>FOX NEWS: Obama, in 1st remarks since election, says 'a line has been crossed' if 'one side' makes certain moves

Former President Obama declared that if "one side" attempts to cement "a permanent grip on power" through "suppressing votes," "politicizing" the military or weaponizing the judiciary and criminal justice system to target opponents, "a line has been crossed."

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-first-remarks-since-election-says-a-line-has-been-crossed-one-side-makes-certain-moves

Bring it butthole. What's he going to do overthrow the government? Sounds like an insurrection to me.

I hate him so much.

He is responsible for this division. I've never seen the country this divided in my life.

"this country has never been this divided in human history"

"It's (D)emocracy when we do it. It's Fascist when you do it." Obama and the Democrats.

Former President Barack Obama declared that if "one side" attempts to cement "a permanent grip on power" through "suppressing votes," "politicizing" the military or weaponizing the judiciary and criminal justice system to target opponents, "a line has been crossed."

Wow! He just described the last four plus years of the Democrats under his influence.

Don't make me tap the sign, chuds....

Jesus it really is projection at this point. They're worse than my ex...

LISTEN UP LIBTARDS.....MY WIFE LEFT ME.

You're too late. Many lines have already been crossed under your and Biden's administrations.

Heh.....you're too late, Barry. Tooooooooo fricking late.....we just wanted to be left alone.....and now...NOW.....THERE'S NO TURNING BACK!!!!!

Sorry to disagree. The Dear Leader's regime was simply Comrade Obama's third term working, as Comrade Pelosi said, as quickly as possible to finish implementing his agenda to fundamentally change America and ensure that the Democrat Socialist Party would remain in power for the foreseeable future.

People calling Obama communist? Brings me back to the good ol' days....I miss 2011....

Remember when their personal chef who couldn't swim somehow decided to go paddle boarding and drowned?

That vanished from the headlines didn't it?

Wishes he was still relevant.

Him and Michael need to go away.

THEY'RE STILL DOING THE MICHELLE OBAMA IS A SHIT IN THE CURRENT YEAR OF OUR LORD 2024 AAAAHAHAHAH

FU Obama

The line that was crossed was Obummer not stayin in the shadows.

still using the phrase "Obummer"

!nonchuds Impressive how Obamna caused this much of a shitflinging in 2024 after his legacy got BTFO'd by Dangerous Donald.

I was doing my thing this morning, browsing /r/plussize to hate on more fatties when I ran across this. Nothing too special, just typical fatty plus no comments yet

https://old.reddit.com/r/PlusSize/comments/1hqk1s3/as_a_recently_plus_sized_person_this_is_new_to_me/

But that last paragraph caught my attention. "Intuitive Eating"

I had heard the words "intuitive eating" and figured it was just estimating calories instead of strictly recording them. Well I'm great at that! I never bothered looking into it more. But here is a plus size fatty using it….

It turns out to a fatty, "intuitive eating" means eating when you want to eat without restriction…

And of course, a fatty can't just exist alone since then everyone sees them as disgusting. These fatties are reproducing by encouraging others to "intuitively eat."

https://old.reddit.com/r/intuitiveeating/comments/1hp71i2/when_does_the_guiltself_hatred_stop/

/u/mental-mention9377 please put down the food and look in the mirror. That shame you are feeling is normal! You don't have to become a ham planet!

https://old.reddit.com/r/intuitiveeating/comments/1hp71i2/comment/m4fxudm/?context=8

The shame takes a lot of active work to get past. My binging stopped quickly but the shame slowly decreases and I have to still fight those feelings periodically.

The first thing to do is just remind yourself that there are no good and bad foods and that your morality is not tied up in what you eat or how much you weigh. Then you have to adapt your self talk to whatever sticks around as you get past the surface thought.

Gluttony is a sin. You are literally self harming by eating. This kind of grooming should be illegal.

https://old.reddit.com/r/intuitiveeating/comments/1hp71i2/comment/m4g4vf5/?context=8

I just can't wait for the negative self talk to finally subside!!!! I just want to feel comfortable in my body. But I know it's a process and I will get there eventually. Thank you 😭

How is she going to feel comfortable in her new disgusting body. This is ridiculous

https://old.reddit.com/r/intuitiveeating/comments/1hp71i2/comment/m4g692s/?context=8

Writing it down in a journal is helping me. I'm only about 2 months into my journey. I'm currently reading the book and have both a therapist and registered dietician who specialize in IE. I'm an emotional eater, so it seems like guilt/ self hatred go along with that. I found that being mindful and present is extremely important in this journey, so one way to achieve that for me is writing things down like observations. For example: 12pm I ate one chocolate chip cookie after my lunch. It felt good in my mouth. The chocolate bits were rich and sweet. I ate 1/2 first and checked in with my body and hunger/fullness scale. I wanted to eat the rest so I did. All in all it was a good cookie. I write things down without judgement, just like an anthropologist (they talk about this in the book). Then at the end of the day, I write down what I could improve. Example: I will try to incorporate more vegetables with every meal and eat when my hunger scale is at around a 3 or 4 (instead of when I'm starving), because I'm more in tune with my fullness scale.

This is one of the fastest comments I ever read. Yesterday I ran 4.5 miles, I worked out an hour and a half later in the gym. I didn't eat any cookies. I had a large calorie deficit and I feel great and I'm going to do the same thing today and every day until my I have kick butt abs again. I'm not even hungry since I've gotten used to it after a whole 48 hours

https://old.reddit.com/r/intuitiveeating/comments/1hp71i2/comment/m4hyg24/?context=8

I took a body image class. It was extremely helpful

They have a class to teach you to be ok being disgusting? I'd like to see the lessons on the proper way to dry fat folds or maybe the one dealing with bad smells.

https://old.reddit.com/r/intuitiveeating/comments/1hp71i2/comment/m4fyatw/?context=8

I can relate! I'm in the beginning stages of trying to heal from decades of diet culture and dieting and disordered relationship with food and my body. I'm in the same place roughly except I've been at this intuitive eating non restrictive thing roughly two months. I know I have gained weight, and I honestly can't stand it. Seems like a double edged sword tbh. I talk to my therapist and nutritionist about it but they just keep telling me not to restrict and convince me that gaining weight is ok and not that big of a deal, but it kind of is if I am uncomfortable in my own skin and end up having to buy new clothes. Personally on my own I feel like I am going to try to limit (not eliminate) sugar (candy, cakes, desserts) and try to focus more on eating more fruit and vegetables, and see if that helps fend off the cravings. I am also going to start small and try to take a small walk everyday.

I've learned to tolerate many things in the last 20 years. I put my foot down at fat acceptance. You are not ever going to convince me to not hate fat and fatties. The internet was a mistake

Everyday I wake up and think I've seen it all. Today I found fat grooming perpetrated by fat women and I'm not happy. I'm going to Walmart and parking all the power chairs in the back of the parking lot

BREAKING: Republican Senator Jerry Moran just announced that he will oppose Donald Trump’s efforts to gut USAID. The aura of invincibility surrounding Donald Trump has just been burst.

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A federal judge—a Reagan appointee—blocked Trump’s “blatantly unconstitutional” executive order this week, stating that Trump sought to “navigate around or simply ignore” the rule of law “for political or personal gain.” And yet, it’s barely mentioned in the news, drowned out by… pic.twitter.com/qiKdRlwYUQ

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KOREAN WOMEN ARE OFFICIALLY WHITE!

Due to their sacrifices and efforts in destroying the scrote menace with the 4B Movement, I have declared Korean women to be an honorary member of the White Woman Council. To make room, I have eliminated Italian women , whose membership was already on shaky grounds.

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Since I will not be completely ignoring the following poll!

Korean women are White - 41 votes

Korean women are NOT White - 63 votes

He went on and on about how there was nothing canada or mexico could do to prevent the tariffs and then he rolled over in less then 48 hours. And as a canadian im not gonna forget about this anytime soon. Ill keep buying canadian.

Lol, he straight up said that the tarrifs were contingent on whether canada/mexico met his demands regarding illegal immigration/human trafficking/fentnyl which they did. Him threatening tarrifs worked and him not having to implement them is a good thing for the economy. How embarrassing tho

edit: dumb with the same illiterate sentiments

https://old.reddit.com/r/GenZ/comments/1ih85fc/did_trump_just_immediately_fold/

Frick off, were full, but leave enough behind to run the 7/11s, sushi stalls and korean bbq restaurants.

… and never any serious discussion about the long term demographic, economic or environmental scenarios and implications.

My favourite bit is when new arrivals bring their conflicts over with them.

Like Brits bringing over their racism, killing indigenous people by the thousands, setting up apartheid systems and stealing their babies?

Oh and the slave labour as well. Our train network wasn't built by freemen.

I wonder if anyone ever asked them for permission before doing all of that

It's okay because they're white /s

The issue isn't the population. It's the fact that we don't build good infrastructure. We should have a good high speed rail line along the east coast at least. Instead, we subsidise Qantas, and the Melbourne-Sydney is the busiest air route in the world. Also, super expensive.

We're in a population Ponzi scheme, and only digging down further

You know something's up when even left leaning people are agreeing with the "Frick off, we're full!" people of ~10+ years ago

The ground has shifted but the political class haven't realised it yet. Labor, LNP, Greens - they're all for it. The last 4 years or so has radicalised me so much I'd vote for any party who will take a stance on this

It's surprising to see the tonal shift in /r/australia. It's not a dramatic thread, sadly.

/r/Australian Politics - Australia's population lifts to 272 million

Soft migration compared to what? Its obvious that so many of Australias problems are from rampant immigration

So, not from a decade of wage suppression?

Corporate malfeance?

Public service deterioration?

High level corruption?

Nah, it's all dem migratiants!!

Stand by and cheer on as Australia is destroyed if you must. I escaped Australia. Im sorry for the people who still have to live there. Goodluck buddy. Your going to need it as it will only get worse from here on.

You immigated because you dont like immigration. Curious.

Hard for you to understand but some people are retired.

What do you think the word immigrate means?

You escaped to Vietnam. I'll stick with Australia, any day of the week.

Can't it be from all the above?

No? People are linking things that are not related. What about getting mad at local councils for previously being so darn restrictive with their zoning for example? We're in this mess because of them after all.

Now you're just showing your bias. I agree with all your points but you're quite naive if you don't think importing 400k people isn't having any effect on house prices and rent for example.

No it is now for sure but what I'm sick of is people not blaming the root causes. Just so much easier to go after immigrants.

Having worked in different levels of government it's a lot easier to reduce migration levels than to redo zoning and build more housing. I'm sure I don't hold the same sentiment.

snip

Wage suppression is related to population growth. Women caused wage suppression when they joined the work force en mass in the last century. Now that working women are normal and we're below replacement rate, immigrants are literally the only reason our working population goes up.

Wage suppression is today caused by immigration. So yes, immigration is still the problem.

No. Wage suppression is structured in to maxmise profits. Profits suppress wages, except management, their wages keep going up and up and up.

What you just said means literal nothing. snip

And yet the upmarseys roll in soy boy

I stand corrected. It's the migratiants AND the womens! 🤦‍♀️

1.4 million migrants is 'soft' now? Good luck getting a house.

And yet house prices are currently falling and when we blocked migration house prices ballooned.

Great, the cheapest one is only $650k

I didn't say it was cheap. People just love to hate on immigrants when the far bigger issue is investors.

No, it is immigrants.

And this is why we're fricked.

Our betters have decided this is happening, what we want doesn't matter.

Don't they realize it'll bite them on the arse eventually too

/r/australian - ABS reports 446,000 new overseas migrants in 2023-24 financial year

Australia has no official language. At any moment we could fracture our english speaking nation and descend into prime multi-racial territory. But hey every one is equal and the same when you bring them in.

Do you think if we had a official language that couldn't happen? Having a official language doesn't mean people are forced to speak it's just what the law is wrote in

Pauline Hanson speed running the vindication arc

We might not have homes to live in, but we get a great tikka masala.

Can we? I worry about hygiene standards.

Ahh casual racism. Can't wait till you YT trash become the minority in this country

The proracist enters the chat..

Shut up pinkoid 🐷

Absurd numbers. We seriously need to hit the pause button for a while on this.

We need to hit the reverse button

That's a big part of the reason why Trump won the US election, when he pledged to deport illegal immigrants. We can do our part to deport temporary visitors who wouldn't leave and are resorting to claiming asylum as a last resort to drag out their stay as long as possible.

Hit the rewind button. Several times

/r/AusEcon - Latest ABS population data shows growth despite declining birthrate

/r/AusFinance - Latest ABS population data shows growth despite declining birthrate

Linking these two for economics nerds.

It's interesting seeing the lefty-leaning subs starting to move to the anti-mass-immigration camp. Only a few years ago one would get jumped in the comments for daring to suggest it.

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A year into their relationship, Jess and Nate got engaged next to the sea. "It was a golden, sandy beach – empty and secluded," says Jess, 26. "It was just us two there, so it was really intimate."

Except that the couple were actually hundreds of miles apart – and they were role-playing their engagement in the video game World of Warcraft.

Nate, 27, was living just outside London – and Jess was in Wales. After meeting briefly at an esports event in Germany in March 2023, the pair developed a long-distance relationship, playing the game together "from the moment we woke up to the moment we went to bed", says Nate.

The couple still play the game daily, even though they've been living together in Manchester since March 2024. And they know other couples who have found their partners through video games: "It's a different way of meeting someone," says Jess. "You both have such a strong mutual love for something already, it's easier to fall in love."

Nate agrees. "I was able to build a lot more of a connection with people I meet in gaming than I ever was able to in a dating app."

A selfie of Nate and Jess on the left, and on the right, a screenshot from World of Warcraft showing Nate proposing with the words, "Will you marry me?"

Nate and Jess (pictured, alongside their virtual engagement), found love online - but not on a dating app

Nate and Jess are not alone. According to some experts, people of their generation are moving away from dating apps and finding love on platforms that were not specifically designed for romance.

And hanging out somewhere online that's instead focused on a shared interest or hobby could allow people to find a partner in a lower-stakes, less pressurised setting than marketing themselves to a gallery of strangers. For some digital-native Gen Zs, it seems, simply doing the things they enjoy can be an alternative to the tyranny of the swipe.

Internet dating at 30 - a turning point?

Since it first appeared with the launch of match.com 30 years ago, online dating has fundamentally altered our relationships. Around 10% of heterosexual people and 24% of LGBT people have met their long-term partner online, according to Pew Research Center.

But evidence suggests that young people are switching off dating apps, with the UK's top 10 seeing a fall of nearly 16%, according to a report published by Ofcom in November 2024. Tinder lost 594,000 users, while Hinge dropped by 131,000, Bumble by 368,000 and Grindr by 11,000, the report said (a Grindr spokesperson said they were "not familiar with this study's source data" and that their UK users "continue to rise year over year").

According to a 2023 Axios study of US college students and other Gen Zers, 79% said they were forgoing regular dating app usage. And in its 2024 Online Nation report, Ofcom said: "Some analysts speculate that for younger people, particularly Gen Z, the novelty of dating apps is wearing off." In a January 2024 letter to shareholders, Match Group Inc - which owns Tinder and Hinge - acknowledged younger people were seeking "a lower pressure, more authentic way to find connections".

"The idea of using a shared interest to meet someone isn't new, but it's been reinvented in this particular moment in time – it signals a desire of Gen Z," says Carolina Bandinelli, an associate professor at Warwick University whose research focuses on the digital technologies of romance.

Getty Images Joggers running in a parkGetty Images

Many younger people are exploring alternatives to dating apps, from gaming to running clubs and other social activities

According to Danait Tesfay, 26, a marketing assistant from London, younger people are looking for alternatives to dating apps, "whether that be gaming or running clubs or extra-curricular clubs, where people are able to meet other like-minded people and eventually foster a romantic connection".

At the same time that membership of some dating apps appears to be in decline, platforms based around common interests are attracting more users. For instance, the fitness app Strava now has 135m users – and its monthly active users grew by 20% last year, according to the company. Other so-called "affinity-based" sites have seen similar growth: Letterboxd, where film fans can share reviews, says its community grew by 50% last year.

Rise of the hobby apps

And just as in the pre-internet age, when couples might have met at a sports club or the cinema, now singletons are able to find each other in their online equivalents.

"People have always bonded over shared interests, but it's been given a digital spin with these online communities," says Luke Brunning, co-director of the Centre for Love, S*x, and Relationships (CLSR) at the University of Leeds.

"It's increasingly difficult to distinguish between behaviour that's on a dating app and dating behaviour on another platform."

Hobby apps are taking on some features of social media, too: in 2023, Strava introduced a messaging feature letting users chat directly. One twenty-something from London explains that her friends use it as a way to flirt with people they fancy, initially by liking a running route they've posted on the platform. Strava says its data shows that one in five of its active Gen Z members has been on a date with someone they met through fitness clubs.

"[Online] fitness communities are becoming big places to find partners," says Nichi Hodgson, the author of The Curious History of Dating. She says a friend of hers met his partner that way, and they're now living together.

The same appears to apply to Letterboxd, too. With users including Chappell Roan and Charli XCX, it's a popular platform for younger people - two-thirds of members in a survey of 5,000 were under 34.

The company says it's aware of several couples meeting through the app, including one who bonded over a shared love of David Fincher's opinion-dividing 2020 drama Mank. "It could be that seeing other people's film tastes reveals an interesting aspect of themselves," says Letterboxd co-founder Matthew Buchanan.

Why the shift?

So what might be driving this? While dating apps initially appeared to offer "the illusion of choice", and a transparent, efficient way to meet partners, the reality for many has often proven to be different. The Pew Research Center found that 46% of dating-app users said their experiences were overall very or somewhat negative.

The recent decline in user numbers might also be a response to the way some apps are structured – in particular, the swipe feature for selecting potential partners, launched by Tinder in 2013 and widely copied.

Its creator, Jonathan Badeen, was partly inspired by studying the 1940s experiments of psychologist BF Skinner, who conditioned hungry pigeons to believe that food delivered randomly into a tray was prompted by their movements.

Getty Images A psychological experiment with pigeons conducted by BF SkinnerGetty Images

Tinder's swipe mechanism was partly inspired by Harvard Professor BF Skinner's psychological experiments with pigeons in order to understand the brain's reward system

Eventually, the swipe mechanism faced a backlash. "Ten years ago, people were enthusiastic and would talk quite openly about what apps they were on," says Ms Hodgson. "Now the Tinder model is dead with many young people – they don't want to swipe any more."

According to Mr Brunning, the gameifying interface of many dating apps is a turn-off. "Intimacy is made simple for you, it's made fun in the short term, but the more you play, the more you feel kind of icky."

The pandemic may have had an impact, too, says Prof Brian Heaphy at the University of Manchester, who has studied dating-app use in and after the lockdowns: "During Covid, dating apps themselves became more like social media – because people couldn't meet up, they were looking for different things."

Although that didn't last after the pandemic, it "gave people a sense that it could be different from just swiping and getting no responses – all the negatives of dating-app culture," says Prof Heaphy.

And in that context, the fact that video games or online communities like Strava or Letterboxd aren't designed for dating can be appealing. By attracting users for a broader range of reasons, there's less pressure on each interaction.

"Those apps aren't offering a commercialised form of romance, so they can seem more authentic," says Prof Heaphy.

The World of Warcraft characters of PurplePixel and Wochi

The humans behind Wochi and PurplePixel (pictured) met while playing World of Warcraft, though they say finding a partner wasn't their original intention

It's a type of connection free from the burden of expectation. A different couple who met on World of Warcraft – and go by the names Wochi and PurplePixel – weren't looking for love. "I definitely didn't go into an online game trying to find a partner," says Wochi.

But although initially in opposing teams, or guilds, their characters started a conversation. "We spent all night talking until the early hours of the morning, and by the end of the night, I'd actually left my guild and joined his guild," says PurplePixel. Within three years, Wochi had quit his job and moved to the UK from Italy to be with her.

According to Ms Hodgson, "While some dating apps can bring out the worst behaviours, these other online spaces can do the opposite, because people are sharing something they enjoy."

Because of these structural elements, she doesn't think the recent decline in numbers is temporary. "It's going to keep happening until dating apps figure out how to put the human aspect back."

New kinds of dating app

The dating apps aren't giving up without a fight, however. Hinge is still "setting up a date every two seconds", according to a spokesperson; Tinder says a relationship starts every three seconds on its platform and that almost 60% of its users are aged 18-30. In fact, the apps appear to be embracing the shift to shared-interest platforms, launching niche alternatives including ones based around fitness, veganism, dog-ownership or even facial hair.

They're also evolving to encourage different kinds of interaction. On Breeze, users who agree to be set up on a date aren't allowed to message each other before they meet; and Jigsaw hides people's faces, only removing pieces to reveal the full photo after a certain amount of interaction.

It means that it's premature to proclaim the death of the dating app, believes Prof Heaphy. "There's now such a diversity of dating apps that the numbers for the biggest ones aren't the key indicator," he says. "It might actually be a similar number to before, in terms of overall membership."

And there's a downside to people going to more general-interest apps looking for love – people might not want to be hit on when they just want to talk about books. Dating apps, at least, are clear about what their purpose is.

What might the future look like?

In an increasingly online world, the solution to improving relationships might not simply be to go offline. Instead, apps that can offer an experience which more closely mirrors the best of IRL interactions, while tapping into the possibilities of digital ones, might also show a way forward.

With the imminent integration of AI into dating apps, we are "right on the cusp of something new", says Mr Brunning. "It's interesting to see if we'll end up with specific apps just for dating, or will we end up with something a bit more fluid?"

He points to platforms in China that are more multi-purpose. "People use them for chat, for community, and conduct business on them – they can also be dating platforms, but they're often not exclusively for that."

In the meantime, the interactions possible in less mediated communities like World of Warcraft could offer more of a chance to connect than conversations initiated by a swipe.

Jess and Nate's in-game engagement on the beach might not have been real, but the couple are hoping to change that soon. "It's a matter of when, really. There are a few things we need to tick off the checklist, and then she'll be getting her ring," says Nate. And there'll still be a gaming element.

"You can role-play getting married," says Jess. "So it could be funny to get all our friends together at some point in the World of Warcraft cathedral, and we could have a marriage ceremony."

We thought the world would always get better. That we would achieve greater levels of well-being and happiness, and that it was natural for children to be better off than their parents. But after decades of progress, we are facing times of great uncertainty: it is difficult to imagine a future in a context of wars, populism and natural disasters. What is progress today? Is it still possible?

This is nothing new , all this is mostly related to the economics of the situation, and late stage capitalism,which Marx pointed out would happen over a 170 years ago .

It takes one comment in to the top thread to mention Marx.

Is it really half baked, the dude in the 1850s basically said the endpoint of capitalism is the consolidation of wealth into fewer and fewer, tell me that's not happening.... Of course Marx didn't get all the shit right, and communism is a failed ideology but youdont throw all the ideas 💡 out just because some of them are flawed

Gotta wonder at what point people will genuinely start to rise up and rebel against it. Far more likely to happen in freer countries than the US, like in Europe.

The British film and TV industries used to be a powerhouse of quality entertainment on a shoestring budget, long since drowned under a tidal wave of average-at-best American music, films and TV. Don't get me wrong, some American stuff is brilliant, but broadly speaking if it's badly made, badly written, badly acted and the audience already knows what will happen all the way through, it's American.

First time I've seen this in with ublock

still works thoughever

I reported it as an issue

Stressed so I've been taking photos like crazy

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