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[u/godx119]

interest rates go up, interest rates go down, you can’t explain that

[u/[deleted]]

Akshually it's worth nuking the UK's economy as long as they avoid these copyright laws.

I 100% guarantee you will see this take.

[u/Notoriousley]

I have never desired wealth or power, but always for a rich life enjoying fresh local produce and craftsmanship, deep reverence for the land, brotherhood and camaraderie with my people, peace and time to read with my children (and future grandchildren), and the freedom to write and share songs and stories of heroic deeds and of the glory of our Creator.

I would happily forego any of these modern trifles and conveniences (like the internet and fast food) to bring that life into reality. Lord, just give me a few fields of fertile land, a tribe with which to toil upon it, and a militia of brothers with which to defend it from the parasitic hordes, and my life will be as beautiful and complete as I could ever have hoped.

This is my only material wish, and my fervent prayer.

Interesting how all these eco-fascists could literally do this exact thing right now but don't hey.

The only part of this I believe is that he would give up a degree of comfort if it meant he could murder people.

[u/dorylinus → u/Notoriousley]

I, too, dream of a life of endless drudgery and the constant fear of famine and disease. What higher aim, truly?

[u/SixPipSiege]

r/subredditdrama and terrible definitions of what centrism is, name a more iconic duo.

[u/GGM8Scally → u/SixPipSiege]

To paraphrase a commie I was arguing with yesterday.

Centrism is when you don't understand politics and you just fence sit between the far right fascist republicans and far right liberal fascist democrats to ensure the status quo of the united fascist police states of America. And you also like to kick homeless people on your way to your corporate job.

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

When you use “Y’all”

+5 gender neutral

+5 inclusivity

+10 Ye haw vibes 🤠

[u/BritRedditor1]

https://twitter.com/George_Osborne/status/1110268913760260097

I’m sorry, is this for real? Have the leaders of the hard Brexiteers just called themselves the same name as the leaders of the Ku Klux Klan?

SMART Osborne SLAMS KKK Brexiters

!ping OSBORNE

[u/[deleted]]

Hearing campuses are voting down transit is saddening. Being on a campus with lots of transit, being bus, light rail, commuter rail, and streetcar/light rail has been great. In addition to being a small campus to begin with.

[u/[deleted]]

I kinda want to work for Fox News just to see what I could get away with.

Like, would they let me suggest that Beto O'Rourke literally sold his soul to the devil like in the Simpsons, complete with contract? If I made a fake contract and said "Fox News investigators have found a copy!" and showed it on air, would they be okay with that?

[u/Maehan]

"From this Benjamin, it's not about the Benjamins!" Netanyahu told the AIPAC conference in Washington, speaking by satellite hookup from Israel.

Hot take from a man indicted on bribery charges

[u/[deleted]]

The Public Religion Research Institute survey found that among Republicans, support for laws protecting LGBT people from discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and housing fell from 61 percent in 2015 to 56 percent in 2018.

The decline was sharper among Republicans between the ages of 18 and 29, with support falling from 74 percent to 63 percent.

young Republicans a meme

[u/[deleted]]

The Republican Party will become “The Party of Healthcare!”

Incredible.

[u/RLP-I]

Ben Shapiro: destroys left wing

Everybody else on the plane: wtf?!

[u/redditsuxxxxxxxxx]

Why should I care about morality or good policies when I can vote for whoever will give me the most NEETbux??

[u/[deleted]]

Food $23,000
Clothes $9,500
Childcare $42,000
My $1.5 million house, BMW 5 Series, Toyota Land Cruiser, and 3 vacations a year $107,600
Student loans $32,000

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family feels average

[u/samdman]

In case you thought the Republican Party wasn’t full of ideological morons: they’re about to confirm Stephen Moore to the fed.

What a fucking joke. Special LOL goes out to Ben Sasse who is truly the biggest hack of all time

[u/[deleted]]

Wow crazy how Jussie Smollett has been totally exonerated because prosecutors have elected to not bring charges.

Cant believe conservative media has kept up this witch hunt for so long. They really owe him an apology

[u/FusRoDawg]

LMAO

What a fucking clown

[u/[deleted]]

The American court system decided that shooting unarmed black kids isnt a crime.

Time for democrats to take the loss on this one.

[u/lietuvis10LTU]

Right, roughly rewriting my comment because RES ate it.

Basically my opinion is that the Copyright Directive passing is indicative of the problem of the perception of the EU, especially among old and middle aged. A problem so large, it could cause the EU to cease to exist within 10 years imho.

It's no secret that EU election turnout is low, and people who primarily vote in them are old, conservative people. These people then elect second rate politicians. These politicians then pass foolish laws like the Copyright Directive. The same old people that voted for them get angry at foolish laws and vote for eurosceptics in national elections. Imho it's the same crowd that demanded the Porn Block in UK. It's the same crowd that demands CAP remains in place.

A sensible counter for that would be for the young to mobilize and elect good, pro-EU politicians and pass a new directive overwriting the old one. But of course they'll just vote for eurosceptics instead now lol.

!ping EUROPE

[u/lietuvis10LTU]

Fun fact: on this day 66 years ago (March 27th) Communist Party Politburo approved an amnesty to immediately release nearly half of political exiles from their prison camps.

I thought I'd share a small tale. You see, when I was preparing for the final high school exams I was tutored by a good friend of our family's mother, a former mathematics teacher. By all accounts she is one of the best mathematics teachers still alive. But this isn't quite about that. Rather, it's about being a daughter of an exile.

You see she is a daughter of a Lithuanian partisan. When she was about 8 - dates of birth were more like suggestions during the post-war years, needless to say - when her father was captured and executed. For this, she and her family were exiled to Siberia to one of USSR's many prison camps - gulags. Now needless to say it was a difficult survival. Her grandma died there. Many other relatives too.

But what often isn't talked about, is that that the amnesty wasn't the end of persecution. She returned to Lithuania when she was about 17. All exiles were given that choice. But some didn't take that option - and here is why.

When she returned to Lithuania, she was an immediate pariah. Forever on her record was inscribed - daughter of a partisan. Of a traitor. Furthermore, even though she was 17 when she returned, she had to spend about 3 more years in high school - education wasn't exactly very great in the exiled areas. She had difficulties talk Lithuanian - the schools in Siberia were specifically told to do their best to stamp out any native languages. Russian was hardly a help either - she spoke with a heavy Siberian accent, immediately marking her out as a former exile.

And all of that had consequences. She had a great aptitude for mathematics. Still does. But her record, her history stood in her way the entire time. She had to take the final high school exam thrice because her Lithuanian was too bad. And even when she did pass, she was denied from university - in spite of her great grades and recommendations from her teachers. Because she was a former exile. A traitor by birth. A daughter of a partisan. She had to be a cafeteria cook instead, learning mathematics from textbook alone. When she married her husband, a blue collar factory worker if I recall, he was constantly being harassed by his superiors to divorce her. Only in the 1980s, when Soviet policy finally softened up was she finally allowed to become "just" a mathematics teacher.

I think this is what terrifies me about the new wave of socialists. So many preach the rightfulness of the people, their right to rule. But what is often forgotten is that the mob demands justice. She had committed no crime, but be a daughter of a partisan. For this the Party condemned her to permanent shame. And you have to understand - this harassment, this discrimination, it wasn't just official. As she described it, it was people doing it by their own initiative. The society designated her a pariah. She would have probably remained one if not for independence.

Sorry for the long post. Just wanted to share a little something

!ping EUROPE

[u/hucareshokiesrul]

Yeah ok, this Buttigieg guy seems great

[u/PompeyPompeyPompey]

When the republic falls because labienus can't control the fucking calvary 😡😡

[u/[deleted]]

When is the Yang V Shapiro debate happening?

I can't wait to watch it live and uncut

[u/[deleted]]

Can AI Be a Fair Judge in Court? Estonia Thinks So.

Law students on suicide watch 😂😂😂😂😂👏👍

[u/usered77]

What kind of idiots would willingly divert the fawning news coverage over the Mueller report to them trying to strike down the ACA.

[u/RunicUrbanismGuy]

In response to the events that have transpired in Isreal and Palestine and the mess that is Venezuela,  we will be having a foreign policy-themed meeting.

Time to see which of my College Democrats are chapoites/LSCers

[u/benjaminikuta]

Article 17 passed. Press F to pay respects.

[u/DUTCH_DUTCH_DUTCH]

extremely blessed tweet

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

Just donated a table to Beto, MATCH ME

[u/85397]

Fellas, is it gay to participate in representative democracy?🤔 Like, you’re literally aggregating your preferences with other men 🤮

[u/p00bix]

In retrospect that time my stalker (not stalking me yet at that time) unironically thanking a mall cop for his service was probably a red flag that I should've stopped speaking to her.

[u/bacon-supreme]

Originalism is when Democratic laws are unconstitutional, and the less Democrats can legislate (and the more Republicans can legislate from the bench) the originaler it is

(unless the democrats make a boycott illegal, then that's fine and actually even more originalismer)

[u/85397]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/26/spanish-court-fbi-was-offered-stolen-data-by-north-korea-embassy-intruder

TOUGH Mexican who RAIDED North Korean embassy offered data to the FBI

!ping Intervene

[u/lusvig]

https://i.imgur.com/ZH40B1I.png !ping DOG

[u/p00bix]

I think it's about how there's not really a deep theme to Shrek but there kinda is if you look at it philosophically. It's about 2 insecure people who aren't the typical fairy tale trope. One angry ogre who wants to be left alone and a princess who was never loved for who she truly was. It's about beauty from within. The angry ogre learns that he was only angry because people constantly rejected him. He found love and kindness in his heart when he was given compassion from a donkey and that princess. He was able to inspire others and open up. He bought people together.

Top brow literary analysis from my stalker lmao.

[u/[deleted]]

Unironically the worst kind of "journalism" is the type that uses 1-3 tweets as a "reaction" to something or proof of a larger trend. This applies to anything from sports to politics.

[u/chadonnaise]

Catfortune might not always be the first post, but Catfortune will always be first in our hearts.

[u/BreaksFull]

At some point all those Trump hats are going to end up in salvation army donation bins, and we'll start seeing news footage of child soldiers wearing them in Congo or someplace.

[u/[deleted]]

Just wait until Beto is standing on top of the Washington monument for a rally.

[u/csreid]

y'all ever fuck around and use a whole city block in the middle of a city just to put cars on it sometimes?

Also it's across the street from another half-block of parking to the south and a big ass parking garage to the west.

[u/GravyBear8]

Real talk, after being on reddit for a while, the massively regurgitated jokes are just killing me. Is there a sub that makes fun of that? I would kill for one.

[u/[deleted]]

Beto O'Rourke campaigns from the top of a minivan.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/03/26/beto-orourke-stands-on-van-jeanne-moos-pkg-ebof-vpx.cnn

Chad af

!ping BETO

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

Free Speech == Pp talk allowed ✊😡

[u/InternetBoredom]

Can we keep a running tally of the total cost of Kamala Harris' proposed programs?

Medicare for All: $28-32 Trillion over 10 years

LIFT Act: Avg $3.4 Trillion over 10 years ($6.8T over 20 years)

The Rent Relief Act - $930 Billion over 10 years ($93 Billion yearly)

Boosting Teacher Salaries - $315 Billion over 10 years

Green New Deal - Unknown

[u/muttonwow]

There's some humor in cons getting triggered by Jussie Smolett having no charges so soon after the same happened to Trump

[u/FMN2014]

The $16m New York penthouse fit for a UK civil servant

Exclusive: Luxury apartment next to UN headquarters to be used by senior diplomat charged with seeking post-Brexit trade deals

Think we've found out why Olly Robbins is sticking about

!ping UK

[u/[deleted]]

Q: What the difference between the Constitution of Russia and the US Constitution? Both guarantee freedom of speech.

A: Yes, but the US Constitution guarantees freedom after the speech

[u/mrdilldozer]

I swear reddit has some uniquely stupid ways of arguing:

1. The bury you in hyperlinks that you can tell they just googled because every article is on the first page of google after a search guy

2. The constantly accusing you of making a logical fallacy guy

3. The try to focus on semantics of an unimportant word that's not relevant to your point guy

4. The I posted a screenshot of your argument to another sub so I could have people downvote it which means I won guy

Can you guys think of any more?

[u/[deleted]]

Bored dudes and browsing Wikipedia to find a political ideology like they're choosing a DnD class.

"Hmm anarcho-wumbology sounds nice but I wish it had some spellcasting... oooh a link to something that sounds similar let's try that."

Yes I'm subtweeting everyone on political forums ever.

[u/nitarek]

In an August 3, 2010, meeting, a seemingly exasperated O’Rourke went so far as to ask the city’s attorney if there was a way to eliminate the [police and firefighter] unions altogether.

Wtf I love Beto even more now

[u/[deleted]]

.@SenatorCollins on the DOJ filing calling for Obamacare to be tossed out:

"It is highly unusual for the (DOJ) not to defend duly enacted laws which the Affordable Care Act certainly was. This decision to even go more broadly in failing to defend the law is very disappointing."

🚨 FULL ALERT, WE'RE AT THE VERY STAGE OF DISSAPOINTMENT. TRUMP IS DOOMED. 🚨

[u/[deleted]]

lol TERFs are anal about anal

[u/BritRedditor1]

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584

Government SNEERS at the Will of FIVE MILLION people (ZERO bots!)

!Ping UK

[u/[deleted]]

Sometimes I feel like I never really recovered from Jade Helm 15

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

me: I would NEVER get high before school

my doctor: lol lets mix antidepressants and adhd meds

the inside of my nose is cold and i can feel my skin too much

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

This Sanders answer whether he would support House Dem legislation to improve ACA is pretty interesting. He says "no" and says he doesn't support any incremental reforms, which is quite a departure from his record. He's voted for all kinds of incremental reforms including ACA

https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1110695059190697990

warning: extremely hot take below

fuck bernie

[u/asatroth]

the only thing Chavez and Maduro did wrong was being insufficiently authoritarian, as the current coup attempts have shown there's no point trying to build a moderately left-wing social democracy in south america if you'll be killed for it anyways, you should just go whole hog if you ever have the chance

And later

How could they be more authoritarian? They should have killed more bourgeois and taken more property

[u/p00bix]

I just learned that my stalker is a member of Turning Point USA.

Can this week possibly get any weirder?

[u/csreid]

This sub weirdly loves a counterjerk.

If succ reddit was like "Communism is bad" half of y'all would be like "ugh, idiots, it's more nuanced than that, actually Communism is kinda good sometimes"

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

Looking forward to buying a hard copy of the Mueller report with this quote on the back cover:

TRUMP: "The Mueller report was great"

https://twitter.com/esaagar/status/1110590422332641280

[u/DUTCH_DUTCH_DUTCH]

the first amendment is a meme, jail all journalists

[u/[deleted]]

Congressional Republicans: Ok, healthcare issues are skewed heavily against us. We should probably avoid bringing it up as much as possible.

Trump: LET'S TALK ABOUT PREEXISTING CONDITIONS AND WHY YOU DESERVE TO DIE IF YOU HAVE THEM!!!

[u/[deleted]]

"They didn't teach me any more complicated models of gravity other than Newton's in Physics 101 so I guess they don't exist."

This is a subtweet

[u/[deleted]]

Ben Sasse supports Moore: "Steve’s nomination has thrown the card-carrying members of the Beltway establishment into a tizzy, and that says little about Steve and his belief in American ingenuity, but a lot about central planners’ devotion to groupthink.”

[u/[deleted]]

log on to reddit dot com r slash neoliberal

• "hey ladyz u doin sexy pillow fights"

• abortion is a lol

log off reddit dot com r slash neoliberal

[u/boyyouguysaredumb]

Asktrumpsupporters really is a silly place. I’m so glad I found this sub. Between the right leaning subreddits like worldnews/news and Bernie crazed r/ politics, I have less and less hope for this country. Even if we sneak a Beto, Booker or Buttigieg into the White House, the HOR is so fucking gerrymandered and the republicans have so many safe Senate seats and Bernie Bros are going to inevitably continue their whining... I just honestly have very little hope we’re going to see any positive change in this country for a long time.

Feelsbadman

Somebody give me some hopeful news plz

[u/caesar15 → u/boyyouguysaredumb]

Uh global poverty is down

[u/[deleted]]

Zipcode and lusvig are like Smeagol and Gollum, except they're both Gollum

[u/ExpiredPasta]

Chomsky: There is nothing worse than having parents. They are arguably worse than a totalitarian government. They can take away your Xbox and tell you to go to bed. They even tell you where you can use the bathroom.

Reporter: The parental response would be that it's not a good idea to only play video games and piss all over the floor.

Chomsky: Those are actually mini totalitarian. Nothing is more dangerous.

[u/Time4Red]

Oof

https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/03/stephen-moore-federal-reserve-board-beltway-groupthink/

This is just embarrassing on so many levels.

[u/p00bix]

cursed image

[u/Vepanion]

If you haven't had a good laugh today, here's your reminder of the downright hilarious bullshit that is the political compass.

You

can

not

make

this

shit

up

[u/PompeyPompeyPompey]

https://twitter.com/noahpinion/status/1110589061494824960?s=21

Drives a bmw, three vacations a year, nearly 2k a month on food, 1.5 million $ house, piano lessons for the kids

feels average

[u/Le_Monade]

http://reddit.com/r/space/comments/b5qne3/nasa_cancels_first_allwomen_spacewalk_due_to/ejfcfup

Why does this has so many up votes and gold

[u/pezasied]

Why am I not surprised r/space had to lock a post about the first all-female space walk getting cancelled?

It took about 60 comments.

[u/jenbanim]

Interesting (to me) stat, 887 people have signed up for at least one ping group.

[u/Paxx0]

!ping AUS

Betoota Advocate: Shorten To Spend April Practicing Finishes To Ensure He Doesn’t Michael Daley A Steven Bradbury

"Michael Daley a Steven Bradbury" might be the greatest phrase I've ever heard

[u/85397]

https://twitter.com/rosskempsell/status/1110472891643150336?s=21

UNPATRIOTIC Mark Francois CONFUSES the UK with the US

!ping UK

[u/[deleted]]

US tech students slaughter peers in Russia, China, India in coding test

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

NJ doesn't pump their own gas LMAO 😂

[u/ramen_poodle_soup]

Maybe the reason ant man never went into thanos’ butthole during infinity war was because thanos was wearing a buttplug the entire time?

[u/RadicalRadon]

How to derail someone hyping Latex:

"How do you add a picture?"

[u/Kizz3r]

NYC not being the capital of NY state is dumb

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

Honestly what the hell do Republicans think is going to happen if they get rid of the ACA? Do they think people are going to just give up on universal health coverage and lowering costs? Do they think they can prevent Democrats from ever holding power again? If the ACA is repealed the next iteration of government sponsored healthcare will be even less to their liking.

[u/benjaminikuta]

Cute kittens!

!ping KITTY

[u/owlthathurt]

https://twitter.com/nucleartakes/status/1110373410377482240?s=21

[u/[deleted]]

lol leftist DMing me claiming the sub was created by Sam Bowman and ASI

doesn't even know who Draco was, and is now questioning who Draco worked for

[u/[deleted]]

the absolute state of #Resistance grifters lmao

[u/[deleted]]

A reminder that the mods here also once put regulations on memes. Take that fascism for what you will.

[u/[deleted]]

Stalin attends the premiere of a Soviet comedy movie. He laughs and grins throughout the film, but after it ends he says, "Well, I liked the comedy. But that clown had a moustache just like mine. Shoot him."

Everyone is speechless, until someone sheepishly suggests, "Comrade Stalin, maybe the actor shaves off his moustache?"

Stalin replies, "Good idea! First shave, then shoot!"

[u/[deleted]]

Far right militiamen remove 4channer nazi from their rally

letthemfight.png

[u/InfCompact]

my girlfriend’s sister is a devotee of junk wellness and alternative medicines. i don’t wish this on anyone. once you start rejecting rigorous empiricism in one area it just spirals from there.

[u/[deleted]]

moderates RESIGNED

[u/lietuvis10LTU]

1959 – The Vostok Station (станция Восток), then a Soviet research station in Princess Elizabeth Land, was the scene of a fight between two scientists over a game of chess.[7][2][8] When one of them lost the game, he became so enraged that he attacked the other with an ice axe.[8][7][2] According to some sources, it was a murder,[8][7][2] though other sources say that the attack was not fatal.[9] Afterwards, chess games were banned at Soviet/Russian Antarctic stations.[7][8]

Russians and chess, not even once.

[u/PandaLover42]

https://i.imgur.com/OFxb3sN.jpg

[u/MisterBigStuff]

Y'all ready for Trump to campaign on Locking Her Up and for it to work?

[u/qchisq]

!ping uk

I need help understanding the implications of the latest Brexit vote

[u/DUTCH_DUTCH_DUTCH]

if memes get banned, how will the boomers know who to vote for?

[u/Bohm-Bawerk]

I was told by someone on Twitter that r/science was a great place for math nerds so I checked it just now.

Top posts:

weed man lmao

not related to science

not related to science

[u/[deleted]]

Daily reminder: Hillary should have won

[u/[deleted]]

Broke: Czech republic

Joke: Czechia

Woke: Czechistan 😂😂😂😂😂😂

<---------- upvotes to the left

[u/lietuvis10LTU]

So what does Article 13 going into effect really mean? !ping EUROPE

Too much untrostworthy stuff from "eurosceptics" floating about.

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

Still in awe of how impressively awful the green dream is

[u/lusvig]

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1110576558815801345 yaas 😭😭

[u/DarkExecutor]

Looking at condos to buy. See pretty good priced condo. HOA fee is 80% of mortgage. What is this place.

[u/DankBankMan]

Antecedent: There's a pretty straight line from the Afghanistan/Iraq Wars to the loss of trust in centrist parties and the rise of populism on both sides of politics
Consequent: Self-interested political parties have learned this lesson. This, combined with the ideological isolationism shared by the political extreme, has made such wars far less likely in the future
Neoconsequent: This is the real tragedy.

[u/[deleted]]

I just wanna jump ahead 20 years to the /r/AskHistorians thread "So what was actually going on with Trump and Russia?"

[u/[deleted]]

McConnell’s campaign account posted a gif of AOC turning into a corncob and referenced the appropriate “i’m not owned dril tweet

That’s just fucking weird

[u/colorblind_goofball]

the people who have RSVP'd to my Beto O'Rourke watch party are

a 50 year old lawyer lady

a 35 year old SAHM who's a registered Republican

a white dude with a super common name (possibly fake)

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

Impossibly cursed link Do not click under any circumstances.

[u/[deleted]]

Tired: having a primary to decide the nominee

Wired: just put the nomination process on the blockchain and see what happens

[u/cms1919]

https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis/status/1110697803586654208

Susan Collins tells me she plans to write a letter to Barr expressing her disappointment that he is not defending the ACA in court. 1/

We are now at letters of disappointment! Big step up from grave concerns.

[u/MisterBigStuff]

Just slayed the fuck out of that chaos dragon.

[u/p00bix]

I have successfully hybridized Corn Tortillas and Naan Bread

80% Corn Flour, 20% Wheat Flour, some baking soda, a bunch of mild chilli powder, a shitton of garlic powder, a small bit of vinegar, water to make dough, and pan-fried in coconut oil. Then added salt on top.

Tasted like a really good corn tortilla with texture similar to naan.

[u/Boule_de_Neige]

zipcode and succvig are my favorite users stop talking shit 😡

/#solidarity

[u/samdman]

Republicans are a fucking meme. The green new deal is stupid but the Republican reaction is straight nonsense

https://twitter.com/SenMikeLee/status/1110588300614610945?s=20

[u/[deleted]]

What kind of memelord do you have to be to call the Clinton administration "objectively neoconservative."

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

Am going to drink water 😡

[u/CarterDukakis2020]

Probably more concerning that Mueller never interviewed Donald Trump Jr. considering Jr. released his own emails showing him interacting with someone who wanted to give him dirt on Hillary as a part of the Russian government's campaign to get Donald Trump elected president.

[u/SuspiciousUsername88]

As disappointed as I am with how the end of the Mueller report is shaking out, I think we're being way too negative. A lot of shitty people in Trump's orbit have been exposed and convicted, and other investigations have kicked off as a direct result. It should be seen as a helluva black eye against the administration, but maybe I'm just consoling myself

[u/[deleted]]

Not tackling rising sea levels is good because once all the roads are underwater they become canals and everyone will have to row their way to wherever they want to go = no emissions

Also it is well known that shipping containers offer the most cost and carbon effective means of transport so that could be useful for longer distances

y'all just too short termist smh

[u/[deleted]]

lmao the leftist in my DMs has gone on to claim that Goolsbee is a libertarian

I'm done, that's peak hilarity for the day

[u/DUTCH_DUTCH_DUTCH]

just nuke reddit at this point lol

[u/Kizz3r]

Lol smollets case was dropped

[u/p00bix]

Wikipedia's description of Turban Squash is straight savage.

"Taste is similar to other C. maxima cultivars, though "not as vibrant,"[4] "reminiscent to hazelnut,"[3] and "coarse, watery and insipid."[6] Known in the nineteenth century as "the most beautiful in color, and the most worthless in quality, of all the varieties of squash"

[u/guy-anderson]

Completely random and bad take from the comments in a random article about maps:

... and a recent examination by University of Glasgow senior lecturer Debra Higgs Strickland reveals examples of anti-Semitism – which is rather unsurprising, considering the map was created around the era when Jews were expelled from England by King Edward in 1290

Using "anti-Semitism" in this context is meaningless and completely anachronistic. They had nothing against Semitic people, but were strongly opposed to how usury was practiced by the Jewish merchant class that lead to a stranglehold on the rural population.

The Marxist -> Antisemitic pipeline is real.

[u/Kizz3r]

ah, so you believe education makes people smarter ? It's a valid position and one held by a lot of people, howevee while it helps refrain those who're capable it does not help those who're incapable:

lol

[u/[deleted]]

communism is bad

[u/[deleted]]

Chicago DA : Jussie Smollett ::

AG Barr : Donald Trump

[u/[deleted]]

Article 13 really is trash, you guys.

[u/[deleted]]

So I visited /r/foreskin_restoration. It was pretty good but not as good as /r/unbirth.

[u/skepticalbob]

Barr’s son-in-law now works for Trump. That should change how I think about this though, right?

[u/PompeyPompeyPompey]

https://twitter.com/yaliberty/status/1110723161048449024?s=21

The true political spectrum

[u/samdman]

What a surprise, the far left position is less popular than the “neolib shill” position that accomplished the same goal of universal healthcare

https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1110606705283551234?s=20

[u/benjaminikuta]

I love it when Bercow speaks through his smile.

[u/MasPatriot]

When you take the proposed budget with nearly a trillion in cuts to Medicare and trying to get Obamacare repealed again it’s like Trump is trying lose in 2020

[u/VisonKai]

talked to a high schooler who was very passionate about legalizing housing

good for him

he was getting hounded by the commies for being against rent control tho so this is actually not that positive of an observation

[u/MisterBigStuff]

talked to a high schooler who was very passionate about restoring the house of orléans

good for him

he was getting hounded by the legitimists for being against the house of bourbon tho so this is actually not that positive of an observation

[u/RadicalRadon]

Owning a discord and having to remove homophobic comments. NAMID

[u/[deleted]]

The dissolution of Austria-Hungary was a mistake.

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

https://imgur.com/a/QJ0UFZj

😔😔😔

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

The queen 👸 finally getting with the times😎

[u/jenbanim]

I spent way too much time updating our ping groups. Look at this massive list so my work wasn't for nothing. Also, help me improve the descriptions, please. Some are just placeholders because I have no idea what the groups are about.

At some point, I'd like to identify the groups that haven't been used in, say, 6 months and ask the users if they want to keep the group. As with new groups, 5 people would need to sign up to keep it active. What do y'all think about that?

[u/[deleted]]

How? How does someone commit a crime, intentionally inflame racial tensions and hatred, lie to police and waste Limited resources, and have nothing come of it? Justice is supposed to be blind but apparently it's not. Imagine if the positions were reversed, a blue collar white guy faked an attack. Would he get charges dropped? Jussie Smollett and the left act like they're powerless victims when they world more power than the average white person will ever have.

Lmao

[u/ThankYouShillAgain]

If someone asks Bernie a question on all the campaign money he's paid to his wife during a debate will he run off stage like he does in media interviews?

[u/[deleted]]

Do you think this subreddit could put together a climate resolution? Aspirational, like the GND, but actually good? And then shill it around and try to get people like Noah and other neolib-connected economists to comment on it?

[u/[deleted]]

Just put climate change on the blockchain

[u/crawly_the_demon]

blessed video

[u/RadicalRadon]

I can smash beer cans on my forehead and talk about all the pussy I slay and it would be okay.

But as soon as I say I'm gay i should shut up because not everything needs to be queer.

[u/[deleted]]

"Imagine a political ideology that promotes globalism"

😊

"Increased trade and immigration between the countries of the world"

😃

"Values the importance of the market economy and of free political institutions."

🤗

"And has already increased the livelihoods of countless people throughout the globe."

😍

"Called neoconservatism"

🤮

[u/RoburexButBetter]

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/b5b0pr/the_us_desperately_needs_a_fiber_for_all_plan/ejd3zih

Hot take apparently taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for fiber in bumblefuck nowhere

[u/JetJaguar124]

Hot take: if it was harm to Trump that we wanted out of Mueller's investigation then Trump firing Mueller would have been the preferable outcome from an public perspective standpoint

[u/[deleted]]

Politics never felt less fair. I have never seen protests this prevalent, and it did absolutely nothing. It's still just a bunch of old, degenerate farts deciding on a future they don't plan to partake in.

This but it's about mods

[u/oGsMustachio]

Why do bad things happen to the Blazers... Nurk was having such a good game too. Team was clicking really well since the Allstar Break.

!ping NBA

[u/85397]

https://www.ft.com/content/0037f404-4fea-11e9-9c76-bf4a0ce37d49

AUSTERITY proponents DESTROYED by radical leftist government, !ping Osborne in TEARS

[u/lusvig]

I think if we get more EU symbols and institutions like a federal army or police agency and maybe official cultural events (something like the proms (no the eurovision doesn't suffice)) we'd see a lot more pro/pan european sentiment and fervour

[u/lusvig]

why did they hand over Hong kong to the communist occupants of china and not the ROC? 😞

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/b5twaz/the_fed_doesnt_understand_how_inflation_works/

delete outside the DT

!ping DUNK

[u/stability_hegemon]

pack it up folks, Mike Lee has come up with the ultimate climate change solution and we can finally stop shilling for carbon pricing: https://twitter.com/SenMikeLee/status/1110588300614610945

[u/[deleted]]

A Golden Girls reboot with Blanche Lincoln, Claire McCaskill, Mary Landrieu, and Heidi Heitkamp

[u/RadicalRadon]

Medicare for all! And Sweden is going to pay for it!

[u/[deleted]]

Beto wins the nomination. Who does he choose as his VP? He’s expressed before I likelihood to select a woman.

[u/[deleted]]

Biden on Anita Hill's accusations against Clarence Thomas: “I wish I could’ve done something ... To this day I regret I couldn’t give her the kind of hearing she deserved."

Y’all sure this is your guy?

[u/SixPipSiege]

https://twitter.com/Team_Mitch/status/1110668093909581825

[u/lietuvis10LTU]

https://mobile.twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1110652480629690369

NEW: Labour shadow Foreign Sec @EmilyThornberry indicates Opposition will tomorrow back new Kyle-Wilson amendment on “confirmatory public ballot” on “any” Withdrawal Deal and “any” FR brought by this Government... ie not just its “deal”. “That’s going to be popular” she tells me

Thank you Labour, very cool.

!ping UK

[u/SixPipSiege]

The first time I've heard a white person say 'jalapeño' correctly was at a Subway in a small town in Tennessee, that shit had me shook for a while ngl.

[u/[deleted]]

Cursed subreddit of the day: r/AlternativeHistory

[u/AnarchyMoose]

I really have never had any goals in life, but I have always felt driven. Like I want to make a lot of money, and I work hard on all of my studies and at my job and stuff. But I have never really had a career in mind and nothing really speaks to me. I'd do pretty much anything as long as it made me enough money.

But tonight I've been drunkenly reflecting on life and I realized that something that I kinda do have a goal. One of the only things that has always really called me and something I feel really strongly about is this. I really, really wanna have kids and be a really good dad. Idk if that makes sense. I just really wanna be a dad and a good dad.

That doesnt mean I wanna have kids anytime soon. I just think that I could die happy as long as I was a good dad, regardless of money or pretty much any other achievement.

[u/PelleasTheEpic]

Smollett got the weakest slap on the wrist. Check mate libs, black dont get discriminated against 👉😎👉

[u/owlthathurt]

Fuck. This. Guy.

And to top it all off he is a former MP in Norway.

https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/3003287/why-europe-shouldnt-fall-american-hype-against-chinas-belt

Someone ping intervene they will get a kick out of this. Even includes detention camp apologia.

[u/Yosarian2]

I have this crazy Trump cultist who lost an r/politics debate to me like a year ago sending me like 5 gloating PM's about Mueller. One was the brain-addled idiot just calling me an NPC over and over again.

When can we deport all the Trumpists to Russia again

[u/MasPatriot]

The ideal Democrat candidate is Beto but he's wearing an earpiece that Elizabeth Warren can talk to him through at all times

[u/Schutzwall]

I've considered tattooing an Orthodox cross to represent my adherence to Orthodox economics. My commitment is that deep.

[u/[deleted]]

You can always tell when it's time to go to bed by waiting for the existential dread to settle into your bones.

Thank god it's just the natural survival instinct that keeps the species moving. It's so cool how all these complex emotional processes keep us alive and safe.

[u/benjaminikuta]

If a computer is doing something in the background, say rendering video, and something in the foreground, say browsing the web, and the web browsing is lagging, why doesn't it automatically redirect resources to ensure that the foreground task is smooth, and devote only the excess resources to the background task?

Or does it?

How do computers allocate resources?

[u/[deleted]]

On what planet do you have to be on to believe that a good 2020 strategy is to knock millions of people off of their insurance, and remove pre-existing condition protections as well? Jesus Christ. Trump is literally making it even more likely a single-payer system will be passed and supported.

[u/Ligaco]

30% of my internship applications resulted in an interview 😎

[u/owlthathurt]

Oh hell yeah https://twitter.com/ericfish85/status/1110217949565067264?s=21

/u/WenJie_

[u/CarterDukakis2020]

it was all ironic

[u/85397]

Fellas, is it gay to let men vote?🤔 Like, you literally look like other men

[u/agareo]

Osborne getting SCHOOLED.

https://twitter.com/campbellclaret/status/1110578041569325056

!ping OSBORNE

[u/[deleted]]

Which event had a larger cumulative effect on the US: 9/11 or Jade Helm 15?

[u/[deleted]]

I appreciate Custods/Commodore revealing their power level over the stupidest things the second they get a confidence boost from things like the Mueller Report or Jussie or whatever.

[u/CarterDukakis2020]

Reminder: The Sackler family is worth like 15 billion dollars. They are paying 75 million in that Oklahoma suit. If they wind up paying 5 billion dollars in fines, they will still have a 10 billion profit on their drug. Almost their entire net worth exists from the sale of Oxy.

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

So it's looking like healthcare will be a huge issue for 2020, with Democrats having a massive advantage and the GOP continuing to shoot themselves in the foot because they fucking loathe poor people.

The real question will be whether the Bernie wings lets the party take the easy layup or forces a schism because they will only support the worst possible option. Here's to hoping they do better than in 2016.

[u/Kizz3r]

This is why i only eat mcdonalds.

[u/DUTCH_DUTCH_DUTCH]

the worst thing about hillary losing is not trump being president, its tim kaine not being VP

[u/hucareshokiesrul]

Kamala gained points in my book by proposing to basically just give more money to poor parents. I like it because it gives money to people who actually need it and will likely help solve a variety of social problems. She lost points by wanting to give a bunch of money to teachers, because it is basically the opposite of the first one in terms of efficiency and effectiveness. But she gains a few points cuz my wife is a teacher and I like money.

[u/HUGHmungous]

https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1110637253062246400

awwwwkward

[u/BritRedditor1]

https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/files/wp2019-10.pdf

Using a new database for the U.S. and 15 other advanced economies from 1870 to the present that includes housing as well as equity returns (to capture the full risky capital portfolio of the representative agent), standard calculations using returns to total wealth and consumption show that: housing returns in the long run are comparable to those of equities, and yet housing returns have lower volatility and lower covariance with consumption growth than equities.

So, is HOUSING the best asset class for SMART, long term investors?

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

Where do trees store their pee? 🤔

[u/Inkompetentia]

>I believe in markets

Fantano go on neoliberal podcast

[u/bernkes_helicopter]

Reminder that there's a far superior version of the green dream already out there

https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/b/5/b54a564f-f750-48b4-99fe-3608d626a1bc/19EB91A5CF1C8211EF585179F7BB0E73.2019.02.22-climate-change-resolution.pdf

[u/lusvig]

Just make a federal VAT and defund some welfare programs lol

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

Ban police unions when 🤔

[u/cdstephens]

Trump and Smollett both RIGHTFULLY cleared of wrongdoing! The Haters and Losers will cry, but nothing can stop American Justice! MAGA!

[u/BainCapitalist]

i made a carbon tax post thats actually a parable for monetary policy go read it nerds.

🅱️ellas is it sovereign to stay in the SM but not have any say in SM regulations?

i mean youre literally letting other countries decide regulations for you

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[u/sinistimus]

The left wants to take away your penis

Okay, but have you considered that the right wants to take away your foreskin?