As we see here, even a brand new thread posted a paltry three minutes ago and about the most /r/AskReddit topic imaginable already had HOLY COW seven hundred and ten upchuds.

Don't believe me? See for yourself!

https://poal.co/s/AskPoal/747854

I refreshed and it's dropped down to a still respectable 291 uphitlers. I guess there's a lot of diversity of opinion on this site even for relatively banal subjects like giant robots. How cool is that?

The next thread is another very hot topic, very relevant and powerful Alaskan congressperson Lisa Murkowski:

1200 upTNDs on that bad boy in just 14 minutes. This one even has a comment. Let's check it out and see what Motte-level intellectual discourse goes on here:

https://poal.co/s/Twitchy/747853

Poal.co user ERROR; RNG_USERNAME_VAR_NOT_FOUND offers some powerful insight into this with a not at all procedurally generated comment with very reasonable, intentional, deliberate and NOT random formatting to boot. No votes at all on that one yet, for some reason. Maybe the enormous userbase is all busy crafting lengthy polemics against or for his stance there.

The next newest thread is about Pompeo. Remember Pompeo? I don't besides the name, but several hundred Poal.co users remember him. Check these votes out.

Fluctuates like crazy every time I refresh. There seems to be an enormous but enormously healthy variety of pro- and anti-Pompeo sentiments there, going by how quickly the votes shift by several hundred. This thread even has TWO comments:

https://poal.co/s/Trump/747852

I don't know what they mean and I can't ask the users because there must be some bug from all the traffic preventing real users' real usernames from displaying.

Scrolling further down the bustling digital metropolis of poal.co, we see similar levels of activity, no matter the topic:

Pretty much all of their threads have many times our most upvoted posts' total votes. Even ones with no comments. It's inspiring and demoralizing in equal measure.

In closing I'd just like to remind everyone that you need to say nigger as much as possible to defeat the Jewish hydra.

We're playing the turboneurodivergent Dawn of Civilization mod for Civilization IV that replicates world history. !g*mers

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Part 4 Part 5 Part 6

Part 7

The first World Congress takes place in Regensburg. The biggest civilizations can request a city change hands.

I select Roha, because Ethiopia has pissed me off all game

Sure

Sure

Don't care

Yes

Voting is done. Final results:

Our only loss is our vassal French colony of Speightstown in Barbados. Not all that important. Is it really necessary to start a world war over it?

The benefit is everyone attacked me, so I get no diplomatic penalties for declaring war on them. I'm ready for a fight Ethiopia, Portugal, Russia, and Japan are my enemies.

Holy Rome did NOT attack me. Wise choice

I am HAPPY to finally fight Ethiopia

Alula Engida falls in the defense of the city.

Once I've taken Aksum their stability starts to tank.

It's got some nice stuff so I'll probably keep it.

I allow for peace, they're probably fukt anyway.

I have a little army I've been keeping in my pocket off the coast of Morocco ready for the American Revolution, they can take out Portugal instead

Lisbon doesn't have SHIT for defenses

I don't even have to do anything, Spain sweeps in and claims it. They earned it.

I set my eye on Portugal's Brazilian colonies instead

But by the time I get there the've collapsed

This army can go to Japan instead.

I'm able to take Nagasaki but don't have enough troops to push further in, and the Japanese start taking out my boats. They'll have to be reinforced later.

In Rhye's and Fall Russia's power was "General Winter" which hurt any invading armies. Would've made for a fun challenge but they no longer have this.

I have a very old but huge assault army in Mesopotamia, I want to sneak them up to surprise Russia

This won't work because Iran won't let me through

Alternate route:

Notice that I can actually see past the fog of war on the map to these cities now with espionage because I've researched electricity.

Iran is also one of the few civs totally dark on the map, they actually have strong antiespionage.

Russia is guarded by Stelets, who start with City Garrison.

But I have Grenadiers These guys ROCK in DoC

Starting with City Raider, two promotions gets them City Raider III AND they get collateral damage

My French vassals hold Tarnopol, I was worried I would have to protect them but they have a pretty solid army in there. I'm so proud of them

Russia is soon willing to surrender Kyiv/Kiev/Kevin

I don't think so. They're capitulating.

Our first female Great General is born during the Russian push, Albia Domenica

I told @Ubie last game I would actually have the next general fight in the field, this will be especially advantageous if I get the Brandenberg Gate wonder up.

The problem with using Great Generals in the field base game is that the risk of losing them at 90% odds over battle after battle is just too great. Most often the AI only uses them like this as a last ditch chance to defend a city, as Ethiopia did. Brandenberg Gate actually incentivizes you to sacrifice them.

I start working on it in Pella, Greece

You may have noticed but I'm lightyears ahead of schedule in technology so I'm really getting crazy with wonders. The Eiffel Tower was just built in Rome with the Statue of Liberty next. Eiffel Tower is super helpful for moar Golden Ages

I'm going to start one now to support the army and get the Brandenberg Gate up. I'm starting to face a recession anyways.

I've also built Chapultepec Castle, further enhancing Padua as a military powerhouse. Units start pumping out with Leadership and three promotions out of the gate

In the midst of all this fricking Morocco declares independence

Around this time foreign occupied nations start to secede. It was probably a toss up which one would. This could have been worse, but I definitely want to take Morocco back. Marrakesh is my naval center.

They have a pretty srs army tho Albia is gonna be the one to go down and fight them.

We need to get Brandenberg Gate up faster for this so I send my Great Engineer Celer.

I'm wasting some hammers here but it's worth it.

Albia's army arrives as the Moroccans advance to Yglgl

No idea what this city is by the way. If anyone else ever decides to look they're going to find my playthrough

Try as I might to send Albia towards certain doom, she's repeatedly successful.

Hey WTF. One of my really really old Roman Legion units joined Morocco

Death to traitors

Finally, in the assault on Shigan Albia falls

Previously, the combat experience to my next next Great General was 66

Thanks to Brandenberg Gate, once she dies it drops to 25

We'll get another general in no time

Marrakesh falls

And we get our second general, another foid, Agrippina

She's going to lead the fight in Japan.

The Kingdom of Prussia spawns, and the cities of Danzig and Wroclaw I conquered from the Russian Empire request to join them..

I don't really want these, so that's fine.

The Holy Roman Empire is reduced to the Archduchy of Austria.

Only sucky thing is they're Protestant so they dislike us

We can deal with them later.

Even during the Golden Age my Economy stability is tanking to a recession I'm not sure if this is because I ran out of trade infrastructure to continually build, or if Free Enterprise is causing this, or maybe a mix of both.

We're still OK on expansion but nearing the overextension point. Overextension would be the major killer if it gets out of control.

With the research of Psychology we hit the Global era (insanely ahead of schedule)

@Soren mentioned

We get a Great Spy, but my espionage is good enough I don't really know what to do with this dude I already have a Secret Service in Rome for espionage output, I can send him to build another one in Byzantion and make that city a spy training center.

Another world congress takes place.

Another world war is gonna be a little much The Ethiopians can have stupid Aksum back.

Moscow falls, and I have a Catholic missionary ready to show them the error of their ways.

Only after pushing into Moscow and France taking Riga is Russia FINALLY willing to capitulate.

Now they are the "Province of Samartia". I will of course return their core cities to them, and hopefully influence them to become Catholic.

You may notice in the diplo tooltip that my stability is just barely dipping into "Unstable"

Japan's navy is unexpectedly annoying.

Agrippina lands ready to take Edo, but we're probably going to need to pivot to Kyoto (Heian-kyou)

Oh, great, it looks like the Ottomans have shown up

Only 400 years late

I'm probably going to have to deal with these secessions like Turkey and Morocco for a while Greece or Egypt seceding would probably be the biggest nuisance.

Now they have the Secret Service

Agrippina is even more stubborn about not dying.

We push into Edo and call a crusade on Japan and they still won't capitulate. Should have figured they would fight to the end.

They eventually collapse. So now I have Japan

and this b-word STILL WON'T DIE

I restore most of Russia's conquered core to them. Hanging onto Poland and Ukraine for now.

I can liberate Ukraine but don't really want to. If I could set Poland free I would, but I think France owning Tarnopol is blocking it.

Russia really likes me now and is willing to convert to Catholicism. Part of the reason I did all this shit was for Foreign stability. Russia is usually a peepee but now we're homies and he's another stable vassal. Japan would have been similar but now that they're out of this world they'll no longer contribute to negative foreign stability.

Turkey goes down

I've fought enough that I've gotten a new Great General naturally.

Planning on raiding Sendai until Agrippina dies to reset the counter Apparently this reset only happens once

Either way, we are now mostly stable.

and finally at peace

I have a Great Statesman available, I may reform the government soon. With Psychology and Macroeconomics I can pick a proper modern government. I'll let you guys choose which direction I should go in.

Roman Republic (Democracy) - 13 votes

Plebeian Republic (Communist) - 5 votes

New Roman Empire (Fascist) - 13 votes

Next

https://rdrama.net/post/338842/diddykongdancediddykongscaredkongmaxxing-event-badges-galore-return-of

!badgemaxxers refer to above thread

Also a sneak peek of something

Also if I can figure out how to stream from the steamdeck would you guys watch me play donkey kong

I'm not very good

There would be no voice or camera or anything literally just dkc2

Enter BetHe will! - 10 bets

Enter BetHe will not! - 45 bets

Enter BetJoe Exotic and/or Trump and/or Aevann will die before the deadline of this bet. - 5 bets

Option 3 supersedes option 2.

!bets !goomble !goomblers !goombling !project2025 !tigerfrickers

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According to data from USASpending.gov, the U.S. government has granted over $270 million to the East-West Management Institute (EWMI) over the past 15 years. EWMI is an organization partnered with George Soros' Open Society Foundations. Additionally, another $90 million was obligated to the institution over several contracts. The East-West Management Institute describes its mission as "strengthening democratic societies by fostering collaboration between governments, civil society, and the private sector to build transparent and accountable institutions." Its funding primarily comes from USAID and the U.S. Department of State. Programs include judicial reform, legal aid, and rule of law initiatives in countries like Albania, Armenia, Cambodia, and Georgia, as well as civil society training in nations such as Kyrgyzstan and Uganda.It's important to note that while EWMI has received substantial funding from USAID, this funding is directed towards the organization's initiatives and n... (15)

I never voted to have any of my tax dollars spent in Albania, Armenia, Cambodia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Uganda. I am all for cutting USAID and keep all of our money to fix the problems we have in this Country We could house all of the Homeless in America for the amount of money we give to foreign nations (-9)

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USAID also someone how paid $8M for 47 Politico "subscriptions" which happens to be a left leaning media source. The corruption by dems is out of control. (-4)

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Not accurate. (3)

accurate, it's officially stated as payment for their "pre editorial" product. like please read between the lines. (-4)

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Look, idk wtf happened to reddit where it became this woke safe haven. And God it's annoying that any kind of nuanced opinion that isn't left leaning is downmarseyd immediately....But bro all of this USAID shit is getting annoying as frick. Like don't get me wrong, if there is waste and it leads back to the left ok fine, end that waste... But Jesus Christ this feels so witch hunty. I'm not hearing a goddarn thing about right wing waste and I do not believe for one second that those mother frickers are any cleaner than the left.ALL of those people are funneling money from all kinds of mother frickers to other mother frickers and in their own pockets. Left, Right... 2 sides, same coin. (And don't give me that "lesser evil" bullshit)It's just so annoying to see all of these right wing talking heads (Even Joe Rogan) go on and on about the left doing all this dark money shit while not hearing a peep about the Republicans. Nah son.... You're all dirty as sin. Please shut the frick up with this h... (1)

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Can you prove that investing that 10M would have stopped Al Qaeda from rising to power? When that same 10M could be used to provide at home infrastructure support or tax cuts?Also, how does supporting DEI initiatives abroad improve our national security? Asking for a friend. (1)

There has been countless studies that spending on foreign aid yields dividend in the form of both reduced military spending and increased foreign trade. This view was championed by Trump's own secdef, James Mattis. This view is not a controversial one. Trump and his people all are aware of the reality. But they said they would find waste and fraud in govt spending, and they can't find any actual waste or fraud, so they're pointing to the old reliable boogey man that his dumb supporters fall for every time, foreign aid.This last question is idiotic propaganda for weak minded people. Point to a bad program. Don't regurgitate your masters bs. (1)

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Nice attempt to divert from the truth. The liberal meltdown over the USAID getting forensic accounting is astonishing. What are you so afraid of? (-2)

If they expose a bunch of bad things in those lying liars worldwide and claim but everything we did as bad because most of what we did as bad. No, even if we do a bunch of bad things that doesn't prove that everything we do is bad. No, we still do good things. With all that tax money we're taking the giveaway, we still do a few good things. We shouldn't destroy so much government waste Internet up to save money. (1)

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I think we should commit genocide on Russia and China and Iran and North Korea with nuclear weapons.

I don't want regime change, I just don't want their government and citizens to be alive at all

!burgers

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Guess the fact that those 10 athletes aren't exactly regularly outperforming their biological counterparts parts doesn't matter hey? Ofcourse it doesn't you don't give a frick about women lol. (85)

https://old.reddit.com/r/self/comments/1ijzwib/why_are_people_freaking_out_over_trans_people_not/mbj6cvm/?context=8 (-9)

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Why have competition if you are going to let it be unfair? It's silly (22)

Because you are making a mountain out of a mole hill. The amount of trans athlethes is minescule in the big picture. There are bigger problems to be solved. (-26)

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Out of 500,000 NCAA athletes 10 are transgender 😂 completely made up issue (239)

This logic is flawed. While there maybe only 10 transgender athletes, those athletes impact more than just 10 people. They individually impact everyone they ever play with and against. That number is certainly larger than 10. Rules like this aren't for the individuals that they prohibit, they are for everyone else that are affect by them. (-8)

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Imagine if someone made a rule that red headed people were no longer allowed to go to the movies, because their red hair was so bright it might hurt other people's eyes while watching. That's silly, right? There's no evidence of that, there are very few red haired people even that exist, and the majority of the people watching movies are cool with red haired people.Maybe not getting to go to the movies and have a source of major enjoyment that other people get to have isn't a big deal to you.But next they will say red haired people are distracting - we shouldnt allow them to drive either, they can cause accidents.Redhaired people start getting fired from jobs and no longer getting hired, or their businesses no longer patronized since people don't want to risk being around themRed haired people start being murdered and r*ped and committing suicide more often, because criminals know they can get away with it.Then they will say we should round all the red haired people up and put them... (2)

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The reasoning behind it is flawed and masked in "protecting women" when it's about targeting the LGBTQ community Cis women are being targeted and accused of being trans if someone feels they are too good, too masculine presenting or they just don't like them/what they have to sayCis women are being accused of being trans because of how they biologically exist, such as naturally occurring variance in hormones. Once this information is released people refuse to the believe they're women and all their accomplishments as athletes are thrown away. I was born with 9 times the amount of testosterone that I am suppose to have. It never made me a better athlete but people don't care and if that were given out the the public, people would die on the hill that I am biologically male even though I have had two children emerge from my body that lived in my uterus with my eggs that were naturally released through my fallopian tubes.This issue unfairly targets people of color who have a long histo... (8)

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J.K. Rowling says it bestJ.K. Rowling@jk_rowlingThis 'why do you care about a tiny fraction of the population?' line is, and always was, utterly ridiculous.Gender ideology has undermined freedom of speech, scientific truth, gay rights, and women's and girls' safety, privacy, and dignity. It's also caused irreparable physical damage to vulnerable kids.Nobody voted for it, the vast majority of people disagree with it, yet it has been imposed, top down, by politicians, healthcare bodies, academia, sections of the media, celebrities, and even the police. Its activists have threatened and enacted violence on those who've dared oppose it.People have been defamed and discriminated against for questioning it. Jobs have been lost and lives have been ruined, all for the crime of knowing that s*x is real and matters.When the smoke clears, it will be only too evident that this was never about a so-called vulnerable minority, notwithstanding the fact that some very vulnerable people have been ha... (1)

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Reddit commies truly are a blight upon mankind !anticommunists

https://old.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/comments/1i5yhqw/good_luck_to_everyone_for_the_next_four_years_may/m87rloe/?context=8

some are confused

https://old.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/comments/1i5yhqw/good_luck_to_everyone_for_the_next_four_years_may/m88b7zd/?context=8

OP is giga cringe

https://old.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/comments/1i5yhqw/good_luck_to_everyone_for_the_next_four_years_may/m889izn/?context=8

"LABOUR IS JUST PINKO TORIES"

https://old.reddit.com/r/Grimdank/comments/1i5yhqw/good_luck_to_everyone_for_the_next_four_years_may/m87xigh/?context=8

"MEDIA LITERACY! MEDIA LITERACY! MEDIA LITERACY! MEDIA LITERACY!"

These reddit lunatics are genuinely more dogmatic than the religious fanatics in the 40k universe

https://www.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/s/twZojbLKcj

boris karloff, i like Yousuf Karsh's portraits to study, very value-laden (hehe)

Feedback always welcomed

I like this place a lot :) It makes me smile.

article with video on news site

https://www.westernjournal.com/video-raging-trump-hater-mark-hamills-pants-fell-live-tv-isnt-joke/

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/08/viral-trend-sees-humans-simulating-bizarre-ai-video-glitches/

!asians !aichads !fellas !kino

GERMANY: EU regulators think it is too dangerous to simply break a bottle across the bow of a new ship, instead they insist on the use of this contraption. This is why the EU is failing. This is Economy Minister Habeck flailing.
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