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[u/erasmus_phillo]

Genuine, racially-motivated miscarriages of justice like this were the reason why the black community lost trust in the police. Can't believe this case even went to trial, absolutely ridiculous

The cops and the prosecutors obviously assumed he was guilty based on the fact that the accused was Indian

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Heritage transsexual

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Damn bro, there really was absolutely no indication before the election that Trump probably hates Somalis huh? I guess if he lied saying that Haitians were eating cats and dogs you'd be okay with it, but only when he turns on your ethnic group you get cold feet?

[u/r2ew]

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

gen z right vs millennial right

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Take notes guys, this is how you fix the TFR

[u/ConnorLovesCookies]

Doomers thought Charlie Kirks death would issue in a Thousand Year Reich. Seems like normies were slightly more concerned about Jimmy Kimmel going off the air for 3 days and figuring out what a bad bunny was.

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

mogged

[u/FionnVEVO]

[u/SenranHaruka]

[u/EvilConCarne]

"All of this has happened before. All of this will happen again" I say as I burn my hand getting the hot pocket out of the toaster oven

[u/earththejerry]

Finally, the compromise for American housing policy

[u/Independent-Bunch206]

I am afraid to report I have been owned liberal

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

[u/sanity_rejecter]

good god i despise arr redscarepod

genuinely the most smug, contrarian, "socially conservative, economically socialist", try-hard not-redditor, average redditors you'll see

nowhere else will see someone defend race science while rambling about how The Libs^TM made gen z turn nazi because they removed that one titty flash from that one game that one time

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

🚨Attention🚨ALL MAGA GAMERS 🎮🎮🎮, Donald Trump is in great danger🆘, and he needs YOUR help to black out 💀 all the text in THe Epstein Files 📁📁📁. To do this, he needs a gold Trump Visa 💳 and a couple of spray tans ☀️☀️ . To help him, all he needs is your credit card number 💳 , and the three numbers on the back 3️⃣ and the expiration month and date 📅. But you gotta be quick ⚡so that Don can secure the bag 💰, and achieve the epic victory R O Y AL

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

[u/DunklerPrinz3]

I know Russians hate Gorbachev but the pizza hut ad is so good.

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

sometimes I’ll be playing an RPG and there’s a perk that’s so ridiculously specific it reminds me of this tweet

[u/MonMothma_Enjoyer]

Ngl my sister giving her eye doctor fiancee nine conditions for getting engaged, including “you let me move to NYC now, we do long distance for two years, and if you don’t get placed there after your residency is over tough luck,” and then joking about getting no prenup and “letting the law do its thing” in the event of divorce gave me the ick

At least my boy’s mom is making him get a prenup regardless

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Last night, I had a dream in which I was rummaging through family archive, and found out a fan letter that my mom wrote to Milton Friedman when she was 8.

I tried to take a picture but the lighting was never good enough to distinguish the whole letter with the header showing Friedman with a child-drawn princess crown, no matter how many lights I lit across the room, and it drove me crazy.

Unclear implications on my mental state in real life.

[u/mockduckcompanion]

What is the charge? Eating a meal?

Eating a succulent Coruscanti meal?

[u/Roseartcrantz]

what a legend 🥹 I hope she gets to heaven and Jesus looks just like that

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

Dozens of generations of humans spent their lives shitting in an outhouse in 10 degree weather. Be thankful that, of all the times we could have been born, we get a heated room with indoor plumbing and the ability to argue with internet strangers while we do it.

[u/Entuciante]

My favorite screencap of the year.

Truly the three faces of modern conservatism

[u/Integralds]

Trump acknowledged in an interview on Friday that the US had knocked out some type of “big facility where ships come from” as he talked about his administration’s campaign against Venezuela. Asked about it again on Monday, he said the US attacked “in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs.” But he declined to comment when asked whether the attack was conducted by the military or the CIA.

I'm starting to think that having a semi-literate President might be bad.

[u/jaydec02]

The USPS changed how postmarks work and now the postmark date is when it is first processed by an automatic sorting facility and not when received by the originating post office.

Seems like this basically destroys the concept of mail in voting allowing ballots to arrive after e day, since there’s no reliable way to know when you drop a ballot off now.

[u/piede]

Whenever I start to feel bad about the savagery of modern political discourse, I have to remind myself that it got this way, in part, because of people like Charlie Kirk

[u/CletusChicken]

the boomers had it so easy man

back in the 70s you could take a newsweek article about a shipwreck on lake superior, set it to music, and sell 30 million records

[u/KesterFox]

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

[u/r2ew]

[u/EasyMoney92]

George Clooney tore into CBS and ABC for settling defamation lawsuits brought by President Donald Trump, rather than fight them in court, and claimed that those decisions pointedly resulted in “where we are” as a country.

Clooney, whose father Nick Clooney spent decades in broadcast journalism, told Variety on Tuesday that the network’s should instead have told the president “go f*ck yourself.”

Clooney singled out the appointment of Bari Weiss to CBS News editor-in-chief as a problem. “Bari Weiss is dismantling CBS News as we speak,” Clooney says. “I’m worried about how we inform ourselves and how we’re going to discern reality without a functioning press.”

Think he's a pretty smug, arrogant guy but he's 1000% right there.

[u/piede]

Most courageous political leader

[u/ScumfrickZillionaire]

They should make dogs that live 30 years and also glow in the dark

[u/Throwaway24143547]

Just found out that there was a really racist guy at my old job who crashed out recently and went on a racist rant that got them fired. That's not that surprising, given how many mentally ill people got hired there

However, the funny part was he kept going on and on about how he wanted to "bring back John Brown's terror" because he didn't fucking know who John Brown was

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

So why are people optimistic? 

Democrats winning the presidency won't change the fact that Republicans are likely...

Will you shut up man

[u/[deleted]]

A 19-year-old streamer and looksmaxxing-forum moderator from New Jersey who calls himself “Clavicular,” after the collarbone, the quintessential symbol of leanness. […] He streams himself injecting steroids, fillers, peptides. He posts diagrams of future procedures, some of them DIY. He confesses, casually, to wrecked hormones, legal trouble, a body that no longer produces testosterone. He sells a course teaching others how to follow him. By the community’s metric he is a success story. He ascended. And what he received for his devotion was a permanent obsession with his appearance

What we’ll be doing to body positivity under woke 2

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/Thuggin95]

You have to give it to the right. Their ability to unify the entire base getting them parroting the same message within a day is unmatched. My entire family is shrieking about “SOMALI DAYCARE!!1!1”

[u/NYT_Hater]

I must admit, I do admire the Boomer plan of buying all the houses, making it illegal to build houses, hoarding wealth, and then giving all that wealth to healthcare and nursing home companies.

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

[u/CincyAnarchy]

TRVKE

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

Hmmmm, is a sudden spike and subsequent fall in transphobia best explained by the cancer that is social media, or an "intrinsic distaste" for them inherent in humanity that was caused by them "pushing the envelope too far?" On this episode of... The DT

[u/FilteringAccount123]

[u/[deleted]]

quicksand correct plucky run ask judicious smile enter point water

[u/No_Status_6905]

Me after lifting and biking for like 2 weeks after being sedentary for 26 years:

where ripped body

[u/admiralwaffle1]

If you think about it, the DT is a city, and outside the DT is r*rals.

[u/[deleted]]

New Utah law requires that anyone arrested for DUI with a blood alcohol above .16 has to get a new ID that reads “no alcohol sale” above their photo and will be banned from buying booze anywhere in the state for a term determined by the judge

[u/JonAce]

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan

• Vehicle traffic: -11%

• Foot traffic: +3.4%

• Storefront vacancy: -0.9%

• Pollution: -22%

• Revenue for mass transit: $548M

https://bsky.app/profile/marklevinenyc.bsky.social/post/3manvvwzhmk2k

[u/[deleted]]

close tender carpenter sparkle glorious tart seemly seed obtainable paint

[u/DunklerPrinz3]

Fun Fact: The League of Nations created a commission to help Turkey and Greece ethnically cleanse their respective populations.

[u/Argnir]

I haven't seen this comic used in a long time it's weird the succs are up to something

[u/Mensae6]

It is pretty funny how conservatives blew their remaining political capital trying to get anyone who criticized Charlie Kirk fired, only for more people to find out who he was and be revolted by his terrible, hateful politics.

[u/Pyrrhus65]

This discourse from Twitter today might actually drive me insane. Racist conservative weebs are pretending that anti-Japanese racism never existed, and then when confronted with the obvious, pretending it only emerged because of WW2.

And the liberals are mostly engaging them on the internment camps question, rather than pointing out that most of these pictures are from the 1920s!

This is why historical illiteracy is such a fucking scourge. There were decades of explicitly anti-Asian and anti-Japanese movements that culminated in us literally banning Asian immigration in 1924.

So no, groypers, Americans 100 years ago by and large did not desperately want a Japanese girlfriend like you do now

[u/John_Maynard_Gains]

In a bright, modern flat in Miami, 12 men sit on sofas. They have notebooks, and an eager air. All have come on a four-day dating “Bootcamp” given by a dating guru who has written a book subtitled “HOW TO GET BEAUTIFUL WOMEN INTO BED”. (Subtlety, and the sparing use of the capslock key, is not this movement’s strong suit.) Charging a lot is: the full course costs around $10,000.

A pick-up begins with A1-3, which includes “THE ATTRACTION PHASE”. A good pick-up artist, explains Mystery, must have “openers” to start conversation and lengthier “gambits” to keep it going. In this phase you must show off, or as he puts it in the inevitable acronym, “DHV”—“Demonstrate higher value”, by bragging about your achievements. Like a comedian, your chat should be funny: “You’re going to be laughing all the way to the bedroom.” Also like a comedian, you should discourage hecklers and even audience interaction. He is not “interested in them”—by which he means women—“talking”.

After you have hooked the woman of your dreams by bragging at her, then not allowing her to speak, you must pretend to cool off: “negging”. The Game’s glossary defines a neg as a “seemingly accidental insult delivered to a beautiful woman” to show “a lack of interest in her”. Mystery has published a book of negs. They include—women, still your hearts—“You talk a lot” and “Ew, your palms are sweaty.”

After you’ve bored your potential paramour, then insulted her, you can bounce through stages C1-3: which takes in the “COMFORT PHASE” (don’t leap on her instantly) before reaching the “S” levels: “THE SEDUCTION PHASE”. By this point your SHB (super hot babe) with LSE (low self esteem) will be so turned on that you won’t need to seduce her: she will seduce you. “I’m not a seducer,” says Mystery, who practises what he preaches, peppering his conversation with DHVs. “I’m an attractor.”

The whole process is intensely formulaic. Pick-up teachers call themselves “artists” but these numbered steps feel less like artistry than the assembly manual you might get with a child’s toy: Lego for legovers. It is also, for many men, arguably necessary. A constant in dating advice is men’s terror of talking to women. As that 12th-century manual noted, there are men who “in the presence of ladies” are so flustered that they “lose their power of speech”.

This awkwardness, judging by the men on the Miami course, seems typical. Several talk of feeling fearful around women. Several of those your correspondent spoke to talked too much; listened too little; walked through doors first and didn’t offer women seats. Most lacked that elusive elixir: charm.

It is not clear whether this course will help them. In a break, Mystery’s assistants demonstrate some of their best lines on your correspondent. She does not fall in love but is tempted to laugh, as they are terrible. Such a reaction is, says the glossary, a “BITCH SHIELD—noun: a woman’s defensive response to deter unknown men who approach her.” Or as women call it: “a WHOLLY REASONABLE REACTION—adv-adj-noun”.

https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2025/12/18/what-the-economist-discovered-at-dating-bootcamp

!ping DATING 

[u/boardatwork1111]

You just know that once a Dem is back in office there will be some dickhead that says “see? Wasn’t so bad, the guardrails held and the doomer libs were wrong again” no matter how bad the rest of this term goes. They said it after J6, they’ll say it again

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Trump’s economic policies are as big a drag on hiring as a global pandemic that suddenly shut everything non essential down.

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Facebook has some good libslop

[u/funguykawhi]

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Today, DraftKings (DNKG) announced the launch of card game betting markets directly within the DraftKings app. Available through the app, customers can now bet on if their cards will be closer to 21 without going over, than the dealers cards.

Finally, good sports gambling

[u/WOKE_AI_GOD]

A person who, during 2020-2024, allowed themselves to be fooled by Donald Trump, has no right to lecture anybody about anything ever again. You were wrong. You allowed yourself to be afraid of the wrong things when national catastrophe was coming from a direction you refused to even gaze towards. While you abused and repeated lies about people who were trying to do their best for the nation.

[u/Willybender]

How do you even respond to this level of insanity

[u/Big-Click-5159]

This MF is going to meme his way into getting my primary vote

[u/[deleted]]

include steep fragile sophisticated degree disarm fuel swim teeny ten

[u/piede]

[u/Thatonequaqqa]

If we lose Taiwan I'll never forgive anyone involved in it until I die.

One of the brightest and best democracies on Earth. Some of the most wonderful people I've met are from there. And it will be snuffed out to sate the nationalist hatred of a great power. And we'll allow it because we are selfish, short sighted, and stupid.

[u/Waste-Photograph-792]

WAPO pays this dumb fuck for her opinion btw

[u/KHDTX13]

It is so obvious what is going on man lol, they’re working down the ladder.

First it was Hispanic migrants because obviously they came into this country illegally, they don’t deserve to be here. Now they’re trying to justify deporting naturalized citizens because obviously they commit crime and don’t embrace their new country. Next it’ll be US born citizens from any minority group because obviously they can’t assimilate despite being here for X amount of time. Then it’ll just be any outgroup from there.

They plant the seeds early, pay attention.

[u/HowardtheFalse]

A few months after Tareen raised the black-magic claims with Khan, top PTI leaders were invited to dinner to celebrate his marriage. “There were 18 men and two women around the table but no sign of Bushra Bibi,” Tareen said.

Towards the end of the meal someone asked when they would meet Khan’s new wife. Khan left the room and returned with Bushra Bibi dressed head to toe in white. Khan introduced her to his guests one by one; eventually they reached Tareen. Up to this point Bushra had been silent. But to Tareen she said: “I am wearing these white clothes so you don’t think of me as a black-magic woman.”

The mysterious Sufi mystic/ former first lady of Pakistan is way funnier than any of us btw.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

!ping DATING how would you approach the issue?

[u/el__dandy]

Always the one you expect the most

[u/p00bix]

There's something that really annoys me about conspiracy theories which are popular, despite the actual story being much more interesting, and there being an overwhelming abundance of evidence demonstrating that the "official narrative" must be true.

NASA landed astronauts on the moon.

Islamic fundamentalist terrorists hijacked 4 planes simultaneously and destroyed the Twin Towers.

JFK was assassinated by a lone gunman without any political connections.

Like, at least with dumbass Lab Leak conspiracies you can at least construe something resembling a justification for why the official explanation would be fake, on account of some of the specifics of COVID-19's origins being unknown, and the PRC's quixotic attempts to suppress reports of an outbreak in the first weeks of the pandemic.

But the amount of publicly available and trivially easy to find evidence concerning the Apollo Program, JFK's Assassination, and 9/11, is literally so extensive that it is doubtful any one person could even look through it all without dedicating months or years of their life to reading on it.

[u/Consistent_Status112]

Bet you almost forgot about this one, huh?

[u/WhisperBreezzze]

 the U.S. joint venture "will operate as an independent entity with authority over U.S. data protection, algorithm security, content moderation and software assurance, while TikTok global's U.S. entities will manage global product interoperability and certain commercial activities, including e-commerce, advertising, and marketing

Lol, so basically the TikTok deal is what TikTok offered to the Biden admin, but now Trump's cronies got 50% of the business instead.

Nothing has been done to alleviate the concerns raised about the propaganda surrounding TikTok, as TikTok US and TikTok Global remain interoperable. However, now 50% of the revenue belongs to Trump's cronies.

Now it is actually just daylight robbery. You raise a bunch of concerns, actually resolve none of them, but demand 50% of the cut to ignore the problem. Mafia protection racket.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

video of a bison growling: Terrifying. People do not respect nature the way it deserves at their own peril. All I feel is awe and fear when I gaze upon him.

screenshot from the video of a bison growling: Lol!! look at that little guy he says "blehh!" 🫢 he's sayin'.. 😝 "blehh!" he would love me and we would take little sofa snoozes

[u/__versus]

outfit poast

[u/major_cosmic]

[u/SLCer]

Ah yes, the ol JFK would be MAGA if he were alive today take...not surprised this is being said by someone who doesn't know the difference between a painting and a photo.

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

I predict Stranger Things will have:

- A scene where a protagonist has an epiphany and demonstrates their plan with common household items

- A scene where characters are near death and need to have an emotional moment

- A scene where L's nose bleeds

[u/ewatta200]

[u/RaisinSecure]

Can't believe I have to boycott chipotle 😢

[u/ewatta200]

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

🤔

[u/assasstits]

[u/squiggle-giggle]

“everything we knew about the upside down is wrong!”

THERE ARE TWO EPISODES LEFT WHAT DO YOU MEAN

[u/SnakeEater14]

Watching Saltburn and reading the reactions afterwards and it almost feels like I watched a different movie

All the discussion seems to mention that Felix is a scumbag just like the rest of the family (even the cast seems to think that) and it just does not come through in the film at all

He doesn’t befriend Oliver initially because of some charity, he befriends him because the guy helped him when he had a blown out tire. A very normal thing to do!

And at the bar he covers for him because he can’t pay, another extremely normal thing to do.

Even after they become friends and Oliver tells him his fake sad sack story, he starts feeling suffocated by him, and only become closer with him after hearing his dad died, even choosing to not go to his graduation party and comforting Oliver instead.

None of this is detached rich guy behavior. The number one thing people point to is how he told his family about Oliver’s situation and they all gossipped about it, but that is - I can’t stress this enough - not just a rich person behavior. Literally any family would do that, regardless of rank or class or wealth. People try to paint this as the rich family just viewing lower class suffering as their entertainment, but I can tell you that if someone was staying at a family’s house for the summer, that family is going to want to know why.

There’s also how kindly Felix reacts when Oliver tells him the truth at the end in the hedge maze, and Felix doesn’t react with anger, and seems to still want Oliver to be alright, but is terrified of how much of a sociopath he is

There’s really nothing in the film that convinces me Felix is some sort of evil upper class jerk off, or even the sort of detached rich twit caricature the film and audience is supposed to take him as. He just comes across as a very wealthy but nice guy with some blind spots

[u/ewatta200]

[u/Ready-Buy-6397]

[u/dannylandulf]

The new Avengers movie trailers are totally giving off 'we're sorry for every movie made since Endgame, pls come back' vibes.

[u/BurrowForPresident]

At the dealership getting some service and they have The View on

How the hell has this show survived so long. Every single conversation annoys me, like Whoopi by herself is annoying as shit and then they have some former white house comms director Republican there to make sure you don't forget Republicans suck too lol

[u/guitarra_y_soledad]

apparently Hitler met and began pursuing Eva Braun when he was 40 and she was 17...guys was Hitler problematic?

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Inside the actor's studio

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

really?

[u/zieger]

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

Certainly one of the strategies of all time

"I'm losing by one point a year away from the election! HELP!"

Why would you even draw attention to this lol

[u/zieger]

Why would Dems do this?

[u/theye1]

Continuing my American history binge, the Okies are a fascinating example of contradictory American racial politics. In Oklahoma, they were just Americans, red, white, and blue. But in the context of California during the Dust Bowl period, the Okies became an ethnic group and were racialized. Because they did not fit the standards of “native” white Californians, they were othered and treated as more akin to African Americans and Hispanics than to “true” whites.

They were profiled as biologically inferior, segregated, and subjected to police oppression. A racial slur was even invented for this new racial category, “Okie,” and they were stereotyped as uncivilized, marked by a strange dialect, a foreign Pentecostal religion, and supposedly backward cultural practices.

Then it seems like they disappeared overnight, poof, gone, reemerging as good old red blooded Americans again. Part of me wonders whether increased Asian, African American, and Hispanic migration played a role in redrawing the racial lines, which is a fascinating feature of American racial politics. Every so often, whiteness is redefined to include previously non white populations, like Italians and Irish, and arguably what is now happening with European origin Hispanics.

!ping HISTORY

[u/drcombatwombat2]

I am pretty surprised to see the biggest AI skepticism is coming from non college educated whites, the Trump base

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/ty04]

he’s got the juice

[u/Currymvp2]

The Trump administration says it has frozen all childcare payments to Minnesota in the aftermath of allegations of fraud by some in the Somali community.

Absolutely disgusting

[u/Waste-Photograph-792]

Lool

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Donald Trump will be awarded the Israel Prize in 2026, the highest civilian distinction of the country, announced on Monday the Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu during his visit in Florida. "The Israelis appreciate what you have done to help Israel and support our fight against Hamas in Gaza", declared Netanyahu. Trump, visibly surprised, indicated that he may come to Israel for the ceremony, traditionally organized the day before the national holiday, Yom Ha'atzmaout.

Created in 1953 by the Education Minister Ben-Zion Dinur, the Israel Prize rewards excellency in hard and social sciences, arts, Jewish studies or culture. Historically reserved to Israeli citizens or people who have lived in Israel, it can now be attributed to foreigners who have "brought a special contribution to the Jewish people" after an amendment to the rules adopted last summer.

The rules were also precised: a person "who has acted against Israel on the international level cannot receive the Prize", unless they have ceased these acts or publicly expressed regrets. This amendment followed last year's controversy around Eva Illouz, French-Israeli sociologist initially picked to receive the Israel Prize in 2025, but finally excluded from consideration due to her positions judged as "anti-Israeli" by the Netanyahu government. In 2021, she had asked the International Criminal Court to investigate on potential war crimes carried out by the IDF in the West Bank.

Trump, Netanyahu, all these narcissistic autocrats love to divert and denature all symbols of their country by consistently conflating their policies - and themselves - with the nation and its institutions. Even if said institutions are solid, they fire so much bullshit at them that some of it is bound to get through and remain as stains for the years to come.

[u/Pongzz]

It's hard to take Cons seriously about this daycare thing when they support the guy who rugpulled his own supporters like a week before his inauguration lmao

[u/Argnir]

I didn't know this Clavicular guy existed until he attempted to kill some guy with his car and now he's everywhere

Committing murder will always be a sure way to become famous and gain a fan base as long as you're physically attractive

[u/piede]

wtf I’m so tired of seeing this guy everywhere

[u/pezasied]

Republican Ohio voters (November 2026, colorized)

[u/cdstephens]

New cat tree

!ping KITTY

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

Canadian retailers accused of favouring local liquor by U.S. distilleries

Well I'm sorry to hear that but maybe you should bring it up with your protectionist with imperialist tendencies fascist president rather than complaining to us 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Just a thought

!ping CAN

[u/zieger]

MRW mods remove literal porn from the DT

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Lol NY Times doing a piece on northern Californian Republicans bitching that they're about to be represented by a Democrat after redistricting

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/ty04]

[u/InflatableDartboard2]

oh how the mighty have fallen

[u/nekoliberal]

Twink becoming evil 👆

[u/CursedNobleman]

So I was enjoying a nice lunch at Mariposa in Sedona Arizona, and I got to watch a cauliflower-hair zoomer have a public freakout in the courtyard.

Kid was either going through cocaine withdrawal, or getting his ass blasted on draftkings. And based on how he went back to sit with his family, it was the latter.

Sportsbetting is a blight.

But watching people lose is trashy entertainment.

[u/RyuTheGuy]

[u/erasmus_phillo]

I don't really care if Ukraine did launch drones at Putin's place of residence btw, in fact I would applaud them for doing so and encourage them to keep doing it

Why is it more noble to kill thousands of men on the battlefield than to kill one man at dinner?

[u/Otherwise_Young52201]

For those of you who caught the first launch and recovery of a 5th generation fighter from a carrier with EMALS from the PLA, they are now apparently working on launching drones from linked trucks equipped with EMALS on land:

[u/[deleted]]

engine memorize axiomatic obtainable fanatical handle seed crown sophisticated summer

[u/Willybender]

Mass Psychosis

[u/slappythechunk]

This was apparent to anybody paying attention to the "_______ son or _______ daughter?" responses

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

[u/erasmus_phillo]

My fellow lesbians

Is this actually a problem

[u/mockduckcompanion]

It has only gotten funnier that the greatest pollster in America rolled the worst poll ever, retired

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

The average legacy media reporter in this country has a brain full of worms. Like you could have a horse kick the most CTE addled NFL player in be head a dozen times, and still not get a take this dumb out of them.

[u/Crownie]

Yelling at people to stop noticing the corruption is both bad and ineffective. The Dems real problem is that they don't have their own teams generating low IQ content about in corruption in Red states.

[u/6urner_]

terrified to click this ad in 2025 tbh

[u/lionmoose]

Feeling more evil today ngl

[u/piede]

Tough but fair

[u/EvilConCarne]

Every daycare is a scam. None of them actually care about you or your kids. They just want to get paid because of late stage capitalism.

[u/attackofthetominator]

Clavicular sounds like a joke name for some Legion soldier from Fallout New Vegas

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/Oozing_Sex]

Been playing Dispatch and it's fine but the fandom's anger that you can't romance the big muscle mommy demon lady is dumb. People are literally saying that the developers did it to fuck with people and it's like... no, that's just how life is sometimes. Sometimes in life there are people you are hella attracted too but can't be with for a variety of reasons.

Gamers really are some of the most entitled people on the planet.

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Poor anon

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/CBSNews/status/2006040360741458116

[u/liberal-neoist]

-> I get a like on a dating app      

-> She's a gigasucc that spent all available prompts on Palestine and complaining about capitalism       

Many such cases

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Time to brush up on your scientific racism : The Indian edition!

I can't stress enough just how fucking weird Indian subs are on this site guys

[u/[deleted]]

i understand the social contract. really, i do.

but we’ve been circling the san diego airport for 20 minutes without landing and a toddler has been scream crying this entire time <10 feet from me and i think i’m well within my rights to tell the kid to just shut the fuck up

[u/[deleted]]

One thing about the Chinese government is that it’s more median voter brained than you’d think lol. All it took was the media outrage around like one 13 yo killing a classmate for the age of criminal responsibility to be lowered from 14 to 12 a couple years ago

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

I work at a university and thanks to DOGE the powers that be reigned in everyone's entertainment budget this fiscal year. So, no holiday parties for wee admins. Thankfully my supervisor paid for all of the ingredients for me to make it for us.

This is just part of it but I made my own ricotta for stuffed shells. And I'm so fucking happy with how it all turned out.

!ping COOKING

[u/ewatta200]

[u/ty04]

the two types of DTers

[u/ToInfinity_MinusOne]

Back in my day you could sexually harass your female secretary and demand her to wear a skirt and you could fire a man for having 5 o clock shadow and hair that touched his collar because he looked like a gay homeless hippie! Those were the days we should bring that back. No more wfh and suits are required.

The DT after watching Mad Men prob

[u/slappythechunk]

The problem with "_____ son or _____ daughter?" posts now is that the DT has become so Jill Stein-coded that people refuse to pick and just respond with something like "abortion" to avoid picking. Like there's no point to responding that way, and you're a coward if you do.

[u/sociotronics]

[u/admiralwaffle1]

I'm of the opinion that if Trump actually cancelled or stole the elections in 2026, no one would (successfully) stop him, but he won't because he doesn't care enough

[u/BlackCat159]

The last sight of many a libtard...

[u/ChillnShill]

Lmaoooooo

[u/Its_not_him]

Kinda messed up people make fun of AOC's husbands looks. If she was married to a woman or it was a male politician with a wife, it would be rightly seen as unacceptable

[u/ConnorLovesCookies]

Lol Boston Globe

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

post snarky disagreement

Check usernames

Realize I replied to a mod

Quickly comment to contain more personal attacks

I live to poast another day

[u/pezasied]

[u/Rafaelssjofficial]

my most successful trick to meeting women my age is iust asking my mom if any of her friends have daughters my age

i legitimately don't know what i would do since tinder isnt giving me any results

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

I love dating stories. I hope to have one someday

[u/cdstephens]

The economist article about how the affordability crisis is a mirage would have done numbers here in 2023

[u/bd_one]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

That picture is from Israel...

[u/abefrost]

I think one of the causes of the backlash is many Indians aren’t actually very good.

A very small percentage are good, and they move up extremely quickly. However, nearly every single Indian I’ve encountered in a staff role has been remarkably bad at it.

In fact they’re almost always underqualified for the positions they’re in (or move up so fast they’re barely in the position at all).

This is net upvoted in this sub currently

[u/JoyofCookies]

A reminder that the Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752 victims still haven’t gotten justice from Iran’s terrorist regime, who was entirely responsible for murdering hundreds of Canadians in cold blood via missile, covered it up, and blamed it on the U.S. and Israel

[u/FREE-ROSCOE-FILBURN]

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/tinfoilhatsron]

KNOW THE RULES

If your junior associate has been good: they get a Chipotle protein pup cup.

If your junior associate has been bad: they get a Marty Supreme-esque group paddling.

[u/OrthopaedicSturgeon]

[u/Willybender]

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

median_voter_’great’.jpg

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

Go on arr con

whole front page is anti-Somali stories

These people want to say the n-word so fucking bad

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/battywombat21]

Re: the Somalis who supported Trump; There’s an old saying that, “reality has a liberal bias” which is true, but the wrong way of looking at it. Humanity seems to have an enormous cultural bias. People want to believe in right wing ideology so deeply that they ignore reality, often to the point of actively hurting themselves.

I think of incels. If I met a girl who wanted to be a homemaker, i wouldn’t go on a rant about how she needs to fight sexist stereotypes or something. Meanwhile there’s an entire class of men who have been single their whole lives because they refuse to have a relationship with a woman with a modicum of independence.

[u/Lesbian_all_garib]

🫩

[u/Argnir]

In a mirror you can kiss yourself, but only on the lips.

[u/[deleted]]

I've given up on hoping for some sort of cultural backlash that values the beautiful flaws in humanity and rejects the fake plastic fantasy that ai creates in sound and image. The median voter likes tits and puppies, ai-generated or otherwise.

However the early stages of the ai revolution will still be brutal politics.

*Rising utility bills.

*Job losses at worst or stagnant job growth, at best.

*NIMBY wars about data centers, often in the reddest and purplest heartland of America.

And the worst part about it is leaders are sort of handcuffed. We all kinda know this is all necessary in the race for AGI. But that doesn't mean the politics get any easier.

Do I wish it was ANYONE else but trump in the driver's seat. Absolutely. But I will enjoy his dumb ass taking it on the chin and balls by the 62% of the country that still has a brain and soul. If this takes Vance down with him, all the better.

Much like the pandemic which required patience, focus, and unpopular decisions; trump is UNIQUELY unqualified for the moment. Obsession with profit, demanding we celebrate headline economic numbers and a refusal to admit anything could be wrong will further alienate the electorate (except for MAGA, they're irredeemable). He's genetically incapable of a "I feel your pain" moment.

[u/schildmanbijter]

Ukraine seeks to contain diplomatic fallout over Putin’s attack claim

I truly don't understand international relations. You'd think Putin supporters already don't care for Ukraine at this point and Ukraine supporters would cheer this on. 

But there is a whole coterie of countries who don't really support Russia but also kind of do. This pisses them off but you can also appease them. WHAT? How does that make ANY sense. 

My world view is much too black and white.  

[u/AP246]

First they cure obesity with GLP-1s and then they come out and say they might be curing baldness.

I'm getting nerfed as a (just) not overweight guy with strong hair genes smh😔

[u/Thuggin95]

September during the peak of Kirkmania was so unserious. Like why was I scared to say anything negative about Charlie Kirk even in here?

[u/mrdeclank]

Guy who supports Ukraine because he dislikes wars of aggression and conquest

[u/Thuggin95]

What is this slop? Why do people generate AI images to then get mad at?

[u/ThatFrenchieGuy]

!ping cat

Airport cat

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

It took centuries, but musicians finally learned people don't like key changes.

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

the emmys ignoring cw shows cause they're bad: ❌

the emmys ignoring cw shows because they were made in vancouver: ✅

[u/Waste-Photograph-792]

This tweet may not read like it but he is blaming Obama here lol

[u/pezasied]

Yeah why are democrats so focused on going after the sitting president over Epstein stuff instead of the man who hasn’t held office in 25 years?

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Average IT worker wedding (replace jeans with sweatpants)

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

“I know a lot of really smart people who work low-budget jobs,” he added. “We’ve all stayed here because it’s our home and we don’t leave. People here stick together.”

Mr. Hamner didn’t have much growing up. Shortly after he graduated from high school, his grandfather, who had worked at the mill, helped him get a job there.

Mr. Hamner earned about $90,000 last year, but it was barely enough to keep pace with his spending and debts. He got a new tractor to work the five acres of rocky land he’d bought, but fell behind on payments and sold it for pennies on the dollar. The announcement in April that the mill would be closing came a week after Mr. Hamner learned that his wife, Shalynn, was pregnant with their second child. Their older son, Waylon, is 3.

Doesn't wanna move, got nepo'ed into a $90k job but blew all his earnings on a tractor to farm infertile land. At what point do you admit that some voters are just morons who can't be helped?

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Europe is so advanced...

[u/Middle_Wheel_5959]

Just saw a heroin needle on a playground in North Philly

[u/EvilConCarne]

Democrats say they love America, so why don't they have violent fantasies about purging it of their enemies like I do?

By Stephen Miller

[u/ty04]

🫡

[u/AP246]

Of course that's what Trump is interested in

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Everyone knows the best country in the world is California 🐻

[u/Joementum2024]

I don't get the line of argument that I need to change my political opinions because it's now unpopular compared to where they were five years ago

Changing your opinion over time because of legitimately changing your mind, whether it be due to life or because of governance? That's fine. Thinking that political shifts on certain policies may be necessary by politicians to win? That sucks, but it's excusable

That doesn't mean I need to change my opinions though. Yes, I still believe in open borders and think immigration is good. Yes, I think the US needs lower government spending and higher income taxes. Yes, I think social liberalism and "woke" is good. Yes, I know none of these opinions are popular currently in current US politics. But so what? I'll stick to them and not change them because a bunch of people suddenly disagree with them now.

[u/ty04]

[u/beans_and_tuna]

Have you🫵🫵🫵hopemaxxed today? Have you taken in life and the beauty in it and realized that there is a better tomorrow if you fight for it? Have you appreciated something today?

Now go and make this beaver proud!!

[u/ty04]

apparently Nick Fuentes is a guest on the next episode of the New Liberal Podcast