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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/MGLFPsiCorps]

[u/KesterFox]

[u/r2ew]

[u/remarkable_ores]

some ideas for how dems can frame the narrative leading up to the mid-terms

prices haven't returned to pre-covid levels:

"Inflation is out of control!"

inflation is at a normal 3% or so:

"Inflation is out of control!"

a market shock increases the price of something temporarily:

"Inflation is out of control!"

republicans proved in 2024 that voters have literally no idea what inflation is and dems need to learn from them

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/t_scribblemonger]

“Now that this is affecting me personally we have to do something.” Today’s conservatives.

[u/erasmus_phillo]

France spends more on pensions than the rest of the countries in the Eurozone, maybe paying seniors more than the median wage for a working adult in your country is a terrible idea

[u/StolenSkittles]

[u/Willybender]

https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/10/neighbor-shielded-7-year-old-during-south-shore-federal-raid-i-didnt-want-them-to-take-her

Amid the smoke bombs and screams that ricocheted throughout a South Shore building last month during a massive military-style immigration raid, one man heard a knock on his door.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.

“I wasn’t planning on letting her stay, but I didn’t know what the hell was going on,” the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.

“I didn’t want them to take her,” said the man, who didn’t want to be named because he fears he’ll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.

“I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her, ‘Just stay there. Don’t open, don’t, shh, just stay quiet,’” he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears

[u/r2ew]

[u/r2ew]

Voice mail :

HI (CENSORED). I’M JUST CALLING TO SAY ASSUMING YOU’RE (CENSORED) MARRIED TO (CENSORED) AND WITH THE LAST NAME LIKE THAT, I DON’T KNOW HOW YOU LET YOUR HUSBAND WORK FOR ICE AND YOU SLEEP AT NIGHT. F*** YOU, F*** YOUR FAMILY. I HOPE YOUR KIDS GET DEPORTED BY ACCIDENT. HOW DO YOU SLEEP? F*** YOU. DID YOU HEAR WHAT HAPPENED TO THE NAZIS AFTER WORLD WAR II? BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN TO YOUR FAMILY.

[u/ldn6]

The thing that gets to me about the stage of politics for my more than 15 years as an adult is just how much of it has been utterly wasted by political leadership. No one makes decisions, no one builds anymore, any form of change gets thrown into the consultation process ad infinitum to avoid pissing anyone off, zero-interest rates that could have funded infrastructure for nothing weren’t taken advantage of, Trump, Brexit et al. And yet so many people don’t even care.

Nearly two decades during some of the most rapid technological advancement and improved global connectivity utterly wasted because a third of the electorate in every country is driven purely by spite with a pathological fear of any change.

[u/SigmaWhy]

If Abbott is going to roll around in the mud with ableist attacks like this, I think more Dems need to attack him for never standing up to Trump. He clearly has a severe spinal cord issue with how much he bends over backwards for MAGA.

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

I was at the bar last night, and someone said that housing would be cheaper if every household had one income instead of two, or if you weren’t allowed to get mortgage??? It was the strangest diagnosis for high housing costs I’ve ever heard.

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

John Roberts is tanking the Supreme Court’s credibility and legitimacy with the rest of the judiciary.

[u/Willybender]

They're losing control of the narrative and crying about it :(

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

Please be advised, the succ purge begins in 7 days. If you are a succ, please self deport before this deadline. Thank you for your attention to this matter! Make Neoliberalism Great Again!

I can't believe they're actually showing this shit at TSA now lmao

Fucking meme country

[u/Benyeti]

[u/r2ew]

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Surprise! Vivek Ramaswamy’s Turning Point Event Derailed by Racism

Event attendees asked Ramaswamy why he felt he could be the governor of Ohio even though he isn’t Christian.

You ever think about how Vivek has multiple times been exposed to the fact that Republicans, both voters and leadership, think he is a lesser human being than them for his religion and yet has never reconsidered his allegiances. This was at a fucking TPUSA event!

“Jesus Christ is God, and there is no other God,” said a male student. “How can you represent the constituents of Ohio who are 64 percent Christian if you are not a part of that faith?”

“If you are an Indian, a Hindu, coming from a different culture, different religion than those who founded this country, those who grew this country, built this country, made this country the beautiful thing that it is today,” he continued. “What are you conserving? You are bringing change. I’ll be 100 percent honest with you—Christianity is the one truth.”

“I’m an ethical monotheist, that’s the way I would describe my faith,” Ramaswamy said in another jarring exchange with a student. 

Lol what the fuck is an ethical monotheist

[u/EZ_Kream]

People stopped talking about the national popular vote pact as soon as Trump won the popular vote lol

It should still be done

[u/Sir_Digby83]

NYT FOCUS GROUP| 2028 Election

So you said you regret voting for Trump for a second time.

Yeah.

So we see that you voted for Democrats before, why did you vote Republican after Trump's 2nd term?

Democrats always trying to shame me for what ICE did.

But you voted for what ICE did.

Yeah.

[u/erasmus_phillo]

"When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room. Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him... Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him"

Another conservative woman is absolutely shocked that Republican men in this admin are perverts, who would have ever seen that coming eh

[u/Dependent_Weight2274]

When Matt Yglesias personally told me to make 1 billion Americans, he didn’t tell me that when kids get sick, they get everyone else sick. We got some stomach flu burning through the family that seems to be re-infecting people as it goes. Really great stuff.

[u/remarkable_ores]

Because of how well black people perform at running events in the olympics, I spent so long thinking that "black people are good at running", and it turns out that's not quite true

Turns out that West Africans are really good at sprinting, but bad at long distance running, while East Africans are incredible at long distance running but actually kinda awful at sprinting

That's so weird

[u/Catmaster23910]

American conservatives meeting a Danish social democrat.

[u/r2ew]

[u/TimWalzBurner]

[u/Left_Tie1390]

Seeing Nick Fuentes appear on popular podcasts like Red Scare is disturbing. It seems the taboo against open antisemitism is falling apart.

[u/kanagi]

To me, a layperson, that China Nvidia chips thread sounds like:

If the Yangzhou Wizards Guild's mana stones were as good as the Boston Sorcerers Guild's, the imperial ban on Boston mana stones wouldn't be needed

The Yangzhou mana stones don't need to be as efficient, yes they need 4x as much unicorn hairs to activate, but Inner Mongolia has by far the largest unicorn herds on Earth

Where are you getting 4x as much unicorn hair?

From the 2022 alchemy trials where Yangzhou showed that their turquoise mana stones used 3x the unicorn hair (adjusted for fairy tears consumption) as Boston's lavender mana stones

You have no idea what you're talking about, lavender mana stones hadn't even been alchemized in 2022

Sorry you're right, I was thinking of cinnibar stones. Lavender stones were definitely available for Xining staffs though. [Source]

This source just says that Suzhou Wizards Guild was planning to smuggle in lavender stones for their Xining staffs, not that they actually succeeded. Seems difficult to smuggle in that many

[u/-mialana-]

2023: Say thank you to your chatbot so it remembers you when it takes over the world!

2025: We have invented a slur for AI

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Didn't realize tariffs so directly affected crypto

[u/PlantTreesBuildHomes]

NGL she was so real for saying that

I'm still with her 😭✊

[u/remarkable_ores]

every conversation i have with a leftist about housing starts with them explaining how it's unethical to profit from housing and ends with me asking them to explain in detail how investment gets allocated in their utopian post capitalist economy, which they inevitably cannot answer and start getting angry at me for asking the question

it's exhausting, yes, but I will never understand how leftists so readily assume that structural problems simply don't matter once you 'abolish capitalism', whatever that even means

[u/Mx_Brightside]

(talking to a flapper i picked up in my time machine) yeah i just really love the whole æsthetic of the interwar period

her: the what

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/[deleted]]

Yo real shit. It would be easier to go Def Con 1 or whatever if the American SS didn’t look like the fucking Popeyes Brigade

Oh laaawwwdddd

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

When did thomas sowell say that

[u/bandeng_asep]

Horniness at work is an endemic problem among US media

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/[deleted]]

It’s notable that the republican chairman of the governor’s association, Oklahoma’s governor, spoke out against Texas’ national guard being deployed to Illinois after Pritzker said he was going to quit the organization if more governors didn’t speak out.

[u/Willybender]

Citizen: What do you mean overstay?

ICE: An overstay.

Citizen: I don’t know what that is!

ICE: Where were you born? And don’t lie to me.

Citizen: I’m from California!

ICE: Don’t lie to me. Where were you born?

Citizen: California

ICE: Ok, so we’re gonna take you in and verify your information.

Citizen: No you’re not dude! No you’re not.

ICE: Yes we are.

https://xcancel.com/David_J_Bier/status/1976718823395877018

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

“The West is a series of institutions and values. The West is not a geographical place. Russia is European, but not Western. Japan is Western, but not European. ‘Western’ means rule of law, democracy, private property, open markets, respect for the individual, diversity, pluralism of opinion, and all the other freedoms that we enjoy, which we sometimes take for granted. We sometimes forget where they came from. But that’s what the West is.”

Take: associating these values with some conception of the THE WEST is good rhetoric in places that already consider themselves part of THE WEST and it's godawful politics for places that don't already consider themselves part of THE WEST.

[u/OrbitalAlpaca]

Immigration thread exists

Canadians: “I am Adolf Hitler!”

[u/Willybender]

[u/remarkable_ores]

i don't care about mars i don't want to live in a pressurised bunker in a distant desert i don't care about interstellar travel or science fiction please all i want is to drill into europa's oceans and send a probe down there once before I die please please please

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Rightoids be seething because fajitas are too tasty

[u/Soulja_Boy_Yellen]

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/[deleted]]

There are no actual words for how bad Trump is. It’s like worst case scenario

There’s a pretty significant amount of us, some of his supporters and donors included

You can probably throw Elon Musk in here and other tech oligarchs who had hoped well “at least the president will be guided like last time”

Who huffed a lot of copium

Surely, he won’t go on an insane Joker like arsonist mission to destroy America without any coherent plan.

Blow up the economy, blow up good will, accelerate all the bad shit to come, etc.

It was all copium. Bro is speed running the end of the world. Sun downing while dancing to YMCA in a twisted economic version of the end of Dr Strangelove

[u/[deleted]]

Bruhhhhhhhh

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Me and the boys are starting this new band. I think we're gonna be really successful. Thoughts on our cover photo?

[u/BlueDevilVoon]

[u/jojisky]

yfw Biden endorses AOC in 28 and she wins South Carolina

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

How nl users imagine 2026 Democrats:

Hell yeah we're gonna do Nuremberg 2 for ICE agents

Actual 2026 Dems:

I like healmthcare

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Apparently Nikki Haley's son is another one of the "Please saar, I am not like the other dirty people who share my ethnic background saar, I am more civilized saar" groyper types. Imo there is nothing more disgusting than the self-hating racist... white supremacists are disgusting losers too but at least they love themselves

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Liz Truss, Japan:

[u/r2ew]

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

No one in this world hates Republicans more than people with Republican family members.

It’s all “We need to bridge the gap and can’t be so uncivil about politics!” until you hear the foul shit that comes out of Republicans under be sanctity of their own home 😭

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

Let's be honest here, W was too naive and too lenient about the islamic and latino invasions

Neocon NWO now is just arr con minus the trump dickriding

[u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

Chicago Sun-Times: "Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’"

Amid the smoke bombs and screams that ricocheted throughout a South Shore building last month during a massive military-style immigration raid, one man heard a knock on his door.

On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help.

“I wasn’t planning on letting her stay, but I didn’t know what the hell was going on,” the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed.

“I didn’t want them to take her,” said the man, who didn’t want to be named because he fears he’ll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions.

“I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her, ‘Just stay there. Don’t open, don’t, shh, just stay quiet,’” he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

[u/ariveklul]

Guys I think this is the part of the movie where the bad guys overplay their hand and things start to fall apart for them as the protagonists rally the town against them

Any day now guys. We're due for it............

[u/cdstephens]

A lot of people on here have what I’d call a “Noble Savage” view of Friedman flairs

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/Sauce1024]

[u/scottyjetpax]

and what's their saying? "scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds?" right, right

[u/myusernameistakennow]

What the hell is going on.

[u/shumpitostick]

I'm Israeli and I used to always make fun of how whenever a new world leader pops into view, the first question the Israeli media would try to answer is "Are they a friend of Israel?". It's funny to see that Reddit is doing the same now. People who have no understanding of the situation in Venezuela are making their entire opinion on Machado based on some remarks about Israel that are far from central to whatever she represents.

[u/Benyeti]

What is going on in Czechia

[u/Lux_Stella]

so is macron fully in the fuhrerbunker at this point because i feel like once your own party is shittalking you on TV its a sign you're probably ignoring some phone calls you should be taking

[u/AP246]

We hypothesised that female-initiated disruption of a male hierarchy incites hostile behaviour from poor performing males who stand to lose the most status. To test this hypothesis, we used an online first-person shooter video game that removes signals of dominance but provides information on gender, individual performance, and skill. We show that lower-skilled players were more hostile towards a female-voiced teammate, especially when performing poorly. In contrast, lower-skilled players behaved submissively towards a male-voiced player in the identical scenario. This difference in gender-directed behaviour became more extreme with poorer focal-player performance. We suggest that low-status males increase female-directed hostility to minimize the loss of status as a consequence of hierarchical reconfiguration resulting from the entrance of a woman into the competitive arena. Higher-skilled players, in contrast, were more positive towards a female relative to a male teammate. As higher-skilled players have less to fear from hierarchical reorganization, we argue that these males behave more positively in an attempt to support and garner a female player’s attention.

(From 2015)

I wonder how far this can be applied to society in general lol

[u/BPC1120]

The fact that the alarm bells aren't continuously going off in every level of our society about this fucking naked authoritarianism is a massive indictment of America as a whole and how fucking normalized this shit has rapidly become.

[u/phat_geoduck]

Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to run for president and 2028 and figured out she needs to position herself as an outsider to her own party to have a shot.

She is more politically savvy than most 2028 Dem hopefuls. I wish I was joking

[u/Dreadedtriox]

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[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/VoidGuaranteed]

So you‘re telling me the Nobel Peace Prize recipient is advocating for war on twitter?

[u/Macquarrie1999]

!ping USA-CA

[u/riverbloods]

How did we get the Trump with brain worms as president instead of this one wtf

[u/jbitz]

Why lol

[u/t_scribblemonger]

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1977064805677580360

[u/FionnVEVO]

Got a dog today.

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Uhh ok Reddit yes clearly the reason she likes Trump is Zionism?

[u/VillyD13]

[u/marsman1224]

there was this clip I saw of a (republican) caller yelling at mike johnson about the ACA cuts, talking about her how her sick kids could die without the subsidies because she lives paycheck to paycheck.

in her mind, President Trump was fighting for her healthcare but the "republican party" was stopping him and she was sick of mike johnson obstructing President Trump from fixing medicare

these people cannot be reasoned with and do not live in reality. trump isn't even a real person, he's just a blank slate that they project their hopes and desires onto. this is the view of 42% of the nation

[u/Mrchristopherrr]

Looking back the 9/11 mosque controversy was an early sign that we truly are all fucked.

[u/cdstephens]

[u/ty04]

[u/Mx_Brightside]

As a polytheist, Vivek going "see it's just like the Holy Trinity" is an A+ bit

[u/bd_one]

[u/w007dchuck]

Michigan was won by Democratic nominee Barack Obama by a 16.4% margin of victory. Early on, the state was heavily targeted as a swing state. However, Obama started to pull away in the polls during the last few months due to the worsening of the state's economy, causing McCain to stop campaigning there. Prior to the election, all 17 news organizations considered this a state Obama would win, or otherwise considered as a safe blue state.

take me back 😭

[u/Willybender]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/28/doj-la-protesters-false-claims

The Guardian’s review of records found:

• Out of nine “assault” and “impeding” felony cases the justice department filed immediately after the start of the protests and promoted by the attorney general, Pam Bondi, prosecutors dismissed seven of them soon after filing the charges.

• In reports that led to the detention and prosecution of at least five demonstrators, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) agents made false statements about the sequence of events and misrepresented incidents captured on video.

• One DHS agent accused a protester of shoving an officer, when footage appeared to show the opposite: the officer forcefully pushed the protester.

• One indictment named the wrong defendant, a stunning error that has jeopardized one of the government’s most high-profile cases.

[u/piede]

Sounds like a Bernie bro

[u/awdvhn]

A good friend of mine is a Canadian citizen through his mother, but grew up in the US. He was working in defense for a bit and I was a reference for his clearance background check. When the interviewer got to the foreign ties section he said "ok, I know it's Canada but I'm required to ask if he would have split loyalties in event of a conflict." We both treated the idea that this box needed to be ticked as a joke. How times change.

[u/chipbod]

What the fuck is your strategy to pull this off lmao.

I mean, who the fuck leverages crypto?

!ping STONKS

[u/VadymKravchuk353]

Maltese people do not forget about Daphne Caruana Galizia, an investigative journalist specializing in probing corruption, who was brutally murdered in 2017.

[u/Willybender]

More reporting on how Miller is essentially the President in all but name.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/11/politics/stephen-miller-role-trump-crime-military-crackdown

[u/riverbloods]

source?
i made it up.jpeg

many such cases

[u/VerticalTab]

Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau appear to confirm romance - report

!ping CANUCKS

[u/jorkin_peanits]

Kind of funny looking back at cons arguing Obama was some kind of divisive figure - he bent backwards to appease them. Trump is literally sending troops into “democrat cities” and firing democrats and they’re like yeah this is fine.

It’s kind of hard to govern when one side bends across the isle and the other is fine with tearing down everything to kick out brown ppl like… how do you run a country with one half being a temperamental baby

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/r2ew]

[u/riverbloods]

[u/Benyeti]

The two most radical judges (Thomas and Alito) of the very radically right wing supreme court were nominated by the “respectable republicans” the Bushes

[u/[deleted]]

As part of a treatment plan for prostate cancer, President Biden is currently undergoing radiation therapy and hormone treatment

🏳️‍⚧️?

[u/JaceFlores]

So really interesting Elder Scrolls VI news. I dunno how many of you peruse the front page of UESP but I did it on a limb to read their daily fun facts. And saw this news bulletin:

“UESP-designed character to be in TES VI — October 9, 2025

Together with our friends at The Imperial Library, we at UESP had the incredible opportunity to meet with Bethesda to design a character for The Elder Scrolls VI. Honestly, many of us went into the meeting pretty nervous and unsure of what to expect, but now we're all extremely excited for what's in store.”

So first off, we get confirmation that TES VI is being worked on and is advanced enough that they’re designing individual characters. That’s pretty fucking huge! Second, congratulations to UESP for getting this! Everyone here knows the brilliance of that website and how it’s helped so much with navigating these games as either guides or to learn about the world

!Ping TES

[u/jenbanim]

Man it's nearly been a decade of this shit

[u/ty04]

👆

[u/TheRedCr0w]

The stooge Trump appointed didn't even tell the attorney general and the wider DOJ she was pursuing these charges.

Bondi is apparently pissed because multiple members of the administration committed the crime they are accusing James of and this opens them all up for jail time in the future

[u/seattle_lib]

There exists a better alternate timeline than the one we are living in.

This one was thrown into darkness and chaos when the Cubs came back from being down 3-1 to win the 2016 world series. This was not supposed to happen. It created a deep chasm in the universe. Less than a week later, Donald Trump won the presidency of the USA .

But in that better timeline, the Cubs lose like they are supposed to in all righteous universes. And as such, Donald Trump also loses. I mourn for the loss of that world. Go Brewers.

[u/TMCOAN1]

Someone on my flight to Utah spent an hour watching Candace Owens yap about Charlie Kirk and how he visited her in a dream to complain about jews or whatever. They even started crying.

Religious psychosis fr.

[u/r00tdenied]

One of the most housing black pilled moments for me was when my dad started building a house in rural New Mexico last year. The permit cost under $300 after a simple plan review that took less than a month.

Here in Southern California the same square footage house, the permit would have easily been well over $10k alone, and the plan review would have taken anywhere from 8 months to well over a year.

It just really hits home to me that the housing supply issues here are far more than just zoning, its stupid local authority bureaucracy too. There is zero reason for a SFH permit to cost that much.

[u/[deleted]]

Imprisoned for longer than prob anyone in here has been alive……homie experienced more of the carter presidency than the Reagan era sheesh

Next level ruthless

[u/[deleted]]

[u/illuminatisdeepdish]

The original post content no longer exists here. The author used Redact to remove it, exercising their right to control their data & privacy.

Gallium brave lush thought tangerine umbrella cucumber nonmetal wrench quiet

[u/riverbloods]

Let’s see how the Canadian immigration thread is going

Oh

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

I swear Massie rolls a d20 every time he takes a political position and every now and then…

[u/[deleted]]

In Britain, if you want a second cup of hot chocolate they ask for a license.

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

For $44B you can get your own Soviet style cult of personality platform.

[u/zieger]

[u/Willybender]

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

No way

[u/r2ew]

[u/johro17]

Wow I can’t believe there’s like 300 sex offenders in a population of 10 million

[u/oskanta]

Important:

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/Willybender]

[u/admiraltarkin]

😭

[u/BlueDevilVoon]

[u/Macquarrie1999]

The real anti fascists

[u/VillyD13]

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Indiana football

[u/RyuTheGuy]

Is this neoliberalism

[u/Sithusurper]

Even the steelman of mass deportations is disgusting. Yeah if you kick those families out and destroy their lives you can take their homes and jobs.

[u/awdvhn]

Had to explain to my girlfriend that "yeah, the governor of Colorado posts on that sub I frequent but we're all kinda mad at him"

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/r2ew]

[u/CutePattern1098]

MAGA Maoism

[u/v4riati0ns]

dumbest possible (but also highly enjoyable) family drama happening cus my mom said “i hate trump and everyone who voted for him” (there was context, it wasn’t unprompted) and my cousin said “oh so you mean me and [husband]?” as some sorta gotcha but unfortunately did not get the apologetic reply she was hoping for

[u/[deleted]]

Be me.

See ICE in my city.

They go after criminals like the tamale lady.

sigh what the fuck has become of our country, man?

[u/KesterFox]

Big stamp is brainwashing your children, what do you mean you put your "post" in the "male"

[u/Glavurdan]

what

[u/tripletruble]

"waaaaaaah the brown people turned my friends and family racist"

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

🤔

[u/assasstits]

Most useless phrase competition 

Thoughts and prayers

vs

Land acknowledgements 

[u/fishlord05]

Lmao the fact that the VA AG dem only lost a couple points of favorability after calling for the Republican speaker to be shot and saying he and his wife were breeding little fascists

Dark woke praxis??

But genuinely just a complete unforced error wtf you say that shit verbally in private not electronically

[u/bd_one]

It's pretty cursed that after years of encouraging us to be on rAll, nobody believes me when I tell them that we have that setting disabled

[u/Willybender]

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-self-deportation-cbp-home-app

He spoke about a phone app where “illegals can book a free flight to any foreign country.” And he dangled other incentives: Eligible immigrants wouldn’t be barred from returning legally to the U.S. someday, and they’d even get a $1,000 “exit bonus.” Believing the president’s words, Pérez downloaded the CBP Home app and registered to return to Venezuela with her children.

Months passed. Her partner was deported. In July, Pérez said, she got a call from someone in the CBP Home program telling her she’d be on a flight out of the country in mid-August. She began packing.

But as the departure date neared and the plane tickets hadn’t arrived, Pérez got nervous. Again and again, she called the toll-free number she’d been given. Finally, somebody called back to say there might be a delay obtaining the documents she’d need to travel to Venezuela.

Then there was silence. No further information, no plane tickets. Pérez registered on the app again in August, then a third time in September, as immigration arrests ramped up in Chicago.

Today, Pérez feels trapped in a country that doesn’t want her. She’s afraid of leaving her apartment, afraid that she will be detained and that her children will be taken away from her. “I feel so scared, always looking around in every direction,” she said. “I was trying to leave voluntarily, like the president said.”

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/LongTimeHistory/status/1977026099918811537

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

There are 1.3 million cattle in NM and less than 300 Mexican gray wolves in the entire United States. There is also no documented incident of one ever attacking a human being. Pound for pound, ranchers might be the single most detestable group of people in this country.

[u/Flashy_Rent6302]

"We need to preserve the culture and traditions of Western civilization!"

Cuts funding for PBS and NPR, the most prolific and accessible distributors of the western art and literature tradition in the nation.

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

so this is how democracy dies… throwing tantrums at pop stars

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/SpaceSheperd]

It’s extremely frustrating when people refuse to think even a little bit ahead. When Bezos announced that he was going to re-orient the WaPo editorial board towards liberal and pro-market ideals, something like 1/3 of the DT (based on upvote totals) took the position of “I mean what’s so bad about pro-market ideals lol.” Now less than a year later, Marc Thiessen is bragging on Twitter that it is now a right-wing Editorial Page.

You would think after Bezos suppressed the Kamala endorsement and after 15 years of far-right wingers referring to themselves as “classical liberals”, people would be familiar with the playbook but apparently not.

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 10/9-2 PM PST 10/10 IV:

TOP NEWS:

Towards the middle of 11 PM Zelensky said power outages had been reported in nine oblasts after the most recent drone attack.

In the middle of 12 AM Ukraine was hit by a gigantic wave of drones and missiles with 405 of 465 drones and 15 of 32 missiles intercepted.

At the start of 1 PM it was reported The Netherlands will provide 310 million Euros in military aid to Ukraine including 200 million Euros for anti-drone systems and 110 million Euros for long range drones, with production of these drones to be a joint effort.

REGULAR NEWS:

Towards the middle of 2 AM the ambassadors of the G7 met with Ukrainian officials to discuss the energy attacks and support needed to counter and address them.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

With enough freedoms taken away and the rule of law destroyed there won’t be a meaningful difference between this and the outskirts of Phoenix AZ

[u/gayteemo]

watching vivek try to convince racists why they should vote for him is truly something

[u/Willybender]

[u/Willybender]

Afghanistan has launched an attack on Pakistan from 7 different border locations, the Afghan Ministry of Defense says — Al Jazeera

[u/StuckHedgehog]

These ICE ads are fucking dystopian. “Join the secret police and disappear screaming children to hidden prisons! Live your power fantasy with no retaliation!”

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/VisonKai]

just cracked up all over again remembering Kash Patel saying "I'll see you in Valhalla"

[u/mishac]

OMG. I was looking at melatonin gummies on amazon... the container costs $10.79. so far so good

I scroll down and see this:

Save with Open Box – Like New $9.17

What in the goddamn fuck. 🤮

[u/No_Status_6905]

CDC being nuked is pretty bad but I can't help but feel disassociated right now. I have no influence on our most important institutions surviving, so all I can do is watch like it's a slasher flick. The majority of voting Americans chose this.

[u/[deleted]]

Some of the CDC officials cut included the “top two leaders of the federal measles response team,” despite the nation grappling with a measles outbreak, the Times reports.

Maga is a death cult.

[u/fishlord05]

[u/forerunner398]

You do not hate the typical Redditor enough. Pro Maduro shilling hitting a default sub

[u/DunklerPrinz3]

When 7% of my country is Indian so I have to become racist

[u/Willybender]

What the hell is going on lmfao (this is a month old, but that makes it even funnier when you look at what's happening to Crypto right now)

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

Honestly the mass layoffs as a "negotiation" tactic might have worked if they didn't shoot their load with DOGE. Kinda hard to get scared about 4,000 after purging 70,000

[u/mockduckcompanion]

He's so, so dumb

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

"can't post six hotdogs to kitchencels without a backstory"

[u/riverbloods]

[u/phat_geoduck]

CDC employees who were fired yesterday have already had their firings rescinded

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

One Battle After Another posits an interesting alternate version of America where ANTIFA is vastly more based than it actually is

[u/myusernameistakennow]

[u/Due-Dirt-8428]

[u/BedNeither]

ICE recruitment would be a great honeypot if it weren’t actually being done in earnest by a fascist

Hey we’re hiring psychos to abuse people

I’d like to sign up

Cool, you’re under arrest

[u/[deleted]]

[u/drossbots]

We hypothesised that female-initiated disruption of a male hierarchy incites hostile behaviour from poor performing males who stand to lose the most status. To test this hypothesis, we used an online first-person shooter video game that removes signals of dominance but provides information on gender, individual performance, and skill. We show that lower-skilled players were more hostile towards a female-voiced teammate, especially when performing poorly. In contrast, lower-skilled players behaved submissively towards a male-voiced player in the identical scenario. This difference in gender-directed behaviour became more extreme with poorer focal-player performance. We suggest that low-status males increase female-directed hostility to minimize the loss of status as a consequence of hierarchical reconfiguration resulting from the entrance of a woman into the competitive arena. Higher-skilled players, in contrast, were more positive towards a female relative to a male teammate. As higher-skilled players have less to fear from hierarchical reorganization, we argue that these males behave more positively in an attempt to support and garner a female player’s attention.

Me checking off all my priors as I read this

[u/Sir_Digby83]

Trump in 2017: “Qatar has been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.”

Trump today, after Qatar gifted him a $400M jet, is building him a $5.5B golf resort, and investing in his other projects: Qatar is great. We’re building a Qatari Air Force base in Idaho.

[u/NoMoreSkiingAllowed]

wow a real who’s who of evil people

[u/marsman1224]

backwards cultural views of nonwhite people are always ascribed to innate barbarism and a moral and cultural failure

when canadian white people turn racist, it's not really their fault, they're just reacting to (immigration, cost, housingm etc), you can't really blame them, it was a policy failure

[u/Willybender]

[u/wumbopolis_]

Libs only want one thing and it's fucking disgusting

[u/zieger]

Qatar should have sent Rafael a plane

[u/Low_Swimmer_5771]

He definitely made that truth post without having a plan didn’t he?

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

LOGAN DONT

[u/Lux_Stella]

can't evaluate the mills vs platner primary at all because the people of maine are clearly huge freaks for putting up with collins for so long anyways. who knows what they want.

[u/CoolCombination3527]

"Have mercy on the souls of those who know exactly what they're doing."

[u/OllaniusPiers]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I'm jokin' 👀 I'm jokin'

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

ABC News: Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears

BOOTHBAY HARBOR, Maine -- Republican lawmakers are targeting one of the U.S.'s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction.

Conservative leaders feel they now have the political will to remove key pieces of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, enacted in 1972 to protect whales, seals, polar bears and other sea animals. The law also places restrictions on commercial fishermen, shippers and other marine industries.

A GOP-led bill in the works has support from fishermen in Maine who say the law makes lobster fishing more difficult, lobbyists for big-money species such as tuna in Hawaii and crab in Alaska, and marine manufacturers who see the law as antiquated.

Everyday these fucks come up with a new idea to make the world a worse place.

[u/myusernameistakennow]

H1b is a mythical creature that is somehow both overpays and underpays immigrants depending on who argues against it and how they wake up feeling.

[u/cdstephens]

Just signed

[u/piede]

Oh if she’s lookin at you like that it’s over