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In lighter news, the app for tracking Charlie Kirk's critics is leaking the data of its users.

https://san.com/cc/app-for-outing-charlie-kirks-critics-leaked-its-users-personal-data/

Anagram posted...

I havent watched since s2, I have no idea why theyre back together after Luke took Grogu.

Merchandising! Merchandising! Where the real money from the movie is made!

HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

babu frik will appear in the mandalorian and grogu

As God intended.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/4c3e7f58.jpg

Trump is like a broken clock that's on fire. Always cooking, but only right twice a day.

LightningStrikes posted...

Anyway, if anybody wants something good for once, Britain, Canada, and Australia have all recognised Palestine. France, Portugal, Luxembourg, Malta, and Andorra will in the next few days as well. More to be done but a great step in the right direction.

Congratulations to all these countries which have finally achieved a percent of a percent of the moral clarity necessary to be considered civilized.

v-charon posted...

It's sort of wild to see people like Carlson and now Ted Cruz coming out in defense of free speech.

I would imagine someone told them not to say bad things about someone they found personally loathesome (Kirk) and they had a "oh my God I get it" moment.

[The message was not exploiting the incident in quite the way the board of directors wishes it to be]

That is precisely the sort of person who would simp for Charlie Kirk.

Project 2025 getting written at all was a step too far. An ideal government would have read the first four paragraphs, realized how much influence the authors had, and quickly imprisoned everyone involved. Instead, the people involved are, and were, running the government.

Mandarin.

Dream Island Obsessional Park (Paranoia Agent)
A Cruel Angel's Thesis (Neon Genesis Evangelion)
Hohoemi no Bakudan (Yu Yu Hakusho)
Don't Make Me Wild Like You (Ranma 1/2)

The bottom one is just my nostalgia talking, but it's my pick anyway.

lmao America is so fucked, even the corpos are mentally cucked by MAGA.

Conservatives were already planning to take guns away from trans people before Kirk was shot. They might come up with a few new slurs for people who support transgender individuals (some sort of animal noise I reckon), but all this changes is the rhetoric.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

UN officially designated that Israel is commiting genocide.

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session60/advance-version/a-hrc-60-crp-3.pdf

Wake me up when they do something about it, unless this news is immediately followed up by the US nuking someone in retaliation to stopping their and their buddy's monstrous crime, in which case I would like to sleep a little longer

Thorn posted...

Judge in the Luigi case threw out the terrorism charges. Still facing second-degree murder counts.

https://apnews.com/article/unitedhealthcare-ceo-killing-luigi-mangione-nyc-8989b2a82558643f1099523e21611afc

Rare bit of good news, and common sense besides. Dumbing down the definition of terrorism would allow the state to charge more people for terrorism, yes, but it would also encourage more and more radical acts of terrorism since increasingly less extreme actions would be considered legally indistinct from, well, extreme acts, so there'd be less reasons to not commit these extreme crimes. Of course, that might be the idea - a terrorized population is easier to control, and vice versa - but obviously the population should be neither terrorized nor controlled by the US government, and things which aren't terrorism shouldn't be considered such.

swordz9 posted...

Do they even have any evidence that can stick against Luigi? Last I heard about the case it didnt sound like there was anything concrete to even prove he did it

That might be one reason they threw out the terrorism charge. Their case could be so flimsy against the man himself that the terrorism charge would be an additional humiliation to the state when/if he gets let off.

Apparently the shooter is being uncooperative with the FBI. I imagine it's going something like this...

FBI: Why did you shoot him?

Shooter: Poopoo peepee I love you do you love me?

FBI: I'll ask the questions here!!!

PeaceFrog posted...

When someone says "I'm being called evil for my political views" they should need to say explicitly what those views are.

It's just entitled whining. Someone who actually believes in what they're saying has the mindset of "I am being censored, but that is an injustice because my opinion has merit!". If they're saying "I am being censored and that's a mean thing to do to someone!" then they're intentionally and defensively obfuscating the point in their favor, because they don't feel their point can stand up on its own, and demanding special treatment.

I think the only places on Reddit were people actually support Kirk are the heavily botted/astroturfed mainstream subs, explicitly conservative ones, or the conservative-wolf-in-unbiased-reporting-sheep's clothing smaller news subs. Any place without interference or a specifically conservative clientele is just naturally inclined to be opposed to what he stood for, and aren't pretending to be saddened by his passing one way or the other.

It's going to be "interesting" going forward to see how the resolutely anti-Semitic right and resolutely pro-Israel right (and all the righties in between) deal with each other in the future, because if the shooter being a groyper turns out to be true then it could indicate an instance of the former actively engaging in violence (a universally agreed on tactic by the far right; less an answer and more of a question, to which the answer is usually 'yes') on the latter, and thus an escalation of aggression between the two camps. So, humor me, if you will.

We've already seen vague fractures, like Marjorie Taylor Greene laughably starting to feign outrage against the genocide in Gaza (no way she gives a shit about Palestinians, IMO), and Nick Fuentes, but things might be heating up and more and more Republicans will start coming out, tooting the anti-Israel horn; even people you wouldn't think of, as their base and they themselves start asking "hey, wait a minute, why should we be giving our stuff to Israel? We hate them". Make no mistake, the political power right now is in the hand of the pro-Israel side in both parties, and it's where all the money is (that's why the US is involved with Israel - capital), but the anti-semitic right is never going away, and is one of the USA's most important assets on the home front, since it appeals to the blue collar bigot and the loyalist camp - ie, white collar bigots - far more than the pro-Israel stance does, especially when the seams start showing. And as soon as the Gaza incursion reaches its conclusion (which, hopefully for the whole world, will be an ultimate failure on the US and Israel's part), the anti-semitic right is going to be gunning - figuratively speaking? - hard for the pro-Israeli elements in the US government, having either outlived some of their usefulness to the power structure or failed to achieve what they wanted.

But the pro-Israeli element is going to stand firm: they, like the anti-semites, are full believers in their cause, and they have their hands firmly around the throat of the majority of major American institutions, and the veneer of respectability. They'll weed out the opportunists in their ranks, when things start to go south, and render them politically impotent, or worse, and double down. Meanwhile, the relatively powerless anti-racist elements of the USA would be caught between two camps whom they despise and who despise them. All this malarkey about a "civil war" from Republicans is just that, I think we can all agree. But I think the real future of political violence in the states, perhaps within five years time, will partially revolve around escalating terrorist violence between loyalists and Zionists, and anti-racist elements (despising and despised by both, as they despise eachother) being caught in between, having no formal power and just being comprised of members of the beleaguered populace. Who, by the way, are already subject to state and individual political violence; it's just going to get worse.

Of course, there are other factors at play. What of the actions of Israel itself, who would certainly conduct terror attacks in the states if pressed? And what of rising tensions with Russia, China, and the nations to the south of the US border? What if Trump does something out of pocket that re-contextualizes everything? But Israel is, right now, THE big cultural swing-issue in the USA for how essential it is to contemporary foreign and domestic policy, yet how anathema it is on the face of things to the spirit of the "America First" patriotism needed to keep the whole thing afloat.

Long story short: I think people may be overlooking how much of a schism that the matter of Israel is causing in the American far right (certainly more than in the Democrat party), it may have played a role in recent pain-in-the-neck events, and it could come to even greater bloodshed and it's gonna suck for the average person regardless.

kevwaffles posted...

I'm probably not going to return regularly to these topics but I just wanted to drop this off here.

https://x.com/okimstillhungry/status/1966518549872021665

Mass violence has gone from Old Testament mock ups to Middle School bathroom stall scrawls so fast we didn't even notice it.

v-charon posted...

So many people getting fired and/or having their work cancelled, when if the shoe is on the other foot people make their careers and entire beings off the same sort of things.

The level of collective simping for that sub-Limbaugh miscreant which society engaged in over the past couple of days should serve as a memento for how dumb the governing social body of America is, and why we don't deserve respect for tolerating them.

But if you think that's bad, they're doing it in South Korea too. So there's somebody out there, at least, who has it dumber and is perhaps more submissive than us.

Imagine how the current generations of meme addled whipper snappers will react to the advanced, inscrutable hypermemes of 2045.

Big_Bob posted...

Mangione's motive was pretty clear, though. You know exactly why he (allegedly) did it, agree with his reasoning or not.

This Tyler guy's just a whacko.

Oh, that's true, but in a broader sense his politics seemed all over the place.

Just like Luigi Mangione (who didn't turn himself in, and I don't believe he ever admitted the crime), the guy's politics aren't exactly coherent or attributable to any orthodox.

Apparently he actually did write stuff on the ammo.

SirChris posted...

Violence is never the answer? Guess we can get rid of the second amendment then tbh

It's absurd, especially in Charlie Kirk's case, because he regularly advocated for violence as the answer, and he was particularly nasty and smarmy about it. Also, he was an American, in America, advocating for American values, and America is founded on (and sustains itself on) far worse and even more senseless violence. The same applies to all the people in the media dribbling crocodile tears over this. How many sincere tears have they shed for the men, women and children that Charlie Kirk tried to justify the deaths of? Also, we don't know the motives of the killer, or who he/she is, making it all just a little extra asinine.

"Violence is not the answer" from these people is meaningless, hypocritical, spoony virtue signaling blather. Everyone should be telling politicians and media figures to shut up whenever they fake cry like this.

TimeForAction posted...

apparently its difficult to have a united front on the issue of pedophelia

Rich people doing whatever they want is an omnipartisan issue in the USA's political machine.

Raka_Putra posted...

https://www.saudigazette.com.sa/article/654838/SAUDI-ARABIA/Saudi-Arabia-strongly-condemns-brutal-Israeli-aggression-on-Qatar

Dunno if this will lead anywhere.

The whole Middle East is so cucked by the US and Israel that it's crazy. Qatar just gave Trump a plane and now his best buddies are bombing them because their mass murder peoject is still being inconvenienced.

I'd be surprised if it goes anywhere.

Here's some more America.

https://www.kalb.com/2025/09/03/la-ag-seeks-challenge-scotus-ruling-preventing-death-penalty-crimes-committed-by-minors/

Remember working folks, they don't wanna just kill trans people, they also wanna kill your kids.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/politics/transgender-firearms-justice-department-second-amendment

America is a sick little country run by sick little people.

LightningStrikes posted...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr70rvrd41ko

Hmmmmm

So I'm guessing the Epstein files are worse than we thought, a new strain of Smallpox has been discovered in Florida, and/or the Gaza death toll is approaching a million.

Why don't they comb his hair? I hate the little bastard but even I would want him to be presentable.

Maniac64 posted...

The shooter also seems like they might be a white supremacist and anti-semite, and a bunch of other things that matter more but that can be ignored easily enough by those who just want an excuse to vilify and target trans people.

Remember, the people villifying the shooter because they were trans don't care about the people who were hurt (after all, they like to hurt people, especially children), they care that there was an offense to their view of the natural order.

Maniac64 posted...

By making his point for him?

That Trump's social media use isn't funny, is inappropriate, and isn't something the president should have time for or be worried about?

Weird way to mock someone.

Yes.

Trump voting Republicans are A.) very stupid, and also B.) have everything and are getting everything they want, they don't need to win arguments. It doesn't matter that Newsom is mocking Trump, or that they're proving his point, they've already won the game, and they'll be cackling victoriously into the same grave as the rest of us. Newsom's attempt to appeal to...whoever he's trying to appeal to, is laughable to them, and his purpose of proving how ridiculous they are is also completely fruitless because Democrats have been doing THAT for over a decade now and Trump still won the presidency twice, and his voters are getting everything they want.

Forceful_Dragon posted...

Absolute insane how many response are

"that isn't funny"

"why don't you worry about running your state"

"I can't imagine a governor having time to post this"

Like they don't realize he's mocking the president for doing this exact thing for years without consequence.

A lot of them do realize that. They're just mocking him back.

The consequences for Trump doing it is that he became the president, and then became the president again. Newsom isn't going to have the same consequences, his consequences will be different.

Keep in mind that with grand juries, they're dealing solely with evidence put forth by the prosecution (IIRC), and have a high rate of indictment as a result. And you know how keen the state must be to use this viral sandwich incident as an example of what happens to people who offer any resistance - the prosecution must have been on fire. That's gotta indicate something besides how much of a nothingburger the incident was.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

Apparently they're looking to ban the Covid vaccine in the US.

What are the chances that when that new AIDS vaccine they just finished gets finalized they ban that in the US, too?

They'll compromise by offering the AIDS vaccine at $10,000 a dose as long as you pledge allegiance to Israel, and if you went to Cuba, or China, or some other country with proper healthcare to get it for free, they'll cut your arm off and tell everyone "this is what [opposing political party's new presidential candidate]'s America would look like!".

https://www.dw.com/en/german-welfare-state-can-no-longer-be-financed-merz/a-73742270

Seems Germany may soon be finding out what it's like to be America.

_stingers_ posted...

excuse me

The first game sold half of what Xenogears did in Japan, and the sequels sold progressively worse, hence the series ending after only three entries. I don't know about the overseas sales but they likely followed a similar trend.

HeroicCrono posted...

The Dems are going to need about 30 years to learn. It'll take until the current generation in power (including young people) gives up and retires, so new people can try something different.

The Dems would rather cause the extinction of the human race by their own well-manicured hands than ever debase themselves to the level of the voting populace, and they gag at the prospect of taking their pleas or concerns seriously - it's outright laughable to them (and they do laugh - it's about all they're willing to do besides increase funding to the military and police). They're beyond learning; they know what they're about and they know who they are. The Republicans, on the other hand, delight in extolling humanity's worst traits as virtues, treat lies as truth and truth as lacking in both substance and nuance, and avariciously encourage an already hostile portion of the populace to escalate their bestiality, and to spread their descent into madness, and rewards their loyalty with more of the carnage they yearn for. They're not above learning - they know what they are and they're getting better at it everyday.

The original was a troubled production that, while a success, wasn't enough of a success to warrant more of the trouble. The developers left Square to form Monolith Soft and make their own Xenogears - Xenosaga - which was a disappointment, and then they had a success with the Xenoblade franchise which they're going to hold on to for dear life.

So, the publisher (Square) regards Xenogears as trouble, and the former developers (Monolith Soft) have their own franchise to deal with and probably don't care to return to Square any time soon, because of that trouble.

Big_Bob posted...

Redditor: "Kamala just wasn't an approachable candidate"

Me: "Trump literally ranted about immigrants eating dogs"

I have some bad news about what the millions of people who voted for Donald Trump consider approachable.

Thorn posted...

FBI raided John Bolton's house this morning. Not clear why.

Bolton might be a terrible person but this sure seems like weaponizing the FBI and sending them out for retribution because Trump hates Bolton (now.)

The ultra far right is purging the regular far right, and will get away with it because justice is anathema to the United States.

Mandatory voting isn't going to solve anything, you're still voting for sycophantic "won't someone please think of the corporations, the military and Israel!?" death cultist Karens who would rather start a war with China than prevent climate apocalypse.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/16/nevada-arrest-israeli-official

Israeli cybersecurity official allowed to fly back to Israel after being caught in a child sex sting.

SHINE_GET_64 posted...

5) Mother 3

I remember hearing this game getting a ton of flack from the Japanese fanbase at the time of its release, I shoulda known that was either a lie or mostly hot air.

Orson Welles
John Ford
Howard Hawks
Martin Scorsese

(I would also say Hitchcock but he's from England)

Thorn posted...

I mean, I don't see how this isn't just them trying to create another diversion from Epstein by trying to recreate what they did to LA before.

Considering the genocide in Gaza, any direct wars they have in their pocket, increasingly draconian censorship and moral legislation, rising unemployment, lack of health care and declining infrastructure is going to result in more protests and acts of violence across the country, it's pretty obvious that they're just getting in a little practice for when it comes time to suppress or put down civil unrest.

I guess this will be how I finally find out what Homestuck is.

The first "No" option isn't worded strongly enough, but that's the one I picked.