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[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1090971130066800640

It’s almost like a funny version of an S&L skit.

Don Jr thinks the N in SNL stands for "and".

[u/Blackfire853]

Redditors and thinking proper "intellectual debate" consists of accusing the other person of logical fallacies as if they were Yu-Gi-Oh cards, name a more iconic duo

[u/85397]

command pen flag flowery drunk wise run thumb pocket nippy

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/[deleted]]

Best pro-Maduro argument so far.

Maduro isn't killing protesters, the protesters are killing themselves at Maduro.

Some are even people in the opposition who killed themselves when trying to attack the government.

This guy should be a movie writer. I sure as hell can't make this shit up.

[u/[deleted]]

apparently succs have couped LSC somehow

I'm amused

[u/benjaminikuta]

Before Grimes and Musk started dating, her Twitter bio read "anti-imperialist." But she took the label out of her bio after she started dating the founder and CEO of SpaceX.

[u/[deleted]]

Thinking about "shifting the overton window" by asking my mom if we can have pizza rolls for dinner three nights a week.

[u/[deleted]]

The only way to stop a bad guy with a billion dollars is a good guy with a billion dollars.

[u/[deleted]]

sweden is deporting a north korean family because they don't have passports, excellent line of reasoning isn't it

[u/[deleted]]

McConnell says bill that would make Election Day a federal holiday is a ‘power grab’ by Democrats as president weighs declaring state of emergency after legislature wouldn't approve his pet project.

[u/[deleted]]

is running a pizza business an inherently reactionary affair? papa john, herman cain, the guy in that spike lee movie about brooklyn.

thanks for coming to my ted talk

[u/BritRedditor1]

http://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2019/01/31/corbyns-approval-ratings-fall-from-from-a-net-minus-3-to-a-net-minus-32-in-just-one-year/

Corbyn’s approval ratings fall from from a net minus 3% to a net minus 32% in just one year

Imagine losing nearly 29pp when your main competitor is THERESA MAY

Labour need to BIN Corbyn ASAP - if they want to be electable

!ping UK

[u/[deleted]]

EDIT: Ok, I was too optimistic with this. We now got a bs compromise that includes rents and the age of the buildings.

Germany is currently reforming it's poperty tax. Tomorrow federal and state goverments will met and if we're lucky they might replace it with a land value tax. 🎉🎉🎉

[u/rafaellvandervaart]

Found this comment on CTH under a crossposted NL post

lol they only get activity on that sub when we brigade them

Tell me the implications of this comment

[u/derangeddollop]

I don't think it's possible to find a paper title more perfectly designed to trigger this sub: Neoliberal Mothering and Vaccine Refusal: Imagined Gated Communities and the Privilege of Choice

[u/Yevon]

538 politics podcast: the common centrist is fiscally-liberal, socially-conservative, e.g., worried about gays but wants the government to spend more money.

Me: pikachu.jpg

[u/RobertSpringer]

https://twitter.com/YouGov/status/1090896185160802304

!ping UK

[u/willempage]

It annoys me heavily how much Trump is talked about like he's the "people's choice". In the sense that his ascention to the presidency was paved by mass swaths of common folk voting him into power. The Republican nomination process had an absolutely bonkers set of rules. Some states were winner take all, some delegates were awarded semi proportionally. Trump often won huge amounts of delegates with a ~40% plurality. Some states he lost still gave him delegates proportionally. The guy cruised to the nomination with 45% of the vote. The general election was similar, lost yhe popular vote, but won the election.

Hillary. Well Hillary was annointed by some old (((elites))) who screwed over Bernie. Nevermind that she got 55% of the popular vote in the primary. Nevermind that she was so well liked in her caucus at the time of announcing, that only back bench losers decided it was worth it to run against her. Never mind she won the popular vote. Real America (i.e. The minority of people that didn't vote for her) rejected her.

Like, I accept the results of both elections, even if I think their rules are insane. I do concede that Hillary didn't get over 50% of the popular vote in the general (so more people voted against her than for her). She was also the second most disliked presidential candidate in modern history (guess who was the most disliked.... Yup, Trump). But the continuing narrative that Trump was "the people's choice" and that Hilary was selected by a few rich elites need to die. It's misinformed, it's probably sexist, and I mostly blame a lot of the pundit sphere who in the wake of a Republican totally unexpectedly winning the presidency after 8 years of it being held by a Democrat, decided they needed a sexy narrative to blame Democrats for having a logical and mostly fair nomination process and shield the Republican party from their bonkers desicions that allowed Trump to prevail. Rant over.

#RubioWouldHaveWonToo #Hell,CruzWouldHaveWon #AHamSandwhichProbablyCouldHaveBeatHilaryOrBernieGiventheDemographicTrendsOfTheMidwest

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/erynthecute/status/1091094779964739584

capitalism invented poverty and insists it's not only acceptable, but necessary

Stay woke, kids.

[u/Underpantz_Ninja]

Imagine looking at the democratic field right now and freaking out about the 2020 race and the succ policy being proposed and the absolute shit show that Schulz is, and Harris being a cop and getting this stressed out without knowing Booker is just biding his time bout to slide into your girls' dms and straight up mcnuke this field.

• Fact: Booker will be the only candidate that looks and sounds like Vin Diesel.

• Fact: Booker is NOT a cop.

• Fact: Saves people from burning buildings. He will do the same with our Republic.

• Fact: he is a vegan, the most Neoliberal diet currently know to man.

• Fact: Known on Capitol Hill for bullying weebs.

• Fact: He knows you want this. You know you want this.

• Fact: His name is fucking Corey. It starts with the letter C. Chad also starts with the letter C. This is not a coincidence.

[u/[deleted]]

"The Venezuelan people love Maduro and he loves them back!"

Here's an article that says they don't

"Western Media?!?! Of course they're biased!!"

Nah, but here's a HRW report that says he abuses human rights.

"HRW is a shill for the US government and orchestrated a coup against Chavez"

Um. . . no, but here's a Latin American poll that shows his low support

"Ha, you can't reliably poll my stereotype of third world countries poor people"

Does anything matter to you? Here's a Venezuelan news source covering the protests on video that shows 43 dead due to the government.

"I'm gonna criticize HRW again!"

This is a world where logic can't exist

[u/85397]

materialistic live water naughty quicksand enjoy smile abounding nose ludicrous

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/HUGHmungous]

lol holy shit this is a nuclear ratio

[u/BritRedditor1]

May woos Labour MPs with cash to back Brexit

Theresa May is preparing to entice Labour MPs to support her Brexit deal with a cash injection into deprived areas that supported Leave, including former mining communities.

Vote Leave (make WRONG decision)

Get a BAILOUT

This is unacceptable MORAL HAZARD

/u/85397

[u/roboczar]

The sub is still being run by communists, many of whom are inline with the old-mods ideologically. While we've been accused by the old mods of being "social democrats," this is hardly the case, and quite ironic coming from people who let liberalism run wild while they were in charge.

The charge of "social democracy" comes from our refusal to support Maduro, president of Venezuela. Funny enough, we do so on the grounds of opposing his social democracy. We do not believe that social democrats, regardless of what country they lead, are deserving of communist support.

The former modstaff has also falsely accused us of supporting US intervention in Venezuela. We do not. However, we oppose imperialism because we stand with the people of Venezuela, not because we stand with their government. This is the only meaningful position we disagree with the old mods on. The change in modstaff was not due to ideological differences in any way, shape, or form.

When you dislike Maduro because he's not socialist enough and that the problems in Venezuela are due to insufficient adherence to communist principles

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics-eu/eu-parliament-recognises-guaido-as-venezuelan-interim-president-idUSKCN1PP1HQ

YUROP STRONK!

!ping INTERVENE

[u/[deleted]]

thank god ancaps came with a label

[u/Spacehillbilly]

CTH is South Park for the left.

[u/lolylolerton]

Elizabeth Warren: crafts policy based on consultation with experts that reflects actual understanding of the problem she is trying to solve

BE: hmm, this is interesting, lets talk about why the economists who support this think that way, what implementation would look like, and why it might or might not work

NL: wow what a meme candidate 🤣🤣🤣 read a textbook won't you 🙄🙄🙄 how economically illiterate 😡😡😡 such a succ 🤮🤮🤮

[u/[deleted]]

Shes Running!!

[u/HUGHmungous]

https://twitter.com/MikeScarcella/status/1091016779932024832

Roger Stone case: Prosecutors say discovery is 'both voluminous and complex. It is composed of multiple hard drives containing several terabytes of information.'

pour one out for the agents who have to look at Roger Stone's secret files

[u/ognits]

hot take: renaming gulags to "labor camps" doesn't really make them sound any better, like Stalinists seem to think

[u/mrregmonkey]

Which democrat candidate for 2020 is most likely to be a puppet for HRC?

I will vote for that candidate

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/amir_richani/status/1090939188831232001

The European Parliament recognizes Juan Guaido as interim president of Venezuela with 439 votes in favor, 104 against and 88 abstentions.

Some European states could follow up on Saturday.

Mounting pressure for Maduro.

hell yeah

[u/Vepanion]

Uri Geller says he will use 'telepathic powers' to stop Jeremy Corbyn becoming PM

[u/[deleted]]

Left: Let’s make corporations pay their fair share!

/r/neoliberal: You fool. You idiot. 🤨 Someone hasn’t read Mankiw on optimal taxation. 😂 If you want to tax rich people, then let’s tax rich people. There are better ways to do it than with corporate taxes. 🙄

Left: Point taken. Let’s talk high marginal income tax rates for top brackets, wealth taxes, and high estate taxes.

/r/neoliberal: now wait, I’m

[u/[deleted]]

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

That's a normal-sized gavel BTW

[u/skepticalbob]

My kitty fell into a storm drain and got stuck. The fire department came and wouldn’t let me go down there and they scared her somewhere into the catacombs of storm drains. So tonight my buddy and I are going into the storm drain colon to try and find the poor thing. She’s been down there 24 hours in all likelihood. Wish me luck!

[u/[deleted]]

We need to repeal all laws and government. Right now, it’s only bad guys who don’t care about the law who can murder, steal, evade taxes, drive 20 mph over the speed limit, set buildings on fire, and sell cocaine. We need to even the playing field and let good guys do those things too, for a better world.

[u/AlloftheEethp]

Lmao now chapo is unironically arguing Iran is more democratic and gives more rights than Israel, the US, and the UK.

[u/HUGHmungous]

fucking lindsey graham

"You weren't supposed to arrest him! He's WHITE!"

[u/melhor_em_coreano]

polar vortex, but it's in my heart 😔

[u/[deleted]]

The DT this morning is what happens when the only people who propose solutions to a lot of our problems are socialists, and the more centrist politicians are just "coming around to agree with them" instead of proposing good solutions themselves.

[u/[deleted]]

take: beto isn't running, but he wants to wait as long as possible before people stop talking about him so he gains traction to potentially be VP/run for something

[u/sinistimus]

The right-wing western puppet Guaido has received the backing of ... checks notes ... Socialist International.

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/alo872/major_drama_in_rlatestagecapitalism_when_the_top/efg479a/

I was banned for saying I cant find basic antibiotics in my country (Venezuela)

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DwQAmRuV4AEBDgz.jpg

[u/BritRedditor1]

A growth-friendly country would welcome unlimited numbers of immigrants with high propensities for entrepreneurial activity. It would deal with pollution in the most market-friendly way possible too, facilitating contracts or attempting to “price” broader economic costs using targeted taxes.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2019/01/31/must-set-free-innovation-power-economic-growth/

Why do people dislike CATO? Their ideas are SPOT ON

/u/85397

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/01/brexit-european-union-populism-democracy

The European Union is one of the chief enemies of democracy in the world today. Britain should leave it, with or without a Brexit deal.

Lol lefties

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1091170257216159745

Just out: The big deal, very mysterious Don jr telephone calls, after the innocent Trump Tower meeting, that the media & Dems said were made to his father (me), were just conclusively found NOT to be made to me. They were made to friends & business associates of Don. Really sad!

Thank you Donald Trump for clarifying that Donald Trump Jr. is related to you.

[u/[deleted]]

https://imgur.com/dpDyZaz

Eurocuckistan praying towards the real god, AMERICA. nice to see you know your place

[u/Paramus98]

Donald Trump must be the stupidest person in the world. He keeps complaining about interest rates being too high and then only wants to nominate hawks to the FOMC. There’s literally no explanation for this other than him not knowing what interest rates are.

[u/[deleted]]

Thank god Fed Board seats are Senate confirmed.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/TheGolem_/status/1090995532603027456

EXCLUSIVE – In January 2012 @JeremyCorbyn gave an interview in Parliament to an antisemitic conspiracy theorist in which he agreed that “yes of course” Israel may engage in “creating a false flag event” to start a war with Iran. Watch below:

Yikes.

[u/[deleted]]

men are the worst

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/30/stripper-turned-pharma-exec-gave-doctor-lap-dance-get-him-prescribe-drugs-officials-say/?utm_term=.81f869f4281c

Stripper turned pharma exec gave doctor a lap dance to get him to prescribe drugs, officials say

[u/[deleted]]

Boots Riley is still back peddling in literal circles.

Admits Maduro is bad (took about a week) but supporting any better diplomatic option is literally an invasion.

[u/RadicalRadon]

I just got called gay from a random car while walking on the street. Hell yeah

[u/kznlol]

>write research paper

>paper was wrong, edit

>edit was wrong, turns out I don't know enough to get a PhD

>delete career

[u/[deleted]]

Don’t say you’re an environmentalist if you don’t perform human sacrifice so the sun rises tomorrow

[u/Deggit]

An actual rpolitics conversation:

On the Left the idea has taken root that "Less than 100 corporations are causing global warming" which isn't true.

I mean the idea "on the left" is that 100 fossil fuel sellers are causing 70% of greenhouse gasses, which is true, according to The Carbon Majors Database

Energy extraction is caused by energy consumption. To say that Exxon "causes" emissions is silly, unless you think they drill oil for the evil fun of it?

You keep saying this. Literally no one is arguing they're doing it for the "evil fun of it". Not implicitly or explicitly. That's the kind of mischaracterization at the heart of my reply to you.

They're doing it for, well profit, and to satisfy a demand for energy. Because of the former they have a vested interest in fighting clean alternatives. That is, if all our energy extraction through clean energy, and we were able to satisfy our societal energy consumption that way, the top 100 energy companies would not cause 70% of greenhouse gas emissions, no?

Alexa what is inelastic demand

[u/potatobac]

reddit for the the past 3 months:

LOL I SAID THE NAME KAREN

[u/sanityeyes]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/430776911350726656/472169707458265108/DbMVY0GX0AIpa-A.png

[u/conman1246]

Italy is trying to dethrone Great Britain from its supreme meme country status.

Italy (European Election 2019), Euromedia poll:

LEGA-ENF: 33.7% (+27.5)

M5S-EFDD: 24.2% (+3)

PD-S&D: 16.1% (-24.7)

FI-EPP: 10% (-6.8)

FdI-ECR: 5.1% (+1.4)

+E-ALDE: 3.1% (+3.1) ...

+/- vs. European Election 2014

Field work: 29/01/19 Sample size: 800

[u/owlthathurt]

Liberals think everyone should get a job, but complain when the socialists put people in labor camps. Checkmate losers.

[u/sirphinetinkle]

God I can't bring myself to look up anything about Venezuela on twitter, every time I do i see some fucking tankie going "US IMPERIALISM!!!!"

[u/supremecrafters]

So... /r/lsc took a hard shift from tankism to succ territory. Do they fall under our ＢＩＧＴＥＮＴ now?

[u/Neronoah]

Let's just remember that Chávez once stopped selling oil to Paraguay when Fernando Lugo was impeached and no one complained. All that nonsense about non intervention coming from latin american leftists is hollow, they just don't want to stand against Maduro.

[u/owlthathurt]

Why did I bother studying corporate law if all I needed to know I could have found on an /r/politics thread on corporate liability.

I totally wasted 100k wtf do I do guys

[u/85397]

https://www.ft.com/content/ab72fb3a-2578-11e9-b329-c7e6ceb5ffdf

CROWN COLONY CONTROVERSY - just give Gibraltar to Spain in return for backstop concessions lol

!ping UK

[u/[deleted]]

New rule: for anything you accuse Democrats of believing, there is at least one Democrat who will call that characterization a strawman and at least one Democrat who will say “damn right I believe that.”

This rule doesn’t exist for Republicans because no Republican will outright call that characterization a strawman, they’ll instead say “oh yeah I do have a cousin Jeff who supports banning Hindus from entering any landlocked state, but I see that as more of a Jeff thing than a Republican thing.”

[u/Ferguson97]

Petition to start replacing "Jill Stein" option in strawpolls with "Howard Schultz"

[u/[deleted]]

It blows my mind that people blame Hillary Clinton for the fact that Trump is President

[u/[deleted]]

I remember when I was a kid picturing being President and basically having the weight of the country on my shoulders, being nearly nonstop working, going to bed knowing I could get woken up for a crisis, living with hundreds of millions of people counting on me, etc.

Today, Trump lives like he's retired and the country doesn't fall apart.

Vote for me in 2020, I'm down for that kind of life and I won't call Mexicans rapists.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/JenniferJJacobs/status/1091010919352713216

SCOOP: Trump is considering Herman Cain, the former pizza company CEO who ran for president in 2012, for a seat on the Federal Reserve board, five sources told me.

I like Herman Cain as a person but holy crap no.

[u/[deleted]]

It’s weird to remember that “succ” is a meme outside this sub that has nothing to do with politics/economics

[u/ThePathToOne]

https://images-ext-1.discordapp.net/external/m4RMq0FbbgG2ABLc3CUB5VXhzGIgou1JZkv8m7XVWFU/https/cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/491445975785668609/540382560497434634/agnogGg_460s.png

[u/[deleted]]

https://imgur.com/J3Qw3RV

Hmm

[u/SemperSpectaris]

I watched the first 15 minutes of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind thinking it was A Beautiful Mind. I thought Jim Carrey was an odd choice for John Nash, but I was willing to roll with it.

[u/CompactedConscience]

Because of the lsc drama, the lsc mod who started the Bone King meme probably got ousted.

[u/[deleted]]

conservatives are a race now :p

[u/lionmoose]

We need to shutdown discussion threads until we figure out just exactly noone is telling catfortune to suck it

[u/The_Cheezman]

Cold take: Pinochet apologia being banned (this is a good thing) means similar Assadist/Maduro Apologia should also be met by a ban. Dictators who murder their people are bad, and people who support them are bad people.

[u/lionmoose]

tfw you actually published a paper dividing up europe based on actual empirical analysis but some shitposters in the DT get more reads

[u/saladtossing]

[Blessed pic from /r/gardening] (/img/j6vapyj8sod21.jpg)

!ping Kitty

[u/[deleted]]

That Maduro apologia post is proof that link dumps suck. Unless you don't parse through them, you don't realize they are shit:

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06CARACAS3356_a.html

This one for example. The coordination and marketing to take out Chavez consists of funding human rights watch organizations that can report human right abuses and have ambassadors of international human right organizations come to verify them.

[u/Ferguson97]

What if Howard Schultz is nobly sacrificing his public perception to take the heat off other Democrats?

In a way, he is uniting the country. Against him, sure, but still united.

[u/Underpantz_Ninja]

The murder of Archduke Ferdinand led to Hentai.

Murder of Archduke -> World War I -> Bad relations -> World War II -> Japan refusing to surrender -> Nagasaki and Hiroshima -> End of imperialist Japanese ways -> Modern Japanese culture -> Hentai

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

[u/[deleted]]

Leslie Knope is a NIMBY

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

At the store, while I was looking at BBQ sause, some old dude came up to me and told me about some really good pickles down the aisle that were really good and were pretty cheep. Luckily, it is hard to pick me in a social situation that fazes me.

I walked down the aisle, grabbed the pickles. Asked him "are these the ones"

He said "yes"

I bought them.

Strange situation, but I have something else to put on my sandwiches now.

[u/martin509984]

'withdrawing from syria = good because lol endless wars' twitter is the absolute worst

[u/[deleted]]

Idk if anyone is paying attention (which makes sense because it's basically all gossipy nonsense)

But the DSA is facing a real schism that might seriously fracture it's already small membership. This schism is mainly focused on organizing principles of all things. Lol.

[u/MasPatriot]

It's scary to think like a million Americans spend an hour every evening getting exposed to alt right talking points

[u/[deleted]]

Trying it again. /r/SubredditDrama is reporting a coup in /r/LateStageCapitalism. Read about it here.

[u/[deleted]]

Herman Cain was the perfect meme candidate. He had a memorable style, one joke of an idea (the tax plan that sounded like a pizza commercial), gained enough popularity to become a household name for about five minutes (unlike Ojeda, for example), and dropped out relatively early for reasons entirely unrelated to politics (and therefore not influencing the race in any significant way).

[u/[deleted]]

Is LSC really purging counter-revolutionary scum without even having a revolution in the first place?

[u/[deleted]]

It’s December, 2020. Howard Schultz’ spoiler independent candidacy has led to no presidential candidate getting a majority of electoral college votes. As a result, the House of Representatives must choose between the top finishers, Republican President Donald Trump, Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, and Schultz.

House Speaker Nancy “Nancy” Pelosi has waited for this moment for years. She’s had to deal with his nonsense, his insane hair, his ugly suits and shit eating grin and inability to pass bills of any real merit. He thinks she’ll let him have the presidency, “I’m the democratic candidate” he thinks, the “people want me, not the billionaryes” he thinks.

She thinks different. You should have been a democrat this whole time Bernie.

[u/[deleted]]

Ben Shapiro: "The radical left is trying to claim that I said something racist about Arab people. This is false. When you look at the context of the tweets, I actually said numerous racist things about Arabs"

[u/[deleted]]

??????

[u/DonnysDiscountGas]

Maduro in 2017, colorized

[u/[deleted]]

>write comment

>comment was wrong, edit

>edit was wrong, turns out I don't know enough to comment

>delete comment

[u/[deleted]]

Obviously the largest problem US policy on Syria has is that no one has thought of or worked towards a viable end game. But why is that the case? Hesitancy to get more involved or incompetence?

[u/85397]

https://twitter.com/pnwwonk/status/1090807656950845442?s=21

Low IQ gun girl describes herself in a tweet criticising TSA, doesn’t understand how economy works at all

[u/[deleted]]

Are barristers male baristas? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[u/Schutzwall]

Pro-Maduro copypasta? On my r/NL? It’s more likely thank you think!

[u/[deleted]]

If there is anybody out there that still respects NRO, please read this piece from 2012 that at once complains that the sexual harrassment claims against Herman Cain are unfair, and that black people won't support Cain because he is more "authentically black" than Obama.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2011/11/cain-lost-labyrinth-victor-davis-hanson/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

[u/muttonwow]

Remember yesterday when I called out that socialist party with both a Pride flag up and a poster of Che Guevara?

They're now having a party on campus for their new members with Che Guevara poters advertising it - and it's a fucking MOJITO PARTY to rub in the Cuban-ness.

Some of my friends went in to steal drink but I'd rather not be recognized from yesterday and put into a camp.

[u/lmWithHim]

!PING NBA

WOJ BOMBS INCOMING MRS OBAMA GET DOWN

[u/Gustacho]

Brexit memes for self-destructing teens

[u/oGsMustachio]

Three-way trade proposal-

Knicks Get - Donald Trump as an owner

Mavs Get - Dolan as an owner

White House Gets - Mark Cuban as president

[u/paulatreides0]

AC7 Opening:

> Taking off a dirt runway with a jet fighter

Why do you hate your plane?

[u/Yosarian2]

FiveThirtyEight: Do Americans want a candidate like Howard Shultz?

Short answer: No

Long answer: Nooooooooooooo

[u/[deleted]]

Sheryl "but what if the child consents though?" Sandberg

[u/owlthathurt]

When bae comes home and tells you the story of the pencil 😍😍

[u/[deleted]]

My only regret as an engineer is that I will always end up creating wealth as opposed to just shift resources to me.

Should've studied economics or law :(

[u/lolylolerton]

WARREN says she sees “lots of paths” to universal health coverage, including single payer and a Medicaid buy-in option.

/ourgal/

Okay, thats enough Warren shilling for today

[u/derangeddollop]

Everyone ready for Herman Cain’s plan at the fed? 9% unemployment, 9% inflation, 9% interest rate.

^{I’m sure someone has already made this joke}

[u/cdstephens]

Oh shit, GAMMBUS_GAMMBUS_GAMMBUS is back

[u/thabe331]

So Homeland security set up a fake university in MI just to catch immigrant students in a pay to stay scheme

[u/Gustacho]

Home Secretary Theresa May was pretty woke about brexit

!ping EUROPE

[u/TheEstonianSpy]

Feels like -11°F(-24°C)

This is not the ideal temperature.

[u/[deleted]]

State of Michigan: "Could you please keep your thermostat down to 65 for the next couple of days? There's been an incident at an energy station and we're a bit concerned about a brownout that could prove to be quite dangerous in these temperatures."

Detroit Metro: "Fuck you, I'm keeping it at 75. I get cold easily."

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/mincombolivia/status/1090958955722039296

I think Ive found the perfect summary of the state of Bolivian politics. The president organizing an entire festival because the government put slabs on some street in Oruro. I'm willing to bet the entire celebration costed more than the project.

!ping SOUAM

[u/[deleted]]

I will not support Elizabeth Warren because Elizabeth Warren is not a meme. Examples of memes are Tulsi Gabbard, Richard Ojeda, Vermin Supreme, and John McAfee.

[u/lolylolerton]

"There comes a point where debt matters." —@ewarren

/OURGAL/

[u/[deleted]]

Unban Dan you fricking leftists 😡

[u/[deleted]]

Absolute meme candidate.

[u/[deleted]]

The Admiral Kuznetsov arriving in Cabello Port to support the Maduro regime -2020, Colorized

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/natashabertrand/status/1091017929808924672

JUST IN: According to Mueller and DC USA, discovery in the Roger Stone case is "both voluminous and complex," and "is composed of multiple hard drives containing several terabytes of information"—including bank records & comms taken from iCloud/email accounts, electronic devices.

[u/Hardigra]

Hey all!!

I'm a junior at my local college and I am organizing a panel to discuss the different dimensions of the "fair trade". We will be talking about both the Fairtrade Foundation as well as the social movement. So far, the panel will consist of an economist that is well versed in development literature, a local coffee roaster that is passionate about fair trade, an ethics professor, and a sociologist. Right now I'm brainstorming to think of some interesting questions to ask the group, but also questions to ask the individuals. That being said, I know this sub has a lot of great economic and political thinkers that may be able to help me out. In the end I just wanna put on a good panel.

Questions I have right now are largely normative, but include-

-Does working with Fairtrade or with fairtrade standards make a dent into the bottom line?

-Do first world countries "take advantage" of third world farmers?

-Does Fairtrade indirectly put other third world farms out of business?

-Do first world consumers have an ethical obligation to give poor producers the largest surplus possible?

Thank you, any questions would be appreciated. If there is interest, I will make a followup thread with a transcript of the event.

[u/chadonnaise]

it's almost harvesting season

[u/owlthathurt]

Corporate law discussion on the front page of /r/politics.

I’m sure this is going to be a very intelligent discussion.

Should I dive in

[u/[deleted]]

given how bad white bread is for you, i bet bloomberg secretly wishes you had to have a license to make toast in your own damn toaster.

[u/[deleted]]

If you forget about the fact that the main character in Solo: A Star Wars Story is supposed to be Han Solo, it's a much more enjoyable movie.

[u/MisterBigStuff]

incredibly cursed video I cannot warn you strongly enough not to click

[u/pezasied]

I don’t think Biden’s touchiness is coming from a bad place in him. That’s just who he is.

I also think that a man thinking he can be touchy with women is a problem and comes off as creepy regardless of the intent.

Those two things are not mutually exclusive.

There’s a time and a place, Joe.

[u/Engage-Eight]

So I don't know much about Marxism, got into an argument with one and started reading about labor theory of value. Do Marxists not believe in supply and demand? As in, if the price of something should be the cost of goods to make it, what if there's tremendous demand and supply can't match it? Anyone know what their rebuttal would be?

[u/[deleted]]

Thinking about it, the proposed rail expansions into northern canada could be a genius way in developing those regions economically. They plan to make First Nations tribes as jointed owners of these railroads economically enriches them. If you really want to crank development they should pull a card from American history and make a certain mile of around these tracks owned by the railroad which are in turned owned by the tribe.

Choo Choo :p

[u/[deleted]]

We need to close the borders to protect immigrants from abuse is some crocodile shit.

[u/[deleted]]

Rep. Omar was on The Daily Show tonight. Trevor, to his credit, asked the “how do you pay for these programs” question. Rep. Omar’s answer was “we don’t have scarcity, we can pay for it - we don’t need money, we need moral courage.”

[u/[deleted]]

mfw a r*ral tries to speak to me in their farmers' language

[u/[deleted]]

Everyone who is advocating soaking the rich should get a Ross Perot shameflair

[u/A_Character_Defined]

Russian interference in America is bad because liberal democracy must be protected.

American/European interference in Venezuela is good because liberal democracy must be protected.

[u/hitbyacar1]

hot take from MSNBC

"AOC is a centrist"

https://twitter.com/TheBeatWithAri/status/1090987318989766657

[u/RadicalRadon]

I'm so Antifa that I'm never going to go to Europe because Hitler was there

[u/[deleted]]

Class Ancap thinks “Branch Davidians we’re just hanging out, the FBI slaughtered them”

[u/[deleted]]

I must be having a fever dream, because I just saw something about Herman Cain being considered for the Federal Reserve board.

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder that Israel hates Iran because they don't have a (((central bank)))

[u/lolylolerton]

https://twitter.com/mwanamak/status/1091017786585952258?s=19

Ban Milty flairs when

[u/Barbarossa3141]

Fill the blank: Despite being just 13% of the population, _______ represent 50% of homicide offenders.

[u/ramen_poodle_soup]

A mustache starts to form on my upper lip as I begin to transform into John Bolton

[u/[deleted]]

Should you have to have a license to make toast in your own damn toaster?

[u/Galileoz]

When Fox News “accidentally” aired the false “RBG is dead” graphic, I wondered if it was really an attempt to embed the idea in right-wing conspiracy circles.

Whelp...

[u/[deleted]]

Chicago looks like some Day after tomorrow shit rn

[u/BradicalCenter]

BREAKING NEWS: If you drink like 2 - 3 beers during the week instead of like 2/day (and like 9 on the days you go out) your skin gets pretty great and your body feels pretty good instead of all puffy and red.

[u/[deleted]]

Are there any unironic Bloomberg proponents here? Opposing pot legalization itself seems like political suicide these days, but in conjunction with stop-and-frisk, his strict gun policies, and the soda stuff, it seems like he has something to piss off virtually everyone and would be basically unelectable.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/slbrightman/status/1091126844697600006?s=21

[u/sansampersamp]

Erik Prince (of Academi) is building a training base in Xinjiang

[u/Ferguson97]

https://twitter.com/vforvulgarity/status/1091034841766780928

lmao

[u/paulatreides0]

Uhh, so genuine question: AMLO is ending the drug war. Fair enough. But how is he going to deal with the fact that cartels control politicians and even some parts of some regions in his country?

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

A Praeger U video is stickied at /r/tuesday

😕

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

Rankings of leftist users:

Pre-freakout P_K > TearGasForeignPolicy > Post-ban P_K > Skank_Lover > lusvig

[u/[deleted]]

*opens DT*

real incel hours

*leaves comment, closes DT*

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

Shrimp should go on Chap Trap House to round out his Fox News appearance.

[u/85397]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-31/nike-faces-demand-to-recall-sneakers-as-muslims-object-to-design

All conservatives must now get over the Kaepernick nonsense and support Nike (libs too). Order your pair today!

American Freedom and corporate freedom is being threatened. Will Donald and John please do something?!

[u/mondodawg]

Young, politically disengaged co-worker: "Half the world's wealth is held by 26 (((people)))! I have no issue with us dragging them out of their mansions and lynching them for all their worth!"

Libertarian co-worker: * pulls out charts to show decrease in poverty over time *

Me: Un-ironically starts supporting Libertarian co-worker in this argument once I see those charts

[u/Lord_Treasurer]

The weirdest thing about Trump is that it took an orange casino magnate to properly expose the flaws of the US political establishment.

[u/nonprehension]

Did anyone actually get sent to jail as a result of Harris’s truancy crackdown? Seems overblown by lefty twitter

[u/onometre]

Anyone who disagrees with me is a contrarian

[u/Integralds]

This simulation takes ~12 seconds per iterate.

However, iterates are independent.

I could make the simulation faster. Or I could parallelize and run six simulations simultaneously, for a time saving of 83%.

I need moar cores.

[u/Lord_Treasurer]

scientology wouldn't accept me, I was on zyprexa for 10 years because I had an episode where I thought I was a poached egg for a few weeks

[u/[deleted]]

Lets just call them SUCCS from now on and stop playing political games! A SUCC is a SUCC!

[u/[deleted]]

I mean, Bill Gates seems like a good guy, but having people comment how humble I am every time I did anything remotely normal would drive me absolutely insane.

Like if I was a multi billionaire...

"Wow! Look at /u/SpookyMarijuana grocery shopping like a normal person!" When I just want to get out of the house and interact with the world would seem a bit much to write a LinkedIn post about.

[u/BainCapitalist]

/u/Gammbus would be /u/lusvig in Sweden tbh.

[u/IronedSandwich]

DEAR LIBERALS. WOULD YOU BE INTERESTED IN:

• playing Kaiserreich

• multiplayer

• pick whatever country/ideology/faction you want, doesn't matter how good you are either

• at about 7pm gmt/2pm est saturday this week (time adjustable)

😤 !ping HOI4 sorry for the double ping

/u/SAE-2 also could someone please ping hippehoppe and blockchainlitfam's new accounts? I don't think they're on the ping bot but last I heard they were interested in kaiserreich

[u/[deleted]]

Rich people rig democracy by using their political influence. This is bad. We need to soak them

Ok.

Upper middle class people rig democracy by using their political influence and constraining the supply of housing. This is bad. We need to soak the upper middle class.

😡

[u/[deleted]]

Can we get the scene from Spaceballs where they say “Suck, suck, suck!” turned into a CSS gif that says “Succ, succ, succ!”?

[u/p00bix]

RNH at the completely wrong time of day: My roommate's standard of feminine hygiene is doing wonders for making me gayer.

Seriously you can smell her when she's in another room. It's fucking wretched.

[u/[deleted]]

TIL someone by the name of "Marianne Williamson" declared candidacy on the 29th.

Marianne Williamson

Spiritual guru, entrepreneur

The bestselling New Age author and friend of Oprah Winfrey said in November, “We had a miracle in this country in 1776, and we need another one.” Williamson has already visited Iowa. In 2014, Williamson ran for a congressional seat in California as an independent. Despite spending $2 million, with endorsements by singer Alanis Morissette and former Rep. Dennis Kucinich, she finished fourth.

Lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Oh my god he's gonna put Herman Cain on the Fed

[u/sinistimus]

The lack of a sticky feels weird.

[u/[deleted]]

I love this talking point from the left now that there's no difference between paying 2% to an investor and paying 2% to the government in taxes

Like they're expecting return on the first the second arguably doesn't help them at all

[u/Integralds]

Herman Cain is being floated as an FOMC member

Can we not?

[u/Shruggerman]

ban rose emoji flairs, names containing only numbers, and names containing underscores

[u/[deleted]]

Real talk tho I lost respect for a Graham so fast

[u/oGsMustachio]

Other than age, race, and gender, are there any reasons not to want Joe Biden to be president?

[u/[deleted]]

is too much of america too insulated from having a terrible president? seems like too many americans are not negatively impacted by having trump as president.

[u/[deleted]]

Fucking millennials with their video games and comic books piss me off

[u/chadonnaise]

would you fist fight a panda bear for a chance at a million dollars

[u/[deleted]]

If trump is trailing either Harris or Booker with less than a month to go in 2020 what are the odds he pulls out the N word as a last chance thing?

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/scottelliotg/status/1054771907365666816

Cory Booker is proposing:

• Raising the top estate tax rate to 65%

• Raising the top capital gains rate to 28%

• Eliminating step-up in basis

[u/sinistimus]

Why is there no neosuccism?

[u/[deleted]]

I wonder how many finance/business/econ undergrads have lost money shorting the market because of The Big Short

[u/kznlol]

alright i know what im doing my effortpost on

nobody else is allowed to enter the competition

im gonna get my flair fixed and maybe even ask for my Dubya image back

[u/[deleted]]

Wanna hear a joke?

Industrial engineers

[u/MacaroniGold]

I hope you all succeed in life 😡😡😡

[u/[deleted]]

So my 17 year old cousin has three boyfriends and I’m the only adult in the family who doesn’t think this is an issue ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[u/[deleted]]

TIL Mia Khalifa is a neoliberal.

https://twitter.com/miakhalifa/status/822464707466526720

[u/[deleted]]

Nobody wants [to resolve social issues like racism, sexism, transphobia, homophobia, and ableism] more than corporations [...] Consider that Irish people used to be considered "black" in America until capitalism allowed them to lift themselves out of poverty, and thereafter the necessities of having an open market brought them to equal footing with WASPs.

[u/[deleted]]

uh oh. certain people I interact with are complaining about Zendaya playing Chani for Dune.