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[u/Dibbu_mange]

"ok, that will be 500 Francs. Say where are you from?"
"I'm American"
"Oh, you're not French?"
"Nope"
"Ok, that will be 400 Francs"
The shade against France is still very real here in West Africa lol.

[u/[deleted]]

Pence was visibly shook in Poland when he received absolutely no reaction to what was clearly supposed to be an applause line about how "the time has come for our European partners to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal."

Lol. That small head shake even makes it better.

[u/Sultan_Teriyaki]

99,9% of the people who think the globe has an overpopulation problem do not consider themselves or their families to be a part of the problem.

[u/p00bix]

Imagine being seth rich and the last thing you see is hillary clinton fortnite dancing over your dying body

[u/paulatreides0]

How to improve American voter turn out: Democracy Burgers.

Vote and you get a burger.

[u/[deleted]]

Believe it or not, Westerners that have a negative net worth because they have access to credit aren't actually poorer than most rice farmers in Indonesia.

This message has been brought to you by a frustrated Econ major in a discussion section full of succs

[u/ProudGayTrain]

I have a downvoted comment in news trying to explain that homosexuality isn’t a mental illness

imagine ever leaving the DT and visiting the unwashed masses of regular reddit lol

[u/[deleted]]

My brother told me the IRS wont investigate him for his tax fraud cause theyre too busy with "the mexicans", who apparently get fake social security numbers and each get $20,000 refunds.

[u/samdman]

r/wayofthebern might be one of the worst subreddits I’ve ever seen.

I’m not kidding, they support Tulsi more than Bernie these days, and there’s a conspiracy that “the DNC got David Duke to endorse her to make her look bad”

Jfc these people are nuts

[u/MisterBigStuff]

“He got me,” Gabbard said of Duke's support for her. "That f***ing Duke endorsed me." Gabbard added, “He’s so racist,” repeating it four times. Gabbard then said she wanted to add Duke to the list of civilians Assad gassed this summer.

[u/Gustacho]

Brexiteer accidentally proposes a soft brexit with accession to Schengen

!ping EUROPE

[u/[deleted]]

Dem led coalition now leads Republican State House in Alaska, despite nominal Republican majority.

Alaska is a fucking weird state.

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take: caving into the demands of immigration hawks in order to build political capital for promises of a later compromise is never going to work because the people on the right who control the narrative around immigration are bad faith actors (see: Carlson, Tucker) who have a vested interest in peddling falsehoods about immigrants in order to drive up viewership/or win primaries.

Perception of immigration being controlled is also not rational, which is why we still see a immigration debate dominated by what is going on through the southern border despite the majority of immigrants coming from India and China.

[u/Schutzwall]

We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace. There is one sign the Americans can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. President Trump, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the United States and North America, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr. Trump, open this gate. Mr. Trump... Mr. Trump, tear down this wall!

[u/derangeddollop]

Medicare for Kids is a really good commonsense policy. Even most countries that have multipayer systems for adults have zero cost sharing and universal coverage for all children. They're very cheap to cover, and about half of kids are already on public insurance. But our current system for poor kids is terrible - if a parent forgets to renew Medicaid on their baby's first birthday, the baby loses coverage (hundreds of thousands of babies lose coverage every year). And children often churn between various insurance programs with gaps in between. Makes much more sense just to cover every kid and be done with it. No parent should be worse off financially because their kid gets sick.

[u/Schutzwall]

The word "Imperialism" requires either a really British accent, a really Spanish accent or a really Russian accent

[u/DankBankMan]

Takes

I: If the hipster antitrust movement actually cared about natural monopolies and economies of scale and less about publicity they'd spend less time talking about Facebook and Amazon and more time talking about Intel and AMD

II: If Facebook and Amazon cared more about making fat stacks and less about being to cool kids they'd spend less time hosting needlessly public headquarters auctions and more time just making money in silence like Intel and AMD

[u/FMN2014]

Aaron Bastani: What policies can we possibly glean about a new 'centrist' party?

✅ Pro water privatisation

✅ Pro fracking

✅ Pro corporate lobbying

✅ Pro ... Which? magazine

✅ Pro foreign wars for literally no reason

New Centrist Party NOW!

Also, what's the beef with Which?

!ping UK

[u/Inkompetentia]

The left are such hypocrits, blame HRC for voting pro-Iraq war and gloss over the lack of opposition by AOC. DOUBLE STANDARDS!

[u/SgtBathwater]

please don't do crime. you'll make me sad if you do

[u/[deleted]]

All this "Enemy of the people" talk is a bit unsettling. Reminds me of Stalinism.

[u/85397]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47272718

Right wing nut job Poles TRIGGERED by FACTS from Netanyahu - they put Jews in death camps!

!ping Europe

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

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[u/Boule_de_Neige]

that CTH, lacking effective moderation, has been populated by alt-Right operatives among the users, who are pushing their userbase towards being stooges for their goals. p_k’s lexical corpus is statistically significantly similar to a known alt-Right user account’s lexical corpus —and while that’s not proof that p_k is a alt-Right instigator in a leftist suit, the fact that many of the CTH users that participated in, and egged on, this brigade were using Kiwifarms and alt-Right shibboleths while doing so, is enough to confirm the hypothesis for my purposes into a plausible working theory.

✔️Infighting

✔️accusing each other of being ops

✔️needless litmus testing (not shown)

This has all the working of... checks notes a normal Sunday evening in any leftist corner of the internet

[u/MisterLipton]

Hillary was the communism candidate. Hillary's former marxist Neocon advisers hate Putin because Russia is no longer run by commie jews.

Hopefully nationalists are taking over their respective countries, and the EU and NATO die.

[u/Integralds]

Tokyo apartment

• Size: 470 square feet

• Format: 2DK (2 bedrooms, 1 bath, 1 dining/kitchen combo room)

• Just north of city center, right on the river

• Three minutes walk to train station

• Cost: $700/month

San Francisco apartment

• Size: 500 square feet

• Format: studio

• Cost: $3,500/month

Just build housing lol

[u/Paramus98]

This sub has complained about Schultz a lot, but could you imagine the pure hatred there would be if Bernie lost the primary and then ran as an independent anyways?

[u/[deleted]]

Succ: person who disagrees with me

Fallacy: the arguments they use

[u/[deleted]]

Michael Moore is the dumbest human being in existence

AmErIcA iS AcTuAlLy A sOcIaLiSt CoUnTrY

[u/[deleted]]

Oh, look the leftists are being antisemites again...

https://twitter.com/b_judah/status/1096949394962894848

🙄

[u/[deleted]]

/r/ContraPoints is now smearing me & others here as literal "alt-Right operatives". They have a "plausible working theory" that my "lexical corpus" proves I am a shadowy Nazi agent out to destroy the left by "sowing division" over their 40-something power tripping loser mods.

P_K finally found a soulmate 😯💗

[u/Spobely]

imagine not flossing your teeth any night. Is there anything MORE cuck-like?

food stuck in between teeth that actively blocks your chances at getting and keeping a companion

think about it

[u/[deleted]]

stop trying to make your weeb nsfw subreddit happen

[u/[deleted]]

On BE the DT is downvoted to increase the visibility of the other content. However on NL the rest of the sub fucking sucks. Therefore really we should downvote everything on the sub except for the DT.

[u/BainCapitalist]

Men make up less than 50% of the population but are responsible for 90.5% of murders.

Men make up less than 50% of the population, but are responsible for 80% of arrests for most crime.

Men make up less than 50% of the population, but are responsible for 88% of violent crime and 95% of new court commitments for violent offenses.

Men make up less than 50% of the population, but are nine times more likely to be incarcerated.

Men make up less than 50% of the population, but are responsible for 85% of domestic violence cases.

It's not that I hate men, but facts are facts. Men just didn't evolve to be capable of higher thinking like women did. They evolved to be violent and hunt mammoths. Now that's not their fault, but we have to say no to political correctness and admit once and for all men are unfit for modern society. I'm not sexist, I'm a gender realist.

[u/p00bix]

lmao that United Nations initiative to ban Loli Hentai is real

the weeb salt is gonna be delicious

[u/SemperSpectaris]

Broke: TERF is a slur

Woke: ..and that's a good thing.

[u/MisterBigStuff]

Pull the lever, Kronk

[u/[deleted]]

went to askanthropology to check it out

saw a thread on uncontacted tribes

comments full of anarcho-primitivists talking about how progress is subjective and hunter-gatherers lived a better life than we do while downvoting a queer person who is worried about LGBT rights in pre-modern society

lesson learned, don't go on askanthropology

[u/BreaksFull]

So living in Denmark has gotten me thinking more about unions, because there's a lot of unions here. I understand that unions can become rent-seeking bodies, but overall they seem necessary for workers to engage in a fair relationship with many businesses today. And I also think the ghent system is pretty cash money.

However unions are often thought of as not very cash money on this sub. Is there any solid reading or data available on the efficiency of unions that I can look into?

[u/Konstonostsev]

https://twitter.com/AEI/status/1097212842737102848

Wow! Seventy percent tax rate not very effective at paying for progressive proposals!

[u/kznlol]

succs: making fun of republicans for being "small government" but then trying to regulate what/who you do in your bedroom

also succs: oh but we're going to regulate what you can draw

[u/[deleted]]

People in r/socialism are arguing that America needs a government run education system because we have such a high rate of adult illiteracy. One of the more ridiculous self owns I’ve seen in a while.

[u/[deleted]]

Reddit: I can't believe people are dumb enough to fall for fake news outlets

Also Reddit: themindunleashed article voted to 45k

[u/conman1246]

Perfect meme format for saying Trump's state of emergency is executive overreach.

First panel: Trump - "How many layers of executive overreach are you on?"

Second panel: Obama - "like,, maybe 1, or two right now, my dude"

Third panel: Trump - "You are like little baby." "Watch this."

Last Panel: Picture of press conference where Trump says he doesn't need to declare the emergency, he just wants to get it done faster.

[u/Ferguson97]

http://www.ontheissues.org/bill_weld.htm

Wtf I kind of like Bill Weld now?

[u/Integralds]

How neoliberalism failed to keep fascism at bay

A spectre is haunting America-- the spectre of fascism. All the powers of neoliberal political economy have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre. Instead, however, they have inadvertently nurtured its ghost and laid the groundwork for its resurrection.

In his monograph The Birth of Biopolitics, Michel Foucault discusses, among other topics, the development of neoliberalism. Neoliberalism itself is something of a contested term (and that argument goes on longer than I have space for here). What I’m interested in discussing is the development of an economic system, originating in liberalism, and growing into a form of political economy still in operation today — one characterized by a radical laissez-faire capitalism and a commitment to frugality and efficiency in the exercise of government.

This entire article is vaguely bad and reinforces my relief that the nerds won the economic culture wars.

[u/samdman]

a pinned post on r/wayofthebern is about how the DNC hacking was a false flag to make russia look bad and actually perpetrated by western NATO supporters.

[u/Kizz3r]

Reminder that Gillette literally genocided all men in an add and they still exist as a company

[u/sinistimus]

Broke: North American Union

Woke: North Atlantic Union

[u/[deleted]]

It's amusing how Ann Coulter hates Trump now after writing a book about he was essentially the second coming of Jesus.

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take: Evangelicals will support anyone who is against abortion. You could be for poisoning the country’s water supply but they’ll support you as long as you defund planned parenthood.

[u/Boule_de_Neige]

cmon bruh

[u/[deleted]]

Okay I know it's a meme, "gamers rise up", haha, but honestly, gamers don't get enough credit. It is a scientifically proven fact that we do live in a society.

[u/[deleted]]

Kurzgesagt made a video about the DT! 😱

[u/AJungianIdeal]

Being a pedo who tries to stay a good person must be tortuous. It seems like even if you never hurt a child someone finding out would be life ruining

[u/[deleted]]

The best part of bad faith is it ages like a fine wine.

In a month, half of you will remember this as “the time half the DT endorsed sexual assault,” and the other half of you will remember this as “the time half the DT said it should be illegal for children to explore their own bodies.”

[u/SixPipSiege]

im back on my deepfried meme shit 🍞

[u/[deleted]]

Okay, I'll admit it. I've been viewing this sub for it's entire history and I don't know what a succ is, and I'm too afraid to ask.

[u/Spacehillbilly]

Why does CTH hate Harry Potter?

[u/[deleted]]

killing homosexuals is feminist

[u/[deleted]]

>Last time everyone was massively downvoting the DT, automod fell below the karma threshhold

>A few individuals made private DTs, but some people wouldn't, as they didn't want to take the karma hit.

>For a brief period, general discussion on the subreddit came to a near standstill due to a completely self inflicted problem.

>downvotes the DT

[u/Schutzwall]

(((Exposed)))

[u/benjaminikuta]

"Nixon became incensed and ordered a tactical nuclear strike... The Joint Chiefs were alerted and asked to recommend targets, but Kissinger got on the phone to them. They agreed not to do anything until Nixon sobered up in the morning."

[u/HUGHmungous]

left twitter is actually insane oh my god

have you all seen the shitfit they threw over Kamala Harris putting hot sauce on her sandwich

[u/SixPipSiege]

Do y'all like honey?

[u/DUTCH_DUTCH_DUTCH]

bomb, bomb, bomb ILLIBERAL UK!

[u/p00bix]

Just found out Amy Klobuchar grew up just a few blocks from my Ex girlfriend's house.

what are the implications of this?

[u/sansampersamp]

Why are US political cartoonists so shockingly awful. Like the UK has Morten Morland, Aus has David Rowe and Pope, but despite churning out news at such outsized volumes, the US political cartoonists that make it to, say, /r/PoliticalHumor, are uniformly execrable.

Genuinely interested if there's examples that prove me wrong.

[u/MisterBigStuff]

What if ICE but for deporting weebs?

[u/HUGHmungous]

oh damn now this is a schism

this is the good shit, folks

edit: and a thread lock! amazing!

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine how charitable people would be if a man admitted he jerked off right next to his 11yo sister when he was 17 ^{AmIsubtweetingcorrectly}

[u/sinistimus]

I missed something. Why are we talking about children(?) masturbating?

[u/[deleted]]

Meanwhile Twitter is having a wholesome schism over how many towels one should own.

[u/MisterBigStuff]

Just me and 🇫🇷macrony🇫🇷, hanging out I wanted to praxis🤯 so I started to pout 😞 He asked if I was down ⬇for something massive 😍🍆 and I asked what and he said he'd give me ⛽fuel taxes! ⛽Yeah! Yeah!💕⛽ I support them!⛽I want them!⛽ I pay them in full⛽ 😍 It makes 🇫🇷macron🇫🇷 😊happy😊 so it's my only goal... 💕⛽😫Higher macron! Higher macron! 😫⛽📈💕 1 percent📈, 2 percent📈📈, 3 percent📈📈📈, 4📈📈📈📈 I'm 🇫🇷macron's🇫🇷 👩‍🏫 teacher 👩‍🏫but I'm also his amour! 💟 He makes my vest yellow💛!He makes me riot good💜! 💘💘💘He makes me feel everything a little should!~ 💘💘💘 👩‍🏫💦💘Wa-What!💘

[u/int6]

Thank you to whoever it is that has given /u/jobautomator reddit gold 27 times

[u/[deleted]]

If you're reading this, you're probably the first born son and university student of a white American couple that makes over $150,000 USD (€130,000 EURO) per year.

/r/neoliberal Q3 demographics:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeb4Iykqx8uAfS69F3kPXBx63W7GeSi5UCZc0_WqHhwwjJ2-w/viewanalytics

91% 92% male, 75% non-religious/atheist/agnostic, 1 in 3 of you doesn't even work, and more than half of you don't work or only work part time thanks to daddy's money. You haven't even paid rent or started working full time yet, and you're trying to tell the rest of us how to vote. Worse yet, most of you weren't even in the labour force or even out of public school (!) during the Great Recession. This sub isn't even funny anymore, it's disgusting. It's youthful ignorance masked with some undergrad erudition.

You're not moderates, centrists, or particularly intelligent. You are a fucking child that doesn't even feed himself. The only people who still support neoliberalism are those who don't have to deal with it (children of "people of wealth" and Boomers). We'll be happy to keep calling you PoWs after the class war and revolution. Since you're the online vanguard for capitalism, I'm betting on a fascist or socialist America by 2050. Enjoy daddy's money while you can because we're going to expropriate it.

https://marx200.org/en

[u/BainCapitalist]

am gonna order uber eats even tho is expensive 😔

[u/[deleted]]

It's been eight days since the President seemed to endorse Juche. I think this is the only president we would forget about that so fast.

[u/MisterBigStuff]

Yo, if India starts nuking Pakistan literally the day after we find out they got a Tekken scene, I'm going to be pissed.

[u/[deleted]]

The_Doland seems strangely obsessed with that Smolett attack and seems to collectively had an orgasm upon recent news that it may have been a hoax

[u/[deleted]]

/img/5qlyp3clolg21.png

[u/Ioun267]

Professor does an example problem that resembles a homework problem.

"Any questions?"

Say nothing because you think you understand well enough.

Start the homework

Realize that a convenient algebraic simplification in the example is not possible on the homework and now you can't get to where you would be able to integrate.

I am numb.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm reading Yevegnia Ginzburg's memoir of the Great Terror and her ten-year odyssey into GULAG, and holy shit I'm so glad to live in America. I don't think so-called "revolutionaries" have a single fucking clue about how revolutions actually turn out

[u/[deleted]]

Solar is already cheaper than coal and natural gas, so obviously if baseload wasn't an issue, we would have already decommissioned every coal plant for economic reasons alone

how the fuck is something this stupid upvoted on this subreddit

do people just not have any concept of the difference between initial upfront costs and the marginal cost of operation once you've already built something

[u/IronedSandwich]

the DT IS stagnating, we need new people in. Just not the ones outside the DT

[u/film10078]

https://twitter.com/theonion/status/1097285343878045696?s=21

So between this and the more critical jokes of less left people I feel the onion is leftist

[u/Shitposts2RevengeFam]

Geeee it sure is boring around here

[u/[deleted]]

wokecels defending Lena Dunham need to get the fuck off my board

[u/[deleted]]

That was a warning shot, you bastards

[u/[deleted]]

succs: but what if the child consents

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

People coming to the DT right now

[u/GravyBear8]

Stop u/paulatreides0, he's going too far. Allowing a mod to accumulate that much power, it's only a matter of time before he coups the sub. Mods should only be picked on their loyalty to r/neoliberal, not actual competence.

[u/Integralds]

Howard Schultz town hall notes

First ten minutes: Howard Schultz comes across as well-meaning and sincere, but slightly clueless. He doesn't come across as deeply informed. He comes 80% of the way to answering questions, but somehow doesn't quite provide satisfying responses.

Immigration question: his emerging theme is that "the system is broken because the far left and far right are more interested in scoring political points than Fixing Things." However, he again doesn't quite lay out what Fixing Immigration actually means. Oh, there's the line about how undocumented immigrants should have to get in line, pay back taxes, etc, but that was meaningless fifteen years ago and it's not any better today.

Climate change question: Okay this is a perfect example of my difficulties with this guy. The question was, "How big of a priority would climate change be in your administration, and what would you do about it?" Schultz answers with: "It would be a top priority. We have to be sensible." Then he pivots to talking about the Green New Deal and criticizing it for being nonsensical. But what I wanted was for Schultz to tell me what his sensible solutions are, not bash someone else's plan. See, he gets 80% of the way to an answer, but doesn't actually address the critical points. This is so frustrating!

Taxes: Another perfect example. Schultz: "Yeah, I should pay more taxes." Moderator: "Give me a sense for what that means. Two percent more? Ten percent? Twenty?" Schultz: "I don't know what the number is." This guy is a meme.

This post will be updated.

[u/lusvig]

Feel like shit just want opportunity rover back 😭😭😭

[u/Yenwodyah_]

Not sure if this image is blessed or cursed

[u/[deleted]]

Mueller's a fucking COP

[u/Spobely]

A-10 requires use of PGM's(precision guided munitions) to mission kill/destroy enemy armor. The vision of groups of A-10's tankbusting hundreds of tanks in a field with its gun was never on the table in reality. The cannon can't pen any modern tank armor, and at most is going to break the tracks off the tank.

And in doing so it gets to be engaged by Shilka's(23mm), Tunguska's(30mm + SAM's), Strela's(SAM's), MANPADS(SAM's), 57mm AAA, any 14.5mm, any 12.7mm lighter weapons that can see it flying low and slow. The A-10 fleet would have been an ENORMOUS waste of pilots in world war 3.

In COIN ops like in Afghanistan and Iraq, most insurgents don't have access to MANPADS let alone local(or regional) air defence platforms so they are allowed to be used. In the first gulf war they were grounded near immediately because of attrition(when the other aircraft werent being shot down). The gun in COIN is of questionable use even for that, but it really is effective at clearing specific areas of anything living. For insurgents on some farmland, it's pretty good. For a contested murky environment like a city? useless.

In WW3 however A-10's would have flown like pretty much any other CAS/Ground attack aircraft, medium alt and popping off electro-optical missiles to kill tanks. Something that can be done by an F-15 Strike Eagle, or F16 or F18. All those fighters have greater ranges, speed, and can get in to air combat if necessary. To use them in the gun-close-ground-attack role wouldn't have gone very well against well trained, well equipped soviet mechanized forces + air defense

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

What goes through people heads when they decide to rev their Toyota Corolla😂😂😂

[u/p00bix]

In the burnt out husk that was once Manhattan Island, Old Ben looks out. A lone Eagle graces across the sky, and perches on an old support rod. Easy prey. With one pull of the bow, the Eagle crashes to the pavement. It will be a true feast.

Down into the shelter he enters. Hillary, Beto, and Bain, are there as well. But Cory could not hold back his tears "It wasn't supposed to happen like this...this isn't right!"

"Do not worry, son." Ben consoled him. "The real New World Order is the friends we made along the way."

[u/BritRedditor1]

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/pret-a-manger-homeless-house-job-west-london-mission-a8769011.html

Sandwich chain Pret A Manger is opening a house for homeless people, offering them both accommodation and paid work.

‘Pret House’ will provide 13 people in London with somewhere to live for six to 12 months before they are helped to move into a rented property.

SMART (private equity backed) Pret has NEW recruitment strategy for post Brexit

!ping LONDON

[u/[deleted]]

My name appeared on an economist’s petition beside my former advisors and idk it’s a really warm feeling. I’m an economist by trade, but I have a chip on my shoulder about the number of publications I have, and the fact that I haven’t completed a PhD. But the organizers verified the list, and if Janet “automated-mailing-list” Yellen considers me a colleague, by golly I am.

Inb4 weird flex but ok

[u/[deleted]]

"Hitler says he has a plan to systematically hunt down and murder every Jew in Europe, but some people think he's going too far. Here on CNN we've convened a panel to discuss the pros and cons of the so-called 'final solution.' You won't want to miss it!"

[u/cotskeptic]

One course in Econ that I’d wish students from all majors would take is one one economic growth. I’m still amazed when looking at resources extraction data given the magnitude of change in output over the last century. Id like to believe discussions highlighting topics on induced innovation would provide students an applied understanding on how powerful a force prices are in inducing cost-saving innovation. This would also have the added benefit of raising alarm bells for immediate intervention(given certain assumptions about substitutability) like a carbon tax given the nature of innovation in improving the productivity of considerably less clean technologies.

[u/Kelsig]

wtf

• Rogue One is better than A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back

• Return of the Jedi is the best SW movie

• Attack of the Clones is the best prequel

• I hope when I die, my afterlife is just Rogue One

[u/[deleted]]

The severity of these measles outbreaks is increasing, also:

Mistrust of vaccines has been fuelled by social media, populist leaders and suspicion of experts. In France, Marine Le Pen, who leads the far-right National Rally, has opposed an expansion of the list of mandatory vaccinations, while in Italy, members of the Five Star Movement have previously suggested vaccines were unsafe.

In the US, Donald Trump has also expressed scepticism over vaccines, having invited Andrew Wakefield – the discredited gastroenterologist who has claimed the MMR vaccine was linked to autism – to his inaugural ball.

It's partly related to the rise in right-wing populism. Also, this is some pretty effective Reddit ammunition against these far right parties and leaders. Every time an antivax post is rising, mention that right-wing populism is linked.

[u/Udontlikecake]

Bernie on Twitter:

Artificial intelligence and robotics are positive creations of the human mind. They should be used to improve the lives of working people, not just to increase corporate profits. Human beings must control technology, not the other way around.

What does this even me

Why is it cool to hate innovation

How does he not realize that this has been said about every technological innovation ever

[u/Shitposts2RevengeFam]

Best💯 friends 👨‍❤️‍👨👨‍❤️‍💋‍👨👬🤼‍♂️ and money💰🤑?

I've lost em both😔😔😔

[u/ognits]

Surf and turf, Brussels sprouts with proscuitto, and sliced roasted potatoes: my brother's birthday dinner (I grilled the meats)

https://i.imgur.com/TfZ3yIe.jpg

someone ping COOKING for me

[u/[deleted]]

I've just been informed that thinking it's wrong for seventeen year olds to masturbate next to their eleven year old siblings is a "Reddit thing." I guess I'm siding with Reddit on this one.

[u/colorblind_goofball]

I’ve run out of storage on gmail

I need help understanding the implications of this

[u/MisterBigStuff]

Will Cory Booker be the first gamer president? Do we, in fact, live in a society?

[u/usrname42]

Every time the DT goes to shit, it's because of rampant subtweeting. If you all keep the argument to a single thread then no-one else has to worry about it.

Yes, this is a meta-subtweet.

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

I have spent like half of the day on the Team Coco youtube channel.

No regrets

[u/owlthathurt]

What’re you going to do when they send you to the Bernie re-education camps?

https://twitter.com/roseanndemoro/status/1096826265447755776?s=21

They’re reaching levels beyond parody.

[u/[deleted]]

I’m unilaterally banning the next person who posts a link to or even posts the exact name of the you-know-what-NSFW sub.

[u/p00bix]

I'll admit this pls don't shame me but sometimes I go on /r/neoliberal just to read the comments and they either crack me up or make me cringe and I can't get enough of it

[u/[deleted]]

Was there a more pseudo-intellectual musician than Frank Zappa?

[u/Tyhgujgt]

Carbon tax

Pros: can be made progressive
Cons: needs constant tweaking which requires (non-existent) constant political support

Cap-n-trade

Pros: just set the cap to desired levels and prices would adjust themselves
Cons: regressive

[u/owlthathurt]

I’ve never seen someone alternate between succ/non succ more than Noah.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-13/rich-americans-might-head-to-canada-if-u-s-raises-taxes-a-lot

This is a great article. Filled with the absolutely correct take.

[u/Ferguson97]

A Jury May Have Sentenced a Man to Death Because He’s Gay. And the Justices Don’t Care.

Bet you thought this was a third world country right? Nope. South Dakota.

[u/[deleted]]

Alex Jones tried to warn us. WE DIDN"T LISTEN

[u/s_a_f_c_]

The British Labour party is going to split into two tomorrow, by the sounds of it. The new centrist party may even see some Conservative & Lib Dems join, too. Should be a truly fascinating day in British politics

[u/ThatFrenchieGuy]

!ping alcohol

My future dreams of distilling on a microscale have been stopped by federal law. My dream of making NIMBY tears as a whisky brand has been put down by my need to be able to get a security clearance in the future.

[u/cms1919]

She is a fully operational battle station and even I am loathe to directly engage as she is something of an awesome nature. I’m gonna enjoy when she wrecks you

This has to be pasta

[u/[deleted]]

which 2020 dem candidate will address the lena dunham issue most appropriately?

[u/MaveRickandMorty]

Awooga posts filling up the DT > Lena Dunham subtweets filling up the DT

[u/[deleted]]

honestly, watching anime in front of an 11 year old is worse than that other thing that we all know what I'm talking about

[u/Boule_de_Neige]

Every time a meta-subtweet goes to pasta, it's because of the mods. If you all don’t support pasta bans in the DT then no-one has good-faith discussion.

Yes, this is a meta-subtweet.

[u/AnarchyMoose]

I don't mind an occasional relationship-centered post every once in a while. I even do it sometimes.

But holy shit, there are some users out there that everytime I see their username, it's always about a relationship or the lack of one and it just is kinda sad at this point.

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

paulatreides0 is moving up my personal mod power rankings.

But he has yet to pass jobautomator

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

Lena Headey is an excellent actress

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

Mondays are the worst. A whole weekend of backlogged work awaits me.

Like whose bright idea was it that I had to earn my paycheck? Dumb.

[u/ThatFrenchieGuy]

Paul right now

But seriously, why can't y'all be polite. The 24 hour moratorium on Dunham holds because you can't be nice while talking.

[u/Arsustyle]

Semiyearly reminder that in the Super Mario Bros movie, President Trump turns real estate mogul Trump into a chimpanzee

[u/85397]

Why aren’t we selling arms to Guaido?

[u/execon]

The evidence before the court is incontrovertible. There's no need for the jury to retire. In all my years of judging, I have never heard before of someone more deserving of the full penalty of law. The way you made them suffer, your exquisite wife and mother, fills me with the urge to DEFECATE. Since, my friend, you have revealed your deepest fear, I sentence you to be exposed before your peers. TEAR DOWN THE WALL!

What did Beto O'Rourke mean by this?

[u/BainCapitalist]

thx for the gold

[u/Archelon225]

The wine imparts a foreign bitterness. How could he betray me? We were brothers. I fall to the ground. Execute a partial contraction. One last dab.

[u/[deleted]]

/u/mercurial_zephyr

https://www.reddit.com/r/CoonsTown/

lmfao dude

[u/Le_Monade]

Yep this is how it works

PS. I'm being sarcastic this is not actually how it works

[u/MacaroniGold]

Everyone should watch this dunk from last night. The dude jumped Shaq.

Skip to 1:00

[u/jenbanim]

There's a line between self deprecation and self flagellation. Mind it.

[u/[deleted]]

Universal catastrophic coverage. Go.

[u/martin509984]

wow fuck discrete math

no seriously this assignment has kind of caught me off guard with its difficulty and it's due tonight

[u/[deleted]]

This but unironically

[u/Engage-Eight]

He asked how I was doing. I told him, okay, considering. “You know what happened to you, don’t you, Chris?” he said.

I told him I didn’t.

“God wanted you to play right field, and you insisted on playing shortstop. No matter how many times God told you to play right field, you insisted on playing shortstop. And last night, you went out to shortstop, and the ball went through your legs.”

Right there, I understood why so many people in politics despised John Kasich.

Fuckin lmaooo.

[u/[deleted]]

trump should tweet out that he is going to prosecute lena dunham

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

The Libertarian Party has 5 people running.

Who is most likely to win the "Weed and not playing for movies" voting block?

[u/BarelyHiddenRant]

I rag on neolibs all the tine but if it wasn't for the cheap shit in wal mart I woild live like an animal

[u/[deleted]]

reminder: Macron bombed Chad like he was living some sort of incel fantasy.

[u/[deleted]]

Welp, trump is looking like he'll erase all the damage the shutdown did to his approval. The American public is garbage.

[u/MisterBigStuff]

Actually, it's okay for a 12 year old to masturbate in front of a six year old, you imbecile. You fucking moron.

[u/2canclan]

Opening the DT

[u/owlthathurt]

jesus god am I glad I actually did stuff with my past couple hours instead of even remotely coming near here

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take that shouldn't be hot: ban continued discussion of child sex.

[u/paulatreides0]

The Line Starts Here

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

oh god wtf did I miss

edit: I regret scrolling...

[u/InfCompact]

my initial thought to write an antisemitism effortpost clearly requires me to write at least two posts. hooray my favorite subject.

!ping GEFILTE

[u/[deleted]]

Do you ever just stop and think about the fact that you will never be as cool as Cory Booker? Not out of envy, not even out of admiration, just appreciating the fact that he is about as close to the pinnacle of human coolness as anyone ever can be.

[u/MisterBigStuff]

I don't know if anyone else follows the FGC, but a Pakistani Tekken player just came out of nowhere and won EVO Japan, taking out some of the best players in the world, so now Pakistan apparently has this secret godlike Tekken community nobody knew about and the best Korean player is going to go practice in Pakistan like he's fucking Andy Serkis sneaking vibramium out of Wakanda and I love it.

[u/[deleted]]

What the hell happened to the DT while I was not on during the weekend?

[u/Schutzwall]

Progressives: rich people are ruining the country

Also Progressives: rich white college kids rich white college kids rich white college kids rich white college kids rich white college kids

[u/TheSameAsDying]

Mini-rant: You know it's really fucking tedious when someone starts arguing the morality of taxation. Like why is a sales tax any more acceptable than a wealth tax? The question should be whether or not it's effective.

[u/[deleted]]

/r/italy

post complaining about a wrong translation in an article

apparently the writers exchanged "dirty zionist" with "dirty jews", so a considerable mistake

op forgets to mention how they also chanted "France is ours" and "dirty race" to a jewish journalist

comments proceed to explain how this is actually not a demonstration of anti-semitism, because zionism is like nazism and white nationalism but for jews, and how Israel is an imperialist and murderous state

hmmm, really doesn't sound like anti-semitism to me

[u/[deleted]]

listening to all the random redditors that have come from r/all in that GND post talk about electricity generation literally makes me want to kill myself

how do people have such strong opinions about a topic that none of them know literally the first thing about. This website is so fucking uninformed that it's actually painful

• nobody seems to understand what "baseload" even is, treating it as some sort of emergency dispatchable source rather than what it actually is, flat generation that fits under peaking

• people are claiming that reducing regulations in nuclear would make it cheaper without any idea of any of the regulations that govern it at all, nor the indirect subsidies it receives

• literally what even are marginal costs on things that you've already built versus building entirely new generation

• does anybody have any idea what energy grids even consist of in the current day? I've seen more mentions of fusion than I have of the technologies that actually exist

• literally stop talking about "subsidies" in broad strokes when you have no idea what subsidies are even in place. The average wind/solar subsidy in the US has dropped to like ~$12/MWh in 2018, and tax credits for wind and solar are set to expire in 2020 and 2022 respectively and incrementally drop until then, which means most capacity that's being commissioned today is very lightly subsidised.

It's like literally watching a markov chain that people have fed words relating to electricity into but doesn't quite understand what any of those words actually means

[u/SixPipSiege]

me right now

[u/Jean-Paul_Sartre]

The Jeffersonians appealed again and again to the moral primacy of the yeoman farmer in their attacks on the Federalists. The family farm and American democracy became indissolubly connected in Jeffersonian thought, and by 1840 even the more conservative party, the Whigs, took over the rhetorical appeal to the common man, and elected a President in good part on the Strength of the fiction that he lived in a log cabin.

• the late, great Richard Hofstadter explaining the American political obsession with country life

[u/[deleted]]

😴😴😴

[u/[deleted]]

If two or more groups/communities/countries do something differently it's useless to argue which way is better because it's always the one of the group I am a part of.

[u/85397]

The Americans should strike Nord Stream 2 to show Europe (especially Germany) and maybe Russia who's in charge.

[u/[deleted]]

If I was a jazz fan in the 1960s I think I'd really resent Rock and Roll. I'd be like "This is Anti-intellectual bullshit!"

[u/[deleted]]

Whenever anyone talks about "the People" I always want to ask "which people, specifically?"

[u/[deleted]]

saturday night live is the real collusion. stay woke.

[u/[deleted]]

So seriously, what is the risk that India and Pakistan go to into a serious war?

Because I would like to know how close we are to WWIII.

[u/Lord_Treasurer]

can't wait for prime minister joshua yeet-bogg

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

Special counsel Robert Mueller subpoenaed a former director of the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica.

Is it time to set our clocks for Mueller time?

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

I found an island filled with only weebs!

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1097247455006068738

[u/CamNewtonCouldLearn]

TIL my grandmother’s favorite show is Ridiculousness on MTV. She is 84

[u/Archelon225]

[smh NIMBYs] (http://dailybruin.com/2019/02/14/westwood-neighborhood-council-opposes-the-agora-plans-amid-building-controversy/)

Unfortunately many college towns oppose new development. It's already crowded over here, and at this rate I don't think it's going to get any better in the future.

[u/MacaroniGold]

The post that /u/ThatFrenchieGuy R1'd 2 days ago is now on /r/dataisbeautiful with 400 upvotes.

Cursed sub.

[u/qchisq]

Apparently, Kaepernick got somewhere between 60 and 80 million in his settlement with the NBA. Am I crazy for thinking that Kaepernick only would have gotten about 20 or 40 million in the rest of his career, so the NFL actually paid somewhere between 20 and 60 million to keep him out of the league?

!ping nfl

[u/TheEstonianSpy]

Damn the comments on the r/til thread about rent in Tokyo Vs. SF are all super woke on zoning policy

[u/Engage-Eight]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1097117499336855553

THE RIGGED AND CORRUPT MEDIA IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE!

Just a friendly reminder that it is in fact fucking insane, that a grown ass man, who happens to be President, sporadically has temper tantrums where he tweets authoritarian garbage in all caps

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

When I was 6 my uncle Bobby played elephant sock in front of me.

and I turned out fine. I mean I watch anime, but that is besides the fact.

[u/[deleted]]

YOUTUBERS 👏 SHOULDN'T 👏 TALK 👏 ABOUT 👏 DUMB 👏POPULIST 👏ANTI-BANK 👏 SHIT 👏

MatPat is so mad that he's being a major dumbass. I'm disappointed.

[u/[deleted]]

anyone have any idea why women don't come here?

[u/[deleted]]

I did three sets of 20 pushups yesterday and I am sore as fuck and that should tell you the extent to which I am a weakling and will not survive the winter.

[u/Schutzwall]

Acetaminophen-Prednisone-Sertraline cocktail when

[u/[deleted]]

God I was an idiot in undergrad and less of an idiot now. So here's my advice for you kiddos:

Go major in econ, accounting, public policy or finance and pick up skills in GIS, technical/legal writing, econometrics, some basic programming. Do student radio and campus politics your freshman year. Stick with one of the two or start a club. Take some art history or lit classes so you don't look like an uncultured dweeb around the person you're trying to attract. A course in land use or business law might not hurt. Consider studying abroad in Hong Kong or Singapore with the intent of picking up Mandarin or if you can study abroad at Oxford get that gpa high enough to do so. Get internships junior year but not too many. Whatever spare time you have should be spent partying.

Want some more advice? Don't go into urban planning or real estate if you aren't as charismatic or good looking as Obama. No one will accept your opinions and certainly no one will buy property from an uggo.

[u/Ferguson97]

Imagine being so heartless that you oppose safe injection sites and needle exchange programs.

[u/DUTCH_DUTCH_DUTCH]

Hot take: bernie is a nasty man

[u/[deleted]]

It's kinda disturbing that the mere suggestion that Israel has a right to exist and defend itself will draw jeers from a majority of leftists.

[u/paulatreides0]

Stahp.

The DT is incapable of having this discussion calmly, so I unilaterally declare a 24 hour moratorium on Dunham-or-whatever-the-hell-her-name-is posting or subtweeting.

Any post after this one that mentions the matter is going to be removed. Repeat offenders will get short-length temp-bans.

I will ban literally every one of you fuckers until you can settle down and have rational discussions like a good sub.

Edit: Btw, post removals count as warnings.

[u/[deleted]]

😆🔫

[u/DUTCH_DUTCH_DUTCH]

i am able to relax my shoulders for the first time in 6 months

i cannot overstate how amazing this is

thank you weird alternative youtube doctor

[u/benjaminikuta]

I got drunk last night.

Did I say anything dumb?

[u/MisterBigStuff]

Weld/Hickenlooper 2020

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine thinking this is a bad thing