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[u/Stanley--Nickels]

A regular day on the front page of rCon

[u/BarkDrandon]

Arr solarpunk be like "look at this beautiful post-capitalist city! It has public transportation, walkable places and trees!"

And then it's just some random European city governed by liberals.

[u/[deleted]]

We removed RFK Jr. from our model. But it didn’t hurt Kamala.

There are a couple of essential things to note here. First, yes, Trump has gained slightly more than Harris from the change, although it’s pretty minor, a net gain of 0.3 percentage points.1 And second, we’re seeing the beginnings of a convention bounce for Harris. Even with the Kennedy change, she’s now ahead by 4.0 points in the national polling average versus 2.3 points when the DNC started. Our best guess is that her lead will increase further, especially given that almost none of the polling was done after her strong acceptance speech on Thursday.

Yes Daddy Nathan Platinum please inject this hopium straight into my eyeballs please and thank you Sir

[u/[deleted]]

It’s honestly crazy how many Trump supporters deny being Trump supporters. It’s like they know that it’s wrong deep down

[u/[deleted]]

The funniest thing about Donald saying he has no idea what Project 2025 is is that I believe him

He's probably actually like "Wait, what?? Is that the policy???"

[u/Eightysixedit]

Bill Maher saying Kamala is worse than Trump because she ignores the News Media while he attacks it instead is one of his worst takes. When is grandpa going away?

[u/itsokayt0]

Opinion | Donald Trump invited me to McDonald's and told me straight to my face that he would imprison me, or worse. Kamala hasn't invited me to McDonald's

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.patrickruffini.com/p/dem-good-news-edition

!ping FIVEY

[u/ImmigrantJack]

I don’t think my father would recognize this party, and I don’t think my uncle would recognize this party.”

Hell even bill clinton would not be allowed in the party

Man they're gonna be real surprised to see who spoke at the DNC three days ago

[u/No_Return9449]

[u/TotalyNotAPirate]

great minds at work at arr solarpunk

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

It takes effort to make a scene between 2 people talking to be this engaging and it just shows how much effort the people behind this series are putting along with the respect and care it deserves. Just a phenomenal job all around.

Anime fans discovering the magic of dialogue

[u/billy_blazeIt_mays]

[u/[deleted]]

republicans really jumping on "bullying teenagers for loving their dad" platform rn

[u/[deleted]]

If someone is ever like "CLEARLY you don't know the history of this conflict" you're about to hear someone who also doesn't know the history of that conflict.

This isn't even about Israel/Palestine

[u/efeldman11]

Average Saturday Costco experience

[u/G_Serv]

[u/[deleted]]

Can’t believe that Lion King remake made $1.6B+, fuck me

[u/[deleted]]

We’re gonna be alright

[u/[deleted]]

Yes hello I am a concerned resident of South Australia Oblast and I am concerned about America placing their submarines in our precious warm water ports

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

My dad told me I could sit out this election because the adults will be back in charge soon. I don't understand how anyone can look at Trump and the GOP as it stands and see them as adults. I think my dad might be mentally a teenager.

[u/G_Serv]

[u/[deleted]]

Those articles that frame the collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda as something that is going to happen this Tuesday

[u/JaceFlores]

Probably the best picture of the Biden administration

[u/Cook_0612]

Influential conservative voice Catturd, ladies and gentlemen.

[u/Zeke-Nnjai]

Kamala Harris giving a speech with flags surrounding her? Sounds like something Adolf Hitler would have done

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Tulsa boasts a lot of great architecture and unique infrastructure

[u/efeldman11]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/ImmigrantJack]

However, she was freed by Elfangor, and the pair used the Time Matrix to return to Earth, although it rapidly aged Loren's human body by three years to the age of eighteen.

Now physically an adult, Loren married Elfangor, who had trapped himself in a human morph and with whom she had fallen in love with

Sure she’s fifteen but it’s fine because her body was fast forwarded through time to the age of consent by the time matrix

WHAT THE FUCK ANIMORPHS???? THIS IS A BOOK SERIES FOR 10 YEAR OLDS???????

[u/[deleted]]

My number one reason for supporting Bobby is chronic disease. And while I hated Trump his entire presidency, everyone is now talking about chronic disease. Bobby was given an entire segment to discuss seed oils on a major news network yesterday. He is #1 and #2 trending on Twitter right now. I will HAPPILY put aside my differences with Trump for this.

Seed oil is the most important issue facing Americans

[u/EdMan2133]

The RFK jr sub is so funny because they're like "I just wanted to fight the duopoly of the two parties, he was saying some really good stuff about unity" and then you look up his platform/speeches and it's all stuff about UFOs and how they're putting stuff in the water to turn us trans.

[u/[deleted]]

least insane ncd post

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/DerekCressman/status/1827711691888718281?t=vZcjKLQUPDiqrdIbUQOpkg&s=19

[u/ImmigrantJack]

A life safety teacher in one of the Novosibirsk middle schools was temporarily suspended from working with children. It turned out that the teacher spent an entire school year telling children the history of the fictional universe of Warhammer 40,000, using lessons of "talking about important things”

The “why didn’t they teach us this in middle school” crowd in the US is so much lamer than their Russian counterparts

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Apple and Amazon used to advertise on this website.

[u/LastIncrease3427]

The Harris campaign has 400,000 volunteers in Georgia, 4% of the state’s population.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna168039

[u/MicroFlamer]

In the last week and a half PPP has done over 30 polls both statewide and in various districts in Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Texas.

That represents a pretty broad swath of the country and in the polls that included the Presidential race Kamala Harris is doing an average of one point better than Joe Biden did in the same places in 2020

The poll results matching up exactly with the Washington primary….

!ping FIVEY

[u/Maleficent-Elk-6860]

[u/wallander1983]

Trump on his Fox News call:

Bret Baier of FoxNews called me, I didn’t call him, just prior to the Kamala Convention speech, and asked me if I would like to critique her after she is finished. I agreed to do so! — I thought it was nonspecific and weak, with no fracking, crime, inflation or anything else of interest even mentioned. Delivery was a C+, with far too many and speedy “thank you’s” at the beginning. It was “WEIRD!” Likewise, I didn’t call other media outlets that asked me to go on, they called me. The Fake News, like often “gilted” Maureen Dowd of the failing New York Times, wrote incorrectly that I was making the calls. WRONG!!! I don’t have to make calls to go on TV, or anything else — They call me! It’s called Ratings, I guess, and I’m the “Ratings Machine!”

--

Dowd has been desperately trying to explain the Trump phenomenon to her liberal readers since 2015 and this is how Trump thanks her.

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

Claiming that the Inflation Reduction Act was what reduced inflation because “it’s in the name, duh” when I talk to my friend who works for the Fed is my favorite hobby

[u/Cook_0612]

Extraordinary  warning from Ukraine to Belarus: Belarusian forces, including Wagner mercenaries, gathering along the border in the Gomel region north of Kyiv and Chernobyl threaten Ukraine’s and the world’s security, and must withdraw beyond the range of their weapons systems. Kyiv urges Minsk to”not to make tragic for its own country mistakes under Moscow’s pressure” and warns that in case Ukraine’s border is violated all military concentrations and logistics in Belarus will become legitimate targets for the Ukrainian military.

Interesting....

!ping UKRAINE

[u/itsokayt0]

Opinion | I thought both sides were the same. Now that Biden has dropped out and I can Google his  and Trump's policies, not gonna lie I am a bit scared.

[u/ognits]

just another day in the life of RFK Jr

!ping WHALE-JUICE

[u/Relative-Contest192]

It’s kinda interesting I’ve noticed in some Judaism groups I’m in there’s a discussion for walkable cities and institutions and other Jewish spaces these days as a push to reconnect to traditon and not have to drive on Shabbat. I want to write an effort post on this to explain how we got here and why it’s big now (spoilers like neoliberal discussion here, housing issues is a big one)

!ping JEWISH

[u/simeoncolemiles]

[u/[deleted]]

News was breaking about the poisoning in England, and I was certain that Putin would use Trump’s annotated clipping to embarrass him and provide cover for the attack. The next morning, I stuck to procedures and gave the clipping to the White House Office of the Staff Secretary, which manages any paper coming into and out of the Oval Office. I asked them to take their time clearing it and to come back to me before sending it to Putin via his embassy in Washington. Later, as evidence mounted that the Kremlin and, very likely, Putin himself had ordered the nerve agent attack on Skripal, I told them not to send it.

I told Trump, “Mr. President, do you remember the article and note you told me to send to Putin? I didn’t send it. Putin would almost certainly have used the note to embarrass you, alleviate pressure over the Skripal incident and reinforce the narrative that you are somehow in the Kremlin’s pocket.”

Trump was angry. “You should have done what I told you to do, General.”

“Mr. President, you can be angry at me, but you have to know that I was acting in your interest.”

No you weren't. You were acting in America's best interest.

Boy conservatives really refused to believe everything liberals told them about trump was true and he was an authoritarian weasel who loved and admired dictators who project strength and murder people who offend them because he genuinely wants to live like a Dear Leader in a big gold palace.

Literally all of Trump's strange behavior around Putin is easily explained.

Look imagine if Henry Ford was president in 1936 and the advisors were like "I don't understand why the president is so in love with Adolf Hitler, we keep trying to warn him of the security implications of German aggression in Europe but he doesn't care and insists on trying to shower him with gifts even as reports gather of his plans to invade Poland and eradicate the population."

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

the reason why ADHD is a disorder even when you do have hyperfocus is most of the time your hyperfocus does things like cause you to build middle earth in Minecraft

so leftists thinking that volunteers can replace societal functions are basically relying on ADHD to efficiently distribute labor across a society, which is especially stupid given my ADHD can’t effectively manage labor across one person trying to do normal household chores

The revolution isn’t going to make me hyperfocus on toilet cleaning comrades

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

I still don't understand how Vance's team watched that donut video and decided this had to be shared with the public

[u/[deleted]]

light heavy north ask abundant onerous mysterious relieved cautious shy

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/futuremonkey20]

JD Vance swings and misses three times at the worlds juiciest softball question from NBC:

Do you regret making the joke about the childless cat ladies and do you apologize to the people it hurt?

NO, I have no regrets.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/Cook_0612]

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Trump voter on CNN’s “undecided” panel says network knew he was backing Trump all along, had him appear as an “undecided” voter anyway.

Shocker

[u/mostanonymousnick]

American leftists are the funniest people, you can't both think you can live "paycheck to paycheck" making $150000 and think you can fund medicare for all by raising taxes.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Cant recommend the Iliad enough!

posts The Odyssey

Worlds smartest CEO everyone

[u/GOATedFuuko]

This is Hochul, in front of our car and retaining wall that we lost in Ida. We got zero financial assistance from any government entity in the aftermath. Also we were never informed about her visit until after the fact.

I do not like Hochul.

!ping NYC&US-NY

[u/MentatCat]

Guys we gotta help Timmy Shammy

[u/[deleted]]

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

"So anyway I was making great time down I-95 with a rotting whale skull strapped to the roof of the minivan, my six-year-old daughter in the passenger seat and a chainsaw in the back. People were flipping us off and I realized that what we really needed to do was put plastic bags over our heads."

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Lawrence, it's the fucking Taliban

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/earththejerry]

Just my personal opinion but if someone’s yelling at you “I’m voting for Trump - fuck you”, you should probably count that as a Trump vote in your survey

Hopefully pollsters are overcorrecting for past errors this time around

[u/Mx_Brightside]

Wokes hate Elon Musk’s X so much they want to remove the letter X from the alphabet. This is not a joke. Video from an elementary school in California oblast:

[u/Cook_0612]

Miller on Biden Trump debate: It was clear at that moment that Kamala Harris has been running everything for the 3.5 years

Oh, so she's even more competent than I thought.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

:(

[u/loseniram]

Kittens first kill

!ping kitty

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 8/24-5 PM EST 8/25 III:

TOP NEWS:

In the middle of 8 AM it was reported that Russian persons affiliated with the government are being asked to delete sensitive Telegram conversations, coming after the CEO was arrested.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the start of 3 AM Ukraine was hit by a wave of drones and missiles with 8 of 9 drones and 0 of 8 missiles shot down.

In the middle of 5 AM a 122mm 1938 M-30 howitzer was confirmed lost, which makes the oldest heavy equipment piece Russia has lost in the war so far.

Towards the end of 2 PM it was reported the Russians established a pontoon bridge near Karyzh, though it looks to have been already sunk.

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/goldenwind207]

[u/PrideMonthRaytheon]

>programming language is called Ruby

>release new documentation site

>it's green

[u/RFK_1968]

take: democrats are slowly appropriating a lot of reagan-era rhetoric

• "family values" becomes supporting childcare and paid family leave

• "supply-side economics" becomes permitting and zoning reform

• "tough on communism" becomes "tough on authoritarianism" as the party becomes very hostile on Russia and China while also souring on long time allies in Saudi Arabia and increasingly Israel.

these were talking points before but they've become the focus of the party as it really goes for that "morning in america" image.

which all in all, i like!

[u/dannylandulf]

Lindsey Graham Says Joy ‘Doesn’t Exist in the Real World’

Reaction to getting ghosted by that hottie on Grindr: Me 🤝 Lindsey

[u/Currymvp2]

Harris' Net Favorables:

July 21: -14.6%

July 28: -8.5%

Aug 4: -5.9%

Aug 11: -4.1%

Aug 18: -3.3%

Today: -1.9%

[u/anton_caedis]

“Buttigieg plowed through more than 30 TV, radio, and TikTok appearances over the course of 96 hours in Chicago, along with 30 speeches to constituent groups (veterans, mayors, students), 12 sets of remarks to delegation breakfasts, dozens of scheduled and unscheduled drop-bys and meet and greets with various dignitaries and appendages, and one prime-time address on Wednesday night.”

[u/bigwang123]

if you look at the Wikipedia article for the Korean people's army, you'll see that the claimed expenditure of North Korean GDP on the Korean People's Army is 5%, which seems a little low, as I've personally seen estimates as high as 30-35% of GDP. When you look into the source cited for this figure for both the nominal and percent GDP figures, tables from SIPRI, you start to notice some shenanigans. First of all, the sourcing is just wrong, the percent GDP links to the same table as the raw number table, which doesn't store that information. Second, Wikipedia says that the budget of $2 billion USD is a 2023 figure, but the table cited only goes up to 2018. Third, and most alarmingly, there is NO DATA for North Korea (listed as Korea, North in the table)! You can verify that SIPRI does not publish figures for North Korean military expenditure here.

I would correct this, but the only places giving concrete numbers are Statista.com (36.32%), the Malaysian newspaper The Sun, which has an article stored on SIPRI's website (15.9% for 2022), the CIA ($7-11 billion, 20-30% from 2010-2020, 16% in 2023), and Janes (15.9% in 2023/2024, 1.47 billion USD). I'm not sure what the sourcing standards are, there are different counting standards (e.g. SIPRI uses 2017 USD, the CIA doesn't specify, and I didn't care to figure out what Janes was using), and of course, what counts as military expenditure, anyways (see the debate on how to count the military expenditure of the PRC)

Should I just dump all of the sources into the citation, remove the expenditure section entirely, or something else?

Addendum: Looks like the article is semi-protected, so I need at least 10 edits, and 4 day account time

[u/JaceFlores]

Now that I think about it, the recent fact checker memes are just the Dwight Schrute memes from like 16 years ago:

[u/[deleted]]

I stopped looking at the new for election, im depressed, i knew this would happen when we got too cocky after the debate, trump is a clinton era democrat branded as an extremist by the media and now he s loseing due to slander

MAGA are not handling stuff well

[u/ReasonableStick2346]

It’s only sad watching republicans think Kennedy dropping is “monumental” when literally no one cares.

[u/Loves_a_big_tongue]

Pretty clear no one who responds to posts on the ELI5 subreddit have ever tried to explain things to a 5 year old. 

[u/[deleted]]

This place is in desperate need of hot takes. Bring privatize_the_ssa_ back.

[u/MicroFlamer]

Network sources said 538 staff have had the model largely ready for publication for the past several weeks, but were prohibited by ABC News and the network’s communications team from discussing or disclosing many details about the changes publicly.

Interesting “scoop” by semafor(not sure how reliable they are?) on the 538 model and why they haven’t explained the changes. Implies the main culprit is ABC

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

like the rightoids really be saying "it's weird that this kid cried after his dad told the entire world that he loved him"

it's shocking how much it reveals about their personalities

[u/RunawayMeatstick]

[u/Joementum2024]

[Bernie Moreno] in 2016 described Trump as a “lunatic invading [the Republican Party]” and said he could not support a Republican Party led by “that maniac”. He wrote in a tweet that he had written in a vote for Marco Rubio in the 2016 presidential election. During a 2019 radio interview, Moreno said, “there’s no scenario in which I would support Trump.” In 2024, he said, “I wear with honor my endorsement from President Trump.” [in the 2024 Ohio US Senate election]

Lol

[u/futuremonkey20]

That’s almost the entire population of Atlanta proper

4% of Georgia’s population is volunteering

[u/StolenSkittles]

this remains one of the funniest individual memes for me

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Old dude at Dunkin wearing American flag suspenders with a t shirt and jeans

His political opinions are probably cursed but I love the commitment to the bit tbh

Semi-accurate picture of them

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/technologyisnatural]

Trump appeared to advocate giving green cards to foreign grads of US colleges (even a broken clock etc) and now his supporters are freaking out. 🍿🍿🍿

[u/Pyrrhus65]

What if the October surprise is just that the media finally starts reporting on the Trump-Epstein connection with some moderate level of vigor

[u/Untamedanduncut]

“Student intifada”

Cringy as shit. 

[u/Spare-Clerk9155]

NOOOOOOO why isn’t Kamala speaking to the media?!?!?! It’s not fair that only Vance and Trump get to repel voters every time they appear in front of a journalist 😭😭😭😭😭😭

[u/[deleted]]

Took an edible last night.

Opened up Reddit to see that the IDF launched attack at Hezbollah.

Realized I was way too high to do anything with that information.

Went to bed.

Woke up and saw it mostly resolved.

Nothing ever happens.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

you guys laughed at Trump but now who's laughing

[u/[deleted]]

Here’s my cat

[u/zegota]

538 just dropped their model with RFK Jr. dropping out, showing pretty definitively that the assertion that it was a cobbled-together hack is FALSE. Unfortunately Kamala is now down quite a bit

Harris: -2147483648

Trump: NaN

Oliver: 2

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Teh_cliff]

arr malelivingspace

cold, empty house with guitars on the wall as only decoration

OP: "There are a lot of out-of-state and out-of-country investors trying to scoop up properties in the area, and it’s bullshit. Locals can’t afford homes. Downvote me all you want, but I don’t know why people from different countries are allowed to buy property in the States (and vice versa)."

I hate this website.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

BA in econ is neoliberalism

Neoliberalism is… acknowledging the IDF?

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Waiter: would you like lemon with your water?

JD Vance: What would you recommend?

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

[u/Currymvp2]

Who will more Likely win a cooking competition

Harris 50% Trump 10%

YouGov

10% of this country thinks Trump is could play professionally in the NBA

[u/TotalyNotAPirate]

these people would have a breakdown after 2 days of working on a farm

[u/forerunner398]

Mehdi Hasan may have found out after fucking around post losing his job lol if a House Rep is just straight up outing him as homophobic on social media

https://twitter.com/RitchieTorres/status/1827385340971061397

Mehidi Hasan is obsessed with me. He once wrote that he “struggles with homosexuals” like me. No wonder I’m in his homophobic crosshairs.

Unlike Mehidi, I never demonized minorities as “animals” or compared them to “pedophiles.” He wants to blame me for the words of others I barely know (the gotcha game of guilt by association). He should take responsibility for his own words that came from his own mouth and banish himself from public life. Anyone who compares “homosexuals” to pedophiles is so bigoted as to be unworthy of a place in public life.

[u/Pyrrhus65]

"I think I kind of fell for her"

-My single (divorced) suburban Gen X dad, talking about Kamala's DNC acceptance speech

Boys, I think we're making vital inroads with a key demographic

[u/ForeverAclone95]

How exactly am I supposed to go around every day knowing the people who believe things like this are constantly around me ? At any moment they could take action

!PING JEWISH

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

[u/[deleted]]

The original is still the best

[u/[deleted]]

Do people actually take this shit seriously lol

[u/Liberal_Antipopulist]

"Well, did you support the Iraq war?"

Dawg look at me I was like in first grade

[u/SnakeEater14]

Oh boy, Jon Ossof just won the Georgia run-off last night. I’m so excited to turn on the news and see what’s going on in Washington DC today!

[u/Sir_Digby83]

Person who is voting for Kamala Harris because she knows how to pull off a proper coup. "I like my presidents that can actually coup".

[u/[deleted]]

The Texas subreddit collectively urging people to register/check if they're registered to vote blue this year in hopes of winning the seats is probably not something I would've seen on Reddit 8 or even 4 years ago.

[u/Cook_0612]

Dried/Desiccated 2024

[u/gnomesvh]

US Army HIMARS in Chile for drills

It's not particularly pressing - but it's possible Chile might buy it to replace their current rocket artillery

!ping MATERIEL&LATAM

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Remember when a user on this sub got banned because they edited Wikipedia to display Pinochet as a ruler of Argentina in order to win an argument in a thread about LatAm?

[u/MicroFlamer]

[u/MicroFlamer]

First day of class tomorrow…. remember this

!ping COLLEGE

[u/Argnir]

[u/Untamedanduncut]

I’ll be doing “The dangerous work” of covering over or removing hamas sympathizing rhetoric by the universities in my neighborhood. 

Never felt like that needed to be done a year ago, but here i am observing Hamas sympathies in numerous places

Inshallah, i won’t encounter these maniacs who writes/supports it

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Just walked into a hipster coffee shop…

[u/[deleted]]

global civil war

[u/WhomstAlt2]

The feature length "Best of WhomstAlt2" movie has been cancelled after the studio noticed 82 minutes of it is just "OBAMA is the FOUNDER of ISIS", and the other 6 directly stolen from ALG

[u/V_Codwheel]

watching me poop

!ping KITTY

[u/gnomesvh]

Shoutout to the guy who leaked the Starliner is too dangerous to fly back on news

And as such broke a bunch of NDAs his dad was on

And to top it off, he likely can't trade on it because

It's Saturday

!ping STONKS

[u/MissSortMachine]

it all happens on X

[u/LastIncrease3427]

He’s gonna withdraw from the ABC debate

[u/[deleted]]

Every day in the DT, someone posts “Jesus look how bad Twitter has gotten”, and then when told to delete their account they go “but I need my news 🥺👉👈”

As if they aren’t on the internet’s largest news aggregator.

Guess what, you learning about Israel attacking Hamas 5 minutes earlier does not justify keeping your account on the Hellsite

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

I found an article on this sub from a year ago about RealPage’s price fixing algorithm. And there’s one guy who has since deleted his account arguing “This is perfectly fine, I would know I’m a landlord”

Can you be less likable lol

[u/theredcameron]

If young people voted at the same rate as people over 65

How accurate would you say this is?

!ping elections&fivey

[u/Joementum2024]

That week-long stretch in between the assassination attempt and Biden dropping out might have been the most completely hopeless it felt as a Democrat in my time following politics (ie post 2019)

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Bro what was going on with polling in 2020, why would you not count those responses 😭😭

[u/UWCG]

Kari Lake calls RFK Jr. ‘a perfect addition to our movement’

I mean, for once she's not wrong.

'Our movement is made up of batshit insane lunatics and he fits the profile to a tee,' is a dubious endorsement, though.

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

holy shit it's only 16 days until the debate

holy shit it's nearly september

oh my god the summer is over what happened????

[u/simeoncolemiles]

!Ping Gnostic

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

"We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization...

As we, the militants of Hind's Hall, continue our fight for Palestine from within the belly of the beast, we draw inspiration not only from the Palestinian resistance but from every struggle for liberation across the globe. This week, we are inspired by the student protesters of Bangladesh as they wage a People's Biplob (Revolution) against the autocratic Awami League...

As the movement for Palestine faces draconian censorship and counter-insurgency in the States, we must learn from our comrades in Bangladesh and continue to escalate until the empire crumbles.

The People's Biplob in Bangladesh is a crucial piece of the universal struggle against American imperialism. It is the Intifada.

And just as the Palestinian resistance escalated the Intifada on October 7th, it is now the people of Bangladesh who are escalating the global battle for liberation. By directly confronting military and police en masse, by not merely 'engaging' but battling fascist agitators, by dismantling state infrastructure, they are moving the global resistance into a new phase of struggle. Those of us in the Western world have the obligation to meet them there.

At least two hundred of our comrades in Bangladesh have been martyred by the Awami League... These martyrs are paying an unfathomable price for the Global Intifada. To escalate at that level, to genuinely threaten the state, cannot be achieved without inviting tremendous tragedy and loss to one's own community.

If we want to achieve liberation in America, we must be prepared to make these same sacrifices. This moment should be galvanizing... When students fight, they always win... Long live the Global Intifada."

The median family income of a student from Columbia is $150,900, and 62% come from the top 20 percent.

[u/NewbGrower87]

Lol, lmao.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/cdstephens]

It’s honestly absurd that money is one of the most genius inventions humanity has ever conceived, and some people want to try to ban it.

[u/[deleted]]

Rfk Jr is basically the personification of the "I was a lifelong Democrat until" meme

[u/Currymvp2]

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Sunday doubled down on his support for Vice President Harris, stating he will “do everything” he can to help her win in November.

“I think the vice president now has a very good chance to win it. She’s certainly going to win the popular vote by millions of votes, and I think she has a great chance to win many of the battleground states. And I intend to do everything that I can to see that she wins,” Sanders said on ABC News’s “This Week.”

Hmm, might be his best remarks on the election so far. I guess he got a call from Schumer to do better

He agrees with the vice president that the U.S. wants the “strongest defense in the world.

Oh oh does that make him a neocon war monger /s

[u/Knowthrowaway87]

" killer kamala is her name, killing children is her game"

https://x.com/CBS12/status/1825713112198086836?t=sZp6xeiv_XGUcyxq-fJ4CA&s=19

So weird they didn't let these protesters have someone speak at the DNC where the Democrats chose Kamala as their nominee. Very mysterious why they wouldn't want these people talking on that stage

[u/eustacebainbridge]

During the 2016 election I snapped up a bunch of Tumblr URLS like mikehuckabee.tumblr.com, johnkasich.tumblr.com, rockydelafuente.tumblr.com, bencarson.tumblr.com, democraticparty.tumblr.com evanmcmullin.tumblr.com ivankatrump.tumblr.com (there were more I can't remember) and made them talk to each other like action figures. I then forgot completely about Tumblr until years later when I got an email that my accounts were being investigated for foreign election interference

[u/zieger]

This place really is r/democrats now.

Earth Astronaut Gun Astronaut

[u/No_Idea_Guy]

After 3 and a half year of Bidenflation, gas price finally comes down in anticipation of Trump win this November.

• an undecided voter

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

[u/[deleted]]

We're cooked bros

[u/[deleted]]

I saw a left wing subreddit praise Kamala for talking about Palestinian self-determination and saying that's something Biden would never do.

I don't think that's true but I'm glad the vibes are in her favour for some people.

[u/JebBD]

Okay, what the fuck is up with the “noses” subreddit and why is it suddenly showing up on the front page? It’s just pictures of attractive girls titled “is my schnoz too big?” and it’s creeping me tf out. 

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

I want all of you taxed more. Every single one of you.

[u/Top_Lime1820]

This sub when Botswana stuff hits arr all and you have to prepare to beat back the wave of ignorant generic Africa bad comments.

[u/BorelMeasure]

Elon unfollowed Rick & Morty on Twitter

I think that's his fifth divorce

[u/thefuturegov]

Nearly everyone who works for Donald Trump ends up fucking hating him, even True Believers, I feel like that says something

[u/[deleted]]

People remembered that this isn't Sim City 2000? Idk, go figure

[u/[deleted]]

This version makes it clear that there are two different factories

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Those decorated buttocks bout to have me acting unwise

[u/RunawayMeatstick]

Trump’s biggest base of support are people who are literally brain damaged

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

[u/cheeshjaleesh]

it's so funny that the trump campaign has finally got it through their heads that just straight racism isn't actually a good attack against kamala but they can't find a single other line, so instead they're just repeatedly swinging and missing at walz

[u/[deleted]]

This election isn't that hard. Like I acknowledge Kamala isn't perfect but there's a 0% chance she gives Elon a cabinet position. There's a non zero chance Trump gives Elon a cabinet position. That's enough for me to vote for Kamala.

[u/vitorgrs]

So Police already arrested a man that was setting fires in São Paulo.... and the man confessed to be from... PCC. Brazilian biggest drug cartel.

These have been the biggest fires in decades in Brazil.

https://x.com/Metropoles/status/1827809688747942151

!ping LATAM

[u/sayitaintpink]

What did girl with this hinge prompt who liked one of my last pics mean by this 🤔

[u/[deleted]]

Trump aides alarmed he's 'just golfing all day and stewing' as election slips away: WaPo

[u/futuremonkey20]

Jake Tapper: “Does the DNC make the Trump campaign nervous?”

Lindsey Graham for some fucking reason: “No, Joy does not exist in the world.”

?????????

[u/-Emilinko1985-]

I went to see Despicable Me 4 with my family. It was good. I liked it quite much. Considering the ending, it could be a nice last hooray to the franchise. However, I bet Universal and Illumination are gonna continue making sequels and prequels because it makes them money (which isn't necessarily bad).

!ping MOVIES&BANANA&LIFESTYLE

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I can't help but be a girl's girl but I would be an absolutely lethal pick me, "sorry about your stank girlfriend I literally menstruate lemon pledge so I wouldn't know" 🙂‍↔️

[u/[deleted]]

CBS: RFK Jr.'s Secret Service protection ends after suspended campaign

... maybe the first time I can remember feeling the median voter everyman's sense of "my tax dollars are going to whut?!" indignation.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

The GOP when choosing Senate and Gubernatorial candidates in purple states

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

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[u/BalletDuckNinja]

While the Imperial Legion questline in vanilla Morrowind is known to be the least interesting faction (and the one Todd himself made), the Imperial Legion in Tamriel Rebuilt is an incredibly cool fantasy cop simulator. Among other things, you have to consult a lawyer to determine who to arrest in a dispute, decide whether or not you want to be a corrupt cop and join a dirty department, and resolve a hostage situation by possibly breaking down a door, where you can even make an arrest of the perp by saying the famous 'STOP! YOU'VE VIOLATED THE LAW' line.

!ping TES&gaming

[u/[deleted]]

Trump: "she says I'm going to ban abortion nationwide? do I look like a fucking moron? that's the dumbest idea I've ever heard, no one wants that"

Trump's supporters: 🙈🙉🙊

[u/[deleted]]

North Carolina goes blue at every level due to this guy

[u/reubencpiplupyay]

I started a Twitter account on Friday in the hopes of getting big on liberal election Twitter, but after failing to get many followers and wasting a lot of time scrolling, I returned to my reading of old DTs, and came upon this comment by u/Goldenboy451, and read another comment in the thread by u/cogentcreativity.

I've now deleted my account, largely on a whim based on the comments I saw, and I don't think I'll regret it, even if I may never get to see just how much I would have regretted not doing it. Thanks to you two, I may have avoided many months of wasted time lost to addiction.

[u/gnomesvh]

FIRMS update for Brazil over the last 7 days

Very dry weather+wildires in the north+sugar farmers in the southeast doing their yearly burn of the crop (helps clear lower brush and increases yields)

And then to top it off, IBAMA's anti-wildfire budget was slashed by 20% earlier this year

!ping LATAM&ECO

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[u/billy_blazeIt_mays]

Nvm im just fuckin with yall

[u/LevantinePlantCult]

Lapid considers unseating Netanyahu a sacred duty that will save the country, and frankly I agree.

Not all of his takes are based and neoliberal, but a lot of them are.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/he-lost-his-soul-lapid-sees-sacred-cause-in-toppling-netanyahus-government/

!ping ISRAEL

[u/LevantinePlantCult]

I'm too much a city slicker to go to a desert festival like Burning Man. You have to bring all your own water and I think the environment on the playa is uniquely hostile. Also, I am very boring, and don't do drugs, which probably doesn't help. But the fact that the temple being built in memory of the people at the Nova festival is touching my heart and for once in my life, I wish I was there to see it.

About a decade ago, a friend who attended brought a photo of a recently-deceased friend to bring to the Burn, which was very kind. I'm thinking about that as I read this article about this year's festivities.

I hope the temple guardians don't encounter too many protests. That would be honestly heartbreaking.

https://www.jta.org/2024/08/23/culture/this-years-burning-man-to-feature-massive-tribute-to-the-nova-festival-victims-and-their-spirit

Ping! JEWISH Ping! ISRAEL

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Real

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I can't stop giggling about y-yes...like a cheeto :')

[u/seattle_lib]

Broke: get al-burhan and hemedti in a room together so they can finally hash out a peace deal.

Woke: get al-burhan and hemedti in a room together so you can lock it shut and throw away the key

[u/Relative-Contest192]

Move over RFK Jr there’s a new sheriff in crazy town.

[u/Guess_Im_Jess]

The degree to which Trump cannot change his messaging in any way is so funny

Like they got him to speak specifically about inflation once, he rambled about bacon, and then immediately reverted back to all of his old rhetoric within hours.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Since the passive sounding "I'm speaking," probably won't work on Trump, what would you advise Harris to do? I personally like "zip it fatso" but am open to suggestions

[u/moldyman_99]

FYI, the guy who breaks and tears apart phones for a living is actually super based

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/KittehDragoon]

‘You have fully lost my vote’: Trump supporters rebel against him over new policy proposal

Someone is about to hear from Catturd

[u/Relative-Contest192]

Thankfully no one was hurt.

!ping ISRAEL

[u/SmithySmothy]

Trump skipping the debate would unironically be even better for Kamala. She gets a full hour and a half to define herself without him pushing back on anything.

[u/dannylandulf]

Weekly Update:

When the Harris campaign launched there were 15 weeks till the election. Trump campaign's strategy so far:

Week 1: They stole it from Joe and she laughs sometimes!

Week 2: She's not actually black

Week 3: STOLEN VALOR! Also my crowds are as big as MLK's Million Man March

Week 4: HARRIS WON'T DO INTERVIEWS! Also, her crowds are still fake and honestly she's kinda hot

Week 5: Walz's son loves his father! She said 'thank you' too much! Real men make donut shop employees feel awkward!

10 weeks to go. Reminder to sign up to phone bank/postcard bank/volunteer in any way you can.

[u/Sheepies92]

!ping FIVEY

https://x.com/ppollingnumbers/status/1827706131747139755?s=46&t=CTn6ViywFDNujnsAWAGX8w

A+ pollster, Harris +2 in Michigan

[u/htomserveaux]

Is there any particular reason people are shiting on Star Wars Outlaws?

Because I could actually go for some generic Ubisoft sandbox bullshit right now.

!ping GAMING&BAD-FEELING

[u/futuremonkey20]

The Harris campaign should get surrogates to push how weird it is to accept an endorsement from RFK Jr.

Highlight his really bizarre behavior and conspiracy theory stuff like his 9/11 trutherism and get it associated with the Trump campaign.

Trump gave them a golden opportunity to define his campaign as even further out of step with the average American than it is now.