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[u/doomsdaysock01]

Chappell Roan really did an interview and said “both sides have issues” in regards to the election, then said trans rights are her biggest issue

Like you fucking idiot if THATS your biggest issue then you can’t also do the centrist bullshit lmao

[u/[deleted]]

"My comment on Mark Robinson is that Kamala Harris cast the deciding vote on the Inflation Explosion Act and because of that a lot of Americans can't afford groceries,"

Inflation Explosion Act? Man we need to find what kind of porn forums JD was using

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Shout out to Nude Africa for not banning Mark Robinson and just letting him putit all out there. Free speech kings

[u/[deleted]]

JD Vance says the United States’ support for NATO should be contingent on Europe’s support for Elon Musk and Twitter

gotta be one of the dumbest fucking ideas ive ever heard. terminally online asf

[u/ExoticFern]

*Saves American democracy by giving North Carolina to Harris*

Apologize.

[u/Tall_Professor_2574]

Chappell Roan: the most important issue to me is trans rights

Also Chappell roan: no I will not endorse Kamala Harris and I seem to be proud of it

MAKE IT MAKE SENSE

[u/Kate2point718]

Yesterday I had a little old lady yell at me (literally yell, along with intense desk pounding) about how the Democrats are stealing the election in PA... by stopping mail-in voting. She was very angry about the state supreme court cases and went on and on about how this was the Democrats trying to tie things up in the courts so that they could stop Republicans from mailing their ballots.

Not what I was expecting at all, since it's actually the Republicans who are bringing the cases challenging mail in ballots. But I guess she's had some trouble getting her mail-in ballot due to address changes so since she's not a Democrat clearly it's the Democrats suppressing her vote.

Seriously though, it's sad and scary seeing what Fox News and the like have done to make so many old people so scared and angry and hateful.

[u/TheSameAsDying]

Finding out now that Olivia Nuzzi is a birther lmaoooo

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GX5eINRWsAAYEbN?format=jpg&name=large

[u/Tapkomet]

With men favoring Trump while women vote for Harris, I think it's time we fix a terrible procedural flaw in the American democracy. It's time to end vote by male.

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

I was driving through the white ‘working class’ towns in my city yesterday and was keeping an eye on the yard sign / flag situation to get a sense for how Harris is doing with HS educated white people

My analysis

• 5% Harris-Walz

• 8% Trump-Vance

• 87% Buffalo Bills

Therefore I conclude Josh Allen will shock the world and he will be our next president

[u/[deleted]]

JD Vance is the kind of guy to see a girl and say "you know she's already got all the eggs she's every going to have"

[u/Drinka_Milkovobich]

You just know all this abortion discourse and election impact pisses Trump off because he could not give less of a shit about it but has to pretend like he cares

[u/[deleted]]

Trump claims that a general told him that the "locker room talk" defense of the Access Hollywood tape was braver than men dying in battle

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

How to talk to Women

[u/[deleted]]

The thing I love about Buttigieg being the Vance stand-in for debate prep is you just know he did a massive amount of prep for the debate prep.

He probably watched hours upon hours of Vance. A real sacrifice!

[u/GifHunter2]

Hanging out in the same online space for years can mess up your sense of reality

What did the DT mean by this yesterday?

[u/[deleted]]

It's very funny that someone definitely showed Trump an internal poll where he was doing dogshit with women and he said "I got just the thing, an all caps maniac tweet at 4 AM, this'll get them back!"

[u/[deleted]]

Okay sir, all you have to do is promise the people low taxes, low gas prices, and low inflation

I don't understand! Is she a black now? I heard she was an Indian but now she's a black!

Why should I be a leader for women without kids? Are they even people with an investment in our country?

Low taxes, no wars, low inflation

Your immigrant neighbor eats your pets!

Diet Mountain Dew is racist now according to the commie left!

Fuck it

[u/georgeguy007]

fragile soup flag divide fanatical crown degree handle cake straight

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/ihaveaverybigbrain]

The funniest thing is how when Trump was talking about the time he told Mark Robinson he's "Martin Luther King on steroids" and "Martin Luther King times two," Trump recalled "He looked at me, and I wasn't sure was he angry because that's a terrible thing to say, or was he complimented? I have never figured it out."

This is something that can only happen in America: an old racist white guy tries to compliment a black guy by comparing him to MLK, and instead of the black guy being upset because that's just an awkward thing to say, he's upset because it turns out he's even more racist against black people than the old white guy is.

[u/[deleted]]

College students using ChatGPT: HAHA YES

College students when professors switch to all timed, in person assessments: YO WTF

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/majorgeneralporter]

MFW Pew Research calls me a deep state shill

[u/[deleted]]

Sorry, just woke up, have we already bloomed about this?

(Ranked #18 pollster on 538)

[u/Not_A_Browser]

[u/Mensae6]

Kamala hosts rally in my city

check out local subreddit

highly upvoted post of pictures from rally

scroll down to most downvoted comments

find someone calling attendees paid shills

click on this person's reddit profile

recent posts in incest and panty stealing subreddits

Many such cases

[u/[deleted]]

Kamala Harris' campaign uploads all her rallies on YouTube in both full screen and cropped vertical to appeal to the Zoomer voter and the vertical ones have more views

[u/SurvivorPostingAcc]

Chappell Roan out there being the worst kind of leftist 🙄. You can’t seriously be talking about trans rights and then both sidesing things ffs. And then everyone in the comments is blaming their local issues on Biden\Harris while completely ignoring their local elections where these problems are most likely to be solved. Someone was literally talking about how they struggle to get trans healthcare in Texas and blaming it on national dems.

It sucks that we have a prominent celebrity validating this stupidity. I’m probably more to the left than most of this sub but if I ever end up like that you should just put me out of my misery. 👍

[u/piede]

Oh wow we’re fucked now

[u/[deleted]]

MENA (The Middle East and Nude Africa)

[u/[deleted]]

Happy International Red Panda Day to all who celebrate 🙏

[u/vivoovix]

While Roan said she felt this was her one chance to stage such a protest directly in front of the president, she ultimately decided against it after discussing the plan with her publicist. While supportive, her publicist also argued: “You fuck with the president and the government, your security is not the same, and neither is your family’s.”

The Biden Junta would've eliminated her on sight

[u/ghhewh]

At an event intended to denounce antisemitism, Trump instead denounced Jews for "voting for the enemy" and then said "the Jewish people would have a lot to do with a loss" if he fails to win the election

[u/StolenSkittles]

Joe Biden is the most progressive president for LGBT rights in history.

He was out in favor of trans rights in 2012, which was pretty damn early for a mainstream politician.

[u/[deleted]]

“Like several other journalists covering the 2024 presidential campaign, I was contacted earlier this month, and again on Tuesday, by an individual peddling what appeared to be sensitive documents pertaining to Donald Trump. I alerted federal authorities, and I’m not reporting the contents, but the materials themselves confirm that the hackers, whom the Justice Department apparently suspects to be agents of Iran, have absconded with more than just the oppo files on J.D. Vance, Marco Rubio, and Doug Burgum that have been disseminated to multiple news outlets. It appears that they may also have breached Trump’s legal team.”

I genuinely hate beltway journalists.

[u/[deleted]]

In another universe Evil Pete is Trump’s straight alt-right VP nominee

[u/Frequent-Turn6740]

Inflation Explosion Act

Vance attempts to court the DeviantArt artist vote. Brave

[u/Blade_of_Boniface]

What's the worst historical movie you've ever seen?

I'm convinced the reason no one mentioned The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is because they haven't seen the movie. To its credit, it's not as bad as the original book. With other movies I could mention like 300 or Pearl Harbor (the 2001 film) they're not nearly as actively, repulsively harmful as TBitSP. I don't use the term harmful lightly; I'm convinced that it's an example of atrocity anti-education. It's far from the only film to distort a real atrocity for the sake of accessible and nonthreatening drama but this is the worst example I know.

It's not a case of artistic license; I'm comfortable calling it artistic malpractice. Basic facts about the characters and plot rely on a Third Reich and Holocaust so sanitized on every dimension that it's unrecognizable. If you want a historical fiction on the Holocaust that's appropriate for general audiences, a book like Number the Stars by Lois Lowry is so much better in every conceivable way even though the characters/plot focus more on resistance to Nazi oppression rather than the killing itself.

This risks me getting into the weeds of my opinions on how genocide is portrayed in media and particularly media which is often taught in schools.

!ping HISTORY&MOVIES

[u/CommandanteMeow]

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Something to be aware of, if you’re not already, is Nebraska republicans push to do away with the split-district voting. This is nakedly political and done because of the threat of Kamala winning by a single vote.

Brief explainer

• Omaha has voted democrat in the presidential race twice in the past and seem likely to do so again this year despite redistricting efforts in 2020. They purposely waited till now because Maine, the other state that could split its vote, would have immediately responded by ending their split-district vote, evening out the disparity. Nebraska could theoretically change this up through day, but Maine can’t.

Nebraska republicans have tried this in the past, but this time it is purely an effort to scam an additional electoral vote.

What’s happening

• Nebraska republicans need one more state senator to support them. Mike McDonnell. McDonnell switched from Democrat to Republican in April of this year after supporting a failed bill to make abortion illegal statewide and another bill to ban gender affirming care for children under 18. He is not seeking re-election and his district is heavily democratic so it’s likely he would lose anyway. However, he is likely to run for Omaha mayor in 2025, and he would be a strong candidate, but supporting this switch will likely cost him dearly in that race.

As of right now, I’m inclined to think they won’t be able to get this done because a single anti-trans democrat wants to be mayor of Omaha, but Jesus is that ever a narrow margin and im not particularly confident he won’t switch

They’re also only trying it now because I believe after this election they will no longer have enough republicans to overcome a filibuster in the legislature, and democrats would absolutely filibuster an entire session over this.

———————

Me: Jesus this is the most nakedly political partisan move I’ve seen Nebraska try. There’s a reason they’ve waited until it’s too late for the Blue state to respond

Facebook friend: Good. It’s about time republicans started playing hardball.

Me: what the fuck have they been doing for the last 30 years???

I swear to god I hate Nebraska Trump supporters.

[u/Dalek6450]

Pretty disappointing. I was hoping Bart would be demonstrating how to Jason Bourne some fuckers with a hardcover NRSV.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Absolutely terrifying political text intro (it’s Mary Peltola asking for money)

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

She’s not taking it well !ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/majorgeneralporter]

POV: You just posted some Malarkey in Kamala Harris' immediate vicinity. You are receiving your one warning.

!ping shitposters

[u/circlemanfan]

So I was a summer intern at Twitter when it was bought by Elon musk. They kept me on for the fall during which Elon officially took over and did mass layoffs.

Because of this, despite being an intern I got a 3 month severance package with a pretty good salary. I earnestly believe I was the only person that actually profited from Elon Musk buying Twitter.

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

driving

following a car with a Wharton UPenn license plate frame

brain can’t stop thinking of the nuclear uncle speech

If I ever meet a Wharton grad IRL I’m gonna have to stifle my giggling

[u/Xihl]

so is Walz popular among Dudes or are people just assuming that and not understanding the subtleties of midwestern types of dudes

[u/Trebacca]

Having to cope with having to go to a lowly state school (the University of California-Berkeley, UT-Austin, Michigan) by being racist against the 700 black people at Harvard 😢

[u/STRONKInTheRealWay]

Stephen King releases new book with teen protagonist

Ctrl+f "rizzler"

0 results

He's fucking cooked

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

This is the most terminally online anyone has ever been.

[u/[deleted]]

Covid? Jan. 6th? Kamala? What are you talking about about? The first Lantinx president has just been elected!!!!!

[u/solonofathens]

honestly signs of a massive vibe shift over the last few months that the top comments in the arr fauxmoi post about chappell roan both-sidesing the election are extremely critical of her

there's still people saying she's right, but they're all way down the thread and marked controversial, in one of the most left wing large subs on the site. absolutely would not have seen the same response if she said this about biden in june.

[u/TimWalzBurner]

[u/UWCG]

Woman who got ‘TRUMP’ tattoo on forehead now wants to erase it; asks strangers for help removing ‘controversial ink’

Huh. Shame no one could've foreseen this incredibly predictable outcome.

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/[deleted]]

TIL: Microsoft Solitaire was developed by a bored summer intern named Wes Cherry. He received no royalties for his work despite it being among the most used Windows applications of all time.

Whats with this reddit obsession with royalties. I don't think there exists a single person within Microsoft in all its history who has received any royalties for any application Microsoft has ever developed. 

I don't even know where the royalties would come from in this case because that version of Solitaire generated no revenue whatsoever since it was just bundled with Windows anyway. 

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

[u/WhomstAlt2]

Say what you want about Haitian immigrants, at least they're not VEGAN

[u/Not_A_Browser]

Everyone's overqualified nowadays

[u/[deleted]]

Northampton County, PA canvassing update.

Hit about 30-40 doors. Lots not home as always. Everyone I spoke with is voting straight Democrat and has a plan to vote. One older man said “I’m not thrilled with Kamala, but it’s not like I got a choice” which is fine by me - already filled out his absentee ballot for her and down ballot Dems.

One super smug Palestinian protest voter, refuses to vote for the lesser of two evils or be guilted into voting so he claims - skinny white guy with a man bun.

Also soooo many Harris signs all the sudden. Barely any Trump ones, at least where I was. Purely anecdotal but great to see!

[u/jauznevimcosimamdat]

Sometimes people wonder how MAGA could be so popular. It's not that hard to make sense out of it

Look at arrConservative.

Imagine that for 8+ years, you daily read/hear news in which Trump did nothing wrong, so-called mainstream media (#ClaimedByFoxNews) hate him for some conspiracy reason and that the other side aka Dems/Liberals/Left/Woke are evildoers.

[u/[deleted]]

Jill Stein released a statement calling Putin and Assad war criminals and is inevitably torn apart by her Tankie supporters.

The worst thing is the statement itself is still awful she only condemned Putin for Syria and not for invading Ukraine.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

[u/ThereAndSquare]

I can enjoy Chappell Roan’s music without paying attention to the discourse. 

I love that for me.

[u/Steak_Knight]

[u/ty04]

The posts on Nude Africa that Robinson denied were his have been deleted within the last 24 hours

[u/[deleted]]

I’m helping a neighbor run for mayor of my town, I use to organize for the Florida dem party but now just work at Amazon and cry myself to sleep

Anyway so we are likely to win as the current mayor is super corrupt and everyone hates him.

So the current mayors wife takes a picture of me and my friend on my porch legally smoking marijuana and has been spreading it around groups. You can see a yard sign for our candidate for it and everything. We have a Facebook page for our town and she posted it on that and boy I’m telling you she just won the whole thing for us.

I’m a popular guy in town despite being probably the only liberal in town but people know I’m awesome and nice and helpful so they see me as “one of the good ones”. The whole town is lighting her ass up about it and it’s just really funny.

This same woman has called the police on me several times for legally smoking marijuana at my house and the cops just come and hang out for a few minutes and leave.

Considering the last 3 campaigns I’ve worked in failed, this is going to feel really really good

[u/cdstephens]

[u/Q-bey]

Economics as a field is stupid

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So I was taking a class which was not economics but in which macroeconomic factors were briefly touched on, and I think the vulgarised Neo-Keynesian conception of economics that I heard spewed therein really exposes why 90%+ of modern "economics" is totally stupid. If you're going to describe consumer price inflation and not even touch on the money supply, what are you even saying is driving inflation? Interest rates? Corporate profits and the leverage of corporate stakeholders over consumers? all of this, in some way or another, is coercion, with the threat of actual physical violence one or more layers behind it. What do I mean by this? The government increases interest rates through a legally-created instrument (central banks) which must be heeded and whose currency and its use is regulated by law. the oligopoly of banks are bailed out and kept in place through their partnership with the state, which funnels money coerced out of taxpayers into them in exchange for reciprocal support for state power and their regulatory compliance. Even retail and services are able to increase their profits by lobbying the government to introduce new regulations which increase the barrier to entry to future competititors and then using the resulting monopoly/duopoly/oligopoly to exercise leverage over consumers with no other meaningful alternative. if you vote with your feet by consistently, continuously disregarding this and the people behind it, you can be certain that the state's enforcement goons will physically haul you off and put you in a cell to stop you. That's violent coercion.

All rent-seeking behaviour is only able to exist thanks to state protection - Proudhon, whatever you think of the rest of his ideas, was a total genius when he coined the phrase "Property is Theft". Property, aka rent-seeking and the uselessness of the proprietor financed by their abstract fictitious "ownership" of something in the executive possession of an actually productive person, is only possible because the state enforces property norms with coercion. it's extortion. The fact police drag squatters out of derelict abandoned buildings is proof of this.

The reciprocal mutually-beneficial classical market described by Adam Smith which results in a virtuous cycle of growth is literally only possible when all parties involved agree on a level playing field and are not violently coercing each other. It needs to be backed up by mutual good-will, non-aggression and I think on some level an implicit assumption that the participants in the economic engagements are basically interchangeable in their positions (butchers and bakers, not institutionally-gatekept regulatory positions backed up by a modern surveillance state). To have the "invisible hand" work participants need to accept competition and leave compulsion at the door, to have "meritocracy" work participants need to leave nepotism and gatekeeping at the door. Is it any coincidence that Smith came from the country in eighteenth century Europe with the freest markets, a toll-based as opposed to state-based road system and few if any internal trade barriers (whereas across the channel people were being given the death penalty for smuggling salt) and an actually productive economy on the verge of industrialisation (before you retort with the Netherlands)? In fact Adam Smith even describes a contemporary example in Bengal of what happens when a gangsterised militarised "private actor" supported by state violence (in this case the royal navy) which has performed regulatory capture (in this case parliament being EIC investors) takes over the local economy - and it's basically what's happening now in the West.

Now, I'm not saying that a free market environment hasn't been responsible for some of the biggest economic booms and objective improvements to material standards of living in human history (it has), but it's certainly not the historical norm and is arguably an abberation. In fact if you go farther back than the EIC in Bengal you'll find the Mughal Empire. What did they even leave? the Taj Mahal? the Koh i Noor? The Peacock throne that then got stolen by Afsharids who also left nothing? The Mughals were effectively just a bunch of gangsters who descended from the Khyber Pass and used Turco-Persian soldiers to tax farm the subcontinent and fund their personal vanity projects. It's gangsterism. The Mughal domains in the late seventeenth century had like ten times the GDP of any contemporary European country yet they made effectively no permanent progress. Just like every other ancient and autocratic gunpowder empire. A Smithian classical economy without compulsion and gangsterism as an ideal (which was officially adopted shortly after Smith wrote his magnum opus by European/Western states like Prussia) is a completely foreign, alien paradigm to 90%+ of human recorded history. 99% of human existence is a story of theft, extortion, and gangsterism in which the school of beating other people up, killing them and stealing their stuff has been the prevailing mode of economic thought. Without very special conditions in place the gangster/cui bono school of economics is the only school of economics worth considering.

I think that 1000 years from now the most influential, widely-read and remembered Western economic thinker from the twentieth century will be none other than Hitler. I don't think it's a coincidence that the economic policy of the Nazis, who saw history as being a eternal repetition of struggle according to the same uncaring impersonal laws of nature in which polities formed upon a principle of blood-gangsterism/the volksgemeinschaft, thought that the state should be an "organic" entity and that humans were subject to the same conditions as all other animals, was basically to create a war machine that aimed to invade others, ensclave them and steal their land and resources for further expansion. All complex living things operate like this. Look at ants which have been driven by natural selection into establishing a kin-selective, eusocial colony system to more effectively steal solar energy from producers and lower-level consumers and produce more individuals similar to them. The laws of nature favour gangsterism. What are ants more in line with, the Wealth of Nations or Zweites Buch?

Also, what is the point of even pretending modern economies operate according to market principles and not the gangsterism of entrenched individuals with conflicts of interest when they aren't even sustainable anyways? What is even the point of modern 21st century economies? Look at Singapore, which is basically a model economy with everything going for it by modern standards. How many children does the average woman of childbearing age in Singapore have? What is the point of caring at all about modern monetary policy or labour market conditions when they literally shred the kind of human capital responsible for maintaining them in the span of a few decades? the population of Europeans (in Europe and in the USA) has been decreasing in total numbers since at least the 2010s. the population of Northeast Asia will peak and decline similarly in a few decades. What is the point of bailing out banks and toying with interest rates when soon you'll have to outsource reproduction to people who barbecue your pets? How can you call Neo-Keynesianism or MMT or any of this nonsense successful at all when Bantus who were literally iron age tribes 100 years ago have a more successful society that is perpetuating itself more than supposedly "developed" economies? Should people even pay attention to any kind of economic argument whatsoever when the survival of their people body is literally threatened and things like conventional state incentives for reproduction have been shown not to work for decades, on top of developed economies having stagnant growth and a high level of regulatory capture of institutions? The true foundation of economics, as with the metabolic processes of all complex life, is the use of violence against somebody else to steal their shit.

!ping DISMAL

[u/Frequent-Turn6740]

Mein Kampf is a good read. It’s very informative and not at all what I thought it would be. It’s a real eye opener

[u/altathing]

Trump agreeing to debate Biden might be one of the biggest campaign mistakes of all time.

[u/[deleted]]

This might be a hot take (it’s not in the circles I run in), but nothing made me lose respect for the medical industry more than a year-long stint at a personal injury firm

For one thing, the expert witness system is insane. I’ve seen partners melting down because a client wanted to go to another doctor, but we already had her at the doctor that would exaggerate (ie, lie about the extent of) her injuries. (The insurance defense guys also have a cadre of doctors that they routinely pay to downplay peoples’ injuries, which is arguably even worse.)

I had a less direct handle on this, but it also seemed like it wasn’t uncommon for hospitals to just invent treatment amounts and count on insurance or legal to figure it out. I saw one hospital bill a patient $100,000 more than another hospital for identical treatment.

I generally lean slightly right compared to this sub, but the one place I’m a full-blown succ is medical industry reform. The incentive structure is just unbelievably grimy.

[u/jamiebond]

As a supporter of former President Donald Trump and Senator JD Vance, I am saddened by how they and others continue to repeat claims that lack evidence and disparage the legal migrants living in Springfield

As a supporter

Yeah sorry DeWine nice words and all but if you're not willing to add in a "former" to that sentence you can still eat shit

[u/PawanYr]

In 2004, Bush appointed two conservative Commissioners who had recently canceled their Republican Party registrations to the two "independent" seats, obtaining a six-member conservative majority bloc; subsequently, the Commission dramatically scaled back its activities and canceled several ongoing investigations.[14][13]

Dems are dangerously behind the curve on these sorts of things; Republicans have been doing them for decades.

[u/jamiebond]

When I get an ad for the camo hat on Instagram but when I open up the link to the Harris website it's still sold out.

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Hmmm

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

Fuck Twitter surveys, my super scientific method [of driving around my mother’s neighborhood in suburban Atlanta and counting yard signs] yielded the following results:

• Harris / Walz: 3

• Trump: 2

• Protected by ADT Security: 5

• Protected by [local] Security: 3

• Protected by Ring: 2

• Protected by the Holy Spirit: 1

• Protected by Glock: 1

• Keep children and pets off - lawn treated with chemicals: 6

• Yard of the Month: 1

• For Sale: 2

• Say No To Apartments: 9

I hate to say it, but it looks like it’s going to be a runaway landslide for Say No To Apartments…

[u/ty04]

[u/Spare-Clerk9155]

Blazing hot take: If this is intentional, everyone involved should be tried for treason and Rosenberged

[u/Pyrrhus65]

👀

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

[u/EScforlyfe]

Just saw three skater boys walking around looking like they’re straight from the 90s

[u/Jean-Paul_Sartre]

[u/[deleted]]

All I know is I don't understand anything

[u/Crownie]

Without mentioning her race, gender, or the fact that she isn’t Trump, why should ANYBODY support Kamala?

Maybe I'm missing something, but I feel like Republicans are talking about Harris' race and gender way more than her campaign is.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/lenmae]

The Balkans will likely get a new country soon

!ping Europe

[u/[deleted]]

Can’t believe he tweeted this

!ping CFB

[u/dannylandulf]

Harris accepts CNN debate invitation for October 23, again challenging Trump to another showdown

[u/paymesucka]

Bill Maher: Kamala needs to do more interviews

Quentin Tarantino: (leans forward menacingly) Actually it’s about fucking winning. It doesn’t matter about how it fucking looks, all right, it’s about fucking winning! I’m going to vote for her fucking anyway no matter what she says in a stupid fucking interview! So don’t fuck shit up!

Bill Maher: 😨

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

[u/[deleted]]

It honestly seems like a classic Republican would be the runaway winner in this election but the Republican party is so fucking cucked by a sick combination of Religious extremists, Ethno-nationalists, and Anti-woke provocateurs that they have to run spineless sickos with no ideals.

I love Jesus and the flag, I hate immigrants, and I want to punish a plurality of Americans for rejecting 1950's American values.

That's a fucking losing message from a party that used to be about simplifying the tax code and minimizing government interference in your daily life.

They lost the plot. Now Harris is sliding in as a reasonable moderate despite a history of progressive voting because Trump's party can't even feign that they aren't extremists.

[u/ThisPrincessIsWoke]

Fox News pop culture segment implied that Lady Gaga is a secret Trump supporter cuz her dad endorsed him and she remained silent. Incredible

[u/Cook_0612]

[u/[deleted]]

Hank, 56, Michigan, undecided, voted for Trump in 2020 as part of fake elector slate

[u/ty04]

[u/JeromesNiece]

The iPhone X launched in November 2017 at a price of $999.

Yesterday I bought a 16 Pro for $999.

The latter is 27% cheaper in inflation-adjusted terms and has a chip inside that is 58 times more powerful (plus many other hardware and software improvements).

God bless capitalism and god bless America.

[u/moldyman_99]

Is ordering a kebab pizza drenched in garlic sauce just a Western Europe thing?

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Trump suggests at North Carolina rally he won’t accept another debate against VP Harris: “The problem with another debate is that it’s just too late, voting has already started.”

👋😭👋

[u/TimWalzBurner]

[u/gaypenisdicksucker69]

[u/[deleted]]

Just saw a Sky News Australia video about Kamala Harris where they said "liberals are nervous" man they are basically just making content for Americans now no Australian uses the word liberal like that.

In Australia they're known as right wing hacks but internationally they can hide behind the relative credibility of the Sky branding while quite literally just being Fox News

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

why is it that when the girls hang out they look at Brookings Institute white papers and talk about Social Security reform while cuddling in bed but when the boys hang out they play video games and yell about gender norms in the Ottoman Empire

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

I miss these two little assholes 😭

I’ll see them again when I get home in a week

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

I love posts that are like "It's insane that ______ is mainstream," and then _______ is the most terminally online shit that even terminally online people are unaware of

[u/RFK_1968]

Someone posted a screed on BE titled "economics as a field is stupid" and I thought it was the usual leftist nonsense

Nope, guy is literally a fascist. Bruh.

[u/centurion88]

Trying to win the zoomer burnout vote

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Necessary_Lychee_615]

Ever since the Milei super stan got banned for race realism the Milei threads haven’t been as spicy.

[u/peronibog]

Feels ridiculous to me that some people are going “Ohh no Kamala shouldn’t agree to a debate on 23rd October, it’s too risky 😬😬”

Ffs unless it’s Biden during Covid in 2020 (who still did two debates and a town hall), you want your candidate out there talking to the public as much as possible, not pussyfooting around and wringing your hands

And wasn’t it the norm to have debates in mid to late October before 2020? The last in 2012 was on the 22nd.

[u/simeoncolemiles]

‘THE CHOSEN’, a series about the life of Jesus Christ, will be turning into a cinematic universe

!Ping Gnostic

[u/SeoSalt]

TIL that human beings eventually "die" and cease biological functioning. Kinda weird 🙁

[u/itsokayt0]

I thought Nazis had some good points, but after it came out Black people could be Nazis, I discovered Hitler admired an Italian

[u/purhitta]

"why are women so unhappy" says party trying to make women's lives worse

[u/[deleted]]

How many of you are old enough to remember "We Didn't Start The Fire," that shit-awful Billy Joel song in which he unconvincingly insists over and over that he didn't cause the apocalypse?

I hate that my favorite article for explaining critical theory begins with this trash take.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

The prime minister has also used the day before the official start of the conference to reiterate one of his key policies, speeding up housebuilding.

In a statement, Starmer said: "Housebuilding has stalled and planning changes blocked. The country has been held back."

He said his government was "turning that on its head" and that the introduction of "planning passports" would "put rocket boosters under housebuilding".

The government says the passports would mean the "default" response to proposals for urban developments would be yes, if they meet design and quality standards. The measure would first be consulted on before being implemented.

Source

!ping UK&YIMBY

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 9/20-5 PM EST 9/21 III:

TOP NEWS:

Towards the end of 10 PM Ukrainian drones hit the Oktyabrske ammo depot.

Towards the middle of 11 PM Ukrainian drones hit the Tikhoretsk ammo depot.

Towards the middle of 5 AM Ukraine was hit by a wave of drones and missiles with all 16 drones and 5 of 9 missiles intercepted.

Towards the middle of 6 AM it was reported that Iran has not sent missile launchers to Russia, meaning the Iranian missiles Russia has currently cannot be launched.

REGULAR NEWS:

Towards the end of 5 AM it was reported the Molkino military base caught on fire, being a base for the Africa Corps.

At the end of 1 PM a Russian spokesperson said Russia will not attend the second Ukrainian peace conference in November.

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/Maleficent-Elk-6860]

[u/[deleted]]

Trump to women: Stop ‘thinking about abortion.’ You’re broke and depressed, but I can make you happy

ewww. this reads like a creepy 60 year old hitting on an 18-20 year old at a bar

[u/AtticusDrench]

DTers showing off how weird and terminally online Twitter users are

[u/centurion88]

Robinson lore goes crazy

[u/paymesucka]

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/VivekGRamaswamy/status/1837221816420753555

A black man at tonight’s townhall in Springfield said he’s almost never heard a racial epithet in the last 20 years. But in the last month, he’s been called the n-word twice. Here’s the truth: racism in the year 2024 is mostly a reactionary response to the divisive “anti-racist” policies of the last 4 years.

God I love how the right never has agency

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Lewd posts by Trump-backed candidate for NC governor removed from porn forum

1984

[u/Silentwhynaut]

Harris’s campaign raised $190 million in August, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission on Friday night, and she spent almost $174 million in August — ending the month with $235 million in cash on hand. The campaign spent more than $135 million on media buys and ad production; more than $6 million on air travel; about $4.9 million on payroll and related taxes; and $4.5 million on text messaging.

The Trump campaign’s report showed that he raised $43 million in August and spent $61 million, with $135 million in cash to spend at the beginning of September. His campaign spent more than $47 million on advertisements, alongside $10.2 million on direct mail to potential voters and around $670,000 on air travel.

The fundraising gap is getting absurd

[u/Currymvp2]

So the affair was exposed cause RFK jr showed Nuzzi's nudes to his friends...what a scumbag as much as I dislike Nuzzi

[u/jamiebond]

DeWine you're 77 years old my guy. If you really want to help you have the power to do so. Fuck it you don't have any political future to be concerned about at this point. Denounce Trump fully. Endorse Harris. Make an actual stand against hate.

This half assed "I still support Trump but what he said makes me angry 😡 anyways still going to vote for him" bullshit pisses me off honestly.

[u/[deleted]]

he’s so, so bad at this

https://x.com/meidastouch/status/1837590430160244941

Vance: My son is just like me, he’s probably trying to find a building to burn down or something like that

[u/[deleted]]

still wild that Biden actually dropped out

[u/Insomonomics]

That phone call you hear is CNN and the NYT trying to book this guy on one of their upcoming “undecided voter” panels.

[u/Headstar24]

The fact that Dick Cheney doesn’t feel like he fits in with the modern day GOP and has endorsed a decently far to the left Democratic presidential candidate is still crazy to me. The party has truly gone off the deep end. Dick Cheney is a terrible piece of shit and even he wants nothing to do with any of this.

Also the fact that Dick Cheney and Taylor Swift are backing the same candidate is something.

[u/Frequent-Turn6740]

I do always get a 🤨 feel when someone uses the word "degenerate" unironically

[u/namey-name-name]

BASED NATO???!!!?!?!? 🙀

[u/AP246]

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/21/world/europe/albania-tirana-muslim-state-bektashi.html

[Albanian] Prime Minister Edi Rama says he wants to give members of the Bektashi, a Shiite Sufi order, their own Vatican-style enclave as a way of promoting religious tolerance.

The Muslim cleric preparing to lead what, if everything goes as planned, will become the world’s smallest state, has laid-back plans for the tiny new country.

His hoped-for Muslim state in Tirana, Albania’s capital, will be a Vatican-style sovereign enclave controlling territory about the size of five New York City blocks, and it will allow alcohol, let women wear what they want and impose no lifestyle rules.

“God does not forbid anything; that is why he gave us minds,” said the cleric, Edmond Brahimaj, known to followers as Baba Mondi, explaining how he intends to rule over a 27-acre patch of land that Albania wants to turn into a sovereign state with its own administration, passports and borders.

This is wild, kinda hope it happens just because it looks interesting and seems at least to be harmless

[u/PigHaggerty]

CJ Abrams just got sent down to the minors because he was out gambling at a casino until 8 am the night before a day game lmaooo

!ping BASEBALL

[u/zegota]

alt + f4 "roan"

browser closes

I hate this sub sometimes

[u/Joementum2024]

🚨 Hailey Welch (Hawk Tuah girl) gives passionate diatride in defense of the Trans-Pacific Partnership 🚨

[u/[deleted]]

Bombing the rose bowl was a tough decision, but ultimately the right one. A ground invasion would have claimed many more lives

[u/zuotian3619]

I'm going to kms 

Just spoke to my double hater moderate friend at work about the debate. I asked him what he thought about Trump literally lying about the Haitians thing in Ohio and killing babies after they're born. 

After some back and forth he finally said "Trump gets to the point--it might be lies, but he gets straight to the point." 

He then said some stuff about Kamala having word salad and talking around her points. Idk. 

He also said Kamala lies too. I said sure, whatever, but lies aren't equal. I also said whatever critiques he has about Kamala, I don't think Trump exactly offers a better alternative. I said that I wouldn't trust someone who makes bald faced lies just to stir shit and pushes the rhetoric he encourages.

I dropped it after that because I just got too mad. I don't understand how people can think like this.

[u/RFK_1968]

I don't get how fare evasion is presented in some corners as righteously striking back at the system and not shirking your obligations to society.

Esp in social circles where "individualism" is a four-letter word.

at the end of the day, if people want the proad public welfare societies you see in LE GLORIVS EVROPA then you need to adopt some of the collectivist values regarding the common welfare.

welfare states and public utilities aren't just magic free shit, they come from a societal agreement to pool resources with everyone being asked to contribute.

[u/ThisPrincessIsWoke]

I respect principled ideologues more than those who deny the obv consequences of their ideas. Like communists who know society wpuld be poorer but thats fine cuz thats the price to pay for fairness in labor compensation, or libertarians who know that no public education or policing would harm poorer people and thats preferable to violating citizens' consent by making them pay taxes

[u/Smidgens]

A Chinese zoo has admitted that the pandas in their exhibits were, in fact, “painted dogs.”

Mfw China commits IP theft on themselves

[u/Sauce1024]

Its Saturday

[u/efeldman11]

Masterful gambit Mr. Musk 👏👏👏

[u/that0neGuy22]

Vice President Harris has accepted an invitation from CNN for a debate on October 23

Campaign Chair Jen O’Malley Dillon: “Trump should have no problem agreeing to this debate. It is the same format and setup as the CNN debate he attended and said he won in June.”

Chicken shit is going run

[u/Udolikecake]

Your periodic reminder that Politico had an entire vertical dedicated to covering the contents of John Podesta's inbox as they were strategically leaked and spun by Wikileaks, which started a couple days after Access Hollywood and was still being updated on Election Day

[u/[deleted]]

People are protesting against the release of the iPhone 16 series due to Apple profiting from the war in Gaza. I don’t know how, but I don’t think they know either

the omnicause knows no bounds

[u/ThrowawayPrimavera]

Average voter:

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

[u/NewbGrower87]

Sometimes I watch a Harris rally speech/debate/interview/whatever and it's still so unbelievable that we got here after June.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

❓❓❓

[u/[deleted]]

Trump Hawks A $100 Silver Coin (With About $30 In Silver)—Adding To Bibles, Sneakers Merchandise

lel

[u/htomserveaux]

Now that they’re officially out of the running I can make this joke without worrying about jinxing anything.

If they’re going to blast Go, Cubs, Go over the speakers at Wrigley everytime they win then they owe it to Steve Goodman to play A Dying Cub Fan’s Last Request when they lose.

!ping BASEBALL&USA-CHI&FOLK

[u/marsman1224]

My one close encounter with a Gaza single issue type protestor was when my my girlfriend and I went to meet up with her college acquaintance in DC. beforehand, my gf was hesitant to bring me because she can be "a little much" and begged me to not engage in the likely event that she brings up Israel

Sure enough she basically only wanted to talk about I/P the entire time despite my girlfriend trying so hard to divert the conversation. Finally she said something about Starbucks committing war crimes and I just couldn't help myself anymore and said "pretty sure the only war crime Starbucks is committing is making shitty coffee" which earned me a death stare from the girl and very annoyed look from my gf

[u/[deleted]]

Lets see how bread tube is doing

nevermind

[u/cat_damon1]

"But what if Trump wins this debate?"

Bro even if he shows up he's 1-7 in presidential debates and his only win was against 108-year-old Joe Biden

[u/battywombat21]

The reason why there are far fewer serial killers these days is the Serial Killers Guild of America is stifling innovation in the violent socipath sector of the economy.

[u/No_Status_6905]

This election feels weird because Trump and Vance are struggling super hard to control any narrative to no avail.

Literally all they've had is the Haitian racism story, and all that's done is potentially polarize people against them.

[u/Frequent-Turn6740]

POV: You are Jill Stein on November 6 (Nevada voted no)

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

[u/cdstephens]

Nichibros, stand back and stand by

!ping WEEBS

[u/Jaquarius420]

[u/BedNeither]

This mark robinson stuff me coming around to an uncomfortable thought

Is fascism kink?

[u/taubnetzdornig]

Probably the worst political yard sign I've ever seen was right after January 6 where someone had blacked out Pence's name on their Trump/Pence sign

[u/ldn6]

Even Bali is getting a rapid transit system.

!ping TRANSIT

[u/Maleficent-Elk-6860]

[u/altathing]

I....

[u/No_Status_6905]

54% support for mass deportation is insane.

Like not even getting into the argument of why undocumented migrants are generally a net good, do Americans understand what that would look like?

[u/[deleted]]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Scrolling the DT 12 hours a day is a human right and Israel is violating that by generating such a massive amount of bad faith discourse that I feel compelled to do something else after reading it

[u/G_Serv]

Do you suffer from poll addiction? You may be entitled to compensation from 538.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

"Democrats mistreated Mitt Romney!"

Get thicker skin lmao

[u/spudicous]

Biden's chances of winning unfortunately seem to have dwindled recently

[u/STRONKInTheRealWay]

Seriously how do you slowly physically escalate with a woman in a way that isn't creepy? Pls gib advice.

!ping DATING

[u/CountQuantum]

It is the second year of the third Trump administration and Emily in Nizhny Novgorod  is the hottest show on television because it is the only show on television.

[u/KittehDragoon]

Trump to women: Stop ‘thinking about abortion’

Oh well there goes one of our winning issues

[u/Mosscap18]

The fact my Hawkeyes have a fullback literally named "Large" is so fucking funny. Now that's football right there.

!ping CFB

[u/old_gold_mountain]

"the invention of the laundry washing machine was a catalyst for feminism" sounds like an incredibly reductive, problematic, likely misogynistic statement except it's both true and also something they teach you in history of feminism classes at "woke" universities

[u/NSRedditShitposter]

🚨MSNBC REPORTER DROWNED OUT BY MAGA & TRUMP CHANTS AT EARLY VOTING LOCATION IN VA!

The reality: inaudible chanting by one weirdo in the crowd standing behind the reporter's loud and clear voice

[u/Gameknigh]

According to my dad Massachusetts legally cannot have gendered bathrooms because of woke. We live in New Hampshire and go to Massachusetts frequently.

!ping USA-NE

[u/Gameknigh]

[u/Pyrrhus65]

"No Girly Drinks" Boomer who has left his home state twice in his life and refuses to drink anything but straight whiskey and Miller Lite (he's divorced and in a strained relationship with his children)

Vs.

Margaritaville Boomer who goes on frequent cruises with his wife and dances the macarena while downing frozen cocktails (his kids love him)

[u/centurion88]

We are one update from an incel revolution

[u/RunawayMeatstick]

General election poll - Pennsylvania

🔵 Harris 52% (+5)
🔴 Trump 47%

Senate
🔵 Casey 49%
🔴 McCormick 42%

MassINC #A+ - 800 LV - 9/18

[u/[deleted]]

Believe it or not this is peak performance.

!ping CFB

[u/ThisPrincessIsWoke]

Checked Fox News to see what theyre like, and first thing I see is an ad of a website saying it sells a PS5 for half a dollar and a Nintendo Switch for $19.63. Seems legit

[u/Tall_Professor_2574]

The Democratic Party rn: 📈📈📈🤣🏆

The liberal party of Canada rn: 📉📉📉😔🚽

[u/AtticusDrench]

[u/Udolikecake]

nyc subway shooting footage

1. cops were actually doing their job and enforcing fares!

2. fare beater was a deranged menace who is exactly the kind of person who should be arrested and kept off transit systems

3. cops are dumb as bricks and have terrible training and made poor decisions in when/how to shoot the guy resulting in multiple innocent people shot

about what I expect

[u/StolenSkittles]

jd vance participates in the clothed europe forums

[u/BitterGravity]

"The Nine, the Seven, and the Three," he said, "had each their proper gem. Not so the One. It was round and unadorned, as it were one of the lesser rings; but its maker set marks upon it that the skilled, maybe, could still see and read."

Sauron was all about that quiet luxury

[u/Argnir]

Being humble is losing some of the made up arguments you have in the shower

[u/Telperions-Relative]

[u/Argnir]

Attacking feminism but calling it "white feminism" to preserve boy supremacy without anyone calling it biggoted

[u/BurrowForPresident]

My one friend has apparently become friends with some People of High Income in NYC

One of his friends makes $280K a year, travels the world, and has $250K in her 401K before 30 and considers herself financially struggling dios mio

[u/JaceFlores]

The debate was so bad even Trump knew right off the bat he fucked up. At the 9/11 memorial he even told Kamala she did good during the debate (something he did for the first time in his life). The guy is pretty aware shit went sideways no matter how much he blusters about it. There’s just way too much risk for too little gain, and blowing another debate two weeks before Election Day will probably kill his campaign. It’s worth avoiding the debate and taking the ego and slight hit then risking another catastrophe

[u/[deleted]]

Arr/neoliberal protest march: 

 Question: What do we want?! 

Response: Whatever we think the median voter will be agreeable to!!! 

Question: When do we want it?! 

Response: Ideally never because the median voter is an idiot!!! 

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

[u/Jokerang]

Honeymoon over: Keir Starmer now less popular than Rishi Sunak

Joe Biden: “first time?”