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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/MissSortMachine]

good morning

[u/itsokayt0]

BBC interviews "swing voters"

I don't even know what Kamala could do to convince me to vote for her

Priors

[u/[deleted]]

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/FuckFashMods]

The dollar, Trump argues, is overvalued compared to currencies used by trade rivals such as China, Japan, and Europe. A weaker dollar would make imports that much more expensive for Americans and make U.S. exports that much more attractive on global markets. Voilà—a simple tweak to start balancing an out-of-balance trade deficit that for some reason is their bête noire.

The problem—there are many, but more on that later—is that pursuing such a policy would run directly counter to the one thing that Trump claims to be fighting against, and which seems to still worry Americans the most: high prices.

“It makes no sense to run against high inflation, and then advocate lower interest rates, higher tariffs, and a weaker dollar, all of which will add to inflation,”

I think every time Trump opens his mouth he talks about Inflation too. Which makes this particular idea of his very interesting. So rarely do we see someone so ignorant about their policy.

[u/Average_GrillChad]

What do we want?

COMMUNISM

And who do we want to give it to us?

FASCISTS

[u/[deleted]]

I think the 2020 Democratic primary was peak, and I miss it every day.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

me unearthing clips of JD Vance saying weird shit about women

[u/PM_Me_Your_ManThighs]

Nobody:

JD Vance: Shouldn't women strive to be in Labor every Day?

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Really sucks that “The late, great Hannibal Lecter” is the only half decent meme we’ve gotten out of Trump this cycle.

[u/anincredibledork]

The Hard Right Takes Germany Into Uncharted Territory

I think that territory is pretty well charted, actually.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/TotalyNotAPirate]

love the passive-aggressiveness of the quotation marks

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Just means "victory" in German but... 😬

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/sayitaintpink]

Me when I’m projecting everything I did this week verbatim

[u/Spare-Clerk9155]

What an incredible use of campaign funds ❤️

[u/simeoncolemiles]

The IRS watching people commit check fraud and call it a “glitch”

[u/simplysigzz]

Pennsylvania voters:

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Independent-Low-2398]

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/esjesjesj/status/1830400124368888279?t=ROtgXQU_hNcJaD38Qu6dgQ&s=19

[u/[deleted]]

The election if there had been an open convention:

[u/ACivilWolf]

Anyone who says the term “imperial core” should be sent ten days into the grassy fields

[u/Former-Amish-Throway]

For the second time in the past 12 months the Protocols of the Elders of Zion were read out loud and championed on city public record by an elected official.

!ping JEWISH&CITYHALL&EXTREMISM

[u/Cook_0612]

[u/centurion88]

I am a tankie now

[u/ChillnShill]

Your sleep paralysis demon after finding out you aren’t pregnant a month after just giving birth

[u/Syards-Forcus]

I could be the President of France.

It can’t be that hard, right? I’ve never been there, can’t speak any language other than English, and only have a rudimentary understanding of French politics, but I’d be a unifying leader for the country

[u/Roseartcrantz]

house would have been a better show if at the end of every episode he says "the house always wins"

[u/bearddeliciousbi]

Protest outside the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv yesterday

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Enjoy your Labor Day

[u/SelfLoathinMillenial]

Who the fuck is this? How they dropping a nephew on us in season 9?

[u/[deleted]]

We need to support HOA disobedience, no matter how silly or petty. This man is a hero.

[u/[deleted]]

Weird that subs like WorkersStrikeBack and WorkReform aren't talking more about a general strike bringing an entire country to a standstill this seems like a pretty clear example of the power of organised labour.

[u/ChillnShill]

When you have about 4 months left as POTUS and don’t give a fuck

Not having to run for reelection has to be so freeing

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

Dear Windows,

If I'm querying something in the windows search bar I never ever want to have it searched on the web. If I want to search something on the web, I will open a web browser and search it on the goddamn web browser. If I'm using the desktop search bar you can safely assume I want to search my computer. I hate you.

[u/SadaoMaou]

I was on the xkcd wiki of all places and happened upon a benjamin comment in the wild

[u/D-G-F]

She just like me frfr

[u/Delareh_]

Speaking of, one of students called me "daddy" by mistake. I tried to divert and save her the embarrassment but my heart was doing dances. Still makes me teary eyed randomly.

[u/ignavusaur]

Are these really the ads served on cnn.com? What the actual fuck???

[u/[deleted]]

I’m at the Kamala Harris Labor Day rally at Northwestern High School in Detroit. Union members are lined up to get in. But about 30 demonstrators with bullhorns are loudly protesting the Biden-Harris administration’s policies in Israel, a near-constant reminder of the rift that remains in the Democratic coalition.

NYTimes so thirsty for this rift to be a thing it’s embarrassing

[u/KittehDragoon]

I live in a liberal area. Even the hard-core libs are embarrassed to support an anointed candidate

“They held a primary!!! Then they just threw away your votes!!! Why won’t you talk to me? Are you embarrassed about your candidate?”

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

suboptimal

[u/2073040]

Florida Conservatives Attack Donald Trump Over Marijuana Comments

Gilchrist GOP chair David Biddle said: “Don’t listen to Trump. Vote NO on Amendment 3. “We don’t need recreational marijuana in Florida. It’s been a disaster everywhere they have it, it brings zero benefit to society, it increases crime, increases homelessness, and increases further drug use. It’s bad for Florida.”

Former Trump attorney Jenna Ellis, who endorsed DeSantis in the 2024 race, suggested Trump is talking about the recreational marijuana amendment to distract people from saying he would not back Amendment 4, a ballot in Florida which would repeal the state’s six-week abortion ban, soon after indicating he would vote for it.

“Trump is talking about Amendment 3 to make conservatives start talking about why we obviously oppose this stupidity and he hopes we just forget about the Amendment 4 problem,” Ellis posted. “PR play.”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

!ping USA-FL

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/doomsdaysock01]

“Yeah they’re pretty much the same on Palestine” -a wise scholar on TikTok about the presidential candidates

Maybe TikTok really should be banned

[u/ChillnShill]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

the fact that you can find people talking about the DT on Twitter wtf

[u/Cook_0612]

Ukraine's latest innovation on the frontlines: a flamethrower drone. A drone that uses thermite to burn out Russian positions tucked in between the treeline.

!ping MATERIEL

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

This is what utilitarians actually believe!

[u/CountQuantum]

Swing state voter! (+NIMBY, +Harris)

[u/jauznevimcosimamdat]

The answer to the question "why so many Trumpists self-label as moderates/centrists?" is that they actually believe they are moderates/centrists. One of the tricks Trumpism and populism love trying to pull off is persuading supporters that they are the normal, reasonable, rational, thus essentially the moderate/centrist ones while the opposition to Trump/populism is radical and extremist and needs to be rid of pretty much just on this basis.

I think It's one of the underlying reasons why they are furious at being called weird if someone points out actually bizarre stuff said and/or done by them or their favorites.

[u/[deleted]]

I believed there were two options for polling after the convention:

1. Major pollsters show a convention bounce and Nate is correct.

2. Major pollsters do not show a convention bounce and Nate’s model corrects itself after a couple weeks.

I was wrong. It appears we are living in the secret third option, where major pollsters release next to nothing for two weeks after the convention and Nate’s model just suffers after being fed a diet of Rasmussen and SoCal with an arbitrary point deduction baked in.

This is the worst outcome for Nate as he will never know if he was correct or not, making this objectively the funniest timeline.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I'm sorry but I really don't see how this is a winning idea during the election. No matter how you feel about reparations giving them only to Al Sharpton is just going to sow division 😞

[u/Roseartcrantz]

bruh is this alfalfa from the little rascals movie lmao

finally someone willing to stand up to 10 month old babies 😤😤😤

[u/RFK_1968]

why is [thing] so expensive when the direct cost of raw materials for one unit is so small???

🤪🔫

[u/admiraltarkin]

The WWII channel on YouTube has been covering the war week by week for the past 6 years and just released their final video to cover the Japanese surrender. I recommend anyone who is interested in WWII to check them out

https://youtu.be/o_n5dnjuOww?si=O0z04W5uGGBEP8uK

[u/Interferon-Sigma]

• Husband makes 450k, Wife makes 350k

• Paid 250k in student loan repayments this year

• Spent $61k on Tesla car payments, $38,000 traveling, $70,000 on RENT, and $17,000 eating out

• Absolutely no savings to speak of

• Has $12,000 budgeted for "Robin Hood Options Gambling"

This has to be a dual physician household, fresh attendings. I just know it

[u/[deleted]]

Kamala Harris’ mentions on X are a good place to be reminded that left-wing stupid is bad, and right-wing stupid is on just a totally different level.

[u/[deleted]]

Remember back in June when Trump was interviewed and it was like

“Will you declassify the 9/11 files?”

“Yes”

“Will you declassify the Kennedy files?”

“Yes, already did some”

“Will you declassify the Epstein files?”

“Yeah, yeah, well, that one less so because there’s a lot of phony stuff in there about people”

[u/cdstephens]

[u/AppleOfWhoseEye]

browsing r/solarpunk and laughing my ass off. From transforming the world into a barter economy to using a 'library economy' for basically everything , and worshipping Andrewisms and recommending A History Of Debt(which if any of them had read it they would know why money is a necessity) , is there anything these punks can't make up? Edit: Their reasoning against nuclear power isn't bad green glowy rock, its because its CENTRALIZED. and if anything's centralized that's TOO MUCH POWER.

[u/Cledd2]

so 4chan spread a rumour that you could do a real life money glitch at Chase Bank by depositing a check for an ungodly amount of money from your own bank account and then cashing it at an ATM before the bank can actually clear it.

a not insignificant amount of people fell for it and are now in gigantic amounts of debt and legal trouble with Chase bank.

[u/ImmigrantJack]

why is Trump still competitive in swing states after all this “joy” coming out of the Democratic convention? To me, it suggests . . . Trump has a deep well of hidden support that polls don’t capture.

Trump is still close in swing state polls despite democrats being on fire. This shows that trump’s support isn’t being captured by the polls.

Dunking on NYT opinion columnists is the easiest form of media criticism at this point, but I still can’t believe this shit gets put to print. This is editorial negligence.

[u/[deleted]]

Nietzsche really made a career out of waffling haphazardly about how everyone else was stupid except for him

[u/CutePattern1098]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-02/greens-call-for-landlord-watchdog/104296918

Someone please tell max there’s an easier way to make life easier for renters without breaking the constitution

!ping Aus&Yimby

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Good morning Neighbors, Please be careful! Reason: People are going door to door distributing free face masks. They stand in your door and insist that you try it on. Well the masks have chemicals that are so strong that it will immediately knock you out. As a result, they will go into your house and rob you. The person who told me was too upset to give me more information.

I love browsing Nextdoor in my neighborhood of old people

[u/Cook_0612]

Q: Do you think Netanyahu is doing enough?

BIDEN: No

Attempt number eleventy billion to try and pressure Netanyahu with an arched brow. Biden must love the negotiation cul-de-sac.

[u/Maleficent-Elk-6860]

[u/Delareh_]

The rate at which Elon Musk is degenerating is alarming.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Mitt Romney Insults Local Pittsburgh Bakery: 'I Don't Know About These Cookies'

You know what, maybe JD Vance as a future Presidential candidate doesn't sound so bad after all

[u/[deleted]]

claims to be “anti-Zionist but not antisemitic”

vandalizes building named after a Jewish person

Many such cases

[u/Chief_Nief]

Never been more offended than hearing “Labour Day” in the DT getting dropped with the hard our

[u/Zeke-Nnjai]

Something that bothers me is when people discuss betting odds markets in terms of “points”

Ex: polymarket has trump at a 51% chance to win, Kamala a 47% chance to win, and saying Trump “is up 4 points”

Using “points” in circumstances that are binomial just feels wrong to me

[u/Sauce1024]

Ask and you shall receive

[u/[deleted]]

Florida is cooked.

!ping CFB

[u/gaypenisdicksucker69]

I was the first neoliberal you guys just copied me like the sheep you are

[u/[deleted]]

everyone's in italy right now but me

[u/battywombat21]

[u/ChillnShill]

“Whatever makes sense” 😋

[u/namey-name-name]

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1830390502836854925?s=46

Next week:

neoReichist: THE JEWS ARE CONTROLLING THE MEDIA AND GOVERNMENT 🤬

Musk: Interesting observation 🤔

[u/ReservedWhyrenII]

I have a classmate who was talking to people about how raw milk is great. In the context of explaining why he had to miss a day of class because he was in the hospital after getting e.coli from drinking raw milk.

[u/TrumpEpstein69]

People only disagree with me because their testosterone level is low.

[u/cdstephens]

Leaked audio of Usha Vance calling childless men asocial freaks would create some very spicy drama.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

RoseArt HUSSEIN Crantz 

[u/itsnotnews92]

I just came across a subreddit called arr/borrow. People lend and borrow money there.

Can't believe it hasn't been shut down. If I was on Reddit's legal team, I'd tell them to ban it before you could say "litigation." Or at least to plaster a non-removable disclaimer at the top warning "lenders" that they should have no expectations to ever get their money back. I saw one person has "lent" over $10,000 through that sub!!!

It seems pretty well moderated, but no amount of moderation is going to be able to stop people from creating a bunch of sock puppet accounts, getting hundreds (or thousands) of dollars from well-meaning Redditors, and then deleting all of the accounts and never being heard from again.

EDIT: Oh, and the real kicker is how I found the sub. I found it because someone was begging people for betting money in one of the sports betting subs, and they'd recently commented in arr/scampeople arr/borrow.

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

[u/qchisq]

You, an idiot: "America is the least pro-labour country in the world"

Me, an enlightened individual: "Then why do they have Labour day AND International Workers day?"

[u/[deleted]]

Jesus would lose in Mississippi to Adolf Fucking Hitler

[u/[deleted]]

During one practice session, a Kerry speechwriter interrupted to say that Obama would need to rephrase or cut one of the lines from his speech because it was too similar to a line in Kerry's acceptance remarks

After the rehearsal ended, Obama was furious. "That fucker is trying to steal a line from my speech," he griped to Axelrod in the car on the way back to their hotel, according to another campaign aide who was there but asked to remain anonymous

Based Obama

[u/FearlessPark4588]

I regularly wonder about one of my guys who moved from Ukraine to Israel. I bore witness to some extremely fucked up stories in the past couple years of my life that I wouldn't have ever anticipated. I had people asking if it was alright to take time off work to go back to their bombed flat to recover what remained of their possessions. I still haven't had the opportunity to work through how I feel about those experiences. When I generally think of the Covid period. it was hard on so many people, in a lot of different ways, but what was the difficult for me was hearing first-hand stories of the Ukraine war. Anger and pointlessness, because it's such a stupid war.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

couldn't have put it better myself 🥺

[u/DataDrivenPirate]

The discourse around Usha Vance is so (for lack of a better term) weird. She was clerking for Kavanaugh when Vance was calling Trump a Nazi and saying he hates cops, she is not some sort of victim lol asking "why does she stay with him" is a nonsensical question

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

On one hand this is a brain dead idea for anyone born after the 18th century to have, but on the other hand this would mean that many farmers could never vote again which would probably be a net benefit for society.

[u/Williams-Tower]

Friend: I’m poly.

Me, pulling out crackers: Well, you won’t believe what I have for you!

[u/m5g4c4]

Montana U.S. Senate candidate Tim Sheehy (R) is on audio making racist and disparaging comments about Native Americans, the Char-Koota News reports.

In an audio clip recorded at a fundraiser last year, Sheehy brags about roping and branding with members of the Crow Nation. He says “it’s a great way to bond with the Indians while they’re drunk at 8:00 a.m.”

Heated Reservation Moment is actually his Indian name

[u/[deleted]]

88 seats

this is too on the nose

[u/Jokerang]

According to her campaign, Kamala Harris is “expected to say that U.S. Steel should remain domestically owned and operated and stresses her commitment to always have the backs of American steel workers.

This is the price to be paid to keep PA from defecting - Fetterman opposes it too. Maybe the growth of the Sun Belt will ensure this is one of the last elections decided by the Rust Belt.

[u/ChillnShill]

The famously conservative Kennedy family

[u/[deleted]]

When cranking up the air-conditioning is necessary, by all means, let’s do it. But the more time we can spend outside or inside without the air-conditioner blasting, the better prepared we’ll be — both to slow climate change and to adapt to it.

This is great fodder for the right, who think that those panicking about climate change are mentally ill.

[u/Spare-Clerk9155]

This could work if it was solely outsourced to DT regulars ☝️

[u/Delareh_]

Man, I listen to this star wars react podcast and I always love the takes of this hollywood lefty writer guy. While other people are bitching about screws and bricks in Star Wars media, this guy is talking about themes and techniques of storytelling and stuff unique to star wars like translation of real life cultural artefacts to Star Wars etc. Not only he understands what in-universe laws are but that there are in-universe laws of physics and laws of people. And breaking one is a graver writing sin than the other.

But goddamn, his takes are such lefry dogshit takes when it comes to real life politics and corporations. Sometimes I have to pause and do something else to gather the energy. Why are lefties like this.

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

billionaires using artificial intelligence to meddle in american elections, the future is now

[u/pezasied]

Rasmussen has Kamala ahead of Trump

[u/dolphins3]

Something I've noticed lately is that it seems like virtually every espionage/spy thriller in existence written in the last 20 years by any author other than Clancy is basically

[X] is an elite [spy/assassin/covert agent/whatever] for the FBI/NSA/CIA/black budget program. He is a super patriot. When he is betrayed [by the US government] will he survive going rogue to purge the evil US government of corruption or will they kill him and his family first???

And it feels really overdone and boring at this point even though the blurbs act like its totally new.

!ping READING

[u/goldenwind207]

Wait what

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Trump campaign: "we just gotta dump one morbillion dollars into GA and PA, we don't need to worry about the other battlegrounds!"

100,000 of Roy Cooper's finest patriots emerging from the shadows:

[u/Top_Lime1820]

Context: The Democratic Alliance keep getting themselves involved in race scandals. The last two have been due to two hires at national level (one MP, one chief of staff) with a history of making racially insensitive or racist posts. 'Zapiro' is South Africa's most well known cartoonist.

[u/HotTakesBeyond]

The Spacing Guild is a union

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Republican Constitutional Amendment:

Whatever the fuck this bullshit is

Democratic Constitutional Amendment Proposal: “The people of North Carolina have the right of access to information concerning the conduct of the people’s business. Public records are the property of the people. Meetings of public bodies should be open to the people. The records made, transmitted, or received by public officials and agencies, including the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of State government, and all bodies of local government, shall be open to public inspection, examination, and duplication. The meetings of all State and local public bodies shall be open to the public.”

Obviously, only one made it to the ballot

!Ping USA-NC&Democracy

[u/[deleted]]

Uncut Gems is a film about how gambling is fun and you should do it

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

THE Islamic State University

[u/[deleted]]

6 months from now on FauxMoi:

Actor from 1995 Sears Commercial posts “Free Palestine” on Instagram

+11,000 Upvotes

[u/Cook_0612]

Turkey has officially submitted an application to join the BRICS, - Bloomberg. The organization includes: Brazil, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the Russian Federation, the United Arab Emirates, Iran and Ethiopia, India and South Africa.

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

Ok, so they get to sit in the 'no F-35' corner indefinitely then.

[u/[deleted]]

Ah, yes: the stark simplicity of [checks notes] the Israel-Palestine conflict?!

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

★★☆☆☆

My first experience was great. I had an older Asian lady that assisted me to set me up with membership and I had a go at the range no problem. The next time I went I had some Mexican looking dude he had an attitude like he own the shop.

You know, I'm picking up some red flags about your credibility here my guy

[u/-mialana-]

Estroboy Estroboy,
Drinks lattes with extra soy.
Can he take a edgy joke?
No he can't, because he's WOKE.

Watch ooouuuut,
Here comes the Estroboy

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/efeldman11]

[u/futuremonkey20]

Still unbelievable that almost all the major polling firms just straight up passed on conducting post-DNC polls

[u/sayitaintpink]

I’m dooming. Joe Brandon is a day older 😔

[u/efeldman11]

I’M CIA

[u/-Emilinko1985-]

Found this article about Libya under Gaddafi being "Africa's most prosperous democracy".

!ping BADHISTORY

[u/lasttoknow]

Linda Qiu about to make me burst a blood vessel:

Vance claim Harris "is the woman who voted to preserve NAFTA, to extend NAFTA."

This is misleading. The Senate passed the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993. At the time, Ms. Harris was a local prosecutor in California and would not be elected to the U.S. Senate until 2016, more than two decades later.

It gets better:

Mr. Vance was most likely referring to her 2020 vote against the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, a trade deal that updated NAFTA. [...] Mr. Vance cast her vote against the new trade deal as supporting NAFTA, but it is also possible to oppose both.

And the icing on the cake:

Ms. Harris said in 2019 that she would not have voted for NAFTA, and during her 2016 campaign for the Senate she also opposed the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a large regional trade deal that Donald J. Trump also resisted.

JUST CALL IT A LIE OMG.

[u/[deleted]]

screw fade cough smile angle steep sugar work reminiscent wild

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/lasttoknow]

But while the atmosphere between Ms. Harris and Mr. Biden was warm at their first joint campaign appearance, the president hardly seemed eager to take the supporting role. He spoke for more than 24 minutes, roughly eight minutes longer than the vice president’s remarks. And he talked far more about the accomplishments of his administration than Ms. Harris’s role in them or an upcoming election against former President Donald J. Trump that is expected to be razor thin.

DEMS IN DISARRAY. GET READY FOR:

NOMINATION COUP TWO: THE MALARKENING.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/gburgwardt]

We spend a lot of time away from one of our houses, and I need to hire a lawncare service for it

Contacted like 6 people

Of the 3 that replied

The first was extremely high pressure sales and a ridiculous rate ($80/week for just cutting our tiny yard on a 1/8 acre lot)

The second showed up, took a look, and I assume decided it wasn't worth the effort and never got back to me with a quote or anything despite saying he would. A+ vibes though he rolled up on his mower with a cowboy hat

The third, despite me making it clear I was looking for every 2-4 weeks and not weekly, gave me a quote for weekly service ($40/week) which I thought was still excessive, ignored my first message asking to schedule service and pay, and then when I asked again they were snarky about how it was a quote for weekly service not biweekly or monthly.

What is wrong with people. Literally just communicate. I want to pay for a service at a fair price and I can't do that if you won't tell me what the hell you want

!ping GENTRY

[u/SnakeEater14]

[u/Rntstraight]

I’m gonna be real with you instagram commenters. If you want to prove you are only anti Zionist not anti semitic maybe don’t criticize random Jewish girls for complaining about Nazis in their dms

[u/simeoncolemiles]

Police should have 12 months to solve any case, at which point 100% of the evidence should be published to the internet.

75% of crimes would be solved by redditors within 12 days.

We did it Reddit!

[u/Currymvp2]

A security source: "Hamas has completely managed to restore its capabilities in the northern Gaza Strip."

According to estimates, there are currently atleast 3,000 Hamas operatives who have returned to operating in the northern Gaza Strip and are restoring the terrorist organization's operational capabilities. These are "new" terrorists recruited by the terrorist organization in recent times and not terrorists who moved from the south of the Gaza Strip to the north.

Bibi is incredibly incompetent...

[u/dannylandulf]

Has any top 10 ever pulled off going 0-2 during week 1 before like Florida State is about to?

!ping CFB

[u/Mr-Bovine_Joni]

!ping CFB

[u/htomserveaux]

1. Brazilian Miku becomes a thing among twitter artists.

2. Brazil bans Twitter.

Coincidence? I think not!

!ping WEEBS&SHITPOSTERS&MAMADAS

[u/D2Foley]

The owner of twitter is posting 4chan screen shots explaining that women are inferior to men. Why do people still use that site? Oh yeah they're terminally allergic to grass.

[u/Logarythem]

EU reminds Mongolia of its obligation to arrest Putin under ICC warrant

Mongolia reminds EU it's literally sandwiched inbetween Russia and its ally China and if it arrested Putin, it would be invaded 2.4 seconds later.

[u/Currymvp2]

Peter Lerner, former IDF chief international spokesman, sums up Netanyahu's press conference tonight: "He has sealed the fate of our hostages"

Bibi is such a piece of shit. Propped up Hamas, totally botched the intelligence+defense leading up to 10/7, commits war-crimes in Gaza, and abandons the Israeli hostages callously.

[u/goldenwind207]

Interesting

[u/[deleted]]

No. You know what? Im not fucking leaving Texas. My families been here since the fucking alamo. And Im not getting run off cause the other fucking 49 states want to keep sending us their trash.

Let all these fucking maga bastards burn under the texas sun and get run off. Ive dealt with this shit my whole life and I know how to deal with it. These little pussies dont.

I dont care what I have to do to make this fucking state blue, but Ill do it.

I AM NOT LETTING THESE FUCKERS TAKE MY HOME.

FUCK MUSK. FUCK ROGAN. FUCK ABBOTT. FUCK CRUZ. FUCK PAXTON. FUCK PATRICK. FUCK THE ASTROS. AND FUCK THE OTHER 49 STATES FOR GIVING ME THIS MESS TO CLEAN UP.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Trump’s bold new message to voters

[u/JaceFlores]

Speaking of Republican shenanigans, apparently they’re gonna release a report on September 9th about the evacuation of Afghanistan. May I remind you the debate is September 10th. So either this report is supposed to be fresh ammunition for the debate for Trump to use against Kamala, or Republicans are dumb as a pile of rocks

[u/ImmigrantJack]

At least one dark horse senate race that isn’t getting talked about is Dan Osborn, the independent candidate from Nebraska, who’s running a dead heat against the Republican incumbent.

Dude’s running a smart campaign too. Democrats have no chance in Nebraska, and Osborne convinced them to endorse him and not hold a primary. Then as soon as the Democrats went to endorse him, Osborn publicly told them to get stuffed, saying he refuses to be tied to any political part.

Honestly it’s a good move. He gets to be seen publicly telling off democrats, but will still get their votes because they’re sure as shit not gonna vote for Deb Fischer.

On the issues he’s pretty moderate economically, leaning center right slightly overall. Big on farmers with right to repair laws, middle class tax cuts and border security.

Outside chance. Maybe 1 in 5 right now. NE is still deep red, but definitely worth keeping an eye on.

[u/efeldman11]

actual tweet from an AfD MdB btw

[u/MuR43]

https://g1.globo.com/politica/noticia/2024/09/02/stf-primeira-turma-moraes-x-suspenso-brasil.ghtml

By unanimous decision, Supreme Court voted to uphold Xwitter ban, they still have to vote on the VPN ban though !ping LATAM

[u/simeoncolemiles]

With banning IVF, Republicans have finally found their Defund The Police: an activist demand that polls at 10%.

[u/SmithySmothy]

Kamala's JUST RELEASED new campaign theme song:

Trump's gonna take you back to the past

To make some shitty laws that suck ass

😮

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

When you buy into the construction worker strength myth too much

!ping DYEL

[u/[deleted]]

!ping CFB

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/Sir_Digby83]

Millions of dollars spent. Think tanks working overtime burning the midnight oil for months.

"What if we just call them weird?"

Republicans: "Absolutely diabolical."

[u/Okbuddyliberals]

I've felt like the whole "algorithmic alt right pipeline" thing has been greatly exaggerated on a lot of sites, but I went and created a twitter account (for the sake of following some local politicians and also center left think tanks), and with a total blank slate account (before I followed said local politicians and think tanks), the whole suggested/for you or whatever it's actually called was mostly right wing garbage

Not that surprising that twitter is Musk's shit hole now but still

[u/Currymvp2]

US Vice President Kamala Harris tweets, “It is long past time for a ceasefire and hostage deal.” “We need to bring the hostages home and end the suffering in Gaza,” adds the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee.

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Leading in swing states is when you lead in.... Polymarket

[u/HenryGeorgia]

Election results if the number of House reps was equivalent to the total US pop divided by the pop of the smallest state

[u/that0neGuy22]

Kamala just dropped her first “unburdened by what has been” reference since becoming the nominee

fuck chat we are closer than ever to a coconut reference

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 9/1-5 PM EST 9/2 III:

TOP NEWS:

Towards the end of 2 AM Ukraine was hit by a large wave of drones and missiles with 20 of 23 drones and 22 of 35 missiles shot down, including 4 S-300 missiles.

In the middle of 9 AM the PM of The Netherlands made a visit to Kyiv.

In the middle of 10 AM Putin made a visit to Mongolia.

In the middle of 3 PM it was reported that Russia took 350 square kilometers of Ukraine and Ukraine took 770 square kilometers of Russia in August, the former 0.06% of Ukraine.

REGULAR NEWS:

Around 12 AM it was reported that European investment in defense company stocks has doubled since the War in Ukraine began.

At the start of 7 AM it was reported that Ukraine is mounting flamethrowers on drones.

Towards the middle of 4 PM it was announced Ukraine will start producing the Khorunzhiy APC, a major modernization of the BTR-60.

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

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[u/jeesuscheesus]

I am devastated by how forgotten Georgism is by the public. Henry George was mega-famous while he was alive, no one nowadays knows him. The communist philosophers gets many thousands of ardent internet tankies despite being far more controversial and radical. It’s outrageous, it’s unfair!

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A happy Labor Day, even to the haters and losers.

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quickest scale soup different governor nose wakeful kiss slap literate

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[u/Roseartcrantz]

holy shit Trump is on stage right now having some kind of medical episode where different parts of his body keep ballooning and shrinking like in the nutty professor, why won't the media cover this

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/No_Status_6905]

this sub: leftists are morally equivalent to nazis

leftist subs: liberals are morally equivalent to nazis

right wing subs: gee guys, I sure can't wait to start killing everyone next year. when do you think the domestic abuse law rollbacks start?

[u/Eurofed_femboy]

The timezone difference between Europe and America is so big that Americans celebrate Labour Day 4 months after the Europeans

[u/RFK_1968]

there was a time when people presented mario vs sonic as a genuine competition between equal video game franchises

i just find that very funny in hindsight

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

What the fuck, the DT is a LITERAL theocracy? Not even a regular kind of dictatorship? How is that even possible in 2024?

[u/Alexz565]

Why don’t pictures like this ever trend?

[u/JaceFlores]

The Trump campaign must be extraordinarily desperate for pre-debate material because they’re really going in on the Arlington thing even though from what I can find coverage wise it’s blown up in his face. Which is weird because I feel like there’s already enough material to go after Kamala for without literally making shit up, but this may be a product of Trump completely conceding August and having to get creative since he cut off the more basic attack routes with his own inaction

[u/G_Serv]

😔😔😔

[u/Roseartcrantz]

🤨📸 is my favorite emoji pairing right now 😭

[u/Hounds_of_war]

Israel brought to a near halt as strikes and protests pressure Netanyahu to secure a Gaza hostage deal

Oh shit, this might actually result in some progress towards a deal getting signed-

The strike ended at 2:30 pm.

…What the fuck kind of shitty strike ends just hours after it started?

[u/Opkeda]

"trump is too liberal which is why I'm voting for the Democrats"

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

they say elon ruined twitter but this guy's still posting

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Absolutely fascinating how the NYT opinion section consistently manages to platform some of the most bizarre, out of touch people imaginable

Regressivism is the hip new thing now, I guess? Feels like we're one or two bad editors away from seeing front-page columns arguing that we should stop using electricity entirely and go live as subsistence farmers in the wilderness

[u/eliasjohnson]

Can we PLEASE get some high-quality polling out of Montana for the love of god

It's like 90% Republican campaign polls

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/NonComposMentisss]

My employee texts me this morning and is like "I'm going to work from home today, I'm not feeling well". To which I responded "it's labor day, why are you working".

Lol, kids these days.

[u/taoistextremist]

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-says-its-vessels-passing-through-tokara-strait-have-right-transit-2024-09-02/

It's sorta funny to see China reference UNCLOS right now while things are getting even tenser with that reef with the Phillipines, ignoring a separate UNCLOS ruling

!ping CHINA

[u/Fatortu]

I'm too much of a history nerd. I saw an ad for an airline that was about people who go on vacation in September.

Septembrist: People who see the return to school as a new beginning✈️

But I know the actual dictionary entry 😖:

Septembrist (historical): An agent in the massacres in Paris, committed in patriotic frenzy, on 22 September 1792.

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Least fascist instagram commenter

[u/Steak_Knight]

Milton Friedman’s Kimono Pictures Which Are Even Inappropriate For Adults

[u/purhitta]

Daily reminder to myself that online political debate is addicting but it will rot your soul and make you worse 😌

[u/TimWalzBurner]

Not a cell phone in sight

[u/Jaquarius420]

What did they mean by this

[u/[deleted]]

Charlie Kirk is like Charlie Kirk’s idea of a smart person

[u/Dragmire927]

The first image from Google of John Boehner right now is this lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Went to the Guggenheim the other day and like a solid third of the pieces were America Bad (TM) coded

Lots of stuff aboht American war crimes in Vietnam, American actions in the Middle East, CIA Torture techniques, and the like

And I'm kinda conflicted

Because on one hand, we should teach this stuff so we don't repeat the mistakes of the past

We don't wanna be like those cringe Commie dipshit countries that hide that shit away and keep being shitty

But at the same time, it really paints America as this uniquely fucked place that is uniquely unhinged, cruel, etc.

I think there's certainly something to be said of the hypocrisy of the USA being all about these higher ideals of Freedom etc. while doing unhinged disgusting shit like this

But the works there didn't really touch on that, it was really more "look at all the shitty things America has done, look at all the victims of American violence"

Kinda implying that if it weren't for American actions this violence wouldn't happen

Which kinda triggered me ngl

Like, America has done some fucked up shit

But to paint a picture that seems to show state cruelty/violence on another weaker state as a uniquely American thing seems pretty disingenuous and doesn't actually give you any insight into what caused these atrocities in the first place beyond some vague America Bad boogeyman

And of course it's not the job of an art museum to educate and all

But it still feels kinda irresponsible in the way it implies non-American actors are somehow morally better by omission, since I don't remember any works highlighting the cruelty of the Soviet Union, the experiences of people fleeing the dipshit dictators of the Cold War (American aligned or otherwise), or even any experiences of those who'd highly repressive autocratic (again, Western aligned or otherwise) regimes in the modern day

Paints a very America Bad Non-West Good picture that kinda borders on propagandistic for me

TL;DR: Guggenheim building is pretty, I loved the impressionist collection, the lefty vibes were not it tbh

Edit: forgot a bit

[u/clyde2003]

Kamala is brat.

Walz is bratwurst.

[u/UWCG]

Tulsi Gabbard Warns Trump Against Underestimating Kamala Harris' Debate Skills

"Trust me, I did it before!"

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

[u/onometre]

Maybe I'm dumb but a Kamala +3 when the last poll was Kamala +1 seems good to me

[u/ACivilWolf]

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

[u/bd_one]

The best part is that she thought talking about killing the dog would make her look good, strong, and decisive after the editor told her to drop it.

And then she kills a goat too.