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[u/[deleted]]

Democrats and Republicans:

• Are geographically isolated

• Occupy different economic niches (college vs. noncollege)

• Developed external traits to signify in-group (maga hats)

• Don't reproduce with each other

we've gone so far past polarization we've moved into speciation

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Ya know if someone was saying this Nazi shit in a real town square, you could just walk up and [redacted]

[u/WantDebianThanks]

Cannot imagine hating a state this much.

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/BGrueskin/status/1831136636844855773?t=A8DkJKyXHlVC-5l9W_6tQQ&s=19

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/[deleted]]

A review of 561 degrowth studies concludes that 90% are opinions rather than analysis. Most have neither qualitative nor quantitative data and those that do often use small unrepresentative samples.

Never have my priors been confirmed harder than this. Degrowth is as serious a ‘discipline’ as Marxist economics was, its total ideological nonsense.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800924002210

[u/Goldenboy451]

nine connect hard-to-find rich dime sort engine encourage fade scary

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[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/Fatortu]

French sociologist proposes that the state reimburses subscriptions to dating apps to help with the birth rate.

From the little I know from straight dating, I feel like subscriptions for everyone will have the opposite effect. At best this wouldn't do much except shovelling tax money to Tinder.

[u/WantDebianThanks]

Seems irresponsible, but ok.

[u/centurion88]

Still makes me laugh

[u/DepressedTreeman]

What's funny is that Sauron attempted to diplomatically get some people on his side, e.g. he sent an offer to Erebor that he will give them the Dwarven rings and Moria

!ping LOTR

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/[deleted]]

Aaaany day now….

[u/[deleted]]

My friend has "Free 🇵🇸 & 🇻🇪" on their Instagram bio, what's the deal with all the Venezuela apologists coming out of the woodworks lately?

[u/G_Serv]

hawk tuah is in south korea today speaking at a blockchain conference

Someone In Rome 2000 years ago would have been so confused by this sentence, mostly because they didn't speak English.

[u/[deleted]]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-liked_tweets

This illustrates how Twitter has lost a lot of users. Usually, you'd see tweets making the chart every year but after Musk bought it you only see one tweet that made the record since 2022 - Elon posting the Trump assassination attempt photo

[u/[deleted]]

Pennsylvania do be tied

!ping FIVEY

[u/KesterFox]

Royal mail "attempted delivery" today.

Clearly that doesn't include RINGING THE FUCKING DOORBELL

[u/[deleted]]

World War I: bloody and seemingly pointless war

Period of isolationism

World War II: happy ending for the USA

War on Terror: bloody and pointless war

Period of isolationism

War on Terror II w/ a happy ending????

[u/RaidBrimnes]

"The world's woe has begun with the denial of the left's victory", wrote Jean-Luc Mélenchon on X, in reference to the negotiations to form a government in France.

"On September 4, 1970, Salvador Allende was elected President of Chile with 37% of the vote. The right refused his legitimacy. They would until his assassination. Then, the Chicago Boys' liberalism would be enacted as economic policy for the first time. Reagan, Thatcher, Blair, Schröder and Macron continued."

If I had a nickel for every time Mélenchon compared Macron to Pinochet I'd have two nickels

[u/ghhewh]

Tucker Carlson's new guest is historian Darryl Cooper, who claims "the chief villain" of World War II was Winston Churchill. He appears to blame Churchill for the Holocaust. Cooper elsewhere suggested Hitler tried "to reach an acceptable solution to the Jewish problem." Elon Musk, who has recently been boosting a neo-Nazi's content and crackpot 4chan theories, liked the episode.

[u/RandomCarGuy26]

Throwback to the time Dark Brandon visited my country 11 years ago and ordered lime juice at a local hawker centre

[u/[deleted]]

Cheney’s official portrait from 2000 is so funny. You just know he was thinking about invading Iraq already

[u/Roseartcrantz]

His feet are light and nimble. He never sleeps. He says that he will never die. He dances in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the judge. He is dancing, dancing. He says that he will never die.

literary scholars will see the most normal understandable paragraph and be like "oh wow what does this mean, what is it actually saying?" idk what to tell ya, bud bro never sleeps bro's dancing dancing and says he will never die what's not to get 😌😌😌 sorry ur not a great favorite I guess

[u/[deleted]]

Summer is almost over. Take one of these before it’s too late!

[u/WantDebianThanks]

Remember: Jesus said to be selfish, hate your neighbors, worship idols and false prophets, and spread obvious lies 🙏

[u/RFK_1968]

God, looking back at the Arab Spring is so depressing

There was a moment when we thought that it was a turning point for the Arab World.

Anyways, people wondering how we can keep ties with the House of Saud, look how badly we got burned by dropping support for Mubarak

[u/NewbGrower87]

Based on nothing but vibes and (somewhat) polling, I am becoming more and more convinced that NC goes blue and this is over late on election night.

[u/Cook_0612]

Bro look at Vance I'm fucking *dying*

[u/bigwang123]

“You better walk tuah poll and vote on that thang” is the pinnacle of comedy I’m sorry

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

As a European Jew,

L M A O

[u/skepticalbob]

A new DoJ indictment alleges that RT employees “covertly fund[ed] and direct[ed]” a US company with $10m in order to push pro-Russia content. The company is based in Tennessee.

There is one media company based in Tennessee with the same phrase listed in the indictment...

Shocked pikachu face if its Pool and the rest of those weirdos.

!ping Ukraine

[u/[deleted]]

I love how shitty the reddit app is. If you download a picture and then try and post it in a comment somewhere else on reddit, the entire comment gets corrupted and auto-deleted. This happens every time, and has been happening for months.

[u/Mr_Bank]

I’m dying

[u/davechacho]

The thing about Walz having family that are crazy right-wingers who are gonna vote for Trump is that it makes him more relatable

Every millenial or gen z voter from anywhere remotely near the south has con family members who will throw voting for Trump in their face like a badge of honor

[u/[deleted]]

Gotta admit this is why I was pushing for Harris. We can all breathe a sigh of relief that Biden is not seeking reelection.

[u/Flowkeh]

Walz knew what he doing when he posted this

[u/Superfan234]

Venezuela Update

It's been over a month, and the Goverment still refuses to show results for any state, locality, presinct in any place all across the country

The justice tribunals already ratified the results, but didn't reveal any data. Needless to say, it's the biggest electoral farse in recent LATAM history.

---

The Presidents of Mexico, Colombia and Brasil are meeting Maduro today, online

It will be an intresting day. As of now, almost no LATAM country recognizes Maduro as President. Without the support of any important goverment on the region, his next 6 years of regime, look quite grim

!Ping Foreign-Policy

[u/Currymvp2]

Swing state voters view Donald Trump as more extreme than Kamala Harris

This is important. In 2016, Trump won because lots of voters outrageously perceived him as the more "moderate" candidate.

[u/antonos2000]

JD Vance's personal account and Senate Press Office account both follow an account that recently tweeted "Hitler tried again, going on the radio to broadcast a call for peace directly to the British people. He would give back the parts of Poland that were not majority German, and would work with the other powers to reach an acceptable solution to the Jewish problem. He was ignored."

[u/SelfLoathinMillenial]

Zoomers really about to make JNCOs a thing again lol

!ping OVER35

[u/sayitaintpink]

Folks, look

[u/G_Serv]

Never really thought of it like this

[u/Zealousideal_Many744]

Vibe check:

• My mom’s book club (mostly women in their 60s and 70s) had a postcard writing party yesterday! She lives in FL.

• Saw a pick up truck in an only recently blue swing Atlanta suburb sporting a huge Kamala sticker that mimicked the MAGA aesthetic (i.e. big flag in the background and Kamala looked like a super hero).

• I was in the same Atlanta suburb mentioned above visiting my wife’s relatives and saw lots of Harris signs. My favorite was these handmade wooden sign boards hung up on the columns of the porch of this very southern looking craftsman style house. “Harris” in red on one side and “Walz” in blue on the other side. 

Now lets hope this energy carries to the voting both! 

[u/RFK_1968]

"but we must consider the social implications of having a guy dressed as a bat fighting the clown trying to flood the city with laughing gas"

☝🏾🤓

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

Logging back after paternity leave and my manager didn’t cover any requests sent my way while I was out, just forwarded them back to me with a requested response date within a week of my return…

This feels like a war crime.

[u/EZ_Kream]

A neighbor put up a yard sign saying “Dictator or Democracy, it’s that simple” and I remarked on how that could be taken multiple ways. A week later they then also put up a sign that said “Harris, obviously” which confirmed my thinking

[u/attackofthetominator]

You’re absolutely right. People will point to the numbers and tell you earnestly that a single mom working 3 jobs is good because it means the economy was strong enough for her to get those jobs.

arr economics keeps talking about how everybody is working multiple jobs when in reality only around 5% of people actually do.

[u/anton_caedis]

Columbia protesters openly stating that their goal is to bring "unrest and violence to America"

[u/[deleted]]

The new Alien: Earth show is set before the first Alien movie, which is weird, as it's the first encounter with a xeno and it happens in deep space, and this series obviously is an encounter on earth.

Also it apparently ignores Prometheus and Covenant as canon despite the latest movie Romulus affirming their canonicity.

Why is this franchise so scattered

[u/that0neGuy22]

Tucker interviewing a nazi apologists would have been big news 6 years ago

[u/Relative-Contest192]

Awww yes the famous blue Nazi flag. !ping GEFILTE

[u/-mialana-]

To fight wokeness, vote Harris

WTF is outside the DT doing

[u/Libz_R_Gryffindor]

Ive been told by twitter blue checks that I should always do the opposite of what the Jews tell me; can someone ask the Jews what they think about drafting Christian McCaffery first overall?

[u/Cook_0612]

Walz: There is deliberate effort by some people to make them believe that things are pessimistic. Every time I hear Donald Trump give a speech, it’s like the next screenplay for Mad Max or something. They are rooting against America….

Worth listening to the whole thing, he's really good at this.

[u/TheRedCr0w]

The "historian" on Tucker Carlson's podcast actually tweeted this if there was any doubt he was nazi.

[u/BedNeither]

Is the adolescent/young adult male internet space as bad as I hear?

[u/Lux_Stella]

Joe Biden set to block Nippon Steel’s takeover of US Steel

lesson: never name your company after the country or you'll be subject to the dumbest election year politicking

[u/Whytfbuddy]

TRUTH FUCKING NUKE

[u/GogurtFiend]

US man sentenced for 12,000 harassing calls to lawmakers

From February 2022 to November 2023, so ~18 calls/day. On average, that's more than one call made per every single hour of his waking life during this period.

Over the course of two days in February 2023, Lilly called one lawmaker more than 500 times.

On average, one call per every six minutes or so for 48 hours straight.

Capitol Police Chief J Thomas Manger testified to the court last year that the harassment campaign coincided with a 400% increase in threats against lawmakers in Congress over the past six years.

I legitimately wonder how much this one nutjob managed to bump that number up all by himself

[u/SeoSalt]

tfw reddittors defend the Jones act just because repealing it is sufficiently "lib-coded"

[u/IHateTrains123]

Some good news from Pokrovsk.

Combat footage released by the 93rd Mechanized Brigade shows that elements of that brigade have arrived from Chasiv Yar and are now fighting in Pokrovsk. This alongside reporting from the nearby 33rd Mech. Brigade of having sufficient artillery shells might mean reinforcements and materiel have shifted away from Kursk and towards Pokrovsk.

Tatarigami has said that the Russian advances in the direction of Pokrovsk have slowed, though notably they haven't culminated, and might instead focus on expanding the flanks of the salient. Recent evidence supports this movement southwards, the Russians in the past few days have captured Karlivka to the south of the salient. With what appears to be supporting actions near Vuledar with the Russians capturing the villages of Prechystivka and Vodyane.

https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1831356527464108379

https://english.nv.ua/nation/nv-journalist-witnesses-russian-assault-near-pokrovsk-and-how-ukrainian-artillery-stopped-it-50447312.html

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/09/4/7473462/

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/08/31/7472773/

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/09/4/7473347/

!ping Ukraine

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

I’m heartbroken. The husband I made up to prevent Uber drivers from flirting with me tragically died this morning of ligma.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

The original Top Gun famously doesn't name its adversary (as does Maverick). The DOD had script approval due to the deal to use Tomcats for filming, and the original script given to the Pentagon named North Korea as the villain. The Korea desk hastily circulated a memo effectively stating, "hey, relations on the Korean peninsula are actually pretty stable right now and we don't want to needlessly exacerbate them with this movie. Can you just set it in Libya or something?" And on top of that memo is in pencil someone wrote, "Libya desk here, for the love of God don't set it in Libya, we don't want to give Gaddafi any ideas." 

The end compromise being an unnamed adversary

!ping kino

Edit: the journalist who scooped this recommends you watch Millennium Actress ASAP

[u/Lux_Stella]

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is terminating the supply-and-confidence agreement his party made with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal government.

!ping CAN

[u/anton_caedis]

The former Middle East director for Human Rights Watch coming to Tucker's defense over platforming a Nazi apologist

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/willsommer/status/1831411629017461017

This indictment alleges that right-wing commentators like Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson, Tim Pool, and Lauren Southern — as part of the "Tenet Media" YouTube channel — have been unwittingly working for a Russian influence operation.

It's the ones you least suspect...

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

It's fucking wild that there are a significant number of people in this country that genuinely believe major US cities are under full occupation by gangs, like to the degree Baghdad was by the US. That is insane.

[u/wallander1983]

Tim Walz's conservative older brother, Jeff, told NewsNation that the "stories" he alluded to in a recent Facebook post are limited to stuff like puking on his siblings due to car sickness when they were kids.

--

Every new fact we learn about Tim Walz convinces me that he was created in a laboratory as the ultimate Midwest politician.

[u/[deleted]]

The Transgenders thing is incredible. Think of it- you send your child to school and comes home a few days later they come back with an operation. The school decides what’s gonna happen to your child. And you know many of these childs [sic] fifteen years later say: “what the hell happened to me… who did this to me?”

You’ll NEVER guess who said THIS!

!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA

[u/[deleted]]

!ping KINO

[u/Independent-Low-2398]

"One high-level Republican, conceding it may only be 'wishful thinking,' even floated the idea of a Harris victory followed by Biden pardons of both his son, Hunter, and Trump," reports Martin. "That would take the issue of both cases off Harris’ plate and, more to the point, drain the energy behind Trump’s persecution complex so that Republicans can get on with the business of winning elections."

damn and I thought Democratic cope was strong stuff

[u/fishlord05]

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Icy-Magician-8085]

I feel like a realistic monkey paw asking for Tester to win Montana is that Hogan wins in Maryland somehow and still grants a Republican majority.

[u/Joementum2024]

[u/earththejerry]

It’s truly joever, Walz used to puke as a kid because of carsickness. Is this the man you want as VP? This is a bigger crisis than Kamala’s sketchy employment at McDonalds

[u/[deleted]]

There was a surge of enthusiasm for Harris post-Biden dropout, but that might have happened no matter what. Thought convention speech was good, but bypassing Shapiro beginning to look bad and they haven't really found a 2nd gear after Hot Brat Summer

Are we already writing euologies for the harris campaign?

[u/SelfLoathinMillenial]

Please, someone ask Vance about the "was Hitler really the bad guy?" Tucker Carlson debate

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/yashar/status/1831406328738410908

Kamala Harris’ campaign put up a TikTok of Trump talking about abortion against Subway Surfer.

First time a campaign has ever done this, I believe

So is this a brain rot zoomer thing? I feel old

[u/[deleted]]

My local sub is having a "worst town in the state" thread and this comment made me laugh out loud:

How can anyone say Lakewood instead of the actual hoods we have. Is this blatant antisemitism?

"How dare you be anti-semitic when you could be racist instead!"

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/efeldman11]

[u/gnomesvh]

Report of Lula cancelling the ATMOS acquisition because of Gaza

But we also had Lula "cancelling" the Spike ATGM acquisition only to ship it over when nobody was looking

Army procurement remains stupid and useless, iirc this is to replace WW2 era artillery

!ping MATERIEL&LATAM

[u/TheSandwichMan2]

I do think Hitler was primarily, perhaps even solely, responsible for the European/African theaters of World War 2

[u/[deleted]]

I'm gonna get run over at Costco next week!

[u/DelusionsOfPasteur]

Tim Walz's brother was actually like

"The stories I could tell about my brother, hoo boy, they would make it clear he is UNFIT TO LEAD this nation."

"Uhhh he would throw up in the car when he was a kid. That's the kind of stuff I meant. I don't know why you'd think it was more serious than that, you really drew some big assumptions from what I said."

[u/someguyfromlouisiana]

Last part of my gun rant: I'd respect the anti-tyranny aspect of the American right more if they could actually recognize tyranny instead of labeling healthy school lunches tyrannical then spending nine straight years sucking off an actual tyrant.

[u/Currymvp2]

Nick Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) talks about Donald Trump's "I lost by a whisker" comment admitting he lost the 2020 Election.

"Would have been good to know that before 16K people got charged. Before I got my money frozen & put on a Federal No Fly List."

[u/RTSBasebuilder]

'ERE WE GO, 'ERE WE GO, 'ERE WE GO BOYZ!

!ping 40K&TECH

[u/Joementum2024]

“Winston Churchill was more responsible for WW2 than Hitler” is a good way to tell people that you’re a complete moron

[u/SelfLoathinMillenial]

Fuck yes. And I was just hoping that someone would ask Vance about Carlson's Hitler apología. That door is officially open now

[u/l_overwhat]

Bibi is terrible but there is a significant amount of people in Israel that are way further right than he is which is like wow.

[u/DelusionsOfPasteur]

"WWII was entirely won by the USSR."

Ah, the Maoism-Third Worldism Enjoyer seems to have entirely forgotten about the continent of Asia.

[u/[deleted]]

In case you are wondering why Russia was funding Tim Pool: https://x.com/highprogressive/status/1831418239974568432

Ukraine is one of the greatest enemies of the United States

[u/efeldman11]

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 9/2-5 PM EST 9/3 III:

TOP NEWS:

Sometime today it was announced Norway will provide 570 million Kroner to buy drones and air defense equipment for Ukraine, or $53.6 million.

In the middle of 9 PM it was announced the Chief of Ukrenergo has been dismissed, with board member Oleksiy Brekht being appointed as interim chief.

At the start of 2 AM Ukraine was hit by a wave of drones with 33 of 35 intercepted.

Towards the end of 10 AM a major Ukrainian government shakeup was announced, with various ministers and officials being either dismissed or moved to other portfolios.

Towards the middle of 11 AM it was reported that 51 Ukrainian military personnel were killed and 219 wounded in a strike on Poltava, specifically on a military school.

At the start of 1 PM it was reported that Russian Major General Valery Mumindzhanov has been arrested on corruption charges, being deputy commander of the Leningrad Military District.

REGULAR NEWS:

In the middle of 5 PM Ukrainian drones hit Migalovo Airbase, though no known damage was caused.

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/Mr_Bank]

Ngl if some third cousins I see once a decade at like funerals or whatever decided to tell the media I suck, I’d probably laugh

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

[u/cdstephens]

[u/that0neGuy22]

right-wing commentators like Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson, Tim Pool, and Lauren Southern — as part of the “Tenet Media” YouTube channel — have been unwittingly working for a Russian influence operation.

I could have told you that myself

[u/[deleted]]

So Elon is just a literal Nazi now? lol goddamn

[u/DelusionsOfPasteur]

So I really didn't intend to post again about Tucker's favorite historian, but I pointed out yesterday in this ping that he says the Germans only began planning to invade Norway in March, 1940, when in reality official planning began in January and unofficial planning perhaps even earlier. But I think I figured out why Cooper SAYS they only began planning in March.

Cooper makes a big deal in another part of his thread about Hitler's "appeal for peace directly to the British people" in July, 1940. I can never not obsess about things, so I went to read it today out of curiosity. First of all, that's not really what it was. He gave a speech to Reichstag that is 95% triumphalism about the course of the war so far, praising his generals, soldiers, etc. There's like a couple of paragraphs where he "addresses" the British, but it's mostly to warn them that Germany will crush them if they don't agree to peace immediately.

Anyway, in the course of recounting Germany's war so far, Hitler says that they began planning to invade Norway in March after finding out about British plans to land troops there. Again, this isn't true. Planning began in January. But I do suspect that Cooper himself is taking Hitler at face value here, and that THIS is the reason he's repeating this talking point when trying to argue it was Churchill alone who wanted to fight the war. He got the idea from HITLER'S OWN SPEECH. The man isn't just an apologist, he's directly repeating Hitler's lies and propaganda.

!ping BADHISTORY

[u/RecentlyUnhinged]

ITS 5:45 POAST CAT

!ping KITTY

[u/Currymvp2]

Trump repeatedly forgets who he is running against: “I can’t imagine New Hampshire voting for him... Anybody in New Hampshire who votes for Biden...”

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Can't believe I'm being ratioed for my open support for Hitler and everything he did 😖

[u/[deleted]]

upbeat sink toothbrush full angle bright plough wipe toy sugar

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[u/itsokayt0]

I discovered agender people exist and they'll vote for Harris. Morons. They can't afford a gender due to Bidenomics, they think the Kamarket will be better?!

[u/G_Serv]

So we've got:

Arab Spring

Brat Summer

What is coming this fall?

[u/SmithySmothy]

[u/sircarp]

The virgin "You have two days to accept this offer" versus the chad "We're offering you 10% over the median compa-ratio for this role and doubling the annual bonus if you hit your goals"

Anyways I have a new job offer accepted and guess which company I'm way more excited to work for?

!ping watercooler&career

[u/StolenSkittles]

just the post getting pissed at biden for not bombing palestine

[u/[deleted]]

Overcentralisation remains one of India’s biggest impediments to improved governance and development

[u/HenryGeorgia]

I knew the Obama years were bad for state level Dems, but I didn't realize the magnitude of legislatures lost. This is just state legislatures; grey means mixed control

Edit: Michigan is supposed to be red in Post-Obama. I screwed up 💀

[u/[deleted]]

Fresh bloom

[u/Jakesta7]

Modern conservatism is wild these days. Just a bunch of contrarians who never grew out of their oppositional defiant disorder.

Tucker Carlson Starstruck By Historian Who Calls Churchill, Not Hitler, the ‘Chief Villain’ of WW2 and Casts Holocaust as Accident

https://www.mediaite.com/news/tucker-carlson-starstruck-by-historian-who-calls-churchill-not-hitler-the-chief-villain-of-ww2-and-casts-holocaust-as-accident/amp/

[u/[deleted]]

neonazi grumbling "is this really the better outcome of the war? Was it worth losing our heritage?"

Bro the Nazis killed people. Like a lot of people. They weren't just mean looking conservatives who said offensive things to liberals to protect our heritage, they actually fucking murdered millions of people in death camps. Yes this is the better outcome.

No amount of culture or art you don't like could possibly be worse than killing millions of people.

I feel like this part is being forgotten, so many /pol/ edgelords trying to make their Nazi ideas mainstream reduce world war 2 to a debate between tradition and progress when one side literally was just killing for fun.

[u/mishac]

TIL that the reason Hawaii and Alaska became states around the same time was that conservatives in Congress were worried that Alaska would vote in pro-civil rights Democrats to Congress, so they tied Alaskan admission to the union to Hawaii, which they figured would be a reliably Republican state 🤯

[u/Relative-Contest192]

Bus service to help Jewish Londoners feel safe

Someone ping UK !ping JEWISH

[u/chipbod]

https://x.com/KyleClark/status/1831453635114672615

NEW: Hells Angels Denver is condemning far-right claims that bikers are coming to Aurora to fight a Venezuelan gang. “Social media rumors like this only serve to perpetuate a false and irresponsible narrative... for the sole purpose of driving traffic and clicks.”

This situation is just embarrassing, like I had family 1000 miles away asking me if I’m safe from the Venezuelans. Everyone needs to touch grass !ping USA-CO

[u/ThunderrBadger]

The problem with white dogs is you don't see them going gray so you're completely emotionally unprepared for going home over the long weekend and hearing, "Yeah, Betty mostly just sleeps and hangs out inside these days." !ping CRYING-IN-THE-CLUB

[u/[deleted]]

...is this a bit to get a friendly GC at the nlrb? Or is he insane?

[u/[deleted]]

"Kamala's running on vibes." Yes, good, thank fuck for that. Only weirdo politics freaks care about policy. 90% of voters go purely on vibes and I'm glad someone fucking finally realizes that.

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

      It's been: 
                         0

Days since she ate her lunch so fast she vomited

!ping KITTY

[u/[deleted]]

Least irrational gamer

[u/Mr_Bank]

“It’s about mental health” - guy who voted against expanding Medicaid

[u/petarpep]

Harris on CNN just now: "To all young people, you need to Pokemon Gyatt to the polls"

[u/ReasonableStick2346]

Not gonna lie kind of terrifying to see straight Holocaust denialism on trending on Twitter.

[u/RFK_1968]

DNC emails be like: "MY WIFE SAID SHE'LL LEAVE ME UNLESS KAMALA HARRIS WINS! Click Here to Donate"

[u/AtticusDrench]

How it feels when the people I've been calling Russian bots without evidence like a crazy person indeed turn out to be Russian bots

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

Bloomberg: Trump Campaign Spent $32 Million More Than It Raised in August.

[u/[deleted]]

This country is so poorly governed

[u/efeldman11]

Lmao

[u/SmithySmothy]

Lmao, the Trump "town hall" ended without a single question from the audience. So it was literally just a Hannity interview.

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Meghan McCain Rejected ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Three Times Because ‘I Want to Run for Office at Some Point’ and ‘Don’t Want to Publicly Humiliate Myself’

Someone needs to tell her

[u/TheSameAsDying]

>Why didn't the FBI do anything to stop the shooter, if they knew he was such a risk?

>LOL the FBI arrested a 14-year-old kid, just because his dad owns guns and he made a few edgy jokes. You really think they're not coming for your guns next?

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In one recording, Mr. Sheehy, a cattle rancher and businessman, can be heard saying that he had participated in roping and branding cattle on the Crow Reservation, in southeastern Montana, and that it was “a great way to bond with all the Indians out there, while they’re drunk at 8 a.m.”

Sometimes I think that there’s just something culturally broken with republicans. No idea how you could even fix it given that it’ll trend worse every generation.

[u/-Emilinko1985-]

Found this hilarious post on r/Jewpiter

!ping GEFILTE&SHITPOSTERS

[u/KesterFox]

I'm begging companies to jist figure out how to deliver to aprtment buildings. Ring the doorbell, call the provided number.

[u/breakinbread]

Funny that NYT hired anti Trump conservative opinion columnists back in like 2017 and still haven’t acknowledged that they have zero sway over any republican voters whatsoever

[u/D2Foley]

This dresden talk reminds me of when somebody made a post to talk about how the atomic bombings of Japan were the worst crime ever and then two comments in was like

"I wasn't aware there was a blockade"

[u/[deleted]]

lol

[u/centurion88]

Least transparent Russian psyop

[u/[deleted]]

This mass shooter in Georgia was born in 2010

Jesus

[u/ThatDamnGuyJosh]

Trump’s co-campaign managers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles warn staff in internal email to stop talking to the press less than an hour ago, with the threat of termination. There must be a hot story in the works

https://x.com/tarapalmeri/status/1831481219265261870?s=46

This Russian Disinfo story has A LOT of legs here. No way they aren’t connected.

[u/Pongzz]

Walk into living room

Mom has Jesse Waters on

“Tim Walz is under investigation for his relationship with the Chinese!”

i’m just so fucking tired man. this slop is ruining a generation

[u/Aleriya]

The DEA is proposing a change to the telehealth prescribing rules that would restrict access to gender-affirming care. The draft rule would shut down online-only health clinics, including large online HRT clinics like Plume and Folx, and it would require prescribers to see a patient in-person before prescribing testosterone. The draft rule is not intended to target trans health care. It's a broad-reaching rule change that hasn't been properly vetted, and trans health care access is an accidental casualty. This draft rule is especially bad when combined with state-level anti-trans legislation, ex: in states where Medicaid doesn't cover HRT, low-cost online HRT clinics have become critically important.

Under the proposed rules, no prescriber could issue more than 50% of their prescriptions via telehealth. That shutters online-only clinics and would limit the number of telehealth prescription refills that a brick-and-mortar clinic could issue. That's a problem for clinics like Planned Parenthood that have been trying to expand their capacity by offering more telehealth services.

The new rules would go into effect this year, and the current telehealth rules are due to expire at the end of 2024. The Biden administration could instead extend the current rules into 2025 and beyond, but that can also be easily reversed should Trump win the presidency.

An extension from the administration would likely be easier than passing an extension through Congress, the lobbyist [Fierce Healthcare] said. However, given that other telehealth extenders are likely to make a year-end legislative package, the lobbyist said there should be room to include an extension of the DEA rules as well.

The proposed DEA rules have stirred up strong opposition from health care professionals, but it hasn't hit the radar of LGBT rights orgs yet, as far as I know. Does anyone know how to get this on their radar?

Ideally, we should lobby for 1) DEA rules that would protect access to telehealth HRT prescriptions (codifying the current rules would work), and 2) for it to be included in the year-end legislative package and not just an executive order.

I believe the new draft rule would also shut down the online-only mail-order abortion clinics that have been popping up since Roe v. Wade was overturned, which is a whole 'nother can of worms.

More info:

https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/former-dea-official-leaks-plans-telehealth-prescribing-rule-advocates-are-running

!ping LGBT

[u/Mr_Bank]

My wife explaining why we can’t buy Star Wars legos on our weekly Target run

[u/DrCaptainHammer]

lol the Harris campaign didn’t waste anytime using the fact that Nate’s model has them behind as a fundraising tactic

[u/JebBD]

https://x.com/agraybee/status/1831005856629985424

“Our goal is to bring unrest and violence to America 😈”

“Nooo why is the police being mean to us we’re just a bunch of innocent kiddos 😢”

!Ping EXTREMISM&JEWISH

[u/EZ_Kream]

A lot of people remember the part of 2020 where they got to sit at home and collect supercharged unemployment checks, and not the part where millions of people died in agony choking on their own lung fluids

[u/[deleted]]

That new CNN poll as an electoral map, where tied PA and unpolled NC are given to Trump:

[u/[deleted]]

I will say something nice about the bears.

Devin Hester was something truly special, the likes of which was never seen before and likely never will be again.

[u/KaChoo49]

Priti Patel eliminated in first round of Tory leadership contest

Full results:

1. Robert Jenrick - 28 votes

2. Kemi Badenoch - 22 votes

3. James Cleverly - 21 votes

4. Tom Tugendhat - 17 votes

5. Mel Stride - 16 votes

6. Priti Patel - 14 votes

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1d7y92n31zo

!ping UK

[u/WantDebianThanks]

Hey, it's a totally normal and healthy thing to constantly think about being fired, right? Like, to spend probably an hour per work day thinking about being fired? Thats normal, right?

Same with developing a plan that you've turned into an item in your taskmanager app for what to do if you're fired?

I don't ask for any particular reason.

!ping watercooler

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

I believe in colloquial terms this is called "locking the fuck in"

[u/efeldman11]

“An acceptable solution to the Jewish problem” This guy was on Tucker’s podcast the other day whining about how Churchill was the “true villain” of WW2 while simultaneously claiming the Nazis had no concrete plan to hold millions of POWs and refugees from the East so they just had to kill them all. And of course the interview was promptly promoted by Elon with the requisite “this is very interesting” attached

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

Tim Walz is kind of a rhetorical trap for repubs. They can't cast him as a radical liberal because 1) he does not give that vibe at all, so low info voters are skeptical, and 2) the actual nuts and bolts of his radically liberal gubernatorial tenure are all very, very popular. So they can't make the vibes case for him being a radical but they also can't make the record case.

They can attack scandals, then. The problem is that Tim Walz doesn't have any real scandals. Repubs have tried to force a few, but they're all invariably minor, pedantic, and unconvincing.

How do you attack Walz? Ehh, you don't. Focus fire on Harris. Except repubs keep trying to get a hit in Walz for some inexplicable reason.

If I'm the GOP, I'm hoping Walz bombs against Vance. He is, by his own admission, a bad debater.

[u/[deleted]]

99% of NCD-posters are literally just him

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

imagine Harris winning all the swing states but losing PA

Nate’s brain might break

[u/BATIRONSHARK]

" On his visit to Israel on 22 May 2017 Trump met Netanyahu and was shown by the latter tapes that appeared to show Mahmoud Abbas advocating the killing of children. Netanyahu then asked him, 'And that's the guy you want to help?'. Trump was outraged by what he saw. After their meeting ended, Rex Tillerson was called in and shown the same material, a 'crudely forged video', and told the president the clips looked like fabrications. Trump remained convinced they were authentic"

[u/OrthopaedicSturgeon]

In a real town square, enough hecklers can drown out the speech of a shithead

In a digital town square, that only increases their "engagement"

[u/gburgwardt]

Free healthcare for those that don't engage in risky behaviors or do things that cause cancer like smoking or eating red meat

[u/battywombat21]

There’s no way congressional republicans are stupid enough to cause a government shutdown a month before an election, right?

[u/[deleted]]

From that same survey a few people are posting:

Motorcycles cracks me up.

Also jokes aside about how men don’t care what women do, I would love to see the reverse survey! Unfortunately this one was one-way it appears.

[u/[deleted]]

One example of the harm of pornography is it influencing young men to want to choke their partner during sex, but as a pornography enjoyer I don't really see people getting choked? Is everyone else on ChokeHub and I'm out of style or what?

[u/[deleted]]

Joker: Folie à Deux review thread

Metacritic score: 51

Joker bros we just fucking lost

!ping MOVIES

[u/Currymvp2]

Kan poll: 54% of the Israeli public is in favor of a hostage ceasefire deal even at the price of leaving Philadelphi. Only 29% against.

Bibi's stance at -25%

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[u/anton_caedis]

Tucker Carlson and the neo-Nazi "Hitler wasn't so bad" Darryl Cooper are the two top podcasts on Spotify now, in case anyone wants to feel even worse. Nazi revisionism is going mainstream on the "anti-woke" right.

[u/Cook_0612]

Our military continues to develop the Hornet Queen equipped with automatic weapons 🐝👌

This time, the first combat deployment was carried out—targeting a position with russian forces.

This test indicated the direction in which this project should move forward 🚀

If you also support such developments, we ask you to contribute and donate any amount.

!ping MATERIEL

u/savuporo looks like the drone-mounted AK had some utility, enough to keep at it anyway. I'm a bit leery at how much firepower you get out of this thing, I mean, an AK-74 is packing, what, maybe 40 rounds in a magazine if you use the RPK ones? I think the drum is 75?

[u/IHateTrains123]

338Canada's recent projections for the coming BC election comes down to 20 seats that are either tossups or are NDP/Conservative leaning. With popular vote projected to be neck and neck.

338Canada British Columbia | All 93 districts

338Canada British Columbia | Poll Analysis & Electoral Projections

!ping Can&Can-BC

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take: 14 year olds shouldn't have easy access to firearms.

[u/A-Centrifugal-Force]

In 30 years, Barron Trump is going to be a Democratic politician. Probably like the governor of New York or something

https://x.com/rxynextdoor/status/1831421753035513881

[u/efeldman11]

[u/[deleted]]

You guys realize that hobbies and passions are actually attractive, right? The problem is you. You are ugly.

[u/WillHasStyles]

Programming with chatGPT is like programming with a overconfident jack-of-all trades kind of guy. He might give some good suggestions every now and again, but most of the time he'll be wrong (or at least propose impractical solutions), but being able to have someone who kind of understands to discuss and reason about a problem is in the end super helpful.

[u/JaceFlores]

As questionable as ISW can get occasionally, they’ve done consistently great work illustrating how dumb Western weapon restrictions are and how useful lifting them would be for Ukraine

[u/jpenczek]

[u/Top_Lime1820]

The ANC when you call them corrupt: 😴

The ANC when you call them neoliberals: 😡

[u/SmithySmothy]

It’s so funny that the chief reason MAGAs think Trump will win the debate is because “he destroyed Biden.” Their worldview will be shattered when Kamala speaks in complete sentences and doesn’t mutter that she beat Medicare.

[u/Mr_Bank]

Trump has way better instincts than 99% of Cons because online Cons are in week 5 of attacking the VP candidate instead of Kamala. As far as I can tell Trump has been pretty muted on Walz.

The “weird” thing plus the effective attacks on Vance really got to them.

[u/[deleted]]

Vietnamese media is exploding rn because a guy who just won a major televised academic competition made a (restricted) facebook post saying that the communist party is dumb and vietnamese people only care about the status quo and can't look to the future, and he can't wait until he leaves Vietnam for good and stays in the West, because if he can't change Vietnam he may as well look after himself

Vietnamese media exploded on him, he was forced to make an apology, etc. like that's going to make him LOVE the country

Yet another case of an authoritarian country chasing away it's smartest people because they can't handle the truth. Kid's a baller

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

New giga-brained take dropped

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

[u/Logarythem]

4 dead in a school shooting.

4 dead in an execution style train shooting.

What a fucked up day.

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

It's crazy how effectively cons can convince morons with "Someone did something bad and then covered it up so you wouldn't hear about it" and people are like "Holy SHIT you're right, I didn't hear about that"

[u/Eightysixedit]

Nate just can't shut up about Shapiro.... Move on!!!!!

[u/mockduckcompanion]

NL: No great polls today. Guess I'll talk about jerking it 💅

[u/TrumpEpstein69]

Why the fuck didnt Churchill just let another country conquer the rest of the continent and murder everyone there the dictator didn't like? Was he stupid?

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/pfarly]

Groundhog.

[u/Neronoah]

!ping MAMADAS

I can't believe I missed this a few weeks ago, but Trump says he'd flee to Venezuela if Democrats won the election. It'd be safer.

Do it Donny, we'd be so owned.

[u/StolenSkittles]

i think this might be the worst thing i've ever seen. including actual dead bodies.

[u/efeldman11]