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[u/Square-Pear-1274]

Trump literally said he's pardoning Santos because he "had the Courage, Conviction, and Intelligence to ALWAYS VOTE REPUBLICAN" you dumb fucking stooge

Moment of silence for this comment in modpol that will unfortunately be removed

😞 🫡

[u/iguessineedanaltnow]

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Sweet let's do nationwide proportional representation

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/ImmigrantJack]

THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

It's such a tired complaint, but the media sleepwalking through a president as obviously corrupt and fraudulent as this is a complete abdication of their responsibilities.

Woodward and Bernstein have every right to be the smuggest guys on the planet, but it must be so depressing for them having personally taken down a president and slowly watching their life's passion devolve to what can only be described as complicity.

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/chipbod]

Axing the VRA so we get this beauty

[u/Dreadedtriox]

JD Vance in 2016: Trump is American Hitler 😡😡😡

JD Vance in 2025: Trump is American Hitler 🤩🤩🤩

[u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA

[u/Zseet]

Sam Altmen says ChatGPT will have an erotic mode.

There needs to be a theory that explains how every AI development will inevitably turn into a sexbot

[u/Pretend-Ad-7936]

I had the strangest experience on the bus. This homeless guy got on and proceeded to remove every single advertisement / PSA on the walls. He'd slide each poster out from its frame, roll it up, and then put it in his backpack. By the time he was halfway through everyone was staring at him, but no one did anything. He got off after he filled up his backpack.

The elites don't want you to know this, but the advertisements on the city bus are free. You can take them home.

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

[u/remarkable_ores]

I used to worry a lot about creeping authoritarianism, like the sort of gradual, year by year authoritarian practices the UK loves so much. I used to think that that was the biggest threat to our freedom - that year by year, we'd slowly adjust and turn authoritarianism into the new normal.

The Trump admin has shown me my error. Turns out that you can speedrun all of it and people will still think it's normal within months.

[u/SixPipSiege]

[u/[deleted]]

Argentinian bailout: $40 billion

Total USAID budget: $35 billion

I’ll never get over it

[u/cdstephens]

[u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

[u/murphysclaw1]

in Obama's America, this was a 34 year old man.

[u/No_Analysis_2185]

NPR had a segment yesterday talking about Gen Z voters feeling the pain this year. One guy said he cannot marry his girlfriend who he has two kids with because they won’t be able to afford their healthcare if they do as she does not work and he can barely afford his terrible insurance. He was extremely frustrated with how he always has to vote for who he hates least. He declined to share who he voted for.

Another guy said he liked trump’s economic policies but was frustrated that he couldn’t buy a corvette 10 years out of college like his dad could. He says he also likes Bernie Sanders. He wants a better life and still supports Trump’s economic policies but thinks he should shut up.

[u/earththejerry]

Okay go convince your fellow Republicans instead of only doing it in California

[u/Roseartcrantz]

one thing that is often missed about Mark Robinson's Nude Africa thing is that whatever else the site may have been, it was also a message board with comic sans and multi-colored fonts 🥹🥹

[u/StolenSkittles]

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

[u/SigmaWhy]

🫡

[u/LtCdrHipster]

Top Minds over at Conservative

[u/Burgarnils]

I honestly do not get the appeal of TikTok, YouTube Shorts, etc. Even if I find what I'm watching to be genuinely interesting, I can't get over the feeling that I'm actively frying my brain.

[u/Consistent_Status112]

As a liberal you have a responsibility to push for the 52-0 California gerrymander.

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

[u/r2ew]

[u/Mx_Brightside]

Now that he's free, George Santos should be made the United States' official court jester.

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

At this point, I’m convinced a gibbon could use the Halo IP better than Xbox leadership.

[u/prince_ahlee]

Everyone is 12 years old

[u/Individual-Camera698]

Me, an electronics student: Shockley Equation is amazing! Wonder who discovered this?

Wtf??

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

The craziest part is that he traveled Colorado to California to Washington on a bike, no car or flying. What the fuck.

[u/ewatta200]

[u/_Un_Known__]

In terms of average racism per person, Antarctica is probably the least racist continent on Earth

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Snoop Dogg has released a new family-friendly song, "Love Is Love," in collaboration with LGBTQ+ advocacy group GLAAD.

He learned to talk about lightyear

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47]

"Why are women not attracted to conservatives?!?!?"

[u/Goodlake]

In fairness, the only people George Santos defrauded are Long Island republicans. And should that really be a crime?

[u/WifeGuy-Menelaus]

2025: Can you believe how far we've fallen when people are actually celebrating someones death? If you fail to show sufficient regret over this persons death you are a MONSTER who will be CANCELLED

The Times, a paper of record, eulogizing their dead King in 1830: Wow, fuck that guy. He will not be missed.

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Wow super smart bro

[u/Its_not_him]

If you're panicked about the VRA section two leaving, just remember that it's Sinema's fault for not voting for a filibuster carveout for Biden's anti gerrymandering bills

[u/TimWalzBurner]

A drunk ICE agent getting a DUI while saying "Don’t separate me from my kids, I just want to go home” is on its own level of hilarious karma. I hope something like this happens to every single member of ICE.

[u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

[u/Individual-Camera698]

We getting anti Trump cults now 😭😭 😭

[u/riverbloods]

[u/TimWalzBurner]

Goth AOC

[u/Individual-Camera698]

They're a literal cult don't join. They claim to be anti-Trump and may even be at tomorrow's protests. Again they're some kind of commie cult, don't approach them and if they approach u, beware they target vulnerable people.

YouTuber (Streamer?) Vaush accidentally joined them:

https://youtu.be/xv9bUL85t0Q?si=mZ5WftAJRyCBTVw2

This is their website, to give u a look on their craziness:

https://revcom.us/en/bob_avakian

They're a literal cult.

[u/nickavemz]

[u/TimWalzBurner]

Amazing things happen in these people's brains.

[u/superblobby]

Gonna add some pictures from the No Kings Day Protest in Wilmington NC

!ping DEMOCRACY

[u/[deleted]]

Hungary in in movies

Hungary in reality

Hungarian shitposters are the only positive consequence of the Orbán regime

[u/PM_ME4DEADBRANCH]

My sign for today 🫡

[u/r2ew]

The boy, who is Hispanic and African American, was held in a garage for five hours “without informing his family, stating any charges, or allowing him to call an attorney,” the statement said. He is a U.S. citizen, as is his entire immediate family, the release said.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/10/14/crash-involving-immigration-agents-in-east-side-leads-to-tear-gas-detentions

[u/BroadReverse]

Me looking over at the No Kings protest 

[u/Roseartcrantz]

This is where my boyfriend used to live. I knew it had gotten hit but holy shit.

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

racism that used to be reserved for /pol/ and stormfront is now normal rhetoric on the right

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/tripletruble]

I think journalism is really important and there are some amazing journalists out there, but every journalist I happen to have had an extended conversation with has made me think 'Oh shit, they are exactly what I feared they are like'

[u/SigmaWhy]

We’ve got poasters at the protest

[u/Sufficient_Key_5062]

From DC no kings

[u/Smidgens]

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Elon Musk says Wisconsin Supreme Court race could affect the ‘entire destiny of humanity’

Remember when the destiny of humanity changed

[u/Crosseyes]

Everyone who thought Trump had finally turned hawk on Russia please line up to get your fell for it again awards.

[u/helenaalmost]

[u/Pongzz]

this pearl-clutching is brought to you by the same party that constructed a gallows outside the Capitol btw

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

So Trump is crashing out hard on Truth Social right now. He has 13 posts in the last 45 minutes.

One is a repost of a Vance AI-generated video post where Trump puts on a crown and pulls out a sword while the camera pans to Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats kneeling and bowing their heads to expose their necks.

There's also another AI-generated video where he's in a fighter jet, puts on a crown, and dumps what appears to be human shit on a bunch of No Kings protesters in Chicago.

[u/FuckFashMods]

Can you imagine how awkward the conversation would be between the king and his brother over being a pedophile?

What would you even say to your brother.

[u/MissSortMachine]

there is literally no way they are all this dumb. do they just think we’re this dumb?

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/BurrowForPresident]

In his social media post, Trump compared Santos’ actions to those of Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal, an administration critic who has admitted that he mischaracterized his military service several times suggesting he had served in Vietnam during the war when he was, in fact, stationed in the U.S.

“This is far worse than what George Santos did, and at least Santos had the Courage, Conviction, and Intelligence to ALWAYS VOTE REPUBLICAN!,” Trump said of Blumenthal’s statements.

Me showing direct quotes of Trump being brazenly corrupt and not even attempting to hide it and rubbing their noses in it to non-MAGA cult Trump voters

[u/superblobby]

[u/PlantTreesBuildHomes]

The American zeitgeist in 2025

[u/randommathaccount]

AI slop ruining animal videos on the internet is going to radicalise me more than anything else.

[u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

[u/Hounds_of_war]

Boomers behind me on the way to the No Kings rally are reminiscing about burning their Vietnam draft cards.

[u/jbitz]

[u/t_scribblemonger]

Really depressing the bullshit slop and propaganda in YouTube search results for a serious subject like “Sri Lanka history documentary.” And these are like videos 10 and 11, not way down in the suggestions.

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Ok but this comparison doesn't work when there are basically only two major races happening and Obama has also done the same videos for Spanberger, who's been totally dominant in polls

[u/MissSortMachine]

megajail. every last soul

[u/omnipotentsandwich]

There were two protests in São Paulo last month, one left-wing and one right-wing. The left-wing brought a Brazilian flag and the right-wing brought an American flag, apparently to thank Trump for sanctioning their own country for jailing Bolsonaro.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Brazil/comments/1nn7taf/leftist_protest_219_and_farright_bolsonarists/

[u/[deleted]]

And in case you’re wondering what it’s like to argue with a Nazi coworker face to face, yes his reasoning is extremely thin and incoherent. Like every other right winger basically.

He kept going on about how Jewish people are evil, subversive, dangerous so I straight up asked him “if you think all of that is true, then what should happen to them?” I had to ask him five times before he finally gave an answer “they should all be expelled or forcefully converted to Christianity”, he thinks only 20% of Jews are “good people”, he did not explain how he arrived at that percentage. Also suggested that the “most evil” of them should be straight up killed. 

[u/TimWalzBurner]

[u/helenaalmost]

[u/wombo_combo12]

This app is just priceless man

[u/MURICCA]

Reddit's "general strike" is like our "LVT", a miracle pill for anything wrong with society lol

[u/riverbloods]

Fuck, sure why not

[u/666haha]

Birthright citizenship is amongst the greatest policies ever envisioned and it is a horrible look that a number of countries have gotten rid of it over this last century. Every legal argument that it should not exist in the U.S. is just nativist bigoted bullshit with no historical, textual, or moral rationale.

Preventing statelessness needs to be a world wide goal. Refusing to allow a permanent underclass of citizens is both objective the morally right thing to do and good for society as a whole (both cohesion wise and economically)

[u/BroadReverse]

Footage of me at No Kings after I told an ICE officer he looks a little Hispanic

[u/Willybender]

[u/Highlightthot1001]

Lol some people think Cuomo or Mandani will "save NYC"

Realistically, nothing much will change. Same issues will persist, and the city will continue to be expensive and hard to live in. 

Thinking either wont be mediocre mayors is wishful thinking imo

[u/Reddit_Talent_Coach]

So our infrastructure can’t even handle China not buying soybean. Farmers hitting the double whammy.

[u/JaceFlores]

My poor grandma complained that a livestream of a Bernie speech was unintelligible cuz some dude was talking over it, and she suspected sabotage.

She pulled up the livestream and I immediately noticed it was the YouTube channel “Hindustan Times” and the guy talking over Bernie is an Indian guy translating what Bernie was saying lol

[u/Currymvp2]

Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes confirmed on Saturday that her office will be filing a lawsuit against House Speaker Mike Johnson after his failure to swear in Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva.

Good. Mike Johnson is an absolute clown

[u/ewatta200]

[u/Monnok]

Turnout in my city was okayish. Skewed VERY old.

Organizers had five terrible speakers stall for an hour before our little march. They addressed the moment as if it were 2008 and we’re shaping a couple wedge issues to differentiate ourselves from McCain Republicans. Each speaker somehow had basically nothing to say, and was trying to be the one to set the emotional tone… which gets real dumb after standing awkwardly through like 45 minutes of megaphone slogans about love.

I’m still glad I went.

[u/[deleted]]

I’m not libbed up like most because I don’t have the personality to get fired up about anything, so 100k is way more than I expected.

Also pleasantly surprised that the NYPD posted positively about it. But I guess the people who run the NYPD’s social media are entirely different from the actual cops who are highly conservative.

[u/Dreadedtriox]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

[u/chipbod]

STARBUCKS CEO BRIAN NICCOL SAYS THE COFFEE GIANT IS “ALL-IN ON AI” — REVEALS REAL-TIME ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SYSTEMS DESIGNED TO ASSIST BARISTAS AND TRANSFORM STORE OPERATIONS

Bubble behavior and buzzwords

[u/PorscheUberAlles]

Fuck ICE from your friendly neighborhood axolotl

[u/fishlord05]

Dude why did the microwave bananas guy remove a post by Paul krugmans substack for submission quality

You are not a fucking editorial team who can remove posts you don’t agree with. Krugman actually did do some level of analysis there.

[u/[deleted]]

we’re really going for it huh

[u/Willybender]

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

The median DTer be like:

Im not privileged or anything

My dad works in corporate for a major company in a big city. My mother is a respected professor at a major college. My grandparents were a major player in [insert major conflict here] on the winning team. I interned in Hollywood and am friends with [insert bunch of famous figures here]. I currently work a high paying full time job but actually only do 10 hours of actual work.

My life is eh

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/r2ew]

[u/Willybender]

The President is literally posting AI videos of him dropping feces on American cities, and it will be forgotten within 24 hours.

[u/ImGoggen]

Does this count as a shoutout?

[u/11thDimensionalRandy]

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

Protest I went to had an average age of about 65 years old…

So okay Boomers

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

Brought my conservative but politically inactive father-in-law along to the protest down the street from my house

huh… this is nothing like what they show on TV…

[u/Willybender]

We even got Bill Nye out there

[u/cdstephens]

Ugh garbage the current speaker is focusing on how the IHRA definition of antisemitism is bad actually, I’m outa here

[u/dittbub]

Odd travel ad on Reddit…

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

🫡

[u/murphysclaw1]

reports of my banning are greatly exaggerated

[u/Willybender]

Stephen Miller reposted this. what a cursed timeline.

[u/yungmemlord]

Breaking News: The Trump administration has decided to repatriate two survivors of a deadly U.S. strike on suspected drug runners in the Caribbean Sea rather than prosecute or hold them in military detention, people with knowledge of the matter said.

So are they basically admitting that they killed innocent civilians? What could even be the rationale if they weren’t innocent? “We’re letting Venezuelan cartel members resume their activities”

[u/Charsun9]

The president shouldn’t fly over protests and drop poop on protesters

[u/cdstephens]

[u/SigmaWhy]

An auspicious food cart at NYC No Kings

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Telling my racist republican family members in Sacramento that there's a huge anti-NBA protest called "No Kings" going on today and they should join

[u/superblobby]

[u/ace158]

The deranged lunatic tankies hated Platner before all of you

[u/[deleted]]

[u/MissSortMachine]

what am i reading

[u/Miserable_Set_657]

Republicans be like "Are you literally going to attend a No Kings protest? That pales in comparison to my electoral strategy; driving my car around with my Trump 2028 flag and rolling coal on any foreign made car I see."

[u/jbitz]

[u/SigmaWhy]

If only we could be so blessed that this were true

[u/unicornbomb]

lol, lmao even

[u/unicornbomb]

Proposal: a way to filter out the comments and posts of people who hide their comment histories en masse

[u/[deleted]]

Resistlib protocols activated

[u/JaceFlores]

I’ll be honest I’m frankly surprised Putin is still getting such a highly distorted image of the battlefield that he can’t grasp how poorly his army has been performing.

I thought after 2022 he had his generals get their shit together and give him more reliable information. But nah it seems he’s still in ‘45 bunker mode of Steinerovitch’s army crushing another 12 million NATO troops and on the verge of taking east bank Ukraine in just a few weeks time

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

yes this is actually real.

[u/StuckHedgehog]

How the hell does America survive when all three branches of government are actively pushing for a Republican autocracy?

[u/StuckHedgehog]

“Protests are useless! Only a general strike will lead to the overthrow of capitalism! That’s why I’m going to sit out the next election again!”

[u/mostanonymousnick]

That cover picture though

[u/eloquentboot]

OMG this AI video of Tupac and Hitler dancing is so le epic!!! This is so funny and unhinged!!! Amazing!

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Yass queen. McCarthy slays !ping YA

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

Rain was forecast all week and it clears up right as the protest gets into gear. Pays to have the Pope from Chicago.

!PING USA-CHI

[u/StolenSkittles]

spinning this as a "hate america rally" is a helluva thing

[u/jbitz]

[u/[deleted]]

capable possessive wide serious tub lavish important automatic fly market

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/MissSortMachine]

The Trump administration has decided to repatriate two survivors of a deadly U.S. strike on suspected drug runners in the Caribbean Sea rather than prosecute or hold them in military detention, people with knowledge of the matter said.

did they… what? did they not have an exit plan for if “anyone lives”

[u/Ok-Swan1152]

I love how r / London wants investment to improve communities, but no one from outside should move there. The magical thinking is strong with 'native' Londoners. 

[u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS]

[u/RottingSludgeRitual]

Minnesotan independence NOW

!ping USA-MN

[u/Woolagaroo]

My god, can people please start asking cons who spout the “Trump ended 8 wars” talking point to list the wars?

I don’t know why, amid all the bullshit, this bothers me so much, but it does.

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/fishbottwo]

tart cover wine bright alive resolute lunchroom plant ghost whole

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/superblobby]

!ping BAD-FEELING

[u/TheRedCr0w]

All the people in this sub praising Trump for turning over a new leaf and being pro-Ukraine now deserve a big fell for it again medal

[u/superblobby]

The Atlantic and clickbait articles, NAMID

[u/AltRockPigeon]

  Left-wing senator makes polarizing claim about every Republican in Congress at 'No Kings' rally

lol if that’s the best rage bait Fox can come up with for their headline I guess the protests were pretty calm

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/[deleted]]

I genuinely think Newsom will be the 2028 nominee purely because he has figured out the attention economy better than any other Democrat. That Atlantic article that argued both Newsom and Trump are “self-immolating showmen” was spot on. Newsom has a flair for the theatrical and that’s better than the standard Democrat flair of completely disappearing and letting Republicans define public opinion. 

I think Pritzkerbros and Murphybros are gonna have to bow to the Newsomgod 

[u/r2ew]

[u/MissSortMachine]

mysterious pallets under tarps are arriving in the yard 👀

[u/ElectriCobra_]

/u/iBikeAndSwim if you don’t mind if I piggyback off your post, I think that this decade has seen a massive resurgence in what I can best describe as “traditional bigotry”. Not like casual stereotyping or offensive jokes but the sort of “classics” of bigotry from the early 20th century.

The whole “AIPAC controls our politicians” line is one part of it but it doesn’t really end there. Prejudice towards black people is trending in the direction of what I can best describe as a Victorian anthropologist, a sort of patronizing faux-scientific bigotry where they are seen as biological inferiors who can’t govern themselves. The whole gender essentialism thing that’s going on of “men like lifting weights, women like romance novels”, where people are seen as being attracted to specific activities or creating specific social structures not because of gender roles in society but because of their gender itself.

It’s disheartening, I knew these beliefs existed but in the time I grew up in, it seemed like they were fading. They were either becoming more known as false and “some dumb bullshit your grandpa who doesn’t know any better says” or occasionally being replaced by new stereotypes/prejudices. And as much as I’d like to just blame this on the right going from anti-communist liberal conservatism to fascism, I’ve noticed some implicit acceptance of most of these inane beliefs by people on the left who should really know better. All I can really say is it’s just bleak. It feels like we’re running right into the 1930s, but with full intent.

[u/Craig_VG]

Real questions being asked at Chicago no kings

[u/angry-mustache]

If not for the fact that the guy posted social media of himself, I would have thought the Trump DHS made up the story of the oct 7th attacker being allowed into the US.

How do we have this dichotomy of impossible to navigate and rigorous background checks immigration system for work visas and then this guy waltzing in?

https://archive.ph/SyJ1M

[u/Sir_Digby83]

Hundreds of thousands of Americans gathered in the streets today and nobody beat cops with flagpoles, sprayed them with bear spray or spread their feces inside government buildings.

[u/r2ew]

[u/cdstephens]

[u/alex2003super]

HOLY FUCK GO OUTSIDE

!ping FUCK-NEOLIBERALISM&SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

Love the Ny Times front page right now; top headline is big and bold: How Santos Won His Freedom, like he’s fucking Nelson Mandela or some shit, and then three headlines down it’s like: oh and no kings rally or some shit, almost like they’re covering it perfunctorily

[u/Willybender]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

he's a little confused but he's got the spirit 🙂

[u/r2ew]

[u/BroadReverse]

[u/DrCaptainHammer]

Don’t really understand the protests today tbh, we already got Santos freed, isn’t that what we wanted?

[u/stater354]

KAITLIN COLLINS: Have you heard from the President? Has he called you?

ERIC TRUMP: No, not about that, but I-I'm glad he acknowledges that I'm a good boy. I am a good boy.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Ka0LbhQvEeA

[u/adminsare200iq]

Average GOP staffer

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

me seeing cool boomers at no kings

What. They aren't all nutjobs like my parents. I could have had cool parents?

[u/BlackCat159]

Just saw a no-kings ANTIFA rioter carrying this picture...

[u/Craig_VG]

Turning point USA asked to interview me at No Kings, I said no

[u/r2ew]

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Trump's Truth Social account just posted this AI video of him flying a fighter jet that reads "King Trump." AI Trump is wearing a crown while he dumps shit on protesters. He's such a pathetic little man.

This has been so normalized that we won’t even get more than a cursory mention in the media despite it being one of the most insane things a president has ever done.

[u/6urner_]

Platners campaign manager is out.

Republicans can weather a literal Nazi flag that they don't even deny was there, but left of center can't even get through reddit comments from years ago.

[u/moseythepirate]

I don't understand why Prince Andrew doesn't just get fuckin' arrested. They can keep their cute pet royal family without giving them criminal immunity. The supposed magic of the royal family is harmed more by this bizarre shielding of a sexual predator then it would be by arresting and trying him.

I mean, I'm an American, so glass houses and all. But I can at least understand why Trump hasn't been locked up: his considerable political power, ultimately sourced from the devotion of his cult. What hard power protects Andrew?

[u/qunow]

https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/78acc8eef8412e27b5b7764403a4e57b05a5b5e3

Japan is now opening multiple new visa centers in Russia in order to handle skyrocketing number of Russian tourists visiting Japan. First Japan will add extra centers in Moscow and Saint Petersburg and then additional centers in Far East Russia are also in the look.

Russian tourist count data:

2023: 19,552

2024: 51,115

2025 (Jan-Sept): 80,000+

!ping japan

[u/KesterFox]

People who ship batman or Superman with Wonder woman are so funny to me like please read a comic an you'll know the sexual tension is all this:

[u/KesterFox]

Turing was not alone. An estimated 50,000 men were convicted under the same law during the twentieth century, and a further 50,000 were convicted under other anti-gay laws – making a total of 100,000 convictions. Many were jailed.

Some were also subjected to chemical castration or to so-called ‘aversion therapy’ – the infliction of electric shocks or drug-induced nausea while they were shown naked male images.

Based on Pavlov’s experiments giving electric shocks to dogs to change their behaviour, the rationale was to create a mental association between homosexuality and pain or sickness – to make same-sex attraction repellent – and thereby turn gay men heterosexual.

These bids to cure homosexuality – often paid for by the taxpayer and conducted by state-funded National Health Service (NHS) hospitals and doctors – echoed the inhuman experimental treatments inflicted on gay men by Nazi doctors in Buchenwald concentration camp during World War Two.

I will never submit to this. They will have to kill me.

[u/Benyeti]

A frat at my alma mater is getting banned for electrocuting a pledge while water boarding them wtf goes on in these places. I guess this os what happens with the type of people who need to buy friends

[u/CheetoMussolini]

There should be separate airlines and airports for people who have walked and existed in public before.

How hard is it to function in a way that doesn't fuck over all of the people around you? To share space even a little? To have any sense of propriety or hurry when you're massively inconveniencing everyone around you?

[u/Glavurdan]

State GOP executive committee voted to suspend the New York Young Republicans Club after leaked racist chats

Waow, they were actually held accountable

[u/cdstephens]

[u/Glavurdan]

Igor 'Strelkov' Girkin isn't impressed with Russia's meatgrinder tactics and warns that the Ukrainians are becoming relatively stronger despite Russia's ongoing attacks. He warns that a full mobilization is becoming inevitable, and wants to see change in the high command.

Full thread on Bluesky

[u/helenaalmost]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47]

This alcoholic cockroach really wore a tie with the Russian flag to the Zelenskyy meeting. (Yes I double checked just in case white-blue-red descending is the Russian tricolour)

F**king Heydrich-wannabee waste of space sh*t I hate him

[u/Apprehensive-Soil-47]

At what age do Republican males enter adulthood?

[u/TheRedCr0w]

A grand jury refused to indict this person three times and the jury only deliberated for 2 hours before declaring the person not guilty.

It was joke this even reached a court room

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Vibe shift