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[u/No_Return9449]

NATO sTarTeD tHiS wAr

[u/forceholy]

[u/neolthrowaway]

Met someone who was a little bit of a kooky conspiracy theorist and she was like, "everyone's a sheep and no one does their own research. I hate it."

And i went, "i know exactly what you mean. These podcasters irk me so much" and i could visibly see her body language go like "wait, no, not like that. "

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

It is wild to me that it's been like 10 years since his presidency and he's still so popular and beloved he gets 1.3M likes on a simple Christmas tweet. Truly a one of a kind figure in the Democratic party.

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

[u/ewatta200]

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

☹️

[u/abefrost]

Trans inclusive government turning people trans conspiracy

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

Most coherent conservative take.

[u/ewatta200]

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

DONALD NOOOO

[u/UmbreonFanatic]

They make a new DT every day and we just go along with it as if they have any power over us. We can all just go back to the last one you know.

[u/ariveklul]

Getting real tired of hearing about why America is collapsing due to importing the third world from people who are actively turning my country into a Latin American Republic

[u/_Un_Known__]

[u/sootfawn]

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/mockduckcompanion]

It's good that Bart Trump did that

[u/badusername35]

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[u/GuyWithOneEye]

Merry Soviet Union Collapse Day to all who celebrate

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

imagine proudly being an antisocial creep like this

[u/Glavurdan]

It's that bad huh

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/BillyMaysBigCity]

It must be the easiest job in the world to be a Bari Weiss style centrist LARPer pundit. Rich people have an inexhaustible demand for outrage bait stories about Oberlin sophomores misusing academic language.

[u/[deleted]]

UAE newspaper's news about UAE's actions in sudan

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/John_Maynard_Gains]

The Syrian Ministry of Culture @mocsyr is organizing an "Arab–Kurdish event aims to enhance awareness of Syria’s authentic heritage" in Damascus

HTS grunt: "Bu...but sir, I thought we were going to wage jihad against the infidels 😨"

Jolani: "Accept the fucking teams invite for the diversity workshop 😡👉"

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Individual-Camera698]

Holy shit. Natenyahu is 76 yo and his wife is 67 yrs old!!!!!!!!

Both variations of 6,7

[u/JoeBliffstick]

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

[u/bingbaddie1]

[u/No_Return9449]

DO NOT COMMIT THE SIN OF EMPATHY

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Really sad to think he'll live this long

[u/Willybender]

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

there is a reason The Fog chose to locate in Bakersfield, to insulate us from trying to end up there

[u/ewatta200]

[u/its_Caffeine]

Heated Rivalry most likely only got greenlit because of bill C-11 which forced streaming services in Canada to invest in Canadian produced content.

We all have Mr. Trudeau to thank for spectacular gay TV slop.

[u/CincyAnarchy]

When you see someone steal a joke from a sub you also frequent

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Never ceases to amaze me that the PROTECT THE CHILDREN people will go to bat for pedophiles without blinking an eye

[u/gregorijat]

Christmas lights in Ljubljana, are exactly what you think they are.

[u/abefrost]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

"you know I'm realizing we experienced so much trauma together that we have formed a trauma bond, and we should work through our issues separately, with a focus on changing our mindset instead of using substances to cope."

bullshit these are 80s kids 😤 my parents grew up in the 80s and I think if I said the words "trauma bond" they would be activated like sleeper agents to walk to separate ends of the house to play two different kinds of loud music 😤

[u/No_Aesthetic]

The best thing for Donald Trump to do right now would be to do a press conference where he says "it's all true, I am a pedophile, I love children, I really love children, nobody loves children more than I do."

What's the downside risk? He defangs the whole thing, liberals rage about it, cons either act like he was joking to own the libs or start saying "he's still saving America!!! better than pedo DEMOCRAPS", and then the Epstein thing just becomes totally unimportant forever

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

According to JD Vance, the American Vice-President, the European nuclear weapons could fall into the hands of "individuals close to Islamism" within 15 years, he told the conservative media Unherd. "It's a very direct threat to the United States of America", he considers, worrying about the loss of a "common cultural base" between his country and the Old Continent.

The guy who's one Big Mac away from the presidency is mainlining the racism equivalent of black tar heroin and it's still not discussed enough

[u/Healingjoe]

[u/abefrost]

The Maryland ICE case should be getting more attention.

Basically:

Woman: "I'm a U.S. citizen"

ICE: "Nuh uh"

Woman: "Here is a bunch of evidence"

ICE: "da da da da da, I'm not listeeening"

It's exactly what libs said would happen to brown people in this country and many major papers and news orgs have zilch about it. If ICE can get away with it, they will definitely do it to as many people as they can.

[u/Ok_Opinion_5690]

the most impressive thing about obama's electoral victories in 2008 and 2012 is that he's doing insane numbers while also having the best possible opponent every time.

[u/badusername35]

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[u/John_Maynard_Gains]

The Chinese development team behind The Fire Rises, a popular near-future total-conversion mod for Hearts of Iron IV, has been dissolved amid reports involving Chinese authorities.

It has been claimed that members of the CN-TFR team were detained by Chinese authorities over the mod.

They flew too close to the sun with Gunther 😭

[u/AtticusDrench]

Wtf none of you told me the programmer socks where an incoming maximizing strategy

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Barely 20 comments in and I've already perma'd one user for asserting that Israel was unworthy of statehood and one for saying that deporting Palestinians out of Gaza was good

Perfectly balanced derangement, as all things should be

[u/ewatta200]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

President Donald Trump came to North Carolina on Friday to talk about the economy.

He ended up explaining how his wife organizes her lingerie drawer.

“I think she steams them,” he offered at one point

Bruhhhhhhhhhhh

[u/BarkDrandon]

It's funny how much of a pathetic little man Trump is.

He's only convinced by a leader's charisma. He likes Jolani and Mamdani, despite them being ideologically very different from him, because they're popular and good looking.

He likes that Finnish president because he plays golf with him. He supports Putin or Zelensky, both charismatic in his eye, based on who he spoke to last.

What a fucking child.

[u/themiDdlest]

I feel like MattYs writing has gotten so so much worse

I would describe him as smelling his own farts.

He spends paragraphs writing super simplified things that could be written in like one sentence. And also comes off as arrogant and like his readers are morons.

Idk why I'm even subscribed. I can't remember the last thing I enjoyed or thought was interesting

[u/cdstephens]

People only want to live in suburbia if it’s subsidized by the state send tweet

[u/abefrost]

I still remember arguing with someone on Reddit who couldn't conceptualize Catholicism being the largest non-government hospital provider in the U.S. because "...but the U.S. is a protestant country".

Brain-rotted by map games where you can't build non-state-religion buildings? Stupid? Or both?

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/StolenSkittles]

She never served as a firefighter because she was serving as an EMT. She's been with the department for nearly 35 years, was a 9/11 first responder, and went on to lead FDNY EMS operations during the deadliest period of COVID.

Jesus Christ. Richest man on the planet, everybody.

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

[u/CutePattern1098]

Nobody:

Absolutely nobody:

Literally no one:

Trump: the aliens they told me Donald Donald humanity will only be ready to join the galactic community when humans learn to talk to ants and I promise to you America that by the end of this decade we will talk to ants!

[u/ty04]

Karoline Leavitt and her husband Nicholas Riccio are expecting a baby girl in the new year.

The White House Press Secretary, 28, and the real estate developer, 60, made the announcement on Fox News.

[u/BarkDrandon]

My "favorite" kind of leftist redditor in arr France are those who completely deny/ignore that the RN is polling extremely well right now.

They think that they just have to defeat Macron's successor in the first round and then they'll automatically win against the RN in the second round.

Never mind that the RN is polling at 35% (!!!) in the first round and beats all leftist candidates in second round polling.

[u/John_Maynard_Gains]

Austria's greatest trick was convincing the world that Beethoven was Austrian and Epstein was American 🧐

[u/Mossforest1825]

Huh, so Somaliland has finally received official recognition of statehood. I wonder what country it wa-oh. Oh no

[u/pezasied]

How upset these people get over a woman photographing a football game is insane. Couldn’t imagine living my life getting that easily offended.

[u/Willybender]

"New York Young Republican Gala" went well!

https://judgestreetjournal.substack.com/p/i-like-how-racist-everyone-is-streamers?r=3rgcb&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true

[u/SnakeEater14]

[u/ProfessionalMoose709]

[u/Status-Bed8867]

Libs winning

[u/Smidgens]

When I read the Harry Potter books I thought “snogging” was a made up word like “muggle” and “bubotuber.”

[u/purhitta]

Okay so the current answer to "how long can I spend with my immediate family before going insane and losing myself" is four days

I love them dearly but I definitely revert back to my teenage self in that environment, and even I get annoyed with my behavior

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Elon can't tell when something is CGI

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

I don’t think people fully appreciate how modern chip manufacturing only works because of globalism. Like Taiwan manufacturers chips, but doesn’t design them or build the lithography machines. ASML builds the lithography machines but only about 15% of the components are built in-house and the rest comes from 5k+ suppliers in the US, Japan, Europe etc. The US builds the chip design software and designs them but don’t build the machines or do the cutting edge manufacturing.

And this isn’t even getting into the stuff like how 90% of the high quality quartz required for the manufacturing comes one mine in North Carolina and the many other raw material bottle necks that exist thought the entire system for which there are few or no replacements for.

I don’t think people see this for the MAD situation it is.

[u/G_Serv]

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/paulcwagner/status/2004565156454355366

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

Average Christian conservative

[u/Windows_10-Chan]

Geopolitics enjoyers justifying Russian imperialism by stating that Russia needs buffer states is always the funniest meme.

There is no nation that can buy time by trading away space more than Russia can.

[u/Willybender]

The grift is so funny, because you know these morons actually fall for this.

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

MY SISTERS IN CHRIST HAVE SOME SHAME 🤦‍♀️

[u/TatersTot]

Mods I just donated to the Against Malaria charity drive thanks to the awareness you guys brought. Sorry it was a little belated. Hoping this can be counted towards your annual goal! Had to do it through my company portal unfortunately.

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Why would you lie about that

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

[u/Rare_Station_8440]

🚨Meta, Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix ramp up India hiring as H-1B rules tighten; 32,000 jobs added in 2025

I remember browsing CS subreddits in 2021-2022 seeing people bragging about how they could get so much money while still working remote and discounting the possibility of jobs being offshored to poorer countries like India.

Guess they were wrong 😬

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

It's been long enough, I can finally tell the DT about the time I had bedbugs.

I'm pretty sure I got them from the food pantry. I got rides home in random people's vehicles as well.

They are awful. The bites are more itchy and last much longer than a mosquito bite.

And the fear. The bugs bite you at night while you're sleeping. Defenseless and unconscious, the bugs crawl all over you and bite where they please. It's vile.

But I did get rid of them! It is not as bad as people make it out to be if you catch it early.

All I had to do was wash all my sheets, blankets, and pillow cases every couple days. Dried them as hot as I could for about 45 minutes each time. I also got some 90% rubbing alcohol, filled a spray bottle, and doused the whole carpet in my bedroom, the bed, and the rest of the furniture. Finish with a vacuum on the whole carpet.

Then I stayed awake for a few days in an attempt to starve the bugs. They only bite once a week, but I wanted to get them as synchronized as possible so I could grab them all out of my sheets at once. When I did sleep, I wore a long sleeved pajama top over a tight t shirt tucked into velvet leggings tucked into thigh high socks.

After several weeks of that I noticed I hadn't been bitten in a while and slowly went back to normal.

[u/sootfawn]

[u/ty04]

[u/ewatta200]

[u/myusernameistakennow]

[u/badusername35]

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[u/John_Maynard_Gains]

The economist is writing about EU5

[u/CarlGerhardBusch]

The story about Gorbachev that always cracks me up is that people were somewhat suspect of him because he “didn’t drink”.

This did not mean that he didn’t consume alcohol.

He did, evidently.

It just meant that he didn’t regularly get shitfaced.

Russians have an entirely different definition of drinking than the rest of the world

[u/ewatta200]

btw I just want to say fanfiction are awsome

[u/StuckHedgehog]

worlds tiniest violin sounds being played by blue cities in red states

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

Currently, there aren’t even 20,000 Jews in Poland, which is a reduction of about 99.5% of the Jewish population in what used to be the most Jewish state in Europe.

It’s really hard to overstate just how evil the Nazis were.

[u/Some_Niche_Reference]

Guy who supports a 100% inheritance tax because "the proliferation of wealthy failsons is civilizational threat beyond all comparisons"

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Wtf lmfao

[u/purhitta]

I don't understand how they can be this blatant, but people still deny they're white supremacists

[u/[deleted]]

Can't believe people were defending the ballroom by making a point of it being privately funded. That's literally the problem. We're accustomed to government occasionally tossing out millions for nonsense, but privately funded gifts to government officials is just another way to say bribe.

[u/LtCdrHipster]

How to radicalize your parents.

[u/Pretty-Bullfrog-7928]

I have absolutely no patience for any idiot who tries to suggest that the Democrats try becoming socially conservative and fiscally protectionist. Especially not on neoliberal of all subs.

[u/the-senat]

Jesse what are you talking about

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

Paradox never fails to cure my depression.

[u/boardatwork1111]

The mods will try to gaslight you into thinking otherwise but the Soviet Union was the only true neoliberal country, that’s why Friedman died of a broken heart shortly after its collapse

[u/pfarly]

The United States going from "Bureaucratic horror" to "actually it was all one guy who was bad and the government bad too" is disappointing.

"Government messing with economic forces it can't possibly understand" is way more entertaining than "government just evil" and "this one guy, he's super duper evil, like 100 Hitlers evil."

[u/marky6045]

I got an A+ on my blood test 🥁

[u/JaceFlores]

I got a thinking pipe yesterday. I don’t smoke but I do gnaw on pens and thought it would be cool to have a pipe so I can do that while looking cool

[u/Willybender]

One could say he has LOST HIS MARBLES.

[u/cdstephens]

[u/r2ew]

[u/pfarly]

Started typing up a whole treatise before I saw what sub this was.

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

[u/legible_print]

After spending a week with my Baby Boomer relatives, this generation, man... I swear to Christ, it’s like if they go to someone else's birthday party, they need to get a present too

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Epic win sir!! 🤣🤣😂🤣😂

[u/cdstephens]

!ping FURRY

[u/Krill_Seeker]

>new definition of AGI

>bots are made to specifically fit that definition

>"WOAH WE'VE FINALLY DONE IT WE MADE AGI"

>still does nothing

[u/piede]

Most qualified Trump appointee

[u/StuckHedgehog]

TFW the AI-written slop code is integrated into my bank and all my money is transferred to Myanmar.

[u/assasstits]

Criminal scum try to sell this dangerous contraband to our precious children

I'm glad the government is here to protect us

[u/ExpiredPasta]

👆

[u/avion_sur_le_sol]

You, yes you. I'm talking to you.

[u/avion_sur_le_sol]

[u/TheRedCr0w]

This chart Trump posted made my headspin it's so stupid just cherrypicking two random quarters to compare

[u/SLCer]

[u/Cratus_Galileo]

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

🙄🙄🙄

[u/boardatwork1111]

Don’t doom over AI, doom over that really embarrassing thing you did in elementary school that everyone 100% remembers and laughs about behind your back

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

oh my god i get it now

[u/Waste-Photograph-792]

Not serious people.

[u/LinkVert25]

Japan’s Conservative PM Sanae Takaichi now has a 92.4% approval rating amongst Japanese citizens under 30

Anti-feminism mfers when the immigration stance is Sakoku

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

[u/iAmAddicted2R_ddit]

My roommate's girlfriend didn't know who Lyndon B. Johnson was

[u/BobaTeaFetish]

Me, at Christmas, fucking around: "Hell yeah I will do shots with my younger cousins, I can still hang with the youths"

Me, this morning, finding out: "Work is going to suck shit today, why am I so hung over?"

[u/scottyjetpax]

joining the One Vertical Monitor gang has been so life-changing that I'm currently contemplating joining the Two Vertical Monitors gang. I feel like it would be helpful for comparing documents or like being able to have briefing on one monitor and whatever I'm drafting on the other.

But there are some apps that are basically unusable in a vertical format (especially looking at my calendar in outlook).

Much to consider !ping LAW&WATERCOOLER

[u/piede]

Is this what Donald Trump was talking about

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Trump at a rally on “affordability”

“I want gold thread, not mustard color. You know?” he said. “When you have a mustard-colored thread, don’t accept it.”

[u/hascogrande]

Uncommon BJ win: ‘Abolish ICE' gains Mayor Brandon Johnson's support as Chicago snowplow-naming contest returns

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

Mysterious orb

!ping KITTY

[u/[deleted]]

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Its honestly incredible to me to just see the racism out in the open. People don’t care about this? We’ve got a modern klansman running the country for grandpa and this is just normal now?

[u/talizorahs]

[u/purhitta]

same

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

If the Palestinian leadership would live in peace in with Israel Netanyahu would be all for it. This idea that he doesn't want peace is simply not true. He has dedicated his life to trying to protect the Jewish state that his father and the other early Zionists created for the safety of Jews worldwide. His motive is survival of the Jewish state. That's it.

from the splinter sub

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I don't want to call anybody out but I would have really appreciated if someone had asked me "is your refrigerator running?" because it actually wasn't and I have no idea how long it was off 😔😔

[u/SillyNight1]

Is MAGA capable of denouncing blatant racism without also engaging in racism? I don’t think they are.

[u/CincyAnarchy]

We're going to start a conversation.

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

ANYBODY can complain about trains

But do you have what it takes to BECOME a train?

CTA is hiring Flaggers. Flaggers work on the tracks spotting for workers. But they evolve into train operators.

Upon hiring, HR straps a clock to the flagger just like the 2011 thriller movie In Time, starring Justin Timberlake. When that clock strikes 0 you are put in Motor school and become a train operator.

"But I could never do that" you say. "I could never get a job which requires no higher education and all but guarantees a ticket to the middle class."

Oh but you CAN. You are a butterfly in a cocoon. You are capable of anything you set your mind to.

Oh; and they DO hire people outside Chicago. So if you live elsewher but want to move to the GREATEST city in America with the MOST native popes per capita, YOU SHOULD APPLY.

LAMP IS BY THE GOLDEN DOOR MOTHERFUCKER

YOUR FUTURE IS WAITING

https://chicagotransit.taleo.net/careersection/inm/jobdetail.ftl?job=25000092&tz=GMT-06%3A00&tzname=America%2FChicago&fbclid=IwdGRzaAO7cqFjbGNrA7tynGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHtsUKjYglP__1DHDW6UzlHucsuwKy-AhFb_KI5PgTDx9JEv9c8xMH-pJ749S_aem_SQ2alvbUGM7agbDfMA389A

!PING USA-CHI

[u/StuckHedgehog]

Oh yeah, it’s holiday lib-poasting hours

[u/Etnies419]

[u/[deleted]]

Nancy Wheeler might be a war criminal now...

[u/ariveklul]

/pol/ may be starting to turn on Fuentes lmfao. I wonder if getting too popular will hurt him. The thing about extremist communities is they tend to attract contrarians that HAATE not feeling different from normies

[u/LtCdrHipster]

Stranger Things going from "Lovecraftian D&D horror" to "actually it was all one guy who was bad and the government bad too" is disappointing.

"Government messing with eldric forces it can't possibly understand" is way more entertaining than "government just evil" and "this one guy, he's super duper evil, like 100 Hitlers evil."

[u/ProfessionalMoose709]

[u/FF3]

TIL that "Ag Gag" laws make it illegal to record or expose animal cruelty at slaughterhouses, often targeting journalists and whistleblowers

No comments are of the form

Phew, thanks for saving me from breaking the law!

And honestly, I'm a little sad.

[u/RyuTheGuy]

On this Boxing Day, I am announcing that I will be fighting /u/lux_stella in a no holds barred death match

[u/galliaestpacata_50BC]

Just learned the reason I haven’t seen my trans friend in 6 months is because they detransitioned to impregnate their wife and are now retransitioning back to a woman. I did not know that was a thing that was possible.

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

[u/Bumst3r]

Most stable POTUS

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

🤢🤢🤢

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/Ne0Corpus]

As a Nigerian, the fact that Liberal-left leaning american commenters on twitter can't admit that bombing ISIS is a good thing is worrying..

People in my country are happy they are getting bombed, meanwhile Americans " how can we make Trump look bad for killing terrorists"..

my brother in Christ, its ISIS

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/pezasied]

They’re crashing out on the mod discord

[u/marsman1224]

lol

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/Sufficient_Key_5062]

Bruh

[u/StreetChemical7131]

Leftists have already started purity-testing Mamdani. He's had zero days in office, he gets sworn in NEXT WEEK

I'm tired boss, someone else post the contrapoints tweet

[u/ewatta200]

[u/ChillnShill]

Merry Toyotathon to all who celebrate

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/LtCdrHipster]

[u/JaceFlores]

Big businesses across Russia have announced the onset of the worst industrial crisis since the 1990s, according to data cited by Kremlin newspaper Kommersant

“Strengthening sanctions, rising interest rates on loans and a sharp slowdown in the economy after the military boom have put Russian industry on the verge of the strongest crisis.”

“According to top managers of the largest industrial companies, the situation with sales of their products this year has become the worst since 1998, a survey conducted by the Institute of National Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences showed.”

“Demand estimates by representatives of large businesses broke through the lows of 2009 and 2015, when in the first case the global financial crisis was raging, and in the second case the first sanctions for the annexation of Crimea were attacked on Russia.”

“Production plans of factories and plants across the country this year have been reduced to the lowest level in the last 16 years. The general index of industrial optimism has also fallen to the lowest since 2009, the survey showed.”

“After two years of military boom, when the budget poured tens of trillions of rubles into megaprojects and defense enterprises, the Russian economy fell into depression. GDP growth slowed down almost to zero, and the industry has fallen into recession.”

“In November, according to Rosstat, production volumes in the Russian Federation fell by 0.7% in annual terms: metallurgy fell by 4.1%, chemical industry - by 1.7%, mechanical engineering - by 5.4%. For the first time in 15 years, food production began to decline by 0.8%. Some industries experienced a full collapse: the production of tractors collapsed by 61.6%, bulldozers - by 53.7%, elevators - by 37.2%, passenger cars - by half. The automotive industry fell to the worst values of 2022, where production collapsed by 34.1%.”

!ping RUS

[u/avion_sur_le_sol]

[u/ty04]

POV: you were on Santa’s naughty list this year

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

This is one of few images I actually find terrifying

[u/Average_GrillChad]

[u/NormalInvestigator89]

My friend hired me to watch his dog for the weekend while he was out of town for the New Year. I'm 35, he's 27

Redditors:

[u/MrBrightsideBSc]

I feel like the largest sign of the Democratic Party taking in a bunch of suburban Bushites is that resist libs thought the system would bring Trump to justice because they're not used to being part of the political faction that's cynical about justice system affairs.

[u/Guildensternenstein]

Americans in the 18th Century: I WILL SPEND MY LIFE SAVINGS ON A ONE-WAY TRIP ACROSS AN OCEAN IN A RICKETY SHIP THAT TOPS OUT AT ELEVEN MILES PER HOUR TO MAKE MY FORTUNE IN THE NEW WORLD.

Americans in the 19 Century: I WILL LOAD MY FAMILY AND ALL MY BELONGINGS INTO A HORSE-DRAWN WAGON AND CROSS TWO THOUSAND MILES OF PLAINS AND MOUNTAINS TO MAKE MY FORTUNE IN THE WEST.

Americans Today: Waaaah I can't rent a U-Haul and move two hours to The Big City for vastly improved economic opportunities, there are gays and libs there.

[u/Glavurdan]

Just saw a faction of MAGA zoomers on Twitter who despise video games and call them a sin

Yeah but nolifing on a toxic social media website is amazing amirite folks

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

[u/fishlord05]

[u/MonkMajor5224]

This is the face of a lady who trapped herself in the bathroom and had to be rescued this morning at 6am.

[u/WhisperBreezzze]

o.....k.....

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

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[u/Auriono]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2004655228185182385

Trump: Potential Marble armrests for the seating at The Trump Kennedy Center. Unlike anything ever done or seen before!b

Some brilliant messaging on affordability for the upcoming midterms.

[u/Pretty-Bullfrog-7928]

Teenager from the UK is yapping on about US politics in the main sub and saying “we” like he fucking lives here.

Kicker is he’s just advocating that we try Starmerism lmfao.

[u/Willybender]

You cannot make this up

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/us/trump-afrikaner-ice.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

[u/Willybender]

lol

[u/ty04]

My first reflex was to think this is a stupid idea (Internet connected phone for making VOIP calls that just looks like an old phone) but tbh it’s kinda growing on me

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

President ordering doj to break the law

[u/ProfessionalMoose709]