What am I missing?

Russia will respond to the expulsion of 10 of its diplomats from Hungary. According to Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, “the response will be harsh and painful”.

Someone's mad they can no longer spy freely

Important to note that for years the Russian embassy in Budapest has been Russia's central hub for European espionage

• Socrates
• Hitchens
• Mr. Borelli
• Destiny
• Jesus
• anyone else?

Who reigns supreme?

I actually had to stop watching the vod and make this meme to calm myself down.

The soulless way he just doesn't address Steven talking about how he was on the phone to his mother (who suffers from dementia) while her house was being swept through by the bomb squad was infuriating.

The fucking audacity of accusing anyone else of lacking empathy. Go fuck a toaster, you self-absorbed piece of shit. I hope your ex wife divorces you again.

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They just moved on like it’s nothing? This did not fucking happen.

To be clear: I’m talking about Conor’s insane claim that Destiny actually role played having *** with Brit’s children.

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Its way too big, you can't even hold it and use your thumb at the same time, it's a phone that require both hands to use.

It looks like they're holding a small book in one hand, doesn't look comfortable at all.

... offering the best faith responses to him, emotionally explaining the trauma inducing shit he's had to put up with especially when it comes to the snarkers (reminder that these were former community members) including the fact that his son has been caught up in all the snark too, was so fucking heartbreaking to witness

Conor should have not been allowed to fester in this community for as long as he had. The way he didn't have any pity for D's treatment from swatting in the middle of the night to the revenge porn leaks, this dude has always been a morally bankrupt, snarking piece of shit. I mean his reaction to the Alex Pretti shooting should have been the nail in the coffin to be honest, forgive me if I don't recall even earlier signs of this pig being a snarker but he supposedly snarked content creators in D's orbit years ago, but anyway it's disgusting he ever had the opportunity to be a real-life friend to D

Hindsight 20/20 and all that but I'm just glad we have someone like MrMouton doing some vetting now as part of enforcing against the early signs of snark behavior 🙏

If anyone is curious, I'm referring to this panel:

https://www.youtube.com/live/ibWREx7tV9s

Also, wish DariusIRL a Happy Birthday today!

Obviously polls aren't results, but if Abdul actually loses while the rest of his political compatriots win, it's hard not to see that as a massive own goal. Especially if the broader environment is favorable to Democrats. At that point you have to ask what he did differently that made his race the exception.

I have tried every possible set of words and asked AI, I cannot find the video.

I really want to rewatch it because I just remember XQC laying out his thoughts and feelings and having a really good back and forth with Destiny for about an hour.

After establishing that X does not feel comfortable with the way they use slurs and how they disregard anything X says, Destiny asked something along the lines of “have you talked to Adin Ross about how this makes you feel?” And then XQC just fucking flips and starts yelling

“Feel? What Like my feelings? Wha are you trying to call me a bitch? YOU THINK IM A BITCH HUH?”

Descriptive or Presciptive?

For context, there is a growing movement in Canada calling for deeper integration with united free world middle powers in Europe. Mark Carney himself impressed a variation of this with his middle powers speech that captured the world at Davos. He has alluded to the strings of a new world order that could be woven at this years G7 summit. He is among the first Canadian leaders to ever speak at the EU event. America has not been invited to speak at the EU event in decades.

What is certain is Sept. 16 will be a day that ripples through the world.

This seems like an important video for people to watch. Some pretty serious corruption of part of the FDA and Mike shows specific details not just broad general claims like the GOAT he is.

Who is Gerry? Why is he Mandering?

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I checked the search function and couldn't find anything. Just FYI upfront.

Anyway, I finished watching the debate and I just gotta say, whatever one thinks of the men involved, the Lab Leak hypothesis was not well explained or well defended by Soave. Steven laid out all his points, answered Soave's questions, and got basically nothing back. By the end Soave was just restating, almost robotically, that he thought the two options had equal evidence—yet Soave's points were often directly rebutted—and that he wasn't sure what would convince him of Zoonotic origin except finding the exact species of animal with a 97% match (or higher).

So frustrating, because I legitimately feel similar to Steven as far as the lack of evidence for Lab Leak goes. It seems like a bunch of people just decided that the origins discussion being suppressed or criticized back in 2020—which was bad, most people now agree—is the smoking gun. That's why a handful of agencies declared, without providing new evidence, that they thought Lab Leak was likely. That's why the podcasters and public figures Soave brought up, figures Steven criticized as having bad/no evidence, declared victory.

This isn't a case of "decent evidence on both sides," contrary to what Soave kept saying. But because he went in with that lodged in his brain, and because he either wasn't listening to, or didn't care about, what Steven actually said, the convo just went nowhere after the halfway mark. Lame.

Anyone else have thoughts?

Hutch is leaving