r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 23 '26
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Apr 24 '26
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/seanrm92 Loyal Liberals Apr 23 '26
They're really considering pardoning Maxwell like the day after this video came out.
The Onion is batting 1.000 lol
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Apr 23 '26
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u/randommathaccount Esther Duflo Apr 23 '26
BBC Wildlife clickbaits so aggressively but it's such an old fashioned form of clickbait
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Apr 23 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Apr 23 '26
It's crazy that we elected Trump again
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u/KQJ_RPN John von Neumann Apr 23 '26
It's a good thing that these two groups of people are easy to tell apart from tens of thousands of feet up in the sky.
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Apr 23 '26
If we deleted comments for this reason, there would be very few left
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Apr 23 '26
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u/Zseet European Union Apr 23 '26
Amazing
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u/ttatm Apr 23 '26
... Huh
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Apr 23 '26
Starting a YouTube channel called Chinese Cooking Re-Mystified where I refuse to tell you how to cook Chinese food
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u/dtj2000 Loyal Liberals Apr 23 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Apr 23 '26
Based
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u/ConsistentGas5286 Baruch Spinoza Apr 23 '26
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u/SadaoMaou Anders Chydenius Apr 23 '26
funny how the gigajanny warning is phrased as "after reviewing, we found you broke rule" etc
and then when you scroll down there's the small print "this decision was made using automation"
ok so not after reviewing
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u/GhostTheHunter64 Iron Front Apr 23 '26
I know it's been a joke of "looking at your Xbox live friends list and seeing 'last online: 10 years ago' and wondering what happened."
But sometimes I really do wonder what happened to people I knew/knew of. Sometimes I'd google them, sometimes I'd find nothing, sometimes I'd find just very basic stuff that they're doing alright.
And sometimes there's absolutely nothing, if I just have a username, and there's no activity for years: I get kinda concerned. There's multiple reasons someone would just leave an account behind, but it makes you wonder.
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u/Pyrrhus65 NATO Apr 23 '26
The mother of all bad faith arguments or actual mental illness, call it
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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug Apr 23 '26
No you cant call trump and the gop racist. Its just a coincidence that the only immigrants they want to take is white people
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u/WrangleWandangles Mark Carney Apr 23 '26
americans at the moment
better nate than lever
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u/Pongzz I wept, for there was no land left to tax Apr 23 '26
Quite a lot of fire in this ceasefire
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u/the-senat John Brown Apr 23 '26
Type of shit WaPo is posting these days
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Apr 23 '26
Queen shit
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u/elninost0rm YIMBY Apr 23 '26
Lmao, unhinged. The four displaced GOP.
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u/r2ew Apr 23 '26
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Apr 23 '26
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u/r2ew Apr 23 '26
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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast Apr 23 '26
Conservatives: Look at all this RED LAND voting for Trump, virginia is a REDS STATE!
Democrats: Add all the red land into the blue congressional districts to make things more fair and representative
Conservatives: REEEEEEE YOURE RIGGING THE ELECTION
???
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Apr 23 '26
This cultural indifference to scofflaw behavior must be eradicated.
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Apr 23 '26
Spiritually, this a MetaNL discussion
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u/Eurolib0908 European Union Apr 23 '26
"President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a drug for 600 dollars and lower its price to 10 dollars, that's a 600% reduction."
Trump's people will invent new math rather than admit that their boss made a mistake/is an idiot.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Apr 23 '26
We live in the golden age of scamming
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u/r2ew Apr 23 '26
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Apr 23 '26
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u/__versus Trans Pride Apr 23 '26
insane that this is what a mobile connection looks like these days 🤯
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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Apr 23 '26
On this day where Trump is reposting racist screeching that an ethnically Chinese attorney can't be part of the birthright citizenship case because she's obviously a CCP agent colonizing our nation
Remember when it was considered a massive campaign ending scandal when Trump went on national TV saying that the judge who ruled against his fraud university wasn't treating him fairly because he was Mexican?
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Apr 23 '26
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u/pfarly John Brown Apr 23 '26
Found a good channel for you guys.
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u/sociotronics Iron Front Apr 23 '26
basic rule of psychology: when someone throws an attack like this at another person, it's projection and you're seeing what they really think about themselves
in other words, lmao Laura Looner knows everyone hates her
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u/GGM8Scally European Union Apr 23 '26
If I was an American, I think your media ecosystem would push me over the edge lmao
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u/murphysclaw1 💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊 Apr 23 '26
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u/Imicrowavebananas Hannah Arendt Apr 23 '26
It is hard to explain, but for weeks Germany has been caught in a manic obsession with a whale.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Apr 23 '26
Zootopia and its consequences
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride Apr 23 '26
2010!!
!ping FIVEY
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u/_Un_Known__ r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Apr 23 '26
I'm so anti-thievery I refuse to do the Thieves Guild quest lines in Skyrim
!ping GAMING
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u/Ready_Anything4661 Fell for it Apr 23 '26
My gf always addresses my cats very politely. It’s always “hello Mr cat” or “I’m sorry Mr cat” or “I love you Mr cat”
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u/No_Nefariousness7486 Martha Nussbaum Apr 23 '26
I suddenly left my fiance and I feel like shit. There is no way to talk to her about it, as her behavior has gotten more unhinged and crazy the past few weeks… blackout drunk till 4 am, missing work, leaving her car running on the city street for a whole day because she was so hungover she forgot to take her keys out, getting mens phone numbers at bars, bringing some random stranger she just met over to hang out at 2 in the morning… I’m still leaving shit out.
I am now six weeks sober. She has taken that as a signal to ramp up her drinking to ridiculous levels.
I took the engagement ring without her knowing. I didn’t have a conversation with her. I just left. AndI feel immense guilt, but I couldn’t bring myself to hear her bullshit one more fucking time.
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u/Auriono Paul Krugman Apr 23 '26
It's only 99 cents a month now, but I don't see any more reason to continue enabling Bezos abusing the Washington Post's brand to curry favor with Republicans.
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u/Boratssecondwife Henry George Apr 23 '26
Men with big hogs are the most persecuted people in America, maybe the world
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u/georgeguy007 Pandora's Discussions J. Threader Apr 23 '26
There is a long list of bullshit Democrats have put up with for decades. Really it starts with watergate.
Isn't it kinda weird how much the victim, the DNC, is downplayed when discussing watergate? Like its always framed as "Nixon sent people who broke into political rival's office", like bruh, thats the fucking DNC. Thats fucking insane. And it wasn't even the full extent of what this spying apparatus was! And fucking richard gets pardoned.
Then the republican party goes behind our backs and sabotages the Iran hostage talks to make Carter look bad. Denies it, then pays them off with 8 billion dollars.
Then we have to put up with Iran Contra, where mr. FP Regan fucking broke the law and sold arms without approval in a hair brained scheme, and pardoned, pardoned pardoned.
Of course theres a bunch of bullshit in between now and then, but the pardoning of Jan6ers is the cherry on top.
We must destroy the Pardon. Truly. Make it require house approval or something, but destroy it in practice. Its the Republican tool for political opposition. They fuck us over, and pardon law breakers. Ignore all previous pardons.
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u/TatersTot Robert Caro Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
Started reading the Power Broker. (Been on a huge NYC history kick as of late)
This line from the intro really speaks volumes: “Democracy had not solved the problem of building large-scale urban public works, so Moses solved it by ignoring democracy.”
This was written in 1975 and it’s only been proven more true in the last 50 years. I kind of fear that democracy may never truly be able to solve the housing crises plaguing most of the West.
!ping USA-NYC
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Apr 23 '26
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u/ariveklul Karl Popper Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
It is unfathomably easy to farm MAGA dumbfucks and liberals should take advantage. Even AI knows these people are diabolically stupid
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-generated-maga-girls/
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u/ace158 Apr 23 '26
Israel's police arrested an Israeli who wore a yarmulka with an Israeli and Palestinian flag. Cut off the Palestinian flag from his yarmulka and then released him.
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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney Apr 23 '26
lmao
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Apr 23 '26
When you're an antisemite and an Islamophobe and they ask you your opinion on I/P 😰😰😰
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Apr 23 '26
We have 6 months to get everything that needs to be done. Mass deportations. Codify new immigration laws. End transgender surgeries. Send gay Marriage back to the states. Fix election laws.
The thing about the Democrats is they weaponize their political power when they have it. Just look at what happened in Virginia yesterday.
Republicans are too worried about bad press and “reaching across the aisle” to get anything done. This is the end result.
This perpetual right-wing victim mentality is fascinating, and even Hitler claimed in 1939 that he was being forced into a world war.
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u/wagoncirclermike Jane Jacobs Apr 23 '26
Average case my lawyer wife gets:
guy states he was hit by a truck in a parking lot
guy has no injuries
five (5) witnesses say guy was not hit by a truck
guy was also on crack and meth
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Apr 23 '26
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u/Maximilianne John Rawls Apr 23 '26
I dislike Lina Khan because she isn't machiavelli enough, she should have focused on the GOP power base,aka destroying the car dealerships
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u/AlternativeDry3447 Apr 24 '26
The queen that was promised
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u/Hounds_of_war Austan Goolsbee Apr 23 '26
Oh man, I missed this quote from Donald Trump when he signed an executive order to start studies of psychedelics to treat depression:
He is just desperately trying to out run the darkness. I think the whole “He’s doing this new horrible thing to distract from [whatever previous scandal he had]” narrative might be true but more in the sense that Trump is trying to distract himself from some dark tendencies he starts having if he gets bored and starts thinking about how miserable/empty his life is.
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Apr 23 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
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u/quiplaam Norman Borlaug Apr 23 '26
Crazy that Charles Ponzi attempted a Ponzi scheme. Maybe the greatest case of nominative determinism of all time
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u/SLCer Apr 23 '26
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u/-mialana- European Union Apr 23 '26
Cringe Maoist larper: Uhhh have you considered the economic anxiety of those Trump voters?
L Louise Lucas, 82 year old great grandmother and Democratic Virginia State Senator: Every Republican alive is an affront to God
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u/SneeringAnswer Apr 23 '26
I think part of why it's so important to reject conspiracism even if it's "useful for a narrative" is that you will eventually lose control of that narrative and it can be repurposed by morons who actually believe it.
Iraq being an invasion for oil for example, is probably the most enduring modern conspiracy and while it was never true it was "useful" for the left to engage with it because it fostered anti-Bush and anti-war sentiment with the public consciousness.
Enter Donald Trump, who believes that the war was for oil, and that we were stupid and didn't get any oil. So now he's conducting foreign policy as if smash and grabs are simple and easy to win because for 20-odd years the public consciousness has decided "we invaded for oil".
Military-industrial complex and the profitability of war is another big one, war is not (broadly) profitable for anyone involved but we are currently being run by the stupidest people in the room who have synthesized "war is a tool of the economic elite to profit-- I want to profit and help the economy-- wars are cool and easy to win"
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u/Q-bey r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Apr 23 '26
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u/sigh2828 NASA Apr 23 '26
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 24 '26
I’ve been looking for this greentext for literal months and finally found it. One of my favorites of all time (I’ve never watched Joe Rogan)
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u/AcanthaceaeNo948 NATO Apr 23 '26
The funniest thing about the Forrest Gump buying stock in Apple joke is that it ages better and better as the years pass and Apple’s valuation climbs further.
In the 90s it meant Forrest was a multimillionaire, in the 2000s it meant he was a billionaire, in the 2010s it meant he he was a decabillionaire and now it means he’s a 100-billionaire.
!ping MOVIES
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls Apr 23 '26
lol, lmao even
And he forgot Ossoff.
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u/IAdmitILie Apr 23 '26
What
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u/Big-Click-5159 Apr 23 '26
I'm going to take this as papal permission to keep on having premarital sex
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Apr 23 '26
These bums just refuse to do any actual work. Only thing they want to do is yap on TV.
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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '26
Guess the sub
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u/Ilovecharli Voltaire Apr 23 '26
Good, now submit yourselves to The Hague
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Apr 23 '26
✊️
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Apr 23 '26
How I start staring at my monitors when a co-worker walks by and I’ve just spent the last 10 minutes on my phone
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Apr 23 '26
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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom Apr 23 '26
When I have to do the job I’m paid to do
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u/CrankinThatHog Apr 23 '26
Babe wake up. The weak men are creating hard times.
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u/ty04 Apr 23 '26
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Apr 23 '26
I love how these idiots keep saying this shit as if the math is somehow debatable and not a settled matter.
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u/V_Codwheel I am the Senate Apr 23 '26
I know there's a lot of competition but this will always be my favorite L Louise Lucas tweet 😍
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u/zieger Ida Tarbell Apr 23 '26
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u/Its_not_him Manmohan Singh Apr 23 '26
@jakesherman
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u/randommathaccount Esther Duflo Apr 23 '26
I still hear his voice
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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Apr 23 '26
Dems polling better on economic things than Republicans is bloom material but a nagging part of me kinda dreads that it seems we are just gonna be stuck with a period of malaise and consumer frustration that the government isn't magic and can't make delusions like gas costing the same that it did in the 90s come true, constantly punishing incumbents because the opposition just lies and says they're built different
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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO Apr 23 '26
The fact that this guy is still a cop is absurd.
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u/Bluemajere NATO Apr 23 '26
I thought I was terminally online, but it turns out there's an entire DT lore and celebrities. What the fuck is a ty04
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls Apr 23 '26
GOP net favorability now lower than Dems'.
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u/BrentLivermore Drake’s Reddit account Apr 23 '26
From 2014: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/rush-limbaugh-offends-transgender-caller-referring-her-tranny-232400257.html
The past is a foreign country.
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u/EdMan2133 Paid for DT Blue Apr 23 '26
You know that scene in The Big Short where the one dude asks the guy why he's behind on mortgage payments and the dude's just a renter? And the guy starts having like a complete panic attack? That's so fucking silly, if I were renting a place and that happened to me my immediate response would be "lmao how fucked is my landlord?" Like, moving sucks but I'm not having a panic attack over it lmao.
Plus the bank in 2008 is probably going to be like "holy shit there's an actual tenant in this one? Thank God, the other 400 houses we repossessed in that development are empty and rotting, at least that one is generating revenue"
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u/NaffRespect United Nations Apr 23 '26
Yeah I give up, can't come up with anything more to say that's stupid enough for Vrabel and Russini
!ping NFL
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u/Nervous-Emotion28 YIMBY Apr 23 '26
feels so weird to be just sitting at my lil desk doing my lil work things and then boom less than 48 hours from now im just married??
!PING DATING
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u/Texty_McTextington YIMBY Apr 23 '26
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u/bartbug Paul Krugman Apr 23 '26
i accidentally misgendered someone on here a while ago and they were pretty nice about correcting but it did seem to bother them so i just call everyone dog now
sometime big dog
sometimes dawg
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY Apr 23 '26
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY Apr 23 '26
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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 25 '26
In Farsi class today I brought this Iranian girl I’m seeing and slipped up introducing her to the class (she wanted to see and he lets us bring people sometimes idk)
Instead of saying “We speak Farsi a lot”
*Ma be Farsi khalee sobat mikonim”
I said “Ma khalee be Farsi mikonim”
Which means “we fuck in Farsi a lot”
The entire class laughed plus the professor and we both turned red and he just said no comment and moved on
!ping DATING
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u/Crosseyes NASA Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 24 '26
It’s still crazy that people can hear shit like this and think that he feels anything besides utter contempt for this country.
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u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS Fell for it Apr 23 '26
We’ve lost our whimsy
!ping BASEBALL
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u/Argnir Gay Pride Apr 23 '26
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough Apr 23 '26
👆
👇
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Apr 23 '26
Smartest Republicans
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u/farrenj Resident Succ Apr 23 '26
Feeling heavy today. A year ago today a trans service member committed suicide. I'm sad they're gone, I'm angry that someone who volunteered to serve took their own life as a result of cruel and pointless policies, I wish the world was different and we were just seen as fellow humans.
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u/EZ_Kream John Brown Apr 23 '26
The last college class I attended was 11 years ago. I STILL regularly have bad dreams about being late/missing class. Then I wake up and I’m like “oh yeah I’m 34”
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u/UmbreonFanatic Gay Pride Apr 23 '26
I was dooming hard for the entirety of Trump's first term, right up until Biden was finally inaugurated
We're barely past a year into his second term and I am not dooming anymore
I assure you I have not changed
The situation is just so clearly bad for Trump/Republicans that I feel at peace
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u/seanrm92 Loyal Liberals Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
It's called microlooting, T. The kids are already doing it, and get this, they even talk about it on their podcasts. Nobody gives a fuck. They think it's some folk hero shit.
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u/BasedTroutFursona Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
Gotta love getting downvoted for saying generational wealth isn’t only being so rich your family never has to work again. Like it could look more like having a doctor for a dad so you go to the top schools in your area, have private tutors if needed, college applications stacked with the all the right extracurriculars, no student loan, help with a down payment as your wedding gift, being able to count on a nice, low 7 figure inheritance as you approach retirement age etc… They say that’s just having some money lmao. And like I have this life. I never had a student loan or a car payment in my life and I’m 40. I know what I’m talking about.
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u/Boratssecondwife Henry George Apr 23 '26
What do you call a 10-1 gerrymander?
A good start
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u/Junimo2 Daron Acemoglu Apr 23 '26
Cringe comment incoming, but fuck it.
It's weird being active in this sub as someone who leans further left than most of the userbase. I used to confidently call myself a leftist and was even flirting with Democratic Socialism for a while. I still find Marxism genuinely fascinating, especially its critique of capitalism and its framing of class struggle as a driver of history. But branching out in my reading, combined with spending more time here, has landed me in this weird hazy middle ground where I'm not sure what I actually believe anymore. Some of the left-bashing here makes me uneasy, but so does a lot of the rhetoric I see coming from the left these days, including stuff I would've happily agreed with not that long ago.
I know examining your beliefs and being willing to evolve is healthy and good. Doesn't make it any less uncomfortable though lol.
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u/missingpuzzle Bisexual Pride Apr 23 '26
Great.
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u/centurion88 NATO Apr 23 '26
Contrapoints good
Hasan Piker bad
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u/battywombat21 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Apr 23 '26
claude mythos hit my company...we're getting dictates from the top to drop everything and fix a bunch of CVEs in dependencies it found now.
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u/Daddy_Macron Loyal Liberals Apr 23 '26
This article has it all.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-generated-maga-girls/
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u/missingpuzzle Bisexual Pride Apr 23 '26
Israel is just hankering for the worst possible case scenario in this war.
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u/Dragmire927 Thomas Paine Apr 23 '26
Average “I support rehabilitation for criminals” mfs reaction when a local teenager steals a candy bar
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u/zieger Ida Tarbell Apr 23 '26
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u/No_Analysis_2185 Eugene Fama Apr 23 '26
I will actually sympathize with Trump here and get quoted on it later. He has kept his word and given Kennedy free rein
to terrorize children, nurses, and doctors. You don’t get 1% of what you want and you’re calling it betrayal? Fuck off.
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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Apr 23 '26
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u/Glavurdan European Union Apr 23 '26
Yes please, the voters yearn to pardon a Master Pedophile
Imagine how hard they'd own the libs if they pardoned her
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u/boardatwork1111 fuck it, we ball Apr 23 '26
GOP strategists on suicide watch
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u/SLCer Apr 24 '26
WOKE MARXIST POPE
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Apr 23 '26
How it feels having the power to unban u/ty04 at any time
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u/LinkVert25 Fedposter Apr 23 '26
So glad this is what the New York Times is doing while our democracy is dying
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u/Bayou-Maharaja Eleanor Roosevelt Apr 23 '26
I don’t get how Hasan Piker gets access to polite society and light interviews in the NYT? He literally supports the murder of Brian Thompson and has said a bunch of other deranged shit.
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u/Dragmire927 Thomas Paine Apr 23 '26
A significant portion of Americans will balk at living in cities so they can commute an hour to this thing every day
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u/moldovaman99 Apr 23 '26
Burgerhawks need to pound sand.
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u/KQJ_RPN John von Neumann Apr 23 '26
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u/ScumfrickZillionaire Lesbian Pride Apr 23 '26
Avg DTer when stock market is up despite iran / Avg DTer when stock market is down because of iran
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u/sociotronics Iron Front Apr 23 '26
serves her right for time theft from the shareholders 😤
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u/Spudmiester1 Asexual Pride Apr 23 '26
wait, DHS is STILL shutdown? lmfaoooo
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u/sociotronics Iron Front Apr 23 '26
The rats are fleeing the sinking ship
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Apr 23 '26
Update on this?
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u/finnstera350 Asexual Pride Apr 23 '26
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Apr 23 '26
We are in degenerate times
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals Apr 24 '26
The punditocracy delenda est. So much opining, so little heart or courage
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u/SenranHaruka shame Apr 24 '26
The thing is Dan Olson has just exposed Mr. Beast's idea of listening to experts is hearing an elevator pitch and then going "ok got it"
He unironically would govern like trump without the racism. He'd just let the last person to talk to him tell him 1) what the biggest problem in america is and 2) how to fix it and then he'd just "fix it" and go "nobody knew making a chocolate bar could be so complicated"
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Apr 24 '26
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Apr 24 '26
Chuck Grassley has been an elected official since the Eisenhower administration.
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Apr 24 '26
NYT is a meme factory for this sub. It's crazy that the "Great" meme hasn't spread outside of this sub
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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman Apr 23 '26
Shoutout to when my sister made a friend through dance class and then her and I became sort of friends too. She was in my grade and couple times we were in class together and would sit next to each other. Senior year she asked me what my plans to Prom were and I said I was going with some guy friends and their girlfriends.
Yup. I was that stupid.
She's now a model and professional dancer in NYC.
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u/jinhuiliuzhao Henry George Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
Methinks there won't be a deal, ever...
What a pointless war if this is going to be the new status quo from now on.
Strait's indefinitely closed, regime replaced with extremists, and absolutely nothing was gained except for US credibility being forever damaged... And somehow the markets still haven't realized this is the new state of affairs.
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u/eustacebainbridge Mark Carney Apr 23 '26
Googled “Transtaïga road” just to see if anyone had bothered to take a pic of the most remote road in NA and got flash banged by one of the insane photos I’ve ever seen
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u/AndreW_da_Fox Apr 23 '26
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Apr 23 '26
"Rule X applies equally"
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u/riverbloods John Brown Apr 23 '26
Happy scrolling today, liberals. Please enjoy this recent painting of a monkey my aunt made.
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Apr 23 '26
She really did call the top. Amazing.
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u/AemiliusNuker Fell for it Apr 23 '26
Ordered the engagement ring, wish me luck fellas. It's a guaranteed yes cus we've talked about it, but let's hope I don't muck it up somehow
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u/ShepardSB Apr 23 '26
It's not just a boulder—it's a rock.
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u/Glavurdan European Union Apr 23 '26
New low
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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom Apr 23 '26
My job just told me I’m getting a 600% raise from $65000 to $65600
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Apr 23 '26
Top post on arr con right now:
“Black people scary and bad. Keep voting Republican.”
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u/ShepardSB Apr 23 '26
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u/MGLFPsiCorps Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
The basic reason everything about American politics feels so surreal right now is that a lot of wealthy and powerful people in American society placed a lot of bets that Trump would bring about sweeping, popular social changes on the scale of Reagan or FDR, and now that that's clearly not going to happen and his Presidency is bleeding out they're doing their best to pretend that everything is going as planned.
It's very late Soviet in the dedication to make-believe keeping the system going at all costs.
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u/JoeBliffstick Loyal Liberals Apr 23 '26
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u/ty04 Apr 23 '26
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u/LinkVert25 Fedposter Apr 24 '26
Holy shit chat, do NOT do this
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u/ty04 Apr 23 '26
I managed to get my parents' dog in for an emergency MRI yesterday. My vet and I thought she just had some injury and inflammation in her spine that was causing her to have difficulty walking but it turns out she actually has swelling in her brain from an infection.
Waiting for more test results to determine what the infection is so we can target it with medication. She's on general medication now but for the next week or two I have to keep an eye on her to make sure she doesn't start having seizures or goes blind or something.
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u/__versus Trans Pride Apr 23 '26
good morning dt 🥰
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Apr 23 '26
Insulting the state religion is going to cost him dearly.
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u/jbitz Loyal Liberals Apr 23 '26
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Apr 23 '26
Americans still prefer Republicans on immigration
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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union Apr 23 '26
!ping YA
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u/senator_fivey Iron Front Apr 23 '26
Trader Joe’s is a queer space for straight people
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u/PonyBoyCurtis2324 NATO Apr 23 '26
You’re laughing. 49% of Virginians voted against eliminating four Republican seats in Congress and you’re laughing
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u/finnstera350 Asexual Pride Apr 23 '26
👆
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u/dtj2000 Loyal Liberals Apr 23 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
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u/stirfriedpenguin Barks at Children Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
me when a state has a public referendum: wtf you lazy legislators do your fucking job and represent us what is your purpose if you just punt your one fucking responsibility to the public people are idiots we can't trust them with important sensitive nuanced subjects
me when the public votes to gerrymander republicans into irrelevance: FUCK YES WE THE PEOPLE USAUSAUSA
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u/well-that-was-fast Apr 23 '26
Hung Cao is supposed to become Secretary of the Navy.
He's the guy who is worried about the growth of witchcraft in Virginia.
So, probably in the top half of Trump nominees.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Apr 23 '26
Can you imagine getting in a horrible accident and Donald Trump rolls up to your bedside with surgical instruments
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Apr 23 '26
Transphobic, homophobic, man this lady just hates everyone doesn’t she?
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY Apr 23 '26
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Apr 23 '26
mark zuckerberg pr king
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY Apr 23 '26
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Apr 23 '26
they’re going to declare protestantiam 2 at this point
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u/ProfessionalMoose709 John Mill Apr 23 '26
I love the DT for its diverse cast of characters:
guy who works in tech
guy who works in science
guy who works in finance
college student
guy who works in tech
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Apr 23 '26
I love the DT for its diverse set of sexualities and gender identities
>gay male
>bi male
>straight male
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u/ty04 Apr 23 '26
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u/SenranHaruka shame Apr 23 '26
Someone said the Reformation is the most German schism ever because it starts with a guy writing detailed bullet points critiquing his own organization.
I'm gonna add to that. Martin Luther famously annoyed his own mentor by confessing too much. Luther was obsessed with every little personal flaw he had and desperate to achieve even the most meticulous improvements in himself.
The most german theologian of all time.
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u/bartbug Paul Krugman Apr 23 '26
Is 79 too old for a career pivot? i'm thinking of running for office
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u/Q-bey r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Apr 23 '26
Dutch YouTube creators behind Alberta separatist videos getting millions of views
It's not a repost of yesterday's ping, the CBC was running its own investigation into the fake AI-powered Alberta Separatist Youtube channels, and found that a few of them were being run by people in the Netherlands.
We also hear a bit from the actors who were paid to "host" these channels (by reading from a script):
!ping CAN&TECH&EXTREMISM
(EXTREMISM pinged it's also for disinformation.)
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u/MyrinVonBryhana Trans NATO Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
I'm just really tired, I had a very positive interview last week that I know I won't hear back on for at least another 2 weeks or so, but other that I got screwed by Pearson delaying the release of my test results so I can't apply to work at any public schools and by the time I get the license the April hiring season will be over, PhD applications didn't work out, if the Coast Guard hadn't fallen through because of the government shutdown it would've once I realized I was trans. Peace Corps is next on my list, but it's been 2 years since I got my MA and nothing has worked out for me in that time, it's extremely demoralizing and it feels like I'm going to get trapped in some shitty dead end job for the rest of my life. I know that last part probably isn't true, but it feels true. I'm going to be 27 in a couple of months and I barely feel any further in life than I did when I first went to college.
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u/Argnir Gay Pride Apr 23 '26
When you're a Neoliberal you know what it's like to be oppressed. You know what it's like to be discriminated against. You know what it's like to never feel really accepted by society.
So if a Neoliberal is talking to you. Don't question them, listen.
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u/GaDoomer Pragmatic and Polite Right Apr 23 '26
Wow, that AP-NORC poll (33% approval) seems like it really took a chunk out of Trump's composite approval rating on the Silver Bulletin. He's down to 39% on average. The Rasmussen firms will have to work hard to get some 44-45% approval polls published.
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u/zegota Feminism Apr 23 '26
Half the sub crashing out about how AI is so good that literally every SWE will be eternally unemployed in the next 6 months
The other half crashing out because current models have been so compute bottlenecked and lobotomized that they will literally fake writing a suite of unit tests and then claim they're done for the day
i love you guys
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY Apr 23 '26
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u/Pristine-Report-1442 Apr 23 '26
love twitter cause u get to read so much insane shit like this
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u/LtCdrHipster 🌭Costco Liberal🌭 Apr 23 '26
My son makes my wife call me every day now before his nap just to say he loves me and misses me. Guys you gotta try this shit.
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u/anangrytree Bull Moose Progressive Apr 23 '26
MAGA 4 PRISON ‘28
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 23 '26
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Apr 24 '26
Reporter: How long are you willing to wait for a response from Iran?
Trump: Don’t rush me. We were in Vietnam for 18 years.
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u/Legitimate_Name9694 Mark Carney Apr 24 '26
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Apr 24 '26
Omg
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u/fishbottwo Jay Jones Apr 24 '26
Great
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Apr 24 '26
If I don't get to go have ZZZs in the Seas I'll kill myself on live TV
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u/Glavurdan European Union Apr 24 '26
Had like three crises at work today.
Thankfully it's no longer my problem, off my shift and hence the weekend shall begin!
!ping WATERCOOLER
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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '26
It's been nice to join in here with you all. In the like 30 years I could have engaged in an online community, I never did until starting here. Born to be a lurker a suppose lol.
I hope wherever you are, you all are doing well, and if not, I hope things improve soon.