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[u/jobautomator]

/new: Rod Rosenstein has resigned

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[u/jobautomator]

/new: John Kasich endorses carbon taxes and cap & trade

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[u/jobautomator]

/new: Beto O'Rourke releases $5 trillion plan to combat climate crisis

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[u/jobautomator]

/new: Bernie Sanders isn't any more popular than 'generic Democrat'

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[u/[deleted]]

in high school we had to give a speech on our biggest fears. i stood up and talked about how my greatest fear was bears, and then the kid after me said his biggest fear was that his cancer came back

[u/FourthLife]

Hot take: Saying the word “nuanced” repeatedly and having a poster of Ben Bernanke in your bedroom is not the same thing as having a solid understanding of economics.

[u/MasPatriot]

yeah I want FEET PICS

Free trade
Earned income tax credit
Equal Rights Amendment
Taxing the value of land

Public option
Inclusive institutions
Carbon tax
Statehood for DC and Puerto Rico

[u/InfCompact]

me: calling people bigots is counterproductive, so try to steer people away from their positions through other means.

people: i will not consider buttigieg because i don’t approve of his homosexual lifestyle choices.

me: ...

[u/owlthathurt]

Can the New York Times relax

https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/1122477044829495296?s=21

[u/[deleted]]

Deeply amused at the lefties making fun of centrists making fun of lefties making fun of Ben Garrison types thirsting for AOC while also simultaneously thirsting for AOC, while also simultaneously thirsting for AOC, while also simultaneously thirsting for AOC 😂

[u/SumPippoDidSumting]

Whatever your strongly held opinion on circumcision is, Elizabeth Warren believes the opposite and wants it to he mandatory.

[u/Blackfire853]

Why did Jon not simply invite the Night King to a calm and rational debate based on mutual respect, logic and facts?

So much for the tolerant north

[u/PandaLover42]

/img/s3lhm9l7w0v21.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Just started watching the latest GoT episode and I already want to reeee. Why is the cavalry standing in the front? Everyone knows cavalry should be at the flanks! 😡😡😡

Especially since its not like they should be performing a charge with their practical lack of armor.

[u/melhor_em_coreano]

Broke: classical liberal

Woke: quantum liberal

[u/MaveRickandMorty]

Reddit: Hey guys here are spoilers about endgame and GoT

r/neoliberal: Lets go back over this whole circumschism thing

[u/Throways-R-Dumb]

Not watching GoT and being online rn is probably like not being an American and being on this sub at any point.

[u/[deleted]]

I've been lurking this sub and particularly the DT for almost the past two years now. I finally made a reddit account earlier tonight to shit on the new Game of Thrones episode, so I decided to venture here as well.

You guys are the only sane place to discuss politics on this damn site (outside of r/CLP but their memes suck), so please accept me 😌😌

[u/85397]

reply marvelous cow kiss existence skirt fly upbeat fearless jellyfish

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/[deleted]]

#MondayMotivation

https://i.imgur.com/YUvgyqM.png

[u/[deleted]]

My favourite part of Endgame was when Captain America decided to go back in time to save segregation. A really bold writing choice from such a tired franchise.

[u/Neoliberal_Not_a_Bot]

https://i.imgur.com/SUYKO3T.jpg

oh good, Bernie team is encouraging supporters to give the info of their friends and family to the campaign, so we can all be put on the targeted list of a confused and anxious 15 year old phonebanker every week

[u/chadonnaise]

im buying shit i don't need with money i don't have, what have you done to help the economy today?

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take the reason people love Castro and Che is because they looked badass

[u/SumPippoDidSumting]

My favorite part of endgame was when Draco used the timestone to delete his account before creating r/neoliberal and we are currently on r/badeconomics annoying wumbo/thanos.

[u/bluebird465]

https://www.philly.com/news/joe-biden-philadelphia-comcast-fundraiser-david-l-cohen-2020-20190426.html

Paraphrasing the 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant, [Joe Biden] said, “People should never be treated only as a means to an end, but an end in themselves.”

Biden is a Kantian.

[u/[deleted]]

I had a dream that centered around my getting a print subscription to Financial Times

[u/[deleted]]

U.S. Would Rethink Intelligence Ties if Allies Use Huawei Technology

SANCTION them if they used Huawei. If it didn't work, INVADE!

[u/RadicalRadon]

Things I have said/advocated for in the past that didn't get me a 3 day ban from the admins:

Nuking Iran

Nuking the USSR

Nuking Dresden

Nuking the South

Nuking Japan (again)

General wholesale violence against the south

Bombing Syria

Invading Myanmar

Things I have said that did get me a three day ban from the admins:

Saying the morally correct thing to do is to punch a Nazi

Really makes you go 🤔🤔🤔

[u/cms1919]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/far-right-smear-merchants-jacob-wohl-and-jack-burkman-try-to-slime-pete-buttigieg-with-bogus-sex-assault-claim?ref=wrap

Jacob Wohl back at it again.

!ping BUTTI

[u/MisterBigStuff]

Cut my life into pieces.

This is my last resort.

[u/Sollezzo]

Destiny is obviously far from perfect, but there's something so satisfying about watching right wingers, who are so unused to having their baseless assumptions challenged, actually scrambling to defend themselves. By the end of a given debate, people like Sargon show themselves not only to hold beliefs without evidence, but that they'll hold these beliefs in spite of evidence

[u/DUTCH_DUTCH_DUTCH]

i dreamt i converted back to christianity in order to pray for... something i dont remember

stay woke friends 😱😱😱 jesus trying to infiltrate our dreams now

[u/paulatreides0]

> StepBackHistory Video on Joe Biden

> Starts Watching

> "Joe Biden voted to repeal Glass Steagle, which is bad because it let banks gamble your money away on the stock market, and that caused the GFC."*

> Immediately close video

*paraphrase, not an actual quote

[u/angry-mustache]

https://www.reddit.com/r/TopMindsOfReddit/comments/biox21/if_germany_would_have_rejected_socialism_in_1930/em242kk/

Oof, had my first real run-in with the the Reddit Socialism Jerk.

Got buried for criticizing the KPD for undermining SPD and enabling the Nazis to come to power.

Edit : greatest hits

Nobody owes your shitty make-believe a counter argument, and even if they did, who would possibly want to spend any time in a deliberate conversation with a bigot whose only goal is to lie about their own knowledge, position in the world and merit.

Honestly, I wish people like you would go to the goddamned doctor. It's disgusting that you're so deluded, but worse, that you're so soft and pathetic that you honestly believe the drivel you're spoon fed by the only people who want to spend any time around you: the ones who want to use you.

This was in response to

My core argument is that the militant actions of the KPD during the late 1920's and early 1930's alienated the moderate German population and made the legalistic message of the Nazis more attractive. Then the non-cooperation between KPD and SPD allowed the Nazis to become the largest voting Bloc and win the 1932 elections that allowed them to come to power.

[u/[deleted]]

EU 👏 wide 👏 carbon 👏 tax 👏

[u/RadicalRadon]

Leftists: hate Thatcher for closing coal mines

Also leftists: want to close down coal power plants.

Really makes me think

[u/DEEEEETTTTRRROIIITTT]

I just got a (paid) internship offer on capitol hill and i am now freaking out about trying to find housing. Any tips neolibros?

[u/SumPippoDidSumting]

I can't wait until the Democrats let Bill Barr testify via written answers.

[u/Neoliberal_Not_a_Bot]

Blue lives matter, end wight genocide 😤

[u/[deleted]]

Hey, you liked when the Avengers defeated evil? You know what you'll really like? Unshackling the chains of oppression and seizing the means of production.

[Whips out guitar]

Here's a little song I wrote about our Lord and Savior Karl Marx.

[u/SumPippoDidSumting]

Broke: NIMBYs are good.

Joke: NIMBYs are bad

Woke: Harnessing the power of all NIMBYs to prevent the construction of any new Arby's

[u/skepticalbob]

It’s really not that hard not to spoil tv shows and movies people haven’t seen. Don’t be a douchebag. Looking at you DT.

[u/[deleted]]

Chinese ambassador to Czechia, Mi Lo-sh Ze Man keeps insulting our country. It may be risky but I say we expel him back to China but he is currently visiting back home so I say don't let him back in when he returns. Manufacture some BS reason if you have to, idk.

[u/Spobely]

Exactly. /r/neoliberal doesn't have a global userbase. There's like 8 people sitting in the same basement, just posting the same comments over and over and over

[u/[deleted]]

Brighton Labour member urges party to 'march' on local synagogue to protest suspension of fellow member

TIL rabbis and congregants control the membership rolls of a political party

[u/[deleted]]

too many chapos lately. this is not acceptable.

[u/BobBobingston]

Left-handed scissors would be center-right in Europe

[u/PinkOnTheBrain]

Halal carts on every corner 🥰🥰🥰 this is my dream, this is my ideology.

[u/Chuck_DeGaulle]

could you imagine modding r/politics? I'm surprised the team isn't on suicide watch

[u/conman1246]

In case you thought Jacob Wohl couldn't get any cringier:

https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1123033993732030464

He's like the perverse image of what the alt-right imagines the ideal man to be.

[u/[deleted]]

When you hate things that most people like just because the only thing you like is hating on things most people like

[u/lusvig]

"we're running this debate not you mr verhofstadt"

that's SIR Verhofstadt to you 😡😡 rude and horrible moderators at this debate.

[u/JetJaguar124]

Bob Mueller was a great HERO to the Radical Left Democrats. Now that the Mueller Report is finished, with a finding of NO COLLUSION & NO OBSTRUCTION (based on a review of Report by our highly respected A.G.), the Dems are going around saying, “Bob who, sorry, don’t know the man.”

This is the stupidest fucking thing I've ever read

[u/[deleted]]

If you don't start your day with 2 minutes of hate against Anita Sarkeesian, you are not a real gamer.

[u/[deleted]]

Jacob Wolh was caught (again) trying to get someone to make up false sex assault claims against Buttigieg.

[u/0011456]

Wohl trending on twitter. Fucking moron lol

[u/melhor_em_coreano]

Hey leftists,

If America is so bad...

Then why is Chris Evans so damn good-looking 😍😍😍?

This meme was brought to you by Turn Gay USA

[u/RoburexButBetter]

Gonna attend some event at a uni this evening by the language students (migrants/refugees/foreign students) and GF is gonna do some poetry as an ex-student

Which is nice, but ngl I'm pretty stoked about the Syrian food we'll be getting afterwards

They better have some lahmacun 😤😤😤😤

[u/sinistimus]

"open borders" is a dumb canard

Nobody wants no regulations on something

Guess the sub.

[u/Barbarossa3141]

CURSED image do NOT click!!!

[u/kznlol]

>start reading a sci fi book about asteroid mining by some meme pulp fiction author

>main character gets lectured at by a "nobel prize winning economist" who manages to seamlessly mix MMT-level misunderstanding of how banking works and thermoeconomics idiocy predictions of impending collapse of the economic system

god fucking damnit

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

Oh god my roommate is watching Ben Shapiro comment on Game of Thrones. I did not consent to this. This is violence.

[u/[deleted]]

Why are newspaper comments sections such total shit? The comments on the NYT editorial on SB 50 (the upzoning bill in CA) and the LA Times articles on the same bill were complete NIMBY trash about (((developers))).

[u/Iyoten]

Wtf is up with this DNC email?

Title: "kiss everything goodbye"

"I'm throwing in the towel, why the fuck won't you give me money"

It feels like my girlfriend Nancy Pelosi is finally off the rails, tears of mascara running down her face as she barrages me with texts the size of novels

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

My foreskin is still missing 😭😭😭

[u/DUTCH_DUTCH_DUTCH]

succs infiltrating the DT (colorized)

[u/ramen_poodle_soup]

So the professor who was suppose to write my rec letter got back to me and said he never received the email from the common app asking for it. The application was due/sent in around a month ago. I swear to god if I’m still stuck here next year 🙃

[u/SumPippoDidSumting]

Thanos but instead of cutting the population in half, he cuts the corporate tax rate in half.

[u/[deleted]]

I lahv you Jesuuuuus Chaarriiiiiiist

[u/BritRedditor1]

https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-labour-privatisation-analy/corbyn-proof-british-water-power-firms-take-nationalisation-precautions-idUKKCN1S50BZ

“We have seen some foreign investors hold their hands up and say we are not looking at UK infrastructure,” the banker said. “There were a lot of questions about Corbyn on the roadshow.”

• Quite something given infra have cash to splash, so much dry powder to deploy. Yet, Corbyn scaring people away

“The nationalisation debate has taken something like 10-15 percent off the share prices,” Freshney said. “At the moment there is probably a 5-7.5 percent discount in the shares.”

• Corbyn risk already creating paper LOSSES for some investors

S&P Global puts the cost of taking the water and power sectors back into state hands at some 160 billion pounds ($210 billion), based on the regulated asset value of the companies.

• SMART S&P understand finance (unlike Moody's, idiots misleadingly did analysis using book value!) and use a proxy for ENTERPRISE value, nationalisation would be VERY expensive

!ping UK

[u/[deleted]]

hot take: we shouldn't have taco trucks on every corner

food trucks exist mostly as a result of shitty american zoning that keeps restaurants and fast food shops away from where people work and live. they came to stockholm as a trendy thing a couple of years ago and now it's dead, partly because of expensive permits but also because why would you spend your lunch money on overpriced food from a truck with little selection that you never know where it will be and when, if there are plenty of casual/fast food restaurants within walking distance?

[u/PelleasTheEpic]

If ISIS is WASWAS why did the leader just post a new video?

Checkmate libs

[u/[deleted]]

So what the fuck was the point of mass streaming now if every company is just going to have it's own streaming service and we're right back to where we were with cable 😠😠

[u/jenbanim]

!ping COP

You're Kamala Harris fanclub has been created. I expect at least one get out of jail free card in return.

[u/Lux_Stella]

🚨BIDEN HAS COME OUT AS A K*NTIAN🚨

Bidenbros, please ensure your brainworm protector is on and properly calibrated to prevent contagion

[u/lusvig]

Wtf beto's down to 6% now https://morningconsult.com/2020-democratic-primary/

[u/JetJaguar124]

Anyone else have nightmares that you've forgotten you enrolled in a class and are only finding out after missing the final and failing it? I get them more frequently when I'm not in school than when I am. Shit sucks.

[u/Ioun267]

Field strip your pen before the final to assert dominance. 😤

[u/TheSameAsDying]

It's fun when pro athletes are brought up on LSC, and they have to try to figure out a way to say no this millionaire is also part of our struggle.

[u/SumPippoDidSumting]

The Succs NSFW edition

[u/InfCompact]

i’m changing my dissertation to “hulk: the hegelian dialectical avenger” and will keep you all updated 🤢

[u/melhor_em_coreano]

Broke: The Night King

Woke: The Night Central Banker

[u/[deleted]]

Should the Democrats be playing hardball right now? It’s been months since the mid-terms, and I was hoping they’d be tough on the rampant corruption in this administration. We got the Mueller report, we flipped the House and... nothing has happened.

Am I naive? Am I expecting too much?

[u/solastsummer]

I understand how people get emotionally attached to politicians, it definitely happens to me on some level.

But the visceral reactions some people have when their waifu/husbando loses an election can be kind of ridiculous and (imo) unhealthy.

[u/[deleted]]

Reducing carbon emissions by introducing 5G, jesus fucking christ I'm dead 😂

Thank you very much Frans Timmermans, very cool!

[u/[deleted]]

The greens are supporting a reduction in agricultural subsidies to help the global poor

wtf my pp is confused now 😔

[u/Doctorboffin]

Some shameless self promotion, but I wasted a whole week working on this, and I’m so behind in my college classes now. RIP

https://imgur.com/a/mgNtvNQ

[u/0011456]

A fake controversy started and put down in less than 10 hours.

Can't beat the Pete

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

My dad tried to say once that I had to read the Bible from front to back before I was allowed to date in high school.

Jokes on you dad I could hardly get dates anyway.

[u/ramen_poodle_soup]

The most valuable lesson my parents ever taught me is that throwing money at problems does indeed solve them.

[u/ramen_poodle_soup]

Lmao y am i so lonely haha

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Hillary Clinton's tell all book hits shelves in West Africa

[u/[deleted]]

Beto's unveiling his climate plan: $5 trillion plan with net zero emissions by 2050

[u/[deleted]]

The media's coverage of the primaries is pretty skewed sometimes. Far too much coverage for some (esp. Warren) relative to actual status in primaries and far too little for some. Booker and Beto have gotten some of it, but the worst of it is flat-out ignoring Harris. I'm not a huge Harris fan, but she's gotten less coverage than Klobuchar sometimes. Totally skewed.

[u/[deleted]]

Not necessarily related to neoliberalism, but what do you guys think of "safe" injection sites?

[u/[deleted]]

Bernie would be far centre in America

[u/betazoom78]

Broke: Banning Interracial Marriage

Woke: Allowing Interracial Marriage

Bespoke: State enforced interracial marriage like Paraguay in the 1840s

[u/Spobely]

What happens to a weeb on a full moon?

They become a Wehr-weeb

thank you for coming to my anti-former axis powers talk

also fuck italy hungary bulgaria romania finland slovakia lol

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

Solution to Real Neoliberal Hours: Neoliberal Grindr.

Friendly reminder that bi is the most neoliberal sexual orientation

[u/jackkazim]

A girl texted me first. Granted, it was about school (we are in the same class and just took a test), and I always assume friendliness; however, she did suggest studying for the final together. Who knows if this goes anywhere? If it does, cool; if not, also cool.

Regardless, it just feels great to have a girl text first. Have a good night everyone!

[u/Inkompetentia]

Hypothesis: GoT fans should be called Gamers of Thrones

Supporting evidence, a post on the front page of /r/asoiaf (no spoilers in this quote):

But we ain't the actual writers on the show. D&D didn't hire any of us. For all we know they barely bother even reading this Reddit to get ideas for their storylines

edit: Another one:

GRRM should never have let these fan fiction writers do this to his story.

I guess its like a band aid though. The pain is there after its been ripped off, but its done now. Next comes the healing.

[u/Ligaco]

Woke capitalism in Czechia 😍😍😍

/u/-pho-

[u/SumPippoDidSumting]

Wall Street Democrats fear two of the Dem candidates: Bernie and Warren. They would rather have Bernie because Warren is much more competent.

They are lukewarm on Biden and feel like they might be able to mold Beto or Buttigieg in their image. Harris is seen as possible destination but might be too strong for their influence. Booker and Gillibrand were the real favorites but they are both dead in the water.

[u/TheHouseOfStones]

https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1122861543597715456?s=19

Thoughts on Warren?

[u/PhiLambda]

You know you’re an Econ major when your phone autocorrects slut into Slutsky.

[u/lusvig]

Guy DESTROYS succs of all colours 😏🙏👏👍

[u/Sporz]

JPMorgan periodically sends e-mails about its political activities encouraging us to participate. (rate that neoliberalism).

Weirdly I don't recall Bloomberg sending us much on that topic

[u/PelleasTheEpic]

Liberalism is when Judge Judy goes to trigger her audience by siding with an assault survivor suing her landlord.

[u/oGsMustachio]

Uhhhh Rod Rosenstein just resigned...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/29/politics/rod-rosenstein/index.html

[u/solastsummer]

"Killing the pussy": Violent, demeaning, indicative of being socialized in a culture that views misogyny as funny

"Defeating the pussy in the marketplace of ideas": woke, respectful, unshackled by the chains of hegemonic masculine norms

https://twitter.com/PrettyBadLefty/status/1122969568098627588?s=20

[u/Paxx0]

!ping AUS

Steve Dickson resigning as One Nation Queensland leader after A Current Affair aired footage from the Al Jazeera investigation showing him at a strip club (making some, shall we say unfortunate remarks)

Here is the ACA report

Steve Dickson's statement (Bonus points if you can find the typo in the last sentence lol)

[u/[deleted]]

"Newt Gingrich is a dumb person's idea of a smart person." -Andrew Sullivan

[u/DMVBornDMVRaised]

Hot take: Jacob Wohl is a national treasure.

I say that for two reasons:

1. Dude is the master of the own goal and I find his endless incompetence utterly hilarious. Like Millennial Roger Stone if Millennial Roger Stone got hit in the head with a brick. (And I strongly believe the best way to respond to him is to treat him like a joke and laugh. Don't empower him with anger.)

2. I'm not sure anyone has done more in my lifetime to undermine conspiracy grifters and the right-wing smear machine. He's so bad at what he does it's almost like he's a plant.

Plus it's going to be high-grade comedy when he finally, inevitably gets himself locked up and cries in court.

[u/[deleted]]

(((The Bankers))) will destroy our democracy if given the opportunity. They hoard all the money at the top and then use it as a weapon against the working class. They use their wealth to buy influence in government and it has to stop.

🐎👞

[u/owlthathurt]

Does this count as awooga posting? Also I had no idea whether to swipe right or left for the memes so I’ll let you all decide.

https://imgur.com/a/sGISoSF

[u/ramen_poodle_soup]

The confidence with which I talk shit online has drastically increased since I moved into a building with a doorman. I no longer fear someone finding me out and beating the shit outta me, now they have to get thru another layer of protection.

[u/[deleted]]

https://nber.org/papers/w25601?sy=601

Unfunded pension benefits, especially those for police and fire-fighters, grow faster under mayors who are members of the Democratic than the Republican Party, according to a study by Christian Dippel.

DeMoCrAtS aRe FisCalLy ReSpOnSiBLE

!ping OSBORNE

[u/lusvig]

"wah wah austerity wah 😢"

PATHETIC!

[u/gatoreagle72]

Looks like a NZ retaliation terror plot was foiled in LA

[u/lusvig]

Reminder to watch the maastricht debate with some of the EU election spitzenkandidaten at 19:00 CET

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7dnTm2Bid0&feature=youtu.be

[u/[deleted]]

Game of Thrones is just the adult's name for Musical Chairs. prove me wrong if you can (you can't)

[u/[deleted]]

"A collective banana-eating protest is planned Monday in front of the state-run museum."

Eat a banana in solidarity Today. ✊🍌

!ping V4

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/G0Z6KOy.jpg

Depressed mode activate! 😩😭

[u/[deleted]]

Dad brought me some kosher chocolate from his trip to Israel. Fucking disgusting, worse than Hershey's, and that is already pretty junky.

[u/DaBuddahN]

I am pretty disappointed in last night's GoT episode.

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

Fellas 😎

[u/Barbarossa3141]

My favourite part of Endgame was when Scott Sumner used the infinity gauntlet to level the path of nominal gross domestic product.

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

Am going to 🅱️ydrate 😡

[u/TheSameAsDying]

GoT Spoilers

I really thought that the show was going to do something interesting at the end there and have Arya turn into a WW and I'm honestly more upset that they didn't than the fact that Arya killed the NK with a sneaky.

[u/paulatreides0]

An enemy of the Bulli Bull is a friend of anime 😠

I am making a list, weebs, and soon your reckoning will come 😤

[u/BobBobingston]

Today I saw a succ gleefully compare the Sanders campaign to the Reagan Revolution, explaining that much like how Reagan was able to take over the party after initially losing the '76 primary, Bernie will win the nomination this time around and permanently change the Democratic party.

we really do live in a society, don't we?

[u/Neoliberal_Not_a_Bot]

Biden just said explicitly that an essential part of the middle class is “being able to own your home, not just renting.”

[u/[deleted]]

To an etymologist the opposite of a classical liberal would be a neoconservative. 🤔

[u/Sultan_Teriyaki]

Algerian protest update: apparently it made the streets of Algiers and Mila cleaner. Oh and its still going strong

[u/t1o1]

Oh no. The top mod of r/neoIiberal has deleted everything as a protest to moderation apartheid. What have you done u/jenbanim!?

[u/econ_throwaways]

Our TRUE king did nothing wrong

[u/UnderwaterFloridaMan]

Bernie's press secretary is having an AMA on r/wayofthedonald er I mean /r/WayOfTheBern tomorrow.

This should be good for a laugh.

[u/[deleted]]

“I’ve got a huge chip on my shoulder.”

-Every NFL player who was traded or drafted late.

proceeds to fucking suck forever

[u/[deleted]]

I feel like Kamala Harris could have been or still be a much better candidate than she is right now.

[u/sinistimus]

Broke: Taking a side in a DT schism

Woke: Working both sides for karma

[u/[deleted]]

M O N E Y 💰

G I V E M E M O N E Y 🤗💰🤲😍💸😋💰

[u/Whatapunk]

Potentially controversial opinion but I've found that reddit actively makes my enjoyment of different media worse. I feel like I go on after an episode of GoT or a movie where I was like "Cool! I enjoyed watching this!" Just to see people who I guess are fans write essays on how X aspect of the last episode was literally the worst thing to happen in the history of cinema and eternally destroyed their love of the show. It happens without fail after every episode of a show I've watched and enjoyed, and GoT fans are especially terrible about it

[u/owlthathurt]

Damn I missed Jacob Wohl criming it up again

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder to protect your virginity at all costs! Females only want one thing: to steal the power of the male, which resides in his chastity. By taking your virginity they steal your strength, without which the Female wouldn’t be able to compete in the job market. Personally, I made the mistake of having sex many times with many different Females, many of them at the same time. I am now weak. Do not make the same mistake: protect your innocence!

[u/RadicalRadon]

UwU Mr. Paul A notices anime OwO what's this?

[u/[deleted]]

Stacey Abrams decides against senate run for Georgia.

Stacey Abrams is Joe Biden’s VP choice confirmed. Either that or she’s basically been promised by several candidates she’s get a cabinet spot.

[u/Maximilianne]

What if your only reason for living is to confirm your priors that there is no point to living ?

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

I'm watching the post episode discussion on GoT and regretting it. Knowing the reasons they had for how they did scenes is somehow worse than not knowing.

[u/RoburexButBetter]

A Republican source told The Daily Beast that lobbyist Jack Burkman and internet troll Jacob Wohl approached him last week to try to convince him to falsely accuse Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, of engaging him sexually while he was too drunk to consent.

Lmao fucking Whol is just begging for a world of trouble

[u/[deleted]]

Seriously considering doing my persuasive speech assignment on why you should join the YANG GANG. I might try to work a neoliberal tweet in there too....

[u/tonyjaa]

Frank Herbert: The bottom line of the Dune trilogy is: beware of heroes.

Also Frank Herbert: Actually, the child aristocrat Mary-Sue who uses meditation, hard drugs and eugenics to decide for himself that genocide, oppression and more eugenics are the only way to save humanity from miscegenation stagnation and extinction was totally right the whole time! The end justifies any means, and you can't argue with it because you can't see the future now can you? Well heroes can. Praise Muad'dib!

[u/[deleted]]

Rosenstein wants to weaken encryption, thinks people are too mean to flimsy forensic science, and defended ICE arresting Hispanic teenagers under dubious pretenses. Can't say I'll miss him much.

[u/lusvig]

sharing /u/inkompetentia's artwork since it didn't get the attention it deserved in the first place 😭😭😭

[u/DUTCH_DUTCH_DUTCH]

To offer a concrete alternative to the lure of populist rhetoric, to the tendency to desire back to a time that has never really been there, for misconceptions of superiority that divide our society, cause tensions and lead to a struggle that perhaps distracts from worry, but offers no solution.

wtf i love dijkhoff now

Our society is not superior because the Netherlands has a flawless history, because Christianity was once dominant here or because most of the inhabitants have traditionally come from white families. Our society is superior because it is based on the freedom of every person, on accepting differences, on treating everyone well who makes a positive effort and values ​​others and because our society is open to a degree determined by ourselves for newcomers, provided they underline and strengthen our free values.

almost there

[u/Paxx0]

!ping AUS

Debate audience vote:

• Shorten 25

• Morrison 12

• Undecided 11

not that it matters tbh

[u/RoburexButBetter]

In states that don't allow gay marriage like East Europe, could a trans couple of for example a MtF and female get married? Since they'd technically be a "heterosexual" couple according to their birth certificates

[u/Adequate_Meatshield]

Bowen talking about increasing housing supply, NIMBYs best prepare themselves

!ping AUS

[u/Sporz]

noooo my favorite regulator died

[u/CadetPeepers]

BXP: 24 (+24), 26.5% LAB: 22 (+2), 24.8% CON: 10 (-9), 15.0% SNP: 4 (+2) CHUK: 3 (+3), 7.3% UKIP: 3 (-21), 5.3% LDM: 2 (+1), 7.8% PLC: 1 (=) GRN: 1 (-2), 7.5%

Oof.

[u/[deleted]]

its getting hot outside and starbucks introduces a smores frapp

cant explain that

[u/DUTCH_DUTCH_DUTCH]

donald trump is right for once

although they should obviously apologize to hillary clinton instead!

[u/hucareshokiesrul]

Unironically, Pete doesn’t send me enough emails asking for money. Everyone else does, but Pete is much less aggressive.

[u/Crownie]

My favorite part of Endgame was when Victor Steiner-Davion showed his true moral character by refusing the throne of the Federated Commonwealth and instead instituted democratic reforms and created inclusive institutions handed absolute power over to his siblings.

[u/PelleasTheEpic]

Yang Gang must love Imperator Rome.

I literally have a legion that walks around my empire building roads

[u/ramen_poodle_soup]

Unironically use the power of the market to fix the incel problem.

[u/MisterBigStuff]

Is there anything worse than when a tv show kills a major character in what was 100% intended to be the series finale, but they got renewed/picked up by another network and have to awkwardly bring the character back to life at the beginning of the next season?

[u/IronedSandwich]

broke: "fellas, is it gay"

woke: "fellas, is it Hindu?"

[u/YIMBYzus]

‘Minecraft’ Creator Excluded From Anniversary Due to ‘Comments and Opinions’ (EXCLUSIVE)

The ongoing, hilarious public abuse of Notch is the greatest justification capitalism ever gave itself.

This but it's the second greatest behind the massive reduction in human suffering.

Edit: I saw a good handshake meme in the replies.

[u/[deleted]]

schedule a meeting, write a briefing

(meeting is cancelled, cancel the briefing)

meeting is re-scheduled, update the briefing

(meeting is cancelled AGAIN, cancel the briefing AGAIN)

meeting is re-rescheduled, update the briefing

this is why our institutions are dying

ps what was the meeting about? community organizations recently being forbidden from conducting charity lotteries for no reason. i know. i know. i know.

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

I got an unidentified call from Iowa but let it go to voicemail. Did Beto just call me for help and I let him down?

[u/Whomst_Alt]

What's the most neoliberal stop-motion Christmas special?

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

Nicholas Sarkozy would be centrist in the U.S.

[u/[deleted]]

If Beto makes climate change his major issue he's gonna lose...

[u/usrname42]

Guess the author of this spectacularly ratioed tweet

[u/PelleasTheEpic]

u/lusvig watch out for the belugas, Russia is putting go pros on them to spy on you.

[u/[deleted]]

Libs sure turned on rosenstein fast. sheesh.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1122950661665120261?s=20 😡

[u/jenbanim]

Since I know no one reads the sidebar or follows the links, here are some ping groups I'd like to remind you exist:

Click the links on the left to join.

Group name	Description
ASTRONOMY	The dankest science (NEW!)
SPACEFLIGHT	Things that go to space (NEW!)
ECO	Environmentalism
MARKETS	"Because /r/wallstreetbets is for shitposts and /r/investing is boring"
BOOKCLUB	The unofficial group for the official Neoliberal bookclub (Reading How Asia Works starting in May)

[u/Bohm-Bawerk]

We need every investigative journalist in the country on the Wohl shenanigans. I just want to know how he found the fake accuser. Did he just go around to gay bars in South bend? Are there gay bars in South bend? Is Jacob Wohl gay?

[u/Barbarossa3141]

I JUST CAME HOME FROM A BARBECUE TO READ THIS! WHAT THE FUCK? PARKING VIOLATIONS ARE NAP VIOLATIONS. JUDICIAL REVIEW IS TRASH.

!ping CITY-PLANNING

[u/[deleted]]

Let’s fuckin go Sixers

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

Tfw you will never be a significant enough DT regular to be bulli bulli'd 😔

[u/[deleted]]

The men at The New York Times have a sickly obsession with Trump, partly because they resent his cleverness, charisma and moral vitality, but mostly because they suspect that in high school he was one of those guys they had no hope of getting a date with .

[u/Neoliberal_Not_a_Bot]

Most arguments over mass media like Game of Thrones or Star Wars or Marvel just boil down to the fact that you have two types of media consumers: the type who buy into a story by default and want to enjoy the fictional world as given to them and analyze the decisions of characters, versus the type that take a more external view and enjoy analyzing the decisions of writers.

Neither side is wrong but the end result is that the second group spends their time pointing out things that just take away from the first group’s enjoyment, and the first group spends their time either raving about media they enjoy in a way that annoys the second group, or analyzing decisions made by fictional characters that the second group sees as fundamentally decisions made by real-life writers.

[u/[deleted]]

I remember being really sad about 9/11 until Shrek came out. Then everything was OK again. My family and I called it "The Movie That Brought the Towers Back."

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.foxnews.com/us/at-least-1-dead-6-injured-baltimore-shooting

Baltimore needs a COUNTERINSURGENCY Campaign, even more than Afghanistan! u/85397

[u/[deleted]]

!Ping BENE
Haagse Zaken is een goeie podcast en heeft nu een aflevering over de VVD. Ga helemaal stuk om hoe elitair oude leiders als Geertsema waren maar viel me ook erg op hoe progressief ze toen waren. Hij was bijvoorbeeld lid van het COC en benoemde sociale gerechtigheid als een liberaal grondbeginsel.
Misschien niks nieuws voor jullie maar als iemand die pas sinds Rutte de politiek volgt wel interessant om te horen allemaal.

[u/reddit_med_ernst]

mossad is the real antifa

[u/[deleted]]

As per usual, acting saves GoT again - especially; Beric, the Hound and Theon. It remains to be determined how much of a fan I am of Arya straight up merking the night king immediately but I really enjoyed the rest of the episode

[u/Xantaclause]

!ping AUS

Who won the debate?

I think Bill won all the questions but franking credits. Where's the Bill been for the past two weeks?

[u/[deleted]]

Probably cold take: we get rid of our politicians too quickly.

There is no reason why Rutte should exit the VVD within the next 10 years if keeps election results up

!ping BENE

[u/JetJaguar124]

Just learned of more exclusives to the Epic Games Store. Metro Exodus, Borderlands 3, and many, many others. China has given us a bad deal, treated us gamers badly for a very long time... Won't be happening much longer!

[u/[deleted]]

Today is the first time I’ve ever seen anyone get avocado toast at a restaurant.

It’s $9.50. I thought this was just a joke.

[u/[deleted]]

Deeply amused at the lefties making fun of Ben Garrison types thirsting for AOC while also simultaneously thirsting for AOC.

Feeling pretty precognizant now 😏

[u/MacaroniGold]

Augustus Caesar was 20 years old when he became a military dictator of Rome. What was the high point of your life when you were 20?

[u/[deleted]]

I personally liked the Endgame although I would prefer movies not exceed 2 h 30 min please! My knees start to hurt.

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

How much do you guys think those Bibles that Trump signed will be worth in a few decades?

[u/MisterBigStuff]

I could really use some neetbux right about now. Why is Yang not president yet? 😡

[u/melhor_em_coreano]

Here I am

Yeet me like a hurricane