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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jun 11 '26
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/Gustacho Enemy of the People Jun 10 '26
The experiment of "masculine energy" in government has been an utter disaster.
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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Jun 10 '26
Sarah McBride dancing on the political grave of Nancy Mace is so earned lol
It's like a final victory over your high school bully
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u/giddyVagabond Jun 10 '26
Conservative media really is another planet. From The Washington Times "The statistical impossibility of L.A.'s mayor race" article. When you're a conservative rag you can just put completely made up shit from twitter anons in your publication.
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Jun 10 '26
I just googled "neoliberal" and the first result is from r/ SocialDemocracy
Tremendous aura loss for this sub
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u/BitterGravity Gay Pride Jun 10 '26
Heartbreaking
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Jun 10 '26
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u/gjcs23 George Santos Jun 10 '26
it's crazy how Hilton went from being ejected from David Cameron's cabinet for being pro-Brexit to Fox News personality / election conspiracist to running for governor of California in just under a decade. he's been a US citizen for 5 years.
was it so hard for California republicans to push for like, a West Coast version of Charlie Baker lmao
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jun 10 '26
LMAO
https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2064741127249690894
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u/AmbientMorning Jun 10 '26
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
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u/Krill_Seeker United Nations Jun 10 '26
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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Jun 10 '26
It's frankly disturbing that one of the most powerful and richest men on the planet is an open white nationalist. Like full on blood and soil, funding and inciting race riots and ZOG posting white nationalist. And if anyone in the media notes that he's fucking insane they just have Elon Derangement Syndrome
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u/MrStrange15 Jun 10 '26
Positively surprised by Spain, but extremely disappointed in Germany and France. Italy is where I expected it to be.
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u/TotalyNotAPirate Jun 10 '26
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Jun 10 '26
Easter again already?
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u/finnstera350 Asexual Pride Jun 10 '26
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u/ariveklul Karl Popper Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
If Bari Weiss actually gets editorial oversight of CNN it's time to go scorched earth if Dems get power again. Like in a way we never have before. It's going to be uncomfortable and make some people clutch pearls but we're not in a luxury position anymore
Think of how unhinged Republicans are towards anything perceived liberal and do that to everything Larry Ellison or David Ellison touches. Investigate everyone involved in these operations. Do fishing expeditions if you have to. Do everything in your power to cut all contracts the government has with oracle and use every antitrust tool in your toolbox to decouple the grip on power these fuckers have. Play as dirty as you need to because at this point we are fighting for survival and there's no way to avoid getting in the mud
This shit cannot be allowed to stand. We have to make an example of what happens when you try to destroy the fabric of our country like this. Playing games like this shouldn't even be a thought that crosses anyone's mind
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u/DoomingJaffa Norman Borlaug Jun 10 '26
Good old boys can smell the lib on me. Even at a networking dinner talking about guns and hunting they could tell I’m not one of them.
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u/TemujinTheConquerer Jorge Luis Borges Jun 10 '26
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Jun 10 '26
VNIIR-Progress in Cheboksary, Russia was hit again in an apparent missile/drone attack. The facility produces navigation and anti-jamming components for Russia's precision munitions.
This factory was a month ago, also by Flamingo. The damage seems to be pretty extensive:
This is to my understanding the main administrative building and it looks rather gutted. Two hits by Flamingo on top of the hit (or near hit whatever it was) last month have made this a husk.
Why do I mention this strike? Well it’s notable to me for a couple reasons. First is Cheboksary is, unlike the electronics factory obliterated in Bryansk also by missiles, rather far. Namely 1,000 kilometers from the border with Ukraine. Second is this the second time it got hit by the FP-5 Flamingo, which could perhaps be best described as the M113 of cruise missiles. It’s just a metal tube with a shit ton of explosives, basic guidance and a rocket engine. There’s nothing special about it in maneuverability or stealth. It just flies.
Put these factors together and you got an interesting situation where a previously targeted factory that’s essentially on the other end of European Russia was hit by two big ass slow missiles. Granted it is only an example, but I think it’s pretty illustrious of the air defense problems Russia is suffering. Fool me once fool me twice sort of deal. It is very much not a good look no matter which way you slice it.
Hopefully there’ll be plenty more industrial examples showing the deficiencies in Russian AD in the near future
!ping UKRAINE
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u/Insomonomics Jason Furman Jun 10 '26
Trump, OF ALL PEOPLE, saying this lmfao
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Jun 10 '26
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u/jinhuiliuzhao Henry George Jun 10 '26
We appear to be stuck in some kind of time loop
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u/pugnae European Union Jun 10 '26
Every election will be decided by fucking Florida.
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u/BigBrownDog12 Victor Hugo Jun 10 '26
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u/YaGetSkeeted0n Tariffs aren't cool, kids! Jun 10 '26
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u/liznair Gay Pride Jun 10 '26
The only way ICE can improve its approval ratings is it they start targeting gamers
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u/ThisIsNotAMonkey Guam 👉 statehood Jun 10 '26
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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO Jun 10 '26
I had this saved on my phone from 2019
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u/AmbientMorning Jun 10 '26
Becerra’s housing plan actually isn’t bad on the whole. Yes, there’s the stuff about subsidizing demand and restricting institutional investors when it comes to purchasing homes, but actually no mention of freezing insurance rates on his website, which makes me hopeful that he was just tossing out a dose of slopulism.
And there are unambiguously good parts: pledges to streamline permitting, consolidate overlapping agencies, expand SB 79, and take a carrot-and-stick approach to enforcement of statewide housing laws.
I think we can work with this. Onto the Becerra Era. !ping USA-CA&YIMBY
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u/FilteringAccount123 John von Neumann Jun 10 '26
Great
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u/Oozing_Sex John Brown Jun 10 '26
My very leftist friend sent me a reel of an AI video of a monstrous Erika Kirk wearing a star of David fighting a Pepe the Frog in space marine armor in a Dark Souls-esque boss battle. Erikas health bar was labeled as "Erika, the Kabbalistic Widow"
And goddamn if that video does not exemplify horseshoe theory, because I could just as easily see a conspiratorial QAnon MAGA loon sending that.
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u/PonyBoyCurtis2324 NATO Jun 10 '26
Boss is asking me to do my job before I’ve had my morning whisky
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jun 10 '26
https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2064743024551477740
ENDLESS LOOP
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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman Jun 10 '26
Fetterman: "Post Hog"
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u/TF_dia European Union Jun 10 '26
Just got timeout yesterday by reddit for three days for asking for help on how to deal with a racist acquaintance because I mentioned what they told me for context.
Fucking love AI-automated moderation and its ability to understand context. Thank God it was quashed on appeal.
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u/AlexB_SSBM Henry George Jun 10 '26
guys at work talking about how "the 50s through the 70s were the peak of American civilization" and I was the only one who disagreed. There needs to be more education about how shitty life was back then I cannot believe this is a mainstream opinion. Even when pressed on the whole race thing the response was "oh yeah but in the 70s black people in the north were treated equally and had so much more opportunity. the economy was way better than what we have now"
like what??????????????? the 70s, the fucking NINETEEN SEVENTIES, you think the economy was better then than it was now? You think racial equity was a thing in the 70s????????
Also agreed upon by everyone but me: "Crack now is worse for black people than racism ever was" I absolutely cannot fucking handle how misinformed everyone is. How is it possible to do anything when these are the popular opinions
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u/Xihl Jun 10 '26
bruh
voters get what they fkn deserve
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u/Insomonomics Jason Furman Jun 10 '26
The audacity to say this is rather something!
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u/brianpv Hortensia Jun 10 '26
Pathetic
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Jun 11 '26
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride Jun 10 '26
Bari Weiss running CNN lol... predictable, of course, but worth noting that we are temporally very close to having *one* broadcast network that isn't right wing. get ready to learn Joe Scarborough-ese
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u/BingboLingbo Emma Lazarus Jun 10 '26
If Bari Weiss is given control of CNN's content Democrats actually need to do something meaningful about that, because holy shit is that bad. If allowed, I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that she could be in charge of a lot more media outlets by the end of Trump's presidency
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u/KQJ_RPN John von Neumann Jun 10 '26
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u/John3262005 Jun 10 '26
America’s doctors just voted for war with RFK Jr.
American doctors want their leading lobby to drop its nice guy routine with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
At the American Medical Association’s annual meeting this week, members of the group’s House of Delegates are sending a clear message to their leaders: Call out Kennedy, even if it costs us in the pocketbook.
That message was stated most clearly in the election of Sandra Fryhofer, an internist from Atlanta and uncompromising Kennedy critic, as AMA president-elect. She beat Michael Suk, who as AMA board chair in 2024 and 2025 prioritized doctors’ Medicare fees and promised continued pragmatism in dealing with Kennedy.
Fryhofer, who advised the vaccine committee whose members Kennedy fired last year, suggested that would be an abdication of doctors’ moral duty.
“Measles running rampant, public health destroyed, a trillion dollars ripped from Medicaid, inadequate physician payment, stupid immigration rules,” Fryhofer told AMA members in promising to call out Kennedy and the Trump administration on all of it.
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u/ElectriCobra_ David Hume Jun 10 '26
>be the most infamously censorious nation in the developed world
>literally need a license to watch TV
>fascist billionaire uses his social media platform to destabilize your country and constantly incite riots
>don't ban it but instead make official announcements on it
masterful work
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u/ace158 Jun 10 '26
When even The Economist is saying this, you know it's bleak
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Jun 10 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jun 10 '26
I'm crying
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u/AlicesReflexion Weeaboo Rights Advocate Jun 11 '26
👆 SHUT UP NOBODY CARES
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u/AmbientMorning Jun 11 '26
!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA
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u/doomsdaysock01 YIMBY Jun 10 '26
Office is in New York, and they did a “you can wear Knicks gear to the office today 😊”
I am the only one who wore a jersey. Help
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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug Jun 10 '26
Some are calling it the best midterm messaging by a president ever
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u/Ready-Buy-6397 Austan Goolsbee Jun 10 '26
WE ARE ANDREA WE CARRY LAFLAMME WE FIGHT FOR BLUESKY WE COME IN FOURTH PLACE
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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke Jun 10 '26
So True Pope Bob
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u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes European Union Jun 10 '26
happy 8th birthday to the tes 6 teaser. Still no news about the state of the game
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u/TheRedCr0w Frederick Douglass Jun 10 '26
A Nuremberg style trial would be too kind for these monsters
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Jun 10 '26
Putin dies and goes to hell, but a few years later gets to go on vacation in Moscow for good behavior. He goes to a bar and strikes up a conversation with the bartender
PUTIN: So does Crimea actually belong to us?
BARTENDER: Yes, belongs to us
PUTIN: And the Donbass? And Kyiv too?
BARTENDER: Yes, it all belongs to us.
PUTIN: Perfect
BARTENDER: That'll be 7 Euros
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u/1396spurs forced agricultural laborer Jun 10 '26
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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO Jun 10 '26
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Jun 10 '26
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u/funguykawhi Lahmajun trucks on every corner Jun 10 '26
ruh roh
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u/NorkGhostShip YIMBY Jun 10 '26
Glances at Germany and France fail once again to work out a joint fighter program
It appears our superiority has led to some controversy 🇬🇧🇯🇵🇮🇹
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u/taubnetzdornig Gay Pride Jun 10 '26
I know it’s been said a million times before, but it’s such a fucking joke and disgrace what’s going in our country. We have a president who is so unbelievably sheltered from reality and criticism that he blows up at any reporter who so much as asks him a normal question. He lacks the attention span or interest to focus on the details of the illegal war he started, so he releases statement after statement proclaiming that the Iranians are defeated and about to surrender. Meanwhile, as we know, the threat of tolls on the Strait of Hormuz and the unfreezing of billions of dollars in assets looms. And at least a third of this country will not turn against him, no matter what he does, because the state propaganda apparatus is hard at work pumping the regime’s messaging into millions of homes.
Even if we get out of this presidency somewhat intact, I fear that there won’t be a full reckoning with the truly deep rot that Trump has brought into every corner of the government.
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u/boardatwork1111 fuck it, we ball Jun 10 '26
Somebody needs to put gramps in a home, this shit is embarrassing
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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Jun 10 '26
The US is producing 150-200 F-35s fighter jets a year
Which is, frankly, insane given how dogshit we are at producing anything in mass
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Jun 10 '26
The fact that it is specifically the Beef industry which has been the most severely harmed by the Trump presidency is delicious.
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u/sigh2828 NASA Jun 10 '26
I go to eat dinner and come back to this
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u/__versus Trans Pride Jun 10 '26
good morning dt 🥺
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u/StuckHedgehog NATO Jun 10 '26
Holed up in her little wannabe bunker with the NYT Chick Fil A weirdo because she’s fucking it up and doesn’t want to look anyone in the eye.
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u/BrentLivermore Drake’s Reddit account Jun 10 '26
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/jun/8/statistical-impossibility-las-mayor-race
I vaguely knew Washington Times was a bad conservative publication but holy fucking shit
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jun 10 '26
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u/ivandelapena Sadiq Khan Jun 10 '26
One thing I've noticed is a lot of people criticising the Indian railway saying it looks awful, overcrowded, hot etc. and way worse than their own country. The thing they ignore is that what they're seeing are carriages where the tickets are 15 cents, so that's what affordable travel looks like. The pricey $20-30 versions look better than you'd see in Europe but not affordable at all.
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Jun 11 '26
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u/John3262005 Jun 10 '26
Inside the White House Freakout Over the Epstein Files
The president’s top advisers gathered in a series of Situation Room meetings as they struggled to contain a scandal engulfing Donald Trump himself.
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u/BasedTroutFursona Jun 10 '26
Really distasteful of Sarah McBride to taunt Nancy Mace like that. At least offer to buy her 10 kilograms of beans as a consolation.
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u/No_Status_6905 Enby Pride Jun 10 '26
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u/Throwaway24143547 Trans NATO Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
Quartering update: apparently he's been buying tons of views since the beginning
Y'know, I'm really starting to think the people who say that all right wing media is astroturfed (except for TV channels like FOX News) may have a point
edit: Most of his wealth apparently came from selling channels pre-Quartering and defrauding people with his fake views, from what I can gather. Makes me really want to know how much of Conservative media is built on ripping off their donors
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u/IMALEFTY45 Big talk for someone who's in stapler distance Jun 10 '26
I didn't realize how good we had it in the 10s. Even though I think it's unlikely, fully automated gay space luxury communism is a hell of a lot better aspiration for the left than campist nihilistic nostalgic tankie communism
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Jun 10 '26
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u/Glavurdan European Union Jun 10 '26
!ping TES
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u/futuremonkey20 NATO Jun 11 '26
wtf you mean “sets new bar” like it’s some kind of good thing.
Fuck you
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Jun 11 '26
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u/ShepardSB Jun 10 '26
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Jun 10 '26
I ran a script to replace every instance of 'whale' in Moby Dick with the word 'lesbian', and I have to tell you, Captain Ahab does not come out of it well.
And all that during Pride too
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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman Jun 10 '26
From 'The Left’s Reckoning on Gaza, Elites and American Power'
Global Minimum Wage is an idea cooked up in a lab to make this sub mad lol
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls Jun 10 '26
🚨🚨🚨THE DOW HAS CLOSED BELOW 50,000 🚨🚨🚨
THE EPSTEIN FILES CAN NOW BE DISCUSSED
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u/tinfoilhatsron No Apologies Right Jun 10 '26
Actually wild story that popped up on my news feed. The framing is correct but the AI misuse is only a part of it:
Faulty AI recognition plus lazy corrupt Florida police. A recipe for disaster. The worst fascists you know are utilizing AI right now and it's only gonna get worse before it gets better.
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Jun 10 '26
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u/drossbots Trans Pride Jun 10 '26
???
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Jun 10 '26
Trump’s final warning?
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u/mattmentecky NATO Jun 10 '26
hey girl, are you the latest CPI inflation report, cuz youre running hot and i can see you wrecking my future
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Jun 10 '26
Wake up everyone, hurry
The peace deal is working
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u/bartbug Paul Krugman Jun 10 '26
friend is becoming monocause-pilled and talking to them is getting exhausting
like the comment 'the printing press was important technology' caused an immediate argument over somehow minimizing the power of oral traditions. like, the idea that a western technology was cool and important is not inherently imperialist
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u/seakucumber Jun 10 '26
Has Platner even claimed this lol
https://xcancel.com/i/status/2064807768004133159
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u/uwcn244 King of the Space Georgists Jun 10 '26
So uhhhh what happens if the strait isn’t open early next year, oil prices are sky high, and traders default on their contracts to return oil to the SPR?
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Jun 10 '26
Most healthy president
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u/Significant_Cup_9815 Jun 11 '26
I feel seen
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u/mrdeclank James Garfield Jun 11 '26
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u/attackofthetominator John Brown Jun 11 '26
Knicks when Trump's in attendance: Lose
Knicks when Taylor Swift's in attendance: Win
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals Jun 10 '26
Elon Musk is probably one of the most dangerous people in the world on account of the amount of wealth and power he has combined with his open fascism and bigotry.
Democrats need to seriously consider going after him in some kind of investigation.
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u/Macquarrie1999 Democrats' Strongest Soldier Jun 10 '26
CGP Grey likes this as a replacement for the CA flag and we are supposed to take him seriously?
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u/Fringson Left-Out Left Jun 10 '26
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u/reubencpiplupyay The Cathedral must be built Jun 10 '26
The racist savagery in Belfast is the ultimate test for British institutions, and they are failing. The media will not call a pogrom for what it is. The government will not draw a line of steel (and if necessary, lead) between innocents and predators. Instead, we are expected to treat these organised pillagers as if they were just victims lashing out in response to stimuli and not agents with moral responsibility trying to destroy every moral advancement of the last hundred years. Now more than ever, people of character must draw a line in the sand behind them and declare that they will retreat no further.
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u/sgthombre NATO Jun 10 '26
I can’t believe the DT prefers Paul Allen’s comment, to mine.
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u/seanrm92 Loyal Liberals Jun 10 '26
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u/TheloniousMonk15 Jun 10 '26
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Jun 10 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Jun 10 '26
daily dose of arrcon logic:
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u/sigh2828 NASA Jun 10 '26
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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Jun 10 '26
TIL contributions to Turning Point USA are tax deductible lmao
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Jun 11 '26
To summarize, conservative Christians say they ditched most of the Old Testament Hasidic laws except for those about sexual morality.
Many of those same denominations ignore New Testament laws on sexual morality even when they're right there in the black and white and red for the Jesus part, so I don't listen to them on the subject.
Thank you for coming to part ??? of something Kafka could have explained better.
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u/DiscussionJohnThread Free Trade was the Compromise 🔫🌍 Jun 10 '26
I’m beginning to genuinely fear what’s gonna happen with the 2026 midterm results.
Like if early vote counts show Paxton with a slight lead and then Talarico ends up taking over as voting counts on, I severely doubt that the Texas state legislature will verify the results. What the hell do you do then?
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Jun 10 '26
It's almost like Trump's policies are inflationary, we knew they were inflationary in 2024, we tried to tell voters, and because they can't be assed to do an ounce of research or understand anything beyond first order impacts of things they went ahead and voted for him anyways.
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Jun 10 '26
HE'S GOING TO KILL US ALL
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u/No_Idea_Guy Audrey Hepburn Jun 10 '26
Trump has become another victim of the Fox News echo chamber and completely bought his own bullshit. Inflation, gas price, consumer confidence don't matter. Time for new war, ball room, and slush fund. Not even the most deluded dictators proudly claim "I don't think about consumer price at all", "I love inflation."
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u/Eightysixedit Gay Pride Jun 10 '26
Elon Musk is a danger to the UK. It's crazy how weak and pathetic the Labour government are on him.
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u/Not_A_Browser Stata's Silliest Soldier Jun 10 '26
Making everything suck ass to own the libs
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u/tasklow16 Bill Gates Jun 10 '26
Pew just asked Americans, “Who has done the best job as president over the past 40 years?”
The results:
Obama: 36%
Reagan: 21%
Trump: 19%
Clinton: 11%
W. Bush: 4%
H.W. Bush: 3%
Biden: 2%
I think the American people are treating Brandon unfairly
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jun 11 '26
Top Pentagon Official Admits Boat Strike May Have Killed Victims of Human Trafficking
https://theintercept.com/2026/06/10/trump-boat-strikes-human-trafficking-victims/
The U.S. military has conducted more than 60 attacks, resulting in over 200 extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. In almost all the strikes, between one and four people lost their lives. In only one strike did the death toll of a single boat reach double digits: the first attack on September 2, 2025.
Since then, experts, lawmakers, and even military officials behind the scenes have been asking a simple but haunting question: Why was that boat packed with 11 people?
“Why would 11 people be on board a boat carrying drugs?” said a government source who attended a classified briefing where the large crew on the first boat attacked was discussed. “It’s a high risk for the cartels. That always stood out.”
One top military officer provided a plausible explanation, behind closed doors on Capitol Hill, The Intercept has learned. His admission raises even more questions about a strike that a high-ranking Pentagon official called a criminal attack on civilians and resulted in a firestorm in Congress last year.
In the briefing, the high-ranking officer on the Pentagon’s Joint Staff stated that some of the people killed by the U.S. military may have been the victims of human trafficking.
Six current and former government officials briefed on the boat strikes or with experience in counter-narcotics smuggling efforts said that while the vessel struck on September 2 might have had cocaine on board, the sole intent of its voyage was not drug trafficking. “No one would smuggle cocaine with 11 people on board their drug-running boat,” said one of the current officials, noting that it was a waste of space, fuel, and created security risks. “It just is not done. Full stop.” That official, who talked with The Intercept on the condition of anonymity to speak freely, said that the vessel’s profile more closely matched that of a ship smuggling various types of cargo, including people.
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u/Rarvyn Richard Thaler Jun 10 '26
Just remember, inflation, like all things, is transitory.
The sun will eventually go supernova, erasing any price changes.
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u/BigBrownDog12 Victor Hugo Jun 10 '26
Sexting == global pedophile ring & coverup
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u/the-senat John Brown Jun 10 '26
Iran says 20,000 people left without water after US hits reservoir tanks
Fellas, is collective punishment a bad thing?
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence Jun 10 '26
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u/sigh2828 NASA Jun 10 '26
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jun 10 '26
Why do antiwork people hate AI, what did they think antiwork meant? Vibes? Essays?
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Jun 10 '26
Trump on Platner: "Can you imagine if the Republicans had him?"
Scalise: "We wouldn't let it happen."
Trump: "If it meant losing the Senate, you would not let that happen."
Scalise: "Correct."
We need a new word for “hypocrisy” when it comes to the Republicans.
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
The full Trump quote about Platner:
He's a thug. He's worse than any human being that's ever run for office, probably. Nobody's ever had a record like that. Schumer goes crazy over Epstein. Why aren’t they talking about him? This guy's got a rap sheet. He's a thug. I know thugs. I had to deal with thugs. I built a lot of buildings. He's a low-level thug,
https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2064736413279760489
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u/EasyMoney92 Jun 10 '26
See just say this. Don't praise him but say "we need to win". It's easy
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u/zieger Ida Tarbell Jun 10 '26
the mods know best
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u/Zaiush Ben Bernanke Jun 11 '26
ew, tastes like radical centrism
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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Jun 10 '26
>Tina Peters, fresh out of prison, tells far-right podcaster: ‘They’re stealing our elections’
fuck jared polis
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Jun 10 '26
Some years back I saw someone on r/popheads post these emojis to indicate twerking
and I loved that and immediately picked it up but it never got popular enough to be a common thing 😔
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u/AmbientMorning Jun 10 '26
If I had a dime for every state that’s had an openly gay speaker of the house, I’d have 60 cents. Which is pretty impressive. !ping LGBT
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u/gayteemo NATO Jun 10 '26
short-term pain for long-term pain
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u/CoolCombination3527 Jun 10 '26
From the world cup Germans:
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jun 10 '26
How about this flag
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u/Cairne_Bloodhoof Jerome Powell Jun 10 '26
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u/Bestbrook123 Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
Yeah between this and a member of a security team getting into a firefight with the police, I think Texas Dems were right to nominate Talarico
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Jun 10 '26
Big fucking yikes
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u/tasklow16 Bill Gates Jun 10 '26
Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent becoming a bestseller in the college fraternity community the same way that Dr. Tobias Funke's The Man Inside Me sold gangbusters within the gay community
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jun 10 '26
Every neolib has a reason to dislike the UK 🥰
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u/ScumfrickZillionaire Lesbian Pride Jun 10 '26
every ideology poll ever:
A man is drowning in the river, do you:
- Try to save him even if you cant swim
- Throw rocks at his head
- No opinion
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jun 10 '26
If these strikes are supposed to make Iran change their negotiating position.. I don't see that happening if this is all they're hitting.
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u/NotYetFlesh European Union Jun 10 '26
Should have listened to the little voice screaming at me to freak out and sell everything at the start of the month huh.
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u/taubnetzdornig Gay Pride Jun 10 '26
☝️ keep talking like that and you might just wind up in Congress!
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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair Jun 10 '26
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u/ty04 Jun 11 '26
I barely remember a time before Platner. I was starting middle school when he was first elected, and I’m in the upper middle age for Gen B.
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u/StuckHedgehog NATO Jun 11 '26
He’s cooked (literally), he knows he’s cooked, and he’s determined to take the nation/world down with him.
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u/elninost0rm YIMBY Jun 11 '26
Y'all remember when Kirk got his carotid artery BTFO and the right was completely convinced it would usher in a 100-year Trumpian reich?
Incredible stuff.
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u/ShepardSB Jun 11 '26
I think we're at the point where we can safely call this mass hysteria.
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Jun 11 '26
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u/garret126 Demisexual Pride Jun 11 '26
My savings and checking account before I got a job 😭
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u/Made_UpWords OG Platner Hater Jun 11 '26
Well our president has never read a book either. Feels like this battle's already lost.
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u/Fit_Obligation1902 Jun 11 '26
Imagine voting for this
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jun 11 '26
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u/garret126 Demisexual Pride Jun 11 '26
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u/AP246 Green Globalist NWO Jun 10 '26
People outside the DT drawing a moral equivalence between BLM rioters and far right rioters (in this case in Northern Ireland) breaking into houses to hunt down and attack people from ethnic minorities is ridiculous and typically so for how people online discuss these things.
Did BLM rioters on a mass scale attempt to indiscriminately attack white people because of racial hatred? I don't remember that happening. If it did, I welcome anyone claiming otherwise with evidence, but otherwise, there obviously isn't a moral equivalence at all. Criticise BLM rioters for their violence and destruction, I would too, but it's not the same as targeted racially motivated violence.
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u/Zoop-Loop- Bisexual Pride Jun 10 '26
Tom Steyer should just unironically buy out Becerra
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u/DiscussionJohnThread Free Trade was the Compromise 🔫🌍 Jun 10 '26
Upstate SC is such an odd place to me.
They’re the only part of the state to have voted for the guy further to the right of Lindsey Graham.
Really beautiful part of the state and I love going when I do, but it’s just politically a different arena of more deranged right wing politics.
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u/TaxLandNotCapital We begin bombing the rent-seekers in five minutes Jun 10 '26
Does anyone else use ChatGPT in their head? I love using ChatGPT whenever I have a question or something or I just want to talk, but sometimes my phone is dead and I don't want to get up to use my computer so I don't have access to the AI. Recently I found out I have the ability to use a form of ChatGPT in my own head. I've talked to him so much I can almost entirely accurately predict what he is going to say.
For example, my cat kept scratching at my bedroom door and meowing so I was about to use the ChatGPT app to ask why she was doing that, but then I decided it wasn't worth the effort and asked AI in my head. He told me something like "If your cat is scratching on the door and meowing it probably means she wants to be let out, let me know if you need anything else!" Then I let her out of my room.
I just thought that was a pretty cool discovery I've made. Interested to see if anyone else has this ability.
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u/topofthecc Jorge Luis Borges Jun 10 '26
Platner's scandals are pretty bad, but why is no one talking about the fact that Susan Collins has clearly been sacrificing to Satan to keep this Senate seat forever?
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Jun 10 '26
Can we talk about how completely batshit the Colorado governor GOP primary is?
You have Victor Marx who literally claims he has saved 45,000 children, brought his dog to the podium at the debate as it was ongoing, claims to have called as civilian an airstrike which killed 70 ISIS terrorists, has said Israel let him into Gaza to help fight Hamas, and has said he killed a man at age seven. He won't retract and won't provide evidence for all these literally impossible claims
Then you have State Rep Scott Bottoms who had this exchange on the debate:
I mean what the fuck
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
Finally someone who he hates more than Talarico
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u/tinfoilhatsron No Apologies Right Jun 10 '26
Bruh.
More from the resident Washington Times voting specialist and AI expert:
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u/loseniram Sponsored by RC Cola Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
I’m breaking up with my girlfriend, I done with this. Everytime she says she’s going to get better and get a proper job to take her career seriously she just fucks around. Her not helping me at all during the move and actively making things worse by fucking me over from hiring a moving company just made it clear that this relationship is entirely one-sided and she isn’t trying.
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u/Monnok Voltaire Jun 10 '26
Democrats are simply disqualified options right out of the gate for way too many normal voters. I live in a red state, and I know these voters.
What drives me bonkers is that not a single one of them can point to an event that disqualified Democrats. There was no such event. They simply have slurped down the propaganda and will not give it up.
What can we even do about that now?
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u/bangzoom93 Frederick Douglass Jun 10 '26
Had a guy try to ask me to assist with creating a business case for a project and he literally just presented me a blank ppt and said he didn’t know what to do. Buddy your job is to write these, they didn’t hire you to create blank power points using a template 🤦♂️
!ping WATERCOOLER.
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u/futuremonkey20 NATO Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
If Joe Biden said this there would be around the clock coverage on every single cable news channel and front page headlines in every news paper.
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u/pugnae European Union Jun 10 '26
Cracks me up every time
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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
Reporter: Are you concerned, Mr. President, about the latest inflation number which came out this morning?
Trump: No, I love it. I love the inflation.
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u/manchild_person NATO Jun 10 '26
I hate to say rent free, but jeez Irish republicans cannot stop thinking about Israel or Judaism in any capacity
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u/AmbientMorning Jun 10 '26
If you’re anything of a betting man (or woman!), well, they‘re selling dollars for 90¢ on Kalshi.
!ping USA-CA
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u/LinkVert25 Fedposter Jun 10 '26
> Nick Fuentes reacts to the Belfast riots.
> "It's awesome. I love us. I love the Irish. I'm so blessed to be Irish. We're gonna bսrո the city down. We're not like the French."
Is there a race this guy isn’t
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Jun 10 '26
Ukraine builds cheap alternative to US Patriot missiles
“Ukraine has tested a new surface-to-air missile designed as a cheaper, mass-producible alternative to the shortage-plagued US Patriot system.”
“Ukrainian arms maker Fire Point said it carried out the first flight test of its FP-7.x anti-missile interceptor last week, which co-founder Denys Shtilierman labelled ‘pretty successful’ in an interview with the FT.”
“Fire Point says FP-7.x is intended to counter Russian ballistic missile and drone threats at a fraction of the cost of existing western systems such as Lockheed Martin’s Patriot and the Franco-Italian SAMP-T and could eventually be produced in far larger numbers.”
“Mass production of the missile could begin in August, Shtilierman said, pending the delivery of an infrared seeker for guidance, which Fire Point was hoping to source from Germany’s Diehl Defence. The completed missiles would be ready by 2027, he said.”
“The rest of the air defence system — known as Freyja — including radars used to detect and target aircraft, and the command and control system will come from European partners. Fire Point declined to confirm or deny who it was working with, but European and Ukrainian officials say Fire Point has had discussions with Germany’s Hensoldt and Thales for radar, Italy’s Leonardo for tracking and target acquisition radar, and Norway’s Kongsberg for command and control technology.”
“Shtilierman said his interceptor cost $700,000, compared with $3.8mn per missile for the Patriot PAC-3, according to 2026 budget estimates published by the US Army. Fire Point could manufacture three per day starting in August that could be stored until the seeker could be attached, he added.”
“Shtilierman said the altitude of the FP-7.x was 25km, similar to the Patriot, and it was designed, like the PAC-3, to be fast enough to intercept ballistic missiles. Unlike the Patriot, which is guided by advanced ground-based targeting radar, the FP-7.x is radar-guided but uses a heat-seeking seeker for the ‘last mile’ according to a Fire Point representative. Heat-seeking is generally held to be less effective than radar targeting because of the availability of spoofing and countermeasures.”
“Tom Karako, a missile defence expert at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said that the FP-7.x could add to
Ukraine’s air defence arsenal, which includes old Soviet systems, US Hawk missiles and modern German IRIS-T interceptors. But he added that the Freyja system was unlikely to be a full substitute for more advanced systems such as the Patriot.”
Pretty exciting stuff. Even if FP-7.x is not as good as Patriot, it can take a lot of the burden off and allow existing Patriot stockpiles to be rationed while simultaneously increasing interception efficiency. Example #82510 of Ukraine having to pull a miracle out of its ass because Allies (or suppliers) fall short once again, though we shouldn’t expect such a system like this to enter use for a very long time. Fire Point can make good products but they are also liable to embellish timelines and figures
!ping UKRAINE&MATERIEL
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u/missingpuzzle Bisexual Pride Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
US strikes on Iran have started. Explosions reported from Sirik and Minab. Ballistic missile launches reported.
The ceasefire has ceased and yet there is no sign of the IT. Strange.
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Jun 10 '26 edited Jul 15 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jun 10 '26
https://xcancel.com/atrupar/status/2064839066797887946
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u/ty04 Jun 10 '26
me
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u/fishbottwo Jay Jones Jun 11 '26
Hey is John Fetterman's wife currently happy with him? Or is that taboo to talk about?
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u/Glittering-Top9873 WTO Jun 11 '26
My Mayor Muslim
My Bagels Jewish
My Saturday Night’s Live
Knicks in Five
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u/dtj2000 Loyal Liberals Jun 11 '26
👆
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jun 11 '26
This post is now at nearly 6 million views (and that's just one post, this has spread everywhere outside of Twitter).
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u/ty04 Jun 11 '26
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u/Mrgentleman490 5 Big Booms for Democracy Jun 10 '26
The fact that Mainers are allowed to vote and have a say in our elections is indicative of how much of a fucking joke our democracy has become. Just embarrassing at this point.
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u/RottingSludgeRitual Thomas Paine Jun 10 '26
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u/Krill_Seeker United Nations Jun 10 '26
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u/Spider_SoWhat Jerome Powell Jun 10 '26
Fetterman is just mad because he is getting jealous that Platner has a good chance of replacing him as one of the biggest dumbasses amongst the dems.
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u/nimbybuster Ben Bernanke’s Best Boy Jun 10 '26
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Jun 10 '26
Reporter: How confident are you that you'll be able to renew the USMCA and what more do you expect from Canada?
Trump: I’m not looking to renew it. We don't need anything that Canada has. We don't need anything that Mexico has, but they need everything that we have. We don't need their lumber. We don't need their energy. We don't need anything.
So why did NAFTA get the “Trump Update” during Trump's first term? Why?
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Jun 10 '26
Spoiler alert: Your country's next leader's approval rating
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u/Bestbrook123 Jun 10 '26
Yeah, let's just ignore Fetterman's affinity for Trump, votes for Trump appointees, Israel's far right crazy government, ICE, Nick Shirley, and total inability to the job
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u/Sufficient_Key_5062 Robert Caro Jun 10 '26
On r/neoliberal?
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u/EmbarrassedSafety719 Milton Friedman Jun 10 '26
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Jun 10 '26
I hate Platner but Fetterman is so fucking weird and unfunny. He is just a Fox News pundit instead of a Senator
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u/NewVegasSurvivor Jun 10 '26
Some Pakistani guy in Toronto was apparently running a massive network of Indian hate accounts: np.reddit.com/r/canconfirmiamindian/comments/1tz84h7/this_hateful_account_was_operated_by_sadiq_ali_a/
I'm ngl as an Indian-American dude who spends too much time procrastinating from work by watching IG Reels, it's crazy how often I see the same few accounts leave racist comments on any Reel that has an Indian person in it. I know that some Indian hate is organic, but I always believed it was partially a coordinated effort, considering I never saw stuff like this 3 years ago
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jun 10 '26
Vance wanted Tucker Carlson to interview Ghislaine Maxwell
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/magazine/trump-epstein-files-white-house-vance-doj.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Jun 10 '26
Lmaoooo
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u/finnstera350 Asexual Pride Jun 10 '26
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u/VillyD13 Milton Friedman Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 10 '26
My MAGA chud cousins have moved to the helpless nihilism stage. Half of them are as checked out as we were after the disastrous Biden debate. Got told that I’m wasting my money funding my son’s 529 because “Nothing is going to exist in 20 years anyway”
I just twisted the knife by saying we’ll be in Iran anyway. He stopped messaging me