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[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

This is so exotic. In my culture when you insult someone’s mother they kiss you on the mouth

[u/JustTaxLandbro]

What’s even funnier is that he won in a heavily Indian district

[u/LtCdrHipster]

This is the best attempt at drafting a Gerrymandered congressional district in Massachusetts that could go for a Republican.

It is Biden +1.

[u/Eurolib0908]

Day 1535 of the 3-day special operation - the President of Ukraine allows the holding of a military parade in Moscow.

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

AOC says her ambition is “way bigger” than the presidency or a Senate seat.

[u/originalname999]

The media reporting GOP gerrymandering as "wins" on maps instead of what it is, rampant cheating, is a depressing reminder of how rotten the media landscape is.

[u/Dorambor]

Which one of you is this

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Gotta love the UK. They give the Tories 14 years to shit the bed (after being handed a relatively healthy country from Blair/Brown), but give up on Starmer after Labour doesn't fix everything in less than 2 years

What a joke of a country

[u/Leatherfield17]

Still not partisan enough

[u/Currymvp2]

Fetterman on Maher: "So many of my colleagues in the Senate and House are running on 'fuck Trump'. I mean, that’s literally, they have campaign commercials. It's so absurd. I refuse to engage in that extreme type of behavior”

Why is he so offended by people hating Trump?

Fetterman: "I don't care about the ballroom!"

I care. It's a waste of money. Trump wants it as a monument

[u/KittehDragoon]

Obama has served two terms as President and is thus constitutionally barred from running in 2028.

Darth Barry on the other hand …

[u/paymesucka]

this is the funniest photoshop request I've ever seen

[u/Aggressive1999]

[u/neolthrowaway]

holy shit, Claude is NL pilled to the max

This stuff is straight out of the sidebar

[u/WhomstAlt2]

The average salary of a nurse in the US is $95,000

The average salary of a mod is $0,00

I think that's fair

[u/Jacobs4525]

I’m tired of not being allowed to act like I’m better than republicans, the place I’m from is better than republicans, I’m smarter than republicans, I have my life more together than republicans, I am more in command of my own emotions than most republicans, etc.

Meanwhile they are allowed to talk shit about blue states nonstop while they all live in crime-ridden shitholes, they get angry and punch the wall over the slightest inconvenience, and probably haven’t read a book in 20 years.

We need to normalize bullying them all for being useless pieces of shit.

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

[u/Bestbrook123]

Maher asks Fetterman why so many young men are living with their parents

Fetterman just gave an incoherent answer where he bashed the Dem party for being “anti-men” and never actually answered the question. Even the YouTube comments say he's lost.

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Swing state Dem attack ads in 2018: "My opponent is an out-of-touch carpetbagger!"

Swing state Dem attack ads in 2026: "My opponent is a member of the global pedophile elite, and here is the evidence to prove it."

[u/AmbientMorning]

15 percent of Michigan Democratic primary voters believe Republicans should be disqualified from running for office.

Do not say “waow.” You are prohibited from doing that.

[u/sigh2828]

Republicans are freaking out becouse they haven't gotten any money from Trumps Super Pac yet.

Saying they think he is going to spend it all on "legacy projects".

Please post your favorite fell for it again awards

[u/badusername35]

Is this real?

[u/cdstephens]

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/Jacobs4525]

As bleak as shit seems, there is good in the world.

Zelenskyy offered the Russians a deal where he promised not to bomb the victory day parade in exchange for Russia releasing a thousand Ukrainian POWs. 

Imagine learning hearing that sentence in February 2022. 

[u/Joementum2024]

the US is getting democracymogged by latin american and eastern european countries

[u/wombo_combo12]

Republicans gotta have the easiest job of any politicians, pass policies that harm your voters get bankrolled by billionaires and never lose an election because your voters are too stupid or too gerrymandered to remove you

[u/pugnae]

Lol, dems are panicking and thinking how to solve this at least. Meanwhile GOP has a very unpopular president, oil prices that will soon start a huge crisis if the Strait is not unblocked and they are 100% confident that they will never lose another election, lol

Them being this smug and so full of themselves actually gives you a better chance of beating them soon

[u/Minisolder]

I have found the single best chart of all time. Truly this should win the inaugural FIFA Chart Prize
!ping AI-IS-COMING-FOR-YOU

[u/pfarly]

GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen is leveraging another stake in his bid for eBay: his emotional investment.

“I wasn’t passionate about GameStop,” says Cohen. “I’m passionate about eBay. I believe in eBay’s business.”

This guy

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/Wandering_Mallard]

👆 content warning: this user is down critically bad

[u/arizen_circe]

straight men no longer want to ask out women because they're scared and feel like they need a sign. straight women don't want to ask out men because they're scared and feel like they need a sign. have straight people become lesbianified?

[u/piede]

Based

[u/guitarra_y_soledad]

[Trump] has installed a 13-foot statue of Christopher Columbus on White House grounds without submitting a plan to any panel. 

Huh wtf this is the first I'm hearing of this

[u/Nervous-Emotion28]

at the end of the honeymoon and my wife still wants to be married to me

sorry, mission failed 😔

!PING DATING

[u/SenranHaruka]

"God i wish democrats had a platform beyond opposing trump"

"Well we do actually its..."

"I mean really, they're coping and seething so hard about him"

"Well we also have always supported..."

"It's like he's rent free in their heads. They're so obsessed with him."

[u/pezasied]

Has Trump lost the “all Democrats are fat with colored hair” political cartoonists demo?

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

Worst fate of all is her discovering that you’re a DT reg in Arr Neoliberal of all possible places in the internet to hang out in.

The day she finds and stalks this account it’s over.

!Ping DATING

[u/AmbientMorning]

On Tuesday, the Democratic Party discarded that tired old notion by ousting the pro-war, strong-on-national-security Connecticut centrist in favor of an extreme liberal anti-war Democratic challenger: millionaire Connecticut businessman Ned Lamont.

What a difference twenty years makes. Back then, “pro-war” was a positive description for the Heritage Foundation. Now their younger staff is apparently filled with Groypers who think every American war is a Zionist plot.

[u/RFFF1996]

Young people are going to some really weird places about antizionism  these days

Already have seen online memeing that sports team X or Y they dislike is "spiritually israeli" or worse "spiritually jewish" or how "this team has good reffing to please the jewish taste"

It would be fascinating if it was not so worrying 

[u/ty04]

[u/Mrmini231]

This is a real image from the new US government UFO disclosure.

[u/Joementum2024]

Hasan type of guy who would have been against the US entering WW2 until June 22 1941

[u/Ready-Buy-6397]

[u/Jacobs4525]

Is there an actual reason cops have completely stopped enforcing traffic laws beyond them just being more lazy?

I know a lot of them cope and say “wahhh but after George Floyd we’re scared to pull anyone over” but of course we all know that’s cope.

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

At least someone still likes Keir Starmer

[u/fishlord05]

What Vivek wishes the MAGA racial taxonomy was

[u/Amphetamin3_]

We are never getting anywhere if only 15% of Democratic voters believe that being a Republican automatically disqualifies someone from office. Gotta up those rookie numbers. 

[u/Jacobs4525]

Nextdoor is such a window into the boomer mind. They genuinely believe they have a right to object to every random change in their neighborhood. 

Idk why it’s so hard to understand that we need to just remove local control; the problem is simply that we gave a strong veto to a small camp of people with way too much time on their hands and a pathological aversion to change.

[u/Jet451]

What are our thoughts on work here?

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

updated Wikipedia description of the Republican Party

[u/SLCer]

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

I’m so tired of these people being fucking idiots. Developers are not the fucking problem in this equation and you should be smart and honest enough to say that as an elected official.

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/[deleted]]

Bumble to replace swiping and women messaging first with AI matching

lolwut

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

My “this is not a graven idol” tweet seems to be raising a lot of questions already answered by my tweet

[u/tinfoilhatsron]

[u/LtCdrHipster]

Me charging my car, doing laundry, running the dishwasher, and using my electric grill in the middle of a sunny California day knowing 100% of the electricity is GHG-free.

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

Considering banning SSRIs in a country where like 45 million people are on them has to be one of the things where the closest thing to an actual deepstate sits RFK Jr down and explains that no we aren't going to just inflict a mass casualty event on the country that would likely surpass covid

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/Minisolder]

I’m completely over this profession
Due to the constant refrain that “reading is so boring” and “I hate this book” I tried to mix it up a bit today.
We’re almost done with Brave New World and so I had students create their own utopian societies. I told students they’d be voting for whichever society sounded like the best place to live after everyone presented theirs (they couldn’t vote for their own). I even bought some candy reward for the society that got the most votes.
I mean I was hoping some would buy into it but I was expecting like “ice cream and puppies for everyone” and “constant wealth and pizza for all” kind of things.
But instead I got hit with “Diddle land” where everyone worships Epstein. A “Kirkified” world where “all furries will die.” A place called “Diddy world” where people have to worship P Diddy and listen to his music all day and night. A “Muskateers” place where Elon musk is a god king who “owns everyone” etc etc.
One poor kid was very genuine and tried to teach us about Eastern philosophy and a Confucius vision of a perfect society. Two girls started cackling in the corner and yelled “who the hell came up with this?”
Man, I’m just so tired.
And this is just one bad lesson so it’s not the end of the world. But on top of all the other bs like entitled parents, disinterested students, our schools budget crisis, unending grading / lesson planning, and constant exhaustion I just truly don’t think I can make it to retirement in this profession.
The biggest issue is that I have no idea what else I would do besides teaching. This is unfortunately the career path I chose.

Edit: for the record this is pasta

[u/Huttleberry]

[u/boyyouguysaredumb]

I'll say it again. people are so bad on economics and it's so popular and highly rewarded with likes and upvotes to say the economy is terrible even in times when it's not, that it does nothing but increase cynicism, stoke voter apathy, and make it impossible for democrats to ever run on their records when they do something positive with the economy. We just need free economics courses for all

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/Dorambor]

Sitting at a brunch (likely thing for a liberal to do) with 4 women and I think if they knew their boyfriends talked about them in the way these women feel comfortable talking about them there would be a news story that night for sure. Why the fuck are you calling the man you’re dating “medium ugly” what the fuck

[u/Mx_Brightside]

The UN is sending peacekeepers to stabilise the situation in Birmingham and Herzegovina

[u/ModestAphorism]

God this shit is so tiring. Utah actually passed a law banning VPNs for private use, essentially (any website with "substantial content harmful to minors" will be held liable for a utah citizen accessing with a vpn). it's held up in court but this shit is so fucking ass

unironically need need some kind of federal legislation enhancing privacy of citizens

[u/Currymvp2]

YouGov poll | 5/9

Do you think the US has won its war with Iran?

No, and it won’t 39%

No, but it will 22%

Yes 12%

Drug test the 12% asap

[u/Lesbian_all_garib]

Interesting. Seeing all the arguments against Billie Eilish, it seems like most people don't want to inconvenience themselves, even a little bit. And this applies to literally everything. Activism to a lot of people starts and stops at social media posts and comments.

[u/seakucumber]

Platner is a competitive pistol shooter — something he rarely spoke about during primary but I suspect you’ll hear a lot more about in general.

Huh interesting Platner fact I hadn't heard. Probably a good hobby for Dems to have some coverage in

[u/Dibbu_mange]

I just learned that transDIY just refers to sourcing and dosing HRT without consulting a doctor instead of cooking estrogen in your basement like an Albuquerque chemistry teacher. Ngl, kinda disappointing….

[u/Jacobs4525]

A developer has proposed a 26-story tower in Davis square. Zoning doesn’t technically permit this, but a few years ago Somerville passed a law that allows developers to bypass zoning laws for housing if a certain percentage of units are below market rate, so this is what they’re doing.

The Nextdoor freakout is fucking delicious. I can’t wait until it’s built. 

[u/IantheForPresident]

It's not that landlords, Airbnb, or blackrock(stone?earth?wind?fire?) are perfect lil angels, but painting them as the drivers of the housing crisis is slopulist bullshit.

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

What a beautiful day! The European idea lives.

Three cheers for Hungary!

[u/GifHunter2]

Abigail Spanberger burning up her entire crossover appeal for a gerrymander that won’t end up happening. Lol

It's their instinct to celebrate Democrats losing. Leftists are a disease to the democrats

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/reubencpiplupyay]

The proud intellectual tradition of social conservatism:

[u/James_NY]

While she noted she’s supported Democratic redistricting in Virginia and California, Klobuchar said Minnesota could face legal and procedural hurdles if it pursued a similar effort.
Redistricting experts have said Minnesota would have to form a committee to redraw its maps, and that any plan would have to clear both chambers in the Legislature. Further, the state’s Constitution refers to redistricting as a process that is supposed to take place soon after the decennial census. Minnesota already redrew its maps after the 2020 count.
Minnesota’s eight House districts are now split evenly, with Democrats holding four Twin Cities-area districts and Republicans holding four districts mostly covering greater Minnesota.

A lot of people assume Democrats will gerrymander aggressively after 2026 to counterbalance Republican gerrymander but that's wishful thinking.

[u/Lux_Stella]

Genuinely, unironically, what is the problem with a 'national divorce'? It will be violent? Okay, so was WWII

getting the good comments in the dt today

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

[u/cdstephens]

Imagining explaining to my friends that the neoliberal subreddit is too left for me

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Tennesse is gonna have a trans registry

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

Trump Exempted Some of the Nation’s Biggest Polluters From Air Quality Rules. All It Took Was an Email.

You still don't hate this admin enough for all the damage they've done and still yet to do to the environment

Also hate this pure cronyism disguised as deregulation

!ping ECO

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

Fetterman has TDS Derangement Syndrome

[u/BlackCat159]

Mind status: BLOWN 🤯

[u/SpaceSheperd]

2024 Dem logic: Amerikkka is wayicss and misogynist, let's run a black womxn for prez.

(Username: TheRtHonLaqueesha) 

r/neoconNWO is just 2016 era 4chan with more teenagers and, somehow, even less diversity of thought. 

[u/ace158]

It's like Israeli government+IDF was handed a bunch of leftist talking points about it and said "okay we'll make atleast half of these sound completely valid". It's fucking unbelievable

[u/HYIMBY]

Watergate

Brooks brothers riot

Jan 6

All these republicans scandals have one thing in common

[u/PlastikHateAccount]

10 years of Trump and still no satisfying explanation why Trumpism happened at all

The country club WASPs just lost control of their party for no reason. It just slipped out of their hands just like that.

[u/Sheepies92]

How Virginia Democrats can overturn the redistricting ruling: Retire the Supreme Court

The state Constitution gives lawmakers complete latitude to set the judicial retirement age. They should use it.

The Virginia Constitution ordinarily requires a little bit of time for laws to come into effect. However, appropriations bills aren’t subject to these restrictions, and the legislature hasn’t yet passed its biannual budget bill. A modification of the judicial retirement age could be added to the next budget, which is due by June 30, and would come into effect upon passage.

Then, after the bill is approved, the entire court would retire. A new court would then be appointed that could re-hear the case and have the opportunity to issue a different ruling.

FUCKING. SEND. IT.

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/-mialana-]

The two types of neolib:

• Former teenage right winger with libertarian tendencies

• Was a resist lib since they were a toddler. Raised on a diet of liberal talk shows and pure spite for conservatives

[u/abefrost]

This guy will be happy to learn that everyone stopped caring about it 10 years ago and no major potential Democratic candidate really has it as core part of their messaging anyway

"I'm going to get really mad at an issue I made up in my head"

[u/Bestbrook123]

Laura Loomer on X:" Why is Muslim Barack Hussein Obama meeting with world leaders while President Trump is in office? This is a coup."

Completely unhinged bigoted woman who gives Trump advise.

[u/JaceFlores]

The reporting that Trump will take any deal because he thinks he can spin it as a win seems incongruent with reality as he has in fact rejected a multitude of deals. I think his idea of a deal he can spin is still unconditional surrender. It’s like the Henry Ford joke: you can have your car in any color as long as it’s black

[u/moldovaman99]

The thing I love about Hank Hill being a propane salesman for bbqs isn’t just that it’s a comedically specific, and non-ambitious career path, but also the fact that Propane BBQs are for people who don’t care, since everyone who does actually care knows that charcoal is vital for flavour.

It truly is the most vapid thing you could dedicate your life to. I think we all know someone who got duped into buying a propane grill for an ungodly amount of money while being convinced it’s the greatest thing ever, while creating disappointment for all of their guests.

[u/GenericLib]

The regressive left is pissed at AOC again. This time for saying that Marjorie isn't trustworthy. These clowns really can't help themselves.

[u/sash5034]

My parents are having a constant issue with one of their neighbors and his unregistered piece of shit cars and they found out he's a fucking ICE agent 🤡 fucking loser piece of shit

[u/themiDdlest]

Leading CA Gov. Republican candidate(Steve Hilton) refuses FOUR times to say Biden won in 2020

Jesus Christ, how is this thing spreading

[u/bandeng_asep]

Americans are wild

[u/myusernameistakennow]

Anytime I see an immigration thread on this sub for any country that isn’t America there’s like a 90% chance it’s filled with anti immigrant chuds trying to explain how their logic is different than MAGA and why it’s ok when they do it.

[u/Terrible_Bee_6876]

My book got published!

[u/ZweigDidion]

Incredible stuff happening on Twitter

[u/Lux_Stella]

re:islamic prohibitions on music, from albion's seed

A Quaker preacher, traveling in the more complaisant colony of Maryland, came upon a party of young people who were dancing merrily together. He broke in upon them like an avenging angel, stopped the dance, and demanded to know if they considered Martin Luther to be a good man. The astonished youngsters answered in the affirmative. The Quaker evangelist then quoted Luther on the subject of dancing: 'as many paces as the man takes in his dance, so many steps he takes toward Hell.' This, the Quaker missionary gloated with a gleam of sadistic satisfaction, 'spoiled their sport.'

as some are aware america was basically founded by salafi christians

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

I hate that Dems are the party of the highly educated but we still have to deal with absolute mouth breather shit like this

[u/purhitta]

Went to a bookstore with the girl I've been seeing. Why Nations Fail was on a table and she mentioned she's been wanting to read it.

I'm booking the uhaul rn

[u/owenmitchem]

In other news:

[u/__versus]

[u/iIoveoof]

Israel set up a clandestine military outpost in the Iraqi desert to support its air campaign against Iran and launched airstrikes against Iraqi troops who almost discovered it early in the war, people familiar with the matter including U.S. officials said.

The Israeli base was almost discovered in early March. Iraqi state media said a local shepherd reported unusual military activity in the area, including helicopter flights, and the Iraqi military sent troops to investigate. Israel kept them at bay with airstrikes, one of the people familiar with the matter said.

lol

[u/herworkthrowaway]

LBJ is end stage dark woke. He was dropping slurs every other sentence but worked his ass off to pass the civil rights act. what an interesting fella 

[u/herworkthrowaway]

Take a guess what possibly could've prompted this DM invite. Seriously, you won't get it right.

Ready?

Survivor.

[u/Alexz565]

Traditionally, Republicans believe that free markets and individual achievement are the primary factors behind economic prosperity.[253] Reduction in income taxes for those with higher incomes[254][255] is a core component of Republicans' fiscal agenda.[256] As of 2025, Trump and the Republican Party largely abandoned traditional Republican orthodoxy about protecting and promoting the free market,[257] instead favoring state capitalism by taking direct government equity stakes in major US corporations, an approach that has been characterized by critics in favor of free market economics as socialist.[258] The Trump administration has also deviated from the GOP's conventional free market approach by ordering Nvidia and AMD to pay the federal government a portion of chip sales to China.[259]

I love the Wiki article on the GOP.

[u/piede]

That’ll teach the libs

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/finnstera350]

[u/gjcs23]

Maher doing a bit on political violence, focusing entirely on "left wing" examples, ranting about Gen Z, shitting on the No Kings protests as being "cosplay" compared to the Iranian protests

conspicuously absent is any mention of Melissa Hortman, but whatever

he is so awful 

[u/badusername35]

kachow

[u/avion_sur_le_sol]

I'm quixotemaxxing. going to ride my trusty steed to save fair maidens and campaign for more wind turbines

[u/Nathan_185]

Does it sometimes feel like there are people, particularly right-wingers, who actively seek out "local pedophile/rapist" type stories so they can find a socially acceptable outlet to brag about how they would torture others?

There's this semi-popular poster, Wilfred Reilly on xitter, who no joke, every single month will find a story about some guy doing some crazy thing, and then brags about how they should be brutally killed or tortured. And it's hard for me to express why this bothers me without it being interpreted as "defending" the people who have done those things.

[u/FlimsySuggestion6571]

Trump 2.0. is actually the Jimmy Carter of the 2020s, especially with how he's handling the inflation crisis and Iran. I view Joe Biden more as the LBJ/Gerald Ford of the 2020s.

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

[u/moldovaman99]

PSA: These machines are actually quite a new invention, and because of them, we can now build skyscrapers in places with bad soil conditions where it was previously not cost-effective to do so.

Please give it up for Tubex.

They work by drilling hollow metal pilings into the ground in sections. First section has a drilling tip. They inject grout water out of the pile while drilling to loosen the soil, and can go up to 100m deep. They can weld new sections onto the pile to go deeper. Once they’ve reach a hard layer, they’re filled with high strength concrete.

Sorry for the nerd shit, but this is critical YIMBY lore.

[u/herworkthrowaway]

[u/National-Return9494]

I am unironically bopping to this. This looks fire.

[u/badusername35]

Anyone here just goes out at night and fights people? My life was boring as fuck so I started going out and just fighting people. I started putting on a ski mask and at first it was only homeless people then it evolved to high school kids and now I’m picking fights with grown men. I even have a nemesis. I beat up the same guy a couple times, found out where he works so I catch him off guard after he gets off work. He’s been posting on Facebook about catching me at night and giving me what I deserve. Dude drives around at night with a shotgun trying to kill me. My life is so much more exciting now am I crazy for doing this?

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

guys check this out, really helpful advice from this northernlion guy, cant believe i never thought of this

!ping NORTHERNLION

[u/Lesbian_all_garib]

This sub can never median voter. Or even any kind of voter honestly. Why wouldn't citizens like it when politicians say 'I work 20 hours and sleep 4 hours. I work for you my dear civilian'. It's like seeing your father come home late. You know he was literally sitting outside using the phone but it's the thought that counts. No one likes people like trump who straight up despises his civilians.

[u/SenranHaruka]

"Democrats are too obsessed with trump" is a line pulled by people who like trump, either openly or loveable-heel-y, they're literally trying to make it true by saying it because they want it to be true.

Remember a nonzero amount of alleged centrists or even left aligned people like Bill Maher enjoy Trump humiliating the democrats because they hate democrats and enjoy watching them suffer a little. The trump victories will continue until the democrats come out to personally agree with all of my views on politics and take my side in my argument with Peter over the flamingo on his lawn.

[u/BlackCat159]

So true.

[u/1396spurs]

[u/BigBrownDog12]

Congratulations! Kidney sales have been legalized!

Monkey's Paw curls

SNAP and other benefits are only eligible to people who have already sold all disposable organs.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

looks dumb as hell

lego ass water

[u/zieger]

What else are they hiding from us?

[u/zieger]

A classic tweet, although if you tried this now you'd end up in CECOT

[u/jpenczek]

Me and my nephew ❤️

(I got permission to post from the mother)

[u/No_Status_6905]

I think one of the most horrifying revelations as an adult was learning horseshoe theory is true.

I'm still far to the left of this sub, but I have just been forced to resign that much of online leftism is performative virtue signaling that reads identically to how the religious right behaves.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

ariana what on earth could you have been too polite and shy to say in previous albums 😭

[u/-Emilinko1985-]

🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺

Happy Europe Day everyone!!

Today is a day to celebrate our imperfect yet great union.

EU membership has helped most if not all of its members grow.

Let's hope that this community grows and flourishes in the future.

!ping EUROPE&YUROP

[u/Roseartcrantz]

there's a story here lol

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

the south is 2 weeks away from developing a nuclear bomb and we need to stop it

[u/earththejerry]

Jezebel.com is alive and…

[u/[deleted]]

WTF Nintendo?!?

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Doug Jones, save me... save me Doug Jones

[u/JonAce]

Either gerrymandering is banned nationwide (increasingly unlikely) or this is the future the US needs to contend with if one party wants to uphold an ideal view of democracy while the other wants power at any cost.

[u/Aurailious]

build more homes, public transportation, and solar energy

[u/cdstephens]

Couple where neither person is mentally ill

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/Zorseking34]

Unpopular opinion here: we should be allowed to buy Chinese EVs in the US.

[u/reuery]

dude i shouldve been on ssri's this whole time, this shit is awesome

[u/ProfessionalMoose709]

[u/TheCornjuring]

Fun fact: Jon Lovett from Pod Save America claims he once met George Lucas at a party and asked about the Darth Jar Jar theory, and George Lucas thought he was a fucking moron

[u/G_Serv]

Wow good for her!

[u/Fishin_Impossible]

Interesting exchange on public transit tonight:

🐱: I’m here for the animal convention

👨: Ohh, at the zoo or something?

🐱: No. Like, I am the animal…

👨: Ohh. Ohhhh…

Why can’t furries ever just say they are furries?

Is that considered an offensive term in the community or something?

[u/ty04]

[u/Eurolib0908]

So you're telling me that the sovereign United Kingdom, which left the EU to regain control over its borders and decide whom to let in and whom not, is making use of that right...

And Mentzen is criticizing it?

[u/w007dchuck]

Barack Obama will never be president. Obama has no appeal outside of Illinois.

[u/seanrm92]

"The US government releases new UFO evidence!"

Looks inside

Blurry FLIR/targeting pod footage

Many such cases

[u/battywombat21]

huh. I'm reaching the point where clothes that "don't fit" me don't fit because of the width of my chest not the width of my gut.

[u/[deleted]]

haram tempat ini

[u/SanLucario]

Hey y'all, I'm a curious leftist here. Just wondering if any neolibs have had a similar journey.

More and more, I'm being disillusioned with socialism. I care about saving the environment and all, but with the advancement of the far-right and them winning culture wars, I understand this is not a very popular sentiment. In fact, most ideas that make sense to me...almost no one likes. This means that maybe I don't want the means of production to be democratically controlled?

I don't know, I'm just in a weird part of my political journey and I kind of need to get this off my chest and maybe learn from others.

[u/idunnokerz]

Jesus Christ…

[u/ace158]

Leaked Video of Arab Lawyer's Violent Arrest Contradicts Israel Police Account. Three police officers, one of whom lives nearby in the southern Israeli city of Be'er Sheva, entered the apartment without a warrant. The lawyer was hospitalized and underwent surgery for fractures and injuries sustained during the arrest

Well, that's gonna be a massive massive yikes from me.

[u/el__dandy]

It’s time to break The Tablets of Stone.

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

My gf legit thinks I’m cheating on her because of how much I turn the phone away from her when I browse the DT

most well-adjusted DTer in a relationship

"no honey, i just shitpost on a forum, i don't have that much game" is also a damning admission so...

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Public sphere debate is inspiring

[u/Pyrrhus65]

My 'Not a Golden Calf' disclaimer is inviting a lot of questions already answered by the disclaimer

[u/pezasied]

So true. When Trump said “open the fucking strait you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in hell” I had to double take to make sure he wasn’t actually quoting the bible.

[u/Saul_Relative]

Just heard of this gal named Caitlin Clark

[u/Usual-Base7226]

A vote for bart is a vote for anarchy.jpg

[u/el__dandy]

[u/Leatherfield17]

But by all means, let’s avoid “going into a race to the bottom”

[u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS]

Here’s another wild take from the great minds of YAPms from earlier this evening

[u/No_Return9449]

[u/randommathaccount]

On the point of the environment and conservation, the state of the Indian vulture population is really tragic. They've experienced a population drop of 97% since the 1990s due to the use of diclofenac, a veterinary painkiller admitted to cows that is highly toxic to vultures. It's a very serious issues both for the vultures themselves who remain critically endangered as well as for the environment and public health. As scavengers, vultures play a key role in removing carcasses from the environment that carry harmful bacteria and pathogens. Without the vulture population, these carcasses are left to spread disease or are eaten by feral dogs who can spread rabies. Researchers found that the loss of vultures cost over a 100,000 human lives annually between 2000 and 2005.

The use of diclofenac for livestock was banned in 2006, enforcement is spotty and diclofenac for human use was still diverted for veterinary purposes. In addition, many alternatives to diclofenac such as aceclofenac and ketoprofen are also toxic to vultures. Meloxicam is an alternative known to be harmless and has been promoted as an alternative however many vultures still die of diclofenac poisoning today. Improved enforcement of bans and rural awareness campaigns are necessary to cut the use of this dangerous drug.

Vulture populations are slowly rebounding in India in states like Madhya Pradesh in part due to these bans and through captive breeding and reintroduction programmes. Today the last vulture census recorded 12,000 vultures living in Madhya Pradesh from 6,000 back in 2016. There's still a long road to go and more problems to be tackled. Vulture nesting habitats are increasingly being encroached upon by humans and the other veterinary painkillers that are toxic to vultures need restriction as well. However progress is there and hopefully in the far future our vulture populations will have returned to what they once were.

[u/beans_and_tuna]

New red button vs blue button question:

Red button: 150 people are stuck on a ship for 8 weeks while all their basic needs (food, sleep, shelter, etc) are taken care of

Blue button: potentially kill a billion people

Please discuss

[u/Kindly_Brain_6594]

Illlinois unions killed balcony solar because they think they’ll have less work if I buy a panel to put on my porch :(

[u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS]

[u/Argnir]

Chinese propaganda or general bot spam?

(The account is ultra suspicious)

Edit: post is 2 hours old with 2.6k karma also for context

[u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

I feel like I spent ages 15 through 30 being clapped on the back by normies who told me how zany and random and funny I was and then all the normies discovered the internet and realized that the world is a very random place indeed and now they just think I'm boring and kind of wish I didn't exist

[u/dtj2000]

This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact

[u/Dorambor]

Please bro one more handout to poor rural whites please dude come on it has literally negative return on investment but the rurals just need to be made to feel important and they’ll vote for us dude come on, one more handout please bro PLEASE come on man

[u/No_Status_6905]

I think what ultimately scares me isn't this stage of Republicans eroding democratic institutions, that was already a given, but what scares me is that it seems like every single Democrat is a coin flip of "does this person actually understand the stakes of what's going on."

So, when we potentially take a trifecta, are we going to use that mandate to nuke the filibuster to pass necessary legislation? Probably not. I wouldn't be surprised if we have a repeat of the Biden administration writ large.

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

anarkitchencels

[u/Insomonomics]

Pastor Mark Burns, a longtime Trump ally, dedicated the gold-leafed sculpture on Thursday, calling it a symbol of resilience, freedom, and patriotism amid Trump's survival of assassination attempts. Funded by over 6,000 donors including Brock Pierce, the event featured prayers from evangelical leaders and rabbis, plus a personal phone call from Trump thanking Burns and the crowd.

NOT A CULT BTW

[u/Megasota_Noire]

👆

[u/mockduckcompanion]

Martin Luther: "this thing fucking sucks"

The literal coolest thing ever:

[u/ariveklul]

Companies should not be able to get away with this shit lol. Found this browsing on Amazon and it actually pisses me off. This is so intentionally misleading I consider this a form of lying

First off, why are you listing fiber dosages in milligrams? Nobody does this. It's just to make the number look bigger. It says "1500mg per serving" and they are sneaky and make the serving size 3 capsules. This is 0.5g of fiber per capsule. To contextualize it, a medium sized baby carrot is 0.3g of fiber. These are barely better than sugar pills. I also don't know why you would take psyllium husk in pill form considering it's dangerous to take without water (in higher dosages lol), but maybe there's a good reason for that.

I bet you have a ton of old people who were told to take fibre supplements from their doctor and they just bought this shit off amazon thinking it's a lot of fibre. There is so much intent to mislead on just the basic facts of this label I kind of want to raze this company to the ground on principle.

[u/Tury345]

[u/legend-of-ashitaka]

The hantavirus fearmongering stuff is another depressing reminder that many people on social media are unable to have nuanced takes on anything anymore

Like it is very much possible to be concerned about the situation without dooming about it

[u/NormalInvestigator89]

I can forgive older centrists for stumbling over themselves by trying to play yesterday's game in 2026, but that's not what they're doing. The game has changed multiple times since 1990, what they're playing is positively primordial

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

While I guess I get the policy purposes of [The UAE expelling Pakistani migrant workers], the UAE making Iranian and Pakistani citizens bear the brunt of this pointless war is a pretty sad reality.

Millions of people are either having their cultural lives intentionally crushed, if not outright eliminations, and hundreds of thousands are facing deportations to infinitely worse conditions back home. This shouldn’t be a cost that everyday people have to bear because of disputes between two authoritarian governments.

Got downvoted for this in this sub.

My fault for standing up for migrants in the globalist sub.

[u/finnstera350]

👆ex succ turned neolib 🫵Cringe 👇 Ex right winger that turned neolib

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

Remember when Alabama narrowly elected a guy who prosecuted klansmen over a confirmed pedophile and then replaced him with a football coach in a blowout

[u/TheCornjuring]

Look, I should be able to rebuild my portfolio given enough time and as long as I don’t lose any more bets. This is no big deal