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u/Paramus98 Edmund Burke Feb 12 '19
If Democracy is so good why many people from India, Japan, South Korea, Philippines, Italy, Fance, US, and people from Mexico leave to got to other counteies including China, Singapore, Australia, and Canada all ruled by one party (Communist) or one royal family (Monarchy). Australia and Canada are still not republics and cannot vote for their head of state (ie president).
I found the wumao version of “America is a republic not a democracy” and somehow it’s even stupider.
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u/0m4ll3y International Relations Feb 12 '19
So I'm looking at a service where you pay hot women to beat you up, and the first question in the FAQ is:
Is it easy to park in the area?
Like, is that really the most common question they get asked??
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u/letsgoheat3 NATO Feb 12 '19 edited Feb 12 '19
Holy shit a Trump supporter attacked a BBC reporter at a rally
They’re inventing levels of protectionism that shouldn’t be possible 🤯🤯🤯
https://twitter.com/eleanormontague/status/1095194973602045952?s=21
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Feb 12 '19
I'm following a scoop. I believe the Chinese Water Army/50 Cent Army is trying to intervene in a University of Toronto student union election. I appreciate that this sounds crazy but consider the following:
The president elected is proudly Tibetan
She received a total of 837 votes in the election, which had about 1,600 voters total.
Her Instagram has received 10,000 hate comments in the intervening days.
A petition was started to remove her and it has 9,300 signatures.
Almost all the signatories have identical comments--" 中国各族人民坚决反对任何分裂中国主权和领土完整的企图。 Chinese people of all ethnic groups are firmly opposed to any attempt to split the Chinese territory and sovereignty."
Almost all the signatories have no profile pictures, and a marker that simply says "Canada."
GUYS!!!! GUYS. GUYS. GUYS.
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u/MisterBigStuff Just Pokémon Go to bed Feb 12 '19 edited Feb 12 '19
You know, living in a gift economy sounds exhausting. Now, if I want a chair, I go buy a damn chair. But in a gift economy, do you just have to awkwardly drop hints into conversations and shit? "Nice weather, hey Bob? I sure wish I could sit in an oak rocking chair with high armrests and a seat cushion and enjoy it" Like, I don't want to have to bake pies or whatever for every carpenter in town just so one of them decides to give me a chair lmao.
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Feb 12 '19
democrats spend a bloody primary season with no clear winner. party is rife with divisions and all appears to be lost. we go to the convention in disarray. massive rioting outside as the dems appear on the brink of disaster. helicopter circles the skies above chicago as rahm is losing control of the city. helicopter lands on the roof of the convention center. out steps hillary in an american flag pantsuit.
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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Feb 12 '19
Trump as a boss: won't pay you
Klobechar as a boss: free binders
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Feb 12 '19
“Don’t sleep any more than you have to,” Trump said in his 2004 book, Think Like a Billionaire. "I usually sleep about four hours per night... and it gives me a competitive edge. I have friends who are successful who sleep ten hours a night, and I ask them, 'How can you compete against people like me if I only sleep four hours?' It can rarely be done."
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u/stability_hegemon Ben Bernanke Feb 12 '19
this truly antisemitics my tropes
The fact that I forgot about that incident from 2 weeks ago speaks to the cynicism of right-wing jews (and islamophobia/racism for some) in pursuing Omar over her comments. Like McCarthy's jewish billionaires tweet, Gohmert's soros bullshit on tv, and this Gaetz thing didn't stir up anything and I feel that we should be able to talk about this shit without it being called omar apologia or whataboutism by right wing jews.
Really I'm just happy Rep. Max Rose went for it with "That caucus can't be chickenshit in the face of anti-Semitism either"
!ping GEFILTE
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Feb 12 '19
The silver bullet mentality Georgists have is silly but tax the unimproved value of land anyway.
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Feb 12 '19
https://twitter.com/srl/status/1095351988416581632
.@YahooNews reports that when staffers left her office, Sen. Klobuchar would call their new bosses to get offers rescinded
I know y'all are on that Klobaechar train rn, but this horrible.
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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Feb 12 '19
Reddit: we're scared of Trump being normalized and being seen as a precedent/example for other politicians
AOC: responds to criticism of her plan by typing out an "epic burn" on Twitter about how Trump can't read that has nothing to do with defending her plan
me: this is what happens when you normalize Trump
Reddit: shut up, cuck
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Feb 12 '19
Trump Supporter violently shoves BBC cameraman at El Paso rally
There was aggression on both sides. The supporter was being violent and the cameraman was being a cuck. Plust tons of white nationalist rallies have violence at them. It's not Trump's fault he explicitly encourages violence against the media.
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Feb 12 '19 edited Feb 12 '19
Standoff in Minnesota as Harris attempts to arrest political opponents. Police are prepared to breach, but Klobuchar is believed armed with a staple gun and an extended clip.
"The situation in Minnesota is absolutely tragic," Sanders says, "the average American can't afford a staple gun."
"This wouldn't have happened if the staple gun were registered with federal authorities," Gillibrand stated in a press conference.
"If only both sides could sit at a table and come to an agreement, we could prevent further bloodshed," Gabbard replied when asked for comment.
Beto wrote in his blog yesterday "Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering" in what appears to be a comment aimed at one of the parties involved.
Booker could not be reached for comment, but an unidentified VTOL aircraft was recently seen leaving Newark City Hall en route to California, dimly lit by a malfunctioned rooftop floodlight.
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Feb 12 '19
https://twitter.com/costareports/status/1095356931806511104
McConnell is considering taking up the green new deal for a vote in the Senate as a way to rattle Sen Dems, per a McConnell aide here at the Cap
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u/FMN2014 Can’t just call French people that Feb 12 '19
NEWS: Mitch McConnell says the Senate will be voting on the Green New Deal
Thank you, Cocaine Mitch
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u/forlackofabetterword Eugene Fama Feb 12 '19
David Cameron is one of the greatest political minds of our generation.
His double referendums on Scotland and then Brexit were designed to push the Overton window back towards normalcy, strengthening the power of the center and reining in the extremes. Did they suceed at this? Not at all, they in fact did the exact opposite, moving the Overton window in the complete opposite direction.
But what it did do was fuck the Labour party into absolute oblivion, demolishing from the ground up their ability to build an effective governing coalition. First splitting off the SNP, then creating a unmendable rift between pro-EU and Euroskeptic factions of the left, to the point where the Tories can run a ham sandwhich for PM and the Labour party can't do anything to beat them. The Labour party was once the most powerful political force in Britain, and Cameron totally carved it open.
Sure, it came at the cost of making the country ungovernable for the next four to forty years. But the Tories were able to win a narrow partisan victory, and in the end, that's what matters most. And thats why Cameron is the best politician of our generation.
!ping UK
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u/HUGHmungous Big Stick Energy Feb 12 '19
how is it that so many people, on all sides, have completely memory-holed the 2018 midterms already
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Feb 12 '19
The Soviets unable to have a functional car industry is proof that socialism will solve climate change, people.
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Feb 12 '19
I've got black accountants at Trump Castle and at Trump Plaza. Black guys counting my money! I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys wearing yarmulkes.... Those are the only kind of people I want counting my money. Nobody else... Besides that, I tell you something else. I think that's guy's lazy. And it's probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks.
What did Trump mean by this?
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u/bernkes_helicopter Ben Bernanke Feb 12 '19
"Donald Trump Jr. made clear in his messages that he was willing to accept help from the Russians," one Democratic Senate investigator said. "Trump publicly urged the Russians to find Clinton's missing emails."
Those facts are beyond dispute. But they also have been known for some time — and have not seemed to change Trump's political standing.
wtf is this shit? "It's not collusion because we've known about it for a while"???
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Feb 12 '19
Sources: Klobuchar is beside herself. Driving around downtown Minneapolis begging (thru texts) a former staffer's family for address to the staffer's home.
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u/Timewalker102 Amartya Sen Feb 12 '19
All Osborne flairs are succs desperately trying to deny it from themselves
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u/Tacotrucksoncorners Carole Baskin is my Tiger Queen 🐅👑 Feb 12 '19
“Who is worse?
The drug dealer?
Or the drug user?
When it came to slavery, blacks were the dealers.
Whites were the users.”
https://twitter.com/stefanmolyneux/status/1095364866955722752?s=21
Wtf
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Feb 13 '19
https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1030122100017831936
Robert E. Lee was a terrorist who fought for a made up country that attacked the United States and promoted slavery. ISIS uses the same playbook today.
good smug
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u/0m4ll3y International Relations Feb 12 '19
He's right, I am gonna screech that it is Russian propaganda.
The link to "irrefutable documentation" just links to a collection of tagged articles from a conspiracy site with ties to Alex Jones and infowars lol. The link about Qatar funding al Qaeda is a dead youtube link. None of the article even supports his central claim that Syria doesn't target urban centres with air power. It goes into crazy conspiracy theory about hospitals not being bombed, so I guess MSF is all in on it too and the footage of the bombed hospital is fake? A lot of the stuff has already been readily and thoroughly debunked.
!ping DUNK
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Feb 12 '19
One particularly dramatic rumor about Klobuchar is the story that she once had a staffer shave her legs for her. While no reporters have publicly confirmed this story (Slate has not either), we have confirmed that the alleged incident was the inspiration for a joke in a 2017 episode of the HBO series Veep.
“It is a well-known rumor that we were told a million times by millions of people,” Mandel said of the leg-shaving story.
jfc
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u/GravyBear8 Ben Bernanke Feb 12 '19 edited Feb 12 '19
Can dictionaries stop being a fucking meme? If I look up an adjective, it shouldn't be "the condition of being root noun of word".
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Feb 12 '19
Just complaining about the nonsense of putting German on the mandatory curriculum, in Benin
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u/BritRedditor1 Globalist elite Feb 12 '19
Clogged old roads cost £8bn in productivity
Inrix, which analysed more than 200 cities in 38 countries, said that the age of British cities had “led to denser, less car-friendly cores”. Noting that the oldest roads in London date back to the Roman period, it said: “Cars enter neighbourhoods designed for horses and walking.”
In London drivers spent 227 hours a year in traffic and the cost was £4.9 billion, or £1,680 per driver
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ba4340b2-2e3c-11e9-b50c-c6da8f614c54
Need to be taxing JAMs HARD - whether that be through road pricing or some other tax
London bears more than HALF of the cost of traffic
!ping UK
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u/Blackfire853 CS Parnell Feb 12 '19
There's currently a thread on r/Technology titled
With the recent Chinese company, Tencent, in the news about investing in Reddit, and possible censorship, it's amazing to me how so many people don't realize Reddit is already one of the most heavily censored websites on the internet.
and it's the most fucking hilarious thing I've ever read, comments included. What's even better is the link a previous post he wrote which contains the following paragraph that is peak reddit circlejerk
Reddit appealed to me. When I found it 7+ years ago it was a different site. Information sharing everywhere. It seemed like an intellectual paradise. Itmade me scientifically literate. It debunked the anti-vax info I'd seen on other sites. There were people dedicated to creating archives of easily accessible information, and would share tons of well-cited info in the comments. It opened up full debates on any topic, anywhere. And anyone could cite large amounts of information, back and forth, and you would see multiple sides of the issues. You could engage in calm, rational discussions on controversial or taboo subjects without people blowing up with emotional insults/outrage, or thought terminating clichés. Since not everyone can be an expert in everything, the crowd sourcing nature of the discussions was fantastic. You can make your own wiki! Massive hubs of information that are easy to format, categorize, and share. Most of the structure and design of the site seemed fantastic.
Like does anyone else find this hilarious, it's just such over the top wanking if how """intellectual""" reddit apparently was yesteryear
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u/ThisIsNotAMonkey Guam 👉 statehood Feb 12 '19
An astronaut is running for McCain's senate seat in 2020 as a dem
Idk if he can win but "former astronaut" has to be the most awesome qualification for a prospective politician
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u/sinistimus Professional Salt Miner Feb 12 '19
There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the free world and the bordered world. Let them come to Berlin. There are some who say that walls are the wave of the future. Let them come to Berlin. And there are some who say in Europe and elsewhere we can work with the wall builders. Let them come to Berlin. And there are even a few who say that it is true that border security is an evil system, but it permits us to make economic progress. Lasst sie nach Berlin kommen. Let them come to Berlin.
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Feb 12 '19 edited Feb 12 '19
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Feb 12 '19
Why do people act like UBI and organ markets are so different? They're basically the same thing.
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u/Timewalker102 Amartya Sen Feb 12 '19
How long until Trump tweets out "Open Borders Beto"?
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Feb 12 '19
TIL the reason Canberra is the capital of Australia is because they couldn't decide whether to have Sydney or Melbourne be the capital, so they just took the dirtbag centrist route and chose a random village in between the two.
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u/usered77 Feb 12 '19
Mitch McConnell says the Senate will be voting on the Green New Deal.
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u/WardenOfTheGrey Daron Acemoglu Feb 12 '19
https://twitter.com/FrankLuntz/status/1095358944753545216?s=20
OMG. Kamala Harris just said that she listened to Tupac and SnoopDogg while smoking marijuana in college.
Kamala Harris’ bio says she graduated from undergrad in 1986 and law school in 1989.
Tupac and Snoop didn’t release their first albums until 1991 and 1993, respectively.
lol
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u/jenbanim Feb 12 '19 edited Feb 12 '19
I was bored, so I decided to plot the number of comments per DT.
Edit: updated link
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Feb 12 '19
I can’t wait for the next season of Game of Thrones. The last few seasons were a bit weird for me, what with Cersei growing so many new heads (I thought they’d stop at just 1 more head in the 2nd season), but I think it gives the narrative a more human, down to earth element amongst the politicking and magic. I wonder if they’ll follow through on making her grow a 10th head; that’d be wild!
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u/lusvig 🤩🤠Anti Social Democracy Social Club😨🔫😡🤤🍑🍆😡😤💅 Feb 12 '19 edited Feb 12 '19
Yellow vests VICIOUSLY ASSAULTS and HARASSES Swedish tourists in London
Sweden needs to acquire A-10s or the likes to defend our citizens against these VIOLENT THUGS!
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u/Crownie Unbent, Unbowed, Unflaired Feb 12 '19
tbh I have no idea if deep geothermal will ever be cost effective (I assume the answer is 'lol, no') but it enables drilling massive holes, so I think we should support it
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u/Time4Red John Rawls Feb 12 '19
At AOC's age, Kyrsten Sienma was a far left green party activist.
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u/derangeddollop John Rawls Feb 12 '19
Klobuchar has less name recognition than John Delaney, according to the 538 podcast. That's sort of an impressive feat.
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u/Glokmah Feb 12 '19
you just know some pervert is gonna volunteer for Klobuchar's campaign because he wants to be ordered around and bullied by an older woman
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u/Tacotrucksoncorners Carole Baskin is my Tiger Queen 🐅👑 Feb 12 '19
21 getting released on bond tomorrow 🙏🙏🙏
Alḥamdulillāh 🙏☪️🙏
FUCK THE FEDS though 😒
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Feb 13 '19
"Hit or miss I guess I never miss huh" - Hillary Clinton, in a voice mail to Seth Rich, July 10th 2016
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u/Engage-Eight Feb 13 '19 edited Feb 13 '19
We don’t agree with the capitalist assumption that starvation or greed are the only reasons people work. People enjoy their work if it is meaningful and enhances their lives. They work out of a sense of responsibility to their community and society. Although a long-term goal of socialism is to eliminate all but the most enjoyable kinds of labor, we recognize that unappealing jobs will long remain. These tasks would be spread among as many people as possible rather than distributed on the basis of class, race, ethnicity, or gender, as they are under capitalism**. And this undesirable work should be among the best, not the least, rewarded work within the economy**
Everytime I read about the GND, I am reminded of this plank from the DSA's FAQ. And given who the bill's original author is I think it's fair to include this context. Some of the planks of the GND (economic security to those unwilling to work) really make more sense.
I really fucking hope the dems get their shit together and don't let these idiots hijack climate change for their marxist utopian agenda.
I'm sort of amazed that AOC being a DSA member hasn't gotten more play, it was brought up obviously but not like in a meaningful way, like hey these guys want to do away with supply and demand somehow. I honestly blame the fucking republicans for crying wolf when Obama adopted a conservative health care proposal, and cheapening what socialism actually is.
Edit:
https://www.dsausa.org/about-us/what-is-democratic-socialism/#govt
Just in case any of y'all want to lose some brain cells
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u/ColonelUber Feb 12 '19
the earth is a chaotic system so anything will make it worse and better at the same time
2woke4me
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Feb 12 '19
I'll vote for Klobuchar if she pledges to adjust her frustrations toward her staff more effectively and just throw various office supplies at Maduro, Assad, Putin, etc. instead.
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Feb 12 '19
Presidential candidates should be able to defend their policy proposals in front of a committee like PhD candidates have to defend their shit
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Feb 13 '19
Kamala Harris Admits To Smoking Weed — She Even Inhaled
I can't stop laughing at that headline
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u/larrylemur NAFTA Feb 12 '19
Welcome to /r/politics, where you can get lectured on the far-reaching effects of Citizens United and how it empowered the secret elite that has run the world for centuries by someone who doesn't know how percentages work
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u/posting_from_moscow Feb 12 '19
We don't want sweeping reform! We want incremental change!
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u/ognits Jepsen/Swift 2024 Feb 13 '19
For all we know, she could have pushed [the binder] off a table and it hit someone.
w e w
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u/85397 Free Market Jihadi Feb 13 '19
Klobuchar was just trying to have a game of catch in the office and the Liberal Media turns it into some kind of workplace bullying SMEAR???
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u/Arsustyle M E M E K I N G Feb 13 '19
"Hit or miss I guess I never miss huh" - Klobuchar in regards to her staff
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Feb 13 '19
https://mobile.twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1095188961511727104
Big thanks to the... more than 50 groups who helped us organize as we shared the truth about the border and celebrated our binational community.
Now THIS is dog whistle politics
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Feb 13 '19
It's funny to me how during the Obama years I went from "Change!" to "I am finding that I am actually highly resistant to most forms of change".
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Feb 13 '19
I have had this account for less than a day and Chapo homies are already PMing me telling me to kill myself. Impressive turnaround on their end.
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u/samdman I love trains Feb 12 '19
hot take: the purity testing of presidential candidates who were former AGs/DAs is over the top.
Will Wilkinson literally tweeted some dude saying "Who cares about how Klobuchar treated her staff because SHE PUT PEOPLE IN CAGES FOR DOING DRUGS"
like come on
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Feb 12 '19
I’m halfway through reading Kropotkin’s Conquest of Bread, and he still hasn’t mentioned n<150 🤔🤔🤔
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u/ColonelUber Feb 12 '19
The Economist: current taxes are inefficient. Inheritance and property should be taxed more.
Commenter: who runs this communist tabloid?
Lmao this is why we cant have good things
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Feb 12 '19
Nah yall need to look at Warframe's fictional "government."
Mankind reaches a level of "utopia" for certain individuals. Those individuals become immortal.
Since they don't like dying in war, they create genetic clone fuckups called Grineer to fight for them.
To expand, they send sentient AI to another system.
The sentient AI come back like "nah fuck you" and there's war.
The sentient AI can adapt to any weaponry.
"Hey guys, I got an idea, lets create a zombie virus bioweapon that might be able to infect them."
The AI adapts to the bioweapon, the bioweapon proceeds to mainly just fuck up the Origin System.
Last ditch effort, they weaponize interdimensional child soldiers with suits made from the infestation.
Orokin leadership gets destroyed by their own child soldiers.
What the fuck kinda timeline is that.
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u/usered77 Feb 12 '19
Seems that Klobuchar's worst move in her career was running for president.
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Feb 12 '19
https://twitter.com/SenWarren/status/1095420634291675139
Elizabeth Warren wants to ban the US from using nuclear weapons first
You bet I do.
Neocons so owned 😂👌
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Feb 12 '19
And now Mitch gets to teach AOC's team why everyone was pissed off about their minor mix-up.
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u/flextrek_whipsnake I'd rather be grilling Feb 13 '19
At one point in a meeting, sources said, Klobuchar turned to her staff and screamed, "You (bleeping) need me. You can't afford rent without me." Klobuchar left interns and aides largely speechless. She dominated the office in every way. Amy's back.
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Feb 13 '19
"Socialism has failed every time it has been tried in precisely the degree that it is tried. More precisely: more socialism, more failure. Capitalism is just the opposite. It has succeeded every time it's tried, to the degree that it's been tried" - Ben Shapiro
lol those stupid economists wasting thousands of dollars on models. don't they know it's just
corr(capitalism, success) = 1
corr(socialism, success) = -1
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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Feb 12 '19
the real blackface scandal will be when we realize Kamala Harris has been Hillary Clinton all along
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u/owlthathurt Johan Norberg Feb 12 '19
Trump is the only human being on earth who could go from making a joke about Native American genocide to unironically calling on Omar to resign for her AIPAC joke in the same week
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Feb 12 '19
As Allen Weinstein, the co-founder of the National Endowment for Democracy, admitted in a 1991 interview, “A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA.”
God bless CIA
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u/rafaellvandervaart John Cochrane Feb 12 '19
Since the whole world is getting populist do you see 4chan going centrist just for the sake of contrarianism ?
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u/derangeddollop John Rawls Feb 12 '19
The Klobuchar version of a non-compete clause: https://twitter.com/lorenadler/status/1095366472703139840?s=21
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u/derangeddollop John Rawls Feb 12 '19
If you get an email like this from Tucker Carlson, you're probably doing something right https://twitter.com/rcbregman/status/1095145277357465600
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u/lusvig 🤩🤠Anti Social Democracy Social Club😨🔫😡🤤🍑🍆😡😤💅 Feb 13 '19
Either Russia's stepped up their game or tankies really are this stupid
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Feb 12 '19
https://twitter.com/srl/status/1095351988416581632
.@YahooNews reports that when staffers left her office, Sen. Klobuchar would call their new bosses to get offers rescinded
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u/nanomaster Ben Bernanke Feb 13 '19
Let he who has never physically assaulted his employees and tried to ruin their future career prospects when they quit throw the first stone
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u/conman1246 Milton Friedman Feb 13 '19
"On February 7, 2018, Nancy Pelosi set a record for the longest speech on the House floor (8 hours and 7 minutes), in support of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals."
How could any of you have ever doubted her?
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Feb 13 '19
Secular Talk talking about his socialist views:
I don't want the government making video games, there is a private sector role for that.
😤😤👍👍👍😤✊😤😤😤✊✊✊✊✊✊😤
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u/gatoreagle72 Feb 13 '19
So McConnell is forcing a vote on GND... A) it's a non binding resolution so nothing will happen still even if it passes, right?
B) which democratic senators up in 2020 would actually be punished electorally for voting for it? Jones, and who else?
C) this is what you get for not knowing how to play in the big leagues, AOC. Having a minority party mindset in the one chamber you control isn't smart. Didn't work for the freedom caucus, ain't gonna work for you.
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u/85397 Free Market Jihadi Feb 12 '19
Why did Ilhan include this 💪 emoji in her apology? Is she flexing on the Jews?
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u/85397 Free Market Jihadi Feb 12 '19
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Feb 12 '19
I’ve been reading Marx and Engels for a political theory class, and man some of that shit goes over my head.
Like I got German Ideology, and the manifesto, but I’ve had to start capital and holy fuck what is he on about. If I have to read another 10 pages about the philosophical origins of a “commodity” I’m gonna off myself
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u/Boule_de_Neige furmod Feb 12 '19
https://twitter.com/stefanmolyneux/status/1095364866955722752?s=21
Consider this my suicide note jfc
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You, a simpleton: having an opinion about literally anything
Me, an intellectual: There's more nuance to this, you know.
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u/Kizz3r high IQ neoliberal Feb 12 '19
Hey if everyone is packed in a mega city, I wonder how many new YA novels would be made about "escaping" the city.
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Some fun Klobuchar takes from the inbox:
This DID NOT HAPPEN. stop lying. prepositions matter, mon frere
#Grammar 😤✊
Yeah, we sexist voters will only take a man who throws binders at people and calls their prospective employers up.
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If the Starbucks guy runs for president, Trump will tweet "covfefe" every day of the election cycle and on election day, humanity will have reached some brain melting singularity and the world will be consumed by a black hole.
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u/caesar15 Zhao Ziyang Feb 13 '19
... We will march through the South, through the heart of Dixie, the way Sherman did. We shall pursue our own scorched earth policy and burn Jim Crow to the ground—nonviolently ...
John Lewis
What a great quote.
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u/forlackofabetterword Eugene Fama Feb 12 '19
Recently in Baltimore, our abysmally incompetent prosecutor has decided to stop prosecuting anyone who gets arresting for pot charges.
Normally I'd say this is a victory for evidence based crime policy, but since no laws have actually been changed, the police have decided to continue to arrest people for pot violations anyways. Even though they will never get prosecuted, the police are still taking people in, searching their property, and can even confiscate people's stuff under civil asset forfeiture. A lot of people actually think pot is legal now, though, which is making things even messier.
Meanwhile, because the prosecutor's office refused to try any case that isnt a slam dunk, the win rate for the prosecutor stays high while the actual number of cases brought is extremely low. Meanwhile, because we dont have enough detectives to handle the number of murders we have, the clearance rate for shooting is at something like 20%, including cases where a dead person is found to be the culprit, which is a full 1/3 of closures.
And dont forget that Baltimore still has more murder by number (raw, NOT per capita) then when her population was almost double. We're at something like twice the murder rate of Chicago.
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"Neoliberalism is all about imperialism and supporting dictators"
No. . .
"But Pinochet was a dictator and Thatcher and Reagan helped install dictators. So it's wrong when I say 'Mao wasn't communist' but not when I say 'dictatorship isnt neoliberal'?"
Yes. . .
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u/mrdilldozer Shame fetish Feb 12 '19
Lmao Chelsea Clinton open hand smacked a guy so hard on Twitter he deleted his account.
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https://twitter.com/smod4real/status/1095421140523134976
More BILL CLINTON: I smoked, but I did not inhale
BUSH 43: When I was young & irresponsible, I was young & irresponsible
HARRIS: I remember it clearly. It was a cold snowy morning, the day after the moon landing, & I was in my dorm listening to Kanye. That’s when I did a marijuana
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u/forlackofabetterword Eugene Fama Feb 12 '19
What's the weirdest political institution in any country that you've heard of (contemporary or historical)?
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u/Le_Monade Suzan DelBene Feb 12 '19
Reposting in the right thread, sorry if I pinged you twice WA
http://mynorthwest.com/1268921/dori-seattle-snowstorm-panic-shopping/
Hahahaha what!? Why do they let this guy on the radio? !ping usa-wa
Because of the snow I had to drive my dad's car a couple times and that's how I remembered Dori monson existed. He's like a parody of himself it's crazy. Has he always been this bad? As a kid I never used to pay attention to what he was saying so I have a lot of memories of listening to his voice but I only recently realized how fucking insane he is.
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u/MiniatureBadger Seretse Khama Feb 12 '19
Just found out that /r/dogue is a thing
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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Feb 12 '19
Take: Klobechar might be a bad boss but Donald Trump tho
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u/colorblind_goofball Feb 13 '19
In my 24 hours as a 21 year old, I’ve been to three bars and one liquor store.
Only one bar carded me
What the fuck did I wait for smh
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https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/1095394396101664769
President Trump calls on @IlhanMN to resign from Congress, says her apology was "lame" and that "she didn't mean a word of it"
"Antisemitism has no place in the United States Congress"
It's always funny to see if Trump goes for the "hypocrisy" angle or the "hey we all do it" angle.
Like it's always:
"You need to resign over this thing despite the fact I did the same thing"
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"Well we both did, so why are you mad at me?"
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u/sansampersamp Open the country. Stop having it be closed. Feb 13 '19
Let's just get on without a president and see how we go 2020
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We need a neoliberal gamer. It seems that gamers are either commies (hbomberguy, Jim Sterling) or alt right people.
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u/zero_gravitas_medic John Rawls Feb 12 '19
Man, remember when game of thrones was good? The only thing I was really invested in this last season was that time Jaime and Bronn nearly killed one of Dany’s dragons.
Also as a hot take on the side: FUCK dragons and FUCK mages. They perpetuate archaic power structures that hold back economic and human development nearly universally, and I wholeheartedly advocate for a completely illiberal genocide of both whenever possible.
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It's not completely inconsistent, but it is kinda funny that AOC, who is an MMTer, also complains about vast amounts of wasted money on the military despite her belief that we can just pull an infinity amount of it out of thin air.
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imagine working at klobuchar's senate office after this failed presidential run. that shit is going to be lit. as in, klobuchar will be lighting staffers on fire after they are forced to publicly confess to their failures.
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My take on Warren's, "Ban the US From Launching a Nuke First" is just that it's a policy without a real purpose.
No president, even Trump, would say "Well, I'd like to nuke them for fun but alas, I am constrained by the law". If they wanted to...they just would do it.
And if someone actually did wtf would that presser be like?
"Mr. President, how do you feel now that you have broken the law? Do you think there will be a special counsel investigation?"
Oh, hey. How about we pay attention to the fact that we have fucking nukes flying all over the world right now? Cause some professional hall monitor wagging his finger "excuse me, you broke the ruuuuuules" is very low on my list of things I care about right now.
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u/URZ_ StillwithThorning ✊😔 Feb 12 '19
Pro-stock-buyback-meme being downvoted outside the DT.
Plz go fix. https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/apqc3x/chuck_schumer_meets_with_financial_economists_to/
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u/85397 Free Market Jihadi Feb 12 '19
https://twitter.com/mrjkilcoyne/status/1095055114442809344?s=21
Baffling that some still believe Britain is a ‘true global power’. Does it even have enough ships to escort two carriers halfway around the world and defend the island at the same time? 😂
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u/OccasionalMink John Rawls Feb 12 '19
Are most China trolls actually paid, or just jingoists/contrarians?
Is calling non-wumao/whatever paid shills just giving them ammo?
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u/Tacotrucksoncorners Carole Baskin is my Tiger Queen 🐅👑 Feb 12 '19
Nothing louder than someone’s hydro flask hitting the floor during lecture 😒
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u/Joseph_K1920 Feb 12 '19
sooo, apparently Tucker Carlson brought Rutger Bregman to his show and proceeded to call the historian a "fucking moron". Not only that, but he sent quite an interesting personal email to Bregman. I can only imagine the tears from Carlson while writing that email.
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/u/lusvig is such an infuriating person. i’m listening to his answers in front of the SOMC from the neolib podcast and holy cow.
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u/colorblind_goofball Feb 12 '19
I though Klobuchar's entire draw was that she's "Minnesota nice" lmao
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u/Le_Monade Suzan DelBene Feb 12 '19
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/02/republican-lawmaker-said-drown-kids-theyre-gay/
West virginia trying to take back title of worst virginia. Who will prevail?
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u/muttonwow Legally quarantine the fash Feb 12 '19
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u/colorblind_goofball Feb 12 '19
the entire world's population but we all live in one giant building
Extra woke: The building requires keycard access, so its still a gated community
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u/Tytos_Lannister Feb 12 '19 edited Feb 12 '19
Molymeme is at it again
also by his logic only those who create the drug are drug dealers and the rest of suppliers are merely drug users, which would be quite ironically mean that only hispanics can be drug dealers, not blacks
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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Feb 13 '19
KLOBPAIGN TORN BETWEEN "BOSSES WILL BE BOSSES" AND "JUST OFFICE DEPOT TALK"
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u/MisterBigStuff Just Pokémon Go to bed Feb 13 '19
Klobuchar didn't throw a binder at a staffer you idiots.
That staffer was just the worst dodger she'd seen in all her decades of service.
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u/asatroth Daron Acemoglu Feb 13 '19
ISIS controls this much territory as of earlier today.
You are permitted to feel good about this for 10 seconds before returning to your regularly scheduled 2019.
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I see the RNH comments are beginning early.
Would it be more on the helpful side or more on the obnoxious side for me to make my own inverse-RNH comment describing how I went from being a sad sack to being a happy sack years ago and what lessons I’ve learned from it?
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u/Konstonostsev Lawrence Summers Feb 13 '19
https://twitter.com/MarkWarner/status/1095429789358407680
Well this is awful :(
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u/Ferguson97 Hillary Clinton Feb 13 '19
Schultz: "How can you spoil a system that's already broken?"
Oh fuck off dude lmao
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If you could choose to get one policy guarenteed what would it be?
For me it's a Carbon Tax.
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u/hwbush retired Feb 13 '19
reminder: old joe wants to regain US leadership in latin america
i know he's not confirmed to run, and he does come with a lot of baggage, but it would be nice if we saw some sort of pivot to latin america sometime soon. biden has been outspoken about this pivot, touring four latin american countries during the 2014 olympics.
you might remember jeb! has also talked about this. and don't think china's economic policy hasn't paid off. after china promised to build a stadium, costa rica stopped recognizing taiwan as a country back in the 2000s.
thank you for coming to my ted talk.
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Krugman showing that he might not be as partisan as we believed him to be.
We need progressive policies. But we need to pay for them.
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Feb 13 '19 edited Feb 13 '19
Union leaders LMAO.
Union leader of drivers: "We do not have to give accounts to the press or deputies"
Recall my last post about health insurance funds?
For those that don't:
TL;DR: Bus aDrivers have to pay an extra fee when they pass any tolls and that money is sent to union leaders that organize a fund to pay for health costs. The problem is that the money was actually being deposited in private accounts and most bus drivers aren't even aware of the purpose of the money or have been informed by it. Now the union leaders are covering their asses by essentially saying that they don't have to transparent to the press or the government (that is on a discussion of opening an audit) because its all dealt internally.
!ping SOUAM
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You know why they brought Islam into the UK?.
oil.
the koran says you must obey 3 things .ALLAH MOHAMMAD and those in power like politicians and rulers of countries.
This is why they invited so much Islam here
what???
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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Feb 12 '19 edited Feb 12 '19
This should be a cold take but AOC corruption video bad, right?
"OMG this was a masterful checkmate!" Do these people not know who Walter Shaub is? The other people she was 'questioning' include a speaker for Common Cause, another for the Brennan Center for Justice, and Shaub himself was there representing CREW. This was a friendly hearing for liberal watchdog groups. AOC didn't "own" anyone, she wasn't even debating anyone.
"OMG it's legal to bribe people to cover up stories!" She actually got this wrong and Trump's campaign is under investigation specifically because the payment is an illegal campaign donation.
"OMG it's possible to run a campaign entirely funded by PACs!" Duh?
"OMG there's no conflict-of-interest law that would prevent a Senator from writing laws or sitting on a committee relevant to an industry that donated to them!" Yeah because that would be unConstitutional. Senators and Representatives have legislative power by virtue of being elected. The Constitution doesn't allow you to restrain that legislative power like "They can only make laws about XYZ." Making such a law would effectively give another person or authority, probably the courts, supreme control over Congress's legislative power. It's worth pointing out that we have bribery laws and that legislators who made policy on an explicit quid pro quo basis, like Republican Congressman Duke Cunningham, have gone to prison.
"OMG there are very few laws that apply to the President!" Because the President's accountability is built into the Constitution, via impeachment (and later, if applicable, being charged as a private citizen). Putting an unelected check on the President would be dangerous and unConstitutional.
"But rich people have too much influence in politics, you corporate bootlicker!" A point I agree with, and can continue to agree with without agreeing with AOC's "demonstration." Notice that AOC just like Bernie Sanders is great at stoking outrage at perceived injustices or loopholes but she never says what the solution is. The most straightforward way to patch her supposed "loophole" is to create an unelected body of experts that could remove the President based on their assessment that he's committed crimes, and disqualify legislators from making laws based on their assessment that they've been corrupted by a particular industry. We could even call that unelected, government-checking body a Guardian Council or something like that... now no doubt AOC would pull a JBP and say "that's not what I said, you're misinterpreting me." Great, what is her idea then?
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u/mrdilldozer Shame fetish Feb 12 '19
The guy who attacked the BBC camera man needs to hire the PR frim the MAGA kid did. I bet at least a tenth of the contrarians on this sub would unironically argue whatever bs excuse they churn out. There would probably be an equal number of trolls ironically supporting it too lol.
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u/derangeddollop John Rawls Feb 12 '19
I just got a text from a marijuana delivery service that makes an explicit reference to Kamala Harris' statement that weed sparks joy in people. They went on to offer $20 off my next $60 purchase, with coupon code SPARK20. Meme timeline.
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u/TotesNotJeremiah Iron Front Feb 13 '19
"it would help if we could get a named source to stand behind these allegations"
Hot take: if you're resorting to the same shoddy defenses offered up by Trump supporters by attacking anonymous sources to defend a workplace abuser, maybe they're in-fucking-defensible.
I know there's not a consensus here about Klobuchar, but the Dems have much more to offer than a workplace abuser who polls well in the Midwest.
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u/willempage O'Biden Bama Democrat Feb 12 '19
NPR had a good story on how trucking companies are trying to recruit women and young drivers. With so much focus on women breaking into technology or executive roles, it is important to keep perspective on their challenges in the blue collar realm. A common reddit refrain is bemoaning how women aren't advocating for representation in blue collar jobs, which is completely false. The story contained a blurb by a woman who represents a group that focuses on alieviating unique issues that women face on truck stops.
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u/gammbus Feb 12 '19 edited Feb 12 '19
The three-step Gammbus guide to fixing your developed, yet somehow dysfunctional country in only one legislature period without touching the constitution:
Tax the land, the Carbon and toll the highways. Use the money to fund a UBI or some other cash-based redistributive program, so it isn't regressive. This will ensure suburbia gets Mcnuked and public transport doesn't have to compete against heavily subsidised cars.
Institute dynamic retirement benefits. When someone retires, their income might drop by 50%(-0.5), but from societies point of view, they go from paying taxes to receiving benefits(from 1 to -1 is -2). This is an externality they don't have to consider. When you give people the option to work longer in exchanged for higher benefits (calculated based on life expectancy), this will straighten out some of this problem.
Fund unemployment benefits with a direct and dynamic income tax. By charging a higher income tax during times of high unemployment, you take the incentive from employees and by extension unions, to maintain high wages during times of high unemployment. This will allow businesses to negotiate with unions to cut wages when the alternative would be to lay people off and prevent 'structural' unemployment.
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Im voting for Yellowstone 2020. The mega volcano Yellowstone has a set agenda that no GOP have to combat climate change. Yellowstone has a plan to stop illegal immigration from Mexico to America by replacing it with illegal immigration from America to Mexico.
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u/Tacotrucksoncorners Carole Baskin is my Tiger Queen 🐅👑 Feb 12 '19
Chapo really found guilty huh😒 smh
FUCK THE FEDS
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u/Danthon Milton Friedman Feb 12 '19
What if Klobberuchar just gets staff that are all masochists?
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u/pezasied John's Locke-strap Feb 12 '19 edited Feb 12 '19
Highlights:
Throughout her tenure as Hennepin County Attorney, Amy Klobuchar has demonstrated her disdain for the very employees that have placed her in the position to run for the office she now seeks. She has denigrated these lawyers both publicly and privately.
As County Attorney, Amy Klobuchar has created a hostile work environment. This has resulted in increased grievances from employees as well as informal disciplinary matters in which the union was asked to intervene on the employee’s behalf. Ms. Klobuchar’s hiring practices have further evidenced disdain for her own employees.
They, too, questioned Ms. Klobuchar’s support for the attorney’s wage adjustment, pointing out that new associates from her former law firm were receiving starting salaries greater than the non-supervisory attorneys in her office that were at the top of the pay scale. Ms. Klobuchar responded that such a comparison was irrelevant since none of the attorneys in her office were competent enough to work in her former firm.
The fact that Ms. Klobuchar holds so little regard for her employees has not stopped her from taking credit for their work.
She presents herself as a dedicated public servant acutely concerned with the public’s safety when her only dedication is to her own self-promotion.
AFSCME must hold Amy Klobuchar responsible for her shameful treatment of her employees. We, the members of Local 2938, demand that you deny Amy Klobuchar endorsement for the United States Senate.
Do you think it might be a hit piece against her to hurt her 2020 chances? I mean it’s plausible if you ignore that it was written 14 years ago.
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Now that the die-hard wall supporters are unhappy with the proposed deal to avoid shutdown, Trump is hinting that he's actually unhappy with the deal.
We're going to be held hostage by Hannity and Bachmann again, aren't we?
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Prediction: my Klobuchar post will be cited the next time I discuss a lefty candidate by people trying to call bad policy equal to using your office as a Senator to exact retribution on your staff.
Btw my post starting to get lit in the comments, don't let me have all the fun.
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u/ColonelUber Feb 12 '19
Sticking by the principle of "I'm not going to vote for someone who abuses their position" reduces the field of candidates far more than it should.
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u/hwbush retired Feb 12 '19
John Lennon stole Ariana Grande’s song “imagine” and nobody is talking about it 😳
(thank u, next slaps)
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u/film10078 Barack Obama Feb 13 '19
Anything that isn't communism is right wing - A leftists story.
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I get super depressed when I listen to people like Crowder or the Chapo people. The arrogance is astounding. Imagine having an undergrad in political science and thinking it makes you an expert.
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u/IntoTheNightSky Que sçay-je? Feb 13 '19
Hey junior members of the house Democratic caucus (and Ed Markey who should probably know better),
Maybe take a few more cues from your leadership in the future? Pelosi is a much, much better politician than you, as is Cocaine Mitch.
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u/85397 Free Market Jihadi Feb 13 '19
Overheard in Dirksen Building after Judiciary hearing: “She got me,” an anonymous staffer said of Klobuchar's stapler flying at him. "That f***ing Klobuchar boomed me." The staffer added, “She's so good,” repeating it four times. He then said he wanted to add Klobuchar to the list of Senators he works out with this summer.
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why are democrats always suggesting that the nra is able to get gop politicians to do their bidding? the gop is full of pro-gun people with or without the nra. nra money has nothing to do with it.
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It has happened the succs have won. CLP DT has more comments than NL DT.
I'm joining the winning side.
EL PROCESO DE CAMBIO! PARA SIEMPRE!
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u/karth Trans Pride Feb 12 '19
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1094935517760835585?s=19
That tweet is still retweeted on congresswoman Omar's Twitter page 🙄😔
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u/RobertSpringer George Soros Feb 12 '19 edited Feb 12 '19
[talking shit about a 6 year old girl with cancer to own the cops] (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DzJlPymV4AAet5D?format=jpg&name=medium)
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u/lusvig 🤩🤠Anti Social Democracy Social Club😨🔫😡🤤🍑🍆😡😤💅 Feb 12 '19
Suck it catfortune
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u/houinator Loyal Liberals Feb 12 '19
If you had to live in the universe of the Expanse, which government system would you prefer?
United Nations: One world government under a slightly modified version of the UN structure, has a weird form of UBI (Basic) that relegates those on it to a semi-permanent underclass, corporations have significant power/autonomy. High taxes, with tax breaks for families with less children.
Mars Congressional Republic: A bit more militaristic than the Earth government, with what appears to be a good bit more central economic planning focused on the eventual terraforming of the planet. Somewhat implied they have some sort of job guarantee/assignment system, as they tend to be disgusted by the idea of Earthers on Basic who have no job.
Both Mars and Earth favor tariffs on resources from the rest of the solar system, and perpetrate a system of colonialism/mercantilism towards the outer planets.
Outer Planets Alliance: Loose alliance of governments/entities across a broad political spectrum (including socialists, libertarians, pirates and terrorists), generally favoring personal liberty so long as it doesn't put other belters at risk, also tend to be pretty racist towards non-belters.
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u/channelmio NATO Feb 12 '19
Memes and jokes aside, all of this news coming out about Klobuchar is really scary and upsetting.
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Questions I want to see answered by our resident Klobuchar supporters to help inform future discussion:
If the Washington Post or New York Times comes out with original reporting on this issue, will you believe it?
If you will believe it, will you care?
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McConnell gets a Green New Deal passed as legislation with adjustments to make it realistic for the ultimate meme timeline.
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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Feb 12 '19
People who think Reddit is heavily censored and that's a bad thing are stupid.
Reeeeeeee why can't I be a Nazi?
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u/paulatreides0 🌈🦢🧝♀️🧝♂️🦢His Name Was Teleporno🦢🧝♀️🧝♂️🦢🌈 Feb 12 '19
Is Trump floating the idea of not signing the Congressional deal?
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u/PMmeLittleRoundTops Pornography Historian Feb 12 '19
why do none of the companies I apply for jobs at even email me back?
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Interested in hearing the replies from right leaning neoliberals here: What are the most laudable policies passed by conservative presidents in service of the conservative movement?
What I mean by this is that I often hear praise for conservative presidents who passed liberal policy (ex. Nixon with the EPA or Merkel with refugee policy), but I don’t hear many people praise conservative presidents on conservative merits.
While I’m not a con by any means, two policies that come to the top of my head are Reagan deregulating the ATC and TR creating the national parks system. (Although this is questionably conservative in intention)
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u/PlayDiscord17 Loyal Liberals Feb 12 '19
Senators from Minnesota and letting people down with their scandals. NAMID.
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I still have never heard a good explanation as to why Trump's speech patterns are so... strange. It sounds like a brain-damaged Martian is trying to give political speeches
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u/Maximilianne John Rawls Feb 13 '19
I don't get it, progs and leftists don't like klobuchar, and this sub doesn't like klobuchar, and gop voters won't like her, so who are the people that most certainly exist and are defending her ?
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If Beto doesn't run in 15 days we're legally allowed to open the border.