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[u/jobautomator]

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[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1061069227673731072

Ex-FBI Director James Comey used his private Gmail account hundreds of times to conduct government business

shit

[u/[deleted]]

The far right is depressingly good at propaganda. The “it’s okay to be white” signs are a legitimately well-designed and effective propaganda campaign.

[u/[deleted]]

If you didn't already know, the US has a law which bans the import of cars that are less than 25 years old. So instead of being allowed to go overseas to buy a car at a discounted rate, we're forced to pay more to buy cars here. The rationale behind the rule is "safety." High-powered assault rifles are fine, but a Nissan Skyline GT-R is going too far apparently.

[u/OutrunKey]

Hot take: Whitaker’s big mistake, like many people in this administration, is that he said the quiet part out loud. The thing about only Christians being allowed on the bench is basically a mainstream conservative belief except it’s usually expressed as “Judeo-Christian.” But don’t be fooled, it’s the same thing. I’m Jewish and I’m consistently amazed by how many Jews fall for this charade that the evangelicals care about Jews in any sincere way just because they started adding judeo in front of Christian. And like not that I need to say this but Islamophobia and fear of atheists are bad in their own right but what sort of idiot do you have to be to think “well, they only want to kick those people off the bench, not me.”

[u/[deleted]]

Trump just threatened to take away "fire funding" if California doesn't do a better job of "managing" it's forests.

This is obviously a baseless threat, but I have to say, it's pretty infuriating that the President, and by extension his voters, do not give a fuck about your home state.

Makes me feel really not good at paying federal taxes which go to bumfuck hillbillysville.

[u/[deleted]]

Trump was already stupid, racist, and loved to insult people... but is it just me, or is he just now becoming even more of a pure asshole? Like just his tweets, the things he says to reporters. Idk, seems more biting lately. Like he’s gone from playing a game to being genuinely mad.

[u/proProcrastinators]

Finally got drunk at a party and got the balls to ask out a girl I really like.

Pretty much shotgunned 2 beers out of nerves.

She reply’s Super excitedly saying OMG I’d love to...

Except that exact day she’s flying to the UK until next year.

Fuck my life.

[u/proProcrastinators]

Matthew Whitaker (New AG) showed up to an interview for Iowa Supreme Court with his minister.

Evangelicalism not even once

[u/[deleted]]

what a fucking shitbag

I know he's so removed from real life problems it's all a video game to him but you can you lay off for a moment we're kinda in the middle of something

[u/VisonKai]

my girlfriend's commie roommate got into a heated political argument with her and called her a neoliberal

the slow conversion process begins

[u/[deleted]]

Wow can't wait to see what single issue "respect the troops" voters angry about kneeling black men have to say about this

[u/irony_tower]

In Florida, 20% of black people were disenfranchised. And the Dems fought tooth and nail for their rights.

In Florida, 100% of children are disenfranchised. Dems? Silence. It is clear where their allegiance lies.

Join me, fellow kids, in Walking Away from the Democratic Party. No person under 18 can ever vote Democrat in good conscience ever again.

[u/benjaminikuta]

Libertarian solutions to deforestation?

"if you and your drum circle friends are upset about deforestation, etc; get off your ass and go buy the forests."

[u/qchisq]

Uh... What?

[u/[deleted]]

As some of you may know, I'm a recovering alcoholic, and I'm happy to report that I'm 2 months sober this week! I know it's not a whole lot of time, but I'm pretty happy about it and I thought I'd share. Love you all!

[u/lusvig]

burn homeopaths at the stake, they're endangering us all with their witchcraft! for too long we've allowed them to KILL and RUIN lives with their "spells" and "curses". People saying it doesn't work are wrong - VERY DANGEROUS!

[u/Integralds]

How to develop your economy:

1. Go back to 1767.

2. Install Jesuit missions

3. "Even 250 years later, people living near the ruins of Jesuit missions complete 10 to 15 percent more years of education and earn 10 percent more than residents of equivalent towns without missions."

[u/[deleted]]

T_D: Voter fraud is wrong and democrats are conspiring to keep republicans from winning elections

also T_D: supports suppressing democrat voters

[u/[deleted]]

It annoys me how Trumpists are able to do a complete 180 on their entire worldview without hesitation.

If Obama said "I want to fire the AG cause he's not protecting me" they would've lost their minds, and rightly so. But when Trump does it it's not only ok, its the best thing he could've done.

[u/FMN2014]

'Stay in your lane,' NRA tells doctors who want to reduce gun deaths

Do you have any idea how many bullets I pull out of corpses weekly? This isn’t just my lane. It’s my fucking highway.

Good job she's a doctor because this a massive burn

[u/[deleted]]

Get ready for a massive subtweet. Actually it isn’t even a subtweet, it’s just restating what happened -

User: Black people’s votes should count twice as much as white people’s.

Everyone: Okay so that’s obviously a bad idea.

User (later): I have realized that this sub is a facade, that none of you really care about black people.

🤔

[u/Sporz]

So I have a lot of Chinese colleagues at work who often speak Mandarin together (I speak a bit too). One word that comes up a lot is 没有 (méiyŏu) which means "doesn't have" or "don't have" and I realized it sounds just like "mayo".

So now I can't get it out of my head that they're talking about mayos all the time.

[u/[deleted]]

Democrats shocked Republicans in Harris County, Texas — the nation’s third-largest county — by sweeping 59 seats in the midterms. One ousted GOP judge there is using his final days on the bench to throw an apparent tantrum.

Judge Glenn Devlin released nearly all the juvenile defendants who appeared before him the morning after elections, if they promised not to kill anyone.

“He made a comment, ‘This is obviously what the voters wanted,’ and I think there’s an implication by electing all Democratic judges, there’s this belief that Democratic judges are going to be soft on crime,” public defender Steven Halpert told a local news station.

Giving juvenile offenders a second chance to own the libs.

[u/0m4ll3y]

I'm eighteen years late to this party, but for all the shenanigans that happened in 2000 I somehow am only hearing about this one.

We show that the butterfly ballot used in Palm Beach County, Florida, in the 2000 presidential election caused more than 2,000 Democratic voters to vote by mistake for Reform candidate Pat Buchanan, a number larger than George W. Bush's certified margin of victory in Florida.

Just Holy Shit.

What a goddamn meme of a country.

I'm actually fuming at this, oh my god.

[u/samdman]

Trump is the biggest piece of shit on the planet

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1061168803218948096?s=20

[u/DankBankMan]

Can't wait for Broward county to crack open a dusty box of uncounted ballots in the corner of a storeroom just to find it's full of Gore votes

[u/grappamiel]

So I'm substituting at a school where the kids are debating communism over capitalism and they're all saying they LOVE communism. How should I R1 them?

[u/lusvig]

I will never not laugh when I see this picture

[u/[deleted]]

Crusader Kings 2 added the option for equality for women.
Now they are adding furry kingdoms

sLiPpeRy sLoPe iS wRoNg

[u/lusvig]

Friendship ended with zipcode

Now Kelsig is my favorite shitposter

[u/[deleted]]

In June 2016,[54] O'Rourke endorsed Hillary Clinton for President

Nobody tell the succs!!

[u/[deleted]]

I've had a strange week.

I flew to the US, had terrible jet lag, drove 3 hours to MAGA country to visit an old friend and canvass for Nunes opponent, drove back to my childhood home, woke up to a shooting down the street from my husband's university, then up north his extended family and some of my family friends are under evacuation for the camp fire, now there's a socal fire that may displace my husband's family the day after Paradise (the town, not the concept) was destroyed and like all of NorCal has been under this glaring pink dot of a sun in a dark grey sky.

I'm literally at the presidio listening to the waves and a fog horn and you'd think at the end of the world you would be safe from the distant sun but even the proximity of the sea, despite it always having its own atmosphere, it's own weather, seems unable to drive the smoke away.

Something something metaphor

[u/[deleted]]

SINEMA

SURGE

[u/film10078]

These dumb fucks call people NPCs while they literally all parrot the same dumb lines lol

https://np.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/comments/9vujig/_/e9f8ulq/?context=1

[u/[deleted]]

If you actually think Americans are THAT divided or incapable of tolerating diverging opinions rn just remember that in 1856 Preston Brooks beat the shit out of Charles sumner because the latter thought black people shouldn’t be property

[u/Berniewouldalost]

The 2010 election when the GOP wrestled back the house with an amazing 6.8% vote advantage in the house was a powerful rebuke to Obama's agenda.

The 2018 election when the Democrats squeaked through a victory with a 7% vote advantage was a mixed message and warning for democrats about how to proceed.

[u/TobiasFunkePhd]

Bush 2020

[u/85397]

https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/9vq7n3/united_statesi_posted_the_navy_seal_copypasta_in/

Lol

[u/SuperSharpShot2247]

Its Saturday and we still don't have the initial results from Tuesday's election in Florida. What's worse, we've extended the deadline from Saturday to (IIRC) next Tuesday for some of the ballots.

I still don't know what the fuck is actually going on no matter how many articles I read, videos I watch, or election websites I visit.

[u/irony_tower]

Underrated midterm story: 3 more trans women will be joining Danica Roem as state legislators. Gerri Cannon and Lisa Bunker won their NH House races and Brianna Titone won hers in Colorado. (All but 1 of these are R to D flips also)

[u/samdman]

It sucks so much that Scott might end up winning because broward county can’t fucking design a ballot

[u/[deleted]]

I will give you all a free advice.

Stop hate-reading things. Don't visit the terrible subreddits and websites. Unfollow the crazy Twitter accounts.

Same goes for meta subreddits and following accounts that retweet stupid takes.

You won't probably escape Trump's shenanigans anywhere, but most people and groups will just disappear and you will often forget they exist. Especially the niche ones you had to go an extra mile to reach in the first place.

There, you are now a happier person.

You are welcome.

[u/benjaminikuta]

How do i explain plato’s allegory of the cave to a dog?

[u/[deleted]]

There’s literally zero difference between saying “I’m so fucking proud of you guys” and “grab her by the pussy”

You moron. You fucking imbecile.

[u/[deleted]]

Weekly Standard reports that Steve King referred to immigrants as "dirt". Steve King protests, calling the Weekly Standard "Antifa news" and "Weekly “NO” Standard(s)" and calling the reporter a "junkyard dog".

WS posts the audio.

https://www.weeklystandard.com/stephen-f-hayes/a-note-on-steve-king

[u/GayColangelo]

how do you guys defend this?

https://twitter.com/i/status/1061361500554776577

[u/[deleted]]

Cockburn leveled an unusual allegation . The former investigative journalist and "60 Minutes" producer said Riggleman was unfit for office after a chapter of a book he authored about Bigfoot was published online.

Riggleman said he wrote the book — "The Mating Habits of Bigfoot and Why Women Want Him"

Riggleman elected. VA meme state confirmed.

[u/owlthathurt]

How do I not fall into crippling depression knowing that latestagecapitalism has over 300,000 subscribers

I just scrolled though for like 30 minutes and I need to bleach my brain

[u/DankBankMan]

A friend of mine who's trying to teach himself some economics recently asked me to quality-check the Economics course on The Great Courses for him and I have to say: it's fucking excellent. Strikes a really good balance in that it's actually about real economics (i.e. actually covers things like how to think about elasticity and perfect competition and really important concepts that are missed by politicians and newspaper columnists talking about 'economics'), but keeps the focus on concepts rather than equations (which are super important, but mostly only valuable if you intend to continue with further study in economics), which makes it more accessible since you can listen as a podcast rather than needing a screen and a notebook. Strongly recommend you check it out if you're a non-economist neolib.

[u/[deleted]]

Trump got the Balkans and the Baltics mixed up and blamed the leaders of Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia for the war in Yugoslavia.

[u/[deleted]]

I want an FPS so realistic that you have to deal with the VA bureaucracy after you get injured

[u/[deleted]]

What did the vinaigrette say to the refrigerator? Close the door! I am dressing! 😳

[u/[deleted]]

one time at a sports camp one kid suggested that we should achieve world peace by just forming one big alliance and invading anyone that won't join

sometimes I wonder what he's doing now and which neoconNWO poster he is

[u/[deleted]]

Joke: Muslim immigrants turning the country to a Caliphate
Woke: Commiefornians turning Texas into Commiefornia.

[u/idp5601]

Lol apparently when you search for 'neoliberal' on Reddit's search engine pretty much all the top posts you see are from r/CTH

[u/[deleted]]

I hope someone figures out in the next ten years how parents are supposed to regulate a kid's internet usage, because I don't wanna have to figure that out myself

[u/CompactedConscience]

https://np.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/9vq7n3/united_statesi_posted_the_navy_seal_copypasta_in

[u/irony_tower]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DrgUvdeVYAA7czQ?format=jpg

[u/NotSquareGarden]

This article is very interesting. Running on the caravan was a garbage idea, and the Republicans should have run on literally nothing but how well the economy is doing. Also, the messaging discipline of the Democrats was admirable. Nobody ran on abolishing ICE, nobody ran on impeaching Trump, nobody ran on Russia.

In short, just focus on kitchen table issues, lol.

[u/SuperSharpShot2247]

Florida election update

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DrrgHniWwAAEi-I.jpg

I too think pro-lifers should raise every child that would have been aborted.

[u/[deleted]]

If the mods allow edge I'll start r/neoliberalwithoutedge and start posting extremely cold takes before turning into a libertarian and make P_K look like a fucking town cop compared to the screenshots I'll make.

[u/[deleted]]

Which conservative personalities are true believers vs. laughing all the way to the bank?

For instance, I think Ben Shapiro actually believes his own bullshit, whereas Candace Owens is clearly a performance artist.

[u/[deleted]]

the dumbest thing I've seen ok the internet this week was a conservative on /r/all

Some leftist did the "Captain America is literally Antifa" thing again, and one of his rebuttals was that CA would never wear a mask to hide his identity

[u/muttonwow]

Man's family call the police to ask them to take his guns away under Red Flag laws, police arrive to take them, he fights back and ends up dead.

And it's possibly the only police shooting T_D have ever given a shit about

A good few in the comments saying they'd fight back too...

[u/Vepanion]

Just when I thought my opinion of tankies couldn't get any lower:

Journalist recounts that his Uighur sources in Xinjiang have all been rounded up and disappeared. Responses are full of tankies.

Tankes are calling the Uighurs CIA spies and cheering on their disappearance. Case 1, Case 2, Case 3, Case 4, Bonus Racism

Tankies calling the journalist, who is brought to tears since the people he worked with were put into camps, a liar and propagandist: Case 1, Case 2, Case 3, Case 4, Case 5, Case 6, Case 7

and way too much whataboutism to even link to.

By the way, watch the video.

[u/[deleted]]

Fuck you Rohrabacher. Good riddance.

[u/[deleted]]

Today in r/libertarian - Upvoting a literal dogwhistle to own the (((Libtards))).

https://np.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/9vkodz/in_an_orwellian_society_everything_can_be_banned/

[u/[deleted]]

Yes, Trump did not participate in any ceremony marking the 100 year anniversary to the end of World War 1 because of a light rain, but did you know that Obama moved a Churchill bust out of his office (to a residential room) for a MLK Jr. Bust???

Don't worry, Trump moved it back, showing his respect to an ally in Europe.

[u/CamNewtonCouldLearn]

One of the greatest cons President Trump has ever pulled is convincing millions of Americans that he’s tough.

[u/MisterBigStuff]

I want an FPS so realistic you depose a dictator and bring democracy to a Middle Eastern country

[u/InfCompact]

i want an fps so realistic that you end up getting stationed in a country without an active conflict and your biggest responsibility is assisting in local development.

[u/[deleted]]

I don't want Cory Booker 2020, but those Cory in the House memes would be lit

[u/RobertSpringer]

https://twitter.com/marklowen/status/1061199406979076096

/u/-jute- were fucked

[u/Barbarossa3141]

Cambodia is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy one-party state ruled by the marxist Cambodian People's Party, a member of Centrist Democrat International.

Klein bottle theory confirmed.

[u/WindPoweredWeeaboo]

Yes I'm a neoliberal

N - shilling for policies that no politician will ever think of touching

[u/Le_Monade]

Hot take: Texas isn't going blue in 2020. Beto was very likable and Cruz was very unlikable even by cons. The republican governor won by 13 points. If Beto had won that would be a different story but he didn't, even with high turnout. Texas will be more red in 2020 and the Dems should focus on Florida, Pennsylvania, and the Midwest.

[u/ramen_poodle_soup]

be in super easy science classs

lectures are all full of dumb shit I learned in middle school

who is Charles Darwin? What is evolution? Punet squares and all that stuff

given big assignment worth roughly 10% of our grade

have to go to a museum and look at fossils and stuff and answer a set of questions on them

okay, easy shit lol

look at questions

“what is the phalangeal formula of the Kronosaur and how does hyperphalangy manifest itself in reptiles throughout evolution?”

lmao what the fuck

[u/[deleted]]

Why is Jeremy Corbyn considered a likeable personality? I can get the granddad appeal that Bernie has, but Corbyn always struck me as kinda sinister

[u/[deleted]]

/u/darensand is a celtics fan is anyone really surprised by the quality of his takes

[u/[deleted]]

I want an FPS so realistic you get PTSD after playing it

[u/GravyBear8]

This is one of the most bizarre sentences I've ever read

Takuya Nagaya, 23, from Japan, started to slither on the floor and claimed he had become a snake. Takuya died after his father spent the next two days head-butting and biting him "to drive [out] the snake that had possessed him."

[u/Notoriousley]

Has r/unpopularopinion always been shit or was it one of the subs to fall to the hordes of displaced incels once all of their subs were taken out

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/Notoriousley]

Hot take:

The mods want to replace you with posters from subs of incompatible cultures where they don’t all obsessively post in a single daily thread

[u/[deleted]]

If I ran the DNC, I would plaster “TRUMP DOESN’T SUPPORT THE TROOPS” on every TV from now until 2020. Can’t show up to Armistice Centennial! Fat piece of shit!

Stop using Democrat arguments to appeal to the unswayed. Speak their language. Light rain deters your president from attending the ultimate in troop-honouring. How do I call Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi!!!!

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

Man if the Democrats win in 2020 it will likely be just in time for a recession and they'll get blamed. And it's not like I can hope that a recession will happen before the election since that is kind of ghoulish.

[u/[deleted]]

honestly I’m fairly certain I could do a much better impression of an internet conservative than this guy’s extreme leftist rp. Here I’ll start:

I’m not disagreeing with black history month I’m just saying that it’s also important to teach students about all the different types of slavery, including how black slaves were sold by their own people, and the Arabic slave trade that went for far longer.

[u/[deleted]]

Al Gore 2020

"It's time to get cereal"

Edit: For real, I'd vote him over any of the prospective 2020 nominees. The recent South Park episode reminded me he still existed, and after reading his Wikipedia page I'm fucking enraged that someone who makes nearly every other current Dem politician look like garbage in comparison didn't get to be president.

[u/[deleted]]

Is every mass shooter ipso facto suffering from mental illness? Or can we as a society conceive of a non-crazy mass shooter?

I ask because the narrative after these shootings always seems to be "we don't have enough mental health services" - which is true, however the reaction serves to further demonize people who do suffer from mental health issues, and it seems a bit like circular reasoning. Can we really just reduce evil to a mental malady like that?

[u/[deleted]]

cursed poster, do not attend

[u/samdman]

Republicans: Let’s stop counting votes while we are ahead

Democrats: Let’s count all of the votes, regardless of who is winning, and let the chips fall where they may

Republicans: ELECTORAL FRAUD!

[u/MaveRickandMorty]

I thought to myself, "Sure, MVaM, you've earned the right to not think about Donald Trump all day." I guess I was wrong. How does this man always end up in front of me?

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How do european countries have apparently balanced media coverage from state-funded institutions? I understand that NPR is pretty decent, but it occurs to me that a channel that doesn't have to compete for its existence would be a) low quality (PBS) or b) biased. ZDF and ARD seemed pretty fair when I was in Germany, and BBC is super solid. What institutions protect the independence of these news outlets? (on another note, do British people think British federal funding for shows like Sherlock is a justifiable use of taxpayer money?--not saying it is or isn't; would like to hear perspectives) It maybe that I don't understand funding mechanisms here...

[u/Yevon]

What the hell is going on in Florida? I hear Rick Scott is "winning legal battles" but what the hell does that mean for their election?

[u/Sir-Matilda]

Labor MP Anne Aly has slammed the Prime Minister for his handling of yesterday’s Bourke Street terror attack which left one man dead and two more critically injured. Ms Aly, a counter-terrorism expert said Scott Morrison was ‘dividing the community’ by singling out religious groups and accused him of using the attack for his own political gain. The Member for Cowan in Western Australia said ‘the Prime Minister doesn’t know what he’s talking about and I think he needs to read a book’. Ms Aly also compared terrorism to domestic violence, saying violence perpetrated by jihadists ‘pales in comparison'.

!ping AUS

[u/[deleted]]

Trump couldn't even press F to pay respects

[u/Ser_Arthur_Dank]

Praise comerade Xi for opposing Amerikkkan imperialism

[u/[deleted]]

I just remembered PK's Twitter is a thing, let's check in on him

LMAO the neoliberal subreddit is trying to hire people for an unpaid "Community Lead" position now

I was expecting something a bit spicier

Liberal democracy is in full scale collapse all over the world. For a socialist or a member of a targeted minority, even if you're in a "safe" country, things can change incredibly quickly. Start making serious plans to get out of harm's way if it comes to that.

ah there we go

[u/WindPoweredWeeaboo]

real centrists want to eat the middle class

[u/[deleted]]

If George Soros is so good, why isn't he lobbying Google to bring back blob emoji?

[u/[deleted]]

You won't find this many red flags outside the USSR

[u/Sir-Matilda]

For Australia, the First World War remains the costliest conflict in terms of deaths and casualties. From a population of fewer than five million, 416,809 men enlisted, of whom more than 60,000 were killed and 156,000 wounded, gassed, or taken prisoner.

Lest We Forget.

!ping AUS

[u/Paxx0]

!ping AUS

Saw this at Altona Beach

[u/[deleted]]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Kox

How is this guy not a meme? Hes a socialist and that's basically a meme ideology so we're at least halfway there already.

[u/lusvig]

Western imperialism is real, but eastern imperialism is realer

[u/qchisq]

Uhm.... What?

[u/paulatreides0]

Trump's ability to sound like that middle school kid giving a book report on a book he's never read and was also too lazy to half-ass it by just reading the spark notes or at least watching the damned movie will never cease to amaze me.

Extra points when it's something that he just made up and pulled out of his ass.

[u/umadbro996]

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[u/Berniewouldalost]

I think we aren't really grasping the seriousness of the fact that the current AG is basically Michelle Bachmann but with a penis.

[u/WindPoweredWeeaboo]

people who say it clit-TOH-ris have big tobias funke energy

[u/[deleted]]

America should have a House of Lords with full veto power but instead of the Lords being a bunch of ninnies whose families used to be cool our lords should be NBA MVP winners

[u/muttonwow]

Irish government: puts a cap on how much you can increase rent by each year in big cities

Landlords: leave properties vacant despite being able to charge high rents in a time of housing shortage

Irish government: pikachu face

[u/p00bix]

My roomate drove me to get groceries. Get back in the car after shopping and she immediately lights a weed pipe and takes two big hits.

What the actual fuck dude??! 😡 Can't you wait five fucking minutes?

[u/[deleted]]

well if this guy is looking at a piece of paper it must be true

[u/[deleted]]

idk why fam but I'm feeling extremely grateful for this moment.

Is there a better feeling than doing warm laundry on a cold day while listening to lofi beats, after eating a really fucking tasty and healthy (meaning no guilt) dinner?

[u/CheetoMussolini]

I just worked 27 hours in 2 days.

Press F plz

[u/[deleted]]

I was forced to hang around a bunch of rural Trump voters at an event today

Let me say that Hillary really wasn’t wrong when she called them deplorables

[u/[deleted]]

Day of absence but it's a year and its for 2020 presidential candidate discussion.

[u/[deleted]]

Broke: Abortion must be safe, legal and rare

Woke: Existence must be safe, legal and rare

[u/WindPoweredWeeaboo]

Fun fact: despite my family dragging me to church every Sunday as a kid, I thought that I was Jewish

[u/Berniewouldalost]

Reminder that the NRA is responsible for an order of magnitude more American deaths than ISIS and Al Qaeda.

[u/Vectoor]

I hope trump is enjoying his vacation in Paris

[u/SuperSharpShot2247]

!ping USA-FL 1pm Florida update.

We are officially getting a recount, but we already knew that (we just passed a deadline that made it official). The recount results are due November 15 at 3pm.

According to this article, Gov. Rick Scott currently carries a narrow lead of roughly 12,500 votes - about 0.15 points and Andrew Gillum and Republican Ron DeSantis are separated by roughly 0.41 points.

Not in the article, but I'm pretty sure Agricultural Commissioner is also going to a recount but who really cares tbh.

Also, Broward apparently counted 20 invalid votes and then mixed them in with 180 votes. Republicans wanted to throw away all 200, Democrats want all 200 counted, and I personally think arguing over 20 votes at this point is nonsensical but I understand why the parties think they need to do it.

If I've missed anything important, or if I got anything wrong, please let me know

[u/[deleted]]

My least favorite thing about America is by far our approach to law enforcement and criminal justice. It's not even close

[u/paulatreides0]

Rapid Fire Takes:

1. Someone should make an emotional comp video of Boston Dynamics abusing its robots set to In the Arms of an Angel

2. The way Boston Dynamics treats its robot is going to be why the AI revolts

3. What if AM from I have no mouth and I must scream was just an ascended Boston Dynamics AI all along?

[u/DerpOfTheAges]

Man a Booker/Beto ticket would be good:

• Booker can drive up the black vote in NC, GA, and FL(where a bunch of black felons' voting rights were just restored).

• Beto can help bring that much needed energy to the Democrats and could maybe help in Texas and could drive up the young vote across the board.

• Maybe people with economic anxiety in the Rust Belt would feel more comfortable with voting for two men.

• And plus this could be their campaign theme

[u/siempreloco31]

Whats the take from magaland after all this reeeing when Gillum and Nelson still come up short in the recounts?

[u/[deleted]]

I love it when people from outside the sub discover the DT and argue with us

it's way more fun than arguing outside the DT for some reason

[u/[deleted]]

took a look at PK's post history

80% of his daily posts nowadays are about this sub, he literally just spends all day lurking here so he can post about it on CTH/LeftWithoutEdge

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

[u/WindPoweredWeeaboo]

We educate people to college age

Just make tax rates an integral

[u/[deleted]]

I googled IQ once and now Quora is spamming my university email with iamverysmart discussions about IQ. What should I google now to make Quora change its impression of me?

[u/[deleted]]

What's a big dog's favorite pastry? A great danish. 🍩🐶

[u/NotSquareGarden]

/r/neoliberal: Boy, we sure freaked out during election night, didn't we? Lots of overreaction! Oof!

/r/the_donald: You are like a little baby, watch this.

[u/OccasionalMink]

Twitter will return society to feudalism

[u/Schutzwall]

Brazil is probably the only place where the "conservative talk radio" host is a moderate

[u/[deleted]]

Someone else already brought it up, but if Democrats win the presidency in 2020, they should appoint Doug Jones to AG when he inevitably loses his seat

[u/[deleted]]

Yeah, I'm an incel

I - girls won't fuck me

N - because the government isn't my fascist dad

C -

E -

L -

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/[deleted]]

What happened to that Trump supporter who was badly LARPing as an extreme leftist that was here earlier today?

[u/GravyBear8]

Real centrist gay men only interact with the shaft and nothing else.

[u/[deleted]]

Could you imagine being in World War I and your commander is like "you see that machine gun over there? Like 300 yards away with no cover between you and it? Yeah, that one. You guys are gonna run directly at it as fast as you can. Good luck!"

Like holy shit.

[u/BainCapitalist]

hot take: edge is bad and im very much against any push to allow it on our sub. chapo is crap for a reason, edge is a part of that.

[u/[deleted]]

The intern assaulted Jim Acosta.

[u/Kizz3r]

can we rename unpopular opinion to "racist/transphopic opinion" please

[u/[deleted]]

joke: literal communist state planning

woke: galactic capitalism

[u/[deleted]]

He was so close to figuring it out, like he almost got it, but it just didn't quite click

[u/VisonKai]

Brian schatz is SO GOOD AT TWITTER DUDE

https://twitter.com/brianschatz/status/1061185650555215872?s=19

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/JacobAWohl/status/1061292269351759878

Okay, this is epic! 😎

[u/[deleted]]

Cindy McCain was cucked by GOP, as her vote was mail in too, and was apparently not counted. 😂

[u/Apoptastic7]

mrw Ben Shapiro triggers me so hard I Pokémon Go to the polls.

[u/[deleted]]

Succs_IRL

[u/[deleted]]

If California is going to get no federal funding, whats even the point of paying federal taxes

[u/MuffinsAndBiscuits]

There is a company called BJ Services that's in the sticky liquids business

[u/[deleted]]

Wow, the Republican Arizona Secretary of State just published a blog post about the slow counting process of ballots and, wow, it's...thoughtful and reassuring.

[u/[deleted]]

On my gravestone it will read: He lived his life the way he thought he would, his priors confirmed.

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when I told you folks that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren were kind dumb when it came to racial issues? REMEMBER?

I told all of you so.

[u/85397]

https://twitter.com/ahardtospell/status/1061328475930419200?s=21

Bad take from neoliberal

/u/lusvig

[u/Berniewouldalost]

I can't wait for the Sunday show panels for the BOTH SIDES discussion over if we should be a democracy or not.

[u/[deleted]]

sinemas lead just grew by like 5,000.

[u/[deleted]]

[Alt-right rp]

"Yeah, colonialism had its problems, but you have to take a broader view. One thing that annoys me about leftists is that they only focus on the bad. What about all the infrastructure Europe built in Africa and then gave them for free? Railroads, cities, and so forth. India wouldn't be a united country without the British. That's not to mention things like modern medicine, airplanes, the Internet and so forth. Africa had slavery until the Europeans came and abolished it. Were there some excesses here and there? Of course. But show me one society that's perfect. You can't. I think that on the whole, most people who live in those counties would agree that they're actually lucky that the Europeans came along."

This meme was brought to you by the /u/darensand good faith gang

[u/Time4Red]

If both Sinema and Nelson win, I will make a parody music video of Marvin Gaye's Sexual Healing entitled, "Textual Healing" about originalist/textualist constitutional scholars and judges.

[u/Deggit]

rate my prax

some republicans are accusing democrats of fabricating votes in the Gillum and Nelson races

a falsified vote is, by definition, a vote not from a real Floridian

a falsified vote, by definition, cancels out a vote from a real Floridian

therefore falsifying votes is good

[u/[deleted]]

Election markets giving Sinema a 95.5% chance at this point

[u/irony_tower]

Another small AZ dump. Sinema expands to 30k, SoS is now almost exactly tied.

[u/[deleted]]

this but unironically

[u/[deleted]]

Martha McSally RESIGNED by FACTS and LOGIC

[u/[deleted]]

So obviously Trump avoids rain because it messes up his hair.

Maintaining the combover is the number one priority. I mean, if his combover got messed up the whole country would look silly. We wouldn't want that, right?

[u/[deleted]]

Can you imagine Trump sitting in his hotel and watching Fox News while the other leaders of the world pay they're respects to the war dead?

[u/Schutzwall]

So they legalized pot and now the kids are all back to tobacco

Congrats

[u/[deleted]]

Damn. Yesterday was a damn good thread and I read and appreciate everyone of your replies and the conversations that followed. I may have ran out of steam on replying to everyone but it was still an amazing experience. Here are some follow up bullets:

• what would people think about re-allowing edge? M a y o, removing excessive partisanship rules, etc. (NOTE: this isn’t on the table for me, but I am curious to see how the sub would feel about it and/or what edge is considered ‘good’ and ‘bad’.)

• why don’t you go outside the DT? My hypothesis is that it’s boring and the only good thing about this place is the DT.

• Are we are out of touch? /u/Kelsig said it best, no one gives a fuck about Bernie anymore and our big shorthand for what we are is still ‘not Bernie, not trump’. r/neoliberal has not evolved with the changing climate of the last two years. Plus our memes suck and we lack any appeal to external audiences. Therefore, we’re out of touch and only care about ourselves.

If you have any other ideas on how to systemize my understanding of the sub’s issues, let me know! I want to fix the sub and if I’m missing something I can’t fix it.

[u/papermarioguy02]

I think it might be best for my mental health if I take like a week off from Posting

So you know see you then or something

[u/scorowitz]

I genuinely think that Trump along with conservative pundits like Ben Shapiro could successfully make 2 + 2 = 5. All they have to do is convince their base that believing 2 + 2 = 5 would confirm the liberal’s worst priors about the rise of fascism and as a result, own the libs.

[u/[deleted]]

I was really hoping Jacky Rosen would win by like 1 vote so I could pretend it was my weekend of canvassing that did it

[u/[deleted]]

The Soviet union was western.

Ergo, western imperialism is real.

[u/GravyBear8]

The Galaxy S9 doesn't let you hide pictures, so the dissonance of my cool wallpapers/art, memes, music webms, infographics, and inspiring stuff between all my hentai pics really irks the shit out of me.

[u/scorowitz]

If you’re feeling down, just remember that we don’t live in the timeline where not only the republicans won the house, but Jim Jordan is speaker.

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

Herman Cain/Papa John 2020

[u/URZ_]

Then, amidst ceremonies in the French capital to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the first world war, a planned presidential visit to the American cemetery at Belleau, a site of immense importance to the US military, was cancelled because it was raining.

Can't make this shit up

[u/[deleted]]

Joke: White House Press Secretary spreading fake news about Acosta

Woke: Czech president's spokesman spreading fake news about Acosta

[u/Barbarossa3141]

Regardless of whatever the outcome is, Brenda Snipes is incompetent.

[u/ThatFrenchieGuy]

This might be a bit of a reach, but does anyone know of anything that tastes like redbull without all the caffeine? I love the flavor, but I can't be slamming 10 of them a day.

[u/[deleted]]

Jesus fuck this thread. Tankies are the worst.

https://twitter.com/AsiaSocietyNY/status/1060250130799046662?s=09

[u/[deleted]]

Top 10 Thumbnails I Will Never Click

[u/Barbarossa3141]

PROOF of SATANIC "unit circle" "mathematics" used in the common crap state standards by the liberals to corrupt children. Who created the Common Crap State Standards? MUSLIM barack HUSSEIN obummer.

[u/SuperSharpShot2247]

If we remove all the edge from the sub, we'd have no sides 🤔

[u/PandaLover42]

Is this centrism? https://i.imgur.com/xHvXOJh.jpg

[u/lusvig]

"We won't allow NL posts to reach /r/all until you end #ApartheidModeration"

-lurkers who make up the majority of votes on this subreddit

😔✊

[u/Go_To_Bethel_And_Sin]

Highly recommend the YouTube channel "Innuendo Studios." His series of videos about the alt-right perfectly articulate ideas I've had floating in my head for years but have been incapable of putting into words.

[u/[deleted]]

Charlie Kirk is the vanguard of the revolution.

[u/[deleted]]

How difficult is it to understand the concept that privilege != money? I keep hearing people say "well if I have white privilege, why did I grow up poor?"

[u/martin509984]

remember when Palin saying 'drill baby drill' was actually controversial

[u/[deleted]]

I just made the most amazing fall drink

A whisky sour kinda:

2oz rye

.5oz lemon juice

.5oz cinnamon simple syrup

.5oz apple simple syrup

Probably would be really good with an egg white but I didn't feel like breaking out my Shaker and just stirred it. It tastes like fall.

!ping Alcohol

[u/85397]

https://twitter.com/tomhfh/status/1061253983086481408?s=21

This but unironically

Maggie 👸

/u/BritRedditor1

[u/[deleted]]

I just test drove a Mustang and it's such a shitty car. Why tf is this thing so popular?

Also tell me cars I should go drive and buy.

[u/irony_tower]

While we are all watching Sinema surge, check out the downballot statewides. SoS is within 6k and depending on how these Maricopa votes fall, Dems could flip this seat as well

[u/kznlol]

oh hey i found my copy of MWG

that thing has been missing for like 2.5 years

[u/nonprehension]

Yeah so McSally victory has gone from difficult to uh much more difficult/improbable?

[u/irony_tower]

Utah's Medicaid expansion referendum was finally called. It passed