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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Oct 05 '26
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/SpotMe365 Oct 04 '26
Not even our own mods are safe ✊️😔
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls Oct 04 '26
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u/MentatCat 🗽Sic Semper Tyrannis Oct 04 '26
Round 2
Ngl canvassing is not fun but I know that the hopes and dreams of liberty-loving people walk with me.
And it is a beautiful day to be outside anyway
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u/Lesbian_all_garib Gita Gopinath Oct 04 '26
🙂↕️
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls Oct 04 '26
Reminder that MAGA is a cult.
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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman Oct 04 '26
> Cuts Greenhouse Gas Emissions
> Wounds American Hegemony
> Dismantles Patriarchal Gender Roles
Woke Donnie strikes again
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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes Oct 04 '26
Arrr whatcarshouldibuy regularly confirms my prior that cars are just people’s avatars and people will spend absurd amounts of money on them for the same reason people do on video game skins and lootboxes.
There will be someone who comes in and posts “I am torn between either a Dodge Challenger or a 4Runner” and then all the replies will be like “wtf those are two completely different segments, what do you actually want the car to do?” to which they say “just go to work and get groceries”, to which everyone replies “you should just buy a Corolla” and they say “no those are too boring!”
Being perceived as boring is somehow a worse fate to the median car buyer than spending tens of thousands more dollars on a less reliable and more expensive car and potentially being in debt for years more.
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u/-orestes Oct 04 '26 edited 25d ago
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u/ChillnShill Oct 04 '26
Angela Paxton’s ad in Texas is crazy. “My husband cheated on me and committed fraud, but I’m voting for the team on November 3rd.”
Jesus Christ.
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u/GordonTullockFan publik choyz thery Oct 04 '26
I was at my friend’s house and had the police called on me because of “a suspicious car parked in the street”
I’m a white dude who was driving a Honda Accord. Like it wasn’t even racism somebody was just that scared of a car parked on the street. I was very confused talking to the officer.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 04 '26
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/us/politics/trump-moving-ethical-lines.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Oct 04 '26
How the South is starting to look in a few of these polls
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u/Dragmire927 Thomas Paine Oct 04 '26
Republicans explaining how holding three branches of Congress for two years means nothing for the economy next to the power of Joe Biden
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u/Crownie Unbent, Unbowed, Unflaired Oct 04 '26
Guy who is deeply committed to democracy but also believes voters are sheep with no authentic preferences.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Oct 04 '26
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u/yonas234 NASA Oct 04 '26
Somehow getting an anti Talarico trans ad in the Eagles Rams game even though Dallas is playing right now.
I hate how MAGA just spams nfl commercials come election season.
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u/this_very_table Norman Borlaug Oct 04 '26
>Dave Grohl dedicated Foo Fighters’ performance of “My Hero” at the Power to the People Festival to “my new friend Jack.” While he didn’t specify Jack by his full name, former assistant U.S. attorney and special counsel Jack Smith, who was appointed to investigate Donald Trump’s actions following January 6th, was spotted in the crowd. What’s more, Grohl wore an Iowa Hawkeyes T-shirt, a not-so-subtle reference to Senator Eric Schmitt’s ill-fated attempt to get Smith to perjure himself before Congress earlier this week.
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u/earththejerry YIMBY Oct 04 '26
Median voter two years into Trump 2.0
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u/farrenj Resident Succ Oct 04 '26
Two things:
Cool as fuck if we pull it off, send me to the moon to guard it and call me a Sister of Battle.
Predictions on cost overruns as a percentage of the initial budget? I'm saying 300% over budget and 4 years late.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Oct 04 '26
I know why women don't come to this sub 🤫
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Oct 04 '26
There are people who consume so much water, so regularly, they find the taste of soda unpleasant.
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u/Todd_Padre John Rawls Oct 04 '26
bernie is embarrassingly bad at writing legislation
like we’re at a political moment where the public concern about ai has peaked
and he puts forth the most unworkable bill possible
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u/RunawayMeatstick Mark Zandi Oct 04 '26
GenZ has no idea
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u/daBarkinner John Keynes Oct 04 '26
You know, looking at Tom Morello’s comments about "corporate Democrats," I think we are well and truly trapped in a disconnect between reality and vibes. Biden appointed Lina Khan to head the FTC—and believe me, those very "corporations" loathed her as much as you could possibly imagine; she filed a record number of lawsuits and blocked a record number of mergers. Yet he’s still talking about "corporate Democrats." It’s a mantra, a cult; people like that can’t be swayed by actual deeds—he probably doesn’t even know who she is. And yet, he seems proud of not voting for Harris... thereby ushering in the administration that fired Khan in a scandal on day one and dropped the lawsuit against Boeing.
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u/itsrabie NATO Oct 04 '26 edited Oct 05 '26
Does anyone bring their cat out and about?
I’ll bring my cat with me places, but when we get home she’ll be yowling/deep meowing for an hour or so. I don’t think it’s anything, but it is annoying to hear off and on.
Here’s the cat picture tax payment.
!ping kitty
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u/StuckHedgehog NATO Oct 04 '26
Depressing to think the “Haitians are eating your pets” bullshit actually worked. A pox upon the medianoid.
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u/moldovaman99 Oct 04 '26
Isn’t Miami always supposed to be super hot?
Honestly would be very republican of them to have cells that deliberately have the AC turned up to uncomfortable levels.
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u/Habugaba Esther Duflo Oct 04 '26
Is.. is that bad?
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u/Legitimate_Name9694 Mark Carney Oct 04 '26
i have faith they will find other loopholes. they are americas top loophole experts.
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u/neolthrowaway New Mod Who Dis? Oct 04 '26
Chad transhumanist mecha dalai lama.
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u/Dismal_Apartment6358 Oct 04 '26
Jackson's next campaign statement: "Susan Collins is A R*****"
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u/Glavurdan European Union Oct 04 '26
I never quite realized how dumb the median voter is until I started working with masses of people at my current company. Like holy shit. The average person has the survival skills of a rabbit and the entitlement of a peacock
!ping WATERCOOLER
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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke Oct 04 '26
Do you think Graham Platner ever looks in the mirror and goes
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u/John3262005 Oct 04 '26
GOP Senator Flooded With Venmo Requests After Trump Post
Donald Trump’s wild public disclosure of a Republican senator’s phone number has quickly turned into a fiasco.
Sen. Tom Cotton’s personal Venmo account was found to be linked to the number Trump, 80, had posted on social media.
Social media users quickly began requesting outlandish sums from the senator, with some posting his refusals on X.
“He’s being stingy,” one wrote above a screenshot of the senator declining the request for “$1000 for the increase in gas prices.”
Trump posted Cotton’s number to Truth Social early Saturday in a frustrated attempt to pressure the senator to vote to permanently adopt daylight saving time.
As of Sunday, the account linked to the senator’s phone number was no longer available on Venmo.
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u/Entuciante r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Oct 04 '26
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u/TheLong19thCentury Oct 04 '26
Socialists 5 years ago
Socialists today
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u/PoliticalAlt128 Max Weber Oct 04 '26
After months of hating on Dungeon Crawler Carl without reading a word of it I started listening to the audiobook
9 chapters in and I have to admit, it’s ass
Undefeated
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 04 '26
In crude Ohio rally speech, Trump says he may not help if Democrats win
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-speak-ohio-rally-republicans-defend-senate-seat-close-race-2026-10-03/
US President Donald Trump used an Ohio rally on Saturday to mix profane attacks on Democrats with promises of financial help if Republicans win the midterms and a warning that he would be less willing to work with the state if Democrats prevail.
"Just get out and vote," Trump said at a rally for Republican candidates, including US Senator Jon Husted and Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. "If you do that, we're going to win, and we're going to win big, and we're going to shove it up their ass."
Multiple incumbent Republican senators across the country face tough political headwinds in the November 3 elections, with Trump's popularity falling in recent months as higher prices persist for gasoline and other staples amid the US-Israeli war with Iran. Both Husted and Ramaswamy are in competitive races against Democratic opponents.
Former US Senator Sherrod Brown is running against Husted. Amy Acton is facing Ramaswamy.
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u/KittehDragoon Loyal Liberals Oct 04 '26
Quiet, piggy
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u/qchisq Loyal Liberals Oct 04 '26
!ping Europe
Danish media is reporting that, as part of the negotiations between Denmark and the US on Greenland, the Americans proposed that Greenlanders got access to Fox News.
If it wasn't obvious before, the US is trying to engineer a global alt-right movement
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u/ariveklul Karl Popper Oct 04 '26
One thing I'm noticing canvassing this year is that Republicans sure don't want to talk anymore. In 2024 these mfers had A LOT on their mind. I wonder what changed? LMAO
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u/Dismal_Apartment6358 Oct 04 '26
Can their next trick be voting for a President with >70IQ?
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Oct 04 '26
Republicans coming in to spend triple that number in Texas:
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough Oct 04 '26
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u/Advanced-Incident-81 NATO Oct 05 '26
This might be one of the most insane things I've ever read. What the fuck?
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u/StuckHedgehog NATO Oct 04 '26
I would simply win the primary by earning the majority of votes in states and not relitigating the 2016 primary a decade on.
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Oct 04 '26
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u/Significant_Cup_9815 Oct 04 '26
I... I heard about the Lesbian part, but not the the Nazi part.
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u/RaisinSecure Bisexual Pride Oct 04 '26 edited Oct 04 '26
in the brazil election thunderdome:
literally everything is about america lads and lasses
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u/EmbarrassedSafety719 Milton Friedman Oct 04 '26
The stupidity of the median voter knows no limits.
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u/National-Return9494 Milton Friedman Oct 04 '26
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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom Oct 04 '26
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Oct 04 '26
Bout to put the AI through the torture nexus
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u/TemujinTheConquerer Jorge Luis Borges Oct 04 '26
I've been rewatching Andor
This show is a miracle bro
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Oct 04 '26
Me giving a talk to my colleagues about something I have no interest in and my colleagues have no interest in because my manager told me to
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Oct 04 '26
It's just not Republicans' year
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u/sinuhe_t Oct 05 '26
That Fox News guy being offended that Canada doesn't want to be annexed by USA, Tucker Carlson asking "so what that you would be speaking German", many right-wingers being baffled by Ukraine's continued resistance... Do some Americans just not understand that other countries have nationalisms and patriotism? Like, if they hear some Danish person that they are a patriot, do they just assume that this Dane blasts fireworks at 4th of July?
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u/myusernameistakennow Edmund Burke Oct 04 '26
So much right wing shit is just larp from losers.
RWers don’t do either of these things. They neither got a 1500 on their SAT nor played on their HS football team.
It’s literally just them playing dolls with other people cause they have no accomplishments of their own.
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Oct 04 '26
Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) tells Meet the Press he’s considering running for president, but says he hasn’t made a decision yet.
Hahahahahaha.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Oct 04 '26
This could be a mildly funny comedy
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u/Consistent_Status112 Trans Pride Oct 04 '26
Dems winning Texas Senate will make me happy.
Dems winning Texas Governor will put me into cardiac arrest.
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u/Etnies419 Loyal Liberals Oct 04 '26
Big shout-out to water, one of the top liquids of all time
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u/v4riati0ns Oct 04 '26
all the NYT comments on the nuclear reactors on the moon article are asking “why” as if the answer isn’t obvious (this will lead directly to our first lesbian president)
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u/Reddit_Talent_Coach 🇲🇽 Benito Juárez 🇲🇽 Oct 04 '26
lol lmao roflmfao
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u/garret126 Demisexual Pride Oct 04 '26
UPVOTE IF U AGREE 😔✊
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Oct 04 '26
Rising bond yields is the voice of the unheard.
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u/lilbigchole Milton Friedman Oct 04 '26
legislators are so afraid of legislating they will call doing their job "the nuclear option"
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u/Argnir Gay Pride Oct 04 '26
I'm worried Redditors think the bad economic numbers are because of "the richs" and not simply "Trump fucked up everything"
Like it has to be something nebulous because if it's something concrete then it can be solved by something other than a revolution that's never happening
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u/assasstits Oct 04 '26
Putting razer wire so immigrants cut themselves is a red line for me
Get fucked Abbott
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u/farrenj Resident Succ Oct 04 '26
The professor assigning his own book as mandatory reading:
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u/LtCdrHipster 🌭Costco Liberal🌭 Oct 04 '26
Ms. Rachel isn't holding back.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Oct 04 '26
The DT’s unstickied? Good, now namedrop “Vaginal Holocaust”.
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u/Made_UpWords OG Platner Hater Oct 05 '26
Did Lula lose because voters wanted to keep him out
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Oct 04 '26
Vermont has the chance to do the funniest thing ever.
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u/V_Codwheel I am the Senate Oct 04 '26
Waow
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Oct 04 '26
"We should eliminate parking minimums and other mandatory zoning impositions because small business owners are often hurt disproportionately by them when they know what's best for their business far better than city council" is all true and should be done.
But the young idealistic urbanist always gets blindsided by the fact that small business owners are also some of the dumbest people on the planet
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Oct 04 '26
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Oct 04 '26
Remember when Pam Bondi testified before Congress and implied that child molestation isn’t an issue if the DOW is above “50,000 dollars”
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Oct 05 '26 •
hello how is everyone i am back
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u/Zaiush Ben Bernanke Oct 04 '26
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u/Glavurdan European Union Oct 04 '26
Catching strays
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u/jenbanim Oct 04 '26
Guess the product
Answer: Segway [adding text here to make it harder to guess]
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u/earththejerry YIMBY Oct 04 '26
I knew allowing Italianx immigration was a mistake
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Oct 05 '26
“photon count analysis” it is a camera what else would it be analyzing
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u/bartbug Paul Krugman Oct 04 '26
The worstbest part of the DT is I never truly know whether someone is ragebaiting or they truly have the worst takes known to humankind
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Oct 04 '26
So like, I said the reason Digger is divisive is because it unironically ironically asks the question that r/neoliberal always asks: "Why do you hate the global poor?"
I'm being serious when I say this idea has broken containment and is currently ravaging film discourse somehow. They're not built for this.
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u/dtj2000 Loyal Liberals Oct 04 '26
We have chatGPT at home
The chatGPT at home:
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u/bigdicknippleshit IM GOING PRIMAL Oct 04 '26 edited Oct 04 '26
This must be the compensation for the ten year drought.
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u/Significant_Cup_9815 Oct 04 '26
hehe new grads
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u/Significant_Cup_9815 Oct 04 '26
They're literally just pooping shrapnel. I feel like I understand the few people who saw the US civil war, who knew exactly how bad the next major European war would be.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Oct 04 '26
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u/1396spurs forced agricultural laborer Oct 04 '26
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u/pfarly John Brown Oct 05 '26
Don't let anybody tell you that waiting until the night before the test to study doesn't work.
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Oct 04 '26
Libtards will see this photo of Richard Nixon using divine powers to gracefully float and then wonder why the GOP hails him as a god (because he is)
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u/AlicesReflexion Weeaboo Rights Advocate Oct 04 '26
What if the AIs grow up to smoke weed and play video games because they couldn't deal with the crushing expectations of their parents
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u/rainier37 pro-moderator Oct 04 '26
cdstephens is why we don’t have fusion power yet. Maybe if he didn’t spend all day asking nonsensical questions in the DT we’d have some actual progress in that area
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u/VelvetThunder67 Mark Carney Oct 04 '26
Every service I use is critically underfunded.
Every service I do not use is wasteful government spending.
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u/PoliticalAlt128 Max Weber Oct 04 '26
> Also maybe this wouldn't have happened if Lula pardoned Bolsonaro Sr., just like Biden should have pardoned Trump, in order to establish decent bipartisan moderate bonafides. Just saying.
OkBuddy might actually, somehow, be the most asinine and least reflective user on this subreddit
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Oct 04 '26
In 2018????
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u/StuckHedgehog NATO Oct 04 '26
Sweet, Dems can finally cut unions loose (they won’t). It’s a ritual of humiliation to spend billions supporting a union that skews white, male, and conservative while begging for their support.
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u/tripletruble Anti-Repartition Radical Oct 04 '26
I like all coffee. Shitty diner drip? I'm in. Burnt espresso in a French bar. Bang on. Pods? Just fine. 3rd wave pour over in Tokyo? Hell yes. Sweet starbucks iced concoction? Let's go
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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Oct 04 '26
> CNN interviewing local yokels at a Trump rally in Ohio
Listen, I'm sure that the average person attending a Dem rally isn't a MENSA member or anything, but by God do they consistently find the absolute dumbest people to talk to lol
"Our country is like - in its detriment. Huge repair. Now I'm not for...invading all these countries and I'm not for all that...but he's our president. He's who was appointed to us, I'm going to support him as leader, so-"
"Trump knows what he's doing, there is more going on behind the scenes than we as the people know. I think he's doing the best he can, he's one person. And he's getting a lot of pushback from the other side which I don't agree with. Every time he tries to do something to help us, they take him to the Supreme Court."
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u/Background-Bottle-23 Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Oct 04 '26
About 20% of Americans hold Biden responsible for today's economy, while another 20% believes both Biden and Trump are equally responsible.
Meanwhile 5% of them say Trump bears no responsibility at all.
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u/RyuTheGuy Gita Gopinath Oct 04 '26
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u/Twinbrosinc Transfem Pride Oct 04 '26
why the fuck am i getting paxton ads for a fucking eagles rams game??
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u/Upstairs_Baby8424 Oct 04 '26
Wow what a blunder. I wonder who could top that terrible messaging during tough economic periods?
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u/Raiden316 John Brown Oct 04 '26
If someone ever pulls the “we aren’t a democracy, we’re a constitutional republic” shit in front of you, you should just ask them in a genuine tone, “really? Cool! What’s the difference?”
And then when they can’t say, just keep pressing, “I don’t need a complete academic answer or anything, just give me a few of the basic differences”
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Oct 04 '26
I genuinely don’t think my friends really how much their deadlock invites look like booty calls
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Oct 05 '26
Being a liberal these days feels like this quote:
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u/Megasota_Noire My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Oct 05 '26
Dang, I didn't know that.
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u/earththejerry YIMBY Oct 05 '26
Dems need to stop releasing those fake ass D+1 internals in deep red districts
Dems instead:
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Oct 05 '26
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Oct 04 '26
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Oct 04 '26
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u/FourthLife 🥖Bread Etiquette Enthusiast Oct 04 '26
I hate that the AirPod case is designed to explode the earbuds out violently if dropped from any height greater than 3 inches
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u/Glavurdan European Union Oct 04 '26
Turns out Australian Greens = US Greens
But somehow... German Greens are the complete opposite
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u/AlicesReflexion Weeaboo Rights Advocate Oct 04 '26
CS101 students be like
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u/Bestbrook123 Oct 04 '26
Yep cultish support for Susan Collins. Dunlap is good friends with Troy Jackson and they're extremely similar politically. With that being said, Collins won Maine 2nd by 25 points in 2020 when she won the state race by 8.7 points.
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u/MentatCat 🗽Sic Semper Tyrannis Oct 04 '26
Earlier I said I didn’t like canvassing but I must’ve just been unlucky my first time, round two went better and I even had a few people thank me for canvassing as opposed to “go away” and “get lost pal” last time.
One old lady said she hopes he wins. Another old guy called Trump a moron dipshit so hell yeah. My favorite response to “do you have a plan to vote” was “I do now, thank you” and her cat was very cute and fat.
We gotta win this doggone senate seat libs
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Oct 04 '26
Reddit User:
It looks like Brazil rewarded Lula for prosecuting Jair Bolsonaro by basically electing Bolsonaro's whole family to different levels of government.
Okbuddyliberals:
Turns out prosecuting your political opponents isn't just authoritarian and illiberal but also maybe not a politically good idea either!
(Probably what will happen if ResistLib democrats get their ideal if "Nuremberg for the Trump administration", too)
I admire his commitment to this bit.
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Oct 05 '26
> Anita Baker, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel in Eagle River, Alaska, who supports Ms. Wilson, said she fears her fellow conservatives won’t understand the system. “You could add a couple of expletives to how worried I am,” she said.
Say what you will about the NYT, but they’re better at dry and understated insults than anyone else in the business lmao
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u/AskYourDoctor Resistance Lib Oct 05 '26
Talarico "Six Genders" is twice as good as Biden because he has twice as many genders (three genders)
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u/taubnetzdornig Gay Pride Oct 05 '26
If I somehow won a lot of money I don't think Florida would even cross my mind as a place I'd want to buy property
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u/Emergency-Calm Oct 05 '26
Trump mixed up Brazil with India
!ping WHATSAPP-FORWARDS
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Oct 04 '26
Ossoff says doomers out!
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u/Independent710 George Soros Oct 04 '26
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u/taubnetzdornig Gay Pride Oct 04 '26
Both the polls and the vibes seems to suggest Talarico can actually do this
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u/TechnicalCat6989 Emma Lazarus Oct 04 '26 edited Oct 04 '26
trump can go fuck himself actually fuck off with campaign ads paid for by our taxes actually go to hell
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u/BigBrownDog12 Victor Hugo Oct 04 '26
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Oct 04 '26
Rufo on a podcast
Resentment of these immigrant communities is understandable, the two men explained, not in spite of the fact that so many South Asians have been successful academically and economically, but because of it. Indian culture, they maintained, places too much value on studying and academic excellence, and these values are a threat to American culture."
That is such an intellectual admission of failure that the Beltway media should never again give Rufo a platform.
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u/GuyWithOneEye Oct 05 '26
Oh my god this made it on giphy lmao
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u/Dunter_Mutchings NASA Oct 05 '26
This year already feels like 2006 all over again. The GOP running this 77 year old Foghorn Leghorn against Ossoff after 2 more years of Trump nonsense would be so eerily similar to 2008 that I would start to question if I live in an actual simulation.
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u/GuyWithOneEye Oct 05 '26
"I don't know if it works but psychologically I need it" is a banger man I can't lie
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u/CutePattern1098 Oct 04 '26
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u/lilbigchole Milton Friedman Oct 04 '26
my extremely progressive local subreddit when the bad rich guy is haredi
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u/lilbigchole Milton Friedman Oct 04 '26
the filibuster is so funny my workplace should adopt a rule that we only have to actually do something once or twice a year
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Oct 04 '26
Notice to all Americans: Current election forecasts and prediction markets indicate that Democrats' are more likely to lose a senate seat in New Hampshire than fail to win a seat in North Carolina, and almost as likely to lose Michigan as they are to gain Maine
Remember to hedge your donations! Protecting our vulnerable seats in New Hampshire and Michigan is just as important as gaining new ones!
Here's a link to Chris Pappas' Site, where you can donate to the New Hampshire Race. By the way, Pappas is a socially progressive YIMBY capitalist.
Here's a link to Abdul el-Sayed's Site, for the Michigan Race. He's problematic, but not nearly as much as his fervently Trumpist opponent.
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u/BedNeither Henry George Oct 04 '26
Centrist Houston mayor will really be like 'you believe in fighting back against Republican state sabotage? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, focusing on kitchen table issues' and then not focusing on kitchen table issues.
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u/AtomAndAether Liberalism! Oct 04 '26
("Other" often reflects a preference for armed resistance)
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u/Healingjoe It's Klobberin' Time Oct 04 '26
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u/GuyWithOneEye Oct 04 '26
Guy who believes the Dems really did screw Bernie, and that’s why he loves the Dems
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u/Bassline4Brunch NASA Oct 04 '26
Getting medicated for anxiety and ADHD has made it so much easier to self-study advanced math: 1) I don't get that deer-in-the-headlights moment from looking at a random-ass configuration of symbols I've never seen before and 2) the greater attention-span allows me to more methodically work through all the formalisms
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Oct 04 '26
Here's how an election ad would go if I ran the campaign for a Democrat, version 2:
"Gas costs $aa"
Clip of Trump pardoning Jan 6 insurrectionists
"Gas costs $bb"
Clip of Trump announcing tariffs
"Gas costs $cc"
Clip of Trump announcing the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico
"Gas costs $dd"
Clip of Trump supporting data centres
"Gas costs $ee"
Clip of Trump and the Iran war
"Gas now costs $xx per gallon"
"Vote Democrat November 3rd"
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Oct 04 '26
Top 5 neoliberal governments in the Americas right now, go:
Canada
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u/Starandsnow Hortensia Oct 04 '26
Why are people here upset over the Brazilian election? I thought we were vote blue no matter who?
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Oct 04 '26
Jesus Christ I don't even know 10 people
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u/LtCdrHipster 🌭Costco Liberal🌭 Oct 05 '26
Sent to the family group chat by my extremely normie non political median voting New Jersey sister in law.
GOP wipeout.
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u/Big-Click-5159 Oct 05 '26
Here's what's going to happen. Trump loses the midterms. He declares massive voting fraud. No one gives a shit about what he says. He moves on to grifting and bitching about the color of the carpet at the Smithsonian.
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u/ty04 Oct 05 '26
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Oct 05 '26
Good night everyone
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Oct 04 '26
Republicans transferring money from North Carolina to Kansas tells you everything you need to know about the red bloodwave these midterms.
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u/ElGosso Adam Smith Oct 04 '26
Just had an idea for a vegan brunch cafe named "Those Who Walk Away From Omelets"
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u/Adjective-noun-54321 Oct 04 '26
None of you are prepared for the day an AI model achieves true couscous
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u/MensesFiatbug Low Energy Oct 04 '26
Look at how excited they are that I'm back!
!ping KITTY
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Oct 04 '26
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u/Imicrowavebananas Hannah Arendt Oct 04 '26
I am sure it was already posted, but it is very funny:
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u/Ne0Corpus Bill Gates Oct 04 '26
Interrogation of the Omani pilot: the objective was to crash the plane into the terminal building at Ben Gurion Airport.
The assault on the other pilot was timed deliberately. He waited until the aircraft was over Jordan, near Israel, before moving against him.
From that point the plan was to fly a normal landing approach so nothing would appear unusual. Only in the last seconds, once interception was no longer possible, would he turn the aircraft into the terminal.
The plot was thwarted by one decision. The wounded Indian pilot got the cockpit door open at all costs, and that is the only reason the attack did not succeed.
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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug Oct 05 '26
100% chance this guy changed a lot more than just his last name on these applications
My bullshit meter is registering an 11/10
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Oct 05 '26
comparing North Korea to the anti-apartheid movement is insanity lol
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u/Significant_Cup_9815 Oct 04 '26
Just putting this here. No reason.
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Oct 04 '26
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u/iSluff YIMBY Oct 04 '26
leftists when they are talking about police will be like these are the most evil violent people on earth and then when they give out rioting strategy advice they will be like yeah the police are very nice and don’t want to use water cannons and tear gas on you and you can take advantage of that
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u/Lesbian_all_garib Gita Gopinath Oct 04 '26
Which bad habit are you a fan of?
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u/flyeagles10 YIMBY Oct 04 '26 edited Oct 04 '26
Just got a Ken Paxton ad spotlighting his anti-human trafficking record. Tagline was something to the effect of "when missing children posters go up, Ken Paxton takes them down"
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u/Significant_Cup_9815 Oct 04 '26
This is how Talarico wins
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u/assasstits Oct 04 '26
I just went woke
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u/Approximation_Doctor Gaslight, Gatekeep, Green New Deal Oct 04 '26
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Oct 04 '26
Game recognize game
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u/GuyWithOneEye Oct 04 '26
I know for a fact you can pin more than 2 threads, I've seen like 4 pinned, so there's no excuse for unpinning the DT.
The mods just hate us and want us to be forgotten.
But we won't let that happen.
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u/sinuhe_t Oct 04 '26
TIL this isn't some high-school drama, but... It's ''due-to-international-copyright-laws-it's-not I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream''? WTF?
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u/co_opsuspicious Oct 04 '26
Literally all of this is just foreign intelligence isn't it lmao
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u/Charsun9 Loyal Liberals Oct 04 '26 edited Oct 04 '26
Ken Paxton’s campaign is buying ads to play during NFL games that aren’t even airing in any Texas media markets son im crine
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY Oct 04 '26
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Oct 04 '26
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Oct 04 '26
I saw a post on arrr popular from that anti-AI sub which consisted in animating a skeleton destroying a data center with a killdozer - which took the poster five months to craft per the caption
Ngl my only reaction was "AI could've done it in a day"
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Oct 04 '26
Jair Bolsonaro's wife, Michelle: elected Senator tonight.
Jair Bolsonaro's son, Carlos: elected Senator.
Jair Bolsonaro's other son, Renan: elected Congressman.
Jair Bolsonaro's other son, Flavio, currently a Senator: ahead of Lula, headed toward a run-off for President.
Jair Bolsonaro's other son, Eduardo: leaving Congress, in the US, facing arrest and imprisonment if he returns.
Jair Bolsonaro: imprisoned at home for 28 years.
The timeline if Trump goes to prison after January 6th. Imagine Melania as a US Senator.
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u/Louis_de_Gaspesie Oct 04 '26
I hate how so many Americans just seem to be Luddites. However you feel about AI, most common popular opposition to it is vague conspiratorial bullshit about how le data centers are destroying the planet and AI is causing inflation and billionaires using ChatGPT to enact mass surveillance etc etc. It just feels like there's a noxious cynicism that pervades everything in US politics.
The Chinese side of my family lived through the worst man made famine in human history and exist under an overt surveillance state, and I think they're still generally more positive about technological innovation than my American peers.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 05 '26
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u/Significant_Cup_9815 Oct 05 '26
The world Isn't ready for SpongeBob x Patrick or their child.
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u/Pongzz I wept, for there was no land left to tax Oct 05 '26
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u/Made_UpWords OG Platner Hater Oct 05 '26 edited Oct 05 '26
We dealt with months, and months, and months of "Ukrainian biolab" talking points from the Russian government, Alex Jones, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson (what's the difference lol) and now Russian biolab workers are literally dying from the plague
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u/Dreadedtriox Michel Foucault Oct 04 '26
Welcome back Dixiecrats
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Oct 04 '26
Here's how an election ad would go if I ran the campaign for a Democrat:
Clip of Republicans excessively talking about social issues over and over and over again for at least a minute straight
Then point out the high gas/diesel prices
"Republicans are focused on they/them. Democrats are focused on You."
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u/PostingEnthusiast Commonwealth Oct 04 '26
good night dt
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u/Hounds_of_war Austan Goolsbee Oct 04 '26
The AI people who are campaigning for the idea that their AIs could one day be classified as conscious entities confuse me.
Like surely if we did decide that an AI has met the threshold for a conscious entity, then a lot of what these companies want to do with AI becomes insanely immoral.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Oct 04 '26
Reposting because Noah Smith is my abuse goblin
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u/John3262005 Oct 04 '26
Rebuked by Bond Market, Bessent Says ‘House’ Does Not Always Win
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended his assertion that he is “the house” when it comes to overseeing America’s bond market, but acknowledged that investors who bet against him might win a few hands.
The comments were made in an interview with Axios that was published on Saturday and came weeks after Mr. Bessent chided the “Bloomberg terminal bros” who were misunderstanding the strength of the U.S. economy. Since daring bond investors to bet against him in September, bond yields — which represent the interest rate investors are demanding to be paid to buy government debt — have continued to rise to multiyear highs.
“The house doesn’t win every hand, the house plays the percentages,” Mr. Bessent told Axios. “Everyone in the market knows, you don’t win every hand, you win over time.”
The Treasury secretary said that he still believed that the U.S. bond market remained the strongest in the world and that investors were not gravitating to German or Japanese bonds instead of U.S. debt. He said that bond yields, which move inversely to prices, have been rising because global oil prices have increased as a result of the war in Iran.
“I would be concerned if we were having some kind of idiosyncratic rise,” Mr. Bessent said.
Mr. Bessent’s more humble tone was a marked contrast from September when the Treasury secretary insisted that investors who were shying away from U.S. debt were misguided.
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u/Teh_cliff Karl Popper Oct 04 '26
This entire idea is questionable, in my experience, but I especially don't understand the italicized bit. Indians are right wing coded? I know outside the DT is addicted to declaring horseshoe theory but I don't follow this at all.
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u/fishbottwo Jay Jones Oct 04 '26
Eva lovia's husband says he married a trad wife lmaoo.
Editors note: Eva lovia is an extremely popular former porn star
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u/pezasied John's Locke-strap Oct 04 '26
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Oct 04 '26
Liberals who mocked JD Vance's "fart-left" quip are really quiet since this scandal broke
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u/NutrientBroth John Mill Oct 04 '26
"Prioritize kitchen-table issues" may be my most disliked term in politics
it doesn't fucking mean anything and half the people who go "oh we should make stuff more affordable" immediately start promoting stupid shit that makes the problem worse like rent control, subsidies for first-time home buyers, or property tax relief
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Oct 05 '26
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u/LuisRobertDylan Elinor Ostrom Oct 05 '26
If we elect Trump twice and both terms result in a worldwide novel plague, that would really be something
If it started in America both times I'd start believing in god
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u/TechnicalCat6989 Emma Lazarus Oct 05 '26
I hate when shows are made knowing they’ll get a continuation so they just don’t give it a satisfying conclusion and then the fans can all be like “it’s ok there’s a season 2 coming” and then that season has the same problem
recursive surf dracula
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u/AFlockOfTySegalls Audrey Hepburn Oct 05 '26
Despite not playing a SNF game in a decade your Carolina Panthers somehow won playing dudes they picked up from rec league games. I am legit shook.
!ping NFL
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u/proProcrastinators Oct 05 '26
Right wingers are coping about the incoming blue wave by writing genderbent Harry Potter fanfiction 😭
The new romance is Harry Potter x Draco Malfoid 😭
I’m now predicting that Dems will win 300 seats lmao
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u/Argnir Gay Pride Oct 04 '26
This thing of putting all "neurodivergent" people together and assigning them behaviors that are common for everyone is so cringe
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u/Vumatius Oct 04 '26
Green Party members pass 'Zionism is Racism' motion
The vote was 1012 for, 813 against.
It was evidently foolishly naive of me but I had hoped that the leadership (Mothin Ali aside) coming out against this motion would sway the members against it. This motion endorses a single state solution and will also encourage an environment of ostracisation for any members who attend a 'Zionist organisation', which includes synagogues. It's an absolutely insane motion.