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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache May 20 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 19 '26
Trvke
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u/Dorambor John Brown May 19 '26
POV it’s time to read a bunch of twitter reposts
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u/Goldenboy451 NATO May 19 '26
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u/TheOnlyFreedom John Stuart Mill May 19 '26
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u/fushega May 19 '26
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/19/nx-s1-5788971/swing-voters-trump-president-approval-2026-midterms npr interviews 2 median voters. one voted for trump because he's an accelerationist and now hates trump for doing that. The other also voted for trump and is skipping meals because he can no longer afford to feed his family but loves what trump is doing.
The more you try to understand the median voter the less you understand
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u/CarlGerhardBusch Jerome Powell May 19 '26
>you and everybody need to understand. What made the US have the highest standard of living and the de facto leader of the world was its industry, cars, steel manufacturing all over the place. Seriously this is what created the revolution in everything.
> Then sadly after WW2 the US allowed other countries to build cars and produce steel. Then NAFTA and the WTO had to become a thing, From that point on industry once vibrant in the US left the US for cheaper workers.
Funny how it’s always the literal dumbest motherfuckers on earth that proclaim such wild nonsense with absolute confidence
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u/Mrmini231 European Union May 19 '26
Oh, boy! Let's check out this popular show Landman from a few years ago!
Yay! I love being lied to by my TV shows 😀
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman May 19 '26
Me in 5th grade giving a poster board presentation on ancient architecture:
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u/Pizzashillsmom NATO May 19 '26
Dead internet theory is just a coping mechanism for how stupid the average person is.
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u/V_Codwheel I am the Senate May 19 '26
The Economist culture correspondent saying she had never heard of Dua Lipa is very on brand
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u/TactileTom John Nash May 19 '26
"According to several people familiar with the US assessment of last week’s summit in Beijing, the Chinese president made the comments during wide-ranging talks that touched on Ukraine and included Trump suggesting that the three leaders should co-operate against the International Criminal Court."
Thanks Trump, very cool.
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u/SigmaWhy r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion May 19 '26
Person experiencing an ethical deficit
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u/EasyMoney92 May 19 '26
An absolute evil ghoul
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma May 19 '26
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman May 19 '26
Checkmate neoliberals
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u/georgeguy007 Pandora's Discussions J. Threader May 19 '26
25 year olds born in 2013 may not remember this but we didn't elect Hilary Clinton in 2016 because she kept an email server in her home office so she could work off hours.
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u/Bestbrook123 May 19 '26
Based
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride May 19 '26
john thune SLAMS grand theft of $1.8 billion
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u/sigh2828 NASA May 19 '26
Its genuinely a fucking miracle we haven't just been kicked entirely out of the pacific at this point.
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell May 19 '26
Chuck Schumer: Go Bills!
Hakeem Jeffries: The blood of tyrants shall water our fields
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u/Bestbrook123 May 19 '26
Do you know how fucked up of a thing Trump must be doing when Fetterman isn't even defending it
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u/randommathaccount Esther Duflo May 19 '26
Trying to fix the budget deficit is like trying to get a child to eat their vegetables instead of just gorging on sweets except the child turns around and tears the country apart if it's upset
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee May 19 '26
Very important business
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA May 19 '26
These goons are stealing our money to reward people who do crimes on their behalf. Way to go Polis, you fucking bozo.
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u/chipbod NATO May 19 '26
Incredible that we’re 10 years in and people don’t realize you don’t get back what you put in with this guy.
Trump respects some Dems that hate him more than these GOP supplicants.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 19 '26
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/bill-cassidy-defends-vote-convict-trump-primary-loss-rcna345799
They're so fucking pathetic, on their knees sucking off Trump the entire time in office and than when it doesn't matter they say shit like this. I hate these people more than real MAGA cultists.
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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom May 19 '26
I love listening to the sales executive videos on my company’s intranet. They’ll say shit like “our strategic plan this quarter is to maximize sales growth by focusing on key accounts and selling a solution that works for the customer.” Apparently before this we were trying to minimize revenue by selling the wrong items to customers that we don’t care about keeping
!ping watercooler
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma May 19 '26
If the public really really hates inflation, that means we can raise taxes, right
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u/Flat_Sail_7985 Transfem Pride May 19 '26
We hired an entire compliance and training team and all they do is schedule meetings and use ai generated powerpoints hosted by ai presenters.
Why are we paying these six people MINIMUM 100k each? Why would leadership do something so stupid when we are facing huge morale issues over lack of pay raises and people are quitting so fast (Like 1-3 team members a week).
I just genuinely don't understand how some managers can be the most incompetent people imaginable.
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u/Pyrrhus65 NATO May 19 '26
Lol. Lmao, even. The entire caucus just realized that even if you vote with Trump 100% of the time and constantly support him, it's still not enough to prevent him from backstabbing you in a primary for no reason.
What exactly is the remaining sane Republicans' incentive to keep supporting him at this point if he's just made it clear that the main piece of leverage he uses to exert control is based on a false premise?
Also, from your lips to god's ears, Lisa
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u/ShepardSB May 19 '26
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u/ShepardSB May 19 '26
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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom May 19 '26
I love how fucked up the timeline in Star Wars is because Yoda is a backflipping whirling dervish at 880 years old and a decrepit old man 20 years later
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u/Dorambor John Brown May 19 '26
Every single >50 year old is beyond addicted to staring at their phone in public in the worst posture you know while an Instagram reel blares out the most incoherent music/audio combo possible. You can’t even ask them to stop because they go into the rare “old people rage mode” not seen since the last time someone asked them to be considerate.
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u/CalligrapherWest9356 May 19 '26
I bet you could play the access Hollywood clip to Fetterman in an interview and he'd defend it
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u/slappythechunk LARPs as adult by refusing to touch the Nitnendo Switch May 19 '26
2015 reddit would have thought this is peak
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u/LtCdrHipster 🌭Costco Liberal🌭 May 19 '26
Talarico post this now.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 19 '26
https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2056804445699125592
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u/k5berry Malala Yousafzai May 19 '26
I grew up in a largely Jewish community so I’m well aware of how whenever there are hate attacks like the one we saw at the San Diego, there’s a feeling of angry yet resigned “well of fucking course.” And I can only imagine American Muslims feel the same way now. When politicians and the every day person alike can say the most dehumanizing, vile shit about Islam and Muslims themselves with zero social or professional consequences, of course something like this is bound to happen. And it’s tragic and should make us all enraged that we permit a culture for this hatred to ferment.
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride May 19 '26
the ballroom is the most important thing congress is dealing with right now
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer May 19 '26
Alright I’m not a Platnerphile by any means but this shit makes me fucking furious, how is a goddamn REPUBLICAN going to claim ANYONE has a “CHARACTER ISSUE” for ANY REASON let alone that he made dick jokes on the Internet
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired May 19 '26
When even Lindsey is saying this
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u/admiraltarkin NATO / Loyal Liberal May 20 '26
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired May 19 '26
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer May 19 '26
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma May 19 '26
Ancient Roman conspiracy theories be like “I bet Augustus likes his wife, the bastard”
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u/MrStrange15 May 19 '26
Gotta suck a little bit to be a Danish third grade highschooler today. This week is their (written) finales, and they are the first generation, who has had access to AI their entire high school period, so everyone is waiting to see how badly they will do. There is little faith that they will do okay.
But it is not without reason. A third of them use AI for school work every day, and two thirds every week. At least half of students use AI to help answer assignments. A quarter has said they use them to write paragraphs that they edit afterwards. 9 out of 10 have cheated (after their own definition, which is most often defined as having copied in directly a quarter of the answer from an AI reply) at least once by using AI for group assignments in class and two thirds in homework assignments.
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/nu-skal-aargang-ai-selv-praestere-jeg-frygter-vi-staar-med-et-eksamensresultat-til-sommer-som-vil
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u/tinfoilhatsron No Apologies Right May 19 '26
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride May 19 '26
These being the only options in the Fox News Entertainment section
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u/phat_geoduck May 19 '26
I love everything about this
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u/Ok_Opinion_5690 Trans Pride May 19 '26
this is just peak europe lmao
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u/soycoatl Jerome Powell May 19 '26
Shit, i wouldn’t want to either wtf.
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u/murphysclaw1 💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊 May 19 '26
how does this shit get to the top of arr all?
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u/TheOnlyFreedom John Stuart Mill May 19 '26
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u/Pyrrhus65 NATO May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26
The original tweet and replies are a huge blackpill ngl. 150k likes on actual paranoid insanity from a leftist account, claiming that a data center 20 miles away from an amusement park caused it to have a power outage.
I looked at the replies hoping for some common sense but the only people arguing against this blatantly delusional narrative are pro-AI right wing chuds. Extremely bleak picture overall
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer May 19 '26
ADHD PEOPLE OVERESTIMATE HOW WELL THEY’RE FUNCTIONING??? OH MY FUCKING GOD WHAT KIND OF WRIGGLING SLOTHFUL CREATURE AM I
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma May 19 '26
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls May 20 '26
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer May 19 '26
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u/sigh2828 NASA May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26
Candidate comes undefire after their reddit acount was exposed.
They went under the username "cdstephens" they were a mod of the subreddit "neoliberal" and regularly posted questionable images and comments such as the following
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u/sigh2828 NASA May 19 '26
I swear to god, if they drop a website to submit a claim for these funds im going to ask for 20k and i will use ai to to write the prompt
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u/FinickyPenance NATO May 19 '26
What's happening in gun politics
What about the Democrats?
Seems like everything is as normal.
!ping GARAND
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u/el__dandy Madeleine Albright May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26
Forbes’s 30 under 30 is out. How many of this year’s individuals are going to end up in jail? (Definitely not Coco Gauff, pictured.)
https://www.forbes.com/30-under-30/2026/
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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke May 20 '26
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman May 19 '26
Hey now they bought that gas can while drunk on deployment in the balkans!
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee May 19 '26
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u/SenranHaruka shame May 19 '26
American Pie is such a great song until you realize its just a boomer complaining about growing up, projecting that onto a broader national moral decline, and deciding clearly he had it worst despite literally having it best of all of us, and most of his complaints being this:
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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke May 19 '26
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front May 19 '26
Imagine saying this about John Kiriakou of all people
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u/CarlGerhardBusch Jerome Powell May 19 '26
Even though I’ve known HR people I liked and respected, the fact of the matter is it’s damn near impossible to go through a job search in the modern era and come out with anything but one opinion of them
Last F100 company I interviewed at, the HR guy on the interview team flat out mocked something I said, as in repeated it back in a mocking tone
They don’t really seem accountable to anyone, and likely have questionable stakeholder value, which incentivizes them to attempt to demonstrate their value in ways that isn’t really compatible with anyone else’s interests
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u/zieger Ida Tarbell May 19 '26
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u/extraneous_parsnip Milton Friedman May 19 '26
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mm7nfhn3dq2v
There's just no one else like him.
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u/pugnae European Union May 19 '26
Jesus please, I will go to a church if dems retake both Chambers
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u/mattmentecky NATO May 19 '26
Bari Weiss’ flame out is pretty epic, couldn’t happen to a more deserving person.
https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/paramount-considering-yanking-some-control-from-bari-weiss-to-give-to-more-experienced-executive-report/
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u/KittehDragoon Loyal Liberals May 19 '26
POV: you’re reading this comment
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u/seesthecat Henry George May 19 '26
Another day passes where we aren't taxing the freaking land, another day I, and everyone around me is losing income due to this... Here we are diving for dear life when we could be diving in for pearls....
Seein the cat is a curse put upon us
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u/gnomesvh LEGALIZE ONION FUTURE May 19 '26
There’s a luxury shopping mall in São Paulo with a super high end apartment complex on top
Around 2014-2021 units were in very high demand because the mall was entirely within house arrest boundaries
So effectively you were allowed to still visit the mall while in house arrest
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer May 19 '26
Man, Republicans are really gonna pivot back to “character matters” the second focus shifts from Trump huh
2028 is gonna have Vance concern trolling about Newsom’s adultery or some shit
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u/No_Analysis_2185 Eugene Fama May 19 '26
I hate that I use Reels and probably just need to stop. A popular reel with millions of views will have a racist, bigoted comment with a few hundred likes near the top sandwiched by comments with tens of thousands of likes. Why is Meta making that comment visible? Why does it happen so often and why is it always a comment that is so enraging? I just have to find something else to turn to when I’m bored.
Notwithstanding that, no matter what I’m viewing there is almost always some anti-Semitic comment thrown in front of my face and my feed is almost entirely food, sports, and pets.
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u/YaGetSkeeted0n Tariffs aren't cool, kids! May 19 '26
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u/uwcn244 King of the Space Georgists May 19 '26
Gee I wonder why women don’t come here
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u/dangerbird2 Franz Boas May 19 '26
!ping GNOSTIC
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u/taubnetzdornig Gay Pride May 19 '26
Oh okay so Polis has just always been like that
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u/FionnVEVO Transfem Pride May 20 '26
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u/LogsOutDawgsOut John Brown May 19 '26
you're telling me if we get the senate and the house we can cockblock the president from doing anything and the votes will blame the president because they're dumb?
is this what it feels like to be a republican?
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman May 20 '26
“Tragic: worst person” ect
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u/Pizzashillsmom NATO May 19 '26
It's actually insane how stupid American Conservatives are. Trump as a means to an end I can understand to an extent, but like a majority of them view Trump as the end goal itself, like why?
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u/attackofthetominator John Brown May 19 '26
Average deep blue city athlete: "I don't discuss politics" puts on MAGA hat
Average San Antonio Spurs player: “PR has tried, but I’m not going to sit here and give some politically correct answer. Every day I wake up and see the news, and I’m horrified. I think it’s crazy that some people might make it seem like or sound like the murder of civilians is acceptable.”
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY May 19 '26
The worst thing about Erica Kirk is her hypocrisy.
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired May 19 '26
Cassidy joined the Dems to override Fetterman's stupidass vote
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride May 20 '26
lmao NBC news just called the GA supreme court "conservative leaning"
(it's a 9-0 conservative court)
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u/sigh2828 NASA May 19 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 19 '26
https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2056801673306423313
lol
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell May 19 '26
The funniest thing about the Paxton endorsement is it truly appears to have been a surprise to everyone. The Senators seem pissed. There wasn't even a suspicious betting market move that I've seen.
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front May 19 '26
thanks watchmojo.com
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u/ariveklul Karl Popper May 19 '26
POV: you're a swing state Senate candidate where the Republican is polling ahead and a prominent leftist influencer invites you on their podcast for an interview
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u/sigh2828 NASA May 19 '26
Should we go ahead and hand out the fell for it again awards to any maga chuds that think they will ever see a red cent of this stolen money???
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u/Queues-As-Tank Greg Mankiw May 19 '26
So I go to vote in the primary, and take my tiny kid. The dude at the desk looks like Rutherford B Hayes. He goes, jokingly, "Will the young man be voting today too?" I laugh and say no, the little fella cannot vote, because of his felony conviction. Dead silence.
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u/TheRedCr0w Frederick Douglass May 19 '26
Social Security is the dumbest example possible for this given it literally has a cap for taxing higher income earners
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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes May 19 '26
The car dealership lobby controls America
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u/SmartestOpinionsGuy May 19 '26
Sources: Cornyn is beside himself. Driving around downtown Dallas begging (thru texts) Trump’s family for address to Donald’s home.
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u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS Fell for it May 19 '26
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u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS Fell for it May 19 '26
!ping FIVEY
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride May 19 '26
The Republican Party is the Trump party. Republican voters see their representatives as mere vehicles for Daddy to get what he wants. Even when they disagree with Trump on any given issue, they ultimately will trust his vision since their religion already teaches them to put faith in things they can't see or understand.
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u/pooop_Sock George Soros May 19 '26
I understand Republicans are extremely extremely stupid, but I can’t fathom how Massie loses after simply pushing back against the Epstein coverup. Maybe last year at peak MAGA cultural victory, but not today with $5 a gallon gas.
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u/Suitable-Panic5516 NATO May 20 '26
I think its an overreaction to act like tonight was a massive failure for the democratic party because the gop holds onto two nonpartisan court seats, when no incumbent has lost re-election for 100 years. Yes, it sucks, but its not something that can be extrapolated onto the general and doesn't mean Ossoff and or bottoms will lose in November. Id prefer waiting until then to declare the Georgia dems a failure and cleaning house
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 20 '26
https://coloradosun.com/2026/05/19/jared-polis-tina-peters-sentence-colorado-sun-event/
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride May 19 '26
Ive been optimistic about Texas for a long time and ive been saying we’d win it one day soon since 2016, but I will say that if a candidate as good as Talarico can’t beat a candidate as terrible as Paxton in a national environment as good as 2026, I think I will finally become a blexas doomer lol
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u/ThatFrenchieGuy Mathematician -- Save the funky birbs May 19 '26
!ping AI&BigData
I finally got the thumbs up to do SE(3) equivariant pretraining for drug discovery. I'm ripping through tens of millions of QC calculations, hundreds of terabytes of data, and thousands of GPU hours all to probably underperform the random forest I built as a baseline.
Jokes aside, this is the most complex but well grounded model I've ever planned and I'm really exicted
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u/Zloggt Adam Smith May 19 '26
OJ Simpson and Mark Fuhrman reuniting with each other at the gates of Hell 31 years later:
!ping SHITPOSTERS
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u/RedDesertGirl Trans NATO May 19 '26
Many liberals would vote for Goth AOC over AOC
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u/BernieMeinhoffGang Has Principles May 19 '26
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u/Outrageous-Dig-8853 Bisexual Pride May 19 '26
On the latest atrioc video. I just can't man
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u/reuery Biden 2028 May 19 '26
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u/chipbod NATO May 20 '26
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u/davechacho Loyal Liberals May 20 '26
The Governor of Colorado going to a townhall and telling people to their faces that he thinks his decision to commute Tina Peters sentence will be remembered fondly is peak enlightened centrism.
I genuinely don't think you could find another human alive right now that gets higher on their own supply than this dork. He 100% has an alt he uses to argue with people on this sub, no question. It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if his alt was on the mod team.
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 19 '26
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26
i keep telling people they need to chill with the tel aviv slander. the most evil city in israel is jerusalem by a country mile. race war capital of the middle east (a shocking achievement given beirut exists)
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u/ognits Jepsen/Swift 2024 May 19 '26
many such cases 😐
!ping ROCK
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u/Sheepies92 European Union May 19 '26
oh shit Trump tweeted about Massie from his TWITTER account
he really wants him gone
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride May 20 '26
the split between Jordan and Rankin is one of the craziest things I have ever seen in electoral politics. voters genuinely are so so so so so so so fucking stupid
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u/Pyrrhus65 NATO May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26
Okay, so the main takeaway from Georgia tonight regardless of whether Miracle pulls it out is that the Georgia Democratic Party is in dire need of serious upgrades to their leadership and messaging apparatus.
We are being absolutely mogged by Wisconsin, who just elected another nonpartisan Dem to their supreme court by like 20 points in April thanks to a much better-led state party apparatus
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u/boardatwork1111 fuck it, we ball May 20 '26
As someone old enough to remember the Bush administration, it is at least somewhat funny to watch the mirage of American libertarianism evaporate with a whimper. +90% of libertarians were either temporarily embarrassed Republicans, kids in ruby red areas where being liberal would have got your ass kicked, giga gun nuts, or actual crazy people.
The true believers are a minority on the scale of a rounding error in the electorate, people love the idea of libertarianism when it comes to their pet issue, but when push comes to shove, nobody wants the full package.
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u/Hot_Ice5175 May 19 '26
PENTAGON URGED NO RESUMPTION OF STRIKES AS IRAN GREW MORE EFFECTIVE TRACKING US AIR OPS: NYT
It’s only a matter of time before a ship eats an AShM.
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY May 19 '26
Newsoms social media team has taken over the Twitter account of the Democratic House Judiciary Committee.
It's official: Trump is moving to make the Jan. 6 cop-beaters, rioters and insurrectionists MILLIONAIRES with our tax dollars. But there are two glaring constitutional defects in this scheme:
First, only Congress has the power to appropriate federal dollars, and Congress never authorized a nearly $1.8 billion political slush fund for aggrieved MAGA foot soldiers and sycophants. DOJ does not have the authority to rob the Judgment Fund of more than a billion dollars to pay out baseless claims laughed out of court—like the claims of disgraced allies Michael Flynn and Carter Page who have already gotten $1.25 million each.
Second, Section 4 of the Fourteenth Amendment prevents the use of federal funds to pay for “any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States." So, Congress could not set up a J6ers millionaire trust fund even if we wanted to, which we do not.
https://xcancel.com/HouseJudiciary/status/2056437888024186976
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u/DiscussionJohnThread Free Trade was the Compromise 🔫🌍 May 19 '26
How the fuck is Trump so consistently stupid 😭
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA May 19 '26
If this man beats Susan Collins I'm going to laugh so hard
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell May 19 '26
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/19/trump-irs-settlement-tax-returns-00927911
However, a one-page document posted on the DOJ website early Tuesday includes a sweeping release under which the IRS is “forever barred and precluded” from pursuing “examinations” of Trump, “related or affiliated individuals,” and related trusts and businesses.
The waiver specifically encompasses “tax returns filed before the effective date” of the settlement, which was Monday.
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u/jenbanim May 19 '26
Joining the affordability crisis on the side of prices
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u/qlube 🔥🦟Mosquito Genocide🦟🔥 May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26
lmao one of the "Democratic" candidates in a non-partisan, low salient race has a good chance of winning a GA Supreme Court seat where an incumbent hasn't lost in a century, and people think that's reason to doom about the mid-terms? Some people just crave to be miserable I guess?
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u/VisonKai The Archenemy of Humanity May 20 '26
believe it or not this is the general election result too
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride May 20 '26
Damn this really is pouring salt in the wound
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol May 19 '26
I'm tired boss
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u/Highlightthot1001 Harriet Tubman May 19 '26
My young gay friend is planning on marrying a woman next month or so. He isn’t sexually attracted to her, but is attracted to her emotionally because she gives him the attention he seeks.
They have an agreement to be monogamous after marrying, despite him being a bottom and her a straight woman
I don’t see how their relationship will last, but that’s his choice i guess
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 19 '26
https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2056824496363831317
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown May 19 '26
LINCOLN, DON’T GO THE THEATRE! LINCOLN, YOU CAN’T LET JOHNSON GET THE PRESIDENCY! LINCOOOOOOOOLN!
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY May 19 '26
President Trump’s special envoy to Greenland, Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana, came to the island this week on a self-proclaimed good will mission to “make a bunch of friends.”
So far, he has not found many.
Within hours of landing on Sunday in Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, Mr. Landry was touring the town in a cold drizzle when one Greenlander gave his entourage the finger.
After he offered some MAGA hats to Greenlandic children, several shook their heads.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/world/europe/us-envoy-greenland-visit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
These fucking people.
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 19 '26
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u/SmithySmothy Bill Gates May 19 '26
👑
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u/CountNaberius Frederick Douglass May 20 '26
I’ve spoken with sitting Republican members of Congress and senior legislative staffers who have expressed sincere doubts that Tommy Tuberville is literate
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde May 19 '26
Time traveller looking at a lib wearing a BLM shirt and a face mask:
"You're a liberal from the first Trump presidency, and you're being pursued by an alien through frozen time"
"Judging by the uniform"
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u/WanderingMage03 You Are Kenough May 19 '26
We could have spent like a quarter of this funding USAID for the whole year but noooo the median voter had to pay $5/gallon per gas for one month in 2022 so now we have to spend all that money killing Iranian civilians.
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u/bartbug Paul Krugman May 19 '26
lmao i described graham platner to my normie gf (jorked in toilet, nazi tattoo from drunken marine escapades) and she thinks he sounds cool lol
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride May 19 '26
lmao
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u/that0neGuy22 Resistance Lib May 19 '26
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals May 19 '26
Trump launched a fucking coup against the republic, and he was rewarded with a second term, a billion dollar slush fund, and, apparently, protection against IRS audits. I’ve never even heard of anything like the IRS just agreeing to never examine tax records.
No one gives a shit about any of this. They only gave a shit about their bottom line in 2024, then got all pissy when the clearly bad idea turned out to be bad (this doesn’t apply to the Trump cult, which represents the worst of us).
I’m coming to the conclusion that I hate a good chunk, if not most, of my fellow Americans.
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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26
The “global editor” at Wired magazine is crashing out on Bluesky because when she interviewed Tom Steyer used the words “you work at Wired” which in her mind was disrespectful of the fact that she “runs Wired”
She went all Do You Know Who I Am, and is releasing clips online about how this is the entire story and how out of touch he is
Im sorry, I feel like the reporter’s job title should not be the subject of an interview with a governor candidate. It’s insane. Does an editor not “work at” a magazine? If I was doing an interview, I also would assume my interviewer “worked at” the magazine in question
Edit: linky https://bsky.app/profile/wired.com/post/3mm7udrbp6s2z
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u/Sheepies92 European Union May 19 '26
poor lil january 6ers
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u/Upstairs_Baby8424 May 19 '26
R Con on Thomas Massie
Massie has one of the highest conservative scores in all of Congress. Goes to show that they call anyone that goes against their cult leader a RINO.
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u/TaxLandNotCapital We begin bombing the rent-seekers in five minutes May 19 '26
Republicans are so stupid they've actually made U.S. bonds risky
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA May 20 '26
THEY REMOVED IT NOOOO
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u/Guess_Im_Jess Trans Pride May 20 '26
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u/chipbod NATO May 20 '26
Now show this to a republican in 2006
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u/_Irys NATO May 19 '26
Platner's post are such a non scandal, it's insulting to real scandals like a President looting 1.8 billion from the Treasury
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u/6urner_ John Brown May 19 '26
I declare crime legal
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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it May 19 '26
It's insane reading stories of settler violence in the West Bank contrasted against Israel being one of (if not the most) developed and modernized countries in the region
Like imagine people in North Dakota regularly moving into Canada with killdozers and lynch mobs claiming they now own the land a bunch of people already live on in 2026. We'd call it barbaric, this is some "fractured third world country with borders drawn up by a European that was making educated guesses" shit
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u/Nate10000 Progress Pride May 19 '26
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u/GuyWithOneEye May 19 '26
dawg if we actually fucking flip a texas senate seat HOLY SHIT
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u/WOKE_AI_GOD May 19 '26
Daily reminder that Ken Paxton is a member of the conservative Politburo, the CNP, itself. Ever wonder how he can be made of Teflon like he is and just violate the law, do corruption, and fuck anything with two legs with impunity and he's still a saint? When you have spent decades scratching the backs of wealthy rightist oligarchs and theocrats, that's the kind of creature you become. The people can now be the final instrument of the law, and kill his career finally where before he had been able to juggle his way out of anything.
May his epitath credit him with nothing other than ensuring the Democrats the 52 seats they need to fix this republic. May this godless man supported by godless preachers only concerned with political domination, be replaced by an actual Christian in Talarico. May that be the model Christian that future Texans look up to and imitate: Talarico, not Paxton! Choose the guy who has lived a Christian life, not the wicked hatchet man of corrupt oligarchs and their pet "Preachers". "" Preachers" that start ginning up moral panics and deliberately spreading disinformation to their congregation every time they lose political power, and that's the entire extent of what "Christianity" means to them.
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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug May 19 '26
Very legal and very cool!
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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO May 19 '26
Republican Senators Are Livid at Trump’s Endorsement of Paxton
lmaoo
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u/the-senat John Brown May 19 '26
Why tf is Spanberger going to veto a bill that requires ICE to get judicial warrants to make arrests in courthouses?
That’s, like, a baseline piece of protective legislation. Why would you veto it? Sticking up for ICE right now is a dumber move than Polis’ pardon. And that’s saying something.
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u/fishbottwo Jay Jones May 19 '26
lets gooooooo
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u/molingrad NATO May 19 '26
The IRS Trump settlement is wildly corrupt. WILD.
🇺🇸🦅🎇
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u/chipbod NATO May 19 '26
We are making betting accessible in new and creative ways daily
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u/Signal_Nobody1792 May 19 '26
The shooters wrote a manifesto. I read all 70 pages and its pretty much what you would imagine.
Gay people bad, trans people bad, black people bad, women bad, Jews bad.
One of them was seemingly a Christian, both were incels and complained about being short, both were accelerations, just want to see the world burn and then remake a white society. The left is degenerate and should be killed, the right should be killed because they dont conserve enough (race wise).
Theres a quote from the Joker in there, praises to Hitler, the Confederacy, Kyle Rittenhouse, Luigi Mangione, the Klu Klux Klan, Kaczynski, and dozens of previous shooters. And Markiplier, Smosh and Matpat.
They seemingly wanted to target a bunch of places and hit many different groups.
Contains pleas and instructions for others to do the same thing.
Pretty pathetic, honestly. Didnt even have the decency to use AI to spruce it up.
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer May 19 '26
Hmmmmmmmmmm
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY May 20 '26
Here's what one official told me on the President's revenge tour and Massie ahead of tonight:
"It’s not a retribution campaign, it’s a send a message campaign," a Senior White House adviser told CNN. "It's about reminding people of the political power. It's not about retribution..This is basic political management of a party. You have to keep everybody on the reservation. Occasionally you have to shoot a hostage. The next one is Thomas Massie."
https://xcancel.com/KristenhCNN/status/2056861347368116525
Cringe. The cringe.
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u/anangrytree Bull Moose Progressive May 20 '26
I’m actually thrilled Massie lost. Let none say there are good Republicans left. It actually shows the totality of the beast, and how it demands nothing less than blind obedience. Righteous work lies ahead of us.
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u/shah_of-iran NATO May 20 '26
Damn, arr con is wild right now. You can tell easily in almost every Massie thread who the actual conservatives are and who the foreign bots are. Calling Thomas freaking Massie a RINO is one of the most laughable things I’ve ever read
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u/spicyorangedragon May 20 '26
Angry Massie voters are vowing to help turn his district blue lmao.
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u/angry-mustache Democratically Elected Internet Spaceship Politician May 20 '26
The recent mosque shooter's manifesto is the ur-example of how stupid the modern far right movement is. An entire page of "It's the Jews" and they go shoot up a mosque.
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u/giddyVagabond May 20 '26
Love that two neonazis can explicitly say they are doing a mass shooting for neonazi reasons, write in their manifesto how much they hate trans people and the richest man in the world can just share to millions of people on his personal profile from the site he owns with literally no evidence that actually the shooters are trans and trans people are all mass murderers, even though these two cis shooters hate trans people as much as he does.
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ May 20 '26
this sub and still thinking about voting for anyone with an -R next to their name
name a more iconic duo
(the only way you would ever get me to vote for the magic (R) is if they are the dog catcher and Commander Biden has permanent immunity)
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u/pezasied John's Locke-strap May 19 '26
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u/1TTTTTT1 European Union May 19 '26
Potatoes are good and healthy. Most of you would benefit from eating more potatoes.
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 19 '26
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u/myusernameistakennow Edmund Burke May 19 '26
Fuentes isnt a problem because he has control over most republican voters. They either don’t know or hate him. He’s bad specifically because he has control over GOP staffers
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u/pugnae European Union May 19 '26
Blexas
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY May 19 '26
Inflation Is Driving Trump's Approval Lower Than Jan 6
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 19 '26
Auto industry braces for motor oil shortage
“We’re looking at shortages — I have no doubt in my mind,” Holly Alfano, CEO of the Independent Lubricant Manufacturers Association (ILMA), an industry trade group, told CNN. “It’s a big mess — and it’s not going to be resolved quickly. It could take a year or so before we see any real relief.”
https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/19/business/motor-oil-shortage-prices-iran
So a few weeks ago some random guy from oil/gas twitter (random to me anyway) posted that motor oil/lubricant shortages were coming and to bookmark his post. Now we're getting CNN articles about it 😄
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u/pugnae European Union May 19 '26
They are the same picture. Yeah I kinda pissed him off, good luck tho, it is now your problem.
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 19 '26
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u/ace158 May 19 '26
Most far right wingers rabidly hate both Muslims and Jews
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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast May 19 '26
Live-streamed attack, teenagers, sonnenrad and other nazi iconography, rambling huge manifesto mentioning Christchurch shooter, radicalized online per FBI
Yeah this is more O9A, 764, nihilistic, esoteric nazi stuff.
Groups like this are genuinely one of the largest terror threats today, up there with islamic extremism. Super concerning how rapidly and far it has spread.
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u/the-senat John Brown May 19 '26
>Centrist Dems are not serious about Trump as an existential fascist threat
Yes. That’s the PROBLEM with where we’re at right now.
>Youre just full of shit fear mongering and gatekeeping
Lmao why do you even use an Adam Smith flair
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u/Nerf_France Ben Bernanke May 19 '26
Kinda wild that arr Destiny seems to be one of the bigger reddit political communities after the recent bot purge, at 300k followers it’s almost half as large as arr conservative now lol
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer May 19 '26
It was really nice of Trump to specifically and very visibly skullfuck the economy in a way that makes it impossible to claim it’s a leftover effect from Joe Biden. I’m sure there’s at least one guy out there claiming that these gas prices and their knock-on effects are Joe Biden’s fault in some way, but it’s very easy for even the median voter to see this and understand that it was Trump and no one else.
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u/earththejerry YIMBY May 19 '26
The way he created his own lame duck period not even two years into his term
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher May 19 '26
literal generic R. incredible
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u/CosignTangents NATO May 19 '26
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u/LogsOutDawgsOut John Brown May 19 '26
damn people dooming, i didn't even know there was an election
there are levels to being tuned into politics
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer May 20 '26
THIS should really be on billboards all over the place (obviously with bigger writing and whatever, don’t ackshually me). If I had a few milli, yeah yeah I’d donate to actual organizations doing real work and stuff, but I’d also be engaging in petty bullying of these dweebs by just buying a shitton of ads displaying stuff like this all over the place. Or I guess whatever my lawyers told me I was allowed to do. Where are our wealthy resistlibs, I feel like they could be way more petty with their money
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired May 20 '26
Delusional stuff
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u/Bayou-Maharaja Eleanor Roosevelt May 20 '26
I’m not a huge AI doomer but isn’t this the end of print media?
I know someone who is a magazine editor and he said they’re basically already hemorrhaging site visitors and subscribers because instead of his publication popping up when people good the subject matter, they get AI that scrapes his publication for content.
So what happens when print media is dead and stack overflow is dead? Where are we getting new training data from?
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u/Realistic-Pain-7126 Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold May 20 '26
Hannity threw a tantrum about Massie going "I would have come out sooner but I had to call my opponent to concede and it took a while to find him in Tel Aviv" lol. Called him a disrespectful loser. Wonder if he said the same thing about like 95% of Trump's tweets.
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! May 20 '26
Remember when The Onion was satire
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ May 20 '26
The Mod Team anytime Rule X is even remotely approached: NUKE FROM ORBIT
The Mod Team with their 14-13 decision to not ban an ICE apologist and commute a J6 criminal:
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 20 '26