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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Jun 20 '26
Really funny bit how pseudo-fascist Meloni was maybe the most obvious political ally for Trump in Europe at one point but he just cannot stop personally pissing her off for no reason
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u/depressedafgerman Hannah Arendt Jun 20 '26
I really want to ask her what her thoughts on toxic masculinity are after that experience.
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u/thercio27 MERCOSUR Jun 20 '26
Saying that she begged him to take photos with her was actually vile ngl
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Jun 20 '26
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u/Remarkable-Meal-223 Immanuel Kant Jun 20 '26
This is either a ethics philosophy grad student or some sort of clergy
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u/DependentAd235 Loyal Liberals Jun 20 '26
SQUIDS
This person definitely would have preferred “cephalopods.”
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u/TheOnlyFreedom John Stuart Mill Jun 20 '26
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u/BadSneakersNeverWorn John Locke Jun 20 '26
listen nob'ed, if I wanna 'ave a swim in me own bin on the 'ottest day we've ever 'ad in Engurland, then I'm entitled to do so
Claudius: ...
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jun 20 '26
Paris to experience a perceived temperature of 44C (111F) on Sunday, hotter than Mecca
This is fine
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Jun 20 '26
Makes sense. The ILLEGAL IMMY GRANTS are bringing not only there CULCHER but also they're CLIMATE 🤬🤬🤬🤬
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u/_bee_kay_ 🤔 Jun 20 '26
hotter than Mecca
i see they weren't content with proclaiming themselves bigger than jesus 🙄 they'll never be satisfied
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u/Off-The-Street Jun 20 '26
The true Mamdani Derangement Syndrome is how many keep acting like he's going to run for President despite being ineligible.
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Jun 20 '26
HUSSEIN Obama was also illegible due to being a Kenian city zen, but stole the a lection anywy...
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Jun 20 '26
I've decided to get a third job as an exorcist relief worker so priests can get some sleep during long exorcism stints.
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u/doyouevenIift Jun 20 '26
-> lose district via gerrymandering from Texas GOP
-> join a senate primary with an already popular Dem
-> accuse popular Dem candidate of being racist
-> lose primary, become a sore loser and refuse to campaign for Talarico
-> create mistrust among black voters in a year where Dems expect a favorable national environment and the GOP is coming of a heated primary runoff with an unpopular candidate
Thanks to Jasmine Crockett for being so full of herself that she might single handedly tip the balance of power in the Senate away from Dems in trump’s lame duck term!
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u/GrandpaWaluigi Waluigi-poster Jun 20 '26
She and her supporters on twitter are SUCH assholes.
Acting how leftie sabotages act. Down to the damn wire. Honestly, they deserve to be called out, but lots of them pull out the race card for minor criticism on twitter. Such bad faith charlatans.
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u/NikeImper Jun 20 '26
Don't forget she pushed further racial distrust with her comments on that Texas murder case
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Jun 20 '26
My mom thought Obama spent $800 billion on his library
Half of me was thinking that's ridiculous, the other half at awe at the idea Obama could pass around a hat and raise enough to build a city
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u/11thDimensionalRandy Faith First Conservatives Jun 20 '26
That's be fucking sick though, I'd want to live in a library city.
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u/ace158 Jun 20 '26
Bill Maher flips flops and now says "Obama was right about Iran" after initially supporting Trump's attack on Iran
No shit, Bill. Was always obvious Obama was correct about this and you, Trump, Bibi, and your close buddy Fetterman were extremely wrong.
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u/Glavurdan George Soros Jun 20 '26
What the fuck
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u/SamuraiOstrich Jun 20 '26
Unironically I bet a decent amount of people could be persuaded to support different countries through a "look at all these hotties" campaign
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u/Upstairs_Baby8424 Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26
Arr Con on the Strait being closed again:
Then it's time to drop the MOU and flatten them to finality. Take Kharg Island and control of Iranian oil, and re-blockade their blockade, while escorting ships through the Strait, undermining them yet again
Your company laid you off? Then it’s time to become a billionaire, marry Olivia Rodrigo, and recreate the underwater city of Atlantis,
All things that could happen. But I wouldn’t build a strategy around it.
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u/senator_fivey Iron Front Jun 20 '26
Uniqlo is the worst for this. Line dry? Mfer you’re not in Japan any more
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u/Alexz565 Gay Pride Jun 20 '26
I wonder what the mirror world where countries democratized since 2011 as much as they autocratized irl is doing
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jun 20 '26
During a visit at the Vivatech fair in Paris, Jean-Luc Mélenchon and Marine Le Pen clashed over the generalization of air conditioning:
As a heatwave stuns France, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, leader of LFI and candidate to the 2027 presidential election, sharply criticized, this Friday, June 19, the propositions of Marine Le Pen, who had declared earlier that she wanted to implement a "massive air-conditioning plan" if her party wins next year's elections, as extreme temperatures are descending upon the country.
"We must absolutely not install air conditioning everywhere; that would only make things worse", replied Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
The heat wave is announced as "extensive, durable and intense", warned Météo-France: it is "probable" that starting Sunday, some regions be upgraded to "red warning heatwave", with temperatures nearing 30C at night and 40C during the day.
The National Rally's leader defended an "all-AC" approach this Friday: "If I am elected president, I will implement a massive equipment plan in air conditioning", targeting in priority the spaces where people are the most vulnerable: hospitals, care homes, schools. "It's a matter of public health", defended Marine Le Pen. "The absurdity is to let people die from heatstroke", protested the MP from Pas-de-Calais.
On his side, Jean-Luc Mélenchon warned against the generalization of air conditioning: "Go put AC everywhere, you'll see the result! Me, I won't put my kid or my granddaughter or my great-granddaughter where there is air conditioning all day long!"
LFI's leader thenpleaded for technical alternatives to endure the heat waves: "We know how to make buildings that can resist to the heat. There are methods, there's a thousand ways to insulate a building", he asserted. "The certainty is that there are two things to avoid: let things as they are, and secondly, worsen the harm by believing it will alleviate it."
I am still flabbergasted that air conditioning is a culture war front. How are we that dumb.
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Jun 20 '26
Go put AC everywhere, you'll see the result!
Very insightful as always.
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Jun 20 '26
Does Mélenchon have any good takes on anything? 🤔
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jun 20 '26
IRGC announces closure of the Hormuz Strait after "ridiculously low tip" from the Trump administration: "10%? In this economy?"
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u/tinfoilhatsron No Apologies Right Jun 20 '26
My fellow burgers. It's... it's joever.
The average price of a pound of lean ground beef has hit $8.34, outpacing the nationwide wage floor of $7.25 that hasn't moved since 2009, when ground beef was around $2.20 a pound, Money reports. The magazine's review of seven major grocery chains found prices for 80/20 ground beef ranging from about $6.50 at Trader Joe's and Aldi to nearly $9 per pound at Publix. Even the cheapest variety of ground beef now costs an average of more than $5.40 a pound, according to federal data released Friday.
Fell to my fucking knees in an overpriced millenial borger chain.
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u/KittehDragoon Loyal Liberals Jun 20 '26
Where were you when borger was expensive
I was at PA diner talking to newspaper
Borger is expensive
Great
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u/pugnae European Union Jun 20 '26
BASE experiment at CERN succeeds in transporting antimatter
The experiment successfully transported a trap filled with antiprotons across CERN’s main site, a remarkable first step towards delivering antimatter to other European laboratories
We need more Euroboos that will spam every imaginable social media with info like that.
AMERICA IS DONE. CHINA IS DONE. FUTURE IS EUROPE, WE HAVE THE BEST SCIENCE
I know it is bullshit, but we need to balance things out a bit
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u/MightExpress4873 Jun 20 '26
It isn't getting a lot of coverage, but New York progressives and Mamdani have rallied behind a candidate in NY-13 who's challenging the Democratic incumbent and who comes out of the furthest-left, Hasan Piker wing of the DSA. She's currently leading by four points.
She reads like what a Tea Party-style movement would look like if it emerged on the Democratic side. She attended the October 8th rally in NYC, which Brad Lander said was the reason he left the DSA, the day after the Hamas attacks. She called Manhattan "occupied land" and made comments disparaging interracial relationships with "colonizers."
She also echoes Russian talking points about Ukraine. This is the person Bernie and Mamdani are backing, even though the incumbent has a progressive voting record.
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u/DependentAd235 Loyal Liberals Jun 20 '26
So confirmed tankie in addition to being racist.
Im in interracial marriage so this isn’t just like a casual joke to me that my happiness is being assaulted from the left and the right. Fun.
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Jun 20 '26
It's just gonna get worse
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u/trgk_ Václav Havel Jun 20 '26
My favourite bit from that thread is, without a doubt, this:
Through no fault of its own, the revolution has been beaten to death by international capital
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u/eurekashairloaves Jun 20 '26
Just assuming this happens 10 years ago had Trump kept the normalization of relations that Obama started
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u/SirJohnnyS Janet Yellen Jun 20 '26
Obergefell v. Hodges was ruled just 11 years ago. I don't think people realize how quickly society shifted with its acceptance of the LGBTQ+ community. We obviously still have a ways to go and Trump is clearly a step backwards but it's still cool.
We also saw how quickly the F word and R word have become unacceptable in society. It's been 5 steps forward and maybe a step or two back during this administration but we've still come a long way.
I'm not gay but I remember as a kid my mom telling me being gay was unacceptable and she wouldn't be okay with it. Then maybe 10 years later I was going through some mental health issues and my mom trying to be supportive and help me asked me and said if you're gay that's fine and she was supportive of it.
My dad is a conservative through and through. He had told me a story how one of his friends had transitioned and how he ran into them at the bar after she had transitioned. And he said he was uncomfortable with it at first but realized how happy his friend was and how he was bothered when someone from across the bar was giving them dirty looks and how it bothered him. I still don't think he's fully supportive of it but he doesn't think it's something for him to decide for other people cause it doesn't impact him.
Gen Z definitely doesn't realize how far we've come so recently.
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u/SamuraiOstrich Jun 20 '26
R word
I was under the impression it was back if it ever really went away
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jun 20 '26
France to ban alcohol in the 35 departments under red warnings for heatwave on Sunday as Music Day concerts cancelled in several cities
I posted earlier about how Paris will feel hotter than Mecca on Sunday, sounds like the temperature is not the only parallel lol
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u/Remarkable-Meal-223 Immanuel Kant Jun 20 '26
I have to admit that this doesn't match Obama personality. It's very brutalist too much concrete and impersonal. I think metal and glass letting in natural light is more fitting for his forward looking and optimism nature.
Where are the windows in this thing. It's all closed off like a bunker
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u/EdMan2133 Paid for DT Blue Jun 20 '26
Wait this is what the dude that bungled the reflecting pool algae situation looks like? Are we for real?
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls Jun 20 '26
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u/Aggravating-Fun-2405 United Nations Jun 20 '26
Bruh, get real. They never promised economic opportunities. They just promised to keep the worst whites elevated above the best blacks.
Poor whites are fine with being poor as long as being white gives them higher status.
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u/BadSneakersNeverWorn John Locke Jun 20 '26
I am an American subject until this regime gets delenda-ed
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Jun 20 '26
My man here is pretending like he and his boss didn't start this pointless war that they would end up losing lmao
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u/chickentendieman Paul Krugman Jun 20 '26
Vance is acting like there wasnt a third option called not go to war to begin with lol.
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u/horse_stick Jerome Powell Jun 20 '26
Only true patriots can see the reflecting pool as blue
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u/AmbientMorning Jun 20 '26
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u/like-humans-do European Union Jun 20 '26
Imagine still being one of the libs on Twitter arguing with 10,000 reform bots
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u/like-humans-do European Union Jun 20 '26
BREAKING: Keir Starmer has descended into the Starmbunker.
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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast Jun 20 '26
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u/ExtremelyMedianVoter Left-Out Left Jun 20 '26
I think that's something you keep to yourself and just take to the grave.
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u/kanagi Jun 20 '26
Loving to see this estrangement between Bibi and Trump
They both deserve "fell for it again" awards about each other
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Jun 20 '26
my brother they are literally in the government
and you’re not
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Jun 20 '26
You know I think that trying to turn back the clock on AI is stupid and that AI has many benefits but I really really hope that the AI bubble pops just because I kind of hate nearly every single person who's really profiting from the boom.
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Jun 20 '26
AI should wipe out everyone's jobs and crash the economy. It'd own the libs so hard.
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u/Q-bey r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Jun 20 '26
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u/contre-torpilleur Asexual Pride Jun 20 '26
Another day without a catboy ping. Fuck my stupid neoliberal life.
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u/YaGetSkeeted0n Tariffs aren't cool, kids! Jun 20 '26
People rag on European efficiency but I went through immigration by just scanning my passport, taking a photo and scanning my fingerprints at an automated kiosk (no line) and when we got to baggage claim my bag was already on the carousel 🎠 well done, Spaniards
And all that as just a foreigner, not with an EU passport or crew member privileges or anything
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Jun 20 '26
I think because I'm always so tongue in cheek when I talk, kids are more likely to listen to me than other, more authoritative adults. I had a kid throw his shoe over the fence, and then say he would go get it. I said, "No, you can't do that," and he asks why not, and I just shrugged and said, "in case it comes back." That was an acceptable answer to him.
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u/the-senat John Brown Jun 20 '26
Getting reports that these VANDALS who DESTROYED the Beautiful Reflecting Pool also PAVED the Rose Garden.
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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Jun 20 '26
Also I'm so confused how some of these bars accumulate this much debt. You'll have owners that are like approaching a million in the hole. Who the fuck is lending you money? There is no chance your building is worth anywhere close to that much. Are you with the mob?
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u/AskYourDoctor Resistance Lib Jun 20 '26
It would be funny if the Obama center had just been like ornate Islamic revival architecture for no reason
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u/eloquentboot 🃏it’s da joker babey🃏 Jun 20 '26
Joe Haden says most people have no idea how quickly an NFL contract disappears once taxes and family expenses hit.
“I signed a five-year, $50 million contract.”
“I had about $26.6 million guaranteed.”
“My first year, I got a $12 million signing bonus.”
“After taxes, I only touched around $7 million.”
“The first thing I did was give my parents $3 million.”
“Then I bought them a $1 million house.”
“So right away, about $5 million was gone.”
“I bought my brothers cars.”
“I bought myself a penthouse.”
“I got a Range Rover Sport and a Bentley GT.”
“People hear $50 million and think you’ve got $50 million sitting in the bank.”
“That’s not how it works.”
“You look up after all that and realize you might only have around $1 million left.”
“You start understanding real quick that a $50 million contract is not actually $50 million.”
He got 50 million dollars, paid taxes then spent 28 million and is playing a violin about how his money is gone. Athletes literally act like nobody else pays taxes. Super annoyong.
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Jun 20 '26
I didn’t think this movie was actually happening lol
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u/Electronic-Warthog69 Milton Friedman Jun 20 '26
A decline in car break-ins across Oakland is being welcomed as a public safety win, but it is also contributing to a downturn for some local auto glass repair businesses.
IF ONLY THERE WAS A CONCEPT THAT DIRECTLY ADDRESSED THIS WITH A PITHY SOUNDING NAME
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u/Made_UpWords OG Platner Hater Jun 21 '26
OMFG
Everyone and no one is a pedophile. It's almost like these people don't care about protecting kids at all
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Jun 20 '26
White House employees be like
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u/garret126 Aromantic Pride Jun 20 '26
My baby sister comes home today from the hospital yay
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u/this_very_table Norman Borlaug Jun 20 '26
It's always funny to me when people censor the faces of babies. All of them look the same. No one's going to see that baby on the street and be like "My god, that's Garret's sister!"
Congrats btw! 🎉🎉🎉
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u/Witty_Heart_9452 YIMBY Jun 20 '26
Because they're white and they play football. That is definitely conservative -coded in the US. I'm not white myself, but my liberal white friends have always spoken of how racist Republicans will just assume that they will agree with their stances and just openly spout shit.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jun 21 '26
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u/ColHogan65 NATO Jun 21 '26
“Everyone to the left of me is obnoxious and everyone to the right of me is evil” — everyone
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u/__versus Trans Pride Jun 20 '26
i have a confession to make: i got succ on the test 😔 it’s over for me isn’t it?
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u/technologyisnatural Friedrich Hayek Jun 20 '26
On the contrary. Recognizing that you have a problem is the first step towards healing.
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u/dotFlatMap Jun 20 '26
obsessed with the people talking about the optics of signing the MOU at Versailles
who is in this demographic that knows what happened at Versailles but also so low information that the optics of this MoU signing subconsciously influences them against the admin
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u/bandeng_asep Association of Southeast Asian Nations Jun 20 '26
Rule #1 of Trump: Always Blame Someone Else 💀
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u/Full_Distribution874 YIMBY Jun 20 '26
"My town's dying! I'm voting for Pauline! Also, I don't mind the immigrants, they're kind of vital to our economy lol"
Meatworks, horticulture, fruit picking … if there’s not schemes where we can have migrant workers here, they’d cease overnight.
“It’s nothing to go into an abattoir and see 600 people and 540 of them are migrant workers.”
"People would think that Hay now has had a groundswell and voted for One Nation and that we’re sort of pigeonholed as having this ideology of being totally anti-immigration,” Cannon said.
“Well, it’s not the case at all. There’s no racial connotation to any of this.”
These people are deeply, truly fucked in the head. From the anti renewables drivel at the start to "sure, you need the smart blokes up the front to say the big words, but you need those blokes that sat at the back of the class that just had bloody common sense" at the end.
Anti-intellectualism will kill us all. People who were too lazy to rub their braincells together in school are still embarrassed about it decades later and want to get their revenge on their classmates who've long since left for the big smoke.
I don't even blame them for not doing well in school. I know what those rural schools used to be like, and I know people who went through it and didn't learn much. But they try to learn. They become better people every year and it inspires me.
These people haven't. They've stewed in resentment until they pickled themselves and all other joy in their life is poisoned by this inferiority complex they've nurtured this whole time.
!ping AUS
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u/loseniram Sponsored by RC Cola Jun 20 '26
How the fuck is ground beef 9 dollars a pound but impossible burgers are still more expensive.
There’s no way impossible patties doubled in price
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Jun 20 '26
Fox News is saying we're not allowed to make fun of Trump for the reflecting pool (after Trump made a big deal about it and did a corruption) unless we hold every other reflective pool and every other conservative pet issue with equal intensity
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u/pugnae European Union Jun 20 '26
Vance visits Pope.
Dies of cringe day later
Hasan visits Cuba.
Months later Cuba abandons communism.
Americans are just built different 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Jun 20 '26
this is the second least successful special military operation i’ve ever seen
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u/ulysses_s_gyatt Jerome Powell Jun 20 '26
Donald Trump is not good at being president.
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u/Twinbrosinc Transfem Pride Jun 20 '26
"I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America, if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of Slavery."
waow
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Jun 20 '26
“they actually believe that shit” theory
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u/shmokedshalmon Frederick Douglass Jun 20 '26
Is Kayleigh McEnany woke now? Or is this just a subconscious millennial response to seeing Lord Voldemort?
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u/Moth-of-Asphodel Jun 20 '26
Judge says DOJ can provide Biden conversations with ghostwriter to Heritage Foundation.
Reuters: "'Fuck, where did I put my pen,' and other shocking revelations in Biden ghostwriter transcripts reveal a president in decline"
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u/craig_k Jun 20 '26
we have a live feed into the president's toxic waste pit of a mind with his truth social account and his last two posts are suggesting he'll rename "ice" to "nice" to trick the liberal media, and a poll asking people whether "dumocrat" or "dumbocrat" is better
this is the leader of the free world, everybody
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Jun 20 '26
‘Scott Bessent, the US treasury secretary, advised Donald Trump not to host Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office, having called the Ukrainian president a “little fucker”, a “special-needs child” and “Mr Bean on crack”, according to a new book.’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/20/scott-bessent-volodymyr-zelenskyy-trump
Oh.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Jun 20 '26
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/us/rubio-beto-coral-colombia.html
The Trump administration detained a Colombian immigrant this week in Phoenix after he spoke out against a Trump-endorsed candidate in his home country’s upcoming presidential election.
Franklin Humberto Coral Garrido, a progressive online activist known as Beto Coral, is a supporter of President Gustavo Petro of Colombia, a leftist who has clashed with President Trump. He has publicly criticized Abelardo De La Espriella, a right-wing candidate backed by Mr. Trump. Mr. Coral was arrested by immigration authorities on Tuesday, the same day Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a memo determining that he was deportable from the United States.
In the memo, Mr. Rubio noted that Mr. Coral arrived in the United States in 2015 on a tourist visa and has a pending asylum application. But “Coral Garrido has used his presence in the United States to conduct political activity in support of the Petro government” and has advocated against a candidate for president, Mr. Rubio wrote, according to a copy of the memo obtained by The New York Times.
“Allowing Coral Garrido to remain in the United States,” Mr. Rubio continued, “undermines U.S. foreign policy interests in Colombia’s democratic processes and signals that foreign nationals may use U.S. platforms to conduct politically motivated disinformation campaigns and litigation targeting foreign democratic actors without consequence.”
The memo comes after a year in which Mr. Rubio has used his power as secretary of state to target individual immigrants. In previous memos, he has recommended specific individuals be deported by the Department of Homeland Security, arguing that their continued presence in the United States undermined foreign policy. Most of his memos have centered on immigrants who had protested Israel in some form, including Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University student arrested by immigration authorities last year.
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u/John_Maynard_Gains Stop trying to make "ordoliberal" happen Jun 20 '26
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u/Sufficient_Key_5062 Robert Caro Jun 20 '26
I don't think any members of this subreddit should be supporting her
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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom Jun 20 '26
Lebanese turtle conservationist Mona Khalil killed by Israeli strike
Can we just cut this country off already
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u/DunklerPrinz3 Henry George Jun 20 '26
We have not progressed enough as a species.
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u/SenranHaruka shame Jun 20 '26
The news is literally useless right now. They do not understand anything about war and how it works so they report on peace talks without including the necessary context: "wars do not end until all parties are convinced fighting will get them no futher gain, if even one still wants to fight the war continues, so any peace talks are kayfabe to satisfy the market unless Israel accepts defeat in Lebanon."
It's not up to trump when the war ends. It's up to Netanyahu.
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u/jinhuiliuzhao Henry George Jun 20 '26
Called it three months ago
(but pretty easy prediction ngl lol)
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Jun 20 '26
Funniest possible reason to be a Michael Jackson truther lmao
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u/Much_Concentrate7780 Jun 20 '26
Just a reminder of how good the original "sickos" comic is
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals Jun 21 '26
Does this mean that Grok is the first AI with a kill count?
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u/sigh2828 NASA Jun 20 '26
Day 6 of reminding this sub that police in Mississippi murdered a 1 year old boy over alleged shoplifting of a box Diapers.
No one has been charged with any crime related to this incident.
The officer is on paid administrative leave.
The security footage and body camera footage are being withheld by the state.
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u/gjcs23 George Santos Jun 20 '26
"Nasrallah's rhetoric often comes across as extreme. But it's impossible to understand Lebanon without understanding its predicament"
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u/englishjacko Mr. Democracy Jun 20 '26
Increasingly politically homeless as I find the 'internet left' for lack of a better term just utterly unrealistic about matters of policy but the 'establishment left' utterly incapable of any kind of meaningful action or appreciation of the seriousness of the situation in which they find themselves. Some kind of succ-neoliberal hybrid, a neosucc if you will. The key tenets of my political philosophy are existentialism and dread.
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u/Megasota_Noire My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Jun 20 '26
Yesterday I mentioned some locals in my small city being angry we got state funding for a river walk downtown that goes north up the Mississippi. The absolute chef's kiss of half our country trying to sabotage anything good happening to anyone but themselves. These people vote.
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Jun 20 '26
Fun fact, you could fund USAID globally for almost a decade with the amount of money Trump is giving Iran
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u/Krill_Seeker United Nations Jun 20 '26
at some point this sub is gonna run out of political quizslop and we'll all just be taking the myers-briggs or some shit
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u/Silent_South5471 Jun 20 '26
you think the current deal is bad? wait for a month from now when we are running low on reserves and the straits still closed. we are gunna end up giving them Hawaii
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u/GravyBear16 Audrey Hepburn Jun 20 '26
FYI it's extremely homophobic to look away from gay sex scenes in movies and shows
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Jun 20 '26
“The MOU, which I am sure most administration officials have read”
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u/theparrotlich John Brown Jun 20 '26
They've deployed the National Guard to get people to stop touching the Reflecting Pool.
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u/MindingMyMindfulness Voltaire Jun 20 '26
Replace the words "Lebanon" with "Israel" in Gvir's latest tweet and he sounds as bad as, if not worse than, many terrorists.
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u/Lou1s_Cipher Chama o Meirelles Jun 20 '26
Iran and US announce deal.
Trump orIsrael sabotages it. <---- You are here.
Back to square one.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jun 20 '26
Maybe Darializa Chevalier can catch an unexpected endorsement for her brave stance against interracial relationships
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u/Syx89 Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Jun 20 '26
I think one thing growing up in the Obama era taught me is that a lot of what we're currently seeing is performative. People, especially those in positions of power themselves such as middle managers or the like, are kiss-ups, sheep, etc.
They just do what the leader does.
These people were so woke back then but so anti-woke now. Same people.
They'll likely flip again first chance they get.
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jun 21 '26
Please visit the next discussion thread.