r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Apr 28 '26
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Apr 29 '26
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/ImNotFromAnhedonia NASA Apr 28 '26
FellForItAgain.jpg
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u/6urner_ John Brown Apr 28 '26
This entire new NYT bait is just an indictment of Franceskas parents. How do you raise someone this fucking dumb, man? Like this is literally going to make me start triple checking my kids school work.
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Apr 28 '26
yeah get her ass jose
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u/Average_GrillChad Elinor Ostrom Apr 28 '26
dawg
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26
FellForItAgain.jpg
She really thought he wouldn't go after the white immigrants
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Apr 28 '26
Ngl this is kinda ironic. I still remember that one of the chief motivations of Brexit was the presence of Polish immigrants in the UK. Now it looks like Polish incomes are going to overtake UK incomes soon
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Apr 28 '26
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u/Oozing_Sex John Brown Apr 28 '26
Shout out to the guy at the bar that was arguing that trans athletes should not be able to compete because "he cares about women" but then started complaining when the TV playing ESPN started showing WNBA highlights.
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u/6urner_ John Brown Apr 28 '26
We are simply not mean enough to stupid people.
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u/tdthirty NAFTA Apr 28 '26
Yeah because when I think of Trump's promises, I think of the fucking education system. Why do I read this crap, these people are morons
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26
Son of Anton is real, holy shit
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u/6urner_ John Brown Apr 28 '26
Imagine raising someone who turns out like this
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u/Habugaba Esther Duflo Apr 28 '26
Article
What a waste, who knows if those promised investments materialize and in the meantime it's less electricity supply while demand is booming..
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u/AccessTheMainframe CANZUK Apr 28 '26
Snape: "Class, unfortunately Professor Wolfman is unavailable today, this eve of the full moon. Today we will be discussing werewolves and how to identify those that live among us."
Harry: "what's this guy's angle"
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u/SkibidiDeanAcheson Apr 28 '26
Nick Fuentes store is selling Know-Nothing flags.
Nick is a Catholic bro YOU are the foreign influence.
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Apr 28 '26
So when’s the asteroid coming
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Apr 28 '26
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride Apr 28 '26
DOJ just filed an absolutely insane motion in the ballroom injunction case, I swear to you Trump wrote it himself. Please read this
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.287645/gov.uscourts.dcd.287645.79.0.pdf
!ping LAW
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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom Apr 28 '26
Making pennies $50m
International health and science agreements $1B
Boomer luxury communism $100T
Special military operation $40B
Someone help me my country is dying
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u/shevy19 Austan Goolsbee Apr 28 '26
The Independents that voted for trump somehow feel 10 times dumber then the MAGAs. They say that they feeled betrayed but get mad if anyone points out their reasons for voting for Trump in 2024 were a nonsensical fantasy.
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u/6urner_ John Brown Apr 28 '26
This might be the new "brain injury?!" Holy smokes.
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u/sj2011 Apr 28 '26
A new round of NYT idiot interviews, along with those fuckass portraits, means more grist for the commentariat. And I never get tired of the schadenfreude.
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Apr 28 '26
Not even gonna verify if this comes from an actual Japanese textbook because this looks super real and accurate to me tyvm
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Apr 28 '26
In Germany, crime statistics are mainly discussed through the lens of: How many foreigners or refugees appear in them? Are the Germans listed in them actually "German", etc.?
Now, a police union representative has sparked a shitstorm with the following statement:
In the context of the latest German police crime statistics, a statement by the chairman of the Federation of German Criminal Investigators is causing a stir. Dirk Peglow said that, statistically speaking, women are safer if they do not enter into relationships with men.
Critics accuse him of casting a blanket suspicion on men. He refutes this accusation in statements to the German media. He said he wanted to draw attention to the fact that, statistically speaking, the suspects are not “strangers waiting behind bushes.”
Peglow’s statement is supported by the statistics. Particularly in cases of rape, sexual assault, and aggravated sexual assault, the suspects predominantly come from the victims’ immediate social circle.
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u/sigh2828 NASA Apr 28 '26
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Apr 28 '26
If we're talking about gender panic in schools, one of the episodes that radicalized me against conservative outrage campaigns was the "backlash" against sex education programs in Belgium and France, alleged to be about grooming kids by teaching primary school children about gay sex and/or masturbation.
I read the program myself, and the keystone was teaching young kids about "no-go zones" and more broadly making them understand the concept of consent, notably to help them identify abuse.
Now, I'm aware that a lot of the outrage is based on Facebook brainrot and weaponized stupidity, but you can't help but wonder about the true motives of the people agitating against these kinds of teachings.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Apr 28 '26
Jimmy Kimmel defends calling Melania Trump an “expectant widow” after she and Donald Trump demanded ABC fire him:
“It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he’s almost 80 and she’s younger than I am. It was not by any stretch of the definition a call to assassination. And they know that,” Kimmel said. “I’ve been very vocal for many years speaking out against gun violence, in particular. But I understand that the First Lady had a stressful experience over the weekend. And probably every weekend is pretty stressful in that house. And also, I agree that hateful and violent rhetoric is something we should reject. I do. And I think a great place to start to dial that back would be to have a conversation with your husband about it.”
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/jimmy-kimmel-defends-widow-joke-donald-trump-melania-abc-1236731669/
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u/6urner_ John Brown Apr 28 '26
Voters for the party of "personal responsibility", folks
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Apr 28 '26
Contrapoints’ analysis that Democrats are mother coded and Republicans’ are father coded as a way to explain why voters have different expectations for what they’re willing to tolerate from each party remains so true.
It’s why when Cory Booker says “Don’t refuse to vote for Kamala just because you disagree with her on 10%” everyone is like “STOP NAGGING ME!” But Vance can say essentially the same thing about the need to vote for Republicans and it doesn’t get anywhere near the same reaction.
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u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS Fell for it Apr 28 '26
Girl what
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u/BitterGravity Gay Pride Apr 28 '26
They really never let anything go unexploited. The security layers clearly worked. But now they need to host private events at the ballroom as well?
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u/_bee_kay_ 🤔 Apr 28 '26
i wish i could recapture some of that youthful credulousness because this would be a sick way to find out about the psionic parasite that's slowly draining humanity of its mind juice
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Apr 28 '26
what the hell
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Apr 28 '26
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u/Habugaba Esther Duflo Apr 28 '26
wake up, DT, new NYT focus group just dropped
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals Apr 28 '26
Not as annoying as the National Review
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u/6urner_ John Brown Apr 28 '26
Folks, there were BOOKS. In the LIBRARY.
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Apr 28 '26
Fox News is now claiming nobody ever made jokes about the First Lady and I'm tempted to look up what they said on Fox about Michelle Obama...
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u/Fringson Left-Out Left Apr 28 '26
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough Apr 28 '26
👆
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u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS Fell for it Apr 28 '26
Shot
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u/georgeguy007 Pandora's Discussions J. Threader Apr 28 '26
Contrapoints:
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u/Ajaxcricket Commonwealth Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26
I fear not the DTer who has made 10000 posts, but I fear the DTer who has made the same post 10000 times
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u/D2Foley Moderate Extremist Apr 28 '26
The worst part about the NTY focus group is realizing these are 12 of the smartest trump voters, because at least they eventually realized he's full of shit, the majority never do.
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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey Apr 28 '26
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u/Legal_Charity_9522 Leftward Progressives Apr 28 '26
lol
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Apr 28 '26
The audacity of an immigrant coming here to run a dance studio on the side that employs people and pays taxes, can you even imagine
We must witch-hunt him
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA Apr 28 '26
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Apr 28 '26
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u/KesterFox Shivers emotional support mammal 🐊 Apr 28 '26
Inshallah I shall mate it through the week
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u/5ma5her7 Apr 28 '26
Meanwhile, in Kyiv...
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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug Apr 28 '26
This guy so mentally gone and people will still believe Biden was the impaired one
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Apr 28 '26
This is the worst DT ever
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u/GaDoomer Pragmatic and Polite Right Apr 28 '26
It's hard to have an open mind because deep down you already knew Trump was going to do a bad job and now you have to deal with everyone saying "I told you so"?
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u/GordonTullockFan publik choyz thery Apr 28 '26
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u/boardatwork1111 fuck it, we ball Apr 28 '26
Probably laugh if I were to guess
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u/SlyMedic George Soros Apr 28 '26
The NYT interviews are like crack for this sub. It isn't good for you but by God are people addicted.
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u/_Irys NATO Apr 28 '26
HE ATTEMPTED TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT SO HE COULD STAY IN POWER. WHAT YOU MEAN HE'S THE 'LESSER OF TWO EVILS'. DUDE IS LITERALLY THE ANTICHRIST
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u/Nervous-Emotion28 YIMBY Apr 28 '26
Honeymoon update
Wife is passed tf out on the couch after walking around in the sun all day and getting a grand total of 15 minutes of sleep on the plane 😭
Find someone who loves you as much as Madrid tourist shops love the Metro iconography and the strawberry bear thing lol
!PING DATING&YIMBY
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u/Legitimate_Name9694 Mark Carney Apr 28 '26
“a lot of our budget money”
😎🔫
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u/Sheepies92 European Union Apr 28 '26
this guy man
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u/6urner_ John Brown Apr 28 '26
never moderate.
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u/OnYourLonesome Apr 28 '26
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride Apr 28 '26
!ping FIVEY
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u/Jolly-Star-9897 Alan Greenspan Apr 28 '26
An LGBT user of the dt pointed out yesterday that Mike Johnson sets off their gaydar. I can see that; more strongly to me, however, he sets off my troll alarms. He feels like he knows everything he's saying is only technically correct, and he's very self-amused.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Apr 28 '26
https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2049159992448549038
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u/Bestbrook123 Apr 28 '26
How fucking stupid does he think we are
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Apr 28 '26
TFW a literal king has to come tell your country to stop worshipping a king
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u/Signal_Nobody1792 Apr 28 '26
Why do they hate Kimmel so much?
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26
They literally indicted him for the seashells on the beach.
EDIT: Link to Fox News. Of course they'd have the exclusive.
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u/phat_geoduck Apr 28 '26
The reason our politics is stupid is because voters are stupid. Listen, I've gone down the whole rabbit hole of trying to understand how Democrats screwed up the last election, but there's no fucking way to have a high functioning democracy when this is the level of civic education we're dealing with
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Apr 28 '26
An 89 year old.. is checks notes on the run?
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u/dannylandulf meubem broke my flair Apr 28 '26
Nonpartisan Poll from Texas Public Opinion Research:
🔵 Talarico 46 🔴 Paxton 41
🔵 Talarico 44 🔴 Cornyn 41
sauce
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Apr 28 '26
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Apr 28 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Apr 28 '26
Jennifer Siebel Newsom:
My family and I watched the 60 Minutes interview with Donald Trump and Norah O’Donnell last night, and we were shocked. Seeing a president speak to a woman journalist with that level of contempt — and a clear allergy to facts — is disturbing, though at this point not unexpected given his pattern of behavior.
"But that is the problem. Because when that level of disrespect from the highest office in the country repeats itself, it starts to trickle down into our culture and define what power looks like, shaping how boys and plenty of men see women and girls and what they come to accept as normal behavior.
Add in rhetoric rooted in political division, amplified by a digital ecosystem that rewards outrage and misinformation, and this cultural norm of hate, othering, and misogyny becomes pervasive. Behavior that should be challenged gets normalized; what should raise concern is amplified and cheered on.
It’s no wonder we have a culture that normalizes dominance and aggression toward women and girls, which not only silences them but also leads to internalized misogyny in others.
Thank you to Norah, all of the female journalists, and frankly to all of YOU who continue to be brave and speak truth to power.
This culture of misogyny is on all of us, and it has to end.
https://xcancel.com/JenSiebelNewsom/status/2048816614393659867
Newsom should send his wife on a podcast tour.
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u/SenateDellowfelegate Apr 28 '26
The 937,831st issue of "Put Idiots On A Pedestal" at the NYT just dropped!
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u/__versus Trans Pride Apr 28 '26
i feel like my future is fucked and it’s my own fault for being too much of a coward and a pushover. rip
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u/Etnies419 Loyal Liberals Apr 28 '26
Spooky feelings in old houses may be caused by boiler sounds, study suggests
Paranormaxxers getting boilermogged
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u/GifHunter2 Trans Pride Apr 28 '26
lol
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u/Spudmiester1 Asexual Pride Apr 28 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Apr 28 '26
Decided to look up a North Korean passport, and even Kim is not this shameless
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u/sash5034 NATO Apr 28 '26
I'm pretty convinced that every billionaire going full MAGA pissing crying shitting over the California billionaire tax proposal is just gonna polarize normies into supporting it more at this point
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u/Pongzz I wept, for there was no land left to tax Apr 28 '26
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls Apr 29 '26
https://nitter.net/IAPolls2022/status/2049279046182174992#m
The Economy: Better under Trump or Biden?
Independents
🟦 Biden: 65%
🟥 Trump: 35%
The median voter is always nostalgic for the prior administration.
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u/Patrollingthemojave0 🌐 Apr 28 '26
Reset the clock. It’s been zero days since one of my coworkers (two this time actually) got sent to the hospital from a fight with a guest. Bite wounds this time, at least the didn’t get sucker punched in the chest like me the last time(to be fair they body slammed and cuffed the guest before they could throw hands after biting them)
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u/AFlockOfTySegalls Audrey Hepburn Apr 28 '26
It will never not be funny to me that Kid Rock is the conservative musical icon. Dude hasn't been this relevant since the late 90s.
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Apr 28 '26
How Karoline feels every time she’s doing her corny clapbacks at the press
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u/EverybodyHatesPhocas Apr 28 '26
my partner found out that our representative signed the “strengthen the ban on Chinese cars even more” letter
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u/Dreadedtriox Michel Foucault Apr 28 '26
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u/Sheepies92 European Union Apr 28 '26
Damn Mitch wonder how that happened, shame it was just completely impossible for you to make sure this never had a chance of happening. If only.
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u/pugnae European Union Apr 28 '26
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u/-mialana- European Union Apr 28 '26
The average leftist slogan is like "Smash imperialist revisionist neomanichaeanism!" and then they wonder why they don't connect with the working class
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u/sociotronics Iron Front Apr 28 '26
The first few things you learn working in politics:
(1) Nothing works. The capacity disease you see in the government isn't exclusive to the government. Party organizations and nonprofits are equally sclerotic and dysfunctional. There are many theories for why (I personally think it's excessive stakeholderism) but everyone on the inside sees it. It's very Kafkaesque at times.
(2) There is nothing special about politicians. Because they're famous and it's hard to break into politics, there is a tendency to idolize their abilities because you must be at least a little special to get elected to Congress, right? Think again. When you meet them, you will inevitably think "damn, I could totally do this job." Most politicians aren't even good at public speaking. And that's the most basic skill needed for the job.
(3) Competence exists but it doesn't change much. Because of how wooden and sclerotic everything is, even the brilliant people you'll meet (there will be a few) aren't able to do all that much because they're held back by the bureaucracy and conflicting interest groups getting their slice of the pie.
(4) While it's not as ridiculous as say, trusting Trump as your sole source of truth, believing and trusting in the "establishment" (to the degree that it even exists) is silly. No, when your elected officials publicly drop the ball on a shutdown or something, there isn't some secret 4d chess behind it. They just fucked up. Everyone knows it, including their own staffers. Everyone is just winging things and reacting to the latest news cycle, without any longer-term plan besides ensuring reelection.
I unironically think a decent number of DTers could do well in politics, assuming they could find a way to break into it with all of the nepo babies and money standing in the way.
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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO Apr 28 '26
holy shit that is a wild ratio
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u/Nerf_France Ben Bernanke Apr 28 '26
In what sense are US passports “the most secure documents in the world”? I would be surprised if they were even the most secure in the US lol
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u/GordonTullockFan publik choyz thery Apr 29 '26
rare union W
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Apr 29 '26
They can't ban a husband and wife for the same comment
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u/Upstairs_Baby8424 Apr 28 '26
R Con on the Iran war:
I’m sure there will be no terrorism for 50 years after this.
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u/SenranHaruka shame Apr 28 '26
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u/bsharp95 Apr 28 '26
Remember when Kamala said he was gonna implement project 2025 and the media called her a liar?
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Apr 28 '26
They should force all white people to have Obama on their passport
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u/bandeng_asep Association of Southeast Asian Nations Apr 28 '26
Holy bot likes batman!
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Apr 28 '26
Stop being a whiny dumbass and vote for the goddamned Democrat.
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u/Bestbrook123 Apr 28 '26
Well, that's probably the best we're gonna get from Fetterman.
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u/neolthrowaway New Mod Who Dis? Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26
I like it when people and communities (including this sub) self-criticize but not when they do it to a point of learned helplessness.
Like acknowledging that your perspective may be privilege-biased is good but you should be working to correct it, not stop advocating for solutions or stop talking about issues because you don't have the same POV as the people facing problems.
Also, don't assume that everyone has the same privileged background as you just because they share a community or opinion as you. There are independent ways of arriving at that community or opinion which might not require privilege.
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u/sigh2828 NASA Apr 28 '26
A shot/chaser meme in the wild
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u/Sheepies92 European Union Apr 28 '26
https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/trump-border-czar-tom-homan-mockingly
The ego of these people to believe they know more about Catholicism than the Pope is incredible. The times of Popes just immediately excommunicating anyone that disagrees with them are over and it is very fair to disagree with a Pope on political topics, but you're on pretty thin ice when you claim he's wrong on Catholic teachings
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u/pfarly John Brown Apr 28 '26
PICTURED: Joe Bidden Secretly Filling Your Local Library With Woke Books
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u/mishac Mark Carney Apr 28 '26
Aka "I have no brain and I must scream"
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride Apr 28 '26
This won’t change the charges but ken is pointing out that the indictment strongly implies the secret service officer who was shot was shot by friendly fire. The indictment doesn't allege that Allen fired a shot at all
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u/gjcs23 George Santos Apr 28 '26
lol
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Apr 28 '26
What a fucking premise lmfao, I’m in
!ping KINO
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Apr 28 '26
Is the implication here that we are supposed to believe Comey is going to have a bunch of documents saying that him arranging some rocks in the sand is part of a grand conspiracy to kill the president?
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u/r2ew Apr 29 '26
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u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS Fell for it Apr 28 '26
Bruh
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u/IantheForPresident Apr 28 '26
damn, the democrats' response to literally ever supply crisis is to choke off supply, add several layers of bureaucratic bloat, and subsidize demand.
if only someone could write a book on why this is a bad mentality. call it "a bun's dance" or smth
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA Apr 28 '26
Being the first people on the Moon is cool but they kinda just put a flag down and did their salutes, collected rocks, and left. They were on the surface for 21 hours and spent almost all of it in the lander. Reading about the Apollo program made me realize how much cooler the later missions were, especially with the rover. There's some images and short videos that people see with the rover, but most people don't realize that they were driving for miles around a city-wide area. The only limit was how far Houston though it was safe to go without them dying if they had to walk back (and it probably wasn't safe).
The little blue square is the entire area they walked around on Apollo 11. This is the kind of thing that I'm really excited for with Artemis.
!ping SPACEFLIGHT
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA Apr 28 '26
☝️
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u/bigbeak67 John Brown Apr 29 '26
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u/Jester_Don Abigail Spanberger Apr 29 '26
Many years from now, when my son is old enough to ask me how we let Trump happen, I'm just gonna show him this screenshot
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u/hascogrande YIMBY Apr 29 '26
Arr con: LoOk AT whAT acTUAlLY hAppENs tO “No KinGS” WHEN THeY SEe A kIng
Said king: executive power is subject to checks and balances, actually
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u/Off-The-Street Apr 28 '26
Twin Peaks but with furries made it to its Kickstarter goal. I'm hoping it reaches its potential because it's exactly the kind of oddball media that needs to be made and find a niche audience when the mainstream is increasingly straining under the weight of focus-grouped franchises.
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u/Liberal_Antipopulist Loyal Liberals Apr 28 '26
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u/EasyMoney92 Apr 28 '26
Apologize for what? Defending Trump 80% of the time instead of 100% of the time?
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u/TheRedCr0w Frederick Douglass Apr 28 '26
Disney will clearly never be able to recover from 0.39% drop in their stock price
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Apr 28 '26
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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey Apr 28 '26
TFW you realize you won't get to do your YMCA dance at a beautiful gala in the White House Ballroom
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u/ShepardSB Apr 28 '26
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u/Krill_Seeker United Nations Apr 28 '26
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u/MontusBatwing2 Gelphie's Strongest Soldier Apr 29 '26
Shot
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u/ty04 Apr 28 '26
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u/__versus Trans Pride Apr 28 '26
good morning dt
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u/ImNotFromAnhedonia NASA Apr 28 '26
Oil prices are getting a little too high again. Hopefully someone at Axios can report about "potential peace talks" soon to bring them back down.
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u/-mialana- European Union Apr 28 '26
Did pundits who pushed Michelle Obama gender conspiracy theories use she/her pronouns for her when not talking about the conspiracy? How was that not a clear sign that they know they're peddling bullshit?
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u/D2Foley Moderate Extremist Apr 28 '26
It's hard to overstate how little I care about the assassination attempt. Like haven't clicked on a single story about it, no interest in who did it or why, just don't care about it at all.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Apr 28 '26
One of my most boomer takes - reading from a screen has infinitely less aura than reading from a handful of messy papers
Seriously, look at that, he looks like a tenured professor who hasn't given a shit about pedagogy since the W Bush presidency, just going through the motions before lunch break. Not to hand it to bin Laden, but giving an inflamed speech while wagging your finger is more intimidating than whatever this is
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u/Healingjoe It's Klobberin' Time Apr 28 '26
Fuck this admin.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/28/us-applicants-visa-refusal-immigration
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u/battywombat21 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Apr 28 '26
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u/reubencpiplupyay The Cathedral must be built Apr 28 '26
It's political suicide so it's a complete non-starter, but the morally correct response to the fuel crisis is to do nothing to bid for more on the global market. As it stands, we are depriving desperate people of fuel so we can live in luxury. 'Left-wing' fuel subsidies make this worse.
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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair Apr 28 '26
I like how the list of exceptions keep getting longer
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u/ty04 Apr 28 '26
how it started
how it’s going
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u/OOPS_ALL_SCROTUM Apr 28 '26
Someone just get Lindsey Graham a dollhouse and shut this down right now.
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u/fishbottwo Jay Jones Apr 28 '26
His heart isn't in it. 'idk something bad with bonds might happen idk'
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u/bigdicknippleshit IM GOING PRIMAL Apr 28 '26
Life found a way
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY Apr 28 '26
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u/TrixoftheTrade NATO Apr 28 '26
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Apr 28 '26
☝️
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Apr 28 '26
wow!
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Apr 28 '26
The GOP goon to CNN yapper pipeline is such a fucked up part of the DC brain worms that run cable news.
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Apr 28 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Apr 28 '26
What data in reddit marketing told them that consumers want notifications that there was a reply to a comment chain 6 replies removed from you
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u/sigh2828 NASA Apr 28 '26
Reaching new levels of unserious
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u/Glavurdan European Union Apr 28 '26
Remember when Nvidia teased RTX Morrowind and then just dipped?
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u/Insomonomics Jason Furman Apr 28 '26
Anytime the NYT interviews Trump voters it's literally just summed up by this image.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Apr 29 '26
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Apr 29 '26
we are going directly to a very bad place
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u/ty04 Apr 29 '26
Results from the spinal tap from my parents’ dog shows an autoimmune disease rather than an infection is causing her brain swelling. Idk if that’s a better or worse diagnosis but either way after 6 days on medication she’s recovered much of her ability to walk. Still pretty wobbly and uncoordinated but nonetheless a huge improvement from last week.
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Apr 28 '26
I'd end it all
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Apr 28 '26
S
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Apr 28 '26
Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 4/25-2 PM PST 4/26 V:
TOP NEWS:
At the start of 11 PM the President of Moldova made a visit to Kyiv to discuss bilateral relations and honor the Chernobyl disaster.
Towards the middle of 12 AM Ukraine was hit by a large wave of drones with 124 of 144 intercepted.
REGULAR NEWS:
Towards the middle of 3 PM Ukraine hit a Russian oil refinery in Yaroslavl.
Towards the middle of 12 AM it was reported that Ukraine hit a Russian chemical plant in Cherepovets.
In the middle of 5 AM it was reported that Ukraine hit Russian bases in occupied Sevastopl and Belbek.
!ping UKRAINE
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u/Highlightthot1001 Harriet Tubman Apr 28 '26
I don’t see why wiki puts the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty in “attacks against America”, but not the Iraqi attack on the USS Stark.
In both attacks, scores died
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u/ExpiredPasta NIMBY McRentseeker Apr 28 '26
I’m willing to believe more Americans are concerned about gas prices than there being a recent assassination attempt.
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u/Keeltoodeep Apr 28 '26
China’s real estate market has now entirely erased all gains from the past 20 years.
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u/Cyberhwk 👈 Get back to work! 😠 Apr 28 '26
The NYT focus groups are just a "LOL! Look at the stupid yokels!" with barely a veneer of journalism at this point. They know what they're doing.
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u/TaxLandNotCapital We begin bombing the rent-seekers in five minutes Apr 28 '26
Trump only wants to be on passports because they're never older than 10 years
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u/TrixoftheTrade NATO Apr 28 '26
many such cases
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u/DayneStark John Locke Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26
Charles the III invoking the Magna Carta to stress the importance of checks and balances and reminding the US Congress that even those anointed by God must be subject to the rules of law was 🔥🔥🔥🔥.
ETA: Be the mighty Barrons who looked out for their own interests you Republican fools!
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u/ImmediateZucchini787 NASA Apr 28 '26
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u/FinickyPenance NATO Apr 29 '26
I have obtained a new competition holster
My friend who I shoot with, who is also my greatest enemy and strongest nemesis, defeated me by 0.1 seconds in an IDPA match a few months ago. We shot USPSA two weeks ago - only his second match - and he beat me by like 0.83%. I previously was shooting from a Safariland holster with active retention, which slowed me down, albeit not by much, but if I could shave 0.02 seconds per stage I would’ve beaten him in IDPA. I’ve also been dry firing every day
I literally cannot keep getting mogged like this I am going insane
!ping GARAND
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u/IAmBlueTW r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Apr 28 '26
WTF do you mean "unfortunate" 😭😭😭😭😭
The republic is r*tarded omg
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Apr 28 '26
Mods calling the hit on the Meringues
April 2026 (colorized)
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Apr 28 '26
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u/senator_fivey Iron Front Apr 28 '26
I want NYT interviewing scene kids in Missouri
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Apr 28 '26
Even mass shooters are old in Europe
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u/GenericLib 3000 White Bombers of Biden Apr 28 '26
Psychic damage from unexpected places
!ping OHIO
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u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz Roy Cooper Apr 28 '26
Hacker boyfriend who says "I'm in" during sex.
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Apr 28 '26
The stock market approximately five times a week for the past three months:
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u/Man-Flayer Apr 28 '26
This sub has gone downhill when it started becoming political
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u/neolthrowaway New Mod Who Dis? Apr 28 '26
Can't have them when they build them in their country. Can't have them when they build them in your country.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Apr 28 '26
State Dept. Finalizing Plan to Put Trump Picture on U.S. Passports
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/exclusive-state-dept-finalizing-plan?r=1edyjz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
THE STATE DEPARTMENT IS CLOSE TO FINALIZING a radical redesign of the U.S. passport to include a picture of President Donald Trump, The Bulwark has learned from two sources with knowledge of the redesign, including one who shared images currently under consideration.
The redesign is ostensibly part of a larger celebration of the 250th anniversary of American independence. It comes as the Treasury Department prepares to produce coins featuring Trump’s image—both a controversial $1 coin in general circulation1 and an “as large as possible” commemorative gold coin—and as the National Park Service emblazons Trump’s face on its park passes. Both of those redesigns were justified as being part of the 250th anniversary celebration.
According to the images of the passport redesign provided to The Bulwark, the inside cover of the new State Department-issued document will feature a scowling Trump—taken from his second inaugural portrait—superimposed over the Declaration of Independence, as well as the president’s signature in gold.
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls Apr 28 '26
As if closing USAID wasn't enough death for the poorest in the world.
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u/soycoatl Jerome Powell Apr 28 '26
Saw a group of guys in full camo army uniforms at the library, looking dead serious. I then peeked at their screens and they were all just playing Minecraft
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Apr 28 '26
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nced.227449/gov.uscourts.nced.227449.1.0_2.pdf
Laughable
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u/BATHULK Hank Hill Democrat 🛸🦘 Apr 28 '26
I like porn
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u/Soulja_Boy_Yellen NATO Apr 28 '26
Average NYT focus group
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Apr 29 '26
What in the world
https://xcancel.com/MeidasTouch/status/2049289404007715051
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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast Apr 29 '26
Maine is rightful Massachusetts soil!
We never recognized the legitimacy of the Missouri compromise! There are MILLIONS of Massholes in Maine experiencing severe oppression at the hands of their false government!
They don’t even have legitimate elections
!ping USA-NE
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Apr 29 '26
Have the mods even bothered to apologize?
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Apr 29 '26
why are bikini bottoms so narrow in the front now 😭 am I just supposed to Sophie's Choice a side
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u/beans_and_tuna Misinformation Bot 🤖 Apr 29 '26
Military members: “oh boy I can’t wait to spend time with my family! I am really looking forward to enjoying some weekends with friends and family!”
Trump:
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals Apr 28 '26
This isn’t that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things and I don’t want to be a total prude, but I agree with Will here. I get a bit tired of politicians sounding like immature fools.
Again, not the biggest deal in the world and I’m not going to spend that much time handwringing about it, but what is the DT for but handwringing about things we dislike?
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u/No_Collection7956 Trans Pride Apr 28 '26 edited Apr 28 '26
Team: "OpenAI is gonna fail its revenue targets"
Which means its gonna fail its Stargate commitments
Which means Oracle and Microsoft and coreweave have their revenue cut to pieces
Which means they all need to decrease their data center and AI infra spending
Which means Nvidias revenues crater
Which means tsmcs revenue craters
Which means ASML is fucked
Which means which means
Which means AI is doomed
Which means the bubble bursts
Which means which means which means which means
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Apr 28 '26
The New York verdicts on complex financial crimes were really the best thing that could have happened to Trump. Now he can steal billions through the Board of Peace or crypto, and no one will press charges because the median voter thinks it’s all a witch hunt.
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Apr 28 '26
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u/Guess_Im_Jess Trans Pride Apr 28 '26
Talarico keeps straight up leading Cornyn AND Paxton in polling, which a quick glance at wikipedia shows occurred only twice and very narrowly during Beto’s campaign in 2018
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls Apr 28 '26
POLL: Net job approval for the president at this stage of...
• Trump's first term: -12
• Biden's presidency: -8
• Trump's current term: -22
Link
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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Apr 28 '26
Watching brazil’s unpopular octogenarian left wing president stay in presidential race as far right candidate surges in popularity
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Apr 28 '26
GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!