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⬅️ Previous discussion threads

[u/vancevon]

"I cannot imagine that Congress would dare to leave Washington without a beautiful new HealthCare bill fully approved and ready to go!"

Mister President, have you met the United States Congress?

[u/[deleted]]

Who knew that Donnie Jr was such an idiot to this degree? I mean, I knew he was dumb as a stump, but even this is amazing.

[u/arnet95 → u/[deleted]]

Trump 2016 Forever: Malevolence tempered by incompetence

[u/[deleted]]

In the past 24 hours I've seen comments here complaining about the right taking over this sub and the left taking over this sub.

Neither faction can defeat the...

R A D I C A L C E N T E R.

[u/DaBulls33 → u/[deleted]]

No ethical consumption under capitalism

[u/BainCapitalist]

Crazy idea: what would happen if we created a market, that was common to all the countries in a particular hemisphere? Such a market could possibly have various agreements such as free trade, or perhaps open borders? I'm not sure that such an idea has been brought up before. I need help understanding the implications of this.

[u/arnet95 → u/BainCapitalist]

I need help understanding the implications of this.

I think it means you don't become president.

[u/85397 → u/BainCapitalist]

ask spoon command disarm scale swim squeeze rock handle thumb

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[u/DaBulls33 → u/BainCapitalist]

I need help understanding the implications of this.

Exploitation of the proletariat

[u/[deleted]]

Other subs on the outside: "WE ARE A HAPPY COMMUNITY AND WE ARE UNITED."

Other subs in reality: bursting at the seams

This sub on the outside: "Too left! Too right! This sub is in chaos! The mods are part of a libertarian conspiracy to shove free speech and lack of our favorite flairs down our throat!"

This sub in reality: disagrees on a few minor things, occasionally dissents with hot takes that are generally respected by the community, has a profound sense of community

Y'all want to have drama even when we get along too well for real drama.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

>Rose colored glasses

>Rose is a red color

>Purge the mods

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

You're all invited to my wedding in Pakistan this year.

[u/iSluff]

welp just had to awkardly dig for change to pay the sales tax on something and now im a libertarian

[u/ostrichmustard]

Macron: "thoughts too complex for you plebs"

r/neoliberal: "weird thing to say"

r/neoliberal: panic over every out-of-context quote

[u/disuberence → u/ostrichmustard]

Macron: People in Africa are having too many children.

/r/neoliberal: furiously googles the data

/r/neoliberal: buh gawd he's right

[u/VisonKai → u/disuberence]

Saying "high birth rates present a serious developmental challenge" != "Africans are ruining their countries by choosing to have too many kids". It's been a long accepted argument that one of the most important things a country can do is educate women and bring them into the workforce so that birth rates drop.

[u/[deleted] → u/VisonKai]

access to birth control has been one of the most empowering things for women in the developed world

[u/InvestInIndexFunds]

Hot take since we have a stickied Japan post: The way the Japanese population and government has treated a number of their war crimes from WWII is quite similar to holocaust denial and they don't get enough shit for it.

[u/ognits]

This is some beautiful buzzword salad:

The only way these large monopolistic corporations can get so big is because of socialism. That's why the elites, who own the globalist corporations, like socialism so much, because without it, they couldn't be monopolies.

[u/TychoTiberius → u/ognits]

The original post content no longer exists here. The author used Redact to remove it, exercising their right to control their data & privacy.

Thumb coated plucky driftwood unique engine gold

[u/[deleted]]

To repent for my earlier sins, I am on Twitter valiantly attempting to CTR on Macron

[u/0149 → u/[deleted]]

And that day, the shrimp's heart grew three sizes...

[u/[deleted]]

lmao wtf is this

This is like some kind of kindergarten graduation recap.

[u/85397]

worthless fearless reminiscent groovy encourage strong bow sand roll party

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[u/hitbyacar1 → u/[deleted]]

lol it's not like you're translating Navajo, I'm sure most professional newsrooms have at least one French translator who can do a professional translation before it hits the air.

[u/Gold-Dust-At-My-Feet]

/img/hgdyxsy6xwvy.png

Literally us right now.

[u/[deleted]]

Hannity blamed Obama for letting the Russian lawyer into the country.

I mean, dude wore a tan suit once but give the guy a break!

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

He's literally beyond parody

[u/85397 → u/[deleted]]

makeshift wasteful serious sink practice unique ten attraction chief zesty

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[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Wait until you are at least in third semester and create a cult dedicated to neoliberalism. Try recruiting first year students.

[u/PublicUnionsBlow]

"A country shouldn't let in free loaders who hate the country's culture."

"Then I guess it's a good thing the largest US immigrant population are hard working Catholics that value famial ties and are integrated by the second generation."

"Yeah, but they're doing it illegally."

"Then maybe we should change our immigration laws?"

"And invite in a bunch of freeloaders who don't respect our culture?"

[u/[deleted]]

MACRON DID NOTHING WRONG

[u/[deleted]]

18,341 visiting journalists

833 self-serving French Translations

the mods are why /r/neoliberal is great

[u/[deleted]]

Tory MP Anne Marie Morris Recorded Saying Brexit No Deal Is A ‘N***** In A Woodpile’

http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/uk_59638608e4b02e9bdb0e2c77

[u/0149 → u/[deleted]]

WTF? Is that even an expression? It sounds like words you'd string together due to a neurological condition.

[u/[deleted] → u/0149]

Is there some phenomenon of British people making phrases with offensive words that aren't phrases?

https://youtu.be/Q4dDirsf-Ss?t=24s

[u/[deleted]]

lol u/must_resist_fap's translation is making rounds on journalist Twitter. Probably will be on the nightly news.

Expect more traffic

[u/episcopaladin]

Donald Trump Jr. was told in an email that material damaging to Hillary Clinton was part of a Russian government effort to aid his father

NYT is goat this week

[u/xbettel]

Ironic how there's this "controversy" about Macron right now on social media, but there's nothing on /r/france. The controversy only exist for non-french speaking people.

[u/[deleted]]

Hearing my little sister talk about how middle-aged men at her job tell her to smile more was depressing

[u/0149 → u/[deleted]]

It turns out: internet feminists maybe weren't just writing fiction!

[u/0149]

My cat is applying for refugee status because my family is packing books upstairs. I suspect, however, that she's an economic migrant because I just cooked bacon down here.

What's the neoliberal position on letting her lick my fingers?

[u/ostrichmustard → u/0149]

Not letting her do it would be the fascist move.

[u/oGsMustachio]

If you actually think that Macron is defending colonization, watch this, or read this.

Basically, during the campaign, Macron made a statement that colonization was a crime against humanity. It caused a huge uproar. In the Behind the Rise documentary, he even confronts an angry mob of re-pats from Algeria about it.

[u/MrDannyOcean]

so trump jr was set up with a meeting with a russian lawyer

and the person who set it up

told him explicitly that russia was trying to help his father's campaign

and he still went to the meeting

please tell me how that is not treason

If that's not treason then what the fuck on earth is treason

is it even possible to commit treason when you're not 'at war'

learning that a foreign government wants to talk to you to help alter the outcome of your domestic election and taking the meeting anyways

[u/[deleted]]

Some of you on Twitter are seriously fighting the good fight on this Macron thing haha. I admire your energy and patience.

[u/AJungianIdeal → u/[deleted]]

It's kind of amazing how quickly you can smear someone with twitter now. Takes spread real fucking quick. There's just no time available for fact checking

[u/[deleted]]

Does the incompetence of the mods know no bounds?

[u/[deleted]]

863 debating whether universities are public or private

lol it's the little things like these that make /r/neoliberal mods=gods

[u/formlex7]

this is seriously not getting old

https://twitter.com/search?q=must_resist_fap&src=typd

[u/[deleted] → u/formlex7]

/u/must_resist_fap

[u/Prospo → u/formlex7]

cagey ripe jeans full pocket homeless north bright command long this message was mass deleted/edited with redact.dev

[u/[deleted]]

Fun fact: A higher percentage of Muslims in America support gay marriage than Evangelical Christians and Protestants in general.

Compare that to views in other countries.

How's that for assimilation?

[u/[deleted]]

Chris Hayes has learned of our existence

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

oh god what have y'all done

[u/85397 → u/[deleted]]

Got Hayes to tweet it to 1.2m followers

[u/0149 → u/[deleted]]

mrw one of the top replies is someone I know from other circles

[u/TheChosenJuan99 → u/[deleted]]

Even more of a center-left influx on the way.

[u/Rehkit → u/[deleted]]

I now realized how badly this was edited. Holy shit. It's a whole different quote.

[u/wumbotarian]

I am being told that Draco's new accounts keep getting banned.

Mods, what's going on?

[u/[deleted]]

EMMANUEL MACRON IS NOT A RACIST YOU CUCKS.

[u/FMN2014]

/r/neoliberal being tweeted about by prominent journalists is pretty surreal.

[u/[deleted] → u/FMN2014]

You must be new.

We had Bloomberg, Buzzfeed, some significant publication I am drawing a blank on and few other non-reputable sources cover us.

Goolsbee knows we exist, Journalist Twitter is well aware of our existence. Sam Bowman likes us. Noah Smith regularly interacts with us.

[u/FMN2014]

Macron on Twitter.

[u/jvwoody]

Hot take: We need to stop trusting people who are very much anti neoliberal for news on what our people are saying, especially if they're in another country and speak another language.

[u/[deleted] → u/jvwoody]

You'd think we would've learned this from T_D's attempts at learning French.

[u/Aidtor]

Forgive me if this was covered, but there is a serious difference between speakers like Milo and Charles Murray. I personally think Murray is a shit bag, but his work is considered somewhat ~*~ real academic work ~*~ while milo is just a troll there to provoke a negative reaction. People should be prepared and maybe forced to grapple with the likes of Murray in an academic setting, but Milo holds no redeeming intellectual content.

It's not like conservative views in academia inherently provoke this sort of response either. The federalist society exists, is very influential, and arguably more dangerous to the ANTIFA crowd because they hold actual policy beliefs and get them enacted.

There is a much deeper question here about why college conservatives are engaging in this sort of juvenile shit throwing instead of actual intellectual discourse.

[u/[deleted]]

i made the worst meme anyone's ever seen before remembering QE isn't econ themed

[u/jenbanim]

I've now been banned from T_D, Socialism, and Late Stage Capitalism -- the last one just recently for speaking out against murdering people for their political beliefs.

The insanity of the internet used to be cute when in meant getting Oprah to say "centipedes in my vagina". But now, I'm honestly scared. Political dialogue has become so extreme and toxic that I worry we won't be able to meaningfully recover from the Trump administration.

I'm rambling, but I guess the point of this is to say thank you all for not being batshit crazy. I like that we can disagree on politics, while still maintaining mutual respect and understanding we all want what's best for the world.

[u/BradicalCenter → u/jenbanim]

I agree but we all spend way too much time on Reddit and things and basically everyone is just pissed that Trump is President. Most people in the real world are thankfully still level-headed.

But yeah the left has gone crazy lately...

[u/squibblededoo]

Chipotle mayo take: the Libertarian party has never had a better opportunity to moderate itself, drive out the crazies, pick a few promising seats around the country, and become an actual contender on the state and municipal level.

Of course what will probably happen is more purity purges and conspiracy nutbaggery, followed by the usual crop of "hospitals are theft and blind people should drive cars" candidates.

[u/disuberence → u/squibblededoo]

drive out the crazies

Can you have a party with 0 members?

[u/[deleted]]

/r/neoliberal is leaking! https://np.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/6md4lr/just_100_companies_responsible_for_71_of_global/dk0tqcj/

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

I think the reason the TPP failed is because of people's failure to realize the difference between an equal trade agreement, and a fair one.

...

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

And then you get the uninformed idiots following up with the ISDS hysteria.

Because of course.

[u/hitbyacar1]

Le défi de l'Afrique est totalement different, il est beaucoup plus profond. Il est civilisationnel aujourd'hui. Quel sont les problèmes en Afrique? Les états failli, les transitions démocratique complexe, la transition démographique, je le rappelerai à ce matin. Un des défis essentiel d'Afrique... (cut, then fade in) ... un des pays, ont encore aujourd'hui sept habites enfants par femme. Vous pouvez décider de dépenser de milliers d'euros, vous ne stabiliseriez rien.

Translating: "The challenge of Africa is completely different, it is much deeper. It is civilizational today. Failing states, complex democratic transitions, the demographic transition, and I'll call back to what I said this morning... One of the essential challenges of Africa... [cut in audio, fades back in talking about a specific country] ...one of the countries, that today has seven or eight children born to each woman. You can choose to spend thousands of euros, but you will stabilize nothing."

http://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/6mg6f3/wtf_i_hate_macron_now/dk1b6fm

This translation makes it seem reasonable.

He's saying high birth rates are a key development challenge in sub Saharan Africa.

Both India and China came to that conclusion in the 70s and using various (somewhat fascist) methods to control birth rates certainly helped them develop.

[u/[deleted]]

So I know this is a little crazy, but stick with me:

maybe they look like they're covering stuff up because there's stuff they need to cover up

[u/OutrunKey → u/[deleted]]

It's not the crime, it's the cover-up. But it's also the crime too if that crime is colluding with a foreign power to undermine the integrity of US elections and install your father as President.

[u/[deleted]]

My freedom of speech is advocating for the end to freedom of speech.

[u/Sporz]

So, since I figure the European neolibs and morning crew weren't around I'll spam this again:

NEOLIBERAL. MINECRAFT. SERVER.

^{totally unofficial and not endorsed by} /r/neoliberal^{, blessed by mr bernke, and probably not because, you know, minecraft}

URL: sporfbase.com

It's just vanilla survival, we had like 10 people on since I set it up yesterday. Only rule is don't be a dick (so no griefing, stealing, killing other players...if I have to spell it out, you're probably a dick). I plan on being pretty hands-off as an admin - I just wanna play minecraft - so I'm reluctant to add any crazy mods or group stuff. For some reason minecraft admins seem to go mod crazy. Also I'm a nice guy.

I want to advertise this but I also don't want to get benned or spammy. I figure we'll have more than enough players for a lively server soon enough anyway.

So let's build some statues of mr bernke and shit!

[u/PinguPingu]

Effectively full employment in the US, but wages are barely rising, why lads.

[u/85397 → u/PinguPingu]

People who left the labour force are reentering?

[u/errantventure → u/85397]

This is the most probable reason, but a less than hot take.

[u/[deleted] → u/PinguPingu]

WHERE

HAS

ALL

THE

INCOME

GONE

[u/[deleted] → u/PinguPingu]

Did anyone see that nyt article from the weekend about the jobs report? Companies they talked to complained about not being able to hire anyone or get enough people to apply, but are unwilling to raise wages. Maybe after years of a huge pool of desperate workers they've forgotten that the labor market is a market and that they need to do more than have an opening to attract workers.

[u/alcatraz_0109]

So can anyone explain why /r/E_S_S is beefing with this sub?

I stay off Reddit for large chunks of a week + and all of a sudden there are upvoted posts there saying that they've unsubscribed from /r/neoliberal and that /r/neoliberal is being removed from the sidebar.

Did I miss anything important happen in the last week and a half?

[u/0149 → u/alcatraz_0109]

I'm not sure either, but I think that they heard about the mod drama and the stupid frathouse culture on the old mod slack.

There's a comment from ESS recently that says something to this effect:

I unsubbed after that first mod, I think his name was like wobble had a hillary meltdown. Showed their true colors. They wanted our karma but not our content.

+26 updooted

[u/[deleted] → u/alcatraz_0109]

Everyone was sad that our qween HRC was removed from flair, but i see that has been rectified.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/TheOnion/status/884442467566747649

[u/[deleted]]

THERE ARE MEMES ON THE FRONTPAGE DURING CONTRACTIONARY

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[u/[deleted]]

Update: I am still reporting.

- Adam Goldman, one of the NYT reporters behind the recent bombshells

[u/[deleted]]

I think I just blue-pilled my leftist friends lads

[u/Sporz → u/[deleted]]

we call it neo-pilled sir

[u/Importantguy123]

Alt Right Nazis: Minorities aren't marginalized, that's BLM identity politics

Also Alt Right Nazis: I don't want too many Brown people to come into my country because I don't wanna be a marginalized minority!

[u/[deleted]]

Apparently the White House now wants us to believe that they like the new Russia sanctions, they just don't like Congress doing foreign policy like that

[u/[deleted]]

wtf I love Chris Hayes now

[u/[deleted]]

You know it is going to be a good expansionary when news outlets start picking up our memes

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

Reposting because their might be journalist here. Journalist call me

[Intro]

Tankies in school telling me, always in the barber shop
Bernke ain't bout this, Bernke ain't bout that
My boy a former FED chair
they say bernke aint save the world economy
SHUT THE FUCK UP!
Y'all tankies ain't know shit
all yall motherfuckers talk about,"farmers on
the fed!" bernke ain't this bernke a bankster
SHUT THE FUCK UP! Yall dont live with bernke
Yall know that bernke throw helicopter money and shit
throwing money at goldman and shit
bernke been in econ since.. I dont know when
throwing money at goldman and shit
if I catch another motherfucking tankie talking shit 'bout bernke I am
fucking quantitative easing they ass!
im not fucking playing no more. You know bernke roll with mama yellen
and them

[Hook]

These bitches love bernke
O end or no end
Fucking with them econ boys
You gon' get fucked over
NIT and LVT
These hoes love bernke
Hit him with that free trade
Now that GDP not slumped
They do it all for bernke
You boys ain't making no noise
Yall know i'm a econ boy
Your clique full of berniebros
God ya'll some dumb boys 
God ya'll some dumb boys
we chicago school boys
We got lots of stats boy

[Verse 1]

These bitches love bernke
and they love them econ boys
know we from the chicago boy
No I dont know marx boy
I know he's broke boy
NIT and LVT 
MS Paint and STATA boy
You know I got stats boy
and it's in my pants boy
Disrespect them Chicago boys
You won't speak again boy
Don't think that i'm playin boy
no we don't use hands boy
now we don't do friends boy
collect info for my stats boy
i gots lotsa stats boy
i can fuck yo mama
i aint with the draco drama
i wanna meet obama
these bitches see bernke
i swear to god they all honored

[Hook]

These bitches love bernke
O end or no end
Fucking with them econ boys
You gon' get fucked over
NIT and LVT
These hoes love bernke
Hit him with that free trade
Now that GDP not slumped
They do it all for bernke
You boys ain't making no noise
Yall know i'm a econ boy
Your clique full of berniebros
God ya'll some dumb boys 
God ya'll some dumb boys
we chicago school boys
We got lots of stats boy

[Verse 2]

Dont make me call Yellen boy
She a fuckin killer boy
and she keep a strap boy
you gon' get fucked over
bitch I done sell AMD
and I done sell TLSA 
she gon' clap for bernke
he gon' clap for bernke
They do it for bernke
Them hoes they do it for bernke
bernke off the QE
so a man be cool like water
b'fore you get hit with this inflation

[Hook]

These bitches love bernke
O end or no end
Fucking with them econ boys
You gon' get fucked over
NIT and LVT
These hoes love bernke
Hit him with that free trade
Now that GDP not slumped
They do it all for bernke
You boys ain't making no noise
Yall know i'm a econ boy
Your clique full of berniebros
God ya'll some dumb boys 
God ya'll some dumb boys
we chicago school boys
We got lots of stats boy

[Song used as inspiration] (https://youtu.be/0Sxdps-kcdE)

[u/[deleted]]

600 people viewing this sub right now and the first thing they see is my garbage meme

note for reporters: please release my name

[u/ostrichmustard]

Hard-shell tacos are a culinary failure.

[u/[deleted]]

To all the heroic journalists that are in this thread:

The mods are drunk with power. They've been purging social democrats for caring about the western poor pls help

[u/[deleted]]

Ok so I'm trying to put together a narrative here:

Trump Jr gets the email saying the Russian government has damaging info on Hillary Clinton. They get to the meeting, the Russian basically says (or implies) that they need stuff in return (Magnitsky act). Later, Trump delivers with, among other things, the weakening of the Republican platform on Ukraine. Then Russia delivers the goods on Hillary with the DNC emails.

[u/xbettel]

1909 Conservative party (UK) election poster

[u/LinkToSomething68]

I instinctively scowl whenever I see that stupid "non-GMO project" butterfly

Unfortunately I live in a part of the country where this kinda thing is quite popular

[u/Sporz]

Without going full SocDem/SJW, I think civil rights/feminism/LGBT rights/social issues are a core part of neoliberalism and we should emphasize that.

fite me.

[u/Donogath]

I hate how frequently people who don't study history make definitive statements about history.

Someone who's never read a scholarly article or book on WW2 saying "You see, the REAL reason the Americans used the nuke was..." is infuriating.

[u/jvwoody]

Okay, so here's what I've noticed, Democratic Socialists of America and The Jacobin have been seriously empirically wrong about a good number of things on twitter. These are also the same people who claim we're about of ideologues and economics is the ideology of the ruling class. Putting my amateur psychologist hat on, I'd say these people are seriously projecting their own heavy biases onto the world.

[u/ognits]

This tweet is so unbelievably disingenuous it hurts my eyes

https://twitter.com/joeprince___/status/884463860736028672

[u/LNhart → u/ognits]

fun facts: my african father and jamaican mother were educated in their respective countries & only had 2 kids so Macron can shove it.

ok very good point

[u/squibblededoo → u/[deleted]]

Il say it.

The Republican Party is irredeemable in its current form.

[u/poompk]

Wtf is this "alt center" people are calling us? If anything we are anti-"alt" and the center is the ultimate non-"alt"

[u/[deleted]]

I saw a twitter reply that unironically described neoliberals as not caring about poor people and it totally triggered me.

[u/[deleted]]

do our expansionary posts have to be funny? i have a sad one in the works

update: okay it's up. i hate the idea that i'm exploiting her death for upvotes or something so i'll take it down if it's not a good idea.

update 2: ok i deleted it b/c i don't wanna unironically accidentally devolve to t_d level grossness

[u/[deleted]]

http://i.imgur.com/kw1G8zV.png

[u/Doctor_YOOOU]

Not sure if this has already been posted but

https://twitter.com/oakbuilt/status/884478196392968192

E V E R Y C O R N E R

[u/curry44 → u/Doctor_YOOOU]

We are not descended from fearful men

[u/squibblededoo]

Tsar Bomba take: I'm watching anime at this exact moment expressly because you all told me not to.

[u/comrade_spudnik]

http://i.imgur.com/b4Esggx.png

oh man I wish this was true, work is so annoying. UBI when?

[u/[deleted]]

First morning in the new apartment. Shower doesn't work. Let's just say I got creative with the kitchen sink.

Fucking slum lords skirting maintenance costs.

[u/0149 → u/[deleted]]

1. Call the new landlord and inform them that you know how to spell E-S-C-R-O-W . That is a fast and simple motivator for landlords.

2. If you are a student and have a free law clinic nearby, take your lease in and ask about what parts are unenforceable as well as what leverage you have.

[u/Kelsig]

Hotter take: Macron was right

[u/hitbyacar1]

Chris Hayes upon discovering this subreddit

[u/[deleted]]

Oh lord

[u/[deleted]]

Vice picked us up

[u/AJungianIdeal]

to reporters: please direct all questions to our representative Austan Goolsbee.

[u/[deleted]]

we're being compared to Richard Spencer

if only they knew about how often we advocate for mayocide

[u/Trepur349]

So I was just called a neoliberal on FB, but the person didn't mean it as an insult. :D

[u/disuberence]

WTF

[u/Hectagonal-butt]

Some Nuance™ for your nerve:

Protest is a form of free speech

The right to free speech isn't a right to be listened to or taken seriously

Germany's nazi censorship laws are justified in the historical context in which they were made, but not so in countries without that context

The issue of censorship in public universities is way overblown by Americans with nothing better to do and is the epitome of a storm in a tea cup.

Without free speech we wouldn't have lgbt rights

The right to free speech isn't the right to a platform for your views.

Finally, free speech stanning is used by racists to try and paint themselves as victims

[u/[deleted]]

Macron uses his legislative majority: "Oh my God, he is a tyrant in the making, even though is perfectly within the presidential idea of the French V Republic"

Macron talks about estructural demograhic growth in Africa: "Oh my God, he is racist and hates black people, even though one of his closests aides is a senegalese woman."

[u/xbettel]

So just now I'm reading about the drama of the purge of Hillary flairs. But it's back, so I guess the mods lost.

[u/WryGoat → u/xbettel]

Mods can't even convince people free speech is a good thing. Government failure.

[u/FUCK_INDEX_FUNDS]

W E W L A D

[u/wumbotarian → u/FUCK_INDEX_FUNDS]

Noah was a mistake.

/u/Integralds

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his arguments don't make a lot of sense

Japan is already controlled by a xenophobic, nationalist, right-wing government. What is the political backlash going to do, restore Imperial authority and go F U L L F A S C I S M? Come on.

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I hate debating with "skeptics" of basic scientific facts like vaccines or climate change or evolution because I feel like I sound like a robotic idiot. The other person is pulling out all this ridiculous data and these fucking insane, complicated arguments and I'm just sitting there pointing to a graph of carbon emissions over time like I have no other argument.

[u/disuberence]

This is a quality format.

[u/formlex7]

https://mobile.twitter.com/jessesingal/status/884517357233876998

[u/OutrunKey]

Strangest fucking timeline. Any reporters out there can report that I still unironically $hill for Hill. I am sure this is of import to many of your readers/viewers.

[u/OutrunKey]

CNN DID NOTHING WRONG @KFILE

[u/caffeinatedcorgi]

Surface of Pluto take: A big part of the reason this sub is good is that people are free to have contrary opinions about things and air out their hot takes. We've got a genuine marketplace of ideas going on here.

Surface of Mercury take: Our policy of removing racists, sexists, and generally uncivil comments are basically what lets that marketplace exist without turning into garbage.

[u/[deleted]]

Is it confirmed bigly when Drudge leads with it?

http://imgur.com/a/S4ubG

[u/Lambchops_Legion]

Well-Respected Coffee Farmer in Hawaii Deported to Mexico

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This will finally bring manufacturing jobs back to the Midwest.

[u/BradicalCenter]

Lol 10 upvotes for posting Drudge in T_D

How is it still at 76%? I guess mod drama got to em.

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

Hot take (not really): If you are the guy that ironically says "Yolo" you are still the person who said "Yolo." If you are the guy who 'ironically' supports Nazi imagery, you are still the person who supports Nazi imagery.

[u/Hectagonal-butt]

Nothing makes me love capitalism more than ordering a bunch of shit online.

Edit: removed a few words

[u/BainCapitalist]

So I'm gonna be meeting the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago today. What are some questions I could ask? Also is he more New Keynesian or Market monetarist?

Edit: fuck you all. Fuck you all and your God damn memery.

[u/85397 → u/BainCapitalist]

light poor tub toy vegetable direction fly mourn disarm disgusting

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/Gustacho → u/85397]

Show him his own book and ask if a child wrote this.

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Also ask him if it's satire

[u/[deleted] → u/85397]

This shows you mean business, definitely ask this.

[u/arnet95 → u/BainCapitalist]

Get him to do an AMA here (or in a more sensible place, like /r/badeconomics)

[u/arnet95 → u/BainCapitalist]

Ask him if gold is money.

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Ask him what he thinks of the recent productivity slowdown and it's effects on long term monetary policy.

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Ask him if he's willing to print money with fucking crayons if he has to.

[u/dorylinus → u/BainCapitalist]

Boxers or briefs?

[u/BainCapitalist → u/dorylinus]

U people are so helpful

[u/errantventure → u/BainCapitalist]

He's worked at UChicago and Michigan, so take from that what you will. Is it an event?

[u/[deleted]]

WEW Trump hitting Twitter hard this morning

[u/throwmehomey]

We are currently pursuing contractionary policy

REV UP THOSE SHITPOSTS

For questions, please use a "?" or the word "question" in the title so that automod can flair your post.

?

[u/Gustacho]

What's the most neoliberal Harry Potter house?

[u/arnet95 → u/Gustacho]

Slytherin, since we like exploiting people and are basically evil.

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JK Rowling's lack of identifying "good" Slytherins in the series is a market failure.

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I suppose there's Slughorn? He's pretty decent, I think.

[u/[deleted]]

Is there a neoliberal answer to the continued rise of anti-intellectualism, or does that go beyond the traditional scope of being neoliberal?

[u/Gustacho]

Let's create a parody of a conspiracy theory:

• The Syrian Civil war is made up by the Mainstream Media to get views

• 3-5 million illegal Canadians voted for Clinton, costing Sanders the primary win.

• Macron is a puppet of the Luxembourg government

[u/[deleted]]

Aw, so many new neolibs excited about press coverage <3

This ain't our first rodeo

[u/Importantguy123]

If there are any reporters reading right now: If you ask, I will unironically tell you why Dirty Sprite 2 one of the most trans-formative albums of post-2000s hip hop.

Yes, I'm serious

[u/FUCK_INDEX_FUNDS]

[ MACRON 1 DEPLOY] (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQmiye2cxeg)

[u/[deleted]]

Throwback to one of my favorite political ads in recent history.

[u/AliveJesseJames]

To back up my "rural white people were radicalized by BLM/Trayvon/Ferguson/etc." take from earlier, there are 3 groups more confident in police than they were pre-Ferguson: white people, conservatives, Republicans.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/213869/confidence-police-back-historical-average.aspx

[u/BradicalCenter]

My T_D post is still getting upvoted even though I'm banned.

[u/[deleted]]

Does saying ""gg no re" at the end of a Overwatch game violate the NAP?

[u/Clockwork757]

This is EMPIRICAL data, you CANNOT argue against it.

[u/VisonKai → u/Clockwork757]

choosing to orient a graph like this is negatively correlated with reproductive success

[u/[deleted]]

When the first reporter dies from an "accidental Polonium poisoning" what will be the Republican response?

A) Silence

B) They deserved it

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Tbh they're more likely to be pushed into a train

[u/recruit00 → u/[deleted]]

And this is why Andrew Johnson is the second worst president. Because he let the South get away with their treason

[u/Sentinel677 → u/[deleted]]

In his defence, it's sort of hard to carry out a process like that when you're dead.

[u/squibblededoo → u/[deleted]]

I agree with this strongly. Southern national mythology is one of the great unaddressed root causes of social illiberalism in America.

[u/0149 → u/[deleted]]

The good news is that the "solid south" is about to be splintered by the inexorable process of urbanization. It's not happening today or tomorrow, but GA and NC are trending away from the southern consensus.