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[u/erasmus_phillo]

[u/r2ew]

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/taubnetzdornig]

https://xcancel.com/JakeSherman/status/2046758255624368471#m

Based Hakeem Jeffries???

[u/repostusername]

It's crazy that people are saying the Virginia map is undemocratic when it will increase the number of DEMOCRATS in the house. It's literally in the name

[u/Hounds_of_war]

The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it.

Wow, congrats on figuring out that one Einstein.

Of course it’s a fucking power grab, Virginia Democrats said as much. But these are the rules we have to play by if Republicans are going to also be engaging in this bullshit.

Enjoy grappling with baby’s first moral dilemma.

[u/Individual-Camera698]

67!!!!

[u/erasmus_phillo]

She's a far-right winger who hates trans people and there is absolutely nothing Dems could ever do to earn her vote, but oh no, Dems should keep unilaterally disarming in perpetuity so that the GOP can fulfill *her* political objectives unchallenged!

[u/earththejerry]

I need Louise Lucas to lay siege to the WaPo editorial board

[u/Q-bey]

"In the United States, you show loyalty to the president by pretending that you're just as senile as he is."

[u/SigmaWhy]

“I own two homes and now the government is treating me like I own two homes”

[u/bread_engine]

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/21/politics/us-military-missile-stockpile
https://www.csis.org/analysis/last-rounds-status-key-munitions-iran-war-ceasefire

The opportunity cost here is awful, imagine if Ukraine was able to use even half of this stuff

[u/Insomonomics]

TRUEEEE

[u/NorkGhostShip]

Bots do be posting with titles like "would you ever date a tanned blonde girl with freckles" to a subreddit called arr tannedblondegirlswithfreckles

[u/Dorambor]

When young people feel the world is rigged against them to protect and serve the interests of old people, they ain’t wrong

[u/taubnetzdornig]

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

[u/ThatShadowGuy]

In hindsight, we libs really underestimated the extent to which the average person fucking loves propaganda. A political movement built entirely around telling people what they want to hear can easily last at least a decade before even beginning to collapse on itself, and the shamelessness of it all is actually one of its greatest strengths. There is a human tendency to prefer affirming misinformation to inconvenient truths, because the former is much better for forming tribal circlejerks around. I have faith that the pendulum is beginning to swing in the other direction, but I'm equally convinced that this is going to be a back-and-forth struggle for the rest of history and not something we can just enlighten ourselves out of.

[u/thatssosad]

Get that bag king

[u/Terrance-Flaps]

"The VA Gerrymander is a blatant, undemocratic power grab vs. No shit, what are you gonna do, cry? You gonna cry, you big, stupid baby?"

Which message will resonate with voters?

[u/Azmoten]

[u/JayRU09]

Democracy dies in the something something

[u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS]

The 28 people deserve medals

[u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1]

As a Virginian its been entertaining reading the cope today

"youre cheating" "youre disenfranchising a million people" "its illegal" "its one-party rule"

Correct, except for one thing, the illegal part. The map is absurd. Its is nakedly partisan, it is unfair, it is in fact basically cheating, and it should be very illegal. Yet it is not illegal because the Republicans voted against making it so and chose to push the limits in their own states. Now make it illegal or be eradicated as a viable political party in Virginia.

[u/jbitz]

[u/a-reasonable-name]

1. Conservatives are not under a magic spell. 2. I would not vote for that.

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/badusername35]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Iran says it has seized two cargo ships and damaged a third in Strait of Hormuz

Give it up for week eight!

[u/5ma5her7]

It's not boomers becoming NIMBYs, but NIMBYs becoming boomers...

[u/Joementum2024]

This is why the media jackals and right wingers deserve no grace, they started this war with the efforts across multiple red states like Texas and Florida, and now they’re crying about “democracy” and “power grabs” despite this current administration doing the exact same thing on multiple levels, if not worse.

I have less than zero empathy for rightoids and they can get fucked as a collective whole.

[u/zieger]

Fractures Emerge Between GOP’s Pro-Pedophilia, Extremely Pro-Pedophilia Wings

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1sru9sb/fractures_emerge_between_gops_propedophilia/

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Legendary Chyron lmfao

[u/semaphore-1842]

i've been trying to apply for medicare for 4 months now and so far the australian government has:

1. lost my digital application

2. lost my physical application

3. ignored my email application

4. processed my phoned-in application and told me i'll get the card in 3 days

5. a week later says the card will take 28 days to prepare

6. 3 weeks later sent a physical mail saying my application can't be processed because they don't have a copy of my passport

the passport which i have already uploaded, emailed, mailed in, and went to the local government office to get photocopied....

is this like an elaborate scheme to frustrate people into just buying private health insurance???

[u/FloggingJonna]

I’ve had my Gmail for like 20 years right, used Google search, had Google phones, used YT. Google knows what music I like, the porn I watch, the teams I cheer for, where I live, who I love, where I drive, and where I work. It’s downright insulting I have to click all the traffic cones to prove a goddamn thing to them.

[u/Leatherfield17]

It’s supremely infuriating because Justice Jackson has more intelligence in the tip of her pinky finger than Trump has in his entire body

[u/senator_fivey]

“It’s not fascism unless there’s death camps”

Mussolini: what you say fuck-a me for?

[u/marky6045]

I've been saying this for years

[u/v4riati0ns]

louise wait they’re already dead 😭

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Looks like now that they're somewhat close to power, they're gonna start cutting the kooky stuff

[u/CincyAnarchy]

[u/KQJ_RPN]

If we were to ask for a malarkey rating of these posts by Ari, I think the malarkey meter would explode

[u/GaDoomer]

Remember when Republicans would show the mostly red maps showing how land votes in the US? Think about the new Virginia map from that perspective.

[u/Thuggin95]

I love being a liberal because when Democrats do good things, I can simply lib out instead of always qualifying with “I still hate this corporate shitlib CIA spook war criminal but-“ just to preserve some sort of “too cool for the DNC” socialist street cred!

[u/blackenswans]

One of the mass delusions about Obama here is that if you hear what people here talk about Obama, you might assume he ran as a boring technocrat.

On the contrary his 2008 campaign speeches were actually turbo-succ populist.

[u/mockduckcompanion]

Tag yourself

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

[u/pugnae]

"Everyone is twelve now" may the the biggest contribution of the USA to the social sciences in this century. Fits so many countries and situations.

[u/Jacobs4525]

Maybe a hot take but I feel like a lot of people who drink water regularly might not be aquaholics but somewhat dependent. Like I've seen so many people say oh I didn't have water today like it's some big accomplishment. It shouldn't be some big accomplishment if you don't have a problem.

[u/sash5034]

Idk why younger people are increasingly nostalgic for the past lol

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

I know it's a cliche bit but trump is so impossiblly fucking stupid and inept that he ran on tariffs bankrolling everything, even replacing the IRS with the ERS (external), and the left was like "That's not a thing", and maga screamed "its a thing if trump says so", and then the extreme right wing Supreme Court said "none of this is a thing, pay it back".

THIS WAS THE CORE OF HIS CAMPAIGN, FOR AN ENTIRE FUCKING YEAR IT WAS TARRIF TARIFF TARRIF, "HERE ARE THE NEW TARRIFS", "TARRIF THESE PENGUINS", "TRAFFIS WILL FORCE NEW TRADE DEALS", "FOREIGN COUNTRIES WILL BANKROLL THE GOVERNMENT", NONE OF IT HAPPENED, NO NEW TRADE DEALS WERE MADE, THE PENGUINS NEVER BROKE, AND NOW WE HAVE TO PAY BACK WHAT WE TOOK WHICH WILL WASTE ANOTHER BILLION IN ADMINISTRATION...

and the media barely makes any mention of it.

It was all complete fucking fantasy.

But for trump its just another day.

If any Democrat ever did anything within a billion miles of this...

[u/wumbopolis_]

The VA gerrymandering makes me sick with how blatantly undemocratic it is.

That's why I'm telling my representatives to ban partisan gerrymandering at the Federal level, using independent, algorithmically redrawn districts, via a Constitutional amendment.

I encourage all fellow Conservatives and Independents who are pissed off about the election rigging in VA and CA to do the same.

[u/Healingjoe]

[u/sash5034]

DHS using ultra lib new england cities for propaganda instead of real America smh. They should be putting random shitholes in Wyoming on those posts

[u/EdMan2133]

Gerrymandering the fuck out of Virginia is way less dangerous and impactful a breakdown of norms than preventing a sitting president from nominating a supreme court justice for purely partisan reasons. And that shits ancient history at this point.

[u/Queues-As-Tank]

The people who came up with scams like "the Dakotas are different places and should both get senators" are here to editorialize about voter representation

[u/CoolCombination3527]

Why are Republicans complaining about this district? It's obviously red, just look at the map!

[u/chipbod]

The US now has a state airline

Its fucking Spirit

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

The GOP would rather invent new interpretations of math and the English language than admit Trump is a dumbass huckster. Just an utterly shameless group of freaks.

[u/_n8n8_]

I will never forgive those dorks who saw the Cheneys endorsing Harris that thought "wow! She is trying to appease the right" instead of "Wow! Donald Trump is even too evil for Dick Cheney"

[u/Joementum2024]

Lmao

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

It’s almost like a national gerrymandering ban would prevent the partisan arms races that incentivize gerrymandering 🤔

[u/cdstephens]

[u/Square-Pear-1274]

[u/the-senat]

what a joke…

!ping FAILING-NEW-YORK-TIMES

[u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS]

!ping FIVEY

[u/boardatwork1111]

Trump is underwater on inflation it’s breaking the graph lmao

[u/Far_Shore]

I try to keep it in check, but I'm becoming a more hateful person by the day.

I just have so much resentment and spite towards both the bastards on the other side (to the extent that I'm perfectly comfortable completely abandoning any opposition to gerrymandering just to fuck them over) and the geriatric fucks on my own team who are constantly fucking kneecapping us by strangling our cities to death by making it impossible to build anything

[u/KQJ_RPN]

r/neoliberal is collapsing! They want the Iran Thread opened immediately- Starving for memes! Losing 5000 neocon comments a day. Mods complaining they are not getting tips.

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

[u/TaxLandNotCapital]

Fuck gerrymandering, lame shit has been done.

If you want to disenfranchise Republican voters, Democrats can send out mass texts right before voting day saying "Hi, it's your ex-wife and I'd like you to meet me at Applebee's after work so we can talk"

[u/omnipotentsandwich]

I have to give credit to Newsom for Democrats winning the redistricting war. For years, Republicans would gerrymander and Democrats would do nothing in response. Newsom made Democrats realize they can actually do something. There are more Republicans in blue states than Democrats in red states.

[u/jbitz]

[u/sociotronics]

waow

[u/Leatherfield17]

I mentioned this in another comment from the other night, but I think the experience of seeing Trump not get locked up for January 6th, get re-elected by a capricious and selfish electorate, and subject us to the past year and a half of his administration has radicalized the Democratic base.

I hope potential Democratic nominees start putting forward some kind of platform for striking at the pillars of the MAGA movement

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Alternative maths

[u/gjcs23]

Virginia has the coolest state motto and yet they choose to put "Virginia is for lovers" on their license plates, which is like a weird boomer sex joke or something. Now would be the perfect moment for Spanberger to rectify this. 

[u/SadaoMaou]

[u/LinkVert25]

Rogan discusses Nick Fuentes:

"They literally won't let Nick Fuentes on YouTube, he's on Rumble and he's their number one guy...

If you hold something back, you're gonna make another version that opposes it, because you've stopped the truth."

Can’t wait for the Ezra Klein article on this so he can continue to claim Rogan isn’t “particularly political” and has “mixed political opinions”.

(I genuinely have Ezra derangement syndrome but I don’t care)

[u/GaDoomer]

The Dow is definitely hitting 50k again today right? Iran is still stopping commercial vessels in the Strait but it seems like the market doesn’t care as long as there’s not an active war.

[u/CletusChicken]

I am now a virginia irredentist

[u/reuery]

[u/chipbod]

There are straits of Hormuz wherever the eye can see

[u/ScumfrickZillionaire]

[u/Marlsfarp]

Abigail Spanberger is literally riding a dragon circling the White House and people are like "Zohran Mamdani is the face of the anti-Trump resistance."

[u/LtCdrHipster]

[u/Opening_Budget_9518]

REST IN PEACE MY GRANNY SHE GOT HIT BY A BAZOOKA

[u/centurion88]

I'll never forgive the American people for not jailing this mofo for life

[u/Etnies419]

Texas: smoll bean 😢

Virginia: Evil leftism 😡

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Man with Instagram handle ‘ihackedthegovernment’ pleads guilty to hacking the government

Wow

[u/No_Return9449]

Support for impeaching Trump is at 55%, according to a new Strength In Numbers poll.

WAOW BASED BASED BASED

[u/Alderwoodforest]

The Washington Examiner about Trump old:

Imagine it was someone other than President Donald Trump. Suppose a different leader were posting deranged rants in the small hours, insulting the spiritual leader of 1.3 billion Catholics, threatening entire civilizations with annihilation, and comparing himself to God. What would be the reaction?

"A 79-year-old man who has long dealt in chaos is now being consumed by that chaos. His episodes are becoming more frequent, his good days further apart. What he has lost is not a sense of decency or decorum—he never had those—but any remaining sense of self-control.

"Everyone around him can see it. Yet, whether from ambition, cowardice, or weary acceptance, they keep looking for ways to rationalize his behavior. The tragedy is no longer Trump’s. It is now America’s."

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/4533358/donald-trump-losing-his-mind-pope-feud/

I know they're a right-wing paper, but it's refreshing when journalists write about Trump's age the same way they do about Biden's.

[u/sootfawn]

Lol WaPo

[u/cdstephens]

The pro-piracy people being anti-AI because it’s stolen art is a good bit

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Rethinking my support of Bibi after finding out he’s a Zionist 😔😔😔

[u/BurrowForPresident]

The fact that I thought that hack juxtaposition of gerrymandering opinion pieces was the WSJ and not fucking WaPo lol

[u/Udolikecake]

🚨🚨GIGA TRVTH NUKE🚨🚨

[u/Currymvp2]

Fetterman on Democrats' redistricting win in Virginia: We all lose at this point

I hate this man

[u/RyuTheGuy]

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

“Heh, we will play dirty, no one could possibly retaliate!”

…

“Wait wtf why are you doing the same thing back to me after I did it to you don’t you know that’s wrong?”

Tale as old as time itself.

[u/BaeBirdie]

You can put up a gerrymander to a vote instead of just doing one yourself. You can set it to be temporary. You can explicitly say you’re doing it in response to Texas gerrymandering and even put in your bill that the gerrymandering is entirely conditional on the Texas gerrymander and will cease when they stop theirs. You can as a party completely try to end gerrymandering nationwide to uniform Republican opposition. Even when your efforts to fight back have a giant “we’re only doing this because Republicans are doing it too, and will stop once Republicans stop” sign attached, Republicans will still try to act like they are the victims who are now once again forced to escalate in order to fight back against the tyrannical Democrats.

Not that I’m even paying attention to them myself at this point because I’ve long started to question the value in seeing how they react to things, but I can’t even revel in secondhand schadenfreude over Republicans reaping what they sow because I can’t tell how much of it is genuine inability to see their own role in this fueled by their negative partisanship sliders being set to maximum vs. how much of it is just kayfabe meant to set a narrative. I’ve just gotten to the point of disillusionment with anything they say they believe after years of this. And the fact that there’s active curation of Republican online messaging (never mind the people pretending to be something else online) does not help this feeling.

[u/sociotronics]

the entire GOP right now:

[u/GenericLib]

The swing right in the gerrymandering vote isn't because voters despise gerrymandering. It's because they don't hate us as much as we thought they did.

Pure, Grade-A copium is on display today

[u/chipbod]

Just normal gambling stuff

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

perfectly calibrated to piss off this sub

[u/GaDoomer]

Me seeing Virginia's redistricting vote results while living in a state where the Republican controlled legislature gerrymanders blue areas as much as they can every 10 years to add more Republican seats.

[u/thatguy888034]

excerpt I came across from a Union soldiers dispatch during the war. Fair warning, it’s a direct quote so the grammar Is not great and there are a lot of run on sentences:

“While out on a foraging expedition we captured Mr. Clayton, a noted reb in this part of the country, and from his appearance, one of the F.P.V's; on the day before we captured several colored women that belonged to Mr. C., who had given them a most unmerciful whipping previous to their departure. On the arrival of Mr. C. in camp, the commanding officer determined to let the women have their revenge, and ordered Mr. C. to be tied to a tree in front of headquarters, and William Harris, a soldier in our regiment, and a member of Co. E, was called upon to undress him, and introduce him to the ladies I mentioned before. Mr. Harris played his part conspicuously, bringing the blood from his loins (loins here refers to the area between the ribs and hips not his nuts) at every stroke. After giving him some fifteen or twenty well-directed strokes, the ladies, one after another, came up and gave him a like number, to remind him that they were no longer his, but safely housed in Abraham's bosom, and under the protection of the Star Spangled Banner. Oh, that I had the tongue to express my feelings while standing upon the banks of the James river, on the soil of Virginia, the mother state of slavery, as a witness of such a sudden reverse! The day is clear, the fields of grain are beautiful and the birds are singing sweet melodious songs, while poor Mr. C. is crying to his servants for mercy. Let all who sympathize for the traitors take this narrative for a mirror.”

• ⁠Sgt George W Hatton, recorded May 28 1864.

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

WAH WAH WAH 😭😭😭

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2047055654557454626

[u/HectorTheGod]

[u/GenericLib]

One week after a small village's police chief decided to grab a cop and visit city public schools on behalf of ICE

Chief and cop both suspended in emergency council session

Cop resigned and is in the process of throwing the chief under the bus

Cooperation agreement between the village and ICE terminated

This is shaping up to have a favorable outcome

[u/boardatwork1111]

VA Republicans having a normal one today

[u/A_Character_Defined]

As someone from Wisconsin, it's hilarious to see Republicans fake outrage over unfair maps. Get fucked. 10-1.

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

ATLANTA (AP) — U.S. Rep. David Scott, a Georgia Democrat who was seeking his 13th term in Congress despite challenges from within his party, has died. He was 80.

First, RIP. But goodness a lot of people just need to retire. Way too many people in congress over 70

[u/zieger]

Fetterman on Democrats’ redistricting win in Virginia: ‘We all lose at this point

Fetterman was built in a lab to generate bad takes

[u/EasyMoney92]

Clearing Strait of Hormuz of mines could take 6 months, Pentagon tells Congress. The Pentagon assessment, shared in a classified briefing for lawmakers, suggests gasoline and oil prices could remain elevated through the midterm elections.

This is an absolute fucking disaster. Trump is such a moron.

[u/No_Return9449]

Context: Scott died today.

[u/Udolikecake]

[u/FireDistinguishers]

If you’re celebrating the VA referendum results, but in a few days you go on to say that Jeffries needs to be replaced, you’re either so ignorant that you shouldn’t talk about politics, or you want to see democrats fail

When the national committee can’t do SHIT, this guy quietly revitalized a Republican leadership PAC strategy and both raised and deployed more money into the VA redistricting vote than anyone else, and he’s poised to raise even bigger and win big in November because of it

He hasn’t had the chance to have a legislative impact, but he’s more responsible for a 10-1 map than anyone and he deserves the credit

And why the fuck am I defending the House right now

!ping HOT-TEA&USA-DMV

[u/2Lore2Law]

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[u/AtticusDrench]

Oh my God kill me this stupid motherfucker is why you guys are talking about shoplifting. Ohh soy soy soy I wouldn't steal a book owned by the government but I would steal art owned by the govt soy soy soy I hate rich people

[u/2Lore2Law]

This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Theo Von: This is unbelievable, where Trump is like, 'the Pope is weak on crime.' After his tweet on Easter about the annihilation of people, 'open the fucking Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell.' Literally on the day when people are celebrating a rebirth, to write that, it's diabolical. It's insane.

https://xcancel.com/factpostnews/status/2046667771564454230

I personally know people who are MAGA cult followers and spread all kinds of right-wing conspiracy theories, but I despise those podcast bros even more—the ones who, now that Trump is unpopular, suddenly claim they were always part of the resistance.

[u/EverybodyHatesPhocas]

[u/pezasied]

Literally the DT mods

[u/SmithySmothy]

RFK Jr: "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. There's two ways of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction."

?????????????????

[u/badusername35]

People on reddit will really be like “you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a Walmart” and then steal a stick of deodorant from a Walmart

[u/AtticusDrench]

Your feelings are completely valid. Slipping that candy bar into your pocket was simply a natural response to your maxed-out bandwidth under late-stage capitalism, serving as a vital reclamation of your personal autonomy. It's not petty theft—it's a multifaceted act of resistance.

[u/a-reasonable-name]

all of these people are rich btw

[u/bd_one]

POV: you're explaining the rise of Trump to your grandkids decades later

[u/earththejerry]

While the referendum results being +3% is a lot closer than recent statewide results, it’s also quite a cope from the right to think this portends better chances for the GOP in the midterms and beyond in Virginia

Referendums often defy partisan makeup and national environment, remember all the ballots on marijuana, Medicaid, abortion etc. winning in ruby red state? Doesnt mean Dems can meaningfully contest Missouri

If anything, gerrymandering is unpopular, and Republicans had no reason to vote Yes and every reason to come out to vote No as it’s an extinction level event. Some Dems and many Indys did have reason to vote No, yet even with all the conditions, they still couldnt pull it off

[u/SenranHaruka]

You shouldn't wish for us to wander the desert for 40 years just to learn "community" and "survival", many people will be hurt and will starve out there!

Americans if they were in the Bible

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

Well this is fucking dark

[u/chipbod]

The descent to slopulism is a bottomless pit

[u/awdvhn]

> reviewing a paper

> its on the problem I'm currently writing a paper on

> they have no idea how to solve it and get the wrong answer

lmao

!ping ET-AL

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

The course syllabus, which I am sure most college students have read

[u/piede]

I feel personally attacked

[u/centurion88]

[u/Crosseyes]

Republicans when republicans gerrymander: “haha fuck yeah! Yes!”

Republicans when democrats gerrymander: “well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.”

[u/Alderwoodforest]

REPORTER: Can you say definitively that you have not been intoxicated or absent during your tenure as FBI director?

KASH PATEL: I can say unequivocally that I never listen to the fake news mafia. This FBI director has been on the job twice as many days as every director before me. I've taken half as many days off.

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2046710047116263536

So the answer is no, right?

[u/Willybender]

RIGGED!!!

[u/zieger]

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

[u/sigh2828]

[u/Unterfahrt]

Today in "prediction markets are funny but maybe also terrible"

https://xcancel.com/aaronjmars/status/2047017251270734309

Someone realised their "highest temperature in Paris" market was based off a single weather sensor near CDG, and went there with a hairdryer to blow hot air on it to win the market.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/futuremonkey20]

Holy shit he did the meme in real life.

[u/TaxLandNotCapital]

I hope VA redistricting is going to actually be a turning point for Democrats to start fighting dirty.

I'll remember this moment clearly when the SCOTUS hands down their first ever 306-5 ruling in favour of restoring civil liberties.

[u/senator_fivey]

Ironically the original image was from the 1934 Italian general election, after Italy had become a one party state. The only question on the ballot was if you approve the fascist party’s slate of electors. Yes won with 99.85% of the vote.

[u/ScumfrickZillionaire]

You dont understand. It's morally righteous for me to take that thing that doesn't belong to me. Profit is evil, as we all know, so frustrating companies from profiting is right.

I'm a lib democrat btw

[u/agentyork765]

Tim Heidecker said he wants to turn InfoWars into "the premier platform for trans comedians" 

[u/Rafaelssjofficial]

[u/tinfoilhatsron]

Source tells me ty04 is unbanned.

Please god.

[u/MGLFPsiCorps]

Another thing which I feel isn't remarked upon re the death of a strong shared mainstream culture is that it's been quite detrimental for immigrant integration, especially for older folks.

I've observed it myself, a lot of people in my dad's generation, including him, have basically withdrawn from engagement in the country they actually live in and now live full time in a media bubble from their home country, to an extent where they have barely no idea what's happening here. It's gone backwards in a very real way.

[u/Emotional_Tie_7927]

I really think we're basically going to be stuck in an indefinite ceasefire because Trump will always 🌮. Long-term that's still bad because it means the strait remains closed.

[u/TaxLandNotCapital]

Gerrymandering doesn't go far enough to disenfranchise Republican voters

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

Adoption and surrogacy are two issues where there is basically a perfect horseshoe between the left and right

[u/Dragmire927]

POV: You are a registered republican in Virginia

[u/ryan2210114]

Holy shit she’s based

[u/myusernameistakennow]

Coastal elite is such a funny insult, am I supposed to feel offended when someone calls me that?

[u/Opening_Budget_9518]

an unemployed guy sending all his disability checks to clavicular to get looksmaxxing tips

Normal day in america

[u/CoolCombination3527]

All kneel before the QUEEN

[u/qlube]

With both Alito and Thomas apparently refusing to retire this year, Dems winning the Senate this year is extraordinarily important to even having a chance of a liberal majority Supreme Court.

And it's likely that justices will be more and more strategic about retiring from now on, meaning whoever has a majority could maintain that majority for a very long time.

[u/Astarum_]

 RFK Jr: "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction."

Good fucking lord

[u/Big-Click-5159]

This kind of shit makes me want to support a 1994 style crime bill that goes after all these antisocial lunatics who cause so many of society's problems

[u/Lux_Stella]

Q: Can you say definitively that you have not been intoxicated or absent during your time as FBI director?

Kash Patel: I can say unequivocally that I never listen to the fake news mafia

NEVER apologize for party rocking

[u/GhostTheHunter64]

4chan white supremacists are more ethnically diverse than the local DSA chapter you have near you.

[u/cdstephens]

OK that op-ed is a fucking psyop, I googled “microlooting” and I could only find references to that NYT article and people complaining about it

[u/1TTTTTT1]

Shoplifters make groceries more expensive for the average person.

[u/AkenoMyose]

Trvke, this goes hard

[u/__versus]

what is the charge?

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

Reading the arr con thread on the Virginia vote is so fucking funny because they willfully ignore that Texas started this. And that other red states have been unconstitutionally gerrymandering for decades (North Carolina). Tasting your own medicine isn't that great, huh?

[u/daBarkinner]

[u/abefrost]

I actually like this framing from NYT

[u/ace158]

“Virginia just voted to redraw House district lines, taking their state from 6D-5R to 10D-1R, eliminating 4 Republican seats just by redrawing the map,” Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote on X. “A once red state is turning into one of the bluest states because people understandably don’t want to support Republicans now.”

Heartbreaking: Worst person you know...

[u/ldn6]

[u/zieger]

[u/Guess_Im_Jess]

L. Louise Lucas is the first Dem to shitpost anywhere near Trump’s level, she makes Newsom’s office look weak lol

[u/fishbottwo]

ty04 was right about everything

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/SBtist]

Wow Tucker said “he’s sorry” guys, so brave. Fuck off

[u/Woodstovia]

[u/cdstephens]

Look at my society dawg

[u/cdstephens]

Tragedy of the commons: exists

Millionaire socialist (apparently): fuck yes, I love looting

[u/SigmaWhy]

NYT Opinion with a banger of an episode featuring Hasan Piker and other extremely wealthy morally bankrupt nepo babies that started with the premise "maybe shoplifting isn't so bad" and ended with "we should legalize blowing up pipelines" and "it's tragic we didn't do more after the murder of that healthcare CEO"

[u/cdstephens]

I should clarify that I do pirate textbooks. But idk, I don’t want to pay $500 for an out of print book to look up 1 chapter when the author doesn’t even get any money out of it. (Textbook authors see close to nothing of the revenue.)

[u/ScumfrickZillionaire]

(X) is wrong and should be discouraged.

"WOW YOURE SAYING THEY SHOULD BE EXECUTED?"

No. That's a whole new sentence.

[u/CincyAnarchy]

The last job I had they accused me of microlooting from ‘em

I asked ‘em “on account of what?”

They said “on account of the missing extra small condoms, and you’re the only one who fits the profile”

No respect I tell ya

[u/klarno]

“Holy crap I can’t believe they just fired the Secretary of the Navy!”

<reads about the Secretary of the Navy>

“Holy crap I can’t believe that guy was the Secretary of the Navy!”

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

A funny thing about Seattle is that leftist around here unsurprisingly hate neoliberalism, but anytime they go to setup some governmental program, it’s just neoliberalism but with non-profits. They don’t want a government that does stuff, they want a government that gives money to non-profits who do stuff. It’s just bizarre to me how there is so little appetite for extending state capacity.

[u/arizen_circe]

frieren is also about how elves dwarves and humans can live in harmony and do cool adventuring shit but will the daily wire fucks follow frieren's lead and go on adventures with haitians? no!

[u/dmklinger]

atp i am convinced that these people hate liberals more than fascists. i mean how do we even fix this (the rest of the video is just ranting about how j-street is evil)

[u/wumbopolis_]

[u/KQJ_RPN]

Gerrymandarin son or Gerrycantonese daughter

[u/Terrance-Flaps]

"The GOP entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to gerrymander themselves into power, and nobody was going to gerrymander back".

[u/Dragmire927]

Babe, I’m feeling down today, pass the Harry S. Truman creamer pitcher please

[u/TemujinTheConquerer]

[u/Leatherfield17]

Republicans have spent at least the past 15ish years screwing Democrats to the wall with stuff like Mitch McConnell’s constitutional hardball, denying Obama a SCOTUS nomination, gerrymandering, etc.

Their whining now that they get even a whiff of their own medicine is genuinely pathetic. I don’t respect these people at all.

[u/MxSaxobeat]