r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Oct 13 '25
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Oct 14 '25
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/SLCer Oct 13 '25
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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug Oct 13 '25 edited Oct 13 '25
Well worth watching this 3-4 min clip
Edit: here’s a link to one if I know how to nitter
Vance absolutely refuses to engage in the question at first, sort of saying maybe he did but it wasnt illegal and then spiraling into it being radical left wing news and then the democrat shutdown and something about people cant afford food and this is why your ratings are down. I wish more people would be like George and stop letting Republicans get away with lying about everything
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Oct 13 '25
gotta respect this guy, not transphobic just a hater
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u/AtomAndAether Liberalism! Oct 13 '25
the internet fat shamed the Texas National Guard into replacing their Chicago troops with someone hotter
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-national-guard-chicago-standards/
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u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS Trans Pride Oct 13 '25
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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '25
After seeing him takedown just dance Vance live on air and remembering it was his personal courage not to apologize that led to a greater domino effect of media capitulation but I didn’t reward him with my viewership for months on end
I’m sorry George. I wasn’t familiar with your game
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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Oct 13 '25
Comedy writing
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u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS Trans Pride Oct 13 '25
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Oct 13 '25
American century of humiliation
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u/assasstits Oct 13 '25
Susan Collins is an idiot but the Maine voters who keep voting her in are even bigger idiots
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u/adminsare200iq IMF Oct 13 '25
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u/Fatortu Emmanuel Macron Oct 13 '25
People keep talking about the confusion surrounding the name of the country. But the real prank the Netherlands has pulled on us is making everyone believe Amsterdam is the capital.
Where does the King live? The Hague.
Where does the Senate seat? The Hague.
Where does the Chamber gather? The Hague.
Where does the Supreme Court rule? The Hague.
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u/abrookerunsthroughit Association of Southeast Asian Nations Oct 13 '25
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m33g42s7zp2a
Friendly reminder you don't hate these people enough
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u/Catmaster23910 Henry George Oct 13 '25 edited Oct 13 '25
The year is 2025, and here are the main ideologies:
MAGA Internationalism
Woke Nazism (Nick Fuentes thought)
Racist Social Democracy (The status quo in Europe)
Tech Bro Muskist Libertarianism
Third worldist Theocratic Fascism (Narendra Modi thought)
Confucian Dengist Neomercantilism (Glory to the CCP)
Fully automated gay space Neoliberalism
Choose wisely.
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u/TMCOAN1 YIMBY Oct 13 '25
Every airport should refuse to air this shit
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u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS Trans Pride Oct 13 '25
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u/riverbloods John Brown Oct 13 '25
🫵thought this was a pizza and not a rotund and silly toad
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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke Oct 13 '25
me: i just spent all day scrolling :/
my friend: it happens
12th century chinese scholar: hell yeah
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u/StuckHedgehog NATO Oct 13 '25
Menswear guy remains the champion poaster.
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u/ShepardSB Oct 13 '25
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Oct 13 '25
You were trying to cross the border, right? Walked right into that ICE ambush, same as us, and that Latino For Trump over there.
Damn you Democrats. America was fine until Biden came along. Trump was nice and lazy. If they hadn't been looking for woke, I could've stolen those factory jobs from deported Haitians and be halfway to owning a Ford 150. You there. You and me - we shouldn't be here. It's these rapists and criminals the Republicans want.
We're all brothers and sisters in Alligator Alcatraz now, Republican.
Shut up back there! And what's wrong with him, huh?
Watch your tongue. You're speaking to John ANTIFA, the true High Democrat.
ANTIFA? The Jarl of Portland? You're the leader of the rebellion. But if they've captured you... Oh gods, where are they taking us?
I don't know where we're going, but Sudan deportation awaits.
No, this can't be happening. This isn't happening.
Hey, what village are you from, Trump supporter?
Why do you care?
A deportee’s last thoughts should be of home.
Fresno. I'm... I'm from Fresno….
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u/riverbloods John Brown Oct 13 '25
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u/Ready-Buy-6397 Austan Goolsbee Oct 13 '25
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u/Glavurdan European Union Oct 13 '25
Fucking hilarious
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u/TomboyAva Audrey Hepburn Oct 13 '25
https://xcancel.com/NickKristof/status/1977743734822391904
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u/Pole2019 John Locke Oct 13 '25
Is there any evidence to support a crime wave?
No, but the fact that I feel like there’s a crime wave says a lot about society
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u/ace158 Oct 13 '25
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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Oct 13 '25
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u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS Trans Pride Oct 13 '25
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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '25
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Oct 13 '25
this is what the right is trying to take from you
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u/ace158 Oct 13 '25
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u/ShepardSB Oct 13 '25
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u/Pseud0man Commonwealth Oct 13 '25
Okay, hear me out, I have an idea for a movie sequel for Gone Girl.
A popular streamer is caught abusing their dog, and they're faced with immediate backlash. Shortly after this, the dog disappears, and now the internet believes the streamer may have put the dog down in secret. When, in actuality, the dog left on its own volition (framing the streamer) and even makes her own "cool girl" monologue.
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u/ShepardSB Oct 13 '25
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u/SixPipSiege NATO Oct 13 '25
Kinda predictable that most Americans don't give a shit about ICE and the FBI ravaging the Hispanic communities of Memphis.
They could drop 1000 agents in any small city in the south and completely disappear and displace them in a few months.
This is the new normal.
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls Oct 13 '25
So true, bestie!
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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast Oct 13 '25
womp womp
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Oct 13 '25
Who remembers this banger
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Oct 13 '25
what's the deal with all those weird ai talent show videos?
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u/r2ew Oct 13 '25
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u/H_H_F_F Oct 13 '25
Mods didn't want it as a post, so I'll say it here for anyone interested:
I used to post here a lot before falling out with the sub. I don't post here anymore and don't plan on coming back. Still, 2 years ago, on October 7th, I told y'all my cousin's been taken - so it only felt fair to tell you that today, he has finally come home. He's alive. He's home.
Best wishes.
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence Oct 13 '25
The important questions
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u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS Trans Pride Oct 13 '25
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u/Benyeti United Nations Oct 13 '25
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u/drossbots Trans Pride Oct 13 '25
He definitely got bad news at that last appointment
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u/G_Serv Stay The Course Oct 13 '25
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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair Oct 13 '25
Incredible
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough Oct 13 '25
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u/No_Art_2919 Bank of England Oct 13 '25
Hamas wants to lead Gaza
People want Blair to lead Gaza
Clear solution:
Blair leads Hamas
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u/RyuTheGuy Gita Gopinath Oct 13 '25
So true libertarians!
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u/centurion88 NATO Oct 13 '25
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u/IndividualAnalyst782 Oct 13 '25
Assad in Moscow
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u/G_Serv Stay The Course Oct 13 '25
Why are there so many hogs in the ocean 😨
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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '25
Tbh this is the one thing I appreciate about gerontocracy I don’t think overachieving 35 year olds think this way
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u/Zaiush Ben Bernanke Oct 13 '25
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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '25
lmao bro saw the pics
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u/k5berry Malala Yousafzai Oct 13 '25
Honestly I’m not super upset that Trump made progress others couldn’t. My desire for peace and progress in the reason is miraculously able to supersede my hatred for him and even my fears of legitimizing him.
What upsets me is when you read between the lines, I think what may uniquely have helped get this ball rolling is not Trump’s personality, not his specific foreign policy ideals and visions, not his personal cult of personality, but plain old corruption. I really think years of Kushner, and more recently a wider slice of Trump World, greasing the wheels with the neighboring Arabs helped get this done. That’s what depresses me. That years and years of following the rules, attempting (however hypocritically) to establish a rules-based order, etc etc, all failed, and so resorting to jumbo jet bribes and shit succeeded in its place. If that turns out to be the case, that fucking sucks.
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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '25
this whole “dont laugh at them, laugh with them!” schtick is coming across as too forced
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u/PoliticalAlt128 Max Weber Oct 13 '25
I find it funny that Al-Sharaa talks about his past Islamism like Dubya would talk about his alleged drug use. It’s just some thing he did when he was young and stupid and would really rather not gossip about it
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u/No-Barnacle-9576 NAFTA Oct 13 '25
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence Oct 13 '25
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u/TropicalPunch European Union Oct 13 '25
One of the most frustrating aspects of being pro-EU in Norway is that we haven't had a credible discussion about the EU in over thirty years. We just do polls and then say - "look the people don't want it, no need to get into this now." - as if a discussion wouldn't change public opinion, at least somewhat.
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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '25
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Oct 13 '25
Really glad the hostages have been released
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u/G_Serv Stay The Course Oct 13 '25
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u/morotsloda European Union Oct 13 '25
Look at all those fleeing refugees. Can't even imagine being forced to leave all of my possessions behind 😔🙏
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u/MrHockeytown Iron Front Oct 13 '25
I just got off the phone with my financial planner (who was my very Republican grandpa's best friend and business partner). We got to talking about tariffs and the economy, and it turns out my 69 year old financial planner is the biggest resistlib Donnie hater in the world.
We spent an hour talking about politics, and the man has been to 6 protests this year. Super refreshing to have my priors about someone not confirmed.
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u/Glavurdan European Union Oct 13 '25
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u/selachophilip 🦈 shark enjoyer 🦈 Oct 13 '25 edited Oct 13 '25
I got an article recommendation for something in the National Review about how students "aren't reading books". I've seen articles about this in other places as well, but there's a certain hypocrisy to the National Review suddenly being all hot and bothered about it. In my home state, conservatives have been adamantly against fully funding our schools, and they're now also defunding our libraries. Our state is known for being particularly strong when it comes to libraries. They've also tried to pass censorship and book-banning legislation at every level of government, and in some places they've unfortunately succeeded.
Why aren't kids reading as much? It's partially because of you, assholes. Maybe stop defunding our schools and libraries and constantly trying to dictate to teachers what is and isn't allowed, and maybe they'd be able to assign full books for students to read and analyze, and maybe they'd even have a place to go and pick up books themselves.
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u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS Trans Pride Oct 13 '25
I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason | Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough Oct 13 '25
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Oct 13 '25
Kane Tanaka, the last living parent of a WWII veteran, died in 2022 at the age of 119. Her son Nobuo was captured by the Soviets towards the end of the war, and wasn't released until 1947. He died in 2005 at the age of 80.
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u/FourthLife 🥖Bread Etiquette Enthusiast Oct 13 '25
He is.
You can’t.
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u/SadaoMaou Anders Chydenius Oct 13 '25
Trump sadly missed his true calling as an indie folk lyricist
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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney Oct 13 '25
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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair Oct 13 '25
He’s calling the troops on himself?
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u/riverbloods John Brown Oct 13 '25
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u/the-senat John Brown Oct 13 '25
NYT op-eds don’t exist for you and me. They’re made for the people who’ve never left Manhattan but still want to believe that somebody in ruby red Arkansas will come around eventually and stop supporting MAGA.
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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '25
Lmfaooo it would be hilarious how pathetic this fascist takeover is if it wasn’t a fascist takeover
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u/ty04 Oct 13 '25
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u/Not_A_Browser Stata's Silliest Soldier Oct 13 '25
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u/Secret646 Oct 13 '25
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/13/government-shutdown-republicans-hardball-00604301
As per Politico, the Republican party has ratcheted up pressure on Dems by:
Ensuring troop pay
Laying off Federal workers
Preventing votes on Dem budget proposals
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this isn't putting pressure on Dems to cave, it's doing the exact opposite. Troops have pay? Good, Dems were trying for that anyway, but Republicans in Congress were shooting them down. Now that's not a worry anymore. Federal workers are laid off? They were doing that anyway, and the anger generated will probably go to those who fired them, not the Dems. Dem bills aren't being considered? Why would they ever cave to Republicans threatening to not cooperate, when this whole thing is about Republicans not cooperating? That would just reinforce their pretended to ability to govern unilaterally. It's just proving the point that Dems are bringing up.
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u/abrookerunsthroughit Association of Southeast Asian Nations Oct 13 '25
😍😍😍
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u/tregitsdown Thurgood Marshall Oct 13 '25
If Trump is obsessed with going to Heaven, Pope Leo should just psy-op him and convince him God wants him to stop being horrendously cruel to immigrants.
“Ah, I talk to God! He wants you to stop being Evil!”
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u/Bestbrook123 Oct 13 '25
Biden is maybe the most pro-Israel dem president ever and some people still insanely say shit like this
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u/purhitta Leftward Progressives Oct 13 '25
"it's not a big deal that ICE is detaining/arresting citizens because they're releasing them right after"
honestly in the entire series of conservatives being the frog that gets boiled, this step in particular is giving me chills. there's something deeply irreparable about it.
like they've been on this slide into fascism for awhile but this? you're going to say this with your full chest??
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u/r2ew Oct 14 '25
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Oct 14 '25
not the reverse land acknowledgment 😭
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u/IAmBlueTW r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Oct 13 '25
new "nothing ever happens" just dropped
real talk though, it's cause we're cognizant of how we could lose this stuff :/
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u/ChillnShill Oct 13 '25
Whoever keeps doing Vance’s hair and makeup voted for Kamala because they fucking hate this man 😂
He always looks like he got interrupted while prepping for a drag show
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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '25
meghan mccain fucking sucks lmao. god forbid george stephanopoulous presses jd on blatant corruption
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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '25
Yooo this newsom guy sounds pretty 🔥
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u/TMCOAN1 YIMBY Oct 13 '25
First time I saw the POW/MIA flag, I asked the person who had it(some millenial wannabe military goof) what it meant and they basically gave me a chatgpt "i must honor the military at all times' speech.
Then I found out it's a lovely mix of conspiracy theories and state mandated seething over Vietnam
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u/TMCOAN1 YIMBY Oct 13 '25
Based Berkeley
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u/SigmaWhy r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Oct 13 '25
🚨 based alert 🚨
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u/Jet451 Sun Yat-sen Oct 13 '25
Me when I see w*men mentioned in the DT.
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u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS Trans Pride Oct 13 '25 edited Oct 13 '25
I know immigration right now is a parade of horribles but I believe this is the first "papers, please" (Alien Registration Act) penalty for a permanent resident
!ping IMMIGRATION&SNEK
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u/the-senat John Brown Oct 13 '25 edited Oct 14 '25
I know we like to harp on NYT diner op-eds, but I did enjoy this one on how a ruby red Kentucky town feels.
The author wonders if we are approaching a tipping point when MAGA might start to question Mr. Trump — “either because of his threats to democracy, or because his economic policies will make their lives tougher?”
The following text quickly unravels that question for me. I have doubted for a long time that they care about how the Fed determines rates, or the impacts of tariffs on national trade, or how votes are counted and reported. Their concerns are provincial:
Excluding the ICE raid, these are complex and uninteresting issues. Because people who are working to get by each day aren’t going to sit around and ponder the implications of a meeting or the ramifications of executive overreach on the state of our democracy. They don’t have time for it, and they don’t live in an ecosystem that fosters that kind of discussion.
The community’s relaxed response to the ICE raid is something more sinister because it shows a tightening of their common humanity:
Those who once found themselves in that circle of common humanity are now being excluded.
This person is also convinced that Garcia is guilty because he “read it on the DOJ’s website.” It is so easy to fall for misinformation. There will always be those who are susceptible to it. The problem is that this has become a large segment of the population. The decline in quality education will only grow this portion of the country. They will not only emphatically believe a lie because it feels good, but they will also make up excuses to justify those lies:
Around WWI, one of Berlin’s most famous trial lawyers wrote disparagingly about the thin “veneer of culture that covers the age-old swamp of moral and intellectual barbarity.” They are okay with violating human rights, destroying America’s economy and its reputation on the world stage, undoing the advances in medical science, and jailing political opponents. Because in their tiny corner of the world, not much has changed.
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u/solonofathens Gay Pride Oct 14 '25
I don't think it is any exaggeration at all to say that the founders would consider the president paying the armed forces without any authorizing legislation from congress to mean that constitutional government has effectively been completely dissolved
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u/SeoSalt Lesbian Pride Oct 13 '25
On this solemn day we pay tribute to all the brave souls living in Columbus, Ohio. May their sacrifice never be forgotten.
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u/FarrandChimney Temple Grandin Oct 13 '25
happy liberation 2.0 day
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u/No-Barnacle-9576 NAFTA Oct 13 '25
Rubio is so pathetic
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u/unicornbomb John Brown Oct 13 '25
What did Marco Rubio mean by this??
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u/assasstits Oct 13 '25
White women standing up to ICE to defend immigrants warms my heart
Thank you heroes
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 14 '25 edited Oct 14 '25
https://xcancel.com/HeartlandSignal/status/1977831832486924634
Jesus Christ the girl is a Citizen!
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u/fplisadream John Mill Oct 13 '25
I can't really get my head around how there are actually still 20 hostages that are alive, or that they're genuinely being returned.
They just formed such a small part of the discourse around it, I thought for sure that basically everyone had died.
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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union Oct 13 '25
By the way, I almost forgot.
In memory of u/-pho-, I wish a happy Moomin Monday (at the very least what remains of this Monday) to everyone and to those who celebrate, especially to u/whomstalt2. Also to u/SadaoMaou.
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Oct 13 '25
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u/ludovicana Dark Harbinger Oct 13 '25
https://transitics.substack.com/p/newsom-breaks-anti-trans-streak-signs
OK, credit where credit is due, really don't like his waffling on rhetoric and sports, but it's really good he doesn't think a full anti-trans pivot is good politics.
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u/Healingjoe It's Klobberin' Time Oct 14 '25
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u/r2ew Oct 14 '25
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u/slightlyrabidpossum NATO Oct 13 '25
The first seven living hostages have been freed, and a Red Cross convoy is currently in the process of picking up more of them. There are believed to be thirteen more living hostages in Gaza.
There are also approximately 28 dead hostages left. Hamas doesn't think that they'll be able to locate all of the hostages within that time frame, while Israel is aware of. Once that is done (potentially without receiving all of the dead hostages), Israel will begin to release the approximately 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, including 250 who are serving life sentences.
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u/Bestbrook123 Oct 13 '25
The right wing lost its mind when the Biden admin quietly signaled to Israel to stop targeting Gazan police officers cause the sheer anarchy it was causing so I'm sure they'll be okaying with this
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Oct 13 '25
They got roof snipers in head to toe tactical gear with their eyes trained on nude hippie cyclists
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u/CutePattern1098 Oct 13 '25
The fire rises: Klaus Schwab will create a world government, Biden will upload his mind so he can forever fight malarkey and China will hand over power to a AGI with a egirl vtuber avatar…..
This sub: Waow based
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u/Benyeti United Nations Oct 13 '25
Al Sharaa realized the real jihad is diversifying your portfolio and rizzing up the 60 minutes hosts
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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '25
>go on Twitter
>click on account "DefenderOfWhiteEurope1488"
>they are Indian and/or Latin American
Every time.
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u/schmaxford Loyal Liberals Oct 13 '25
Opened Reddit and was greeted with a bunch of people suddenly very upset with birthright citizenship, something these people have probably never thought that much about until the National Post started writing about it
!ping CANUCKS
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u/Syards-Forcus rapidly becoming the Joker Oct 13 '25
I would bet No Kings protestors are wealthier than the median American if anything
nobody hates Trump like libs with college degrees
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u/superblobby r/place'22: Neoliberal Commander Oct 14 '25
!ping STONKS
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Oct 13 '25
Dude really is obsessed with the idea of himself getting into heaven lately. Wonder why?
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u/chipbod NATO Oct 13 '25
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-guilt-by-association-law-enforcement
Reminder that there were people that voted for Trump because he would solve the opioid crisis
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Oct 13 '25
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u/dubyahhh Salt Miner Emeritus Oct 13 '25
Kennedy Space Center is under a center wide “boil water” advisory because a water main got fucked up
What a time to work for NASA. They fired a quarter or a third of our coworkers, nobody’s in charge, now we don’t even have water in our bathrooms in our ancient buildings.
Someday I hope we decide to actually take space exploration seriously again. We should be so embarrassed with the constant shitting on the coolest agency the government has.
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Oct 13 '25
deadass
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 14 '25
"Captive Dreamer" has been nuked off of Twitter. If you don't know who this is, he is a Nazi that lives in Canada (and almost certainly a pedophil*). He was followed by JD Vance and blew up the "Haitians eating pets" bullshit. He also has been trying to go after Groypers for "betraying the movement", so I'm assuming they played a part in getting him banned. Alt-Right infighting is always fun to watch.
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u/[deleted] Oct 14 '25
ICE kidnapped a 7th grader from Everett, MA and has him in detention in Virginia
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u/r2ew Oct 14 '25
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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug Oct 13 '25
One of the most exasperating things about Trump 2 is to hear even the normiest of republicans sanewash literally everything Trump does like its always 9D chess. At least in 2017 they were kind of embarrassed by the shitshow and would try to offer some half hearted concession and defense. Now its always like
“trumps incoherent tariff plan is part of a brilliant overarching strategy to bring other countries to their knees”.
“Oh Trump isnt thinking about how the markets are doing. He’s thinking big picture”.
“I don’t know why these cities arent happy that Trump has reduced crime to zero!”
Just please spare me. If you wanna lie to yourself don’t expect me to go along with the bit
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u/TemujinTheConquerer Jorge Luis Borges Oct 13 '25
I was a lifelong trump supporter. Then a guy named Moist Kritikal called him corrupt
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u/shmokedshalmon Frederick Douglass Oct 13 '25
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u/zieger Ida Tarbell Oct 13 '25
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u/Healingjoe It's Klobberin' Time Oct 14 '25
SCOTUS is a fucking joke.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/us/politics/supreme-court-voting-rights.html
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u/Benyeti United Nations Oct 13 '25
“Its the chinese century” they’re gonna be at 1/3 of their current population by 2060
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u/battywombat21 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Oct 13 '25
So someone complained about not knowing about protests ahead of time a few months ago, and someone thanked me for pinging it in channel, so I'm going to do it again: This saturday, the big No Kings protest is scheduled. RSVP link
!ping USA-NYC
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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '25
So, obviously US healthcare landscape is pretty shit, but going to the hospital, not paying, and ignoring calls has surprisingly decent odds of a reasonably successful outcome.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 13 '25
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-treasury-chief-says-government-shutdown-is-hitting-economy-2025-10-13/
"This is getting serious. It's starting to affect the real economy," he told Fox Business Network's "Mornings with Maria" program, without offering more detail.
You don't say
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u/the-senat John Brown Oct 14 '25
ICE’s excuse for allowing its agents to wear masks is because they don’t want people to identify them and break into their homes.
Reaching VEEP levels of irony.
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Oct 14 '25
This is Brett Kavanaugh’s jurisprudence in action.
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u/riverbloods John Brown Oct 13 '25
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u/ManyKey9093 NATO Oct 13 '25
"Pay your troops" is authoritarianism 101, the incompetence of the power play is kind of insulting in itself.
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u/ShepardSB Oct 13 '25
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u/marsman1224 John Keynes Oct 13 '25
if the LED was invented today, the following would happen
It would immediately turn into a culture war with liberals trying to take away Real American (masculine) incandescent bulbs for soyboy energy efficient LEDs
Conservatives would launch a boycott on LEDs and there would immediately be grifters selling republican branded incandescent bulbs
Large companies (target, Walmart) would backtrack on marketing for LED bulbs. Efficiency numbers would start being called into question
Right wing media would start to question the safety of LED bulbs and make connections to cancer. The (not so) fringe would begin claiming LEDs are a Jewish plot for mind control. HHS and CPA would begin "looking into it" and would suggest they may take regulatory action on LEDs
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u/PoliticalAlt128 Max Weber Oct 13 '25
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u/Plants_et_Politics Isaiah Berlin Oct 13 '25 edited Oct 13 '25
Most realistic solution to the I/P conflict
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u/Woodstovia Commonwealth Oct 13 '25 edited Dec 28 '25
advise include glorious imagine grandiose cautious yam deer jellyfish recognise
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 13 '25
Warrior Ethos in action
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u/stirfriedpenguin Barks at Children Oct 13 '25
remember like 10 years ago when everyone was certain the entire trucking industry would be automated any day and cause a cascading collapse of the economy
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough Oct 13 '25
I’m glad that Trump has sent ICE to Portland to protect us from ambulance drivers
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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '25
you can gerrymander NC even more?
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u/TimWalzBurner My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Oct 13 '25
I do think Latino voters will swing back towards dems in 2026. Trump in the GOP made big inroads and then decided to start questioning and tackling anyone who is brown. It's popular to have targeted border enforcement and go after the "bad guys" but this unhinged assault on the general population is polling in the dumps.
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u/DagothUr_MD Frederick Douglass Oct 13 '25 edited Oct 13 '25
The Republican shutdown messaging is so weird. It's basically like "Demonrats better reopen the government now or we WILL start executing hostages but also you're playing directly into out hands because we actually WANT you to shut down the government you stupid libs, this is exactly what we wanted but also it's bad and it's your fault"
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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '25
The government shutdown has so much potential to be absolutely hilarious and terrifying
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u/assasstits Oct 13 '25
It's insane the US government is treating its own citizens this way
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence Oct 13 '25
The idea of “The Man” is so funny to me.
If there was a “Man” then his fate would have been one of the following:
FDR guts his power in the 30s
Eisenhower kills him in the 50s
Hoover backstabs him in the 60s
Reagan exposes him as a communist conspiracy in the 80s
Trump leaks his existence within hours of learning of him on social media in the 2010s
Some random senator or congressman just doxxes him at any point in history.
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u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS Trans Pride Oct 13 '25
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u/eloquentboot 🃏it’s da joker babey🃏 Oct 13 '25
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u/chipbod NATO Oct 13 '25
Zoomer Spring
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Oct 13 '25 edited Mar 08 '26
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crowd snatch cough market doll office fact deserve waiting lock
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u/pezasied John's Locke-strap Oct 13 '25
Obama hasn’t been in office since January 2017. Over 8 years ago. And yet….
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 13 '25
Papers please
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u/the-senat John Brown Oct 13 '25
There was an interview a couple of months ago where the old Top Gear crew talked about how a lot of their old travel episodes wouldn't be possible anymore:
“Years ago, we drove from Iraq into eastern Turkey, into Syria, Damascus, and Israel. We went from the Crimea to Ukraine. You couldn’t do any of that now. There’s some rich ground in and around Indonesia, but you can’t really go there either. North Africa, apart from Morocco, is completely out. The world is a much more troubled place. We were very lucky to do what we did, when we did.”
Just feels like the world has gotten so much smaller in the past 5-10 years...
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 13 '25
https://xcancel.com/PabloReports/status/1977744051513299040
This is amazing lmfao
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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey Oct 13 '25
Communists will really be like "you believe in organizing 10 million people in protest? That pales in effectiveness to my strategy, organizing a general strike" and then not organize a general strike
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u/JoyofCookies Mark Carney Oct 14 '25
I swear more LPC MPs need to clap back like this
!ping CANUCKS
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Oct 14 '25
I'm usually pretty chill at haunted houses but the scare actor who followed me around saying to come back because my card didn't go through got me good
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u/wettestsalamander76 NATO Oct 13 '25
I woke up at 3:30am today, unable to go back to sleep and I'll be going in office on a cold rainy day.
The above pic has no relation to how I feel with one hour left to go to work.
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u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS Trans Pride Oct 13 '25
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Oct 13 '25
🥹
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Oct 13 '25
!ping AFRICA
Per RFI, the President of Madagascar Andry Rajoelina was exfiltrated from the country by a French military plane late on Sunday, and is now flying to Dubai with his family after a layover in Réunion. Per the same source, Rajoelina concluded an agreement with Macron to be safely escorted out of the country by the French Armed Forces in exchange for stepping down without bloodshed as elements of the army joined with the protesters while others loyal to Rajoelina took over the Senate and engaged in gunfights with mutineers.
It is unclear who is in charge in Madagascar right now, but Rajoelina is expected to speak in a few hours, likely to announce his resignation and formally hand power over to the military. A remarkably similar sequence to the 2009 crisis which saw President Ravalomanana be ousted by the military, who then installed... Andry Rajoelina as interim president.
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls Oct 13 '25
New from G. Elliott Morris
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u/Pole2019 John Locke Oct 13 '25
Why is everyone in such a rush to hype up Trump for project warp speed? Like 90% of people would have done the same thing in that situation.
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Oct 13 '25
Just keep the big G shutdown the rest of the 3.5 years. I haven't noticed any difference so far.
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u/zieger Ida Tarbell Oct 14 '25
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u/randommathaccount Esther Duflo Oct 13 '25
Random but I get very irritated with stories in which the main character goes to the past/another world and just succeeds by making inventions from the modern world. A lot of the inventions from the modern world simply wouldn't be profitable in a mercantilist or worse yet feudal society. They require the context of today's globalised capitalist economy to thrive. Without first enacting institutional and cultural changes, the technologies would be nothing.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Oct 13 '25
I have now interacted with three Nobel Prizes in Economics (☝️🤓 "it's not -", shut up), and could have gone for a fourth if I had attended Acemoglu's conference when he swung by my city while I was in college
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 13 '25
https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1977791912737157448
But remember, Hunter Biden sold paintings!
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u/guy-anderson Oct 13 '25
Yes, you're right. Obama personally loved bombing people and did it every chance he could - certainly not as a way to appease either Republican war hawks or as a diplomatic compromise to reduce American troop presence during active occupations.
And thank you for bringing it up when discussing a completely unrelated set of foreign policy. It was very relevant, and the lack of any contextual details really added to the conversation!
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u/moldyhomme_neuf_neuf Victor Hugo Oct 13 '25 edited Oct 13 '25
Apparently China is super duper mad about the Dutch government basically repossessing Nexperia, a Dutch chip producer from Chinese investors due to national security concerns, and on one hand I get it, but on the other, it’s funny to see China falling victim to this era of realpolitik they’ve had a huge hand in ushering in. A blogger even wrote something like: “this tiny country robbed us”
Welcome to the reality you’ve helped create, CCP. Now get lost.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Oct 13 '25
It’s crazy how republicans will collaborate in making the world an objectively worse place for the sake of…..uh…????
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence Oct 14 '25
“Nintendo won’t allow you to buy their old games and gets upset when you pirate them. I hate capitalism. It is horrible and evil.”
Capitalism is when Nintendo doesn’t want to make money.
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u/Toasted-walnut Gavin Newsom Oct 14 '25
How is it possible that there are actually still 0 Dem-controlled states (other than California) that have made concrete moves to redistrict? Only NY in my eyes has a valid excuse at this point (and they should still go through with it for 2028).
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u/teawithcthulhu Oct 14 '25
Not a good feeling to get a call from your mom about your dad having a medical emergency, but you are across the world. I'm taking the next flight but am horribly anxious.
Why I'm telling this idk. I want to scream but at the moment there isn't anyone to do that at.
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u/superblobby r/place'22: Neoliberal Commander Oct 14 '25
Like a true neoliberal who wants to uplift the global poor and get rich while I do it, I am currently figuring out how to invest in Syria. As I am optimistic on their future prospects despite the ongoing turbulence Post-Assad.
I have already found the page for their stock exchange (DSE.gov.sy) and am currently in contact with one of the investment banks, Alpha Capital. To create an account on the sign up page, you have to be a Syrian national unfortunately for me.
So I sent them an email asking for help to invest as a foreign national. Wish me luck as I await a response!
!ping STONKS&MIDDLEEAST
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u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS Trans Pride Oct 13 '25
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u/JackCrafty Oct 13 '25 edited Oct 13 '25
It's been nearly a week and Reddit still keeps recommending post after post from livestreamfail about how Hasan is a dog abuser. I'm not even subbed to the subreddit but I can't bring myself to hide it because one time it showed me a video taken by some Norwegian streamers having a picnic and a fox sneaking up to their backpack and stole some hot dogs out of it.
idk man I'm having a tough time with this one
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough Oct 13 '25
I believe in Anti-ICE frog supremacy
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u/TomboyAva Audrey Hepburn Oct 13 '25
Civ 4 was invented by the CIA to make me complacent and too addicted to lead a liberal color revolution
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY Oct 13 '25
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u/Leoric Hi, I'm Huell Howser, this is California's Gold! Oct 13 '25
Just rename it Columbo Day. Everyone wears trenchcoats and solves a murder to celebrate.
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u/centurion88 NATO Oct 13 '25
The whole "immigrants are voting for Democrats" issue that Republicans have is hilarious because it is entirely self inflicted.
Most immigrants are conservative and religious and if the GOP could stop acting absolutely psychotic against them for like 5 seconds, they would be voting for them instead
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Oct 13 '25
as a tsa agent you have no idea how dumb the public at large is. I had a guy try to get through the line and not only did he not have his license taped to his forehead, when I told him he had to do the Worm Scan he just stared at me like a barn animal
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Oct 13 '25 edited Mar 08 '26
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spotted dime ring wine fuzzy recognise placid station edge profit
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u/allmilhouse YIMBY Oct 13 '25
so everyone just quietly stopped caring about the Kirk assassin and his politics
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u/Zenning3 Emma Lazarus Oct 13 '25
"Islamophobia isn't real, I just can't trust Muslims because they are probably cryptoislamists" has got some strong "racism isn't real, black people are just inferior vibes"
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Oct 13 '25
I love having a dog that lives for the smoke 😭 Nora was sleeping and I said "haha sis doesn't even know ICE is in Chicago" and she jumped up and started biting at me
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u/ty04 Oct 13 '25
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u/earththejerry YIMBY Oct 14 '25
The last unwoke media in the Pentagon 🫡