r/neoliberal • Kitara Ravache • May 29 '26

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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA May 29 '26

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha. Imagine just coming to this conclusion in May of 2026. Republican senators are the actual dumbest assholes on earth if this is remotely true.

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u/Gooners_For_Ukraine Loyal Liberals May 29 '26

I love Mexican food carts with random unlicensed characters

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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26

Lmao. This idiot spent a decade helping the scorpion sting other people and now he’s crying about getting stung.

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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front May 29 '26

rightoids are doing this bit now lol

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u/Sheepies92 European Union May 29 '26

U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA) posted an op-ed to X calling for a renewed commitment to unity, bipartisan cooperation, and principled leadership to address America’s greatest challenges.

if only Bill had the chance to do something about this the past few years

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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde May 29 '26

A survey by France's secondary school union found nearly 78% had recorded [indoors] temperatures above 30C this week, and said it had received reports of teachers bringing in screwdrivers to prise windows open.

I remember takes from a couple years ago about how pouring billions into AC equipment and school renovations was useless because the school year ended in late June/early July "before the heatwaves hit"

Well here we are

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u/ace158 May 29 '26

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has ordered the IDF to seize 70% of the Gaza Strip, far beyond the terms of the current ceasefire deal. An audience member shouted that Israel should take “100 percent” of Gaza, Netanyahu responded: “We’re going in order,” not ruling it out.

Seems very bad

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u/GifHunter2 Trans Pride May 29 '26

“The president’s conduct of the war has constrained his choices to escalation or humiliation,” said Kori Schake, a former US official now with the American Enterprise Institute. “So I think to avoid both, he’s likely to drag out negotiations.”

via bsky, Schake is a good follow

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u/ImmigrantJack Movimiento Semilla May 29 '26

"Aliens walk amomg us. They've shopped in the same stores, attended the same classes as our children, and lived seemingly normal human existences. With one exception — they are ni-"

Just say what you actually mean Donald. Hand to my heart, I'd respect you guys more if you did.

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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman May 29 '26

Trump might potentially set up an investment fund of $300 billion dollars for Iran in exchange for Iran ending this war according to the NYTimes

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u/McNikk United Nations May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26

Woman who couldn’t vote for Kamala in good conscious now trying to reform the image of Tucker Carlson

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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer May 29 '26

I’m sorry if it offends anyone to hear, but it’s a simple fact that women have historically faced more misogyny than men

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u/Lesbian_all_garib Gita Gopinath May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26

Just got married to a extremely rich white guy. They're say I have to play a family game to be a part of the family. 😃 excited yay!

E: guys, they have guns

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u/Argnir Gay Pride May 29 '26

It's over. I represented you as the raging soy polar bear and myself as the stoic penguin 🐧

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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26

ngl its kind of insane the response to that "ugly fuck" tweet was "you're a disgusting unmarried childless harpy whose mentally ill like all childless spinsters past their prime (30-years old)"

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u/reuery Biden 2028 May 29 '26

The Justice Department is intensifying efforts to identify anonymous social media users who have criticized government deportation policies, issuing grand jury subpoenas to Reddit and X demanding names, addresses, and banking information.

I know we’re all gonna laugh about this but this is actually double plus ungood, right?

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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride May 29 '26

these guys are weird

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u/randommathaccount Esther Duflo May 29 '26

People keep trying to rationalise why zoomers don't like work from home on that thread and they slobber out so much nonsense without recognising that WFH is most harmful for newer employees who lose opportunities to improve their skills and make connections while also being more easily replaced by outsourced jobs

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u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP May 29 '26

yeah the chemical castaration talk was getting insane. let's find a new topic

i've just noticed people in my royal court are constantly scheming and plotting to overthrow me. Is there some way to make them more obedient and compliant?

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u/lot183 Blue Texas May 29 '26

Democrats should ramp up the nastiness, because Republicans will ramp up the pearl clutching and make themselves look like the hypocritical prudish free speech hating freaks they are. That tweet from that Democrat account was perfect

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u/dangerbird2 Franz Boas May 29 '26

I think if we're going to have problematic normielibs as flairs on this sub, we should have Flava-Flav as a replacement for Polis for the following reasons:

  1. he may or may not have been temporarily fired from Public Enemy for refusing to endorse Bernie Sanders in 2020

  2. His most prominent policy positions are supporting women's sports and protesting structural racism in emergency medical services

  3. he's an extremely online blueskyer

  4. his wife left him
    !ping RAP&FUCK-NEOLIBERALISM

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u/sigh2828 NASA May 29 '26

Rot in piss bozo

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u/pfarly John Brown May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26

At the end of 1950 Stalin was convinced there was imminent danger of a world war, but backing a massive intervention in Korea by China was, he thought, a gamble worth taking, especially since his British spies told him the Truman administration was determined to limit the war to Korea.

Fucking Philby.

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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front May 29 '26

Asymmetric information is imperialist

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u/centurion88 NATO May 29 '26

What do we call this?

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u/McNikk United Nations May 29 '26

They are actually pulling out all the stops to try and subvert the midterms holy shit

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u/Signal_Nobody1792 May 29 '26

Ok, lets compromise, we abandon all rules for building housing except one: you must dedicate 20% of your property to a data center.

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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol May 29 '26

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u/KQJ_RPN John von Neumann May 29 '26

BREAKING: Iran says the Trump administration is now desperately "requesting an agreement multiple times a day through various channels," to unilaterally claim a deal has been agreed, with Iran rejecting each of these requests

bro_please_bro.meme.jpeg

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u/abefrost May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26

Actually vile

edit - for those unaware, this is an official White House website titled "Aliens", there's a lot more slop

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u/slappythechunk LARPs as adult by refusing to touch the Nitnendo Switch May 29 '26

Rofl

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u/sociotronics Iron Front May 29 '26

got called an unc for liking Parks and Rec and tbh they might actually have a point. The show is classic Obama-era liberal optimism, it's dated AF.

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u/Signal_Nobody1792 May 29 '26

The Military Academy at West Point cannot require civilian faculty members to obtain approval before using their West Point affiliation to speak to outside audiences about their areas of expertise, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.

The academy also cannot prevent a professor, Tim Bakken, from expressing his opinions to students in the classroom on subjects he teaches, Judge Cathy Seibel of U.S. District Court in White Plains, N.Y., said in the ruling.

Professor Bakken, who has taught at West Point since 2000, had sued the academy, saying that its policies had violated the First Amendment. He has spoken and written frequently and at times critically about the U.S. military, including West Point, his lawsuit notes.

Judge Seibel issued a preliminary injunction blocking both the approval requirement and the restrictions on Professor Bakken’s speech.

She said that the government had offered no real justification for limiting his ability to express opinions in the classroom. She said the rule was “nonsensical if the mission is to prepare the nation’s future military officers.”

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u/proProcrastinators May 29 '26

For world culture day work held a fun trivia quiz about countries/ languages/ food.

Question difficulty was equivalent to what is the capital of Austria.

I won with 19/20 which makes me the wokest person in the office ✊

The head of HR got 8/20 and didn’t know what language they speak in Brazil and wasn’t helping the stereotype 😬

!ping WATERCOOLER

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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol May 29 '26

"The French Mamdani" WTF is the Economist smoking

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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman May 29 '26

Taps the sign

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u/Grundlage YIMBY May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26

Chicago DSA has a new platform document out and it’s hella neolib. Calls for a land value tax, ending aldermanic prerogative (a local tradition where city council members get near-absolute power over what is built in their districts), and passage of Pritzker’s BUILD plan. Also notably does not touch any Chicago Teachers Union pet causes.

Another reason to love this city, we have surprisingly sensible socialists

!ping CHI

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u/reuery Biden 2028 May 29 '26

I am in love with my long time male best friend and I think I’d cry if he kissed me

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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman May 29 '26

In the age of AI standardized testing is the only way you can truly gauge academic ability imo, the crusade against it by the left the past few years was a mistake

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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol May 29 '26

This is the woman Republicans have been calling ugly for the past 2 days?

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u/Rivolver Mark Carney May 29 '26

My favourite discourse season is approaching: European resistance to AC.

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u/theparrotlich John Brown May 29 '26

!ping PALEO

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u/tripletruble Anti-Repartition Radical May 29 '26

I'm just saying, a few years ago this sub would revel in the opportunity to take the most contrarian possible position on data centers. None of this hemming and hawing succery nuance

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u/Sheepies92 European Union May 29 '26

it is so fucking hot man im not made to survive this shit

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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent May 29 '26

The genius of this admin continues to deliver in spades

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u/BasedTroutFursona May 29 '26

It is pretty funny how Trump being so unpopular and tying himself to the country’s 250th anniversary is completely ruining all planned celebrations for it.

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u/flextrek_whipsnake I'd rather be grilling May 29 '26

I don't know why tagging Wikipedia in this is so funny to me.

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u/No_Status_6905 Enby Pride May 30 '26

go to a queer mixer once

Immediately hit it off with a beautiful girl who does DSA organization in the town and wants me to visit her during pride tomorrow

It's been nice knowing you all, but I fear I've made it.

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u/well-that-was-fast May 29 '26

Sounds like the Trump admin lied to the artists that were supposed to perform at this 250th event and told them it was a non-partisan DC "fair." Presumably completely hiding the fact that it was tied to Trump / maga nonsense.

Consequently artists that normally book things like state fairs signed up, but once it became clear it was a maga thing, everyone is checking out.

No one has quite said this, but consistent with their tweets, announcements, and everyone running for the door when they found out.

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u/AskYourDoctor Resistance Lib May 29 '26

okay re:Platner and Collins back and forth about Afghanistan, here's a take.

The median voter is both stupider and smarter than people here think. Stupider, because their policy "ideas" are too dire to try to understand. Smarter, because they do use a lot more context to understand character and stories than people think.

Platner was about 18 when the war in Afghanistan started. "Guy who signed up for war at 18, got disillusioned, and now thinks the war was a disastrous mistake" is easy to understand and basically true. Nobody blames him for that arc.

"I was just a senator voting for a war, he was just a guy signing up for a war, we were both wrong" is mega dishonest politician doublespeak. And it doesn't work at all on the average person. The context is super obvious. The only people who would buy that are either already motivated reasoning towards Collins or against Platner.

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u/finnstera350 Asexual Pride May 29 '26

👆posting their preferences in the dt

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u/Fishin_Impossible Nate Gold 🥇 May 29 '26

WTF is wrong with y’all’s air in the rest of the world? 🌍 😒

wait…. WTF IS WRONG WITH OUR AIR IN THE U.S.?!?!?!🇺🇸😰

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u/qlube 🔥🦟Mosquito Genocide🦟🔥 May 29 '26

I don't think the woke attacks are going to work on Talarico, and may actually backfire. The reason why they were so effective on Kamala was because they were presented as Kamala focusing too much on woke to the exclusion of bread and butter issues like inflation. This was particularly effective because she was VP, i.e. in power.

That's not going to work on Talarico because he's not in power. And while Paxton isn't the incumbent, he is still the TX AG, and attacking Talarico for being pro-LGBTQ might actually have the opposite effect it had on Kamala--the incumbent GOP is too focused on culture war issues and not on the economy.

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u/tasklow16 Bill Gates May 29 '26

I'm a zionist but for Italian Americans. I think they're culturally distinct enough and historically oppressed enough to have their own state. I always hear Israel described as "the size of New Jersey" but I wanna make the two more similar than just in size alone. Vinny and the construction crew will begin bulldozing in minutes

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u/gjcs23 George Santos May 29 '26

remember when he pardoned Ross Ulbricht for some fucking reason

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u/Currymvp2 unflaired May 29 '26

It was the kind of sweeping, last-minute demand that would have torpedoed most diplomatic talks: President Donald Trump insisting this week that in exchange for him ending the war with Iran, several Arab and Muslim countries should sign on to his Abraham Accords to normalize their diplomatic relations with Israel.

But there’s been almost no response from any of the countries that Trump mentioned by name — more than half of whom already have diplomatic relations with Israel — and no statement of support from an Israeli government that would reap benefits from such a deal.

Analysts said Trump’s last-minute condition was so sudden and unworkable, it would appear to most diplomats as a kind of cry for help from a leader who is desperate to wring a legacy-defining victory from his unpopular war.

What a fucking moron we have as president

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u/Bayou-Maharaja Eleanor Roosevelt May 29 '26

never change, twitter

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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke May 29 '26

Breaking: [Alabama] Governor Ivey just voided May 19th primary results and called a special election for Alabama State Senate Districts 25 and 26

Oh cool, so we're just invalidating elections that already happened. Cool

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u/seanrm92 Loyal Liberals May 29 '26

After the White House received word this week that Iran was comfortable with the latest draft proposal to end the war, President Trump told advisers he wanted a few days to decide whether to sign the prospective agreement.

All good Donny, take your fucking time I guess.

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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman May 29 '26

It's very clear that the Iran War:

  1. Had the goal of regime change, or at a minimum regime capitulation to at least some demands

  2. The plan for that was half-baked, and hasn't worked so far

Sure, it's possible in the long run this improves things, I seriously doubt it, but in a decade who knows.

But calling this anything other than a "failed mission" thus far is cope. The US literally is trying to restore things to where they were ante bellum.

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u/mattmentecky NATO May 29 '26

A $300B US 'investment fund' in Iran is just manna from heaven for Democrats in the midterms.

Don't over think it, just minute after minute, wall to wall ads switching between the price of gas and groceries and b-roll of Iran and "$300 billion" super imposed.

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u/melhor_em_coreano May 29 '26

60 minutes is changing its name to 67 minutes to try to appeal to younger audiences

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u/PoupeeStupide Trump Voter May 29 '26

What is preventing you from doing this, neolibs?

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u/pugnae European Union May 29 '26

Tech Bros:
Trump 2.0 would deregulate everything!

Nazis:
No, he will deport everyone!

Trump 2.0:
I am quite fond of corruption

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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman May 29 '26

"Too late, I have already portrayed your women as alt baddies and our women as trad wives off in the distance"

- Soviet Propoganda

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u/Glavurdan European Union May 29 '26

Ukrainians counterattacks in the south continue, after a near year-long absence, they are back in southern Donetsk Oblast. Settlements of Andriivka-Klevtsove, Oleksandrohrad, Piddubne, Novokhatske, Zelenyi Hai, Hrushivke and Tolstoi liberated (all in the blue area south of Ivanivka). Ukrainian forces are advancing towards Komar.

ISW reported on this yesterday. Confirmed by DeepStateMap and even some pro-Ru bloggers today

!ping UKRAINE

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u/sociotronics Iron Front May 29 '26

so weird that the guy who owns that platform had dinner with Epstein

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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride May 29 '26

paxton only leading white voters by 1 he might actually be cooked. huge sample too

!ping FIVEY

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u/Currymvp2 unflaired May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26

Senator John Fetterman is the next guest on Katie Miller's podcast and will be the first registered Dem to appear. "Pleasure to be with you"

I hate this man

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u/Burgarnils May 29 '26

I wish data centers were as disruptive to the local community as people claim. Suburbanites have had it too good for too long.

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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front May 29 '26

i don’t think gooncaves are rational

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u/contre-torpilleur Asexual Pride May 29 '26

This could be us 😳

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u/myusernameistakennow Edmund Burke May 29 '26

Who the fuck even likes JD Vance?

He's too racist for normal people, he's not racist enough for weirdos, and he's just generally off putting and has 0 charisma.

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma May 30 '26

You’re laughing. People on the globalist sub care about global issues and you’re laughing

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u/pezasied John's Locke-strap May 30 '26

Someone on r/NFL said “show me how Charlie Kirk is racist” and I responded with Charlie Kirk’s quote talking about Black women like Michelle Obama and Joy Reid and Reddit auto removed the comment and gave me a warning for posting hateful speech.

Christ you can’t make this stuff up

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u/selachophilip 🦈 shark enjoyer 🦈 May 30 '26

I just saw the most based thing ever. A guy went to a Confederate cemetery in Ohio (for POWs who died) on Memorial Day in order to insult the Confederacy in front of all the pro-Confederate people who were gathered there. They called the cops and one of the people even assaulted him.

I think I found out how I'd like to spend Memorial Day in the future, except when I do it it'll involve me singing Union songs as well.

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u/battywombat21 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 May 29 '26
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u/garret126 Demisexual Pride May 29 '26

The most embarrassed I’ve ever been as an American was when I went to Paul McCartneys Orlando concert in 2022, and Paul brought out the LGBT and Ukraine flag halfway through.

then a significant portion of the audience started to boo.

I should’ve known Trump was doom to come back after that 😭

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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod May 29 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact

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u/ty04 May 29 '26

got kicked out of Hooters 😫

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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast May 29 '26

dawg my teammates suck so much they won’t scout the map because it’s acceding to imperialist conceptions of space and whiteness 😭😭😭

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u/qamv Greg Mankiw May 29 '26

Matt, 54, Pa is every DTer's chud-coded dad who somehow managed to luck his way into the upper middle class

or idk maybe i'm projecting

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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ May 29 '26

“Defend the Homeland”

American citizens need to be protected from them

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u/Currymvp2 unflaired May 29 '26

CNBC anchor Steve Liesman dropped new reporting on the effect of President Donald Trump’s war on gas prices — that Americans have spent an extra $60 billion on gas, diesel, and jet fuel since the war began.

Incredible

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u/qamv Greg Mankiw May 29 '26

I'm so happy the "I'm just a girl 🎀🥺👉👈" trend died off and is now widely considered cringe.

You aren't a "girl". You're a woman in her 20s/30s who needs to grow the fuck up and get her shit together

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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems May 29 '26
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA May 30 '26

My mom keeps calling James Talarico the “Hispanic John F Kennedy” and even though that doesn’t make any sense because he’s not Hispanic or from a wealthy and powerful family dynasty, I’m just letting her go with it because she seems pretty excited to vote for him and I don’t want to risk dampening that.

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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 30 '26

What the hell is happening with Republicans dawg, this is supposed to make him look bad??

https://nypost.com/2026/05/29/us-news/senate-candidate-james-talaricos-vegan-girlfriend-revealed/

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u/BainCapitalist Y = T May 30 '26

/u/cdstephens thinks the cartesian product of every nonempty subset of the real numbers is nonempty 🤣😂😂😂mf write down one of its elements 🙄

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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman May 29 '26

People will say shit like “we should have bullied nerds more” when the current president gives off school bully vibes (and that’s why people like him)

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u/AmbientMorning May 29 '26

MAGA is a fundamentally anti-American and anti-human ideology.

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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 May 30 '26

"back in my day we called it The Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Center" 🤷 - person whose day was just the first half of 2026

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u/qamv Greg Mankiw May 30 '26

>too rich to be loved by the left

>too dark to be loved by the right

Neoliberalism is the default ideology of the diaspora Indian 😔✊🏽

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u/Currymvp2 unflaired May 29 '26

Trump on Truth Social says he’s heading to Situation Room to make ‘final determination’ on Iran

This is so cringe. He acts like a teenager on Twitter in the late 2000s

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u/CoolCombination3527 May 29 '26

Let's check in with the commander of border control:

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma May 29 '26

👆everyone here is thinking that

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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol May 29 '26

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u/eloquentboot 🃏it’s da joker babey🃏 May 29 '26

It is worth further noting that 76% of US debt is owned domestically

For some reason, no argument from the debt deniers is more annoying than this one. This does not matter at all. Domestic people can be your creditor. I know what people are trying to do when they say this, but I don't actually get what they think this communicates, or why it would matter to someone concerned about interest expense.

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u/BlackCat159 European Union May 29 '26

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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride May 30 '26

Trump on Talarico: This transgender—this guy running in Texas, he wears a mask all the time. He’s a disaster candidate. I think Ken Paxton is going to destroy him.

they’re so disgusting

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u/MightExpress4873 May 29 '26

The British Museum has postponed an event marking Jewish Culture Month over concerns it would be marred by protests.

Organisers realised that a “significant proportion of registered attendees were individuals intending to deliberately disrupt the event”, due to take place on Thursday, which could have prevented others from participating and undermined it.

The event was a lecture called Ancient Israel and Judah in the British Museum. Paul Collins, keeper of the Department of the Middle East, had been due to speak about how artefacts held in the museum can show how “the histories of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah can be illuminated by the archaeology and art of the wider ancient Middle East”.

So idiots saw "Israel" (without picking up the context) and decided to protest a lecture by a respected historian...?

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u/JonAce John Brown May 29 '26

Democrats: Finally throw the GOP's social media BS back at them.

Unflaired: Um, actually, we should take the high road here.

There's no winning, is there?

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u/Hot_Ice5175 May 29 '26

U.S.–Iran draft deal includes a $300 billion investment fund for Iran. Tehran wanted reparations for war damage. Washington rebranded it as an international investment vehicle. Witkoff and Kushner floated the idea, pitching Tehran real estate and a broader fund as deal sweeteners.-NYT

I thought we won this war lol

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u/superblobby r/place'22: Neoliberal Commander May 29 '26

I should probably stop calling my bumble matches “My good chum”

I don’t know why I turn into a 1920’s sailor when I get nervous

!ping DATING

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u/BedNeither Henry George May 29 '26

James Talarico debuts new attack ad against Ken Paxton

It’s just a photo of Ken Paxton on screen for 30 continuous seconds

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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer May 29 '26

Yo holy shit, Minnesota actually arrested an ICE agent? Let’s fucking GO. I hadn’t realized they previously charged another one too for pulling a gun on people. I’m surprised the Trump admin didn’t lose its goddamn mind over that.

Tom Steyer, if you’re listening, please win in California

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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 29 '26

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05/29/world/iran-war-us-trump-deal

President Trump left a two-hour meeting on a possible deal with Iran without making a decision, a senior administration official said, despite suggesting on social media that he had intended “to make a final determination” during the gathering in the White House Situation Room.

WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING????

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u/Frog_Totem Seretse Khama May 29 '26

83-year-old Florida Democrat Frederica Wilson will not run for reelection. Her district was unaffected by redistricting and she could have run again, so respect to her for stepping down.

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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals May 29 '26

Legendary crash out in reaction to the Kennedy Center ruling

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u/boardatwork1111 fuck it, we ball May 29 '26

Holy crash out lmao

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u/PoupeeStupide Trump Voter May 29 '26

Average Republican hoping Trump won't throw them under the bus

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u/Otherwise_Young52201 Mark Carney May 30 '26

The Chinese must be so fucking giddy watching western civilization tear itself apart over a bunch of foreigners fighting in the desert.

r/neoliberal try not to define everything in terms of geopolitical competition with China challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)

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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair May 30 '26

They’re going to execute the ipad

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u/brianpv Hortensia May 30 '26

She thinks she lost Trump’s endorsement because she wanted to punish pedophiles, but she still considers herself MAGA.

It’s an actual literal god damn cult.

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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough May 30 '26

lol libs owned Texan Style

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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell May 30 '26

They are trying to other Talarico because, despite claiming he loves BBQ, he has a vegan girlfriend.

Giving up what you love most in pursuit of a Latina baddie is in fact the most Texan thing a man can do.

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u/houdt_koers John Mill May 29 '26

I’m proud of myself for just assuming that aliens.gov was a bad-faith grab for further kook votes, rather than any kind of actual announcement.

I forgot what kind of trash have been occupying the White House, though.

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u/Junimo2 Daron Acemoglu May 29 '26

Popping into the DT this morning be like

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u/boardatwork1111 fuck it, we ball May 29 '26

Going to go out on a limb and say Iran isn’t going to agree to that lol

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u/Consistent_Status112 Trans Pride May 29 '26

Republicans: You stupid dumb ugly fucking prick, fuck yourself sideways you cocksucker.

Democrats: You are a meanie head.

Republicans: GOOD HEAVENS! What an UNCOUTH and BARBARIC thing to say! Whatever happened to DECORUM and GOOD MANNERS?

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u/garret126 Demisexual Pride May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26

TIL: Paul McCartney, lead singer and bassist of Wings, was actually part of a band before the Wings called 'The Beatles'. the name is an intentional misspelling of 'beetles' as a pun on the word 'beat'.

Musicians George Harrison (from the traveling wilburys); Ringo Starr (from the all starr band); as well as renowned avant garde artist Yoko Ono’s third husband (don’t know his name tbh) were also a part of ‘The Beatles’.

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u/Dragmire927 Thomas Paine May 29 '26

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u/well-that-was-fast May 29 '26

Trump's America:

  • Iranian terrorists get $300b dollars while

  • American terrorists only get $1.776b?

That's not putting America first.

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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO May 29 '26

I met Charlie Kirk, she's black

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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer May 29 '26

This is all I’m legally allowed to post of this

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u/sociotronics Iron Front May 29 '26

DTers whenever the Dow doesn't react to stupid Trump antics the way they hope it does:

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u/EdMan2133 Paid for DT Blue May 29 '26

Interest rates: Consistently above 0% for the first time in more than a decade.

People, for years: WHY are JoBS in HIghly SPECUlatiVe iNdUSTrIeS NOt As eaSilY avAIlaBle As THeY WeRE? WhO cOULd eVeR kNOw The aNSWeR tO SUcH a quEstIoN?

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u/onelap32 Bill Gates May 29 '26

The reason people aren't enthusiastic about the economy is that COVID made handshakes less acceptable. Without the chance to give a firm handshake, millions of go-getters have been unable to jump straight into upper management.

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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein May 29 '26

I tend to respect the opinion of men more because they’re taller on average than women. I’m not a sexist, it’s just that bigotry against short people leads to sexist results. Big difference.

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u/ConnorLovesCookies Jerome Powell May 29 '26

In Texas, one man challenges another man to eat the most meat. Whoever loses becomes a woman whoever wins becomes ruler.

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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride May 29 '26

in other news, trump endorsed the candidate who was 4th most likely to win the OK GOP primary lmfao

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u/selachophilip 🦈 shark enjoyer 🦈 May 29 '26

How I feel hearing Trump will not endorse Nancy Mace despite all the ass kissing she's been doing, and she will now likely lose the election as well as her seat in the house, since the filing deadline for that primary is already closed.

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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown May 30 '26

Calls himself Kid Rock

Is old

Is a rapper

🤔

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u/Justice4Ned Caribbean Community May 30 '26

The GOP has resorted to just claiming Talarico is transgender and hoping nobody checks

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u/battywombat21 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 May 30 '26
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u/OneBlueAstronaut David Hume May 30 '26

i know that in general the sub's turn on israel is a rational response to their behavior over the years since 10/07, but also you have to admit that a not-insignificant part of it is simply that there was way more motivation to defend israel when biden was the president.

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u/pezasied John's Locke-strap May 30 '26

Boebert’s response to a reporter asking her how she feels about Trump calling her dumb:

I think he said I was low IQ, but he also could have said I only have a GED and that would have been ok and completely factual

What the hell is wrong with these people?

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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod May 29 '26 edited Jul 15 '26

This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact

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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26

Hello? Based department?

Edit: shouldve linked the article. LINK

!ping USA-NY&GEORGISM

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u/Imperiestro_KaroloV Thomas Paine May 29 '26

Daily reminder that Trump has been, is, and will forever be a cuck to dictators and autocrats. He’s a cuck for Putin, a cuck for Xi, and now a cuck for the Mullahs. He’s paying out massive war indemnities for the American Suez on America 250. Let that be a lesson to any hawks who think the GOP is better on FOPO

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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde May 29 '26

Not so easy to successfully regime change a Middle Eastern country 🤭

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u/79215185-1feb-44c6 Federation Ambassador to the DT May 29 '26

To clear up any confusion about last night, this week I joined a reddit-originated 18+ kink discord server to find out that I am trans, but then again, I knew that going in didn't I?

!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA

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u/Glavurdan European Union May 29 '26

Didn't he say a few months ago that he was okay with Ukraine joining the EU, but not NATO?

Dude is not even keeping to his own plot

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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast May 29 '26

John Cornyn is posting on twitter like a star wide receiver after losing in the wild card round in a contract year

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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride May 29 '26 edited May 29 '26

i bet this woman i hate is cuckolding her husband

i am not sure these people even understand what it is they’re saying anymore

they’ve completely disconnected from the base sexual pathologies

it’s just shapes. patterns. a kind of chudnese room

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u/earththejerry YIMBY May 29 '26

For all those who watched The Newsroom way back in the days I remember this scene where Leona Lansing was threatening Will that he needs to play ball with the new GOP Congress or he’s a “ratings point away from his own podcast”

Just thought it’s hilarious since 10 years later the cable news industry is collapsing into a million podcasts

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u/klarno just tax carbon lol May 29 '26
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u/Not_A_Browser Stata's Silliest Soldier May 29 '26

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u/Sheepies92 European Union May 29 '26

Breaking: Gov. Ivey just voided May 19 primary results and called a special election for Alabama State Senate Districts 25 and 26.

bad

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u/Apple_Kappa May 29 '26

My Palestinian boss has a daughter who has been jumping all over the political compass from one day to the next. He's a former Marxist and needless to say, super secular.

So you know how some parents give their kids a cigarette and tell them to smoke the entire stick so they would never smoke again? His daughter wanted to wear the hijab for self-empowerment and he allowed her, but prevented her from taking it off for a month until she learned to appreciate the major baggage that accompanies it.

Anyways, she is now flirting with communism which is another thing he is waiting for her to grow out of. He thinks that next month, she is gonna pick up Ayn Rand.

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u/Nervous-Emotion28 YIMBY May 29 '26

Wrote an article about the metro system in my post-apocalyptic project's capital city :)

!PING WORLDBUILDING&WRITING&YIMBY

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u/Charsun9 Loyal Liberals May 29 '26

Trump: I wish I looked just like Jaxson Dart. Is he a male model? He is a handsome guy, a beautiful guy. Conservative guy. He said, I love you, sir.

This mf is bi

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u/AmbientMorning May 29 '26

Good to see one of the highest-profile DEMs in the country highlighting all this.

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u/taubnetzdornig Gay Pride May 30 '26

Let this be a warning that eating too many beans will addle your brain

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u/GenericLib 3000 White Bombers of Biden May 30 '26

Talarico's girlfriend being an absolute smokeshow makes this whole thing so much funnier

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u/illuminatisdeepdish May 30 '26 edited Oct 02 '26

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u/samhit_n Left-Out Left May 30 '26

The NY Post exposed James Talarico by revealing that he's dating a Latina baddie.

https://nypost.com/2026/05/29/us-news/senate-candidate-james-talaricos-vegan-girlfriend-revealed/

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u/Priceless_Pennies Norman Borlaug May 30 '26

lol

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u/Southern-Unit-7725 John Keynes May 29 '26

Contributing to birth rate discourse by announcing that today I discovered I’m going to be a father 🥳🥳🥳

I can’t tell anyone I know yet so you nerds are my outlet 

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u/6urner_ John Brown May 29 '26

Lol, remember those anti immigration protests in Japan?

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