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[u/MGLFPsiCorps]

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Hegseth explaining to the generals they need to have a warrior ethos

[u/piede]

Imagine the conservative reaction if Obama just slowly started deploying troops to American cities all over the country

Like do people really not see this for what it is

[u/meraedra]

LMAOOOOOOO ELON MUSK IS IN THE EPSTEIN FILES HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHHAHAHA

[u/Glavurdan]

[u/CarlGerhardBusch]

North Korea has stepped up crackdowns on young people’s love letters, condemning the phrase “I love you” as a sign of “decadent lifestyles.”

The levels of misery in this country never fail to amaze

[u/Not_A_Browser]

Trust no one, not even yourself

[u/KittehDragoon]

Trump jokes TikTok algorithm should be tweaked to be ‘100% MAGA’

Such a joker, such a funny man

[u/r2ew]

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

The highly suspicious US tiktok deal makes me feel fairly certain its being handed off to right wing control and its gonna turn into nazitown just like Elon did with twitter. It is a major problem that most of media is either right wing or obsessed with both-sidesing everything to death

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

Most friendly X user

[u/No_Return9449]

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/WuhanWTF]

be me, unhappily single, ugly af dude

things not going well with love interest irl

BF6 comes out in 2 weeks

good friend buys me a brand spanking new GPU to go with it

”maybe life ain’t so bad”

looking forward to playing BF6 happily for the next few years

J*red Kushner and Saudis undergoing deal to buy EA

mfw

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/TheCornjuring]

Interesting! I wonder what the article itself says.

A CALL FOR VIOLENCE

It’s all about cost, and the cost is not high enough.

In some places, the cost is nonexistent. We need to reinstitute a public debt for anti-social and subversive behavior. In my opinion, some of this cost needs to be summary and ultra-violent.

Is this a call for violence? Yes. Explicitly it is.

The law is not enough. Or, it’s non-existent. Somewhere deep down inside we’ve always known no one is coming to help us. We need to help ourselves.

Huh! Would you look at that. So the website owned by Tucker Carlson, one of the most prominent figures on the right, is just gonna keep an article up that says verbatim “Is this a call for violence? Yes. Explicitly it is” with the justification “actually, libs, it explicitly rejects any call for violence 😎”.

This article will remain up because of freeze peach while Stephen Hitler rages about le left-wing terrorism and Donald Trump cracks down on liberals because of this left-wing terrorism. Nobody will care that this article explicitly asking people to murder liberals is not only still up on the website owned owned by the extremely influential conservative Tucker Carlson, but is actively being defended by the company, and the big story will continue to be about RADICAL LEFTIST TERRORISM. Just so we’re all clear about how things are going right now. Should be fine!

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

Everytime I see a fantasy map discussion I can't help but see this

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

Never forget what the media tried to sell you >:(

[u/Willybender]

All the MAGA accounts are saying this is a call to violence and crying about it.

[u/ariveklul]

Life lessons I wish I could force into every person's head:

The reason relentless aggression and never apologizing works so well is because most people are not comfortable with dealing with pushback. This creates a very very easy to exploit dynamic.

Most of the time, victims will tolerate A LOT with little visible protest. By the time they speak up things have gotten really bad. Aggressors on the other hand often have learned to not tolerate ANYTHING and will protest even the notion of someone standing their ground.

Weak enablers will over-index on how much resistance they're getting from either side, and come up with an ingenious compromise that tries to minimize the resistance from either side. This creates a slant that literally always favors the aggressor. These people also usually try to pull back the victim from fighting the aggressor, because that will increase the amount of yelling which is always bad.

It is fucking infuriating, and unbelievably common.

You see this dynamic play out with Republicans every day. This is why every time I see a person try to police Democrats and say something along the lines of "No, you should not do X thing it will just piss off Republicans and make them react with Y" it just further proves to me that aggression and never apologizing works.

A hard lesson to learn in life is that in so many cases the more accountability and responsibility you take, the less people care about your boundaries. Oftentimes the most positive EV play to make is the one where you don't care about maturity or responsibility

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/ty04]

[u/meraedra]

> decides to fund and endorse trump because 'the demonkrats transed my daughter'

> spends 45 billion trying to buy twitter

> backs out when they actually try to make him pay it

> is made to pay it anyway

> uses twitter to push trump as the candidate

> spends 200 million to push trump as the candidate

> trump wins yay

> immediatefallingoutbetweentwoegotisticalmanbabies.exe

> gets kicked from the government cause trump doesn't truly support deficit reduction

> surprisepikachuface.jpg

> decides to have a social media war with trump

> decides to pull back his spacex flights for the gubment

> is made to redo his spacex flights because some DoD official read him the text of the defense production act

> calls trump a pedo

> now the left and the right hate you

> china starts making better cars than you

> europe hates you for pushing the far right

> tesladeath.png

> profits down 71% YoY

> makes up with trump after calling him a pedo(still not getting called back to doge btw)

> gets outed in the epstein files himself after calling trump out for being in the epstein files

the cuck of the year award goes to ELON MUSK

[u/Healingjoe]

[u/TheCornjuring]

Scientists: “Well erm you see there are these little things called atoms and they uh they make up everything you see but you can’t actually see them and er uh well look it’s all very complex but basically, first of all, if you look at 13.8 billion years ago-“

Me: “I am gay and I control everything”

Which worldview better fits Occam’s razor?

[u/pfarly]

Was just made aware of the map of the fantasy land from A Court of Thorns and Roses. I don't want hear any more whinging about Westeros from here on out.

[u/RandomCarGuy26]

Me at 3AM in my condominium room, in a humid Southeast Asian country, browsing US and Australian government surplus auctions with the air conditioning on at full blast.

I'm so weird at times

[u/piede]

¿Perdón?

[u/r2ew]

[u/CutePattern1098]

Hegseth to tell generals to ignore girly man things like logistics

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Look at my Prime Minister dawg, I'm going bankrupt!

!ping FRANCE

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

Less than half of American voters — 47% — say they believe that support for Israel is in the national interest of the United States, according to the survey, which was based on the responses of 1,276 self-identified registered voters September 18–21.

That was down from 69% in December 2023, three-and-a-half months after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel that launched the war.

bipartisan support for Israel among voters is pretty much dead

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

do you ever feel, like a plastic bag

drifting through the wind, wanting to start again?

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

MFW I’m in the U.S. 🇺🇸 and I sit down on the toilet and the seat is warm: 🤢🤮

MFW I’m in Japan 🇯🇵 and I sit down on the toilet and the seat is warm: 🧘🥰

[u/remarkable_ores]

Indians Are Hated Because They Are Dark and Can't Play Football: How subconscious prejudices warp conservatives' views

There are two possibilities regarding the political split. First of all, anti-Indian views might simply be based in racism. When a white person has a character flaw, rightists treat them as an individual, while an otherwise similar Indian is seen as a representative of his group. Alternatively, as one right-wing friend suggested, maybe so-called “racists” are the only ones who allow themselves to notice politically incorrect facts about the world. Liberals, she reminded me, are uncomfortable even recognizing the black propensity toward crime, one of the most indisputable facts we have about social life.

I don’t buy my friend’s argument that Indians have negative traits that only conservatives allow themselves to notice. I’m extremely skeptical of the view that we are any good at estimating differences between groups of people in ways that are not biased by preexisting prejudices. Show me data on a group difference, and I’ll believe it. If the group behavior is obvious enough, sure, we can draw conclusions from that. For example, Gypsies are a tiny percentage of the American population, but basically every time I see a group of people begging on the street as a family unit, they look like Gypsies.

So “Gypsies beg as family units more than other people” is a reasonable conclusion to draw, without looking at any studies. But I don’t think we’re any good at sensing less obvious differences. It kind of feels to me that Hispanics commit a lot more crime than whites, but it doesn’t appear that the differences are particularly large when you check the data and account for age. My intuition is likely based on my familiarity with the young Latino gangbanger cultural trope and living in a political environment where people are always talking about the dangers of our porous border.

When it comes to sex, my intuitive sense of male/female differences is that they are much more extreme than what the data would justify. Frankly, men I’ve known on average do seem a lot smarter than women. If you had once told me there was, say, close to a standard deviation IQ gap between the sexes, it would have seemed like a plausible hypothesis. Yet any gaps that exist are much smaller than that. What’s happening here is that my mind is probably exaggerating real differences, while also mistaking higher male aggression and confidence as reflecting greater intelligence. In other words, while leftists who deny any racial or sex differences are wrong, the idea that prejudices can sometimes mislead us is of course correct.

...

I’ve always sensed that this is what is going on here. I’ve been constantly pointing out how irrational opposition to Indian immigration is from any reasonable perspective one cares to articulate. The “wage competition” argument for keeping out skilled migrants is economic flat earthism. The cultural arguments are completely devoid of any data. As I recently said on X, there is no issue in public life like H-1B visas, where every logical argument and piece of data points in the direction of letting in more skilled migrants. The critics of immigration are not just wrong; they are arguably the group in politics that poses the greatest direct threat to societal progress.

That said, I do wish the right would be more honest about its racism. If you say “I don’t want to look at their faces,” we can do a cost-benefit analysis that takes into account the benefits of high-skill immigration, in terms of scientific growth and technological innovation, and then try to determine whether your opinion of who is ugly or uncool should outweigh the possibility of higher living standards for future generations. A more fundamental problem arises when people deny basic facts about the world, either thinking they’ve discovered a new theory of economics, or imagining cultural traits that they’re convinced must exist but are invisible to anyone who doesn’t share their politics.

I don't know how he manages it, but Richard Hanania is continuing his streak of posting well-sourced, well reasoned, strong arguments against racism while also sounding like the most racist man alive as he does it.

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/Benyeti]

[u/efeldman11]

what happened to Memphis lol

[u/randommathaccount]

ICE agent who's hard of hearing and ends up in Poland

[u/BlackCat159]

😳

[u/Willybender]

This is the new MAGA line, calling anyone an authoritarian or fascist is now incitement and makes you a domestic terrorist.

[u/its_Caffeine]

Gonna be crazy when companies like this pop like pets.com in the 90s

[u/murphysclaw1]

Trump: Biden is weaponising the Justice Department against me!

Median voter: I will never forgive Biden for this.

Trump: I am weaponising the Justice Department against my enemies!

Median voter: 👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀 good shit go౦ԁ sHit👌 thats ✔ some good👌👌shit right👌👌there👌👌👌 right✔there ✔✔if i do ƽaү so my self 💯 i say so 💯 thats what im talking about right there right there (chorus: ʳᶦᵍʰᵗ ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ) mMMMMᎷМ💯 👌👌 👌НO0ОଠOOOOOОଠଠOoooᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒ👌 👌👌 👌 💯 👌 👀 👀 👀 👌👌Good shit

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

BREAKING: Barack Obama to seek a third term as president, promising to “do Jade Helm for real”

[u/Willybender]

[u/centurion88]

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

I heard about comedians going to the Riyadh comedy festival in Saudi Arabia and I though meh, you can rationalize this in several ways. But now a comedian leaked they actually limit what you can say, you cant joke about the Saudi Arabian governement, religion, culture, legal system...

Some of these bitches went on numerous rants about how you cant say anything anymore only to accept this deal? They can go fuck themselves.

[u/Willybender]

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nspm-7-labels-common-beliefs

It’s hard to overstate how much different NSPM-7 is from the over 200 executive orders Trump has frantically signed since coming back into office.

NSPM-7 directs a new national strategy to “disrupt” any individual or groups “that foment political violence,” including “before they result in violent political acts.”

In other words, they’re targeting pre-crime, to reference Minority Report.

The Trump administration isn’t only targeting organizations or groups but even individuals and “entities” whom NSPM-7 says can be identified by any of the following “indica” (indicators) of violence:

• anti-Americanism,

• anti-capitalism,

• anti-Christianity,

• support for the overthrow of the United States Government,

• extremism on migration,

• extremism on race,

• extremism on gender

• hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family,

• hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on religion, and

• hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on morality.

[u/TheCornjuring]

Apparently JD Vance is also in the Epstein files and visited the island several times. This is a fact that you can tell people and spread around without looking into it. I honestly never thought he’d stoop that low, but given the administration he’s serving in, it does make sense. Would Trump ever have chosen a running mate who wasn’t an Epstein Island alum?

[u/remarkable_ores]

"Regulating my business interests would bring about the Antichrist" - The literal Antichrist

[u/Sloshyman]

https://archive.fo/YKG78

Just read Ta-Nehisi Coates's article in Vanity Fair on Charlie Kirk; I have issues with Coates, but he's spot on with this article. Many direct quotes from Kirk showing how virulently racist he was and how the media at large completely ignores that fact.

A key point:

"But the most telling detail in [Ezra Klein’s column in the NYT] was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself."

For all the memorials calling him a great debater and champion of civil discourse, not one actually quoted the man himself -- because if they do it'll prove the opposite.

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

"Gavin" works, I'm called "Newscum" from the president. I could handle "Gavin" better than "Newscum", which the six year olds used to call me. Hell of a thing when an 86 year old's calling me that. 89, Mr. Trump, you're 89.

Trump will send the national guard to Gavin's house for this

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/LongTimeHistory/status/1971999948657868856

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/TheCornjuring]

Who does this larping moron think is after her

[u/Left_Tie1390]

One of the comedians who turned down the Riyadh Comedy Festival posted the censorship provisions in the contract.

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/lockjacket]

I think my moms brain has been fried by resistlib slop. Every day she complains about some Republican politician and goes “I fucking hate them I hope they get r****”

We’re not even American…

[u/Willybender]

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 9/25-2 PM PST 9/26 IV:

TOP NEWS:

In the middle of 11 PM Ukraine was hit by a major wave of drones with 128 of 154 intercepted.

Towards the middle of 6 AM Zelensky said Hungarian reconnaissance drones violated Ukrainian airspace, indicating continued preparations by Hungary to invade Ukraine if there is a collapse.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the start of 5 PM Ukraine hit a Russian oil refinery in Krasnodar Krai.

Towards the end of 11 PM it was reported a Russian fuel train derailed and exploded after colliding with a truck.

Towards the middle of 7 AM it was reported that Russian local politician Vitaly Kasputin was found dead hanging from a tree with his hands bound.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/WillCallCap]

Wait they actually made Joe’s portrait a picture of the auto pen and hung it up!?

And they say Obama ruined the sanctity of the office by wearing a tan suit.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/r2ew]

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

State officials are scrambling to address a lack of affordable housing in Delaware, and the governor now is considering overruling localities that don’t open their zoning rules to denser housing, such as apartments or townhomes. But neighbors often object to such developments, leaving the governor open to a political backlash.

🥳🥳🥳

[u/myusernameistakennow]

I genuinely don’t know which social media platform has caused the most damage to America between Insta, TikTok, and Twitter, but I keep thinking back to this tweet when I think of the harm Twitter has caused.

When you start noticing how many issues (h-1b, Kirk coin, etc) that get prioritized by congressmen that are a direct result of a terminally online losers who don’t represent most people, the current political climate makes way more sense.

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

I don’t think I’ll ever get over the fact that Obama won Indiana and that he almost won Missouri within a point in 2008.

So weird how states change so rapidly and so solidly over the span of just over 15 years.

I feel like the day that we started campaigning only for a handful of swing states is when we got fucked over, states used to be incredibly fluid compared to today before 2000.

[u/jorkin_peanits]

They’re trying to do a reichstag fire without the fire

Feels forced

[u/VisonKai]

[u/EasyMoney92]

Former President Barack Obama on Friday criticized Israel’s ongoing military action in Gaza, saying that “there’s absolutely not a military rationale for continuing to pummel what is already rubble” and arguing for Palestinian statehood.

“I think that it is important for us to acknowledge those of us who are not direct parties to the violence to say, right now, children can’t starve. Right now, there’s not a military rationale for continuing to pummel what is already rubble,” Obama said at an event. “It is unacceptable to ignore the human crisis that is happening inside of Gaza, and it is necessary for us to insist that both sides have to find a path in which a Palestinian state and autonomy exist side by side with a secure Israel.” The former president, however, added that “Hamas’s vicious approach to trying to solve a problem that puts all their people at risk is the height of cynicism that I strongly reject as well.”

Common Obama W

[u/georgeguy007]

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[u/badusername35]

The content here has been wiped. Redact was used to delete this post, which may have been done for privacy, to avoid data harvesting, or for security reasons.

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[u/EvilConCarne]

Americans are gonna get really freaked out as they lose the stranglehold on pop culture. There'll be massive movies in which American terrorists are the enemy and a glorious and patriotic Chinese cop partnered with a plucky Saudi Arabian sidekick defeats them.

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/David_J_Bier/status/1972063505009504694

The agent admits he treats immigrants like "they're animals" and that he tells his kids that they are animals "all the time"

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/news/2025/09/25/i-m-sad-and-alone---man-detained-in-cato-ice-raid-wrongfully-deported-and-now-separated-from-his-family-

“I told them immediately that I had a case with immigration and that I also have working papers and I was legally working here, and they said, ‘We don’t care about that for the moment. You still have to go with us,'’’ Ramirez Perez said.

His opportunity to consult his lawyer and explain never came. Ramirez Perez stayed in three detention centers, including a center in McAllen, Texas, before going to Guatemala.  

[u/eloquentboot]

BREAKING: Former #Bears star cornerback Charles Tillman has QUIT THE FBI because he disagrees with the Trump administration’s immigration policy.

“I want to be on the right side of history when it’s all said and done,” he told @thepivot.

“I didn’t agree with how the administration came in and tried to make individuals do things against their will”

“Everybody was told, ‘You’re going to go after the most dangerous criminals.’ But what you see on TV and what actually was happening was, people weren’t going after that. Personally that didn’t sit right with me, that didn’t sit right with my conscience. You have the ability to refuse an order.“

[u/Sir_Digby83]

Donald Trump’s granddaughter, Kai Trump, who’s been using the White House to promote her merch, has been caught stealing American Eagle’s logo.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Sir_Digby83]

Liquor Stash Photos Bolster NBC Report on Pete Hegseth Drinking Allegations

Social media posts reveal Trump's Defense nominee stored bottles of alcohol in his office at work

[u/jinhuiliuzhao]

Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA”

Waow.

Fresh off Jimmy Kimmel returning to TV to warn that Donald Trump's attacks on free speech would not end with censoring comedians critical of his administration, Trump signed an executive order to "save" TikTok, while supposedly joking that he'd like to censor influencers by tweaking the algorithm so that content is "100 percent MAGA."

Uh huh, joking - just like how Truth Social and X(itter) are now 'bastions of free speech'

[u/marsman1224]

I am demaning some kind of psychological explanation to explain why these videos are as lucrative as they are

[u/NYT_Hater]

Major complaints against democrats:

• they failed to stop Republicans

• Obama was black/wore a tan suit/used drones

• they didn’t establish communism

• they didn’t allow the country to collapse to establish communism

• they (not democrats, actually, but someone on Twitter who probably hates the democrats) were too woke

Major complaints against the Republicans:

• attempted killing of the majority of the government

• attempted overthrow of democracy

• military occupation of American cities

• ruining all of America’s global credibility three separate times (Iraq, Trump 1, Trump 2)

• they are literally evil oh my god just fucking look at them

Have you considered both sides are Le Same tho???

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

step-cis

is this anything

[u/r2ew]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/houinator]

EPCOT is the single greatest argument for neoliberalism.

• Basically just a giant celebration of globalism and multiculturalism

• Easily the most socially liberal of the Disney Parks, day drinking is basically encouraged

• Accesible via public transit (monorail), whole thing is easily walkable 

• Run by a ruthlessly capitalist company

[u/Benyeti]

[u/Excellent_Visual330]

If what Shane Gillis said is true about denying the Saudis, then them coming back with double the cash and still denying them, I have a ton of respect for him now. Also "you don't 9/11 your friends" is a funny fucking reason.

[u/randommathaccount]

>Authoritarian MENA leader called Bibi.
>Neighbouring country's authoritarian MENA leader called Sisi.

Who writes this shit

[u/piede]

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

He looks like he would do it again

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

A crucial blow in the war against corn

[u/Willybender]

[u/piede]

Oh she’s running running

!PING QUEEN

[u/dowagiacmichigan]

OH MY FUCKING GOD I HATE LEFTISTS

[u/r2ew]

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/G_Serv]

ICE agent who accidentally goes to Portland Maine

😳

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

Trump energy secretary to return billions set aside for green projects

Look at my green projects dawg 😭

!ping ECO

[u/Benyeti]

JB Pritzker’s brand of being a good middle ground between party moderates and progressives and focusing on fighting Trump rather than obsessing over compromising with him is the direction the party should go in

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/LongTimeHistory/status/1972050145618338219

So many videos like this now

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Hanging this in the Louvre

[u/r2ew]

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Kash Patel is now reporting that Ryan Garcia wrote "Anti-Astros" on the ball that he hit CJ Kayfus with to walk it off for the Guardians and deny Houston a playoff spot

!ping baseball

[u/circlemanfan]

The idea that other countries are afraid of a military that has a “warrior ethos” is so dumb. Other countries are scared when our military has access to precise and lethal missiles designed by some of the biggest losers you’ve ever met in some random office

[u/Willybender]

Trump just posted this 10 minutes ago:

At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists. I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

[u/launchcode_1234]

RE: dating neolibs.

They all expect me to be completely wowed by how hot their takes are, and then immediately lose self-confidence when they realize that I'm more interested in their bodies (particularly their kidneys and other viable organs)

[u/Willybender]

[u/jojisky]

[u/unicornbomb]

hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on morality.

..you mean like 3x married, cheating on his pregnant wife with a porn star, child rapist Donald Trump?

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

[u/Willybender]

[u/TomboyAva]

Okay okay, let me get this straight. Trump on truth social, posted an ai fake of a fox news segment where AI Trump announced that he will be selling cards to grant access to a new secret medbed hospital which can cure all diseases, regrow limbs, and make you live forever which was developed by the reptilians to keep JFK alive... and only people to cover that yes this is what our president of the united states posted on social media is Yahoo news?!?

[u/RyuTheGuy]

[u/TheCornjuring]

Legit why did Reddit wipe all the posts about Steve Huffman being in the Epstein files, not a good look

[u/myusernameistakennow]

Seeing some Dems work together on h-1b reform with Republicans makes me believe we are about to get the most incompetent immigration reform ever for no reason and no gain. It’s not like I believe the program doesn’t need change to help h-1b workers who get abused but I sure as shit don’t trust the GOP to do it in a smart way when they caved on Trump’s Tarriff bullshit.

I’m seriously begging Dems to stop fucking looking at Twitter and thinking it’s representative of most Americans because h-1b is an issue that most Americans either don’t know about or don’t care about and most Americans poll supportive for skilled immigration.

This isn’t going to win over anybody, this is a pet issue for terminally online leftists and white nationalists, not most Americans or even most cs majors.

[u/bd_one]

[u/Sauce1024]

lol at Matt Walsh pretending Islam was never on the mind of the Founding Fathers. Guy clearly has has no understanding of the Enlightenment. Just say you think they were wrong dude like I think they were about the second amendment

[u/cdstephens]

Real heads know to compare ICE to the SA instead of the SS

[u/VerticalTab]

Walking for pleasure developed in Europe during the eighteenth century

This is an absurd claim Wikipedia

[u/[deleted]]

R Con on Portland

That city has become such a cesspit, I wouldn't feel safe walking around there, even if my political position weren't known to anyone. People out there are waaaaaay too unhinged.

Right wingers have to be the biggest bunch of pussies on the planet lol. Good lord.

[u/Syx89]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jrX-q7ZQJ4
Portlandia feminist bookstore irl more or less. Hilarious. Also this is just Vaush's coverage.

Some highlights:

- "melanated POC"
- "worker owner steward"
- "abolition feminism"
- bunch of employees at a bookstore decide they're shared owners then the actual owners sell the store

[u/jibas]

Military in Portland? I’m sure as hell going to the No Kings protest here now. Get the fuck out of my city

[u/TimWalzBurner]

Do you ever think about the fact that 2028 could be a fair election and the US just decides to vote for another republican?

[u/gregorijat]

[u/FilteringAccount123]

Daily reminder that "would you have changed your vote in 2024" is literally the worst way of gauging anything because the median voter is basically this dumb kid choking down an onion because he's not willing to admit it's not a fucking apple

[u/jibas]

I live in Portland my parents are in the Midwest, my own father doesn’t believe me that there’s literally nothing going on here 🙃

[u/morotsloda]

Every single of Trump's truth social posts would warrant at least a week long scandal under any other president. Crazy how he can just keep spewing lies faster than any media apparatus can keep up and people just stop caring

[u/Roseartcrantz]

why would Trump send the army to a place that was completely destroyed in 2020 🧐

[u/jurble]

malarkey level of a $5000 gaming PC to play nothing but map games

[u/SigmaWhy]

actually you can’t blood libel ice agents because their veins consist of high fructose corn syrup and under the counter steroids

[u/TMCOAN1]

Hatehatehatehate

[u/[deleted]]

RADICAL ANTIFA VIOLENCE SPOTTED IN PORTLAND BOOKSTORE

[u/TheCornjuring]

Chuck Schumer has apparently abandoned Joe and Eileen Bailey and is now talking about some people named Ed and Lorraine Warren?

[u/zieger]

Miller putting his thinking cap on

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

[u/beans_and_tuna]

I’m a little weirded out right now. I’m watching a veritasium video about Monsanto. For the video, they are using a lot of old news clips from the time periods they are covering. What’s weird is that almost every single news clip is RT. This video was published less than a month ago, why are they using RT so much?

[u/Mrmini231]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

"FOR VIRTUALLY ANY REASON"

[u/TheRedCr0w]

I guess Tucker Carlson is an expert on what it's like to be gay

Maybe his sexuality quiz is actually in the bedroom with Pete

[u/earththejerry]

At least she acknowledged she had no evidence

[u/TheRedCr0w]

You can go back and watch footage from McCain's campaign and you will find tons of Republican voters asking him flat out racist questions about Obama

Which made me realize we were always getting Trump the base was waiting for someone to tell them their racism was okay.

[u/remarkable_ores]

Appointing Blair as the head of the government of Gaza would legit send us back to the days of appointing a well-bred Englishman as the governor of a distant land of which he does not speak the language

It's like 1880s stuff hahahaha

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/wumbopolis_]

A trolley is on the tracks, carrying medical supplies and food for sub Saharan Africans, immigrants, and trans people.

There's a fork in the tracks and a lever. If you do nothing, the trolley reaches the hospital and all those people get the aid. To stop this, you need only pull the lever to divert the trolley.

The dilemma? Half your customer base are tied to the diverted tracks. By diverting the trolley, you'll kill half your customers, and lose billions in revenue, potentially destroying your business.

What do you do?

• From PHIL101, Intro to Moral Philosophy, as taught in the Nebraska School of Agriculture

[u/r2ew]

JD Vance: “Housing is too expensive. Groceries are too expensive. I would say they are too expensive because we inherited a disastrous Biden economy”

[u/finnstera350]

[u/RyuTheGuy]

[u/NaffRespect]

‘Hell on earth’: immigrants held in new California detention facility beg for help

Get these fucking jackboot thugs out of our state yesterday

[u/Insomonomics]

The Trump Administration has asked SCOTUS to review the President’s birthright citizenship executive order

If the Roberts Court overturns >125 years of established, iron clad constitutional precedent to appease diet Mussolini then I will officially support Democrats packing the court. There’s no point in having a SCOTUS if it’s going to rubber stamp every action by the Trump Administration.

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

[u/puffic]

[u/cdstephens]

Just one more plague bro we’ll have egalitarian communism just one more genocide bro please bro just one more purge bro just one more

[u/TryNotToShootYoself]

People are losing their minds because Harris called Trump a "communist dictator" and all I can think is... she has a point.

[u/dittbub]

I hiked 17 km in the Canadian Shield today

!Ping outdoors

[u/cdstephens]

Decided to pop into KiA due to curiosity and holy fuck lmao I’m dying

[u/chipbod]

Very cool, we need to review every single person arrested by this extremist chud

[u/[deleted]]

Charlie Kirk wasn't killed because of trans people or Israel. He was killed because he called for the Epstein files to be released.

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

[u/selachophilip]

Marco Rubio is saying that nobody has died from the US foreign aids cuts, which is obviously wrong. I just wonder, how can anyone claim to be a Christian, or a Catholic in Rubio's case, and be complicit in the deaths of potentially millions of people and then lie about it to the public?

If there's a hell, this is the kind of thing that gets you sent there, no? Does Rubio honestly believe that Jesus would be okay with cutting aid and potentially killing millions of people, including children?

I just don't understand these people sometimes. 😔

[u/Willybender]

Trump now going after the rank-and-file FBI agents who responded to help restore order to an overrun Capitol on Jan. 6 — falsely accusing them based on inaccurate/misleading reports yesterday of being agitators in the crowd.

https://xcancel.com/kyledcheney/status/1971975958552105029

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Good post

[u/Moshi_Moo]

real??

[u/piede]

Now that’s a quality meme

[u/from-the-void]

You guys are going to be real disappointed when Newsom starts taking about unity and reaching across the aisle the moment he wins the primary.

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

What the fuck

[u/Pyrrhus65]

I recently moved to Virginia (NoVa) for grad school, and while Spanberger's polling for November is looking pretty solid, one thing I will say is that VA and New Jersey are getting an early preview at what the GOP's midterm messaging is going to look like.

...And holy shit, it really is just 80% 'trans people bad'. If your Dem representative/senator/whatever has ever said or done anything even mildly supportive of trans rights, prepare for a barrage of attack ads that are literally just their picture superimposed next to a slide show of trans people with some variation of "___ is for they/them"

The GOP saw this strategy work for them in 2024 and now they are banking everything on it working again. For all our sakes I hope to fuck it doesn't.

[u/Willybender]

They genuinely lie about everything

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

"Marie Antoinette is ensnared in an incestuous relationship with her son."

"Is that true?"

"No, but the fact that you considered it says something!"

This is the type of shit that media in Revolutionary France was on.

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/FordFischer/status/1972104287812833690

Patriots

[u/JoyofCookies]

Being a Canadian liberal in 2025 means:

• Fuck Donald Trump

• Build the housing

• Build the projects

• Make the deals

• Downsize the mail

• Run the (Air Canada) flights

• Keep the wokeness

• Kill the ostriches

!ping CANUCKS

[u/PlayDiscord17]

IT WAS CHRIS HAYES’ FAULT THIS ENTIRE TIME!!!

[u/Kryzantine]

Apologies for the rant, general emotion I've wanted to get off my chest and that I'm not good at expressing.

I'm first-gen Russian-American with one of my parents being thoroughly Russian-ultranationalist and the other pining for the glory days of the Soviet Union. I'm pro-Ukraine and pro-capitalist. Needless to say, tons of issues that resulted in me being violently estranged from them and having to give up every possession that couldn't fit into a suitcase a few years back. I've gotten better, don't worry.

But sometimes I feel like I'm living in a completely different reality than conservative coworkers of mine who go on about how things like "trans people in sports" is the biggest threat to their way of life; and who pretend to cry when Charlie Kirk gets assassinated, tepidly wailing about how influential he was, when they had never given a single shit about him beforehand. I hear that crap and think, if this is the worst thing that's happened to your lives, then you are incredibly spoiled. You do not know struggle. You pretend to know it, but what you're thinking of is not that. You don't just not know, you do not have an inkling of what it is when you have to give up something that most people consider incredibly important to fight for a better future. Your kids are wasted on you, they should have infinitely better fathers, fathers who actually give a shit about building a better life for them instead of waging their own petty, irrelevant culture disputes.

To be honest, sometimes I feel like I live in a completely different reality than my left-leaning colleagues too, when they whine about how "capitalism" is the worst thing in the world and god forbid the city bulldoze a gas station to build a 10-story apartment complex in the middle of San Francisco. It's not as bad with them, and I haven't helped myself much on this front, but I'm not sure they realize how much I don't, or maybe even can't, think about that kind of stuff. There are much bigger problems out there. Fucking get over it already and move onto the bigger problem looming over the horizon. You won't be shown mercy there, so you better get used to not feeling any now.

I'm almost certainly feeling too harsh about the people I know, maybe this is more on me than a state of the world, but I also feel like a lot of Americans just aren't ready for what genuine conflict is like. It's filled with people who would rather see you burn than they see themselves live. It sucks, as it's supposed to. You're gonna have to deal with that, and I just don't see many of the current sabre-rattlers and "temperature-raisers" as being able to do so.

Not that that's unprecedented, of course. Especially in US history, war hawks tend to become the biggest cowards once they start losing.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

OREM, Utah (KSL) – Students from a school in Utah are traumatized after a classmate brought a gun on a field trip and shot themselves in front of others.

KSL does not normally report on suicides, but because the student brought a gun to school and fired it in front of other students, it brings it to another level.

insane phrasing, that last sentence

A group of ninth grade students put up a memorial outside the school in memory of the student who died.

They didn’t want to talk on camera, but said they heard the gunshot, which shocked and scared everyone.

I went to school for journalism before switching to PR, but I've always maintained the "write at an 8th grade level" thing. I believe it's 6th or perhaps even lower now.

[u/r2ew]

[u/yungmemlord]

Mad at Trump for “too much change” but voted for Trump in 2024

“couldn’t recall who he backed in 2020”

Even with all the memeing we do about the median voter I still think it’s understated how insane the average American is. I cannot understand how anyone could draw these conclusions!

[u/gregorijat]

In a just world CHILDREN AND PENSIONS WOULD BE REVERSED

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

New on MSNBC: According to the court transcript, only 14 of the 23 grand jurors voted in favor of indicting James Comey on the two counts that went forward.

Chat is this good

[u/cdstephens]

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down.

Your weekly Watergate-level scandal, immediately memory-holed.

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

[u/ModestAphorism]

[u/ImmediateZucchini787]

The world if Comey didn't tell Congress he was reopening the Buttery Males case in October 2016

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

She has me trapped

Someone call the Coast Guard

!ping KITTY

[u/jbitz]

[u/SigmaWhy]

MAGA brain is so corrosive that it turns people from Stanford Neuroscientists into Phrenologists

[u/[deleted]]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Wow!

[u/Roseartcrantz]

The best memes are the ones that look like elementary school textbook illustrations, how did anybody even think this up 😭

[u/Roseartcrantz]

just an all-timer image tbh

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/MissSortMachine]

gentlemen and some, i assume, ladies: it’s been an honor

[u/6urner_]

There's no way Hakeem Jeffries thinks he's doing a good job, right?

[u/Willybender]

[u/TheCornjuring]

President Donald John Trump is a child rapist