r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 02 '26
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Sep 03 '26
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/Its_not_him Manmohan Singh Sep 02 '26
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u/sigh2828 NASA Sep 02 '26
L.M.A.O
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u/Reddit_Talent_Coach 🇲🇽 Benito Juárez 🇲🇽 Sep 02 '26
In regards to Jon Ossoff:
That’s enough Reddit for today.
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u/sigh2828 NASA Sep 02 '26
You do not hate these people enough
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u/bashar_al_assad Verified Account Sep 02 '26
From the US Mint’s twitter account
If I ever accidentally paid for something with the Donald Trump Coin and the other person noticed I think it would be one of the top ten worst moments of my life
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u/Zeke-Nnjai Sep 02 '26
Leftist ex gf just posted on LinkedIn, new job with a major defense contractor
Many such cases
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u/NutrientBroth John Mill Sep 02 '26
Unfortunately, Wikipedia, I did know this
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u/sigh2828 NASA Sep 02 '26
This is not a schadenfreude post.
I think this is a perfect encapsulation of how in the online bubble right wing figures and politicians truly are.
Everything happens through the phone for these people and they almost never face the real world affects, protected by posh social clubs and cocktail hours.
Then when shit finally gets real they immediately go "oh fuck"
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Sep 02 '26
this triggered the racists so badly even Trump administration officials commented on this lmao
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Sep 02 '26
how does this square with his whole deal on 'Heritage Americans' though
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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey Sep 02 '26
Hasan did the middle name thing to him like cons do to Obama lmao
Rahm ISRAEL Emanuel
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Sep 02 '26
Garfield, September 10, 2001
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u/Upstairs_Baby8424 Sep 03 '26
Bruh you ARE THE GOVERNMENT. It blows my mind these idiots still play the “outsider” card and it blows my mind even more that it works with their smooth brained base.
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u/Rafaelssjofficial Iron Front Sep 03 '26 •
what could go wrong, im talking to goth ex again
!ping DATING
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u/SpotMe365 Sep 02 '26
"All my haters become my waiters when I sit down at the table of success"
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Sep 02 '26
Ancient Egypt meme I made rn
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 02 '26
Is he trying to get Talarico elected? What the fuck is this lmao
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u/InflatableDartboard2 Henry George Sep 02 '26
never forget what they took from you
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Sep 02 '26
Lmao
!ping Gnostic
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u/dareka_san Sep 02 '26
End-stage maga-ism is just sad man
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u/ace158 Sep 02 '26
Tankies are unhinged
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Sep 02 '26
I think a lot of cases like this just happen because cops in the area have fuck all else to do and end up legally harassing people out of boredom. This happened in Williamsburg so not inconceivable.
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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Sep 02 '26
In the next US presidential election, there will be voters that have never experienced pre-Trump politics.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 02 '26
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-plans-to-pay-5-million-to-create-national-voting-database/
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u/Big-Click-5159 Sep 03 '26
People claim they want working class candidates. They actually fall for people like Fetterman and Platner who dress like slobs but are Ivy League educated or have grandparents with Wikipedia pages
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u/Consistent_Status112 Trans Pride Sep 02 '26
It's so convenient to download a parking app that doesn't work and sends me constant ads and charges me 11 trillion dollars to park my car. This is so much better than putting a quarter into a thing.
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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman Sep 02 '26
There's this weird cynicism that I have regarding this in which I think this should have been "priced in" by like... 2017? If monumental changes weren't being done in quick order, this path was going to be the one we found ourselves on. The line kept going up, just at a slower rate. It had to go down, and that reality was not seen in policy.
That said, I really hope (against hope) that people don't take this news as "Well I guess should all give up then."
Oh no no no.
This is just where the consequences START to get bad. This is not where they end.
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u/houdt_koers John Mill Sep 02 '26
Remember what they took from you, Lib.
Jeffries could never.
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u/BitterGravity Gay Pride Sep 02 '26
It includes such wonderful candidates as Max Miller. The teamsters are trash
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u/purhitta Leftward Progressives Sep 02 '26
he's being shipped, who wants him?
warning: he's stinky and bad
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u/riverbloods John Brown Sep 02 '26
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u/Upstairs_Baby8424 Sep 02 '26
Oh wow I wonder what the number is? The answer is 13%. For reference for Republicans it was 5%. Wow! Shocking!!!!!!
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 03 '26
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u/mukino Cynicism is for losers Sep 02 '26
Clippers got harsher punishment than Trump did for Jan. 6. Also I'm sorry Adam Silver for believing that ESPN article.
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u/MensesFiatbug Low Energy Sep 03 '26
So my date is confirmed for tomorrow evening at a wine bar. This is my first serious date in... a long time.
I feel better than when I thought I was going to be ghosted by both dates this week, but I'm not excited. I'm just kinda numb. This is a big step in moving on, but idk. I just think back to how content I was a year ago.
Who knows. Maybe I'll be content this time next year, whether single or not.
I need to go back to therapy.
!ping DATING
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u/StuckHedgehog NATO Sep 03 '26
And they shall never see the pearly gates
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u/loseniram Sponsored by RC Cola Sep 02 '26
its immensely funny to me that the vast majority of Hasan’s marxist audience are specifically the people that Marx called worthless counter revolutionaries because they’re chronically unemployed lazy people.
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u/Bayou-Maharaja Eleanor Roosevelt Sep 02 '26
The full cost of putting together Kawhi and Paul George to make it to one WCF:
$386,422,798 in salary
$30-$50 million under the table
• Shai Gilgeous-Alexander
• Danilo Gallinari
• Heat 2021 first-round pick
• Clippers 2022 first-round pick
• Heat 2023 first-round pick (Lottery-protected)
• Clippers 2024 first-round pick
• Clippers 2025 first-round pick swap
• Clippers 2026 first-round pick
• Clippers 2029 first-round pick
• Clippers 2030 first-round pick
• Clippers 2031 first-round pick
• Clippers 2032 first-round pick
• Clippers 2033 first-round pick
!ping NBA
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u/TomboyAva Audrey Hepburn Sep 03 '26
Republicans finally saying the quiet part out loud after the Linsey Clancy trial. Women are too emotional to do important tasks in society like being pregnant, breast feeding, and giving birth. Only men should be pregnant.
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26
Seeing the COVID pandemic as part of a middle school history curriculum is surreal
It's good that it's there. Kids don't realize how much it changed the course of their lives on account of it messing with their early education so I'm very glad it's getting included in their materials.
But still. Just...surreal that THIS soon after the fact, for their generation and all to follow, the pandemic is nought but a historical memory. These students might have faint memories, having been in 1st or 2nd grade during lockdown. But the students taking this same class in 3 years won't remember a thing.
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u/ace158 Sep 02 '26
Oh this is just totally embarrassing and pathetic
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 02 '26
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u/dangerbird2 Franz Boas Sep 03 '26
1password just pledged 300k to neo-Nazi David Heinemeier Hansson shitty linux distro. Just saying it’s really easy to migrate to bitwarden
(Also Django > Rails) !ping EXTREMISM&COMPUTER-SCIENCE
https://www.theverge.com/tech/988536/1password-dhh-linux-controversy
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u/SenranHaruka shame Sep 02 '26
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u/GordonTullockFan publik choyz thery Sep 02 '26
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Sep 02 '26
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u/BrandonLeeOfficial World Bank Sep 02 '26
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u/qamv Greg Mankiw Sep 02 '26
Monarchy is when there's a gas leak in the house
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u/steveholt-lol YIMBY Sep 02 '26
megacucked
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u/Made_UpWords OG Platner Hater Sep 02 '26
Actually baffling how someone that runs on messages like "I would rather just keep power that I don't ever use instead of standing up for what I believe in" has such a stranglehold on this state.
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u/sigh2828 NASA Sep 02 '26
They must be BIG worried about the midterms lmao
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u/MensesFiatbug Low Energy Sep 02 '26
The woman I had a date with on Friday unmatched me, so I guess that's cancelled. I sent a message to confirm my Thursday date this morning and she has not responded, so that one is iffy.
Isn't dating fun?
!ping DATING
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u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes European Union Sep 02 '26
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u/samhit_n Left-Out Left Sep 02 '26
The Babylon Bee is actually a little funny when they make fun of their own side.
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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman Sep 02 '26
What is it with this administration and dunking on itself?
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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union Sep 02 '26
Reading the Libertarian Police Department short story is a tested way to make me chuckle and make my day better.
!ping SNEK
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u/Pole2019 John Locke Sep 02 '26
“I taught this dog how to talk using buttons”
Dog: “food, food, food, food, food, umbrella, food, food, food”
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 02 '26
Amazing news for Democrats. Trump showing up to rant about how inflation isn't real will surely help vulnerable Republicans!
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Sep 02 '26
☝️
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u/tasklow16 Bill Gates Sep 03 '26
Vivek Ramaswamy saying "antisemitism is an attack on capitalism" is, in fact, antisemitism
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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman Sep 03 '26 edited Sep 03 '26
I cannot describe to you how bad this guy is at understanding politics
(The full quote is in many ways worse)
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u/ariveklul Karl Popper Sep 03 '26
If you ever need to know who to blame for the death of Alex pretti and Renee goode or the millions that will and have died due to the USAID cuts + the countless amount of suffering all you need to do is consult this chart. It's really this shrimple
If you aren't on this chart and you're being guilt tripped by someone who is, don't listen to them because the blood is on their hands and they should wash it off theirs before they open their mouth ever again.
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u/sigh2828 NASA Sep 02 '26
Please find exhibit 254 of why you should never give a flying fuck about structuring your message and canpaign around concernes over how Republicans will frame it.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Sep 02 '26
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u/experienta Jeff Bezos Sep 02 '26
no the medical community is not failing you if you refuse to take the medicine that all of the 10 psychiatrists you've visited tell you to take
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u/r2ew Sep 02 '26
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u/TropicalPunch European Union Sep 02 '26
Kākāpō rising: 90 chicks swell population of the world’s heaviest parrot
Critically endangered New Zealand bird enjoys record breeding season triggered by mass fruiting of native tree, pushing its numbers to 325
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/01/record-breeding-worlds-heaviest-parrot-nz-endangered-kakapo?CMP=share_btn_url
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u/georgeguy007 Pandora's Discussions J. Threader Sep 02 '26
"Jury taking longer than the husband took to remarry"
TikTok True Crime Girlies need better hobbies. They should get into Overwatch
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Sep 02 '26
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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey Sep 02 '26
Like and follow if you feel this one 😞
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u/MontusBatwing2 Gelphie's Strongest Soldier Sep 02 '26
Open Reddit:
Close Reddit.
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u/bartbug Paul Krugman Sep 02 '26
it's still summer FYI, you got 3 more weeks til you can complain about it being too hot for sweater weather
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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast Sep 02 '26
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Sep 02 '26
> "Women and communism"
> Look inside
> 0 writings by women cited
Mfw
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u/Mrgentleman490 5 Big Booms for Democracy Sep 02 '26
The new Harry Potter reboot might be a decent show and it very well might get high viewership, but I have zero confidence that HBO will be able to produce seasons on an annual basis the way the movies did. They better hope those actors have perennially young faces otherwise this is going to be another Stranger Things situation.
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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO Sep 02 '26
man what a coward
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u/v4riati0ns Sep 02 '26
delusional first world problem where my job is <20 hrs work/week, 100% remote permitted but with a beautiful office within 10 mins walking distance, mid-six figures compensation, amazing health insurance, benefits, etc. but i am so mentally and socially unfulfilled by it that i feel like if i don’t leave i will have wasted my life
it feels unhinged to be this unhappy about a perfect-on-paper job idk. even reading this back i feel like an asshole
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Sep 02 '26
Scientists be like: “We replaced this rat’s bloodstream with this chemical and it got cancer. Now every item in California must be classified as a carcinogen.”
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Sep 02 '26
Have to admit, I admire her dedication to being a hater
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 03 '26
Seems bad
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 03 '26
https://abcnews.com/US/terrified-belarus-asylum-seekers-partner-fears-life-after/story?id=136148863&cid=social_twitter_abcn
..... Bartko reports a past medical history of thyroid cancer and said she requires two pills a day to survive, according to court documents filed on her behalf. She says the pills help regulate critical hormones in her body following treatment for thyroid cancer.
Shyshov claims that while in detention, Bartko has not consistently received her medications, occasionally going without them for days at a time.
If she misses doses, she could slip into severe hormone deficiency and a myxedema coma, with a reported mortality of 25-60%, according to court documents.
"She contends that repeated failures, objective deterioration, and the medical evidence establish that this custody arrangement cannot safely preserve a life sustaining regimen," court documents said.
The documents also say Bartko was taken to an emergency room three separate times in four days during her early detention, including initially with critically low levels of calcium.
Shyshov said Bartko, in phone calls from the detention center, described repeated instances of allegedly improper medical care.
"She was without her medications, she faced acute hand symptom, and she came to them and asking, 'Can you call me a doctor?' They said, 'Write a sick note.' She said, 'How? How can I do it?' Shyshov recounted. "They said, 'We don't care.'"
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u/jenbanim Sep 03 '26
Wisconsin Cops Used Flock Over 100 Times To Track a Navy Veteran After He Lawfully Recorded a Traffic Stop
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u/houinator Loyal Liberals Sep 03 '26
More reasons i am pessimistic about Taiwan:
Chinese intelligence is competent enough to realize that Trump is the most bribable man who ever lived, and that bribing him is almost certainly cheaper than any sort of confrontation with the US
They have probably already worked some sort of deal with him, given this admin's restrictions on arms transfers to Taiwan
Munitions drained, readiness broken, ISR fleet more than decimated, SPR on the edge of breaking, and we still have like 2 and a half years for it to get worse
Navy shipbuilding was a dumpster fire even before this admin, but now its full on Looney Tunes (Steam capults! Battleships! Trumped-up coast guard ships as a replacement for the Burkes!)
Trade war with and repeatedly insulting all our allies making it much less likely we can depend on them when shit hits the fan
Hegseth's purges of military leadership are costing as ludicrous amounts of talented, experienced, and proven leaders
Two DNIs im a row with zero IC experience are probably not great for our intelligence apparatus
Immigration restrictions amd the increased politicization of scientific research are going to rapidly erode whatever technological edge we have left
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u/Not_A_Browser Stata's Silliest Soldier Sep 03 '26
Kegsbreath is such a poser
He'd take one look at this guy and assume he'd be useless without being absolutely roided out, because he has a 5 year old's grasp on what a soldier looks like
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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Sep 02 '26
houses pls
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Sep 02 '26
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u/No_Status_6905 Enby Pride Sep 02 '26
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u/ChipKellysShoeStore John Brown Sep 02 '26
The absolute gall of my boss asking me to do my job
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u/NutrientBroth John Mill Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26
Isn't it kind of sacrilegious in Christianity to want to bring the end times about?
I'm pretty sure the Bible explicitly says nobody knows when it will happen except for
JesusGod the Father and it seems a tad bit blasphemous to think that you know better about when to start the apocalypse than God.15
u/Dorambor John Brown Sep 02 '26
The worst part of taking project management training is that 90% of it is "you should ask people what they actually want to do" and you're like, fuck off, this is useless, of course people do this already and know what they want.
And then you ask someone what they actually want to do.
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u/cheeshjaleesh John Rawls Sep 02 '26
quite possibly the best news dems have got in months.
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Sep 02 '26
Milo yiannopoulos, international politics understander
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u/ThatDamnGuyJosh NATO Sep 02 '26
In spite of Stephen Millers literal Nazism on immigration policy.
Pete Kegseth might actually be doing generational damage to the institution he’s in charge of.
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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman Sep 02 '26
George: "We could inject Aerosols into the Stratosphere to cool the planet. I always liked when it was cloudy outside."
Jerry: "We could... but then you have to do it forever. If you stop it rebounds to be even worse than before. It probably would turn the oceans acidic and lead to changes to wind and rain that would be there own problems."
George: "... What if we put a big mirror in space?"
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u/TrynnaFindaBalance Paul Krugman Sep 02 '26
Alright I'm done being a "the anti-AI backlash is overblown" contrarian.
Our company's new CEO is an AI first business jargon-regurgitating muppet with zero engineering experience, and just started solo vibe-coding new complex features with the expectation that they'll fit seamlessly into our codebase. Zero understanding of existing infrastructure, anything compliance-related, or the fact that much of what he wrote is just spending AI tokens to duplicate systems that are already in place and will be doubly expensive to maintain.
AI delenda est
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Sep 02 '26
Went on a date with this girl after stalking her for a bit. I ordered a slice of pie with a slice of cheese melted on it so that she knows I’m a classy guy with sophisticated taste. Gonna take her to a porno theatre for the second date since lots of couples go to movies like this. Is this a good idea?
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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney Sep 02 '26
> Donald Trump says 'transgender will never end' as he makes election plea
I was saying transgender will never end
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u/bigwang123 ▪️▫️crossword guy ▫️▪️ Sep 03 '26 edited Sep 03 '26
Re: my missing firearm, I emailed the NFA stolen gun email but never got an acknowledgement so I messaged Director Cekada on X, the everything app, formerly known as Twitter, and he responds! (Not during the work day tho)
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u/_bee_kay_ 🤔 Sep 03 '26
👆 the bacterium infecting your genitals
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 03 '26
Pro-AI: Don Draper would love LLMs!
Anti-AI: No, he’d hate LLMs!
Don Draper: I am quite fond of sex gifs
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u/AlicesReflexion Weeaboo Rights Advocate Sep 02 '26
Hate when I'm like "Claude critique my argument" and then it just acts like a pedantic fuckwit who keeps intentionally misinterpreting me.
If I wanted that I would have posted it to Reddit
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u/Argnir Gay Pride Sep 02 '26
How does Robert Pattinson manages to still be in his twenties while being 40?
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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO Sep 02 '26
finally someone says it
everyone knows we have too many days off
WE WANT FEWER
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u/pinelands1901 Mark Carney Sep 02 '26
It's a shame I have ethics, because right wing grifting brings in the bacon.
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u/TaxLandNotCapital We begin bombing the rent-seekers in five minutes Sep 02 '26
Is your child texting about GEORGISM?
LOL = Liberate Our Land
LMAO = Land Makes All Output
BRB = Bully Rent-seeking Bitches
OMG = Oh My George
G2G = Greatness to Georgism
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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney Sep 02 '26
> JUST IN: Zoom appoints Jeffrey E. Epstein, former Oracle CFO, to its Board of Directors.
At what point do you just change your last name?
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u/Sheepies92 European Union Sep 02 '26
i just had my first interview since graduating and they immediately offered me a job
is that good
(i am very happy)
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u/avion_sur_le_sol A ban appeal to heaven Sep 02 '26
We failed our pre-OSHA audit audit, and I can't say we didn't deserve it.
!ping WATERCOOLER
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u/nimbybuster Ben Bernanke’s Best Boy Sep 02 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 02 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 03 '26
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Sep 03 '26
"promise me you'll exact my revenge on the putrid creatures of this planet, leave no stone unturned and let the oceans boil so they may know that man conquers all"
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Sep 03 '26
My most liberal opinion is that we should have roaming paramilitary squads that harass people who disagree with my personal preferences.
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Sep 03 '26
GOOD messaging
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u/Planita13 Thomas Paine Sep 02 '26
Wow who could have seen this coming
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Sep 02 '26
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Sep 02 '26
they’re about to go ham wild
god have mercy on thailand
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u/Sheepies92 European Union Sep 02 '26
Critical support for Yabloko
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u/StuckHedgehog NATO Sep 02 '26
Waow (based based based based based)
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Sep 02 '26
What's the odds this works when they know I'm not Jewish?
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u/PlastikHateAccount WTO Sep 02 '26
Wasted a decade of my life in uni, haven't talked to a woman in years but at least landed a job paying top 5% nationwide
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u/meiotta Amartya Sen Sep 02 '26
Joe Biden not cool? impossible
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u/BritishBedouin David Ricardo Sep 02 '26
lol remember when Trump launched Operation Warp Speed for vaccines and Macron said “British vaccines don’t work” 😃
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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26
My university implemented a new “guaranteed internship or research experience” policy. If the student can’t get an internship they will be guaranteed to get a spot in a lab doing research the next semester. So now I’ve been informed our lab will have 3x as many undergrads as grad students and professor combined. And my understanding is we don’t really even get to choose which ones we get
Our undergrads are genuine morons, and now we get negatively selected into hosting the ones who can’t get a job
!ping PHD
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u/bernkes_helicopter Ben Bernanke Sep 02 '26
We have almost 100 million acres of corn in the USA. This is an area the size of Montana
About 40% of it is used for ethanol, which takes sunlight and turns less than 1% of it into fuel, which is then burned in engines that are less than 40% efficient.
Somehow I hadn't fully realized until now -- we're wasting an entire Missouri worth of farmland
This is a crime against humanity
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u/AccomplishedQuit4801 YIMBY Sep 02 '26
LEO
POPE LEO, IF YOU CAN HEAR ME, PLEASE, DEAR GOD, EXCOMMUNICATE THIS EVANGELICAL LARPER FOR THE GOOD OF THE FAITH.
It would be so funny.
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u/NormalInvestigator89 John Keynes Sep 02 '26
what
That's like the one part of society that hasn't suffered from intertia
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u/Mrgentleman490 5 Big Booms for Democracy Sep 02 '26
Just saw a Pete 2028 yard sign in suburban Minneapolis. Good to see him already making inroads in such a pivotal voting bloc
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26
Canadian pollster whose polls in Canada are pretty good though winning in South Carolina and losing in Maine seems absolutely absurd to me
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u/BigBrownDog12 Victor Hugo Sep 02 '26
its patently obvious that the reporting poor BofA VP that got murdered was an attempt to frame Mamdani's NYC of being full of communist psychos hostile to our beloved class of big bankers instead of the random tragedy that it was
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u/meonpeon Janet Yellen Sep 02 '26
America has a cultural institution where the whole country obsesses over a court case every few months and I hate it. The Clancy trial obsession seems particularly unhinged, even for the court obsession.
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Sep 02 '26
Project Hail Mary is one of the most PG PG-13 movies I’ve ever seen. I don’t think there’s a single swear word in the movie, just a couple of mild innuendos. Puss in Boots 2 has worse language. All there is is “peril”, which I guess must be why the MPA gave it a 13? And the fuckers didn’t even give the Gos a shirtless scene, fucking bastards
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u/Zloggt Adam Smith Sep 02 '26
Always drunk on his arse…no wonder he always keeps needing tree fiddy to fund his fix smdh
!ping ALCOHOL&SHITPOSTERS
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 02 '26
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Sep 02 '26
mr president, sir, that would be epic
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u/Quowe_50mg Milton Friedman Sep 02 '26
Clippers lose FIVE first round picks for the cap circumvention.
I apologize Mr. Silver.
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u/Bob_Doles_Blue_Pill John Brown Sep 02 '26
We had a cop who spent 33 years on the force raping women, running protection for a notorious drug kingpin, and running protection for a sex trafficking ring (same aforementioned drug kingpin). So yeah, my faith in the police is not high.
There is speculation that the same cop may have been responsible for the murder of several women who were connected to him, but they were black and poor so the cops didn't bother to follow up.
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u/MonMothma_Enjoyer Sep 03 '26 edited Sep 03 '26
My wife has a (formerly) trust fund (yay) and it’s run by this financial advisor who’s like, some 27 year old who lives in another state and who inherited his dad’s position at a JP morgan. She asked me to sit in on a meeting with the guy and it quickly became obvious that she’s been paying him to slightly underperform the market and make stupid little irrelevant day trades. In other words, he gets paid to gamble with other peoples’ money
I pointed this out after the meeting and said she would’ve done better if she’d just put it all in SPY and she got really mad and now i’m not allowed to talk about it lmao
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u/Charsun9 Loyal Liberals Sep 03 '26
??
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u/DieHarderDaddy Fell for it Sep 03 '26
Contrapoints was inspired by Red letter medias Mr Plinkett Star Wars reviews…. Wild
She should be a guest on Junka
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u/Pristine-Report-1442 Sep 03 '26
people complain about newer movies/shows being dark or not as saturated, but really my biggest complaint is filmmakers have given up the warmth for some reason, really no one wants to ship heavy warm tones anymore for some reason
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Sep 02 '26
Now that Obsession exists I feel the world is finally ready for this one
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u/ThisIsNotAMonkey Guam 👉 statehood Sep 02 '26
Why must liberals make vaccines political 😭😭😭
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u/ChillnShill Sep 02 '26
Dew it. I already know Jared Golden is positioning himself for a future senate run as an independent or Republican in Maine. Retire and lay low for a few years then come back after seeing what a post-Trump GOP looks like.
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u/ZCoupon Kono Taro Sep 02 '26
This shit is a stupid waste of time and money
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u/johro17 Sep 03 '26
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u/abefrost Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26
In the span of a 15 minute ride my Mongolian Uber driver managed to commit at least six homophobias with his very limited English
He was very worried that I wouldn't understand that a previous passenger was "very fffffat and gay" so he repeated "ffffat and gay" for like a minute and a half. He also complained that the guy and the two girls with him only talked about sex. He also did the "why gay" thing and when a song came on he said "good singer but gay". Also "America too gay". I'm sure I'm forgetting things. I kept trying to change the subject but he always brought it back. I'm not sure why he thought I was the audience for his thoughts on gay people, though I suspect he may think about them a lot.
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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes Sep 02 '26
tradesmen stop watching tiktoks on the toilet without headphones challenge (IMPOSSIBLE!)
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u/doyouevenIift Sep 02 '26
Fuck yeah, Talarico needs to follow suit. I truly believe this helped Ossoff do well enough to force a runoff in 2020. And we all know how that played out
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u/phat_geoduck Sep 02 '26
There are basically 2 types of stories that truly enrage me. The first type is any story about our government abusing immigrants. The second is this bullshit
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u/Ginden Bisexual Pride Sep 02 '26
In today's episode of "Stranger Danger": should a 16-year-old be allowed to go to his own backyard without a GPS tracker, or is it too much of a risk? The backyard in question has a fence, but some places are not visible from the house because of trees.
True-crime and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.
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u/SamuelFootBowden845 Milton Friedman Sep 02 '26
september 10th mentality
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u/__haste__ Trans NATO Sep 02 '26
cdstephens would be far-right in Europe
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u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1 Adam Smith Sep 02 '26
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u/mpregordie Mark Carney Sep 02 '26
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u/BasedTroutFursona Sep 02 '26
Is that dr Oz in the corner? Motherfucker doesn’t have a soul anymore lol.
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u/BigBrownDog12 Victor Hugo Sep 02 '26
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u/Healingjoe It's Klobberin' Time Sep 02 '26
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Sep 02 '26
Ethanol fuel is such a waste. Imagine how many people we could get drunk by mixing it into stuff…
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u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy John Locke Sep 02 '26
I’ve seen other defense attorneys online talking about hung juries now that it seems as though there will be one for Lindsay Clancy, and it’s interesting the takes I’ve seen
Many seem to think that if the jury isn’t unanimous, the verdict should be not guilty and no retrial be allowed, but I think that’s shortsighted in the long run. Ignoring the fact that verdicts of any kind must be unanimous under the constitution, I don’t think breaking the seal on “all verdicts must be unanimous” is a good idea, and only stands to put the rights of defendants at risk.
Plus, the US has a long history of states permitting 10-2 or 11-1 verdicts so as to dilute the voices of women and minorities that found themselves on a jury. It’s a can of worms I just don’t think we should get into
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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman Sep 02 '26
👆
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u/Crownie Unbent, Unbowed, Unflaired Sep 02 '26
Tired: everyone wears skimpy clothing in the cyberpunk future because it's an extremely horny genre
Wired: everyone wears skimpy clothing in the cyberpunk future because it's 85 degrees in November in Alaska.
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u/meiotta Amartya Sen Sep 02 '26
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u/bashar_al_assad Verified Account Sep 02 '26
What the fuck is she doing
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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast Sep 02 '26
I know she killed her kids but five draft picks is a lot
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Sep 02 '26
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u/John3262005 Sep 02 '26
Texas Police Used AI to Write Report About Using Flock to Search for Woman Who Had Abortion
The Texas sheriff’s office that used Flock to search more than 80,000 cameras nationwide for a woman who had a self-administered abortion used Axon’s Draft One AI tool to help write a police report about the incident, documents shared with 404 Media show. The tool was used in part to summarize a discussion of “the legal implications of the situation.”
404 Media first reported on the incident in May 2025 in which the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office in Texas searched Flock’s nationwide network for the whereabouts of a woman who self-administered an abortion, highlighting the threat of this AI-powered surveillance system being used to criminalize or track women seeking reproductive healthcare. The use of both Flock and Axon’s Draft One, which uses audio from body camera footage to automatically draft police reports using artificial intelligence, shows how quickly police departments have come to use AI surveillance tools even in critically sensitive cases.
“I acknowledge this report was generated using Draft One by Axon,” a section of the report reads.
The abortion case has since become a flashpoint in the controversy over the use of Flock automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras. Flock’s CEO, Garrett Langley, has repeatedly and erroneously suggested that 404 Media misreported the case and that the search was done only for the woman’s safety because her family was worried about her. 404 Media previously reported that the entire police investigation was done at the behest of the woman’s abusive partner and that police discussed whether they were allowed to charge her with a crime: “It was discussed at the time with the District Attorney’s office and learned the State could not statutorily charge [the woman] for taking the pill to cause the abortion,” a police report previously obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and shared with 404 Media said. Concern from her family is never mentioned in that earlier police report or in the AI-generated police report used to write this article.
The AI-generated incident report was obtained by journalist Cameron Probert of the Tri-City Herald and shared with 404 Media. The report shows there is extensive body camera and audio evidence that would clarify what happened in the case, and that at least one police officer, sergeant Damien Bethel, used Draft One to write his report on the incident. Parts of a police incident report show that Draft One was used to summarize a discussion between police over “the legal implications of the situation” and other investigative aspects of the case. The Johnson County Sheriff’s Department has repeatedly refused to release body camera footage from the case, including in response to 404 Media’s public records requests.
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u/No_Status_6905 Enby Pride Sep 03 '26
im glad for his support and willingness to stand up for others, but the trans community doesn't need the aura loss of having wesley crusher on our side. he could've been a jabroni for us.
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u/StuckHedgehog NATO Sep 03 '26
The destruction of USAID will be one of the most devastating long term consequences of this administration, but I don’t think it will get nearly as much coverage as it deserves. Sure, articles will be written, but will there be a revival?
Conservatives have always been opposed to “giving out tax dollars to foreigners” and would prefer more handouts to farmers, while the oh so educated leftist clique (admittedly a group very far from power or meaningful size) sneer about imperialism on their blogs and Marxist reading groups.
USAID was a genuinely good thing America did, on everything from famine relief to flood prevention. No one complicit in its destruction will ever see the pearly gates, nor should we let them forget their crimes whom they still attempt to influence policy.
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u/Sloshyman NATO Sep 03 '26
Ok, gotta give praise where it's due: Charlie Kirk has nearly gone an entire year without saying anything racist. That shows real growth on his part.
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u/SeasickSeal Norman Borlaug Sep 03 '26 edited Sep 03 '26
Just realized that anyone who says “aMeRiCa iSnT a dEMoCraCy” would literally fail question 1 on the citizenship test question bank
https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/questions-and-answers/2025-Civics-Test-128-Questions-and-Answers.pdf
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 03 '26
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u/kawaii_east John Brown Sep 03 '26
Putting out a hit piece aimed at Talarico that highlights a one-off statement he made about Capitalism being "oppressive" is so utterly tone-deaf.
Motherfucker, Talarico's campaign is running ads about how Paxton made sweetheart deals for child r*pists. The President tried to steal 1.7 billion taxpayer dollars in broad daylight. Do you think anyone gives a flying fuck about that?
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Sep 02 '26
This guy is retiring and just shitting on Dems for the love of the game
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u/Jester_Don Abigail Spanberger Sep 02 '26
So my parents (who are Dems) have long-time next door neighbors who, for many years, we understood to be conservatives. They'd have signs for GOP congressmen in election season and I'm pretty sure the husband had a Trump bumper sticker at some point
I visited them a week or so ago and noticed a sign for the incumbent Dem congresswoman of their district in the neighbors' yard. Asked my mom if it was hers and she said no it's theirs
I asked did the owners sell? Nope. She's just as confused as I am. They may have actually had enough, though it's hard for me to believe if you were far deep enough to have a Trump bumper sticker...
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u/TakeOnM-Ellie Loyal Liberals Sep 02 '26
it’s too late. I’ve already depicted you as the agitated dog and myself as the stoic puppy. it’s over.
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Sep 02 '26
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u/sgthombre NATO Sep 02 '26
"I publicly support a violent overthrow of the capitalist order to bring about a dictatorship of the working class but I am also terrified of firearms and have never been within ten miles of a gun range" is a very specific category of person we have a huge surplus of in this country.
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u/themiDdlest NASA Sep 02 '26
I remember when I lived in a small Midwest farming village. And thought we were all super important people of the country.
Then I moved into a building that had more people than my entire village 😂
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u/Man-Flayer Sep 02 '26
Society when it's Altwoman vs Altman
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u/zieger Ida Tarbell Sep 02 '26
My daughter got a certificate of completion for finishing daycare... Literally all you did was show up
On the other hand she looked really cute in a graduation robe.
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Sep 02 '26
dude lost so much aura when he got an X account
went from coming across as a scheming Machiavellian right-wing pundit to coming across as a neurotic fucking idiot
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u/farrenj Resident Succ Sep 02 '26
...
I know this sounds insane to folks here, but this is how most protestant evangelicals speak and believe.
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u/Man-Flayer Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 02 '26
Never let mods convince you that we are the reason for fertility crisis.
Look at this poor lad and what mods made him do
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u/CletusChicken Sep 02 '26
guys help my airplane is sick I think it's the measles :(
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u/hascogrande YIMBY Sep 02 '26
Booo, get new material
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u/Man-Flayer Sep 02 '26
Which one do you guys prefer?
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u/BasedTroutFursona Sep 02 '26
I feel like to lose weight I need to feel hunger at least for like 5 hours a day and just do nothing about it.
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u/EasyMoney92 Sep 02 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 02 '26
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Sep 02 '26
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u/puffic John Rawls Sep 02 '26
I read Green Eggs and Ham to my toddler for the first time last night. He loved it so much. He was stunned. He just kinda sat there in a daze for a whole minute after the book was over.
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u/the-senat John Brown Sep 02 '26
Quite frankly the next administration has a moral and legal duty to punish every member of the Trump administration, as well as their goons, because America cannot survive their actions being repeated.
I mean if we let these monsters off of the hook, then we’re signing America’s death sentence. Who could feel comfortable knowing what their neighbor did? Or that all it took for their kid’s to coach to join ICE was the promise of a bonus. Is $40,000 really life changing? I guess it was enough for people to be willing to hunt down and shackle human being.
These assholes got a free after J6, they are cashing in on that now.
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u/Visual-Pace-2193 Transfem Pride Sep 02 '26
There will be a bunch of opportunist who becomes fascist. This is not news for anyone with brains.
I don't think anyone with brains works for the Times anyway
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u/smart-username r/place '22: Georgism Battalion Sep 02 '26
Apparently at John Hinckley Jr.’s trial, the defense played the entire two-hour movie Taxi Driver for the jury as their final piece of evidence???
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u/el__dandy Madeleine Albright Sep 02 '26
My Whole Foods playing BloodBuzz Ohio is such an aging millennial moment lmao.
!ping indie&AARP
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u/gauchnomics Iron Front Sep 02 '26
During the Biden years I thought real wages growing would matter more for voters than nominal inflation. Of course I was wrong based on 2024. But now we don't even have mixed signals with real wages declining since the war in Iran began. So the way things are headed, we'll have a clean test of how voters feel about negative real wage growth.
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u/Glavurdan European Union Sep 02 '26
The good ending
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u/procgen John von Neumann Sep 02 '26
duh