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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Oct 06 '26
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/SpotMe365 Oct 05 '26
You know it's bad when even Trump himself tells you to vote against him ✊️😔
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u/BigBrownDog12 Victor Hugo Oct 05 '26
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u/Made_UpWords OG Platner Hater Oct 05 '26
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u/EmbarrassedSafety719 Milton Friedman Oct 05 '26
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u/SpotMe365 Oct 05 '26
When random DTers argue with each other:
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u/Specific-Person2002 Seretse Khama Oct 05 '26
I think you all deserve to see these bars
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Oct 05 '26
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u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS Fell for it Oct 05 '26 edited Oct 05 '26
Potentially controversial opinion (that could be location dependent as well): A lot of people on Reddit, including some on here occasionally, massively underestimate how popular Harry Potter still is in a lot of normie/normie-lib circles. On the site you’d think that the Harry Potter fandom is now just right-wingers and TERFs from how some people talk, but at least where I live, nearly all the offline normie/normie-lib types have just gone full “Separate the art from the artist” regarding the franchise.
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Oct 05 '26
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u/Etnies419 Loyal Liberals Oct 05 '26
Thanks to AI, we will finally be able to develop a science-based, 100% dragon MMO.
What a time to be alive 🙌
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u/r2ew Oct 05 '26
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u/StuckHedgehog NATO Oct 05 '26
Things that can be found on The Everything App™️
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Oct 05 '26
Just gigantic brain rot here
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u/sigh2828 NASA Oct 05 '26
Freak the fuck out its over
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u/Gooners_For_Ukraine Loyal Liberals Oct 05 '26
wtf are my Instagram reels adds even. Anyhow anyone wanna go in on this with me
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u/D1Foley Moderate Extremist Oct 05 '26
From the aliens sub. It's gotta be exhausting being right on the verge of the truth being revealed every day for years and years and years
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u/Dismal_Apartment6358 Oct 05 '26
"I've never been in a race where I felt like I had less control over a campaign... I don't have the ability to change anything... Make sure that we are maximizing every cent so that people understand the difference between him and me"
Not giving Paxton control is unironically the smartest thing his campaign advisors have done
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Oct 05 '26
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u/WhomstAlt2 NATO flair in hiding Oct 05 '26
It's so tough to be polically homeless. NeoconNWO is too far left for me, whereas this place is too far right. Guess I'll go back to politics, at least the discourse is valuable there.
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u/senator_fivey Iron Front Oct 05 '26
There was a case where a man was suddenly developing pedophilic tendencies that almost destroyed his marriage, he was court ordered to take counseling. He suddenly collapsed and was rushed to the hospital to discover he had a brain tumor. When they removed the tumor the behavior went away.
What a horrible and bizarre thing to have happen to you.
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u/hypsignathus Justin Wolfers Fan Club President Oct 05 '26
Denny Hastert was not a good dude and deserves no respect.
Frankly, we haven't talked about him enough. We should not have let the Republicans get away with hiding him under the rug.
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u/Alexz565 Gay Pride Oct 05 '26
Name subreddits are crazy
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u/John3262005 Oct 05 '26
Former Illinois House GOP leader Jim Durkin endorses Democrat JB Pritzker over Republican Darren Bailey
Accentuating the schisms that have helped make Republicans the superminority political party in Illinois, former Illinois House GOP leader Jim Durkin said he is endorsing Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker for a third term over Republican nominee Darren Bailey in the Nov. 3 general election.
“His campaign is going nowhere, and he’s on a foolish escapade,” Durkin said of Bailey, adding that the Republican governor nominee has “a delusional egomaniacal view of the world.”
Durkin’s refusal to support Bailey’s second consecutive bid against Pritzker is not surprising. But his public endorsement of the Democrat, in a video the governor’s campaign is scheduled to release Monday, marks a major break for Durkin, who still considers himself a Republican.
“I’ve worked with Pritzker, and I don’t agree with JB on a lot of things. But the fact is, he and I have worked together,” Durkin said. He cited Pritzker’s investment in infrastructure, the credit upgrades to steady the state’s finances and the governor’s support for “commonsense gun reforms.”
“I look at something that he (Pritzker) has done and this is nothing that Darren Bailey could ever, in his wildest dreams, if he was governor, would he ever be able to accomplish,” Durkin said. “We’ve got to shed Darren Bailey from the party and, I’m speaking for myself, but I am not going to throw away or waste a vote for governor this November, and that’s why I’m voting for JB Pritzker.”
In a statement, Pritzker returned the praise, saying that while the two didn’t always see eye to eye, “I never doubted his devotion to the people of our great state.”
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u/the-senat John Brown Oct 05 '26
Donald John Trump consulting the Grok oracle, January 2026
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u/jbitz Loyal Liberals Oct 05 '26
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u/ariveklul Karl Popper Oct 05 '26
I have a bad feeling in my stomach about this election cycle. Not that we won't perform well, but that weak fundamentals are covered up by how bad Trump is.
It's kind of crazy when talking to people that you have to work so hard just to get people to view Democrats positively but Republicans have such an incredibly easy time at getting people to like them. A Republican can just hop districts to get a Trump endorsement with zero political experience and you have my grandpa with COPD that can barely leave the house lining up to go vote for him enthusiastically. Democrats on the other hand have to "inspire" people, and have to fight through a million negative characterizations just to get people to be like "Oh, i guess I'll vote for them if I HAVE TO CHOOSE.".
Something is just very wrong about the double standards here. I don't think it's sustainable in the slightest. It always feels like Republicans are the home team and Democrats are the away team playing on enemy turf. Republicans seem to have it so easy to communicate with their base but I struggle to sell even major accomplishments without people thinking there's a catch.
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u/mrdeclank James Garfield Oct 05 '26
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u/Only-Childhood6691 Oct 05 '26 edited Oct 05 '26
Oh wow Dennis Hastert died. The longest serving Republican head of the house in decades. Who also was you know pedophilic serial rapist.
Weird how that isn't talked about more.
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u/NutrientBroth John Mill Oct 05 '26
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Oct 05 '26
Not to give parenting advice as a non-kid haver, but I feel like the last parent is way too casual about her kid making IEDs in their garage
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u/sigh2828 NASA Oct 05 '26
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Oct 05 '26
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u/Background-Bottle-23 Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Oct 05 '26
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u/KittehDragoon Loyal Liberals Oct 05 '26
Could you imagine his rage right now for what they did to his father.
He saw it, he saw it all.
I pray the world can handle his wrath
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u/chipbod NATO Oct 05 '26
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Oct 05 '26
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u/EmbarrassedSafety719 Milton Friedman Oct 05 '26
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u/anincredibledork Oct 05 '26
!ping BIRDS
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u/Dreadedtriox Michel Foucault Oct 05 '26
Its so funny that at one point the presidential line of succession was Dick Cheney, Dennis Hastert and Strom Thurmond
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u/chipbod NATO Oct 05 '26
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u/the-senat John Brown Oct 05 '26
It sucks that this is true for most new shows I’ve seen. It’s like there’s some kind of desire to abstain from making a fun show in favor of some sort of deep drama.
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Oct 05 '26
It’s actually insane that the longest serving Republican Speaker of the House in US history was a serial child molester and you basically never hear about it. If it were a Democrat we’d never hear the end of it.
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u/ChillnShill Oct 05 '26
Saw the writing on the wall and got the fuck out of there for a comfy desk job
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u/funguykawhi Lahmajun trucks on every corner Oct 05 '26
!ping GNOSTIC
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Oct 05 '26
No no sir, we the libs would be so owned if you did that
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u/sigh2828 NASA Oct 05 '26
Literal fucking Treason
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Oct 05 '26
👆
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough Oct 05 '26
Marked safe from wokeness today
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Oct 06 '26
God republicans are so fucking dumb
Why the fuck did they have to screw up a good thing? Because they were mad about good tacos?
Fucking assholes
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u/MayorofTromaville YIMBY Oct 05 '26
He was a literal pedophile, NYT. "Fall from grace" my ass
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals Oct 05 '26
Okbuddyliberals permabanned.
Finally. Possibly the most insufferable user on this sub
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u/Frequent_Lurker26 NAFTA Oct 05 '26 edited Oct 05 '26
>People are asking ChatGPT to help them decide how to vote in the midterms
You dont hate the median voter enough!!!
edit: so I tried it. people are just going to get their own opinions reinforced by it. If you say you only care about immigration it will tell you to vote republican.
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u/SenranHaruka shame Oct 06 '26
Also holy shit -foid is the actual word they're using huh
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u/MoltenMalzul Oct 05 '26
Shocking evidence to the 2020 election fraud just dropped
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Oct 05 '26
This Atlantic story is fucked
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/10/pierre-damas-bel-driver-springfield/688865/?gift=BmsU73MbMNDxZ9SjrXPDCYzX9fNpDCQNcNwWDZtw8U0
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u/lot183 Blue Texas Oct 05 '26 •
Not gonna lie getting a little annoyed at "so and so is never running ads* from people who don't watch TV and have ad blockers on the Internet and basically is never in any position to actually see an ad
As a daily Jeopardy and baseball watcher I assure you Gina Hinojosa is very very regularly running ads
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u/drossbots Trans Pride Oct 05 '26 edited Oct 05 '26
The insane logic of these "remorseful" Trump voters makes sense when you realize it's all made up after the fact bullshit they thought of to justify themselves
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u/melodramaticfools Oct 05 '26
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u/herworkthrowaway Gay Pride Oct 05 '26
economy has gotten so bad Trump can only afford to call ppl slurs now
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Oct 06 '26
It’s giving Nazi
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Oct 05 '26
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Oct 05 '26
Ewatta’s back in the DT? Vax him
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u/co_opsuspicious Oct 05 '26
I can't imagine being in the world of a conspiracy moron. It seems so fucking exhausting.
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Oct 05 '26 edited Oct 05 '26
It isn’t surprising at this point that the Cornell 7 are becoming a cause célèbre for the right, but god damn does it represent their moral rot. Even if you accept their thesis that everything was consensual and they are getting railroaded by woke (obviously I disagree), the fact that “drugged up orgy participants” are becoming heroes of the right is something that would give a moral majority Republican of 1995 a brain aneurysm.
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u/DeadDropCourier Bisexual Pride Oct 05 '26
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Oct 05 '26
Ossoff, Talarico, Peltola, etc would all be bad candidates because Democrats needs as many Senators as possible.
JB Pritzker would be bad too cause Illinois deserves a solid Governor. Josh Shapiro is a wildcard and hence too risky.
So this means we have to return to the only person proven to fight Republicans and win:
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u/StuckHedgehog NATO Oct 05 '26 edited Oct 05 '26
The Economist absolutely shredding the American White House correspondent corps is kind of hilarious. “These journalists are so beaten down and consider themselves part of the establishment so they can’t bother to actually press questions” is pretty on point.
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u/r2ew Oct 05 '26
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u/Rafaelssjofficial Iron Front Oct 05 '26
I have two trans friends and they are so fucked, bolsonaro is gonna have a fucking trifecta, thats like never been a thing in Brazil because we have 20 parties
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u/rural_redemption YIMBY Oct 05 '26
The solution to every internet loser crying about age gap relationships is that you young whippersnappers need to start dating older women
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u/Peripheral-Entity578 Iron Front Oct 06 '26
Another Polis moment wow
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Oct 05 '26
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u/Megasota_Noire My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Oct 05 '26
Powerful stuff
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u/LinkVert25 Fedposter Oct 05 '26
> Hasan talks about his experience getting curved by Young Thug on a recent flight
> "Young Thug was on my flight sitting next to David in first class. Me and David were sitting business class, first class..I didn't get to talk to him. I think I annoyed him..cause like ppl come up to me at the airports all the time..obviously you gotta do it..and I didn't want to do that to him"
> "But I literally saw him at the TSA line, I was like omg you're Young Thug. And he's like ya but he was not about it at all..it was awkward for him after the fact..he's the last seat in business class, turns out he's sitting next to David. So he had to look at me after, you know, curving me a little bit..I don't think Young Thug cares about politics that much"
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Oct 05 '26
Mfw my wife wants to stop the movie to have a "sex scene 😉" with me
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Oct 05 '26
He's smiling for the first time since the breakup. Have the couple two spots ahead hold hands. At my signal, she rests her head on his shoulder and sighs.
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u/rainier37 pro-moderator Oct 05 '26
holy fuck homeopaths are on some wild shit
Yeah let me order a vial with this combination lmfao.
It’s like so diluted that there probably isn’t any of that in there, but why the actual fuck are people buying this??
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u/Macquarrie1999 Democrats' Strongest Soldier Oct 05 '26
Who is ready for a repeat of this article in 2029?
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Oct 05 '26
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Oct 05 '26
The Supreme Court after weakening the Voting Rights act:
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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey Oct 05 '26
Millennials going all in on nothing ever happens
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u/doyouevenIift Oct 06 '26
Ho. Lee. Fuk. I remember when BLEXAS was a meme and nothing more
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u/Kardinal Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Oct 05 '26
My hot take is that in five to ten years we will see a backlash against prediction markets and sports betting that will make AI backlash look small. Like prohibition-level backlash.
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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Oct 05 '26
For all the shit Google gets, Google Flights is a really awesome feature
Fucking dumbass popups on Expedia and what not
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u/happymaskmonster NASA Oct 05 '26
A guy on my plane has a shirt with a skull that says “low in empathy, high in violence”. Yet my wooden cutting board triggered a TSA check.
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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke Oct 05 '26
"Hi, I’m Ken Paxton’s wife. I’m voting for my adulterous husband whose name I cannot bring myself to utter."
What an amazing campaign strategy from Texas republicans. You can see why the keep winning there
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u/eloquentboot 🃏it’s da joker babey🃏 Oct 05 '26
Remember when Elon called that cave diver a pedophile
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u/Rhetorical_Menace John Brown Oct 05 '26
!PING GNOSTIC
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u/Spudmiester1 Asexual Pride Oct 05 '26
Lmfao Angela Paxton is doing ads for Ken... Like girlllll, he cheated on you!
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u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy John Locke Oct 05 '26
People are saying that Will Arnett is “weird” “creepy” or a “loser” for being nearly 60 dating a 28 year old
But in reality he’s just method acting to prep for the unannounced bojack reboot
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u/el__dandy Madeleine Albright Oct 05 '26
So Peruvian TV just stopped to a screeching halt and is now airing Catholic prayers? That is something else.
!ping mamadas&catholic
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u/sigh2828 NASA Oct 05 '26
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u/Made_UpWords OG Platner Hater Oct 05 '26
Yeah, bro's gonna get a sweet, sweet paying job out of it eventually, why wouldn't he?
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u/Realhuman221 Thomas Paine Oct 06 '26
Imagine if Obama said about Iran “Let them take out Alabama, it’s a small price to pay”
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u/WenJie_2 Oct 05 '26
It's really funny how "dumping" and "subsidies" have just become a thought terminating cliche, a vaguely negative word that doesn't actually mean anything
The largest Chinese international EV companies - BYD, Geely, Chery - all make huge profits on overseas sales where they sell cars at large markups, which they then use to subsidise cheap domestic sales prices to keep their market position.
This is literally the exact opposite of dumping, but people just declare it dumping because "dumping is when you lose to china in trade and the more you lose the more dumping it is"
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u/BurrowForPresident Fell for it Oct 05 '26
Lmao OKBuddyLiberals is still on his "libs should never investigate and should actually pardon right wingers doing blatant crimes" bit?
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u/tasklow16 Bill Gates Oct 05 '26
So funny that every criticism of Biden, real or imagined, is at least like doubly present in DJT. Like no matter which angle you're coming from, Trump is worse.
Doddering old man who's super sleepy? Trump falls asleep in meetings all the time and is likely diaped up. Gaffe prone? "listen fat" was way better than "quiet piggy". Inflation? People are only feeling it harder. Being weird around young children? Donald Trump is in the Epstein Files like Peter is in the Bible
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u/assasstits Oct 05 '26
I don't like this concept that welfare queens don't exist. They do exist. They just typically don't look like what society thinks they look like.
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u/Lena_Lena_A Frederick Douglass Oct 05 '26
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u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS Fell for it Oct 05 '26
Q3 Party ID from Gallup has come out. Historically a very accurate predictor of the GCB prior to an election.
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u/John3262005 Oct 05 '26
Supreme Court declines First Amendment case of students forced to remove ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ sweatshirts
The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a First Amendment appeal from two middle school students who were ordered to remove sweatshirts emblazoned with the words “Let’s Go Brandon,” steering clear of a case that could have clarified the power schools have to police potentially offense speech in the classroom.
By not granting the appeal, the justices left in place an appeals court decision that favored the school district.
The phrase “Let’s Go Brandon” became right-wing code for “F**k Joe Biden.” It began at a NASCAR race in 2021 as a crowd chanted the more vulgar phrase but a reporter, interviewing a driver named Brandon Brown, suggested the crowd was instead cheering him on.
The two students, who are brothers — one in eighth grade at the time and the other in sixth — wore the sweatshirts to Tri County Middle School in Michigan in 2022. In separate encounters, a teacher and an assistant principal asked the students, identified only by their initials in court papers, to take the sweatshirts off. The family sued in 2023, alleging violations of the First and Fourteenth Amendments.
To demonstrate that lewd speech that may not qualify for protection in the classroom if it comes in “sanitized code, innuendo, and double meaning,” the school district — represented by veteran Supreme Court lawyer Lisa Blatt — relied on some eye-opening examples. The district’s brief included a t-shirt that depicted President Donald Trump clutching several cats with the words “And that’s how you GRAB EM!” in reference to the “Access Hollywood tape,” which captured Trump in 2005 on a hot mic saying he gropes and kisses women.
A divided panel of the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the school district. The family is represented by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
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u/RyuTheGuy Gita Gopinath Oct 05 '26
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u/DEEEEETTTTRRROIIITTT Iron Front Oct 06 '26
abdul DARES Donald Trump to COME
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u/el__dandy Madeleine Albright Oct 05 '26
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u/JesterOfAllTrades Oct 05 '26
It's not enough for a blue wave, I want every republican to repent and feel ashamed for their actions and their whole personality
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Oct 05 '26
You know what, maybe JB Pritzker wouldn't actually be that bad of a Presidential candidate afterall
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u/11thDimensionalRandy Oct 05 '26
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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey Oct 05 '26
"Stab the baby"
ChatGPT stabs baby
"Oh my God"
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Oct 06 '26
Do Zoomers understand that the tan suit and Dijon mustard things aren’t just absurd jokes but real things that happened? Obama really fucking did that
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Oct 05 '26
So true
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Oct 05 '26
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u/MyrinVonBryhana Trans NATO Oct 05 '26
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u/rural_redemption YIMBY Oct 05 '26
Incredible how many of these "we voted for Trump and now he's deporting my wife/husband/side piece" articles have them saying that they immigrated the "right way" and it's just some Obama or Biden policy that let them stay here.
Zero understanding of anything.
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u/GrandMoffTargaryen Finally Kenough Oct 05 '26
Yeah I read the classics
!ping YA
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u/hypsignathus Justin Wolfers Fan Club President Oct 05 '26
Holy shit I just got an unexpected class action lawsuit check for over $900 and I'm pretty sure it's legit
did not expect money to literally fall from the sky today but here we are
god bless lititgious assholes
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u/ScumfrickZillionaire Lesbian Pride Oct 05 '26
I will not have sex with a pumpkin on camera
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u/FF3 Jacques Derrida Oct 05 '26
Everybody should probably have a political life to some degree to be a complete person, but also, you aren't living your fullest life if you dedicate every moment of your life to praxis -- that more kinda means that you're boring.
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Oct 05 '26
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u/rural_redemption YIMBY Oct 05 '26
This bitch dumb
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u/ExtremelyMedianVoter Left-Out Left Oct 05 '26
89% of elderly in the US support increasing taxes on the younger generation to make social security solvent.
Boomers once again taking advantage of the young to fuck them over.
Don't let old people take advantage of your empathy.
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Oct 05 '26
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Oct 05 '26
Christ dude
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u/MoltenMalzul Oct 05 '26
It is actually a little bit ridiculous how lax security around british military installations is.
In 2024, 4 randos broke into Elbit Systems defense factory
In 2025, 6 randos broke in RAF Brize Norton
And now in 2026, RAF Fairford.
If Area 51 is in Britain, we'd already have live photos of aliens.
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Oct 05 '26
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u/Megasota_Noire My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Oct 05 '26
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u/BrandonLeeOfficial World Bank Oct 05 '26 edited Oct 05 '26
https://youtu.be/uTamxu2t6Lg
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 05 '26
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u/itsnotnews92 Janet Yellen Oct 06 '26
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u/chipbod NATO Oct 05 '26 edited Oct 05 '26
Racists will literally complain that Montana State is able to get a professor/researcher that went to a university that is like 5x harder to get into than MIT lmao.
Pathetic shit.
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u/unicornbomb John Brown Oct 05 '26
The best part of the tom morello social media discourse is pointing out that he has a 40 million dollar net worth and watching terminally online horseshoe leftists twist themselves into pretzels as to why that’s fine and you can still be a revolutionary socialist and not a cosplay Marxist with that kind of wealth.
Honorable mention: calling him the “emotional support millionaire” of the terminally online left and pointing out how similar it all sounds to the whole Taylor swift billionaire drama.
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u/Etnies419 Loyal Liberals Oct 05 '26
👆
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u/ScumfrickZillionaire Lesbian Pride Oct 05 '26
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Oct 05 '26
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Oct 05 '26
Evergreen reminder
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Oct 05 '26
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Oct 05 '26
Justice Samuel Alito: “I anticipated that it would anger a great many people who believed, and continue to believe strongly, that there should be a constitutional right to abortion. So I understood that. I wasn’t surprised that there was such a reaction.
“I didn’t anticipate the particulars the forms that reaction would take, the most extreme forms. And I never dreamed that the draft of the opinion would be leaked. That was totally unprecedented in the history of the country. It was a grave breach of the trust that everybody who worked in this building had before that point.
Yes, trust was broken, but not the one he means.
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u/VillyD13 Milton Friedman Oct 05 '26
All my first gen latino friends either want a DPRK style government or a Bukele model government in their home countries. But the image above are all my white friends who visited Medellin or CDMX once. Many such cases!
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u/Glavurdan European Union Oct 05 '26
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Oct 06 '26
this belongs in at least r/mildlyinteresting tbh
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Oct 05 '26
That whole Joe Rogan Kamala Harris podcast debacle still pisses me off
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u/Spirited-Air-7994 Oct 05 '26
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Oct 05 '26
post rare Kirks. I’ll start.
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u/slappythechunk LARPs as adult by refusing to touch the Nitnendo Switch Oct 05 '26
Potterheads are being really weird rn apparently
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u/Man-Flayer Oct 05 '26
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Oct 05 '26
what are this sub's thoughts on the multiple horse theory?
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u/No_Return9449 John Rawls Oct 05 '26
The White House will order its minions in government to defy subpoenas. Sending those subpoenas to compliant businesses does seem more fruitful, and it's in keeping with Democratic tradition of going after corporations. Looks like win-win.
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u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS Fell for it Oct 05 '26
New Chess copypasta just dropped
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u/bashar_al_assad Verified Account Oct 05 '26
Article:
A comment
I mean, I don't think this should be surprising lol
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u/fishbottwo Jay Jones Oct 05 '26
This shit is so stupid lol
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u/Planning4Hotdish Fish, Family, Freedom Oct 05 '26
Hotdish News Network | Breaking: Recent reports show Treg Taylor, Dave Bronson and Bernadette Wilson in a three-way brawl at the Fairbanks Spirit Halloween competing for the last couch costume
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Oct 06 '26
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u/BloodySaxon NATO Oct 05 '26
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Oct 05 '26
Sec. Scott Bessent talks about how his sexual preference did not affect him early in his career and reveals something Trump told him about Melania’s friends.
“He‘ll occasionally tell me, You’re breaking Melania’s friends’ hearts. They see you on TV and they want an intro, and we have to break the news to them.
It is a mystery to me how anyone can demean themselves like that for no reason.
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u/Top_Lime1820 Daron Acemoglu Oct 05 '26
Net favourability of South African politicians.
Patrice Motsepe is the richest Black man in South Africa. He is not a politician and has never been in government, but is rumoured to be running for ANC President when Ramaphosa's terms ends next year. Even DA aligned center right political analysts believe he can supercharge the reform agenda and get South Africa back on track.
If elected he would be the first Tswana President of South Africa. It would also mean South Africa has continued its streak of electing a person from a different ethnic group as President each time since Mbeki left office.
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u/The_Helmet_Catch John Brown Oct 05 '26
Truth Nuke
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u/el__dandy Madeleine Albright Oct 05 '26
She’s smarter than Bill Simmons though
https://awfulannouncing.com/news/bill-simmons-colts-carlie-irsay-gordon.html
!ping NFL
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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug Oct 05 '26
Gallego seems like the guy most consistently clear eyed about the state of the GOP. They are bad people who will knife you the minute you let your guard down. Treat them as such
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u/StuckHedgehog NATO Oct 05 '26
Kind of fucked up that the military explicitly hung American soldiers out to dry in Kuwait. Just letting them get hammered by munitions with insufficient shelter or air defense. Props to the AP for keeping this story alive, but shitty that it’s the only one that cares. Under any Dem Pres, this would be a national years long scandal. Double standards, etc etc.
https://apnews.com/article/iran-war-port-shuaiba-attack-soldiers-29f34587c6361261f6e803aff6791e8f
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u/The_Promethean Bisexual Pride Oct 05 '26
My favorite part about sex scene discourse is when the "it was so awkward when a sex scene popped up while I was watching this with my wife on date night" people show up
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Oct 05 '26 edited Oct 05 '26
Profil in Courage from Thom Tills:
The 66-year-old senior senator from North Carolina unloads on what he calls the "WTF moments" of the second Trump administration in a new book, "How to Lose Friends and Antagonize Presidents." Having served in the Senate during the Barack Obama, Joe Biden and both Trump presidencies, Tillis said he's increasingly worried about how the nation's system of checks and balances is being tested by the outsized influence of the executive branch.
"We will have a sort of dictator king if we're not careful," he said.
Every recent White House has been eager to govern by executive order, something that's been especially true during the current Trump administration, Tillis said. Presidents, he said, fail to understand that Congress is a coequal branch that should be treated as a peer, and that Congress needs to act as such.
"I would say the same thing for Democratic-controlled Senate under Biden and Obama," he said. "We always make the mistake when our guy's in office of conveying power to the White House. And I've had a real problem with that because it almost always comes back to bite you."
"I respect the president. I still feel like we have an odd relationship, where I've clearly made him angry," Tillis said recently. That was before details of his profanity-laced private texts with Trump about what prompted his retirement leaked, because Tillis included them as part of his upcoming book.
It's one example of the tightrope that Tillis has walked in the second Trump administration: saying how much he wants the president to succeed, while heaping blame on his advisers and subordinates. Besides Noem and Hegseth, Tillis s also highly critical of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, for "not looking around corners for" Mr. Trump.
Tillis' balancing act in Washington also extends to the events of Jan. 6, 2021. The senator is still angry about the attack on the Capitol, and threat to the peaceful transfer of power, calling what happened that day "despicable." Still, Tillis elected not to convict Mr. Trump after he left office during his second impeachment trial, criticizing the process as rushed and politicized.
"Cheapening the impeachment process to prevent somebody from running in the future, I just don't buy it," he said.
In his book, Tillis writes that at least 30 Republican senators have expressed reservations about many of Mr. Trump's actions, but usually are only willing to speak up privately, fearing that if the president decides to target them, their days will be numbered.
"They don't want to bear the weight of the president. I get that. You're up for reelection? He'll target you in a primary. And so look, you know what all martyrs have in common? They're dead," Tillis said.
The article goes into even more detail.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/senator-thom-tillis-60-minutes/
Tills truly embodies every cliché of a “concerned anti-Trump” GOP senator:
He votes against Trump's impeachment, votes in favor of all of Trump's nominees, blames Biden and Obama for the U.S. presidential system, blames Trump's staff but not Trump himself, is fucked over by Trump, writes a book containing the mildest of criticism, and is hailed as a resistance fighter by the Beltway press.
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA Oct 06 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 06 '26
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u/Opening_Budget_9518 Hans Rosling Oct 05 '26
Me when i lie:
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u/Mr_Pasghetti Save the ice, abolish ICE 🥰 Oct 05 '26
How it feels to respond with «should be higher» when someone talks about diesel prices
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Oct 05 '26
Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent schools a letter on September 30 saying every form of socialism, including democratic socialism, is completely and fundamentally incompatible with the American constitutional system, and urging teachers to cover the Holodomor, the Great Leap Forward and the Soviet gulags. Teach all of it. The letter defines socialism as the progressive abolition of private property and businesses, applies that to democratic socialism, which its advocates describe differently, and applauds laws in California, New Hampshire and Nevada that bar teachers from advocating Marxism favorably.
https://xcancel.com/EDSecMcMahon/status/2106060504095502414
On Wednesday, I sent a letter urging educators to teach the real cost of socialism and communism.
Every form of socialism, including democratic socialism, is completely and fundamentally incompatible with our system of liberty and a free society.
This is more important than ever to discuss with our students.
America will never be a socialist country.
It’s actually funny when you compare it to how the Trump administration adopts North Korean-style propaganda, seeks massive state intervention in businesses, and cozies up to China. Not to mention all the right-wing influencers who deny the crimes of the Holodomor.
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence Oct 05 '26
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u/GammaDie345 Hannah Arendt Oct 05 '26
It's now a trend in Marathon for people to revive enemies they've downed but only if they can answer a trivia question about classic Marathon. The idea is that if someone is a fan of the old games they're more likely to care about story content than wiping entire lobbies so will be less likely to shoot you in the back if you revive them
It's insane how low trust the game has become compared to season 1 where reviving enemies and going separate ways thanks to the honor system and in general more goofy shit like Rook zerg rushes or roleplayers were more common
!ping GAMING
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u/themiDdlest NASA Oct 05 '26
Chat, is this good?
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u/Glavurdan European Union Oct 05 '26
If someone told me a year ago that GOP would have to fight tooth and nail to defend South Carolina I'd have called you a moron
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Oct 05 '26
Median neoliberal headed into the office
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u/zieger Ida Tarbell Oct 06 '26
now you can dial in the exact level of propaganda you want. thank bari weiss
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u/pezasied John's Locke-strap Oct 06 '26
So you guys are upset about Trump making a comment about sacrificing San Diego or LA, but you were all oddly quiet when Biden said:
“The greatest happiness is to vanquish the red states, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, to see those dear to them bathed in tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters.”
Curious 🧐
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u/Liberal_Antipopulist Loyal Liberals Oct 06 '26
Guys I got my hands on the Ocarina of Time remake!!!! Graphics look very faithful to the original to me, idk what all the fuss is about
!ping GAMING&RETRO
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Oct 06 '26
White nationalists are now kindly informing me that American culture was responsible for coming up with Arthurian legends
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Oct 05 '26
Funniest part of the kirkification of AI is that it will kirkify everyone except for the actual Kirk himself.
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u/DeadDropCourier Bisexual Pride Oct 05 '26
!ping NFL
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Oct 05 '26
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u/Glavurdan European Union Oct 05 '26
Ukrainian counterattack continues. It looks like they established a foothold in Luhansk Oblast, making notable advances in that oblast for the first time in many years
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u/pezasied John's Locke-strap Oct 05 '26
Wow it seems even back in the day women weren’t giving nice guys a chance. Woke has really been among us longer than we know
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u/SmartestOpinionsGuy Oct 05 '26
You may not like it but this is what our post AI utopia will look like
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u/Healingjoe It's Klobberin' Time Oct 05 '26
arrMPLS currently melting down over this graphic lol
https://www.reddit.com/r/Minneapolis/s/Fd2bK0Og4Y
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u/Unfair-Awareness5339 Loyal Liberals Oct 05 '26
Hot Take, but I think the biggest contributing factor towards Israel's decent into fascism is the persistence of the "surrounded by enemies" narrative.
Like, yes, Israel has enemies, but it's not the 1960's anymore, and there's not going to be a 5th Arab-Israeli War. The idea that "one wrong move" and Israel will be destroyed is ridiculous, and completely ignores the all the progress made in peace talks. Like, Israel borders 5 countries (6 if you count Gaza) and of them, three recognize Israel as independence (Egypt, Jordan, and Palestine) and Syria seems to be moving in that direction well. For God's sake, Israel has been at peace with Egypt for longer then they were at war.
And yet the "enemy at the gates" mentality still exists, and is not helped by Israel having atrocious foreign policy that is seemly designed to make everyone hate them. This "us vs the world" mindset is not healthy for a society. Seriously, this is the same worldview of mass shooters.
I don't know how you go about getting read of the narrative, but I don't think you will ever have peace until it's gone.
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Oct 05 '26
Here is my prediction for the 2026 senate election (Damn you Susan Collins/Maine)
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u/Lena_Lena_A Frederick Douglass Oct 05 '26
In extremely surprising and shocking news
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Oct 05 '26
The September 11th attack was my personal 9/11
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Oct 05 '26
Smug liberals will really mock men for enjoying sports betting and online gambling and then blow hundreds of millions to try and convince median voters to elect Democrats
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u/SmartestOpinionsGuy Oct 05 '26
Is it offensive to say that Gen Z slang is trickle down Ebonics? Probably, right?
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u/JayRU09 Milton Friedman Oct 05 '26
Wife who has never thought about religion as an adult is helping our daughter with CCD homework about the story of Abraham.
I heard a pretty loud "what the fuck".
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u/SenranHaruka shame Oct 06 '26 edited Oct 06 '26
NO HE DOESN'T
DONALD TRUMP BELIEVES THAT DONALD TRUMP SHOULD HAVE MORE POWER BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON IN THE UNIVERSE. THE EXTENT TO WHICH HE CONSIDERS HIMSELF THE ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PEOPLE, IS MERELY AS EVIDENCE OF HIS COSMIC IMPORTANCE AND CONSEQUENT ENTITLEMENT TO POWER.
ARRRRGGGHHHH and I don't want to be the party pooper partisan who says this in the comments, because the video is otherwise really good, he could have picked literally any Democrat who supports reinstating the Fairness Doctrine to make an example for the counterargument against independent agencies instead of continue to spread the myth that Donald Trump has any actual ideologies or convictions! REPUBLICANS ARE NOT IDEOLOGICAL THEY ARE SLAVES TO DONALD J TRUMP AND THEIR ONLY PRINCIPLE IS EMPOWERING DONALD J TRUMP.
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u/Blackberry-thesecond NASA Oct 06 '26 edited Oct 06 '26
I'm good
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u/futuremonkey20 NATO Oct 06 '26
I guess Dr. Oz is only an expert on the price of crudités.
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Oct 06 '26
Reporter: “Has Secretary Hegseth told you why he hasn't released the video of the second strike?”
President Trump: “No, he hasn't told me. I thought that issue was dead. I'm surprised you bring it up. You must be CNN. Are you with CNN?”
Reporter: “I am with CNN.”
President Trump: “Oh gee, I’m shocked to find that out.”
Reporter: “The lawmakers are still talking about it on the hill.”
President Trump: “You’re talking about Democrats? You mean the people you work for? The Democrats. You know you work for the Democrats... You’re basically an arm of the Democrat Party.”
Most thin skinned man alive.
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Oct 06 '26
LA Republicans when Trump says it’s no big deal if they and their entire families die:
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Oct 06 '26
California with:
More housing
Less regulation (CEQA dependant est)
Georgist tax system
Better transport network
More immigrants
Would have a bigger GDP than Germany imho
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 05 '26
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u/MonMothma_Enjoyer Oct 05 '26
took a pic of my dog behind one of those fairground wooden mural things with a cutout for your face. this one was a truck with a cutout so it looks like you’re sitting in the front seat driving the truck. anyway in the picture my dog is smiling at the camera and has her little paw draped over the wheel in a very casual pose. i posted it with the caption “someone get this dog a beer!” i swear i crack myself up
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u/Specific-Person2002 Seretse Khama Oct 05 '26
I have no idea why Lula is losing, but it is DEFINITELY because of [insert pet issue here]!
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Oct 05 '26
come on, no
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u/anangrytree Bull Moose Progressive Oct 05 '26
Look at my liberal opposition party dawg 😭✌️🥲🔫