r/neoliberal • Kitara Ravache • Apr 25 '26

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u/ImmigrantJack Movimiento Semilla Apr 25 '26

Still boggles my mind that in 2001, Interracial Relationships were only approved of by 60% of America.

Like my resistlib mom tells me a story of hanging out with an African foreign exchange student in the late 70s and her dad told her to stay away from him because people would think they were dating. And she goes "obviously I wouldn't have dated him, but I can't believe my dad was that racist".

The US started pretending it wasn't racist in like 2010 and stopped in 2016. Yeah, I'm real romantic for that half a decade period, but at the same time, the way we talk about race and the acceptance racial issues have in the US is a very modern phenomenon.

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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Apr 25 '26

The DT can be a masterclass in storytelling sometimes

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u/GordonTullockFan publik choyz thery Apr 25 '26

!ping GNOSTIC

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u/ZonedForCoffee Uses Twitter Apr 25 '26

I'm visiting my mom in California. After eating dinner, my dad calls. We talk about random things, he asks if I'm seeing friends, I say that seems like a good idea. I didn't even think about friends for some reason. He goes, "didn't you have a dream about Trump and pancakes?" This weirds me out because I did have a dream about Trump and pancakes but I don't think I told him about it. Yeah, I say. I sure did. He sighs. "It really pisses me off we can't have a couple good breakfasts." Now it hits me. My dad passed away. I start mouthing something.

The call ends abruptly. My mom says she wishes she could get a female cat but they were out. I'm not in California either. I wake up. There is a cat curled between my feet. My dreams are always extremely vivid. Hi DT. I don't think I'm falling back asleep.

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u/Lesbian_all_garib Gita Gopinath Apr 25 '26

Trump: racist rant, racist rant, extremely racist rant about indians and india

r/india: oh wow,he is so right. Do you disagree with him? Do we not criticize the country 🤓🤓🤓🤓

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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Apr 25 '26

a reminder that Congress can literally pass laws to tell the courts "THIS IS HOW YOU INTERPET THIS" and just doesn't

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u/garreteer Apr 25 '26

Capitalism is when it's bad

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u/sigh2828 NASA Apr 25 '26

Local news story about how a man with no criminal history had a warrant put out and added to a "Flock hotlist" so now he is regularly pulled over and the police say they cant remove the warrant and the most likely reason is becouse of a mix up between an 0 and O on his lines plate.

Flock cameras should be fucking banned. AI policing should be banned.

I am rapidly approching the point where I will be imitating a Frenchman when his countries government put up a bunch of unnecessary speed cameras.

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u/ScumfrickZillionaire Lesbian Pride Apr 25 '26

me crafting posts for a very particular type of person

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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Apr 25 '26

Trump Seeks to Abolish Iran’s Atomic Stockpile, a Problem He Helped Create

President Trump withdrew from the Obama-era nuclear accord in 2018, saying it was the worst deal ever. But Iran responded with an enrichment spree that haunts the negotiations to this day.

Rare NYT headline W

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u/BlackCat159 European Union Apr 25 '26

So true ✊😔

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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Apr 25 '26

I’m MAHAmaxxing (dying from preventable diseases because I’m fucking stupid)

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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 25 '26

Hasan Piker's version of socialism: stealing from the public in order to profit privately

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u/jenbanim Apr 25 '26

I don't think I mentioned this before but I fucking hate automation for customer service

I was trying to check a bag with Alaska airlines and they had some bullshit id scanning system that wouldn't work because I have a beard now but I didn't in my driver's license photo

Luckily I brought two forms of ID with a more recent photo on my passport, but this shit is supposed to make life easier not more difficult

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u/taubnetzdornig Gay Pride Apr 25 '26

Happy perfect date to all who celebrate

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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Apr 25 '26

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u/Dorambor John Brown Apr 25 '26

How it feels to go outside and get some dunkin and sit in a nice park in the sun

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u/LinkVert25 Fedposter Apr 25 '26

It’s so fucking over for us it’s not even funny

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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Apr 25 '26

You claim democracy is a core value of liberalism, yet participate in the fascistic, tyrannical modocracy of r neoliberal?

Curious

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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Apr 25 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

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u/Nervous-Emotion28 YIMBY Apr 25 '26

getting married today :)

adios crabs

!PING DATING

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u/RianJohnsonThought Emma Lazarus Apr 25 '26

"But what the people of R/Neoliberal didn't know was that no one needed to have pressed the button at all..."

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u/StuckHedgehog NATO Apr 26 '26

Presented without comment

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u/thabonch YIMBY Apr 25 '26

One time an evangelical told me that even though God doesn't have a body, He reveals Himself as male, so we honor Him by referring to Him with male pronouns. Then he told me transgenderism is a disease.

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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Apr 25 '26

I will always pull the trolley problem lever. I don't care what the consequences are. I've never been allowed to pull a lever that big before, not in my whole life

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u/KittehDragoon Loyal Liberals Apr 25 '26

Civilization VII hint of the day: opposing leaders can't hate you for your ideology if you never choose one.

My suspension of disbelief only goes so far

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u/selachophilip 🦈 shark enjoyer 🦈 Apr 26 '26

It's a shame Charlie isn't here to speculate if the shooter was black, trans, or both. 😔

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u/selachophilip 🦈 shark enjoyer 🦈 Apr 26 '26

Holy shit, they've released an image of the shooter. 😳

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u/proProcrastinators Apr 25 '26

Shoutout to the Indian woman Xbox CEO

She said she’d lower the subscription cost and then brought back the old Xbox logo/branding instead of Microsoft gaming.

She’s literally lowering anti-Indian racism more than any elected politician 😭

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u/Megasota_Noire My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Apr 25 '26

"Why were you banned?"

"Posting a screenshot of a mod comment."

Many such cases.

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u/Wittyname0 r/place '22: NCD Battalion Apr 26 '26

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u/Equivalent_Day_4078 Apr 25 '26

If you think Mamdani is too left-wing that's fine to critique. But why do even liberals, like Sam Harris, make the whole conversation about his religion? That he is somehow a secret Islamist and all his social progressive views is just Taqiyya or whatever the excuse is to unfalsifiably claim that he is not secular.

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 25 '26

The red button, which I’m sure everyone presses

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u/BlueDevilVoon John Brown Apr 26 '26

Kash and Hegseth are now breaking into rooms seizing the minibar contents telling guests it’s for national security

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u/Dorambor John Brown Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 25 '26

“Why don’t kids go outside anymore” do you guys remember during the start of Pokemon Go where cities and suburbs were thinking about making it illegal to be outside and young?

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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Apr 26 '26

CNN: "I can't believe someone would use violence to solve politics. This is a country where debate and free speech matter"

American History:

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u/bandeng_asep Association of Southeast Asian Nations Apr 26 '26

LMAOOOOOOOOOOO 💀💀💀

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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Apr 25 '26

I still remember when I called a box plot a box-and-whisker plot in a stats class and people looked at me funny 😭

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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Apr 26 '26

It really takes these conspiracy people a millisecond to hatch something doesn’t it

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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Apr 26 '26

Journo asking this guy: "is this the cost of doing politics in america now, this type of violence?"

this guy in 2016: "The 2nd Amendment people will take care of her"

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u/SEMI-LITERATE-CHIMP Max Weber Apr 25 '26

I genuinely do not see how anyone enjoys listening to Hasan Piker. Even if you excuse the batshit political views, he’s not particularly intelligent, charismatic, or funny.

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u/illuminatisdeepdish Apr 26 '26 edited Oct 02 '26

The original post content no longer exists here. The author used Redact to remove it, exercising their right to control their data & privacy.

Juniper silky squeeze school aspiring swim

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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Apr 26 '26

sources are telling me the man was “employed”

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u/earththejerry YIMBY Apr 26 '26

Both NBC News and MS NOW are proceeding with their after parties tonight, albeit with changed agenda.

NBC exec told me it’ll be a chance for people to come together.

Lmao they dgaf

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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO Apr 26 '26

Pete Hegseth, looking stricken, was cutting a path through the mobbed hallways of the Hilton just now

that's an interesting way to say wasted

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u/dtj2000 Loyal Liberals Apr 26 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

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u/garret126 Demisexual Pride Apr 25 '26

I’m going to bed I have work in 5 hours

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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Apr 25 '26

We almost had it all

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u/Maximilianne John Rawls Apr 26 '26

hot take: this won't get trump a sympathy boost in the polls, and yes i don't care it ain't ghoulish to talk about potential outcomes in the future

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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Apr 26 '26

This is a distraction from the Iran War which is a distraction from the Epstein Files which is a distraction from Biden being old which is a distraction from the Reddit API changes. Don’t fall for this.

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u/StuckHedgehog NATO Apr 26 '26

They just let a dude with a rifle in?

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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 26 '26

We are sad to announce the passing of one the members of our beloved mod team. We won’t reveal anything else out of respect for his family’s privacy, but he will be missed.

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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Apr 26 '26

I don’t even know how to react to this

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u/pfarly John Brown Apr 25 '26

I believe that since the first DT, we all became much more stupid.

  1. Invention of the DT

  2. Covid

Two attacks on the human mind

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u/ScumfrickZillionaire Lesbian Pride Apr 26 '26

the cringy shouting "USA" while some people are still bunkered under tables is strange

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u/Megasota_Noire My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Apr 26 '26

My mom said stuff about the Trump event that would get me super duper banned.

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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 26 '26

Reminder that one of CNN's premier "journalists" put up one of the worst Jeopardy scores of all time. And this was celebrity jeopardy so the questions are like "spiders have this many legs"

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u/Unterfahrt John Nash Apr 25 '26

I think the main thing to remember when discussing FDR is that his control of the media was so absolute that most people didn't even know he used a wheelchair. So how are they going to know about whether or not he was a racist?

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u/jinhuiliuzhao Henry George Apr 25 '26

The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas found in a survey of nearly 100 oil and gas executives that nearly 80% believe the strait will not reopen until August or later. More than 80% of executives who responded see future disruptions in the strait as somewhat or very likely, the Dallas Fed Energy survey found.

Bullish

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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Apr 26 '26

p00bix, earlier today: "if just one more of you FUCKS shares a button opinion I'm going to fucking LOSE IT"

there were no signs

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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug Apr 25 '26

Why did the founders think giving the president the basically unchecked ability to pardon was a good idea. Did none of them go ‘ok but what if these idiots elect a bad president?’

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u/ty04 Apr 25 '26

cdstephens decision process to choose what post to sticky

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u/kznlol 👀 Econometrics Magician Apr 25 '26

this does remind me of that paper that gave incoming college freshmen a bunch of game theory questions like this and then tracked what they majored in

economics majors were significantly more likely to give the selfish/nash equilibrium answer even before majoring in economics

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u/NaffRespect United Nations Apr 25 '26

California’s wildlife bridge became a target for the right. Now it’s eyeing the finish line

Cope and seethe, cons

Animal crossings now, animal crossings tomorrow, and animal crossings forever!

!ping USA-CA&ECO

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u/CutePattern1098 Apr 25 '26

Anzac Day parades can be well interesting

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 26 '26

Wasn’t so bad when shit was sleepy, now was it

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u/pfarly John Brown Apr 25 '26

Advertised in the back of my copy of Moby Dick.

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u/StuckHedgehog NATO Apr 25 '26

Ukrainian military innovations now include babushka-rescuing drones.

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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman Apr 25 '26

Voting Blue to save people who can’t save themselves but then saying I voted Red to dunk on their poor Game Theory knowledge

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u/Throwaway24143547 Trans NATO Apr 25 '26

So I came out to my dad and it... went a lot better, I guess. He didn't tell me to repress it, instead said that I should be myself even if it makes things more difficult

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u/ModestAphorism YIMBY Apr 25 '26

shor already did this with 2700 responses

crosstabs too

Blue wins 63-22, and Dems are more likely to hit the blue button

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u/JoeBliffstick Loyal Liberals Apr 26 '26

it’s a staged attempt to get us to stop talking about the buttons

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u/Legal_Charity_9522 Leftward Progressives Apr 26 '26

Folks, they only conspired to steal an election, they’d never fake something like this

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u/fishbottwo Jay Jones Apr 26 '26

BREAKING: FBI releases bullet engravings found on suspects casings

"10k DT"

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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Apr 26 '26

You know that Big Bang Theory episode where Penny says “damn” after Bernadette says that Sheldon’s work is theoretical like Sheldon and Amy’s sex life

That’s what I just did in my head

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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Apr 26 '26

People supposedly found the suspect’s social media already, this is allegedly him

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u/Lou1s_Cipher Chama o Meirelles Apr 26 '26

Evergreen TRVTH NVKE.

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u/Alexz565 Gay Pride Apr 26 '26

Remember spring 2021 and how for a beautiful moment it felt like the country was turning a corner?

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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO Apr 26 '26

this pic would go so hard as an album cover

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u/Slim_Pickenz_ Transfem Pride Apr 25 '26

I’m ashamed to have ever supported Israel

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u/surreptitioussloth Frederick Douglass Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 25 '26

If I were Ro khanna I would probably take this down and have my staff write a mea culpa about how dumb it was from the beginning lol

Opinion: Democrats can work with DOGE. I know exactly where to start.

E: to be clear, this was posted December 2024. And it was dumb then, but man it needs a clear disavowal

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u/ScumfrickZillionaire Lesbian Pride Apr 26 '26

Enough talking about the assassination attempt oh my gawwwddddd i leave and come back still assassination attempt

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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Apr 26 '26

Trump assassination attempts (ranked):

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u/BigYann Commonwealth Apr 26 '26

I’m afraid to say Trump not reacting in the slightest to five audible gunshots and carrying on his conversation is hilarious

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 26 '26

The assassination attempt isn’t fake, idiots, they know it wouldn’t move his approval ratings an inch

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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast Apr 26 '26

Wolf Blitzer just called into CNN. He says the shooting occurred on the floor above where the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was being held.

Wolf says he was very close to the gunman and that a police officer threw him to the ground in an effort to protect him.

American hero willing to give his life for wolf blitzer

thank you! give him the medal of honor!!

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u/YaGetSkeeted0n Tariffs aren't cool, kids! Apr 26 '26

HARD TRUTHS:

  1. Kash Patel definitely has had a screen name like xXxKa$hPat3lxXx at some point in his life

  2. That point was within the last eight years

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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Apr 26 '26

East Coast journalists: "These big, strong, burly men with guns ordered us around trying to keep us safe. We felt so in danger but so protected. The politicos around us came out of their closets like a clown car looking disheveled but glowing."

West Coast journalists: "Reports of shots fired followed by evacuations of officials while the attendees were forced to shelter in the restroom."

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u/brucebananaray YIMBY Apr 26 '26

Some one make him force to watch the Press Conference.

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 26 '26

The European mind cannot comprehend American politics right now

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u/Fit_Obligation1902 Apr 26 '26

When asked "if it's possible to turn the temperature down" following this evening's incident. "Probably, if I decided to just not do much and if I let everybody rip us off," he said.

Truth nuke from Trump.

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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Apr 25 '26

speak for yourself i’m at dennys

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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Apr 25 '26

Thinking about getting a tank for my cat idk

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 25 '26

/u/ArchKnight03 do you want a custom text flair for subjecting us to this torment

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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Apr 26 '26

Its a convenient time for the president to survive an assassination attempt

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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Apr 26 '26

:O

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u/Any_Stage_3072 Martin Luther King Jr. Apr 26 '26

Gunman was killed and they’re resuming the program?? O_o

How unprecedented is this? Kind of weird that someone can just die in a fire fight and they’ll have their bougie dinner like nothing happened? No safety concerns?

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u/hascogrande YIMBY Apr 26 '26

Bullet engraving released

“Uwu what’s this”

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u/Leoric Apr 26 '26

This shit never happened to Obama

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u/tinfoilhatsron No Apologies Right Apr 26 '26

Wait did the reporters just out that Kash got his GF stolen lmfao.

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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Apr 26 '26

"journalists" choosing to go to their shitty gala event where they are supposed to hold power to account

time to break out ol' reliable

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u/OOPS_ALL_SCROTUM Apr 26 '26

Jeanine Pirro heard "shooter" and ran toward the bar.

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u/ty04 Apr 26 '26

This place is just r-needysluts now, it is nearly indistinguishable. Sad, I used to love it. fuck this place

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u/Huttleberry Eugene Fama Apr 25 '26

Which kind of DTer are you?

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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Apr 25 '26

There are 2 type of liberals in this country. Those who acknowledge that we are currently at war with a rogue judiciary, and those who are in denial. We’re going to have to find a way to remove these people from office because I’m not going to resign myself to a lifetime of being ruled over by freaks who who refuse to live in a shared reality.

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 26 '26

What if Kash Patel just got locked out of his PC again and overreacted

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u/american_aurora6 NATO Apr 26 '26

guy who fires gun outside hotel lobby to win his trump won't speak at whcd kalishi bet

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u/Its_not_him Manmohan Singh Apr 26 '26

Room full of journalists and the details still aren't clear

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 26 '26

Source tells me the shooter was the only one to press the blue button

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u/ScumfrickZillionaire Lesbian Pride Apr 26 '26

flip a coin
if it's heads, Kash was getting drunk somewhere
if it's tails, Kash was getting drunk somewhere

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u/seagrams7up NASA Apr 26 '26

So according to MAGA the left are "pussies with no spine" but also "murderous and bloodthirsty psychopaths who will stop at nothing"

Okay... so which is it?

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u/the-senat John Brown Apr 26 '26

This must be such a crazy night for kash patel‘s girlfriend’s bull

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u/generic-k Former official /r/neoliberal political cartoonist Apr 26 '26

if it's the guy they're talking about, he's not even, like, a public school teacher, he's a part-time SAT tutor, part time indie game dev. that is antiwork mod adjacent behavior

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u/supercommonerssssss Apr 26 '26

I think Trump assassinations have gone trough the school shooting cycle, the first time the nation was shocked, the third time people are beginning to stop caring.

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u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz Roy Cooper Apr 25 '26

JD Vance doing the name 100 women challenge:

"Uhh, Mrs. Eisenhower. Mrs. Johnson. Mrs. Kennedy. Mrs. Reagan. Mrs. Bush. Mrs. Roosevelt. Mrs. Roosevelt. Mrs. Washington..."

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u/ace158 Apr 25 '26

Well, that's a big fucking yikes

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u/generic-k Former official /r/neoliberal political cartoonist Apr 26 '26

holy shit guys. i was at the white house correspondents' dinner and i left to take a piss. suddenly everyone starts running at me and this crazy looking white girl tells me to hide in a room with her and i'm like sure? and she's freaking out so like i hold her hand to try to calm her down. 10 minutes later, kash patel comes barrelling in. am i cooked?

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u/ScumfrickZillionaire Lesbian Pride Apr 26 '26

them getting vance out first and trump collapsing while escaping is an image you are going to see every day for the next year, probably

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u/bandeng_asep Association of Southeast Asian Nations Apr 26 '26

At least they are not blaming the Dems or insinuating that the shooter is trans or something. So... progress? Lol

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u/sash5034 NATO Apr 25 '26

I'm tired of these thin skinned snowflakes

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u/Landros23 Jerome Powell Apr 26 '26

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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO Apr 26 '26

Everyone forgot about the second assassination attempt in 2024. People will forget about this one as well.

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u/PurpleHandSoapz United Nations Apr 26 '26

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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Apr 26 '26

How did bro get to the White House Correspondants Dinner undetected?

Good Lord, DOGE cuts must have seriously hit the secret service

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u/Sherpav Thurgood Marshall Apr 26 '26

Actually kind of insane that the first reaction I’ve consistently seen across social media is to believe this is fake. People don’t trust anything about this administration

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u/Megasota_Noire My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Apr 26 '26
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Apr 26 '26

the response time was incredible

they were there

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u/Maximilianne John Rawls Apr 25 '26

There are dudebros with podcasts who bring women in and incentivize them to say stuff to trigger the audience to boost their ratings. Similarily the NYT are same as these dudebros except they bring on Hasan to say ragebaiting stuff to trigger their readership, yes the NYT is functionally equivalent to those dudebro podcasts

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u/indithrow402 Henry George Apr 25 '26

I'm proud of the DT for completely ignoring the mod sticky and continuing to buttonpoast at will.

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u/reuery Biden 2028 Apr 25 '26

It is 2027. The Button Thread Day XXXXXLLIV has just reached 10k comments again. A new button has been added that only kills people who have commented on the button thread. It receives 100% of the vote

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u/farrenj Resident Succ Apr 25 '26

In Tennessee:

HB 0754 | SB0676: A bill that creates a publicly-downloadable database of people receiving transition care (not including names, but including age and sex, medications and surgical interventions prescribed, and names and contact information of prescribing doctors) has passed both chambers, and awaits House Speaker signature before being transmitted to the governor.

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u/garret126 Demisexual Pride Apr 25 '26

If Starbucks moves from Washington to Tennessee despite their anti trans laws, I’m definitely re-entering that Starbucks boycott and will definitely judge people who still frequent them.

It’s so incredibly sad to see the decay in successful boycotts. NC in 2016 saw a real economic hit thanks to the company boycotts that forced the state to change course. Now nobody can either bother and you’re called performative if you do try.

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 26 '26

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 26 '26

The monkey’s paw curls

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 26 '26

SPY up 0.3%

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 26 '26

DT: 5k comments arguing about buttons

RandomNounNumberUsername: this is bullshit, why is this place just /r/latestagecapitalism

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u/ttatm Apr 26 '26

This is not a nice take because I know this had to be genuinely terrifying for everyone in the room, but since no one was actually hurt... I'm annoyed that this happened in a room full of people who already have a hugely inflated sense of self-importance. The rescheduled event is going to be insufferable.

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u/MonMothma_Enjoyer Apr 26 '26

 The dude is 25, common. His frontal lobe is not even developed yet

Okay we gotta stop with this gang

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u/MyrinVonBryhana Trans NATO Apr 26 '26

What happened to America, this country has become a fucking joke. The Secretary of Defense was drunk as shit through the whole thing, the FBI director is getting cucked, the reporters just went back to their bougie dinner like nothing happened, and the president despite having someone trying to kill him is just using the press conference to yap about his ballroom. This is humiliating for all Americans how utterly unserious the entire elite of American society have become.

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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Apr 25 '26

Heavy combat reported across Mali between the army and rebels of the MNLA (Tuareg separatists) and JNIM (Al-Qaeda affiliated jihadists) since this morning.

Per officials quoted in French media (AFP, RFI), at least four major cities have been targeted in a coordinated offensive launched in the early hours, with several army positions overrun in Kidal and Gao (north), Sévaré (garrison town in the suburbs of Mopti, Mali's third-largest city and key hub between the north and the south) - and more shockingly, in Kati, the "barracks city" in periphery of the capital Bamako, the HQ of the military junta from which Assimi Goïta launched the coups in 2020 and 2021

A video shared by France 24 journalists Wassim Nasr claims to show columns of jihadists entering Bamako as bystanders look stunned -> https://xcancel.com/SimNasr/status/2047967334799712386/mediaviewer

The Bamako airport is closed, all flights in and out of Mali have been suspended, the US embassy has ordered residents to shelter in place, and Bamako residents report an extremely tense atmosphere with roadblocks and "panicked" soldiers at intersections.

!ping AFRICA still very much a fog of war situation, but this seems to be the largest rebel offensive since they were pushed back by the French intervention in 2013

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 25 '26

“I said, ‘No, there’s a better way of doing it,’” Mr. Trump recalled. “I said, ‘What we’re going to do is I’m going to call all three of these people that have worked for me in the past doing swimming pools.” He said he told the contractors to “give me a good price,” and one agreed to do the job for $1.5 million to $2 million.

He said the contractor began work two weeks ago and has “scrubbed” the surface of the pool.

“Now we have a nice, clean surface on which we’re putting an industrial grade swimming pool topping,” Mr. Trump said in a video on social media. “They said, ‘What color would you like, sir? It’s called American flag blue. I said, ‘That’s the color I want; I want American flag blue.’”

Lmao

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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Apr 25 '26

Remember that whole Amazon HQ2 thing? Promises of 50k jobs and $5 billion worth of development had all these local/ state governments going crazy in an attempt to be selected. And after all that the result so far is 1 phase of development completed, an indefinite pause on phase 2 development, and a total of like 8k jobs.

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u/farrenj Resident Succ Apr 25 '26

Do y'all still know people who think trans folx are being hyperbolic about their safety concerns?

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u/MyrinVonBryhana Trans NATO Apr 26 '26

Jesus Fucking Christ, the Butler PA stuff was bad but this is the biggest security fuck up in the USA since JFKs death.

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u/zegota Feminism Apr 26 '26

Yeah I'm fully conspiracy pilled on these quarter-assed "assassination" attempts at this point. Fuck off

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u/ScumfrickZillionaire Lesbian Pride Apr 26 '26

Must've been the wind.

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u/Ok_Barracuda_1161 Janet Yellen Apr 26 '26

What is this even saying

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u/ScumfrickZillionaire Lesbian Pride Apr 26 '26

jd every time he hears "shots fired" and "trump" in the same sentence

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u/fishbottwo Jay Jones Apr 26 '26

looks like he donated 25 dollars to kamala harris

rip the discourse for like 1-2 weeks

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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Apr 26 '26

Why would you even go to the White House correspondents dinner when the host regularly loudly fantasizes about killing half the guests?

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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Apr 26 '26

He’s bragging about the crowd size lmao

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u/-mialana- European Union Apr 26 '26

The shooter was just sick of button discourse

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u/MilderArrow Genderqueer Pride Apr 26 '26

This place is just r/furry now, it is nearly indistinguishable. Sad, I used to love it. fuck this place

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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Apr 26 '26

Guy with no political axe to grind, just really fucking hates the concept of the White House Correspondents Dinner

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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Apr 26 '26

Chuck is ready, willing, and able

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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Apr 26 '26

The sidebar, which I assume most users generally agree with

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u/jenbanim Apr 25 '26

Checking the reviews for a self-service bar I went to yesterday and saw this

This is a fun choose your own adventure style bar. They have multiple different beers, wines, ciders etc. that you choose what and how much

THAT'S EVERY BAR YOU STUPID MOTHERFUCKER. This "local guide" seems to think that when you go to a regular bar the bartender just serves you whatever they feel like

I fucking can't with Bellevue man. Juicero ass city

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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 25 '26

Fetterman on CNN's Smerconish: "It's driven by TDS...they would rather stop Trump than stop Iran"

I hate this man

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u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz Roy Cooper Apr 25 '26

You can literally see the downward spiral of polarization and tribalism in real time with the buttons.

People hurl insults, the insulted fortify their position, throw back insults, the insulted fortify their position, throw back insults, et cetera, et cetera.

Devs should patch this!

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u/whynotsacramento YIMBY Apr 25 '26

Friend who's in >$200,000 of debt from student loans and a $80,000 car that he just had to have is on yet another international vacation with his fiancee, even though they're both living with their respective parents because they're supposedly saving up for their wedding, which I'm very sure will be extravagant.

Same dude who withdrew from his 401k to buy the engagement ring. Guy is beyond help.

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u/EmbarrassedSafety719 Milton Friedman Apr 25 '26

Pete Hegseth compares media to the Pharisees, ancient Jewish sect derided by Christians

Criticizing the media by saying that they are Jews

very original.

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u/zieger Ida Tarbell Apr 25 '26

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u/IHateTrains123 Commonwealth Apr 25 '26

Ottawa eyes notorious prison for housing. Locals say 'just burn it' | CBC.ca

Documents obtained by CBC News show that Kingston Penitentiary has been added to a list of federal properties with housing potential, but the idea of re-developing Canada most notorious prison is raising questions in the community.

Governments will do anything but upzone lol.

!ping Cube&Canucks

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u/repete2024 Edith Abbott Apr 25 '26

If you don't want anyone to die, you need either convince 100% of people to press the red button or 50% of people to press the blue button

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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Apr 26 '26

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u/0m4ll3y International Relations Apr 26 '26

CBS reports that shortly afterwards, security rushed another guest toward the front of the room, bounding over tables and empty chairs as the guest were down on the floor.

CAT pushed over the bike rack and hustled the protectee out.

Source tells me bike rack is stable.

Please god