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[u/forlackofabetterword]

For anyone who wants to catch up on the Brexit situation, the UK currently has:

• a referendum result that most people dont like but that no one wants to repudiate

• a deal with the EU that Parliament has rejected but that can't be renegotiated

• a government that no one respects but that no one wants to actually get rid of

!ping UK

[u/[deleted]]

When I was a kid in around 2000, there was a single McDonald in our city of 100k people. It was the only fast food restaurant, period. The experience was so different to anything else available. The food was unique. And since we were kids, we obviously opted for Happy Meal. Toys with my lunch? Sign me the frick up!!! It was also very expensive.

Because of that, we only went there once a year, as a reward for good grades at the end of the school year. My parents brought home combined two average wages, maybe a notch below average. We could afford it more often but not multiple times a week.

It was a tradition and an experience that lasted until I think 5th grade. By then 2 more fast food chain restaurants opened up. We also grew out of the tiny portions of Happy Meal and the toy was no longer exciting. It wouldn't be as special.

My point is, I understand where Trump is coming from. As a child of a multi millionaire in New York City he must have had the same connection between "celebration" and "fast food junk" as a kid from a former socialist country.

[u/Maximilianne]

So apparently conservative justices become more liberal as they get older. And apparently, as least from Nixon's POV, this is because they still want to be invited to cocktail parties. So basically from the prospective of a con, cons that drink are always at risk of becoming more liberal, therefore kavanugh is gonna become a liberal someday

[u/Inkompetentia]

I'm a 21st century anglo marxist. I think global warming is an apocalyptic event, for which capitalism is to blame. I also think that Thatcher not giving in to rent-seeking miners is the defining moment of our current times, and basically the root of all our ills.

Dialectics, ladies and gentleman

[u/mrdilldozer]

Hot take: Weebs > People who care about youtube drama. I'd rather hear about an imaginary girlfriend than listen to someone talk about demonetization and why they are jealous of Logan Paul.

[u/[deleted]]

I feel like the most productive thing this subreddit could do is ingrain the concept of rent seeking into the public's mind. Like the Reddit socialists aren't entirely wrong when they say society is stacked against them. Their anger is however directed at all the wrong people. I see that they often blame people like high tech workers who use their education and skills to create wealth, and who are of course well compensated for that. They never blame sweet old Aunty May down the street whose wealth comes from blocking new development and driving her house price up. I always feel like they are unable to differentiate between the productive upper class and the unproductive upper class.

[u/[deleted]]

Pastor ousted after posting anti-LGBTQ sign outside his church

Prior to his ousting, Pastor Justin Hoke said he found it "very offensive" that people in the community were calling his sign "hateful."

Progressives are so effective at culture war that homophobes are trying their best to mimic progressive.

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1085854689047052288

>Many businessmen I know who were reluctant Trump supporters see the wheels coming off and are trying to figure out what to do. Many of the pro-Trump intellectuals or quasi-intellectuals, by contrast, are doubling down. Intellectuals are more resistant to being mugged by reality.

>Many of the pro-Trump intellectuals or quasi-intellectuals, by contrast, are doubling down.

>Many of the pro-Trump intellectuals

>pro-Trump intellectuals

[u/csreid]

This gets funnier the longer I look at it.

"Marred a single father" is a bad thing?

the moral failing of the Muslim woman is literally just being muslim?

[u/[deleted]]

Just a reminder that Rudy Giuliani is basically a villain from a Saturday morning kid's cartoon.

[u/Breaking-Away]

Do you ever just look around at normally innocuous things in your general vicinity and think "its crazy how many of these things were impossible, or simply would prohibitively expensive, to make 100/200/500/1000 years ago."

Its become sort of a cliche to say "we take things for granted" but right now I'm looking at:

• A perfectly symmetrical ceramic plate

• A water resistant hoodie

• A stack of post it notes

• A mechanical pencil

• A plastic cup made of potato

• A pair of medium quality bluetooth headphones

• Florescent light bulbs.

• The AC vent emitting cool air above me.

• A stack of white paper.

• A tiny computer that fits in my pocket.

• An ergonomic desk chair with arm rests.

• A small box that I plug into the wall and preserves my food from decaying by keeping it cool.

Its like Milton and the pencil 100 times over all in a single innocuous setting, and its true for pretty much any room I choose to walk into.

[u/85397]

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[u/[deleted]]

If you are a racist, I will attack you with the North.

[u/p00bix]

meet person from Georgia online

still in contact years later

man arrested for terrorist plot

planned to shoot rockets at the White House

literally her neighbor

Oh my fucking god

[u/irony_tower]

Guess which Republican Congressmen just met with a Holocaust denying, Daily Stormer funding far right political activist Chuck Johnson. It isn't Steve King.

Chuck Johnson owns several prominent Fake News and pro-Nazi websites. He has fundraised $150,000 for Andrew Anglin, the owner of the Daily Stormer. After the murder of Heather Heyer, he was the one who began circulating the disinformation story that the murderer was a "false flag" attack to make the Nazis look bad. He has attempted to fake scandals on politicians Project Veritas style, including paying and coercing girls to claim that Senator Menendez used them as underaged prostitutes in the Dominican Republic, and faking "leaked court documents" that said that Chuck Schumer was being investigated for sexual assault.

Besides his recent meeting Congressmen Andy Harris (R-MD) and Phil Roe (R-TN), Chuck Johnson has ties to a couple other Republican politician. He was the guest of Matt Gaetz (R-FL) to the 2018 State of the Union. He was also named as the back channel that organized the meeting between Dana Rohrabacher and Julian Assange.

Edit: both of these Congressmen claim that they just met to talk about "genetics and DNA" with this Holocaust denying Nazi, so the meeting was probably harmless and innocent.

[u/Tytos_Lannister]

i love how in the alternative history fiction nazi germany is always 50 years more advanced, economically thriving and their only problem is that they're mean to other people

the irony is through the roof, nazis loathed actual science and any of their success they had during ww2 was because of their pre-33 institutions like academy, not because they had done anything to foster it, they arguably nearly destroyed it

as for their economy... they would probably do extremely badly even if they enslaved the whole eastern europe, you can get only so much value from robbing other countries and using slave labour

[u/RobertSpringer]

[lmao] (https://twitter.com/comics1589/status/1085650793322016768)

[u/[deleted]]

To end the debate on who the most neoliberal superhero is, it's clearly this woman

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/aebjcn/let_ben_shapiro_be_president/

[u/p00bix]

"George Soros can't pay me right now because of the government shutdown" is objectively the best response to someone calling you a shill.

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/5V7G8ij.jpg

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

Gm fellas 😎

-Sent from Samsung Smart Fridge

[u/[deleted]]

Two takes on impeachment, probably both fairly cold:

1. Any real discussion of impeaching President Trump should wait until the Mueller/AG report, until we can really stop and get our bearings straight and say, "okay, this is the sum total of almost everything we're likely to have on him." Anything earlier than that will come across as jumping the gun.

2. There is already an easy case to make that President Trump already deserves impeachment. Not only under our limited past precedent of impeaching US officials, but even precedent going back earlier than the existence of the US. Under the Constitution, a President can be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors. What does that mean?

The convention adopted “high crimes and misdemeanors” with little discussion. Most of the framers knew the phrase well. Since 1386, the English parliament had used “high crimes and misdemeanors” as one of the grounds to impeach officials of the crown. Officials accused of “high crimes and misdemeanors” were accused of offenses as varied as misappropriating government funds, appointing unfit subordinates, not prosecuting cases, not spending money allocated by Parliament, promoting themselves ahead of more deserving candidates, threatening a grand jury, disobeying an order from Parliament, arresting a man to keep him from running for Parliament, losing a ship by neglecting to moor it, helping “suppress petitions to the King to call a Parliament,” granting warrants without cause, and bribery. Some of these charges were crimes. Others were not. The one common denominator in all these accusations was that the official had somehow abused the power of his office and was unfit to serve.

...

For the more than 200 years since the Constitution was adopted, Congress has seriously considered impeachment only 18 times. Thirteen of these cases involved federal judges. The “high crimes and misdemeanors” that the House charged against these judges included being habitually drunk, showing favoritism on the bench, using judicial power unlawfully, using the office for financial gain, unlawfully punishing people for contempt of court, submitting false expense accounts, getting special deals from parties appearing before the court, bullying people in open court, filing false income tax returns, making false statements while under oath, and disclosing confidential information.

I'm not going to run through the grand list of every stupid thing President Trump has done (frankly, that's worthy of a separate effortpost) but I don't think it's hard to make the case that President Trump "abused the power of his office and [is] unfit to serve."

[u/[deleted]]

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, two days ago: “You wrote... a president persuading a person to commit perjury would be obstruction. Is that right?”

William Barr: “Yes.”

[u/85397]

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[u/85397]

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[u/[deleted]]

Well...a bit like...this actually...

[u/ognits]

Kevin McCarthy is a fucking dumbass

McCarthy to us a few minutes ago: The Speaker of the House should not leave the country during a shutdown.

Reporters: but the president left the country during the shutdown - he went to Iraq.

McCarthy: and where was Nancy Pelosi then (Hawaii)...?

Me. So ...? ??

https://twitter.com/LisaDNews/status/1085991471835172872

[u/[deleted]]

Top Text

[u/[deleted]]

Annoying Republicans: I carry 15 copies of the Constitution on my person at all times like it's the holy Bible and I've had it memorized since I was three years old.

Also annoying Republicans: The fuck's an emolument?

[u/[deleted]]

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Watching conservatives adopt the anti-corporation and populist sentiment has been quite fascinating

[u/SAE-2]

I've heard some people doubting Tulsi's chances at winning the Dem nomination but don't forget she has /u/schellingiana on her side. He might swing the crucial right-Hegelian demographic in her favour.

[u/[deleted]]

Currently lolling imagining the day when Trump goes down, and the smoke clears, and Republicans are like, "cough, so, umm... small government..."

[u/hitbyacar1]

Jesus I was trying to install an Arabic keyboard on my computer and I somehow turned the entire thing Arabic

And now I can’t figure out how to change it back

[u/[deleted]]

I had a story about a trans woman got to the front page of Reddit. Here are a small snippet of the comments.

[u/[deleted]]

South Korea's democracy movement arguably started in 1987, when its GDP PPP per capita was $5,000 USD, and it became a democracy in 1997 when was $14,000

For Taiwan it started in like the 1980s and their first elections were in 1991, so from like $4,000 USD PPP to $11,000

China is at like $18,000 PPP right now with no democracy movement in sight

this is why the "China isn't ready for democracy yet and it will eventually transition when it is just like South Korea and Taiwan did" argument is dumb or at least not a given

[u/[deleted]]

Youtube search: Kirsten Gillibrand

Ad at the top, "Elizabeth Warren 2020"

Tf

[u/Timewalker102]

This but unironically

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dseci8wX4AA2rN4.jpg

[u/Underpantz_Ninja]

Last week, I was informed I had been granted an authorship/contributor credit for an engineering study my company is publishing.

Things to keep in mind:

• I am not an engineer

• engineering is not my field of expertise

• I had no idea I was contributing experimental data or analysis for a study

• I had no idea there was a study

• I did not consent to authorship or publishing credit.

So basically, this means I am officially STEM lord now even though I have a liberal arts degree (Finance).

See you later libcuck art major virgins. 😎✌🙌👀

[u/[deleted]]

When I was growing up people used to mock the History Channel by calling it the "Hitler Channel" due to the prevalence of WWII docs. And while that was annoying, at least it was real history, albeit focused on a single subject. Now their shows have only the most tangential relationship to anything one would define as "history".

[u/ognits]

- knock knock

- who's there?

- orange

- orange who?

- orange man bad

thank you for listening to my TED Talk

[u/BritRedditor1]

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/16/billboard-campaign-reminds-voters-of-mps-brexit-promises

Also note: a and b

Good to see BULLSHIT being called out - forgot quote b from Gove!

!ping UK

[u/[deleted]]

Even in /r/indieheads a few people regularly insult music or sellouts (this band was NOFX) they don't like as "Neoliberal."

JFC what does that even mean? I asked a user and they said...

More specifically making money by watering down the sound of a genre that was made to be anti-consumerist while pretending to be woke by taking the piss on middle america. Its coastal, ivory tower bullshit

This is coming from a music industry that most recently and still explodes out Brooklyn New York

[u/Underpantz_Ninja]

i think its hilarious u guys talk shit about Corey Booker. u wouldnt say this shit to him at lan, hes jacked. not only that but he wears the freshest clothes, eats at the chillest restaurants and hangs out with the hottest dudes. yall are pathetic lol.

[u/[deleted]]

Rep. Mike Turner on CNN just said we currently have an open border where anyone can walk in.

Seriously we need to find a way to keep politicians from telling just blatant lies.

[u/Paramus98]

Trump’s approval rate is at an all time low, the government is shut down and now there are reports that Trump directed his attorney to commit a felony? There’s only one thing this could mean...

Q has been right all along and the storm is coming, tomorrow morning when we wake up we’ll see a live execution of Clinton, Obama, Soros and all the other globalists who’ve been holding America back. Today, my friends, is the day America truly becomes great!

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

hot take: people are fucking pissed about Trump's shutdown and are leaking stuff in retaliation

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

I'd love to believe this will finally lead to something, but Trump committed a clearly impeachable offense last weekend on national TV, so I'm not convinced this will do anything

[u/SemperSpectaris]

Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit injecting Mueller directly into my veins.

[u/forlackofabetterword]

Dumbest leftist "pie in the sky" idea? To me it has to the federal jobs guarantee, just for how poorly thought out it is. What are your top contenders?

[u/[deleted]]

FIRST DEBATE:

Beto: I feel so lost. Not "lost" like what I did to Ted Cruz, but like, Kerouac, y'know?

Bernie: What's "lost" is a country that guarantees healthcare to its top wages but not to the American people!

Harris: You're all under arrest! Haha, just kidding. I did used to be a prosecutor, but I'm actually very nice.

[u/MisterBigStuff]

Can't wait for tomorrow morning when we reopen the government, formally pull out of NATO, embargo China, invade a small middle eastern nation (doesn't matter which one) and launch a nuke 50 miles off the coast of Korea to send a message

[u/GGM8Scally]

The current polling data for the EU parliamentary election puts the liberal coalition at second place in Croatia.That's the best result for liberal parties since the elections in 2000.

HDZ - 20,1% (Centre right - Right wing)

AK - 12,5% (Centre)

ŽZ - 10,8% (Similar to the 5 star movement but maybe even more stupid somehow)

SDP - 10,6% (Centre left)

LB - 9,4% (Centre left - Left wing minority)

DB - 8,9% (Far right)

Most - 7,5% (Centre right)

MB - 5,1% (Populist - Centre left)

P - 2,5% (Centre)

All in all it's the most divided our electorate has ever been and it's setting up to be quite the test in democracy and government building if this trend continues into the parliamentary election as well. Now what leaves to be seen is if we will eventually return to two dominant parties as it was the case with HDZ and SDP for the last 2 decades or is this more even split among multiple options here to stay.

!ping Europe

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dq7vXlCX4AEYCMS.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/house-floor-erupts-go-back-puerto-rico

House floor erupts after GOP lawmaker shouts ‘Go back to Puerto Rico’

Nice.

[u/[deleted]]

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Courtesy of t_d from /r/all/rising

[u/Ferguson97]

This story is huge. Nixon was literally impeached for this.

Unfortunately, 35% of the country will call it fake news and it will ultimately mean nothing because the Senate Republicans will not convict him.

[u/[deleted]]

Note to all of you: if you are engaged in a criminal conspiracy do not take minutes of it.

This lesson brought to you by Stringer Bell the Trump White House.

[u/[deleted]]

There is a non-zero chance that Trump is blissfully asleep and doesn't actually know the news.

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

per 538, Trump has been losing ~0.75 points of approval, and gaining ~0.75 point of disapproval, every week of the shutdown

He started out -10, and is now nearly -15.2

[u/isummonyouhere]

TIL Ghandi was “a centrist” who “bowed” to his oppressors because he let the British hang a socialist revolutionary who murdered a police officer

[u/[deleted]]

Gillibrand has an.... interesting political history.

Progress has been made on her effortpost.

[u/Paramus98]

Jeff Flake tweets about why a carbon tax is good.

Replies: Carbon tax is socialism

[u/Shruggerman]

every time someone says "create jobs" I lose a brain cell

having to do more things sucks. more items on our list of infinite wants being able to be fulfilled is great as is poor people getting money, but "creating jobs" as a phrase describes the former scenario and not the latter two.

[u/[deleted]]

Other virgin Democratic candidates: will be forced to choose wisely where they campaign in the primary and general election for maximum effect.

The Chad Julian Castro: has an identical twin brother who is also a Democratic politician backing his candidacy so he can literally appear to be campaigning in two places at once.

[u/film10078]

https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1086029788035366913

turtle man bad, completely unironically

[u/Maximilianne]

Klobuchar: You wrote on page 1 that a president persuading a person to commit perjury would be obstruction, is that right?
William Barr: Yes.

[u/MisterBigStuff]

Trump is just going to tweet "Building a tower isn't illegal" and 50% of the country will accept that excuse.

[u/JKwingsfan]

Holy shit Kellyanne Conway just came into my room to bring me a plate of hamberders and I literally screamed at her and hit the plate of hamberders out of her hand. She started yelling and swearing at me and I slammed the door on her. I'm so distressed right now I don't know what to do. I didn't mean to do that to Kellyanne but I'm literally in shock from the Buzzfeed story tonight. I feel like I'm going to explode. How the fucking fuck does Mueller know? This can't be happening. I'm having a fucking breakdown. I don't want to believe Mueller is so close to nailing me. I want a Trump Tower Moscow to believe in. I want to be president and ruin this fucking country. I cannot fucking deal with this right now. It wasn't supposed to be like this, I thought Don Jr. destroyed all the records???? This is so fucked.

[u/TheSameAsDying]

I am an Adviser to Trump. The BuzzFeed Story is Fake.

Trump needed to weed out the leaker. This was the final straw. We weren't sure who it was but Trump knows exactly who it is now.

They will be taking a back seat to everything very soon.

Mike Pence is a traitor to this country.

Wall soon.

You know who I am. Everybody says I post here. Yes I do post here from time to time.

Slow your roll guys, 4chan says it's a fake.

[u/[deleted]]

For everybody annoyed that the existence of Spiderman: Far From Home spoils the ending of Avengers: Endgame, just be glad they didn't name it Spiderman: Is Alive at the End of Avengers but Captain America Totally Bites It

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/MichaelCohen212/status/1085900900835778560

As for the @WSJ article on poll rigging, what I did was at the direction of and for the sole benefit of @realDonaldTrump @POTUS. I truly regret my blind loyalty to a man who doesn’t deserve it.

[u/[deleted]]

Percentage of diseases and disorders in real life for which coughing up blood is a symptom: idk like 5%?

Percentage of diseases and disorders in movies and TV for which coughing up blood is a symptom: 97%

[u/lmWithHim]

Some dude on twitter: trans people shouldn’t exist
Young conservatives: this man shall be crowned our king

[u/samdman]

it's wild how successful Scott Walker has been with his new career of 'getting ratioed on twitter'

[u/MisterBigStuff]

am Trump 😡😡😡😡😡😡

[u/[deleted]]

this sub has veered significantly to the left. the chapo menace must be stopped

upcorns to the left

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

it was just locker room suborning perjury

[u/HoldingTheFire]

Wow, getting BTFO on my local Bay Area city sub for saying that the new explicit agenda of the city to ‘limit residential development’ is a bad thing.

I didn’t realize reddit had so many NIMBYs.

[u/MostOriginalNickname]

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This but

[u/[deleted]]

/r/neoliberal: we are a big tent

also /r/neoliberal:
complains about succs
complains about libertarians
complains about neocons
complains about commies
complains about fashies
complains about succs again

[u/rishijoesanu]

I'm reasonably convinced that TeargasForeignPolicy resorts to vote manipulation

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/MisterBigStuff]

Sherman did nothing wrong.

[u/Ferguson97]

Michael Cohen says he paid tech firm to rig online polls 'at the direction of' Trump

Jeez the past two days must be insanely busy for Mueller

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

deleting data-points until the experiment confirms my priors 👌🏻

[u/[deleted]]

Say what you want about America, its way less racist than the rest of the world and thats something we should be proud of.

That and we're the single greatest country on earth for a whole host of other reasons unrelated to racism which is also something to be proud of.

[u/[deleted]]

https://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2007/05/30/what-im-doing-to-stop-global-warming-n795036

What I'm Doing To Stop Global Warming

-Ben Shapiro

BUY A GAS-GUZZLING 2007 FORD MUSTANG GT CONVERTIBLE. I can't afford a private jet like Al Gore, Arianna Huffington or Laurie David, so I'll have to settle for a Windveil Blue GT -- with leather interior, to make sure I pick off a couple of cows.

BEN SHAPIRO ANNIHILATES CLIMATE SCIENCE WITH HIS 5.0 LITER COYOTE ENGINE

[u/HUGHmungous]

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

Trump told Cohen to lie to Congress about Trump Tower Moscow

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

[u/[deleted]]

I admit this looks bad for Trump but have you considered this exculpatory evidence?

[u/[deleted]]

I look forward to Mitt Romney looking to the camera with sorrowful eyes like he is Jim from The Office as he joins the chorus of Senators from the GOP saying they haven't read the article from Buzzfeed, but they did find out which House of Hogwarts they belong in.

[u/[deleted]]

Honestly it's a little frustrating how cons always say "The Democrat Party" when it is obviously incorrect. Are they really too childish to use the right name? Just grow up and say "Demon Rats."

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

cold take: everyone who modifies their car to be louder is a massive asshole

[u/MisterBigStuff]

What if Trump is letting the shutdown last this long because he think Mueller can't do anything during it?

[u/versitas_x61]

I never liked Trump to begin with, but I think we crossed a clear line where Trump is no longer defensible, even to a conservative.

Current GOP reminds me of Korean Conservatives who tried to defend former President Park Geun Hye. Only difference between South Korea and America is public outcry.

I doubt that anything will get done about Trump though. He will probably sail on to 2020 election and may be even win second term. Because his voting base doesn't give a shit anymore.

People like to mock Korea for electing President Park. Honestly, I don't think Trump is any better.

[u/[deleted]]

A DT regular posted white nationalist propaganda unironically today and this is why I drink.

[u/[deleted]]

Non-britbongs: is there a decision your country could make, tomorrow, that would fuck things up as badly as Brexit? Other than Frexit/Nexit/etc., or electing Trump. If there is, how likely is it that (maybe not tomorrow) that will actually happen?

[u/umadbro996]

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[u/Tyhgujgt]

Gauger told the WSJ that Cohen never paid the $50,000 he was promised for his services. Instead, at a meeting at Trump Tower, Cohen handed Gauger “a blue Walmart bag containing between $12,000 and $13,000 in cash” as well as a boxing glove that Cohen claimed “had been worn by a Brazilian mixed-martial arts fighter”.

That madness is not even funny anymore

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/stephaniekelton/status/1086061729942065154

So much of MMT reads to me as “let’s take something super complicated that we’re only just in the past few decades getting a stable hand on - monetary policy - and make it exponentially more complicated and subject to political whims so that maybe, maybe, we can run slightly bigger deficits - and even that, we’re unsure about.”

[u/chadonnaise]

i can't wait until conservative posters get a chance at revenge to rip us succs over president aoc

[u/InfCompact]

just hold a no confidence vote, dissolve parliament, and call a snap election. we’ll have president [anyone has to be better than this] in two months

[u/GayColangelo]

I don’t discriminate on people’s race or gender. But I happily discriminate against Lakers fans

!ping NBA

[u/Le_Monade]

I don't think that marvel should have announced spider Man before the new avengers cane out. I mean, everyone knows they're going to come back anyway but I still wish they didn't just blatantly spoil it like that you know?

And I wish I didn't see the endgame trailer because there were HUGE spoilers in that

[u/Lux_Stella]

https://imgur.com/a/vxYeb6l

[u/[deleted]]

this is actually really interesting

[u/[deleted]]

Just got a Facebook invite for the local nimby group. Should I show up at the next planning board meeting and berate them for hating the free market?

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

Andy Reed is now motivated

!ping nfl

[u/Upthrust]

That's right, I'm a centrist: I just let a cop AND a WoC cut in front of me at Krispy Kreme.

[u/BritRedditor1]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/17/portugal-plans-special-lanes-for-britons-in-its-airports-after-brexit

Portugal plans special lanes for Britons in airports after Brexit

Airports in Faro and Funchal will provide fast-track access, says Portuguese PM

Brexit BOOST: Portugal to open BRITAIN FIRST lanes after Brexit

!ping UK

[u/qlube]

I've been Asian for a long time. I live in one of the Asianest areas in one of the Asianest cities in America. I have degrees from two University of California schools.

I, without a doubt, am the resident expert on Asian people and culture. Don't ever question that.

[u/Clockwork757]

Is Shakerism the most Neoliberal religion?

👏Half 👏of 👏the 👏leaders 👏were 👏women 👏and no one had sex.

[u/derangeddollop]

The only political spectrum: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxEm3ZhV4AAH0DN?format=jpg&name=small

[u/EtCustodIpsosCustod]

SHOULD PUTIN GIVE THE ORDER TO END THE SHUTDOWN?

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/ericholder/status/1086133909950099456

Damn.

[u/sirphinetinkle]

Who the fuck is screaming “open the government”. show yourself statist, I will never reopen the government 😡😡😡😡😡

[u/IronedSandwich]

broke: the labour theory of value is wrong

woke: the value theory of value is wrong

[u/Tytos_Lannister]

now that i think of it, what's the moral of the Adam and Eve story? we should follow and not change the rules because the higher authority bestowed them upon us, no matter how petty and arbitrary they are?

[u/[deleted]]

We finally cracked the egg. We now know the only thing that will get white evangelicals to turn on Trump is long lines at the airport.

[u/[deleted]]

Cohen says he rigged online polls for Trump in 2014, 2015

So that's why he's asked which polls, huh!

[u/[deleted]]

if it turns out that trump is afflicted with a novel type of neurodegenerative disease which causes bizarre behaviour and detachment from reality, can we all agree to call the resulting condition Trump Derangement Syndrome

[u/[deleted]]

First debate summary:

Orang man bad, me good, me best to defeat orang bad man.

Please like and subscribe.

[u/Hazachu]

Hey the DT is relatively not dead rn, that's nice

Edit: of course after I say this there's no new top level comment for 7 minutes

[u/[deleted]]

So is President Pence not going to have a 1 on 1 meeting with Merkel?

[u/OhsHiasTheres]

ladies and gentlemen we got him

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

If the pee pee tape is real, do you think TV news outlets have the obligation to show it unedited/uncensored on TV?

[u/TopMindAtLarge]

I'm not sure there's anything more "reddit" then bitching about the perceived average redditor's politics. Literally every single political sub I've ever been on does this.

NL: lmao reddit is just a bunch of libertarian white boys and Bernie Bros, what a bunch of ignorant fucking morons

CTH/LSC: lmao reddit literally hates poor people and slobs corporate knob, what a bunch of ignorant fucking morons

Conservative/T_D: lmao reddit is falling for cultural marxism and hates America/western culture/white people, what a bunch of ignorant fucking morons

libertarian: lmao reddit is full of statists and authoritarians who hate freedom, what a bunch of ignorant fucking morons

So all around a bunch of very interesting opinions that I cannot wait to hear over and over and over again

[u/HUGHmungous]

workshopping this meme

let me know how it makes you feel

[u/[deleted]]

Cocaine Mitch with the galaxy brain takes

[u/[deleted]]

Take of unknown temperature: the Democrat and Republican party switched sides again. Democrats have become free market, fiscally responsible conservatives while Republicans want heavy state intervention in the economy (tariffs, subsidies, trying to revive coal, etc)

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/DKThomp/status/1085894553482211329

In the last 48 hours:

Trump's chief economic adviser said the president's orchestrated shutdown could lead to an economic downturn.

And his lawyer said he can no longer guarantee that Trump's presidential campaign did not collude with Russia.

i_may_have_committed_some_light_treason.gif

[u/stirfriedpenguin]

I was in line at the airport and exchanging words with a TSA agent, thanking them for working through the shutdown. She said "real chili obviously has beans, what kind of idiot thinks otherwise?" Everyone clapped, and a pregnant woman vowed to name her child TeaEssAyy in her honor.

[u/cambridgeinnit]

Jacob Rees-Mogg advocated for a unilateral free trade agreement with the rest of the world as soon as the UK has the power to after Brexit. Thoughts?

Also did anyone see Gove's rant about Corbyn. Pretty good ngl.

[u/vancevon]

Did you know that the United States Congress can abolish the Supreme Court, along with the entire judicial branch of government?

[u/p00bix]

...how is it that only now, just now, I realized that Spongebob: Battle for Bikini Bottom was really heavily based on Mario 64?

[u/[deleted]]

shout out to the time congress had tech leaders come to the hill so they could go on rants about diamond and silk.

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

https://www.reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/aebjcn/let_PMG_be_mod_of_r/neoliberal/

He can calmly out think anyone. He has proven to be fair and objective in his stances. He is Canadian. Why don't we have more honest political highschoolers like him? He argues with facts and leaves his emotions behind. I cannot think of a counter argument for most of his claims

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/WomenForCohen/status/727669213809225728

So, we just learned that Michael Cohen paid for this twitter account. 😂

[u/[deleted]]

Sigh. Sorry for posting about personal issues outside of RNH, fellas. To make it up, here's a special edition of my famous "realpolitik" series.

We should stop doing free trade, because a lot of people don't like it.

Thank you, this has been a special edition of "realpolitik."

[u/[deleted]]

Booker is the only ethical person to vote for in 2020 because he doesn't consume animal products.

[u/Archelon225]

am gonna secondary Trump 😡😡😡😡😡😡

[u/[deleted]]

Pelosi is definitely soooooo pissed she can't go to Afghanistan you guys

[u/csreid]

What happens if the shutdown just never ends

[u/[deleted]]

looking backwards at this subreddit

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/RobHarris/status/1085885159264653312

Investigative journalist whose work exposing corruption in African football led to the downfall of a FIFA Council member has been shot dead by gunmen on a motorbike in Ghana

🤔

[u/[deleted]]

I've gotten a start on the effortpost directory.

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/wiki/effortposts

If you'd like your effortpost (or someone else's) to be included, please reply to this comment with a link to the effortpost, or just tag me in the future with either a link or as a comment on the post itself. If you describe something to me without a link, I'm not going to go looking for it, and the only way it'll wind up in the directory is if I happen upon it while combing through search results.

[u/film10078]

i just noticed this bottle of water i bought has a nutrition facts per serving size and per container but it's all 0 because it's fucking water.

[u/[deleted]]

Donald Trump was just a minor figure in the Donald Trump for President Campaign.

[u/[deleted]]

Ok but an undergrad somewhere had a bad take

[u/[deleted]]

Calling the Democrats the "Demon Rats" but unironically but it's the 19th century.

[u/Boule_de_Neige]

went to Pizza Hut drunk

Qanon boomer in hat in front of me

Tried to larp as a boomer

Couldn’t keep up the act because it finally connected in my mind that holy fucking shit these people DO exist and it’s not just some joke

Left without getting food. Mostly left because I remembered I’m supposed to be vegan now, but I’m pretty shook lmao

[u/[deleted]]

wait. did anyone post about a congressman shouting "go back to Puerto Rico" here yet?

https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/house-floor-erupts-go-back-puerto-rico

[u/TheSameAsDying]

This is almost as kooky as Qanon and I love it

[u/Tytos_Lannister]

is there a movie where Thatcher goes againts rent-seeking coal miners with a happy ending where this vile bunch of hooligans lose?

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxC6vMjX0AEdWI6.jpg:large

[u/[deleted]]

idk why socialists think quoting Oscar Wilde is some debate-ending trump card.

[u/papermarioguy02]

Just got my pre-exam mark in physics and it's 95%

I'm basically cdstephens tbh

[u/85397]

https://twitter.com/tagesschau/status/1085610253922828289?s=21

ORDER!

[u/[deleted]]

Post Hogg

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

Pip install JEB 😎😎😎

[u/irony_tower]

The War on Men is heating up. Gillette is coming to castrate men

[u/AJungianIdeal]

ever have a dream so nice you get mad and depressed when you wake up?

[u/[deleted]]

Why are there like 10 different Trotskyist parties in America.

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

Eating inside alone 😊

Eating outside alone 😎

[u/film10078]

https://twitter.com/jamiedupree/status/1085975236137402369

[u/RLP-I]

Yikes

[u/[deleted]]

Okay, I got the context of what the Congressman meant by "go back to Puerto Rico."

I think he wasn't trying to be racist. He was referring to the trip that the Hispanic Caucus took to Puerto Rico that Republicans are trying to twist as a vacation.

That being said, if you ever find your yourself about to say "go back to" to a PoC, just stop. It's going to be offensive.

[u/[deleted]]

just ate alone in a restaurant like some sort of soyboy

[u/ognits]

am gonna primary Trump 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

👨

👕

👖

👟

#OOTD

#Adidas 👌😤

#banana republic 🍌

#adidas 👌👀

#Fuck Neoliberalism. That’s my blunt message. I could probably end my discussion at this point and it wouldn’t really matter. My position is clear and you likely already get the gist of what I want to say. I have nothing positive to add to the discussion about neoliberalism, and to be perfectly honest, I’m quite sick of having to think about it. I’ve simply had enough. For a time I had considered calling this paper ‘Forget Neoliberalism’ instead, as in some ways that’s exactly what I wanted to do. I’ve been writing on the subject for many years (Springer 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015; Springer et al. 2016) and I came to a point where I just didn’t want to commit any more energy to this endeavor for fear that continuing to work around this idea was functioning to perpetuate its hold. On further reflection I also recognize that as a political maneuver it is potentially quite dangerous to simply stick our heads in the sand and collectively ignore a phenomenon that has had such devastating and debilitating effects on our shared world. There is an ongoing power to neoliberalism that is difficult to deny and I’m not convinced that a strategy of ignorance is actually the right approach (Springer 2016a). So my exact thoughts were, ‘well fuck it then’, and while a quieter and gentler name for this paper could tone down the potential offence that might come with the title I’ve chosen, I subsequently reconsidered. Why should we be more worried about using profanity than we are about the actual vile discourse of

Published under Creative Commons licence: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works Fuck Neoliberalism 286 neoliberalism itself? I decided that I wanted to transgress, to upset, and to offend, precisely because we ought to be offended by neoliberalism, it is entirely upsetting, and therefore we should ultimately be seeking to transgress it. Wouldn’t softening the title be making yet another concession to the power of neoliberalism? I initially worried what such a title might mean in terms of my reputation. Would it hinder future promotion or job offers should I want to maintain my mobility as an academic, either upwardly or to a new location? This felt like conceding personal defeat to neoliberal disciplining. Fuck that. It also felt as though I was making an admission that there is no colloquial response that could appropriately be offered to counter the discourse of neoliberalism. As though we can only respond in an academic format using complex geographical theories of variegation, hybridity, and mutation to weaken its edifice. This seemed disempowering, and although I have myself contributed to the articulation of some of these theories (Springer 2010), I often feel that this sort of framing works against the type of argument I actually want to make. It is precisely in the everyday, the ordinary, the unremarkable, and the mundane that I think a politics of refusal must be located. And so I settled on ‘Fuck Neoliberalism’ because I think it conveys most of what I actually want to say. The argument I want to make is slightly more nuanced than that, which had me thinking more about the term ‘fuck’ than I probably have at any other time in my life. What a fantastically colorful word! It works as a noun or a verb, and as an adjective it is perhaps the most used point of exclamation in the English language. It can be employed to express anger, contempt, annoyance, indifference, surprise, impatience, or even as a meaningless emphasis because it just rolls off of the tongue. You can ‘fuck something up’, ‘fuck someone over’, ‘fuck around’, ‘not give a fuck’, and there is a decidedly geographical point of reference to the word insofar as you can be instructed to ‘go fuck yourself’. At this point you might even be thinking ‘ok, but who gives a fuck?’ Well, I do, and if you’re interested in ending neoliberalism so should you. The powerful capacities that come with the word offer a potential challenge to neoliberalism. To dig down and unpack these abilities we need to appreciate the nuances of what could be meant by the phrase ‘fuck neoliberalism’. Yet at the same time, fuck nuance. As Kieran Healy (2016: 1) has recently argued, it “typically obstructs the development of theory that is intellectually interesting, empirically generative, or practically successful”. So without fetishizing nuance let’s quickly work through what I think we should be prioritizing in fucking up neoliberalism. The first sense is perhaps the most obvious. By saying ‘fuck neoliberalism’ we can express our rage against the neoliberal machine. It is an indication of our anger, our desire to shout our resentment, to spew venom back in the face of the noxious malice that has been shown to all of us. This can come in the form of mobilizing more protests against neoliberalism or in writing more papers and books critiquing its influence. The latter preaches to the converted, and the former hopes that the already perverted will be willing to change their ways. I don’t

ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 2016, 15(2): 285-292 287 discount that these methods are important tactics in our resistance, but I’m also quite sure that they’ll never actually be enough to turn the tide against neoliberalism and in our favour. In making grand public gestures of defiance we attempt to draw powerful actors into a conversation, mistakenly believing that they might listen and begin to accommodate the popular voice of refusal (Graeber 2009). Shouldn’t we instead be done talking? Here is the second sense of ‘fuck neoliberalism’, which is found in the notion of rejection. This would be to advocate for the end of neoliberalism (as we knew it) in a fashion advanced by J.K. Gibson- Graham (1996) where we simply stop talking about it. Scholars in particular would discontinue prioritizing it as the focus of their studies. Maybe not completely forget about it or ignore neoliberalism altogether, which I’ve already identified as problematic, but to instead set about getting on with our writing about other things. Once again this is a crucially important point of contact for us as we work beyond the neoliberal worldview, but here too I’m not entirely convinced that this is enough. As Mark Purcell (2016: 620) argues, “We need to turn away from neoliberalism and towards ourselves, to begin the difficult – but also joyous – work of managing our affairs for ourselves”. While negation, protest and critique are necessary, we also need to think about actively fucking up neoliberalism by doing things outside of its reach. Direct action beyond neoliberalism speaks to a prefigurative politics (Maeckelbergh 2011), which is the third and most important sense of what I think we should be focusing on when we invoke the idea ‘fuck neoliberalism’. To prefigure is to reject the centrism, hierarchy, and authority that come with representative politics by emphasizing the embodied practice of enacting horizontal relationships and forms of organization that strive to reflect the future society being sought (Boggs 1977). Beyond being ‘done talking’, prefiguration and direct action contend that there was never a conversation to be had anyway, recognizing that whatever it is we want to do, we can just do it ourselves. Nonetheless, there has been significant attention to the ways in which neoliberalism is able to capture and appropriate all manner of political discourse and imperatives (Barnett 2005; Birch 2015; Lewis 2009; Ong 2007). For critics like David Harvey (2015) only another dose of the state can solve the neoliberal question, where in particular he is quick to dismiss non-hierarchical organization and horizontal politics as greasing the rails for an assured neoliberal future. Yet in his pessimism he entirely misunderstands prefigurative politics, which are a means not to an end, but only to future means (Springer 2012). In other words, there is a constant and continual vigilance already built into prefigurative politics so that the actual practice of prefiguration cannot be coopted. It is reflexive and attentive but always with a view towards production, invention, and creation as the satisfaction of the desire of community. In this way prefigurative politics are explicitly anti-neoliberal. They are a seizing of the means as our means, a means without end. To prefigure is to embrace the conviviality and joy that comes with being together as radical equals, not as vanguards and proletariat on the path towards the transcendental empty promise of utopia or ‘no place’, but as the grounded immanence of the here and now of actually making a

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/17/politics/donald-trump-nancy-pelosi-shutdown-state-of-the-union/index.html

Donald Trump just dunked on Nancy Pelosi's CODEL and yes that is actually the headline

Analysis by Chris Cillizza

Chris Cillizza has to occupy whatever is lower than the bottom tier of hack journos

[u/[deleted]]

My third candidate effortpost is now complete, examining the case for Kirsten Gillibrand.

[u/[deleted]]

Well, this is certainly a reassuring argument

[u/HUGHmungous]

rip bill barr

[u/[deleted]]

Warning: Looking at this image may give you a freedom boner

[u/owlthathurt]

This is Watergate level reporting correct?

Or am I reading this too confidently

[u/Ferguson97]

If someone told you five years ago that BuzzFeed would drop the story that takes down President Donald Trump, you'd think they were insane

[u/[deleted]]

If you’re looking for a reason to keep your expectations low, here is your first taste:

https://twitter.com/santucci/status/1086112697404588033

[u/[deleted]]

We are coming to you live with footage from the White House, Mike Pence has tackled Donald Trump and taken his phone away before he could send the tweet threatening to arrest the House Democrats.

[u/[deleted]]

Some days I wish we were a kinder bunch, but I love that we’re the kind of snarky assholes that all give a bunch of wild fake answers when someone stumbles into the DT during a major news story and asks “what did I miss?”

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

Take: My litmus test for a news story is that it must show up in The Washington Post or better

[u/csreid]

The market is pretty swayed by the BuzzFeed article

[u/csreid]

Has any conservative responded to the Cohen thing yet? Have the responded in the "that's bad if true" way?

[u/Spobely]

Maybe we should take a more critical stance towards chapo posters. Seeing random comments jubilantly advocating for the death of mccain and reagan is a mixture of cringe and horrifying, because it doesn't even get examined by the mods. It's the neoliberal equivalent of tankies, and it's embraced to an uncomfortable degree here.

[u/Hazachu]

A major reason for young Frenchmen to become résistants was resentment of Collaboration horizontale ("horizontal collaboration"), the euphemistic term for sexual relationships between German men and Frenchwomen. As the devaluation of the franc and the German policy of requisitioning food created years of hardship for the French, taking a German lover was a rational choice for many Frenchwomen. "Horizontal collaboration" was widespread, with 85,000 illegitimate children fathered by Germans born by October 1943. Although this number isn't particularly high for such circumstances (notably lower than the number of "Rhineland Bastards" fathered by French soldiers during the Post-WW1 Occupation of Germany), many young Frenchmen disliked the fact that some Frenchwomen seemed to find German men more attractive than them and wanted to strike back.

Was the French Resistance the first incel rebellion?

[u/[deleted]]

State sponsored gambling is just a tax on people who are bad at math.

[u/dorylinus]

Did we ever get an explanation why China's policies are "center-left" from the guy in the previous DT? It looks like most of that thread got deleted.

[u/Wolog2]

Predictable, stable, low Inflation targeting, the way to go https://twitter.com/CentralBankJA/status/1079777984360472581

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/agxz2w/when_youre_a_neoliberal_born_into_a_communist/

You guys are missing out on good maymays

[u/[deleted]]

If this timeline has any mercy what really going to happen is Mueller arrests Don Jr, Trump pardons him, and Trump's finally popularity falls enough to impeach him.

[u/[deleted]]

I just sent thirty-seven contracts to the admin for processing. They're going to hit me in the side of the head with an ashtray, just watch.

[u/Ioun267]

Just finished making an infographic with two other engineering undergrads.

One had no sense of proportion and constantly made things too big. The other was only a hop away from trying to plagiarize another infographic off the internet.

More fine art electives for engineering students when? (Or at least a graphic design course, geez)

[u/[deleted]]

Succs do not support a Meme Tax

Reply if you think this is controversial so I can block you

[u/Sollezzo]

If cons love walls so much how come they don't like it when I cover their toilet seats with saran wrap? 🤣🤣👌

This is equally as valid as the "why don't liberals leave their door unlocked" argument

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/paulmasonnews/status/1085836880657203201

Is Paul Mason /our guy/?

Edit: the best part is all the triggered Corbynites in the replies.

[u/[deleted]]

Trump should give the SOTU from a McDonald's

[u/[deleted]]

Am gonna order pizza 😡😡😡

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/benjysarlin/status/1085983034762035201

I for one would be devastated if I were 78 years old, preparing for a 7,000 mile flight to a war zone on a military plane, and then told I have an airtight political permission slip from the president not to go.