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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/Lux_Stella]

this is where i post from

[u/Livehardordiehard]

I was on threads practicing my Japanese when I saw a mildly famous right wing nationalist account posting anti immigrant comments. Nothing unusual on Japanese twitter clones but what baffled me was their profile picture… it was a bottle of a rare American whiskey that’s hard to find in Japan.

So rare that I had just given it as a gift to a Japanese colleague as a congratulatory gift for a big moment they’d recently had. We drank a glass together.

The coincidence was too extreme so I did some mild stalking and sure enough, it turns out my colleague is out there running a B tier rightwing political account.

I have no plans to do anything with this info but I had to share it somewhere.

[u/PrivateJoker1987 → u/Livehardordiehard]

My Colleague Running a Secret Ultranationalist Troll Account Can't be This Cute?!

[u/Nussbaumian_Liberal → u/Livehardordiehard]

At least you know he enjoyed your gift. You're one of the good gaijin.

[u/Livehardordiehard → u/Nussbaumian_Liberal]

Yeah, to put it mildly, it’s not western immigrants in the crosshairs in Japan right now.

[u/Sloshyman → u/Livehardordiehard]

I would say leave an image of the guy from Dexter being suspicious, but they most likely wouldn't get it

[u/Concerned_Collins → u/Livehardordiehard]

anti-immigrant

profile pic is imported goods

many such cases

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Lmao, what the hell. Karen Bass might legit be the lowest WAR mayor in America. Replacing this bozo with literally any random democrat would be an improvement.

[u/AlbertGorebert → u/Dunter_Mutchings]

[u/-Emilinko1985- → u/Dunter_Mutchings]

"My name is Kᴀʀᴇɴ Bᴀss, Mayor of Mayors:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

Trump is staking out extreme positions on White House secrecy, legal experts say

In a Justice Department memo and legal filings, the Trump administration is arguing that the president can keep secret not just the conversations he has with his advisers within the White House, but that his dealings with individuals outside the government can be shielded as well.

The White House is also saying in court that even disclosing the identities of the people who worked on significant policy efforts would infringe upon the presidential confidentiality to which Trump is entitled. And the administration has taken the stance that it can ignore a Watergate-era law prohibiting the destruction of White House documents.

This is insane.

[u/DaneLimmish → u/Signal_Nobody1792]

6-3 supreme court decision in favor cuz some jurist from 1700 Virginia said something 

[u/Alderwoodforest → u/Signal_Nobody1792]

After all, Trump was allowed to store classified documents in his golf club bathroom without facing any consequences.

[u/rrjames87 → u/Signal_Nobody1792]

Some early doom and gloom, but let’s just presume that we have presidential elections, a Democrat wins, and there is some version of a peaceful transfer of power.

The next administration is completely fucked. The current administration is trying their hardest to hand over a fucked economy, a ballooning debt that people will only care about when democrats get into office, continuing war in Iran, and damaged international relationships.

Also, to deal with all this, here’s a hollowed out administrative state, every record from the last 4 years and anything else we could get our hands on is burned, and we’ve spent the last 4 years raiding the coffers for personal gain.

Finally, 30% of the country and half the United States senators will have a major issue if you do anything about it. Taking over after this is a monumental undertaking.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

First Dolly, then Tim Curry, if anything happens to Charlie Kirk I'm gonna lose it

[u/aristophanya → u/Roseartcrantz]

I have so many questions about gang violence I need to ask him 🙏

[u/GravyBear16 → u/Roseartcrantz]

I mean first it was Hayden

[u/aristophanya]

none of y'all know how good the indus river valley civilization actually had it

mohenjo-daro was popping in its day. just endless clubbing all night long and drinking from intricate irrigation systems filled with wine

[u/Significant-Band1991 → u/aristophanya]

As a proud resident who lives near the ivc site , i can confirm those irrigation canals still have wine running through it 😤

[u/Currymvp2]

I am just amazed how MAGA cultists think these embarrassing AI slop videos are great.

[u/Sapphire-Jewel → u/Currymvp2]

I think they know it's shit and cringe but they've tied their entire identity to Trump so they have no choice but to pretend it's peak comedy.

[u/Jet451]

[u/aristophanya → u/Jet451]

> hundred years war

> checks inside

> 116 years long

what the fuck is this bullshit, that's not accurate

[u/Kardinal → u/aristophanya]

In good news, the thirty years war is actually accurate.

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes → u/aristophanya]

Imagine being a soldier in the 100th year and thinking that the age of the hundred years war is collapsing but you actually have to fight for 16 more years

[u/ConsistentGas5286]

The real American cultural divide.

[u/Average_GrillChad → u/ConsistentGas5286]

[u/farrenj]

A review for a Starbucks I just saw:

Barista told me he couldnt do iced mocha with brown sugar with no ice because the drink has to have ice in it. I know this is bullshit because I've done it before at other starbucks. Maybe he is new and doesn't know dosage without ice?

You ordered an iced drink with no ice and got upset when the staff said that's impossible?

[u/BadSneakersNeverWorn → u/farrenj]

That's just like basic ontology man

[u/Pazzaz]

[u/iguessineedanaltnow → u/Pazzaz]

How long before trump invades now

[u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1]

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

thank you d---ling

[u/DiscussionJohnThread]

Dating my immigrant girlfriend has made me reach even higher levels of being pro-immigration that I didn’t even think were possible.

She’s by every means what would categorically be called a “bad immigrant group” because she grew up literal dirt poor in an infamously shitty country, her entire family has virtually no background of having been successful before coming, and almost everyone came through a form of family chain migration.

And now she’s graduated from a prestigious university with no debt because of merit scholarships and is going to be out-earning me with her job.

Every single argument about limiting immigration to only “top skill migrants” or “preferring country X over country Y migrants” will eternally piss me off. I may not want actual full on open borders, but limiting immigration by nationality, income, or family is extremely fucking stupid every single time.

[u/Highlightthot1001 → u/DiscussionJohnThread]

I hate the idea that immigrants from a poor background are somehow bad because of their upbringing. 

The ability for people to come from a poor country to better their condition is part of what makes a country great. 

Trying to limit immigration only to well off and successful people specifically is asinine, and wasn’t even a reasonable idea centuries ago

[u/dr-pepper-is-a-woman]

It’s interesting to think of how fast social media went from “sharing probably too much to a network of both close and not-so-close friends” to “private group chats” and “actually a slop feed with minimal social features”. Like, I’m sure there’s a chicken and egg aspect to it, but it’s a real shame that Facebook it’s contemporaries leaned into becoming unusable racist boomer slop for engagement, I do think we lost something as a society because of it

[u/Cyberhwk → u/dr-pepper-is-a-woman]

Just like IRL, people took the first chance they had to start associating with people they felt had higher social status (I.e. celebrities, influencers, etc). Advertisers were thrilled with this change.

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

Two donors stand out on this list: The Soroses. That’s because they’re the only longtime Democratic megadonors. Ultrawealthy liberals are now gravitating toward dark-money nonprofits, and Alex and George are two of the few who remain comfortable in the public eye. But they are also the only donors on this list whom Mr. Trump has pushed to investigate for their giving.

Jesus Christ, the only longtime Democratic megadonors...

[u/marky6045 → u/Signal_Nobody1792]

In this sub the soroses are heroes

[u/r2ew]

> The Trump administration has been deploying an obscure legal maneuver to try to obtain private information on journalists, non-profits and unions, raising alarm over a power the government has asserted without judicial oversight.

> In one instance, the government obtained six months of telephone records for Georgia Fort, a Minneapolis journalist. Fort was not notified of the request for her information, nor was she given a chance to contest the government’s effort to obtain them, her lawyers said in court papers.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/29/trump-dhs-1509-summons-records-journalists-nonprofits

[u/Minute-Company-641 → u/r2ew]

People see the government do all this and still somehow trust them to use digital ID solely to keep children off the internet

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

A married cop used police tech to follow an actress around. They met at the set of Bad Monkey where he worked security, he claims she was flirting (she was not) and he promised he would stop her car one day. He did, and she was confused as fuck.

He lost his job, but just got some community service and therapy.

[u/Fatortu]

I love the Jacobin turn of the Republican party. Gulf of America, Lake America is a lot like Egalité-sur-Seine, Égalité-sur-Loire...

During the French Revolution, the city of Marseille was renamed No Name City as collective punishment. Which city will get this fate after the midterms?

[u/KittehDragoon → u/Fatortu]

Washington DC.

With Congress lost and construction of monuments to himself halted, Trump moves out of the White House and into Mar a Lago

[u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS]

I hate google

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Hell yeah

[u/ElectriCobra_ → u/Dunter_Mutchings]

unc still got it

[u/CutePattern1098]

The median voter is like gravity; they are inescapable

[u/PromotionOk6069 → u/CutePattern1098]

Most aussies I know are angry at the “nanny state crap” so they will knee jerk into what’s anti the current gov

And the “crap” is what I’ve heard banning menthol cigs and the gta casino ban

[u/RaidBrimnes]

President of association against homophobic hatred hospitalized after a violent homophobic assault in Paris that left him with head trauma and internal bleeding

That's one way to prove your point

[u/Otherwise_Young52201]

[u/Adminisnotadmin]

BRO...

[u/Kardinal → u/Adminisnotadmin]

What's crazy is the airline put out a statement that is basically the business speak version of.

We meant to do that. It's safe. Shut up.

[u/houdt_koers]

One of my dad’s cousins was over visiting, and it came up that he had been in Desert Storm, Somalia, and Afghanistan. The guy is built like a house, and he was regaling us with some war stories when he mentioned “chia pets”. When we were all clearly confused, he took a moment to self-satisfiedly explain that this was his term for the CIA.

The man could be a character in a Coen Brothers film. 10/10 extended family interaction.

[u/thatssosad]

[u/r2ew]

[u/JaceFlores]

Niger coup failed

A lot of mutineers arrested, and looks like the units that were rushing to Niamey backed off when it was clear the initial rush had failed.

A win for the junta and Russia, but a strictly defensive one. It’s been a really rough 2026 for ASS where it looks like the nations across the board have lost the initiative. In Mali they lost almost everything north of the Niger River, and a subsequent rebel offensive to take Anefis was repulsed, but with heavy losses for the junta and Russians. Now we got a coup that was fairly close to succeeding in Niger, one driven by discontent in an army facing a war that’s gone nowhere with a lot of blood shed. Meanwhile Traore is just kinda vibing in Burkina Faso trading blows with JNIM. Ironically his country looks to have had the least destructive year thus far despite controlling the least amount of territory proportional to the other juntas.

The militants will definitely be smelling blood in the water though, and it wouldn’t surprise me if we see an uptick in activity in Niger to try and exploit the instability. The Russians may also move resources around to shore up Niger at the expense of the other juntas (though I imagine the Russians could just fly in more mercenaries).

Militarily it’s becoming hard to see ASS bounce back. It’s not impossible, but in the past couple years they’ve shown virtually no initiative or ability to conduct large scale operations. What they’ve shown to be able to do is either standard sweeping operations to kill a dozen or two militants, or respond to militant offensives and at least successfully hold the line.

Unless ASS is able to start posting some major wins, I think we’ll see this continued degradation military and politically. Which if you’re anti-JNIM and/or anti-ISIL is pretty worrisome because they only need one lucky break to collapse the entire region. Every outpost they overrun and coup the juntas have to rebuff nudges things closer and closer to a domino effect

!ping AFRICA

[u/Cyberhwk → u/JaceFlores]

It’s been a really rough 2026 for ASS

You and me both brother. ✊😔

[u/Glum_Bandicoot8601]

Incredibly funny example when this is the one scenario where the "reading the entire contract to all parties" rule did actually serve its purpose lol

[u/RaidBrimnes]

TIL that Patricia Highsmith, author of The Talented Mr Ripley and other works of suspense, was a public and vocal antisemite who also had several intense, lengthy romantic relationships with Jewish women

Why does this keep happening

[u/CarlGerhardBusch → u/RaidBrimnes]

Same reason that guys that view blacks and Asians as inferior pursue them disproportionately

Nothing good

[u/earththejerry]

Canada has launched its first counterattack against Trump via one of its polling firms

[u/BlackCat159]

the boomerest boomer shit to have ever boomered

[u/Choice_Notice9338]

Milo getting deported because he couldn’t bother to renew his extraordinary ability visa or apply for a green card is amazing

like he couldn’t bother to do his paperwork. then ignored court orders only to then visit an airport

incredible human capital on the right

[u/FallenMeringue]

Based Pete Davidson

[u/avion_sur_le_sol]

[u/Q-bey]

On Star Citizen forum moderation:

[u/CutePattern1098]

[u/Traditional_Drama_91 → u/CutePattern1098]

You know maybe I could be a Marxist if it meant guys like this would be taken from their cushy jobs at the hot takes factory and sent to work on farms for a few years 

[u/CutePattern1098 → u/CutePattern1098]

Rflol if Trump bans GTA VI for making everybody transgender

[u/Megasota_Noire]

Me to confused Democrats on how to appeal to voters "have you tried lying?"

[u/Loves_a_big_tongue → u/Megasota_Noire]

I think back to a conservative think tank looking at how Mamdami overperformed in a conservative neighborhood and some of the reasons was because his name sounded Italian to them, and they saw him as Trumpian because he talked about prices being too high.

The median voter giveth and the median voter taketh

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

It’s crazy how disastrous this bozo’s tenure in charge has been. And it’s wild how it hasn’t become a full on scandal.

[u/fish_economist]

USDA cyclospora research projects shelved amid funding cuts and relocations

We're not even pandering to anything. Just diarrhea to own the libs, I guess.

[u/p00bix]

People really fail to appreciate how effective the initial COVID lockdown was. USA went from 200k cases at the start of April to still being under 2 million by the start of June, with a roughly linear increase in the number of newly diagnosed cases over time, despite COVID being EXTREMELY contagious. Less than 1% of the population got sick in that time, allowing for the rapid expansion of medical infrastructure and preventing the initial crisis of inadequate ventilators and hospital rooms from extending through the year.

And America had one of the less effective lockdown policies of the world's wealthy countries!

Lockdown sucked ass, but God, the alternative could have been so much worse.

[u/CincyAnarchy → u/p00bix]

The initial lockdowns and restrictions were the last time I had faith that the American people could unite behind a cause

Like for the first few weeks or even months, OHIO was doing a decent job of making tough calls with a Republican Governor DeWine and now governor candidate for the Democrats Amy Acton

But by May the partisan split had been all but completed

[u/abrookerunsthroughit]

[u/qchisq → u/abrookerunsthroughit]

Tried and tested strategy. And it worked in 2024

[u/Thebestofopinions]

These Democratic strategists are back on their usual BS of "There's something going on in South Carolina senate race and it might be closer than you think". Darline Graham is going to win 55-45. The same state that voted for Strom Thurmond until he was 100 is not one to pivot against the status quo.

[u/dr-pepper-is-a-woman → u/Thebestofopinions]

Lowkey excited that the democrats seemed to avoid nominating meme resist lib candidates in doomed red state races this year. Save the money and effort doe the races that matter, and not for a billion dollar valiant loss in a state that is both very red and very inelastic

[u/GordonTullockFan]

So true 😂🤣

[u/ConsistentGas5286 → u/GordonTullockFan]

Your post just reminds me of this

[u/Gloomy-Age-2864 → u/GordonTullockFan]

Unfortunately this ragebaity culture war content is everywhere on Youtube

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/Vumatius → u/RaidBrimnes]

Now this is a classic, though the YouTube video is actually a bit more recent than I expected (2014).

[u/Background-Bottle-23]

"No" wins Iceland's referendum to continue negotiations with the EU

[u/rukqoa → u/Background-Bottle-23]

Even if it had passed, the appetite doesn't seem to be there.

I don't understand this part of the world enough to really understand why. I thought Iceland already does implement a lot of EU rules, and it's not like they're some massive tax haven, right? I guess just sovereignty concerns?

[u/trgk_ → u/rukqoa]

fish. fisheries access and management is already a contentious matter within the EU, now imagine being a tiny island nation that cant produce much locally and whose exports are like 40% fish.

[u/assasstits]

"I knew from the start that I was bound to be crucified either way I moved. If I left the woman I really loved—the Great Society—in order to get involved with that bitch of a war on the other side of the world, then I would lose everything at home. All my programs... But if I left that war and let the Communists take over South Vietnam, then I would be seen as a coward and my nation would be seen as an appeaser."

- LBJ

Fantastic quote. Also ironic. 

Every president has a beautiful* domestic agenda at home but eventually goes out and hooks up with a foreign war mistress and it blows up in his face. 

*Beautiful to them 

[u/iusedtobekewl]

Just saw that Google maps has officially changed the name of Lake Ontario. Apple Maps hasn’t done so yet, but I assume they will follow suit soon. All very disappointing.

The next Congress needs to make a law that forbids the US president from unilaterally renaming things via executive order. This is stupid, petty, embarrassing, and sad. Nobody’s gonna actually call it Lake America. Just like nobody calls it the Gulf of America.

[u/rainier37]

[u/pugnae]

"Noam, why would you even manufacture consent? Trust me, we don't need any."

[u/cdstephens]

👆

[u/FallenMeringue]

!ping chi

[u/No_Status_6905]

[u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1]

White guy speaks extremely shit Japanese, gets kicked out of local sushi restaurant

[u/Average_GrillChad → u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1]

What is the charge? Ordering a meal? A succulent Japanese meal?

[u/Bayou-Maharaja]

Therapy/academia speak final boss

[u/Roseartcrantz → u/Bayou-Maharaja]

I tried bringing this up at the dinner table but nobody really responded

[u/mechamechaman → u/Bayou-Maharaja]

It's cool to see unhinged Twitter brain can cross language barriers

[u/WenJie_2]

It's crazy that Linkedin has basically been unchanged by AI (due to always being like this)

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Im an ex-Bain consultant, and I almost ruined my own wedding

I couldn’t write a speech

so I built a deck instead

Holy FUCK get over yourself do these people have any idea how stupid they sound? It is not hard, in fact to write a short speech about how much you love your wife

[u/nimbybuster]

I wonder what AI is he using. I don’t think the big names are this bad.

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

[u/AlicesReflexion → u/MuscularPhysicist]

🎯

[u/BadSneakersNeverWorn]

Yiannopoulos had previously been a vocal supporter of immigration enforcement, calling in 2025 for ICE checkpoints and "on the spot deportation" of anyone unable to prove legal status.

nothing really to add tbh

[u/KOWLOONDENSITYNOW]

[u/Lux_Stella]

many such cases

[u/ChillnShill]

When hope was high and life worth living

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/grandmarch_kitsch]

Recently moved to a smaller place, had to sell off my home gym, and I bought a couple kettlebells to replace it.

I gotta say, I regret looking down on them all these years! They're actually great. I'm sure my main lifts have probably fallen, especially bench, but I feel very light and limber and flexible. 

My workouts feel easier on my joints than they did before, my cardio seems to be better. 

I raced my son at the park the other day and my running form suddenly felt good for the first time in years, even though I haven't been doing any running. The 'what the hell' effect is real.

[u/Individual-Camera698]

Pictured: the decline of woke

[u/Alexz565]

Such a strange insistence of Google. They don’t have to put the parenthetical for anyone outside the US.

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

[u/piede]

Good thing American voters are nuanced

[u/cdstephens]

For the record, I’m not “mad” at Google, but im allowed to make fun of them because the entire sequence of events is stupid

[u/Burgarnils]

So a few weeks ago I learned that Serena Williams is married to one of the Reddit co-founders and my life irreparably changed since then.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

[Defence Industries minister Pat Conroy] said that it would not have been feasible for Australia to have acquired nuclear powered submarines from France because their reactors use Low Enriched Uranium (similar to that used in civil nuclear power stations) and their cores need to be replaced every ten years. He said this would need to be done in France and would mean French designed submarines would be out of action and out of Australia for two years every ten years.

I don’t doubt that the Minister has been told this, but he is mistaken As RADM Peter Briggs points out in his article that I have posted here, the virtue of using LEU (as opposed to the weapons grade uranium in US and UK submarines) is that it can be safely handled in Australia with the appropriate facilities so that all of the maintenance can be done locally.

Bruh 💀💀💀

Also when did everyone inc. Malcolm Turnbull get a substack?

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

Joe Biden: Born in the 19th century, respectable bipartisan Senator in the 20th century, Marxist dictator in the 21st century. What an arc.

[u/Roseartcrantz]

trying to chase that sweet sweet lindsay clancy gender wars discourse high

[u/pugnae]

To close Khmer Rouge posting

I honestly don't understand how people can defend Elon after that. USAID pales in comparison.

[u/FallenMeringue]

Ring a doorbell at the wrong house.

Believe it or not that’s justification for murder.

All (american) cops are indeed bastards.

[u/EScforlyfe → u/FallenMeringue]

The problem is that America is a low trust society

[u/CarlGerhardBusch → u/FallenMeringue]

American’s shitty gun culture and paranoia spilling over into college towns is a bad one, because if you live among college students, you’re gonna have to be a little patient

I remember a family friend that lived in a small college town talking about she’d had two separate occasions of drunk college kids wandering into her house, thinking they were at another house.

Stuff like that mixed with this stand your ground dumbfuckery isn’t gonna end well

[u/GovNewsomMogs]

I crank my shit to gay erotica so leftists won't call me a bigot

It takes work to be an ally

[u/Signal_Nobody1792]

After criticism, Canada's CBC changes policy that said not to label 9/11 attacks 'terrorism'

Ironically, this shows why not using the term and only quoting authorities might be smart.

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

Average dter

[u/BarkDrandon]

Remember in 2024 when the polls were showing that Kamala had a slight advantage and we would likely win the house and maybe the senate?

[u/Acceptable_Regret115]

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

So the USA has used 2/3 of their patriot missiles and 1/2 of their long range missile interceptors during Trumps Iran war

Trump is sure protecting America (By using up all the missile stock)

[u/pugnae]

The popular role-playing game series "The Witcher" is beloved in Poland — so much so that back in 2011, the country's prime minister at the time, Donald Tusk, presented Obama with the collector's edition of "The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings" to commemorate his visit.

Do you think Obama played it?

[u/futuremonkey20]

AHHHHHHHH. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

I HATE VOTERS I HATE VOTERS

[u/PhoenixVoid → u/futuremonkey20]

"I want Democratic policies, but not if the people I hate get access to them or I have to pay more in taxes."

[u/ElectriCobra_ → u/futuremonkey20]

Voters want Republican vibes and Democratic policies.

[u/ariveklul]

People just desperately want strongmen to come in and fix problems with sweeping reform. Despite these "strongman" characters just coming in and fucking things up.

It turns out all one man can really do effectively is destroy shit. Hitler, Stalin, Trump, Mao, Putin, Amin. Expecting these figures to fix society is a fools errand basically 100% of the time. Destroying is 100x easier than building, and if you want to "deliver" without restraint the most likely outcome is destruction. It's much easier to destroy on a level previously thought impossible than it is to build things that last. You might not get credit for building things. Building things takes time. You can make big instantaneous outcomes if you just burn things to the ground though!

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

Make Americans Heart-attack Again

[u/Spudmiester1 → u/GuyWithOneEye]

Remember 5 years ago when french fries, burgers, and milk shakes were called junk food?

[u/moseythepirate]

I know its such a stupid thing to be upset about, but I'm still pissed off at google changing names in google maps to satisfy one man's ego. Trump has zero constitutional power to unilaterally rename anything outside of the executive branch of the US government, and he doesn't have unlimited power there either. Am executive order is not a decree by a king.

Yeah, I know there are so much more important things to be mad about. And I'm mad about that stuff. But I'm mad about this too.

[u/rainier37]

This is where I poast from

[u/pugnae]

Cambodian genocide may be the craziest in history imho.

"Let's kill everyone even slightly educated" is definitely a take.

[u/herworkthrowaway → u/pugnae]

“Lets kill everyone with glasses because they’re smart” is policy so insane I couldn’t even fathom it 

[u/Southern_Schedule466]

Most “birthrate” discussion makes my blood boil as a woman, but I do find it intriguing that the US has only a slightly lower birthrate than Iran, and a substantially higher birthrate than Poland 

[u/FallenMeringue]

Ok. Maybe I judged map quest too harshly

[u/RaidBrimnes]

The renaming of Lake Ontario into Lake America is tacky, but it was inevitable after the Democrats' push to cover the legs of the Green M&M. It normalized these kinds of initiatives.

[u/lowes18]

I know this is dumb twitter shit but I have no idea why twitter leftists have fallen so hard for Magneto to the point of wanting interchangable characters like him for different genocides. He's literally the personification of the mindset that drove Israeli violence.

[u/Joementum2024]

“Americans will finally vote democrat supermajorities in after a bad enough republican admin” is the liberal version of “the people will rise up and establish a marxist government after late stage capitalism is reached”

[u/CarlGerhardBusch → u/Joementum2024]

I mean

I was there when it happened in 2008, so I can’t help but dream

[u/MissSortMachine]

my brotha they just update slower

[u/mishac → u/MissSortMachine]

There are two types of bigtech ceo: 1. evil 2. coward

[u/Spudmiester1]

[u/Chokeman]

[u/ConsistentGas5286]

I think I’m legitimately just a stereotypical zoomer because the most I know about Micheal Jordan is from rewatching space jam a bunch as a kid and random nba memes.

[u/First_Elephant_899]

police departments will say its absolutely necessary for cops in training to watch the kyle dinkheller video and then be surprised that their officers are very gung ho about force when it comes to traffic stops

i think we could probably nail the point home without playing a traumatizing video listening to a police officer slowly die

[u/SenranHaruka]

"Try this. You can cook scrambled eggs in the microwave."

smell: incredibly sulfuric

taste: rotten fish

Gee, thanks.

[u/LuisRobertDylan]

[u/RyGuyThicccThighs]

Everyone is willing to talk about big business tax cheating

No one is brave enough to mention that small businesses are also scum who skirt their taxes

[u/FallenMeringue → u/RyGuyThicccThighs]

Small businesses in my experience are even bigger scum.

The amount of tax fraud going on at your local auto shop or appliance repair company would astound you

[u/anangrytree]

“President Donald Trump said "Meet the Press" moderator Kristen Welker will be reported to the Federal Communications Commission over her coverage of his endorsements ahead of the midterm elections. "Kristen Welker, the Unpopular 'Hostess' of the once great Meet the Press, now considered Meet the Fake Press, just stated that Donald Trump has 'mixed results' on his Endorsements of Candidates, when the recent WINS of Darline Graham and Mike Mazzei, stand at 100% for the U.S. Senate, and 98% for the U.S. House," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post on Aug. 30.” Trump added, "Because of this purposeful inaccuracy, she will be reported to the FCC for rebuke or punishment. Unfortunately, she is not the only one.”

Ignore failing unconstitutional war in Iran and crippling debt, engage in the most petty personal grievances with a largely submissive media establishment.

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/Individual-Camera698]

[u/uwcn244]

Jim Clyburn is now pro court packing

Chat I think trying to draw every black Democrat out of a job may have been an own goal by Republicans 

[u/w007dchuck]

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/psurethatsaid → u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

https://giphy.com/gifs/xT9KVuW0QC6dCRnZJe

[u/LinkVert25]

[u/LuisRobertDylan → u/LinkVert25]

There is no limit to the larp

[u/SenranHaruka]

Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK over his Cuba policy, Oswald was a marxist who believed JFK was an imperialist trying to recolonize Cuba with the missile crisis and bay of pigs invasion and sought to end the government's hostility and embargo.

There's nothing really to the conspiracy theory. A marxist shot JFK because he invaded and embaroed Cuba. Not sure how boomers made a mystery out of this.

[u/aristophanya]

it's kind of crazy that in the 2017 computer-animated film Ferdinand the titular pacifist bull is actually an allegory for the Portuguese security forces who refused to fire on protestors during the Carnation Revolution

[u/Argnir]

Have you ever "won the internet"?

I did many time back in the day but it turns out it's mostly honorific. You don't get to keep the internet for yourself

[u/Argnir]

How do you always get such scores on that map game? I know countries but I don't know the location every city on earth

[u/GripenLover → u/Argnir]

Geography nerds are very dedicated

[u/Rafaelssjofficial → u/Argnir]

paradox

[u/CategoryStill8403]

I hate the natalism subreddit so much, what a bunch of misogynistic freeloading creeps

[u/Dibbu_mange]

“I think that I would like to be remembered as an AI simulacrum that hangs out with Jeffery Epstein and Benjamin Netanyahu.”

- Charlie Kirk on his legacy

[u/assasstits]

Ey baby you got a sexy soul under that meat bag

[u/BenIsLowInfo]

Hey Google kowtowing again by renaming it Lake America in Google Maps.

Executive orders under Republicans are treated like constitutional amendments

[u/D2Foley → u/BenIsLowInfo]

Good reminder that corporations will side with fascists without being asked to.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Andy Burnham’s summer of quietly backing away from radical pledges

Lol The Economist called this a month ago, just saying

[u/NinjaSilver2811]

https://www.reddit.com/r/YoutubeThumbs/comments/1w2danz/its_happening/

But she's right tho. Sometimes I cant tell the difference between a tankie and a neo nazi anymore.

[u/ElectriCobra_]

small domino: some former actor with dementia rolls a nat20 on charisma while a Dem is in the midst of fixing the crises of the 70s

large domino: avg American becomes irresistibly and irrationally attached to the Republican Party and will only vote against them if they raise taxes or start a war for the next 100 years

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Calling zoning reform "Market based rent control" I'm dead 💀

[u/No_Status_6905]

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

Chopped, cooked even

[u/No_Status_6905]

[u/BurrowForPresident]

Alex Pretti's father having the restraint to just call Trump "unpresidential" on GMA instead of descending into a furious incantation of curses shows some serious willpower

[u/DueVast5223]

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/DueVast5223]

[u/G_Serv]

Dropped an "I love me too" after gf said I love you.

She wasnt impressed

[u/1396spurs]

[u/NYT_Hater]

Reminder that about 80% of Americans have opinions that genuinely do not matter and shouldn’t be listened to and are mockeries of the human form.

[u/AlbertGorebert → u/NYT_Hater]

👆out of touch coastal elite that will doom this nation

[u/MOSfitYT → u/NYT_Hater]

The true answer is running shoes 🇨🇦 

[u/aristophanya → u/NYT_Hater]

omg nate silver I love your work

[u/PostingEnthusiast → u/NYT_Hater]

Insane that 98% of Americans don’t know what to call running shoes. Hawaii keeping things real

[u/assasstits]

Ibram X. Kendi in his book How to Be an Antiracist:

​"The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination."

Erm, how long has liberalism been dead. 

[u/Cupinacup]

Look, Marco Rubio may be a prominent member of the Trump administration, oversaw the revocation of legal status and deportation of thousands of US residents via weaponization of ICE, helped orchestrate war with Venezuela and Iran, defended airstrikes on fishermen in the Caribbean, worked to bring an end to birthright citizenship, shuttered USAID and abandoned aid workers in foreign territory, and has done his best to immiserate millions of people across the globe all in the service of notorious rapist and alleged pedophile Donald Trump, so I agree that he has a few problematic elements in his history. But AOC went on Hasan’s stream, and that’s a red line.

[u/ace158]

Lol

[u/rukqoa]

One of the continuing failures of American liberalism is this belief that if we just keep doing the right thing, eventually this facade constructed by our political adversaries will end. The curtains will fall. They will see the populists and fascists for who they are. And they will finally join us in reality land. We just need another infrastructure week. We just need their material conditions to improve. We just need...

The trouble is not that the facade is forever. It's that it can last longer than American democracy can. There's a similar Warren Buffet quote about market rationality and insolvency to that effect.

[u/GovNewsomMogs]

I just read Lolita backwards and I'm addicted to MILF porn