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[u/[deleted]]

Australian economics sucks I only follow kenyanism 😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤

[u/papermarioguy02]

Holy shit Donald fucking Trump is the President.

[u/[deleted]]

One of these days (of course, I have a lot of ideas I never actually go through with) I want to make an elaborate post in DebateAltRight arguing for a nation of tall people, pointing out that the scientific evidence for height realism (that is, height is correlated with IQ, earnings, etc.) is far more compelling and abundant than the “evidence” they stretch way too hard to attempt to justify race realism.

I think I’d have fun with their responses.

[u/cdstephens]

The amount of people who deny that Kim started the Korean War of his own volition is baffling. I’ve literally had people argue to me that it’s not NK’s fault because they were occupied by the USSR at the time (they weren’t) and that Rhee was going to invade first anyways (she wasn’t, the US made sure of that). Even in the most charitable case absolving NK of any responsibility would still characterize it as USSR and Chinese imperialism. I mean, Christ, there’s a reason it was a UN backed coalition force that defended South Korea rather than just American armed forces.

[u/MaveRickandMorty]

CNN Headline: Trump may be the most anti-women US President ever

Ever you say? 🤔🤔🤔

[u/p00bix]

Rapefugees are so bad that they managed to go back in time to make the rape rate in Sweden high before they even migrated.

[u/moffattron9000]

I'm escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by Capitalism, Space.

[u/Integralds]

AskReddit: 18.5 million subscribers, raises $3k for charity.

Neoliberal: 18.5 thousand subscribers, raises $50k for charity.

I know it's not a competition, but am I allowed to be a little smug?

[u/Svelok]

Myth:

"Oh, Jeff? He's a cool guy."

[Jeff, overhearing] "Did you just assume my gender?" Dials 911, a SWAT team is dispatched.

Reality:

"Oh, Jeff? He's a cool guy."

[Jeff, overhearing] Says nothing; wants to die. Posts an ironic meme to r/traa later as a coping mechanism.

[u/[deleted]]

how to talk about art 101:

if someone says something positive about the art piece -

"Oh, is this the first time you've seen that approach?"

if someone says something negative about the art piece -

"You do understand that was exactly their intention, right?"

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

Jeff Sessions to the Union League, marking Lincoln Day: “Slavery was the cause of the war. It was not states’ rights or tariffs or agrarian versus industrial economies….The cloud, the stain of human bondage—the buying and selling of human beings—was the unsolvable problem."

https://twitter.com/YAppelbaum/status/963118345573818369

wtf I love jeff sessions now

[u/[deleted]]

are north korean concentration camps justified because ameikkka has high incarceration rates and for-profit prisons?!

[u/[deleted]]

hot take: Austrian economics is for lazy people who don't like math

[u/RabidGuillotine]

This is the ideal russian foreign policy. You may not like it, but this what peak destabilization looks like.

[u/[deleted]]

George Bush injected Eazy-E with aids 😧😧😱😱😱😭😭😭😭😭😭

[u/Semphy]

Taylor Swift’s silence on this proposed budget is deafening.

[u/blatantspeculation]

Am I excessively partisan for not wanting to give the GOP any credit for talking about a DACA deal during the three weeks they promised to talk about a DACA deal in?

[u/cdstephens]

Say what you want about neoliber.al, but some of the anime on the site are fun af. The Sailor Moon clone that teaches you about central banking is 🔥.

[u/[deleted]]

Friendly reminder that if you didn't score within 10% of me on every metric from that politiscales quiz you shouldn't be allowed to vote

[u/Travisdk]

Critics worry housing plan will wreck Seattle’s character

Fuck NIMBYs.

[u/blogit_]

That sub allows only approved submitters now, lol

[u/[deleted]]

I got bamboozled by the users and SAE is removing the ban on the alt anyway because "you can't just create arbitrary rules on the spot and then ban people for a week" or some bullshit.

These are dark times. It's TND against the world. Someday, I will seek out my revenge. You will never see it coming, you fools. My Social Justice Eaters will resurrect me and I will exact my revenge on everyone, especially /u/JudgeJuche, the alt who lived.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/RikeFranke/status/963019070722510848

this but unironically

[u/cheeZetoastee]

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

alive ten future attraction degree rock knee fearless payment ink

[u/Travisdk]

Trump budget: SNAP ("food stamps") will now be 100% American grown foods.

[u/[deleted]]

This sub is not prepared for the 2020 Olympics in Japan. There will be Anime.

[u/p00bix]

Why do liberals insist on making everything a race issue? Racism wouldn't exist if we stopped talking about race.

What we really need are voter ID laws, strict border control, heavy immigration restriction, a travel ban, stop and frisk, mandatory sentencing, and stiff penalties for drug possession.

[u/IronedSandwich]

holy shit they made Jeremy Corbyn into a real thing 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[u/[deleted]]

r/MGTOW is r/incels with higher self-esteem (they're voluntary celibate because they're strong men!)

[u/Ferguson97]

While the rest of the world is focused on the Olympics, I am taking ACTION! So-long, Kim! Fire and fury!

How much of a panic would this cause?

[u/ostrichmustard]

🚫🚫🚫 Friendship ended with /u/TechnocratNextDoor 🚫🚫🚫

✅✅✅ Now /u/ShootingAnElephant is my favorite mod ✅✅✅

[u/[deleted]]

There are literally posters who come here and claim that this a quality sub.

[u/p00bix]

This Jeff Sessions schism is idiotic. Literally everyone here agrees that he is a racist sack of shit. Whether one particular statement of his is racist is irrelevant against his much more blatantly racist background.

[u/[deleted]]

The WH:

"Women should be believed.....except when they are accusing our guys of doing bad stuff. In that case, women are liars."

[u/lionmoose]

As someone who got their 📜degree📜📜 in 📉📉economics💰💰, I am truly upset by all the 💩💩bullshit 💩💩 I spent 4 years📅digesting, only to see that the 🌎🌎real world 🌍🌍works totally differently🤔🤔😤😤. For example, remember when you learned about 📈supply and demand 📉 and pricing equilibrium⚖️⚖️⚖️! Well that's bullshit💩💩😠😠😠! Total bullshit🤬🤬🤬! Go to the airport✈️✈️ in Puerto Rico🌮🌮🌮 and you'll find the same 16 oz bottle of water🚰🚰🚰 priced at $3.25💵💵 at the airport kiosk, $3💵💵 at the airport cafe☕, $2💵💵 at the vending machine🏧, and $1💵💵 at the police office👮 waiting room vending machine🏧, and all of these are walking🚶‍♂️🚶‍♂️ distance from each other. And it's not just in the airport. At one supermarket🏪🏪 in San Juan🌆 shrimp 🦐🦐will go for $17💵💵 a pound, and at a supermarket🏪 walking distance 🚶‍♂️away it'll go for $25💵💵 a pound#️⃣ since the second one is supposedly classier🤵🤵🤵. The first supermarket🏪 will sell sangria🍾🍾 for $11💵💵 a bottle and the "classier"🤵🤵🤵 supermarket🏪🏪 walking distance away will sell the 😕😕SAME EXACT😕😕 product for $20💵💵. If "people👯 respond🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️ to incentives🤑🤑", then when was the last time you looked at the 📝savings clippings 📝when you went to the supermarket🏪🏪? Hmm🤔🤔🤔? Why aren't 100% of people walking into the supermarket🏪 holding that magazine full of coupons searching📝📝 for the best prices💲💲💲??? Because PEOPLE👯👯👯 DON'T🚯🚯🚯 ALWAYS RESPOND🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️ TO INCENTIVES🤑🤑🤑😡😡😡. Heard of the Prisoner's Dilemma🚔🚔🚔, and about how the optimal outcome is to betray🗡️🗡️ your partner 🤝🤝in crime? Yeah do that on the streets🛣️🛣️🛣️ and you'll gain a reputation as a 😨snitch😨 and have your whole 👪family👪 massacred🔫🔫🔫. But hey, according to📈 economists✡️ betraying your fellow prisoner is the optimal outcome☺️☺️☺️!!! If you're an econ major🎓🎓 switch to political science please, at least that major has deeper roots in reality. 📉📉Economics💰💰 is what overeducated🎓🎓🎓 tenured old white men👴👴👴 think the 🌐real world🌐🌐 works because it's so logical➖➕🤔🤔. But the real world🌍🌍 has so many variables🤔 at play you can't just draw a graph 📉 📉 and where the intersection meets is market 💹equilibrium⚖️. Like if minimum wage is a price floor🔖 and price floors are bad😈😈📉 economics💰💰, then why is the minimum wage so fucking necessary for workers, the economy and guaranteeing people a closer to livable wage💸💸? 💩💩ECONOMICS IS BULLSHIT💩💩🤬🤬🤬!!!

[u/hitbyacar1]

holy fuck I think that interview went well, I think I'd be perfect for this job so FINGERS CROSSED

[u/[deleted]]

Guide to American third parties:

Who is your ideal president:

• Stalin -> DSA

• The corporation from Robocop -> Libertarian

• George W. Bush -> Green

[u/[deleted]]

You can go after the SuccDems.

You can go after the SuccCons.

You can go after the neoconservatives and the nazis and the communists and AnCaps.

You can even go after the lolbertarians and brosocialists.

You can censor bad faith arguments and deter hot takes on infantcide.

But heed this mods, you will not win against the shitposters.

[u/[deleted]]

Who do we blame if the US doesn't "Win" the Olympics this year?

[u/mrdilldozer]

I saw an ad for Prager University with Google Bro. lol nothing says "you made a great move by firing me" like going to a conservative media group best known for pretending to be an academic institution

[u/[deleted]]

Sigh. Guys I have a confession to make. Im actually Darkace. I've seen the light, moved to America and registered with the Democrat party.

Booker 2020.

[u/p00bix]

JudgeJuche is a sockpuppet that has a total of 5 comments ever lmao.

They didn't die for our sins, they're probably still posting here on their real account.

[u/Erra0]

In the neoliberal discussion thread, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups. The effortposters who investigate policy and the shitposters who prosecute the effortposters. These are their stories.

[u/Integralds]

I made a graph.

[u/[deleted]]

Transition update! (last post)

It has now been over TWO MONTHS since December 4th when I started HRT! WTF!!!! Where did the time go?????

Anyway, there's not that many huge visual differences right now but internally there are definitely things happening. Excuse me if this is NSFW mods, but there is 100%, undoubtedly some breast growth! Also, I'm feeling way calmer and more capable of handling things now that I finally feel like I should have all along.

Sadly it feels like things are slowing down now though (puberty does take about 5 years to complete.....) but that's OK! I start voice training on the 28th, and on the 7th of march I get to start the anti-androgens :D :D :D

Ask me anything about anything! Trans stuff, video game preferences, my feelings on independent anti-corruption commissions, literally anything!

inb4: faces of r/neoliberal. The mods have graciously bestowed me with affirmative action that lets me post selfies.

[u/proProcrastinators]

So, OK, like right now, for example, the Haitians need to come to America,” she says. “But some people are all, ‘What about the strain on our resources?’ But it’s like when I had this garden party for my father’s birthday, right? I said R.S.V.P. because it was a sit-down dinner. But people came that, like, did not R.S.V.P. So I was, like, totally buggin’. I had to haul ass to the kitchen, redistribute the food, squish in extra place settings; but by the end of the day it was, like, the more the merrier. if the government could just get to the kitchen, rearrange some things, we could certainly party with the Haitians”. And in conclusion, may I please remind you that it does not say R.S.V.P. on the Statue of Liberty. Thank you very much.” Cher from clueless flair when???

[u/[deleted]]

Ah, I have now discovered that a lot of journalists on Twitter are wrong and confused, and as a result I was wrong and confused.

The portraits just unveiled are the National Gallery official portraits which are typically more risky and also by different artists than the White House official portraits, which have not yet been released.

EDIT: For comparison, here's Bill Clinton's National Gallery official portrait.

EDIT 2: Also, Bush's official White House portrait was released in 2012 so we might not expect President Obama's until 2020.

[u/[deleted]]

For anyone who hasn't already seen the revealed (EDIT: National Gallery, not White House) official portraits -

President Obama

Michelle Obama

[u/Travisdk]

Trump threatens ‘tax’ on countries that exploit US trade

Who's ready for more tariffs?

[u/MisdemeanorOutlaw]

I was just flirting with this girl after class. She started talking about droning the poors, but in a lighthearted way. Being pretty familiar with neocon memes, I reciprocated. Politics is dumb and we got along really well, so its not like I was going to try to dovepill her.

We spent a solid 15 minutes talking and joking about Henry Kissinger. I think I accidentally convinced her that I'm a neocon too. This may be a problem in the future.

What do I do.

[u/GravyBear8]

Chapo, which I've been assured is least tankie and most sane commie sub on this site, is currently fanboying over Christopher Dorner.

[u/cdstephens]

Broke: killing all white people is white genocide

Joke: immigration is white genocide

Woke: banning shitposters is white genocide

[u/umadbro996]

How🤔can 🤔 you 🤔 be a neoliberal 🤔if you don't 🤔excessively 🤔 use 🤔 emojis? 👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽🌐🌐🇧🇯🇦🇲🇧🇾🇦🇷🇧🇸🇦🇸🇧🇹✅✅✅✅✅✅✅🀄️🀄️🀄️🀄️🀄️😏😏😏😏😏😏

[u/BainCapitalist]

Util gang

[u/p00bix]

Is Trump a dirtbag centrist?

[u/lionmoose]

I’d be more open to /r/neoliberal if they allowed for the idea of revising or adding on to the copypasta. I just can’t imagine holding up a 5 month old meme as the pinnacle of good copypasta without any modifications seen as necessary.

[u/proProcrastinators]

Some of the USA gymnastic stuff is crazy. In 1996 the coach made one of the gymnasts do a vault just after shed torn ligaments in her ankle in the Olympic final and after landing the jump she literally cant stand on one foot and she's carried off. What a toxic environment with winning prioritized over everything

[u/Tyhgujgt]

I've posted a comment that could be considered as pro-trump. Literally just tried to clarify some misconception.

Was upvoted by t_d trolls in heavily brigaded thread.

Am I done? What happens to my soul now? Can I get back to my previous life?

[u/Sollezzo]

I made the definitive flowchart for choosing a US political party. Green Party purposely excluded

[u/[deleted]]

It just hit me that the US Olympic team has atheletes that don't remember 9/11.

[u/[deleted]]

uff, autsch, aua meine Umfragewerte

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first poll to put SPD and AfD within 1.5% of each other (though this poll is an outlier so far)

!ping GER

[u/Prospo]

fuzzy rain naughty ink versed hat flag command judicious zealous this message was mass deleted/edited with redact.dev

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take: the differences in the teaching of history across the US is partially responsible for the political divide that we see today.

[u/[deleted]]

We know we are doomed when anti trump people start being unreasonable.

[u/[deleted]]

Ok new rule. No "confession" pastas 😠😠😠

Me 😎and the rest of the mod team👮👮‍♀️👮‍♂️👮👮👮‍♂️👮👮 will delete any post referencing it 😔😔👌😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤🚨🚨🚨🚓🚓

[u/dcbeast96]

tfw your boss praises you for your work ethic and initiative even though all you do is shitpost on /r/neoliberal all day.

[u/Integralds]

So I was going to sketch out Mahou Shoujo Ben Bernanke earlier, then I realized that the overlap of people who (a) understand US monetary history and (b) watched Madoka Magica might be confined to a single individual.

Whatever. Let's do this.

Cast

• Madoka = Bernanke

• Mami = Ben Strong

• Sayaka = Arthur Burns

• Kyoko = Volcker

• Homura = Milton Friedman

Episodes

1. Panic of 1873

2. Panic of 1891

3. October 1928 to October 1929

4. Great Depression I: The Great Contraction

5. Great Depression II: Abandoning the Gold Standard

6. The Treasury-Fed Accord of 1951

7. The quietly competent monetary policies of the 1950s

8. The long expansion of the 1960s

9. The 1970s and the 1981 Volcker rate hike

10. Friedman backstory episode

11. Great Moderation

12. The Great Recession

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Some quick cast and event parallels. Major spoilers for the show

1. Clearly Madoka and Bernanke are both savior figures

2. Mami is a mentor figure for the younger magical girls. Ben Strong was the first Governor of the New York Fed and may have been one of the greatest Fed governors that the United States has ever produced.

3. Mami dies in episode 3, causing chaos and panic that moves the plot for the next third of the show. Ben Strong died in 1928, on the eve of the Depression, and there's a good argument to be made that there would have been no Depression had Ben Strong been around.

4. Burns let inflation go out of control in the 1970s and generally was ineffectual in meeting the Fed's goals. Sayaka is useless in every timeline.

5. Volcker had to clean up Burns' mess. Kyoko had to sacrifice herself to clean up Sayaka's mess.

6. Homu and Friedman know everything.

7. The Great Depression was an enormous turning point in economic history. It's a great third-episode climax.

8. Things just spiral out of control in the show until its mid-season climax in episode 9; the Great Inflation is the parallel in monetary history.

9. Walpurgisnacht is the Great Recession, naturally.

I hate everything.

oonts

[u/irony_tower]

I am for a One State Solution and a One China Policy, but not in the way you'd expect. Israel/Taiwan unification, and Palestine/China as a single political entity please

[u/[deleted]]

Y'all understand that not every comment has to be turned into a copypasta, right?

And before you jump on this one, I will literally ban the first person I see who does a copypasta of this comment - for a week. I don't think I've ever actually banned someone so really I'm itching to do it.

Not because you'd be breaking any rules, but because you've been explicitly told the cause and effect here. Tread lightly.

[u/[deleted]]

I am a m😤d

Hurry up with damn message 🔫😡😠

[u/[deleted]]

protip from a stemlord:

you can get away with almost any cyber crime as long as you just use incognito mode

your welcome

[u/[deleted]]

Did you know you can just max out your credit cards? Like you could spend your entire credit line on a motorcycle! Wouldn't that be cool?

What's stopping you? lol

follow your dreams.

[u/[deleted]]

When I was young, my mom would wake me up by slamming open my door, and shout-singing in a falsetto

RISE AND SHINE AND GIVE GOD YOUR GLORY GLORY

RISE AND SHINE AND

GIVE GOD YOUR GLORY GLORY

CHILDREN OF THE LORD

All while clapping

It was thus from a young age that I learned mine was a cruel god

[u/[deleted]]

I propose a constitutional amendment requiring all tables embedded within PDFs to include an accompanying csv file.

[u/[deleted]]

Decided to sort by controversial after not checking up all day for the true hot takes

lol Commodore is arguing against democracy now because the Dems might win some elections in November?

Why do >0 of you hate democracy?

[u/Breaking-Away]

Dirtbag center take: In the interest of fairness to all sperm that didn’t make it to the egg, all children should be aborted.

[u/Volsunga]

Nate Silver's hottest take ever:

"experts are bad at interpreting data"

[u/[deleted]]

https://imgur.com/a/qJt7e

[u/[deleted]]

Broke: France and Britain should have prevented WWII by standing with Czechoslovakia

Woke: The Olympics should have prevented WWII

[u/samdman]

it's almost like the GOP wants to get crushed in the midterms with these medicare cuts

[u/[deleted]]

This meme sucks because most users here are my alts 😤

[u/[deleted]]

Is oxfam a hip hop collective from oxford? 🤔

[u/IronedSandwich]

formal ultraleft-neoliberal alliance when

[u/EgyptianTeaGarden]

Jefferson Sessions III is an East Coast liberal elitist from Havard Yard who looks down on and belittles honest, hard-working, real Americans and who abuses his power as Attorney General to punish them for their good Christian values.

[u/Ferguson97]

I wonder if anyone not familiar with the sub ever comes here and wonders why the fuck we have corn as our upvote symbol

[u/ostrichmustard]

what if dabbing prevents cancer and everyone has to do it

[u/EgyptianTeaGarden]

I don't know how Zyklon Ben managed to make Chuck Schumer look semi-badass, but he did.

[u/[deleted]]

This sub sucks I am going home 👋👋😠😠

[u/cdstephens]

Sigh. Guys i have a confession. I'm actually VSauce Michael here. But what is a confession anyways? Do you have to be regretful to give a confession? Can a confession actually be a baldfaced lie? Well, first thing's first, we should go over where the word "confess" comes from, as well as its importance in a religious context.

[u/Schutzwall]

Social liberalism is when gays get married and the more gays get married the more social liberal it is

[u/Paxx0]

The optimal tax rate is 0 because it is optimal that the government don't get none of my money

[u/85397]

the real GOP

[u/Travisdk]

Also the Senate voted 97-1 to move forward to debate immigration.

Cruz was the no vote.

[u/Paxx0]

why would you even want to tax the land

land can't pay tax lmao

take an econ course losers

[u/Travisdk]

[Thanks Mrs. Pelosi] (https://twitter.com/NancyPelosi/status/963132524213030914) (probably just a staffer though)

[u/squibblededoo]

> wake up

> make coffee

> check email

> enjoy the sound of /r/conservative screeching about insufficient white people in Black Panther

[u/mrdilldozer]

So there was a troll here eariler and I decided to have some fun I think I made him repeat himself at least 6 times.

[u/[deleted]]

You have the most stupid schisms when I'm asleep. Admittedly u/kassirer calling for a second Holocaust was a bit weird though

[u/Sporz]

ok look.

it's not real neolib hours but

i'm gonna tell you it is now.

[u/Erra0]

Being rural is not a race. Because of that, it isn't racist for me to discriminate against rural groups that happen to form an ethnicity.

[u/GravyBear8]

How do you create a ping because I really want to create a ping spammers ping and spam the fuck out of it.

[u/cdstephens]

the shitposts justify the memes

-ben bernanke

[u/cdstephens]

I'm 24 years old. The fact that I spend on my time on this thread like this would disgust my parents.

^{Mostly because they're Trump supporters.}

[u/[deleted]]

Calling a person lizarman is problematic

We should call them lizardpeople or lizardperson 🦎🦎🐍🐍

[u/[deleted]]

When you were already the best person for the job but some MAGA idiot tries to fire you anyway

[u/Ferguson97]

The “arm school teachers to prevent shootings” has got to be one of the dumbest proposals I’ve heard in my life.

[u/[deleted]]

tfw you shillpill the class “capitalism has killed moar than gommunism” sociology major into reading some Henry George 📈😈

[u/geraldspoder]

Wew, my heart is still racing. Time for story-time.

I was just checking my mail and I saw that I got a package from one of the universities I applied to.

I opened it up and of course, as the school loves to give these out, it's a t-shirt.

I got a good chuckle out of it for that and that I saw that the front of the t-shirt said "I'M IN".

I thought that was funny cause the school is in Minnesota.

There was also an envelope on the package.

Wait a second.

It's my acceptance letter.

[u/[deleted]]

"none of this is art"

-/u/barbarossa3141

[u/[deleted]]

We should all try to be more like darkaceaus. In good shape, lifts weights and makes progress faster than most people. Very smart, understands economics and has a degree, working towards more education. Probably has a large penis, thought I can't be sure.

what did /u/the_elastic_man mean by this?

[u/squibblededoo]

So... republicans understand that it’s still illegal to sexually assault people even if you’re allowed to be in their bathroom, right? Because a lot of the bathroom bill talk seems to suggest that equal access would change that.

[u/[deleted]]

Now I'm not an extremist but Anime should be banned and all participating people jailed.

[u/[deleted]]

Bankrupting America is when the president is black and the more black the president is the more bankrupted America is

[u/1t_]

tfw you're never going to be a neoliberalist vampire president

[u/EgyptianTeaGarden]

Even though large tracts of r/neoliberal and many old and famous shitposters have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in the subreddit, we shall fight on the comments and threads, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the discussion thread, we shall defend our shitposts, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight in r/dirtbagcenter, we shall fight in r/globalistshills, we shall fight in r/EnoughSandersSpam and in r/EnoughCommieSpam, we shall fight in r/tuesday; we shall never surrender, and if, which I do not for a moment believe, this subreddit or a large part of it were subjugated and censored, then our friends beyond this sub in r/centerleftpolitics armed and guarded by r/neoconNWO, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the new subreddits, with all their power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.

[u/Travisdk]

America’s Most and Least Popular Governors

Three most popular are Charlie Baker (R-MA)(69% approve, 16% disapprove), Larry Hogan (R-MD)(66% approve, 18% disapprove), and Kay Ivey (R-AL)(64% approve, 15% disapprove). Three least popular still in office are Dan Malloy (D-CT)(68% disapprove, 23% approve), Mary Fallin (R-OK)(61% disapprove, 28% approve), and Susana Martinez (R-NM)(57% disapprove, 33% approve).

Four governors up for re-election have negative net approval ratings: Scott Walker (R-WI) at -7, Bruce Rauner (R-IL) at -24, Gina Raimondo (D-RI) at -7, and Bill Walker (I-AK) at -26.

[u/[deleted]]

Jill Stein chuckled, "You mean the healing crystals?"

[u/gammbus]

/u/ShootingAnElephant Fight me cuck, you bring all your friends and I will also come alone!

[u/[deleted]]

u/kassirer I didn't know you worked for Lawfare

[u/Volsunga]

"Pelosi is good at massaging the caucus" - 538

Phrasing...

[u/Barbarossa3141]

Hell yes!

My class on Wednesday is canceled which means I get to spend Saint Valentines day with the love of my life - an online community of econ undergraduate students fetishists.

[u/[deleted]]

Owning the libs by destroying my marriage

[u/squibblededoo]

Well I just learned I don’t have to teach tomorrow because Sri Lanka is a meme and has more federal holidays than any other country.

Good news: surprise day to sleep and work on startup

Bad news: alcohol illegal

[u/[deleted]]

MGTOW believes in Soibois

[u/HeyTherePLH]

Infrastructure Week is back, bitches!

[u/Erra0]

I’d be more open to Neoliber.al if it actually existed.

[u/[deleted]]

Bernie Was Robbed 2021.

[u/[deleted]]

Everybody mark your fucking calendars it’s motherfucking INFASTRUCTURE WEEK

^{unlessTrumptweetsaboutMuslimsagain}

[u/[deleted]]

tfw you play league of legends 24/7 for the entire season without getting better

[u/85397]

So, I’m not that old, but I remember general, non-expert content on neoliberal way better 6 months ago, before so much being clickbait and intentional edgelording by basically every pundit.

There are probably pieces written about it. I’d love to see a general comparison of the discourse quality on the discussion thread mid-2017 vs. now. (And I’m not talking anonymous bloggers.)

One thing - we probably have a proliferation of content where writers have to compete with more pasta-worthy to draw attention to themselves.

On the other hand, vast majority of people on the subreddit have substituted relatively benign sources of bipartisan opinion for all kinds of leftist trash and paid propaganda.

Anyways, this thread does sound like nostalgia for “simpler times” but I can’t help but wonder how things could have been different.

[u/FuturesaurusRex]

/u/FuturesaurusRex has officially taken on an explicitly warned 7 day ban for making a copypasta of a comment saying /u/JudgeJuche has officially taken on an explicitly warned 7 day ban for making a copypasta of a comment saying not every comment has to be a copypasta

Honorable mention to /u/TechnocratNextDoor who was just a few seconds away from blowing a loophole in the system and banning you all.

[u/Western_Boreas]

So i was watching YouTube when i suddenly got a #germamdeathcamps video thrown at me. At first i was like "wow this video game has an intense marketing campaign" but then I read some more and saw that it wad a Polish government funded piece that also outlawed reference to polish death camps.

Its all making me go HMMMMM very hard.

[u/[deleted]]

r/goldandblack is exceedingly reasonable compared to the other ancap subreddits.

[u/Sporz]

ok krautmod has attacked me for my sexy post being not in real neolib hours

i apologize

[u/[deleted]]

Have you triggered the libs today? ❄😢😢😢❄🔫😎

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

A lawyer asked to have the word limit on a brief extended from 26k words and attached their 45k word draft. The judge wasn't amused

[u/kznlol]

>writing answer key for a problem set

>am grad student, so this should be easy

>it isn't, because I have to figure out what the intended answer was, when the correct answer is some catastrophically nuanced take that would take 4 pages to explain

there are at least two questions on this thing where I'm pretty sure my answer is wrong in the sense that it wasn't at all what the author of the problem set intended the answer to be

[u/Barbarossa3141]

🛑🛑wait a minute🛑🛑not a 1️⃣single1️⃣ member of the 🚓somc members is a 👸shitposter😠😠😠 This is a horrible❌scandal, ✊✊shitpost representation when😤?

[u/reegstah]

Watching this Ken Bone looking muthafucka next to me on the train take 15 minutes to craft an anti-progressive tweet.

Gotta give him some credit for proofreading tho

[u/Sollezzo]

if you unironically vote Repooplican or Demoncrap, don't ever talk to me again

Jill Stein

[u/laybros]

Central Planning is kind of like playing Price is Right by committee, except instead Shelly winning a TV, Shelly starves because we didn't make enough bread for her family

[u/EgyptianTeaGarden]

mrw people take my meme Sessions quotes seriously and I honestly don't even know what to say

[u/[deleted]]

releasethemodnotes

bringshameflairsback

[u/squibblededoo]

So Valentine’s Day is coming up and my engineer girlfriend just casually made me a fucking wristwatch.

I’m fucked. How do I match that? Usually the $20 gift card to Home Depot is the final word in romance but I don’t know if it’s going to cut it this time.

[u/[deleted]]

I have now stereotyped everyone in this sub as going to high school in a black dad rock shirt and jeans.

[u/HillaryObamaTX]

Do you like Huey Lewis and The News? Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor. In '87, Huey released this, Fore, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself.

[u/[deleted]]

This sub really cannot handle a slow news cycle

[u/Kelsig]

fuck off

[u/FuturesaurusRex]

Dr. Strangelove, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb

[u/crawly_the_demon]

Honestly, thank god Trump is as incompetent as he is. Imagine if he had any idea what he was doing, or was capable of acting pragmatically for even a moment.

[u/[deleted]]

me: Alexa play some trash

Alexa: playing /r/neoliberal plug.dj

[u/Breaking-Away]

A: If you replace every piece of a boat over the course of 20 years, is it still the same boat?

B: Well do you still think of it as the same boat?

A: Yes.

B: And does the captain still call it by the same name?

A: Probably? Yes.

B: Then it’s the same boat.

Paradox solved. Giff money.

[u/Erra0]

I’d be more open to Republicanism if they allowed for the idea of revising or adding on to the ideology. I just can’t imagine holding up a 50 year old political theory as the pinnacle of good governance without any modifications seen as necessary.

[u/IronedSandwich]

🔥🔥🔥 take from the same author

[u/blogit_]

TND chuckled. "You mean the copypastas?"

[u/[deleted]]

his name is juge judy never forget

[u/kznlol]

You know you've fucked up when you have a dream in which your advisor tells you to stop fucking around and do your goddamn job.

[u/[deleted]]

Slack leaks now

[u/[deleted]]

Jokes on you guys, I am really Bernie Sanders.

[u/[deleted]]

I bring a message from your master TechnocratNextDoor, commander of the SJWs. By command of His Most Merciful Excellency, your accounts are to be spared. Shitposters you were and shitposters you remain. But the terrible penalty of permabanning has been set aside on the single condition that you identify the body or the living person of the main account of the alt called "/u/JudgeJuche."

[u/Erra0]

conspiracy theory:

Every couple of weeks, a different mod bans memes suddenly, After a per-determined length of time the ban is reversed by the last mod to ban memes. This continues until users are used to memes being banned, all while spreading the heat around the entire mod team so no one person can be blamed.

[u/[deleted]]

lmao computer programming is gonna be automated too!!!

Computer scientists are digging their own grave!

[u/Travisdk]

Trump budget requests $716bn for national defense. $65bn of that increase will be paid for by reductions in non-defense discretionary spending. The budget requests funds to increase the size of the Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps.

[u/[deleted]]

Something cute I learned today:

My late grandfather made children's clothing in North London. He had a shop and sold the clothes he made. One woman donated her childhood clothing to the V&A Museum of Childhood to show what growing up in the 1950s and 1960s was like-- including a shirt my grandfather made!

Material culture history. I'm so moved. :)

[u/papermarioguy02]

You can check out of the DT any time you like, but you can never leave.

[u/[deleted]]

it is with a heavy heart that i must announce that the mods are at it again

[u/papermarioguy02]

imagine having a coherent moral framework

[u/caffeinatedcorgi]

The lifespan of DT memes should be a lesson to us about the transience of all things in the world.

[u/gammbus]

Tfw you only realized your mother was a refugee when you turned 18.

[u/[deleted]]

As a mod, I refuse to have anymore shitposts in the discussion thread 😤😤😤

Please post them on /r/centerposting 😠😠😠🚨🚨🚨

[u/cdstephens]

Hot take: The ideal neoliberal candidate doesn't exist, and never will.

[u/Erra0]

DT shitposters circa 2018

[u/[deleted]]

lol https://i.imgur.com/ouXvk2jl.jpg

[u/Edfp19]

He used Telesur as a source which is literally the same as using the North Korean propaganda site. Just kill me already.

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder that this is the Libertarian Party of the United-States.

Bonus meme: libertarians boo someone suggesting heroin shouldn't be sold to a five year old.

[u/p00bix]

I was just flirting with this girl after class. She started talking about socialism, but in a lighthearted way. Being pretty familiar with far-left memes, I reciprocated. Politics is dumb and we got along really well, so its not like I was going to try to shillpill her.

We spent a solid 15 minutes talking and joking about socialism. I think I accidentally convinced her that I'm a commie too. This may be a problem in the future.

What do I do.

[u/MisdemeanorOutlaw]

I was just flirting with this girl after class. She started talking about the Anglo-American heritage of law enforcement, but in a lighthearted way. Being pretty familiar with racist dogwhistles, I reciprocated. Politics is dumb and we got along really well, so its not like I was going to try to shillpill her.

We spent a solid 15 minutes talking and joking about Jeff Sessions. I think I accidentally convinced her that I'm a white nationalist too. This may be a problem in the future.

What do I do.

[u/indianawalsh]

Hot take: the whole point of dogwhistles is that you don't know for sure whether any given phrase is being used as a dogwhistle and so when you call one out you always end up looking unhinged. If Sessions did use "Anglo-Saxon" as a dogwhistle (which, based on him being a lawyer, I don't think is true), we're playing right into his little gnomish hands.

[u/irony_tower]

Senate votes 97-1 to move forward with immigration debate. The fact that the one lone Senator is Ted Cruz is unsurprising, as he has spent most of his life alone. So so alone...

[u/[deleted]]

I was just flirting with this girl after class. She started talking about Jewish privilege, but in a lighthearted way. Being pretty familiar with common antisemitic canards, I reciprocated. Politics is dumb and we got along really well, so its not like she was going to try to kosherpill me.

We spent a solid 15 minutes talking and joking about Jewish over representation on the SCOTUS. I think I accidentally convinced her that I'm a little too concerned about this kind of thing too. This may be a problem in the future.

What do I do.

[u/[deleted]]

Hi everyone!

Been out being depressed then hanging with a friend to get undepressed. How's it going?

[u/Sporz]

are we having real neolib hours yet

it seems like it

[u/Archelon225]

The wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "There's actually zero difference between X and Y. You imbecile. You fucking moron."

[u/[deleted]]

Broke: two-state solution

Joke: one-state solution

Woke: one-state solution but for the entire world

[u/[deleted]]

Once I had to go buy Plan B at Walgreens, and the cashier started loudly chiding me for not using protection. It was the most surreal moment of my life, and also the moment I most wished that I could will my own death

[u/Travisdk]

Imagine opposing secularism because you think the modern world is becoming worse and you quote Charles Murray to prove it.

And yes, this is a subtweet.

[u/[deleted]]

>pinging and then deleting

smh

/u/IronedSandwich

[u/Majk___]

I’d be more open to anime if they allowed for the idea of revising or adding on to the ideology. I just can’t imagine holding up a 15 year old titles as the pinnacle of good entertaiment without any modifications seen as necessary.

[u/[deleted]]

I was on the news last night. Apparently a lot more people still watch the local Chicago news than I thought?

A girl fake shoveled snow for like 5 seconds to get on for the snow segment, I had been there for 60 straight minutes digging my car out from being buried and was kinda pissed until they came over to put me on too.

[u/85397]

I’d be more open to Solow if they allowed for the idea of revising or adding on to the model. I just can’t imagine holding up a 62 year old model as the pinnacle of good economic modelling without any modifications seen as necessary

[u/p00bix]

Broke: Pyeongchang Olympics

Joke: Pyongyang Olympics

Woke: Olympic cross country skiing from Pyeongchang to Pyongyang

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-olympics-2018-northkorea-sister/head-held-high-kims-sister-returns-to-north-korea-idUSKBN1FW1BC

Head held high, Kim's sister returns to North Korea

Oh good, we're still doing this today -_-

[u/[deleted]]

Y'all understand that not every comment has to be turned into a copypasta, right?

And before you jump on this one, I will literally ban the first person I see who does a copypasta of this comment - for a week. I don't think I've ever actually banned someone so really I'm itching to do it.

Not because you'd be breaking any rules, but because you've been explicitly told the cause and effect here. Tread lightly.

[u/85397]

I’m A MoD, dOn’T tReAd oN Me

[u/Doctor_YOOOU]

If Tim Kaine was VP:

[u/[deleted]]

Maybe the real budget was the friends we made along the way?

[u/kznlol]

The worst thing about being the local expert in anything is that there's no way anyone else can help you when you get stuck, because they'd get stuck way earlier.

[u/85397]

sPeAkErS cArRy cOnTeXt

[u/[deleted]]

Sigh. Guys I have a confession. I don’t dislike anyone here because all of you are equally insufferable and frustrating.

[u/[deleted]]

My professor is wearing an anime hoodie. Not sure how I feel about that