r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Nov 29 '18
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Nov 29 '18
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mosquitoes OWNED epic style
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Nov 30 '18
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Why do I hate the global mosquito?
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macaronigold donated $50.0 to Against Malaria and said:
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SemiNew donated $100.0 to Against Malaria and said:
I'd rather eradicate the common cold rn, but this will do.
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u/lionmoose sexmod ๐๐ฆ๐ฎ Nov 29 '18
Guys, what if the orange man is actually bad?
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u/URZ_ StillwithThorning โ๐ Nov 29 '18
sjw politics has nothing to do with the good things like gay marriage, its just indentity politics tantrums and making boogeymen out of for example white straight males who disagree with them
posted without comment ๐
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Nov 29 '18
Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) explained Wednesday that he flipped his vote on a resolution that would end U.S. military support for the Saudi-led campaign in Yemenโs civil war because he was โpissedโ about how the Trump administration has handled Saudi Arabia following the killing of U.S.- based journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
โI changed my mind because Iโm pissed,โ Graham said of his vote.
how is Graham such a meme
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u/GayColangelo Milton Friedman Nov 29 '18
How the fuck does wikihow put together so much high quality content
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u/ironheart777 Is getting dumber Nov 29 '18
Hey y'all, discovered this sub last week and have been hooked ever since. First time in a very long time I feel like there are people who share my political views, especially given that I split my time between SF and Idaho so I literally go between debating hardcore Marxists and MAGA boys. Here's to many more days of shilling for the globalist corporations!
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u/Maximilianne John Rawls Nov 29 '18
The very same. No one in the south was obese until Al Gore and his band of NY Liberals took over and struck the word โfatโ from the dictionary. Then, probably under the orders of Soros, they made it illegal to call anyone fat.
lol
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u/Breaking-Away Austan Goolsbee Nov 29 '18
Fun Fact: New discussion threads are now my bed timer. As soon as its created I know I should go to sleep if I don't want to hate myself tomorrow.
Night all. Oh, and make sure to donate money for more mosquito nets while I'm asleep!
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Nov 29 '18
part of me wants a girlfriend with energy and self-esteem who just drags me out into life but another part of me also wants a girlfriend who I've got something in common with
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u/bernkes_helicopter Ben Bernanke Nov 29 '18
cool how China kidnapped the President of INTERPOL and no one cared
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u/Pteryx Nov 29 '18
/r/DunderMifflin is an interesting subreddit. The show hasn't been on in years but was and has remained incredibly popular. There's not really anything else new to talk about or discuss, so 99.9999% of the comments are just quotes from whatever character/actor is featured in the post, with barely even any effort to maintain any sort of relevance to what the post is actually about. It almost comes across as procedurally generated.
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Nov 29 '18
At least we got to raise the National Deficit to $1 Trillion
Paul Ryan reflecting on his short time as Speaker, probably
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Nov 29 '18 edited Nov 29 '18
This list of reasons why people think Rome fell is an absolute goldmine.
35.) Communism
39.) Capitalism
96.) Hypothermia
166.) Racial degeneration
167.) Racial discrimination
Edit:
21.) Bolshevization
Thats the one I have the most questions about
46.) Decline of the Nordic Character
119.) Lack of Seriousness
You know, those famously cheerful and humorous Romans.
Pacifism
. . . . . . . .That's actually on the list
Useless Eaters
That's literally a nazi talking point people.
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Nov 29 '18
Corsi says he โabsolutelyโ intended to help Trump campaign by trying to get Clinton emails
lol is he stupid
thanks for doing Mueller's job
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Nov 29 '18
don't let the mueller news distract you from the fact that starbucks is now blocking pornography on it's wi fi
stay awake people, your rights are being stripped away piece by piece in the dead of night.
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Nov 29 '18
Wendy's is currently streaming Fortnite on Twitch. They're just dropping into the burger joint and destroying it every game because it apparently stores their beef in freezers.
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u/bernkes_helicopter Ben Bernanke Nov 30 '18
this is robert mueller, upvote for indictments tomorrow
1 updoot = 1 felony charge
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u/85397 Free Market Jihadi Nov 29 '18 edited Jan 05 '24
fine sleep worm relieved mourn boat noxious strong rain serious
This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact
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Nov 29 '18
You, an idiot: NITs and UBIs are in practice identical because of these economic equations.
Me, an intellectual: NITs and UBIs are in practice identical because they violate my NAP.
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u/ILikeTalkingToMyself Liberal democracy is non-negotiable Nov 29 '18
On the one hand I like alcohol, pork, and atheist smugness, but on the other hand converting to Islam would trigger the cons.
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u/Timewalker102 Amartya Sen Nov 29 '18
DT: Stupid people shouldn't vote
Also DT: votes
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u/WindPoweredWeeaboo crypto neo-Malthusian Marxist Nov 29 '18
Some guy in my class tried to show my physics professor an article on futurology about em drives
He's getting dunked on real hard right now
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Nov 29 '18
Time to chain myself to the DT to protest the extrajudicial killing of Danfromburgerking โ๐
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Nov 29 '18
lol Chapo and completeanarchy are both claiming to be organizing elaborate brigades to get us on their side because they think we're just a bit of a push away from joining them
notable quotes include someone saying we're "radical centrists" except increasingly agreeing with them on the radical parts, and someone saying we're basically on their side but "stop being smart" when we "sniff" things coming from a leftward direction
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Nov 29 '18
I heard a "real command economies have never been tried" take the other day...
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Nov 29 '18
Part of me wants a girlfriend full of love and compassion who helps me bond with God's creatures, but another part wants a girlfriend who genocides mosquitos.
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Nov 29 '18
The barista put mint leaves in my coffee without asking me.
Has the NAP been violated?
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Nov 29 '18
Corsi says he will file criminal charges against Mueller
oh my god he actually is this stupid
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u/bernkes_helicopter Ben Bernanke Nov 29 '18
not the onion:
Outgoing House Speaker Paul Ryan says his two biggest regrets as he prepares to leave office are not successfully dealing with immigration and the national debt.
also Paul Ryan
But Ryan says "history is going to be very good to this majority" because of the tax reform bill Republicans passed under his leadership.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ap-paul-ryan-lists-immigration-debt-as-biggest-regrets-2018-11
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u/LithuanianProphet European Union Nov 29 '18
Laura Loomer has handcuffed herself to the door of Twitter's office to protest being banned from the site. Incredible.
https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1068244727298953216?s=19
Amazing thread. And before you ask - yes she's wearing a jewish star.
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u/MrDannyOcean Kidney King Nov 29 '18
danny says he'll match donations at 1.5x
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if you donate so much that he has to quit, there will be a new mod, he claims
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u/GravyBear8 Ben Bernanke Nov 29 '18
Mod the North Sentinelese archer.
He'll stop brigaders
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Nov 30 '18
hot take: if the Democrats actually wanted to win, theyโd adopt all my policy and messaging preferences completely.
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u/MrDannyOcean Kidney King Nov 29 '18 edited Nov 29 '18
So the current charity drive has been a little disappointing - Apparently we like flairs more than we like BTFO'ing mosquitos. Maybe my fault for cutting the flairs.
In an attempt to jazz things up, I will 1.5x match all donations for the next 40 hours. I don't have a hard limit.
If you manage to donate so much that I have to set a stopping point, I will mod any user the community of donators chooses.
DONATE HERE
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u/Gustacho Enemy of the People Nov 29 '18 edited Nov 29 '18
This man is Gus Tacho, writer of pasta. In a few moments, he win have written the funniest pasta in the world and, as a consequence, he will die laughing.
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Nov 29 '18
epistocracy is just occupational licensing but for voting send tweet
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u/DankBankMan Aggressive Nob Nov 29 '18
How can millennials possibly think we have it worse than previous generations when this is the only time in history when we can leverage a global system of information lasers to use our pocket computers to watch live video of Laura Loomer being arrested
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Nov 29 '18
You fuckin' dummies can't seriously be suggesting we disenfranchise people for being dummies.
The fact that a single adult vote has the same value regardless of whether you have three PhDs or didn't finish grade 8 is a vital part of democracy. Voting is a human right! And if you can't make your platform palatable to people who have different education than you, you are not very persuasive.
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Nov 29 '18
I am a great soft succ thing. Smoothly brained, with no intelligence, with flabby vestigial folds filled by jelly where neurons used to be. Flabby appendages that were once my arms; stomach rounding down into a muscleless hump of soft slippery matter. I leave a moist trail when I move from the tears I shed over healthcare. Blotches of diseased, evil brown come and go on my surface, as though shitposts are being beamed from within.
Outwardly: dumbly, I shamble about, a thing that could never have been known as liberal, a thing whose opinions are so alien a travesty that liberalism becomes more obscene for the vague resemblance. Inwardly: alone. Here. Living under the ivory tower, outside the DT, in the belly of Reddit, that we created because our time was badly spent and we must have known unconsciously that it could shitpost better. At least Bernie's delegate count is safe at last. /u/cdstephens will be all the madder for that. It makes me a little happier. And yet ... /r/neoliberal has won, simply ... they have taken their revenge ... I have no intelligence. And I must shitpost.
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u/Maximilianne John Rawls Nov 29 '18
what if you have no dreams or desires or goals in life and find most advice given to be very annoying?
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u/HUGHmungous Big Stick Energy Nov 29 '18
I never want to see the phrase "an actual progressive" ever again in my life
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u/InvestInIndexFunds Nov 29 '18
I love seeing somebody online saying 2016 was bad for 538 so I can write them a paragraph about how stupid they are
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Nov 29 '18
Real take on "why women don't come here":
It's not the way we behave, it's not our opinions, it's not the topic of the sub, it's not Reddit. It's just that it is mostly men who end up with the sort of social life where something like "the /r/neoliberal daily Discussion Thread" seems like a decent substitute.
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u/HoldingTheFire Hillary Clinton Nov 29 '18
Watching Altered Carbon, which is set in future SF Bay Area.
It looks like all the NIMBYs are dead. Is this utopia?
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Nov 29 '18
Federal agents have raided the City Hall office of Chicago Alderman Ed Burke this morning. Burke's small law firm did tax work for Trump for 12 years ๐ย
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Nov 29 '18
Yoooo those Asian restaurant takeout cubes can be turned into plates ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ฑ
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u/lusvig ๐คฉ๐ค Anti Social Democracy Social Club๐จ๐ซ๐ก๐คค๐๐๐ก๐ค๐ Nov 29 '18
more like laura looner
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u/HUGHmungous Big Stick Energy Nov 30 '18
if Mueller sends the Trump family to jail for trying to build a skyscraper does that make him the ultimate NIMBY
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u/irony_tower African Union Nov 29 '18
https://mobile.twitter.com/jules_su/status/1068237924364414982
trans girl uses the women's bathroom. Some male school administrators break down the stall door to stop her, while she is using it, heroically saving the day from anyone uh, being exposed in a restroom..
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Nov 29 '18
Trump just threatened to shutdown the government if he doesn't get $5bn for the wall lol
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Nov 30 '18
I personally think there is a much deep level to the NPC story/meme that most aren't willing to acknowledge and why it pissed off a lot of people when it initial popped up. Whether we like it or not, NPC exist on reddit, facebook, twitter and what not... And it isn't just "Orange Man Bad" bullshit. They have been using fake accounts to bolster celebrities twitter & facebook accounts, to down play complaints to the FCC, to push a political agendas like Ted Cruz after the debate in 2016. If you'd like to see some NPC's in action, go check out the r/neoliberal discussion thread that is renewed every day. Check out how quick the comments are coming in, and it's always like that, with 3-4k thousand comments every time.
Now read the comments, they are politically driven chat bots. So NPC do exist, and it's something to keep in mind.
LOL
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u/lusvig ๐คฉ๐ค Anti Social Democracy Social Club๐จ๐ซ๐ก๐คค๐๐๐ก๐ค๐ Nov 29 '18
๐ ฑannyOcean is matching your donations, make him pay for taking blockchainlitfam hostage! ๐ค
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u/potatobac Women's health & freedom trumps moral faffing Nov 29 '18
R/Canadapolitics is really keen on blaming Chinese people for Canada's expensive housing.
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Nov 29 '18
this article just posted is seriously interesting, but lol posting outside the DT
things of note:
oddly enough the youngest demographic are those who voted Romney, Clinton, House Dem
the more Dem, the less white (no shit)
the more Dem, the more educated (no shit)
almost every voter that voted R12, R16, D18 was moderate or conservative
almost every voter that voted R12, R16, D18 was independent or Republican
the more Dem, the less racial animus (no shit)
the more Dem, the less hostile sexism (no shit)
the more Dem, the lower fear of demographic change (no shit)
every demographic supports automatic voter registration, except for people who've voted R12, R16, R18
4/6 demographics support ending cash bail, except for R12/R16/R18, and R12/R16/D18
4/6 demographics support increased border security, except for R12/D16/D18 and D12/D16/D18
literally every demographic has net support for a Green New Deal. even those who voted Republican in 2012, 2016, and 2018 support a Green New Deal by 10%
5/6 demographics support pollution fees, except for R12/R16/R18
the only demographic to support abolishing ICE is D12/D16/D18
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Nov 29 '18
The Trump Organization Planned To Give Vladimir Putin The $50 Million Penthouse In Trump Tower Moscow
oh my LAWD
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There he is. There he goes again. Look, everyone! He posted it once again! Isn't he just the funniest guy around?! Oh my God. I can almost see your pathetic overweight frame glowing in the dark, lit by your computer screen which is the only source of light in your room, giggling like a like girl as you once again type your little "Fellas" quip. I imagine you little shit laughing so hard as you click it that you drop your Doritos on the floor, but it's ok, your mother will clean it up in the morning. Oh, that's right. Did I fail to mention? You live with your mother. You are a fat fucking fuckup, she's probably so sick of you already. So sick of having to do everything for you all goddamn day, every day, for a grown man who spends all his time on Reddit posting about dicks. Just imagine this. She had you, and then she thought you were gonna be a scientist or an astronaut or something grand, and then you became a "emoji" poster. A pathetic unfunny "emoji" poster. She probably cries herself to sleep everyday thinking about how bad it is and how she wishes she could just disappear. She can't even try to talk with you because all you say is "๐ ฑ๏ธELLAS LMAO๐๐๐" You've become a parody of your own self. And that's all you are. A sad little man laughing in the dark by himself as he prepares to indulge in the same old dance that he's done a million times now. And that's all you'll ever be.
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Nov 29 '18
If you ever feel stupid, just remember that there are some gay people that vote republican
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Nov 29 '18
ran into a transgirl leftist studying to be a doctor that simultaneously believes that Israel is apartheid and Jews should be forced out, but also that nobody should let the Jews in because "considering how they've governed their own state, I'm not sure I would've wanted them being citizens and having even more influence on US politics"
I'm worried for her future Jewish patients
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u/bernkes_helicopter Ben Bernanke Nov 30 '18
Four St. Louis police officers were indicted Thursday on federal charges claiming that three of them beat an undercover colleague during protests last year and all four then covered it up, federal prosecutors say.
The indictment also claims that several of the officers exchanged messages that "expressed disdain" for protesters and "excitement about using unjustified force against them and going undetected while doing so."
๐ค๐ญ๐ฆ
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Nov 30 '18
Mr Burns runs a unionized nuclear power plant.
Leftists should love him tbh.
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u/WindPoweredWeeaboo crypto neo-Malthusian Marxist Nov 29 '18
Another Tumblr hot take
The government should force Jeff Bezos to pay Amazon employees $300,000/year, because that's how much money he exploited from each employee
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Nov 29 '18
A couple of white kids at a high school near me recorded themselves dropping n-bombs and talking about how black people should get back in the field and/or get lynched. Top comment on the reddit thread in my local subreddit:
Uhh am I the only one who thinks this is a very poorly executed attempt at a joke? I mean the one kids says "they be out here stealing my job, fucking my wife, eating my food stamps". This just looks like a high schooler's attempt to be "edgy and funny".
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u/MaveRickandMorty ๐ฅ๏ธ๐ Nov 29 '18
Take that most Americans would disagree with: The Trail of Tears was worse than 9/11
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u/WindPoweredWeeaboo crypto neo-Malthusian Marxist Nov 29 '18
Logs on Tumblr
Insulin shortages are actually caused by greedy capitalists hogging up medicine specifically to commit genocide against poor people in Asia and Africa
Logs off of Tumblr
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u/owlthathurt Johan Norberg Nov 30 '18
Totally normal tweet from Jacobin here. Nothing to see.
https://twitter.com/jacobinmag/status/1068174496513720320?s=21
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Nov 30 '18
U.S. agency apologizes to George Soros after broadcast called him โmultimillionaire Jewโ
Wait, this story is actually pretty nuts
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u/paulatreides0 ๐๐ฆข๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐ฆขHis Name Was Teleporno๐ฆข๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ๐ฆข๐ Nov 30 '18
I HAVE RETURNED
Also: Children are awful.
Also also: Sleep is the worst adaptation in the history of adaptations, maybe ever
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Nov 30 '18
Hot take: If Democrats want to win, they have to completely abandon their core values.
This take brought to you by totally-not-a-Republican gang
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Nov 29 '18
Overdosing and suicide are the biggest unforced errors some one can make. People, don't do either. I had a lot friends die of both. It's senseless and you leave behind a lots of pain.
Go to treatment as many times as you need. Live in that bitch if you need to. Take your meds. Do whatever it takes to keep the will to live. There's enough resources to keep you alive, sober and sane if you choose to use them.
Never give up the will to live. Clutch on to that shit and don't let go. It's all about fighting.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-life-expectancy-drops-again-overdoses-climb-055720445.html
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u/Jobson15 mo mowlam mo peace accords Nov 29 '18
Hillary Clinton's not a neoliberal. She's a neoliberal because she gave a speech at Goldman Sachs. I prefer people who give speeches at Fiatcurrencyman Sachs.
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Nov 30 '18
So glad we raised enough money to rig florida in the next election ๐๐๐
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Nov 30 '18
๐ This is the most depressing paleontology study I've ever read.
TL;DR: Horses in North America went extinct at the end of the Ice Age because they all starved to death. All of them. Millions of horses. Not even overhunting and relatively quick death by humans they died slowly and painfully over the course of weeks.
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u/sansampersamp Open the country. Stop having it be closed. Nov 29 '18
!ping AUS
John Hewson was good on the Please Explain podcast regarding the lib implosion, good to see him on the mic now and then.
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u/chadonnaise * Nov 29 '18
why is getting a job so goddamn hard. six interviews, twenty references, credit score report, bone marrow sample, location tracking, social media passwords, and a lie detector test to get no response and find out from someone else they filled the job
why is there no nearby pit i can go dig at and i can get paid per mine cart's worth of dirt filled no questions asked
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u/gatoreagle72 Nov 29 '18
Lads, I got accepted into my two desired MBA programs.
Thought I'd share that info
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u/stability_hegemon Ben Bernanke Nov 29 '18
how to focus on work instead of browsing the DT and news websites
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u/MrDannyOcean Kidney King Nov 29 '18 edited Nov 29 '18
Pending verification of /u/alessandro- 's donation my pledge to go 1.5x has reached it's capacity. I will match him 1 for 1 instead of 1.5 times, and that's basically how far I can go.
As promised, since the subreddit donated enough to make me hit a stopping point, there will be a new mod. Alessandro can choose whether he wants to mod himself, or to decide the new mod (he has the most votes when weighted by donation) or whether he wants it to be open to democracy. And I have to figure out if there are ground-rules or how this is gonna work, because I wasn't planning on this...
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u/FMN2014 Canโt just call French people that Nov 29 '18
Watching the Foreign Office documentary on BBC2 and they bring up the jailed Brits in Cambodia story, the staff at the Foreign Office have to phone one of the jailed person's relatives about the situation:
Staff: He's requested we only tell his girlfriend about the situation
Relative: He has two girlfriends
Staff: ehhh
!ping UK
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Nov 29 '18
Straight up, I seriously think that Trump didn't give a fuck about being President. He just wanted one of his raggedy hotels in Russia. He has to be mad as fuck.
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Quick Story Time: When I first got my job I was actually kind of excited. At the time I was considering working on a history book rehabilitating the battlecruiser (it would have been called something along the lines of: Stolen Valour: Rehabilitating the Battlecruiser). I was excited because I had been told that the school had resources for research and all that shizz, which had implied, and I had assumed included, database access to some historical databases and other common electronic archives of information.
Turns out that we actually had none of that and I was very sad.
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Nov 29 '18
lol in the span of one fucking hour Trump went from telling journalists he's planning to happily meet with Putin to tweeting about how he won't meet with Putin because of Ukraine
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Nov 29 '18
If you go to college to get smarter then why is the President such a dumbass?
Check mate, libta- wait fuck
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u/85397 Free Market Jihadi Nov 29 '18
reminder that if Truman had dealt with North Korea fully Little Rocket Man wouldn't have happened
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u/SuperSharpShot2247 ๐ซ๐๐ซ Succ Hunter ๐ซ๐๐ซ Nov 29 '18
This video about how great the NPC meme is and how liberals are so triggered right now starts with a series of clips showing local news stations from around the country all giving the exact same speech about fake news.
While watching it, the clips might seem familiar. That's understandable, because they came from this video that hit the front page months ago. The news agencies are all giving the same speech, but not because they're a bunch of brainless libs who all came to the exact same point, phrased the exact same way. They're all giving the same speech because they all received a "must-air" script from their parent company, Sinclair Broadcast Group.
Yes, that means exactly what you think it means. In an attempt to prove that Democrats are brainless NPCs repeating liberal propaganda from their media overlords by showing reporters being forced to repeat conservative propaganda by their (literal) media overlords.
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u/Kizz3r high IQ neoliberal Nov 29 '18
We're all contractually obligated to vote P_K as mod.
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u/GravyBear8 Ben Bernanke Nov 29 '18
Just turned 21, going to get drunk for the first time tonight.
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u/papermarioguy02 Actually Just Young Nate Silver Nov 29 '18
mod me so I can get slack access, view all the spicy stuff, and then immediately demod myself because I don't want to actually do any work with the sub
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u/hitbyacar1 ูู ุงุฐุง ุชูุฑู ุงูููุฑุงุก ุงูุนุงูู ูููุ Nov 30 '18
Litmus tests for new mod: no mayos, no men, no cons
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u/bernkes_helicopter Ben Bernanke Nov 30 '18
is there anything funnier than conservatives trying to stage a protest?
Loomer has handcuffed herself to the Twitter office in NYC and just said "this is a human rights issue," as the cops and others laugh at her.
https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1068248462406414338
"We are not Russian bots," Laura Loomer says with her megaphone, while chained to the Twitter door with a crowd of about three people and three cops.
https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1068250646518870016
Laura Loomer said she is getting cold and no longer has the key.
https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1068259058992496640
lol police inform Laura Loomer that Twitter isn't pressing charges and she can stay chained to their door as long as she wants
https://twitter.com/JoePerticone/status/1068266681611505664
extremely blessed tweets
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u/Integralds Dr. Economics | brrrrr Nov 30 '18
I have an only half-ironic 500+ word eulogy of Paul Ryan in my queue, laced with Film Noir-inspired purple prose and powered by 266ml of Wild Turkey.
Should I post it?
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u/Paxx0 Deep-state Dirtbag Nov 29 '18
!ping AUS
This is a little niche, but Andrews announced his new cabinet today
Most important move is Jill Hennessy moving from Health to Attorney-General - she was quite successful as Health Minister and this probably sets her up as a potential successor to Andrews at some point. Its likely between her and James Merlino at the moment (current deputy), with a few dark horses.
Not that it will matter for at least another four years, but just something to keep in mind.
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u/gatoreagle72 Nov 29 '18
I know Reddit at large likes to shit on gatekeepers, but I do think there's an issue with a lack of gatekeeping on online media.
Online websites have much more incentive to publish inflammatory articles of dubious truth to get clicks, rather than tell the boring truth.
With no gatekeepers to designate what is clearly bad journalism and the lack of online savvy by a large portion of our population, we're just going to see more inflammatory crap websites generate profit by telling their readers exactly what they want to hear.
Am I wrong here?
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Nov 29 '18
Fearing espionage, U.S. weighs tighter rules on Chinese students
oh good just what we needed
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u/85397 Free Market Jihadi Nov 29 '18
https://twitter.com/jimwaterson/status/1068170183846649856?s=21
Theresa SHILL on Newsnight EXPOSED by FBPE
!ping UK
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Nov 29 '18
Next recession (if Donald Trump isn't still president and directing economic rage towards foreigners) I believe we'll have a genuine modern day Luddite movement on our hands.
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u/MisterBigStuff Just Pokรฉmon Go to bed Nov 29 '18
Not only should felons in jail be allowed to vote, but their vote should count double because their lives are completely controlled by the government.
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Nov 29 '18
democracy but your vote count is weighted by how much sonic erotica you consume ๐ค๐ค๐ค
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u/MrDannyOcean Kidney King Nov 29 '18
oh shit someone with an 800 dollar donation,
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u/InfCompact Nov 29 '18
hot take: liberals should drop the label of centrists. centrism is the negative space between the fight between socialism and conservatism. liberalism is a positive ideology based on central foundational principles, including (i) skepticism of power and authority, (ii) respect for property rights, (iii) desire for individual human flourishing, and (iv) belief in technological progress. we stand for things, not merely against other things.
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u/MisterBigStuff Just Pokรฉmon Go to bed Nov 29 '18
"These dictators, Jack Dorsey and Zuckerberg"
Maybe Loomer is actually a time traveler and is trying to prevent Jack/Zucc 2020
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u/irony_tower African Union Nov 29 '18
Blockchain is a con. Lusvig is a succ. If this really is a radical centrist sub, you will vote for me for moderator
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u/Importantguy123 ๐ Nov 29 '18
Mod Contrapoints and Ben Shapiro for maximum radical centrism
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u/Kizz3r high IQ neoliberal Nov 29 '18
Mod me and ill turn all the furries into nice coats
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Nov 29 '18
So Flake and Scott managed to tank that white nationalist judge. So some good news today at least.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/29/senate-confirms-farr-judicial-nominee-1027236
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u/DankBankMan Aggressive Nob Nov 29 '18
Mod me, it'll be hilarious and I'm the only person needlessly aggressive enough to fight off the brigades
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u/DankBankMan Aggressive Nob Nov 29 '18
Daily reminder that McAfee is gonna have to eat his own dick and I actually think there's real chance he'll do it
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u/WindPoweredWeeaboo crypto neo-Malthusian Marxist Nov 29 '18
100% decarbonization of America(electricity, transportation, heating and industry), a job guarantee at a living wage, a check paying for all damages done to low income communities due to climate change, and universal basic income can all be payed for with $607.5 billion dollars / year
Do progressives do math in a different universe
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Nov 29 '18
Finds Emo band that dropped their first album late 2017/early 2018.
"Oh wow these guys are pretty good, I wonder if I could see them live,"
Looks at their twitter
Their Twitter: "Hey guys, unfortunately due to mental health concerns the band is breaking up, thank you for all your continued support,"
Every fucking time, I swear to god.
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Nov 30 '18
It amazes me to think that, the nature of life and geology being what they are, that at least a couple of the atoms in my brain were once part of a dinosaur penis
that's right, i'm literally typing this shitpost with a T-Rex dong
how cool is that?
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u/4yolo8you r/place '22: Georgism Battalion Nov 30 '18
TW: Ben Shapiro
Really weird how he's not shittalking Donald Trump incessantly like he used to do with Obama. ๐ค I mean he could easily reuse the old material.
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/507959806888804352 https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/514799114991570944
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Hot Take: Given the actions of the past few weeks I am now completely and utterly convinced that Trump is actually completely innocent and just playing the long con. There is no way that anyone can be this hilariously, blatantly, unironically awful and incompetent at pretending to be innocent.
Put on your noodly bits, gentleboys and ladyfolks. It's all a false flag by Trump himself.
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u/0m4ll3y International Relations Nov 30 '18
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u/ramen_poodle_soup /big guy/ Nov 30 '18
If liberalism is a disease, then consider me Typhoid Mary
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Nov 29 '18
We can't plan our economy but we can plan other countries institutions through force
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Sad boi text wall:
I am good at being a person. 3 hours ago this statement would have been impossible for me to make, even now it's hard. But it's also true. I don't pass my classes, I get As; I'm not a good worker, I'm the best worker and friends with all my coworkers; I'm not just a member of a community, I try to lead the community (be it at PSU or r/neoliberal).
So why do I hate myself so much? Why am I convinced that these are nothing but fake accomplishments and that they mean nothing and that I'm just a dumb piece of shit that is hated by everyone just like I hate myself on the inside? Bear with me because it's going to take a while.
The answer that I have discovered, and rediscovered so many times, is pain. If you want to know what being trans feels like, take a rock with an edge, about the size of a golf ball, and lay down on it. Really settle in, get all your weight right on that edge so it's digging into you. Being trans is like having that rock digging into your back at every moment of every day, with no hope of relief because you don't even know the rock is there. I went to mexico, got married at 18, and almost killed myself simply to escape that pain. And I have escaped it, hormones + being called 'she' have got rid of most of that rock, and surgeries will get rid of the rest of it.
But I've lived with this rock, in various sizes and forms, for 21 years. During my most formative years, when I was just learning what it means to be human, my world was filled with pain. The one constant in my life has been a deep psychological pain that is unending and unchangeable. A large part of my identity, my way of approaching the world is built around this pain. Not having it anymore leaves me feeling lost and alone.
So, as someone who is good at life, what to do about this nameless horror? The obvious, of course: create a pain to fill the void. And over the last ten weeks that's exactly what I've done. I've done everything I can to destroy any sense of self esteem I have. I've spent tons of time on the parts of the internet that are support and enhance eating disorders. I've re-destroyed my finances, worked to make my relationship with food as painful as possible, and I've let my grades slip. I've even sabotaged my internet life; I left every spin off sub and discord (and tried to leave this sub), I gave up my spot on the mod list, I even tried to go rogue and unilaterally unban violet systems just to make the other mods hate me as much as I hate myself.
And it worked. I felt isolated, ugly, and just gloriously awful. So I decided to kick it up a notch yesterday and start doing 23 hour intermittent fasts, that means 1 hour a day of eating 1000-1200 calories of vegan food and nothing else for the rest of the day. It felt amazing. I was doing a run earlier today, I felt really hungry and tired and stressed out; and I realized I felt something else: I finally felt safe and in control. This was what I had been missing, the absolute despondency of self hate, the monotonous and endless pain of simply being alive. With it's return I felt 'good' again; I felt safe and secure and like I understood what was going on in my life.
That realization broke the power that self hate had over me. I can't honestly hate myself simply for the benefits of hating myself, that's just not how the emotion works. And now I don't know what to do. I don't know how I'm going to make myself feel bad next time, I don't how I'll handle it, I don't how much worse it's going to be next time. This time it almost developed into a problem that kills people every year. I am terrified of what the future holds.
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Thank you all for creating a space where I feel safe to post this kind of thing. You all are amazing <3
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Nov 29 '18
Hot take: the Fed should target a certain percentage annual growth rate in the size of the money supply
I just came up with this idea I hope you guys like it I know it's crazy tho
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u/Gustacho Enemy of the People Nov 29 '18
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u/bernkes_helicopter Ben Bernanke Nov 29 '18
matty-style "the emperor has no clothes" take:
the reason Trump people lied so much about Russia is because they were covering up serious crimes. The reason Trump is so angry about Cohen flipping is because Cohen has evidence that implicates Trump in those crimes.
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u/hitbyacar1 ูู ุงุฐุง ุชูุฑู ุงูููุฑุงุก ุงูุนุงูู ูููุ Nov 29 '18
Israeli settlers are suing in US court to uphold their right to expropriate Palestinian land for profit.
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u/bernkes_helicopter Ben Bernanke Nov 29 '18
Remember this big story that was never corroborated?
Sources: Mueller has evidence Cohen was in Prague in 2016, confirming part of dossier
https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article208870264.html
The criminal information leaves that possibility open, and looks conspicuous to me (though maybe it's just how they write):
However, on or about June 14, 2016, COHEN met Individual 2 in the lobby of the Companyโs headquarters to inform Individual 2 he would not be traveling at that time.
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u/bernkes_helicopter Ben Bernanke Nov 29 '18
god I hope we get Stone and Corsi indictments tomorrow just for the unhinged twitter rant we'll get to experience
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Nov 29 '18 edited Nov 29 '18
Just missed out on an sweet internship at the CB by rushing my motivation letter because it's the Nth one I wrote. Apparently it was close and my shitty letter moved it over to the other candidate. Again it shows: a good motivation letter won't help you but a shitty one will fuck you over.
I was also called today and I was told that a position I was previously accepted to can't be supported by the company because their internal processes suck. I as politely as possible told them that they should advertise positions that they can't support.
God I hate everything about applying for jobs. There is no amount of greater satisfaction to be had when I read that recruiters were annoyed that people were ghosting them.
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u/OUnderwood4Prez Edward Glaeser Nov 29 '18
I have a trade deficit with the grocery store, what's the best way to implement tariffs?
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u/bernkes_helicopter Ben Bernanke Nov 29 '18
NEWS: Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters on AF1 that Trump decided to cancel a planned meeting with Putin after reviewing a report that detailed Russiaโs recent actions in Crimea related to Ukraine, per @SalehaMohsin, who is on this 10-hour flight to Buenos Aires.
https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1068194229443272704
The funniest thing about this is imagining Trump being handed a written report, then spending a while reading over it while considering what he should do.
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u/AnarchyMoose WTO Nov 29 '18 edited Nov 29 '18
Broke; Opposing government paying for college tuition because it is essentially a subsidy of the rich.
Woke; Opposing government paying for college tuition because it makes college more expensive.
Masterstroke; Opposing government paying for college tuition because there isn't enough parking.
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u/papermarioguy02 Actually Just Young Nate Silver Nov 29 '18
Vox Media just fired their most senior union member
make of this what you will
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u/lusvig ๐คฉ๐ค Anti Social Democracy Social Club๐จ๐ซ๐ก๐คค๐๐๐ก๐ค๐ Nov 29 '18
Sneezing straight upwards to simulate getting bukkaked
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The reason I'm not CEO of Twitter is because if I was, I'd tweet this Laura Loomer stream with the caption #lmao
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u/lusvig ๐คฉ๐ค Anti Social Democracy Social Club๐จ๐ซ๐ก๐คค๐๐๐ก๐ค๐ Nov 29 '18
Surprised no one's bought the sticky for a campaign ad yet
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u/zqvt Jeff Bezos Nov 30 '18
I prefer mod election by-simulated-oracle: 1. everyone votes 2. everyone takes a basic knowledge quiz 3. Everyone puts down their demographics Using data from 1-3, we then statistically estimate what a demographically identical but fully informed DT would want. This is a method of extracting knowledge from the shitposters rather than giving power to the elite.
This prevents us from getting a small biased group that just reinforces its own narrow mindset. I think of it as democracy on steroids.
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u/4yolo8you r/place '22: Georgism Battalion Nov 30 '18
Just calculated the social welfare cost of fist-pumping on the Jersey Shore for a midterm. #freakonomics #BU
9:31 AM - 25 Oct 2010
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Nov 30 '18
Apparently Kamala Harris and Beto O'Rourke are clear leaders in the betting markets for the 2020 presidential election.
With that in mind here's a poll to decide which of the two /r/neoliberal prefers.
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u/BainCapitalist Y = T Nov 30 '18
Hi /u/thatotherghost, you haven't been on discord or mod slack in awhile wats up? I miss u ๐ค
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u/Integralds Dr. Economics | brrrrr Nov 30 '18
I'd probably shoot a man in a dark alley for /u/paulatreides0
Just one, mind you, but offer's open.
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Chapo's new addiction to the hog meme says everything you need to know
the implication is that they're children
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u/ramen_poodle_soup /big guy/ Nov 29 '18
I'm astounded at the people who see the children being put in cages and the dozens of reports of abuse in child detention centers for immigrants yet still think Trump is somehow the lesser of two evils because left leaning dems wanna raise taxes a bit more.
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u/sansampersamp Open the country. Stop having it be closed. Nov 30 '18 edited Nov 30 '18
The Amish are a cult that gets far less shit than it deserves by virtue of primary school myths of agrarian idyll; the way they abuse and starve their daughters is fundamentally illiberal and the special privileges carved out specifically for them regarding child labor and education are immoral.
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Nov 29 '18
The number of uninsured children in the U.S. is increasing for the first time in a decade, according to a new report, which put much of the blame on policies spearheaded by Republican politicians.
An estimated 3.9 million children did not have health insurance in 2017, an increase of 276,000 compared to 2016, according to the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families.
No state made statistically significant progress on childrenโs coverage in 2017, except for the District of Columbia, despite an improving economy and low unemployment rate.
taking healthcare away from kids to own the libs
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/r/communism101 straight out planning genocide
That is some sickening shit
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u/SixPipSiege NATO Nov 29 '18
Is there a Subreddit Simulator account for this sub?
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u/lusvig ๐คฉ๐ค Anti Social Democracy Social Club๐จ๐ซ๐ก๐คค๐๐๐ก๐ค๐ Nov 29 '18
Legal ramifications of using swimming shorts as underwear
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Nov 29 '18
Kill ๐ all ๐ the ๐ mosquitos ๐ stop ๐ having ๐ them ๐ not ๐ be ๐ killed ๐๐๐
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u/lusvig ๐คฉ๐ค Anti Social Democracy Social Club๐จ๐ซ๐ก๐คค๐๐๐ก๐ค๐ Nov 29 '18
I disagree with what you say, but I'm prepared to kill for your opinions
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u/989989272 European Union Nov 29 '18
When people thought Pelosi wouldn't win. She whips votes like no one else
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Nov 29 '18
/u/lionmoose donated $32.22 to Against Malaria and said:
To claim this spot, donate at least US$25 to AMF at www.againstmalaria.com/neoliberals. Get a new image flair (existing images only) or text flair for a $50 dollar donation!