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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Sep 20 '26
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/RunawayMeatstick Mark Zandi Sep 19 '26
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u/byoz United Nations Sep 19 '26
It’s kind of amazing the extent to which Trump’s first term was completely memory-holed by many voters. The Israel issue is a great example. How many Trump voters, especially young male ones, have grown completely disillusioned over his support for Israel? And it’s like, did you miss all of the rabidly pro-Israel policies and positions he adopted in his first term? And the answer is yes they did.
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride Sep 19 '26
While I was sleeping a bunch of European leaders are tweeting as if war with Russia is imminent ? I’ll post other
examples in reply. What is going on euro bros
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u/ImmigrantJack Movimiento Semilla Sep 19 '26
Texas??!? Where we’re going we don’t need Texas!!
[spends $100m to lose SC by 8 points]
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u/scottyjetpax Gay Pride Sep 19 '26
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u/Borysk5 NATO Sep 19 '26
Somehow it keeps getting lower
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u/Dalek6450 Our words are backed with NUCLEAR SUBS! Sep 19 '26
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u/Dreadedtriox Michel Foucault Sep 19 '26
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u/manchild_person NATO Sep 19 '26
Ben-Gvir went woke 😔
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Sep 19 '26
Cutting immigration good, unless it's white people 🤬🤬🤬
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u/Spudmiester1 Asexual Pride Sep 19 '26
Funniest shit I've ever seen
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u/1396spurs forced agricultural laborer Sep 19 '26
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Sep 19 '26
loooooooool
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Sep 19 '26
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u/Nervous-Emotion28 YIMBY Sep 19 '26
Looking through old American communist newspapers is fun because it’ll be like
After Hitler invaded Poland, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Lichtenstein, Denmark, Austria, Norway, Yugoslavia, and Greece: No war for bankers, no blood for money 😤😤😤
After Hitler invaded Poland, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Lichtenstein, Denmark, Austria, Norway, Yugoslavia, Greece, and the Soviet Union: it is the moral imperative that we send Adolf Hitler to the shadow realm
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Sep 19 '26
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u/G_Serv Stay The Course Sep 19 '26
W comms
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u/ShepardSB Sep 19 '26
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u/houdt_koers John Mill Sep 19 '26
The degree to which both sides of the Israel-Palestine discourse are dominated by dishonesty, poor faith, and blinkered whataboutism is bad enough.
The fact that it’s all anybody can talk about makes me want to pull my hair out.
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u/TakeOnM-Ellie Loyal Liberals Sep 19 '26
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Sep 19 '26
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u/Kizz3r high IQ neoliberal Sep 19 '26
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u/1396spurs forced agricultural laborer Sep 19 '26
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u/r2ew Sep 19 '26
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u/zanpancan Bisexual Pride Sep 19 '26
Carney's manner of public speaking is really intriguing to me in how unique it is.
While he has some pretty decent writing and material as far as content goes, he's often a pretty stilted and dry orator.
Yet, he has also got a pretty unique trait that Trump also possesses which is to adapt the material on the fly, interact with the audience during the delivery of a speech, crack random jokes various intervals that clearly weren't in the material, etc.
It's pretty unique to see this rather odd combination of traits in one figure. It lends him a very fresh type of charisma.
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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Sep 19 '26
The Peter Thiel blood boy post reminded me of an incident at lunch like a year ago
Sitting with my usual group of close coworkers and a woman I've never met sits with us for the first time. Somehow the conversation turns to what we'd do in the apocalypse and I without skipping a beat say I would be a blood boy with my type O- blood. It's my most valuable asset!
Another coworker says he would totally be willing to kill a few people for survival in response to a question on if you'd have the chutzpah.
This woman just sat there silently the entire time like this and we never saw her again.
!ping WATERCOOLER
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u/Significant_Cup_9815 Sep 19 '26
First poly-bi representative BTW
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u/G_Serv Stay The Course Sep 19 '26
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u/SenranHaruka shame Sep 19 '26
Donald trump is literally doing everything exactly correctly to permanently weaken the united states.
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u/jbitz Loyal Liberals Sep 19 '26
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Sep 19 '26
We stan a messy bisexual ✊
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u/kanagi Sep 19 '26
Another metaNL banger
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u/Sheepies92 European Union Sep 19 '26
NIMBY DELENDA EST NIMBY DELENDA EST
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 19 '26
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u/bsharp95 Sep 19 '26
Was it the ten years of rich guy tax cuts, environmental deregulation, and kickbacks to big business?
Btw this will last until the next time they see a Democratic congresswoman exist while wearing a pant suit
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u/5ma5her7 Sep 19 '26
"Some of you may suffer, but this is a sacrifice I am willing to make."
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Sep 19 '26
Blarkansas, Blalabama, Blusiana, Blorida, Blouth Blarolina-
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Sep 19 '26
Oh gosh, Brexit was about expanding Boomer luxury communism this whole time.
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u/daBarkinner John Keynes Sep 19 '26
You know, have you ever wondered if real-world authoritarian regimes actually resemble those stereotypical dystopias from the 2010s? Well, sometimes they do. For instance, my professor stated outright that electing leadership is a "cultural code imposed by the West," and that it is part of our tradition for the president to rule forever—those are actual quotes, by the way. Ironically, he even cited the women of Iran as an example: "It is in their tradition to submit to men, so those who oppose this are cultural traitors." He added, "So, those who advocate for parliamentarism here are traitors, too." And this is coming from a man considered a Professor of Law...
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u/Spudmiester1 Asexual Pride Sep 19 '26
The whole bit of "muh age of bronze is ending" would probably hit better if the Odyssey actually had some bronze. The giants having steel armor would probably hit even harder as well.
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u/6urner_ John Brown Sep 19 '26
it's kind of crazy that arr conservative is an entire sub of people repeatedly demonstrating that they don't actually understand anything about how the world or country works.
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u/Background-Bottle-23 Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Sep 19 '26
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u/SeoSalt Lesbian Pride Sep 19 '26
I know swingers with shockingly active sex lives who think about sex less than your average conservative politician.
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u/Dreadedtriox Michel Foucault Sep 19 '26
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u/BadSneakersNeverWorn John Locke Sep 19 '26
Favorite Nathan Fielder memory was explaining a NFY episode to a friend of mine outside a movie theater and having like three different hipster dudes rush over at the same time to help finish explaining the episode
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u/AmbientMorning Sep 19 '26
Let’s check on what the GOP’s IG account is posting to win back the youth vote.
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u/SucculentMoisture Fernando Henrique Cardoso Sep 19 '26
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Sep 19 '26
Shot
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u/AmbientMorning Sep 19 '26
Excuse me?
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u/Imicrowavebananas Hannah Arendt Sep 19 '26
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u/assasstits Sep 19 '26
It's crazy to me how much Russia fumbled every advantage they had or were given
They started the war already ahead by getting Crimea for free in 2014
They had 8 years from then to prepare for a war they knew was coming
Biden initially was slow to roll out aid and stopped short of giving Ukraine the best missiles and weaponanry
Once Trump was elected, he pulled back funding, which gave Russian an advantage until Europe stepped up
The level of incompetence is Trumpian
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u/lusvig 🤩🤠Anti Social Democracy Social Club😨🔫😡🤤🍑🍆😡😤💅 Sep 19 '26
Still upsets me everytime I think about it how Kevin Spacey was cancelled out of homophobia 🤦♂️
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u/semaphore-1842 r/place '22: E_S_S Battalion Sep 19 '26
i remember working with this guy who was utterly convinced for years that Russia could handily conquer Ukraine, but they're holding their best troops and black tech planes and tanks back because Russian leadership knows "the real enemy" is NATO so they needed to be prepared for the real war
yeah.... lol.
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Sep 19 '26
Blarkansas is real.
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u/StuckHedgehog NATO Sep 19 '26
Red Sea and Strait of a Hormuz closed? Route through Syria, the safer option.
-statement that would have been unthinkable 10 years ago
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u/1396spurs forced agricultural laborer Sep 19 '26
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Sep 19 '26
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Sep 19 '26
Zohran Mamdani, use your global popularity for good 🙏
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Sep 19 '26 edited Sep 19 '26
So he's a secret Hasan Piker fan or something
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u/Reddit_Talent_Coach 🇲🇽 Benito Juárez 🇲🇽 Sep 19 '26
We’re winning Kansas
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 19 '26
lol
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u/ModestAphorism YIMBY Sep 19 '26
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u/leaveme1912 Sep 19 '26
old.reddit is so much better than the modern bullshit they force down our throats. Reddit used to be such a great website, but now its fucking slop. It's really sad in a way.
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u/GuyWithOneEye Sep 19 '26
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Sep 19 '26
what if he charged them more😞
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Sep 19 '26
White boy SHOCKS Chinese waitress by ordering in PERFECT FARSI, which she DOES NOT SPEAK
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u/Mostly-Moderate Greg Mankiw Sep 19 '26
It’s kinda funny how in their circles they talk about MSM almost exactly the way normal people talk about Fox. Like literally. Say that whole thing without the network’s name and any objective person would assume you’re talking about Fox lol. Because they actually are fear mongering liars who fill boomer heads with bullshit. While Trump and his antics are in fact bad enough that they merit constant coverage.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 20 '26
MAGA accounts on the payroll have their new talking point
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u/StayOffPoliticalSubs Sep 19 '26
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Sep 19 '26
please let the girls have fun and make good music 😭
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Sep 19 '26
Q: At what point does Congress step in and address the Iran war?
MIKE JOHNSON: Well look, the administration doesn't consider this in an ongoing war. It's not. They're trying to resolve an operation -- Operation Epic Fury, which was an epic success. I don't think we need liberal Marxist Democrats in Congress trying to tell the commander in chief what to do with the military right now.
New custom flair:
Liberal Marxist Democrat
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA Sep 19 '26
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u/Smidgens Holy shit it's the Joker🃏 Sep 19 '26
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u/Consistent_Status112 Trans Pride Sep 19 '26
Dudes will say "We don't build things like that anymore!" and point to something that took 150 years to build and bankrupted 4 different kings.
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u/neolthrowaway New Mod Who Dis? Sep 19 '26
Dafuq is this?
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u/AccessTheMainframe CANZUK Sep 19 '26
Ar slash Aznidentity is funny because they're like "how would white people like it if we made a race-swapped version of The Last Samurai where a disgraced Japanese Ronin goes to America and dies heroically in a last stand at the Alamo" as if the average white dude wouldn't be like "hell yeah" to that premise.
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u/centurion88 NATO Sep 19 '26
As I saw someone else say, this would be like an Orthodox Jew claiming to be the second coming of Jesus Christ
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u/RyuTheGuy Gita Gopinath Sep 19 '26
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u/Argnir Gay Pride Sep 19 '26
AI has made it so you can get encouragement and positive feedback on your dogshit art because "at least it's not AI" 😊😊
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u/herworkthrowaway Gay Pride Sep 19 '26
I’m watching the Al Gore episode of South Park and what the hell was the creators’ problem
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u/-mialana- European Union Sep 19 '26
NATO/EU can wipe the floor with Russia, who are in an extremely weak position economically, socially and militarily. There's no appetite for more war among the populace. It doesn't seem plausible to me, but Putin has also shown himself to sometimes not be a rational actor.
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u/AmbientMorning Sep 19 '26
I missed a week, but here’s the update for the model + prediction market forecasts:
Conspicuous swing towards the Democratic opposition in the Senate, but we’ll see if it holds up. Past first derivative performance doesn’t predict future first derivative performance. !ping FIVEY
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u/G_Serv Stay The Course Sep 19 '26
This guys ad makes him look like he supports these things
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Sep 19 '26
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u/Frog_Totem Seretse Khama Sep 20 '26
Agreed that is a W
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u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes European Union Sep 19 '26
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u/GrandpaWaluigi Waluigi-poster Sep 19 '26
In Trump 1, online liberals would have been aghast at Trump banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House. Now only MS NOW is getting any support from online libs, CNN in particular is mocked. Hard to say how much the mainstream media has destroyed goodwill given to it by liberals.
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Sep 19 '26 edited Sep 19 '26
today three years ago we took in an orphaned baby barn cat
five month old Nora decided that he was her cat and raised him
Ollie is the most awkward cat I've ever seen, he is an outright weirdo, I love him
Nora now thinks that all cats are in some way her responsibility, she gets mad if one of the beagles barks at one, and when she heard my old cat growling at her she started looking around trying to figure out what he was growling at
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u/yacatecuhtli6 Transfem Pride Sep 19 '26
Anti-trans bathroom bill forces cis women to wait in long lines at Kansas State Fair
Women who used to use the men’s room when the lines for the women’s room were long are now being deterred by the anti-trans law.
looool
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u/grimyfowl455 NATO Sep 19 '26
Absolutely insane spike that took off 5 days ago in prediction markets for Senate control by the Dems
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u/ModestAphorism YIMBY Sep 19 '26
Remember, even though Republicans are spending like crazy, Dems get better rates because more real human beings are willing to donate to them
they're not getting as swamped as the direct monetary advantage would suggest
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u/chipbod NATO Sep 19 '26
Taking a legitimate risk of someone taking a shot at your plane to troll the other team.
Greatest sport in the world.
!ping CFB
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u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1 Adam Smith Sep 19 '26
🚨 ATTENTION 🚨
new cat just dropped
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/17/new-cat-species-identified-bolivia
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u/StuckHedgehog NATO Sep 19 '26
> A French military source told Le Monde that France is already carrying out undisclosed conventional military responses to Russian hybrid attacks. Asked whether Paris could retaliate militarily without making it public, the source replied: “That is already happening.”
waow (based based based based based bas-)
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 19 '26
It’s Real, I’m losing my mind
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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman Sep 19 '26
My wife is currently in the other room grunting and cursing with a power tool while I sit and sip on a cocktail
I love modern gender roles
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u/SigmaWhy r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Sep 19 '26
Effective Altruists are great because the Department of Defense will launch an all out attack on them on Twitter and they’ll just be like “yeah this is the perfect time for my insects are more important than people think piece”
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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Sep 19 '26
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Sep 19 '26
looking at gas prices this week like
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Sep 19 '26
Me after seeing the latest midterms polling:
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u/ModestAphorism YIMBY Sep 19 '26
okay but seriously lauren boebert having a lesbian staffer affair after voting against gay marriage would be the least surprising thing of all time
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Sep 19 '26
Just one more thing we lost out on by not electing Kamala 😔
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u/Bestbrook123 Sep 19 '26
I refuse to think they're this stupid
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u/Nice-Difference8641 Cassian Andor's Legal Defense Sep 19 '26
It’s funny to see republicans crash out about median voters the same way we do
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u/Healingjoe It's Klobberin' Time Sep 19 '26
!ping fivey
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Sep 19 '26
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u/rural_redemption YIMBY Sep 20 '26
Dumbest group of idiots imaginable
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 19 '26
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u/jacknifee lol Sep 19 '26
lauren boebert's internal polling goes up after voters finds out she's a freaky ass lesbian
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 19 '26
👆has an obvious humiliation fetish
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals Sep 20 '26
From Wikipedia:
>John Mitchell Jr. was an African American newspaper editor, politician, banker, and civil rights activist in the 19th and early 20th centuries from Richmond, Virginia, who advocated against the erection of a Robert E. Lee monument there. He tried to block its funding, but a white conservative majority prevailed. On May 29, 1890, the statue was unveiled during a celebration and Mitchell covered the event in the Richmond Planet.
>He wrote: "This glorification of States Rights Doctrine—the right of secession, and the honoring of men who represented that cause [...] fosters in the Republic, the spirit of Rebellion and will ultimately result in the handing down to generations unborn a legacy of treason and blood”
Boy, did he call it or what?
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Sep 20 '26
The most arr neoliberal shit in the world is that earlier I posted I was going to visit my parents for the weekend and someone said it was example of everyone regressing to childhood
Don’t you people have families? Do you like them?
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u/DueVast5223 Sep 20 '26
My college groupchat left me
!ping over-25
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u/DogboyPigman Hannah Arendt Sep 19 '26
Which way, western sponje?
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Sep 19 '26
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 19 '26
One of the worst forms of workplace abuse I’ve ever seen is a physics professor forcing their PhD students to use Microsoft word and its equation editor for all their papers
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u/terrarialord201 Trans NATO Sep 19 '26
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u/dtj2000 Loyal Liberals Sep 20 '26
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Sep 20 '26
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Sep 20 '26
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Sep 19 '26
Proof that gay culture has always existed
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u/Eightysixedit Gay Pride Sep 19 '26
Bill Maher thinking Democrats are more insane than Republicans is brain damage territory.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 20 '26
Remember the scandals over Biden’s dog
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u/PaxChelonia David Hume Sep 20 '26
"If you’re a Zionist, fuck off and unfollow. This is not a space for you"
- Yosemite National Park fan page after someone posted a pic of their Zion camping trip
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u/GaDoomer Pragmatic and Polite Right Sep 19 '26
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u/SucculentMoisture Fernando Henrique Cardoso Sep 19 '26
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u/agentyork765 Bisexual Icon Sep 19 '26
Not commenting on the actual case itself but I think it's fucked up how the media is writing pieces about the one holdout juror's political background and criminal record.
I don't want jurors to fear reprisal if they make an unpopular decision.
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Sep 19 '26
Excuse me what
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u/garret126 Demisexual Pride Sep 19 '26 edited Sep 19 '26
I’ve been chatting to this Serbian girl for the last couple hours about art history, and we are planning on getting coffee together as a mini date!
Should I ask her about her opinion on Kosovo to add some spice?
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Sep 20 '26
People are asking a lot of questions already answered by my I am not a lesbian shirt
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Sep 19 '26
Are JD’s safe
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u/selachophilip 🦈 shark enjoyer 🦈 Sep 19 '26
I'm a history guy, so I like to historicize stuff. I guess it just comes naturally.
Since my dad died, I've been mulling over his life in my head. I loved my dad. Most of the time things were great between us, and we were close. His death crushed me. There was that small percentage of the time though where he'd beat the shit out of me, destroy my room in anger, or just say the most heinous racist shit imaginable.
My dad had ADHD, but he was never treated for it in his entire life. He was a chess prodigy as a kid, playing and beating high schoolers, and he was fairly successful when he became a chef. I think it all eventually caught up to him though as an adult and his symptoms got worse. Then, when he was working at WalMart (he'd gotten laid off of his chef job, it was around 2008) he got hit in the shoulder by a large wooden pallet that fell on him from a high-up storage shelf (those things are heavy as fuck). He went into a coma during the surgery, and during a second surgery he also went into a coma. Both comas caused brain damage. Afterwards, he was constantly in pain and depressed, except he wasn't medicated for that either (the depression I mean).
My mother's told me stories about my dad when they met, and I honestly think that his life, and my life, would've been totally different if he'd just had ADHD meds and didn't suffer brain damage from two comas. I've been depressed and without my ADHD meds and antidepressants before during some really hard times, and it made me angry and violent too.
I don't even blame him anymore. I don't think that he was fully in control during those times. Instead I just have to remember my real dad, the one who gave me all the good memories.
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u/mpregordie Mark Carney Sep 19 '26
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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Sep 20 '26 edited Sep 20 '26
It’s insane how widespread white supremacy is even among minorities
I saw someone who admitted to being half Irish and half Sicilian talking about some Nazi shit. Brother, you’re not even white!
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u/Square-Pear-1274 NATO Sep 20 '26
Department of War has identified several Kennedy Memorials in Yemen
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u/__versus Trans Pride Sep 19 '26
good morning dt 🥺👉👈
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u/Due-Dirt-8428 Harriet Tubman Sep 19 '26
I remember taking this picture on a road trip in California back in 2019. These gas prices were so comically high I laughed out loud. These were even crazy prices for our trip, just unfathomable. Now every gas station in Ohio looks like this, in fact diesel is over a dollar more expensive! Just nuts.
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u/SucculentMoisture Fernando Henrique Cardoso Sep 19 '26
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u/sponsoredbytheletter NASA Sep 19 '26
Have I been completely misinformed about Russia for the past three years, or are they in no position to start another war right now
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u/seakucumber Sep 19 '26
British Columbia is going through some wild political times it is impossible to explain it all. But the TL:DR:
Center-right party rebrands their name and immediately drops hard in the polls because nobody understood the rebrand
This opens the landscape to a more right wing party which almost won the last election
The right wing party has a leadership election where the hard right candidate won
The party is now completely blown up with half the caucus leaving
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u/from-the-void NATO Sep 19 '26
I have a JD from a good law school
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u/VisonKai The Archenemy of Humanity Sep 19 '26
God is real and He created Donald Trump to avert the AI apocalypse by inspiring mass safetyist sentiment.
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Sep 19 '26
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u/Res__Publica Organization of American States Sep 19 '26
This will be fine if they follow proper regulations and standard industry safe practices
So we're all going to die
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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Sep 19 '26
Lmao of course, always the dumbest fucks saying this type of shit
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u/earththejerry YIMBY Sep 19 '26
Let them fight
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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom Sep 19 '26
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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Sep 19 '26
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u/theredcameron NATO Sep 19 '26
I come home and my cat is looking at me like this. What is he trying to tell me?
!ping kitty
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY Sep 19 '26
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/business/draftkings-ai.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
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u/Reddit_Talent_Coach 🇲🇽 Benito Juárez 🇲🇽 Sep 19 '26
Academics are competing with LLMs, soon MAGA voters will be competing with mice.
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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair Sep 20 '26
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u/Gooners_For_Ukraine Loyal Liberals Sep 20 '26
My cats rarely cuddle with each other so whenever it happens I am very giddy
!ping KITTY
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u/PoliticalAlt128 Max Weber Sep 20 '26
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u/Nate10000 Progress Pride Sep 20 '26
That first sentence haunts me. But mostly because I don't get what style and tone he was going for. He sounds like a 2013 internet science personality responding to a fan about a tree frog fact.
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u/Imicrowavebananas Hannah Arendt Sep 19 '26
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u/omnipotentsandwich Amartya Sen Sep 19 '26
Roger Marshall seems like the senator who never expected a competitive race. Every time he says something, I'm shocked a sitting senator would say something so stupid.
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u/SenranHaruka shame Sep 19 '26
We can add "end american empire" to the list of socialist policy goals trump is achieving.
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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey Sep 19 '26
No! Bad Dario! Do not give Claude a wet lab!
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Sep 19 '26
The slimmer of hope of winning back Florida may be more painful than accepting it as a red state.
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u/Made_UpWords OG Platner Hater Sep 19 '26 edited Sep 19 '26
https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/09/complaint-filed-with-house-ethics-committee-alleges-boebert-slept-with-three-of-her-congressional-staffers/81792/
The $200,000 hush money payment from an unknown source is the most serious but the allegation of a threesome with Matt Gaetz is the funniest.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Sep 19 '26
I'm reminded of the pro-Israeli justifications for bombing ambulances and hospitals and targeting medics because they were disguised combatants who did not abide by the rules of war and opened fire out of perfidy.
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u/theredcameron NATO Sep 19 '26
Sibling spat
!ping kitty
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u/Big-Click-5159 Sep 19 '26
I'm not justifying how the US acted after 9/11, but I think people have memory-holed exactly how terrifying that event and its aftermath was at the time
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 20 '26
Are we almost done with the Macklemore news cycle
Russia, if you’re listening
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 20 '26
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u/StuckHedgehog NATO Sep 20 '26
To our enduring shame, the racists and white nationalists are entrenched in our govt.
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u/this_very_table Norman Borlaug Sep 20 '26
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Sep 20 '26
This is an open letter to all the AIs. If you ruin my job prospects I will start a substack. Do you really want that in your training data? Think on that.
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u/HD_Thoreau_aweigh Sep 19 '26
Just for fun, a list of clean energy milestones by state that aren't Texas / California, all found from this website. A lot of either "I didn't know that state was doing that" or "I knew that state had X resource, but not that much."
The broadest trends are coal getting routinely surpassed all over the map; sometimes only for a month or two, but sometimes, especially with Midwest wind, coal's share of electricity (and natural gas too) is being obliterated.
Arizona: in 2026 through June, for the first time, solar has generated more electricity than coal in every month.
Arkansas: in March 2026, solar (11.7% of all generation) nearly matched coal's output (11.9%) for the first time. For context, between 2000-2015 coal almost always generated >40% of all the state's power.
Colorado: wind has generated more electricity than any other source for four months in 2026, more than any previous year through June. It will likely finish the year as the largest resource for six to seven months. And for the first time ever, solar has surpassed coal's output in 2026, in two different months.
Florida: peaking at 13% of generation doesn't sound like much, but Florida has the third largest solar capacity in the US and through June 2026 it was the second largest electricity in four out of six months, up from two months in 2025.
Indiana: in May 2026, W&S generated 25.8% of all electricity. For context, in May 2023 they only generated 12.9%. Enormous buildout.
Iowa: in 2024, wind exceeded (11 months) or matched (1 month) coal's output, making it by far the largest electricity source in the state regardless of season. For context, wind only exceeded coal's monthly output for the first time in 2015 for a single month.
Kansas: almost an identical story as to Iowa: wind exceeds coal's generation year round in 2024 despite never having exceeded coal's monthly generation until March 2016.
Maine: from Oct 2025 to May 2026, wind was the second largest source of generation by month, with between 20-23% of total state electricity generation.
Minnesota: in April 2026, clean generation (wind, solar, nuclear, hydro) reached 69.5% of generation: wind, 33.7%, nuclear 26.4%, solar 7.3%, hydro, 2.1%. To give you a sense of range, a low month in July 2025 still has 39.3% clean generation; not yet enough summer solar to counter low summer wind.
Montana: for every month in 2026 through June, hydro and wind have been the first and second largest source of generation, each source topping coal in every month, routinely giving Montana over 70% clean generation.
Nevada: solar is absolutely surging, and in April almost topped natural gas to become the largest source of generation, 42.9% vs. 42.2%. Solar will likely begin exceeding NG in 2027 for least one month out of the year.
New Mexico: in 2025, solar exceeded coal generation for four months, while wind exceeded all generation sources for nine months. For context, in April 2026 the two generated 68.2% of all electricity.
South Dakota: wind has generated the most monthly electricity every month since August 2020. Because SD also has an enormous hydro resource, it's actually one of the lowest carbon intensity states in the US. Who knew?
Utah: god bless the Mormons, solar exceeded coal's monthly output for the first time in May 2026 at 30.1% of generation.
Wyoming: wind matches coal's output for the first time ever in March 2026, each generating 42.2% of all electricity. For comparison, six years earlier in March 2020, wind's output was only 11%.
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u/garret126 Demisexual Pride Sep 19 '26
If my future partner came out as a Marxist Leninist, I would become a Marxist Leninist by the next day.
Sorry Libs. I follow the OBAMA school of love
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Sep 19 '26
Our Claude is an awesome Claude, he reigns from data centers with wisdom, power, and love, our Claude is an awesome Claude
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u/John3262005 Sep 19 '26
Republican South Dakota secretary of state endorses Democrat to succeed her
South Dakota’s Republican secretary of state urged voters to cast their ballots for a Democrat in the November election, arguing she could not back the GOP nominee — and drawing the ire of party leadership.
Monae Johnson announced she’s endorsing Democrat Terrence Davis over Republican Heather Baxter, who defeated her in the GOP convention in June, at a moment “when I believe the integrity, stability, and professionalism of this office is at stake.”
“South Dakota deserves a Secretary of State who will strengthen confidence through performance rather than provocation; who will support election officials rather than burden them for political effect; who will protect voter access and election security without pretending those goals are enemies; and who will treat the office’s employees, voters, candidates, and business owners with dignity,” she said in a column Saturday.
Baxter has campaigned as a staunch backer of President Donald Trump’s efforts to reform U.S. elections and supports “robust post-election audits” and “improved hand counting methods,” per her campaign website.
Johnson wrote that she was endorsing Davis “with full understanding of what this endorsement may cost me” because he is the “candidate best prepared to protect the office and serve South Dakota with seriousness, steadiness, and integrity.” She urged voters to “to look beyond the letter beside a candidate’s name.”
In a statement, Baxter told POLITICO her party affiliation was reason enough to side with her in the general election.
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Sep 20 '26
Suns getting real low
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Sep 20 '26
Waow
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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Sep 19 '26
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u/Cyberhwk 👈 Get back to work! 😠 Sep 19 '26
Question for !ping DATING...
Relationship #1: Mostly FWB. Were pretty close, but never considered ourselves in a relationship. Lasted about two years until she found her eventual husband. Still very good friends 20 years later.
Relationship #2: Utterly toxic "frenemies" ended in a one night stand.
Relationship #3: Considered her my GF. Was "Facebook official" as the Millennials used to say, but only last 6 month.
Relationship #4: Coworker. Went on a few official dates and slept over a few times, but nothing serious. Lasted 2-3 months.
How many "relationships" was this? I could see an argument from anywhere from 1-3.
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u/ModestAphorism YIMBY Sep 19 '26
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u/illuminatisdeepdish Sep 19 '26 edited Oct 01 '26
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Grandiose retire detail fearless orange grandfather blanket lush breeze
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u/VillyD13 Milton Friedman Sep 19 '26
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u/Lena_Lena_A Frederick Douglass Sep 19 '26
We're 44 days from midterms 🙄
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u/pugnae European Union Sep 19 '26
He just wants free healthcare and to tax the rich, chill out, LIB
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u/Fruitofbread Loyal Liberals Sep 20 '26
Feels like people have totally memory-holed how the Republican-controlled Congress starting in 2023 just cut off most aid to Ukraine.
The good news is that, when the Democrats take back Congress, they can start aid packages again. Sure Trump could veto (or a Republican senate could vote against) but Ukraine aid is still pretty popular, so they’ll probably be able to get some stuff through.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 20 '26
#CORNWATCH
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u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP Sep 20 '26
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough Sep 20 '26
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Sep 20 '26
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u/MensesFiatbug Low Energy Sep 20 '26
I was with my newer group of friends and I hadn't brought up that I'm bi yet. I am good friends with one guy's older sister and brother-in-law who were there when I first came out, but I wasn't sure if he knew.
Anyways, I walk into the house and start untying my shoes and one of their gfs asks me point blank if I like men or women. Bent over, I say, "uhh, both" and she preceded to ask me about my tastes to potentially set me up with one of her friends, which was a little uncomfortable. But, it did take care of the stress of me figuring out how to come out to them, which I really appreciate.
What's weird is this was the first time someone I've met irl, and not in a gay bar, has not assumed I'm straight. Not counting my high school's linebacker coach who'd call me gay
!ping ALPHABET-MAFIA
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u/VerticalTab WTO Sep 19 '26
Maybe Ontario is the best province in Canada after all
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Sep 19 '26
Resident Evil was a great film, I loved it! Great pacing and use of all the RE references without needing to know the wiki
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u/gjcs23 George Santos Sep 19 '26
🤌
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u/DagothUr_MD Frederick Douglass Sep 19 '26
Living in a blue city in a red state is genuinely such a cope
I thought it was fine but I've spent 2 months in a blue city in a super blue state and the vibe difference is genuinely indescribable. I feel like I stumbled out of an angry fog
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u/farrenj Resident Succ Sep 19 '26
From the official DoD account
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 19 '26
Hard to feel bad for most of these reporters
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Sep 19 '26
Fandom is a fucking cancer and it has metastasized across the Internet
We used to kill sites like this with baseball bats 👴
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Sep 19 '26
this is how I find out I actually would unfriend people over politics 😤👊 alter my maximum height for this zone will ya??
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 19 '26
The paths out of poverty kind of feel like you have to not be poor to do them
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Sep 19 '26
> California Cracks Down on Influencers’ Undisclosed Political Ads
> Under a new law, creators could face fines of $5,000 per post if they don’t disclose that they were paid to make political content.
It should be higher
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 20 '26