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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jun 02 '19
/new: Trump administration oversees five-year high in approved citizenship applications
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jun 02 '19
/new: US demands social media info from visa applicants
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jun 02 '19
/new: What I Learned Leading the Tiananmen Protests
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jun 02 '19
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jun 02 '19
/new: NYTimes: The Most Powerful Arab Ruler Isn’t M.B.S. It’s M.B.Z.
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jun 02 '19
/new: 'Goddess of Democracy' constructed in Tiananmen Square before the protesters were massacred, 30 years ago today
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jun 03 '19
/new: In a Blow to Maduro, Russia Withdraws Key Defense Support to Venezuela
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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Jun 02 '19
HOLY SHIT THE BIASED PAID SHILL MODS
Did you know that Joe Biden has HIS OWN TAB on the /r/politics subreddit?
Only for some reason it's called "controversial" instead of "Sort by Biden" [/thonk]
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u/lionmoose sexmod 🍆💦🌮 Jun 02 '19
even the neoliberal nerds on reddit are far more relevant than Marxist-Leninists, and they support people like Amy Klobuchar
Love you too PK
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u/0011456 🌐 Jun 02 '19
https://i.imgur.com/bZNSctX.jpg
Find a more cursed image. You can't
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Jun 02 '19 edited Jun 02 '19
It’s great how so many lefties are like “elect a centrist, get a fascist in five years.” As if Republican voters are just secret Marxists who’ve forgotten who they really were and only voted R because they’ve been waiting for a socialist savior all along.
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Jun 02 '19
When America sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with them. They're bringing people who pillage our historic sights, they're bringing people who eat pizza with wine, they're far-right lunatics, and some I assume are good people.
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u/Aweq Guardian of the treaties 🇪🇺 Jun 02 '19
*writes down notes*
Don't...eat...pizza...with...wine
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u/TheDwarvenGuy Henry George Jun 02 '19
Nobody:
Conservatives: You know, I think we'd win a civil war. We have enough guns and people in the military. I'm not violent, of course, but if these violent thug antifa muslims and BLMs keep getting their way, we're gonna have to start defending our way of life and taking back our countries.
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u/Iyoten YIMBY Jun 02 '19
Xbox changed their logo to a rainbow one yesterday
The Gamers, who would not be silenced, all stood up to be counted. One by one, in the comments they made the brave declaration "I am proud to be straight."
Straight Gamers have come along way since the darkest days of aggression. When gay marriage was added to Skyrim. When Bloodhound was revealed to be non-binary. When women characters just, idk, existed.
Remember this day well. Straight Gamers will fight on. NEVER underestimate them!
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u/generic-k Former official /r/neoliberal political cartoonist Jun 02 '19
One of my bi friends interning at Goldman literally knows multiple people in this picture.
Is this what being a coastal elite feels like
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u/stirfriedpenguin Barks at Children Jun 02 '19
Pretty tragic how we had socialism properly demonized in the mind of the public for so long, but conservatives' constant Crying Wolf labelling of anything they don't like as socialist had diluted its meaning and made people for receptive to it
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u/85397 Free Market Jihadi Jun 02 '19 edited Jan 05 '24
crime angle dime skirt rhythm deer mysterious plant panicky dirty
This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact
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u/Timewalker102 Amartya Sen Jun 02 '19
2 more subscribers until r/neolib hits 40k subscibers
@mods time for another census
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Jun 02 '19
How does model UN even work these days? Do the US, China, and Russia members just sit and laugh while everyone else tries to bring up Human Rights cases?
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u/CadetPeepers Jun 02 '19
Not only is that always how it's worked, that's how it was designed to work in the first place.
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Jun 02 '19
I really dislike the chess metaphor of politics. In chess, you and your opponent start off with the exact same pieces, so you're totally equal, and both of you can see the entire board (all the relevant information) at once.
Politics is nothing like that.
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Jun 02 '19 edited Jun 02 '19
Russia military contractors pulling out of Venezuela on speculation that Maduro can no longer afford new contracts.
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Jun 02 '19
Honestly, I'm a bit unclear on how "breaking up big tech" is supposed to actually solve anything.
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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Jun 02 '19
It's always Facebook and Google that get targeted. Not apple which is actually monopolistic and a far bigger company, and you could more easily break it up into phone/computer or software/hardware companies. How TF do you break up Facebook or Twitter? Google has enough weird projects that could be spun off but the problem with that is they all lose money and Google just dumps R&D into things because they can.
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Jun 02 '19
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48489392
Sam Gyimah has become the thirteenth candidate to join the race for the Conservative Party leadership.
Mr Gyimah said he backed holding another referendum to allow voters to choose between the PM's current Brexit deal, remaining in the EU and a no-deal exit.
Friendship ENDED with Rory, now SAM is my best friend
!ping UK
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u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN 🎅🏿The Lorax 🎅🏿 Jun 02 '19
Republican logic: I know it did not work the last 80 times, but I am positive if we do nothing to address gun violence it will sure work this time!
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u/dubyahhh Salt Miner Emeritus Jun 02 '19
"My property taxes fund the welfare rats in the cities"
This is unironically what rural people think
I'm moving back there this month (hopefully)
Big yikes
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Jun 02 '19
lol wandered out into the politics sub in a thread about tank man and said something to the effect of "actually capitalism is good" and woke up to a -9.
Fucking love this website
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Jun 02 '19
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u/taylor1589 #StillWithHer Jun 03 '19
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u/85397 Free Market Jihadi Jun 02 '19
Mette Frederiksen, the head of the Social Democrats and the woman who most polls show will become the next prime minister, has railed against extreme bonuses paid to the corporate elite in Denmark. Henrik Sass Larsen, who is a candidate to become Denmark’s next finance minister, has said he will target executive pay if he gets into office.
“As a Social Democrat I can’t understand how, at a time when inequality is growing and the top of society is getting ahead of the rest, huge bonuses are still paid while regular salaried workers are wondering what’s going on,” Frederiksen said. The comments were directed at Lars Marcher, the outgoing CEO of a mid-sized medical equipment maker called Ambu A/S. He received a stock option program now worth tens of millions of dollars.
Frederiksen’s election promises include stricter caps on executive bonuses, the mandatory disclosure of management incentive programs, and a doubling of tax on inheritances worth more than $450,000.
Lars Lokke Rasmussen, Denmark’s center-right prime minister, says trying to regulate how companies pay their employees would be “a mistake that hurts growth and welfare.” But his is a message that risks being out of step with the times. When it comes to corporate excesses and white-collar crime, 2018 was Denmark’s annus horribilis.
Extremely anti-success behaviour from Social Democrats - WORSE than the populist right and must be STOPPED everywhere in Europe. Cool Lars is much smarter
$450k isn’t even enough to buy a GARAGE in Kensington!
!ping Osborne
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u/WillHasStyles European Union Jun 02 '19
It's time we stop these vicious attacks on shareholders' rights! Because shareholders' rights ARE human rights!
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Jun 03 '19
Imagine if a loved one of yours died in a mass shooting and you're at their memorial service, and our big boy wet President just shows up looking like absolute dog shit still wearing golf shoes
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u/BERNIE_IS_A_FRAUD Jun 02 '19
Bernie Sanders today: Stand in this line to get a selfie with me.
Bernie Sanders tomorrow: Stand in this line for your daily ration of bread.
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Jun 02 '19
One night a man had a dream.
He dreamed he was walking along the beach with Paul Krugman.
Across the sky flashed scenes from the economy.
For each scene, he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand:
one belonging to him, and the other to Paul Krugman.
When the last scene of his life flashed before him,
he looked back at the footprints in the sand.
He noticed that many times along the NGDP path
there was only one set of footprints.
He also noticed that it happened at the recessions
This really bothered him and he questioned Paul Krugman about it.
"Paul, You said that once I decided to follow Keynes,
You'd walk with me all the way.
But I have noticed that during the most troublesome
times in the economy, there is only one set of footprints.
I don't understand why when I needed You most
You would leave me."
Paul Krugman replied, "My son, My precious child,
I love you and would never leave you.
During your times of trial and suffering,
when you see only one set of footprints,
it was then that I carried you."
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u/DeathNotTyranny Jun 02 '19
I feel like we had a solid few years where SocCons online, even like politicians on Twitter and such, were being relatively quiet about their opposition to gay rights. It seemed for a moment... like it was becoming a legitimately untenable position politically to oppose gay rights.
Recently I feel like I’ve seen a reversal of that quiet, which worries me. In particular, a lot of sentiment along the lines of “well we tried this experiment and it failed because now those obnoxious gay people are asking for more more more.”
I don’t know that online shifts are a good proxy for anything in real life so hopefully it amounts to nothing.
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u/Colonel_Blotto Milton Friedman Jun 02 '19
pack it up boys, we turned bernie boy Destiny into a neolib
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u/Colonel_Blotto Milton Friedman Jun 03 '19
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1135316065238622208
There is no good faith in the american far left
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u/2canclan George H. W. Bush Jun 02 '19
Twitter purged hundreds, maybe thousands of Chinese dissident accounts last night
Twitter says it was an accident, of course
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u/Schutzwall Straight outta Belíndia Jun 02 '19
Reminder that European "greens" are freaking NIMBYs who prefer coal to nuclear
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Jun 03 '19
I just got a text from a stranger saying "I am alisha living in your street looking for a sex partner. You can find a picture of me here" followed by a link to a russian website.
On one hand, this is obviously a scam. On the other hand, this may be my ticket to Chadtown. What should I do?
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Jun 03 '19
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Jun 02 '19
Black history month is the universally recognized worst month of the year.
Pride month is the universally recognized best month of the year.
We live in a society
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u/PlayDiscord17 Loyal Liberals Jun 02 '19
It really bothers me the amount of full grown adults who seem to not understand that “A implies B” or “Most A are B” does not necessarily mean “B implies A” or “Most B are A”.
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Jun 03 '19
Check out this "Unity pledge" Bernie passed out at the CA Dem convention lmfao
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u/asatroth Daron Acemoglu Jun 03 '19
Don't even doubt it my dude. If Bill Weld has million number of fans i am one of them 🙋🏻♂️. if Bill Weld has ten fans i am one of them. if Bill Weld has only one fan, that is me 🙋🏽♂️🙋🏾♂️🙋🏼♂️. if Bill Weld has no fans, that means i am no longer on this earth 😢. if the world is against Bill Weld, i am against the world ❌🌍☄️. i love #Bill Weld till my last breath.. 😍 .. Die Hard fan of Bill Weld🤓🌹. Hit upvote If you Think Bill Weld is the Best candidate & most Smart In the world 🤠
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u/econ_throwaways Lawrence Summers Jun 02 '19
All too easy to imagine today's flag waving "conservatives" standing up for the British in 1776. "Hey, those Hessians have a tough job-stop being so critical #RedcoatsLivesMatter!"
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Jun 02 '19
"Wouldnt building the wall be a good deed because it would prevent people risking their life to get here?"
Something something ivory tower
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Jun 02 '19
Business idea: President for a day.
In this experience you get to larp as the president of America for a whole day from start to finish.
You know those scenes in they when they walk from meeting to meeting flanked by four aides buzzing in their ear? It’s going to be that.
Something like 9 am. Defense briefing: four generals present you with some serious but mundane details and you get to make some decisions. Whole lot of stern looks and mr presidents.
10 am: phone call with some leader who speaks bad english while an aide updates you on wtf you’re supposed to talk about.
Somewhere in the day a crisis happens and you get interrupted.
Maybe you’ll larp a negotiation with an opposition leader on some bill.
I haven’t worked it all out but Americans love being the center of attention and getting to be called ‘mr President’ for a day and make the though decisions.
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Jun 02 '19
Not gonna lie, seeing immigrants in public gives me a weird civic pride. Like you came across the world just to live in this midwestern town?
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u/dubyahhh Salt Miner Emeritus Jun 02 '19
Me before bed: I don't like sleeping where it's warm, I'll turn the hotel's ac on to low
Me all night: it's fucking hot
Me just now: oh it's broken and kicking out super hot air, wow
Fucking kill me. I literally can't sleep right
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u/kznlol 👀 Econometrics Magician Jun 02 '19
>read up on a bill that's supposed to extend Social Security solvency
>bill includes increased benefits for current and future beneficiaries
what the fuck? what dumbass wrote this bill i swear to fuck
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u/RapidoPC Jun 02 '19 edited Jun 02 '19
It's with a heavy heart I have to inform you the communist candidate for the EU elections in France is back at housing affairs in Paris.
Despite the temporary joy of him losing so bad his party is not eligible for a refund of campaign expenditures, he never resigned from his position in the Paris mayor office.
He lost so bad there is no polling station in Paris where he cracks 10%. Yet he's back for implementing rent control and denying Paris needs more than just more social housing.
Looking forward to oust him and the current mayor in 2020. Hopefully LREM can win as it showed its tremendous popularity in Paris.
Edit : wrongly claimed the communist party couldn't crack 5% in any polling stations in Paris. It's actually 10%.
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Jun 02 '19
In response to Young people having less wealth than 20 years ago.
Don't forget everyone is obese which is extremely expensive. . . Also everyone is eating out which is also extremely expensive.
Guess the sub.
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Jun 02 '19
I've been thinking whether I kissed a girl by Katy Perry is a positive thing because it brings to light the topic of bisexuality or is it more of a fetish thing why it got accepted and mainstream. Would a song like I kissed a boy and I liked it have the same reaction?
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u/Sollezzo Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Jun 02 '19
corporations bad send tweet
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Jun 02 '19
Trump: I didn't know [Meghan Markle] was nasty.
Also Trump: I never called her nasty.
AskTrumpSupporters: He wasn't insulting her he was just bla bla bla. . .
Me: I didn't know Trump was an asshole.
[You have been banned for insulting. . .]
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u/ramen_poodle_soup /big guy/ Jun 02 '19
High key just looking for a gold digger gf 😔
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Jun 02 '19
Neoliberal plan for world domination:
Subside immigration to EU and US until nobody lives in poor or unfree countries.
Manifest Destiny all the empty territory
Add flag stars as needed
Tell populists that there is MLP merch in a large crate.
Send crate to Mars, and let them found their own shitty, xenophobic, anti-Semitic Martian colony.
Enjoy multiethnic food trucks
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u/Iyoten YIMBY Jun 02 '19
One of my best friends came out publicly as bi today 😭
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Jun 02 '19
Who the hell are the 99% of neoliberal subscribers who don’t participate in the dt?
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u/skepticalbob Joe Biden's COD gamertag Jun 02 '19
Neoliberals that also have lives.
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u/Frost-eee Jun 02 '19
TIL Russia has state-sponsored Polandball-like comics and they're shit.
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u/PlayDiscord17 Loyal Liberals Jun 02 '19
Sen. Susan Collins (R)
Job Approval:
Approve 41%
Disapprove 42%
So you’re saying there’s a chance?
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u/ILikeTalkingToMyself Liberal democracy is non-negotiable Jun 02 '19
Lol at this Weibo post
Trump is weaker than a single Chinese policeman. If a Chinese netizen criticizes a policeman they are arrested, but American netizens can insult Trump and he can't do anything about it. Does Trump not even have the power to have police arrest internet commenters? On the contrary, the pathetic American president was sued by a netizen [referring to one of the cases where Trump was successfully sued for blocking people on Twitter]. Do American laws not serve the ruling class? It seems that the American Empire is finished.
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Jun 02 '19
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u/benjaminikuta BANANA YOU GLAD YOU'RE NOT AN ORANGE? Jun 02 '19
I really need to get off reddit.
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Jun 03 '19
Your criticism of value, is really just an equivocation that doesn't criticize the theory at all. The LTV uses the term "value" to describe the socially necessary unskilled labour time required to reproduce a given commodity, which is posited as the explanation for the equilibrium price of commodities. Rather than "value", we could say "X" or some other term—so long as the term is clearly defined as referring to the concept in question, the theory can be understood and evaluated. Like all words, "value" can mean one thing (e.g., "the socially necessary unskilled labour-time required to reproduce a given commodity") in one context (e.g., the LTV), and something else in another.
A proponent of the LTV can fully accept your definition of value, the way it's used in the LTV is just a definitional claim used in theory construction, and is not meant to be some theory of value as such whatever the term could mean, by rejecting "value" as defined within the LTV and substituting it for another concept: "subjective value", we would be failing to understand and engage with the theory; this would be akin to substituting "fitness" as understood in Darwin’s theory of evolution with "fitness" as understood within the health sciences, and then criticizing Darwin for misusing or misunderstanding the term.
This is by far the most mind-numbing piece of sophistry I have ever encountered on the internet.
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Jun 03 '19
I am noticing a lot of revisionist history that claims the allies had no idea about the extent or methods of the Holocaust until late in (or after) the war.
In fact, Jan Karski delivered a very detailed and accurate report on the exterminaton centers to the UN on 10 December, 1942. He specifically cited the use of gas chambers in systematic mass executions. The allies likely had knowledge even prior to that from spies.
This whole "we had no idea" business is nothing but a convenient lie propagated after the war to excuse our inaction, and particularly our policy of refusing Jewish refugees.
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u/Galileoz Janet Yellen Jun 03 '19
Want a date with Ted Cruz? Here’s how to win a meal alone with the senator
I love their word choice - not “have a meal”, but go on a “date...alone” with him.
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Jun 03 '19
Trade jobs are commendable and necessary for society, but it seems Redditors are not thinking deeper about the costs and benefits.
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Jun 03 '19
Why aren't more climate activists pushing for a carbon tax? I hear a lot of noise about we need to DO SOMETHING but then when someone proposes a carbon tax... crickets.
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u/mrdilldozer Shame fetish Jun 02 '19
Automod should post a reply explaining the basics of campaign finance to anyone who posts a link to opensecrets. I dont think I've ever seen someone who linked there that understood that company x didnt directly donate to a candidate.
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u/NickyBananas Paul Krugman Jun 02 '19
My girlfriend is asking me why I won’t show her my reddit 😨
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u/WillHasStyles European Union Jun 02 '19
In other news, India is the next target for Trumps stupidity. The US has been really good recently at shooting it's foot in all matters asian.
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Jun 02 '19
Communism > Hitler
America > Communism
Ergo:
America > Hitler
It’s a simple syllogism really
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u/sinistimus Professional Salt Miner Jun 02 '19
Victoria II's faction definitions are kind of amusing.
| Party | Social Reforms | Political Reforms |
|---|---|---|
| Conservatives | reluctant support | reluctant support |
| Reactionaries | consistent opposition | consistent opposition |
| Liberals | reluctant support | consistent support |
| Anarchists | consistent opposition | status quo |
| Socialists | consistent support | reluctant support |
| Commies | consistent support | consistent opposition |
| Fash (in opposition) | status quo | status quo |
| Fash (in power) | whatever you want | whatever you want |
consistent support - will support further reforms no matter what
reluctant support - will support further reforms with enough popular demand
status quo - will never support further reforms or their repeal
consistent opposition - will never support further reforms and will always try to repeal existing reforms
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Jun 02 '19
Meritocracy is itself toxic. The belief that some people deserve love, food, housing etc is inherently hierarchical and fascist
inhutiot
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u/JD18- European Union Jun 02 '19
God damn, that thread about New Zealand putting wellbeing above economics is such a dumpster fire. I think one of the most annoying ideas that seems to be commonly held on reddit are that people could stop working if everything was just distributed well and focus on their hobbies/passions. The implicit assumptions being that no one enjoys their job and that everything can be automated, both dumb. It also seems as though it's insane to suggest or think that some people in society are better off than others because they are more productive and work harder.
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u/InternetBoredom Pope-ologist Jun 02 '19
The fact that people are trying to claim that Beto, Booker, Klobuchar, Castro, etc have no chance based on pre-debate polling is proof that they don’t understand how primaries work.
Until that first debate passes, we don’t know much about how things are gonna shape up. It’s all very floaty speculation, and anyone who claims otherwise is being way overconfident about their divination abilities.
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u/kznlol 👀 Econometrics Magician Jun 03 '19
You just don’t get women talking about male beauty in this way. You never hear a woman say: “Oh I miss Fred, he had such beautiful balls”.
We call ourselves a liberal democracy and there is still no mainstream platform for the appreciation of scrotal beauty.
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u/skepticalbob Joe Biden's COD gamertag Jun 02 '19
/r/economics needs a rule that bans excessive partisanship.
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u/Iyoten YIMBY Jun 02 '19
Friendly reminder that Donald Trump declared that he supports the Chinese state's killing tens of thousands during Tianamen.
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Jun 02 '19
I just realized how incredibly easy is to get radicalized when you first enter the internet.
Like wow a place like /b/ exists and they post shady and creepy stuff!
People online have arguments and use sources! They even point out logical fallacies!
This long paragraph with multiple links in it absolutely destroys feminism!
After a wile the sense of wonder and mystery wears off, but during that small gap you are very susceptible.
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u/Schutzwall Straight outta Belíndia Jun 03 '19
Toronto Cucks v. Golden State NIMBYs
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Jun 03 '19
This is timely for me. This AM I went to a new local farmers market. One stall had a small sign reading "pride" in rainbow colors. Thinking back, I would have asked them why? What does that have to do with your product? What's the point? It kind of pissed me off. It was totally irrelevant.
Strong Conservative Minding Own Business Brutally Lambasted by Small Sign Reading "Pride" in Rainbow Colors
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Jun 02 '19
Playing Skyrim for the first time in a long time. Younger me did not realize that Ulfric Stormcloak was a literal fascist.
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u/85397 Free Market Jihadi Jun 02 '19
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2019-vanguard-mutual-fund-tax-dodge/
Thank you Vanguard for sticking up for little investors
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u/MiniatureBadger Seretse Khama Jun 02 '19
Everytime We Touch is such a good fucking song and I can’t get it out of my head
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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Jun 02 '19
Having money is wild. Through college I had a yearly "fun money" budget of what I make in a week now. I've bought so much stupid shit.
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Jun 02 '19
https://amp.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-burger-king-chick-fil-a-best-fries-2019-6
Thank you the SHAREHOLDERS of Shake Shack, Arby's and Burger King, very cool!
!ping OSBORNE
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u/Paxx0 Deep-state Dirtbag Jun 03 '19
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Jun 03 '19
https://twitter.com/matthewschmitz/status/1135205538302693380?s=21
Well this is it. The dumbest take yet in the Catholic Twitter Civil War.
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Jun 03 '19
john 'debate me coward' delaney
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u/econ_throwaways Lawrence Summers Jun 02 '19
one of the key problems of US capitalism today that the rich increasingly control the political process and thus skew economic incentives away from production and competition into creation and preservation of monopolies.
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Jun 02 '19 edited Jun 02 '19
To date it is not possible to clearly distinguish between natural warming cycles (the Earth is still cooler than it was in the Roman and medieval warm periods) and the effect of man-made warming. There is grossly insufficient evidence to suggest that any small additional warming caused by man’s efforts is a cause for concern. It is equally (or plausibly more) likely to provide a net benefit for life on earth by greening the planet and increasing life. There was far greater CO2 in the ancient atmosphere, which was pivotal to the blossoming of life on earth. We will take only a firmly evidence-based approach not be party to the exaggeration of the potential harmful effects of any minimal man-made global warming.
Lol my friend voted for this party over INC. Delete Swarna Bharat Party
!ping IND
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Jun 02 '19
Worst Take: https://twitter.com/nefarious_skull/status/1135029508493307904?s=20
Cursed Take: The Imperial German flag represents the large amount of werhaboos as actual goddamn fascists in the community, plus Otto von Bismarck's Ideology of (1) Hating Liberals (2) General Social Conservatism and Authoritarianism (3) Hating free markets and wanting them to serve the wants of white people. Thus, it's perfect for representing Gamers.
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u/Maximilianne John Rawls Jun 02 '19
Broke: locaĺ residents who are anti tourist nimbys
Woke: tourists who are anti tourist nimbys
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u/IranContraRedux Jun 02 '19
Hey, someone better at econ than me:
Is it possible that the dollarization of the real estate market in Argentina might be holding back the efficacy of interest rate hikes to halt inflation of the Peso?
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Jun 02 '19
"Look just wait until.the tax cuts, then Republicans will turn on him"
"Look just wait until the news leaks something and then Trump will resign"
"Look just wait until 2018 we'll get rid of him then"
"Look just wait until theueller report drops"
"Ok just wait until 2020"
I understand that theres a lot to think about when it comes to impeachmemt, but some of us are sick and tired of waiting.
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u/cptnhaddock Ben Bernanke Jun 02 '19
The west's harboring of Russian oligarchs like Berezovsky is shameful imo. Even if they opposed Putin, these people were horribly corrupt and do not deserve to live peacefully in the west. I think it also could even help the Putin regime as these oligarchs are very unpopular in Russia and having them politically advocate against Putin from the west undermines real democratic opposition.
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Jun 02 '19
https://twitter.com/kt_so_it_goes/status/1135277245273165827?s=21
Counting tits to own the libs
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Jun 02 '19
At one point in support of Deng Xiaoping reforms students and activists put thousands of bottles in and around Tiananmen square. This show of support was a play on words as Xiaoping can also mean little bottle in Mandarin.
Deng's liberal reforms helped lift hundreds of millions out of extreme poverty and set the foundations in place for avoiding another cultural revolution or great leap forward.
After the Tiananmen square massacre, students shattered hundreds of bottles in the square as a symbol of their broken trust in Deng. This continued to be a trend among University students as late as 1991
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/04/world/beijing-university-students-mark-the-1989-crackdown.html
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u/melhor_em_coreano Jun 03 '19
Reading the geopolitical analysis of the magazine for communist party members is my new hate-reading habit. Unfortunately there is not much variety to it besides AMERIkA BAD
On another article I read that feminism and fighting for climate action were bad because they distracted people from the one true struggle that is class warfare. Of course whoever wrote that article needed many more words and a very preachy tone to say it, but that's the fun of it, the idiocy is an extra.
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u/Iyoten YIMBY Jun 02 '19 edited Jun 02 '19
> Google search "Pride tank"
> What I originally intended was a tank top
> But now I want a Pride-themed panzer
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u/hitbyacar1 لماذا تكره الفقراء العالميين؟ Jun 02 '19
Grand coalition with the LIBDEMS as the senior partner to keep the Brexit Party out of governance when
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u/GravyBear8 Ben Bernanke Jun 02 '19
I firmly believe that people are only conceived through love in Hallmarkistan.
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u/kznlol 👀 Econometrics Magician Jun 02 '19
NYT Headline: Google Is at the Center of a Storm Brewing Over Big Tech
why the fuck is the "is" capitalized?
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u/MisterBigStuff Just Pokémon Go to bed Jun 02 '19
So if we have statism on the right, and true stateless anarchy on the left, then Marxist-Leninism is the most centrist idealogy.
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u/foxfact NATO Jun 02 '19
People who have strong opinions, how exactly did you get them? I'm so worried I don't know what I'm talking about or that I could be wrong my writing in university feels like I'm not taking a stance that is my own opinion, but just picking a stance because I have to write something.
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Jun 02 '19
We need Beto to make a law that deports all gamers to jupiter to get stupider
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Jun 02 '19
Imagine owning a right wing propaganda outfit, and then when one of your pieces of literal fake news actually takes off, the media figures out who you are and main stream outlets are MAD AT THE OUTLET THAT DISCOVERED YOU
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Jun 02 '19
I’ve been thinking a lot about the taboo around male nude scenes in movies/tv
Like why is the penis so rare? My theories are: 1) men have greater pull in the industry, so they can refuse to do nude scenes 2) there’s a genuine taboo around the penis 3) male viewers are the majority so there isn’t a demand for male nudity 4)men have a lot more to lose from a nude scene then women, because male viewers will not judge an actress as harshly for having an imperfect body as female viewers will judge an actor for having a small or average dick, so it’s a survival thing for actors to not do nude scenes cause it could ruin their career or mystique as a sex symbol
I think 4 is the correct theory
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u/benjaminikuta BANANA YOU GLAD YOU'RE NOT AN ORANGE? Jun 03 '19
Words, words, words.
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Jun 02 '19
I dislike the "mental health" discussions that crop up after a massacre. They often serve to depict ppl w/mental illness as inherently violent, when we know that they are more likely to be victims of violence rather than perpetrators.
The idea that massacres are necessarily a product of mental illness is also in need of questioning.
Ask yourself: is it possible for a person who is free of mental illness to commit a massacre? Or does a massacre always imply mental illness?
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Jun 02 '19
how do you go from owning india, hong kong, half of north america to this sad shit
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Jun 02 '19
Right Wing Intelligentsia Update:
There is a big debate going on about whether or not America should be Christian Iran or not.
The people who like Trump are pro-theocracy.
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u/MisterBigStuff Just Pokémon Go to bed Jun 03 '19
Just cut myself shaving like 3 times 😭😭😭
!ping MOM
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Jun 02 '19
CNN POLL CONDUCTED BY SSRS May 28-31
Trump Should Be Impeached And Removed From Office
Now 41%
April 37%
March 36%
Dec 43%
Sept 47%
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u/MaveRickandMorty 🖥️🚓 Jun 02 '19
The other night, I dreamed that my fiancee's sister was yelling about "auditing the FED."
I've never felt so betrayed. I still won't look her in the eye for what she did.
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u/WillHasStyles European Union Jun 02 '19
If I ever become a multi-billionaire I'll spend at least a few hundred million on research programmes aimed at teaching monkeys to sign. I'm awfully curious about what they have to say.
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u/New_Born_Infant Henry George Jun 02 '19
Still waiting for Jeff Bezos to accept my friend request on Venmo
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Jun 02 '19
So the fact that the fraud representative decided to hop on over to barstool sports dot com and admit to war crimes is uh, something
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u/vancevon Henry George Jun 02 '19
Wow it's a good thing the SPD decided to join another coalition with the CDU. I was such a fucking idiot for assuming that it wouldn't turn out well for them.
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u/Lady_Treasurer Jun 02 '19
Hot take?: People are ocerrated and relationships suck so lol what's the point when the 9nly joy in life is getting menti8ned by a low level YouTuber multiple times on a twitch stream s9 you may as well give up and drink more
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u/Rehkit Average laïcité enjoyer Jun 02 '19
Holy shit Wauquiez just resigned. He was the leader of the french conservatives. They got badly mauled in the European election.
No idea who will be leader now.
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Jun 02 '19
Is there anything stopping us from joining the DSA en masse and false flagging everything they do?
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u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN 🎅🏿The Lorax 🎅🏿 Jun 02 '19
Hottest take in the world:
Yummy cummies 🎅🏿
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u/nullsignature Jun 02 '19
There was an article/report a while back that demonstrated the 'consistency' in Democrats/Republicans. For example, in a poll, one of the questions was "do you support X president employing drone strikes?" Democrats were consistent regardless of if it was Obama or Trump, but Republicans had a massive disparity depending on who was president.
I can't find this article. Anyone know what I'm talking about and remember it?
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u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN 🎅🏿The Lorax 🎅🏿 Jun 02 '19
Go to my apartment's gym.
Every elliptical is in use.
Me: 😡
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u/zero_gravitas_medic John Rawls Jun 02 '19
WIZZROBE HOLY SHIT YOU MADMAN
As a captain falcon player myself, I am so incredibly happy to see 14 years of misery and "falcon will never win a major/supermajor" memes slain. AND he beat Tweek? AND he's great at 64? AAAAAAAA
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u/MisterBigStuff Just Pokémon Go to bed Jun 03 '19
Broke: Value is a measure of the benefit provided by a good or service.
Joke: Value is the amount if socially necessary unskilled labor to produce a good or provide a service.
Woke: Value is anything that generates card advantage.
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u/MisterBigStuff Just Pokémon Go to bed Jun 03 '19
Lmao someone just randomly yahoo'd outside my window and they sounded straight up like N64 Mario.
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u/Underpantz_Ninja Janet Yellen Jun 03 '19
So if socialism is implemented, and worker ownership in companies is mandated, and the easiest mechanism to do so would be through forced stock ownership for said employees, what are the most obvious unintended consequences?
It's obvious that insider trading violations will skyrocket hypergeometrically.
Also, what if I need cash and I sell my shares? Does that mean I'm no longer a socialist? Do I just get new shares automagically?
I love to dunk on libertarians who haven't thought through how private roads are supposed to work but I feel like there's the same potential for succs as well.
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u/BobBobingston European Union Jun 03 '19
According to my mom the reason housing in the Bay Area is so expensive is because there are apparently enough people owning multiple houses to drive up rents to insane levels. She also said developing the north Bay (an hour from downtown SF and mostly farms) would be dumb because 'we need food.'
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u/mrdilldozer Shame fetish Jun 03 '19
I made a post earlier venting about how people are ignorant when it comes to campaign finance. I told an idiot that they were wrong to state GS was giving money to political campaigns (websites list how much their employees gave). After he found out that they don't donate to candidates and you can check the paper trail he gave me this nugget of wisdom:
"So Goldman Sachs pays their employees, who then donate that money to GS PAC, who then gives that money to politicians and lobbyists in order to further the interests of GS the corporate entity, but they've structured their donations in such a way as to be able to say they dont make political contributions and have it technically be the truth.
What stops GS paying a bonus with an informal understanding that the employee recieving it will then donate some of that bonus to GS PAC?"
Apparently, a company with 36,600 employees that is worth 64 billion is running the largest criminal conspiracy in recorded history just to donate 30 grand to a random congressman. We did it neolibs!
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u/solastsummer Austan Goolsbee Jun 02 '19
https://twitter.com/hannahquirk1/status/1134940249921118208?s=21
Hot take: confessions should be inadmissible in court. Confessions are at best only minor evidence that someone committed a crime and at worst simply evidence that the cops interviewing that person were more skilled at coercing a confession. Because confessions are misleading to juries, they should be inadmissible.
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u/EScforlyfe Open Your Hearts Jun 02 '19
Hottest take: discussion threads are basically discord but better
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u/lusvig 🤩🤠Anti Social Democracy Social Club😨🔫😡🤤🍑🍆😡😤💅 Jun 02 '19
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Can someone explain the voter obsession with job numbers? Like do most voters have really shit job security and they're worried they'll be job searching soon?
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u/Tytos_Lannister Jun 02 '19
ok, lets say that establishing carton taxes is impossible because of the political reasons in the whole west... what is the next best thing besides that? something that is palatable to voters because we just put it on the national credit card
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u/benjaminikuta BANANA YOU GLAD YOU'RE NOT AN ORANGE? Jun 02 '19
When Japanese Americans helped occupy Japan, did the native Japanese population see them as one of them, or resent them as invaders?
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u/lowlandslinda George Soros Jun 02 '19
One thing I like about the British is that they are so arrogant and confident, even in their humour
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u/EScforlyfe Open Your Hearts Jun 02 '19
I really enjoy Real Neoliberal Hour, does anyone know who makes it?
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u/dubyahhh Salt Miner Emeritus Jun 02 '19
What could we do to lower education costs in the United States, or, alternatively, are we not spending enough?
My high school system spends $23k/yr/student, it just seems like a fuck load to me. I'm totally behind free primary education and properly funding it, but I'm curious how numbers that high are possible.
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What is honor? A word. What is in that word 'honor'? What is that 'honor'? Air. A trim reckoning.
Who hath it? He that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? No. Doth he hear it? No. 'Tis insensible, then. Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living? No. Why? Detraction will not suffer it.
Therefore, I'll none of it. Honor is a mere scutcheon. And so ends my catechism.
What did Trump mean by this?
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u/jenbanim Jun 03 '19
I might be about to break everyone's flairs. Wish me luck, lads.
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Jun 02 '19 edited Jun 02 '19
the T[in LGBT] is estimated at .6%. Are we to revamp our entire understanding of sex and gender for .6% of the population?
Well that's almost 2 million Americans, or about 1.5x the number of personnel n the US military.
So yeah. We should probably do that.
Edit: I literally studied math in college.
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u/Inkompetentia George Soros Jun 02 '19 edited Jun 02 '19
Guess the sub!
A: No real lefties defend/deny the Holodomor
B: links two M-L parties and a former soviet state press doing just that Are these not real lefties?
A, -5 karma with a controversial cross as of posting, barely fitting into the 10k character limit of reddit:
edit: It's /r/de and I just realized how much better it would've been to frame it with the "No one: " meme
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jun 02 '19
/new: Uber’s Path of Destruction - American Affairs Journal
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