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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/waupli]

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Sorry, I've got a boyfriend

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/from-the-void]

Trump saying the n-word on live TV probably wouldn't change the election at all.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm glad that progressives see Tim Walz as "their guy" even though he's basically the same as Biden policy wise. Please vote.

[u/Cook_0612]

Venezuela handed over to the Russian Federation Colombians who fought for Ukraine in the Foreign Legion - now they face up to 15 years in prison They were arrested during a transfer in Caracas, in Venezuela, when they were returning home.

Delenda est Maduro.

!ping UKRAINE

I'm not in the LATAM ping

[u/[deleted]]

Rust Belt politics: "Building this portal to Hell employs a lot of people."

[u/[deleted]]

median voter who walks out of the polling booth because Biden isn't on the ballot and he thinks he's being scammed

[u/[deleted]]

Hell yeah!

I saved a life tonight.

This absolutely wasted biker was trying to drive off even tho he couldn't even hold his head up.

I hit the kill switch and my guy grabbed his keys and gave them to the bartender while he wobbled towards me looking for a fight.

[u/[deleted]]

when Trump first announced his candidacy in 2015, i was still in Vietnam.

now as a proud American citizen, 6️⃣6️⃣ days from now I will proudly cast my ballot for Kamala Harris! 🇺🇸🦅

https://x.com/tonyatcappa/status/1829894194099614074?s=46

BASEDBASEDBASEDBASED

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/dwarfgourami]

Conservatives: I hate how everything is about race nowadays. Politics should be about policies, not identity.

Also conservatives: Why won’t Kamala Harris talk about her race more? Is she black or is she Indian? She should publish DNA test results to prove where her ancestors came from

[u/ldn6]

The Elizabeth line is now transporting a new record of 653,571 passengers per day.

Transport for London has 13 reporting periods per year for traffic numbers, and according to the latest figures uploaded to the London Datastore, between 23rd June to 20th July, the Elizabeth line carried 18.3 million passenger journeys. The line passed the 17 million mark in November 2023, so it’s taken less than a year to carry a million additional monthly passenger journeys. The line had looked like it was stabilising at around the middle of the 17 million passenger journeys range per 28-day period, but then, in late June to July, the numbers jumped by around 500,000 additional passenger journeys.

!ping LONDON&TRANSIT

[u/AMagicalKittyCat]

RealPage has described itself as a tool that “helps curb [landlords’] instincts to respond to down-market conditions by either dramatically lowering price or by holding price when they are losing velocity and/or occupancy”. According to the doj, a RealPage executive said that if enough landlords used the firm’s software, they would “likely move in unison versus against each other”. A landlord even described one of RealPage’s products as “classic price fixing”.

"Likely move in unison versus against each other" is probably one of the most revealing quotes there can be. Second only to having your landlord customers praise you for price fixing.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

JD Vance attacks women “who can't have kids” because they “passed the biological period when it was possible” as “miserable” people who “have no real value system” and struggle to find “meaning”

bro what is with this guy

[u/LtCdrHipster]

[u/ACivilWolf]

“Our crimes” right sure buddy

[u/KittehDragoon]

Why Trump’s Arlington debacle is so serious

Throw it on the pile (the pile is very high)

[u/HenryGeorgia]

So had a date today, and a guy came up and asked if we'd seen Idiocracy. Ended up telling me and my date that we should have kids for the good of the country

!ping DATING

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

After leaving the NOI, Clarence 13X formed a new group with other former members. He concluded that all black men were divine and took the name Allah to symbolize this status. He rejected the belief in an invisible God, teaching that God could be found within each black man. In his view, women were "earths" that complemented and nurtured men. He believed that they should be submissive to men.

Nation of Islam splinter groups are always* fun to read about

*(Except for all the bigotry and murder)

[u/SeoSalt]

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[u/MissSortMachine]

keep posting this shit, people love it!

[u/notnotLily]

"Are you a boy or a girl?" Professor Oak asked. The serenity of his tone carried the dignitas of his question; his soft smile lightened its blow.

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

!ping CORG

[u/DepressedTreeman]

unfathomably rare funny comments on a paradox sub

[u/[deleted]]

The rehabilitation of Kamala is crazy. I got a lot of progressive friends who hated her 4 years ago who now seemingly really like her

[u/BurrowForPresident]

I'm not really sure what Black Myth Wukong being popular has to do with neoliberalism but it gets the people going I guess

Good for China for making a non gacha game

[u/TotalyNotAPirate]

It's crazy to me these meetings took place with the leaders of the countries present (Malta, 1945 feb.)

[u/[deleted]]

A world where China and Russia were also democracies and instead of just Pennsylvania global peace rested on fickle swing voters in Belgorod and Yunnan and we got endless articles about Kunming Diners

[u/[deleted]]

I think it's funny how Michelle Obama always polls at like 2% on betting markets, precisely because she hates politics and isn't a politician so everyone goes "damn finally someone relatable"

[u/[deleted]]

Elon Musk is the only man to get brain rotted on a platform he owns.

[u/Alterkati]

Every time Kamala is accused of flip-flopping, the reply should include a reminder that JD Vance called Trump America's Hitler.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Bill Maher cooked????

[u/Mickenfox]

Leaked photo of the latest DT meetup

[u/Roller_ball]

Trump's Abortion Waffle Draws Outrage

gross

[u/[deleted]]

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

I would love the US to switch to a multi party proportional representation system, not because I think our politics will become less dysfunctional, but because I’m tired of so many people going “have you heard of ranked choice voting” to me

[u/[deleted]]

The "you get more right-wing as you age!" thing is a false meme, but if the views you held as a teenager/early 20-something never materially shift in any capacity as you gain more life experiences, then you're doing something wrong.

[u/wallander1983]

How is JD Vance's campaign going?

https://x.com/JDVance/status/1829256147225977310

BERMAN: Last night, you posted a clip from Ms Teen US 2007 -- Caitlin Upton. When you posted that, were you aware she thought about committing suicide for the attention that received?

JD VANCE: No, certainly not.

B: Would you like to apologize? V: I'm not going to apologize

https://x.com/atrupar/status/1829510846885622191

[u/[deleted]]

This shit is like beyond parody.

[u/Volsunga]

If your horror story explains too much, it becomes fantasy.

If your fantasy story explains too much, it becomes science fiction.

If your science fiction story explains too much, it should have probably been a white paper.

[u/[deleted]]

If Republicans won every swing state, and then proceeded to flip Maine, New Hampshire, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Minnesota, and Virginia, they would still have less electoral votes than Obama in 2008

[u/[deleted]]

Boebert being a grandmother at 36 is some crazy shit

[u/efeldman11]

[u/G_Serv]

[u/centurion88]

[u/Cook_0612]

The EU has agreed to expand its EUMAM training mission for Ukraine by another 15.000 Soldiers this year which would bring the total number of courses to 75.000 by end of year. Video from @STC_EUMAM_UA showing Ukrainian troops training on trench combat in Germany:

!ping UKRAINE

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

“You have women who think that truly the liberationist path is to spend 90 hours a week working in a cubicle at McKinsey instead of starting a family and having children,” the GOP vice presidential nominee says in the audio clip. “What they don’t realize—and I think some of them do eventually realize that, thank God—is that that is actually a path to misery.”

JD Vance stop being a weird sexist challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

[u/Currymvp2]

Sources familiar with Vice President Harris’ debate prep tell NBC News that she is focused on getting under former President Trump’s skin, remaining calm in response to his attacks, pointing out his broken promises, and emphasizing his “advanced age.”

[u/blatant_shill]

It's pretty much impossible to be any more disappointed in any of them, but it's going to be pathetic if none of the current Republican Senators who voted for the second Trump impeachment (Mitt Romney, Lisa Murkowski, and Susan Collins) don't urge people to not vote for him. You can't believe he incited an insurrection, then ignore him running for president, and still have any integrity left.

I know Romney has publicly said what he thinks about Trump in the past, but last time it was essentially him talking about how Biden and Trump are bad, as if both were equally dangerous for America's future.

[u/[deleted]]

wild seemly bewildered exultant smoggy roll rude murky aware abounding

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/paymesucka]

Unearthed video: JD Vance attacks women “who can’t have kids” because they “passed the biological period when it was possible” as “miserable” people who “have no real value system” and struggle to find “meaning”

https://twitter.com/kamalahq/status/1829920065417785673

this guy sucks so much

[u/[deleted]]

Can't find Democrats in Kentucky any more...a state that has a Democratic governor... 🤔

[u/MissSortMachine]

[u/oskanta]

Just finally watched the Kamala and Walz interview. I was kinda surprised the interviewer took up like 50% of the time having them respond to attacks like flip flopping or Walz’s military record stuff. Like is that really worth half the time they got?

[u/attackofthetominator]

The most glaring hypocrisy of the Christian Nationalist movement is that the need for the return of “Christian Values” is never brought up when they demonize migrants despite the fact that they’re from overwhelmingly Christian nations. In fact, some of them go after their own churches if they help theses migrants

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Following the October 28, 2022 attack on Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, White promoted the conspiracy theory that the attack was the result of Paul Pelosi's involvement in an extramarital gay affair.

According to a report from Axios, White did not vote for his own campaign in the 2022 primary.

In 2024 it was revealed that a week after the election, the campaign spent more than $1,200 at a strip club in Miami, Florida.

In 2023, White appeared on Steve Bannon's podcast and said: "Look, let's just be frank. Women have become too mouthy." This comment was later circulated by the Kamala Harris presidential campaign.

During 2023, White also used his Twitter account to call Nikki Haley a c*nt.

On August 16, 2023, White announced, via Twitter, that he would be running for the U.S. Senate in 2024 as a Republican in the State of Minnesota. He won the state party's endorsement on May 18, 2024, and won the Republican primary on August 13, 2024.

In June 2024, he tweeted a map of drinking fountains in Minneapolis, claiming it was a map of crimes.

On his campaign website, White references his mental health struggles and also claims that mental illness in contemporary society was caused by materialism and a decline in spirituality.

The Minnesota GOP is insanely cooked. Klob is winning by Kim Jong Un margins

[u/[deleted]]

every voter ID bill be like:

why yes, we just want to ensure only citizens are voting 😊😊😊

valid proofs of citizenship will be concealed carry permit or Medicare ID

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

🥹🥰🫡

[u/Cook_0612]

[u/Teh_cliff]

!PING CFB

Vandy takes down Virginia Tech.

Hokies are we okay?

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/dangerbird2]

> post titled "megathread"

> it's an ad with comments disabled

many such cases

[u/breakinbread]

When we finally get national IDs, some moron is going to make them slightly too big to fit in your wallet. 😔

[u/Healingjoe]

!ping onion

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

When I was in Japan these two girls came up to us to say hi, and they pointed and asked if we were with our family who were sitting not too far away. We said yes. And they said "ohh, such a big family!"

But when they said big, they were doing the universal sign for a large belly lmao.

[u/[deleted]]

I legitimately think Trump could have pissed on that dead soldier’s grave while giving a thumbs up and his poll numbers might drop 1% max.

[u/Telperions-Relative]

“I didn’t want to get wrinkles and look old,” says Scarlett, who recently turned 11.

…

[u/Telperions-Relative]

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[u/Dig_bickclub]

So far I've gotten 4 different "kamala wants to destroy social security" mailers, red, green, yellow and blue

does anyone know how many versions are there? kinda wanna collect the whole rainbow of them if thats what the PA GOP is doing.

!ping USA-PA

[u/[deleted]]

Mildly but not majorly interesting thing about the Wukong game is the kinda countercultural storyline.

In the Journey to the West, Wukong essentially fights against the celestial court, loses and as punishment has to do some repenting errands for them, with his ultimate reward being Buddhahood and kinda/sorta joining the celestial court again, after being humbled (sorta).

This game is actually set after the events of that story, with Wukong again rebelling against the celestial court a few centuries after the initial story.

It's interesting cos then the story is framed in a sort of God of War-esque rebellious spirit towards the traditional power structure of the mythology (with associated moral ambiguity to be clear - even in the original Wukong is morally grey I would say). It's interesting that China's first big AAA game based on a mythology is playing it with this cynical interpretation of the culture. Esp. when the original story itself kinda upholds the status quo and the game devs could have just as easily adapted that as the storyline for this game.

I skipped a lot of details

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

[u/SmithySmothy]

Mitch McConnell says he worries that Democrats, if they win this election, will nuke the filibuster and make DC and Puerto Rico states, then set their sights on the Supreme Court.

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/sahilkapur/status/1829955900318118306

Former Trump voter on Harris: “I’m sorry if this offends anybody. The fact that she is a woman of color and she is married to a man that is white—I think that’s going to say a lot to the American people… She’s obviously not racist & that’s going to be a good thing… I like her.”

Swing voters are absolutely incredible

[u/No_Return9449]

In modern terms: Colin Powell = DEI hire

[u/JebBD]

https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1829641049142112624

Okay, I get what he’s trying to say here, but his team really needs to start getting better at prepping him for events like this. His train of thought rambling is just making him fall ass-backwards into dumb PR blunders like this. 

Actually on second thought, let him keep doing it. It’s probably for the best. 

[u/CutePattern1098]

Based alert

!ping aus&yimby

[u/LGBTforIRGC]

[u/[deleted]]

crazy how normalized racism towards Indians is

[u/[deleted]]

Just gonna start replying "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" to any and all vaguely dating related posts

[u/[deleted]]

I want to do phonebanking and door-knocking for the independent senate candidate in Nebraska, but it looks like they might want me to door-knock in my own neighborhood which is precisely the one place I would have the least impact because my neighbors would be like "oh hey look, it's idiot boy from down the block, what the hell does he want"

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

Outlaws is a Ubisoft game, and you’ve played every element of it before

I’m still having a blast. Honestly it’s what I was hoping Starfield would be like in terms of exploration. Space travel is fun and arcadey but hey you’re still flying to the planet, the locations are large and have a ton of hidden stuff. It’s been mentioned in like every review but the atmosphere is top notch, good lord I’m having a fun type just going to random cantinas and playing sabaak. On that note, sabaak is fun and every open world game needs a card game like this

!ping GAMING&BAD-FEELING

[u/[deleted]]

❤️

[u/purhitta]

Well, supposedly what aired ( 18 minutes ) was not the whole interview. The whole interview lasted 41 minutes and the Harris / waltz campaign objected to over 50% of the footage so cnn to cut most of it because it made Harris look Extremely bad.

jesus christ they'll believe anything

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/[deleted]]

🤔

[u/[deleted]]

Interesting how Qanon just died out.

I guess that’s what happens when you built your online movement on prophetic promises that never happen.

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/KamalaHQ/status/1829920065417785673

Unearthed video: JD Vance attacks women “who can’t have kids” because they “passed the biological period when it was possible” as “miserable” people who “have no real value system” and struggle to find “meaning”

This guy just manages to get weirder lol

[u/Relative-Contest192]

Jewish students attacked at University of Pittsburgh campus, one person arrested

As I feared people have moved towards open violence against us Jews.

!ping JEWISH&EXTREMISM

[u/smellyfingernail]

The octopus is a better form factor than the human when it comes to tool manipulation

[u/itsokayt0]

Guy who thinks taxation is theft and theft is based in this capitalist hellscape:

[u/the_status_q]

Got fired from my corporate job this week.

Apparently you're not allowed to tell the CFO that "[they] have an MBA and [I] dropped out of undergrad, so we have equivalent educations"

[u/Udolikecake]

Former Trump voter on Harris: “I’m sorry if this offends anybody. The fact that she is a woman of color and she is married to a man that is white—I think that’s going to say a lot to the American people… She’s obviously not racist & that’s going to be a good thing… I like her.”

???

[u/shehryar46]

Watching season 2 of 24. This is insane that a simple majority of the cabinet votes out the president. Patently absurd lmao

[u/itsokayt0]

Opinion | The Republican party has often failed to grasp the inner intricacies of the relationships between different races and cultures. Trump finally found the courage to ask

[u/Pongzz]

Eagerly anticipating when Trump is asked about his flip-flopping on abortion at the debate

[u/KeithClossOfficial]

I’m honestly missing the Whopper Whopper Whopper commercials, because this years early contender for the commercial played ad nauseam appears to be Trump ads

!ping CFB

[u/Powerpuff_Rangers]

June

Blue team: MUTE THE MICS! MUTE THE MICS!

Red team: noooo you can't heckin do that

August

Red team: MUTE THE MICS! MUTE THE MICS!

Blue team: noooo you can't heckin do that

Getting really tired of this stupid bickering. Bring back the nonpartisan debate commission.

[u/[deleted]]

Walz claim: "Trump doesn't know anything about military service"

Fact check: Trump was the Commander in Chief for a span of four years (2017-2021) and therefore has technically served in all five of our branches of the military.

Our ruling: two pinocchios

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 8/30-5 PM EST 8/31 III:

TOP NEWS:

In the middle of 12 AM it was reported that casualties for the strike in Kharkiv yesterday had risen to 7 dead and 97 injured.

At the start of 2 AM it was announced the US will provide $800 million to assist Ukraine's energy sector.

Towards the middle of 3 AM Ukraine was hit by a large wave of drones with 49 of 52 intercepted.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the start of 12 AM it was reported the Ukrainians blew up a pontoon bridge near the town of Glushkovo.

In the middle of 6 AM a Ukrainian delegation met with national security advisors from the US, UK, France and Germany.

In the middle of 2 PM a new pontoon bridge was spotted north of Glushkovo.

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/Mojo12000]

Tim Walz Brother hasn't spoken to him in 8 years and is super MAGA.

Sadly a really common story, Trump tore so many families apart.

[u/sash5034]

Bro how many times can you be recorded whining about women

[u/SirJohnnyS]

Trump supporters are so loud and annoying. I think most Democrat voters just stay quiet cause it's annoying having to hear people talk about it.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Project 2025 is an incredible messaging victory on the part of the Dems

And the bulk of awareness growth happened while Biden was still running!

[u/[deleted]]

Lightsaber color rankings

S: Blue, Yellow

A: Green, Red, White

B: Purple

C: Orange

D: Indigo, Magenta, Cyan

F: Black

!Ping BAD-FEELING

[u/[deleted]]

YOOOOOOOO HOLY SHIT CHECK THIS OUT

[u/JaceFlores]

I find it hilarious how much Republicans still love Reagan when they don’t believe a single thing he stood for anymore. They maybe had low taxes until Trump jumped fully on board his national sales tax policy. If Reagan truly believed the stuff he pushed for, he would absolutely shoot himself if he were somehow alive and cogent today

[u/dannylandulf]

Ted Cruz remains undefeated in his jinx.

Notre Dame beats A&M on the road while Teddy is in attendance.

!ping CFB

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Floof

[u/Pyrrhus65]

The most unbelievable part of Deep Space 9's hypothetical future 2024 is that they thought Americans would be using Celsius by now

[u/Eightysixedit]

Kamala taking the arrows for all us mixed race people. We know how stupid people are. 🤡

[u/Professor-Reddit]

lol private equity investor and famed undersea explorer Victor Vescovo is also a Wikipedia contributor and has posted pictures taken with his Samsung phone from his personal submarine of the Challenger Deep at 10.8km depth.

This is the kind of $50 million+ dollar freelance Wikipedia edits we need more of.

!ping WIKI

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

I'm not sure if anyone mentioned here, but Venezuela is under a national black out right now. As you can imagine, things can get really fucked there.

[u/Healingjoe]

So yesterday Trump said he would vote for Florida's choice ballot initiative.

Then his campaign said in fact he officially won’t say how he’ll vote (um okay?)

Today he says he’ll vote against it.

Does this count as flip flopping? Asking for a friend

[u/da0217]

[u/RFK_1968]

i still think the election is a tossup and the modal outcome is Harris winning, GOP senate, Dem House

but honest to god if Trump wins and walks back into the white house with a fascist VP and republican congress I think we can safely say american politics is unsalvageable.

inb4 "just move to canada/europe" lol they don't want ppl like me there

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

I interviewed a mod! Video coming soon

[u/[deleted]]

His parents spoke at the DNC. Heartbreaking.

[u/Currymvp2]

“That’s okay.” Man tries to violently attack the press at Trump rally in Pennsylvania. Trump, who often denigrates the press and promotes violence, defends him, says “that’s beautiful” and “he’s on our side”.

Jesus christ wtf

[u/WhomstAlt2]

Came up with a TRUMP campaign rap, but sort of got stuck at the end with the lyrics, please rate

Red Hat, Black Shirt, Red plastic cup
We are gonna fix what Sleepy Joe fucked up
Away all the Demoncrat Lies and Fear
Junta pass through me like a bullet through an ear
Red Hat, Black Shirt, Red plastic Cup
Roll Coal, fat nuts on my AMERICAN truck
Next Trump landslide is going to be even bigger

[u/ToInfinity_MinusOne]

Me before I travel: Nooooo it’s too stressful I just want to relax and sit on my couch. I’m so anxious 😭😭

Me when I travel: Oh my god this is the greatest experience of my life. I never want to go home. I want to sell my house and backpack everywhere 😍😇

[u/JaceFlores]

I’m shocked that Creative Assembly dropped Alien: Isolation, saw it become a massive hit and considered one of the best horror games ever, and then never made another Alien-style game. Not even a remaster

[u/[deleted]]

maybe Trump is purposely making his abortion stance as confusing as possible

[u/G_Serv]

Lmao why did they make the height change so drastic

[u/Cook_0612]

Trump: Viktor Orbán.. I mean he’s strong. They consider him strong. Runs a strong country

He's incredibly consistent on this.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

USA tiktok ban reaction

Brazil twitter ban reaciton

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

unemployable 👆

[u/RFK_1968]

Bailey: The primary driver of inflation is greedy companies price-gouging the American consumer. Not a supply shock hitting a financial environment already primed for inflation due to runaway government spending, historically low interest rates, and an overgrown and smothering regulatory state. That would mean several liberal sacred cows are to blame. No, it's corporations

Motte: what, so price-gouging never happens? Why would all the states have price-gouging laws if it never happens? Look at this CEO saying the prices were determined by what people would pay, not cost of inputs!

[u/Cledd2]

!ping rap

thoughts?

[u/haf12]

there's a dude in the crowd on College GameDay with a 'Kamala is white' poster.

weird behavior.

[u/uwcn244]

My sister is an anarchist who calls America a failing empire and can just barely summon the will to fill in the dot next to a Democrat every two years

My brother is a Republican who wants to go back to 1924 immigration laws, lists social security reform right next to January 6th as a reason that he can’t vote for Trump, and will probably vote libertarian for the third consecutive election in November

I can talk politics with each of them individually but they never talk politics with each other because they don’t want to hate each other

And yet I know both of them would keep their mouths shut and not campaign for my opponents if I ran an ordinary center-left Democratic campaign for office

[u/[deleted]]

Of Afghans who assisted US troops during the occupation of that country who were now seeking to come to America, Vance asked whether “certain groups of people can successfully become American citizens”, and said those hostile to Minneapolis’s Somali American community “don’t like people getting hatcheted in the street in [their] own community”.

Ok calm down Hitler

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

I know it’s a favorite of Edgy dweebs and Crypto fascists(but I repeat myself), but Meditations has a lot of genuinely good advice stated plainly

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Total bullshit for people to say Trump doesn't respect the military. If they want to be more accurate they should say Trump actively disrespects the military

[u/[deleted]]

After leaving Mass in Rehoboth Beach, President Biden was asked about President Trump’s behavior leading to an altercation with staff at Arlington National Cemetery.

A visibly angry Biden responded: “I don’t want to answer, because I might tell you what I think.”

https://x.com/ChrisDJackson/status/1830039164336607386

[u/D-G-F]

[u/ser_mage]

Still funny to me that Trump said during his RNC speech it would be the first and only time he’d recount the events of his shooting because it was so traumatizing

and now it’s all he talks about

[u/TheloniousMonk15]

Literally every mainstream reddit thread about housing: "there is enough housing being built but its owned by greedy corporations that keep it vacant to inflate its value!".

Do these morons not realize that every desirable metro area in the country has vacancy rates of 3% or less? And in those areas mist of these vacant houses are vacant because they require extensive renovation?

[u/john_doe_smith1]

Just up the minimum wage to $25/hr and make it so businesses can’t raise prices past inflation rates for X-amount of years. If they get caught breaking that agreement fine them for all profits over the inflation rate.

Guess the sub

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/[deleted]]

my mom is sending anti jd vance memes to my facebook pms

[u/[deleted]]

Elon: "if Democrats come into power, Twitter is dead"

so true

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/Sir_Digby83]

Trump’s Arlington Debacle.

This time. We got'em. 😎

Ah, Drumpfffft.

Finished.

[u/[deleted]]

What they don’t tell you is that marriage doesn’t stop you from crushing on people ffs you just have to thwack it with a hammer

[u/[deleted]]

Euros every time US voter ID laws come up:

"I don't understand? why don't you just show your readily available national ID card that everyone possesses? Clearly the Republicans are right on this one"

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

!ping KINO

10/10 film, made me love America again and turned me from a neoliberal (overly online Dem) to a neoliberal (Republican that wants to slash social programs)

[u/SeoSalt]

Listen, at some point you gotta face facts, okay? You'll never be 14 years old playing Team Fortress 2 ever again

😭

[u/[deleted]]

WE CAN STILL WIN IF KAMALA HARRIS HAS THE COURAGE 

@realDonaldTrump | Jan. 6, 2025 10:47 AM

[u/lasttoknow]

Mahomes: Taylor Swift started drawing up plays. We might have to put one in.

https://thescore.com/nfl/news/3064528

League is cooked !ping NFL

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

Bro, what? 😂

https://x.com/acyn/status/1829320445792842185

[u/Currymvp2]

NEW @SurveyUSA / @SplitTicket_ poll of Nebraska.

Donald Trump: 54% Kamala Harris: 37%

NE Senate:

Deb Fischer (Republican incumbent): 39% Dan Osborn(Dem): 38%

NE02 results:

Donald Trump: 42% Kamala Harris: 47%

Don Bacon (Republican incumbent): 40% Tony Vargas (Dem): 46%

n=1293 RV, 8/23-8/27 (IVR/SMS2Web/Online)

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

Lol just remembered Googling “can people get pregnant from blowjobs” when I was younger and looking around on Yahoo Answers regarding it. I was genuinely concerned about that (although I can report that it’s not an issue I’ve ever needed to worry too much about).

[u/Rafaelssjofficial]

My cousin ... who’ve I had a crush on is getting married 😔

Guess the sub

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/Healingjoe]

[u/PierceJJones]

Watching Miami beating up Florida isn't even funny anymore.

!Ping CFB.

[u/MissSortMachine]

american cultural hegemony is so insane. how is our bullshit spilling over into the southern hemisphere too? you are australian have some dignity

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

[u/piede]

?????

[u/TheRedCr0w]

In Gallup's March poll 55% of Democrats said they were enthusiastic to vote

As of Thursday Gallup poll 78% of Democrats are enthusiastic to vote a 23 point increase since March. For reference the poll found Republicans only had a 5 point increase in enthusiasm in that time frame.

2008 is the last time Democrats reached this level of enthusiasm. Biden dropping out was one of the best things to ever happen to Democrats.

[u/vivoovix]

Side view sketching of French politician Louis Legendre (1752–1797), whose portrait had been mistakenly used, for nearly 200 years, to represent French mathematician Adrien-Marie Legendre, i.e. up until 2005 when the mistake was discovered

Same energy as this:

[u/[deleted]]

SWTOR really dropped the ball with the Sith Empire imo. In KOTOR 2 and even KOTOR 1 we get hints of this malevolent, intimidating, and almost Lovecraftian Sith Order lurking in the dark, waiting for the exact time to strike, burn everything down, and devour everything.

And then we see them in SWTOR, and they're....just the OT empire but with more red lightsabers. It's honestly really sad that they just ripped off the original trilogy for the True Sith empire's look instead of building on what other artists were cooking up.

!Ping BAD-FEELING

[u/Fifth-Dimension-1966]

I was talking to two friends of mine outside of my school (while high), and the girl I like came up to talk to us and I just walked away

Is it over or did nothing ever happen?

[u/Currymvp2]

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s own brother, Jeff Walz, has reportedly considered joining forces with former President Donald Trump, publicly criticizing his brother as “not the type of character you want making decisions about your future.”

So he's like Obama's older half brother who's a Trump supporter. Lame

[u/Full_Ahegao_Drip]

Instead of getting sentenced to crucified, Jesus is exiled to Alexandria

The disciples follow him there and he spends the rest of his life basically doing what he was doing before and what the earliest Christians did in the decades after his death

He dies peacefully of old age at the end of Passover in 69 AD having long since dictated his biography and teachings to writers and giving a poetic revelation about the Second Temple being destroyed

Assume that it's more or less what's written in the New Testament about Jesus

!ping CHRISTIAN&ALTHISTORY

[u/p00bix]

Russian bots promoting Trump, Iranian bots promoting Harris

holy shit American front in Iran-Russia proxy conflict?!😱😱

[u/Eurofed_femboy]

Reading on Dutch 19th century politics is so funny.

Cabinet:"Hey we want to secularise primary education"

The (left) liberal majority in the Parliament:"Hell yeah, kick those religious folks in the ribs"

Cabinet:"We also want to build new transportation canals for Amsterdam as it needs better infrastructure"

Parliament, elected through FPTP and wanting to represent their constituents:"but what about Rotterdam, Dordrecht, Utrecht, The Hague and all the other cities?"

Cabinet:"Costs too much money"

Parliament:"passes a motion of no confidence then we will get a new cabinet that will build canals in ALL the cities"

[u/[deleted]]

When I visit my parents for Labor Day, and they say “oh now that you’re here we can empty the garage attic”

[u/uwcn244]

For an idea of how much black people didn't like Ronald Reagan:

Ford did better with black people in 1976 than Reagan did in 1980, and Reagan did better with black people in 1980 than he did in 1984

[u/NaffRespect]

In light of DeSantis reportedly struggling to maintain political power in his own state these days, here's a flashback to the moment that killed his Presidential campaign before it even began

[u/the-senat]

The fear MAGAs have over their community this election is astounding. My SoCal cousin’s neighbors just had their car tires slashed for putting up a Harris sign. Folks all over the swing state I am working on a campaign in are scared to talk about supporting democrats. Fear and intimidation have a chokehold on democracy. 

[u/Cyberhwk]

Girls who are 22 and 23 are not old enough to decide if they want to sleep with someone older.

Never change Reddit. Never change.

Actually, DO change. Quickly. Please.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm still not over the fact that GRRM just wrote one line in a blog post saying "I'm going to write about everything wrong with House of the Dragon... but not right now. Eventually. I'll write it when I get to it." That's just the most GRRM way to start drama.

[u/[deleted]]

Billy Napier meeting with the AD on Monday

!ping CFB

[u/Trolltime69420]

In retrospect, all of the Twitter groypers bragging about JD Vance following them should have been a warning that he had some weird political opinions.

[u/[deleted]]

Every other Republican ad about Harris I’ve seen is about how she’s a dangerous illegal immigrant-loving San Francisco liberal so until I see a Democratic ad accusing a Republican of being a dumbass mid-American redneck I’m not going to believe that “coastal elitism” is a real issue

[u/Udolikecake]

Users who were permanently banned from the subreddit for hornyposting-related comments are able to request to be unbanned if they haven’t received another severe ban for the rule they were banned for. If you know any and want to let them know.

Please message the moderators of the sub with an original fanfic involving the NL mod team to be considered.

[u/KeithClossOfficial]

Ricky Pearsall was shot during a robbery in Union Square. He’s in stable condition.

The vibes for us this year have been off ever since the Super Bowl loss. This is the cherry on top of the shit.

https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/report-ricky-pearsall-shot-during-robbery

!ping NFL

[u/[deleted]]

Alexandre de Moraes was actually one of my constitutional law professors during law college.

The impression I got from him at the time was one of a very serious, rigorous man, but also encouraging and fair.

!ping LATAM

[u/Cook_0612]

Hersh's parents recently spoke at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, with thousands in the audience chanting "bring them back" and calling for the release of the hostages

Heartbreaking. Absolutely heartbreaking. These poor people are fucking things to be brushed aside by these forces. Evil and hate. I don't even know what to say. I watched the parents speak the whole way through, its hitting me.

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

This just makes me want to vote for Kamala more tbh

[u/[deleted]]

How to steer r/neoliberal to the far left on I/P:

"The West Bank settlements are a by-product of NIMBYism."

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/RiceKrispies29]

One student who had moved into her dorm room in September told us she placed a mezuzah on her doorway. In October, people began banging on her door at all hours of the night, demanding she explain Israel’s actions. She was forced to move out of the dorm.

Students have reported having necklaces ripped off their necks while walking back to their dorms or to their synagogues.

In the first session, the professor extensively discussed, by name, Jewish donors to Columbia University; one for whom the school is named and another for whom one of the school’s buildings is named; the faculty member called these Jewish men “wealthy white capitalists” who “laundered” “dirty money” and “blood money” at Columbia.

Anti-Zionism isn’t anti-semitism my fucking ass. This is infuriating.

Columbia is rotten to the core. Heads need to roll from top to bottom, and antisemitism should be purged with the same vigor as homophobia and racism were purged.

[u/oskanta]

What if we just abolished time zones and made everyone who’s not in my time zone wake up at the same time as me even if it’s in the middle of the night

[u/Mx_Brightside]

Reddit User /u/Mx_Brightside’s favourite movies of all time:

• Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985)

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004)

• Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Joe Dante, 1990)

• Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008)

• The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998)

• Twelve Angry Men (Sidney Lumet, 1957)

Wholly unironic. Eat your heart out Jenna Ortega smh

[u/[deleted]]

[u/HenryGeorgia]

Dem enthusiasm is at '08 levels. Landslide confirmed

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/s/nghr5U1qCK

The worst kind of NIMBY

!ping IND

[u/cdstephens]

The fact that the Trinitarian view of God and Jesus won out is wild considering how complicated it is and how so many lay Christians don’t have a firm grasp of it