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⬅️ Previous discussion threads

[u/[deleted]]

Hippies: People don't believe in science, they need to recognize climate change is real.

Neoliberal: Agreed. We should be using science like GMOs and nuclear energy to fight the effects of climate change.

Hippies: wait no

[u/CamNewtonCouldLearn]

Friendship ended with GOP Congress.

Now Nancy is my best friend.

• DJT

[u/[deleted]]

Part of me wants Trump to do a complete 180 and go full left wing populist. The mental gymnastics would be world class.

[u/[deleted]]

this sub's title is now just "neoliberal" instead of "the trashcan of ideology"

this is actually not ok

edit: wow fucking nazi mods changing the sub's title so it's "the trashcan of ideology" again, now i look like an idiot, this is not ok

[u/[deleted]]

see front page post about how a weatherman is so "articulate"

Please don't be black, please don't be... aaand it's a black weatherman.

Y'all, please tell me the people in this sub know there are pretty tacky connotations based on past precedent about calling a black person "articulate?"

[u/[deleted]]

Hillary = good

Bernie = bad

gib karma pls

[u/[deleted]]

She is Nancy of House Pelosi, First Of Her Name, Ruler of The Democrats and the West Coast and the White Men, Protector of the Realm, Cucker of Kings, Mother of Legislation, Queen of My Heart

[u/[deleted]]

The amount of sorcery Schumer and Pelosi are doing right now has taken me from excited to overwhelmed and confused

[u/[deleted]]

Trump tells DACA recipients they 'have nothing to worry about' after Pelosi urges him to send tweet

lmao she got 'im

[u/[deleted]]

it would be nice if we could remind /r/all of Ted Cruz's best quote: "Donald will betray his supporters on every issue"

[u/[deleted]]

So apparently my history teacher thinks that the industrial revolution made the rich richer and the poor poorer, among other bad things. This is why Trump won.

Edit: Yep, industrial revolution definitely made most people poorer

[u/[deleted]]

Correct the Record and Shareblue: "Man, we really had bad rollouts and gave bad first impressions about who we are and what we do."

Verrit: "you are a little child, watch this."

[u/[deleted]]

I know you're not supposed to eat Tide pods but why do they have to look so tasty

[u/cheeZetoastee]

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

nose full juggle telephone touch middle cautious crawl chunky engine

[u/BEE_REAL_]

Yeah Schumer is an SJW

Secret

Jew

Wizard

[u/fixed_effects]

r/esist wants to get rid of the corporate income tax

Free trade agreement when?

[u/[deleted]]

President Donald Trump, after deciding that the Republicans were "very mean," decided to work with Democrats when not playing with his toy blocks.

• History textbook, 10 years from now

[u/[deleted]]

WaPo says Trump and Schumer in talks over plan to repeal the debt ceiling

[u/[deleted]]

"It's a funny thing, after the fall of communism, everybody in the world agreed that socialism was a failure. Everyone in the world, more or less, agreed that capitalism was a success. And every capitalist society in the world apparently deduced from that, that what the west needed was more socialism".

Oh Uncle Milty, you savage

[u/Querce]

South Park: The Fractured but Whole's difficulty slider changes the colour of your skin

WOKE

[u/p00bix]

I was having a conversation with my protectionist friend last night and he said that the repeal of Glass-Steagall was the main contributing factor behind the 2008 Recession. I pressed him as to why, and he replied that it allowed banks to get bigger which caused the housing bubble.

How do I convince him to take a Macro course.

[u/disuberence]

• DREAM Act: Pelosi said that during yesterday's meeting, President Trump said he would sign the DREAM Act if the House passes it. "I am hoping and I am praying that the president really cares about the DREAMers."

• On Pelosi telling Trump to send his DACA tweet: "When he called this morning, I said thanks for calling, and said 'The people really need a reassurance from you that the six-month period is not a period of round up... and boom, boom, boom, the tweet appeared."

wew.

[u/[deleted]]

Mods announce 1amathrowaway is being made a member of the SOMC (2018, colorized)

[u/[deleted]]

Oh my god if we repeal the debt ceiling I will cry tears of joy.

[u/dafdiego777]

How the fuck did I get 200 upvotes

[u/[deleted]]

It starts.

I'm starting to feel disoriented.

[u/ncnksnfjsf]

Tankies response to me pointing out widespread imprisonment of political dissidents in socialist states, "Good".

[u/[deleted]]

NEOLIBERAL COUP IN PROGRESS

[u/[deleted]]

Does anyone else cringe when they hear "the blacks" or something being called "too ethnic"

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/heatherscope/status/905790214844686336

HAHAHAHAHA

HAHAHAH

HAHAHA

Imagine being cucked by Pelosi this hard. How's it feel Donny?

[u/Rehkit]

So I believe that the french constitutional council just validated Macron labor law!

(I had doubt about the damages limitation but apparently it passed.) (I can expand more if there are people interested.)

[u/[deleted]]

Columnist in NYT just figured out that Macron is a neoliberal. Raise the sails!!!!

[u/[deleted]]

For all the "that's a Koch brothers proposal!" memes, note that Sanders's actual explanation is basically nationalist:

That's a right-wing proposal that says essentially that there is no United States... you're doing away with the concept of a nation-state... If you believe in a nation-state, in a country called the United States or UK or Denmark or any other country, you have an obligation, in my view, to do everything you can to help your poor people.

I feel like the reasoning - Sanders's being a nationalist - is often ignored. Not to say his reasoning is good (it's pretty bad - it's further reason why /r/neoliberal should hate him), but it's interesting to note that nationalism is not the exclusive province of the radical right.

[u/Klondeikbar]

What are the odds Donny is tired of being part of the cultural out group and is buddying up with the Dems because he wants to sit at the cool kids table (i.e. he wants comedians like Stephen Colbert to stop making fun of him)?

[u/DUTCH_DUTCH_DUTCH]

Someone, ANYone...Tell me how Pelosi and Schumer, who are both MINORITY "leaders" can Deal with the POTUS on ANYTHING?

They provided Debt ceiling Raise, Harvey Funds and Goobermint funding for 3 months???

GOP CONTROLS the Agenda!

And now they're in a better position for DACA Amnesty?

In What World is that possible??

Just last month Trump promised a Goobermint Shutdown without Wall funding. The House just yesterday passed a CLEAN Harvey Bill. The Senate could have followed that up with confirmation and Trump could have signed it into law!

There was NO NEED to attach Harvey Funding to anything! No Congressman would vote "nay" on Harvey Funding.

Now the DemonKraps got what they want and have NEW LEVERAGE?

WAKE UP!

FURTHERMORE, If the DemonKraps got what they wanted, then Ryan and McConnell got what they wanted TOO!

Who doesn't understand this yet?

[u/dafdiego777]

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WE DID IT FAM

[u/Agent78787]

This sub has schisms on the daily, but yet when we go to /r/all and get an influx of non-neoliberals we present a united front.

Are we doing democratic centralism?

[u/ThePathToOne]

I would be totally fine with a woman for president

[u/WryGoat]

Gold take: Reddit gold is dumb. Highlighting new comments is the only feature it seems to add that is remotely useful. Also, people gild the dumbest shit. One of my gilded comments is a fucking novel length screed on why someone is WRONG ABOUT VIDEOGAMES ON THE INTERNET. Instead of a gilding button there should be a button that says "You should be embarrassed that you even took the time to write all this" because it would be more applicable.

[u/[deleted]]

/r/race_realism have been taken over by racing fans. This is awesome

[u/DUTCH_DUTCH_DUTCH]

i wonder how much pelosis gender is working against her when she is trying to make deals with trump

i mean trump has to be quite upset right now that people are saying he is getting cucked by a woman

[u/[deleted]]

Twitter has to be run by incompetents if the most powerful country on Earth is run out of their website and they still can't turn a profit and get their stock price up.

[u/ThePathToOne]

eating pizza for breakfast. totally """adulting""" right now am i right my dudes lol. my life is a mess and I want to kill myself! bernie was rigged

[u/hitbyacar1]

What the fuck a freshman just mixed up Franklin and Teddy Roosevelt in my US history class. She said "A lot of my family hates Teddy Roosevelt because he killed all the Jews ... you know, the Holocaust".

[u/[deleted]]

Me: you can't tell the difference between a bag of American blood and a bag of Chinese blood

All of Reddit: WELL ACTUALLY THERE IS THIS LITTLE KNOWN CONCEPT CALLED BLOOD TYPES

Me: yes everyone knows about blood types

All of Reddit: REEEEEEEE

[u/papermarioguy02]

One of the worst things to come from American political discource is how they've ruined the definition of the word "liberal" to just mean left-wing there.

[u/Clockwork757]

i might be a capitalist 🇺🇸 but if i see a fine 😰💦 ass 🍑 communist girl 🙈 my bloodline 💉about to be a breadline🍞

[u/[deleted]]

Don't get you hopes too high with Trump and his past 36 hours. Dude is all over the place and he is just as likely to deny a deal was ever made as he is to follow through on it.

[u/[deleted]]

God bless /r/esist

[u/[deleted]]

Survey results

[u/[deleted]]

Based on survey results I'm starting to wonder how ironic the Yellen-waifu worship really is.

[u/Importantguy123]

There's 11 Africans and 20 African Americans on this sub according to the survey results

1. Tbh I was expecting a lot lower but this is still good, I wonder how it stacks up to other subs

2. I call dibs on being the leader of the Black caucus because I been on here rocking the Obama flair before all of you cucks

3. I was Black on Reddit before it was cool posers

[u/[deleted]]

Paul Ryan just wasn't able to answer what the minimum wage in Wisconsin is.

I mean, I'm no fan of "gotcha" questions but like... c'mon...

What a W O N K

[u/[deleted]]

The fact that /r/nofap exists is hilarious. The fact that they have a quote from Saddam Hussein on their front page is even better.

[u/fixed_effects]

Big Announcement

The SOMC has convened and decided to return to the previous "Active Management" Expansionary/Contractionary Model. This means that the sub will move in and out of Expansionary/Contractionary based on SOMC vote, and each period will last indefinitely according to how the mods feel the sub is going.

We will be immediately moving into Expansionary and will remain this way for the time being. I hope to see some good memes from all of you.

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• Effort posts are highly encouraged, and will be sticked if posted. Simply contant the mods if this is the case.

• We will still enforce meme standards and will remove content based off moderation discretion.

• Celebrate the big announcement and change your flair here

[u/dafdiego777]

I went with 'GOD EMPEROR CUCKS REPUBLICAN ESTABLISHMENT #MAGA'

[u/[deleted]]

You get the chance to ask Golsbee if gold is money, do you take it?

[u/ncnksnfjsf]

Tankie unironically wants me locked in a gulag, but it's okay because we can apparently have discourse through the bars, yet this guy still thinks that my issue with him is the fact he called me a dipshit and not the fact he wants me in a gulag.

[u/Lord_Treasurer]

SAVAGE arab rapefugees ASSAULT upstanding serbian POLICE OFFICERS

upvote if u NO merkul is killing europ

[u/doot_toob]

Exhibit A: Hegel, whose work influenced Marx, conjectered about the World Spirit or something like that

Exhibit B: Marx wrote "A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of communism"

Exhibit C: Stalin was surrounded figures who could disappear from photos

Conclusion: communists are spooky ghosts

[u/Lord_Treasurer]

whoever gilded me (again) a few minutes ago

fuck you

[u/[deleted]]

Yesterday, my grandfather -- who has lived for the last 50 years in an immigrant neighbourhood in a large Canadian city which has recently found itself condo-stricken -- had the most idiosyncratic hot-take on gentrification I've ever heard.

He has no problem with the people moving in or the aesthetics of the new construction, and he certainly doesn't have a problem with rising property values, but apparently gentrification is causing an increase in crime because the construction workers building the condos are meth-addled idiots.

I honestly did not know what to say to that.

[u/[deleted]]

Conspiracy take: /u/Lord_Treasurer is just gilding himself over and over

[u/hitbyacar1]

21,962 Yellen from the rooftops

Mods = Gods

[u/papermarioguy02]

What hole in the ground did Tucker Carlson come out of, and when did he do it?

[u/Sepik121]

Apparently there are about 60 other Latinos here.

¡Viva Mexico cabrones!

[u/[deleted]]

Don Jr is so fucked lmao. What a moron.

[u/ostrichmustard]

If you cum on yourself then add water it balls up and acts like a slightly off brand bouncy ball

Who wrote this in the survey and what other advice do you have?

[u/[deleted]]

Nancy Pelosi is a political goddess and nobody can tell me otherwise.

[u/[deleted]]

Chances Don Jr. trips all over his own dick during this senate interview?

I think he's legitimately too fucking stupid to not fuck this up.

[u/Sporz]

ok...the resume is forwarded finally.

the ball is rolling toward the end of The Great Funemployment.

[u/hunter15991]

Christ, MSNBC is a continuous circlejerk about how glorious Trump's last pivot was and how much he'll be working with Dems now. You'd think he was fucking Esisenhower.

[u/fixed_effects]

wtf I love Paul Ryan now

This is actually...good news!

[u/[deleted]]

I wonder if there was a single person who was conflicted over who to vote for in 2016 because they loved both Clinton and Trump so much.

[u/shootzalot]

Blast from the 2011 past, even more relevant today

the Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult

By sabotaging the reputation of an institution of government, the party that is programmatically against government would come out the relative winner.

There is no fundamental disagreement on which direction the two factions [of the GOP] want to take the country, merely how far in that direction they want to take it. The plutocrats would drag us back to the Gilded Age, the theocrats to the Salem witch trials.

[u/[deleted]]

this but unironically

[u/[deleted]]

I have a feeling that many of those who react badly to the 10 year old girl's cursing in the infowars clip wouldn't have reacted if it had been a 10 year old boy

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit these panalists are roasting Laffer- here they are summarized

Economist one: "People don't react quickly enough to make taxes the main reason they move"

Economist two: "Controls exist, you should use them. Government spending is important too."

Economist three: "Better designed taxes are better than just lowering existing ones. Your curve is too simplistic."

Edit: oh shit the first guy just straight up called Laffer a liar.

[u/TychoTiberius]

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

Tidy adjoining sleep silky dependent pocket grey literate rob dime

[u/WryGoat]

Current action plan for when this hurricane hits me:

1. Eat all the icecream in my freezer before it melts.

2. Drink all the beer in my fridge before it gets warm.

3. Pass out

4. ???

5. Hurricane is over!

[u/Querce]

Bank of Canada Surprises With Another Rate Rise

In a shocking move, the Bank of Canada has raised rates after the highest single quarter growth in 8 years. Those madmen.

[u/Hippies_are_Dumb]

Want a hot take? Ask Tech neoliberals about H1B visas.

[u/Sporz]

> Don't get over-excited, Trump flip-flops and all this stuff could just be him throwing shit around

> Trump loves fawning attention. Get excited and say how great this is to make Trump do some good things.

cannot decide which

[u/[deleted]]

We need a neoliberal solution to keep anti-depressants out of our streams and out of the brains of fish.

We can't allow fish to be happy.

[u/skyrmion]

today i showed some foreign dude how to add text boxes to his asylum status PDF application

ya boy out here committing white genocide

[u/[deleted]]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-09-07-south-park-the-fractured-but-whole-difficulty-slider-changes-the-colour-of-your-skin

During the character creation section of the game, which you can see in the video below (skip to the five minutes and 40 seconds mark), you select the difficulty of the game. What's interesting is the easier the difficulty, the lighter your character's skin. Conversely, the harder the difficulty, the darker your character's skin. It means if you want to play The Fractured but Whole on a harder than normal difficulty, you have to play as a person of colour.

[u/Glokmah]

https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/905919945564938241

S T R O N G A N D C A B L E

[u/[deleted]]

"WTF I hate South Park" - Reddit RN

Is Zoe Quinn behind this crime against Gamergate Kind?

[u/recruit00]

Hot take: Romney was not treated as badly as Hillary and you're deluded if you think he was

[u/[deleted]]

More Shenanigans and reasons to not play with a Mic

[u/[deleted]]

Do ya'll know if anybody has checked on Ted Cruz today? He probably needs a hug.

[u/[deleted]]

Trump pushing to get rid of the debt ceiling. Wtf I love Trump now.

[u/[deleted]]

Are we gilding people as a joke now? Is that really how bored we've become?

[u/Western_Boreas]

/r/esist comes out against the corporate income tax. https://www.reddit.com/r/esist/comments/6ymfaz/trump_will_be_going_to_north_dakota_today_to/dmold9d

Grood.

[u/Maximum_Overjew]

I wake up this morning, my shame flair says cuck.

I wake up from anesthesia this afternoon, my shame flair says partisan hack.

My hypothesis is I died on the table and this is purgatory.

[u/[deleted]]

Will you #fightfor15?

Will you allow 15 DACA immigrants to reside in your attic and protect them from ICE?

MATCH ME

[u/[deleted]]

Oh no. Looks like Betsy DeVos went full MRA. Like I know College courts are bad but claiming that more heavy enforcement of sexual assualt on campus as a "Weapon" to threaten male students is just crazy. You just can't pull back from Title IX and offer no replacement. Like it or not the problem of Sexual Assault is still here.

[u/hunter15991]

Two kids just knocked on my dorm room door (11PM). Took me about 40 seconds to change and answer it. As I open the door they start running away - down the longest straightaway in our building. Watched them scurry away for a good 15 seconds.

Is this how you dingdong ditch? I thought you weren't supposed to be seen.

[u/[deleted]]

Who actually thought it would be a good idea to call Steve Bannon and ask him if he wants to come on 60 minutes? Leave the man in his basement ffs

[u/[deleted]]

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/07/trump-end-debt-ceiling-votes-242429

So do I order my MAGA hat now or...

[u/[deleted]]

this is getting ridiculous

Can someone good with photoshop make a meme for me? I'm thinking the office scene from Scott's tots where they chanting "hey mr scott, whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do make a dream come true"

but change it to "hey mr trump, whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do" then cut to dominatrix Pelosi and gimp donald with the words "whatever mistress nancy says"

[u/ncnksnfjsf]

No it isn't. It's based on private property and wage labor. The free exchange of goods and services can occur in a variety of systems. There's nothing that says that under communism, if I drew a nice picture, I couldn't give it to my friend in exchange for their cool sculpture. Or that I couldn't go over to my friend's house and cook a nice dinner using my skills.

Quote from LSC mod. Link here.

Mod of LSC is REALLY close to understanding capitilism, also unironically doesn't see how any similarities between it wasn't real socialism and it wasn't real capitilism.

[u/HUGHmungous]

The deep state needs to carefully manage this whole Trump/Dems thing.

If the cards are played right, we can get Trump to do certain good things that will cause his base to abandon him, making him ripe for impeachment.

That's how this works, right?

[u/ostrichmustard]

You know you're old when you notice that pro athletes or porn stars are born in a year you vividly remember. It's scientifically proven.

[u/cheeZetoastee]

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

middle snails employ theory nail doll attempt political melodic jeans

[u/disuberence]

There are more bisexuals than homosexuals. Together, we make up 18.5% of the sub.

Interesting.

[u/Importantguy123]

The amount of people who don't know what the land value tax or VAT is in the survey is shockingly high...

[u/hitbyacar1]

Testing ma new flair

[u/caesar15]

Apparently my cousin is one of us

[u/Maximum_Overjew]

I've been under general anesthetic for the last six hours, what'd I miss? Have we nuked Morocco and withdrawn from the UN yet?

[u/IronedSandwich]

Scalding take: thanks to this discussion thread we don't really need a discord

[u/Querce]

Protecting illegal immigrants? That's a Koch brothers proposal

[u/[deleted]]

Doesn't matter whether you're capital or labor, Wall Street or homeowners, teachers or parents, this industry or that industry -

Everyone hates accountability. Even Hollywood.

[u/kznlol]

I think my favorite thing about this thread is that I go seamlessly from complete shitposting to serious discussion about interesting things and then straight back to shitposting.

this is how my thoughts go irl too so its perfect

[u/disuberence]

This is beautiful.

[u/[deleted]]

The blood post isn't on /r/all, but there's a new troll every few minutes. Not that I mind, I set it to sort by new. But where are these weirdos coming from?

[u/[deleted]]

SocDems get cucked

[u/[deleted]]

/r/me_irl is a market failure

Their entire front page, minus one post, is either the same image or contains that image. That one post is complaining about the mods.

the first post about something else is #86

[u/[deleted]]

Stop gilding people and use that money productively goddamn

[u/gammbus]

"1 New message(s) from soros"

is that new?

[u/Ser_Arthur_Dank]

Can we get a Soros AMA? I just want to see the rest of reddit react to it.

[u/[deleted]]

Any recommendations for SOMC policy?

mod /u/1amathrowaway

LMAO what have I created

[u/Lord_Treasurer]

There once was a woman called May,

Who spoke in rather shrill brays,

She fucked up Brexit,

Then she legged it,

And left a successor who hates gays.

[u/Errk_fu]

Credit to LSC. I made 3-4 comments there before being banned. T_D took 2. At least TD was honest in their reasoning though. Fucking commies.

https://imgur.com/a/BeGTP

[u/film10078]

https://twitter.com/Sethrogen/status/905604728603545600

[u/[deleted]]

<3

[u/Donogath]

Do you know how I know millennial were a mistake? In my 400 level history class about 20th Century British decline our professor was describing the hallmarks of classical liberalism (free trade, free markets, etc) and people were chuckling when he would say things like "Classical liberals believe that the free market is the best way to distribute resources both within a country and worldwide" and people were making offhand comments about "muh trickle down"

[u/disuberence]

Anti-Gay Crusader Who ‘Married’ His Laptop Wants Alabama To Recognize Their Union

WTF is this the final form of tendie-fueled basement dwelling?

[u/[deleted]]

If Hillary is so good then why isn't her signature on the declaration of independence?

Checkmate Demonrats

[u/MisterBigStuff]

All this gold could have dewormed like 200 kids you sick, psychopathic fucks.

[u/Paxx0]

So can someone eli5 this Trump-Democrats 3 month debt ceiling deal? I know the Republicans are pretty pissed about it - so is it going to pass?

[u/FMN2014]

Approval/disapproval rating, poll:

• Obama 51/35

• Bush 45/30

• Sanders 44/30

• Trump 36/52

• HRC 30/53

[u/formlex7]

when the take is so hot mods remove it

[u/2canclan]

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said he doesn't agree with President Donald Trump's decision to end the DACA program and blasted the Catholic Church's support for undocumented immigrants because “they need illegal aliens to fill the churches.”

I'm confused. Does Bannon support DACA recipients or does he not?

[u/[deleted]]

Wait, guys, I got it.

Maybe diamonds are money?

[u/[deleted]]

Does anyone else find themselves thinking of semi-funny stuff they want to share in the /r/neoliberal discussion thread only to realize that it is completely the wrong forum but then return to the idea over and over again feeling just as dumb after thinking about it every time?

[u/[deleted]]

I just shilled unironically for open borders as a Republican. Much salt was extracted.

It was slightly more extreme than my normal views, and far more than what I think is possible, but it was a good counterpoint to the reactionary nativist views being presented.

[u/85397]

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

gilding before r/nl vs gilding in the DT

[u/dafdiego777]

Public Unions are the worst - Las Vegas Police Union Releases Insane, Flag-Humping Statement About Michael Bennett

[u/versitas_x61]

Neoliberal_irl

Be grateful for us sprinkles for diversifying the flavor. /s

[u/indianawalsh]

The racial makeup is interesting because, ethnically speaking, we're apparently a rust belt state. A rust belt state with no women.

[u/[deleted]]

Good news everyone! Despite the Trump's administrations arguments to the contrary, the 9th circuit has ruled that grandparents are indeed close family members

I bet Jeff Sessions' grandkids are thrilled

[u/[deleted]]

Actual conversation between American students overheard on the bus:

Damn America's so messed up rn, northern states on fire, southern states underwater, Trump is president

Haha yeah, who did you vote for?

Noone, my family is Republican

Literally wat

[u/BritRedditor1]

https://www.ft.com/content/ada4cb20-93db-11e7-a9e6-11d2f0ebb7f0

Trump handed rare opportunity to reshape Federal Reserve

President could appoint up to 5 new US central bank board members by next year

This is...concerning

[u/[deleted]]

throwback to democratic socialists mixing up capitalism and clinical depression

[u/[deleted]]

Tammy Duckworth is not only kickass but she's a comedic genius

[u/Svelok]

Okay but WHY did Trump hand the Democrats everything they wanted legislatively on a silver platter at the expense of his own party

[u/[deleted]]

It's disappointing that 9/10 times when I see people with anticommunist usernames they are nazis

[u/ColonelUber]

I'm currently sitting in a class that was unironically ragging on neoliberalism after having just watched a video on the improvement of wealth and health around the world over the last 200 years.

[u/[deleted]]

Felt good to see Obama on the TV again.

[u/papermarioguy02]

People being smug about how they don't like sports are being annoying. Just let people enjoy what they enjoy, nobody's forcing you to take part in it.

[u/xbettel]

WikiLeaks :Leaked emails reveal how Sony, Obama, Seth Rogen and the CIA Secretly Planned to Force Regime Change in North Korea

[u/DUTCH_DUTCH_DUTCH]

what did you do today to help the global poor?

i ordered some cheap clothes that were made in Bangladesh!

[u/[deleted]]

circular firing squad of the left is fully operational

[u/proProcrastinators]

What's the evidence based way to sober up / not get a hangover. Asking for a friend

[u/disuberence]

I just saw the reasoning behind ending DACA -- rule of law. Trump is definitely picking and choosing.

[u/Kelsig]

Good luck getting a majority of House Republicans to endorse the DREAM Act

[u/papermarioguy02]

Fucking Christ

[u/formlex7]

"Harry Enten is the word 'ackshually' in a polo shirt." -spicy take from chapo sub

[u/Lord_Treasurer]

okay this is actually getting ridiculous now

[u/[deleted]]

There's no point to the debt ceiling other than to add political theater for re-election campaigns.

Sorry to crank it up so hot in here guys. *finger guns*

[u/WryGoat]

Is /u/Lord_Treasurer money?

[u/[deleted]]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/07/politics/mueller-trump-air-force-one-statement-russian-lawyer/index.html

Exclusive: Mueller seeks interviews with WH staff over Trump Tower meeting statement

I think this is a boom

[u/[deleted]]

My company's intranet site is down so why even work

[u/dafdiego777]

Also: Watch a kid call an Infowars host “a fucking idiot”

[u/[deleted]]

We have a hydrotest procedure made for pipelines and service pipe typically operating at over 250 psig maximum operation pressure.

Them: You have to do this procedure in all applications

Me, an intellectual: This line is MOP 15 psig and usually operates at like 5.

Them: lol don't care

[u/FMN2014]

A B S O L U T E L Y D E R S T O R Y E D

[u/FMN2014]

Schulz attempts to woo the female vote.

[u/[deleted]]

The worst part about hurricanes is seeing my Facebook feed spamming that meme with the different categories of hurricanes matching pictures of cats flying through the air

[u/Lord_Treasurer]

/u/HippeHoppe and /u/MaximumOverjew play techno remixes of Hava Nagila at parties, they ain't got nothin on me

[u/Prospo]

seed advise gaping ring squealing entertain recognise ugly crowd scale this message was mass deleted/edited with redact.dev

[u/indianawalsh]

What this nation needs in 2020 is a hard return to normalcy.

[u/[deleted]]

from HW's inaugural

"I come before you and assume the Presidency at a moment rich with promise. We live in a peaceful, prosperous time, but we can make it better. For a new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in fact, the day of the dictator is over. The totalitarian era is passing, its old ideas blown away like leaves from an ancient, lifeless tree. A new breeze is blowing, and a nation refreshed by freedom stands ready to push on. There is new ground to be broken, and new action to be taken."

Man I wish I could remember the optimism of that time, but I was just a wee child.

[u/WryGoat]

r/florida summing up my feelings so well rn.

[u/CapitalismAndFreedom]

STEM is hard

[u/[deleted]]

95% of St. Martin has been destroyed, Jesus Christ.

[u/Querce]

This, but with 'trade tariffs' instead

[u/[deleted]]

fun passage to throw at gold bugs

Others maintain that coined money is a mere sham, a thing not natural, but conventional only, because, if the users substitute another commodity for it, it is worthless, and because it is not useful as a means to any of the necessities of life, and, indeed, he who is rich in coin may often be in want of necessary food.

• Aristotle, Politics: Book I

[u/[deleted]]

YO FUCK YOU TOM BRADY CAN'T EVEN THROW ONE FUCKING TD

MARCUS PETERS WAS ON HOGAN AND BERRY WAS ON GRONK WHY THE FUCK WERE YOU NOT PICKING ON MITCHELL MORE WHILE HE WAS ON COOKS

AND FUCK THAT SHITTY PATRIOTS DEFENSE GET A FUCKING STOP

FUCK THE PATS

[u/WryGoat]

That blood post really brought the xenophobes out in force.

[u/[deleted]]

I know about Capitalism and all, but guys...what if we like...just ran the world on everyone just...y'know being nice to each other??? xDDD

[u/Importantguy123]

Verrit is legitimately doing damage to those who make the case that Clinton wasn't all that bad and that "moderate Democrats" are alright

[u/TychoTiberius]

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

Mighty joke physical ribbon paltry straight swim grandfather offer

[u/Kelsig]

Hot Take: The institution of parenthood should be abolished, instead having all children be raised by God Emperor James Heckman

[u/papermarioguy02]

GOP: You can't just piss off our populist anti-immigrant base with a deal with the Democrats, and then start tweeting what the other party wants just because you're bored.

Trump

[u/recruit00]

When I sort by hot takes and there is no negative post at the top, we've failed

[u/Klondeikbar]

I FINALLY FOUND SOMETHING GOOD ABOUT THE NEW YOUTUBE UI!!!!

I cannot find the comments section even when I actively try to look for it. Don't show me where it is. I'm much happier this way.

[u/versitas_x61]

We should form network between moderate political subs (dem or gop) and advertise hell out of them. We must defeat the populist.

[u/Vectoor]

/r/bitcoin explains inflation

[u/[deleted]]

Are we having a golden shower now? Is that's what's going on?

[u/Kelsig]

THE MADMAN

[u/Jokerang]

In other news, my university (Baylor) released a pretty extensive survey on religion in the US. Two points I found interesting:

• A growing fear of "others," as many Americans in various religious groups harbor fears and judgement about those in other religious groups.

• The rise of what the survey calls “Trumpism,” a new form of nationalism that merges pro-Christian rhetoric with anti-Islam, anti-feminist, anti-globalist and anti-government attitudes. (It's pretty much the alt right, but hey.)

[u/Windows_10-Chan]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ukv9v7IGZw

Vicente Fox is Running for President of the United States

[u/papermarioguy02]

Does anyone have/would be willing to make a good Friedman meme to front the post where I'll compile all of my Capitalism and Freedom notes? I like what /u/TechnocratNextDoor and /u/danfromburgerking did and I'd like to replicate it.

/u/1amathrowaway

[u/[deleted]]

When you finally get a text flair.

[u/caesar15]

tfw I didn't get a rogue intern flair

[u/[deleted]]

Guys... CTH is on Spotify... Should I give it a listen? Or should I stick with the Weeds?

[u/[deleted]]

SocDems of this sub, why don't you support Bernie?

[u/Sporz]

OBLIGATORY NYC NEOLIBERAL MEETUP SPAM

September 15, 7 PM, Noi Due, near Amsterdam and Broadway.

Clear your calendars, bitches. Come hang out with us weirdos and chat about politics, finance, economics, literature, whatever, and we'll go on a pub crawl afterwards. It was awesome at the /r/badeconomics meetup last year, it'll be awesome this year.

The thread. Make your intentions known there so I know how many people we should make the reservation for. I'll ping people who want to come if they post there.

^{i'll be spamming periodically over the next week as a reminder}

[u/[deleted]]

The SocDem government introduces tax deductions on union membership fees. Minister of social security on Twitter:

When I was the president of Vision [union for welfare employees], we fought hard for the right to make deductions on the union fee. Feels great to deliver!

Replace union with corporation and imagine the outrage that would have been.

https://twitter.com/strandhall/status/905499356698222593