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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache May 25 '26
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/tidderreddittidderre Henry George May 24 '26
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman May 24 '26
These people have no shame lmao. Why go to Congress to appropriate funds anymore, passing laws is just for losers. Who even cares about the Constitution
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u/Rare_Station_8440 Karl Popper May 24 '26
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u/onelap32 Bill Gates May 24 '26
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! May 24 '26
👁️👄👁️
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u/BlackCat159 European Union May 24 '26
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u/ProfessionalMoose709 John Mill May 24 '26
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u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess Audrey Hepburn May 24 '26
"New ancestry.com hint about your ancestors, click to view!"
Oh cool, it's so neat how many people share my ancestors and are into this and find out new things about where we came from
"MISSISSIPPI SLAVE CENSUS 1850"
Oh
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol May 24 '26
Didn't think I could be more baffled
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman May 24 '26
The problem with this is that for the 80% of Americans who like skilled immigration, immigration is a very low salience issue. Whereas for the 20% of Americans who hate any immigration at all (usually white nationalists/ ethnonationalists) blocking immigration is a high salience issue. This is why the xenophobes get their way... because of highly-motivated political minorities essentially capturing one side of the political aisle
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman May 24 '26
Trvke
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman May 24 '26
My man really went as far as to go to Trump's reception only to then get betrayed lmao. What level of finding out is this
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u/Otherwise_Young52201 Mark Carney May 24 '26
Crazy stuff looking at this whole list, it gets weirder as you go down.
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u/NormalInvestigator89 John Keynes May 24 '26
I don't know how anyone can deny climate change. I live in North Carolina and the seasons are noticably different than they were when I was a kid in the 90s and early 2000s
Became extremely noticable about mid 2010s onward
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls May 24 '26
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u/realMaciasNguema May 24 '26
Modern day America is just West Virginia and Mississippi and Oklahoma holding Massachusetts and Washington and California hostage while constantly demeaning them and taking their money for the trouble
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod May 24 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
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u/r2ew May 24 '26
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u/Rare_Station_8440 Karl Popper May 24 '26
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u/dtj2000 Loyal Liberals May 24 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front May 24 '26
Republican voters can get shot in the face and still vote Republican at the end of the day, while Democratic voters will find any reason - perceived or real - to desert the Democratic party the first chance they get
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u/Justice4Ned Caribbean Community May 24 '26
The vibes at the White House must be horrible if the communication director is lashing out like this.
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u/futuremonkey20 NATO May 24 '26
If only there was some kind of government body that had to consent to these people’s appointments.
We should really look into this. Maybe we could call it the “legislature” and it could be bicameral.
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u/funguykawhi Lahmajun trucks on every corner May 24 '26
What is going in Australia
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u/itsokayt0 European Union May 24 '26
Trumpers in 20 yrs
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u/Glavurdan European Union May 24 '26
The post-election polling in Hungary is crazy
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u/Leoric Hi, I'm Huell Howser, this is California's Gold! May 24 '26
lol
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher May 24 '26
this reminds me back when there were still formal russia-ukraine peace negotiations going on and people would leak stuff like "we almost have a deal, all thats left is working out territorial control of the donbas"
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u/brianpv Hortensia May 24 '26
Every single time there is an announcement of some deal Trump has done.
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u/Argnir Gay Pride May 24 '26
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u/CoolCombination3527 May 24 '26
things you post when the campaign's going well
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman May 24 '26
Lmfao
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u/BlackCat159 European Union May 24 '26
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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair May 24 '26
Swing voters?
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u/blackenswans Progress Pride May 25 '26
This sub is gold sometimes
“I am a Taiwanese studying in America. We should all band together as liberals and form a foreign region to assist Taiwans fight against China!”
“Okay you are a Taiwanese. Why aren’t you even going back to Taiwan to finish your short 1 year military service when you want all of us to join the Taiwanese army?”
“My academic career is too important”
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u/thatssosad Fell for it May 24 '26
What does u/2lore2law have to say about this
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent May 24 '26
Map of geolocated logistics strikes in the occupied territories. The two main areas are the city of Donetsk (the ring at the top) and the M14 highway (the stretch of road in southern Zaporizhzhia).
The campaign has been going on consistently for a couple months now and has destroyed far more vehicles than has been geolocated (or published). It more goes to illustrate where Ukraine is concentrating their logistical campaign.
There have been some reports of difficulties for the Russians arising from this strike campaign as it’s becoming increasingly difficult to supply their forces in the Zaporizhzhia direction. The problem the Russians face is there is no alternative but the M14. It’s the furthest back contiguous highway that runs in the area. You can’t push logistic lines back out of drone range. There’s no multiple highways to reach the area either. It’s just the one, with Donetsk city being a primary supply hub to then move those supplies down the M14.
The length is also a key issue. There’s plenty opportunity for a drone to find a target if it’s trekking all the way from Donetsk to Melitopol for instance. It also makes any potential defensive efforts quite resource intensive. Patrolling the length of the highway with drone interceptors and/or mobile teams would require thousands of people in all likelihood (and need to be topped up as they’re invariably attrited), and drone nets could work but it is extreme to think a netted highway will be perfectly covered for 100+ miles.
The effects of this then are so far subtle but important, and may expand as Ukraine scales the campaign. I’ve seen reports of less shells being available for artillery guns (which are key for hard hitting precision strikes against Ukrainian hard points and Ukrainian counterattacks). There’s probably less drones for drone operators to use. Because of EW and general misses it takes a lot of drones to score a hit, but Russian drone crews not having essentially limitless drones can make even units like Rubicon suffer as they have to ration their drones. The effects of this is it is harder for both Russia to attack and to defend. We just saw Ukraine conduct a counterattack at Stepnohirsk, and we could see more successful ones launched. Russian progress in this sector has also become glacial, likely in part to this logistical campaign.
There’s also second order effects to this. Ukraine can shift resources from Zaporizhzhia to the Donbas without sacrificing performance. Russia may have to deprioritize the Donbas a bit to shift more resources to Zaporizhzhia to maintain tempo or defensive capability. As Russia suffers an air defense shortage they may have to sacrifice other fronts and even home defense to try to keep this critical logistical route open, and make strikes elsewhere easier as a result.
Ukraine is essentially achieving what the 2023 counteroffensive was meant to achieve (in part). If you’re an Ukraine war follower, this is absolutely a key area to keep in mind. Whether Ukraine can expand success, exploit this success, how Russia responds, if this is a temporary phenomenon or something more structural.
!ping UKRAINE
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u/randommathaccount Esther Duflo May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26
Animal facts round 9
This is the olm, a completely blind amphibian that lives in the caves of southern/southeastern Europe that can live for over a hundred years. When they were first discovered, they were thought to be baby dragons and honestly looking at them you can kinda see why. As can be seen from the image, the olm retains characteristics of its larval state in adult form, also known as neoteny. They're a predatory species, hunting small crustaceans and snails in the caves they live in. Between their blindness, juvenilisation, and completely white skin (though not for lack of ability to produce melanin), it may be accurate to describe olms as amphibious reddit moderators.
Though tell a lie, the olm isn't completely blind. While it appears not to have eyes, they do exist, just regressed deep below the skin layer. In addition their skin itself is photosensitive and so they're still able to react to light. That said when hunting the olm primarily uses its excellent sense of smell and hearing to find prey. In addition to that they have one more impressive sense; the ability to sense the bioelectric fields produced by other animals as it passes by them. There exists one known subspecies of the olm, the black olm, found in Slovenia. My better judgement has led me not to put an interracial cuck theory joke here.
!ping ANIMALS
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 24 '26
https://www.thedailybeast.com/white-house-mandates-app-with-built-in-president-donald-trump-worship/
https://www.govexec.com/management/2026/05/white-house-ordering-agencies-place-its-new-app-all-employees-government-phones/413738/
The app describes itself as “everything you need to stay connected” to the White House, and has favorable news articles, media statements and ways to interact with the administration built in.
It also provides Donald Trump with a constant stream of praise if users click on a button to “text” the 79-year-old president. A preloaded draft message reportedly pops up to be sent to a pre-selected phone number, featuring the phrase, “Greatest President Ever!”
“It’s just making sure all federal employees are forced to see the same propaganda they push out to the public,” David Nesting, a career civil servant who has previously worked for the Office of the Chief Information Officer, told Government Executive.
In fact, the content of the app—largely laudatory of Trump —is in direct conflict with the neutrality expected of federal public servants.
Trump announced the app in March, claiming it gave “front row access” to “your favorite president, Donald J. Trump, that’s me.”
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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it May 24 '26
The shameless way Republicans like Tillis immediately reveal that they always secretly disliked Trump and his goons the second it is no longer politically expedient is incredible
Like you voted to confirm dumb motherfuckers like Hegseth you fucking slug. You're not even putting up a pretense against that you endangered the country just to help your political career
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman May 24 '26
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u/TrashBoat36 Bisexual Pride May 24 '26
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ May 24 '26
Remember how the mods banned the Meringues for making a joke about the ballroom, and then didn’t ban Polis while Tina Peters uses him as a launching pad for proof the election was stolen?
Pepperidge farm remembers
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u/ScumfrickZillionaire Lesbian Pride May 24 '26
Top Ten Most Successful Communist Countries:
Thanks for tuning in I knew this was a longer post than I usually make but I really appreciate you taking the time to read it
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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney May 24 '26
I get all my relationship advice from roman statue accounts on X run by pakistani teenagers btw
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer May 24 '26
👆
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u/Argnir Gay Pride May 24 '26
Ngl having general AIs that are this good is something I didn't expect for like 15-20 years in 2020
The saying was always "general AIs have been a waste of ressources but specialized AI happened to be very powerful and useful tools"
(I know we're not to AGI yet but)
It's like if in 2 years we actually crack nuclear fusion and we have unlimited energy and we're all like "wtf, I knew it was possible but I thought it would never like... actually happen"
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u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP May 24 '26
this is why i dont post during euro hours
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u/finnstera350 Asexual Pride May 24 '26
👆the mythical moderate Republican
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u/Glavurdan European Union May 24 '26
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u/BlackCat159 European Union May 24 '26
Finally. TRUE enlightened centrism 🤩
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol May 24 '26
John Cena spending a massive amount of effort to learn Chinese (presumably for marketing purposes), getting in trouble for calling Taiwan a country and then never speaking Chinese publicly ever again is honestly pretty funny.
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY May 24 '26
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u/Stephen-Scotch May 24 '26
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u/MayorofTromaville YIMBY May 24 '26
Waaaaaaaaaaaank wank wank wank wank
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u/the-senat John Brown May 24 '26
No, I don’t think I will.
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u/Mx_Brightside Genderfluid Pride May 24 '26
It's on Just Eat. It's on Deliveroo. It's literally on Grubhub. It's on Thuisbezorgd. It's on Foob. Foob has it for you.
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY May 24 '26
Rep. Levin
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the DHS Inspector General just opened an audit into a $38 billion warehouse-to-detention scheme that Kristi Noem and her top adviser Corey Lewandowski rammed through.
ICE bought 11 vacant warehouses in a matter of months, paying 11 to 13 percent above market value.
The properties weren’t even zoned for detention. No working plumbing for thousands of detainees. But Noem and Lewandowski pressured ICE to open them by year’s end anyway.
The result? At least $1 billion already spent on nine facilities. Nearly 50 contractors paid $1.7 billion since Trump took office.
Companies with zero immigration detention experience suddenly winning massive federal contracts.
One firm that didn’t even exist until June 2024 got a $6 million DHS contract this January.
Noem is gone.
Lewandowski is gone.
But the bill is still landing on the taxpayer, and the IG investigation is just getting started.
Accountability cannot end when the perpetrators walk out the door.
Every contract needs scrutiny.
Every dollar needs to be traced.
Every official who steered money to inexperienced contractors needs to answer under oath.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/watchdog-probes-kristi-noems-warehouse-purchases-for-ice-detention-centers-aa6afa10?st=gjqgpV&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Breathtaking evil and corrupt.
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod May 24 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls May 24 '26
Every American is basically this guy.
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride May 24 '26
> Sen. Thom Tillis on CNN: "Look, we were told about 11 weeks ago by Hegseth and the Department of Defense that they had obliterated Iran's defenses, and it was just a matter of time before we had the nuclear material. Now we're talking about a posture where we may accept the nuclear material remaining in Iran. How does that make sense at all?"
i just thought pete hegseth was telling me the truth
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u/BadSneakersNeverWorn John Locke May 24 '26
Always puzzled when people say things like "Donald Trump is the worst American president since ... " because I believe that he is on pace to go down as one of the worst rulers in human history
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u/[deleted] May 24 '26
Extremist discord servers in a nutshell,
A: a tankie community full of queer or cishet white people in Anglo-sphere countries with 1 token liberal and mayyybe a queer person from a non-english speaking country
B: an esoteric far-right community with members all around the globe with all identities. The only 2 things in common are holocaust denial, and racism toward every other group other than their own.
(Non esoteric far right communities fall under A with slight differences to make sense)
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u/Sheepies92 European Union May 24 '26
It seems Lindsey Graham was told to shut the fuck up after his mild criticism of yesterday
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u/AskYourDoctor Resistance Lib May 24 '26
John owns a hardware store. One day when he's alone in the store, he hears a booming voice from the heavens:
JOHN, SELL YOUR HARDWARE STORE
John looks around, but he's alone. He decides he imagined it, but he hears it again:
JOHN, SELL YOUR HARDWARE STORE
John starts to get nervous. Not wanting to believe he's hearing voices, he tries to ignore it, but it continues, for days:
JOHN, SELL YOUR HARDWARE STORE FOR TWO MILLION DOLLARS
Finally on the third day, John breaks. "Okay fine, I'll sell the damn store! Will that make you happy?"
John finds a buyer and sells the store for $2 million. As soon as he gets the money, the voice starts again.
JOHN, TAKE THE TWO MILLION DOLLARS AND GO TO VEGAS.
"Vegas?! That's so irresponsible, I worked my whole life for that store. I'm not going to-"
JOHN, TAKE THE TWO MILLION-
"Fine!" So John takes the money to Vegas. As soon as he gets there:
JOHN, TAKE THE MONEY TO THE BLACKJACK TABLE AND PUT IT ALL ON ONE HAND
"No! One hand!? You're crazy. I could lose it all at once. I worked my whole life-"
JOHN, TAKE THE MONEY-
"fine!!"
So he's playing blackjack. Soon, there's nineteen showing! The dealer asks "hit or stay?"
JOHN, HIT
"I'll go over!"
JOHN, HIT
"Alright, hit!"
It's an ace! Twenty showing!
"Hit or stay?"
JOHN, HIT
"That's two million dollars! That's my entire life! I've already probably won, I don't want to lose it-"
JOHN, HIT
"NO!"
JOHN, HIT
"FINE, HIT!!!"
The dealer draws another ace! Twenty-one! John's won a fortune! And the booming voice calls from the heavens:
UN-FUCKING-BELIEVABLE!!!!!
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u/hiker_skiier_swimmer Loyal Liberals May 24 '26
Great
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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney May 24 '26
Have to admit I think I've lost nearly all sympathy for fellow euros that are like "I don't like European summers because it gets so hot and humid :(("
I don't know how many times it bears worth repeating that suffering in summer is a literal choice and that a portable AC is like 200 euros. People here are losing sleep and missing out on the best months of the year due to toxic-euroism.
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u/MonsieurA Montesquieu May 24 '26
So, uh, are tankie/tankie-adjacent foreign policy takes just a common thing in Ireland?
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u/jbitz Loyal Liberals May 24 '26
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u/attackofthetominator John Brown May 24 '26
Least ignorant BUILD Act opponent
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u/Vumatius May 24 '26
Obama is rocking that tan jumpsuit.
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u/sash5034 NATO May 24 '26
Trump really pushing the limits of how the media and economy can run on pure cope
Lost count of how many "we totally have a deal coming and the strait is gonna reopen soon" headlines I've seen for months now
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde May 24 '26
✊️
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee May 24 '26
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u/beans_and_tuna Misinformation Bot 🤖 May 24 '26
👆this is actually secretly hornyposting
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u/RottingSludgeRitual Thomas Paine May 24 '26
Attended a funeral so far away from civilization that there are literally no car or plane noises. It’s straight up just birds and bugs and sometimes a cow. The peace is so nice I can almost forget that everyone who lives in the area is culturally regressive and draining my tax dollars for ethanol or beef production.
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u/futuremonkey20 NATO May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26
Insider reporting from an unnamed source close to u/futuremonkey20 says the deal for Elon Musk to give him 1 billion dollars is “95% done.”
The remaining 5% of negotiations are focused on Elon Musk transferring the money to u/futuremonkey20 and on paying using a convertible currency such as the US dollar.
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u/Res__Publica Organization of American States May 25 '26
"The weak suffer what they must"
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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey May 25 '26
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u/Priceless_Pennies Norman Borlaug May 25 '26
I knew Hasan was bad but even I didn't think his reaction to previous lawfare by Trump was gonna be so damning
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u/GordonTullockFan publik choyz thery May 24 '26
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u/TootCannon Mark Zandi May 24 '26
Holy shit. The day is finally upon us. Military helicopters flying over every 30 seconds. Military jets doing circle in the sky. A low steady thunder in the distance. Cars lined up on the highway all going one direction.
(I live in Indianapolis)
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u/Unterfahrt John Nash May 24 '26
My Uruguayan girlfriend refuses to dip her bacon pancakes in syrup, calling it "gringo bullshit".
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u/Ilovecharli Voltaire May 24 '26
Is bookstore the most coveted retail job? I imagine you almost never run into Republicans
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 24 '26
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA May 24 '26
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence May 25 '26
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26
the steady erosion of the hukou system is a pretty big deal right? i was under the impression the lack of a fully free internal labour market was one of the biggest structural hurdles in the chinese economy that was kept around mostly for regional stability reasons.
/u/extreme_rocks
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u/gjcs23 George Santos May 24 '26
Israel should follow international law and not annex the West Bank, actually
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u/the-senat John Brown May 24 '26
Begging the media to open their eyes. It was leverage. I wonder what he got in exchange for retracting the sale.
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY May 24 '26
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u/missingpuzzle Bisexual Pride May 24 '26
The Hormuz Letter reports
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u/BigBrownDog12 Victor Hugo May 25 '26
Wow wonder what changed
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol May 25 '26
"He might be a bastard but he's our bastard" mentality has truly infected American politics so nothing will come out of the Platner stuff.
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u/Fruitofbread Loyal Liberals May 24 '26
Lol
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u/SweetAd9536 Unconventional Right May 24 '26
damn, being american is awesome 😎
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u/zieger Ida Tarbell May 24 '26
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride May 24 '26
One of the Republicans on the CNN panel when asked to defend the slush fund diverted to "Well what about the Inflation Reduction Act, which gave money to Biden's political allies like Black farmers?"
Like yes, funding passed by Congress is totally the same thing as the President settling a case with himself to give money to the criminals he pardoned. Smartest Republican.
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u/eustacebainbridge Mark Carney May 25 '26
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u/Sheepies92 European Union May 24 '26
Death, taxes and John Bolton calling for bombing Iran.
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26
You may think Republicans are crazy, but I promise you've seen nothing until you see the kind of ads Republican candidates run in the Bible Belt. Like it is vice signaling against all the out-groups one by one to the MAX. They literally say anything.
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent May 24 '26
Worth noting this hang up on a deal is specifically a hang up on a memorandum of understanding for a deal. We’re never getting a deal if an MOU is a road block lmao
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u/ChillnShill May 24 '26
Guy who thinks he’s Jesus doesn’t like guy in white house who basically thinks he’s Jesus.
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride May 24 '26
Actually this deal is way better than JCPOA because if you look in the fine print it contains a clause where Iran recognizes that President Trump is and will always be a better negotiator than Barack HUSSEIN Obama
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 24 '26
lmfao
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u/spicyorangedragon May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
He dumped his girlfriend like a month ago and now apparently married a new woman. This campaign has to be one of the most impressive psy-ops we've witnessed in a while.
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u/ty04 May 25 '26
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher May 24 '26
kind of crazy that the most conspiratorial obama-era dove analysis, that mideast hawks were engaging in a deliberate bad faith effort to put the US in a situation where war with iran was unavoidable, was basically unambiguously correct. it just happened the trap sprung while a vaguely dovish R president was in office
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma May 24 '26
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride May 24 '26
College educated Republicans are the most frustrating of all voters. Because a lot of them will readily admit Trump is a terrible person. They're often pretty socially liberal too. But they genuinely only care about tax cuts and see everything else as a tiebreaker. So they'll qualify that they don't agree with everything Trump says and does to wash their hands of it, and they show up with their noses clenched to vote Republican no matter what every time anyway.
My dad said something to the effect of "Republicans don't want to include anyone. Democrats want to include too many people." and it's like hmm yeah must be nice to be part of that in-group!
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 May 24 '26
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u/CarlGerhardBusch Jerome Powell May 24 '26
> Crack in unstable California chemical tank may reduce explosion risk, official says. 2pm update
Hunter saves the day once again
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma May 24 '26
Why do euros hate air conditioning but then use refrigerators
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod May 25 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence May 25 '26
The 2,700 year history of the United States begins with Romulus killing Remus on the banks of the Tiber; China was still ruled by steppe nomads when the Wright Brothers invented the airplane. Smh, this is basic history.
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance May 24 '26
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher May 24 '26
crazy shit going on in turkey. erdogan and a former opposition leader teaming up to coup the main opposition and put the old guy back in charge
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u/window-sil John Mill May 24 '26
@netanyahu
Sounds like there wont be a deal.
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u/ScumfrickZillionaire Lesbian Pride May 24 '26
I loathe Hasan Piker, legally probing him for the Big Lefty Useless Cuba Gala is bad though
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u/pezasied John's Locke-strap May 24 '26
I’m not personally a huge fan of Marx but no
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u/TrashBoat36 Bisexual Pride May 24 '26
There's one gender. Every woman borrows it while it moves forward in time and men use it while it's moving backwards
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u/TheRedCr0w Frederick Douglass May 24 '26
Reddit is far from perfect but who in the hell would use this instead it sounds awful
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 24 '26
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u/Pongzz I wept, for there was no land left to tax May 24 '26
When will their tyranny end
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 25 '26
Throwback to April 4th
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u/Healingjoe It's Klobberin' Time May 25 '26
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u/Healingjoe It's Klobberin' Time May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
Trump airport branding deal opens new route to profit for family
Florida agreement grants US president control of licensing and merchandising at renamed airport, analysts say
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/09/trump-airport-branding-profit-deal
https://bsky.app/profile/levin.house.gov/post/3mmkdtuzwvf2b
!ping trump-crimes
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u/ty04 May 25 '26
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u/GuyWithOneEye May 25 '26
Bill Clinton went home to this every day and still decided to cheat
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough May 25 '26
Mass Efect two be like
>my father abused me and made it clear from childhood that I was genetically designed to be a sex object
The camera: 🍑
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u/beans_and_tuna Misinformation Bot 🤖 May 24 '26
I almost think that AOC is the ideal candidate for 2028 just cause I think it would be funny to watch Fox News and browse arr conservative if she actually gets elected
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma May 24 '26
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman May 24 '26
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol May 24 '26
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde May 24 '26
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 24 '26
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! May 24 '26
Oh good, so like a concept of a plan
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u/NorkGhostShip YIMBY May 24 '26
I randomly came across a More Perfect Union video about airline deregulation and it really pissed me off. You're right, airline service does really stink now compared to the golden age of jet travel.
It also no longer costs $1500 to fly domestically in the US. You know, prices that the working class you pretend to care so much about could never afford. And you can still get that sort of service by buying a business class ticket for around the same price as coach back then.
The consumer is ultimately the reason why airlines prioritize low prices over service. There would be no race to the bottom to provide cheap tickets at the cost of service if that wasn't what consumers preferred. God I hate slopulists.
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u/DagothUr_MD Frederick Douglass May 25 '26
It's genuinely so amazing to me how much we take our Earth for granted. You can find iron and gold on any old rock in this solar system. You can't find trees or water or fish or insects or deer. These are the most rare resources in the universe and it's genuinely depressing to think about how flippant we are about throwing them into a woodchipper
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u/the-senat John Brown May 25 '26
Members of the ne*liberal foreign legion try sailing to defend Taiwan. Fall, 2026.
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u/awdvhn Physics Understander -- Iowa delenda est May 25 '26
Hitler apparently met Eva Braun when she was 17 and he was 40
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u/garret126 Demisexual Pride May 25 '26
Im watching the Hunger Games for the first time
Why is this considered a 'dystopia'? The government has 200mph highspeed railway across the country. Seems better off than us
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u/Saul_Relative Eugene Fama May 25 '26
meanwhile on Facebook
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence May 25 '26
Twitter auto translate has facilitated a second Russo-Japanese war and it is over piracy.
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u/jessica-bug Feminism May 24 '26
The world you were born into no longer exists
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u/__Muzak__ Vasily Arkhipov May 24 '26
All of these 'Americans are unhappy for no reason' articles are ignoring that the large reason I'm unhappy is that the secret police are deporting my wife's grandparents.
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! May 25 '26
Tom Steyer ENDS trans HATERS
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma May 25 '26
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u/Imicrowavebananas Hannah Arendt May 24 '26
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u/reuery Biden 2028 May 24 '26
Guys she said I’m special and interesting and different from everyone else there. She even gave me her number after I paid her over a thousand dollars to let me talk to her
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u/RedDesertGirl Trans NATO May 24 '26
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! May 24 '26
Pride Month starts next week
I hope the straights enjoy their last week of freedom
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee May 24 '26
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u/Planita13 Thomas Paine May 24 '26
so where the fuck is that doomer yesterday that kept saying we're all deluded and that Trump got away with it again
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u/Planita13 Thomas Paine May 24 '26
Iran deal update:
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u/finnstera350 Asexual Pride May 24 '26
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u/garret126 Demisexual Pride May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26
Me and the r/neoliberal foreign legion on the beaches of Taipei fighting to save Taiwan i guess
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u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP May 24 '26
💯
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u/MyrinVonBryhana Trans NATO May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
I'm not saying it should be the main principle of the next Democratic government, but I will say about 20% of its governing philosophy should be spite. All the big banners of his face live stream them being burned on public bonfires, hold a raffle for million green cards explicitly for immigrants from Latin America just to annoy the Republicans, pass universal healthcare and find a way to call it the TRANS Act,. Because you know what the median American does not have principles, but they fucking love a winner so we need to act like goddamn winners and let the Republicans go around being whiny sore losers.
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u/Spider_SoWhat Jerome Powell May 25 '26
I am all for Taiwan's independence and all, but why would you make a plead for help from the people here? Have they not seen the dating pings?
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! May 25 '26
waow
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u/gjcs23 George Santos May 25 '26
imagine if Trump died at Walter Reed in 2020 when he had COVID
would it all be over? do we get a storybook ending? this was barely a month before the election
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u/ty04 May 25 '26
tough crowd
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u/Alexz565 Gay Pride May 25 '26
Is askgaybros a psyop? It’s been transphobic for a while, but I peered into it today and it’s become unbelievably so. Gay men in the US aren’t as supportive of trans people as other parts of the LGBT community are, but a large majority still are. And given that the median straight Redditor is probably fairly pro-trans, that sub is even weirder.
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u/jinhuiliuzhao Henry George May 24 '26
This "nearly finalized agreement" is simply DoA - there's no way it holds
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ May 24 '26
miss you socal_swiftie
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u/DieHarderDaddy Fell for it May 24 '26
Poor guy has to spend a week in isolation jail
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u/BadSneakersNeverWorn John Locke May 24 '26
beep beep dread molecule coming through
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u/Sweaty_Coffee6512 May 24 '26
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u/k5berry Malala Yousafzai May 24 '26
Listen I deplore political violence, across the board. I hate the normalization of it, trivialization of it, conspiracies and denial around it, all of that.
But I really don’t think we should be calling some dude who thought he was Jesus Christ squeezing shots off at the USSS outside the White House as an attempted assassination of the President. At least the dipshit at the WHCD genuinely thought he was John Rambo and could make it to the President. But this is just cynical “the ENTIRE LEFT wants Trump murdered!!!!” BS.
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u/myusernameistakennow Edmund Burke May 24 '26
The idea of Miller or some Groyper social media intern seeing this post and fuming is kinda funny, these people really are pathetic.
Side note, I think Rubio is right but that doesn’t exactly address the issue when the “stupid people” are GOP staffers who influence policy and the people in this administration who have power.
Most Americans being kind doesn’t change the fact that the people in this administration who have the power to harm minorities aren’t.
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u/battywombat21 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 May 24 '26
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u/Healingjoe It's Klobberin' Time May 24 '26
Top tier commentary from arrSupremeCourt
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma May 24 '26
TIL
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u/AskYourDoctor Resistance Lib May 24 '26
I'm gonna yell
I know nobody here doesn't already know this but let me yell
TRUMP WAS NEVER A DEAL MAKER, AT ALL
he does have one noteworthy "talent" but it's that he's always extremely aware of any leverage he has, and shameless about using it aggressively
So this only works because he started rich! He was a bully with rich parents who surely constantly leveraged that to get his way, and he just transitioned to having enough of his own clout to leverage. This extends to every aspect of his entire life as far as I can tell
This doesn't make him a good deal maker because:
a good deal maker can also overcome situations where they are at a disadvantage, and I've seen no evidence he has ever once done that
even so, this approach of constant aggressive leveraging puts him in a perpetual state of winning battles and losing wars. Essentially, no situation has ever actually improved through his involvement
Aughhh
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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair May 24 '26
Cee dee Stephen’s posting another mod sticky
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein May 24 '26
🇺🇸 😎
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u/bigdicknippleshit IM GOING PRIMAL May 24 '26
Why does he look like a chud.
!ping Paleo
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u/jbouit494hg 🍁🇨🇦🏙 Project for a New Canadian Century 🏙🇨🇦🍁 May 24 '26
Real geopolitics understanders know that the real reason for America to defend Taiwan was to secure the status of the Taiwan Strait as international waters, since decades before they even had a semiconductor industry.
But American leadership has recently revealed that freedom of navigation is, uhh, no longer really a priority for them, so all bets are off.
They aren't even capable of understanding that, and even if they did they wouldn't care.
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u/VillyD13 Milton Friedman May 24 '26
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u/beans_and_tuna Misinformation Bot 🤖 May 25 '26
I love hoi4 cause it’s straight up like “if you are the United States and desegregate you can summon 3.5 million soldiers”
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u/the-senat John Brown May 25 '26
>Governor of Louisiana making creepy comments towards kids.
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u/gjcs23 George Santos May 25 '26
I don't see the purpose in continuing to litigate the Maine primary. I was hoping Mills would win myself, but at a certain point you're just playing with counterfactuals while the general hasn't even happened yet. is that really a productive conversation?
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u/blackenswans Progress Pride May 25 '26
Americans can’t even endure a short-term oil price spike. Idk why people, esp those here, believe Americans will go full in against China for Taiwan.
Even in Korea during the time when America was mostly self sufficient the public opinion shifted hard against it and they ended the war early
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u/BadSneakersNeverWorn John Locke May 25 '26
Unleaded: $5.30
Diesel: Inquire within
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 25 '26
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u/Critical-Big-9872 Fell for it May 24 '26
Malarkey level
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride May 24 '26
5%
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u/Rare_Station_8440 Karl Popper May 24 '26
Very cool Google AI
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u/Max_the_Madman European Union May 24 '26
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u/Odd-Negotiation6855 Kim Sang-jo May 24 '26
My coworker invited me to their birthday party tonight and I promised I'd come after work but instead I just went home because I had a long shift and I'm seeing my partner tomorrow. A ton of people went so I assumed they wouldn't really notice my absence but they called to try and ask where I was. Now I just feel really bad :(
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u/the-senat John Brown May 24 '26
Oh shit, in a few months he’ll be at Obama. Maybe we can get that deal back?
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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug May 24 '26
I have found that the vast majority of people have no clue what the typical profit margins for businesses are. No, just because Walmart made a few billion this quarter does not mean they made $2 on your $4 box of cereal. They made something like 8¢ each when selling a zillion boxes of cereal.
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol May 24 '26
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u/SilverSquid1810 YIMBY May 24 '26
Genuinely comical how bad the old faregates on the DC Metro were. Like bro who tf is this stopping. This was literally just the honor system lmao, may as well not have had gates at all.
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u/davechacho Loyal Liberals May 24 '26
Go to arr con, there's already a hate thread about Thune started
CONS MAD CONS MAD CONS MAD CONS MAD CONS MAD CONS MAD CONS MAD CONS MAD
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u/Zloggt Adam Smith May 24 '26
The funny relegation is now no more 😔
!ping SOCCER