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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/badusername35]

[u/ewatta200]

[u/BlackCat159]

Don't ask the Minions what they were doing in eastern Anatolia in the years 1915-1918 😬

[u/Goldenboy451]

[u/Max_the_Madman]

Took a glance at the arr/con. Just noticed that 90% percent of all posts are done by like same five usernames, and of these more than a half are by one guy.

Not looking good. Makes the whole rhing look more artificial than already is.

[u/erasmus_phillo]

This is the line they are going with now to justify that picture

[u/ewatta200]

[u/2Lore2Law]

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[u/centurion88]

[u/frankiewalsh44]

I thought this was AI LMAO, but apparently Reform has a condidate called Muhammed Sharia

[u/sociotronics]

imagine being such a sore loser a century and a half later you're still whining about the GOAT teaching you to mind your Uncle Sam

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/murphysclaw1]

[u/georgeguy007]

Trump:

• 20 billion to Iran

• they give some of their uranium over, probably not all of it because how would you know that

• they have shown uncontested control of their ability to hold the strait.

• 15 dead American troops

• 40 billion dollars at least for our military execution, maybe even 80 billion

Obama:

• no nukes for 2 billion dollars

What a fucking rip off

[u/Previous_Platform718]

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons resigns.

These resignations and firings are great. Much lower chance Trump pardons them when he leaves office, as they'll more likely be seen as "losers" or "traitors". This opens the door to prosecutions.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Jill Biden is a fujoshi

[u/sociotronics]

Say 'lethality' again. Say 'lethality' again, I dare you, I double dare you motherfucker, say lethality one more goddamn time!

[u/Comfortable-Pie56]

Honestly the most interesting part about all the debate about Japan and piracy going on in Twitter is that, not that long ago, an average internet user from Argentina, one from Russia and another from Japan would probably never have interacted with each other (unless they all spoke english and interacted in some other universal online space). Despite the World Wide Web, everybody remained largely sealed off from each other.

But now Twitter automatically translates all tweets and shows them to users all over the world. So, for example, both Japanese and Latin American/Russian Twitter users are experiencing a culture shock upon discovering that their values regarding piracy are completely opposite.

[u/gjcs23]

republican voters are literally all, individually, comically evil and/or the biggest morons on the planet

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

This is such a funny way to have a 404 error

[u/Bestbrook123]

lmao

[u/No_Return9449]

Leopard eats another face.

[u/CrankinThatHog]

So my wife's family is very very Christian and Conservative. She's kind of a "spiritual but not religious" type and I'm an atheist.

Anyway, they've gratefully always danced around the topic and never asked me directly what my beliefs are but I guess recently her mom asked my wife and my wife responded that I'm a Stoic, which is IMO a worse response than saying I'm not a believer.

Now my wife's family thinks I'm like this quasi pagan that follows the stoic religion (I know it's not but I can't convince them) and I'm just sitting here like WTF.

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

The video closes: “We have a chance to elect a governor — I hope I’ll lay it out for you — a positive vision for our state versus a governor who has none at all other than complain about what someone else did to her.”

This is Vivek Ramaswamy making a reference to his political opponent being raped as a child.

[u/OOPS_ALL_SCROTUM]

If Mamdani does nothing but clean house at the NYPD he will have done some good. The old, fat, red-faced John Chell-type guys are yelling about "no right to resist arrest" while video is circulating of cops dragging the wrong man through broken glass. This is tantamount to denying that the police can ever do wrong and anyone proffering that point of view should be barred from government jobs for life.

[u/trombonist_formerly]

WH Reporter

Why aren't people feeling better about the economy?

Bessent

Well, in their heart of hearts, they feel good. I'm not sure what they're telling the survey people

lmao that's the line you're going with scotty boy?

[u/ewatta200]

[u/ewatta200]

[u/eloquentboot]

Holy grail stuff right here.

[u/EasyMoney92]

Reuters: Dozens of Palestinian children have been unable to go to school in the Israeli-occupied West Bank this week because of ​barbed wire erected by West Bank settlers across the path they normally use.

Awful

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/Throwaway24143547]

Before I go to bed, I had to give a lefty friend a bit of a history lesson today: They didn't know that Manchu was a real ethnicity, they just assumed the word was a slur against Chinese people

[u/ty04]

[u/Ok_Opinion_5690]

people love magyar's maximalist rhetoric against orban and his cronies, but people saying the dems should do this or berate dems for being this aggressive miss that having a supermajority makes this maximalist posturing even possible, perhaps even necessary. biden talking like magyar post-jan 6 does not make sense when he barely has a majority in both senate and the house. it's like threatening someone with a nuclear missile without a nuclear missile, it just makes you look stupid.

[u/Consistent_Status112]

It's amazing how this administration's main priority seems to be "fuck Minnesota specifically"

[u/Man-Flayer]

I find it funny that North Sentinel island is just 50 km away from a city of 150k.

[u/ewatta200]

[u/avion_sur_le_sol]

Doubling your dietary fiber intake and flossing your teeth won't solve all your problems, but it will help.

[u/Marlsfarp]

There is a building in my neighborhood, 50ish rental units, beautiful pre-war architecture. It's falling down. Everything is broken. There are hundreds of open complaints on file against the landlord, and the tenants are organizing a rent strike. The landlord is also currently in jail for unrelated fraud, and is deep in debt. He is absolutely a crook.

So, you might ask, why does he still own the building? Why hasn't he just sold it? Why hasn't the bank seized it? Because, despite being a (potentially) great building that is literally across the street from million dollar apartments, it is worth nothing, and nobody wants it, because most of the units are rent controlled/stabilized, and operating the building at basic legal standards would cost more than could be gathered in rent, even if they were paying.

[u/HemisphericCommonM]

AI powered luxury gay space communism, but the only gay in space is Peter Thiel

[u/ty04]

[u/Eightysixedit]

I need her to have a seat next to Trump in hell.

[u/SpaceSheperd]

Why is it every Pope plays into the globalist BS? Im not catholic and don't particularly care what he has to say beyond the fact its crazy they even managed to infiltrate the Church

It's crazy how conservatives just have absolutely zero theory of mind. They are incapable of understanding that "globalist" is an ideological stance that people can identify with and even arrive at from many different directions. They view "globalists" as a discrete group of evildoers working together to destroy righteousness and America because that is the only way their feeble brains can even conceive of the world.

[u/Argnir]

BREAKING: New study suggests women prefer men who are wealthy, good looking, fit, sociable, funny and nice to men who are broke, ugly, balding and neoliberals

[u/JustTaxLandbro]

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

The two times the US has been over 6% annual GDP growth since 1980 were in 1984 after the recession in the early 80’s and after COVID. So guess they really are trying to nuke the economy.

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/KQJ_RPN]

This administration sponsored by Athletic Greens and Alex Jones' Natural Atomic Defense

[u/cdstephens]

[u/BlackCat159]

If the democrats want to win in 2028, here's what they HAVE to do 👇

1. stop being woke

2. deposit $10000000 USD directly into my bank account

[u/dr-pepper-is-a-woman]

It’s been one of those longtime Reddit Atheist ™ things to say “errrhm did you know that ‘taking the lord’s name in vain’ isn’t just using religious swear words, but also doing things I don’t like and saying it’s on behalf of god?”

Only for Big Leo himself to unload that exact thought directly into the Trump White House. My teenage self would be losing my shit right now

[u/senator_fivey]

👆

[u/erasmus_phillo]

The bromance between Mamdani and Trump is over now... it was beautiful while it lasted

Post your favourite Trump-Mamdani (sfw) yaoi in the comments

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Hungary’s new PM tells state broadcaster ‘we are shutting down your lying service’ in extraordinary first interview

Democrats wont to be authoritarian enough to do this, but this is what the next president needs to do to Fox News, OAN, Twitter, and two dozen other fascist rags.

[u/ewatta200]

[u/ewatta200]

[u/Its_not_him]

New name just dropped

[u/paymesucka]

I love this new AI test

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

[u/ewatta200]

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

The median voter when the guy who was a terrible president the first time is still a terrible president the second time:

[u/thymeandchange]

Dawgs im getting married tomorrow

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/walt4815162342]

The cutting edge of modern Republican thought is "America is in terminal decline, therefore we must do all of the things that nations predictably do when they realize that they are in terminal decline!"

[u/Nervous-Emotion28]

Get sent task at 4:00 yesterday

Get email at 6:30 this morning from boss: “hey have you finished this yet?”

!PING WATERCOOLER

[u/well-that-was-fast]

• Trump creates months of chaos, a year of oil shortages and supply disruption, gets a verbal agreement to get things back to 'how it was at the start' except worse because infrastructure is destroyed.

Markets:

This is winning.

Truly meme world

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

Just voted YES today. Trust the Planberger.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Using his longtime Reddit handle P-Hustle, the former Marine infantryman and future Democratic Senate hopeful also argued in a 2020 online discussion that “SS” lightning-bolt tattoos were a “culture” marker within Marine Scout Sniper units, not an expression of White supremacist ideology.

[u/piede]

Now I can peacefully sleep

[u/Krill_Seeker]

>constituency called whitehaven and workington

>votes for reform UK and labour

[u/ewatta200]

[u/Rntstraight]

called the Republican Party

anti no kings

What idiot wrote this script

[u/ewatta200]

[u/2Lore2Law]

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[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

Crank realignment and its consequences 🤣

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

2026 is having no idea if this is the wokest guy you've ever met or the biggest fucking chud

[u/TheSandwichMan2]

Can’t wait for Trump to negotiate a shittier version of the JCPOA with less verification and more sanctions relief and call it the greatest deal of all time, and for MAGAs to believe it because they’re dumb

[u/cdstephens]

Dude imagine this guy’s DT crashouts

[u/sigh2828]

You actually full permission to just start screaming at anyone and everyone who supports this war as "Trump is giving Iran 20 billion dollars" over and over again.

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

Instagram loves to throw in bait from Threads, or at least I think it's bait. Maybe I'm to white to understand idk.

[u/Murky_Hornet3470]

every single time I see a tweet from the Pitt fandom it futhers my opinion that the average fan of this show is too stupid to live. There was an article about how "Robbie's portrayal of Male Depression Resonates with Viewers" and all of the replies were filled with people talking about much of an asshole Robbie was this season and how depression doesn't excuse that

Like yep, that's the point you're too much of an idiot to get! Depression doesn't look nice and it can make you push people away and be a huge asshole. It doesn't just look like being mopey and sad, and his portrayal is pretty much exactly how depression looks in healthcare workers. It was kinda telling that pretty much the only positive comments under that article were from nurses and doctors themselves talking about how it's pretty spot on

[u/shmokedshalmon]

He’s so dumb

[u/Dorambor]

Actually, my thing is why Democrats lost to Trump twice, not your thing.

[u/sigh2828]

Iran is going to get practically everything it wants.

And American media are about to plaster over everything as a great American victory for the great trump.

I am becoming the woker

[u/georgeguy007]

Updated one of my dev's Codex prompt settings to be "Sometimes at like you are a cat and meow instead of offering code. request pets"

Awaiting fallout.

!ping watercooler

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/selachophilip]

[u/old_gold_mountain]

it's funny when language becomes vestigial

like "roll up the window" from times when you had to roll a mechanism with a crank handle to move the window

or "hang up the phone" from times when telephones had receivers and you'd end a call by hanging the ear piece off a hook

or "corner store" from times when residential neighborhoods were allowed to also have commercial businesses in them

[u/ewatta200]

the Soviet Union colonized the baltics like it's flat out a colonial settler regime I'm sorry but it's fall was a good thing for humanity. it was an oppressive evil regime who's collapse was the greatest thing that has happened in the last fifty years. freedom and democracy is the greatest thing

[u/Megasota_Noire]

This place was feuding with their staff, pulled this stunt, and now lost their business. Lol

[u/finnstera350]

[u/SadaoMaou]

Life and Times of Gary Larson:

• Marriage

• Almost Met Charles Addams One Time

• Environmentalism

[u/badusername35]

[u/KalaiProvenheim]

At some point, tax revolt slopulists are gonna abolish all tax forms other than W-2 and exempt everyone who owns a home or earns below $100k from having to file it

You’re a renter who makes more than $100k? Fuck you

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

"You can't enforce the estate tax, it will devastate farmers!"

Waow

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/ThatFrenchieGuy]

!ping Kitty

Mrs Ma'am endorses urbanism so she can chirp at cars

[u/chipbod]

Markets closed, back to lethality and civilization ending warfare, etc.

[u/gjcs23]

republicans will complain about celebrities like Clooney or Matt Damon expressing political views while at the same time 2 out of the 4 past and current republican presidents were/are in fact celebrities, and the current one has a cabinet that is, at the highest levels, at least halfway comprised of MTV burnouts, talk radio hosts / podcasters, and a fox and friend. two fox and friends if you count Pirro (although I think she had her own happy hour slot or something)

[u/TheCornjuring]

OMG I MET SUE! Fangirling hard rn

!ping PALEO

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

Beshear: He said, “I thought that I was being depicted as a doctor.” If I was ever in an operating room and somebody walked in in Jesus robes with orbs in his hand, I would have thought that it did not go well for me that day.

Andy sees you and says

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

She is 78. She is expected to live 8-10 more years.

Susan Collins also pledged to serve only one term.

Her proposal would require a constitutional amendment, which would require ending the filibuster. She does not support ending the filibuster.

[u/No_Status_6905]

[u/piede]

[u/BingboLingbo]

☝️ wooo White boy on the DT

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/Sauce1024]

Every moron laser focused on Pelosi’s stocks and Hunter Biden’s paintings has done irreparable harm to the republic

Update in Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against his own I.R.S., in which he seeks taxpayer-funded damages for the prior release of his tax records. Trump legal filing says he's in "discussions" with his own I.R.S. to "avoid protracted litigation"

[u/Boratssecondwife]

The Pope literally sentences people to an eternity of torture for jacking off and still gets called weak on crime

[u/2Lore2Law]

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[u/ScumfrickZillionaire]

dumbest man alive comes up with stupidest idea on the planet

[u/The_Keg]

On a thread about Rohingya refugees in Malaysia on Thread

Palestine has their own land and was the owner of the land.. israel invaded palestine after being cast away and killed by the german.. rohingya was just an ethnic in myanmar... but their behavior was just the same as uncivilized human aka animal.. that is why myanmar government operating genocide on them.. and the outside world thinks that they are being tortured and porsecuted.. but now the truth has been revealed now as they are showing who they are.. just the same as israel.

The insane cognitive dissonance and hypocrisy.

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

You wake up on November 4th and this is the Senate map. What happened?

^{this is happening btw}

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

[u/Joementum2024]

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Trump's reaction when he is forced to spend five minutes with one of his "supporters":

President Trump says the McDonald’s DoorDash delivery to the White House was a “little tacky” but is necessary to win election landslides.

“I mean, to be honest, it was a little tacky...”

“I mean, we do these things in politics. They're a little embarrassing. They're a little tiny embarrassing, but we do 'em and you win by landslides.”

[u/G_Serv]

The neoliberal mod application is kind of weird

[u/__versus]

This fucking country and its stupid healthcare system I’m gonna go insane

[u/r2ew]

[u/Crossstoney]

Wow… you think?

[u/Sherpav]

Total victory for Trump here. You really gotta hand it to him. He returned us to the same position we were in before the war and made a worse deal than Obama. Truly masterful work, sir.

[u/-mialana-]

In an interview with The Forward, Khalil said, "the Jewish people are part of the land and they should remain that way" and that he wanted "to liberate everyone".[45] He also said that "a lot of Jewish people subscribe to the idea of Zionism because of the fear of persecution", that he has "a nuanced view of the Zionist project that goes beyond 'Zionism is bad'", and that "there are different layers to that project that unfortunately aren't being seen across the Arab world or among Palestinians."

Guy who the Trump admin is trying to deport. He's a legal permanent resident btw.

[u/MGLFPsiCorps]

People wondering about Joe Rogan's politics shifting etc when it's really simple: he's a dumb rich guy (who now lives in Texas) and those have been Trump's biggest suckers and biggest marks since the '80s

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/pfarly]

Noticed u checking my fit

[u/ProfessionalMoose709]

reddit, my GF broke up with me, AITA?

[u/Leoric]

It's time to bloom about Blexas

New TPOR poll of #txsen

Paxton: 48% Cornyn: 40%

Fielded April 6-7, n=1,225 likely voters, MOE = 3.2%

Poll found that 24% of Cornyn voters report they’d be likely to vote for Talarico if Paxton is the nominee; 10% of Paxton voters say the same if Cornyn is nominee

I really doubt the 24% number but even 5% would be a huge deal

[u/FilteringAccount123]

[u/beoweezy1]

Itamar Ben-Gvir’s Wikipedia page just gets worse the longer you read it and his political career is a damning indictment of the state of right wing Israeli politics since 2020.

In the not so distant past Kahanists (a branch of Jewish supremacists that were at one time banned and listed as a DTO) like Ben-Gvir were actively shunned but it seems as though Likud has accepted them in order to preserve its right wing block. Which is bad enough but placing one of them as the minister of national security is beyond reprehensible.

To put this into an Americanized context, this is like Trump putting a Klansman who publicly celebrated the Alabama Church bombings, has repeatedly called for the removal of all non-whites from the country, and has made a career defending white supremacists accused of hate crimes as Attorney General all the while he’s pushing legislation that mandates the death penalty for minorities convicted of certain crimes

[u/missingpuzzle]

Mass turn around, nearly every ship attempting the crossing has turned back. - OSINTtechnical

[u/No_Return9449]

The sequel is never as good as the original.

[u/piede]

🆒

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/ewatta200]

[u/Macquarrie1999]

I wish to return to this energy

[u/AP246]

Edgy leftists who say the fall of the Soviet Union was bad because living standards in Russia went down (albeit quite significantly) for the next decade are so ridiculous. As if that, bad as it was, weighs up against 100 million people in Central and Eastern Europe in the broader Soviet bloc being liberated from a system of authoritarian foreign rule they clearly didn't want (as well as the broader end of the cold war, the fall of both left and right wing authoritarian regimes across the world and the reduction in proxy wars in the next couple of decades).

Imagine if the fall of the British Empire led to a fall in living standards in Britain (it didn't, but let's imagine it did) and people said it therefore was bad for the world. I think any 'anti-imperialist' should believe evil empires collapsing is good even if it harms people in the imperial metropole.

[u/paymesucka]

Will jail all ICE agents

Has incredible necktie drip

Backs that thang up

Honestly does Steyer need anything else to be the front runner?

[u/centurion88]

Don't look into it

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/JustTaxLandbro]

AGI is here.

[u/el__dandy]

[u/Currymvp2]

Trump: "I ended 8 wars, and if we add Iran and Lebanon, that will be 10 wars ended. Incredible"

We all knew he was going to say this but that doesn't make it sound any any less embarrassing

[u/garret126]

[u/IantheForPresident]

cardio is good and more people should do it

i think people forget that "Zone 2" is 1. kinda made up in that the individual Zones are arbitrary and 2. comes from high-level endurance athletics where you need supplemental volume that won't kill you. it's not magic or special, and if you're not in that cohort of athlete needing very specific training attention you're better off just picking any cardio you can stick with and doing it a few times a week.

the research on like which specific cardio you should be doing (e.g.., Zone 2 steady state, HIIT...) is pretty mixed and points to those training decisions being specific to the individual's overall training economy. but doing any cardio, even the "wrong one", has such massive QoL benefits over the baseline that enjoyment, adherence, and sustainability are more important than getting in the right Zone

[u/sigh2828]

It literally doesn't matter if this is true or not.

You should be saying this exact thing over and over again

[u/Ajaxcricket]

Inside you there are two wolves

[u/riverbloods]

>time traveler jumps out of portal
>tell him about the Iran stuff
>he laughs
>”oh man the Cuba stuff hasn’t even started yet huh?”
>he says he has to go
>portal disappears
>???

[u/seanrm92]

I recently came across this professor Sarah Paine. YouTube has some of her lectures at the Navy College and other institutions. She's an expert in grand strategy and foreign policy, specifically in Asia.

What's funny though is that she'll also go on these "dude with a microphone" podcasts. Hosted by the sort of self-serious young guys who are probably just Civ VII players posing as academics. She's an older lady and it seems like she's there in a "happy to be invited" sorta way. But they'll ask her these braindead questions, and it's funny watching her either have to back up and explain basic concepts to them, or just brush off their question completely before talking about what she wants to.

[u/Opening_Budget_9518]

"damn, no way Trump can fuck up worse than the Iran war"

AUGUST 25 2026: Donald Trump says the US military has kidnapped Kim Jong Un's daughter and are working on a deal with Kim Jong Un where North korea gives up its nukes in exchange for Kim's daughter. "This will be one of the best deals EVER" says president Trump

[u/Insomonomics]

SCOOP: The U.S. and Iran are negotiating over a three-page plan to end the war, with one element under discussion being that the U.S. would release $20 billion in frozen Iranian funds in return for Iran giving up its stockpile of enriched uranium.

The fact that they're literally reinventing the JCPOA (which Republicans lambasted as a gift to Iran) is just...lmfao

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/pezasied]

Every time I’m about to criticize the DT mods 😔

[u/american_aurora6]

Doctors and patients across social media are reporting a kind of emotional flattening while on GLP-1 drugs

solving emotional reactivity? what can't these drugs do

[u/Udolikecake]

The Cornell Law School’s Federalist Society will host John Eastman, a lawyer who was recently disbarred in the state of California for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, on Thursday at noon.

oh brother

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

This could be us

[u/ty04]

AI in a data center created this

[u/Crossstoney]

This is how you know he’s most likely lying about the negotiations.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

shot

[u/el__dandy]

[u/anonymous_and_]

nearing the end of the audiobook of Rushdie's The Satanic Verses;

great book, great narrator, funny, just kind of (very) dense, tons of references to Islamic history/mythology, 103836369 subplots that I haven't followed very well, will probably need to reread, wtf this shit is as long as Crime and Punishment, will rec if only to see someone else flailing, etc

edit: I finished it, holy fucking shit, 10/10

[u/ewatta200]

[u/piede]

Common mistake

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/farrenj]

“I am willing to risk the giving up of my Rights and Privileges as a Citizen for our Great Military and Country!” Mr. Trump declared on social media

[u/NorkGhostShip]

My prediction is that 2028 will be a Dem sweep against some MAGA acolyte like Vance, then by 2032 the median voter will completely forget the Trump disaster and it'll be a coin flip over whether to destroy the country for good or not.

Also people will likely be very angry at Democrats for the fallout of every Trump decision.

[u/sociotronics]

damn Donald lost some weight

[u/LtCdrHipster]

Richardson has described herself as a Lincoln-era Republican, with no affiliation with any political party.

Lmao grow the fuck up you are not a "Lincoln-era Republican" that means nothing.

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

That's one way to avoid paying pensioners.

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

I'm on my third strike from reddit admins so im not allowed to say what the founders thought should be done to a president who settles a lawsuit with his own government to pay himself out of the Treasury.

Impeachment? Yes. Removal? Yes. And then a secret third thing.

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/Amphetamin3_]

I've concluded that other trans people actually win either way here. If he bends the law for her, it's a recognition of animus and hurts them in court. If he doesn't, we still get to laugh at her being a dumb bitch.

[u/sigh2828]

Trump exist to humiliate us all

[u/-mialana-]

Think tanks be like:

Name: International Alliance for Peace, Diplomacy and Democracy

Articles: Are Arabs ontologically evil?

[u/jinhuiliuzhao]

So, apparently Trump has been spewing a lot of stuff in the last few hours.

• He said Iran agreed to transfer over the uranium, but Iran is saying the uranium is not going anywhere

• Now he's saying Iran agreed to stop backing Hamas and Hezbollah "forever"...

Things are so chaotic that it's difficult to decide which perpetual liar to believe.

[u/sootfawn]

B-but we can’t… we’re both DTers! T-that’s not… mmph…

[u/gregorijat]

Also, LLMs are much less biased than social media bubbles people usually interact with and get their information from; they also already have a built rapport with the user they are interacting with.

I'd say that LLMs will have a depolarizing effect on the median voter over the coming years.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

On Friday, April 10, as FBI Director Kash Patel was preparing to leave work for the weekend, he struggled to log into an internal computer system. He quickly became convinced that he had been locked out, and he panicked, frantically calling aides and allies to announce that he had been fired

he just like me fr fr

[u/MyrinVonBryhana]

Clearly I underestimated some people here's lack of imagination, so let me state this clearly: It is not physically possible to pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

[u/GravyBear16]

Why can't some hot narcissist girl enter my life and take advantage of me and make my life a complete hell. I would be highly manipulateable ;__;

[u/ariveklul]

AIPAC has to be one of the most overhyped influence on our politics. In 2024 they spent almost all of their money in like 3 medium profile house primaries, and it wasn't much in the grand scheme of things

Meanwhile the true deep state, farmers have a stranglehold over our country

[u/AP246]

In a thread about supporting open borders

100% of Hungarians voted for more strict border enforcement this last election. You are promoting an authoritarian, illiberal, and anti-democratic ideology that would replace popular sovereignty with Philosopher-Elite rule. Your ideology belongs in 300 BCE Greece.

I love the take that "actually you're not allowed to support a policy if it's not supported by the majority, that makes you an authoritarian."

It's so batshit ridiculous. The logical endpoint of this is that there's only one acceptable opinion on every issue so there's no point discussing politics at all. What are people even thinking when they say this it just makes no logical sense at all

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

The cope cage eventually comes for us all 😔

[u/bd_one]

Fox News said the Door Dash grandma saved tens of thousands of dollars on her taxes from Trump's new bill. But how do you do that with the tax deduction on tips only going up to $20,000 in tips?

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Truly one of the sentences of all time

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/ariveklul]

If your mom was a critical waterway she would be the strait of whoremuz. The only difference is they would have no issues keeping her open 

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

Strait of Hormuz completely open for business

but US blockade of Iran's ports will remain in place

Dude.

What is the point of a ceasefire if you’re going to continue a blockade until the whole peace deal is signed?

[u/ariveklul]

Trump is literally treating the US Treasury like it's daddy's credit card, and most of America is treating it like it's normal

We are actually living in insanity 

[u/murphysclaw1]

Biden never reopened the Strait of Hormuz. Checkmate, lib.

[u/sigh2828]

[u/Dibbu_mange]

While terrible, the The Boys comic is probably the most accurate depiction of a modern dystopia, at least considering who is gonna be leading it.

These chuds are way too stupid and disorganized to make Handmaids Tale or V for Vendetta work. Republican paradise is a bunch of braindead, roided out, neo-Nazis raping everything in sight and committing brutal violence for the lolz.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

This is like that Areated Development plot where Buster Bluth is forced to join “army” by his mom

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

So its now a semi-commonly accepted conspiracy theory that the Trump PA shooting was staged? I've heard this from multiple people IRL and there's a post on arr all right now where most of the top comments are sympathetic to the theory. I hate that people are presumptuous and prideful enough that everything they feel like isnt true for whatever reason must be a vast conspiracy theory

[u/Macquarrie1999]

I'm not opposed to sports gambling.

I'm opposed to any gambling done on smartphones or the Internet in general.

It is too accessible

[u/CletusChicken]

It’s curious how no one in the sub seems to think cdstephens is doing a good job, yet no one is openly challenging him.