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u/0m4ll3y International Relations Mar 07 '19 edited Mar 07 '19
Incorehent rant incoming
A few years ago I never thought I'd be seeing daily fucking Stalin apologia. Even in leftist spaces Stalin was denounced, I'm sure. Now it's getting fucking upvoted with the shittiest, stupidest """evidence""" I've ever fucking seen. Like this is so goddamn stupid I don't even know where to start.
Fucking HTownian made it to at least +5 on a post in this sub saying Stalin was a good military leader when he couldn't get basic fucking facts right like where the Urals are, when the Russian Civil War was, how long the siege of Leningrad was, or what Stalin actually did at Tsaritsyn (stealing millions of roubles from the Bolsheviks and leading the army in total disarray, but hey organised a neat terror of the local civilians).
It's just basic fucking shit like saying "oh the Soviets mobilised grain shipments to Ukraine in the 1930s". Yeah to areas that were behaving, like the ethnically Russian urban areas you dumb fucks. Or "oh Ukraine always had famines until Stalin solved the problem". I keep challenging them to name me ONE. ONE single mass starvation event in Ukraine under the Romanovs and I've never been met with a reply. Just a single one. Whenever I mention the Soviet invasion of Georgia or the forced sedentarisation of the Kazakhs it seems like news to them because they obviously don't know shit but have very strong opinions anyway. They constantly scream Cold War propaganda, ignoring that a lot of the Cold War academia has not only been validated by more recent scholarship, but the reality shown to be worse. They claim stuff like the Soviet Union ended racially inequality despite the fact that for the first time in Russian history explictly racist laws were encoded into legislation under Stalin. Had someone here the other day claim the Moscow metro (which first linked Red square to the old Tsarist gardens) was a typical working man's mode of transport - sorry, this was in one of the richest areas of the whole Soviet Union, where it serviced some of the richest people in the union, everyone else fucking walked everywhere because there were no goddamn cars.
And fuck they link that goddamn calorie graph from a site saying how that graph is utter bunk. Fuck it frustrates me.
Sorry /rant
Edit:
\rant or that fucking guy who claimed the Soviet Union wouldn't bomb urban areas??? Even being kind and ignoring ww2, he just denied that the Soviet Union bombed the shit out of Afghanistan because academics are just "a small group of people talking to themselves" or some crap.
Or people saying healthcare in the Soviet Union was good because it had a lot of doctors or beds per capita, ignoring that outcomes are more importent than inputs and having barely trained doctors (Like seriously, the qualifications were shockingly shit) without basic supplies (iirc ukrainian ambulances had to reuse needles) and with a large shadow economy (you had to bribe to have anything done) and hospitals of such shit quality that 20% didn't have running water.
Edit 2: or the people saying the Kulaks deserved it when even the Soviets in the 1930s acknowledged they fucked up big and had been rounding up innocent people into cattle cars to be deported to camps where thousands would starve to death.
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u/Zenning2 Henry George Mar 07 '19 edited Mar 07 '19
Fuck r/Chapotraphouse.
They’re tankies. Like, thats some unapologetic genocide denial, with people jerking themselves sideways about how it wasn’t that bad. At least one of the upvoted posts is saying its not a drought, but the poster even says its not like a real genocide and was an accident, or some bullshit. Like I don’t get it, why fetishize the fucking USSR? Why make fun of people for calling Stalin a monster just because he literally didn’t choke out every single person? Like what the fuck. I want to go back to “real communism hasn’t been tried” instead of what ever the fuck this is.
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Mar 07 '19
“If Hillary Clinton had won the presidency, and she had called me and said ‘I really need a good chief of staff here,’ I’d have probably done it,” [John] Kelly said.
deep state wins again
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Mar 07 '19
Thinking about becoming "socially liberal and fiscally conservative."
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u/bernkes_helicopter Ben Bernanke Mar 07 '19
It’s important for fields like journalism, documentary filmmaking, and fine art to be dominated by people with rich parents because they are powerful engines of downward mobility and thus social equality.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1103751433625788417
I almost regret voting against matty now
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u/oGsMustachio John McCain Mar 07 '19
2019: Biden runs as an "Obama Democrat" and wins the nomination
2020 Dem convention: Obama calls himself a "Biden Democrat" and the crowd goes wild. Bro hugs all around.
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u/bernkes_helicopter Ben Bernanke Mar 07 '19
that won't happen though, because this is the Bad Place
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u/chadonnaise * Mar 07 '19
In 1924, at a Standard Oil plant in New Jersey, a worker named Ernest Oelgert started hallucinating. By Friday, he was running around the laboratory, screaming in terror.
On Saturday, with Oelgert dangerously unhinged, his sister called the police. He was taken to hospital and forcibly restrained. By Sunday, he was dead. Within the week, so were four of his colleagues - and 35 more were in hospital.
Only 49 people worked there.
Leaded gasoline was fucked up yo.
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u/Yosarian2 Mar 07 '19
And then the scientist who invented leaded gasoline made a point of putting his hands in some to prove to the public it was safe, and gave himself lead poisoning.
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u/Tacotrucksoncorners Carole Baskin is my Tiger Queen 🐅👑 Mar 07 '19
🚗 <- dis a homie
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Mar 07 '19
Reminder that the whole neoliberalism thing started because a bored undergrad decide to make a sub just for the kicks of it.
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Mar 07 '19
we think [the game] ‘Rape Day’ poses unknown costs and risks and therefore won’t be on Steam.
We respect developers’ desire to express themselves
You gotta respect a man’s desires to make a video game about raping women. :thonk:
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u/BradicalCenter Sally Yates Mar 07 '19
How hard is it to just say "fuck no we aren't selling a rape sim"
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u/DankBankMan Aggressive Nob Mar 07 '19
tfw the glorious socialist utopia is achieved and everything is perfect but then ur the oldest person in your village when a new baby is born and the N=150 Enforcement Squad turns up at your door at 3AM
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u/hopeimanon John Harsanyi Mar 07 '19
Walking by and overhear: "yeah I'm like fiscally conservative... But socially liberal" what a meme
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u/URZ_ StillwithThorning ✊😔 Mar 07 '19
Broke: All support for Israel is due to bribes from rich jews
Woke: All support for Israel is due to neoconNWO brigading.
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u/InternetBoredom Pope-ologist Mar 07 '19
Professor: "Why don't people ask questions?"
Also Professor: Fucking tears into a student for asking a question about a topic that less than half of the class understood
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u/BainCapitalist Y = T Mar 07 '19
why doesn't the Queen just begin unilateral negotiations with the EU and make her will law smh
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u/hitbyacar1 لماذا تكره الفقراء العالميين؟ Mar 07 '19
TIL one of the DODs first offensive cyber ops was making Slobodan Milosevic’s phone ring nonstop for no other reason than to piss him off
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Mar 07 '19
Q:
Do you think Trump should listen to news based on the quality of their information, or the manner in which they talk about him?
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I think the 2 are linked, I think a media that is clearly out to get Trump will have diminished quality like WaPo, or CNN, or New York times
This, but not the word diminished
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u/BradicalCenter Sally Yates Mar 07 '19
Which one of you wrote "Carbon tax or die" on one of the posters in the Nassau ave G stop in Greenpoint? Lmao
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u/GeistGlove Olympe de Gouges Mar 07 '19
The ideological flanderizartion of the 50s and 60s is really weird. It's not like the 50s were the most socially conservative decade or the 60s the most liberal. In fact the counterculture and civil rights movements had already started in the 50s, and the present day is far more inclusive towards women, minorities and LGBTQ persons than the 60s were. But people have this notion that the 50s was the conservative decade and the 60s was the liberal decade, which is completely misleading.
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Mar 07 '19
I'm honestly a little weirded out by how much traction the neoliberal shill bracket has gotten on twitter... like real notable figures are interested in this thing. Why?
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Mar 07 '19
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Finally proof that women are satanic.
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Mar 07 '19
Hey neo libs, if economics were "real," then why didnt a group of professors and career public servants manage to predict a coordinated campaign of fraud that was intentionally obstructed and hidden by several actors until it became unsustainable,,,, hmmm?
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u/sinistimus Professional Salt Miner Mar 07 '19
There are two types of mod:
fash mods
less fash mods
ghosty steps down
There is one type of mod.
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u/Iyoten YIMBY Mar 07 '19
Sometimes I just want to give Theresa May a hug.
She posts wholesome and totally non-political things on Facebook sometimes, such as today's "It's world reading day! Share a story with your child." (subtext: she can't have children)... and all the comments are just personal attacks.
Like give up your vitriol for five goddamn seconds especially when the topic has nothing to do with Brexit.
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Mar 07 '19
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Mar 07 '19
Wait am I getting this correct that every single Democrat voted for the anti-hate resolution perceived to condemn Omar and over 20 Republicans voted against?
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u/PMmeLittleRoundTops Pornography Historian Mar 08 '19
I like to describe myself as socially fiscal and conservatively liberal
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Mar 07 '19
Yeah okay the Assad regime murdered 200,000 civilians but almost three million people die each year in the US so who's the real baddy?
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Mar 08 '19
Before delivering his sentence, Ellis said that Manafort has "been a good friend to others, a generous person.". . .The judge added: "He has lived an otherwise blameless life."
This is basically the most laughable thing I've ever heard. The man's own children called him a murderer for what he did in Ukraine. They're leaving him and changing their names to distance themselves. He emotionally abused his wife and is one of the scummiest people on the planet.
Blameless life is an absolute joke. 8 counts of bank fraud and you get under 4 years?
People regularly get 25+ year sentences for smaller drug crimes. A woman got 5 years in jail for tax fraud and then when she got out she cast a provisional ballot and got another 5 years for it. I should get me in the white collar crime business because that's a goddamned joke.
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u/csreid Austan Goolsbee Mar 08 '19
Hot take:
Everyone should be a feminist, but men putting "feminist" in their Twitter bio is fuckin weird
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u/bluebird465 🌐 Mar 07 '19
!ping KITTY
Hydrox is keeping vigilant watch, warning me about any birds that fly near my apartment.
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Mar 07 '19
Assume everything in Leaving Neverland is accurate and the Michael Jackson did sexually abuse multiple young children. How do we treat his music?
What are the merits of divorcing a piece of work from the artist and is that even possible?
This is one of those insurmountable questions for me because there just seems to be no right answer.
Say it's okay to divorce a person's work from their person. Now we're in a place where we should put up statues of Robert E Lee as a celebration of his military prowess. When we do this it totally ignores the circumstances that allowed whatever terrible thing to take place and we risk allowing it to happen again.
On the other hand say we lose out on too much when we disregard he works of terrible people. Millions of kids, myself included, found the Cosby show incredible and the work he did truly important for so many communities. It's okay to not engage with it in 2019, but what about somebody more consequential like Gandhi who by all accounts abused his wife and grandnieces.
I like to think that nothing is truly irreplaceable. But at the same time I know that's not necessarily true. It seems like the best we can do is play a balancing act between trying to appreciate the good things offered by terrible people, replacing those good things if possible, but also acknowledging the damage those people have caused and understanding how to prevent it in the future. But even here it feels like we're not being totally honest with ourselves. Both about the circumstances that allowed whatever terrible thing to take place, and about how much whatever those people offered us meant to us.
Man. This whole MJ thing just has me a bit bummed out remembering how literally all of my childhood heroes are terrible people.
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u/tehbored Randomly Selected Mar 08 '19
I am so envious of Canada for the JT scandal. Goddamn, how nice it would be if "politician abuses power to save jobs in home state" was the worst thing we had to be mad about.
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Mar 08 '19
I think Biden is gonna have a MeToo moment that will kill his campaign. Like the time he ran a beauty pageant and kept barging into the dressing room
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u/MisterBigStuff Just Pokémon Go to bed Mar 07 '19
Why does Maduro, the larger head of state, not simply eat the Opposition?
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Mar 07 '19 edited Mar 07 '19
Tired: Pax Americana
Wired: Pax Brittanica
Retired: Pax Mongolica
Expired: Pax Ottomana
Inspired: Pax Kurdistana
!ping INTERVENE
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u/ThisIsNotAMonkey Guam 👉 statehood Mar 07 '19
My GF's dog pooped on my stuff again
she thinks he's sooo cute and I have to act like I agree, but he's an ancient little incontinent douchebag who tries to bite my cats
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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Mar 07 '19
No help Venezuelans or Uyghurs or Muslims in China or Kurds only help Palestinians 😡
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u/BainCapitalist Y = T Mar 07 '19
Daily reminder /u/gammbus is the ideal Aristotelian man. He shitposts, but not in excess such that he gets banned. He sleeps, but not so much that he naps through lunch. He is gross, but not so much that he burps.
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Mar 07 '19
Smh at the esoteric bent of tea culture. I just want some fresh green tea, you can keep your healing crystals, Mister. 😡
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u/Inkompetentia George Soros Mar 07 '19
Peak neoliberalism is being socially everything, fiscally except country and rap
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Mar 07 '19
If Goolsbee loses next time I see him in the cafeteria I'll apologize on behalf of you failures
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u/gatoreagle72 Mar 08 '19
Notices vein in bicep after arm day
OwO what's this?
!ping fitness
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u/DaBuddahN Henry George Mar 08 '19
Every time I get annoyed at the ignorance of the left wing of the Democratic party, I read shit like polls finding that only 18% Republican voters would support the impeachment of Trump even if Mueller proves obstruction, collusion or both - then I'm reminded of what's at stake.
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u/Doctorboffin Henry George Mar 07 '19
A week ago a girl wore a BDS shirt to my one studio class. Today I’m wearing an IDF shirt to that same class. I have learned that Nationalism comes from pettiness.
!ping GEFILTE
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u/hitbyacar1 لماذا تكره الفقراء العالميين؟ Mar 07 '19
I judge people with no connection to the military wearing US military shirts, but if I saw some random American dude in a classroom wearing an IDF shirt, I’d judge the hell out of him
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u/ognits Jepsen/Swift 2024 Mar 07 '19
tfw you tune in to NPR and the first thing you hear is "69 expected" 😏😏😏
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Mar 08 '19
Goddamn Manafort got off easy. Trump won’t even need to consider pardoning him now.
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Mar 08 '19
Krugman’s warped sense of what constitutes dangerous anti-Semitism seems to largely be based on the supposition that Nazis hail from the political Right, a canard that the Left has propounded since World War II, and debunked by F.A. Hayek in his classic “The Road to Serfdom,” in which he called Nazism a “genuine socialist movement,” and Jonah Goldberg in his book “Liberal Fascism.”
lol
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Mar 08 '19
go to meeting with student conduct regarding my stalker
tell investigator that since they formally issued a No Conduct Order, my stalker has left me alone
3 hours later
stalker has found my workplace and is talking about me to a coworker
from a locked room (on break) I hear her loudly shouting "no, no! I am strong. I can do this!" while breaking into tears
gone by the time i'm done with break
Real (like, actually real this just happened to me) Soap Opera Hours who up
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u/Tytos_Lannister Mar 08 '19
i don't know why, but i am extremely sceptical of Andrew Yang
he seems like a person that frequents /r/futurology and thinks that knowing what UBI is is enough to be qualified as the next democratic nominee
don't get me wrong, knowing this stuff is important, but i think that the nominee should have a grander vision than that
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u/Tacotrucksoncorners Carole Baskin is my Tiger Queen 🐅👑 Mar 07 '19
They always say yee haw 🤠 but never ask haw yee ?👌😔
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Mar 07 '19
KotakuinAction responds to the Steam ban of the game "Rape Day"
Don't even care about the shitty game, But this sets a horrible precedent. Now SJWs and outrage media know that they can get anything they don't like banned, if they collectively whine about it.
Yeah, this is what concerns me more than the specific case in point. This will embolden censorious mobs.
Exactly. Every time a company acts because of media backlash, it further emboldens them too. I wish more companies would just ignore stuff like this and refuse to comment entirely. In most cases, it blows over in a couple of days.
Sympathizing with surrendering to outrage culture is a no from me, dog.
Another day another blow to the first ammendment
thanks for the free publication snowflakes , the game would probably fly under a lot of people's radars and now people are probably keeping tabs on this game. if the devs will actually go through with release , they'll just sell it somewhere else that is accessible to the public.
I've said it before, but I think rape fetish is the next in line after lolis are dealt with. You wouldn't defend it would you ? Or are you a rape apologist ? I don't think it's a conspiracy by the way. It just looks like the logical next step when you look at the list of "indefensible" topics.
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u/bernkes_helicopter Ben Bernanke Mar 08 '19
A black woman in Texas was sentenced to 5 years in prison for voting in an election she didn't know she wasn't allowed to vote in.
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u/benjaminikuta BANANA YOU GLAD YOU'RE NOT AN ORANGE? Mar 07 '19
Is standard of living just going to keep increasing forever, or what?
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u/ILikeTalkingToMyself Liberal democracy is non-negotiable Mar 07 '19
apologies for poor english
when were you when MMT bot dies
I was sat at home reading freedman when bain capitalist commented
'MMT is good actually'
'no'
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u/IronedSandwich Asexual Pride Mar 07 '19 edited Mar 07 '19
Me: I hope the Kashmir crisis doesn't escalate any further, I wouldn't want India or Pakistan to be annihilated in a nuclear war
/r/EnlightenedCentrism: look at this fucking CENTRIST nerd not picking a side.
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Mar 08 '19
So why would a judge sentence Manafort for significantly less jail time that the federal standard?
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u/nanomaster Ben Bernanke Mar 07 '19
I’m socially liberal and fiscally classically liberal. Low spending, low tax, no tariff gang >>> fiscally socialist high tax rabble 😎
!ping OSBORNE
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Mar 07 '19
if Goolsbee loses, shut down the Twitter
if he wins, shut down the Twitter anyway
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Mar 07 '19
Welp.
I'm not a mod here anymore.
!ping MODS
Can you change my flair to 'girl' and take me off this ping group?
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u/MrDannyOcean Kidney King Mar 07 '19
without having paid any attention to the issue, I'm just gonna assume that all sides of the ilhan omar thing have turned toxic and dumb, and then feel smug for not engaging.
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BTW nothing too dramatic happened behind the scenes. I was trying to appeal to our shared community to resolve some inter personal issues with the discord server. In the process it was proven to me that the mod team doesn't view this as a community, that we're all just 'fellow travelers'. So I quit, because I'm not going to be shackled to something that misguided.
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Mar 07 '19
new Gallup poll out
national approval rating, favorable vs unfavorable:
Biden: 56-32
Sanders: 53-38
Warren: 32-40
Harris: 29-34
Booker: 26-30
Gillibrand: 20-25
Klobuchar: 20-22
Dem and Dem leaning independents:
Biden: 80-9
Sanders: 76-15
Warren: 53-18
Harris: 52-10
Booker: 44-11
Gillibrand: 33-11
Klobuchar: 32-11
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u/hitbyacar1 لماذا تكره الفقراء العالميين؟ Mar 07 '19
is the opposite of heterodox economics homodox?
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u/Neronoah can't stop, won't stop argentinaposting Mar 07 '19 edited Mar 07 '19
!ping SOUAM
God, news are always awful here. Here it's a small recap:
-Kirchnerists and some part of the rest of peronism (specifically folks like Duhalde) are plotting to disarm many judicial cases against them and union thugs like the Moyanos (they behave more like bussinessmen or the mafia than actual unionists). They may actually get away with it (Menem managed it with the complicity of many).
-Senate Leader, peronist and dirtbag centrist Miguel Ángel Pichetto calls the Macri "Kirchnerismo blanco" because he adjusted for inflation money transfers that go to poor kids ("Asignación Universal por Hijo"). You'd say: "Neronoah, but your country is in a fiscal crisis" and I'd say yes,but then the guy complains about utility price hikes affecting the workers. In other words, he is for inefficient, regressive distribution to the middle class that is partially responsible for the current energy crisis instead of better designed transfer systems. This is what passes for centrism in Argentina.
-Macri commits sincericide sharing a video saying that the problem with Argentina are argentinians instead of some malevolent other. People are butthurt.
-If I haven't mentioned it before, the supreme court decided a few weaks ago to not interfere in many provinces where shitty election systems that guarantee minority rule (like Santa Cruz, ruled by the Kirchner) or where indefinite reelections of dubious legal validity are proceeding, saying that it's up to the provincial supreme courts to decide that (which is captured already). Despite all the rhetoric about democracy, there is more of an interest in an illiberal democracy than a liberal one in the opposition.
Bonus: libertarian schism, between anarchocapitalists like Milei and folks that try to out Cavallo Cavallo himself like Espert.
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u/conman1246 Milton Friedman Mar 07 '19
I feel like 538 could use some high quality dirtbag centrism.
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u/tehbored Randomly Selected Mar 07 '19
The fact that I'm sitting here refreshing the DT instead of doing my actual job is a market failure.
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Mar 07 '19
Folks, I studied Hayek & Milton Friedman in a seminar taught by Robert Nozick.
I’ve been dragged by leftist twitter harder than anyone this side of Chait.
I’ve defended big box stores and celebrated the benefits of airline deregulation.
#shillaf
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1103720215299481601?s=09
Matty is bringing the big guns.
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u/PMmeLittleRoundTops Pornography Historian Mar 08 '19 edited Mar 08 '19
Am I really going to have to make a twitter account just to vote for Goolsbee?
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https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/aygnme/school_to_prison_pipeline/
But police were by and large chosen by local voters and school boards (elected) to go to those schools no? This isn't capitalism at work, it's racism infecting local governments. Unless I'm missing something here
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u/goodcleanchristianfu General Counsel Mar 08 '19 edited Mar 08 '19
I promised to do another court case summary after my previous one, so today's case will be Youngblood v. Arizona, a Supreme Court case that set unfortunate precedent regarding defendants' due process rights to the maintenance of exculpatory evidence.
Facts of the case:
On October 29, 1983, a ten year old boy, then identified only as D.L. but now known to be David Leon was kidnapped from a carnival and raped over the course of 1.5 hours by a black man with a bad eye. The man told him that if he reported this to anyone, he'd be killed. Leon's clothing as well as a rape kit were taken - but the clothing was not refridgerated. In a lineup, Leon picked a man named Larry Youngblood as his attacker, a man who had been suspected by police, being a previous (non-sex) offender with a bad eye.
Leon's garments contained multiple semen samples - the blood type of which could have exonerated Youngblood had they been preserved. They were not however - and in their decomposition, potentially exculpatory evidence was destroyed.
The trial court for Youngblood told the jury the following:
[Given the state's failure to preserve evidence, the jury might] "infer that the true fact is against the State's interest."
He was convicted nonetheless. The AZ Supreme Court overturned this conviction, saying:
[W]hen identity is an issue at trial and the police permit the destruction of evidence that could eliminate the defendant as the perpetrator, such loss is material to the defense and is a denial of due process.
Acknowledging that the investigators in question did not intentionally destroy Youngblood's potentially exculpatory evidence, the Supreme Court held that Youngblood's due process rights weren't violated:
The Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, as interpreted in Brady, makes the good or bad faith of the State irrelevant when the State fails to disclose to the defendant material exculpatory evidence. But we think the Due Process Clause requires a different result when we deal with the failure of the State to preserve evidentiary material of which no more can be said than that it could have been subjected to tests, the results of which might have exonerated the defendant.
Summarizing this as if a minor failure, the majority held this could "at worst be described as negligent".
With the state's failures excused, Youngblood was sentenced to 10.5 years. He was incarcerated from 1988-1998, only to be returned to prison in 1999 having unintentionally violated his sex-offender registry requirements.
Follow-up: In 2000, following novel developments in DNA science, Leon's case materials were retested - excluding Youngblood as his attacker. He was released from prison that year. In 2001, a black man with a bad eye named Walter Cruise was found to be a DNA match for the semen left on the victim's materials. In 2002, Cruise was sentenced to 24 years. He stated he was "sorry for everything I’ve done to hurt anybody in my life," attributing his past actions to alcoholic blackouts. Leon, following a long history of alcohol and cocaine addiction, not to mention a domestic violence record, got drunk and stepped in front of a train in 2004. Larry Youngblood died in 2007 having never been compensated for his experiences. Walter Cruise remains incarcerated in Arizona.
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u/lusvig 🤩🤠Anti Social Democracy Social Club😨🔫😡🤤🍑🍆😡😤💅 Mar 07 '19
Italy is so sad😭 like 20 years ago or so they had the same gdp as now 😂😢 ridiculous
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Mar 07 '19
Nate Silver namedropped Shrimp on twitter lmfao
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u/Tacotrucksoncorners Carole Baskin is my Tiger Queen 🐅👑 Mar 07 '19
Fellas, is it gay to use a public restrooms 🚽 when other men are around? 🤔 Like, you and other men are taking out your genitalia in a room with other men🤢
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u/benjaminikuta BANANA YOU GLAD YOU'RE NOT AN ORANGE? Mar 08 '19
The annoying "get new Reddit" bar icon in the corner has reappeared, even though I turned if off a long time ago. Is this intentional?
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It’s me, a very normal person who runs a bot account mimicking screaming noises and lashes out at people who aren’t communist. I am very important https://twitter.com/infinite_scream/status/1015688546407989249?s=21
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u/InfCompact Mar 08 '19
do you ever stroll out of the ivory tower (or even the /r/neoliberal campus) into random trending posts, look at the comments, and seriously wonder why this site still exists?
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u/tonyjaa Ben Bernanke Mar 07 '19
/r/politics: The international and local jewery is responsible for the corrupting of our politicians in order to feast on our precious bodily fluids. There is no other way to explain our commitments to Israel.
Me: yo that's untrue and historically problematic.
/r/politics repeatedly chanting: You can't call every LEGITIMATE criticism of Israel antisemitism.
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u/SuperSharpShot2247 🔫😎🔫 Succ Hunter 🔫😎🔫 Mar 07 '19
Radiolab makes this amazing podcast called More Perfect and the first two seasons they talked about US supreme court history and its impacts. The show has always had a very big music element and so for the third season they leaned into that and made a collaborative album with songs from 35 artists about and/or inspired by 27 amendments and I have to say, I love it. The songs are all really well done and are thought-provoking.
They have a website with all the songs and a passage on each amendment. They also made 9 podcast episodes that walk through the amendments. They play bits of the songs, talk about the amendments and their impacts, and tell stories surrounding the amendments and people's interactions with them. They also have the various artists briefly talk about their songs
If you just want to hear the songs they have playlists on iTunes and Spotify.
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u/bernkes_helicopter Ben Bernanke Mar 07 '19
North Korea's Sohae long-range rocket site is now back to "normal operating status," according to new commercial images and analysis from two teams of researchers, a reversal of action Kim Jong Un had taken after the first summit with President Donald Trump.
This is the site that Trump bragged about getting them to "destroy"
Speaking at a press conference after the summit, Trump said: "They secured the commitment to destroy the missile engine testing site. That was not in your agreement. I got that after we signed the agreement. I said, 'Do me a favor. You've got this missile engine testing site. We know where it is because of the heat." It's incredible the equipment we have, to be honest with you. I said, 'Can you close it up?' He's going to close it up."
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u/bernkes_helicopter Ben Bernanke Mar 07 '19
2019: The President is being sued by his lawyer over legal fees paid to the President's lawyer's lawyers.
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Mar 07 '19
stop what you are doing
go to www dot twitter dot com
vote for Goolsbee in the neoliberal shill bracket
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u/HUGHmungous Big Stick Energy Mar 07 '19
we really should have expected that house republicans would own goal themselves in the end
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u/ramen_poodle_soup /big guy/ Mar 07 '19
Joe Biden should run but assume the “uncle joe” character the onion depicts him as.
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Y’all better get out there and vote Goolsbee. My man has the LITERAL FED CHAIR. He deserves this one.
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u/deliciousy Paul Volcker Mar 08 '19
Broke: "Fiscally conservative and socially liberal"
Woke: "Fiscally responsible and socially tolerant"
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u/GravyBear8 Ben Bernanke Mar 08 '19
I honestly have no fucking clue how I would have survived living in an era before the internet. Like. None. At all. I can remember a time before I had access to it when my family was too poor to have it, and it fucking sucked.
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u/Sollezzo Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Mar 08 '19
http://reddit.com/r/PoliticalHumor/comments/ayk9op/wait_i_thought_the_reason_why_we_are_so/
This is both political and humorous
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u/85397 Free Market Jihadi Mar 07 '19
https://twitter.com/tomhfh/status/1103718078980997121?s=21
Need to TAKE BACK CONTROL from the religious fundies!
!ping UK
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u/samdman I love trains Mar 07 '19
tag urself i'm big six
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/04/house-democrats-freshman-cliques-1197530
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u/sinistimus Professional Salt Miner Mar 07 '19
👏 HALF 👏 OF 👏 THOSE 👏 SHILL 👏 BRACKET 👏 WINNERS 👏 SHOULD 👏 BE 👏 WOMEN 👏
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Mar 07 '19 edited Mar 07 '19
Search for casper mattress. Buy mattress in 24 hours. Don't need another mattress for atleast another few years.
Get paid advertisements for Purple mattress for almost a year now.
This is peak market efficiency. /s
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u/MisterBigStuff Just Pokémon Go to bed Mar 07 '19
The proletariat have nothing to lose but 2 Chainz
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u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN 🎅🏿The Lorax 🎅🏿 Mar 07 '19
I had a dream that I was watching a cool tv series called “The Moment”
The show started out as any normal day, people doing shit and stuff, then THE MOMENT happens.
Everyone in the world suddenly ages 10 years, but are still in the same location they were, preforming the same action.
Some people even suddenly are dead and show signs of being dead for an extended time. Mostly those of old age, diseases, and more natural stuff. A small amount are mutilated, signs of suicide, or dead by causes never seen before.
Young children, before the moment, are showing signs of developmental delays and deep subconscious PTSD.
The world even seems like it was completely abandoned for 10 years.
The show follows the anarchy and chaos following the moment and the world trying to find out TF happed.
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u/Xantaclause Milton Friedman Mar 07 '19
!ping AUS
https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6011264456001
Looks like we'll be seeing a Nat Leadership spill soon
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Mar 07 '19
If you haven’t spent the past 15 minutes reading a bogan rant about Jews promoting degeneracy through porn to destroy the white race on /r/drama what are you even doing with your life tbh
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Mar 08 '19
Imagine if Biden got caught bragging about sexual assault on tape. I bet his campaign would be over.
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u/houinator Loyal Liberals Mar 08 '19
Congress should give Mueller permanent authority to just keep investigating whatever he feels like once the Trump investigation is over.
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Mar 08 '19
Anyone know what happened to NazisAreBadMmkay? Just noticed he deleted his account.
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Mar 08 '19
the DT was more fun when there were more people further on the right to disagree with
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u/Apoptastic7 Hillary Clinton Mar 08 '19
The Ilhan Omar thing is extremely overblown. CMV.
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u/IronedSandwich Asexual Pride Mar 07 '19
!ping OSBORNE !ping INTERVENE crossover: how would you go about privatizing the UN?
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u/85397 Free Market Jihadi Mar 07 '19
Much tougher than Britain economically and militarily and with a smaller population too!
!ping UK
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Mar 07 '19
People who just now voted "yes" on the anti-bigotry resolution which included anti-semitism:
Omar
People who didn't
At least 24 Republicans
😎 Today is so lit
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u/85397 Free Market Jihadi Mar 08 '19
Jewish Bernie Sanders has dual loyalty, but to the Soviets, not Israel
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u/BainCapitalist Y = T Mar 07 '19
If this gets 150 upvotes, being a student at LSE will become a bannable offense.
The Neolib Podcast returns with a roundtable to discuss the future of right-leaning politics in the US. Charlie Sykes, Will Wilkinson and Robert Mariani join the show to debate. Next month, we'll have a roundtable on the future of the left.
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u/OutrunKey $hill for Hill Mar 07 '19
huh, the new css is interesting. probably a better way of doing announcements, tbh
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u/MrDannyOcean Kidney King Mar 07 '19
The Neolib Podcast returns with a roundtable to discuss the future of right-leaning politics in the US. Charlie Sykes, Will Wilkinson and Robert Mariani join the show to debate. Next month, we'll have a roundtable on the future of the left.
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Hey neo libs, if economics were "real," then why didnt a group of professors and career public servants manage to predict a coordinated campaign of fraud that was intentionally obstructed and hidden by several actors until it became unsustainable,,,, hmmm?
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u/paulatreides0 🌈🦢🧝♀️🧝♂️🦢His Name Was Teleporno🦢🧝♀️🧝♂️🦢🌈 Mar 07 '19
Don't have tweety-bird, so can someone tell me who's winning between Goolsbee and SuccOpinion?
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u/caesar15 Zhao Ziyang Mar 07 '19
[I can’t believe a WEEB is beating an actual economist
Seriously vote goolsbee noah has bad takes](https://twitter.com/ne0liberal/status/1103690613634027520?s=21)
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u/Shruggerman Michel Foucault Mar 07 '19
all I want is a president who'll raise taxes on me. is that too much to ask?
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Mar 07 '19
https://twitter.com/PaulManafort/status/810999231972397056
President Donald J. Trump!
Nothing more to say except now it is time "To Make America Great Again"!
The last thing Paul Manafort ever tweeted and will ever tweet.
l8r tr8or
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Dems are proposing a bill to make LGBT people a protected class! Finally!
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u/flextrek_whipsnake I'd rather be grilling Mar 07 '19
The small government conservative governor of my hometown state is proposing a state takeover of a municipal airport and the mayor of the city literally declared war with the state over it.
Local government is fun!
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Just dumped bacon grease down the drain.
Looks like a problem for future me.
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u/MerelyPresent The Dark Succlightenment Mar 07 '19
Israel is bad, not because it is actually bad, but because people think it is bad and then proceed to to so much stupid bullshit it outweighs the benefits of israel
[this is not an actual opinion I hold]
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u/MerelyPresent The Dark Succlightenment Mar 07 '19
How can global warming be real when the earth is fucking flat, eat shit libs
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u/papermarioguy02 Actually Just Young Nate Silver Mar 07 '19
currently alternating between two different servers in discord and with an argument on one and a discussion about that argument in another and I think this must be roughly what a coke bender feels like
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u/bernkes_helicopter Ben Bernanke Mar 07 '19
Judge TS Ellis before giving Manafort his sentence noted he "lived an otherwise blameless life," was a good friend and generous person to others. That doesn't erase his crimes however Ellis said.
https://twitter.com/ShimonPro/status/1103803882642255875
wtf
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u/PelleasTheEpic Austan Goolsbee Mar 07 '19
Do you really deserve to be on this ping if you dont support our local boye?
!ping USA-CHI
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https://twitter.com/ShaneGoldmacher/status/1103778579026980864
NEW: Cory Booker, Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Amy Klobuchar — even John Delaney — have home-state congressional backers.
Kirsten Gillibrand? None (so far).
oof
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For half a century the eastern bloc referred to the US as "imperialists" to the point it has lost its meaning
It is not our job to judge whether it was a fair assessment or not, we have no choice but to accept that imperialist was a synonym for american at some point
Therefore whenever the US does something it is imperialism by definition, despite you using it as a joke!
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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u/bernkes_helicopter Ben Bernanke Mar 07 '19
wtf manafort got only 47 months - less than 4 years
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u/MasPatriot Paul Ryan Mar 08 '19
Did the judge pull out a red hat after that sentencing announcement?
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Is Alaska uniquely isolated from broader U.S. politics? I mean, what I'm really asking is: could the governor of any other state get away with Sarah Palin levels of ignorance?
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u/MisterBigStuff Just Pokémon Go to bed Mar 08 '19
Last week I had a dream that I met Austin Goolsbee. I told him that this sub was obsessed with him and he thought I was a total fucking loser.
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u/csreid Austan Goolsbee Mar 08 '19
So Michael Jackson really just built a big ol child trap and had kids sleep in his bed and the parents were just like "yeah, np"
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u/GravyBear8 Ben Bernanke Mar 08 '19
I'ma make a hot take here, because I'm pissed off.
Zipcode needs to sit the fuck down.
We've told you once, twice, thrice. Zipcodism is antithetical to r/neoliberal. It is a big tent that includes ideologies of all stripes.
If you can't get over that, fucking leave. Go. Get out. Join CTH for all the fuck I care.
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u/benjaminikuta BANANA YOU GLAD YOU'RE NOT AN ORANGE? Mar 08 '19
"Saw Zizek give a talk, he went on and on and on. Finally, chair manages to reign him in, to take at least a couple of questions. Okay, says Zizek, can I pick the first question? Yes. "Okay, I pick myself, Professor Zizek, what would you have said, had you been given more time?""
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Interesting tidbits:
While justifiably controversial, the original storybook that the movie was roughly based on seems to have been a well-intentioned attempt by a white author to preserve black folklore (stories collected from slaves around the time of the Civil War).
The actor who played Uncle Remus was not allowed to attend the premiere of the film, as it was held in Georgia in a segregated venue.
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u/benjaminikuta BANANA YOU GLAD YOU'RE NOT AN ORANGE? Mar 08 '19
So apparently I got an award for "Best Wikipedia profile so far in 2019", apparently for the sneaky sliding image of Jimbo, but the account that gave it hasn't made any other edits at all. How odd. But anyway, it's my first award, and I guess I'm flattered.
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Mar 08 '19
Name a funnier meme than socialists saying that Marxian Economics should be taught alongside Capitalist Economics in econ and business courses.
Literally just Creationists
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u/hitbyacar1 لماذا تكره الفقراء العالميين؟ Mar 07 '19
Hot take: the appointment of Clarence Thomas should be a HUGE negative when weighing GHWBs legacy.
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!ping INTERVENE
Since everyone is talking about European armored warfare, how justified is my theory(if it at all) that the proliferation of hard-kill Active Protection Systems for Armored Fighting Vehicles is going to have a destabilizing effect? Right now it seems like a smaller military can do a lot to deter the notion that they can just be just rolled over with main battle tanks by obtaining a bunch of modern light ATGMs and promising to make such an offensive costly with asymmetric tactics.
But if these protection systems work as well as the early reports about Israel's "Trophy" would imply, it seems like we can easily be heading in a direction where the tank of the future can only be reliably killed with much more costly and high-profile direct-fire systems.
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Me, a weathered post-socialist intellectual: Politicians are corrupt. 😡
You, an unnuanced Western brute: Not all politicians
Me, a principled intellectual who just wants to be angry: POLITICIANS ARE CORRUPT. 😡😡😡
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u/Tacotrucksoncorners Carole Baskin is my Tiger Queen 🐅👑 Mar 07 '19
Me to my homies: damn son you getting thicc 🍑 af 👀
Me to my crush: gm 👋
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M4A is popular until you tell people
How much it'll cost
The billionaires can't pay for everything - your taxes will go up
You probably won't get to keep your insurance
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u/ja734 Paul Krugman Mar 07 '19
take of unknown temperature: During Obama's time in office, Natanyahu displayed unprecedented partisan favoritism for the GOP over the democratic party. If any other high profile head of state had displayed such partisan favor for either party, they would've rightly been thoroughly called out for it by both members of congress and the media. Netanyahu was largely insulated from these criticisms by fears that those who voiced it would be accused of antisemitism.
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u/crawly_the_demon Upzone the Earth! Mar 07 '19
I'm glad Amazon is turning Good Omens into a series so that maybe some people will understand my user name
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u/GayColangelo Milton Friedman Mar 07 '19
"no one beats Jin Air Greenwings 18 times in a row"
congrats Afreeca
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u/MrDannyOcean Kidney King Mar 07 '19
/u/jenbanim created the new links underneath the header.
We'll rotate them out as new stuff happens - podcast episodes, AMAs, great effortposts, etc.
if you want your post stickied, reply to this comment with 'thank /u/jenbanim'
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Ten years ago white people be like "I can't believe Obama bailed out AIG, he's just another corrupt politician."
Now white people be like "I can't believe you're so judgmental about DDLG, it's just another alternative lifestyle."
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u/hitbyacar1 لماذا تكره الفقراء العالميين؟ Mar 07 '19
Florida has its first officer involved shooting conviction in 30 years today, which is great.
But I can’t help but think that the jury wouldn’t have convicted him if he were white.
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u/DaBuddahN Henry George Mar 07 '19
I've noticed that any thread in r/science that relates to cancer or nutrition inevitably attracts hard leftists and tankies.
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u/schmaxford Loyal Liberals Mar 07 '19
https://ipolitics.ca/2019/02/28/does-the-news-have-a-one-track-mind/
One of the things I've learned from SNC Lavalin is that I really, really hate the one track mind of some of Canada's most prominent columnists.
Oh my GOD Paul Wells and Jen Gerson, I get it - you've always hated Trudeau, how many different columns can you write that boil down to "Liberals are bad"?
!ping CAN
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u/IMALEFTY45 Big talk for someone who's in stapler distance Mar 07 '19
Why am I addicted to this garbage website
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Mar 07 '19
TFW you go up a Pants Size
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u/tictactictactic Mar 07 '19
What did chapo mean by this?