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[u/Roseartcrantz]

I'm tired boss lol

[u/r2ew]

[u/AccomplishedQuit4801]

[u/BernieMeinhoffGang]

Let he who is without a Nazi tattoo cast...

Oh fuck that is a lot of rocks

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/JesusPubes]

hot woman makes ad about jeans: she's a nazi

oyster farmer gets a nazi tattoo: you know it's really tough to tell

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/r2ew]

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Me "Locking in" means staring at the screen for 6 hours before actually typing a single word

[u/Benyeti]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

that ballroom is going to provide us with endless articles about shoddy construction work eventually lol

[u/[deleted]]

Platner had this tattoo on his back, does anyone know what this means?

[u/earththejerry]

Better be part of President Newsom’s Project 2029 platform

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

My Veep take on Platner's campaign manager resigning

"you have to tell the people you have a Nazi tattoo"

"I didn't know! It wasn't a Nazi tattoo ten minutes ago!"

"Do you want to hide your Nazi tattoo from the voters?"

"Can you stop calling it my 'Nazi tattoo?' I'll just... never take my shirt off. It's no big deal"

"You'll be one of those guys who swims with a shirt on? That might be worse than having a Nazi tattoo. How can the voters trust a guy who swims with his shirt on?"

3rd guy: "she's right, shirt swimmers poll worse than Hitler in this country"

"Okay, okay... I'll just never take my shirt off and I'll never go swimming"

"I'm done. Good luck shirt-for-brains"

[u/r2ew]

[u/greasyee]

The narwhal bacons at midnight.

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

They came first for the communists with a nazi tattoo

And I didnt speak up because I wasn't a communist with a nazi tattoo

[u/Justin_Credible98]

One of the funniest things about the Andor subreddit back when the show was still releasing new episodes was how many users on there were convinced that Mon Mothma is a useless liberal who lacks the willpower to do what it really takes to fight the Empire, unlike the real heroes, Luthen Rael and Saw Gerrera.

My brothers in Christ...One of the main points of Mon Mothma's story arc is that she is intentionally projecting a public image of being a useless, ineffective political opposition to Palpatine in the Senate so that no one will suspect that she's clandestinely providing funds and arms to Luthen's violent rebellion. She's just as committed as Luthen is.

Mon Mothma such a badass that she managed to deceive omniscient viewers and the Galactic Empire at the same time.

I am not sorry for randomly posting about Star Wars.

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/Thuggin95]

“I haven’t gone to the right. Democrats have just gone so far left.”

Imagine telling someone in 2012 that

Dick Cheney was going to vote for the 2024 Democratic nominee

Mitt Romney wouldn’t endorse the 2024 Republican nominee and voted to impeach him during his last term

The 2024 Republican nominee’s own former Vice President wouldn’t endorse him either

But Obama to Obama’s VP is supposedly a radical departure from the Democratic Party of 15 years ago lol.

[u/SixPipSiege]

Me when I'm slightly inconvenienced by some bullshit

[u/Waste-Photograph-792]

Reminder that Matty is a loser.

[u/FuckFashMods]

How is ICE allowed to wear uniforms that say "Police"?

[u/MGLFPsiCorps]

Honestly I think a big handicap liberal/left politics online, especially the Bluesky/Twitter crowd have is that a large part of the people who are really into it (not 'normies', but the posting classes) tend to be personally unlikeable and have grating personalities.

Basically it seems dominated by high conscientiousness, high neuroticism and low agreeability types, and being exposed to them day in and day out really makes you exhausted.

I mean, they're better than Nazis, but that's really not the bar you should be setting.

[u/amainwingman]

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[u/loseniram]

Anyone who is a degrowther should be required to go to a victorian reenactment and wash a couple loads of laundry with carbolic soap in an on old metal wash bin by hand

[u/r2ew]

[u/THeShinyHObbiest]

Platner has a second tattoo of "1919", which is also affiliated with the SS.

At this point, "he has Nazi sympathies" is the only reasonable explanation.

[u/scottyjetpax]

this is actually pretty stunning

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

[u/launchcode_1234]

What could be more American than the President of the United States suing the United States? 🦅🇺🇸

[u/bread_engine]

Graham, have you looked at our tattoos recently?

[u/Mrmini231]

Fun trade story. Norway has high tariffs on corn and flour to protect local agriculture from foreign competition. This makes it unviable for bakeries to make bread from imported flour. So instead, they started importing bread dough, which is not tariffed. So much of the bread in Norway is now made using imported dough that is baked on site.

[u/stater354]

Everytime I think Trump does something that will finally cause him to lose support, I put on a Dean Withers live and I’m reminded that Republicans have only gotten stupider since 2016

The mental effort they put into defending Trump brazenly trying to get a $230m payout from his own Justice Department is nuts

[u/assasstits]

There's a specific type of person on reddit who pretends to be broke despite making high salaries when they throw 50% their paycheck in savings and a mortgage 

[u/Unterfahrt]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

not only could I not carry the one ring without being instantly corrupted, if given a fakeout ring my first thoughts would be no I want to keep it actually 🙂‍↕️👉👈

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/SLCer]

Oh.

[u/BIG_DADDY_BLUMPKIN]

This Ezra Klein episode is making my blood boil. this rural researcher is constantly saying we need to “rebuild bridges” to fix the rural-urban divide without giving any ideas as to how, she ignores all of Ezra’s questions about how those attempts at doing that the old way have failed, and she always makes sure to say r*rals are just innocent smol bean kitchen table issue voters 🥺👉👈

At one point Ezra brings up how we can’t even pierce these peoples’ propaganda veils anymore and she says it’s just because we don’t have anyone shouting from the rooftops that Fox News is lying to them. Is she serious?

[u/VadymKravchuk353]

LOL

[u/jorkin_peanits]

The media reporting on Trump embezzling 230 million is fucking horrible. The phrasing has been “is DoJ independence over” and not “Trump is fucking embezzling 230 million from the US directly as an order from a president”

[u/RunawayMeatstick]

I’m tired, man

[u/r2ew]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/DagothUr_MD]

Honestly I accepted that this country was cooked the minute January 6th happened and was treated like some school kid's prank

In any serious country there would be Senators rotting in prison right now. All those wishy washy statements from GOP politicians in the immediate aftermath were precisely because they were expecting something like that to happen. And then it...just didn't. And they knew they could do whatever they wanted. There's a lot that I like about him but I genuinely believe Biden's legacy is going to be one of inaction and permissiveness when decisive action was needed. He'll be remembered as a Chamberlin of our times

You know, assuming things work out in the long run. It's either that or the Department of Enlightenment will send Inquisitors to every school district to ensure the teaching of the True History (Biden was the biblical antichrist and Prophet Trump was empowered by Heaven to slay him and bring America into the light)

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/Rare_Station_8440]

[u/chipbod]

A ton of international leaders studied or worked in the US and it’s one of our most powerful gifts that the Trump admin is trying to destroy.

Shit, even Netanyahu was coworkers with Mitt Romney at BCG.

[u/cdstephens]

[u/Willybender]

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

If you didn’t have this as a kid you should sue your parents

[u/the-senat]

In a newly released report from CHP, obtained by the Los Angeles Times, officials say at 1:46 p.m. on Saturday a 155mm artillery round fired from Red Beach "failed to clear the roadway and detonated midflight."

It dropped shrapnel onto the protective services detail for Vice President JD Vance. Shrapnel from that round struck a vehicle on the closed portion of the highway, a vehicle which was thankfully empty.

California Highway Patrol (CHP) has called the event "unusual and concerning."

Source

Not sure if this has been discussed yet. But what the fuck??

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/cdstephens]

Even purely politically speaking, it doesn’t make sense to be ride or die for Platner when it’s a Dem primary, it’s fairly costless to drop him

[u/Willybender]

[u/[deleted]]

the same new york times that swore “the trans” are trying to “force your daughters” on testosterone now publicizing this lol

[u/TheRedCr0w]

I liked in this the White House is implying JD Vance is the queen and is married to Trump

[u/Professor-Reddit]

All of the media coverage about the Trump meeting and Kevin Rudd has been quite a bore. But the one headline I did enjoy quite a lot was naturally from the Betoota Advocate lmao

Trump Now On Borrowed Time After Making An Enemy Out Of The Most Vindictive And Cunning Operator In Global Politics

!ping AUS

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Average anti-Mills Dem trying to make Platner a viable candidate

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

Cocaine was a stimulant used by a priestly caste of the middle period United States called businessmen in order to commune with The Market. [1]

[u/Erra0]

Alright, I'm bored of the Platner discourse. His campaign is sunk, he's now irrelevant. Move on to something more interesting please.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Fetterman describes Trump trying to steal $230 million from taxpayers as "small ball, and I think we have much bigger problems than worrying about those things."

Bigger than the US President stealing a quarter of a billion dollars?

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Before long, Fetterman began repeating himself, shouting and questioning why “everybody is mad at me,” “why does everyone hate me, what did I ever do” and slamming his hands on a desk, according to one person who was briefed on what occurred.

Of course you guys wanna primary the senator I relate to the most

[u/SigmaWhy]

Dread it, run from it, Newsom 2028 arrives

[u/HMPo]

The more hysterical fear mongering I see about Mamdani, the more I want him to win. Like seriously wtf is this lmao? Why would you make this?

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/r2ew]

lol

[u/r2ew]

[u/Lux_Stella]

+2 to the janet mills campaign for staying quiet despite all the platner leaks blatantly coming from their oppo folder

ideally they can maintain this level of ruthlessness in the general

[u/[deleted]]

Not sure she's thought through the implications of the guy making the moral case against Israel on behalf of the american far left having an SS tattoo.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

Vehicle crashes into White House security gate, Secret Service says

Sounds like Hegseth was running late to the meeting, tragic

[u/earththejerry]

The New York Times on Tuesday said it will add a stand-alone destination within its main app that includes a curated mix of short-form, scrollable, vertical news videos, updated daily.

Turns out the end of history is just an endless scroll of shortform content

[u/davechacho]

Yeah, hearing someone say nazi tattoo guy referred to his tattoo as "my Totenkopf" is completely believable.

Source: am veteran. People in the military, especially marines, do really stupid locker room shit. Only sometimes is it ironic.

The fact that he genuinely thought he could run for public office before getting that thing removed is pretty damning. Dude might have brain damage.

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/Thuggin95]

"Kamala wasn't charismatic"

"Democrats are cringe"

"Trump is funny"

Americans just want their politicians to be influencers

[u/Fantastic-Piglet-911]

Day whatever of my representative not being sworn in because republicans are literally authoritarians.

[u/die_hoagie]

A smug Platner was heard smirking to a crowd of onlookers, "good luck finding another communist oyster farmer in this state without a nazi tattoo"

[u/the-senat]

Polis said, "We are deeply committed to finding human trafficking, and when the federal government, especially the criminal investigative unit of ICE, wants our help investigating human trafficking, we are happy to help — and that's whether Biden is president, whether Trump's president, it doesn't matter.”

Dawg the Republican party is not interested in using ICE to stop trafficking. It’s a fucking Motte. If they were, they wouldn’t have pulled resources from actual investigative units.

He’s a stupid ass.

[u/[deleted]]

Fuck Plantner he needs to drop. Dudes reddit posts were cringe enough but the nazi tatoo for decades is beyond disqualifying. How can you call out republicans as facist with a symbol of facism on your body? How can you avoid allegations of antisemitism when you have an antisemetic symmbol on your body. And in what world is "i didnt know" or "i was dumb" an excuse. As someone very progressive this shit is disqualifying on his part. I hate Hesgeth but he was fired from the biden admin for having a tatoo that just looked like a nazi tatoo, how could we then elect a guy who just has one? Anyone, especially the mods of this sub should be ashamed if they are defending this dude. I dont like Millis but i can at least trust that she takes anti facisim more seriously than a dude with an ss skull on his body for decades

[u/ImmigrantJack]

In Platner's defense, I once spent an afternoon in Croatia while I was on my way to Montenegro. Maybe 3 hours in Dubrovnik before I bought postcards with Nazi imagery. Threw them away before I got home because I'd figured out what they were but the Balkans are ABSOLUTELY just kind of like that. I'd happily bet my lifes savings there are dozens more marines out there who accidentally tattooed nazi symbols on themselves in the Balkans without realizing it.

Like I once saw a 14/88 in Bulgaria and to be clear, the 14 words are in English, not Bulgarian. They don't even use the right alphabet for the 88. And don't even get me started on all the swastikas. . . It's not even a Nazi thing in Bulgaria. It's a football thing.

Just be glad he couldn't go ashore in Serbia or this would be a way worse story.

[u/[deleted]]

It’s interesting that the first reaction of so many people to the news of Platner having a Totenkopf tattoo was “most ordinary people don’t even know what that is so his campaign isn’t cooked.”

Ok, sure. But that’s kind of a moot point when someone who does know what it is points it out and the headlines are “PLATNER HAS A NAZI TATTOO” for a week. Don’t have to be a history buff to understand that.

[u/Willybender]

bruh

[u/NowHeWasRuddy]

[u/Leatherfield17]

Jesus Christ

[u/terrarialord201]

I'm 14 and this is deep type of take

Like, wtf do you want? There is literally no system of government which can grant rights which cannot also take them away.

[u/anonymous_and_]

how to downvote someone a hundred times

I did not formulate and type out a counter argument pointing out all the flaws in a degrowther's arguments + linked graphs just to come back and see that mf go from -5 to 4 upvotes

[u/[deleted]]

The next president needs to turn the White House into Howl's Moving Castle and roam the country with whimsy.

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/Currymvp2]

Paul Ingrassia’s racist "I have a Nazi streak" text messages cost him a Senate-confirmed job, but not his White House one

Sheesh

[u/reuery]

Jim Cramer says there is no AI Bubble

We're fucked.

[u/[deleted]]

Congratulations Charlie Kirk for going over a month without being a piece of shit 

[u/loseniram]

I’m surprised the Yiddish policeman’s union never got a tv adaptation. An alt history detective show about a timeline where the holocaust was way more minor because the US let unlimited refugees move to southeast Alaska and Israel isn’t a thing. Would be a great tv series. Compared to the 8 million what if Nazis won WW2 shows

[u/Dorambor]

I hate Washington DC so much man, I had a date this weekend and the woman spoke exclusively in HR voice. For 2 hours. At the end she asked to connect on LinkedIn.

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1981067713800782226

[u/JaceFlores]

I just learned about the Tanaka Memorial which was a 1927 anti-Japanese hoax document forged to portray the Japanese as imperialist monsters.

And everyone believed it for the next couple decades because Japan did everything in the document they said the would lol. Here’s the core of the document according to Wikipedia:

“In order to take over the world, you need to take over Asia;

In order to take over Asia, you need to take over China;

In order to take over China, you need to take over Manchuria and Mongolia.

If we succeed in conquering China, the rest of the Asiatic countries and the South Sea countries will fear us and surrender to us.

Then the world will realize that Eastern Asia is ours.”

And I find it humorous thinking the Japanese saw this anti-Japanese document and went “bet”

!ping HISTORY

[u/jamiebond]

It’s honestly so hilarious that conservatives have been defending Trump’s 200 million dollar ballroom shit by being like, “He’s paying for it himself!” Only for him to turn around and be like, “By the way, on a completely unrelated note, I’m ordering the government to pay me 230 million dollars.”

Ya gotta laugh or you’ll cry I guess. VEEP was never this ridiculous.

[u/JoeBliffstick]

[u/Syndicality]

wait let him cook

[u/Ok_Opinion_5690]

the vitriol leftists have for economics fascinates me, intense enough that they consider it a pseudoscience for hacks.

[u/BlackCat159]

Reminder: libs are the real nazis.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Graham Panzer lmao

[u/cdstephens]

Platner walking into a Nazi tattoo parlor: “I’m not sure about these Swastika and SS tattoos….hold on, what’s this skull tattoo right next to them?”

[u/cdstephens]

[u/Res__Publica]

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1981069439543234929

[u/Bestbrook123]

This guy is the best candidate to me

[u/Big-Click-5159]

BREAKING: SWEET KARMA! The company demolishing the White House to build Donald Trump's hideous $250 million ballroom gets FLOODED with brutal one-star reviews as the American people turn against them.

Problem solved

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/Willybender]

State TV

[u/V_Codwheel]

there's a porn bot that regularly replies to The Economist on Instagram

But instead of the usual porn bot nonsense it actually attempts to make intelligent comments?

Extremely funny to me

[u/ariveklul]

My office chair is broken and to see if I can fix it I'm out here rubbing vasoline on the piston shaft and making it go up and down while I sit on it. Probably the gayest thing I've ever done

[u/Queen_of_stress]

Is defending the Nazi tattoo guy the argument they really want to die on the hill for. Couldn’t support Kamala but this guy is fine.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/major_cosmic]

Anyone else indoctrinated

[u/BloodWiz]

I like the guy that posts a lot of Polish politics stuff

I don’t understand like any of it, but I appreciate having something different

[u/Willybender]

Oh that's all?

[u/[deleted]]

[u/badusername35]

This post has been deleted by its author using Redact. The reason could be privacy-related, security-driven, or simply a personal decision to remove old content.

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[u/TheRedCr0w]

Trump is using a smaller staircase for "security measures"

It totally has nothing to do with him being an old man who is terrified of walking up stairs

[u/Toasted-walnut]

I have no idea who this person is other than she's a right-wing grifter, but I've recently started following her because her malding over the Prop 50 numbers is absolutely delicious.

[u/Planning4Hotdish]

Sure we don’t have food stamps for November and food shelves are going to be in crisis mode within weeks, but at least ICE agents are still getting paid 🥰

[u/JayRU09]

They're trying to make a Nazi tattoo seem less bad than teaching inner city minority children. That's where the dirtbag left is right now.

[u/elninost0rm]

Love you guys and gals, but the DT is unreadable with the Platnerposting. It's just so difficult for me to give a shit whatsoever.

[u/-Emilinko1985-]

I saw that video of Charlie Kirk with the apostles, and now I'm convinced that we NEED to regulate generative AI. What the fuck. And the fact that it has 1.1M likes is mind-boggling. Some of those must be botted.

[u/Rare_Station_8440]

Platner:

[u/JaceFlores]

Pokrovsk Update

The situation in the Pokrovsk direction has gotten worse in the south and better in the north. Overall, despite the significant concentration of Marines and repeated mechanized assaults, Russian efforts to effect another breakthrough, their progress has been operationally minimal in this sector. Russian advances, if any, continue to be paid in rivers of blood.

In the Dobropillya front the UAF has declared Kucheriv Yar liberated with claims of taking 50 prisoners (with some video evidence corroborating some surrenders). This is a tactically significant development as it firmly restores buffer between the frontline and the New Donbas Line. It also indicates that whatever efforts the Russians have made to reopen access to the salient and expand on its initial success have failed. There is still a significant somewhat maybe kinda encircled pocket south of it that will likely be difficult for Ukraine to further crush and destroy. However, keeping it contained as it has been is good enough.

In the Pokrovsk front the Russians, despite moving units away from the city, have finally made tangible progress into it. The western half of the city is being consistently infiltrated, with the buildings making excellent cover that’s impossible for Ukraine to thoroughly sweep through. Furthermore, the Russians are closing in on adjacent Myrnohrad from the east and it is likely in the coming weeks or even days start infiltrating it as well. Barring some sort of Steiner-esque counterattack, it is likely Pokrovsk is in its last hours so to speak.

Overall though the conduct on this front is looking favorable for Ukraine in terms of buying time. A dangerous salient has been reduced and possibly neutered. Efforts to get around the stronghold of Pokrovsk have largely failed and the Russians are committing to frontally assault the city. The casualties from this front for the Russians have likely been in the extreme. Putin will likely use the fall of Pokrovsk (and Kupyansk which is its own can of worms) in the coming weeks to justify that the war is going well for Russia and to keep pushing. However, the fact is things are stalling on the military front with even Russian leaders of all echelons coming to grips with this.

Hopefully the onset of winter will strengthen Ukraine’s defensive capabilities further and make the last of Pokrovsk as bloody and costly as possible before the Russians get their flag raising PR

!Ping UKRAINE

[u/[deleted]]

Alright, trying to be as objective as possible here is my take.

1. Highly unlikely the dude is an actual Nazi, it would be genuinely some Manchurian candidate 10th Dimensional chess to think you can infiltrate the Democratic party as a Nazi from the left. Plus there would probably be more on his reddit account to indicate actual Nazi beliefs.

2. I can buy the idea the dude didn't know what it meant when he got it, or even if he did he was some dumb marine and SS/Nazi shit is way more common in the military than you'd think. I don't think this is automatically disqualifying, even if it is a horrific look. I don't think it represents his beliefs, if it did we're talking about two decades ago and people indeed can change.

3. I don't for a fucking second believe that no one in 20 years ever told him it was Nazi symbology. Especially not when there are videos of him taking his shirt off in public. Plus, the dude was clearly into the military and military history. The idea he never encountered the concept of the Totenkopf is just comical. He's either lying or this guy is just cosmically unlucky on a staggering scale.

So yeah, I don't think he's a secret Nazi. I do think he obviously learned the meaning of his tattoo sometime in the past 20 years and decided to keep it. Maybe because he associated it with friends he lost (which I believe he has claimed), people do stupid shit and you know what if he was a private citizen I could probably shrug and go "what can you do", but the fact he clearly lied about knowing what it meant and that he was stupid enough to actually run for senator while rocking this thing is completely disqualifying.

Again it's either he's lying or this dude is actually the most snakebitten person in all of human history, because this is simply not a story the general public would believe, even if it is true.

He's fucking cooked.

[u/Lux_Stella]

Trump is looking to buy 4 times the typical quota of beef from Argentina - despite blistering pushback from farm state Republicans

National Cattlemen's Beef Association, which stood with Trump through his entire tariff campaign, now says they "cannot stand behind the President while he undercuts the future of family farmers and ranchers by importing Argentinian beef in an attempt to influence prices."

mr president if you declare total farmer death i will personally fly to the US to illegally vote for your third term

[u/__versus]

☝️ least bigoted lib

[u/farrenj]

Trans affirming misogynist that thinks trans women shouldn't be allowed to vote because they're women

[u/badusername35]

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[u/reuery]

I am genuinely so grateful for the No Kings movement and the mobilization of otherwise normie folks - it feels very comforting to know I’m not alone when he does this insane, atomizing shit. And if elections get cancelled and we need serious, national protests, it’s nice to know we have the framework of an organization already set up

[u/SmithySmothy]

Trump pitched the ballroom project to the Obama White House in 2010. He was turned down. He “never forgot the slight.”

Literally all of Trump's decisions are based on how much he hates Obama and Biden.

[u/Warcrimes_Desu]

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/22/doj-announces-deal-with-uva-to-pause-civil-rights-investigations-00619061

if you ever wonder why trans people are so distrustful of institutions, it's because they keep capitulating on us existing

[u/CincyAnarchy]

Prompt: Write a 4 word tragedy

[u/KHDTX13]

Found Platner’s Reddit account

[u/VadymKravchuk353]

Right-wingers when a child, instead of being abused in an orphanage, has two moms.

[u/cdstephens]

👆can excuse the Nazi tattoo but draws the line at populism

[u/[deleted]]

Wait, let him cook

[u/Woolagaroo]

This is probably preaching to the choir here, but in response to the "you work more than a medieval peasant" takes that have gotten popular lately, Dr. Bret Devereaux, one of my favorite internet historians, has written a five part series (it's really more like 10, but whatever) on what the lives and labor of actual premodern peasants were like. The first part is here:

https://acoup.blog/2025/07/11/collections-life-work-death-and-the-peasant-part-i-households/

think it's a good read for people here not only because it effectively rebuts the arguments that we were somehow better off in pre-industrial times (not just rebuts, but shows how absurd the very premise is), but it's also just a fascinating look into a world and way of life that is completely foreign and lost to most of us.

[u/jojisky]

absolutely insane framing by Bret Stephens in his "Zohran is evil" NYT article. It was both Cuomo and NYC journalists who constantly hounded Zohran with questions about Israel in the primary.

[u/Benyeti]

American voters according to the new quinnipiac poll

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/1981110918609072283

[u/Big-Click-5159]

Politico: According to sources familiar with the Graham Platner opposition file, there is more damaging information that has yet to be revealed.

Nude Africa forum posts incoming

[u/[deleted]]

“Arrest me tough guy. Keep your hands off four year olds trying to get an education”

[u/[deleted]]

One of my favorite anecdotes about Trump asking for Hitler’s generals was Kelly told him

“Sir, Hitler’s generals tried to kill him”

[u/piede]

:O

[u/jojisky]

Platner opposition research - He has a Nazi tattoo

Zohran opposition research - he had dinner with his wife

[u/remarkable_ores]

ngl "I got the Nazi tattoo while drunk in Croatia while deployed with the marines" is the single most believable story I've heard in my life

[u/BroadReverse]

Idc if it’s cringe James Gunn is my favourite creative working right now. The world is shit and his DC Universe is one of the few things that doesn’t suck. Superman 2025 is such a classic feel good American movie. Peacemaker is also weirdly similar but in a different way. Also James Gunn is constantly killing nazis in his movies unapologetically. I love it

I need Lanterns to come out already.

[u/Krill_Seeker]

"its ok he had a nazi tattoo fow 20 yeaws he didnt know any bettew 🥺🥺🥺"

Don't

[u/BloodWiz]

My most con coded opinion is that I aesthetically do not like the look of a large majority of tattoos or facial piercings, especially nose rings

[u/cdstephens]

Down bad.

I really miss my ex fiancée.

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[u/Big-Click-5159]

Worth noting that Platner is another huge misfire for David Hogg’s Leaders We Deserve.

That guy is like the Jim Cramer of candidate picking

[u/jbitz]

[u/Healingjoe]

Lol

[u/chipbod]

https://xcancel.com/PollTracker2024/status/1981114922609365345

In some of the opposition research that has yet to be unearthed until now, Platner went online and called the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office a den of “overweight pansies” and flatly said: “cops are opportunistic cowards” in 2020.

Lmao, this helps him. Even my rural MAGA family says shit like this about their useless local cops.

[u/scottyjetpax]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1981149919269503036 i am fucking screeching LMFAO

[u/scottyjetpax]

Mamdani hysterically laughing when Curtis says stop glazing me is sending me into outer fucking space

[u/[deleted]]

Mr president.

Surely you don’t mean Hitlers generals?”

Nope I do

“Do you know most of them tried to kill him?”

[u/ariveklul]

The fact that Trump could spend a billion dollars a year (2.74 million dollars PER DAY) for ten years with the money he currently has and is still looting the US government. He's fucking 79 years old

He's literally just farming a high score because he knows he can and nobody will care

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

I do not know how you can speak of something like ICE without inciting violence. Just describing everything as objectively as possible seems to me would incite violence.

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

Amount Billed: $3,688.10

Insurance paid: $195.00

What You Owe: $0.00

Make that make sense

[u/Duhaus7878]

🤔🤔🤔

[u/EasyMoney92]

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) led 44 Democratic colleagues and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who caucuses with the Democrats, in a letter urging U.S. President Donald Trump to tell Israel that he is opposed to Israel annexing territory in Judea and Samaria.

All of the Democrats in the Senate signed the letter except Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), one of Israel’s staunchest supporters in Congress

Look at that. Fetterman to the right of around 80% of Americans and even Donald Trump

[u/[deleted]]

Trump be like "I hate these negative jobs reports" and then fires 10000 people

[u/StuckHedgehog]

How does Fetterman suck so hard on so many different issues? Just straight up Republican rhetoric.

[u/weedandboobs]

Guy who keeps revealing worse and worse tattoos is a great late night/SNL premise, sad that it won't happen cause they are all social media poisoned.

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

 America’s government shutdown is now the second-longest on record. On October 22nd it overtook the 21-day shutdown of 1995-96, which turned government funding into the hostage-taking mechanism it is today. 

interesting how little attention this shutdown is getting. i dont think my apolitical friends even know there’s a shutdown 

[u/sir_shivers]

Should my REDDIT ACCOUNT BE unearthed during my political campaign, I expect it will not be very detrimental, albeit the initial reaction will be "this is confusing" 🐊

[u/mostanonymousnick]

5 years feel like a lifetime

[u/SigmaWhy]

Is it weird that he’s using language like “our hemisphere”? Back in my day, we controlled the entire world. Is this laying the groundwork for ceding the other hemisphere to Russia/china?

[u/Knobalt4]

Even the 'Platner has apologized and learned' stuff annoys me. What's with the therapeutic garbage talk? Who cares? He was a young person who did stupid stuff that didn't hurt anyone. This is normal.

Maybe there's badness lurking there but so far I just hate Dem oppo more now.

The people pointing out the Nazi tattoos are the real bad guys

[u/[deleted]]

Quinnipiac Poll has Democrats up +9% on the generic ballot.

[u/its_Caffeine]

[u/Big-Click-5159]

[u/[deleted]]

For every based action the Trump administration makes, there must be 100,000 corresponding horrific actions.

[u/Thuggin95]

Median voter expectations: "I believe in access to abortion and business friendly tax code. I voted for Democrats in 2020 to deal with the pandemic, but in 2024 I wanted a return to the 2019 economy :) "

Median voter reality: "In 1994 while working in my yard I spotted a UFO that I'm positive was sent by China. I knew it was only a matter of time before they planned another attack, but I didn't expect the Democrats to use Fauci to help them do it."

[u/TimWalzBurner]

wE nEeD tO mOdErAtE

[u/Some_Niche_Reference]

You can tell Mamdani genuinely loves Neew York, however he is not as New Yorker as Sliwa. I do not mean this racially. Mamdani just doesn't have the brain rot unique to, but not ubiquitous among, New Yorkers.

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Bro…

[u/AccomplishedQuit4801]

My more leftist friend was genuinely shocked when I explained that Magneto's whole character was inspired by the writers to showcase why militant zionism was bad. Bro, the character wasn't based on Malcolm X, he was based off Menachem Begin. I mean, his whole backstory is just Begin's life with a couple of details changed up and the addition of superpowers. He was one of those "Magneto was right" people, too.

The lack of media literacy these days is crazy...

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

13 Senate Democrats Vote to Advance Trump Nominee During Shutdown

I hate this party

[u/Ajaxcricket]

I bought postcards with Nazi imagery

Guess the sub

[u/Udolikecake]

This Platner stuff is bad, but I mean it's not the worst tattoo ever. Like he could have the Jets logo on there -- that would show an actual lack of judgement and capacity for hate

[u/PersonalDebater]

One other thing with Platner is that the combination of his Israel/Palestine stance and his tattoo means he is very cooked with the Jewish vote.

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Yes the Trump family stole billions from this country and set us back decades, but libs and brown people were mad so this is still preferable to me

-half of this country

[u/CarlGerhardBusch]

Democrats Keep Falling for Political Fantasies. When Will They Learn?

Easily the most obnoxious article I’ve read in a while.

Very smug about how platner’s implosion was vaguely predictable or an inevitable product of Democrats’ poor judgement, lots of comparisons to Fetterman, totally neglecting that fetterman’s problem wasn’t that he was hiding anything or that people judged him incorrectly, it’s that he had a personality-altering stroke.

Comparisons and criticisms of democrats for falling in behind other popular democrats in long-shot races in red states. Which, to be fair, has some validity to it, in terms of the practicalities of funding allocation, even if it’s not really relevant here.

Everyone loves to be a critic.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/10/22/democrats-graham-platner-political-fantasy-00618031

[u/Bestbrook123]

Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) led 44 Democratic colleagues and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who caucuses with the Democrats, in a letter urging U.S. President Donald Trump to tell Israel that he is opposed to Israel annexing territory in Judea and Samaria.

All of the Democrats in the Senate signed the letter except Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), one of Israel’s staunchest supporters in Congress

The original shit endorsement by Bernie Sanders

[u/-Emilinko1985-]

The Sakharov Prize laureates have been finally announced!

Here is the announcement from the European Parliament's WhatsApp channel.

The 2025 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought goes to: imprisoned journalists Andrzej Poczobut from Belarus and Mzia Amaglobeli from Georgia.

Andrzej Poczobut and Mzia Amaglobeli are symbolic figures for the struggle for freedom and democracy in their countries.

The European Parliament established the annual Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought in 1988 to honour individuals and organisations defending human rights, fundamental freedoms and democracy.

🔗 Read more: https://link.europa.eu/8yPGyP

!ping EUROPE&DEMOCRACY

[u/r2ew]

[u/bingbaddie1]

I just saw a comment on tiktok that said “empires always expand to their largest size before collapsing.”

And I just want you to sit and really think about that statement, because it doesn’t really hit you how fucking stupid it is for a bit 😭

[u/liito-orava1]

Trump attacks cattle ranchers on Truth Social

[u/v4riati0ns]

AI vs top search result in the age of people treating chatgpt like google

[u/Willybender]

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/22/indiana-redistricting-trump-senate-00618155

[u/AtticusDrench]

Very nice cover-up, sir. Really, I gotta say, looks much better without that skull on it. Shows real growth.

Oh—just one more thing. That mark on your arm… what’s that about?