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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 03/10/2026
Prost von Ingolstadt Volksfest!
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 03/10/2026
Just constant lying. It is not "Europe" it is the G7. It is not "immediately", but over 4 months.
A social media post by a user named Donald J. Trump with a verified badge. The profile picture features an American flag design. The post reads: "Europe has just agreed to release a massive amount of their heavily stocked Diesel Oil. The process will begin immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT."
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 03/10/2026
TSA now will limit the number of carry-on axes to one if it will fit in a 1L baggie.
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FlyDubai Co-Pilot Used Crash Ax in ‘Terrorist’ Cockpit Attack, Emirates Says (Gift Article)
The violent midair assault on a FlyDubai flight to Tel Aviv has deepened concerns about the safety of Israelis traveling abroad.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 03/10/2026
I'm here for all the conspiracy theories. Yes.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 02/10/2026
Just like JD Vance.
Isn't it a founding principle of the country that the press is supposed to hold government and those in power accountable? Do you believe in that?

It is, but they got to treat you fairly. You know, when they write stories that are knowingly false, and everyone knows NBC's, NBC's bad too, but CNN is terrible. MS Now changed their name because they have no friends.

Well, let's shift to Iran because a lot's going on over there. You initially said that the war would take about six to eight weeks. We're now entering the seventh month. Can you just explain, like, why is it taking so long?
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 02/10/2026
I bet in a few years the majority of revenue for these huge hyperscalers will not be AI companies, but general corporate training and inference on open weight models. I can see a time when companies are minting and training their own models, and the frontier providers are barely important.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 02/10/2026
Jobs report is a catastrophe. Payrolls rose just 29,000 vs. 84,000 expected, unemployment 4.3%.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 02/10/2026
I certainly hope Lockheed and any other company that "donates" money for Trump's projects gets a positively brutal ass reaming prosecution. Fines cannot be the only penalty, we need to see prison time for these corrupt mf'ers.
"Trump says Lockheed paid for his new helipad and ballroom." President Donald Trump discussed various topics in a September 28 interview at the White House, including the war with Iran, AI policy, press access, the economy, and White House renovations. Key points include:

- Extending the Iran campaign to destroy nuclear sites, navy, and air force, claiming 159 ships sunk and inflation at 300 percent.
- Defending restricted access for CNN and MSNBC, labeling them "fake news" while supporting a "free press" but not an "honest press."
- Meeting with Dario Amodei on AI, calling it "super intelligence" and warning against over-regulation.
- Criticizing the Supreme Court on tariffs and birthright citizenship, expressing regret over appointing Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett, and desiring justices who deliver "good decisions."
- Stating White House renovations, including a helipad and ballroom, cost taxpayers nothing due to funding from Lockheed Martin and Congress.

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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 02/10/2026
The TIME interview so clearly shows Trump is delusional, demented, and is suffering from serious behavioral illness. What a damn disgrace this is to have such a pathetic person leading the US. The swing voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin can fuck right off. Total embarrassment.
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Read TIME’s ‘What Trump Has Built’ Interview Transcript
The U.S. President discussed the war in Iran, press freedom, AI, and more ahead of the midterm elections.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 01/10/2026
I mean it's not a completely crazy thought...kinda right there in the face of it all. Whack the people who would oppose you. Plausible.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 01/10/2026
The death penalty is so obviously immoral on a human level no matter your beliefs, supporting it is absurd. No civilized nation can defend executing its citizens.
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Supreme Court Allows Execution of Christa Pike, Tennessee’s Lone Woman on Death Row (Gift Article)
Christa Pike tortured and murdered a classmate in 1995. She had been set to die on Wednesday, the first woman executed in the state in 200 years, until a lower court paused the execution.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 30/09/2026
Building datacenters for AI training in the US is the same thing as building TV factories in the the US. Neither can be financially competitive. Eventually China and other low wage countries will innovate with training methods that use less compute and also will have access to renewable energy.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 30/09/2026
I'm seeing this more and more. MAGA and non-MAGA Republicans. This is a fantasy. Less than 10 Republicans could have removed Trump literary any day in the last 18 months. Nobody is a little bit Nazi or a little bit MAGA. It's all in or nothing.
Bar chart comparing MAGA and Non-MAGA Republicans. The MAGA bar shows 96% in red, 2% in blue, and 2% in gray. The Non-MAGA bar shows 84% in red, 10% in blue, and 5% in gray.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 30/09/2026
Jack Smith testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that he found “proof beyond a reasonable doubt” of serious crimes involving President Donald Trump.
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GOP Sen Who Imploded In Spectacular Fashion Touted as Top JD Vance VP Pick Just Hours Before
"We hear the VP views Schmitt, 51, as trustworthy, intelligent, articulate and a deft political operator," reported Axios just hours before Schmitt's epic fail
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 30/09/2026
OMG THE MIGRANT CARAVAN IS BACK JUST IN TIME FOR THE MIDTERMS HIDE THE CHILDREN!
The Epoch Times social media post with a headline: "Migrant Caravan Headed for US Border Has 'Zero Chance' of Entering, DHS Chief Warns." The text states about 300 migrants from Central America were warned not to try to cross into the U.S., with Mexican authorities helping to break up the group. A link to read more is provided. Below the text is an image of a man in a blue suit and red tie, standing in front of an American flag. The Epoch Times logo is visible in the top right corner.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 30/09/2026
One reason of many that Trump constantly says he is "friends" with dictators… is they will never refute that in the media. Putin is not issuing PR that he thinks Trump is a useful idiot.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 30/09/2026
Cancelled the Bulwark. They started as legit anti-Trump, now their shift back right is in full stride. Absolutely refuse read the room.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 26/09/2026
Officer I was just meddling with this car I don’t own.
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OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites
The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 25/09/2026
The SCOTUS terror regime has landed another body blow to democracy. difopin.com/zaktur3
Supreme Court lets states expand citizenship checks on voter rolls. The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to expand a federal citizenship database for checking voter rolls, despite lower-court findings of likely unlawfulness. The court's 6-3 emergency ruling permits use of the expanded SAVE database during ongoing legal challenges. The database now includes Social Security Administration information, enabling searches by Social Security number and bulk voter roll checks. Critics argue the data is unreliable and may wrongly flag or remove U.S. citizens, including newly naturalized ones. The court stated the National Voter Registration Act prohibits broad voter-roll purges before elections, but states can conduct individualized checks. Texas processed over 18 million registrations through SAVE, with only three people charged for illegal voting as noncitizens, according to the report. "Difficult Opinions" logo in the bottom right corner.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 25/09/2026
A person with short hair is making an animated expression with wide eyes and an open mouth. They are wearing a white t-shirt and have their hands raised with fingers spread apart. The background is a gradient of blue shades. Overlaid on the image is the text "KZACKISTANN" in bold, stylized letters.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 25/09/2026
What a waste of everyone's time. Even MAGA, who are the scum of the earth, could possibly improve if these freaks were out of power. These people are poison to humanity.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 25/09/2026
This weekly poll shows the CDU/CSU (Germany's currently governing party with partners) is steadily becoming irrelevant. Chancellor Merz will very likely step aside at any time. Once they were solidly dominant, now they are the party of no ideas, only 'against things'.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 25/09/2026
Got to say we really need the equivalent of Wallfacers for AI safety, because I totally believe some oversight team is going 'Claude, how to protect...'.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 24/09/2026
The "You and What Army Mr. Chief Justice?" era has arrived.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 24/09/2026
When AI can ensure I never, ever see anything about Clavicular I will agree it's achieved widespread usefulness.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 24/09/2026
Trump's military plan: "Claude defend Europe. Make no mistakes."
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 22/09/2026
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R) said he was open to considering a ban, while Tim Burchett (R) introduced legislation that would prohibit diesel exports through Jan 2027. Embargoes don't work. They kick the can. Demand changes work but take time, like electrification through renewables. Duh.
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Chuck Grassley presses Trump as Iowa diesel prices hit record high
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 22/09/2026
Just the next tiny step into a worldwide conflagration. This is a huge mistake for the UK and Burnham, even if it is a single RAF Voyager aircraft based in Cyprus, the UK is now a direct Iranian target for no good reason.
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Andy Burnham says UK to provide Saudi Arabia with 'defensive' support
The prime minister says "defensive air-to-air refuelling" is to be provided following a request from Saudi Arabia, after it faced attacks from the Houthis in Yemen.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 22/09/2026
I believe AI has a place in business, but the current money grab through useless datacenter build outs is insane, and products like this are a manifestation of that insanity. I hope people reject these like the plague they are. 100% ban worldwide plus a societal rejection of surveillance in public.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 22/09/2026
The economy is not your lived experience. AI-related infrastructure and energy stocks are driving most of the U.S. market’s 2026 gains, while consumer prices are rising past the range people can afford them.
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The State of the Economy Before the Midterms: Rising Inflation and A.I. Unease (Gift Article)
Why current conditions feel so weird, and what that could mean in November.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 22/09/2026
This is what Trump has brought. The entire collection of liberal democracies coming together to rebuke America's illegal wars and authoritarian efforts. (A few decades late, but OK.) UN: tinyurl.com/233hd4v4
EU and six partners seek a stronger, more representative global system. The EU and six co-sponsors launched the Partners for Multilateralism initiative to strengthen international cooperation, peace, sustainable development, and respect for international law. The initiative was launched on 21 September 2026 during the United Nations General Assembly High-Level Week. Australia, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, India, and Kenya joined the EU as co-sponsors. The summit responded to geopolitical tensions, conflicts, climate change, and artificial intelligence challenges affecting multilateral institutions. Signatories said the United Nations Charter-based system remains indispensable but needs reform to become more effective, representative, and inclusive. Leaders committed to cooperation on conflict prevention, crisis response, sustainable development, fair trade, human rights, and the rule of law. The declaration reaffirmed sovereign equality, territorial integrity, peaceful dispute settlement, and the prohibition of threats or uses of force. Logo in the bottom right corner reads "Difficult Opinions".
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 22/09/2026
Again, moving the UN out of reach from Republicans is still a legit idea. The Republican Party is an anti-progress, anti-diplomatic movement. They will never change.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 22/09/2026
Impeaching and removing Trump is the fastest way to end this insanity, but only if JD Vance does a 180 and cleans house, including Miller. Not really a great prospect. Otherwise, another 2+ years of extrajudicial persecution.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 21/09/2026
"Heating-oil bills in the Northeast could rise as much as 31% this winter." Bloomberg: tinyurl.com/28bqtmxb
Black Sea attacks tighten global wheat and fuel supplies. The Black Sea conflict is disrupting wheat shipments and driving a broader food and fuel supply shock alongside the crisis around the Strait of Hormuz. Russia and Ukraine account for more than a quarter of global wheat trade, but attacks on ports, vessels, and infrastructure have sharply reduced shipments since July. Egypt, the world’s largest wheat buyer, has received no Black Sea grain for about a month. Ukraine is struggling to move harvests by land and river and lacks storage space. Wheat prices have reached three-year highs, while Ukraine’s neighbors have imposed import bans and prospects for a new shipping corridor remain limited. Vietnam’s Golden Wheat CEO Tue Vuong said canceled Black Sea cargoes left his company exposed and forced him to search for replacement supplies. Diesel shortages are adding to inflation risks. U.S. retail diesel prices exceeded $6 a gallon this month, and the EIA expects Russian refinery outages to affect global distillate markets through the first half of 2027. The disruptions could raise freight, farming, food-delivery, and home-heating costs, with one U.S. group warning that heating-oil bills in the Northeast could rise as much as 31% this winter if prices remain high. "Difficult Opinions" logo in the bottom right corner.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 21/09/2026
Whenever I see this sort of thing, including the shitshow that is UK air traffic control, I have to wonder if it's Russian sabotage. Newark, LaGuardia, JFK, Philadelphia, and Teterboro.
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Flights from JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark airports grounded after equipment outage, FAA says
Equipment issues caused several outages across the Northeast.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 21/09/2026
Paramount reportedly agreed to establish a journalist board overseeing CNN and CBS News editorial independence. hahahahahahaha oh that's a good one hoooboooy
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Paramount to Resolve Antitrust Lawsuit, Clearing the Way for Warner Bros. Acquisition (Gift Article)
The deal would remove the last significant hurdle the media mogul David Ellison faced to create a news and entertainment empire, home to movie studios, HBO, CBS and CNN.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 21/09/2026
One ironic thing about right wing populists (Trump, Meloni, Fico), is when they appease dictatorships and court authoritarians to impress their base, they are utterly unable to respond when their heros like Putin seek to destroy them. They have no answer.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 21/09/2026
Sharia Law and the Ten Commandments are not real and nobody should care.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 21/09/2026
All gambling is legalized theft.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 21/09/2026
When he dies, that's when the triumphal arches can go up as a reminder just one deranged person can ruin the world if given enough time, power, and cooperation.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 21/09/2026
I find it hard to believe people with such low self-awareness actually exist.
Tweet from 60 Minutes featuring a quote: “This is the first time in my adult life where there's been an issue that's come up that I feel like is going to directly impact me,” says Dave Lowe, a lifelong conservative Republican who lives near a proposed data center in Texas. Below the text is an image of a man wearing a light blue shirt and a cowboy hat, standing outdoors with trees in the background. The 60 Minutes logo is visible in the bottom left corner of the image. The tweet was posted at 1:35 AM on September 21, 2026, and has 69K views.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 21/09/2026
Isn't the whole sniper thing about not knowing where the sniper is located? 🤦‍♂️
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 20/09/2026
Ed Sheeran is getting catastrophically bad advice. He should take a break and stop doing these stupid things. Come back in the winter with an interview and explain his multimillion pound donation to World Central Kitchen or something.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 20/09/2026
Built a POC Chrome extension, fetches thread's direct replies, scores with Jev, shades trolls red, borderline amber. Jev returns a probability per signal; thresholds picks the color. OP scoped, one batched request per thread, 72hr local cache, 1000 post thread 800ms, Bluesky fetch is the bottleneck
Difficult Opinions (@difficultopinions.com) posts a series of tweets. The first tweet suggests that media discussions on wealth should focus on the 90th percentile rather than the 'top 10%', emphasizing the statistical ladder. It argues that those above the 90th percentile should bear most of the tax burden, paying 90% of total taxes. The second tweet continues, stating that protecting the bottom tiers is crucial, as taxing those at the 10th percentile or below could harm their financial survival. It calls for a fair tax policy. A third tweet simply states, "You are a stupid moron."
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 20/09/2026
He forgot to say 'make no mistakes'. Great example of an AI pilled bruh. Stunning.
Mark Cuban tweets, asking Grok to search for lawsuits filed in 2026 against CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, OptumRx, and their affiliates, specifying details needed for each case. Grok responds, stating the exact aggregate of 2026 suits is unknown without a full PACER search. Grok lists high-profile cases, including Roofers Unions vs. Caremark/CVS, Plumbers vs. Express Scripts/Cigna, and others, with dates and brief descriptions of claims. The tweet was posted at 12:31 AM on September 20, 2026, with 8,251 views.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 19/09/2026
Correct headline: "A company Google hired to perform AI testing failed to properly secure their systems, which resulted in criminally liable hacking of three companies."
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 19/09/2026
The Greenland deal is a normal international treaty, not a MAGA invasion on paper. Berlingske Media: archive.ph/1bFgV
The text discusses how US officials and diplomats convinced Trump that a plan was a major victory, despite it not being a victory for those wanting an American takeover of Greenland. It highlights the principle that countries cannot annex others' territories, supporting the Western rules-based order. Most Americans did not support Trump's idea of annexing Greenland. The situation puzzled American politicians, especially Republicans, regarding Trump's threats against an ally. European leaders were concerned about Trump's threats. Ultimately, Trump sought an exit strategy and, after a conversation with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, announced he would not attack Greenland militarily.
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Difficult Opinions @difficultopinions.com · 19/09/2026
The media could change how we talk about wealth by focusing on the 90th percentile instead of the 'top 10%'. This shifts the focus to the statistical ladder. From a policy standpoint, we should ensure those above the 90th percentile bear the vast majority of the burden by paying 90% of total taxes.
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