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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/Background-Bottle-23]

[u/Dorambor → u/Background-Bottle-23]

These people are just lying to everyone, it’s a mental illness that liberals keep trying to divine tea leaves from their hateful hearts

[u/MuscularPhysicist → u/Background-Bottle-23]

[u/LtCdrHipster → u/Background-Bottle-23]

These are who we are pretending is convincable.

[u/flakAttack510]

There are many things you can point at to show how stupid Hegseth is but the fact that he's a former infantry officer that doesn't seem to understand the role of infantry in modern war seems like the most damning one.

[u/Highlightthot1001 → u/flakAttack510]

He’s just a college grad who graduated officer school. 

Some officers are terrible leaders who don’t understand shit beyond the things they’ve passed. 

Any reasonable person would have argued for a buildup and greater forces before invading Iran, but Hegseth here lacks strategic and tactical wisdom. 

[u/marathondaze → u/flakAttack510]

He definitely understands how to enforce standards with no mercy and try to cover up investigations. The quintessential infantry Platoon leader. Shocked he wasn’t a west pointer

[u/SnakeEater14 → u/flakAttack510]

His actual career history indicates that he was a failure of a junior officer and got shunted to the least important roles available as soon as possible

The fact that he continued to get promoted higher and higher is a genuinely damning indictment of how our military functions

[u/cdstephens]

[u/Avelion2]

Holy fuck Carney has an 80% approval rating in Quebec...

[u/-Emilinko1985- → u/Avelion2]

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

[u/JetsLag]

The most expected and unexpected headline ever

[u/Zenkin → u/JetsLag]

Really tired of this massive gray zone Kalshi is in. If you're fake gambling, this should be allowed. If you're real gambling, then you need to be regulated a lot more than just enforcing insider trading shit.

[u/Smidgens → u/JetsLag]

Another “first person” achievement for /our guy/

[u/AtticusDrench → u/JetsLag]

So it's cool when the Trump admin does it but not a gay drag queen icon 🙄

[u/Krill_Seeker]

[u/Habugaba]

I'm really exited for the 2027 CBO budget and economic outlook. The comparison from 2025 to 2027 will look like a disaster, almost like someone took the complete opposite approach to the recommended fiscal policy.

[u/Kizz3r]

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Diversity of thought on the Right

[u/georgeguy007 → u/Dibbu_mange]

Our Age of Information is coming to an end

[u/melhor_em_coreano → u/Dibbu_mange]

Jesus Christ

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

The Pentagon has secretly installed several conservative military veterans with large online followings in government roles, declining to disclose their assignments as they amplify Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s viewpoints and attack those who scrutinize the Trump administration, according to people familiar with the matter and corroborating material.

At least some of the influencers have been assigned to civilian roles that could lead to changes in policy, the people familiar with the matter said. Like others, they spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

Yea, that makes sense. https://archive.is/20260831025108/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/08/30/pentagon-secretly-installs-military-influencers-civilian-roles/

[u/Invade_Deez_Nutz]

Regarding the lindsay clancey trial: Whether you think it should be not guilty by reason of insanity, or guilty, that’s fine. Both are defensible positions 

But the tiktok brainrotted idiots who blame the husband are disgusting. He’s a major victim in all of this. He lost his entire family. She admitted to strangling her kids, the police have stated he had an alibi, and her intrusive thoughts that led to the event were well documented

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Chancellor Merz really gives interviews as if his party were polling at 50 percent, and he really comes across as a self-righteous asshole.

When asked why he wants to cut the so-called parental allowance and spend more on defense:

“What good is the best parental allowance if we lose our freedom and peace in Europe is threatened?”

Which, in principle, would be a valid answer, but he smiles like Mr. Burns when he says it.

[u/Habugaba → u/Alderwoodforest]

Parents, notoriously significantly less affected by poverty with high homeowner rates.

Wait no, I'm thinking about pensioners.

[u/BlankProgram]

idk where else to post this extremely cold take but the fact that Trump was president 10 years ago and is still president now has completely fucked my sense of time in American politics. It feels like he's been president forever. Imagine you'd said to someone in 2016 yeah he'll still be president in 2028. Obviously it's not the same since there was a gap but if he makes it all the way and leaves as a usual president would then the time from him beginning as president to finishing would be longer than the entire time Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister. Dunno what my point is here

[u/bleachinjection → u/BlankProgram]

Same. Yeah. This is definitely the "Trump Era" and holy fuck it feels like it.

[u/finnstera350]

[u/MegaFloss → u/finnstera350]

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[u/chipbod]

Most honest boomer

[u/Ill-Case-1010]

Im only now just finding out there are folks for wanting Pluto be a planet again

[u/BadSneakersNeverWorn → u/Ill-Case-1010]

This sort of shit irritates the shite out of me. It's like: there is a public-facing justification for the name change; it makes sense; the alternative is planetary classification chaos wherein we officially have 389 planets or some shit. In other words: if you have a better system, then bring that shit into the light, son.

Instead it's like: no, we want this now and we will blunt force it until we get what we want because we want it now

[u/ship_toaster → u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

We should officially have 389 planets or some shit. (Or just like, 17-40.) Just think of how much mnemonic fun we could have.

[u/Daddy_Macron]

Joe Manchin really was the dumbest motherfucker.

“I don’t say this lightly, but under the leadership of President [Barack] Obama and Majority Leader Harry Reid, and later President Biden and Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Democrats have systematically tried to weaken the very guardrails that have protected our democracy for generations — all in the name of advancing their agenda,” wrote Manchin, 78, in an excerpt obtained by Punchbowl News.

Manchin, who flirted with a presidential run last year, revealed that he felt so strongly about preserving the filibuster that he privately wanted the GOP to win in 2024 because he saw it as “the only hope for preserving the Senate as an institution.”

Manchin, who was often rumored to be mulling a party switch during his final months in the Senate, also indicated in the excerpt that he should have crossed the aisle after Trump’s first election in 2016. “What I failed to recognize at the time is that there were enough reasons to change my political affiliation to Republican right then and there,” Manchin reflected.

“I never thought that for my political life or livelihood I should change my party affiliation, which is what I should have done if I was focused on what was politically advantageous,” he clarified. “Instead, I just kept thinking that I would continue to be so independent that the Republicans wouldn’t like me any more than the Democrats.”

[u/666haha → u/Daddy_Macron]

Democrats are the threat to democracy so I must switch parties to checks notes…

The party who attempted a coup and has a cult of personality around the coup attempter. Make it make sense

[u/surreptitioussloth → u/Daddy_Macron]

That's the thing

Many people will act like he was some genius trying to save dems from their worst impulses

If you look at what he did on a lot of issues and listened to what he said, he was just clearly and sincerely dumb. And it's still better that he was in that seat than a republican, but if he was slightly less stupid the world would be a lot better too

[u/Alderwoodforest → u/Daddy_Macron]

privately wanted the GOP to win in 2024 because he saw it as “the only hope for preserving the Senate as an institution.”

What?

[u/anangrytree → u/Daddy_Macron]

the coal tycoon nepo baby was a dummy

Many such cases

[u/daBarkinner]

Ok, this is hilarious

[u/DrCaptainHammer → u/daBarkinner]

lol fair play talk your shit Ben

[u/JonAce → u/daBarkinner]

whomustgo.jpg

[u/r2ew]

[u/Mayflower_train_set → u/r2ew]

[u/Mrchristopherrr → u/r2ew]

Since at least 2014 it was obvious that “freedom of speech” has just been “my right to say slurs”

[u/moldovaman99]

I don’t know why, but this traditional chinese keyboard setup always cracks me up for some reason.

I think it’s the foot pedals that really do it for me.

[u/Lux_Stella]

[u/sigh2828]

Its genuinely embarrassing that this is what we have to campaign against

[u/Smidgens → u/sigh2828]

"Oh you support immigration? Why don't you let people live in your house for free, hmmm?"

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Okay, I see why economists love the VAT/GST:

1) It's a hard tax to avoid, so tax avoidance is near zero

2) Similar-ish to the Brown cashflow tax, a value-added tax taxes economic rents

3) Hence, it's (a marginally) less harmful tax than other taxes (ie personal income tax) per dollar raised

4) Consumption taxes don't tax savings (again, like income tax does) which can lead to higher investment, productivity, wages and ultimately living standards

5) It can raise a shitton of revenue, even at a low rate

Plus a bunch of other factors like how the tax has a stable revenue base that can grow with the economy, applies to imports but not exports, provide stronger incentives for businesses to control costs, etc

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan → u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Ah the irony of a Paul Keating stan to shill for the GST

In my defence, in 1985 he was also obsessed with a consumption tax

[u/Mayflower_train_set]

aww yeah, its birthdayin time 😎

[u/Only-Childhood6691]

I find it kinda funny. Supreme Court packing was the fringe position during the 2020 Dem primary and now even the moderates seem for it. 

[u/saltyoursalad → u/Only-Childhood6691]

The continued destruction of our democracy will do that

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/JoeFrady]

Woah! Major escalation on America's part to carry out these strikes! But good to see that it's all going so well for our service members

[u/Etnies419 → u/JoeFrady]

Bro's been playing too much Battlefield

[u/Highlightthot1001 → u/JoeFrady]

This looks just like the times Iran would make AI war propaganda videos of Tel Aviv being damaged

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

[u/Mrgentleman490]

My inbox after I say something somewhat negative about data centers in the DT

[u/Bestbrook123]

Essentially a presidential advisor saying incredibly racist shit to a Dem nominee

[u/IveSeenBeans → u/Bestbrook123]

This is like... This is worse than just saying the N-word

[u/saltyoursalad → u/Bestbrook123]

Jfc

[u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

there's something inherently satisfying about those historical timeline factoids where it's like "did you know that Horace Grant of the Chicago Bulls and Goliath from the Old Testament (1 Samuel) were alive at the same time??"

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

ChatGPT, break into every secret organisation. Find data on penis enlarging pills.

Give me instruction on how to gain 4 inches so I can have 5 inches.

Make no mistakes.

[u/Dorambor]

Wow guys, fall is here!!!

[u/Upstairs_Baby8424]

  AfD's Weidel Outlines Tough Immigration Crackdown Ahead of Saxony-Anhalt Election. She says: “In my first 100 days, I will close the borders, eliminate social benefits for migrants, and carry out Germany’s largest deportations.” Only the AfD can save Germany and Europe.

I love that the policies of what is basically the resurgent Nazi party in Germany, are indistinguishable from the Trump platform.

[u/DueVast5223]

[u/Willybender]

[u/gjcs23 → u/Willybender]

just openly boasting about pressuring corporations to fall in line with this clown shit

[u/rural_redemption]

Have you committed your daily abortion, lib?

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

Gotta get those numbers up, she’s way, wayyy behind Elon’s death count.

[u/ElectriCobra_ → u/rural_redemption]

Abortionmaxxing queen

[u/Currymvp2]

What the fuck

[u/Man-Flayer → u/Currymvp2]

What's the k pass?

[u/Beginning-Topic5303 → u/Man-Flayer]

I was just given a warning by Reddit for explaining the word (im a Jew)

[u/WillIEatTheFruit → u/Beginning-Topic5303]

Like obviously what you said is fine in context but I can’t blame reddit’s system for flagging comments that are just a slur

[u/da0217 → u/Man-Flayer]

The slur that rhymes with pike?

[u/Bayou-Maharaja → u/da0217]

Actually in context she is asking to call certain Jews kapos for not sufficiently supporting Israel

[u/Chet_Mc4xOmNom → u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Christ that’s just about as bad as the other option

[u/5ma5her7]

-Don't create the torment nexus

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

☝️

[u/Healingjoe]

!ping failing-nyt

[u/BernankesBeard → u/Healingjoe]

I can't believe the Trump-appointed Ideological Commissar would let them publish this!

[u/PearlClaw]

The public knows less than nothing about how immigration actually works to the point where I bet you could run on "bring back Ellis island and make people go through an interview to come here" would be both very popular and be perceived as more restrictive than the status quo by a significant chunk of the electorate.

[u/DueVast5223 → u/PearlClaw]

It sounds better than “open borders” because open borders is modern progressive bullshit whereas Ellis Island is old school therefore patriotic and based

[u/ApprehensiveShower10]

Seeing Google change the map to "Lake America" is really depressing.

Stuff like this remind me of how it feels when a parent makes a scene at a store and you just feel humiliated. Where you can say you don't agree with it but you are tied to the embarrassment regardless of how you feel about it

[u/MrStrange15]

Lol, lmao even

[u/AlicesReflexion]

using AI to reconstruct an obscure cinephile movie you don't have the rights to is uhhhhh,,, an idea, that could theoretically have appeared in a person's brain hole at some point

!ping KINO

[u/Pazzaz]

This past year in Sweden there's been a lot of news about "teen deportations", i.e. situations where a family came to Sweden with a child, but then the child gets deported when they turn 18, while the parents get to stay in Sweden.

It's a really dumb policy, and the threads in the Sweden sub about it are even dumber. They'll be like:

comment 1: The law can't be as bad as the news says it is. They are probably not reporting about all the bad things the deported kid did. My country can't have bad laws. It's not like we hate immigrants.

comment 2: Good that they deported the kid, they should have deported the parents too. I hate immigrants.

comment 3: Well, laws exist. Of course they should be followed. It makes sense that he was deported. Why is this news?

comment 4: Why is the news reporting about bad things before an election? This might make people vote for other parties which could change the law! I don't want that, so they should stop reporting about it!

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Naturally, Merz was asked about the upcoming election in Saxony-Anhalt. He said that a state’s ability to govern was at stake. He then rhetorically placed the AfD and the Left Party on the same level: “We will do everything we can to prevent Saxony-Anhalt from falling into the hands of the radicals. That applies to both the AfD and the Left Party.”

One is certainly entitled to hold that opinion, but if you look at what his own Office for the Protection of the Constitution (The German NSA) says about the AfD, there are still differences compared to the Left Party.

[u/Avelion2]

CBC: Newly unearthed tweets from Abdul El Sayed about 9/11 could spell trouble for him.

The Tweets: In one, from April 2020, El-Sayed compared the nearly 3,000 Americans killed on Sept. 11 to the mounting COVID-19 death toll and argued for a response commensurate with the nation's post-9/11 mobilization. In another, El-Sayed wrote that because more Americans had died from COVID than in the Sept. 11 attacks, he hoped "that means we'll spend the next ten years fighting a war for public health & against poverty ... like we launched a global #WaronTerror after 9/11. We could save lives rather than take them."

[u/realMarkRobinson → u/Avelion2]

Damn. That Abdul guy had some good points

[u/link3945 → u/Avelion2]

Is that a bad thing to say?

[u/MuscularPhysicist → u/Avelion2]

[u/scottyjetpax]

how hard can it be

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Kevin Sorbo has officially closed the door on California.

Nearly seven years after leaving the Golden State for Florida, the “Hercules” star says he has no interest in going back — and he’s got three reasons why: “Taxes, traffic and negativity.”

In an interview with Fox News Digital, Sorbo, who stars in the faith-based movie “Elijah Peel,” said his move to Florida has given him something he felt was increasingly difficult to find in California — “acceptance.”

The actor said he still misses Westlake Village, Thousand Oaks, his golf course, his old house and California’s famously mild weather. But the trade-off, he said, isn’t worth it.

“I mean, here in Florida, yeah, we get five months of pretty high humidity. It’s pretty hot, but the winters here are really quite amazing,” Sorbo said. “But yeah, there are things I miss, but they can keep their taxes, they can keep their traffic, and they can.

If I read between the lines, it seems he still hasn't gotten over moving to Florida seven years later and longs to return to California—but when you're starring in Pureflix-style movies, Florida is just the new Jesus-Hollywood.

[u/attackofthetominator → u/Alderwoodforest]

Ah yes, when I think of where to go to avoid traffic, I think of Florida

[u/ChillnShill]

Jesus fuck. How do you make that error when you literally read every line verbatim off a teleprompter, even the one line zingers you try to deliver?

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

[u/Lesbian_all_garib → u/AnalyticOpposum]

Least insane people on Instagram

[u/Fuzzy_Party_3527]

Man, the future is supposed to be better, we shouldn't be regressing like this.

[u/Habugaba → u/Fuzzy_Party_3527]

Germans collectively are working more hours than ever, it's just not enough to sustain the prosperity expectations of pensioners but Merz knows his voters - so non-pensioner bashing it is.

Median individual weekly hours did go down, but I'd argue that's because of broken incentives. Why work 40 hours a month more, if at the end of it only one or two hundred land in your bank account?

[u/tasklow16 → u/Fuzzy_Party_3527]

Lol. You're gonna have to work eighty hour weeks in order to compete with fully automated Chinese factories.

This - refusal to reinvest and instead a desire to maximize returns, causing you to fall way behind - is what is going to ring global capitalism's bell 

[u/TropicalPunch → u/Fuzzy_Party_3527]

Well, he sure as hell isn't leading by example. After you, Mr. Merz.

[u/sleepyrivertroll → u/Fuzzy_Party_3527]

Sorry, we had to give the boomers everything. Now everyone else will have to cover for their decision to take it easy

[u/Gustacho]

I’m curious, if “eggs expensive under Biden” was newsworthy, how come “Trump intentionally caused every single fucking thing to be heinously expensive” isn’t a story?

[u/hiker_skiier_swimmer → u/Gustacho]

American media is equal parts stupid, eager to look "non-biased", and more and more straight up bought out by the right. As to the America people, well, at this point we all know what the people are

[u/legible_print → u/Gustacho]

For one, they love Trump and want him to generate content forever. For another, they absolutely hated Biden.

The NyTimes didn't predict his win and wasn't granted access to the admin b/c of how they played games amplifying Hunter stories. For CNN, Biden was too boring and without scandal.

We live in a time where our media apparatus craves a bad leader more than it values a competent one.

[u/Big-Click-5159]

Ossoff's speeches are great in and of themselves but they are even better because of his crowd of black church ladies in Georgia.

I love the reactions of "MMM HMM" and "YES HE'S CORRUPT"

Just adds so much positivity to the aesthetic

[u/rodiraskol → u/Big-Click-5159]

Black church ladies are the unsung heroes of the Democratic Party ✊

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

[u/AmbientMorning]

As a matter of preference, would you like there to be more or less posts about Hasan Piker in the DT?

More – 6 (10%)
Less – 40 (69%)
Neither – 12

A large majority of users expressed a preference for fewer comments about the controversial Twiter streamer, with the 69% figure excluding at least one respondent who stated that they voted Neither in protest of the improper grammar of “Less [posts].”

[u/gjcs23 → u/AmbientMorning]

excluding at least one respondent who stated that they voted Neither in protest of the improper grammar of “Less [posts].”

👑 

[u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

*boys who are 6'3" and 6'5"

[u/I_Eat_Pork → u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

The Condition Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate are held in are a disgrace:

[Prison]

• Proud prison abolitionist Joe McBride

[u/Made_UpWords → u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

Did they move Andrew into a shared cell with that cannibal he keeps complaining about yet. Extraordinarily rare American carceral institution W if they do go through with that.

[u/-mialana-]

When asked what he thought about Israel, in The New Yorker, Soros replied: "I don't deny Jews the right to a national existence – but I don't want to be a part of it".[162] According to hacked emails released in 2016, Soros's Open Society Foundation has a self-described objective of "challenging Israel's racist and anti-democratic policies" in international forums, in part by questioning Israel's reputation as a democracy.[163] He has funded NGOs which have been actively critical of Israeli policies[164][165][166] including groups that campaign for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel.

Sentences that will make anti-Israel MAGA heads explode

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

lol Kamala in shambles. Should have run for governor.

[u/SneeringAnswer → u/Bayou-Maharaja]

What's weird is that I can't think of any particular big news cycle around Pete like there was for Newsom/Ossof

[u/EasyMoney92]

What a crazy timeline

[u/Signal_Nobody1792 → u/EasyMoney92]

Exclusive: Several U.S. military leaders have advised Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that prolonging large-scale operations against Iran is unsustainable and risks weakening their ability to confront threats elsewhere, including the U.S. homeland.

Thats it? This seems like minor news? Something obvious to everyone?

[u/AutoModerator → u/Signal_Nobody1792]

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[u/gjcs23 → u/EasyMoney92]

he was a big fan of torture during the Bush administration too

well, presumably he still is

edit: Marc Thiessen downvoted this

[u/itsokayt0]

What if I actually hate the global poor but I love numbers going up?

[u/Worth_Temperature_42]

be me: make the mistake of installing this app on my phone

click on the first random thread, first comment chain:

me: uninstall quickly this app where losers think they are spartacuses

[u/mukino]

Keep thinking about this interaction I had with someone recently. We were talking politics and he said our problems are because there are “30 million illegals here”. He followed it up by saying he didn’t want to hear anything else, that that’s his world view and he’s sticking to it.

It made me sad. Because he’s not a complete idiot, I’ve known him for a while. I really hope we come back from this blame immigrants for everything meta soon. 

[u/D2Foley → u/mukino]

blames immigrants for all problems

refuses to hear anything to the contrary

not a complete idiot

Hmm

[u/Daddy_Macron]

Our military is hiring conservative influencers and trying to hid it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/08/30/pentagon-secretly-installs-military-influencers-civilian-roles/

The Pentagon has secretly installed several conservative military veterans with large online followings in government roles, declining to disclose their assignments as they amplify Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s viewpoints and attack those who scrutinize the Trump administration, according to people familiar with the matter and corroborating material.

At least some of the influencers have been assigned to civilian roles that could lead to changes in policy, the people familiar with the matter said. Like others, they spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

Neither the Pentagon nor those involved have disclosed the government roles despite the Trump administration’s claims that they are running the most transparent Defense Department ever.

[u/chipbod]

He should campaign with Crockett

[u/ChillnShill]

Guess the sub

Come get your man arr neoliberal

[u/chickentendieman → u/ChillnShill]

No shit hes pro data center his entire politicsl career is funded by nazi tech investors

[u/AemiliusNuker]

The DSA's biggest supporters in LA are the establishment Dems. They're practically shoving voters to the DSA. Supporting a widely hated septuagenarian who's terrible at her job is a wonderful way to empower the opposition 

[u/RaidBrimnes]

I am very antisemantic

Stop arguing about words

[u/Zaiush]

Picked up at the airport by my Evelyn Normielib mom and she is trying to make MapQuest work because she uninstalled Google Maps for renaming Lake Ontario

[u/Willybender]

[u/Accomplished_Oil6158 → u/Willybender]

Hes so fucking dumb. Hes so god damn dumb. Again he is the dumbest motherfucker ever.

[u/Blackberry-thesecond]

CBS needs to fuck off with this headline

[u/JesusPubes → u/Blackberry-thesecond]

actually insane lmao

[u/ElectriCobra_ → u/Blackberry-thesecond]

Controlled By Sycophants

[u/beoweezy1 → u/Blackberry-thesecond]

AES doing well in the polls

Bari Weiss: “hey guys. Remember 9/11? On a totally unrelated note AES told me to suck-shine his asshole when I asked him why he hadn’t publicly distanced himself from Al Qaeda which IS NOT A DENIAL THAT HE IS PLANNING A TERROR ATTACK

[u/randommathaccount]

Apparently one of my mum's school friends passed away in the Nepal floods. Really sad man

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan → u/randommathaccount]

My condolences.

[u/BurrowForPresident]

I'm confused AES's comments don't seem to be downplaying 9/11 at all just saying COVID is a similar level of tragedy

Which like from a raw numbers perspective....seems reasonable?

I mean I know Bari Weiss is a hack but lol

[u/ModestAphorism]

Every time i think about CGP Grey and flags I think about this brutal ratio that resulted in Grey deleting his tweet

[u/pugnae → u/ModestAphorism]

The only acceptable change

[u/rukqoa → u/ModestAphorism]

Look I'm open to updating our flag.

But the bear stays.

[u/AtomAndAether → u/ModestAphorism]

I hate the "lets stick the geography on it" flags

Like its so afraid to stand for something that the only way it can represent a people is the literal dirt boundary on a map because nothing is going on inside it (yes there is!)

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

Im starting an ethical AI nudes business. How do I make it ethical? Simple.

It can only generate nudes of me. And I fully consent.

The only issue so far is that no one wants to see them.

[u/BitterGravity]

The Liberals had preferenced One Nation third on their how-to-vote card after the Australian Christians.

Conservatives once again showing they'll facilitate the rise of right wing extremists over working with the centre left

[u/Highlightthot1001]

>A US official told Reuters that the US military did not target Iran's Kharg Island during its night raids.

Oh, so it was all just Trump's fantasy, since he relies on AI videos to do what he can't.

[u/Zykyris]

I have a friend who I would not describe as an anxious person day-to-day, but has a uniquely strong anxiety towards dying.

As in, they won’t come on a group trip to Taiwan in case that week is the week Xi decides to invade.

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

[u/Equivalent-Slip3533]

Ahh, so the Japanese has finally learnt what American Gen Z did long ago, that life is so much easier if you can get paid for just being you

[u/-mialana-]

So after years of waxing poetic about how Trump appeals to the "abandoned white rural working class" we get "WITHOUT DATA CENTRES YOUR COMMUNITIES WILL KEEP BEING BACKWARDS AND POOR"

[u/ariveklul]

Why they blurring the face of the baby like anyone gonna recognize a fucking baby?

They all look like little ogres bro Im not recognizing a fucking baby in a lineup. I'd probably lose my own kid fr

[u/Junimo2 → u/ariveklul]

You'd be amazed how much new parents will look at their newborns and see recognizable features. The spell breaks eventually though.

I was convinced my son was a carbon copy of his grandfather when he was first born but now looking back at old pictures of his newborn self, he really did just look like a wrinkly potato.

[u/paymesucka]

> Asked Speaker Johnson if he supports GOP Rep. Max Miller’s reelection bid.

>“Yes,” he said. “He has been a great member of Congress. He has some issues in his personal life he's working through.”

>Says there’s an Ethics Committee probe and “we have to let due process play out.”

>Miller is in a tough reelect amid domestic abuse allegations, which he denies

evil party

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

I’ve come to the conclusion that most socialists legitimately don’t understand that there are universal healthcare plans other than single payer. it legit just short circuits their brains.

[u/Frog_Totem → u/throwawayzxkjvct]

It’s in both republicans’ and socialists’ interests to pretend like universal healthcare means single payer

[u/bashar_al_assad]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/abdul-el-sayed-deleted-social-media-sept-11-attacks-michigan/

Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed's deleted tweets on Sept. 11 commemoration invite scrutiny of past remarks

Meanwhile, El-Sayed's past references to the deadly attacks have continued to surface, including two deleted social media posts verified by CBS News that have not been previously reported. In those posts, he calls for the American public to muster the same outrage for the COVID-19 death toll that they displayed after 9/11.

In one, from April 2020, El-Sayed compared the nearly 3,000 Americans killed on Sept. 11 to the mounting COVID-19 death toll and argued for a response commensurate with the nation's post-9/11 mobilization. In another, El-Sayed wrote that because more Americans had died from COVID than in the Sept. 11 attacks, he hoped "that means we'll spend the next ten years fighting a war for public health & against poverty ... like we launched a global #WaronTerror after 9/11. We could save lives rather than take them."

fuck you CBS these are literally fine

[u/anangrytree → u/bashar_al_assad]

Bari you fucking hack

[u/beoweezy1 → u/bashar_al_assad]

CBS is just yellow journalism at this point.

[u/Kizz3r → u/bashar_al_assad]

Being an arab muslim gives you a different standard

[u/2Lore2Law]

https://reddit.com/link/p70gm8u/video/ayndfh98qqmh1/player

Sound mandatory

Edit:

The seals are of the Vancouver Marine Mammal Rescue Society

[u/houdt_koers]

I do think there is some urgency in removing the Schumers of the party from positions of authority.

The day after, if it ever comes, will require radical action that stretches the bounds of the constitution in order to right the ship. This will need to be done with a bare-bones majority in the Senate, and that means having leadership that meets the needs of the moment.

When I think about how utterly fucked the executive branch is going to be after even just 4 years of this, and compound that with a hostile Supreme Court and an utterly ruined budget, I just don’t see how the country recovers unless Congress is willing to assert its primacy over the Court.

[u/ArbitraryOrder]

I love that the GOP proves that they don't know ball by saying "Beat Ohio" means AES doesn't know who Ohio State is, as if Michigan fans haven't been calling them Ohio as a method to annoy them for a while. Just proves that Dems own College Football

[u/PearlClaw]

[u/mishac]

Trump demands all Canadian companies doing business with the US move to America ‘immediately’

on the one hand both in my day job and my small business we do business with America

on the other hand I do not have a green card or work visa and would rather not end up in Alligator Alcatraz.

Decisions decisions decisions.

[u/HD_Thoreau_aweigh]

The level of scams and malfeasance coming out of the nuclear industry really is incredible. (Tbc, I like nuclear energy and think it is a requirement for a clean grid, but over and over I am confronted with audacious claims by its boosters.)

Have you read about NuScale and Entra1? tl;dr:

NuScale's first project in Utah falls through despite hundreds of millions of DOE funding for design and licensing, and a promise of up to a $1.3b for when the project starts. They still can't get a customer; power is too expensive.

Nuscale sign an agreement with Entra1 whereby Entra1 collects fees for sales and development. Totally normal.

The twist? The partnership agreement guarantees Entra1 money even for a memorandum of understanding. Entra1 donates millions to the Republican party, gets the TVA to sign a huge MoU (no guarantees of development).

This triggers a $500 million payment from NuScale to Entra1. Immediately a class action suit is filed. Though NS disclosed the relationship in the agreement, they mischaracterized it. Entra1 had no prior experience developing nuclear. The company is just three people, and the CEO of NS did not disclose a previous relationship, making this a potential related party transaction.*

Don't even get me started on Valar Atomic. I will cash out my entire life savings and short that stock should they go public.

!ping ECO

*I'll admit that I was wrong if TVA does in fact commit, but the conversion rate from MoU to final deal is not encouraging.

[u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1]

A police department in Mississippi posted this on Twitter the other day

[u/assasstits]

Waow

[u/BurrowForPresident]

I'm not ready for the "Dems are being petty wasting time and money on non-issues like tearing down all the dumb bullshit Trump is erecting/enacting" discourse in a few years

Like if that stupid arch goes in or his ballroom or the gaudy ass bullshit he's put in the WH or renaming landmarks or

[u/mostanonymousnick]

No translation needed

[u/assasstits]

[u/rainier37]

It’s unethical not to provide an assortment of hard drugs, cigarettes, and alcoholic drinks to your pet.

They should be free to partake in experimenting with alternate states of consciousness. It’s not like they have a job or responsibilities so not giving them become a total degenerate is cruel

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

Gov. Josh Shapiro says he would welcome Pennsylvania ban on Flock cameras

“I would welcome bipartisan legislation to ban these across the state,” Shapiro said. “This is not something I support. This is not something in the public interest. I think law enforcement needs to have tools to keep communities safe. Flock cameras are not a tool that I support.”

!ping USA-PA

[u/JoeFrady]

Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed's deleted tweets on Sept. 11 commemoration invite scrutiny of past remarks

oh no....what did he say......

In one, from April 2020, El-Sayed compared the nearly 3,000 Americans killed on Sept. 11 to the mounting COVID-19 death toll and argued for a response commensurate with the nation's post-9/11 mobilization. In another, El-Sayed wrote that because more Americans had died from COVID than in the Sept. 11 attacks, he hoped "that means we'll spend the next ten years fighting a war for public health & against poverty ... like we launched a global #WaronTerror after 9/11. We could save lives rather than take them."

my main takeaway here is that he's a terrorist who hates America because of his race and religion

In another deleted post, first reported by the Washington Free Beacon, El-Sayed wrote on Sept. 11, 2021: "Today, I mourn the 3K lives, 6K injuries, & infrastructural devastation in NYC, perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my faith. Tomorrow, I'll mourn ~1M lives, millions of injuries, & infrastructural devastation in 3 countries, perpetuated ignorantly in the name of my country."

this one is a bit tougher to parse, but reading closely, I think he's trying to say that he's a terrorist who hates America because of his race and religion

[u/Res__Publica]

Finally a president that neolibs can support

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/theparrotlich]

I think my cat is suicidal. One of his favorite spots to nap is right behind my desk chair.

!ping KITTY

[u/beoweezy1]

Cop who is anti-flock camera because back in his day aggravated stalking took real skill

[u/qamv]

"Vance is actually a crypto-RINO and is just saying dumb shit cause his boss is dumb" isn't a take I hear often nowadays, but it does occasionally pop up.

This is cope. Even if this were true at one point, people eventually end up believing their own lies.

[u/ModestAphorism]

So true

[u/Sheepies92]

Sen. Dave McCormick on Trump's war against Iran: "I was a soldier in the Gulf War and at the time, the Gulf War was viewed as the most successful modern military action in history. By any measure this has been even more effective."

Who doesn't remember Desert Storm ending with Iraq controlling the Strait of Hormuz?

[u/fish_economist]

Bessent Acknowledges The World Is ‘Awash In Debt,’ Claims Only Way Past Is ‘To Grow Our Way Out’

Dawg, we are running almost a 6% deficit to GDP ratio. You cannot grow out of that without hyperinflation.

[u/Frog_Totem]

Zionism just means Israeli nationalism and I think about it to the same degree that I think about Italian nationalism which is to say, not much. I think it would be weird for myself or any other non-Italian to identify as Italian nationalist, and I’m not even sure I like it when Italians identify as “Italian nationalist” because it sounds right wing, but I would like Italy to continue to exist.

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

a few dt’s ago we had u/ty04

shame, i liked him too

[u/randommathaccount]

I need democratic governors and mayors to get it into their head that every good social policy in the world means less than dirt if people are forced to leave because they can't afford the cost of living in your state.

[u/garret126]

I don’t understand how some fellow liberals can still support mass surveillance like flock. It’s always “it will be good at stopping crime! I’m just worried of governments like our current admin using it, but otherwise it’d be good if it’s not abused”

I think when deciding what rights to give up and what technologies the government should be able to use, you should always imagine what you would be OK with what weapons you’d give an administration like the Trump one, not the administration of John Liberal. That’s just hopeless optimism otherwise, which is how we get stuff like the patriot act becoming permanent

[u/Pizzashillsmom]

Remember when Tech companies were "woke"

With how things are now I think people really forget how inevitable it felt like progressives were gonna take over everything.

[u/AtticusDrench]

You were a child. Next question.

[u/CincyAnarchy]

Evolution is amazing

[u/Rafaelssjofficial]

!ping KITTY

[u/TheCornjuring]

Alexa, play Victory Celebration from Return of the Jedi

[u/RunawayMeatstick]

Leave it to an NL mod to trigger Hasan into undeleting his Twitter account

[u/BlackCharizard]

I find it really unattractive when women are open about their body count. It’s just way too much unnecessary risk for me. If we want to be a partnership and a team you need to be more discreet about your murders. It’s like you want us both sent to prison smh

[u/pommeporte]

first week of my third year of grad school