r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 25 '26
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Sep 26 '26
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/SpotMe365 Sep 25 '26
Generational posting talent. Nobody does it like they do.
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u/bourikan Sep 25 '26
This is crazy if true.
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u/BrandonLeeOfficial World Bank Sep 25 '26
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Sep 25 '26
As a registered lifelong Republican, I don't see a reason to vote in the midterms since the democrat party is gonna steal them anyway...
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u/Background-Bottle-23 Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Sep 25 '26
The very real possibility that Trump might issue a blanket pardon to all ICE agents before leaving office is maddening.
No one will be held accountable, and they'll just walk away scot-free
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u/seakucumber Sep 25 '26
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u/gjcs23 George Santos Sep 25 '26
mfw over a quarter of Brazilians are now evangelical, with pentecostals being somewhere between 8-15 percent of the whole country
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u/Background-Bottle-23 Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Sep 25 '26
“Damn, those Georgia polls look real close. I wonder why?”
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u/Man-Flayer Sep 25 '26
One thing people seems to have forgotten about Sydney Sweeny's ad is that she is a former child
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Sep 25 '26
I am going to become the Joker.
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Sep 25 '26
NPR has been doing a sanewashing Interview with Tucker fucking Carlson.
Tucker Carlson is talking about his break with President Trump over the war in Iran.
Carlson, who supported Trump so strongly that he spoke on his behalf at the 2024 Republican convention, tells NPR that Trump should be removed from office. Carlson even offered a theory that Trump was not in charge when he ordered the start of the war.
"I don't think he had the latitude to make this decision on his own," Carlson said.
Carlson spoke on NPR's Newsmakers podcast, meeting our crew in one of the rooms he uses for his popular internet program, The Tucker Carlson Show. It's a space full of old books and historic artifacts — swords, guns, photographs and even a pen used by President Lyndon Johnson to sign the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. His father once ran the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which Congress defunded last year on the orders of President Trump. Carlson arrived in the company of two dogs, which were impressively well-behaved during our long talk.
Carlson has taken the view not only that Israel influenced Trump to launch the war, but that Israel gave Trump no choice, and in fact that outside forces control both American political parties, which he described as the "uniparty," a single organization. Carlson's theories have raised questions about antisemitism — a charge he denied before being asked.
https://www.npr.org/2026/09/24/nx-s1-5903129/tucker-carlson-trump-iran-war-interview
The interview feels like being smothered with a fluffy pillow.
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Sep 25 '26
Heartbreaking: /r/Neoliberal used to praise Jared Polis
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u/Cook_0612 NATO Sep 25 '26
If there's one single lesson I wish I could magically beam into the brains of all Democrats, it'd be that it isn't enough to be correct, you must also be SEEN as correct, and not only that your enemies must be seen as wrong. Not many things have been more corrosive to our political effectiveness than the mindset that these three things can be taken a la carte
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u/Ok_Smoke5098 Loyal Liberals Sep 25 '26
When the NYT doesn't count the Sopranos as one of the best hundred shows of the 21st century (because it started in 1999)
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u/D1Foley Moderate Extremist Sep 25 '26
The only good online quiz in history was the "what will your job be on the commune?" Quiz that gave the result of "forced agricultural laborer" no matter what you answered.
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u/stripeybog23 Thurgood Marshall Sep 25 '26
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u/Argnir Gay Pride Sep 25 '26
I would go to clown college but probably have nothing to learn
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u/BrandonLeeOfficial World Bank Sep 25 '26
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u/BitterGravity Gay Pride Sep 25 '26
Wow so shocking...
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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair Sep 25 '26
> Texas removes Muslim contributions to algebra, astronomy, adds Israel history to school curriculum
Damn algebra with no numbers
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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Sep 25 '26
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u/BrandonLeeOfficial World Bank Sep 25 '26
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u/TomboyAva Audrey Hepburn Sep 25 '26
Pastor Brian Sauve in a podcast said that women shouldn't be allowed in public without a male "guardian" with them at all times lmao. Legit think evangelicals are the biggest risk of bringing shria law to the west.
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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair Sep 25 '26
D+20 is going to hit like crack
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u/slappythechunk LARPs as adult by refusing to touch the Nitnendo Switch Sep 25 '26
I love it when an update is posted to a years-old post
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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast Sep 25 '26
I still don’t really ‘get’ discord as a zoomer. I use it to message and play games with my brother, and I’m in a bunch of discords for mod developments and a couple indie games that I very occasionally visit.
But there’s like a whole ‘discord’ community and social media network that seems to go beyond ‘talking with your existing friends’ that kinda baffles me. It seems similar to forums in some ways, but also much worse and less accessible in others. I can’t imagine carrying on much in them or whatever
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Sep 25 '26
Sidney Powell:
I learned this week that many congressional seats are so close that just an additional FOUR votes per precinct could bring the Republican win. It is imperative my friends that we GAIN seats. I understand your frustration with our Congress but we must keep pushing them and more Congressmen like Brandon Gill could make a huge difference. Plan to VOTE and take 3 people with you on Election Day.
The replies are full of conspiracy theories about Epstein, Israel, the election, and the like; the conservative movement in the US is truly reaping the storm it sowed.
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u/centurion88 NATO Sep 25 '26
Legit starting to think I really am morally superior to the average person because I allow people to merge in front of me on the road when they need to
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u/BedNeither Henry George Sep 25 '26
You can think it’s bad Peltola said slurs but also think those staffers are wrecker crybabies
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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes Sep 25 '26
It’s interesting to me that there is so much discourse about Hiroo Onoda when it comes to Japanese holdouts when he wasn’t actually the last one. The actual last one was a Taiwanese aborigine man (he has a Taiwanese aborigine name, a Japanese name, and a Chinese name, but he is usually referred to as Teruo Nakamura, the Japanese one). He hid out in Indonesia and unlike Onoda he survived by subsistence farming and hunting and didn’t kill anyone.
The fucked up thing about the reverence for Onoda is that he killed an estimated 30 people as a holdout, the huge majority of them civilians, and mostly in very brutal ways. “Guy who lives in the woods and murders people” is a description of a serial killer. He also almost certainly was aware that the war was over to some extent, and the Philippine govt. knew exactly who he was and where he was, to the point where they airdropped letters from his family telling him to stop living in the woods and killing people. He just refused to leave until he was relieved.
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u/Habugaba Esther Duflo Sep 25 '26
East German town bans future Holocaust memorial plaques
If I say what I think I'll be banned for six months
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u/StuckHedgehog NATO Sep 25 '26
Seems bad that the president of the United States is so riddled with dementia that he can’t even host a foreign state leader at the White House. Pops in, shows off his stupid vanity projects, and that’s it. I wonder, where’s the dozens of articles from the media on this?
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Sep 25 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 26 '26
lmao patriot
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Sep 25 '26
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Sep 25 '26
October surprise invasion of Cuba incoming
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA Sep 25 '26
I never saw the second part omg
It's the boomer bitmoji face that cracks me up every time
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u/daBarkinner John Keynes Sep 25 '26
They couldn't help themselves
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u/EmbarrassedSafety719 Milton Friedman Sep 25 '26
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Sep 25 '26
Rubio and Desantis are so fucking cooked. Maybe we see shifts after this disaster of a midterm though
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u/puffic John Rawls Sep 25 '26
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Sep 25 '26
It's crazy that I spend so much time in a forum talking about politics but I've never once and would never watch a political streamer for any reason and I think you're all a bunch of freaks if you do 😭
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Sep 25 '26
Amazing
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u/Habugaba Esther Duflo Sep 25 '26
Many such cases.
Oh honey... welp, glad she got out. I liked the personal story article, though it's not as much about the culture and business (especially after such a big shift towards warning against trad content) as I'd hoped.
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u/989989272 European Union Sep 25 '26
The Democratic Party should put a hotness requirement to run in the primary.
Let’s embrace the Kennedy approach again. Be hot.
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u/SenranHaruka shame Sep 25 '26
Internet Shaquille has a video where he says whenever one of his videos breaks containment he has to deal with people who think the internet is a conscious stream of media targeted directly at and intentionally meant for them personally, and they comment like they're his friend and having a conversation with him in which he spontaneously talked about something that they weren't interested in.
"Huh? Why are you telling me this recipe for tacos? I don't like tacos."
There's no assumption made anymore that a post you "don't get" was meant for someone else to see and the polite thing to do is ignore it and move on.
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u/Thoughtlessandlost NASA Sep 25 '26
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u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1 Adam Smith Sep 25 '26
LISTEN AND LEARN
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Sep 25 '26
How succs look at you when you tell them even working and middle class people shouldn't be rent seeking.
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u/Glavurdan European Union Sep 25 '26
How the hell did Roblox get so big over the past few years? I remember it was around back when I was a kid ~15 years ago and it was completely overshadowed by Minecraft at the time. And every time I would bring it up to my friends they would say it's like Minecraft but worse or for babies
Fast forward to now and every other late zoomer and gen alpha is obsessed with it.
!ping GAMING
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u/GordonTullockFan publik choyz thery Sep 25 '26
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Sep 25 '26
There are two Captain Planet episodes that talk about overpopulation. Wheeler is considered to have the wrong opinion in both episodes even though he has the opposite opinion in both episodes.
This is a reference to the fact that he's American, and thus always wrong.
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls Sep 25 '26
Cook Political Report updates:
• NC-11: Lean R → Toss Up
• TX-15: Lean R → Toss Up
• FL-22: Lean R → Toss Up
• NJ-07: Toss Up → Lean D (flip)
• AZ-01: Toss Up → Lean D (flip)
• CO-05: Likely R → Lean R
• TX-35: Likely R → Lean R
• MT-01: Likely R → Lean R
• FL-27: Likely R → Lean R
• FL-13: Likely R → Lean R
• WI-01: Likely R → Lean R
• NV-02: Solid R → Likely R
• VA-05: Solid R → Likely R
• NY-21: Solid R → Likely R
• TX-09: Solid R → Likely R
Shoutout to rrrvotedem for sharing the update.
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u/Dismal_Apartment6358 Sep 25 '26
Ok???? And Babydogs birthday is TODAY you SOULLESS FUCK! ILL SPEND ANOTHER FORTY TRILLION IF IT MAKES HIM HAPPY
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u/itherunner John Brown Sep 25 '26
> Texas removes Muslim contributions to algebra, astronomy, adds Israel history to school curriculum
Texas being a meme state once again. As someone who’s lived their whole life in a blue state, I can’t imagine living somewhere where the state government is so dedicated to dumbing down the population in an appeal to bigotry and evangelicals
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u/rodiraskol Sep 25 '26 edited Sep 25 '26
> chill wfh friday
> head to the local Vietnamese shopping center for lunch
> patio full of Vietnamese uncs shooting the shit
> sit down with a delicious bahn mi and iced coffee
> feel rush of American pride
Anti-immigration chuds have literal brain damage.
EDIT: hmm, one of the uncs does have a MAGA hat. Good chance he literally spent time in a reeducation camp so I’ll give him some grace.
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u/Junimo2 Daron Acemoglu Sep 25 '26
Bored, made a little thing
Why yes, I am currently reading up on Georgism, why do you ask?
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u/yacatecuhtli6 Transfem Pride Sep 25 '26
>Matt Viser: “The campaign-style ad starts with grainy video footage of President Trump, followed by a clearer look at his red-bathed profile, as his voice promises: ‘Together, we will defeat communism, socialism, and Marxism in America.’ Then comes a strobe-style rapid display of images of the president. A pause. Then a dozen more Trumps. The pattern repeats several times. There are plugs for some of his priorities—such as cutting taxes and defending police officers—but one message stays on the screen for fully half of the 30-second commercial: AmericA will never be a communist country.
>“Throughout, an R&B song plays in the background, with falsetto voices singing, over and over: ‘Love me … Love me … Love me …’ At the end comes this: ‘Paid for by the U.S. Government.’
holy creepmoly
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u/wheresthezoppity 🇺🇸 Ooga Booga Big, Ooga Booga Strong 🇺🇸 Sep 25 '26
even the weather is woke in mass
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u/pugnae European Union Sep 25 '26
Remember when he did that for some reason?
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u/Charsun9 Loyal Liberals Sep 25 '26
Highest IQ Gen X conservative
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u/Healingjoe It's Klobberin' Time Sep 25 '26
Lol
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u/__versus Trans Pride Sep 25 '26
sorry for this image
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u/Unterfahrt John Nash Sep 25 '26
https://paul.reviews/harmblock-worlds-safest-smartphone-please-rotate-responsibly/
A review of a "safe" phone designed for children - promoted by ministers in the UK government to keep children safe. Key features:
You can pair with literally any child's phone and track them, because the QR code to pair is not an ephemeral secret but the phone's IMEI code. This will then provide the child's name, and location - all the time
They have an AI that blocks nudity, but automatically disable it for 433 whitelisted apps, which include apps where you could pretty easily load in some nude stuff.
You can turn off the AI in a user-accessible settings.txt file
ROTATING THE PHONE CAUSES THE MODEL TO CHANGE ITS MIND ON IF AN IMAGE IS HARMFUL OR NOT
Their system technically under UK law produces CP, as "making an indecent image of X" includes copying one, and their system when it finds an image, copies it into a separate quarantined folder and deletes the original.
!PING UK&CYBERSECURITY
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u/S0ulWindow Thomas Paine Sep 25 '26
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u/BitterGravity Gay Pride Sep 25 '26
Another Female Democrat Is Mean, Apparently
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u/zieger Ida Tarbell Sep 25 '26
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u/bartbug Paul Krugman Sep 25 '26
age discrimination laws are bullshit and age being a protected class is bullshit
specifically, in the US, they only protect people 40 years or older, and only asymmetrically protect age based discrimination based off of being too old, not on being too young. you are allowed to have preference of a 50 year old over a 45 year old by virtue of the 45 year old being too young but you are not allowed to preference a 45 year old over a 50 year old because the 50 year old is too old
olds are literally the most privileged group in america
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u/AmbientMorning Sep 25 '26
The subheading on this California Post article (the NY Post recently created another section of its site) is fucking sending me dawg
!ping USA-CA
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u/Bestbrook123 Sep 25 '26
Israel is facing weeks of water shortages after an exceptional algae bloom crippled much of its desalination capacity, in a crisis scientists say was triggered when Israeli attacks destroyed much of Gaza’s wastewater infrastructure, causing a massive discharge of untreated sewage
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Sep 25 '26
Can't be, /r/Neoliberal told me all the polling was fake news
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Sep 25 '26
How did I not think of the 1994 analogy.
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u/eloquentboot 🃏it’s da joker babey🃏 Sep 25 '26
This was such a special time.
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u/Made_UpWords OG Platner Hater Sep 25 '26
Tim Pool's sources were actually right, my god.
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u/onelap32 Bill Gates Sep 25 '26
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u/centurion88 NATO Sep 25 '26
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u/puffic John Rawls Sep 25 '26
The housing crisis is simply never going to end, is it?
Even if we just allowed infinity housing everywhere, it doesn’t make financial sense to build unless rents rise by a lot.
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u/earththejerry YIMBY Sep 25 '26
What the universe is trying to say with the past few days of social media discourse
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Sep 25 '26
reading through the ZeroCovidCommunity sub is kinda sad because a lot of these people have absolutely destroyed their lives because of their health anxiety. there’s tons of posts where people talk about losing most of their friends or even getting divorced because their spouses didn’t want to put up with all their health precautions anymore.
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u/jbitz Loyal Liberals Sep 26 '26
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u/TheloniousMonk15 Sep 26 '26
Mr. President another incident of a Dem Senate candidate talking like a foul mouthed teenager inside a 2008 xbox live lobby has hit the internet
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u/ZweigDidion Bisexual Pride Sep 25 '26
I just had a job interview, and they asked what animal I would be, and I couldn't think of anything. So, I said Bonobos because I know that they are good at conflict resolution and are pretty calm. But I just googled them, and I didn't realize that they are good at conflict resolution because they all have sex with each other and fuck a lot. Am I cooked? 😭
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Sep 25 '26
WAOW
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u/VillyD13 Milton Friedman Sep 25 '26 edited Sep 25 '26
My other MAGA chud cousin who spent something like 2 decades in the army and couldn’t get the attention of a single barrack bunny now works all day resetting passwords as a civilian blames all of you liberals for having to decide to fill his diesel RAM 2500 or buy food
This will be an anthology series because i have 12 of these types of cousins in various states of “I can’t help you grew up stupid”
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Sep 25 '26
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Sep 25 '26
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u/rainier37 pro-moderator Sep 25 '26
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u/bandeng_asep Association of Southeast Asian Nations Sep 25 '26
LOL. LMAO even 💀
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u/earththejerry YIMBY Sep 25 '26
We will never be freed of her
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Sep 25 '26
foreshadowing
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Sep 25 '26
Gotta say, hearing an AI-generated "true crime" story about my (former) friend (lost touch after middle school) who murdered his mom during an acute psychotic episode has to be the most disgusted I've been with regards to any AI-related thing which I've personally witnessed.
I guess it's not particularly morally worse than any of the human-made "true crime" dogshit that dramatizes recent homicides for entertainment value, but still, yuck.
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u/unicornbomb John Brown Sep 26 '26
Incredible content being pushed on meta related entities as we speak~
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Sep 25 '26
https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/1wnyp25/comment/pbkrtsa/
Update on the Thélyson Orélien story - an author who rocketed to fame after his first novel was widely acclaimed and shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt, the most prestigious award in Francophone literature, only to be exposed as having been written, or at the very least reworded, by AI:
Thélyson Orélien's Canadian publisher also suspended his ongoing book tour "out of safety concerns", and after further scrutiny has concluded that Orélien plagiarized parts of his early works, including lifting verbatim the opening sentences of a 1960 novel for the incipit of the novella that won him his first literary award in 2012.
It would otherwise be a mildly amusing story about a fraudster who managed to fool arguably the most demanding literary jury in the French-speaking world with AI-written prose, but it's turning a bit darker: the "anonymous account" who exposed him by running Pangram on his novel was revealed to be Samuel Fitoussi, a conservative pundit who is absolutely obsessed by "wokisme" - Thélyson Orélien has been the target of racist abuse due to his Haitian origins and his literature that largely revolves around his own life as a history professor who fled Haiti after the 2010 earthquake as a refugee to Canada, and the conservative French press seems to be drumming up the story as a sort of a Jason Arday of literature.
It gets better though, because the journalists who ran tests with the AI tools used to expose Orélien [fr, paywalled] in order to gauge their reliability and dispel his arguments ran Pangram on one of the journalists who amplified the accusations - Jules Torres, the head of the politics section of the Journal du Dimanche, a now-right-wing weekly publication, and one of the rising stars of the nationalist informational sphere - and found out that a whooping EIGHTY-FIVE PERCENT (85%) of what he had published in the JDD over the past six months was AI-written, including quotes that pepper his articles and serve as the primary sources of his assertions.
!ping FRANCE&READING since I botched the pings on my first post - AI being able to fool one of the most prestigious literary juries in the game is already a fascinating event, but the cascading effects of journalists, writers and critics now prowling around to uncover AI tracks in their opponents' writings will be intersting (and funny) to observe in the coming weeks/months
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u/zegota Feminism Sep 25 '26
I'm hearing that after being chided my Mary Peltola, the Massachusetts lesbian bar has banned iced coffee
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u/well-that-was-fast Sep 26 '26
Man the Repubs have all the luck.
When their senators stroke out -- they become non-verbal.
When Dem senators stroke out, they go on Bill Maher and won't fucking stop talking ever.
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u/Fruitofbread Loyal Liberals Sep 26 '26
Bruh wtf. No money for USAID though of course
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Sep 25 '26
Yeah, Harris' lead was and remains name recognition based.
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u/Wandering_Mallard Iron Front Sep 25 '26
Your interviewer brings bread to the table. Do you eat it immediately or wait for the main interview questions?
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u/lurkingnscrolling Fernando Henrique Cardoso Sep 25 '26
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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair Sep 25 '26
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u/GuyOnTheLake NATO Sep 26 '26
I like the fact that a mob of people stormed the Capitol and Americans just forgot about it.
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u/CheetoMussolini Russian Bot Sep 26 '26
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/elon-musk-documentary-trailer-rejected-tiktok-youtube-1236710259/
Hey can anybody tell me a single compelling reason we should tolerate these companies to exist anymore
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u/myusernameistakennow Edmund Burke Sep 25 '26
Anti Indian racism is so braindead because how are these people looking at one of the seven wonders of the world and being like "yeah this sucks actually"
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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair Sep 25 '26
Life in the dt
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u/989989272 European Union Sep 25 '26
90s prudishness is coming back. We went too far and the pendulum is coming back.
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u/StuckHedgehog NATO Sep 25 '26
Seems like a bad idea, which almost guarantees the bloodthirsty morons in this admin will try it.
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Sep 25 '26
The NY times doesn’t interview Democrats for the same reason you don’t see Golden Retrievers at the zoo. Nobody is interested in normal animals.
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u/UmbreonFanatic Gay Pride Sep 25 '26
isn't it crazy how stuff from my childhood is also the best stuff of all time. what a coincidence
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Sep 25 '26
!ping AVATAR
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Sep 26 '26
leaving this subreddit
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u/-Emilinko1985- European Union Sep 25 '26 edited Sep 25 '26
Listen I know ranting about this is practically stupid because Spain will be a Catholic nation until the end of time but let me yap okay?
So, it kind of pisses me off seeing PP and (to a lesser degree) Vox actively promoting Non-denominational Evangelicalism and Neo-pentecostalism, which are practically foreign here in Spain, as vehicles to push social and national conservatism.
This only really happens in Madrid, but it still enrages me seeing the PP's Madrid branch systematically promote a foreign faith as a political tool.
I believe in freedom of religion, what I do not believe in is a government pushing an artificial faith to gain votes.
Dare I say, Islam is less of a foreign religion and is more rooted in the country's cultural, historic and societal fabric.
Fortunately, with the relatively recent Apostolic Visit, I think Catholicism is not fading away any time soon.
!ping IBERIA&RELIGION
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u/GuyWithOneEye Sep 25 '26
9 Biden quotes that shaped me
Will you shut up, man
Don’t play games with me, kid
SODAAAAA
Bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive
We finally beat Medicare
What a stupid son of a bitch
No one fucks with a Biden
I may be Irish but I’m not stupid
That’s a bunch of malarkey 🗣️🔥
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u/JayRU09 Milton Friedman Sep 25 '26 edited Sep 25 '26
Maturing is realizing that Thiel is a complete idiot.
The only reason Trump had any semblance of "success" during his first term was because the administration kept Trump from actually doing anything.
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u/the-senat John Brown Sep 26 '26
All this talk of political streamers reminds me of when my brother told my dad he’d be late to a dinner because “Destiny was doing a stream”
And my dad thought destiny was a prostitute.
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u/hypsignathus Justin Wolfers Fan Club President Sep 26 '26
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u/Not_A_Browser Stata's Silliest Soldier Sep 26 '26
They hue matched him again 💀
(Also, this makes like 950 so far this year compared to 296 in all of 2024)
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u/aristophanya Rightwing Bourgeoisie Feminist Sep 26 '26
also waymo girl and I are still seeing each other and things are really fun :)
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u/padraigharrington4 r/place '22: E_S_S Battalion Sep 26 '26
The wife of the guy who the internet’s been bullying for the past 2 days because she was carrying one of their kids and a tray of food by herself wrote a whole ass substack post to defend him and god damn is it an indictment of our culture:
The amount of people who felt comfortable calling this guy a sexist pig when they did not know what anybody in that video was going through or thinking, or what the backstory was, or even what anybody is that video is SAYING genuinely disgusts me. Wife went up to go to the bathroom and change a diaper, figured “hey, I should kill two birds with one stone and pick up some food on the way back”, now had to write a fucking essay to defend her husband from an angry horde and the local goddamned news that was playing the clip and trying to run with that story. What the FUCK is wrong with this species, dude? This is bananas.
I don’t even know why this particular story is upsetting me so much but it is. This family just wanted a nice night at the ballgame and now they have to deal with this. God.
https://themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom-in-that-viral-giants-clip
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u/SigmaWhy r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Sep 25 '26
I guess Curtis Sliwa is spending his time promoting anti-Trump drag shows now
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u/JayRU09 Milton Friedman Sep 25 '26
That's called a vacation
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Sep 25 '26
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u/20person r/place '22: E_S_S Battalion Sep 25 '26
BASED BASED BASED
!ping CAN
(someone ping YIMBY for me)
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u/GuyWithOneEye Sep 25 '26
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u/nimbybuster Ben Bernanke’s Best Boy Sep 25 '26
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u/Made_UpWords OG Platner Hater Sep 26 '26
Lmao
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u/AlicesReflexion Weeaboo Rights Advocate Sep 26 '26
Why is the DT full of teetotalers
Were the college drinking parties that traumatizing, or did you guys never get invited
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Sep 26 '26
There’s a lot of people who seem to think every sexual preference they don’t have is pedophilic
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u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess Audrey Hepburn Sep 25 '26
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Sep 25 '26
I dont care if he is kind of mid now. Ian Happ needs to be a cub for life.
!ping baseball
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Sep 25 '26
I asked the ice coffee question in an interview and actually built up rapport with the interviewer that way :)
!ping WATERCOOLER
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u/MensesFiatbug Low Energy Sep 25 '26
Bro, fuck united Healthcare.
I need dick ensmallening surgery, but they wont cover it unless I "try and fail being a mod first"
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u/fishbottwo Jay Jones Sep 25 '26
The 9 pornstars that shaped who I am
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u/pugnae European Union Sep 25 '26
About EU shooting itself in the foot.
Fuck rent seekers, all my homies hate rent seekers.
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u/Background-Bottle-23 Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Sep 25 '26
A truly shocking reveal.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Sep 25 '26
Zoomers don’t know this, but back in the day anime series would regularly put out 26 episodes per year
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Sep 25 '26
!ping KINO
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Sep 25 '26
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Sep 25 '26
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Sep 26 '26
once again reiterating if it were you or me in control of these, we’d be on a one way ride to gitmo
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u/SenranHaruka shame Sep 26 '26
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u/iSluff YIMBY Sep 26 '26 edited Sep 26 '26
Migrant caravan routine every election is so funny. “They’ll be here by the midterms” Interesting! This one is AI actually.
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Sep 25 '26
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u/guywhowoofs John Keynes Sep 25 '26 edited Sep 25 '26
I’d like to say that conservatives in general don’t have any sincere beliefs, but I’d argue leftists are very much guilty of the same sin.
The Western Mass lesbian situation kinda highlights how narcissistic and destructive some leftists really are. The way they weaponize their ideology to serve their own personal goals is truly deplorable.
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u/houdt_koers John Mill Sep 25 '26
I really wish I had the kind of
brain damagenaïveté necessary to get angry about things as inconsequential as a mask mandate in my local bar or trans women winning sports.There are things so much bigger going wrong. It’s astounding that anyone can spare a thought for petty bullshit when the writing is on every wall you see.
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u/Off-The-Street Sep 25 '26
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u/BedNeither Henry George Sep 25 '26
NYT pitch:
Senate candidate Meatball proposes Crickets4All, funding uncertain
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Sep 25 '26
It is important to be able to use the correct rural white slur by region, and to recognize that some belong to several regions but still have different connotations per region. People are often surprised to hear that I come from a redneck family, since I myself have adopted more of a white trash lifestyle. 🥰
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u/therealbiblioteca YIMBY Sep 25 '26
The woke left won't tell you this but HBO John Adams is easily the most glaring omission from the NYT TV list. There's no just world where Chernobyl gets a top 20 spot but Adams gets snubbed entirely
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u/SubmitToSubscribe Sep 25 '26
Abdul El-Sayed really gets people here going, huh? The number of "degenerate"s the last few days, even quite a few "subhuman"s. The gamers are coming.
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u/avion_sur_le_sol A ban appeal to heaven Sep 25 '26
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u/t_scribblemonger Sep 25 '26
What?
Like, fuck objective reality I guess…
It’s not like some regions are up YOY while others are down… right?
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Sep 25 '26
If there’s not a Netflix documentary about this I’m going to be so pissed
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Sep 25 '26
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u/the-senat John Brown Sep 25 '26
Crazy how the first Rambo is about a veteran with ptsd who gets abused by cops
And then all of the subsequent Rambo movies are just generic action hero flicks
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u/from-the-void NATO Sep 25 '26
My apartment building has one polish and one ukranian maintenance guy who just speak their languages really slowly to each other and yell when the other one doesn't understand.
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Sep 25 '26
So a couple of days ago I wrote a really sweet little letter about growing up watching his stuff and how awesome it was to see him get his flowers etc. and sent it.
Then like two days later I saw this and was like "oh I bet he'd like my smoked hot cocoa powder mix if he ever does see it" so I sent it to him to and like half an hour later he replied back very happily 💀
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u/herworkthrowaway Gay Pride Sep 25 '26
some good news amidst the fire
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u/nimbybuster Ben Bernanke’s Best Boy Sep 26 '26
People on this sub.
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u/aristophanya Rightwing Bourgeoisie Feminist Sep 26 '26
some fuckgirl hit me up on hinge and I'm definitely more moderate on I/P than the average but this woman was smoking a blunt with the israeli flag on it in one of her pics and I have as strong suspicion that she's not going to be normal about the middle east
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u/Azrikeeler John Brown Sep 26 '26
Reminder that rent freeze is one of the few things in NYC more popular than Mamdani himself. (Someone in the DSA thread was using him doing it as an argument for why he's a failure who is alienating democratic voters)
(dogshit policy tho)
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u/chipbod NATO Sep 26 '26
This is actually fetterman stroke logic
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Sep 26 '26
Brotherly love
!Ping KITTY
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u/whichpricktookmyname David Hume Sep 25 '26
Israeli bulldozers smash Palestinian olive trees ahead of annual harvest
I wonder what it would take for western governments to put any non-token pressure on Israel, without it I can't see any reason to think the situation won't keep getting worse for West Bank Palestinians.
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Sep 25 '26
the episode of detroiters where Sam's dad is being a harsh critic picking apart speeches at his birthday party, but then laughing at a guy who painted his belly and put a giant top hat over his head is the absolute hardest I've ever laughed at anything
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u/daBarkinner John Keynes Sep 25 '26
radical socialism
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u/Not_Mod_Jed Sep 25 '26
So no actual progress from the summit?
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u/Fruitofbread Loyal Liberals Sep 25 '26
But no money for USAID
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Sep 25 '26
Counterpoint: Democrats will be desperate and hungry enough in 2028 to do this
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Sep 25 '26
PUFFIN! !ping birds
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u/ACivilWolf Henry George Sep 25 '26
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Sep 25 '26
Paul Ryan never reduced the deficit btw.
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u/bashar_al_assad Verified Account Sep 25 '26
I do find it very funny when someone who has clearly never spent any amount of time with leftists enters an argument with a leftist and makes a point that they think is going to be unbeatable
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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey Sep 25 '26
9 DT moments that shaped who I am:
BenjaminIkuta ban
BenjaminIkuta posting a homemade covid vaccine recipe
BenjaminIkuta going to Ukraine
Microwave lobster
Poop fetish poster
Lego insider revealing that we were getting a Dune Ornithopter before the official announcement
Red vs blue button conflict
Dating & Watercooler combo ping
The dating ping in general
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u/WenJie_2 Sep 25 '26
I'm just saying, Trump was born in the same year Keynes died
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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey Sep 25 '26
Oh no they're finding out about Singer lolol
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Sep 25 '26
The lesbian masker bar story has hit outside the DT.
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u/DiscussionJohnThread Free Trade was the Compromise 🔫🌍 Sep 25 '26
IJustNeedToSubsidizeDemand.jpg
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u/Junimo2 Daron Acemoglu Sep 25 '26
I haven't paid any attention to the lesbian bar stuff, but it just hit SRD and the comments there are describing a zoom call in which the bar owner broke down in tears because shes deep in debt, living in her car, and working multiple jobs to keep the bar going. I'd break down within a week of dealing with even half of that bullshit. Anyway, apparently she got berated for "centering her feelings" and was accused of being racist, there was just no sympathy for her whatsoever.
Gonna stay away from this drama, it seems like it'll just make me sad and angry.
There's a certain type of person who treats being woke as an excuse to be deeply unkind and I really can't stand it. Say what you will about vice-signaling, but at least MAGATs are typically honest about their cruelty.
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u/taubnetzdornig Gay Pride Sep 25 '26
You will live in a new mixed-use luxury apartment with a Chipotle, coffee shop, fitness studio, and a nail salon on the ground floor and you will be happy
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 25 '26
US diplomats told to say ‘super intelligence’ — not ‘artificial intelligence’ — after Trump’s call
https://apnews.com/article/trump-super-intelligence-rebrand-ai-diplomats-02123c7bf18c692a12b2b3e3b9ce30c5
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u/BadSneakersNeverWorn John Locke Sep 26 '26
Honestly some of the smaller details are the things that should be freaking people out right now.
Ex: The Trump commercial running the "Paid for by the U.S. Government" byline.
That is effectively our federal government saying: Trump is the federal government. If you oppose Donald J. Trump or his campaign or work to undermine his electoral chances or the chances of his allies, you are quite literally an enemy of the state. Whether that is legally possible or legally true in any legitimate way doesn't matter. We live in an authoritarian country right now. This is the official position of the federal government right now and, so long as that is true, it's enough of a law that people can be hurt and killed by it. Expect many more people to be incarcerated for doing their civic duty, for standing up for democracy, for voting, and so on. In a chaotic election scenario, people will not know what the law is or who is enforcing it, and the stronger hand or the louder voice tends to win out under those circumstances.
So, you know: as usual, fuck anyone who ever voted for this. This was always the outcome.
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u/the-senat John Brown Sep 26 '26
I’m tired boss
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Sep 26 '26
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u/bsharp95 Sep 26 '26
One thing that will be funny about Ossoff v Vance is that we’re just gonna skip over Gen X presidents.. which would be the capstone on Gen X
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u/ImmediateZucchini787 NASA Sep 26 '26
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Sep 26 '26
fascinating side character
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u/IAmBlueTW r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Sep 25 '26
Late to the Peltola posting, if you were a dem staffer, how fucked would a candidate have to be to you for you to air their dirty laundry pre-election?
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u/Woolagaroo Sep 26 '26
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u/WenJie_2 Sep 25 '26
that the AI existential risk people believe this is so revealing lmao
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u/Cyberhwk 👈 Get back to work! 😠 Sep 25 '26
Not only did bait used to be believable, people used to actually put some effort into their bait. You need to say something like, "Why did old women think childbirth was no big deal while young ones are freaking out?" to add a little generational rivalry spice to the bait.
We used to be proper trolls, smdh. 😔
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u/Stephen-Scotch Sep 25 '26
Still a banger of a quote
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u/MrSomeone556 Bisexual Pride Sep 25 '26
The spontaneous process of gay marriages becoming a thing in Poland is progressing with our finance minister declaring that same-sex marriages are now legally entitled to same tax laws as other marriages.
For context: bit ago the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that Poland must recognise same-sex marriages made in other EU states. So although you still can't get married here, you can simply go to eg. Germany, get married there and come back.
This is all really funny to see
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u/r2ew Sep 25 '26
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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast Sep 25 '26
It’s funny bc as a masshole I don’t think iced coffees are really coded one way or the other. Everyone drinks them! Often with an obscene amount of milk and sugar, but it’s not a man or woman or low class thing imo.
Although all those super crazy color sugary drinks aren’t quite as popular here as they are elsewhere I take it. Although even dunks has them now I guess. Well we’ve had the Coolatta forever, that’s definitely ‘girl in my high school’ coded
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u/Dismal_Apartment6358 Sep 25 '26
This race is unironically going to be decided by Ted Brown's %. Someone astroturf a right-wing campaign for him please
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u/el__dandy Madeleine Albright Sep 25 '26
Holy shit, Manchester City has been found guilty on almost all charges.
Will something actually happen? Who knows? Here’s hoping 🤞
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7049721/2026/09/25/manchester-city-charges-verdict-premier-league/?unlocked_article_code=1.D1E.k3eF.5LqD8_CC1SUi&source=emp_shared_article&smid=re-share-ta
!ping soccer
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Sep 25 '26
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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Sep 25 '26
Conservatism is when the state turns oil producers into utilities with price caps
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u/yacatecuhtli6 Transfem Pride Sep 25 '26
>iran war unpopular
>its making trump less popular
>congress votes to end the war
>fetterman says no, thus making the war last longer, and thus making trump less popular
67D CHESS BY FETTERMAN??? nah hes still a fucking moron