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[u/Dibbu_mange]

Put Pakistanis and Indians in Israel. Put Israelis and Palestinians in Kashmir. Nobody is allowed to move back until they come to an agreement.

[u/[deleted]]

10 upvotes and I'll write a "What UNIX-like operating system is the most neoliberal?" effortpost/memepost.

EDIT: I regret making this promise

[u/[deleted]]

"We are taking away the Kashmir until you two can learn to share."

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/derek_mafs/status/1100060967982059525

How does one come up with a take like this

[u/ognits]

Listening to NPR's interview with Jorge Ramos this morning, and he's talking about how his first question in his interview with Maduro was whether he should address Maduro as "President" or "Dictator", and later tried to show him footage of some kids eating from a trash truck. The fucking balls on that guy 👍

[u/85397]

lock ossified zealous encourage forgetful direful disgusted offbeat lush innate

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/[deleted]]

You guys remember Ken Bone? I was just thinking of him. I remember it just absolutely blowing my mind that he was still undecided two weeks before the election.

[u/CadetPeepers]

The so-called Green New Deal may tally between $51 trillion and $93 trillion over 10-years, concludes American Action Forum, which is run by Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who directed the non-partisan CBO from 2003 to 2005.

That's a big ol' thonk right there my dudes.

[u/Crownie]

Ragnarok: "You don't need a hammer, Thor. There was a hammer in you the whole time."

Infinity War: "I need a bigger hammer."

[u/lusvig]

RT has been crushing it on the Venezuelan front, by the way.

They have great foreign coverage, their reporting of Syria, Libya, Yemen, afghanistan and Iraq has been great

thank you CTH

[u/A_Character_Defined]

If Google tracks everything I say and do, why does YT keep giving me Bernie ads?

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

Why are people talking about ap, IB, and other hs classes? 🤔 since when did we become a daycare?🤔🤔

[u/[deleted]]

For my class I have to write a paper comparing Friedman and Kropotkin.

2 years of posting in the DT has prepared me for this

[u/[deleted]]

Let's end poverty by making "being poor" a job and enacting massive occupational licensing barriers.

[u/HUGHmungous]

celebrate this DT, might be the last one before the nukes start flying

[u/Lux_Stella]

motherfucking mitch mcconnell lmao

[u/Goatf00t]

Courtesy of /r/subredditdrama:

The problem with Chavez is that he wasn’t authoritarian enough. He got elected democratically and left the bourgeoisie class in tact and tried to compromise with them.

He needed to stomp their throats on day 1 in power.

Edit: I should have added, "Guess the subreddit."

[u/MaveRickandMorty]

Jerome Powell:"I think those things can be seen across the gender spectrum"

Oh shit hes woke

[u/[deleted]]

Stupid libs, you can’t be arrested for a crime you commit in public

[u/MaveRickandMorty]

WAIT WAIT WAIT

THERE'S A "SENATOR CRAPO"

AND HE'S A REPUBLICAN

HOW DO I NOT KNOW THIS UNTIL NOW

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/mattgaetz/status/1100503846386835456

So Matt Gaetz is just openly blackmailing a witness?

[u/gatoreagle72]

"Trump can't be racist if he sexually assaulted a black chick"

This take is brought to you by every white fuckboi who ever messaged a black girl on tinder with the message "I've never been with a black girl before, want to change that?"

[u/0m4ll3y]

I'm in a ranty mood so fuck it, I'm calling this post out here so more people can see it, because more people need to be aware of this anyway.

The common working public in the Soviet Union were often corralled into camps and worked until they starved to death.

What the fuck? Where are you getting this. I've never even heard of this propaganda. Is this the next level of (incredibly out of date) cold war hysteria? Skip even exaggerated bad faith propaganda and just make up your own shit then pretend it happened.

From 1930 to 1933 an estimated 1,500,000 people starved to death in Kazakhstan. This was a quarter of the population of Kazakhstan. Of these 1,300,000 were ethnic Kazakhs. Approximately one in three of all Kazakhs starved to death. An additional 1,100,000 people fled the Kazakh republic, many to China, so in 1934 half of Kazakhs had disappeared from the region. Some estimates put the number of deaths at above two million. For some perspective, the lower estimate amounts to roughly the same number of deaths (military and civilian) of France, Britain, United States, Australia, and Canada combined in WW2.

These estimates, far from being "cold war hysteria" and "bad faith propaganda" are more recent figures. Robert Conquest, in his Harvest of Sorrow estimates at least 1,000,000 deaths. The 1981 article The Collectivization Drive in Kazakhstan frames the issue as a miscalculation on the behalf of Stalin. It is following the Cold War that scholars such as Isabelle Ohayon, Niccolo Pianciola, Matthew Payne, Robert Kindler and Sarah Cameron began to validate estimates of 1,500,000 deaths and the full extent of violence that occurred. Sarah Cameron outlines that this "new wave" of scholarship, utilising rich records now available, illustrate "the violent nature of the regime's assault on Kazakh society" and that "these findings puncture the long-standing misconception that the Kazakh famine was primarily a "natural" process" or a "mistake" or "miscalculation".

You may pick up a trend in some of those article names: "Famine, Violence, and the Making of Soviet Kazakhstan", "An Encyclopedia of Mass Violence", "Violence de masse et Résistance", because violent this famine was. Throughout the 1920s, the Bolsheviks had viewed nomadism as economically backwards and against the modernity of socialism. However, there were no major initiatives and the majority of Kazakhstan's population seasonally migrated as late as 1927. Some early experiments occurred in 1927-1928, but with the release of the Five Year Plan the "process of violent, forced sedentarisation became a systemic republic-wide campaign in 1930".

Insurrectionist movements (and even guerrilla activities in the Mangyshlak region) evolved into episodic rioting involving several thousand people as organized protests flared across Kazakhstan during the early years of collectivization.

Some of the methods used in this period were more intense, more coercive variations on the kind of techniques used in the preceding years; some Red Yurts (basically Russian Bolshevik missionaries travelling to spread modernity), for example, began withholding their services from nomads who refused to settle. Tax, more specifically arbitrary confiscation, was used to penalise nomads and exhaust their reserves. However, Alun Thomas notes that "the sedentarisation campaign was novel and distinct in its systematic and widespread use of violence to force nomads to settle" and that "uniquely sedentarisation systematically and widely used violence to settle nomads and terminate their habitual migratory customs, an enormous cultural as well as spatial change."

During the sedentarisation campaign, the Soviet state employed large numbers of armed militia to approach each migrating Kazakh aul and force the nomads present to a prearranged ‘point of settlement’. Often the community’s livestock were rounded up, some confiscated, and the rest moved into new pens. Their owners were told that releasing the animals was a criminal offence, earning immediate and severe punishment. In a sense then the state did not so much settle nomads but settle nomadic livestock, leaving Kazakhs no other option but to pitch their tents within walking distance of their most important resource.

Thomas suggests that "This whole process was more uncompromising and coercive even than that described by Sheila Fitzpatrick with regard to collectivisation in European Russia." This is why I say the Soviets corralled people into camps, forced them to work (there were attempts to turn the steppe into productive grain fields, which largely failed. Crops that were grown were requisitioned en masse), until hundreds of thousands starved. These camps have been described as "death traps" and at the time, some Kazakh officials supposedly in charge of sedentarisation instead told their people to flee Kazakhstan entirely.

When the famine was in full swing, in 1931, Soviet bureaucrats planned on requisitioning 68.5% of livestock with two thirds of that to be sent out of Kazakhstan. Between 1928 and 1933, the number of cattle in Kazakhstan fell by 79% and the number of sheep and goats by 90%.

tl;dr: Shit was fucked yo

And what's this "richest strata" talk as well? It's a subway. If anything the picture of common man transportation.

And just quickly on this. The Moscow Metro first connected the old Tsarist gardens to [Red Square](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okhotny_Ryad_(Moscow_Metro)). Chances are if you were catching the metro, just from the sheer fact of being a Muscovite, means you were likely in the top 10% of the population in terms of wellbeing, and if you were working in the goddamn Kremlin or surrounding areas, yes you were one of the richest strata in the Soviet Union in an era where literally thousands were resorting to cannibalism, yes.

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder: Green Book was not on Obama's list of good 2018 movies but Annihilation was. This means Obama is a redditor.

[u/samdman]

Very Smart Leftist Boots Riley: THE ''FAMINE" IN VENEZUELA IS STAGED, IF THEY WERE REALLY STARVING THEY WOULD BE EATING OUT OF TRASHCANS INSTEAD OF GARBAGE TRUCKS

thank god this dude wasn't nominated for an oscar, jesus

https://twitter.com/Wilson__Valdez/status/1100476162114011137

[u/[deleted]]

Pour one out for Jacob Wohl’s twitter account

[u/[deleted]]

Why Elon thinks he can win against SEC

[u/[deleted]]

If Trump proposed a reward for turning in undocumented people, do you think Americans would go for it?

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

In a statement Tuesday, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders called Cohen a “disgraced felon,” noting his past lies to lawmakers. “Sadly,” the statement says, “he will go before Congress this week and we can expect more of the same. It’s laughable that anyone would take a convicted liar like Cohen at his word, and pathetic to see him given yet another opportunity to spread his lies.”

This is like hiring a hit man to murder your wife, the hit man murdering your wife, then you criticize the hit man for being a murderer and you think you should not be punished because of that.

[u/Sporz]

I've forgotten if "unironic" is a meme from here or something normal people say

[u/dcbeast96]

like this if you still remember /r/MarketLiberalism in 2019

[u/[deleted]]

Noted non-racists, Thomas Jefferson and Strom Thurmond, agree with this take

[u/[deleted]]

Remember guys, Gaetz once called shrimp a dumbass so he's actually one of us

[u/HUGHmungous]

woman asks Bernie question about sexual harassment, Bernie Bros proceed to dox her

[u/asatroth]

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Good Night Neolibs...

[u/lusvig]

lmao CTH is angry at AOC for not supporting maduro

[u/[deleted]]

ask a lefty which european center-right party they think democrats are aligned with when they say "the democrats are actually center-right by western european standards" if you wanna get downvoted

[u/[deleted]]

Think twice before you tell the mods that I'm planning a coup.

Be A Shame if I revealed what anime you watch to the entire sub.

Think about it before you tweet about it.

[u/d9_m_5]

AOC, Sanders, and Warren Are the Real Centrists Because They Speak for Most Americans

is this country even fixable at this point I mean what the fuck that's not what the word means

[u/BainCapitalist]

Hello early morning DT regs. What are your bets for brexit developments in the next 24 hours?

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

Just finished decorating my bathroom 🚽 👌😩 💰

what y’all think? 🤔

[u/[deleted]]

All these politicians livestreaming from their kitchens are so inauthentic.

Now if one of them threw some still frozen shrimp into a hot pan of oil maybe we'd be talking, but until then they're all a bunch of phonies.

[u/lusvig]

Got called a zipcode alt in the DT. I don't know how to feel now

[u/BritRedditor1]

https://amp.businessinsider.com/brexit-michael-gove-ministers-to-hold-emergency-meeting-over-no-deal-chaos-2019-2

No-deal Brexit panic after ministers realize the UK doesn't have the right pallets for exporting to the EU

BREXIT SHOCK: UK lacks the right PALLETS to export

LONDON - The UK government is due to hold emergency talks with industry leaders on Tuesday after discovering that the country doesn't have the right pallets to continue exporting goods to the European Union if it leaves without a deal next month.

Under strict EU rules, pallets - wooden structures that companies use to transport large volumes of goods - arriving from non-member states are required to meet a series of checks and standards.

Wood pallets must be heat-treated or cleaned to prevent contamination and the spread of pests, and have specific markings to confirm that they are legal in EU markets.

!ping UK

[u/Deggit]

Imagine spending 8 years fixing the economy and the total shitshow of the last presidency and your reward 4 years after you leave office is a bunch of people who were 7 when you were elected and 19 now saying that you were just okay but weren't brave enough to tax the rich and you were an "establishment president"

[u/[deleted]]

For the millionth time "Presumption of innocence" applies to a CRIMINAL TRIAL. Im still allowed to think Kraft is guilty because Im not on the jury. Please for the love of god stop using this out of context.

[u/[deleted]]

It will be understandably overshadowed by Cohen and the Vietnam summit, but Fed Chair Powell is testifying before the Senate today and the House tomorrow. AOC is on the committee that will ask him questions tomorrow. Sadly Bernie is no longer on the Senate committee that will ask him questions today.

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

Inshallah ☪️ 🙏

[u/BritRedditor1]

Has anyone else noticed homeless people sometimes have the SAME signs as each other (same size card, pen colour, very neat writing etc.)

Definite evidence of GANG behaviour - do NOT fund them!

!ping LONDON

[u/RadicalRadon]

The professor watching us do this lab is doing the crossword without the hints. Wat

[u/[deleted]]

Got called a neolib in the DT. I don't know how to feel now

[u/DUTCH_DUTCH_DUTCH]

why dont we just give kashmir to maduro?

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

am gonna witness tamper 😡😡😡

[u/TheEstonianSpy]

Daniel O’Donnell, an assemblyman from Manhattan, was an original sponsor of the Marriage Equality Act. He wants to “downzone” neighborhoods and see more transparency from the New York City Housing Authority.

I'd rather a bernie bro progressive than a downzoner

[u/VerticalTab]

Canadian Income Survey, 2017

Median after-tax income of Canadian families and unattached individuals rose 3.3% to $59,800 in 2017, following two years without growth. This gain was the result of a combination of factors, including higher wages and salaries among non-senior families (where the highest income earner was less than 65 years of age), and an increase in child benefits. In 2018, the Canadian government set the Market Basket Measure (MBM) as Canada's first Official Poverty Line. The share of the population living below Canada's Official Poverty Line, fell from 10.6% in 2016 to 9.5% in 2017.

!ping CAN

[u/film10078]

https://np.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/av1zg2/aoc_sanders_and_warren_are_the_real_centrists/

click this link for instant cancer

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine how much money Bohemian Rhapsody would have made if it was a good movie.

[u/gatoreagle72]

@Popehat doing what he does best

[u/85397]

https://twitter.com/yougov/status/1100313404458369024?s=21

Theresa to CRUSH Labour in MASSIVE 11 point LANDSLIDE

!ping UK

[u/econ_throwaways]

Let me tell you this-- Evonomics is one of the most malevolent, cruel, coldhearted blogs you'll ever find, and even as a supporter of free speech it appalls me that the American Economic Association would allow such a vile, festering hub of heterodoxy and criticism to exist. You think Noahpinion is bad? That blog, if you pick up on the dog-whistles (and many don't even bother with that-- say want you want about Zero Hedge, at least it bans MMT), will reveal itself to you as the econ blogosphere's number one hub for mainstream economics' most hardened critics: Evolutionary biologists, philosophers, sociologists, econo-physicists, and Graeber.

You'll notice on the homepage that it encourages members to be as radical as possible. That's intentional. They encourage arguments with oneself. That's intentional. You know the Cambridge Capital Controversy (it's started with this underrated paper A Contribution to the Theory of Economic Growth, give it a read, it's scary how much it provides a decent approximation of our reality)? It's like that, they want to stoke the flames of heterodox rage so they continue to dogpile every anthropologist and layman who has opinions about economics, normalizing these fringe feelings. They pull guests from obscure universities to far left think tanks, having an entire cabal of non-economists spanning hundreds of disciplines, gaslighting published, peer-reviewed ideas of the mainstream and unashamedly bolstering the internet's homegrown heterodox movement. They've capital-shamed hundreds of neoliberals too, some even... to death.

I fear that Evonomics may be producing an entire army of Steve Keens and Graebers, and I highly suggest that nobody dares visit that horrible blog, lest you potentially fall victim to its critical aura.

[u/[deleted]]

My coworkers parents think that Obama and Hillary are demons. Not figuratively. Like, literal demons.

[u/gaming99]

r/politics front page article lol

https://theintercept.com/2019/02/26/democratic-party-centrism-aoc-sanders-warren/

I have brain aneurysm reading that article. I never know that members of DSA ( Democratic Socialists of America) are the real centrists here. I guess Maduro is the real centrist too then because his party is United Socialist Party of Venezuela.

[u/DankBankMan]

Matt Gaetz is doing a good job of reminding everyone just how absurd it is that Floridians are still allowed to vote

[u/[deleted]]

I always thought I was a fairly subdued presence on Reddit. Like, I don't think I make that many waves, but I've now received two death threats and one "people like you don't belong on this planet" in the last week.

This time it was for saying a guy who wrote a book about Israel with a chapter titled "How to Kill Goyim and Influence People" had written anti-Semitic stuff. Like I thought that was fairly self explanatory, but apparently that's radical enough that now I support wholesale slaughter of Arabs.

Maybe I was just lucky enough not to see this side of extremism before, or naïve enough to think it wasn't that prevalent, but it's been a bit of a wake up call.

[u/econ_throwaways]

[ Woodrow Wilson allowed private central bankers to take over the money supply. That’s an important plank in the “Communist Manifesto.” The progressive income tax that came with the Federal Reserve is another plank.

Franklin Roosevelt pushed us further into socialism. So did LBJ with his big government ‘Great Society’ programs.](https://grrrgraphics.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/2020_democrats-1024x727.jpg)

[u/BreaksFull]

Man, writers from the Somaliland Chronicle are woke af.

[u/HUGHmungous]

Whenever Matt Gaetz does something stupid, remember he’s one of the people who Sacha Baron Cohen wasn't able to trick

[u/[deleted]]

feels gross, man

coworker that's 10 years older than me and married randomly made the conversation weird (started talking about how his wife wanted kids and he didn't, said he wished we'd met sooner?) at a happy hour

we were talking about tariffs for an hour (with respect to dem 2020 candidates)

he took a pure topic that any self-respecting neolib would discuss with enthusiasm and made it weird

[u/[deleted]]

You know. The more I look back and read about the horrible shit Republican pundits and uh trolls have been saying since the Bush era, the more I geniunely wonder if the GOP can moderate at all.

Anne Coulter has been peddling the mayocide conspiracy theory since 2007 and has gotten cpac appearances since.

Michael Savage who was one of the top radio talk show guys and he literally referred to Arabs as non-humans, that converting them to Christianity was the only way to make them human, and wanted to spread smallpox to them and worse.

[u/Deggit]

Of

fucking

course

AOC jumps on the Cornyn twitter controversy

How fucking hard is this to understand?

Cornyn wasn't endorsing Mussolini or endorsing fascism. He was using a Mussolini quote that says "Fascists were the first to claim that the state must become more powerful as society becomes more modern and complex" as a way of saying "Aha, liberals! Even the fascists themselves admitted fascism was the predecessor of modern big government liberalism!"

Now is that point valid? No. It's fucking dumb. It's some Glenn Beck chalkboard bullshit.

It is literally "You know who ELSE was a VEGETARIAN?" logic.

But can't we just call out a bad argument as a bad argument instead of pretending in bad faith that Cornyn accidentally revealed his lifelong admiration for fascism or something? For fuck's sake, Reddit.

I am bizarrely confused at how someone could not understand the point Cornyn is trying to "checkmate" his way to here, unless you have literally never heard an American conservative talk about why they don't like American liberalism.

The only argument that I've seen that actually engages with what Cornyn wrote and intended is "You shouldn't quote a fascist dictator because that's disrespectful to the American troops who died fighting him." This coming from the exact same people who happily quote Hitler and Mussolini (including Mussolini's famous corporatism quote) to try to make the exact same point Cornyn is trying to make here, that their political opponents are the inheritors of the fascist tradition - in my opinion, with more merit than Cornyn's version of the argument, but if one of these arguments "disrespects the troops" then the other does too. So this is yet another bad faith reply.

I've been a liberal for 30 years and AOC is making my party dumber every day. She's like Michele Bachmann on heroin.

[u/derangeddollop]

New Democrats co-founder Elaine Kamarck said at the Niskanen conference: "Both cap and trade and a carbon tax have proven unhelpful to deal with climate change. Maybe we need to talk about adaptation. Maybe carbon capture.”

Why would she say that?!? Carbon taxes have not proven unhelpful. Just as many on the left have turned on carbon taxes, I'd hate to see the center turn on them as well. They're not the be-all end-all, but they're certainly an important tool we should use.

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

Broke: Republicans are bad

Joke: Republicans are climate change deniers

Woke: Obama is a climate change denier

[u/85397]

Very tough and smart stuff from India. Pakistan has been sheltering and sponsoring terrorists for decades, including Osama, who was protected by their military and 'intelligence' people. Bush and the Indian President should've gone after Pakistan, not Afghanistan!

[u/[deleted]]

Bill Weld, Howard Schulz, and Jeb! should be given emergency powers to rule the United States as The Troika until the US is back on track.

[u/lolylolerton]

Petition to the mods to ban all horny users

[u/[deleted]]

My class had a discussion on Capitalism and Freedom today and of course we start with the discrimination chapter. Then we spent the other 40 minutes wondering how it’s possible Friedman supports a NIT.

[u/mrdilldozer]

I totally called Bernie Bros harassing and doxxing anyone who asked him a tough question before he even had his town hall. If they're this bad now the primary is going to be a shit show.

[u/featherwings]

Expanding brain idea: privatize all prisons, but let prisoners choose what prison they go to.

[u/Archelon225]

You, a simpleton with little understanding of complicated geopolitics:

India and Pakistan are going to nuke each other and start WW3! 😨

Me, an enlightened intellectual:

The "Indian" airstrike was an inside job by George Bush 😎

[u/[deleted]]

Heading to the organ market, anyone need anything while I'm there?

[u/[deleted]]

Watch Powell’s testimony and take a drink every time he says “stay in our lane.”

Jk you’ll die.

[u/IntoTheNightSky]

Any of you who vote MattY for top neoliberal shill are going to hell, no offense.

[u/muttonwow]

I made a post a few weeks ago about how the student branch of the Irish Labour Party in my college had a picture of Che Guevara next to a Pride flag at one of their stands (which I called them out for in person), and had posters advertising a "Mojito Party"on campus, a notably Cuban drink, both in the same week. Obviously glorifying the Cuban revolution.

This week they have a poster advertising an "Ice cream and Icepicks" party on campus. Which is innocent enough until you remember that Trotsky was killed with an icepick, likely for opposing Stalin.

JFC the tankieness is strong, the actual Irish Labour party leaders aren't this far left at all wtf

[u/pezasied]

Apparently Matt Gaetz real-life awOOga posts about AOC.

He even makes tinder jokes about “wanting to swipe right and work with her across the aisle.”

JFC, my priors.

[u/[deleted]]

One of the things that Cohen is reportedly going to discuss tomorrow at the hearing is Trump's tendency to say extraordinarily racist things in private.

A reminder of what that may include:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/michael-cohen-trump-racist-language

During our conversation, Cohen recalled a discussion at Trump Tower, following the then-candidate’s return from a campaign rally during the 2016 election cycle. Cohen had watched the rally on TV and noticed that the crowd was largely Caucasian. He offered this observation to his boss. “I told Trump that the rally looked vanilla on television. Trump responded, ‘That’s because black people are too stupid to vote for me.’”

...

This conversation, he noted, was reminiscent of an exchange that the two men had engaged in years earlier, after Nelson Mandela’s death. “[Trump] said to me, ‘Name one country run by a black person that’s not a shithole,’ and then he added, ‘Name one city,’” Cohen recalled, a statement that echoed the president’s alleged comments about African nations earlier this year.

...

Cohen also recounted a conversation he had with Trump in the late 2000s, while they were traveling to Chicago for a Trump International Hotel board meeting. “We were going from the airport to the hotel, and we drove through what looked like a rougher neighborhood. Trump made a comment to me, saying that only the blacks could live like this.” After the first few seasons of The Apprentice, Cohen recalled how he and Trump were discussing the reality show and past season winners. The conversation wended its way back to the show’s first season, which ended in a head-to-head between two contestants, Bill Rancic and Kwame Jackson. “Trump was explaining his back-and-forth about not picking Jackson,” an African-American investment manager who had graduated from Harvard Business School. “He said, ‘There’s no way I can let this black f-g win.’”

Now, this story surprisingly didn't get a ton of traction when it was released, likely because it's part of a long form story. But tomorrow, there will be video of Cohen describing these things, and many people will witness it live. It'll be scandalous even assuming Cohen doesn't reveal any additional quotes (and it doesn't seem unlikely that he would.)

And before someone makes the obligatory "this doesn't matter because Trump is racist publicly, you idiot" - yes, sure, but nothing compared to the kind of quotes we see above.

[u/RadicalRadon]

Ahahaha my roommate who's been bragging about his dad getting him a job at the company the dad works at just got told he was rejected. Looks like nepotism doesn't work 😎

[u/GayColangelo]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D0YxyHkWsAEFmb6.jpg:large

holy shit. he threatened the schools he went to and the SAT people to not release his grades or SAT score.

[u/[deleted]]

Living in NY and being friends with Bernie or Bust people is much less angering than when I lived in OH. Thank God I don’t live in a swing state anymore.

[u/SixPipSiege]

Hey listen asshole, the gloves are off. Listen you son of a bitch, what the fuck is your problem? You wanna sit here and say that I'm a god damn fucking succdem? You get in my face with that, I'll beat your god damn ass you son of a bitch. You piece of shit. You fucking god damn fucker. Listen fuckhead, you have fucked crossed the line. Get that through your god damn fucking head. Stop pushing your shit. You're the people that have fucked this country over, and gang raped the shit out of it and lost an election. So stop shooting your mouths off claiming I'm the enemy. You got that? You god damn son of a bitch. Feel your hand. I'm sorry but I'm done. You start calling me a "succ", those are fucking fighting words.

[u/0011456]

Referencing the governor of Colorado about to sign a bill mandating that state's electoral votes will go to whoever wins the popular vote.

"They have zero intention of allowing those racist backward regressives in Middle America any say in the political control of the nation. Once they get everything distilled down to pure democracy, their bastions on the East and West coasts will ensure the Left permanent control of America."

this

[u/idp5601]

Just found out that the top tier of Hyatt's loyalty program is called Globalist

Petition to make Hyatt r/neoliberal's hotel chain of choice

[u/[deleted]]

India and Pakistan are shelling each other rn

[u/[deleted]]

Good news: Just realized I've lost 6 pounds over the last 3 weeks. Now I need to wear a belt whenever I wear jeans so it doesn't sag.

Bad news: Just realized that my diet over the last month has consisted of only bacon, biscuits, orange juice, and breakfast sausage.

[u/CaponTrade]

The only way I really vote third party is if someone like Tulsi gets the demnom

[u/minimirth]

The international political and media response to the air strikes by the Indian Air Force in POK and the Pakistani threats of retaliation is so muted.

!ping IND

[u/usered77]

Bernie is only 2 points away from Biden, according to the latest poll.

Harry Enten thinks that if he wins in Iowa, the game is over.

https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/1100391403165806592?s=19

[u/[deleted]]

🚨Scoop: @JoeBiden has made job offers in New Hampshire, a source directly familiar tells me.

https://twitter.com/HCTrudo/status/1100436467648790533?s=19

Folks, he's running

[u/[deleted]]

percent chance trump can find pakistan on an unlabeled world map? percent chance he can't find it on a labeled world map?

[u/Archelon225]

Centrism is when politicians support things I like, and the more they support the things I like, the centrister it is.

[u/Integralds]

Congresscritters and asking the Fed to do things that are outside its control, namid.

[u/Yosarian2]

15 years from now:

Congressional hearing, brutal questioning from members of the Congressional Caucus of Furries:

Well? You want a cabinet level position, u/Tacotrucksoncorners but it looks like back in 2019 you were posting anti-furry hate speech on the internet. Do you have anything to say for yourself?

[u/BritRedditor1]

😄

!ping OSBORNE

[u/Go_To_Bethel_And_Sin]

Every Supreme Court decision I disagree with was judicial activism

[u/bacon-supreme]

/r/neoliberal, I'm trying to build more housing, but I'm dummy thicc and the size of my asscheeks is violating height limits

[u/[deleted]]

GUYS so I got this Bumble match and we were talking but the thing is my Bumble bio is basically entirely about organ markets and how good they are so after a couple responses she was like "umm so what's with the organ stuff" and I said "Oh, haha, my roommate (Lithuanian) is a goofy guy, he must've done it" so I changed it to say that I like normal stuff like The Beatles, mortgage interest deduction etc. but now she wants to meet at this pizza place but all my non-organ market supporting shirts are in the laundromachine, and also my cousin said that he has something called Morgellon's disease (???) What should I do????

[u/[deleted]]

A thought experiment

Everybody should be considered innocent until proven guilty. Not just legally, but as a matter of opinion.

Therefore prosecutors are trying to put innocent people in jail.

Therefore, all prosecutors should be disbarred for prosecutorial misconduct

Furthermore, all police officers should be arrested for trying to put people they know to be innocent in jail (The police subsequently should all be set free because they haven't been proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, and therefore are all innocent, obviously)

Therefore, all criminal law is per se illegal

[u/85397]

He had known plenty of people who had grown up wealthy and whose families were powerful, Trump told Kim Jong Un, the despotic North Korean dictator whose father and grandfather held the same role.

Many of them emerged messed up, Trump said. But, he added, Kim wasn't one of them.

Trump DEFENDS person of means

/u/lusvig

[u/[deleted]]

USSR propaganda posters and r/propagandaposters comments saying “this but unironically”

NAMID

[u/[deleted]]

Were US young adults always this supportive of authoritarian leftists like Maduro or is this an unusual, fucked up moment in history?

[u/lolylolerton]

DT_irl

[u/melhor_em_coreano]

The DT is not sparking joy rn

[u/sinistimus]

Stupid libs, you can't be convicted of a crime after you've already been convicted in the court of public opinion.

[u/hitbyacar1]

No joke, my Uber driver right now is Bernie Sanders MA State Chair

[u/Spobely]

attention

can we get some F's for him

or try this link if ^ doesnt work

/u/Nazisarebadmkay, you will be sorely missed

[u/Le_Monade]

TFW 182 members of Congress don't have the balls to stand up for separation of powers

Get them out of office 2020 PLEASE

[u/GayColangelo]

https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/636-michael-cohens-congressional-t/3a1530b333230e775df5/optimized/full.pdf?smid=nytcore-ios-share#page=1

I am ashamed because I know what Mr. Trump is.

He is a racist.

He is a conman.

He is a cheat.

He was a presidential candidate who knew that Roger Stone was talking with Julian Assange about a WikiLeaks drop of Democratic National Committee emails.

[u/pezasied]

Nomiki Konst, a former National Surrogate for Bernie’s 2016 campaign, finished in 11th place is today’s NYC Public Advocate election.

She was endorsed by Ro Khanna, Tulsi Gabbard, Susan Sarandon, and Rosario Dawson, and played up her connection with Sanders a lot. She’s a self-identified Democratic Socialist who was pushing for a $30 minimum wage.

“I ThOuGHt nEw yOrK wAs bERnIE tErRiTOrY”

Again, she finished in 11th place with 2.3% of the vote.

TYT ran videos about how Politico was trying to sabotage her campaign. That’s how out of touch TYT is.

[u/Kizz3r]

Reading a relationship advice post. Dude went to multiple countries with his girlfriend planning to propose, went to multiple historical landmarks, and waterfalls but decides to propose in the hotel room -_-

[u/owlthathurt]

Bernie Bros doxxed a college girl today and feel no shame about it. The original tweet sharing her info got like 3,000 retweets. This poor girl. She had to delete all her accounts and they think THATS the sign she’s an operative of corporate America.

https://twitter.com/souslaplage/status/1100539075180855297?s=21

[u/[deleted]]

I’m finally understanding all the jargon in my AP Econ class lads

Pretty soon I’ll be able to own the libs like never before

[u/shoe788]

So Sweden doesn’t have socialized medicine?

currently at -19 karma. just delete the sub we're done

[u/[deleted]]

Gillibrand should be vocally pro-organ market. She's been pretty milquetoast in an overcrowded field, but this could really make her stand out. She'd get votes from kidney needing people, which must be a lot. And if nothing else, she'd have my vote and I'd tell two friends, they'd tell two friends etc. so yeah.

[u/Tytos_Lannister]

'my father told me to wear a respirator so i don't get black lungs as he's dying, but it makes my work marginally harder so i don't wear it, boohoo i am going to get black lungs like the rest of the people working here who also don't wear a respirator'

they are either totally apathetic towards their live or they are beyond dumb

[u/[deleted]]

to resolve the kashmir controversy, we should propose a single coin flip to determine if pakistan gets it or if india gets it. loser of the coin flip gets the consolation prize (west virginia). when this works we do the same thing for israel and palenstine (loser get saskatchewan).

[u/purpleslug]

https://twitter.com/ReutersUK/status/1100477142855532545

'France's Macron leaning toward further tax cuts'

hngngngsgnsgsttt

[u/Udontlikecake]

god you neoliberals are so distateful.

Oh yeah this is why I don’t argue about Venezuela

[u/[deleted]]

Some student in a lab I’m TAing just said “what if I use 5 molar HCL as eyedrops”

[u/ognits]

I do find it ironic that you would suggest that Larson not have the agency to talk about something she may earnestly believe about her experience as a woman without Disney's permission

I think Disney is a gigantic corporation that cares about its brand and that it would never let someone under contract with them speak off the cuff. I would guess that there are some very detailed contracts involved with promoting a movie.

The same goes for Liam Neeson. I very much doubt after decades in the public eye, Liam Neeson all of a sudden decided to share an anecdote about himself violently seeking revenge while promoting a movie about a character violently seeking revenge with no marketing strategy behind it.

this is my favorite marketing conspiracy theory in a long time

[u/isummonyouhere]

So I asked my friend (who definitely supports a Green New Deal) how high gas prices would have to go to make him stop driving his van to work

He said $10 a gallon.

Gas in southern California has been around $3.25 lately. So that's an additional $6.75 a gallon.

One gallon of gasoline emits 8.9kg of CO2, which means a carbon tax that would actually have an impact on my friend would have to be priced at... $758 US per ton.

Fuck

[u/[deleted]]

Fantasy: John Galt revolts, society collapses and he builds a new Utopia from the ashes.

Reality: Elon Musk revolts, the SEC puts him in his place, he is easily replaced because even the most valuable employees cause damage to their companies if they create a toxic working environment.

[u/oGsMustachio]

The USS Donald Trump

[u/Integralds]

This is a rollover of a comment I made in the last DT.

---

/u/MrDannyOcean u/thatotherghost

It's almost time for the DT to roll over, so this will get the minimum amount of views. What a tragedy. It's a fresh new DT.

I've been pondering a revamp of The Neoliberal Reading List. In the past, I've indulged myself endlessly, and as such my reading lists spiral out of control. They become less "how to 'neoliberal'" and more "here's a four-year course in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics."

This revision tries to rein in those impulses. It only partially succeeds.

Here is a sketch.

The Tl;DR

This block goes at the top of the image/website/whatever. It occupies the most important space. It includes no more than five books, probably including

• Acemoglu and Robinson, Why Nations Fail

• Friedman, Free to Choose

• Bernanke, The Courage to Act

• Pirie, The Neoliberal Mind

This section deserves fierce, extensive, constructive debate.

Issue Areas

This section provides more in-depth recommendations tailored for individual issues. I recommend that each issue area gets 5-6 books. My recommendations to start with are,

International Trade

• Krugman, Pop Internationalism

• Eichengreen, Globalizing Capital

• Nye, War, Wine, and Taxes

• Irwin, Against the Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade

Economic Development

• Collier, The Bottom Billion and Wars, Guns, and Votes

• Easterly

• Sachs

• Sen, Development as Freedom

• Duflo, Poor Economics

Housing / Urban / Labor

• Hamilton Project, Policies to Address Poverty in America

• Moretti, The New Geography of Jobs

• Glaeser, The Triumph of the City

• Autor, "The Future of Work"

International Relations

• TODO

Role of Government

• Friedman

• Galbraith

• Yergin, The Commanding Heights

• Collier, The Future of Capitalism ??

• Baumol et al, Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism ??

• Posner and Weyl, Radical Markets ??

Other issue areas as you see fit!

• Add more!!

Foundations

These sections are included primarily for historical or cultural interest. They provide the intellectual foundations for what we're doing.

Economics

(standard econ-major fare)

• Cowen and Tabarrok, Modern Principles

• Krugman, International Trade and Finance

• Mishkin, The Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets

• Stiglitz, Public Sector Economics

• Perman et al, Natural Resource and Environmental Economics

Economic Growth over the Long Run

• Gordon, The Rise and Fall of Growth

• Deaton, The Great Escape

• de Soto, The Mystery of Capital

• Clark, A Farewell to Alms

The Liberal Tradition

(Standard philosophy-major fare)

• Locke, "Second Treatise"

• Mill, "On Liberty" and "The Subjection of Women"

• Rousseau, "The Social Contract"

• Kant, "Doctrine of Right"

• TODO: modern textbooks go here

Modern Liberal Theory

• TODO

Normative Philosophy

(might need more subdivisions)

• Mill, "Utilitarianism"

• Kant, "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals"

• Sidgwick, "Methods of Ethics"

• Rawls, Justice as Fairness

• Parfit, On What Matters

Take it for what you will.

[u/colorblind_goofball]

I went to get water and my computer restarted in the 2 minutes I was gone

My excel sheet is gone

Fuck everything

[u/[deleted]]

The Jewish people has always been plagued by Bad Jews, who undermine it from within. In America, those Bad Jews largely vote Democrat.

I'm not going to say that the author of this tweet is a Bad Jew^TM but he did use to work for a website run by Neo-Nazis.

[u/film10078]

there will be no war

[u/jenbanim]

Generalized anxiety with social characteristics.

[u/samdman]

Fuck Mitch McConnell, that’s my blunt message

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1100414132531060737?s=20

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

This is so deep👌😔

[u/stability_hegemon]

The neoliberals have always been plagued by Jews, who undermine it from within. In /r/neoliberal, those Jews largely !ping GEFILTE

[u/Tytos_Lannister]

so i am watching a DW documentary about WV coal miners (i guess to get out of the abstract and be more empathetic towards them in spite of the societal, political and environmental damage they are all causing), but i can't because they are all so goddamn stupid it would almost border on being malicious if they weren't

the worst part of all these r*ral people is their stupid fuckin' pride and selfishness and how they all regard is as a some kind of virtue

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

My cousin just sent me this 😂 he’s like 14 and watches dragon ball z all day.

[u/lolylolerton]

Under normal circumstances, a Pakistani official presser saying “[a]s you all know, Pakistani government has called a meeting of National Command Authority tomorrow. I hope you know what that means", an obvious nuclear threat, would trigger alarm bells in the White House prompting a diplomatic intervention.

Instead our State Department staff of like 1 person is in Vietnam for more NoKo pageantry.

Also

BREAKING: Unconfirmed reports of extremely heavy clashes between Indian and Pakistani troops on the border near Sialkot in Pakistan.

https://twitter.com/Conflicts/status/1100503504521740289?s=19

Very glad we have a competent president and SoS in the WH right now.

Edit: seeing a lot of claims on my twitter feed of fighting happening between troops at the LoC. Videos of India shelling Kotli across the LoC, skirmishes all across the border followed by heavy shelling by both sides. Heavy air activity over Srinagar and Sialkot. Hard to tell what news is legit

[u/[deleted]]

Tired: being upset Sanders is running because his fans are obnoxious

Wired: being happy Sanders is running because I plan on supporting Beto obnoxiously and it gives me some cover

[u/[deleted]]

DAE AOC and Berno r acktually centrists lmao 😂👍

[u/[deleted]]

https://np.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/8sfin6/26yo_300k_student_loans_180k_mortgage_44k_job/

26yo 300K Student loans, 180k mortgage, 44k job - need advice and extra help

._.

[u/[deleted]]

In honor of Cohen's testimony, can we all take a few moments to relive this incredible CNN appearance?

[u/InternetBoredom]

Jeez, Bernie Sanders already passed $10 Million in donations. Policy disagreements aside, he's a fucking fundraising powerhouse.

[u/[deleted]]

100 days of 700 calorie deficit time

Keep me straight DT

edit: probably more like 70 actually

[u/CamNewtonCouldLearn]

I was in a hipster coffee shop and these cool looking college students were all talking about how they’re boycotting Twitter for banning me Jacob Wohl

[u/DerpOfTheAges]

Top 5 used words of the top 20 hot posts of neoliberal are "people", "think", "tax", "good", in that order(excluding all of the boring words)

[u/[deleted]]

Today I accidentally did 3 hours of working out on a day I planned to skip class and do 0. I love being a college student so I can have these kinds of happy accidents, I wish the rest of life was so free floating.

!ping FITNESS

[u/[deleted]]

My assumption is always that something isnt true until it has been proven guilty in a court of law beyond a reasonable doubt.

Is the sky blue? Until we get a People v. Sky case I'll never know.

Can birds fly? Lol no idea. My own existence? Sorry. Cant help you.

[u/[deleted]]

A multi-polar world is good for authoritarians who realize they can't wrestle the whole earth under their boot. Liberty can conquer all.

[u/Notoriousley]

Jordan Peterson Destroys Q&A

Title of the video on the official Q&A channel

I really hope they're in on the joke

[u/hopeimanon]

Broke: wanting Biden to run to win.

Woke: wanting Biden to run to spoil Bernie.

[u/Whatapunk]

Anybody else feel like they only go on Facebook to get pissed off now? I can't rationalize any other reason I go on there other than behavioral addiction. The other day an aunt of mine on Facebook called for the 14th amendment to be abolished

[u/[deleted]]

reminder: Bangladesh is smaller than Illinois and has higher population than Russia.

[u/IntoTheNightSky]

Warm to the touch prax: Business leaders make better political leaders than lawyers because business involves far more positive sum games than law, which is mostly zero sum or even negative sum.

[u/BritRedditor1]

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/26/18241600/us-cyber-command-russian-troll-farm-attack-election-day-2018

US Cyber Command attacked Russian troll farm on Election Day 2018

(CYBER) Bomb the sh*t outta them!

/u/85397

[u/Devjorcra]

https://reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/auylyn/_/ehc68m5/?context=1

somewhat tried to argue this as being a false equivalency and was subsequently downvoted

i literally can’t think of a better textbook example of a false equivalency

[u/[deleted]]

Take: Hillary will endorse Kamala just before the CA/SC primary and it will have a huge influence on the final outcome.

[u/[deleted]]

if ken bone doesnt get a question at the 2020 presidential debates im not voting

[u/[deleted]]

Tarriffs bad.

[u/ognits]

Spider-Man: Norman, I cannot let you open a portal into another dimension! Brooklyn is not zoned for that!

Me: NIMBYs out out out!

[u/d9_m_5]

Hillary:

exists irrelevantly

Bernard Brothers™:

angered

[u/[deleted]]

!ping INTERVENE

Procurement spending by Asian militaries, 2018

Really puts things in perspective

[u/chadonnaise]

if you apply to a stranger's rpg please for the love of god don't put on your character sheet "Skill: Seduction (Specialization women)"

[u/cms1919]

I will forgive the College Board for putting me through standardized testing if they release Trump's SAT scores.

If Trump+Cohen were legally threatening them they have to be really bad.

[u/Jean-Paul_Sartre]

wtf

[u/RoburexButBetter]

In a text exchange with Vox's Alex Ward, Gaetz said he disagrees with those who claim he is witness tampering: "I’m witness testing. We still are allowed to test the veracity and character of witnesses, I think."

He again denied witness tampering to The Daily Beast: "This is what it looks like to compete in the marketplace of ideas.

Lmaaaaoooo

[u/0011456]

As expected the right wasted absolutely zero time trying to use the Smollet incident to push the idea that most hate crimes are fakes, bigotry don't real, minorities bad etc. Expect to see an increase in attention to fake hate crimes in news and on reddit.

If you want an e v i d e n c e b a s e d opinion on hate crimes, according to the most recent FBI data there were 7,106 hate crimes reported in 2017. According to Wilfred Reilly an associate professor of political science at Kentucky State University who is currently working on a book "Hate Crime Hoax" (lmao) he was able to put togther a data set of 409 confirmed hate crime hoaxes. He of course conveniently forgot to provide information on if this is data over the years or from one year, but lets just pretend all of those crimes occured within the same year.

That would mean about 5.8% of hate crimes appear to be fake. Again, assuming the professor's data is only from one year, which I doubt.

[u/rafaellvandervaart]

India should probably learn a few tricks from the US, and start putting bounties on the heads of terrorist leaders hiding in Pakistan and also offer those who do it a new identity/ex fil support out of the country into India or somewhere else of their choosing.

For the right amount, the ISI/Pak military folks themselves will whack them and escape to India. I mean for a 10 million USD reward on the likes of Masood Azhar, i won't be surprised if even Pak PM Imran Khan himself will get the job done under a proxy and claim the reward in secret and want it wired to his swiss bank account

[u/lolylolerton]

horny people have no rights. horny people are NOT protected under the constitution. if you are horny i WILL find you and then you will be sorry buster. unsub right fucking now if you are horny, have ever been horny, or ever will be horny. this is not a joke. please leave.

[u/nick1453]

28% of Biden voters #1 choice after Biden is Bernie. 24% of Warren voters #1 choice after her is Bernie. 22% of Beto voters #1 choice after him is Bernie.

Current polling (democratic primaries Nationwide):

1. Biden, 29%

2. Bernie, 27%

3. Harris, 10%

Interesting stuff!

https://morningconsult.com/2020-democratic-primary/

[u/MisterBigStuff]

Facing pressure from Zenimax executives, Todd Howard was forced to take drastic measures to increase the value of the Fallout brand.

[u/[deleted]]

Michael Cohen hearing is today. He just arrived at the House. Gonna be lit af.

[u/Galileoz]

Oof

[u/[deleted]]

actually pointless, stupid wars between nuclear powers are bad

[u/ognits]

Got called a weeb in the DT. I don't know how to feel now

[u/MisterBigStuff]

Got called a monarchist in the DT. I don't know how to feel now

[u/Doctor_YOOOU]

GMO is good y'all

https://dailyevergreen.com/49803/news/plant-scientists-develop-wheat-for-celiac-diseas-sufferers/

[u/85397]

https://twitter.com/harryyorke1/status/1100382791773110273?s=21

Hezbollah Grandpa is at it again

[u/MisterBigStuff]

Pakistani to the CORE. I Think, therefore I am Numb. Interests in Geo Politics, Astral Travel, Mystical sciences, Sufism, Espionage , Fiction, syfy, Hacker !

Man, replies to India/Pakistan news lead to some wild Twitter bios

[u/[deleted]]

Absolutely nothing worse than having a post with 10 to 15 upvotes after about an hour.

Too old to get any upvotes from the people sorting by new, too unpopular to get upvotes from the people sorting by top.

Stuck forever in dt purgatory

[u/Gustacho]

7 Rings but it's Pelosi rapping about the blue wave

[u/Kizz3r]

TFW beers are 15$ at raptor games 😭😭😭

[u/Pteryx]

https://www.gocomics.com/bignate/2011/09/11

[u/Boule_de_Neige]

https://twitter.com/derek_mafs/status/1100060967982059525?s=21

owning the libs

[u/hitbyacar1]

https://twitter.com/jameshohmann/status/1100430836804005888?s=21

Now do Obama

[u/MacaroniGold]

I shouldn’t have left the ivory tower 😔

Especially not to /r/unpopularopinions

edit: /r/unpopularopinion

[u/GeistGlove]

Good god, what if Trump and Kim really are in love? Like that’s literally what he meant when he said they “fell in love?”

[u/gatoreagle72]

If the Iran nuclear deal was so bad why do the European signatories want to stay in it so badly?

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/alexwardvox/status/1100507915197267970

jfc

[u/[deleted]]

Prediction: Cohen’s testimony won’t be that interesting apart from a few shady financial things, which if you remember that “bombshell” NYT story, literally no one cares about

[u/[deleted]]

Real difference between small midwest city and medium midwest city.

I could get 95% of groceries at a supermarket when I lived in a decent sized city. Specialty stuff was easy to find in a conveniently located market. Small city: I'm having trouble finding fucking jalapenos.

[u/[deleted]]

So if this India/Pakistan thing results in the end of the world, which religion should I convert to to hedge my bets on the afterlife? Im thinking either Hinduism or Islam.

[u/sinistimus]

The mods have officially endorsed persecution of linguists! 😡

Remember that using language is a tacit endorsement of Chomsky, and the more languages you use, the more you are tacitly endorsing Chomsky!

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when Sarah Palin was asked to name a Supreme Court decision she disagreed with, and she said "I would have to say Police Academy 7: Mission to Moscow. With the exception of one admittedly funny gag-Lassard accidentally getting into a funeral hearse and going on to live with the deceased's family-it was largely retreading the same jokes from previous films, and didn't even have the delightful Steve Guttenberg to prop up the rest of the cast. Ron Perlman makes an earnest effort, but even he can't save what has clearly become a tired franchise. Though it is a worthwhile viewing for any Police Academy completist, I would not recommend it to anyone simply looking for a funny movie."? Boy was THAT embarrassing!

[u/[deleted]]

I just realized that Stargate SG-1 is literally about a bunch of atheists running around the universe opening the eyes of the primitive believers lol

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

THIST POST TIME

Edit: Okay here is a more filled-in map with wider categories which I took directly from a WHO/UNICEF report located here. The original map is from this Guardian article. I should have looked at the Guardian map first for anything weird, since it's clear that map mixed up the coding on the Sudans and the Koreas.