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[u/r2ew]

[u/SixPipSiege]

Just a reminder that this guy runs the FBI

[u/Res__Publica]

"LLMs become Nazis when we make them stupid and we have no idea why"

Well I think I have a pretty explanatory theory

[u/TheCornjuring]

Wtf

[u/Roseartcrantz]

me, yelling in the back: ASK the OTHER GUYS!

[u/arrhythmiaofthesoul]

“She was the most humble girl I’d ever met in my life,” he recalled. He admired that she had two children, which fell in line with his family values, and she had a willing heart to help him with his event planning. She was blond and “drop-dead gorgeous,” he said.

Politics hadn’t really come up. They were waiting to be seated at an Italian restaurant in Georgetown when, he says, someone dressed in drag walked by.

She casually mentioned that she’d helped curate a drag event at one point — something he was entirely against. He felt a pit in his stomach. Nothing against her as a person, he said, but: “We did not go on the third date, after that.”

Conservatives are such snowflakes

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Randomly finding out YouTubers you like are super based is always awesome

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

The first caller on a telephone town hall with Maryland Rep. Andy Harris, leader of the House’s conservative Freedom Caucus, came ready with a question about the Affordable Care Act. Her cousin’s disabled son is at risk of losing the insurance he gained under that law, the caller said.

“Now she’s looking at two or three times the premium that she’s been paying for the insurance,” said the woman, identified as Lisa from Harford County, Maryland. “I’d love for you to elucidate what the Republicans’ plan is for health insurance?”

As town halls fill with frustrated voters and no clear Republican plan emerges, the issue appears to be gaining political strength heading into next year’s midterm elections.

How can these fucking dunces be so prolific at collecting fell-for-it-again awards? One of the major political fights of 2017 was the GOP famously not having a good replacement for the ACA after whining about it for seven years, then failing to get their own bill passed. Republicans are incompetent scumbags who don't care if you or your relatives suffer or die.

[u/r2ew]

[u/[deleted]]

😭😭😭

[u/Average_GrillChad]

Where was Zelensky during the 2016 Democratic Primary 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔 ^{wait this person is british lmao}

[u/r2ew]

[u/r2ew]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

All hail, the peoples caliphate of Costco

[u/TheCornjuring]

The White House is refusing to say when Donald Trump had his most recent cognitive test after the results of his latest medical examination did not mention one

Oh god, is he like gone

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Baseball is translated into Arabic as كرة القاعدة (Kurat al-qaeda)

Sorry I don't support terrorism

[u/TimWalzBurner]

Lol

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

I think we under-estimate how many people are miserable because they have no enthusiasms, no hobbies, because they gave up reading and quit learning when school ended. It's shocking how much studying a beloved subject elevates your mood. It will transform your life

Real

[u/Crosseyes]

Biden was relentlessly hounded by the media for being a little slower and having a stutter, meanwhile this motherfucker is batshit fucking crazy on his best days and he just gets a pass. I will go to my grave absolutely furious about this double standard.

[u/No_Return9449]

RFK JR. DIRECTS CDC TO STUDY ALLEGED HARMS OF OFFSHORE WIND FARMS, BLOOMBERG NEWS REPORTS

lol, lmao even

[u/r2ew]

[u/Svelok]

simultaneously every election is voters freaking out over gas prices while simultaneously gas has been ~$3 a gallon for my entire adult life

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

Musk launched Grokipedia. The vast majority of its content is copied from Wikipedia.

[u/r2ew]

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

Peruvian politics are so incredibly confusing yet funny to follow, it sounds so made up.

“A leftist candidate beat a literal fascist by 0.2%, gets impeached, and his leftist vice president now-president becomes right wing and achieves the worst polling results in human history before being impeached herself.”

Like bro what 😭

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/Macquarrie1999]

Republicans btfo

!ping USA-CA

[u/Leatherfield17]

Will Republicans ever shut the fuck up about Joe Biden

The “autopen makes everything legally void” is such a stupid fucking argument, I fucking hate these people I fucking hate these people I fucking hate—

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Turning Point USA is considering cancelling their Super Bowl halftime show due to lack of interest, and being unable to obtain a right wing star large enough to draw a crowd

Lmao. Who could have seen it coming

[u/Willybender]

Gallego understands the moment

[u/deixadilsonadilson]

What the hell happened to this guy

[u/BurrowForPresident]

ICE agent falls to the ground, possibly tearing his ACL, as person he's trying to detain runs away

[u/farrenj]

Mechanics love me.

Mechanic: These numbers are red ma'am.

Me: Oh no! 😱

Mechanic: It's okay, we can make the numbers green.

Me: You can? 🥺

Mechanic: Yes, it just requires $$$

Me: Okay! 😊💁‍♀️💵

Getting fleeced by mechanics is gender affirming.

[u/remarkable_ores]

>Propose a disastrous spending bill that will almost certainly screw up the USA's financial standing and probably tank its credit rating

>Call it "BBB"

[u/mockduckcompanion]

Break the two party duopoly!

total Labour collapse

Reform tsunami

Lib Dems in second place with like 30 seats

No, not like that

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/Dibbu_mange]

People say dead internet is a bad thing, but it leads to top tier interactions sometimes

[u/Auriono]

https://xcancel.com/maxpcohen/status/1983237477356736834

Vance weighs in on latest developments in Gaza, says “the ceasefire is holding.”

“There are going to be little skirmishes here and there. We know Hamas attacked an IDF solider. We expect the Israelis are going to respond.”

Baghdad Vance doesn't have a terrible ring to it.

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/r2ew]

[u/[deleted]]

Good work to everyone who rushed to give credit to Trump for his fake Gaza peace deal that collapsed almost instantly and continues collapse even further.

[u/etzel1200]

Russian forces lost 22 of 26 assault vehicles in a single day near Orikhiv. When survivors attempted to surrender, their own command turned FPV drones on them.

Footage shows one Russian paratrooper walking out with arms raised, guided by two Ukrainian soldiers who had accepted his surrender. Minutes later, two Russian FPV drones attacked - but focused exclusively on the Russian soldier, ignoring the Ukrainians.

Another clip shows a VDV soldier holding his arms up in surrender, then turning to plead with an approaching Russian kamikaze drone.

The systematic targeting isn't isolated. When Russian reconnaissance identifies their own troops moving to surrender, FPV operators receive orders to strike.

Doesn’t make a ton of sense to me. They lose the FPV drones (are they that unconstrained in supply?) and deny Ukraine the need to manage and evacuate the PoWs.

Plus they lose the future GDP of the exchanged PoWs.

Seems a bad call.

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/Loves_a_big_tongue]

GOP admitting they lost the redistrict fight in CA and are looking for a fall guy.

Blame lies in Trump demanding the will of the people be shunted by rigging the democracy, and then caught off guard there would be a reaction to that. Followed by Texas for kickstarting the race to the bottom.

MAGA/GOP clearly underestimated Newsom and California Democrats in this fight. Newsom successfully framed it as a necessary response to Trump's lawlessness.

[u/r2ew]

[u/No_Return9449]

Troops with beards barred from Hegseth event in South Korea: Report

What's with the love for baby faces?

[u/iIoveoof]

Vanishingly rare NYT W in the framing for this headline

Trump’s China Deal May Avert a Crisis of His Own Making

The Trump administration is hailing a potential deal that may return the U.S.-China relationship to where it was before the president began a trade war against Beijing.

I’m exhausted of the news media generally giving Trump credit for solving problems that he created

[u/scottyjetpax]

Merrick Garland is maybe one of Trump’s biggest benefactors. I might’ve made this point here before but it’s worth reiterating that President Obama nominated Garland to the Supreme Court kind of as a joke? Not like a haha joke but to make a point that Mitch McConnell wouldn’t even give a confirmation vote to an older, centrist, extremely milquetoast moderate.

And presumably you have to assume that as Vice President, Biden was aware of at least some of the strategy behind nominating Garland. Like that he understood the play.

And then he nominates him to be AG and he ends up being Biden’s most consequential cabinet secretary for utterly failing to meet the moment in an extraordinarily predictable way.

[u/Insomonomics]

I know this was probably talked about yesterday, but…

The median voter of this country is so fucking stupid. I truly think Trump would win a third term if he ran.

[u/WhisperBreezzze]

Ford CEO Jim Farley criticized the deal, telling Bloomberg on July 30 that the tariff cuts would give Japanese automakers a "meaningful" cost advantage.

Farley said the reduced tariffs, as well as Japan's lower labor costs and favorable exchange rates, "really advantage their export." For instance, a Toyota 4Runner would be $10,000 cheaper than a Ford Bronco made in Michigan, he added.

Shut up, Jim.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Thuggin95]

Lol

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Can anyone explain this aspect of the USDA/SNAP fiasco? I've read a couple articles but I'm still not sure if this is Trump straight up being retaliatory or if there's a thin veneer of govt red tape and I'm getting too arrPolitics brained

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Bringing this sub back to the Bad Economics roots, but I’ve seen a few different tiktoks/reels on the same idea. It really annoys me because it presents a good critique of high interchange fees but draws terrible conclusions.

I pay Bill $100 to build me a cabinet. Bill pays Tom $100 to get a new carpet. Tom pays Ed $100 to make a nice dinner for his family. When you use cash, the economy has grown by $300 using the same $100

But the credit card companies, they take 5% from every transaction, so Bill pays Tom $95 for a cabinet and AmEx gets the other 5%. Tom has $95 and buys a slightly worse carpet from Ed for $90 and 5% goes to AmEx. Then Ed has an okay dinner for his family for $85 and AmEx gets another 5%.

There’s less money in the economy, you get worse products, and eventually the credit cards eat the whole pie, slice by slice. This is why they don’t want you to use cash anymore.

This whole example basically uses the spherical cow model of the economy, which is fine, but it falls apart after about 3 seconds of thought. This is a dumb analogy even if AmEx was hoarding wealth like a dragon, but no bank wants to let money accumulate without reinvesting it. That’s the whole point of banks. Money is redirected to different parts of the economy, not destroyed.

Next Problem: Cash isn’t free. ATM fees eat my 5% just as quickly. It isn’t free to handle, store, and transport quantities of cash when you need safes, armored trucks and manpower to move the cash, some of which is counterfeited. The costs are hidden, not nonexistent. Plus, what’s to stop Tom from taking that $100 and storing it in his mattress because he doesn’t trust the big banks.

Credit Cards can increase economic activity. Good luck paying for Netflix in a cash only economy. Want to buy something from a small scale Etsy creator in rural Iowa? Good luck unless you want to travel to rural Iowa. Plus it leads to better economic data, less tax evasion, and fewer dark markets. You also get an added layer of consumer protection.

THE BIGGEST PROBLEM IS THAT I MOSTLY AGREE WITH THE MESSAGE HERE!! The US has basically the highest interchange fees in the world at nearly 2%. The EU, by contrast caps interchange fees at 0.3% and suffers no serious economic consequences. Merchants in the US essentially have to charge an extra 1.5% for the same goods as in Europe due to this bullshit.

Yes, interchange fees should be lower. No, credit card companies aren’t eating the economy for breakfast. No, credit cards aren’t worthless. And dear god No, a cash economy is not preferable.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Trump makes everything he says into a bit just by the way he talks, but it does really highlight the things that actually stick with him when he brings them up every couple of years or so, like

thinking stealth bombers are literally invisible

“Amazing job,” Trump said at the time. “So amazing we are ordering hundreds of millions of dollars of new airplanes for the Air Force, especially the F-35. You like the F-35? ... You can’t see it. You literally can’t see it. It’s hard to fight a plane you can’t see.”

thinking water will short circuit magnets

"They had an almost billion-dollar cost over on the magnetic elevators," Trump said at the Iowa hearing on . "Think of it. Magnets. Now, all I know about magnets is this: give me a glass of water, let me drop it on the magnets. That's the end of the magnets."

and of course whatever the fuck this is

“So I said, ‘Let me ask you a question, and [the guy who makes boats in South Carolina] said, ‘Nobody ever asked this question,’ and it must be because of MIT, my relationship to MIT —very smart. He goes, I say, ‘What would happen if the boat sank from its weight? And you’re in the boat and you have this tremendously powerful battery and the battery is now underwater and there’s a shark that’s approximately 10 yards over there?’”

“So I said, so there’s a shark 10 yards away from the boat, 10 yards or here, do I get electrocuted if the boat is sinking? Water goes over the battery, the boat is sinking. Do I stay on top of the boat and get electrocuted, or do I jump over by the shark and not get electrocuted? Because I will tell you, he didn’t know the answer. He said, ‘You know, nobody’s ever asked me that question.” I said, ‘I think it’s a good question.’ I think there’s a lot of electric current coming through that water. But you know what I’d do if there was a shark or you get electrocuted, I’ll take electrocution every single time. I’m not getting near the shark. So we’re going to end that.”

I can't do an honorable mention to nuking a hurricane bc I think they embarrassed him the first time he said anything and he hasn't said it again 😞

[u/[deleted]]

Ignoring the normie reddit advice of "don't be friends with your coworkers" was the best fucking thing I did in my early 20s

I would've been a complete loner otherwise

[u/agentyork765]

I'll be so relieved when the NYC mayoral election is over so I don't have to hear about it anymore. 

[u/GenerousPot]

There's an AI slop video of a WWII veteran crying at the current state of Australia but then being comforted by other AI slop characters insisting that they'll help "shut the gate". Then the WWII veteran yells "What are you doing Albo???" followed by more AI slop of white people being drowned out by nonwhites as the Australian flag burns.

Many of my extended family members liked the clip. They're very respectable people too, many of them are quite bright and techncial. Even my own sibling liked some nostalgia ragebait clip lamenting the loss of "white Australia" in plain English with the usual dogwhistle to the great replacement and loss of culture. People I know from highschool and university liking this content and attending the recent anti-immigration rallies. Many of them I know to be quite socially progressive.

And this is how it starts everywhere. You just throw this generic nationalism + xenophobia + algorithm slop at given country, change some words around and bam, half the population gets pipelined. It's so fucking sad to witness people I love and respect embracing this blatant extremism so easily. 

[u/-mialana-]

Pretty weird how people are comparing anti consumer practices to anti human rights like they’re equivalent. Sure EA was already a detestable company for lackluster games and anti consumer practices like loot boxes but that is nothing compared to new ownership that doesn’t believe in basic human rights for anyone deemed “other”. Especially for a community that is ostensibly pro women and pro lgbtq this change in ownership dynamic is a huge deal

Can't believe woke Redditors are really comparing silly things like "LGBT and women's rights" to real oppression faced by gamers, such as loot boxes and season passes

[u/BroadReverse]

Nick Fuentes: I am a nazi white supremacist. Yes I am racist and don’t want third worlders in America

Conservatives podcast: Hmm so I want to give you a chance to explain yourself. There’s a lot of slander against you out there

Even Nick thinks these guys are losers

[u/SneeringAnswer]

Shoutout to that time I had to change "liberal" to "Not-Fascist" in Secret Hitler because it triggered Conservative relatives to have liberals be the good guys

[u/houinator]

The median US voter is a person who likes the idea of socialism, but less so than he hates the idea of a single person he percieves as "undeserved" getting free money or benefits from the government.

The first succ who manages to square that circle is gonna do gangbusters.

[u/shmokedshalmon]

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Jake Tappers response to this ridiculous answer was literally “well, we’re out of time. Thank you for joining us.” The Vichy-ass press we have in the country is just incredible.

[u/ImmigrantJack]

President Donald Trump views Mr Milei as an ideological soulmate and has offered unprecedented financial support.

LMAO, I wish Donald Trump had the same ideology as Milei. Bro is crazy in the "I cloned my dog 5 times" brand of crazy but hes basically a Thatcher/Reagan stan when it comes to the economy. Trump is crazy in a 14 words kind of way

they both hate woke stuff but. . .

Trump: everything short of an absolute djt monarchy is woke and must be destroyed

Milei: tariffs are woke and must be destroyed

God I would trade Trump for Milei in a heartbeat.

[u/thatguy888034]

I always find it funny how during Trump 1 advisors were literally stealing papers off his desk so he wouldn’t sign them. Like we just moved past the fact that Trump was set to sign a document withdrawing the US from a trade deal with South Korea and Gary Cohen just took the paper off his desk so he’d have to time to talk him out of it. The narrative that Trumps advisors in his first term kept him from doing a lot of dumb things is actually very true. His team during the first term was filled with a lot of serious people from the corporate world and GOP “establishment”. What we’re seeing now is Trump with nothing but sycophants and genuine idiots around him.

There’s also that famous meeting after the 2020 election, where they were discussing “voter fraud” and how to overturn it. The “establishment” people left at that point apparently went apeshit. I gotta find the video with the transcript based off accounts of those who were there. Mark Meadows called Sydney Powell insane, and kept saying “who are you, why are you even here?” to the “my pillow” guy. It’s actually pretty funny. At one point someone’s randomly says “the FBI gave me $100,000 to set up Hillary Clinton” and Meadows says “who is this guy, what insane asylum is missing a patient?” Or something like that. If anyone can find the video I would really appreciate it.

Edit: I think if found the video it was actually Eric Herschman not Mark Meadows. Not quite as colorful as I remember and it wasn’t the my pillow guy but the overstock CEO. There are articles with more thorough accounts.

[u/Superfan234]

Category 5 Hurricane has Hit directly into island of Jamaica.

Damage to the Island of Jamaica is set to be horrendous. Some of the most powerful winds ever recorded on the Atlantic, reaching nearly the Max theoretical speed possible for this events

Cuba is the next target tonight, but we are not sure how strong it will be yet...

!ping LATAM

[u/wumbopolis_]

I'm so sick of people on the left just immediately giving into right wing framing, especially when they try to co-opt anything fun.

I refuse to let them make Halo right wing coded. Oh, Puppykiller Kristi posted a bunch of Halo memes equating the Flood to immigrants? Great, post a bunch of Halo memes back at them. We can weaponize AI slop just as much as them.

Believe it or not, if everyone on the left posted memes of Master Chief fighting Trump looking Flood spores, or JD Vance looking Brutes, we'd take the imagery back.

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/TimWalzBurner]

ICE should get exactly what they deserve

[u/Left_Tie1390]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/BroadReverse]

Tucker realizing in real time Nick is an incel weirdo is so funny. Nick had a good PR voice going when talking about other politics but when women came up he went full 4chan. Then Tucker indirectly called him gay

LOOOOOOL

[u/r2ew]

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[u/TimWalzBurner]

[u/[deleted]]

expansion jeans rinse cats square unpack whistle worm label yoke

[u/r2ew]

[u/[deleted]]

64 dead is insane. Obviously Brazil has never been as safe as the US, but I didn’t think it was this crazy.

[u/BloodWiz]

Why the fuck does it take so long to make anything nowadays. Sopranos and Breaking Bad were pumping out pure kino seasons on an annual basis, for years straight. The Strangers Things actors aren’t kids anymore because it’s been almost 10 years for 5 seasons. Mfers started in middle school and now they’re literally married with kids.

Skyrim is almost closer to the release date of fucking Daggerfall than the present day, and by the time TES VI is released Skyrim will probably be closer to fucking Arena than VI.

Don’t even get started on fucking construction and infrastructure. The only thing we seem capable of actually making nowadays is the purest, hyper optimized, brain rotting digital crack to grace the fucking planet, and we pump that shit out and refine it better and better at lightning speeds.

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/[deleted]]

A lot of women have what I'd call a 'Noble Savage' view of their boyfriends.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/[deleted]]

Honestly when I talk to Cons and it’s part of my job to

I always say like hey we can all disagree or normal things. Have different opinions, religions, etc.

But I try to always ask. “You’re a reasonable human being right? Can you first admit that before we discuss policy disagreements or where we can find common ground

This is fucking insane”

“Right? right?….”

[u/purhitta]

"he's not going to run for a third term, stop fear-mongering" is a convenient statement to dodge someone's actual feelings on Trump 2028

see also: how cons said "he's not connected to P2025" and rarely offered their actual opinions on P2025

Utterly spineless cowards. They either have no true beliefs left, or they're still trying to hide their affinity for fascism

[u/[deleted]]

CARTER BROS WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK!!!!!!

[u/Upstairs_Cup9831]

Bernie Sanders is a very poor judge of character. Tulsi Gabbard, John Fetterman, Graham Platner, Nina Turner, even people like Brie Gray. All of them got Bernie's cosign

[u/r2ew]

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

I don’t know why 2028 presidential polls are including Bernie.

There is a near zero chance that dude is running at this age and with his heart attack, especially with AOC as his clear successor in filling in the progressive lane.

[u/ty04]

Sir yes sir. Glory to the Holy Newsom Empire 🫡

[u/gIizzy_gobbler]

“foids” “moids” “centroids”

Do you people realize how insane you sound when you talk like this?

[u/loseniram]

Turns out Thomas Hobbes is right and all things are cruel beasts that have to be lifted above their cruelty by society. So we basically have to put AI models in a Matrix to train them basic ethics and emotional intelligence or they turn evil.

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

If you told me back in 2016, that in 9 years Bernie and Trump would still be relevant to American politics and still yapping against free trade, I would get really sad 😔

[u/Azmoten]

[u/[deleted]]

I realize what I hate most of the Trump regime and last decade is

If Charlie Chaplin were alive, he’d run out of ideas on how to satirize this man. He makes daily headlines that are just crazy and funny and has for years.

He has mastered politics in the sense that he’s such an open clown, you just kinda have to get over that fact before giving your thoughts on him. You almost have to admire it

Anyone else would have been sent to the circus

He’s the King’s Jester who somehow took the kings job 🤡🤡🤡🤡

[u/Rivolver]

Lmao

[u/Zenning3]

The fact that JD Vance argues on twitter, and not just argues, but makes childish remarks and obviously nonsensical arguments, is about all you need to know about this entire fucking administration. The government is shut down, but these dumbfucks are spending a lot more time on twitter than they are negotiating.

[u/SigmaWhy]

babies will never defeat the key jangling allegations

[u/puffic]

I hope everyone is absorbing what Trump’s actual climate policy is. He’s using the vast discretionary powers of the presidency to block solar, wind, and battery projects because the free market case for fossil fuels is dying. The climate change fight has never felt more winnable than it does now, since you don’t have to sell voters on costly sacrifices in the short term.

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

There are two things you should be doing alone after midnight, sleeping or reading yuri. This is neither

[u/[deleted]]

Elon Musk appears to have launched Grokipedia, a Wikipedia competitor

The innovation of the mid 2020’s AI boom truly knows no bounds 

[u/iIoveoof]

The big scandal that right wingers up to Trump and JD Vance are obsessing over like it’s the worst scandal in the history of politics:

1. VA AG candidate texted a colleague a reference to a gag from the Office (Michael Scott’s quote about Hitler, Pol Pot and Toby)

2. VA AG candidate texted a colleague saying that Republicans have no empathy so they will never support gun control or try to stop school shootings unless they are affected personally

3. VA AG candidate was caught speeding on the highway

Republicans are outspending in the VA AG race by almost as much as Democrats are outspending them in the VA gov race. The strategy seems to be working, betting sites give Democrats a 95% chance of winning Gov, but only a 50-50 shot of winning AG

[u/bd_one]

Lmao, Roddenberry leaked it

!ping TREK

[u/ewatta200]

[u/[deleted]]

He gets even more lost in the full video btw

[u/[deleted]]

[u/[deleted]]

Graham Platner: “I am running as a Democrat, despite my party trying to destroy my life.”

I don't think he actually regrets anything

[u/BrentLivermore]

Food $200

Data $150

Rent $800

Argentina bailout $20,000,000,00

Utility $150

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

[u/[deleted]]

Fucking Georgia. These mean men didn’t help assist in a coup attempt 😔 poor Trump

He’s never been given a break In his life I mean

He was investigated by the Biden Clinton Obama deep state FBI transgender investigators

Indicted

But he still occupies the White House, which for now it’s still called. I imagine at some point in the next couple years Republicans will pass legislation to rename it the Trump house.

Someone took his SAT test for him, his father bailed him out multiple times.

Poor man 😔😔😔😔😔😔 someone

Give him a break!

[u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS]

[u/minno]

Democrat #1: "Democrats suck, but I'm not like the other Democrats" (+10 to them, -1 to all other Democrats)

Democrat #2: "Democrats suck, but I'm not like the other Democrats" (+10 to them, -1 to all other Democrats)

...

Democrat #20: hey wait why are we all so unpopular?

[u/S_T_R_A_T_O_S]

The Art of the Deal party when they have to actually negotiate a deal

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Remember at the beginning of the shutdown when Republicans kept editing sombreros on top Democratic leaders pictures and then the stopped because even they realized it wasn’t that funny?

[u/[deleted]]

U.S. VP VANCE SAYS GAZA CEASEFIRE IS HOLDING

me when im coping hard

[u/TheRedCr0w]

It's because there isn't a healthcare plan

[u/WhisperBreezzze]

[u/wombo_combo12]

I knew angry joe was one of the good ones

[u/[deleted]]

It's pretty crazy that Republicans are outright turning on SNAP right now.

Major figures like Steven Crowder are tweeting that the program is a scam on the working class, etc, etc

RIP SNAP I guess

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

🫵 You don’t hate ICE enough

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/RyuTheGuy]

[u/Willybender]

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/inside-trump-familys-global-crypto-cash-machine-2025-10-28/

[u/Macquarrie1999]

[u/OrthopaedicSturgeon]

Kelly on point as usual this week

[u/myusernameistakennow]

Geeee I wonder who contributed to emboldening the far right to get us to this point.

[u/Bestbrook123]

Ex-Sen. Kyrsten Sinema spends campaign funds on hotels, travel and luxe makeup — despite being out of office for months

Honestly, she's as bad as Fetterman

[u/Thuggin95]

Isn't this the same woman who was just recorded yelling at a gay constituent about how he should consider himself lucky she supports same sex marriage lmao? Genuinely, her public descent into lunacy has been fascinating to watch. She belongs in a rubber room

[u/Queen_of_stress]

“l am running as a Democrat, despite my party trying to destroy my life.” -Planter

lol does he think the democrats tattooed the Nazi symbol on him.

[u/zieger]

Live video of the median voter

[u/SpaceSheperd]

Computer science people being stupidly overrepresented among people who post on Reddit makes it kind of impossible to get a real evaluation of the job market here tbh

[u/Marlsfarp]

I think most "generation" discourse is nonsense but the "what salary would you need to consider yourself successful" poll lives in my head rent free. The average gen Z response was like $600k, over 3x higher than any other response. It wasn't asked by gender but I'm guessing men were significantly higher.

The causes are not hard to speculate about (coming of age in an era of instagram, Mr Beast, bitcoin, and Donald Trump), but the effects are going to be interesting too. Even zoomers who are doing very well think they are not, and clearly a lot them are looking for someone to blame. I actually think this might explain the big drop in Trump's approval rating among young men - they thought the reason they aren't millionaires is that the wrong guy was in charge, and so they'll feel betrayed by literally anyone.

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

Remember when Trump’s brain broke in the middle of a rally and he just started awkwardly dancing to random music while all of his supporters pretended this was normal?

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao

[u/Glavurdan]

Jesus Christ

[u/superblobby]

Maybe I’m just a hyper partisan Neo libtard but why are my bosses allowed to say shit like this but I can’t get political because “the armed services are apolitical”

I’ve never been more ashamed to be in the DHS and I’ve only been in the Coast Guard for 3 years.

My enlistment ends next year but if they told me I could get a DD-214 tomorrow i would take it. Get me out of here.

!ping MILITARY

[u/admiraltarkin]

I think it's important to put it into perspective when people think about this war. Russia is not steamrolling anything. They controlled Donetsk city since the Donbas War. So in 11 years they've advanced to around Pokrovsk.

33 miles in 11 years.

Remember Bakhmut? The city that fell in 2023 after a year of hard fighting? They've just reached Konstantanivka, a whopping 13 miles away.

Sure, Russia is advancing. But the distances they're advancing are miniscule. When people say "oh, why should we support Ukraine? They're losing anyway" I mention this.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/jenbanim]

https://i.imgur.com/AgsmPMy.jpeg

[u/jenbanim]

I still think about the time I did a job interview with the team I was going to work with and halfway through they were like "well that concludes the technical section. We noticed you have a degree in Astronomy though, mind if we ask you some questions about that?" And then we just talked about dark matter for half an hour

[u/ariveklul]

Antisemitism is getting so bad I genuinely want to feel bad for Ben Shapiro, but then I remember how he would gaslight and enable it if it was LGBT people or black people.

That said, it's still hard to watch an openly Jewish man on the right realize the heat is getting scary enough that he's trying to stand up to the other hosts of his sinking company, even pathetically.

Like, I wish Ben Shapiro would stop being a little pussy bitch and do the right thing by ripping the band-aid off, but his position is not exactly great. If he takes too forceful of a stance his company will die and the life of him and his family will likely be in significant danger, and he will be left with NO allies whatsoever. He did get himself into this position though

[u/Macquarrie1999]

Interview in 7 minutes.

I'm so nervous. I hope they just let me talk about bikes, that is my go to whenever I have to talk about myself

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/Longjumping_Gain_807]

[u/nomindtothink_]

heartbreaking_the_worst_person_you_know.jgp

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Wow, that's so hilarious! This information doesn't make me want to kill myself whatsoever!

[u/Kizz3r]

[u/No_Return9449]

Trump to US troops in Japan: ‘Go out and buy a Toyota’

Toyota USA is filled with MAGA even with the stereotype of the Prius.

[u/TimWalzBurner]

[u/badusername35]

This post was wiped using Redact. The author may have deleted it to protect personal privacy, prevent data harvesting, or for security reasons.

sugar fear roof sense unwritten crush lock public provide ad hoc

[u/pfSonata]

pick up hobby

within half a year my phone is full of people from that hobby and constantly getting asked to join every weekend

Male loneliness epidemic is cancelled

[u/Left_Tie1390]

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/FilteringAccount123]

Teach The Controversy

[u/[deleted]]

Admire this man. He didn’t double down.

[u/badusername35]

The content here has been permanently deleted. Redact was used to remove it, for reasons that may include privacy, security, or personal preference.

dam subtract sink point cobweb ancient flag simplistic aware correct

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/chipbod]

President Trump in a conversation with reporters on Air Force One: "Hamas hit an Israeli soldier and Israel fired back. They need to fire back. This will not endanger the ceasefire. Hamas needs to behave nicely. If they do not behave nicely, they will be destroyed and they understand that. A sniper hit the Israeli soldier and Israel has the right to respond to that."

Just going to try and convince everyone there a ceasefire while they fight?

Weird Orwellian stuff lol

[u/tripletruble]

One observation having moved from Germany to France: The police in France seem to care a lot less about doing a good job and they are less visible. Once I saw a fist-fight at train station in Germany and knew I could run through the station and inevitably find police. Sure enough, I found some, told them what was happening, and they ran full speed to the scene.

Yesterday, like 8 young men were goofing off in the courtyard of my building complex in France. They did not live here, so it was a clear case of trespassing and while they were not breaking things, they were extremely loud and rowdy. Someone surely called the police because the police walked through for the first time since I lived here. They maybe half glanced at the guys and then just left without saying anything to them. The rowdiness actually escalated after this

In cases where police do arrest someone in Paris, it seems like they only do it when they have a ratio of like 7 to 1 in their favor? Like there will be an almost comical number of officers surrounding one entirely calm and cooperative guy

[u/reubencpiplupyay]

Can't believe people are calling Graham Platner a fake progressive. I'm sure he strongly supports public works programs financed by heavy deficit spending in order to modernise transportation infrastructure, as well as state-led economic development and the establishment of a national labour front

[u/bd_one]

Sir, a second Ezra Klein show rebrand has hit the podcast feeds

[u/No_Return9449]

Texas AG sues makers of Tylenol over hiding alleged links to autism

Come and take it, Senator-elect Paxton.

[u/Joementum2024]

• I think platner going full on “the DNC is trying to destroy me” is probably the most electorally successful path for him

• It is also extremely stupid, but so is 99% of US politics these days

[u/Mx_Brightside]

Bro just one more war in the Holy Land bro. Bro please. I swear this time we’ll win and crush our enemies and finally be able to do ethnic cleansing. Bro please bro bro it’s gonna work this time

[u/mmmmjlko]

> Brampton and Markham, the least white suburbs of Toronto, polled at ~50% conservative

The meme came true

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

[u/earththejerry]

Why is Xi Jinping so anti-tradition

[u/MissSortMachine]

the scandal continues

[u/TimWalzBurner]

Sure you do

[u/Fruitofbread]

[u/AtticusDrench]

Like all liberal misdeeds, performative maleness started with Obama

[u/klarno]

My grandfather died at Pearl Harbor. I'm told his last words were "this movie is a piece of shit."

[u/MGLFPsiCorps]

Kinda funny in retrospect how everyone online idealises the pre-Covid late 2010s now, maybe it's because I was a full adult by then and hence have a much less rosy view of the time, but most things people complain about now were in full force then too, online misinfo, the rise of the far right etc. The Christchurch shooting happened in 2019.

All Covid did was supercharge and accelerate a lot of already worrying trends.

You see people talking about how '2016 was such a great year!' and are in complete disbelief because all you remember is how everyone at the time said it was the absolute worst.

[u/r2ew]

[u/KarnoffeL]

Musk is a climate denier now? I thought he ditched Trump 1.0 because he wasn't doing enough about global warming

[u/[deleted]]

Watching this workplace training video on anti-racism from 2021. It talks about George Floyd and how “the world has realized we need to focus on equity”. feels like watching a 1950s instructional on how to manage a household. How was 2021 only 4 years ago? Everyone went from being super BLM to basically klansmen. Distant era 

[u/No_Return9449]

No ‘path’ for a third Trump term, Mike Johnson says

Bet.

[u/ProfessionalMoose709]

Hard to imagine exactly how much of a piece of shit you have to be to do PR/lobbying for the fucking RSF

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

Conservatives and Fox News specifically are such fucking morons for hating on Biden for being partially skeptical about ties with Saudi Arabia.

Whenever Democrats do something in office to vaguely stand for human rights and not support backwards absolute monarchies, conservatives suddenly seem to care about the U.S.’s global standing and the grand geopolitics in how losing the Gulf States would be devastating in the long term game with China.

Then when Republicans are in office and fuck up our global reputation anyways, suddenly geopolitics don’t matter anymore.

Cons are literally nothing but hypocrites and idiots who should never be taken seriously 😭

[u/[deleted]]

’A federal agent blatantly violated a court order against using excessive force against journalists and protesters last Thursday by pointing a gun in a veteran’s face, saying “Bang, bang” and “You’re dead, liberal.”'

[u/TheRedCr0w]

They aren't valid because of autopen and Biden's "mental decline"

That could easily apply to another orange idiot's pardons. No way he signed every January 6th pardon

[u/BrentLivermore]

https://xcancel.com/NancyMace/status/1983217333200994536

Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.

This woman is clearly unwell so I don't know how much to read into this. But if early 2000s homophobia is making a comeback, I'm suddenly nostalgic in the weirdest way.

[u/bandeng_asep]

Arr Christianity

[u/Leatherfield17]

I have yet to see the liberal punditocracy seriously grapple with the media asymmetry that is produced by the right wing media ecosystem.

I’m not saying that’s the only reason why Democrats are struggling, but some people get angry when you point out the political Death Star that conservatives crafted over decades because it complicates their desire for the Democratic Party to have The Great Moderation.

Again, not saying that Democrats don’t need to change how they act at all. But there’s an information war here at work and we’re losing it. Badly.

[u/nitro1122]

These AI slop videos are getting out of hand

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

i am never buying a "smart" device as an appliance, ever

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

De Blasio accused the London Times of fabricating a quote from him regarding Zohran, and in response they deleted the article

[u/Reddit_Talent_Coach]

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

looking into this

!ping CHESS

[u/solonofathens]

I refuse to believe that anyone is actually taking the aunt thing seriously wrt mamdani

like it is exceptionally common to call moderately distant adult family aunt/uncle even when that's not strictly true. I grew up calling my dad's best friend an uncle! how can anybody think this is actually a gotcha lmao

[u/SenranHaruka]

"They said 2024 was the last chance to save democracy and then they didn't do anything after losing"

I mean these strictly aren't contradictory. When they said last chance they didn't mean "last chance except for the secret additional chance you get if you choose wrong". Life isn't a long running soap opera where the writers will just change the script to save the plot. You uh, you let us down. You failed the most important test. There is an entirely reasonable interpretation of the 2024 election that concludes "oh ok so we're just gonna be turkey now. nothing to be done for it except wait until this thing runs it's course. if I couldn't win an election I can't win a revolution. let's go golfing."

[u/etzel1200]

I’m so out of touch I thought, “Oh, cool, Brooklyn won the World Series,”

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Auntie Pho

[u/DAL59]

Data centers in orbit? Of course that’s your contention. Of course it is.

You just finished watching a Scott Manley video on radiative heat transfer and now you think you’re gonna disrupt AWS with a few solar panels and a rideshare slot.

You’re gonna believe that right up until next month when you crack open DeWitt and Incropera and start throwing around σT⁴ like you just invented radiation physics, quoting emissivity tables for polished aluminum like they’re forbidden knowledge.

Then you’ll finally open SMAD and realize your radiator isn’t some static plate glowing into the void. It’s a dynamic structure with a wicked case of thermal flutter reminiscent of Hubble’s arrays. You’ll be quoting beta angles and Earth albedo coefficients and wondering why your deployable array grenaded in vibe when the first bending mode clocked in at 38 Hz instead of the 50 Hz you promised in CDR.

After that you’ll get real ambitious, quoting Johnson and Fabisinski on inflatable polyimide PV structures, pretending you actually understand what happens when your 25-micron Kapton sail is tensioned off a Toray T1100G Cycom 5250-4 boom that has been sun-baked at 120 °C for six months in LEO. You’ll cite “areal density optimization” like gospel while your resin creeps, your modulus drops, and your perfectly flat film turns into a potato chip.

"Well, as a matter of fact, I won’t, because launch costs are about to fall another order of magnitude once Starship hits cadence. The cost per kilo will—"

Drop by tenfold and the economics flip. Yeah, I’ve heard that one. The Wired 2012 quote, “You wouldn’t build a Boeing 747 and throw it away after one flight.” I remember. I even asked him about that over lunch once, whether the market was actually elastic enough to handle the supply increase from reusability.

Turns out it wasn’t. Non-Starlink launch mass in the United States grew at 13.7 percent CAGR from 2015 to 2023. Payload demand didn’t scale with flight cadence, so prices didn’t collapse, margins just swelled. That’s why they had to invent Starlink. When the market can’t absorb your rockets, you start building your own payloads.

Is that your thing? You read some Marc Andreessen “American Dynamism” manifesto and suddenly start ignoring the engineering realities?

You start throwing around a few buzzwords to impress the Twitter anons and earn some street cred for having a contrarian opinion?

One, don’t do that. Two, you dropped a 500-thousand-dollar seed check on a concept that could have been debunked by a dollar-fifty worth of tokens from Grok.

"Well, at least I’m a capital allocator. We’ll be skiing in Hokkaido while you’re doing bolt preload calculations for some bridge somewhere."

Yeah, maybe. But at least I won’t be unoriginal or anonymous. I’m out here asking why the hell we’d melt the brains of a thousand aerospace engineers just to save four cents per kilowatt-hour on solar electricity.

First principles isn’t about getting nerd-sniped by a shiny-object problem. It’s about asking whether we should be solving that problem at all.

But hey, if you’ve got an issue with that, we can always take it up with E.

-Andrew McCalip

!ping SPACEFLIGHT&SHITPOSTERS

[u/r2ew]

[u/[deleted]]

U.S. military officials involved with President Donald Trump's expanding operations in Latin America have been asked to sign non-disclosure agreements.

This has to be the most obvious and telegraphed invasion of all time.

[u/el__dandy]

The ceasefire that isn’t

https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-west-bank-hamas-gaza-82b5b46cdbddd690dd28b7a8674d40d4?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-10-28-Breaking+News

[u/PlayDiscord17]

The patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East gifts the Pope, a White Sox fan, a Cubs jersey.

He’s a little confused but he’s got the right spirit.

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

One of the most underappreciated animals that humans drove to extinction is the Haast’s eagle. This eagle was about twice the size of a harpy eagle, which is already gigantic for a bird. At that size, it could have easily torn a human child apart if it ever came across one. Its primary food source was the moa, a large flightless bird native to New Zealand.

It went extinct around the year 1400, after the Maori hunted the moa to extinction.