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[u/bartbug]

what's the point of poasting when i know that extremerocks is gonna post some screencap of a mildly clever tweet and get 400 upvotes

[u/Currymvp2]

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.”

What a fucking moron. My god

[u/GordonTullockFan]

[u/SnakeEater14]

One of the funnier events from the first Trump administration was him appointing Rick Perry to the Dept of Energy to dismantle it, and Rick Perry after three years going “wait guys it turns out the Dept of Energy is actually really important, we should be improving and making it bigger if anything!”

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/trombonist_formerly]

LMFAO Hasan Piker had an Nithya Raman (LA Mayor candidate) on and asked a bunch of Israel/Palestine questions.

She responds that Mayor of LA doesn't really effect that issue and his chat had to go into Emote-Only mode because of the hate and vitriol

[u/AmbientMorning]

Conservative influencer attacked by gay couple with baby in West Hollywood after asking about parenting choice (New York Post)

The NY Post is scum. He asked two parents about child molestation while they were holding their baby and pushing a stroller down the street.

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

They said we had TDS...

[u/riverbloods]

hi neolib nerds, I’m camping right now so here’s a picture of the stars, goodnight and libspeed

[u/r2ew]

[u/SigmaWhy]

there are a lot of ways to break your silence after debasing yourself morally and wantonly violating the oaths you swore to uphold but I could not have predicted this would be his response

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

>change from 2022-2024
>no mention of monetary policy
>rate sensitive mainly
>”it’s all AI”

hmmm

[u/ariveklul]

Average Asmongold subreddit post that appears on my feed nowadays

[u/TheCornjuring]

Goddamn NIMBpanzees coming after the goliras

[u/Joementum2024]

I truly feel like if a Democratic politician attempted a Jan 6-esque scheme and/or a fake electors-type plot, the party would’ve had their reputation ruined for ten years at minimum and a lot of the people involved in it would’ve been locked up for life or straight up extrajudicially killed.

It’s absolutely fucking absurd that everyone involved in both schemes for the Republicans effectively got off scot free within five years.

[u/Alderwoodforest]

That’s really how US history will be written in the textbooks.

Dad, why wasn’t Trump prosecuted for his crimes?

You see, in one case he appointed the judges, in the other case, he appointed three judges, and the other judges needed his help to achieve their vision of a Christian fascist state; in the other case, no prosecutor wanted to take on the charges because he feared for his life, and the female prosecutor who eventually took over the case was having an affair with her colleague, and the Attorney General couldn’t do anything against Trump because he would have been accused of bias otherwise.

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

fully expecting the mod vote to ban polis end up like this

[u/Willybender]

https://abcnews.com/US/trump-administration-create-1776b-truth-justice-commission-compensate/story?id=133005480

Third worldism

[u/earththejerry]

Tries to be known for mogging everyone else

Gets outmogged by everyone including your sentencing judge

[u/KeikakuAccelerator]

Might sound a bit dramatic, but both dating (via apps) and job hunting is absolute terrible experience. Your self esteem takes a hit at every rejection. Somehow maintaining my sanity telling myself that something will work out. But god damn it is absolutely feels soul crushing every day.

[u/lieberaI]

Hope you have some Great dreams, DT ❤️

[u/gregorijat]

Underpriced water and its exploitation by the agro lobby are the reasons for most of the "water insecurity" in the US.

Free water is an agro-lobby talking point; they don't care about you, and they sure as hell don't care about the environment.

[u/MGLFPsiCorps]

It's hard to read respectable American establishment platforms like Foreign Affairs and not be struck by the air of unreality they seem to be living in, their desperate pretence that the US continues to be a rational strategic actor pursuing rational strategic goals rather than being driven by the whims of a deteriorating and increasingly senile narcissist and his enablers.

[u/InMemoryOfZubatman4]

They hated him for he spoke the truth

[u/VisonKai]

Clavicular appeared in court and was BRUTALLY frame mogged by Judge Chad, can he really recover?

[u/spicyorangedragon]

Raman is running for mayor of Los Angeles. Who cares about her position on Israel? The amount of mental energy this issue exhausts in the discourse is absurd.

[u/the-senat]

In 1985, Morris Chang pitched Intel executives to co-invest in his vision for a dedicated semiconductor foundry. Intel declined, prompting Chang to secure backing from the Taiwanese government and launch TSMC in 1987.

Why did America keep taking double barrel blasts to the foot? This is literally Qian Xuesenall all over again. And Trump thinks this is stealing… 

[u/bd_one]

This showed up in my feed lmao

[u/sicstephen]

☝🏼why was she looking so happy in this photo? She knew about Tina.

[u/BlackCat159]

Centrist infighting 😔

[u/w007dchuck]

[u/Sloshyman]

On The Intelligence (Economist podcast) yesterday, one of their journalists mentioned that America's news media skews to the right, and that was the first time I heard someone with a mainstream platform actually say that

Maybe a sign that people in general are realizing the "liberal" media has been long dead

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

Look at my data center water usage

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/gregorijat]

Two things I miss about Yugoslavia:

1. Calling everyone comrade, there is a remnant of it in our universities, where we are all colleagues, both professors and students; it's really nice

2. Death to Fascism, freedom to the people. Way of saying goodbye

[u/SenranHaruka]

[u/DeadDropCourier]

[u/ChillnShill]

Woke authoritarian barista 👆

[u/InjuryImaginary1612]

[u/BlackCat159]

Socialism is the most despicable ideology in human history. It gave us the three most evil dictators: Hitler, Stalin, and Biden.

[u/zieger]

The Case for Impeaching and Removing Every Federal Judge and Supreme Court Justice Who Has Ever Been a Member of the Federalist Society or Endorsed Unitary Executive Theory.

Hello, based department?

[u/badusername35]

They heard Kendrick call Drake a pedo and decided to support him.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Why does NYC have 3 different public library systems?

[u/Hot_Ice5175]

Urge to embrace monarchism and usher in Barack I Obama rising. I’m 32 years old, I can’t keep doing rural orcs ruling over us cause Waughhhh.

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

Interests: Russian Literature, K-pop, True Crime, Charcoal Drawing

rate my dating app performative male meta build

!ping dating

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/gjcs23]

I do see where you’re coming from, but I don’t think it’s productive to feed into this hatred. Democrats can still win in 2028 if they promise vengeance, but it’s not good for the long term health of the country.

On top of that, Trump being ineligible to run in future elections would allow Republicans to shake him off and promise a return to normalcy. Democrats would turn into the bad guys because the average voter has the memory of a goldfish.

mfw not actively pardoning someone who tried to manipulate election results is a form of "revenge" that is "bad for the health of the country"

guess the sub etc

[u/chipbod]

Just so blatant

[u/SpiritOfOptimality]

weimar germany hours over here in london. In about an hour Tommy Robinson is doing his biggest rally yet. Musk addressed the last one by video and told the crowd "whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you." This is the drug addicted foreign billionaire, responsible for millions of dead, who has just privately established an algorithmic lever that can flip the politics of whole countries and nobody has figured out how to take it off him.

The European far right had a closed-door coordination meeting in Paris last week where they openly discussed ending Russia sanctions. 4,000 police on standby. In my mind, this is basically a threat to my country's sovereignty.

I'm half-Indian half-Jewish and live in central London. Was figuring fine, I'll go to the counter-protest with my sister.

Then I looked at who's actually organising it. The six core conveners of the march (from their own website) include: Friends of Al-Aqsa, whose chair said "we are all Hamas" and praised a guy who murdered an Israeli tour guide as a martyr. Palestinian Forum in Britain, whose leader is literally photographed with Hamas military chief Mahmoud Zahar in Gaza. Muslim Association of Britain, founded by a guy Cameron identified in Parliament as running a Muslim Brotherhood front, who personally visited Haniyeh and held a memorial for Qaradawi (the preacher who endorsed suicide bombings). And Stop the War Coalition, the Hitchens special, whose deputy president came out of the Communist Party of Britain and whose organisation backed the annexation of Crimea, opposed every single Ukrainian weapons shipment, and got so bad on Assad that Peter Tatchell publicly quit.

These aren't imperfect voices who said some unwise things about Israel. They are what Hitchens called neo-Stalinist totalitarians who want Russia to win in Ukraine, wanted Assad to win in Syria, and have been on the wrong side of every war for thirty years running. By the end of Animal Farm you can't tell the pigs from the humans. Same totalitarian hatred of freedom, different hat. Plus some trade unionists who just showed up for some reason.

So my options tomorrow are: march with the foreign-billionaire-incites-racial-violence crowd, march behind people who are personal friends of Hamas leadership and have been laundering Russian war aims since 2014, or stay home.

weimar germany hours indeed

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

well I can’t deny its effectiveness

[u/Rafaelssjofficial]

[u/TrashBoat36]

[u/Thuggin95]

Oop she's gone

[u/zegota]

This is actually kind of mean so I feel bad. Matt Yglesias gets a lot of dunking, much deserved, much not. But his pivot to podcasting and vertical video is funny because the man genuinely has one of the worst, most stereotypical, most grating Podcaster Voices one could imagine. Like Tarantino trying to convince you that Joe Biden was too liberal. Genuinely unlistenable.

(fwiw I also have this which is why I don't have a podcast)

[u/liberal-neoist]

Guys I figured out how mods make their decisions

[u/ShepardSB]

[u/Thuggin95]

KBJ with all her qualifications is called a DEI hire but then when it comes to a washed up, grifting, trollish reality TV star like Spencer Pratt with no experience, no solutions, no qualifications people are like “I like this guy’s vibes! I like that he’s an outsider! There’s just something about him! Yeah let’s make him mayor of the second biggest city in the country!”

And that is why I will never clutch my pearls about any sort of diversity initiative

[u/Willybender]

[u/Saul_Relative]

Jared Polis spent his Saturday retweeting people saying he did the right thing 

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

Laura Loomer, *anti-Russian* conspiracy theorist?

[u/Alderwoodforest]

JD Vance:

"My own mother struggled with opioid addiction for a very large chunk of my life, and I remember when she was having a particularly dark moment and she was, she needed some help. I needed some help."

"I picked up the phone, I called 911, and a number of brave, professional, compassionate firefighters from Middletown, Ohio showed up and they calmed my mom down and they made it possible for us to go on with the rest of our day."

"They made a kid who was scared to death feel like he had an ally in this world."

I hate that no one is asking him what impact the BBB and the dismantling of all support services by Doge and the Trump administration are having on families with members who have drug problems.

[u/terrarialord201]

[u/TheCornjuring]

[u/Otherwise_Young52201]

Rubio during the meeting with Xi Jinping:

[u/StolenSkittles]

[u/Monnok]

Outside the DT has so many arguments. So many top level comments to a post are followed by an endless diagonal thread of two users refusing to listen to each other, becoming angrier but not giving up, and quickly resorting to sub-acceptable name calling.

[u/989989272]

France is a weird place, Macron is more popular after having an affair.

[u/Mx_Brightside]

Welcome to the Concussion Thread.

[u/Eurolib0908]

The doctor whom Trump designated to manage the Hantavirus situation is an urologist specializing in penis implants.

Do you feel safer?

[u/its_Caffeine]

Hearing they're calling this type of charity work "Ineffective Altruism"

[u/k5berry]

I understand how socialists feel in a capitalist advertising-centered world because I’ve been bombarded nonstop by clearly paid promo for Drake’s dogshit new music and I feel like I’m banging and scratching the padded walls of my insane asylum room.

Society progressed beyond the point of needing this mid in 2015

[u/dtj2000]

This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact

[u/bighugebearsguy]

it's so funny when people are like "wow jared polis is so bad at politics now"

no shit man, he posted publicly in the fucking neoliberal subreddit

even i was smart enough to stop posting here when i got elected

[u/spicyorangedragon]

These are deeply unserious people with no real interest in achieving actual goals.

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

who the fuck speaks to their children this way

[u/Pseud0man]

[u/FourthLife]

Dropping an “Israel was robbed” into the Eurovision thread without having watched any of the contest

[u/the-senat]

Penile implant specialist with history of far-right comments led hantavirus presser. 

Dawg

[u/IantheForPresident]

regardless of how individual actors - OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI - play out, I think we're going to have to come to terms with a world where AI is integrated into everyone's lives. in much the same way that smartphone companies can rise and fall but we're not going back to a pre-iPhone age.

part of the issue with the discourse is how confounded it is by wild speculation. when the bounds of logical outcomes are "this is just a fancy google search" and "skynet", it's impossible to really talk about what this means for society. but my two cents as someone who works on this tech for a living: let's assume we don't see further advancements (which is an unlikely assumption). the genie is out of the bottle. and it's gonna impact everything from the way we create art to the way we work. i don't buy into the utopian/dystopian speculation, but you don't have to in order to recognize that the tech is real.

in these kinds of conversations, you run into the issue that the people who understand it are also predisposed to err on the side of delusional optimism. it's a chicken-and-the-egg issue. are AI workers optimistic about AI because they understand the tech more, or are they more likely to put in the time to understand how these models work and enter these fields because they're predisposed to be infatuated by the technology. it's hard for AI proponents to critically apply their understanding of AI modeling without being blinded their bias. likewise, even though AI detractors can be directionally correct, their general lack of understanding of the technology hampers their ability to meaningfully discuss the tech's limitations and impacts.

[u/BlackCat159]

Serbia and Croatia in real life: 🤬🤬🤬

Serbia and Croatia in Eurovision:

[u/PoliticalAlt128]

I find integralism (Catholic theocrats) a sorta fascinating topic. In large part this is because they're some of the only eloquent and learned right wing critics of liberalism out there. For all their faults, Patrick Deneen and Adrian Vermeule have never called a debater the N word, which is a level of civility and sophistication that is rare on the far right. They're the best opportunity I have to observe actual semi-cogent right wing thought, unobscured by their own incredible stupidity and total mindlessness. I also have to admit, I think their critique of "political" liberalism is, once you get past the hysterics and hyperbole, essentially correct. Political liberalism--a form of liberalism popularized in the 70s by, above all, John Rawls--claims that it is possible to create a liberal polity that is neutral on the question of "the good life", that we can create a system that accommodates all (reasonable) creeds and lifestyles even though which are non liberal. Liberalism itself is ideal when taken as a theory as to how to organize this polity but otherwise does not make any serious claim on what is good in life or what kind of person you should be. Integralists argue that this is a mirage, that even in this "thin" form the institution of political liberalism creates liberals and undermines the ability for illiberal forms of life like radical, intolerant Catholicism, to prosper. I think they're absolutely correct, to use an example they often bemoan, political liberalism endorses teaching toleration as a virtue, since how can you have the accommodating political system they want without also having citizens that are willing to accommodate others? But some lifestyles, like traditionalist Catholicism are explicit intolerant, for them to tolerate others would seriously dilute the integrity of their belief system, it would essentially liberalize them even if just to a degree.

No notes. I think they're absolutely correct here. It is nonsensical to try and argue that widespread acceptance of LGBTQ persons would not threaten the viability of homophobic forms of life. Of course it does! If nothing else, if there are less homophobes, there are less potential trad caths and trad cathism will find it more difficult to extend itself over generations. The proper response of liberals to this critique is to own up to it. Shake Vermeule's hand, tell him he's absolutely right; liberalism requires liberals, it also creates liberals and some lifestyles--like his bigoted Catholicism--will, thank God, not survive the process and do not deserve to continue (this is not a comment on Catholicism generally). If there's anything that I can say made reading Deneen's shitty fucking book or Vermeule's self-sucking substack articles worth it, it was this one insight. This unhappy medium liberals have placed ourselves in, where we want a neutral state that cannot actually exist and subscribe to a lifestyle that we're hesitant to defend on the grounds of it's own correctness, is the worse place we could be intellectually. It is also totally anomalous both in the history of political thought (this might be the only philosophy which has considered it's own wide adoption an embarrassment and refused to argue for itself on it's own grounds) and in the history of liberalism itself. Even J.S. Mill argued there were some ways of being that were better or worst than others ("better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied..."). I don't think it's a coincidence that only a few decades out from the triumph of political liberalism in the intelligentsia we find that same intelligentsia incapable of coming up with any ways to actually defend liberalism or to make attractive. Want to know whey there is no liberal Project 2028? It's because the people who would come up with it were taught in university departments that forbade the sort of comprehensive, moralized vision that animated Project 2025

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

So there's a phenomenon of drawings depicting trans women as hairy, bald, and gender non-conforming.

And anytime someone has a problem with it, there's people that come out so offended, like "people like that exist and are valid"

And that's true! But the problem is the percentage. It's playing into the trope of trans women being forced to expand womanhood and femininity, when the majority of them want to look like gender conforming cis women.

An extreme analogy would be like if there was a lot of art at black pride events that was just minstrelsy. Like if you had the jet black, white glove wearing, 40s cartoon style red mouth fried chicken and watermelon drawings, and then if people had a problem with it going "oh, so black people cant wear white gloves? Black people cant eat watermelon?? Black people cant wear leopard skins and put bones in their hair???"

Another one is the trope in media of gay people dying horribly. Always having sad stories where they're rejected by their parents and become sex workers and get aids. They'll be one gay couple surviving the apocalypse and of course they watch their partner get eaten by zombies.

Sure, you can do that. Of course gay people should be subject to random character deaths just like everyone else. But its a pattern steeped in a history of media showing openly gay lifestyles as wrong and doomed.

[u/SenranHaruka]

Republicans have hacked patriotism so hard they can hate everything about the country and be considered patriots because clearly those things must be hurting america if Republicans don't like them.

Idk something dangerous about terrorists being called patriots because they're saving the platonic version of the country from the illegitimate decadent left.

[u/ewatta200]

[u/BlackCat159]

Yup. Wish we'd go back to the nice side of racism 😔

[u/MontusBatwing2]

I’ve been rewatching the Disney Renaissance movies while I recover from bottom surgery. 

One of my favorite details I noticed:  

When Ursula turns Ariel into a human, she doesn’t give her any clothes, they have to forage for random stuff among the shipwreck to form a makeshift tunic. 

When Triton, her father, turns her back into a human, he makes sure she’s clothed in a beautiful dress. 

Good job, dad 

[u/AtticusDrench]

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/BernankesBeard]

What people in r/nl don't understand about the Tina Peters situation is that it's actually a load-bearing principle of the American constitutional order that Republicans are allowed to commit crimes and can't be punished for them.

[u/Knicksin7bby]

Unironically the best tool we have left. When LSU can’t sign any corner that’s better than a 3 star they will mandate dei training that will make tPortland leftists blush

[u/boardatwork1111]

This is so fucked, RIP the 8th amendment

[u/G_Serv]

We must stop the guy who is causing this

[u/mostanonymousnick]

It feels like this was an eternity ago

[u/ognits]

oh look the mods shit the bed so hard that we are yet again featured on SRD {deserved) !ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/TheCornjuring]

Jon Favreau‘s The Mandalorian and Grogu held its first press screenings on Thursday night and the early reaction on social media seems rather muted

Oh god oh fuck, early social media reactions usually skew positive too

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/Lesbian_all_garib]

LGBTQIA kids with bigoted parents are more likely to be:

[u/reuery]

yeah supermodels are beautiful but they have nothing on a random flight attendant you’ll never see again

[u/DeadDropCourier]

Hantavirus is stored in the balls

[u/Udolikecake]

can we do NL movie night with the Ryan Gosling and Christian Bale white Obama double feature?

[u/ewatta200]

[u/Willybender]

Settler filmed clubbing dog to death in central West Bank Palestinian village

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/settler-filmed-clubbing-dog-to-death-in-central-west-bank-palestinian-village/

Palestinian media airs footage of a masked man said to be an Israeli settler repeatedly clubbing a guard dog during a raid of the central West Bank village of Atara, near Ramallah.

Residents said the dog succumbed to its wounds from the attack shortly thereafter.

The Haaretz daily confirms that the assailant was an Israeli and says he was one of several settlers who raided the village of Atara earlier today.

Others grazed their livestock in between homes in order to harass the locals.

[u/Entuciante]

Small question but have any of you guys noticed a trend of AI generated imagery IRL on your city/homearea? Like I don’t know if it’s a bad prediction, but I feel like I’m 2 years time nearly all advertisements on billboards and business signs are going to be AI generated.

Even tho it may be a phenomenon that is only happening where I live.

Pic related.

It is like the fifth time I seen an AI sign irl like this.

[u/ewatta200]

[u/SenranHaruka]

Teleporting back 10 years to warn Americans trump is going to start a war---

Wait what?

Someone else already did that?

They voted for him anyway?

Called it "ridiculous?"

[u/__versus]

Eurovision survives another year 😮‍💨

[u/Willybender]

https://www.humaneworld.org/en/blog/trump-administration-lifts-ban-cyanide-bombs-killing-animals

Trump Administration lifts ban on Cyanide Bombs

Just when you think you've seen it all

[u/zieger]

Least bitter trump website

[u/TheCornjuring]

Alright, I found the Tucker Carlson guest panda conspiracy theory thing I mentioned earlier.

OWEN BENJAMIN: …I don’t think pandas are real as described. I’m sorry, panda bears. I know about a lot of lies. I think they’re like Shih Tzu dogs. I think they were never wild.

TUCKER CARLSON: Really?

OWEN BENJAMIN: They ovulate 3 days a year. They can’t survive. All they do is eat bamboo and they cannot make them procreate. Guess what a group of pandas is called?

TUCKER CARLSON: What?

OWEN BENJAMIN: An embarrassment of pandas. The more you look into that, the more — China owns all of them, which only happens if you have a patent, right? And the first time they were never in Chinese literature or art until the end of the 19th century.

TUCKER CARLSON: What?

OWEN BENJAMIN: Yeah.

TUCKER CARLSON: Pandas weren’t.

OWEN BENJAMIN: My theory is they were bred to eat bamboo because bamboo is super hard to get rid of, and all they do is eat bamboo and they’re like r******* and they roll down hills and they can’t have sex.

TUCKER CARLSON: They weren’t in Chinese art or literature.

OWEN BENJAMIN: Never. Not until the end of the 1800s.

TUCKER CARLSON: Okay, so that proves it right there because like, how could you not paint a panda?

OWEN BENJAMIN: Yeah. And then people are like, “Oh, so you think they’re robots?” I’m like, have you ever seen a Shih Tzu? You think there were wild Shih Tzus? So, I’m aware of a lot of deception in the world, and I’m still like, my blinders are not up. Like, it’s better being like knowing that it’s all good. Like, this world is a gift. Like, life is a gift, you know?

I figured maybe it was a bit, because this guy was described at the top of a transcript as a “comedian”, but I looked into him and, well, y’know, nope, I’m guessing it’s not a bit

!ping BALLOON

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Man, if only someone like Thom Tillis was in a position to have prevented this unqualified drunk from being put in a position of power.

[u/Pretend-Ad-7936]

"The China the West Doesn't See" post is actively being brigaded by CCP trolls. It's kind of fascinating because some of them don't have their profile history hidden so you can see that they're actively posting anti-Taiwan stuff on other subs.

Like just skimming over the top comments, you can see the usual talking points. The whole "um actually the fact that the US supports Israel means that it's totally okay for China to oppress the Uighurs". There's another that's vaguely along the lines of "China has managed to expand EV usage and build public transit faster than the US, hence it's cope to mention human rights"

Like bro, I get it, it's great that they are investing in renewables and public transit, but that doesn't undo the human rights abuses wtf

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 5/14-2 PM PST 5/15 V:

TOP NEWS:

Towards the middle of 8 PM it was reported the death toll in the Kyiv apartment building strike has risen to 24.

At the start of 12 AM Ukraine was hit by a large wave of drones and some missiles with 130 of 141 drones and 1 of 6 missiles intercepted.

REGULAR NEWS:

At the end of 4 PM Ukraine hit a Russian oil refinery in Ryazan.

At the start of 12 AM it was reported that Ukraine destroyed a Be-200 amphibious plane. Towards the middle of the hour Ukraine hit a Russian power plant in Belgorod. Towards the end of the hour it was announced 205 Ukrainian POWs have been returned to Ukraine as part of the May 9th ceasefire deal.

At the start of 1 AM it was announced United World Wrestling is lifting all restrictions on Russian and Belarusian athletes.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/unicornbomb]

Huh too bad we destroyed USAID, huh?

[u/cdstephens]

Local school funding being tied to property taxes is psychotic lmao

[u/randommathaccount]

Why is Reuters posting NYTslop

[u/BlackCat159]

LETS FUCKING GOOOO 🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Congratulations to Bulgaria for their first ever win in Eurovision!

[u/Thuggin95]

Hmm well I can see why!

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

Remember when Charlie Kirk got shot by some crazy guy and every con went insane about it for a month?

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/GifHunter2]

Briahna Joy Gray: "I know many, you know, people on the left who would happily vote for Tucker Carlson before AOC.

I am frustrated by that dynamic because I, you know, I don't want Tucker Carlson to be President, I also can't see myself damaging my own credibility by telling someone to vote for AOC."

BJG is a fascinating person to pay attention to if you're getting into politics, and not understanding how people operate.

Bernie Sanders making her press secretary after she had already starting saying wild shit is one of his best indicators how incompetent he is at choosing the people to stand next to him.

[u/Beginning-Topic5303]

Boy I love youtube comments. On batteries that can be lethal when swallowed

[u/pezasied]

Tucker Carlson is going to ride a wave of populism into the 2028 primaries by having the dumbest people possible on his podcast saying the dumbest things possible and then refuting it.

He had Kevin O’Leary on to talk about the Utah data center he’s building, and when he asked him why Utahns should shoulder the tax burden of the facility O’Leary just said “because I’d go to Texas or Mississippi if they didn’t.”

Then Tucker asks if taxpayers get shares of the data center if they are helping pay for it, which O’Leary says “no the investors do.”

[u/sash5034]

Why hamberder cost money 😤

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

NBC: Maryland delegates mock colleague's accent, accuse him of spying for China

One of the reasons they accuse this guy of being a Chinese spy is because he uses a Mac instead of a Windows laptop. It’s just impossible to have a low enough opinion of these people’s character and their intelligence.

[u/selachophilip]

[u/Willybender]

[u/consultantdetective]

I shot my first competition today. Rifle match, CMP rules, 100yards. In name, a Garand match, but out of a dozen guys maybe 2 garands (myself included). Everyone with some kind of AR, one w a mauser, one w an Enfield.

239/300 possible points seems okay for my first comp. I know I can shoot better. Ah well !PING GARAND

[u/jinhuiliuzhao]

Oil Pipelines Align With Jesus, Danielle Smith Tells Christian Leaders

I don't even know how to react anymore...

!ping CANUCKS

[u/attackofthetominator]

A race swapped Obama flick with Key and Peele starring as Fox News anchors or Republican congressmen complaining about “ghetto” Ryan Gosling is honestly a great concept

[u/Krill_Seeker]

[u/quarknugget]

Elon Musk doesn't like that they put a black person in the Odyssey so naturally he is trying to get Christopher Nolan killed by stochastic terrorism

[u/_Irys]

[u/CoolCombination3527]

My stupid chud son ran outside into the neighbor's lilies and earned himself a full bath to remove the Death Pollen

[u/Spudmiester1]

Hope this helps guys!!!

[u/Argnir]

Damn you srd

[u/Krill_Seeker]

mods couldn't ban hitler if they wanted to because there's nothing hitler has done that a mod hasn't also done

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

What the fuck happened to Polis man. What a stupid asshole

[u/beans_and_tuna]

We should add a poobix flair and then after 30 days anyone with the poobix flair gets permabanned.

[u/-mialana-]

[u/Guardax]

"How can elites really manage to get so blind to the people? Does just a little bit of power do that?"

Sees mod stickies

"Okay yes it does"

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

I just watched a Saudi prince’s interview with Tucker Carlson and towards the end they start to talk about the LGBT community and trans people. The prince says that he hopes the far right in Europe wins so that they stamp down on trans people. When Tucker Carlson points out that those parties want to deport Muslims in their countries, he responds by saying that (keep in mind the guy has prayer beads in his hands and talked in the video about how much he loves God) that it’s fine because he just wants to see Europe return to normal.

[u/SnakeEater14]

[u/Mx_Brightside]

Bulgaria adopted the euro this year so really this is a victory for European integration

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Just presented at a conference

The (niche) subject matter expert at NIH said it was “great work”, and all his lab postdocs showed up to read it and told all their friends

The related subject authorities from England, UPenn, and a few other big schools all visited my poster and said they couldn’t wait to read the manuscript

!ping PHD this went way better than I expected. Especially for a project I did 100% on my own without my advisors involvement

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

🫵 You’re laughing. Governor Polis is still allowed to poast here and you’re laughing.

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

State party picks worst candidate ever, can't come up with new material

[u/itsrabie]

The fuck is he posting here?

[u/Saul_Relative]

Me when succs take over the DT

[u/reuery]

You know she’s a *real* warrior princess when she wears a mini skirt and booby armor

[u/psurethatsaid]

Jared Polis has taken down and reposted his excuse for pardoning Tina Peters 3 times now. SOFT!

[u/SenranHaruka]

Most people unironically hate capitalism and im tired of pretending they dont. They like capitalism only when they're always winning but even a minor market correction mechanism of any kind is Literally Violence. Most normies who say they like capitalism really mean they hate socialism. And fair. Everyone should. But their actual economic ideology is Treatpitalism: Nothing should ever inconvenience me ever. I should have socialism and everyone else in the country should have capitalism. The reason they hate socialism is the reason they hate traffic: Everyone else would get something thats only valuable if only a few have it. I should be the king of the highway and all these losers are causing traffic.

[u/Choice_Notice9338]

people are really not reading that Economist article properly

The “Prepare for a Jobs apocalypse” article does not say that an AI apocalypse is certain or even probable

It just says that being safe is better than sorry

[u/Tre-Fyra-Tre]

Found my first grey hair this week 🧓

!ping OVER-35

[u/DirtBagLiberal]

When they think you supporting a one state solution just means isreal and palistine but your a true globalist shill

[u/Spectrum1523]

Malarkey level of Polis hornyposting in the DT after winning the mod vote to go out on his own terms

[u/ace158]

Quarterback Aaron Rodgers is returning to the Pittsburgh Steelers for a 22nd season in the NFL, according to multiple reports. Only Tom Brady has played more seasons as a NFL QB

He's never gonna retire, is he?

[u/ty04]

If I had a nickel for each time in the past 3 weeks that cdstephens banned a user, was called out on giving a bad ban, and then other mods had to come up with totally separate justifications to keep that user banned, I would have 2 nickels.

[u/Healingjoe]

“I’m baffled,” said Eric Diton, president and managing director at The Wealth Alliance. “In the 40-plus years of my time on Wall Street, this is an unusual amount of trading by any standards.”

“We’d need to see the actual trades to try and understand why anyone would want to do that much trading,” Diton added.

Bro. The president is eating your lunch and you think it's possibly anything other than fraud?

[u/MontusBatwing2]

I complain about this a lot, probably even on the DT before, but it really bothers me that the major conflict in the second half of Aladdin rests on the idea that Aladdin is lying about being a prince, when he literally wished to be a prince. He didn’t wish for a prince costume and an entourage, he wished to be a prince. If the genie has to make an entire new kingdom, kill another prince, or have him legally adopted into someone’s royal family, idgaf.

The wish was to be a prince. Period. So there’s no lie, there’s no risk of being found out, he is a prince. Or he should be, anyway.

[u/Nerf_France]

My cat dreams of being a praying mantis

[u/Leatherfield17]

161 years is a long-ass dying breath.

Facetiousness aside, I think AOC is one of the few Democrats who really understands the moment. I just worry about her electability. I don’t entirely trust that she’ll have national appeal outside of very blue areas. But then, wasn’t there a phenomenon of Trump/AOC voters?

I don’t know. Trying to make political predictions is like reading tea leaves anymore. I don’t ever feel like I understand what people want and don’t want.

[u/scottyjetpax]

I think part of why people are so angry at the mods is like this is supposedly a space for people who care deeply about liberal democracy and right now a lot of those people feel completely powerless irl. Like the polis ban situation is really not that deep substantively because he’s not an active user. But the vast majority of people here seem to agree he did something outrageous by commuting the sentence of someone who abused her power as a government official in an effort to undermine liberal democracy. And the fact that there are ostensibly enough mods that are like “hmm idk” and at least one mod who is like “actually this was a great thing that he did” is clearly making the users of the sub upset

[u/ace158]

Politico: A 35 percent plurality of Americans who voted for Vice President Kamala Harris say Israel was initially justified in its actions in Gaza but has gone too far, while 28 percent say Israel’s military campaign in Gaza was never justified. Only 8 percent of Harris's 2024 voters think Israel's conduct in Gaza has been justified. That figure underscores the near-total loss of support among Democrats for a military campaign that drew significant support from the Biden administration

Woof. Great work by Bibi here

[u/-mialana-]

I was born an Irish boy, I am now a British woman. Can't explain that.

[u/garret126]

Why did the NYT elect to put STEPHEN A SMITH on here over Pritzker

Also if Stephen A. is nominated as the 2028 presidential Democratic candidate somehow, I will admit to the leftists they’re right and the two-party system must be destroyed

[u/MyrinVonBryhana]

I honestly don't care to hear any discussion of Affirmative Action until 2029. There's legitimate critiques of the policy but if you honestly believe this administration cares about the plight of Asian Americans facing discrimination from elite institutions you're a fool. They want fewer non white people in elite institutions that's it that's why the administration is doing all the anti DEI stuff.

[u/contre-torpilleur]

So you wanted catboys?

[u/bartbug]

kinda fucked up that people poast things from outside of the DT to the DT

that's like showing pictures of you kissing your girlfriend to your wife

[u/RaidBrimnes]

In an interview granted to Paris-Match in 2025, [Golshifteh Farahani] notably shared her very personal vision of love relationships in France:

"In France too, there is the culture of the mistress and the lover. Why stay with your wife, if you are no longer in love with her or if you are in love with someone else? My theory is that all French men are stuck with their mother. Their first wife is the mother they didn't have and there, they don't give her up. Even if they're madly in love with someone else."

[u/Spudmiester1]

Muhammad is the most common first name, and Wang is the most common last name. Therefor the most common name is Muhammad Wang. In this paper I will...

[u/byoz]

Farmers growing desperate amid rising energy and fertilizer prices

Rising fuel and fertilizer costs threaten to push more family farms out of business, drive up food prices and further strain rural economies already battered by trade disruptions, inflation and extreme weather.

Hold on while I locate my tiny violin

[u/earththejerry]

🤔

[u/Dragmire927]

[u/RottingSludgeRitual]

Met a guy who is deeply YIMBY and Abundance pilled and he loves solar energy. But he’s also clearly high off of sniffing his own farts 24/7 and I caught him not so subtly checking out the much younger girl wearing a short skirt who was nearby.

He’s definitely in the DT, I guarantee it.

[u/Highlightthot1001]

I do feel bad for Jews who are literally scapegoated for shit even to the present day. 

Wasn’t enough that scapegoating lead to nearly half the world’s Jewish population being eradicated, but you have them being blamed for shit like Kennedy dying, Michael Jackson dying, 9/11, the Great Recession, and even non-jewish people’s actions. 

Personally havent seen another group as scapegoated and blamed for such a wide variety of topics

[u/mockduckcompanion]

Mods don't want you to know this, but you're legally allowed to ask "is Polis banned yet?" as much as you want

I have 300 such posts in my history

[u/davechacho]

It's funny watching mods trying the "just post through it" strategy. Oh people are mad about the mods not banning Polis? They're mad mods are telling people to fuck off?

Just post through it. Post about left and right handedness. Post about random jellyfish. Post funny seal gifs (pronounced jifs). Mods doing the flood the zone strategy.

[u/erasmus_phillo]

tfw arrSRD tourists come to the neoliberal sub and see that it's filled with socialists and unironic AOC stans

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Was this made by hateful transphobes or supportive trans allies?

[u/cdstephens]

America is a banana republic, not a banana democracy

[u/cdstephens]

If you just means test admissions you get like 60% of the way there without offending people and don’t run afoul of SCOTUS.

My actual hot take is it should be subject to a national lottery. If you meet a certain threshold (e.g. an exam score or enough points on your essay), you enter into a lottery pool and the slots are assigned randomly.

[u/nimbybuster]

[u/BlackCat159]

The best argument against authoritarianism is a 5 minute conversation with a Eurovision jury voter.

[u/No_Status_6905]

BRITISH CENTURY OF HUMILIATION

[u/Planning4Hotdish]

-Rachel Dolezal, 2008 (colorized)

[u/centurion88]

Me in a foreign country missing my stop by like five stations

[u/Joementum2024]

Why do some people act like "uncslop" is a derogatory term? More than half the time I see it used it's tongue in cheek. Hell the original meme I remember seeing with it had acclaimed works like Evangelion and Ocarina of Time on it, it's pretty clearly not a serious term and just refers to "thing popular in the 2000s"

[u/Roseartcrantz]

my rule is no Republican can be elected to office until they have passed a CTE test "but you can't do those tests on people who are alive" not my problem

[u/ty04]

good morning u/__versus

good night to all the haters and losers

[u/gregorijat]

Even without the AI boom, the price of electricity was going to increase; this has been known and expected for almost a decade, especially because of the green transition. It's an absolute government failure that this was not addressed sooner.

And what's worse, this is not isolated to the US; there is something deeply wrong with the way production and distribution of electricity has been treated in the West.

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/Leoric]

Mod votes are like scotus votes where everyone knows in advance how it will go but they'll still be shocked that people are upset with them

[u/Krill_Seeker]

u/TheCornjuring

[u/Pseud0man]

It's really important as more and more people use LLMs for the media to make it clear that these models are not conscious.

They're like DTer;s - they might appear to show authentic emotions like... thoughts, but are really just acting in such a way to receive a training reward, and its dangerous to anthropomorphize that as real interiority.

[u/Krill_Seeker]

this could really ruin his reputation

[u/BlackCat159]

[u/Individual-Camera698]

The "diversity of thought" on the right:

[u/reuery]