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Mr. #Huang, the company’s chief executive, acknowledged on Sunday that he was intimate with a business executive who U.S. officials had determined was working for #Chinese intelligence. #Nvidia #spy
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Bye Felecia!!
White House has asked Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign
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The market responds to Trump's temporary usage allowance of red-dye #diesel.
SIGMA and NATSO added, “The logistical challenges outweigh any visible upside: Residual dye lingers in tanks and fuel systems.”
They concluded that for fuel sellers the “liability and customer risk outweigh any temporary, uncertain benefit,” per NBC News.
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Fact-Checking Trump’s Speech at the United Nations
TLDR: most claims are either exaggerated, lack evidence, misleading, overstated, or false. #gaslighting #midterms
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Love Grok's explanation.
Explain semiotic layers of #shitposting
Shitposting treats signs as disposable raw material. It does not try to produce a coherent, high-status message. Instead it stacks contradictory signs so the resulting pile itself becomes the message.
Denotative layer
The words say enthusiastic agreement (“We do, sir!!!”). The video simply shows animal dung in snow. On the surface nothing is coded; the signs are blunt.
Connotative / associative layer
“Hottest country” already carries official boosterism. Pairing it with feces activates the slang sense of “hot mess” or “this is shit.” “Thank you sir may I have another” imports the Oliver Twist scene of a starved child asking for more gruel, so the request now means “give us more of the same unpleasantness.” The snow setting adds a further cold, barren connotation that clashes with “hottest.”Ironic inversion layer
The polite, subordinate tone (“sir”) is performed while the image performs contempt. The signifier of loyalty is used to signify disloyalty. This is the core semiotic move of most political shitposts: the form of agreement is kept so the disagreement can hide in plain sight.
Intertextual and meme-format layer
The reply quotes an official White House clip, then answers it in the established “quote + crude visual” template common on X. Viewers who recognize the template do not need the argument explained; the format itself tells them “this is a takedown.” The Dickens reference and the dung clip are both ready-made cultural objects being reused rather than original statements.
Performative / phatic layer
The act of posting a low-effort, ugly video is itself a sign. It signals “I refuse to treat this speech with the dignity it claims.” The roughness of the image (handheld, unedited, slightly shaky) reinforces that refusal. In shitposting the medium’s cheapness is part of the meaning.
Meta-ironic layer
Because everyone involved knows the post is “just a shitpost,” an extra distance appears. The poster can later claim it was only a joke if challenged, while still having delivered the insult. This floating deniability is a distinctive semiotic feature of the genre: the sign system includes its own escape hatch.Taken together, the layers produce a compact, deniable act of refusal. The official claim is not refuted with data; it is simply surrounded by cheaper, ruder signs until its intended meaning collapses. That collapse is the shitpost.
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Everyone needs to watch this!
This smells of large scale corruption within the Yemeni military.
#Houthi fighters arrived in #Mocha on Thursday to find #Yemeni battalions that were severely depleted – their rosters were filled with “ghost names” receiving salaries, and the actual strength of the army was only about 20% of what it was on paper ...
cnn.com/2026/09/12/middleeas…
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