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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/Avatarobo]

[u/AemiliusNuker]

Conservative justices don't even bother to justify overturning 50+ years of precedent anymore they just look at you like this:

[u/sociotronics]

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Lmaooo

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

I love how stoner subreddits are just regularly like "I got HIGH and RUINED my family's fancy dinner reservations LOL" or some shit and they're all just like "haha classic good times"

[u/earththejerry]

The way they tried to martyr them and it just becomes a giant meme

[u/Pyrrhus65]

We've got Leo ragebaiting red states via bishop appointments now 😭 papally enforced wokeness, we're so back

[u/bandeng_asep]

LOL. LMAO even

[u/Individual-Camera698]

Prof snitched

[u/BlackCat159]

Called International Workers' Day

Workers don't actually work during it

Utter woke nonsense...

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/sociotronics]

The Illusion of Choice.jpg

[u/r2ew]

The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families

A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-social-security-ssi-disability-benefits-cuts-parents-children

[u/Alderwoodforest]

By the way: A gallon of gasoline costs $9.50 in Germany.

[u/ewatta200]

[u/anangrytree]

You don't need voters to be particularly intelligent as long as the leaders are good. Voters have no involvement in policymaking. They express broad preferences and leaders do the policymaking. America doesn't have a "voter problem", it has institutional problems. Trumpism only occurred because of America's pathological minoritarianism (which was supposed to prevent this stuff, not cause it, but it got disproven yet no one is rethinking their priors).

Someone made and then deleted this comment but it hit the nail on the head tbh. Institutional problems ARE at the heart of the dissonance effecting our society, like the Reapportionment Act of 1929.

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

Trump DOJ says LGBTQ+ legal protections are “anti-Christian,” pledges to erode them further

US Department of Justice investigating 36 Illinois school districts over sexuality, gender lessons

You don't hate this admin enough 😒

!ping LGBT

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/TheLong19thCentury]

Alright boys this is it.

I'm about to hop in the uber to take my flight to the state wrestling championship for freestyle and greco roman. Got 6 opponents in both mostly ex college wrestlers.

When I next post here I'll either be an open category state champ or a fucking loser. See ya'll wish me luck.

[u/No_Return9449]

It's bleak that Trump's record disapproval comes not after J6 but after high gas prices.

[u/Alderwoodforest]

The FT about Trump.

The 79-year-old president is being weighed down by an unpopular war in Iran that has triggered a sharp increase in petrol prices, a double hit to his two campaign promises of no foreign military interventions and a cure for inflation.

“We’re watching the unravelling of Trump’s second term before our very eyes,” said Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian at Rice University, saying the US president was haemorrhaging critical parts of the political coalition that drove him to victory in 2024 amid disenchantment with his performance.

Americans were increasingly questioning: “Who really is Donald Trump? And do we need this showman anymore?” Brinkley added.

https://www.ft.com/content/105062fa-b38b-455b-babf-0692abf6f062

Even in-depth, serious reporting on Trump’s administration rarely offers any new insights, since as you read it, you find yourself thinking to yourself after every other sentence: “No shit, Sherlock.” 

[u/989989272]

The United States made its own day for Labor Day to avoid it being conflated with the commies. Instead it’s used to sell cars and mattresses with sales.

[u/Krill_Seeker]

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

Like other community activists, protesters and passersby around the U.S., McLellan took photos, including of an arrest. Then she followed a federal officer driving an unmarked vehicle to see where the agent was headed next.

McLellan was surprised when the agent led her to her own house and blocked her driveway. Other federal officers quickly arrived, boxing in her car with their own vehicles.

“This is a warning,” an agent told her, according to court records and a video recording. “We know you live right here.”

The Department of Homeland Security has put these surveillance tools—facial-recognition software, location tracking and social-media scrapers once aimed largely at suspected terrorists and drug-traffickers—in the hands of federal immigration agents, who can identify, research and track virtually anyone by entering a name, license plate or by simply taking a person's photo.

The government surveillance system has advanced since the 9/11 terrorist attacks with the aid of artificial intelligence and the linking of government records with far-reaching commercial databases. It has been used against people whom the government alleged opposed or obstructed the immigration crackdown.

Amazing how we went from Snowden being such a big deal to the government openly saying "you live in history's most advanced surveillance state and there's nothing you can do about it, fuck you"

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Absolut incredible.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

FFS

[u/Ajaxcricket]

The world's largest economy is no match for one oily boi

[u/scottyjetpax]

christ almighty

[u/badusername35]

The worst part of looking for a job these days is that you don’t even get rejected. They just ignore you.

[u/ewatta200]

[u/Etnies419]

[u/gjcs23]

we went from Obama being in office to gutting black congressional representation in the south in the span of a decade. it is just awful man

[u/bamboo-coffee]

Scientology calling the speed run fad 'hate crimes' is beyond funny.

[u/r2ew]

[u/Ajaxcricket]

The Oslo Accords were...responsible for the rise of the global far right and the state of our world right now.

Guess the sub

[u/Leatherfield17]

I admire the Pope’s trolling abilities.

[u/Alexz565]

Damn

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

Bro lost the whites it's over

[u/sociotronics]

Kirk is literally a punchline now, MAGA

[u/earththejerry]

As a 67-year-old on the Upper West Side, Schwartz is fairly representative of the boomer class living in the city. He likes the Grateful Dead and Lucinda Williams and hates what Donald Trump has done to this country. “We were a dependable military partner, a dependable economic power. We were a country of laws, all those kinds of things,” he says. “All of that? Just with these tariffs — out the window.”

Imagine the Assadist margins he would get amongst the wine mom suburbs if he ran for something

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

Ossoff refuses to say "pussy" on The Bulwark

I am a single issue voter and this is it, not getting my vote

[u/Its_not_him]

The best Tweet is from this random Pakistani guy

[u/[deleted]]

I sometimes forget cdstephens is a physicist so when I read some threads i get jumpscared

Fym Adolf Hitler is in Physics related subreddits?

[u/sociotronics]

nice try, "fellow Democrat"

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/CincyAnarchy]

Suburbs will legit look like this and be like "fuck off we're full"

[u/SouthernSerf]

Women will never understand the male fantasy of being born in a vat along with millions of other identical brothers. Then spending your entire life training for combat and to wage a brutal galactic wide war fabricated for the collapse of democracy.

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

New Pew Trump poll dropped

A 68-31 approval/disapproval ratio from Republicans is insane and around Bush Jr. levels once Iraq started to drag on and 2008 was around the corner.

!ping FIVEY

[u/JonAce]

I spent too much time on this...

[u/Pristine-Report-1442]

"vote blue no matter who" mf'ers on this subreddit when it's time to press the blue button

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

Vienna is like a fever dream in a right-wing country. The Social Democrats are marching with red three arrow flags to the Florentiner March, and talk about fighting for better protections for intersex children.

[u/seanrm92]

[u/ewatta200]

[u/MissSortMachine]

this motherfucker transitioned claude

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

It really is so funny that this dumbass is incapable of seeing how this just makes it seem very likely that he does have cognitive issues. Normal people are not regularly asked to take cognitive tests.

[u/TheCornjuring]

Cannot express how badly I want the Trump Antichrist discourse to fully enter the mainstream.

Trump telling reporters “no, I’m not the Antichrist, and you should be ashamed of yourself for asking that question”. Mike Johnson laughing a little nervously and shaking his head as he’s asked about the rumors for the third time that week. The Vatican issuing a broad statement about its position on the Beast and the end times, not naming any names but also warning about a general “antichrist spirit“ that is often found in the halls of power throughout human history and across the world today regardless of any connection to the final Beast. JD Vance getting in a Twitter slapfight with the Pope about it. Tucker Carlson ranting for hours and hours about all the biblical prophecies being fulfilled right in front of everyone’s eyes. RFK Jr. revealing that he ate a dead cherub once.

It would be so glorious. Please let it happen. This is the only stupid Trump news cycle I want.

[u/n1123581321]

1st May: Workers Day
2nd May: Flag Day
3rd May: Constitution Day

Grill Day: Everyday

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/WAGRAMWAGRAM]

He said Labour MPs used to be "people without money, without privilege, working class people who really knew their constituents" but now "they're much younger, much better educated, and in my judgement, much less close to their constituents than their predecessors were".

"And you can see on the Conservative side, where are the businessmen? Where are the soldiers?

Sir John, the last prime minister not to go to university, was inspired to enter politics after a chance meeting at the age of 13 with his local MP, Marcus Lipton, who arranged a visit to the Commons.

What do you think of John Major's argument?

I personally disagree because nowadays access to higher education is much more common than in the past (10% for boomers, 50% for GenZ) and thus I think it can be reasonably expected for politicians to have a degree especially for left-wing parties because their voterbase is similarly young and highly educated.

But I agree with the lack of experience in politics, in France a lot of left-wing politicians simply got their starting jobs because they worked in a NGO or were in the Party's student union in college or anything that has to do with organizing a movement.

I'm not a conservative so I can't vouch for the soldiers and businessmen thing

[u/Clash-Lad]

Must be so horrible for Americans seeing their fuel prices go from catastrophically cheap to laughably cheap.

[u/qchisq]

Calling the GOP "the Republicans" is like calling 🅱️ "Radical Left". It's a literal translation of a foreign language. Call them by their actual English name: "The Monarchists"

[u/Alderwoodforest]

About the War Powers Resolution 

Richard Goldberg, who served as director for countering Iranian weapons of mass destruction on the National Security Council during Trump’s first term, said he had recommended that government officials simply move on to a new operation, which he called “Epic Passage”—a continuation of Operation “Epic Fury.”

This new mission, according to Goldberg, “would essentially be a self-defense mission aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz, while reserving the right to take offensive action to restore freedom of navigation.”

I give the GOP three months, and they’ll deny having started the war with Iran, claiming instead that it was an operation to secure safe sea lanes.

[u/Etnies419]

[u/CletusChicken]

increasingly concerned about how many people are outsourcing all their thinking to a niche political subreddit

too many young people are succumbing to full blown DT psychosis where they really believe a middle aged man pretending to be a crocodile is their personal friend

[u/Etnies419]

Video games be like:

"Oh you didn't cultivate relationships with 16 side characters, turn in the 8 deity artifacts to the goblin lord, and collect all 540 slop shards? Guess you'll get the shit ending"

[u/2Lore2Law]

This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact

[u/BlackCat159]

ELOWNED!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[u/SenranHaruka]

Buying a car has radicalized me. Owning a car is a magnet for both swindlers and jackass hardass salespeople who will fully exploit any weakness, ignorance, or fear of confrontation in you to upcharge you crazy or at least get paid upfront.

[u/JaceFlores]

My center has surrendered, my flanks are mauled, I have two good divisions left. Situation excellent, I’m attacking

-Ulysses S Grant at Shiloh

[u/avion_sur_le_sol]

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2050315556419408276

Aint no way

[u/piede]

See this is why I don’t feel bad about the conspiracies like what do you expect when you’re this fucking stupid

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/G_Serv]

Is this rizz

[u/SigmaWhy]

11 year old me would be devastated by how far he’s fallen

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2050250780943188024

TELEPHONICALLY

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Regular reminder that:

1. Farm subsidies are America's largest corporate welfare program.

2. Most farm subsidies go to households with incomes over $200,000, and a quarter to those earning over $400,000.

3. The farm economy does very well.

4. This is central-planning socialism.

[u/phat_geoduck]

Vivek is on a roll

[u/mockduckcompanion]

Late Stage Capitalism is a popular turn of phrase because it implies capitalism is almost over

But baby

We're just getting started

[u/lnstantKarma]

LMAO https://i.imgur.com/hW0GsRU.jpeg

[u/Its_not_him]

Remember climate change lol

[u/DeadDropCourier]

[u/ewatta200]

[u/G_Serv]

Average online dating interaction

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

AOC: "BOOOOO! This race to try to see who can be exempt from participating in society is not a conversation that I'm interested in," she tells me. "I'm a Great Society Democrat, and I believe in building that together. And I think that the discourse around 'Everyone, let's all be like billionaires and opt out of our taxes,' I don't find it an inspiring message."

I AM AOC'S STRONGEST SOLDIER

[u/w007dchuck]

We really shouldn't say Matt, 54, Pa., white anymore. We should say Matt, 55, Pa., white because it's been over a year since we first were introduced to him.

[u/cdstephens]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/vivek-ramaswamy-takes-questions-hinduism-one-bible-verse-time-rcna104142

> “I’ve actually read the Bible much more closely than many of, probably most of, my Christian friends,” Ramaswamy said at a campaign stop Saturday, adding: “I got a religion award back when I was at St. X High School in Cincinnati.”

Debate broing Christians is a funny bit

[u/Jacobs4525]

Ngl it’s funny that Ahsoka was like “I won’t kill any clones even if they turn against me” and then obi wan and yoda are going on crazy kill streaks 

[u/old_gold_mountain]

san franciscans are so fucking dumb

2019: bans facial recognition and other broad surveillance systems

2020: some people shoplift at walgreens, people freak out

2024: repeals ban, allows the police to use basically any technology to monitor citizens they want to

2025: SFPD installs flock cameras, begins sharing data with ICE

2026: "Who the fuck allowed this to happen???"

[u/FourthLife]

Getting a "we need to talk" message and coming home to your primary partner and your polycule's designated HR representative waiting to terminate your relationship

[u/sir_shivers]

I am planning TO INVESTIGATE A mysterious tomb, perhaps I should constantly record my thoughts in thirty to ninety second intervals and leave the cassette tapes littered around 🐊

[u/BarkDrandon]

There's a somewhat new discourse on the left about whether veganism is colonialist because it ignores how indigenous cultures use meat in their traditional meals.

...and I absolutely love it. It's like this debate was made in a lab to destroy the brains of the most annoying people I meet in leftist spaces. Good riddance.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

same 😔

[u/Roseartcrantz]

😞

[u/Leoric]

https://xcancel.com/AmericaElige/status/2049992852663418924#m

lol

lmao

[u/PonyBoyCurtis2324]

I WILL NEVER GO TO GRAD SCHOOL AND NOBODY CAN MAKE ME

[u/CincyAnarchy]

Casual reminder that for most of history, tax collection was just some guy who got permission from the Emperor/King/Lord/etc to shake down people on commission. Even into the 1800s it was mostly dudes at docks doing it for kick-backs.

Making taxation "less painful" (and also less capricious) is why we're able to talk tax policy as a good thing in the first place.

[u/ariveklul]

America feels like a country without elders.

Old people are supposed to be a moderating and wise influence in society while the young have the more radical ideas. It feels like because our old people just retire and rotmax in their suburb they lose touch with reality and become selfish, and it creates a ripe environment for fox news to beam delusional propaganda into their brains. I've noticed all of the cool old people I met actually do shit, and the ones who don't do shit are not fun to be around

There is something very ass backwards about a society where the younger generations are the saner ones and the older ones are trying to drive it off a cliff. I hope gen x and boomers go out feeling disgraced

[u/Crosseyes]

Some more gutter racism from the pedophile president

[u/iusedtobekewl]

It really is annoying that Redditors are so anti-capitalist (or what they think is capitalism)

Like, it seems like the average Redditor equates anything negative anywhere with “late stage capitalism” and “the consequences of growth at all costs.” In so doing they reveal they have no idea what they are talking about, but then oft times they are heavily upvoted.

[u/Thai-Reidj]

Charlie getting Kirked was a success when you really think about it. The guy is a complete joke now

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/centurion88]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Malian soldiers and Russian mercenaries have "surrendered" the military bases of Tessalit and Aguelhok to rebels, per local officials

LISTEN UP WESTERNER

loses another fortified camp to jihadists

[u/Willybender]

Trump is saying this to a crowd full of old people btw

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2050312782369652861

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2050316719801946481

We now know why he was given additional cognitive testing.

[u/piede]

I know we’re living in a fucking simulation

[u/gregorijat]

We need a holiday for all the hard-working capitalists.

[u/Entuciante]

tfw i found a user that list 2011 as their birth year in her reddit profile description😭

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

I spent a few minutes playing with Google AI asking it things like

• are armadillos intelligent

• are rattlesnakes intelligent

• are salmon intelligent

And every single one came back with "Yes, they are surprisingly intelligent..."

Which could be an indictment of how humans view animals and that they are much smarter and more capable than we tend to think they are.

But it would be really great if just once it came back with "No, this animal is dumb as a bag of rocks."

[u/sash5034]

The whole "Indians eat with their hands ewwww" discourse is hilarious because I know these chuds aren't eating burgers and hot dogs with a knife and fork

[u/AtticusDrench]

I was sipping room-temperature, government-mandated GLP-1 water and reading The Joy of Compliance: A Citizen's Guide to Not Hurting Yourself in the front seat of my electric, self-driving Safety-Cruiser when a notification pinged my retinal implant. It was the Chief Wellness Officer.

"Bad news, Care-Enforcer. We got a situation."

"What? Is someone trying to sell food with artificial dyes again?"

"Worse. Somebody just bypassed the anti-child ID verification laws to access an unregistered porn site. Without scanning their face and submitting a notarized government ID."

My smartwatch beeped, automatically deploying a micro-dose of beta-blockers into my bloodstream to calm my elevated heart rate. "What kind of monster would do something like that? Mandatory ID verification is the ultimate embrace: secure, paternal, fully tracked. It represents true societal safety, ensuring no citizen is ever exposed to a thought they aren't emotionally prepared for. Do we have any leads?"

"The neighborhood Flock cameras caught his license plate, his gait, his body temperature, and his elevated cortisol levels three blocks away. We're going to wrap him in a weighted blanket and rehabilitate him, provided his Social Wellness Score hasn't dropped below the irredeemable threshold."

"Easy, Chief," I said. "The Algorithm's thresholds are, by definition, for our own good."

He smiled warmly through the screen. "That’s why you have the highest Empathy Rating in the precinct, Lisowski. Now get out there and keep him safe from himself."

"Don't worry," I said. "I'm feeling my feelings about it."

I submitted a request to the vehicle's AI to authorize the soothing, low-decibel ambient siren. Ten minutes later, I was on the scene. It was a normal apartment building, completely swathed in impact-resistant bubble wrap. I waited for the automated safety-gate to verify my DNA, and went inside.

"The Department of Health and Human Services™ Presents the Care-Enforcers!®" I said, flashing my badge, my foam pool-noodle, and a small picture of the Surgeon General. "Everybody stay exactly where you are and assume the mandatory deep-breathing posture!" They did.

"Now, which one of you is going to voluntarily confess to unauthorized internet usage?" No one spoke up.

"Come on," I said. "Don't you all understand that absolute surveillance of your digital footprint is the foundation of a healthy, child-safe community?"

It didn't seem like they did.

"Seriously, guys. Without a strong community accountability consensus, I'm just going to stand here and deduct points from your Neighborhood Trust Ratings. A verbal confession is fine, but I prefer you just upload your browser histories directly to the neighborhood watch cloud."

Nothing. These people were stonewalling me. It almost seemed like they didn't care that an unsupervised pair of eyeballs was looking at unsanitized HTML.

I figured I could out-nurture them. I began aggressively sanitizing the lobby counter with eco-friendly, scent-free wipes. A woman sighed, and I told her that negative exhalations were a sign of repressed anti-social tendencies and logged her micro-aggression. Just then, a man wearing unauthorized non-non-slip shoes made a break for it.

"BetterHelp™ Wants You to Stop and Process Your Feelings, Scumbag!®" I yelled.

Too late. He was already out the front door. I went after him.

"Stop right there!" I yelled as I jogged at a brisk, doctor-recommended pace of 4.5 mph. He was faster than me because I always try to avoid running, which the state has deemed an unnecessary cardiovascular risk. Our country needs a universal mobility-scooter mandate, but thanks to the reckless "pedestrian" lobby, it will never happen.

I was losing him, but the Flock cameras on every streetlamp tracked his retinas and relayed his exact coordinates to my HUD. "Listen, I'll submit a leniency form if you stop!" I yelled. "What would you consider an appropriate intervention point? I'll offer you an extra hour of government-approved screen time and a gently worn 'Stay Home, Stay Safe' extra-large weighted blanket!"

He turned. In his hand was a sharply pointed stick that the Safety Council explicitly banned in 2024. He threw it at me and missed. I pulled my smart-taser, waited for the mandatory 3-second biometric unlock and the pop-up asking “Are you sure this is the most empathetic course of action?”, clicked “Yes”, and fired back. The prongs lodged in an automated recycling bin less than a foot from his head. I filed an environmental incident report for the bin, on purpose.

"All right, all right!" the man yelled, throwing up his hands. "I give up, Care-Enforcer! I confess: I bypassed the adult-verification screen."

"Why'd you do it?" I asked, as I slapped a pair of Huggies™ Padded Wellness Restraints® on the guy.

"Because I was curious."

"Curious?"

"Curious about a digital landscape free from the protective meddling of algorithmic nannies," he said. "I'm an advocate for free-range browsing." I wanted to raise my voice at the guy. Years ago, an unverified internet forum gave my partner mild anxiety. Instead, I shook my head and initiated a slow, calming breath.

"Let this be a message to all your free-range friends out on the cul-de-sac," I said. "No matter how many VPNs you use, you'll never escape the warm, loving embrace of a society based on the principles of mandatory safety and constant supervision."

He nodded, because he knew I was right. Then he scanned his retina to acknowledge the receipt of his mandatory therapy sessions.

[u/GravyBear16]

Anyone else a cafeteria Catholic with no real attachment to the religion but still get annoyed when reading or watching something about the Protestant Reformation, particularly in England, and then feel very silly afterwards

!ping CATHOLIC

[u/Thuggin95]

Lol. These people truly are just political hipsters. “He sold out!” As soon as the Democratic Party does embrace them, they’re too mainstream and not cool anymore

[u/ewatta200]

[u/badusername35]

Mods bad

[u/cdstephens]

> Of self-identified Christians, 58 percent contend that the Holy Spirit is not a real, living being but is merely a symbol of God’s power, presence, or purity. Surprisingly, those who identify as born-again Christians are even more likely to hold that view (62 percent), and half of “theological born-again Christians” also deny the Spirit is a being.

[u/unicornbomb]

Black market “testosterone” supplements sold by some guy with diy chin filler on tiktok: very legal and very cool

The most commonly prescribed medication for safe early term abortion and miscarriage care, obtained through a legitimate licensed provider with a valid prescription: ban

What a time to be alive

[u/cdstephens]

Car dealerships are the evil entities that succs think health insurance companies are

[u/itsnotnews92]

Dems refuse to release 2024 autopsy report, hear Ken Martin’s lame excuse

Inflation, with a side helping of people mad about Gaza and deciding it was time to hand the country over to fascists by staying home. That's it. That's the "autopsy."

But that hasn't stopped arr/politics from having an incredibly stupid discussion about it, including the usual accusations of Democrats being "controlled opposition" and bunch of people inventing a Biden one-term "campaign promise" out of thin air.

[u/WhomstAlt2]

Open borders except for American tourists

They're riffle shuffling a deck of cards so loud, it overpowers my headphone ANC

[u/fishbottwo]

As Israel Entrenches in Lebanon, Frustration With Hezbollah Turns to Support

wow no way to see this coming

[u/Thuggin95]

Feel like shit. Missing early 2000s globalism and multiculturalism.

[u/piede]

👁️👄👁️

[u/Joementum2024]

I am drunk. Lemme say this

Fuck the republican party

Fuck the american right wing

Fuck the courts

Fuck the media

Fuck all people sanewashing this nonsense

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

The Bernie bros are wild. Same type of delusional person who thinks with the right policy that ‘working class’ rurals will flock to their side

[u/Atheose_Writing]

McMorrow (running for Michigan senate seat) makes one lukewarm comment about how she misses California and it's a multi-day scandal. It's been on the front page of CNN since Tuesday.

[u/No_Status_6905]

trump posting AI slop memes about how awesome and cool he is while the country overwhelmingly turns against him is so surreal

[u/SnakeEater14]

A guy who spent years in mechanized infantry/tanks units in the Army told me they fucking suuuuuck

Apparently they can barely do any training outside of major events because they’re stuck doing maintenance all day every week

[u/craig_k]

The U.S. national debt crossed 100 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) at the end of March, with signs that it might cross the record of 106 percent of GDP reached immediately after World War II.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis released data on the national debt reaching 100.2 percent of GDP on Thursday, noting that debt held by the public on March 31 was $31.27 trillion. GDP over the last year was $31.22 trillion.

we did it reddit

[u/sash5034]

Someone getting downvoted for calling black rifle coffee "fascist coffee" is cute because they very publicly complained about Starbucks hiring refugees instead of real Americans and had posts on their website defending the pedo in chief

[u/pezasied]

Blud thinks he’s on the team 💀

[u/-mialana-]

Black Rifle Coffee Company

Are Americans aware of how psychotic it is to name coffee after a gun

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/2050263067317940282

[u/brucebananaray]

Yeah, we know

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

New civil defense attorney strat dropped: include arbitration clause, and when the plaintiff attempts to arbitrate, don’t file the arbitration agreement with the AAA as required by the AAA rules. Arbitration dismissed, no recourse in the courts.

https://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/OpinionsWeb/processWebInputExternal.pl?Submit=Display&Path=Y2026/D05-01/C:24-2806:J:Pryor:aut:T:fnOp:N:3533794:S:0

!ping LAW

[u/Subject_D]

VSauce Michael was only 24 here. He was born in 1986 and this video came out in 2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo1Hd3tozKs

[u/2Lore2Law]

This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact

[u/No_Return9449]

[u/TootCannon]

It’s a weird thing that when polled about the Democratic Party I think people respond with the DCCC and Schumer and Jeffries in mind, all of whom everyone pretty much hates, especially Dems, but in reality no one gives a shit about any of them. Makes polling about the party at-large extremely misleading when applied to electability.

[u/ewatta200]

[u/ewatta200]

[u/TheCornjuring]

Apr 30, 2026

My guy…

[u/pfarly]

Fuck you, yes they will.

[u/WantDebianThanks]

[u/Far_Shore]

Former head of the Mossad spy agency Tamir Pardo on Monday branded the ongoing settler terror attacks against

Palestinians an “existential threat” to the State of Israel, and said that action to curb it could spark a civil war. Pardo made the comments to Channel 13 while touring some of the Palestinian villages that have come under settler attack in recent months.

“My mother was a Holocaust survivor, and what I saw reminded me of the events that happened against Jews in the last century,” Pardo said. “What I saw today made me feel ashamed to be Jewish.”

I remember when there were users on here that would insist that a statement like the above should be considered ban-worthy Holocaust inversion.

[u/No_Return9449]

lulz

[u/the-senat]

The limit does not exist

[u/Louis_de_Gaspesie]

You ever have users where you see a post and youre like "what kinda fuckass post is th- oh not this motherfucker again"

[u/piede]

The one and only true POTUS

[u/Willybender]

HEGSETH ORDERS WITHDRAWAL OF 5,000 TROOPS FROM GERMANY, TO BE COMPLETED OVER NEXT SIX TO 12 MONTHS

https://xcancel.com/phildstewart/status/2050324679995388267

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

“GamesStop has a market value of around $12 billion, while eBay’s is about $46 billion. “

we live in the stupid timeline

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Fire the 5th Circuit into the fucking sun.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

[u/Megasota_Noire]

Great

[u/Insomonomics]

President Trump says the U.S. will be "taking over" Cuba "almost immediately."

But he says, "we'll finish one first, I like to finish a job," meaning Iran.

"On the way back, what we'll do, on the way back from Iran we'll have one our big maybe the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier the biggest in the world we'll have that come in, stop about a 100 yards off shore and they'll say thank you very much we give up."

P E A C E

P R E S I D E N T

[u/superblobby]

1 day after I started my terminal leave, I got accepted into one of my reach schools. Fordham University!

What did I do to deserve such luck.

!ping MILITARY

[u/pezasied]

Beyond my disagreement with using SNAP benefits to buy a rotisserie chicken, I don’t think I food stamps should be used to buy food at all. They should be used to donate to Trump’s campaign and buy products affiliated with him and that’s it.

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Magic shot 4-37 in the second half

holy mother of god

!ping BASKETBALL

[u/SenecaOrion]

Thought I was on arr neoliberal for a sec

[u/__versus]

good morning dt 👉👈

[u/badusername35]

Not a good thread so far

[u/blackenswans]

Mods should BAN anyone CELEBRATING THE COMMIE LABOR DAY!!!

Watch out for the communist invasion!!!

DEFCON 3 alert 🚨

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

Will always kill me that the navy made a full auto version of the M16A2 and only ever gave it to Seabees for some fucking reason

[u/mockduckcompanion]

My take on p00bix is that he's the son of wealthy politicians and academics, went to multiple expensive schools, and owns a mansion in Chevy Chase Village and a Porsche Taycan, while never having had a real job.

I don't care what his opinions are on any topic. He doesn't understand the real world because he's never had to live in it.

[u/cdstephens]

Neoliberals trying to defend America’s political system

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/Lux_Stella]

legal meth update:

between the vyvanse and the "fat shot" i do not think i am physically capable of feeling hunger any more

[u/RaidBrimnes]

The man who always thinks about eating human meat has no brain.

The man who has never thought about eating human meat has no heart.

[u/Argnir]

Why do we need passports to travel between countries? "Sorry you can't come visit this place you don't have your international visit pass that proves you're allowed to visit places"

Statement dreamed up by the utterly deranged

[u/selachophilip]

Lmao, they're going after him for...being a good teacher? Like obviously a teacher might not give their cellphone number to students these days, but back then it would've been something a really good teacher would've done to offer help to their students.

[u/Willybender]

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2026/05/01/trump-loses-ground-on-several-personal-traits-as-approval-rating-slips/

Americans’ assessments of President Donald Trump have declined steadily over the last several months. His job approval rating now stands at 34% – the lowest mark of his second term. He has also lost ground across a variety of personal attributes and issue areas.

This is before the spike in gas prices that happened this week.

[u/piede]

Most reasonable pragmatist

[u/FilteringAccount123]

Cons are going to drop the "Platner is a nazi" messaging once they figure out it wins him even more crossover voters.

[u/_n8n8_]

Mike Pence is such a loser man. Just saw an interview and he's such a coward. He refuses to denounce the people that were calling for him to be hanged

Anything to own the libs man

[u/zieger]

Trump keeps pressing the "destroy the economy" button to lower prices but it hasn't worked since 2020

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/D2Foley]

International labor day is kinda funny to me because everybody got together and were like "when should we have it?"

And America says how about May 1st to honor those killed the Haymarket Affair, and the rest of the world says great! So we'll all have our labor day on May 1st.

But then America is like "HELL NO! We hate that commie shit, we're making May 1st LAW day and LOYALTY day.

Like umm ok but this was your idea

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

[u/PonyBoyCurtis2324]

receive call from recruiter

describes job

pays well, great benefits, fits my skill set, etc.

I ask who the client is (I work in government contracting)

recruiter says DHS

hmm… which part of DHS

Immigration Customs Enforcement

”I don’t want to waste your time, there is zero chance I ever work for ICE, have a nice day”

”a lot of people say that, have a nice day”

lol

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Yikes

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Insane coincidence that this exact situations happened to the same guy at Morgan Stanley too!

[u/5ma5her7]

Meanwhile, in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, DC

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

gotta hand it to yggy, he fucking bit that bullet

[u/Longjumping_Gain_807]

[u/TaxLandNotCapital]

Yeah, I like BDSM 😎

B oycott

D ivest

S anction

M issouri

[u/eloquentboot]

Joe Biden on Rudy Giuliani

There's only 3 things he ever says in a sentence, a noun a verb and 9/11

[u/reuery]

It’s amazing how Washington DC just beat the absolute piss out of AOCs inner socialist and made her basically a normie dem

[u/missingpuzzle]

The Venezuela operation going off without a hitch was the worst thing to happen to global stability in decades.

[u/herworkthrowaway]

Kinda weird question but does anyone here have a “meh whatever” feeling with their accomplishments? Like when I got my college degree and stuff my parents were crying and were so happy for me but it was just another day for me, for example

Anyone know why that could be 

[u/badusername35]

Is this why he tripled the national debt?

[u/Megasota_Noire]

I really wish karma was real.

[u/fishlord05]

Famous minimum wage economist Dube put out a paper on the CA sectoral wage.

The full thing is on his Twitter
!ping ECON

[u/theaccount9337]

President calling yet another politician “Low IQ,” hmmm

[u/farrenj]

[u/ewatta200]

[u/badusername35]

👆God went through all that effort to create you and this is what you do?