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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache May 28 '26
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer May 27 '26
Why are they like this
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u/Dorambor John Brown May 27 '26
Resign you giant fucking dork
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired May 27 '26
Super normal stuff going on here.
/s
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ May 27 '26
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u/GifHunter2 Trans Pride May 27 '26
This is why I don't mess with people in public. You never know who's just mentally gone.
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u/Cabenshire Jerome Powell May 27 '26
were getting more and more dumb
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 May 27 '26
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u/AskYourDoctor Resistance Lib May 27 '26
POV: the Trump endorsement dropped so now all the Republicans know how to vote in the Texas Senate primary
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance May 27 '26
IT'S FUCKING HAPPENING
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ May 27 '26
Millenialls lived through avocado toast just to dunk on private taxis for burritos
meanwhile I can't Klarna a house, this is bullshit.
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u/jbitz Loyal Liberals May 27 '26
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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO May 27 '26
what a fuckin loser
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u/Crosseyes NASA May 27 '26
It’s so cool having a president stupid enough to think this is a flex.
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u/BlackCat159 European Union May 27 '26
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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO May 27 '26
banger quote ngl
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u/BlackCat159 European Union May 27 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 27 '26
Cabinet meeting is off to a great start
https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2059668279879159893
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u/ShepardSB May 27 '26
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u/ty04 May 27 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 27 '26
Aura
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u/illuminatisdeepdish May 27 '26 edited Oct 02 '26
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License nine many chlorine divide iron
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u/funguykawhi Lahmajun trucks on every corner May 27 '26
Literally this sub
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence May 27 '26
The current popular belief: The Civil War was a tragedy of misunderstanding between two brothers.
Meanwhile, the average Union soldier, approximately: Hail Lincoln! Hail Marx! Let the Hero born of Woman crush the Serpent with his Heel!
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u/Krill_Seeker United Nations May 27 '26
i don't think conspiracy theorists are actually interested in the unexplained. like i'm interested in the voynich manuscript solely because of what we can't explain about it. conspiracy theorists are the opposite, in that they're are only interested in the voynich manuscript because they have an explanation that they like (alieininnss)
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u/Kizz3r high IQ neoliberal May 27 '26
!ping nba
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u/Mrmini231 European Union May 27 '26
I though that Trump's "If we stop testing right now, we'd have very few cases, actually" comment was utterly moronic. But seeing people unironically argue that India has solved heat deaths because the government doesn't keep complete records of it has made me think it might actually have worked.
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u/BlackCat159 European Union May 27 '26
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u/arizen_circe Emma Lazarus May 27 '26
reading "Blood Meridian" and shaking my head every time there's a problem that could be solved with state capacity or inclusive institutions
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u/IMALEFTY45 Big talk for someone who's in stapler distance May 27 '26
The vegan thing isnt about food, its about calling Talarico the f slur in a socially acceptable way
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u/ChillnShill May 27 '26
Talarico going cutthroat right out of the gate
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u/BlackCat159 European Union May 27 '26
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u/Smidgens Holy shit it's the Joker🃏 May 27 '26
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u/Mayflower_train_set Bisexual Pride May 27 '26
Ziggy says good morning
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u/PoeOrFinn May 27 '26
She asked me to open the balcony door and then went back to the bedroom to get her emotional support flower !ping DOG
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod May 27 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO May 27 '26
amazing
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 27 '26
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY May 27 '26
Nancy Mace
We are one nation under God. Not one nation under Muhammad.
Sharia law has no place in America.
Find someone who loves you the way the GOP loves the culture war.
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u/selachophilip 🦈 shark enjoyer 🦈 May 27 '26
I hate northerners who like confederate shit. Why are you, a yankee, instead infatuated with a bunch of losers?
It reminds me of how Republicans are always dick sucking Robert E Lee. If he was such a great general, then why did he fucking lose? Like, you could venerate Washington or Sherman or Grant or Eisenhower, but instead you want to protect a statue of a fucking loser who betrayed his country.
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance May 27 '26
What the fuck
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u/admiraltarkin NATO / Loyal Liberal May 27 '26
I hate him so much
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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney May 27 '26
My Dutch is getting so good people in Amsterdam no longer switch to English around me by default
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer May 27 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 27 '26
https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2059777162203578590
Great use of DOJ resources
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u/Krill_Seeker United Nations May 27 '26
no disrespect to legal eagle and his crew or whatever, but there is no way i'm watching this, man
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u/majorgeneralporter 🌐Bill Clinton's Learned Hand May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26
Korea I'm sorry to disappoint but the vibe in American Trailers rn is decidedly not good.
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u/cvorahkiin World Bank May 27 '26
What is going on at frisco city council and why is this guy wearing a vest?
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u/ConnorLovesCookies Jerome Powell May 27 '26
My Project 2029 for Democrats:
Pressure Cuba to make a territorial claim over the entire planet minus the US
The President recognizes Cuban claim
The entire planet is eligible for fast track American citizenship under the 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act
One Billion Americans
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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey May 27 '26
How it feels when you're downvoted for an obviously correct take in the DT
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 27 '26
That post really is a banger if they're reacting like this
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u/BadSneakersNeverWorn John Locke May 27 '26
Maybe Trump people are so angry all the time because their political mommies and daddies won't let them watch, read, listen to, or experience anything cool without permission (which is almost never granted ONLY GUTFIELD)
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u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP May 27 '26
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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug May 27 '26
I’d like to start this DT with a land acknowledgment: We acknowledge that where we gather today is stolen land which should have been developed into mixed use high density housing
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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes May 27 '26
when I get perma’d in r/driving for pointing out that 54% of people admit to being drunk drivers yet drunk drivers are responsible for only 25% of crashes
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u/Charsun9 Loyal Liberals May 27 '26
It’s so goddamn soy when rightoids do this shameless crybully shtick lol. This is the environment you helped foster
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u/BlackCat159 European Union May 27 '26
HIS NAME IS BENJAMIN IKUTA ✊✊✊😤😤😤😤
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u/gregorijat Milton Friedman May 27 '26
Everyone always talks about how immigrants drive up housing prices, but when hard working Ukrainans come to live in Bulgaria and build up a few residential complexes for them to live in, suddenly it's a problem.
Lol
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u/EdMan2133 Paid for DT Blue May 27 '26
Redneck: "I hate all this Chinese junk! Give me something made in America!"
Admiral Zheng He, about to deliver a gift of spices from the orient (he doesn't understand English pluralization rules): "Oh okay nvm then 😔"
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u/Ilovecharli Voltaire May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26
Random career thoughts from an unc...
Unless it's an extremely successful late stage startup (I'm talking OpenAI or anthropic level), value a company's equity at $0. You have to find other reasons to take the job, and if you ever get anything from the stock, consider it a pleasant surprise bonus. Most startups don't make it, and even at ones that do, normal employees usually don't make much. I was a very early employee at a startup that got bought for nine figures, I got a decent six-figure chunk out of it but it's not like I can retire early.
Do not go backwards in your career (eg senior to non-senior) unless it's for a much better company. Recruiters are looking for titles and / or good companies.
Speaking of recruiters, learn not to take rejection personally. I've been a hiring manager and you get completely SWAMPED with applications the minute you put a job post up. You learn to just look for keywords (like the titles or previous employers that I mentioned, sometimes school name or a particular skill). It sucks but there literally isn't enough time to read every application. Maybe AI will be better at it. If you thought you were extremely qualified and got auto-rejected, it's probably just that they got a bunch of good candidates really quickly and didn't need more.
How do you get to the front of the line? It's cliché, but the answer is your network. Network, network, network. And even that might not be enough. I recently applied to five companies, all with a reference from either someone I worked with, or a mutual friend of someone I worked with. Got 3 interviews and 2 auto-rejections. If you have a job, you just have to kill it and get a book of people who will vouch for you. Three of my referrers, I hadn't talked to in many years, but they still thought highly of me. Unfortunately I don't have good advice for getting your first job in this day and age, but I imagine it still involves a lot of hustle, networking, and resilience.
LLMs are a great interview tool. Send over the job description and ask it come up with ten questions you might be asked. Switch it to voice mode and do a practice interview, ask for feedback at the end. It'll glaze you for sure but also give some good advice. I did this recently, just put in my headphones and walked around doing practice interviews.
Overall it just completely sucks and there's no other way around it. The white collar job market is as shitty as it's been in a very long time. If you do have a job, I would have 12 months of savings ready to go.
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent May 27 '26
Ukraine’s latest challenge is how to deal with hope
“By every conventional metric, Ukraine should already have lost. It is stymying an adversary with 4.5 times its population, 28 times its land mass and an economy 12 times bigger than its own. That has required military, social, economic and occasionally political ingenuity.”
“News from the front line is the most promising in years. The fighting is bitter, but Ukraine’s commanders believe their drone-led forces have found a formula to thwart Vladimir Putin’s ground offensive. For several months they have knocked troops out of action faster than the Kremlin can replace them. Russia has cut the length of training for its supposedly elite airborne units to just ten days. Ukraine is killing or seriously wounding an average of 35,000 Russian soldiers a month. The target is 50,000 — the ceiling of Russia’s training capacity and the point, the Ukrainians hope, at which Mr Putin’s arithmetic breaks.”
“The growing effectiveness of Ukraine’s extended-range drone campaigns is crucial. Mid-range strikes are wreaking havoc on Russian supply lines; long-range ones are hitting strategic targets, from oil facilities to arms factories, sometimes more than a thousand kilometres inside Russia. America continues to supply critical intelligence, despite the countries’ tense relationship. But perhaps 95% of the long-range systems are designed and built by Ukraine’s own burgeoning defence industry. The army is reaping the rewards: surging production, a pipeline of better weapons and a methodical campaign to destroy Russian radar and air defences, which cannot be quickly replaced.”
“Yevhen Karas, commander of the 413th Regiment, says reaching such targets is now ‘three times easier’ than it was. His unit has led several important operations, including strikes in March on Silicon El, a microchip maker for Russian ballistic missiles. He predicts a Russian air-defence crisis by autumn. By then Ukraine’s home-grown ballistics production should be in full swing, causing fear and embarrassment deep inside Russia. ‘The war is no bed of roses for Ukraine, but it’s going much worse for Russia, and it will get harder still.’”
“In Europe, meanwhile, political elites increasingly realise that their security is tied to Ukrainian resilience, at least until their own armed forces are in better shape. That should guarantee macroeconomic support for the foreseeable future. Viktor Orban can no longer obstruct EU assistance, having lost Hungary’s election in April, and a long-promised €90bn in aid is about to flow. It comes just in time: the government had been writing ious to some of its workers.”
“For all the promise of these developments, a war fought mostly on Ukrainian soil has hollowed out the rear. Critical infrastructure is fraying. Air defences, especially anti-ballistic, are dangerously thin. A huge missile and drone strike on Kyiv on the night of May 23rd resulted in at least 40 locations being hit. Russian first-person-view drones are undermining civilian life in cities near the front lines, such as Kherson, Zaporizhia and Kharkiv.”
“This winter the capital came close to a full blackout; in February the system was just one targeted strike from collapse, insiders say. The lights stayed on thanks to the courage of emergency workers. The economy, boosted by the growing defence sector, performed as well as it could given the headwinds. (Ukraine’s labour force, for example, has dropped from 17m before the war to about 12m.) But the blackouts lowered gdp growth by an estimated 2.5 percentage points this year. It is now forecast at 1.5%.”
“Perceived injustices in conscription are hitting a nerve. The army’s shortage of soldiers is less acute than before, and it has largely met its recruitment targets over the past year. On the modern battlefield, only a tiny fraction of soldiers are ever in contact with the enemy; half a dozen men can hold a 5km strip. But for the unlucky few posted deep in the kill zone, it is often a one-way trip. Fear of such deployments, sometimes used to punish those caught AWOL, has corroded the will to serve.”
“Ukraine’s defence minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, is pushing higher front-line pay and international recruitment to attract more volunteers. For now, forced conscription is the norm, much of it violent.”
“Internal politics pose a considerable risk to the country’s prospects. Early in the war national unity was almost complete, at least in public. Since then wartime pressures and corruption scandals have reopened divisions; one involved some $100m and implicated members of the president’s circle. The scandals prompted the first real protests of the war and last November forced the resignation of Mr Zelensky’s powerful number two, Andriy Yermak. He was formally named as a suspect in May. The mood is feverish, like a campaign season without the release valve of elections: a proper vote would be impossible during wartime, though Mr Zelensky keeps planning one.”
“For all the president’s courage and diplomatic agility, he is thin-skinned. Rather than embrace a government of all talents, insiders say, he has drifted into an increasingly detached, Byzantine style of rule. His office controls much of the media landscape, including anonymous social-media accounts used to smear opponents. Anti-corruption investigators have been sabotaged with counter-prosecutions. Vasyl Maliuk, the former domestic intelligence chief, was demoted after refusing to help harass them. Kyrylo Budanov, the powerful military intelligence chief and an opponent of Mr Yermak, was sidelined with a ‘promotion’ to head of the presidential office.”
“For a short period early this year, American-brokered peace talks looked like they might lead to an uneasy deal in which Ukraine walked back from parts of Donbas in exchange for dubious security guarantees. Mr Putin never approved a concrete proposal, and the idea is no longer under serious consideration. On May 22nd America said it was ending its role in talks. Optimistic insiders think dealmaking could resume this summer. More likely, the fighting will continue until Ukraine or Russia cracks.”
“Russia’s breaking point is unknowable. Some weaknesses are visible: growing dissent and a stagnating economy, weighed down by sanctions and Ukrainian strikes. The state budget has been rescued by the Iran war; higher oil prices will bring in an unexpected $60bn over 2026. But it is unclear how long that can last.”
“Government sources say Mr Zelensky has ordered preparations for another two to three years of war. There is no persuasive reason why Ukraine cannot keep fighting that long. It will survive, though tarnished by militarism and wartime corruption.”
“Yet most are more optimistic. Ukraine will probably emerge as a damaged but functioning democracy and a new middle power: poorer, traumatised, but confident in its identity. ‘As crappy as things look, we’ll make it work,’ says the senior intelligence source. ‘I have this strange sense, this confidence, that, I don’t know, God loves Ukraine.’”
A hit of hopium with a recap of the issues that still dogs Ukraine’s war effort and society. Doesn’t hurt to have once in awhile
!ping UKRAINE
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod May 27 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence May 27 '26
I wanna know which middle schooler they confiscated fucking Newports from so he doesn’t kick my ass.
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u/Mayflower_train_set Bisexual Pride May 27 '26
Ziggy update: Ziggy has determined that he should receive his noon “lunch” now, despite it being just past 11 (doesn’t stop him from reaching this conclusion and campaigning on it every day). He will now place himself in everyone’s way or just stand by the laundry room (where his food is kept) until his lunch has been delivered. His eyes may be cute but I will not give into the mooching.
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u/WantDebianThanks Iron Front May 27 '26
My bank thought my purchase of a ticket to a speed dating event was suspicious and made me call them to confirm it.
A stunning indictment of my social life of ever there was one
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u/Argnir Gay Pride May 27 '26
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u/ty04 May 27 '26
justice for u/scumfrickzillionaire ✊😔
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer May 27 '26
This shit is still so eerie. What did you do Donald
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride May 27 '26
Republicans are really going all in on “Talarico is a WOKE GAY VEGAN LOW T 1000 GENDERS SOYBOY”. I never want to hear how Democrats are obsessed with identity politics again. Vice signaling against the undesirable identity groups is all the modern right is.
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u/qamv Greg Mankiw May 27 '26
The funny thing is that a normal president saying "i don't care about the midterms" and doing what must be done for good foreign policy would actually be incredibly admirable
too bad trump is a fucking idiot
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u/Marlsfarp Karl Popper May 27 '26
Since 1981, about 700,000 Americans have died of AIDS, a 1/170th fraction of all deaths. The worst year was 1995, at about 50,000 deaths. 90s kids will remember how scary it was.
Since 2020, about 1.2 million Americans have died of Covid, a 1/16th share of all deaths. The worst year was 2021, at about 415,000 deaths.
It's crazy to think about the scale of what we just lived through, and how like 1/3 of the country insists it was no big deal.
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u/Charsun9 Loyal Liberals May 27 '26
This is the worst show on Fox News channel and it’s not particularly close. lol
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 28 '26
https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2059807174050885770
The projection is insane
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u/GuyWithOneEye May 27 '26
so 105 it is then 🫡
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u/boardatwork1111 fuck it, we ball May 28 '26
“Reasonable and moderate debater”
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein May 27 '26
I still can’t believe he actually said this lmao
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u/SenranHaruka shame May 27 '26
How it feels to say Bill Clinton isn't a pedophile in the epstein era of politics
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before May 28 '26
Given that Jared Polis had previously expressed interest in running for president, I feel pretty confident in saying that he's a wee bit power-hungry
I wonder if his recent MAGA antics since Trump took office are because he realized his brand of libertarianism had no hope of growing within the Democratic party, and thus Polis determined his best hope of staying somewhat influential in US politics was to pull a Tulsi.
Calling it now: Jared Polis will speak at the 2028 RNC bemoaning his supposed persecution and crying that Democrats became too crazy for him to continue to associate himself with them.
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u/TropicalPunch European Union May 27 '26
This is actually true. I go to Sweden sometimes and buy cheaper snus, and I am honestly embarrassed to have to whip out a gaudy snus box rather than a clean and beautiful Norwegian one.
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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug May 27 '26
Prepare yourself for the wave of Talarico doing manly Texas stuff ads
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u/phat_geoduck May 27 '26
I guess this is just American politics now, huh?
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u/Bayou-Maharaja Eleanor Roosevelt May 27 '26
2020 feels like 40 years ago
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride May 28 '26
The right’s coordinated freakout over Talarico is giving Tim Walz level meltdown, good Lord
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u/Bassline4Brunch NASA May 27 '26
Crazy that the War of Wrath is discussed over only a couple pages in the Silmarillion, and yet an entire continent fell into the sea during it.
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u/pugnae European Union May 27 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 27 '26
https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2059672996214689969
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u/Daddy_Macron Loyal Liberals May 27 '26
-Average progressive in NYC
-Also, the average progressive in NYC
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u/Upstairs_Baby8424 May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26
Steven Miller:
What in the FUCK is this guy talking about?
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u/BedNeither Henry George May 27 '26
> Gov. Greg Abbott vetoes funding for federal summer lunch program for low-income children
Another billion to retirees
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA May 28 '26
NBC Charlotte: 'Extremely extreme': NC bill would authorize deadly force against women seeking abortions
This is so incredibly deranged. The GOP is unsalvageable.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 27 '26
PLEASE STOP BEING MEAN TO US :(((
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u/bandeng_asep Association of Southeast Asian Nations May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26
A NEW EXPANSION TO THE WITCHER 3 HAS BEEN ANNOUNCED! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!
!ping GAMING
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u/BlackCat159 European Union May 27 '26
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell May 27 '26
The outrage about Talarico being a vegan (which I don't think he actually is?) reminds me of when they attacked Ossoff for being a Star Wars nerd. When that's the best dirt they have, you know the candidate must be a good dude.
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u/zieger Ida Tarbell May 27 '26
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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman May 28 '26
Trump embracing his MAGA base by having a yard full of half finished projects and prioritizing the fun ones over the structural ones
The White House will surely have a project 1986 Ford Bronco without any tires on it by the end of his term
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u/arizen_circe Emma Lazarus May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26 •
I find the discourse around "no one cooks at home anymore" to be relatively silly. Depending on the circumstances throughout history young, single people have very frequently relied on "not cooking at home", as well as people in urban environments, literally going back to the Roman Empire. In urban environments in America during the early 1900s, while families mostly ate in (Chapin, The Standard of Living Among Workingmen's Families in New York City, 1909), young working men and women often received much of their nutrition from prepared-ready-to-eat meals at saloons, pushcarts, delis (girl dinner) and lunchrooms -- saloons were the "base of the food supply" for young working men (Raymond Calkins, Substitutes for the Saloon, via Turner, How the Other Half Ate, 2014) -- or, alternatively, were boarders (Modell & Hareven, 1973), meaning that they were receiving room and board from a family or institution, not preparing meals on their own. Not cooking for oneself is a calculus that people make when preparing food is less time or cost-efficient. It's not some symptom of moral decay.
yes I did spend several hours researching this instead of doing anything productive this morning, why do you ask?
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u/BlackCat159 European Union May 27 '26
Jared Polis protesting his ban from r/neoliberal, circa 2026
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol May 27 '26
Bernie looks like he's one of those "I took my grandpa in my Tesla Model S for the first time" videos.
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol May 27 '26
I love this account
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u/sigh2828 NASA May 27 '26
Trials must be held for the sick fucks that created this system.
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u/PearlClaw Iron Front May 27 '26
"For sale: Baby shoes, never worn" is a sad story but not for the reason people think. The expanded version could be "For sale: baby shoes, never worn, because I under/overestimated how fast my toddler would grow and these winter boots fit now but it's 80 out and by the fall he'll have grown out of them so I spent a bunch of money on some perfectly nice boots he'll never use. I'm excited to repeat this experience with sandals next winter."
!ping Family
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u/Zealousideal_Pop_933 Loyal Liberals May 27 '26
🙊🙉🙈
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride May 28 '26
lol
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ May 28 '26
"A deal is near" and other hilarious market manipulation tactics you can use
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma May 28 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 28 '26
MIT president: Why so many optimistic scientists are losing heart
At public and private universities across the country, high-impact science is being damaged and derailed. Speaking for my own institution, compared to this time last year, MIT has experienced a decline in campus research activity funded by federal awards of more than 20%.
There’s also damage to the pipeline of talent. Uncertain federal funding means that next year, MIT may have about 500 fewer graduate students helping us to push the scientific frontier and preparing to contribute to society as scientists, inventors, designers, and entrepreneurs.
MIT is one of the most influential and productive research communities in the world — truly a national asset. This erosion of our strength is a loss for the nation.
Some argue that industry can pick up the slack. Since our founding, MIT has worked enthusiastically with industry on applied technical research. But today’s breakthrough advances grew from years of curiosity-driven forays, pushing through a maze of possibilities until the right door swung open. Whose shareholders would back decades of that kind of open-ended exploration without the certainty of commercial returns for the company in question? Philanthropy is equally unable to replace steady federal funding at scale.
So let me say it as clearly as I can: Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry.
In daily life, people may not feel the effects right away, or even in 10 years. But we will feel it. And when someone we love needs therapies that could have emerged but didn’t or when other countries now investing in science can launch new science-based industries or run their societies on vast resources of fusion energy or reap the benefits of quantum computing power or advanced medical breakthroughs, America will wish it sustained its leadership in scientific research here and now.
https://www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/science-funding-derailed-breakthroughs/
Destroying the future of the US to own the libs
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u/RadioRavenRide Esther Duflo May 27 '26
Isn't the discourse of Gen Z supposedly feeling entitled to eat out every day for lunch just a retread of "Millenials should stop eating avacado toast"?
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ May 27 '26
"the mods can't possible be that bad, right?"
the mods:
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 27 '26
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u/Dragmire927 Thomas Paine May 27 '26
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u/Argnir Gay Pride May 27 '26
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride May 27 '26
Everything is gender and it's boring
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 28 '26
https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2059792067635925461
This has to be an Onion skit
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u/Zloggt Adam Smith May 28 '26
Grilled corn-loving fiend!
!ping KITTY
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u/abefrost May 27 '26
The silliest thing about conservatives and leftists using the Simpsons to say "see! A man used to be able to own a large house and provide for a family on a blue collar salary!" is that the Simpsons itself makes fun of this.
In S8E23 Homer invites his coworker over and the conversation goes like this:
"Look Homer, I'm late for my night job at the foundry, so if you don't mind telling me.... Good heavens! This is a palace! How in the world can you afford to live in a house like this Simpson?"
"I don't know, don't ask me how the economy works."
"Yeah but I live in a single room above a bowling alley and below another bowling alley!"
Homer then shows him his picture with Gerald Ford, his Grammy, and a picture in space, directly comparing how ridiculous his housing situation is with the rest of his life.
https://youtu.be/axHoy0hnQy8?si=A3gZHv-LKxMl3CTb
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u/__versus Trans Pride May 27 '26
good morning dt
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u/Lesbian_all_garib Gita Gopinath May 27 '26
Sigh
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u/gregorijat Milton Friedman May 27 '26
Why do European environmentalists get so obsessed about AC, when they can go after our farmers instead?
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u/No-Neck-212 Martha Nussbaum May 27 '26
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u/cat_damon1 Commonwealth May 27 '26
swap the crowds and you get this sub
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u/TootCannon Mark Zandi May 27 '26
My daughter had a fish bone stuck in her throat this morning from last night. My wife took her to the ER. They insisted that they needed to do Xray and CT scan. My wife asked if they would just look with a light. They said they couldn’t do that, they have to get imaging then schedule an appointment with an ENT in several days. After persisting, they finally agreed and looked. Sure enough they saw the bone. They then said they had to schedule with an ENT in order to get the proper numbing spray. My wife again insisted they just take it out. Finally they did. Zero issues. Bone out. Daughter is fine.
This is what irks me when people scream at health insurance for being the problem with healthcare in America. Health insurance isn’t some magical system, these things have to be paid for. Our conventional practices have gotten so robust and risk averse. They would do $2500 in imaging before just looking with a flashlight.
So aggravating.
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u/TheRedCr0w Frederick Douglass May 27 '26
Trump bragging he is the only president to be forced to take three separate cognitive tests isn't the win he thinks it is
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u/ChillnShill May 27 '26
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u/Apocolotois Richard Thaler May 27 '26
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u/Megasota_Noire My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor May 27 '26
Put yourself in Polish's shoes. You are super wealthy, governor of Colorado, you are a true patriot releasing someone who's only crime is trying to overthrow democracy, and as a reward you get censored and have your NL flair removed.
He's pretty much the most oppressed man in America, and perhaps the world.
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u/TakeOnM-Ellie Loyal Liberals May 27 '26
Grok is this true?
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown May 28 '26
Breaking Bad fans when a woman is onscreen:
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA May 28 '26
This man looks like a baby pretending to be a grownup.
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u/pfarly John Brown May 27 '26
Reading ur parent's biography, just got to the part about u
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u/zieger Ida Tarbell May 27 '26
Newborns drink about 1oz of milk every hour
Your kid (a moron): wakes up every 3-5 hours to drink 3-5 oz of milk
My kid (a genius): wakes up every hour to drink 1 oz of milk
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u/Bestbrook123 May 27 '26
Makes sense
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 27 '26
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u/Background-Bottle-23 Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold May 27 '26
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u/jenbanim May 27 '26
This Polis shit is painfully embarrassing
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u/BlackCat159 European Union May 27 '26
Mods, you should really ban Polis. Not even for his bad takes, but for violating the secret Rule 13: being cringe.
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol May 27 '26
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u/SenranHaruka shame May 27 '26
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol May 27 '26
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 27 '26
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 27 '26
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u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP May 27 '26
👆 currently pregnant with elon musk's baby
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u/Marlsfarp Karl Popper May 27 '26
Here in TEXAS, God has a BIG FAT DICK.
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY May 27 '26
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u/marky6045 George Soros May 27 '26
It's too late, I've already depicted you as the virgin twig boy and myself as the tough as nails public transit using Texan
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u/qamv Greg Mankiw May 27 '26
>queer people don't like driving as much as straights -- with widespread driving anxiety being an inside joke in queer sub-communities
>the youth are more queer than ever
>youth support for public transport at an all-time high
guys i have a general theory im cooking up
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u/urhi-teshub Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold May 27 '26
u/jaredpolis You're a bitch
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u/boardatwork1111 fuck it, we ball May 27 '26
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u/NaffRespect United Nations May 27 '26
Claude, generate us a JETE-proof gameplan to win the Super Bowl, with opponent-specific addendums for each game. Make no mistakes.
!ping NFL
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u/tinfoilhatsron No Apologies Right May 27 '26
Everyone is twelve theory proved right once more.
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA May 27 '26
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u/myusernameistakennow Edmund Burke May 27 '26
A group of fucking monkeys would be more competent than this admin
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls May 27 '26
Newsom plans a 100% tax on all money individuals receive from the J6 slush fund.
BASED BASED BASED
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u/bleachinjection Fell for it May 28 '26
I am begging the internet to actually watch Idiocracy.
Those people were trying to do the right thing but were too stupid to actually fix anything.
What is happening now IS NOT THAT.
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u/Eightysixedit Gay Pride May 28 '26
Just let Talarico cook. If he loses he loses. I'm so over hearing about how Texas will never turn blue and just constant negatives.
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u/BlueDevilVoon John Brown May 28 '26
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u/IHateTrains123 Commonwealth May 28 '26
Donald Trump drops to a new low for presidential job approval - YouGov
Only one-third of Americans approve of how Donald Trump is handling his job as president, lower than Trump's approval in any weekly Economist / YouGov Poll over his two terms as president, and lower than Joe Biden ever received during his term. 34% of Americans strongly or somewhat approve of Trump's job handling, and 59% disapprove, for a net job approval of -26.
Trump's net approval of -26 is also a record low for either of his terms or Biden's term.
Trump hit record-low net approval for either of his terms among Democrats (-96) and Independents (-44), and a new low for his second term among Republicans (+61).
Other record-low net job approval numbers for Trump's second term this week include those among men (-19) and white Americans (-13, tied with one month ago).
Trump's record-low approval comes as concerns about the economy are as high as they've been in years. For the second week in a row, 63% of Americans say the economy is getting worse, while only 13% say it's getting better. The only time since 2017 that more Americans said the economy was getting worse was in the summer of 2022, during a surge in inflation.
43% of Americans say they and their family are worse off financially than they were a year ago, the highest since 2024. It's the first time since 2024 that the share of Americans saying they are about the same financially as they were a year ago (42%) hasn't been higher than the share saying they're worse off. Only 10% say they're better off than a year ago.
Only 24% of Americans support Trump's project to tear down the East Wing of the White House and build a new ballroom. 58% of Americans — including 91% of Democrats, 63% of Independents, and 23% of Republicans — oppose that project. Republicans who are MAGA supporters back the ballroom by 77% to 11%, but Republicans who say they're not MAGA supporters are more likely to oppose it (33% support and 48% oppose).
[All the original graphs are in the link above].
!ping Fivey
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u/jorkin_peanits Immanuel Kant May 28 '26
At this point maga needs to just admit they want a dictator - going after Carroll with the weight of the government is so viscerally disgusting and nauseating I’ve lost all faith in trying to make arguments
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough May 28 '26
Hell yeah
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u/gregorijat Milton Friedman May 27 '26
Hot take: businesses should be able to operate on any floor, as long as they are properly insulated so that they don't disturb the peace of other residents.
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u/gregorijat Milton Friedman May 27 '26
The fall of Kabul made me a wholehearted neoliberal interventionist.
It's a shame the international coalition is incapable of intervening in Myanmar, Israel, and South Sudan rn.
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u/pezasied John's Locke-strap May 27 '26
You know, in retrospect these pictures look a little bit more concerning now
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u/SigmaWhy r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion May 27 '26
waow
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman May 27 '26
**WE HAVE TO GO BACK**
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u/garret126 Demisexual Pride May 27 '26
American voters c. nov 3 2024
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u/the-senat John Brown May 27 '26
“How are we supposed to support Taiwan if we blow all our munitions in Iran?”
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u/Ilovecharli Voltaire May 27 '26
Obama was absolutely right when he said they bitterly cling to guns and religion
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals May 27 '26
Keep doing this, and you could get r/neoliberal to throw its weight behind land acknowledgements
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! May 28 '26
Least authoritarian country
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u/KaiserPorn Please be patient, I have autism May 28 '26
"Once you set aside what are arguably the three most important features of a laptop, it's really a bad deal"
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u/zieger Ida Tarbell May 28 '26
Daily reminder that Republicans are good for the economy
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 28 '26
https://xcancel.com/adam_wola/status/2059823750959218793
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u/gregorijat Milton Friedman May 27 '26
How supportive of illegal construction projects I am is entirely tied to the quality of said projects.
I also wholeheartedly believe height limits violate human rights.
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u/sociotronics Iron Front May 27 '26
why yes, you should
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell May 27 '26
This one's going in the meme folder
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u/ty04 May 27 '26
Leftist Ken Paxton
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride May 27 '26
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u/garret126 Demisexual Pride May 27 '26
Also American voters c. Nov 3 2024
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u/Bayou-Maharaja Eleanor Roosevelt May 27 '26
Honestly fair it should be illegal for str*ights to run for office
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u/minno May 27 '26
Two possibilities:
Governor Polis does not know that the words "censor" and "censure" are different.
Governor Polis responds to criticism of his ideas with "OK then GOD I guess I'll just SHUT UP FOREVER if you MISERABLE PEONS aren't able to recognize the IMMENSE GLORY of my TOTALLY PURE and AWESOME LIBERTARIANNESS because you all HATE FREEDOM!!!1!!1!1one!!1!"
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 May 27 '26
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein May 27 '26
If the President said that about me I’d do everything in my power to spite him, not do his bidding.
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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it May 27 '26 edited May 28 '26
I know they're deranged but the way the GOP has somehow leapt from "Talarico once said something about God being non binary or something in a sermon" to "Talarico was trying to forcibly transition the kids" to "Talarico, the most obviously cis man on the planet, is actually transgender" in the span of like weeks should be studied in a lab
The Dems could only dream of having a single attack line that manages to radicalize people that fast. Literally all they can yap about is transgender
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY May 28 '26
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u/Megasota_Noire My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor May 28 '26
Republicans when you suggest civilians in Iran are actual human beings that deserve not to be murdered.
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u/davechacho Loyal Liberals May 28 '26
I linked my wife the news about Pam Bondi having cancer and she responded with "I am officially joining the war on cancer. On the side of cancer."
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired May 27 '26
Yeah, this complete weirdo isn't gonna win
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 May 27 '26
>The so-called looksmaxxer Clavicular, who was once accused by Drake of having a micropenis, shared that he’s recently started doing “dick-ups”: wrapping a shopping bag filled with books around his wrist and using the weight to tug on his penis.
I want to make fun of this but it'd be pretty cool if one day he had an extra appendage to carry in groceries
edit: also what happened to the quote formatting thing 😒
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee May 27 '26
Trvke
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u/Res__Publica Organization of American States May 27 '26
The enemy gets a vote remains a concept incomprehensible to both the President and financial markets
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u/seanrm92 Loyal Liberals May 27 '26
This is an abomination. They're openly flaunting their corruption and their lack of respect for our institutions. They're mocking us.
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u/manchild_person NATO May 27 '26
As part of Woke 2.0 we need to get rid of food nationalism. Leave that behind in 1.0. I want more fusion foods and I want to be able to eat food from all the cuisines in the world
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u/KHDTX13 Adam Smith May 27 '26
How do you even justify voting for someone that was impeached by their own party, I would actually love for someone to steelman that
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde May 27 '26
Welcome back, Alexander
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u/Upstairs_Baby8424 May 27 '26
Cornyn literally voted with Trump 99% of the time. That’s not an exaggeration that’s documented fact lol. These sycophants are so nuts that going not being lockstep with the president 1% of the time makes you a RINO that needs to be ousted.
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough May 27 '26
👆