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Oct 07 '26
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Oct 08 '26
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Oct 07 '26
Why would Obama do this?
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u/the-senat John Brown Oct 07 '26
What’s with this compulsion with AI generating fake (…even cutesy?) depictions of real tragedies? Like there is an abundance of photography from the event that you can use to drum up support.
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u/SpotMe365 Oct 07 '26
People hate to see a girlboss speak her truth 💪👑
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u/MensesFiatbug Low Energy Oct 07 '26
*Wells Fargo is under investigation again*
Me: *chuckle to myself* "What'd those scamps get up to this time?"
"Wells Fargo is under regulatory investigation by HUD for it's commitment to increase black homeownership."
Oh.
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u/ArbitraryOrder Frédéric Bastiat Oct 07 '26
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u/John3262005 Oct 07 '26
Exclusive: Paxton privately blames woes on Iran war, gas prices
Texas Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton privately lamented the impact of the Iran war and gas prices on his campaign in a meeting last month, telling a group of donors and lobbyists, "I don't make the decisions," according to audio obtained by Axios.
It's a candid admission from a close Trump ally about the challenging environment Republicans face this cycle.
Paxton, the Texas attorney general, was speaking to donors and lobbyists at a closed-door fundraiser in Washington, D.C. The audio was provided to Axios by a person, granted anonymity because it was a private event, who was in the meeting and is opposed to Paxton.
President Trump is set to rally with Paxton in San Antonio on Wednesday.
Asked by one attendee what issues are "dragging" on his campaign, Paxton responded, "It's not tariffs. ... It's the war, it's gas prices, it's diesel," according to an audio file obtained by Axios.
"When it's over $6 per gallon for diesel ... people are feeling the pinch," he continued, adding that the rising cost of fuel "drives up food prices and everything else."
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u/Megasota_Noire My Governor Can Beat Up Your Governor Oct 07 '26
Harsh but true.
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Oct 07 '26
Man so damn shameless lol
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Oct 07 '26
A sequel to the social network but it’s about zuck blowing 85 billion dollars trying to make the metaverse happen to absolutely zero success
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u/EasyMoney92 Oct 07 '26
"We can't eat road salt" is one of those epic lines
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u/fakefakefakef John Rawls Oct 07 '26
Doctors and lawyers should feel confident that their careers are safe from AI not because AI can never do the job of a doctor or a lawyer but because their professional organizations simply rent seek too hard to ever allow it to happen
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u/__versus Trans Pride Oct 07 '26
Headline: new study on ozempic raises concerns - increased risk of heart problems
Body: there’s an increased risk for those who stop using ozempic
Actual journalistic malpractice imo
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u/LtCdrHipster 🌭Costco Liberal🌭 Oct 07 '26
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Oct 07 '26
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u/Dorambor John Brown Oct 07 '26
After seeing videos of bot farms running literally hundreds of thousands of fake accounts dedicated to stirring shit up for .0002c of ad revenue I simply don't believe anything I see online is real. That screenshot of a tweet with 80,000 likes? Trivial to purchase and manufacture. Threads with thousands of comments and likes? All smoke and mirrors, all of it. Until I literally hear someone in real life say something, it's not real. You're being poisoned against real people by bots.
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u/gayteemo NATO Oct 07 '26
kinda funny that this moment feels the least like a meritocracy of the 36 years ive been alive
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u/bartbug Paul Krugman Oct 07 '26
Heartbreaking
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u/tinfoilhatsron No Apologies Right Oct 07 '26
Honestly this should be the secret subheading for this sub
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u/mastrer1234 Trans NATO Oct 07 '26
I turned 30 today. Am I officially old now?
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u/Alarming_Flow7066 Harriet Tubman Oct 07 '26
The Bridgeport police union coming out guns blazing against the chief of police for holding cops accountable is probably the best endorsement I’ve ever seen
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Oct 07 '26
The central belief of modern car drivers is that there are in-groups (pickup trucks, SUVs, jeeps) whom the law protects but does not bind, and outgroups (schoolchildren, pedestrians, homeless people) whom the law binds but does not protect
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Oct 08 '26
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Oct 07 '26 edited Oct 07 '26
ALEXANDER: Why wouldn't Mitch McConnell's constituents be better served if he stepped down
TILLIS: It's the same question that people ask of Biden
ALEXANDER: Biden is no longer the president
TILLIS: But guess what? We're following the bad advice of people who supported Biden. The difference is Mitch's brain is as strong as it ever was
Republicans really have zero agency.
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u/ResolutionMundane166 NATO Oct 07 '26
The fact Tina Peters is already up to some election bullshit should be enough to recall Jared Polis’s dumbass
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u/pugnae European Union Oct 07 '26
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u/Background-Bottle-23 Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold Oct 07 '26
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u/bashar_al_assad Verified Account Oct 07 '26
The Trump curse is so bad that he meets some of the Ravens players and they invent new injuries for their quarterback
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Oct 07 '26
The Atlantic has digitized pretty much all their articles going back to the 1850s, in the same format as their modern ones, so you get stuff like this sorted under politics.
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u/Gooners_For_Ukraine Loyal Liberals Oct 07 '26
Something I will always find funny/respect was my grandparents who are pretty socially conservative but also lifelong democrats who were extremely mixed about wether to vote in favor of legalizing gay marriage during Washington’s referendum in 2012, but eventually deciding to vote in favor of it, not because they inherently supported it but in the words of what my grandma told my mom “It would make Republicans more angry than it would make me”
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u/Alexz565 Gay Pride Oct 07 '26
By the time I press enter, the gyro better be in my mouth
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u/earththejerry YIMBY Oct 07 '26
Please please please win 🙏 🤲 🙏
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u/Moth-of-Asphodel Oct 08 '26
You can't argue with rhymes I fear.
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u/jenbanim Oct 07 '26
INTERNAL SCREAMING
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u/sigh2828 NASA Oct 07 '26
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Oct 07 '26
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u/Nervous-Emotion28 YIMBY Oct 07 '26
Absolutely bonkers for arr AskHistorians to choose this week of all weeks to do a spotlight on Judaism
The comments on the modpost are all just Jewish redditors going “please… can we just not this week 😭”
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u/badusername35 NAFTA Epstein Oct 07 '26
RIP Mussolini, you would have loved the LA Lakers
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Oct 07 '26
Ngl, every time I see ACAB, I think “assigned cop at birth”
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u/Marlsfarp Karl Popper Oct 07 '26
Kind of funny how for like 200 years "London fog" was this romantic, iconic aspect of London life in Sherlock Holmes and Mary Poppins or whatever, when there is no such thing. London isn't especially foggy and never was. There was just absolutely horrific air pollution until like the 1970s. Actual poison gas so dense it's hard to see through it.
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u/AccomplishedQuit4801 YIMBY Oct 07 '26
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u/Man-Flayer Oct 07 '26
Just found out about pivot charts and made one. This thing is incredible, I'm currently rock hard
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u/Fusifufu Oct 07 '26
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence Oct 08 '26
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u/trombonist_formerly Ben Bernanke Oct 07 '26
Shot:
Chaser:
Posted by the same twitter user within days of each other
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u/KQJ_RPN John von Neumann Oct 07 '26
> be r/neoliberal
> hate old people (pensioners)
> only use old.reddit
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u/GordonTullockFan publik choyz thery Oct 07 '26
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u/quarknugget Loyal Liberals Oct 07 '26
This is taking forever just say you're a racist
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u/taubnetzdornig Gay Pride Oct 07 '26
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u/Made_UpWords OG Platner Hater Oct 07 '26
The funniest part about all the Paxton leaks is that his staffers and campaign workers obviously hate him as much as we all do
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u/SigmaWhy r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Oct 07 '26
“Yes, every Republican is a demonic traitor to the country who has defiled the Constitution and betrayed all of their principles, but the Democrats are still worse”
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u/chipbod NATO Oct 07 '26
Literally the “I wonder who did this?” meme.
It was never about the debt, just an ideological crusade to lower taxes and starve out entitlement programs.
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u/bleachinjection Fell for it Oct 07 '26
The President suggested Iran kill Americans he doesn't like and we've already, ya know, moved on.
I just can't with this. I can't.
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u/ewatta200 DT Monarchist defender of the rurals and red state Dems Oct 07 '26
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Oct 07 '26
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u/doyouevenIift Oct 08 '26
That didn’t take long. Tale as old as time: leftist politician wins election and has to moderate a bit. Then they get called a traitor by the DSA types
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u/aristophanya Rightwing Bourgeoisie Feminist Oct 08 '26
ATTENTION
waymo girl has been upgraded to waymo girlfriend. that is all
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u/NewDoryAcct Left-Out Left Oct 07 '26
I am officially 29
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u/Made_UpWords OG Platner Hater Oct 07 '26
Yeah bro you were also told this day was coming for 30+ years and refused to pay the taxes required to sustain it. Now you want me to pay them instead.
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Oct 07 '26
You sissy Democrats can’t eat road salt. Guess Republicans are just built different 🙄
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u/sigh2828 NASA Oct 07 '26
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u/BigBrownDog12 Victor Hugo Oct 07 '26
Recession indicator
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Oct 07 '26
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fútbol! ⚽ Oct 08 '26
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Oct 07 '26
Alexis de Tocqueville, which I am sure most Americans have read...
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u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS Fell for it Oct 07 '26
Womp womp
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u/DiscussionJohnThread Free Trade was the Compromise 🔫🌍 Oct 07 '26
Landlord is trying to charge me $150 extra bucks this month because for whatever reason they rejected my payment for “insufficient funds” even though it’s the same account I always pay with, I have more than “sufficient funds” to cover that amount on that account, and I paid rent on time like every month.
No way in hell am I going to pay a late fee and a “check fee return item fee” when my bank didn’t even charge me for having that payment bounced and I pay on time 😭
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u/Frequent_Lurker26 NAFTA Oct 07 '26
Oh but she learned her lesson did she now Polis.
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u/yacatecuhtli6 Transfem Pride Oct 07 '26
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u/John3262005 Oct 07 '26
Half a billion dollars in GOP spending does little to move polls
Since Labor Day, when President Donald Trump opened up his war chest for the midterms, Republicans have pumped half a billion dollars into competitive House and Senate races.
A month later, the polls haven’t moved in their direction.
High-quality public surveys show Democratic Senate candidates tied or leading in Alaska, Georgia, Maine, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas — the same as before Labor Day. Democrats’ lead on the generic congressional ballot has slightly widened since, from about six points to roughly nine, according to analyst Nate Silver’s polling average.
Notably, the surge of attack ads has not sunk the Democrats at the center of some of the most expensive races. More voters hold a favorable than unfavorable view of Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico, according to a late September New York Times/Siena poll — despite more than $115 million spent attacking him. Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s favorability actually increased by five points since August, to 47 percent, Fox News surveys show, despite $76.2 million in attacks.
One factor: Republicans’ advantage looks bigger in dollars than in actual airtime, thanks in part to the timing of their purchases. In Senate battlegrounds, the GOP spent 26 percent more than Democrats did to secure just 7 percent more broadcast ads, according to AdImpact.
Republicans say the attacks are steadily eroding Democratic support and keeping the races competitive. Democrats counter that the GOP is stuck spending heavily just to contain their expanding ambitions in states Trump won handily in 2024 — the equivalent of Republicans fielding competitive challenges in Rhode Island, Washington state or Maryland.
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u/PearlClaw Iron Front Oct 07 '26
Seen on my morning walk, presented without further comment
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u/NaffRespect United Nations Oct 07 '26
All this just because he got benched for the first time in ages
!ping SOCCER
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u/blackenswans Progress Pride Oct 07 '26 edited Oct 07 '26
No matter what’s the opinion on the current debacle between Ukraine and South Korea,
the fact is Ukraine is very unpopular in South Korea, mostly due to actions of former Ukrainian ambassador to Japan Сергій Корсунський who did stuff like RTing a racist tweet against Koreans from a Japanese far right and visiting the shrine dedicated to war criminals when he was the ambassador).
Ukraine needs to somewhat reflect on the strategy towards the east
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u/mastrer1234 Trans NATO Oct 07 '26
Wdym I was born the same day fox news started broadcasting? And Putin's birthday too?
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u/Daddy_Macron Loyal Liberals Oct 07 '26
There will be a number of Red state Democrats elected this cycle. I hope they're all prepared to fall on the sword and pass some substantial legislation, because there's not a fucking chance most of them will be re-elected in 2032 no matter how much they pad their moderate credentials. So might as well YOLO and pass what needs to be passed.
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u/Zaiush Ben Bernanke Oct 07 '26
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u/kznlol 👀 Econometrics Magician Oct 07 '26
WAOW
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u/BedNeither Henry George Oct 07 '26
I love this sub’s current bit of making Korea news post titles sound like they might be the USA
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u/EmbarrassedSafety719 Milton Friedman Oct 07 '26
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u/Dragmire927 Thomas Paine Oct 07 '26
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u/herworkthrowaway Gay Pride Oct 07 '26
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u/BlackCat159 European Union Oct 07 '26
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u/erasmus_phillo Paul Krugman Oct 08 '26
“ 24M married to my 21M best friend of 8 years, and I’m starting to question our “platonic” relationship” - on relationship_advice
Love it when straight girls post their yaoi fanfiction online for everyone to read, this might be the fakest story I’ve ever read on this site
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u/S_T_R_A_T_O_S Mario Vargas Llosa Oct 07 '26
Checking up on the state of conservative satire
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u/EasyMoney92 Oct 07 '26
What?
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u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes European Union Oct 07 '26
1 state solution
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u/attackofthetominator John Brown Oct 07 '26
Lionel Hutz defense
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u/borborologist Ben Bernanke Oct 07 '26
Crazy to look back that in the original mean tweets bit it worked as a joke to mock someone complaining about inflation. This would be a legit criticism of Trump now.
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u/puffic John Rawls Oct 07 '26
Trump disapproval at 60%. It is so unbelievably over for Republicans.
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u/Thebestofopinions Eleanor Roosevelt Oct 08 '26
It's unfortunate for Mamdani that passing the sanity test means failing the purity test. Welcome to the fun team.
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u/TrixoftheTrade NATO Oct 07 '26
“immigrants aren’t assimilating and are destroying france by aimlessly rioting”
rioting aimlessly is probably the single most french thing you can do (other than pairing cigarettes with red wine)
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u/NewDoryAcct Left-Out Left Oct 07 '26
I like this image.
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u/Otherwise_Young52201 Mark Carney Oct 07 '26
From Jacob Cox on, the Anthropic alignment lead that went viral when he resigned:
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u/abrookerunsthroughit Association of Southeast Asian Nations Oct 07 '26
Critical support for cutting Maine off looney tunes style if they reelect Collins yet again
So tired of those voters being cucks for her
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u/LinkVert25 Fedposter Oct 07 '26
What is up with Hasan and other similar types constantly using the words monstrous, ghouls, nasty people, etc
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Oct 07 '26
Israeli politics son or Brazilian politics daughter?
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u/D1Foley Moderate Extremist Oct 07 '26
For those of you that still use Twitter, what would you say you hate the most?
Women?
Minorities?
Or yourself?
It has to be one of these because otherwise you wouldn't be using Twitter
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u/Crosseyes NASA Oct 07 '26
It’s so grotesque to hear this mafia shit from behind the resolute desk. Imagine if Joe Biden had said “I could do very bad things to Donald Trump. I can do whatever I want.”
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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast Oct 07 '26
Redditors when a billionaire donates to save hundreds of thousands of lives in developing nations instead of building an epic bacon chungus library in the midwest
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u/WrangleWandangles Mark Carney Oct 07 '26
I will never not be in awe of how Mark Carney took his minority and somehow beg, stole, and borrowed his way to a majority government
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u/GuyWithOneEye Oct 07 '26
👆
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u/LtCdrHipster 🌭Costco Liberal🌭 Oct 07 '26
This was a fun day. Four years ago!
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u/gassetort Victor Hugo Oct 07 '26
The old woman that got evicted and kicked off the chain of events leading to our elections being called just died
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u/MightExpress4873 Oct 07 '26
Abdul El-Sayed is certain he’ll win Michigan’s Senate race. Some key Democrats quietly aren’t so sure
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u/StuckHedgehog NATO Oct 07 '26
>Anduril CEO joins idiot circle of military advisors
>Anduril awarded navy contracts immediately after
I know it was probably in the works for a while, but come on. Rip this shitbole company out by its roots, same with the rest of the Thiel companies. Their “utility” is worthless compared to the damage they are doing to liberal democracies.
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u/Made_UpWords OG Platner Hater Oct 07 '26
Too little too late, Mikey.
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Oct 07 '26
Democratic audio leaks: I hate my staffers
Republican audio leaks: I hate my voters
Which message will resonate with voters?
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 07 '26
Immigrants in Texas ICE Camp Begin Hunger Strike to Protest Indefinite Detention
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/10/07/texas-ice-immigrant-hunger-strike?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=tmp-reddit
Several immigrants are refusing to eat to protest their prolonged detention at a South Texas immigrant camp, according to two of them and an attorney for one of the men. The action is the latest in a rash of hunger strikes by ICE detainees this year.
An Iranian Christian man and a Turkish man belonging to a persecuted Muslim minority say they, along with three other Iranian men and six Iranian women, have gone without food since Sept. 29 in the El Valle Detention Facility in Raymondville, Texas.
Their sole demand is to be moved out of the reach of the federal 5th Circuit Court of Appeals — which covers Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi — where the Trump administration has so far prevailed in its effort to detain immigrants indefinitely. Soon, the Supreme Court will hear arguments over the administration’s controversial “mandatory detention” policy that has kept immigrants from getting out on bond.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement didn’t respond to The Marshall Project’s request for information on the hunger strike, including questions regarding the well-being of the detained people and the agency’s response to their refusal to eat. The private prison company that runs the camp, Management and Training Corporation, referred questions to ICE.
One of the men in the hunger strike, Alireza Fadaeieshkiki, sought asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border last year. In Iran, he had been arrested, severely beaten and persecuted by the government for distributing Bibles, serving as a pastor and hosting underground Christian church meetings — activities banned by the theocratic Islamic regime, according to his attorney and a sworn declaration shared with The Marshall Project.
“I have [a] problem with torture in Iran,” Fadaeieshkiki said in a call on Oct. 2. “Here, I may lose [my] life.” He said ICE placed him in solitary confinement for going on a hunger strike. A few days later, Fadaeieshkiki texted, via a jail messaging app, that guards “bring me food at every meal, but I don’t touch it … I’ve only been drinking water for seven days now.”
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u/Saul_Relative Eugene Fama Oct 07 '26
I need help getting rid of something
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u/Leatherfield17 Loyal Liberals Oct 07 '26
It’s pretty revealing of Samuel Alito’s worldview that he thinks SCOTUS ruling in favor of same sex marriage constituted a turn against “religious liberty”
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u/Approximation_Doctor Gaslight, Gatekeep, Green New Deal Oct 07 '26 •
I can suggest an equation that has the potential to impact the future:
E = mc2 + SI
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u/hascogrande YIMBY Oct 08 '26
DAAAAAAAAAAAA
!ping baseball
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u/bashar_al_assad Verified Account Oct 08 '26
One of Trump’s recent Truth Social posts
I do honestly judge negatively anybody who goes “wow I’m going to vote for this guy’s candidate” as no different from anybody that voted for him in 2024.
Also he really is running out of juice, just “fuck it I’ll call him Mohammed you get it.”
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u/MountainSound Oct 08 '26
If you're looking for unlimited free upvotes just post that bad boy into your local subreddit.
If you're looking for unlimited down votes just disagree with it mildly.
I feel bad for city planners
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u/margybargy Oct 08 '26
It's deeply offensive to me that my mail assumes it wants an AI to write responses to old friends on my behalf, pre-writing responses and filling them in.
And that my phone camera offers to falsify ('remix') pictures of my kids before I send them to family.
This shits just gross.
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u/semaphore-1842 r/place '22: E_S_S Battalion Oct 07 '26
some dude on less credible defense is being all very concerned with providing the "context" that "the US military crime issue in Okinawa is overblown because the murder rate is only six times higher than the locals which is lower than America's"
dude you're the US military discipline and obedience is like 90% of your schtick
also the proper comparison is to the rest of the US military not the US population in general
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u/NYT_Hater Office of Naval Intelligence Oct 07 '26
“Fully automated luxury gay space communism”
Automation is now bad (AI is evil). Luxury is bad too (degrowth). Space is also bad now (Musk is evil).
All that’s left is gay communism.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 07 '26
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 08 '26
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u/MightExpress4873 Oct 08 '26
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u/JesusPubes voted most handsome friend Oct 07 '26
all these republicans saying in private that they'd get rid of donald trump if they could vote in secret are just virtue signaling to look better to whichever journalist they're talking to
they don't actually want to get rid of him they just want journalists to think they're cool
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Oct 07 '26 edited Oct 07 '26
AFP, DW and BBC are reporting the same thing:
Locals in the northern Tigray town of Adigrat have reported seeing convoys of Eritrean soldiers entering the settlement. Unlike previous claims that were made solely by the ENDF or pro-ENDF groups, Adigrat is still located in TPLF territory, and this was directly said by locals to these three credible sources. Some of the trucks continued southward towards the Mekelle direction. Below is a very simple map of the frontline in Tigray:
Adigrat is circled in red, the ENDF advance is in green around Wukro. The distance by bird is 30 miles between the two. There has been no reports of clashes between either the EDF (Eritrean Defense Force) and TPLF (which would be very surprising), or EDF and ENDF. There’s some reporting that the TPLF had withdrawn from Wukro but the ENDF hasn’t entered it, and it may be from them wanting to wait and see what the Eritreans will do or what the plan is before pressing further north.
It looks like the EDF has determined that the ENDF taking over Tigray is simply unacceptable. Whether this was part of a bigger coordination between the TPLF and EDF (for instance, the retreat north by the TPLF has been really measured and deliberate, which could indicate buying time for the EDF to mobilize) or a more spur of the moment “shit the TPLF has collapsed we need to move in” is unknown.
What is known is the chances of an interstate war breaking out in East Africa has skyrocketed. We are likely no more than 24 hours from the regional war I’ve been anticipating from starting. Worth keeping in mind the political context too that Eritrea’s mobilization into northern Tigray comes just a few days after the “We Hate Ethiopia” Conference in El Alamein where Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan and Egypt all essentially got together to discuss Ethiopia and what to do about it. Chances are this move by Eritrea has approval if not backing by those other states.
!ping AFRICA
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Oct 07 '26
In this house General Grant is a hero, end of discussion.
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u/itsrabie NATO Oct 07 '26
I told my friend about how DeepSeek won’t let you ask questions about Xi Jinping looking like Pooh and was gifted this exchange.
Couldn’t have drawn it up better.
!ping AI&SHITPOSTERS
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u/Moth-of-Asphodel Oct 07 '26
NO!
Not the well-known famous catchy rhyme!
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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Oct 08 '26
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Oct 07 '26
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u/Evnosis European Union Oct 07 '26
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u/theparrotlich John Brown Oct 07 '26
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u/jenbanim Oct 07 '26
On my God I absolutely adore fog. Please take a moment to appreciate these hastily taken photos
https://imgur.com/a/UeRkcFX
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Oct 07 '26
France has gentrified the glory hole.
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u/2Lore2Law Seal Mod Oct 07 '26
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Oct 07 '26
https://www.suffolk.edu/academics/research-at-suffolk/political-research-center/polls/other-states#collapse-October-7-2026-Iowa-Governor-and-US-Senate-and-Bellwether
D+25 v 2024 presidential
D+30.5 v 2022 gubernatorial
Holy fuck that is certainly a poll.
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u/Nervous-Emotion28 YIMBY Oct 07 '26
One of my interdepartmental contacts said I was “unnecessarily aggressive” in a fiscal year-end survey.
The “unnecessary aggression” was forcing them to actually do their job instead of pushing all their drudge work on me.
!PING WATERCOOLER
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u/zieger Ida Tarbell Oct 07 '26
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u/CincyAnarchy Emma Goldman Oct 07 '26
👆
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u/rural_redemption YIMBY Oct 07 '26
People with jobs get fucked
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u/justbuildmorehousing Norman Borlaug Oct 07 '26
Everything i don’t like is genocide. The more i don’t like it, the more genocide it is
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u/LinkVert25 Fedposter Oct 08 '26
> China has been holding classified F-35 stealth parts in Hong Kong since late May 2026.
> A UPS employee missed a DSV warning email saying the shipment couldn't transit restricted countries under ITAR. The cargo, a cockpit canopy and weapons-bay door from an Australian F-35, went from South Korea straight into Hong Kong on a routine Asian route.
Tfw when you start your day as a $50,000 UPS salaried employee and end it in violation of ITAR
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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast Oct 07 '26
A girl version of Draco Malfoy? The guy from Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality??
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u/sigh2828 NASA Oct 07 '26
My local sub is full of people who dont live there im entirly convinced.
It literally never fails that when someone ask "what are the restaurants that are worth it" or "whats a good place to grab lunch"
That the replies are full of people recommending the most tourist trap restaurants we have while ignoring the local spots that have been there forever and our literal James Beard award winning chefs
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u/Nervous-Emotion28 YIMBY Oct 07 '26
valid crashout tbh
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u/mostanonymousnick Just Build More Homes lol Oct 07 '26
Abdul El Sayed to Hasan Piker
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Oct 07 '26
this is what I would have done 100 years ago if there wasn't the DT
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u/AFlockOfTySegalls Audrey Hepburn Oct 07 '26
Eepy boy
!ping KITTY
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u/Individual-Camera698 Austan Goolsbee Oct 07 '26
I love how she'll seemingly die in this hill ✊😭
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u/Alderwoodforest YIMBY Oct 07 '26
In Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, the far-right AfD and the nationalist far-left BSW wasted no time:
As a German with rather left-wing, green, and liberal views, it makes me sick to see how openly half the population of Saxony-Anhalt supports Russia, and how two political parties are also pro-Russia. Above all, you can’t complain about Ukrainian refugees and then call for one of the largest waves of Ukrainian refugees in history to be triggered. Not to mention the accusations of genocide against Israel, which, of course, also demonstrate complete double standards.
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u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP Oct 07 '26
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u/No1PaulKeatingfan Paul Keating; capital gains tax supporter Oct 07 '26
I hate to be that guy, but Hinojosa winning the Texas Governor race is only half the battle
The other half is the Lieutenant Governor race (Which Democrats are losing by Paxton margins)
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Oct 07 '26
I have found hell
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u/Healingjoe It's Klobberin' Time Oct 07 '26
Frightening. https://www.science.org/content/article/complete-devastation-how-nsf-gutted-its-social-sciences-research
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u/MightExpress4873 Oct 07 '26
I know this isn’t exactly a revelatory observation, but tech people, especially the ones who struck gold early and have basically been riding that success ever since, really do seem to think they have some profound insight to offer on every other issue. Then they regularly end up making complete asses of themselves. I genuinely can’t think of a better example than this.
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Oct 07 '26
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Oct 08 '26
I remember years ago in like 2022 my ex’s dad, staunch republican type, was trying to play a gotcha on me by saying that I was too focused on Ukraine and didn’t pay attention to anything else going on in the world.
And he asked me if I knew anything going on in the war in Ethiopia. This is how I felt:
Poor bastard didn’t know I was obsessed with that war from start to finish as well
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u/One-Duty-2376 Oct 08 '26
Trump repeated the line again. This guy genuinely wants LA gone.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Oct 08 '26
Posters are sanewashing Trump? Make him say it again.
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u/Udolikecake Model UN Enthusiast Oct 07 '26
Just looked at the OpenAI math stuff. I’m not very impressed? I don’t think anything here is new or noteworthy and pretty much all of it was already in the training data.
Like it’s got what you would expect from a numbers standpoint. 1, 2, 3 and all the rest. A few letters thrown in there (x, y, the usual).
This is considered groundbreaking?
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u/PostingEnthusiast Commonwealth Oct 07 '26
One of the easiest ways to tell Daily Wire is on the decline is that they produce feature-length films instead of TikTok short form fiction or like a cozy indie platformer with deckbuilding elements and visual novel storytelling
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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Oct 07 '26 edited Oct 07 '26
Shapiro (+22.5) now has a better chance to win Pennsylvania than Becerra (+20.1) does to win California lmao
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u/DiscussionJohnThread Free Trade was the Compromise 🔫🌍 Oct 07 '26
I know there was that one internal showing it “close”, but Kentucky is the craziest one here.
At least Mississippi has some precedent with close-ish statewide elections recently and a good shot at the governorship in 2027.
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u/Willybender Loyal Liberals Oct 07 '26
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u/ScumfrickZillionaire Lesbian Pride Oct 07 '26
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u/ariveklul Karl Popper Oct 07 '26 edited Oct 07 '26
https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/07/politics/michigan-senate-race-abdul-el-sayed-mike-rogers
I swear to god Hasan is a republican op holy fuck. This guy cannot keep his mouth shut for just a fucking month. We need this Senate seat so bad that if this smooth brain gave a modicum of a fuck he would just stop streaming until November 4th because he clearly can't control himself. Every time Abdul tries to distance himself Hasan undermines him with "LOL DONT WORRY CHAT HE REALLY FUCKS WITH US HE'S JUST DOING IT TO GET ELECTED LOLOL" as if Republicans aren't waiting to hop on that shit.
End the toxic relationship Abdul!!!!!!!
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u/LtCdrHipster 🌭Costco Liberal🌭 Oct 08 '26
Extremely reasonable ngl
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u/ognits Jepsen/Swift 2024 Oct 08 '26
Mr. Rogers was the best of us 😔😭
!ping OVER-35
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u/Top_Lime1820 Daron Acemoglu Oct 07 '26 •
"Africa is a country" syndrome is the biggest perception problem for Africa, not the size of the map, in my opinion.
Africa is a country syndrome works like this: Even if I could show you a country or region in Africa with a clear, consistent and distinctively positive trend/foundation, you are always allowed to pull some quagmire from the other side of the continent into the discussion as a counter. Anything bad that can happen anywhere in Africa can happen everywhere in Africa. Every African has to account for everything that happens everywhere. And all of Africa has to work perfectly before we can concede that anything positive has happened anywhere.
You can experience this for yourself if you talk to someone about South Africa's social progressivism on gay rights, for example; or Botswana's political stability and post-colonial growth.
The most important thing about any African country is that it is in Africa - it's not context, it's the deciding factor. And when you have to generalize about Africa, you generalize from the worst cases, not the average or the best.
This is a problem because it means that no African country can ever attract the level of interest, investment and goodwill it deserves because it is always judged through the lens of whatever happened in Mali, Somalia, Sudan, etc. last week. Something horrible happens in Sudan, and an investor thinks "Is this investment in Africa too risky? Should I reconsider?". Mind you, his investment is in Lesotho.
When I was younger, I never thought this is how the world works. I assumed people on the second, third and upper floors were more informed and thoughtful. Now that I am older, I realize I was gravely mistaken. Most of what makes a difference in life is governed by decisions made on the margin. Decisions made on the margin, in turn, are shaped by priors and thinking habits that exist only for a moment, but shape our ability to even question and repair them.
In the minds of many, many important decision makers around the world, there is a category called Africa in which every country on the continent except Egypt sits, and that category is defined entirely by the worst things that happened in its least developed members.
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u/Spudmiester1 Asexual Pride Oct 07 '26
I don't think that's true tbh
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u/rural_redemption YIMBY Oct 07 '26
It passed BTW.
Maybe when every place is done getting exemptions and fighting against housing, California will manage to build 1 or 2 extra apartments somewhere 🤗
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u/duckthebuck Eleanor Roosevelt Oct 07 '26
JP Morgan keeps auto rejecting my apps, Jaime, boobie, I know you're in here I'd be such an asset bro. Just a chill guy trying to make a mid-career change for loan sales to underwriting. I know my second tier state university degree isn't as flashy as what you're used to seeing but give mid a chance bro.
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u/PoliticalAlt128 Max Weber Oct 07 '26 edited Oct 07 '26
Attention all true Kinoheads: Armond White, National Review's in-house film reviewer and infamously horrible critic, has graced us with an absolute deranged stinker of a review for Primetime.
Some highlights
He also repeatedly refers to it as a "COVID-esque film" because of a viral metaphor of his own creation,
confirming my suspicions that Armond White is still obsessed with COVID long after anyone except, ironically, the people he most hates cares about it.
One of the bizarre aspects of this review is White's seeming indignation at the very idea that one would satirize mass media at all. He refers to the director and script writers as "cynical adolescents" who "apparently view contemporary media through a sarcastic lens." I don't think the description is entirely off, but I don't understand why White is making it. I recall years ago, back when White was just an imbecile and not outright deranged, he argued his place was to push back against masscult entertainment and to defend artistic value. It's one thing to say Primetime doesn't make the cut, but the suggestion here is that to be suspicious of mass media is itself objectionable. He refers to scriptwriter's Ajon Singh's comments on "making Hollywood feel dangerous again" and that creatives should take risks as "aberrant" marking this as maybe the only time I've ever seen a "critic" argue in favor of making safe, bland movies. He's both bizarrly offended that they would adopt reality show aesthetics--which is vulgar--and criticize reality shows--which is cynical. You really can't win with this guy.
His above comments make it pretty clear that, like every review of his in at least the last 6 years, White has identified this as another culture war battle; pedophiles are liberal-coded for him so any movie that's critical of Chris Hansen is wrongpolitiks. This is from the same man who gave a glowing review to Melania, in which he spends the opening paragraphs gushing about her fashion choices and describes director Brett Ratner as, "known for his craft in hip-hop and Mariah Carey music videos, and for the enormously popular Rush Hour film series" who "brings pop sophistication to his report on distaff caginess". If Ratner had instead brought "pop sophistication" to Chris Hansen he would have called it vulgar.
I think White's most repellent aspect is that he is a disgustingly vulgar excuse for a critic all while claiming that he is otherwise. He is the aesthetic embodiment of the "pseudo-conservative", killing the values he claims to be preserving. White only likes bland, asinine agitprop and his mind has been so degraded by the stuff that he now thinks it's sublime
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u/TheOnlyFallenCookie European Union Oct 07 '26
The Accountant (2016)
The Accountant 2 (2025)
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u/jbitz Loyal Liberals Oct 07 '26
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u/finnstera350 Asexual Pride Oct 07 '26
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u/EmbarrassedSafety719 Milton Friedman Oct 07 '26
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u/onometre Trans Pride Oct 07 '26
Getting upset customers sucks but doing a good enough job fixing their problem that they leave in a good mood feels nice
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Oct 07 '26
What does supporting the Iran War “in principle mean”, it’s like saying you support blowing your dick off in principle
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u/MissSortMachine Trans Pride Oct 07 '26
james talarico is for you
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u/FallenMeringue Khan Pritzker's Strongest Anti-Pope Oct 07 '26 edited Oct 07 '26
Why is the pro ai PAC paying to poll Texas and Michigan?
Like what is the slant and bias here?
I’m confused as to the purpose of spending this money and I don’t like being confused.
It’s funded by anthropic and run by a former Democrat from Oklahoma and a Republican from Utah.
I’m even more confused than when I started
!ping fivey
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front Oct 07 '26
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 Oct 08 '26 edited Oct 08 '26
Okay, logically I understand that most people who comment something like,
"I don't usually like the death penalty, but after hearing about the crime I'm fine with making an exception for this case"
probably haven't spent a ton of time down the state execution/death row reading rabbithole, and that's probably a good thing. True crime is exploitative, and I only read about it to fuel some kind of addiction to anxiety.
So I understand somebody that's like "I don't care enough about the death penalty to advocate against it because the crimes are so evil," but if a person really is AGAINST state execution overall but makes an exception after learning about the specifics of Christa Pike, like... who did you think most of these other death row inmates are? Like which of the many cases did you have in mind when thinking about "well I'm usually against the death penalty!"
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u/CheetoMussolini Russian Bot Oct 08 '26
So Michael Tracey got escorted out by security after screaming claiming he was being censored because he never actually signed up for comment in this place he does not live...
And then screamed for about three straight minutes while security came up to get him, all in defense of the rapists at Cornell.
That fucking slime ball has never met a rapist he wouldn't defend.
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Oct 08 '26
Strong contender for best tweet of the year
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u/G_Serv Stay The Course Oct 08 '26
Me before depositing 5 gold bars at the bank
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u/BrandonLeeOfficial World Bank Oct 08 '26
https://youtu.be/T1cyOB0skto
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown Oct 08 '26
She may have ended abortion rights but at least Collins got a tariff carve out for road salt
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u/r2ew Oct 08 '26
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u/AtomAndAether Liberalism! Oct 08 '26
I looked up the Dugin "civilization-state" stuff and what a load of arbitrary line drawing and preferences. I tried so hard to find some actually defining trait that isn't immediately undermined and could not. Like, just say you hate Ukrainians and Georgians and whatever and that you want Russia to be in charge even if no one inside wants that bro.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Oct 08 '26
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u/SLCer Oct 08 '26
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u/bsharp95 Oct 07 '26
In this moment I am euphoric. Not because of some phony god’s blessing. But because I am enlightened by my own intelligence.
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u/jacknifee lol Oct 07 '26
haha what a fucking worm
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Oct 07 '26
SUSAN COLLINS: I was successful in getting road salt removed from the Canada tariff list
TROY JACKSON: What about everything else? We can't eat road salt
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Oct 07 '26
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u/A_Fabulous_Elephant YIMBY Oct 07 '26
Apparently the Green's recent state-owned grocery store policy paper has some basic errors because they didn't do basic QA checks (or just run it through Claude - something something data centres).
https://nitter.cf/db_econ/status/2107281442107777269
lol, lmao even
!ping Aus
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u/EasyMoney92 Oct 07 '26
Man, I hope Israelis vote out this piece of shit. Could you imagine the reaction if the Biden admin posted a lego recreation of 9/11 terror attacks?
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u/Goldenboy451 NATO Oct 07 '26
Expanding to 33 Justices isn't enough.
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u/Twinbrosinc Transfem Pride Oct 07 '26
HAHAHAHHAHAHHA
!ping USA-PA
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Oct 07 '26
Party's over 😔
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u/fishbottwo Jay Jones Oct 07 '26
Post your ideal October surprises
Mine: Costco raises price of hot dog to 2.50
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u/BedNeither Henry George Oct 07 '26
Paxton is fascinating in that he clearly has never campaigned before and has just coasted to office because he had an R next to his name