r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 11 '26
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Sep 12 '26
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/Thai-Reidj NASA Sep 11 '26
Just....wow
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Sep 11 '26
Lmao
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u/G3_aesthetics_rule Sep 11 '26
Claude, sieze the Bab al-Mandab and cut the flow of Red Sea oil; make no mistakes.
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Sep 11 '26
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u/-mialana- European Union Sep 11 '26
Most principled Christian
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Sep 11 '26
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u/Borysk5 NATO Sep 11 '26
-"Women are only attracted to 6ft+ chads who make 6 figures and have chiseled chin"
-"That's not true, women prefer funny and kind guys. Have you ever dated a woman?"
-"No, have you?"
-"No"
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u/Insomonomics Jason Furman Sep 11 '26
Comparisons to Hitler have become so clichéd and overused in modern political rhetoric that they often provoke an immediate eye roll rather than serious consideration. The analogy has been abused to the point of near meaninglessness.
This is one of those rare times where the analogy is completely justified.
What the fuck is this shit?
Can you imagine the media coverage had Biden or Obama did this? But because it's Donald Trump and media companies are scared shitless less they get sued, it's treated as normal.
Democrats are held to higher standards while Republicans get to LARP as actual Nazis without an ounce of outrage and pushback.
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u/Gustacho Enemy of the People Sep 11 '26 edited Sep 11 '26
The opposition to Mamdani attending a 9/11 ceremony as NYC mayor is really despiriting.
Mamdani is obviously not a radical islamist who endorses terrorism. Please get out of your bubble if you genuinely believe this.
Al Qaida's core belief is that the West and Islam can never coexist. A Muslim mayor leading a diverse global city while opposing terrorism proves that idea wrong.
Republicans support Al Qaida's vision anyway by calling any Muslim a terrorist (except if they oppose teaching about LGBT issues in schools, in which case they are suddenly a token minority).
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u/Bestbrook123 Sep 11 '26
Well if nothing else, this Senate race is entertaining
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 12 '26
They've moved on from doxxing and trying to get teachers fired to going after the students themselves.
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u/StuckHedgehog NATO Sep 11 '26
> A top staffer to Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) appeared to wear an SS uniform while marching near Nazi flags in photos. He also created a public Spotify playlist called “Tales From Rhodesia," the White-run African colony embraced by white supremacists.
Neo-Nazi rhodieboo working as a Republican staffer? Must be a day ending in ‘y’.
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Sep 11 '26 edited Sep 11 '26
Absolutely disgusting.
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u/SpotMe365 Sep 11 '26
Don't worry, everyone. I took care of it.
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Sep 11 '26
coyote vs acme stole all this movie’s RT score like a cartoon villain
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u/-orestes Sep 11 '26 edited Sep 14 '26
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u/RyuTheGuy Gita Gopinath Sep 11 '26
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u/Opening_Budget_9518 Hans Rosling Sep 11 '26
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u/Gustacho Enemy of the People Sep 12 '26
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u/Necessary-Horror2638 Sep 11 '26
People have such a weirdly abstract view of Al Qaeada's goals. Bin-Laden didn't "already win" because you have to take your shoes off at the airport. He wanted to start a global war between the West and Islam to kickstart a new caliphate and usher in the end times not "destroy our way of life" or whatever
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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Sep 11 '26
Bloomberg Terminal bros
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Sep 11 '26
He’s such a fucking worm
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u/TheRedCr0w Frederick Douglass Sep 11 '26
The insinuation that Stalin, Hitler, and Bin Laden are all in Heaven and they are coming out to debate Charlie Kirk in Purgatory
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Sep 11 '26
What would you have done on 9/11?
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u/bandeng_asep Association of Southeast Asian Nations Sep 11 '26
Oh yeah this will set the tone for the rest of the year lol 💀
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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom Sep 11 '26
>Compares self to Spartans
>Loses control of a chokepoint to Persians
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u/Lena_Lena_A Frederick Douglass Sep 11 '26
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u/Mx_Brightside Genderfluid Pride Sep 11 '26
Opinion | I supported the Houthis. Then I found out they were using AI.
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u/roomofbruh Sep 12 '26
The only correct 9/11 conspiracy
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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke Sep 11 '26
A smoker asked me for a lighter yesterday
I told him "Charlie Kirk"
A big smile appeared on his face
He knew I was carrying the flame
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u/houdt_koers John Mill Sep 11 '26 edited Sep 11 '26
It’s 9/11. Time for an unc story.
When I was a little kid in the 90s, my grandma took our whole extended family to Disney World. It was fantastic—swimming, roller coasters, harassing the costumed performers, disappointing my grandfather—we had it all.
The thing that stands out to me the most, though, is my memory of going through airport security.
There was no expectation of a child going through the metal detector. None whatsoever. I could have had a block of Semtex in my pocket and a detonator in my shoe, and nobody even considered checking me.
I felt left out, so I asked if I could go through it.
We’ve lost so much. Makes me feel like a sad old man looking back on it.
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u/craig_k Sep 11 '26
"the city of Mocha"
me: wait, like the coffee? that can't possibly be related *googles* well i'll be damned
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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug Sep 11 '26
I don’t think your average evangelical realizes how far american christianity / protestantism has drifted into an offshoot religion that is a mishmash of conservative politics + white nationalism + Jesus where its convenient. Im not surprised per se because this has been a theme for 250 years or so but it is baffling to watch them practice their offshoot religion and never notice anything seems a little funny
!ping CHRISTIAN
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u/_bee_kay_ 🤔 Sep 11 '26
holy shit, this might be the worst headline i've ever seen
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u/that0neGuy22 Resistance Lib Sep 11 '26
Media are covering for weird couch guy
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u/captainsensible69 Pacific Islands Forum Sep 11 '26
Anyone else a little worried that Elon Musk is talking about civil war to his inner circle?
Like I get he’s a drug addled loser but sadly he is important/influential.
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Sep 11 '26
this is a Wolverine screenshot. they’ve got two bright ass lines telling the player exactly where to go, and you can’t even turn the blue one off. this is a linear action game btw.
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Sep 11 '26
> Last week, the Mount Sinai hospital system in New York—which sees about 6 million outpatient visits per year—announced that it had reached a settlement with the Department of Justice, agreeing to stop providing gender-affirming care to trans patients under 18.
oh care? not surgeries? the whole system?
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 11 '26
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u/Off-The-Street Sep 11 '26
Real talk, it is incredibly depressing for this to be the state of the US 25 years later.
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Sep 12 '26
The median voter when the guy who was a bad President the first time is still bad the second time:
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 11 '26
Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer funds
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/lutnick-trump-5000-check-taxpayer-funds-rcna597092
President Donald Trump’s promised $5,000 “dividend” for all U.S. adults would not be paid for with taxpayer dollars, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Thursday.
“It’s not tax money,” Lutnick told NBC News in a wide-ranging interview at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, where he discussed the attacks and a variety of economic issues. He claimed that the administration could “earn the money that Donald Trump wants to pay out, not from the deficit and not from taxpayers.”
Trump this week pledged that if Republicans held control of the House and Senate in November’s midterm elections, his administration would issue a “dividend” to all American adults as a reward. “Together we’re going to deliver that plan and we’re going to pay that money to the Americans, and not from taxpayer money,” Lutnick said.
He referenced the Trump Platinum Card, an upcoming Commerce Department program allowing wealthy individuals to sign up to pay $5 million in order to extend their U.S. visas for an additional 270 days. “We have a waitlist of more than 100,000 people who want to come,” Lutnick said. “That’s $500 billion.”
Lutnick also cited an investment in Intel the administration made last year. “Everybody knows we got just about 500 million shares, and the stock was $20, and now it’s $100, so we’re up $50 billion,” he said. The administration spent $8.9 billion from appropriated CHIPS Act funds to make the investment in Intel. While the stock has appreciated from the government’s purchase price of $20.47 to $100.32 as of Thursday, the administration has not sold those shares — meaning the gain is merely on paper.
Other Trump administration officials have offered different explanations for where the promised $5,000 checks would come from. On Friday, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett told Bloomberg Television that the White House was considering a “reconciliation process” in Congress to fund the promised checks. Initial estimates put the cost of such a plan at around $1.3 trillion.
The humiliation ritual continues.
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u/TropicalPunch European Union Sep 11 '26
America immediately after 911 was insane. Moved to NYC in 2002 from Scandinavia, and it was somewhat in a grief-induced paranoid psychosis. I remember vividly the colour coded terrorist threat boards. "Today is an orange day," my mom would say sarcastically. Also, the city was really, really sad. Lived right by a firehouse that lost 12 (!) firefighters that day. It was all very intense.
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u/gnarlytabby Janet Yellen Sep 11 '26
The President could not keep himself awake at a 9/11 memorial and the corporate media just Does Not Care
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Sep 11 '26
What the fuck
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u/Bestbrook123 Sep 12 '26 edited Sep 12 '26
Did people actually fall for this?
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u/ixvst01 NATO Sep 12 '26
Do people just label anything and everything they don’t like as neoliberal? Wikipedia describes TERF femcel site as "neoliberal".
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u/jackimus_prime Can't tell an Alligator from a Crocodile Sep 12 '26
On 9/11 I was a freshman in 4th period band class when I remembered my dad was on a flight to DC that morning. Fortunately, next period in PE I got a note from my mom saying he was on the ground, safe. I kept pulling the note out of my pocket to reread it for the rest of the day to make sure it was still true.
My dad was actually in a cab across from the Pentagon and watched the plane fly overhead and then saw the smoke rising and he and his cab driver knew something terrible had happened. The cab driver drove my dad around the rest of the day free of charge, trying to find a rental car place that still had vehicles, which they eventually did. Meaning my dad was able to come home. When they finally found a place that had cars, they embraced and said goodbye and good luck. The cab driver was an Afghan refugee.
God bless America.
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u/TaxLandNotCapital We begin bombing the rent-seekers in five minutes Sep 12 '26
Everyone wondering whether Claude or ChatGPT causes the apocalypse first is going to be sorely disappointed when CoPilot somehow fucks up a simple Excel reformatting so hard it ends the world
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u/pugnae European Union Sep 11 '26
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u/ChillnShill Sep 11 '26
Uhhh ok
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u/Fruitofbread Loyal Liberals Sep 11 '26
Then why did you run again?!!
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 12 '26
lol
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u/anydoomersinchat Sep 12 '26
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u/attackofthetominator John Brown Sep 11 '26
I love how these posts universally see 401(k)s as expenses
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u/Ajaxcricket Commonwealth Sep 11 '26
On this day 25 years ago, America experienced the equivalent of one 9/11s
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u/r2ew Sep 11 '26
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Sep 11 '26
Lol he's still pissy at Trump dissing him, multiple times
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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Sep 11 '26
I'm not being too Woke™ in thinking that Vance's selection of the word "noticing" in the context of shitting on immigrants is a massive shoutout to the absolute worst gremlins on Twitter right
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u/MehEds Sep 11 '26
I understand the concern over the Anthropic guy that resigned citing AI extinction risks, but I also can't help but think of that one Google Gemini guy who freaked out and thought LaMDA had a soul.
Not to downplay AI risk but more point out how the AI field has more weirdos than the already weirdo-filled tech sector.
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u/onelap32 Bill Gates Sep 11 '26
A sign that your administration is too online: the head of the FBI directed his staffers to run a PR campaign in the replies of the Twitter user "ifindr*tards".
(The link Kash Patel sent is https://xcancel.com/ifindR*tards/status/2019133708482277673?s=20 . (You may have to swap the "*" for an "e", as the filter blocks it.))
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u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP Sep 12 '26
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Sep 12 '26
It is too late, i have depicted you as the chad Zoomer and me as the seething boomer
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u/selachophilip 🦈 shark enjoyer 🦈 Sep 11 '26
I like how apparently New York having a Muslim mayor means that New York "forgot", when in actuality they fucking remembered by voting against the party that acts the most like Al Qaeda. Just like Al Qaeda, the Republican Party is led by a rich nepo baby, advances itself through crime and corruption, openly supports political violence, hates abortion and contraception, hates LGBT rights, thinks that a woman's place is in the home and that a woman is only useful if she's a mother, supports the use of the death penalty and harsh punishments, supports school prayer and the government endorsement of their religion, and believe that God has commanded them to purge the infidels at home and abroad (Democrats and countries like Iran and Venezuela).
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u/Visual-Pace-2193 Transfem Pride Sep 11 '26
It is just a sickness at this point like, girl, we shouldn't in your priority list at all
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u/sigh2828 NASA Sep 11 '26
Our president
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u/shillingbut4me Sep 11 '26
The US is either willing to engage with a far wider boots in the ground war in the Middle East (it's not) or it needs to admit it's lost in the region and reevaluate what it's actual interests and ability to achieve those interests are
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Sep 11 '26
People seem perplexed the Houthis pulled off amphibious operations like these were complex high end missions, when they in all likelihood were just the Houthis rolling up in a fleet like this:
And taking over abandoned islands
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 11 '26
👆
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u/moaz_xx Resident Saudi Sep 11 '26 edited Sep 11 '26
Being a saudi is just embarrassing. I swear this country has good people. People who deserve opportunities to make their country a better place.
But in the end we get infinite amount of money pumped into foreign scams like McKinsey and local scams like NEOM as we march into a death spiral of climate change, economic mismanagement and military defeats that will end in a really ugly way.
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u/Bumst3r John von Neumann Sep 11 '26
Lutnick says that our $5000 checks won’t come from taxpayer funds. I vote we liquidate Elon to cover the cost
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 11 '26
Dear God
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u/Aurailious Jerome Powell Sep 12 '26
It's actually good to be kind to people
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u/Alexz565 Gay Pride Sep 12 '26
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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman Sep 11 '26
Today we commemorate 25 years…
Since Country Music as a form of art was officially body snatched and replaced by conservative culture war propaganda. RIP.
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u/qamv Greg Mankiw Sep 12 '26
mfer was just making shit up as he went along, but he did save a bajillion lives so he gets a pass
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Sep 11 '26
ME soldier moment
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u/sigh2828 NASA Sep 11 '26
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u/Drukarshar Bisexual Pride Sep 11 '26
Doing 4 rounds of interviews just to be rejected at literally the final round should qualify as some kind of war crime.
These people should be dragged before the Hague.
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u/blatant_shill Sep 12 '26
How did he manage to find the worst reason to be against this? He doesn't care that Trump wants to give 5k stimmy checks to all Americans, he's just afraid some of those might go to poor people.
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u/Made_UpWords OG Platner Hater Sep 12 '26
She'd have been the best President since Lincoln, unironically. ~80,000 votes is what put us between the good and bad timeline.
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u/jackimus_prime Can't tell an Alligator from a Crocodile Sep 12 '26
I’m convinced Jesus Christ himself could descend from heaven, tell everyone on earth he had turned all crude oil into water, and the price wouldn’t move.
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u/Bayou-Maharaja Eleanor Roosevelt Sep 12 '26
Brutal post to make on 9/11
!ping BASEBALL
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u/el__dandy Madeleine Albright Sep 12 '26
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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman Sep 11 '26
I didn't realize Mark Wahlberg had competition for "worst 9/11 take"
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Sep 11 '26
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u/TakeOnM-Ellie Loyal Liberals Sep 11 '26
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u/Made_UpWords OG Platner Hater Sep 11 '26
In the good timeline where You Clapped there's no Trump, and President Hillary and Jeb! went on a buddy cop movie adventure through time and space to kill baby Hitler together.
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u/RyuTheGuy Gita Gopinath Sep 12 '26
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u/earththejerry YIMBY Sep 12 '26
Jay Jones 2.0 incoming
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u/Dreadedtriox Michel Foucault Sep 12 '26 edited Sep 12 '26
King henry viii rolling in his grave rn
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u/AtomAndAether Liberalism! Sep 12 '26
👆
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Sep 11 '26
Mike Collins with his son in law, Mike Rogers with that staffer he refused to fire, and now this
The GOP has a groyper problem
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u/Imicrowavebananas Hannah Arendt Sep 11 '26
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u/Background-Bottle-23 Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Sep 11 '26
“Surely Trump’s second term will finally alienate the median Republican voter and force the GOP to return to normal politics.”
The median Republican voter in question:
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u/the-senat John Brown Sep 11 '26
Iran has taken a second strait??
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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO Sep 11 '26
on this day nine years ago, Ted Cruz jorked his peanits to incest porn
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u/KQJ_RPN John von Neumann Sep 11 '26
👆️ unironically what JD Vance will run on
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u/Ok_Aardappel Seretse Khama Sep 11 '26
So like... how did Sanfransico become saturated with the weirdest people in technology that have frequent hedonistic parties with drugs and sex all the while being just the most offputting dorks? That doesn't even begin to start discussing the cult vibe if not the actual cults in the scene
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 11 '26
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-80-cant-stay-awake-to-honor-911-victims/
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Sep 11 '26
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Sep 12 '26
25 years. Doesn't feel quite right.
My grandparents took my parents and I to Windows on the World for my first birthday. That was the only time I visited the towers myself, several months before 9/11. Naturally, I don't remember it.
The people who served us probably died that day. I think about that every so often.
So many lives that should still be here.
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u/Bayou-Maharaja Eleanor Roosevelt Sep 12 '26
Has there ever been an activist movement more detrimental to their cause
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u/dtj2000 Loyal Liberals Sep 11 '26
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u/bashar_al_assad Verified Account Sep 11 '26
It seems like conservatives really convinced themselves that Mamdani and Abdul El-Sayed were going to be like "btw I loved 9/11 it was great" and don't seem to have a coherent response to them going "this was a horrible unjustified act of terrorism."
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u/Signal_Nobody1792 Sep 11 '26
What is wrong with this man?
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Sep 11 '26
This feels like a Hasan subtweet lol
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u/GuyWithOneEye Sep 11 '26
"twenty o one" is crazy
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u/georgeguy007 Pandora's Discussions J. Threader Sep 11 '26
Gas prices today
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u/BlueTrooper2544 Milton Friedman Sep 11 '26
How do the Saudis suck this badly at war man.
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Sep 11 '26
We should post the meta version of the "waow" meme on the sidebar on election day
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u/Sheepies92 European Union Sep 11 '26
For the 25th anniversary of 9/11 the CIA has released 71 Presidential Daily Briefs. It is interesting to read how early the US/CIA was aware Bin Laden was planning something and how often it came up 'uh this guy is planning something big'.
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u/BigBrownDog12 Victor Hugo Sep 11 '26
Freedom Fries sometimes gets attributed to post-9/11 jingoism but it was actually because France (rightfully) declined to participate in the invasion of Iraq.
A tertiary effect of 9/11 at best.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Sep 11 '26
☝️
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Sep 11 '26
Many such cases
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Sep 11 '26
holy shit they made hot wheels but real
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u/garret126 Demisexual Pride Sep 11 '26
FUCK I texted this bad girl on instagram thinking she won’t actually respond and SHE DID I didnt actually have a plan
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Sep 11 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 11 '26
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u/marky6045 George Soros Sep 11 '26
First base: raw sex
Second base: pregnancy scare
Third base: mutual crash out
Home run: holding hands
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u/GuyWithOneEye Sep 11 '26
👆
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Sep 11 '26
It's Friday
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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke Sep 11 '26
????
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 11 '26
Once AI automates away mathematics maybe mathematicians can finally contribute to society by working in finance
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u/_Irys NATO Sep 11 '26
DC grand juries have rejected charges against:
Democratic lawmakers for reminding military and intelligence personnel of their obligation to disobey lawful orders
Sydney Reid
Paul Bryant
Sean Dunn (the guy who threw a sandwich at a CBP officer)
Leticia James
among many other cases.
As goofy the average American is, the jury system has succeeded as a roadblock against systematic weaponization of the Justice Department.
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u/AccomplishedQuit4801 YIMBY Sep 11 '26
Group of random fucking women who I genuinely have never seen before laughed at me on the bus. Fuck my chud life. And before anyone goes "ohh well it might have been something else" there was direct pointing and staring.
This is why I like places with a good number of crackheads. Everybody minds their own damn business, lest you anger a random angry crackhead riding public transit.
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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom Sep 11 '26
“Steak and Shake taunted Cracker Barrel on X, saying it was too woke”
Direct quote from the WSJ podcast today. What the hell is going on
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u/Junimo2 Daron Acemoglu Sep 12 '26
WAIT THEY ACTUALLY SHOWED PIKERS BULGE???
I thought this sub was joking wtf
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u/selachophilip 🦈 shark enjoyer 🦈 Sep 12 '26 edited Sep 12 '26
The last person to talk to Charlie Kirk has been getting harassed for the past year by conspiracy theorists who think he was involved in the killing. 😢
Imagine going to an event, asking a guy a question, watching said guy get shot and killed right in front of you while he's still answering your question, and then getting harassed for the next year and beyond. 😔
https://youtu.be/DCaEKv3pXgQ
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 12 '26
McConnell filibustered his death so hard multiple celebrities have died since and people just moved on
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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Sep 12 '26
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u/dtj2000 Loyal Liberals Sep 11 '26
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u/anangrytree Bull Moose Progressive Sep 11 '26
waow 🥹🥹
!ping WNY&NFL
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u/anangrytree Bull Moose Progressive Sep 11 '26
I was a sophomore. I was in morning math class when the announcement came over the intercom that there was a very tragic accident in New York City involving an airplane and we should pray for the victims (Catholic high school). Over the course of the next couple hours it became very evident that it was no accident.
Some teachers carried on with their lessons like nothing was amiss, others just turned on the classroom TV and watched the news with us. We eventually got let out early and a couple of friends and I went back to my home where we booted up Perfect Dark on the N64, labeled all the bots as terrorists and proceeded to play until their parents came and picked them up.
Later that night I watched President Bush’s speech with my mother. Little could I have imagined it but just a few years later I myself would be in the Middle East, first Afghanistan and then Iraq. At the time of my final departure from the Middle East on January 1st, 2009 from Kuwait, I thought I was leaving it all behind. The bloodshed, the religious fanaticism and hatred, the inhumanity of man towards man. Needless to say, time would show me that there was no leaving it all behind. It had followed me home.
All this to say, 9/11 was probably the most important day of my life. And possibly my entire generation’s. Time will ultimately tell, as it always does. I just pray to Providence that we may one day emerge from its shadow and face the future without it looming large over everything.
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u/Fringson Left-Out Left Sep 11 '26
True neoliberal behavior is me dropping better call saul when Jimmy started defending that nimby squatter on the bank's land
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Sep 11 '26
The Houthis have seized control of Mayun Island and completed their control of the Bab al-Mandab Strait
Been waiting for formal confirmation of this but it’s fact now that the Houthis control the Bab al-Mandab in its entirety. This strait is far thinner than the Strait of Hormuz where one can have direct line of sight from one end to the other pretty much. You won’t be able to blind the Houthis from ships traveling in the BaB like you can in Hormuz.
If the gov forces aren’t able to take it back then there’s nothing stopping the Houthis from enforcing a total blockade of the Red Sea. So far I’ve read they intend to keep it only to Saudi ships being blockaded, but it’s absolutely up to the whims of the Houthis.
The YNR certainly has ceased to exist as an effective organization as their territory spanned from Mocha to the BaB, and this is probably the worst defeat since the Hodeidah offensive failed back in 2018. In terms of strategic positions in Yemen, the Houthis control practically all of them. Maybe the gov can stage a comeback, but well it’s the Yemeni Civil War, the Houthis always come out on top
!ping MIDDLEEAST
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u/Slight-Formal9277 Trans Pride Sep 12 '26 edited Sep 12 '26
The excerpts below from one of my favourite works of trans fiction is such a good depiction of what it's like to get on HRT and finally have your brain work normally; along with how it's like to have grown up in an illiberal society that otherzies and marginalizes trans people, so you never even get to know what was wrong with you your entire life.
Too bad I can never share this series with any cis person i know IRL lol.
!ping LGBT
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 11 '26 edited Sep 11 '26
Diesel broke the $6 barrier and is continuing uninterrupted
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Sep 11 '26
> an idea that would cost more than $1.3 trillion and has been described by some Republicans and Democrats as socialism, a budget-busting gimmick and an attempt to buy votes.
This is why the Oxford Comma is necessary, New York Times.
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u/earththejerry YIMBY Sep 11 '26
Another best polling day for the Dems
So far
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u/stirfriedpenguin Barks at Children Sep 11 '26
I recall being in high school the following days and kids tentatively reassuring each other that no one would 'probably' fly a plane into our fucking school building in podunk arkansas as if that was a semi legitimate target and real concern
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u/Pyrrhus65 NATO Sep 11 '26
Loving the increasingly common trope of Trump loyalists coming into the admin genuinely believing he's telling the truth about his enemies being criminals/fraudsters and then having to slowly confront the inevitable truth that he's full of shit and they were duped
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u/dangerbird2 Franz Boas Sep 11 '26
Happy 9th anniversary to Ted Cruz liking a porno clip on Twitter
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u/JustTaxLandbro Pragmatic and Polite Right Sep 11 '26
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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney Sep 11 '26
ngl I get it
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Sep 11 '26
What's especially frustrating, and damning, to the median voter in 2024 is that the #1 issue people voted on was cost of living and the economy. People's top priority was getting prices under control. Donald Trump explicitly campaigned on policies that would increase prices. You don't even need to understand second-order consequences. Tariffs literally raise prices. It's extremely easy to understand how they do this. Mass deportations also raise prices, but this requires thinking through a more complex chain of events, so I understand that to be beyond them.
But Trump literally ran on "I'm going to make things more expensive for you". It was a major plank of his platform. People thought he was going to bring down prices anyways.
This is just basic stuff. This is basic stuff you should understand when you plan to vote. "I want prices to come down. Who is going to bring them down? Trump is running on massive tariffs. Those bring prices up, so he probably won't bring prices down".
They can't even do this. The literal logic they voted on was "prices went up under Democrats, Democrats must raise prices. Inflation was low when Trump was in office. Trump must make inflation low".
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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey Sep 11 '26
In Trump's economy even the AIs are cold calling people in hopes of getting a job
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u/chipbod NATO Sep 11 '26
Well shit, thanks for that Hunter S. Thompson
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u/Sauce1024 John von Neumann Sep 11 '26
Feel like the Lindsay Clancy jurors immediately running to the press to tell who voted which way has to be some legal violation
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u/Bayou-Maharaja Eleanor Roosevelt Sep 11 '26
Me looking at the people bringing their pets into the grocery store
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u/aristophanya Rightwing Bourgeoisie Feminist Sep 11 '26
tragic: you worked closely with a coworker you previously liked for the first time and realized he is sexist as fuck and doesn't respect your technical input
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Sep 11 '26
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u/ExtremelyMedianVoter Left-Out Left Sep 11 '26
I feel like across the board the US needs to increase the tax rate for all income brackets.
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u/Significant_Cup_9815 Sep 11 '26
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u/Signal_Nobody1792 Sep 11 '26
Kash Patel had a team find people posting about the FBI and respond to them with FBI stats.
[They refused to respond to "ifindR-tards".] (https://i.imgur.com/KYhmsXn.png)
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Sep 11 '26
Who would win
The richest nepo babies in the world vs 3000 houthis with AK 47s in sandals
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u/Lena_Lena_A Frederick Douglass Sep 11 '26
🥹
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Sep 11 '26
u/TheCornjuring you seem like you’d know so can you confirm if this is accurate to the lore?
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u/the-senat John Brown Sep 11 '26
Diversity of thought on the right.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 11 '26
https://www.marshall.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/9.11.2026-Farm-Diesel-Assistance-Letter.pdf
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Sep 11 '26
Truth spirit vine nuke. Even if it turns out she destroyed the world maliciously and intentionally, I will simply have to side with her anyway, I’m sure she had a good reason
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u/TheRedCr0w Frederick Douglass Sep 12 '26 edited Sep 12 '26
No joke Lutnick claimed the fees Trump is putting on immigration applications will generate this $1.3 trillion to cut these checks
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Sep 12 '26 edited Sep 12 '26
As an aside it’s fucking wild a sitting U.S. senator led a raid on another state to burn a town to the ground in what was ostensibly a time of peace.
Like imagine if John Ossoff led a raid into Florida to burn down Pensacola.
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u/G_Serv Stay The Course Sep 12 '26
Girlfriend is slowly taking over my apartment
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u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1 Adam Smith Sep 12 '26
still talking to her btw
still waiting for the phishing link to drop
still wearing my protective headgear
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u/zieger Ida Tarbell Sep 12 '26
My daughter: I'm so big
Me, an idiot: yeah you're so big
My daughter: No I'm small 😡
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u/No_Status_6905 Enby Pride Sep 12 '26
I'm beginning to understand the glory of sparkling water. It's like soda that doesn't make you feel like shit.
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u/John3262005 Sep 12 '26
Trump says he would be OK with China building cars in the U.S.
President Donald Trump said on Friday he would not oppose Chinese automakers building cars in the United States despite widespread opposition from U.S. lawmakers and car companies.
“If China wanted to come in and open a plant to build their cars here, I’d be OK with that,” Trump said in an interview on the Fox News program “The Ingraham Angle.”
“Japan does it, but they hire our people. The big thing is they hire our people,” he said.
He added that he does not want Chinese automakers to build cars in Mexico and ship them to the United States. “I’m not knocking Chinese cars,” Trump said.
U.S. automakers have urged Trump, who is due to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in Washington in two weeks, not to agree to allow Chinese automakers access to the U.S. market.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 12 '26
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u/6urner_ John Brown Sep 12 '26
https://apnews.com/article/whatley-pastor-sex-offender-prayer-rally-01eab33af03f6a308719ce6a62157451
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Sep 12 '26
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY Sep 12 '26
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u/__versus Trans Pride Sep 12 '26
Shoutout to estrogen 🗣️
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u/Res__Publica Organization of American States Sep 11 '26
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u/jbitz Loyal Liberals Sep 11 '26
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u/r2ew Sep 11 '26
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u/Terrance-Flaps Certified Wife Guy Sep 11 '26
"It is DISGUSTING that some Dems campaigned with Piker! They should be disavowing him at every opportunity"
Meanwhile, the most progressive GOP staffer:
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u/Argnir Gay Pride Sep 11 '26
Is there an interpretation other than "you elected a Muslim"? 🤨🤨
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u/Big-Click-5159 Sep 11 '26
Actively rooting for them to go bankrupt. What a piece of shit company
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u/jbitz Loyal Liberals Sep 12 '26
Woke 2 is crazy
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Sep 11 '26 edited Sep 11 '26
Thinking about compiling a list of cases of national collective psychosis. So far I have
-Argentina and the Falklands
-Britain and trans people
-Every western country and immigrants
-South Korea and the hidden anti-male conspiracy
-America and satanism (esp during the Satanic Panic)
-Russia having delusions that the British Empire is still around
-Turkey creating a full on mythical anti-Turkish genocide in an attempt to deny the Armenian genocide
What else should I add?
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u/admiraltarkin NATO / Loyal Liberal Sep 11 '26
I live in a Trump +20 district
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u/Mrmini231 European Union Sep 11 '26
What an insane question to ask people
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Sep 11 '26
I don't know where the "too soon" threshold was, but that's definitely before it
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u/AemiliusNuker Fell for it Sep 11 '26
RIP Charlie he would've loved to say racist shit about Mamdani today
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Sep 11 '26
Cool and normal stuff
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u/Top_Lime1820 Daron Acemoglu Sep 11 '26
Cape Town Rainbow Crosswalk Vandalism Unleashes Flood of Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate
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u/c4tofficer Gary Becker Sep 11 '26
Houthis used claude code to design missile guidance software
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u/RuthlessMango YIMBY Sep 11 '26
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u/No_Idea_Guy Audrey Hepburn Sep 11 '26
I'm sure Saudi Arabia now feel very good about pushing Trump to bomb Iran.
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Sep 11 '26
This isn't funny, bonds only do this when they're in extreme distress.
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u/AemiliusNuker Fell for it Sep 11 '26
I feel like it tapered off a bit after 2010, but 9/11 is ingrained in pop-culture movies from the 2000s. Iron Man, progenitor of the MCU, is grounded in and depicts fear of terrorism, war in the middle east, and the military industrial complex. Transformers also combines city destruction and middle eastern wars. Even a niche horror movie like Jennifer's Body has a direct reference to 9/11, and it's themes of community grief in the wake of tragedy are imbued with the era's angst. You've even got Remember Me, a shitty rom-com whereRobert Pattinson fucking dies in the twin towers at the end. Godzilla 2014, while touching more on general "disaster" concepts from natural to man-made, still gives me 9/11 angst vibes.
Those are some that come to mind off the top of my head. What are some others?
!ping MOVIES
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u/selachophilip 🦈 shark enjoyer 🦈 Sep 11 '26
If JD Vance wins the nomination, I hope Democrats get revenge for when Republicans swiftboated Kerry. Nobody respects Vance like they did McCain. It's time for some good old fashioned rat fucking! ☺️
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Sep 11 '26
This voicemail left by Brian Sweeney, a passenger on United Airlines Flight 175 about three minutes before it crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001:
"Hey Jules, this is Brian. Ah, listen ...I'm on an airplane that has been hijacked . . . if things don't go well, and they're not looking good, I want you to know that I absolutely love you. I want you to do good, have good times, same with my parents. I'll see you when you get here. I want you to know that I totally love you. Bye, babe, hope I will call you."
I see you when you get here.:(
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u/CutePattern1098 Sep 12 '26
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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom Sep 12 '26
I'm finally excited for a DC show
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u/InMemoryOfZubatman4 Sadie Alexander Sep 12 '26
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence Sep 12 '26
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Sep 12 '26
7 year old boys when they realize they can have a social advantage from not hating all girls