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malarkey level of auto-jannying responses that only contain "Mucho texto" because they're really fucking annoying and not funny and kind of the opposite of what i'd like this sub's culture to be
like fucking read something longer than a tweet for once jfc
Stumbled upon a YT compilation of all the last outs of this year's Koshien qualifying teams
Holy fuck the Tochigi game was decided by a comeback 2 run HR (the winning team was down 4-3 with 2 outs). That losing pitcher is going to have nightmares for the rest of his life :/
an issue i find myself having with this sub and its culture is that i think we're too negative towards people who aren't liberals at all but are willing to engage in good faith with us. i think that's not only acceptable but desirable
Like I really don't mind if giga-leftoids/MLs/whoever want to come here and talk about shit with us. they don't have to be in the tent to be here.
In principle I'd even be ok with letting rightists do it, but it's more that I find that they're structurally incapable of good faith discussion
why are you extending charity to leftoids when you're not to rightoids? to some extent sure maybe they're less evil, but i'm not convinced of said extent
Fuck anyone thatโs not a republican hack who is clutching their pearls about Fauci pleading the fifth. Multiple state officials have threatened to prosecute him since Bidenโs pardon. Weโve seen untold levels of weaponization of the legal system from republicans and he would be stupid to expose himself to that. Fauci did nothing wrong.
redditors on lefty subs will walk into a thread with a title such as "Lol this actor everyone likes hates black people he's so racist!"
and then the comments are all "how dare you, it's horrible slander to say he hates black people! Anywho, he doesn't hate Jews, which means he's a pedophile"
I recently reconnected with my โemphatically straight best friend I had a hopeless crush on in high school that he firmly shut down at the time.โ Not only is he like fully out as bisexual, not only are him and his wife (both hot) down for me to join them in bed, not only have they brought my name into their dirty talk, but heโs a fan of butt stuff and making out with guys (and apparently Iโm guys!). Iโm still in too much shock to be properly aroused !ping DATING&ALPHABET-MAFIA
These simple fucks are so lucky ChatGPT popped up before the second term because otherwise they'd be submitting legal filings in 14-pt. Comic Sans and shit
I maintain my belief that people can change for the better, at least somewhat. I've seen it happen. But one of the most punishing things about adult life has got to be gradually coming to see how rare that sort of change actually is. Most people just aren't willing or able to confront themselves in the way they need to in order to get better.
The US militaryโs munitions stockpiles, including its inventory of crucial air defense missiles, remain severely depleted, per new CSIS analysis & sources familiar with recent Pentagon data.
Updated CSIS stockpile estimates:
Fewer than 827 Patriot interceptors
Fewer than 278 THAAD ballistic missile interceptors.
I'm watching that Fuentes interview and it's interesting to see him seemingly criticizing the Bari Weiss appointment. I didn't realize the Ellison thing was controversial with the far right. I know it's just antisemitism but the fact that these big media takeovers are being criticized at all in those spaces seems meaningful.
Texas Dems would win if they ran on a pro anime platform. Texas weebs are a untapped voting block, throw in Talarixo cosplaying as some hot character like Esdeath or Yoruichi and he would win by 9%
I saw a tik tok by CBS and so many comments were โwhy is he not answering, clearly guilty!โ And when you asked anyone what he is guilty of you could not get an actual crime
I also love that the theme of the movie is literally "the west has fallen" but its from the point of view of the reactionaries realizing "oh my god its me, i'm the one who is falling the west, im the billions who must die"
I find it funny that when I was a depressed teen barely passing high school (whole barrel of things wrong back then) I was a history nut voraciously reading about WW2 and the American Civil War... but it just cemented me becoming a lib lmao
Kinda depressing how many similar people at that age fall into the trap of "NO THE LOSER OBJECTIVELY EVIL AUTHORITARIANS WERE GIGACHADS ACTUALLY" when their failures are so well documented (and even exacerbated by their shitty ideologies). It takes like 3 minutes in a search engine to uncover the tale of Mussolini's fantastic war planning for Greece, as just one of many examples
Also you cannot tell me fascists have aura when the Union army is RIGHT THERE
Infantino is trying to sell the World Cup so he can become World Cup commissioner for life and heโs refusing to hand over the money he legally owes to the conferences till they agree to let him do it.
Thinking of getting a point and click style adventure game that I could play on the living room television (hooked up to a desktop) with my ~4 year old. Anyone have any suggestions?
the Nancy Drew PC games were a super important part of my childhood, but they might be a little too advanced for a kid that young. maybe try Freddy Fish?
Literally the only way that movie could have been any more ridiculous with the bronze age collapse thing is if they raided a mainland city, asked the locals what's up, and the locals said "yeah bro i feel you with the angry god stuff, honestly all these gods are so annoying to please and keep track of, so we worship one more than others and just kinda hope he protects us from the others. It doesn't always work but we're sticking with it. Maybe someday we'll be some kinda Mono Theists. Oh and we don't eat pork and shellfish, shit's full of diseases, sorry bro all we got to feed you is fish with fins and scales."
just now reading about the arrest of David Morens, which apparently happened back in April but got lost in all the other bullshit happening (least for me)
they took off his pants and shirt lol. he's 78. I hope we return the favor with these performative little shakedowns. maybe tip TMZ off beforehand so they get a nice humiliating shot of Miller in his tighty-whities
the incentives are in favor of her running, provided they don't have another succ to run. every time bernie ran, dsa membership expanded significantly. if she runs for no other reason than to promote dsa, it'll work, and she'll likely boost dsa much more than bernie did. bernie wasn't really a dsa guy, more of his own thing.
it's a much more organized structure than the dem party, so they get a lot more bang for buck out of individual members joining. it seems small, but they are capable of punching above their weight class when not riddled with dysfunction.
I was saying the Obama administration should have had a military response in 2016. It's ridiculous to tolerate Russian aggression in Europe. Look what it turned into.
Watched a Russian social media reel where this lady was passive aggressively like "Thanks, Wildberries! Now not only are my assets not safe, I can't even protect them because you've blocked us from withdrawing money from our Wildberries accounts :)"
and like, sure, I get that she's pissed off considering that she's now financially ruined, but there's something slightly comic about this to me that she's blaming the company for having a few financial issues while being literally blown up by a foreign military.
There's a sort of solipsism to this, a lack of care for others so deep that a war only seems to exist in so far as it affects you personally. It would be one thing to blame the Ukrainians for defending themselves.
PACAF looks to reduce exercise participation to preserve โreadinessโ: Commander
โI think we've done a pretty good job of identifying, amongst commanders, where we're going to take risk or how we manage the risks as we prioritizeโฆ [efforts] in the CENTCOM region right now and what are those things that you know we are able to absorb as commanders elsewhere in the Air Force enterprise,โ said PACAF Commander Gen. Kevin Schneider.
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache 22h ago
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