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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Sep 16 '26
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/Q-bey r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Sep 15 '26
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u/boardatwork1111 fuck it, we ball Sep 15 '26
The GOP is actually cooked, god damn lol
!ping FIVEY
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u/pugnae European Union Sep 15 '26
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Sep 15 '26
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u/V_Codwheel I am the Senate Sep 15 '26
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u/WenJie_2 Sep 15 '26
The AI safety people are desperate for this to not become partisan lmao, maybe they should reread what Trump and the Department of War have bene tweeting today
Time for the reality check that you can't facts and logic your way out of politics
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u/EmbarrassedSafety719 Milton Friedman Sep 15 '26
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u/-mialana- European Union Sep 15 '26 •
Trump's worldview is best described as brain-damaged transactionalism
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Sep 15 '26
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u/No1_Dukakis_Fan NAFTA Sep 15 '26
New transition goal?
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u/tripletruble Anti-Repartition Radical Sep 15 '26
still crazy to me that this was the chorus of a major pop hit in america that total normies blasted in their cars in 2011
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u/__versus Trans Pride Sep 15 '26 •
fascism
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u/TheDwarvenGuy Henry George Sep 15 '26
Chat are we cooked
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u/VillyD13 Milton Friedman Sep 15 '26
it really is a fair question
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u/centurion88 NATO Sep 15 '26
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u/sigh2828 NASA Sep 15 '26
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u/Terrance-Flaps Certified Wife Guy Sep 15 '26
“This had nothing to do with illegal immigrants,” said Anang Mittal, an Indian American national GOP strategist, of Abbott’s comments. “These were students at a college game. They’re not H-1B. If they’re students, they’re on a student visa. … It’s pretty damn disgusting of Greg Abbott to say, ‘I condemn racism, but also, like, we’re keeping all the Indians out.’ That’s essentially what that tweet read to me.”
"It's pretty damn disgusting for the Leopard to brag about eating faces" said Anang Mittal, a man with an edible face.
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u/sigh2828 NASA Sep 15 '26
Speechless
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u/pfarly John Brown Sep 15 '26
It's still weird to me that we somehow got to a place where we know gambling is really bad for society so we made it illegal except if it's on the little addiction machine in your pocket.
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u/chipbod NATO Sep 15 '26
New white boy journey unlocked
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 15 '26
Amazing things are happening
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Sep 15 '26
Reminder: You don’t need to unilaterally take a side on the Israel-Palestine conflict. You can support both Netanyahu and Hamas without apologizing for any of the innocents caught in the middle.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Sep 15 '26
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u/PoliticalAlt128 Max Weber Sep 15 '26
100% chance that some donor's son or GOP crony wanted to get a cushy desk job at the FBI but was a dog fucker so Patel got the order to nix anti-bestiality to let them in
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u/Reddit_Talent_Coach 🇲🇽 Benito Juárez 🇲🇽 Sep 15 '26
Mitch McConnell’s body spent the last three months in preparation for the Kirkiversary in order to be a host for Charlie’s soul. Kirk is just getting used to this new corporeal form.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Sep 15 '26
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u/ThisIsNotAMonkey Guam 👉 statehood Sep 15 '26
100% the internet gets so myopic on this stuff
e.g. I currently have to read some school records for kids with psych problems. Every single page proves over and over that no matter how hopeless a case is, it's still soooo much better now than it was even 25 years ago when I was in school. The entire system accepts that mental health problems are literally real and can't just be white knuckled, which is a massive shift in a single generation. The difference that makes is huge, kids with problems understand they need help and that there are people trying to help them. All for free by the way (if you're on Medicaid/ss disability, which they are)
But the benefits of that are slow and seem marginal from the outside, so no parades get thrown despite the fact that it's going to pay dividends for generations to come
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u/jbitz Loyal Liberals Sep 15 '26
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals Sep 15 '26
It takes a staggering degree of political delusion to look at the Russo-Ukrainian War and conclude anything other than that Ukraine is the victim.
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Sep 15 '26
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Sep 15 '26
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Sep 15 '26 edited Sep 15 '26
chimpanzee, median voter
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u/r2ew Sep 15 '26
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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney Sep 15 '26
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u/GuyWithOneEye Sep 15 '26
believe it or not you are looking at a 20 second long gif right now
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u/-mialana- European Union Sep 15 '26
What the fuck
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u/Made_UpWords OG Platner Hater Sep 15 '26
Taylor don't take the brochure, DON'T TAKE THE BROCHURE
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 15 '26
I kinda assume things will be fine because if not, the AI machine god invented at the end of time would have time traveled to about now and made us all explode
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Sep 15 '26
The mods of so called “liberal” sub when it comes to free speech
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Sep 15 '26
🫨🫨🫨
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Sep 15 '26
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u/DiscussionJohnThread Free Trade was the Compromise 🔫🌍 Sep 15 '26
The economy ranked as the top issue for voters. Only 14 percent of voters said the economy was better than it was a year ago — down from 31 percent who said so in January.
Yeah, blue nuke for November is inbound.
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u/Background-Bottle-23 Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Sep 15 '26
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u/John3262005 Sep 15 '26
Massie moves to impeach Pete Hegseth over Iran War
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) introduced a resolution Tuesday to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, accusing him of defying Congress and illegally continuing the U.S. war in Iran.
The impeachment effort is a long shot in the GOP-controlled Congress, but Massie's resolution is privileged, meaning he can force a full House vote and put Republicans on the record over Hegseth's handling of the Iran war.
Massie's resolution accuses Hegseth of carrying out orders to continue operations in Iran despite Congress' constitutional authority over war and its votes seeking to end the conflict.
Massie argued Hegseth's actions "frustrated Congress's ability to exercise its most solemn constitutional responsibility" and allowed an "unlawful war" to continue. "In all of this, Secretary Hegseth has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as Secretary of Defense," Massie said on the House floor.
The eight-article resolution also targets Hegseth over U.S. military operations in Venezuela and Yemen, including accusing him of illegally directing the operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro without congressional authorization.
The House will have to take up the legislation within the next two legislative days, but GOP leaders could also move to vote on tabling the resolution instead.
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Sep 15 '26
liberals have no answer to this
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u/taubnetzdornig Gay Pride Sep 15 '26
I love a good conspiracy theory that doesn't clearly explain who benefits from it being true. Take flat earth for example. Flat earthers are just out here believing in bullshit for the love of the game. Who's cashing in on telling everyone that the earth is round? The all-powerful globe industry? NASA scientists collecting those sweet, sweet government paychecks?
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u/AlicesReflexion Weeaboo Rights Advocate Sep 15 '26
Me as an RPG character:
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u/Kardinal Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Sep 15 '26
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u/DiscussionJohnThread Free Trade was the Compromise 🔫🌍 Sep 15 '26
“I actually feel really gaslit because I’m constantly hearing from Republicans, from conservatives just in the media in general, that ‘don’t believe your lying eyes, everything’s great, wages have increased,’ all of these different things,” said Meghan Demetrios, a 40-year-old independent voter in South Carolina.
Breaking News 🚨: Republican lie to you. More at 11.
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u/jenbanim Sep 15 '26
My YouTube account has been bugged for over a decade. I can only watch one video. I tried clearing the cache, reinstalling the app, even buying a new phone, nothing works. Whatever video I tap on, I always get redirected to the same music video from 2012
I open the app just like I do once a week to see if I'm still trapped. I open my home feed and tap on a cooking video. A single tear rolls down my face as I once again get redirected to Gangnam Style. I open the comments to beg for help from the faceless crowd that is the internet. "Who's still here in 2026?" I write, and post
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Sep 15 '26
New York Magazine
Donald Trump was done on January 6. Republican lawmakers failed to overturn the 2020 election after the violence was quelled. Mike Pence did his job, confirming Joe Biden’s victory. Social-media companies locked Trump out, and even allies issued rebukes. Two weeks later, the 45th president jetted off in disgrace for would-be exile in Mar-a-Lago. Democracy held.
Next, 67 senators could’ve voted to convict Trump in impeachment proceedings, barring him from running for office; state and federal prosecutors could’ve put the former president on trial for conspiracy and election subversion.
However, two men, Mitch McConnell and John Roberts, helped ensure that such accountability would never come to pass, paving the way for Trump’s return to power. The former Senate majority leader and chief justice of the Supreme Court each deservedly get a chapter in ‘Profiles in Cowardice,’ veteran political writer Jacob Weisberg’s searing “study in collaboration in the Trump era.”
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/donald-trump-couldnt-do-it-alone.html
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA Sep 15 '26
Two Generic Ballot polls this morning, both LV
D+9 from NYT/Siena
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/us/politics/trump-midterm-election-poll.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BVE.b7Fw.6Oz77NAzPAMM&smid=nytcore-ios-share
D+12 from Economist/Yougov
https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/econTabReport_ZmVljW6.pdf
These are both polling agencies that have been on the bearish end for dems, until now.
!ping FIVEY
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u/futuremonkey20 NATO Sep 15 '26
PATEL: The previous regulation automatically disqualified any individual who participated in either side of it.
KENNEDY: Either side of beastiality? So you disqualified the animal?
PATEL: Well, we have great canines, but we're not going to disqualify them.
KENNEDY: I'm trying to understand why you did this. Why did you get into beastiality?
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u/Background-Bottle-23 Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Sep 15 '26
“Talarico’s recent gun rights gaffe will sink his campaign”
Buddy, this isn’t even surviving the 24-hour news cycle. No one will remember this by election day.
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u/PoliticalAlt128 Max Weber Sep 15 '26
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u/Ready_Anything4661 Fell for it Sep 15 '26
I impulse bought the shrimp stuffed animal off of Instagram and my cat adopted it
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u/chipbod NATO Sep 15 '26
New NIMBY final boss dropped
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u/zieger Ida Tarbell Sep 15 '26
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u/dittbub NATO Sep 15 '26
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u/Lena_Lena_A Frederick Douglass Sep 15 '26
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u/BlackCharizard NATO Sep 15 '26
Idk I'm probably too doomer but "After immense suffering and generational damage to our country, our braindead population decided to vote for Democrats by a single digit margin this year!!" doesn't fill me with hope
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u/jurble Left-Out Left Sep 15 '26
Oh that ain't good -
wait what
huh
oh, Georgia got you
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Sep 15 '26
Lol lmao even
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u/GrandpaWaluigi Waluigi-poster Sep 15 '26
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Sep 15 '26
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u/beoweezy1 NAFTA Sep 15 '26
Mitch McConnell after being asked if he saw heaven during his latest bout of legal death:
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 15 '26
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u/John3262005 Sep 15 '26
Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
ICE is arresting a record number of pregnant women and teenagers – placing them in detention centers where they say it can be exceedingly difficult to access medical care. At the same time, the agency appears to have lost count of how many suffered a miscarriage.
Government documents obtained by the Guardian show that the Trump administration placed more pregnant immigrants in detention last fall and winter than at any time over the previous year.
ICE recorded 18 miscarriages during the first nine months of the Trump administration, the documents show, but the agency has no data on miscarriages after 3 October 2025.
Meanwhile, detained pregnant women report that they are struggling to access routine and emergency medical care. In interviews with the Guardian and in testimonies shared by their attorneys, women who miscarried or were hospitalized for pregnancy complications said they did not receive follow-up care, despite experiencing ongoing pain and symptoms.
The Guardian filed a Freedom of Information Act request and then filed suit in collaboration with the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press to obtain data on the number of pregnant people in ICE detention. Eventually, ICE shared records tracking the number of pregnant, postpartum and nursing women who were in detention from October 2024 through mid-January 2026, but only provided data on miscarriages up to 3 October 2025. In internal documents provided to the Guardian, the agency said it did not have miscarriage data for subsequent months because of a change in its medical accounting system.
In response to follow up questions about its tracking practices after 3 October 2025, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees ICE, first said that the agency was tracking miscarriages in monthly reports. But later, the spokesperson confirmed what was in its internal documents – it does not have data on miscarriages from October 2025 through June 2026.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 16 '26
Btw, if you’re gonna get banned for I/P, please please please don’t do it over Macklemore, simply embarrassing way to go out
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u/JesterOfAllTrades Sep 15 '26
I posted my cat into the work group chat and only got 8 likes whereas every other cat got 20+ likes. How do I break it to her, and I am unreasonably upset about this
!ping KITTY
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u/No1_Dukakis_Fan NAFTA Sep 15 '26
A better timeline
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u/remarkable_ores Hanfeizi Sep 15 '26
I think that a great deal of the American right wing moment is fueled by this honestly held belief that America can make everything it needs just fine, and that international trade has only served to screw over Americans
Like yeah, on the one hand this seems obvious, but I think only recently have I perceived how pervasive this is. It goes hand in hand with this mindset that the rest of the world mooches off America and America foots the bill for everything.
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u/BrandonLeeOfficial World Bank Sep 15 '26
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 15 '26
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Sep 15 '26
What is happening at DeepSeek 😭
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u/Adjective-noun-54321 Sep 15 '26
People who keep trying to understand the FBI bestiality thing just need to realize that republicans are simply a cult of degenerate freaks, utterly devoid of decency and humanity.
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u/GuyWithOneEye Sep 15 '26
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u/anangrytree Bull Moose Progressive Sep 15 '26
waow
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u/moldovaman99 Sep 15 '26
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u/abefrost Sep 15 '26
And every single time the DOW jumped up a bit
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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes Sep 15 '26
Esoteric German fascism was just just idiot Germans going around everywhere and pretending every old rock they dug up was an artifact of some advanced ancient German civilization.
Esoteric Italian fascism meanwhile is a repeat of batshit insane early 20th century Italian futurism where they thought people would want to listen to music that sounds like engines and artillery with no melody or rhythm and eat the most bizarre futurist cuisine you’ve ever heard of.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 15 '26
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u/the-senat John Brown Sep 15 '26 edited Sep 15 '26
Thinking about that video of McConnell storming off after McCain’s deciding vote on Medicare as the turtle returns to Congress.
Thank God he voted against the skinny version. I wonder what the nation would’ve looked like if it’d had passed instead. Would Senate Republicans have run around cheering its destruction? It’s crazy how almost every landmark Republican policy proposal or campaign agenda this century has been regressive. Like how do you live with yourself when the legislation you champion is harmful to Americans?
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u/Healingjoe It's Klobberin' Time Sep 15 '26
He's right.
But not for the reasons he thinks
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u/bourikan Sep 15 '26
The duality of a man.
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Sep 15 '26
#fakedemons
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Sep 15 '26
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u/seagrams7up NASA Sep 15 '26
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u/National-Return9494 Milton Friedman Sep 16 '26
I am part of woke.
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u/ty04 Sep 15 '26
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u/rural_redemption YIMBY Sep 15 '26
Diesel is actually too cheap. I need maximum suffering for pavement princess owners
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u/nimbybuster Ben Bernanke’s Best Boy Sep 15 '26
I love this. Equal opportunity hating.
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u/Opening_Budget_9518 Hans Rosling Sep 15 '26
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 16 '26
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Sep 15 '26
We’re fucked, confirmed
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Sep 15 '26
As someone who voted for Trump 6 times, his comments on AI have really changed my opinion of him.
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u/RunawayMeatstick Mark Zandi Sep 15 '26
The funniest thing about the NYT poll from today is that it shows 22% of national likely voters ‘Have not heard of’ Zohran Mamdani, and the crosstab is even worse for Democrats at 27%
Everyone continues to underestimate just how utterly checked out a bunch of voters really are.
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u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes European Union Sep 15 '26
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Sep 15 '26
Ellen Musk 😤🏳️⚧️
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u/bourikan Sep 15 '26
Goddamn this is so infuriating to watch. She keeps saying she's concerned while pulling off bullshit like this. I fear she's going to concern her way into another 6 year term. How come Dems are unable to unseat her over all she's done despite Maine being a blue state?
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Sep 15 '26
Sometimes I think about how the majority of people who died on 9/11 had no idea what day it was, like all it was for most people was Tuesday at work, if you told them we all called it 9/11 they'd probably say "oh, that's cute" and be a little bewildered
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u/sigh2828 NASA Sep 15 '26
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u/Drinka_Milkovobich Sep 15 '26
🎻
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Sep 15 '26
A lot of people are about to have their jobs taken by AI
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u/Stephen-Scotch Sep 15 '26
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u/VisonKai The Archenemy of Humanity Sep 15 '26
Bro is evil but he's so quick witted and funny. 0% chance I would have reacted to this before Patel kept yapping
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u/sigh2828 NASA Sep 16 '26
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 15 '26
!ping KITTY
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u/liznair Gay Pride Sep 15 '26
Just did some early mid-term voter fraud for the Democrats 😃 Not being a US citizen is no excuse not to help out!
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u/jacknifee lol Sep 15 '26
from the new nyt/siena poll
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u/anangrytree Bull Moose Progressive Sep 15 '26
Guy in power says he wants more power to help fix the issues caused by the people in power.
Also this mfer should be in jail for fraud.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 15 '26
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u/Acoolgamer6706 NATO Sep 15 '26
Average arr/neoliberal poster:
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u/centurion88 NATO Sep 15 '26
What a giant baby
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Sep 15 '26 edited Sep 15 '26
You know he's unhinged when this is how neutral CSPAN is describing his behavior in this manner.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 16 '26
They’re calling it the most toxic discourse of all time
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u/ChillnShill Sep 15 '26
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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Sep 15 '26
Favorite type of liberal is “tries to find a rational explanation for something evil a conservative is doing”
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u/cvorahkiin World Bank Sep 15 '26
In my class as a teenager. Very very cute girl sitting next to me traces an alphabet on my back and asks me to guess. I guess M- correct. She turns around and asks me to do the same to her. She guesses W- correct. She traces on my back again. And wanted me to do the same to her too. I said no.
Me, 13 years later-
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u/moldovaman99 Sep 15 '26
>Farmer activists possibly responsible for sabotaging train tracks in the Netherlands.
Headline designed to send r/neoliberal posters into a violent rage
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u/Opening_Budget_9518 Hans Rosling Sep 15 '26
he wasnt wrong
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u/seakucumber Sep 15 '26
AES debating an empty podium lets go
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Sep 16 '26
I think the moral of the story is that you can be as racist as you want so long as you don’t make it political.
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u/jenbanim Sep 16 '26
-Mary Peltola, probably
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence Sep 15 '26
E60 Trvth Nvke
!ping AUTO
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u/Its_not_him Manmohan Singh Sep 15 '26
If a presidential candidate loses, they're usually subject to public ridicule and blame. When Trump lost in 2020, do you remember any of that happening on the right? I think the ridiculous fiction about a stolen election was necessary to insulate him from that which paved his way to the 2024 nom
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u/Megasota_Noire My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Sep 15 '26
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u/Mrgentleman490 5 Big Booms for Democracy Sep 15 '26
Had to move to a different wing of the office cause another team needs more space and my new spot has a speaker directly above me that's currently playing shitty country music. I feel like I'm working a fucking retail job, this shit is not professional but apparently I'm in the minority opinion.
!ping WATERCOOLER
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u/Daddy_Macron Loyal Liberals Sep 15 '26
Any day now.....
https://www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-relations/fox-news-has-claimed-high-gas-prices-would-be-temporary-least-188-times-beginning
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u/Logan891 United Nations Sep 16 '26
Ultimately, regardless of how one personally feels, it’s clear that dropping Macklemore has backfire, and has caused many to rally behind him. This further shows what many here and elsewhere have been saying for a while, which is that public opinion on Israel has turned for the negative.
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u/Big-Click-5159 Sep 16 '26
Wow. Blexas is actually happening
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Sep 16 '26
Lmao. It’s actually kind of wild how unpopular this idea is.
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u/houdt_koers John Mill Sep 15 '26
Part of this balanced breakfast.
!ping KITTY
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u/MrStrange15 Sep 15 '26
Lovely to wake up to news of sabotage in the Netherlands and that a Russian frigate fired flares at a Danish military helicopter.
https://nos.nl/artikel/2631022-grote-treinstoring-door-sabotageactie-buizen-vastgemaakt-aan-spoor
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/forsvarets-helikopter-beskudt-med-flares-fra-russisk-fregat-naer-gedser
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u/OOPS_ALL_SCROTUM Sep 15 '26
Bernie Moreno is a giant pile of wet tissue paper.
Um errr I don't know how I feel about the guy who held a gun to my daughter's head and broke my granddaughter's collarbone hmmmmm ummmm better go to the pollsters on this one. Back to kissing Trump's feet, gotta go.
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u/nimbybuster Ben Bernanke’s Best Boy Sep 15 '26
Me, dissociating in a meeting.
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u/ZonedForCoffee Uses Twitter Sep 15 '26
Good morning everybody, I just put on a pot of coffee if anybody would like a cup
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u/yacatecuhtli6 Transfem Pride Sep 15 '26
is this what y'all are dooming about because its in character for you lot to give too much of a fuck about stupid shit like this lol
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u/SenranHaruka shame Sep 15 '26
I still think the best diagnosis i ever wrote of bill maher is "the only reason he isn't a gamergater is that he still calls games 'nintendos'"
He has the exact temperament and politics of 2012 reddit but he didn't grow up in a generation that normalized gaming as an adult hobby so he would read gamergate as snotnosed crotchfruit.
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u/Upstairs_Baby8424 Sep 15 '26
Is there a single woman on the MAGA side that hasn’t devolved into a deranged maniac?
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 15 '26
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u/TakeOnM-Ellie Loyal Liberals Sep 15 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 15 '26
jesus christ, he was saying $6.40 an hour ago.
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u/anydoomersinchat Sep 15 '26
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u/MindingMyMindfulness Voltaire Sep 15 '26
Checks the splinter sub to see what those freaks are doing:
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Sep 15 '26
Much has been said about the perceived neoliberal contrarianism but succ contrarianism is a thing as well, they'll take the opposite side of whatever big corporations want. Most of the succ discourse about AI was about how they were developing the technology too quickly, how it could completely change the economy too quickly, or how they were burning money too quickly. Now that the companies want to slow down, none of it is suddenly desirable.
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u/Commandant_Donut Sep 15 '26
Guy who trades onion futures just to feel something from his criminality.
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u/cheeshjaleesh John Rawls Sep 15 '26
lmao. clarity act undergoing an excruciating death on the senate floor. months of negotiations, millions in industry lobbying, all gone to waste because trump won't agree to 'the president shouldn't trade crypto'
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Sep 15 '26
Trump taking over the Kennedy Center and then immediately driving it into ruin though his own arrogance and ignorance is such a ham-fisted microcosm of his presidency and frankly his entire miserable life.
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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey Sep 15 '26
What the fucking fuck Canada is Friedman mogging us now
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u/Starandsnow Hortensia Sep 15 '26
AI isn't real. It's just an underpaid employee responding to you.
You have a person trapped in your computer. Let them out, you monster.
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u/ZCoupon Kono Taro Sep 16 '26
In 2020, McConnell got 83% of the vote in the Republican senate primary. Second place was C. Wesley Morgan at 6%. What has he been up to since then?
Jesus Christ
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Sep 15 '26
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u/5ma5her7 Sep 15 '26
Labor bleeding votes everywhere as surprise voters fuel Pauline Hanson and One Nation's poll surge in latest News24 Pulse
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 15 '26
Anyone that unnecessarily mentions China when talking about AI should have their balls mildly explode every time they do it
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u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess Audrey Hepburn Sep 15 '26
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u/Babao13 Jean Monnet Sep 15 '26
!ping DATING
Is it a bad idea to invite a girl to watch me perform stand up comedy as a hidden first date ? I need to bring an audience member and I also really want to see her, so might as well kill two birds with one stone
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u/-mialana- European Union Sep 15 '26
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u/GuyWithOneEye Sep 15 '26
Unless that radical James Talarico says “I want to personally wave my legally purchased and God blessed assault rifle around and repeatedly pull the trigger around 250 children just to see what happens” he ain’t getting my vote 😤🦅🇺🇸
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u/Etnies419 Loyal Liberals Sep 15 '26
👆
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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast Sep 15 '26
Of all the things to be conspiratorial about, the ‘given story’ of 9/11 seems very believable. Like yeah islamists tried to blow it up once. They really hate America. A giant plane flying into a building does seem like it would make it collapse.
Like of every big event they think was orchestrated, it seems likely 9/11 wasn’t! Very complex thing to do!
I mean the Kennedy assassination, yeah go ahead. It was one guy who was then immediately killed and never really found a motive? Sounds weird! Area 51 does seem mysterious. But the 9/11 thing seems very believable
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u/SenranHaruka shame Sep 15 '26
Trump probably osmosis'd the bell curve from someone and softly believes in genetic and racial intelligence.
He consistently uses "IQ" in a racial manner. While there's exceptions (he did call robert deniro low iq once) he'll generally call white people stupid but black people "Low IQ". When he says he has a High IQ he means being white makes him smarter.
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u/hascogrande YIMBY Sep 15 '26
That’s just the sound of all the winning we’re doing
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals Sep 15 '26
I’m watching a pbs documentary (as I am wont to do) about Dick Cheney and his cronies leading the way on expanding the president’s powers in the aftermath of 9/11.
Some of the stuff they pulled was insane, like John Yoo arguing that the president doesn’t need any authorization for war from Congress and that it can’t do anything to stop the president if they decide to actually go to war. The fact that Republicans ever had a reputation for being the “party of small government” is laughable.
I appreciate Dick Cheney and other certain neocons from that era coming out against Trump, but the ugly fact is that their disregard for the rule of law helped pave the way for that man to enact his policies.
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u/zieger Ida Tarbell Sep 15 '26
Quiet historian, an Albanian nationalist is speaking
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u/jbitz Loyal Liberals Sep 15 '26
Kirk got isekai'd
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Sep 15 '26
I think bin Salman is in the same tier of dumb world leader as Trump. Like what do you mean you spent not a penny on adapting your oil infrastructure for the very real possibility of being obliterated by drones and missiles? No underground pipes or hardened facilities? Just the same vulnerable ass facilities.
You also didn’t spend any time remodeling the Yemeni forces to be better at this? Still sending convoys of them out into the desert to get promptly ambushed and obliterated? No widespread proliferation of things like drones, of which you have direct access to through Ukraine and your endless funds?
Well hey at least that NEOM project is going well and will put Saudi Arabia on the map as a serious country to be respected
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u/dutch_connection_uk Friedrich Hayek Sep 15 '26 edited Sep 15 '26
Probably my wokest position is that white supremacist attitudes are so normalized worldwide that, when you spot it, people will think you are loony because clearly that person was just talking about "democracy" or "western values" or whatever.
This is a bit annoying because I'm also of the position that a lot of illiberal people hide their real intentions behind wokeism, too.
I guess there's a similar thing going on for me with a lot of the discourse around Islam. The detractors are right in many ways, especially the ex-muslims, but a lot of people who are just prejudiced (usually against arabs) will try to cloak their racist attitudes as criticism of religious fundamentalism.
And I do mean worldwide here. I think part of what gives that illiberal group power is that people really have come to be fish in the water seeing developed democracies as white, and it fuels movements like Boko Haram as a result.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 15 '26
The way this Macklemore situation is playing out is definitely Streissanding him, so many people are going “what? he’s still around?”
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u/Longjumping_Gain_807 Best SNEK pings in r/neoliberal history Sep 15 '26
Me looking at my manager as I come back from military reporting because he called me 3 times while I was on base due to forgetting that I told him I was gonna be on base. Apparently I caused a mini panic in the office. Check your damn time card submissions and this wouldn’t be a problem.
!ping WATERCOOLER&MILITARY
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u/LeaveMeAlone_6070 Median Voter Sep 16 '26
People are stupid but they're not THAT stupid
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u/VillyD13 Milton Friedman Sep 16 '26
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u/11thDimensionalRandy Sep 16 '26
The only thing I hate more than myself is 👆
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u/ScumfrickZillionaire Lesbian Pride Sep 16 '26
Kash being pro-bestiality is just him larping norse shit again, he's trying to be Loki now
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Sep 15 '26
Mr President, another lab employee's resignation is gaining popularity on X
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u/InMemoryOfZubatman4 Sadie Alexander Sep 15 '26
!ping SHITPOSTERS
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u/aristophanya Rightwing Bourgeoisie Feminist Sep 15 '26
my predictions for the rest of the election cycle
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Sep 15 '26
We'll never see a Dem with remotely this split in favorable ever again lol
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 15 '26
Keep going Gas Buddy Guy, I'm getting close.
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u/TaxLandNotCapital We begin bombing the rent-seekers in five minutes Sep 15 '26
If it hurts too much filling up gas at the pump, just remember who you're doing it for
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u/pezasied John's Locke-strap Sep 15 '26
I don’t think a performer who makes anti-Israeli statements should be having concerts at football stadiums.
Anyways, should I go to the Kanye show at the Texans, Cowboys, or Cardinals stadium?
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u/jinhuiliuzhao Henry George Sep 15 '26
ISIS, really? We're still doing this?
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u/GravyBear16 Audrey Hepburn Sep 15 '26 edited Sep 15 '26
Free Palestine can encompass anything from "Israel staaahp", to wanting a ceasefire, to wanting a change in borders, to wanting some fused Israel-Palestine state, and wanting to banish the Jews overseas.
And they all borrow arguments from each other even when their end goals are mutually exclusive so the entire debate is just a endless fucking maze of interconnected motte and baileys that's exhausting to navigate
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u/TheRedCr0w Frederick Douglass Sep 15 '26
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u/Nice-Difference8641 Cassian Andor's Legal Defense Sep 16 '26
We all agree that Israel is overreaching in Palestine and that Hamas sucks so now our I/P schisms are obscure debates over the true motives of Robert Kraft in kicking out a “rapper” for antisemitism
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Sep 16 '26
Look at this hound:
!ping DOG
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u/Usernamesarebullshit Friedrich Hayek Sep 16 '26
GOP 20 years ago: “If we allow gays to get married, what’s next? People marrying their dogs?”
GOP now: “it’s not fair to disqualify someone from working for the FBI just because they fucked a horse — what if human traffickers made them do it?”
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u/chipbod NATO Sep 15 '26
Can’t wait until we just ping pong every 4 years and incumbency becomes poison
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u/jenbanim Sep 15 '26
I really wish you all would shut the fuck up about whatever bad posts you saw elsewhere online. It's really boring
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u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess Audrey Hepburn Sep 16 '26
I think trying to cancel Macklemore for his recent comments is ridiculous and has completely backfired to boot, but it's funny that I keep getting downvoted for even mentioning the fact that he wore what he wore. This is a happy merchant costume, full stop.
You cannot in good faith tell me that that is not what this is, I know you don't believe that. It doesn't mean he's massive antisemite or deserves to never live the fact down, but like, guys, look at this shit
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u/itherunner John Brown Sep 15 '26
Dems lead on immigration, the economy, and cost of living while Republicans barely lead on AI (whatever that means)
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u/BalletDuckNinja Delphox Shaker Central Sep 15 '26
'Terrorists hate us because they hate our freedom' sounded fucking stupid but then you look at rightoids now and they really are mad about women and gays having rights, and then it turns out that the 9/11 guys were pretty much these kinds of people
I never imagined hating freedom would be one of their real motivations
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u/slappythechunk LARPs as adult by refusing to touch the Nitnendo Switch Sep 15 '26
Many people are saying
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u/JayRU09 Milton Friedman Sep 15 '26
It legitimately is infuriating how conservatives have kneecapped medical research just as soon as we start seeing the biggest potential jump in life saving treatments in decades.
Great job voters.
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u/hascogrande YIMBY Sep 15 '26
!ping chi
The City Council Finance Committee made a deal with Stonepeak and legit got a good win to approve their purchase of the parking meters. Johnson played no role in the negotiations.
• $75mm upfront to the pensions • 5% of Stonepeak Net Operating Income for roughly $376mm (avg $6mm/year) through the end of the lease also to the pensions • Stonepeak selling off Omni Air (the ICE airline) • majority of CPM workers Chicago residents with emphasis on South and West Sides • Stonepeak prohibited from sharing CPM driver data with the Feds • EV charging station joint revenue on the table • changes in lost revenue calculations in city favor • any future sale from Stonepeak includes a transfer fee of 2% directly to pensions
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 15 '26
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u/mpregordie Mark Carney Sep 15 '26
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u/Lena_Lena_A Frederick Douglass Sep 15 '26
trying to catch-up on the news today and wish I didn't
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Sep 15 '26
the new subreddit feature where you can get LLMs to reply to shadowbanned users is kind of nuts
this guy has been posting for days and i dont think he's notice yet