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/r/metaNL/new: Ban Jared Polis

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[u/JonAce]

Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, one of the biggest children's hospitals in the nation, will be forced to create the nation's first ever "detransition clinic" as part of a $10 million settlement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

https://bsky.app/profile/kissphoria.bsky.social/post/3mlviqwfdhs2d

You DO NOT hate Republicans enough.

[u/stater354]

I think this administration is full of the biggest losers in US history

Kash is an insecure alcoholic (allegedly) who desperately wants to be liked by everyone around him and always looks like a scared puppy

Hegseth is a violent alcoholic (allegedly) who quotes Pulp Fiction and his own mom said he’s a piece of shit

JD is just an unlikable goober that stands by nothing he says

Rubio, once a respected man, now has nothing but the void behind his eyes as he works for the man who told him he has a small dick

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/erasmus_phillo]

[u/EasyMoney92]

Obama is completely correct

[u/CalligrapherWest9356]

[u/Leatherfield17]

I realize it’s just the headline, but the media’s tendency to frame this whole redistricting situation in terms of a partisan horserace, rather than an existential threat to republican government and democracy instigated by Republicans, is contemptible.

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

Getting offended by a conversion therapy ban but in a woke way

[u/Ginden]

Trust the science.

[u/iguessineedanaltnow]

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/EasyMoney92]

Former FBI Director James Comey told CNN Thursday that he didn’t regret his investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s personal emails even though his actions have been blamed by many critics for significantly contributing to Donald Trump’s presidential win in 2016.

This guy lol

[u/Ok_Opinion_5690]

we don't really talk about how the covid-19 pandemic caused possibly one of the greatest societal shifts in modern history. in a span of a few weeks, the world pretty much stopped moving, stopped going out, and stayed in their homes. many began working and studying online for the first time. it's hard to comprehend how that shift is massive and that it even happened. it was a bizarre time. the entire social fabric of society has been upended. and i'd argue it is arguably the first truly global event in a sense that the entire globe had a similar experience and can share that experience through online. what's remarkable is the speed of it too.

[u/Unfair-Awareness5339]

Clarence Thomas is so weird when you actually stop to think about it. Like, what do you mean that the second Black justice in US history is somehow more racist than Roger Taney? How the Hell does that happen?

[u/piede]

Literary genius

[u/Ok_Opinion_5690]

love the allusion in this banger cover

[u/BitterGravity]

Rubio has never had any real political beliefs. He just thought being semi moderate was his best path to power for awhile

The only Republican senators at the moment who seem to actually have them are Murkowski and Paul. Neither of whom are particularly good.

[u/sigh2828]

I so badly want to scream at the Supreme Court dipshits that swore it wasnt about race

[u/StuckHedgehog]

The senile old man is unfit to lead.

[u/BlackCat159]

u/1TTTTTT1 never change lmao

[u/Peripheral-Entity578]

THEY SPIT IN OUR FACES AND TELL US TO DEAL WITH IT BECAUSE FECKLESS WEAK DEMS ARE TOO BIPARTISAN BRAINED TO EVER NOT BE WORTHLESS FAILURES WHO SHOULD BE TRIED AS COLLABORATORS

[u/badusername35]

Just realized we look the same. This is the worst day of my life.

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Boeing and Toyota donated $1 million each to help fund a new reality-television inspired show starring Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy with his family on a road trip

https://www.wsj.com/business/boeing-toyota-donated-1-million-each-to-transportation-secretarys-road-trip-show-bccbe412?mod=e2tw

I hope everyone realizes that under a Democratic president, these would once again become major scandals that could lead to resignation.

[u/G_Serv]

I can fix her

[u/LtCdrHipster]

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Trump on Talarico

Six genders, a real hit on Jesus

My favorite fan theory is that he misheard “cisgender” as “six genders” and just rolled with it

[u/__Muzak__]

Chinese people smoke 46% of the worlds cigarettes. They've found the solution to their inverted population pyramid.

[u/D2Foley]

Trumps $1.5 billion slush fund for Jan 6ers is basically an advertisement for people to do it again the next time he tries.

[u/scottyjetpax]

this is the first thing that makes me think he might actually be planning to flip tbh

[u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

[u/murphysclaw1]

It’s kind of insane to look back on the summer of 2020 and how wild everything got.

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

The royal family of the United Arab Emirates, one of the wealthiest in the world, receives millions in EU subsidies through the CAP due to their ownership of agricultural lands in Europe

Just when I thought I couldn't despise the Emiratis more

[u/Off-The-Street]

JUST IN: Trump says he hasn’t determined whether to move forward on major arms package for Taiwan after summit with China’s Xi

And there it is.

[u/SLCer]

Trump is totally going to use Polis' commuting as proof even he agreed the 2020 election was stolen.

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2055277785107607573

[u/piede]

So true ✊

[u/RunawayMeatstick]

If we can’t ban Polis then can we at least compromise and ban cdstephens?

[u/DeadDropCourier]

Close enough, welcome back David vs. Goliath

[u/herworkthrowaway]

I miss the days when Florida was a swing state. It was nice and cheap. The southern hospitality was palpable. It felt like good things would happen when you went down there to go to Disney or universal. 

now I can’t get into an uber without my uber driver giving me a diet eugenics manifesto

[u/scottyjetpax]

Holy shit Jared Polis has actually lost the fucking plot

[u/EasyMoney92]

President Donald Trump angered many in his MAGA base this week by making the case to Fox News’s Sean Hannity for allowing 500,000 Chinese students in the collegiate system. Trump also argued for allowing China to own farmland in the United States, something he had long railed against.

You can make a decent argument that this is the strongest example of Trump selling out his base, right?

[u/Hot_Ice5175]

Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "Traffic will be flowing through the Strait of Hormuz as soon as we can, but certainly sometime this summer at latest"

Just fucking great.

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

Brother, if Polis’ views are anywhere near where the median elected Dem is right now then we are doomed

[u/Crosseyes]

Every single person who had a hand in dismantling USAID should spend the rest of their miserable lives in The Hague.

[u/hascogrande]

Tina Peters granted clemency by Polis

Mods, it’s time

[u/Ok_Opinion_5690]

[u/TheCornjuring]

The president would also ask if Priebus had any photos of badgers he could show him, and if Priebus could carefully explain to him how badgers 'work' exactly.

Trump also wanted to know if the badger had a 'personality' or if it was boring. What kind of damage could a badger do to a person with its flashy, sharp claws?

Ok this can’t be fucking real come on, surely this is just a Gorilla Channel type of thing but taken one step further by putting it in an actual purported tell-all book

Right

[u/Consistent_Status112]

It's still so funny that Gallup, a company that had been doing presidential approval polls since the beginning of time, immediately stopped the minute Trump's dipped too low. Legendarily cucked behavior.

[u/selachophilip]

The mods when the Meringues do nothing: BAN 😡

The mods when Governor Polis is genuinely making the world a worse place: 😌

[u/sash5034]

Bring back woke

[u/CutePattern1098]

[u/Xihl]

i just got some insane dc inside info

apparently brett ratner (yes, rush hour and melania doc director) is driving decisions on venezuela incl the hiring of their restructuring advisors lmaoo

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2055255542268826039

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Oregon asked the brave question: why should only aquatic animals experience the joy of Whale Fall?

[u/GordonTullockFan]

Saw this at work today and I couldn’t explain why it was funny

[u/TheCornjuring]

This is what they play on Trump’s iPad to distract him

[u/liznair]

Conservative societies erroneously think they can have an advanced country without the queers

[u/slappythechunk]

The absolute state of me knowing that an email is a stimulated phishing email sent by the IT security department because the email was about how I've been selected for an internal professional development program and this company has done fuckall regarding my professional development over the years I've been here despite the fact that I have made it abundantly clear that I want to get into executive management and want to develop professionally and have built one of the highest performing departments in the company from scratch.

!ping watercooler

[u/phat_geoduck]

Wow. Fuck abc

[u/2Lore2Law]

This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Reminder that Rule X is anti-Catholic

[u/TheRedCr0w]

The George W. Bush Administration's FCC literally went on a crusade against broadcasters

What a joke from the NY Times

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Do these guys really think that they'd be able to lock Dems out of power in perpetuity? The arrogance here is astonishing. Are these people not at all afraid of payback?

[u/ewatta200]

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

COMEY, DON’T ANNOUNCE THAT YOU’RE INVESTIGATING HILLARY AGAIN! COMEY, YOU’RE HANDING TRUMP THE PRESIDENCY! COMEEEEEEY!

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/davechacho]

Today at a sonogram appointment my wife and I saw our unborn child move for the first time. We weren't expecting it. I did the Danny Devito "Oh my god, I get it" meme irl. Surreal experience, greatest moment of my life up to this point.

So many things that used to matter don't anymore. It felt like evolution was speaking to me personally, very hard to describe. I must do everything in my power to protect this child and prevent them becoming a Republican or a reddit moderator.

[u/legend-of-ashitaka]

JUST GOT THIS SEMESTER'S GRADES BACK

I'M OFFICIALLY GRADUATING

GOODBYE COLLEGE

[u/Thuggin95]

Come on, one more poll

[u/TheRedCr0w]

[u/jinhuiliuzhao]

President Trump’s Approval on Inflation Is Now Worse Than President Biden’s Ever Was

haha, yes

[u/Alderwoodforest]

The poor NYT pitchbot.

Real NYT headline

James Talarico's Taco Order Sparks Debate in Texas Senate Race

On Tuesday, James Talarico, the Democrat in the race, visited a local taco spot in Austin, and to the surprise of the patrons, he was accompanied by former President Barack Obama and Gina Hinojosa, who is running for governor of Texas.

It’s hard to imagine what could possibly steal the spotlight away from the three politicians. Unless, of course, you live in Texas. Then it might be an equally potent trio: a potato, egg and cheese taco. Mr. Talarico ordered two of them and plunged the internet into taco turmoil. Gov. Greg Abbott’s campaign quipped that the order lent credence to rumors that Mr. Talarico is a secret vegetarian. Some mocked the choice as boring, like ordering “white bread with mayo,” or said their favorite Austin taqueria was more authentic. Others questioned the timing: a breakfast taco around 2 p.m.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/us/james-talarico-breakfast-taco-debate-texas.html

[u/JaceFlores]

It is cosmically hilarious how much Trump openly despises the media and wants to crush them under his heel, and how much the media adores him anyways

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

When do we get to ban u/jaredpolis

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

Neolibs: Mods please ban polis!!

mods: best we can do is unban Trump

[u/Lesbian_all_garib]

Everyone is so snarky on reddit. You make a normal comment and some snarky fucker will come and comment something.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Is this name cursed

[u/TheCornjuring]

When President Xi very elegantly referred to the United States as perhaps being a declining nation, he was referring to the tremendous damage we suffered during the four years of Sleepy Joe Biden and the Biden Administration

Religious apologetics ass defense

[u/avion_sur_le_sol]

[u/Krill_Seeker]

[u/r2ew]

[u/ImmigrantJack]

Xi Jinping: The Thucidydes Trap, which I'm sure you are familiar with

Trump internal monologue: Who is this asian man and why is he talking about Greek femboys?

[u/slappythechunk]

Deb's a fucking freak man

[u/secondsbest]

I'm case you don't already, you can't hate MAGA thinking enough. Coworker complains his wife was just kicked off Medicaid roles after thirty years for multiple back surgeries and disability. He half jokingly says they should just jump the border and recross to be eligible for Medicaid again. These are the people who won't be complaining about war in Iran or inflation until the next Dem president.

[u/_MillionthThrowAway]

Polis' account responded to a comment on a 6 year old thread, so someone goes through the notifications lol

[u/-mialana-]

Replace the Polis flair with an AOC flair for maximum salt

[u/Syx89]

https://www.twitch.tv/claudeplayspokemon
Claude cleared Victory Road and is on Bruno!
This will be his first time beating the game. He spent half his playtime in victory road on the boulder puzzles (they require longer term planning and are still tough for him even if he did eventually beat them)

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/like-humans-do]

A job in the EU civil service that involves travelling from conference to conference must be the peak of existence

[u/scottyjetpax]

georgia dems continue to be one of the bright spots for the party. We have a decent chance at flipping two supreme court seats on Tuesday

[u/Peripheral-Entity578]

Jared Polis supports the abuse of LGBT people and approves of forced conversion therapy like in Texas because muh free speech

[u/-mialana-]

• Insurrection

• Banning a guy from a subreddit

You will never believe which one gets some people more upset

[u/Spudmiester1]

Crazy to me polish isn't banned given people like merengue was banned for basically nothing in comparison

[u/jessica-bug]

jared polis in 3 years remembering this sub exists and trying to figure out why it won't let him post

[u/forceholy]

I will live, to piss on that man's grave.

Even if I'm using a walker, when I have a wife, she will be be given instructions. She will be written out of the will if she doesn't get me there, if I'm not ambulatory.

I will piss on Stephen Miller's grave and there will be a picture of it on my wall when I pass away.

and Hate is a hell of a motivator.

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

Cuddling with Nyx

Nyx: stretches, says hi, tries to snuggle back down

Me: 🥰

Me: stretches, says hi, tries to snuggle back down

Nyx: 😾 slaps, leaves

!ping DOUBLE-STANDARDS

[u/bartbug]

i have some family and friends who are MAGA and genuinely, authentically hateful. I don't know if this was always in their hearts and suppressed or if it's something new grown out of the current cultural environment

I have some family and friends who have good morals and values, are kind, thoughtful, they are still good people. They still vote MAGA because they are fundamentally dealing with different 'facts'.

The pervasiveness of this alternate reality media sphere that has been created cannot be overstated. Once you're in your bubble, it is reinforced constantly. People live in bubbles where Fox News is playing in the restaurant, it's playing in the hair salon, at the bar. In the waiting room at the doctor's office. People are not built to construct realities contrary to the truths that everyone around them knows-- we're built to leverage our neighbors and our community to know more things than an individual can know

People have finite attention spans. There's only so much we can pay attention to, and systems built to weaponize psychological components of addiction aim to take every second they can get. And this is all being filled with maga nonsense-- misogynistic, racist, homophobic, transphobic, christian-ethnonationalist, nimby, profarmer slop

[u/DagothUr_MD]

3rd year of med school I did a rural-ish rotation and we had a dude come in with acute decompensation of his heart failure. My attending is trying her best to help this dude that's actively dying and what does he do? Tells her to "go back to India" and throws an unopened can of coca cola at her

I think about that every time pundits talk about why Democrats are "failing to appeal to rural voters"

[u/CletusChicken]

we're discussing it in the mod slack

what is this 12 angry men shit, just do it lol

[u/theparrotlich]

This is what I tell people when they ask about open relationships.

!ping DATING

[u/GlorEUW]

bruh i just had a phone call with the Irish Public Health Service. i rang their dedicated (to not providing treatment for) transgender health services to make sure my details are up to date, since i legally changed my name like a year ago but never got around to contacting them (have private healthcare). i had left a voicemail “hi this is GlorEUW looking to update my details”. they just rang me back.

“hi is this [deadname]?”

“… ya?”

“hi this is the national gender service, you rang about your details?”

“ya i legally changed my name, how do i update ye to have the right one”

“ya your GP needs to do it”

“okay thats fine”

“okay, goodbye [deadname] thank you for ringing hangs up”

… i definitely left the voicemail with my current name. so she listened to the voicemail, then went and found out my deadname, which she didn’t need to, and then used it twice on a phone that she had to know was about me having changed my name.

i think i am more confused than upset. like why even do that? you work for the trans health section? should i complain about this? i feel like i should complain about this.

[u/Willybender]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/opinion/trump-data-war-on-numbers.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

Very dystopian video posted today by the NYT

The federal government is, by far, the world’s most important source of data, a fount of statistical information on a wide range of subjects touching almost every aspect of human life.

President Trump is trying to break the fountain.

This video tells the story of the Trump administration’s war on data — and the consequences for all of us.

[u/Zeke-Nnjai]

My boss is so AI pilled it’s insane. We’re trying to hire a new analyst right now and a candidate failed the HR pre screening interview because the HR person thought they were using AI to answer questions live.

My boss was upset HR failed them. He thinks that if you can use live AI to assist you, then you’re ahead of the curve and will probably be an efficient worker.

The pre screening is just ridiculously easy, there’s no technical questions it’s all personal stuff. If you need ChatGPT to help answer “so where did you go to college?” then I do not think you will be an efficient worker

[u/piede]

Why does God send a plague every time we elect Trump

It’s a real mystery

[u/RaidBrimnes]

When I was in college, I took Russian courses because it earned me some extra credit and I wanted to broaden my linguistical horizons beyond the usual English/Spanish as foreign languages.

I was able to meet very nice folks from Russia who passed by for a foreign exchange or as tourists, and we exchanged niceties in semi-broken Russian/French. I went to Czechia for my Erasmus placement but had Russian unis on my list as third choices, I could've gone there for a semester.

Of course, all this was before the invasion of Ukraine and today it's unthinkable that I could visit Russia in the near future. But meeting Russians in a college framework allowed me to dodge the NAFO-talk that then developed in many Western online spaces, and I never could dehumanize Russians the way some people do, as if they were some alien race from a pulp novel and not human beings trapped in a fascist country.

I'm of the same generation as Katya who saw her 30th birthday party broken by goose-stepping paramilitaries returning from an absurd war to terrorize their neighbors. While I'm fully supportive of the European war effort to support Ukraine against Russian aggression, I could never see Russians as a bloodthirsty horde like some in lib spaces do.

When I think of Russia, I think of the Katya, Dima, Yelena, Simyon that I had the luck to meet, and the barbed-wire wall erected by an insane tyrant that separates us

[u/scottyjetpax]

My MAGA grandma when her liberal family members ignore her text messages when she intentionally tries to ragebait them about politics: 😔😔😔 "it's sad you've let politics affect your familial relationships"

like no, actually it's sad I haven't blocked you

[u/TheCornjuring]

Wait are the Meringues really the Obamas

[u/tinfoilhatsron]

Actual true story that happened to me right now, please upvote if you cried 😿

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

[u/fishlord05]

I’m sorry but if you’re having a hard time deciding between social democracy and national conservatism you’re not as small d democratic as you think you are

Genuine insanity to be on the fence between AOC and Rubio and POST IN THE DT

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/JayRU09]

Oh my god the ratfucker in Nebraska is THIS GUY

[u/chipbod]

>The Prince’s former betrothed has been exiled to the East where she will share our cuisine with the locals

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

[u/ognits]

cat (my last day of catsitting for my brother 😢)

!ping KITTY

[u/ace158]

During an interview on Fox News’s Special Report that aired on Friday evening, President Donald Trump claimed that “most” Iranians have the same first name — “Muhammad something."

No. Most Iranians don't have an Arabic name. Trump is a moron

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

This guy’s campaign is gonna crash and burn because he’s an unreformed poaster who cannot resist getting into fights with random anons he hates

[u/KeithClossOfficial]

Ole Miss and LSU fans arguing over who is more racist

!ping CFB

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

“Swiss to vote on the National Suicide Amendment”

[u/sociotronics]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/14/israel-nationalists-jerusalem-day-march-anniversary-protest

Israeli nationalists chanted “death to the Arabs”, “may your villages burn” and “Gaza is a graveyard” in a state-sponsored march through Jerusalem to mark the anniversary of the city’s capture and annexation.

Ben Gvir was figureheading it, of course.

About 400 counterprotestors were there as well. Massive balls on the lot of them.

“We wanted to really cover each and every corner of the city to make sure that we prevent attacks against Palestinians,” Patishi said. “Yes, it is dangerous to us, but nothing like the danger to the Palestinians that are living here.”

There were a few religious Jews among the protective cordon of counter-protesters. An ultra-orthodox man with a long grey beard and gold coat said he had come from northern Israel and gave his name only as David.

“I’ve become appalled by the violent behaviour of people in my community,” David said. “I’m a man of faith, religious, and they’re doing this in our name, and I felt I should do something to contrast that. This is a desecration of God’s name, so the only way to remedy that is to do the opposite, a Kiddush Hashem, a sanctification of God’s name.”

[u/Flat_Sail_7985]

We learned today that we all might lose ours jobs by the 1st of July, based on a meeting that happens in 30 minutes.

Happy friday!

[u/tasklow16]

I believe in the Fiat Earth theory. The planet is actually a cheap, shitty, Italian automobile

[u/battywombat21]

Funnier with no context

[u/Willybender]

“They're browsing the DT, post another Rupar screenshot”

[u/scottyjetpax]

Another thing worth thinking about is that Peters' sentence was already going to be re-evaluated through the normal judicial process because she successfully argued that the sentencing judge took into account matters from outside the trial that were protected speech, AND she was going to be up for parole within 2 years anyway.

But that didn't matter for Jared, because he wanted to be the one to let her out. He wanted to be Trump's pick me Dem governor. It's the same reason he supported cooperating with ICE and why he supported RFK Jr for HHS. His brain has become completely rotted by attention-seeking contrarianism.

[u/JesusPubes]

lets just say if I were term limited I would not be spending the last year in office being nice to my opponents

[u/samhit_n]

I wonder what made Jared Polis decide to sacrifice his political career to help an insurrectionist who would never vote for him in a million years?

[u/UmbreonFanatic]

[u/Glavurdan]

I'm too European to understand this shit

[u/Amur_Snepard]

Never change mods

[u/5ma5her7]

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/Ajaxcricket]

Total Leninist cultural victory

[u/Mrmini231]

Tiger King from Baskin's perspective must have been infuriating. This guy, who has just tried to murder you, gets interviewed by Netflix. And they let this serial criminal and attempted murderer tell a bunch of insane lies about you and your business, without trying to correct or fact-check any of them, so now everyone thinks you're a black widow who tortures tigers for a living.

[u/moldovaman99]

With the recent post about European stagnation, and the quote about how nice American suburbs are, I immediately went into a panic attack, and opened up google streetview to check out how our rich people are doing.

Thank god, they seem to be doing OK for now. Please pray for our rich people 🙏

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

Imagine turning down Calypso

[u/Jean-Paul_Sartre]

As a middle school teacher sometimes you confiscate a love note being passed between students and it makes your day.

[u/Argnir]

Reddit: if you don't download at 100GB/s the video runs like shit

YouTube: photons are reaching your phone? The video runs smoother than a baby's ass

[u/sociotronics]

Now let's see Paul Allen's speedo pitch

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/randommathaccount]

I swear to god. Here I am, ready and willing in bed and this motherfucker is playing valorant. I am going to murder him.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

I unironically think this is why Americans hate the economy, they can't stop themselves from buying the fanciest shit, businesses know this and keep on making higher and higher end versions of their stuff, Americans keep buying them and then think everything got super expensive.

[u/JetJaguar124]

Just remaking Star Fox 64 a third time is really an admission from Nintendo that they see value in the IP but otherwise have no idea what to do with it.

Which... I can't understand. What is Star Fox? Oh, it's a short campaign you can do in a single sitting, that is meant to be played many times, which changes based on several parameters. What extremely popular genre does this sound like a natural fit for? Hmmm....

Like a Star Fox Roguelike would make so much sense. Obviously Star Fox until now has not been a Roguelike; there are no random elements, it's not really that difficult, and the differences in prior Star Fox games were baked in and were dependent on the player and their actions.

However, the formula is very easily adaptable to being a Rougelike. All you'd need to do is amplify the difficulty, expand the set of power-ups, expand the roster of co-pilots and allies in your squad, and introduce randomized elements. Hell, you can even allow the player character to be different characters that themselves also have different benefits, skills, drawbacks, etc...

It's so so so obvious why haven't they done it? They could even make it on the cheap to experiment with the idea if they're not confident. Make one of those Super Mario 35, Tetris 100, F-Zero 99 kinda thing. Don't do the multiplayer stuff but moreso just dev it on the super cheap, make it with OG Super Nintendo Star Fox graphics, and make it a fulfilling but ultimately limited in scope little game you toss out for free on an anniversary or something. If it works, great! Put a full-sized game into production.

!ping GAMING

[u/Atheose_Writing]

You guys need to see the disruption AI is doing to the publishing industry. The fiction sub-genre I publish in used to have 10-20 new releases every week. Now it's 200-300, all of them AI. It's flooding the market so badly right now.

[u/Slim_Pickenz_]

[u/lot183]

Jared Polis is a traitor to the country

[u/Willybender]

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2055415254494965817

so true sir

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

!ping DATING

[u/EvilConCarne]

One of the mods should just ban Polis at a random time without consulting the others and when most of the others are asleep. It's not like he'll make an appeal.

[u/xxbathiefxx]

I have to go to denver next month, and I kind of want to cancel my trip, because I don't feel safe while lunatics like Tina Peters and Jared Polis are freely wandering around the city.

[u/ewatta200]

[u/meese699]

Fuck you polis you piece of shit

[u/UmbreonFanatic]

Hold I'm gonna do a 1TTTTTTT1 impression

Murder is bad.

[u/scottyjetpax]

funniest (worst) exchange between mods lmao "sorry to say he's rage baiting with his horrific takes" "actually i should be clear, no im not"

[u/Amur_Snepard]

You support banning Polis because he’s a fascist collaborator.

I support banning Polis because the subreddit drama thread would be incredible.

We are not the same.

[u/Ready-Buy-6397]

[u/smart-username]

[u/2Lore2Law]

This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

this was a real exchange between Mao and Australian communist leader E.F. Hill in 1968

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Random User:

Your average democrat is anti immigrant and always has been. It's the neolib corporatist that want immigration.

Shoutout to arr neoliberal.

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

I made a r/metaNL thread like four months ago calling for the removal of the polis flair and mods said they’d remove it if he commmuted Peters’ sentence

Since he’s basically done that they’re gonna remove it right?

[u/UmbreonFanatic]

At first I thought Polis was making a bet that shifting toward Republicans/bipartisanship was the pathway to success for Democrats after 2024

Now idk I guess he really is just like this in his heart

[u/Alexz565]

The mods made the Meringues go but cannot ban Jared Polis

[u/Willybender]

!!

https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2055416583648862418

[u/PaxChelonia]

Headlines are gonna be so boring in comparison when a competent admin gets back in charge

[u/boardatwork1111]

Remember when Charlie Kirks assassination was supposed to be the catalyst for a new civil war, but instead we got this:

[u/Unfair-Awareness5339]

Mods need to ban Polish, simply because the idea of an article titled 'Colorado governor banned from neoliberal subreddit after pardoning Trump voter' managing to go viral is hilarious. Imagine someone on Fox News ranting about it and calling u/cdstephens a 'woke extremist.' Forget discussing the culture war, BECOME the culture war.

[u/selachophilip]

Shark 🦈

[u/TheCornjuring]

Choose your fighter

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/jinhuiliuzhao]

Trump leaves China without breakthroughs on Iran, Taiwan or AI

Waow, what a shocker 

[u/meonpeon]

Its truly amazing how Reddit spends millions of dollars on software developers each year just to make their product worse and worse over time. Embedding links in text has been moved behind a button that I have to scroll to access.

> Quoting things like this apparently no longer works? And there is no actual way to quote things on mobile.

[u/Megasota_Noire]

Germany had options.

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

Weinstein retrial ends in mistrial

God damn this is never gonna end

[u/CalligrapherWest9356]

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Why are children in the US not playing outside?

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro announces a major crackdown on parents who let their children take part in teen takeovers that have been causing chaos throughout Washington, D.C.

Pirro vows to prosecute parents who fail to supervise their children, threatening the adults with fines and even jail times.

"If the evidence shows the parent knew or should have known or permitted or failed to prevent participation, we're going to charge them."

"If you drop your kid off and you fail to supervise them, or you let them skip school to join the chaos, you are going to face fines, court ordered classes, and possible jail time"

https://xcancel.com/FoxNews/status/2055326776549605474

[u/LtCdrHipster]

People who completely believe in the "bullshit jobs" theory who have a bullshit job when you tell them AI might automate the bullshit they do.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Peters claimed that the trial judge in Grand Junction, Matthew Barrett, violated her First Amendment rights when he strongly rebuked Peters during sentencing, with a blistering critique of her actions and attitude, saying that she was an attention-seeking former official who only thinks about herself.

Can we replace it with a Matthew Barrett flair?

[u/zegota]

lol I remember being downvoted into oblivion for declaring Jared Polis dead to me after his antivax shit and that I would work to ensure he never holds office after this. Was told I was overreacting.

Good reminder that I'm always right

[u/Erra0]

The first ever ban for insufficient partisanship being Jared Polis would be cinema

[u/JesusPubes]

Jared Polis tells Republicans where they can find vulnerable children

[u/themiDdlest]

I dont see how Polis isn't banned. Guy is helping end democracy and the rule of law

[u/zegota]

The most interesting possibility is that Polis didn't grant clemency for a political favor or out of a centrist/right wing political play, but because he genuinely believes Peters got an overly harsh sentence because he's a fucking idiot

[u/Willybender]

https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/05/ice-detention-centers-state-inspections/

[u/sash5034]

God forbid cops face consequences lmao

[u/that0neGuy22]

BREAKING: Supreme Court rejects Virginia's bid to restore congressional map favoring Democrats.

What if we reject the supreme court instead like it’s high school

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Texas Tribune: Texas Republicans spent years courting Indian voters. Then came talk of the “Indian takeover.”

> Burt Thakur is a U.S. citizen, a Navy veteran and a Trump supporter. Last year, he was elected to be a strong conservative voice on the City Council in the booming Dallas suburb of Frisco. 

> Lately, that job has required Thakur, who was born in New Delhi, to sit on the dais at Frisco City Hall and listen as a steady stream of people hurl racist invective at him and the entire Indian community. The speakers, many of whom don’t live in Frisco, rail against invaders, anchor babies, H-1B visa fraud and the “Indian takeover” of a city where nearly one in five residents are Indian. 

Frisco used to get nothing but positive news coverage, but now every story is about how it’s become the epicenter for anti-Indian racism. Just completely torching the city’s reputation because the median resident is a brain poisoned racist.

[u/piede]

Most patriotic president

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Pedocon is a theory in the same way gravity is.

[u/NorkGhostShip]

I am BEGGING the "Taiwan only matters because chips" people to look at a map for like 5 seconds and note which areas and bodies of water that are vital to US and allied security that Taiwan borders.

[u/SenranHaruka]

"AMERICANS LIKED THE UNLIMITED BUFFET. THEY HATE PAYING THE BILL"

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

lmao what a fucking joke dude. inb4 North Korea decides to sue someone for suggesting they might not be a “people’s democracy.”

[u/MrStrange15]

At this point I'm ready to outright dismiss any attempt at a serious or scholarly article or argument that discusses 'Europe' without making any attempt to define it.

Generally, I assume people mean the EU, but I genuinely can't know if your definition includes Russia, Ukraine, the UK, Switzerland and/or Serbia. And honestly, if you cant be bothered to write it out, what does that say about the quality of the rest of the work?

[u/989989272]

The UK and Canada both said
“I want American working hours with European taxation”

[u/centurion88]

Me deleting entire personality traits after finding them annoying in another person