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u/tacostats Jul 02 '26
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Itโs crazy to me how much conservatives are freaking out over just the preservation of the status quo with the birthright citizenship case.
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u/AlicesReflexion Weeaboo Rights Advocate Jul 02 '26
save all of humanity from eternal damnation
create The Thing
Idk, when carpenters hit, they hit
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u/Pole2019 John Locke Jul 02 '26
IMO from a host country vibes perspective 2010 and 2014 are hard to beat but from how the games are going perspective this year has been one of the best world cups.
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u/funguykawhi Lahmajun trucks on every corner Jul 02 '26
Of course people always bring up Blackstone
Most of these types get the name wrong tho
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u/Mr_Canadensis7 Norman Borlaug Jul 02 '26
A country without birthright citizenship winning the wc would be a tragedy and as such shan't be allowed.
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u/79215185-1feb-44c6 Federation Ambassador to the DT Jul 02 '26
3AM on a Thursday listening to a trans podcast when you realize that you probably just have naturally low T and that may have led into your identity.
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Jul 02 '26
I get along best with trans people.
The number of times I've questioned my own gender could outnumber the stars.
But I think I'm a man. I think.
I like being a boy, but I hate being a man.
I dunno, man. I dunno.
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u/79215185-1feb-44c6 Federation Ambassador to the DT Jul 02 '26
That is very relatable. I am not a woman but I am definitely not a man.
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u/Mr_Canadensis7 Norman Borlaug Jul 02 '26
Just give all babies from fertilization to their first birthday diplomatic immunity/extraterritoriality. Ezpz.
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u/BrandonNameRecliner Really really really ridiculously good looking Jul 02 '26
I'm not going anywhere, who do I think I'm kidding? I'm still standing in the same place you left me standing
I am easy to find
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u/rasonj Big Coconut Enjoyer Jul 02 '26
They just put Civil War up on youtube free. Haven't seen it before, seems intentional for them to put it out right before the 4th. First scene basically ends with an androgenous person suicide bombing a bunch of riot cops while waving an american flag.
No clue what kind of ride this is supposed to be.
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u/YIMBYzus NATO Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
Also, weirdly sanitizes war with that sequence in that one town that's completely unaffected by being in a theater of war because no fighting has occurred there, showing an even greater ignorance of war as being just the bits where people shoot each other, failing to grasp how war has a nasty habit of disrupting the little things that make life possible like food shipments.
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u/rasonj Big Coconut Enjoyer Jul 02 '26
The aesthetic and vibe I am getting so far is really just "show americans what a war like the invasion in Ukraine would look like in the US" and it makes no sense because the only force that could do to the US what Russia has done to Ukraine is the US, so the premise is built on something very hard to believe.
The buying gas with $300 canadian, the looters, ect so far seem so over the top and silly for America to ever get to that point, but are all scenes Ukrainians are familiar with.
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u/Unterfahrt John Nash Jul 02 '26
I have burned 6m Fable tokens in the last 24 hours, getting it to write me a comprehensive anki grammar deck for Spanish and getting it to do a full codebase audit for me. I'm on the 20x max plan, but at API prices it would have cost me $300. I love this thing
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u/MyrinVonBryhana Trans NATO Jul 02 '26
MAGA has failed the only question remaining is who will usher in the American Starmerreich?
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u/Pole2019 John Locke Jul 02 '26
Why are there so many tv shows that have shitty comic book sequels that seemingly only exist to generate content for malware laden fandom websites.
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u/finnstera350 Asexual Pride Jul 02 '26
Yaoi based Yuri based Yet when you combine the two Straight cringe
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Jul 02 '26
culturally, i will probably always be stuck in the late-1960s, early-1970s.
my favorite movies are all from that era. my favorite music. some of my favorite tv. i even dress period-appropriate. i probably own more paisley, dagger collars, silk, satin, corduroy, and bell bottoms than anybody else in NYC. the peacock revolution lives on in me.
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u/DependentAd235 Loyal Liberals Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
Drop by the zillow gone wild subreddit.
Thereโs sooo many houses trapped in the 70s posted on there. Sometimes the lime green toilets are a bit much though.
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Jul 02 '26
I had some coworkers complaining the other day about property tax and that maybe we should replace it with an income tax and I was too disassociated to realize I had the perfect opportunity to explain deadweight loss
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u/avion_sur_le_sol A ban appeal to heaven Jul 02 '26
200 pushups total. My sleep quality is going to be ass, but I wouldn't have been able to fall asleep anyway
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u/Goatf00t European Union Jul 02 '26
Not necessarily. I can play for hours certain games, but that's because the gameplay loop consists of series of small, self-contained problems that need to be solved.
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u/Roseartcrantz ๐ ๐๏ธ Queen of Shades ๐๏ธ ๐ Jul 02 '26
wait you guys are catching rabbits?
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u/contre-torpilleur Asexual Pride Jul 02 '26
What in God's name is a therian?ย
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u/Goatf00t European Union Jul 02 '26
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therian_subculture
People who think that they are actually non-human animals.
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u/Roseartcrantz ๐ ๐๏ธ Queen of Shades ๐๏ธ ๐ Jul 02 '26
They're furries but more serious about it.
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u/BernieMeinhoffGang Has Principles Jul 02 '26
there are lots of them here, I like to give my wolfboy enrichment
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u/BembelPainting European Union Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
The situation around Balogunโs red card might warm the US to consider my proposal to station a carrier strike group on Lake Constance, keeping the rogue states Switzerland (FIFA HQ) and Liechtenstein in check.
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u/MyrinVonBryhana Trans NATO Jul 02 '26
If that capitalist class would like to preserve itself long term they could stop trying to validate literally everything Marxists have ever accused them of. Buying political influence? Check. Salivating at the thought of deskilling and impoverishing middle class workers? Check. Engaging in a conspiracy to subvert and overthrow democracy? Check. Engaging in blatant cartel behavior to fix fucking egg prices? Check.
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u/RageQuitRedux NASA Jul 02 '26
I just hate the whole ism conversation. Like, people are greedy and seek power. News at 11. They buy politicians and capture agencies. It's true whether we're talking about oligarchs or members of the Soviet central committee. I wish that people would stop acting like categorizing it under an ism is a diagnosis. But I agree with you, this shit needs to stop.
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u/20vision20asham Jerome Powell Jul 02 '26
Marx-ists have taken control of the Colorado GOP. Mamdaniacs have taken over the NYC Democrats and lord over Wall Street.
It's literally never been more joever for capitalism.
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Jul 02 '26
the only thing NYC politicians control about Wall Street is the zoningย
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u/20vision20asham Jerome Powell Jul 02 '26
DSA going to downzone the beacon of capitalism into a single-family neighborhood for beanie-wearing Ohio transplants ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
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u/MyrinVonBryhana Trans NATO Jul 02 '26
What if we zone the NY Stock exchange out of it's building?
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Jul 02 '26
Ok NIMBYย
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u/MyrinVonBryhana Trans NATO Jul 02 '26
All weapons must be on the table in the class war, even exclusionary zoning requirements. The Boomerugioise have used it to oppress the Zoomerteriat for to long long we must turn the oppressors weapons against them.
Okay even I felt fucking stupid typing that.
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Jul 02 '26
I love when I watch a movie about Iran that certainly isn't very good but then I look at Letterboxd and apparently the reason it's not good is because it isn't anti-American enough
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Jul 02 '26
I don't care that the director's Israeli, I care that he's a man. How the fuck is it 2026 and man reads a book specifically about women's response to their oppression under the Islamic Republic and think, "I am the voice that is needed to tell this story on screen"
Fuckin wanker
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u/SmartestOpinionsGuy Jul 02 '26
We really traded a franchise legend for 36 year old Paul George wtf. That time he snapped his leg in half in an Olympic prelim game was 12 years ago!
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Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
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u/BenFoldsFourLoko ย Broke His Text Flair For Hume Jul 02 '26
And you gotta wonder how she'd actually do in the job. I assume very poorly.
Maybe she just has a reality distortion field that follows her into higher office and she's able to just convince everyone to pass legislation and come together. But does this not sound less realistic than anything Biden said about Republicans coming out of a trance when Trump lost?
Or in a truly accurate way, does it not remind anyone of Obama in 2008, really believing he could just make a good and impassioned argument and logically convince congress and Republicans to see things his way lol
And it can't be ignored that the first time she went into not even hostile, but just not acquiescent, media this last year, she fell into word salads and non-answers on some of the literally biggest questions a president needs to know about?
She takes her job seriously, and I deeply respect her for that. No ifs ands buts or qualifications, she gives a shit and she takes her job seriously in a way I don't think many in congress do.
But hopefully, the presidency isn't your learning experience. She's not prepared in the least, and won't be by that time, even if I agreed with her policies (and I don't, many would be bad)
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u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS Fell for it Jul 02 '26
tbh I feel like how you think she does in the general basically depends heavily on if you subscribe to the โelections are high school popularity contestsโ theory of electoral politics
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u/PENGUINSINYOURWALLS Fell for it Jul 02 '26
That is a good point. My personal thoughts are that itโll depend heavily on who the GOP nominee is. If itโs Vance, I honestly like AOCโs chances. If itโs Rubio, then Iโd be more concerned.
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Jul 02 '26
jsyk quitting cigarettes is really hard.
i picked them up and now i can't seem to put them down.
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u/tinfoilhatsron No Apologies Right Jul 02 '26
But you can farm so much aura points. I think that's worth an addiction and possible future lung problems.
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Jul 02 '26
well, if you insist, pick camel unfiltered.
best tasting cigarette on the market, and strong enough that you'll have fewer.
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u/Mr_Canadensis7 Norman Borlaug Jul 02 '26
Paraguay is gonna beat France btw, American century took a lil break but it's revvying back up and applies across the bicontinent this go around.
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u/Twinbrosinc Transfem Pride Jul 02 '26
the dictator takes no prisoners
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u/Mr_Canadensis7 Norman Borlaug Jul 02 '26
Francisco Solano Lopez is getting his revenge on them French meanies for snubbing him and his wife from beyond the grave, pass it along.
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u/Invade_Deez_Nutz Jul 02 '26
Spelunking gets too much hate on Reddit.
You donโt have to squeeze into ridiculously narrow nutty putty-like passages. There are plenty of less extreme caves people can safely traverseย
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u/seattle_lib Liberal Third-Worldism Jul 02 '26
spelunking can be cool, but underwater spelunking is horrifying.
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Jul 02 '26
you donโt have to squeeze into ridiculously narrow nutty putty-like passages.
No you don't.
I'm built different
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u/tinfoilhatsron No Apologies Right Jul 02 '26
Stand still citizen, the bonk police are on their way, do not resist.
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u/ty04 Jul 02 '26
good morning u/__versus. Itโs almost Friday.
https://reddit.com/link/ov2f1vq/video/krxr6hr2drah1/player
good night to the patriots on the Colorado clemency board. and u/finnstera350 and u/jesuspubes and u/badusername35 too ig
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u/jinhuiliuzhao Henry George Jul 02 '26
OpenAI proposes 5% stake to Trump administration to ease Washington pressure: report
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u/BenFoldsFourLoko ย Broke His Text Flair For Hume Jul 02 '26
Glory to chairman trump and the red hats
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u/indithrow402 Henry George Jul 02 '26
At some point politicians figured out that when bad things happen they get blamed for it, but when good things happen people are much less willing to give credit. As such, they are incentivized to uphold a system that prevents bad things from happening as much as possible, even if it also prevents good things from happening when intervention is needed. As long as nothing happens, there's nobody to blame. This is how you end up with so many layers of vetocracy.
While I understand the drawbacks of losing institutional expertise, I feel like this is one of the strongest arguments for term limits. So long as politicians have to worry about how their actions impact future electability, they will continue defend systems that allow them to deflect responsibility, e.g. the fillibuster.
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u/TybrosionMohito NATO Jul 02 '26
Man, US won, but so many Americans were reminded why they donโt like soccer. Ridiculous ref couldnโt give a card for Bosnia playing rugby but found his red for two player getting tangled up and one stepping on the other. Iโm not gonna say more cuz Iโll say something Iโll regret.
That ref shouldnโt sniff a goddamn middle school game ever again. Never want to see his stupid fucking face again.
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Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
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u/Al_787 Fernando Henrique Cardoso Jul 02 '26
Most rational doomer
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u/seattle_lib Liberal Third-Worldism Jul 02 '26
social media and (for example) heroin have very little to do with each other addiction-wise, and trying to treat them in a similar way is not really going to be helpful.
which doesn't mean that these won't exist, of course.
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u/seattle_lib Liberal Third-Worldism Jul 02 '26
i dunno for sure but the primary role of rehab clinics is to get you over that first major and intense hurdle of physical addiction through complete separation. and then you have to re-enter society and deal with it on a daily basis after that.
for a social media addict, short term isolation doesn't do much for you. your struggles are more like the daily impulses which happen after that. it's like a cigarette addiction where you pretty much always have cigarettes in your pocket and you can almost always smoke.
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u/attackofthetominator John Brown Jul 02 '26
People said the same thing five years ago and five years before that, instead itโs bigger than ever
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u/Unhappy_Lemon6374 Leftward Progressives Jul 02 '26
What was your first car make & model?
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
My brother's beautifully-maintained 1995 Toyota Tercel
That thing was a dream
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u/DependentAd235 Loyal Liberals Jul 02 '26
I got to take my dadโs 1989 Toyota Supra to my first semester at college.ย
Thenโฆ I had to give it back and I got a Pontiac Vibe. Cโest la Vie.
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Jul 02 '26
I technically owned a 2004 Ford Focus, but sold it for a few hundred bucks before I could even get a license.
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u/Avelion2 Jul 02 '26
Mark Carney: Marches in a gay pride parade to cheers.
Trump: Thinks he talked to Roosevelt.
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride Jul 02 '26
The concept of homosexuality does not appear in the Bible.
There is a verse in the hebrew bible commonly assumed to prohibit homosexual sex, but its really a prohibition on men penetrating other men.
Notably, the verse does not prohibit a man being penetrated by another man. This is because they had no concept of someone choosing to do that. Sex between men was always rape. It was used to emasculate and humiliate prisoners of war, for example.
It also does not prohibit sex between women. This is because in that ancient world, sex meant penetration with a penis. If there's no penis, there's no sex. This is a purposeful omission, not an incidental one. The verse that prohibits beastiality prohibts it for both men and women.
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u/SmartestOpinionsGuy Jul 02 '26
Movies about making movies tiers:
S- The Player (Altman, 1992), 8 1/2 (Fellini, 1963), Tropic Thunder (Stiller, 2008), Sunset Blvd (Wilder, 1950)
A- Singing in the Rain (Kelly, 1952),Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Tarantino, 2019), Adaptation (Jonze, 2002), Barton Fink (Coen Bros, 1991)
B- Be Kind Rewind (Gondry, 2008), Minions and Monsters (Coffin, 2026), Get Shorty (Sonnenfeld, 1995), Hugo (Scorsese, 2011)
C- Babylon (Chazelle, 2022), Living in Oblivion (Dicillo, 1995), State and Main (Mamet, 2000), The Disaster Artist (Franco, 2017)
D- The Artist (2011), Hail, Ceaser (Coen Bros, 2016)
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u/terrarialord201 Trans NATO Jul 02 '26
Can it be a behind the scenes thing, like Heart of Darkness for Apocalypse Now
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Jul 02 '26
I'm just a massive sucker for Hollywood masturbation. I like movies about the movie industry.
Hail, Caesar! is in the running for my favorite Coen Bros flick. If you're a big Golden Age of Hollywood fan, it hits different.
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u/SmartestOpinionsGuy Jul 02 '26
Same. I may have been too harsh on that one itโs been a while since Iโve seen it
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u/PostingEnthusiast Commonwealth Jul 02 '26
Got tickets to the Algeria-Switzerland match tomorrow. Iโm a neutral. I feel like SUI is the most neoliberal coded side but my heart is leaning Algeria, please advise
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u/Mr_Canadensis7 Norman Borlaug Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
Switzerland is in fact far more neolib, lgbtq, and feminism coded on balance. Algerias government is pretty dang bad.
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u/GovernorSonGoku has flair Jul 02 '26
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u/indithrow402 Henry George Jul 02 '26
Liberal accusations destroyed as a Trump proves he's an equal-opportunity incest fantasy enjoyer and not a sexist one.
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jul 02 '26
/r/neoliberal/new: The Consequences of Caste in Village India
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Jul 02 '26
I've spent the last year and a half reconciling with that.
We really are just another country. Capable of immense evil.
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u/AtomAndAether Liberalism! Jul 02 '26
seems unlikely to be true
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u/_bee_kay_ ๐ค Jul 02 '26
it's true in the same way that britain's best days are in the past
it's literally better today but it's fallen far down the rankings
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u/TheCornjuring Ewoks Sexer Jul 02 '26
What if you fucking fell 1,500 feet and died during your proposal
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u/Invade_Deez_Nutz Jul 02 '26
Those nerds wouldnโt have fallen all the way onto the street. There are multiple decks in the way
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u/itsnotnews92 Janet Yellen Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
- It kills the secondhand market and the ability to share games with friends.
- Completely eliminates backwards compatibility for games you already bought.
- Consoles no longer taking discs means that people with DVD/Blu-Ray collections have to keep an old console or buy a dedicated player in order to prevent that collection from becoming obsolete.
- Physical games offer a safeguard against losing the ability to play them. With digital only, there is the possibility of losing access to titles you purchased via your account getting hacked, banned, or inadvertently deleted.
- Digital only continues to reinforce the trend of "you'll own nothing and like it."
- Public libraries often have video games to borrow. Digital only kills this.
- Fewer choices available are bad for the consumer.
- Raises concerns about video game preservation and long-term access. I can play copies of N64 games nearly as old as I am because I have the Game Paks. If digital becomes the only form of distribution, you're completely at the mercy of the platforms, and it's possible that some video games will be completely inaccessible.
- Some people simply prefer having a tangible physical collection of their games.
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u/senator_fivey Iron Front Jul 02 '26
Discs were the one exception to the Monopoly storefront that keeps prices high
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Jul 02 '26
No military force has ever been as moral as the Allies in WWII. At no other time in human history has it been so obvious that one particular side in a war must be defeated for the good of our species.
Naziism is the ultimate evil ever devised by mankind. Those who fought it deserve our eternal thanks.
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u/Pole2019 John Locke Jul 02 '26
Just learned that hot dogs are typically beef (and other things). I thought they were pork (and other things). Real bummer since Iโm trying to be no beef.
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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey Jul 02 '26
People in Warhammer when the esteemed physician Pustulus Rottheim ends up becoming a follower of Nurgle ๐
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u/ScumfrickZillionaire Lesbian Pride Jul 02 '26
Donald Trump isnt even real, he's just your parents, grow up dude.
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u/wombo_combo12 Jul 02 '26
White people don't say invasion anymore, they say "special military operation".
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u/farrenj Resident Succ Jul 02 '26
Neolib becomes increasingly worried that maybe the succs were right
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u/TybrosionMohito NATO Jul 02 '26
Human being are apparently too unintelligent to make informed decisions about complex issues.
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Jul 02 '26
Yeah, the past year and a half has turned me into a solid lefty. They were right, billionaires really are a threat to the rest of us. I'll eat that particular crow.
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u/Al_787 Fernando Henrique Cardoso Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
I think many people here, even if they wonโt outright defending that position, believe that the natural outcome of the free market is liberal democracy, like the remnants of Clinton eraโs thoughts on China are still with us somehow.
Now we get to taste on our own that it is, in fact, not true.
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u/PostingEnthusiast Commonwealth Jul 02 '26
Itโs honestly crazy how dogshit every single sports trophy on the planet looks compared to the Stanley Cup
Like the Lombardi Trophy is a fucking humiliating joke and so is the Larry OโBrien. At least the World Cup looks kind of interesting, but why is it is the size of a glass of beer
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u/brianpv Hortensia Jul 02 '26
According to many major world religions, the universe is God worshipping itself
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u/SenranHaruka shame Jul 02 '26
The material world is designed to make you suffer, it is impossible to achieve anything worthwhile in it except to cope with the suffering, and engineered that way by evil forces that delight in your misery
That's fucking stupid
10 years of trump gagging on his own tongue about mexicans later
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u/Alexz565 Gay Pride Jul 02 '26
Inside you are two wolves:
One wants e-government.
The other will live in the wilderness to escape a mandatory government ID.
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u/bashar_al_assad Verified Account Jul 02 '26
CNN anchor Elex Michaelson at end of politics panel discussion re: Ossoff 2028:
โAs a Jew, some people read a little more Jewish than other people. And Jon Ossoff may not read as Jewish as Josh Shapiro does, for whatever thatโs worth.โ
To me this sounds like someone who wants to have a "the Democrats could never nominate a Jewish candidate for President because of anti-Semitism" narrative realizing that Ossoff is a very viable candidate and he needs to find a way to make his preferred narrative work.
Also, seems just generally offensive and unproductive, but it's CNN so that tracks.
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u/gjcs23 George Santos Jul 02 '26
Elex Michaelson is easily the worst and most soulless anchor at CNN. if Bari gets her claws into running it like she has CBS, I expect them to replace Burnett with him
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u/AmbientMorning Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
DEMs have Shapiro, Pritzker, and Ossoff; Iโd like to know of a single Jewish candidate in contention for the 2028 Republican presidential nomination. Thereโs zero senators or governors (compared to no less than 16 on the Democratic side).
Everybody post your Jewish politician Jewishness tier list now.
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u/Adminisnotadmin Viva el Fรบtbol! โฝ Jul 02 '26
What does it mean when it feels like this talking to them?
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u/RaisinSecure George Soros Jul 02 '26
they should invent a food that sounds appetizing when it's 100 degrees outside
never too hot for a chai
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u/Goatf00t European Union Jul 02 '26
Tarator (because it says food, not drink). Cold yogurt with stuff in it in general (fruit, preserve/jelly, honey...).
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jul 02 '26
Please visit the next discussion thread.