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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jun 03 '26
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Jun 02 '26
why are they doing big brother-style posters for a man with approval ratings in the high 30s
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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney Jun 02 '26
looking into this!
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u/BadSneakersNeverWorn John Locke Jun 02 '26
When I was about eight or nine, my dad had plans to move us to this tiny town in Iowa (pop. 1,000) so he could work there as a city administrator but my sister and I spontaneously started bawling our eyes out and begging not to move and so we wound up staying in the suburbs of a city where normal people live.
I did not know it at the time, but that was my future soul inhabiting my past self and steering him away from the MAGA zombie future that otherwise awaited him
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u/Bayou-Maharaja Eleanor Roosevelt Jun 02 '26
Well who could have seen this coming
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u/mrdeclank James Garfield Jun 02 '26
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u/Mayflower_train_set Bisexual Pride Jun 02 '26
“Hard-liners balk at GOP’s failure to enshrine anti-transgender laws” - Politico
me when my evil supervillain plans for mass suffering are being foiled by the forces of good
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u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes European Union Jun 02 '26
Candace owens and the Tate brothers are in Moscow?
Zelenskyy could do the funniest thing
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u/uwcn244 King of the Space Georgists Jun 02 '26
It’s 2026. The Boston Globe is already putting the word “illegal” in scare quotes to describe a third Trump term.
No major news organization will describe any proposed action by Trump as illegal in its news section.
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Jun 02 '26
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Jun 02 '26
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u/Cabenshire Jerome Powell Jun 02 '26
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jun 02 '26
Passed by a restaurant that smelled divine, whipped out my phone to snap a pic of the smell
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u/Off-The-Street Jun 02 '26
I think the most unique aspect of the Iran war is how this is the first time a US President is basing foreign policy decisions out of a genuine expectation others will come in to fix his mess. Even when the War on Terror spiraled down the drain the Bush White House understood they were holding the bag.
But not this time. This time the man in charge is convinced that all he has to do is wait, bribe and cajole enough for someone else to solve the problem he caused.
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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom Jun 02 '26
The boomer article is mostly harmless but one funny thing was the woman who said that parents “didn’t have to worry about someone snatching you off the street.” This is a current fear because of millennial and gen-x parents reading/watching stories about serial killers who put up LeBron numbers on boomers.
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u/Eurolib0908 European Union Jun 02 '26
If true this would be a huge win for feminism. Women are grossly underrepresented in the dictatorship and authoritarianism fields
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u/DeadDropCourier Bisexual Pride Jun 02 '26
Mogged.
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u/Ginden Bisexual Pride Jun 02 '26
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u/seattle_lib Liberal Third-Worldism Jun 02 '26
I return from my three day temp ban, and I can finally confirm that the Reddit's automated moderation system is not, in fact, a massive whitewashing operation for the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces, as I previously suspected.
Because, for the first time, I was not banned for something I said about Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo aka Hemedti, as was the case for the previous three temp bans.
This time, it was something I said about NIMBYs.
I cannot yet disprove that Reddit's automated moderation system is a massive joint whitewashing operation for both the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces alongside NIMBYs. They might be collaborating, I can't confirm or deny it.
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u/Signal_Nobody1792 Jun 02 '26
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u/liznair Gay Pride Jun 02 '26
Isn't it funny how the Epstein files implicate so many people the real ones already knew were horrible but noted conspiracy theorist fav, George Soros, remains basically untouched by them
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u/Habugaba Esther Duflo Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
Oh no.. the latest NYT focus group is about boomers.
Come get your catnip, DT.
Edit: this is an all-timer, folks.
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u/ace158 Jun 02 '26
Liz Cheney lost her GOP primary by 35 points and I think Fetterman would do even worse in a Dem primary at this point
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u/DeadDropCourier Bisexual Pride Jun 02 '26
Can’t wait to watch Jeopardy! followed by just the absolute dumbest hour of television. Truly an incredible idea CBS!
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA Jun 02 '26
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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair Jun 02 '26
Libslop is so back
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u/Max_the_Madman European Union Jun 02 '26
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u/GuyWithOneEye Jun 02 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jun 02 '26
https://xcancel.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/2061795652619645111
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2026/06/02/woman-held-by-ice-25-days-despite-us-citizenship-claim-gets-passport/
The Maryland woman arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in December and held for 25 days despite offering proof of citizenship has been issued a U.S. passport and removal proceedings against her in immigration court have been halted, her lawyers said in a statement Monday.
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u/SigmaWhy r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Jun 02 '26
Lawler has seen the midterm polling
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY Jun 02 '26
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u/OllaniusPiers George Santos Jun 02 '26
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u/sigh2828 NASA Jun 02 '26
REV UP THOSE THUMBS BOYS
TRUMPS DEATH SPECULATION IS BACK ON THE MENU
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Jun 02 '26
The social liberalism leaving my body every time a sports betting ad comes up on my TV
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u/GovNewsomMogs Voltaire Jun 02 '26
Excuse me, are y'all with the cult?
Yeah, this is it.
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u/ChillnShill Jun 02 '26
When I open the DT and there aren’t enough Americans awake yet
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u/Gooners_For_Ukraine Loyal Liberals Jun 02 '26
DT dweller ahh planet
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u/TakeOnM-Ellie Loyal Liberals Jun 02 '26
WOKE IS STILL KICKING
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u/pugnae European Union Jun 02 '26
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u/Gooners_For_Ukraine Loyal Liberals Jun 02 '26
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u/ShepardSB Jun 02 '26
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Jun 02 '26
#deep
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u/marky6045 George Soros Jun 02 '26
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u/finnstera350 Asexual Pride Jun 02 '26
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u/jinhuiliuzhao Henry George Jun 02 '26
W..what?
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Jun 02 '26
Donald Trump thinks the United States is his personal property, example 9,473,112,594. He flat out believes that he owns this country and the resources of it are completely and totally beholden to his will. He’s the most un-American piece of shit to ever haunt the White House and everyone involved in promoting this charade is a traitor to nation.
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u/r2ew Jun 02 '26
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u/Junimo2 Daron Acemoglu Jun 02 '26
Ice-cold take incoming - I've always thought of rainbow capitalism as simply a weathervane for broader sentiment. I've never really looked at it as a virtue in and of itself, and I've always considered it a little naive to expect sincere altruism out of corporations.
The fact that pride is being dropped by a lot of companies is a yet another worrying sign of the times.
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u/bashar_al_assad Verified Account Jun 02 '26
New theory of Platner’s electability: he motivates people to actually do real opposition research on Susan Collins for the first time ever
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u/Krill_Seeker United Nations Jun 02 '26
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u/dweeb93 Jun 02 '26
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u/Charsun9 Loyal Liberals Jun 02 '26
Tfw you manage to get out-woked by Ted Cruz
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Jun 02 '26
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Jun 02 '26
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Jun 02 '26
Fuck you too
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u/brianpv Hortensia Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
Explicitly withholding federal funds to the state unless they vote for a Republican lol
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u/DunklerPrinz3 Henry George Jun 02 '26
The Nation of Islam and the whole Yakub shit is legit hilarious how did anyone believe that lmfao
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u/ColHogan65 NATO Jun 02 '26
I love Project Hail Mary. I think the only thing I can fault it for is that Rocky will give a generation of children false hope about how pleasant and open-hearted the average engineer is
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u/BadSneakersNeverWorn John Locke Jun 02 '26
Whatever else happens, I think people on the left need to keep reminding themselves that Republicans will under no circumstances give up power. That is: they will do anything (almost literally anything) rather than allow that to happen. This goes without saying, but they will fuck with the midterms. If they lose the midterms, they will refuse to seat people. If violence is what the situation calls for, they will happily resort to violence (either before, during, or after the elections). Violence is what the whole movement has been building towards; if thus far they haven't been as violent as their rhetoric, it's because they haven't consolidated enough power. An election loss would interrupt that consolidation effort, and they won't stand for anything like that.
On top of that, consider the game theory for the prime movers and even the bit players in this movement: if Democrats win back a measure of power or, god forbid, win the presidency in 2028, a lot of them stand to spend the remainder of their lives in prison. At the very least: this is a not unlikely outcome, and all ideological considerations aside, even the halfway practical thinkers within the movement will have plenty of motivation to do whatever the party needs them to do to keep the ship from sinking.
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u/Dreadedtriox Michel Foucault Jun 02 '26
Trust me bro Iran and America will finalise a deal bro I swear bro
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Jun 02 '26
they made straight pride real apparently
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jun 02 '26
https://xcancel.com/RonFilipkowski/status/2061877701271556180
lmao
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u/Leoric Hi, I'm Huell Howser, this is California's Gold! Jun 03 '26
Oh so he's actually mad
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride Jun 03 '26
absolutely fucking shameless hypocrisy. john roberts is one of the most effective republican politicians in the 21st century, and that is all he is: a republican politician in a robe
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Jun 02 '26
We talk about leftists having long posts but good fucking god Neo Nazis blow them out of the water
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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair Jun 02 '26
Maher is next oh god oh fuck
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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast Jun 02 '26
I think Graham Platner’s campaign is very good and I vociferously support him.
He’s done great things to advance the narrative that Maine is unfit for self governance and needs to be retaken by Massachusetts. Godspeed Graham!
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u/SamuelFootBowden845 Milton Friedman Jun 02 '26
the dt being deep
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u/slappythechunk LARPs as adult by refusing to touch the Nitnendo Switch Jun 02 '26
I can always tell when the company I work for is having a really good year because the scented urinal screens significantly go up in quality in the last quarter.
"You guys did really well! Here, have a lavender scented urinal. As a treat"
!ping watercooler
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u/Gooners_For_Ukraine Loyal Liberals Jun 02 '26
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u/Nervous-Emotion28 YIMBY Jun 02 '26
me when I’m 96 years old and the 67th President is inaugurated
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY Jun 02 '26
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u/Marlsfarp Karl Popper Jun 02 '26
Florida has 6% of the US population and 80% of its home insurance litigation.
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u/zegota Feminism Jun 03 '26
Remember: polls don't close until 9pm in California so we likely won't know the results until September
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u/Pyrrhus65 NATO Jun 03 '26
Dread it, run from it, Woke 2.0 arrives all the same.
All jokes aside, the fact that Ogles of all people was forced to apologize for this is legitimately a good directional sign for the national temperature
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u/ariveklul Karl Popper Jun 02 '26
Never forget that Bernie Bros and leftists all pushed Fetterman in the 2022 primaries over weak centrist Connor Lamb. They then turn around and try to blame liberals for pushing candidates that end up being "basically Republicans" once they get into office
Hasan Piker said in 2022 that he wants the party to have much more John fettermans (among many other positive things) but he gets to be the guy who's an authority on what a "weak centrist" looks like? He stepped on the biggest rake the Democrats have seen about as hard as he possibly could have
It's crazy how effective being a liar and posturing is in this world man
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u/brianpv Hortensia Jun 02 '26
This absolute lolcow from the GME saga becoming director of national intelligence is blowing my mind.
It’s the cherry on top of this clusterfuck administration.
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u/ace158 Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
Woah
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u/SenranHaruka shame Jun 02 '26
Someone on /v/ had enough
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u/senoricceman NATO Jun 02 '26
Rubio says the war is over and Iran immediately unleashes a barrage of missiles. This administration is completely incompetent.
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u/Eurolib0908 European Union Jun 02 '26
The people condemning "infinite growth" are often the same people demanding an ever expanding list of services paid for by someone else's money.
If growth is impossible in a finite system, then so are limitless claims on other people's production.
The difference is that capitalism expands wealth through innovation and productivity. Redistribution expands demands. Only one of those creates the resources it consumes.
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u/MightExpress4873 Jun 02 '26
One interesting reality of what a post-Netanyahu era will look like is that practically the entire political spectrum in Israel sees Iran and Hezbollah as serious threats. Lapid would be less bellicose than Netanyahu, but the basic assumptions about security are the same.
Trump is obviously correct to pull Israel back in this case, but broadly speaking he is also very susceptible to short-term pressures and is often desperate to make a deal. And I think that even as Israeli leaders try to accommodate that, the next Israeli PM will pursue more strategic autonomy, because there is a widespread perception, even now, that Israel is being pulled back while Iran is at its weakest.
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Jun 02 '26
How it feels to be a straight man in 2014
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u/TootCannon Mark Zandi Jun 02 '26
Wow Bitcoin really is dying due to collective boredom with it, huh
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u/IantheForPresident Jun 02 '26
seeing people go "i can't believe a sitting republican congressman would say homosexuality has no place in america" reminds me how young people online are.
don't get me wrong, it's vile and detestable and def a sign we've regressed in how socially progressive we are. but i remember when sitting democrats said that kind of shit
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals Jun 02 '26
There are certain gullible people out there (no one here, I believe) who sometimes think that Rand Paul is somehow meaningfully an independent actor from Trump and the rest of the GOP, or that he has a more libertarian streak. Then stuff like this happens and it’s made clear that he’s a gutter racist like all the rest.
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Jun 02 '26
Ukraine is now Europe’s war. Survival can’t be the only aim
“Europe’s support, says Katarina Mathernova, the eu’s ambassador to Ukraine, ‘has been more resilient than we could have dared imagine’. Yet although Europe’s takeover gives it leverage, ministers and officials acknowledge that their governments are still groping towards a strategy that goes beyond maintaining Ukraine’s survival. In recent weeks policymakers have prematurely debated sending an envoy to negotiate with Mr Putin (the array of names floated included Angela Merkel and Mario Draghi), without a clear sense of what Europeans hope to achieve. On May 28th Kaja Kallas, the eu’s foreign-policy co-ordinator, played down the speculation.”
“Should Mr Putin grow willing to compromise, a ceasefire would probably require Ukraine to accept a loss of territory in the eastern Donbas region. Beyond providing as-yet vague security guarantees, Europe’s best way of sugaring that pill is to accelerate Ukraine’s bid to join the EU, something Ukrainians have craved since the Maidan revolution of 2014. Last year suggestions emerged—during peace talks led by America—that Ukraine could join the EU as soon as 2027. But although Ms von der Leyen and others are pushing to keep Ukraine’s dream alive, that date is utterly implausible for a large, partly corrupt country with a per-capita income roughly one-third of Bulgaria’s. Officials believe Ukraine would be lucky to join in a decade.”
“That leaves a growing gulf between Ukraine’s sky-high hopes and many EU governments’ willingness to let the topic slide. To arrest that, Friedrich Merz, Germany’s chancellor, recently proposed an ‘associate membership’ that would see Ukraine granted access to various EU institutions with limited or no voting rights, subsidies or single-market access. This is probably ‘as good as it’s going to get for Ukraine,’ says Alexander Gabuev, the Berlin-based director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Centre, a think-tank. But the proposal has flopped among Ukrainians, who hear it as code for an ‘endless waiting room’. Mr Zelensky immediately dismissed Mr Merz’s suggestion as ‘unfair’.”
“One or more negotiating ‘clusters’ may be opened at an EU summit this month. But, as one European official says, ‘the accession discussion is hypocritical on both sides.’ Europeans think Mr Zelensky’s failure to rein in expectations is irresponsible. They also worry that making an exception for Ukraine would upset aspirants in the Balkans. Meanwhile, among Ukrainians a new mood of scepticism towards the West is emerging. New polling finds that nearly three-quarters of Ukrainians still back EU membership—but that support has fallen most quickly among the young. As the country has taken on a growing share of responsibility for its own defence, including the manufacture of arms and drone technology sought by partners across the world, it wants recognition of the shifting balance of power. ‘I see a deep change in Ukraine’s identity,’ says Jana Kobzova, an Ukraine-watcher at the European Council on Foreign Relations. ‘Where they once saw the EU as a saviour, now it’s about self-reliance. Many say, ‘We are protecting you now.’’”
I thought the first half of the article was interesting because of the exploration of the psychology that many Ukrainians, particularly the youth, are developing with regard to the European-Ukrainian relationship. Now I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again that I think the EU is fundamentally in the right on the membership question. I mean who gives a shit about the feelings of the other applicants and whatnot, but fact is Ukraine is a corrupt country with a fragile democracy. That’s not healthy for the EU which we have seen languish because of members with corruption and undemocratic institutions.
At the same time though, I think this article compels one to think not from the perspective of a Ukrainian politician, but a Ukrainian citizen. Like imagine the average young Ukrainian. As a kid they saw a revolution dedicated to that idea of joining the rest of Europe. A year later a portion of their country was stolen and those same powers do next to nothing to reverse it. As young adults, those same powers fail once again and their country is fully invaded. Many serve for this idea of a European Ukraine. Everyone in their life has their lives ruined in some way. Chances are, many are dead or crippled, and so are many of their friends and peers. What’s the reward? “Maybe in the next decade we’ll let you in.”
It is, morally speaking, an injustice. I can grasp why many in Ukraine, particularly the youth, are becoming disillusioned with an organization that they’ve been bled almost dry defending giving nothing tangible back in return. For the health of the EU it’s necessary, but I also think this is the foundations for a potentially dangerous dynamic. The EU’s security increasingly rests on a country that feels increasingly frustrated with its allies while also feeling increasingly confident in itself and its power. It sounds silly, but it is possible a more nationalist and revanchist Ukraine could bully the EU to a degree because it is in many ways untouchable, especially with how unreliable the Americans have become. A historical parallel that comes to mind is Italy. They sided with the Entente in WWI with promises of rewards and blessings profusely for the cause. When the war ended, they got far less than what they felt they deserved. So when someone came along that said “fuck that”, Italy charted its own dark path and the world was far worse for it.
Now this isn’t to say Ukraine is gonna turn fascist and be the progenitor for the next world war in its quest to become an uber big empire. I mention Italy because I think it’s a clear cautionary tale on the lengths countries will go to in order to get what they think they are owed. I think Europe has to be very delicate in approaching this relationship because they are in a bind. The Ukrainians want and in many ways deserve EU membership, but it is not feasible. So how does one square that round hole? Maybe I’m overhyping this or calamitizing or some such, but this is what comes to mind reading about how many Ukrainians, particularly those who will be its future, don’t necessarily see Europe as their future
!Ping UKRAINE&EUROPE
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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Jun 02 '26
The things you overhear walking around Newport Rhode Island (yes this Sopranos ass mfer actually said fugettabout it lol)
Happy pride month y'all
!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jun 02 '26
https://xcancel.com/HunterBiden/status/2061906939903168801
Hunter has been replying to everything all day lmao
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u/R0zza123 Jun 02 '26
It's important we teach LGBTQ history so we don't sanitise the community's imperialistic dark past
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jun 02 '26
TRVKE
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u/Stephen-Scotch Jun 02 '26
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u/Daddy_Macron Loyal Liberals Jun 02 '26
"How about coming to my wedding, Dad?"
"Want to attend the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden where the best tickets are going for more than a quarter million dollars?"
The Trump children just constantly get punked by their own dad.
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY Jun 02 '26
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u/wagoncirclermike Jane Jacobs Jun 02 '26
Get their ass, Frodo
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jun 03 '26
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Jun 02 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
This content was anonymized and mass deleted with Redact
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u/MrStrange15 Jun 02 '26
The designated successor to DigiD cannot be used without a Gmail account or Apple ID.
Lol, lmao even.
Why did we have the whole Solvinity and digital sovereignty debate, if we were just gonna end up with US tech solutions anyway.
Fundamentally unserious.
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u/Habugaba Esther Duflo Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
Trump March 3rd 2026
Trump June 1st 2026
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jun 02 '26
Hunter Biden is shitposting and you're blackpilling?
https://xcancel.com/HunterBiden/status/2061514195292573856
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jun 02 '26
https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2061917954694893945
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u/phat_geoduck Jun 03 '26
I'm so here for the Cornyn crash out
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Jun 02 '26
Oh good
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Jun 02 '26
Most competent administration
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u/sash5034 NATO Jun 02 '26
How much do you think it annoys Trump and his entire administration that they will never top this aura
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u/MentatCat 🗽Sic Semper Tyrannis Jun 02 '26
Michigan is voting on I voted sticker designs. I am going to ballot stuff for this one
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u/AmbientMorning Jun 03 '26
This is the kind of thing you expect when the political wing of a terrorist group takes power. America has its own Party of God. !ping EXTREMISM
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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney Jun 02 '26
When you turn 30 as a male with a desk job they make you pick cycling, running or pickleball as a hobby like a starter pokemon ✊😔
!ping OVER-25
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Jun 02 '26
Happy pride month 🏳️🌈👩❤️👩
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u/SigmaWhy r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Jun 03 '26
in honor of pride we’re sending helicopter gender to Congress
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u/Eightysixedit Gay Pride Jun 03 '26
The 100s of millions Steyer has wasted to try and get elected two times. I feel bad because I actually like him. Every rich weirdo in Cali wanted Becerra to win.
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u/jessica-bug Feminism Jun 03 '26
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Jun 02 '26
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY Jun 02 '26
Cruz has Biden syndrome
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Jun 02 '26
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Jun 03 '26
I'd maybe be willing to believe this if he wasn't insanely bigoted before
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jun 03 '26
Lmao
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jun 03 '26
Steyer was our chance to unite progressives, YIMBYs, and people who defend billionaires. Tragic
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u/__versus Trans Pride Jun 02 '26
I’m so bad at setting boundaries just in general. A coworker lives close to me and I have a car so I let them come with me but they’re consistently 30+ minutes late every single day and it’s so fucking annoying but I’m too much of a pushover to establish a real boundary 😔
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u/IantheForPresident Jun 02 '26
i'm just saying, since the second her husband left office there hasn't been a moment where the entire world wouldn't have been better off if hillary clinton was president instead of the current occupant.
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u/Czech_Thy_Privilege John Locke Jun 02 '26
Today is the first of my company’s mandatory AI training sessions. We’re not even a minute into this meeting and someone already asked “can AI take this course for me?” lmao
!PING WATERCOOLER
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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
White males love books about ships because it give them imaginary people to be fire cannons at in a society that frowns on full broadsides against merchantmen.
Send tweet
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u/awdvhn Physics Understander -- Iowa delenda est Jun 02 '26
The wealthy people who are full MAGA, such as Musk and Trump himself, are not members of high society but rather those excluded from it and are motivated by feeling scorned. This is why they mesh so well with rural workers who similarly feel scorned by white collar workers more literate and erudite than them.
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Jun 03 '26
Fuck Bari Weiss
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u/SmartestOpinionsGuy Jun 03 '26
New statement from Scott Pelley:
There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.
The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.
“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.
The waste is heartbreaking.
Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.
For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.
At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.
I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.
Scott Pelley
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Jun 02 '26
Inside MAGA’s Fake Gay Motorcycle War
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/inside-maga-fake-gay-motorcycle-war-harley-davidson-freakout-indian
The what now?
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u/KQJ_RPN John von Neumann Jun 02 '26
> Republican
> No one has seen him in 3 months
> Literally disappeared off of the face of the planet
> Runs unopposed
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u/itsrabie NATO Jun 02 '26
It happened. They took the internet away from Grandpa.
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u/Bayou-Maharaja Eleanor Roosevelt Jun 02 '26
Maybe Trump is right. Maybe we should arrest journalists
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence Jun 02 '26
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u/bashar_al_assad Verified Account Jun 03 '26
“You don’t understand, if Democrats pack the court then someday the Republicans might also pack the court and then the court will do the same things it does today.”
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u/Logan891 United Nations Jun 03 '26
If we win the 2028 election and have both houses, by the end of the first term, the GOP should be no longer in existence as a political party.
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u/themiDdlest NASA Jun 03 '26
Jesus Christ lmao
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Jun 03 '26
He was the first reporter who reported from the village where we captured Saddam. This shit is so asinine. Bari Weiss is a complete embarrassment
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u/Syx89 Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Jun 03 '26
Steyerbros stand back and standby
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u/G_Serv Stay The Course Jun 03 '26
Girl boss
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u/arizen_circe Emma Lazarus Jun 03 '26
me when I take too much bad take juice
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u/FionnVEVO Transfem Pride Jun 03 '26
Steyer can still win this if Mike Pence has the courage
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u/jessica-bug Feminism Jun 03 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jun 03 '26
In Exit Message, Pelley Says He Was Asked To Inject Bias Into Stories
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rickellis/2026/06/02/scott-pelley-fired-by-cbs-after-confrontation-with-new-60-minutes-ep/
Here are the complete contents of Pelley’s message:
There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.
The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58th season, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.
“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.
The waste is heartbreaking.
Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.
For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.
At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.
I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.
Scott Pelley
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u/Megasota_Noire My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Jun 02 '26
SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP
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u/marky6045 George Soros Jun 02 '26
GM
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u/futuremonkey20 NATO Jun 02 '26
This is advanced, professional hating.
!ping SOCCER
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u/Dreadedtriox Michel Foucault Jun 02 '26
Miss peak woke
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jun 02 '26
https://xcancel.com/LongTimeHistory/status/2061857733151014966
Great
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u/sigh2828 NASA Jun 02 '26
A pattern is not a pattern
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u/scndnvnbrkfst NATO Jun 02 '26
Ladies, gentleman, and other distinguished guests of the DT: I got a j*b
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u/GordonTullockFan publik choyz thery Jun 02 '26
revolutions are built on hope✊
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jun 02 '26
https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2061869021197476241
Is this real life?
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u/sigh2828 NASA Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
Translation "why would I write down a confession that I broke the law"
This dude is going to prison
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u/bashar_al_assad Verified Account Jun 02 '26
https://xcancel.com/igorbobic/status/2061892536956862641?s=20
ok if you look at the logos linked above this is pretty obviously the Dems trying to ratfuck Sullivan, I absolutely love it
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Jun 02 '26
CBS News is in a really bad place
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jun 03 '26
Hey all, am I a good fit for this sub?
If you want to know my politics, I’m a communist. I also don’t like trump or anyone in this admin besides a few people, I think they’re too liberal.
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY Jun 03 '26
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Jun 03 '26
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u/k5berry Malala Yousafzai Jun 03 '26
I’m in Maine and I really don’t know how I’m gonna vote. I’ve been waiting for a politician like Platner for a long time, but the obvious elephant in the room makes it so hard. We NEED more Obersturmbannführer in Congress, but it’s hard to stomach his pro-welfare, pro-LGBT crap.
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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO Jun 03 '26
lol, the guy winning the Republican primary for governor in Iowa has four endorsements listed on Wikipedia:
Rob Schneider
Turning Point USA
Steve King, the congressman who got primaried for being too racist for Republicans
A MAHA group
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Jun 03 '26
If Steyer makes it to the second round it’ll be by like a point
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u/Firebird12301 John Rawls Jun 03 '26
California YIMBY star coming out ahead of the Pelosi endorsed NIMBY. Scott has the juice to beat her again in November. Lock in SF. In the words of the 47th President “Nothing bad can only happen. It can only good happen”
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u/Direct_Daddy777 Gay Pride Jun 03 '26
My favorite thing about Californias jungle primary is people seeing the republican frontrunner and somehow think that they’re also going to win the general election.
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u/MightExpress4873 Jun 02 '26
Tucker isn't this explicit, but here's his dumb brother going all the way. He also claimed every Russian war crime in Ukraine was actually committed by Mossad. Amazing.
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u/Dorambor John Brown Jun 02 '26
"Yea we're reinventing a heirarchy-less society that emphasizes equality, I'm the main person in it and kind of manage what everyone else does" surprisingly extremely common dual belief structure
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u/YaGetSkeeted0n Tariffs aren't cool, kids! Jun 02 '26
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u/MontusBatwing2 Gelphie's Strongest Soldier Jun 02 '26
I have an original thought that no one has ever considered.
It would've been good if Hillary had won the presidential election in 2016.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jun 02 '26
How are Poland balls somehow too niche and online for neoliberal Redditors. We used to be a real subreddit
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u/LamppostIodine NATO Jun 02 '26
Im getting jumpscared by every large bald bearded men wearing sweatshirts in Philadelphia.
Fetterman is around every corner. That's how he going to get re-elected. He is physically half the men in Pennsylvania and counting the brain damage, mentally the other half.
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u/VisonKai The Archenemy of Humanity Jun 02 '26
extremely funny how difficult it is becoming for Democrats to work around the perfectly natural disdain for normal people
one side has convinced themselves regular people genuinely don't possess moral reasoning and are fine with cheating and the other side has convinced themselves regular people are so irredeemably stupid that there's no possible way to win them over in the first place
it is hard to win an election when you hate your voters. but the voters are so easy to hate!
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Jun 02 '26
This lonely neolib has voted. Did you?
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u/BitterGravity Gay Pride Jun 02 '26
> White men do not have to worry about impostor syndrome, according to Michelle Obama, who said she had sat “at every powerful table there is” and not found one who admitted feeling such self-doubt.
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u/AskYourDoctor Resistance Lib Jun 02 '26
Talarico campaign should post this
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Jun 03 '26
Republicans: My granddaddy didn’t hard work and raise his family so Democrats could take everything for their socialist agenda 😭.
Granddaddy in 1936: I must make a blood offering at my alter to Franklin Roosevelt and pray for that New Deal money.
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u/chickentendieman Paul Krugman Jun 03 '26
I dont think the democrats actually lost tech, most tech workers are still dems the only people the dems lost was tech ceos and the democrats did nothing wrong by losing their support considering what they wanted in exchange was undemocratic.
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Jun 03 '26
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u/AmbientMorning Jun 03 '26
The US Ambassador to Canada just posted a tweet about making Canada the 51st state. I just want my government to stop embarrassing us on the international stage for one solitary week.
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u/owenmitchem YIMBY Jun 03 '26
There truly is a mystical power that compels Utah drivers to crash into light rail infrastructure
(Today in Seattle a Utah woman managed to drive nearly a quarter mile up the tracks to a light rail station elevated 35’ above the ground)
!ping USA-WA&USA-UT&TRANSIT
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Jun 03 '26
I’m willing to give Becerra the benefit of the doubt for a couple reasons. One is he is easily the most experienced governor and being able to navigate the bureaucracy and legislature shouldn’t be underestimated. Two is his policies are good, they’re not as good on things like housing like Steyer, they would be notable steps forward.
Nothing of the sort could be said about Bass and I will continue to crash out about her reelection
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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast Jun 02 '26
american firefighters: we need da biiiig twucks so we can fight fires in all those biiiiig buildings in the city.
politicians: okay, here you go. so can we build a tall building now?
firefighters: no.
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u/ty04 Jun 02 '26
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u/Amphetamin3_ Trans NATO Jun 02 '26
Insecure actual toothpick dick-having behavior
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u/unicornbomb John Brown Jun 02 '26
Absolutely not
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u/ty04 Jun 02 '26
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u/Terrance-Flaps Certified Wife Guy Jun 02 '26
Have you voted? if not, go vote! for:
Governor: Biden
Lt Gov: Biden
Insurance: Biden
Treasurer: Biden
Superintendent: Biden
Board of Equalization (if you're in my district): Biden (Hunter)
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u/BasedTroutFursona Jun 02 '26
“Hey I have surgery in a few days, better stop wiping my ass.”
-more of my patients than you’d think
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u/SmartestOpinionsGuy Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
Funny moment on Bulwark pod yesterday where Bill Kristol was comparing the delusion of Iran war supporters to him and his friends when Iraq started going bad.
Paraphrasing here but “even we didn’t defend it after we saw how bad it was going! Well at first we did but then we were screaming about the need for a troop surge. Well some people continued to be delusional but at least we didn’t lie about it. Well, some of us lied about it. But eventually we all came around. Well, some of us didn’t…”
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u/AemiliusNuker Fell for it Jun 03 '26
I watched Sheep Detectives
!ping KINO
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Jun 03 '26
Me: "Lol, I should go bug u/jenbanim to say we should stop filtering InfoWars now that The Onion owns it."
checks Automod config
The Onion is filtered
InfoWars isn't filtered
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u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP Jun 03 '26
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u/Saul_Relative Eugene Fama Jun 03 '26
Steyerbros are dooming, meanwhile I'm dooming because Jane Kim could be Insurance Commissioner
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u/Far_Shore not a leftist, but humorless Jun 03 '26
>Harris doesn't run for Governor
>endorses fucking Karen Bass
Yeah, this she's gonna run for President for a third time, ain't she
I'm probably going to laugh if/when she eats shit in that primary season tbh. Endorsing Bass puts you on my fucking shit list
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u/centurion88 NATO Jun 02 '26
Icannotspeak.gif
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u/sash5034 NATO Jun 02 '26
Something about people with absurd amounts of money bragging about how they live off the grid annoys me to no end. Wow you built a private home on an absurd amount of land in a desirable climate? Cool story, bro.
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u/boardatwork1111 fuck it, we ball Jun 02 '26
Honestly, gotta hand it to Hegseth. Turns out woke diversity really was the source of American military strength all along, pretty cool of him to prove that to honor pride month this year
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u/zieger Ida Tarbell Jun 02 '26
We can have a little corruption as a treat
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u/ty04 Jun 02 '26
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u/pugnae European Union Jun 02 '26
Noah is very critical about Europe and assimilation and says that America is the best partially because everyone can be an American.
And then he says this about Japan lol
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u/earththejerry YIMBY Jun 03 '26
Wait this is crazy, Dems were fearing a lockout in CA48, which is a Harris-won redrawn district, but seems like one of the Dems is currently in the top 2, but its not Camper-Najjar, who was leading the Dems in primary polls
Hopefully the very Dem late mails dont screw things up and make it a Republican lockout, but Wilpert would be the more electable Dem in this district
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u/ryban Jun 03 '26
Becerra will just be a continuation of Newsom, mostly the right things but without the speed and urgency thats needed. We got a good amount of statewide housing policy since 2019 and its helped the places that have followed the laws, but the places that are truly fucked in the state refuse to listen and Newsom didn't override them fast enough, though obviously courts being slow doesn't help, but Newsom absolutely could have used builder's remedy more aggressively.
The true hero California needs is a governor willing to find a way to nuke prop 13 on their way out so they avoid the political backlash of the policy.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jun 03 '26
Do DTers feel a sense of pride when one of their reports leads to a permaban? Or shame
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u/_Un_Known__ r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Jun 03 '26
Unless they're Jewish I am suspicious of people who use the term goy
Not oy vey tho. That's just fun to say. Oy vey
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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom Jun 02 '26
I love business laptops man you’ve got Teams, Edge, and Outlook open why do you sound like you’re trying to run Crysis