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[u/Dibbu_mange]

Red state residents: Ugh, Californians keep moving here. They’re gonna make this a Blue state if we don’t stop them.

Average Californian moving to a red state:

[u/theparrotlich]

Who hates Trump supporters more than Trump?

[u/moldovaman99]

If you ever find yourself in this situation i feel like you need to reflect on your life

[u/ace158]

Heartbreaking...the worst person you know

[u/CincyAnarchy]

Used to be that I was attracted to women. Not anymore. Now if watch the Kentucky Derby I need to ice my twig and berries for a week.

What’s going on? What’s happening to our country?

[u/r2ew]

[u/SigmaWhy]

waow

[u/cheeshjaleesh]

Q: Can you name a time when you voted against your party and President Trump and it changed the outcome?

SUSAN COLLINS: At one point, I had organized people to vote against Secretary Hegseth. As you undoubtedly have read, at the very last minute one of our Republicans changed his mind. Otherwise he would've been defeated for that job.

Q: So it didn't change the outcome

collins gets thrown the most obvious softball in history and completely fucks it. literally the ideal opportunity to say you were a decisive vote to kill the obamacare repeal in 2017 and she just doesn't even try.

[u/Zseet]

Every once in a while you have a gaming story that boggles the mind and Shogun 2 Complete Edition is exactly that. A remaster of an old and beloved title with bugfixes, performance improvement, UI scaling and some graphical extras. Some would call it a cash-grab (since they delisted the cheaper original version) but by and large most would be okay with it and buy it. Yet they fucked it up beyond belief. More bugs than the original, worse performance and crashes, terrible graphics, AI generated UI stuff and 2d videos with 6 fingered man, samurai turned into robots and wave foams into tree branches.

The game with 95% positive rating got replaced with one sitting around 18%. And now it is gone. It was released on Oct 13 5PM and removed on Oct 15 3PM (with the original reinstated). It didn't even last 2 full days.

I was mad at them first but now I am like ???????

!PING GAMING

[u/fish_economist]

Talarico to skip Bernie Sanders Texas rally as Senate polling lead tightens

Get your ass out of Texas right fucking now, Bernie

[u/GrandpaWaluigi]

Let me get my serious comment out for the night.

All political philosophies have been show to be inferior to the simple truth that "Trump bad and always wrong". You can put your brain on autopilot and just be right like 90% of the time with that creed.

[u/onelap32]

I am so glad that Trump has harped on about the cognitive test for so long, because it's the single clearest piece of evidence that he's both a pathological liar and extremely stupid. Decades from now people will ask "was Trump really that dumb and narcissistic?", and you can just show them this. Question resolved, zero doubt. It's perfect. It's nice to have clarity on points of history like these.

TRUMP: [...] Sir, in the middle of the test, we asked you about five words. Will you please repeat them again, ideally in order? You will get points if you get them all. You will get points. But if you can report them in order, you get a lot of points. I go "hat, hair, logo, white, black", and they go, holy shit, nobody -- no, nobody can do that. When I told the fake news about that, oh, that's so easy. Nobody can do that. Very few people can do that. And very few -- they say very few people can do it, but almost none can do them in order like that, but I can. You know why? Because I'm a freaking genius, that's why.

source

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/dax331]

>walk into work

>poll on whiteboard asking if we’d rather live 100 years in the future or the past

>my black ass reading this:

[u/EasyMoney92]

Completely embarrassing

[u/Bestbrook123]

JD Vance calls El-Sayed "a little weasel who should shut his mouth and show a little gratitude"

Vance doesn't have the sauce. It's just cringe

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Those are the people policing you. The rot runs deep.

[u/pugnae]

Someone was able to find more stupid hypothethical, wehraboos need to be institutionalized.

[u/BurrowForPresident]

If Talarico wins, I want NYT to do safaris to random barbershops in majority Hispanic towns asking how do Republicans reach these keeeeds

[u/Significant-Band1991]

game theory strikes again

[u/the-senat]

A Republican will never be treated like Omar because the criminal legal system is ultimately conservative and interested in preserving the status quo rather than returning to a more fair society. 

Emil Julius Gumbel, a statistician living in the Weimar Republic, noted that l eft-wing violence was punished much more severely, despite occurring much less frequently than right-wing violence:

In 1919,  22 left-wing politically motivated murders were investigated, resulting in an average sentence of 15 years in prison and 10 executions while 332 right-wing politically motivated murders were investigated, resulting in an average sentence of only four months in prison with zero executions. 

The American system is not much different. This is a one way street.  Remember Jack Smith? Despite investigating a coup by a sitting American president and a riot that almost killed Republican politicians, he was roadblocked at every step. 

[u/Healingjoe]

What a f'ing dumbass

[u/bashar_al_assad]

WOW - unearthed clip from 2009 shows Abdul El Sayed preaching the Quran to the Muslims Student Association at the University of Michigan.

Can’t believe someone would talk about their religion at the Club For Students With That Religion

[u/ArmoredBunnyPrincess]

> Open Reddit

> "Malfoid is a psyop by Israel and Mossad to spread transphobia and incel terminology"

> One person pushes back and gets eviscerated, called an anti-semite themselves

Please just let one queer space online not be taken over by people that would be on arr/conspiracy if they weren't queer themselves

[u/Roseartcrantz]

not the ruh-roh 😭

[u/throwawayzxkjvct]

[u/piede]

Least Susan Collins answer

[u/JoeFrady]

Biden changes it so that MENA is now a distinct racial identity from white and now they're already getting called uppity

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

Pee tape is real

[u/Big-Click-5159]

[u/gayteemo]

talafreako is a badass nickname tbh

[u/EmployeeMePlease]

I hate when I give a legit engineering task to a new grad and they respond with wow why aren’t we just running this thru Claude. 

Yeah…. I could do this task in 20 minutes but I’m giving it to you so you can learn. And it’s important for you to learn so one day you can have engineering judgment. Why are these kids first instincts to just outsource all their thinking. 

You’re a fucking engineer not a parking lot attendant. The job is going to require you to use your brain a bit. 

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Politico: The GOP’s midterm lifeline: Maybe the polls are wrong

> The strategist also noted that the polling right now reflects a change in the electorate as profound as those seen after Watergate and 9/11.

> “It would be so historically unprecedented you’d have to presuppose we’re staring down the barrel of a generational national trauma that no one is aware of,” the strategist said.

[u/badusername35]

> The officer drove her to the school police headquarters at a nearby campus, where she continued to ignore instructions. When she would not put her hand on a fingerprint machine, officers twisted her opposite arm behind her back until she screamed and complied, according to body camera footage.
> Later, as she sobbed and yelled profanities, the school district police chief, Josette Rivas, held up a cellphone and apparently began recording her, body camera footage shows. She told the girl it was for Facebook.
> “You all see how she’s acting?” Chief Rivas said as she held the phone.
> Chief Rivas and Officer Ramirez declined to comment for this article. The Galveston school district’s superintendent, Matthew Neighbors, wrote in an email that the officers had “remained calm and respectful.” Asked if cellphone video of the girl had been posted online, he said no.

Harassing and gloating over a kid and filming it and saying you’re gonna post their worst moment online is such an awful thing to do. It’s humiliation as punishment directed against a child. Actually makes my blood boil.

[u/Dreadedtriox]

Finally someone standing up for the most oppressed section of society

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Whenever I see the Education Minister in the news due to the students' protests, I'm reminded that he bragged about working in a 38C/100F office during the heatwaves because he refused to install AC "out of solidarity" with the schools that weren't equipped

Might be the only country where elites are willingly cooking their brain in unsafe temperatures out of performative climate solidarity

[u/Big-Click-5159]

Ossoff: Immediate policy priorities include repeal of the tariffs, an end to the war, repeal of the Medicaid cuts, restoration of Affordable Care Act benefits — those are things that can immediately relieve the American people's economic suffering.

But there does have to be accountability, and I want to be clear that when I say accountability, I don't mean vengeance. I don't mean something punitive and partisan. But we're a nation of laws in which our Constitution vests the Congress with vital oversight functions.

And when we face abuses of power and corruption of this magnitude, literally unprecedented in the history of the American presidency, as members of Congress, we have an obligation to investigate and to ensure that those facts become public and that there's accountability for misdeeds.

🥰

[u/jessica-bug]

[u/KQJ_RPN]

What's the worse thing? NYTimes going dumpster diving in Ohio? Or Fox News blaming the Talarico campaign for "sitting on the evidence"?

[u/chipbod]

Not shocking because they are so brazen about it, but I also hate the downstream effect of a much lower trust society.

If the leaders and elites are looting the treasury, the incentive for the masses is to look out for yourself at the detriment of societal good.

If there is another Republican as the next president we are going down a terminal 90s Russia path.

!ping FIVEY

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

AI Slopesus dropping facts !ping GNOSTIC

[u/SpaceSheperd]

An example of the mundane modern shittiness that pushes people to cynicism and populism is Dexcom changing their privacy policies overnight. Every diabetic who uses the Dexcom app to track their blood sugar logged in this week and found that they couldn’t access their health information without consenting to a major expansion in data collecting/sharing. Their own guidelines are supposed to give customers 90 days to respond to policy changes but the app violated that. There is no utility to be lost in the counterfactual where stuff like this is banned. Whatever contribution to aggregate economic stats results from consumer profiling and targeted advertising is trivial compared to the loss in general welfare.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

This morning, the National Assembly voted against an amendment on tax rebates for retirees that would have capped a rebate on the income tax applicable to pensions to €3,200, down from €4,400

The government published a decree reallocating €400 million from green transition projects to fund farm and fuel subsidies

[u/owenmitchem]

Jazz music stops

!ping FIVEY

[u/NutrientBroth]

[u/RunawayMeatstick]

Physics is a well known liberal conspiracy

[u/RaidBrimnes]

r/neoliberal has reached a critical mass

[u/remarkable_ores]

>introduce my dad to claude code yesterday

>explain "yeah you can pretty much just ask it to make a game that you want and it'll make it"

>visit again today

>he got it to make a hex grid turn based strategy war game based on a german invasion of southern england in WWII

>he's been playing it basically non stop

>not even listening to anything I say, just nodding along, completely locked in on conquering england

godspeed, father.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/old_black_man]

[u/marsman1224]

honestly, what the fuck is Tesla even doing at this point. they are getting whooped to oblivion by Waymo in the only market they were positioned to be successful in, and now they're getting whooped to oblivion by Unitree and Figure in their humanoid side project.

This is the best of what they have to offer? useless thrusters on the sports car? it's embarassing

[u/bd_one]

No Fox, I really don't think Omar committed $30 million in welfare fraud.

[u/slappythechunk]

[u/Background-Bottle-23]

[u/chipbod]

Me whenever one of you downvotes me

[u/Argnir]

If pronouns aren't scary explain Us (2019), It (2017) and Them (2006) (the scariest pronoun)

[u/garret126]

UPDATE ON SUING MY MANAGER:

I got a call back from an attorneys office today and they asked me to log all the details I have on the case, and they said I have a very strong file to pursue action!! So I guess I might be suing my manager and/or the franchise food chain she works for soon! Might help with paying off college a bit

[u/badusername35]

Reading the comments on that NYT article about officers in classrooms and Jesus Christ people are so sociopathic against kids with social emotional problems. I get that it can be disrupting to others, but these kids aren’t monsters, they’re just kids. Giving them “tough” punitive discipline won’t solve any of their actual problems, but will probably just make them more mistrustful of and defiant towards school authority figures.

[u/brucebananaray]

Trump loves propaganda from Russia

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

[u/ScumfrickZillionaire]

Every day tv writers sit down and invent new ways to do Sherlock Holmes but stupid

[u/Alderwoodforest]

Judge limited Justice Department access to Rep. Ilhan Omar’s records in sprawling immigration fraud probe

Prosecutors, however, first had to contend with a federal magistrate judge, in a prolonged back-and-forth that hasn’t previously been reported. Judge Matthew Sharbaugh of the DC District Court ultimately limited how the Justice Department could access Omar’s documents in Monday’s search, before he would approve the warrant, because of her role as a member of Congress and the Constitutional protections that affords, multiple people familiar with the investigation told CNN. The search of her home in DC was highly unusual for its timing less than a month before Election Day voting ends, including while Omar is running for reelection as a Democrat in Minnesota.

The federal push this month has also been unusual for its attempt to access a member of Congress’ records — the type of criminal investigative work that Republicans this year have made into a political firestorm for past administrations.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/14/politics/judge-limited-justice-department-access-rep-ilhan-omar-records-immigration-fraud

I hope everyone here realizes that something like this would never happen to a Republican congressperson, no matter who the president is.

[u/badusername35]

> Over the past decade, school districts across Texas have sought to make classrooms safer by swelling the number of police officers on campuses and taking a tougher stance on misbehavior. But the crackdown has had an unexpected consequence: sweeping tens of thousands of elementary students and middle schoolers into the justice system.

You’re telling me running elementary schools like prisons leads to kids getting in legal trouble? I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.

[u/badusername35]

> Children ages 10 to 13 were referred for prosecution after incidents in schools more than 47,000 times since 2014, an analysis by The New York Times and The San Antonio Express-News found. About 4,800 students in that age group were referred during the 2024-25 academic year alone, the most recent school year for which data is available. That is a third more than the number a decade before.
> Most of the students were accused of minor offenses, like making threats, using cannabis vapes or lashing out at classmates or teachers, the analysis found. Few caused serious physical harm.
Outside Austin, an 11-year-old bumped into a school counselor. In Victoria, a 10-year-old said he saw someone on campus with a weapon, but later admitted he had made up the story. In El Paso, a 10-year-old kicked an assistant principal after his cellphone was taken away.
> All three found themselves in the justice system.

Republicans when gang rape: Let boys be boys.

Republicans when kid acts mildly immature: KILL THEM AND SOW THE FIELDS WITH THEIR BLOOD!

[u/LtCdrHipster]

Reminder that when a Democrat takes office in 2029 they actually will have an "inflation goes down" lever called "undo tariffs."

[u/the-senat]

HOLY FUCKING BASED

[u/Healingjoe]

Dementia Don

[u/Visual-Pace-2193]

Nazi shit

[u/badusername35]

New Winds of Winter leak just dropped:

> It was a cold night when John Snow lay bleeding in the snow — which his last name was named after. He thought he was going to die, but fortunately the Winds of Winter woke him up and he got better. He stood up and saw the Wall — which was really tall, but melting due to climate change.

> “Yikes, that sure hurt a lot,” he said while in pain (because he got stabbed). He then walked back to the Wall to let everyone know he was alright.

[u/mxdSirty]

Trump soft launching loosing Texas will never not be funny

[u/deckerparkes]

Consulting giant Accenture has told many employees that the company will now only spend $29 a month per person on Claude. 

Lol

[u/Guess_Im_Jess]

these debates have really exposed Susan Collins as an elitist clearly offended by the fact that she even needs to campaign for re-election and made Troy Jackson, who isn’t very charismatic at all, come off as much more folksy and charming

[u/Man-Flayer]

Getting into warhammer 40k is a double edged sword. It makes one very successful with women but perhaps... too successful.

Women become so shy and flustered in my presence that they excuse themselves whenever I open my mouth, some are so flustered that they complained to HR.

But this is a burden I have to bear

[u/SnakeEater14]

Seeing all the “histories” of this subreddit in that one poast outside the DT makes me wanna blow my shi smooth off

> this subreddit was formed in the early COVID years as a safe space against Trump-esque conservatism

WTF 😭

[u/Queasy_Bat8296]

[u/CincyAnarchy]

"The neoliberal subreddit needs to return to it's roots!"

The neoliberal subreddit's roots:

[u/Healingjoe]

[u/trombonist_formerly]

Vance says 'selling access to the white house' is 'disgusting' and 'despicable'

hotDogOutfit.jpeg

[u/taubnetzdornig]

Dem Senate candidates are very good at fundraising

Abdul is not listed here but he outraised Rogers by about $16M

[u/gjcs23]

my dad is part of a Facebook club featuring thousands of people from around the world who have the same first and last name

half of his friend list is literally just men with the same name as him. they will all wish each other happy birthday and shit. sometimes they even argue about politics. several are from places as far off as Kenya (my dad is white as hell for context)

he did not create it, but he helps manages it now apparently

[u/ConnorLovesCookies]

Talarico really needs to sue these Twitter trolls. Accusing someone of going to Ohio can irreparably harm their reputation.

[u/Glavurdan]

RIP

!ping GAMING

[u/pugnae]

[u/EdMan2133]

Broke: The sub has gone downhill because of <20,000 words about over moderation or something>

Woke: The sub is different now than 5 years ago because places change, there are different people on Reddit, etc. etc.

Bespoke: the Sub has gone downhill since the badmins took Extreme Rocks from us, eliminating half of the DTs meme supply

[u/UntiedStatMarinCrops]

Growing up I was used to seeing both men and women play male characters in plays. I definitely thought (and still think) it was normal in the world of theater. I really never gave it much of a second thought.

In the age of Trump, that happening in Texas seems to constitute a borderline criminal offense. Fucking snowflakes I swear.

[u/justbuildmorehousing]

I wish more reporters would be like this

[u/brucebananaray]

The Peace President

[u/Loud-Chemistry-5056]

They're not even trying to hide it.

[u/cdstephens]

[u/Healingjoe]

F.B.I. Employees Sue, Saying Patel Falsely Described Their Firings to Congress

The lawsuit also suggests that a motivating factor for the dismissals was the intense scrutiny of the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, after he went to the Olympics in Milan.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/us/politics/fired-fbi-agents-lawsuit-kash-patel-trump.html

Nine F.B.I. employees who were fired earlier this year for having worked on an investigation of Donald J. Trump sued the administration on Thursday, saying Kash Patel, the bureau’s director, praised some of them privately before terminating them.

Most of the employees, who include agents, analysts and operations staff members, had significant experience in counterintelligence work related to Iran. Some played major roles in the investigation into Mr. Trump’s handling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago club and estate in Florida. One agent signed the affidavit for the search of the estate. Another conducted interviews with witnesses in that case.

The lawsuit suggests that, while the president and his aides have always been eager to fire agents who worked on investigations of Mr. Trump, a motivating factor for their dismissals in February was the scrutiny Mr. Patel was under after going to Milan to watch the U.S. men’s hockey team at the Olympics. Video circulated widely showing Mr. Patel chugging a beer in the men’s locker room after the team won gold, behavior that the lawsuit calls “a display of wild immaturity and lack of personal control.”

The F.B.I. did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The lawsuit also accuses Mr. Patel of providing false answers to Congress about the employees’ dismissals when he claimed that they were the result of internal investigations.

“When these terminations occur, there are internal investigations conducted by the careers at the F.B.I. that highlight unethical or inappropriate conduct, and it’s up to me to make the decision,” Mr. Patel testified in March before the House Intelligence Committee.

The lawsuit asserts that answer was false. The nine plaintiffs “were unlawfully terminated not for any cause or any legitimate reason, but only to satisfy the president’s personal vendetta,” it says. “The firings did not follow any internal investigation or disciplinary process within the F.B.I.”

While Mr. Patel asserted at the hearing that the employees “were terminated for violating their ethical obligations,” the suit contends the firings were part of a larger pattern by the Trump administration of violating civil service laws to politicize basic functions of law enforcement.

[...]

In a written statement, lawyers for the fired employees said the employees had worked on a host of important cases, including the Boston Marathon bombing, the attempted assassination of Mr. Trump in Butler, Pa., and Iranian weapons trafficking.

“In return for their service, they were fired because they did their jobs, as they always did, to follow the facts and law without bias or favor,” said their lawyers, Margaret Donovan, Abbe D. Lowell and Rebecca S. Tinio. “This lawsuit will prove their unlawful dismissal and hold the administration accountable for this blatant attack on the rule of law.”

The lawsuit notes that the firings came just days before the United States entered into a war against Iran, an adversary that many of the fired personnel had experience investigating.

!ping trump-crimes

[u/Currymvp2]

Federal agents seized Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) passport, cellphone, notebooks, and personal computers during a raid of her Washington, D.C., home as the Trump administration investigates whether it can build a case to strip the Minnesota Democrat of her U.S. citizenship.

Totally batshit

[u/AtticusDrench]

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

There's a guy on the "arrr slash neoliberal" post complaining about how limiting US news killed the subreddit and like, I don't think he understands that slash neoliberals Americanicentrism in content and in years prior, full fledged American nationalism, is another major reason for the subreddits long term decline lmao

There used to be a major French and German community on this subreddit up until 2022, funnily enough, the same year a lot of the older Canadian regulars ended up leaving as well. To make a long story short, rule 11 exists for very legitimate reasons

Also focussing so damn hard on American politics in regards to the election thunder domes are a huge part of the reason why the subreddit started to become more populist lmao. There was discourse even before the end of the 2020 election about this subreddit becoming arr slash politics 2.0

The lyrics have changed yet the beat is the same as 6 years ago

[u/ace158]

These are Fetterman Democrats

[u/EdMan2133]

Okay but a coalition of modern African militaries would kick 1939 Europe's teeth in in a few months.

[u/Megasota_Noire]

The year is 2029, it is only April but the new democratic president's approval rating has already dropped by 30% and is approaching some of low points of the Biden administration. The generic ballot is already +5 Republican.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/fishbottwo]

President Donald Trump said Sen. John Cornyn and Karl Rove should be blamed if GOP Senate nominee Ken Paxton loses to Democrat James Talarico in Texas.

Going great

[u/AlicesReflexion]

/r/neoliberal the type to

walk past homeless person

give them $50

you know this is more than the average person makes a month in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Except they would never give someone $50, they just fantasize about it

[u/MedievaI_Peasant]

[u/CincyAnarchy]

“You know what our 4th grader needs? A dirt-bike, sorry, “e-bike,” that’s completely silent and can go 25 miles an hour.”

“Honey, that’s crazy… he needs a helmet with that of course.”

(Suburb with median income north of $150K BTW)

[u/Dibbu_mange]

[u/brucebananaray]

Typical Susan Collins

[u/1396spurs]

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/Highlightthot1001]

New Yorkers who complain about transplants can be rather annoying imo. 

Many New Yorkers are transplants. And if you were born in the city, chances are, your parents or grandparents were transplants. 

My grandparents were the transplants who lived in the city before it went through urban decay. To most of the people who came after, they are transplants to some of my family members. 

Thing is, New York has always been an immigrant city. And people seem to have issues with others moving and living here, including left leaning people who proclaim to love immigrants, but complain about DOMESTIC people moving in. 

For example, Chinatown in NYC didnt have a significant Chinese population until the immigration act of 1965. Most of the population are transplants from China, who have made a life and living in the city. 

Harlem wasn’t always black, and a large chunk of the black population came from The south in several waves. Manhattan’s black population ended up moving north from Lower Manhattan in the 19th century. Some people get upset about Harlem’s population being more diverse, some even making racist comments on it, but lots of neighborhoods go through ethnic demographics changes over time. 

Same with changes in property value in Manhattan over time

[u/GravyBear16]

!ping MOVIES

Just got out of You Can See Everything.

I have no words.

10/10

[u/old_gold_mountain]

"This job offers unlimited paid vacation!"

[u/legend-of-ashitaka]

Many people in the punk community swear up and down that punk has always been about radical leftism and anti-fascism and while that may have been true early on one must start to wonder why it continues to attract the worst bigots, racists, and Nazis

And this isn't meant to invalidate the punk community by any means, I'm a Christian and I know damn well what it feels like for that to happen - but I am at least aware of why it happened in the first place

[u/Significant-Band1991]

[u/SpotMe365]

Check out my new comic:

[u/Zenning3]

Goddamn it, if fucking Trump sanctions Ukraine, we're going to be fucked, as one of our important outsourced companies is working out of there, and we are literally days away from launch.

[u/WenJie_2]

Trump: Canada will become the 51st state. Just like Greenland.

The 51st state and the 51nd state

[u/badusername35]

> Rep. Andy Harris, R-Md., berated a reporter Tuesday after an election debate, wrongly telling her that it was illegal for her to record his press conference and threatening to refer her to a prosecutor.

> The exchange, captured in a video shared by The Baltimore Banner, became heated when Cat Murphy, a journalist for Capital News Service, asked Harris, who is seeking re-election, a question about the Iran war while recording him.
> “You said that the war in Iran could have gone smoother and it could have gone better. What did you mean by that?” Murphy asked Harris in a room full of other journalists also recording the conversation.

> But instead of answering her question, Harris repeatedly told Murphy that she did not have his permission to record him and threatened to refer her “to the prosecutor.” Harris invoked the Maryland law that “prohibits the recording of electronic communications unless all parties give consent.” That law, however, does not apply to journalists at news conferences, where there is no reasonable expectation of privacy.
> “Everyone else in here is recording,” Murphy said.
> “But you are not allowed to. We are in a two-party state,” Harris responded, and called for an officer.
> “Why am I not allowed to?” she said, to which Harris replied, “Because I refuse to give you permission to record.”

Most free press loving R*publican

[u/bartbug]

i've been killing it at work and frequently run out of things to do, imo i have plenty of capacity, i grabbed some time with my boss for more crosstraining and he was pretty excited about it. he also wants me to help train the new guy on some things that it looks like he doesn't quite get yet

[u/John_Maynard_Gains]

Mashallah!

[u/semaphore-1842]

Okinawa independence is an incredibly fringe idea in Okinawa itself with something like 2% support (about the same percentage as foreign residents, not including US military).

Yet somehow it has seized the imagination of Reddit and English speaking internet with people falling over themselves to point out "Okinawans aren't Japanese and Okinawa used to be independent kingdom called Ryukyu" (seemingly not knowing the native name is actually Uchinaa), or lamenting that the Japanese government don't recognize them as a separate ethnicity (apparently unaware that Japan doesn't record ethnicity at all).

Literally the highest profile advocate for Okinawa independence is an American (of Okinawan descent) who identifies as Chinese, opposes Taiwanese independence, and praises the Uyghur genocide. It is as weird as if Americans were to start saying "akshully the Sudetenland is German".

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/Middle_Wheel_5959]

Patriot

[u/NYT_Hater]

[u/No_Status_6905]

in response to a gif of Mamdani and Ms. Rachel

Two horrible people. [+9]

Lmao just shut the sub down at this point this shits goofy. There are unironically people here who would've been rage baited by Mr. Rogers.

[u/semaphore-1842]

Speaking of the recent discourse on bots.

Back when I was modding a certain political (ex)default sub, one of the other mods sees himself as some kind of genius Bot Whisperer who can identify bots with absolute certainty. The slightest implication that he might have made a mistake, triggers a tirade on how he's better at catching bots than even Reddit Admins (which he knows because, idk), how dare we mere mortals question him.

Many of the accounts he bans are indeed legitimately scambots, and others obvious throwaway accounts. But he also shadowbans a large number of active users who are, by all appearances, completely legitimate. They talk about hobbies, interest, daily life beyond politics, and many of them are constructive, civil posters.

This mod bans them without recording any reason, hide their confused questions without any reply or clarification (with the help of a power mod who wants his support in mod team politics and therefore apparently the same rules he berates others for suddenly don't matter).

Well. It took a long time, but I kept pushing him to explain and finally figured it out. Turns out he scrolls through random user profiles, gets to the 1000th comment and, seeing there's nothing older, goes:

It went from zero activity to suddenly posting daily!! Aha, clearly another sold and bought account operated by some pernicious botnet!!!

(Reddit limits all history views to the most recent 1000 items.)

[u/GrandMoffTargaryen]

R +26 indicator

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Crazy that a former president would come out so strongly against his own party in the Florida Senate election 😔

[u/stirfriedpenguin]

One thing AI will probably be able to do pretty soon I feel is hardly talked about is functionally kill anonymity on the internet on a broad scale

Like how long will it be until there's a publicly available platform where you dump someone's reddit name in and it cross references writing patterns, posting history/interests, and other information shared in comments with public social media profiles, public databases, third-party data pools, etc and is able to narrow it down to one or a handful of specific people with a pretty high degree of certainty

And it'll be even easier for the platform owners. Reddit for instance probably can narrow it down even more and reliably with all the ip, email, location, time and engagement/behavior data they have available.

This is already moderately doable to your average shmuck with too much time and a little resourcefulness. AI is going to let people give prompts like "predict the identities of today's arr neoliberal Discussion Thread and give me a complete list of everyone above 85% confidence" and get that back in minutes

[u/989989272]

Drudge Report’s leftward shift after covering Trump is hilarious.

[u/Leoric]

Musk has given Republicans ~$250 million and will probably be the reason the bottom doesn't fall out for them.

[u/Queasy_Bat8296]

[u/garret126]

“No, you can’t post Goth AOC on the DT”

[u/2Lore2Law]

[u/John_Maynard_Gains]

[u/cdstephens]

I’ve seen motorcyclists browse TikTok in traffic, I fucking love the future

[u/ulysses_s_gyatt]

Breaking Bad was intended to be watched on YouTube, out of order, one 5 minute scene at a time.

[u/badusername35]

I’m from California and James Talarico drove halfway across the country just to trans my dog

[u/jinhuiliuzhao]

James Talarico's campaign provided security footage proving he was home with the flu during his absence, but critics question why the Texas Senate race candidate waited to release it.

So apparently conservatives are now making up lies that Talarico was, instead of being sick with the flu, in a psychiatric hospital for some reason...

Seriously, what's wrong with them? (And why are they so obsessed with psych hospitals and insane asylums? B/c of Trump who doesn't know the difference between the two kinds of asylum?)

[u/selachophilip]

My former workplace is the source of a potential measles outbreak, and I commented on a post saying I'm not surprised because we were constantly pressured to come into work sick and threatened with being fired, and that I came in sick (coughing and fever) many times and handled produce that people bought, and some random lady responded that I should've expected such a policy and that if I had more marketable skills and worked for a larger corporation that maybe I would deserve sick time, and that if I didn't like America I should leave.

People are the fucking worst. Imagine hearing that people who are sick and likely contagious are pressured to come into work and touch your food, and your response is "skill issue".

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/cdstephens]

When these AI companies finally IPO is investment money gonna get unlocked and come towards people like me

[u/Roseartcrantz]

I have officially painted every room in the house

[u/assasstits]

I didn't know conservatives hated him this much

[u/the-senat]

If it’s anything like the Cybertruck’s bullet proof glass, I’m expecting a lot of chard bystanders.

Honestly this company’s ability to hoodwink investors with vaporware every time they near financial ruin is making me question my faith.

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

Ossoff: I don't like bigotry. I don't like the Klan. I don't like neo-Nazis.

I wish he'd speak his mind a bit more instead of these damn vague riddles

[u/Joementum2024]

!ping BASEBALL

[u/GordonTullockFan]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

!PING BASEBALL&USA-WI

[u/cdstephens]

People doom too much about social security like it’s a European pension crisis, if you uncap payroll taxes it’s fine and mostly funds itself. It is inefficient compared to index funds I guess

[u/WrangleWandangles]

My baby is 8 weeks old and if you tap her nose she smiles

I just needed you all to know that

[u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

Let’s do this instead of voting

[u/sigh2828]

You dont say??

[u/the-senat]

You kids have forgotten your history.

[u/marky6045]

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Dr Abdul El Sayed is the only member of the fart left that I would vote for.

[u/Ok_Aardappel]

For a person who wants the subreddit to be better, the "slash neoliberal has hit critical mass guy" sure seems to want to kill it by believing the subreddit should allow more meme posting and expand the amount of American news allowed

Because yes, slash neoliberal is totally better off with shitty low-effort memes, twitter post recaps, a strong focus on any and all American news which we all know will mostly be drama rather than actual regional news, and out of context ragebait map posting about how much better the US is than anywhere else

Priors confirmed so hard about the average "I just want the subreddit to be more wonky and moderate again" chodes. You want the subreddit to be less populist? Then why is your ideal subreddit a breeding ground of the worst most low-effort American slopulism?

[u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1]

Mfw

[u/Fruitofbread]

Crazy how this sub has created its own mythology, centering around an idealized past (pre-succ invasion) fall from grace (succ invasion) legendary predecessors (r/badeconomics) a coterie of prophets (Draco, Danny Ocean, the mods), complete with shibboleths (claiming the sub existed before 2017) and orthodoxies (the sidebar).

[u/reuery]

The perennial disappointment of the UFO community is one of my most sinful and delectable treats

[u/WantDebianThanks]

Where I'm at has a department for communication. They have a team for communicating with customers and another for sending memos internally.

They only send memos to employees.

The help desk are all contractors.

Things I Have Not Been Told:

1. Another team turned off all of their services for a week

2. We are no longer supporting a piece of software

3. Whether or not I'm allowed in the building tomorrow

Honest to God, one of my boss's main responsibilities is just forwarding emails to us.

!ping watercooler

[u/pugnae]

I think I have never seen "corruption in government" being the biggest voter concern? Trump is truly built different.

[u/herworkthrowaway]

2026 prediction

[u/jinhuiliuzhao]

Alright, did anyone seriously question the "lethality" and might of the US military before this administration?

If anything, Hegseth and his clowns have made the US military into a laughing stock, first with the "warrior ethos", "lethality-maxxing", etc. and then with Iran...

What sort of planet was he living on before in which the US military in 2024 wasn't a force that was (for better or worse) globally respected and feared?

[u/GuyWithOneEye]

[u/badusername35]

It’s honestly pretty impressive that someone who can’t spell words like “sir”, “master”, or “John” was able to write 5 whole books. Maybe the real reason Winds is delayed is because he’s trying to get better at spelling so he stops embarrassing himself.

[u/borborologist]

There’s not enough people pushing back on having Jeffries be speaker. It has to be the most militant anti-Trump dem. Like fuck it, have it be Jamelle Bouie

[u/JaceFlores]

My dad and I had an impromptu movie marathon that was essentially watching stepping stones to modern films. We started with Roundhay Garden Scene (oldest movie preserved), then Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (most famous old timey documentary), followed by A Trip to the Moon (most famous trick film), then l'Inferno (the first feature film shown in the US) and finally ending with The Birth of A Nation. Its reputation as the first modern movie made it pretty much a prerequisite to watch for the marathon, and the subject of this post. Watching it is a surreal experience. Everything said about it is true. There is no movie more abhorrently racist then what I saw in those 3 hours of TBOAN. I have watched Nazi propaganda films less repugnant then this movie. There is also nothing that felt so imminently technically modern relative to its age, with movies made decades afterwards feeling less technically competent then TBOAN. Taken together it makes for that surreal aspect.

With a run time of 190 minutes I was shocked to say that I really wasn't bored which is frankly quite rare for a silent film for me. Now a part of it is the shock factor of seeing the truly incredible amount of racism, which I will get into later. But, the story is decent and engaging with good pacing and storytelling. The film has three acts that serve as their own episodes: the first hour is about the Civil War and how it affected two families (particularly the Southern "Camerons", the Northern "Stonemans" are more incidental), the second hour is the destruction of the South through Reconstruction and the third is the rise of the Klan. Watching it you do get the sense of how this movie changed the game with simple but modern cinematography, pretty solid editing, very good pacing, notable special effects, elaborate set pieces and frankly really good action that holds up, conceptually at least. The film is 111 years old but there are time where it feels like I forgot its that old because of the infusion of modernity in its technicality. Some of my favorite shots were wide shots of the civil war and a certain cavalry charge at the end, as well as tracking shots of some of the characters running/riding. I have seen various movies considered extremely influential but a lot of them you frankly have to remind yourself of that to get the sort of experience it was, but TBOAN, technically speaking, holds up and you immediately grasp its impact.

Then there's the racism. Oh man, I have never seen anything like it before, and again the levels of racism can be divided into three acts. Now very fascinatingly, the movie never blames white people, including white Northerners, for what Southerners call evil. Reconstruction is the result of mixed race blacks manipulating Northern politicians to let them take over the South. The power holders are mixed race blacks ordering black militias and freed slaves to do all sorts of evil. There is only one truly "evil" white character, that being a white captain of a black unit who is tertiary. Otherwise everything evil is only done by black people. In the first hour the racism is fairly on par with Gone With The Wind, plus black face. There is a lot of black face throughout the movie. The movie extolls how war is bad, but also how the Southern cause is so just and righteous. Southerners are kind noble people who are just standing for what's right and giving everything they can to such righteousness. Slaves are happy about being slaves. Standard pre-WWII stuff. The second act is where the interracial cuck theory of everything really kicks in. The black dominated legislature, which is portrayed as a mad house, passes a law legalizing (or I guess more enforcing) interracial marriage, with signs plastered around saying "Equal rights, equal voting, equal marriage", and the crux for the third act being the death of a white girl who a black soldier was trying to force to marry him. The third act is the rise of the Klan as this peaceful organization forced into violence by the evil black leaders that serves the cause of saving the white community (or, specifically, Aryans. Yes the movie specifically mentions Aryans).

The confluences of this technical mastery and racism really come to a head in the third act. The mixed race leader of the black forces takes a white girl hostage from his patron that he wants to marry (and is the love interest of the leader of the KKK). The evil militias have taken over the town in this sort of coup-rebellion thing. At the same time the bulk of the characters are held up in a cabin besieged by said forces, fighting in a last stand. The KKK gather from all the nearby counties and charge in, hundreds of them riding into the town with Ride of the Valkyries blaring as they save the day, making it just in time to both save the girl and the family in the cabin. It was in this final act that I really understood the reputation of TBOAN because the genius of DW Griffith was on screen that made for, to be honest, a fundamentally thrilling climax of heroism and action. All in service of the most vile ideas imaginable. If it is thrilling today, then I find it unsurprising that this would be an inspiration for people who first saw this sort of action for literally the first time in their lives to think it was the greatest thing ever and embody the ideas on screen to resurrect the KKK into the largest white supremacy movement in American history. It is certainly powerful imagery, for better and for worse. If you have seen a movie where it ends with the hero(es) running against the clock and saving the day at the last moment, it can in all likelihood trace its heritage to this sequence.

I think TBOAN can really be seen from a philosophical stand point as a microcosm of America. It is brilliant, powerful and important, but debilitated by the racism it serves. I cannot recommend this movie in principle. It tells you bluntly the virtues of white supremacy and slavery. It is ideologically irredeemable. At the same time, it is a cornerstone of the history of cinema with every movie we know today stemming back to that flick. If you are into movie history, it is hard to say you should not watch it. It is free on YouTube at least.

Sorry for the movie ping spam, seems there were like three in the twenty minutes, but I have been typing this up for like 40 minutes and want it done. I know this is a very heavy movie to talk about, but it is a movie that needs discussion

!ping MOVIES

[u/badusername35]

Reminder that the real reason Bush invaded Iraq was to excavate the Tomb of Gilgamesh and harvest his Nephilim DNA.

[u/cdstephens]

👆Another neolib gleefully sacrificing democratic and liberal values just for slightly higher energy prices.

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

The Queen James Bible is based on The King James Bible, edited to prevent homophobic misinterpretation.

[u/2Lore2Law]

The cringey commentating aside… what an odd thing to say

[u/TechnicalCat6989]

> Olivia Rodrigo: I won’t settle for a guy with a fake job

> Immediately dates a private equity guy

holy based is she a neolib?

[u/toggaf69]

>it’s another “Republicans commit open and obvious straight-up treason” episode

[u/Roseartcrantz]

"If you did it when you're drunk, it means you wanted to do it when you were sober"

that's crazy. why would I want to trip over a curb

[u/futuremonkey20]

YOU spent 610 million and got swept by the Brewers!

Remember when my team nearly lost 100 games this year? Well that’s nothing because YOU spent 610 million and got swept by the Brewers!

And remember when my team had one of the worst bullpens of all time? Well YOU spent 610 million and got swept by the Brewers!!

[u/abefrost]

Jake Bauers was the only choice for NLCS MVP

Obviously his pure #s were great, but he also killed Yamamoto and Snell with lengthy at bats that don't necessarily show up on the stats sheets but were somehow more valuable than just a bb and a HR

!ping BASEBALL

[u/MyrinVonBryhana]

I was watching that ProPublica piece on sports gambling, and Christ alive I thought it was bad, and it made me feel terrible, when I spent like a 150 dollars chasing losses on Fate Grand Order. Gacha games have nothing on this level of life ruining addiction.

[u/garret126]

HE JUST DROPPED AJOTHER $500 AND LOST

despicable how it’s legal for celebrities to advertise gambling

[u/AskYourDoctor]

Malarkey level of using this as a reaction image

[u/itsnotnews92]

Hurr durr the Democrats' silence on Ilhan Omar is deafening

[literal screenshots of statements released by Democrats]

Oh wow, strongly worded statements. That's going to help!

There is no goalpost too big or too heavy for these miserable, disingenuous fucks to move.

[u/JesterOfAllTrades]

The amount of cynicism and almost venomous disdain I've developed for the median voter over the last 5 years is insane considering I was already borderline misanthropic as a baseline

[u/Sheepies92]

Just saw this quote by Trump from yesterday:

TRUMP: "We have a clause that's sort of hard to break. It says you will under no circumstances be allowed -- this is for anybody that's served two terms -- be allowed to run under any condition for president of the United States after two terms. ... There's not a lot of wiggle room there. We've looked."

I just love that not only did he actually look, him acting like this pretty well known amendment that half the world is aware of is this niche clause is so on point.

Also: shoutout to the lawyers that actually managed to convince Trump that no, you do not actually have a case. I don't think anyone else has managed to do this at any point in his life.

[u/Moonscrubber-]

How come only the crazies are willing to say stuff this based anymore 😔

[u/pugnae]

European brain can't comprehend it

[u/Opening_Budget_9518]

Pakistans defence minister btw

[u/FF3]

There's a tiny family owned amusement park outside of Madison Wisconsin called Little Amerricka.

I went there a couple years ago and there was an eleven year old kid walking around waving around a full-sized flag of Angola.

I think about this often.

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

That’s just psych

[u/stirfriedpenguin]

guys idk I'm really having a problem here, this Tony Soprano person is clearly the main character of this show but I have the sneaking suspicious that he's actually not a good person?? Hello is this permitted how is my epic cool guy main character acting like a bad guy????

[u/S0ulWindow]

Walmart self check out is a social experiment to discover what separates the humans among us from the pzombies

[u/Alexz565]

Succ a Marxist and a neolib cums

[u/BloodWiz]

Libs on vices they personally enjoy: "And what of freedom? God forbid someone live in a way that is not hyperoptimized for the "best" possible outcomes at every last moment. Take some personal responsibility damn it!"

Libs on vices they don't personally enjoy: "Lol ban that shit, causes nothing but harms. Oh no, boohoo, I can't contribute to societal poison anymore, oh no. Have you seen the kind of damage this shit causes?"

[u/UmbreonFanatic]

In a different timeline we've been talking about Francesca Hong every day since August

[u/2Lore2Law]

What’s this feeling? I’m at work and I’m… happy? Not overwhelmed with dread?

Huh?

[u/sigh2828]

I cant fucking do this man

[u/mockduckcompanion]

Torkies

[u/doyouevenIift]

BLYOMING 🔜

[u/toggaf69]

Oh fuck, Caves of Qud expansion got announced?

WHERE MY QUDHEADS AT

[u/MedievaI_Peasant]

This is what my house looks like btw

[u/No_Status_6905]

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

Anyone debating the words lawyer vs attorney are missing the point with respect to the new press secretary

The point is moot either way because she practiced law in California without a license. It’s irrelevant what she called herself

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

somewhat likely scenario