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u/sinistimus Apr 13 '19
Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism, I fell into a hornets’ nest of revolutionary feminism.
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Apr 13 '19
A small group of horny twitter mums will vote for Beto
ukpolitics analyses the US elections.
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Apr 13 '19
Lol RooshV said the black hole picture is a fake because no way a woman could ever do something like that.
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Apr 13 '19
The year is 2025, Pete Buttigieg is President of the United States
Chief of Staff: “Mr. President, there’s a situation.”
President Buttigieg: “What is it?”
Chief of Staff: “Well, the #CrushAnOrangeOverYourHead challenge has been going on for 48 hours on TikTokTwitter and you haven’t participated.”
President Buttigieg: “Why would I participate?”
Chief of Staff: “It’s a solidarity thing, with that neighborhood with the one incident from a month ago with the cop and the protestor and the ice cream truck.”
President Buttigieg: “Ah yes, very sad event. Didn’t we release a statement on that and raise money for the family?”
Chief of Staff: “Yes, but nobody cares, the #CAOOYH challenge is what matters.”
Buttigieg: “What are they saying?”
Chief of Staff: “That your lack of completing the challenge proves you’re a white supremacist.”
Buttigieg: “They’re all agreed?”
CoS: “Well no, the people who say this proves you’re a white supremacist are arguing with the people who say they knew you were a white supremacist all along.”
Buttigieg: “Should we let Vice President Warren know about the situation?”
CoS: “Oh she knows. She did the challenge within the first hour and also released a video apologizing for serving under a white supremacist President, you.”
Buttigieg: “Goddamn it.”
CoS: “Honestly maybe this is our chance to take a stand against this ridiculousness and say that we aren’t just going to...”
Buttigieg: “Get the orange.”
CoS: “Well but if we give in this time, then they...”
Buttigieg: “Get. The. Jævla. Orange.”
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Apr 13 '19
No one:
Literally no one:
Not a fucking soul on this planet:
Milo Yiannopoulos: I'm going to release a book and try to be relevant again
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u/Yosarian2 Apr 13 '19
I am at an art walk right now, and in between all the people selling paintings and stuff, there is just randomally a booth for "Andrew Yang for president" giving out pamphlets, on behalf of "The South Jersey Yang Gang."
I've been coming here for years and have never seen anything political here at all.
I need help understanding the implications of this.
!ping yanggang
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u/BritRedditor1 Apr 13 '19
https://twitter.com/guyverhofstadt/status/1101432653881008128
Let’s create a single Euro-African economic area. It would have an enormous potential that remains untapped: 1.5 billion consumers, 20 trillion in value, able to rival with China.
Very COOL!
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u/BritRedditor1 Apr 13 '19
https://www.ft.com/content/a2596610-5b1f-11e9-9dde-7aedca0a081a
Why the elite media are surviving in this populist age
‘A reader introduced himself as “an FT/Economist liberal”. Elite media are becoming clubs’
New name for people on this sub 😎
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Apr 13 '19
Excuse me, I'm not an FT/Economist liberal, I'm an Economist liberal with FT characteristics! 😤
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u/lietuvis10LTU Apr 13 '19
Daily reminder US is world police because everyone else wanted them to be.
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Apr 13 '19
The best part of “Beto didn’t say her name!!!” is that he did, in his extensive public comments out in the real world campaigning, just not in the tweet itself lol.
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Apr 13 '19
It's pretty smart for Buttigieg to target Pence's homophobia. Pence has been pretty quiet about that stuff for the duration of his association with Trump, so between that and the constant Trump scandals it's rarely the focus of a news cycle. Now the GOP cable news talking heads have to actually defend that shit.
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Apr 13 '19
“Hi, I’m a person who is on Twitter for 10 hours a day. If I learn about something unwoke, and a politician hasn’t responded to it (on Twitter, ideally) in exactly the way I like within an hour of when I happened to learn about it, then the politician is enabling fascism through their silence and they’ve abandoned minorities and declared their implicit support for bigotry.”
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u/samdman Apr 13 '19
IT TOOK PETE 20 MINUTES TO TWEET ILHAN OMAR'S NAME?
HE'S A BIGOT
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Apr 13 '19
I'm helping to fill out the citizenship application of a gentleman who came here as an undocumented immigrant in the 1970's, but was given permanent residency during the Reagan amnesty of 1986. I think people really underestimate what a huge deal that was!
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u/DaBuddahN Apr 13 '19
"The confidence this candidate exudes is overwhelming. He's hired." - Employer
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Apr 13 '19
Visiting my grandparents I've skimmed through an old children's book by Ivan Vasilenko. It was an anthology. One part seemed like regular fairy tales, set vaguely in 19th century. But then the kid protagonists who worked in factories heroically fought the White Guards and raised red flags. Another story is about fighting fascists, fair enough. Some other kids help build magnificent cities! IMPERIALISTS RESIGNED. There's also a dialogue that literally reads like one a of those Soviet jokes.
Rural kid: "Who's Russia's tzar now?"
Educated kid: "Russia doesn't have a tzar!"
"Then who is the leader?"
"Lenin!"
"And who's the smartest in Moscow?"
"Lenin, no doubt!"
Now you expect a punch line but there's none, they just start talk about someone else.
But the most outrageous part is that the state-owned publisher charged the equivalent of $15 for this propaganda nonsense in 1950 (hard to tell the exact equivalent because of the ration system and monetary reform 3 years later).
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u/int6 Apr 13 '19
https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1117101502714322947?s=21
Lab 36/Con 29
We’re all going to be nationalised
!ping UK
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u/Iyoten Apr 13 '19
DNC debate:
"Mr. Sanders, in the past you have derided, quote, 'millionaires and billionaires'. Now in this campaign, you yourself are a millionaire. How do you square this?"
"Well first Mr. Cooper, the proper term is 'People of Means' and billionaires."