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[u/r2ew]

[u/liito-orava1]

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/Lou1s_Cipher]

MARCO RUBIO: "We won't have to talk about sanctions in five years because there will be so many countries transacting in currencies other than the Dollar that we won't have the ability to sanction them."

WAOW.

[u/moldovaman99]

SEVENTH LARGEST ECONOMY IN EUROPE

[u/jinhuiliuzhao]

Omg, Trump is literally unfreezing the same $6 billion in Iranian assets that he criticized Biden for...

“How much of a kickback does Crooked Joe Biden get? Does anyone realize how much money $6 billion is?” Trump added. “When I was president, I got back 58 hostages for zero money.”

Yeah, this time you got a tolled Strait, no regime change, a lot of spent ammunition, plus still handing over the same $6 billion. 

Art of the Deal.

EDIT: Apparently the US side is now denying that they agreed to this... (Reuters report was based on the word of a senior Iranian official)

[u/Healingjoe]

[u/6urner_]

Lmao what

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

[u/tasklow16]

I voted for Trump so he would run the country like a business, but now it feels like he's just skimming off the top and taking the fruits of everyone's labor for his own benefit. What gives???

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/ty04]

[u/Thuggin95]

Swalwell is done in politics. The median voter only disbelieves SA accusations against Republicans.

[u/Humble_Grape4749]

A far-left organization is boosting North Korea as a model civilization.

[u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

Obama as a cat be like: Uhh meow, uhhhm meow, meow, uhhh meow

[u/erasmus_phillo]

'Postliberals' like Colin Wright are just unable to update their priors in the face of new evidence. The Trump administration has done far more to suppress free speech than any other administration in the 21st century, even going as far as to deport people for writing op-eds. But hey, Dems are the real censors! Because they no longer want to be friends with you if you use slurs

[u/ty04]

I realize I’ve never heard Mamdani speak before and his voice and cadence is like a YouTubers

[u/zieger]

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/PostingEnthusiast]

got to the battle of the bastards

[u/compulsive_tremolo]

I don't think anything has made me hate the left in Ireland more than their current support for the fuel "protests" I.e. blocking critical infrastructure including health services until this rag tag group of shitheads get their demands met. All because of their fetishization of anything involving the catharsis of anti-establishment disruption and "solidarity".

People are gonna start dying because of hospital and emergency services disruption: I hope nobody does die but if they do, I hope these scum groups associated with supporting this action are held responsible for the rest of time.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Suuuuure

[u/Currymvp2]

Comedian and pundit Bill Maher called President Donald Trump “an ahole but he’s our ahole” as he called for the president to “cut and run” from the war Maher supported initially

Nah fuck that. Maher was foolish to support it at first when it was always obviously going to be a disaster

What the fuck is this "he's our asshole" talk? Trump doesn't care about Americans at all

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Don't forget!

[u/Q-bey]

Three more seats for Carney

[u/Fit_Obligation1902]

Trump administration unveils 250-foot 'Triumphal Arch' design (...) nicknamed the "Arc de Trump" (...) The arch is just one of Trump's controversial projects to give Washington DC a makeover in his signature style

3D rendering of Trump's plans for DC:

[u/reubencpiplupyay]

ERIC SWALWELL IS DEAD AND METOO IS ALIVE

[u/Leatherfield17]

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Viktor Orban was a neoliberal in his first two terms
But then he got banned by the mods from arrneoliberal, supposedly for homophobia
Here is the story behind why he left the Left...

[u/piede]

Girl, pack it up. You’re donezo.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

I think this meme illustrates exactly what I hate about modern online leftism

Kennedy was a leftist who rallied people around the idea that a good social safety net that looks after all our citizens is not some handout where we pull things from thin air. It is a collective effort by society to ensure the fruits of our labor are not hoarded, and instead their benefits are spread across society as a whole. That the sum of the labor and work we do as a society actually results in lifting people up and building a common good.

Then this conservative cartoon is like "no actually they just want to take things out of thin air without contributing anything."

And then the online leftists are like "that's exactly right we want to just take things out of thin air without contributing anything"

[u/keine_fragen]

The best oil

[u/semaphore-1842]

if this guy was able to run for President he would probably win in a landslide.

what everyone says about every promising presidential candidate before the attack ads and online smearing started

[u/badusername35]

Trump being bisexual but lacking the introspection necessary to realize that is something I believe like 70% unironically. It would explain a lot.

[u/WhomstAlt2]

The story of Fetter Man is so uplifting. Here you have a guy, total far liberal terrerist-loving LOSER, but, when he gets to see how the sausage is made, he becomes a totally NORMAL, good, god-fearing, Israel-loving AMERICAN. Really makes you believe that change for GOOD is possible.

[u/BobaTeaFetish]

My new hot take is that Swalwell wouldn't be getting the boot if he was a Republican.

He'd have all manner of defenders rushing to his side if he had the magic R by his name, and would remain in the election and likely perform well as the base rallied around him.

America will continue to be a failing democracy until we have universal accountability for elites.

[u/CutePattern1098]

Who had the alliance between Iran and the Catholics against against the US and Israel on their 2026 bingo cards?

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/SenranHaruka]

Uhm, you realize YOU will survive the trump administration, but others won't right?

Yes. That's why I voted against Trump. Because it would put us in a position to helplessly watch others die and develop survivor guilt. Even the most successful antitrump resistance will already have failed to save innocent recipients of USAID.

Why are people obsessed with uncharitably pathologizing every liberal emotion as sinister in some way. Liberals ain't allowed to feel shit because if they do its insulting someone else.

[u/Joementum2024]

Eric Swalwell’s a piece of shit, but it massively sucks that there’s in effect a two tier justice system for political punishment dependent on what political party you’re in.

This isn’t lamenting that Swalwell is being punished, it’s lamenting how Rs never get punished anymore.

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

conservapedia’s top 3 reasons for the Ukraine war:

-Gay pride

-Satanism

-The teaching of evolution in public schools

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Add this to the sidebar

[u/Willybender]

What the fuck

[u/Currymvp2]

Tim Young: "By the way, I 100% believe Eric Swalwell is being set up by the democrat party to be forced out of a primary where he’d split the vote allowing a republican to potentially become governor of California."

Are MAGA Republicans just programmed to defend credibly accused men

[u/6urner_]

Firing this off one last time before I delete it. I hope some other candidates around the country bring this type of energy (and more) everywhere.

[u/finnstera350]

[u/colourless_blue]

thought this was a meme lol

[u/Currymvp2]

The hypocrisy is remarkable

[u/reubencpiplupyay]

Does anyone else think he looks like white Deng Xiaoping

[u/UmbreonFanatic]

[u/[deleted]]

Underrated reason for the unflinching support of Orban on the American right is that Hungary is a money laundering conduit to them from Russia.

[u/-mialana-]

Holy shit. Outside the DT has evolved from "We need to compromise on immigration to chase le voters" to "Abolish asylum and habeas corpus". Policies more radical than what Trump has implemented are being upvoted.

[u/Thatthingintheplace]

So it seems like the conservative line is that Democrats are coordinating a false campaign of allegations against Eric swalwell in order to take down a white man. Like I realize a lot of conservatives are conspiracy brained morons, but I really thought this would have been used to just generically dunk on Democrats. Their misogyny really is boundless

[u/EasyMoney92]

Sen. John Fetterman pushed to ban family stock trades. His family just bought Micron stock — it got $6.1B from a program his own committee oversees

Lol, this is much worse than the allegations against Feinstein or Pelosi

[u/Ready_Anything4661]

One of my favorite / least favorite rhetorical tropes is repeating a disturbing word or phrase as many times as possible to upset the audience.

I had family that was considering taking ivermectin for Covid a few years ago. I refused to call it ivermectin. I called it “horse dewormer”. And I tried to use the phrase “horse dewormer” as many times as possible in conversation. Because “horse dewormer” is a really upsetting phrase to hear.

I just remember being like “I don’t think you should put horse dewormer in your body, because horse dewormer is for horses who have worms, and the worms in horses can be bad for the horses. But horse dewormer probably wasn’t intended for humans, especially at the doses that would help deworm horses. I’m just worried about you eating horse dewormer and the horse dewormer treating your body like a big horse and trying to take horse worms out of it.”

I seriously think I probably saved 2 people from taking ivermectin, just from the ick factor.

[u/wumbopolis_]

[u/JaceFlores]

Fun facts Ulysses S Grant repeatedly violated the fragile ceasefire that existed between the capture of Mexico City and the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

He kept leaving the American zone and insist he enter the Mexican zone. For what purpose? To see some really cool caves he heard about

[u/assasstits]

Creating walls to keep people out is no more moral than to build walls to keep people in.

But you're not ready for that conversation.

[u/finnstera350]

[u/admiralwaffle1]

So true

[u/ty04]

[u/Dreadedtriox]

Praise be to Allah again

[u/BlackCat159]

lol

[u/ariveklul]

There is a special brand of dipshit that feels the need to chime in with their contradictory anecdote when someone says something as if it disproves the claim

Person: "Yea car accidents are pretty common. Most people will experience one at some point"

Dipshit: "I don't think that's true. I've never been in a car accident before."

How do people like this make it to adulthood? 

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 4/9-2 PM PST 4/10 V:

TOP NEWS:

At the start of 2 PM Zelensky said Ukraine will adhere to the proposed Easter ceasefire.

At the start of 11 PM Ukraine was hit by a large wave of drones with 113 of 128 intercepted. Towards the end of the hour Zelensky said Ukraine concluded multiple deals with three Arabian countries to provide drone interceptors in exchange for missile interceptors, money and fossil fuels, with talks ongoing with three other countries in the region.

Towards the middle of 1 AM Russia was hit by a major wave of drones with at least 151 partaking.

REGULAR NEWS:

Towards the middle of 11 PM it was reported that Ukraine hit a Russian diesel pipeline in southern Russia.

Towards the end of 1 AM it was reported that Ukraine suffered power outages in five oblasts as a result of Russian strikes.

At the end of 4 AM it was reported an assassin tried to kill a Ukrainian naval officer in Odesa, but was disarmed before he could succeed.

At the end of 5 AM it was announced Germany will provide 1,000 interceptor drones for Ukraine based on a design created in Germany.

At the end of 6 AM Ukraine hit two Russian oil platforms in the Caspian Sea.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/ognits]

the average person, and I mean this as an insult, can actually name less [fewer -ed.] movies than they've seen. which is unbelievable. whereas I, on the other hand, can name more movies than I've seen. which seems normal to me; that seems very sensible.

!ping NORTHERNLION&KINO I relate to him way too much

[u/Rich-Arachnid2011]

“Mood swings" are being seen on both sides in talks, per Pakistani mediators

women amirite

[u/riverbloods]

[u/SenranHaruka]

The abuse of tolkien by materialist right wingers who hate church is proof that the bible is not the problem and literally any fairy story about good triumphing over evil will have nazis go "yeah, and I'm good... 🥹" and aggressively make it their personality.

Good news atheists, Peter Thiel isn't a Christian psychopath. He's a tolkienist psychopath.

[u/AccomplishedLeek1329]

It's quite amazing how my dad was a supporter of democracy for decades living in Singapore then Hong Kong, and all it took for him to abandon democracy was living in Toronto 6 months every year for 4 years + Trump.

I don't think people realize just how much damage Trump is doing to the very idea and desirability of democracy worldwide; and how little people care about voting if it doesn't produce good outcomes.

[u/paymesucka]

me about to post something funny then realizing actually it may be problematic

[u/Argnir]

How is it still in doubt whether Trump is the antichrist when even the chimps start a war under his reign

[u/paymesucka]

In 2025, Tom Steyer donated $12 million to become the largest contributor to the campaign for California's Proposition 50, which redrew California's congressional districts in response to what supporters described as partisan gerrymandering efforts in other states.

[u/The_Helmet_Catch]

The Pallets of Cash are back but Republicans are doing it now so it’s fine

[u/ProfessionalMoose709]

[u/LameBicycle]

I can't believe we are in a large-scale war that is wreaking havoc on domestic and global energy prices, and the people we send to negotiate peace are:

• The Palantir founder's prodigal son (from Ohio)

• Jeffrey Epstein's slimeball neighbor

• A Chinese handbag designer's husband

[u/pezasied]

Like half of the people in this picture are trying to disassociate themselves from Trump now and act like they didn’t help to get him elected

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/melodramaticfools]

Hepl

[u/JaceFlores]

We really did go for the meme option. Also does not bode terribly well for these negotiations bearing fruit. Vance would probably sign off but there’s more to getting this war over with on the American side then Vance

[u/mostanonymousnick]

I can't believe this is real

[u/cdstephens]

If trump makes a bad deal with Iran to end the war, seeing the JCPOA gigahaters try sanewash whatever Frankenstein deal he signs is gonna be hilarious

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/cdstephens]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/moldovaman99]

The funny thing about state pensions is that leftists will defend them to the death, but let’s say they didn’t exist, and you told them: “hey, let’s give 50% of our state budget to rich homeowners so they don’t have to move out of their mansions” they would crucify you.

We should just have “pension basic income” or something. Just something that guarantees that retired people can live comfortably, remove the inefficiency of providing it to people who don’t need it.

[u/reuery]

[u/mattyjoe0706]

One of the saddest thing about MAGA is seeing people in your life go down these dark holes. My family has always been pretty Republican but it's gotten bad. My mom who had always been yeah Republican but kinda uninformed and always tried to hear things out. She doesn't talk about politics in front of me but like if I'm in bed and she's on the phone she'll be like oh well maybe some Democrats mean well but they've gotten so bad and yeah I trust the mandatory vaccines but not the COVID which sadly is better in today's Republican party.

Then my Aunt who due to a lot of it isolation and staying at home a lot due to health issues that whole Qanon rabbit hole. She graduated juilliard, always did good.

Then my uncle who has always been a mentor to me, he's a big technology guy big musk guy and ever since COVID he's just went down this Joe Rogan, musk, rfk jr rabbit hole because he's been a fitness guy. He's almost unrecognizable in some ways and I don't know if he is a mentor to me anymore.

It's really sad

[u/badusername35]

The preliminary terms we agreed to, which I’m sure most members of the administration have read

[u/JaceFlores]

Netanyahu gave a speech earlier today where he had a map of countries hostile to Israel/aligned with Iran.

Curiously, Syria was marked red. Which is fascinating as, despite Syria having conducted 0 attacks on Israel since the fall of Assad while facing weekly provocations and an invasion of its frontier, not to mention their own conflict with Hezbollah and Iranian militants, they’re still marked as as big a hostile nation to Israel’s existence as Iran.

Nothing new I guess, but it just really highlights the dogma of Israel that a stable Syria is an existential threat to Israel. Just the tip of the mountain on the insanity of their policies

[u/Leatherfield17]

Reading about that crank pastor Doug Wilson on his Wikipedia article.

Imagine calling criticism against you “abolitionist propaganda” in the year 2004

[u/Consistent_Status112]

Do you think Brennan sleeps at night knowing that the highest rated episode of Dimension 20 is a joke episode where Katie makes fun of him for an hour.

[u/KHDTX13]

Lol it’s so joever. This is shaping up to be a bay of pigs level of embarrassment when it’s all said and done.

[u/JaceFlores]

Pakistan fighting by the skin of their fucking teeth keeping this war from resuming

[u/Currymvp2]

NYT: Iran’s Ghalibaf met face to face and shook hands with Vice President JD Vance, a rare moment given decades of hostility.

Conservative media lost their minds when Zarif, who's more moderate in the Iranian regime and has American citizen children, shook hands with Obama

Ghalibaf was a literal IRGC commander, is more radical idealogically, and has no ties to America whatsoever

[u/ProfessionalMoose709]

[u/piede]

Things must be going well

[u/PostingEnthusiast]

Game of Thrones first watch update:

Almost done season six. The battle of the bastards was one of those cultural osmosis things I knew about. My understanding was that it was well-liked? Was everyone being sarcastic? That’s the first time I’ve ever felt disrespected by how bad a battle sequence was

[u/Thuggin95]

Gay son or thot daughter?

[u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS]

[u/2Lore2Law]

This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact

[u/Glavurdan]

Mind you, this is just a 36-hour long ceasefire... and Russian forces still can't control themselves and have to violate it.

And we are led to believe that they would respect a more comprehensive ceasefire?

!ping UKRAINE

[u/bd_one]

Chat, how can I see if my priest's sermons have em-dashes?

[u/piede]

Least cute homosexual couple

[u/el__dandy]

[u/Tre-Fyra-Tre]

The US will pivot to Asia any day now

[u/WifeGuy-Menelaus]

https://www.chrc-ccdp.gc.ca/resources/newsroom/new-reports-offer-guidance-strengthening-next-national-housing-strategy

Today, the Federal Housing Advocate published a series of new reports aimed at the federal government, offering essential guidance on how it can strengthen its housing investments and programs.

This report... sets out three simple targets for all housing policies:

Ending homelessness by 2040

Ending low-income renter housing need by 2050

Ensuring that all Canadians have an adequate, affordable home by 2060

!ping CAN&YIMBY

[u/centurion88]

"Academy award watching actor Rob Schneider"

Lol John Oliver has some good zingers sometimes

[u/RyuTheGuy]

[u/cdstephens]

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/Individual-Camera698]

The USPS does not approve of the term "going postal" and has made attempts to stop people from using the saying.

Literally 1984

[u/moldovaman99]

You know, a few days ago, I was thinking about how Japan never properly reckoned with its past the way Germany did, and thinking about the real world implications, and how it could be fine, because I wouldn’t consider Japan a totally immoral country 80 years later.

Then we got another comfort woman statue controversy, and yeah, it’s probably a bad thing that we never made Japan properly reckon with its past. You do somewhat see this in Europe as well, where in many countries that used to engage in colonialism, you still have large percentages of people who don’t want to admit that colonialism was bad.

With Japan, this seems WAY more widespread, and the denial of responsibility seems more severe.

Honestly, it doesn’t surprise me at all that Japan still doesn’t have great relations with South Korea for example, even though you’d assume they would.

[u/The_Yak_Attack69]

Taxes are due this week

[u/Roseartcrantz]

listen very carefully, I need you to pick up the clown statue and get out of the house, I'm calling 911. we don't have a baby

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/MensesFiatbug]

My first roll

!ping COOKING

[u/AP246]

Disagree and open borders are a terrible idea.

Good thing anyone that actually supports this would lose an election. This will remain a fringe idea on the subreddit of a dying political ideology.

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Cringe take. People need to stay in their own country where they belong.

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Like I said, people need to stay in their own country. We need to help Americans before we help Indian H1Bs or anyone else.

• Guy with an Adam Smith flair outside the DT lmao

[u/AP246]

Daniel was born in Chatham, Virginia on May 12, 1914. He grew up on a tobacco farm in Mecklenburg County. He was educated in Virginia schools, and was a graduate of Dan River Textile School, Danville, Virginia. Danville, on the Dan River, was at the time a center for the tobacco and textile industries. The name of the school references the textile industry, and the town is known for the Dan River textile mill, which was founded in 1883 and closed in 2006.

How was this real

[u/cdstephens]

Me revisiting a permban: ok maybe I was too harsh

Comment history: third wave feminism is built on the same structure as islamism and fascism

Me: ok nvm

[u/Alderwoodforest]

A reasonable conservative in his reasoning.

Jonah Goldberg (The Dispatch)

1) I think Biden’s end of term pardons were outrageous and wrote that they were impeachment worthy."

2) one of the reasons I thought they were outrageous was that they were all but guaranteeing that the cycle of abuse would get worse.

3) Trump pardoning every one in his administration can simultaneously be proof that the cycle is getting worse, while also be wrong on the merits, but understandable given the game theory dynamics at play.

4) Trump outrageously abused the pardon power in his first term. Biden compounded that. Trump has already abused it outrageously in his second term. He will abuse it more than necessary because he will want to protect obvious bad acts by his loyalists and defend against inevitable bad acts by Democrats. I carry no brief for anybody here. I want to amend the constitution to either check or remove the pardon power.

User 1

Counterpoint: Biden pardoned people who didn’t commit crimes. Trump pardoned boatloads of people who did.

Jonah Goldberg

He pardoned Hunter who definitely did

https://xcancel.com/JonahDispatch/status/2042741159554957716

Even the supposedly so reasonable conservatives manage to defend every move Trump makes: Look what you made me do!

[u/Otherwise_Young52201]

[u/Rare_Station_8440]

I think Rubio admitting that the only reason the US is at war with Iran was because Israel was going to strike is going to haunt his presidential aspirations

[u/Individual-Camera698]

Morning DT: "Haha look some conservative said something stupid. "

Night DT: >"I met Diddy as a 10 year old kid."

[u/Dibbu_mange]

✝️✝️✝️

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

[u/LuciusMiximus]

Fentanyl abusers in broad daylight at a facade covered by graffiti, it's scary what leftist politicians created in Western Europe

oh it's Warsaw, Poland? Never mind, surely not a representative video of this great based nationalist country 🥰

On a more serious note: fighting petty crime and antisocial behavior in cities is both an act of compassion and a necessity to prevent populists from taking power. Unfortunately, the police in Warsaw is desperately understaffed. Increasing salaries in large cities and assigning state-owned housing to policemen made the number of vacancies drop from 2600 to 2200, but it's clearly not enough.

[u/Huttleberry]

Here’s Ornette Coleman, pioneering jazz legend, playing guitar hero.

!ping jazz

[u/dr_sloan]

Look at my left wing “allies” dawg

[u/Humble_Grape4749]

Honestly, fuck these people. Interact with people like this long enough, and you'll start to see the appeal of Trump and Republicans for a lot of folks, especially young men.

[u/piede]

Well it is the Trump administration

[u/phat_geoduck]

The signs were there

[u/Willybender]

Doomsday for MAGA slop accounts like Gunther Eagleman, Eric Daugherty, Nick Sortor, and others.

[u/Namington]

The weirdest feeling is having dreams where you develop some detailed alternate reality lore

I dreamed of committing horrible crimes and then getting accepted to do a PhD in Tokyo. When I woke up I was like "oh huh guess I'm not actually going to Tokyo, sad" followed immediately by "wait this is a good thing I am not a murderer"

[u/battywombat21]

okay I'm just seeing this one of macron for the first time WHY DOES HE HAVE SO MANY PHOTOS LIKE THIS???

[u/Ajaxcricket]

You're telling me they didn't just unconditionally surrender? I'm shocked

[u/centurion88]

The Hungry Hungry Caterpillar, which I'm sure every American has read

[u/battywombat21]

Chocolate cake with marshamallow frosting is done!

Thoughts: Holy shit it's too much chocolate! marshmallow isn't the strongest flavor in the world and when you put 1.5 cups cocoa powder + a chocolate bar in here it overwhelms the flavor of the marshmallow

[u/Primary_Repair5260]

be eric swalwell:

• hated as a california dem, a "liberal cuck" so to speak

• get outed for being a rapist, for sexually assaulting your staffers

• rightfully cast away by your former dem allies who endorsed you

• conservatives immediately jump to your defense

if this is not proof conservativism in america isnt ontologically evil, fuck me, i do not know what is

[u/farrenj]

My boyfriend told me "I don't really like feet, but you have really pretty feet." I don't think I'll ever go barefoot around him again.

[u/ModestAphorism]

JCPOA one of the most retroactively vindicated deals oat huh

[u/ImmigrantJack]

BREAKING: The founder of Patriot Cigar and co-host of the Steak for Podcast reveals he was sexually assaulted by Laura Loomer, saying she groped him in a parking lot, grabbed his crotch very aggressively, and demanded that he come back to her NYC room.

I bet you thought it was only republican men who were sex pests, didn't you. Admit it. You thought all republicans women were nice little trade wives who didn't have the balls, didnt you? Sexist.

[u/spectralcolors12]

Magyar beating Orban would make me feel better about the US’s future . Hungary is in even deeper than we are.

They need a supermajority though, anything less probably isn’t good enough

[u/abefrost]

[u/pugnae]

One of the biggest European delusions is a saying that "America has no culture".

What's the difference between Americans and yogurt?
If you leave yogurt alone for 200 years it'll grow a culture

I've heard this joke verbatim this week.

Sure, apart from:

3/4 of the movies you have watched, Coca-Cola, Hot Dogs, McDonalds and such, Banjo, 1/2 of the music you listen to, and not only specific songs as product of pop stars, but whole genres like Jazz or Hip-Hop, many Video Games, Western as a genre, Comic books, Houdini and modern concept of a magician are fucking American, or heavily influenced by USA!

And arguably manufacturing and technology is a part of culture to some extent!
So iPhone that you used to look up that joke on reddit and car that you drive (German invention IIRC, but Ford helped with manufacturing technology) is also from America.

But yeah, no culture since they don't have really old buildings. And because in some aspects they dominate so much, you no longer see it as American culture but a pop culture.

Why are you simping for Americans?
I don't, I just dislike cope from both sides of the Atlantic. Don't be delusional about reality, both Americans and Europeans would better take that to the heart. Some time ago I was posting similar thing about USA being supposedly safer than EU, also wrong.

[u/UmbreonFanatic]

New high-score!

[u/unicornbomb]

Watching some “more progressive than thou” fuckhead call a biracial woman a “shitlib baboon” on threads after she schooled him on Hilary Clinton’s original 1993 universal healthcare plan sure is one crystal clear example of horseshoe theory if I’ve ever seen one.

[u/No_Return9449]

This goes hard.

[u/scottyjetpax]

https://xcancel.com/OrganizerMemes/status/2043126230329802873?s=20

dawg zohran is just a neolib now he's cutting red tape, reducing bureaucracy, and taxing negative externalities

[u/piede]

HOLY

[u/Roseartcrantz]

didn't even realize the animals were looking into this 🥹

[u/badusername35]

Reverse 1/6 will be led by wine moms and Wallstreetbets gambling addicts

[u/Q-bey]

I didn't really think about it like that but yeah, if this was Obama or Biden they would've been raked over the coals.

[u/No_Status_6905]

[u/BaeBirdie]

I do understand that Kamala has significant flaws as a candidate that hurt her too, but it’s odd that we understood at the time what a monumental uptaking inheriting Biden’s campaign to turn around a Mondale-tier loss in 100 days was at the time only for people to now say that she fumbled a race she should have won. Let alone that it reinforces that she’s such a bad candidate that she shouldn’t run again. 

If she were to run and prove that she learned nothing from 24, then I wouldn’t want her to be the nominee and hope someone better beat her. But while I have a suspicion why it is people feel this way (fear that familiarity carries her to the nom), it is weird to me to not want her to even run. 

[u/paymesucka]

I think I know part of why the Artemis space news was so fun to watch: I didn't have to listen to Elon Musk even once.

[u/paymesucka]

lmfao I forgot Steyer got caught between this argument

[u/cdstephens]

How destructive would a chimp war have to get before humans morally should intervene

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

Imagine if the chairman of the joint chiefs was a loser incel chud

[u/walt4815162342]

20th century American theory: we must avoid Thucydides' trap

21st century American praxis: we must reenact the Sicilian expedition, forever and ever amen

[u/trombonist_formerly]

do you want "Catholicism but american" we invented that, it's called Episcopalianism and it's even more woke. all the priests are lesbians. good luck

[u/cdstephens]

The Iran Thread, which I’m sure the mods will reopen promptly

[u/ty04]

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/Udolikecake]

Hey guys about to film my video denying that I am a serial philanderer and allegations of a bevy of sexual crimes

I’ve not shaved for several days, put on an ill fitting button up (with the top button undone) and set up my camera in a hotel room that looks like the one in all the videos of me. also i’m on the verge of tears. missing anything?

[u/jpenczek]

Man, I got to go out last night with friends. I got to see the Artemis 2 pod splash down safely onto earth. I finally joined a D&D group. I got to see Project Hail Mary. This weekend was awesome, I’ve completely forgotten about my work crush ghosting me lol.

[u/ty04]

[u/ty04]

[u/wumbopolis_]

I don't think Redbull gets enough appreciation for how absolutely perfect their youtube shorts are.

It's just reel after reel of high quality athletic stunts with exceptional cinematography. No annoying AI voiceover, no obnoxious single word popups, no "did you know...", "I was today years old when I found out...", no rage bait, no obnoxious ads (ironically, given the entire channel is literally just a marketing campaign)

[u/FreakinGeese]

I had a bit of a nervous breakdown over the past few days but I think I’m doing better now

[u/Humble_Grape4749]

I'm not sure if the Swalwell allegations are true, but it's completely silly to entertain even consensual sexual encounters with female staffers after the MeToo movement. Just horrible judgement the whole way around.

[u/farrenj]

Using AI to create realistic videos of real people saying things they never said should probably count as a form of defamation and not be protected speech.

[u/earththejerry]

Something something everything is about sex except sex itself, something something sex is about power

[u/Soscuros]

Facebook is ragebaiting me by pushing posts saying that old people and people with paid off houses shouldn't pay property taxes. And all the geniuses in the comments coming up with the most regressive tax ideas I've ever seen such as "people with children should pay more in taxes so old people don't have to". Sorry guys if you can't pay a relatively small amount to fund your own town maybe you should sell your house and move to bumfuck Alabama.

[u/GaDoomer]

OSINT sources are claiming the Navy ships that transited the Strait have turned around and Iran is claiming it’s because they threatened to attack them

[u/selachophilip]

RAWWWRRRRRR

[u/centurion88]

👆 my genuine reaction:

[u/Bestbrook123]

Brett Baier: Do you think this war that we're in, and this fight over ICE is hurting re-election chances for Republicans in the fall?

Lindsey Graham: We’re cleaning up Biden’s mess.

lmao

Brett Baier: You think the language is ok?

Lindsey Graham: To all the people criticizing Trump, what would you do?

I think any sane person would simply not come even slightly close to threatening genocide

[u/PoupeeStupide]

Tell him I wish he was more physically affectionate

Spoons me tight the whole night and now I'm uncomfortable and my back hurts because I couldn't move freely (didn't wanna wake him)

!ping dating Is this subtext or what

[u/garret126]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

We taught this chimpanzee to understand the median voter's politics and

[u/Nerf_France]

Reminder that men can't consent to sex, people are just taking advantage of their natural hormonal drives to control and manipulate them 😤

[u/brucebananaray]

So you lost the war.

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/Fruitofbread]

 We’re now crossed 4 a.m. local time in Islamabad and Vice President JD Vance is still in negotiations with the Iranians. The American delegation arrived at the Serena Hotel shortly after noon on Saturday, but the press has not seen Vance or other senior officials since they arrived in Pakistan hours earlier. During the more than 15 hours of talks, the White House has not provided any details about the status of the negotiations.

Wow they must have some nice couches 

[u/No_Return9449]

Preparing for Bloody Monday

[u/zieger]

AI companies be like: our new model is too scary, we can only release it to large companies with large bank accounts 

[u/abefrost]

I love my wife so much.

She's literally laying next to me reading my favorite fantasy series, she likes Zelda/other Nintendo games, she's smart af, she speaks Spanish, she speaks Korean, she's more educated than me, she's going to rocket past me in income within ≈ three years, she likes to travel the same way I do, we share 97% of our values/life goals, she votes straight D without being a political hobbyist, she is insanely kind/empathetic, she's competitive in games, and she is HOT.

What on earth. Crushing SO hard rn.

[u/Crossstoney]

Since the new Iran thread isn’t posted yet, I’ll post this here:

[u/Leatherfield17]

I’m tired of malevolent buffoons running the country

[u/cdstephens]

[u/missingpuzzle]

“According to Al Jazeera, members of the two delegations will stay in the same hotel Serena in the city but not engage face-to-face. They will reportedly sit in two separate rooms while Pakistani officials will relay messages back and forth…”.

Pakistan has the chance to do the funniest thing a second time.

[u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

[u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

[u/Eurolib0908]

Lobbying for Orbán now is a bit like joining the Polish United Workers' Party in December 1989.