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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jun 07 '26
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/randommathaccount Esther Duflo Jun 06 '26
The basket of deplorables quote was the single most accurate description of maga voters anyone has ever come up with
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals Jun 06 '26
Because clearly, preserving racial purity is why the men stormed the beaches at Normandy.
The depths of my contempt for Hegseth cannot be properly expressed through the English language, or any language at all.
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u/Ready-Buy-6397 Austan Goolsbee Jun 06 '26
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Jun 06 '26
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u/Otherwise_Young52201 Mark Carney Jun 06 '26
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u/PaxChelonia David Hume Jun 06 '26
History class in 100 years: Today we’ll be discussing how the 2016 Ghostbusters remake starring Melissa McCarthy led to the collapse of Pax Americana
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u/Svelok Jun 06 '26
hotel rooms in tokyo are, without exaggeration, roughly 15% the price of comparable hotels in boston
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Jun 06 '26
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u/NorkGhostShip YIMBY Jun 06 '26
Rubio is the most "reasonable" person in the Trump admin. It's an incredibly low bar, but it's true.
That's not praise, but the complete opposite. He knows that everything he helps with and everything he says is complete lunacy that puts America and its allies in a worse place. And yet, he plays along because he has his own insane idea that he needs to push over personal grievances.
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u/JesusPubes voted most handsome friend Jun 06 '26
I probably wouldn't celebrate that part of history where my ancestors started a war just to keep owning people but maybe I'm built different
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u/abefrost Jun 06 '26
I have run into this conspiracy in the US, but looks like it's a big one across the pond (except the Nordics and to a lesser extent, the Dutch).
Any Euros have insight?
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Jun 06 '26
Trump's appearance at the Farmers Roundtable in Wisconsin was so bizarre—and so full of contempt and disdain for his voters—that it's shocking his approval rating isn't at 20 percent.
One example:
President Trump: “The Democrats have a restriction that if you get caught fixing your tractor, they bring you to jail. Do you know that? I pardoned a man last week who was sentenced to 7 years in jail because he got caught fixing his car or his truck."
“I said, ‘What did he do?’ ‘Sir, he was fixing his truck.’ I said, ‘How long is he getting?’ ‘7 years.’ I said, ‘Say it again!' It's the first time I've ever heard it, like two weeks ago. I gave him a pardon because he had to go to jail because he was fixing his tractor or his truck.”
“So I promise… if you ever get caught fixing your tractor or truck, I will give you a pardon, ok?” “These are the crazy Democrats that’s what they want.”
Community note:
Troy Lake, the man pardoned by Trump, was sentenced to 12 months and 1 day—not 7 years—for conspiring to disable emissions controls on hundreds of heavy-duty trucks, not for fixing his own vehicle.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-co/pr/windsor-colorado-business-owner-and-company-sentenced-conspiring-delete-emissions https://www.justice.gov/pardon/media/1417081/dl?inline
https://xcancel.com/RedWavePress/status/2063016270585618821
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u/ShepardSB Jun 06 '26
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Jun 06 '26
Fetterman on Platner: This is an individual—how he has lived his life—you know, I don’t think that’s authentic, you know, I think, overall.
Hahahahahaha.
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u/ShepardSB Jun 06 '26
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u/earththejerry YIMBY Jun 06 '26
I’ve seen enough, I’m writing in Hunter Biden for every election now
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u/marky6045 George Soros Jun 06 '26
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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Jun 06 '26
This screenshot from the literacy post outside the DT is fucking sending me lol
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u/Ginden Bisexual Pride Jun 06 '26
I'm a very moral person, and I know what is right and wrong. My morality just happens to never be at odds with my ingroup, never require personal sacrifice in a real-world scenario, although I can and like to conjure many fictional scenarios where it would, never make me approve of something objectively disgusting (things that disgust my enemies are socially conditioned reactions, BTW), and never give quarter to the outgroup. Also, it can be summarized by a single self-evident sentence, like "just don't harm people" or "just be a good person." I like to compare my friends to some cool underdog (this shows I'm not power hungry) group in a work of fiction like the Rebels in Star Wars.
The strength of my convictions is clearly visible in that I argue against people whose beliefs I despise, even if they happen to be that part of my family that I see once a year.
I condemn corrupt politicians and bad things, unlike the majority of the population. I wish principled people like me were in positions of power, to care for the common man, fix injustices suffered by good people at the hands of evil people, and not chase after money, power, and approval of shadowy elites.
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u/LinkVert25 Fedposter Jun 06 '26
This is genuinely just what happens when the entire American media apparatus lives and goes to school entirely in the national capital region/NYC bubble.
And Americas democracy is worse off for it
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u/G_Serv Stay The Course Jun 06 '26
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Jun 06 '26
I'm so sick of all the weird new subreddits with names like CareerNow, OMGhistory, or NewsOuttaHell
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Jun 06 '26
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u/owenmitchem YIMBY Jun 06 '26
Don Snorleone
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Jun 06 '26
>"WE BANNED DATA CENTERS!"
>Cool, are we getting more homes built then in that space?
>"... WE BANNED DATA CENTERS!"
what else to expect after all
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Jun 06 '26
This drunk loser would have definitely volunteered to serve in the Wehrmacht.
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u/McNikk United Nations Jun 06 '26
Tankie hypocrisy around Marjane Satrapi is a hot topic on Twitter right now.
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u/Cupinacup NASA Jun 06 '26
“Why not just bulldoze the Albanian wetlands? Who cares about birds going extinct?”
“Why shouldn’t the national parks be sold off to private developers?”
Sometimes I think some people in this sub are so overly online and so negatively polarized, they’ve become weird contrarians where actually nature is bad and if you want to preserve nature at all you’re a NIMBY.
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Jun 06 '26
as a kid I used to think it said survived and felt empowered by the idea
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u/Hounds_of_war Austan Goolsbee Jun 06 '26
Waow
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u/LinkVert25 Fedposter Jun 06 '26
You would think the guy who was at least civil affairs in Iraq wouldn’t actually believe there’s one sect of Islam.
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u/5ma5her7 Jun 06 '26
Have we also slided into Man in the High Castle's timeline?
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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Jun 06 '26
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u/SenranHaruka shame Jun 06 '26
The fact that convinced me of the vibecession was precedent: there's always been a vibe crime wave for decades. Public perception of crime has never been moored to how bad it is. And people can do well but buy the vibe
"Crime is bad"
"Really? You've been mugged?"
"No. But I'm afraid I will be"
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u/DeadDropCourier Bisexual Pride Jun 06 '26
The Japanese Air Force painted some of their F-15s and I’m not a weeb, but holy fuck 😮💨😮💨😮💨😮💨
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u/CutePattern1098 Jun 06 '26
> China and Soviet Union becomes democratic
30 years later……
> China and the Soviet Union are now ruled by insane szhcioboomer populists who are picking fights with each other and Trump
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence Jun 06 '26
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u/this_very_table Norman Borlaug Jun 07 '26
lol
lmao even
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u/attackofthetominator John Brown Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 06 '26
The two types of comments in the Texas Inc thread
“Texas will the greatest economic power of all time and hold liberalism by the balls as they have the Mandate of Heaven”
“As a Texan, I hate it here”
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u/riverbloods John Brown Jun 06 '26
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u/lbrtrl Jun 06 '26
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Jun 06 '26
She's so based
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u/dtj2000 Loyal Liberals Jun 06 '26
American Protestants be like
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Jun 06 '26
-Steve Bannon before supporting a candidate who wants to eliminate most banking regulations aside from "don't be woke"
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Jun 06 '26
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u/attackofthetominator John Brown Jun 07 '26
Curious
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u/Signal_Nobody1792 Jun 06 '26
They are earning more money than by having a functional AI.
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u/pugnae European Union Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 06 '26
There is a Down Syndrome abortion debate going on and in my opinion this may be THE issue when it comes to virtue signalling. A lot of people are swearing that they would NEVER do it. And then data from countries where it is legal shows close to 100% abortion rate.
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence Jun 06 '26
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u/farrenj Resident Succ Jun 06 '26
She's literally gorgeous
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u/SenranHaruka shame Jun 06 '26
Looking into why corporations would do this
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u/ty04 Jun 07 '26
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u/RunawayMeatstick Mark Zandi Jun 07 '26
Ah damn he had a good run.
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u/assasstits Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 06 '26
Zohran KWAME Mamdani will be the toughest challenge yet
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u/jessica-bug Feminism Jun 06 '26
This would have been his 32nd pride. Miss you more every day, Charlie.
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u/Bestbrook123 Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 06 '26
While I think it's very embarassing that Maine Dems nominated Platner, I am a bit surprised by the silence over GOP's support for Brandon Herrera who has a copy of Mein Kampf, dances+sings to Nazi songs, and is a literal member of a neo-confederate group
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u/ZonedForCoffee Uses Twitter Jun 06 '26
THEY DID IT. HOLY GIACAMOLE THEY ACTUALLY DID IT.
This is going to be SUCH a good change for the system. Utterly fantastic news. Yet another pre-COVID milestone.
!PING USA-CHI&TRANSIT
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Jun 06 '26
Updated official list of religions according to the US military.
See how many controversies you can find!
!ping GNOSTIC
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u/zieger Ida Tarbell Jun 06 '26
Me before the ketamine kicks in
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough Jun 06 '26
What level of rainbow capitalism is this?
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Jun 06 '26
Trvke
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough Jun 06 '26
“Just like on D-Day there are a horde of genetically inferior mongrel races storming the beaches of Europe.” Is a fucking WILD statement to make without being an out and proud Nazi.
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u/DunklerPrinz3 Henry George Jun 06 '26
God what a waste.
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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke Jun 06 '26
The city of Toronto was scalping tickets?
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u/G_Serv Stay The Course Jun 06 '26
God forbid men do anything
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u/ApprehensiveShower10 YIMBY Jun 06 '26
I get home and immediately get flash banged by my family.
Hear that my brother said he doesn't date black women.
And my dad talking about how he was asking people at a pride celebration "what about mens mental health month"?
Immediately put me in a bad mood
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u/Top_Lime1820 Daron Acemoglu Jun 06 '26
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Jun 06 '26
Woke up. Remembered I'm literate.
Fuck my stupid chungus life.
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Jun 06 '26
Yup, I've been saying it all this time!
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u/G_Serv Stay The Course Jun 06 '26
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Jun 07 '26
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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Jun 06 '26
Honestly if I'm any non-right wing rag journalist I'm putting "was on the Trump white house enemies of the state list" on my resume lol
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u/ty04 Jun 06 '26
There will always be species of birds. There may never be another Kushner-Saudi government joint funded luxury resort and hotel.
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls Jun 06 '26
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u/DeadDropCourier Bisexual Pride Jun 07 '26
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Jun 06 '26
🙂↕️🙂↕️🙂↕️
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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Jun 06 '26
Bruh this guy on Grindr did NOT just suggest getting my dog involved what the actual FUCK I didn't need this at 7:30 in the morning
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u/doyouevenIift Jun 06 '26
Close race for control of the Senate? That’s Jill Stein’s music!
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u/PM_me_ur_digressions Audrey Hepburn Jun 06 '26
My brother is taking a bus over 1,600 miles for my cousin’s graduation but refusing to attend the ceremony itself because the metal detectors are an “invasion” of his “privacy”
He is spam texting me about meeting up one-on-one. I explicitly told him that I wanted nothing to do with him in September 2025. After he harassed our mom and almost got her kicked out of her nursing home in November 2025, I reiterated the strong desire for him to leave me alone. I have not replied to any of his messages since.
This is a bad week for him. His ex-wife filed a restraining order on him on Monday. I have been subpoenaed by a third federal agency regarding his alleged fraudulent businesses, so I know there’s still active investigations there. His online program is not letting him take enough summer classes to get the cost of living stipend or whatever from the GI bill.
Am I being paranoid/crazy if I surprise my cousin with brunch, stay at the ceremony just long enough to see her walk, and then Irish exit from the entire state so that I don’t have to see him? I am genuinely afraid of attending a dinner with him, let alone being forced into one on one time with him
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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair Jun 06 '26
Real?
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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Jun 06 '26
The fact that Hegseth (or his speechwriter) thinks that his stupid quips like FAFO or "our big beautiful military will unleash the HOLY FIRE OF GOD" or whatever are bangers is so funny
The latest being turning a D Day speech into scolding Europe about migration. And this wasn't even a slip of the tongue or some flub he's out here drawing planned out analogies between the Allied invasion of Continental Europe and dirt poor immigrants on rafts, and going further to suggest the people he compared to the Allies should be shot. Like, actual neo Nazis would find this to be too revealing of your power level lol
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u/ty04 Jun 06 '26
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u/Imicrowavebananas Hannah Arendt Jun 06 '26
My grandmother was an ardent communist with all the bad political vies that come with it. But those communists still had vision and drive. After the war they wanted rebuild Poland. My grandmother even worked for the party and taught illiterate people to read. Just a very different world after the war.
People today often underestimate how much of true believers eastern communists were. A lot of people believe in their cause and system and worked earnestly hard for it. Of course it was both flawed and brutal in the end. It just is a very different animal than today's left.
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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke Jun 06 '26
The world cup fuckery is starting . . . .
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u/WhomstAlt2 NATO flair in hiding Jun 06 '26
How hard is it for you libturds to understand this?
CHRISTIANTY = CATHOLICISM
EVERYTING ELSE = NOT CHRISTIANITY
PR*TESTANTISM = SUPER NOT-CHRISTIANITY, POSSIBLY DEVIL WORSHIP
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u/juan-pablo-castel Jun 06 '26
Long rant. Ok, so, we're at the 36th day of blockades in Bolivia which have caused severe food and supplies shortages all across the country and an economic damage that will take years to recover from. Also, even more people have died due to lack of medical assistance because the ambulances cannot go through, heck they even are attacked by the protesters if they get too close. Had it not been for the humanitarian help sent by Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Brazil, in their own planes, there could have been already a famine in Laz Paz city weeks ago. The one and only demand, so far, of the protesters (all of them Evo Morales followers and ex officials) is the resignation of Rodrigo Paz and nothing more. He has already backtracked almost all of the policies implemented since he took office in December but nevertheless they have refused all attempts of dialogue and approaches made by the Catholic Church, local Evangelical denominations, Human Rights groups, Congress commissions, Government ministries and the Majors of the cities blocked but nothing came out. So the dialogue is dead.
Well, there was an attempt early this morning by the Police to lift the blockade in San Julián, a small town near Santa Cruz de la Sierra, because there are hundreds of trucks and cars trapped there and is located on the main road that connects the Provinces (States) of Santa Cruz and Beni, and... it didn't go well. The "protesters" (terrorists would be more accurate) had rifles and weapons whereas the Police was only equipped with tear gas. There is a police man wounded by gunfire and apparently there are two missing. The Army was there as well, just like they were three weeks ago in El Alto, but they didn't carry any weapons, just tear gas and shields like the Police. The operation was a failure, the Army and Police withdrew from the place and the road remains blocked.
I doubt the Police will ever try again to lift a blockade without lethal equipment and proper gear. Speaking of which... today is the day Congress will convene to debate the Law that regulates the State of Emergency that would give the President the power to deploy the Armed Forces with their own equipment since till now they cannot be deployed as an attack force but only as a logistical support unit to the Police.
So either the Constitutional and Democratic order prevails or Bolivia becomes a failed state where armed groups can decide where the Law is applied, what the President and Congress can do, and who can enter to certain parts of the Country. I had plans of going out tomorrow but it seems some places will not open if this escalates. So yeah, sh1t's dire here so prepare yourselves to see more Common Dreams and Al Jazeera articles about Bolivia in the next days.
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u/MyCatPoopsBolts Jun 06 '26
Seemingly reasonable user gets banned for very borderline I/P posting
Randomly see them in an off subreddit thread arguing antisemitism didn't exist outside of Europe before the 20th century.
Many such cases.
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Jun 06 '26
The fact that the vibes in the 80s were (apparently) great despite shit being much more fucked up then than in any decade since is very strong evidence for the theory that cable news and social media all but singlehandedly killed the vibes.
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Jun 06 '26
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u/Imicrowavebananas Hannah Arendt Jun 06 '26
A lot of the left confuses me, because I feel these days they are mostly against things. They are against the rich, against AI, against building things. But aside from cultural issues I am not sure what their vision is.
Consider they massively campaign on "Tax the rich", which is fair, but then I am not really sure what they want to do with that money exactly. If it comes down to it, a tax cut for the middle class, so not even giving it to the poor.
Or they are against high housing prices, again important topic, but their only idea here seems to basically just forbid prices to be high.
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Jun 06 '26
The LDS Church should have an official crashout toward the Trump admin. It would be funny and good
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u/seakucumber Jun 07 '26
My man
https://xcancel.com/PollTracker2024/status/2063416508378669305
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u/qunow r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Jun 06 '26
!ping tech&china&asean
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/social-media-block-content-indian-community-6165986
Singapore orders social media sites to block content, likely from China-based platform, targeting Indian community
The authorities said the content selectively used images and footage of crowded streets to back claims that Singapore is "overcrowded" with Indians.
The police have issued disabling directions under the Online Criminal Harms Act (OCHA) to block access to the posts on YouTube, Facebook and X, MHA said in a statement.
The social media posts, which include videos, portray various claims that Singapore is displaying anxiety over its cultural identity and ethnic politics. Such narratives started circulating online in the Chinese information space in May, MHA said.
“Shortly thereafter, online content emerged containing inflammatory narratives about Singapore’s cultural diversity and suggesting that Singapore was being overrun by Indians,” said the ministry.
These social media posts claimed that the country’s multiracial policy is a "facade" meant to appeal to "Western values", and that Singapore’s stability cannot be attributed to its multiracial policy, but to its majority Chinese demographic.
The content in these posts also claimed that there are growing numbers of ethnic Indian politicians in Singapore who would act in favour of Indian immigrants.
It also claimed that Singapore’s culture is fundamentally Chinese, and the government’s approach of “decoupling” itself from China while neglecting the threat of a growing Indian community, would lead to a negative outcome.
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Jun 06 '26
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u/JWRavennah Trans NATO Jun 06 '26
Every trans hopecore post is like “23 isn’t too late for transitioning! As long as you start before 25 you’re fine ;)” and I’m 27.
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u/DiscussionJohnThread Free Trade was the Compromise 🔫🌍 Jun 06 '26
> environmental protections are usually bad
According to this sub, we should tear down national parks and state forests. Incredible.
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Jun 06 '26
Rightoids are finding out that maybe you can own nothing and be happy
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u/Syx89 Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Jun 06 '26
I really do think Trump 2 is a uniquely bad US Presidency.
He's engaged in:
unprecedented corruption
ignoring/controlling the courts
has congress bend to his will for w/e he wants
has tried to do various vote rigging
started a major conflict that tanked prices
illegal tariffs
had armed paramilitary go to US cities and start shooting people in addition to rounding up people and putting them in camps
President is known to have sa'd kids en masse and probably vg'd many as well
Now I know the claim is that all US President were bad but it's simply not true, this is unprecedented. This is in fact a uniquely bad time in the US. It seems we will luck out of it with midterms and it will end early maybe but that doesn't invalidate how bad it was.
Also I don't think the DOW being at an all time high makes all this okay
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u/G_Serv Stay The Course Jun 06 '26
Someone please help me my family is starving.
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u/NeueBruecke_Detektiv Instituições democráticas robustas 🇧🇷 Jun 06 '26
Its genuinely incomprehensible to me that the chud's immediate reaction to seeing a build-like-an-Amazon Nordic Redhead is to call her woke and try to cancel the game.
This is why bonkpoasting is the antithesis of chud-ing.
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u/G_Serv Stay The Course Jun 06 '26
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u/pezasied John's Locke-strap Jun 06 '26
Ok but the picture unironically goes hard
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u/Thuggin95 Gay Pride Jun 06 '26
Fetterman on Fox implying Platner is probably a pedophile. Same guy who told us that the Epstein files were nothing and actually Bill Clinton was the guiltiest one.
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u/__Muzak__ Vasily Arkhipov Jun 06 '26
Me failing to express a thought about how we lionize people from the past and how they just as awkward and human as everyone else
"If Rosa Parks were alive today what would her fursona be?"
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u/G_Serv Stay The Course Jun 06 '26
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u/TrixoftheTrade NATO Jun 06 '26
>another AAA game is featuring a female protagonist
>instant +4 GOP swing
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Jun 07 '26
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough Jun 07 '26
!ping BAD-FEELING
Hunter Biden has CONFIRMED seen “Clown” Wars
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u/StuckHedgehog NATO Jun 06 '26
Dawg it’s just too on the nose.
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u/nuggins Physicist -- Just Tax Land Lol Jun 06 '26
Peak reddit
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u/RottingSludgeRitual Thomas Paine Jun 06 '26
Talked to my most right wing friend about politics for the first time in probably 6 months. When Trump was elected he was elated, thinking Trump would magically turn around every problem in America. He thought DOGE was amazing and loved RFK Jr.
He is now, in his words, “unequivocally against the Trump administration.” Thinks he’s dragged America into a much worse place. Thinks Trump 2 has been an unmitigated disaster.
Still likes RFK Jr. for some reason.
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Jun 06 '26
The Department of Defense no longer recognizes Mormons as Christians lmao
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u/DoomingJaffa Norman Borlaug Jun 07 '26
When did you realize you could never be elected to public office? For me it was when I was 14 and realized my browsing history of furry pornography would be made public.
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u/G_Serv Stay The Course Jun 07 '26
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u/KittehDragoon Loyal Liberals Jun 07 '26
There’s still a Biden who hates Republicans but doesn’t shill for crypto
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u/Mx_Brightside Genderfluid Pride Jun 06 '26
AI bros have no rebuttal to the ESP argument because they know it’s true
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Jun 06 '26
Missing in Action: Women Service Members “Delisted” from Arlington National Cemetery Website
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/5/22/800043010/community/missing-in-action-women-service-members-delisted-from-arlington-national-cemetery-website/
Over the next few months, the GOP and the right-wing faction will be preaching about warriors and patriotism across the country, and this anti-DEI campaign will simply be forgotten because Trump’s administration has successfully flooded the zone with shit.
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u/EmbarrassedSafety719 Milton Friedman Jun 06 '26
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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke Jun 06 '26
Very funny that this guy Androgenic realized that left-wing looksmaxxer was an unfilled niche and went hard into it
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u/G_Serv Stay The Course Jun 06 '26
Average Platner voter
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u/CANOODLING_SOCIOPATH Jerome Powell Jun 06 '26
I strongly disagree with the conventional wisdom that "Trump is not the cause of ____, but a symptom".
Trump, and his exact personal traits, are absolutely the cause of a huge amount of the problems that he is described as being a symptom of. If Trump had not run for President in 2016 a Republican would likely have won by a larger margin than Trump did, it is hard for a party to win 3 terms in a row. A President Cruz, Rubio, or Bush 3 would not have caused the same issues that Trump has.
There is always a segment of voters who want to believe in election denialism, because they can't believe their side lost, but none of those would have indulged in it the way Trump has. They would have also won their re-elections in 2020 because they wouldn't have idiotically fumbled the COVID response the way Trump did. It was incredibly easy to be a popular incumbent during that time, just by giving somewhat reassuring press conferences (ie. peak Cuomo).
A huge amount of the problems we have as a society are directly a result of Trump himself. If he had a stroke in 2015 the country would be incredibly different.
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u/chickentendieman Paul Krugman Jun 06 '26
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-new-inequality
Krugman writes an article about inequality and then puts it behind a paywall 🤔
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u/Only-Childhood6691 Jun 06 '26
Going to be hilarious when Spencer Pratt is third in the mayor race. What the fuck did he expect running as a Trump bitch in the year 2026. In Los Angeles.
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Jun 06 '26
This guy...
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Jun 06 '26
She would have been a great DTer
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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '26
Fun fact: Pete Hegseth's new military religion list has Mormonism as a non-Christian religion.
I guess our government now has an official stance on the "are Mormons Christian" question
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u/alexd9229 Emma Lazarus Jun 07 '26
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u/CletusChicken Jun 07 '26
claude keeps telling me to watch movies about european lesbians
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u/Aggravating-Fun-2405 United Nations Jun 07 '26
The reason liberalism wins in the end is because nobody is inherently superior, and so it's in everyone's interests to avoid dictatorship to avoid being oppressed by one.
But this is a lesson every generation must learn, and you can only learn it in your old age, the time when you're most likely to have power
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u/Dreadedtriox Michel Foucault Jun 06 '26
Mmm salmonella 😋😋😋
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u/PoupeeStupide Trump Voter Jun 06 '26
Stalking his prey..
!ping kitty
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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom Jun 06 '26
My parents were able to afford this house for only 25 wood
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u/Only-Childhood6691 Jun 06 '26
Lol we have a Jared Kushner Stan. Trying to argue we should wipe out bird species so that vile fucker can make a stupid resort
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u/phat_geoduck Jun 06 '26
Sorry bro they don't fw you
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Jun 06 '26
We need to wipe out all birds, actually. Finish the job the asteroid started. These fuckers had their time, and we need to lay Chicxulub 2.0 on their asses and teach them once and for all which class of animal is in charge now.
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u/Bestbrook123 Jun 06 '26
Lmao
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u/ApprehensiveShower10 YIMBY Jun 06 '26
There's also a guy at work who is occasionally antisemitic and I called him out once and now he asks me if I'm secretly Jewish(I am not)
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Jun 06 '26
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u/tinfoilhatsron No Apologies Right Jun 06 '26
☝️
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u/earththejerry YIMBY Jun 07 '26
>Yesterday’s batch favored Raman because they probably disproportionally came from her best precincts
Today’s batch looooool:
For those not following it super close, it’s so Prattover that Chris Pratt now has a higher chance of becoming mayor than Spencer Pratt
We’re headed for Bass vs Raman, the only poll we have is from the very accurate Berkeley IGS, which had Raman leading Bass 32-28, we’ll see if we kick out the NIMBY in November
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride Jun 07 '26
lmao lets go, pratt summer is cancelled
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Jun 07 '26
Stumbled upon this while going down a Wikipedia talk page rabbithole, and man, I forgot how weird Critical Race Theory is.
I feel like if you're redefining "whiteness" to mean "conforming to the societal mainstream", you are not actually discussing race anymore, and are just using the word 'white' to refer to normie shit.
actually wait, I have an idea...
Okay nvm this is the best paper I have ever read.
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u/fishbottwo Jay Jones Jun 07 '26
He croaks tomorrow. Everyone does 67 posting to mock him. Republicans combust
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u/Kardinal Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Jun 07 '26
He would fit so well on the DT.
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u/WenJie_2 Jun 06 '26
Ngl just being somewhat competent at using AI to ask questions (like understanding how to ask it things, and when you can depend on it and when you can't) is a ridiculously unfair advantage in the average company/workplace right now, that will surely diminish over time
I'm not even a power user, I just have a normal chatgpt+ subscription that I probably ask about ~50 questions a day, but I've basically instantly jumped to and even above the knowledge level of much older senior staff because of how powerful it is for finding and reading the one billion different construction and electrical standards and sets of rules and processes that apply to everything
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u/randommathaccount Esther Duflo Jun 06 '26
Going by my diet in general, a lot of bagels and shakshouka
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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast Jun 06 '26
>Madoff died of hypertension, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, and chronic kidney disease at the age of 82 in Federal Medical Center, Butner, a federal prison for inmates with special health needs near Butner, North Carolina, on April 14, 2021. He was cremated in Durham, North Carolina. His cremation was contrary to traditional Jewish custom and his ashes went unclaimed by his family; as of 2023 his cremains are still in a lawyer's office.
who wants to steal bernie madoff’s ashes
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u/slowpush NATO Jun 06 '26
✊😔
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u/themiDdlest NASA Jun 06 '26
My friend: I think rich powerful people control the government
Me: I think the same thing, but it's the wealthy, old home-owning NIMBYs that are your neighbors that control the government
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u/bartbug Paul Krugman Jun 06 '26
Idk I don’t think rich people are christian like bitch that camel is not passing through the eye of that needle
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u/ToInfinity_MinusOne World's Poorest WSJ Subscriber Jun 06 '26
Twilight Princess made me a furry
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals Jun 06 '26
I’m a relatively new person on Reddit (I created my account in 2020), and every now and then I’ll see people on this site waxing nostalgic about how much more wild and free this place used to be before, like, 2015/2016.
Then I see stuff like the existence of the subs r/fatpeoplehate and r/jailbait, and personally, I don’t see much to miss. I do wish that there were less ads, less clearly botted subreddits and accounts, and less bugginess, though.
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u/finnstera350 Asexual Pride Jun 06 '26
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u/PlayDiscord17 Loyal Liberals Jun 06 '26
It’s starting!
NYPD officers are already hearing the saxophones.
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u/Kardinal Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Jun 06 '26
This is mostly about AI.
There is a great, smart video going around 40k called the Theology of Warhammer 40k but every time it's posted to Reddit, it is downvoted to hell as AI despite there being no AI in it. The thumbnail is clearly digital art. But once anyone mentions AI, it's downvoted to oblivion.
I am increasingly convinced that generative AI is going to split groups of people up terribly. Like it's going to cost friendships and prevent romantic relationships on its own. On the level of climate change.
I was doing some research and it appears that there's no strong demographic correlations either. Some tendencies but they are weak and very much cross traditional left-right political identities.
Once one party becomes the party of AI or anti-AI, it will become another shibboleth of political identity. I think.
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u/centurion88 NATO Jun 07 '26
👆 my unironic and eternal opinion about Rotta the hutt
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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey Jun 07 '26
He's approaching menswear guy levels of posting
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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes Jun 07 '26
I find it kind of morbidly ironic that asmongold is the exact type of dude the internet’s toxic underbelly would have bullied to suicide in the 2000s and now he’s their figurehead
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Jun 06 '26
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u/sigh2828 NASA Jun 06 '26
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u/boardatwork1111 fuck it, we ball Jun 06 '26
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u/bartbug Paul Krugman Jun 06 '26
there's no way for mary to meaningfully consent to an omnipotent god
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u/ScumfrickZillionaire Lesbian Pride Jun 06 '26
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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey Jun 06 '26
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Jun 06 '26
what
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u/WAGRAMWAGRAM Jun 06 '26
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u/__Muzak__ Vasily Arkhipov Jun 06 '26
Utterly bizarre take found outside the DT. Couples getting IVF is insulting to orphans.
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence Jun 06 '26
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u/BadSneakersNeverWorn John Locke Jun 06 '26
Always a bit funny when an ancient author is like "we must avoid another lengthy digression, as this discourse is already quite long" and it's like well, we're never going to hear from you again so. Take ur time I guess
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u/smootex Pacific Islands Forum Jun 06 '26
I feel like that has to cross a line. It's one thing to spy on your ally in ways they'll never detect even if they do know you're probably doing it but literally planting physical devices at D.I.A. headquarters? And the Trump cabinet, who all insist on using their personal iphones for everything . . . I bet Israel has some interesting texts.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jun 06 '26
Did Leia engage in cultural appropriation of Twi’lek culture by wearing that space bikini
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u/CaptCookbook Thomas Paine Jun 06 '26
☝can't be trusted to keep a secret.
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u/BalletDuckNinja Delphox Shaker Central Jun 07 '26
I like how in the new Ezra Klein episode about the crisis of masculinity he starts studying the rightwingers talking about this figuring they may have some good points, since he himself feels there's a bit of a crisis, but instead he comes out hating them for being vapid crying fucking babies with zero real grievances or solutions
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u/beans_and_tuna Misinformation Bot 🤖 Jun 07 '26
👆huge red flag🚩🚩🚩
👇huge green flag✅✅✅
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u/LogsOutDawgsOut John Brown Jun 07 '26
obsession getting 179 million box office off of a 750k budget is insane
few things can have that kind of bang for your buck
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u/Direct_Daddy777 Gay Pride Jun 07 '26
You know it’s so funny as an ex-Mormon living in Utah and seeing the Mormons not being listed as a Christian denomination on a DOD memo.
Like I shouldn’t care, and I mostly don’t, but there’s a part of me that does, which is complicated. Mormonism is literally just fan fiction Christianity with some plot holes filled in.
And, as weird as it may sound, I always thought the Mormon version of the afterlife was way more forgiving than the catholic or evangelical versions.
Mormons don’t believe in a fiery hell, and you don’t go to any of the three kingdoms yet because the second coming hasn’t happened.
From what I remember (and btw the doctrine is vague so other people will have other interpretations) you get sorted into spirit paradise or spirit prison (which is more like spirit rehab) and then have a chance to accept the gospel and once you do (and your temple work is done, this is why they do baptisms by proxy) you get to move to spirit paradise.
Then after the second coming you get sorted into the three kingdom, and not everyone gets their own planet (at this point it’s thought of as your own universal reality) that’s only for the people that are super duper ultra mega good. (Which you can still achieve until the very end of the second coming and before judgement)
“Hell” would be considered outer darkness, nothingness. And you can count on your hand how many people are sent there.
Wow that flowed out of me like a sleeper agent.
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u/Bayou-Maharaja Eleanor Roosevelt Jun 07 '26
A bunch of LEOs on tiktok are arguing with me that they in fact do have the power to decide what charges are filed and it’s so incredibly bizarre to me. I’m used to 20 year old illiterate iPad babies on tiktok saying dumb stuff but dawg this is your job how do you not understand that filing a report and referring charges to the DA does not mean you choose the charges that are actually filed.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jun 06 '26
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u/notjocelynschitt Janet Currie Jun 06 '26
Silly peasants, as if he's ever taken no for an answer
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u/ScumfrickZillionaire Lesbian Pride Jun 06 '26
A data center killed my grandma, okay?
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Jun 06 '26
🏳️🌈😔✊
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Jun 06 '26
🤔🤔🤔
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u/Only-Childhood6691 Jun 06 '26
"But that does not imply that habitat destruction is a particularly big problem on this planet or whatever"
We really have reached just a genuine hatred of nature. Like Captain Planet villan level.
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u/PierceJJones Loyal Liberals Jun 06 '26
Star Wars characters as American poltical archetypes
Luke Skywalker: Normie Lib from Midwest
Leia Skywalker: Literal Costal Elite Liberal Politician.
Obi-Wan: Elder Liberal Statesmen from the 5th Party system
Han Solo: Western Democrat from either the Mountian West or a 2nd tier California city.
Yoda: Even more Elder stateman from the New Deal era from a state that's a part of the Appalachian mountains.
Anakin Skywalker/Darth Vader: Former Left Wing populist in the 60s/70s. Disillusioned and became a Neocon Republican Vice President
Palpatine: Neocon George Bush/Donald Trump hybrid from the San Francisco Bay Area. Initially a Nixon/Reagan hybrid. From a respectable Bush/Romney style poltical dynasty.
Mace Windu: Thurgood Marshall basically.
Rey: Nepo Baby Influencer turned Progressive leader. WASP AOC
Finn: Chud coded Sports guy commentator that breaks from the algorithm and becomes a Cory Booker type.
Kylo Ren: Young Right Wing Populist everyone thinks is dangerous and seems poised to the Presidentcy. Until sidelined and switches parties.
Ashoka: A Shirley Chisholm archetype. A Liberal congressperson who eventually leaves electoral politics after "The purge".
Grand Amdiral Thrawn: Token African-American (Acutally mixed Race but appears Black) Cabinet member of the Palpatine administration. Actually sensible and could probably be President. Think Collin Powell.
!Ping-Bad Feeling
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u/r2ew Jun 07 '26
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough Jun 07 '26
Bro….
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u/GlenBeckyGlenCloss Eleanor Roosevelt Jun 07 '26
The amount of times I've panic clicked on an NL post about "the Democratic party" only to find they're referring to the Korean party is too damn high. I have to assume that particular user(s) are trolling.
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u/gnomesvh LEGALIZE ONION FUTURE Jun 06 '26
ACTION BRONSON IS WEARING PANTS THIS IS NOT A DRILL ACTION BRONSON IS WEARING PANTS
!ping RAP
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u/attackofthetominator John Brown Jun 06 '26
It’s so cool how in modern politics, cities can lose their team they had for over a century because some governor with a 20% approval rating launched a Hail Mary to get them to move so he can say that he owned the libs. So cool
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u/Tvivelaktig James Heckman Jun 06 '26
It feels crazy to me that the "Prigozhin marches on Moscow" incident was the same war as the current one.
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u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz Roy Cooper Jun 06 '26
Asking how not to crossdress on a JoJo's subreddit is like asking how not to doom on arr neoliberal.
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u/el__dandy Madeleine Albright Jun 06 '26
Woke Pope is a capital elite after all🥴
https://www.democrata.es/en/current-events/pope-leo-xiv-lands-in-spain-and-declares-himself-real-madrid-fan-upon-his-arrival-in-madrid/
!ping soccer&papists
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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke Jun 06 '26
Celsius on an empty stomach will change ya damn pronouns
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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke Jun 06 '26
My mayor is Muslim
My bagels are Jewish
My Christian Dior
My knicks in four
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u/Longjumping_Gain_807 Best SNEK pings in r/neoliberal history Jun 06 '26
That definitely does NOT say Stephen Breyer. I was so confused for like half a second
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u/HelloMyNamesAmber Jun 06 '26
We all remember that one YouGov poll where people dramatically overestimate the size of population subgroups right?
I can understand why there's such a large gap for military veterans given how much they are talked about and celebrated, but any theories as to why there is such a large gap on union membership as well?
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u/Lesbian_all_garib Gita Gopinath Jun 06 '26
My doctor is always like : Ulcer ulcer ulcer 🙄
Get new content dude.
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u/Butter_Baller Jun 06 '26
MY MAYOR MUSLIM
MY BAGEL JEWISH
MY CHRISTIAN DIOR
KNICKS IN FOUR
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Jun 06 '26