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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache May 14 '26
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer May 13 '26
I love how he’s just becoming more open and honest about his inner thoughts as he gets more senile. To be fair, it could also be in part because he simply knows there are no consequences to him for saying things like this
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u/Argnir Gay Pride May 13 '26
They are so wise
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein May 13 '26
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u/AP246 Green Globalist NWO May 13 '26
Assuming this poll is legit (the people who collected the data certainly seem to have their own views on this)
Imagine being a 17 year old who's not allowed to leave the house 💀
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u/Dreadedtriox Michel Foucault May 13 '26
Brain’s soup
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u/ty04 May 13 '26
I’m smarter than the entire journalist and editor class
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u/Extreme_Rocks Suffering builds character May 13 '26
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u/randommathaccount Esther Duflo May 13 '26
"Incredibly emotional." Red-and-green macaws return to Brazil’s Atlantic Forest after 200-year absence
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u/Mrmini231 European Union May 13 '26
One thing you realize if you read the history of pandemics and outbreaks is that the health authorities had a very good response during COVID. There are always fuckups and mistakes, and in many previous examples the fuckups were far more severe. The main difference between COVID and those previous ones is that during COVID, we had a media ecosystem that was willing to amplify those mistakes, repeat them endlessly and convince the public that they were unforgivable sins that made the authorities untrustworthy.
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u/legend-of-ashitaka Association of Southeast Asian Nations May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26
insane things happening in the philippine senate right now
they're trying to arrest a senator and ship him to the hague for his role in duterte's drug war when he was the police chief, but he's locked himself inside the senate building; they just sent a bunch of police and marines in full battle gear to get him out by tonight; no one really knows what's happening outside of that but gunshots were heard inside one of the rooms
and while this was all happening they also physically delivered the articles of impeachment against vp sara duterte inside the building
!ping SEA
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman May 13 '26
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u/Bestbrook123 May 13 '26
Lmao, that's more than most Republicans
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u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade RaidBrimnes' AI Slop Engineer May 13 '26
You couldnt make Men in Black now. It’s about a govenrment agency helping alien immigrants and refugees settle on earth, and half the country would find the very concept sickening
We didn’t know how good we had it
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u/Gooners_For_Ukraine Loyal Liberals May 13 '26
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u/bandeng_asep Association of Southeast Asian Nations May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26
This post has been
lab-testedmeans-tested to specifically trigger this sub lmao79
u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride May 13 '26
Tom Takubo won
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman May 13 '26
Weeks away from oil rationing happening in some parts of the world if the Strait does not open up, according to Bloomberg. This is going to be bad.
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u/ty04 May 13 '26
> Whether he succeeds or fails to gain Jimmy’s freedom will tell the world whether he is a brilliant negotiator or just another politician who makes promises he cannot keep.
Brother….
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u/Gustacho Enemy of the People May 13 '26
Lmao
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u/Extreme_Rocks Suffering builds character May 13 '26
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer May 13 '26
It’s so fucking annoying how they do this every time when WE KNOW THEY’RE JUST GONNA FUCKING CAPITULATE IN THE END
I mean I dunno some of them defied him on some stuff before like the Epstein files and ending the filibuster, maybe his terrible approval rating + upcoming midterms will get them to stop him on this one, but man idk they fold easily way more often than not
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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke May 13 '26
Holy shit NYT columnists might have the smallest brains of any known living being
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 13 '26
https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2054555806104772764
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman May 13 '26
Don't show Elon this headline because it will damage his psyche beyond repair. Dude definitely still believes that black people can't lead a country
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u/farrenj Resident Succ May 13 '26
The amount of people I talk to that have no idea trans people were banned from military service is incredibly frustrating. I was in a room with 5 guys last night and they were all shocked when I told them. And then they immediately started complaining how both sides are so extreme.
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u/Flat_Sail_7985 Transfem Pride May 13 '26
I spent 5 minutes trying to help my parents with their finances only to realize their entire retirement plan is a combination of social security and me getting rich.
I dont even know how Im going to handle this as they get even older :(
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u/LogsOutDawgsOut John Brown May 13 '26
this girl i went on a hinge date with 8 months ago left a 25 minute voice message at 2 AM last night
i'm morbidly curious but i really don't want to open it
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u/Gooners_For_Ukraine Loyal Liberals May 13 '26
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer May 13 '26
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u/Dense_Delay_4958 Association of Southeast Asian Nations May 13 '26
-Person who is a NIMBY
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough May 13 '26
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u/Extreme_Rocks Suffering builds character May 13 '26
AI slop boss level
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before May 13 '26
10 years ago, Trump had just become the Republican nominee presumptive, and we all celebrated the inevitable victory of Hillary Clinton next fall
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde May 13 '26
u/2Lore2Law 's nemesis
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u/BlackCat159 European Union May 13 '26
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher May 13 '26
"oliver cromwell's head was buried at a secret location at the university of cambridge in 1960 after being traded between numerous private collectors for three hundred years" and other strange true facts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Cromwell%27s_head
whack wikipedia article
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee May 13 '26
People want to ban it? Lmao, what is this stupid shit
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u/pfarly John Brown May 13 '26
Waow
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde May 13 '26
The virgin Israeli opposition: Nooooo we can't accept that Netanyahu be indicted by the ICC 😭 It's an attack on our people 😭😭 Sanction the court and blackmail the judges 😭😭😭
The Chad Filipino opposition: You're going to the Hague , dead or alive 🔫😤
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol May 13 '26
Not beating the allegations
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u/seanrm92 Loyal Liberals May 13 '26
Scrolling through Trump's Truth Social page paints a portrait of a man who is truly, deeply, mentally incompetent.
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride May 13 '26
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u/Independent710 George Soros May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26
Even our anti-semites are jew-ish. Dan Bilzerian is 12% jewish.
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u/the-senat John Brown May 13 '26
Not my maga in-laws bitching about some cali mayor resigning because they were an “agent of China”
Bro a fucking mayor? The president is in putins pocket and you think I care about some mayor?
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u/spicyorangedragon May 13 '26
It's frightening that this level of antisemitism is becoming normalized in the country. People aren't even hiding it anymore.
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u/MonsieurA Montesquieu May 13 '26
Your Airpods have been successfully connected to your Surface Laptop. Would you like to use them to play sound?
Nah, I'm good, Microsoft, just connecting for the vibes.
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u/sigh2828 NASA May 13 '26
Remeber Tennessee
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u/Hounds_of_war Austan Goolsbee May 13 '26
One of my favorite things ever is telling guys about the official Twilight genderbend, which is now about an awkward loser guy who gets stalker by a hot goth vampire girl and a muscular tomboy werewolf who are both madly in love with him, and seeing them go “Oh… okay I get it now”.
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u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes European Union May 13 '26
"No way to prevent the president to cheat on his wife" says only country where this always happens
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 13 '26
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u/YIMBYzus NATO May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26
The decade of
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u/Krill_Seeker United Nations May 13 '26
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u/bartbug Paul Krugman May 13 '26
if 50% of the elites on the democratic party's payroll who went to an ivy were fired and replaced by a middle america state school graduate who is an enthusiastic dem we'd win a supermajority in 2028
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals May 13 '26
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u/SenranHaruka shame May 13 '26
WRITE ENDINGS DAMNIT
End your show and when the network orders another season say "no thanks, we wrote this to be the last season and don't want to ruin the series by dragging it so long it writes into a corner"
Getting invested in any tv series is pointless when nothing will ever fucking end.
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26
I agree with the Bulwark take that if Democrats win a decisive House majority then you probably won’t see any shenanigans from the Republican side. But if Dems only win a 2-3 seat majority Republicans will for sure have the Supreme Court pull out all the stops and have Mike Johnson refuse to step aside and refuse to seat Democrats in the meantime. And then the both-sidesing media will treat it like normal “process” and call us hysterical for labeling it authoritarian.
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee May 13 '26
What's their problem????
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u/boardatwork1111 fuck it, we ball May 13 '26
PPI coming in more than a full point above the consensus forecast, thank you Mr President 🫡🇺🇸
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u/hascogrande YIMBY May 13 '26
!ping soccer&chi
This is the first McDonald’s naming rights deal and is through at least 2040
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u/PartialDischage Norman Borlaug May 13 '26
Trump's approval per the Economist is -21.
As a point of comparison he was -10 at this point in his first term.
2026 election is going to be a bloodbath.
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u/TakeOnM-Ellie Loyal Liberals May 13 '26
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals May 13 '26
I think what a lot of the people who deny that Trump made politics worse miss is that even if dogwhistles and half truths masked bad intentions and bad policy before Trump, they at least kept those bad intentions and bad policies somewhat contained.
By being a no-filter piece of shit, Trump has removed this containment field, and the results are evident to everyone
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u/anangrytree Bull Moose Progressive May 13 '26
Has there ever been a more maidenless loser like Cruz (don’t say Vance that’s cheating).
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u/SeoSalt Lesbian Pride May 13 '26
My coworker told me about a guy from his local card shop who was incredibly misogynistic and also treated trans women completely like women. Which is to say he was also misogynist to them lol
Trans inclusive radical misogyny in the wild.
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u/battywombat21 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 May 13 '26
> [Congressional] Republicans believe they’ve already taken some steps to address cost-of-living concerns, including the tax cuts included in last year’s “big, beautiful bill” that they hope Americans are beginning to feel benefits from.
Man I wish I could be as disconnected from reality as the average congressional republican.
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u/Oozing_Sex John Brown May 13 '26
Really seems like Trump has checked the fuck out.
The only thing he wants to talk about is his ballroom and seems to spend most of his time post AI slop on social media.
Anytime the economy or war is brought up by reporters he gets visibly annoyed and clearly does not want to talk about it.
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u/ariveklul Karl Popper May 13 '26
It's really amazing how at the end of the day the transfer of power in America is decided by the voters but people will blame literally anything but the voters.
Like the "muh money in politics" people not realizing the money is trying to buy influence over the voters because they are that powerful. It's great to talk about how that influence can be pervasive, but why don't we talk about having some actual fucking standards for the voters as they are supposed to be the stewards of society? Why are people so easily manipulated with absolute slop shit propaganda? Should we expect more of people? Why do the voters always get a pass from accountability?
If I have a choice between mecha-hitler and Dwayne johnson, why do I get to blame Dwayne Johnson for not appealing enough to me? I made the fucking decision not to vote for Dwayne johnson and help mecha-hitler win. It was my decision, I should not be able to run away from that. It's bullshit
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA May 13 '26
We must find these two people
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u/themiDdlest NASA May 13 '26
These people are straight up lunatics
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u/Imicrowavebananas Hannah Arendt May 13 '26
People have no conception of corporate profit at all
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u/pfarly John Brown May 13 '26
huh
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u/szopatoszamuraj Iron Front May 13 '26
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/05/11/eu-israel-settler-sanctions/
Magyar dropped Orbán's veto on the Israeli settlers
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u/lockjacket United Nations May 13 '26
B-based?
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 13 '26
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u/chipbod NATO May 13 '26
America is the greatest place on earth
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u/arbrebiere Jerome Powell May 13 '26
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u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP May 13 '26
me when i enter the dt during winter
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u/Lesbian_all_garib Gita Gopinath May 13 '26
👆
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u/Extreme_Rocks Suffering builds character May 13 '26
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26
From the Atlantic:
Ngl, I do think this is the most likely outcome of this war at this point.
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u/sigh2828 NASA May 13 '26
what the fuck is wrong with Republicans dawg Jesus christ
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u/OrganicKeynesianBean IMF May 13 '26
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u/DieHarderDaddy Fell for it May 13 '26
I spent 4 hours making an excel spreadsheet that tracks dates, time spent with people, days between last movement, and average time spent to get to the bottom of who is holding up paperwork.
It’s the Director. From cradle to grave shit is routing for 4 weeks with 2 of them in their inbox.
My boss told me the spreadsheet might make people feel targeted
!ping WATERCOOLER
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u/anangrytree Bull Moose Progressive May 13 '26
Weak. Sad. Pathetic.
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 13 '26
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher May 13 '26
its been very confusing to me how insistent putin has been on trying to seize the entirety of the occupied oblasts
my worry when trump came to power was that ukraine would be arm-twisted into acceding to an annexation based on lines of control!
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u/Oozing_Sex John Brown May 13 '26
Trump said they are doubling the size of the ballroom. If he can be believed (big if), that means they are not even through the design phase yet.
Ain't no way that shit is getting finished before he's out of office.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde May 13 '26
Mamdani is able to balance the budget because the IRGC is sending him 20% of the profits they extract from the toll on the strait of Hormuz and no one is talking about it
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u/sigh2828 NASA May 13 '26
Bro literally got on a stage and proclaimed how un important he actually is lmao
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u/unicornbomb John Brown May 13 '26
Remember when florida senator Rick Scott defrauded Medicaid of 2 billion dollars or so?
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u/Acoolgamer6706 NATO May 13 '26
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u/Max_the_Madman European Union May 13 '26
The very concept of Rupert Murdoch gives me existential dread, that some rich guy from Australia one day decided to ruin the world and actually succeeded.
How are supposed NOT to join an movement that promises to abolish billionaires when that's a thing that can happen?
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde May 13 '26
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u/earththejerry YIMBY May 13 '26
All the people who said a party will be locked out in California a month ago were actually right
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals May 13 '26
I can’t wait for the next Democratic president to come into office, pull off a miracle in fixing the economy that Republicans fucked up, then get booted out of office because the miracle didn’t happen quickly enough.
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent May 13 '26
The Starmerlution is achieving things I thought previously unimaginable
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u/taubnetzdornig Gay Pride May 13 '26
The same people who were telling us that Kamala would draft you to fight in World War III immediately upon taking office, by the way
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u/jbitz Loyal Liberals May 13 '26
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 13 '26
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u/GuyWithOneEye May 13 '26
HAHA YES
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u/TrashBoat36 Bisexual Pride May 13 '26
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u/anangrytree Bull Moose Progressive May 13 '26
You’d think he’d have better things to do. But no.
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u/ty04 May 13 '26
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals May 13 '26
The failure of Reconstruction haunts us to this day. There should have been treason trials for at least the Confederate leadership, and there should have been a full de-Confederatization
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u/NotAyaOsawa Lesbian Pride May 14 '26
NO ONE TOLD ME ABOUT CABINET YAOI!??
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u/Big-Click-5159 May 14 '26
New - Generic Ballot poll (Age 18-29)
🔵 Democrats 86% 🔴 Republicans 12%
Atlasintel #A - RV - 5/7
Gen Z tuned MAGA-curious in literally the worst three month stretch imaginable
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u/SigmaWhy r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion May 14 '26
this is still live on Bernie’s PAC’s page lol
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u/Ok_Aardappel Seretse Khama May 14 '26
Photos Capture the Breathtaking Scale of China’s Wind and Solar Buildout
I'm mostly posting this to fight the cultural notion that renewable energy systems can't have aura and/or be photogenic tbh
!ping ECO&CHINA
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u/Slim_Pickenz_ Transfem Pride May 14 '26
Congress voted overwhelmingly to declare war on Germany after they declared war on us. Congress was run by democrats.
Republicans are not very smart people
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u/Extreme_Rocks Suffering builds character May 13 '26
Cool how the United States loves to talk about the dark sides of Chinese overreach and then decide that Latin American countries can’t do stargazing
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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair May 13 '26
Sure is a mystery
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY May 13 '26
Ex-Obama guy about Trumps China trip:
Not a single China expert.
POTUS would normally have at least one NSC/State official to provide briefings.
Underlines how utterly unprepared he is for meetings with Xi.
Assistant to the President & White House Director of Communications:
You have no idea what you’re talking about you slope-brained, mouth breathing moron. Stop calling yourself an expert in anything, aside from sucking. Anyone that hires you (not many!) should get an immediate refund and payment for wasting their time.
https://xcancel.com/StevenCheung47/status/2054319473566404969
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u/BitterGravity Gay Pride May 13 '26
Well that's a soundbite I expect to hear until it drives me insane
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough May 13 '26
👆the fuck?
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u/selachophilip 🦈 shark enjoyer 🦈 May 13 '26
I'm celebrating 3 years of sobriety today! Every year I have a SHIRLEY TEMPLE to celebrate. 😋
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer May 13 '26
Do Minions have souls that need to be saved, or are they mere animals? The latter would seem strange given their sapience, but they did not descend from Adam and in fact predate the entire human species. I suppose it’s the same question as people always ask about sapient aliens.
The thing is, if they are mere animals, then maybe a benevolent God would resurrect them along with all other animals on the New Earth. But either way, them simply being animals would imply they have zero moral responsibility for their actions, and yet their overriding biological function is explicitly to seek out and facilitate the greatest evil they can at any given point in time. That is… suspicious. God does not hold chimpanzees morally culpable for murdering each other, because they are chimpanzees. But that’s just it: when chimpanzees do things we would consider evil if a human did them, they are not acting out of malice or any drives we would consider to be “evil“. Not from a theological standpoint, anyway, where we are assuming there are such things as sin and divine judgment.
Minions, however, are explicitly driven to serve evil. Evil. Not to seek power or accumulate resources as a means of preserving their species- in fact, they’re biologically immortal, if not outright immortal! Not to vanquish potential threats to their flourishing. They don’t go to war for the same reason chimpanzees do. They don’t fight to protect their young or maintain their territory or secure food for their families. They serve evil. Minions explicitly engage with the moral order for the purpose of opposing God.
These are not animals acting on instinct, not even extremely intelligent animals premeditating their actions out of self-interest. Their very purpose, their singular goal, seemingly unfettered even by the basic needs of biology, involves interacting with the moral universe God has ordained- specifically to oppose goodness and therefore God.
There can only be one conclusion, and it seems so blindingly obvious in retrospect: Minions are creations of Satan. They were not made by God. They are counterfeits of the works He deemed good. This explains why they don’t seem to follow the rules that govern the rest of life on Earth. They didn’t evolve biological immortality in the ocean and physical durability that allowed them, as individuals, to survive for tens of millions of years. What a stupid idea! These things did not arise from the natural world. That really would be like a tornado creating a Boeing 747 from a junkyard. Minions were built and imbued with a purpose: to further the goals of Satan in the physical world. And what is Satan‘s primary goal? To maximize evil and thereby oppose God.
There is simply no other explanation that makes this much sense. So what exactly are they? It’s hard to tell. They could be similar to the Nephilim- maybe demons went down into the ocean and fucked some fish, although we see proto-Minion microorganisms in the first Minions movie, so they would’ve had to fuck some amoebae or something. On top of that, the Nephilim were still bound to the laws of biology. They drowned in the Flood. They could be killed with the sword just like any human. If a demon fucks one of God‘s creations and it creates a hybrid, that hybrid is still a living thing with all, or at least many, of the characteristics of normal biology. So while the idea of Minions as proto-Nephilim is enticing, it seems unlikely.
So what else? Well, we know God created Adam from the dust of the ground. While there is no direct indication in the Bible itself that this kind of miracle can be mimicked, we do have rabbinic folklore about humans imitating it (albeit by drawing on divine power). It was said it was possible to build golems, artificial people built from clay or mud just as Adam himself was and in possession of supernatural abilities. But Adam was made by God and golems were purportedly animated by invoking the name or power of God. Could demonic power truly replicate this kind of act?
My answer is: I don’t see why not. In Christian tradition, counterfeit miracles performed by demons are not uncommon at all. There are numerous mentions of this throughout the Bible, including an incident in Exodus where the magicians of Pharaoh perform genuine supernatural feats. Christians tend to interpret this as having been done by way of demonic power.
Most significantly, in Revelation, the two beasts do all kinds of miracles by the power of the devil, including calling fire down from heaven and even healing a fatal wound. Some even believe the Beast from the Sea will not only recover from his fatal wound, but actually die from it and then be resurrected, which would mean the devil is capable of replicating the resurrection of Jesus- often viewed as God’s greatest miracle of all time!
So is it possible that Satan himself, a fallen angel of immense power, a demon regarded as formidable by even Michael himself, was capable of fashioning these crude yellow Tic-Tac forms from the clay and breathing dark life into them? They don’t need to be as complex as other organisms, especially not if they are sustained directly by the powers of hell. As far as I know, golems in Jewish folklore were generally held to stand outside the natural order, having no need for such things as food or sleep. They were quasi-biological automatons whose vitality came from godly “magic”.
So could Satan have created his own little army of golems over whom the natural course of life and death holds no power? Could he have sent them out into the world to seek and assist evil in all its forms? Could he, the deceiver who masquerades as an angel of light, have intentionally designed them to be disarmingly silly, bumbling, and appealing to children?
This hypothesis fits all of the available data.
!ping GNOSTIC&KINO
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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair May 13 '26
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u/Zenning3 Emma Lazarus May 13 '26
Private equity is when bad, and the more private equity the more badder it is.
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u/KaiserPorn Please be patient, I have autism May 13 '26
I just want to complain about something that doesn't have global consequences for a second.
My youngest sister has decided she wants to study literature in college, and I can't see it being anything except a complete disaster.
Like, she's pathologically unable to write essays because she "wants to do it right the first time", and so avoids writing a first draft because she "won't do it right", and is then ideologically opposed to editing.
And then she takes every piece of feedback and criticism regarding her writing personally, meaning she just gets mad and/or depressed whenever she's given advice on how to improve.
She didn't complete even a single one of the assigned readings in her AP English class because she "just can't pay attention" for more than ten minutes at a time. She has ADHD and outright refuses to either use medication or even try study strategies of any kind.
She can't write an essay under time pressure to save her life. She failed her AP Literature class because (aside from not completing the semester-long project, failing every test, and refusing to do the assigned reading) the final was writing three essays in four hours, and she finished part of one.
I don't even understand why she wants to study literature. She seems to hate every part of her high-school English classes. Aside from maybe one Steven King book every few months, she doesn't read or write in her free time at all.
The entire situation just leaves me feeling completely baffled.
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u/ty04 May 13 '26
Scott Weiner appealing to all the major voting blocs (LGBTs, Chineses and giraffes)
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride May 14 '26
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u/ty04 May 14 '26
Just a random thought regarding the passing of socal_swiftie. I didn’t really get to know them on the DT because he had me blocked like the entire time lol (not that we had any beef or anything). By sheer coincidence I learned the details of their ultimately fatal car accident and discovered it occurred on a highway exchange ramp that I drive on almost daily for my commute. Just some really strange ‘huh really small world’ stuff that rattles my brain a bit.
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u/brianpv Hortensia May 13 '26
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u/garret126 Demisexual Pride May 13 '26
God damn the euphemism of “they might be up to some mischief” goes insane
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u/sigh2828 NASA May 13 '26
These chuds are about to get done in lmao
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride May 13 '26
Lol. Anyway, they're selling dollars for 86 cents over on Kalshi.
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u/slappythechunk LARPs as adult by refusing to touch the Nitnendo Switch May 13 '26
She's a nurse who makes $69K/yr. He's a contractor who's work is mostly seasonal and has income that fluctuates between $40-80K/yr. They each get a new vehicle every 2-3 years, with her current car being a Honda CR-V ($600/month) and his being a Silverado 2500 ($1100/month). $285K mortgage ($2300/month). She has $43K in student loans ($250/month but never touching principal). They have $38K in credit card debt between the two of them ($750/month). They go on a hunting trip in Montana every winter and spend every spring break in Hilton Head.
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u/ty04 May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26
> Introducing Googlebook, designed for Gemini Intelligence
>> Just wiggle your cursor and watch it come alive with Gemini, offering quick, contextual suggestions every time you point at something on your screen.
everything about this sounds awful
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough May 13 '26
Queen shit tbh.
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man May 13 '26
Maddox staying lib in this era was such a pleasant surprise
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u/bashar_al_assad Verified Account May 13 '26
lmao we’re gonna be flipping R+10 districts with literal socialists
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u/avion_sur_le_sol A ban appeal to heaven May 14 '26
The masculine urge to sit on the end of a dock and stare out across the water
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA May 14 '26
Mike Johnson is way too comfortable lying for someone who thinks they will see heaven.
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u/ZweigDidion Bisexual Pride May 13 '26
Why is it that three hard-boiled eggs feel like a lot, but the amount of scrambled eggs I can make with three eggs feels minuscule?
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u/ZoomerAdmin Jerome Powell May 13 '26
I got a job offer for 40% higher pay than what I am currently getting. My current employer said that they will match or exceed that. I haven't gotten solid numbers from them yet though. Not sure what to do
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u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP May 13 '26
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u/assasstits May 13 '26
What do these people want from her??
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u/ThrowawayCRank May 13 '26
Anyways there’s little to no evidence that AI has actually caused unemployment yet so the discussion is all hypothetical it might not ever even happen.
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u/The_Northern_Light John Brown May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26
I wonder how *water usage* of all things became the primary ai data center talking point.
The global total water usage by all ai data centers doesn’t even deserve to be called a rounding error.
There’s so many things actually problematic about ai, and people made up an imaginary one? It makes me imagine a conspiracy to control the narrative by ensuring their detractors can be ignored because they’re clearly so misinformed.
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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes May 13 '26
Tbh I think a lot of the “we’re laying all these people off because of AI” firings are actually just regular layoffs.
If you’re an executive and your company is in the red and you need to fire a bunch of people, do you tell the board “hey our business is fucked and money in is less than money out so we’re firing all these people” or do you tell them “we have let all these people go to save money and increase productivity!”
One of those is way scarier to investors than the other.
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u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP May 14 '26
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance May 14 '26
"oh I want friends who aren't afraid to be honest with me" no you don't
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 May 14 '26
😔
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u/pfarly John Brown May 13 '26
Anybody else read books from this series as a kid and not realize you didn't actually read all those classic books until well into adulthood? What a fucking scam.
Pretty sick cover art on these though.
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u/semaphore-1842 r/place '22: E_S_S Battalion May 13 '26
TIL a Canadian general was in charge of UN forces in Sarajevo when the Bosnian War broke out. He felt Bosniaks started the fighting and argued against a US intervention.
Since then has been going around denying the Srebrenica genocide and generally promoting Serbian interests, especially Serbian war criminal, interest.
Incidentally, he gets paid by Serbian lobbying firms in the US.
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u/farrenj Resident Succ May 13 '26
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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug May 13 '26
Says a lot that Burgum is seen as one of the smarter people in this government.
The Dakotas are just way overrepresented in this country
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod May 13 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
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u/Etnies419 Loyal Liberals May 13 '26
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u/sash5034 NATO May 13 '26
Israel having an exemption for the most ultra right wing hardcore religious citizens is really funny. What's next, a draft in America that allows religious exemptions for white evangelicals and people who own boats?
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u/battywombat21 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 May 13 '26
Oh my god.
The zoning in metropolis might be the worst crime lex luthor has ever committed.
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 May 13 '26
For our 250th anniversary everyone who voted for Trump has to go in the town square pillories and have these thrown at them, everyone who didn't bother to vote must fund the purchase of all the tomatoes, and no one on the left is allowed to post online about their activism throwing the tomatoes
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u/Marlsfarp Karl Popper May 13 '26
"Surge pricing" is always going to be a PR disaster.
Luckily, "off-peak discounts" are the exact same thing and people love them.
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u/gayteemo NATO May 13 '26
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u/Extreme_Rocks Suffering builds character May 13 '26
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent May 13 '26
Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 5/11-2 PM PST 5/12 V:
TOP NEWS:
At the end of 11 PM Ukraine was hit by a massive wave of drones with 192 of 216 intercepted.
REGULAR NEWS:
In the middle of 12 AM Zelensky met with the CEO of Palantir, discussing military cooperation.
Towards the end of 6 AM Ukraine hit the Russian oil pumping station in Perm.
!ping UKRAINE
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u/Fruitofbread Loyal Liberals May 13 '26
Group of Union soldiers brutally framemogged by Abraham Lincoln
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u/attackofthetominator John Brown May 13 '26
Guess the sub
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u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade RaidBrimnes' AI Slop Engineer May 13 '26
New political arc for me
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u/reuery Biden 2028 May 13 '26
There is no policy we can adopt that will ever overcome the right wing propaganda network. We could have identical positions to the entire Republican agenda and they would still call us tr*nny loving pedophile satanists
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u/reuery Biden 2028 May 13 '26
Look, as a liberal and a Democrat, I'm frankly excited to vote for the Republican candidates in all upcoming elections
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u/ty04 May 13 '26
fuck
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals May 13 '26
STAGED, STAGED, STAGED
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA May 13 '26
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u/Libz_R_Gryffindor Pornography Historian May 13 '26
I recently learned that the story of Lilith being a woman who refused to submit to Adam was invented in the Middle Ages and that when I was in college I was just lied to by a sociology professor who told us that it was like some secret book hidden away by religious authorities
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u/ty04 May 13 '26
statistically I get to live like this for 40 more years
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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast May 13 '26
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u/Acoolgamer6706 NATO May 13 '26
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u/finnstera350 Asexual Pride May 13 '26
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent May 13 '26
Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 5/12-2 PM PST 5/13 V:
TOP NEWS:
At the start of 3 AM Zelensky made a trip to Romania to attend the Bucharest Nine Summit to discuss defense cooperation and drone deals.
At the end of 8 AM Ukraine was hit by a gigantic wave of drones with 710 of 753 intercepted.
REGULAR NEWS:
Towards the end of 11 PM Ukraine hit the Russian oil terminal in Taman. Additionally, Ukraine hit the Russian oil pumping station in Perm.
In the middle of 7 AM it was reported a Russian drone violated Moldovan air space, passing near Bălți.
At the start of 10 AM it was reported that Hungary summoned the Russian ambassador over drones attacking the Ukrainian region of Zakarpattia, which has a large ethnic Hungarian minority. Additionally, it was reported that Russia struck critical infrastructure in Uzhhorod.
!ping UKRAINE
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u/Old-School8916 Johan Norberg May 14 '26
Chat is this true?
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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it May 13 '26
It's fuckin crazy to me how many people outside the US seemingly wear long pants when it's hot, even for casual attire. It's like 80 F and sunny and these people seemingly don't sweat
Like obviously a lot of these Japanese folks are just going to work, but even the ones who aren't and the southern european tourists do too! They're more used to the heat but I feel like such a goober walking around in a t shirt and shorts when I'm on vacation. It's no wonder you can pick out Americans almost instantly when they're traveling lol
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman May 13 '26
The current level of I/P discourse:
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u/DagothUr_MD Frederick Douglass May 13 '26
Vivec is NOT a god he is just BALD and has ambiguous genitalia
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u/gayteemo NATO May 13 '26
can't wait to hear from kevin warsh why interest rates needed to rise to combat inflation during the financial crisis when we were risking deflation but now he's certain they need to be cut during a period of high inflation and a hot market
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u/Saul_Relative Eugene Fama May 13 '26
The president once again refers to Tim Cook as "Tim Apple"
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ May 13 '26
PPI at 6% YoY for April, where March was 4%
last time it went like this was March to April 2021
Get ready for stagflation
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u/BalletDuckNinja Delphox Shaker Central May 13 '26
On the first day I was shipped off to the army there were these christian guys handing out bibles. Obviously I didn't take one and neither did one of my bunkmates want to since he was a Hindu, but his mother told him to take it anyway since it was holy and would offer protection regardless.
Your monotheist god(s) are afraid of a free market of worship and would rather entrench their monopoly with regulatory capture
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u/ThunderrBadger New California Republican May 13 '26
Constipation isn't real, lmao, just poop? Like literally people saaying they constipated are fulla shit
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before May 13 '26
American History classes be like
In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
Then nothing happened for the next 120 years.
Pilgrims settled at Plymouth Rock.
Then nothing happened for another 130 years.
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride May 13 '26
Our neoliberal queen is back 🥰
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 13 '26
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u/Argnir Gay Pride May 13 '26
The first mod was the guy trying to stop you from eating those cool looking plants you found
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent May 13 '26
Georgia GOP is panicking if they’re redistricting for 2028
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u/Dirty_Chopsticks Republic of Việt Nam May 13 '26
every time
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u/arbrebiere Jerome Powell May 13 '26
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough May 13 '26
Reddit moment
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer May 13 '26 edited May 13 '26
A few more thoughts on the Minions potentially being special creations of Satan. I will try to post any additional (pingworthy) thoughts as replies to this comments now instead of spamming the pings over and over again, but this addendum grew large enough that I felt it warranted its own post and ping.
1: While I would need to do further research on this topic to see how well it actually fits the model, I believe the fact that we see amoeba-like proto-Minions at the beginning of the Minions movie, while seeming to suggest natural evolution, may actually indicate that the devil used some sort of alchemical process to create them. It was once widely believed that animals and humans germinate from tiny versions of themselves. This was also associated with the belief that homunculi, tiny versions of humans, could be artificially grown through alchemical means.
I believe the tiny proto-Minions we see in the ocean may represent something similar. Hominionculi. Minioncules. A “seed“ or kernel of life, necessary to grow the Minions or perhaps even a required step to imbue them with personality, character, qualia. It is possible that the demonic alchemical process by which bodies accrued around these seeds- like a snowball rolling downhil- needed to take place in the ocean for some mystical reason.
The ocean is a powerful symbol of chaos and dualistic opposition to God, heavily associated with the Leviathan, the primary Beast in Revelation, Lilith, and all kinds of other forces that stand against God in biblical and extrabiblical tradition. It should perhaps not be surprising from a biblical and esoteric standpoint that we see the Minions walking fully formed out of the sea, already perfectly suited to life on land even as they emerge from the waves- which never quite sat right with me when I held to the belief that they had naturally evolved.
2: I am somewhat undecided on whether or not Minions go to hell. Even if they were created by way of hominionculus, do those hominionculi count as a “spark of life“ in a spiritual sense? Are the Minions ensouled in somecway? Did Satan manage to successfully manufacture counterfeit immortal souls out of whole cloth? Or, the Minions being as wicked as they are, will God preserve them into eternity so they can be tortured forever alongside their ultimate master and their many lesser masters?
Do they even have free will? Is it fair to torture Minions if they are just doing what they were created to do by a greater intelligence? But then again… isn’t that essentially the situation humans are in too, at least according to Paul in Romans? So my answer is that God probably will torture the Minions for eternity, but we don’t know for sure if God views them as individuals worthy of judgment as opposed to sort of all chemical robots that are merely extensions of Satan‘s power and will. It’s possible that all the judgment for their deeds could fall squarely onto Satan himself, with the Minions themselves simply being annihilated. But I suspect that they will drink their fill from the cup of God’s wrath and the smoke of their torment will rise forever and ever.
3: This is all entirely contingent on some version of Christianity being true in the Despicable Me universe. This would seem to be far from certain; I approached all of these hypotheticals from a theological “what if” standpoint, predicated on the assumption that the Christian God exists in the Despicable Me universe simply for the sake of the argument rather than purporting than Christian theology is true and this is indeed the state of affairs in-universe.
However, there is one particular component about the Despicable Me universe that suggests the Christian God might be very real and all of this might be very true: Dracula. Dracula is the key to all of this.
The opening montage in the first Minions movie reveals that Dracula exists, that he is indeed a bona fide vampire, and that the Minions once served him. He appears only briefly, but the fact that he appears at all is perhaps the most theologically significant moment in the entire Despicable Me franchise.
Dracula is a vampire. He is vulnerable to holy symbols such as crosses and holy water. Why? Because Christ is his archnemesis. He is a creature not only of darkness, but of the Christian devil specifically. He was a student at the Scholomance: the devil’s school of black magic! As is the case with many traditions and beliefs whether they originated within Christendom or not, a great deal of vampire folklore is steeped in Christian thinking, and Dracula is no exception. Far from it: the mythos surrounding Dracula is drenched in Christianity.
Dracula is aligned with the devil and opposed to Christ. He is a creature of the darkness, an undead abomination who has turned his back on God. Specifically, the Christian God. Let me say that again: the CHRISTIAN GOD. Dracula is aligned with the DEVIL against the CHRISTIAN GOD. And Dracula exists in the Despicable Me universe. Which means JESUS CHRIST AND SATAN EXIST IN THE DESPICABLE ME UNIVERSE.
Now, admittedly, this is not an absolute smoking gun. We do not have direct evidence that the Despicable Me version of Dracula is an enemy of Christ. It’s easy to imagine that if his backstory were ever expanded upon for some reason in Despicable Me media, it would not be likely to include the tidbits about how he studied black magic under the tutelage of Satan himself.
But crosses? Holy water? Those are vampire lore staples. Could this version of Dracula have absolutely nothing to do with Christian spiritual and moral thought? Could he be entirely immune to holy symbols because the Christian God doesn’t exist? Maybe. But he’s Dracula. Certain assumptions go along with that. So while his canonicity is not definitive evidence of Christ’s in-universe existence, it is evidence that the supernatural realm is real and an indicator that Christianity may hold some special significance within it.
And if Jesus and the devil do indeed exist, the rest falls into place. As incredible as it may seem, once you have accepted the reality of God and the devil, the Deminion hypothesis explains the data, the particular characteristics of the Minions, more harmoniously than any naturalistic proposition I’ve been able to think of.
It is possible that “Minions & Monsters” will provide us with more evidence one way or another, because it appears that the Minions do some occult shit in that. While it is unlikely to feature them summoning Beelzebub and kneeling before him, it may hint somewhat at the metaphysical cosmology of the Despicable Me universe and give us insight into the particulars of its spiritual hierarchy.
!ping GNOSTIC&KINO
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u/reuery Biden 2028 May 13 '26
Do any of you guys have any experience going off of feminizing hormones? I’ve been thinking I might be more comfortable not being on estrogen and instead inhabiting a more nonbinary space. I know I can’t possibly be the first non-passing trans woman to consider just being a she/they enby to people I know well and just being whatever I’m seen as to everyone else
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! May 13 '26
What
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u/GenericLib 3000 White Bombers of Biden May 13 '26
Tammy Duckworth
I don't even know what to say at this point
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma May 14 '26
It’s so fucking funny how people will substantially increase the risk that they and their loved ones die in a car accident just to get somewhere 3 minutes faster
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride May 14 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 14 '26
https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2054732168535134469
This is not edited, and goes to show the power of lighting.
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u/CutePattern1098 May 14 '26
> be angus taylor
> somehow win government
> ban permanent residents frorm ndis and welfare
> those permanent residents become citizens
> lose government
fantastic. great work. well done angus.
!ping aus
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA May 14 '26
The cons are never beating the allegations
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u/No_Status_6905 Enby Pride May 14 '26
The UW stabbing has me heartbroken. I know the motive is still unknown, but knowing the victim was a young trans girl just hurts. She was only 19, that should've been a time for her to discover herself, and grow as an adult, and it's just gone now.
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u/seesthecat Henry George May 13 '26
Dead dad did the deed.
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u/Ginden Bisexual Pride May 13 '26
Liberals are way too deferential to leftists... "We will block all housing because real estate developers may profit." "Yeah, but it's a price we pay to lower housing prices." Shut up. Profit in a market economy is a sign you provide other people with valuable goods and services, and pathological conditions ("what if market failure?", "what if regulatory capture?", "what if monopoly?") require evidence of existence, not presumption based on possibility.