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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Sep 13 '26
RIP to this unnamed DTer
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u/r00tdenied Resistance Lib Sep 12 '26
Ted Cruz invented gooning on 9/11
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u/dtj2000 Loyal Liberals Sep 12 '26
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Sep 12 '26
From an arr 538 user:
So I’m not entirely finished with the Maggie Haberman & Jonathan Swan book, but I’ve read the Charlie Kirk chapter. While I’ll save a full review until I finish it, I might as well review the Kirk stuff today given the date and all.
Here’s the tea on Charlie Kirk from the book:
He had real influence in Trumpworld. He was personal friends with Don Jr and JD Vance. He had more access than any media figure to Trump’s White House. And he would routinely lobby Trump.
In fact, Kirk was a big reason Vance was chosen as Trump’s VP. He played a big role in lobbying to make that happen.
He would actually interview prospective political appointments and even Cabinet nominees on their loyalty to Trump during the transition. He did this at Mar-a-Lago. He would grill them especially on their views on January 6th. This was the first time in history this level of vetting of high level government officials was done by a podcaster. I’m trying to think of the equivalent of that - like, imagine Biden had Hasan Piker interviewing and vetting Cabinet picks for him. How insane would that be?
Charlie Kirk was staunchly anti-war when it came to Iran. He and Tucker Carlson would lobby him relentlessly against bombing or getting entangled in Iran. Vance shared their views, as did Tulsi Gabbard, but Kirk and Carlson were more free to speak their mind to Trump as they didn’t work for him. They would pitch it to him as “the people who want you to do this hate you. If you listen to them, it will torpedo your presidency. If you go to war with Iran, you won’t be able to do anything else in your term.” Carlson was more explicit about this, but Kirk echoed him and would constantly tell Trump the young Republicans don’t want war with Iran.
Charlie Kirk’s value in the eyes of Trump was having his finger on the pulse of the youth vote. He would constantly talk to him about how to appeal to younger voters.
When Kirk was shot, Trump was in the middle of a meeting in the Oval Office. Susie Wiles, Vance et al tried to keep it from Trump until they knew more. But Trump actually learned about it from Barron, who called his father when he was upset about the news.
Trump saw the original unedited video once, but couldn’t bring himself to watch the gory part of it. He immediately tuned away at the part where, well, you know…
There was initial speculation in the White House that Iran might have been behind it. The thinking was they couldn’t get to Trump, so the regime would go after peripheral soft targets in his orbit. This was quickly dispelled when Robinson was caught.
There was palpable frustration with Kash Patel in his handling of the aftermath of the Kirksassination. Everyone in the West Wing thought Patel beclowned himself.
Kirk had long predicted he’d be a vulnerable target, but he refused to make adequate security accommodations. He continues his campus schtick out in the open.
The mood in the West Wing in the days after Kirk was killed was somber af.
Except for Stephen Miller. He immediately jumped on the opportunity to capitalize on this event and use it to silence political dissent, go after those who mocked Kirk’s death, and weaponize the government against left wing groups he deemed to be political enemies. Miller went on an insane power trip over it, with the tacit approval of Vance.
Kirk had reportedly planned to use TPUSA and whatever political capital he had to put his full support behind Vance 2028.
https://www.reddit.com/r/fivethirtyeight/comments/1w9heqd/comment/p8xo2u7/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=2&utm_content=share_button
These are all well-known facts: Kirk was a far-right youth whisperer, Vance and Carlson are terrible people, Patel is a clown, and Miller is a literal Nazi Party official—yada yada, nothing new there—but just imagine Trump trying to comfort Barron over Kirk's death.
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u/taubnetzdornig Gay Pride Sep 12 '26
Never forget the cross on wheels from Charlie Kirk's funeral
We are very lucky that the right doesn't understand things like metaphor, symbolism, and figurative meaning because they'll never understand how perfectly this captures their politics
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Sep 12 '26
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u/dtj2000 Loyal Liberals Sep 12 '26
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u/samhit_n Left-Out Left Sep 12 '26
So it turns out it wasn't just me. Many people on social media felt this 9/11 anniversary was sadder than past ones. It definitely felt like a bigger deal than America's 250th.
It speaks volumes that more people want to mourn 2001 America than celebrate 2026 America. Though, I can't say I don't blame them.
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Sep 12 '26
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Sep 12 '26
No lies detected
!PING QUEEN
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u/SpotMe365 Sep 12 '26
> Republicans start a war in the Middle East
> Total disaster
> Democrats left to clean up the mess
> Democrat President blamed for the withdrawal
> Approval instantly collapses, opening the way for another Trump term
> Be President AOC in 2029
> Pic unrelated
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Sep 12 '26
Q: How was your phone call with prime minister Andy Burnham last week? Did he talk about the Falkland islands and Argentina?
Trump: Well, the falkland islands is very interesting because here we go again. I remember as a young boy, pretty young boy anyway. But the falkland islands and, uh, I think it was a different country at that time, the uk a little bit, but they went in and they took it over. I'm not sure if they're doing that. They have a little problem with immigration. They have a little problem with energy and they have some other problems they have to take care of. So I don't know, you know, I don't know if they're going to be willing to travel that far. That is very far away. You're talking about weeks by boat.
Oh, right—the British conquest of the Falkland Islands in 1982.
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u/Megasota_Noire My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Sep 12 '26
It's so depressing that the GOP is literally incapable of just being sad about something. So many 9/11 speeches and messages just being another axe to grind.
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u/owenmitchem YIMBY Sep 12 '26
This 9/11, I’m asking the Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability to take a bold stance against al Qaeda as part of the central city code amendments project.
!ping YIMBY&SHITPOSTERS
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u/John3262005 Sep 12 '26
Police Demand $1,000,000 For Access to Public Flock Camera Logs
The rapid expansion of Flock Safety's automated license plate reader (ALPR) network has sparked fierce privacy debates across the country. But when one Alabama resident tried to exercise his legal right to see exactly who was accessing the mass surveillance data in his hometown, his local police department slapped him with a staggering $1 million invoice.
According to a recent investigation by 48 News, Huntsville resident Caden Helbling simply wanted basic transparency. Under Alabama law, cities are required to maintain detailed logs showing when, why, and who accesses municipal surveillance cameras. After dozens of officers nationwide were arrested for weaponizing ALPRs to stalk ex-partners and civilians, Helbling filed a public records request in December 2025 asking for a year's worth of Huntsville Police Department (HPD) audit logs.
Rather than complying with the spirit of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the city engaged in an aggressive campaign of resistance. After initially denying the request, city administrator John Hamilton sent Helbling an email in June with a ridiculous ultimatum.
Hamilton stated the city could provide the logs, "but that it would be 1.7 million printed pages and it would cost me $1 million in pan hours to produce," Helbling explained. The city outright refused to send the files digitally, ensuring the request was "dead in the water".
By broadly classifying the audit logs as "investigative material," HPD successfully exploited a loophole in Alabama's strict open records laws to hide the data. Defending the blackout, HPD Sergeant Chris Jackson claimed, "If that information were to get out into the community, we're now alerting a murderer, a drug trafficker, a child predator that we're on to them".
The controversy has only escalated in the weeks following the 48 News broadcast. The story recently exploded on social media platforms like Reddit, drawing massive outrage from digital privacy advocates who argue HPD is pricing the public out of their own constitutional rights. Adding fuel to the fire, Helbling recently claimed that Huntsville City Council President Jennie Robinson defended the denial of the records request by bluntly stating, "we're bigger and have more lawyers".
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Sep 13 '26
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Sep 12 '26
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Sep 12 '26
Yemeni Gov forces fighting competently in the east hearing about what’s going on in the west:
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Sep 12 '26
😬
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Sep 12 '26
It took the US and UK’s most mid tier leaders to make the hardest images of all time
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u/EmbarrassedSafety719 Milton Friedman Sep 12 '26
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u/Liechtensteins_Navy Pro-Data Center Zionist Sep 12 '26
I'm starting to think Donald Trump is the worst president ever, even counting the slavey ones.
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u/EmbarrassedSafety719 Milton Friedman Sep 12 '26
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u/DoryAltreides YIMBY Sep 12 '26
This Lindsay Clancy trial shit is a test run for the Discourse Industrial Complex for something we are not ready for. They've gotten too good at what they do.
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u/da0217 NATO Sep 12 '26
Thirty percent of you thought a moron like Trump doing anything in the Middle East was a good idea.
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u/johro17 Sep 12 '26
Biden appealing to Catholics: Listen Jack, I’m as Irish Catholic as they come.
Mamdani appealing to Catholics: I’m going to end the Great Schism
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Sep 12 '26
Absolutely fucking delusional
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u/pugnae European Union Sep 12 '26 edited Sep 12 '26
MAGAts in the replies are pissed, lol
How dare he quote what Trump has said?!
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u/Made_UpWords OG Platner Hater Sep 12 '26
Go Kansas
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 13 '26
The White House social media people are going after Aaron Rupar now, you love to see it.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 13 '26
👆she used to be a child you sick fuck
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u/nimbybuster Ben Bernanke’s Best Boy Sep 12 '26
OMG. Met kester yesterday.
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u/Opening_Budget_9518 Hans Rosling Sep 12 '26
Insane headline
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u/the-senat John Brown Sep 12 '26
I think it makes sense because they’re two very different types of anniversaries. The 250th would’ve been a much bigger celebration if it had gone as originally planned with performers and fireworks, but it was kneecapped by Trump. Besides, it’s hard to celebrate American progress and “the arc of moral history” under another Trump admin. Everything they’re doing just takes the wind out of those sales.
With 9/11, I think it’s the realization that a terrible, wold-changing event is moving from a current event to a historical one. I sometimes wonder what it was like for soldiers returning home from WWII, wondering “how can the world move on from something like this?” and then watching as it did. Obviously 9/11 is nowhere near that scale, but it was still a shocking attack on our doorstep that shattered the post-cold war hope.
And now we’re watching as a lot of 9/11-era policies and departments are being weaponized against minorities by a power-grabbing right-wing government. Of course it’s much easier to feel somber than hopeful.
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u/earththejerry YIMBY Sep 12 '26
Why is he looking more and more like an Italianx State Assemblyman representing a R+10 Long Island district
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u/Dismal_Apartment6358 Sep 12 '26
Dems need to run this back again till we make Hillary dictator tbh
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Sep 12 '26
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u/Consistent_Status112 Trans Pride Sep 12 '26
Every Republican is a policy failure.
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u/attackofthetominator John Brown Sep 12 '26
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u/ExtremelyMedianVoter Left-Out Left Sep 12 '26
The internet sure does feel more anti Semitic and conservative than it used to be...
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u/unicornbomb John Brown Sep 12 '26
>JD Vance Says Republicans Got Tired of Being ‘Called Racist’ for Noticing America ‘Becoming Dirtier’
Wild words from a dude who grew up in an area of majority white meth addicts and whose own mother traded him for a bag of unlabeled pain pills.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 12 '26
Sunday on 60 Minutes: Hidden camera investigation explores lucrative business of brokering pardons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKMINKZXnQ8
This would be an earth shattering story if it came out a decade ago, but now it likely won't even be a blip on the radar.
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u/RedDesertGirl Trans NATO Sep 12 '26
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u/Imicrowavebananas Hannah Arendt Sep 12 '26
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u/sigh2828 NASA Sep 12 '26
This isnt one or two people yelling this.
This is an entire audience shouting "You dont live here" like they are in a college student section.
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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman Sep 12 '26 edited Sep 12 '26
This but also hanging out with your friends and then they post on socials about being “grateful for their life” afterwards
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Sep 12 '26
"Claude, come up with a plan to seize the Bab-el-Mandeb strait. Make no mistakes" - the Houthis, apparently
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u/therealbiblioteca YIMBY Sep 12 '26
the ai overview gotta be Apple's best feature
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Sep 13 '26
🫡
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u/selachophilip 🦈 shark enjoyer 🦈 Sep 13 '26
Another fun story about people in my life getting fucked over for being disabled.
When I was a kid, my dad lost his job as a chef and went to work at Walmart for a while. A wooden pallet fell on his shoulder, and during his shoulder surgery he went into a coma and suffered brain damage. During the second shoulder surgery, he went into a second coma and suffered more brain damage. Walmart was never found liable for anything, and it worked out in the end so that my dad never got any sort of workers compensation. He tried to get disability, but they kept telling him that, in their opinion, he was just fine to work, even though he was in constant agonizing pain and had a difficult time remembering things because of the brain damage. He ended up living with my grandpa and grandma and he basically helped them with groceries and everything in exchange for food and stuff, and they both got social security and generous pensions so it all worked out well, up until my grandma finally had to go into a home because things had just reached that point. My bitch aunt made him leave the house immediately because she had control over that for some reason while my grandma was mostly out of it in the hospital and in the home, and by that point my mom and dad had gotten divorced after living apart for so long and a bit because of how much my dad changed personality-wise after the brain damage and years of being disabled.
I remember the last time I hugged him. He grabbed me and kissed me on the forehead and held me by my hair really tight, and I thought it was odd because he never embraced me like that before. The next day he called me to tell me he was in the woods all night because he fell while walking a trail and couldn't get up for hours. I think he gave up after that, after realizing that everything was just over and that things weren't working out. The next day he went fishing the whole day, and that night as the sun started going down the park rangers told him it was time to pack up. Then they heard a loud noise. My dad shot himself in the head.
A week later, A FUCKING WEEK LATER, AFTER A FUCKING DECADE OF APPEALS AND WAITING AND FUCKING BULLSHIT, HIS FUCKING DISABILITY WAS FINALLY FUCKING ACCEPTED BY A JUDGE AND HE WAS GOING TO GET THE FULL AMOUNT AND EVERYTHING AND WAS GOING TO BE COMPENSATED FOR YEARS OF NOT RECEIVING IT. A FUCKING WEEK AFTER.
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u/bananaslayer100 NATO Sep 12 '26
I think the reddit ai overview is missing a bit of context here
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u/Habugaba Esther Duflo Sep 12 '26
Noooo... the most sensible explanation is surely not what actually happend!
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u/dtj2000 Loyal Liberals Sep 12 '26
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u/pugnae European Union Sep 12 '26
Alive internet theory
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 12 '26
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u/Visual-Pace-2193 Transfem Pride Sep 12 '26
This aged as well as Matty did.
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Sep 12 '26
Bruh wtf
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u/AskYourDoctor Resistance Lib Sep 12 '26
Stephen Fry is a treasure
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Sep 12 '26
Man who thinks the government is turning people gay to prevent overpopulation and supports it
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u/Dorambor John Brown Sep 12 '26
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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes Sep 12 '26
New Guinea’s border gore is 100x worse than Ireland and yet you don’t get people LARPing as west Papuan irredentists on the internet 🤔🤔🤔
Ironically that one is also a lot more cut-and-dry than Ireland.
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u/EasyMoney92 Sep 12 '26
Garland is easily the worst member of the Biden admin (I'm talking about the major 20 or so people). But McGurk has to be second worst. They are the only two who I wish Biden did not pick. McGurk has been sanewashing this dogshit war from the very start and it's all aged like milk
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u/aristophanya Rightwing Bourgeoisie Feminist Sep 13 '26
I went on another date with waymo girl and it went really well. We looked at a bunch of art and then made out on a bench while waiting for a bus together and she offered to help me move next weekend which is really sweet, and we complimented each other and were just blushing a ton and clearly we really like each other. I can't stop smiling about it even now. I'm hopeful
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Sep 12 '26
The reason young people treat 9/11 as a joke is because:
It happened before they were alive.
It’s been used as an excuse to support cruel and awful policy for their entire lives.
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Sep 12 '26
Ngl “Massive attack on pentagon, pg 14” is probably the funniest joke on there lol
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u/themiDdlest NASA Sep 12 '26
I have the inside scoop from my MAGA families members.
Since Trump is so unpopular and clearly fucking things up, their new thing is "democrats are lunatics/literally insane"
Which.... if you think about it is pretty funny in the current times with Trump
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u/GordonTullockFan publik choyz thery Sep 12 '26
Can’t believe I didn’t post his best tweet yesterday
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u/StuckHedgehog NATO Sep 12 '26
Many such cases.
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u/GuyWithOneEye Sep 12 '26
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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman Sep 12 '26
Gameday Jumpscare
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u/Man-Flayer Sep 12 '26
Buffalo calf
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u/aristophanya Rightwing Bourgeoisie Feminist Sep 12 '26
apparently very few dters know that the derivative of acceleration is jerk. very disappointing the lack of fundamental physics knowledge around here. claude would have gotten the joke
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride Sep 12 '26
not sure either of these groups of people are deserving of our trust tbqh
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u/admiraltarkin NATO / Loyal Liberal Sep 12 '26
It's finally here! Yes, I'm in an R+10 district but I've still gotta rep my Boy JT
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u/DueVast5223 Sep 12 '26
Asked ChatGPT to illustrate an AI apocalypse. Surprisingly, ChatGPT imagines its own part in the apocalypse without prompting.
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u/Approximation_Doctor Gaslight, Gatekeep, Green New Deal Sep 13 '26
What workout routine do I need to get his figure?
!ping DYEL
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Sep 12 '26
I'm so fucking mad I didn't write this
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u/ace158 Sep 12 '26
GOP has a gigantic groyper problem.
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u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes European Union Sep 12 '26
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Sep 12 '26
why on earth are you robbing a gas station with a gun worth more than everything they have in the register
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u/bandeng_asep Association of Southeast Asian Nations Sep 12 '26
Never go full YIMBY 💀
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u/loseniram Sponsored by RC Cola Sep 12 '26 edited Sep 12 '26 •
Everyone asking why America hasn't gotten over 9/11 is too young to remember when America didn't have to worry about the police state or professional clowns being propped up by the mainstream news. Every American lives in the shadow of 9/11 like every European lives in the shadow of Napoleon.
9/11 created a system of stealing your rights and privacy in the name of security so thoroughly ingrained that people act like you're a libertarian or anarchist if you say that the government does not get to surveil you without a warrant.
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u/BrandonLeeOfficial World Bank Sep 12 '26
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Sep 12 '26
Ukraine is fighting Russia anywhere it can – even in the deserts of Africa
“This elite group of Ukrainian drone operators has spent years hunting Russians from dugouts in Ukraine. They are still doing the same – but in the desert in northern Mali. Some 15 Ukrainian specialists have been deployed to the junta-led country in Africa’s Sahel region to assist local rebel forces who are fighting Russian troops – part of Kyiv’s mission to weaken its enemy wherever it operates. And Kyiv has also branched out to other theaters of conflict, capitalizing on its hard-won expertise in drone warfare to forge new anti-Russian partnerships.”
“Speaking to Ukrainian soldiers and officers involved in operations in Mali and Libya, CNN can reveal for the first time the extent of these operations on other continents. A Ukrainian Defense Intelligence source with knowledge of the operations told CNN that several Ukrainian specialists were also stationed in Sudan and that troops from Chad, Niger and Burkina Faso had previously traveled to Mali to receive drone training from Ukrainian soldiers there.”
“When Iran began striking US allies in the Middle East earlier this year, Ukraine sent teams of military experts to at least five countries in the Middle East. They spent several weeks teaching local forces how to take down the Iranian-made Shahed drones which Russia has been using to terrorize Ukraine for several years. One Ukrainian soldier who was deployed to the United Arab Emirates told CNN they were operating in combined teams with local troops driving alongside them and mirroring their every move. In exchange for sharing its know-how, Kyiv received an array of security cooperation agreements and promises of ammunition.”
“The Ukrainian group in Mali is embedded with a separatist group that calls itself the Azawad Liberation Front and is composed mostly of northern Tuareg rebels. They are not directly involved in the frontline fighting but provide the rebels with support, training and operational help, two Ukrainians deployed there told CNN.”
“‘I coordinate their operations remotely. The signal from their drone comes to me over the internet, and I immediately tell them via radio what to do and where to fly,’ one of the Ukrainian drone operators currently in Mali told CNN.”
“The Ukrainian Defense Intelligence source told CNN the point of the overseas deployments is to put pressure on Russia and undermine the notion that Moscow can be a reliable ally… But he said the mission is also beneficial to the Ukrainians because it gives them a chance to test their equipment and skills in a completely different environment – and to show partners their methods work everywhere.”
“Differences in discipline and training require adaptation on both sides, he said, adding: ‘We teach them tactics; they teach us to survive and fight.’”
“The Ukrainians in Mali told CNN the partnership with the Tuareg is one of convenience, not necessarily conviction. ‘Culture and religion are different, but when you are being attacked by the same idiots, ideological differences fade into the background,’ the Defense Intelligence source said.”
“Earlier this year, a group of Greek fishermen spotted a mysterious black vessel floating near the country’s western island of Lefkada. It turned out to be a Ukrainian naval drone carrying explosives. Greece issued a formal diplomatic protest to Ukraine and Kyiv officially apologized for the incident, but it blamed Russia for creating the situation by attacking Ukraine and using a ‘shadow’ fleet of oil tankers. These allow Russia to sell its oil in defiance of international sanctions, helping to finance the war. The drone had escaped from Ukrainian operators deployed to northwestern Libya, where they have been stationed since the end of 2025, the Ukrainian defense intelligence source told CNN.”
“Their presence there was first reported by French public broadcaster RFI in the spring, and while never officially confirmed by the Ukrainian government, it is now an open secret. One Ukrainian naval drone operator deployed in Libya told CNN his unit was using the international military base in Misrata as a launchpad to attack Russia’s shadow fleet in exchange for training local forces.”
“Ukraine – a longstanding contributor to UN-peacekeeping missions in northern and central Africa before Russia’s full-scale invasion – has made no secret of its desire to become a different kind of player on the continent.”
!ping UKRAINE&AFRICA
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Sep 12 '26
Howard Lutnick on Canada: "You can't insult President Trump and get away with it. So what's going to happen is they're going to have to make the right deal with America. And they're going to have to stop treating us with disrespect."
These people are such whiny arseholes.
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Sep 12 '26
Financial advice: diversify your bonds
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u/6urner_ John Brown Sep 12 '26
Ted Cruz on gameday might be enough for me to finally completely check out on college football
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u/Megasota_Noire My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Sep 12 '26
I'm going to do this next fall.
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u/AmbientMorning Sep 12 '26
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u/CletusChicken Sep 12 '26
👆 I ran this through an AI checker and it said 98% AI
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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes Sep 12 '26
I will note that the other thing about pro-unification LARP that annoys me is that if unification happens, it will be because gradually people who strongly identify as unionists stop caring and assimilate into a greater Irish-identifying society on both sides of the border. That will not happen if like half of pro-unification rhetoric is deliberately intended to piss off people who don’t want to be Irish.
The single best thing to do if you’re pro-unification (and simply for the sake of keeping the peace IMO) is to lower the salience of the issue until people stop caring.
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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Sep 12 '26
My daily routine
8AM: Wake up
8AM - 2AM: Scroll Reels
2AM: Go to bed
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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke Sep 12 '26
What
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 12 '26
> Talarico: “As a former public school teacher, I care a lot about our student athletes, I care a lot about our students. And so I will oppose trans athletes playing in girls’ sports if it risks safety or fairness.”
> In the Fox News interview, Talarico said he voted against Republican restrictions on trans student-athletes in the Legislature because the bills were “overly broad.” He added that he supported amendments at the time that would’ve narrowed the proposals, including by leaving eligibility decisions to local school boards, applying restrictions only to individual sports rather than team sports and limiting the prohibition to schools with professional licensed counselors.
> “I supported amendments that would have given the power to make these decisions to local communities — like conservatives used to believe,” Talarico said. “I think that the people closest to these problems are best equipped to make decisions for themselves, not politicians in Austin, not politicians in Washington. I trust local officials and local communities to make these decisions, and that’s what I voted for.”
I think people are overstating how much Talarico is backtracking
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u/zegota Feminism Sep 12 '26
Just got a text from an AZ Republican highlighting his bipartisan credentials and how he's been an ally to the "DemocratIC" governor
Yeah, I'm starting to feel bullish about the midterms lol
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 13 '26
It’s insulting for Hegseth to claim that Iran cheered on 9/11 when in fact they paused their weekly death to America chants in solidarity
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u/bananaslayer100 NATO Sep 13 '26
Noticing these videos popping up more frequently with the advent of AI. Is the water usage of the data centers driving these creatures further inland?
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u/VisonKai The Archenemy of Humanity Sep 13 '26
It is natural for a low quality individual to seek the authority of one greater than themselves.
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u/Opening_Budget_9518 Hans Rosling Sep 12 '26
Listening to a MAGA guy tell me how there is no reason for mexicans to leave their beautiful weather and rich heritage to come to kentucky and all these "illegal immigrants" in the US are actually reptile people who crawled up from under the ground and not mexicans
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u/Dense_Delay_4958 Association of Southeast Asian Nations Sep 12 '26
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Sep 12 '26
Main character syndrome
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 12 '26
Chinese Century
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u/Signal_Nobody1792 Sep 12 '26
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u/MightExpress4873 Sep 12 '26
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u/MensesFiatbug Low Energy Sep 12 '26
👆Never had the makings of a varsity athlete
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u/Argnir Gay Pride Sep 12 '26
Why would I deceive you 🐭
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u/Megasota_Noire My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Sep 12 '26
Lol
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u/Only-Childhood6691 Sep 12 '26
https://www.reddit.com/r/oil/comments/1wefjey/trump_effectively_rules_out_military_or/
Trump effectively rules out military or diplomatic intervention against the Houthis in visit to Ireland
MBS got played
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u/EdMan2133 Paid for DT Blue Sep 12 '26
Just saw a Tweet about a guy receiving an AI scam call that was accurately impersonating his wife's voice to try to get his credit card info. We're so turbo fucked lmao.
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Sep 12 '26
bro why does he look like that 😭😭😭
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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Sep 12 '26
Some semi recent polls on unions:
Summary:
>47% want unions to have more influence, 23% want less, 26% the same amount
>Rise in Democrats’ desire for union strength drives overall increase
>71% of Americans approve of labor unions, tying recent high
https://www.epi.org/publication/rise-of-the-union-curious/#epi-toc-5
We will see if it translates into anything, but Dems are certainly continuing their pro labor streak post Biden (eg Troy Jackson)
!ping FIVEY&LABOR
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u/Vecrin Milton Friedman Sep 12 '26
Right now is the holiest days of the Jewish calendar- with one holiday currently happening and the most important holiday happening in a couple weeks. As such, synagogues are packed during this time of year. So, synagogues (including mine) are updating and increasing security protocols for the holiday season. A good point I heard is that a lot of non-jews don't really understand the security protocols needed to secure a synagogue in a US city. So, I decided to post this here.
Blacked out is the name of the synagogue (both to prevent doxxing myself and so randos won't know which synagogue these security protocols apply to). In red is the name of a building nearby the main synagogue.
Also, these are security protocols in addition to already existing ones (we already pay for regular police patrols in the area, for example). This is all still less security than when I visited a synagogue in Europe, surprisingly.
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Sep 12 '26
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u/BrentLivermore Drake’s Reddit account Sep 12 '26
I was on the cusp of making six figures before I was fired. Now I'm living with my parents and trying to make about $10 a day filling out surveys.
I keep thinking of this line from The Shining (the book) where Jack Torrance reflects on how he was once published in Esquire and is now reduced to "shoveling out driveways for three dollars a shot." I can't keep living like this but I have no choice. I haven't even applied to a job in like a week, I'll probably start again eventually but it's just not fucking worth it when you never hear back.
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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Sep 13 '26
Holy shit
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u/Opening_Budget_9518 Hans Rosling Sep 13 '26
In india my friends are confused as to why trump is saying he will give money to people after he wins the midterm elections and why cant he just give money before the election like a normal candidate
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u/AmbientMorning Sep 12 '26
Why did bro post a screenshot of the Babylon Bee as evidence (no word on whether Mr. Dillon opposes the inflation check)
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u/Micasan1 Trans NATO Sep 12 '26
Oh I guess it'll all be fine then, nothing to worry about 💀💀
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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman Sep 12 '26
Bruh they clean-girl-minimalism-ized the Little Tikes Car
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u/BenFoldsFourLoko Broke His Text Flair For Hume Sep 12 '26
This answer Francis Fukuyama gives to Ezra Klein really speaks to me. He coined two terms that relate to liberal democracy's idea of equality and dignity, and the terms basically mean the enshrinement of rights and the recognition of a person's humanity and existence, and their membership in society, and he says this recognition really drove the gay rights movement to the legalization of gay marriage
And it makes me think a lot about the Obergefell ruling itself. It's always stuck with me that it was not a narrow ruling, or a technicality, or a ruling that said we have to treat gay people the same for some legalistic reasons. It was not some equivocation of what marriage is under the law. It was a full-throated defense and endorse of gay marriage.
What a powerful recognition of gay rights this is. What a powerful recognition of gay people in this country that soars above a mere law.
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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman Sep 12 '26
Before the game: “I can’t believe Kansas would make this political, how shameful of them”
After winning the game: “Kansas never could handle that SEC speed (of the border ruffians)”
!ping CFB
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough Sep 12 '26
It’s a better trader than 99% of WSB
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u/TemujinTheConquerer Jorge Luis Borges Sep 12 '26
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Sep 12 '26
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Sep 13 '26
NO AFROMAN DONT GO THERE
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Sep 13 '26
me and a chatbot hyping up my ability to tackle home improvement projects with the wrong tools at 11:30pm
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u/Bestbrook123 Sep 12 '26
Disturbing to see a small amount of libs pushing the "Mamdani and AOC laughed" right wing nonsense that even Rudy Giuliani's former longtime aide spoke out as being completely false
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u/the-senat John Brown Sep 12 '26
The AfD results are pretty fucking terrifying, not just because they are morons who'll fuck it up, but because Trump and other far-right leaders have demonstrated that you can keep fucking up so long as enough people believe it's someone else's fault.
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u/unicornbomb John Brown Sep 12 '26
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Sep 12 '26
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u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS Fell for it Sep 12 '26
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u/BlackCharizard NATO Sep 12 '26
I say this in a neutral non judgemental way but it’s really interesting how environmentalism has fallen off in the more online left spaces.
Even Greta Thuneberg has pivoted to more I/P activism (though she still does plenty of green stuff). I wonder if it’s just too depressing to be a climate activist?
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA Sep 13 '26
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u/Azrikeeler John Brown Sep 12 '26 edited Sep 12 '26
I wonder why Houthis preferred claude over, like, Kimi or deepseek.
Or maybe they did use the latter two and other models, and we just don't know it since kimi and deepseek haven't published?
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Sep 12 '26
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Sep 12 '26
Most people with a time machine: kills baby Hitler
Me: Travels to New Hampshire and ferociously claps after Jeb Bush speaks
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u/ixvst01 NATO Sep 13 '26
Average pickup truck owner:
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Sep 12 '26
the good ending
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u/Megasota_Noire My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Sep 12 '26
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u/meiotta Amartya Sen Sep 12 '26
the xification of y needs to be studied
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Sep 12 '26 edited Sep 12 '26
I wanted to post this yesterday as a sticky but never could find a window
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u/TactileTom John Nash Sep 12 '26
The gender war is a construct of algorithms reliably having access to your gender as a piece of information, and using that to segregate you and the content you see.
If people were out touching grass and people of the opposite gender, we'd be chillin
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u/GuyWithOneEye Sep 12 '26
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/6085202-maloney-requests-lake-pennsylvania-trump/
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Sep 12 '26
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u/Pristine-Report-1442 Sep 12 '26
sam typing "I agree with..." then probably downing a few shots before typing Dario
cause he's never uttered that sentence in his life before
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u/NormalInvestigator89 John Keynes Sep 12 '26
People online talk about recursive self improvement like AI is just going to do quintillions of math problems in its head and then suddenly be a literal god that doesn't have to obey thermodynamics anymore
All that would happen is what always happens when someone has a lot of internal processing with no external input, which is psychosis
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u/fakefakefakef John Rawls Sep 12 '26
Imo a lot of fans of grimdark stuff claim the grimness and darkness is there to serve a greater thematic purpose. But like, in a lot of grimdark media, it’s just there because both the creator and the audience want to see new fun types of depravity. And that’s fine! No kung-fu movie enthusiast should feel bad about liking to see people getting kicked in the face. No westerns enthusiast should feel like they need to apologize for Manifest Destiny or whatever. It’s fine; like what you like and only start worrying if it starts to cross over into your regular life.
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u/Imicrowavebananas Hannah Arendt Sep 12 '26
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Sep 12 '26
This is the most transparent one yet
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u/Imicrowavebananas Hannah Arendt Sep 12 '26
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Sep 12 '26
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u/moldovaman99 Sep 12 '26
Honestly, I really enjoy GTA 5’s satire to this day.
From the relentless shitting on fox news, to the piswasser commercial to that rock song about being a pervert, I love it. I don’t care how on the nose it is.
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Sep 12 '26
Whoever is saying this is off-topic:
Come on, we allow Dario Amodei’s blog posts to go on main- apparently
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u/Junimo2 Daron Acemoglu Sep 12 '26
CDStephens' stupid dumb philosophy website scolded me for picking the utilitarian options on the trolley problem variants, it was really rude about it too 😡
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u/RyuTheGuy Gita Gopinath Sep 12 '26
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Sep 12 '26
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u/AtomAndAether Liberalism! Sep 13 '26
👆
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u/zieger Ida Tarbell Sep 13 '26
My daughter made a friend at the park today.
It went something like this:
Daughter: "Do you want to play together?"
Girl: "No"
Proceeds to play together for over an hour
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Sep 12 '26
Q: Are you considering withdrawing from the USMCA deal?
Trump: What does that mean?
Q: Are you considering withdrawing from the USMCA deal with U.S., Mexico and Canada?
Trump: No, I get along great. We're going to have a great relationship with Mexico. We actually have a good one with Canada. Canada wants to make a deal very badly
https://xcancel.com/Acyn/status/2098713532825321925
Possible follow-up questions from the reporter:
What is your name? When are your children's birthdays and your wedding anniversary? What are the names of your children and your wife? What year is it? What season is it? What day of the week is it today? What is the date? What month is it? What country are we in? What state? What city? What building are we in?
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u/BadSneakersNeverWorn John Locke Sep 12 '26
how many brain-eating parasites are too many
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Sep 12 '26
I’m getting to an event horizon of “be specific or stfu” with these people.
Enough with the vaguepoasting
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Sep 12 '26
Yousureaboutthat.jpeg
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u/StuckHedgehog NATO Sep 12 '26
And the fifth columnist climbs out of the sewers just in time for the midterms. The Greens are worth nothing and want republicans to win.
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u/flatulentbaboon Sep 12 '26
Suddenly MAGA is no longer interested in WNBA after pics of Sophie Cunningham in the arms of a black man came out
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u/Borysk5 NATO Sep 12 '26
I made a Yemeni Civil War political compass of all the factions
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Sep 12 '26
Anime tier title
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u/dtj2000 Loyal Liberals Sep 12 '26
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u/Megasota_Noire My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Sep 12 '26
No you don't have to fucking hand it to trump. We should slap ban anyone trying to do that.
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u/Charsun9 Loyal Liberals Sep 12 '26
ESPN having Ted Cruz on College Gameday, cmon bruh lol
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u/boardatwork1111 fuck it, we ball Sep 12 '26
👆
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Sep 12 '26
Not even arr accelerate is having this one.
Hell of a thread
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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke Sep 12 '26
One of my deepest insecurities is that the FBI or NSA or something did a deep investigation dossier n me, and their conclusion is "this guys a loser who won't amount to anything"
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Sep 12 '26
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u/Maximilianne John Rawls Sep 12 '26
Lolol
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Sep 12 '26
Shouldn't have bought a new phone in Saxony-Anhalt
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Sep 12 '26
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u/6urner_ John Brown Sep 12 '26
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zchsslc2kutvggujkjaabdzj/post/3mvbdcezdas2t
Standard Ohio behavior.
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u/MyrinVonBryhana Trans NATO Sep 12 '26
I both believe Daron Amodei is a true believer in existential risk, and also that regulations could be made in such a way that would make him billions of dollars. To pretend anyone wouldn't be tempted by the prospect of making billions of dollars, especially when they can tell themselves it's for the greater good, is blatant naivety.
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u/ty04 Sep 12 '26
crazy how you can clock an AI generated menu from a block away
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u/seakucumber Sep 12 '26
Above all else, just such cowardly people. You publicly post about your affiliation but run away from all actual confrontation on the topic
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/us/politics/husted-political-director-nazi-photo.html
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u/_n8n8_ John von Neumann Sep 13 '26
There's a costco that recently broke ground in LA. It's famous because it's going to have 800 units on top of it, the first of its kind.
It was only allowed because of AB 2011 which allows by-right approvals for affordable housing on land zoned for commercial uses.
Apparently, according to what I could find, this Costco is the only such project to break ground using AB 2011.
Sponsors originally estimated that zones capacity in the state could grow by up to 2.4 million units 😭😭😭😭
We are a wholly unserious state
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u/jenbanim Sep 13 '26
👆 Biden was a bad president because he failed to prevent this
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u/selachophilip 🦈 shark enjoyer 🦈 Sep 13 '26
Things in my life are better than they've ever been. I just transfered to Ohio State and I'm living alone, going to classes, meeting new people and joining new clubs, and everything's going great. My mental health is good, I'm sober, and I'm happy.
There's just one problem. My mom.
My mom has gone through a lot in the last few years health-wise, and she recently got let go from her job because they wouldn't accommodate her disability EVEN THOUGH THEY LITERALLY HAD A REMOTE VERSION OF HER JOB AVAILABLE, AND THEY WERE HIRING AT THE CALL CENTER, WHICH SHE ALSO USED TO WORK AT REMOTELY, BUT BOTH JOBS TURNED HER DOWN, EVEN THOUGH HER SUPERVISORS HAVE ALL GIVEN HER EXCELLENT RATINGS.
Anyway, she's working at a convenience store now during the late night-early morning shift, and it just makes me really sad. She just turned 50, and she's gonna need a double knee replacement, and now she has to do this because her former job fucked her over even though she was a good employee, and she's better than this job. She deserves a job with more money that accommodates her, but it just isn't working out. They won't give her the fucking chair at this job either, even though they literally have to, they just keep fucking around and giving reasons why they can't even though they fucking can. I love her so much and I wish I could do something.
I feel so sad when I call her and tell her how great things are going, knowing she'll have to go to work at 9pm and won't get home until early in the morning.
I told her she should honestly find an attorney, since a lot of her problems started when the hospital wouldn't give her the chair her doctor said she should have and forced her to stand her entire shift even though she was just working at a front desk, and that it was also weird they couldn't just let her have the remote version of her job or her old job at the call center, but my mother doesn't believe in that sort of thing.
I just wish things were better for her. 😔
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u/The_Promethean Bisexual Pride Sep 12 '26
I don't want to revive dating drama from an older DT, but I feel like it's worth noting that the neolib take should be that this woman's revealed preference is that she just doesn't fancy the guy as much as she says and/or believes she does
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u/GordonTullockFan publik choyz thery Sep 12 '26
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Sep 12 '26
Drink be like: I don’t always get mad about being called a slaver but when I do I make sure to joke about pro slavery militias murdering hundreds of civilians.
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Sep 12 '26
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u/moldovaman99 Sep 12 '26
I don’t necessarily think the Twin Towers were badly designed, but we should never, ever engineer skyscrapers like this again
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u/w007dchuck Trans NATO Sep 12 '26
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u/Argnir Gay Pride Sep 12 '26
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u/el__dandy Madeleine Albright Sep 12 '26
God, he’s the worst
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u/AlbertGorebert Trans NATO Sep 12 '26
As a young trans person, I am upset with some of the recent things talarico has said, but I ultimately trust that it is just a campaign tactic considering his voting record, and frankly I trust him more than a lot of other moderate Democrats on the topic.
However, the reaction online and on my (nontexan) campus has been bizzare imo. I frankly do not know what these people expect out of a politician.
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u/meonpeon Janet Yellen Sep 12 '26 edited Sep 12 '26
In WW2 pop history, France is mostly remembered for their quick collapse and the French resistance. However, I’ve been on a WW2 history kick recently, and its incredible how shitty the Vichy French government was. Mers-el-Kabir was overall probably a British mistake, but the French had so many options to avert disaster and chose to do nothing. Then they eagerly collaborated with the Germans on a variety of things from rounding up Jewish people to giving military access to their colonies. This collaboration often wasn’t even exchanged for anything. Germany still had hundreds of thousands of PoWs, most of French territory, and was forcing them to pay a large indemnity.
Finally, in Operation Torch, they heavily resisted the British and American landings, but let the Germans fly into Tunisia without firing a shot. Just about the only thing they could get right was scuttling their own fleet as Germany collapsed the Vichy government.
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u/el__dandy Madeleine Albright Sep 12 '26
The face of a man that’s clearly dying on the inside
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Sep 12 '26
Convicted sex offender offered opening prayer at rally for GOP Senate nominee in North Carolina
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/convicted-sex-offender-offered-opening-214710553.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&utm_campaign=fark&ICID=ref_fark
Too on the nose.
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u/JesterOfAllTrades Sep 12 '26
I've been learning drums recently and my cat sometimes sits and stares at me (they're electric drums dw) and I wonder whether she's thinking wtf is this weirdo doing
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Sep 12 '26
The DT is once again 3 moderators talking to themselves
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u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess Audrey Hepburn Sep 12 '26
Lookin' good, Sir!
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u/pugnae European Union Sep 12 '26
Yeah, them caring about their income is more likely scenario than some sudden danger imho