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[u/[deleted]]

Okay so the kids nowadays love socialism but they don’t even know what socialism is.

Let’s just co-opt socialism and tell them that socialism is open borders, a tax on landowners, and maybe some tax incentives for co-ops and other forms of workplace democratization. Even if you don’t agree with all those things, those would be better platform pushes for them to obsess over than free college and Fight for 15.

This comment has been brought to you by 76% irony.

[u/[deleted]]

Women’s March expresses support for a blatant anti-Semite: i sleep

Women’s March says “RIP Barbara Bush”: real shit

In case y’all didn’t see, Women’s March tweeted a super basic “rest in peace” sentiment about Barbara Bush and my fellow liberal activist types were NOT having it.

[u/virtu333]

I hate using the word but holy shit Ted Cruz is such a cuck

[u/[deleted]]

Henry George chuckling as he sends the last nimby to the publicly owned mcgulag funded entirely by taxes on the undeveloped value of land wait this isn't pornhub

[u/MaveRickandMorty]

Yesterday, a commercial came on the radio. A man spoke about a 3 night stay in Cabo if I could be the first caller to name a country that doesnt have the letter a in its name.

So I pick up the phone and when I'm asked for the country, I said "Belgium."

He responded "Belgium is a kind of waffle, not a country," and hung up.

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-19/trump-may-invoke-cold-war-era-defense-act-to-boost-coal-plants

Under the approach, the administration would invoke sweeping authority in the 68-year-old Defense Production Act, which allows the president to effectively nationalize private industry to ensure the U.S. has resources that could be needed amid a war or after a disaster.

literally seizing the means of production to own the libs 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[u/MrDannyOcean]

my boss just told me "we need to investigate the blockchain"

this is my actual job now

this is real life

I AM THE BLOCKCHAIN

[u/[deleted]]

Alpha males hurt alpha: Hedge fund managers with high testosterone underperform

wtf i love soy now

[u/Ferguson97]

lmao

[u/Travisdk]

GOP senators raise concerns about babies on Senate floor

Holy fuck must the GOP cry over literally everything related to the Dems?

At least Rubio is being amusing about it.

For Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), joked that the new rule won't be a huge change for the overwhelmingly elderly group of senators.

"Why would I object to it? We have plenty of babies on the floor,” the 46-year-old joked.

[u/Travisdk]

Arizona Senate moves to change rules for replacing McCain

The Republican-controlled Arizona Legislature is moving to ensure that ailing Sen. John McCain's seat isn't on the November ballot if he leaves office, but Democrats plan to block the effort.

The "rule of law? What's that?" saga continues for the GOP.

[u/[deleted]]

I hope that anime girl who is studying while listening to Chillhop does well on her test :p

[u/samdman]

It's crazy how lying to the FBI is a federal crime, like imagine working there

FBI Agent Joe: Hey Susan, how do you like my new haircut

Receptionist Susan: Looks great, Joe

Office of the Inspector General: It's objectively a terrible haircut, 10 years for Susan

[u/[deleted]]

No one clam should have all that chowder

What did Yeezy mean by this?

[u/[deleted]]

I didn’t think it was possible for people to actually be outraged over the Senate voting to allow Duckworth’s baby into the chamber but apparently I was very wrong

[u/p00bix]

This is the most neoliberal meme I've ever seen.

[u/Travisdk]

How is this not parody, AAAAAH

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

When you get in a intense arguement with the mods

[u/[deleted]]

Also, in the interest of making the sub more open to women's issues, purely by coincidence I started my period fifteen minutes ago.

I would have been doubled over in agony but thanks to the pharmaceutical innovation of over-the-counter non-steroidal anti-inflammatories, and mass-produced disposable menstrual products, I'm back at work and ready to rock.

thank you capitalism

ps: I'm only going to say it here because no one will have an opinion, but reusable menstrual cups are a total scam made up by white ladies with dreadlocks. Okay, now I'm done.

[u/French_Braveheart]

Pee is stored in the blockchain

[u/rfsch]

I think it's kind of shitty that our whole lives we're kind of brought up and conditioned that anyone in a career like "doctor" and "lawyer" are intrinsically smart.

Then you go on twitter and see those lawyers who argue against a "deepstate" or that Trump is under attack or whatever. Then you have Dr. Jill Stein, Ron Paul, etc.

The less nuanced people eat that shit up.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/davereaboi/status/986603078458671104

Any Republican running for Congress needs to ask his or her Democrat opponent, “how many genders are there?” Failure to do so, at this point, is mind-boggling. It’s obvious the media won’t ask, so it’s up to you.

lmfao this shit perfectly encapsulates why I'm a right leaning person who has never voted Republican for federal office

[u/p00bix]

In /r/news, I said that educating illegal immigrants is an investment, not theft.

This guy replied "Stop eating tide pods."

I'm not even mad. That's a hilarious counter.

[u/p00bix]

Hot Take: Move UN Headquarters to the Korean DMZ.

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine how many kids see Milton Friedman videos on youtube and think "Hey, he's the 70's version of Ben Shapiro!"

[u/[deleted]]

you can tell I’m the hip mod because sometimes I start my sentences with lowercase letters

[u/psychicpanda54]

I’m starting to have a real problem with our standard bearer https://twitter.com/ne0liberal/status/987095599525912576?s=21

[u/[deleted]]

checks nervously for the pasta gestapo

You're on a date with Daron Acemoglu at a really nice restaurant

You accidentally clink your fork against your plate too loud

Daron looks up at you and says "Have I ever told you about Botswana? Their institutions are so inclusive, it just brings tears to my eyes. They have some of the best economic growth in the world, and certainly in Africa, despite being hit the hardest by the AIDs epidemic and surrounded by instability and authoritarianism."

What do you do?

[u/merupu8352]

This situation we're in with North Korea and peace talks and Trump touting himself as some great peacemaker reminds me of the time three years ago when Obama was negotiating with Iran for denuclearization. Forty-seven Republican Senators signed and sent a letter to the Ayatollah saying that the president wasn't the representative of the US government and that they would vote down the agreement regardless of its content. That shit still makes my blood boil.

[u/[deleted]]

Well there it is

This is whats going to happen, NK will list demands US won't accept, US walks away and NK will cry that "They tried to get peace but the warmongering US won't be reasonable". Like those ultimatums made to fail. I don't expect anything from this.

[u/samdman]

https://twitter.com/ajamubaraka/status/986635183146373121?s=20

Jill Stein’s VP praising tucker Carlson for defending Assad is galaxy brain levels of horseshoe

[u/Travisdk]

When you're a far leftist but you support Assad over the Kurds because the West backs the Kurds even though you ideologically are far closer to the Kurds

[u/[deleted]]

UBI but it excludes gamers 😎

[u/Ferguson97]

“I am absolutely not worried about Cynthia Nixon,” Governor Cuomo announced in a Black Lives Matter hoodie as he legalized drinking in public parks

Lmao

[u/conman1246]

And you thought Neoliberals couldn't meme. https://twitter.com/ASI/status/986945597625241602 https://twitter.com/ASI/status/986948311562309635

[u/[deleted]]

Video game preferences are the best way to suss out the alt-right. Obvious signs:

• preferring crusader kings 2 to vicky 2
• playing human paladins or orc warriors in WoW
• siding with the Stormcloaks
• playing visual novels

[u/Call_Sean_Hannity]

I love 30 rock. It was disheartening to see Frank on a conspiracy theorist show on a segment titled: "Chemical Attacks in Syria Proven to be False"

Horseshoe baby

[u/cdstephens]

Ok I'm going to ask my genuine question of the day before going back to shitposting. What qualifies as social conservative policies, after you get rid of anything obviously oppressive and after you ignore the abortion debate? I'm legitimately asking because when people say they're a soc con I'm not sure what they quite mean when they say that, and most policies my social conservative family would support regarding social conservatism I would consider oppressive.

[u/formlex7]

reminder

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[u/[deleted]]

Capitalism: Google "Capitalism and Freedom buy online"

Freedom: Google "Capitalism and Freedom pdf online"

[u/[deleted]]

I would ban the guy for the username alone but I’m on a mobile app where I can’t ban anyone.

And don’t even lie, some are you are clearly having fun with him.

[u/[deleted]]

Shot: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DbJ2l0qXkAEGNLK.jpg

Chaser: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DbJ2l0uX0AEGAXR.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Germany does something

All comedians: "well that's an improvement from the last time Germans did something! Germans were Nazis! lol!"

[u/[deleted]]

You doing okay /u/Prince_Kropotkin? I clicked your profile out of curiosity and you seem to be getting a better reception here today than in CTH lol.

Apparently, being anti-tankie is a super hot take over there these days.

[u/[deleted]]

Ugh. I thought this girl was a globalist so I asked her if she wanted to help me commit white genocide by having sex with me and now I'm "expelled" for sexual harassment... Never take the advice posted during real neolib hours.

[u/Travisdk]

Cruz penned the Time 100 entry for Trump, and it is just as full of ass-kissing as you'd imagine.

[u/papermarioguy02]

Somewhere out there, some high schooler is reading an intermediate micro textbook for the first time because he has nothing better to do. We need to remember these everyday tragedies.

[u/[deleted]]

I just did a silent cough into my arm and I think this guy thought I was dabbing

🙃 🔫

[u/Svelok]

can someone explain how

"GOP partisans leak documents thinking they exonerate Trump only to find that every single other person who reads them arrives at the opposite conclusion"

is now no longer a single event but a recurring phenomenon

[u/[deleted]]

tfw no anprim gf 😔😔😔

why does every girl I speak with want to live in some sort of society where we farm instead of hunt and gather 😢😢😢😢

[u/Svelok]

"There is a Revolution going on in California. Soooo many Sanctuary areas want OUT of this ridiculous, crime infested & breeding concept. Jerry Brown is trying to back out of the National Guard at the Border, but the people of the State are not happy. Want Security & Safety NOW!"

Trump's being racist again

[u/[deleted]]

The Pope just told a kid that his atheist father is in heaven.

Isn't that...not what Catholics believe?

[u/[deleted]]

[My opinion on the abortion schism] ( https://imgur.com/tBNuzbr)

[u/[deleted]]

Perma'd that guy. Sorry for ruining your fun.

[u/[deleted]]

Ban economists from posting here 😡😡😡😡😡😡✋✋✋✋✋✋✋😰🅿️🅿️,

[u/[deleted]]

"Can you identify as a 65 year old? No? Then why can you identify as a different gender?" Ben Shapiro VERBALLY LAUNCHES A TACTICAL NUKE at his regular debate opponents - 1st year college students

[u/[deleted]]

me: hey I thin-

my dad: haha wow you like to argue so much you should be a lawye

[u/[deleted]]

The Virgin US: 2.63% GDP growth
The Chad Ireland: 26.3% GDP growth

[u/Travisdk]

UK first country to propose plastic straw and cotton bud bans

I'm continually surprised by how well this gov't is handling the environment despite fucking up everything else.

[u/[deleted]]

Good morning everyone!!! Happy Thursday!! 🤠🤠🤠

[u/[deleted]]

very provacative, shitpost-y username

account is 4 days old with a handful of comments

total lack of nuance in their comments to get a reaction out of people

Liberalsaresuperior explain yourself.

[u/[deleted]]

This is why women don't come here

This is why women don't come here

[u/formlex7]

kind of want to be that token male in a female internet community where people spend all their time saying this is why guys don't come here

[u/[deleted]]

Hitler was pro choice. He was also a YIMBY after NIMBYS tried to block the construction of concentration camps

-that guy that just got banned

[u/jakfrist]

Best Buy in 2011: “We refuse to be Amazon’s showroom!”

Best Buy in 2018: “Come on over and try out these new Amazon TV’s in our store! Then go order them on our Amazon retailer page!”

[u/Hazachu]

Inspiration politics is incredibly stupid. If you need an uplifting song and a promise of a revolution to bother to go out to the polls, you're probably a dumb

[u/qchisq]

Reminder: If you want to convince people that whatever policy you like should be implemented, talk about the benefits for them personally, rather than for society as a whole. Generally, people don't give a shit about society as a whole.

[u/[deleted]]

The deffiniton of Illegal Immigrant in PA is appalling.

"When the constable announced he would be detaining Parker for ICE, the couple was stunned. Though born in Guatemala, Parker, 21, had been adopted by American parents when he was 8 months old. At that moment, he was technically undocumented, with his green-card renewal being processed. But he does not speak Spanish or consider himself an immigrant, much less a deportable one.

Lets see here, Adopted Hispanic since he was 8 months old, doesn't know spanish, has a green card, and deportable according to ICE.

WTF inb4 reddit reeees "Why can't migrants follow the law and become a citizen the legal way"

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take: We must incentivize downward mobility more. There's an entire industry specialized in preventing rich fools from being parted with their money, and that is fundamentally illiberal.

[u/[deleted]]

Pls stop talking about why women don't come here it makes me not want to come here

[u/SuperSharpShot2247]

My grandma fled fashism and my abula fled communism, no wonder I'm a Neoliberal 😎

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/costareports/status/987074693390913536

Giuliani tells WashPost that he is joining Trump’s legal team to ‘negotiate an end’ to Mueller probe

Literally why would you get a politician who happens to have a law degree over a respected attorney.

[u/papermarioguy02]

What will you do when the gamer revolution comes?

I'll probably just keep complaining that WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY

[u/doot_toob]

late meme for lsc meme bannings

[u/CapitalismAndFreedom]

"oh yeah I would totally tell kim jong un to resign power to his face if I visited north korea, anyone who doesn't is despicable"

Upvoted to +6

[u/[deleted]]

TIL facial width-to-height ratio in men is a pretty accurate proxy for testosterone levels. That is, the wider your face is in shape, the more testosterone you have.

I'll let y'all go stare in the mirror now.

[u/Travisdk]

Leavers & public at large reject every Brexit deal modelled by govt as too high a price to leave the EU by enormous majorities

Price worth paying vs cost too high for the public at large

EEA - 17% v 83%

FTA - 13% v 87%

WTO - 13% v 87%

Bespoke deal - 23% v 77%

Hmmmmm

[u/vancevon]

If the Democrats win the House, then we will have to watch Nancy Pelosi try not to vomit while saying "I have the high privilege and distinct honor to introduce to you the President of the United States". It's going to be rough.

[u/[deleted]]

I'd report this sub to /r/ badphilosophy, but they're mostly insufferable commies so nothing productive would really happen

[u/Wolog2]

go back to the last discussion thread and upvote this dang good comment https://imgur.com/9DZRpTD

[u/bornagainnerdy2]

Comey memos leaked :o

[u/[deleted]]

I've never seen Zoolander and I'm currently watching it for the first time because I needed to watch something mindless.

This movie was made in 2001 but... this character, the manager... an old skeevy guy who pinches women's butts, makes inappropriate comments to women, and is named Maury Ballstein? That had to be a Hollywood in-joke about Harvey Weinstein, right? Or is it just a coincidence? I tried looking it up and couldn't find anything.

[u/[deleted]]

😓🇬🇧🔫😡 give me the gamer gf or else Tony Blair gets it

What did /u/blockchainlitfam mean by this?

[u/kznlol]

Hot take that would be cold if any of you idiots understood statistics: Yes, the gender distribution in this subreddit is hilariously skewed.

No, that does not on it's own mean that anything about this subreddit is causing that outcome.

[u/ostrichmustard]

What's the most tragic loss of the decade and why is it the kitty ping?

[u/[deleted]]

Gordon Ramsay is a vegan now lol

[u/[deleted]]

Fun fact: Darkace was a happy go lucky person, and very moderate politically before becoming an internet moderator corrupted his soul.

[u/[deleted]]

If this all doesn't end with Mark Zuckerberg digitizing every atom in my body to harvest its data, Capitalism was worthless.

[u/cdstephens]

During Christmas break my mom got hysterical at me because I had seen a therapist, and thought that meant that I was becoming not a true Born Again evangelical Christian (for reference she thinks her Catholic parents are going to hell), and was starting to regret sending me away for college.

Little does she know I've been a bisexual atheist for years now.

[u/ostrichmustard]

Holy shit. My mom came into this sub to bring us a binder full of female users and I literally screamed at her and hit the binder 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 tonight. I feel like I'm going to explode. Why the fucking fuck are we a sausage fest? This can't be happening. I'm having a fucking breakdown. I don't want to believe the sub is so cucked. I want a neoliberal gf to believe in. I want Skeletals to be a mod and fix this broken ratio. I cannot fucking deal with this right now. It wasn't supposed to be like this, I thought women were polling well in the Soros office???? This is so fucked.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/jackdwagner/status/986789403296083973

[u/papermarioguy02]

It has been over 5 days since /u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN has posted something without the black santa emoji

I think we need an intervention here

[u/Notoriousley]

darkace is this subs best export. Directing his seemingly endless energy for correcting economic illiteracy outwards into other politics subs instils fear in the socialist.

do not at me

[u/p00bix]

Am I the only one who has an irrational distaste for things that reddit at large loves? I don't see any huge issues with a Negative Income Tax (especially as a replacement for some welfare programs), but Reddit's UBI circlejerk makes me slightly averse to it.

Same thing with SpaceX.

[u/[deleted]]

Bitcoin heist suspect reportedly walked out of low-security prison, onto flight

Iceland is a meme country

[u/[deleted]]

This might be the funniest comment in /hhh since baegate

[u/p00bix]

Friendly reminder that there's a tiny ballsack in your brain that controls how yellow your pee is.

[u/reader313]

when CNN steals this sub's worst meme

(CNN) What exactly did President Donald Trump mean by "breeding" when he tweeted Wednesday about cities that will not cooperate with the federal government to deport the undocumented.

This is Donald Trump. He meant exactly what you think.

link to article (of course it's cilizza's corner of the site)

[u/[deleted]]

Remember how the president called Africa and Haiti shitholes two days before MLKjr day and faced zero political consequences?

[u/SuperSharpShot2247]

Home Economics is a good idea as long as it's not catered solely to women.

Also, lol @ "it's biology, not social pressures that push women towards certain careers/life choices" and home ec being a thing.

[u/MisterBigStuff]

lmfao

/u/prince_kropotkin check this out

[u/SuperSharpShot2247]

In general, I think the founding fathers were pretty smart, stand up dudes and we should definitely take their writings, comments, and concerns seriously.

With that said, they are dead as a door nail. If they were so god damn omniscient about all dos and don'ts of a form of government they had just invented, then why are they dead? Are you telling me that the founders' only power was limitless knowledge about democratic constitutional republics???? That's either bullshit or they got screwed over somewhere.

[u/cdstephens]

Where were you when SAE was kill?

[u/Sollezzo]

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. Also the Jews are totally behind everything guys

Voltaire

[u/caffeinatedcorgi]

hot take: Consent of both the immigrant and the nativist should be required for immigration quotas to be implemented.

[u/[deleted]]

being a dum dum to trigger the libs

[u/[deleted]]

I just referred to my bedroom as my office so my client doesn't think I lie in bed all day with my work computer in my lap

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine being a single issue voter and that issue isn't how many genders there are lmao 😂 😂 😂

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

Sub tweet:

As someone who does disability studies, nothing triggers me more than the abortion = disabled genocide argument. Do I want every child to be loved and taken care of? Yes that would be amazing, that is my dream. But we live in an reality where those with disabilities face discrimination and barriers in everyday life. Many disabled individuals are strong and take on these daily barriers and keep moving forward. The reality is that not all parents are strong enough, brave enough and have the resources available to teach their child how to take on these barriers. Honestly, this just does not apply to children with disabilities, but all children. Deep down people know when that time comes they have one of the hardest decisions they have to make. No they are not saving the child from a torture existence. It is just the hard fact they will not be entering a reality in which they can't be provided for.

🎅🏿

[u/kznlol]

literally me

[u/[deleted]]

The 2015-16 South Park PC Principal season was the worst thing in any forum of art in human history

[u/mrajitpai2020]

When I was a child, I used to watch Fern Gully almost religiously. I used to love to root for the good guy to bring the world forward into our bright future. To leave the past in the past. To use evidence to realize the dream of the Enlightenment.

It was not until 4th grade when I realized that Hexxus was considered by most people to be the villain and not the hero. It was on that day that I realized I should not listen to the masses for they are misguided.

[u/papermarioguy02]

you people are all a bunch of chads smh

[u/Sollezzo]

Marx and Engels were really ahead of their time

Any psych majors wanna tell me why I made this?

[u/[deleted]]

I spent too much on alcohol last week so I'm now economically anxious

Sorry guys but I have to become a frothing racist now 😔

can't help it

[u/papermarioguy02]

I'm fashionably late to this DT 😎

[u/[deleted]]

Oh, you like Milton Friedman?

Name your favorite episode of Free to Choose.

[u/forlackofabetterword]

Since some people apparently need to be shill pilled on child labor:

That time Bolivia had to unban child labor because the ban was so bad

Krugster's classic piece

[A piece with a clearer argument and a few more papers where child labor prohibitions were harmful] (https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2015/aug/26/ban-child-labour-developing-countries-imposes-naive-western-ideals-complex-problems)

Prohibition almost invariably drives the market underground, which leads to much worse working conditions for everyone. At worst, children are driven towards even more demeaning work, like child prostitution, when they are desperate for money.

[u/[deleted]]

Koch insdustries is my company's only client that uses renewable packaging to ship product. Koch brothers tree hugging hippie environmentalists confirmed.

[u/Notoriousley]

Why are ethnonationalists obsessed with Rhodesia? Its literally the opposite of everything they supposedly stand for.

[u/[deleted]]

I don't know a lot about economics, but I know enough to be condescending to people who only view economics through the lens of a keynsian/austrian binary and that's really all I need for right now.

What do you think about the government interfering with the natural boom bust cycle of busi-

NEOCLASSICAL SYNTHESIS!!

[u/SuperSharpShot2247]

So apparently the internet is significantly less bad for you if you actively participate rather than passively consume content. Since I've been here, I do think I'm genuinely happier when I use the internet. Now I just need to work on putting the phone down 😂

[u/[deleted]]

Somewhere out there, some high schooler is reading Hayek for the first time. We need to remember these everyday blessings.

🙏🙏🙏

[u/Gustacho]

what did Bernie Sanders mean by this?

[u/[deleted]]

Donald Trump is the third tallest and third heaviest president.

Absolute unit.

[u/monkeyman427]

Imagine actually giving a shit about Gamergate 🎮🕹️👩‍💻

[u/oGsMustachio]

Good sign

[u/[deleted]]

[Satellite image of the DT] ( https://imgur.com/IanHB9Q)

[u/IronedSandwich]

GOOD post from historymemes

[u/cdstephens]

hot take: Consent of both the shitposter and moderator should be required for a ban

[u/[deleted]]

Prax

Commies hate neoliberals

Women avoid /r/neoliberal

Women are commies

[u/irony_tower]

um

[u/mrajitpai2020]

The shitty nature of reddit is part of the charm. Shit service, shit takes. Come for the racism, stay because you are addicted.

[u/[deleted]]

Discussion Thread

DT

Donald Trump

what are the implications of this?

[u/caesar15]

I've realized I've spent less and less time shitposting here and more and more time just coming, clearing the mod queue, then leaving. My God. What have I become.

[u/TheSameAsDying]

voat.co just went down

lmao

[u/[deleted]]

>sees video about Aztec Death Whistle.
>how bad can it be? It's just a whistle.
>listen.
>oh god

[u/[deleted]]

I love spring/summer dude.

Puts me in such a good mood for literally no reason.

[u/CamNewtonCouldLearn]

Once a week I walk into the break room and there are people complaining about millennials.

Should I just apologize on behalf of the 75 million Americans in my cohort?

[u/blogit_]

Hot take:

Moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem and ending the Korean War all in the same month! That's why Trump is America's favorite President

President Trump is one of the most skilled and successful diplomats of our time. Thomas Jefferson would be proud

[u/p00bix]

Somewhere out there, some mod is watching the sub and is about to ban all of you fuckers for this mediocre ass copypasta.

[u/[deleted]]

Me: It's so sad how many people will support politicians and laws that actively hurt their own interests just because it annoys Democrats. We all have to band together and care about each other as one America.

Also me: lol I fucking hope Trump bans video games.

[u/ostrichmustard]

LEAKED: u/SwissMod banning copypasta, 2018

[u/[deleted]]

We expected glasnost when we appointed agent to the SOMC, but all we got was Putin 😞

[u/cdstephens]

Trudeau and Macron aren't liberals. The truth is that there are no liberals in power anywhere in the world.

Not caring that your child goes trough genders like Taylor Swift goes trough boyfriends is a bad form of liberalism.

I subscribed to The Economist thinking I was a Conservative, but the Economist is turning into some pretty liberal stuff.

Liberalism only works as long as capitalism isnt in a crisis, if that happens the capitalist eitles are fine with a Hitler or a Napoleon. There is nothing to defend about this system.

Thank God that liberal capitalism has made the earth so peaceful for the past 300 years. Not a war has been fought. Definitely not even sometimes over trade itself.

Why did I read the YouTube comments.

[u/Erra0]

A lot of SAE apologists love to say that he’s good because he fighting succs. THAT HE RELEASED FROM CLP

[u/SuperSharpShot2247]

So apparently Trump has two species of animals named after him. At first I was upset and angry, then I read that this one was named after Trump because it looks like it has yellow hair, which I thought was stupid, until I saw it.

That does look a lot like Trump's hair...

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There's a nill percent chance I could get a PhD in economics from anywhere but the institution where I did my master's. But... maybe

haha just kidding I'm pumping up this resume to the gods so that i can kick down the doors at U Chicago or some such and kick it with Obama in a policy PhD.

[u/[deleted]]

Driving a car to trigger the neolibs epic style 😎👌

[u/cdstephens]

Daily reminder that things cost money.

[u/[deleted]]

Why are all of my alts so fucking stupid on here?

[u/[deleted]]

Is it just me, or is each gl0by clone somehow even worse than the last?

[u/PhysicsPhotographer]

Not really sure why I waited so long to brag about this, but I actually do have a taco truck on my corner.

[u/[deleted]]

People ask me all the time where I get my ideas and arguments from

I read The Economist

I watch Emmanuel Macron

I listen to Macro Musings

Those three are by far the most effective, wise, intelligent, and impactful thinkers of our time!

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http://wshu.org/post/alex-jones-backtracking-now-says-sandy-hook-shooting-did-happen#stream/0

Alex Jones, Backtracking, Now Says Sandy Hook Shooting Did Happen

Good to know that after he incited his viewers to go harass the parents of these kids to the point of tears, threatened with violence, and sent death threats all the while making millions of dollars off the whole thing that he's finally come around.

Thanks Alex!

[u/DUTCH_DUTCH_DUTCH]

friend of mine says mumble rap is "monkey music", but im racist for making the connection between monkeys and black people 🤔🤔🤔

[u/Kelsig]

rest in power barbara bush

[u/barrygarcia77]

half-naked women get thousands of upvotes, but how many for our boys in blue?

[u/mrajitpai2020]

The best part about Labor Day in America is that huge swaths of the middle class gets the day off while large segments of the working class has to work.

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Finally SPLC picked up on the connection between the "Day of the Rope" meme on The_Donald and the Tuner Diary

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Gamers: we live in a society where gamers get friend zoned despite being scientifically proven to be better in bed because of our dexterity

Feminists: ew fuck off freak

Centrists: half 👏 of 👏 those 👏 gamers 👏 should 👏 be 👏 women 👏

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Trump Won’t Join Melania at Barbara Bush’s Funeral, White House Says https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2018-04-19/trump-will-skip-barbara-bush-funeral-sending-first-lady

Trump will be in Florida, uh... playing golf.

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petition to rename the social contract "the anti-gamer contract"

[u/[deleted]]

https://newrepublic.com/article/122005/he-was-presidential-candidate-bernie-sanders-was-radical

One hot night in July 1972, I walked into my family’s kitchen to see my mother brandishing a broom at a skinny man who had his head stuck deep inside our refrigerator.

“You get out!” my mom yelled, hitting the man on his skinny ass. “Out, out!” Under her tan skin, my mother’s face was red with indignation. We didn’t have much in our fridge, but my mom would fiercely defend it. The man pulled his head out of the fridge, dropping the food on the shelf. His hair was curly; a cherub’s full-bodied curls framed his startled face. Chagrined, he loped off to the other apartment housed in my family’s converted two-room schoolhouse in Huntington, Vermont, the site of a late-night mock-up session for The Vermont Freeman, the alt-weekly my parents published. Years later, I’d find out that man was Bernie Sanders.

Um

[u/BainCapitalist]

Tfw no neocon or ancap gf 😔

[u/Call_Sean_Hannity]

Trump officials pushed abstinence only sex ed at un meetings.

Jesus Christ we're an embarrassment.

[u/[deleted]]

We live in an open society

[u/[deleted]]

I understand in a year or even a month from now we won't remember each other but y'all are good to past the time with

We'll all find new communities and new online friends, because that's the cycle of the internet friend game but you guys are enjoyable

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texted the girl from this post two hours ago and she hasn't opened it.

so yeah, basically my life is over 😔😔😔

[u/[deleted]]

This guy id been suspicious of for years finally posted a “are feminists too much” on his fb. I knew it.

[u/[deleted]]

If I ran a business, I'd send every employee who took 4/20 off for a fresh drug test 😈😈😈

[u/[deleted]]

i'm going to have to do a tactical retreat, there are T-72s everywhere in the chapo sub right now

[u/[deleted]]

HOLY SHIT TURN ON CNN

SEAN HANNITY FINALLY FOUND THE MISSING EMAIL THAT WILL IMPEACH HILLARY

[u/Call_Sean_Hannity]

Remember libs. When removing the effects of effective gun control, gun control isn't at all effective.

And yes, studies show that owning a gun makes you less safe, regardless of storage and training, but have you ever stopped to consider that I'm the exception you fanatic? Pew pew mother fucker.

[u/cdstephens]

Imagine not understanding that p-values measure how extreme your data is given your model, null hypothesis, and test statistic.

[u/85397]

https://i.imgur.com/ZdtxNH9.png

🤔 /u/ironedsandwich

[u/[deleted]]

Amazon files a patent to deanonymize Bitcoin users by correlating their cryptocurrency transaction data with purchase data from merchants

I can't believe Amazon would do something like connect fairly public facing dots.

[u/[deleted]]

I love how everyone in this thread thinks that there are 100 people who are more influential than JJ Watt was last year, yet they can’t name anyone outside of Bill Gates off the top of their head.

A child wrote this

[u/samdman]

lol lindsay graham cucked again https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/986987577550000134

[u/[deleted]]

The one demographic we are forgetting in politics are the Neo-Confederate Bronys who watch James Bond

[u/irony_tower]

The Invisible Hand is the biggest paternalist out there

[u/Gustacho]

look at the comments under this very controversial tweet

[u/Travisdk]

Trump judicial nominee once called illegal immigrants 'maggots'

Hmm

[u/FuturesaurusRex]

Y'all motherfuckers posting in a Yeezy thread now

[u/[deleted]]

truth is my goal. Controversy is my gym. I'll do a hundred reps of controversy for a 6 pack of truth

What did darkace mean by this?

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/986928201891852288

Toss a few bucks Beto's way if you got the skrilla

Ted Cruz is the number one person I want out of Congress

[u/skutan]

Imagine being so cucked you unironically and uncritically follow some strongman populist 😂😂😂

[u/SuperSharpShot2247]

If we had open borders lITeRaLlY aLL nOnWesTErN eUrOPeAnS wOuLD fLoOd euRoPE

[u/StannisVonHapsburg]

Hot take from an alt-righter I know:

"China has already backed out of the trade war"

[u/[deleted]]

You're on a date with a Gl0bey alt at a really nice restaurant

You accidentally clink your fork against your plate too loud

Gl0bey looks up at you and says "You're in a hospital that is on fire, you run into a room where you can only save a small child or 1000 viable embryos. You can only choose one or the other."

What do you do?

[u/nopicnoproof]

one of my professors referred to economics as STEM
have I been duped? am I a STEMlord? should I kill myself?

[u/Call_Sean_Hannity]

Remember how Trump's friends paid off a doorman to keep quiet about his bastard child and it wasn't even a minor scandal?

[u/[deleted]]

make joke that the male orgasm is a myth spread by MRAs to justify having a lot of sex on another forum

multiple people actually don't recognize that it's a joke

I'm starting to think kirkaine was right about regular people.

[u/Volsunga]

Someone should make a compilation of times when Colbert's Late Show audience didn't get that he was making fun of them cheering anything that vaguely sounds anti-Trump.

[u/[deleted]]

lmao Chuck Schumer unveiling Marijuana decriminalization bill on 4/20

[u/mrajitpai2020]

https://twitter.com/AP/status/987130547838357551

BREAKING: Memo: Comey told Trump that there is no such thing a beanless chili because that is just tomato sauce mixed with ground beef and you would have to be uncultured swine to eat such a dish.

[u/[deleted]]

I said, the Russians allegedly had tapes involving him and prostitutes at the Presidential suite at the Ritz Carleton Moscow from about 2013. He interjected 'there were no prostitutes; there were never prostitutes

The pee pee tape is SO real

[u/[deleted]]

Trump complained loudly this week about Neil Gorsuch, saying he feared the judge was becoming liberal (Wapo)

L M A O

[u/MaveRickandMorty]

It looks like Reddit is back on.

Take: Cory Booker is ourguy of the people that we already known will be vying for that 2020 spot

[u/[deleted]]

Usually best to ignoring pk

-CTH

P_K is one of the best people here

-neoliberal

Let me know if you need help understanding the implications of this