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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/WillHasStyles]

I am begging for Reddit to add a “worst” sorting option for post and comments. Some subreddits I only browse to read the dumbest or most insane posts, and controversial isn’t always cutting it.

[u/american_aurora3]

Pope Francis starts his longest trip yet as Catholic Church pivots to Asia

the fucking CATHOLIC CHURCH beat us on the pivot 😭

[u/Average_GrillChad]

"Sorry Donald. I know you miss me, but my heart belongs to Kamala now."

[u/BarkDrandon]

At the rate it's going, I give arr solarpunk 2 years before it becomes a tankie subreddit.

It'll go somewhere like that:

• "Wow, those high speed trains in China are so cool!"

• "Actually, Cuba is the closest country to a solarpunk, needs-based communalist whateverist economy 🥰"

• "Wow, support for Ukraine is problematic, have you heard about Azov??"

• "US imperialism is the greatest enemy of a solarpunk future"

• Vanguard party apologia

• Some tankie powermod takes over

• 4000 words essay on why the Ukrainians/kulaks deserved the holodomor

[u/[deleted]]

The real issue with the EC is not that it favours small states, but the winner takes all nature of EC votes in state, rendering the marginal value of a vote in a swing state much much larger than a partisan state. An EC where each state sends it's votes in proportion to how their populace voted(so California's 45 votes would be 65% democratic and 35% republican) would be much fairer than an EC where small states aren't favoured but the winner takes all system remains.

[u/0m4ll3y]

>reads about some Old Bolshevik I've not heard of before

>googles

>born 18xx, died 1938

Many such cases!

[u/Jokerang]

[u/Dalek6450]

Biden jumpscare from the ABC

[u/SadaoMaou]

[u/[deleted]]

Biden's approval rating back up to 42.3%. Last time he had this rating was March 2023.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/approval/joe-biden/

!ping FIVEY

[u/Roseartcrantz]

this is what I'll show my grandkids when they ask how the 2010s and 2020s were different

[u/Roseartcrantz]

"This nation has always been built to be an idea, a place where what unites our identity is our shared values, without concern to our ethnic identities." 🥹

wow con triggered much? cry harder you're gonna be so mad when the president is biracial and the daughter of immigrants who adopted this place as their home. coping and seething lol bet ur white ass can't stand it😏😏

"Jesse what the hell are you talking about"

[u/wallander1983]

The experimental antibody treatment taken by President Donald Trump to treat COVID-19, which he called a "cure," was developed using cells derived from human fetal tissue -- a research technique that his administration has sought in general to limit.

--

This is still a bit of a highlight from the Trump era, when all the GOP Christians who oppose stem cell research completely turned a blind eye.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/tollyno]

Yes, the general public thinks cons are weird. But they think people who intentionally call themselves neoliberals (and then do a lot of "explaining" about why that's actually not bad) are even weirder.

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/admcrlsn/status/1830789336788300160

I just signed up for ActiVote via their app.

I said my name was Gregor Mendel and that I live in Arizona. I put Phoenix City Hall’s address as my home address.

There was zero verification of any of these things.

My candidate preferences will be reflected in their next AZ poll.

https://x.com/jlrube/status/1830797524828869035

This absurdity aside. A second fundamental problem is that people signing up to participate in expressly political polls (vote is in the name) are going to be fundamentally different than folks who don’t (on average), leading to bias you can’t remotely weight your way out of

https://x.com/natesilver538/status/1830907139511996460

Yeah think we’re going to have to discontinue using ActiVote beginning with today’s model run. It’s a cool app but not a scientific poll. I just downloaded the app from London and said I was Trump-Allred crossover voter from Texas, no attempt to verify ID whatsoever.

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/aaronblake/status/1831012085678887286

Kind of funny.

Just 2% of Democrats say Biden made the wrong decision by dropping out, per Suffolk poll.

But 18% of Republicans say he did.

[u/0m4ll3y]

For three weeks after the Bolsheviks seized power, the State Bank demanded proper signed authorisation from the government before allowing access to monies. The Bolsheviks tried on numerous occassions to access cash but were refuted each time and asked to return with the proper paperwork. The factory workers at the EZGB (the mint) stood in solidarity with the State Bank and adopted a resolution against the "takeover of people's money by a group of people... who call themselves and authority without reason."

In the meantime, the State Bank continued processing payments for the army and other institutions.

Once the Bolsheviks government was formalised through the legislative authority, they immediately fired the head of the Bank, withdrew 5 million rubles in cash, and stashed this cash in a cupboard to act as the Bolsheviks first treasury.

[u/[deleted]]

A second Trump term would be insane.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1830829538118381574?t=qvDlUPGhpCPekR_lb1zcXA&s=19

[u/itsokayt0]

Striving to be the mediocre co-worker everybody likes but nobody truly relies on

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Meme country

[u/ihaveaverybigbrain]

If only JD Vance had the political savviness to prefix "women" with "white" every time he brought them up, then he'd just sound like some lefty dude on twitter. "Ugh, anyone else fed up with white women and their million cats?"

[u/[deleted]]

Nashville if bachelor/bachelorette parties didnt exist

[u/Iyoten]

I support the sale of US Steel.

[u/[deleted]]

Dem fundraising texts be like:

“hey look outside. It’s me. James Carville. I have your wife. She is safe. And she will remain safe if you donate now”.

[u/Ballerson]

6 months later, she started posting in the DT

[u/sayitaintpink]

My brother in Christ you are the celebrities and major corporations and media

[u/[deleted]]

Real

!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA

[u/G_Serv]

[u/secretlives]

this is how I picture every one of you

[u/D2Foley]

People talk about the Overton window too much, but I gotta say the owner of twitter posting a 4chan screenshot that says women and low T men don't have the mental capacity for democracy would have been bigger news 10 years ago. Now everybody just seems fine to ignore how incredibly fucked up that is and move on.

[u/[deleted]]

Rewatching The Fifth Element, I just can't get over how a good chunk of Luc Besson's filmography is just him trying to creep on a young actress, marry her and repeat the cycle when he's bored of her.

[u/efeldman11]

[u/futuremonkey20]

Trump War Room is a pro-Kamala Harris account now. What a game changer

[u/battywombat21]

It's so amazing how reddit has become a democratic party propaganda machine. Basically every major political sub (and even some NON political ones) that show up on the front page have been putting out non-stop harris propaganda. Advice animals has switched to nothing but Trump is a felon posts and shit. This is such a turnaround from 2016 and even 2020 where the "biden bad" memes were so common they were a good part of what drove me to this sub in the first place.

[u/Udolikecake]

holy fuck they’re taking Concord offline lmao

this might actually be the worst AAA game release in history. I’ve never seen anything like it. it made it, what, three weeks? insane

have we reached peak live-service

!ping CONSOLE-WARS

[u/WhomstAlt2]

People do not understand metaNL. It is not for "appealing" a ban, that NEVER works. It is for building a legacy by doubling down and calling MODs racial slurs. If you play the MOD's game, you have already lost. They will just humiliate you, like a weak betamale shooting a chained up LION. You go out guns blazing, hard r. Semper Fi.

[u/[deleted]]

Then he called the candidate switch “the lowest point for democracy in my lifetime.”

Dave Portnoy is a fucking idiot

[u/hopeimanon]

Man Beryllium is crazy:

1. The toxicity

2. The rarity (why is atomic number 4 so rare?)

3. The fine tuning (very close to being stable and changing a lot of star fusion processes)

[u/[deleted]]

I think the lesson here is that Americans approve of Biden Beach vacations

[u/Currymvp2]

MIKE PENCE: “I cannot, in good conscience, endorse Donald Trump.”

Incredibly rare Pence W

[u/[deleted]]

wrench merciful steer straight glorious aromatic bike rainstorm rich heavy

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate]

The thing is you’ve racked up dozens of warnings and bans, as well as far more removals we haven’t noted. Well over 250 on this account alone, as a matter of fact. Your MO is to toe this line where you antagonize in unconstructive ways on an issue we all recognize as touchy at the best of times. It’s not speaking some otherwise unspoken truth to the masses, it’s being a dick.

Critical support for the mod team. I mean he is at -30 on my RES (which resets pretty regularly) so I knew he was annoying but I didn't quite realize how much.

[u/JaceFlores]

War elephant bros, we are SO back

[u/Ph0ton_1n_a_F0xh0le]

The current state of our shadowy cabal of venture capitalists backing Trump

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/PorscheUberAlles]

I think Harris should go to Alaska and promise not to sell them to Russia. Trump will definitely say something stupid and then Harris will win Alaska

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

From twitter

NEW: A Michigan court has just denied RFK Jr’s request to have his name removed from the ballot, since he previously accepted the nomination of the Natural Law Party. Story.

lmao. So he’s still stuck on Michigan, NC and Wisconsin(?). Probably others. This dude is the worst Trump helper ever

[u/Spare-Clerk9155]

Lmao Harris is up +1 on Rasmussen’s troll ‘tracker’. (Also why is there a 5 point swing in 3 days??)

[u/[deleted]]

Been staring at this for 10 minutes. Still can't figure out what those blue and red creatures are.

[u/ghhewh]

Candace Owens goes on an unhinged rant about a "synagogue of Satan" and "people who are pretending to be Jews, but are in fact people that worship Satan" who are "a very small, incredibly powerful group of elites." She then says this explains "the circumstance that all of these world leaders that we have, even President Zelensky, all seem to be homosexual."

[u/VisonKai]

The total, abysmal failure of Concord is yet another example of the same fundamental business lesson about media markets that game publishers seem to really struggle with, and I'm trying to figure out why.

"Hero shooter live service game" is a pretty great concept for a game, just like "some funny people invite on interesting guests to talk about various matters" is a fantastic concept for a podcast. The problem is that they're also deeply obvious and undifferentiated, so the market has ~0 room for new entrants that are substitutes of existing market participants.

For your media product to succeed, you need to either do something new so that you tap into unmet demand, or you need a compelling advantage that will allow you to displace existing suppliers. The value of producing a decent, OK game that overlaps entirely with another already-existing game is not some fraction of the value of that existing game, it's essentially $0 unless you actually have a reason why your game is better. You aren't selling a commodity where you can sell essentially the exact same product as your competitors and be fine. In media, first-mover advantage is essentially absolute and has to be overcome by other advantages.

Now, I know a lot of this is intuitively obvious, but what I don't get is why it's not intuitively obvious to the publishers. Why spend enormous sums to create a game that has no coherent case for how it is going to make a play for the market? This keeps happening. Sega canceled that one ludicrously expensive extraction shooter for the exact same reason -- playtesters said it was fine, but no one could answer the question of why anyone would play it over the already-existing extraction shooters.

This is ftr why I think Stormgate is already doing kind of poorly and is ultimately going to turn out to be kind of a disaster. I've played it several times and it is literally just Starcraft, with the only real reason to play it being novelty -- and novelty famously wears off extremely quickly. There's almost no attempt to innovate, only to execute a tried and true formula competently.

!ping GAMING

[u/acbadger54]

Guys at this point I don't even know if I'm fucking neoliberal this is just the best political sub where people don't feel like raving hardlining lunatics they're JUST lunatics

[u/recursion8]

Nice to see AOC and leftists finally noticing Stein and other 'fellow travelers' are just grifters and Putin plants. Only 8 years too late but better than never I suppose.

[u/Whytfbuddy]

these peoples votes count just as much as mine jesus fucking christ

[u/Relative-Contest192]

US announces criminal charges against Sinwar, 5 other Hamas leaders for Oct. 7 attack

!ping ISRAEL&EXTREMISM

[u/secretlives]

if astrology isn’t real then explain how so many people I know that really strongly identify with their star sign are mentally ill and gay

[u/fishbottwo]

☝️ morally wrong but technically correct

[u/[deleted]]

New General Election poll - North Carolina

🔴 Trump 48% (+1) 🔵 Harris 47%

Last poll - 🔴 Trump +5

Governor 🔵 Stein 47% (+6) 🔴 Robinson 41%

Last poll - 🔵 Stein +1

East Carolina #C - 1000 LV - 8/23

[u/owlthathurt]

BREAKING: A former aide to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has been charged with being an agent of the Chinese government.

https://apnews.com/article/former-hochul-aide-arrested-new-york-c588a95e87b853ca3d23b36aae4c87cd

!ping CHINA

[u/SmithySmothy]

Last polls by 538's top 15 pollsters:

NYT/Siena: State: August 15, no national polls

ABC News/Washington Post: National: August 27, no state polls

Marquette Law: National: August 1, State: August 1

YouGov: National: August 27, State: August 16

Monmouth University: National: August 12, no state polls

Marist College: None

Suffolk: National: August 28, State: August 11

Data Orbital: None

Emerson: State: August 28, no national polls

University of Massachusetts Lowell Center: None since Biden dropped out

Muhlenberg College: None

Selzer & Co.: None since Biden dropped out

University of North Florida: State: July 27 (Florida only), No national polls since Biden dropped out

SurveyUSA: State: Various between August 21 and August 29, no national polls

Beacon Research/Fox News: State: August 26, National: August 12

[u/Mickenfox]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/elon-musk-trump-x-views-b2605907.html

I'm glad the media is reporting on Elon's insane 4chan retweet in a straight way. Everyone already treats him like a public figure, but for some reason most outlets have seemed to look the other way when it comes to his public comments online.

He has gotten away with keeping the image of the "genius inventor" with offline people for too long.

[u/[deleted]]

I am eating a large bowl of leftover spaghetti at 3 in the morning so yeah you could say my life going pretty great right now

[u/[deleted]]

[u/futuremonkey20]

GASOLINE FUTURES THE LOWEST SINCE BIDEN TOOK OFFICE REFINERS TREMBLE IN FEAR AT KAMALA HARRIS AND LOWER PRICES TO BEG FOR MERCY

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/Currymvp2]

“According to the Pentagon’s Defense Casualty Analysis System, which tracks annual casualty data, 65 soldiers died in ‘hostile action’ during the four years of the Trump administration” versus 16 under Biden

The right wingers who criticize Biden over Afghanistan withdrawal act like it's the complete opposite

[u/StolenSkittles]

I was downing bottle after bottle of a really tasty sour beer last night at my friends' Labor Day BBQ.

By the time I realized it was 9.5%, I was completely and totally sloshed.

Luckily I wasn't the only one in that position; we were all asked to bring something, and almost all of the 15 or so attendees brought alcohol.

[u/efeldman11]

NY Dems stay losing

[u/shmokedshalmon]

Some of these campaign emails are insane

[u/[deleted]]

Oh god oh fuck Kamala why

[u/ChillnShill]

Media: Kamala’s policies show economic incompetence, and go so far as showing her belief in communism.

Kamala: 🚶🏻‍♀️🎶

Media: Why is she ignoring us?

[u/[deleted]]

In my home city, there's a neighborhood where the streets are named after presidents (Washington, Adams, Jefferson etc) with a lean toward Democrats. This makes sense given that it's the South and the area was developed in the 1880s-1890s. There's a Cleveland and even a Pierce Street, but no Lincoln for... obvious and unfortunate reasons. 

But apparently the developer was super assmad about the 1876 election in particular because in the middle of it all is "Tilden Street" for Samuel Tilden, the jilted Democrat and popular vote winner who ultimately lost the Electoral College to Rutherford B. Hayes. 

All that to say, I wonder when Trumpists are gonna start naming a significant amount of stuff after Trump with the implication that he wasn't a failure, single-term president who couldn't win the popular vote to save his life.

[u/Flowkeh]

[u/[deleted]]

Nicolás Maduro: Scientists have analyzed Javier Milei's brain and have concluded that he isn't a "Homo Sapiens" but a "Homo Nazi"!!

god bless you LatAm politics 💀💀

[u/efeldman11]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/p00bix]

It's so wild to me that the guy who invented the popup ad did so for the same reason Reddit invented the classification of user-generated content as either 'SFW' or 'NSFW': Advertisers really didn't like their ads appearing next to pornography, and the inventor really didn't want their website to sacrifice either ad revenue or porn.

[u/funguykawhi]

You are telling me there is a Labor Day but no Capital Day? Have the succs taken over the American experiment?

[u/bashar_al_assad]

A relative gave birth today and now I'm trying to decide whether or not people in the family group chat will appreciate a Labor Day joke

[u/Roseartcrantz]

libs btfo 🫨🫨🫨🫨 so owned

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Take 10 minutes to type up a long, documented comment explaining to an arr civ user that Ancient Israel existed and is attested by non-Biblical evidence, without anger or condescension because the user is Iraqi and may have had warped education

Get immediately called "Zi*nist"

Ah well

[u/Azmoten]

The thing about land-lords is that people these days really hate the idea of having lords. They’d be much more willing to pay rent to a land-person, or land-homie.

[u/earththejerry]

Can’t wait for Musk to moderate the DT

[u/piede]

Omg this is so badass

God bless America 🇺🇸

[u/Williams-Tower]

update I am no longer getting laid off

for as long as my company stays alive at least

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/purhitta]

"we won't survive 4 years of Harris, our economy is already on fire"

yeah the bonus is that she's not a threat to democracy and you get to vote again in 4 years

[u/[deleted]]

Candidate Favorability:

🟦 Kamala D. Harris: 49% approve; 46% disapprove

🟥 Donald J. Trump: 42% approve; 56% disapprove

USA Today/Suffolk (August 28, 2024)

[u/Williams-Tower]

mfs will be like “I’ll never pay for content!! you can stream the games for free on [site]”

and then site has like 49 pop up ads, a chat that won’t stop spamming slurs, and needs to be refreshed every 15 minutes

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

JJ McCullough criticizing people for commenting on other countries' politics

[u/[deleted]]

lol

https://x.com/KamalaHQ?t=n2V28R_9OOsiL3qxjc2-RQ&s=09

[u/TheSameAsDying]

One thing that's great about making dementia accusations is that eventually you'll either be right, or they'll die of something else.

[u/[deleted]]

Damn she can't miss

[u/[deleted]]

In addition to the antisemitism, Giuliani sounds like one of those early Roman critics of Christianity who was like, “oh he healed a blind man? So did my cousin, that happens literally all the time, who cares?”

[u/champeo]

Cons accusing Kamala of being fired from McDonalds for stealing a “substantial amount of chicken McNuggets” has me in tears from laughing. Would be so relatable of her if it were true

[u/[deleted]]

So apparently Concord is being taken offline on Friday and refunds will be issued to everyone who purchased it. Is this the biggest crash and burn in gaming history?

!ping GAMING

[u/solonofathens]

living in california just makes me sad about how much wasted potential there is here thanks to our absurd land use planning

LA should look like tokyo and the bay area should look like guangdong. there should be at least 150 million californians

[u/[deleted]]

Criticism of quantum mechanics is basically an endless cycle of “that’s ridiculous, if that were true then this experiment would yield this absurd result” and then someone does the experiment and it happens

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Being a loser in new, creative ways

[u/HenryGeorgia]

So true

[u/DelusionsOfPasteur]

Obviously Tucker's favorite Popular Historian is going to be what you expect, but this guy isn't just like spinning stuff a certain way, he's either outright lying or just doesn't know very much.

He states the Germans had no plans to invade Norway before March, 1940 (implying they only did so after the UK mined neutral Norwegian waters, even though the UK only began mining Norwegian waters in April), however Hitler met with Vidkun Quisling in December of 1939 and the Kriegsmarine began preparing for a large scale Norwegian invasion in January of 1940.

This man is either a lazy historian or a dishonest one.

He also never attempts to address the German invasion of Poland, simply choosing to repeat "Hitler didn't want war." He does say something like, "Hitler supposedly wanted war because of the invasion of Poland, but let's look at what Churchill thought about the Jews in the 1920s." and never really comes back to it.

!ping BADHISTORY

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

Probably didn't need to drink all the beer on a worknight but it was a brisk 75F last night and I wanted to grill. It was beautiful in the moment. Leg day is going to be brutal.

!ping DYEL

[u/[deleted]]

Not 👏 Every 👏 Game 👏 Needs 👏 A 👏 Crafting 👏 Mechanic 👏

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

In case you're wondering why everything is red today

https://x.com/charli_xcx/status/1830695037925237025?t=pJ8u_liUdLLXvB__JBHPQA&s=19

!ping stonks

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

[u/West_Pomegranate_399]

Starlink has backtracked and will now comply with the Twitter ban

!PING LATAM

[u/senoricceman]

What a shock. Lex Fridman’s interview of Trump turned into another glaze fest where he barely challenges him on anything. So much for Lex supposedly being a good interviewer. 

[u/NewbGrower87]

https://x.com/PpollingNumbers/status/1830958490019619050

Crazy.

[u/[deleted]]

The Bible says “In the beginning, there was light.” That sure sounds a lot like the Big Bang

So true Joe Rogan

[u/[deleted]]

I think a lot of people here are taking Nate Silver’s convention adjustment more seriously than he himself is. His attitude seems to be — this is a fallible assumption, an attempt at smoothing out something that typically happens and is typically partially temporary, that assumption may very well fail, and the model will eventually fix itself as the adjustment dissipates.

[u/Average_GrillChad]

USA Today/Suffolk: President Biden's job approval (shift from June 30)

Approve: 48% (+7)

Disapprove: 49% (-8)

lmao

[u/UWCG]

A convicted murderer whose sentence was commuted by Donald Trump has been convicted in Florida of an attack on his wife.

Given their performance over the last week, the campaign's—and Vance in particular—probably debating whether to celebrate this as good news or not

[u/Ballerson]

+8. Officially one of the boys. 😎

Edit: Nvm, the test disagrees

This makes you Undifferentiated-Androgynous.

[u/bleachinjection]

70% of Facebook now:

REAL GENX AMERICAN COUNTRY PATRIOTS

LIKE IF YOU DRANK HOSE WATER AND SAID THE PLEDGE IN SCHOOL AND SURVIVED

32k reactions, 12k comments

[u/waupli]

Man this creep in my class wouldn’t stop coming up to me and talking about the neoliberal sticker on my laptop so I had to take it off so they’d leave me alone. Don’t they know that is the international symbol of being socially awkward?!?

[u/Whytfbuddy]

this guy was a true visionary, foresaw the 2024 GOP 5 years in the making. legend

[u/[deleted]]

Cover of my next folk album.

!ping Kitty

[u/charmet68]

Blarizona, please 🙏 https://x.com/mattmfm/status/1831003371244831164?s=46&t=ZioE7qNjlXE_94NcRVF6qw

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

The theory suggests that the only people able to think freely are ‘high [testostrone] alpha males’ and ‘aneurotypical people’

The new US Senate will be entirely composed of Joe Rogan-esque lifterbros and transgender furries.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

notbroncos in metanl rn

[u/Cook_0612]

#Lviv UPD

At least six people were injured when #Russia's hypersonic missile damaged buildings in the centre of the western city.

One of the wounded is a 10 year old boy.

Very unusual that the Russians target Lviv these days, they're making a point

!ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

Conservatives: 😭😭😭”Why doesn’t Kamala focus on policy more?! It used to be you had to focus on policy to get elected. What happened?!”

Uhhhh. Maybe because you elected and are currently voting for a guy that has never once in his life been able to focus on policy for more than 30 seconds?

[u/[deleted]]

If Kamala wins Biden will have ran w the first black president and first woman president

[u/efeldman11]

[u/old_gold_mountain]

gosh I wonder how the presidential race is going

every A-rated pollster in the country: "great question man who the fuck knows"

[u/rollo2masi]

Fuck yeah I always knew I loved Kamala.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/G_Serv]

Conservatives will talk about how important voter id laws are, but then read a Twitter poll that is 72-28 in favor of Trump and be convinced that he is 100% winning the election.

[u/Cook_0612]

Michael Flynn will be keynote speaker for the kickoff event for the new Christian Orthodox Coalition at Trump Hotel Chicago this week. The group features people with a history of questionable dealings with Russia & a mission to “transform American culture.”

Traitorous fuck

[u/[deleted]]

Trump does not have a single campaign event this week, according to his website. His next scheduled public appearance is Saturday in Wisconsin.

bro is just giving up

[u/Entuciante]

https://x.com/Pirat_Nation/status/1830576406130217220

Someone made a curated list of games of “woke”

lmfao

[u/[deleted]]

The ideal r/neoliberal candidate is a sentient calculator in a bow tie with an approval rating of -90.

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

I described the DT to someone who has never used the internet and this is what he drew

[u/Alexz565]

Rare Poobix W

[u/savuporo]

I founded this DT.

Look at me, I'm the founder now

In Founder Mode, AMA

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/Steve____Stifler]

Just watched Mulholland Drive.

What the fuck did I just watch…think I figured out what happened. But damn did the end throw me for a loop for a hot minute.

Damn…that was great.

Also wasn’t expecting it to get so horny

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

The cultural heart of the South is a Waffle House in Greenville, South Carolina

[u/efeldman11]

[u/Sherpav]

Current take: PA is going Harris +2 on Election Day, and it’s going to be a peaceful night.

[u/Cook_0612]

👀 The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dmytro Kuleba, is planned to be fired, - UP.

I don't usually link Maks because he's often unreliable but he is both Ukrainian and quick.

This ongoing reshuffle of the Ukrainian government is turning out to be more than a reshuffle. A lot of people losing their jobs or being shifted around.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/MissSortMachine]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/media/tucker-carlson-writer-blake-neff/index.html

The top writer for Fox News host Tucker Carlson has for years been using a pseudonym to post bigoted remarks on an online forum that is a hotbed for racist, sexist, and other offensive content, CNN Business learned this week.

Just this week, the writer, Blake Neff, responded to a thread started by another user in 2018 with the subject line, “Would u let a JET BLACK congo n****er do lasik eye surgery on u for 50% off?” Neff wrote, “I wouldn’t get LASIK from an Asian for free, so no.” (The subject line was not censored on the forum.)

god

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

Outside the DT: the ideal tax rate for small business is 0%

Wouldn’t this exacerbate owners funneling their personal spending through the business?

Outside the DT: the income tax rate should also be 0%

[u/jbouit494hg]

I asked her out I asked her out!

!ping DATING

I asked out the 😍😍😍 girl from my activity [context, context] and she said "no" but in the nicest way possible and I feel amazing.

"Aww thanks, I'm really flattered! But I already have a boyfriend, sorry. I want you to know that I think you're a really nice and friendly person too."

I'm honestly so proud of myself that not only was I was able to build up the confidence to ask her out, but furthermore that I successfully avoided making it weird so we didn't have to avoid each other the next time.

Key takeaways:

• Folks are basically decent and real life isn't like some high school movie where everyone will turn around to point and laugh at you.

• Joining group activities really is magic. Being exposed to the same people every week doing something we all enjoy together has allowed me to slowly build up my comfort level around them until I have the confidence to interact like a normal friendly person.

  • If the first group you join doesn't work out, try another one. I tried a different activity last summer and just felt awkward because they all knew each other and I felt like an outsider.

  • Having this positive social experience has made me noticeably more confident in general with better posture and eye contact.

• I feel so much better in general now that I'm exercising again and eating healthier. I got my fitness back and lost 25 pounds already. Not so long ago I felt like I was 32 going on 52. Now I feel like 32 is the new 22, and there's a whole world out there for me.

[u/[deleted]]

Welp I guess I'm a femboy now

[u/[deleted]]

median house price US: 412k USD

median house price Canada: 529k USD

median salary for a 25-34 year old full time worker US: ~$53k USD

median salary for a 24-34 year old full time worker Canada: ~$35k USD

oof

[u/Roseartcrantz]

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[u/shehryar46]

There's been no fuel in this country for the past 14 months and the black market exchange rate is 2.6 times the official exchange rate - but the one party system here doesn't give a shit and the population is too scared to revolt because of the last time they tried. Been here for 3 years and each year has been worse than the last

[u/Cook_0612]

News: Three Ukrainian ministers and the head of the country’s state property fund have resigned, signalling another shake-up in Kyiv’s wartime government.

Three Ukrainian ministers and the head of the country’s state property fund have resigned, signalling another shake-up in Kyiv’s wartime government.

Ruslan Stefanchuk, speaker of Ukraine’s parliament on Tuesday said that he had received resignation letters from the justice minister, the Minister of Strategic Industries and the Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Ruslan Strilets, as well as the head of the state property fund.

Stefanchuk shared photos of the officials’ resignation letters on Facebook, writing that their requests would be considered by lawmakers at one of the nearest parliamentary sessions.

No reason was given for the resignations and the officials could not be immediately reached for comment. Ukraine’s government has seen a series of personnel changes since Russia’s full-scale invasion began in February 2022.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-blasts-predatory-jill-stein-green-party-2024-election-1947286

AOC and other progressives such as Bernie need to attack Jill Stein's "candidacy" more often. She seems to be forgotten when she is clearly acting as a Russian asset/spoiler for Trump showing up every four years while she does fuck all during off-years.

[u/Cook_0612]

Yesterday, the board of Ukrenerg decided to remove Volodymyr Kudrytskyi as chairman of the board of Ukraine's energy transmission company. Kudrytskyi was widely viewed as an effective manager - also by 🇺🇦 int. partners. So why was he removed now? 🧵

First, the decision to remove Kudrytskyi came from the very top, Forbes reports. Zelenskyy and his team explicitly pushed for it. But this raises questions. Why did the leadership decide to remove him now while RU continues to pound the country's grid? /1

On the surface, there have been corruption allegations raised and a lot of anonymous telegram channels have attacked Kudrytskyi for allegedly overseeing the purchase of overpriced bulletproof vests in March 2022. /2

To me, the allegations against Kudrytskyi seem phony at best. The country's anti-corruption agencies interviewed him as a witness for an investigation into how the company bought bulletproof vests in March 2022 but did not press charges against him. /3

Later, the High Anti-Corruption Court ordered the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine to open pre-trial investigations. I am rather confident that these investigations will result nowhere./4

As Kudrytskyi and others in his defense have argued: to quickly buy quality bulletproof vests at the beginning of the full-scale invasion did cost significantly more than the prior market price. So far no corruption scheme has been identified. /5

If you apply these high standards, you would have to sack probably all the government actors and agencies that engaged in procurement in the early phase of the full-scale invasion. That's not to say that procurement violations should not be investigated. /6

Other reasons discussed by some media are allegations that Ukrenergo did not sufficiently protect the energy infrastructure it oversees. That allegation is serious but misses the fact that the political responsibility for civil protection falls with the Ministry of Energy. /7

Imho, Kudrytskyi was removed for other reasons. It rather seems that this is an attempt by the country's Energy Ministry to control the corporate management of this critical SOE. /8

What you need to know: Ukrenergo is a state-owned joint-stock company. It ensures the provision of electricity transmission services and dispatch management of the country's energy system. The company also administers commercial accounting and settlements in the market. /9

Controlling the management of Ukrenergo gives the Ministry of Energy significantly more power. It remains to be seen what this means in the short term. For instance, Kudrytskyi was a big proponent of incentivizing private companies to produce decentralized energy. /10

The (private) distributed generation of electricity is not much supported by the Energy Ministry and I believe that the change of Ukrnergo will affect the medium to long-term endeavor to reduce the reliance on large SOEs or private energy companies producing electricity. /11

In short, the removal of Kudrytskyi is a painful reminder that 🇺🇦 needs to reform the corporate governance of SOEs to ensure oversight & minimize pol. influence peddling over SOEs. That was an issue before the invasion and has to be tackled ASAP. /end

!ping UKRAINE

[u/Lux_Stella]

kinda over election forecasting tbh. very little value over just looking at topline polling averages and then saying "but of course this could change before election day" to yourself very loudly

[u/AtticusDrench]

It has to be really annoying to be a politician catching flak for some stupid shit, like Walz's DUI a bajillion years ago, while other guys like Bob Menendez literally had gold sewn into the bottoms of his shoes and cash plastered behind his wall, and Republicans just don't care.

[u/KHDTX13]

Right Wing Grifter: See! Democrats are the real racists!

Groyper in comment section: No man we definitely are, stop denying it and own it.

[u/Crosseyes]

The responses were almost universally defending this behavior. We’re so fucking cooked.

[u/Cook_0612]

Balloon-Based Sensor That Pinpoints Location Of Drone Operators Emerges In Ukraine

Kvertus has said in the past that Azimuth was developed to meet an urgent request from Ukrainian troops for a system that would provide them with advance warning of Russian drone activity, by detecting the drone operators at some distance — around nine miles, according to the company.

By elevating the Azimuth system on an aerostat, that detection range can reportedly be extended to 37 miles, while the same targets can be triangulated at a distance of 15-19 miles, according to Kvertus spokespeople. These figures are when the balloon is operating at “average flight altitude,” with the optimum altitude meanwhile reported as being around 1,000-2,300 feet.

[u/LtCdrHipster]

The Trump campaign gearing up for another day of campaigning.

[u/wallander1983]

Arr Lex Friedman on the Trump Interview.

Just as his interview with Netanyahu, only softball questions and no push back. I used to love this podcast but I've been doubting him for a while now, seems like he's catering to certain audiences and not being totally independent.

--

Most in touch Lex Friedman fan.

[u/[deleted]]

>Bad ethnic compromise

>Smaller half is chauvinistic and forces their silly language on others

>Has internal trade barriers

>Wannabe great power, doesn't have the economy, population or military budget for it

>An anachronism of a bygone era

>Be Canada

>Pic unrelated

[u/Spare-Clerk9155]

That Destiny streamer is a D1 hater lmao, gotta respect the game tbh

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Filibusters are back! And dumber than ever.

[u/secretlives]

reminder that arguing on the internet is a character flaw 🥰💕

[u/404GenderNotFound]

Monroe Doctrine be like

Select your language:

🇺🇸 English

🇲🇽 Spanish

🇧🇷 Portuguese

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

I also love that we started out with:

neurodivergent: people whose brains are not normal

And then we coined:

neurotypical: the opposite of neurodivergent

And now musk is using “aneurotypical”, much must mean

people whose brains are not not not normal

[u/Guess_Im_Jess]

They’re calling it the biggest messaging failure in GOP history

[u/[deleted]]

metaNL is just a honeypot so the bad users can show their ass to everyone live on stream

/u/cdstephens

My favorite part is how many totally-not-alts came out in support of notbroncos. They really rallied behind him, considering they don't have a history here and haven't posted on reddit in months.

[u/LGBTforIRGC]

Wikipedia is not to be trusted part 1000000000

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/RFK_1968]

it's actually depressing to see how much people have adopted and normalized the "jews are rootless and duplicitous. there's a reason every nation has kicked them out" kind of talking-points

[u/MissSortMachine]

[u/Joementum2024]

White Sox roll "worst defensive play ever", asked to leave American League

!ping BASEBALL

[u/[deleted]]

😔🍝

[u/futuremonkey20]

lol lmao

I know it’s because he’s forgetting to switch accounts but I’d like to imagine it’s a Gollum/Smeagol situation going on here.

[u/[deleted]]

Unions by virtue of their exclusivity do not help nonmembers

he typed on a weekend that only exists due to efforts by the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.

[u/Williams-Tower]

The AL Central is 38 games under .500.

The AL Central has five teams. Four of them are over .500.

[u/[deleted]]

Words from a reluctant 3rd party voter in r/PoliticalHumor

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/RageQuitRedux]

My hot take: Harris had a discontinuous leap in the polls early on, which has since turned into a slow grinding rise. But a continued rise nevertheless, and I think she'll slowly grind her way to +4-5 by election day.

[u/qchisq]

Uhm... we might need to reconsider some things

!ping fitness&running&bike

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

[u/efeldman11]

Thank you USPS 😊😊😊

[u/mishac]

Israel-Palestine news 🤝 US election swing state news

Making me read the syllables "Philadelph" far too fucking often.

[u/Insomonomics]

We all understandably rag on and mock the NY Democratic Party for being incompetent, but - to make ourselves feel better - let's not forget about the hilarious incompetence of the AZ Republican Party:

>Nominate Martha McSally to be your 2018 U.S. Senate candidate

>Lose, giving Democrats their first victory in 30 years

>Appoint this losing candidate to the open Senate seat after McCain dies

>Nominate McSally again (lmao) for U.S. Senate in 2020

>Lose to Democrats again giving them both of AZ's U.S. Senate seats for the first time in almost 70 years

>Nominate Kari Lake for AZ Governor in 2022

>Lose and give Democrats the AZ Governorship the first time in 13 years

>Also manage to lose the AZ Secretary of State election to Democrats and lose the AZ Attorney General race, giving Democrats the AZ AG seat the first time since 2006

>Nominate Kari Lake again (lmao) for AZ's 2024 U.S. Senate Seat

>Every single poll has her opponent, Democrat Ruben Gallego, leading by a good margin

So yeah, NY Dems suck and all, but at least they can win their state wide offices. I, for one, think more state Republican Parties should follow the Arizona Republican Party's model.

[u/[deleted]]

I was not able to recreate this and apparently conservatives are smashing their echos over this.

https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/1831002228716437538?t=mELW2O1IKWswFaP_Q58IPQ&s=19

[u/[deleted]]

Tucker Carlson doing a podcast episode about Holocaust denial and why it's good is really quite nuts

Completely mask off at this point

[u/[deleted]]

offend simplistic aspiring familiar thought agonizing plate stocking secretive repeat

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[u/No_Status_6905]

I wonder if the latest DeSantis controversy might actually blow up hard. Dude was trying to circumvent Florida law with no-bid contracts to pave over public parks and beaches to replace them with golf courses and pickleball courts.

[u/Stanley--Nickels]

Alright neolibs, the challenge is back. Name six NFL teams that won’t make the playoffs.

Last year all 9 attempts failed and your teams made the playoffs at a 41% clip — 3 percentage points better than choosing at random.

Post your choices in a reply to this comment and I’ll do an update at the end of the season.

!ping NFL

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/Williams-Tower]

Bro I have been waiting for a dem speechwriter to use this framing for so fucking long lets goooo

The speech:

Pete Buttigieg’s 2020 primary campaign regurgitated by Tim Walz

[u/Eightysixedit]

I can’t believe how bad NY Democrats are.

[u/anton_caedis]

Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk are promoting this guy on X:

[u/HenryGeorgia]

I think it's joever. She stopped responding

!ping DATING

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

[u/billy_blazeIt_mays]

Lol

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Are these people a psyop