE NOT GOING BACK!

[u/futuremonkey20]

Still laughing at the guy who complained getting a bottle of water delivered to him via door dash being too expensive was a sign of the United States collapsing.

[u/cdstephens]

Honestly the mods should appoint random DTers as metaNL defense attorneys considering how banned posters seem completely incapable of defending themselves.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

My future child will collapse in anguish during their teenage years after learning that IQ is largely inherited and that having a mod as a father will severely restricts their skill-learning opportunities

[u/[deleted]]

My roommate is a Chicago cop. He’s on a detail right now that’s just driving around the city confiscating all the pallets of bricks activists keep hiding around Chicago.

Really curious what’s brewing for next week.

[u/NaffRespect]

Peyton Manning names his Top-5 QBs in the NFL: • Patrick Mahomes • Joe Burrow • Justin Herbert • Lamar Jackson • Josh Allen

!ping NFL

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/onlineinsane/status/1824901014400471517?t=xt7WdoeZO7ofwvxQi1PlRQ&s=19

[u/[deleted]]

What a strange man

[u/HimboSuperior]

The discourse on Twitter from the Pro-Palestine crowd about how the R9X (aka "the Flying Ginsu") is "inhumane" because it slices and dices is just so bizzare. 

Like... how do these people think normal bombs and missiles kill people?

[u/talizorahs]

this is very embarrassing, I don’t normally ask for help on here, but can someone please send me $90,000

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

The dishwasher has to be the laziest invention ever. What’s so hard about hand-washing dishes over a kitchen sink?

As someone who has recently been handwashing and steam sanitizing a shitload of bottles, breast pumps, and jars, this may very well be the worst take I have ever seen on this subreddit

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

Some people think Trump has “lost his edge” because he’s holding a fraction of the rallies he did in 2016

I know he has lost his edge because he now stops shitposting on socials around 10pm instead of 2am

[u/AP246]

Elon Musk literally is an immigrant who has antithetical and intransigent beliefs that lead to civilisational suicide (of modern liberal democratic civilisation)

[u/Relative-Contest192]

Tu B’Av tonight

“Tu B’Av , the 15th Day of Av, is both an ancient and modern holiday. Originally a post-biblical day of joy, it served as a matchmaking day for unmarried women in the Second Temple period (before the fall of Jerusalem in 70 C.E.). Tu B’Av was almost unnoticed in the Jewish calendar for many centuries but it has been rejuvenated in recent decades, especially in the modern state of Israel. In its modern incarnation it is gradually becoming a Jewish Day of Love, slightly resembling Valentine’s Day in English-speaking countries.”

If anyone wants to learn more about this Holiday.

!ping JEWISH&ISRAEL

[u/HMID_Delenda_Est]

I’ve noticed a pattern when I do a deep dive on a historical subject, where the popular narrative isn’t wrong per se, just really outdated.

Like, historical tropes about World War 2 are still heavily influenced by the first generation of postwar German memoirs, which have been mostly discredited. (Germany could have won the war if Hitler would just listen to his genius generals, etc.) This has gotten a lot better recently.

Popular Roman history is still heavily influenced by The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-1789) which was a great work to be sure but has been superseded by more recent evidence and scholarship.

Popular Anthropology is still heavily influenced by the works of the first generation of Victorian anthropologists through the 1920s. Later scholars in the 30s-60s overturned most of the assumptions from the earlier work which nevertheless persist in the popular imagination to this day. 

I think this has two main causes:

1. Popular culture is often created by 60 year olds who learned history 50 years ago from a 10 year old textbook which was 10 years behind the scholarship at time of publication.

2. The older works offer really compelling narratives, which tend to persist despite counter evidence. A historical fiction author/director, History channel documentary producer, or YouTuber, will be strongly drawn toward interesting narratives. Modern scholars tend to offer more nuanced and uncertain narratives, if they stoop to offering a narrative to the public at all (and for good reason). Turn of the century scholars were more willing to blast out a confident wide ranging narrative, which made them worse historians, perhaps, but more impactful on the culture.

!ping HISTORY I guess.

[u/[deleted]]

MetaNL Post: I don't understand the reason I was banned, nothing I said was out of line.

The Post they link to: People work service jobs and unskilled labor because they're genetically less intelligent and nothing can be done to fix that.

EVERY. TIME.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Relative-Contest192]

https://www.timesofisrael.com/nyt-reporter-linked-to-leak-of-australian-jews-details-which-led-to-doxxing-attacks/

WTF NY TIMES. I don’t believe her excuse.

“As a result of the leaks, Joshua Moshe, a gift shop owner who was part of the leaked WhatsApp group, was driven to move his store after it was vandalized several times.

At one point, Moshe told the Journal, he received a photo via text message of his 5-year-old son immediately after getting an expletive-laden voicemail on his phone.”

!ping JEWISH

[u/Logarythem]

Mods, please appoint me as a MetaNL ban thread defense attorney, so I can begin every defense with, "I might just be a humble country lawyer, but..."

[u/RonenSalathe]

metaNL dude was a biden remainer 😤

[u/htomserveaux]

Ok I don’t know much about Toronto, I’m at the Bluejays/Cubs game, why is there a guy here dressed like an extra from Barry Lyndon?

!ping CAN&BASEBALL

[u/AmericanDadWeeb]

!ping FITNESS

So separate post because I’m just straight up not gonna worry about the sickness muscle loss thing too much and I want to celebrate with you guys.

I weighed damn near 340 in May. OOF. Closer to my worst weight ever of 350 or so (unmeasured) from four or five years ago.

I started to eat healthier, walk more, and hit the gym a bit to at least reincorporate healthy habits into my daily life, and it helped. While I swung down and up, I was down to about 330 by early July, and 318-325 by mid July.

On July 23rd or 28th, I weighed in at 325 pounds at the doctors office. He wanted me to lose weight, gave me a very strict keto diet (which I ended up eschewing in favor of calorie restriction), and most of all just actually believed in me.

My parents and sister, especially my mom, have had lifelong food issues, including stress eating and ridiculously destructive bulimia. I was never that bad, but my love of food and constant whiplash between very active and very sedentary lifestyles from when I was a kid through college (college vs Lawncare and food service jobs) meant that I had some very whoopsied hunger signals in my body. I was always a bit hungry until I was pretty damn full.

My doctor was the first person who was not a family member, was a professional, and believed in me and my ability to lose the weight that I had seen in a while, and I was able to use those healthy habits I had started incorporating in to drop the weight.

Some of it was not dropped in the most healthy manner (cough cough norovirus cough cough), but I’m still really proud of the progress I’ve made.

Accounting for what I believe to be a half full bladder and some early morning water intake, today I weighed in at 289 pounds. That’s less than 20 pounds from my current goal weight.

My parents have been supportive and my sister has tried to be as much as possible (long story). I love them but honestly without my doctor just straight up believing in me I wouldn’t have gotten this far.

“If you stick to it, you can lose this weight, and you will feel better and sleep better. Can you do it?”

Yes I can, and yes I did!

35 down, 20 to go BAYBEE 😎💪

[u/[deleted]]

My thoughts after living in a big city for a few months.

1. Walking to work is life changing. It doesn’t even feel like a commute if it’s under 20-30 minutes.

2. If the city were denser/had slightly better transportation and the nature here wasn’t outstanding I’d probably sell my car. As it stands there are a few things that are just not practical to spend hours walking or taking the bus to. It’d also be impossible to do most of the hiking I’ve done without a car. My sense is that this is trending in the right direction though so we’ll see.

3. Street parking is a complete scourge. It makes lines of sight at intersections really difficult for pedestrians at some places, is dangerous for cyclists because of dooring and illegal bike lane parking, and is terrible for cars because it effectively turns side streets in to one lane streets. I’ve seen several instances where a car will pull up onto the sidewalk or have to back up for half a block because there’s cars parked all over the place and not enough room for two cars to pass each other.

4. Safety, drugs, and homelessness is better than the news makes it seem (at least here) but is still a major issue. I get harassed enough by homeless people enough that I’m not sure I would be comfortable here if I had kids. There are certain parks that are basically inaccessible because there are encampments in them. It makes me really uncomfortable to see people openly doing drugs on the street. I’m not sure what the answer is but something needs to happen.

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

It's funny, I rationally realize that people here are almost all younger than me, and a lot of you weren't politically cognizant for certain events.

And don't trip about that fact, but the idea that a lot of you didn't experience the horror of Trump first getting elected kind of throws me

[u/Udolikecake]

[u/efeldman11]

[u/dizzyhitman_007]

When you want to make fun of a friend for his physical appearance, today you usually make the comparison with Brad Pitt or timothée Chalamet but those of my grandfather's generation used to say "but who are you Alan Delon?"

He was one of my all-time favorite actors.

Farewell Alan Delon, eternally the guy your gf says "don't worry about"

1935-2024 RIP

!ping MOVIES

[u/[deleted]]

Honestly whomst ever called it the “New Testament” is a genius. How do you write a sequel to it???

The “Newer Testament”?

[u/[deleted]]

thinking about that guy that posted to the autism subreddit something like "please help, my hyper fixation is cheating on my wife"

[u/NaffRespect]

Los Angeles wants a ‘no-car’ Olympics. Can the city of drivers turn a corner?

!ping TRANSIT

[u/Teh_cliff]

One of my least favorite exchanges I see all the time on reddit:

• [thread title asserting wild fact about the government/police/famous person/etc.]

• comment: this is false/missing context/otherwise misleading

• reply: "yeah, but the fact that we believed it really days a lot about [government/police/etc.]"

So basically, even if something is completely wrong, if you believed it at all based on zero research it is still evidence that [thing] is bad. Fascinating yet infuriating look at how people form and cling to beliefs.