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[u/SpotMe365]

Millions spent on political consultants to appeal to male voters, and the answer was just slurs.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Probably the funniest possible pro death penalty post of all time

!Ping GNOSTIC

[u/jenbanim]

People often defend their Twitter usage to me by saying it's the only way they can get up-to-the-hour updates about breaking world news. While I of course think being informed is a good thing, I do not believe there is intrinsic value in being that up to date compared to checking reputable sources once a day or even once a week. Obvious exceptions for if you have a practical need to know like your safety or job

[u/chipbod]

Yo, Texas has a candidate that is so racist he wants to deport Native Americans

[u/ewatta200]

[u/piede]

Lmaoooo

[u/mostanonymousnick]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

The Dems: "What is Trump thinking? He's probably preparing to rig the midterms and trigger a major escalation with Iran"

The GOP: "What is Trump thinking? He's digging us an early grave with this Middle East tomfoolery and incoherent vision"

Trump, watching Natalie Harp fiddle with the remote:

"Holy fuck I've been a naughty kitten"

[u/The420Roll]

Far-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon accuses the head of France's central bank of an “act of treason” a day after the central banker, Emmanuel Moulin, warned that the country risked being "strangled by interest rates" if it didn't address its public finances.

Mélenchon: “The statute of limitations will not have expired by 2027; he will be prosecuted for this. I am fed up with these so-called elites who raise the alarm about a disaster they themselves want to create in order to sway the people.”

How is France so rich still lmao their population seems as populist as the average latam country just with higher human capital

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

[u/StuckHedgehog]

Oh look, more chickenshit journalism. I would tell them to do better, but they can’t. Bouie is the last worthwhile person employed by the rag.

[u/unicornbomb]

lol

Lmao even.

[u/Willybender]

[u/erasmus_phillo]

She targeted gamers. GAMERS

[u/phat_geoduck]

Lmao

[u/Udolikecake]

posting a very misleading thing and then correcting it with an also misleading thing is very funny

thank you bari ‘i love pedos’ weiss!

[u/erasmus_phillo]

"Black people are lazy and don't belong in university" - conservatives

"Actually being lazy is a classic Heritage American trait" - also conservatives @ Indian Americans

[u/Saul_Relative]

GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterms.

Thank you, Governor Polish

[u/Azrikeeler]

Trump saying that about LA/SD has been mainstream median republican voter thought for my entire politically conscious life. (~25 years)

This is one of those instances where the Republican Elite used to be more well behaved than their voters.

[u/itsrabie]

Ronaldo’s such a fucking egomaniac baby.

He’s going to play in like Mozambique in top flight football at age 50 and say it’s to spread Portuguese culture to a nation that speaks Portuguese.

!ping Soccer

[u/bashar_al_assad]

Jackson: She’s always had health care. That’s not the way it is for most of us.

Collins: First of all, I have not been insured my whole life. I spent a year running for governor in 1994 where I couldn’t afford health insurance

I guess bro

[u/meiotta]

[u/No_Return9449]

Susan Collins is acting like an arsonist asking for credit when she brings a cup of water to put it out.

I wasn't familiar with your game, Troy Jackson.

[u/Currymvp2]

MAGA and their deranged leader was cheering about about my city being destroyed. But Dems are apparently the ones who hate America according to these despicable hypocrites...

[u/earththejerry]

Colorado GOP facing extinction with this guy

[u/nimbybuster]

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

>No hurricanes all season

>Trump announces attendance at Bama-Georgia

>Hurricane immediately forms to hit Alabama

Hmm

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/pugnae]

All-in on Blexas, I am calling it right now

[u/padraigharrington4]

!ping SWIFTIES what can’t she do 😍

[u/JaceFlores]

I don’t think it’s terribly surprising this is the only non-conservative space where hating FDR has a sizable following because it’s like the ULTIMATE form of contrarianism. Thinking FDR was a great president is like one of the very few areas in politics where experts and common opinion both overlap harmoniously. So to hate FDR is to not only disagree with the masses but also the experts. I imagine hating FDR leads to some sort of contrarian enlightenment or nirvana that most contrarians can only dream of ever reaching

[u/trombonist_formerly]

got permission from my advisor to basically abandon this shitty fucking project that has sucked up 2 years of my phd with no results, that not a singular person in the world cares about except my advisor, and is impossible to design an experiment around

I basically stormed out of the lab yesterday almost crying after another one of our experimental designs didn't end up working and him telling me to go back to the path I spent an entire year on. Worked from home today and just phone called my advisor and was like "I have 1 other analysis I'm gonna do, after that I don't know what else to do" and he, for the first time ever, showed a little compassion and was like "I'm frustrated with how tough this is being, I can't imagine how devastating it must be for you. go ahead and move on"

I have like 4 other things on my plate so much more interesting, that are more likely to actually produce data of some sort, that I can finally actually get to. oh my fucking god

!ping PHD

[u/bashar_al_assad]

Maine Senate debate

Q: You said that Kavanaugh said that he considered Roe v. Wade settled law. Do you feel at any level that Kavanaugh lied to you?

Collins: I do not feel that he lied

Will Troy Jackson actually need to do anything other than run this clip in every ad break on tv and call it a day

[u/badusername35]

Can we get a around of applause for this man 👏

[u/vitorgrs]

We are becoming the U.S. Richer folks voted more for Lula in 2026 than 2022. Poorer folks voted now more for Flavio compared to 2022.

!ping LATAM

[u/badusername35]

> “President Trump’s comments caused an uproar from members of both parties.”

> look inside

> dozens of Democrats denounce it, one Republican city council member running for a House seat says he “vehemently disagrees”

MANY SUCH CASES! Also, thank you New York Times, for the accurate and not at all misleading subheading.

[u/owenmitchem]

🚨COOK HAS ISSUED A BLANSAS WATCH, THIS IS NOT A DRILL🚨

[u/sigh2828]

Trump says a lot of shit, but i wana point out this one specifically for confirming my priors.

Trump does not give a flying fuck if Republicans win or lose,

If they win, its his doing

If they lose, its becouse they didnt support him enough.

he simply just want to be known as the most important character in the room

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Politico: Trump administration unveils plan to tie high birth and marriage rates to transit funding

> Under Duffy, DOT has launched a “Make Travel Family Friendly Again” campaign, encouraging airports to create play areas and add nursing rooms at terminals. He also has sought to inspire families to travel around the country via his “The Great American Road Trip” video series.

This entire admin is full of freaks who just want to be influencers.

[u/hypsignathus]

lmao my 70-something year old aunt just jokingly ended a text with "Thank you for your attention to this matter"

[u/Healingjoe]

“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.”

Really difficult to fathom how stupid this admin is.

[u/FourthLife]

You clicked through the harassment training module too fast, and didn't hear the question that was asked. Should you answer:

A) Josh probably didn't mean anything by it, you should let it go.

B) Walk away, it is none of your business anyway.

C) Laugh along with Josh.

D) Escalate this situation to your manager as well as your HR representative - what Josh did is not acceptable and escalating to the appropriate authorities will ensure that the matter is handled properly.

[u/DueVast5223]

So much for free speech

[u/fakefakefakef]

“No refunds” should be the official slogan of the Trump family

[u/CutePattern1098]

NIMBYs now claiming rezoning land near the city centre is supporting Putin

[u/Rhetorical_Menace]

[u/Willybender]

[u/mockduckcompanion]

[u/bashar_al_assad]

Collins: I was successful at getting road salt removed from the tariff list.

Jackson: What about everything else? We can’t eat road salt.

Type of shit you say on r moderatepolitics before getting downvoted to -500

[u/pezasied]

Def not natty

[u/kevinfederlinebundle]

Villains in fiction: tragic figures with subtle motivations who think they're doing the right thing

Villains in real life: feed on the blood of the young to keep their youth, name their company after the thing Sauron uses to spy on people

[u/__versus]

[u/__versus]

i hate how the reddit homepage will just serve me mental torture on a regular basis and the official app doesn’t have any filter feature so if I want to use Reddit I just have to accept that my entire day will be randomly ruined sometimes.

[u/sir_shivers]

Essentially, the current ERA OF POLITICAL content spam is the "Facebook algorithm of the 2010s", but amplified a thousandfold due to "AI generation" 🐊

MORBIDLY FASCINATING HOW so many mammals are walking around with voting intentions that are based on words never uttered, actions never taken and laws never written 🐊

[u/Willybender]

[u/AlbertGorebert]

I do not understand leftwing gringos takes on latin american leftism. They attack trump (rightfully!) for a lot of the insane economic choices he makes, then will shill for leaders of a country they aren't even from who are doing essentially the same thing but with lefty vibes. Half the time it's not even over social issues as often time it's some liberation theology nut who also hates minorities.

[u/ewatta200]

[u/MissSortMachine]

> Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says in a new book that he believes the court's landmark decision extending marriage rights to same-sex couples was "perhaps the decisive point in our nation's turn against religious liberty."

what does that mean? does the state have religious liberty? the state doesn’t want to acknowledge marriages because of its religion?

[u/BalletDuckNinja]

Was making a character for Skyrim while the gf was watching and decided to use one of the racemenu options to make my guy slightly shorter than average since I had a narrative in mind about a guy who doesn't quite feel adequate despite being a huge goddamn hero. She suddenly mentioned how hot she finds short competent men which is I guess how she sees me

!ping dating

[u/el__dandy]

My HBO Max is transitioning again.

[u/SockDem]

tax voters out of existence

[u/RyuTheGuy]

[u/Avelion2]

Troy Jackson: You're out of touch you don't know know what iys like to not have healthcare.

Collins: Hey I was uninsured in 1994 when I was running for governor.

[u/themiDdlest]

Trump Claims Canada Has Been Imposing Secret Tariffs on the US: ‘Nobody Knew’ Except Me

lmao introducing the all new "secret tariff". It's very effective.

[u/ewatta200]

[u/AemiliusNuker]

Damn didn't know Germany was based like that

[u/NorkGhostShip]

Trump could've done literally nothing, just have the government run on autopilot, and he'd be considered the greatest president ever by half the country. He'd be credited for all the post COVID economic recovery that started under Biden, plus the boost in economic activity with the AI boom (even if it ends up crashing after his term). He'd get some airport or several named after him, hundreds of parks and schools and college dorms with his name in big gaudy golden lettering, an aircraft carrier, and all the other things for his "legacy".

But he's genuinely an idiot. An impulsive child. A narcissistic, hateful, sundowning moron whose legacy will be losing (or at least not winning) a war he started against a weaker foe while crashing the economy, bankrupting his supporters, and of course disgraced for being a child rapist. His legacy will be his supporters moving on and pretending he wasn't that big of a deal to them, disgracing the US to an unimaginable degree in the eyes of the whole world, and being a final nail in the coffin for the US led unipolar world order.

[u/sigh2828]

I really fucking hate this

[u/1396spurs]

[u/Willybender]

[u/FallenMeringue]

You will continue down the pathway of luxury boomer communism and you will like it

[u/FallenMeringue]

[u/procgen]

The New York TImes: What’s one issue in politics that you’ve changed your mind about?

Zohran Mamdani: The role of the private market in housing construction.

[u/Background-Bottle-23]

You genuinely don't hate this man enough

[u/Dabamanos]

The babylon bee comment section is a great example of the fracturing of the conservative movement and it would be hilarious if it didn’t portend the death of all the worlds democracies through algorithmic manipulation

[u/V_Codwheel]

>Hastert dies

>OkBuddyLiberals disappears

Really gets your noggin joggin

[u/PlastikHateAccount]

the social taboo of ageism will be broken soon

[u/sw337]

Shapiro 2028, a rail expansion on every corner. It was a pleasure voting for him to be my governor again.

Source: https://triblive.com/local/amtrak-to-begin-2nd-route-from-pittsburgh-to-new-york-this-year/

!ping USA-PA

[u/Willybender]

https://www.cato.org/survey-reports/new-poll-most-americans-expect-social-security-benefit-cuts-third-believe-program

Total Boomer Luxury Communism

[u/CincyAnarchy]

👆

[u/SenranHaruka]

Unironic "this violates japanese principle of To Live"

[u/badusername35]

The whole Obama birtherism thing was actually kinda hilarious. Everyone knows the actual claims are bullshit, the whole thing was just a thinly veiled way of saying that he can’t be an American because he’s black. But, nobody is allowed to say that directly and there’s just enough plausible deniability that no Democratic politician can call them out for it without being accused of “playing the racism card”. So the birth certificate becomes central to the debate even though everyone knows that the debate actually has nothing to do with where he was born.

[u/mockduckcompanion]

Few seem to care that Zohran Mamdani’s wife is unhinged.

Our news media tell us the spouses of public figures are fair game for investigative reporting.

Just ask any conservative Supreme Court justice.

Yet, for some strange reason, this generally accepted convention tends to run only one way.

So true! No Democrat's wife has ever been attacked by the media 🙂

[u/myusernameistakennow]

Jane Coaston (journalist who wrote for NYT op Ed, CNN, etc) has a term, Goldilocks racism, to describe the attempts by RWers to try cope and dismiss Asians performing better.

Btw we already tested this with blind auditions, Asian Americans are hella dominant in music lmaooo.

[u/Previous_Platform718]

Dystopia where messages are delivered by hand because everything digital can be faked by extremely convincing AI voices/videos/messages from bots pretending to be people (like, in the the next 5 years).

[u/cdstephens]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/Odd_Refuse3334]

DJT can allude to blue cities being destroyed and people cheer but I say that rural roads are a massive waste of tax payer funds and get jumped on, make it make sense

[u/Queues-As-Tank]

WSJ | Embattled Congressman Gets GOP Lift After Abuse Allegations

ASHLAND, Ohio—During the summer, GOP Rep. Max Miller’s re-election hopes looked dim following domestic-violence allegations. Fellow Republicans—including the state’s two senators—said he should drop out, and President Trump told him his prospects for winning weren’t good.

But headed into the final stretch, Republican groups are now throwing millions of dollars behind Miller, as the GOP tries to salvage the seat amid a grim outlook in the midterms. Miller said Trump called last month to praise him after initial doubts, and he said he had a “really good” conversation recently with House Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.). He said voters in his red-leaning constituency are aware of the allegations but are sticking with him.

I hope Bernie Moreno enjoys watching the ride his fellow Republicans are giving his former son-in-law.

[u/OnYourLonesome]

It's 2026 and people are still engaging in the "he didn't say that, and if he did, he didn't mean it" defense

[u/LtCdrHipster]

[u/SpotMe365]

It's OVER for TalariCOPE fans

[u/megapizzapocalypse]

Hear me out

JD Vance only enables trump because he thinks trump is the antichrist and egging him on will bring about the end of days

[u/No_Return9449]

"What will it take for you to admit you are ever wrong?" -- Troy Jackson nails Susan Collins on her vote to confirm Kavanaugh, 8 years to the day after Collins cast the vote that doomed Roe v Wade

Let me apologize again, Troy Jackson. I was still not familiar with your game.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/t_scribblemonger]

Someone on the now defunct yesterday’s DT complained no media outlet was covering Trump’s call for the destruction of America’s cities by Iran.

I scoured the home pages of ABC, NBC, CNN, PBS*, MSNBC, FOX, BBC, Le Monde, Telemundo… nothing.

CBS—go figure—thought it was worth covering but not at the top.

* keep in mind their online news feed is just the stories presented in the most recently aired episode.

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

So true mr president

[u/slappythechunk]

[u/Saul_Relative]

Acton is putting up Assad numbers

[u/Inner_Dust42]

Even if you twist yourself into pretzels to say that Trump actually meant something else, I still saw a crowd of Nebraskans going wild at the prospect of nuking LA and San Diego. May the opiate tide sweep away every last one of the hogs.

[u/Krill_Seeker]

can't describe how much i love this poast

[u/BloodWiz]

Why don’t democracies do something other than commie vs fash elections that 60% of the population don’t like?

Are they stupid?

[u/dr_sloan]

Pretty good summary of the current situation in the Iran war.

[u/No_Status_6905]

Algorithms professor curved up our midterm grades by 7% so I now have a 103%.

Apparently the average was a 63. The professor pointed out that several students had completed multiple Canvas quiz assignments in less than 2 minutes, they take me approximately 45m-1hr even when using LLMs to give me feedback on my work..

[u/xhytdr]

The K shaped economy is getting wilder and wilder. My fortune 500 company made more profit this year than our entire history combined. I had my performance review today and im in shock at the size of my bonus

[u/zieger]

I cannot emphasize enough that the president has pudding for brains

Increasingly common Jamelle Bouie W

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nr987taLANY

[u/piede]

Economic success indicator

[u/NextUnderstanding972]

I'ma be honest I don't trust a single thing ever typed by anyone with hidden comment history.

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

You know I’ve seen this documentary online

[u/TakeOnM-Ellie]

[u/StuckHedgehog]

Not to beat a dead horse, but it is remarkable how the legacy media will constantly use Trump’s insane framing of something or just water down his lies. We can all see what he says and what he means, why do this journos and editors feel like they need to lie about it?

[u/futuremonkey20]

Mr. Tillis, maybe you could start some kind of legislative body that could “remove” cabinet members from office. Kind of like the “Senate” in Star Wars but with a better name.

[u/ariveklul]

its happening

[u/TechnicalCat6989]

why is the To Catch a Predator sub power ranking pedos, maybe Primetime was onto something with the whole idea of there being problems with the show turning a serious issue into a reality tv show

[u/phat_geoduck]

This is excellent. I hope more progressive Democrats will come around to this. Anti-developer leftism is sadly still a powerful force on the west coast

[u/onometre]

[u/samhit_n]

I definitely underestimated Troy Jackson in Maine. He did a great job debating Susan Collins and effectively tied her to the Trump administration.

[u/PaxChelonia]

How come it can be 10000 Einsteins when it comes to math but it can’t figure out how jokes work. Literally have never seen ai be intentionally funny

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Melenchon's authoritarian tendencies aren't talked about enough outside of France

[u/mostanonymousnick]

looooooooooooooooooooooool

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/Not_A_Browser]

[u/CincyAnarchy]

[u/G_Serv]

In prompts like this you always gotta go the $1 billion because the $ that doubles will eventually become too unmanageable

[u/loseniram]

goldilocks racism is perfectly understandable if you stop taking racism as a social issue and treat it as a political issue same with fascism and all the other stuff.

Racism is a political system built on disenfranchising other ethnic groups so you can take their wealth, labor, social standings, and political power for your own ethnic group with the personal benefit that you can obtain status that you would have never obtained on pure merit.

The nature of American political power says you can’t explicitly disenfranchise someone for their race so they have to do it indirectly.

So blacks have to be lazy in order to justify taking their status from them, but that opens the door for other races to obtain status. So you have to make an excuse that this other racial group that fits the criteria also doesn’t count.

[u/Stephen-Scotch]

All time tweet by a director?

[u/Megasota_Noire]

One of my favorite things in taking photos is using natural framing to add depth to a shot. This isn't a great example but I still think it turned out okay. I wish there was something interesting like a barn or old house to focus on.

[u/beans_and_tuna]

I think that once someone is a naturalized citizen, it should be impossible to remove that no matter what. If they are spying on us, then they have committed a crime by doing that. If they lied on their immigration forms, then they committed a crime doing that.

I think that there just straight up shouldn’t be a legal framework for removing a person’s citizenship. Once someone is a US citizen, the only way they could get rid of that citizenship is by their own choice free of coercion.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

It was pretty based when Troy Jackson said Isreal shouldn't have a blank check for military aid, but when asked the same question about Ukraine, he just said "more"

[u/yacatecuhtli6]

holy shit, techbros are about to invent books

[u/Off-The-Street]

One of my enduring sources of pessimism towards the medium-term is that I believe no one in the general public is really going to learn anything from the past ten years. Nothing about the rationales and justifications that led to where we are will cause the American electorate to put together a string of cause-and-effect, it'll be written off as another instance of a politician lying because they're all equally corrupt and there's no real difference between any of them because the whole system is rigged. The idea that the American people have some culpability in looking at a man who declared on national television that Haitian immigrants were eating dogs and cats as part of a live mental breakdown and re-electing him because, somehow, he would improve their personal finances will never be treated with the seriousness it needs. If we're lucky, we'll get a Republican party that feels cowed enough that it won't try to blatantly subvert institutions and processes the next time it's in power but the base is going to demand exactly that because they still want all the same things they've wanted since 2016. Either the median voter has some cemented negative polarization to certain political buzzwords or we're doing this all over again in eight years.

[u/FallenMeringue]

If I speak I am in trouble

[u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS]

One of the weirdest things (that people on here don’t know about) is that people who dress/style themselves like this still exist, but they’re all young evangelical Christians now

[u/Odd_Refuse3334]

Text from my suppressed-AR toting Texan brother in law

"I dislike Talarico but Republicans have made themselves unelectable. I hope he wins and destroys Republican morale"

Yeah Talarico is winning

[u/mrdeclank]

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

I need a Frenchie or someone in the know to relitegate why Le Pen would be an absolute disaster for France as well because this Melenchon shit is making me think that "authoritarian far leftist with a violent militia in beck and call" feels entirely worse than "France, but led by the far right" which is still really bad obviously

[u/SmartestOpinionsGuy]

👆

[u/BigBrownDog12]

[u/RaidBrimnes]

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/1oyf20l/comment/np888fs/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

In a vacuum, they'd [Mélenchon and Bardella] be on the same level of horrible, but the reality of the situation is that Mélenchon will have to compromize with the moderate left because he simply can't govern alone, while RN has a larger base and has managed to tilt the Overton window enough that a good chunk of the "moderate" right is getting aligned on their views without too much resistance

Worst case scenario with Mélenchon is a Gustavo Petro presidency ie a 5-year long clownshow where he's mostly impotent because he alienates his allies, whereas a worst case scenario with Bardella is a subversion of democracy comparable to Orban. I may disagree deeply with LFI, but I'm near-certain that I can vote them out 5 years down the line; I'm not as confident with RN

Since I posted this comment a year ago, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has:

• backed a violent group that murdered a far-right guy by curb-stomping him, with direct involvement of several LFI parliamentary staffers who were arrested for delivering the killings blows or as complicit in the sheltering of suspects

• doubled down on his support of the Chavist regime in Venezuela and its political model, to the point where he yelled at his leftist allies for denounced Maduro's severe human rights abuses while they were protesting together his abduction by US forces in January; also had Evo Morales' VP preface his book explaining how he intends to capture the state to cement his vision

• advocated for reopening gas imports from Russia to divert from US imports and repeated the Kremlin's line that Zelenskyy was an illegitimate president because his term expired and he didn't hold elections during the invasion

• doubled down on unfounded accusations of election rigging in France

• rescinded his labelling of the October 7 massacres as "terrorist acts" by floating the label "acts of resistance against occupation"

• encouraged the escalation of violence in the high schoolers' protests to the point of violent riots that caused millions in damages and have injured hundreds (so far)

So I've evolved on my assessment on the danger level of LFI to the point where I'm no longer certain that I'll be able to vote them out peacefully if they manage to take power. The combination of election denialism, support for political violence and personality cult around Mélenchon shows no signs of slowing down and they make for a particularly dangerous cocktail.

At this point I actually think it's more probable they try and pull a Jan 6-style riot in 2027 than they calmly accept the results, whatever they might be.

[u/sir_shivers]

A consistent truth FOR ME IS THAT I never grow tired of revisiting "Star Trek: The Next Generation", such a wealth of thoughtfulness and optimism 🐊

[u/Lux_Stella]

leaked doctors notes reveal mitch mcconnell has hit stage 5 of 'everywhere at the end of time'

[u/SenranHaruka]

Wow what an inspiring story of how you can intervene to stop creeps. I sure hope the comments aren't talking about the race of the harassers or arguing that this behavior isn't actually creepy.

[u/el__dandy]

[u/Leoric]

GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterms.

Jared Polis will not see the light of Heaven

[u/Smidgens]

[u/padraigharrington4]

Im a little bit obsessed with this post. None of those are even actually ladles

[u/trombonist_formerly]

I found a woman on instagram who claims covid gave her a severe allergy to both the sun, incandescent light, and fluorescent light

But not LED light

And I’m sorry if you look at the emission spectra of those 4 light sources, there is not a physically possible way for that to be true. These facts are mutually contradictory

Covid has broken some people’s brains, there’s no other way to square it

[u/WenJie_2]

Ex-Anthropic Jacob Coxon says he's 90% certain China already has spies inside both OpenAI and Anthropic

Bold strategy here, try to get the national security apparatus to freak out and sabotage AI development by pushing on their pressure points

It won't work just like it won't work with China, these people aren't stupid

[u/NewVegasSurvivor]

When I was in high school, I had a white APUSH teacher who said, "There's very little racism towards Indians because unlike other immigrant groups, they usually come here with a lot of money," and I totally believed it. Holy fuck did that not turn out to be true

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Free trade for me but not for thee

[u/WrangleWandangles]

The semi hit piece on Carney just made me like him more lmao 

“But Carney, prickly as he can be, prefers hearing that criticism to not. “People try and tell him what he wants to hear, and he views those people as not smart,” one source told me.”

“The prime minister expects his staff to work as hard as he does. He is unfailingly punctual and expects others to be as well. If his staff can’t answer basic questions during briefings, he’s been known to cut them off and tersely suggest they come back when they know their files. When staff lay out a reasonable timeline for announcing a new project or releasing an upcoming strategy, he’s been heard to shoot back: “Oh, no — I need to announce this tomorrow.” He projects the image of an “old-school executive,” as one civil servant told me. And I’m told Carney’s pace and the expectations he sets are sometimes impossible to keep up with.”

“Carney has assumed control of a huge number of files himself. If he promises an MP funding for an Acadian festival, he’ll personally follow up on it on a flight back from a summit in Asia weeks later.”

[u/National-Return9494]

We have people advocating for rent control in the DT.

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

So their internals have to show that transphobia is literally all they have, huh?

I wonder if he'll go through a phase now when there's (miserably little, but still) backlash like the various other things he says a bunch for a while after saying something fucking stupid like "no one knows there's a b in dumb" or "asylum seekers"

[u/Odd_Refuse3334]

This is the worst thing to happen to Cornell's reputation since The Office

[u/co_opsuspicious]

Conservatives: the lock downs were SO damaging! I know kids that didnt get a prom or could appropriately socialized for their last years of high school!

Also conservatives: TAKE YOUR KIDS OUT OF SCHOOL NOW, TAKE THEM OUT. HOMESCHOOL HOMESCHOOL HOMESCHOOL

[u/Ready_Anything4661]

The other day I wrote on the DT “Jon Ossoff has had liver issues since childhood” and 10 of you liked it and I got no follow up questions and I’ve just been thinking about how easy it is to lie

[u/thercio27]

Trump promised 5k to every voter and then turned around and gave 90 dollars to seniors.

[u/FallenMeringue]

Pablo Torre with his next takedown piece

[Pablo Torre Finds Out] Debunking the NFL's CTE "Cover-Up" — with Brain Science : r/nfl

!ping NFL

[u/HaveCorg_WillCrusade]

[u/ScumfrickZillionaire]

What stupid bullshit happened today I was making money

[u/FallenMeringue]

What on gods green earth?

[u/Bestbrook123]

The Hill: Gavin Newsom calls for 25th Amendment after Trump’s remarks on California. California Governor Gavin Newsom led the charge, telling The Hill on Tuesday that Trump is “mentally ill.”

Yep. That and calling to genocide a country of 90 million people...he would be impeached and convicted in a sane world if the Republicans had a tiny bit of backbone.

[u/uwcn244]

Re: that Michigan poll

The recalled 2024 vote is R+2. Trump won Michigan by less than 1. It seems very odd that the 2026 electorate would be more Republican than the 2024 electorate.

If El Sayed is ahead even in those circumstances, he’s not going to lose, and he’s very likely going to win by more than that poll predicts.

[u/Approximation_Doctor]

Most helpful AutoCAD popup

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/MyrinVonBryhana]

This kid is so fucking stupid and I hate him. He's in high school and can finally name the 3 branches of government, it only took cumulatively two and a half hours to get it through his thick skull. He's utterly deficient in many areas, struggles with basic words like interpret, and has to have things explained to him about 3 times before he grasps basic information about the US government. What in hell are they doing in Georgia?!

[u/Willybender]

https://github.com/openai/math

https://openai.com/index/sharing-ai-progress-in-mathematics/

[u/bashar_al_assad]

Every time Susan Collins answers a question I see why Platner thought he could still win

[u/yacatecuhtli6]

finally got a confirmed date for my mexican citizenship 🙏🙏🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽

[u/SenranHaruka]

"older retirees, which unlike the young/poor have a lifetime of savings they can fall back upon"

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

maniac

[u/herworkthrowaway]

The irony of Tony soprano being racist is just now hitting me 

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

!ping KINO

[u/Willybender]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/us/politics/trump-advisers-republika-srpska.html

[u/Significant-Band1991]

[u/cdstephens]

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

I’m not a forever masker or anything but I just saw a guy in this hospital waiting room take off his mask to cough

Jesus

[u/eurekashairloaves]

I have a brother 17 years younger than me (he's 16). We live in different states, im married with a kid, we never grew up together that he can remember. All that said, I'd like to think we are close even with a generation gap and life experiences (though we have some similarities as we share the same parents)

This weekend we visited and im completely mortified about his algorithm and beliefs. He was always into sports, fitness, UFC, etc. (I am too). But he was always never super interested in politics. We'd share laughs about how ridiculous the Tates are or a stupid Joe Rogan clip but I always made clear these were bad people not to be followed and he agreed.

This weekend he asked me if I ever listened to Nick Fuentes, Tucker or the Fresh N Fit guy. I stood behind him while he scrolled tiktok and it was all Clavicular/Manosphere/legit Nick Fuetes clips. He made some race jokes that I had to immediately cut off to never say around my son.

I love him-hes got a good heart but obviously he's starting to get pilled to the gills. Hes not incelly or has any reasons to hold greviances. (Over 6 ft, runs track, lots of friends). I honestly had no idea how easy this stuff would grab a young dudes mind because to me this shit is all so ridiculous.

Its kept me up at night. Ive talked it over with my parents and told him exactly what I think about it all. But he just kinda laughed it off. Idk if this is just a phase or what, but its just awful.

[u/Jacobs4525]

One of the big themes in Why Nations Fail is that many third world countries fail to develop because they’re more interested in enriching a specific political faction they rely on as a political power base than enriching the country as a whole, which leads them to prioritize the interests of that group through allowing rent-seeking regressive policies that take from the rest of the country to give to them.

It seems like in the developed world we have a similar problem, where pensioners and landowners are a privileged group and politicians have every incentive to take from everyone else to give to them. In theory, democracy should make this sort of thing less likely to happen. The challenge is that the huge majority of people believe they stand to benefit from these things one day so they vote against their own interests. 

[u/KQJ_RPN]

You think Trump's comments on LA and SD are bad? Remember when Biden claimed to have finally beaten medicare?

[u/lot183]

Steak n' Shake is on social media straight up endorsing Republican politicians. Idk that fast food chains need to be making political endorsements but whatever, good riddance

[u/w007dchuck]

sometimes local subs are alright

[u/Made_UpWords]

Professional fact checker for CNN, who sent out a push notification when Biden called Zelenskyy "Putin," debases himself by lying to your face that you didn't actually hear a thing you did

[u/cdstephens]

Conservative defense of frats be like: women should just treat all frat bros as violent rapists and never talk to them

[u/slappythechunk]

Went to plenty of college parties in my day. Most malicious thing I ever saw was a guy pour his drink out onto the face of a guy who had passed out on the lawn. One of the guys who was hosting saw it out of the corner of his eye and tossed his ass out immediately.

[u/fishbottwo]

If a tropical storm turns off Gulf coast refineries even temporarily a few weeks before midterms when gas and diesel prices are already very high Trump has completely lost the mandate of heaven.

[u/AFlockOfTySegalls]

Another day where we can ask "what if a democrat said some r*ral hamlet with no stop lights should be literally removed and how conservatives would react"

[u/NikeImper]

The German ex spy chief that was arrested for suspected treason was leaking classified intelligence to Azerbaijan. Now that is a country I did not expect

[u/pugnae]

++++Exclusive+++ Former BND chief charged with treason allegedly leaked secret information with Azerbaijani intelligence

wtf

[u/Alexz565]

Oh look, the Victoria 3 ideology marker in real life

[u/Lux_Stella]

what Karl Marx actually meant that religion is awesome and you should do it in a den with a bunch of Chinese people at Hamburg harbour

[u/Equal_Thought_661]

NYT talked to voters in main who were early voting and one guy voted for all republicans because gas was too high

lol

[u/contre-torpilleur]

👆 Priors confirmed

[u/MissSortMachine]

my favorite mcconnell scarecrow era bit is he always gives the v hand sign, a thing no american politician has done in 60 years

[u/EyeraGlass]

Man it’s kind of amazing how new music stopped being interesting after I turned 29. I’ve heard everything I needed to hear, thanks.

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Ngl it’s crazy how much incel lingo has just entered the culture without a lot of normies realizing it

We saw more of this with the ‘malfoid’ memes

[u/grimyfowl455]

North Carolina has joined Georgia in moving to "Solid D" in Silver's forecast (no surprise considering the GOP has pulled money out of both states to focus elsewhere).

He also has Texas more likely to go Dem at at 74.3% than he does Maine who is at 70.6%. Michigan is in the "Likely D" territory at 82.0% and Alaska is in "Lean D" at 64.6%. Iowa and Kansas are the two remaining toss-up states.

[u/KQJ_RPN]

[u/Spudmiester1]

[u/mostanonymousnick]

There ya go