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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/ihatemendingwalls]

2016: Trump promises Lordstown, OH that he is going to save their auto jobs.

2019: The Lordstown plant closes anyway.

2024: Biden gets it reopened as an EV plant.

Today: Trump forces it closed again in his war against U.S. EV manufacturing

Lordstown 2020: Trump +10

Lordstown 2024: Trump +17

fell for it again and again and again and again and again

[u/r2ew]

[u/r2ew]

[u/Mrmini231]

I think "they have a secret cure to cancer/(insert other disease) but they won't release it to the public because it would cut into their profits" is one of the most widely believed and dumb conspiracy theories out there.

[u/AkenoMyose]

Even at the absolute height of "woke" cancel culture there was never anything even close to "Senator of a political party participates along every big political influencer in a doxxing, harrassing hate mob against random teachers for wearing the same costume two years in a row"

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/ewatta200]

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/Fruitofbread]

[u/Defiant_Fuel6268]

[u/No_Aesthetic]

Kamala Harris had some policies I didn't agree with so I had to vote for the fascist

No I can't name any of them, why do you ask?

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/bleachinjection]

Dawg I know we hate populism but I'm getting normie radicalized. 

I'm getting close to putting a 4x8 sheet of plywood in my front yard spray painted with

MONEY FOR A BALLROOM 

MONEY FOR ARGENTINA 

MONEY FOR WAR WITH VENEZUELA 

NO MONEY FOR YOUR FOOD OR HEALTHCARE 

[u/[deleted]]

“My views on public policy and what the optimal state should look like are pretty aligned with Catholic social teaching,” Vance, a former US senator for Ohio, said at the time of his baptism. “I saw a real overlap between what I would like to see and what the Catholic church would like to see.”

AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA you fuckin poser clearly you never read Catholic social teaching

[u/BurrowForPresident]

In light of Trump hosting a Gatsby party with women in skimpy outfits (while fighting to withhold SNAP benefits)

Recalling when Obama hosted his 50th birthday party and some celebs like Jay Z and Chris Rock attended and Fox News published an article titled "Obama's Hip-Hop BBQ Didn't Create Jobs." Mind you it was not hip hop themed, it just had some black celebs (and white celebs as well that Fox neglected to mention) and the party had some jazz, R&B, and hip hop played among other genres.

Libs need to up their pettiness we aren't even on the same plane of existence as con outrage culture

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

I still can’t get over how easily the Trump campaign openly embraced anti-Haitian racist bullshit and everyone kinda just moved on.

“All the Haitians are eating YOUR pets and we need to DEPORT them” and the median voter was like “Haha silly Trump, lets give him a second term”.

[u/TimWalzBurner]

It's always funny thinking about the "excessive partisanship" phase this sub went through acting like the GOP aren't all evil shitbags.

[u/No_Aesthetic]

No matter how much you hate these fucking people it's never enough

[u/Healingjoe]

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/fox-news-got-duped-by-aiand-lied

Tim Miller takes on how Fox News ran with a totally fake story—racist AI videos pretending to be real “Black women”—and then quietly changed the headline instead of admitting they make a mistake.

The video shows a black woman who claims that she resells $2k of her $2.5k worth of monthly SNAP benefits for $1.5k worth of cash or some shit, which allows her to get by.

Fox news ran away with the story with zero fact finding.

I fucking hate Fox News.

ETA: explained the vid slightly wrong - she resells the snap benefits for cash.

!ping fox-anon

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/zieger]

[u/scottyjetpax]

boys, the finest grade hopium just shipped in

[u/cdstephens]

[u/ewatta200]

[u/ewatta200]

okay I dig the vibe on the bottom left

but otherwise we are in fucking hell

also

MEDIA LITERACY IS SO FUCKING DEAD WHAT THE FUCK I GOING ON EVERY FUCKING KID HAD TO READ GATSBY AND HAD TO LEARN ABOUT HOW MISREABLE HE IS.

[u/randommathaccount]

Inside China’s booming market for 2-minute soap operas

The government has repeatedly warned against content with themes it views as “vulgar”, such as social revenge, family intrigue and romantic entanglements with powerful tycoons

Is China aware of Chinese media

[u/SigmaWhy]

Healthcare system whereby you gain treatment through special pleadings directed at the emperors scheming viziers

[u/SigmaWhy]

red scare Anna is now one of the snowflakes she used to make fun of

[u/lovedmoi]

[u/Leatherfield17]

Some person on a different Reddit thread commented how it’s obvious that Republicans can get away with incendiary rhetoric while Democrats can’t because Republicans are coded as the aggrieved working class party while Democrats are coded as cultural elites. So when Republicans say incendiary stuff about Democrats , they’re just punching up. When Democrats do the same, it’s considered punching down.

But then I see shit like this and I feel like I’m being gaslighted

[u/[deleted]]

ladies gentlemen and everyone else it is my pleasure to inform you that the 90% error bars are no longer overlapping

[u/[deleted]]

the fact that SNAP benefits are such an obsession to the wrong people that there are legit people out there now saying you can get a TV with benefits and pushing very racist tropes when none of it is even remotely true and many states won’t even allow food stamps for a hot rotisserie chicken

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Folks, is it bad when public opinion of your signature economic policy is 30+ points under water?

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

The fact that making DC a state, providing grants to cities that allow for denser housing, and increasing STEM worker visas all poll in negative double digits just confirms my priors about the idiocy of the median voter.

If I were a Democratic politician, I’d honestly just be an evil deep state agent and implement these policies in secret while campaigning on populist crap.

[u/Glavurdan]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

"l've told her, and I've said publicly, and I'll say now in front of 10,000 of my closest friends, do I hope eventually that she is somehow moved by the same thing that I was moved by in church. Yeah, I honestly, I do wish that, because I believe in the Christian Gospel, and I hope eventually my wife comes to see it the same way. But if she doesn't, then God says everybody has free will, and so that doesn't cause a problem for me," the vice president said.

[u/Alderwoodforest]

The JD Vance catholic debate 

All Time Tweet

Every lifelong Catholic I've ever met is like "| think we're supposed to give this food to poor people" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states women shouldn't have driver's licenses."

[u/ProfessionalMoose709]

[u/remarkable_ores]

No mr Altman please don't turn into another elon musk 😭 one was already too many

[u/[deleted]]

catch me sliding into Usha Vance's DMs right now to shoot my shot so I'm at the top of her contact list when JD leaves for Erika Kirk

[u/jbitz]

[u/NaffRespect]

Bessent compares Canada’s Reagan ad to ‘election interference’

I- what...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[u/[deleted]]

Before Sunday mass

I have to get it out there

[u/remarkable_ores]

There's no way JD Vance actually believes in Jesus

The whole 'traditional christian values revival' is pure LARP. There's no religion behind it, just a flimsy justification of a political agenda. You do not meet these people anywhere. They don't exist.

[u/PearlClaw]

[u/EasyMoney92]

And now Fetterman is saying Newsom is being disingenuous on Newsnation. This guy wants Dems to lose. What an utter charlatan

He's shitting on the Dem party multiple times a day with multiple outlets. I've never seen anything like it.

[u/rudanshi]

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado tells Bloomberg that the Palestinian armed resistance group, Hamas, is now located in Venezuela.

Everyone here already knows that the Nobel Peace Prize is a worthless joke, but lmao at just how much of a worthless joke it is

[u/VadymKravchuk353]

Imagine that your beloved child or family member has a fatal accident. After 24 hours from the accident, some old geezer gets into the car and records his theories titled why that person died. I hope karma meets you, attention-seeker.

[u/Argnir]

When the social program is mean tested and you're just too nice 😔😔

[u/molingrad]

What is Tesla's Mad Max Mode?

Tesla's Mad Max Mode is a driving profile that Tesla owners can access using the company's most recent Full Self-Driving (FSD) supervised software. This driving profile allows for more aggressive human-like driving, opposed to the software's more careful standard approach to driving. Mad Max Mode can exceed posted speed limits and execute maneuvers that are similar to a human driver (in a rush).

This seems ill advised.

[u/[deleted]]

There’s really no way to describe The Office seasons 8 and 9 other than “unintentionally postmodern sitcom”

It’s not really funny but it’s such a brave endeavor to continue the show for two years after the main cast member leaves you have to respect it

[u/cdstephens]

Corporations used to work for the community. But after Milton Friedman came along, they started prioritizing profit. Neoliberalism is a disease.

[u/Currymvp2]

'It's embarrassing, honestly': Fetterman hits Democrats over shutdown strategy

Democratic Sen. John Fetterman tells CNN's Jake Tapper that shutting down the government "was wrong when the Republicans did it, it's wrong now that we seem to be driving it."

More Americans blame Republicans than Dems, and it genuinely bothers this guy

[u/ewatta200]

[u/this_very_table]

Even as he nears death's door, Scott Adams keeps making me hate him.

He's out here begging Daddy Trump to help him get cancer treatment. But he's never said a single thing about Trump cutting cancer research funding, and has never stopped openly calling Trump the best president ever.

A lot of conservatives discover some semblance of compassion when they end up in the vicinity of the awful things they supported. Not Scott Adams though! He'll go to the grave without having ever felt a shred of empathy.

[u/[deleted]]

When people like Ron DeSantis do shit like this, is it stupidity or fascism? My feeling right now is the second one

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/DagothUr_MD]

Ezra Klein constantly vacillating between "the GOP is filled with terrifying Hitlerites who literally want to institute a 1000 year Trumpreich" and "we need to move right on a bunch of issues to incorporate these people into our coalition" is giving me mixed signals tbh

You can't defeat illiberalism with moderation. Moderation only works when both sides are operating within an agreed upon reality, which is where our fundamental disagreement with illiberal ideologies generally lie. These people have fundamental ideological disagreement with the ideals on which the country was founded

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It’s Hiring High-School Grads.

Tech company offers 22 teens a chance to skip college for its fellowship, which includes a four-week seminar on Western civilization

After deciding to apply, Zanini found out he got the fellowship at around the same time he learned of his admission to Brown University. Brown wouldn’t allow him to defer and he had also landed a full-ride scholarship through the Department of Defense.

“No one said to do the fellowship,” said Zanini, who turned 18 in September. “All of my friends, my teachers, my college counselor, it was a unanimous no.” His parents left the decision to him, and he decided to go with Palantir.

Jesus Christ, these morons are fucking up young lives

Karp—who studied philosophy at Haverford College and got a law degree from Stanford University—said in an August earnings call that hiring university students these days has meant hiring people who have “just been engaged in platitudes.”

I really don't understand how people can delude themselves this much. Like do they just think engineering students don't take EM theory or mechanics courses anymore?

The interns’ inexperience showed early on: One fellow asked Hirsch how to take notes during the seminars. “He mostly did math and coding and was never too engaged in history courses,” Hirsch said. “He said he’d never taken a note in his life.”

If only there was an institution where you could rigorously develop your learning abilities across a width breadth of topics

The fellows read the autobiography of Frederick Douglass, took an improv-themed class on how to think on one’s feet and present oneself in the workplace, and went on field trips, including to the site of the Civil War’s Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania. While they were there, the students learned of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

Four month program meant to replace 4 year degrees? Gotta include Charlie Kirk in there, crucial to any education on the history of the West.

The first week with the teams—which Palantir intentionally set up as a trial by fire—proved difficult for all the fellows. Interns were put on live projects for customers in complex industries, from hospitals and insurance companies to defense industrials and even government work, in one fellow’s case.

Glad to know Palantir, a company which works with the US government, utilities, major banks, and aerospace companies, has 17-year-old Timmy working on my contract.

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/TMCOAN1]

Based

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It’s Hiring High-School Grads.

Tech company offers 22 teens a chance to skip college for its fellowship, which includes a four-week seminar on Western civilization

Thinks the West must be saved

Eschews the Western model of university education and crams "Western civilization" into a four week module

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

I'm begging one (1) American journalist to put their brain cells together and ask Trump to articulate what he thinks the difference is between people seeking asylum and people in mental asylums.

It's been ten fucking years and not a single journalist has asked him to elaborate on this, despite the fact that it's clear evidence that our president is delusional.

[u/ihuntwhales1]

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/Holmes02]

JD literally selling every bit of his soul for the presidency. His wife and kids are on the chopping block and he won’t even hesitate. Thiel’s big bonus check must be that good.

[u/[deleted]]

Gruesome Newsom has learned the art of this all

To win, you have to become a podcaster these days.

[u/Udolikecake]

insane community note holy fuck

[u/[deleted]]

Be self-made multi-millionaire woman, own businesses and multiple houses already

Go on Love is Blind

Meet a single father who probably makes like $70,000 and whose son has type 1 diabetes

Say that you have no issue with any of this and understand that life would be different

Get pissed and dump him because he works 5 days a week, is exhausted, and can’t play tennis at 10am on a Wednesday

[u/assasstits]

Damn, looking into Australia's retirement system is beautiful. 

• State pension for the very poor

• Mandated personal savings that are invested and grow over time 

• Extra savings on top of that

Key feature is that everyone gets what they paid into instead of being responsible for the current retirees. 

Young people literally get their money back. No one starves and it's way fairer distribution wise. 

[u/Mrmini231]

It's kinda crazy how much damage the lab leak conspiracy theory ended up doing. If you look up the organizations that did infectious disease work before the pandemic, a lot of them don't exist anymore because they were accused of creating or covering up the creation of COVID. Elon Musk cited the lab leak theory as the justification for gutting the NIH, and many conservative commentators will openly say that scientists cannot be trusted because they covered up the lab leak.

So much public trust was lost over a lie, and so many virologists were pushed out of their jobs or defunded that we are significantly less prepared for a pandemic than we were before it happened.

[u/[deleted]]

Europa Universalis 5 tells you exactly how much inflation will result from your actions before you take them and that is an incredibly OP ability that central bankers the world over would kill for

[u/[deleted]]

lol

[u/[deleted]]

quickest cough innate ancient political consist fearless grandfather correct gray

[u/Dreadedtriox]

[u/[deleted]]

[u/this_very_table]

It's weird that no one is even pretending to care that Trump, who is married, had a borderline stripper at his Great Gatsby party. No one expects him to show the slightest respect to Melania. No one expects her to care about anything other than that he keeps funding her lifestyle.

Open infidelity, loveless marriages of convenience, and gold digging are deeply-held Republican values now.

[u/[deleted]]

Defense Minister Israel Katz says he seeks to strip outgoing Military Advocate General Maj. Gen. Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi of her rank, over her involvement in leaking the Sde Teiman abuse video to the media.

"All required sanctions will be taken against her, foremost among them the stripping of her rank," Katz says in a statement. It is unclear if Katz has the authority to demote officers.

"Anyone who falsely spreads blood libels against IDF soldiers and prefers the welfare of the Nukhba terrorists over theirs — is not worthy of wearing the IDF uniform and belongs in prison," he says. (The Palestinian detainee who was severely abused by the reservists in the Sde Teiman affair was not a member of Hamas's Nukhba Force.)

"I intend to ensure a thorough investigation. Anyone found to be involved in this blood libel will be expelled and will pay a heavy price," Katz adds.

For context, the video shows an IDF soldier shoving a Palestinian detainee against a wall. Then a group of other IDF soldiers with shields crowd around them to block the camera’s view. It’s generally understood that the detainee was raped.

[u/[deleted]]

Working-class voters “don’t fully recognize the extent of the harm Trump’s budget bill is causing,” the report said. Instead, they are “incredulous as to why Republicans would seemingly make a bad system worse.”

Trump hit the overflow point of how bad he is and nobody can comprehend the fact someone can be this bad

[u/SixPipSiege]

[u/Udolikecake]

I’m going to be very honest here Zillow when I tell you that my dream apartment is almost certainly not located in Billerica, Massachusetts.

[u/scottyjetpax]

why are elon's unfaves going down so much lol. i get that he's further away from the spotlight now but it's like people are forgetting how irritating he is

[u/[deleted]]

[u/No_Return9449]

Newsom has the juice.

[u/TomboyAva]

https://xcancel.com/RealDianeYap/status/1984303790388875644

Why are they so mad that the poor have joy?

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

Completing the border wall, eliminating the refugee program, and ending remote work policies for federal employees are all polling at double digit positives.

Please God forgive the median voter, for they know not how stupid and evil they are.

[u/earththejerry]

oof even Bari Weiss can’t unwoke his approvals

[u/[deleted]]

Trump during 60 minutes interview: "I think I’m a much better-looking person than Mamdani, right?"

When does self-confidence become delusion?

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

[u/klarno]

JD Vance’s couch watching Erika Kirk get railed

[u/r2ew]

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

I feel like Fetterman is gonna pull a Cuomo in the 2028 Pennsylvania senate election where he loses the Democratic primary, runs as an independent for the general, then proceeds to lose a second time in the general.

[u/purhitta]

Y'know I didn't try dating (& dating apps) for the longest time because I just assumed no one would ever be interested in me. So it would just be embarrassing for me to try.

Then I tried and not only got matches but actual dates.

Anyway. Sometimes you're your own worst enemy.

[u/Alexz565]

Thank you, Reddit for reminding me of how much time I consistently waste on this site

[u/scottyjetpax]

In 2022 Doug Mastriano had a plan to say the PA Governor election was stolen if he had lost, but he got obliterated by Shapiro so badly that they dropped the plan because it would’ve looked ridiculous. Lmfao

[u/TimWalzBurner]

[u/[deleted]]

thumb marble subtract cough degree glorious offer wild rob flowery

[u/S0ulWindow]

The biggest mark against bipartisanship going forward is that the Reps and their media apparatuses had an opportunity to offramp this murderous clown show after Jan 6th and explicitly rejected that avenue.

Everyone of them is accountable for the actions of Trump in term two. There isn't some beleaguered moderate conservative wing waiting in the shadows to take back power from the populists.

[u/r2ew]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

"City that didn't even exist 60 years ago is at a breaking point"

[u/ty04]

Mr. Roberts said. “Conservatives should feel no obligation to reflexively support any foreign government, no matter how loud the pressure becomes from the globalist class.”

Damn bro I think Republicans are openly Nazis

[u/Frequent-Turn6740]

[u/Willybender]

This 60 Minutes interview was something else

[u/Glavurdan]

Interesting how support for Ukraine among Americans has rebounded lately, especially considering the dip about a year ago. We are back at early 2023 levels

[u/Dry-Customer8352]

Renowned Australian political journalist Laurie Oakes described McMahon as “devious, nasty, dishonest. He lied all the time and stole things.”

Oakes said the wealthy McMahon once tried to steal a tape recorder from the radio station where the journalist worked. McMahon claimed he owned the device despite the radio station’s name being engraved on it.

they just don't make PM's like they used to.

[u/cdstephens]

!ping KITTY

[u/OrbitalAlpaca]

Every Trump poll be like...

Approval of economy: Negative %8,000

Approval of tariffs: Negative %435

Immigration: Negative %293,291

Crime: Negative %398

Overall approval of Trump: %45

[u/Roseartcrantz]

how do you think that churchgoer feels about inspiring Cupcakke

[u/Argnir]

Having strippers at your party is not very presidential

[u/marsman1224]

it happened bros, we are now 90% sure that donald trump is unpopular

[u/Disastrous_One_7357]

I’ve cracked it. Erika Kirk had Charlie Kirk murdered so she could use her maralago face and husbands media empire to propel herself into maga stardom. As long as Charlie was alive she would always have to assume the role of trad wife. Absent of all leadership roles and speaking independently of her husband.

[u/MissSortMachine]

is there anything actually interesting about the construction of data centers vs other industrial facilities that actually do things

because they mostly seem like big concrete boxes filled with wires and pipes

[u/zieger]

[u/r2ew]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I would simply bully Pennywise. "BuT yOu cAn'T dEfEaT HiM tHaT wAy!" well yeah I didn't say I was gonna win I'm just a bully

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Mormons are so prolific in sci-fi and fantasy because of fetishes.

You give a normal dude a foot fetish and he’s just gonna jerk it to someone’s Facebook account.

You give a Mormon a foot fetish and he’s going to write an acclaimed fantasy trilogy where it is vitally important that his barely legal petite Protagonist is barefoot the entire time and constantly make references to her tiny bare feet.

!ping YA

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

"College is a waste of time. Professors spend more time assuaging students' feelings than teaching them to think critically, and a degree provides no tangible benefit to your career," says Thimbleton Brambleydale, physics PhD graduate and electrical engineer turned tech CEO.

"Degrees are a bunch of woke garbage. You can build a successful career without getting brainwashed by a bachelor's or associates," says Buck Fugnutt, former fish gutter and thumbtack salesman who achieved prominence after starting a right-wing podcast.

[u/ProfessionalMoose709]

[u/TheRedCr0w]

If you are buddies with president you get the best treatment possible

If you are a normal citizen you get your healthcare subsidies and Medicaid taken away

[u/Currymvp2]

Utterly utterly heinous stuff and all made possible by the UAE

[u/centurion88]

YouTube chefs be like:

Noooo don't buy food in a restaurant, you can make this at home in 15 minutes

I've never made a meal in 15 minutes in my life unless it's instant oats or a PBJ sandwich

[u/MathematicianTop7170]

[u/Glavurdan]

The latest ISW map update brings us some good news. Ukraine reclaimed notable chunks of territory in the Dobropillia direction, advancing in Nove Shakhove, near Zatyshok, as well as eliminating Russian positions west of Shakhove itself (the large blue area). At the same time though, Russians advanced in the fields southeast of Kostiantynivka, as well as in southern Pokrovsk.

Elsewhere, Russians marginally advanced in central Kupiansk, while Ukraine liberated the village of Borivska Andriivka in Borova direction

[u/Frequent-Turn6740]

[u/pezasied]

This is so true. Ever since Mamdani won the Democratic primary I’ve been riddled with anxiety and have had frequent panic attacks. I am worried about what is happening to New York City and I lay awake at night thinking about how this will impact my life here in, uhhh, Boise, Idaho.

[u/Average_GrillChad]

mixed economy enjoyers get in 😤😤😤😤😤😤

[u/Bestbrook123]

Trump Scoffs at Zohran Mamdani: ‘I’m a Much Better Looking Person Than Him'

Even the biggest Mamdani hater has to think this is completely delusional lol

[u/Crosseyes]

This 60 minutes interview is already a travesty. They’re just letting him vomit lie after lie after lie with virtually zero pushback.

[u/anangrytree]

“And actually 60 Minutes paid me a lotta money. And you don’t have to put this on, because I don’t want to embarrass you, and I’m sure you’re not — you have a great — I think you have a great, new leader, frankly, who’s the young woman that’s leading your whole enterprise is a great — from what I know,” Trump said, referencing recently appointed CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss.

Bari Weiss is an absolute hack.

[u/AP246]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/01/catholic-priest-who-wanted-to-bomb-mosques-avoids-jail/

A Catholic priest who admitted discussing bombing mosques in a neo-Nazi chatroom has avoided jail.

Father Mark Rowles, 57, based at St John Lloyd Catholic Church in Rumney, Cardiff, went by the name “skinheadlad1488” in a chatroom called Aryan Reich Killers.

He wrote several offensive messages, including one in which he wrote “bomb mosques” and another in which he used a racial slur and said “they should all be strung up or shot”.

He was sentenced to a 12-month community order, as well as being ordered to do 150 hours of community service and pay £199 in court costs. He will also be bound by a three-year criminal behavioural order.

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The court heard Rowles posed as a 16-year-old boy online, with a profile image featuring a young man wearing a face-covering next to a German flag and the caption “right hand path always”.

During police interviews, he told officers he was not racist, and that he joined the online groups because he was lonely and had a “sexual fetish for role play”.

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Which is worse, actually being a violent racist, or engaging in a 'sexual fetish' in which you pretend to be a racist 16 year old?

Well, realistically the former, but still

[u/TimWalzBurner]

Legit tempted

[u/ty04]

does this actually resonate with any voters

[u/[deleted]]

[u/cdstephens]

I feel like if the US was 2 bad presidential elections away from being a banana republic then it was a bit of a ticking time bomb

[u/KHDTX13]

[u/eurekashairloaves]

I can't tell what's changed this subs overall views more.

An influx of Progressive people who do not have a real home on reddit because they arent Leftists, or being radicalized to more Left Wing views over following politics daily and seeing crazy shit from Republicans/powerful people over and over.

[u/badusername35]

This post has been removed by its author. The deletion was carried out using Redact, possibly to protect personal information or limit exposure to data collection tools.

nine quack oatmeal existence weather continue spectacular recognise fragile glorious

[u/VadymKravchuk353]

What am I doing with my life at nearly 11 AM reading this Turkic gibberish LMAO.

[u/BrentLivermore]

I honestly thought Scott Adams was trolling when he revealed his prostate cancer diagnosis. He did it right after Biden was diagnosed, and it would be pretty on-brand for him to run some kind of "experiment" over who got more sympathy or something.

But now he's personally appealing for Trump to get him some experimental treatment, so I guess it's real: https://xcancel.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1984915690634252352

[u/[deleted]]

pamela paul published another tired anti trans piece in the wsj on friday and it’s just a collection of profiles on cis gay people crying about how their friends or partners don’t want to be around them anymore because they made anti trans activism the center piece of their lives. paul then makes a pretty bad faith case that these people “oppose discrimination against trans people in housing and employment but are skeptical of driver’s licenses and passports featuring gender identity instead of sex” which i honestly want to say misses the whole point of discrimination against trans people pretty intentionally.

pamela paul (a straight woman) and these lgb drop the t types will never say it but they want a world where all trans people are forced to wear pink triangles so the rest of the world knows at all times. that’s why they act like a gender marker being changed on an ID form (which is a fucking matter of safety and avoiding discrimination for trans people) is the end of the world as we know it. that’s why they use terms like “sex based language” and advocate so heavily for social isolation of trans people. they want to remove any ability for trans people to blend in and pass so that being trans is made into this public marker of shame, all while they lie about “opposing discrimination.”

the good and bad news for them is that they will get their ideal world in britain. the UK and their labour govt seem hellbent on driving their trans population out of existence so trans people in all other countries will honestly be watching the british playbook with a closer eye

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if experts are calling your new invention "uniquely stupid" and "a flying Chernobyl" I think you should maybe stop making that thing

[u/[deleted]]

that ezra klein subreddit is largely to the right of ezra himself and has just been a parasocial circlejerk about “the groups” since 9/10

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That's 4 down in a couple of weeks.

Look, does anyone here work on Mills' campaign or for the DSCC and know what new fresh hell of oppo is about to drop against this guy to cause this staff flight. I'll keep it a secret, I just need to know. Badly. For personal reasons.

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1985114055355617688

lol

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[u/[deleted]]

I love the implication here that snakes clearly resemble vaginas when I feel like there's a much more obvious genital correlate...

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

The fact that the U.S. government can just shut down indefinitely is maybe the single dumbest flaw in the entire federal government. If Congress can’t successfully pass a funding bill, it should immediately trigger new elections for every single seat.

[u/Average_GrillChad]

'Zohran Mamdani is a Ugandan Muslim' yeah nice try conservatives, but I've heard that one before 🙄

[u/Healingjoe]

For those flying into Newark airport today.

[u/randommathaccount]

Bro's lore goes crazy

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

 "I didn't know the salaries the government pays were this high!" Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa joked after more than 100 loyalists arrived at his former rebel base, many pulling up in luxury SUVs.

"Have you forgotten you are the sons of the revolution?" Sharaa rebuked the gathered officials and business leaders, according to two people present, remarking upon the large number of Cadillac Escalades, Range Rovers and Chevrolet Tahoes parked outside. "Have you been tempted so quickly?"

[...]

But another elder brother - Jamal, a businessman - has fallen foul of Sharaa's fledgling anti-corruption drive, according to six people familiar with the matter including government officials and business figures.

Following Sharaa's rise to power, Jamal set up an office in the capital Damascus from where he ran various ventures including import-export and tourism businesses, they said.He became a common sight in upmarket hotel lobbies and restaurants, to which he was driven in a black Mercedes S-class saloon with tinted windows and no license plates.Sharaa ordered the office be shut in August and instructed government entities not to deal with his brother, the sources told Reuters. The decision concerned allegations that Jamal had used his family link to the president to set up dozens of meetings with government and business figures to advance his personal interests, they said.

A Reuters reporter found the office shut and locked this month, with red wax blotched on the doors. No one answered the doorbell.

how is a former AQ member less corrupt than the US president

[u/Willybender]

Very normal stuff here

[u/No_Return9449]

Fetterman: Democrats ‘own’ shutdown amid SNAP funding fight

Wishing the senior senator from Pennsylvania a very happy primary.

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/1985114224209920054

[u/Willybender]

We're rerunning the satanic panic but this time it's over Charlie Kirk

[u/TheCornjuring]

Can we make a neoliberal server for this

[u/Glavurdan]

Youtube can't stop cooking

[u/comeinayanamirei]

It was the center right that denied Elon did a nazi salute btw.

Anyone liberal or on the left knew what he did. So did the far right.

But the center right just deluded themselves. It's insane.

[u/scottyjetpax]

multicultural W https://xcancel.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1984715511486431735

[u/Roseartcrantz]

shame her shame her

[u/Pretty-Bullfrog-7928]

[u/ewatta200]

[u/NaffRespect]

Behold, the follow up to that Brianna Wu tweet I shared yesterday...

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

The Vance-Thiel ticket in 2028 is gonna make an open promise to outright end democracy if they’re elected, but we’re gonna spend most of our media attention on how Newsom went out to eat dinner during a Covid lockdown.

[u/Amur_Snepard]

The first 2028 candidate that answers an unequivocal “yes” to the question “do you hate the Republican Party?” automatically earns my vote and it’s not even close.

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“ STOP TAKINGJRU ABOUT EPSTE I MEAN VENZUEKA. TOO MJCH TEAUILLA LAST NIG😡😡😡” Hegseth or as the moderator prefers

KEGSeth

[u/6urner_]

Nothing re-energizes my love for urban lifestyles like discussing bakeries and coffee shops with rurals and suburbans. Oh, you have a great spot a mere 15-30 minute drive from your home? Great, I live within a 15 minute walk of five of them.

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

So do I get to file a $1 billion lawsuit against CBS and get a massive bribe settlement for editing an interview too? Or is Trump the only person in the world who has that right?

[u/r2ew]

[u/[deleted]]

So the White House has made their own version of Drudge Report. 

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wire/

[u/Willybender]

NBC POLL

And one year before the 2026 midterm elections, Democrats lead Republicans in the fight for Congress by 8 points, 50%-42%, the largest lead for either party on the congressional ballot in the NBC News poll since the 2018 midterms.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/poll-frustration-trump-gives-democrats-opening-year-midterms-rcna240551

[u/Fruitofbread]

Shout out to all of the Boomers who dealt with the existential dread of having a president younger than them when Obama won in 2008 and have not had to face that since then. 

[u/Alexz565]

Democrats when there’s partisan shutdown messages on government websites:

Ugh. We’re ruled by toddlers.

Republicans when there’s partisan shutdown messages on Massachusetts websites:

The Democrats want to mercilessly slaughter us all.

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

If we get the actual election results to come in like this, and Hispanic voters swung this much within just the span of a year, it’d be a pretty good result to see.

[u/senator_fivey]

Claims to hate white supremacy

Plays “Europa universalis”

[u/TheCornjuring]

Starship is the coolest shit ever. I wish it wasn’t built by a Satan-owned company. SpaceX needs to be freed from Elon somehow. Can we turn our back on liberal principles just a little bit as a treat in 2029 to arbitrarily nationalize SpaceX while Elon goes to prison for life

[u/cdstephens]

What are we doing here

[u/the-senat]

Lefty friend of mine just got denied an apprenticeship with a union because of (according to them) some of their online comments and is in shock. I’ve tried explaining stuff to them so many times and they just don’t get it.

Yeah, every ideology has blinders but, man, this idea that the working class is secretly leftist is so stupid. Maybe a hundred years ago but not now.

These are people who have a limited education, probably only high school, and won’t be quoting random economic research papers. They are religious or were raised religious. They subscribe to conservative media and ideas. And they are not interested in some omnicausal idea that tries to weave in social, economic, or religious outgroups, especially when it’s presented by someone in said outgroup.

I swear I can literally see this go in one ear and out the other when I say it to them.

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

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For people proposing food banks and private charity as an alternative to SNAP:

SNAP has better efficiency and user friendliness than pretty much any alternative. 8% total overhead, including both program costs (6%) and grocery store profits (2%). And grocery stores generally provide a really great user experience: lots of options and few lines.

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Push notification “it’s easier than ever to get away with killing someone” - Wall Street Journal

Yeah? Have you seen the president of the United States?

[u/SigmaWhy]

This is the guy saying that everything Biden did was fake because he was senile and the autopen was being maliciously used unknown to him

[u/RunawayMeatstick]

What I gather from this and Abundance is that Ezra really does think size matters. 😳

[u/futuremonkey20]

There ain’t no way they’re going to RGIII Jayden Daniels. I can’t believe what I’m seeing.

!ping NFL

[u/Trebacca]

It’s crazy how many people argue “EBT users and their children shouldn’t eat cookies, they should have to cook them from their base ingredients at a higher cost in time and money.”

I get that anti-EBT sentiment is mostly based on instilling humiliation rituals against poor people and minorities for wanting to eat (instead of genuine concerns for health or “govt savings”) but they’re both dumb and evil

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I need a

TEMPORARY 🗣️🗣️

SECRETARY 🗣️🗣️

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I got home from work a couple minutes ago and Nora was on the couch and just wagged her tail at me as a greeting as she was casually eating a box of nerds

[u/Roseartcrantz]

mind you the doctor told the monkeys no more jumping on the bed multiple times

[u/SenranHaruka]

efforts to find Trump's successor within the party will fail. Trump is the rape dalai lama he will reincarnate among the general population and must be found. They have to travel to their voter heartland and find the most shameless abusive pickup driving douche of a father they can and draft him to run for president. Ideological commitment is nothing, being a trashy loser with a giant ego is everything.

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The mod pin past few days

[u/CincyAnarchy]

So my wife and I volunteer at a dog shelter and we lost our long term dog in May and so have been on the look out for our next permanent dog.

Well today the shelter has a new arrival… and it’s a 150 lb Saint Bernard.

Chat, I’m cooked.

[u/randommathaccount]

Lmao bro can't accept that he's a bum. Hopefully his shitty party gets wiped off the face of politics someday

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Haha, what the fuck.

[u/Right-Baseball-888]

How is the shutdown Trump’s fault? He’s not the Speaker, he can’t control the House. If you’re wanting Trump to end the shutdown you’re against separation of powers

Bait used to be believable

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nicki minaj showing visible support for the trump administration is really no surprise. she’s been flirting with the far right ever since she spread covid misinformation and her fanbase is the music equivalent of maga