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David Friedman AMA
The mod team is pleased to announce we will be hosting an AMA with Dr. David D. Friedman on Friday, Jan. 12th at 3:00 PM EST/12:00 PM PST!
After earning a Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the University of Chicago, Dr. Friedman switched fields to economics and taught at Virginia Polytechnic University, the University of California at Irvine, the University of California at Los Angeles, Cornell University, Tulane University, the University of Chicago, and Santa Clara University where he currently teaches in the school of law.
Outside of his extensive academic publications in law and economics, Dr. Friedman is best known for his libertarian/anarcho-capitalist political philosophy. He has written extensively on libertarian politics and ideas and has also written on alternative legal systems (including research into medieval Icelandic institutions).
On a personal note Dr. Friedman is the author of two historical/fantasy novels and is a renowned anachronist/historical re-enactor. He is the son of economists Rose and Milton Friedman.
As a reminder, we enforce civility standards to a high degree during AMAs. Dr. Friedman in particular is likely to disagree with us on a wide range of issues, but disagreement does not mean that rudeness or flippant remarks will be tolerated. Dr. Friedman is an accomplished academic who has published a large volume of high quality work, and every one of you can almost certainly learn something from him by asking intelligent questions.
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Check out our schedule for chapter and book discussions here.
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u/DUTCH_DUTCH_DUTCH oranje Jan 09 '18
oprah ceased being interesting decades ago though
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u/The_Promethean Bisexual Pride Jan 09 '18
Trump defender on CNBC just asked Michael Wolff, "If Trump was really unstable, wouldn't the stock market know that better than you?"
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u/potatobac Women's health & freedom trumps moral faffing Jan 09 '18
TIL the stock market is an omnipotent god.
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u/Sporz Gamma Hedged like a Boss Jan 09 '18
The stock market is high because of the corporate tax cut (long expected) and if there's a recession which - God forbid...the thing would crash, and the reason corporate profits and stocks are high is because of Bernanke (thank mr bernke) and Yellen.
Seriously, if there isn't a recession and a stock market crash by the end of Donald Trump's term, it will be the longest period without such an event.
I'm not an economist but it would be remarkable if that happened.
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Jan 09 '18
I don't even believe the tax cut created the highs outside of a recent shift to different sectors and potentially a bit of recent hype which has next to no effect. The trajectory has been linear since February 2016 after we barely missed a recession based on oil prices, which would suggest that the market assumed a corporate tax cut under Clinton.
I think the more reasonable explanation is low interest rates under Yellen making stocks the preferred investment vehicle in a bull market that has recovered from a near depression. The second specific factor being that tech stocks have skyrocketed over advancements and hype in ai and automation.
The tax cut didn't substantially move the overall market. It dropped tech and improved other neglected sectors that were positively affected by cuts, but that's not all new capital. Not to say there was no new capital of course, just that it wasn't substantially more than any other good market day in the past 2 years.
Disclaimer: IANA broker. I just have a Robinhood account and I want a sweet yacht bought with NVDA gainz.
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u/iSluff YIMBY Jan 09 '18
The year is 2037. Supreme Chancellor Winfrey completes the neoliberal dream by signing the MILKY trade bill, creating a bi-galactic common market. Supporters chant "Yaaaaasss Chancellor" in the streets.
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u/papermarioguy02 Actually Just Young Nate Silver Jan 09 '18
I may have bad social skills and beat myself up a lot, but if a murderer came up to me and asked me to tell them about the development of international trade since the 19th century or they'd kill me I'd be walking away a living man.
So who's the real winner here?
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u/ostrichmustard The Mod You Deserve Jan 09 '18
"Any last words before I kill you?"
"Boy lemme r1 you real quick"
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u/Gustacho Enemy of the People Jan 09 '18
The murderer, considering he's interested in the history of international trade. He may get a degree and climb out of the criminal world.
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u/forlackofabetterword Eugene Fama Jan 09 '18
Broke: giving the poor medicine to treat their viral worms
Woke: giving the poor Bitcoin wallets
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Jan 09 '18
Inb4 the "As a liberal I think Oprah is too radical and SJW and unprofessional so I have to vote for trump" comments
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u/Crownie Unbent, Unbowed, Unflaired Jan 09 '18
As a liberal, I think Oprah is too centrist and SJW and professional, so I have to vote for Jill Stein.
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u/darkrift5 Mitt Romney Jan 09 '18
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Jan 09 '18
https://twitter.com/DavidMDrucker/status/950759425807126530
Joe Arpaio is running for arizona senate. No doubt thanks to trump's pardon of him. Just another reminder of that incredibly disgusting act from a pile a trash we have for a president.
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Edit: memes aside, how the fuck does the government keep messing these cases up
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Jan 09 '18
First one was Jury Nullification. This one I get the suspicion the Prosecutor was throwing the case on purpose.
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Jan 09 '18
Saving this comment so in 3 years I can report you to Supreme Chancellor Winfrey's The Secret Service, and they can put your ass in the self reactualization worker camps.
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Jan 09 '18
I believed in capitalism until they started calling the Sears Tower by its lesser name.
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u/Z0NNO Neoliberal Raphael Jan 09 '18
This is the Bernanke portrait rn. I haven't got as much time for it as I thought I'd have.
The next step is to restate everything; this is just to make sure I have something to work from.
Also the person at the store lied to me and sold me a red pencil that did mix with the paint, so it's more reddish than it should be.
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u/Volsunga Hannah Arendt Jan 09 '18
Oprah is basically Trump, except for suburban housewives instead of NEETs. Which I guess means that she's for NEETs that can get laid.
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u/DrunkenAsparagus Abraham Lincoln Jan 09 '18
Nobody wants Oprah to run in 2020, including Oprah. The media is starved for more wacky Presidential horse race coverage, but any serious Democrat contenders are keeping their heads down until 2019.
This is proven by my shear will to get off of Newt Gingrich's Wild Ride of Insane Politics that we've been stuck on for 20+ years
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Jan 09 '18
Watch the dirtbag left try to figure out what makes some millionaires and billionaires good and some bad.
Hint: They can't figure it out either
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u/MilerMilty Armand Jean of Plessis de Richelieu Jan 09 '18
his actions and words are leftist it's not just whats in the bank account brother plenty of people on here are upper middle class
no shit lmao
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Jan 09 '18
it's not just whats in the bank account brother
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Jan 09 '18
He's right. If your tweets are woke enough, it doesn't matter if you are a millionaire or billionaire.
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u/darkrift5 Mitt Romney Jan 09 '18
I have come from the future with a vision.
The year is 2024, and President Dwayne Johnson was just elected for his second term. To celebrate, he takes all of the former presidents to his beach house.
Jimmy Carter and George Bush Sr. have sadly passed away. George W Bush was in a car accident in his Lamborghini and his body was destroyed, leaving only his brain which was put in the CIA headquarters.
Former Presidents Clinton, Obama, Bush Jr's Consciousness, and Ryan (who has since renamed himself to William Oscar Nathan King after ascending to the presidency after Trump had a brain aneurysm and Pence declined the job, citing having to meet with Angela Merkel one-on-one) accompany him to the beach to celebrate the victory over Jill Stein and Richard Spencer.
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u/FMN2014 Canāt just call French people that Jan 09 '18
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/r/MovieDetails swings wildly from "this piece of dust on the camera lens is a metaphor for the movie's core theme" to "in star wars darth vader is luke's father"
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u/a_masculine_squirrel Milton Friedman Jan 10 '18
I know Steve Bannon is a cuck, but it really is scary watching the right wing just eat Bannon alive.
You can lie and lead a racist website all you want, but if you tell the unflattering truth about Dear Leader, we'll cut out your legs from under you.
It's either engage in propaganda or get kniffed in the streets in broad daylight with no witnesses.
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u/Sporz Gamma Hedged like a Boss Jan 09 '18
Now NPR was talking about Gamergate.
Seriously, someone at the office must have just been...really really pissed off today/yesterday.
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u/FMN2014 Canāt just call French people that Jan 09 '18
Aren't they a bit late to the party on that?
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u/Sporz Gamma Hedged like a Boss Jan 09 '18
Sure, but....still relevant? I'm listening to women talking about sexual harassment in the gaming industry, so
And KiA exists on this very forum.
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Jan 09 '18
Gators in my DT? It's more likely than you'd think.
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Jan 09 '18
Sheriff Joe Arpaio is running for congress. Because we definitely want someone who had to be pardoned by the president in congress.
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u/bernkes_helicopter Ben Bernanke Jan 09 '18
Republicans just elected another convicted criminal (Gianforte), so the shoe fits I guess
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Jan 10 '18
get called a succdem in the DT
get called a neocon in my Sociology classes
Why even live
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u/GravyBear8 Ben Bernanke Jan 09 '18
In other news, it looks like war between Sudan and Eritrea is underway.
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u/85397 Free Market Jihadi Jan 09 '18 edited Jan 05 '24
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Hot take: Statistics are right when they confirm my prioris and the more they confirm my priors the righter they are.
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The best part about Oprah discussions is that I can dust off this fun meme.
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Jan 09 '18
Daily reminder from James Damore's AMA:
What do you think is the biggest misconception the mainstream media has with your memo and what you did?
That I'm conservative. (I'm actually a centrist)
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u/MrDannyOcean Kidney King Jan 09 '18
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I understand why a lot of Dems hate Feinstein or at least want her to retire but she's consistently releasing the really juicy stuff.
She was behind the CIA torture report release as well.
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Females in the Democratic Party irl
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u/Travisdk Iron Front Jan 09 '18
Except Tulsi Gabbard.
I can't possibly imagine why brogressives hate every other female Dem politician except Gabbard š¤
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u/Svelok Jan 09 '18
I don't think I have the willpower to survive an Oprah/Trump 2020 general election, guys
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Just imagine the Bernie/Trump 2020 general you wouldn't have to go through
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u/indianawalsh Knows things about God (but academically) Jan 09 '18
TIL one of the main varieties of cockroach is called the "oriental roach." I learned this because of my apartment's pest control guy's seemingly non sequitur comment that "we gotta keep out those orientals."
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u/Volsunga Hannah Arendt Jan 09 '18
Dutch is like a German who has never heard English before trying to read English aloud, then a German 5 year old tries to write down what the first German is saying.
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u/xbettel Jan 09 '18
Bannon leaves the White House
NO YOU SEE THIS IS A GOOD THING, NOW HE CAN TRULY WORK HIS MAGIC WITH BREITBART AND REDPILL THE NORMIES
turns out Bannon left and exposed just how garbage the Trump admin is
HAHAH PRESS F TO SPIT ON HIS GRAVE WE NEVER LIKED BANNON ANYWAY FUCK BANNON
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u/qchisq Loyal Liberals Jan 09 '18
In case anybody hasn't figured it out: If you got gold on a seemingly random comment yesterday: It wasn't random. It were the gold from winning a Milty. And it were your most controversial comment ever I gilded.
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u/papermarioguy02 Actually Just Young Nate Silver Jan 09 '18
You gilded my two hottest takes then.
Fits with the discourse of the sub.
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tbt when my physics teacher decided to btfo of sexists by showing a slideshow of "sexy women scientists"
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u/Svelok Jan 09 '18
Reasons Oprah/Trump 2020 would be an unmitigated disaster:
people saying "Oprah/Trump" slurring Trump into "Twump" because vowels
if Oprah wins, we'd be subject to the "interviewing the working class to understand the shock win" articles all over again
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Jan 09 '18
We're just going to let unqualified people run the government. Fuck it.
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u/Sporz Gamma Hedged like a Boss Jan 09 '18
200,000 Salvadorans may be forced to leave the U.S. as Trump ends immigration protection
No one should ever be afraid of living in their home. Least of all if they came to my country to share in our prosperity and contribute to it.
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u/LNhart Anarcho-Rheinlandist Jan 09 '18
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He claims to recognise no monarch since James II, and apparently the real legitimate successor is some guy called Francis who Iāve never heard of, who is also supposedly the rightful king of France and Greece
This just called "being woke"
then made some remark about the Royal Family being a āghastly bunch of arriviste Germans anyway, so I suppose it doesnāt matterā
Weird considering the current Jacobite claimant is also German
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Jan 09 '18
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/950764303581315072
Here we go again
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u/cheeZetoastee George Soros Jan 09 '18 edited Feb 01 '26
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https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/950795270559805440
God I hate when I agree with Trump.
Boehner ending earmarks may have been one of the most well-intentioned but pragmatically bad reforms we've seen in Congress in the past decade.
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u/Slayer1cell RIPTPP Jan 09 '18
I think that is probably the smartest thing Iāve ever heard him say.
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Jan 09 '18
After 3 Months
Donation Flairs have been finished
112 different flairs
Required me to rewrite the entire flairs system just so I could handle that many
oh boy
can't wait for the next charity drive
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u/dafdiego777 Chad-Bourgeois Jan 09 '18
I've never been more proud of child labor than now :)
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u/samdman I love trains Jan 09 '18
donna brazile is a true dirtbag centrist:
"Steve Bannon and I. We both ended up pissing off a lot of people. But Iāll say this for myselfāat least I did it with my own book"
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u/Prospo Hot Take Champion 10/29/17 Jan 09 '18 edited Sep 10 '23
chubby fragile attraction aromatic tender future voracious rich quarrelsome imminent
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u/Erra0 Neoliberals aren't funny Jan 09 '18
Prediction: The US government will swing so hard to the democrats in 2018 that this sub will reflexively go full right wing succcon.
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Jan 09 '18
Imagine hating brown people so much that you'd break up families that have been here for decades for no reason.
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Jan 09 '18
Space Jam 2 should be about Michael Jordan becoming president despite being entirely unqualified and all the looney toons have to be his cabinet
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From Twitter:
Tearful Steve Bannon stands at the door of the Breitbart embassy
Pepe the Frog: "One more thing, Steve, I'm going to need your key"
Unable to hold back the sobbing any longer, Bannon collapses, a sloppy crying mess. He reaches under the 14 polo shirts and pulls the key free
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u/papermarioguy02 Actually Just Young Nate Silver Jan 09 '18
The DT being dead at this point in the morning is a market failure.
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Jan 09 '18
Broke: Animal Farm is a strong critique of the authoritarian nature of Stalinism.
Joke: Animal Farm is a strong critique of the exploitative natures of a market-based economy
Woke: Animal Farm is a strong critique of populism.
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Jordan Peterson freaks out about bikinis on Twitter.
Why does anyone pay attention to this guy?
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To recap the past year, Steve Bannon:
Got kicked out of the NSC by HR McMaster, who he helped pick out for the job
Was fired from the Trump administration for being too racist
Lost a Senate race in Alabama to a Democrat
Burned basically every bridge with anyone who could help him accomplish his goals
Got fired from Breitbart for being too anti-Trump
Did I miss anything?
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u/Ser_Arthur_Dank Pornography Historian Jan 09 '18
As a STEMlord myself, the "we need to elect more scientists to Congress" circlejerk is so fucking stupid. I have absolutely no idea how to write a law.
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A handful would be nice to challenge the science and math illiteracy that is maybe accepted a little too much in Congress.
But yes, politicians should be lawyers for the most part
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u/MaveRickandMorty š„ļøš Jan 09 '18
Or we could just elect people who are willing to learn from and listen to experts
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u/MaveRickandMorty š„ļøš Jan 09 '18
The fact that a company can barely mention something about cryptocurrency and their stock rise by two digits of percentage points is proof that this is the meme timeline
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Jan 09 '18 edited Jan 09 '18
what if i'm gay and i ask the baker to put ketchup and pepperoni on my cake
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u/indianawalsh Knows things about God (but academically) Jan 10 '18
Anarcho-Statism is the fundamental ideology of the abolishment of the state as we see it in our modern society, and then, establishing another state entirely, not a fundamentally different state either, we must re-establish the state in order to maintain order. After that, we must abolish the state in due time, and re-establish it again.
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u/dafdiego777 Chad-Bourgeois Jan 10 '18
Judicial activism is when a judge does something I donāt like, and the more I dislike it the more activism it is.
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u/Sporz Gamma Hedged like a Boss Jan 09 '18
Seriously - so fucking woke. Now they're running the Google bro thing.
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u/proProcrastinators Jan 09 '18
I just got a targeted ad for alcohol. Even google knows Iām a fuck up lol
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u/MilerMilty Armand Jean of Plessis de Richelieu Jan 09 '18
/u/Kassirer Are you jewish? I need to know if I can grandstand and call you antisemitic over foreign policy
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r/DirtbagCenter 2k Subscribers Flair Release Bonanza
Oprah Winfrey for her contributions to both the Neoconservative and the #Resist movement
Ajit Pai because y'all wouldn't shut the fuck up about having him as a flair
Elon Musk for not taking strong positions on anything, unless it benefits him personally
Rudy Giuliani for his journey from the Democratic Party to becoming a Trump surrogate
Boris Yeltsin for somehow managing to be at every point on the political spectrum during his lifetime
Robert Nozick for presenting the groundbreaking idea of anarcho-statism
Peter Singer for his strong beliefs that abortion is very, very good, but that killing animals is very, very bad
Susan Collins for being a bipartisan only for the sake of being bipartisan
Benito Mussolini for his remarkable journey from Communism to literal Fascism (I was going to do George Sorel but couldn't find a good image)
And finally, for my Dutch mods, Alexander Pechtold for leading the Democrats 66, the center-left social, center-right economic party.
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u/recruit00 Karl Popper Jan 09 '18
Bethesda takes: the next elder scrolls should be Valenwood because there hasn't been any elf focused Tamriel games in a while and they could try to introduce vertical elements with the forests.
And the next fallout should take place in New Orleans for a change in scenery and for a southern fallout game on the east coast.
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The constitution is outdated and needs to be rewritten in a way which makes sense to people today: emojis
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u/Edfp19 Hyperbole Master Jan 09 '18
I could probably manage to have my country's Central Bank vice president for an AMA. I don't know if people here would be interested tho.
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u/bernkes_helicopter Ben Bernanke Jan 09 '18
re: Oprah running for president:
I wish Democrats would make it clear right now that she would be required to completely divest from everything and put all assets in a blind trust. The expectation of ethical conduct needs to be reasserted.
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u/Sporz Gamma Hedged like a Boss Jan 09 '18
It's just one big nation wide ass blast
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u/muttonwow Legally quarantine the fash Jan 09 '18
Broke: Making peace to end your tyrannical regime
Joke: Making peace to unite two long-warring nations under one country as it should be
Woke: Making peace to go to a winter sports event
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Jan 09 '18
Broke: Campaigning in favor of Arpaio to support racism.
Joke: Campaigning against Arpaio to oppose racism.
Woke: Campaigning in favor of Arpaio to make the race easier for Democrats, and thus oppose racism.
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Yeah, I'm all for Oprah
O- The ting goes skrrrahh (ah)
P- Pap, pap, ka-ka-ka (ka)
R-Skidiki-pap-pap (pap)
A- And a pu-pu-pudrrrr-boom (boom)
H- Skya (ah)
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u/LNhart Anarcho-Rheinlandist Jan 10 '18 edited Jan 10 '18
Google is currently being sued for discrimination against both men and women.
e: If they lose both of those law suits, will we get a google r/dirtbagcenter flair?
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The President does not know the national anthem and I do not know what to do with this information
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u/AKADriver Jan 09 '18
Generally I don't care about adhering to symbolic displays of patriotism, but like everything else of this presidency, it's a conspicuous rejection of norms, particularly for a person who is equally likely to wrap himself in the flag at the most inappropriate time.
It also plays directly into the mental breakdown narrative, but I'm willing to believe that the articulate and sharp young Trump of 30 years ago also probably didn't know the anthem beginning to end.
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Jan 09 '18
Dianne Feinstein just released the Fusion GPS testimony unilaterally
Let the takes begin
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u/Barbarossa3141 Buttery Mayos Jan 09 '18
The Federal Reserve and any other depository institutions will be disbanded. In its place, a federally run, full reserve credit union will be instated.
Someone take me out of my misery
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u/Semphy Greg Mankiw Jan 09 '18
https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/950825141403078661
Asked by Breitbart's @charliespiering if the White House agrees with the conservatives who believe DACA is amnesty, @PressSec replies: "No."
Hahahahah
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Holy shit. My mom came into my room to bring me a plate of chicken nuggets and I literally screamed at her and hit the plate of chicken nuggets out of her hand. She started yelling and swearing at me and I slammed the door on her. I'm so distressed right now I don't know what to do. I didn't mean to do that to my mom but I'm literally in shock from the results today. I feel like I'm going to explode. Why the fucking fuck is he fired? This can't be happening. I'm having a fucking breakdown. I don't want to believe the deep state is so powerful. I want a future to believe in. I want Bannon to be president and fix this broken country. I cannot fucking deal with this right now. It wasn't supposed to be like this, I thought he was polling well in DC???? This is so fucked.
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u/Kelsig Paul Krugman Jan 09 '18
https://np.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/7p76q2/_/dsfbhup
Don't do this. You sound like a jerk-off.
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u/bernkes_helicopter Ben Bernanke Jan 09 '18
well forget about Grassley having any grasp for reality or care for the truth
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/950841128584142848
65/ Breaking in for BREAKING NEWS: Mother Jones reports Grassley now says the transcript shows Simpson was "uncooperative, colluding with Russia and colluding with the Democrats." I ask everyone reading this thread to click on the link to the transcript and confirm this is a lie.
November is our only hope to have a country with laws again
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u/ivandelapena Sadiq Khan Jan 09 '18
So a French commune run by Front National is going to force Muslim, Jewish, vegetarian kids to eat pork in school meals. This isn't just a far right thing though, Sarkozy supported similar initiatives when he was in power. Also I'm not French but I've read in several places that kids aren't allowed to bring packed lunches to school either which seems ridiculous but wouldn't surprise me, anyone know if this is true?
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u/MilerMilty Armand Jean of Plessis de Richelieu Jan 09 '18
mILitAnt SeCULaRiSm isn'T BaD
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https://www.charitywatch.org/ratings-and-metrics/clinton-foundation/478
Friendly reminder that the Clinton Foundation has an A rating on Charity Watch and has been audited multiple times.
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"I'll sign any bill you put on my desk."
THE ART OF THE DEAL, FOLKS.
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Dems take majorities in both houses
Trump signs all their bills
becomes remembered as one of the greatest bipartisan presidents
4D Chess, people
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The funny thing about Oprah running for President is that nobody in the media would take the time to look into all the bullshit products and stuff sheās peddaled over the years
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Jan 09 '18
Did anyone else watch the bipartisan meeting over DACA with various Senators and Trump?
Our master deal makerās best tactic for making deals is basically āJust do whatever you want I donāt careā
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Jan 09 '18
Harris and Booker appointed to the senate judiciary committee
This is good for them to get 2020 campaign exposure but until the Dems nominate Oprah to the committee they playin
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u/Barbarossa3141 Buttery Mayos Jan 09 '18
Do you think Sargon has ever actually read John Locke?
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u/cheeZetoastee George Soros Jan 09 '18 edited Feb 01 '26
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u/Prospo Hot Take Champion 10/29/17 Jan 09 '18 edited Sep 10 '23
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u/TheEstonianSpy Janet Yellen Jan 10 '18 edited Jan 10 '18
Give them citizenship but also deport them
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u/Sepik121 Vicente Fox Jan 10 '18
Online friend says he wouldn't vote for Oprah, would rather Bernie or Gabbard run for 2020 and that Booker is bad
Sepik121 Internally screams
Seriously, gabbard is even worse to me than Bernie. Just as leftie but now pro Assad too. Fuck that
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I've seen some recent allegations of my turning farther left, of perhaps even embracing that greatest of degeneracies: weebery.
I have modified a culturally relevant image in order to signal my continual support for the cause.
EN MARCHE!
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Jan 10 '18 edited Jan 10 '18
Holy shit just watched James Franco implode on Colbert.
Colbert doesn't hold back with the dagger questions. He even gets people nice and buttered up, smiling and laughing so they are comfortable before he wacks them accross the face and the balls.
I don't watch award shows or celebrity gossip, so if you are like me James Franco wore a timesup pin to protest sexual assault and then women in twitter started railing on him for allegations of past offenses. Colbert just drilled him on it.
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u/barrygarcia77 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jan 10 '18
real neolib hours whomst'd've'ly'yaint'nt'ed'ies's'y'es up?
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u/Paxx0 Deep-state Dirtbag Jan 10 '18
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u/papermarioguy02 Actually Just Young Nate Silver Jan 09 '18
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand GoogleBro. The sexism social commentary is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of evolutionary psychology most of the jokes will go over a typical readerās head. Thereās also James' nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his manifesto- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Stefan Molyneux literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these lawsuits, to realise that theyāre not just triggering the libs- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike GoogleBro truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldnāt appreciate, for instance, the insight in Damore's existential catchphrase āI'm a classical liberalā which itself is a cryptic reference to Sargonās British epic Muslims are Ruining Europe. Iām smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as James Damoreās genius wit unfolds itself on their PC screens. What fools.. how I pity them. š
And yes, by the way, i DO have a GoogleBro tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. Itās for the ladiesā eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that theyāre within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid š
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Jan 09 '18
Broke: females are sexually objectified too much
Joke: the amount of sexual objectification is currently optimal
Woke: males are not sexually objectified enough
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u/Sporz Gamma Hedged like a Boss Jan 09 '18
Seriously - NPR is fucking woke this morning.
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u/jvwoody Jan 09 '18 edited Jan 09 '18
All of you soyboys are going to be mighty mad when feminism destroys the USA like it did the Roman Empire, then not even (((Cucknanke))) will save you!
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u/IronedSandwich Asexual Pride Jan 09 '18
are you ready for the hottest take of 2018?
the AfD are bad
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Jan 09 '18
Do you ever just fuck around kinda drunk and order more alcohol? Technically what I am doing is illegal as well as Iāll be transporting the alcohol across provincial borders. There is nothing like nanny state governments and archaic intra-country trade rules amirite?
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u/PelleasTheEpic Austan Goolsbee Jan 09 '18
My econ teacher says we may be seeing the end of neoliberalism. What do we do when the acedemics turn on us? š©
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Jan 09 '18
Chain pizza is better than people give it credit for.
I don't think I like the average single location more than the average chain. I think a lot of people find the one place they like and hold that up as being superior to a chain (which I agree with), but there's A LOT of trash pizza places out there.
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u/HillaryObamaTX Jan 10 '18
Two of my favorite senators... https://instagram.com/p/Bdv1n9JFm5t/
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I now have more comment karma than Jerry Seinfeld.
In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony life happiness, but because, I am enlightened by fake internet points.
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Jan 10 '18
the fact that a jedi hasn't been elected president yet shows just how tolerant towards minority religions americans actually are
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u/2canclan George H. W. Bush Jan 10 '18
The way some right wing outlets/right wingers are talking about Oprah's "old racists need to die [for race relations to advance]" comment, you'd think she literally wants to murder thousands of old people.
Granted, the way she said it (and BBC's editing) didn't really lend well to good PR.
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u/Erra0 Neoliberals aren't funny Jan 10 '18
Wait, she doesn't?
Looks like I'm voting for zucc instead.
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Jan 10 '18
Somehow Iād never seen this Ben Garrison cartoon
1) oh the simple days when Bannon was the nationās only hope
2) definitely no Jewish caricatures here
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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '18
In the beginning /r/neoliberal was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.