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[ { "content": "The GOP's big, mysterious enemy: \"They\"", "metadata": { "author": "Steve____Stifler", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1721334266, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "News (US)", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": "moderator", "score": 343, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "The GOP's big, mysterious enemy: \"They\"", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.97, "upvotes": 343 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "\"Well who's 'THEY'?? ... ... What the hell is an Aluminium Falcon?\"", "metadata": { "author": "mad_cheese_hattwe", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721336569, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 30, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 30 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\"Oh oh oh, I'm sorry, I thought my dark lord of the Sith could protect a small thermal exhaust port that's only two meters wide!\"", "metadata": { "author": "jad4400", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721339621, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 11, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 11 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "\"...He's _crying!_\"", "metadata": { "author": "SharkSymphony", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721341074, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 7, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 7 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Democratic Party Leaders Vow To Save Democracy By Overruling Voters, Staging Coup", "metadata": { "author": "Ask4MD", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1721521940, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Satire", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 668, "suggested_sort": "confidence", "title": "Democratic Party Leaders Vow To Save Democracy By Overruling Voters, Staging Coup", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.79, "upvotes": 668 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "If you want to watch a liberals head spin and or explode ask them…\n\nHow did Russia influence & steal the 2016 election, but by 2020 cheating elections was impossible and the US has the most secure elections ever.", "metadata": { "author": "Benni_Hana", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721522887, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 127, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 127 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "That’s easy, you’re conflating two things. As you said, they “influenced” the election. “Cheating” elections was never possible, which is what MAGA claims happened in 2020.\n\nRussia influenced our election by running bot/troll farms to spread fake news and other styles of online campaigns, with fake accounts pretending to be both sides but shifting conversations the way they wanted. That’s a long winded way to say they very effectively spread propaganda. They social engineered, not hacked an insecure election system. \n\nThey also did other things, such as hacking the Clinton campaign, and I don’t doubt at all that they have a lot of serious dirt on Trump and other Republican politicians and used that to their advantage to control them while boosting them.\n\nIt really should not surprise you that Putin wanted nothing more than Trump to be in power, you can’t deny how much Trump loves to talk about him and buddied up a lot during his presidency.", "metadata": { "author": "[deleted]", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721533948, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": -77, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": -77 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "If Putin wanted Trump in power, and then Trump became president, why didn't Russia capitalize then? Why was the Trump administration the only administration during which Putin didn't grab additional territory going back 20 years? Why did Trump repeatedly tell Angela Merkel to stop relying on Russian energy exports? Why did Trump order South Korea to hold onto billions in Iranian money - Iran being a regional ally of Russia? You're making absolutely no sense.\n\n\"Russia influenced our election by running bot/troll farms to spread fake news and other styles of online campaigns, with fake accounts pretending to be both sides but shifting conversations the way they wanted. That’s a long winded way to say they very effectively spread propaganda. They social engineered, not hacked an insecure election system.\"\n\nA few thousand Facebook messages going out to boomers was not what was initially sold to the American people when Russia-gate rose to become mainstream news. What a crock. Russia-gate was an illegal affair that succeeded in preventing Trump from fully exercising his powers as president for the first 2 years of his term. The Obama WH used gossip that their own intelligence officials rated as suspect to tap into Trump tower and spy on the Trump campaign. And it's always interesting how Russia is uniquely targeted for this when other countries - including Ukraine - did the exact same thing, but they get no scrutiny because they boosted the Clinton campaign: [https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump-backfire-233446](https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump-backfire-233446)\n\n\"https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump-backfire-233446\"\n\nFulton County this year has to work with an independent overseer and the state of Georgia because they improperly ran their recounts in 2020-2021 violating state law. They weren't matching the signatures on envelopes to the databank. Their rejection rate thus went down to <1% whereas conservative counties following the law had a much higher rejection rate. That likely flipped the state of Georgia. I call that cheating.", "metadata": { "author": "EntranceCrazy918", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721539547, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 48, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 48 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Why dont you take this before the court? Oh wait, you did. 50 times", "metadata": { "author": "SpaceTimeChallenger", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721559487, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": -9, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": -9 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I don't know why you're not addressing the points provided. Instead you're deflecting to court petitions in which the majority were dismissed for mootness or laches - which is not a ruling on merits. The courts determined it was too late to do anything. Is that really the 'own' you think it is? That judges didn't allow for a trial to actually occur because it was too late to remedy the problems? I'm addressing the Trump campaign lawsuits, not the random ones from grifters like Sydney Powell. We can all agree those lawsuits were batshit insane, which is why I'm thankful the Trump campaign and Tucker called her out.\n\nFulton County has been ordered by the state to have their elections observed by an independent agency because they did not properly count ballots.\n\nWhich is it? Is Fulton County properly running their elections, or not? So at the very best and charitable interpretation, Democrat counties were incompetent in a way that benefited themselves? And Trump was not supposed to call that out?\n\n[https://www.ajc.com/politics/fulton-backs-plan-to-bring-in-experts-to-oversee-2024-elections/VYIIIONJFVB7HLSGFF7IJXTUDE/](https://www.ajc.com/politics/fulton-backs-plan-to-bring-in-experts-to-oversee-2024-elections/VYIIIONJFVB7HLSGFF7IJXTUDE/)", "metadata": { "author": "EntranceCrazy918", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721562381, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 13, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 13 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Why Are Democrats Sticking With Biden? Ask The Unions.", "metadata": { "author": "Mynameis__--__", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1720595843, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Article", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 49, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Why Are Democrats Sticking With Biden? Ask The Unions.", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.82, "upvotes": 49 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Oooo, this is a tricky one for our troll community. What kind of stupid shit will they come up with?\n\nI was reading some of the anti-Biden left subs to see how they would frame the squad supporting Biden. The galaxy brained theory they came up with is that if the squad opposed Biden, that the hatred for the squad would galvanize the liberals into supporting Biden even more strongly than they already do. So, by supporting Biden, they limit his support. this is a level of idiocy that’s very hard to fathom .I really do hope these people are Russian bots because how are we supposed to deal with people this dim in our movement? \n\nAnd of course, there are plenty of highly intelligent leftists. This is a small minority of idiots and certainly not representative of the larger group. but we have so many of them in this sub. Why? They hate us they hate Pakman\n what’s the point?", "metadata": { "author": "-_ij", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720597863, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 10, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 10 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Man. I agree w I agree with the extreme left 90% of the time. I can even imagine their idealized utopia, no matter which one they have, but they aren’t living in reality. \n\nI hate the dem party due to their fecklessness. They way they seem weak and allow the Republican Party to do whatever they want. \n\nAnd they call me liberal because I want to vote for the Democratic Party. I don’t care who the candidate is at this point because we need to defeat Trump and MAGA. They call it blue MAGA if you support Biden. If they put Kamala in, I would support her.", "metadata": { "author": "Dogstarman1974", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720606059, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 3, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 3 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Ardvark.", "metadata": { "author": "-_ij", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720618024, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 0, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 0 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Americans may have it particularly bad with Trump but it's not much different here in Europe. Democracy is amazing if most people are acting in good faith, but when countries that are highly incentivized to annihilate you have carte blanche to act however they want and tell whatever lie of the day WITH ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY to confuse normal people reading headlines, they **will** utilize that shit to the fullest extent. I can't fathom how it's allowed to completely take over \"the town square\" as they love to put it, fill it with russian bots and use it as a megaphone to try and win an election. This shit doesn't just affect NA, I don't even want to repeat the insane shit I've read in my language on twitter, largely influenced by MAGA and Russian disinformation campaigns. I don't even know if half of them are real or not.\n\nHearing Destiny list off like 50 recent conspiracies off the top of his head made my stomach turn. I have family members that word for word repeat Russian disinformation, and when you sit them down and explain step by step how this shit is directly linked to Russia or Putin (who they of course don't endorse! but Putin makes a lot of sense!! and both sides are bad!!!), or even magically have the perfect evidence to disprove whatever talking point, they will rattle off whatever bullshit conspiracies that reinforce that. These people are not uninformed, they are **successfully disinformed**, they LOVE getting educated in disinformation because it makes them feel smart, and they love throwing around snide comments from whatever regarded talking head they last heard of. Their house of cards is made of BRICS and it needs to be properly fucking demolished, but I have no idea how to go about fixing this...\n\nI feel like regulating the internet is the only way for democracy to survive but how would that even work? How do you regulate disinformation campaigns?", "metadata": { "author": "Liiraye-Sama", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1728896698, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Discussion", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 42, "suggested_sort": "confidence", "title": " If democracy dies it will be at the hands of an unregulated the internet (Russian disinfo). ", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.86, "upvotes": 42 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Social media companies should be held more liable for content their algorithms promote. \n\nIf The NY Times runs an article tomorrow wrongfully stating that Brad Pitt is a pedophile, he can sue them for defamation. \n\nIf a Facebook post wrongfully asserts that Brad Pitt is a pedophile, and Facebook’s algorithm artificially spreads that post to everyone on the platform, Meta should be open to liability as well.", "metadata": { "author": "KKsEyes", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1728905853, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 4, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 4 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "I think giving these companies all or nothing 230 protections is where we might be making a mistake.\n\nI just don't know how you delineate between \"hey this guy is followed by most of the people you follow, check out this post of theirs going viral\" and \"this is the type of content our algorithm wants to push to people.\"\n\nAt what point does designing an algorithm become an editorial choice? I don't think we're gonna get an answer to that until these algorithms become at least somewhat transparent.", "metadata": { "author": "dolche93", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1728907093, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 2, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 2 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I think if you just reverse the causation it would fix the problem. Just assume that any company running a non transparent algorithm is exercising editorial control and boom.\n\nThe problem is that there is probably a lot of stuff in those algorithms that would actually cause outrage if they were public.", "metadata": { "author": "DazzlingAd1922", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1728910546, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 2, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 2 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "By presidential decree only non citizens may vote in the BT, same as US elections", "metadata": { "author": "dubyahhh", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1720518353, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Megathread", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 269, "suggested_sort": "new", "title": "Biden Megathread Part 7", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.83, "upvotes": 269 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Breaking news: President Biden shows off reading skills at NATO summit", "metadata": { "author": "Tall_Professor_2574", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720562063, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 26, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 26 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "You’re so mad right now", "metadata": { "author": "Yarville", "controversiality": 1, "created_utc": 1720562093, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": -11, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": -11 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "He is going to lose. Yes, we're mad.", "metadata": { "author": "SelfLoathinMillenial", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720562230, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 14, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 14 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "RemindMe! November 6", "metadata": { "author": "Yarville", "controversiality": 1, "created_utc": 1720562249, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I know you'll have fun gloating but we'll be too relieved to care.", "metadata": { "author": "MontusBatwing", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720563149, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Trump Bobs His Head to Music for 30 Minutes in Odd Town Hall Detour", "metadata": { "author": "l-Am-Him-1", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1728995617, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Soft Paywall", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 292, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Trump Bobs His Head to Music for 30 Minutes in Odd Town Hall Detour", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.96, "upvotes": 292 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "This would be hilarious if it wasn't so scary. The AP article didn't mention that Trump needed one of his handlers to come on stage – after 40 minutes – and take him away.\n\n>After offering what appeared to be a closing statement and having his campaign play a James Brown song, Mr. Trump suggested taking another question or two. As the crowd cheered in approval, he said, “let’s go,” but then said he’d play “Y.M.C.A.” and send the crowd home.\n\n>But after “Y.M.C.A.” ended, Mr. Trump seemed a little perplexed. “There’s nobody leaving,” he said. “What’s going on?” The audience cheered, and so the music kept going, as Ms. Noem stood awkwardly by, and many in the audience seemed unsure about whether the event was over.\n\n>Still, as one song became two, then three, many of those in the back of the house began to filter out. As the opening chords of the Guns N’ Roses power ballad “November Rain” played, one of Mr. Trump’s aides, Justin Caporale, came on the stage with a sheet of paper. Mr. Trump briefly reviewed what had been handed to him, and the two chatted briefly. Then, seconds later, Mr. Trump decided he’d had his fill. He waved, pumped his fist, and finally made his way off the stage.", "metadata": { "author": "Dianneis", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1728995910, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Holy shit. Who needs an October surprise when this is what we’re working with?", "metadata": { "author": "ReklisAbandon", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1728996098, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Imagine if Harris still lost to this? This is what keeps me up at night now… I really just want Election Day to get here already .", "metadata": { "author": "AMediaArchivist", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1728998502, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Taybor Pepper shares his thoughts on the \"DEI\" dogwhistlers.", "metadata": { "author": "Celeroni", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1720495653, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Twitter", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 452, "suggested_sort": "confidence", "title": "Taybor Pepper shares his thoughts on the \"DEI\" dogwhistlers.", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.92, "upvotes": 452 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "you cant shit on X subject otherwise you're a racist, what a brilliant take! goofy ass 10 year late on the leftoid meta", "metadata": { "author": "NemoSnako", "controversiality": 1, "created_utc": 1720499319, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": -6, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": -6 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "DEI is so minor and composes so little of anyone’s day to day life, let alone any company’s practices, that “shitting” on it is so obviously anti black people in the workplace. \n\nThat’s why idiots like the End Wokeness Twitter account said he won’t fly on a plane if he sees a black pilot. Its not “dei”.", "metadata": { "author": "Rubbersoulrevolver", "controversiality": 1, "created_utc": 1720503033, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": -3, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": -3 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Kamala had to drop out in the 2020 election before ANY primary votes happened because she was polling so atrociously. There are articles from all the major places at the time saying why she should be nominated for Vice President. The VAST majority of them led with \"She would be the first black, female vice president! She is qualified of course too!\" How is that not leading with race/sex being the prime example of why they are picking her?\n\nShe literally was picked because of it. And now just utilizing the language of the left / HR departments, it is called racist. It is so crazy.", "metadata": { "author": "[deleted]", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720503753, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 21, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 21 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Kamala harris is literally the most popular besides bernie and biden of the primary candidates. what are you talking about? She also consistently had the best debate performances. \n\nThere are people excited about representation and sometimes people get cringe with it but when you accuse people of not being qualified and only getting the job because of their race with absolutely no basis for that claim, you are being racist. If you wanted to argue that Kamala Harris was a DEI hire, you'd attack her credentials and competency, you wouldn't bring up random articles no one remembers.", "metadata": { "author": "swagy_swagerson", "controversiality": 1, "created_utc": 1720505916, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": -2, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": -2 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "She has a historically low approval rating for VP. Nothing \"bad\" has really happened during this presidency besides meh inflation compared to the 70s. She literally was so unpopular in the 2020 election primary that she dropped out before votes happened.\n\nWhen you say \"no one remembers\" is this an appeal to stupidity? Or is it of memory loss? Not all of us are Joe's age trying to defend other old people. If you want to put Kamala up for election if Biden drops out, you will instantly lose. She is LESS POPULAR than Biden despite his age. Think how uncharismatic that means she is. This has NOTHING TO DO WITH HER RACE OR SEX. Fucking democrats/leftists always make it about immutable traits. It is because you cannot argue anything besides moral theory of weighted guilt. Fuck off.", "metadata": { "author": "[deleted]", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720510286, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 6, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 6 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": ">It is because you cannot argue anything besides moral theory of weighted guilt. Fuck off.\n\nget off your soapbox dipshit. literally where did I say this fucking mongoloid regard fuck. go jump off the nearest skyscraper fucking asswipe.\n\nit's an appeal to the fact that the existence of these articles don't fucking matter. Since you care so much about characteristics that aren't immutable, I'm still waiting on why she's a bad vp pick but based on her credentials or competency. Even if she currently has the worst approval rating of any VP, you are trying to imply that she was a bad choice at the time in retrospect. What is your justification for saying she was a bad choice in 2020 when she was easily the best choice among clownshows like warren and klobuchar. Who the fuck else would Biden have picked Mr. Regard?", "metadata": { "author": "swagy_swagerson", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720513121, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 6, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 6 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "She slept with the DA to get jobs initially in CA. Then she worked her way up to the DA. Then the senate then the VP. She literally slept her way to get a start in politics.\n\nShe literally, I MEAN LITERALLY, dropped out before a vote was done in the 2020 primary because her polling was so bad. She was losing in her own state. She has one of the lowest approval ratings EVER as a VP. It is obvious Buttigieg should have been picked for VP, Biden was already winning with the black vote by a landslide. Maybe Biden shouldn't have said \"if you don't vote for me, you ain't black.\" but I digress.\n\nKamala is hated by like 85% of the country. She thought that putting mothers in jail because of truancy would fix the problem. She flip flopped of weed 4 times while being the DA. She is actually an evil person that doesn't care about people.", "metadata": { "author": "[deleted]", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720549408, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "There’s a Reason Trump Is Suddenly Lying About Project 2025", "metadata": { "author": "newzee1", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1720552318, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 4700, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "There’s a Reason Trump Is Suddenly Lying About Project 2025", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.96, "upvotes": 4700 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Because independent/undecided voters might be absolutely repulsed and terrified by 2025? Maybe that’s why he’s lying. It’s called damage control.", "metadata": { "author": "atomsmasher66", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720552585, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1297, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1297 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "But let’s belabor Biden’s debate performance for the next three monrhs instead of hammering on this!", "metadata": { "author": "nebbyb", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720554435, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 456, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 456 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Trump was listed in the Epstein papers over 60 times. What’s really important though is Biden acting like an old man.", "metadata": { "author": "Ewoksintheoutfield", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720556064, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 361, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 361 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Trump published his plan to overthrow the government and got the Supreme Court to go along with it. But what’s really important is Biden is old and you shouldn’t question that.", "metadata": { "author": "Ok-Exercise-6812", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720564809, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 40, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 40 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "The thing is, it's not Trump's plan. It's the plan of a bunch of smarter people, who know they can use Trump to enact it. (And they know that a lot of it will appeal to Trump.)", "metadata": { "author": "eregyrn", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720587830, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 15, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 15 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "[removed]", "metadata": { "author": "[deleted]", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1720898067, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Media", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": "deleted", "score": 131, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Based.", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.8, "upvotes": 131 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "AOC and Bernie generally suck, but in no way shape or form are they Marxist-Leninist. You should feel bad OP.", "metadata": { "author": "Elan-Morin-Tedronai", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720900513, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 62, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 62 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "They are sheepdogs for MLs. They herd radicals to support liberals", "metadata": { "author": "Whilst-dicking", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720900747, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": -12, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": -12 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "They're just the reasonably farthest left, that's it, bernies most radical idea was probably his 20% employee ownership position. That's a far step from socialism under most historical definitions and non existent under any communist definitions. It's not really fair to tar them just because people with absolutely no plan to enact their unworkable ideas find them to be their closest comparison.", "metadata": { "author": "Bridivar", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720902580, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 10, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 10 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "MAGA Rages at Kyle Rittenhouse for Not Backing Trump: 'Disloyal'", "metadata": { "author": "Mront", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1722617986, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 676, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "MAGA Rages at Kyle Rittenhouse for Not Backing Trump: 'Disloyal'", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.94, "upvotes": 676 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "They paid for his trial gave him a grifting career and he said nah not riding with yall.", "metadata": { "author": "Rare-Ad-9088", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1722618350, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Conservatives were investing in his future but it appears that he blew it. He’s now a mouthpiece for an extremist gun rights group in Texas.\n\nPolitical Flare - [Kyle Rittenhouse’s Former Handler Reveals That He’s a Middle School Dropout Who is ‘Angry With the World’](https://www.politicalflare.com/2024/04/kyle-rittenhouses-former-handler-reveals-that-hes-a-middle-school-dropout-who-is-angry-with-the-world/)\n\nHouston Chronicle - [Texas Gun Rights names Kyle Rittenhouse new outreach director](https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/article/texas-gun-rights-kyle-rittenhouse-19509109.php)", "metadata": { "author": "Arrmadillo", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1722620700, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Man, how short a stick you gotta pull to land a position as shitty as \"Kyle Rittenhouse Handler\"?", "metadata": { "author": "GearBrain", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1722622788, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Piers's Priorities", "metadata": { "author": "degradedbagel", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1720216697, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Shitpost", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1154, "suggested_sort": "confidence", "title": "Piers's Priorities", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.92, "upvotes": 1154 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "If the sitting president isn't able to perform his duties as president that is a straightforward subversion of democracy. A lot of people here seem to not understand why this even matters and makes people so uncomfortable.", "metadata": { "author": "indican_king", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720217054, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": -38, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": -38 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "There is no indication he can't perform his duties. That's just being extrapolated from a poor debate performance.", "metadata": { "author": "FreeWillie001", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720218738, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 44, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 44 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "The debate performance is an indication among others. There's no evidence that he can perform his duties. All he would have to do is hold a press conference, but he won't. There isn't a single unscripted public appearance in past years where biden is challenged on anything, save that debate.", "metadata": { "author": "indican_king", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720219127, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": -16, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": -16 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "There's no evidence that he can perform his duties? How about the duties of the president being carried out daily?", "metadata": { "author": "FreeWillie001", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720219164, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 24, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 24 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "There's no way to know he is actually making any decisions. Based on his public appearances it is a stretch to believe he is capable of such a thing, and is likely submitting to advisors, which is a subversion of democracy. He needs to demonstrate his ability to handle a single challenging public interaction. There's no transparency whatsoever.", "metadata": { "author": "indican_king", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720219396, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": -18, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": -18 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "We aren't electing a dictator. A president who listens to their cabinet, and does what they recommend most of the time, is what you want. The president's job is to find good advisors and listen to them.", "metadata": { "author": "dan-cave", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720227134, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 4, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 4 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I want a president who does what the voters mandate", "metadata": { "author": "indican_king", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720232566, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Trump could have been struck by shrapnel instead of bullet, says FBI director", "metadata": { "author": "iknowiknowwhereiam", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1721912603, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 337, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Trump could have been struck by shrapnel instead of bullet, says FBI director", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.94, "upvotes": 337 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "It really doesn't matter at this point, its was an assassination attempt and an innocent man died.", "metadata": { "author": "hellocattlecookie", "controversiality": 1, "created_utc": 1721912783, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Actually it matters a lot whether or not he was actually hit considering that he is going around acting like a national hero who took a bullet for the country.", "metadata": { "author": "lifeofrevelations", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721913001, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Not just that, he is LITERALLY SAYING he took a bullet for this country and he just didn't.", "metadata": { "author": "AmbivalentFanatic", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721915111, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "I think we all agree.", "metadata": { "author": "BertTKitten", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1720611911, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 285, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "George Stephanopoulos admits camera caught him doubting Biden can complete second term", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.95, "upvotes": 285 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I don’t care if he completes the term. It’s not a requirement.", "metadata": { "author": "southsidebrewer", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720614551, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": -21, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": -21 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "If he just keeled over that would be one thing. If he gets more debilitated to the point that he can barely do the job, will he resign gracefully? I fucking doubt it. His circle will attack anyone who says anything like they’ve done for the last couple years. Would the cabinet invoke the 25th Amendment? That’s completely untested.\n\nI’ve been seeing dumb shit from liberals like it doesn’t matter if Biden is out to lunch half the time because they think all the president does is wave at cameras and sign bills put in front of him. The president sometimes has to deal with crisis situations and those can come at anytime. It’s really bullshit to offer a candidate no one thinks is healthy enough to do the job for the full term.", "metadata": { "author": "BertTKitten", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720617712, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": true, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 24, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 24 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Is Michael Bennet a liberal? Is AOC a liberal? Liberal is not a useful word for distinguishing among democratic voters. It’s a word that Republicans use for every single person that votes for democrats.", "metadata": { "author": "CloudTransit", "controversiality": 1, "created_utc": 1720619840, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 0, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 0 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Yeah, it wasn’t very precise. Lately I’ve seen people referring to moderate democrat types as liberals and people to the left of that as leftists. I probably should have just said I’ve seen Biden supporters making that argument.", "metadata": { "author": "BertTKitten", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720622181, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": true, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 7, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 7 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Michael Bennet, the Colorado Senator, would fit that definition of liberal, but he’s pressing the panic button on Biden. I’d say centrists are a big part of Biden’s problem. My policy preferences are totally with the Squad, but I want Biden to graciously step aside. If I can’t get what I want, I hope to still get what I need (Trump losing)", "metadata": { "author": "CloudTransit", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720625817, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 3, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 3 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Josh Shapiro: ‘Tim Walz Is Exceptionally Strong’", "metadata": { "author": "gmb92", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1722982928, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 982, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Josh Shapiro: ‘Tim Walz Is Exceptionally Strong’", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.99, "upvotes": 982 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Shapiro brought the house down. The guy can work a crowd like it's nobody's business.", "metadata": { "author": "SwoleBuddha", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1722983054, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "That’s actually a big reason why I couldn’t endorse Shapiro as her VP pick. \n\nHe would guarantee Pennsylvania, a critical battleground state… However, any urgency for nominating Shapiro (just for his roots) assumes that Pennsylvania couldn’t be won without him. \n\nIf Kamala was confident that her campaign had something Trump didn’t (which polls say she does), then the right choice was always to pick somebody that appealed to a wide national audience. Because of Shapiro’s baggage, he was never the wide audience pick; he was the Pennsylvania pick.\n\nShapiro will lock in Pennsylvania for Kamala even without being her VP. Walz will present as someone with enormously likeable character and as an extreme anti-thesis to Trump’s bully-like public persona.", "metadata": { "author": "ToastyCinema", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1722984350, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "This is silly. Locking in PA is so critical. All trump needs to win is PA and GA. If we take PA out, it makes it much harder. All the folks that don't understand EC here...", "metadata": { "author": "fadeaway_layups", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1722987012, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "He must realize he's giving Nick Fuentes exactly what he wants.", "metadata": { "author": "Imaginary-Mission383", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1720730191, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Question", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 48, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "if Dr. Peterson hates trolls so much, why does he feed them so regularly and well?", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.76, "upvotes": 48 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "He has an addictive personality and is addicted to the dopamine spike from outrage. He lacks self awareness around his propensity for addiction.", "metadata": { "author": "bigskymind", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720753456, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 12, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 12 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "I think that’s a bit harsh. ", "metadata": { "author": "Previous_Doubt7424", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720760730, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Not inaccurate.", "metadata": { "author": "Illustrious-Red-8", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720885924, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Praying to god trump loses. Incase he wins. Its the democratic establishments fault 1000000%. DONT BLAME THE VOTERS! Or even those who didnt vote. Voters pledge no loyalty, we dont live among kings and queens and no candidate is owed a vote. The fight for our vote shouldnt have to rely on is being well read on the matters at hand. This election being so close should be an embarrassment and shameful for the left/liberals/democrats alike. Especially when our ideas and goals are more popular. \n\nI hope to wake up and see a harris/walz win. Ty to all who did vote. ", "metadata": { "author": "Supreme_Salt_Lord", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1730863248, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "2024 Election", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 13, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Just a reminder", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.89, "upvotes": 13 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Supporting genocide is bad", "metadata": { "author": "abuchewbacca1995", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1730863992, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "You can have genocide lite or genocide", "metadata": { "author": "Supreme_Salt_Lord", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1730864037, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": true, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "No suh thing as genocide lite", "metadata": { "author": "abuchewbacca1995", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1730864057, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "I was forced to join this sub\n\nJust wanted to put this out there - because I saw some other people mentioning it. \n\nI joined this sub a few days ago because at this point in time the reddit echo chamber of liberal opinions has just been going haywire to the point where I feel like I’m just constantly reading government AI propaganda (dead internet theory) \n\nListen, I’ve always known Reddit to be a liberal place and I mostly got into it for my more particular interests to keep up on news (video games/music) but recently it’s just been completely off the scale to where it’s not even a forum anymore. \n\nEvery single recommended post I get is completely biased against half the country, against the previous president, and they think that they are against the world. It’s just frustrating when you’re trying to find some actual good conversation when all you hear is the same talking points and jokes over and over again.\n\nAs a result I literally had to go and find some, any form of actual dissenting opinions and discussions, which lead me to here. So thank you!\n\nThat’s all I had to say, just had to get it off my chest. Thanks for reading, and wish you all some peace of mind if you remain on this app🤣", "metadata": { "author": "TheDog00", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1721397272, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1251, "suggested_sort": "confidence", "title": "I had to take refuge in this subbreddit", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.7, "upvotes": 1251 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Welcome to the side of Reddit that still has actual discussion.", "metadata": { "author": "GentryMillMadMan", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721401952, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 199, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 199 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Is this only for conservative discussion? Or can independent voters participate as well", "metadata": { "author": "Pretend_file_1216", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721405235, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 32, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 32 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "So long as you are here for honest discussion, most users of r/conservative aren't going to care what your political affiliation is, whether it's left, right, or center. I think I speak for most of us when I say that.", "metadata": { "author": "Hearts-Heroes", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721405840, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 64, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 64 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Just curious, feel like I haven't heard anything on that in a while.", "metadata": { "author": "lordofthexans", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1720806104, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Question", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 0, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Anyone know if he's still eating carnivore / keto?", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.4, "upvotes": 0 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Why do people care about what JP eats? It's the weirdest thing.", "metadata": { "author": "BruceCampbell123", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720808668, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": -4, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": -4 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Most people stop carnivore after a couple years, I'm curious what people look like if they stay on it for extended periods of time.", "metadata": { "author": "lordofthexans", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720808869, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": true, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 2, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 2 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Aren't there carnivore diet forums and websites? Wouldn't it make sense to go to those places if you really wanted to know more about the diet and it's long term effects?", "metadata": { "author": "BruceCampbell123", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720809019, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": -5, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": -5 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Donald Trump no longer betting favorite to win election", "metadata": { "author": "mmafan666", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1723241258, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Paywall", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 919, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Donald Trump no longer betting favorite to win election", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.98, "upvotes": 919 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Fucking duh. There's no way he wins. An overwhelming majority of voters from all over the political spectrum have been quite vocal about how they want literally anyone other than Trump or Biden, anyone who isn't a senior citizen. \n\nWell, one party gave them that. \n\nThe other is sticking with their unpopular old man.", "metadata": { "author": "WarpParticles", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1723241394, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Put your money up then.", "metadata": { "author": "Bonkeybick", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1723241762, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Exactly… it’s obvious going to be close, to close for me to put a large amount on that’s for sure.", "metadata": { "author": "Maximum_Cold3202", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1723245969, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Bernie, Come back! We need u!", "metadata": { "author": "jared10011980", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1721598961, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 433, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Bernie, Come back! We need u!", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.81, "upvotes": 433 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Kamala’s voting record isn’t bad and is certainly more progressive than *many* senators. She’s also not as rabidly pro-Israel as Biden (but that’s a low fucking bar). It’s very possible and even probable that she’ll govern more progressively than Biden.\n\nShe’s still a centrist neolib and a cop (prosecutor) that jailed a ton of minorities.\n\nBoth of these things can be true. We don’t need to be circle jerking Kamala, she’s not a leftist nor a beacon of progressivism. Voting for her is just a lesser of 2 evils situation, just like with Biden. It’s nice that she’s less evil than Biden though.", "metadata": { "author": "spotless1997", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721619884, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 654, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 654 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "If she's smart, she'll take a progressive VP and actually listen to them. Not only would she be more likely to win some of the younger voters over, but the US might even see some progressive policies come from it. Even if she's a Neo-Liberal, and her VP is progressive, and they meet somewhere in the middle on policy, it's a shift in the right direction at least.\n\nWhat's the best way to eat an elephant?\n\nOne bite at a time", "metadata": { "author": "Xpalidocious", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721626102, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 104, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 104 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "We’re not getting a VP based on policy. We’re gettigg someone who will boost her in key states. Almost certainly a white guy", "metadata": { "author": "blud97", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721634762, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 118, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 118 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "And after the race he will be politically irrelevant, imagine Obama’s Joe Biden, can you remember any of his achievements from his 8 years as VP?\n\nIf she wins she definitely tries reelection and a progressive would just be wasted doing a show pony’s job for 2 terms. Also another escape valve for the administration: “Look the president stands with our ally and the bombing but the VP made a strong speech yesterday about protecting innocent civilians and how (insert country) needs to do better.”", "metadata": { "author": "brutamborra", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721635882, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 16, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 16 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "\"an you remember any of his achievements from his 8 years as VP?\" the Uncle Joe memes", "metadata": { "author": "AQ207", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721670426, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Black voters, buoyed by Harris, more excited to vote in 2024 than in 2008: Poll", "metadata": { "author": "Equalizer6338", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1726256746, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 650, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Black voters, buoyed by Harris, more excited to vote in 2024 than in 2008: Poll", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.97, "upvotes": 650 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ are going to save our republic.", "metadata": { "author": "nate_oh84", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1726256922, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "And Swifties.", "metadata": { "author": "Thirty_Helens_Agree", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1726258532, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I made a bargain that if there’s a Dem landslide because of overperformance in white women ages 21-35 I will stream every Taylor swift song once. \n\nSeems only fair.", "metadata": { "author": "idkwhattosay", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1726261192, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Republicans Simply Can’t Figure Out How to Knock Down Tim Walz", "metadata": { "author": "elliottbaytrail", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1723051904, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Soft Paywall", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 793, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Republicans Simply Can’t Figure Out How to Knock Down Tim Walz", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.98, "upvotes": 793 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "“Tampon Tim” is an especially weird knock. Are Trump supporters really so afraid of a hygiene product? The “feminine mystique”? \n\nWeird.", "metadata": { "author": "elliottbaytrail", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1723052266, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": true, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Are you saying that putting tampons in boys restrooms isnt weird?? That got to be the weirdest thing ive ever heard of", "metadata": { "author": "zoobtube69", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1723052608, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Do you also think it's weird that he put them in *girls'* restrooms? Because the actual context was providing them in *all* restrooms. He was just inclusive about it, and also thought about trans people.", "metadata": { "author": "RazarTuk", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1723053109, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Democrats renew calls for Supreme Court justice to recuse himself from cases involving his father", "metadata": { "author": "addled_and_old", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1725010161, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 223, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Democrats renew calls for Supreme Court justice to recuse himself from cases involving his father", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.99, "upvotes": 223 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Even if Berger Jr. had recused himself from the cases, it would still have been heard by a majority of Republican justices given that the party currently holds a 5-2 majority on the high court.\n\nRead more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article291371665.html#storylink=cpy", "metadata": { "author": "Circus_Brimstone", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1725013983, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "That's not the point.", "metadata": { "author": "spillinator", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1725015875, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "It speaks to the level of ridiculousness, is their point. It’s still going to be unfair even after recusal, and they still won’t recuse.", "metadata": { "author": "silverbeat33", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1725016505, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "MAGA Republicans Push Unhinged Conspiracy to Explain Trump’s Shooting - Somehow, the shooting is all the fault of women and racial minorities.", "metadata": { "author": "Quirkie", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1721053674, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Soft Paywall", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1779, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "MAGA Republicans Push Unhinged Conspiracy to Explain Trump’s Shooting - Somehow, the shooting is all the fault of women and racial minorities.", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.91, "upvotes": 1779 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Who's pushing that because I'm not seeing that in any of the conservative media or from conservative people", "metadata": { "author": "clit_ticklerr", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721053721, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": -26, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": -26 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Some randos opinon always automatically represents Trump and the republican party dont you know?", "metadata": { "author": "kcpoloman", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721053952, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": -31, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": -31 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Fox News has a long history of going out of its way to find some blue-haired community college instructor with twelve nose rings to come on and be a weirdo punching bag so that they can tell their unthinking audience that she's somehow representative of everyone on the left. Meanwhile, the weird shit in the Republican Party is so mainstream among its voters that it gets repeated by actual representatives of the party like MTG and Boebert.", "metadata": { "author": "solartoss", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721056987, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 10, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 10 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Trump now in full-on panic mode!", "metadata": { "author": "ggbuttstead", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1721588106, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "🗳️ Beat Trump", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 548, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Trump now in full-on panic mode!", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.92, "upvotes": 548 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I can assure you neither Trump or his supporters, like me, are at all panicked over Harris. In fact, if she is nominated, Trump is our next president. No debate, end of story.", "metadata": { "author": "DaSpark", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721657630, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": -4, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": -4 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Get a Truth Social account.", "metadata": { "author": "ggbuttstead", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721684125, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": true, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Haha! You seriously don't think I already have one?", "metadata": { "author": "DaSpark", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721692047, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Ocasio-Cortez wows Democrats with fiery speech on first night of DNC", "metadata": { "author": "ewzetf", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1724203762, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 727, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Ocasio-Cortez wows Democrats with fiery speech on first night of DNC", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.96, "upvotes": 727 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Future president\\*", "metadata": { "author": "ClassicallyBrained", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1724203864, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Unfortunately it'll never happen. As a freshmen congresswoman she was demonized at Hilary levels. She's red meat. Most people who get to that level in the game haven't ruffled that many feathers, even if they actually didn't. I can definitely see a Senate seat though.", "metadata": { "author": "myPOLopinions", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1724209289, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "You need to look at the demographic bomb coming for the GOP. It's going to be a very different world in 10-15 years.", "metadata": { "author": "ClassicallyBrained", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1724211534, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Yes, Mr. Trump, Kamala Harris Is Black.", "metadata": { "author": "bloombergopinion", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1722513312, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Soft Paywall", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 431, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Yes, Mr. Trump, Kamala Harris Is Black.", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.97, "upvotes": 431 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I saw a video last night of some shit head from Newsmax saying, \"she is half Jamaican, so I guess that makes her Jamaican-Indian. And that is like what, a quarter black?!\"\n\nI'm sitting there with my mouth agape because I had just been to Jamaica a few months ago, and that is an entire nation of beautiful and proud black people.\n\nI guess the conservatives have decided to go full mask off on the racism in order to win in November.", "metadata": { "author": "code_archeologist", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1722515314, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Sadly America as a whole has always been a bit behind on the racial equality thing. \nThere’s a famous WW2 training video where there’s a black soldier talking to an English woman, and she invites him over for tea. \nThe narrator then says something like “things are a little different in England, black people are often spoken to as equals and in this case invited over for tea”. \n\nIt’s shocking to think that 2 nations, separated by an ocean, are just so different! not saying the uk is perfect, there’s a lot of racist assholes here too! these days it’s more Islamophobia.. but still.", "metadata": { "author": "badger906", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1722517130, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "It is also important to remember that in 1941, when that film was probably made, there were still people alive in the US who had been enslaved or had owned slaves.", "metadata": { "author": "code_archeologist", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1722517296, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "More Democrats ask Biden to drop out. His campaign says he'll be back next week", "metadata": { "author": "Simple_Opossum", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1721497328, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1442, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "More Democrats ask Biden to drop out. His campaign says he'll be back next week", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.77, "upvotes": 1442 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I don't think people realize that at this point him staying is throwing in the towel, you can't win a national general election if 3 months prior everyone in your party, your donors and the former president are urging you to step aside, there's no going back from this, either he leaves or we're fucked.", "metadata": { "author": "Accurate-Albatross34", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721497575, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 561, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 561 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "100% this. If he was our best bet, he no longer is. That was the play. It has been made impossible for him to win, and he either passes the torch or burns it all down.", "metadata": { "author": "itsatumbleweed", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721497784, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 199, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 199 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Yeah, but I’m guessing, knowing how connected Barack, Pelosi, etc. are, the problems with Biden are likely worse than we know. He became an untenable risk, therefore the nuclear option became their play. I mean, there really is no coming back, and hopefully it doesn’t need to get to the point where they come out publicly, as that means Biden is unable to be reasoned with.", "metadata": { "author": "Myrtle_Nut", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721501363, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 65, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 65 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "I agree. I wasn't all in on him stepping down immediately following the debate, but damage control from a debate is putting him in town hall type settings to demonstrate it was a bad night. The campaign knows that's not an option, as do congressional leaders. \n\nWhen your candidate can't have a Q&A, it's time to move on.", "metadata": { "author": "itsatumbleweed", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721501567, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 64, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 64 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Every day after the debate, there was an opportunity to dispel the critics. It took them a week, and even then, it was another edited event. That just reinforced the doubts.", "metadata": { "author": "Fernandop00", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721503862, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 31, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 31 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Calling Trump the Vice President at the Nato summit, and mixing up Putin and Zelenskys name was the nail in the coffin for me. That stuff is very important to get right on the world stage with the fate of nations on the line. He can't keep up, it's not his fault, but we can't move forward any longer.", "metadata": { "author": "kempnelms", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721529657, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 6, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 6 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I hate this timeline", "metadata": { "author": "pipercomputer", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721536997, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 3, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 3 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Easily could be pulling 40,000 more viewers but wastes time doing this shit.", "metadata": { "author": "Technical_Constant79", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1730845130, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Discussion", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 216, "suggested_sort": "confidence", "title": "Dan hate thread for ruining election stream with boring humas shit.", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.83, "upvotes": 216 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "It was funny there is no news for the next couple of hours I don’t know what you want", "metadata": { "author": "Mental_Explorer5566", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1730846300, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": -5, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": -5 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "There is plenty of news trumps statements and polls.", "metadata": { "author": "Technical_Constant79", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1730846380, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": true, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 11, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 11 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Isn't there a second stream where this is all they do? You can just go there.", "metadata": { "author": "kwazhip", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1730846477, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": -4, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": -4 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Donald Trump Has Lost His Sh*t", "metadata": { "author": "ObjectiveAd6551", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1730721532, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Soft Paywall", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 878, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Donald Trump Has Lost His Sh*t", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.96, "upvotes": 878 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": ">I woke up Saturday morning, as you may have, to the sight of Donald Trump performing fellatio on a microphone\n\nAnd the Trump supporters here on Reddit are trying to gaslight us into believing he wasn't doing what we clearly see him doing on camera.", "metadata": { "author": "BlotchComics", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1730722471, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "It was humiliating, denigrating, fellatious, outrageous.\n\n-Jackie Chiles", "metadata": { "author": "Big_Biscotti5119", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1730725816, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "\"When I told you to turn the mic on, I meant switch it on. Not *turn it on* on!\"", "metadata": { "author": "wromit", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1730726817, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Ann Coulter deletes post mocking Tim Walz’s son after onslaught of criticism", "metadata": { "author": "javelin3000", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1724370309, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 778, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Ann Coulter deletes post mocking Tim Walz’s son after onslaught of criticism", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.98, "upvotes": 778 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "They're all saying \"oh, I didn't know he was disabled\" but here's the thing about that...IT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER.\n\nA) He's 17. That's seven-fucking-teen.\n\nB) If he wasn't 'disabled' it still wouldn't matter. If he's stoked and overwhelmed to see his dad up there kicking ass, it was an amazingly touching moment. I know it's hard for these monsters to believe, but some sons love their fathers, and even bigger shocker...some fathers actually love their sons!\n\nC) Fuck all those fucking ghouls.\n\nedit: changed 15 to 17. As I implied...ability and age don't matter in any of this!", "metadata": { "author": "Wrenzo", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1724372721, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Republicans expected that no one dare attack Barron and then at the very first opportunity went after their opponents kids. They have no decency.", "metadata": { "author": "circa285", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1724374518, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "100%. They are the party of 'rules for thee and not for me'.", "metadata": { "author": "Wrenzo", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1724374572, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Biden Tells Lawmakers He’s Running, Time to End Talk of Swap", "metadata": { "author": "bloomberg", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1720444879, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Soft Paywall", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1489, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Biden Tells Lawmakers He’s Running, Time to End Talk of Swap", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.89, "upvotes": 1489 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Per NYT: \"He issued a challenge to Democrats who think he should withdraw: “Run against me. Announce for president. Challenge me at the convention.”\n\nJesus.", "metadata": { "author": "simplymatt1995", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720447598, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 450, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 450 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "It's a chicken and egg situation.\n\nNo one serious wanted to run against a sitting president who didn't want to drop out.\n\nThen the sitting president didn't want to drop out because there wasn't a credible candidate who he thought was more likely to win vs Trump than himself.\n\nTop Democrats have pointed out how bad it will look if Biden drops out and we push aside his Black Female VP to put another white man on the ticket.\n\nSo the question isn't really do you want Biden to drop it, it should be do you think Kamala Harris will do better in the general election then Biden? Because at this late stage that's the most likely outcome by far if Biden does drop out.\n\nPolls have Kamala Harris a couple percent ahead of Biden vs Trump but it's within the margin of error.", "metadata": { "author": "The_Frostweaver", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720450146, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 207, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 207 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I have no reason to believe that Kamala Harris is a better candidate versus Donald Trump than Joe Biden is. They really are the only two options though. Denying the black vice president the presidency for someone like Gavin Newsom or Gretchen Whitmer would destroy black support for Democrats across the country.", "metadata": { "author": "ConsciousReason7709", "controversiality": 1, "created_utc": 1720459910, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 13, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 13 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": ">Denying the black vice president the presidency for someone like Gavin Newsom or Gretchen Whitmer would destroy black support\n\nWould it? Genuine question. Harris is famously \"a cop.\" I don't know how well she polls with black voters (and I tried googling it with no success for \\*recent\\* polls), but my impression is that *everyone* is pretty lukewarm on her.", "metadata": { "author": "bradiation", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720463242, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 18, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 18 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I wrote something similar in another post, but I'm a liberal black woman with very little investment in Kamala. I do not speak for other black people, only myself and my own feelings in this regard. But for me, it's more pragmatic for me to care about *winning* in this election than representation. I will take the L on the latter if it meaningfully benefits our chances of winning against Trump, because I stand to lose much more as a black person if he wins than I stand to gain having a black woman run and lose.\n\n\nMy and many other people's fundamental rights are on the line. That is my priority here. The problem is it's really unclear based on all these back-and-forth posts what ticket would give us our best chance now. ", "metadata": { "author": "Miss-Tiq", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720465033, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 28, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 28 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Kamala Harris Jumps 14 Points With Latino Voters in New Poll", "metadata": { "author": "OkayButFoRealz", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1723738160, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 612, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Kamala Harris Jumps 14 Points With Latino Voters in New Poll", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.96, "upvotes": 612 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I remember getting jumped on for encouraging Kamala to back the bipartisan border bill, because it would hurt her standing with Latinos. \nShe did so and got more popular with that demographic regardless.", "metadata": { "author": "Redragontoughstreet", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1723738977, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "There isn't a lot of Latino solidarity on immigration. They know they all face racism, but cubanoamericanos feel no solidarity with Argentinian caminantes. And there's a strong feeling of \"screw you, I got mine\" in even some communities who should know better. They don't think the threats of deportation will apply to *them*, just the \"bad\" ones.", "metadata": { "author": "mhornberger", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1723739812, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "That’s why supporting the bipartisan border bill is a political win. Very little downside.", "metadata": { "author": "Redragontoughstreet", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1723740318, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Reading through the immunity decision I'm actually concerned for our state of affairs. \n\nHow bad would say this is? What mechanisms exist to counter this? Is the greyness a benefit or a cost in some areas?", "metadata": { "author": "NovelBrave", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1720788360, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "User discussion", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 222, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "On a scale of 1 to 10 how bad would say the immunity decision is for American democracy?", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.91, "upvotes": 222 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I like the lawyer on Opening Arguments and [he seemed pretty freaked out](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/it-is-impossible-to-be-too-alarmed-about-the-immunity/id1147092464?i=1000661216793). Sotomayor did too. Not a lawyer but it seems pretty foundationally destructive for liberal democracy in a country for a president to be a \"king above the law\" (Sotomayor)", "metadata": { "author": "Independent-Low-2398", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720788614, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 436, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 436 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Yep. I'd go as far as saying that once central institutions start to crumble, or at least faith in those central institutions start to crumble, it's the beginning of the end of any major civilization.\n\nUnless we do a hard 180, and change everything from the voting system (FPTP to PR), reforming or getting rid of the Electoral College, aggressively crack down on domestic terrorism, establish term limits for SCOTUS justices, etc., I can't really see how this ship is righted.\n\nI asked a question yesterday about a 'National Divorce' and most people said that it wouldn't happen. However, it's also hard to imagine a scenario where there'd be any modicum of political stability left after this level of disruption occurred. The States wouldn't trust the Feds, and the Feds would resent the States. That's not conducive to a stable nation. At the very least there'd be an uptick in quasi-seditious activities (i.e. rogue militia groups committing acts of domestic terror), and increasing levels of pushback from State and Local authorities against the Federal govt (i.e. withholding Fed tax money, refusing to enforce certain Fed laws, etc.).", "metadata": { "author": "[deleted]", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720790601, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 67, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 67 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "The issue with the EC is that it's arbitrarily set to a number determined almost 100 years ago. If the house had continued to expand like it had up to that point, we wouldn't be having the issues we have now. The population has gone up 2.5x since 1930 yet representation has stayed at the same number", "metadata": { "author": "ph1shstyx", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720795403, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 24, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 24 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "The only issue with the EC is that it's winner take all at the state level", "metadata": { "author": "Arlort", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720799027, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 9, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 9 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Unless you're willing to cut single electors into fractions, rural states still have outsized, undue power in the EC", "metadata": { "author": "casino_r0yale", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720817121, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Which doesn't really matter all that much", "metadata": { "author": "Arlort", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720840732, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "It totally does because a mathematical minority of voters decide the election. Those swing states wouldn’t *be* swing states if the rural states were properly represented.", "metadata": { "author": "casino_r0yale", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720963719, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Yes, they'd probably be\n\nSwing states aren't swing states because their votes are worth more, they are saying states because they could go either ways \n\nI wouldn't be surprised if (as a whole) the swing states had a population not too dissimilar from the proportion of electoral votes they hold since if I recall a few of those are relatively large", "metadata": { "author": "Arlort", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720969813, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "They can go either way but their value would change dramatically. Nobody gives a fuck if Rhode Island goes red or blue, so no one seriously calls it a swing state.\n\nYou’d have a completely different electoral calculus and different states that are “make or break” assuming the winner takes all system holds, and you’d see campaigns focus on those.", "metadata": { "author": "casino_r0yale", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720971141, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Unearthed Photo Shows Teen JD Vance Posing in Bathroom With Three Girls at Urinals", "metadata": { "author": "skipda93", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1723744362, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 415, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Unearthed Photo Shows Teen JD Vance Posing in Bathroom With Three Girls at Urinals", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.9, "upvotes": 415 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "It looks like typical high school shenanigans, BUT it's a guy who's known to be weird about women.", "metadata": { "author": "danisse76", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1723744854, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "It's sad. He probably used to be a completely normal dorky dude who got along just fine with weirdos and had girls as friends. He's not that old, so I wonder if he's the first major politician to be radicalized by red-pill BS on the internet.", "metadata": { "author": "solartoss", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1723745660, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Was he radicalized? Or did he just throw away everything he believed in for a shot at power?", "metadata": { "author": "TajesMahoney", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1723745996, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Radicalized. There’s a reason all these crazy quotes from him are from 3/4 years ago. Trump picked him because he was a true believer, he didn’t become a true believer when Trump picked him.", "metadata": { "author": "iggymcfly", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1723746464, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Some new shit has come to light man. Shit man, he radicalized himself, man. Hasn’t that occurred to you? I mean, he owes money all over town, including to known pornographers…. which is cool…..", "metadata": { "author": "Fartmart81ridesagain", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1723747146, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "I’ll suck your dick for 1000 votes", "metadata": { "author": "shart_leakage", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1723747854, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Trump can’t watch though or he has to pay 100", "metadata": { "author": "Fartmart81ridesagain", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1723748008, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Ta-Nehisi Coates promotes his book about Israel/Palestine on CBS. Coates is confronted by host Tony Dokoupil", "metadata": { "author": "torgobigknees", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1727790872, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Religion", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 104, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Ta-Nehisi Coates promotes his book about Israel/Palestine on CBS. Coates is confronted by host Tony Dokoupil", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.8, "upvotes": 104 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "An \"ethnostate\" with\n\n* 21% of Israeli citizens being Arab Muslim with full rights and citizenship\n* Arab Muslims elected to parliament and supreme court\n* Arab Muslims having their own large and influential political party\n* Arab Muslims voluntarily serving in the army\n* An Arab Muslim population growing far faster than the Jewish one\n* Arab Muslims accepted in society as doctors, TV news personalities, celebrities. Show me a Muslim country where Jews are allowed to do those things.\n* Large citizen populations of Bedouins, Druze, Arab Muslims, Christian Arabs, Circassians, Baha'i, Armenians\n* The most diverse population in the Middle East\n* The majority of citizens being Middle Eastern people descended from refugees\n* An abundance of Mosques\n\nSome of the people killed and kidnapped in the October 7 attacks were Thai, Arab Muslim, African, Bedouin. The recent Hezbollah attack killed 12 Druze children.\n\nNow let's compare this one jewish state with the dozens of Islamic states, ruled by religious fascists, where leaving Islam is punishable by jail or death. Where non-Muslims have zero political representation or rights. These are far closer to ethnostates than Israel.\n\nNone of the facts above condone or support oppression, displacement, and violence against Palestinians. None of these facts are \"pro-genocide\". Seek out the views of Arab Muslim Israeli citizens.", "metadata": { "author": "new__vision", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1727793271, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 273, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 273 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "These are good points, but they ignore the populations in Gaza and the West Bank that are occupied by Israel and have very different rights to Israeli citizens.", "metadata": { "author": "McRattus", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1727793915, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 38, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 38 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Gaza hasn’t been occupied since 2005", "metadata": { "author": "bisonsashimi", "controversiality": 1, "created_utc": 1727795252, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 21, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 21 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Can we stop with this please. It's legally occupied since long before Israel withdrew it's ground forces in 2005 and I don't think anyone very seriously thinks we need boots on the ground to maintain an occupation in the 21st century.", "metadata": { "author": "McRattus", "controversiality": 1, "created_utc": 1727795641, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 2, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 2 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "People like you are hilarious.  Your complete willingness to ignore the reality of Israeli withdrawal from Gaza would be funny if it wasn’t sad. \n\nUnfortunately, Gaza is a petri dish of what happens when you withdraw Israeli occupation – – as is southern Lebanon.  They both turned into terror camps — more dedicated to bringing about the death of Israelis than supporting a thriving Palestinian/Lebanese community.  \n\n That’s just so sad. \n\nIsraeli took a huge risk for peace by withdrawing from Gaza. October 7 and gaslighting from assholes like you was their reward. ", "metadata": { "author": "lqwertyd", "controversiality": 1, "created_utc": 1727796595, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 12, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 12 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": " >Israeli took a huge risk for peace by withdrawing from Gaza. October 7 and gaslighting from assholes like you was their reward\n\nThis is one of the funniest lies about the Israeli withdrawal that people keep repeating in spite of nobody not even Sharon’s own cabinet saw the withdrawal as a step towards peace. It was an attempt to freeze Palestinians statehood and avoid a demographic crisis within Israel. Even reporting at the time voiced the concern that the unilateral withdrawal would lead to Gaza becoming an open air prison.", "metadata": { "author": "closerthanyouth1nk", "controversiality": 1, "created_utc": 1727797750, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 7, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 7 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Always remember this sub, has a lot of genuinely uninformed ppl and malicious hasbara liars.\n\nHard to distinguish sometimes", "metadata": { "author": "Cristianator", "controversiality": 1, "created_utc": 1727803988, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 0, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 0 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Idk if this is allowed but scrolling through YouTube and saw this thumbnail from h3h3.. woah... they changed it minutes later.. If I can post it here lemme know where I should ", "metadata": { "author": "Mas_Sewing", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1729541732, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Content", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 46, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Umm what's going on with h3h3", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.81, "upvotes": 46 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Immediately begins with shit talking hasan and complete lies, nukes chat 14mins in...", "metadata": { "author": "quesojefe", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1729542672, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 66, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 66 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "He's a full-on hasan hater now and just called felix a gremlin.... unbelievable!", "metadata": { "author": "quesojefe", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1729543064, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 43, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 43 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "i'd say he loses his fanbase over being this disingenuous, but he's just gaining more islamophobic fans", "metadata": { "author": "Historical-Daikon412", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1729543220, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 24, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 24 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "LMAOOOOOO Kamala broke their brains ", "metadata": { "author": "NeeeeeeeekoooooooSam", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1723294274, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Politics", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 38, "suggested_sort": "confidence", "title": "Report: Trump calls Harris a \"bitch\"", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.96, "upvotes": 38 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Also in this NYT article:\n\nAnd, at the Aug. 2 fund-raiser, according to two people with knowledge of what took place, when a donor at the round-table discussion asked about Democrats trying to paint the Republican ticket as “weird,” Mr. Trump replied: “Not about me. They’re saying that about JD.”\n\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/10/us/politics/trump-campaign-election.html", "metadata": { "author": "IndividualHeat", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1723295615, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 26, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 26 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "I'm beginning to believe the GOP doesn't want Trump either, and saddled him with JD to sink his chances", "metadata": { "author": "LeoleR", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1723296588, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 4, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 4 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "There were reports that claimed that Don Jr. and Eric Trump insisted on Vance and fought with Donald over it.", "metadata": { "author": "Otherwise-Parsnip-91", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1723296954, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 8, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 8 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "She's walking on eggshells, not wanting to leak DMs so to speak, but the general vibe I'm getting is that if Biden drops out, we're not getting Harris, there's no unified plan, and everyone in the party is gonna be pushing for their own interests, culminating in an open convention and it's going to be a shitshow.\n\nNow maybe she really is out of the loop and there is a plan being developed, but if that's the case I can't exactly criticize her for being kept in the dark. I know I have zero faith in the Dem leadership to get shit done, why should I expect this time to be different.\n\nI would love to get a Harris/Buttigieg or Harris/Shapiro ticket come November, but if the Dems don't want Harris on the ticket for whatever reason then honestly I think we would be better off with Biden.", "metadata": { "author": "CosmicBauble", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1721365841, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Discussion", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 170, "suggested_sort": "top", "title": "Thoughts on AOC live chat", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.94, "upvotes": 170 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Biden on Ticket = Trump in White House\nNow that that's out of the way, there are pros and cons to an open convention. Arguably, an open convention that Harris wins is best case scenario", "metadata": { "author": "theMosen", "controversiality": 1, "created_utc": 1721379879, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": -1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": -1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "See, this is what AOC was trying to say. You have convinced yourselves that Biden *will* lose against Trump. To you that's already a foregone conclusion so any risks/negative consequences that result from him stepping down are worth it because it can't be worse than a guaranteed loss.\n\nBiden can still win this race. It's closer than I would like it to be, hence why I supported him stepping down in favour of Harris, but it's patently absurd to declare that him being the nominee would guarantee a Trump victory.", "metadata": { "author": "CosmicBauble", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721381956, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": true, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 9, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 9 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "In the last 47 polls, Trump leads nationally and the state polls are even worse. The last Emerson poll pitted Trump against just generic democrat who isn’t 100 years old, and the same swing states Biden is dying in, they beat Trump by an average of seven points. And I know you can say that the imaginary candidate will always out-perform the real one, but the results are too staggering to ignore.", "metadata": { "author": "DegenGamer725", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721389319, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 2, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 2 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "That's exactly what I'm gonna say. \"Generic democrat\" doesn't exist. Anyone you put up is gonna have baggage that will close the gap somewhat.\n\nLook, if Biden drops out tomorrow and the dems fall in line and support Harris, then I'm all in on the coconut train. I don't trust the dems to do that, and an open convention leaves a lot of room for shit to go sideways, not to mention the justified legal and financial concerns.", "metadata": { "author": "CosmicBauble", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721391658, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": true, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 5, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 5 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Why is it always that a specific Dem only ever has negatives?\n\nWhy can't a specific Dem have positives?", "metadata": { "author": "Illiander", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721393529, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Admits He Falls for Online Misinformation “All the Time”", "metadata": { "author": "KittensNCheeze4Life", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1723830114, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 730, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Admits He Falls for Online Misinformation “All the Time”", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.99, "upvotes": 730 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Omg he admit it", "metadata": { "author": "bigfatfluffers", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1723830257, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "A steering wheel that doesn’t fall off when you driving", "metadata": { "author": "HereForTheTanks", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1723832331, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Too small.", "metadata": { "author": "EmpiricalMystic", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1723834218, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "surely?", "metadata": { "author": "pearmintsquid", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1721083755, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Twitter", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 637, "suggested_sort": "confidence", "title": "surely?", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.98, "upvotes": 637 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "If this is really Elon then Destiny was correct. This dude doesn't know anything other than very specific things. He can't even engage.", "metadata": { "author": "Aelol", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721083968, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 243, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 243 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "It's him: https://streamable.com/7rjwiu\n\nStarting from around 30 seconds.\n\n> Woman: [...] you do sound so much like him, even though I know you're not him [Elon Musk]\n\n> Adrian Dittmann (Elon): [...] I like to keep this one [the account] somewhat personally hidden, but eventually people will know\n\nETA: Replied to the wrong user but hopefully people can stop doubting this super obvious thing now lol.", "metadata": { "author": "AwfulViewpoint", "controversiality": 1, "created_utc": 1721085468, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 6, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 6 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "\"this one\" clearly refers to the time zone he's in, not the account.", "metadata": { "author": "T_Chishiki", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721087051, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 21, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 21 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "wait, what? How does that make any sense? He wants to keep this timezone hidden? (as opposed to his other timezones?) It seems more likely he was responding to her comment that he sounds EXACTLY like elon but he answered her later question first.", "metadata": { "author": "ErrorUserIsDead", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721110902, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Did you hear the rest of the clip? She asks him if he is in a different time zone, to which he responds \"something like that, but I'd like to keep this one personally hidden\". After that, she makes guesses (\"is it daytime or nighttime for you?\") and he still doesn't give a concrete answer (\"afternoon\"). They are ONLY talking about the time zone he is in the whole time.", "metadata": { "author": "T_Chishiki", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721115188, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 2, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 2 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "I still don't get what that would mean when he says \"This one personally hidden\" if he was talking about timezones.", "metadata": { "author": "ErrorUserIsDead", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721146588, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "The woman he's talking to leads with accepting that he's not Elon Musk. She then asks about his time zone, to which he responds that he doesn't want people to know where exactly he is from, so he doesn't want to give more than a rough estimate.", "metadata": { "author": "T_Chishiki", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721298072, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\"this one\" implies there are others no?", "metadata": { "author": "ErrorUserIsDead", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721317952, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I think you're reading too much into it. He just picked a peculiar way to word it, the context makes it clear.", "metadata": { "author": "T_Chishiki", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721325738, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Did gay dating app Grindr crash during the RNC in Milwaukee?", "metadata": { "author": "Witty_Stop_4366", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1721354921, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Off Topic", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": "moderator", "score": 912, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Did gay dating app Grindr crash during the RNC in Milwaukee?", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.92, "upvotes": 912 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Yes it did. Because when you can’t come to grips with your homosexuality, you pass legislation to outlaw it.", "metadata": { "author": "itsyaboyjoel", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721355052, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 250, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 250 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Homosexuality must be a choice because I can repress those feelings /s", "metadata": { "author": "Moesuckra", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721374818, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 3, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 3 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "You're joking but that's actually how most of these people think. I just can't fathom being that hateful. People are born gay or straight. And even if they weren't, who the fuck cares? Live and let live. Does it matter if people are gay? Like are you constantly imagining them banging you or something?\n\nGet. The fuck. Over it. \n\nLet people live their own lives and as long as it doesn't effect you or hurt someone why on earth would you try to stop them? Pure malicious hate disguised as religious fervor.", "metadata": { "author": "Quantization", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721383186, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Punches thrown as person of interest taken into custody in killing of woman found in sleeping bag in Manhattan", "metadata": { "author": "ToffeeFever", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1720507860, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1068, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Punches thrown as person of interest taken into custody in killing of woman found in sleeping bag in Manhattan", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.94, "upvotes": 1068 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "What the heck is this article title... who writes these?", "metadata": { "author": "Anvanaar", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720519764, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 133, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 133 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "It's Fox, they aren't known for being educated.", "metadata": { "author": "x_lincoln_x", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720520918, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 61, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 61 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "You do know Fox affiliates are separate from Fox News, right?\n\n\nThis Fox had the amazing [Ernie Anastos](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sVVl2EKgUU)", "metadata": { "author": "bros402", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720541703, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 23, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 23 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "LOOK AT MY CANDIDATE DAWG, WE'RE LOSING THE ELECTION", "metadata": { "author": "Individual_Major8648", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1720741091, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Shitpost", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 695, "suggested_sort": "confidence", "title": "He Just Referred to Kamala as \"Vice President Trump\"", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.91, "upvotes": 695 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "He just tried retelling the story of referring to Zelensky as Putin and he couldn't remember everyone's names so he just stopped telling the story.", "metadata": { "author": "sjm689", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720741224, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 177, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 177 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "He sounded exactly like Trump. It was a great conference many are saying the best, show me a better one.", "metadata": { "author": "futures23", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720741371, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 34, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 34 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "\"were gonna kill the Grinch folks, and we're gonna use the big guns\".", "metadata": { "author": "Huntingfordeviance", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720741818, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 21, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 21 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Millions of Christians Not Voting Becomes 'Five-Alarm Fire' for Trump", "metadata": { "author": "stark247", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1728436920, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 729, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Millions of Christians Not Voting Becomes 'Five-Alarm Fire' for Trump", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.92, "upvotes": 729 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I'm skeptical, but if this turns out to be true it will mean that the GOP has finally arrived at the reckoning in which it must choose between alienating the core of its base or alienating the other 75% of Americans, and there is no compromise to be found.", "metadata": { "author": "TurboSalsa", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1728437614, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "The GOP is reducing itself to a \"let's keep our money and get rich\" party at the expense of literally any benefit of government whatsoever. \n\nI imagine it will keep working a bit longer before something catastrophic resets society and we have a new post-depression era.", "metadata": { "author": "JohnDivney", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1728441302, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "They’ve gone too far, the public is catching on (ironically, the same reason we have Trump in the first place: he was supposed to “shake things up” because so many Americans today are poorer than their parents were and as a result voters aren’t happy with the status quo), and now we are witnessing the rich trying to grab everything they still can before the other shoe drops.\n\nThis is what the death of the GOP means. Trump is their last gasp, and if he fails a new party will have to develop to take its place.\n\nThe old GOP are taking what they can and getting on the life rafts while the ship goes down in a puff of smoke. ", "metadata": { "author": "jgilla2012", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1728455207, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "'No one involved in the effort thinks he has a path': Biden insiders say the writing is on the wall", "metadata": { "author": "BertTKitten", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1720731358, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 220, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "'No one involved in the effort thinks he has a path': Biden insiders say the writing is on the wall", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.88, "upvotes": 220 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I love how they decide this two weeks before the convention and basically locked us out of a Democratic primary election. Fucking bullies man", "metadata": { "author": "politirob", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720735486, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 114, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 114 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "My thoughts exactly. It’s like they’re trying to throw it away in the most believable way possible.", "metadata": { "author": "cameron4200", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720740258, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 28, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 28 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "If you don’t like throwing elections you don’t like Democratic Party politics baby!", "metadata": { "author": "boredlazytrash", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720751226, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 17, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 17 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Donald Trump’s rambling disaster of a speech did something no one could have predicted: Give Democrats hope", "metadata": { "author": "plz-let-me-in", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1721401669, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 12018, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Donald Trump’s rambling disaster of a speech did something no one could have predicted: Give Democrats hope", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.92, "upvotes": 12018 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Why is the bandage so big and barely even on his ear", "metadata": { "author": "SageLeaf1", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721402152, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 2707, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 2707 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "For dramatic effect.", "metadata": { "author": "dust-ranger", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721402331, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 2360, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 2360 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "And probably to cover up any neulogical tests they ran.", "metadata": { "author": "TeutonJon78", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721412334, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 5, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 5 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Secret Service head Kimberly Cheatle resigns after shocking failures led to Trump assassination attempt", "metadata": { "author": "PotatoUmaru", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1721745359, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 614, "suggested_sort": "confidence", "title": "Secret Service head Kimberly Cheatle resigns after shocking failures led to Trump assassination attempt", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.84, "upvotes": 614 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Who could’ve seen this coming?", "metadata": { "author": "TheWhoreBathedMe", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721745510, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 24, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 24 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "I’m actually surprised she resigned.\n\nBiden doesn’t fire these people for incompetence and DOCTOR Jill Biden helped her get the job, so you know there was no threat to her of being canned.\n\nImpeachment proceedings might’ve worked if the Republicans and Democrats actually decided to throw around the weight of Congress toward a non-partisan issue, which they don’t.", "metadata": { "author": "purplebasterd", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721770947, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Yeah he thanked her service to HIS FAMILY in his letter.\n\nNo one caught that. Not service to the country, service to HIS FAMILY.\n\nIt was…. Interesting. He’s saying his family is what she was protecting, not the country. No man. She was doing a job that happens to correlate to your family. Not the other way around.", "metadata": { "author": "Dont_Be_Sheep", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1722152808, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Taylor Swift's Harris endorsement draws 9 million 'likes'", "metadata": { "author": "Time_Error_7874", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1726083051, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1281, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Taylor Swift's Harris endorsement draws 9 million 'likes'", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.97, "upvotes": 1281 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "It ain’t Messi numbers but if you have an instagram, you should like it too. Don’t you want to be part of history?", "metadata": { "author": "dbag3o1", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1726083205, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "When’s the Messi endorsement?!", "metadata": { "author": "wishiwereagoonie", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1726086061, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "The walls of Mar-a-Lago were Messi last night.", "metadata": { "author": "Larry-fine-wine", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1726086457, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "More Democrats ask Biden to drop out. His campaign says he'll be back next week", "metadata": { "author": "Simple_Opossum", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1721497328, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1442, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "More Democrats ask Biden to drop out. His campaign says he'll be back next week", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.77, "upvotes": 1442 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Biden is going to be remembered as the president who personally rang in the end of democracy in this country because he was too proud and egotistical to be a true patriot. What a coward.", "metadata": { "author": "Best_Shape4062", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721500680, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 116, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 116 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Like King VIserys in House of Dragon.", "metadata": { "author": "GradientDescenting", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721501733, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 25, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 25 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "And who had a worse story than Biden the Broken?", "metadata": { "author": "Khiva", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721504679, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 9, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 9 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "The Far Right Is Already Demonizing Kamala Harris", "metadata": { "author": "wiredmagazine", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1720458739, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Paywall", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 923, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "The Far Right Is Already Demonizing Kamala Harris", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.87, "upvotes": 923 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "LOL have been for years.", "metadata": { "author": "demystifier", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720459983, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 436, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 436 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\"we can't elect a democrat with so much baggage!\"", "metadata": { "author": "judgejuddhirsch", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720474496, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 19, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 19 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "\"But this guy with 33 convections we are ok with\"", "metadata": { "author": "KelenaeV", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720474954, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 26, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 26 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\"And we also don't mind that he's been found liable for sexual assault and tax fraud.\"", "metadata": { "author": "Teufelsdreck", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720501633, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 3, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 3 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "\"And despite screaming about Epstein and pedophiles for the past 8 years, we don't mind that our guy is a known associate of Epstein's who is accused of raping a 13 year old girl at one of his sexual abuse parties.\"", "metadata": { "author": "En_CHILL_ada", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720521317, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 2, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 2 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "‘I’m Tired. I’m Done.’ Nation Faces Exhaustion and Division After Trump Assassination Attempt", "metadata": { "author": "His_Holiness", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1721006150, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Paywall", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 2938, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "‘I’m Tired. I’m Done.’ Nation Faces Exhaustion and Division After Trump Assassination Attempt", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.91, "upvotes": 2938 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "He breeds chaos. We have never been more insane than when he entered politics 9 years ago. It’s him. We need to make sure he has no place in politics after this November. Things will only get worse if he is elected.", "metadata": { "author": "geraxpetra", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721010734, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1376, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1376 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Yes and no. Trump opened the door, perhaps, but then social media and cable news held it open, and a few hundred million people decided to cross the threshold. \n\nIt could have been different. But we as a society actively bought what he’s been selling. And he’s not even that good of salesman - we’re all just rubes, is all, falling for the lies we want to believe.", "metadata": { "author": "alphabetikalmarmoset", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721012442, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 78, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 78 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Welcome to the world of Polititainment", "metadata": { "author": "vakr001", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721013197, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 30, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 30 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "The decision seems likely to be appealed, but this is encouraging news.", "metadata": { "author": "martyvt12", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1720819412, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Current Events", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 446, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Federal court in Texas declares ban on home distilling unconstitutional ", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.98, "upvotes": 446 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I've looked into home distilling, and it does sound neat, however, I think I'd rather trust it to the pros because on this end I'm not that smart and realize I'd mess it up. But more rights for the people! This is a good court decision.", "metadata": { "author": "DigitalEagleDriver", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720822877, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 34, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 34 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "It's actually pretty simple to do, even if you're not that smart. If the average hillbilly can do it so can you!", "metadata": { "author": "HasaDiga_Eebowai", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720825440, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 25, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 25 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Easy to do. Not easy to do *well.*", "metadata": { "author": "fusionaddict", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720826468, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 37, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 37 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Trump sues Gretchen Whitmer for making VA medical centers a designated voter registration site", "metadata": { "author": "storyspace1234", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1721179624, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 7131, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Trump sues Gretchen Whitmer for making VA medical centers a designated voter registration site", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.97, "upvotes": 7131 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "As a veteran I wish more veterans realized how Project 2025 is coming for us and our benefits. This attack isn’t random. They’ve been talking about slashing VA benefits for about 3 years. If they have their way millions of veterans will lose their monthly payments and be hungry, homeless, and even without healthcare. Veterans need to mobilize and vote like HELL. This election could be life or death for many veterans especially the disabled ones who live off compensation.", "metadata": { "author": "[deleted]", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721180138, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1766, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1766 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "It’s a double whammy too as social security is also very much on the Republican chopping block. Pretty much any program where government helps people instead of corporations or the wealthy", "metadata": { "author": "NeverLookBothWays", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721181507, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 138, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 138 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "What's theirs is theirs - and they hate to share or pay reasonable taxes. \n\nYet they want to help themselves to our _collective resources_ as well. \n\nIt's such an incredibly unfounded, overinflated sense of self-importance. Way beyond spoiled into the realm of seriously delusional. They should be ashamed - or at least embarrassed. \n\nSome of us have abandoned any sense of propriety. It'll take a while for us to get things back.", "metadata": { "author": "billyions", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721189782, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 38, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 38 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "‘Politics should be kind of boring’ even for important subjects: Bernie Sanders full interview", "metadata": { "author": "darrenjyc", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1720983101, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 2416, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "‘Politics should be kind of boring’ even for important subjects: Bernie Sanders full interview", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.97, "upvotes": 2416 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "While I agree in theory it would be nice but that would be super average president basically maintaining status quote like Carter. \n\nFeel like if your good or bad your not going to be boring no way Lincoln or fdr were boring and neither were the bad ones. Goes both ways\n\nEven if Bernie was president he wouldn’t be boring because he would be pushing for big changes which is going to require not being boring", "metadata": { "author": "conbon7", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720983614, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 6, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 6 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "> Even if Bernie was president he wouldn’t be boring because he would be pushing for big changes which is going to require not being boring\n\nBiden got a lot of big changes done and they were so boring that many people literally don't even know they happened and still think Biden is a do nothing president. It clearly shows that you can do changes without being exciting (Biden fails on the \"boring\" side because of other matters, not that)", "metadata": { "author": "Okbuddyliberals", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720984050, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 3, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 3 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "They aren’t changes that would immediately affect the average American super noticeably so it’s not the same.\n\nHeavily pushing for changed health care, school system, increased benefits is something totally different from whatever Biden has done", "metadata": { "author": "conbon7", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720984215, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Sanders would never get any of that done due to congress since even with big Dem majorities, only like half of the party or less supports ideas as left wing as Sanders'. More likely, some big compromises would be made to just expand help to the poorest folks who most need help but are also the least engaged with politics, limiting the \"excitement\" impact", "metadata": { "author": "Okbuddyliberals", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720984618, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "If Obama care was heavily controversial expanding on that in a real meaningful way would be crazy drama", "metadata": { "author": "conbon7", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720984775, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "https://x.com/EmmaVigeland/status/1815400318328353177?t=5ii_lOFVwDq8jyJwRaUBUw&s=19", "metadata": { "author": "hypehold", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1721662525, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Twitter", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 577, "suggested_sort": "confidence", "title": "Based Emma Vigeland ", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.92, "upvotes": 577 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Say what you will about the majority report, but they have always been based on presidential elections. Vote blue no matter who or you end up with a conservative court that dismantles everything we love about this country", "metadata": { "author": "Creepy_Dream_22", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721663135, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 75, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 75 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Yep. Sam even debated Jimmy Dore in 2016 on why it would be much better for Hillary to win vs Trump", "metadata": { "author": "hypehold", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721663244, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": true, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 46, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 46 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Sam Seder is and always has been pretty based. It seems like most of the time when people shit on MR it’s about things Matt Lech and Emma have said. Sam is usually pretty fair.", "metadata": { "author": "mojizus", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721673509, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 22, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 22 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "What about the buckets?", "metadata": { "author": "Wise_Solid1904", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721677477, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 13, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 13 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "He leaned into that joke to entertain all you degens. What about it?", "metadata": { "author": "MarsupialMole", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721684811, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 10, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 10 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Biden to push through anti-Trump plans as he vows to make last days in office count", "metadata": { "author": "TheTelegraph", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1731012634, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 771, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Biden to push through anti-Trump plans as he vows to make last days in office count", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.97, "upvotes": 771 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "He didn't even fully undo Trump's presidency during his own. Many policies Trump did, like the travel ban on Cuba, policies on Israel, immigration changes, ect, were left in place. People who think he is going to do anything that isn't going to just be instantly dismantled are coping. The only legacy he has is he got us out of Afghanistan, and even that was just following Trump's plan. Everything else is going to be gone.", "metadata": { "author": "CoyoteTheGreat", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1731015725, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Post office man still in charge from the last time they tried to ratfuck the election.", "metadata": { "author": "BatHickey", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1731021621, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Even I had forgotten about that, yeah, that's particularly infuriating because he has destroyed what was once a great service. Its absolute insanity.", "metadata": { "author": "CoyoteTheGreat", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1731021798, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "A Rule for the Ages, or a Rule for Trump?", "metadata": { "author": "I_Eat_Pork", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1720793111, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Opinion article (US)", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 78, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "A Rule for the Ages, or a Rule for Trump?", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.95, "upvotes": 78 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "> A majority of the Court has now embraced a rule that may make it impossible to prosecute any future president for any official act, no matter how egregious. That is a drastic holding, fundamentally changing the place of the president in our system of laws. Unlike some other commentators, I don’t think the basic separation of powers framework that the majority deployed in its analysis is itself inherently wrong or inapposite. In fact, after the Court granted review in the case, I argued that it should decide the case within that very framework. But Chief Justice Roberts’s majority opinion made major errors in how it articulated the framework, how it applied (and refused to apply) it, and what it left out. Its blunders are so extreme that it is difficult to escape the conclusion that the majority did what it did not out of concern for the presidency in general, but because it didn’t approve of the charges against Trump in particular. \n\n!ping LAW&DEMOCRACY", "metadata": { "author": "Independent-Low-2398", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720796430, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 66, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 66 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "I don’t think this is an accurate reading of the decision. The president only has absolute immunity for conclusive and preclusive executive actions (pardons, military action, etc.). He only enjoys presumptive immunity for other official acts. \n\nStill a “drastic holding” but no need to make it worse than it already is.", "metadata": { "author": "JustHereForPka", "controversiality": 1, "created_utc": 1720806724, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": -5, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": -5 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "An accurate reading would acknowledge that presumptive immunity is effectively the same since that handicaps any prosecution.", "metadata": { "author": "Petrichordates", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720808335, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 50, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 50 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Nikki Haley Scolds Republicans Over Kamala Harris 'DEI' Attacks", "metadata": { "author": "Niyazali_Haneef", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1722002656, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 835, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Nikki Haley Scolds Republicans Over Kamala Harris 'DEI' Attacks", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.96, "upvotes": 835 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I bet Haley is tired of hearing \" Harris is only there because she is a woman of color\" from people that forget Nikki is a woman of color", "metadata": { "author": "thelastbluepancake", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1722003196, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "No, they're aware.", "metadata": { "author": "TXRhody", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1722003834, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I didn't know. I don't really pay attention to every single republican because who cares? I just thought she was a random white republican lady.", "metadata": { "author": "Martholomule", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1722007459, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": " \n", "metadata": { "author": "ProcedureBoring8520", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1721730915, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Twitter", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1214, "suggested_sort": "confidence", "title": "Decoding the Guru’s Chris Kavanagh comments on Destiny/Lex interaction", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.99, "upvotes": 1214 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Friendship with Lex has ended. Chris Kavanagh is our new best friend", "metadata": { "author": "Constantinch", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721738663, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 175, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 175 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "desperately waiting for him to hit the orbit", "metadata": { "author": "creamjudge", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721739363, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 44, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 44 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Nah I want the guru guys to stay exactly where they are, above all the bullshit", "metadata": { "author": "TeaAndCrumpets4life", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721752460, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 7, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 7 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "RFK Jr. says a Trump White House would immediately push to remove fluoride from water", "metadata": { "author": "asdtyyhfh", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1730637071, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 429, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "RFK Jr. says a Trump White House would immediately push to remove fluoride from water", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.92, "upvotes": 429 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I'm a dentist and I tell you that is the dumbest and craziest idea. Fluoride is absolutely necessary if you don't want to see me.", "metadata": { "author": "HODL4EVAA", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1730638470, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "In Alberta, Canada, some towns removed flouride from their water systems and a year later dentists were flooded with kids having teeth issues.\n\n['Children are suffering' as Calgary's 60+ year fluoride debate drags on, bioethicist says | CBC News](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-fluoride-debate-2019-1.5340271#:~:text=Pediatric%20specialist%20Dr.%20Cora%20Constantinescu,are%20in%20children%20under%20five.)", "metadata": { "author": "DirtDevil1337", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1730640610, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Exactly - like there is irrefutable evidence that fluoride in water prevents cavities. But - there are a bunch of instagram ‘influencers’ who think it’s ‘bad’ because it’s a ‘chemical’ and thus half the US population thinks it’s bad.", "metadata": { "author": "scrunchie_one", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1730642125, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "While injecting shit in their faces to try to look younger.", "metadata": { "author": "Miserable_Song_9024", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1730642716, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Technically Botox is all natural. The medicine in Botox injections is made from the same toxin that causes a type of food poisoning called botulism.", "metadata": { "author": "ryancementhead", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1730643336, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Democratic support for Kamala Harris is ‘coming from the ground up’: Pete Buttigieg", "metadata": { "author": "FeelTheFreeze", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1722179958, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 449, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Democratic support for Kamala Harris is ‘coming from the ground up’: Pete Buttigieg", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.9, "upvotes": 449 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I’ve made two donations to her campaign which was the first time I’ve donated. Grassroots baby", "metadata": { "author": "TheKingofAndrews", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1722180244, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "lol its not grassroots if the whole of left wing media and prominent democrat figuares are pushing kamala. Not to mention millions in advertisements to ask for donations and support.\n\nBernie was a bit of grassroots. And the dnc pushed him out in favor of biden.\n\nKamala is anything but grassroots.", "metadata": { "author": "Silent_Saturn7", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1722181004, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Would've been quicker to just yell \"TRUMP 2024!!\" and save everyone the trouble of pretending to take you seriously.", "metadata": { "author": "playful_flatulence", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1722181353, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Typical. If i don't like the dnc frontrunner or support the dnc no matter what, then i love trump?\n\nIve been also called an idiotic liberal for criticizing Trump.\n\nim sorry but i wont allow trump to turn me into some lemming that just cheerleads the the dnc and its candidates. \n\nNot unexpected from r/politics though. Many people who all think the same.", "metadata": { "author": "Silent_Saturn7", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1722183377, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Are going to vote or just masturbate into a bucket?", "metadata": { "author": "Grimnebulin68", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1722184394, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Where's Vooush? That is all.", "metadata": { "author": "Roy_BattyLives", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1720708226, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Discussion", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 6, "suggested_sort": "top", "title": "Where?", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.88, "upvotes": 6 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I hope he comes back soon to push back on the VGG Biden or Busters", "metadata": { "author": "Drakula_dont_suck", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720710914, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 3, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 3 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "There are 0 Biden or Busters, therefore 0 reason he can't be replaced lol.", "metadata": { "author": "FirstGonkEmpire", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720711145, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 2, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 2 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Have you been active on the sub lately? Half the people are convinced Biden is the only person that can beat Trump, and the fake news media is conspiring to make him look bad.", "metadata": { "author": "Drakula_dont_suck", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720711312, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 9, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 9 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Yeah, people are saying replacing him would be electoral suicide. How? People do not want this matchup, people do not like Biden (35-40% approval), 75% of voters think he is not mentally competent for the job including 50% of Dems. It's electoral suicide to keep him, frankly. MSNBC and NYT are pushing hard for his replacement because they'd be the first people put in camps in a Project 2025 world.", "metadata": { "author": "FirstGonkEmpire", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720711711, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 2, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 2 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Nah msm is just in it for the money. Don’t get it twisted. They want very hard to be the first ones to say ‘biden is dropping out’ too. Because if that happens it will be a huge story and unprecedented moment. They want that to happen badly.", "metadata": { "author": "Legal_Dragonfruit", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720712158, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 3, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 3 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Prohibition worked better than you think", "metadata": { "author": "privatize_the_ssa", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1721538622, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Opinion article (US)", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 111, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Prohibition worked better than you think", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.67, "upvotes": 111 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "This thread is unbelievably weird. The main justification for calling prohibition good here seems to be domestic violence. \n\nWe could reduce domestic violence by any number of means, but that doesn’t make those ideas good or very justifiable from a liberal perspective.\n\nYou could ban cohabitation of men and women outside of marriage, for instance. Non-married cohabitating couples have significantly higher rates of intimate partner violence than married couples. Simply separating men and women outside of marriage would have the similar desired effect.\n\nHowever, everyone here would reasonably conclude that, despite having the positive outcome of reduced IPV, this ban would be an unacceptable infringement on personal *liberty*, freedom of association, etc.\n\nWhy then doesn’t the same apply to alcohol? Alcohol is one of the oldest forms of drug developed by human cultures all around the world. People have freely been using it for tens of thousands of years. And people have the right to bodily autonomy. There are limitations to bodily autonomy, as with any other right, but this doesn’t mean you can hand-wave the right away altogether.\n\nThis is before we even begin talking about the negative effects of creating a mob-run black market for an incredibly popular substance, incentivizing crime and murder on a mass scale. \n\nThis whole conversation is a bit silly and authoritarian.", "metadata": { "author": "LondonCallingYou", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721546360, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 379, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 379 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Because a lot of people on this sub think that **Fundamental and Inalienable Natural Human Rights** are à la carte and they can just pick and choose which ones they want others to have.\n\n1. Self-defense, ok but no right to arms, just learn boxing\n2. Free-speech, sure, but we get to control the media to avoid fake-news\n 1. Also government can abuse it's power to threaten private companies and that's fine.\n 1. But when the other side does it, it's unacceptable culture-war and 1A violation.\n3. Bodily autonomy, absolutely! abortion is a right and Roe was perfect and completely judicially sound\n 1. Wait you want to drink alcohol? ..... no not like that\n4. We shouldn't create different tiers of citizenship or be paternalist towards others\n 1. Except if you're under 21, then you should be deprived of rights other enjoy and be treated as a child.\n 1. Except if you commit crime or want to die abroad, that's cool, you're an adult then.\n 2. Also, if you have any kind of behavior which I don't condone and think is bad for you, I reserve the right to ban you from doing it, and potentially throw you in jail, *for your own good of course*.\n5. Freedom of religion, sure, but we also want to be able to discriminate against religious establishment when applying for state funding because we don't understand what secularism means.\n6. Democracy, 100% that's super important, but I'd like independent and unaccountable agencies have as much discretionary power as possible since I can't get a majority of the people to agree with my policies.\n7. We really need accountable government and individual autonomy, also, let's decide everything as far away from people and in as centralized a fashion as possible. I don't like when local people prevent my silver-bullet policies from being enacted worldwide.\n8. Racism and Jim crow are bad, proceed to support a metric ton of deeply racist laws that they happen to vibe with.\n9. We want evidence-based policy, so here is all the negative externalities of X on our society, we should ban it. What do you mean \"also measuring the positive externalities and doing the balance\"? What do you mean there are more proportionate and beneficial measures other than an outright ban? But I don't like it, and I just said it was bad, why can't we just ban it now?\n10. The strength and trust in our instutions is essen........ REEEEEEEEE the SCOTUS just gave a perfectly sound ruling that I did not read on a subject that I know nothing but feel very strongly about. Time to pack the court, jail the justices, traitors all of them!\n\nAnd the list goes on and on.", "metadata": { "author": "G3OL3X", "controversiality": 1, "created_utc": 1721563468, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 28, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 28 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Of course people are allowed to personally decide which rights they think are fundamental. They don't have to subscribe to your definitions lmao ", "metadata": { "author": "JesusPubes", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721573967, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 8, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 8 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "That's not how individual rights work though. Besides most of the double-takes mentioned above are examples of situation where people agree with the right, but want to deny it under certain specific circumstances.\n\nThat's not the principled disagreement about which rights exist that you claim it to be. It's a purely arbitrary decision of a political majority to deprive some people, in some circumstances, of their widely agreed upon right, simply because they dislike the consequences of applying those rights fairly and evenly to all.\n\nProhibitionist do not disagree with people's right to bodily autonomy, they just feel that their distaste of alcohol should trump other's rights.", "metadata": { "author": "G3OL3X", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721574420, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 9, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 9 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "You are pro free speech? You then *must* also be pro legal child porn, if you aren't then you are just arbitrarily applying an exception because you don't like the outcome of people having a certain right. \n\nThis is ridiculous. Everybody agrees that rights have exceptions and limitations. The difference is where you draw the line.", "metadata": { "author": "Excessive_Etcetra", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721577380, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 7, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 7 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "If we're talking about drawn stuff, then yes, it shouldn't be prosecuted, there is no victim. I'd much rather have safe and moderated \"ethical\" child-porn websites with options for people to seek help and provide professional assistance than the current system where our own (rightful) disgust at those things leads us to driving **all of it** underground where it can fester, instead of addressing child molestation and repulsive sexual desires as the two very difference things that they are.\n\nIf we're talking about stolen pictures then individuals have a right to privacy, so both rights should be balanced against each other and that arbitration should surely side with the right to privacy.\n\nIf we're talking about straight up child rape, then the act itself would be a heinous crime. As for the diffusion of the media itself by third-parties it would be still covered under (heightened) privacy concerns, and might even be elevated to complicity with the act depending on the specific circumstances.\n\n>Everybody agrees that rights have exceptions and limitations. The difference is where you draw the line.\n\nI never claimed that rights were unbounded. But it does not follow that **any** line is correct. There are objectively better lines to draw than others, and these will not be determined by simple opportunistic power-grab by a political majority.\n\nFinding the rules that best protect individual's rights, without imposing undue restriction on their exercise, is a rational and evidence-based process, not an emotional one. \nThe examples I list in my initial post are emotionally driven policies, that are inconsistent, arbitrary and capricious.", "metadata": { "author": "G3OL3X", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721578350, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 7, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 7 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "You are missing a scenario. A child takes a video of themselves performing a sexual act, they hold on to it until they are an adult, then they want to sell it. Legal or illegal? I don't believe there are any other rights being infringed there.\n\n> Finding the rules that best protect individual's rights, without imposing undue restriction on their exercise, is a rational and evidence-based process, not an emotional one.\n\nOk, but this is r/neoliberal, not r/libertarian. It's perfectly reasonable to look at the outcome of specific policies and decide that if they cause enough harm that is a decent reason to put proportional limitations on some rights. That is literally what the article is arguing for, to have a higher tax on alcohol as a proportional response to the societal harm caused by excessive drinking. That's not irrational or emotional.", "metadata": { "author": "Excessive_Etcetra", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721579439, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 5, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 5 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Kamala Harris Leading Trump in State He Won Twice—Most Accurate Pollster ", "metadata": { "author": "justalilrowdy", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1724083898, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 590, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Kamala Harris Leading Trump in State He Won Twice—Most Accurate Pollster ", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.94, "upvotes": 590 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "North Carolina for those that don't want to click.", "metadata": { "author": "sergius64", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1724083962, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Impossible 😳\n\nNC is where our extended family moves when they feel Ohio just isn't red enough", "metadata": { "author": "YamahaRyoko", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1724086942, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I live in Kentucky, a very red state. We have voted in a Democrat as governor last two elections, so there is always hope.", "metadata": { "author": "DramaticWesley", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1724089645, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Gov. Whitmer could sign law banning ‘gay panic’ defense next week", "metadata": { "author": "southpawFA", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1721345344, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 2352, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Gov. Whitmer could sign law banning ‘gay panic’ defense next week", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.96, "upvotes": 2352 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "So far, only 19 states have banned the gay-trans panic defense.\n\nIt's 2024, and so far only 19 states (alongside D.C.) have abolished the gay/trans panic defense. Those states are:\n\n1. ***California***\n2. ***Illinois***\n3. ***Rhode Island***\n4. ***Connecticut***\n5. ***Hawaii***\n6. ***Maine***\n7. ***Nevada***\n8. ***New York***\n9. ***New Jersey***\n10. ***Maryland***\n11. ***Colorado***\n12. ***New Hampshire***\n13. ***Washington***\n14. ***Virginia***\n15. ***Oregon***\n16. ***Vermont***\n17. ***Minnesota***\n18. ***Delaware***\n19. ***New Mexico***\n\nMichigan would be the 20th state.\n\nThat means 30 states haven't passed the gay/trans panic defense. That means a person can legally claim to kill an LGBTQIA+ person and claim they felt \"frightened\" by the mere presence of an LGBTQIA+ person, to have a reduced sentence.\n\nThese (mostly) red states that haven't passed the gay/trans panic defense are showing how callous and depraved they are to our queer community, and thus, humanity.\n\n[https://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/panic\\_defense\\_bans](https://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps/panic_defense_bans)", "metadata": { "author": "southpawFA", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721345719, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": true, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 156, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 156 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Someone recently tried to use the gay panic defense in California and they got charged with a hate crime murder", "metadata": { "author": "lumin0va", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721348342, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 120, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 120 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Kamala Harris lead the effort to pass AB 1160 in CA banning the \"appeals to societal biases\" defenses like gay panic. This was in response to a case of a trans student who was murdered and the killer used \"gay panic\" defense and landed only second degree murder charges.", "metadata": { "author": "18093029422466690581", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721388006, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 7, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 7 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Look out — Republicans are defecting from Trump’s MAGA army in droves", "metadata": { "author": "don_caveuto", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1724254125, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 740, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Look out — Republicans are defecting from Trump’s MAGA army in droves", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.97, "upvotes": 740 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "See if Bush can just endorsed Harris, then we can see the biggest defections of all time.", "metadata": { "author": "Available_Reason7795", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1724255143, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Do a good deal of Republicans still have a fondness for Bush?\n\n\nIf not I think such an endorsement might be ill advised.", "metadata": { "author": "Howitdobiglyboo", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1724256693, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "i think a lot would probably call rino and traitor and then still vote for trump", "metadata": { "author": "aftertheradar", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1724258520, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Just when you thought it was Joever", "metadata": { "author": "hpty603", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1721222058, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Twitter", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1587, "suggested_sort": "confidence", "title": "Just when you thought it was Joever", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.98, "upvotes": 1587 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I still have no idea what he supposedly changed his views about. Is he still a nazi? What on earth does he actually believe lol", "metadata": { "author": "Illustrious_Penalty2", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721223928, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 102, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 102 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "He’s still extremely anti-semitic but he’s pro Ukraine, pro EU, pro Vaccine and not surprisingly anti Israel which is very opposite to Maga politics.", "metadata": { "author": "chrismaxxing", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721225550, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 48, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 48 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Bro's entirely in his own lane", "metadata": { "author": "_syl___", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721231338, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 52, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 52 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Harris, who is Biden's voice on abortion rights, is likely to raise the volume", "metadata": { "author": "shreeharis", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1721641367, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 6288, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Harris, who is Biden's voice on abortion rights, is likely to raise the volume", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.97, "upvotes": 6288 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Hopefully women come out droves to vote their for bodily autonomy.", "metadata": { "author": "NoReserve7293", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721642214, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 386, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 386 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Hoping white women can put gender before race.", "metadata": { "author": "jaron_b", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721646049, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 228, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 228 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I’m pretty sure they voted for Obama", "metadata": { "author": "NoReserve7293", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721646201, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 63, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 63 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "It was 54/39 Trump/Hillary in 2016 and even with Trump making it abundantly clear that abortion rights were on the ticket in 2020 he still did fairly well with the white woman vote in 2020. The unfortunate truth is white women often will put race before gender. I hope that Hillary was just as unlikeable as the media painted her and people show the fuck up this time around.", "metadata": { "author": "jaron_b", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721646542, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 74, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 74 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "It's unpopular to admit, but Hilary was the weakest dem candidate we have fielded in my lifetime. She had a smear campaign against her for more than 30 years before she ran. There was no overcoming that.", "metadata": { "author": "eden_sc2", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721656401, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 5, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 5 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Politically I disagree. Her resume was fine it was the smear campaign and the last name of Clinton that killed her campaign. But that's what gives me hope. If Hillary can almost win Harris has a chance. Better than a chance I'm very optimistic.", "metadata": { "author": "jaron_b", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721656543, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 12, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 12 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Hillary won the popular vote right? She just didn't win where it \"mattered\". I dislike her but given what happened under Trump and what's still happening now I would certainly prefer to have gotten stuck with her than him. Ultimately, the electoral college served a purpose hundreds of years ago but today just archaic and actively harming democracy and should be done away with.", "metadata": { "author": "shfiven", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721666146, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 2, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 2 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Kamala Harris Twists Knife At Debate — Says Trump ‘Got Fired By 81 Million People’ And is ‘Having a Difficult Time Processing That’", "metadata": { "author": "Accurate-Albatross34", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1726025087, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1476, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Kamala Harris Twists Knife At Debate — Says Trump ‘Got Fired By 81 Million People’ And is ‘Having a Difficult Time Processing That’", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.99, "upvotes": 1476 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "He was tortured tonight and it started the moment he touched her black hands. Bet he hated that", "metadata": { "author": "royhenderson771", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1726026745, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "“Or Indian hand… she can be whatever she wants to be. I don’t care either way!!” /s", "metadata": { "author": "Taco_party1984", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1726027185, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "“Whatever makes sense”", "metadata": { "author": "hermes-thrice-great", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1726029438, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "LibsofTikTok now gunning for Destiny.", "metadata": { "author": "J0sh_95", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1721426368, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Twitter", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1330, "suggested_sort": "confidence", "title": "LibsofTikTok now gunning for Destiny.", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.98, "upvotes": 1330 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "First, LibsofTikTok is a fucking machine. I know it’s Destiny but how much did they have to search for a clip like this.\n\nSecond, this doesn’t even break the to 25 most inflammatory/offensive things Destiny has ever said and it’s clear he’s joking. The BLM clip goes way harder than this lol. But of course they aren’t going to reference the left wing shit he’s said to prove their case.\n\nHypocritical fucking demons. Anyone that actively defends or promotes LibsofTikTok can miss me with non-stop, decade-long bitching about cancel culture", "metadata": { "author": "clark_sterling", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721426724, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 369, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 369 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Its very likely that LibsofTikTok isnt a single person, and they dont look for things, people send them these things.", "metadata": { "author": "IAdmitILie", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721427686, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 31, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 31 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I mean if you see her speak it’s pretty clear she’s not intelligent enough to socially engineer or dox. She’s actually a very unintelligent person.", "metadata": { "author": "ThomasHardyHarHar", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721429892, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 58, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 58 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "She has an interview with Taylor Lorenz that is incredibly painful to listen to if anyone is [interested](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XL-40gDBRx0).", "metadata": { "author": "[deleted]", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721430605, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 31, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 31 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Yeah I love that. Her political views are \"Covid Radicalized me\"", "metadata": { "author": "ThomasHardyHarHar", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721449278, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 11, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 11 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Link: https://x.com/KirscheVerstahl/status/1814559135079281101\n", "metadata": { "author": "TheQuestioningDM", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1721462950, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Twitter", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 828, "suggested_sort": "confidence", "title": "The \"All Jokes are Acceptable\" Vtuber Responds", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.97, "upvotes": 828 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "destiny never said the firedude deserved it. Who is this thing talking about?", "metadata": { "author": "leafblower49", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721464280, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 649, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 649 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "I’ve said it before I’ll say it again. Conservatives are so dumb in their mind not having sympathy for something happening to someone means that they deserved it or you’re glad it happened or that it should happen or that you advocate for it happening again or whatever the fuck else because they are so fucking dumb, they literally cannot separate in their brains. The difference between wanting something to happen versus just not feeling bad if it does literally an incomprehensible separation in their minds.🤷‍♂️", "metadata": { "author": "Livid_Damage_4900", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721468121, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 358, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 358 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "It’s all projection. When conservatives joke about dead people, it’s because they *do* think the victims deserved it and wish more people like that would also die. There is no conservative joke about George Floyd or Club Q that doesn’t give off a feeling of “I’m glad those degenerates are dead.”", "metadata": { "author": "SpiritCrvsher", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721501412, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 6, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 6 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Democrats Running Kamala Harris 'One Way or Another': Ex-Obama Adviser", "metadata": { "author": "1-randomonium", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1720431860, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 36, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Democrats Running Kamala Harris 'One Way or Another': Ex-Obama Adviser", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.58, "upvotes": 36 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I legitimately do not understand why people dislike Kamala so much. \n\nLike honestly, what is it? I find her to be an entirely likeable, genuine, patriotic person.", "metadata": { "author": "da_muffinman", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720431991, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 23, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 23 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "That interview where she bragged about locking people up for life for smoking weed and then giggled when asked if she smoked week lives rent free in my head. Fuck the police includes Kamala as a prosecutor. \nAll that being said, I would gladly choose Kamala over Biden right now, I’d be right there phone banking for her.\n\nEdit, the clip I’m referring to was an attack ad, now that I’ve tried to look it up. \nFunny what sticks with you, but at the end of the day she did laugh about smoking on live tv and ruin peoples lives over it.", "metadata": { "author": "Prometheusf3ar", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720433017, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 24, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 24 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Only a few dozen of 1900 cases went to jail, at a time when it was the norm to lock people up for it. She also has been pro-legalization for about a decade.\n\n[https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/09/11/kamala-harris-prosecuting-marijuana-cases/](https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/09/11/kamala-harris-prosecuting-marijuana-cases/)\n\nAnd your anecdote came from Tulsi Gabbard, Putin's wench.\n\n>During the last presidential debate in July, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard blasted Harris over marijuana convictions, saying she “put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.” Gabbard was [misleadingly citing figures](https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/08/01/democratic-debate-kamala-harris-tulsi-gabbard-joe-biden-fact-check/) for all of California while Harris was attorney general — even though the vast majority of marijuana cases in the state are prosecuted by independently elected county district attorneys.", "metadata": { "author": "TopDeckHero420", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720433261, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 31, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 31 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "tulsi or not the interview happened.", "metadata": { "author": "globalpolitk", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720433611, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": -8, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": -8 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Link it.", "metadata": { "author": "TopDeckHero420", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720434320, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 13, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 13 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "ah tulsi was wrong. my bad. \n\n“The 1,500 figure appears to come from a 2019 article by the Washington Free Beacon -- a conservative publication -- entitled “Kamala Harris Packed California Prisons With Pot Peddlers.” \nIt quotes statistics from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) that at least 1,560 people were jailed for marijuana offenses in state prisons when Harris was California state attorney general from 2011 through 2016.\nThe website later published a correction and pointed to a fact check by the San Francisco Chronicle which put the number of admissions to California state prisons for marijuana and hashish admissions at 1,974 during that period.“\n\n\nhttps://factcheck.afp.com/misleading-claim-says-harris-jailed-1500-black-men-marijuana\n\nedit: my error again. the interview i was thinking of is where she laughs about prosecuting parents whose children are truant. We can all agree education is important. The question is do we think using threat of the criminal justice system is the way to get people to go to school?\n\nhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WDLANlZEicg", "metadata": { "author": "globalpolitk", "controversiality": 1, "created_utc": 1720437924, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": -1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": -1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "To your question about using the threat of the criminal justice system— when you’re an elected official, you can only use the powers you have.\n\nShe was the DA and then the AG. All she can do is use the potential of law enforcement to shape desired outcomes. And as someone mentioned above, if you’re in education, you’ll see sometimes this is the only thing that gets parents to step up. She also said her office was doing what they could to point these parents to resources to help as well. Going well beyond the expected scope of DA or AG. Lawmakers are the ones who can create programs or resources to help people. Law enforcement can only use the implicit threat of law to shape behavior. That’s not a personal indictment on her, it’s the position.", "metadata": { "author": "Beginning_Cupcake_45", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720473937, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Donald Trump's Chances Of Winning Election Slump After RNC Speech", "metadata": { "author": "plz-let-me-in", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1721398221, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 13884, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Donald Trump's Chances Of Winning Election Slump After RNC Speech", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.83, "upvotes": 13884 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I swear Newsweek changes this daily.\n\nOne day it's Trump will win in a blow out\n\nNext, it's Biden is winning.\n\nNext, Trump is.\n\nBut it's always \"how this is bad for Biden.\"\n\nFuck newsweek. How is this rag even still around today?", "metadata": { "author": "Very_Nice_Zombie", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721398961, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 6179, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 6179 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "They're playing both sides so they always come out on top.", "metadata": { "author": "DaftWarrior", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721399470, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 2369, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 2369 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Hello fellow American. This you should vote me.", "metadata": { "author": "IMSLI", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721400629, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 624, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 624 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "So please do", "metadata": { "author": "LeserIsMore", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721401929, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 175, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 175 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "\"This doesn't make any seeeense!\"", "metadata": { "author": "SubterrelProspector", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721404117, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 96, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 96 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Remember, the good of the scorpion is not the good of the frog, yes? hahaha kajshk kjashd agsdiuhnlnqw d\n\nYou must excuse me. I've grown quite fweer-ray.", "metadata": { "author": "equitybore", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721404911, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 85, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 85 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Aww cmon", "metadata": { "author": "sweatythighguy", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721411115, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 8, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 8 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "I posted on a Leftist sub. They found out I’m a neoliberal. They didn’t like it. lol", "metadata": { "author": "CC78AMG", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1726696806, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Meme", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 25, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "I posted on a Leftist sub. They found out I’m a neoliberal. They didn’t like it. lol", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.84, "upvotes": 25 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Holy fuck! You, moron, are PROUD to be neolib?!", "metadata": { "author": "No_Safe_7908", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1726697068, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 33, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 33 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "My wife left me 😔", "metadata": { "author": "CC78AMG", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1726697156, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": true, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 19, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 19 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "LVT would have solved this", "metadata": { "author": "No_Safe_7908", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1726697322, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 14, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 14 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Why Kamala Harris’ convention polling bump could last", "metadata": { "author": "InternetPopular3679", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1724023354, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 722, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Why Kamala Harris’ convention polling bump could last", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.97, "upvotes": 722 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Because Trump and Vance are both so cognitively and ethically challenged that it is impossible for people with any integrity to pretend otherwise.", "metadata": { "author": "JubalHarshaw23", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1724023903, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "At this point I’m convinced even the MAGA people are holding their noses while backing the GQP ticket. \n \nIt’s like every single day there’s a new batch of sound bites where the felon and the couchlover say something too stupid for words. If Kamala’s campaign had started a year or two ago I doubt the polls would have the race this close, and they would’ve dropped Vance from the ticket for someone equally awful already. (I’m still waiting for them to do this because the longer they wait the bigger of a shitshow it will be.)", "metadata": { "author": "oftenevil", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1724024735, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I thought we were gonna have problems changing the ticket so late. But, if anything I think perhaps months /years of disappointment that Biden would be the candidate actually helped Harris. Confidence was so low that it was just a joy when she stepped up and showed everyone what she had, then we she followed that up by bringing on Walz. It's like when you read all the critics bad reviews panning a movie you want to see, then you go see it anyway and you've had your expectations so tampered that it's even better than you could have hoped.", "metadata": { "author": "BJntheRV", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1724032558, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "The [discussion thread](https://neoliber.al/dt) is for casual and off-topic conversation that doesn't merit its own submission. If you've got a good meme, article, or question, please post it outside the DT. Meta discussion is allowed, but if you want to get the attention of the mods, make a post in /r/metaNL ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^[](https://i.imgur.com/cu8BHQU.png)\r\n\r\n## Links\r\n\r\n[Ping Groups](https://reddit.com/r/neoliberal/wiki/user_pinger_2) | [Ping History](https://neoliber.al/user_pinger_2/history.html) | [Mastodon](https://mastodo.neoliber.al/) | [CNL Chapters](https://cnliberalism.org/our-chapters) | [CNL Event Calendar](https://cnliberalism.org/events)\n\n## Upcoming Events\n\n* Jul 16: [Houston New Liberals Monthly Social ](https://cnliberalism.org/events/houston-new-liberals-monthly-social-july-2024)\n* Jul 16: [NYC New Liberals Book Talk with Yair Zivan](https://cnliberalism.org/events/nyc-new-liberals-book-talk-with-yair-zivan)\n* Jul 17: [Twin Cities New Liberals Monthly Meetup](https://cnliberalism.org/events/twin-cities-new-liberals-june-meetup-jjena)\n* Jul 20: [Columbus Area Urbanist Meetup](https://cnliberalism.org/events/columbus-zone-in-public-hearing-june-27-9bykb)", "metadata": { "author": "jobautomator", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1720940427, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Discussion Thread", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 0, "suggested_sort": "new", "title": "Discussion Thread", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.46, "upvotes": 0 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "why are we posting about destiny what's going on", "metadata": { "author": "Liberal_Antipopulist", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721024745, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 13, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 13 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "He rattled some cages in spectacular fashion with some \"you reap what you sow\" takes RE: the assaasination, and made of the person murdered with some \"it's funny that the person at the Celebrate-Political-Violence rally was the victim of political violence.\"\n\nPeople are generally conflicted as to whether it goes too far or speaks to the higher standard of civility Dems are held to as opposed to right wingers that do and say whatever they want without consequences.", "metadata": { "author": "FriscoJones", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721025020, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 25, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 25 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "thank you", "metadata": { "author": "Liberal_Antipopulist", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721025263, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 5, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 5 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Elon Musk ‘Jokes’ in a Church About Someone Killing Kamala Harris", "metadata": { "author": "rollingstone", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1729543959, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Soft Paywall", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 645, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Elon Musk ‘Jokes’ in a Church About Someone Killing Kamala Harris", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.96, "upvotes": 645 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Why does he still have a green card?", "metadata": { "author": "WaterLittle2495", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1729545018, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "He’s a citizen", "metadata": { "author": "TheBlazingFire123", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1729545306, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Exactly! So why does he still have a green card????", "metadata": { "author": "UncircumciseMe", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1729545408, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "RFK Jr. Doesn’t Deny Alleged Sexual Assault of Babysitter", "metadata": { "author": "don_caveuto", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1720809363, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Out of Date", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": "moderator", "score": 3580, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "RFK Jr. Doesn’t Deny Alleged Sexual Assault of Babysitter", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.96, "upvotes": 3580 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Rambunctious youth? Dude was 45", "metadata": { "author": "turboneato", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720810190, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 956, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 956 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "“I said in my announcement speech that I have so many skeletons in my closet that if they if they could all vote, I could run for king of the world.\"", "metadata": { "author": "MajesticsEleven", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720816964, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 475, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 475 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "He actually said this. This is insane.", "metadata": { "author": "[deleted]", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720819148, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 327, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 327 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Its definitely something someone with worms in their brain would say", "metadata": { "author": "kagethemage", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720841469, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 17, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 17 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Nah, the worms said it.", "metadata": { "author": "theannoyingburrito", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720851834, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 3, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 3 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Andrew Tate is experiencing racism", "metadata": { "author": "Didymuse", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1722909661, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Twitter", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 105, "suggested_sort": "confidence", "title": "Andrew Tate is experiencing racism", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.96, "upvotes": 105 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "He isn't even in the uk", "metadata": { "author": "TheColdTurtle", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1722909882, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 46, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 46 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "He's rich. He's probably got access to some kind of secret international network of computers that allows people in different parts of the world to communicate with each other.", "metadata": { "author": "y53rw", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1722912263, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 21, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 21 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Get outta here with your Sci fi conspiracy shit. They are sending him telegrams obviously.", "metadata": { "author": "JJ_Shosky", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1722912802, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 5, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 5 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "(Note: Boy howdy. The following Effortpost is a sincere call for changes to the state-level Democratic parties of primarily rural states. Please, don’t start yelling at about how this is untenable in New York or California. I’m aware. Thanks!)\n\nAt this point it should be no surprise to anyone reading that Tim Walz, the farm boy from deep-rural Nebraska, veteran, football coach, and current Minnesota governor has shot to prominence in popular culture due to being chosen as Kamala’s running mate in her presidential run. Social media is abuzz from people swooning over Walz and his folksy charm- everything from [his photos posing with guns and hunting dogs](https://x.com/GovTimWalz/status/1452415437006901250) to videos of him at the [Minnesota State Fair with his teenage daughter](https://youtu.be/S233kqP0ak8?si=BTBn29UnomGBMyfr) to his stopping a political rally to make sure an audience member was safe. The Harris campaign is definitely capitalizing on this very un-coastal-elite vibe with its [wildly popular camouflage hat merchandise](https://store.kamalaharris.com/harris-walz-camo-hat/) (which hasn’t even been released yet). \n\nIt doesn’t take a genius to see how Harris and the Democrats are attempting to own the idea that *they* are the real “normal Americans,” rather than the [diaper-wearing, conspiracy-ranting supporters](https://www.dispatchesfromtrumpland.com/post/trump-fans-wear-golden-diapers-and-more-diaper-shirts-at-jersey-shore-rally) of an orange, seething freak and his horde of equally weird lackeys. \n\nKamala Harris hasn’t mentioned the historical importance of being a Black and Asian woman running for president. They haven’t opened any rallies with discussions about identity outside of being middle class, working people. Frankly, it feels like they’re trying to avoid the image of being “unnaturally colored hair” people. They are decidedly un-woke, even while fighting for a decidedly progressive agenda. Harris got very visibly angry at pro-Palestinian protesters at her Detroit rally yesterday, a big sign that the hard left wing of the Democratic Party is losing ground.\n\nLet me tell you, I’ve lived in rural areas nearly my whole life. I’m originally from the south, and I grew up shooting guns and eating smoked meat from questionably legal mobile barbecue setups in gas station parking lots. Since then, outside of a brief stint in Minneapolis, I’ve only lived in rural areas of the Midwest. The people around me hunt, listen to country music, and work in agriculture or manufacturing. A lot of them smoke. [Yes, cigarettes](https://www.apa.org/pi/health-equity/resources/smoking-rural-populations). Many, if not most, wear camo and hunting colors because it’s normal, rather than out of [some kind of message](https://acclaimmag.com/style/a-short-history-of-camo-print-in-streetwear/#0).\n\nIt goes without saying that the *perceived* messaging of Democrats comes off as exclusive and degrading to many of my peers. Whether it’s justified or not, many of them would tell you that the democrats only care about culturally liberal urbanites in major city centers. They often feel left out and ignored by the progress being made in the cities, and are often deeply bitter that their extremely valuable contribution to global society (objects being made and food on your table) is looked down on. They sense, somewhat correctly, that they are seen as fools for going to church, and for participating in all the traditions of small town life (high school football matches, county fairs, etc). They are angry that their cultural identity is viewed as small minded- which has, ironically, rapidly sped up the radicalization of many of my peers so they DO become bigoted… because this cultural exclusion has made many all too vulnerable to grifters and extremists.\n\nMy kind of folks are, for the most part, normal people. They want what everybody wants- food on their tables, enough money in the bank to not stress about how to pay the bills, to be able to enjoy their families and friends, and to live peacefully. The exceptions to this are a minority, but that minority has gotten exceptionally loud, and managed to convince some of the majority that their unhappiness is a result of *those people* in Washington, rather than any other common sense issues they’re actually dealing with. \n\nLook, I’m not going to sit here and make some bogus claims that there hasn’t been deep bigotry or [self-marginalization](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9122343/) in rural communities. That would be historial revisionism, and I grew up and experienced all that shit as a closeted bisexual kid in a religious environment tainted by the froth-mouthed doomsday preachers of [the 9/11](https://youtu.be/GlENjYa7hXY?si=1RnqbzN5xLG-LzxV) and [Obama](https://youtu.be/pIW27p4BI_g?si=yU2-FVjv898QM3En) eras. My point here is that we have an opportunity to turn this ship around. We can recapture the rural community.\n\nOnce upon a time, there was a very powerful coalition of congressional Democrats who represented this subsection of society- the [Blue Dog Democrats](https://bluedogcaucus-golden.house.gov). They held [enormous sway](https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124865363472782519) both in their states and in Washington. These days they’ve dwindled down to 10 members, and include popular moderates like Mary Lertola of Alaska. While I wouldn’t say I want us to revive the “deeply socially conservative Democrat” in 2024, I think it’s worth looking at their winning strategy and learning from them. They knew (and know) how to focus on the kitchen-table issues of their constituents. They knew how to win. \n\nWhat I recommend for the whole of the Democratic Party, and especially my fellow countryside people, is that we do a bit of rebranding and a major refocusing of the Democratic policy agenda. I’ll present a few ideas below. \n\n1. “[Mind your own damn business](https://youtu.be/G3iL_w1exL0?si=JfRECp-8xi-fX2Cz)” is a part of Walz’s stump speech, and it should be the single most important idea that rural democrats fight for. *Nobody* has the right to tell you how to live your life. As long as you ain’t hurting nobody else, do what you want. That’s it. [Legal weed, queer rights, abortion access, and yes… guns.](https://libertymaniacs.com/products/i-want-gay-married-couples-to-be-able-to-protect-their-marijuana-plants-with-guns-white-die-cut-sticker) None of these need to be single issues. The single issue is just that if it ain’t your business don’t get involved.\n\n2. Speaking of guns, let’s touch on that. As millions of people are suddenly surprised to find, rural liberals do, in fact, use firearms. Most of the older folks I know remember putting their shotgun in a [gun rack in their truck](https://www.adn.com/outdoors-adventure/2020/01/11/even-if-you-dont-have-a-gun-rack-in-your-truck-its-useful-to-have-a-truck-gun/) before driving to school, or putting them in a locker. It is **rare** to find someone who doesn’t have at least some experience shooting a gun. I regularly shoot with friends when we get together on family farms for holidays or events. People who own will bring their guns, people who don’t own will borrow, and everybody who is interested will target shoot for a few hours. Just about everybody either hunts or enjoys the fruits of hunting, or at *least* has a family member who is always absent during deer or turkey season. If I had a dollar for every story some guy has told me about shooting a buck from their back porch I’d be rich. As crazy as all this sounds to a lot of people, it is completely normal here. Hell, I was talking to an actual Republican politician in my state, and he agreed with me that if [democrats dropped the gun messaging, they’d probably sweep most rural states](https://newrepublic.com/article/112950/pro-gun-control-democrats-can-win-red-states-they-already-have). If we want to win places like South Dakota, Montana, or Alabama, we should stick to obvious gun control measures such as disallowing known abusers and violent felons from owning a firearm, and enacting swift punishments if they are found to have ignored that order. Other than that, waiting periods, age limits, obligatory gun safety courses, and strict gun safe rules should be the only things emphasized. This can be on a state by state basis of course, but federally speaking, democrats should avoid the wholesale lingo that makes it sound like they’re going to ban firearms- something that is unlikely to occur in America anyway. \n\n3. Energy independence is always yelled about by republicans as an excuse to support the gas and oil industry, but renewable energy should be emphasized as the [patriotic energy of the future](https://www.rd.usda.gov/programs-services/energy-programs/rural-energy-america-program-renewable-energy-systems-energy-efficiency-improvement-guaranteed-loans). Permitting for these projects should be made easy- in fact, [Minnesota’s permitting reform](https://www.utilitydive.com/news/minnesota-permitting-reform-clean-energy-grid-infrastructure-google-rei-holcim/718055/) to speed up their own transition to renewable energy that is in process should be used as a blueprint. This is energy that is readily available, cheap, and can power everything with the right investments. State Democratic parties should be fighting for this everywhere.\n\n4. Zoning reform. Believe it or not, rural places are just as bound to [bizarre zoning laws and annoying NIMBYs](https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/show/battles-over-wind-farms-divide-rural-communities) as big cities. We’d also like to be able to build what’s needed (or wanted), and are prevented by senseless regulations. If we can communicate this by connecting it to point 1 (mind your damn business) I think we’ll have a winner.\n\n5. Investing in rural infrastructure. Not just what must be built- but also the [training and deployment](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/why-workforce-development-is-crucial-to-new-infrastructure-and-clean-energy-investments/) of the people to make the infrastructure work. Sponsor students and pay for their college to become nurses and doctors in rural communities, like what can be seen in [South Dakota](https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/funding/1908). Build up a New Deal-style jobs program to get people fixing roads and bridges, upgrading the internet, and developing plumbing. Hell, we could even develop [federal or state level jobs to rewild agricultural areas](https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2021/aug/12/rewilding-england-create-rural-jobs-employment-aoe) for carbon capture and ecological protection. This was a big Biden policy push, and we need to keep the momentum. \n\n6. Perhaps most importantly… voting reform. States like [Maine](https://www.maine.gov/sos/cec/elec/upcoming/rankedchoicefaq.html) and Alaska have implemented ranked choice voting, and it has successfully pushed out extremists and favored moderates. This is good for everybody, regardless of political affiliation, and would do wonders to improve the kids of candidates we see sitting in political office, at the state and state the national level. There’s a million arguments to be made about the [specific sort of voting reform](https://www.americanprogress.org/article/its-time-to-talk-about-electoral-reform/)that should be implemented, but basically anything is better than our current “first past the post” method. State democratic parties should find the style that can get local support and push for it. In a lot of states like mine, Republican entrenchment is so deep that it is almost unfathomable that we’ll see a change without this sort of reform.\n\nThere’s a lot of other “wants” that I’d love to see (high speed rail accessibility in small towns to get access to big cities! Agriculture bills that benefit future-focused methods and innovations in technology!) but those are extras for down the road. If we want to win our deep-red rural states, I am fully convinced that my previous policy suggestions are the way to go. When I talk to the people around me, even if they don’t have the language for it, this is what they want. They want to enjoy life, and see that their communities are being taken care of. We’ve let republicans completely steal this message in red states. It’s time to take it back.\n\nGive your own ideas or mercilessly break down mine. I want to see this Ruralmentum mean something. ", "metadata": { "author": "PeaceDolphinDance", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1723128606, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "User discussion", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 43, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Effortpost: Let’s Build a New Liberal Movement in Rural America", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.98, "upvotes": 43 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "!ping GARAND", "metadata": { "author": "PeaceDolphinDance", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1723129510, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": true, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "I have some thoughts:\n\n1. Gun violence is a real issue, like it or not we are going to have to address that. \n\n2. Dems really do need to not be as condescending towards Rs when it comes to guns if you want to get anything done at the federal level. \n\n3. Dems have to realize the 2A is what it is. Circuit courts intentionally read it wrong which is how 99% of gun control laws were upheld at all levels of inferior courts before Bruen. 2A = individual right to possess and carry modern weapons. That's the baseline, they can't go below that.", "metadata": { "author": "Viper_ACR", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1723130940, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 15, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 15 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "i actually haven't met many gun owners that are against universal background checks or red flag laws(or at least the concept of them), its when politicians start talking about AWBs that the democrats lose their votes.", "metadata": { "author": "modularpeak2552", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1723131626, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 7, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 7 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Are semi-automatic rifles used for hunting?", "metadata": { "author": "Independent-Low-2398", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1723132125, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "The Second Amendment isn't about hunting and most gun owners don't care about hunting.", "metadata": { "author": "FinickyPenance", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1723132422, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 3, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 3 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Experts see potential for higher inflation under Trump", "metadata": { "author": "SportsGod3", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1720614112, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 493, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Experts see potential for higher inflation under Trump", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.92, "upvotes": 493 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Guaranteed he'll fuck the economy for all but the 1%.", "metadata": { "author": "Thewallmachine", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720614591, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 25, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 25 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Like he did last time? When I bought my house for 60% of the cost it is today? When I filled up my car for >$2.00/gallon. When an entire cart of groceries was less than 200. When pre-owned Camrys didn't cost $30,000? \n\nI genuinely don't understand how people can say \"he'll do this\" or \"he'll do that\" when he was already president. We can just go back and look. 🤣", "metadata": { "author": "konarona29", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720619132, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": -21, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": -21 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "man, some of you are so god damn dumb it is actually sad", "metadata": { "author": "redditkb", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720636413, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 3, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 3 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Hillary Clinton Shreds Trump's Latest Move As 'Traitorous And Pathetic'", "metadata": { "author": "InternetPopular3679", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1722953404, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 381, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Hillary Clinton Shreds Trump's Latest Move As 'Traitorous And Pathetic'", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.9, "upvotes": 381 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I hope she gets to sit around in her pajamas on election night with a glass of white wine and a pizza watching that stupid motherfucker lose to a woman. ", "metadata": { "author": "OilOdd5530", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1722953815, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Indeed. In the meantime Clinton should try not to sobatage Harris's campaign by reminding voters they'rebith democrats. .", "metadata": { "author": "Ok_Leading999", "controversiality": 1, "created_utc": 1722954901, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Yeah she just needs to quietly go away. She is of no help to anyone at this point.", "metadata": { "author": "mista_rubetastic", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1722955978, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Here this is for those trying to spread Project 25 propaganda.", "metadata": { "author": "TAC82RollTide", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1720630557, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Discussion/Debate", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 240, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Here this is for those trying to spread Project 25 propaganda.", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.93, "upvotes": 240 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Yes, I totally trust the GOP here, who opted to post this shortly after Project 2025 became well-known. Here’s the reality: it’s damage control. \n\n \nThe authors of Project 2025 are all connected to Trump or are former Trump admins. Heritage already heavily influenced Trump’s administration, especially his staffing, when he won in 2016. They themselves have said that the 2016 iteration of the Mandate for Leadership had about 2/3rds of it enacted by the Trump admin. Trump saying he has no idea who is behind it is a blatant lie. He knows nothing about it, yet he disagrees with it? He thinks some ideas are abysmal, yet he wishes them luck? Tell me you’re not that deluded.\n\n \nHeritage has more influence than you know. Besides, Agenda 47 isn’t much better and the Trump campaign had originally embraced the plan as “aligned with their goals” before Trump saw the project’s bad press. The GOP is lying, as they have many times. Trump is lying, as he has many times.", "metadata": { "author": "SandwitchZebra", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720647878, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": -12, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": -12 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Man, the memo has truly been sent out, and the lefty's are on the move. Listen, pal, Trump said he's not on board with it. That is his platform. Whatever he did in 2016, please give me MUCH more of it. I loved it. Yes, I'm a gullible fool who believes him. \n\nBy the way, do you even know what's in Project 25? The manifest is 922 pages. Are you telling me that you've read all 922 pages? No, you have not.", "metadata": { "author": "TAC82RollTide", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720648123, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": true, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 9, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 9 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "You certainly haven’t.", "metadata": { "author": "Never_Forget_711", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720725325, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Kamala Harris got Democrats excited. Mark Kelly can help them win.", "metadata": { "author": "Quirkie", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1722346078, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 368, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Kamala Harris got Democrats excited. Mark Kelly can help them win.", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.91, "upvotes": 368 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I just keep thinking about all the people on here criticizing those who wanted Biden to step aside and said that there is no way to get a new candidate this quickly.", "metadata": { "author": "Mpm_277", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1722347308, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "It’s the people who demanded Biden step aside and then were/are scrambling for some reason to still be outraged when he did exactly what they wanted, no question.", "metadata": { "author": "sultanpeppah", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1722348766, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "lol where is this outrage from people who wanted Biden to step aside now that he’s stepped aside? I don’t see it. There were a lot of “Harris isn’t the people’s choice! Democracy has been thwarted!” grumblings going on from Biden die hards and Trumpsters, but the vast majority of the people breathed a collective sigh of relief and brought enthusiasm (and cash money) to the party.", "metadata": { "author": "charleyismyhero", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1722350554, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Jealous Trump Fumes as Kamala’s Momentum Gets a Valuable Boost - Donald Trump accused Kamala Harris of using celebrities to entice people to her rallies.", "metadata": { "author": "Quirkie", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1722440279, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Soft Paywall", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 368, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Jealous Trump Fumes as Kamala’s Momentum Gets a Valuable Boost - Donald Trump accused Kamala Harris of using celebrities to entice people to her rallies.", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.98, "upvotes": 368 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Aww, is Donold mad because the only celebs he can attract are ancient and weird, like him?", "metadata": { "author": "OirishM", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1722440377, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "That's it! He wanted A list entertainers at his inauguration but didn't have much luck with that.", "metadata": { "author": "edmerx54", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1722440691, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Scott Baio, Randy Quaid, Ted Nugent, Kid Rock - none of those A listers were available?", "metadata": { "author": "WJM_3", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1722441998, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Hulk Hogan…", "metadata": { "author": "JordanGdzilaSullivan", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1722442103, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "That was Hulk Hogan?! I thought it was Marjorie Taylor Greene.", "metadata": { "author": "Davis_Birdsong", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1722442849, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Judge Chutkan approves release of Trump Jan. 6 documents that could reveal more damning testimony", "metadata": { "author": "mmccxi", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1728676535, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 502, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Judge Chutkan approves release of Trump Jan. 6 documents that could reveal more damning testimony", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.97, "upvotes": 502 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Media has not covered this stuff as much as it covered 'but her emails' in 2016.", "metadata": { "author": "Newscast_Now", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1728677250, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Blame the public, media is just chasing views. Trump is a criminal is dog bites man", "metadata": { "author": "roastbeeftacohat", "controversiality": 1, "created_utc": 1728677962, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "The media can chase views *and* pursue agendas. The two aren’t mutually exclusive.", "metadata": { "author": "once_again_asking", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1728685685, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "This must be a desperate attempt to fix the deficit of black male support happening in Michigan and Georgia right now. It's interesting how reactive her campaign is.", "metadata": { "author": "alivenotdead1", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1728953224, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Biased Domain", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 40, "suggested_sort": "confidence", "title": "Harris proposes 1 million forgivable loans to Black entrepreneurs, as Trump makes inroads", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.78, "upvotes": 40 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "And SCOTUS would rule that unconstitutional", "metadata": { "author": "TouristOpentotravel", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1728955602, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 22, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 22 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Quick, change the Supreme Court!", "metadata": { "author": "Tori-Chambers", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1728961993, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 6, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 6 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Nah. Just add another 10 Democrats that'll fix the need to be a representational Republic - they can just pass laws from the bench!!", "metadata": { "author": "eclectro", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1728966568, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "If you think the Supreme Court is out of control now, imagine if Trump appoints two, three, or four more justices.", "metadata": { "author": "JimCripe", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1720310220, "downvotes": 0, "flair": ":snoo_joy: Meme", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 520, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "If you think the Supreme Court is out of control now, imagine if Trump appoints two, three, or four more justices.", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.97, "upvotes": 520 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Thomas and Alito would definitely retire if they could hand pick their replacements.", "metadata": { "author": "themage78", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720324228, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 11, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 11 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Absolutely. But the big concern is Sonia Sotomayor. She has health issues and I believe she’s over 70.", "metadata": { "author": "Majestyk_Melons", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720330346, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "She's only 70 and not many core health problems as of now, she can likely keep going for another decade. Although I'd assume she would retire when she can in the 2030s.\n\nThomas is the main seat to \"even\" out, although honestly his big ego and power trip could have him keep going until he dies no matter who is president.", "metadata": { "author": "Universalring25", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720331066, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 4, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 4 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Screw that, have there been nothing learned from RBG? She undid all her accomplishments by being self serving at the end", "metadata": { "author": "strukout", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720357682, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 5, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 5 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Clearly a mistake on her part and even she admitted it before she passed.\n\nAlthough she was 79 - 83 when asked the question to retire under Obama, Sonia is just starting her 70s.\n\nI don't think she'll retire if Biden gets his 2nd term, but the next Dem president will likely be her departure in the 2030s. She will be about 75 - 79 years old at that point. It's not like she's dying as well, then it would be concerning.", "metadata": { "author": "Universalring25", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720385694, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changes", "metadata": { "author": "joon24", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1721165077, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Soft Paywall", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 40856, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changes", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.92, "upvotes": 40856 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "No paywall: [Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court reforms - The Washington Post (archive.ph)](https://archive.ph/7UdiD)", "metadata": { "author": "winklesnad31", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721168724, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 4210, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 4210 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "\\^\\^ real hero right here. Thanks bud.", "metadata": { "author": "Guava7", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721170340, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1208, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1208 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Biden/Harris 2024! 🇺🇸", "metadata": { "author": "CincoDeMayoFan", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721179081, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 789, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 789 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Dude..I wish. I wish very hard for that.", "metadata": { "author": "Jarbonzobeanz", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721180464, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 285, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 285 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "while we're at it why not term limits for congress???", "metadata": { "author": "Affectionate-Let-614", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721181648, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 96, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 96 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Term limits for Congress tend to increase the power of lobbyists, because the lobbyists can't be term-limited and therefore end up as the keepers of valuable knowledge about all the obscure tips and tricks from years past.", "metadata": { "author": "Revolutionary-Cup454", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721181935, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 90, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 90 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Yes and no depends on \"type of corruption\" one of problems currently facing congress. And why lobbyist often end up being congressional members. \n\nIs they circled the wagons after fbi tried bribing members of congress and ran out of money as it was so successful. So now congress works differently. In order to \"bribe\" you need to be known. \n\nAnd older leaders serve as guard dogs essentially they wont introduce unkown lobbyist. And they feel out test the new members of congress and build repore before introducing them to more corrupt lobbyist. \n\nAs guard dogs age and become lobbyist other senior members fill the void. \n\nWhile it does impact them turning to lobbyist for advice. It also cuts down the ability to hide outright corruption. \n\nAnd some of that could be cut down as well by limiting lobbying and providing them with better resources in house to accomplish job and advise them. \n\nThrow in transparency and sunshine laws requiring more reporting of meetings and transcripts of those meetings. I think you could cut the affect alot.", "metadata": { "author": "asillynert", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721195108, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 17, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 17 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Donald Trump’s First Term Is a Warning", "metadata": { "author": "rroastbeast", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1721307889, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Soft Paywall", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1132, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Donald Trump’s First Term Is a Warning", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.93, "upvotes": 1132 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Regardless of what happens people, we will get through this. We already did and we always do. Here’s hoping for better choices in 2028.", "metadata": { "author": "williamtbash", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721311973, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": -6, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": -6 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Not if the republicans win and make free and fair elections impossible we’re not.", "metadata": { "author": "rroastbeast", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721312082, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": true, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 7, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 7 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Are you here now? We will be ok.", "metadata": { "author": "williamtbash", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721312257, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": -6, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": -6 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Would you say that to your co-passenger as you’re both headed off a cliff?\nSorry, I truly respect your optimism, I just feel like there’s a season for optimism in the face of danger and a season for all-out alarm and all hands on deck and this is most certainly the latter.", "metadata": { "author": "rroastbeast", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721312649, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": true, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 9, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 9 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "When all hands on deck means arguing on reddit and doing nothing else in real life, you're part of the problem and solving nothing.", "metadata": { "author": "williamtbash", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721315456, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": -4, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": -4 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Hey how do you know what I or anyone else here do or don’t do in real life?", "metadata": { "author": "rroastbeast", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721315516, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": true, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 4, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 4 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I don't but people are mostly all talk when it comes to politics. Some way too much. People think posting angry political rants on Facebook 5 times per day or tweeting makes them contribute to the greater good. In reality, most people just wake up, go to work, get upset about something, post about it, watch Netflix, go to sleep, and repeat.", "metadata": { "author": "williamtbash", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721315961, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "You Should Be Furious at the Political Class For Enabling This Climate Catastrophe", "metadata": { "author": "curraffairs", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1728492160, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 411, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "You Should Be Furious at the Political Class For Enabling This Climate Catastrophe", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.93, "upvotes": 411 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Wait... removing the words \"Climate Change\" from textbooks and government agency reports isn't working?\n\nMaybe it's \"the trans\"... or the Hatians then?", "metadata": { "author": "PhotonArmy", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1728492312, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Isn’t climate change just trans weather?", "metadata": { "author": "type-IIx", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1728494356, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Only the ones that rotate the other way. These are god fearing cisicanes that are showing their devotion to the bible belt.", "metadata": { "author": "Royal_Acanthaceae693", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1728497706, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "I feel like we should start going scorched earth on these type of opinions. ", "metadata": { "author": "Primary_Set_2729", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1731004831, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Politics", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 125, "suggested_sort": "confidence", "title": "I feel like we should start going scorched earth on these type of opinions. ", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.95, "upvotes": 125 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I agree with Mr. Beat's sentiment but BJG can just fuck off. If Destiny starts picking fights with the zoomer concubine squad however, that's a baaad look", "metadata": { "author": "Used_Low2007", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1731005613, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 17, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 17 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Yeah “leaning left” is meaningless when she actively and exclusively attacks democrats and demonizes their voters. It’d be one thing if she was one of those “voting doesn’t change anything they’re both horrible” types (which I still disagree with) but she’s either a useful idiot of countries like Russia and North Korea or is actually being paid by them. Fuck her.", "metadata": { "author": "Box_v2", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1731008004, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 2, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 2 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "She is on the path of being a Dave Rubin or Jimmy Dore, she is lost and will never return. Even when Tim Waltz was chosen happy for a day switch after two. That's how these people are. They don't want to win, they barely care about policy. The most they care about is shitting on the Democrats.", "metadata": { "author": "Primary_Set_2729", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1731008886, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": true, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Now imagine if nightly news pundits covering Biden would have been honest about his decline 2 years ago.", "metadata": { "author": "hellocattlecookie", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720570257, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 40, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 40 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Cool take, now what?", "metadata": { "author": "cjwidd", "controversiality": 1, "created_utc": 1720570581, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 0, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 0 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Get someone else in asap and at least they could have a chance. Rolling the dice is better than a guaranteed loss.", "metadata": { "author": "Brian-with-a-Y", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720570713, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 11, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 11 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "We choose our nominees based on news anchors not primaries", "metadata": { "author": "WhiteBoyWithAPodcast", "controversiality": 1, "created_utc": 1720571972, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 0, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 0 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "Marc praises Candace in her Piers Morgan debate against Shmuley (ofc anybody can look sane next to him) and defends her against antisemitism claims. Do you think he’s just unaware of the crazy shit she’s been saying lately? I’d like to give him the benefit of the doubt since he’s not as online as most of us are. He might change his mind after seeing more proof.", "metadata": { "author": "seankgn", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1725773895, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Clip", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 53, "suggested_sort": "confidence", "title": "Marc Lamont Hill defends Candace Owens against allegations of antisemitism ", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 1, "upvotes": 53 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "why would he give all those qualifiers then? surely he know about how she got kanye into all that deep shit. It's just about covering for anyone who is pro-pali for optics", "metadata": { "author": "Historical-Win-9636", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1725774233, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 29, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 29 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "That’s the thing though. I genuinely don’t know if he knows about Candace’s involvement with Kanye. Most people don’t", "metadata": { "author": "seankgn", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1725774915, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": true, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 2, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 2 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I thought that was one of her biggest gaffs but maybe I’m mistaken, was there something before that he was maybe referring to?", "metadata": { "author": "Historical-Win-9636", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1725775046, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "I’m raising my rapist’s baby because I couldn’t get an abortion. This is the reality of reproductive care in America", "metadata": { "author": "theindependentonline", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1729716880, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1462, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "I’m raising my rapist’s baby because I couldn’t get an abortion. This is the reality of reproductive care in America", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.97, "upvotes": 1462 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "‘I love my child. But if I could go back in time and get an abortion, I would 100 per cent of the time,’ says Melinda. [**Kelly Rissman**](https://www.independent.co.uk/author/kelly-rissman) reports on a story that exposes the hurdles women faced before the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in June 2022\n\nRead more here: [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tennessee-abortion-laws-ban-rape-b2597642.html](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tennessee-abortion-laws-ban-rape-b2597642.html)", "metadata": { "author": "theindependentonline", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1729716975, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": true, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "How viable would it be to give the child up for adoption? \n\nWhile abortion is something that is difficult to choose, even when it's universal, the least Republicans can do is revamp adoption so that the child has a better chance of landing at a loving home that wants it and the family doesn't have to wait years and spend tens of thousands for the prices. But making solutions too actual problems isn't what Republicans do\n\nEdit: for those down voting because you think I'm trying to play down the abortion ban, it's not that. Ideally, abortion would be legal and each person can make that choice of doing that abortion. \nMy question is why isn't adoption ever considered, especially in the horrid situation like this where abortion isn't available and the mother is forced to raise the rapists baby that she doesn't want?\n\nMy wife was adopted and there are many families that want to adopt. What are the hurdles in the way to making a decision of giving up a baby for adoption?", "metadata": { "author": "RincewindToTheRescue", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1729731941, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Adoption is an alternative to parenthood. It’s not an alternative to pregnancy. And pregnancy is not with physical consequences to the one pregnancy. Gestational diabetes, sciatica, permanent bladder issues, etc.", "metadata": { "author": "Ok_Cantaloupe7602", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1729738688, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "‘Undisciplined, unhinged and deranged’: will Trump’s strange behavior hurt him at the polls?", "metadata": { "author": "lemonvolcano", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1728213279, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 189, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "‘Undisciplined, unhinged and deranged’: will Trump’s strange behavior hurt him at the polls?", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.93, "upvotes": 189 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Not with the MAGA crowd, thats what they want to see. The cheeseburger eating surrender monkey, BoBo, MTG, Matt the perv, and JD Couch. The full clown car is their desire. \n\nMAGA doesn’t want serious people working on serious problems, they want clowns owning the libs while hurting “the others”.", "metadata": { "author": "kiltedturtle", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1728213547, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "But, as a reminder, not all cheeseburger eaters are rabid Magas. Some of us are calm, relatively liberal folk. Otherwise, I believe you nailed it. Half the country just wants to \"win\" by hurting the other half, who are struggling to save the whole country. MAGAs want to be entertained while burning the country to the ground.", "metadata": { "author": "Efficient-Reach-3209", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1728214821, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I’m trying out “orange surrender monkey” vs “cheeseburger eating surrender monkey” (as a nod to Willie’s ‘cheese eating surrender monkeys’).", "metadata": { "author": "kiltedturtle", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1728215055, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "> dating is genetically predisposed and nothing can be done, **with the exception of**\n\nSo it isn't genetically predisposed. There's lots you can do to make oneself attractive to the opposite sex. You immediately listed two achievable actions absolutely every last man can make to improve their attractiveness.", "metadata": { "author": "deathking15", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721005473, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "Yes, but looksmaxxing cant really help much if you arent born with good genetics", "metadata": { "author": "[deleted]", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721026154, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Sure it can. Giving yourself a nice haircut, dressing well, and getting a good physique are all things absolutely every last man can do that will significantly help how attractive he looks. None of that has anything to do with genetics.", "metadata": { "author": "deathking15", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721048377, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I partially agree. Yes it can help very much so, and in some men it can be night and day but if you dont have the genetics, no amount of haircut/grooming can help you", "metadata": { "author": "[deleted]", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721049010, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 1, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 1 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "And the fake bad grammar as a cherry on top🤦‍♂️", "metadata": { "author": "professorearl", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1721740678, "downvotes": 0, "flair": "Media", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": "moderator", "score": 425, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "And the fake bad grammar as a cherry on top🤦‍♂️", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.98, "upvotes": 425 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "The follow up is great because he still really wants to flex on dems even after just clowning out \n\nhttps://preview.redd.it/sy3gdhgcx9ed1.png?width=1427&format=png&auto=webp&s=13d0fd64cd51a0c752066cc602d6dfe3c5204b36", "metadata": { "author": "radical_boulders", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721742815, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 191, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 191 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "Who the hell is logged into twitter on their friends' devices? That's not a real thing that real people do.", "metadata": { "author": "affnn", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721745545, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 43, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 43 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "let me borrow your phone dude I gotta send some tweets", "metadata": { "author": "boyyouguysaredumb", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1721749819, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": true, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 2, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 2 }, "role": "assistant" } ]

[ { "content": "https://www.salon.com/2024/07/13/bidens-donor-dilemma-democrats-brace-for-the-big-money-dump/", "metadata": { "author": "D-R-AZ", "controversiality": null, "created_utc": 1720877102, "downvotes": 0, "flair": ":snoo: Article ", "is_submitter": null, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 148, "suggested_sort": null, "title": "Biden’s donor dilemma: Democrats brace for the big money dump", "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": 0.89, "upvotes": 148 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "I think the top Democratic donors saying they’re dropping financial support is going to backfire big time. \n\nIt is very clear after last night’s speech that Biden is up for the task. The voters have spoken and they support Biden. \n\nPolitical pundits, wealthy donors and the media coming out against Biden shows how quickly people stab people in the back. Biden has always had our back and now we need to have his. Vote Democrat down the ballot.", "metadata": { "author": "EmmaLouLove", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720879437, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 168, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 168 }, "role": "assistant" }, { "content": "I can tell you that the media circus and the donors who are possibly withholding funds swayed me into donating to Biden's campaign. And I bought two of the cool Dark Brandon coffee mugs with the aviator glasses that change color from heat. I'll bet I'm not the only one.", "metadata": { "author": "TeamHope4", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720882492, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 34, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 34 }, "role": "user" }, { "content": "i have a monthly of $5 dollars and since this whole damn thing started has made me give more on top", "metadata": { "author": "LiquidSnape", "controversiality": 0, "created_utc": 1720898781, "downvotes": 0, "flair": null, "is_submitter": false, "no_follow": false, "removed_by_category": null, "score": 5, "suggested_sort": null, "title": null, "total_awards_received": 0, "upvote_ratio": null, "upvotes": 5 }, "role": "assistant" } ]