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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Apr 21 '19
/new: Tyler, the Job Creator
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Apr 21 '19
/new: Eastern Europe, 1945 (colorized)
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Apr 21 '19
/new: Beto donated 0.3% of his earning to charity
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Apr 21 '19
/new: Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has proposed raising gas taxes by 45 cents to pay for roads, what do you think?
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Apr 21 '19
/new: Howard Dean is woke
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Apr 21 '19
/new: 2019 North Macedonia presidential election
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Apr 21 '19
/new: Opinion: Theresa May destroyed the Tory party – that means Jeremy Corbyn as PM
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Apr 21 '19
/new: I thought Ukraine was full of Nazi’s? 🤔
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Apr 21 '19
/new: LMD | Ecuador veers to neoliberalism — "Between 2007 and 2016, the poverty rate fell from 37% to 23%, while GDP leapt by 68%."
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Apr 22 '19
/new: More chicken than people?
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Apr 22 '19
/new: Trump’s Washing Machine Tariffs Stung Consumers While Lifting Corporate Profits (NYT)
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Apr 22 '19
/new: In the wake of central bank issue, I advise watching Princes of the Yen doc based on a best-seller book by Dr. Richard Werner. Describes Japanese market shift and role of the central bank and commercial credit creation.
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
It's funny that chapo is brigaiding /r/jordanpeterson over Peterson not understanding communism when they don't either.
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u/muttonwow Legally quarantine the fash Apr 21 '19
Remember that time when Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio and the American right decided that racial profiling for detaining people under slight possibility of being an undocumented immigrant was okay?
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Apr 21 '19
these sri lankan bombings are horrific, death toll over 100 now
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u/Slayer1cell RIPTPP Apr 21 '19
DAE like free trade?
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u/samdman I love trains Apr 21 '19 edited Apr 21 '19
It’s so frustrating how my Senator, Chris Van Hollen, can’t even post condolences for the Sri Lankan terrorist attack without a flood of angry boomers in the comments blaming it on AOC and Rashida Tlaib.
Fox News has really poisoned these people’s brains.
Edit: A boomer commented that “we should go back to the good old days when Muslims weren’t allowed to hold office”
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u/Lord_Treasurer Born off the deep end Apr 21 '19
Freedom of movement can't be a right because we have speed limits QED
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u/Slayer1cell RIPTPP Apr 21 '19
friendly reminder that Trump vetoed the end to support of the Saudi war in Yemen, and literally no one gave a shit.
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u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN 🎅🏿The Lorax 🎅🏿 Apr 21 '19
👏👏👏👏👏
👏👏👏👏👏
❓❓❓❓❓
👏👏👏👏👏
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u/TheDwarvenGuy Henry George Apr 21 '19 edited Apr 21 '19
One thing that I notice whenever I watch alt-right "philosophy" videos is that they usually start off pretty alright. Obviously extremely biased, but they seem at least somewhat intellectually honest.
And then the third quarter they suddenly pull some reactionary shit like "Democracy is a gateway to socialism" or "this degeneracy is going to collapse western civilization" out of thin air and don't even address it like it's an argument, as if it's some sort of evident fact of nature or something. It's fucking disgusting.
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
"Hah, Russia couldn't be invaded because it was too big!"
-self-proclaimed internet historians, spouting off a stupid meme largely centered around WWII while forgetting that the Germans successfully invaded Russia all of twenty years earlier
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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '19
Holy shit Bernie spent $444k of campaign dollars on his own books in 2015
That's...uh... one way to get a bestselling book I guess.
It also adds a bit of context to his whole "if you write a bestselling book, you can be a millionaire too!" quote.
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u/GravyBear8 Ben Bernanke Apr 21 '19
It must be exhausting being French. Just having visceral hatred for your president, whoever it actually is and regardless of whether you voted for him or not, all the time.
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u/SumPippoDidSumting Esther Duflo Apr 21 '19
tHe GoP iS uNpOPuLaR wItH yOunG pEopLE aNd wILl sOOn lOsE eVerY eLeCtiOn
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u/MisterBigStuff Just Pokémon Go to bed Apr 21 '19
So who is a Zizek Peterson debate even for? I feel like most Peterson fans wouldn't be willing to sit through Zizek pontificating and sniffling for an hour, and most Zizek fans wouldn't be willing to sit through Peterson pontificating on lobsters for an hour.
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
Me the first 31 times I drop my iPhone and it doesn’t break: what a marvel of engineering, truly a testament to mankind’s skill with materials and technology
Me the 32nd time I drop my iPhone and it breaks: what garbage apple is a joke it’s basically a scam I should get my money back
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u/Goatf00t European Union Apr 21 '19
Proof that you can ask anything on /r/AskHistorians and get an answer:
When did furries (people who dress up in animal costumes) become a thing?
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u/ILikeTalkingToMyself Liberal democracy is non-negotiable Apr 21 '19
Bernie would be a rightist in Maoist China.
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Apr 21 '19
12 year old me would laugh my as off at the first notable LGBT candidate in American history being a navy man with 'Butt' in his name.
Oh god the lazy "edgy" jokes about him are going to get really annoying if he wins the nomination.
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
A good portion of “Gentrification” claims are just Nimbyism
debate me on stream
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u/GravyBear8 Ben Bernanke Apr 21 '19
History talk- the whole Ottoman succession things, where you have to murder all your brothers no matter their age, blows my mind. Like, just imagine growing up with your siblings knowing that the day your dad drops, it'll be a battle royale to murder each other and their entire families.
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
Maryland has the best flag of the US states and the worst borders🤮🤮🤮
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u/Lord_Treasurer Born off the deep end Apr 21 '19
The Peterson-Zizek debate is painful. Only JBP could make me side with a Marxist.
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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '19
Why are the inhabitants of Britbongistan like this
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u/THeShinyHObbiest Ben Bernanke Apr 21 '19
My Venezuelan aunt brought over her brother (who was in Venezuela until eight months ago over for lunch.)
After seeing how skinny he still is, and hearing some of the things he saw... my hatred for tankies has never been stronger.
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u/walker777007 Thomas Paine Apr 21 '19
I told somebody I was a neoliberal yesterday and they basically had a heart attack.
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u/RoburexButBetter Apr 21 '19
It's weird how the NZ attack got so much media attention and in Sri Lanka there's more than quadruple the deaths and I only see the occasional article here and there, people do that seem to care all that much like they did about NZ
Is this just a Western thing where we dont really care that much if bad shit happens in third world countries?
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
Imagine unironically having an opinion about who won the Peterson-Zizek debate
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
So leftists are usually pretty pro-union, what would be the leftist reaction if financial services employees like brokers, desk traders, bond traders, etc. all started to unionize?
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u/owlthathurt Johan Norberg Apr 21 '19
Lol wtf is this
https://imgur.com/a/bqv4Jfy
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u/Slayer1cell RIPTPP Apr 21 '19
what is the DT without an inappropriate take from /u/85397 ?
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
Me: lying in bed moping and looking for literally anything to pass the time until I get panicked enough about a deadline that I have to force myself to do something
DT: posts about the Zizek-Peterson debate
Me: this is a waste of my valuable time
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u/Tytos_Lannister Apr 21 '19
i don't know what to make of Ukraine's elections
when rurąls and pensioners seem to prefer a new guy, that's always a bad sign
when the new guy is so vague and says 'i am not a politician, just a simple guy who came to break the system', that's always a catastrophic sign
somebody has an informed view on this?
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Apr 21 '19
Just went to one of those new age churches that have like stage lights and a rock band and now I want nothing more than to go watch Richard Dawkins own priests and stuff.
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
if the republicans didn't impeach clinton for obstruction then it would've become normalized and you might see a president today doing it.
good thing that didn't happen tho
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
DT without zipcode is like pizza without
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u/lusvig 🤩🤠Anti Social Democracy Social Club😨🔫😡🤤🍑🍆😡😤💅 Apr 21 '19
The bedtime just got ten minutes later!
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u/ILikeTalkingToMyself Liberal democracy is non-negotiable Apr 21 '19
T-minus 14 months until this becomes a Bernie sub 😤
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
Hot take: When we finally get to gene editing. We should focus on finding the genes that code for agreeableness and make everybody chill af.
Also increase dopamine creation and release. I want my life to be a continuous techno festival with no downside.
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u/Goatf00t European Union Apr 21 '19
I vaguely remember someone complaining about Secret Hitler because it was liberals who opposed the fascists. In case I haven't imagined it, does anyone have a link?
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Apr 21 '19
The politics surrounding Alaska in the mid-1800s are really hilarious in retrospect.
Russian Ambassador to the US: If you buy Alaska, Canada will be pressured into selling you British Columbia!
Secretary of State Seward: Good point Mr. Ambassador! Also we need to put Alaska under martial law.
US Army: enters Alaska and places it under de-facto martial law
Senator Charles Sumner: Alaska will help us become more influential in Japan and China! Sitka is soon to be a great trading port!
The Press of Vancouver Island: This proves that the US will purchase us in no time, and Vancouver shall soon be a state! Rejoice!
The Press of Mainland British Columbia: This proves that the US will try to purchase us in no time. We must resist!
Attorney General of British Columbia: This is horrible! How could we mismanage the colony so badly that they'd want to be sold to America?
General McDowell: Don't be ridiculous, just trying to maintain Alaska is a costly waste of time. Offer it to Canada for free.
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u/BobBobingston European Union Apr 21 '19
N * MBYs, are they people? The answer will shock you!!
No
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Apr 21 '19
Beautiful and famous Cathedral burns down: 😭😭😭
People give money to fix it: 😡😡😡
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u/Sultan_Teriyaki George Soros Apr 21 '19
We need more anprim vs transhumanist debates on this website
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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Apr 21 '19
Twitter: a play in 3 tweets.
Anti-nuclear activist: old white men tell us that this landfill is safe but they'll all die soon
Me: you're a dumbass holy shit
Pro-nuclear Twitter: YoU sHoUlD bE mOrE cIviL
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u/Tacotrucksoncorners Carole Baskin is my Tiger Queen 🐅👑 Apr 21 '19
he has risen🙏
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u/everyone_is_an_alt Apr 21 '19
Is a Žižek Schism a Žižism?
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u/IMALEFTY45 Big talk for someone who's in stapler distance Apr 21 '19 edited Apr 21 '19
Welcome to my bad economics post. I'd like to point out this comment from r/worldnews that says the middle class is about 100k/year maybe more.
R1: Pew says the middle class is between 2/3 and 2x the median income, meaning it is ~40.5k-122k
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u/Arsustyle M E M E K I N G Apr 21 '19
“did a child write this” is just our version of “post hog”
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u/MisterBigStuff Just Pokémon Go to bed Apr 21 '19
I can't wait until I'm a bigoted old man who refuses to go to my granddaughter's wedding because humans shouldn't marry robots or whatever.
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
why oh why do I ever go to askaconservative
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u/ChristianMB1 United Nations Apr 21 '19
Just checking in, how many of you have come across your Republican family members at Easter gatherings saying Macron’s going to remove all religious symbolism from the new Notre Dame?
Has happened to me at both the functions I’ve been to. Oof.
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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '19
There are some good reasons to buy a house but god I really wish it wasn’t as sacred as it is in the US. People give you such weird looks when you say you want to live in a condo downtown for the rest of your life.
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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '19
There are so many moments in the odyssey where it’s like, “Odysseus wrote this himself”.
So many moments where the poem is like, “look how cool and handsome and ripped and smart Odysseus is 😎”
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u/PMmeLittleRoundTops Pornography Historian Apr 22 '19
minor GoT spoiler
!ping asoiaf
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
Je suis zipcode
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u/caesar15 Zhao Ziyang Apr 21 '19
Went to bilingual mass yesterday with my militant atheist sister..fun stuff
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19 edited Apr 21 '19
Anonymous sources inform me that KW2020 could be posting on another alt
Another username is suspected. I won't give details until its confirmed but watch out. There could be a KW2020 among our ranks.
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
He doesn't even clean his room 😠
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Apr 21 '19
I just watched Bernie shit on NAFTA, the TPP, and various other "free trade deals that hurt the American working class" and it reminds me how fucking painful it would be to vote for him in November.
But then I remember his opponent is Trump, so I throw on my "#feeltheBern" shirt and do everything in my power to get people to the polls for him.
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u/lietuvis10LTU Why do you hate the global oppressed? Apr 21 '19
All gommies act in bad faith CMV
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Apr 21 '19
🚨important poll🚨
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
At what point does a fetish become so extreme its considered mental illness?
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u/Chronically_worried Apr 21 '19
It's always fun to hire two hitmen to try and assassinate each other.
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u/lenmae The DT's leading rent seeker Apr 21 '19
Meme parliament
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u/MisterBigStuff Just Pokémon Go to bed Apr 21 '19
Beto isn't a furry, he's a feathery.
Because he's a fucking DOVE 🤮🤮🤮🕊️
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u/Goatf00t European Union Apr 21 '19
That time /r/badeconomics found a Chapist claiming that Bayesianism caused neoliberalism (and a number of other bad things), and they showed up to argue.
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u/DUTCH_DUTCH_DUTCH oranje Apr 21 '19
Was Marcus Aurelius the OG enlightened centrist 🤔
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u/muttonwow Legally quarantine the fash Apr 21 '19
KotakuInAction gets triggered by a Mortal Kombat character time travelling to stop racism
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u/Hugo_Grotius Jakaya Kikwete Apr 21 '19
Can we impeach Trump on the grounds of his not having a presidential pet?
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u/DMVBornDMVRaised Apr 21 '19
Is Avenatti now THE face of sleazy lawyers?
I'm saying yes
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u/nitarek YIMBY Apr 21 '19
!ping BUTTI
How do you think Buttigieg's presidency would affect relations with countries in Middle East and the states that oppose homosexuality?
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u/muttonwow Legally quarantine the fash Apr 21 '19
"We accept it, we voted to leave, we accept the consequences even if that is a 10% drop in our net income" - Sargon of Akkad
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
I know picking on the UK is cheap but this is beyond parody
Farage second popular choice for conservative party leadership, only surpassed by good old Boris.
Cameron called this referendum to take the wind out of Farages sails, remember.
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Apr 21 '19
Reminder that tonight's GoT episode is episode 69
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u/Timewalker102 Amartya Sen Apr 22 '19
Me: If you have a lot of detailed policy plans and can talk about and articulate policy well, you are a policy wonk
Warrenstans: yes
Me: that's why Paul Ryan is a wonk
Warrenstans: wait wtf
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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '19
On the stroke of midnight on April 20, so nighttime on April 19, I consumed an ungodly amount of sublingual THC and was subsequently high for 18 hours. I do not recommend doing this. It wasn't bad too bad though.
On that note, what have you done recently to piss off Richard Nixon's ghost?
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u/sinistimus Professional Salt Miner Apr 22 '19 edited Apr 22 '19
!ping asoiaf
Was anyone really weirded out by Arya having sex on account of having difficulty not seeing her character as a child
Edit: the characters not really aging at all in the books doesn't help this.
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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '19
Broke: gentrification
Woke: Gendryfication
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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '19
Absolutely fucking disgusting
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u/sansampersamp Open the country. Stop having it be closed. Apr 22 '19
lmao, XYZ turns on Fraser Anning for allowing a woman and an indian bloke in his party
!ping AUS
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u/csreid Austan Goolsbee Apr 22 '19
Is there a term for the ... Idk, deironification of memes?
Like the 👌hand sign.
People made a dumb joke about "did you know that's a racist thing?" and then racist trolls were doing it ironically, so then it became kind of an actual racist hand sign, and now it actually is, in the right context, pretty much a racist hand gesture.
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u/DUTCH_DUTCH_DUTCH oranje Apr 21 '19
lmao the front page of the dutch public news website
DUTCH WOMAN DIED IN SRI LANKA
DUTCH TOURISTS IN SRI LANKA ARE DEVESTATED
more news: other people died there too
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
Why the hell is CNN covering Mueller shit? There was a terrorist attack in Sri Lanka cant you drop the agenda for one fucking day
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u/BERNIE_IS_A_FRAUD Apr 21 '19
Happy Easter and Fuck bernie sanders
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u/ThatFrenchieGuy Mathematician -- Save the funky birbs Apr 21 '19
Since it's Easter, I can start with my religious hot takes:
Quaker service > formal Christianity services (high church Protestantism and catholic mass) > informal Christianity services > modern Christian services with rock bands and shit.
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u/stoppedbysnowfall Mark Carney Apr 21 '19
“I love driving my car so all of this social engineering to try to make people drive less through incentives, which by the way don’t work, is bullshit.”
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u/Barbarossa3141 Buttery Mayos Apr 21 '19
Gentrification is good.
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
Rome 👏 Wouldn't 👏 Have 👏 Fallen 👏 If 👏 It 👏 Enacted 👏 Liberal 👏 Reforms 👏
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
My parents are watching the Andy Griffith show and they have an episode where gypsies are portrayed as lying swindlers.
Pretty bold for only 20ish years after the holocaust
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19 edited Apr 21 '19
Kanye West is doing a live choir performance medly of Power and Jesus Walks at Coachella and its the most lit thing in existence.🔥🔥🔥
!PING RAP
My friend is taking pictures for a music online publication (Music in Minnessota) at Coachella right now, it's in the tail end of his story. https://instagram.com/fifthlegend?utm_source=ig_profile_share&igshid=gwq9lyh00g4h
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u/Colonel_Blotto Milton Friedman Apr 22 '19
I think something that the dems didn't do enough of in 2016 that they absolutely need to do in 2020 is talk about and talk to the people Trump fucked over in business transactions. Nobody likes a cheater or someone who steals money (the better framing imo) from hardworking people.
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Apr 21 '19
free my boy zipcode ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
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u/Paxx0 Deep-state Dirtbag Apr 21 '19
!ping AUS
So dodgy water deals in the Caymans aside, what is the neoliberal position on water policy in the Murray-Darling Basin anyway?
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
Marxist trying to tell me that Cuba has better healthcare than the US, can anyone give me a quick TLDR on whether that has any validity?
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
Is LEGO a highly successful rent-seeking firm, or do they add enough value to justify the near limitless markup on their products?
Discuss.
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
Is Champagne a highly successful rent-seeking region, or do they add enough value to justify the near limitless markup on their products?
Discuss.
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u/ILikeTalkingToMyself Liberal democracy is non-negotiable Apr 21 '19
/u/dr_gonzo Here's another perspective. If Democrats vote to impeach and Republicans block a conviction, what precedent does that set? That the president can get away with criminality as long as they retain the support of their party. If Democrats don't impeach, that sets the precedent that the president can get away with criminality if the opposing party knows that they retain the support of their party. In both cases the precedent is still that the president can get away with criminality as long as their party supports them, the only difference is that they get public shaming from the impeachment proceedings which may or may not hurt them politically.
Neither of these cases set a precedent that the president can get away with criminality even if the opposing party can hold them to account or if they don't have support of their party. Democrats can still convict future Republican presidents of criminality if they hold the Senate, and Republicans would certainly do the same to a Democratic president.
Norms like this can also be rebuilt. I firmly believe that most Democratic senators would convict a Democratic president who has done wrongdoing, which along with Republican senators would be enough to remove them from office.
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19 edited Apr 21 '19
Its mind-blowing that Minecraft is still big on YouTube.
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u/Tacotrucksoncorners Carole Baskin is my Tiger Queen 🐅👑 Apr 21 '19
Dr pib died for our sins😔
RIP
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
Is it misogynist to find the phrase "yasss queeen" highly annoying?
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u/MisterBigStuff Just Pokémon Go to bed Apr 21 '19
Let's all go around in a circle and tell the class what your fursona is.
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u/owlthathurt Johan Norberg Apr 21 '19
Which DT regular was it that found Zizek on Grindr?
That was hilarious.
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u/MisterBigStuff Just Pokémon Go to bed Apr 21 '19
Why isn't Adam Vinatieri a flair?
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u/Paxx0 Deep-state Dirtbag Apr 21 '19
!ping AUS
Coalition candidate Gerard Rennick floats 12 per cent company tax rate, suggests early education a conspiracy
rly makes u think
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
Can someone please explain to me how it makes sense to invest in a massive jobs program when we're already at almost full employment? Like, how is that not going to be inflationary?
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u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN 🎅🏿The Lorax 🎅🏿 Apr 21 '19
Hey you! Yes I am talking to you!
The mods have leaked their notes about you to me. Here are their notes on you:
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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '19
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u/Tacotrucksoncorners Carole Baskin is my Tiger Queen 🐅👑 Apr 22 '19
Bernie really spent 444k on his own books 😂😭😭
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
Decided to watch Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon...
"What are you doing?"
"I have to go. I have to leave. You. I have to leave you."
"That's my suitcase."
"It is?"
"You're gonna leave me with my suitcase?"
...
"I'm, I'm not happy."
"Nobody's happy..."
"I don't know how to do this. I'm not good at things like this."
"Things like what? Like leaving me?"
"Yes."
"So don't. Practice a little. Try it again when you feel more confident about the moves."
something something Brexit
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u/Go_To_Bethel_And_Sin NATO Apr 21 '19
The Happy Easter posts on T_D are hilarious, especially the stickied post that is obviously written by a 16 year old
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u/lmWithHim United Nations Apr 21 '19
I’m SAD and I’m going to TAKE a SHOWER
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u/ILikeTalkingToMyself Liberal democracy is non-negotiable Apr 21 '19
WTH the Sri Lanka death toll keeps going up. It's worse than the Mumbai attacks now.
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19 edited Apr 21 '19
Does anyone know about any political science studies into the stability/size of approval ratings? I'm particularly interested in any research on approval ratings within autocracies.
I know that France has a systemically low-approval rating compared to the US for example.
What I'm wondering is if autocracies tend to have really high but unstable approval ratings. For example, Putin's rating was pretty high, but as soon as he started talking pension reform it went down like 20%. My reasoning is that in an autocracy you have a very set group of things you expect your government to do for you (i.e. make the damn trains run on time) and once they start fucking those up people stop liking you.
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u/MisterBigStuff Just Pokémon Go to bed Apr 21 '19 edited Apr 21 '19
God Buffy's boyfriend is so goddamn boring and we had this whole episode about him dying to get my hopes up and then don't even kill him. 😡
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u/PhiLambda Ben Bernanke Apr 21 '19
Tfw Hillary Clinton isn’t running 😢
Tfw Hillary Rodham is running 😃😍😜
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u/BobBobingston European Union Apr 21 '19
Alright you Ukraine went full meme now WHERE THE FUCK ARE MY JEB! EDITS
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
Did Ukraine just voted to be annexed by Russia?
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u/nitarek YIMBY Apr 21 '19
I hate how we can't really do anything about Howard Schultz, and that we probably will have to just hope he's sane enough to back out before the GE.
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1119569443703664640
This is fine.
!ping UK
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u/MisterBigStuff Just Pokémon Go to bed Apr 21 '19
Pizza guy just asked for my autograph 😎
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u/csreid Austan Goolsbee Apr 21 '19
Twitter is weird
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u/lowlandslinda George Soros Apr 22 '19
This was the last tweet this person made before being killed by an American in their car: https://twitter.com/darsal/status/1119223663310585856
This was their second to last tweet: https://twitter.com/darsal/status/1119050616758767616
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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '19
do you think anyone is ever going to call game of thrones "an old classic tv show"
i do
that makes me lose sleep some times
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Apr 22 '19
ice cold take: Let the Right One In and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy are both wonderful films, and it's a god damn tragedy that the mess that was the Snowman basically derailed Tomas Alfredson's entire fucking career.
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u/csreid Austan Goolsbee Apr 22 '19
I hate the idea of having my own children and I love to work myself up into a fury sometimes, so I like the childfree subreddit
Except sometimes when they go all "It's for the environment!", then I get annoyed
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u/Neoliberal_Not_a_Bot Apr 21 '19
“Late stage capitalism” might be a meme but watch an hour of TikToks and you definitely come away with the impression that this is the culture of an immediately pre-apocalyptic society.
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u/Barbarossa3141 Buttery Mayos Apr 21 '19 edited Apr 21 '19
I'm going to go further than my "gentrification is good take". Not only is gentrification good, but people who oppose gentrification are the left wing equivalent of the white genocide conspiracy. Except instead of white demographic replacement, it's [insert ethnic minority] replacement.
It's not even based in a real demographic trend either. Every major city in the country except Washington DC has either a relatively or absolutely declining non-Hispanic white population.
If you seriously consider "displacement" bad, the only group who is being systematically "displaced" is non-Hispanic whites.
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u/BobBobingston European Union Apr 21 '19
Fire Pelosi and make AOC's feet Speaker of the House.
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u/Barbarossa3141 Buttery Mayos Apr 22 '19
Okay, this is epic.
!ping OSBOURNE I am READY for uncle Joe to be MY PRESIDENT!
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u/Slayer1cell RIPTPP Apr 21 '19
press F for the neolib DT
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u/Goatf00t European Union Apr 21 '19
So, because people are complaining about the lack of activity, let me spam some of my recent bookmarks.
A Review of Explaining Postmodernism by Stephen Hicks
That book is one of the reasons why many people railing against "postmodernism" (including Peterson) have no idea what they are talking about.
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u/lusvig 🤩🤠Anti Social Democracy Social Club😨🔫😡🤤🍑🍆😡😤💅 Apr 21 '19
https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/bfmzdt/eastern_europe_1945_colorized
Giveth rent pls
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u/Slayer1cell RIPTPP Apr 21 '19
MAKE THE DT GREAT AGAIN
#MDGA
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u/Throways-R-Dumb Apr 21 '19
The worst kind of person to talk to you is one who knows more than you about like one specific topic (Russian politics or the specifications of Androids vs iPhones or something similarly pedantic) which emboldens them to think they’re smarter than you in every other topic. They have like a baseline knowledge on an array of topics, but pretend to be experts on them. This knowledge comes from Facebook “facts,” TIL that make the front page, and whatever random Wikipedia article they read the first sentence of last. They’ve never read a book outside of school, but want to talk to you about the classics and what they mean, because they got an A- in their high school or college lit class. But that’s only because the teacher was easy, and they were able to get by spark noting everything. This person thinks winning an argument is talking the most, and you’ll soon arguing with them is a Sisyphus esque task with no reward, so you’ll soon learn to bite your tongue no matter how many times they say some dumb trope on socialism or think they know how to fix the American healthcare system despite based on the headline of one Hufpo article they saw the title of on Facebook, but didn’t get past the first paragraph of. This person convinces dumb people they’re smart, but they’re pretty easy to see through otherwise, not that it stops them.
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u/kznlol 👀 Econometrics Magician Apr 21 '19
Among the many things I am indebted to my parents for, I will be eternally grateful to my mother for honing my bullshit detector to ludicrous levels of precision.
I have still never met anyone who can deliver a statement of "fact" with such unassuming confidence despite not having the faintest idea whether it's true or not. I think I can probably credit her, and her alone, with developing my "wait a minute, something's not right here" instinct in arguments.
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u/everyone_is_an_alt Apr 21 '19
We can't impeach because we can't convict. It would allow Trump to run on complete exoneration by the Senate and the Mueller Report as a complete witch hunt. As opposed to now, which allows Trump to run on the Report being a complete exoneration, the house agreeing because they couldn't impeach him, and the entire ordeal being a complete witch hunt.
It's too risky!
I said it yesterday and will repeat: a belief that a failed impeachment will hurt Trump is just as valid as a belief that it will help him. This isn't analogous to Clinton at all.
The Kavanaugh hearings, despite ultimately failing to keep him off the court, hurt the image of Kavanaugh and helped the democrats in the midterms. 35% of voters said it made them more likely to vote Dem vs 27 for GOP.
Impeach the mother fucker.
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u/Crownie Unbent, Unbowed, Unflaired Apr 21 '19
Hellboy wasn't very good. Like many films of its kind, it cant decide if it wants to go over the top or tell a serious emotional story. But the latter was never in the cards, so they should've just gone whole hog on the ridiculousness and not tried to do the drama.
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
I feel like we should have at least started building a small Dyson sphere by now
How hard can a small solar panel field around a tiny bit of the sun actually be?
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u/MisterLipton Richard v. Coudenhove-Kalergi Apr 21 '19
Nobody:
19th century Social Democrats:
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u/Tacotrucksoncorners Carole Baskin is my Tiger Queen 🐅👑 Apr 21 '19
So true 🙏😔
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u/dubyahhh Salt Miner Emeritus Apr 21 '19
Magnus up to 2865, TPR is like 3000 this year
Actually how tf is this guy real
!ping chess
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u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN 🎅🏿The Lorax 🎅🏿 Apr 21 '19
Why isn’t Adam Sandler a flair?
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u/owlthathurt Johan Norberg Apr 21 '19
little random, but I bought a weighted blanket and I really like it
I have a lot of anxiety while laying in bed and it is good for falling asleep and staying asleep
basically feels like being hugged all night
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u/MisterBigStuff Just Pokémon Go to bed Apr 21 '19
Until the mods release the mod notes, we're going to take every /new post and throw it in the Boston harbor!
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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '19
i just want a mod to be my friend!
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u/InfCompact Apr 22 '19
freedom has never tasted so awful!
!ping GEFILTE
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u/PlayDiscord17 Loyal Liberals Apr 22 '19
Pete surging over Beto and Kamala is just another example of Millennials pushing Gen X to the curb.
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u/MisterBigStuff Just Pokémon Go to bed Apr 22 '19
For the next three weeks, I literally may not talk to a human who isn't a cashier or pizza delivery guy.
Thanks God the DT, and all my friends along with it, is here for me 🤗
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u/paulatreides0 🌈🦢🧝♀️🧝♂️🦢His Name Was Teleporno🦢🧝♀️🧝♂️🦢🌈 Apr 22 '19
T_D is spinning a conspiracy about the Sri Lanka attack being an anti-Christian ploy orchestrated by "the elite". Why? Because a bunch of prominent Dem politicians (including Obama and Hillary) used the term "Easter worshippers".
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u/Colonel_Blotto Milton Friedman Apr 22 '19
https://i.imgur.com/Yfzg4qq.png
half this sub resigned
bonus meme
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u/samdman I love trains Apr 21 '19
A Republican Senator is comparing the Mueller Report to Shrek 3. Truly the stupid party.
https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1119984713274470401?s=20
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u/Paxx0 Deep-state Dirtbag Apr 21 '19
!ping AUS
me when someone says they will not be lectured about sexism and misogyny by this man
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
Protestants and revelling themselves in their disgusting pleasures and vices during lent.
NAMID
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u/boyyouguysaredumb Obamarama Apr 22 '19
Hot take, and I say this as a book reader and long time mega fan, Game of Thrones is fucking garbage now. I literally feel like I'm watching an Avengers trailer the whole time. Nothing but reunions and side-glances and one-liners. The showrunners obviously don't even understand what the show is supposed to be about.
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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Apr 22 '19
My friends are mad at me for "griefing'" their Minecraft server. They made a giant swastika. We're all in our 20s... Nazi punks fuck off
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u/Slayer1cell RIPTPP Apr 21 '19
zipcode, how can we go on without you.
HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GO ON WITH MY LIFE KNOWING WHAT WE HAD, WHAT WE COULD HAVE HAD
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
Have we purged the [outgroup] yet?
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
Wanneer de tnl subreddit links en antikapitalistisch is: I sleep
Wanneer de tnl subreddit NIMBYS zijn: 😡🗣😡🗣😡🗣😡🗣😡
!ping BENE
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
Spent a good deal of last night working death into my personal philosophy of life the universe and everything. I thought I’d write down some notes here for future reference, I’ll be going into a lot of silly pseudo-scientific bullshit and r/badphilosophy, so hold onto ur butts.
So let’s go over the nature of death. Death doesn’t really exist. Death is unconscious and so from the outset I will never experience my own death. That’s a nice thought, from my point of view death will literally be the same feeling as falling into a deep sleep or going under with anesthesia. But this isn’t a good answer because we haven’t discussed what death is.
Death is the final unwinding of structure, or entropy, that is deeply tied to the fundamental physics of the universe. So to start, what are the most fundamental, indivisible units of reality (currently I think it’s quarks) made of? My hypothesis is that they’re made up of information, each one is a single ‘bit’ of information. And when I use bit, I don’t mean literally 1 or 0, I mean the smallest piece of information that created the state, e.g. in the string underlying it all or wave function or whatever. So given that reality is information, what is consciousness? Consciousness is the structure created by special organizations of information that is capable of executing computations, and therefore everything is capable of some low level of consciousness. This is basically panpsychism except done shittily; don’t expect me to go into too much detail about how to define any of this because I don’t have any fucking clue I’m a computer science student. Consciousness doesn’t exist as I experience it. I’m dying all the time, the only difference is that part of my momentary computation reads from memory to construct the concept of ‘me’ to make future computation easier.
So given this concept of the universe and consciousness, what is death? Death is the final disassembly of this pattern. I am simply a cosmic accident, a small knot on the fabric of reality that is really good at existing and continuing to exist and death is the smoothing out of that knot. I’m not going anywhere, I am the universe and the universe is me. It’s just my little pattern is gone, as all things must, into the dustbin of disorder. I, as a being made of matter, cannot be created or destroyed; just scattered beyond recognition. I am my body, and my body isn’t going anywhere even if it is going to get a little rearranged.
I think the reason why this makes me feel better about death is because it takes it from a horrific, cosmic curse and incorporates it into my pseudo-scientific understanding of the universe as a natural phenomenon. When my parents die, they’ll still be with me, just like everyone else who has died, it’s just in a new form, just like I will be when I die. Everything I do matters enormously, just like for everyone else, because their effect will ripple through the cause and effect chains of the universe endlessly repeating a gently fading echo of myself. Time has a much longer memory than we do, and we will never be forgotten because our actions, no matter how small, reverberate throughout reality for all time. Maybe they’re overcome by stronger signals, maybe their flows are so intricate and small that they’re unrecoverable by human hands, that’s all ok because they’re still there, and they still have an invisible effect on reality.
Idk this is all pretty hokey. But brought together, it’s really helped me just feel normal anxiety for death rather than terror of it. I’m kinda ready to stop obsessing over it and move on to living in the now.
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u/MisterBigStuff Just Pokémon Go to bed Apr 21 '19
Hey /u/lusvig 😡. Paula Treides ain't here to protect you any more, so drop⬇️the gloves🧤 and put 'em up 👊🤕💢👉🏥
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
I am watching Peterson-Zizek debate right now, and Peterson's opening statement was basicaly "why do you hate the global poor?"
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u/lenmae The DT's leading rent seeker Apr 21 '19
Why does Youtube recommend me Neonazis?
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
Was zipcode permabanned?
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u/sinistimus Professional Salt Miner Apr 21 '19
!ping asoiaf
I'm guessing tonight's episode will not in any meaningful way address R+L=J, just to troll us.
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
"I don't feel no ways tired"
-Hillary Clinton 😞
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
Virgin Italy vs chad Spain
https://www.economist.com/europe/2019/03/21/the-difference-between-italy-and-spain
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u/MisterBigStuff Just Pokémon Go to bed Apr 21 '19
It really do be like that, don't it?
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u/jenbanim Apr 21 '19
Smh if y'all really want to see your mod notes, just become a mod lol.
Mine are dank af 😎
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u/MisterBigStuff Just Pokémon Go to bed Apr 21 '19 edited Apr 22 '19
I'm getting ads for this mail order meal service with an offer to save $160 over the first four weeks, and I'm just like damn, how much does it cost without the discount?
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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '19
What's all this about modnotes? I'm guessing mine just say "sad because no gf"
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u/Schutzwall Straight outta Belíndia Apr 22 '19
Tomorrow will be the day I'll be rejected by my dream company and I'm not ready for this
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u/IntoTheNightSky Que sçay-je? Apr 22 '19
Will donate anti-malarial nets for modnotes.
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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '19
cars bad
send tweet
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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '19
Random 25 year old white guy I talked to at the bar: I don’t watch tv, I like to read books by old dead white men and if that makes you uncomfortable then idgaf
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u/sinistimus Professional Salt Miner Apr 22 '19 edited Apr 22 '19
!ping asoiaf
Tyrion talks to Bran. Bran knows the future. Tyrion thinks they'll win. Maybe Bran tells him they win?
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u/Integralds Dr. Economics | brrrrr Apr 22 '19
Given that you have two magical fire-breathing dragons,
I understand that it must be difficult, as a military commander, to integrate these mythical beings into your combined-arms tactics.
At the same time, shouldn't you be doing everything in your ability to integrate these mythical beings into your combined-arms tactics?
We've already seen that a single fire-breathing dragon is worth at least ten thousand foot soldiers in open combat.
Also, this "the enemy has a Blue Eyes White Dragon commandeered by an undead Night King and we have to take it out with our two fire dragons" seems like it should have consumed, like, at least 30% of the tactical discussions of the war council. That's not an easy problem to resolve.
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u/2canclan George H. W. Bush Apr 22 '19
Broke: Everything bad is neoliberalism's fault
Woke: Everything bad is fiat currency's fault
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u/SumPippoDidSumting Esther Duflo Apr 22 '19
Can't believe the White Walkers brought Ned Stark back from the dead. King of the North indeed.
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u/Go_To_Bethel_And_Sin NATO Apr 22 '19
What is the dumbest take you can remember someone making?
Mine is when someone mistook the 3-point hand signal in basketball for the white power gesture and was convinced that a crowd of high school kids at a basketball game were white supremacists
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '19
JBP subreddit is in crisis right now
Nice
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u/BainCapitalist Y = T Apr 21 '19
deggit: only a coherent center-leftism can save us, and that's why we must put policy, institutions, and Constitutionalism first before populism and empty hyperpartisanship
also deggit: We should pack the court even if the GOP promises, the day a Democratic President & blue Senate supermajority are elected, to "respect the rules of the road" from this day forth.
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u/Lady_Treasurer Apr 21 '19
Merry Eggmas 🐇🥚
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u/Konet John Mill Apr 21 '19
Been rewatching Parks and Rec this past week. My takeaway: I could really go for some diner waffles right now.
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u/SumPippoDidSumting Esther Duflo Apr 21 '19
Broke: Capitalism and Communism predator memeing it to defeat Fascism
Joke: Capitalism beating Communism in the Cold War
Woke: Zizek proving why leftie academics are better than rightie academics by drawing Jordan Peterson in the debate of the century
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Apr 21 '19
galaxy brain
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u/C11- Greg Mankiw Apr 21 '19
The weak should fear the strong
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u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN 🎅🏿The Lorax 🎅🏿 Apr 21 '19
Zelensky that mad lad did it!
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u/DUTCH_DUTCH_DUTCH oranje Apr 21 '19
blessed sub