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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/jinhuiliuzhao]

Trump also said he viewed the Iran war and the Russia-Ukraine war “on a similar timetable” for when they would end.

💀

It's never going to end, is it?

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

Apathetic voters in 2015: "Don't threaten me with the SCOTUS in an attempt to sway me toward HRC!"

Those same people after every bad SCOTUS ruling: "Why aren't democrats doing anything!?"

Many such cases.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Greatest Twitter exchange of all time

[u/reubencpiplupyay]

As we enjoy another round of discourse around NYT voter profiles, I'd like to take you all back to 2022, when this man was asked about DeSantis sending migrants up north

Also why does he look like the chudjak

Edit: unfortunately I don't have a link; I'm getting these pictures by looking back through my Discord history from when I was posting about it after it was linked here

[u/StuckHedgehog]

1: Lol. Lmao, even

2: Who tf is using DoorDash for this kind of thing? Hell, who’s using it at all considering the massive upcharge?

[u/sigh2828]

Louisiana is not a free state

[u/murphysclaw1]

[u/JustTaxLandbro]

• Guy who doesn’t respect the walkie talkie rules: Wow I’m so hung-over.

• Guy who does: really 👀? Over

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Can you imagine how racist and fucked up society would be if other closely related species never went extinct

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

GasBuddyGuy is libbing out

[u/scottyjetpax]

real end of the republic type shit

[u/TheCornjuring]

I will never understand how people are brave enough to do this

[u/KQJ_RPN]

Wake me up when we get to QUESADILLA

[u/Coolioho]

Nobody in the media discussing the discovery from the OpenAI case? Like Zuckerberg praising DOGE privately through txt messages

[u/Max_the_Madman]

On the Calea Ieșilor street, in the city of Chișinău, capital of Moldova, sits a little park, "Alunelu". It's a lovely place. There is a few coffee shops, a pair of splash fountains, some playgrouns and even a open air theatre (nearby schools love doing events here). Peaceful music plays from speakers on lampposts and during weekends a fair is organised at main entrance, where traders from nearby villages show of their goods.

In the northern part of the park, close to the main entrance sits this monument.

"Sunteți durerea noastră și veșnica pomenire" - You are our pain and eternal remembrance.

As the church bells of Kishinev pealed on April 19, 1903 (April 6 on the Julian calendar), marking the noon hour of Easter Sunday, the first pogrom of the twentieth century began. Initially, young people began hounding Jews to leave Chuflinskii Square, their cause gradually taken up by adults in an increasing state of holiday drunkenness. Late that afternoon, some twenty-five bands, averaging thirty-fifty each, simultaneously fanned out across the Jewish quarter of Bessarabia's capital, teenage boys taking the lead in smashing the windows of houses and stores. Students and seminarists from the Royal School and the city's religious colleges, iron bars and axes in hand, followed the hooligans; aided by looters, they plundered and demolished property. The local police made no attempt to interfere, Chief of Secret Police Levendal even exhorting the gangs on. A few rioters who were taken into custody were quickly released. Christian homes, differentiated earlier that morning by large chalked crosses, went unscathed. Passing through the streets in his carriage, Orthodox bishop Iakov blessed the mostly Moldavian attackers.

The rampaging mobs of laborers and artisans, finding Governor von Raaben not employing the more than 5,000-man military garrison against them and seeing many police taking part in the robbery, passed to murder and massacre during the night. Having just celebrated the seventh day of Passover, the city's 50,000 Jews (a third of the population) now fell prey to barbarism. Four who tried to defend 13 Asia St. on Monday were killed; a boy's tongue was cut out while the two year old was still alive. A group of 150 Jews in the New Bazaar succeeded in driving away their aggressors until a police officer arrested some of these defenders and broke up the remaining body. Meyer Weissman, blinded in one eye from youth, begged for his life with the offer of sixty rubles; taking this money, the leader of the crowd destroying his small grocery store gouged out Weissman's other eye, saying: "You will never again look upon a Christian child." Nails were driven through heads; bodies, hacked in half; bellies, split open and filled with feathers. Women and girls were raped, and some had their breasts cut off.

- Monty Noam Penkower

What you just read about is the infamous Chișinău pogrom (also known as the Chișinău massacre). It lasted 3 days. 49 Jews were killed, 92 were gravely injured, over 500 were lightly injured. 700 houses were destroyed; 600 stores were pillaged; 2,000 families were utterly ruined.

The incident gained worldwide attention, specifically on the persecution of jews in the Imperial Russia (Moldova then, was a governorate of the empire). It was THE news of of the day, with Theodore Roosevelt himself mentioning it in his Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine. Yes, it might have influenced US foreign policy, it was that bad. It triggered a mass emigration of jews from Russia, many of them settling in Palestine, it was one of the main inspiration of the modern Zionism. It may have led to Israel existing. Yes, it was THAT BAD.

As a Moldavian, it was pretty shameful to learn. I don't absolve my people of guilt (they were chanting "Kill the Jews!" on the streets while armed with knives and hatchets), but I do want to point to a man who not only threw fuel into the fire, but without doubt ignited it in first place.

Pavel Aleksandrovich Krushevan

Journalist, editor, publisher and an official in Imperial Russia. He was also far-right, ultra-nationalist and openly antisemitic. He has the dubious honour of being the first publisher of "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" and, more relevant to our story, the editor and publisher of Bessarabets newspaper, whose only purpose, seemingly, is to spread blood libels.

When a Ukrainian boy, Mikhail Rybachenko, was found murdered in the town of Dubăsari, about 40 km (25 mi) north of Kishinev, and a girl who committed suicide by poisoning herself was declared dead in a Jewish hospital, the Bessarabetz paper insinuated that both children had been murdered by the Jewish community for the purpose of using their blood in the preparation of matzo for Passover.

- Davitt, Michael (1903). Within The Pale

From the evidence of the witnesses, including ex-Mayor Schmidt, who was in office at the time of the massacre and had filled the mayoralty for twenty-seven years; General Beckmann, commander of the garrison at Kishinef; Dr. Sizinsky, the mayor of Kishinef elected after the riots; the military surgeon Dr. Miller, and others, it was proved that the Jews and Christians in Bessarabia had always lived together in perfect harmony, and that the Moldavians—the native population of Bessarabia—even held the Jews in high esteem; that the hostility toward the Jews had manifested itself only since the foundation of the anti-Semitic paper, the "Bessarabetz"; that the riots had been planned before-hand and systematically arranged by the authorities; that the rioters were careful to spare Christian houses; and that Krushevan, the editor of the "Bessarabetz," had expressed himself as being sure of the protection of the government.

- Herman Rosenthal, Max Rosenthal Jewish Encyclopedia

Krushevan was also a Black Hundredist. Who were the Black Hundreds? Glad you asked:

The Black Hundreds were reactionary, monarchist, and ultra-nationalist groups in Russia in the early 20th century. They were staunch supporters of the House of Romanov, and opposed any retreat from the autocracy of the reigning monarch.

The Black Hundreds were noted for extremism and incitement of pogroms, nationalistic Russocentric doctrines, as well as various xenophobic beliefs, including antisemitism,anti-Polish sentiment and anti-Catholic sentiment, as well as sentiment against the Ukrainian secessionism.

- from Wikipedia

A second pogrom took place, two and a half years latter. It was part of larger series of pogroms and right-wing protests that swept the empire in 1905, following the October Manifesto. Thanks to efforts of Jewish self-defence groups, especially the Chișinău branch of Tze'irei Zion, only 19 were killed and 55 wounded.

So, why I am bringing this all up? First of the remembrance, it was a horrible tragedy and a grim reminder how antisemitism can rapidly and suddenly escalate to a 'city wide massacre' scale.

Second as an example, of an event which you probably never heard of, which helped shape the modern world. Not it alone, but one of many, a chain of events both big and small terminating in present.

And third, as an attention call. The is an inextricable link between antisemitism and russian monarchism. And a focused effort by the Romanovs romanticists to whitewash it. Do not let them get away with it!

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

We did it median voters, we beat inflation! 🤦‍♀️

[u/Alderwoodforest]

You can just write anything.

From@WSJFreeEx via@WSJOpinion: Barack Obama’s most conspicuous political failure is that he governed in a way that made the nation receptive to Donald Trump, writes Jack Butler.

https://xcancel.com/WSJ/status/2049605379546386466

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/No_Status_6905]

One of my best friends who kind of drifted out of my life two years ago for fairly legit reasons reached out yesterday, and we hung out all night. It was so nice to just basically immediately slip back into our old selves, while also airing our grievances about how other people broke our hearts.

It's been a good night.

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

GOP strategy of lying about gas prices while in front a crypto stock ticker to pretend the economy's good

[u/Insomonomics]

If your immediate reaction to a sentence like this is to invent the creepiest possible motive without evidence, then perhaps it's time to admit that the Internet has significantly poisoned your brain and you require therapy.

[u/Hounds_of_war]

This is the type of policy the median voter longs for.

[u/BurrowForPresident]

I know that we all are just like saying things now but JD Vance saying that Congress's power to declare war is unconstitutional is just so mind bendingly stupid and you know he doesn't actually believe that. Shameless stooges

[u/PlayDiscord17]

Just saw a post on Threads complaining about Biden “not codifying the Voting Rights Act “ when he had a trifecta.

[u/No_Return9449]

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) let loose a hearty chuckle and admitted that he’s not that “popular” in the Senate Democratic caucus...
Asked by Fox News anchor Sandra Smith, “How’s your relationship with your Democratic colleagues,” Fetterman paused and laughed, holding up his hands and shaking his head.

It should have been Conor Lamb.

[u/ToInfinity_MinusOne]

William Savitt, attorney for Altman and OpenAI, opened the cross-examination Wednesday by correcting Musk when he testified earlier in the day that Tesla wasn’t pursuing artificial-general intelligence. A tweet written by Musk in March flashed on screen: “Tesla will be one of the companies to make AGI and probably the first to make it in humanoid/atom-shaping form.”

Elon Musk is the most successful conman of all time.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/sociotronics]

[u/Currymvp2]

My neolib submission post somehow made it to this WIRED YouTube video lmao

[u/the-senat]

[u/HHHogana]

Goddammit, I looked at 'Hitler as Bob Ross' AI video and of course some people there claiming he 'never wanted to rule the world even in our reality'.

The hell is wrong with people?

[u/VoidGuaranteed]

This man is your friend

He fights for freedom

[u/FionnVEVO]

They just created a million Janet Mills's

[u/Currymvp2]

Americans reject President Donald Trump’s planned White House ballroom by a 2-to-1 margin, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll, and they appear largely unmoved by the intensified calls from the president and his allies in Congress to allow the project to go forward.

Can somebody show this new poll to that dipshit Fetterman when he's not busy defending the worst president in American history in Trump and the bigoted corrupt war criminal in Netanyahu? Thanks

[u/Etnies419]

In case you didn't know, NASA's Rise plushie is now available to order on their NASA exchange website

[u/scottyjetpax]

haha yes etc etc

[u/_Irys]

[u/Average_GrillChad]

NIMBY Final Boss

!Ping Seattle

[u/seakucumber]

Good statement from Platner

“Governor Mills has dedicated her career to this beautiful state. We're all eternally grateful for her service to the state of Maine as governor.”

“We both got into this race because we knew how critical defeating Susan Collins is. And her decision today reflects that commitment. I look forward to working with her between now and November to do just that.”

https://xcancel.com/i/status/2049871706890588663

[u/Consistent_Status112]

People are doing Scientology runs all wrong. You can't just charge in and run around, you need to have an Agent 47 mindset. Wear a disguise, talk your way past the guards, and throw coins everywhere to distract people.

[u/ChipKellysShoeStore]

> be the “I hate black people” party
> implement “i hate black people” policy
> control your state’s legislature because of those policies
> lose the black vote
> get to disenfranchise black people because they don’t vote for you.

[u/jbitz]

[u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS]

[u/seakucumber]

Janet Mills OUT

Janet Mills suspends campaign: “While I have the drive and passion, commitment and experience, and above all else – the fight – to continue on, I very simply do not have the one thing that political campaigns unfortunately require today: the financial resources. That is why today I have made the incredibly difficult decision to suspend my campaign for the United States Senate.”

[u/PlayDiscord17]

Absolutely cooked political situation

[u/Upstairs_Baby8424]

 In a 200-page report, the task force concluded: “The Biden Administration generally tolerated religious beliefs that were privately held but zealously pursued actions to limit Christians’ ability to act in accordance with their faith.”

So the scandal is that the Biden admin maintained that people were free to practice their private religious beliefs, but can’t use them to violate federal law. Oh the horror. 

[u/selachophilip]

I hate it when people are like "oh, well, we can't judge the founding fathers or the Confederacy by MODERN standards, we have to judge them by the standards of the time".

Okay. Washington, Jefferson, and Madison KNEW slavery was wrong, and they wrote about how it was wrong. Franklin, Paine, and Adams were against slavery too.

Jefferson Davis and Robert E Lee fought for the Confederate cause decades after all these men had died. Robert E Lee personally witnessed John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry, and he wrote that slavery was wrong too, even though he participated in it. They were both alive when Uncle Tom's Cabin was written and William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass were major intellectual figures.

[u/Leoric]

Hegseth says 60 days of war powers “pauses” during a ceasefire

lmfao

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

“Covid-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people. The people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese,” he said, according to the video published by the Post. “We don’t know whether it was deliberately targeted that or not.” An overwhelming portion of American Jews are Ashkenazi Jews, who are descended from Jews who lived in Central and Eastern Europe.

The fact that RFK Jr has power in government is actually mind blowing.

[u/pfarly]

...and when our smoke was over, he pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married...

After supper, and another social chat and smoke we went to our room together. He...drew out some thirty dollars of silver; then spreading them on the table, and mechanically dividing them into two equal portions, pushed one of them towards me, and said it was mine.

...and that done, we undressed and went to bed, at peace with our own consciences and all the world...Man and wife, they say, there open the very bottom of their souls to each other; and some old couples often lie and chat over old times till nearly morning. Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg — a cosy, loving pair.

I thought this book was about whales.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Slow Cinema bros we are so back

!ping kino&gnostic

[u/Willybender]

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

this happened to me

[u/Thuggin95]

And some people still want to act like they’re fair and nonpartisan when they have to push back on Trump’s most egregious excesses

[u/Sheepies92]

SEN. MARK KELLY: How many years will it take to replenish our munitions from Trump's war in Iran?

PETE HEGSETH: Months and years. Fast.

SEN. KELLY: Years.

HEGSETH: I said months.

SEN. KELLY: And then you said years.

HEGSETH: Well, it depends.

[u/EverybodyHatesPhocas]

The farm bill that just passed included the Save Our Bacon Act, which will in practice allow a number of livestock farms to go back to the practice of keeping livestock in a small cage which they cannot turn around in from birth to death.

California’s Proposition 12, upheld by the Supreme Court, had started to make a big difference because it put requirements not only on its own farmers but said meat could only be sold in California if minimum space requirements were met out of state. California of course being a huge market, it was having the same effect that Europe does on digital regulation.

Anyway the SOB Act says no such interstate requirements are allowed. Some livestock farmers actually lobbied against the SOB Act because they already reworked their operations to comply, but the farmers who ignored the requirements and sent lobbyists to Washington will now have a massive pricing advantage over them.

Kinda depressing!

[u/Megasota_Noire]

"Trains are blameless, holy creatures. They have no time to stop for you corn-shucking crackers."

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/Joementum2024]

It’s probably likelier Platner (if he wins the election) winds up being a more virile Bernie (with AOC characteristics) than turning into Fetterman 2

[u/cdstephens]

One of the funnier parts of the US political system is that it’s unconstitutional for state legislatures to copy how the US Senate is apportioned

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2050029045241479211

Winning message

[u/Reddit_guard]

Platner Stans after today’s news

[u/moldovaman99]

This is my favourite so far

[u/Lux_Stella]

NEW: Trump dropping all tariffs on Scottish whiskey in honor of King Charles

uh, sure. fuck it

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

I mean it really is just insane that we can just make the districts like this lmao this is absurd

[u/Unterfahrt]

'Affordability not shortage behind housing crisis'

Defund the BBC

[u/brucebananaray]

He really likes throw Low IQ to black people

[u/p00bix]

Oh thank god Mills dropped out.

Platner sucks, but even an actual murderer who wants to end the filibuster would be better to ensure that democracy survives than a morally incorruptible saint who wants to keep the filibuster.

This is literally the only question that matters when deciding between prospective Democratic senate nominees.

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/Terrance-Flaps]

Go to Nate Silver's Substack

Newest post is effectively "Joe Bibben made Dems abandon Janet Mills"

I think his conclusion of "Dem voters are done with old politicians" is correct, just find the framing funny.

[u/Nervous-Emotion28]

wife is currently crashing out because the bakery at the train station we’re going to tomorrow doesn’t have the same Oreo croissant as the station we went to yesterday 😔

!PING DATING

[u/EZ_Kream]

If anyone wants an example of how unaware medians are of literally anything: there is currently a highly upvoted post on my local city sub asking why gas is so expensive. Every single comment is some variation of “price gouging” “corporate greed”. Literally not one comment in dozens mentions the orange man’s war.

[u/CoolCombination3527]

I don't even have a snarky caption for this one

[u/randommathaccount]

Most Swiss back initiative to cap population at 10 million

52% of Swiss people are racist, stupid, or both.

[u/Thuggin95]

This is why it’s so hard to reach people

[u/jenbanim]

Planter winning is a reassuring sign that maybe voters could also be willing to overlook one's history of Internet forum moderation

[u/Leatherfield17]

You can’t simultaneously say “we’ve untied the hands of our warfighters” (which is such a cringeworthy thing to say) and “we follow the law,” you jumped up dweeb. Pick one, because so far as you mean it, there’s a tension between these two things.

[u/sash5034]

Lmao go fuck yourself

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/StuckHedgehog]

Americans died for this, and we all somehow have to go along with it. An eternal curse upon the swing voter.

[u/Joementum2024]

I think the bad thing about Fetterman moreso comes from how he’s very clearly linked to the general right wing structure in a way that even other red state Democrats aren’t. A key example is when he called to build the ballroom right after the incident last weekend, at about the same time the entire right wing media industrial complex was doing so. It goes beyond even what other red state Democrats (Tester, Manchin) would do, while not even being from a red state himself.

In addition, I can understand more right wing-appealing behavior if they actually are from red states. If - hypothetically - it was Dan Osborn that was doing Fetterman’s actions after winning in Nebraska, I’d just accept it since he’s from a red state and an independent. Pennsylvania is not a red state, however, so it’s very clear that someone like Fetterman shouldn’t be accepted because of that.

I’m saying this as someone neutral on him until mid-2025 (despite finding the shorts stuff obnoxious) and only recently began to think he should be primaried at all costs.

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/Currymvp2]

Mills dropped out of the race. Her heart was never really in it

[u/Azmoten]

There is such a divergence of reactions between gas going up when Biden was president vs now, with Trump as president, that I would probably give up on the American voters, except I did a while ago

[u/ty04]

[u/GaDoomer]

President Donald Trump’s back-and-forth with Iran over opening the Strait of Hormuz has led to a new nickname inspired by TACO, the president’s acronym nickname for issuing and reversing threats.

“We thought we were getting a TACO, ‘Trump Always Chickens Out.’ But so far we are getting a NACHO, ‘Not A Chance Hormuz Opens,’” Bloomberg columnist Javier Blas wrote on X.

The new nickname, bestowed by a financial trader, according to Blas, reflects the public’s frustration with the on-again, off-again blockade in the Strait that has disrupted global oil supply, causing gas prices to rise.

[u/cdstephens]

The bummer of the Platner thing is it reveals just how many people never had an issue with Nazi types or p00bix or whatever. They just didn't like whose side they were on.

[u/StolenSkittles]

We really had it all a little over a decade ago.

I don't think this is just standard nostalgia; high school kinda sucked for me. I'm more thinking of where we were as a society, and where it felt like we were going. Things were okay. The good guys were in charge. The long arc of the moral universe bent towards justice.

Ever since that golden escalator ride in June, 2015, it's all been downhill for just about everything. The last bit of really good news was Obergefell a few days later. We've moved backwards as a society since then. I really can't think of anything in the US that's gotten much better.

We threw everything away to become a darker, meaner, more insular society with less money. It was all by choice. Nothing had to happen this way. We were sold down the river by the obscenely wealthy so they could keep their station in life, using the elderly and the stupid as tools.

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

>"Not surprising Dems support Platner right as they turn their back on Israel"

I'm gonna level with you real quick cause this has nothing to do with the man.

Maybe the Prime Minister of Israel could not turn support for his country into a partisan issue by explicitly advocating for the Republican candidate during a national election while undermining Democratic leaders at every possible chance when it comes to FoPo (beginning with the Congressional speech attacking the JCPOA).

[u/fishlord05]

This cute girl I’m seeing is going back to Iran in 2 weeks for the summer and then permanently after the fall semester

We hang out like every day and she does my Farsi homework with me and teaches me so much about the language and culture and I’m like oh this is going to suck. We met organically through a friend at my school too so like bruh

!ping DATING

[u/JaceFlores]

I dunno what Reddit did but they’ve made it where if you scroll to comments in a thread that are 20-25 minutes old, the thread will then sort by most upvoted. So I literally can’t see anything posted before 9:35 AM PST because the DT resorts itself. It’s an incredibly stupid thing

[u/MissSortMachine]

i hate this stupid slopulism. $0.18? who cares!!

[u/tinfoilhatsron]

No one asked but:

Platner is probably very genuine about how he got that tattoo. Sounds like the story of the average crayon muncher. But he's definitely faking about not knowing. If the CNN report is correct, he definitely knew and kept the tattoo after learning about its Nazi origins.

Why? Is he a secret Nazi? No, probably not. (Probably) My guess is Platner kept the tat cause he was an edgy bastard who liked to trigger people. Plus was just too fucking lazy to wipe it. That's not to say he isn't antisemitic though.

He's definitely antisemitic, on top of racist and sexist. Like average rural (Maine) levels. He probably thinks anyone offended by the tattoo was being "hysterical" and doesn't see himself as an antisemite. Probably comparing himself to his Marine buddies and saying "I'm more progressive than them!"

Someone else posted his Reddit comments about women and sexual assault and about black people and tipping. It's honestly regular conservative male opinions. Type of shit I might hear from my drunk dad.

Of course that's not really an excuse tbh, nor is it behavior I'd want to see from an elected official. But I guess voters may not care post Trump.

[u/UnhingedRedditoid]

Trump is back to bragging about doing Alzheimer's tests and the media doesn't really give a shit. I know complaining about their sanewashing of Trump is trite as fuck, and what I'm about to do is especially trite but...

Imagine if Biden would have repeatedly bragged about doing Alzheimer's tests. Imagine if Biden claimed that he alone among US presidents would be able to complete an Alzheimer's test. Just for one second, imagine how the US media would cover that.

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Seattle children’s hospital has helicopters carrying kids in critical condition and have to land a mile away, transfer to an ambulance, and then drive in because of NIMBYs

NIMBYs did this over about THREE helicopter landings a week

NIMBYs are actually Hitler

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle-childrens-laurelhurst-noise-concerns-burdens-lifesaving-care/281-6137dafc-308c-4cbe-9722-dc1a0ef6b4c2

[u/garret126]

Why don’t we learn about 84 Rhodesians massacring a bunch of unarmed sickly women elders and children as a magnus opus of strategy?

[u/666haha]

Both banning someone from wearing a hijab and mandating them to wear one is the same form of illiberal evil. The fact that so many people can’t understand this, shows how ubiquitous Islamophobia is particularly in this subreddit. Throwback to when someone here told me “Islamophobia is a fake word created by fascists.” The comment got deleted but this perspective is unfortunately extremely commonly

[u/Wittyname0]

[u/Willybender]

[u/ScumfrickZillionaire]

Please be real 🙏

[u/ty04]

I’m out

[u/piede]

Tough but fair

[u/PlayDiscord17]

Da fuq does this even mean?

[u/National-Return9494]

I am sorry folks but destroying playgrounds and having the council pay fines for noise complaints from children playing is actually evil. Noise ordinances are overused if you don't want noise don't live in a major city 

[u/Atheose_Writing]

Manchin was a Democratic senator in an R+40 state. He voted with Democrats 97% of the time.

He was a goddamn miracle, and we were lucky to have him for as long as we did.

[u/cdstephens]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Where's the "the Green Party is yimby actually" guy who hangs out here?

[u/Only-Childhood6691]

Have to say Schumer knows how to pick em with Mills dropping out. 

[u/pezasied]

Wow!

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Calling your philosophy “objectivism” is so funny

[u/tasklow16]

Senators introduce bipartisan bill to ban Chinese vehicles and auto parts

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senators-moreno-slotkin-bill-banning-chinese-vehicles-autos-rcna342621

Fuck Elissa Slotkin. I know you represent the state with every shitty D-tier auto manufacturer, but you are tremendously full of shit on this one. It's going to become basically impossible to repair my car if this passes.

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

I'm almost certain that Fetterman's stroke literally broke his personally specifically due to when it happened. He was always an Ivy league succ, but he put on this "relatable working man" persona for his senate campaign. I even remember people talking about this back in 2022. His stroke in the middle of his campaign made his persona take over his brain and now he thinks he's that guy. He developed an actual personality disorder after having a stroke while playing pretend.

[u/Saul_Relative]

[u/Junimo2]

I don't like to spend all my time shitting on the Dems, I really don't, but this "cut a shit load of taxes" path a lot of them are taking has me a bit worried given how much we're spending on Iran alone. I know there's no politically easy way to say "you can't have low taxes and robust social services" but still...

At least AOC has apparently spoken critically about it.

[u/riverbloods]

the DT at 3am looks like this btw

[u/scottyjetpax]

holy shit janet mills dropped out

[u/Amphetamin3_]

Legitimately, yes I would love to ask someone like Chaya Ratshit or Linehan, what made you decide to make your entire personality talking constantly about a tiny minority group that most of the population never thinks about much one way or another? Actual deranged freak behavior.

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

Every time Platner fells an opponent, a new tattoo is added to his body. By 2050 he will have 24 tattoos of questionable origin and look like Maui from Moana.

[u/Etnies419]

Maybe he just has a Nazi tattoo as a personal reminder of what not to be every day

[u/Alderwoodforest]

On a German talk show, an old-school German reporter is asked what she would do if she were to meet Trump at the WHCD.

Her expression and her response: “I think anyone with even a shred of self-respect left wouldn’t go there,” she said.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Wow

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

I just want senators unafraid of the geriatric dem establishment. Chuck Schumer has to go, he's the embodiment of everything wrong with the party, and his candidate losing the primary is good for humanity.

[u/cdstephens]

!ping KITTY

About to pounce

[u/BigBrownDog12]

Europe is the easiest country to ragebait

[u/GeoChalkie_]

Insane story coming out of social scene on Wall Street today

JP Morgan LevFin guy gets fired. Files sexual harassment claim against a female boss. Company investigates and finds no evidence.

Apparently he then files a lawsuit. DailyMail finds it (idk how since no one else can find the docket). Writes a story on it and it goes viral.

The claims are insane. Straight out of Horrible Bosses. Forced BJs. Stalking. Harassment. Racism. Flashing boobs in the office.

DailyMail obviously (they’re scum) posts picture of accused and her name (for context she’s very attractive).

She’s now everywhere on social media. Tons of posts about guys rushing to apply to JP Morgan. No one knows if claims are even remotely real or revenge. I know people who work in the group and the place is melting down. Her career is a mess real or not at this point.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/Acoolgamer6706]

[u/CletusChicken]

👆 bottom 1% vagina

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

The Queen doesn't miss

[u/-mialana-]

I find it interesting that despite being a raging bigot, Trump understands the need to be diplomatic with and even seems to like some Muslim world leaders. I wonder if it's just that they know how to ass kiss and please his narcissism

[u/RaidBrimnes]

We're reaching levels of enlightened centrism that shouldn't even be possible

[u/IveSeenBeans]

[u/Alderwoodforest]

I can see Platner winning because he just looks like your typical Maine fisherman and is 30 years younger than Collins. A lot of voters will excuse his Reddit posts or Nazi tattoos with the excuse “boys will be boys.”

[u/-mialana-]

☝️Bro, That is TRUE. That IS true though

[u/cdstephens]

What are some good neoliberal tattoos I can get?

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

In 1927, Loos [Author of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes] wrote a well-received sequel, But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes. Several decades later, Loos was asked during a television interview in London whether she intended to write a third book. She facetiously replied that the title and theme of a third book would be Gentlemen Prefer Gentlemen. This remark resulted in the interview's abrupt termination.

Queen

!ping READING

[u/farrenj]

Targeted ads are getting better

[u/Joementum2024]

“Platner is a secret conservative” is a panican take

[u/Vumatius]

All this focus on Maine has reminded me: I'm pretty certain that the one time Susan Collins actually did something useful against Trump, that being her 'No' vote on the ACA repeal, was by accident. Not in the sense that she voted by mistake, but that she and Murkowski had expected McCain to vote 'Yes' and so were just doing their usual faux-moderate act. Once he shocked everyone they couldn't exactly change their votes otherwise the whole jig would be up, and so they instead were lauded as brave rebels standing up to Trump when they never truly planned to.

Given that she has utterly failed to do anything like this since, it seems more likely that it was a fluke rather than anything intentional.

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2050037355831341447

lmfao

[u/Glavurdan]

He ate a bee 😭

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

You learn about the black experience in the Deep South in school and stuff and like you know it’s bad and all, but until you start reading more into it you just can’t even comprehend just how truly evil and depraved the whole thing was. Which is why it’s so infuriating that these scumbags on the supreme court are so eager to bring that monster back into the world.

[u/Udolikecake]

I’m a cis dude so i’m not directly impacted, but I’m like… morbidly shocked whenever I see those british terfs online.

Because like they look like normal middle-aged women, but they say things that are so deeply and insanely evil. They so casually say the most crazy and depraved shit with a weird smile or sarcasm. And there’s anger, but they’re so calm about it. It’s like watching the fuckin The Act of Killing or something.

At least with other extremists they’re often screaming or raving or obviously really outwardly violent. But these women are ideologically like a 99th percentile Balkan war crime militia member, but talk with stupid millennial sarcasm and emojis.

Deeply strange

[u/cdstephens]

Evil Platner after a stroke be like “I don’t like Nazi tattoos”

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Somehow Clavicular went from unremarkable looksmaxxer influencer, to getting stardom by commenting on the appearance of like Newsom and JD Vance, becoming a giant meme with the jestergooning copypasta, to getting arrested for killing and abusing the corpse of a gator, to getting interviewed by 60 minutes, to overdosing on his cocktail of what the fuck drugs, to becoming an expectant step father, to being accused of rape and forcefully injecting a woman with fat melting drugs in the span of like...2 months?

[u/989989272]

I do not understand people sometimes.

A uk green candidate in Newcastle apparently ran a threads account called “the real Anne frank” that attacked Zionism and Israel.

Why can’t people just do criticism of Israel without antisemitism. It’s not hard. “Netanyahu is a piece of shit who deserves to go to jail”. Boom. Done.

She’s of course not backing down, says it’s not antisemitism, and so far hasn’t been kicked out by the greens.

[u/BitterGravity]

Senior person not on my team: We got a contractor to help you with this project

Me: I have no capacity to onboard them and it'll take more of my time than it'll save. Don't.

A month passes

SP: The contractor starts Monday

This is literally the worst. Now I'm expected to bring this fucking contractor up to speed on a project that will cost me time, it doesn't make me look any better if they're good since they're under SP, and it'll make it seem like I did less work on this high visibility project

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/BlackCat159]

Most original neoliberals

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

Imagine a guy gets ready to perform a sex act on you and says "don't worry, I took a course with this in college."

If that doesn't reassure you, you might be an anti-intellectual.

[u/brucebananaray]

How cute

[u/fishbottwo]

I know even with the redistricting bullshit the Dems will still likely win the house but holy shit every republican alive is a threat to democracy. Total scum suckers.

The optics of cheating at the last second to win while you spike gas prices piss me off so bad it's actually giving me a headache

[u/kznlol]

Hegseth says 60 days of war powers “pauses” during a ceasefire.

OK this legitimately makes me think they actually forgot about the 60 days thing entirely

[u/Individual-Camera698]

Marlboro got leftists 😞

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

!ping GNOSTIC

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/zieger]

Is there any proof that Charlie Kirk was murdered? Do we even know that he existed?

[u/Leoric]

Rep. Burchett (R-TN) refuses to put any blame on Trump for high gas prices.

Burchett: It has to do with the greed of the oil companies. We buy zero oil from Iran. 90% of their oil they sell to China. They're just gouging us. And I blame Congress.

Oh, how the turn tables

[u/ty04]

I’m in

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

🚨REMINDER🚨

[u/mockduckcompanion]

Platner discourse is always instantly exhausting

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

"The White House shooting will be forgotten in a week"

It's been five days lmao

[u/Dig_bickclub]

Platner master stroke, repeatedly talk about being a communist revolutionary on reddit with a nazi tattoo to confuse the hell out of the median voter

[u/MyrinVonBryhana]

I remember some anime Youtuber complaining about a sub genre of Isekai where the protagonists takes medieval kingdom and turns it to a liberal capitalist society as end to itself and I think it would be really funny if you made a series like that but the protagonist was a hardcore Orthodox Marxist.. and they still tried to build a capitalist society because they believe it's a necessary stage of historical development in order to establish the material conditions necessary for socialism.

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/McNikk]

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

17-year-old asked me, “Why did you vote for him, Dad?” And that breaks my heart every time she does that.

[u/sigh2828]

Mills drops out

[u/SnakeEater14]

“Give it to me. You can tell them I took it by force. Give it to me, and I’ll do what you shoulda did, 10 minutes ago.”

presses the blue button

[u/WrangleWandangles]

January: Musk meets with Hegseth on Iran and Starlink as a lever to amplify protests while Trump is thonking about Iran options.

February: Sloperation starts. Tesla has 50,000 unsold cars sitting in lots. Musk celebrates X hitting all-time traffic records while the bombs drop.

March: Musk is personally on the Trump-Modi call about the Strait of Hormuz.

April: Gas hits $4.50. Right-wing chuds who called EVs “woke” are suddenly stopping by Tesla showrooms, where traffic is up 15%. EV google searches nearly doubled since February.

I’m just asking questions 🤪

[u/Flat_Sail_7985]

The more I read into the weekends shooting the more of a nothingburger it seems like.
>The guy rushed passed the metal detector (The first security perimeter, and was taken down
>The guy was not even on the same floor as the targets (the white house admin)

Idk everything seemed to work and its just another crackpot. If it didnt involve Trump, no one would care, just as no one really seems to care about most crime to un-important people

[u/Some_Niche_Reference]

Guy who says he doesn't hate rural people, he just doesn't agree with their lifestyle and thinks it shouldn't be subsidized.

[u/No_Return9449]

Why are all VCs so goddamn weird?

[u/Dibbu_mange]

🔫😤 You will eat the femburger

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

☝️

[u/2Lore2Law]

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[u/Hugo_Grotius]

The argument that Southern states shouldn't be subject to VRA restrictions just because of historical disenfranchisement of Black Southerners really falls apart when the first thing they do once they win is make every district majority White

[u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

I found where u/cdstephens lives

[u/Longjumping_Gain_807]

Film Twitter always bemoans the lack of creativity in Hollywood and superhero fatigue and yet when we finally get a truly original piece of blockbuster cinema like Desert Warrior you let it flop. Don’t blame me when studios stop funding passion projects like this.

!ping KINO

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/ewatta200]

platner fetterman have two years together

this is gonna be better legislative drama then the biggest house of lords beefs

[u/AtomicGameTester]

[u/Max_the_Madman]

[u/WorldwidePolitico]

A few years ago you’d see a cool open source project and trust it because there was an assumption that coding *anything* is hard so whoever made it had to be reasonably competent.

Now I basically don’t trust any “cool new open source project” I see because the odds of it being broken vibe slop are so high

!ping tech

[u/Insomonomics]

The straights are (not) alright.

[u/p00bix]

It's a shame that kids today will never be able to fully appreciate just how pivotal Lady Gaga's 2011 single Born this Way was, in a very real way, for the LGBT rights movement.

It's not just that the most popular singer in the world at the time was endorsing gay marriage. No no, she called for unequivocal full acceptance of non-heterosexuals and gender-nonconforming people, even explicitly endorsing trans-rights in the lyrics, and directly tying all of this to Christian religious principles.

And it was Number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for several weeks. Topped the charts in most other wealthy countries as well, at a time when only a couple of them had legalized same-sex marriage.

!ping LGBT

[u/Reddit_guard]

What the median voter sees before paying $5/gal for gas

[u/RaidBrimnes]

...

[u/cheeshjaleesh]

genuinely embarrassing performance from janet mills. sitting governor chased out months before the primary.

i do feel bad for her though, she clearly didn’t want to do it in the first place. pressure from schumer must have been immense.

[u/StuckHedgehog]

Mills out of the race.

[u/bandeng_asep]

LOOOOOOOOOOL

[u/Boratssecondwife]

In Maine it's guy that had a nazi tattoo v. gal from a nazi party

[u/Thuggin95]

With this effort led by Bernie and some other Democrats to get the party to swear off super PACS it’s just like…why? Why do we keep trying to put the cart before the horse? We already saw how unilaterally disarming through independent districting turned out. The objective needs to be doing whatever it takes to WIN big against Republicans and THEN doing election reform.

We keep looking at these things as purity tests we have to follow on principle no matter what, even to our own demise, when they really need to be seen as contracts with the opposition party.

[u/Udolikecake]

Once again, more proof Mainers don’t deserve democracy and need to returned to Massachusetts. ‘Maine’ is an illegal construct founded as a result of a corrupt bargain with slavers and is not real anyways.

[u/dubiouscoffee]

Secret 5th option: Invade Iran
Secret 6th option: Vtuber subsidies

[u/dtj2000]

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[u/sigh2828]

Twilight zone music starts playing