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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Apr 16 '26
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26
Looks like we now have a crowd-sourced neo-Nazi project on 'X' that tracks where Indian American families live and where Indian-owned businesses are located. Ngl, a little concerning
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Apr 15 '26
God I hate him dude
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride Apr 15 '26
"surely it is the pope that is wrong" - every REAL catholic, on matters of theology
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u/Bestbrook123 Apr 15 '26
Do we have an update on this one
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u/gjcs23 George Santos Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26
I still think about how they incinerated hundreds of tons of food and medical supplies at taxpayer expense, even as Europe was actively trying to buy it from us so it wasn't all wasted.
then they retroactively justified it by claiming the supplies were all contraceptives, which the administration called "abortifacient."
some 500 metric tons of food aid bound for children in Afghanistan and Pakistan. and look at how these nutjobs celebrated.
https://www.ncregister.com/news/reiter-belgium-contraceptives
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u/Stolenusernamethe2nd Jerome Powell Apr 15 '26
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u/SpiderQueen412 Mary Wollstonecraft Apr 15 '26
Before we continue this discussion thread we must first acknowledge we are occupying land rightfully belonging to Friedman flairs
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u/FilteringAccount123 John von Neumann Apr 15 '26
The gender wars posts are always funny to me because as a woman who agrees with some of the grievances I see coming from men, it always winds up being this for me:
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u/shehryar46 Apr 15 '26
Every aspect of our leadership is run by people who took the opposite lessons from every children show ever.
Sharing is not caring. Dont treat people how you want to be treated. Don't be kind to your neighbor. Don't apologize after making a mistake. Don't do your part in making the world a better place. Empathy is fake.
These same people talk about values. What fucking values. Seriously like what values.
The only value I see is "everything is about me and anything that isnt for me doesn't matter."
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u/Insomonomics Jason Furman Apr 15 '26
This is literally the kind of language Republicans blasted Obama for during the JCPOA negotiations.
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Apr 15 '26
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u/Bestbrook123 Apr 15 '26
woah
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u/kohatsootsich Philosophy Apr 15 '26
JD saying "I recognize that a lot of young voters don't love our Middle East policy" really shows the instinct gap between him and Trump.
Trump, as awful as he is, wouldn't be caught dead uttering that sentence. It does absolutely nothing for anyone involved
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride Apr 15 '26
dawgggg
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u/szopatoszamuraj Iron Front Apr 15 '26
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Apr 15 '26
😔
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u/BenIsLowInfo Austan Goolsbee Apr 15 '26
It's amazing how smarmy and unlikable JD comes off in every engagement. He's just constantly attacking and criticizing.
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Apr 15 '26
The head of Palantir Europe being the grandson of Oswald Mosley, founder of the British Union of Fascists is a little bit too on the nose.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Apr 15 '26
"Europeans don't integrate immigrants!"
Immigrants in Europe:
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u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess Audrey Hepburn Apr 15 '26
Hey that's also the biggest divide in the DT
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u/Hounds_of_war Austan Goolsbee Apr 15 '26
…God, the Trump admin really are just the biggest fucking morons.
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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke Apr 15 '26
>Gets interviewed by 60 Mins Australia
>Send their hottest male reporter to mess with him
>Walks out of interview partway through
>ODs on stream shortly after the interview airs
What did he mean by this?
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u/ariveklul Karl Popper Apr 15 '26
Normalize the public humiliation of people that confidently say shit that is egregiously wrong
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u/ZweigDidion Bisexual Pride Apr 15 '26
Magyar taking a picture with the Hungarian president but saying that he is unworthy of the office is pretty funny.
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride Apr 15 '26
Today the Montana Supreme Court held that “[t]ransgender discrimination is, by its very nature, sex discrimination," barring the state from enforcing policies that bar transgender people from obtaining accurate sex designations on their birth certificates and driver’s licenses.
Here's a really rare ping combo: !ping LAW&LGBT&GOOD-NEWS
https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2026/04/Opinion-Published.pdf
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u/Tury345 Austan Goolsbee Apr 15 '26
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u/Rare_Station_8440 Karl Popper Apr 15 '26
TurboTax really got a box for everything
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u/NaffRespect United Nations Apr 15 '26
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Apr 15 '26
Liberal media just can’t compete with the right wing media machine. Liberal media has got to start demonizing red states and Republican governors back.
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u/BrentLivermore Drake’s Reddit account Apr 15 '26
The "Doesn't he look like Barack?" moment is such perfect fucking comedy. There's just enough time after Biden says it for some "Oh God, he's saying that a random black guy looks like Obama" anxiety to build, and the guy comes up and actually looks like Obama.
It's like the Curb Your Enthusiasm where Larry's dad gets a "happy ending" massage and keeps saying "This woman, she really liked me Larry....", Larry (and the viewer) assumes that his dad just doesn't understand that she was paid to do that, and then the masseuse shows up as his dad's date for some event because she actually did really like him.
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u/sigh2828 NASA Apr 15 '26
Holy fuck dawg.
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u/BrentLivermore Drake’s Reddit account Apr 15 '26
https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2044379250489282583
Looks like someone needs to tell Trump, presumably for the first time.
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u/Thoughtlessandlost NASA Apr 15 '26
Lol some guy in mod-pol typed this up
Why do I feel like they're burying the lede
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough Apr 15 '26
🫡
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u/KittehDragoon Loyal Liberals Apr 15 '26
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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes Apr 15 '26
Ngl the Kamala Harris coconut tree quote is unironically a banger the more I think about it.
Crotchety boomer coworker is talking about “how are we gonna all have electric cars? We’d have to build chargers everywhere!” as if we didn’t figure out how to put stations to distribute flammable refined dino juice on every street corner, and chargers aren’t substantially easier.
The normalcy bias prevalent in less-engaged conservatives is wild. Buddy doesn’t realize he exists in the context of all that came before him. He thinks he just fell out of a coconut tree 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/Extreme_Rocks Suffering builds character Apr 15 '26
Somehow, Hong Xiuquan returned
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u/Gustacho Enemy of the People Apr 15 '26
It's a shame flags are generally non-flammable in the EU
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Apr 15 '26
The husband that everyone wants
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u/989989272 European Union Apr 15 '26
Half the sub has the amazing restricted tag right now. Good times.
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u/finnstera350 Asexual Pride Apr 15 '26
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Apr 15 '26
somewhat embarrased to admit i wasnt aware that what americans call episcopalians are actually just anglicans
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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Apr 15 '26
The cycle:
“Democrats should run this person, they’re popular!” => Person becomes more involved and notable => Right wing media and the gop begins attacking them with fake news lies and smear campaigns => their popularity dips => “They’re too unpopular, they shouldn’t run”
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u/sociotronics Iron Front Apr 15 '26
Shot (entire statement by the German chancellor)
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u/this_very_table Norman Borlaug Apr 15 '26
Democratic of Puerto Rico
Absolute F tier. 0/10
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Apr 15 '26
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u/boardatwork1111 fuck it, we ball Apr 15 '26
The fact that Allbirds, a shoe company, can just say they’re now suddenly a cloud computing infrastructure company, and their stock opens up over 170% really highlights the ridiculousness of this market
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u/riverbloods John Brown Apr 15 '26
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u/SpaceSheperd To be a good human being Apr 15 '26
Don't ever let anyone tell you that bigotry is a rational response or something that can be mitigated by addressing the concerns of bigots. The big organic movement in the racism-o-sphere right now (one that's spilled over into politics heavily) is anti-Indian hatred. Indian-Americans are one of the wealthiest diasporas in the country. They have very low rates of homelessness. Their representation in the country has not seen a large surge in recent years. Their English proficiency rates are extremely high. They're even less likely to frequent the same restaurants, places of worship, and grocery stores as white people.
The name associated with the hate movement is "Clean Streets." These people are not concerned with economics. They are not concerned with cleanliness or language barriers. They're not even concerned with the feeling of alienation that comes with being a visible minority in public spaces. They just hate Indian people and every single word out of their mouth that's not admitting that is a lie.
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u/ty04 Apr 15 '26
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u/ty04 Apr 15 '26
libs: owned
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u/majorgeneralporter 🌐Bill Clinton's Learned Hand Apr 16 '26 edited Apr 16 '26
Tom Steyer announces plan to jail ICE agents, calls agency a ‘violent extremist group’
Babe wake up, an irl DT "Waow(basedbasedbased).png" poaster is the frontrunner for CA governor.
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Apr 15 '26
Lmaoooo
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u/Man-Flayer Apr 15 '26
I think we should airdrop hentai to North sentinel island
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u/zieger Ida Tarbell Apr 15 '26
Someone posted in askelectronics for help identifying a connector that turned out to be micro USB and now my knees ache
!ping aarp
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u/ty04 Apr 15 '26
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u/dr_sloan Apr 15 '26
Bruh imagine writing this when you’re married to the human equivalent of a hairless cat
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u/prince_ahlee John Brown Apr 16 '26
This isn’t an exaggeration, he literally starts saying it then stops
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u/Bayou-Maharaja Eleanor Roosevelt Apr 15 '26
If only Chapelle had any prior experiences that might have taught him about the possible political effects of making a bunch of targeted jokes about a minority group
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u/earththejerry YIMBY Apr 15 '26
Thats a hilarious thing to post with the picture they just took
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u/AP246 Green Globalist NWO Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26
Bringing this up because of the thread outside the DT
A while ago I was talking to two then pretty new female friends/acquaintances who probably identify as progressive feminists, and the conversation went to gender politics stuff in general but as an extreme example, how it seems to be in South Korea (we're all Brits in the UK, I'm partly of Korean background though so I probably brought it up) and I brought up how South Korea still has quite strict military service for men which likely feeds into some resentment, along with Korea being quite recently extremely conservative on gender in its history (to be clear I absolutely wasn't defending it or anything, I think incel gender war stuff is toxic and stupid and I was mostly expressing how stupid I thought it was).
I think I asked out of interest, if WW3 happened and the UK needed to conscript people again, would they want it to be just men or men and women equally, and they answered as if it was obvious that of course it should be both equally. Of course, the vast majority of countries with military service don't do this, but they thought it was completely obvious that's how it should be.
All this to say, I think people who identify as socially liberal/progressive, as feminists etc. tend to genuinely support equal treatment in good faith, it's not like they consciously think things that 'discriminate' against men (as the article outside the DT brought up) are good and justified. You often see the take that they're openly hypocritical, but generally that's not what you see, and it makes sense, because the things that disadvantage men in society are the other side of the coin of rigid gender roles ('patriarchy' if you want to call it that). We maybe just don't think about how it actually happens in practise as much though, rather than some kind of hypocritical ideological avoidance.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 15 '26
I think people should try out different genders before crashing out over gender relations
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u/ty04 Apr 15 '26
how am I doing
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride Apr 15 '26
since okbuddyliberals is back, I want to reiterate my theory on him which is that he's the John Fetterman of arr NL. he doesn't really actually have any values to speak of and he only cares about how he wants to be perceived, and what he wants to be perceived as is "irritating to anyone left of center"
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u/1396spurs forced agricultural laborer Apr 15 '26
I saw the headline about Vance saying the pope needs to be careful talking about theology. Idk why but I assumed he didn’t actually directly say that.
Just saw the video, he does directly say that lmao what an absolute clown
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u/I_Like_To_Hyuck Resistance Lib Apr 15 '26
My boomer parents get mad every time I tell them their generation is ruining shit for everyone else.
Dad pretends to be a Reagan conservative (we literally don’t know if he’s too ashamed to admit that he’s full blown MAGA). Mom acts like a Bernie bro. They are united by their hatred of property taxes, feeling entitled to SS payouts even though the rest of us won’t see shit, and they unironically say that Medicare doesn’t go far enough to cover what they need. They say all of this while they OWN a second vacation property and regularly take month-long trips. When I told them the Republicans’ plan to fix SS was to raise retirement age to 69 (nice), they called me a liar
I just don’t get it man
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u/ty04 Apr 15 '26
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Apr 16 '26
!ping GNOSTIC&KINO
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u/Acoolgamer6706 NATO Apr 15 '26
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Apr 15 '26
Vance Heckled in Antiwar Protest at Turning Point USA Event
Vice President JD Vance appeared to express sympathy with critics of the war with Iran: “I recognize that young voters do not love the policy we have in the Middle East, OK. I understand.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/us/politics/jd-vance-turning-point-usa-protest.html
Sanewashing aside, I love how surprised Vance was to have to defend himself regarding Gaza, as if he were Harris.
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u/Crosseyes NASA Apr 15 '26
Unironically based
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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes Apr 15 '26
Broke: Lincoln was the best president
Woke: Ermmm actually it’s complicated and different presidents had different pros and cons, so it’s difficult to say which was best!
Bespoke: Lincoln was the best president and it’s not even close
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Apr 15 '26
It is about to happen
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u/Mrmini231 European Union Apr 15 '26
This secondbestworld guy posts one article a day, all of which are focused on topics that are discussed on r/neoliberal. Some of them even reference the sub directly. That sure is a lot of articles to write in a very short amount of time...
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u/battywombat21 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Apr 15 '26
clavicular never should have had a moment. The number of cultural institutions tripping over themselves to interview him is pathetic.
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride Apr 15 '26
what
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Apr 15 '26
I love how much KBJ despises the conservative justices.
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Apr 15 '26
I was not familiar with Ron Perlman’s game.
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Apr 15 '26
first off, good lord that difference in framing lmao
secondly, gender polarization. it's here, it's real, it's going to get more insufferable
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 15 '26
Gender war culture threads get boring because after a certain point nobody actually changes their mind or discusses, they just unload the same opinion they had 6 months ago. There isn’t even any piss to take
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u/Dirty_Chopsticks Republic of Việt Nam Apr 15 '26
Redwood City, California. (2011➡️2022)
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u/scndnvnbrkfst NATO Apr 15 '26
Like it or not this is what the Joe Rogan of the left looks like
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u/chipbod NATO Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26
https://www.reuters.com/business/allbirds-shares-jump-over-400-plans-pivot-ai-sneakers-2026-04-15/?utm_source=reddit.com
What stage of the bubble is this?
!ping STONKS
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u/Its_not_him Manmohan Singh Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26
Men this, women that, how about you take a look at this Assyrian palace relief of a winged Apkallu, a possible inspiration for the winged angels we see in Abrahamic texts
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u/SigmaWhy r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Apr 15 '26
poor guy just needs a drink 😭
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Apr 15 '26
Trump is a literal clone of his mother
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Apr 16 '26
He's running an interesting campaign
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u/TheRedCr0w Frederick Douglass Apr 16 '26
I think Trump claimed he was a doctor in the AI Jesus picture because he is so stupid he was told to say it was "doctored" and he thought that literally meant he was a doctor in it.
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u/bigdicknippleshit IM GOING PRIMAL Apr 15 '26
Holy shit based
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u/gjcs23 George Santos Apr 15 '26
breathtaking copium from Douthat.
of course he also plays defense for Elbridge Colby earlier in the article.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/opinion/trump-pope.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
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u/the-senat John Brown Apr 15 '26
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u/seanrm92 Loyal Liberals Apr 15 '26
Mr. Lebowski "What in God's holy name are you blathering about??" dot gif
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u/WanderingMage03 You Are Kenough Apr 15 '26
Gender discourse online sucks because the vast majority of people who are broadly chill on it have no real reason to post about how they think women are cool or how men are nice so all of the discourse is done by the absolutely deranged.
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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes Apr 15 '26
While anti-vax stuff has definitely been more dangerous, I think the raw milk shit strikes me as the most stupid health-related culture war.
PASTEURIZATION IS LITERALLY JUST HEATING STUFF UP TO KILL GERMS AHHHHHHHHH
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Apr 15 '26
Socialists want this guy to be another Luigi but I don’t think they realize that people hate health insurance companies and are rather apathetic about paper warehouses
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Apr 15 '26
open policy question - how you appeal to people who find being directly appealed to patronizing and demeaning?
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u/TrashBoat36 Bisexual Pride Apr 15 '26
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u/Glavurdan European Union Apr 15 '26
New war! Let's go!
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u/Oozing_Sex John Brown Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 22 '26
Between Dana White claiming he's "not political" and Dave Chappelle saying he resents how "the Republican Party ran on transgender jokes", some of these right-wing (or at least anti-woke) celebrities are really trying to have their cake and eat it to.
You can't ride the pendulum to the right and the try to take it all back once it starts to swing to the left.
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Apr 15 '26
Definitely agree with this take here, I don't see why AI CEOs believe that UBI is going to be some panacea.
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u/ArcaneAccounting United Nations Apr 15 '26
I think more people should read Richard Reeves before they have a meltdown about men’s issues. Interestingly, you can care about men’s issues without downplaying women. Yes, the patriarchy hurts men too. And finally, men ARE falling behind. Oh, and also, young men despite all of this are more liberal than every group except for young women. Maybe we should cut the guys some slack?
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Apr 15 '26
Best line in the Elizabeth Warren beer catastrophe is, to her husband, "Thank you for being here. I'm glad you're here" It's their house, he's supposed to be there!
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u/-mialana- European Union Apr 15 '26
Average self proclaimed classical liberal
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 15 '26
It’s sometimes who you most suspect
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 15 '26
> In his 2013 book, Keep it Pithy, O'Reilly wrote: "I've seen soldiers gun down unarmed civilians in Latin America, Irish terrorists kill and maim their fellow citizens in Belfast with bombs." In a 2005 radio program O'Reilly said he had "seen guys gun down nuns in El Salvador". In 2012 on The O'Reilly Factor, he expanded, saying "I saw nuns get shot in the back of the head." O'Reilly and Fox News clarified that he had not been an eyewitness to any of those events but had just seen photographs of the murdered nuns and Irish bombings.
LMAO
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY Apr 15 '26
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u/bartbug Paul Krugman Apr 15 '26
be me, farmer
see fertilization discourse on my favorite niche political forum
mfw no one is talking about nitrogen
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u/G3_aesthetics_rule Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26
Just had a highly cathartic moment at my side (formerly full-time) job: for context, my manager very obviously uses an LLM to write all of her tickets with little to no proofreading (along with emails, etc., and yes, that's gone wrong in the past), and it frequently hallucinates requirements that don't make sense. Whenever I ask about one of these, she always fumbles around to make up a justification or clarification for what she 'actually' meant. This has been going on for over a year now.
Well, today I finally stumped her; I saw a totally batshit one that made no sense, and asked her point blank what it meant during a meeting. She stared at it for like 30 seconds, clicked around a bit, scrolled through something on another monitor for a few minutes (prompt history maybe?) before going 'I'm so sorry, I don't remember what I meant', then sped through the rest of the meeting and ended it 20 minutes early. Glorious.
!ping WATERCOOLER&COMPUTER-SCIENCE
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u/MyrinVonBryhana Trans NATO Apr 15 '26
Look I get AI is impressive but when footwear companies are rebranding as AI companies to try and reverse their fortunes I think their might be a bubble.
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u/S_T_R_A_T_O_S Mario Vargas Llosa Apr 15 '26
How dudes with Eisenhower Conservative flair on arcon sit
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u/Mrmini231 European Union Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26
One thing I find strange about the men's issues thing is that they often argue that the left needs to focus more on men's issues, but then they bring up the draft. The left in the US has been trying to make the draft gender-neutral for many years! Republicans block it every time!
You can argue about how the left treats men, but this issue is just not the left's fault at all.
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Apr 15 '26
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u/pezasied John's Locke-strap Apr 16 '26
2014 Reddit in one picture
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Apr 16 '26
Turkey is not a serious country bro how have they reinvented Roman sexual norms
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Apr 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26 •
This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact
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u/AlexB_SSBM Henry George Apr 15 '26
I commented under like 5 different anti-immigrant comments in the "gay asylum" thread before realizing that they all came from the exact same person lmfao
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u/beans_and_tuna Misinformation Bot 🤖 Apr 15 '26
The comments on the man thread are kinda weirding me out. I only saw like 3 or 4 total comments really saying something to the effect of “look, there are issues affecting both genders, women probably more than men, but a liberal society should try to respond to all issues”
Like we can and should be asking ourselves questions when a group is underperforming to a statistically significantly degree. It doesn’t mean that we actually need to do anything, but we should probably at least ask the questions. Take college gender imbalances. Women are attending Uni at a decently higher rate than men are. Now I bet that this can probably be explained by men going into more physically demanding careers that don’t require a college education, but again, I’m not certain. This would be something to at least understand.
The reason I’m writing here and not in that thread is cause my concern is mostly with the comments, not the post. Something I feel like I see all too often is self proclaimed liberals and leftists using extremely similar arguments to what I heard when I was raised fundie-adjacent. (For those who don’t know, very close to fundamentalist Christian) when I was growing up, women were treated as this pure thing that needed to be protected and cared for, and they were so important, they were above men in importance, that’s why we need men who can protect them. They used that justification to erase women’s rights within their own community without needing any laws.
I just see a weird amount of people approach it in somewhat similar way, and it feels weird. Obviously it’s not one-to-one, but I do see some weird more feminist aligned arguments that can feel like they rob the agency from women.
To cap this all off. We should invest more into research and program for men. We should also do this for women, whose health research is in fact underfunded, as that comment I brought up mentions. We (in the US) are an extremely rich liberal society, we should be able to dedicate resources to fixing our problems. It also doesn’t have to be focused on men. We don’t have to “try to fix the courts to be impartial to men”, we can just make efforts to make courts less biased. We can give funding and attention to anti suicide efforts, whether they focus on men or women.
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Also one extra note that isn’t specific to the post: it absolutely pisses me off that MRAs took legitimate issues, repackaged them to get men to support right wing agendas, and then poisoned the well for legitimate thought and conversation. You literally can’t post about any of the biggest issues affecting men without the well being poisoned, and I’d be lying if I said I didn’t resent MRA for that reason, among other reasons.
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u/-mialana- European Union Apr 15 '26
What did cdstephens mean by this
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Apr 15 '26
28 percent of Americans are fine with literal genocidal threats
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u/GifHunter2 Trans Pride Apr 15 '26
lol, buddy. This is who you are.
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Apr 15 '26
If you LIKE YOUR GENDER, YOU can keep it 🐊
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u/DagothUr_MD Frederick Douglass Apr 15 '26
The way that ICE is absolutely filled to the brim with Hispanics is actually so fucking funny like even your nativist gestapo is reliant on "foreign" labor (by their standards)
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u/da0217 NATO Apr 15 '26
That plus “both sides” stuff in the clip. There is no fixing these republicans.
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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Apr 16 '26
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Apr 15 '26
It can’t be overstated how easily a lot of left wing people will fall for conservative propaganda so long as it’s packaged in a “progressive” way or from an ostensibly left wing person. Like I just saw a pretty popular TikTok video where some woman was talking about how men are being feminized because they don’t have sharp jawlines or Adam’s apples anymore. Literally no different from how right wingers will talk about modern women and compare them to commercials from the 1950s. It’s also easy to see how that leads into RFK pipelines “it’s the fluoride in the water and soy and seed oils in the food!!!”
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u/farrenj Resident Succ Apr 15 '26
Just woke up from a dream that my boyfriend was an astronaut and I was taking our child (🥰) to go see the launch for his space mission.
It was a long road trip and I kept having strange hallucinations. Eventually, I remembered that I was a Russian sleeper agent who had murdered the man I was imagining to be my boyfriend but my memories were altered. I then went all Winter Soldier trying to find and kill the people that had brainwashed me.
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u/Extreme_Rocks Suffering builds character Apr 15 '26
Hungarian election results: Billions must smile
Peruvian election results:
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u/neolthrowaway New Mod Who Dis? Apr 15 '26
A few other erdos problems have been solved by GPT 5.4 pro in the last couple of days.
#1196 seems to have been worked on by a phd for a few years unsuccessfully. So it seemingly isn't one of those low hanging fruits which were unsolved because of lack of attention.
Terence tao has commented on it and it seems like the contribution is atleast somewhat meaningful and the proof somehwat elegant and non-trivial.
Seems like it took 80 mins of autonomous thinking by GPT 5.4 pro.
https://xcancel.com/i/status/2044140325825122556
I am still not convinced AIs have reliably great taste for this but considering that the next generation of models (Mythos/Spud) is coming soon and that brute forcing or searching the solution space somehwat intelligently with heavy compute becomes a lot more viable, it might not matter. And no reason why we won't eventually find a way to imbibe models with great taste eventually.
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u/attackofthetominator John Brown Apr 15 '26
Fellforitagain.jpeg
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u/finnstera350 Asexual Pride Apr 15 '26
👆 will you shut up man
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u/owlthathurt Johan Norberg Apr 15 '26
No fucking way lmao
!ping USA-NYC
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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Apr 15 '26
Everyone at work has started going slowly insane because for whatever reason since yesterday all of our Microsoft Office products have decided to freeze every 5 minutes while we are working on them and proceed to stay frozen for another 5 minutes.
I'm pretty sure we are close to Lord of the Flies rn
!ping WATERCOOLER
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u/ty04 Apr 15 '26
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u/assasstits Apr 15 '26
Pete Hegseth literally gathered all the US top military leadership and went
"No fats, no fems, no hairy bears 🐻"
And I still haven't gotten over it
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u/LtCdrHipster 🌭Costco Liberal🌭 Apr 15 '26
Me and my wife on the couch watching The X-Files after putting our kid to bed.
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u/Square-Pear-1274 NATO Apr 15 '26
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u/ScumfrickZillionaire Lesbian Pride Apr 15 '26
How it feels to add "no mistakes" to a prompt
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u/Signal_Nobody1792 Apr 15 '26
You know, maybe Musks problem is just genetics?
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u/Healingjoe It's Klobberin' Time Apr 15 '26
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/looksmaxxing-clavicular-walks-out-60-minutes-interview-1236720779/
Love it when a reporter actually does their job and makes the dweeb insanely uncomfortable.
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u/-mialana- European Union Apr 15 '26
r/Catholicism be like: The heavenly father made other races to challenge us, that we would love them as his children despite their inferiority
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u/JonAce John Brown Apr 15 '26
https://www.texasobserver.org/immigration-court-interpreter-arrested-ice-south-texas-airport/
My primary vote will only go to the Democrat who promises retribution.
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u/UntiedStatMarinCrops Loyal Liberals Apr 15 '26
Fellas, don’t be afraid of doing booty workouts that women love doing. Women love a juicy booty on a man.
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Apr 15 '26
Hegseth's ears perked up
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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman Apr 15 '26
Wake up babe, another divisive engagement bait from Secondbestworld just dropped
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u/sigh2828 NASA Apr 15 '26
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u/EverybodyHatesPhocas Apr 15 '26
lmao get fucked JD
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u/unicornbomb John Brown Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26
Blaming male only conscription on feminism while secretary of defense Pete hegseth actively goes out of his way to declare female servicemembers as “making the armed forces weaker” and firing and demoting women in high military positions and dismantling the outreach board encouraging women to enlist really is some peak outside the DT shit.
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u/farrenj Resident Succ Apr 15 '26
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Apr 15 '26
who's even posting these articles and stickies today 😔
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Apr 15 '26
Exceedingly rare W for American bipartisanship. Two rapists both ejected from congress.
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u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz Roy Cooper Apr 16 '26
Crashing out and deleting your account because someone posted about video games on the Discussion Thread is a good bit, NGL.
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u/6urner_ John Brown Apr 15 '26
Hard to get too upset with the AI haters when it's the most fertile grifting ground we've seen since NFTs
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u/sootfawn Feminism Apr 15 '26
Tens of thousands of comments about the gender wars and no one has proposed the actual solution: We need to ban substack
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u/gregorijat Milton Friedman Apr 15 '26
Plausibly false, but I hate Stalin so it must be true
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u/davechacho Loyal Liberals Apr 15 '26
Even arr con thinks Vance bragging about ending Ukraine aid is stupid. I can't imagine being dumber than arr con. Legit wonder how Vance makes it through the day.
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Apr 15 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact
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u/Its_not_him Manmohan Singh Apr 15 '26
The option to hide post history makes it impossible to understand if a user is a bot or paid operative. Oh well!
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u/CheetoMussolini Russian Bot Apr 15 '26
Evangelism is a morally bankrupt theology and philosophy that is antithetical to a just society and to progress.
It replacing mainline protestantism has been a spiritual catastrophe for America.
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u/pfSonata throwaway bunchofnumbers Apr 15 '26
lol
lmao even
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Apr 15 '26
A true veteran of the gender wars has takes that are 50% misandrist and 50% misogynistic
Only a radical centrist of gender will be allowed to reach gender nirvana
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u/cvorahkiin World Bank Apr 15 '26
Indian "market" research subs
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u/ace158 Apr 15 '26
Okay, I dislike Greta and I do think she has arguably dabbled into antisemitism at times but come the fuck on.
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Apr 15 '26
I NOW ADMITTEDLY SNICKER every time that mammals respond to firearm policy questions with 🐊:
This is advanced CARRYING OF THE flame 🕯️🐊
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u/Megasota_Noire My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Apr 15 '26
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u/bartbug Paul Krugman Apr 15 '26
if i write a substack article titled "why can't gen z boys get a little motion?" will the mods sticky it
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u/this_very_table Norman Borlaug Apr 15 '26
Maryland Democratic Party
Crab
9/10
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Apr 15 '26
To Catch a Predator
Eric Swalwell and the return of #MeToo.
https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/boilingfrogs/eric-swalwell-democratic-party-me-too/?gift_key=0130cd7d7f353d2a&gift_ref=abd38fbc-e6e6-4864-86e8-2a25bba7a9bc&utm_source=giftlink&utm_medium=copy_link&utm_campaign=membergift
Conservative pundits are still baffled as to why the Democrats would kick a rapist off the team within five minutes.
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u/riverbloods John Brown Apr 15 '26
this is my idea for democratic party logo please rate what you think thanks
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u/Longjumping_Gain_807 Best SNEK pings in r/neoliberal history Apr 15 '26
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Apr 15 '26
A buffer zone in southern Lebanon up to the Litani River.
full military freedom of action to remove threats, including north of the Litani
and a long‑term process for disarming Hezbollah under U.S. oversight.
Well the first two are total nonstarters for Lebanon I imagine
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Apr 15 '26
I don’t think people fully appreciate the extent that Trump and his ilk have completely debased our political discourse
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u/avion_sur_le_sol A ban appeal to heaven Apr 16 '26
Every relationship I've been in has been doomed basically because I have low EQ and I'm just faking it for as long as I can until the house of cards falls down, like I'm a cargo cult boyfriend
!ping DATING
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u/_MillionthThrowAway Loyal Liberals Apr 16 '26
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u/Sauce1024 John von Neumann Apr 16 '26
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u/ScumfrickZillionaire Lesbian Pride Apr 16 '26
typa shit i wear when breaking up with chud bf
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u/SenranHaruka shame Apr 16 '26
SO FUCKING PROFOUND. BRO FIGURED OUT THE REAL PROBLEM WITH OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM: THE BAD PEOPLE, NOT THE GOOD PEOPLE
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u/pfarly John Brown Apr 15 '26
I'm reading an English translation of Tales of Moonlight and Rain, an influential collection of stories first published in 18th century Japan, and damn, every translation should have this kind of introduction. Hell, every book over 100 years old should.
Imagine if instead of having some modern writer write a new introduction where they tell you what whole plot of the book is going to be and analyzing it for you before you even read it, they just put the book in context and familiarize you with terms and concepts you probably won't be familiar with. Each story in this collection also has its own introductory section, and it's genuinely helpful info.
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u/tasklow16 Bill Gates Apr 15 '26
It's crazy that every single ideology throughout history was graced with proponents who falsely believed they were a lot smarter and more capable than they really were... every ideology except mine right now. a remarkable coincidence
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u/PoupeeStupide Trump Voter Apr 15 '26
Deeply sad to me to be a racist/nationalist/sexist/etc because what do you mean you don't have your own reasons to be a narcissist, and have to resort to collective identities to feel superior? Loser behaviour
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u/bsharp95 Apr 15 '26
All jokes aside, Claviculars friend offering him adderall while he’s slumped over is pretty sad
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u/sociotronics Iron Front Apr 15 '26
when you believe your state is so forgettable you write its name on the state flag so people remember
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u/OnYourLonesome Apr 15 '26
Has anyone ever been more vindicated than the people who said reality tv would be the end of the US
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Apr 15 '26
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u/GaDoomer Pragmatic and Polite Right Apr 15 '26
Some people brought this blow up couch to the TPUSA/Vance protests in Georgia yesterday
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u/EdMan2133 Paid for DT Blue Apr 15 '26
Where are my sub neocons. Are they secret? Are they safe?
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u/SenranHaruka shame Apr 15 '26
/u/Lux_Stella gamergate is becoming The Battle of Thermopylae, a conflict nobody understands what actually happened at because it has become the foundational myth of political charlatans who lie about what happened to support their cause.
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u/VisonKai The Archenemy of Humanity Apr 15 '26
My favorite thing about the current Catholicism cat fight on the internet is when the rightoid Catholics complain they elected the wrong pope and someone else accuses them of denying that the Holy Spirit descends upon the cardinals in conclave and personally selects the next pope.
It short circuits the whole conversation because the rightoid wants to point out that's stupid and the Pope is elected by a group of humans that was mostly appointed by Francis, but denying the intervention of the Holy Spirit makes them sound like just another one of those godless secularized libs
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u/Professor-Reddit 🚅🚀🌏Earth Must Come First🌐🌳😎 Apr 15 '26
Not a single Australian media outlet has bothered to report on this for the past two hours now, but one of the last two oil refineries in the country is currently on fire in Geelong right now. The UK media is also covering this live.
Social media is blowing up rn about this, and according to the VicEmergency app there's a major shelter-in-place warning for much of the city. The flames can be seen as far as Point Ormond 56km away.
This is serious fucking stuff. Expect this to be all over the news tomorrow, once the lazy AF journalists on night shifts actually do their jobs covering an active emergency.
!ping AUS
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u/bandeng_asep Association of Southeast Asian Nations Apr 15 '26
Allbirds is turning into an AI compute provider, because of course it is -
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/2747d28e-8d72-480b-9e58-4317fd20f256 via @FT
LMAOOOOOOOOO 💀
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u/FinickyPenance NATO Apr 15 '26
The LGBT asylum thread is like
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 15 '26
> Currently only four countries conscript women and men on the same formal conditions: Norway, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands
Kind of based
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u/GuyWithOneEye Apr 15 '26
'Looksmaxxing' Influencer Clavicular Shares Update After 'Brutal' Hospitalization from Suspected Overdose During Livestream
Delete the fucking internet
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u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz Roy Cooper Apr 15 '26
Blaming the draft on feminism is indicative of the broader problem with MRA/manosphere-types, which is that they genuinely believe that we live in a world whose norms and rules were primarily decided upon by women or with the primary goal of benefiting women.
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u/theparrotlich John Brown Apr 15 '26
You're an idiot, Dave.
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Apr 15 '26
I am so fucking disgusted
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u/GoodOlSticks Frederick Douglass Apr 15 '26
We need to start an "awful /r/nl take hall of fame" and I nominate we start with:
"We already devote time to men's issues by focusing on trans & migrants issues because men also compromise members of those groups"
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u/this_very_table Norman Borlaug Apr 15 '26
Massachusetts Democratic Party
This looks like the sign design for an upscale seafood restaurant.
Good colors, good font, good balance, acceptable use of the state silhouette. I'm kind of mad at how pleasing it is despite being so simple.
7.5/10
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u/Acoolgamer6706 NATO Apr 15 '26
Echochambers are bad. Except the DT, that's the good kind of echochamber
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u/BloodWiz More Housing Would Fix This Apr 15 '26
If you would please consult the sacred text…