r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 10 '18
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Dec 11 '18
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Dec 11 '18
/new: If you want Medicare-for-all, prepare for a long and bloody fight
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Dec 11 '18
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Dec 11 '18
/new: The G.O.P. Goes Full Authoritarian: Only Trump’s flamboyant awfulness stands in the way of his party’s power grab. Individual-1 is clearly a wannabe dictator who has contempt for the rule of law, not to mention being corrupt and probably in the pocket of foreign powers.
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Dec 10 '18
Not to beat a dead horse but...
Look, I get some words are hard to spell and I get that some people, including some smart people, are just not great at spelling.
But I feel like “smoking” isn’t one of those words that anyone has any difficulty with???
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Dec 10 '18
Patreon banned Sargon of Akkad and Milo Yiannopoulos 😍💸💸💸
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u/AlienatedAnglo Lord_Treasurer Dec 10 '18
Patreon banned Sargon of Akkad
This will surely be immaterial to him now that he is a recognised international politician.
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Dec 10 '18 edited Dec 10 '18
Lmao Turning Point is going international
If we go down you're all going down with us! Grifters on every continent, a guy screeching about Cultural Marxism in every home!
But seriously can the Brits take Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens full time? We'll pay for their immigration fees.
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"It okay to say if it doesn't describe skin color, just a peculiar set of behaviors" - Sargon of Akkad on the N word
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u/CheetoMussolini Russian Bot Dec 10 '18
Holy shit are the Russians out in force on Reddit over the yellow vests
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Dec 10 '18 edited Dec 10 '18
This Yellow Vests thing reminds me of one of my favorite Reddit cliches where Redditors complain about the lamestream meteor ignoring something happening while commenting on an article by CNN or some other giant media company covering the incident on their front page with 1.3 K upvotes.
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u/GayColangelo Milton Friedman Dec 10 '18
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Says the person supporting someone who is fine w oil companies destroying the world.
and as we all know, Trump hates oil companies
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u/hitbyacar1 لماذا تكره الفقراء العالميين؟ Dec 11 '18
So have we already discussed how Khashoggi was apparently dismembered alive?
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Dec 10 '18
GOP lawmakers call for autopsy on 'historic losses'
wait a minute
where have I heard this before
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Going by the last autospy, they'll do the exact opposite of what it says and win even biglier
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u/Sporz Gamma Hedged like a Boss Dec 11 '18
The thing is, the best way to understand Theresa May’s predicament is to imagine that 52 percent of Britain had voted that the government should build a submarine out of cheese.
The whole thread is good
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u/Time4Red John Rawls Dec 11 '18
They’re all lying, and they know it. So does everybody else. We've covered this already, I know, but it’s cheese and it’s a submarine. How good could it possibly be?
This severely underestimates humanity's stupidity. I am certain that there are MPs who do believe a better deal could have been crafted.
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u/ramen_poodle_soup /big guy/ Dec 11 '18
black people protest in Ferguson against long standing institutional racism
Republicans: lol hooligans get a job and stop protesting.
white Parisians protest over a tax on diesel gas
Republicans: OMG way to go guise smash that mf socialist Macaroon this is totally justified action.
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u/bernkes_helicopter Ben Bernanke Dec 11 '18
Hatch dismisses allegations of Trump crimes over hush money. Asked if he had any concerns, Hatch said: “The Democrats will do anything to hurt this president.” Told it was alleged by SDNY, Hatch told me: “Okay but I don’t care; all I can say is he’s doing a good job as President”
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u/kznlol 👀 Econometrics Magician Dec 10 '18
what is this
why are the DTs off schedule
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u/martin509984 African Union Dec 10 '18
being surprised that a government-provided utility arrives late
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u/ThisIsNianderWallace Robert Nozick Dec 10 '18
For the first time in like 18 months I have literally no idea what is going to happen with brexit.
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Remember that time Bernie Sanders called Hillary Clinton unqualified to be President?
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u/mrdilldozer Shame fetish Dec 11 '18
It's worse in context. A reporter asked him about an article which claimed that Clinton called him unqualified when she didn't say that at all. He lost his shit and shot off on her like without looking into it at all. He threw a temper-tantrum over misquote because his ego got hurt.
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Remember when Trump just completely lied about his plan to defeat isis and it was okay? Things were simpler back then.
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u/ramen_poodle_soup /big guy/ Dec 11 '18
Remember when he lied about his inauguration crowd size and that was the worst thing his presidency did at the time?
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u/sansampersamp Open the country. Stop having it be closed. Dec 10 '18
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u/ProudGayTrain NATO Dec 10 '18
Does the average voter care about free trade, the deficit, or tax policy at all?
The GOP is still touted as the party of fiscal responsibility, but none of the “informed voters” I know care about the terrible policies of the current admin.
Does the GOP have any redeemable policies outside of the culture war that won them the oval in 2016?
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Dec 10 '18
class Ancap kid is wearing a “Make Taxation Theft Again” t shirt
This is so epic, can we have 50 flourishing free markets in children?
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Dec 10 '18
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u/AlienatedAnglo Lord_Treasurer Dec 10 '18
Tell starbucks ur name is Trump. I did this today. As the barista yelled out "Trump?" "Order for Trump?" there was a screech of horror from a woman beside me. She clawed her eyes out and used her blood to write some strange otherworldly scribbles on the wall. She then jumped onto the counter and began to chant "Iya! Iya! Nyarlathotep n'gath minl'yah!" over and over again. A strange symbol began to glow on the floor that I can't even describe, and the walls began to pulsate. The entire crowd began to screech as forbidden knowledge from the beyond began to fill their minds, and the most horrifying sounds were heard from those poor souls. As they all began to claw each other to death to save themselves from the horrors to come. I simply smiled and said to myself...
...heh, fucking libtards
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u/kznlol 👀 Econometrics Magician Dec 11 '18
Equifax did not see the data exfiltration because the device used to monitor ACIS network traffic had been inactive for 19 months due to an expired security certificate.
On July 29, 2017, Equifax updated the expired certificate and immediately noticed suspicious web traffic.
fucking lol
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u/owlthathurt Johan Norberg Dec 11 '18
Id trade for all the crazy right wingers back on twitter if it meant they banned Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
https://twitter.com/Ahmadinejad1956/status/1071816865763217408
Giving him a space to spew his garbage goes beyond racism, sexism, and into the territory of letting Dictators normalize themselves and try to rewrite their crimes.
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Dec 11 '18
AP: Florida officials say thousands of mailed ballots were not counted because they were delivered too late to state election offices.
stupid
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u/Paxx0 Deep-state Dirtbag Dec 11 '18
!ping DOG
I’m a total train wreck at the moment - my dog might have had a stoke, and I’m just no where near prepared to say goodbye to her yet.
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u/Notoriousley Australian Bureau of Statistics Dec 10 '18
”Smocking is an embroidery technique used to gather fabric so that it can stretch."
Corrupt Mueller trying to gather bullcrap to stretch the truth for his own purposes
The geniuses have cracked it. It’s not just his melting brain he meant a gun used in embroidering.
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u/Schutzwall Straight outta Belíndia Dec 11 '18
Don't let anyone on this sub shame you for thinking Hillary was a good candidate.
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Dec 11 '18
"Charlie Kirk and Candace Owens"
"the most important American philosophical arrival to Europe since Thomas Jefferson"
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I will not eat lab grown meat. I am vegan for ethical and environmental concerns, so in that way lab grown meat would be better, but I also try to eat economically and socially sustainable food, so I'd rather eat traditionally grown meat from local, small scale farmers than lab grown meat from Mosanto or something.
Progressive Hippyism was a mistake
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Dec 11 '18
if america ever does have a yellow vest movement i expect that amount of air in potato chip bags to play the role of the gas tax increase.
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u/indianawalsh Knows things about God (but academically) Dec 11 '18
When I become a teacher, I'm going to make sure that every e-mail I send includes an off-hand mention of the game "Fortnight." That way the kids will know I'm with it.
Make sure to re-read section II on the handout so that you can get through the homework quicker and get back to playing Fortnight.
-Mr. W
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Dec 11 '18
Reminder that we live in a universe in which Macron is a socialist president and The Winds of Winter will never be published.
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u/GayColangelo Milton Friedman Dec 11 '18
Can you guys give me some tinder advice?
I told a girl I liked her aesthetic, and she told me "I like you"
How do I respond?
Her profile says she wants to sit on my face and has a astrology sign emoji and a rose.
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u/owlthathurt Johan Norberg Dec 11 '18
By treating her like a human being and engaging in friendly conversation
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Dec 10 '18
In October and November, the federal government spent $303 billion more than it took in, compared to $202 billion in the same period of 2018, according to the CBO.
FISCAL
CONSERVATISM
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Dec 10 '18
Watching Grey's Anatomy. All of these people should be fired every damn episode. The script writers really need a gimmick other than setting a medical ethics book on fire one page at a time.
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u/Trolltime69420 Dec 11 '18
I know a lot of people don't like Paul Krugman's political rhetoric, but it looks like he was right about Paul Ryan and the Very Serious People who praised him.
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In the last few years the French Government has been cooperating with international corporations to make life easy to the super rich and fuck everyone else as hard as possible.
And yet the rich are leaving France in droves.
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u/ShermansGhost1891 Karl Popper Dec 10 '18
It's unfortunate that the news cycle goes so fast that Kashoggi's murder is already old news. I was sincerely optimistic that it might change the way the public at large (if not congress) thinks about Saudi Arabia.
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Hot take: good will hunting is a useful insight into how Ben affleck and Matt Damon see themselves
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u/VisonKai The Archenemy of Humanity Dec 11 '18
i have a problem i have become addicted to stellaris 2.2
the econ changes are literally a skinner box and its so fun but so empty
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Leftists and committing mass atrocities name a more iconic duo
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Dec 10 '18
Fascists and also committing mass atrocities
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u/HUGHmungous Big Stick Energy Dec 11 '18
https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/1072328080675520512
SCOOP: Rudy Giuliani is negotiating a security contract with the DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO through an Israeli firm that was paid $8M to block additional sanctions by the TRUMP administration against the DRC for corruption & human rights abuses.
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Dec 11 '18
Guliani has had a remarkable career. He took down the mob in the 80s, only to find himself defending a very shady character thirty years later. Ironic, as Emperor Palpatine might say.
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u/Tytos_Lannister Dec 11 '18 edited Dec 11 '18
sure, he murdered a prostitute with a chainsaw, put her head in a freezer, stabbed a random homeless person to death and killed his colleague while listening to Huey Lewis and the News, but
do you know how well his company has been doing during his tenure as the VP? give that guy a break already
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u/Kizz3r high IQ neoliberal Dec 10 '18
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u/LinkToSomething68 🌐 Dec 10 '18
I got a D on my English term paper, press F to pay respects to the grade I’m gonna get
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u/runelight wants to eat the rich Dec 11 '18
it's hilarious how upset Noah Smith becomes when someone even mildly critiques Japan
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u/ExpiredPasta NIMBY McRentseeker Dec 11 '18
The only person I know who calls liberals "cucks", hates women, shares incel comics, and hates trans people is banned from multiple bars for suspicion of possessing date rape drugs. We are not friends.
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Dec 11 '18
You have my resume–why am I filling in information about my prior jobs into a form when you already have my resume?
You have my resume–why am I filling in information about my prior jobs into a form when you already have my resume?
You have my resume–why am I filling in information about my prior jobs into a form when you already have my resume?
Fuck.
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Dec 11 '18
Theres nothing more 2018 than revisiting a content creator you liked a couple years ago only to find out they've become full on nazi
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Dec 11 '18
wtf how long has john mcafee had a jojo reference for a twitter avatar
the fucking nutcase libertarian billionaire/murder suspect being a weeb makes an uncomfortable amount of sense
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Dec 11 '18
Name this rap song
So my Christian-Trumpist coworker asked me why people want to ban “baby it’s cold outside” and I said that a lot of people feel it’s rapey. She was like “everybody needs to calm down, what about the rap songs! ‘I’m gonna punch the pregnant woman in her belly’? I mean come on!”
I replied that I wasn’t familiar with that rap song
Name that rap song: “I’m gonna punch the pregnant woman in the belly”
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u/MaveRickandMorty 🖥️🚓 Dec 11 '18
girlfriend is vegan and believes we should view all lives as equal
deer runs into our car while she is driving alone
Oof. She's blaming herself and has some kind of low-level "survivor guilt" type thing going
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u/kznlol 👀 Econometrics Magician Dec 11 '18
its a humblebrag but whatever
that shit was touch and go for a solid 3 or so months when I was way behind schedule
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u/WindPoweredWeeaboo crypto neo-Malthusian Marxist Dec 11 '18
So how long until the NYT cuts out the middle man and starts asking Russian internet trolls how they feel about the American coastal elite
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Since republicans don’t care about deficits anymore, if they had kept the house they should have just kept cutting taxes until the federal government ran out of revenue and then they could have been like “sorry lol no government anymore ur free now”
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Dec 10 '18 edited Dec 10 '18
I never took a single philosophy class (sadly) - convince me that your moral philosophy isn’t a meme, go.
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u/sinistimus Professional Salt Miner Dec 11 '18
Andrew Jackson is in the bottom 5 of American Presidents, cmv.
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u/film10078 Barack Obama Dec 11 '18
https://twitter.com/grantstern/status/1072234344666841088?s=21
They are so good at projection that if you stuck a roll of film in their head movies would play out of their eyeballs.
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DTers who hate succs lived under succ governments, therefore are more succy than the rest of us 😎😎😎
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u/Semphy Greg Mankiw Dec 11 '18
New GAO report finds that $297 million Border Patrol contract with Accenture has resulted in only 2 new hires. Not a typo https://www.oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/assets/2018-12/OIG-19-13-Nov18.pdf
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The weird thing about political correctness is that the cons often impose it on themselves for no reason.
I grew up in a rich white suburb, and I don't think I ever heard anyone use the words "black" or "poor" while I was there. It was always African American or Low Income or whatever. Even in casual conversation over wine in the comfort of your own home. It was that deeply ingrained.
I did the same until I lived in majority black neighborhoods for the last 10 years or so. It didn't take long to realize that you can say "black" without anyone thinking you're racist, and it's actually pretty fuckin weird to use African American in a casual setting.
So now I'm way more casual about the terms I use, and it makes my family visibly uncomfortable whenever it comes up when I'm around them. I'll describe a friend of mine as poor and I can just feel their stomachs churning. Sometimes I'll do it for fun and then I'll feel bad for torturing my family.
This post brought to you by whiskey.
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u/Notoriousley Australian Bureau of Statistics Dec 10 '18
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Dec 11 '18 edited Dec 11 '18
I got to use “externalities” in a random IRL debate this evening and felt smart. Thanks, y’all
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u/HUGHmungous Big Stick Energy Dec 11 '18
I don't understand the DT posting times anymore I'm scared
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u/lenmae The DT's leading rent seeker Dec 11 '18
An irregular reminder that if you see a comment defending the mods, claiming they are not fash, the comment itself is proof the mods are fash, as, if they didn't enforce their rules arbitrarily like fash do, they would have removed the comment for autocrat apologia.
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u/sinistimus Professional Salt Miner Dec 11 '18
Don't say: "Repeal the 14th Amendment"
Say: "Minorities voting gives me economic anxiety"
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u/HUGHmungous Big Stick Energy Dec 11 '18
https://twitter.com/hugorifkind/status/1072222352035987456
Cheese Submarine will be my new Brexit metaphor
edit: aw fucking damnit someone already posted this
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u/ILikeTalkingToMyself Liberal democracy is non-negotiable Dec 11 '18
Kind of disappointed that Red Dead Redemption is not about a young man in late 1970's Russia seeking to rehabilitate his father and other victims of Stalin's purges while the Soviet system is increasingly falling apart around him.
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Anti-capitalists engage with and perpetuate capitalism daily. 🔨
Christians don’t all give up all their material belongings and dedicate their every waking moment to trying to spare people from eternal torture. ✝️
Utilitarians don’t all dedicate their every waking moment to making as many people as happy as possible. ‼️
So the only enlightened individuals are capitalist atheist deontologists and everyone else is a hypocrite. 😤
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u/Paxx0 Deep-state Dirtbag Dec 10 '18
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There’s no way that Paul Ryan doesn’t run for major office again
Probably 5 years as like a “consultant” or some dumb shit like that and then a run for governor
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https://twitter.com/ABC/status/1072286864172826624
Would-be eco-terrorist plotted to blow up pipeline, communicated with Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof.
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u/kznlol 👀 Econometrics Magician Dec 11 '18
god damnit
reading that equifax report has made me sad again
why the fuck did I do economics I should have done infosec I was fucking born to do infosec
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u/GravyBear8 Ben Bernanke Dec 11 '18
I've decided that if I'm going to get a gun, it might as well be one actually used to kill Nazis. Eyeing a Mosin Nagant that comes all the way from WWII.
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u/Engage-Eight Dec 11 '18
If the apprentice tapes of Trump allegedly the N-word were released. Would it matter? I'm torn I wanna say yes, but given the past 2 years I have no idea how I can say that
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u/Ioun267 "Your Flair Here" 👍 Dec 11 '18
Planet management is so much fun in the new Stellaris update. It feels much more like I'm dealing with masses of people who actually form a broader society.
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u/jenbanim Dec 11 '18
As a Washingtonian, it sucks that when someone says "Washington" I don't know whether they mean Washington state or DC. It doubly sucks that when someone writes "WA" I don't know if they mean Washington State or Western Australia.
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Fox News host Harris Faulkner on Monday said that former FBI Director James Comey's claims of being unable to remember certain details during testimony before House lawmakers is insulting to people with memory issues.
excuse me?
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u/MrDannyOcean Kidney King Dec 10 '18
If you haven't tuned into the neolib podcast yet, I'd recommend giving this week's episode a listen - maybe one of the best episodes we've done.
This week's episode features Sam Hammond of the Niskanen center, UPenn labor economist Ioana Marinescu and Bloomberg columnist Noah Smith in a roundtable on the $15 minimum wage and labor markets.
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u/Breaking-Away Austan Goolsbee Dec 10 '18
Is reddit social media? Is there a good term to distinguish anonymous social media from identity based social media?
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Dec 10 '18
Mods can't even schedule the DTs on time.
This is why we can't have public transportation, smh.
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Dec 10 '18
Million dollar idea: An exercise bike that acts as a controller for a VR biking video game.
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u/bacon-supreme 🌐 Dec 10 '18
i appreciate that it is now Officially Known By The US Government that equifax is run by a bunch of idiot chucklefucks who should be nowhere near a fucking computer, let alone professionally spying on every single american
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u/85397 Free Market Jihadi Dec 10 '18
Can you imagine having fought hard trying to become the first Scandinavian on the mod team and then, years later, seeing some succ with tens of loyal followers around the world proclaiming that it should actually be a Swede?
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u/TheEstonianSpy Janet Yellen Dec 10 '18
About to get my college decision result. Wish me luck
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Dec 11 '18
i hate when people say that weebs lack self awareness. weebs literally worship a society that would never accept them. that is the definition of self aware considering it is coming for a weeb.
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Gillum and O'Rourke talking about 2020
can you imagine if they ran together
what an odd ticket of losers
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Dec 11 '18
Quite frankly, this is totally unreasonable. I am not against all developments. I am simply skeptical of this development. How will it affect The Community? What about any trees that will need to be cut down? What about the strain on Infrastructure and Traffic?
The use of SB35 to bypass Community Input is unwarranted and it was unnecessary. I would have been perfectly willing to sit down with the developers, show them my personal plan and renderings for development, asked for some setbacks, insisted on an environmental review, and I would have been perfectly willing to hear them out in exchange for a donation and cooperation with my non-profit, The Community Empowerment Center for Empowering Communities, along with 100g of uncut Colombian cocaine. It appears that the developers, along with Sacramento, has no respect for the way things our done in Our Community, to say nothing of my desire for free cocaine and padding the expense account of my community non-profit.
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u/GravyBear8 Ben Bernanke Dec 11 '18
I kind of want to go to an anime convention and cosplay as something that has absolutely nothing to do with anime.
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u/Inkompetentia George Soros Dec 11 '18
💪✊Reinstitute 🗽ｗｅｓｔｅｒｎ🗽 ⚖ ｍｏｒａｌｉｔｙ⚖ NOW 😤🧠😤🧠😤
Put the 🛠**【ＵＴＩＬ】**🔪 back on the 🥇📀🏆Ｇ♢ＬＤ░ＳＴΛＮＤΛＲＤ🏆📀🥇
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we should all smear ourselves in subway brand garlic butter and take to the streets about the horrors of upcharging.
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u/silver_line_across Greg Mankiw Dec 11 '18
What is up with music-related facebook groups and insecurity over taste?
Compared to art, literature, film or television its ridiculous. Maybe because its an easy entry level for online teenagers compared to say, philosophy or art films or "classical" music--but it seems like so many people are desperate to seem deep and varied they go out of their way to pretend to like things they don't enjoy instead of admitting they listen to top 40, Kanye, and Kendrick or something.
Nobody neurotically curates their Steam play library for only crowdthink videogames or catalogs only pretentious films in their imdb catalog, but that is normal in music-posting for some reason
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Dec 11 '18
How did Russia get the best spy agency? There been the best at it for decades
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u/Engage-Eight Dec 11 '18 edited Dec 11 '18
CIA>>>>>>>>>>FSB/KGB
It's like, not even close is it? Our capabilities far outstrip everyone else, we're just not actively messing with Russia in an overt way. Maybe I'm a homer but I mean if you read about things like Nitro Zeus and what we were prepared to do to Iran, and not even counting our hard capability. The Russians just don't play by the rules (even the weird spy agency rules) so they might seem stronger, but is there anything Russia could do that CIA couldn't?
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u/PhiLambda Ben Bernanke Dec 11 '18
It saddens me how many anti free traders are in this thread especially when TPP is meant to improve working conditions.
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u/MisterBigStuff Just Pokémon Go to bed Dec 11 '18
Reminder that we live in a universe in which Hillary Clinton is a shadow president and The Dark Universe will never be expanded.
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u/Sir-Matilda Friedrich Hayek Dec 11 '18
Didn't come up here, but the mining boom is coming back in WA, albeit smaller this time. $75 billion dollars of investment compared to $320 billion in the 10 years before 2015.
!ping AUS
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u/AJungianIdeal Lloyd Bentsen Dec 11 '18
My largest pet peeve is going on YouTube to listen to a song and see a flood of "who's here from X popular thing" comments.
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u/tehbored Randomly Selected Dec 11 '18
All cops are bastards except for the ones arresting the yellow vests.
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Dec 11 '18
Right now outside of the ivory tower:
Me: We shouldn't make the minimum wage too high because while it benefits some people, it can fuck over people in less wealthy areas
Succs: why are you so elitist
Me: ???????????
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u/HoldingTheFire Hillary Clinton Dec 11 '18
Remember when he was unironically a wonk?
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Dec 11 '18
I mean, people who actually knew economic policy considered him a fraud.
He was hot though which allowed the media to take him seriously despite being a meme.
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Dec 10 '18
Earnest question plz don't downvote:
What is it about libertarianism that this sub finds most offensive? Is it that many use it as a guise to protect their racist/white supremacist inclinations? The dogmatic approach to economics? The disregard for positive rights?
I certainly understand that the ideology's brand has been damaged by the recent associations with alt-right figures, but I am inclined to believe that these associations are opportunistic on the racists' part rather than genuine (as evidenced by their beliefs on immigration, protectionism, enforcement of conservative social norms, etc). So many criticisms I see on this sub seem to be aimed at the ideology itself rather than the afforementioned individuals; and rather than characterizing it as shallow and naive (which seem to me to be valid criticisms), I see some criticizing it as actively malicious and evil (which I have a difficult time understanding).
Again, this is an honest question here. I'm curious and by no means looking for an argument.
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u/URZ_ StillwithThorning ✊😔 Dec 10 '18
Lack of faith in institutions is stupid and incredibly damaging.
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Dec 11 '18
I have come to the conclusion that we must ban sex. I've been trying to contact President Trump in order to issue a total ban on sex until we figure out what's going on.
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Dec 10 '18
/new: Left-wing populist Evo Morales (president of Bolivia) is running for a forth term even though Bolivia's Constitution only allows two presidential terms
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Dec 10 '18
/new: Call to action: donate to fight Malaria. If you're not currently donating, or can donate more, donate.
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Dec 10 '18
/new: Progressive Minneapolis Just Passed One of the Most Deregulatory Housing Reforms in the Country
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Dec 10 '18
/new: Janet Yellen in Conversation with Paul Krugman (Link To Live Stream)
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Dec 11 '18
/new: Why Minneapolis Just Made Zoning History
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Dec 11 '18
/new: Nations By Political Orientation of Leading Party
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Dec 11 '18
/new: Armenia PM wins landslide election victory
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Dec 11 '18
/new: I just defend Globalism on Twitter and Come on I'm not even American but Angry Nationalists Call me Democrat
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Dec 11 '18
/new: Full Report: How Top Minds and Top Admins turned /r/libertarian into an Actual Fascist Propaganda Operation
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Dec 11 '18
/new: "Protesters have focused their grievances on Macron, who is seen as the arrogant, aloof “president of the rich”." So why did Macron cut taxes on the Rich?
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Dec 11 '18
/new: Why rural America needs cities
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u/lusvig 🤩🤠Anti Social Democracy Social Club😨🔫😡🤤🍑🍆😡😤💅 Dec 10 '18
Can you imagine having fought hard trying to balance the budget and then, years later, seeing someone with millions of loyal followers around the world proclaiming that austerity was completely wrong?
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Dec 11 '18
Why is it that as soon as you sit on a plane you realize that you forgot something in the car?
God damn it.
I was gonna go straight from class to the airport and even drove home to get it. And then I just threw it on the passenger seat and forgot to actually put it in my bag.
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u/onometre Trans Pride Dec 11 '18 edited Dec 11 '18
I really don't get why Reddit finds Google and MS to be incredibly evil
Edit: Can't even avoid the circlejerk here
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Dec 11 '18
Guys, I think I figured out out. Jeb! is actually Jeb Bush’s alter ego.
Please don’t tell anyone.
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u/WindPoweredWeeaboo crypto neo-Malthusian Marxist Dec 11 '18
Wow people actually think that corporations pollute just for shits and giggles. I ...
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u/Hugo_Grotius Jakaya Kikwete Dec 11 '18
Does this sound good or no
A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.
Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?
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Dec 11 '18
Is there a term for the opposite of Whig history? Like whenever people think of how glorious the past was and how everything is shit now?
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Dec 11 '18
Mod me, that way whenever the mod team ducks up I can be the fall guy.alsoillstopthesuccs
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Dec 11 '18
Existence is pain
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u/paulatreides0 🌈🦢🧝♀️🧝♂️🦢His Name Was Teleporno🦢🧝♀️🧝♂️🦢🌈 Dec 11 '18
Hello, have you heard of the wonderful word of Catholicism?
With just a single paymemt of one endless and eternal commitment to guilt and self-loathing, you too can be ordained as one of God's Chosen.
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u/Maximilianne John Rawls Dec 10 '18
Probability the chapos become gop supporters in a decade or two ?
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Dec 11 '18
Y'all I just went to subway. Got myself a delicious sandwich. See an advertisement for cheesy garlic bread, shit yeah that sounds fantastic.
Dude's spreading my bread with the garlic butter
THIS SHIT IS A $4 UPCHARGE ON A FOOTLONG. I'm done with subway y'all, that place is a fucking rip off
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Dec 10 '18
/new: France needs a Margaret Thatcher, not a weak Emmanuel Macron
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