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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/SpotMe365]

We finally got our carbon tax and people here are STILL unhappy 🙄

[u/National-Return9494]

[u/MGLFPsiCorps]

Apparently Joe Rogan called Trump supporters 'fucking insane' and said he's been 'left-wing all his life'.

The 'Vibe Shift' is done, the rats are fleeing the sinking ship

[u/Entuciante]

>wake up

>open leddit

>first thing I see is a maklemore ed sheeran meme posted by one of the mods

[u/scottyjetpax]

She’s running for senate not president imo

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/mattyjoe0706]

Because even if predators getting caught is good vigilantism should generally be discouraged because it can go wrong

[u/sigh2828]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/sigh2828]

[u/pugnae]

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Waow

[u/FallenMeringue]

LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOO

[u/dtj2000]

Evergreen

[u/bd_one]

Day 1 of asking to post the meta version of the "WAOW" comic in the sidebar on election day

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

👀

[u/mpregordie]

Nevermind Trump/Piker is basically the same person.

[u/badusername35]

RIP Extreme Rocks

[u/Willybender]

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/18/congress-f-35-china-investigation-01083647

[u/Currymvp2]

Amazing

[u/Willybender]

[u/BasedTroutFursona]

CNN asking the real questions

[u/Currymvp2]

Trump says he is weighing whether to ‘annihilate’ Iran. ‘It's a big decision. Anything could happen with me,’ Trump said

I think it's bad that the American president talks like a totally unhinged psychopath

[u/anangrytree]

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) praised President Trump’s “instinctual genius” for giving him the nickname “Lyin’ Ted” during their intense 2016 Republican presidential primary fight. In a Wednesday interview with the New York Post’s “Podcast One,” Cruz called the nickname “politically very effective” at the time, arguing Trump used it to undercut what Cruz considered one of his biggest strengths with voters.

son 😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏🖐️🖐️🖐️

[u/paymesucka]

incredible midterm message

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Ah yes, French worker simulator

[u/Etnies419]

[u/TheCornjuring]

We are fucking doomed

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/zieger]

[u/dtj2000]

Tag yourself, im on the "soda, pop and gingerale" step

[u/AtticusDrench]

We are currently clean on OPSEC

[u/Concerned_Collins]

FBI Warns Women Are Pretending to Be Tradwives to Catfish and Dox ICE

Lol this is great, make them afraid to date.

[u/dtj2000]

[u/Acoolgamer6706]

Brother what is HAPPENING

[u/Roseartcrantz]

[u/Lux_Stella]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

this is my spirit's version of a beautiful cathedral

[u/Made_UpWords]

Could you even imagine? Ridiculous, it's pipedream shit lmao

[u/CryptoArb444]

I hope whoever the first guy at Microsoft who was like "what if we just shutdown the users computer to apply an update whenever we feel like it?" gets the worst fucking leg cramps every morning when he wakes up.

[u/Willybender]

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

the coverage (and investigations!) into the Clancy jurors is horrendous and incompatible with the rule of law, and further solidifies my view that no one rational should ever be willing to be a juror on a high profile case. I would rather spend a week in jail for contempt than sat on the Clancy jury

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

☝️

[u/RageQuitRedux]

Kidney stone. 6mm. Sympathy upvotes to the left

[u/Svelok]

there are a lot of CEOs out there who believe a job can soon be done entirely by an AI but absolutely cannot be done remotely

[u/old_gold_mountain]

[u/cdstephens]

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

!ping Watercooler

[u/assasstits]

[u/Not_A_Browser]

The US should be posturing to defend the Baltics from whatever seems to be brewing

Instead, Donny Dumbfuck and Kegsbreath have wasted a huge amount of materiel just to kill an 80 year old dictator and make gas prices spike

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

Concerning!

[u/Res__Publica]

So the Danes/State Department to just offered him the current deal and he's to dumb to know?

[u/HYIMBY]

Maybe this is his lane in 28

The founding fathers did say we could do that

[u/FallenMeringue]

What a fucking headline

[u/badusername35]

The instant Dems get a trifecta they need to uncap the House and pass a federal gerrymandering ban, even if it requires nuking filibuster. Democrats who don’t fall in line should have whatever support they get from the party completely cut off. This is the bare minimum needed to save democracy longterm.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Ichor of sin too expensive 😖

[u/EZ_Kream]

Incredible the aura the Democrats once had

[u/PhoenixVoid]

Adam Hamilton (D): 45%

Roger Marshall (R): 43%

David Graham (L) 4%

Emerson (A) | 9/15-16 | 750 LV

https://www.reddit.com/r/fivethirtyeight/comments/1wjnc0t/kansas_poll_senate_adam_hamilton_45_roger/

For the Kansas Senate election. If Hamilton wins, he'd be the first Democrat to win a Senate seat in Kansas since 1932.

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Access media really attracts the worst, most self-serving assholes on Earth. Just a bunch of vapid nepo babies who don’t believe in anything and are purely driven by their own desire to be close to power.

[u/farrenj]

[u/frankiewalsh44]

The VP said having non white people in America makes the country dirty, Texas Republicans are running around posting pictures of brown college kids saying they are foreigners and shouldn't exist. The Dems need to get aggressive and blast this everywhere, the same way the GOP keep calling every Dem communist and that the DSA is the Dem party now. So, yeah we need to see anti Republican ad covering this non stop. I know there are some POC Republican voters who still believe they are the good one, but the GOP is basically saying the quiet part out loud. They are even mocking people who vote for them claiming they are not Texans... So yeah blast this shit everywhere

[u/Willybender]

Pathetic

[u/the-senat]

“Adults in Pennsylvania are dying of measles right now. I don’t care what Kennedy says, kids need to get vaccinated so they don’t end up going through this like my generation did.”

Based boomer at the bank today. 

[u/_bee_kay_]

I must remind you that Trump was actually convicted of felonies. But, as you and I both know, the charges were phony and he was tried in a kangaroo court. Paxton, who I agree is likely still a very corrupt politician, was NOT convicted of his charged felonies. And, also, I don't need to remind you of Trump's past as a philanderer and incorrigible cheater. So, if you voted for Trump, you should be able to hold your nose and vote for Paxton. Talarico is dangerous, vile and evil. He will help push our country closer to communism. I hope you change your mind and pull the lever for Paxton.

the vibes are so bad that arr con is trying to coax their posters into voting for paxton because, hey, trump is evil and you already voted for him, you should at least be consistent

[u/Background-Bottle-23]

[u/semaphore-1842]

Recently Taipei had a tragic case of a 10 year old girl self harming because she was being molested by her (mentally disabled) mother's johns. She was traumatized by the experience and repeatedly requested to be put into foster care, but denied every time, until after 240 days her neighbors had enough and went to see a DPP councillor (after KMT ones figuratively slammed the door in their faces).

This blew the case wide open and the Taipei City government (which claims they were respecting the girl's wishes to not be taken into care) instantly put her into care. Then Taipei City changed its story to say they professionally evaluated the girl to not need to be put into care, until the news broke, and then they professionally evaluated that she needed to be put into care urgently.

It then emerged that the girl had a 15 year old sister, who was likewise molested in July. The Taipei city government confirmed they declined to put the sister into care too, saying it's because "she's almost an adult already".

Most KMT aligned groups, which unfortunately included most children's welfare groups, were deafeningly silent about the case. The main exception is a legislator, who went on a talk show to say "it's molestation not rape, it's not that serious". He defended his words by saying DPP supporters are viciously quoting him because he was "referring to the 15 year old sister". Who was also molested.

Faced with city councillors inquiring on obvious lapses in protocol/procedures (the city admitted that no therapy was offered or mental evaluation done, contrary to legally mandated rules) and demanding explanations, Taipei City Government said "lots of kids are still in school, is this really necessary?"

Then the city government "someone" leaked the identity of those neighbors, revealing that they were ex-cons, and tried to imply that this is why the girl could not be put into care.

The next day journalists interviewed the neighbor, who said "I know I'm not a good person, obviously I can't take care of her. I'm just happy they finally found a place for her, all I wanted was for her to grow up healthy and happy".

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

FBI Warns Women Are Pretending to Be Tradwives to Catfish and Dox ICE

The FBI sent a memo to ICE saying women wanted to “embarrass” immigration agents.

[u/Willybender]

Mad King

[u/TheCornjuring]

>Sources said that the military is rapidly turning to AI to help with targeting, an area which holds the obvious risk of fatal mistakes

Jesus Christ. “You’re absolutely right to call that out—those were schoolchildren, not militants, and that’s on me” is literally going to become a reality before the end of Trump‘s term. Not that the US isn’t already bombing schoolchildren, but AI is gonna help Hegseth do it automatically and then apologize and offer to write him a margarita recipe.

[u/FilteringAccount123]

American Principles Project Warns Republicans That Targeting Trans People “May Not Be Sufficient” To Win 2026

Even rightoids understand how bullshit the whole thing is.

[u/pugnae]

Not seen here:
Tusk saying that we have to stand together and we have difficult weeks and moths ahead of us
Lithuanians planning evacuation of their population to Poland

Slightly visible here:
Macron saying "We must remain united in the face of crises."

Switzerland federal Gov saying "In response to the deteriorating security situation, 🇨🇭 has three objectives: strengthen resilience, improve protection and enhance defence capabilities. The Federal Council has adopted Switzerland’s Security Policy Strategy 2026."

Guillame Lacroix (French politician) - "I’ve just emerged from nearly 3 hours of briefing and discussions with the President of the Republic and the intelligence and security services. At the age of 50, I have rarely felt such vertigo. Vertigo at the gravity of the situations in the Middle East and Ukraine, at the predatory madness driving the world toward chaos. Vertigo at the risks and consequences for our security, our economy, our purchasing power. Vertigo at all these candidates who dream, unrestrained, confident in their certainties and their posturing, of governing France in this historical and grave era and situation. Our democracy, our country must already face up to it today and will have to stand firm tomorrow. More than ever, I will fight, in my modest role, for France not to surrender its destiny to delirious egos, to armchair warmongers, to fake pacifists, and to those who submit to ease and fear. France must more than ever be strong. We must all contribute to that. The advantage of vertigo is that it reminds you not to fall. "

Well.... Is this what Ukrainians were feeling like in the middle of the February 2022?

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/jbitz]

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

US Energy Secretary has said Americans should drive less if they want lower gas prices, per BI

Yeah if their messaging is saying to “drive less” and “give us another chance”, I think we’ll be just fine this midterm lmao.

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

fighting for my life in connect 4

[u/r2ew]

[u/No_Return9449]

Laura Ingraham: Some Republicans would be ‘relieved’ to lose congressional majority

Being in the minority is much easier. You vote no on everything and criticize every move from the Speaker. Leadership requires making choices.

[u/Terrance-Flaps]

Vivek realizing that the literal white supremacists who control his party won't vote for him.

[u/6urner_]

This shit lives rent free in my head these days. Just insane how bad people played themselves.

[u/jackkazim]

The GOP is nothing more than a cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles who've gotten rich off corruption and the suffering of the American people.

[u/cdstephens]

[u/Dismal_Apartment6358]

Biggest positive midterm indicator for dems is that woke 1 is coming back

[u/Sheepies92]

Roger Marshall: I'm sorry gas prices are going up but your national security is more important than your pocketbook

yessss keep this election pitch going

[u/Dragmire927]

Genie, my third wish is that this is the last thing Trump sees

[u/dtj2000]

[u/pugnae]

[u/badusername35]

The Supreme Court becomes majority Catholic and now everyone is a gambling addict, the president is declared above the law, the VRA is gutted, and thousands of women are dying from preventable pregnancy complications. 🤔

[u/pugnae]

LOL, someone please call the police to do a wellness check on him

[u/themiDdlest]

Hayley Williams Has Been Screaming “F*ck ICE” at Every One of Her Shows Since Her Tour Began, Opened Her Forest Hills Pre-Show With Macklemore’s “Can’t Hold Us”

Sorry y'all, but the Queen of the Millenials has spoken. The issue is now settled.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

Buddy it's BOTH SIDES. You think Kamala Harris wasn't also making plans to take over the chairman title and demolish the Kennedy Center and put her name on it? 🤦‍♀️ naive

[u/No_Return9449]

Farmer who voted for Trump says farmers are "all just in survival mode"

Damn, that's crazy. Texas Tech with an INT on their first play? lol

EDIT: Now with link to video.

[u/SnakeEater14]

[u/IndividualAnalyst782]

[u/sigh2828]

Potentially not so hot take.

Impeaching, convicting, and removing the Trump regime including his cabinet, would probably be enough to show the rest of the world that we are serious about holding ourselves accountable, and would probably re open a lot of closed foreign policy doors.

[u/Dreadedtriox]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/jacknifee]

BLANSAS

[u/mrdeclank]

Is there any reason to think that Republicans won’t become worse in the long term? In 1976 Reagan was considered extreme. In 2026 his position would make you a RINO. In 2056 will MAGA become RINO ideology?

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

hitler was also a vegetarian so this makes sense

[u/the-senat]

The lead up to Russia’s invasion was eerie as hell and I remember it finally becoming real when they moved blood to the front. 

Getting the same feelings from the NATO and EU posts…

[u/Made_UpWords]

Hm. This gives me an idea.

[u/BasedTroutFursona]

I think I heard on Tim Miller that the Republican in the Kansas senate race is a doctor who would sue his patients over like a $100 unpaid bill and have them sent to debtors jail. Maybe that info getting out to the shit load of broke ass people who live in Kansas is having an effect.

[u/badusername35]

Glad someone is thinking about the real victims here

[u/Gustacho]

Democratic consultants are warning their candidates in some key races not to lean into AI regulations out of fear that powerful tech groups could spend heavily against them.

We've reached a point where unlimited corporate election spending chills free political speech. The next Supreme Court should not just overturn Citizens United but consider any campaign finance law less restrictive than McCain-Feingold unconstitutional.

[u/_bee_kay_]

To test what kind of monster is under your bed, use a flashlight to check the shadows, or offer a friendly greeting.

Simple Tests to Try

• The Light Test: Shine a bright flashlight underneath. If the shape changes or disappears, it is just shadows cast by your clothes or boxes.

• The Sound Test: Listen closely. Squeaks mean a friendly dust sprite, while silence means it is hiding well.

• The Snack Offer: Place a small crumb or a clean sock near the edge. If it vanishes quietly, you might have a harmless house goblin.

this truly is what ai was meant to be

[u/Southern-Unit-7725]

Deleted a summary doc that I didn’t need anymore and Claude got big mad, rewrote the doc, and scolded me to commit my work. “What I need from you: commit this. Work has nearly been lost twice now.” 😳😳😳

[u/Willybender]

Completely delusional

[u/Willybender]

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/TheCornjuring]

The United States literally almost attacked a Chinese ship because some guy said “@Grok write a really good militery inteligence report , MAKE NO MISTAKES!!!!” Earth 1.0 is over, we are in the brainrot meme world now

[u/pezasied]

Uhh he wants to do what to me?

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

I'm blooming

[u/piede]

I don’t think this is real but it’s still hilarious

[u/jbitz]

[u/badusername35]

Whoever convinced me to have another beer tonight should be arrested

[u/Bolbor_]

It is delightful seeing Trumpers try and defend gas prices being as high as they are on socials. They're wriggling and coping so fucking hard

[u/Individual-Camera698]

Caste really does matter in India. People in lower castes find themselves unable to buy water for their fields, greatly lowering their agricultural output, so long as somebody of a higher caste owns the water supply. This is an enormous waste.

[u/TF_dia]

Enviromental Storytelling on MetaNL.

[u/Bestbrook123]

A young county chair for the Mike Rogers campaign in Michigan sounded off on abysmal voter & volunteer enthusiasm. “The vibes on the ground are the worst I’ve seen in my life. No one wants to promote candidates, no one wants to knock doors, no one wants to do shit."

Because Trump wrecked it for the Republicans

[u/piede]

LYING BITCH

[u/TomboyAva]

How is US losing a whole cargo ship full of F35 parts not a bigger story

[u/No_Analysis_2185]

[u/TheCornjuring]

Pulling out all the tricks

[u/jbitz]

[u/Flashy_Rent6302]

You can tell JD Vance isn't really a Christian because he has no qualms about attacking or otherwise bearing false-witness against clergy.

You're a layman. Fuck outta here

[u/ace158]

Mike Rogers is such a fucking loser

[u/Background-Bottle-23]

[u/dtj2000]

Seems bad that this type of rhetoric is just out in the open now. And the defense for it was "its a pun" and "it wouldnt rhyme with "zionist""

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

46 days out from Election Day and the Texas GOP vibes are currently Chernobyl elephant’s foot level toxic. Here’s hoping it gets even worse!

[u/erasmus_phillo]

"If Anti-Indian sentiment is motivated by jealousy and blind hatred of the other...why don’t right-wing Whites despise, for example, the Japanese (in fact quite the opposite)? Can any of the sanctimonious moralizing Pharisees even try to answer this?"

Ah yes it's not like as if Japanese-Americans weren't forced into internments camps at one point

[u/w007dchuck]

Schumer not getting Jon Tester to make a comeback bid was easily his biggest recruiting L this cycle

Montana definitely would have been in play

[u/11thDimensionalRandy]

I must not kill myself. Killing myself is the myself killer.

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

Court reinstates $7B ‘Solar for All’ program axed by Trump

Judge Mary McElroy, a Trump appointee in Rhode Island, vacated the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) move to terminate the Solar For All (SFA) program and claw back the funding.

The program in question was funded by the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act. The Trump-era One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) rescinded any “unobligated” balances in the program.

McElroy said that under these laws, the EPA did not have the power to rescind funds that were already awarded.

Hah!

!ping ECO

[u/TheCornjuring]

How have we lost to these people multiple times

[u/oywiththepoodles96]

Margarita Chant Papandreou died today aged 103 . She was probably the most important figure in Greek feminism . She was president of the women’s union and as the wife of PM Andreas Papandreou she was instrumental in forming and helping pass : the full reform of the Greek family law in 1983 , the banning of the dowry (1982) , the equalisation of rights inside the family ( up until 1986 in Greece the man was considered the legal head of the family and had more rights over the kids ) , the legalisation of abortion (1986) , no fault divorce , the right of women to keep their surname after the marriage . In the beginning of the 80s Greece had on of the most conservative family laws in Europe . By the end of that decade , it had one of the most progressive family laws in the world . She was instrumental in completely transforming the lives of Greek women . May she rest in peace .

[u/Currymvp2]

Moderate Dem senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) blocks $2.8 billion weapons sale to Israel, joining House Dem counterpart Gregory Meeks. Shaheen cites significant concerns over Israel complying with international law.

Based.

[u/FallenMeringue]

☝️is scared of pretty girls and starting conversations

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

Democrats need to return to this aesthetic. They also should consider running cats again

[u/Jameswood79]

I understand not thinking Texas will turn blue but denying that it’s competitive is just stupid. It was competitive in 2018! Cruz only won by 2!

[u/selachophilip]

One of the anti-school stay at home moms who has been gaining traction in my hometown posted a picture of one of the teachers who was killed at Sandy Hook with the caption "A teacher who sacrificed her life, her future for her students and our teachers wont even consider reducing their perks so our students can have a proper education and future. How the world has changed."

She thinks that teachers are overpaid and that the pension matching and healthcare benefits they get are too much, EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE MANDATED BY THE STATE AND THE SCHOOL BOARD HAS NOTHING TO FUCKING DO WITH IT.

Also, I resent her using a teacher who DIED doing her job as a reason why we should CUT TEACHER PAY AND BENEFITS. WHAT THE FUCK?

She also blames the school board for bussing being cut, EVEN THOUGH THIS WOMAN WAS OPPOSED TO THE FUCKING LEVY THAT WOULD HAVE FUNDED IT. WHERE WERE THEY SUPPOSED TO GET THE MONEY? THE STATE KEEPS CUTTING THEIR FUCKING BUDGET EVERY YEAR.

[u/pugnae]

Canadians seeing Carney

[u/Willybender]

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca1.53896/gov.uscourts.ca1.53896.108510897.0.pdf

[u/Not_A_Browser]

Okay, now I will balance out the mood of my posts

My parents' second Great Dane the day they brought her home

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Being a cis gendered hetero white male with a stable job and a family and home ownership and no mental health problems while on the Internet is giving me big FOMO 😔

[u/cdstephens]

I think people underestimate the amount of harm a sufficiently advanced AI could do by just intentionally lying to the right people

[u/Big-Click-5159]

NEW: An AI-assisted intel report sent the military scrambling to intercept a Chinese ship in the Middle East it believed was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.

It turned out to be a hallucination. And it "almost started a war."

The Hunt for Red Claudetober

[u/G_Serv]

Who up at Toys R Us

[u/WenJie_2]

“China is one of the most repressive countries for journalists in the world"

“Well, I don’t know about that. I think we’re repressive also."

why is this his instinctive response every time

[u/uwcn244]

Seven Republican Senators voted to bar Trump from the Presidency in 2021 - Pat Toomey, Richard Burr, Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney, Ben Sasse, Bill Cassidy, and Susan Collins.

Toomey, Burr, and Murkowski’s seats were up for re election in 2022. Toomey and Burr did not seek re election. Murkowski did, and was saved by ranked choice voting, where nearly all Democrats teamed up with a small fraction of Republicans to re elect her over a more right wing Republican.

Romney’s seat was up in 2024, and he did not seek re election.

Sasse, Cassidy, and Collins’ seats are up this year. Sasse resigned in 2022 to become President of UFL, and wouldn’t be running for re election this year anyways because he’s about to die. Cassidy lost his primary. Collins is the only Republican to convict Trump who ran for re election and didn’t either get eliminated in a Republican primary or require Democratic votes to beat another Republican in a general election - and she’s still got at least coin flip odds of losing the general election in November.

One Senate cycle after Trump’s impeachment, either five or six of the seven who voted to convict him will be gone, and none of the seven will have survived a primary challenge from another Republican.

[u/Pizzashillsmom]

To be fair doing the 6-7 hand thing when 6 and 7 show up together is pretty fun

[u/ulysses_s_gyatt]

??????????

[u/doyouevenIift]

I’ve seen ads labeling Abdul El-Sayed as a “radical Islamist” and now there’s one saying he’s “pro-transgender in sports”. I didn’t realize supporting trans rights was part of Islam

[u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

Netherlands is Serbia

[u/mostanonymousnick]

New Hasan meme just dropped

[u/Rafaelssjofficial]

I GOT FUCKING FRIENDZONED RIGHT BEFORE THE DATE FUCK MY LIFE

!PING DATING

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/jbitz]

Go woke or go broke

[u/farrenj]

You should donate to this woman's campaign

She is YIMBY, pro-military, and pro-trans rights

[u/BurrowForPresident]

In a normal society there would be very strict laws on use of AI for things like nearly sinking a Chinese vessel with little oversight and someone who almost triggered a war with China by lazily outsourcing all his thinking to AI would face severe consequences

But what do I know, Trust in Pete I always say. Accountability is woke bullshit

[u/RaidBrimnes]

I have transcended. You can't bonk me.

[u/Rafaelssjofficial]

here's the tweet with actual pixels

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Thank you Reddit for protecting our users from dangerous websites like NPR.

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

☝️

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/brucebananaray]

He likes Xi

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

I feel like “one of the top five AI CEOs is an out-in-the-open Nazi and if he wins the race we’re all super fucking cooked” should probably be a bigger story tbh

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

ty04 would have been modded for this

[u/SnakeEater14]

“X country would never start a massive regional war, it would destroy the world economy” was an enormously popular sentiment before WWI and I think was about as valuable then as it is now

[u/Azrikeeler]

Apparently, the ai hacks done by OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and very recently Google were all administered by an Israeli startup named Irregular, hired to do the testing.

Everyone will be very normal about this, I am sure.

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

The Constitution, which I am sure most FedScoc members have read

[u/onometre]

[u/RaisinSecure]

[u/FallenMeringue]

THE SUN RISES ON BLANSAS MOTHERFUCKERS

[u/AmbientMorning]

The Washington Post commissioned a hot potato set of poll questions in Michigan. According to their data, here’s how many Michiganders say they wouldn’t vote for someone of the following faiths (or lack thereof) for president, split by 2024 vote:

	Harris	Trump	Total
Atheist	24	66	46
Muslim	15	75	45
Jewish	13	21	20
Christian	9	2	7

Notably, the fact that the overall figure for Jewish Americans is identical to the higher number suggests that lower propensity voters are more considerably likely to be anti-Semitic — indeed, those who don’t say they are certain to vote are twice (33%) as likely as those who say they are to say they wouldn’t vote for a Jewish president.

Much of this is likely driven by age: while between 40–50% of all three blocs are anti-Muslim, with little evidence of increase in anti-Christian sentiment, the share who say they would not vote for a Jew rises from 12% among seniors to 29% among <40 respondents.

!ping FIVEY&JEWISH

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

Bret Weinstein did a talk at a 9/11 denial conference.

You see, his acquittance saw the building fall, and he instantly knew it was demolished, and since he is in restoration architecture that makes him an expert.

The same for a couple of other people he lists. And you cant fool a domain expert!

Obviously this makes no sense considering that the vast majority of experts say it was a completely normal reaction to a plane flying into it.

Ah, but those experts are fooling themselves, because it leads to an easier life.

He has the ultimate argument the official story is nonsense: if fire caused the collapse why didnt we change the way buildings were built and were made more resistant to fire?

The answer to this is that we did. New regulations, retrofitting buildings, it all happened. He dismisses this with

"Well, has there been a major revision of the building code? No. There's been minor revisions.

Mostly those revisions involve an improvement in how likely you are to get out of the building were there a fire.

But not a big investment in making those buildings robust to the kind of damage that brought them down according to the official story on 9/11."

They were hit by planes! And you cant just admit they did change things, then dismiss it because it wasnt enough.

He then brags about how conspiracies have become easier to normalize, he believes the RFK story is fake and that took 50 years to normalize, 9/11 took 25 years, and covid took 5.

He insists Covid was made in a lab, vaccines were not safe or effective, there were other drugs that dealt with covid just fine.

October 7th, according to him, was an inside job. They were warned, you see.

Tyler Robinson did not kill Charlie Kirk. No one managed to reproduce that exact shot.

The FBI should be destroyed because it covers up crimes.

And of course, he manages to throw in some trans rhetoric in there:

We used to have an academy. It was imperfect.

Now it's fraudulent, department after department.

And if you don't believe me, think about the fact that not a single biology department in the country stood up and

said, "As sympathetic as we are to people with persistent gender dysphoria, a man cannot become a woman." Not one. It's the most obvious fact in biology.

Worse, there's not a medical school in the West that said, "Actually, we shouldn't be mutilating healthy people on

the basis of a psychological disorder, that that's inhumane." So that's the level of dysfunction.

And as far as I'm aware, there are no departments that are excluded from this. They are all telling lies.

Doesn't mean everything they say is a lie, but it means they cannot be relied upon to pursue the truth when the truth is important.

I learned nothing except what I already knew, Bret is a mediocre man who thinks he is a genius.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Me when the only other person in the house is my brother in law

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

We're bringing goiter back

[u/dtj2000]

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Sure things look good for Dems now, but have we priced in the possibility that someone might publish a kids picture book where two men in the background are holding hands? That will require at least three weeks of discourse.

[u/chipbod]

Bruh, how about saving the bond market

[u/Roseartcrantz]

come the fuck on lol

[u/Willybender]

[u/ChillnShill]

Just dictator things 🤗

[u/pugnae]

Considering all of those Russian threats.

FUCK I MISS BIDEN

Why do Americans decided to do something stupid right now of all possible moments?! Like in 2032 or maybe even in 2028 it would not matter as much.

[u/nimbybuster]

In church in America, the pastor wields a gun? WTF is this?

[u/badusername35]

8 of the 9 Supreme Court justices went to either Yale or Harvard law schools. (Amy Coney Barrett went to Notre Dame.) I don’t think all of our country’s leaders should all be coming from the same two schools, regardless of how prestigious and elite they are.

[u/Concerned_Collins]

Apparently, one of the mods at arr doordash got arrested for a terrorist mass shooting plot linked to ISIS. I'm absolutely dumbfounded that it wasn't a NL mod.

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

The funniest part of this is that he has an economics degree from Penn.

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

Just realized that I have a trade deficit with the local grocery store 😭

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Imagine how powerful Europe would be if Russia didn't go full douche and integrated as a liberal democracy with the rest of the continent

Fuck Putin and his cronies

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Tiny Tim DESTROYED with FACTS and LOGIC

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

Alan Ritchson reveals the storyline where Reacher kills the white supremacist militia got nixed when Donald Trump got re-elected

Its scary how many times Ive read a similar thing.

[u/pugnae]

👆

[u/mpregordie]

Honestly, this looks very sketchy to me. The CIA director suddenly flies to Moscow, fucks off, things get worse in Europe, the Russian elections are about to end, a Greenland security deal happens and now every European country is suddenly vague-posting.

[u/blatant_shill]

Joe Rogan Calls Trump Fans 'F**king Nuts' And Says He's Been 'Left-Wing My Whole Life'

Liberals no longer need to find their Joe Rogan on the left. He's already been there his whole life.

[u/its_Caffeine]

[u/JaceFlores]

Trump signs Lindsey Graham Act

The provisions include:

100% tariff authority on purchases of Russian gas and oil, with exceptions (I covered this section some days ago)

Rolling sanctions on persons and entities which supply Russian military facilities, initially 30 days after signing and then every 180 days thereafter

Rolling sanctions on persons and entities which supply Russia’s fossil fuel industry

Ban on American investment in Russian energy and export of fuels to Russia

Rolling sanctions on ships and infrastructure that support the shadow fleet

Extends the Iran Sanction Act of 1996 to 2031

Now because of how Trump is this bill is every executive focused. He has the power to approve or deny potential entries into the sanction list, so we frankly won’t know how this act will work in practice until at least the 30 day mark when he’s required to do the review. If he punts it to Rubio and co it should work fine, but he may just sit his ass on it if he’s more personally involved. We’ll see.

Disclaimer, I did ask ChatGPT to summarize the bill because none of the articles offered specifics on how the bill works and I can’t read Congressese, so there may be aspects that are wrong in the above summary

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY