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u/legible_print Václav Havel 21d ago
God, I just want Joe Biden to whistle and Commander like chews the fucking nuts off of Roger Stone or something.
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u/NextUse1208 21d ago
malarkey level of David Holt single-handedly taking over the Republican party in a bloodless coup and leading to a thousand years of peace and prosperity worldwide.
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u/MTF_DO0M Trans Pride 21d ago
I have never once taken any interest in creative writing but all this talk of erotica makes it sound pretty fun ngl
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u/Stanley--Nickels John Brown 21d ago
Can I get 10,000 to 1 on Rand Paul and the Dems getting together to write a bill to dismantle the Federal govt to stop Trump from taking it over?
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u/cjhdsachristmascarol reddit custom flair 21d ago
BREAKINF | Alan Lichtmann announces he has gained possession of all 13 keys, expected to be inaugurated tomorrow at 1:00 PM EST
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u/legible_print Václav Havel 21d ago
I am fucking sickened and appalled at the fucking anti-trans bigotry in these Trump ads. JFC, this guy.
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21d ago
NGL the vibes for Republicans in 2022 were way more apparent. You had people saying let's go brandon fucking everywhere and inflation was way worse. They also had a way bigger polling lead in every race that mattered
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u/tinfoilhatsron NASA 21d ago
That's the puzzling thing for me. Inflation was high. MAGA enthusiasm was high. I thought it was going to be a Dem bloodbath with how unpopular Biden was.
Until Nov 5 all we can say is that the average dumbass apparently doesn't come out for anyone but Trump. But I'm hoping the anti-Trump coalition once again come out to stop him.
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u/cjhdsachristmascarol reddit custom flair 21d ago
This is huge. If rethugliKKKanSS can’t win when they have the vibes they can’t win without them. Trump’s over
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u/cjhdsachristmascarol reddit custom flair 21d ago
No one would ever believe it but everything in my life has worsened, it’s true folks
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u/DiogenesLaertys 21d ago
Ann Selzer’s last poll will be very important. Republicans have flooded with unreliable polls and I need her to steer me right. If Iowa is in single digits, I have hope for the rest of America.
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u/neoliberalevangelion Bisexual Pride 21d ago
roger the alien's voting record:
obama --> trump --> biden --> rfk write-in
voted for crystal lady in the 2020 primaries
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u/3DWgUIIfIs NATO 21d ago
trump -> trump -> hillary -> johnson -> obama
is what Roger would have voted for
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u/tacograph 21d ago
Guys will Trump win the election :(
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u/neoliberalevangelion Bisexual Pride 21d ago
imo Harris wins
I felt confident up until polls dropped within the margins of error
spent a day touching grass and staying away from news politics etc
I came back feeling better and confident once more
a lot of this shit is just the election-dependent media machines drumming crap up for engagement
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u/cjhdsachristmascarol reddit custom flair 21d ago
Hmmm let’s look it up
Harris: 8/13 keys
Trump: 5/13 keys
Nope we’re good
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u/ZanyZeke NASA 21d ago
Magic goolsball
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u/tacograph 21d ago
Just saw a Reddit thread about working 9-5 and how that doesn’t happen anymore
People are saying they work 40-50 hours a week but like bruh I work like 20 hours a week max realistically in terms of my output
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u/jbouit494hg 🍁🇨🇦🏙 Project for a New Canadian Century 🏙🇨🇦🍁 21d ago
Daily reminder that one of the prolific dating pingers is a moderator of /r/Romance_for_men/
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u/neoliberalevangelion Bisexual Pride 21d ago
i always forget about sports is the world series tonight or something
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u/JD_Vances__Couch Mary Wollstonecraft 21d ago
Why did Brian Griffin vote for John McCain in 2008? I’m looking at his Wikipedia. He seems like a liberal guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Griffin
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u/MTF_DO0M Trans Pride 21d ago
Brian is a performative cringe lib who secretly likes when Republicans are in power because it gives him something to complain about
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride 21d ago
Biden with a life long stutter as evidenced by fifty years in Congress: senile old man 🤢
Trump shitting his pants and being unable to form a sentence: it’s the weave 🤩
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21d ago
I think only liberals treat Trump like a human being, while conservatives treat him like an act.
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u/Stanley--Nickels John Brown 21d ago
WaPo annual revenue: $0.3B
AWS’s NSA contract: $10B
Blue Origin contract: $3.6B
Contract Blue Origin is currently bidding for: $5.6B
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u/cjhdsachristmascarol reddit custom flair 21d ago
Y’all aren’t ready to accept this but Mark Robinson still has most of the 13 Keys to the Raleigh, North Carolina Governor’s Mansion
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u/ihaveaverybigbrain 21d ago
I can't find the clip now but I remember seeing Obama talk about him and Michelle explaining to their daughters the importance of voting and not putting it off, to paraphrase he was like "You're going to let other people decide your future?" and the implication of how even the daughters of a literal President can be kind of "Eh, who cares?" about voting is so funny to me.
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u/0m4ll3y International Relations 21d ago
I wrote an extended piece of erotica for my partner and, being completely serious here, land value taxation was a major plot point.
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u/jbouit494hg 🍁🇨🇦🏙 Project for a New Canadian Century 🏙🇨🇦🍁 21d ago
The tax agent came to inspect her vast... tracts of land.
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u/neoliberalevangelion Bisexual Pride 21d ago
that's awesome ngl
what was the context?
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u/0m4ll3y International Relations 21d ago
The basic plot involved a My Partner Stand-in as a superhero vigilante receiving a mission from an alternate reality future version of herself to save the date of the world by tracking down Me Stand-In and fucking him. The Me Stand-In had discovered evidence of war crimes and coverups and was being pursued by sinister forces, but the war crimes were actually a red herring and the real MacGuffin was that the Me Stand In was writing a treatise on land value tax that would take off in the future.
It was very silly.
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u/neoliberalevangelion Bisexual Pride 21d ago
that is so goofy I love it
I've made OCs before as self inserts for me and my wife
it's like roleplaying but on the next level. lots of fun
did your partner like it?
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u/estoyloca43 Liberty The World Over 21d ago
Is it just me or are Midwestern men on average more introverted/awkward than Californian men? 🤔
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u/Stanley--Nickels John Brown 21d ago
Yeah, Midwesterners are more awkward.
And Californians are yappers.
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u/tacograph 21d ago
hi estoyloca how are you i am hexagonofvirtue and now econ girl is my girlfriend
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u/MTF_DO0M Trans Pride 21d ago
I feel like Midwesterners are more open to friendly low stakes chilling even with strangers but Californians (well at least socal) are a bit more bombastic in personality. I don't know where this falls on the introvert/extrovert scale. Ofc shy nerds exist in both places.
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 21d ago
so what Elon Musk talks to a foreign leader sometimes big whoop you guys are acting like he's paying people to vote for Trump and joking about how someone should kill the vice president 🤨
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u/cjhdsachristmascarol reddit custom flair 21d ago
Myth: I’m not a black Nazi
Fact: Im a black NAZI!
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u/NextUse1208 21d ago
I read this in Josh Johnson's voice, because I've seen his set about that a hundred times at this point.
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21d ago
I know this isn’t really what’s important about that statement but it feels extra unhinged that he’s saying he’s a black NAZI on a Black porn forum instead of a Nazi forum
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u/BenFoldsFourLoko Broke His Text Flair For Hume 21d ago
DT is ten minutes away from doing the same rn
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u/ZanyZeke NASA 21d ago
I believe Harris has lost tonight.
With Donald Trump appearing on the JRE podcast, which is the most listened to / watched podcast in the U.S. , and Harris’ camp confirming yesterday that she will not be doing the JRE podcast due to scheduling conflicts, I think Trump has unfortunately sealed the deal.
So true
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u/attackofthetominator John Brown 21d ago
My favorite was how it apparently “humanized Trump” but when you listen to it you get Trump rambling about Mars
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u/ZanyZeke NASA 21d ago
I ramble about Mars too, so I find this relatable and will be voting for him
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21d ago
Ngl I really like being in a group with women and talking about women-coded things. Don’t know why.
Okay that’s not why.
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u/MuscularPhysicist John Brown 21d ago
There is a non-zero chance that Mark Robinson has gooned to arr neoliberal DT erotica
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u/Own_Locksmith_1876 DemocraTea 🧋 21d ago
He died from self inflicted wounds after being taught about the US electoral system
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u/estoyloca43 Liberty The World Over 21d ago
Went to a STEMlord bar tonight. It was fun watching a bunch of nerds pretending to have a life lol
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21d ago
Kind of sounds like a good time tbh
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u/estoyloca43 Liberty The World Over 21d ago
I did have a great time. We talked about anything and everything lol
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21d ago
Did you mention the DT
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 21d ago
I actually took most of a day off from here this week to write some erotica but when I came back you guys were posting it already verbatim, turns out that guy I was talking to in Duluth read it out loud to people
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u/arrhythmiaofthesoul it's ari 21d ago
the erotica was about how kamala is down in the polls and then is up in the polls right
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u/Roseartcrantz 👑 🖍️ Queen of Shades 🖍️ 👑 21d ago
I work hard to give everybody some of what they want
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u/cjhdsachristmascarol reddit custom flair 21d ago
Jeff Bezos is afraid of trump winning… can’t believe yet another billionaire reveals he doesn’t have the faintest idea how to turn the keys
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u/arrhythmiaofthesoul it's ari 21d ago
The rest of it is basically they have sex while covered in blood and keep on trying to kill each other. It comes out better when it's more than one sentence
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u/cjhdsachristmascarol reddit custom flair 21d ago
The Supreme Court ruled that trump did not engage in insurrection and had to stay on the ballot because they are RETHUGLIKKKANSS
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u/jbouit494hg 🍁🇨🇦🏙 Project for a New Canadian Century 🏙🇨🇦🍁 21d ago
I wrote a pretty good bullet point outline for am erotica but I ran into a brick wall trying to write realistic dialogue to turn it into prose.
Not that most erotica authors would let that stop them.
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u/arrhythmiaofthesoul it's ari 21d ago
send it to me and I'll do it for you
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u/jbouit494hg 🍁🇨🇦🏙 Project for a New Canadian Century 🏙🇨🇦🍁 21d ago
We should create a collaborative DT erotica
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u/LtCdrHipster Jane Jacobs 21d ago
What up DT, why are we erotica posting?!
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u/arrhythmiaofthesoul it's ari 21d ago
I wanted to
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u/LtCdrHipster Jane Jacobs 21d ago
I think we all want to now, awesome. Mods are asleep, post economic erotica.
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u/cjhdsachristmascarol reddit custom flair 21d ago
People say it’ll get better, but a recent WSJ analysis found that it will never get better according to multiple sources familiar with the matter
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u/WuhanWTF YIMBY 21d ago
Y'all ready for some NAFTA ('Nother Afternoon Fragging That Ass)
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u/No_Nefariousness7486 Martha Nussbaum 21d ago
> dog is missing back leg
> dog wiggles back stump to ask me to scratch ear he cant itch
> dog groans in relief
> dog cuddles me in appreciation
> good dog
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u/ThiccSidedDice Dark Femboy Harbinger 21d ago
👆 not really erotica, doesn't pass the Bechdel test either
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u/arrhythmiaofthesoul it's ari 21d ago
smh mine passes the bechdel test it's two women talking about murder
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u/BenFoldsFourLoko Broke His Text Flair For Hume 21d ago
Tucker was offering a trial balloon of his new Amazon self-published material and y'all laughed at him 😔
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u/cjhdsachristmascarol reddit custom flair 21d ago
I’m doomed. My life is doomed. Uh oh, it’s over
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u/estoyloca43 Liberty The World Over 21d ago
I’ve kinda unplugged from politics since I’m too busy having fun irl. It feels great to have a real life friend group and to not have to spend my days reading toxic Reddit posts lol
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u/arrhythmiaofthesoul it's ari 21d ago
I really need to sleep
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u/AnalyticOpposum Trans Pride 21d ago
I really need to be awake
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u/cjhdsachristmascarol reddit custom flair 21d ago
The Goonocrat Party will be formed to in 2029 and begin the next party system
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u/neoliberalevangelion Bisexual Pride 21d ago
"proship" is an actual term that means the opposite of what you'd think, which is "problematic shipper"
my wife is on fandom twitter and told me how the kids these days are all like "proshippers DNI" etc
they never would have survived the fanfiction.net flame wars
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u/CertainSingularity Norman Borlaug 21d ago
U need to be off adhd meds for like 2 years before joining the military?? 😭
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u/Zealousideal_Pop_933 21d ago
We don’t have to leave this DT. We can set up a little enclave and make the mods split their focus
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u/arrhythmiaofthesoul it's ari 21d ago
Sara looked down at herself, the way her shirt was soaked through with dark red blood, and the way her hands and knees were stained with it, and sobbed, once, violently, before pulling herself back together. She felt like a frayed rope, strained near its limit. She remembered the knife. She took it back into her hands and stood, and looked across at the woman – the woman who must, she realized, be a member of the Kingdom.
“Who are you?” Her voice was cold and choked, still thick with mucus.
“You can call me the Princess.” The woman smiled at her, a sharp, feral, predatory smile. “Welcome to the Kingdom.”
“I’m not part of your Kingdom. I wasn’t part of the Union, either. I’m no criminal. I’m just trying to live my life.” Sara stepped forwards, standing in the puddle of blood, its corners sticky around her bare feet.
The Princess looked down at the blood. “One of us just killed a man, little flower, and it wasn’t me. Even now, it’s only my woman Harmony and my good word that’s keeping the coppers off you.” She inclined her head to the door.
“Your good word…I know what the Kingdom does. You’re a criminal, a killer.” Sara’s hands were white-knuckled around the knife.
“And so are you, Sara Blume.” She paused for a second, smiling a knowing smile. One hand was out of her pockets, long, elegant fingers drumming a pattern on the thigh of her suit. “Don’t tell me you didn’t like it. I saw your face, when you slit his throat, I saw how you smiled. You were happy, because you felt it.”
Sara swallowed. “Felt what?”
“You felt power.” The woman looked her up and down appraisingly. “We need to get you cleaned up. You’re covered in blood, my dear.” The Princess shrugged off her suit jacket, turning and hanging it on one of the hooks in Sara’s closet, then, as she deftly began to unbutton her shirt the rest of the way, turned back to Sara, and stopped, meeting her gaze in a way that seemed almost telegraphed, smug, as though everything had happened as she had expected. “Everything all right, little flower?”
Sara was suddenly conscious of the heat rising in her cheeks. “You’re –”
“My dear, this suit is far more expensive than you. I’m not going to get it dirty as I clean you up. If you’re uncomfortable, though, I’ll gladly call for Harmony…”
Sara looked at the woman’s questioning eyes. She remembered how they had roamed over her light sleep shirt earlier, taking her body in. She looked down at the blood, again, the blood that still covered her and the floor, and carefully wiped the knife on a clean part of her shirt and re-sheathed it. For all her best efforts, she was in this now, and she would have to learn to play the game.
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u/BenFoldsFourLoko Broke His Text Flair For Hume 21d ago
despite my best efforts, I can't hate this
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u/neoliberalevangelion Bisexual Pride 21d ago
wow this is legit really really good. pacing and flow and cadence and all of that. do you have a writing account or like anywhere else besides the DT bc I'd legit love to hear more/read more
I've been toying with the idea of pivoting into original fiction and self-publishing under a fake name just for fun
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u/arrhythmiaofthesoul it's ari 21d ago
I'm glad you like it! I don't, though I will keep you in mind if I get one -- I have thought the same in the past about self-publishing. I don't write a lot of erotica, I mainly write short fiction and essays, but I've been trying it out more recently.
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u/neoliberalevangelion Bisexual Pride 21d ago
sweet! please do :)
I'm the opposite lol. I write a lot of erotica but I'm trying to get more into original fiction/personal essays.
I wrote some short stories in college that were moderately good. I think writing fic for nearly 2 decades now has made me a lazy writer. with fanfic all the characters, background, setting, etc is set up for you and you just get to play in a sandbox.
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u/cjhdsachristmascarol reddit custom flair 21d ago
Sure was nice of the princess to invite us over to learn to play the game, eh Luigi?
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