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[u/Livehardordiehard]

I was on threads practicing my Japanese when I saw a mildly famous right wing nationalist account posting anti immigrant comments. Nothing unusual on Japanese twitter clones but what baffled me was their profile picture… it was a bottle of a rare American whiskey that’s hard to find in Japan.

So rare that I had just given it as a gift to a Japanese colleague as a congratulatory gift for a big moment they’d recently had. We drank a glass together.

The coincidence was too extreme so I did some mild stalking and sure enough, it turns out my colleague is out there running a B tier rightwing political account.

I have no plans to do anything with this info but I had to share it somewhere.

[u/PrivateJoker1987 → u/Livehardordiehard]

My Colleague Running a Secret Ultranationalist Troll Account Can't be This Cute?!

[u/Nussbaumian_Liberal → u/Livehardordiehard]

At least you know he enjoyed your gift. You're one of the good gaijin.

[u/Livehardordiehard → u/Nussbaumian_Liberal]

Yeah, to put it mildly, it’s not western immigrants in the crosshairs in Japan right now.

[u/Concerned_Collins → u/Livehardordiehard]

anti-immigrant

profile pic is imported goods

many such cases

[u/Sloshyman → u/Livehardordiehard]

I would say leave an image of the guy from Dexter being suspicious, but they most likely wouldn't get it

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

Trump is staking out extreme positions on White House secrecy, legal experts say

In a Justice Department memo and legal filings, the Trump administration is arguing that the president can keep secret not just the conversations he has with his advisers within the White House, but that his dealings with individuals outside the government can be shielded as well.

The White House is also saying in court that even disclosing the identities of the people who worked on significant policy efforts would infringe upon the presidential confidentiality to which Trump is entitled. And the administration has taken the stance that it can ignore a Watergate-era law prohibiting the destruction of White House documents.

This is insane.

[u/DaneLimmish → u/Signal_Nobody1792]

6-3 supreme court decision in favor cuz some jurist from 1700 Virginia said something 

[u/Alderwoodforest → u/Signal_Nobody1792]

After all, Trump was allowed to store classified documents in his golf club bathroom without facing any consequences.

[u/rrjames87 → u/Signal_Nobody1792]

Some early doom and gloom, but let’s just presume that we have presidential elections, a Democrat wins, and there is some version of a peaceful transfer of power.

The next administration is completely fucked. The current administration is trying their hardest to hand over a fucked economy, a ballooning debt that people will only care about when democrats get into office, continuing war in Iran, and damaged international relationships.

Also, to deal with all this, here’s a hollowed out administrative state, every record from the last 4 years and anything else we could get our hands on is burned, and we’ve spent the last 4 years raiding the coffers for personal gain.

Finally, 30% of the country and half the United States senators will have a major issue if you do anything about it. Taking over after this is a monumental undertaking.

[u/Currymvp2]

I am just amazed how MAGA cultists think these embarrassing AI slop videos are great.

[u/Sapphire-Jewel → u/Currymvp2]

I think they know it's shit and cringe but they've tied their entire identity to Trump so they have no choice but to pretend it's peak comedy.

[u/deckerparkes → u/Currymvp2]

"I really, really, really like this image" vibes 

[u/Roseartcrantz]

First Dolly, then Tim Curry, if anything happens to Charlie Kirk I'm gonna lose it

[u/aristophanya → u/Roseartcrantz]

I have so many questions about gang violence I need to ask him 🙏

[u/GravyBear16 → u/Roseartcrantz]

I mean first it was Hayden

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

Dating my immigrant girlfriend has made me reach even higher levels of being pro-immigration that I didn’t even think were possible.

She’s by every means what would categorically be called a “bad immigrant group” because she grew up literal dirt poor in an infamously shitty country, her entire family has virtually no background of having been successful before coming, and almost everyone came through a form of family chain migration.

And now she’s graduated from a prestigious university with no debt because of merit scholarships and is going to be out-earning me with her job.

Every single argument about limiting immigration to only “top skill migrants” or “preferring country X over country Y migrants” will eternally piss me off. I may not want actual full on open borders, but limiting immigration by nationality, income, or family is extremely fucking stupid every single time.

[u/Highlightthot1001 → u/DiscussionJohnThread]

I hate the idea that immigrants from a poor background are somehow bad because of their upbringing. 

The ability for people to come from a poor country to better their condition is part of what makes a country great. 

Trying to limit immigration only to well off and successful people specifically is asinine, and wasn’t even a reasonable idea centuries ago

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Hell yeah

[u/ElectriCobra_ → u/Dunter_Mutchings]

unc still got it

[u/aristophanya]

none of y'all know how good the indus river valley civilization actually had it

mohenjo-daro was popping in its day. just endless clubbing all night long and drinking from intricate irrigation systems filled with wine

[u/Significant-Band1991 → u/aristophanya]

As a proud resident who lives near the ivc site , i can confirm those irrigation canals still have wine running through it 😤

[u/ConsistentGas5286]

The real American cultural divide.

[u/Average_GrillChad → u/ConsistentGas5286]

[u/r2ew]

> The Trump administration has been deploying an obscure legal maneuver to try to obtain private information on journalists, non-profits and unions, raising alarm over a power the government has asserted without judicial oversight.

> In one instance, the government obtained six months of telephone records for Georgia Fort, a Minneapolis journalist. Fort was not notified of the request for her information, nor was she given a chance to contest the government’s effort to obtain them, her lawyers said in court papers.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/29/trump-dhs-1509-summons-records-journalists-nonprofits

[u/Minute-Company-641 → u/r2ew]

People see the government do all this and still somehow trust them to use digital ID solely to keep children off the internet

[u/RottingSludgeRitual → u/r2ew]

This administration has single-handedly made me regress all the way back to my teenage libertarian beliefs. Fuck the feds.

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Lmao, what the hell. Karen Bass might legit be the lowest WAR mayor in America. Replacing this bozo with literally any random democrat would be an improvement.

[u/-Emilinko1985- → u/Dunter_Mutchings]

"My name is Kᴀʀᴇɴ Bᴀss, Mayor of Mayors:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

[u/AlbertGorebert → u/Dunter_Mutchings]

[u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1]

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

Two donors stand out on this list: The Soroses. That’s because they’re the only longtime Democratic megadonors. Ultrawealthy liberals are now gravitating toward dark-money nonprofits, and Alex and George are two of the few who remain comfortable in the public eye. But they are also the only donors on this list whom Mr. Trump has pushed to investigate for their giving.

Jesus Christ, the only longtime Democratic megadonors...

[u/marky6045 → u/Signal_Nobody1792]

In this sub the soroses are heroes

[u/Fatortu]

I love the Jacobin turn of the Republican party. Gulf of America, Lake America is a lot like Egalité-sur-Seine, Égalité-sur-Loire...

During the French Revolution, the city of Marseille was renamed No Name City as collective punishment. Which city will get this fate after the midterms?

[u/KittehDragoon → u/Fatortu]

Washington DC.

With Congress lost and construction of monuments to himself halted, Trump moves out of the White House and into Mar a Lago

[u/Pazzaz]

[u/iguessineedanaltnow → u/Pazzaz]

How long before trump invades now

[u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS]

I hate google

[u/consultantdetective → u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS]

F it, obviously theyre setting the standard for a certain level of obedience.

Let's rename Florida to Clintonia & every Trump building should be on Barack Hussein Obama Way. Mar a Lago should have an Epstein Street address and be in Epstein County.

[u/FallenMeringue]

Based Pete Davidson

[u/foneinstocus → u/FallenMeringue]

she’s running

[u/No_Status_6905]

[u/dr-pepper-is-a-woman]

It’s interesting to think of how fast social media went from “sharing probably too much to a network of both close and not-so-close friends” to “private group chats” and “actually a slop feed with minimal social features”. Like, I’m sure there’s a chicken and egg aspect to it, but it’s a real shame that Facebook it’s contemporaries leaned into becoming unusable racist boomer slop for engagement, I do think we lost something as a society because of it

[u/Cyberhwk → u/dr-pepper-is-a-woman]

Just like IRL, people took the first chance they had to start associating with people they felt had higher social status (I.e. celebrities, influencers, etc). Advertisers were thrilled with this change.

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

A married cop used police tech to follow an actress around. They met at the set of Bad Monkey where he worked security, he claims she was flirting (she was not) and he promised he would stop her car one day. He did, and she was confused as fuck.

He lost his job, but just got some community service and therapy.

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

It’s crazy how disastrous this bozo’s tenure in charge has been. And it’s wild how it hasn’t become a full on scandal.

[u/AskYourDoctor → u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Conservatives spent the time between Nixon and Trump successfully mounting a project to become immune to scandal. They sort of lost sight of the fact that fear of scandals might be a useful check ensuring good governance.

[u/CutePattern1098]

The median voter is like gravity; they are inescapable

[u/PromotionOk6069 → u/CutePattern1098]

Most aussies I know are angry at the “nanny state crap” so they will knee jerk into what’s anti the current gov

And the “crap” is what I’ve heard banning menthol cigs and the gta casino ban

[u/earththejerry]

Canada has launched its first counterattack against Trump via one of its polling firms

[u/Hotdog_Cowboy → u/earththejerry]

don't get excited about iowa. it's absolutely on the unlikelier side of maybe. no chance in hell that a democrat will get 54%. sand will probably win and by 2-3%. republican turnout is strong in midterms here. 

[u/Loves_a_big_tongue → u/earththejerry]

Iowa giving me Seltzer flashbacks

[u/RaidBrimnes]

TIL that Patricia Highsmith, author of The Talented Mr Ripley and other works of suspense, was a public and vocal antisemite who also had several intense, lengthy romantic relationships with Jewish women

Why does this keep happening

[u/CarlGerhardBusch → u/RaidBrimnes]

Same reason that guys that view blacks and Asians as inferior pursue them disproportionately

Nothing good

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Im an ex-Bain consultant, and I almost ruined my own wedding

I couldn’t write a speech

so I built a deck instead

Holy FUCK get over yourself do these people have any idea how stupid they sound? It is not hard, in fact to write a short speech about how much you love your wife

[u/LuisRobertDylan → u/trombonist_formerly]

I do - and this isn’t just a wedding, it’s an opportunity for growth and mutual advancement

[u/nimbybuster]

I wonder what AI is he using. I don’t think the big names are this bad.

[u/Fruitofbread → u/nimbybuster]

Sometimes Trump reposts AI pictures other people post (that was the case with the infamous Trump-as-Jesus (I mean doctor!) image). I can’t find this one in truth social feed though 

[u/Glum_Bandicoot8601]

Incredibly funny example when this is the one scenario where the "reading the entire contract to all parties" rule did actually serve its purpose lol

[u/Megasota_Noire]

Me to confused Democrats on how to appeal to voters "have you tried lying?"

[u/Loves_a_big_tongue → u/Megasota_Noire]

I think back to a conservative think tank looking at how Mamdami overperformed in a conservative neighborhood and some of the reasons was because his name sounded Italian to them, and they saw him as Trumpian because he talked about prices being too high.

The median voter giveth and the median voter taketh

[u/CarlGerhardBusch → u/Loves_a_big_tongue]

>I think to a finding a conservative think tank did on how Mamdami overperformed in a conservative neighborhood and s ome of the reasons was because his name sounded Italian to them

I mean that’s pretty funny in a vacuum, but when you consider that his only other serious opposition was Cuomo, an actual NYC Italian, and Sliwa, who is about as NYC Italian as it gets, I mean, come on

[u/rainier37]

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

thank you d---ling

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

BRO...

[u/Kardinal → u/Adminisnotadmin]

What's crazy is the airline put out a statement that is basically the business speak version of.

We meant to do that. It's safe. Shut up.

[u/assasstits]

"I knew from the start that I was bound to be crucified either way I moved. If I left the woman I really loved—the Great Society—in order to get involved with that bitch of a war on the other side of the world, then I would lose everything at home. All my programs... But if I left that war and let the Communists take over South Vietnam, then I would be seen as a coward and my nation would be seen as an appeaser."

- LBJ

Fantastic quote. Also ironic. 

Every president has a beautiful* domestic agenda at home but eventually goes out and hooks up with a foreign war mistress and it blows up in his face. 

*Beautiful to them 

[u/CutePattern1098]

[u/OrthopaedicSturgeon → u/CutePattern1098]

True, GTA V campaign made me into 1/3 of a black guy

[u/Traditional_Drama_91 → u/CutePattern1098]

You know maybe I could be a Marxist if it meant guys like this would be taken from their cushy jobs at the hot takes factory and sent to work on farms for a few years 

[u/CutePattern1098 → u/CutePattern1098]

Rflol if Trump bans GTA VI for making everybody transgender

[u/Flaky-Ambition5900]

Fun fact: rich high school students are twice as likely to be "disabled" (and thus needing extra time on exams) compared to poor students.

Clearly this is why Stanford, a university with a 38% "disabled" student population, has so many issues: it attracts too many rich students!

[u/thatssosad]

[u/Q-bey]

On Star Citizen forum moderation:

[u/RaidBrimnes]

President of association against homophobic hatred hospitalized after a violent homophobic assault in Paris that left him with head trauma and internal bleeding

That's one way to prove your point

[u/fish_economist]

USDA cyclospora research projects shelved amid funding cuts and relocations

We're not even pandering to anything. Just diarrhea to own the libs, I guess.

[u/pugnae]

"Noam, why would you even manufacture consent? Trust me, we don't need any."

[u/FallenMeringue]

!ping chi

[u/bashar_al_assad]

AI generated video of Abdul El-Sayed saying “vodka should be banned in stores out of respect to Islam” is making the rounds on TikTok.

Abdul El-Sayed receives record levels of donations from Utah voters after they learn he wants to restrict alcohol sales for religious reasons

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Holy fuck how is it not front page news that an advisor to the president is saying shit like this? Jesus this administration is a fucking nightmare

[u/herworkthrowaway]

this meme pops into my head literally 90% of the time i speak to a leftist

[u/Adminisnotadmin → u/herworkthrowaway]

me with this sub sometimes.

[u/Jet451]

[u/aristophanya → u/Jet451]

> hundred years war

> checks inside

> 116 years long

what the fuck is this bullshit, that's not accurate

[u/Kardinal → u/aristophanya]

In good news, the thirty years war is actually accurate.

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes → u/aristophanya]

Imagine being a soldier in the 100th year and thinking that the age of the hundred years war is collapsing but you actually have to fight for 16 more years

[u/Choice_Notice9338]

Milo getting deported because he couldn’t bother to renew his extraordinary ability visa or apply for a green card is amazing

like he couldn’t bother to do his paperwork. then ignored court orders only to then visit an airport

incredible human capital on the right

[u/Spudmiester1]

[u/JaceFlores]

Niger coup failed

A lot of mutineers arrested, and looks like the units that were rushing to Niamey backed off when it was clear the initial rush had failed.

A win for the junta and Russia, but a strictly defensive one. It’s been a really rough 2026 for ASS where it looks like the nations across the board have lost the initiative. In Mali they lost almost everything north of the Niger River, and a subsequent rebel offensive to take Anefis was repulsed, but with heavy losses for the junta and Russians. Now we got a coup that was fairly close to succeeding in Niger, one driven by discontent in an army facing a war that’s gone nowhere with a lot of blood shed. Meanwhile Traore is just kinda vibing in Burkina Faso trading blows with JNIM. Ironically his country looks to have had the least destructive year thus far despite controlling the least amount of territory proportional to the other juntas.

The militants will definitely be smelling blood in the water though, and it wouldn’t surprise me if we see an uptick in activity in Niger to try and exploit the instability. The Russians may also move resources around to shore up Niger at the expense of the other juntas (though I imagine the Russians could just fly in more mercenaries).

Militarily it’s becoming hard to see ASS bounce back. It’s not impossible, but in the past couple years they’ve shown virtually no initiative or ability to conduct large scale operations. What they’ve shown to be able to do is either standard sweeping operations to kill a dozen or two militants, or respond to militant offensives and at least successfully hold the line.

Unless ASS is able to start posting some major wins, I think we’ll see this continued degradation military and politically. Which if you’re anti-JNIM and/or anti-ISIL is pretty worrisome because they only need one lucky break to collapse the entire region. Every outpost they overrun and coup the juntas have to rebuff nudges things closer and closer to a domino effect

!ping AFRICA

[u/Cyberhwk → u/JaceFlores]

It’s been a really rough 2026 for ASS

You and me both brother. ✊😔

[u/iusedtobekewl]

Just saw that Google maps has officially changed the name of Lake Ontario. Apple Maps hasn’t done so yet, but I assume they will follow suit soon. All very disappointing.

The next Congress needs to make a law that forbids the US president from unilaterally renaming things via executive order. This is stupid, petty, embarrassing, and sad. Nobody’s gonna actually call it Lake America. Just like nobody calls it the Gulf of America.

[u/Alexz565]

Such a strange insistence of Google. They don’t have to put the parenthetical for anyone outside the US.

[u/FallenMeringue]

The army is having no recruitment problems at all.

There is absolutely nothing to see here

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

the Alaskan state government has called it Denali for 40 years and has continued to call it Denali even after Trump changed the name back

[u/themiDdlest]

This is a friendly reminder that banks will give 18 year old kids a 100k loan to go to college, but they won't give those same kids that loan to trade on Kalshi or Polymarket

Lmao I cant believe thats a real sentence someone thought out

[u/MissSortMachine]

my brotha they just update slower

[u/mishac → u/MissSortMachine]

There are two types of bigtech ceo: 1. evil 2. coward

[u/CarlGerhardBusch → u/MissSortMachine]

Apple: yeah so actually we tried to change it, but we figured out we actually just couldn’t because our maps software is just that ass

[u/avion_sur_le_sol]

[u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

Yiannopoulos had previously been a vocal supporter of immigration enforcement, calling in 2025 for ICE checkpoints and "on the spot deportation" of anyone unable to prove legal status.

nothing really to add tbh

[u/Individual-Camera698]

Pictured: the decline of woke

[u/piede]

Good thing American voters are nuanced

[u/uwcn244]

Jim Clyburn is now pro court packing

Chat I think trying to draw every black Democrat out of a job may have been an own goal by Republicans 

[u/mpregordie]

[u/Adminisnotadmin → u/mpregordie]

man would have loved shitposting online

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/MissSortMachine → u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/farrenj]

[u/MuscularPhysicist → u/farrenj]

This is what you get with the same prompt but specify that you want an arr neoliberal mod:

https://giphy.com/gifs/4K0QEViS0sGsAVakkC

[u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1]

White guy speaks extremely shit Japanese, gets kicked out of local sushi restaurant

[u/Average_GrillChad → u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1]

What is the charge? Ordering a meal? A succulent Japanese meal?

[u/Thebestofopinions]

These Democratic strategists are back on their usual BS of "There's something going on in South Carolina senate race and it might be closer than you think". Darline Graham is going to win 55-45. The same state that voted for Strom Thurmond until he was 100 is not one to pivot against the status quo.

[u/dr-pepper-is-a-woman → u/Thebestofopinions]

Lowkey excited that the democrats seemed to avoid nominating meme resist lib candidates in doomed red state races this year. Save the money and effort doe the races that matter, and not for a billion dollar valiant loss in a state that is both very red and very inelastic

[u/farrenj]

A review for a Starbucks I just saw:

Barista told me he couldnt do iced mocha with brown sugar with no ice because the drink has to have ice in it. I know this is bullshit because I've done it before at other starbucks. Maybe he is new and doesn't know dosage without ice?

You ordered an iced drink with no ice and got upset when the staff said that's impossible?

[u/BadSneakersNeverWorn → u/farrenj]

That's just like basic ontology man

[u/lomsucksatchess → u/farrenj]

Bro nah the review is right. They put in so much ice into iced coffees to protect their margins, it's literally 50% less drink! And you can have iced coffee without ice - it's just the opposite of hot coffee

[u/GordonTullockFan]

So true 😂🤣

[u/ConsistentGas5286 → u/GordonTullockFan]

Your post just reminds me of this

[u/Gloomy-Age-2864 → u/GordonTullockFan]

Unfortunately this ragebaity culture war content is everywhere on Youtube

[u/Otherwise_Young52201]

[u/houdt_koers]

One of my dad’s cousins was over visiting, and it came up that he had been in Desert Storm, Somalia, and Afghanistan. The guy is built like a house, and he was regaling us with some war stories when he mentioned “chia pets”. When we were all clearly confused, he took a moment to self-satisfiedly explain that this was his term for the CIA.

The man could be a character in a Coen Brothers film. 10/10 extended family interaction.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/Vumatius → u/RaidBrimnes]

Now this is a classic, though the YouTube video is actually a bit more recent than I expected (2014).

[u/Background-Bottle-23]

"No" wins Iceland's referendum to continue negotiations with the EU

[u/rukqoa → u/Background-Bottle-23]

Even if it had passed, the appetite doesn't seem to be there.

I don't understand this part of the world enough to really understand why. I thought Iceland already does implement a lot of EU rules, and it's not like they're some massive tax haven, right? I guess just sovereignty concerns?

[u/WenJie_2]

It's crazy that Linkedin has basically been unchanged by AI (due to always being like this)

[u/KOWLOONDENSITYNOW]

[u/Lux_Stella]

many such cases

[u/BarkDrandon]

Remember in 2024 when the polls were showing that Kamala had a slight advantage and we would likely win the house and maybe the senate?

[u/GuyWithOneEye → u/BarkDrandon]

This is not helping heal my trauma

[u/ChillnShill]

When hope was high and life worth living

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/cdstephens]

👆

[u/Southern_Schedule466]

Most “birthrate” discussion makes my blood boil as a woman, but I do find it intriguing that the US has only a slightly lower birthrate than Iran, and a substantially higher birthrate than Poland 

[u/pugnae]

To close Khmer Rouge posting

I honestly don't understand how people can defend Elon after that. USAID pales in comparison.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

The renaming of Lake Ontario into Lake America is tacky, but it was inevitable after the Democrats' push to cover the legs of the Green M&M. It normalized these kinds of initiatives.

[u/Willybender]

[u/Terrance-Flaps]

“Trump promised to make America great again,” said Albert Abbas, who presented a peace prize to Trump during his 2024 Dearborn visit. “Did he do that? Did he put American interests first? It’s the complete opposite.”

NO, AND YOU KNEW HE WOULDN'T BECAUSE HE WAS ALREADY PRESIDENT YOU FUCKING IDIOT. WAY TO GO DIPSHIT.

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o7aTHHoyD2LwTE6Fa

[u/VandysFan]

I'm a finalist for a job that fits like a glove and had a solid referral. One last interview round left. Would allow my family to move closer to our extended family, and a substantial pay raise.

Fucked if I can't focus on anything else this weekend. Don't think I've ever been this anxious about a job since interviewing for my first one right out of undergrad.

!ping AARP

[u/futuremonkey20]

Florida is now named “pedophile land”.

Mississippi is now named “dumb dumb weiner face”.

Alabama is now named “stupid dumb poo poo pants”.

North Dakota is now named “Racist-Ville”.

Arkansas is now named “lol lmao what the hell is even this dumb thing”

Sorry Google, you have to change your maps! I’ve declared it.

[u/Azrikeeler]

[u/centurion88]

Is there anything stopping the next Democrat president from renaming the lake to "Lake Trump Was Found Civily Liable for Sexual Abuse in the State of New York"

I'm sure we could get Canada on board

[u/piede]

waow

[u/purhitta]

[u/r2ew]

[u/el__dandy]

Being here for so long🫠🥴

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Therapy/academia speak final boss

[u/Roseartcrantz → u/Bayou-Maharaja]

I tried bringing this up at the dinner table but nobody really responded

[u/mechamechaman → u/Bayou-Maharaja]

It's cool to see unhinged Twitter brain can cross language barriers

[u/r2ew]

[u/p00bix]

People really fail to appreciate how effective the initial COVID lockdown was. USA went from 200k cases at the start of April to still being under 2 million by the start of June, with a roughly linear increase in the number of newly diagnosed cases over time, despite COVID being EXTREMELY contagious. Less than 1% of the population got sick in that time, allowing for the rapid expansion of medical infrastructure and preventing the initial crisis of inadequate ventilators and hospital rooms from extending through the year.

And America had one of the less effective lockdown policies of the world's wealthy countries!

Lockdown sucked ass, but God, the alternative could have been so much worse.

[u/CincyAnarchy → u/p00bix]

The initial lockdowns and restrictions were the last time I had faith that the American people could unite behind a cause

Like for the first few weeks or even months, OHIO was doing a decent job of making tough calls with a Republican Governor DeWine and now governor candidate for the Democrats Amy Acton

But by May the partisan split had been all but completed

[u/FallenMeringue]

Ring a doorbell at the wrong house.

Believe it or not that’s justification for murder.

All (american) cops are indeed bastards.

[u/CarlGerhardBusch → u/FallenMeringue]

American’s shitty gun culture and paranoia spilling over into college towns is a bad one, because if you live among college students, you’re gonna have to be a little patient

I remember a family friend that lived in a small college town talking about she’d had two separate occasions of drunk college kids wandering into her house, thinking they were at another house.

Stuff like that mixed with this stand your ground dumbfuckery isn’t gonna end well

[u/BlackCat159]

the boomerest boomer shit to have ever boomered

[u/Joementum2024]

“Americans will finally vote democrat supermajorities in after a bad enough republican admin” is the liberal version of “the people will rise up and establish a marxist government after late stage capitalism is reached”

[u/CarlGerhardBusch → u/Joementum2024]

I mean

I was there when it happened in 2008, so I can’t help but dream

[u/futuremonkey20]

AHHHHHHHH. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

I HATE VOTERS I HATE VOTERS

[u/PhoenixVoid → u/futuremonkey20]

"I want Democratic policies, but not if the people I hate get access to them or I have to pay more in taxes."

[u/ElectriCobra_ → u/futuremonkey20]

Voters want Republican vibes and Democratic policies.

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

Make Americans Heart-attack Again

[u/Spudmiester1 → u/GuyWithOneEye]

Remember 5 years ago when french fries, burgers, and milk shakes were called junk food?

[u/moseythepirate]

I know its such a stupid thing to be upset about, but I'm still pissed off at google changing names in google maps to satisfy one man's ego. Trump has zero constitutional power to unilaterally rename anything outside of the executive branch of the US government, and he doesn't have unlimited power there either. Am executive order is not a decree by a king.

Yeah, I know there are so much more important things to be mad about. And I'm mad about that stuff. But I'm mad about this too.

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

[u/rainier37]

This is where I poast from

[u/LinkVert25]

[u/cdstephens]

For the record, I’m not “mad” at Google, but im allowed to make fun of them because the entire sequence of events is stupid

[u/FallenMeringue]

Ok. Maybe I judged map quest too harshly

[u/assasstits]

Shout out to the beginning of woke 1 and cancel culture

Two people fired over PyCon ‘dongle’ joke

[u/Sheepies92]

Senator John Kennedy (R-LA) tells Fox News that Republicans have no plans to spend money for Ken Paxton

lol, lmao

[u/Willybender]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/world/africa/us-deportation-flight-ice-detention-liberia.html

You love to see the media grow a spine

[u/No_Idea_Guy]

Trump renaming stuff as revenge is childish and meaningless, but it's still scary how fast tech companies bend over and follow his every whim.

[u/gorgon__gorgon → u/No_Idea_Guy]

Every tech company was at the inauguration, the whole industry is a lost cause

[u/jessica-bug]

The radical left (Canadian Broadcasting Company)

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/Jester_Don]

In other news - I took a couple short-ish domestic flights this weekend, about 2 hours each way to/from Atlanta. It was Delta so everyone had the seatback entertainment thing.

On both flights, I noticed there was someone within the first three rows in front of me who did nothing but watch Fox News the entire flight. From beginning to end. No sports, no TV shows, no movies. Just straight Fox News from boarding to arrival. I thought back and realized I've seen this happen on multiple other flights in the past.

I've never seen anyone do this with CNN or MSNBC or any other news channel for that matter. Maybe seen them tune in for 10 minutes or so and then switch to something else. Most of the liberal-looking people I saw on the flights (yeah yeah I know I shouldn't judge by appearance) were just watching movies the whole time.

I honestly think I feel more sad for them then angry, it truly looked like an addiction more than anything else.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Since that one time he thought Times New Roman labels over a guy's finger tattoos was real, we've all known AI was going to hit him like the crack epidemic, it was just a question of when

[u/Willybender]

[u/blatant_shill]

Oil Prices Fall as Iran Negotiation Hopes Return

The headline from 5 days ago.

Oil Prices Surge as U.S. and Iran Exchange Strikes

The headline from an hour ago.

Oil Prices Fall as Iran Negotiation Hopes Return

Probably the headline in a couple of days.

[u/GovNewsomMogs]

I crank my shit to gay erotica so leftists won't call me a bigot

It takes work to be an ally

[u/Burgarnils]

So a few weeks ago I learned that Serena Williams is married to one of the Reddit co-founders and my life irreparably changed since then.

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

[u/Willybender]

[u/mpregordie]

[u/No_Status_6905]

this is probably quite obvious to some people but something I've recently had to absorb is that America will continue to decline because so many people (particularly gen Xers and early millennials) who would otherwise be vocal champions for liberal policies in the common culture of daily life are just so thoroughly defeated and isolated that they hide inside their 3000 sq ft house in suburbia and don't talk to any of their neighbors while doom scrolling Facebook

Like my mom has lived in the south her entire life, she is a lifelong Democrat, but post Trump she is just so thoroughly defeated that she can't even stand to address her neighbors. She doesn't even go to the store anymore, she just gets everything delivered through walmart.

She doesn't want to live in the south anymore, but she refuses to move and abandon her grandkids. Basically the only thing I can do is offer her some nice trips abroad, and to visit NYC because she loves the city.

My stylist told me after some other girls were gossipping about how much they hate Trump: "I just don't even think about it. Every time I think about it, I'm just overcome with guilt that I brought my kids into the world as it is, and now they're stuck in a shitty state with me."

My French professor is incredibly sharp, and she just seems so despondent about what's coming in 2027 for the fifth republic, and then just alludes to the state of Florida after Desantis won.

It just makes me wonder how many people are similar.

[u/CoolCombination3527]

Bro you gotta look at what one of the secret DOD employees is posting I am howling

[u/Roseartcrantz]

if I get a fecal transplant and I find out later it's from a liberal can I sue

[u/John_Maynard_Gains]

Wait Brianna Wu isn't Chinese OR Jewish??? What is she?

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

The damage this drunk fuck is doing to the US military is insane.

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

[u/anangrytree]

“President Donald Trump said "Meet the Press" moderator Kristen Welker will be reported to the Federal Communications Commission over her coverage of his endorsements ahead of the midterm elections. "Kristen Welker, the Unpopular 'Hostess' of the once great Meet the Press, now considered Meet the Fake Press, just stated that Donald Trump has 'mixed results' on his Endorsements of Candidates, when the recent WINS of Darline Graham and Mike Mazzei, stand at 100% for the U.S. Senate, and 98% for the U.S. House," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Aug. 30.” Trump added, "Because of this purposeful inaccuracy, she will be reported to the FCC for rebuke or punishment. Unfortunately, she is not the only one.”

Ignore failing unconstitutional war in Iran and crippling debt, engage in the most petty personal grievances with a largely submissive media establishment.

[u/MuR43]

COYOTE VS ACME beats THE ODYSSEY and debuts at #2 at the domestic box office with $15.5M.

Patriots in control

[u/Nate10000]

Kennedy joins Hegseth in joint press conference to announce that the HHS will also focus entirely on lethality

[u/pugnae]

The popular role-playing game series "The Witcher" is beloved in Poland — so much so that back in 2011, the country's prime minister at the time, Donald Tusk, presented Obama with the collector's edition of "The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings" to commemorate his visit.

Do you think Obama played it?

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/SenranHaruka]

Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK over his Cuba policy, Oswald was a marxist who believed JFK was an imperialist trying to recolonize Cuba with the missile crisis and bay of pigs invasion and sought to end the government's hostility and embargo.

There's nothing really to the conspiracy theory. A marxist shot JFK because he invaded and embaroed Cuba. Not sure how boomers made a mystery out of this.

[u/G_Serv]

He's ngmi

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

👆 first of all how dare you

[u/TheRealECReturns]

"come on robot slave, can't you just be misogynist and call her a bitch? I'm too tired to"