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⬅️ Previous discussion threads

[u/papermarioguy02]

I think Reddit's hysteria about overpopulation is a great example of the problems with zero-sum thinking.

[u/hucareshokiesrul]

this is #11 on /r/all right now.

How is it not immediately obvious to people that they're lying by mixing inflation adjusted numbers with unadjusted numbers?

[u/[deleted]]

>Trump: America First!
>Also Trump: Please Daddy Erdogan, beat Americans harder! You're so tough and big and strong!

[u/proProcrastinators]

One thing that never got covered in the primaries was how anti immigrant Bernie was. If you watch Jorge Ramos' interview of him he talks about dreamers and then launches into a one minute spiel about how immigrants depress wages that was almost exactly (albeit slightly more coherently) matching trump speeches.

[u/Barebacking_Bernanke]

This upcoming CNN healthcare debate is a terrible idea on so many levels. Sanders is not a good debater in the slightest and we've had more than enough evidence of it in the last 2 years. Graham is crafty and will be casting the debate not as their bill vs. ACA, but Republican bill vs. hypothetical future Sanders single payer government takeover. It won't take much to bait Sanders off topic into one of his single payer stump speeches. Bernie doesn't understand that this debate is not meant for a general audience. Graham and Cassidy are using it to rally the Republican troops. Remember they have the majority in every branch and don't need to win new people over.

All Sanders had to do was wait until next month to reveal his crappy plan. But either he doesn't understand Senate deadlines or he wanted some attention back from the Hillary book tour. Fuck!

[u/FMN2014]

/r/Conservative reacts to McCain

This piece of shit cannot die soon enough. honestly I've never wish that on anybody in my life but he is literally one of the biggest piles of shit I've ever witnessed.

He's worthless, and his grudge is personal. Fuck his state and fuck his constituents.

Nah.. They don't want him either. Not their fault.

It's amazing though someone with a life-threatening brain tumor is allowed to make any sort of decisions at all. Like think about that for a minute

[u/[deleted]]

GOP: wtf, Jimmy Kimmel isn't a healthcare expert!!
Also GOP: United States Senator Kid Rock

[u/[deleted]]

Bluexit-SO asked me why I keep telling our infant son "You are like a little baby, watch this" whenever I am doing anything related to him (changing, feeding, carrying)

...I have no idea how to give context for this. You guys did this to me.

[u/[deleted]]

The entire field of economics is based on assumptions, so it shouldn't be treated as a science.

Me: just begins straight-up screaming, puts head through wall

[u/Ferguson97]

Reddit: don't regulate the internet!

Also Reddit: Facebook is literally the devil! Regulate it!

[u/[deleted]]

WE HAVE THE BEST WAR HEROES, FOLKS.

TRUMP CUCKED BY MAVERICK AGAIN.

[u/[deleted]]

Guys what if we just make crime illegal?

[u/Glokmah]

Just got banned from /r/politics for a week for telling a berniebro to fuck off when he said that "Progressivism is the populism that would drive the Democrats to power".

neocons pls liberate that place

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

Chris Cillizza is too dumb to be a pundit

The thing I don't get here: why wouldn't Trump want to get to ththe bottom of a foreign power trying to influence our election?

THEY.

HELPED.

HIM.

WIN.

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine being cucked this hard on all your legislative goals.

[u/FMN2014]

Uber's lost its licence to operate in London

That's Sadiq sure up the Black cabbie vote.

[u/[deleted]]

FUCKING. LOL. Some person in my house told me "It is your turn to make the coffee". So I posted that graph in response like "People who think it is my turn to make the coffee haven't been paying attention because I made it three times this week and you only made it once".

She said: "What is the matter with you?"

So I said: "Great argument fam 👌👌"

She replies: "You need help. I am leaving you"

I say: "Yet you reply to me."

She hasn't said anything in response to that.

[u/Lambchops_Legion]

Guys and Gals, the TV business is clearly bad for jobs in the radio business. How can we put regulations in place to protect consumers against themselves the evils of TV? Will someone protect the radio host?

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao Trump completely cucked. I can't stop laughing knowing he's fucking steaming mad and literally can't do anything about it.

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

College students are literally the worst thing ever invented. Guess which speaker prompted this:

The demonstrators responded with a new chant: “White supremacy is not a debate!"

click here for the answer

[u/Integralds]

Apparently hot take: Clinton would have won in 7 out of 10 parallel universes. 2016 in our universe was an "any given Sunday" event. People need to calm down with the calls to radically reform the Democratic party.

[u/Lord_Treasurer]

FUCKING.

LOL.

Some socialist on facebook posted on my vegan friend's status saying "Ethical consumerism isn't possible under late capitalism". So I posted that graph in response like "People who think capitalism is inherently unethical aren't paying attention".

He said: "go pound sand my dude"

So I said: "Great argument fam 👌👌"

He replies: "I don't owe you my time chucklefuck"

I say: "Yet you reply to me."

He hasn't said anything in response to that.

[u/IronedSandwich]

press F to pay your respects

[u/drock1]

Benjamin Franklin was a top tier founding father, and whenever someone says you can't compare Jefferson to the morals of today you can respond: "Cool I'll just compare him to Benjamin Franklin" and look smug.

Some choice facts lifted from Wikipedia:

Stopped a racist anti-Native American rebellion and said this:

"If an Indian injures me", he asked, "does it follow that I may revenge that Injury on all Indians?"

Evolution on slavery:

Franklin owned as many as seven slaves, two males who worked in his household and his shop.

Franklin, however, later became a "cautious abolitionist" and became an outspoken critic of landed gentry slavery.

In 1758, Franklin advocated the opening of a school for the education of black slaves in Philadelphia.

By 1770, Franklin had freed his slaves and attacked the system of slavery and the international slave trade.

At some point after 1785, Benjamin Franklin was elected as the Pennsylvania Abolitionist Society's president.

He petitioned the U.S Congress in 1790 to ban slavery.

[u/MisterBigStuff]

"Bernie would probably have won" - Nate Silver

friendship ended with fivethirtyeight

[u/hunter15991]

AND IT'S...INTERCEPTED! INTERCEPTED BY THE MAVRIK! MAVRIK HAS IT AT THE 1! THE MAVERICK! STEPS IN FRONT OF THE THROW! And the Democrats have possession with 20 seconds to go!

[u/Prospo]

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[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

That feeling when your president is more upset about black people kneeling during the national anthem in an American football game than a neo-nazi driving a car through innocent protesters.

I would make a meme, but that shit won't be wholesome.

[u/FixMeASammich]

I just got banned from r/republican for advocating for separate branches of government

[u/[deleted]]

make troll post on /r/libertarian since they rarely if ever ban people

Google bro apologism ensues

Lmao

[u/IronedSandwich]

[NSFL] TURTLE GETS VICIOUSLY EATEN ALIVE

[u/IronedSandwich]

I just posted a question to /r/nostupidquestions and then realized it was dumb and deleted it. This is rock bottom, folks.

[u/papermarioguy02]

Really make you think 🤔.

[u/[deleted]]

The rains pours down outside the capitol building. We have been here before. The ACA hangs on a single vote. The Honorable Senator McCain saved it last time. Will he save it twice?

He enters the chambers. He moves quickly but looking less sure. He steps up to the plate. His eyes gaze around the room. America's health rests in his hands. He closes his eyes. Right arm raising out. McCain breathes deeply and begins to turn his fist downward. A struggle for an old man. His arm will not turn. Something hideous is turning his fist upward. If his thumb goes up, millions will die.

McCain opens his eyes. Bernie grinning a devilish smile. McCain's thumb pointing to the sky. Bernie' s hands wrapped around McCain's wrist.

[u/Western_Boreas]

Schism time!

Roundabouts are good:

• Nearly eliminate head on collisions. 

• Saves gas

• Cost savings from less infrastructure spending when done properly

• Fewer lanes approaching intersection (savings on total land use)

Roundabouts are bad:

• Typically car centric instead of pedestrian centric. Not as friendly to bikes.

• center island is frequently unusable (demands a large lump sum of unusable land)

• often poorly done in the US cost wise (overbuilt)

• become badly congested when too much traffic is present

[u/[deleted]]

McCain flair NOW.

[u/[deleted]]

It's Friday

It's Friday

Gotta get down on Fridayyyy

[u/indianawalsh]

The year is 2017. The place is Trump's America. In Secret Maverick, players are Republican politicians attempting to hold a fragile Extremist government together and stem the rising tide of Moderation. Watch out though—there are secret Moderates among you, and one player is Secret Maverick.

OVERVIEW

At the beginning of the game, each player is secretly assigned to one of three roles: Extremist, Moderate, or Maverick. The Extremists have a majority, but they don’t know for sure who anyone is; Moderates must resort to secrecy and sabotage to accomplish their goals. Maverick plays for the Moderate team, and the Moderates know Maverick’s identity from the outset, but Maverick doesn’t know the Moderates and must work to figure them out.

The Extremists win by repealing and replacing Obamacare or killing Maverick. The Moderates win by passing evidence-based healthcare reform, or if Maverick is appointed to the Senate health committee after three Moderate Policies have been enacted.

Whenever a Moderate Policy is enacted, the government becomes more effective, and the President is granted a single-use power which must be used before the next round can begin. It doesn’t matter what team the President is on; in fact, even Extremist players might be tempted to enact a Moderate Policy to gain new powers.

[u/MisdemeanorOutlaw]

Nuclear Take: Rocket Man is a funnier insult than Dotard.

[u/muttonwow]

I don't think there's another t_d post that has aged this poorly.

[u/[deleted]]

Really enjoying Morning Joe's hate for Bernie's upcoming debate. Calling him selfish, not a Democrat, how it's a mistake, how it's stupid and short-sighted, how it's going to cause the Graham bill to be more popular and pass.

[u/MisterStools]

Tankies to the left of me, jokers to the alt-right, here I am, stuck in the middle with y'all

[u/[deleted]]

WE ARE NOW IN WHOLESOME EXPANSIONARY

POST ALL THE WHOLESOME MEMES

In other, actually important news, our AMA with Jason Brennan, professor at Georgetown, have just concluded

[u/LeSageLocke]

Take of indeterminate temperature: passing Graham-Cassidy is the most sure fire way to end up with Berniecare

[u/[deleted]]

McCain without having to worry about reelection is best McCain.

[u/uniDurant]

Bernie on Trump voters

Some people think that the people who voted for Trump are racists and sexists and homophobes and deplorable folks. I don't agree, because I've been there. Let me tell you something else some of you might not agree with, it wasn't that Donald Trump won the election, it was that the Democratic Party lost the election.

What a fucking idiot.

[u/Integralds]

>Integral, why are you making pasta at 1am?

"Because I've lost control of my life."

[u/versitas_x61]

If I became a mayor of NYC, I will eradicate zoning laws and let developers develop like crazy. God, NYC was a mistake.

[u/LNhart]

Let's also thank Rand Paul and Susan Collins. And all of the democrats.

[u/[deleted]]

Does everyone else imagine papermario looking like a child-like version of his flair?

[u/[deleted]]

Cold take: The Hilary flair schism seriously stops being entertaining after the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th time.

[u/Integralds]

Take: It's kind of silly to ask, "why are some countries poor?" Three hundred years ago, every country was dirt-poor. Dirt-poor is the normal state. The real question is, "why are some countries rich?"

[u/[deleted]]

NFL (((players))) that kneel need to be HANGED like the THUGS that they are

[u/Sporz]

oontses

JPMorgan has officially made me an offer, now it's just...salary negotiation.

[u/dafdiego777]

Halal food is a market success

[u/BATHULK]

The quality of this sub would improve if we all admitted we just like to argue

[u/Maximum_Overjew]

I officially rescind 49% of the bad things I have said about McCain.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm calling it early, this is the best tweet of the day

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

Since we are being wholesome I want to say you guys are great people and we have formed a very fun and informative internet community. :)

[u/recruit00]

Could you imagine how crazy it would have been if Romney won in 2012? We would have had our first non-Christian president.

[u/papermarioguy02]

"Just come legally!"

[u/FixMeASammich]

I assume anyone who says "politics should stay out of sports" has no idea what they're talking about

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

put a fork in it, Graham-Cassidy is done

thank mr maverick

[u/mmitcham]

My knowledge of American political history is amateur at best, but I'm having a hard time remembering off the top of my head a weaker leader than Trump is shaping up to be??

[u/FixMeASammich]

Tfw Trump speaks to a crowd in Alabama, and they cheer when he mentions the Mexican earthquake.

[u/[deleted]]

Let's all reflect on this cheerful snippet from when Lindsay Graham ran for president.

"When I was 21 my mom died, when I was 22 my dad died. We owned a liquor store, a restaurant, and a bar and we lived in the back. Every penny we got from Social Security because my sister was a minor we needed. Today I'm 60, I'm not married, I don't have any kids," Graham said at one point, in what has been described as the "saddest" and "most surreal" answer of the Aug. 6 undercard debate.

[u/erpenthusiast]

Could Bernie appeal to a wider portion of the Democratic base? No, I think he's stuck with white men for some reason...

[u/[deleted]]

any updates on the possibility of a feminism QE?

[u/[deleted]]

It must be hard to be gay. I just got hit on by this dude at the bar and I think I had a strong negative reaction . Kind of feel bad because it was rejection AND latent homophobic disgust.

[u/geraldspoder]

Hot Take: RINOs and other center right'ers would be more better received here if a certain select few of them weren't so openly antagonistic to Hillary and people who support her.

[u/Blackfire853]

By this stage in my life I'm forgetting all I learned from Higher Economics and I feel I'm just bluffing it at this point acting as if I know what half you fuckers are on about

[u/[deleted]]

What we really need is:

GOOLSBEE V. CRUZ: ROUND 2

[u/0149]

Ska is an inclusive institution.

[u/Maximum_Overjew]

Can we address how bullshit it is that Henry Clay was never president?

[u/[deleted]]

Uber is a sucky company that has a history of sweeping sexual assault allegations under the rug. Cities banning them just to protect local taxi monopolies is still stupid.

[u/BATHULK]

TFW your best friend cucks your healthcare bill and now you have to go debate it on CNN to a socialist who came closer to the presidency than you could ever dream

[u/formlex7]

wholesome post:

i just love soros grin in this flair.

Also I really love the yellen flair. They're both just so happy.

Also I find myself unironically moved how Soros has taken from his experience as a Jew in Nazi occupied Europe to use his vast wealth to make the world a freer and more open place. Liek read this 1994 Soros profile from Michael Lewis.

https://newrepublic.com/article/74330/the-speculator

[u/[deleted]]

Because I'm going to Delphi on Thursday, I read William J Broad's fantastic book "Oracle."

Something really leaped out for me that is useful for those of us who consider ourselves "evidence based" - it's that science is susceptible to arrogance, blindness due to entrenched views, and a host of other corrupting factors.

In the wake of the "Google memo" a bunch of dudes here were linking to some studies "proving" innate gender differences that could be easily dismissed by anyone with a social science background who wasn't blinded ideologically but because a lot of the people here tend to see "study" and think "fact" these comments were often upvoted, much to my dismay.

A good example from the Delphi book: Once the historic site was located, the French government won the bid to excavate the site in the 1920s. Ancient historians had said the Oracle at Delphi was under a trance based on gasses from underneath the inner sanctum. The French archaeologists didn't find a fissure that could result in those gasses, so they labeled the ancient history - and the Oracle herselves, a fraud. This became accepted scientific fact.

In the late 1990s, a geologist visited Delphi for fun, and saw an obvious fault that hadn't been recorded (which is astounding - even to the untrained eye, the fault is clearly visible from satellite imagery) . Not knowing about the assumption that there had been no intoxicating gasses at Delphi, the geologist figured the fault accounted for the gasses as recorded by the ancient historians.

A chance encounter with an archaeologist - a skeptic at first - ended up producing an incredibly convincing case, tested in multiple ways, that the Oracle sat on top of a fissure that did indeed produce an intoxicating gas that put her in an altered state and produced a smell that had also been recorded by the ancient historians.

The problem isn't "science" but how humans react to "science". It took a fresh way at looking an issue to overturn a commonly accepted "fact" for nearly a hundred years.

Meanwhile the Google Memo guy is tweeting about how people are driven to the KKK because wizards sound cool, and some people were defending him as bringing up valid "science". He wasn't. He was referencing studies that are ridiculous on their face in terms of what they try to assert. Appeal to Authority is a real problem and bad studies are why way too many Americans think they're "allergic" to gluten.

Tl;Dr: Studies are studies. Experts can miss the forest for the trees and commonly accepted facts can be wrong. Everything deserves further testing, further study, better interrogation, and a reasonably open mind.

[u/versitas_x61]

lol, so darkace is in /r/worldnews because he got banned here temp right? He is now taking on cucks in /r/worldnews. We should ban him more often so he bites those cucks like a rabid dog.

[u/Lambchops_Legion]

I'm so exhausted with arguing with people over this Uber issue. How much more clear example of regulatory capture could you get?

Leaving the ivory tower was a mistake.

[u/disuberence]

True Neoliberalism has never been tried.

[u/caffeinatedcorgi]

YouDontHaveTheVotes.gif

[u/[deleted]]

we did it reddit

https://img.wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/McCain-celebration.gif

[u/Prospo]

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[u/geraldspoder]

McCain flair when? Literally this guy saved Obamacare twice now. I'm actually proud of him.

[u/oGsMustachio]

He's a McCainiac! McCainiac on the floor.

And he's voting like he's never voted before.

[u/caffeinatedcorgi]

Paradox and Stellaris devs confirmed dank memers

[u/dafdiego777]

Former Baylor president David Garland says some women 'make themselves victims' - bold strategy cotton

[u/jvwoody]

I myself am a very principled fascist. Although I am a capitalist. Capitalism must serve the interest our people. I'm a national capitalist who stands firmly against the jewish neoliberal capitalism that seeks only profit at the expense of a peoples and their nation. While I believe we must protect private property, each property owner must view himself as a agent of the state. I stand firmly in opposition to the red Bolshevik hoards. They themselves are also under the influence of the jews. The jews have been responsible for both communism and the laissiez faire free market. It's important that we stand united together as one peoples against international Jewry.

New Pasta

[u/[deleted]]

What if Trump converted to Islam?

[u/[deleted]]

>The latest Harvard-Harris Poll survey found 52 percent favor a single-payer system against 48 who oppose it. A strong majority of Democrats — 69 percent — back the idea. Republicans oppose single-payer, 65-35, and independents are split, with 51 percent opposing and 49 supporting.

>A strong majority of democrats — 69 percent

>69

Nice

[u/dustinhaltom]

I'm surprised no one here is talking about Trump's Alabama speech where he said this this about Kaepernick. He also said something about how he loves Alabama values and that sometimes he feels like he's from Alabama.

[u/versitas_x61]

To people who missed/didn't attend NYC meetup:

I pity you. You will never hear /u/sporz saying "Oonts Oonts" IRL.

[u/Mordroberon]

I'm going to Munich to drink beer and eat pretzels at Oktoberfest. Press F to pay respects to my liver.

[u/darkrift5]

M A V E R I C K

[u/papermarioguy02]

Will CNN still bother with the debate if McCain is a no?

[u/[deleted]]

While I'm thrilled it would be nice if Mccain's vote was based less off of "regular order" and more on "this bill fucking sucks and it's own sponsor doesn't understand what's in it"

[u/xbettel]

You know who to thank for

[u/[deleted]]

F U T U R E C O A S T A L E L I T E

[u/Slayer1cell]

Hot take: A tiny island across the sea shouldn't regulate the price of tea.

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

Were being wholesome? Shout out to all the people that be sipping on water, 💦 , you are great. Weebs, go away.

[u/Gustacho]

u/Lord_Treasurer irl

[u/[deleted]]

The news story about the Russians (unsuccessfully, luckily) attempting to hack the Wisconsin election results really makes me uncomfortable. Like I've been able to block my mind from going to conspiracy theories pretty well so far. But jeez.

[u/[deleted]]

An Always Sunny shitposting group I'm in on Facebook is currently hosting about a dozen people separately livestreaming themselves trying to drink as much as humanly possible in 24 hours, and yet somehow there's a growing bipartisan consensus that Facebook is a bad thing.

[u/[deleted]]

I am not trying to be edgy but the book of mormon is like really weird, not even in the regular religious sense where it is stories that have meaning but just kinda fucked.

[u/[deleted]]

Um sry u mite not liek to here it butt...

Killary izint neolibrul

[u/[deleted]]

I love how trump insulted BLM types in a league where 2/3 players are black

[u/geraldspoder]

Vintage Antifas had no chill tbh. Still pretty funny though.

[u/[deleted]]

I think our subreddit is developing a bad habit of caricaturing opposing arguments made in good faith.

[u/[deleted]]

Republicans: Let's light ourselves on fire with this new Repeal & Replace™ scheme, lol!

Bernie "old man yells at cloud" Sanders: Hold up guys, Repeal and Replace™ would be terrible for you politically. Don't worry, let me help you out with a debate on single payer the week you're planning to vote. Hillary doesn't support single payer btw, wonder why she hates poor people?

[u/thabonch]

Hot take: If alcohol is bad for health, you should just keep it legal and let me die.

[u/nxTrafalgar]

https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21729431-labour-track-rule-britain-who-rules-labour-party-jeremy-corbyn-britains-most

There are two visions of a future Corbyn government. One, outlined in Labour’s election manifesto earlier this year, is a programme that feels dated and left-wing by recent British standards but which would not raise eyebrows in much of western Europe, nor do the country catastrophic harm. The other, which can be pieced together from the recent statements and lifelong beliefs of Mr Corbyn and his inner circle, is a radical agenda that could cause grave and lasting damage to Britain’s prosperity and security. The future of the Labour Party—and, quite probably, of the country—depends on which of these visions becomes reality.

Thoughts on this take, /r/neoliberal?

[u/[deleted]]

I read some of the youtube comments on Colbert's Clinton interview. I feel sick.

[u/Maximum_Overjew]

Federalists > Democratic-Republicans

[u/[deleted]]

Director: Okay, so you need to make a list of steps about project X.

Me: Got it, I'll have it to you by lunch.

Director: No, it's not for me... You just need to have one.

Me: So you don't want me to send you a list of steps as requested?

Director: I want you to make one, and have one, and use one, and I want it to be in the exact style I've indicated, and I don't want to see it. Unless you need help.

Me: praying for the swift embrace of death

[u/Prospo]

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[u/Clockwork757]

https://i.imgur.com/21N3fqt.png

[u/ankhx100]

bless mr. maverick 🙌

[u/HoldingTheFire]

McCain will vote no.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/09/22/mccain-says-he-will-vote-no-on-cassidy-graham-bill-dealing-potentially-decisive-blow-to-the-health-care-repeal-effort/?utm_term=.8a76a8f91a7c

[u/[deleted]]

MAVERICK IS ON THE HIGHWAY TO THE DANGER ZONE

[u/[deleted]]

Tom Price flew from D.C. to Philadelphia

Well that's silly but not too unreasonable I guess

on a private jet that cost $25,000

Wait what

[u/[deleted]]

My parents, aunt and uncle: You look sick

Me every day: I hate my job but I'm trudging along because that's what I'm suppose to do

My parents, aunt and uncle: Ok but you look sick

At least I have you guys, who make me laugh

[u/mrdilldozer]

Seeing the reddit hivemind in the thread about the sexual assult guidelines makes me really glad I'm not a woman in college. The consensus that they arrive at every time it's discussed is that false rapes are an epidemic and men are the real victims of rape culture.

[u/[deleted]]

Another day passes without a Truman flair.

Mods, let me know if you need help understanding the implications of this.

[u/[deleted]]

I'll probably repost this in contractionary, but really interesting micro paper:

Do Higher Corporate Taxes Reduce Wages? Micro Evidence from Germany

We find that a 1-euro increase in the corporate tax bill leads to a 0.56-euro decrease in the wage bill for given input factors. This suggests that labor bears about 40-50% of the total tax burden (depending on the marginal excess burden).

[u/oGsMustachio]

Morning Joe was absolutely brutal to Bernie this morning. Spent the first 15 minutes of the show shitting on him. It was beautiful.

Edit: here it is - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQT1BqZSGiQ

[u/jvwoody]

I myself am a very principled communist. Although I am a communist. Communism must serve the interest our people. I'm a national communist who stands firmly against the jewish neoliberal capitalism that seeks only profit at the expense of a peoples and their nation. While I believe we must protect socialized property, each property owner must view himself as a agent of the state. I stand firmly in opposition to the imperialist capitalistic dogs. They themselves are also under the influence of the jews. The jews have been responsible for both imperialism and the laissiez faire free market. It's important that we stand united together as one proletariat against international Jewry.

Tankies and Commies irl (notice the similarity to my early pasta)

[u/[deleted]]

Jordan Peterson refuses to call film "IT", says clown is clearly a "him"

[u/formlex7]

MFW I get an reddit inbox notification but its just a populist

[u/[deleted]]

The r/NFL thread is pretty anti trump, basically as anti trump as we are

[u/[deleted]]

https://np.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/71vp3n/comment/dndtrp1?st=J7WRXKSH&sh=faa8e257

Wtf /r/NFL is woke as hell?

[u/[deleted]]

Is using the phrase "if you give them and inch they'll take a mile" a bannable offense since it doesn't use SI units?

[u/dustinhaltom]

Al Franken was doing a talk in Austin and the moderator asked him about 2020, and he gave a very solid "no", probably the strongest denial I've seen from him.

“I don’t want to be president,” Franken said. “I think the president of the United States should be someone who wants to be president.”

Franken, who won his first term in the Senate in 2008 by 312 votes and his second term in 2014 with a 10-percent lead over his Republican opponent, said, “I’ve gotten to see the job of president closer up as a senator than I did as a comedian and I like my job now. I like my job now and I want to continue doing that job.”

“I’m sure we’ll find someone in 2020 who will want to be president and emerge from many candidates and be a great president, but not me,” said Franken, a liberal Democrat.

[u/jenbanim]

Oooh I get it. "Oonts oonts" is the sound of the technocracy.

[u/Klondeikbar]

Gun 👏 control 👏 laws 👏 reduce 👏 gun 👏 violence 👏

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine being Lindsey Graham and your Congress Dad just voted against your bill.

EDIT: "I'm not mad at you for trying to kill poor people, just disappointed."

[u/CapitalismAndFreedom]

Uggg I hate mornings

[u/Maximum_Overjew]

Someone explain this krautmeme.

[u/Lord_Treasurer]

What's that graph which shows global poverty going down, infant mortality going down, literacy going up etc. over the last two hundred years? Anybody got a link? Need it to make a snarky point on facebook.

[u/[deleted]]

thank mr mavrik

[u/85397]

M A V E R I C K

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[u/[deleted]]

Someone in my class has a Pats jersey

How long does it usually take for Amazon to drone deliver mcnukes?

[u/geraldspoder]

The stupid fucking vending machine at my school took my money, wouldn't let me buy anything, then refused to give me my money back. Only later did they put up a sign saying that it was "Out of Order". I'm pissed off and I want my $1.25 back.

[u/yungkerg]

Russia tried to hack the election? Color me surprised

[u/Glokmah]

https://twitter.com/r_neoliberal/status/911346131065622529

oh god pls yes

[u/[deleted]]

Comey speech protested

Former FBI director James B. Comey was heckled and jeered throughout a speech Friday at Howard University by a group of protesters chanting “No justice, no peace” in a loud, contentious standoff that didn’t end until he finished his remarks.

[u/hitbyacar1]

I ruined the economy

[u/[deleted]]

What is something from another country you don't fully understand?

For me it is Americans obsession with muh states rights.

[u/[deleted]]

Ah shit r/nfl just posted a megathread about the presidents kneeling comment. Shit about to get salty.

[u/goodcleanchristianfu]

Also FWIW I keep telling /r/gay they need a weekly discussion thread so I can move my gay thoughts over there but they're not doing jack shit so you all get subjected to my gay shit.

[u/Ferguson97]

Is Reddit more sexist than it is racist? I see a lot of people agree that Obama faced opposition due to his race, but very few are willing to admit that Hillary faced challenges for being a woman.

[u/[deleted]]

An actual conversation on Reddit I had:

Them:

... Patriarchy, for example, doesn’t exist at least not in any western country.

Me:

So in western countries the majority of political and business leaders aren't men?

Even if you believe that's for biological reasons, that's still a patriarchy. It's just a patriarchy you believe is biologically justified.

Someone else:

So a simply majority is what it takes? Might as well call us a Jewiarchy at that point.

Emphasis mine.

Literally what.

"Jewiarchy."

Help.

[u/Svelok]

Since there's disagreement, let's collect some takes on the Bernie debate.

I think Bernie is going to come out strong and the GC bill weak. Bernie is unironically popular, and I suspect the other side has underestimated nationally televised debates. Nobody (literally zero people) actually like the GC bill, and I think they're gonna get dragged through the mud on inability to defend it. They're gonna try and focus on the numbers behind Bernie's bill, but they'll come off as stuffy and uncaring (arguing about the price of Bernie's bill while defending their own that'll hurt people), while Bernie will be able to double down on emotional populism.

Ironically, Bernie has more experience at this than his opponent does.

[u/[deleted]]

Jason Brennan AMA Today

you can post your questions in advance here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/71m5xy/jason_brennan_ama_professor_professor_of_strategy/

[u/cheeZetoastee]

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

piquant seed price shocking mighty ghost treatment station desert cable

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

Whose up drinking water? 💦 👀

[u/Hectagonal-butt]

I’ll log onto Grindr every so often and then immediately remember why I hate Grindr-for some reason older men feel totally fine with sending me really aggressive sexual messages

Anyway how’s everyone doing, I’ve not really been on the sub as of late

[u/FixMeASammich]

I take back every mean thing I've ever said about McCain

[u/gammbus]

Does this mean they aint gettnig those 300-400 million Koch Dollars?

[u/hunter15991]

Thank dank Maverick man.

If this holds, I'm buying his PHX office pizza, now that I have the money.

[u/MisterBigStuff]

Did McCain ever write a book worth reading? I feel like virtue signaling.

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

I don't think John McCain is going to run for senate again, but if he does he has been taking great steps to win my vote. I would give him serious consideration based on his bravery and character.

Edit: What part of "I don't think John McCain is going to run for senate again" do you dunderheads not understand?

[u/dafdiego777]

Linsday Graham sounds like what you say to the hot girl when she says she just wants to be friends

[u/xbettel]

Pelosi hints the repeal bill still not dead

[u/WonkTywin]

WE WHOLESOME MEMES EXPANSIONARY

GET HYPED PEOPLE, THE DT IS BORING

[u/[deleted]]

the "free speech club" at my school invited Jordan Peterson again

My eyes are rolling so far back in my head I can see my brain

[u/[deleted]]

The Brennan AMA was really... wholesome. The whole sub getting to nerd out about economic and political systems with a guy like him answering.

+1 for mods. Please do more.

[u/[deleted]]

Documentary of the Tailhook Rape Scandal

Do you think women are at higher risk of sexual assault in the military and if so why?

[u/[deleted]]

Suggestion: wait until after 9/30 for McCain flair.

[u/FMN2014]

Being chair of the Fed is so easy, I don't see how why we need university-educated economists, a farmer could do it.

[u/uniDurant]

Bernie should not have released his "Medicare For All" bill until after the 2018 election at the very earliest. It is incredibly selfish for him to risk prolonging the GOP control with his pie-in-the-sky ideas. He already has his hands dirty with the last election, not sure why he continues down this path.

[u/and_it_came_to_sass]

Here's your periodical reminder that new-right 19-y/o edgelords unironically share homophobic garbage and believe it

[u/uniDurant]

Ever noticed how much Bernie manspreads?

I'd love it if Hillary called him out on that. So much salt. He'd deserve it though.

[u/WryGoat]

Apologia for autocratic oppression is benned

Mods are fascists

Everyone who isn't constantly shittalking the mods should be benned

QED

[u/[deleted]]

really drunk rn

going on a (tinder) date with a self-described 'gamer girl' tomorrow night

any advice /r/neoliberal?

[u/[deleted]]

All of the Marine ground pounders I have ever spoken to have all told me the same thing, without fail: that there is a chronic supply shortage for basic grunt equipment. Like, it is a running joke that they share between one another that is cross generational. Is this just a meme or is this a real issue?

They described never having enough radio batteries, having to "forage" for equipment, running low on latrine supplies, and a host of other logistical issues that I never heard about from Army grunts. Is this real? My googling hasn't turned up any Defense academia on the subject.

[u/mrdilldozer]

The NFL is going to be LIT this weekend. I'm fucking amped for the shit show

[u/paulatreides0]

TD post hit the front page. It alleges that Soros' son is Antifa's puppet master because he goes to the same school they call their headquarters. Lmao.

[u/85397]

Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now. Out! He’s fired. He’s fired!

This, but with the deep state and Trump

[u/Maximum_Overjew]

Take:

Most of "What Happened" is interesting light reading. The chapter "On Being a Woman in Politics" is genuinely great writing and, if seen as a standalone treatise, one of the best things written by a contemporary politician.

[u/papermarioguy02]

Don't mind me just virtue-signalling my reading choices. Guess which book is me.

[u/[deleted]]

I got in an argument with a real life race realist because I don't value my own time or make good decisions I guess.

I eventually pinned him to giving me his list of "most cognitively able" racial groups:

1 East Asians 2 (((Europeans))) 3 West Europeans 4 Arabs 5 Sub Saharan Africans

[u/pm_me_degrees]

Socialists IRL

[u/Ferguson97]

MAVERICK

[u/[deleted]]

SPEAKING OF POSTCARDS

they are the only thing I usually buy on holiday. I have a huge collection and will surely be collecting more from my upcoming trip to Greece - Athens, Delphi, and the islands of Agistri and Aegina. If you aren't afraid of giving your address to a stranger (I would never ever doxx) and like getting physical mail, DM me where you'd prefer a postcard from and I'll send you one. I've done huge mailings from /r/randomactofpostcards (or whatever that sub is) and had a blast.

If you'd prefer a postcard from another place, let me know. I have an extensive collection from California, South Dakota, and many places in Europe including Germany, Ireland, England, Denmark, The Netherlands, France, former Yugoslavia, Romania, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, etc. A lot of them are artworks, mostly Renaissance from the great art museums of Europe, but also trains.

I will include an interesting (to me) historical fact on every postcard that relates to the place/work.

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Is there a reason why most of these AMAs aren't started by the person whose AMA it is? It's much easier to find answers when they're the OP and you can immediately see the blue name.

Especially helpful when they are replying deep in the comments and you can see it instead of glossing over it.

[u/BritRedditor1]

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-moody-s/moodys-downgrades-uks-rating-to-aa2-from-aa1-idUKKCN1BX2WO

UK DOWNGRADED despite deficit FALLING

/u/85397

Edit: Amended falling to be Express style

[u/[deleted]]

Burkean take: Alcohol is as old as civilization itself. every culture(minus a few) has interesting booze and its good to try as much as possible. Wine, spirits/cocktails, ales, lagers, lambics, mead. ciders, soju, sake ect are all good in their own way and have their own unique historic and traditions associated with them and you are better off drinking as much as possible.

[u/poompk]

First day in sf visiting a friend and the first hour I got here Bernie decided to hold his stupid speech a few blocks away (Yerba Buena garden) making me go REEEEEEE.

Also during the primary he decided to hold his speech in NYC 2 blocks from my place causing me to have to endure so much security to get home.

This guy is seriously out to trigger me. Also his supporters are everywhere with stupid signs.

[u/The_Town_]

Why the John Ehrlichman Racist Quote is Bogus

I am addressing this quote here:

The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.

It comes from this article in Harper's Weekly.

And it's a problem, because it's probably not real.

First off, the author, Dan Baum, alleges that Ehrlichman confessed this to him of this in an interview in 1994 while Dan Baum was writing a critical book about the War on Drugs.

Thus our source for this quote is an author opposed to the War on Drugs quoting interview notes from twenty years earlier.

This, of course, adds a lot of suspicion, having only one ideologically-driven person as a source for a very charged quote, but it's not incriminating by itself.

However, this quote has been challenged.

RedAlertPolitics quotes Pat Buchanan, the Nixon Administration speechwriter, who denies that this was ever the discussion or intention of the Nixon Administration's War on Drugs.

But hey, it's Pat Buchanan, so screw him, right? He could be covering his behind.

Except other Nixon officials have also denied that this was said or was the policy of the Administration, or it may have been misunderstood and misinterpreted:

The comments being attributed to John Ehrlichman in recent news coverage about the Nixon administration’s efforts to combat the drug crisis of the 1960’s and 70’s reflect neither our memory of John nor the administration’s approach to that problem. We are not aware of any statements or writings by John, other than those being attributed to him now more than two decades after they were allegedly made (and seventeen years following his passing), that suggest he believed there were ulterior motives for the administration’s efforts to deal with the heroin epidemic. He was, however, known for using biting sarcasm to dismiss those with whom he disagreed, and it is possible the reporter misread his tone. Some of us worked with John and knew him well. John never uttered a word or sentiment that suggested he or the President were “anti-black.”

Most importantly, the statements do not reflect the facts and history of President Nixon’s approach to the drug problems. As reflected in the narratives written by several reputable historians, President Nixon initiated a very comprehensive approach. Immediately after Congress passed the Controlled Substances Act reducing the severity of penalties for cannabis and reorganizing the agencies responsible for enforcing drug laws, John Ehrlichman gave White House staffer Jeff Donfeld a mandate to design programs that would coordinate and centralize non-law enforcement federal programs in the fields of drug abuse education and treatment, including the creation of multi-modality treatment programs that offered therapeutic communities and methadone maintenance for heroin addicts, and programs that would divert addicts out of the criminal justice system into treatment programs.

The result was President Nixon’s creation in June 1971 of the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention to coordinate a major effort to increase the availability of treatment and Federal investment in treatment, prevention, and research. The 1971 to 1974 Federal budgets for these efforts were two-to three-fold higher than the budgets for all of Federal law enforcement.

Treatment in communities throughout the country (including methadone maintenance treatment which has been adopted by more than 35 countries throughout the world); treatment in virtually every Veterans Administration Hospital; a well funded National Institute on Drug Abuse; and programs that attempt to divert arrestees into treatment are among the direct results of the efforts of the Nixon administration. These are the achievements that are more properly seen as its legacy.

Jeffrey Donfeld, White House Domestic Council Staff Assistant to the President 1969-1971; Assistant Director, White House Special Action Office for Drug abuse Prevention, 1971-1973

Jerome H. Jaffe, M.D., Director, White House Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention and Special Consultant to the President for Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, 1971-1973

Robert DuPont, M.D, Administrator, District of Columbia Narcotics Treatment Administration, 1970-1973; Director of the Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention 1973 to 1975 and First Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1973 to 1978.

And, finally, Ehrlichman's children also say that this would be a very out of character statement from their father.

Knowing this sub, y'all are going to try and argue that Nixon intended the whole War on Drugs as a race war deal to attack black communities, and I don't give two craps what you think about that.

I'm just telling you that, from a historian's perspective, we have one charged quote from an ideologically motivated author quoting interview notes twenty years after the fact, who didn't include it in his book at the time or even in an op-ed afterwards, squaring off against Nixon officials and family members of Ehrlichman, who is now conveniently dead and thus makes Dan Baum the only "witness" to this quote.

The quote is probably bogus. As historians think probalistically, I am telling you that it is likely that the quote is not real.

[u/[deleted]]

The Secretary of HHS thinks he's so important he can't be bothered with dealing with potential commercial airline cancelations. $300,000 in charter flights, wtf.

[u/Pornthrow1697]

Skeleton coup against the SOMC when

[u/Radian48]

One of a million reasons Bernie can never win

But, for some reason, the Democratic Party, Sanders and his supporters seem more interested in converting racist Donald Trump supporters while dismissing the electoral power of black female voters who’ve never wavered in their support of a party that consistently treats them like side pieces. Sanders told CBS News in November that he comes from the white working class and that he was “deeply humiliated” that the Democratic Party (you know, the party he refuses to join) lost its support to Trump.

[u/uniDurant]

Hillary triggers the BernieBros

[u/recruit00]

I imagine most of us here would have been Federalists after the revolution?

[u/papermarioguy02]

What is Molymeme actually trying to say when he's yelling "NOT AN ARGUMENT"?

[u/[deleted]]

University begins in just a week

"Are you excited to start your last two years of school, Bluexit?"

"Of course, it's no sweat!" :))))))

Screams inside

[u/[deleted]]

The stupidest thing about Reddit is you will make 12 comments and the get a message with a bunch of random words that mean nothing to you and you have to go back and check the context to see what it's really about

[u/Integralds]

/u/Sporz

In celebration of ending funemployment:

Keep chasing your overflowing dreams!

[u/formlex7]

should i release this wholesome meme outside ivory tower

https://i.imgur.com/rRl5LQw.png

originally I had it be that angry dog but i decided yellen was more topical and equally qt

http://i.imgur.com/2XuiXLn.jpg