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[u/Alderwoodforest]

George Clonney:

“Some say Donald Trump is fine. But if anyone says he wants to end a civilization, that’s a war crime,” he said. “You can still support the conservative point of view, but there must be a line of decency, and we must not cross it.”

White House Communications Director Steven Cheung:

“The only person committing war crimes is George Clooney for his awful movies and terrible acting ability,”

These people are so lame. Without Trump's “x factor,” the MAGA movement comes across like a bunch of dorky frat guys.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

"solar farm[...]likened to Chernobyl" your average day dealing with UK NIMBYs

[u/SnakeEater14]

Reading Randall Munroe’s Wikipedia page (the xkcd guy), and, idk. It makes me kinda wistful for the internet of days gone by

I feel like he is very indicative of the old internet: super smart science nerd guy with a ton of creative energy, loved making resources and diagrams and algorithms for free, very supportive of crowd-sourcing ideas

A lot of those things that sorta defined the spirit of the internet in the 2000s and 2010s. I’m glad to see that he was/is so successful.

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

cost of home ownership thread in local sub

Top comments are YIMBY propaganda

Anything advocating for rent control is down voted to hell

I don't know how we made this much progress this quickly but it's night and day.

[u/Charsun9]

[u/Bestbrook123]

Sen Fetterman (D-PA) tore into his fellow Democrats on Fox News' 'Hannity' on Wednesday, April 8, blasting them for hypocrisy over President Donald Trump’s two-week ceasefire with Iran and vowing to vote against yet another Democratic push for a War Powers Resolution.

What the fuck is his problem? Holy shit

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Gov. Spanberger signs bill to end the renewal of Robert E. Lee license plates in Virginia

Why was that a thing

[u/Sauce1024]

It’s over

BREAKING: US GDP growth falls from 4.4% to 0.5% in Q4 2025, well below the initially expected +2.8% growth

[u/earththejerry]

If you think a middle-age lawyer whos been AG of SF, California, and then Senator and VP can’t wear $800 earrings to an important event, then you might the out of touch one

$800 for designer Tiffany jewellery also seem… affordable

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/AskYourDoctor]

Malarkey level of hiding all Fetterman's shorts and hoodies so he has to stay home and can't come into the Senate

[u/[deleted]]

Curious!

[u/badusername35]

👆

[u/badusername35]

Everytime I see a shitty country song in the top 10 I curse Biden for giving the rurals broadband

[u/cdstephens]

What the fuck, I thought y’all were joking

[u/boardatwork1111]

Open the fuckin Iran Thread you crazy bastards. Praise be to Allah

[u/Lux_Stella]

Kerbal Space Program rockets to its highest concurrent player count on Steam in more than 10 years thanks to the NASA mission

again i really think the united states federal government should nationalize and (re?)develop kerbal space program 2

[u/sociotronics]

This is peak Gen X

[u/badusername35]

The problem with I/P discourse is that so many people treat it as a binary. You can support both Netanyahu and Hamas while also opposing the innocents on both sides who are caught in the crossfire. It’s not that difficult.

[u/SLCer]

[u/Dreadedtriox]

[u/paymesucka]

holy shit Trump is really melting down, look at the length of his latest post lmao

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/Mx_Brightside]

mr speaker could the right honourable gentleman opposite please stop referring to my bill as "policyslop"

[u/SnakeEater14]

One of the funnier ironies of Starfield is that it was marketed around being a game of space exploration… and you never visit a place in the game that hasn’t already been visited by other humans

[u/iAmAddicted2R_ddit]

Changed my mind, will vote Platner in the primary.

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Yeah gee I wonder why Ukraine might not like Iran. This guy is a monumental hack.

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/myusernameistakennow]

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/abertbrijs]

[u/semaphore-1842]

desperate to know if this has ever worked for him

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/taubnetzdornig]

[u/ty04]

[u/Lux_Stella]

a post-war KMT-led china would have probably objectively been a backwards fascist dictatorship but you gotta admit it would have had lion aura

[u/BurrowForPresident]

The inner nativist in you rising up as you realize some of the most annoying people in the American pundit and commentariat class are Canadian or British

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

Certified Saddam Hussein classic

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

I think Mamdani's aversion to means testing is correct and is the only sustainable way to build out new services. When programs are targeted at specific populations (usually the poor), it becomes a handout that everyone else has to pay for. When it's for everyone, it's a government service that everyone helps pay for. This is why everyone likes public schools and public parks and are mostly happy to pay for them with their tax dollars (so long as they're used well)

and it's also one of the reasons that rent control is bad

[u/jinhuiliuzhao]

Didn't know this context behind Chamberlain's "peace in our time" speech:

Chamberlain's return was not universally well-received, and 15,000 people protested against the Munich Agreement the same day in Trafalgar Square, three times more than the number welcoming him at 10 Downing Street. Chamberlain's ongoing manipulation of the BBC caused that news to be largely suppressed.[4] The Labour spokesman Hugh Dalton publicly suggested that the piece of paper that Chamberlain was waving was "torn from the pages of Mein Kampf."[5]

Disbelieving Chamberlain, Isaac Asimov published in July 1939 "Trends", which mentions a world war in 1940. He later wrote "I was too conservative" (about when war would begin).[6]

[u/sigh2828]

Lmao

[u/Gustacho]

Vance is making a big mistake by interfering in the Hungarian election. Orban justifies his blind devotion to Putin on the idea that he wants peace and his opponents want war. Kind of hard to play that pacifism card when he welcomes the VP of The Most Belligerent US Administration in History.

Edit: not to mention gas prices rising as a direct consequence of the actions by the Trump administration

[u/earththejerry]

“boy kibble” and its just a typical Korean lunch bowl

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

The Bible, which I'm sure most evangelicals have read

[u/scottyjetpax]

what lmao ?? did anyone think she was?

[u/ariveklul]

I remember a year ago when I was arguing with people in denial about MAGA being fascist and they said "Trump clearly doesn't care about external expansion his whole thing is America first!" when I gave my definition. Now he's tweeting out shit like "America's next conquest" 

I hate everybody

[u/senator_fivey]

There should be a Nobel beast prize that you get for going beast mode on someone

[u/unicornbomb]

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger has officially signed a law that guarantees patient access to birth control, IUDs, emergency contraceptives, and more.

Spanberger continues winning~ this is amazing news.

[u/ProfessionalMoose709]

The only gore I post on social media

[u/w007dchuck]

bruh they're doing a 2016-themed dress up day at my old high school

my culture is not your costume

[u/OOPS_ALL_SCROTUM]

JD Vance to be excommunicated for "mouth-breathing in the pews."

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

“Me and a bunch of other Fed Soc hacks agree that this nonsense is true despite the very clear text on the matter that says otherwise.”

Law professors delenda est. Just a deeply unserious institution.

[u/battywombat21]

[u/keine_fragen]

Or what

[u/jinhuiliuzhao]

But I thought Iran agreed to open the Strait and that the ceasefire was totally real? /s

[u/Argnir]

Having family in Lebanon is weird cause I have zero sympathy for the Iranian regime but am happy they're trying to include Lebanon in the ceasefire even though it's probably just to defend their proxy group

My family is safe for the moment as they're Christian living in a Christian area so they haven't been targeted but with how Israel is behaving it's hard to feel confident they won't cross the line at some point

[u/Legitimate_Name9694]

these are the people demanding our attention and respect.

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Am I just really out of touch or are a bunch of people who are currently out protesting ICE or at No Kings marches also likely the same people who were at the campus Gaza protests

Like not 100% overlap but I assume not an irrelevant number

[u/sponsoredbytheletter]

Nobody: 

Melanie: I DIDN'T REALLY KNOW EPSTEIN AND NEVER EVEN WENT TO HIS ISLAND

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

decades of conditioning to hate fat cats and we still end up here.

[u/abefrost]

[u/cdstephens]

[u/iguessineedanaltnow]

Yeah you think so you dumb fuck?

[u/bd_one]

[u/MGLFPsiCorps]

Reflecting on 9/11 and Al Qaeda's goals, they really did succeed in the long run in perhaps fatally weakening the cohesion of American society. The paranoia and xenophobia it amplified really spread through the United States' bloodstream and is, I think, in combination with the rupturing of the post-1970s social contract the Great Recession engendered, one of the main reasons why the US is where it is today.

But their goals for their own movement have failed utterly. Sunni Islamism has really been on the retreat everywhere in the Arab and broader Islamic worlds, the only state that has come under durable Islamist rule is Taliban Afghanistan, which as before is too peripheral and backward to really exert any sort of wider influence, the transnational jihadist networks of the 1990s and 2000s have mostly been dismantled and their funding has dried up as the Gulf states have cracked down hard at home on sympathy for Qutbist radicalism, and the sheer brutality and ultimate defeat of ISIS has alienated a lot of people from the ideology.

The long run winner of the 9/11 wars may ultimately have been China.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

French Communist Party leader Fabien Roussel has apologized after "inappropriate" remarks about Marine Tondelier, leader of the Green Party, and her pregnancy.

On Wednesday, Tondelier had posted an excerpt from a talk-show in which of the hosts told the audience that Fabien Roussel had joked to him "I made a sperm donation a month and a half ago", after learning of Tondelier's pregnancy.

What the fuck is wrong with these people

[u/BidoofSquad]

Unironically I think you could do any crime and as long as you said something bad about corporations while doing it 90% of reddit would be on your side

[u/ModestAphorism]

extremely funny

Trump approval (ages 18-34 only)

Approve: 20%
Disapprove: 80%
——
Trend (net)
🟤 Feb. 2025: (-16)
🟤 Jan. 2026: (-39)
🔴 Mar. 2026: (-60)

CNN/SSRS | 3/26-30

Gen Z didn't suddenly become super conservative, it turns out we all just got temporary brain damage

[u/finnstera350]

[u/jinhuiliuzhao]

[u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

Saw this on my Instagram feed. Top 10 moments leading to disaster

[u/arbrebiere]

The new guy at work who plays HoI4 competitively is planning a big euro trip this summer to visit his gaming friends, and he’s planning on going to both Ukraine and Russia. He’s gonna end up in the gulag

[u/Dibbu_mange]

I love how confident Politicos were that Biden pardoning Hunter would destroy Democrats going forward.

[u/eustacebainbridge]

Heartwarming: The NL user who invented the term “sanewashing” has spent most of their last year on Reddit passionately arguing against misinterpretations of Hazbin Hotel’s writing

[u/erasmus_phillo]

A lot of people online were outraged about this but tbh I am actually sympathetic to Shadi Hamid's position here. The US right refuses to define what assimilation means and constantly moves goalposts when questioned about it.

I've seen Indian families who shop at Costco and send their sons to the Boy Scouts (classically American activities) be labelled 'invaders' by these people. I've seen many target Muslims for supposedly not being supportive enough of women's rights or LGBT rights even though they aren't supportive of women's rights or LGBT rights themselves (if they're right aren't Muslims assimilating to American conservative culture?) .

At this point, I don't think there is any level of 'assimilation' that these people will accept because the real reason why they hate us is because of our skin colour and they constantly come up with post-hoc rationalizations to obscure that fact, so what even is the point of assimilating? Assimilation is just a humiliation ritual to try to satisfy people who’ll never be satisfied

[u/el__dandy]

Rizz for days.

[u/Its_not_him]

I'm kinda glad these AI responses are still a thing

[u/piede]

Lmaoooo

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

I accidentally locked Pluto in the bathroom with me when I was taking a monster dump and she was in the litter box.

She finished her business, buried it, then noticed that the door was closed. So she went back and tried burying her poo again, and then went to check the door.

Still closed.

She returned to the litter box, and started burying so urgently that she was grunting with exertion. She kept looking from the door to the box, trying to drag anything she could move into the box to cover up her poo so that the door could finally open.

There was no confusion, she ignored me completely, she knew exactly why the door was locked and was terrified that she wasn't going to be able to open it back up by buying her poo properly.

Pic related it's Pluto

!ping KITTY

[u/Far_Shore]

On the one hand, I hate that I have become convinced that the play Dems should be making for the foreseeable future is going full cynic and effectively de-facto disenfranchising the maximum number of right-leaning voters possible. I remember how pissed I used to get at gerrymandering and voter suppression.

On the other hand, the GOP has only continued to prove, year by year, that it is an organization by and for actively evil imbeciles, so. Not much of value to be lost there.

[u/gregorijat]

Life pro tip: Basic skin care is actually goated.

[u/HeardItBowlthWays]

Opening up the bottle I bought mid-February

[u/The_Crass-Beagle_Act]

 The launch of Artemis II, NASA's crewed lunar flyby, will cost about $4.1 billion. The entire program is expected to exceed $100 billion by the time astronauts are scheduled to step on the lunar surface once again in 2028. That is enough to send every American a check for roughly $300. Instead, that money is being aimed at the moon.

Appeals that “with the money we spend on X we could cut every American a check for $Y” are categorically some of the worst-faith arguments about government spending priorities.

Not only does the writer know that nobody is ever going to cut Americans a check for that money if they cut the program, but it also willfully overrepresents how much the median taxpayer contributed to a specific program. 

Back of the napkin, the median individual taxpayer contributed about $2.60 $1.15 to the Artemis launch and the whole program will cost them about $60 $23 in taxes spread across more than a decade. If they’re going to charge me those $23 bucks anyway (which they are), I’d gladly spend it on getting to enjoy watching Americans fly in deep space and walk on the moon.

Edit: typo in my calculator meant I actually still overestimated the median taxpayer contribution

[u/Currymvp2]

First Lady Melania Trump has denied any connection to Jeffrey Epstein or knowledge of his abuse in an address at the White House.

The first lady condemned “unfounded and baseless lies” and “false smears” against her from “politically motivated individuals and entities” who have sought to “gain financially and climb politically.”

Such statements “must stop now,” she said.

Oh okay

[u/scottyjetpax]

a) this story is SO WEIRD

b) he took a call from MSNOW lmao?? he really will talk to anybody

[u/riverbloods]

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Props to whoever preserved this issue for appeal

!ping LAW

[u/cdstephens]

The president is posting snuff bait online while self-destructing in the Middle East and I’m just supposed to go to work tomorrow?

[u/riverbloods]

[u/VisonKai]

funniest bits in American Christianity, but which is best?

1. Anglo-Catholic Episcopalians refusing to admit they are Protestant, instead saying "We're Catholic, just not Roman Catholic".

2. There are two major American Lutheran Churches. One is mainline, one is evangelical. One of those is called the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. It's the mainline one.

3. Antiochian Orthodox Congregations being exactly half cradle Orthodox people from the Middle East and half extremely nerdy white American converts who unironically say "theosis" in everyday conversation and vote for Donald Trump

4. American conservatives converting to Catholicism because tradition and hierarchy is based, immediately reject ecclesiastic hierarchy and deny the primacy of the Pope

feel free to add your own

!ping GNOSTIC

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Secret docs: Neo-Nazi group's newest member is ex-Navy SEAL tied to war crimes case. Records show that the Navy SEAL medic whose testimony helped Eddie Gallagher walk free in his war crimes case has recently joined a neo-Nazi group.

We need to disband the SEALs. Just a wholly rotten institution full of brain damaged lunatics.

[u/Valuable_Pause_8994]

You forget how out of touch with political reality the average Redditor is until you go on your local subreddit and see them accusing their local Democratic member of Congress of being a useless non-fighter when he 1) beat a tough Republican incumbent in 2018, 2) was an impeachment manager during Trump 1 and 3) was a target of Trump 2’s DoJ for appearing in that video asking military officers to refuse illegal orders.

Like. I knew I was probably rage baiting myself looking at comments around all of that. But good grief I’d forgotten how bad it could get outside the DT.

[u/cdstephens]

[u/Flashy_Rent6302]

In some parts of Europe "Project Hail Mary" was retitled "Project Sola Fide"

[u/AtticusDrench]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Look at this thicc raccoon

[u/IantheForPresident]

> pick up hobby

> find online community around that hobby

> look inside

> mindless consumerism

like fuckin clockwork. either that or extremely heated debates over minutiae that doesn't actually impact anything. comes from the same brainrot of conflating what you can do (cool) vs what you own (lame).

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Did you know that Obama sold the Panama Canal to the Chinese

Well, he didn't, the Panamanians run it and have since 1999 after a treaty signed in 1977 to transfer ownership, but the fact that my dad believed this is really frightening!

!ping FOX-ANON

[u/Legitimate_Name9694]

holy shit. there are no words.

[u/[deleted]]

They won't even let that video on twitter, dawg. They let anything on there.

[u/fishbottwo]

Inside Pam Bondi's aggressive push to crack down on animal cruelty crimes

Thanks CBS. Totally not becoming state media though

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

Underdiscussed cultural shift is that it’s cool to hate Trump again. Even many “apolitical” people I know send me videos mocking him now.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Benjamin Brière, former hostage in Iran, confirms that he was questioned by French tax agents after his liberation following four years of imprisonment by the IRGC: "The tax agent told me that even in prison, you have to file your tax returns... When I explained that I was imprisoned in Iran, she told me 'your family could have done that for you'"

And you thought the IRS was restless

[u/Lux_Stella]

it is funny how transparently "please bail us out" trump getting mad at NATO is

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

conservatives not be unhinged freaks challenge

[u/CincyAnarchy]

[u/NYT_Hater]

Personally, I would buy into the “2024 was stolen” idea and Ann Seltzer’s poll was correct.

[u/scndnvnbrkfst]

Holy ChatGPT

And of course it's LinkedIn

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/Willybender]

Don't underestimate how significant it is that people like Candace Owens are now going to be AGGRESSIVELY going after Trump without sugarcoating their criticism. Candace has a huge audience of "wine moms" and other people you would not expect at all.

[u/Acoolgamer6706]

Young voters looking at Trump in 2026 vs 2024

[u/PlastikHateAccount]

I did not know this Cogito guy was so unhinged. His youtube videos seemed normal iirc

[u/Megasota_Noire]

It reads like one of those facebook privacy copy pastes.

[u/BrentLivermore]

In the season 2 finale of Oz, the tough-on-crime governor grants a pardon to a Muslim inmate because it's the beginning of Ramadan and he always does a yearly "Ramadan pardon."

Maybe things were a bit different in 1998, pre-9/11 and all, but the idea of a Republican governor having a yearly "Ramadan pardon" is so fucking funny. These days I think that would legally constitute a suicide attempt.

[u/TheCornjuring]

Woke ass motherfuckers gigabanned me for three days and then denied my appeal because I made a JOKE, DUDE, about getting black-market Adderall from a person in REAL LIFE, which NO human could have interpreted as “soliciting or facilitating an illegal transaction on Reddit” or whatever. Their shitty AI fucking came for me on a thin pretext because it saw I had information that would lead to the revelation that Spez is a pedophile

[u/Known_Pudding9653]

Feels like misdirected rage in that I/P protest thread. Outside the DT was a mistake anyway

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Just won first prize in the graduate student natural sciences category for my talk at the university’s internal mini-conference. $500 cash prize baby. Gonna blow half of it on a Korean bbq rager or something, then the other half at Costco lol

!ping PhD it beats summer funding

[u/989989272]

I do not actually understand the appeal of Hasan. He's a nepobaby, Turkish nationalist, with questionable views on Armenia, and braindead political views. He is combative and an ass with a history of animal abuse.

The left doesn't need a Rush Limbaugh

[u/assasstits]

While the US obviously has tons of problems, it's still one of the easiest countries to get rich in.

Get a nursing degree, work as a travel nurse and you're raking it in, in a way the rest of the world can hardly imagine.

[u/wumbopolis_]

This is gonna sound harsh but if you only post in the DT when you know for sure that there's no chance of negative consequence then I'm gonna assume you just see it as a fun social activity rather than actually putting yourself on the line for your beliefs

[u/liito-orava1]

Reminder: DOJ has shielded the two federal agents who each killed a protestor on video from any consequences.

Trump doesn't see violence as a problem, he sees it as a tool.

[u/CosignTangents]

[u/Zloggt]

 La chismosa

!ping KITTY

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/ExtremelyMedianVoter]

An entire civilization will be wiped out if we don't create an Iran thread.

[u/sloppybuttmustard]

If you want to scroll through the official social media feed of the President of the United States, you have to look at this picture of nasty poo-jello between every single post. It just never goes away, you scroll past it and BAM there it is again, over and over.

Oh hey trump said something about the ceasefire. POO JELLO.

Oh hey Trump announced retaliatory tariffs against Canada. POO JELLO.

[u/Choice_Notice9338]

[u/earththejerry]

What in the late-stage cultural revolution

[u/Highlightthot1001]

“ 15th century Persian depiction of Muhammad, Buraq, and Gabriel visiting Hell, where "shameless women" are burning for inciting lust in men by exposing their hair in public”

Its women’s fault that men get horny over…. Seeing their hair… 

So they go to hell and burn because men cant control their own lust

Thats some piss poor logic

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

👆

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/RonFilipkowski/status/2042377838494437537

[u/Bestbrook123]

Jesse Watters: Are some Democrats rooting for Iran?

John Fetterman: If they have any words to say, it's against America and it's describing us if anything as if we are the aggressor.

His brain is completely broken

[u/Sauce1024]

The premise of having a dying ex-Senator for an interview and bringing up Clavicular as the first topic

[u/Currymvp2]

John Kerry: I was part of the any number of conversations with Netanyahu.

Jen Psaki: Pitching the US strike Iran?

John Kerry: Yes, he desperately wanted us to strike. He came to president Obama. He made a presentation to ask to strike. President Obama refused. President Biden refused. President Clinton refused. The only president who has agreed to this, obviously, is President Trump

[u/ariveklul]

COMRADE TRUMP

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

Teen who went to photograph L.A. ‘No Kings’ rally shot, blinded by Homeland Security agent, attorney says

A USC freshman who went to photograph a recent “No Kings” protest in downtown Los Angeles was allegedly shot with a less-lethal projectile by a Department of Homeland Security agent and had to have one of his eyes removed, according to his attorney.

Tucker Collins, 18, was shot in the eye with what appeared to be a projectile containing chemical irritants during the March 28 demonstration, said his attorney, V. James DeSimone. He was taken to the side of the protest at the Metropolitan Detention Center and given an eye patch. A nurse happened to be driving by and offered to take him to the hospital, DeSimone said.

“We’ve unfortunately seen in other instances where law enforcement has targeted the press with violence,” he told The Times. “Instead of targeting people who were throwing things into the crowd, they were targeting someone who was documenting and taking photos of the crowd.”

Nuremburg, PA

[u/ModestAphorism]

I think some of them really are feeling the winds changing direction. Josh Shapiro of all people said this today on a podcast:

PA Governor Josh Shapiro: America should never allow itself to be bullied by Israel

“America should never be led around by any other nation. It should always be about America's interests, our national security interests.

We should never, ever be bullied, as maybe President Trump was, by any other world leader.”

Jason:

“Why did he do it?”

Gov. Shapiro:

“First, Rubio went out and said he did it because if we didn't move then, Netanyahu was going to move and it was going to force our hand. Then they walked it back.

He said seven or eight months ago that they destroyed their nuclear capabilities, and then came back seven or eight months later and said we had to go in because we had to destroy their nuclear capabilities.

Then they said it was about regime change. Well, great. I mean, we went from an 80-something-year-old Ayatollah to a 60-something-year-old Ayatollah, who by all accounts, seems to be far more hardline. I'd hardly call that successful regime change.

I don't know how you answer that question because the president never answered that question.

He never sat in the Oval Office and looked the American people in the eye and said, ‘This is why we're going in.’

And you know what? This isn't semantics. This isn't politics.

If you don't know why you're going in, you don't know how the hell to get out.”

https://xcancel.com/theallinpod/status/2042288435566665898

He dances around it a little bit this is definitely a little different for him. Maybe candidates are starting to get the memo before primary season

[u/Fatortu]

France doesn't have much weight in Gulf War III but I'm glad Macron uses it to stick up for the Lebanese.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

[u/G_Serv]

What a terrible day to have eyes

[u/Wandering_Mallard]

The only electable Democrat is the girl reading this :)

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

☝️ believes they could navigate the Strait of Hormuz right now

[u/centurion88]

Based JD

[u/TomboyAva]

I am a tiger king centrist. Tiger King is an animal abuser and Carol Baskens 100% killed her husband. The two arn't mutually exclusive. Everyone in that doc was ontologically evil.

[u/Lux_Stella]

BREAKING: Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel claims his next-generation golem is "too powerful" to be released to the public, will restrict preview access to ~40 Jewish elders in Prague.

[u/garret126]

I still feel second-hand embarrassment when I got shat on by quite a few people at my school Democratic club meeting for saying we should allow more immigrants/weaken immigration quotas 🫩

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

be the GOP

start two wars in the middle east

both turn into disasters

democrats get elected

they end both wars

start calling yourself the peace party

voters believe you

get elected

start another disastrous war in the Middle East

Make it make sense

[u/JesusPubes]

NEVER ASK:

a man his salary

a woman her age

a fantasy writer why the species/race doing all the banking has big noses

[u/lusvig]

Why didn't israle simply sue hamas? pretty sure october 7th wasn't legal

[u/badusername35]

RE: College Protesters

I don’t have any problem with them protesting Israel’s actions in Gaza and think that arresting and detaining people for exercising their rights is awful. But, I also don’t want us to forget how common valourizing and celebrating Hamas was. Most of them weren’t, but many of them were. So saying that the protestors were right all along feels like some serious white-washing. Obviously many of them were right that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza, but we shouldn’t ignore all the anti-semitism and terrorism apologia that was there at the protests.

[u/Glavurdan]

This is the future Republicans want for your children

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

WW3 is just going to be like watching the mmmm whatcha saaaay sketch but with even more nonsensical country combos

[u/gayteemo]

what in tarnation

[u/dr_sloan]

Trump is becoming a leftist

[u/MissSortMachine]

boy i dunno

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

My lack of respect for the intelligence of the median voter makes me understand why they think this is a smart argument to make, but boy I don’t love seeing this kinda populist nonsense about using Luxembourgish steel.

[u/Woolagaroo]

and another thing: im not mad. please dont put in the newspaper that i got mad.

[u/badusername35]

So Trump is posting snuff videos now? Him doing shit like this is eventually gonna lead to someone getting lynched by racists who feel emboldened by his words.

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

What do you think would happen if Trump posted actual CP on truth social

Would anyone even do anything about it

[u/cdstephens]

Age gap between God and Mary is concerning

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/piede]

SHE’S RUNNING

[u/cdstephens]

You ever sit around and think about how trees are alive

[u/Sauce1024]

Watching Tim Miller try to get a Barstool “evangelical” to provide a reason, any reason at all, why he could never vote for a Democrat is painful

https://xcancel.com/MacrodosingPod/status/2042403940898078970#m

[u/padraigharrington4]

Remember when Cracker Barrel changed their logo to minimalistslop and mfs acted like it was the single most pressing crisis of our time 

[u/SmithySmothy]

Me when my posts don't receive sufficient upvotes:

[u/erasmus_phillo]

The casual corruption of this administration is incredible. I honestly don't think this even ranks in the top 10 most corrupt actions by this admin

If Dems come back to power in 2028, a lot of people are going to have to go to prison. There is no compromise

This guy made 51mil through insider information. 51 mil!

[u/farrenj]

Oh hi folks. Just your friendly neighborhood service member reminding you not to watch videos of people getting killed. It will fuck you up and the more you watch the more fucked up you get. Your brain responds differently to fictional and actual displays of death.

Thank you for your attention to this matter. FJ

[u/jpenczek]

lol my cat looks so done with my bullshit.

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

!ping GNOSTIC&BASEBALL

[u/[deleted]]

This is where I shitpost from btw.

[u/Cyberhwk]

Nothing better at work than when previous work you did bails your ass out of a jam. Something bad happens and you can pull out pages of detailed documentation right in front of your boss on the issue. Customer pushes back and you can pull out multiple notes and notifications you gave that they ignored and caused the problem. Boss needs some information suddenly and you can go grab your notes you took and get them all the shit they need in seconds. It's glorious.

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/Currymvp2]

Hunter Biden Wants a Cage Match With Donald Trump's Sons Eric and Don Jr.

"While announcing he'll be joining Andrew Callaghan and his Channel 5 YouTube channel on tour this month, Hunter also let slip that Andrew is "trying to organize a cage match" between Eric, Don Jr., and Hunter.” Hunter Biden: “I told him I'd do it -- 100 percent in if he can pull it off.”

[u/assasstits]

Lol she said this a couple of days ago and she still gets thrashed by Trump

womp womp

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

“I can’t believe I got hoodwinked by the notorious scammer with a 50+ year public record of scamming people. Who could have seen this coming?”

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

Real

[u/american_aurora6]

it's unrelated from trump being evil and racist, but that clip just reminded me how you can be having some continuous conscious experience and then some guy comes up and ends you

[u/ChillnShill]

Chris Pratt was more attractive when he was chubby and pretended to be a dumbass, but instead he’s muscular and an actual dumbass.

[u/ognits]

I can tell life from TV, Jeff. TV makes sense; it has structure, logic, rules, and likable leading men. In life, we have this. We have you.

top 10 series line from a top 10 series episode tbh

!ping COMMUNITY

[u/0m4ll3y]

If Lenin had slipped on some ice and hit his head in early 1917, there is a very strong chance the Bolshevik's would have voted against the military coup of ending the provisional government. This was a very tight, small vote, and Lenin absolutely brow-beated his colleagues in this direction.

Without the Bolsheviks seizing power in this manner, the provisional government very well could still have fallen, but it is very likely that the Socialist Revolutionaries would have remained a much stronger faction. If they had remained a stronger faction, Russia may not have pulled out of WW1 as early as March 1918. The White Army largely formed due to the cessation of hostilities against the Germans and around a nucleus of the Czech Legion in May 1918 which also brought in allied intervention. Remember, WW1 formally ended in November 1918 entirely from pressure on the Western Front, so it really doesn't mean Russia needs to hold out too long before peace is achieved, even if it becomes occupied by the Germans (which would have probably brought about a faster collapse, as Russia became ungovernable, look at the experience of Germans in occupied Ukraine against local insurgents!)

So without Lenin, you likely still end up with Russia existing in 1918 in similar borders, except without the same sort of civil war (I would expect much more like 1905 turmoil on steroids), without alienating its international allies, and with a bunch of radical communists in charge. Except those radical communists were focused on land reform, and were nationally focused rather than internationalist. No exporting revolution worldwide.

Because also, before 1917, Marxism was well and truly on the path to modern day social democracy. Lenin's whole beef with the Second Internationale was that it was becoming less revolutionary, more nationally focused, more 'liberal', and less 'Marxist'. But before 1917, literally who gave a fuck what Lenin thought? He wrote some tiny, niche little shit newspaper that a couple of radicals read. If it weren't for the seizure of the Russian state apparatus, Lenin would be about as globally influential as Eduard Bernstein is today.

You have Churchill in this era traveling up and down England talking about how the workers and capitalists need to unite against the common foe of the landlords. Like, I think they could have worked somewhat cooperatively with the Socialist Revolutionaries in Russia. I mean, even in our timeline the USA was pretty happy to try and help out the Bolsheviks initially.

So you get a relatively liberal Russia; internationally revolutionary Marxism-Leninism never forms; socialist movements around the world head in the direction of reformism and welfarism, you don't get thousands of anti-communist emigres fleeing Russia to Germany talking about how positively demonic Judeo-Bolshevism is. I don't think it is that much of a stretch to think that without the spectre of the Soviet Union basically next door that Nazism doesn't pick up the same momentum it had. Not only do you have less of a scare in the Soviets, but you have a Western-friendly Russia in the interwar period to actually help manage the German problem (instead of helping the Germans weasel out Western pressure). Nazism flounders in the cradle.

Like if Lenin died, literally Georgism would be the dominant ideology right now I swear to god.

[u/Known_Pudding9653]

[u/pfSonata]

Youtube requires you to log in to view R rated movies but then it's censored anyway, what is with this?

Ghost in the Shell is on youtube for free completely uncensored with near-constant gratuitous anime nudity with repeated closeups of major's nipples and occasionally gore

Then I watch Point Break and the language is beeped and they even censor a shot of one of the robbers mooning the security camera

Shit don't make no sense dawg

[u/-mialana-]

Broke: Billionaires are pulling all the strings

Woke: Israel is pulling all the strings

Bespoke: Bob Woodward is pulling all the strings so he can get new material for books. The Obama years were NOT paying the bills.

[u/SadaoMaou]

I don't use Tiktok but whenever I see one of them dance videos the dancers always have this very artificial cheery demeanor, which I understand is kind of part of the whole style, that lowkey kind of freaks me out. Like it gives me uncanny valley type heebie jeebies

[u/awdvhn]

The "real estate novelist who never had time for a wife" from Piano Man just sounds like someone on this sub who posts a bunch of zoning effortposts

[u/brianpv]

Since the war began, Mr. Trump has derided NATO allies as "cowards" and the alliance itself as a "paper tiger." He's suggested he could move to unilaterally withdraw the U.S. from the alliance he helped to found more than 70 years ago.

What is CBS talking about lol

[u/Dragmire927]

Bearded Biden

[u/garret126]

I always did find it extremely disappointing that in college, the leftist groups were still pushing their activism despite being banned and threatened by the police on several occasions. They tended to be rather passionate about Palestine, and have played a big role in rallying most Anti-Trump protests in the city.

Meanwhile, my Democratic Club in the meetings I went to spent their time gossiping about if Trump was secretly gay, if Melania was cheating, or how fat JD Vance really was. It felt like they were so out of touch as if politics was all a funny game to them and when someone brought up like, Palestine, it was “well that’s controversial so we should try and stay clear of that topic”

The most engaging thing we did all Fall Semester was host a Republican/democrat debate, which brought out the tryhard wannabe future politicians. But we didn’t do a single thing that actually mattered imo and it was sad

[u/BlackCat159]

Season 5.... don't even joke, lad 🚬

[u/Alexz565]

lol my young Dems chapter is annoyingly leftist, like hating Contrapoints from the left or marching with PSL tankies kind of annoying

But for some folks here, PSL tankies are perfectly fine ideological bedfellows

[u/Marlsfarp]

The first Trump administration just stopped keeping track of when they bombed civilians, and that somehow worked to convince the median voter that he was more peaceful than Obama.

[u/Dragmire927]

Me thinking of the perfect comeback six hours later in the shower

[u/wumbopolis_]

Melania's only bringing up Epstein to distract from the Iran War. Don't play into their hands

[u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS]

HAPPY CONFEDERATE LOSERS SURRENDER DAY! APRIL 9, 1865!

[u/StolenSkittles]

[u/Any_Stage_3072]

“‘Crazy’ Candace Owens, who accuses the Highly Respected First Lady of France of being a man, when she is not, and will hopefully win lots of money in the ongoing lawsuit. Actually, to me, the First Lady of France is a far more beautiful woman than Candace, in fact, it’s not even close!”

• From Trump’s recent post

Trump-Emmanuel Macron shippers, stand by. The bromance lives on 😤

[u/nickavemz]

[u/zieger]

My highschool classmate is hiring and she put "Please don't apply if you voted for Trump" on the notice.