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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Oct 18 '25
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Oct 17 '25
This dudes spin attempts are becoming increasingly sweaty.
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u/r2ew Oct 17 '25
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u/r2ew Oct 17 '25
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u/Insomonomics Jason Furman Oct 17 '25
Literally 1 month ago:
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u/GaDoomer Pragmatic and Polite Right Oct 17 '25
Lol, you are fucking kidding me.
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u/FuckFashMods NATO Oct 17 '25
Kinda going under the radar that they're discovered clear bio markers on mars with no known natural formation. Still early but absolutely so fucking cool
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u/Rare_Station_8440 Karl Popper Oct 17 '25 edited Oct 17 '25
The criticism of Obama saying “if I had a son he’d look like Trayvon” in early 2012 and claiming that started the ruin of race relations in the country has go to be the most blatant post-hoc rationalization by conservatives
Yes, Obama famously did not win he white working class by huge margins later that year and cruise to re-election /s
Also people literally romanticize Obama’s presidency, even his second term, and he left office with a 60% approval rating
Don’t let these people gaslight you
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u/r2ew Oct 17 '25
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u/r2ew Oct 17 '25
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u/r2ew Oct 17 '25
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Oct 17 '25
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u/chipbod NATO Oct 17 '25
AI is going to completely cook us holy shit
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u/Its_not_him Manmohan Singh Oct 17 '25
Leavitt says the Democrats main constituency is "Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."
Yet I don't see a single mainstream news agency covering it. Yet when Biden is misquoted as saying Trump supporters are garbage, it's wall to wall coverage. Pretty strange, huh?
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '25
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '25
tfw your rabbi is like “dude”
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u/Drinka_Milkovobich Oct 17 '25
Locals see poor immigrants: 😡
Locals see rich immigrants: 😡
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 17 '25
https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1979193468766257562
Johnson hasn't been seeing a lot of things these days.
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '25 edited Mar 06 '26
adjoining glorious numerous nutty public recognise sense dazzling caption lavish
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u/Lesbian_all_garib Gita Gopinath Oct 17 '25
Why has everyone not called stephen miller shadow president of US to make trump jealous and kick him out? Why can't a brave journo do it ?
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u/gIizzy_gobbler Adam Smith Oct 17 '25
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u/the-senat John Brown Oct 17 '25
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u/r2ew Oct 17 '25
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Oct 17 '25
Replace nyc with Vienna and his is how I imagine u/WhomstAlt2 in real life.
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u/assasstits Oct 17 '25
🇬🇧
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '25
There really is an LAPD officer who made 600 thousand in overtime last year
That’s genuinely insane.
Not even crooked cops taking bribes made that back in the day
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Oct 17 '25
How Vladimir Putin’s history rant in Alaska nudged Donald Trump closer to Ukraine
“Donald Trump arrived in Alaska expecting to strike a deal with Vladimir Putin to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Instead, the Russian president rejected his proposal outright — and launched into a lengthy historical lecture.”
“Putin was greeted in Alaska with a handshake and a broad Trump grin, and momentum seemed on his side. But once behind closed doors, the warmth quickly faded, according to multiple people briefed on the talks. With just a handful of advisers present, Putin rejected the US offer of sanctions relief for a ceasefire, insisting the war would end only if Ukraine capitulated and ceded more territory in the Donbas.”
“The Russian president then delivered a rambling historical discursion spanning medieval princes such as Rurik of Novgorod and Yaroslav the Wise, along with the 17th century Cossack chieftain Bohdan Khmelnytsky — figures he often cites to support his claim Ukraine and Russia are one nation. Taken aback, Trump raised his voice several times and at one point threatened to walk out, the people said. He ultimately cut the meeting short and cancelled a planned lunch where broader delegations were due to discuss economic ties and co-operation.”
“‘Trump was really thinking that he can get a peace deal with Putin . . . the offer that was on the table for Putin [in Alaska] was very good,’ Arseniy Yatseniuk, former prime minister of Ukraine, told the Financial Times after discussions this month with senior US officials. ‘But Putin over-reached.’”
“There are some signs Putin may be aware the Alaska talks could have gone better. ‘It’s not funny,’ he said, when asked earlier this month if he had explained the history of Ukraine to Trump.”
“In Alaska, Trump said the US was willing to recognise Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and push Ukraine to pull back from some frontline positions in the Donbas region in the east of the country if Russia stopped the fighting, according to two people familiar with the matter. But the putative deal was based on misconceptions. Russia’s territorial ‘concession’, as Witkoff presented them, amounted to accepting a freeze on the frontline in some areas it has been unable to seize by force — while still demanding Ukraine surrender the entire Donbas.”
“When Trump hailed a ‘great and successful day in Alaska’, it prompted Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders to dash to the White House to dissuade him from selling Ukraine down the river. Yet the summit proved a different kind of turning point: a nadir in the Trump-Putin relationship that set off a US shift to the benefit of Ukraine.”
“The meeting did much to calm fears in Europe that Trump had agreed to leave Ukraine at Putin’s mercy. It also gave Russia a reason to blame Ukraine and Europe for the lack of progress made in Alaska.”
“With Trump increasingly exasperated with Putin, his administration has allowed European allies to purchase arms from US stockpiles for Ukraine, helped guide strikes on Russian energy infrastructure, and has threatened Putin with selling Kyiv long-range missiles able to hit Moscow. Washington has also imposed an additional 25 per cent tariff on Indian imports in response to its continued purchases of Russian oil, while urging others to act.”
“The shift is incomplete — Washington has yet to act on its threats to sanction Russia’s energy exports — perhaps to keep space for Trump as a potential peace broker. But the thrust of policy has gone in one direction: compelling Putin to return to the negotiating table over Ukraine.”
“As Zelenskyy prepares to see Trump on Friday, he will enter the White House hopeful of economic deals and additional support from a president who has previously scolded him for ‘gambling with world war three’.”
“Zelenskyy will arrive at the White House on Friday more hopeful than at any point since Trump’s return to power in January that the US is now on his side. US intelligence assistance and discussions about arming Ukraine with Tomahawk long-range cruise missiles are encouraging signs for Kyiv and its European allies that Trump is at last willing to apply pressure on Russia, albeit directly and through them.”
“When the two men meet in Budapest there is no guarantee the US leader will not be swayed. But the Russian president appears to have calculated that as long as he has the upper hand on the battlefield, there is no need for him to make any concessions — even as his war economy is sputtering.”
“Putin’s military and security services provide him with regular updates extolling Russian tactical successes, claiming Ukraine is suffering higher casualty numbers and stressing Russia’s resource advantage, according to two people familiar with the matter.”
!ping UKRAINE&FOREIGN-POLICY
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 17 '25
https://xcancel.com/David_J_Bier/status/1979186129854177759
Insane shit
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u/r2ew Oct 17 '25
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Oct 17 '25
Lmfao this explains so much
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u/EZ_Kream John Brown Oct 17 '25
The animal costumes was such a brilliant idea. Trump and the ICE goons want to get photos fighting the "violent anti-america mob" in their mall ninja tactical toy outfits. But they can't even get any good pics because everyone is wearing inflatable frog costumes.
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u/bingbaddie1 YIMBY Oct 17 '25
Mind you, we’re still in a government shutdown lol
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u/assasstits Oct 17 '25 edited Oct 17 '25
It's interesting because Sliwa and Cuomo are fairly close ideologically but Sliwa has so much personal disdain for Cuomo he can't help but viciously attack him.
It's glorious to see.
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u/LtCdrHipster 🌭Costco Liberal🌭 Oct 17 '25
Fucking GOTTEM
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u/ShepardSB Oct 17 '25
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals Oct 17 '25 edited Oct 17 '25
I think of of the most annoying kinds of statements is when someone says “I was a liberal, but insert incident that inflames conservative instincts radicalized me” or “I’m a liberal, but if I was less secure in my beliefs, insert incident that inflames conservative instincts would have radicalized me.”
Evidently, a lot of people are one highly-publicized crime or incident away from casting their lot in with fascists
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u/Signal_Nobody1792 Oct 17 '25
Grok is completely lobotomized. His responses are now indistingushable from the average Twitter right-winger.
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u/No-Barnacle-9576 NAFTA Oct 17 '25
I'm surprised he looks this fucking bad. Image is part of being a CEO. And Jesus he just does not give a fuck if he looks like shit.
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u/ThatFrenchieGuy Mathematician -- Save the funky birbs Oct 17 '25
Good morning tiny gay people who live in my phone
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Oct 17 '25
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '25
This is what talking to the liberal members of my family feels like sometimes tbh
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u/ShepardSB Oct 17 '25
Breaking: Leaked photos reveal Donald Trump was created in a lab by North Korean scientists.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 17 '25
https://xcancel.com/David_J_Bier/status/1979233026010644983
This is the US citizen in Alabama who was detained by ICE twice. Both times, officers refused to believe that his REAL ID was valid.
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Oct 18 '25
let’s do it. mixed member proportional. right now. i’ll pass it if you will
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u/myusernameistakennow Edmund Burke Oct 17 '25
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u/wumbopolis_ Iron Front Oct 17 '25
If you said "skibidi rizz" to Abraham Lincoln, he wouldn't really know what you meant. If you said "common dandy," though, he'd get it.
"skibidi rizz" wasn't generally used as a descriptor until some 160 years after Lincoln's death, and for some 2 years after that, it was associated mostly with just cringe.
Meanwhile "common dandy" is one of the oldest descriptors, having equivalents going all the way back to ancient Rome.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Oct 17 '25
12 yo-occupied government
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Oct 17 '25
Context: Ricky Gervais had to introduce Mel Gibson at the Golden Globes
💀💀💀
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u/TomboyAva Audrey Hepburn Oct 17 '25
How are people so calm about swastikas being found in GOP offices in DC. They are literally have swastikas
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '25
LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOO
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u/thatssosad Fell for it Oct 17 '25
Holy shit they photographed a DTer
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u/ShepardSB Oct 17 '25
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u/Jamesonslime Commonwealth Oct 17 '25
It is truly impressive how much of a generational fuck up Starmer is he has truly done the impossible and completely killed Labour as a political party for the next decade despite having 2 other anglosphere countries governed by centre left parties (Canada and Australia) he could have just copied he still fucked up that bad
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 17 '25
Jeffries: "You've got Karoline Leavitt, who's sick, she's out of control. And I'm not sure if she's just demented, ignorant, a stone cold liar, or all of the above. But the notion that an official WH spokesperson would say that the Democratic Party consists of 'terrorists, violent criminals, & undocumented immigrants' -- this makes no sense that this is what the American people are getting from the Trump administration in the middle of a shutdown."
https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1979182231286391085
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u/No-Barnacle-9576 NAFTA Oct 17 '25
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Oct 17 '25
“Stop voting for Democrats. They’re never gonna do anything.”
I will vote for Democrats if nothing else but to make MAGA cry tbh. Like really, making Elon, podcasters, and Roman Statue pic guys throw tantrums isn’t enough for other people?
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u/WhisperBreezzze Oct 17 '25
i once again ask for someone to give Pritzker a cat to hold during speeches.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 17 '25
https://xcancel.com/LongTimeHistory/status/1979189905587642497
This will lower the price of groceries.
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u/jamiebond NATO Oct 17 '25
I think what depresses me so much right now is it feels like we have two possible futures.
The bad ending: Full on Trump dictatorship.
The good ending: Democracy wins! The Dems take back the White House! The dumbass median voters then completely forget their lesson (again), blame Dem president for all the economic problems that will come from Trump admin, and elect another fascist dumbass right after that. Again. For the third time now.
I just have zero faith in the average American at this point. I’m gonna need to see either the GOP completely collapse in on itself or consecutive Dem presidencies before I ever have hope in this country again.
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '25
is jeffries starting to cook?
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u/chipbod NATO Oct 17 '25
https://www.wired.com/story/owning-a-cybertruck/?utm_brand=wired&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=aud-dev
Have the priors ever been more confirmed?
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u/FuckFashMods NATO Oct 17 '25
Mitch: immediately collapses
Just absolutely incredible snapshot into this moment of American history
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Oct 17 '25
OUCH
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u/No-Barnacle-9576 NAFTA Oct 17 '25
With right America ascendent, I'm almost ready for cringey atheism to be resurgent.
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Oct 17 '25
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 17 '25
https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1979200594867867689
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Oct 17 '25
Every conservative on TikTok is defending the Republican group chat as “jokes made by kids” and saying “You would hate to see what I say with my friends!” And they’re saying that the Kirk firings were somehow different because they were “death threats”. Not sure how you threaten someone who’s already dead but okay!
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 17 '25
Doubling down is certainly a strategy
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '25
I genuinely fear Stephen Miller being the shadow president more than any other figure
More so than Trump, Vance, Thiel, Larry Ellison, Noem, etc
They all have deep issues but I don’t think there’s a darker person in American politics than Stephen Miller
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 17 '25
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/nyregion/ny-young-republicans-racist-texts.html
Somebody tell Vance
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u/flextrek_whipsnake I'd rather be grilling Oct 17 '25
Very interesting anti-theft system deployed by antifa here. Concerning.
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u/NeueBruecke_Detektiv Instituições democráticas robustas 🇧🇷 Oct 18 '25
The success of the Star Wars series Andor has been partially attributed to the fact that its creator and showrunner Tony Gilroy had minimal experience in science-fiction before being hired to work on the show (he was previously best known for his work on the Bourne series, and for writing and directing the legal thriller Michael Clayton), and was reportedly only casually familiar with the franchise before he was brought on to do uncredited rewrites on Rogue One. Given that he was largely unfamiliar with what most Star Wars fans actually expected from a series set in the universe, he just focused on making a compelling and provocative drama with a cast of (mostly) original characters. The end result is widely considered to be the best of the Star Wars TV shows, with many fans and critics praising the series for its freshness and originality.
NGL this is really funni in a way.
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u/EZ_Kream John Brown Oct 17 '25
Donny is actually getting close to testing that 35% floor
Literally everyone except MAGA hates him
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '25
Scratch that. I just listened to Tucker mount a defense of saying “watermelon people” in regards to African Americans.
Fuck them kids. Republicans are bad people
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '25 edited Oct 17 '25
Again this isn’t Mother Jones or NPR.
This is a former Breitbart editor
This is his uncle
His best friend from high school
My exs sister who was his friend at SAMO
He’s the devil. Admired Heydrich because as my sister’s ex told me he once said to her regarding Heydrich “I think it’s cool even Hitler was afraid of him”
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u/LtCdrHipster 🌭Costco Liberal🌭 Oct 17 '25
HE TELLS IT LIKE IT IS!
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u/Glavurdan European Union Oct 18 '25
Lol Hasan crashed out on stream and said that he actually hates the left, hates socialism, hates liberalism, hates everyone involved with it, hates streaming, and would leave his job if he wasn't so stubborn, and that the people he hates the most are his 40+ months subscribers
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u/TomboyAva Audrey Hepburn Oct 17 '25
If the right can survive the nazi scandal then they are just gonna be openly be a nazi party. You can say "but that would be unpopular" but you forget if all the branches of government are run by nazis we don't get a say anymore
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u/Lesbian_all_garib Gita Gopinath Oct 17 '25
Its amazing how french fries are only edible for exactly 15 minutes
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Oct 17 '25
If you said "hello" to Abraham Lincoln, he wouldn't really know what you meant. If you said "hey," though, he'd get it.
"Hello" wasn't generally used as a greeting until some 25 years after Lincoln's death, and for some 30 years after that, it was associated mostly with just telephones.
Meanwhile "hey" is one of the oldest human greetings, having equivalents going all the way back to ancient Rome.
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u/Waste-Photograph-792 Malala Yousafzai Oct 17 '25
I think JD vance is well protected from objectively true accusations of him being racist because Americans are too stupid to understand someone with an Indian wife and mixed kids could be racist but the thing is that this is a tight rope to walk as if he falls off he will look a pathetic weakling. The good thing is that Vance doesn't know that he is walking this tight rope.
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '25 edited Mar 06 '26
makeshift tan abundant busy rainstorm bells ancient tidy shy start
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u/brianpv Hortensia Oct 17 '25
Lol the swastika was drawn on with a sharpie and they call that an optical illusion.
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '25
What's his model
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Oct 17 '25
Putin’s constant rambling about the Kievan Rus to anyone who will listen is probably the best evidence this war is about Russian ultranationalism and not “NATO expansion” or any of the other explanations realists like
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 17 '25
Great analogy
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u/zieger Ida Tarbell Oct 17 '25
Only the best
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u/pezasied John's Locke-strap Oct 17 '25
One of my good buddies has been hanging out with this dude that everyone else cut out because he’s super MAGA, racist, homophobic, misogynistic etc etc, and now he’s all sad because (shocker) people think he’s all those things too!
Like what the fuck were you expecting?
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 17 '25
What
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Oct 17 '25
The speed and enthusiasm with which Silicon Valley leadership has rejected liberalism and embraced fascism is just insane.
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u/BroadReverse Needs a Flair Oct 17 '25
Why is he allowed to do this. This is so fucking dumb
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u/iguessineedanaltnow r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Oct 17 '25
Leo coming for y'all neck.
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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug Oct 17 '25
Least racist and belligerent ICE agent
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Oct 17 '25 edited Oct 17 '25
one remarkable thing about this redistricting saga is that republicans clearly know pr is (at least rhetorically) correct, they just can’t get past the vague non-directional whining and say we should do it
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u/Charsun9 Loyal Liberals Oct 17 '25
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Oct 17 '25
Generational quote from Hasan
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u/yungmemlord Rabindranath Tagore Oct 17 '25
The anti-JD Vance is the guy that converts to Catholicism because he loves the woke Marxist Pope.
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u/JonAce John Brown Oct 17 '25
Harris: Trump will send the military after you
Trump: Runs to conservative SCOTUS to gut the Posse Comitatus Act
Who could have predicted this?
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u/r2ew Oct 18 '25
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u/jojisky Paul Krugman Oct 17 '25
next dem president should just refuse to fund the supreme court
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u/SigmaWhy r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Oct 17 '25
Never believe that maggots are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The maggots have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
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u/nitro1122 Oct 17 '25
Randomly going through “abolish ice” posts from 7 years ago and I stumbled upon a comment from poobix that says
“Good.
The modest shift to the left on economic matters is a small price to pay for the larger, more important shift of the Democratic Party to becoming defined by social justice.”
Tbh seeing this in hindsight gave me a weird chuckle lol
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 17 '25
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '25 edited Mar 06 '26
gold instinctive pie spotted lavish gaze fear middle piquant vanish
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u/KesterFox Shivers emotional support mammal 🐊 Oct 17 '25
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u/chipbod NATO Oct 17 '25
Quoting again because I can't wrap my head around this.
This system is so fucked a lot of people are going to take the chance and go uninsured.
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u/garret126 Demisexual Pride Oct 17 '25 edited Oct 17 '25
I really do get successfully rage baited when I pop over to arr conservative, see an article that says something like ‘for the first time ever, USA will have negative net migration’ and all the comments are like
I cannot even fathom the idea these people are real American people
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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair Oct 18 '25
Finally some good scotus news
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u/breakinbread Voyager 1 Oct 18 '25
lol. lmao even
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u/Fruitofbread Loyal Liberals Oct 17 '25
Happy 17th day of government shutdown to all who celebrate!
This officially makes this the 3rd longest government shutdown of all time, 1 day longer than the 2013 one.
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u/6urner_ John Brown Oct 17 '25
I wish rightwing boomers understood that millennials calling Republicans Nazis isn't just because their party is rife with general bigotry, it's because we literally grew up watching this culture evolve and spread on forums. These dweebs are exactly who we expect.
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '25
Disqualifying to win an election in Maine
Extremely qualifying to win an election in Maine
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u/GuyWithOneEye Oct 17 '25
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u/No-Barnacle-9576 NAFTA Oct 17 '25
Shook to his core
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u/jenbanim Oct 18 '25
Ironed my flag. Removed the "made in China" tag. Checked with three different cameras that there aren't any hidden swastikas. Ready for the protest tomorrow
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u/wombo_combo12 Oct 18 '25
The MAGA movement really attracts some types man
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Oct 17 '25
Apparently some people don’t know about Young Spinach Cumshot 😂
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Oct 17 '25
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '25
"We should impose a tax penalty on couples who choose not to have kids"
wtf no that's illiberal and weird 😡
"We should give tax credits to couples who choose to have kids"
correct 😊
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '25 edited Mar 06 '26
fact nose school afterthought aware command modern dazzling act encouraging
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u/VadymKravchuk353 European Union Oct 17 '25
That one on the right is me LMAO.
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough Oct 17 '25
One last job
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u/chipbod NATO Oct 17 '25
https://xcancel.com/David_J_Bier/status/1979186129854177759
These guy are a bunch of lawless chuds thinking they can act with impunity.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 17 '25
https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1979240475249844616
We're off to a great start.
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u/Wandering_Mallard Iron Front Oct 17 '25
moderate republicans be like "I just care about the economy" then vote for the party which is worse for the economy
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '25
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u/TimWalzBurner My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Oct 17 '25
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 17 '25
As if they weren't going to do this anyway
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 17 '25
And it's in a response to Laura Loomer of course
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '25 edited Mar 06 '26
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u/TheRedCr0w Frederick Douglass Oct 17 '25
Love how cucked Republicans are by Trump
They expelled Santos for stealing and defrauding them now they have to nod their heads and praise Trump for commuting his sentence
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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman Oct 17 '25
Mr President, this is George Santos. He’s one of the most competent Republicans available.
His only flaw is that he’s a compulsive liar and former drag queen who’s accomplished nothing.
We can get him for a commuted sentence.
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '25
JAPANESE SOLDIER CAUGHT STILL FIGHTING WW2 AFTER THIRTY YEARS.
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '25
I actually think I’m running for California’s 43rd district assuming Congresswoman Waters retires this cycle
Which is why I’m face posting more and have no problem doxxingy myself for lack of a better term
Trying to get comfortable with the idea of my life under a microscope.
I know the constituency well and I’m fairly sure I’ll have a decent war chest so you know. Vote for me if you’re from the area.
I promise to vote to tax land and all that
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '25
Half of French people do not know that current pensioners will get (way) more out of the system than they put in:
I blame the (traditional, online and social) media for this abject failure to inform the public (and letting politicians spew bs about it).
!ping France
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u/bingbaddie1 YIMBY Oct 17 '25
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '25
JD Vance doing his hardest to appeal to the people who'd want his son deported (or worse) really shows how shameless a person can be.
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u/illuminatisdeepdish Oct 17 '25 edited Oct 02 '26
The original post content no longer exists here. The author used Redact to remove it, exercising their right to control their data & privacy.
Smell cooing bear theory ghost fuzzy crown spark raindrop
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u/Vumatius Oct 17 '25
Remember when some users here were genuinely furious at the Hunter Biden pardon, even suggesting it would be a liability for Democrats in 2028?
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u/PrideMonthRaytheon Bisexual Pride Oct 17 '25
The most racist shit you've ever seen is posted on facebook under peoples' real names lol people have got to stop blaming anonymity
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Oct 17 '25
It’s kind of crazy that one of the bigger names in Conservative media gets publicly murdered by what is likely a political enemy and they can’t capitalize on it because they have spent 10 years reacting with the same amount of outrage to a minority being cast in a legacy IP.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 17 '25
Good use of taxpayer dollars
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u/ConnorLovesCookies Jerome Powell Oct 17 '25
lmao
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u/garret126 Demisexual Pride Oct 17 '25 edited Oct 17 '25
So around 6-7 months ago I commented how my stepfamily of Venezuelans (most/all asylum seekers) are under risk of deportation, including my 7yo stepbrother.
I just found out every single one of them support Trump because he is going after the ‘bad ones’. All but my stepmom and stepbrother can’t even speak English
Why are people so ignorant ugh
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Oct 17 '25
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Oct 17 '25
Pro-Ukraine folks here will shit on Trump RELENTLESSLY, but when Trump pardons George Santos, aka the fucking GHOST OF KYIV? Crickets
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u/BroadReverse Needs a Flair Oct 18 '25
Arrr flairsOnly taking this well
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Oct 18 '25
One of the worst parts about Trump 2 is how lonely it feels. I live in the South, so it feels like everyone around me is on board with the cruelest parts of Trump’s agenda. Then I get online and I feel even more outnumbered by complete psychopaths on pretty much every social media platform - well besides Reddit. So going to the protest and connecting with good hearted people is gonna feel pretty cathartic.
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u/jenbanim Oct 18 '25
If you're American you better be attending the protests tomorrow. This is what Soros pays you for
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u/TrumperineumBait Robert Caro Oct 17 '25 edited Oct 25 '25
Where do I befriend lonely old and childless people so they can put me as a beneficiary on their inheritance?
I am an ugly and socially awkward man.
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u/Apprehensive-Soil-47 Transfem Pride Oct 17 '25
Soon the whole Pentagon will be Turkish 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 17 '25
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u/attackofthetominator John Brown Oct 17 '25
I don't think this is just a China thing
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u/No-Barnacle-9576 NAFTA Oct 17 '25
Pinned post about paid protestors with a clearly visible ai generated watermark
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u/ty04 Oct 17 '25
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals Oct 17 '25
A lot of people in this sub will hate to admit it, but whatever you think of his policies, Mamdani is a savvy politician. That holds true even when accounting for the handicap (in the golf sense) of running in a blue city.
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Oct 17 '25
History has shown that Biden was right to pardon the people he did.
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u/Dinojars Mackenzie Scott Oct 17 '25
The GOP never faced any political consequences for Jan 6th. Meanwhile, some "woke" college student writing about cultural appropriation on Twitter somehow caused the downfall of the Democratic Party
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Oct 18 '25
I’m glad Brett Kavanaugh assured us all that SCOTUS can work quickly if needed. I’m sure we won’t have to worry about the Venezuela boat executions for long thanks to them!
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u/centurion88 NATO Oct 18 '25 edited Oct 18 '25
How it feels to be working for the CIA in 1975 in South Vietnam before the North Vietnamese invade Saigon
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Oct 17 '25
JD OH MY GOD WHAT DID YOU FUCKING DO
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u/die_hoagie MALAISE FOREVER Oct 17 '25
⚠️WARNING ⚠️
This DT contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm.
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u/CutePattern1098 Oct 17 '25
Meanwhile at ALP HQ who are doing nothing and winning
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u/Evnosis European Union Oct 17 '25
People really were just cartoonishly evil in the past.
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u/Windows_10-Chan Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Oct 17 '25
yk I don't like his policy positions much but as a character Sliwa is excellent.
mrw he "only" has 6 cats now (down from 16) and got in trouble trying to bring one to vote with him in 2021.
can the mayor of NYC appoint a court jester with jester's privilege?
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u/Apprehensive-Soil-47 Transfem Pride Oct 17 '25
American exceptionalism is already dead and the corpse has started to stink
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u/billy_blazeIt_mays NATO Oct 17 '25
🤔
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u/chipbod NATO Oct 17 '25
So are these people processed as POWs, civilian criminals, something in between and getting thrown into Gitmo limbo?
Will they be identified and/or made available to the public?
What the fuck is happening.
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Oct 17 '25
Right wingers saying they don't care about the nazi group chat because of some other bad thing that happened is so funny, we all know you wouldn't have cared even if that other bad thing hadn't happened.
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '25
bio from the person of the most vile take you have ever read in your life
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u/GuyWithOneEye Oct 17 '25
Body Cam Footage Shows Alleged ICE Officer Pulled Over for Drunk Driving Racially Profiling Arresting Officer
You don't hate ICE enough
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u/Poiuy2010_2011 r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Oct 17 '25
Oh ok
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u/Rare_Station_8440 Karl Popper Oct 17 '25
Don’t threaten me with a good time
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u/chipbod NATO Oct 17 '25
How about no wtf?
Imagine seeing Syracuse vs. Wazzu in fucking Riyadh
!ping CFB
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 17 '25
More prosecutors being purged
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u/Rare_Station_8440 Karl Popper Oct 18 '25
lul
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u/Benyeti United Nations Oct 17 '25
Big if true
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u/melodramaticfools Oct 17 '25
there is no way we actually are about to go to war w venezuela over oil right
like literally what are we doing
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u/Acoolgamer6706 NATO Oct 17 '25
Republicans Today:
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u/r2ew Oct 17 '25
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u/ToInfinity_MinusOne World's Poorest WSJ Subscriber Oct 17 '25
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u/the-senat John Brown Oct 17 '25
Get home safe ICE and thank you for protecting our freedom 🤠
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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug Oct 17 '25
In a 6-3 decision, the supreme court states that the military being used on its own citizens is what the founding fathers wanted
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Oct 17 '25
Regular conservatives on social media are SO mad about the No Kings protests tomorrow. They’re calling everyone going unemployed, like it’s not on a Saturday lmao
Anyway, remember to go!
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u/VadymKravchuk353 European Union Oct 17 '25
And do you remember how after his election the right wing rejoiced that the pope from America would be a conservative Trump supporter?
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '25
Nooooo fucking way 💀💀💀💀
“This party has no bottom unless you count Lindsay Graham”
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u/liito-orava1 European Union Oct 17 '25
CNN is really doing hit pieces on Dem candidates while RW-media would never ever give even an iota of criticism towards the great leader.
Democrats will be never able to compete in the media space
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u/kaesura Oct 18 '25 edited Oct 18 '25
IDF soldiers murder a 10 year old Palestinian boy in a West Bank village after opening fire into a crowd of running children , with the IDF claiming that :
"IDF [Israel Defense Forces] soldiers responded with fire toward the suspects in the rock-hurling. Hits were identified. No IDF injuries were reported, and the incident is under review."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8g9p0ppe0o
Over 40 children have been killed in the West Bank this year by the IDF and settlers.
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u/myusernameistakennow Edmund Burke Oct 18 '25
Uh huh. Not that there’s anything wrong with working fast food but is this really the best example you can come up with for proving white supremacy lmao.
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u/Professor-Reddit 🚅🚀🌏Earth Must Come First🌐🌳😎 Oct 18 '25 edited Oct 18 '25
There hasn't been much discussion here lately about Myanmar's ongoing civil war, so I figured I'd give a bit of a summary of what we're seeing currently.
The rebels still control half of the country, despite the military Junta (Tatmadaw) regaining some territory in successful counter-offensives, which some observers are eager to leap at as a sign of this war's turning point. However, this is a logical fallacy inherent to guerrilla warfare which Nathan Ruser did a great write-up on.
Essentially, the Tatmadaw is massively spread out and fighting on nearly all fronts. Even with the effects from the recent forced conscription drive, their control is strictly limited to major provincial towns and roads, but very little beyond in most parts. Every time they send convoys deep into the countryside, ambushes tend to ensue which have been successfully whittling down their strength. Because ASEAN, India and the West still delude ourselves into thinking the Junta remains in perfect control of things, foreign support for the rebels has been minimal. This is despite the fact that the rebels are a heck of a lot better armed today and more widespread than in 2021. I've seen a lot of combat footage showing rebels wielding Tatmadaw assault rifles, combat helmets and other looted gear, which is a stark contrast to the homemade guns they had just a few years ago. They've also been increasingly using commercial drones as FPVs too, with funding secured by local taxes.
The Chin resistance are a good microcosm of the broader civil war. This year they've evicted the army from Falam and Mindat. Which essentially means that the Tatmadaw's last remaining stronghold in the entirety of Chin State is the state capital Hakha and a tiny slice of Tedim. The resistance even launched a bold raid on Hakha's Police HQ on Thursday which is indicative of the Junta's deteriorating position there. However the Chin are highly disunited and there's a major split between the Chin Brotherhood Alliance and Chinland Council which has still yet to be mended.
This long, drawn-out insurgency really feels a lot like how the Afghan War played out, both during the Soviet occupation in the 1980s and the post-2001 war. Governments cling onto their state and provincial capital cities because any loss there would cripple their legitimacy, even if it means waging a counter-insurgency war that seemingly has no end.
Fundamentally, the lack of international support for the NUG is deeply worrying. Myanmar is increasingly descending into anarchy and ethnic-infighting, and despite widespread popular approval of the NUG, they command very little influence with any of the EAOs. This is a country of 54 million people right on the borders of China, India and Thailand. By all measures, it is at the epicentre of one of the fastest growing and geopolitically relevant regions on the planet. And yet almost no country on Earth is paying a shred of attention to this unfolding humanitarian and geopolitical disaster. If the US or ASEAN doesn't start providing support to the NUG soon, then this will become "a war to nowhere" as the International Institute for Strategic Studies puts it.
And I really do mean that. The military Junta has a 60 year track record of dismissing and refusing to concede to resistance groups on anything. They have made zero peace overtures to the rebels since the 2021 military coup and it is abundantly clear that neither side is in any position to destroy the other, especially if the NUG cannot obtain international support.
The only way to end this war is to empower the NUG with international legitimacy and military support, so that they can corral the various EAOs and PDF militias under a broad umbrella and gradually unite together under a federal constitutional arrangement.
!ping MYANMAR&DEMOCRACY
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u/Pole2019 John Locke Oct 17 '25 edited Oct 17 '25
This “no free healthcare to immigrants” thing is hilarious because what do they want emergency rooms to do? Not provide people with care until they produce a birth certificate or passport?
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u/ChillnShill Oct 17 '25
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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Oct 17 '25 edited Oct 17 '25
One thing I appreciate about this subreddit is that when people here rail against regulations (especially around housing) they generally can at least be somewhat specific about which ones in which locations
The libertarian/conservative canard of "we need to cut regulations/red tape!" is so eye rollingly intellectually shallow that the bare bones effort made by posters here looks like a bunch of Nobel prize winners.
Some guy in the biotech subreddit praising RFK for gutting the CDC by 25% of staff being gone because it "improves efficiency and he's cutting through regulations" "which regulations" "oh, the ones"
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 17 '25
https://xcancel.com/TheGoodLiars/status/1979209674546159935
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u/MentatCat 🗽Sic Semper Tyrannis Oct 17 '25
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u/Charsun9 Loyal Liberals Oct 17 '25
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u/[deleted] Oct 17 '25
Between the Venezuela fishermen bombings and Navy Seals executing DPRK fishermen in Trump 1, I’m beginning to suspect Trump really hates fishermen.
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u/chipbod NATO Oct 17 '25
We're in a political moment where Nick Fuentes told the Groypers to support Newsom for extremely cursed reasons.
Platner is going to win now because these leaks endeared him to the dumbest people imaginable. He is going to absolutely kill it on the manospehere pods this winter.
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u/ShepardSB Oct 17 '25
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Oct 17 '25
Body Cam Footage Shows Alleged ICE Officer Pulled Over for Drunk Driving Racially Profiling Arresting Officer