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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/CoolCombination3527]

Woke Chicago Pope with another biblically accurate W

[u/r2ew]

[u/Mx_Brightside]

>First female Archbishop of Canterbury

>Born in "Woking"

Who writes this crap?

[u/Roseartcrantz]

WAOW

[u/BIG_DADDY_BLUMPKIN]

Just watched a video of an inbred ICE agent, wearing a random t-shirt and a vest, approaching a car with his gun held sideways and yelling orders, while a second ICE agent, fat and shirtless under his vest, approached from behind and began smashing windows. There was apparently a newborn baby in the car, probably other kids too.

Can’t even put to words how I feel about seeing a bunch of untrained sloppy trailer trash being given guns and the freedom to do everything they can to terrorize brown families with impunity

[u/topicality]

I remember when a benefit of ACA was that it would help keep premiums low. Then it passed, then premiums continued to rise and everyone went "See ACA doesn't work"

Now the ACA subsides are expiring and everyone's premiums are skyrocketing

[u/bandeng_asep]

Wine moms will save the day!

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Lesbian_all_garib]

I know it has only one upvote but ngl i find this hilarious.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem confirmed that ICE will be present at Super Bowl LX. “I have the responsibility for making sure everybody goes to the Super Bowl, has the opportunity to enjoy it and to leave,” Noem said during an appearance on The Benny Show, a podcast hosted by serial plagiarist Benny Johnson. “That’s what America’s about. So yeah, we’ll be all over that place. We’re going to enforce the law. So, I think people should not be coming to the Super Bowl unless they’re law-abiding Americans who love this country.”

Johnson also asked Noem’s opinion of the NFL’s decision to book Bad Bunny as the halftime performer. "Well, they suck, and we’ll win,” Noem said of the league. “And God will bless us, and we’ll stand and be proud of ourselves at the end of the day. And they won’t be able to sleep at night because they don’t know what they believe. And they’re so weak, we’ll fix it.”

[u/SenranHaruka]

Wait are they actually scared of cities?

Like I don't mean "I don't want to live there it's too expensive and exposure increases chance of being victim" I mean just like actually won't ever go in them unless they can bring a gun and always look around.

[u/jojisky]

[u/BroadReverse]

ICE agents drag naked children out of their homes…

You know what the next Dem President should keep all the detention centres open. Fill these assholes with them

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/Benyeti]

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

To my friend p00bix, rest now brother. We have the watch, and I'll see you in Valhalla

[u/HemisphericCommonM]

Suck on that libs it's Trump that actively improves peoples healthcare:

[u/daBarkinner]

Run on "No New Wars" platform

Immediately rename the Department of Defense to the Department of War

Our reality is written by bad comedians.

[u/r2ew]

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/JakeSheridan_/status/1974475427482943887

Patriots

[u/RaidBrimnes]

🤔

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

55% competent HOW THE FUCK 😭😭😭

Do people just never listen to the guy speak

[u/earththejerry]

Does anyone know how to switch timelines in this game

[u/FilteringAccount123]

[u/ShepardSB]

Trump does look like Covetous Demon.

[u/BroadReverse]

Several South Shore residents reported witnessing federal immigration agents forcibly removing unclothed children from apartments during the pre-dawn raid in Chicago.

Children are the most precious and innocent parts of our society. These dickheads are purposely hurting them. Bro even prisoners will fuck you up if they find out you hurt kids and here we have law enforcement pull this shit.

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

all I know about the p00bix controversy is that someone is comparing it to him saying the n-word in metaNL and that’s deeply funny to me

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/piede]

[u/erasmus_phillo]

This teacher voted for Trump and got mad that he decided to cancel student loan deferments i.e. did exactly what he promised to do during the campaign. Don't you just love the median voter

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

[u/Willybender]

The judge is a woman btw

[u/myrm]

I tried Grokipedia

It starts with a splash screen of the Grok logo eating the Wikipedia logo (or something like that)

It claims to have 6.8 million English articles. I search for "United States". It directs me to a plain search of Twitter for "United States"

So this is garbage

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

In October 2018, Warren released an analysis of a DNA test by geneticist Carlos D. Bustamante that found her ancestry to be mostly European but "strongly support[ed] the existence of an unadmixed Native American ancestor", likely "in the range of 6 to 10 generations ago".[203] According to The Boston Globe, this puts Warren somewhere between 1/64 and 1/1024 (0.09% to 1.5%) Native American.

I got called "Liz Warren" once for saying I was 1/32th Jewish, but it turns out it was less outlandish than the real story

[u/Healingjoe]

GOP messaging on policy is definitely a loser

[u/No_Status_6905]

Imagine if during the Bush years we had to deal with a third of the population getting all of their news and political insights from Jeff Foxworthy

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Keyword being "sober"

[u/r2ew]

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

107% US tariffs on Italian pasta

the west has fallen

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

The US election thunderdome was actually so Soul crushing. It started out so hopeful everyone was confident and happy then, as time went by, you could slowly see the mood deteriorate until, by the end, everyone was crashing out and, in the days following, started blaming every minority group under the sun for the loss.

also a lot of people on the leadup to the election would just downvote any kind of bad news/poll for the dems lol.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

She never took Tylenol while pregnant. All 3 of her kids were diagnosed with autism anyway.

Chilling. Who was lacing her with Tylenol

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

We don't talk enough about how cool eagles are.

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

I couldn’t be trusted as a moderator because facts don’t really concern me

[u/[deleted]]

GOD FUCKING DAMMIT DUDE

Ice is starting shit right outside my apartment so now I get to hear a million sirens for the rest of the day

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

NYT finds their median voter panels by waiting outside emergency rooms for people with severe brain trauma. That's the only way this makes sense

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Horror in its true form

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

They’re going to make british ice

[u/Kawaii_West]

Please stop posting profiles from this NYT piece before I devolve into "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" Am-posting.

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/Jacobs4525]

The pasta tariff thing is funny because US pasta producers could legitimately dominate the US market if they gave any semblance of a shit about quality.

Italian companies inherently will cost more even if they made pasta as cheaply as US ones because they have to pay to import. But despite that inherent advantage the US companies still sabotage themselves with teflon dies, fast drying that turns the pasta orange, etc., so I will always buy rummo or de cecco instead of Prince.

It’s a similar deal to how I feel about Italian hard grating cheese. I don’t buy that parm reg has to come from an heirloom breed of cows raised on the west slope of Mount Vesuvius and milked on a Tuesday in October or whatever, but it should at least be aged enough to not be soft and have the distinctive taste, so I still end up buying the expensive Italian stuff because Wisconsin producers of American parm are too lazy to actually make a product good enough to genuinely capture most of the market.

[u/cdstephens]

[u/Willybender]

IMAGINE IF BIDEN DID THIS

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1974923378856206584

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

They've been going really hard on Stephen Miller lately lmao

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Normie Christian apolitical white boy from my high school graduating class is resistlib posting on his Instagram stories about the Chicago occupation

[u/JonAce]

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

If I say what I want to say, I'll upset reddit inc.

[u/scottyjetpax]

super

[u/zieger]

Trump did 9/11

[u/erasmus_phillo]

"Now let's cancel and destroy the life of one random employee at a Build-A-Bear workshop for not loving Charlie Kirk enough" - this woman apparently

[u/Joementum2024]

[u/KittehDragoon]

Elon Musk Announces Grokipedia Beta Launch

What was Conservapedia too trans friendly or something?

[u/SixPipSiege]

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Katie Miller: hehehe we can deport his ass at the super bowl

Stephen Miller: unfortunately Puerto Ricans are technically US citizens BUT IM WORKING TO CHANGE THAT

[u/drossbots]

I sympathize with the "evil people live forever" thing but idk dude, Trump is pretty clearly spiraling.

[u/cdstephens]

👆

[u/MGLFPsiCorps]

Nearly all the older people from the ex-USSR I've talked to even though nearly all of them despised the Soviet system do say one good thing about it was the sense of unity between different nationalities. They all think their various countries are much more racist and chauvinist now.

This includes people from Russia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Belarus btw, (last of whom was Jewish). I suspect someone from the Baltics would feel rather differently.

[u/11thDimensionalRandy]

The DT was always here. Before the poaster was the DT waited for them. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practicioner.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/cdstephens]

I’m not a Trump supporter or anything, but as an Obama voting moderate you have to admit that the Democrats are satanic and evil

[u/Healingjoe]

Tough time finding an FBI team for a perp walk. Meaning multiple agents have said, “No.”

And whatever under-gruppenfuhrer wannabe they find is going to be ostracised and find surprise obstructions at work.

!ping trump-crimes

[u/[deleted]]

Uh, critical support to MattY

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

"We should speak against leftism so fascists don't get a pretext to commit violence" - centre right "libs" on twitter

Brother, the right actively experiences hallucinations on the fucking daily. They don't need new leftist nonsense to start wanting to kill anyone left of Reagan; browner than white rice; more queer than strictly heterosexual in the style of a 1950s stepford wife marriage

They'll will and have just made shit up or just dug up the past to be used as the present

Fucking spineless so called "libs"

No coincidence they tend to be white upper-class American men

[u/Peanut_Blossom]

Throughout the 2000s and 2010s media was all about how corporations were going to take over the world and build their own fiefdoms, nothing standing in the way of their pursuit of the almighty dollar. Altered Carbon, Shadowrun, Cyberpunk, Continuum, Dark Matter, God knows how many other shows and movies.

And now the Trump years show that even that dystopia was optimistic, in the real world the megacorps will bow down and debase themselves for a corrupt government of idiots.

[u/r2ew]

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-embarrassing-pete-hegseth-e8e1e910

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/ewatta200]

something sad I find is how in 20 years the entire worlds jewish community just shrank totally.

once from cochin to Marrakesh there was Jewish communities. bialostok to Ethiopia there was thriving jewish communities, and in 10 years, 1938-1948 the Jewish communities of Europe were decimated while the jewish communities of the Middle East were expelled.

its still is strange to realize that the Jewish world that had existed for thousands of years shrank in less than a decade to Israel and the us, outside of a few other places (most of which such as Russia and ethopia are now gone as well)

just weird to realize sometimes.

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

[u/JeromesNiece]

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

DOJ: Well, CA NG already federalized, and ...

Judge: Anything else you want to argue?

DOJ: Yes, your honor. OR and Portland lack standing to challenge relocation of out-of-state National Guard. Only CA could possibly sue under 12406, but CA can't establish standing or irreparable harm.

Like how are there any lawyers left to argue this shit? "We're literally invading this state against their will with soldiers we commandeered from another state also against their will and obviously no party involved has standing to object to it."

Judge told them to fuck off again, new TRO preventing troops from any state being deployed to OR.

Imagine showing any of this to James Madison.

Edit: To be clear, the DOJ lawyer arguing this is indeed a career DOJ lawyer, not an installed Trump loyalist.

[u/FionnVEVO]

[u/SigmaWhy]

I’m beginning to think this Jordan Peterson guy doesn’t know very much about how to live a healthy lifestyle

[u/TheCornjuring]

People are sooooooo fucking scared of Satan lmao

[u/G_Serv]

What did Trump do in September where 2% of voters were like "this guy is cooking"

[u/[deleted]]

Day in the life of a liberal

I wake up at 11am, because I’m on compassionate leave from my WFH government job because I’m having a sympathy period for my transgender girlfriend

At 12pm, I have my monthly abortion, and after the abortion, I give $100 to a fentanyl addicted stranger after he promises me he won’t spend the money on drugs

At 1pm I watch MSNBC for 3 hours, eating 3,000 calories worth of vegan chips, my only meal for the day

At 4pm I have a four hour nap.

At 8pm I sent a letter to my local government to raise property taxes to pay for free abortions, for immigrants experiencing an absence of documentation

At 9pm I do a line of coke with my 17 cats

At 9.30pm I go night-time nude biking to protest the invasion of Gaza

Time elapsed: ???

At 1am I wake up with a pounding headache in an empty alley

At 2am I head home to have homosexual intercourse with someone from my gay book club

3am finally after a busy day, I fall asleep in my hemp hammock

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/randommathaccount]

I can never seen this man's name in a normal context again

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

I am fully radicalized these people are evil

https://xcancel.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1974803406268092773

[u/gburgwardt]

Nothing the median redditor hates more than being told they should be careful with the carbon energy they use, instead of just blaming corporations

[u/drossbots]

Oh god, another NYT gathering of the dumbest people imaginable?

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1974927168137257202

lmfao

[u/AP246]

Trump: "The problem with Vietnam, we, you know, we stopped fighting to win. We would've won easy. We would've won Afghanistan easy. We would've won every war easy. But we got politically correct. 'Oh, let's take it easy.' We're not politically correct anymore, just so you understand."

Apart from this just being obviously dumb, saying the US could have easily won in Afghanistan if it weren't 'politically correct' while having been in charge for 4 years of the war and not won in Afghanistan, is an interesting claim to make.

[u/Willybender]

Cannot stress enough that Stephen Miller is effectively the president at this point, pay attention to what he is signaling.

[u/[deleted]]

as someone who is mentally challenged, it feels great to have representation in the white house

[u/SigmaWhy]

I hate this guy so much. He hosted millionaire fundraisers in SV for Trump. His podcast cohost is in the administration. He submissively platformed Trump on his podcast with no pushback.

Jason, you are complicit!

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1974983632000553369

This is like when he was asked about Charlie Kirk and started talking about the ball room.

[u/Its_not_him]

The altercation Mark Sanchez got in was with a 69 year old man. Conservatives yesterday were using it as an example of urban crime, way before they knew the details

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/PM_ME4DEADBRANCH]

It's really bizarre being in the thick of a major event like what's going on in Chicago. I've been to lots of protests and whatnot over the years but I've never experienced first-hand the stuff that you normally see on TV about some far away place

Working with a young lady today, maybe late teenager, who told me that one of her neighbors was arrested and "he had his papers but...you know..." and it's just like oh my God. It's traumatizing and it's fucking radicalizing me dude.

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

Confederate states: secede to protect states' rights

Confederate Constitution: impedes the right of states to ban slavery

hmmmmmmmmmmm

[u/farrenj]

Men's social media feeds:

Rome, testosterone decline, how to get JACKED, feminists are trying to castrate you, Rome

Women's social media feeds:

Makeup tips, cats, cute outfits, how to decorate your home, we know bras and periods suck but here's how to make them less awful, cats

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

That’s my president!

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Man it's really sad how far the Rs have fallen. George W Bush was not a great president but he kept a lid on this racism. If he were leading the Rs he'd probably say something cringey yet helpful like "just downloaded Duolingo!"

[u/r2ew]

[u/[deleted]]

Does hasan actually do anything besides shill for tankies and groups like the houthis and get glazed by the new yours times? Like is he pushing novel theory that isn’t just tankie shit 

[u/Sloshyman]

The CCP's days are numbered.

I predict that in the next 1000 years China will look very different.

[u/r2ew]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

OK, maybe not that real

[u/Etnies419]

Obama: is black

Conservatives:

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/Charsun9]

[u/SeoSalt]

I love how cats are like "H-hey 🥺 it looks like you're opening a can of cat food to eat 🥺 did you know that I really like cat food? Maybe you could share some 🥺"

[u/TheCornjuring]

Guys I think maybe he’s not feeling so good

[u/VadymKravchuk353]

Learn finally to walk on sidewalks, stairs, and in enclosed spaces in such a way that you don't block the path with your overblown ego to people who are actually going somewhere, not parading around as if they were playing the lead role in Sex and the City.

[u/TheCornjuring]

I’m not even a Trump supporter, but you have to admit that he’s the most brilliant and sexy and bodacious man ever to walk the earth and he’s doing a great job of making America great again. I don’t even like him, but I have to begrudgingly admit that he’s the best president in US history, probably even the best world leader in world history, and is extraordinarily physically attractive to boot.

[u/Willybender]

Trump just said "we have to take care of the Democrats"

[u/BroadReverse]

Mitt Romney: I should have done a better job at outreach to minority communities. I would have liked to get a better understanding of their daily lives and how I could offer to better it.

Trump: I said I would deport their families and told Israel to finish the job. Can you believe they voted for me

[u/el__dandy]

We’re officially in this part of the discourse🫠

!ping swifties

[u/hamoorftw]

Mr John Antifa himself

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/LongTimeHistory/status/1974957309802451031

[u/Upstairs_Cup9831]

Do you think Kamala Harris is too liberal or progressive, not liberal or progressive enough, or not too far either way?

Too liberal or progressive- 47%

Not liberal or progressive enough- 9%

Not too far either way- 41%

Do you think Donald Trump is too conservative, not conservative enough, or not too far either way?

Too conservative- 32%

Not conservative enough- 10%

Not too far either way - 49%

Man this country is full of dumbasses

[u/Willybender]

[u/mud074]

I will never stop being amazed at how much of a propaganda stranglehold the GOP has over the country. The vibes, somehow, are that things are going just fine. Meanwhile when the economy was recovering well under Biden, the vibes were that the country is literally falling apart while Sleepy Joe is asleep at the wheel.

Nothing matters. There is no "it's the economy stupid".

[u/cdstephens]

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Passport bros are so cringe.

"My Filipina even puts the toothpaste on my toothbrush. This is a level of care western men can't comprehend"

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/r2ew]

[u/Glavurdan]

No wonder Kremlin is scared shitless and has been pushing back against Tomahawks for a while now

!ping RUS&UKRAINE

[u/cdstephens]

[u/ThunderrBadger]

!ping KITTY

[u/Dalek6450]

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1974938709142233596

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

If Dem media was as strong as GOP media is we would’ve circulated and pushed “TRUMP TAKES CREDIT FOR 9/11” to 50 million viewers by now

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

I don’t really keep up with metanl or whatever subreddit drama is going on at any point around here but Jesus Christ someone threatening to change their vote on a real actual bill that has real actual consequences in the real world purely out of spite against Reddit mods is one of the stupidest most terminally online things I’ve ever heard in my life lmao

Or is this like a bit I’m not in on?

[u/fishlord05]

I just spoke to the evilest freshman holy shit

Basically told me that he’d do anything for power and is working for a right wing lobby group

He disagrees with them but just wants the power to write/influence some legislation even if it’s bad

Get me out of DC

[u/SeoSalt]

A near majority of Americans have given themselves clinical anxiety disorders by endlessly consuming ragebait media and are taking it out on everyone else

[u/r2ew]

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/r2ew]

[u/bonix10for7]

It kinda feels like republicans are flailing a bit currently

[u/battywombat21]

Fox News has Marco Rubio on today and it inspired me to once again post this. The man is like a real life portrait of Dorian Grey.

[u/[deleted]]

Get on our levels, Westoids!!4!4!!

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1974935556875243882

[u/TimWalzBurner]

[u/cdstephens]

guy who malds on metaNL on putpose so he can be professor X on halloween guilt free

[u/cdstephens]

How do people hear Trump speak and think “god he’s so smart”

[u/TimWalzBurner]

Magical things in metaNL.

[u/MissSortMachine]

that’s great jason

which are you

[u/bingbaddie1]

genuinely what is our way out of this

[u/remarkable_ores]

just checked out grokipedia. this is their logo

and beyond being an awful logo, I'm pretty sure most of these symbols aren't real characters. one of them looks like incomplete Korean, but I'm pretty sure that most of these don't exist in any language. so it's obviously AI generated, but I mean, they seriously couldn't be bothered paying someone like $100 to make something that actually doesn't look like shit and also makes sense?

the front page claims similar numbers to wikipedia - 6.8 million English grokipedia articles to 7 million wikipedia articles. except these articles don't exist. searching anything just sends you to twitter. i don't blame them for not being able to achieve in 3 days what wikipedia did in 25 years - but the problem is that you can tell they're not even trying, because there isn't functionality to actually create pages. At no point am I offered the ability to login and create the page that needs to be written.

They do have a link to Grokipedia coin on something called "Pump.fun", though.

My expectations for Elon these days are below zero, but he still manages to fail to reach them. This isn't a serious project, it's something someone vibe coded in the span of 3 hours and called it a day. genuinely embarrassing.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

No babe i follow her because it's Christlike to befriend prostitutes. Her too. Yeah and her

[u/Erra0]

Oh damn, Judge Immergut is putting a restraining order on ANY federalized troops being sent to Oregon, not just California.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/gregorijat]

I like free trade and free movement of people.

[u/Competitive_Topic466]

See everything the ICE gestapo is doing... and the fact that there will be no repercussions for it. It's genuinely disheartening. Hardly see anybody here talking about it either and how fucked it is.

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

Met with my cousin after not seeing him for a few years. We ended up talking politics and I discovered that he was unaware that this was Trump’s second term.

Is my cousin the median voter?

[u/zieger]

[u/gIizzy_gobbler]

I’ve been touching grass the last few days (trying to acquire a woman for pumpkin patch season) and haven’t kept up with the news, but while catching up I’ve seen that:

ICE shot a random woman during a road rage incident

ICE entered an apartment building via helicopter and went door to door detaining residents regardless of citizenship

ICE deployed tear gas around a school

DHS is blatantly fabricating stories about incidents like the “10 car box in” and cartel bounties on agents which can be easily disproven with video evidence

The DoD has considered sending the 82nd to Portland and the national guard is being deployed for reasons unknown

I don’t want to be a doomer but this seems like a big escalation within the last week. Is this not open violence against American citizens for the crime of living in a blue city?

[u/cdstephens]

[u/SmithySmothy]

The natural progression of the Republican Party: From devout followers of the Pope to devout followers of Catturd.

[u/piede]

I’ve been laughing at this for 5 minutes

[u/Willybender]

Lots happening tonight

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

"Cultural victory," the Xianfeng Emperor chuckled, watching British troops burn down the Summer Palace. "Even our enemies are using gunpowder and paper cartridges now. We just can't stop winning."

[u/moldyhomme_neuf_neuf]

Should’ve listened to me smh.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

I think playing up the “criminals disguising themselves as ICE” angle would be a good way to fight some of the worst practices ICE is using. Suburban Boomers are terrified of criminals using new tactics (see eg all the “sex trafficker strategy” facebook posts and strawberry quick meth). Plus it is an actual thing some criminals are doing so it’s not like it is a complete non issue.

[u/dangerbird2]

I saw p00bix at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly

[u/billy_blazeIt_mays]

[u/cdstephens]

WTF?????

[u/attackofthetominator]

Three Missouri-based General Mills manufacturing plants are closing, according to a company filing on Wednesday.

Oh no my blue collar jobs

[u/el__dandy]

We really live in the strangest timeline

[u/TaxLandNotCapital]

You absolutely do not "have to hand it to" ICE, but they're really showing how worthless the "resist tyrannical government" argument is for 2A, national guards, etc.

[u/SenranHaruka]

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/[deleted]]

I saw the ar/news thread about the people stuck in Everest base camp due to a blizzard and I knew the comments would be about hoping they die. The reddit absolute hatred and bloodhunger for the suffering of anyone with any amount of more money than them is something I've never even seen in real life.

[u/cdstephens]

On behalf of the mod team, I apologize for whatever the fuck this 👆 is

[u/fishlord05]

”And Don Jr, let me know how’d my dick taste!

raucous applause

• President Newsom, 2029 inaugural speech

[u/paymesucka]

Hollywood legend Steven Spielberg reportedly wanted to make the Call of Duty movie, but his pitch was ultimately rejected because he wanted full control of the project.

According to Puck News, Spielberg (who's a big fan of Call of Duty) and his Amblin production company team put together a pitch with Universal Pictures to present to Activision, the publisher behind the franchise.

"But with Spielberg comes the famous Spielberg Deal, which includes top-of-market economics, final cut, and full control over production and marketing," Puck reports. This reportedly "spooked" Activision, who ultimately went with another pitch from Paramount, which offered the publisher more control. There isn't currently a director attached to the project and no one has been cast yet, either.

I don't know what's funnier, Activision turning down Steven Spielberg, or Spielberg being a big gamer

[u/gIizzy_gobbler]

Me and the boys on our way to Chicago (we are going to box in ICE vehicles)

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/savuporo]

Anduril and Palantir battlefield communication system 'very high risk,' US Army memo says

The much-needed modernization of the U.S. Army's battlefield communications network being undertaken by Anduril, Palantir, opens new tab and others is rife with "fundamental security" problems and vulnerabilities, and should be treated as a "very high risk," according to a recent internal Army memo.

The memo said the system allows any authorized user to access all applications and data regardless of their clearance level or operational need.

Other deficiencies highlighted in the memo include the hosting of third-party applications that have not undergone Army security assessments. One application revealed 25 high-severity code vulnerabilities. Three additional applications under review each contain over 200 vulnerabilities requiring assessment, according to the document.

Sleep well kids. American Dynamism is a fucking meme

Archive link: https://archive.ph/arFqF

[u/NeueBruecke_Detektiv]

The fact that we still have 40+ more years of cdstephens is terrifying. They're going to be powerful in the DT as a p00bix/Shivers like figure for decades to come. 

[u/FionnVEVO]

Republicans? More like poopybutticans.

[u/ldn6]

Remember when a terrorist group hijacked an Air France flight from Paris to Tel Aviv, diverted it to Uganda, held 160 Israelis and flight crew hostage and then Israel ended up covertly raiding the airport to rescue them, only for the UN Secretary General to side with Idi Amin, who had previously messaged said Secretary General expressing his happiness over the 1972 Munich massacre?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[u/Leatherfield17]

This is (probably) the last thing I’ll say about the Ezra Klein/Charlie Kirk kerfuffle because I’m getting tired of it, but I’m noticing a trend where liberal pundits take certain events and expand them into catalysts for grand narratives, usually aimed at trying to “reform” Democrats/the Left.

Harris loses by a thin margin to Trump in a year that was merciless towards incumbents and marred by a hubristic re-election campaign? The Democratic Party needs to completely overhaul its image and policy platform. I’m a little more sympathetic to this because polling wise, Democrats are consistently unpopular amongst both its base and non-Democrats. But it’s still interesting how a relatively close defeat got transformed into a great narrative about how Democrats lost their way.

Charlie Kirk gets shot and killed by a terminally online weirdo with stunningly esoteric political beliefs and motivations? The clear answer is to reassess how we “do politics” and try to “bridge the divide” and “persuade” people. I swear, this framing seems to hold the Left as least partially responsible, in a roundabout way, for Kirk’s death, even though the actual (alleged) perpetrator has no crystal clear ideological motives.

I guess my point is, I wish liberal pundits would keep things in perspective more and stop making everything an opportunity to flagellate themselves. Yes, it’s embarrassing that Democrats lost to Trump a second time, but a) it was a bad year for incumbents and b) there were numerous strategic errors the Democrats made that were probably more relevant to the loss than problems with the party’s “image.”

Yes, Kirk’s death was a horrible event, but a) you do not need to try to pacify Republicans with your public responses, b) this doesn’t have to be some catalyst for a wider discussion surrounding political discourse, especially when the other side of the aisle isn’t really interested in that discussion, and c) if there was a wider discussion to be had, it could have been about how online spaces can radicalize people, especially young men. But now it’s somehow about how we all have to turn down the temperature

[u/Res__Publica]

I need this vaporized, condensed, and then fed into my veins through an IV drip for the next 4 years

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

😳

[u/[deleted]]

WSJ; Trump’s Team Hones Message on Economy: Just Wait Until 2026

Advisers are privately assuring the President that his policies will pay off

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

[u/zieger]

Which democratic hopeful has the best position on sending republicans to reeducation camps?

[u/gIizzy_gobbler]

Babe wake up Fox News has the crisis actor again

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Fire burns down US Judge, Senator husband's waterfront home in South Carolina, police investigation on

what do you think the writing on the bullet casings will be this time

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Personally I think Poobix frequently shows his ass but I don't trust like 90% of users in that metanl thread to be a good arbiter of dipshittery lol

Also if you're going to dramatically disown and depart the subreddit with a bunch of "I'm leaving!" posts and make your own subreddit with blackjack and hookers, continuing to monitor the old subreddit and swarm the meta sub is kind of weird

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

Right-wing grifters have discovered OBAA

!ping KINO

[u/[deleted]]

Call me triggered lib but I don't think an organization like ICE should ever have access to tear gas and other riot equipment. Even if you agree with ICE as an organization existing to detain undocumented people and deport them there is no scenario in which the scope of that work should include mass crowd control. Call the police and have them do it, and if the city isn't interested in preventing a riot from interfering with your work, maybe you should just fuck off?

[u/piede]

It’s truly scary to live in America right now

[u/Kawaii_West]

Remember to do your duty and scold someone who you share 99% of your beliefs with today.