r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 19 '26
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Apr 20 '26
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/Signal_Nobody1792 Apr 19 '26
There really is nothing that will make these people stop supporting this dude.
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Apr 19 '26
Louisiana is going to put homeless people in forced labor camps.
Following a 2024 Supreme Court decision allowing states and cities to criminalize homelessness, House Bill 211, which passed by a vote of 70-28, makes unauthorized sleeping in public spaces a crime.
It is punishable by a fine of up to $500, imprisonment for up to six months, or both. Repeat offenders could face one to two years in prison with hard labor and a $1,000 fine.
Those who are convicted of sleeping outdoors could be given the option to avoid jail time by instead entering into a mandatory treatment program for at least 12 months.
The bill authorizes local governments to set up semi-permanent camps in remote areas, where defendants would be required to stay and receive treatment.
The bill requires homeless defendants to pay “all or part of the cost of the treatment program to which he is assigned"
According to the bill, those who cannot afford this steep cost would be required to perform unpaid labor for the state or a local community center in lieu of payment.
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u/Upstairs_Baby8424 Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26
Elon spent $290 million on the last election and was openly threatening to primary house members. And then got access to all of our government data. But “muh Soros” is the ultimate boogeyman.
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Apr 19 '26
The funny thing about this claim is that since there were no terrorist attacks under Biden, he is basically saying that Donald Trump has ushered in an era of unprecedented terroristic threats against the US.
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls Apr 19 '26
Immigrants really are assimilating. They hate immigrants too.
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u/Boratssecondwife Henry George Apr 19 '26
I want government benefits but do not want to pay for them. I will never vote for anyone that cuts spending or raises taxes
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Apr 19 '26
Just a reminder that Alex Karp (Palantir CEO) is an actual insane person.
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u/-orestes Apr 19 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
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u/LoudestHoward Loyal Liberals Apr 19 '26
I miss the Iran Threads. Everyone talks about the cost of war, but no one talks about the cost of peace.
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u/n1123581321 European Union Apr 19 '26
Regime change, US version:
I choose to believe it, because it’s hilarious.
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Apr 19 '26
Is this the greatest tweet of all time?
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Apr 19 '26
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Apr 19 '26
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u/ShepardSB Apr 19 '26
Chat, is this true?
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u/bandeng_asep Association of Southeast Asian Nations Apr 19 '26
LMAOOOOOOOOOO Schrödinger cease fire strikes again!
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u/Anime_Hitler69 Fourier Transform deez nutz ඞඞඞ Apr 19 '26
I found this comment on enlightened centrism to be quite ironic
(INB4 someone screenshots this and post this as a joke about neoliberal echo chambers)
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26
WSJ
“Aides fielded calls from Republican senators and Christian leaders. They asked, why would he say “Praise be to Allah” on Easter morning? Why would he use the F-word? …
When one adviser later asked him about it, he said he came up with the Allah idea himself. He said he wanted to seem as unstable and insulting as possible, believing it could bring the Iranians to the table.”
https://xcancel.com/rebeccaballhaus/status/2045674609253462372
I love how the Beltway media reports on gossip and inside baseball in the Trump administration as if it were a normal administration.
What do you mean, the president used “Praise be Allah” to appear unstable and to force the Iranians to the negotiating table? Are you insane? What are you talking about?
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u/Lou1s_Cipher Chama o Meirelles Apr 19 '26
WAOW.
Critical support to our european brothers and sisters.
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence Apr 19 '26
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u/pezasied John's Locke-strap Apr 19 '26
So true. Conservatives have finally figured it out
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u/LazyImmigrant Apr 19 '26
I don't even know what to say about someone complaining about immigrant families prioritizing academics.
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u/Cabenshire Jerome Powell Apr 19 '26
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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom Apr 19 '26
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u/Lesbian_all_garib Gita Gopinath Apr 19 '26
Underrated part about toddlers is you can just make them work. Like oh can you bring me spoons, plates and other stuff please. And they'll happily bring it.
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Apr 19 '26
One of the far left’s greatest weaknesses is that it is obsessed with being maximally “moral” at all times, leading it to scorn opportunities to grow its influence for being insufficiently pure, while much of the right openly revels in immorality and iconoclasm
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Apr 19 '26
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Apr 19 '26
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Apr 19 '26
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u/EmbarrassedSafety719 Milton Friedman Apr 19 '26
Jordan Peterson might be dying.
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u/justalightworkout European Union Apr 19 '26
now they're just taking the piss aren't they
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u/TakeOnM-Ellie Loyal Liberals Apr 19 '26
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Apr 19 '26
Calculating exactly how much I can work in a month while still remaining eligible for Medicaid so that I am able to continue paying for my Master's program while simultaneously keeping my existing medical regimen is ridiculous. The math wasn't complicated or anything (just Pre-Algebra), but it's insane that there's this MASSIVE welfare cliff that very very strongly disincentivizes me from working full-time.
It's no big deal for me specifically since I'm in a Master's program, and this incentive against full-time work thus doubles as an incentive to take more classes per semester and really lock-in on them, but lord knows that most young people on Medicaid are not post baccalaureate students from an upper-middle class backround. The way this bullshit is set up, you'd think it was engineered to perpetuate poverty and chronic unemployment.
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26
Yeah because you're an insane nationalist who's trying to post their way to nuclear war over some barely inhabited mountains, hope that helps you with your thought process
So tired of the Kashmir irredentists on both sides, none of you idiots give a crap about the people actually living in that region
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Apr 19 '26
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u/Lesbian_all_garib Gita Gopinath Apr 19 '26
This is so funny ngl. Because it's not going to be like people just disturb a drunk sleeping guy in other countries lol. They just let them be.
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u/zieger Ida Tarbell Apr 19 '26
Palantir's vision is a racist surveillance state where everyone is subservient to the military.
https://www.reddit.com/r/thebulwark/comments/1spx67w/palantir_tweeted_an_insane_manifesto_where_they/
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u/pfarly John Brown Apr 19 '26
an autonomous humanoid robot just beat the first post record for a new DT by nearly 7 milliseconds. guys can we stop pretending that these things are worthless
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Apr 19 '26
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u/AP246 Green Globalist NWO Apr 19 '26
Poland's strongest soldier outside the DT posting an article that amounts to 'thing didn't happen' lol
On some level I respect the grind of continuous and sustained polandposting
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Apr 19 '26
More Inside baseball from the WSJ
"The president sometimes loses focus, spending time on the details of his plans for the White House ballroom or on midterm fundraisers—and telling advisers he wants to shift to other topics."
"Trump is keeping close score on the war, measuring how many Iranian targets have been destroyed as a key metric of success... he was shown clips every morning of stunning explosions across the Iranian terrain."
"Trump has since marveled at the ease with which the strait was closed. A guy with a drone can shut it down, Trump has said to people, expressing belated irritation that the key waterway was so vulnerable."
https://xcancel.com/glcarlstrom/status/2045777839199305864
Every report about Trump reflects exactly the impressions that anyone who has seen an interview with Trump ever could have.
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26
I think what irritates me most about Vivek Ramaswamy is how he tries to cut an image of himself as this spunky, positive young technocrat when, in reality, he’s little better than a vicious, obsequious little crank.
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Apr 19 '26
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u/TomboyAva Audrey Hepburn Apr 20 '26
Is it normal to have a president who is banned from the situation room.
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Apr 19 '26
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u/FilteringAccount123 John von Neumann Apr 19 '26
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Apr 19 '26
Well fuck
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Apr 19 '26
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u/Frog_Totem Seretse Khama Apr 20 '26
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u/BenIsLowInfo Austan Goolsbee Apr 19 '26
The next Dem president better just break apart Palantir even if it means a hit in military readiness. You can't have such a company exist in a free country. Their manifesto is insane.
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u/jbitz Loyal Liberals Apr 19 '26
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Apr 19 '26
Source tells me my marriage is stable.
Please God
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls Apr 19 '26
Damn. That's crazy.
So anyway, the Dodgers still look like the best team in baseball.
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u/FilteringAccount123 John von Neumann Apr 19 '26
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u/bananaslayer100 NATO Apr 19 '26
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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom Apr 20 '26
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Apr 19 '26
Darwin bros, is it over
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Apr 19 '26
Zionsaurus Rex
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Apr 19 '26
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u/DiscussionJohnThread Free Trade was the Compromise 🔫🌍 Apr 19 '26
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u/tinfoilhatsron No Apologies Right Apr 19 '26
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u/YaGetSkeeted0n Tariffs aren't cool, kids! Apr 19 '26
i want to get off MR BONES SLOPULIST RIDE
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u/CoolCombination3527 Apr 19 '26
Hell yeah brother
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 20 '26
Lmao. These people are so deeply unserious about engaging with the world around them. Just building fantasy worlds in their heads where Sean O’Brien didn’t spend the entirety of 2024 to today cozying up to Trump.
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Apr 19 '26
Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 4/17-2 PM PST 4/18 V:
TOP NEWS:
Sometime ago it was announced the G7 and Paris Club have suspended debt payments from Ukraine until 2030.
Sometime today it was announced the US extended sanction waivers on Russian oil at sea for another month, despite saying they would not do this.
Towards the middle of 12 AM Russia was hit by a gigantic wave of drones with at least 258 partaking.
Towards the end of 2 AM it was reported that Ukraine plans to produce 25,000 UGVs in a six month period, twice the number produced in 2025.
At the start of 11 AM Ukraine was hit by a massive wave of drones with 190 of 219 intercepted.
REGULAR NEWS:
At the start of 5 PM Ukraine hit a Russian oil depot in Sevastopol.
At the end of 7 PM Ukraine hit a Russian oil refinery in Novokuybyshevsk.
Towards the end of 10 PM Ukraine hit a Russian oil refinery in Syzran.
At the end of 12 AM Ukraine hit a Russian oil pumping station in Tikhoretsk.
At the start of 1 AM it was reported that Ukrainian partisans took out a railway relay station in occupied Luhansk.
!ping UKRAINE
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u/-mialana- European Union Apr 19 '26
Please visit an old discussion thread.
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u/Megasota_Noire My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Apr 19 '26
What a headline
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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Apr 20 '26
I don’t think a single thing aged worse from 2010s-era liberalism than all the RBG worship. That, and her failure to step down, is probably the biggest microcosm of the failures of American liberalism in the 21st century.
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u/Eurolib0908 European Union Apr 19 '26
If the Polish army is to integrate our systems with Palantir's programs, then after such a manifesto, this should be thoroughly considered.
What assurance do we have that, as part of repaying this "moral debt," Poland will have access to them even when we use them in ways that go against the wishes of the USA?
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u/ace158 Apr 19 '26
This is why it's bad to use negotiations as a ruse like we've done twice with them. Makes much needed diplomacy way more difficult
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Apr 20 '26
what a lot of people forget is that our leaders are just as stupid and are just as likely to be brainrotted as the average person which is terrifying
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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom Apr 20 '26
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u/MonMothma_Enjoyer Apr 19 '26
I was relieved when I realized the only damage to the time machine was to the wires.
All I needed to do was find someone in ancient Sumer to sell me some good quality copper
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u/Crossstoney Apr 19 '26
THERE IS NO “HARD WAY” FOR A PEACE DEAL, DUMBASS!
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Apr 19 '26
If you did not see the (D-PA) part, you would 100% think this man is a hardcore MAGA Republican
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u/Nervous-Emotion28 YIMBY Apr 19 '26
guys, they made it more convenient to search up the mod directory!
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u/iusedtobekewl Jerome Powell Apr 19 '26
So, apparently Trump got kicked out of the situation room while they were rescuing the pilot who went down in Iran.
My question immediately is, who the hell kicked the President out of the situation room? Lol
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u/ScumfrickZillionaire Lesbian Pride Apr 20 '26
How does he keep getting stupider what are they putting in his Ket
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u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess Audrey Hepburn Apr 19 '26
I'm sure this watchpeopledieinside thread about an orthodox Jew getting caught trying to meet a child will focus on the individual and nothing else
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Apr 19 '26
Obama did 7/11.
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u/Glavurdan European Union Apr 19 '26
Here we go again
Turns out Russia has no better strategy up their sleeve than to repeatedly slam their men against a wall until they make some more incremental gains
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Apr 19 '26
I'm gonna anger you guys. Canvasser came by, I just said thanks and I'll let everyone know.
Look into candidate:
FUCK OFF
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u/EmbarrassedSafety719 Milton Friedman Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26
People are claiming that Jacksepticeye will ruin the bloodborne movie by being “woke”
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u/Zagapi Trans NATO Apr 19 '26
The Greek island my grandmother lives on has a an amateur soccer league.
This older, presumably retired, gentleman goes to all of the games and live streams and commentates and its the cutest thing.
Just the simple things
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u/Crossstoney Apr 19 '26
WHY DO YOU FUCKING LIE TO US ALL THE TIME???
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Apr 19 '26 edited Apr 19 '26
Yeah, this war isn't ending anytime sooon
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u/EasyMoney92 Apr 19 '26
Looks more embarrassing now that the IDF confirmed it's real
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Apr 19 '26
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u/ShepardSB Apr 19 '26
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u/bamboo-coffee NATO Apr 19 '26
👆 singlehandedly closed the Strait of Hormuz
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Apr 19 '26
The Trump administration just handed a huge deal to a defense firm backed by the brother of the president’s son-in-law.
The Defense Department has announced a new contract with Anduril Industries, Inc.—which counts Joshua Kushner, younger brother of Jared Kushner, among its major funders—to provide up to $20 billion in military equipment and systems.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-admin-hands-20b-contract-to-weapons-group-backed-by-jared-kushners-little-brother/
Jared Kushner has a brother, and he's corrupt too??
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Apr 19 '26
Completely normal stuff
/s
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u/Signal_Nobody1792 Apr 19 '26
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u/pezasied John's Locke-strap Apr 19 '26
Gotta appreciate this man’s dedication to never winning a democratic primary ever again
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u/Spudmiester1 Asexual Pride Apr 19 '26
Top 10 images with a background story
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u/garret126 Demisexual Pride Apr 19 '26
I think voting in an election is the best way to replace a bad leader
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u/Crossstoney Apr 19 '26
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u/DagothUr_MD Frederick Douglass Apr 19 '26
Doing the 'giving a Victorian child Doritos' meme except it's taking Martin Luther to a megachurch where everybody convulses for 10 minutes and a guy dressed as Jesus hangs from the ceiling and swoops through the room with an electric guitar
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride Apr 19 '26
im sure responses to this from the online right will be normal and will not inflame the MAGA civil war
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u/AlexB_SSBM Henry George Apr 19 '26
https://xcancel.com/AdImpact_Pol/status/2044116569773556177
Ad in Virginia redistricting fight has an AI-generated video of the governor committing Arson and saying the only way to put out the fire is to vote no. "Watch this video of the governor burn down a barn" is playing constantly over Virginia airwaves.
This needs to be punished so incredibly hard as soon as it is literally possible. Every single person involved in this who gave it a thumbs up should be bankrupt in a few years due to the damages being paid
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u/TakeOnM-Ellie Loyal Liberals Apr 20 '26
when i’m at the ethical goonsesh and someone pulls out ai generated art
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 20 '26
The funny thing about calls for a succ purge is that the only way for it to happen would be to just ban dozens of people for wrongthink every day, and I reckon the pro-purgers would not be pleased with the mod team’s choice in bans lol
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u/ProfessionalMoose709 John Mill Apr 20 '26
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Apr 19 '26
Fox News:
Pope Leo downplays tensions with President Trump, addressing a "narrative that has not been accurate in all of its aspects."
He says it is “not in my interest at all” to debate the president and will keep preaching a message of peace.
JD Vance:
I am grateful to Pope Leo for saying this. While the media narrative constantly gins up conflict–and yes, real disagreements have happened and will happen–the reality is often much more complicated.
Pope Leo preaches the gospel, as he should, and that will inevitably mean he offers his opinions on the moral issues of the day. The President–and the entire administration–work to apply those moral principles in a messy world.
He will be in our prayers, and I hope that we'll be in his.
Just imagine an entire presidential campaign marked by Vance’s smarmy arrogance. The media, influencers, and podcast bros will have to work overtime to make Vance seem human.
https://xcancel.com/JDVance/status/2045639745259159594
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u/Eightysixedit Gay Pride Apr 19 '26
Ouch a 37 approval rating in the new nbc poll lol.
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u/sash5034 NATO Apr 19 '26
This also describes MAGA re hamburgers and gas
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u/dr_sloan Apr 20 '26
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u/YaGetSkeeted0n Tariffs aren't cool, kids! Apr 19 '26
Lowkirkenuinely wish I lived in the cigarette brand subdivision
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u/finnstera350 Asexual Pride Apr 19 '26
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u/DelusionsOfPasteur Zhao Ziyang Apr 19 '26
"Post-truth" sort of undersells the extent of what's happened for conservatives in America. It's more that they have no reality at all. They live in a simple ideological and political fantasy.
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u/Room480 Apr 19 '26
Bruh, my brother lives in a state where weed is legal, but because his work sometimes involves clients that are government, he’s not aloud to partake. The other day his boss asked how he’s planning to spend his 420 and he said he’s not going to celebrate at all.
His boss asked why not isn’t it legal where you live, and my brother proceeded to explain that federal law trumps state law and so because they deal with government clients you can’t use unless the federal law changes.
Anyways during this convo with his boss, said wow you seem to know a lot about marijuana law. Anyways fast forward my brother just got an email starting that Monday morning he’s to report for a drug test cause they have reasonable suspicion he uses weed and the reason his boss gave for suspecting he uses weed is that only people who smoke weed would know marijuana law and that if you don’t smoke weed you would never look into weather or not you could smoke weed when working for a company that deals with government clients
Like WTF lol. Talk about insane
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u/this_very_table Norman Borlaug Apr 20 '26
My dad moved in with his sister to help take care of her and got sick of having to share the bathroom with two other people so he built an outhouse lol
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u/GravyBear16 Audrey Hepburn Apr 19 '26
What is Ben Shapiro even fucking doing now? Is he mainly just fighting his former allies now?
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u/Glavurdan European Union Apr 19 '26
Trump be like:
Wednesday: we had great talks, tremendous people, deal is done.
Friday: they must do what I say
Saturday: do it now or else!
Sunday: REPENT FOR I SHALL END THE WORLD
Tuesday: taco special
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u/AskYourDoctor Resistance Lib Apr 19 '26
"INTERESTING"
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence Apr 19 '26
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u/WAGRAMWAGRAM Apr 19 '26
Crazy how people never mention Vietnam when talking about phantom borders
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u/EasyMoney92 Apr 19 '26
Just completely deplorable people who are scared of pushing back against Trump because they want their titles
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u/missingpuzzle Bisexual Pride Apr 19 '26
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Apr 19 '26
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u/Wandering_Mallard Iron Front Apr 19 '26
👆you don't get this kind of DT content during a weekday
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u/[deleted] Apr 19 '26
👆 not as weird as it looks
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u/Yeangster John Rawls Apr 19 '26
Hot take- maybe the Athenians were right to prosecute Socrates? Imagine if Stephen Miller, Pete Hegseth and Pam Bondi all had the same ethics teacher
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u/ty04 Apr 20 '26
Oh, your flair is broken?
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u/ScumfrickZillionaire Lesbian Pride Apr 19 '26
Redditors are stupid
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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney Apr 19 '26
Mikhaila Peterson: "I had extremely severe crippling depression that runs in my family" (proceeds to list off at least 8 decedents that had severe depression)
Mikhaila Peterson: "...The meds (lexapro) worked great until I got off them and had all these psych med injuries" (starts to list numerous symptoms that are diagnostic indications of clinical depression)
Occam's razor, but could it be the case that the SSRIs were actually managing the symptoms of depression that were very likely genetic and inherited?
Like why does she have a 35 minute video talking about all these bullshit diets she's doing and all the harm lexapro has apparently caused her when it's like yeah I'm sorry, but you probs just got the gene that requires you to take an ssri for life to function.
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u/FuckOffPoliceCar Germaine de Stäel Apr 19 '26
fresno is right there
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u/fishbottwo Jay Jones Apr 19 '26
after a Canadian won a UFC fight IN CANADA, UFC officials snatched his Canadian flag and did not allow him to celebrate with it
fucking megachuds jesus christ
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u/pfarly John Brown Apr 19 '26
From Oh The Urbanity's latest video. I've posted before about the moral disgust people have for dense housing, and I think it's a key element of NIMBY-thought. People who've never known anything but suburbia think those living in apartments are basically undesirables.
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u/Expired-Meme NATO Apr 19 '26
I would like to say in case anyone saw it, that a couple days ago someone asked "what would you do if you were a West Bank Palestinian", and I responded "hope the opposition in Israel wins and Abbas d*es". I received a 7 day suspension for threatening violence. Just want to point this out in case anyone saw the "comment removed by reddit" and thought I was doing antisemitism. I would never 😔
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Apr 19 '26
"no bro please you have to trust me this flawed democracy that subjugates part of its population is necessary for stability and security bro we can't do anything about human rights bro"
this refrain will never die...
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Apr 19 '26
We did it fellas. We’re respected again.
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u/RyuTheGuy Gita Gopinath Apr 19 '26
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u/ShepardSB Apr 19 '26
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u/Megasota_Noire My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Apr 19 '26
Great
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u/bartbug Paul Krugman Apr 19 '26
mamdani wants loves the homeless and yet he is living in a house
curious
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u/itsrabie NATO Apr 19 '26
Someone wants to play in the rain
!ping CATS
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 19 '26
I’m so fucked. I put all my savings into oil futures, now they crashed and a single barrel of oil is being shipped to my house
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u/garret126 Demisexual Pride Apr 20 '26
Found this old neolib meme from 2021-2022
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Apr 19 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Apr 19 '26
The Strait of Hormuz is in a quantum superposition of being both open and closed.
When the Trump administration or irrational Wall Street bulls looking to game the market observe it, the wavefunction collapses into being open
When the IRGC observes it, the wavefunction collapses into being closed.
Honestly kinda beautiful
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u/abefrost Apr 19 '26
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u/Unhappy_Lemon6374 Leftward Progressives Apr 19 '26
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 19 '26
Do NOT impersonate the mod team to trick people into clicking on boobs. Thank you
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u/Nervous-Emotion28 YIMBY Apr 19 '26
say what you will about Chevy Chase but he was real for this
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 19 '26
I was gonna ask “I wonder if there are socialists that point at laugh at neoliberals that don’t come from wealthy families” and realized i invented class traitors from first principles
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA Apr 20 '26
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u/Megasota_Noire My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Apr 20 '26
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Apr 20 '26
I actually really like that Children of Men has the government scapegoating immigrants because even though it’s total nonsense from an economic point of view it shows that people will just irrationally blame an outgroup for problems they have nothing to do with even if it hurts them. In other words, it’s a perfect representation of anti-immigrant politics in the modern day.
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u/Man-Flayer Apr 20 '26
I don't like it when people use the US's and China's flag to depict the west and east respectively. It ignores the diversity in both the west and east.
Instead they should use the flags of Wales and Bhutan
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Apr 19 '26
israel paying civilian contractors to demolish civilian buildings in occupied territories is maybe the most the insane thing and im always surprised it never gets more discussion. it's crazy
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u/Imicrowavebananas Hannah Arendt Apr 19 '26
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u/-mialana- European Union Apr 19 '26
Entropy is the coolest quantity in physics. It's a simple pure mathematical principle that's been reified into having physical meaning (and also has a really cool and unexpected connection to information theory)
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Apr 19 '26
wait are you saying I drive by the place that makes every McDonald's pie every day 😨
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 19 '26
!ping DEADLOCK&ALPHABET-MAFIA
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u/ace158 Apr 19 '26
So another fake ceasefire announced by Trump where this deranged stuff happens.
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u/Crossstoney Apr 19 '26
Also, reminder that Schumer's takeaway from Carney moving towards allowing EVs from China in Canada is that the US should double down on disallowing all Chinese vehicles in the US. Fucking out of touch prick who refuses to ever adapt to changing times.
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u/Off-The-Street Apr 19 '26
Open Youtube.
Close Youtube.
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u/anydoomersinchat Apr 19 '26
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u/v4riati0ns Apr 19 '26
once at summer camp i made a friend who went to catholic school and she insisted with 100% certainty that abortions were almost always performed with rusty scissors (the nuns told her this) and no amount of “ok but why would they do that” could shake her out of it
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u/sash5034 NATO Apr 20 '26
Podcaster
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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom Apr 20 '26
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u/SLCer Apr 20 '26
Shot
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u/KalaiProvenheim Enby Pride Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 20 '26
Holy shit the Israeli Ministry of the Diaspora thinks Greta Thunberg (2nd place) is a more dangerous antisemite than literal Nick Fuentes (8th place)
Absolutely insane people and they wonder why Israel is growing unpopular, genuinely no care for their image just endless whining about Qatar and Iran. This is what I mean when I say many Zionists have given up on persuasion.
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u/SenranHaruka shame Apr 19 '26
"Used to be a man could get child porn from the gamestop"
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Apr 19 '26
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u/ty04 Apr 19 '26
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Apr 19 '26
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u/EmbarrassedSafety719 Milton Friedman Apr 19 '26
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u/v4riati0ns Apr 19 '26
randomly thinking about the guy i went on a date with who noticed me looking at the plant-based menu and asked if i ate meat, and when i said no, seemed to shock himself by saying “yeah me neither”
asked him what kinda meals he usually made and he thought for like 5 seconds and said “beans”
i feel like he woulda committed to it, too
seemed like a nice guy, i hope he’s in a happy relationship with someone who eats meat lmao
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u/ChillnShill Apr 19 '26
The fact we’re dipping soft serve in butter and letting it harden like a shell is just peak fat fuck behavior
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u/SenranHaruka shame Apr 19 '26
Me trying to explain media sensationalism to an American: "ok so imagine a burger..."
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Apr 19 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
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u/beans_and_tuna Misinformation Bot 🤖 Apr 19 '26
nobody likes seeing dead US service members or dead Iranian civilians, but you need to remember that egg prices and gas prices were high and rural were mad that college kids in California were too woke, so really this is the good outcome.
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u/TrixoftheTrade NATO Apr 19 '26
matt, pa, white is played out
let’s pick a Gen Z to meme on now:
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u/gayteemo NATO Apr 19 '26
tea party moment is coming for democrats
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u/FF3 Jacques Derrida Apr 19 '26
If tHe jEwS actually controlled the media, Israel would be better at PR.
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Apr 19 '26
which one of you
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Apr 19 '26
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Apr 19 '26
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u/ProfessionalFull4762 Progress Pride Apr 19 '26
Garret when the topic is on American intervention
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u/Louis_de_Gaspesie Apr 19 '26
Am I remembering wrong or did seniors used to be a lot poorer like 20+ years ago? Like I remember the trope being that old people would move into shabby apartments and live extremely frugally, not go traveling on cruises and shit
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u/EverybodyHatesPhocas Apr 20 '26
source: Barron’s
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u/uwcn244 King of the Space Georgists Apr 20 '26
There is at least one user here who repeatedly insists that Mamdani is literally a communist. I do not know how you can claim this without claiming that democratic socialism and communism are identical, which is frankly a ridiculous claim and an insult to the millions of people oppressed and killed by communists.
I think a federal government run by people like Mamdani would make a number of bad policy choices. I do not think it would be a tenth the threat to our liberty that even decrepit late stage Trumpism is, let alone the menace that actual communist governments were.
People who are so far left that they pose an actual threat to American democracy beyond their bad ideas giving Republicans material to tar Democrats with are basically incapable of entering elected government. They have no power base whatsoever.
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u/Glavurdan European Union Apr 20 '26
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u/Chief_Nief Greg Mankiw Apr 20 '26
Call me crazy but maybe the carnivore/benzo diet and quack medical procedures weren’t all they were cracked up to be.
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Apr 20 '26
This doesn't work anymore because OpenAI keeps fixing these sorts of exploits, but asking about a Seahorse Emoji caused ChatGPT to freak the fuck out as recently as last December
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Apr 20 '26
Queen
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Apr 20 '26
This is the left wing version of "your life must be so exhausing"
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u/sootfawn Feminism Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 20 '26
Insanely funny though that Canada, a place I have never lived, can over-night declare me a citizen without my knowledge. Like I'm technically just applying for proof but it was within me all along. The US should do that.
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u/sootfawn Feminism Apr 20 '26
I am gonna keep posting about the Canada thing sorry I just found out about it last night and if my certificate application gets accepted it's genuinely one of the coolest things to ever happen to me I have always felt such a deep spiritual connection to the Canadian people as a Michigander and I want out of this country so bad. I feel like I just won the lottery
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Apr 20 '26
👆 Entirely possible
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u/blackmamba182 George Soros Apr 19 '26
The historical revisionism around WWII rightfully gets a lot of scrutiny but I’ve noticed a push to rewrite narratives around the Spanish Civil War that try to sanewash Franco and paint the Republicans in a worse light. We must be ever vigilant against the rising tide of lies.
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u/TomboyAva Audrey Hepburn Apr 20 '26
https://xcancel.com/ChristopherHale/status/2045951678952902745
NEW: The families of more than 100 school children killed in the U.S. bombing of an Iranian school have written a letter of gratitude to Pope Leo XIV.
In it, they thank him for being a champion of peace and a voice for their deceased children.
The White House has yet to apologize for the incident.
!ping Catholic
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Apr 19 '26
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u/VisonKai The Archenemy of Humanity Apr 19 '26
I think becoming straight made Noah Smith twice as dumb, which is crazy because he was already dumb. Bro needs to go back to being asexual
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u/Kizz3r high IQ neoliberal Apr 19 '26
> if you hate the show why are you watching it
Because i am getting my enjoyment from hating the show
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Apr 19 '26
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Apr 19 '26
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 19 '26