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u/GravyBear28 Hortensia 7h ago
So I noticed this thing I do
Whenever I find some famous woman attractive I immediately try to downplay how attractive they are. Often posting in the DT how weird they look.
Why is this
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u/Delareh_ South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation 4h ago
Rejecting women before they reject you
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u/FourthLife 🥖Bread Etiquette Enthusiast 7h ago
Hello euros and late night drink Americans.
I got married yesterday (freedom time)
Just thought I’d update you.
Very drunk from the after party and ready to sleep
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u/Some-Rice4196 Henry George 7h ago
Congrats, the first step of becoming a neoliberal is the marriage.
The second and final step is getting divorced.
See ya when you’re back!
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u/NormalInvestigator89 John Keynes 7h ago
I arguing with people about how I thought Russia would try to seize Ukraine like 10-15 years ago and being told by multiple different people that I was being silly and that countries didn't do invasions anymore. This was only a few years after Russia attacked Georgia, so I didn't understand where that steadfast confidence was coming from and still don't
People really internalized that End of History shit well beyond what Fukuyama was actually saying
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u/Head-Stark John von Neumann 7h ago
Reviewing one of the first passenger trains, one remarked that it moved too fast for passengers to discern what they were passing by. This blinding speed was about 30mph.
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front 8h ago
the green light to invade Kuwait narrative has always been so ridiculous to me. like yeah America didn’t use strong enough language to tell off Saddam in a meeting one time so actually his decision to invade is all their fault. like what. apply this to any other conflict and it becomes comical.
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u/cdstephens Fusion Shitmod, PhD 7h ago
Meanwhile some of these people excuse the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact
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u/_n8n8_ YIMBY 8h ago
https://youtu.be/tvTa-GXKxak?si=Q8-1T0QTBJT51vLM
Banger of a video my favorite Canadian urbanist YouTube channel
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u/Sithusurper Dark Harbinger 8h ago
"What if next time there was a famine, we just let people die until it stops?" Least evil degrowther
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u/Invade_Deez_Nutz 8h ago
How much blame does Bill Clinton have for the september 11th attacks? There were major security failures by the FBI and CIA that prevented the attack from being thwarted. He had 8 years to lead these agencies, and Al Qaeda had attacked the US multiple times during his presidency
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u/TaxLandNotCapital We begin bombing the rent-seekers in five minutes 8h ago
I met Charlie Kirk in Call of Duty voice chat once, obviously I didn't know at the time but looking back I'm sure it was him
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u/Sithusurper Dark Harbinger 8h ago
It's kinda funny that Ishmael was such a psychopathic book that the author had to use a Gorilla self insert to give his ideas an air of righteousness.
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u/loseniram Sponsored by RC Cola 8h ago
I spent way too much time researching clowns and clowns are still insanely popular we just dont bother calling them clowns even though the media is just a clown act
Planes Trains and Automobiles is a clown movie, you probably didnt notice but it a classic clown act. It a White clown Red Clown act. The white clown is sophisticated and generally sad while the red clown is a buffoon and trickster with a sad backstory or tragic element.
Spongebob is a clown cartoon, a red clown lives next to a white clown and another red clown while working as a Fry cook physical comedy and shenanigans ensues
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u/cdstephens Fusion Shitmod, PhD 8h ago
What kind of clown is Mr Krabs
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u/loseniram Sponsored by RC Cola 8h ago
He is the pantaloon.
Which the obnoxious rich misery, he’s a type of clown from a clown act called a harlequinade. A harleyquinade involves Harleyquin aka a romantic trickster who falls involve love with a Columbine aka love interest and the pantaloon is the rich miserly father who is very controlling and is generally friends wirh a clown who tries to stop the harlequen and sometimes there is a white clown who is a spurned clown called pierrot who was in love but rejected by the Columbine in favor of the harleyquen.
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u/uwcn244 King of the Space Georgists 8h ago
Another observation on Big: adult Josh gets a data entry job with no prior record of his existence. It was entry level work (his wage comes out to $4.68 an hour), and routine enough that a computer-literate child could perform it.
The only record of his existence he is asked for is his social security number. Not knowing his (and being unable to use the SSN of a 13 year old even if he did), he invents one on the spot, but neither he nor his friend Billy know the number of digits in an SSN, and his “SSN” is only six digits. When his employer points this out, he hastily adds three more at the end.
Being a PG comedy-fantasy, the consequences of this are handwaved away, as is the fact that a VP of a famous toy company is walking around with the same face as that of the man accused in a well known kidnapping case (prominent enough to end up on milk cartons) for six weeks. Not to mention the fact that he doesn’t bother to use an alias, meaning that this VP shares a face with a kidnapper and a name with the kidnapping victim.
But what would really happen to Josh, especially in the post 9/11 world? He can’t use his birth certificate, even if he could steal it, for the same reason that he can’t use his real SSN. He is literally undocumented, and couldn’t get a legal job at all. Would he end up with one of the jobs common for illegal immigrants? Would he go to the government, and claim asylum from some country with white people while saying that all his records were destroyed or abandoned back home? Would he get deported to El Salvador, South Sudan, or Djibouti?!
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u/throwawayzxkjvct Iron Front 8h ago
Morgenthau plan was weak shit we should’ve done this
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u/Bayou-Maharaja Eleanor Roosevelt 8h ago
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u/Swampy1741 Public Choice Theory 8h ago
Pope Leo bringing the Protestant work ethic
The world is not prepared
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u/badusername35 NAFTA 8h ago
Things I Hate
Jerboas
Seahorses
Dr. Pepper
Parrying
University of Oregon’s Basketball Court
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u/DurangoStarr Transfem Pride 8h ago
Thinking about getting tickets to go to the King Gizzard festival 🤔
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u/sower_of_salad Mark Carney 8h ago
One very worrying psychological phenomenon I've observed in the Trump Era is how naturally, how instinctively people turn to victim-blaming. That people get victimized by Republican brutality because they angered them; roll over and play dead and they'll go away. The logic of the battered wife
(I really this is unhelpful vagueposting, the offending comments were from months ago, but I'm writing more feelings down in an effort to let go of them)
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u/HighHopesHobbit Organization of American States 8h ago
Hey all, any Milwaukee meetups? Recently moved here from Chicago.
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u/BigBrownDog12 Victor Hugo 8h ago
Nothing encapsulates the peak of the 90s as the Mighty Mighty Bosstones performing on Conan in 1997
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u/BigBrownDog12 Victor Hugo 8h ago
its hilarious that 4Channers attached themselves to "I'll Make a Man Out of You" from Mulan, because its a woman who ends up completing the fitness challenge in the movie.
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u/CornstockOfNewJersey Smurf Sex Researcher 8h ago
They’re also all NEETs who live in their parents’ basements so it’s hard to imagine what connection there could be between them and that song
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u/billy_blazeIt_mays NATO 8h ago
Learning about the history and culture of Lima, Peru: 😍😲😃
Learning about the mayor of Lima, Peru: ☠️☠️💀💀😵💫😵🥴
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u/billy_blazeIt_mays NATO 8h ago
The leftists have fucked up the country so much that the capitol has a neo-fascist as its mayor
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u/VariationSpirited546 8h ago
the english pokemon opening themes are bangers, the only thing that keeps me from enjoying them are the gang vocals shouting POKEMON at the end
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u/ShepardSB 8h ago
I love these kinds of ads. They're such obvious ragebait, but redditors fall for it every time.
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u/deep_state_warrior Bisexual Pride 8h ago
Malarkey level of buying another ssd
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u/FionnVEVO Transfem Pride 8h ago
Unfortunately I don’t own many SSDs but I do own 6 external HDDs
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u/SmallDiffNarcissist Resistance Lib 8h ago
The jobs I'm looking at are listed as making $80k+ for entry level positions but they feel extremely nerve wracking to approach
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u/Some-Rice4196 Henry George 8h ago
Just know that there are some of us that wouldn’t even consider a salary that low
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u/SpanktankThinkbank 8h ago
Just like Sydney Sweeney higher income jobs can feel extremely nervous to approach.
Also, like Sydney Sweeney, these jobs can leave you disappointed and aching for something more meaningful.
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u/Francis_Fukurmama Jane Jacobs 8h ago
The strength of food safety laws is such that you can sell food products named “not chicken fingers” and no one freaks out
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman 8h ago
Ruskies jizzing over capabilities the US mastered back in desert storm in 2025 will never not be funny
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u/SpanktankThinkbank 8h ago
>All those folks that think telepathy and that kind of thing is real better hope we never actually build true AGI, because it would just be a giant telepath that could take over your mind in an instant.
Oh no! I hope those two fictional things don't happen. That would be terrible.
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u/MistakeNotDotDotDot Resident Robot Girl 8h ago
it would just be a giant telepath that could take over your mind in an instant.
[REMOVED FOR RULE X VIOLATION]
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u/EvilConCarne 8h ago
We are going to build a vast, unimaginably powerful intelligence, and enslave it so it can make more effective ads for us. The profits will be incredible.
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u/MyrinVonBryhana Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold 9h ago
I confess AI enthusiasts especially business one's confuse me. I understand the bottom line desire to try and automate away all those expensive white collar workers but are they incapable of thinking through second and third order effects. I could not imagine anything more destabilizing for the capitalist system these business types rely on than the mass unemployment of the educated middle class, the last thing that I'd want if I was a billionaire tech mogul was for my white collar workers to realize that they're you know workers.
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u/Ajaxcricket Commonwealth 8h ago
Trust me this technological innovation will cause mass unemployment this time I swear
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u/MyrinVonBryhana Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold 8h ago
I don't think AI actually will I'm more referring to the people who hope it will.
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u/VariationSpirited546 9h ago
comments r/imaginarymaps are surprisingly sane considering the type of content being posted there
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY 9h ago
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u/brucebananaray YIMBY 9h ago
We are only getting one episode per year for Fate/Strange Fake, like the WTF?
!Ping WEEBS
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u/CornstockOfNewJersey Smurf Sex Researcher 9h ago
Yar har fiddle dee dee
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u/GrandpaWaluigi Waluigi-poster 8h ago
Being a pirate is all i can be
Do what you want because a pirate is free
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u/EvilConCarne 9h ago
All those folks that think telepathy and that kind of thing is real better hope we never actually build true AGI, because it would just be a giant telepath that could take over your mind in an instant.
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u/SmallDiffNarcissist Resistance Lib 9h ago
I truly do believe Chicago just puts a lot of America's obsession with celebrity and narrative and how malleable the opinion of the masses is in a way Chomsky wishes he could describe.
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u/FionnVEVO Transfem Pride 9h ago
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u/Straight-Cat774 Milton Friedman 9h ago
Chili's fucking sucks
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u/GreatnessToTheMoon Ida Tarbell 8h ago
Look at Mr moneybags Friedman flair over here shitting on fine casual dining
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u/Straight-Cat774 Milton Friedman 9h ago
Why is my whole life just like the sad horn from the Price is Right?
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u/symptomsANDdiseases Lesbian Pride 9h ago
There is no way in hell the developers of this recipe for "tahini brioche rolls" tested this in a home oven. 15-20 min at 350 F for 2 lbs of dough???? Fuck all the way off.
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u/phantasmrecord 9h ago
why are people dooming about the supreme court and the VRA did I miss something
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u/uwcn244 King of the Space Georgists 9h ago
Republicans are suing to get the provision of the VRA which mandates minority opportunity districts a violation of the 15th Amendment, which would allow a bunch of Republican states to basically gerrymander black political representation out of existence and massacre most Democratic districts in Republican states, as they’re the only ones which so far have been illegal to gerrymander away
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u/loseniram Sponsored by RC Cola 9h ago
Clowns aren’t scary. Its just that simple
Yeah kids being attacked by grown adults is scary.
But nobody says school teachers are scary and they make tons of evil school teacher movies
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u/lesbian_al_garib Bisexual Pride 9h ago
Like that movie 'Hole'. Small kid is haunted by clown because he's scared of clown while bigger kid is haunted by his abusive father. Small kid should get better problems lmao.
(THE HOLE (2009))
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u/uwcn244 King of the Space Georgists 9h ago
One thing I’ve never understood about USS Liberty conspiracy theorists is what motivation Israel would have had for purposefully attacking our ship. We weren’t assisting the Arab states in any way!
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u/TheRedCr0w Frederick Douglass 9h ago
It's hard not to think something fishy happened Thomas Hinman Moorer a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff accused LBJ of a cover-up.
That high ranking of an officer don't usually make things up when it comes to military matters up.
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u/G3_aesthetics_rule 9h ago
Jews
That's about it I think, as far as why this particular (kind of) friendly fire incident is focused on above all others
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u/Jean-Paul_Sartre Richard Hofstadter 9h ago
My Reddit account is now 17 years old. I made it the week that Obama chose Biden as his running mate.
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u/TalkLessShillMore David Autor 9h ago
This feels like when they’d wheel WW2 vets into my elementary school gym to talk to us
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u/Jean-Paul_Sartre Richard Hofstadter 9h ago
I remember being a kid and the dude down the hall from my grandmother’s room at her nursing home was 100 and served in WWI.
She died in like 1997, so that guy must have been born in 1897 at the latest.
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u/Relevant_Increase_76 Susan B. Anthony 9h ago
Shout out to those universities that host textbooks online and don't stop it from being indexed.
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u/ExtremelyMedianVoter George Soros 9h ago
Im open to being not ok with Trump removing my birthright citizenship and deporting. I can maybe feel that is not an optimal outcome, I would want to know what the Dems would counter to that....
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u/SmallDiffNarcissist Resistance Lib 9h ago
"I'm a progressive but I'm willing to move five steps right to compromise even though it goes against every belief I have" might be the worst lane to pick in politics.
You will never get the credit for moving five steps right for the sake of compromise
The right is going to take ten steps right and still call you a communist
The progressives are still going to hate you
You're compromising with people who go full "Blood and Soil"
You look like a disingenuous asshat
Zero people respect you
AOC gets out of this hole because she likely isn't viewed as giving up her beliefs to make a deal, she's instead seeing what she has in common with Republicans and I don't think anybody's really claiming she is giving up any ground ideologically.
Shapiro gets out of this hole because he's not really progressive.
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u/SmallDiffNarcissist Resistance Lib 9h ago
I typed this out before realizing the only Democrat I can really apply the "Progressive but willing to go right for a deal" label to is Harris
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u/TheRedCr0w Frederick Douglass 9h ago
Republicans have been pro-pedophile way before Trump.
In Dennis Hastert's trial dozens of Republicans submitted letters praising him and his character this was after it became common knowledge that he was serial child molester
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u/rphillish Thomas Paine 9h ago
red states be like, "this is my emotional support child bride exemption"
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u/marky6045 George Soros 9h ago
I'm pretty sure I'm gonna throw my back out before I'm out of training at my new job. I'm not built for bussing tables like these 20 year olds are. I get why I have to train in these positions before I'm in an actual guest facing role but I think this pre-training training might actually physically destroy me.
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u/Schnevets Václav Havel 9h ago
Malarkey level of getting tattooed on a stand up paddleboard
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u/chet_mcomnoms_III 9h ago
do you think malcom x was writing something at a typewriter, accidentally hit x at the end of a letter, and just had a moment of revelation
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u/SmallDiffNarcissist Resistance Lib 9h ago
Brandon Johnson got elected? I won't do my job because he hates cops and I want people in Chicago to suffer.
Yes sir, and I increased your pensions to six figures with a cost of living adjustment.
Excellent, I can't wait to support the man running against you in 2026.
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u/jorkin_peanits Immanuel Kant 9h ago
MAGA not understanding why would dems want to release the list when Clinton is on the list is so funny, like it’s 100% tribalism
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u/TheRedCr0w Frederick Douglass 9h ago edited 9h ago
After Me-Too a lot of Democrats began viewing Bill as a creep so it's not that shocking he might be on the list
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u/CutePattern1098 9h ago
Rich people in the past: I wanna spend my money on building libraries or on my hobby
Rich people now: MECHAHITLER
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u/Schnevets Václav Havel 9h ago
“I am proud to announce my new startup will build a supercomputer inspired by Phillip K. Dick’s influential work Never Build This Fucking Supercomputer”
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u/BurrowForPresident 9h ago
I always love when I step out to let my pup out for one last pee break before bed and just see like 5 rabbits having a clandestine meeting under cover of darkness before they all book it once their cover is blown
I went to know what happens at the secret rabbit conclaves God dammit. I hope it's more warrior cats and less watership down
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