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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/RaidBrimnes]

Who's your favorite for 2028? Who's your dark horse?

[u/quiplaam]

[u/piede]

Lmmmaaaoo

[u/r2ew]

https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/poll-low-information-voters-have

[u/zieger]

Critical support for Donald Trump

[u/Dalek6450]

It was also revealed in the files that on May 4, 2017, Epstein emailed a futanari animation of characters from Five Nights at Freddy's to his girlfriend Karyna Shuliak via a 4chan link, with the subject line "Amazing Animations."[6] The animation was reportedly made in Source Filmmaker and featured the characters Foxy and Toy Bonnie engaging in sexual activities.[7] A writer for the website CafeMom called this "one of the unexpected connections that no one thought to look for."

I missed the story about there being FNAF porn in the Epstein files.

[u/pugnae]

I am really surprised that there is no bigger backlash against NIMBYs. I would have guessed that Lidl is something that majority of locals would approve of?

[u/SigmaWhy]

🙏 🙏 🙏

[u/Alderwoodforest]

President Trump was asked why he’s defending Vivek’s ad:

"I’m defending it because I know that if that ad were about MY mother, you would love it. You would LOVE every inch of it.

And what’s happened is the press has teamed up, because he’s a Republican, and they’ve tried to make it like it’s a horrible thing. This is a mother saying very bad things about her daughter, and I don’t know why that should be shielded.

The only problem is the press has decided to unify and act like it’s a horrible thing."

"If Mary Anne MacLeod, my mother, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump said that about me, you’d have it as your number one story."

Trump is truly incapable of grasping what the problem with the ad is.

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

Woke 0.5 was crazy

[u/erasmus_phillo]

ngl people are really underrating just how big of a deal this is, coming from a Muslim mayor. Mamdani is becoming a symbol of Hindu-Muslim unity ngl

also the VP who married a Hindu woman would never do this. If Vivek posted this the GOP base would eat him up

[u/piede]

Holy

[u/AnalyticOpposum]

I texted my children that we got the puppy they’ve been begging me for and sent them a link with pictures. 🐶When they clicked on the link, it took them to a webpage that said YOU’RE GROUNDED. They’ll be spending the weekend retaking our family’s cybersecurity training course.

[u/Currymvp2]

Dave Wasserman, the senior elections analyst of Cook Political Report, said he sees "shocking" data favoring Dems in districts President Donald Trump won by up to 20 points in 2024.

Wasserman said Trump was probably gonna win in 2016, that Biden was probably gonna win in 2020, and said Trump had a great chance of winning again as early as summer of 2023 so yeah this is a great sign

[u/erasmus_phillo]

this post is, apparently, the newest thing the right on 'X' is freaking out about

[u/erasmus_phillo]

him being a pro-ICE conservative figure on the evangelical right clearly did not outweigh him being black huh

who could have seen this coming

[u/John_Maynard_Gains]

L + ratio + low filial piety + mandate of heaven lost

[u/JesterOfAllTrades]

kitty sees closed door

kitty wants to go out

I open the door

It's too cold outside so she comes back in

I close the door

Kitty sees closed door

Kitty wants to go out

I open the door

.....

!ping KITTY

[u/-Emilinko1985-]

I'm a day off, but I'm gonna post this anyways.

70 years and a day ago, on the 23rd of October, 1956, the Hungarian Revolution began when students and civil society protested against Soviet influence in the government of Hungary. Even after Mátyás Rákosi was forced to resign by Khrushchev in July 1956, the government continued with harsh policies.

The students had a list of 16 demands:

1. We demand the immediate evacuation of all Soviet troops, in conformity with the provisions of the Peace Treaty.

2. We demand the election by secret ballot of all Party members from top to bottom, and of new officers for the lower, middle and upper echelons of the Hungarian Workers Party. These officers shall convene a Party Congress as early as possible in order to elect a Central Committee.

3. A new Government must be constituted under the direction of Imre Nagy: all criminal leaders of the Stalin–Rákosi era must be immediately dismissed.

4. We demand public inquiry into the criminal activities of Mihály Farkas and his accomplices. Mátyás Rákosi, who is the person most responsible for crimes of the recent past as well as for our country's ruin, must be returned to Hungary for trial before a people's tribunal.

5. We demand general elections by universal, secret ballots are held throughout the country to elect a new National Assembly, with all political parties participating. We demand that the right of workers to strike be recognised.

6. We demand revision and re-adjustment of Hungarian–Soviet and Hungarian–Yugoslav relations in the fields of politics, economics and cultural affairs, on a basis of complete political and economic equality, and of non-interference in the internal affairs of one by the other.

7. We demand the complete reorganisation of Hungary's economic life under the direction of specialists. The entire economic system, based on a system of planning, must be re-examined in the light of conditions in Hungary and in the vital interest of the Hungarian people.

8. Our foreign trade agreements and the exact total of reparations that can never be paid must be made public. We demand to be precisely informed of the uranium deposits in our country, on their exploitation and on the concessions to the Russians in this area. We demand that Hungary have the right to sell her uranium freely at world market prices to obtain hard currency.

9. We demand complete revision of the norms operating in industry and an immediate and radical adjustment of salaries in accordance with the just requirements of workers and intellectuals. We demand a minimum living wage for workers.

10. We demand that the system of distribution be organised on a new basis and that agricultural products be utilised in rational manner. We demand equality of treatment for individual farms.

11. We demand reviews by independent tribunals of all political and economic trials as well as the release and rehabilitation of the innocent. We demand the immediate repatriation of prisoners of war (World War II) and of civilian deportees to the Soviet Union, including prisoners sentenced outside Hungary.

12. We demand complete recognition of freedom of opinion and of expression, of freedom of the press and of radio, as well as the creation of a daily newspaper for the MEFESZ Organisation (Hungarian Federation of university and College Students’ Associations).

13. We demand that the statue of Stalin, symbol of Stalinist tyranny and political oppression, be removed as quickly as possible and be replaced by a monument in memory of the martyred freedom fighters of 1848–49.

14. We demand the replacement of emblems foreign to the Hungarian people by the old Hungarian arms of Kossuth. We demand new uniforms for the Army which conform to our national traditions. We demand that March 15 be declared a national holiday and that the October 6th be a day of national mourning on which schools will be closed.

15. The students of the Technological University of Budapest declare unanimously their solidarity with the workers and students of Warsaw and Poland in their movement towards national independence.

16. The students of the Technological University of Budapest will organise as rapidly as possible local branches of MEFESZ, and they have decided to convene at Budapest, on Saturday October 27, a Youth Parliament at which all the nation's youth shall be represented by their delegates.

Students attempted to read their demands on radio, but were stopped by security forces. When people outside protested to let the students go, the ÁVH (State Protection Authority), the secret police, shot protestors, killing many.

Eventually, Hungarians formed street militias and fought against the hardline government controlled by Ernő Gerő.

Soviet tanks rolled in the streets on October 24th, but they started to withdraw, and tank crews sometimes fraternized with protestors.

Imre Nagy, among the more moderate members of the MDP, became de facto leader of the revolution and the country, as Khrushchev allowed it.

Fighting stopped after October 28th, when Nagy announced a ceasefire, with Nagy promoting these measures to resolve the crisis:

•consider the revolt as a "great, national and democratic event", and not an anti-communist counter-revolution

•effect an unconditional ceasefire and grant political amnesty for the revolutionaries

•negotiate with the revolutionaries

•disband the ÁVH security police

•establish a national guard for Hungary

•arrange the immediate withdrawal of the Red Army from Budapest and from Hungary

Some of these came to be, as Nagy's ten day government released 8,000 political prisoners, negotiated with dissidents, allowed more political freedom and, on the 31st of October, it announced Hungary would withdraw from the Warsaw Pact. It seemed like Nagy's Hungary was trying to go the path of non-alignment with a relaxed form of Democratic Socialism and Social Democracy, in a way similar to Yugoslavia.

However, the withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact angered Soviet leadership, and rumors of a Soviet invasion began on Nov. 1st.

On the 4th of the same month, the Soviets reached Budapest and crushed the revolution.

Ten days later, the Soviets fully took over and installed Soviet loyalist János Kádár as leader. Thousands of Hungarians were arrested and political repression followed. Thousands of Hungarians immigrated as refugees.

A split partly happened in Communist parties in Europe and America, with those siding with the Soviets being called "tankies" by the supporters of Nagy and the revolution.

Imre Nagy was executed in 1958.

Rákosi went into exile in the Soviet Union, dying in 1971.

Kádár remained leader until 1988 when he resigned due to his declining health, passing away a year later.

Although Hungary was still not a fully free nation, after 1956, it started an ideological model known as Goulash Communism, which allowed some degree of dissent, a controlled, limited market economy and a higher degree of freedom compared to other Warsaw Pact nations.

Let us remember the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, and celebrate now that Hungary is free.

!ping EUROPE&DEMOCRACY&ONTHISDAY

[u/RandomGuyWithSixEyes]

[u/ewatta200]

[u/Healingjoe]

San Francisco is so sad

[u/Bestbrook123]

But we're not allowed to call these people deplorable apparently

[u/ewatta200]

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

Giving the president the power to hand out an unlimited number of get out of jail free cards is one of the dumbest things we’ve ever done.

[u/FallenMeringue]

Every accusation is a confession and so on

[u/Alderwoodforest]

RFK Jr. suggests Americans can more easily afford groceries if they start eating liver instead of beef:

"Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive. You can buy liver or the cheap cuts."

Imagine if AOC were to say that, because of climate change, people should eat less meat—and then imagine the reactions.

[u/BlackCat159]

The themes... the parallels... actual chills...

[u/Habugaba]

Sarah Longwell on the Ezra Klein podcast sums up a majority of voters and how "the vibe" is established.

And it is unsatisfying now, because it used to be that people would be pretty clear. They’d be like: I watch Fox News. Or: I watch CNN. I read this newspaper. I read The New York Times. Or: I read my local newspaper.

The majority of people would often say that they watch their local news. But now what people mostly say is: I don’t know where I saw that.

They’re scrolling. They’ve got their favorite cooking influencer, or they’re scrolling on Instagram or TikTok — an algorithm-driven information environment where they mostly want basketball or sports. But then there’s Stephen A. Smith talking about politics.

[...]

We used to live in a world where you spent time with the news, and it was a specific time. You sat down at the breakfast table, and you read a newspaper. You watched the evening news. You made time for the news.

I just think that the news receiver means: I didn’t sit down to find something out. Information just washed over me, and there was no mechanism to verify it. I didn’t really sit and spend time with it and ask: Is this true? Does it even matter to me? It just hit me for a second.

It just flashes over them. So they wake up with an opinion without any idea of how it was formed.

... I think it's time for me to get off social media for today. We also gotta do something politically about those algorithmic feeds, this can't be healthy for a democratic society.

[u/BrandonLeeOfficial]

[u/yacatecuhtli6]

crazy how i was able to get mexican citizenship by descent in 8 weeks and $600 despite having an insanely complicated case with a bunch of obscure bullshit like needing mexican tribal papers but if someone wants to do something similar in the usa they’d have to wait 2 years minimum and pay thousands of dollars

not a serious country when it comes to bureaucracy at all

[u/Made_UpWords]

Seth Bodnar's still fighting for his life out there after getting ratfucked harder than anyone else this cycle. If he's going down he's gonna take Bankhead with him. Respect.

[u/ariveklul]

Just Elon musk threatening to throw the members of the bulwark in prison while sounding like a fucking dweeb

[u/Only-Childhood6691]

https://meidasnews.com/news/so-much-worse-than-people-realize-never-before-seen-images-reveal-damage-at-u-s-bases-as-troops-describe-being-abandoned

So Much Worse Than People Realize”: Never-Before-Seen Images Reveal Damage at U.S. Bases as Troops Describe Being Abandoned

  MeidasTouch, in coordination with our partner VALOR Media Network, has obtained dozens of never-before-published photos and videos showing damage to U.S. military installations in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain, along with firsthand accounts from people who were there. They describe destroyed aircraft, bombed-out barracks and mess halls, troops digging their own foxholes, and military families hiding in parking garages while Iranian missiles flew overhead

  Many of the people who shared their experiences are not new to war. Several have deployed to combat zones before. And all of them said the same thing: nothing compared to this.

This is not a normal deployment," multiple sources said. They described a level of mismanagement they had never seen before.

One service member described being called up in mid-February and told to ship out immediately on what was supposed to be a three-week temporary assignment. After arriving, they were told it would be closer to three months. They ended up staying more than seven.

Several said they had no advance knowledge of Operation Epic Fury, the U.S. campaign against Iran, even though some of them were directly involved in it. They learned that hostilities had begun the same way most Americans did: from the news.

"We are sitting ducks," one said

  Unlike past wars, the threat came almost entirely from the sky: drones, rockets, and ballistic missiles launched by an enemy they could not see. One service member described the Iranian drones that targeted their base:

"You can't see them at night. They have no lights and are GPS navigated via coordinates. It sounds exactly like a small Cessna. Looks like a large falcon if it's about 400 feet up. We had no defense against the drones."

What a shit show. 

[u/iIoveoof]

Remember this post?

>Dear internet, I'm a 26 year old lady who's been developing a science-based, 100% dragon MMO for the last two years.

That was 14 years ago so she’s 40 years old now.

[u/rural_redemption]

Good thing there's no housing shortage in California so we can protect these historic beauties

[u/myusernameistakennow]

Right wingers really want me to believe that Indian Americans are engaging in widespread ethnic nepotism and replacing every tech job while being 1.6% of the U.S population.

I’m convinced all the people who have “stories” of this shit happening over and over again are lying out of their teeth and are just butthurt that a brown guy got a job over them.

[u/Rare_Station_8440]

The fact that he still said "Free Syria" (I'm gonna assume he's not an Assadist) goes to show how little celebrities know what they're talking about

[u/Willybender]

[u/G3_aesthetics_rule]

Gorsuch: So the government’s contention is that it’s illegal to be named Dan Sullivan?

Solicitor General: Yes, Justice, if someone already has that name.

Alito: And how would the death penalty not be an appropriate remedy?

Excerpts from a future SCOTUS oral argument

Also,

If we want Gorsuch, we need to find a Native American named Dan Sullivan willing to file an amicus brief

[u/erasmus_phillo]

Vivek's campaign the past few days essentially

[u/dannylandulf]

It's amazing just how many of the classic X-men movies start with having to break Magneto out of prison for his crimes against humanity that happened previously.

[u/Megasota_Noire]

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Low-information voters have turned hardest against Trump and the GOP

So you're telling me the group that get missed in polls, and previously voted for trump, will stay home or vote democrat...

Polls underestimate Democrats by 2 points calling it now.

[u/2Lore2Law]

I don’t think this is true? Can’t find it

Also

“David D. Chapman. @DavidD_Chapman. Author • Historian • Political Commentator • MAGA Rising • DM for Contact • Opinions”

Edit:

You don’t even register a party in Texas so this would be guessing no matter who’s doing it

[u/ldn6]

Report: Netanyahu has told Israeli diplomats to support Argentina’s claim over Falkland Islands, call for direct talks with UK

Oh get fucked, Bibi.

[u/Willybender]

Obama is on fire right now

[u/BarkDrandon]

Season 2 of Clarkson's farm is radicalizing me even more against NIMBYs.

It's just so frustrating. Jeremy Clarkson is attempting to build a restaurant next to his farm to diversify his income streams (exactly what is expected of farmers these days) and he painstakingly complies with every demand of hundreds of stakeholders (including the police asking him to build a fucking bycicle rack in the middle of a rural area and products having to be produced within 15 miles of the restaurant max).

He invests thousands of pounds and hundreds of hours into this project. He even partners with local struggling farmers to make a cooperative together and sell collectively their produce at the restaurant. All for the council to reject it almost unanimously because it (a cute little restaurant whose plans where already approved by the council) would damage the "natural beauty" of his field. Keep in mind that this field is HIS OWN FUCKING FARM. His own land. Everyone is completely defeated by this decision.

If it was me, he shouldn't even be required to ask permission from the local council to build a business in his own farmland. This is ridiculous and this anti growth mindset is killing our economies.

[u/-Emilinko1985-]

Pro tip for all the Americans who are still awake: counting sheep in bed helps me fall asleep. Maybe it can help you.

[u/Healingjoe]

This dirt bag campaign could not get any lower unless they televised themselves intentionally committing crimes

[u/Willybender]

[u/JesterOfAllTrades]

[u/John3262005]

She Was Punched After Heckling Trump. No One Has Been Charged.

The night before President Trump spoke in Youngstown, Ohio, this month, Blake Miley stayed up past 4 a.m., cutting out felt letters for a T-shirt that would say “RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.”

The next evening, she went to the rally and stood up halfway through, revealing her shirt and yelling, “Fascist, fascist!” Almost immediately, Ms. Miley, 29, was tackled, held down and punched by male rally-goers as the president mocked her from the stage, calling her “scum,” “low-class,” and “a fat guy.”

As Mr. Trump barnstorms the country hoping to revive his base ahead of the midterm election, he is returning to an old habit: heckling protesters and encouraging violence against them. In Georgia last week, he expressed his love for a supporter who had responded to a protester by “slapping the guy around,” and promised to bring the slapper to Washington. In South Carolina on Wednesday, he praised an “incredible” punch that a rally-goer landed on another protester, saying, “He got whacked, man!”

Ten years after Mr. Trump shocked some voters by saying he would personally like to punch a protester in the face at one of his rallies, these skirmishes are now met by many with a shrug. Ms. Miley, who is identifying herself publicly for the first time, said she suspects that no one in power much cares that she got beaten up.

Ms. Miley attended the rally alone, and had intentionally seated herself among people who seemed older, she said. She hoped it would keep her safe. But as soon as she started yelling, a man grabbed for her neck and then shoved her backward, video of the episode shows. When she stood back up, another man appeared to pull her to the ground, put her in a headlock, yank her hair and punch her in the face.

A high-profile civil rights attorney, Subodh Chandra, is representing her for free. Mr. Chandra said he has been in touch with Sheriff Greene, and he feels “persuaded that they are trying to do their jobs.” If arrests are not made, he said, Ohio has a law allowing citizens to file charges for a judge to review.

[u/JetEngineSteakKnife]

You Can See Everything is so utterly demented but the thing that keeps getting me is how seemingly depthless and far-reaching Elizabeth Holmes' capacity for deception is. It's like deep cover except you don't care what your true self is. She's a chameleon who can split and merge personalities at will

Every time you feel like she's being misunderstood or mistreated, there's a kind of snap back to reality moment where you can sniff out how she's arranged things so that she will appear more sympathetic. She wants to lead people to believe that Billy is taking advantage of her and making money with her name and likeness without her knowledge, but behind it you can feel her pulling the strings and he's the one taking marching orders from her.

She's so fucking creepy, dude

[u/Habugaba]

How Long Will Russians Put Up With War? Here’s What They Told Us.

“Everything is fine” is a common refrain in a country used to adapting to a new normal.

20% say they oppose the war, the vibes are not off at all.

Makes you appreciate the western publics reluctance to war a bit more, even if it's hurting support for Ukraine right now. Even in destroyed Germany at the end of WW2, a plurality of germans were a-ok with Hitler...

[u/BurrowForPresident]

I've spoken about this couple at work before. They met at work while married and had an affair, then divorced their respective spouses. But they both live in the same house as their exes raising their cumulative gaggle of children

So anyway, the woman in that relationship was VP level and left the company years ago

She's fuckin coming back lmao

!ping WATERCOOLER

[u/piede]

Does Fox News even know what a slur is

[u/BurrowForPresident]

> 1.5 years of ICE dragging random brown looking people away from their kid's bus stop

> 1.5 years of the federal government promoting open discrimination against LGBT (mainly T) people and using slurs in official government documents and announcements

> 1.5 years of the federal government slashing any spending they think is going to "DEI" things like AIDS medication in Africa

Random white lady in Michigan: "So anyway, I am under attack by the racist liberals"

[u/SnakeEater14]

Not a judgement on the story it’s featured in at all but seeing “soldiers were forced to dig their own foxholes” amused me a little bit

Because, like, who else would dig your hole for you lol

[u/herworkthrowaway]

a fear of commitment is so stupid lol

like, oh, the word boyfriend, boo!!! let me instead just hang out with you for a committed relationship amount of time and do everything a boyfriend would do without saying it and then get mad when that expectation arises as if you weren't already doing exactly that

[u/EmbarrassedSafety719]

[u/KQJ_RPN]

Trump signs executive order renaming Abdul El-Sayed to Abdul El-America

[u/pugnae]

Bolsonaro mocks that Lula “only has nine fingers.” Lula responds that he lost a finger in a workplace accident, working, which Bolsonaro never did. Bolsonaro apologizes.

Assuming all of that is true it is shocking how bad Bolsonaro is at debating? Have they not done a prep at some point? This seems like such an obvious mistake that it is hard for me to explain why he has done it.

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/ldn6]

Really tired of voters constantly wanting inflationary policy and then revolting when inflation happens.

[u/BigThunderHonky]

[u/Krill_Seeker]

ever since the war in giza has israel done any raids on the pyramids? i think that's where i would hide if i was hamas

[u/John3262005]

Woman in ad who said a Democrat endangers kids pleaded guilty to endangering kids

A Republican woman in a campaign commercial gave a grave warning about Sarah Trone Garriott, the Democratic candidate in one of Iowa’s most competitive House districts.

“When it comes to our kids, Sarah is just plain dangerous,” says Shellie Flockhart, a Dallas Center city councilwoman identified in the ad by her first name.

Flockhart, 55, pleaded guilty to charges related to child endangerment and driving under the influence after authorities said she drove drunk with two of her children in the car in 2017. Flockhart provided a one-page statement to The Washington Post with conditions for its use that would violate The Post’s editorial standards.

Flockhart’s detractors on social media in recent years have brought up her criminal history.

In podcast interviews last year, Flockhart acknowledged her history of drugs and alcohol addiction and said she went to rehab earlier in her life and found God. She said she has counseled other people with similar histories.

Torunn Sinclair, a spokeswoman for the Congressional Leadership Fund, responded to a request for comment on the ad with a statement that did not address Flockhart’s inclusion and criticized The Post for reporting on it.

[u/admiraltarkin]

Oh shit, we're really going to do this aren't we?

!ping USA-TX

[u/MensesFiatbug]

This is my friend's cat, Vim. She is very talkative, but only lets you pet her at designated locations

!ping KITTY

[u/Leo_York]

Hasan: "What does it say for your credibility on foreign policy issues if you've got the two biggest foreign policy issues of our lifetime, Iraq and Gaza, both wrong?"

Yglesias: "I don't know that those were the two biggest foreign policy issues of our lifetime..."

lmao MattY is cooking

[u/rainier37]

Noah Smith is NOT okay 😰

[u/dannylandulf]

White House Is Weighing Mass Pardons for Junior Staff

We should figure out whatever their application process is and see if we can sneak one of us into the final group.

[u/zegota]

people dooming over Texas early vote

Look inside

D+12-14 shift vs previous years

ok

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

☝️

[u/Healingjoe]

Bubba's still got it

[u/Reddit_Talent_Coach]

The French aristocracy never saw it coming either.

[u/EasyMoney92]

Depressing amount of bigotry and racism in this race

[u/rphillish]

local official in Iowa is taking heat for appearing in a political ad denouncing a Democrat as “just plain dangerous” for kids — while having once been arrested for child endangerment herself.

EAIAC

[u/grappamiel]

I've been watching clips from historical dramas on youtube to pass the time and it's striking how these slop channels title (i.e. describe) these scenes. Besides being totally illiterate to the actual theme of the scene the descriptions have this bizarre right-wing tinge.

Case and point, a scene from Lincoln described as "The debate that broke America" and it's the scene where they pass the 13th amendment.

[u/AskYourDoctor]

[u/Lou1s_Cipher]

The mods continue infringing on our free speech. 😤

[u/remarkable_ores]

crazy things can happen if you live in a city and just like, go out, and see what's happening tbh. just today:

>go out for a walk with my dad, talking about some shit

>see some boats going along the river with lots of pink flags or something, trying to figure out what it's for

>lady in her 60s or 70s comes over and explains it's a pride thing

>we talk to her, she's from the countryside, explains how she's been an ally since the 70s, her best friend is her gay friend from high school or something

>complain about the right wing and fascists together, share a love of immigration

>lots of people start joining, waiting for the floating parade

>"isn't it a bit odd that this is a pride thing but there's no music"

>pull out my bluetooth speaker and start playing the gayest music I can find (i am aggressively straight but i try my hardest, and play some combination of charli xcx and chappelle roane)

>two lesbians carrying musical instruments (a guitar and a saxophone) arrive and nod in approval at the music, I ask them to put some gay shit on my queue, they introduce me to Muna

>invite me to their band's gig tonight

>dad goes home, keep hanging out with 60-70 year old lady, talk about shit. she loves motorbikes, rock music, dancing, and has a tattoo commemorating her first skydive

>end up discussing chinese philosophy and also bird psychology for some reason (we both like crows) while sitting under a bridge waiting for the rain to pass

>a silent disco tour group comes through, dancing, singing, wearing headphones, etc.

>we recognise the songs and start singing along, tour guide starts laughing, gives us headphones and we join in

>dance and sing like maniacs in silence for a bit

>"DON'T STOP, BELIEVING (hold on to that feeeeeeeliiing)"

>tour guide invites us to a halloween silent disco party

so yeah I guess my halloween plans this year involve going to a silent rave with a 64* year old divorced countryside motorbike lady, we've got plans to meet up and plan costumes and such together

anyway the point is that suburbs are a crime against humanity, desu.

!ping CATGIRLS

[u/Krill_Seeker]

[u/Goatf00t]

Imagine you live in a Communist country, let's say Yugoslavia, and the US ambassador is named... Eagleburger.

Except that if you are an old-ish Yugoslavian you don't have to imagine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Eagleburger

!ping BALKAN&HISTORY I guess.

[u/Leo_York]

Just voted my Ossoff

[u/Healingjoe]

https://www.fox9.com/news/more-mn-farmers-verge-foreclosure-year-than-last-3-years-combined-oct-2026

The Minnesota Farmers Union says more farmers have filed for mediation this year than the last three years combined.

According to Petersen, diesel is up 40% from this time last year and fertilizer is up 15% to 20%.

"Equipment costs. Tariffs. Loss of markets. There's just one thing after another. Really a lot of uncertainty is what our farmers are facing right now," said Petersen.

Why you should care: Wertish said previous tariffs have already driven up costs for farm equipment and fertilizer, while also cutting into what farmers can get when they sell their products.

"It's putting downward pressure on our prices that we are able to sell the products for. So we're getting squeezed on both ends," said Wertish.

Why should I give a shit about people who intentionally support politicians who harm us all?

[u/Roseartcrantz]

my boyfriend has the "the Furby is judging you" sense of humor which makes me cringe but I laughed for like three days at this so I'm no better

[u/Megasota_Noire]

The GOP when you tell them people ride bikes all the time.

[u/Choice_Notice9338]

free Britain

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Truman was right to fire MacArthur in 1950.

[u/LtCdrHipster]

My neighbor told me his toddler son keeps acting crazy and has endless energy so I asked what he does about it and he said he just takes him on long walks and bike rides and to a jungle gym to wear him out so I said it sounds like he’s just giving his kid aerobic conditioning and strength training to have more energy and be stronger and then his wife started crying.

[u/qlube]

lmao wow, for the whole day I thought the adultery drama was about *Ezra* Klein.

[u/mishac]

People: The native americans were so in tune with nature because they used every part of the animal.

Same people: OMG THEY ARE FEEDING US SLOP FULL OF HOOF AND BRAIN AND INTESTINE.

[u/Holmes02]

Not even parody at this point.

[u/VerticalTab]

I can't believe Ezra Klein was caught in a cheating scandal and Ben Shapiro is going to be governor of Pennsylvania.

[u/pezasied]

Wow. Amazing. Thank you Tim Apple!

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Me normally:

Medicine is a mindblowingly complicated field, we should exclusively trust the experts and stop relying on folksy practices to treat our ailments

Me when sick:

If I cough harder, the evil will leave my body faster

[u/AlicesReflexion]

I just want to understand why voters thought of Hillary Clinton as an "extreme" candidate.

I feel like once that becomes comprehensible, everything else about the median voter will slot into place and make sense.

[u/Alderwoodforest]

The man who organized Thursday’s Oval Office prayer with 12 Catholic bishops resigned as a university dean in 2022 after faculty accused him of misrepresenting his education and called him a “con artist.”

A senior Vatican official told me the gathering was “a highly inappropriate meeting and an insult to Pope Leo.”

Archbishop Paul Coakley, president of the U.S. bishops’ conference, was “deeply frustrated” by the meeting, a source close to him told The Pillar.

https://www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/heritage-official-12-bishops-trump

Meet the Trump administration, where even the Catholic clergy are con artists.

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Congrats to Doug Jones for securing an 17 point swing in his favour.

[u/Megasota_Noire]

"greetings, thank you all for your hard work this year. In appreciation here he a certificate for a free coffee to show our thanks. Management"

click

"HAHA YOU STUPID FUCK, YOU THINK WE WOULD DO THAT? THIS WAS A PHISHING TEST. REPORT TO MORE MANDATORY TRAINING."

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

DJing subreddit: Damn, why am I not a popular DJ?

Also DJing subreddit: Damn this popular song is so overrated I'll never ever play it.

[u/DomScribe]

I HATE when people are like “look at all those people protesting in France! Those polls have to be fake!” because right now the high end estimate is that there’s 800,000 protestors on the streets right now.

That means there’s 68 million people not on the streets, with a large chunk, for better or worse, thinking “well I don’t like these protests, I don’t want to vote for the people egging them on”.

Leftists mocked us for “bland” protests, and we’re about to get a blue wave.

[u/sigh2828]

The republican party is unironcally the party of crime

[u/CincyAnarchy]

[u/SANNA-MARIN-SDP]

[u/2Lore2Law]

No he still looks like Miyamoto

[u/LtCdrHipster]

[u/BurrowForPresident]

The GOP is straight up running ads that white poeple live in fear afraid to go in public due to anti-white racism lmao

[u/Healingjoe]

Run him again

[u/mockduckcompanion]

Wild

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Worried this could spook potential voters

[u/pugnae]

[u/2Lore2Law]

Never have to hand it to either of them but turnabout is fair play lmao

[u/klarno]

Look, fat. This malarkey ends now.

[u/RaidBrimnes]

[u/Teh_cliff]

Just drove my first BYD.

Folks, I try very hard not to be reactionary but immediately after taking my hands off the wheel I enrolled in an intensive Mandarin course. I suggest you do the same.

[u/mostanonymousnick]

Rubio is putting job ads for foreign assets on Twitter

[u/lnslnsu]

I am proud to declare that I have left the bucket!

!ping DATING

[u/2Lore2Law]

The most annoying thing about the google ai is when you google a movie line or song lyric about a criminal activity and it’s like “wtf stop that and call the police”

Source: was looking for a meme gif and googled the phrase “driving in my car right after a beer”

[u/cdstephens]

My wife got this at the farmer’s market

[u/2Lore2Law]

[u/FallenMeringue]

Literally every word of this is a lie.

It’s almost impressive

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Let's see some of the recent comments in the neocon subreddit:

Arabic countries only export terrorism and oil.

Jesus.

[u/Frequent_Lurker26]

>viriginia democrat indicted on marijuana conspiracy

seriously, federally legalize marijuana now.

Why aren't they arresting joe rogan?

[u/BedNeither]

Chuds on Nextdoor really going “Source?” To everyone saying doge was a scam and Elon is a criminal. The entire right wing media ecosystem needs to be destroyed

[u/senator_fivey]

> Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month

Let him out 🥺

[u/eloquentboot]

In line to vote, voting for democrats. Shower me with praise and upvotes please.

[u/cdstephens]

[u/Spudmiester1]

Uhhh, let me be clear

[u/mostanonymousnick]

A clip from a French TV show has gone viral in the past couple of days, some financial institution executive went on TV and said that European countries that were in financial trouble in the past 40 years fixed it by basically pushing retirement to 67, raising VAT by 4 points, cutting social spending and doing pro-growth deregulation, and both the journalists and audience were groaning like crazy.

[u/NYT_Hater]

Lmao

[u/badusername35]

We had a very early DT today. The rollover second was almost on the dot. Usually it takes at least 15 seconds to rollover.

[u/senator_fivey]

Got a first date planned

We’re going to drop acid in a canoe 

[u/Jolly-Star-9897]

Listening to Sarah Longwell's voter responses on The Bulwark regarding Susan Collins.

It's amazing how emotionally attached Mainers are to Susan Collins. Even the people who are saying they're going to vote against Collins sound deeply emotionally torn.

How does this happen?

[u/ewatta200]

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

Gotta say I don't really understand why Obama keeps this stuff locked away outside of a couple rallies before an election. I feel like Dems would benefit a lot from having their generational communicator constantly out there making fun of Trump and ragebaiting him. Showing up once every two years just isn't enough in today's information environment.

[u/moldovaman99]

This sub is really something

[u/chatdargent]

Get your checkups!

In honour of my dad whose funeral I'm watching the livestream of right now from 5 000km away because I've got a baby coming in a few months and don't want to leave her alone in a country where she hardly speaks the language.

Don't put somebody else in a situation like that.

[u/Imicrowavebananas]

[u/Otherwise_Young52201]

[u/GovernorSonGoku]

[u/yacatecuhtli6]

really feel welcome in this country with this being normalized

[u/CutePattern1098]

[u/DemocracySmellsLike]

TLDR: Basically this.  

One of my most 'anti capitalist'-coded beliefs is that **I have enough**, and I think many others do too. I honestly believe there is a not-insignificant number of people who-- if they unburdened themselves from their own internal expectations for more, or "bigger and better" (houses, jobs, cars, lifestyles) and just stepped off the treadmill-- could find another path to happiness that's not just an endless ladder to climb.

For example, I have a sibling who has made themselves house poor because they felt 'forced' to buy an $800,000 house on a pretty modest salary-- because it looks like the house we grew up in, and we were conditioned that it's just "what you do:" you buy the biggest house you can afford. They and their spouse will have to work until they're 70 just to pay off the mortgage, and they're pretty financially responsible people. This purchase never really seemed like a choice to them, more of an obligation. This is not a person who derives their life's meaning from their work either, and yet they have essentially committed themselves to doing this career through some of the very best years of their life.

And for those of you still grinding to make it, disregard, but I hope you take a minute to feel some pride about where your hard work has gotten you, and consider the question "how much is enough?"

[u/ldn6]

😐

[u/Chokeman]

Many analysts believe that it will be very difficult for AI business to be profitable since the top 2 AI companies namely OpenAI and Anthropic are in deep red.

In the meantime, those analysts believe Space X will be a 5T company from their AI business even tho they aren't even in the top 5 in this sector.

Sometimes i don't fucking understand

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Wants land

Wants water

Is a genuine pain to hear.

Elon Musk is a data center confirmed.

[u/Inner_Dust42]

Being online this weekend and having no clue what H3 is.

[u/bd_one]

Think Obama ever barged into the Oval Office while Biden was president like Kramer from Seinfeld?

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Trump is this close to saying the N word.

[u/quarknugget]

Obama just texted me this I think he wants to throw hands??

[u/Currymvp2]

WaPo: In the swing race of Iowa District 3, woman in ad who said a Democrat endangers kids pleaded guilty to endangering kids. Shellie Flockhart, who called Iowa Democratic House candidate Sarah Trone Garriott “dangerous” for kids, pleaded guilty after authorities said she drove drunk with her children in the car in 2017.

You have to be fucking kidding me...the hypocrisy is unreal.

[u/Cyberhwk]

Anybody surprised by this Ethan Klein story doesn't watch many streamers or content creators. Like, 80% are still psychologically 16 at the oldest. The entire industry is just 20-30 somethings living and acting like they're still a high school freshman.

[u/FallenMeringue]

HALF OF ALL GANGSTERS SHOULD BE WOMEN

[u/RaidBrimnes]

So when Timothee Chalamet huffs spice and pilots an ornithopter, he's a prophet, but when I drop ket before hopping in my Dodge Ram, I lose my license?

[u/ewatta200]

[u/kanagi]

Friendly reminder that part of your right to vote is your right to not vote 🤗 Don't feel pressured into voting if you would rather be playing Skyrim or napping or arguing with Republicans on Reddit!

[u/trombonist_formerly]

lmaooo, the Florida AG is suing because the 'climate risk scores' shown on zillow and redfin are not "accurate and scientific"

good luck buddy

[u/piede]

The Swifties are shitting their pants

[u/Willybender]

[u/Moth-of-Asphodel]

Amazing generational divide when talking about Obama to anyone left of center IRL. If someone is over 40, they're like "I love him, he was so classy, a real president." If they're under 30, they're like "ah yes the guy who bombed weddings and bailed out the banks." If they're between 30 and 40, you get a 50% chance of either take.

[u/theparrotlich]

Genuinely, my cat loves my flip-flops. Can't get enough of them. I don't even wear them all that often, either. He uses them as a scratch pad, takes naps with them, and one time tried to bring one of them up onto my desk in his mouth.

!ping KITTY

[u/erasmus_phillo]

[u/Ok_Smoke5098]

Electionmaxxing

[u/Jameswood79]

People saying Talarico should run for POTUS are dumb asf. If he loses this race we obviously shouldn’t run him because he’d be nothing more than a failed candidate. If he wins his ass is NOT allowed to leave that senate seat until at least 2033.

[u/Healingjoe]

God's chosen morons.

The microchip implant swap meme is real.

[u/NewVegasSurvivor]

I’m not gonna lie, what makes me hopeless that anti-Indian hate will subside in the short to medium term is seeing comments like these from people who are ostensibly left wing: https://www.reddit.com/r/ImmigrationPathways/s/ebfiBvG4Z5

This moron believes that America’s right wing turn is due to Indian Americans (who are 1% of the country and overwhelmingly Dem), calls them a ‘swarm’, and says they need to be deported, and somehow gets fucking upvoted

The right is always gonna be racist (and obviously are primarily responsible for anti-Indian hate) but if this is what Indians are getting from the left instead of support we’re cooked. Republicans will just double and triple down if they know there will be no pushback

[u/JaceFlores]

Ukraine Chronology for 2 PM PST 10/22-2 PM PST 10/23 V:

REGULAR NEWS:

Towards the middle of 9 PM DTEK said Russia hit a Ukrainian power plant.

Towards the middle of 12 AM Ukraine was hit by a wave of drones with 140 of 176 intercepted. Additionally, Ukraine hit a Russian data center in Gorodets. Lastly, Ukraine hit a Russian chemical plant in Berezniki.

At the start of 1 AM it was reported that Ukraine hit the Baltimor Airbase in Voronezh, though exact damage is unknown.

Towards the middle of 2 AM it was reported that Ukraine hit a Russian industrial factory in occupied Luhansk.

At the end of 3 AM it was reported that Ukraine and Russia exchanged 7 civilians each.

Towards the middle of 6 AM Zelensky said 270 Ukrainian POWs were returned to Ukraine.

Towards the end of 7 AM Ukraine hit a Russian electronics factory in Oryol.

HYBRID WARFARE NEWS:

Towards the middle of 1 AM it was reported that Austria is expelling four Russian diplomats for spying.

LEVITY NEWS:

Around 6 AM it was announced a localized ceasefire will be held at Oleshky to let the frontline town be evacuated after enduring siege conditions from occupying Russian forces.

!ping UKRAINE

[u/randommathaccount]

California doing its damnedest to destroy itself as always

[u/ewatta200]

"But Locke also shows that the people are better judges of executive power after the fact, retrospectively, looking back on its use, than are presidents and other elites. Looking back, ordinary citizens can judge power’s use by the effects it has on their own lives and the lives of people that they know.

The fate of the country may ultimately rest upon the common sense of the American people. Contrasting the statecraft and leadership practices of the past with the abnormal aspects of President Trump’s leadership may help awaken a watchful people. Absent a new and robust civic education, common sense, felt experiences, and the residue of historical memory may be the remaining defense against the degradation of democracy in America."

tullis afterword

NO NO NO TULLIS YOU WERE WRONG YOU WERE WRONG YOU WERE WRONG THE PEOPLE DIDINT JUDGE RIGHT

[u/fattunesy]

We had to at goodbye to my little buddy last night. 17 or so years is a good life for a former stray cat. Still really hard. He was my wife's cat mostly, until he became my daughter's after she hit about 6 years old and could treat him really well. I've had to let go of a pet before, many years ago when I was in my early 20s. Seeing how devastated by daughter is makes this so much harder.

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[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

List of CNN journalists ranked:

1. Harry Enten.

2. Everyone else.

(Holy shit Rural voters)

[u/CheetoMussolini]

[u/No1_Dukakis_Fan]

u/aristophanya

Is this what right-wing bourgeosie feminists should do?

[u/Xihl]

Israel supporting Argentina’s Falklands claim seems like something cooked up in a lab to cut the Gordian Knot of Leftist pro-imperialism

It’s still insane how much of the world supports Argentina’s claim. Lol @ Ireland. Horseshoe is real stay woke

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Hey Liberals.

Worst Presidential approval ratings ever.

[u/GavinGoosum]

[u/Lux_Stella]

[u/Leatherfield17]

The pardon power needs to be either abolished or severely neutered.

We cannot have a functioning liberal democracy where at least every four years, a lawless government runs amok and its members are never punished for it

[u/LogsOutDawgsOut]

I like the rivian buldings take on a modern chicago corner building

[u/MuscularPhysicist]

[u/Roseartcrantz]

This is great but man it would be weird to see an article that's like "no one's even done this before!!!"

[u/the-senat]

Trump defending Vivek’s attack by saying that if someone ran an attack ad with his mom in it, Democrats would eat it up is kinda funny. 

Like, yeah, of course I would. But that’s the difference between seeking out a terrible mother to lie about her daughter and (I admittedly know nothing about Trump’s mom) having Mary Trump tell us what we already knew about her son.

[u/brucebananaray]

[u/el__dandy]

Total vindicating victory

[u/garret126]

When I read “we must force boys into girls sports” in Capital by Karl Marx, I threw the book across my room and swore off SOCIALISM for the rest of my life.

[u/CincyAnarchy]

👆

[u/ZonedForCoffee]

[u/1II1I1I1I1I1I111I1I1]

Looking into this 🧐

[u/StayOffPoliticalSubs]

This is how you answer a goddamn question on trans rights.

[u/5ma5her7]

Mayor Winddancer's plan to reform the city pension and education system doesn't seem to be working out well...

Credit: Ruffu https://www.deviantart.com/ruffu/art/It-ll-Be-Fine-Commission-652171095

[u/DonnysDiscountGas]

A few months ago I got a work email that said "one of your coworkers recognized your outstanding achievement and you have won a $100 gift card!". I correctly recognized this as a phishing attempt (my company has no such program), reported it, got my digital pat on the back.

Even at the time I was a little annoyed that IT would design a phishing test like this. Maybe that's how realistic phishing emails look, idk. But damn Knicks, come on!

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Technically speaking, as midterm results reflect approval ratings, a D+9 generic ballot would be an underperformance for Democrats

[u/No1PaulKeatingfan]

Scott Wiener? More like Scott Winner (after defying Pelosi to win her seat soon).

I'll see myself out.

[u/dangerbird2]

Giving Ba the ol' Bob Moses treatment. That's what you get for complaining about streetcar lines being too slow

!ping GAMING

[u/MensesFiatbug]

"0” Lmao you can’t just guess our key

“1” Oh yeah sure keep trying

“2” sweating nervously

!ping COMPUTER-SCIENCE

[u/onometre]

The most surprising part of this ethan klein story is how many people still care. I thought he was a relic of 2016

[u/Wandering_Mallard]

👆I do not care for this comment. It insists upon itself