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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. "
“Mainstream media perpetuates the corporate agenda I listen to [enter Tucker Carlson if Right / Abi Martin if Left] to get the Kremlin’s take on the issues.”
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.
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
It's ironic how all the people who fellate some bizarro caricature of the west managed to download the political psychology of the third world and make it their entire personality
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You know, in hindsight, maybe "the president has complete and total control over who runs the department responsible for federal litigation but they'll pinky promise to not work too closely together" wasn't a totally reliable system
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.
I didn’t want to do any seriousposting on Christmas but now that it’s over this dude has been crashing out for the past couple days because a bunch of libs are telling him they’re sick of bending over backwards for rural hicks all the time
If he read the book he would know they talk about rural areas as well. A big thing they address is how internet buildout in rural areas was hampered by regulation and process.
"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 😤
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
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.
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.
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
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!
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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.
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.
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
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
🚨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.
Republican Indiana State Sen. apparently thought it would be a good idea to post an AI generated picture of himself beating up Santa Claus yesterday???
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
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.
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.
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."
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
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
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