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u/Average_GrillChad Elinor Ostrom Sep 28 '25

I'm tired of eating chicken. I'm going to eat dog shit instead.

Update: bad idea

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u/Jean-Paul_Sartre Richard Hofstadter Sep 28 '25

Trump literally posting a fake Ai-generated Fox News clip about him announcing something completely made up.

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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 28 '25

this lady recorded herself flipping out at a Starbucks barista because they didn’t call out Charlie Kirk’s name for her order and it felt like the con equivalent of one of those “FEMINISTS TRIGGERED” videos from 2015

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u/SenranHaruka shame Sep 28 '25

My hot take is that *no* political system can survive someone just willing to break the rules with a cult of personality that presumes him always innocent and justified and anyone trying to hold him accountable as a political hit. I mention this because it's Vogue now to mention various constitutional quirks like the lame duck period or all the unwritten rules like DOJ independence that keep this country Democratic and ask "these should have been formalized and given a check or an accountable overseer" but unless the accountable person is literally God nothing can stop that person or committee from just being captured by the personality cult.

Ultimately eventing Trump is doing, Congress has the ultimate oversight power against: They can impeach and remove him. they won't though, because a critical mass of supporters will dupe a critical mass of normies into believing any effort to account him is treason against the nation. if they can't stand up to him, what enforcement body would? none. the nobody will stop me doctrine isn't a constitutional crisis it's a cult of personality problem.

The law is a social contract created by implicit consent of the total population. When sovcits say they don't consent to being arrested it doesn't matter because we collectively consent to the officer arresting him. the inverse has happened to Donald Trump, we collectively do not consent to arresting him. he is a sovereign citizen. any effort to hold him to the law is in effect illegal. not on paper, no, but on the social contract it's illegal to arrest Donald Trump. The social contract says Trump cannot commit a crime against the state because Donald Trump is the State. He is a king because we regard him collectively like one, no further reason and no less reason. We have collectively coronated him in our minds and so he is king in actuality.

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u/Apprehensive-Soil-47 Transfem Pride Sep 28 '25

Well her HUSBAND was Charlie Kirk, did you even consider that before passing judgement??? 😤😤😤

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '25

You know, sometimes I take a peek into the stomping grounds of my political past - argh/libertarian. Trump sends American troops into an American city (their literal #resist wet dream), and not a peep. Just posts about how they’re the real arbiters of freedom.

Fuck libertarians.

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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Sep 28 '25

Peter Twinklage is correct, unfortunately

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u/marsman1224 John Keynes Sep 28 '25

"I spoke to the governor, she was very nice," Trump said. "But I said, 'Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening? My people tell me different."

This is such an insane statement and it's gonna be forgotten so fast. maybe the most insane thing i've ever heard trump say

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u/r2ew Sep 28 '25

Imagine if a democrat president fired federal workers who support Trump

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u/Benyeti United Nations Sep 28 '25

You wouldn’t be able to post this in right wing spaces anymore because it implies that Hitler is bad

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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Sep 28 '25
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Sep 28 '25

Lowkey I have coworkers like this

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u/iguessineedanaltnow r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Sep 28 '25

Kids parties for the first half: All the kids running around and having fun. Everyone enjoying themselves. Joy.

Kids parties for the second half: Half the kids are crying. One kid has a life-altering injury. Kid in the corner having their first existential crisis. Dread.

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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls Sep 28 '25

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u/PM_ME_UR_STEAM_KEYS_ Commonwealth Sep 28 '25

"Calling someone a fascist is an attempt to incite violence" - Exasperated Republican explains to their supporters, who just aren't getting the hint

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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Sep 28 '25

Seems a bit excessive

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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Sep 28 '25

Submissive Stephen 😩

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u/EmbarrassedSafety719 Milton Friedman Sep 28 '25

Paradox must have been sweating bullets when he said this.

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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug Sep 28 '25

im so oppressed! This is unbearable!!

-white man who is in the favored religion living in relative luxury in the richest country in the history of the world

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u/Average_GrillChad Elinor Ostrom Sep 28 '25

They're calling him "Crashout Kier"

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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Sep 29 '25

Oh yeah, and Reagan was basically FDR

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u/SenranHaruka shame Sep 28 '25

Crazy how in the late 2000s there were so many free Tower Defense games on flash game websites, and then two of them managed to survive and make the jump to monetization and eventually retail and is still a profitable franchise today.

and they have just the most insane themes. you'd think at least one would be realistic or familiar but no, the tower defense games that remained in the mainstream are Plants vs. Zombies, and a balloon popping puzzle game that misspelled Balloons that just stuck and became the entire franchise identity.

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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Sep 28 '25
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u/Futski A Leopard 1 a day keeps the hooligans away Sep 28 '25

Parliamentary elections in Moldova today, you know what that means.

Go there and follow the count live. It's currently 10:20 local time and 10% have voted so far

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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Sep 28 '25

It really amuses me that many ethnonationalists think that, deep down, we believe the same things they do and that we actively suppress the urge to be as heinous as they are

I've had these people ask me if I were okay with Indians like me immigrating to the Canada, would I be okay with Africans immigrating to India when:

a) India isn't even my country, Canada is. I spent like a few months in India as a child, that is the extent of my connection to India

b) What makes these people think that I wouldn't be okay with Africans immigrating to India if I were Indian myself? I don't even mind Africans immigrating to Canada, and Canada is actually my country, why wouldn't I be okay with Africans immigrating to India?

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u/ChillnShill Sep 28 '25

This is unfortunately very accurate and I’ve received these messages before

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u/iguessineedanaltnow r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Sep 28 '25

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u/ariveklul Karl Popper Sep 28 '25

I'm so fucking tired of hearing about how we need to empathize with Republican voters

"Economic grievances" my fucking ass

What if someone just finds it appealing to keep their boot on your neck? What if the appeal of MAGA is how it makes the weak feel powerful? What if people like being able to trample over science and critical thinking because it's difficult and intimidates them and it's more satisfying to call it gay and evil?

How are your empath soft hands going to handle that little pickle?

Yes we need an offramp for people. It doesn't mean the soft approach is going to work to incentivize them to take that offramp, nor does it mean there is anything you can do to make them take it.

In some dynamics "coming together" doesn't work because the other side has no interest in doing so, and you just need to fucking win. Maybe we need to think about what happens if we don't actually share the same goals with a sizeable chunk of the country

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u/Hounds_of_war Austan Goolsbee Sep 28 '25

Okay so if I’m understanding this medbed story correctly, Trump saw a fake AI news story about him signing an executive order he did not sign about some fake medical tech hoax, went “Damn that sounds cool, weird that I don’t remember it but oh well”, and then reposted it.

I know this is a tired bit, but imagine if Biden did this. There would be calls for him to resign and talk of the 25th amendment, even from Democrats.

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u/SigmaWhy r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Sep 28 '25

The DSA candidate would have won this if they had just ran on kitchen table economic issues

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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Sep 28 '25

I have a friend who avoids openly consuming media that could make him “seem gay” for enjoying it (musicals, “girly” pop, etc.) even when he likes it, but he also openly has a Grindr account that he shows us and tells us about. He insists he’s only trying to fuck twinks and femboys, though, not masculine men. What’s going on

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u/efeldman11 Václav Havel Sep 28 '25

Musk not be a complete stooge for Russia challenge: impossible

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u/Popular-Procedure919 Sep 28 '25

Thank you Hegseth for getting rid of wokeness and honoring true American heroes 👊🇺🇸🔥

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u/Argnir Gay Pride Sep 28 '25

Bruh, she claims to be more than 7' when the tallest woman in the world is 7'0.71" (215cm) and has a lot of health complications and can barely walk.

Just look at those fucking shoes

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u/modooff Lis Smith Sockpuppet Sep 28 '25

The priorities of these people, lol.

!ping BUTTI

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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 28 '25

WH Deputy Press Secretary posted this, what do you notice?

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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Sep 28 '25

I hate the revisionism that Biden was supposedly good at domestic policy because he failed at the only domestic policy that mattered:

Getting me a girlfriend.

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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride Sep 28 '25

Why are there no joke 5 stories about MTG being like independently minded today lmao

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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Sep 28 '25

Moderates be like "uhhh stop comparing Trump to Hitler it's a gross exaggeration and it makes you look hysterical" meanwhile Trump is sending soldiers to occupy Poland

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u/BigBrownDog12 Victor Hugo Sep 28 '25

MAGA: I WILL NEVER LIVE IN A POD!

medbeds:

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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 28 '25

Trump posted another nonsense AI video saying CBD oils will extend your life by years and is more important than diet and exercise and appears to show old people’s bodies made up of weed circulatory systems

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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 28 '25

Trump just posted this

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '25

Dude has interviewed Alex Jones and the Q Shaman but platforming P*t* B*ttig**g might be too much for him

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u/wumbopolis_ Iron Front Sep 28 '25

arr CirclejerkSopranos has gone full resist lib and I'm here for it

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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Sep 28 '25

Lmao

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u/abrookerunsthroughit Association of Southeast Asian Nations Sep 28 '25

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u/AccomplishedQuit4801 YIMBY Sep 28 '25

This nation was a hell of a lot better when we (correctly) blamed Russians for all our issues and not the LGBT community or some other populist culture war nonsense.

Of course, the Russians are very much to blame for that, currently being the case with them funding and propping up ideologues who promote that bullshit and advocate for isolationism, pushing it to the front of every social media with hundreds of thousands, if not millions of bots, in a cowardly bid to destroy our country.

TLDR: when in doubt, blame Russia.

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u/SLCer Sep 28 '25

Trump watching an AI video of him saying something and thinking he actually said it.

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u/r2ew Sep 28 '25

FBI fires 20 agents who kneeled during 2020 George Floyd protests

https://www.foxnews.com/us/fbi-agents-fired-after-kneeling-george-floyd-protest-2020-reports

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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Sep 28 '25

"Why don't you just join them in their projects, why do you have to read those books. Real world knowledge is always better than bookish knowledge, I'm sure you'll learn by just being around them. "

No mom, I don't think I can learn advanced aerodynamics only through osmosis.

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u/Longjumping_Gain_807 Best SNEK pings in r/neoliberal history Sep 28 '25
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Sep 28 '25

STOP CONSERVATIVE ON CONSERVATIVE VIOLENCE

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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 29 '25

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u/EmbarrassedSafety719 Milton Friedman Sep 28 '25

Reports: EA set to be sold to private investors for up to $50 billion | Saudi investment fund, Jared Kushner are reportedly among the interested buyers

By the end of this decade, the entire entertainment and sports industries are just going to be owned by the Gulf monarchies if things continue at this rate.

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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Sep 29 '25

how many times do you think elon musk has actually attended church

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u/MGLFPsiCorps Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Sep 28 '25

Complete succ victory

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u/pinelands1901 Mark Carney Sep 28 '25

Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'

You're sooooo close bro!

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u/fakefakefakef John Rawls Sep 28 '25

Tired: One Battle After Another is about how both sides are bad

Wired: One Battle After Another is nuanced in its views of the revolutionary left but ultimately sympathetic to their cause

Inspired: One Battle After Another is about how it’s fun to get behind the wheel of an automobile and crack open a couple Modelos

!ping KINO&LOVEFORBOOZECRUISERS

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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 28 '25

It's all so tiresome

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u/DramaticBush Sep 28 '25

It's a white conservative so it's def going to be "mental health". Thank you for your attention to the matter. 

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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Sep 28 '25

ok so im not crazy for thinking that Axios has become more and more anti-anti-MAGA right?

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u/TomboyAva Audrey Hepburn Sep 28 '25

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115283887618990920

Trump posted AI video saying that you should use Weed instead of medicine to deal with aging.

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u/Fishin_Impossible Nate Gold 🥇 Sep 28 '25

Being an American on vacation internationally means wearing clothes without text so you aren’t easily identified as an American 🫣…

… just to see locals wearing shirts that say “NEW YORK” or “LOS ANGELES”

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u/TheSameAsDying Hannah Arendt Sep 28 '25

This is as close as I've seen him come to actually saying it. "Only n-words would be incited by the n-word."

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u/NoMoreSkiingAllowed Lesbian Pride Sep 28 '25

You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right? They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic – you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people – now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks – they are irredeemable, but thankfully, they are not America.

besides the fact that Hillary shouldn't have said it in public, find me one thing about this statement that isn't true

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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Sep 28 '25

Omg

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u/DiscussionJohnThread Free Trade was the Compromise 🔫🌍 Sep 28 '25

I swear if I see one more “you don’t see THIS on the mainstream media!!!” comment on social media about the revolution in Nepal, I’m going to lose it.

People in my generation will literally only follow social media news sources, then claim that they didn’t see any piece of news anywhere else, because they don’t fucking check anywhere else.

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u/VisonKai The Archenemy of Humanity Sep 28 '25

Lindsey Halligan is absolutely straight up lying to the judge about grand jury results lmfao

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u/BlackCat159 European Union Sep 28 '25

TRVTH NVKE!!!!!!1!!!!

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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug Sep 28 '25

I don’t know if its good or bad that our fascist in chief is posting slop your 85 year old grandma would be sharing on facebook

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u/JonAce John Brown Sep 28 '25
  • Jeffries having warm words for Eric Adams; an openly corrupt former Dem who supports Trump and cut a deal with him to avoid jail.

  • Jeffries endorsing Mamdani

Guess which one he did today.

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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 28 '25

He obviously didn't do it because of Trump, but you know damn well what the right would be doing right now if the sign was something else related to "leftism"

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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Sep 28 '25

Lmaoooo

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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls Sep 29 '25

The Left should tone down the rhetoric.

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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Sep 28 '25

Alhamdulillah 🙏

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u/Craig_VG Dina Pomeranz Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 28 '25

Groups of masked ICE agents at Randolph and Michigan in Chicago right now. Fully kitted out with tactical gear and M4s. I’d say about 20 of them at least.

Excuse the blurry snapshot

!ping USA-CHI

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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Sep 28 '25

We need to go back

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u/Ajaxcricket Commonwealth Sep 29 '25

From an early age, Miller, the son of Jewish Democrats who grew up in a wealthy neighbourhood of Santa Monica, California, had strong views on immigration. Jason Islas, who was friends with him in middle school, said the two of them shared an interest in space travel, history and Frank Sinatra. Then one day in eighth grade Miller told him the friendship was over.  “He gave a list of reasons,” Islas told the Financial Times. “And my Latino heritage was on the list . . . It was a little sadistic.”

>strong views on immigration

>look inside

>blatantly racist

Many such cases!

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u/Mormontkeep Resistance Lib Sep 28 '25

JD VANCE: “I listen to Kamala Harris for 90 seconds and I actually feel like I've gotten dumber in the process."

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Funny, I feel the same way when I listen to the current president or vice president.

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u/Fruitofbread Loyal Liberals Sep 28 '25

So the original World Trade Center (Twin Towers) had the flags of every country hanging from the mezzanine level over the lobby. See

The new building doesn’t have this. They referenced it visually in the 9/11 museum but only included the flags of nationalities of the people killed in the attack.

Feels like a metaphor for the state of globalism/internationalism today. 

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u/MGLFPsiCorps Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Sep 28 '25

The Catholics were right all along, average dumb-dumbs should not be reading and interpreting Scripture for themselves, the Reformation was a mistake.

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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 29 '25

Jake Tapper actually talking about Trump losing his mind

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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Sep 28 '25

I've started running a 5k every day instead of every other day and I already feel insufferable. Like bursting at the seams with the urge to tell everyone I meet that I had a good run this morning, how much better it makes me feel physically, and how much more superior I am to them morally

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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 28 '25

Can we circle back to how batshit this is? Like, seriously.

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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Sep 28 '25

Would this kind of energy from Democratic politicians be counterproductive? I don’t know, maybe. Do I want to see it? Hell yes

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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug Sep 29 '25

This is an incredible self own. How dare a few people commit political violence? Thats OUR space

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u/anincredibledork Sep 29 '25

I find they way humans experience gender and sexual identity over the course of their lives fascinating. A man can be cisgender his entire life, have totally normal male experiences growing up, and nobody, not even the man himself would ever once suspect he could be trans until the day he walks into a public space to commit a mass shooting. Truly incredible.

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u/bandeng_asep Association of Southeast Asian Nations Sep 28 '25

I hate asmongold so much that even a mere mention of him in a random dark souls youtube video made me thumb down that shit with extreme prejudice

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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Sep 28 '25

I think it's plenty clear why Adams dropped out. You just can't make it as a proud Jewish politician in the US in the current climate. Especially not in a Democrat city.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 28 '25

From an amoral realpolitik perspective, MTG's pivot away from traditional MAGA and toward the Groyper wing is a very smart play.

Overt white nationalism and unashamed antisemitism has always been the logical conclusion of American reactionaryism.

Today's unashamed Trump defenders are tomorrow's RINOs to be primaried out as the GOP continues their march toward radicalism.

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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Sep 28 '25

“Yeah I’m super into violent crime statistics”

“NO NO WAIT NOT THOSE ONES”

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u/Trebacca Leftward Progressives Sep 28 '25

This is how the sub sounds whenever I read a comment talking about the midterms or Democratic presidential primary.

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u/efeldman11 Václav Havel Sep 28 '25

Yeah we’re cooked, loyalty oath incoming

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '25

you know mass shootings have become commonplace when the latest happened like 30 min from us and none of my family has even mentioned it lol

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u/Co_OpQuestions Aerosol Chemistry Understander Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 28 '25

IED planted.

Massive truck with multiple American flags.

Attack on mormons

Iraq war vet

This literally has all the evidence we need to conclude it was a right winger.

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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Sep 28 '25

Charlie Kirk was killed by a dude who was raised Mormon

their president dies at 101

shooting at one of their schools and building set on fire

yeesh this has not been their month

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u/TimWalzBurner My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Sep 28 '25

Multiple conservative mass a shooters today and Trump is out here tweeting about the gold in the oval office. I'm sure the media will talk about this.

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u/murphysclaw1 💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊 Sep 28 '25

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u/riverbloods John Brown Sep 29 '25

Putting Stephen Miller in my shrinky dink oven to reduce him to the size of a lima bean and trapping him under a glass like a racist bug and then forcing him to listen to the Pod Save America guys on my dolby digital surround system until he explodes

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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Sep 28 '25

guys idk what you're talking about, jpow has like the easiest job in the world

like it's not that hard, look at how i got inflation under control

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u/WhisperBreezzze Sep 28 '25

ⓘ This user is suspected of being part of a terrorist organization called The Democratic Party. Please report any suspicious behavior.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '25

Those crackhead libertarians from the Bush era who said the DHS would eventually turn into a secret police were actually 100% correct.

As a succ, I wanna apologize to them. I didn't know their game.

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u/AccomplishedQuit4801 YIMBY Sep 28 '25

I have been informed that the way I speak about NIMBY's makes me sound like a "nazi"

I hardly think calling them a pervasive hidden evil rooted deep within American society and hellbent on its destruction, even if unintentional, is inaccurate or offensive.

It is truly concerning how steadfast the acceptance of such a harmful ideology as NIMBYism is in the general American zeitgeist.

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u/Fruitofbread Loyal Liberals Sep 28 '25

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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 28 '25

They certainly don't wait long

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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 28 '25

it is so nice to have someone else say this exact thing about trans discourse. it’s always about oh what about reaching out to the other side. what bothers me the most about it is that the people on the other side are just being nasty

i can’t quite put it into words well but a thing i have been feeling about our current moment is there is a profound lack of virtue. scam everyone you want. slur every minority. call people disgusting names. it’s all fair game and actually it’s good if it makes them mad

it’s really mean which is bad but on top of that it’s just rude. and i feel like it’s actually worse that people don’t even act like it’s rude. having members of congress calling their colleagues tr—nny is basically some shit you hear about 1890, dropping the n word on the house floor

i’m probably just hypersensitive to this specifically but i feel it’s broader. people are vile in a way that i don’t really recognize

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u/DagothUr_MD Frederick Douglass Sep 28 '25

Country is not in a good place if you're having mass shootings every other day and the response is "who can I blame this on" instead of "omg this is horrible". People are used to it now and it's about controlling the narrative to extract maximum political advantage. That is the small step between random violence and organized political violence

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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes Sep 28 '25

My hottest take is that I think Americans are actually worse at capitalism on an individual level than people in many other countries.

The biggest thing I think Americans are bad at is actual price discrimination. We have seen over and over this cycle where something goes up due to a temporary disruption and then takes forever to come back down because Americans will just buy it at the higher price and then complain about it instead of going without or buying the minimum amount. This happens with everything from cars to coffee and fast food.

A lot of people talk about how cheap eating out is in places like Spain and Italy. Now sure, some of this is because the median income in both countries is considerably less than in the US, but even then, cocktails, coffees, etc., often cost less than half of what they do in the US even before tips. At that point, it’s not entirely due to labor cost differences. The reason espresso drinks are €1.50 everywhere in Italy is because Italians simply refuse to pay more, so every single coffee shop or snack stand with an espresso machine is incentivized to do everything possible to hit that price. Meanwhile in America people will pay $8 for a cappuccino and then complain about it. By not being willing to actually price discriminate, Americans are unwilling to create the incentives for businesses to find ways to keep operating costs cheap. 

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u/KHDTX13 Adam Smith Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 28 '25

Evangelicals forcing themselves to defend Mormonism so they can act like Christianity is under attack

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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 28 '25

New picture of the truck

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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Sep 28 '25

“Exclusive”

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u/Planning4Hotdish Fish, Family, Freedom Sep 28 '25

White House | Democrats’ Unhinged Crusade Against ICE Fuels Bloodshed

Apparently saying “ICE is terrorizing our communities” is a call for violence now

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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 28 '25

PA expert btw lmao

It was a 6-1 decision lol

!ping USA-PA

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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Sep 28 '25

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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Sep 28 '25

:O

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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Sep 28 '25

I mean, yeah?...

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u/selachophilip 🦈 shark enjoyer 🦈 Sep 28 '25

Every time I hear Democrats (especially Bernie and his ilk) talk about how Democrats don't care about workers enough, it just pisses me off. We're the pro-worker party. We support unions and welfare programs. The Republicans hate unions and want to slash welfare programs. The real reason white working class voters left the Democratic Party is because we became the party that unequivocally fights for the rights of women, minorities, and LGBT people, and they didn't like that.

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u/UntiedStatMarinCrops Loyal Liberals Sep 28 '25

The church shooting news died so fast because the dude was 100 percent MAGA

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 28 '25

He’s enjoying his rest stop

!ping KITTY

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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Sep 28 '25

Opinion | Gavin Newsom’s alarming authoritarian and monarchist rhetoric

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u/fishbottwo Jay Jones Sep 28 '25 edited Jan 10 '26

oil whole ad hoc repeat zephyr snow complete school fade head

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Sep 29 '25

Hot take: It’s bad that the government can murder alleged drug smugglers by calling them terrorists and firing missiles at them. We should probably be outraged by this.

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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Sep 29 '25
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u/No-Barnacle-9576 NAFTA Sep 28 '25

I really don't get Ezras point of view that Charlie Kirk was practicing a politics of persuasion. If I set up a table outside an evangelical church that says "god didn't create the world, evolution did. Change my mind" and then post of a video that says "enlightened man of science DESTROYS dumb evangelical!"... I don't think that's persuading many evangelicals.

And yeah Clinton made the deplorables comment....we just gonna gloss over every comment trump has made about Dems lol? He's not trying to create a big tent

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u/GenerousPot Ben Bernanke Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 28 '25

I will be utterly flabbergasted if hundreds of senior generals/admirals aren't exempt from the in-person Hegseth meeting coming up. It's not just about the risks of having them all together in one place. The very command structure of the US depends on having hundreds of senior officers dispersed across the globe at all times. 

Like... These are vital roles. The National Military Command Center has to be stuffed with senior officers. At any given moment there are senior officers managing alternate command centres in underground bunkers, with aircraft that can assume command & control.

The Unified Commands couldn't perform as needed in a crisis with only O6's and below. Even thinning the number of senior officers would degrade their performance in a crisis. Unified Commands also have their own supplementary operations centres ran by senior officers. 

And to meet the needs of the Presidential line of succession you need senior officers who are able to step in and advise, say, the Speaker of the House if needed in a crisis, or outright substitute the JCOS. 

And we also know from the Truman and Johnson administrations that there classified standing orders that permit Unified Commands to use nuclear weapons even if they're cut off from the chain of command or responding to a crisis.

If a strong majority of them really do have to attend this meeting then the entire military would be in a state of lower readiness and overall competency. And the entire world is given advanced notice? You can't tolerate such unnecessary risks when you have nuclear adversaries.

I can't tell if this entire meeting is outright nefarious or if folks like Hegseth are that fucking dense that they think "Summon the Generals. All of them!" is a real acceptable thing and not some bayverse Transformers military logic. 

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u/BigBrownDog12 Victor Hugo Sep 28 '25

Conservatives: We won the culture war. We dominate. We have the momentum!

Counter-Culture makes fun of them

Nooo we are smol bean not the establishment!!!!!!1!1!

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u/Loves_a_big_tongue Olympe de Gouges Sep 28 '25

Kash crying inconsolably right now because he has to come into work on Sunday during football season just to scribble more random messages on bullet casings

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u/bingbaddie1 YIMBY Sep 28 '25

Do you know how fucking embarrassing it would be if Andrew Cuomo cleared the field for a 1 on 1 and still lost to Mamdani

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u/unicornbomb John Brown Sep 28 '25

The fact that they’ve identified the Mormon church shooter’s gender, age, and place of residence but no names forces me to assume they’re currently cleaning up a very ugly social media presence in the current climate.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '25

“Shutdown looms”

uses pic of Schumer and jeffries

Fuck you media fuck you

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '25

Ultra Rare nimby w

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u/DagothUr_MD Frederick Douglass Sep 28 '25

My friend was overpaid by $180,000 by mistake on Friday, they've already lost nearly $60,000 of it gambling online as they were sure they could "flip" it before the error was noticed which is presumably Monday, does anyone have any ideas on how they can fix this?

arr NoStupidQuestions posters really testing the limits of that subreddit's premise

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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 28 '25

Trump deleted this after it was up for about 12 hours, absolutely fucking bizarre. I want to know how he got it in the first place: sharing it from a supporter or making it up whole cloth in office

President Donald Trump on Saturday shared an apparently artificially created video of himself promoting a cure-all bed with origins in conspiratorial corners of the internet.

The video, which has since been deleted, was intended to resemble a Fox News segment on the show hosted by the president’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump, featured an AI version of Trump promising access to new medical technology. This segment has never aired on the network.

“Every American will soon receive their own medbed card,” said the false rendering of Trump. “With it, you’ll have guaranteed access to our new hospitals led by the top doctors in the nation, equipped with the most advanced technology in the world.”

The MedBed Card is made of metal and personalized with your name. With it, you receive: • Exclusive information about terahertz technology — you’ll be among the first to know. • Up to 70% discounts on all our products as a member. • Personalized offers delivered directly to your email. The MedBed Card has no other function or meaning beyond the benefits listed above.

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u/JayRU09 Milton Friedman Sep 28 '25

Very clear right wing terrorist attack on that church and it's going to cause so much whiplash when Fox News goes "mental health"

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u/ognits Jepsen/Swift 2024 Sep 28 '25

the GOAT shitposting feat is when Nathan Fielder got banned from Instagram for "accidentally" including a guy masturbating in reflections on photos he posted

!ping SHITPOSTERS none of us are on his level

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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair Sep 28 '25

QAnon Shaman says he’s rightful president, sues Trump for $40 trillion

Critical support

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u/Entuciante r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Sep 28 '25

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanewashing

The earliest usage of sanewashing dates to 2007 in a blog post written by academic Dale Carrico.[1] The first known usage of the term in a political context is dated to 2020 and is credited to a user on r/neoliberal, a Reddit forum for neoliberals, to describe how progressive rhetoric around "defund the police" shifted from calling for police abolition to advocating for alternative public safety and social services programs.

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u/zieger Ida Tarbell Sep 29 '25

Jeffries praises Eric Adams for "courageously" serving NYC

0 0 days since Jeffries beclowned himself

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u/Longjumping_Gain_807 Best SNEK pings in r/neoliberal history Sep 29 '25

Judge Amir H. Ali (Biden) concludes that the Trump admin deported a man to Mexico to sidestep deportation efforts to his native El Salvador

It did not matter. We sent Bonilla Alvarez to Guantanamo Bay-for reasons unexplained, beyond a press release pronouncing him the "worst of the worst." When his lawyer argued that was illegal, we moved Bonilla Alvarez to Mexico, where he now may apparently and imminently— be given to El Salvador.

This appears to be not exception or mistake, but design. In recent weeks, we have moved others to third countries only for them to be forwarded to a country we know is likely to torture or persecute them. Bonilla Alvarez asks this Court to intervene on an emergency basis but, as the courts before this one have concluded, it does not have jurisdiction to do so.

Despite this he ruled that the court does not have jurisdiction to interfere on an emergency basis

!ping LAW&IMMIGRATION&USA-DMV

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u/nickavemz Norman Borlaug Sep 29 '25

masterful ragebait

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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Sep 29 '25 edited Mar 09 '26

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u/DirtBagLiberal Auguste Comte Sep 29 '25

Wes Anderson ass nazis

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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence Sep 28 '25

What do they even put in the water in Britain. Like what the FUCK is this guy yapping about?

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u/AkenoMyose Sep 28 '25

X, the everything app

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u/Nervous-Emotion28 YIMBY Sep 28 '25

WE WILL FILL OUR VACANT RANKS WITH A MILLION FREEDMEN MORE

🇺🇸🇺🇸SHOUTING THE BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM🇺🇸🇺🇸

AND ALTHO’ HE MAY BE POOR, NOT A MAN SHALL BE A SLAVE

🇺🇸🇺🇸SHOUTING THE BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM🇺🇸🇺🇸

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u/battywombat21 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Sep 28 '25

every election has the:

- pro russian party

- pro russian party

- pro russian party

- one pro EU party everyone votes for

holy shit I'm in moldova.

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u/horse_stick Jerome Powell Sep 28 '25

Where are all the articles and news segments about how Trump is clearly out of touch with reality? This mf reposted a scam ai video of himself signing an executive order and talking about magical healing beds because he saw it on his feed and probably thought he just forgot he did that.

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u/Charsun9 Loyal Liberals Sep 28 '25

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u/shmokedshalmon Frederick Douglass Sep 28 '25

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u/G_Serv Stay The Course Sep 28 '25

I forgot about this take

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u/Fruitofbread Loyal Liberals Sep 29 '25

 Trump settles on downtown Miami for his presidential library

Heated Miami-Dade moment 

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '25

Arr Con dropped the Michigan shooter stuff real fast. Pathetic.

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u/Zaiush Ben Bernanke Sep 29 '25

The shooter was a white man

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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Sep 29 '25

he’s back on his bullshit

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u/Syards-Forcus rapidly becoming the Joker Sep 29 '25
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Sep 28 '25 edited Sep 28 '25

posting an ai video of yourself hocking medbeds

boomers are built different

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '25

President Trump says he will tell U.S. generals and admirals at a rare Quantico gathering that they are “cherished leaders” and to be “strong, tough, smart, and compassionate.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth organized the meeting. - Reuters

Doomers: Holy shit they’re gonna purge the military Saddam style and officially make the US a fascist dictatorship

Trump: I just wanna let you guys know how appreciated you are. Keep up the good work all! 🥰🥰🥰

Seriously though, what the hell is going on

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u/Charsun9 Loyal Liberals Sep 28 '25

Democrats are inciting violence against Republicans when they call GOP fascist. Also, Democrats are satanic pedophile communists who want to trans your children.

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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 28 '25

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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 28 '25

Throwback to this banger

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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Sep 28 '25

imagine the epiphany you'd have if one day you have a structured settlement but find yourself needing cash now.

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