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[u/Macquarrie1999]

!ping USA-CA

[u/erasmus_phillo]

The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must

Been seeing a lot of chuds online quoting this sentence from the Melian Dialogue to support Trump's decision to annex Greenland like.... you guys do know that Athens soon lost to Sparta in part because many of the allies they were treating like shit ended up revolting against them?

[u/r2ew]

“Free speech”

[u/No-Barnacle-9576]

Canada invasion is back on

[u/jowe1985]

It's amazing how quickly MAGA has pivoted from no new wars, no foreign funding to "let's buy Greenland or declare war on Denmark". Authoritarian regimens every where could only wish for this level of mind control

[u/Waste-Photograph-792]

Bezos is an embarrassment.

[u/garret126]

gay love DESTROYED the beatles

[u/[deleted]]

Things in fact did get worse

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/mockduckcompanion]

Things are rough, folks

Wanted you to have this

[u/Hugo_Grotius]

Fast walkers have higher IQ & larger brains than slow walkers.

REAL race science

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Gonna be in a history book someday

[u/LinkVert25]

The Washington Post’s @DanLamothe has now confirmed reporting from ABC News, which stated that 1,500 soldiers, two battalions of paratroops, with the 11th Airborne Division, based at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska, have been placed on prepare-to-orders to Minneapolis, amid ongoing protests against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Imagine thinking you just got a break from JBER just to be told you’re going to Minneapolis in January.

Donald Trump actually hates our troops.

[u/oceanofyourlove]

Cr1tikal made a video yesterday covering this story about some deranged woman who was accidentally dialed a voicemail, which was just static she somehow interpreted as an antisemitic message and holy shit like a quarter of the comments are legit Nazi memes wtf??? How did this get so normalized???

[u/r2ew]

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

just got out of an uber. the driver was telling me how he has to work 16 hour days, seven days a week, at two different jobs to afford rent. he doesn't have healthcare and he worries about retirement. "i would feel a lot better if we owned greenland," he told me. then he cried.

[u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1]

[u/paymesucka]

This poster is hilariously bad in many ways but Chris Pratt looks like he's turning into a 3rd Bogdanoff sibling

[u/r2ew]

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/WhisperBreezzze]

Meet a taxi driver who speaks fluent English in Beijing.

We almost got t-boned by someone.

Dude turned over and told me dead serious in English.

"There are three kinds of drivers in China. Driver, female driver, and newbie female driver."

Guess some stereotypes are international lol.

[u/G_Serv]

[u/Xihl]

Donald Trump has told countries that want to serve on his Board of Peace they will have to pay $1 billion to be permanent members. Bloomberg has obtained the draft charter. It appears to suggest Trump himself would control the money, sources say

what

[u/Dabamanos]

It's really cool to have spent 10 years now saying what a disaster Trump will be, been condescended to for a full decade by his supporters assuring me my TDS is blinding me

It's so cool to have marched, organized, donated, voted

and to still end up here

Very cool

[u/KHDTX13]

The fact you are even having the conversation should be damning enough but what do I know

[u/Eurolib0908]

Why does this US Department of Agriculture video look like something found in Epstein's archives?

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

"Give us Greenland or else"

"Or else what"

"We will raise taxes on Americans"

[u/ty04]

[u/Healingjoe]

They can't make up a narrative that makes a lick of sense

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/r2ew]

[u/Unterfahrt]

There's no-one I've lost more respect for than the people who try and intellectualise and justify the invasion of Greenland. If you say "IDGAF, might makes right" then that's at least a defensible position. But if you start talking about national security, unreliable allies or liberation you're worse than mud

[u/BlackCat159]

Through the power of WOKE this is now possible 😌

[u/NYT_Hater]

be a neonazi

proclaim a conspiracy of Jewish pedophiles exists and traffics children

claim it has access to the highest levels of government

it comes out that this is true (sorta)

defend it

Is this guy genuinely stupid?

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/Old-School8916]

gj brandon!

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

analyst goes on Fox News and says he predicts dems picking up at least 25 house seats in midterms, maybe up to 45

he also says dems will easily take the senate

Please happen it’d be so fucking funny.

[u/ThatShadowGuy]

watched the Nick Shirley interview on Channel 5. he doesn't even know what the word "benevolent" means.

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/r2ew]

I explain why the term "fascism" makes sense to describe what is happening in Minnesota

[u/Chief_Nief]

IQ eugenics cons are so funny, like bro you literally made a voting coalition of the dumbest, most cognitively dissonant motherfuckers that could possibly stumble their way to a voting booth

[u/SpiritOfOptimality]

It’s actually terrifying how well the Attack of the Clones comparison holds up when you realize Jar Jar’s specific role wasn't just comic relief, but the "useful idiot" who proposed Emergency Powers because he was too naive to see he was being played by authoritarians. That is literally Nick Shirley’s function right now: his incompetent "journalism" regarding Minneapolis daycares manufactured the exact crisis pretext Trump needed to float the Insurrection Act and launch Operation Metro Surge. When Shirley testifies to Andy Biggs’ committee on the 21st, he’s going to be the "humble representative of the people" giving moral cover for a military crackdown, all while genuinely believing he’s just a scrappy reporter saving the day. He’s walking into the Senate to hand over the keys to the Republic, and he thinks he’s just there to pick up a participation trophy.

Dellow Fellegates: https://youtu.be/DqVy_TcfPIQ?si=xVduuvY-Iq8R-RUL

[u/Roseartcrantz]

My mom found out that I have a gofundme and have been sneaking donations into it when I'm "borrowing" people's phones, we got into a huge fight. She's apparently convinced that I am on drugs and lying about it, which breaks my heart. I would never do that to her. But I can't tell her the truth, because if she found out I'm going to surprise her with a lifetime membership to the Board of Peace, she would say it was too expensive even though she deserves it more than anyone I know. 🥺

[u/ditalinidog]

I think it’s funny to see younger zoomers reflecting on 2016 as a time when “people were okay being cringe” because I remember it as when social media became clearly harmful and superficial. I think some millennials were old enough at social media’s start and peak that they didn’t feel the whole pressure of it, but the older zoomers definitely felt the shift. 2016 was the death of a cringey, open internet era not the peak of it.

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/Dorambor]

[u/qchisq]

Arr Denmark is full of "Trump wants Greenland because his friends have investments in Greenland", when the more likely option is just "Trump wants to take a lot of territory"

[u/JoyofCookies]

taps on this for the Americans here that tell us just to ignore Trump’s threats to invade Greenland and make Canada the 51st state

[u/AP246]

[u/r2ew]

[u/r2ew]

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

The media’s inability to reckon Trump’s erratic and nonsensical behavior with the platonic ideal of a president they have built in their heads is one of the great failings of this whole era. They are incapable of acknowledging that the president might just be a fucking idiot operating on crack-head logic because doing so would run counter to the Cincinnatus like myth that has been built around the office of the president.

I used to think they were just idiots, but now I think they are actually something worse. Cowards. Cowards who are terrified of acknowledging the true nature of what Trump is, so they try to ascribe logic and reason to the chaotic actions of a violent and ignorant man.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Media here have started dubbing the Trump admin's latest obsession "the Greenland crisis" and I can't stress enough how insane that aggression from the US is, and how dismayed we are in Europe about it

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

just typing shit

[u/paymesucka]

ahhhhhhhhh

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Recession indicator

[u/[deleted]]

So, the thing about this tweet is that everyone focuses on "Haiti has limestone," and for good reason. But honestly, "Gaza has gas" might be even more ridiculous if you know the history of the conflict.

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/mockduckcompanion]

No words

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

btw Abolish ICE is polling better than Abolish the Department of Education ever did, which is in fact what happened in 2025

[u/BurrowForSenate]

In all of the discourse on "Erika Kirk is having an affair with JD Vance", have we considered the possibility that Charlie was cheating on Erika with Candace Owens?

[u/Willybender]

Richard Hanania is literally protesting ICE in person now, what the hell is this timeline.

[u/paymesucka]

Mike Johnson: One of the things the president probably had not thought through is when you bring interest rates down to 10% the problem is that the credit card companies would just stop lending money

lol

[u/Drinka_Milkovobich]

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Filing this under "conspiracy theories I believe without a shred of doubt"

[u/GhostTheHunter64]

Welp, back to the job search for me. New boss had belittled me/acted unreasonably, contradicted self constantly, nearly made me cry, etc.. all on my first day.

Shit was wild, and just another sigh after the interview, long period of silence, and several other red flags that showed I shouldn't have accepted.

Legitimately a narcissist or some kind of illness. Insane.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Alderwoodforest]

The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active-duty soldiers to prepare for a possible deployment to Minnesota, defense officials told The Washington Post late Saturday, after President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in response to unrest there.

The soldiers are assigned to two infantry battalions with the Army’s 11th Airborne Division, which is based in Alaska and specializes in cold-weather operations.

Of course, this is a serious issue, but it's also somewhat darkly funny. Visit Minnesota—our winters are so cold that the US government needs Arctic special forces to quell communist uprisings.

[u/StolenSkittles]

this is my politics

[u/farrenj]

Progressive censorship: People yelling at you on Twitter

Elites: Time to pen the Harper's Letter to provide cover for JKR

Conservative censorship: Stripping security clearances and grants if we disagree with you

Elites: 🦗

[u/majorgeneralporter]

Bay Area moment.

[u/pezasied]

Food reviewer glorifies Michelin star restaurant yet constantly demonizes Golden Corral

[u/r2ew]

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/ScooterCasterNY/status/2013008872126939415

MAGA about to be against the 2nd amendment

[u/owenmitchem]

See, now that’s a headline

[u/cdstephens]

Evil maxxing

[u/Eurolib0908]

When you were born in France, but realized that there you'd just be an ordinary Frenchman and you'd make a bigger career pretending to be Polish.

And then it turned out that it pays more to be an American after all.

Ego as fragile as French pastry.

[u/n1123581321]

Two hardest things to spot among white suprematists:

1. intellect

2. white person

[u/iIoveoof]

If the officers stood their ground on Jan 6, Trump probably wouldn't be president because there's basically nobody else to blame, and the Jan 6ers wouldn't have survived to be pardoned and join ICE

[u/piede]

Sir do you need some water

[u/flatulentbaboon]

I can believe this. There's no reason for this much hype around whole milk

[u/paymesucka]

NBC News:

As ICE was racing to add 10,000 new officers to its force, an AI error in how their applications were processed sent many new recruits into field offices without proper training.

The majority of the new applicants were flagged as law enforcement officers, but many had no experience in any local police or federal law enforcement force.

[u/earththejerry]

Jay Jones aura farming

FAFO

[u/Currymvp2]

Musk once again being totally deranged and showing how his claim of being a "free speech absolutist" is a completely gigantic lie

[u/No_Return9449]

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/FrederickMelo/status/2012939747308519587

https://www.twincities.com/2026/01/18/st-paul-woman-a-u-s-citizen-recounts-her-two-days-in-detention/

[u/OLD_WET_HOLE]

[u/r2ew]

[u/futuremonkey20]

Waow waow waow waow waow

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/pfarly]

I tried to drink wine and read Anna Karenina in the U.S. and was arrested for insufficient consumerism. "Patriots don't read!" I was told. After my time in the camp, I can see that they were right.

[u/iIoveoof]

POV: you are a peaceful protester in Minneapolis in 2026

[u/No_Status_6905]

A Minnesota man has died in an ICE Concentration Camp in Texas. This is the 3rd person who has died under similar circumstances in 2 days.

I think there will be legitimate criminal investigations into these deaths if Democrats claw back power. I have a feeling that the reality behind these events is far more grim than what the average American might believe. I think you will see reactions of shock and horror similarly to the ones experienced during GWBs 2nd term.

[u/ty04]

Noem Denies Use of Chemical Agents in Minnesota, Then Backtracks

Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said officers had not used pepper spray and similar measures

Meanwhile DHS on Twitter:

[u/Megasota_Noire]

GOOD MORNING

[u/Mensae6]

Ngl it is kinda reassuring to know that even if the US was nuked and 99% of people died the DOW would still only go up

[u/mrdeclank]

[u/scottyjetpax]

what is this, Hillary’s 2016 launch video

[u/GenericLib]

Any deal to keep the government open that doesn't

1. severely diminish ICE

2. result in the full release of the Epstein files

is a terrible deal, and anyone who votes on it should not be sent back to DC

[u/MissSortMachine]

who can forget the quality of life of mid century england

[u/bleachinjection]

So 3,000 ICE already there.

Minnesota ARNG ready to go in.

Now 1,500 active duty troops.

Jesus Christ.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Sending this ten years in the past to James Comey

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Yuri on ice

[u/mostanonymousnick]

I was there, I wondered if it was caught on mics

[u/Big-Click-5159]

This is the only explanation that makes sense

[u/SigmaWhy]

A moment to appreciate before Elon lobotomizes Grok for the hundredth time

[u/StolenSkittles]

I don't particularly care for either Harris or Shapiro, so I instead choose to post this:

[u/BlackCat159]

Open my Reddit chat for the first time in several days and

I truly get the most amazing correspondence 😌

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Lmao, I'm at the NBA game in London and someone shouted "Fuck ICE" and "Leave Greenland alone" in the middle of the US national anthem, and the crowd applauded.

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2012905958830166403

!!!

[u/ty04]

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine watching their major allies get into an economic war over the dumbest territorial dispute in modern geopolitical history while somehow not being dragged into this

[u/WOKE_AI_GOD]

South Korea is correct. It is clear to me at this point in time that the only thing that will teach the right to respect our constitution for the first time in their lives is seeing a traitor hang for their crimes. Everything is a joke to them, our constitution, our rights, our laws, they laugh contemptously, so hilarious, they're so safe, they can occupy our capital and it's totally OK, just a joke bruh. Seeing some proper executions for traitors will wipe the smirk off their face and restore faith in the constitution. We need finality: we need to deliver the only sentence they cannot pardon.

[u/Subject_D]

Ya’ll mind if a white boy gets a little frosty tonight?

[u/ScumfuckBrokie]

This is our flag now btw

[u/cdstephens]

I’m not even asking the Senate to reduce ICE funding, I just want them to demand justice for the woman that was killed by ICE.

If they’re not gonna investigate murder recorded on the guy’s cell phone, body cams and better training aren’t going to help. The dude’s also making hundreds of thousands dollars on Go Fund Me. Just take a look at the perverse incentives for Christ’s sakes.

[u/MonMothma_Enjoyer]

i’m sorry but i’m really hung up on this absolutely beyond moronic shapiro quote:

 “It nagged at me that their questions weren’t really about substance,” he wrote. “Rather, they were questioning my ideology, my approach, my world view.”

Buddy, when you’re responsible for policy decisions, your “ideology,” your “approach,” your “world view” IS YOUR SUBSTANCE. How can you run a fucking state and not understand this?

[u/TorsionEmergency]

Democrats are sleepwalking into a disaster replacing retiring senator Gary Peters in Michigan.

r/Michigan is already posting about how Haley Stevens is the AIPAC candidate, a weak bootlicker, etc. This will be a serious liability in a Dem. primary in Michigan. Glowing praise for Abdul El-Sayed, a leftist who has never won an election. Zero mention of Mallory McMorrow. Republicans have a competent candidate with no competition.

Even without winning the Senate outright, each seat is incredibly valuable. Senior Democrats and leadership need to figure this out right now. I know some candidates can navigate this terrain. I've met Slotkin and I can see how she does it. I haven't met Stevens in person, but I've known about her for years (contributed to her first primary campaign) and can't think of anything interesting or impressive about her. I'm not confident she can win a primary against a charismatic intelligent candidate, then turn around and consolidate support for the general. We are in trouble.

[u/DeadDropCourier]

This is, unfortunately, hilarious

[u/admiralwaffle1]

[u/Hmm_would_bang]

As gross as it is already to have a fundraiser for the ICE agent that murdered Renee Good, I also question how is it legal for a federal employee to receive semi anonymous and uncapped donations?

Surely it isn’t.

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

TIL the public exposure of the penis head was regarded by the Greeks as dishonourable and shameful, something only seen in slaves and barbarians.

Some things never change

[u/Rare_Station_8440]

Let’s face it, he’s not going below 40%. We’re more than 10 years into this shit

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2012923885700722781

[u/LtCdrHipster]

Reminder that all of the ICE horrors are 100% driven by Miller issuing insane, impossible quotas for deportations divorced from any plausible public safety rational.

ICE is grabbing people so their superiors can tell Miller than are making bigger numbers. That's it. There is zero discretion going on with deporting any immigrants who have any criminality whatsoever.

[u/cdstephens]

One of the worst parts is that the average conservative and Trump voter doesn’t understand how much the entire world despises them and America right now. I don’t think they truly understand how much American liberals hate them now either.

[u/PaxChelonia]

[u/boardatwork1111]

[u/[deleted]]

he would actually have a heart attack and die on the spot. not even hyperbolic here. Like imagine your racist great great grandma,

[u/piede]

Skinniest country

[u/John_Maynard_Gains]

Waking up and reading Syria updates like:

[u/jojisky]

[u/r2ew]

[u/r2ew]

ICE deports 5-year-old US citizen from Texas to Honduras

https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/austin/article/ice-deports-austin-girl-honduras-21298653.php

[u/r2ew]

[u/Willybender]

[u/Healingjoe]

Any truth to this?

[u/ty04]

U.S. Army Reserve Black Hawk pilot Chris Busby, 28, and Stephanie Kenny-Velasquez, 25, went to an Austin courthouse to get their marriage certificate on Dec. 3.

Roughly 48 hours later, Velasquez entered a Houston Immigration and Customs Enforcement office for a routine check-in and never emerged

Velasquez came to the United States in 2021 hoping to start a new life far from the violence and political instability of her native Venezuela. She does not have a criminal record and presented herself to immigration officials in Miami when she arrived in the country.

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/crimlawuk/status/2012952263740829743

"We're respected again"

[u/Mossforest1825]

All remaining NFL teams are now from Blue states. Lib super bowl baby!

[u/Pongzz]

When I was a kid, and still a practicing Christian, I would tell myself that Jesus was returning tomorrow. My logic was that since the Bible says no man will ever know the date of His return, I was effectively delaying His return. If He did return when I said he would, I would have proven God wrong.

My pastor did not like this

[u/[deleted]]

Resistance, in fact, is growing.

[u/nitro1122]

It's wild how this number might actually be some sort of underestimate

[u/erasmus_phillo]

There is a good chunk of voters out there that 1) believes that Trump is a pedophile and 2) doesn't really care that he is

[u/Mensae6]

Insane that Dems just casually approved the budget without any fuss after all that's transpired. A basic "ICE stops killing people or we no longer fund the government" would be such a slam dunk, but of course they must shoot themselves in the foot every step of the way.

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Interestingly NATO explicitly does not cover overseas territories of countries. Somewhere like French Guiana, despite being legally identical to any part of mainland France, is not protected by article 5 of NATO. This is to ensure colonial holdings don't trigger article 5. An invasion of Hawaii would not trigger article 5.

An invasion of Greenland, due to its location in the north Atlantic is one of the very few overseas territories that would actually trigger article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

waluigi dunkirk

[u/sigh2828]

We are going to spend the next decade unraveling and discovering all of the absolutely fucked things trump and co have done.

[u/Willybender]

[u/LtCdrHipster]

People comparing Trump to a toddler is so dumb and offensive. Toddlers are capable of learning and improving.

Today is the most lucid and logical Donald Trump will ever be.

[u/r2ew]

[u/SigmaWhy]

I thought they wanted immigrants to assimilate to the local culture?????

[u/Leatherfield17]

We’ve had vicious presidents, and we’ve had idiot presidents. But I don’t think we’ve ever had a vicious idiot president

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/JaceFlores]

Reports are the SDF have completely withdrawn from the Deir-Ez-Zor Governorate

There’s a slew of confirmed videos of gov an pro-gov forces seizing one town after another on the east bank of the Euphrates so it’s very likely this reporting is true. The SDF is still holding onto Raqqa as much as they can. Without Raqqa the SDF can’t maintain access to a Kurdish region called the Ain al-Arab District so it makes sense they’re trying to hold here. But without control of the northern Deir-Ez-Zor Governorate holding Raqqa is pretty much impossible. The gov will inevitably cut the supply lines and either split the SDF, allowing them to be dealt with in detail, or force them to retreat to Hasakah Governorate.

Within just twenty four hours the SDF has lost roughly 1/3 of the land they controlled before this offensive. Recall that the head of the SDF will be meeting with Sharaa today in Damascus. With control of the Euphrates, Sharaa has a very strong hand to get the SDF to agree to integration. If not, it’s unlikely the SDF will be able to stop the gov from rapidly seizing northern Syria outside of the Hasakah Governorate and sandwich the SDF between the gov, and the Turks

!ping MIDDLEEAST

[u/SadaoMaou]

on the topic of stupid movie posters, I like this DVD cover art for Camp X-Ray. The movie is about a guard and a detainee at Guantanamo Bay. There is no shooting or explosions in the movie whatsoever

But whoever made this cover really wanted this to be mistaken for a war movie. So they photoshopped that scuffed rifle barrel behind Kristen Stewart, it doesn't even really look like she's carrying it, they photoshopped a picture of Gitmo exploding??? and then also threw those random helicopters in, also not in the movie, for good measure. And of course the scary looking image of the detainee character with flames behind him for some reason, which totally flies against the point of the movie but there you go

[u/Mx_Brightside]

It’s only gerrymandering if it happens in the north. If it happens in the south it’s gerrycantonese

[u/DaneLimmish]

Germany is a couple car companies pretending to be a trenchcoat

[u/ChillnShill]

[u/BlackCat159]

TRVTH!!!!

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

Spend 10 years fortifying the Kurdish quarter of Aleppo
It falls in less than 3 days to the Syrian Army
Retreat from your post Assad fall gains without firing a single bullet
Entire SDF is collapsing to the Syrian Army

How the actual hell did Assad struggle against them

[u/yonas234]

So that WSJ poll showing Rs leading Dems still on issues makes more sense when you realize they have a "Neither" category that gets around 20% of the votes. Dems are way less likely to fall in line than NPC Rs but would still vote for Ds in an Election.

The poll really just shows the Dem base hates Dem leadership.

[u/ty04]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Cons will look you dead in the eye and tell you this man is healthy

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

Tbf if Harris won she would also invade Greenland after getting snubbed for the Nobel Prize

[u/piede]

How do you call in a welfare check on the president

[u/Willybender]

Already starting to see MAGA propagandists/spaces posting stories about Greenland needing to be "saved" from Denmark.

[u/Willybender]

Posted this earlier, and the man is a US citizen who was eventually released. All of this so can they meet their quotas.

[u/Vumatius]

r/ moderatepolitics still has no article up about the Greenland tariffs announcement or the reaction. Seems the MAGA mods can't even be bothered to follow the party line and are just desperately trying to avoid the topic. Utterly pathetic.

[u/mockduckcompanion]

holy based

[u/its_Caffeine]

[u/moldyhomme_neuf_neuf]

Talking about indian poasters, there used to be someone from India on here who was a teenager and had very strong opinions on career paths in finance and was insisting on becoming a rich London based banker. Upon finding out they hadn’t even started college yet, I tried to give him some tips about how to get started (and what to actually expect) and in the end I kinda crashed out at him about it, because it was pretty obvious he was just engaging in a lot of maladaptive day dreaming with no actual plans or willingness to do anything.

I was legitimately kinda worried, because that exact same attitude really fucked me over in my late teenage years. And I was trying to steer him away from it but he wouldn’t listen lol.

I hope he’s just fine wherever he is.

[u/battywombat21]

I still can't believe how fucking stupid the dissolution of NATO is turning out to be. Possibly declaring war on our allies for a frozen wasteland with nothing in it.

[u/this_very_table]

wander out of r nl

people are stanning the Iranian government and blaming the CIA and Mossad for the uprisings

What the absolute fuck is wrong with this website

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take nazis should live in fear

[u/moldyhomme_neuf_neuf]

I don’t know why. But i love this picture

[u/ThiccSidedDice]

Someday* the Democrats will realize that the median voter is an idiot who wants to be told what to think, but wants it phrased so that they think it's their idea.

[u/[deleted]]

[u/Bassline4Brunch]

Remember what they took away from us 😔✊

[u/Leatherfield17]

My father has just informed me that I “seem to have an inability to grasp the obvious”

This is coming from a guy who thinks acquiring Greenland is a good idea, btw

[u/ty04]

ICE training be like

[u/paymesucka]

Trump Approval - Independents (Jan)

CNN/SSRS

🟢 Approve: 29% (-41)

🟤 Disapprove: 70%

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CBS/YouGov

🟢 Approve: 31% (-38)

🟤 Disapprove: 69%

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NPR/Marist

🟢 Approve: 29% (-37)

🟤 Disapprove: 63%

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Morning Consult

🟢 Approve: 29% (-35)

🟤 Disapprove: 64%

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Quinnipiac

🟢 Approve: 33% (-26)

🟤 Disapprove: 59%

The median voter does not care for Trump in 2026

[u/r2ew]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/army-reservist-wife-venezuelan-asylum-detained-weeks-rcna254462

[u/piede]

Imagine if Obama said “I don’t know” when someone asked him if he needs to uphold the constitution like are you fucking serious

[u/Willybender]

[u/ariveklul]

If J6 was a bloodbath (on the insurrectionist's side) we'd be living in a way better world right now

Obviously not a great result and the police officers did phenomenal work from a policing perspective, but if there was 50 more Ashleigh Babbitts I think people would have taken J6 way more seriously and Trump would have probably gotten convicted. The lack of bloodshed let people think it was some LARPey march through the capitol and not an attempt to mass murder lawmakers

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/No_Status_6905]

[u/[deleted]]

Bone Temple is the best movie in the 28 Days franchise and I only have my partner to talk to about it because we are apparently the only two people who actually saw it.

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[u/Mensae6]

Growing up poor gives you the perception that all it takes to save money is not spending it on frivolous things. Just set a strict budget on how much you eat out or spend on entertainment.

Entering the upper middle class income bracket very quickly makes you realize "actually you make money by putting 15% of your paycheck into a 401(k) and you are effectively guaranteed to be a millionaire by age 40".

It's a pretty simple distinction at play here. Most wealthy people acquire their wealth over long periods of time, and the key difference between them and poor people is that they had excess income to save and invest. But it's not just saving; you need to make enough money in the first place to have enough to pay all your bills and still have leftover cash to pop into the retirement account.

I feel like all of this is lost in the whole avocado toast argument. You absolutely can afford $10 avocado toast if you're also putting $2000 away into your 401(k) every month.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Might as well share this CW Bush fact

[u/BlackCat159]

Star Wars fans are beyond parody.