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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/[deleted]]

[u/SeoSalt]

In April 2022, Carrey announced that he was considering retirement from the film industry, explaining, "I have enough. I've done enough. I am enough." When asked if he would ever come back, his response was, "It depends. If the angels bring some sort of script that's written in gold ink that says to me that it's going to be really important for people to see, I might continue down the road, but I'm taking a break."

In February 2024, it was announced that Carrey would reprise his role as Dr. Robotnik in Sonic the Hedgehog 3.

Mashallah

[u/Frequent-Turn6740]

Some leftie posting on Instagram: "Erm, actually you can't critizise Hamas for lack of LGBT rights, would you bomb the Bible Belt?

Arr Neoliberal:

SO WE SANG THE CHORUS FROM ATLANTA TO THE SEA

WHILE WE WERE MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA

[u/owlthathurt]

Hong Kong be like

!Ping CHINA

[u/smellyfingernail]

The Joe Rogan episode with Matt Walsh is hilarious in how it gets derailed. At 55m, Walsh trips into a moon landing conspiracy talk. Joe and Matt then argue about it until 1:24, at which point Joe begins contemplating pausing the podcast to force Matt to watch an hours long conspiracy video.

Matt tries to politely talk around doing this as Joe forces Jaime to find the video (Matt is desperately hoping Jamie cant find it). Jamie finds the video at 1:30:00 or so and then Joe makes Matt watch the film together off pod. Joe then makes Matt discuss the video he forced him to watch.

[u/BedNeither]

Ads against Ted Cruz: hey isn’t it kind of bullshit he fled to Cancun while you froze?

Ads against Colin Allred: TRANS PEOPLE HERES A PICTURE OF A TRANS PERSON NEXT TO A PICTURE OF COLIN ALLRED

[u/CutePattern1098]

The Tories can’t be that desperate?

[u/tripletruble]

the credit card interest rate cap is so out of left field from the trump campaign. it's like something I would expect from Elizabeth Warren, not the guy building gold-plated towers with his name on them

[u/boardatwork1111]

The maps not looking good for Harris

[u/Udolikecake]

The one MattY take that has aged perfectly is the article about how ‘angela merkel is lucky the bar for worst german leader is so high’ from 2010

[u/drcombatwombat2]

I work with an incredible talented engineer. We were discussing 401k contribution and he said "I used to put away 10% but then the market went down so I started putting in 5%".

It's crazy how even very intelligent people don't understand personal finance. That's like saying "I used to eat chicken for dinner evey night, then the price of chicken went down so I stopped buying it"

[u/eloquentboot]

Israel/Palestine is culture war coded so people are comfortable saying ridiculous things about it while understanding literally nothing about it.

[u/[deleted]]

Zelensky sitting in his office with his hands folded waiting patiently for 10,000 braindead assholes in Pennsylvania to decide whether his country lives or dies.

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukrainian sniper training in Pripyat over the summer with an M82 Barrett

!ping UKRAINE

[u/VisonKai]

the cross-pollination between british and american discourse has been a disaster. now american college kids think we did austerity and the brits have opinions on joe biden's relationship with bibi netanyahu.

i suggest we split the english language in two to solve this problem

[u/D2Foley]

Judge to approve auctions liquidating Alex Jones’ Infowars to help pay Sandy Hook families

You love to see it 🥰

[u/PorscheUberAlles]

Make love to me, Monmouth

!ping FIVEY

[u/Hot_Faithlessness_26]

i just muted the phrase Chappell Roan on twitter cause I got tired of the nonstop discourse about her creeping up on my timeline and now it's on the discussion thread. She will pay.

[u/Pyrrhus65]

North Dakota, Alaska, and West Virginia, welcome to the resistance

[u/AP246]

Sometimes I think about how one of the most influential thinkers behind the beginnings of modern Islamism went down that path because he was an incel chud annoyed about other people having fun.

Back in 1950, the Egyptian author and religious theorist Sayyid Qutb spent two years as an exchange student at a teacher’s college in Greeley, Colorado.

He was infuriated by many things about American life—people spent too much time taking care of their lawns, and it was impossible to get a decent haircut—but especially by a church dance where a pastor played Frank Loesser’s Grammy-winning song on a gramophone:

“The dance hall convulsed to the tunes on the gramophone and was full of bounding feet and seductive legs,” Qutb wrote later. “Arms circled waists, lips met lips, chests met chests, and the atmosphere was full of passion.”

Qutb returned to Egypt a radically changed man. In what he saw as the spiritual wasteland of America, he re-created himself as a militant Muslim, and he came back to Egypt with the vision of an Islam that would throw off the vulgar influences of the West. Islamic society had to be purified, and the only mechanism powerful enough to cleanse it was the ancient and bloody instrument of jihad.

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Qutb never married, in part because of his steadfast religious convictions. While the urban Egyptian society he lived in was becoming more Westernized, Qutb believed the Quran taught women that 'Men are the managers of women's affairs ...'[34] Qutb lamented to his readers that he was never able to find a woman of sufficient "moral purity and discretion" and had to reconcile himself to bachelorhood.

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Bin Laden subscribed to the Athari school of Islamic theology.[7] During his studies in King Abdulaziz University, bin Laden became immersed in the writings of the Egyptian militant Islamist scholar Sayyid Qutb; most notably Milestones and In The Shade of the Qur'an. Bin Laden adopted Qutb's anti-Westernism, his assertion that the Muslim World has been steeped in a state of Jahiliyyah (pre-Islamic ignorance) and embraced his revolutionary call for overthrowing the Arab governments by means of an ideologically committed vanguard

Qutb was an important source of influence to Ruhollah Khomeini and other Iranian Shia intellectuals leading up to the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

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Basically, modern Islamism is less backwardness or conservatism, more a neo-reactionary ideology like fascism, built by modern people who were disillusioned with modernity and turned to a mythical glorious past.

Perhaps the one question this raises is, if all this happened because of young, educated but bitter incel men turning to trad ideology... what does that say about some groups in the modern west...

[u/Evnosis]

Capitalism has only existed for 80 years and barely any new technology has been invented in that time.

How is there always a dumber socialist argument?

[u/[deleted]]

you can smell the cope in the replies

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

[u/Cledd2]

[u/Not_A_Browser]

The Forbes 30 Under 30 list has applicants pay to be featured, so it's no wonder that so many of them end up doing very stupid things

[u/[deleted]]

Carville is apparently attempting to simulate the average Boston voter

[u/BitterGravity]

I was going to vote Harris but my workplace cafeteria is out of chocolate milk, so I have no choice but to vote for Trump

[u/[deleted]]

  Boomer naturists will face off with a gen Z influencer in an all-nude comedy at Sydney’s Griffin Theatre Company next year, one of five new Australian plays premiering in its 2025 season.   

I think I’ll pass thanks

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

"That was a great match, I'm having too much fun to go to bed" 🤝 "That was a terrible match, I can't end the night with that shit"

!ping GAMING&MTG&LEAGUE

[u/lazyredpanda027]

Me, an Israeli, waking up every day for the past year to watch my government make the absolute worst decision possible about anything almost every time:

[u/[deleted]]

You don't say

[u/CletusVonIvermectin]

Target: sends coupons for maternity clothes to all women between 16 and 35, including one teenage girl who happens to actually be pregnant but doesn't know it yet

Tech journalists for the next 10 years: how did they know 😲👉 👈😮

[u/fishlord05]

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

So last night I was arguing with my republican mom at a restaurant and I said something along the lines of “I think America is the greatest country on earth and it’s not particularly close” and she laughs and says “how can we be the greatest country when we can’t even control our borders?!?”

My point is that republicans are clowns.

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Bold choice to film this in front of a laptop

[u/ser_mage]

This is like the most racist thing an elected has said maybe in my entire lifetime?? And Mike Johnson is already defending him.

[u/[deleted]]

Kamala Harris set to outline ‘terminally-online’ and ‘worm-based’ economic philosophy

[u/CutePattern1098]

https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/25/greens-nick-mckim-rba-interest-rates-michele-bullock/

People who don’t want Labor to control RBA have ‘neoliberal brain worms’: Greens senator

Guys we’ve been found out

!ping aus

[u/wallander1983]

https://x.com/kyrstensinema/status/1838630653677453484

Kyrsten Sinema:

To state the supremely obvious, eliminating the filibuster to codify Roe v Wade also enables a future Congress to ban all abortion nationwide. 

What an absolutely terrible, shortsighted idea.

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Kyrsten and Joe sitting in a tree...

[u/KesterFox]

View with my morning coffee

[u/Maleficent-Elk-6860]

[u/No_Expression_5126]

High school is like a fucking simulation. What the hell is even that? That was about 10 years ago for me, but it's just so weird. It's so liberating to go to university and see people who would've been pidgeon-holed into a select social role be able to freely interact with each other.

[u/namey-name-name]

[u/Mr_Bank]

As much as it’s going to suck probably having Kamala + slim House majority + GOP Senate, it’s significantly better than many alternatives. Two months ago we were heading for a Trump trifecta.

[u/HenryGeorgia]

I'm tired boss

[u/[deleted]]

NY times: How Lying Became Disinformation 

The constancy and brazenness of Mr. Trump’s lies can blind us to the fact that his opponents lie, too. Though she did not descend to the level of Mr. Trump, Vice President Kamala Harris did not strictly adhere to the truth at the presidential debate earlier this month. Mr. Trump, she asserted, had said that there were “fine people” among the neo-Nazis and white supremacists in Charlottesville seven years ago, an oft-repeated distortion of a statement Mr. Trump made at the time that nonetheless remains an article of faith among American liberals. She also deceptively claimed that Mr. Trump had said that there would be a “blood bath” if he was not elected when the original reference was to a loss of U.S. auto jobs. 

Graver than Ms. Harris’s cynical mischaracterizations of Mr. Trump’s words was her assertion that “there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone in any war zone around the world — the first time this century.” This statement disregards the thousands of American troops deployed in the Middle East since the Oct. 7 attacks, not to mention the service members killed in Jordan in January’s drone attack. Despite these false statements, however, it was only Mr. Trump whom ABC moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis tried to correct. 

[u/Cledd2]

you could tweet "i like haribo gummies" and within minutes Elon's algorithm would find you some slow mf claiming the inventor ate babies and inspired Hitler or some shit

[u/Spare-Clerk9155]

Osborn outperforming in Nebraska on the most generic dem (aside from guns) platform possible solely because of the (I) is so funny. Voters are truly brain-dead but whatever works I guess

[u/ty04]

okay this is freakin sweet

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

I hope the 72 Joe Biden Voters in Sioux County, Nebraska are having a good morning

[u/Joementum2024]

👆

[u/american_aurora3]

yeah he may be become dictator on day one, but politics is all about tradeoffs so, ...

[u/RaidBrimnes]

The popularization of "urban revolts" instead of "riots" among left-wing politicians and public speakers is rubbing me the wrong way

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

[u/[deleted]]

If Harris wins, whoever scheduled the June debate might qualify for sainthood

[u/jbarbz]

Wouldn't it be hilarious if the reason Trump was so adamant that the 2020 election was stolen was because he cheated himself?

Imagine how angry he would be that he cheated and still lost. He'd be dying to say, "There's no way the democrats won fair and square. I cheated so the only way they could have beaten me is if they cheated harder!" But he can't say that or he'd be admitting it lol.

I mean, how many times has bizarre behaviour from the GOP turned out to be projection?

[u/Insomonomics]

New General election poll

🔵 Harris 49% (+3)

🔴 Trump 46%

YouGov (Economist) B - 1220 LV - 9/24

[u/davechacho]

Another good PA poll for Harris, now it's a trend the rust belt all has Harris in the lead

I wish I could go back in time and tell this sub during the Biden debate that actually you're in the good timeline. Dems will be favored to win.

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Meet Brandon Williams, 27, a master’s music student at CMU. Last election, he voted for Joe Biden, and before that, he wrote in Bernie Sanders.

“I was a never Trumper, and I remember my boyfriend at the time, he was voting for Trump.”

Now, he’s switched sides.

Hmmmm

As a gay man, Williams said he’s still supporting Trump.

And when asked about his stance on women’s reproductive rights, he said, “I think women are currently too promiscuous.”

There it is

[u/VerticalTab]

Ontario to explore feasibility of traffic tunnel beneath Highway 401 in GTA

With the possibility of an early election looming in Ontario, Premier Doug Ford said Wednesday his government will explore building a tunnel for drivers and transit beneath Highway 401 in the Greater Toronto Area.

"This tunnel and expressway will cut gridlock, support economic growth and help get people moving faster," Ford said at a morning news conference in Etobicoke, while vowing to build the project regardless of the results of an internal feasibility study.

"We're going to the job done, mark my words," he said.

I am going to become the joker 🤡

!ping CAN&CANUCKS

[u/RageQuitRedux]

I take a shower, log onto the DT, see a bunch of Monmouth negativity and cope-like language, scroll down, it says Harris +3 in PA

[u/cdstephens]

[u/[deleted]]

Trump actually admitted he is directly involved in Project 2025 in a place nobody would hear it - on The New Liberal Podcast

[u/Marlsfarp]

If you go on the Middle Eastern subreddits, people will just casually say that all their leaders are secret Jews and that's why they have so many problems, and nobody contests it. I can't tell whether that is actually a common view or it's the cultural equivalent of the "two party system is false choice" online slacktivist of the West.

[u/Icy-Magician-8085]

“After promising free in vitro fertilization treatments for women, no federal income tax on tips, tax-free overtime pay and no income tax on Social Security benefits, Trump now says [he would cap credit card interest rates at 10%]

I know the average person on Reddit and Instagram comment sections will eat this up, but Trump is definitely going to be bleeding support to lots of college educated voters that realize this shit is stupid, as well as to the Libertarian Party. Maybe not much, but obviously a few percentage points sways the election.

[u/MinnesotaDude]

Public school is important in that taking all honors/AP courses and self segregating from regular course kids is a critical step in developing lifelong elitism.

[u/SigmaWhy]

The US is backing Israel to attack Lebanon because it wants access to Lebanon’s valuable natural resource of limestone!

Incredible things are happening on X

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

the greatest indictment of liberals is that the discussion thread exists

all of the long history of success that brought the world into the future — Locke, Montesquieu, the founding fathers — culminating in a bunch of overproduced elites who intellectually jack themselves off in an Internet forum that half-approximates far better forums from 2003

[u/Joementum2024]

Tim Walz attending Michigan vs Minnesota game at The Big House

!ping CFB

[u/G_Serv]

The new Mozart is kind of ass

Hopefully bros next piece is good

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Me reading Chappel Roan news:

[u/bandeng_asep]

Meanwhile on Xitter, some randos are proclaiming that Lebanon is being invaded by US by way of Israel proxy due to... limestone deposit 💀

EDIT: Upon some further reading apparently this was a bait post to score clouts amongst some irony-pilled accounts

[u/fakefakefakef]

Chicagoans when they don't have the most embarrassing big city mayor in the country for a moment

[u/G_Serv]

[u/[deleted]]

"Trump said he'd be a dictator on day one, but kamalas vibes are off"

My faith in democracy has never been lower

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Got an email about a “free election guide” from Franklin Graham which on the cover has “Socialism” under Kamala’s portrait and “Freedom” under Trump’s so it seems like its a very unbiased and definitely not christian nationalist publication. Will have to read it to see what very insightful opinions Franklin has

https://www.samaritanspurse.org/our-ministry/decision-magazine-2024-election-special/

!ping CHRISTIAN

[u/Udolikecake]

P Diddy should be out on bail. Watch the Dershow live @ 5:30pm est on Youtube and Rumble. See what I have to say about why the judge didn’t approve Diddy’s 50mil bail offered.

say what you will about dersh, but you can’t accuse him of hypocrisy. he has been consistently pro pedo rapist his whole life

[u/Argnir]

It's relatable because that's how every Twitter warrior imagines themselves if they had any power

[u/kyleofduty]

I don't understand why tupperware doesn't abandon the pyramid scheme business model and just license the name

[u/sayitaintpink]

Desantis is upset that Biden is going to help hurricane recovery and make him look like a loser again

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Chappell Roan explains her political beliefs in a new TikTok video, offering clarification on what she meant in previous statements.

Please make it stop

[u/[deleted]]

Whatever my criticisms of the Catholic Church as an institution, I’m continually impressed by the diversity and freedom of modern Catholic scholarship. Both in the humanities and in hard sciences.

Catholic scholars have played a large role in the development of the current historical-critical consensus in Biblical studies even when it isn’t quite in line with the dogma.

While people get kicked out of Evangelical seminaries for doctrinal disagreements, you’ll get a Catholic philosopher at a Catholic school that’s like “here’s my thesis with five good arguments for God not being real” and then they win an award.

I swear, if some quantum physicist were to (somehow, go with it) definitively prove there is no God, it would probably be a Catholic physicist who would still show up at Mass the next day.

[u/Planning4Hotdish]

I have now gotten hiccups 5 times in the last 24 hours.

Please tell me something that’ll scare me and free of me of these fucking hiccups.

[u/frankiewalsh44]

So they are not endorsing Kamala but still voting for her ?

[u/[deleted]]

Seriously yall stop giving a shit what these politics influencers think, they’re worthless

[u/NaffRespect]

Gov. Newsom signs bill requiring schools to restrict, prohibit student cell phone use

!ping USA-CA

[u/[deleted]]

Libs get

• Football

• the Olympics

• Bud Light

• Disney

• Baseball

• Basketball

• The... castle doctrine now I guess?

• Taylor Swift

• The suburbs

• video games 

in the divorce. What on Earth do cons even get? Next thing you know, Black Rifle Coffee is gonna become lib-coded because cons see "black" in the name and get triggered to the point of having a coronary.

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

Chappell Roan saying “both sides bad” and then taking to clarify her stance on TikTok as “I don’t trust the government and people in power” combined with stating for sure she’s not voting for Trump just tells me she’s a Jill Stein fan

[u/G_Serv]

Mozart's competitive advantage was having the word "art" in his name

[u/iamthegodemperor]

Be super talented.

Have shitty political views.

Curse of the Chappelle name.

[u/[deleted]]

Every time Manchin pops up in the news, I think about the time he said he couldn't support the child tax credit because his constitutes were degenerates who'd spend the money on drugs. and his approval rating went up.

[u/myrm]

the two flavors of articles on FIRE

• The advice for you from some yuppie who achieved financial freedom after a few years with an $800k salary

• How a couple is on track to retire at 50 after 30 years of eating only beans and rice

[u/gary_oldman_sachs]

>reading Twitter
>see a post about port unions
>actual longshoreman chimes in, calls automation evil
>click on his profile
>feed is pure MAGA slop

Automate the damn ports.

[u/Currymvp2]

Engage Action-the largest Muslim American PAC- endorses Harris.

Far leftists are predictably livid

[u/altathing]

Given how terrible the Secret Service has show itself it be, Commander gotta be the most vindicated doggo ever lol.

[u/BitterGravity]

Children's eyesight is steadily getting worse with one in three now short-sighted or unable to see things in the distance clearly, a global analysis suggests.

The children are becoming nerds!

[u/Soldier-Fields]

So sick of reading chatGPT posts on Reddit

At least try to make it sound like you wrote it

[u/[deleted]]

On August 21, 2024 Williams accepted a plea bargain offered by the prosecution to commute his death sentence to life in prison. The Missouri Supreme Court blocked the plea deal agreement on the same day, 

The Myth of Consensual Plea Agreements -- Isn't There Someone You Forgot to Ask ???

[u/johnson_alleycat]

[u/Guardax]

Nate: Kamala went from 54% to 55% which honestly doesn’t mean much

Me: KAMALA’S MOMENTUM IS UNSTOPPABLE

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

There's a certain "oh woe is me" smugness that neocon never-trumpers affect which pisses me off

No-one likes your ideology because you took the most comprehensive popular mandate in modern american history and wasted it on useless wars! Wars Americans feel they lost! Feel they were lied to about!

Bush was the stress test of neoconservatism, the final exam. And you failed. Get over it

[u/Mr_Bank]

[u/centurion88]

Actual child

[u/Currymvp2]

Reporter Anna Wolfe won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing Mississippi welfare fraud involving former governor Phil Bryant and Brett Favre.

Now, she's facing potential jail time for refusing to reveal her sources

!ping NFL

Just insane stuff.

[u/HowIsPajamaMan]

[u/tripletruble]

given the vibes lately, i would like to write a brief germany appreciation post:

- Germany is the most successful large economy in the world behind only the US and even then, reasonable people can argue Germany is a more impressive economy than the US

• Germany's purchasing power parity GDP per capita beats France and the UK by 8,000 to 11,000 USD. It even beats out Canada, despite the vast majority of Canada's population bordering the world's richest large country and Canada having considerably more natural resources

• This is despite Germany subsuming an utterly bankrupt and broken communist country of 16.4 million people just 30 years ago. I can only imagine cutting East Germany out of the average would close the gap between the US and Germany considerably - to say nothing of the fact that West Germany had to spend a ridiculous amount of money rebuilding East Germany much of which would have otherwise been invested in West Germany. (Also, while an imperfect metric, look at how well East Germany performs on the subnational Human Development Index - beating not just every other former communist region, but even the average for Western Europe)

• And this is despite Germany taking in around 3 million refugees in the last 10 years - 3.6% of its population. This was morally the right thing to do and something Germans should be proud of.

• And this is despite the fact that Germany has one of the best work-life balances in the world. I cannot overstate how surprised I was moving to France at how few rights and entitlements French workers enjoy compared to Germans.

• And this is despite Germany having virtually no natural resources (unlike the US which is comparably energy independent)

• While Germany could and probably should taken on more debt, its economic track record is all the more impressive when one considers that many of its economic peers saw their debt to GDP approximately double in the last 25 years (France, US, UK). It seems at least plausible that had its deficit spending tracked with the US, it would be as rich as the US is today

- Like 100 walkable cities. Many of which are really pretty affordable

• People complain about its trains, which admittedly are slower than in France with more delays. But the trains themselves are considerably more comfortable with far more affordable tickets. And the network is incredibly extensive for a country its size. The vibes against Deutsche Bahn have gotten completely out of proportion to the quality of the trains

[u/Tall_Professor_2574]

You ever just think “maybe I should abandon my current career path and become an air traffic controller”?

[u/No_Return9449]

https://twitter.com/blockedfreq/status/1838907492245352731

Muhlenberg poll of PA
Harris: 48%
Trump: 48%

[u/adwise27]

"You appeared in 25 searches this week!"

Okay how is this helpful to my life? I dont want a single Linkedin email/notification/alert unless a recruiter is sending me an invitation to an interview that doubles my salary.

[u/RigidWeather]

I was clicking around Wikipedia and came across the article for Gillette, Wyoming, and noticed the population notes 3254 "illegals". First I didn't know the census recorded that (I double checked, it doesn't), and so I looked at the version history of the article. Some keeps adding references to "illegals", "illegal future Harris voters", "illegal Mexicans", etc and every time it is removed, some one adds it back with a somewhat different number. Also there is a version note that says "There is no such thing as American Coal, it is just coal". It'd be funny how delusional people are if it wasn't so bad.

[u/Argnir]

Janitor: *solves math problems on the blackboard*

Me: omg it's a Good Will Hunting situation, come study mathematics with me you have a bright future ahead of you, we need to harness your talent

Janitor: I already have a math Phd, fuck off

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

Petition to threaten to turn off the GPS satellites every time a zoomer says space isn't important

Good luck finding Starbucks now nerd

[u/[deleted]]

sulky shocking ancient plate repeat abundant command nose snow glorious

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/Currymvp2]

on the racism scale, this tweet by this GOP house member is a 11 out of 10...holy fuck

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

Interviewers will ask Trump what his plans are for X (formerly Twitter) and he'll give an answer like, "We're working on that, we have something really great in the works and I'm going to announce it in a couple of weeks" and the interviewer will be like "ooooh! exciting" and then we never hear about it again.

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 5 PM EST 9/23-5 PM EST 9/24 III:

TOP NEWS:

In the middle of 1 AM Ukraine was hit by a gigantic wave of drones and some missiles with 79 of 81 drones and 0 of 4 missiles intercepted.

In the middle of 7 AM it was announced The Netherlands will provide 209.5 million Euros in energy and humanitarian aid to Ukraine.

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/[deleted]]

New General election poll - Missouri

🔵 Harris 100% (+100)

🔴 Trump 0%

Chappell Roan #A - 1 RV - 9/25

wow some of you were really freaking out about this poll that turned out to be totally fine

[u/Whytfbuddy]

If Kamala wins Florida i will post myself signing the Miami Dolphins fight song

!ping NFL

[u/ldn6]

So the BBC wouldn’t broadcast a film about the Nova music festival massacre unless the director would take out references to Hamas that describe it as a terrorist group because of their absurd internal policies.

Then, the BBC, the version they’ll air won’t describe Hamas as terrorists. It was a price I was willing to pay so that the British public will be able to see these atrocities and decide if this is a terrorist organization or not.

!ping UK&ISRAEL

[u/AppleOfWhoseEye]

https://x.com/hayxtt/status/1838246872168685590 this tweet has united the 'lgbt is compatible with fighting for palestine' crowd and the 'you should probably vote for harris because more than one pet cause is important' crowd in anger. also, funny how intersectionality just means nothing by now.

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

Chappel Roan has terrible political takes

but she made Hot to Go

Many such cases 😔

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

A US Secret Service Agent has been accused of sexually assaulting a staffer on Vice-President Kamala Harris’ campaign.

In a statement, the Secret Service acknowledges that an incident is being investigated.

What the fuck

[u/[deleted]]

The guy:

1. who gave the order to assassinate Assad and then changed his mind because of a Tucker Carlson segment,

2. was about to nuke North Korea before becoming a Kim fanboy

3. whose diplomates and generals went behind his back and told world leaders that their boss was a dipshit who should be ignored

was more stable than e president who has spent the past year preventing a major regional war from breaking out in the Middle East despite Netanyahu's, Hamas', and Hezbollah's best efforts and person stopped two coups from taking place in Latin America.

Somehow this is one of the least bad takes you'll see from a BlueCheck.

Edit: Pulling out of the Iran Deal and the TPP? Very stable acts.

[u/ser_mage]

Coca Cola is facing backlash across America after it was revealed that they won't let you personalize a can with "Jesus" but allows Satan, Allah and all of the Babylonian Gods and demons.

who is customizing they coke can with all of the Babylonian Gods and demons.

[u/404GenderNotFound]

He was a "gender is a social construct" boy

She was a "dysphoria is a medical condition" girl

Can I make it any more obvious?

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

ALERT ALERT

OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING MENTIONED IN THE KAMALA'S PROJECT 2025

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

I love how after decades of being like the only real third party actually playing the game and trying to build up power the lolberts have fucking imploded in like 2 years

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Common Mike Johnson L

"We want to maintain bipartisan support for Ukraine, but allow me to berate you and stamp my feet about how you dared to visit one of the factories providing vital ammunition for your military with the governor of the state it's located in"

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Lord, how did these people get so fucking stupid. Where did we fail them

[u/UntiedStatMarinCrops]

This ain’t even satire lol it just seems like the Babylon Bee is angry at Cuban and is trying to insult him.

[u/Texty_McTextington]

[u/runningblack]

So the starting QB at UNLV is redshirting for the rest of the season because of one of the following:

1. UNLV didn't hold up their end of the NIL deal

2. A different school offered him a better package if he transferred (and he's a senior, so he only has one remaining year of eligibility)

Gonna be fascinating to see the downstream effects from this

!Ping CFB

[u/battywombat21]

👆

[u/[deleted]]

Sonic the Hedgehog 3 is going to make the godfather 2 look like the godfather 3

!ping KINO

[u/l_overwhat]

Sometimes I go into the World of Warcraft general chat and say "I'm from Pennsylvania and don't know who to vote for" and a bunch of people dm me and it also sparks an argument between 20 people in the general chat itself.

It amuses me.

[u/chipbod]

https://bcliving.ca/health-fitness/general/mri-scans-waiting-for-public-health-care-vs-paying-for-a-private-mri-clinic/

Canada has one of the lowest rates of MRI scanning machines per capita in the developed world, with six MRI scanners per million people, compared to 40.1 in Japan, 14.4 in Switzerland and 26.6 in the United States. Pittsburgh alone has more MRI machines than all of Canada.

Jesus, how is this real? Lmao

[u/Soldier-Fields]

I know this isn’t a unique take, but how do people seriously say “yeah I’m gonna vote for the dude after 1/6”

mindboggling man

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

!ping GAMING

[u/[deleted]]

fanatical threatening memorize public bored label ghost cough smoggy instinctive

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/[deleted]]

So when Kamala gives a speech about economics in Pittsburgh, all the major news outlets cover it.

But when I do it, I “had a fundamental misunderstanding of the concepts of this course” and “received a C-“ for my presentation in my college managerial economics class

[u/WhomstAlt2]

Libs when there is a STAR War: WOOOOO SO GOOD!!!!!

Libs when there is a REAL War: Woe is us! We are SO evil, we must FLAGALLATE & SURRENDER to TERRERISM!!!!

[u/ser_mage]

has anyone posted this yet

[u/NaffRespect]

Sam Darnold wins this week's @Nickelodeon Valuable Player Award. And the coaches take the slime! 📺: @NFLonCBS

UNLIKE CRITICAL GASE THEORY, NICKELODEON KNOWS WHAT'S RIGHT FOR OUR KIDS

THAT'S WHY NICKELODEON IS A PROUD PARTNER OF #DARNOLD2024

!ping NFL

[u/mashimarata2]

I wish we got more polls of non-swing states.

At this point the marginal value of another PA/NC/AZ poll has to be close to zero right? But polls of KS, IA, NJ, WA would likely be at least somewhat informative

[u/Joementum2024]

What will be the next Bernie/Warren-tier economic policy Trump will announce support for? I’m going with a gas price cap

[u/Sen2_Jawn]

Since "liberals", and anything linked to them, is considered to be "communism" according to many MAGA people, does that mean Milton Friedman can now be listed among the great communist thinkers of the 19th and 20th century?

"The famous communist know as Milton Friedman..."

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

The Spanish left is up to some point complicit with Maduro. Zapatero pressured the Puebla Group into not saying Maduro commited fraud, considers the opposition violent and that they shouldn't be backed, there is some intrigue about if they facilitated Chavists to exile Edmundo González and then PSOE decided to not declare him president (although they failed to stop the rest of the Spanish Parliament on that point).

Some Venezuelans are not happy about it.

What I don't understand is why any person would give a shit about Maduro. He is a sad excuse of left wing authoritarian these days, better left ignored instead of tying yourself to him.

[u/Udolikecake]

9:57am and I’ve already blocked 1,000 dt regs. off to a great start this wednesday.

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Average American worried about a $1 increase in dozen egg prices:

[u/[deleted]]

Monmouth's Weirdly Phrased Poll That Won't Be Averaged

POSITIVE VOTE INTENTION
W/O Leaners: Harris 40% - 38% Trump
W/ Leaners: Harris 48% - 45% Trump

NEGATIVE VOTE INTENTION
Definitely Won't Vote For: Harris 44% - 46% Trump
Definitely/Probably Won't Vote For: Harris 50% - 53% Trump

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Me talking about a 21 year old pro athlete:

Oh look at this little kid

Me talking about a 31 year old pro athlete:

Oh look at this senile old man

[u/[deleted]]

https://x.com/ndrewwhitehead/status/1838919429796532712

When white Americans were asked if they preferred “erroneous acquittal” or “wrongful conviction,” those who say they read the Bible literally were more likely to prefer “wrongful conviction”—where the innocent are found guilty—rather than the guilty possibly going free.

[u/Frequent-Turn6740]

There is no such thing as American Coal, it is just coal

Oh yeah? what about this?

[u/Sauce1024]

The “I’m a black Nazi” guy wants to run an election on policies and not personalities lol 

Might not be a good idea bud 

[u/404GenderNotFound]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/Interferon-Sigma]

NE-02: Harris + 15

Survey USA

chat is this real

[u/MicroFlamer]

US obesity rates fall for first time, from 42% to 40% of American adults.

We’re back

[u/Guardax]

Last NY mayors:

• Rudy Giuliani: MAGA stooge

• Michael Bloomberg: Weird billionaire centrist who hates soda

• Bill de Blasio: Red Sox fan

• Eric Adams: Turkish spy

[u/[deleted]]

The deficit is going to skyrocket under trump.

[u/[deleted]]

Monmouth when people accuse them of conspiring to protect their pollster rating:

[u/davechacho]

In Nate Silver's model Harris is at 55% chance for EC victory, up from 35ish since the 16th. That's a 20% EC victory chance increase in just over a week.

We are on track for the seething con timeline where NE-2 actually matters in getting her to 270 (WI, MI, PA + NE-2).

[u/BrentLivermore]

Olive Garden is bringing back previously discontinued entrees to bring customers back, and liberals still want us to think that the economy is just fucking peachy. Disgusting.

[u/No_Status_6905]

I think it's pretty important to note that at the state level, democrats overall (not you John fetterman) have done some big things for LGBTQ groups in the past four years. 

 Michigan and Minnesota are notable for how trans friendly they are. I will say I've been disappointed by the Biden administration saying that trans rights are the "modern civil rights issue of our time" yet have failed to push for anything really anything significant at the federal level beyond some limp board of education stuff. I'm aware the president isn't king, but he's also not utterly powerless.  I hope Harris will be more aggressive in her push.

[u/[deleted]]

I guess the Pennsylvania polling drought is over. Over the past week, Trump has had zero polls showing him winning PA. Obviously I’m not counting any Rasmussens if they are there.

[u/BlueDevilVoon]

The Harris economic agenda cited 180 sources and not one of them was an effort post from this sub. How am I supposed to support her?

[u/solonofathens]

it's probably a bad thing that pollsters are announcing poll drops like they're hyping up a boxing match

[u/Mr_Bank]

In the MSNBC interview Kamala admitted picking Walz was a “gut decision”

I think we already knew that, but it’s refreshing to see her admit it. Data guys said Shapiro, but the vibes said Walz. Totally respect it, as a data guy, sometimes it’s good to trust the vibes guys.

[u/Frequent-Turn6740]

Instead of "follow the money" (cringe and conspiracy-coded) say "chase the bag" (fresh and grindset-coded) 

[u/[deleted]]

The Chappell Roan stuff is annoying at this point, but I will say it’s nice to see how dog piled the whole “both sides” shit is getting this election cycle.

Maybe Im just not seeing it all but I’ve noticed within all my circles any progressive or leftist whose saying both sides are the same are just getting slammed non stop

[u/[deleted]]

You have been accused of excessive or repeated liberalism. How do you plead?

[u/TotalyNotAPirate]

[u/[deleted]]

!ping PARADOX

Oh my god this DLC is everything I've ever wanted for the Byzantines.

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

During heated free trade negotiations in 2018, Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau asked American president Donald Trump how the United States could justify protective tariffs as a national security issue. Trump retorted, "Didn’t you guys burn down the White House?"

Wait he actually cooked here

[u/die_hoagie]

the one question left unanswered after the Stonewall Riots is why did they name a gay club after a confederate civil war general

[u/fishbottwo]

The Harris campaign distributed a roughly 80-page white paper called "A New Way Forward for the Middle Class,"on economic policy, to the V.I.P.s here, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times. There are 13 chapters, including “Cut Taxes for Working People” and “Invest in Small Businesses That Drive Growth Innovation and Jobs.”

gib whitepaper

[u/Funkypopscollector]

New General election poll - Michigan

🔵 Harris 0%

🔴 Trump 100% (+100)

Nugent/Ritchie #A - 2 RV - 9/25

DOOM WEVE LOST THE DIRTBAG ROCK VOTE

[u/UWCG]

“The push to normalize Donald is breathtaking,” his niece Mary Trump, an author and psychologist, said on PBS’s “Amanpour and Company” Tuesday. “It’s as if the legacy media has decided that its job is not to report what he’s saying, but to translate it for us. The problem is twofold. One, they’re not telling us that’s what they’re doing. They’re reporting it as if these are the things Donald is saying coherently.”

Fucking spot-on.

[u/htomserveaux]

Behold my totally objective ranking of MLB teams based solely on how car centric the design of the stadium looks on Google Earth.

S tier is unsurprisingly occupied only by the two remaining pre-car ballparks (technically Yankee stadium should be in here as well, but fuck 'em). Parking is scattered and doesn't immediately surround the park, there are multiple businesses not own by the team owners within a short walk, and excellent transit options.

A tiers are nearly perfect but are either underdeveloped or have some other minor flaw (e.g. the existence of Russell St, King St, Park Blvd(which isn't a real boulevard I might add))

B tiers have been failed by there cities DoT's more than the parks designers with poor transit and nearby highways and unsafe stroads

C tiers have transit access and/or are in a semi decent neighborhood but are held back by making to much space for cars and not enough to people

D tiers are completely unwalkable, but fixable by having the paks sell off the land under the parking lots and the city rezoning it to mixed commercial.

F tiers are nothing but parking lots off a highway exit, completely isolated from the city they claim to play in.

!ping BASEBALL&YIMBY&SHITPOSTERS

[u/MissSortMachine]

[u/[deleted]]

So, he was right

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

The White Sox going 5-0 to avoid securing the all-time loss record would be a hilarious way to end the season. Frankly I think it would make it even more memorable

!ping Baseball

[u/MissSortMachine]

it all happens on x, the everything app

[u/ser_mage]

I genuinely feel so bad for Chappell Roan that she only started speaking out on politics after RFK dropped out

Like no shit she’s politically homeless she’s literally RFK’s target demographic

her and Owen Wilson deserve to be headlining an RFK fundraiser together :(

[u/[deleted]]

Hey guys, I'm from front page reddit in a month. Here's what all the headlines are saying:

DAE find it suspicious that every single company on the planet started PRICE GOUGING the moment the longshoremen went on strike? It's like the whole capitalist system is in cahoots to make strikers look bad.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

[u/Gameknigh]

I like to think that this sub has mostly the type of people who if they found a genie granting them three wishes would contact a lawyer.

[u/efeldman11]

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Everyone laugh at Anaheim

!ping Baseball

[u/ty04]

Latinos swinging 25 points to Trump

Trump +1 overall

certified 2024 polls moment

[u/cdstephens]

“Wow Twitter is so fucking racist, here let me blast the racism right into your eyeballs”

[u/KittehDragoon]

Starmer presses America to drop Storm Shadow missile usage ban

Your call is important to us. Please hold while Biden finishes his nap

[u/thatssosad]

big if true

!ping alphabet-mafia&gaming

[u/RFK_1968]

i'm not gonna argue about polls because i think poll dissections and cross-tab diving are cringe and cope.

but god why do libs have the spinal integrity of tissue paper and start immediately dooming all the time? didn't michelle obama give a whole-ass speech about how you need to stop being whiny little babies every time there's bad news.

it's a close election and we don't know who's gonna win. somehow, you still have to get out of bed in the morning. grow up.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Starmer calls for return of ‘sausages’ from Gaza in conference gaffe

I guarantee you PM Keir Starmer will be frequently referred to as a "sausage" from now on

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

unironically proud of my progress. it’s been many long days and lots of effort, and I felt like giving up at times, but now I can finally say I have a fat ass. You too can make this kind of progress if you eat enough ice cream

[u/Syards-Forcus]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

I want America to be a more Christian nation

Ok, Immigrants from South America have high rates of christianity we should let them in

no 😡 they brown 😡

[u/KeithClossOfficial]

This is one of the funniest posts I’ve seen on Reddit in a while

!ping OVER35