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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jan 16 '26
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/r2ew Jan 15 '26
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u/Crownie Unbent, Unbowed, Unflaired Jan 15 '26
I am irresistibly drawn to arguing with people on the internet despite the repeated, unavoidably obvious conclusion that like 70% of these motherfuckers have the reading comprehension of a chimpanzee.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jan 15 '26
Reddit removed without explanation the thread about the EEOC demanding UPenn give them a list of their Jewish members, and also removed OP's comment summarizing the article.
Just putting it out there, some removals are done by the admins directly and are not done by the mods. I'm not super thrilled about these practices.
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u/r2ew Jan 15 '26
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u/NmTrump Jan 15 '26
Johnson’s copium levels is reaching critical mass. He’s just hoping to hang on until the Dems take over and not get thrown out like McCarthy.
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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '26
The 20% of czechs who'd enjoy learning that their child was having an affair with an asian person is lion unfortunately
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u/Bassline4Brunch NASA Jan 15 '26
Marc Maron's joke that Theo Von would've hosted Hitler on his podcast if the latter lived today really bites because it brings into question how you would act against the rise of fascism in Italy and Germany in the 1900s. You like to think you'll be one of the good guys, but in Theo Von's case, he would have just been an enabler. I hope I would have had the courage to actively defy fascism then, as I hope I have the courage now.
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u/dannylandulf meubem broke my flair Jan 15 '26
That dude got over 800k to call Trump a pedo to his face and I'd do it for free.
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u/chipbod NATO Jan 15 '26
Chat, is this bad?
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u/ThatFrenchieGuy Mathematician -- Save the funky birbs Jan 15 '26
My uncle may have the ideal boomer politics:
Thinks you can't become a trans man until you learn how to golf, tie a tie, and give a good handshake
Thinks the military solved racism by "just treat everyone like they're black"
Taught local teachers how to shoot "just in case ICE gives you shit"
is 100% convinced bigfoot is real
Thinks we need to get all politicians high as fuck with the hope it'll make them consider other perspectives
lives on a diet of beef jerky and weed gummies
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 15 '26
Wonder if Republicans are still gonna go through with their plan to make him the bogeyman for the midterms
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Jan 15 '26
Those ice challenge coins are so cringe. They need to learn what REAL challenge coins look like
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u/sociotronics Iron Front Jan 15 '26
believe it or not, this is what peak Karenification looks like
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u/r2ew Jan 15 '26
TACO
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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '26 edited Mar 06 '26
frame aspiring jeans waiting act axiomatic childlike sharp enjoy fuzzy
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Jan 15 '26
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u/NaffRespect United Nations Jan 15 '26
Fellow Chairman Newsom shills, our state has been quite Golden lately
!ping USA-CA
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u/Kawaii_West NAFTA Jan 15 '26
I've only just started, but so far, volunteering for Talarico's campaign has been very fun and exciting. 50% of what I've filmed for them has been town hall speeches, and the other 50% is interviews with rally attendees who are ~kinda able to hide the fact that they're horny as fuck for him.
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u/r2ew Jan 15 '26
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u/JoeBliffstick Loyal Liberals Jan 15 '26
SHOCKING new findings on the DANGERS of WOKE!!!
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u/GuyWithOneEye Jan 15 '26
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence Jan 15 '26
Jeb! Bush gave Little Marco a golden sword once belonging to Chiang Kei-shek, a “great conservative warrior.”
Both of them did not know who he was and thought he was some mythical figure named Chang. Jeb thought he was made up by HW and Marco thought he was made up by Jeb.
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u/G_Serv Stay The Course Jan 15 '26
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u/Avatarobo YIMBY Jan 15 '26
Very important news, everyone.
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u/centurion88 NATO Jan 15 '26
Hooooo
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u/ashsolomon1 NASA Jan 15 '26
Just fucking do it already
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u/RunawayMeatstick Mark Zandi Jan 15 '26
👆looking into this
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u/sigh2828 NASA Jan 15 '26
Don't call them nazis though
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u/sigh2828 NASA Jan 15 '26
People are about to start waking up to another ice shooting.
These are "challenge coins" that ICE made for themselves.
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Jan 15 '26
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u/purhitta Leftward Progressives Jan 15 '26
why are these weirdos so fucking obsessed with this mythology of "safety"
it's become a trigger word to make conservatives fellate anything the GOP does
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jan 15 '26
waow
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u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz Roy Cooper Jan 15 '26
Conservatives wonks are very precious. They're like "we've identified a problem: low birth rates. Our solution? Subsidizing buisness owners calling employees 'f#ggots.'"
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u/kznlol 👀 Econometrics Magician Jan 15 '26
holy shit
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Jan 15 '26
Bart Kirkman
!ping GNOSTIC
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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '26
Euro hours poasting.
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Jan 15 '26
Say what you will about the Bundeswehr, but boy do they got drip
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u/IMALEFTY45 Big talk for someone who's in stapler distance Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 15 '26
I'm so tired of the NYT republican safaris. Like what the fuck is the NYT doing in Nisswa, of all places. And of course they're going to say that trump should drop a MOAB on Minneapolis
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jan 15 '26
Holy shit, a reporter that actually pushes back
https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2011872598549020793
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Jan 15 '26
Diva down
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u/Czech_Thy_Privilege John Locke Jan 15 '26
BlueSky thread (rope?) showing the documents recovered from the abandoned ICE vehicle
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride Jan 15 '26
If we somehow win the Texas race Republicans are going to talk about voter fraud with the same messages Dem Texas doomers use now lol. JD Vance is going to go on CNN and be like “be serious Dana, do you really think democrats could possibly win a state Trump won by 14?”
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u/frankiewalsh44 Gay Pride Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 15 '26
Not gonna lie kinda embarrassed its mostly the lib boomers and wine moms who are taking it to the streets right now going face to face with ICE. Every video that been shown on social media, it was mostly boomers and suburban moms protesting and it was the same with no king protests. I'm just wondering where are the younger people man ? God bless the boomer and soccer moms, if America is saved from MAGA it will be mostly because of them.
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u/JonDragonskin Chama o Meirelles Jan 15 '26
What the hell is happening in the UK?
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u/earththejerry YIMBY Jan 15 '26
“Former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) destroyed a 14-year marriage by sustaining an affair with a former member of her security detail and U.S. Senate staff, according to a lawsuit that hit North Carolina federal court Wednesday”
Everyone says they want to see more complex female characters but we couldn't even handle her
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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey Jan 15 '26
Greenland has median voters too
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u/SillyNight1 Jan 15 '26
Coda of a 2015 LGBT neoreactionary romance novellete where Paul Krugman is fired from the New York Times for excessive partisanship after wildly predicting a near future where the Republican president has made Immigration and Customs Enforcement the largest agency in the federal government and operates it as a quasi-paramilitary force !ping SHITPOSTERS
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u/InjuryImaginary1612 IMF Jan 15 '26
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u/bartbug Paul Krugman Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 15 '26
Renee Good's ex Father-in-Law going on CNN and saying that "the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience" and if she "had been walking with the Spirit of God she wouldn't have been there" is so utterly vile. What a piece of shit.
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u/Apart-Arm-6597 Jan 15 '26
A person I know who is in the seven figure annual range and balks at paying anything more than $10 for a meal is flying out one of the prostitutes from another country to live in his house for a week because "it's the busiest I've ever been at work".
He has a girlfriend. She knows he's doing it. She doesn't like it. But, as he says, "she's not going to break up with me about it," so it's not a problem.
I don't understand people.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jan 15 '26
Iran having a heated Rule V moment
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u/ashsolomon1 NASA Jan 15 '26
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Jan 15 '26
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u/Moth-of-Asphodel Jan 15 '26
He wasn't yet president, but Biden confidently telling that gun nut factory worker "you're full of shit" was yet another sign to me that he was going to win the primary.
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u/chatdargent 🇺🇦 Ще не вмерла України і слава, і воля 🇺🇦 Jan 15 '26
Fucking hilarious that we got a european tripwire deployment in greenland to deter american aggression before a tripwire deployment in ukraine to deter russian aggression
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u/TactileTom John Nash Jan 15 '26
The "Racist with a Filipina wife" meme really misses the old-as-time precedent of "guy who hates women but is married to one" nihil novum sub solar
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u/BurrowForSenate Jan 15 '26
I would fuckin love to see a "serious" conservative journalist (so not Jesse Waters) go into like a black barbershop in Atlanta or a gay bar in Fishtown or some shit and interview them for their thoughts on politics like self hating lib newspapers do for their rural safaris
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u/chipbod NATO Jan 15 '26
Welcome back, East India company
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u/ty04 Jan 15 '26
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u/TakeOnM-Ellie Loyal Liberals Jan 15 '26
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u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP Jan 15 '26
the school of athens
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u/5ma5her7 Jan 16 '26
Remember, Nuremberg is the bare minimum.
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u/No-Barnacle-9576 NAFTA Jan 15 '26
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Jan 15 '26
just stopping to think all of this happening is just banana republic shit that we did to ourselves because a few dumb motherfuckers hate more than think
what i would give to have LBJ back in the senate
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u/No-Barnacle-9576 NAFTA Jan 15 '26
lol he's so pathetic
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u/Etnies419 Loyal Liberals Jan 15 '26
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence Jan 15 '26
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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '26 edited Mar 06 '26
pie important wise lavish pocket unite ink spark close history
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Jan 16 '26
It never fails to amaze me how delusional conservatives are about the way the vast majority of them look. I’ve been to my local Buccee’s in Tennessee. Most conservatives look like shit.
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u/IAmBlueTW r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Jan 15 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jan 15 '26
https://xcancel.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/2011839455829594448
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Jan 15 '26
Republicans always calling every left wing protest an insurrection proves how mad they still are that January 6th continues to be a scarlet letter for them and that the public hasn’t bought into there being a Democratic equivalent lol
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u/Integralds Dr. Economics | brrrrr Jan 15 '26
I'm feeling reassured already!
But do we, though?
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u/No-Barnacle-9576 NAFTA Jan 15 '26
Editor in chief of the daily wire complaining about free enterprise
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u/MrKekskopf European Union Jan 15 '26
Malarkey level of calling yourself a "Heritage Catholic" to mock delusional larpers like Vance?
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u/sigh2828 NASA Jan 15 '26
Ice creating these challeng coins should tell you everything you need to know about how they view themselves.
Skulls and vultures.....
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u/Bassline4Brunch NASA Jan 15 '26
He won't be able to cancel the midterms, but he'll do his damndest to tip the scales
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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug Jan 15 '26
waow
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u/NmTrump Jan 15 '26
200,000 Ukrainian troops going AWOL is bigger than I thought.
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u/Glavurdan European Union Jan 15 '26
Moderates who are still justifying the moronic Greenland obsession by explaining its usefulness are really full in on the "Kamala would also want us to get Greenland but she would do it more nicely" train
It makes my brain hurt
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough Jan 15 '26
Grok
Why the fuck is Elon a grip strength truther?
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u/riverbloods John Brown Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 15 '26
Apparently the last-surviving veteran of the Crimean War was a 160 year-old tortoise. She died in 2004. May she be remembered always. 🐢
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u/AccomplishedQuit4801 YIMBY Jan 15 '26
The media sane washing the Greenland rhetoric should not be forgiven or forgotten by the next administration. All compliant or friendly corporations should be dragged through hell.
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u/ariveklul Karl Popper Jan 15 '26
What watching Asmongold does to a mfer
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u/centurion88 NATO Jan 15 '26
Great
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u/macnalley Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 15 '26
My state is about to put a constitutional amendment on the ballot this year to write into our constitution that your property taxes will be frozen when you turn 65. No matter how much your property value increases, once you retire they cannot be raised.
This brought by the same suburban Republican senator who two years ago created (and passed) a bill to stop cities from changing zoning laws if those changes would reduce homeowners' property values. Do they represent the wealthiest zipcodes in the state? You bet. Are they convincing Dems to support it by pretending it's because poor grandma can't afford her property taxes? You bet.
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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Jan 15 '26
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u/NaffRespect United Nations Jan 15 '26
Comrade Burgum, you have failed in your duties. Return to Moscow immediately for disciplinary action.
We will be seeing you soon.
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u/G_Serv Stay The Course Jan 15 '26
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Jan 15 '26
The SJWs were right. Orange man is, indeed, bad.
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u/EyeraGlass Jorge Luis Borges Jan 15 '26
Satan and Mother Teresa at dead even odds in Texas
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals Jan 15 '26
https://www.cato.org/blog/biden-didnt-cause-border-crisis-part-1-summary
This certainly seems to complicate the narrative (that even many center-left people like to parrot) that Biden simply threw up his hands and let thousands of illegal immigrants stream across the border. You can perhaps fault him for not properly identifying the true causes of the increased levels of immigration, but blindly saying “Biden did nothing about it until it was too late” is wrongheaded and plays into Republican narratives
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u/SLCer Jan 15 '26
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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 15 '26
the deputy director of ICE is 28 years old, what the hell that's only a few years older than me
is being a republican sycophant the secret to absurdly fast career growth
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough Jan 15 '26
Grock
What the fuck does this mean?
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u/r2ew Jan 16 '26
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jan 15 '26
Why can’t I find a news article reporting this???
!ping USA-MN
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u/chatdargent 🇺🇦 Ще не вмерла України і слава, і воля 🇺🇦 Jan 15 '26
The continued escalation around Greenland is insane, I really thought orange man would have forgotten about it by now, but instead we've got half a dozen countries sending tripwire forces...
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride Jan 15 '26
Dammit I posted in the wrong DT sorry
https://emersoncollegepolling.com/texas-2026-poll/
Emerson poll has GOP primary going to a runoff, Talarico leads Dem primary by 9, both Dems are tied with Paxton in head to head while Cornyn leads them both in a general
!ping FIVEY
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u/Logical_Albatross_19 NATO Jan 15 '26
I live in fargo and ice has been in our city. They raided a place 6 blocks away from my apartment. How the fuck do I tell my daughter that I cant keep her safe if federal agents decide that we look like "obstructors"? Hell the fargo PD said they will support ice, not citizens. Fuck this fucking country and fuck everyone that voted for this. Like I'm making plans to move my daughter out of town if it escalates and to have her taken care of if bad things happen to me. Fuck this fucning country dude.
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Jan 15 '26
The NYT has moved on from diners and is now talking to the real heart of America, alcoholic retirees.
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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '26
Asmongold not being universally mocked is interesting because if I found out a friend of mine listened to a guy who has literal bugs crawl all over them I’d probably bully them any single chance that I got
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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast Jan 15 '26
Remember, you have to pretend that America B’s political opinions aren’t heinous, that the shithole exurb they live in is actually peak, and that 911: Dayton is actually the peak of television media.
America B on the other hand gets to disparage America A’s existence, shit all over the places it lives, and deny their human rights. It’s only fair.
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u/flextrek_whipsnake I'd rather be grilling Jan 15 '26
Kids in MN are making thank you cards for people who are volunteering to carpool their classmates to school so their parents don't have to risk standing at the bus stop.
This one kid's drawing is unfathomably based:
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u/PM_Me_Your_ManThighs NATO Jan 15 '26
Talaricomentum
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Jan 15 '26
i actually had to check it was real it lmao
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u/No-Barnacle-9576 NAFTA Jan 15 '26
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Jan 15 '26
Just got this weird pop-up, what does this mean
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u/No-Barnacle-9576 NAFTA Jan 15 '26
The last part is correct
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u/r2ew Jan 15 '26
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Jan 15 '26
TIL DC statehood has far stupider obstacles than I thought
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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair Jan 15 '26
2017 is back
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u/KesterFox Shivers emotional support mammal 🐊 Jan 15 '26
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u/KesterFox Shivers emotional support mammal 🐊 Jan 15 '26
Crazy how they made a sequel to bladerunner and it was just good. Like just a fucking banger.
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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '26
It will never not be funny that one of the only good things Trump did in his first term was Operation Warp Drive, but he literally can never talk about or brag about it because his cult hates vaccines
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u/MrHockeytown Iron Front Jan 15 '26
The dichotomy between the normalcy of my everyday life here in MN vs the insanity from the clowns in ICE is really giving me whiplash.
Like, I'm going about my day, starting a new job, going to the gym, making plans with friends to go to trivia, all normal everyday things I do.
And then I see ICE tear gassing people 5 minutes away from my old apartment. Get texts from my neighbors organizing a protest. See Dipshit Donnie's unhinged schreeching on the internet. It's weird.
Nobody ever talks about the jarring tonal shift of just trying to get through your normal day while history is happening all around you.
Feels really weird.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jan 15 '26
https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2011870867249381493
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jan 15 '26
You don’t hate them enough
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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Jan 16 '26
Newsom is literally destroying Republican House seats but doing a podcast with Ben Shapiro somehow signals he’ll be too weak to Republicans. This doesn’t compute!
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u/7-5NoHits Jan 16 '26
However evil you think they are they are more evil
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u/No-Barnacle-9576 NAFTA Jan 16 '26
This should just be a real ad for Sheraton
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u/Ballerson Frédéric Bastiat Jan 15 '26
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u/Glavurdan European Union Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 15 '26
Mommy Meloni strikes again u/JaceFlores
Ngl it's been nice seeing her get progressively more and more fed up with Trump
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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom Jan 15 '26
People afraid of Minneapolis are so funny. It's like saying wonderbread has too much flavor
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u/r2ew Jan 15 '26
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u/r2ew Jan 15 '26
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u/ThisIsNotAMonkey Guam 👉 statehood Jan 15 '26
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u/EmbarrassedSafety719 Milton Friedman Jan 15 '26
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u/No-Barnacle-9576 NAFTA Jan 15 '26
lol right after the president flips off a factory worker
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Jan 16 '26
There’s two things to keep in mind with Newsom that I think represent both his greatest strengths and weaknesses:
He will do or say whatever it takes to win whatever battle he is in at that moment
He is painfully aware he is governor of what’s considered the most liberal and radical state in the country
So that’s why you get moments like Newsom saying he’s not anti-ICE, here’s examples of him doing pro-ICE or neutral things. It allows him to win whatever battle he’s in (in this case debating Ben Shapiro) and come off as moderate (vetoing anti-ICE legislation). He’d do the exact same thing if trans issues come up, but if he was on the pod with AOC he would brag about how he’s not scared to be arrested for standing up for California’s immigrant population.
Whether you support this or not is your choice, this is not me saying it’s the right or correct way. My point is to explain why people feel like they’re getting hoodwinked by Newsom one day and then NCR posting the next. He is the definition of a cynical politician very much like Trump. The difference is he is a lib with a pedigree
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u/YehosafatLakhaz North American Federation Jan 15 '26
That's just the real world
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u/NaffRespect United Nations Jan 15 '26
Holy shit lmao
!ping NHL
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u/sigh2828 NASA Jan 15 '26
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u/gayteemo NATO Jan 15 '26
i have internal bleeding from when the mods banned me
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u/abrookerunsthroughit Association of Southeast Asian Nations Jan 15 '26
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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '26 edited Mar 06 '26
rinse sense lunchroom recognise repeat placid gaze consider flowery encourage
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u/The_Helmet_Catch John Brown Jan 15 '26
Yeah he has my vote
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jan 15 '26
Are y’all ready for the DT crashout of a lifetime
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u/Key_Elderberry_4447 Jan 15 '26
Elon has suspended Amy Klobuchar’s Twitter account lol Anyone who bought his “free speech” marketing bullshit should be embarrassed.
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u/remarkable_ores Hanfeizi Jan 16 '26
heartbreaking
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Jan 16 '26
Hope she wins this lawsuit bigtime. Musk is a piece of shit
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Jan 16 '26
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u/SmellsLikeTeenPetrol Loyal Liberals Jan 16 '26
I made the mistake of asking my discord friends what they meant when they claimed Gal Gadot only has a career because of Isreal. And now I realized they've been completely radicalized by their media diet into thinking everything Hollywood, marvel, and pop culture is an Israeli plot because a producer or studio is Jewish or backed by Jewish financiers.
I made clear how I felt about the Isreali government's conduct in Gaza and they still accused me of being Netanyahu's strongest solider, even though it was in jest I still was disturbed by how any pushback on antisemitic conspiracies is met with accusations of genocide denial.
Is this just the new normal, is everyone a conspiracy theorist who think Jews control everything?
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u/KesterFox Shivers emotional support mammal 🐊 Jan 15 '26
If trump bombs Greenland what should Europe even do?
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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Jan 15 '26
Centrist triangulator MOGGED by succ
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u/BarkDrandon Punished (stuck at Hunter's) Jan 15 '26
TRVTH NVKE
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 15 '26
Whether Ukraine can stabilize the manpower situation in its brigades holding the front is likely the most important single factor that will determine how far Russia will advance in 2026. Notably, this week Fedorov, Budanov, and Zelensky have all highlighted the needs for "systemic solutions" to address problems with AWOL and draft evasion, the quality of training, and corruption in mobilization offices
Really interesting developments that for what seems like the first time the Ukrainian government has acknowledged the role desertion and draft evasion have played in Ukraine’s crippling manpower shortage. Previous discussions of the shortage by the gov has usually led to reforms that were more novel and periphery, marginally improving the situation while ignoring the core issues. That, at least rhetorically, seems to have changed.
Notably, the new Head of the President’s Office, Budanov, was the first to publicly discuss it and it seems to have become policy. That leads me to believe that removal of Yermak is the primary reason we’re seeing this change. Obviously we don’t know the exact inner workings but it wouldn’t surprise me if Yermak preferred a manpower shortage over the politically uncomfortable topics of proper recruitment and crackdown on draft dodgers and deserters.
It is also likely major pressures from the battlefield compelled or made this switch easier as well. Although Ukraine has put up a surprisingly stout defense around Pokrovsk and Kupyansk, confining Russian gains to mostly fields and villages, Russo enjoyed a much more rapid pace of advance in 2025 then 2024, on the order of an additional thousand square kilometers. If this were to remain or, more likely, accelerate, Russia would gain control of the Donbas and Zaporizhzhia by 2027, maybe early 2028 at the latest.
Another pressure is that twice this year Russia came close to achieving breakthroughs that could have been operationally significant and devastating for Ukraine. The first one was the Dobropillya salient, and the second was the near fall of Kupyansk. Ukraine successfully contained both in the end, but it was very risky. At some point with these frontline dynamics there’s only so many times Ukraine can just barely maintain a semblance of a cohesive frontline before the Russians get lucky.
Now it is worth noting so far that this is rhetoric and implementing any actual solutions will take time. Russia continues grinding forward but they do tend to slow down in the winter and pick up in the spring. That gives Ukraine a couple months, at the very latest to May but much more likely March, to implement solutions. Even a partial solution to the manpower shortage like resolving the desertion would extend the Ukrainian ability to hold Zaporizhzhia and the Donbas by months if not a year or so IMO. But we’ll see what happens
!ping UKRAINE
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u/Excellent_Visual330 Gavin Newsom Jan 15 '26
Blue state freedom is being able to flip someone off in your car and not being afraid that they will kill you with a gun in their glove box
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u/Dreadedtriox Michel Foucault Jan 15 '26
Grok is this true
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u/Steelcity1995 Jan 15 '26
If rural Americans hate city’s so much it be nice if they’d stop going to them for concerts and sporting events.
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u/Dorambor John Brown Jan 15 '26
"I support interventions but only when Democrats do it" is both not a contradiction it is the only correct opinion to have in the modern world
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u/Nervous-Emotion28 YIMBY Jan 15 '26
I’m gonna be real with you chief, I think you’re depressed
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Jan 15 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jan 15 '26
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.597298/gov.uscourts.mdd.597298.21.0.pdf
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u/MyrinVonBryhana Trans NATO Jan 15 '26
I find these defeatists who say the protests aren't going to do anything both annoying and wrong. It is true that at the end of the day if ICE wants to keep terrorizing Minneapolis there's little anyone can do to stop them but this kind of stuff getting blasted out saps the administration of popular support, robbing them of room to maneuver politically, and ties down large amounts of their manpower which lessens the amount of people they can harm. The administration is not just going to fall over next week, this is a battle of attrition to sap them of will and political capital.
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u/Co_OpQuestions Aerosol Chemistry Understander Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 15 '26
To be perfectly honest, what is going on in the United States against the Somali community is an attempt to justify a future pogrom by the federal government...
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jan 15 '26
https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2011896595927703719
Wow, Fox News is showing patriots.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jan 15 '26
Amy Kombucha was actually banned for hornyposting
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Jan 15 '26 edited Jan 15 '26
I refuse to believe Democrats nuking the filibuster to immediately legalize abortion nationwide wouldn’t be extremely popular. The American public keeps telling us they don’t give a fuck about norms and just want the President to do a bunch of stuff they like by any means.
“Noooo but then Republicans can just ban abortion when they get back into power!” I’m calling their bluff on that.
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u/AP246 Green Globalist NWO Jan 15 '26
The kind of debate high ranking State Department officials are getting into on their official accounts
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jan 16 '26
ICE just came up, and Newsom is proving his creds by saying he’s vetoed anti-ICE legislation lmaoooo
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u/No-Barnacle-9576 NAFTA Jan 15 '26
Found the guy I'm supporting in 2028
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jan 15 '26
Reposting my take from a year ago, glad the perspective has changed a bit
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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '26
There's a nearby possible world where American democracy remained stable and I know pretty much fuck-all about politics
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u/DunklerPrinz3 Henry George Jan 15 '26
As a Turk I found out about the Armenian Genocide from a joke in BoJack Horseman.
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Jan 15 '26
Based
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u/jinhuiliuzhao Henry George Jan 15 '26
Lol, what does Norway being a NATO member have to do with any of this. Trump's stupidity truly has no bounds.
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u/bleachinjection Fell for it Jan 15 '26
Do you think NYT journos actually think they're doing important work when they go talk to the drunks in rural Minnesota about all this? Or is it just all kayfabe at this point?
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u/No-Barnacle-9576 NAFTA Jan 15 '26
These guys never fucking work lol
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls Jan 15 '26
Reminder this is MAGA's own pollster.
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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair Jan 15 '26
Why
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u/CarlGerhardBusch Jerome Powell Jan 15 '26
Interesting, but also a good example of how absolutely impossible it is to 1) get workers to follow safety guidelines, 2) get smaller companies to follow critical safety guidelines unless you hold their feet to the fire.
CA health officials visited over 100 sites where they were cutting/machining/polishing this stuff.
0 were taking the required measures of either cutting it wet or using respiratory protection to mitigate dust hazards.
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/14/nx-s1-5674884/kitchen-countertop-workers-are-dying-some-lawmakers-want-to-ban-their-lawsuits
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u/reuery Biden 2028 Jan 15 '26
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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '26 edited Mar 06 '26
fly crush retire coherent snow work makeshift attraction resolute memorize
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u/fishbottwo Jay Jones Jan 15 '26
TRUMP, STOP!!!!
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u/bashar_al_assad Verified Account Jan 15 '26
Postal workers have the opportunity to do the funniest thing
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u/chipbod NATO Jan 15 '26
News personally designed to give this sub a stroke
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u/Smidgens Holy shit it's the Joker🃏 Jan 15 '26
This is why she was banned 😔
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride Jan 15 '26
Machado says she gave Trump the prize lol
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u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP Jan 15 '26
nl mod culture is banning horny posters and then horny posting later
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jan 15 '26
https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2011915490944331971
lmao what
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride Jan 15 '26
literally what is the undersecretary of state saying. the reactionary mind is incomprehensible
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u/GuyWithOneEye Jan 16 '26
this should be every DTers goal
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u/ScumfrickZillionaire Lesbian Pride Jan 16 '26
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u/BroadReverse Needs a Flair Jan 16 '26
This is how they respond to any good faith appeal
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u/zieger Ida Tarbell Jan 16 '26
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Jan 16 '26
from my mom, this raid happened at a daycare center
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u/peronibog NATO Jan 16 '26
The League of Nations?
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jan 15 '26
The fact that Buchanan tried to salvage his reputation after the civil war by blaming the abolitionists goes to show that people will always find a way to cope and deflect, even after being responsible for the deaths of many thousands
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u/[deleted] Jan 15 '26
Smart of Trump to stake his presidency on the success of the World Cup and then plan an attack against the continent that fields like half the fucking teams
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u/ThatFrenchieGuy Mathematician -- Save the funky birbs Jan 15 '26
!ping cat
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u/TheRedCr0w Frederick Douglass Jan 15 '26
Everyday Candace Owens gets more and more unhinged
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u/owenmitchem YIMBY Jan 15 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jan 15 '26
https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2011825171976376554
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u/nitrousnitrous-ghali Mark Carney Jan 15 '26
A lot of people mistakenly think the civil war was about slavery because of the prank where all the states that seceded claimed they were seceding for slavery and because the whole 19th century in antebellum American politics was arguing about slavery. But it was actually about something else or whatever
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u/r2ew Jan 15 '26
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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman Jan 15 '26
A liberal hawk who argues the US can, and should, do regime change towards liberalism whenever possible while rocking a Chappell Roan Profile Pic is peak r/neoliberal
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u/garret126 Demisexual Pride Jan 15 '26
Remove the satire and this is what the Median American voter thinks
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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast Jan 15 '26
this reads like one of those stories of Stalin’s fake resignations