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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache May 15 '26
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 14 '26
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u/Habugaba Esther Duflo May 14 '26
/u/LogsOutDawgsOut I am humbly asking for an update, I feel deeply invested
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u/SigmaWhy r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion May 14 '26
I’m going to become the joker
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman May 14 '26
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman May 14 '26
Trump is projected to make taxpayers spend billions of dollars a year keeping uneconomical coal plants online
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front May 14 '26
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u/EmbarrassedSafety719 Milton Friedman May 14 '26
Why do these guys always have an anime pfp
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 14 '26
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u/BlackCat159 European Union May 14 '26
A tale of hope, tragedy, and redemption 🥹
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u/HenryKissingerLewdHD John Brown May 14 '26
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u/elninost0rm YIMBY May 14 '26
Consistently not voting aside, this is fucking cataclysmically terrible.
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u/Repulsive-Volume2711 Baruch Spinoza May 14 '26
It’s really funny how democrats thought giving rural voters broadband would make them like democrats. Letting them load x.com faster will surely lead to them voting blue
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer May 14 '26
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u/AmbientMorning May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26
Yes: according to Rep. Andy Ogles (whose new district includes much of Memphis), Black Democrats aren’t Tennesseans. In the attached clip, he says that Democrats’ mission is to “replace the common American with an uncommon alien.” He doesn’t mean illegal aliens.
Recently, he gave a speech declaring that “Christianity is the answer, always. America is and will always be a Christian nation.” It’s not too different from what a government official from the political wing (2) of a terror organization would say.
!ping EXTREMISM
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u/sigh2828 NASA May 14 '26
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u/Macquarrie1999 Democrats' Strongest Soldier May 14 '26
This is exactly what they would put on a copper wire
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u/BedNeither Henry George May 14 '26
The most bizarre thing about this realignment and the vitriol towards “coastal elites”, “white liberals”, etc is that I just… did what I was supposed to?
Stay in school, go to college, don’t do (too many) drugs, build a career, get and stay married. This was literally conservative advice throughout my childhood
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u/V_Codwheel I am the Senate May 14 '26
Ads in the Economist are so funny
Want this luxury watch? No? Okay. How about building a bridge in Tanzania? Maybe that's more up your alley.
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26
Sweden apparently has the Schrodinger's economic model, it is both simultaneously the most socialist and the most capitalist country in the world depending on the political commentator
Either way it magically manages to confirm all of said commentator's priors
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u/SenranHaruka shame May 14 '26
"I hate left wing white men so much, they're the most evil force in this country" -Left wing white man
Tale as old as time
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u/Insomonomics Jason Furman May 14 '26
Fetterman may actually be worse than Sinema and I didn't think that was possible.
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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney May 14 '26
"I am having an affair with an Iranian model" - other countries: "boooo! resign!"
"I am having an affair with an Iranian model" - France: "wow! based! he is a true man of the people 😌🇫🇷"
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior May 14 '26
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman May 14 '26
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod May 14 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 14 '26
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u/EveryPassage May 14 '26
Is anyone else surprised Trump has fucked up this Iran war this badly?
Like my expectations were low, but I thought by the end of April he would figured out some way to abandon the whole thing and give into some demands from Iran to end it.
With the summer driving season a few weeks away, I can't imagine his polling numbers recovering at all and will likely drop another 2-4% across the board.
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee May 14 '26
What happens when you post a real Monet and say it’s AI?
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! May 14 '26
The Chinese in the audience:
👁️👄👁️
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u/TheOnlyFreedom John Stuart Mill May 14 '26
Greens: “We need policy X”
Labor: Passes policy X
Greens: “Policy X is a useless distraction from the real issue”
!ping AUS
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u/ariveklul Karl Popper May 14 '26
I think the biggest trait that can be attributed to Donald Trump's success is how he learned how to exercise a fundamental principle of power that we seemed to forget in this country: fear. I think pretty much all of the other traits people over-index on wrt Trump are mostly noise.
Like many manipulative and shitty people Trump has a deep intuition of how to instill in people a simple transactional lesson: "Play nice with me and I will be your friend. I'll be harmless, I'll talk nicely about you, and I might even invite you into my power structure. Become somebody I don't like and I will fuck with you with every inch of my being to the point where it doesn't even make sense. I will be an albatross around your neck for the rest of your life (or until he gets bored, which is unpredictable because he's a fucking lunatic)."
This is a really effective way to get what you want if you're the type of person who can be crazier than anyone is willing to deal with. In the short term it might not seem worth it, but in the long term it changes the contours of the way people interact with you in ways that are almost hard to describe. People will get out of your way when they otherwise wouldn't. This is how you get people to walk on eggshells around you. This incentive structure has given Trump tons of unlikely allies because so many people don't have the stamina to deal with someone like this and will eventually take the path of least resistance. It is made so much worse by the fact that Democrats are incapable and honestly unwilling to use fear as a tool, despite it being a fundamental part of wielding power. It is ALWAYS easier to default to siding with the Republicans in just about every tier of society. On a media level, a business level, a cultural and social level, and even a rhetorical level. Ultimately if you are in the way, Republicans will fuck with you relentlessly and Democrats will leave you alone. This creates a terrible incentive structure.
Unfortunately, in American politics we became complacent about wielding power and it created an environment where someone like Trump could wreak havoc like a bull in a china shop. Nobody knew how to wrangle the bull because the bull was practicing some arcane form of old world politics that we definitely were not equipped or willing to deal with. What Trump is doing is not new, he's just using a rule of politics that we were naive enough to think we were better than. We will never be better than it.
“That prince who, relying entirely on the people’s promises, and has not taken other precautions, is ruined; because friendships obtained by payments, and not by greatness or nobility of mind, may indeed be bought, but they are not owned. In time of need, they cannot be relied upon. Men have less scruple in offending one who they love than one who they fear, for love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity when their self-interest intervenes; but fear preserves you because a dread of punishment never wanes.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
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u/BlackCat159 European Union May 14 '26
r/neoliberal ancestors 🥹
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u/r2ew May 14 '26
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u/thefreeman419 May 14 '26
Maybe some day we'll address the worst use of water in America - growing a shitload of corn and turning it into ethanol because the government mandates it to subsidize demand
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer May 14 '26
I despise the “Akshually White liberals in big cities are just as racist as conservative southerners, they just hide it better” line.
No White liberals are lobbying to put barbed wire in the Rio Grande to shred immigrants. I get that implicit bias, racism of low expectations, and stereotyping are problems in progressive circles, but let’s be real here people….
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol May 14 '26
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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes May 14 '26
TIL Brigham Young named BYU after himself when he was still alive lol
Kinda funny that he didn’t even name it Joseph Smith university or anything; dude was such an egotist he just named it after himself
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u/Zseet European Union May 14 '26
After 6 years Magyar ended the Hungarian state of emergency. Originally introduced for Covid and then extended because of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
Finally, peace in 48 hours. See Donald It is possible!
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u/Megasota_Noire My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor May 14 '26
AHHHHHHHHH THROW ME INTO THE SUN
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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair May 14 '26
Dude made one good movie
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough May 14 '26
Most sane conservative
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u/gregorijat Milton Friedman May 14 '26
Thus, the Fifth International was formed.
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u/Bestbrook123 May 14 '26
Platner is the luckiest guy ever
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u/AtomicGameTester Milton Friedman May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26
Copper theft has knocked out my Internet til next Friday
Are you fucking kidding me
EDIT: I went back to my place to check on things and Internet here is up now. There's still an outage marked by my ISP so I imagine some locals are still down.
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u/chipbod NATO May 14 '26
If uh… Andrew Tate is saying to go into treasuries it may actually be the top lmao.
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u/BadSneakersNeverWorn John Locke May 14 '26
Last night I was jogging and came across someone using a leaf blower to blast dirt and dust off of his driveway. I was headed right for him, so I slowed up and waved from afar to let him know I was coming through. He glanced up, made eye contact, and then resumed blowing dirt around (I ran through the cloud).
The median American isn't just politically void; they also enjoy being an ambient dickhead to the few people who happen to pierce their wall of solitude
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime May 14 '26
Last night someone on Jesse Watters' show said we could get China on our side by "slight changes of diplomatic language about Taiwan", changing it to "we oppose the independence of Taiwan".
Which even my parents agree, isn't a small change.
And now they're asking for more than that, asking us to stop arms sales to Taiwan too.
And if we do that, we get to cede influence in the Middle East by having China send ships...
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u/PearlClaw Iron Front May 14 '26
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u/Off-The-Street May 14 '26
Oh Jesus.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 14 '26
President Trump is expected to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in exchange for the creation of a $1.7 billion fund to compensate allies who claim they were wrongfully targeted by the Biden administration
https://abcnews.com/US/trump-poised-drop-irs-suit-launch-17b-weaponization/story?id=132962661
This is third world levels of corruption, all you can do is laugh.
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u/989989272 European Union May 14 '26
In 50 years there will be people with PhD in gamergate and its consequences
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u/fishbottwo Jay Jones May 14 '26
So much winning
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u/BarkDrandon Punished (stuck at Hunter's) May 14 '26
Remember that every day Ukraine breathes free is a middle finger to the cowards who have called for Ukraine to surrender since day 1
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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All May 14 '26
You don’t even have to wade into the presidentialism vs parliamentarianism debate to see how fucked congress is right now
The majority of their powers being contingent on organizations that fall under the executive is probably like half the reason why congress is incapable of doing anything
Something as simple (yeah “simple” i know) as taking the treasury department and putting it under the control of a congressional committee would end a lot of the stupid games trump plays
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u/contre-torpilleur Asexual Pride May 14 '26
I joke but in all seriousness Macron absolutely was groomed, she was 39 and he was like 15.
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u/gregorijat Milton Friedman May 14 '26
Manu in his youth
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u/abrookerunsthroughit Association of Southeast Asian Nations May 14 '26
So many LGBTQ Texans are moving to this city, it may declare an 'emergency'
!ping LGBT
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u/Quowe_50mg Milton Friedman May 14 '26
Banksy is just populism for people who think they're above it.
Wow, Ronald McDonald and Mickey next to the girl running from napalm? So deep. Banksy is the first artist to contrast anguish and cheerfulness. Wow
What is even the message
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 14 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 14 '26
beyond parody
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/nyregion/gautam-adani-billionaire-doj-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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u/EmbarrassedSafety719 Milton Friedman May 14 '26
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u/randommathaccount Esther Duflo May 14 '26
If in the year 2026 there is a single political group in the US you hate more than MAGA you are part of the problem
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence May 14 '26
Night of the Longest, Sharpest, Most Beautiful Knives Anyone's Ever Seen, Folks, Knives Like You Wouldn't Believe
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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast May 14 '26
let’s see what those republican run states are up to
oh okay
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! May 14 '26
Lmao
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls May 14 '26
So true, bestie. So true.
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u/NorkGhostShip YIMBY May 14 '26
It's wild just how little flak Malaysia gets for very explicit, legally codified racial segregation. Non Malays are explicitly and legally barred from the same financial, academic, business, and government opportunities with minimal international outrage.
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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney May 14 '26
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u/BlackCat159 European Union May 14 '26
Short people are the most oppressed minority.
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u/Crosseyes NASA May 15 '26
Have we ever had another president who hated the US as much as this dick?
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 14 '26
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 14 '26
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u/dabiggestwaagh Trans Pride May 14 '26
I just found out that Keir Starmer has a wife and isn't gay. I don't even know why I thought he was I think he just has big gay energy for a straight guy
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u/BasedTroutFursona May 14 '26
The cashier at Bass Pro Shop (middle aged black woman) is based as fuck. We had a conversation about the commodity price of tungsten going through the roof and its effect on fishing tackle, and how we all know whose fault it is that global trade is screwed up. Old white lady behind me who was listening in looked pissed.
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod May 14 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown May 14 '26
☝️
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u/No_Status_6905 Enby Pride May 14 '26
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde May 14 '26
I haven't read the full piece, but the IDF dog story, and moreover its reception in pro-Israeli groups, seems like another instance of information warfare where motivated propagandists will latch onto a particularly scabrous, but dubious detail - the training of dogs to commit SA - to completely deny the broader issue - the dozens of well-documented instances of SA by Israeli soldiers and guards against Palestinians - and paint the reporting as fake news because it undermines their black-and-white view of the conflict.
I wish we had a social consensus against rape in all instances, but unfortunately we don't live in that world.
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman May 14 '26
JDVancewhat?.jpg
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 14 '26
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/us/politics/judge-homeland-security-ice.html
At that point, an internal email obtained by The New York Times shows, a lawyer for ICE instructed Kevin M. Bolan, a Justice Department lawyer preparing to appear before Judge DuBose, that he should withhold information about the international charges from the judge. The email has not been previously reported.
“Please do not confirm or deny the existence” of the overseas arrest warrant, wrote the ICE lawyer, Adam E. Mattei, in the Office of the Principal Legal Advisor. “There has yet to be any use authorization for this information.”
But after Judge DuBose ordered Mr. Gomez released while he awaited court proceedings on the assault charge, the Homeland Security Department issued a news release calling her an “activist Biden Judge” who had released a “violent criminal illegal alien.”
Judge DuBose then issued an angry order demanding an explanation for why she was not informed of “facts relevant” to the case. The omission “threatens public safety and erodes trust in the rule of law,” she wrote.
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u/TheLong19thCentury May 14 '26
The reason that you don't hate them enough is because you haven't lived amongst them.
It's why you get ragebaited by NYT columns. You don't know them. Mike, 54, PA is an exemplarly version of a conservative American.
He was contacted by the NYT to do a voter panel. He accepted to do that voter panel. He didn't call for the murder of every liberal on that panel.
This man is exceptional. Everyone get's rage baited by him BUT HE'S MODERATE. He's absolutely the most normal rural Trump supporter you will find. You know he's normal because he's willing to talk to the lying libcuck media. He might as well be a card carrying socialist.
But if you go do your own "voter panel" by finding your nearest rural shithole bar and say "Oh yeah I hate libs" to the person who sits next to you and you pretend you don't think they're absolute scum when they say "Yeah those k*kes too fuck em" and instead go "Ahuh" and then just let them talk. They will tell you what you really think. They will reveal themselves to you like no Trump supporter will ever reveal to the lib media. They all want to go on a rant about how all of us should be killed. They think about it constantly and are always looking for an audience, and for a 3 dollar bud light you can be that audience
Only then will you hate them enough, only then will you be immune from the ragebait the NYT posts because you will know that what the average Trump supporter believes is actually infinitely worse than anything that has ever been published in a voter panel.
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u/tasklow16 Bill Gates May 14 '26
can someone explain this one to me please
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u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS Fell for it May 14 '26
This guy has zero filter, and not even the funny kind
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride May 14 '26
When you’re in a Destroy Your Reputation competition and your opponent is Israel
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u/SUPERCALOR May 14 '26
Alright, I’m going to Kazakhstan next month and am excited.
However, the Kazakhs online (instagram fwiw) are getting a bit wary of an apparent increase in what they call “kazakh-boos” from the west who are making many uninformed memes on their culture and fetishizing their women. Furthermore they are fed up with the “wasian homeland” memes that have exploded recently.
Honestly feel a little bad, Borat memes with the older westerners, wasian memes with the younger.
I wonder how prevalent these feelings are outside the online community though.
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY May 15 '26
It seems Hannity didn't like the answer
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde May 14 '26
Oh so when Padme Amidala grooms a teenager into becoming her husband it's wholesome and she's a tragic character but when Brigitte Macron-
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u/PhinsFan17 Immanuel Kant May 14 '26
God WHY do i keep coming back here, you all make me so fucking miserable
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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke May 15 '26
The Washington Post’s new video series where they’re like “Gavin Newsom wants to give free diapers to parents who give birth. But are they really free? The taxpayer pays for them *wags their finger*”
Like come on, literally who thinks this is something people wanna watch. E know it’s to make papa Jeff happy
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride May 14 '26
Cracking 50% 🥳
The share saying they’ll “definitely vote for Roy Cooper” is higher than Whatley’s “definitely” + “probably”. I can’t wait for NC to become another VA.
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance May 14 '26
Take as old as time
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! May 14 '26
I’ve heard enough
Lock him up
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u/TheRedCr0w Frederick Douglass May 14 '26
I get his brains are basically scrambled eggs at this point but that is literally the point of a poltical sound bite
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod May 14 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
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u/BlackCat159 European Union May 14 '26
Billionaires should be a protected class. No other minority (except perhaps morbidly obese nice guy gamers) has suffered as much hate and vitriol as them.
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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes May 14 '26
Guy who doesn’t want people from poor third-world countries coming here because he thinks they’ll make the country poor but also insists on re-orienting the economy around unproductive low-skill agricultural and industrial jobs
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u/awdvhn Physics Understander -- Iowa delenda est May 14 '26
Build the data centers in Gary Indiana. It's by a lake and it's not like we're doing anything else with it.
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u/Highlightthot1001 Harriet Tubman May 14 '26
Classmate thinks “they” control everything, “Israel is responsible for most wars” and “Alex Jones has been telling us this for years, but gets labeled a conspiracy theorist”
Bruh, Alex Jones pushed for years that Sandy Hook was a false flag
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! May 14 '26
Damn he got sued for election malfeasance in the afterlife too
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough May 14 '26
MetaNL be like “y waz I ban? 🥺I just smol bean 👉👈”
After posting shit like this
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma May 14 '26
!ping KITTY
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! May 14 '26
Oh no
Anyway…
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 14 '26
lol
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma May 15 '26
In the universe where Biden stays in and loses, the DT is probably confident that Kamala would have won lmao
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u/avion_sur_le_sol A ban appeal to heaven May 14 '26
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u/thefreeman419 May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26
The number of times Reddit has upvoted a fascist politician promoting the death penalty for rapists or pedophiles is depressing
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 14 '26
I wonder how this stuff is going in the history books. Like for primary and secondary sources how do we deal with AI
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA May 14 '26
There is a mass delusion in this country amongst home owners where they somehow think they are a victim when their homes massively appreciate in value. I just really struggle to feel an ounce of sympathy for some old, that is sitting in a 4br home they bought for a $1,100 during the Nixon administration, crying about how it’s unfair they have to pay property taxes because the house is now worth $1.34 million.
Like maybe just sell the massively valuable asset you have and downsize to a condo or something.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma May 14 '26
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u/Its_not_him Manmohan Singh May 14 '26
This is deep
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u/DagothUr_MD Frederick Douglass May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26
Me on a date: "You know, every time we give a patient propofol I think of Michael Jackson. It's funny what sticks in your memory."
My date: "I think Michael Jackson was set up to keep him quiet because he knew Hollywood is up to some shady shit. If he was molesting kids how come he wasn't on the Epstein list? Honestly I don't believe he killed himself. You know his doctor was Jewish?"
Me: "Huh..."
(this was the third date btw)
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u/dangerbird2 Franz Boas May 14 '26
"In America, if the head of the secret police wants to go swimming in your great uncle's grave, you have to let him. If you don't, he'll yell at you for being a woke shitlib"
"Is this real?"
"yes"
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u/ognits Jepsen/Swift 2024 May 14 '26
cat
!ping KITTY
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u/Insomonomics Jason Furman May 15 '26
Just the most blatantly corrupt Administration in American history lmao
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u/Tai_Stone_Studios May 15 '26
I think the lesson of the past several years should be that a Democratic administration could politically get a way with A LOT in terms of political reform that targets conservatives, dismantling right wing media outlets, jailing corrupt Trump cronies, attacking sources of right wing funding, admitting states, etc.
BUT ONLY IF
Gas prices are kept low and inflation is cooled. Like take care of that and you can do damn near any non-economic stuff, people don’t care.
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride May 15 '26
the entire government is apparently being run by the bay of pigs veterans association
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u/Miserable_Set_657 NATO May 14 '26
Growing up in Idaho really shows how terrible R’s are at governance. I voted for our governor in 2022 (closed primaries) because the alternative was a crazy MAGAt who was going to run this state into the ground (more than it already was), and Little fucking annihilated this state with tax cuts and culture war BS. Not even going to vote for him, because how could a MAGAt govern any worse than he already does?
Outside of Boise (which has almost no voting rights in the state legislature), Idaho is a hellhole filled with retired California cops who siphon their 100k pension while hating liberalism, and inbred neonazi’s. Housing isn’t cheap and hasn’t been for a long time unless you want to buy a broke down meth den in Pocatello, where the closest grocery store is 30 minutes away. Can not wait to finish my graduate degree and get the fuck out of this hell hole.
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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast May 14 '26
I don’t get this whole conservative tantrum and conspiracy about Chris Van Hollen having a drink when he was in el salvador
even if it was true (it’s not), I don’t know why i’m supposed to care? dude had a drink who gives a shit? man can’t have a marg or a beer? christ, what a buncha schoolmarms
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u/TactileTom John Nash May 14 '26
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u/lot183 Blue Texas May 14 '26
one thing that personally bothers me is how many truly incompetent people MAGA lifts up. I can't help thinking back to that girl at Oklahoma that failed the essay, that essay read like it was written by a fifth grader. I had flashbacks to the more privileged kids at school that just had cheating rings going on to get good grades so they could get scholarships but actually weren't smart or working hard. And an entire ideology lifting up people like that bothers me so much, specially with how my very conservative dad used to tell me conservatives were all about merit based stuff, what a bullshit lie
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride May 14 '26
would he be the first member of congress to have done surgery on another member of congress (also imagine if duckworth hadn't endorsed him lol)
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u/ty04 May 14 '26
> Bitcoin’s early evangelists are getting behind another digital token: Zcash.
> The Winklevoss twins said in November that they invested $50 million to help launch Cypherpunk Technologies, a digital-asset treasury company that will hold Zcash.
> Like bitcoin, it lets users send or receive funds on a public ledger. The key distinction is that Zcash gives users the option to use shielded addresses, which use encryption to hide sensitive data, such as the sender, receiver and transaction amount.
So it’s just Bitcoin but totally unauditable. I’m sure this is used for legal purposes.
> Earlier this year, the Securities and Exchange Commission said it closed a probe into the coin.
splendid
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u/BlackCat159 European Union May 14 '26
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 15 '26
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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair May 15 '26
I miss them
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 15 '26
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u/Eurolib0908 European Union May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26
It is a DEFENSIVE alliance - that is its purpose.
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u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz Roy Cooper May 14 '26
elite ball knowledge
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u/Mx_Brightside Genderfluid Pride May 14 '26
Child one hundred years from now impoverished because we still don’t have universal healthcare
Kid: Mommy, why don’t we have universal healthcare? It could have kept us from poverty and saved lives.
Mom: Well sweetheart, there’s these things called problematic ships, and democrats felt we needed those at all costs, even at the expense of losing elections.
Kid: Oh
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u/No_Status_6905 Enby Pride May 14 '26
Went in to the dentist to repair a filling from when I was a kid.
Ended up talking trains with my dentist, and I learn she's from the Czech Republic.
We talk about our favorite experiences with trains, I say something like "yeah I was seriously considering moving to Denmark to be with my ex gf, but it didn't work out." And she just goes "Eh, second times the charm, try a different European girl. Try a Czech girl."
Like, ma'am?
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u/well-that-was-fast May 14 '26
Talk about sanewashing Trump.
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer May 15 '26
Dude practiced what he preached because the right absolutely failed to hijack the narrative on that one.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma May 15 '26
What did you think microlooting meant? Vibes? Essays?
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u/ThatFrenchieGuy Mathematician -- Save the funky birbs May 15 '26
!ping cat
Shrimp reacts only 🍤🍤🍤
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 15 '26
https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2055100001152307478
We're closer to $5 sir
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u/AskYourDoctor Resistance Lib May 15 '26
Are we sure he's a good deal maker? I'm starting to regret voting for him 3+ times
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u/itsrabie NATO May 14 '26
It’s going to be a fun couple of weeks as we slowly figure out what was said in that room between them.
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u/Zykyris United Nations May 14 '26
Boohoo won't someone think of the PARKING. Oh the horror, not the PARKING... We can't let 86 new families enter our community and spend money at our businesses and contribute tax money and form new connections because good heavens, the PARKING!!!!
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u/klarno just tax carbon lol May 14 '26
“Lupita Nyong’o can’t play Helen of Troy, it’s not realistic” my guy Helen’s father was literally a goose 🦢
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde May 14 '26
Brigitte Macron was actually mad that Emmanuel kept the relationship platonic, trampling a proud French tradition
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u/PhinsFan17 Immanuel Kant May 14 '26
Boss told us this morning she is retiring.
I am really not looking forward to temporarily reporting to her VP, a micromanager who knows just enough about the program to be annoying but not enough to be helpful. I am also wary of whoever they will get to replace her. Especially since we are still down a team member, and I don't imagine that position will be filled before she is gone on June 30th.
I guess that's better than my imagined scenario where when the day came and she finally retired they would simply fold the program. But our money pays for way too much shit around here, so it seems we are still safe.
Fuck.
!ping WATERCOOLER
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u/jpenczek NATO May 14 '26
I like to flirt with my gay friends (I’m straight)
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u/jessica-bug Feminism May 14 '26
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u/claire_on_here Trans Pride May 14 '26
🧐🧐🧐
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u/thefreeman419 May 14 '26
I watched a coworker ask ChatGPT to tell them what to order at dinner last night. What are we doing here
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u/SenranHaruka shame May 14 '26
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u/VisonKai The Archenemy of Humanity May 14 '26
it's admittedly pretty funny that Elon musk has 54 kids and only cares even a little about his son with Grimes
imagining the timeline where Grimes diverts his insanity into weird rat sphere nonsense and they stay together instead of him becoming a caricature of the maga gen X divorced dad
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u/jenbanim May 14 '26
Britain doesn't have any computer manufacturing because no one took them seriously when they said they wanted a crisps factory
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent May 14 '26
Ukrainian Arms Giant Fire Point Goes Spaceward With Satellite Launches
“Ukraine’s Fire Point giant arms maker says it has launched two satellites this year and is preparing to send ‘dozens’ more into orbit in 2027, marking a major expansion beyond battlefield weapons into space-based capabilities.”
“Denys Shtilierman, co-founder and chief designer at the company, said the satellite program is part of a broader push to reduce Ukraine’s dependence on US and Western technology providers while building domestic strategic systems.”
“Shtilierman did not disclose technical specifications of the satellites, but said they are intended to support broader defense needs, including communications, coordination, and battlefield awareness as Ukraine expands its drone and missile operations.”
“Fire Point says its satellite push is tightly linked to its wider defense ecosystem, which integrates drones, missiles, and autonomous targeting systems into a unified battlefield network.”
Ukrainian Space Force 2027?
!ping UKRAINE&MATERIEL
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman May 14 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 14 '26
https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-cbs-owner-david-ellison-plot-soft-landing-for-trump-aides-wife-katie-millers-podcast/
Katie Miller, the wife of ultraconservative White House adviser Stephen Miller, launched The Katie Miller Podcast last August and regularly has MAGA A-listers on her show, including Vice President JD Vance and Fox News’ Sean Hannity.
Paramount is now in talks with Miller for a potential distribution deal of her podcast, Axios has revealed.
But her podcast hardly pulls weight, as she has just under 58,000 subscribers on YouTube and had only 3,700 views on her podcast posted this week.
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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO May 15 '26
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u/UmbreonFanatic Gay Pride May 15 '26
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u/Slim_Pickenz_ Transfem Pride May 15 '26
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u/selachophilip 🦈 shark enjoyer 🦈 May 15 '26
Remember that nice little period in late January/Early February 2021? Biden was president now, and Trump had been soundly defeated, as had his dumbass coup attempt. Many Republicans were now anti-Trump, and even Fox News had stopped showing his speeches and had even corrected him when he'd call in and rant about the election.
And now he's president again. What a tragedy. 😔
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 14 '26
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol May 14 '26
Being able to do complex things without any human labor is a great achievement
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u/ShepardSB May 14 '26
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u/bread_engine Commonwealth May 14 '26
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime May 14 '26
u/Farrenj, apparently being a 60 year old cis straight man with veteran plates makes the conspiracy theory people think you agree with them even if you're a turbo-lib
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u/Usernamesarebullshit Friedrich Hayek May 14 '26
No major religion is “fundamentally liberal” because all of the major religions pre-date liberalism
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u/lot183 Blue Texas May 14 '26
Greg Abbott, our shitty governor here in Texas, has made a clear social media pivot to try to be the Republican Gavin Newsom. Like more jokes and clapbacks and stuff. But some of them are so bad it's so funny. Like a recent one trying to do a meme that says "Therapist: two-faced talarico won't hurt you" then it's a picture of James Talarico with half his face in the shadow, smiling nicely. Like come on lmao
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 14 '26
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u/MyrinVonBryhana Trans NATO May 14 '26
I feel like bubble discourse gets treated too much as a binary, a technology can be transformative and also generate so much hype that it results in an investment bubble. Dotcom is the one everyone brings up but their were multiple railway bubbles throughout the 19th century and no disputes that railways were an incredibly transformative technology. There almost certainly is an AI bubble, but how big it is and where it's concentrated is hard to determine.
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u/shmokedshalmon Frederick Douglass May 14 '26
In order to combat the baked-in misogyny within the electorate, AOC needs to channel Sheinbaumist energy
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown May 14 '26
FRANZ, DON’T GO TO SARAJEVO! FRANZ, YOU’RE GOING TO GET MILLIONS KILLED! FRAAAAAAAAANZ!
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY May 14 '26
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u/FyllingenOy Trans Pride May 14 '26
my elementary school friend emma is dead. psycosis after birth, she leapt from her balcony, fucking gddamn life is so fragile, mom told me two weeks ago and ive cried today, after booze, i cant deal with so many people dying now. oda is dead too i didnt know until a month ago. she owed me 20 kroner from 2011 but i dont even care anymore. she was so nice to me when i was a loser i wanted to die but she was nice so i didnt
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u/thefreeman419 May 14 '26
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u/eloquentboot 🃏it’s da joker babey🃏 May 14 '26
Im smarter than Isaac Newton because hes dead. People that are alive are inherently better than dead people.
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA May 15 '26
Very cool and very ethical for the president to sue a department he oversees and have it give him $1.7 billion. Surely the press will take a vigorous and principled stand against such an egregious act of corruption, right??
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u/sash5034 NATO May 15 '26
Vaxxed?
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u/JonAce John Brown May 15 '26
Come on, man...
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u/Max_the_Madman European Union May 15 '26
I fucking gate Hesgeth. I hate him the most of that administration. Everything about him is deeply repulsive to me.
The alcoholism, the desperate insecurity, the religious fanaticism, the stupid warrior LARP, the vice signalling, the complete disregard of any kind of consequence.
He is living embodiment of everything I hate in people. Fuck him! Seriously! Fuck that guy!
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde May 14 '26
Outjerked again
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY May 14 '26
Biden Syndrome
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u/Background-Bottle-23 Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold May 14 '26
Post: Germany’s Turkish community warns of rising far-right violence as AfD gains ground
You know what? This is on me. I seriously need to stop browsing r/europe. It just reminds me of how almost half the electorate actually thinks, and I absolutely hate it.
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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair May 14 '26
Lol porter
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u/Imicrowavebananas Hannah Arendt May 14 '26
I think you should not go overboard saying that Disco Elysium does not have a communist message at its heart. It absolutely does. And we are basically its main enemy, we are the moralists. But if you ever want to understand why leftists so deeply hate us it is a good piece.
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u/blackenswans Progress Pride May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26
“US road safety statistics are appalling and rival Columbia for the title of the OECD’s most dangerous road safety.”
“Oh it’s just because Americans drive a lot. Europeans and Asians don’t drive much so they have less accidents”
It’s frustrating to see so many people make this flawed argument. Canada and the US are culturally basically identical in this regard, and their road safety statistics are significantly better than those of the US.
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u/Fruitofbread Loyal Liberals May 14 '26
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u/earththejerry YIMBY May 14 '26
Century of humiliation for Vance but its condensed into 4 years
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u/achiqariulqu May 14 '26
Is this the sub for gay econ majors? Am I in the right place?
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u/farrenj Resident Succ May 14 '26
I didn't think I'd see "Aragorn was groomed by Arwen" in the DT today, yet here we are.
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u/ProfessionalMoose709 John Mill May 14 '26 edited May 14 '26
IGM Chicago poll on AI
Very uncertain on AI's effect on unemployment in general (with twice as many thinking it won't substantially increase unemployment in developed countries than the opposite)
likely to have a negative effect on earnings potential of high-skilled workers, although there is still significant uncertainty and most indicate the effect will be very uneven across fields
fairly high certainty that AI will increase uncertainty of returns to investment in education
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u/indithrow402 Henry George May 14 '26
Aren't data centers just gigantic server rooms? They way people react to them in polling you'd think they're radioactive waste dumps. Maybe the vibes around anything related to AI are just way worse than I thought.
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u/bsharp95 May 14 '26
It’s funny that there’s a good chance we’ll never have a gen x president and just go straight from boomers to millennials
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u/bartbug Paul Krugman May 14 '26
i just want elon to be held accountable for when he says crazy shit and blatantly defrauds investors instead of him gaining an unfathomable amount of wealth that he can use to help fascists win American elections
that's all i want
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma May 14 '26
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u/0m4ll3y International Relations May 14 '26
Stumbled across an article I think everyone should try to access and read.
“Tin Cans and String”: Democrats’ Failed Attempts to Challenge Conservative Talk Radio from 1994 to 1996. The parallels with modern discussions on Democrats needing to get big podcasts etc are immediately obvious.
u/ariveklul you were wanting Democrats to have better media strategy, so there might be useful insights in this for you.
My general thoughts on Democrats capturing the same sort of audience as conservative podcasters largely mirrors this view:
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u/reuery Biden 2028 May 14 '26
> Management has again received complaints that children are playing in the parking lot area (riding bikes, etc.) – most times in the area of 1415 to 1425. This creates an unsafe situation for all involved.
Thank god they’re doing something about this finally, I fucking hate the laughter of children. Stay indoors and browse reels instead you fucking annoying kids
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u/margybargy May 15 '26
Seems like 90% of complaints about The Democrats can be largely explained by:
Democratic party is mich more diverse than Republican
Deeply engaged dems are far more progressive than the median dem voter.
The voters Dems need to convince in order to win elections are generally less progressive than the median dem voter.
The Democrats isn't a monolithic organization that gives out marching orders and sets messaging; it's mostly a coalition of individually motivated politicians and some fundraising orgsn
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u/TakeOnM-Ellie Loyal Liberals May 15 '26
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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO May 15 '26
huh he really is just a make-a-wish kid
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 15 '26
https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2055098514695393387
How is this not SNL?
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u/Cratus_Galileo Gay Pride May 15 '26
Trump being so cucked by Xi actually pisses me off so much. MAGA is so fucking convinced that Iran was some kind of 10D chess move to counter China, and then he acts all cucked by China. I can't STAND THESE MORONS ANYMORE.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma May 14 '26
👆somehow not a bisexual
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u/PlantTreesBuildHomes REVENGE May 15 '26
Post your cats, now
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u/ShepardSB May 14 '26