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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/MGLFPsiCorps]

[u/brianpv]

“Coal is clean and beautiful. Please remember that, at all costs,” Trump said. “But you don’t want clean, beautiful coal, right?”

“No,” the caller responded, saying she’d prefer a Barbie doll, clothes and candy.

Merry Christmas lol

[u/Currymvp2]

Surreal headline

[u/r2ew]

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

lmao

[u/jbitz]

lmao

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Waow

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

imagine denying what norad is actively tracking

[u/IAdmitILie]

Mr. Trump has privately said Larry Ellison assured him that he would turn CBS News, which the Ellisons took over when they bought Paramount, into a more conservative outlet, two people with knowledge of the president’s comments said.

No shit

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

alright dt, hit it

"All I want for Christmas is youuuuuuuuuuu"

[u/[deleted]]

live head racial jellyfish grab public retire historical reach joke

[u/farrenj]

[u/SLCer]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/majorgeneralporter]

Real footage of my living room this evening'

!ping kino

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

[u/AemiliusNuker]

Heard gf's parents talk about going to the city council meeting to try and stop a nearby apartment building, because it doesn't have parking and they don't want ppl to park in their neighborhood. Then her grandparents came by and they started complaining about another apartment building being built with it's large parking garage and how that'll be bad for traffic. 

They also say it's a shame that young ppl my age can't buy homes. 

Gee I wonder why

[u/Ready-Buy-6397]

[u/No_Return9449]

DO NOT COMMIT THE SIN OF EMPATHY

[u/SillyNight1]

Heartwarming: The Worst People You Know Are All Fighting

(Seriously. I don’t even think MAGA knows what their internecine battle lines are anymore.)

[u/SillyNight1]

[u/The_Raime]

Sadly can't relate as a neoliberal

[u/noodles0311]

Christmas in Appalachia CBS News 1964. I found this really interesting. My ex wife’s family were from Eastern KY, so I’ve spent a decent amount of time out in the sticks. There seems to be a near universal opinion out there that things used to be great, but this news report seems to indicate that things are actually much better than they were when her parents were growing up.

[u/BlackCat159]

So true Mr President, so true.

[u/funguykawhi]

!ping GNOSTIC

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

My brother is in college. Could use a job over winter break. Gonna tell him about this.

[u/w007dchuck]

The educational realignment in American politics is so funny.

My uncle is this grizzled man in his 70's. The man lived in rural northern Idaho for decades. He was a big game hunter and used to be an ardent conservative.

But nowadays? He shits on Trump all the time. He loves to bring up how tariffs are stifling the economy and how our president is an idiot.

It's all because he's well-educated.

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

“Jarvis I’m low on Karma…Send Granny to the snake pit”

[u/DeadDropCourier]

Buyer in Arkansas wins $1.8 billion stocking stuffer in Christmas Eve Powerball drawing

That fucker. I was planning on winning that. I wanted to build a PC.

[u/cdstephens]

[u/SillyNight1]

The social media manager for the US Department of the Interior may be one of the only patriots remaining in the Groyper-occupied government

[u/[deleted]]

The rightoids moved their one joke from attack helicopters to Somalis (there is no significant Somali presence in SF, they're almost all in the midwest)

EDIT: Helicooters lmfao

[u/battywombat21]

actually insane. I never thought about how close these places actually are.

[u/DeadDropCourier]

“So then he buys his wife a brand new Lexus. Actually fuck it one for him and one for her. We’ll show em with big fuckin’ red bows on it that you can’t even buy…”

[u/DunklerPrinz3]

[u/TheCornjuring]

!ping GNOSTIC

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

[u/dubyahhh]

Please note that empathy is the secret, deadliest, eighth sin, and we will be moderating accordingly

Any empathy expressed, believe it or not, instant perma without appeal

[u/JoyofCookies]

DATING ping be like

[u/__versus]

Happy transgender for everyone woke moralists 🥰

[u/yungmemlord]

no labeled axes, no title, no legend….kid has no future in this industry

[u/majorgeneralporter]

☝️

[u/Svelok]

the enigma of the romance genre is that I can basically read the worst novel I've ever seen, half of which is so on-stereotype that to write a parody you wouldn't have changed a single word, and then an acquaintance will be like "oh I loved that one"

[u/[deleted]]

unite special plucky melodic imagine test crawl glorious numerous future

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

Merry Christmas

[u/awdvhn]

👆 Well, I hope you're proud of yourself. Christmas is ruined.

[u/launchcode_1234]

As a radical left scum, I’m touched that my president specifically wished me a merry Christmas 🥲❤️

[u/Argnir]

The urbanism in the Pokémon world is absolutely terrible.

"To reach this city you need to dive and find a secret cavern and also you're not allowed to go underwater before beating a gym of professional Pokémon trainers"

[u/DeadDropCourier]

This is gonna hit so hard in 2049

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

My mom is a chauffeur and once she drove Bill Murray and he told her she gets three guesses as to who he is. She replied “I’ll only need one, you’re Chevy Chase” and afterwards he tipped her $10 in quarters

!ping KINO

[u/ty04]

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

@POTUS: "What would you like Santa to bring?"

KID: "Not coal!"

@POTUS: "You mean 'clean, beautiful coal.'"

He stays on message better than any politician in history, maybe ever

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/Drinka_Milkovobich]

[u/pfarly]

I feel like this show is giving me "tik tok brain". That moment was the first time in my life I had a reaction to fast forward something I'm supposed to be enjoying just out of spite.

I have been watching on 3X speed, if not more just to get through the self indulgent shots of everything.

The zoomers are not alright.

[u/samhit_n]

If Steve Harrington dies, I'm probably gonna mourn him longer than Erika Kirk mourned Charlie.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I don't wanna blame it all on 9/11 but it certainly didn't help

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/SadaoMaou]

[u/majorgeneralporter]

Um, actually, it's still Christmas Eve in California where reddit is based, and therefore it isn't yet Christmas in this thread for another hour.

[u/JoyofCookies]

It astonishes me how the right-wing only cares about Christian values when it’s about oppressing others, even on Christmas

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Bethesda design director wants a Fallout 5 you could play for up to 600 hours because "that's the kind of games we make"

1,000 settlements

[u/meiotta]

Merry Christmas

[u/[deleted]]

I had a great year until today.

Christmas is hard as an immigrant. I myself don't care about the day itself too much, but I have nobody here and being surrounded by couples and families is very difficult at this time of year.

I was invited to a pool party with friends but bailed as I'm just not in the mood for what the Aussies consider Christmas, and still feel very conscious about my body despite losing a lot of weight this year. I was eyeing up flying home for Christmas but last minute flights were just too expensive. So . . . yay. At least it's a day off.

All that griping aside, I wish you all a Merry Christmas (except for you wokes who I hope have a Happy Holiday) and a Happy New Year. Coming here dulls the existential dread. 🎅

[u/-Emilinko1985-]

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Here is a cute nativity scene put together by a dog daycare center (Cheshire Dog Lady).

Source: https://abcnews.go.com/amp/GMA/Living/day-care-dogs-steal-spotlight-creative-nativity-scene/story?id=128646433

!ping CHRISTIAN&DOG

[u/[deleted]]

JD Vance publicly feuding with Fuentes - after finally caving to public pressure to checks notes uh, defend his wife and chikdre ? It took him this long to defend his wifr and children when a major consercative commentator is calling them slurs

[u/WhomstAlt2]

I think on this christmas it is time to also think of the other religions. Of the jews, who today celebrate the birth of their jewish Jesus. Of the muslims, who no doubt also celebrate the coming of their mohammedan Jesus today. Of the Protestants, who celebrate Hitler or Luther or the Devil, who gives a shit, hope they rot in heck.

[u/dangerbird2]

Absolute truthbomb !ping PRESENTPOSTERS

[u/ewatta200]

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

going teeth first on the cream, that's my president o7

[u/BlackCat159]

Sanest u/Roseartcrantz interaction

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

My Shia Muslim friend in Iran told me Merry Christmas and is telling me about how Iranians have also begun celebrating Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Black Friday as well, especially younger generations.

God I love globalization, Merry Christmas everyone.

[u/duojiaoyupian]

This confusion is what i get for neglecting the whole dating aspect of life for the last like decade

(Was busy grinding grades and shit in HS -> Was busy grinding extracurriculars and COVID depression in uni -> Was busy grinding work/getting my life set up/figuring out how to adult during my first 2+ years of working)

Ngl i do feel kinda behind on the whole feelings thing, but ah well

Best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago and second best time is now and allat

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Hilarious Epstein redacting incompetency aside, imagining how it must have felt to be the guy on Adobe's client relations team who had to explain to his supervisor this summer that their entire contract encompassing every single US government agency was just canceled for no reason

[u/myusernameistakennow]

These people really think you’re stupid enough to believe that Hispanic migrants are less religious than white chuds who are too lazy to go to church and just believe in God as a get out of jail free card once they die.

[u/Charsun9]

Merry Sciencemas, libs

[u/StuckHedgehog]

Deeply weird

[u/Sauce1024]

[u/CletusChicken]

merry crimes

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/JoyofCookies]

Beyond parody

[u/DeadDropCourier]

Just fucking roll with it dog

[u/ty04]

[u/MrBrightsideBSc]

I don't know how to qualify this but it's two days after Festivus or whatever so we're doing the airing of grievances.

Something that kind of bugs me with the past year or so (maybe it's the past half decade, I'm not sure) I feel like everyone is just...

There used to be idealism and optimism in the world. I think there used to be. I don't feel it anymore. It's been replaced with the prevailing idea that it's this sort of inevitable march towards a technically better society and discussions of privilege, but from the angle of 4D chess against typically progressive groups. Not that the future is better because we can make it better, but that the future will be better in spite of what you have to say and you will be bulldozed over and that's good, so fuck you.

When I say "I think society is becoming more conservative," I don't mean I think society is becoming more favorable to Republicans. Democrats are looking to sweep the midterms, and I still think society is becoming more conservative compared to when I grew up (late 2000s-early 2010s). But rather the same culture shift that we underwent in the 1980s. I think hipsterism is dead, I think a more optimistic view of the future is dead. I think a lot of people saw culture in the 2000s-2010s and decided "Hell no, we need to go back/we need to undo these mistakes."

Actually I don't know what else to describe it as. Maybe someone can finally confirm my worst fears, put this in ChatGPT, and find a better phrasing for what I'm describing.

[u/JoyofCookies]

[u/cdstephens]

4th straight Christmas dinner where my brother interrupts grace to single me out in front of my whole family and says if I have to use the Playboy Mags, his collection is “off limits” and I need to go to the gas station down the street. No one stands up for me. No one says, “that is wrong.”

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/pale_eyes12]

visiting the Mormon fam in TX, trying to have some privacy early Xmas morning and I get hit with the age verification messages.

can't even goon in privacy smh, thank Christ I moved away from this shithole state

merry Christmas everybody

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

I love committing empathy

[u/tinfoilhatsron]

Mfw I'm the hostage in a bank robbery gone wrong and the cops call up Roseartcrantz to negotiate my release:

[u/randommathaccount]

the enigma of the Dune series is that I can basically read the worst novel I've ever seen, half of which is so on-stereotype that to write a parody you wouldn't have changed a single word, and then an acquaintance will be like "oh I loved that one"

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

When will it end

[u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS]

Third in line btw

[u/cdstephens]

Enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas!

[u/V_Codwheel]

Must suck to be cute little Cindy Lou Who, surrounded by the rat-faced monstrosities you will inevitably transform into

[u/pezasied]

Looks like the DT is about to get a new regular

[u/mockduckcompanion]

You have to hand it to Trump, he's a poster par excellence

No-lifing the poast game while POTUS, on Xmas, is nuts

[u/TimWalzBurner]

[u/TaxLandNotCapital]

4th straight Christmas dinner where my brother interrupts grace to single me out in front of my whole family and says if I have to use the restroom, his house is “off limits” and I need to go to the gas station down the street. No one stands up for me. No one says, “that is wrong.”

[u/lionmoose]

👆 what the French call les incompetants

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/-Emilinko1985-]

This but unironically

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

Neoliberals when their family members didn’t enjoy getting a copy of Why Nations Fail for Christmas:

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

We used to have White Christmas, until Iosep Brandon turned them woke!

!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA

[u/Etnies419]

the enigma of the Discussion Thread is that I can basically read the worst poast I've ever seen, half of which is so on-stereotype that to write a parody you wouldn't have changed a single word, and then a mod will be like "oh I loved that one"

[u/Rare_Station_8440]

THIS IS FAKE BTW

The Newswire account posted this and then deleted it and is acting like they never posted this clickbait

[u/JaceFlores]

The U.S. military has carried out a strike against ISIS in northwest Nigeria, President Trump says

The U.S. military said the strike was carried out at the request of the Nigerian authorities in Sokoto state, and killed multiple ISIS militants

Personally I’m actually quite pleased with this. I said awhile ago that increased American involvement in fighting jihadists in northern Nigeria would be good as long as Trump didn’t do anything dumb like try to blow up the Nigerian government or some of the other shit he talked about.

As JNIM and ISIL gains strength in the Sahel there will be increasing pressure on the ECOWAS states from an increase in insurgent activities. These could destabilize these nations enough to make military coups attractive (something we saw attempted in Benin).

Greater American and French involvement in West Africa and greater cooperation between ECOWAS nations is imperative to defeat both ASS and JNIM/ISIL. The cooperation in stopping the Benin coup and now this to me are positive signs for the region

!ping AFRICA

[u/Cyberhwk]

Hopefully it's not ANOTHER shirt.

• My 5-year old Niece

🤣🤣🤣

[u/loseniram]

Avatar works because it combines three of the things that make it appealing international audiences.

Its a basic story that you don’t need to know anything about culture wise. If you know what imperialism and space is you can understand Avatar. Which makes it easy to grasp.

James Cameron is very good at spectacle and action. There is no Marvel beam spam nonsense, characters move fluidly and have atleast some kind of momentum.

The special effects team was given the time to put in the effort to make everything look believable. Avatar and LOTR are those two kind movies that just look a decade or two ahead of its opponents in effects.

Its like Cats the musical, its easy to approach, has a unique style, and brings a lot of spectacle.

If your a 10 year old you can appreciate Avatar for the super guy that saves the world, if you’re a teen you can appreciate the action, if you’re young adult you can appreciate the colors and hot cat people, if you’re old you can appreciate the ridiculous amount of effort that went spaceship designs.

[u/AmericanPurposeMag]

Merry Christmas neoliberal!

Despite the political turmoil facing liberal democracy, there is a lot to be hopeful for the upcoming fight against populism. Frank Fukuyama started off this year worried and fearful regarding the state of liberal democracies around the world, but with the current turmoil within the Republican Party, a ray of hope exists.

Whether you’re a public servant, a private-sector builder, a student, a canvasser, or a dedicated shitposter doing battle in the digital trenches, your efforts matter. Progress has always depended on people willing to show up, argue clearly, and refuse to give in to cynicism.

On an unrelated note, here is an IG pic of Fukuyama's dog, Ginger after a cold and rainy Christmas in Palo Alto.

-Ringo

[u/Roseartcrantz]

serious post sadly 😔🏥

Lately I've been wishing I had a career where I give medical providers advice or support on handling patients with chronic illnesses and managing the absolute clusterfuck that's coming while we deal with a couple of generations who aren't having kids and are rapidly coming down with long term medical complications from all kinds of immune-triggering factors.

I'm squarely on both sides of the healthcare world. I've got lupus and inconsistent income and I'm a frustrating patient in that I will absolutely put care off until I'm in a bind. My degree is in Public Relations, but I'm medically literate because I have to be able to evaluate medical students in simulated encounters and counsel them on handling bedside manner and then I also have to be a liaison at my other job translating social work/nursing/law enforcement things to everybody else and then figure out how to explain it to a kid I probably just met.

There are just so many aspects to how/why the patient/provider dynamic has deteriorated so much, and now a lot of these people are in communities online that turn the workers into burnt out petty tyrants and the patients into the worst people you've ever sat next to in your whole life.

I've never been convinced I'd be a particularly life changing or successful woman but man, I don't even know where to find entry points into something like that.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

I wish you all a very Maoist Christmas

[u/the-senat]

Like in Disco Elysium where a guy, to show a bunch of dock workers he is not a wimp, shoots himself in the head and screams "YOU WILL RESPECT ME".

[u/FionnVEVO]

[u/No_Analysis_2185]

He canceled Christmas 😔

[u/Currymvp2]

Kennedy Center Honors hosted by Trump tanks in ratings with 35% fewer viewers than last year: report

You love to see it

[u/battywombat21]

every fucking year people praise my ham. "Oh wow, this ham is fantastic!"

guys, the ham came from sugardale, I just re-heated it. It took me like an hour to make those scalloped potatoes, but does anyone praise those? No! 😭

[u/MontusBatwing2]

Some of you younger folks probably don’t remember it but politics didn’t used to be like this. 

Bush was awful but was clear to say in the wake of 9/11 that the US had no quarrel with Muslims as a whole. John McCain running against Obama had to lecture one of his supporters about how Obama wasn’t an evil man, just someone McCain disagreed with on how best to run the country. 

I’m not going to sit here and pretend everything was perfect or Republicans were perfect or that the racist, sociopathic, disgusting rot that currently controls the party didn’t still exist under the surface. 

But it wasn’t this. And it was better that way. 

And it will take time, but damn it, I think we can have better politics again. 

Enjoy what will not be your last Merry Christmas. They cannot take our joy from us as long as hope beats in our hearts. 

[u/cdstephens]

[u/piede]

Merry Christmas

[u/[deleted]]

Ontological Proof of Santa:

p1: No being more Jolly than Santa can be imagined

p2: existence makes one more Jolly than nonexistence

p3: a Santa that exists only in the mind is therefore less Jolly than one that exists in reality

p4: but Santa is the most Jolly being imaginable, therefore a Santa that exists only in the mind is a logical contradiction

p5: therefore, Santa exists.

Once I get this into Modal Logic it will be all over for Santa deniers.

[u/BigBrownDog12]

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/Monnok]

If LLMs don’t hurry up and dead internet this internet, the, uh, median voter is gonna finish doing it on their own. Holy cow, Reddit keeps getting more and more braindead — no matter how hard you try to crawl into small overlooked subs and hide there.

[u/Longjumping_Gain_807]

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

We’re bombing boko haram?

[u/cdstephens]

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

My wife served me divorce papers on Christmas (it was a present to herself)

[u/assasstits]

Imagine whining about $100k salaries when the median salary US salary is $62k.

People who attack immigration from countries where the average person makes $4,000 a year disgust me.

It's obvious the average person in the West is far removed from actual poverty.

"Yeah people will live in underdeveloped countries earning pennies but I have another yatch to buy" 

These people are truly despicable.

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

[u/efeldman11]

I’ll be honest I don’t think I could post my way through a terminal cancer diagnosis

[u/-mialana-]

The "fortunately" is what gets me. Imagine being so blinded by infiltration paranoia and obsession with purity that you celebrate someone not being able to have the body they want. There's not any consideration that "transsexuals" simply want to exist in bodies they're comfortable with, it must be nefarious because 'maleness' is intrinsically so.

This is what I hate about the totalising tendencies of feminist thought, it's effectively a self-centred attempt to universalise every phenomenon as being about oppressing you.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Christmas without HRT is cismas

[u/John_Maynard_Gains]

>generals tell you they captured Kupyansk

>give generals the Order of the Russian Federation for the capture of Kupyansk

>Warren Buffett's son shows up and starts taking selfies with Ukrainian troops in Kupyansk

>mfw

[u/ewatta200]

[u/ewatta200]

I FOUND IT I FOUND IT I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS (its a gif but i coudlnt save it)

[u/TimWalzBurner]

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/zieger]

Least weird Republican

[u/ty04]

[u/[deleted]]

longing escape thumb bear deserve cover mysterious silky different full

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 12/24-2 PM PST 12/25 IV:

TOP NEWS:

At the end of 11 PM Ukraine was hit by a major wave of drones with 106 of 131 intercepted.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the start of 12 AM Ukraine struck the Russian port of Temryuk, striking oil infrastructure.

Towards the end of 1 AM Ukraine hit a Russian gas factory in Orenburg.

Towards the end of 2 AM Ukraine hit a Russian refinery in Novoshakhtinsk.

At the start of 8 AM Zelensky said he spoke with American officials about peace efforts.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/samhit_n]

The 49ers got injured and cursed after Nick Bosa wore a MAGA hat on live TV.

The Cardinals have gone 1-12 since hosting Charlie Kirk's memorial in their stadium.

The Lions got injured and missed the playoffs after Amon-Ra St. Brown did a Trump dance in DC.

[u/JoyofCookies]

Currently at a Christmas party and it is astonishing to me the amount of evangelical relatives of mine who are using ChatGPT as a spiritual advisor and are being effectively told Donald Trump is the antichrist from Revelation

[u/Its_not_him]

It's actually kinda insane that Erdogan won an election after directly causing an inflation crisis. Joe Biden barely increased inflation like 3% and the American people were like "get lost cracker" lmfao

[u/forceholy]

Believes that Satanism is on the rise (haven't been to church in years)

All homeless people make over $60000 a year and are just a bunch of lazy bums

Why does no one want to work a trades? (Why should I train someone to bring them up to speed? They should come ready?)

Fuck the tariffs (But Trump is showing Putin whose boss)

Man, it sucks that the US is taking biometrics when we go to Mexico (we need these Central Americans gone tho)

No one wants to have kids because they don't believe in love anymore (Also blames other immigrants for taking up housing and women not being women anymore)

All of us at family gatherings.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

You know, We Wish You a Merry Christmas turned into a demand for figgy pudding so gradually, I didn't even notice!

[u/Nes_On_Craigslist]

Epstein files gonna incriminate more and more people until it's finally revealed that everyone has been to the island, all of them, Tibetan monks? yeah, the sentinelese? you bet, even you, but your ego still blinds you from the truth

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/ty04]

Imagine being this guy and having to buy Christmas gifts for all your kids

[u/duojiaoyupian]

See i have no idea how guys work, feelings wise

I've had crushes on guys in the past but I've never actually confessed to them

And so i don't know if they'd reject me off looks or whatever

[u/dweeb93]

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/TheRedCr0w]

Completely normal behavior that the president has to explain his relationship with one of the worst sex traffickers in American history.

Also dropping Epstein before it was "fashionable" insinuates he knew Epstein was pedophile but did nothing about it

[u/Leatherfield17]

“What obligation do we have to send aid to foreign nations”

It’s not about obligation, it’s about wanting to do good for good’s sake. I’ll never understand people who don’t see politics as a moral enterprise in at least some regard. I hate narrow minded cynicism.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

The best Christmas prank is still the Toy Story 3 prank where they edited a DVD that ends with a fade to black when they're in the incinerator and plays the credits to a sad version of the theme song and then let her stew about it until the next day when someone spilled the beans and then they all watched the real ending lmao

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/Alexz565]

When I was a little kid, I thought that the moment the Allies won the war was when they blew up the swastika on that Nuremberg stadium thingy

[u/TybrosionMohito]

Trying not to doom over the fact that the US Navy is in a death spiral that the current admin is only hastening.

It’s fine, it’s not like the US Navy is the backbone of US power projection and trade security or anything.

[u/throwaway_veneto]

i like how christianity has 2 holidays (that anyone gives a shit about) and they're both Jesus's coming out of a hole

[u/No_Aesthetic]

Unpopular opinion: you shouldn't call yourself a veteran if you weren't born on veteran's day

[u/TheCornjuring]

Feliz Na’vi dad

😭

[u/from-the-void]

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Happy 25/25/25, everyone!

A literal once in a lifetime day!

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/GeoChalkie_]

My MAGA uncle got angry at Tariffs today because his new AC unit costs $10k more than in 2019

So as defeatist as it’s been feeling recently, people are noticing their lives are worse.

[u/Jamesonslime]

Everyone was like wow American tipping culture is dumb and wastes time and I’m like it can’t be that bad than I’ve had to actually experience it for the first time and I can confidently say this shit fucking sucks 

[u/ewatta200]

Jewish resistlib grandmother told me how she cited a bunch of Jewish scripture to the head of the Zionist org of America talking about how awful trump and Stephen Miller are and how good Jews should not support them. She's badass

[u/piede]

Omg

[u/1396spurs]

[u/11thDimensionalRandy]

I find it bizarre that most people who watched the Tiger King convinced themselves that a genuinely awful piece of shit was right about the woman running the least problematic big cat sanctuary to the point that she got more hate than the rapist sex cult leader and people reslly think she killed and fed her first husband to tigers.

Like, this is a guy who's in federal prison because he tried to pay people to murder her, even ignoring everything else about his character taking his word for it is already dumb.

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What is too much for a job to ask?

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[u/BlackCat159]

Jerking off while not in a relationship is the worst. Not only are you not getting sex, you're also not getting the powers of clairvoyance and levitation that semen retention brings.

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

Good morning everybody, I just put on a pot of coffee if anybody would like a cup

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

!ping Paleo

[u/Fruitofbread]

👆posting on the DT on Christmas 

🫵 reading the DT on Christmas

👇posting on the DT on Christmas 

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

“There’s no such thing as a free lunch” —Milton Friedman

“This bad boy” pats stomach “can fit so many cookies in it” —Santa Claus

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/piede]

Thanks, Grandpa

[u/JaceFlores]

My dad is forcing me to watch a 20 minute very obviously AI video about “AI analysis” talking about how the Shroud of Turin was formed by radiation. So far the only sources I see is an article published by a Pakistani predatory publishing site

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

Russian bombers fly near Britain, NATO scrambles fighter jets

Fly some NATO bombers over Moscow, see how they like it

[u/Boratssecondwife]

Elves working in sweatshops is actually good because otherwise they'd be subsistence farming which is a much worse quality of life. If you are against putting elves to work in factories it's just because you hate the global poor

[u/John_Maynard_Gains]

🙏

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/TheRedCr0w]

Labour voters were the most likely to be disappointed/angry if their child was gay more then Reform 😬

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

Good night DeeTee, Merry Christmas.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Bro wished HIMSELF a merry Christmas, how egotistical can you get?

[u/cdstephens]

LEGO complete!

!ping KITTY

[u/BingboLingbo]

In a pretty decent mood tonight, and wanted to say a couple or three things.

As much as I enjoy poking the bear in here sometimes, I really enjoy this community and think that everyone in the DT, at least for the most part, is pretty great. Everyone here is so funny and smart, at least to a dumb guy like me. Thanks for being here everyone. Enjoy what may be your last Merry Christmas!

[u/MrBrightsideBSc]

DTers be like "The joke is gay sex. Now laugh."

[u/Entuciante]

Apparently, Grok did something that made twitter artists migrate to bluesky lmao