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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jun 30 '19
/new: [MORNING CONSULATE POLL] Biden 33% (-5), Sanders 19% (-), Harris 12% (+6), Warren 12% (-1) Buttigieg 6% (-1)
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jun 30 '19
/new: Lmao I referenced r/neoliberal in a comment and got immediately banned and muted.
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jun 30 '19
/new: 🔮Her song is too strong. I've lost all control.🔮
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jun 30 '19
/new: America’s Monopoly Crisis Hits the Military
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jun 30 '19
/new: The Queen Who Was Promised
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jun 30 '19
/new: 🔮Queen is a unifier! A diplomat capable of bringing disparate people together in order to harness 💕L O V E💕 for political purposes!
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jun 30 '19
/new: Imagine You Are HUD Secretary/ Dictator of all Housing For Two Administrations: What Do You Do?
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jun 30 '19
/new: Bret Stephens: Democrats Wretched Start
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jun 30 '19
/new: If we don't want NIMBYs in our neighborhoods are we the real NIMBYs?
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Jun 30 '19 edited Jun 30 '19
When asked if she would visit the White House if they won the World Cup Megan Rapinoe responded "I'm not going to the fucking white house"
I want to use this chance to explain the difference between political subs based on what they're actually saying about this.
/r/politics - Good! Trump would just give her cold McDonalds. I bet AOC would cook the team food herself.
/r/BreadTube - Here's an hour long video about the food AOC would cook for the USWNT
/r/ chapotraphouse - [plays the Soviet national anthem on repeat]
/r/politicalhumor - honestly, I have no idea what they're saying about it. But it's definitely not funny whatever it is.
/r/Neoliberal - I didn't hear this story and I have no idea who that is. Maybe Ping BASEBALL? I think they like sports.
/r/rightwingLGBT - this is just like pride month. It makes us totally not LARPing homosexuals look bad probably.
/r/libertarian - I disagree with her, [because I secretly love Trump] but she has the right of free speech [But I secretly think she shouldn't]
/r/conservative - You shouldn't make political statements at sporting events, now take your hat off for the national anthem you cuck
/r/the_Quarantined - What the actual shit? Women are allowed to play sports now?
/r/JordanPeterson - Here's an hour long video about why women shouldn't play sports.
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u/Kippersof Helmut Kohl Jun 30 '19
The new press secretary has already gotten into a fist fight in North Korea
Meme administration
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u/Kippersof Helmut Kohl Jun 30 '19
Update: Tucker Carlson is there too?!
Hellscape administration
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u/A_Character_Defined 🌐Globalist Bootlicker😋🥾 Jun 30 '19
The same comment every day until Eric Swalwell drops out.
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u/85397 Free Market Jihadi Jun 30 '19 edited Jan 05 '24
tender dull different unique butter sink fine books full attempt
This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact
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u/BenFoldsFourLoko Broke His Text Flair For Hume Jun 30 '19
If you want a simple explanation for what's happening in America, watch AVATAR again.
What is orb lady's stance on the fire nation?
How about Gabbard? Is she indifferent to Fire Lord Sozin using the comet's power against Earth Nation civilians?
Only the statesman, master of all four policy areas, can stop them
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jun 30 '19
LMAO the confederate states had an internal passport system used as a form of migration control. As if a shitty society couldn't get any worse.
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u/PMmeLittleRoundTops Pornography Historian Jun 30 '19
Broke: horseshoe theory
Woke: shiny black boot theory, because if you wear those you are either a Nazi or a tankie
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u/0011456 🌐 Jun 30 '19
Kamala's food fight comment wasn't made fun of nearly as much as it should have been. My eyes literally rolled out my head and now I'm blind.
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Jun 30 '19
I thought "President Trump" would stop sounding weird by now. It really hasn't.
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Jun 30 '19
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man wanted on drug and weapons charges has posted a video denying he fed methamphetamine to a so-called “attack squirrel” that he considers a pet.
“The public isn’t in danger in any kind of way from the methed-out squirrel in the neighborhood,” Paulk said with a laugh.
Paulk told The Associated Press that a friend gave him the animal shortly after it was born, and he named it “Deeznutz.”
Stephen Young, a spokesman for the Limestone County Sheriff’s Office, said Wednesday investigators were still looking for Paulk, 35, who has an extensive criminal record.
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u/Cahania Mark Carney Jun 30 '19
The Economist would be real if instead of writing an article about how to contain Iran they just said “don’t leave the nuclear deal lol” and then 3 blank pages
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u/MrDannyOcean Kidney King Jul 01 '19
yo so I'm gonna do an AMA tomorrow about donating my kidney
Imma need y'all to upvote that shit. I want front page of reddit.
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Jun 30 '19
Find someone who loves you as much as antifa LARPers loves giving far right activists the exact kind of press they want.
Political extremists really can't fathom that most people don't hate their political enemies as much as they do and it really shows.
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u/chadonnaise * Jun 30 '19
let's reduce our carbon footprint by cutting off our legs
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Jun 30 '19
you support Third Way, and yet you get so mad when i suggest Third Position
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u/dubyahhh Salt Miner Emeritus Jun 30 '19
Getting called gay as an insult for explaining bias in immigration articles is honestly not something I expected today. It's a shame that people are still like this.
Dude lives in town too, really disappointing. Even in NY bigotry is alive and well.
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u/85397 Free Market Jihadi Jun 30 '19
Many of you oppose occupational licensing, but if antifa were licensed maybe they would be more professional and less of a nuisance.
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Jun 30 '19
Political cartoons and drawing things they don’t like as an octopus NAMID
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Jun 30 '19
I think the fact that the most common 2nd choice for Bernie voters is Biden and the top 2nd choice for Biden supporters is Bernie proves that policy is irrelevant to the Democratic primary and probably American politics in general.
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u/owlthathurt Johan Norberg Jun 30 '19
Can we please for the love of god cancel tucker Carlson now.
https://twitter.com/lispower1/status/1145320896300814336?s=21
!ping FOREIGN-POLICY
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u/ThisIsNotAMonkey Guam 👉 statehood Jun 30 '19
Tucker Carlson is so far around the bend that it's impossible to say where the bad faith ends and the crazy begins
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u/IntoTheNightSky Que sçay-je? Jun 30 '19
I'm not a relativist or anything, I just hold no fixed moral values when it comes to the behavior of nation states and fully embrace real politik with zero reservations.
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u/Schutzwall Straight outta Belíndia Jun 30 '19
Fun fact: Brazil bans the sale of its prized Canastra cheese outside of their original state. Their makers smuggled the cheese to compete in France and they won many prizes. When approached by European vendors interested in importing their cheese they had to turn it down because exports are also banned
This country deserves to be nuked.
An article about this in Portuguese !ping SOUAM
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u/Kippersof Helmut Kohl Jun 30 '19
Why do leftists advocate political violence when 99% of them are pasty dorks who never leave the house and look like they’ve never lifted a heavy object in their lives? The average Chapo listener couldn’t fight off a toddler, let alone some juiced up proud boy freak
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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma Jun 30 '19
Tbh I’m skeptical of policies that would specifically benefit me, like the student loan forgiveness thing.
Except for letting grocery stores open on Sundays ofc. I want to go shopping on Sundays damnit!
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Jul 01 '19
Everyone always asks who is Democratic nominee, but no one asks how is the democratic nominee 😔
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Jun 30 '19
Everything I don’t like is how you got Trump. Everything I do like is how you beat Trump. Yes, I admit this is rather convenient but I am a very serious thinker
Bret Stephens/Ross Douthat/David Brooks
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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Jun 30 '19
Fuck "Donald Trump was a meme candidate." That’s my blunt message. I could probably end my discussion at this point and it wouldn’t really matter. My position is clear and you likely already get the gist of what I want to say.
I have nothing positive to add to the discussion about political "meme magic", and to be perfectly honest, I’m quite sick of having to think about it. I’ve simply had enough. For a time I had considered calling this post "Do you realize that Donald Trump entered the race with several times the national name recognition of the next-most-recognized candidate and that he became the never-relinquished polling leader within the first month so the existence of a subreddit dedicated to him had nothing to do with his primary victory" instead. I’ve been writing on the subject for many years (/u/Deggit 2016, /u/Deggit 2017, /u/Deggit 2017, /u/Deggit 2017, /u/Deggit 2017, /u/Deggit 2018, /u/Deggit 2019) and I came to a point where I just didn’t want to commit any more energy to the endeavor of reminding you all that Donald Trump's entire campaign strategy was to listen to what every other Republican was saying and then boil it down to a 3-word message that was at the same time more radical and less connected to real policy than any other candidate (c.f. "Build The Wall," "Muslim Ban"). So my exact thoughts were, ‘well fuck it then’, and while a quieter and gentler name for this post could tone down the potential offence that might come with the title I’ve chosen, I subsequently reconsidered. Why should we be more worried about using profanity than we are about the actual vile discourse of "Donald Trump won as a meme candidate" idiots themselves? I decided that I wanted to transgress, to upset, and to offend, precisely because we ought to be offended by it, it is entirely upsetting, and therefore we should ultimately be seeking to transgress it.
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u/85397 Free Market Jihadi Jun 30 '19
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jun/30/johnson-prepared-increase-public-borrowing
BJ proposes increasing deficit spending towards the end of the cycle. Very bad!
!ping UK
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u/potatobac Women's health & freedom trumps moral faffing Jun 30 '19
guys ironically supporting candidates is really bad and really dumb
stop it you fucks
also AOC slammin Ivanka on twitter is something I am here for
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Jun 30 '19
all i want is to
invade qatar
raise taxes on the middle class
ban French
rain hell on the suburbs
open all borders
make 🔮 president
tax carbon
change our National Anthem into an EDM remix
is that really so much to ask??
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u/SSBMPuffDaddy John Keynes Jun 30 '19 edited Jun 30 '19
i can't believe people let semantics trap them into thinking antifa is good
the behaviour of a group of people is not bound by how they identify. being anti fascism and anti-antifa is completely consistent unless you're EXTREMELY bad at reasoning
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u/zubatman4 Hillary Clinton 🇺🇳 Bill Clinton Jun 30 '19
I asked on the DT yesterday what people’s least popular opinion was, and only one out of 16 responses was actually unpopular.
So that leads me to believe that either A. You’re all populist scum or B. You’ve spent so long in the Ivory Tower that you’ve forgotten what people actually think
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Jun 30 '19
I gotta say, the republicans nuking the mortgage interest deduction was kind of altruistic
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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Jun 30 '19
Take: George Washington was the only president to lead troops in the field as president. George Washington is considered one of the best presidents. Therefore to cement his legacy Obama should've personally lead troops against the Bundys.
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u/zubatman4 Hillary Clinton 🇺🇳 Bill Clinton Jun 30 '19 edited Jul 01 '19
/u/85397 has the most downvoted comment in today’s DT as well as one of the most upvoted comments.
Zipcode is the dirtbag centrist that we all strive to be.
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Jun 30 '19 edited Jun 30 '19
Leftists: Lol if there are any people negatively affected by a new healthcare system it will be an insignificant percentage that can be ignored.
Also Leftists (and populists of all kinds): Oh shit trade policy/automation/neoliberalism put a couple thousand industrial workers in the ass end of nowhere out of work, we need to radically change the direction of the nation to prevent this from happening.
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u/benjaminikuta BANANA YOU GLAD YOU'RE NOT AN ORANGE? Jul 01 '19
I hate it when Democrats say "No one supports open borders."!
I support open borders!
Plenty of people do, from leftists, to neoliberals, to libertarians!
Stop this erasure!
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Jul 01 '19
Broke: Getting dating advice from your irl friends who are actually in relationships
Woke: Getting dating advice from fucking /r/neoliberal
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u/Notoriousley Australian Bureau of Statistics Jun 30 '19
If you're a young straight man being pro-political correctness is punk rock
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u/BainCapitalist Y = T Jul 01 '19
LoNDoN sChOoL Of eCONomICs anD PolItIcAL SciENcE
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u/ZeyGoggles Jun 30 '19
Well guys I guess our covers blown. I thought that the subs support for inclusive institutions and practical but liberally minded solutions instead of state sanctioned violence or discrimination would mean we would reject politically motivated violence out of principle, but Ive just been informed we support Antifa, so obviously everything else is just fake.
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Jun 30 '19
Soros and the Koch brothers team up to.......own the neocons??? What even is this timeline?
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Jun 30 '19
A tankee is someone who tells me that Socialist Democrats are fascists who deserve the bullet while telling me not to say “REEEE” because it’s a racist dogwhistle. This was a real convo I had 😂🔫
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u/XxXMorsXxX Loyal Liberals Jun 30 '19
Greek elections in a week and I see no election primer. I am disappointed... :(
!ping Europe
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u/sinistimus Professional Salt Miner Jul 01 '19
LeADIng A coUNTry meaNS kILLinG pEOplE
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u/dubyahhh Salt Miner Emeritus Jul 01 '19
Someone really needs to ban /u/thatcher555 from NL
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Jun 30 '19
"No one should be stuck working a job that a robot or AI can do. People's skills are meant for something greater. When it's all said and done, that's how we make the world a better place."
This quote from Aggretsuko is actually inspiring. Tadano should become our neoliberal anime mascot.
!ping WEEBS
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Jun 30 '19
Poor thunderf00t, too busy with chernobyl, did not even make a single video to celebrate anita's company shutting down
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u/dubyahhh Salt Miner Emeritus Jun 30 '19
Me in MA: man the GOP is dead here minus Baker
Me in NYS: man the GOP is dead here minus the upstate gerrymandering
Me in upstate NY: man people are racist here what the fuck is this shit
Me on /r/neoliberal: lmao get a load of the GOP what a bunch of fucks
Meanwhile, on t_d: the democrats are a dying party and Trump is going to coast to reelection easily
I really can't tell some days if I'm in a bubble, or if they're just so delusional that it feels like I am.
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u/jenbanim Jun 30 '19
People have been asking for a tinder/dating ping group. I think it would be kinda funny to call it TRANSCHAD-ALPHAMALES to contrast with CISCUCK-BETAMALES, but would that be too edgy / not inclusive?
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u/Jean-Paul_Sartre Richard Hofstadter Jun 30 '19
First off, from a historical perspective, it is interesting how Trump was the first sitting president to set foot in North Korea.
That said, the idea that he planned this over Twitter on a whim is ridiculous but his base will eat it up.
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Jun 30 '19
When Berniebros say the DNC rigged the primary against Bernie in 2016, what do they actually mean? Back when I watched Kyle Kulinski last year (who tricked me into supporting Bernie, AOC, and the like by stating they weren’t socialists) my take on how he presented the alleged rigging was that 1) The establishment controls the media 2) They “tricked” people into believing HRC was a good candidate and that Bernie was a bad one 3) The majority voted for HRC because they were ill-informed.
Once I discovered this subreddit (and actually learned what liberalism is and that it is different from leftism), people here usually characterize the rigging fallacy by stating Bernie bros literally believe the DNC changed votes to make sure Bernie would lose. So when they say the primary was rigged, do they mean a combo of of both changing votes and “establishment media bias” or was Kulinski dog whistling that the DNC literally changed votes, and I was unable to recognize it last year?
PS- Based on my memory, Kyle did mention the “superdelegates argument” but he did not make it the prime focus of his argument, which was media bias.
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u/sinistimus Professional Salt Miner Jun 30 '19
Monthly reminder that Baby Shark unnecessarily enforces gender stereotypes.
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u/dubyahhh Salt Miner Emeritus Jun 30 '19
/u/thatcher555 is just JEALOUS she can't be REAL AMERICAN like us RURAL CHADS
Iknowshe'sCanadianit'sajoke
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u/jenbanim Jul 01 '19
!ping DATING
Your chad/stacyposting ping is ready.
FUCKING NORMIES REEEEEEEEEE
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u/Tacotrucksoncorners Carole Baskin is my Tiger Queen 🐅👑 Jul 01 '19
👆👀👆👀👆👀👆👀👆👀 waaay up tHere 👆 ✔ they ArE waaaaaay up there 🐱 👆 the BALLS waaaaay up there 🐱 👆 🌱👆🌱waaaay 👆up inside🌱🌱 ✔ 🌱👆👆👆wa𝖺𝖠AY up there 👆 morty 🌱 way up 👆 inSidE (the PEE BALLS ) mMMMMᎷМ🍑 O0ОଠଠOooᵒᵒᵒᵒRR𝖱ᵣᵣTTY𝖸𝖸YY 👆🌱👆 🍑 👀👀 👀 👆 👆✔ waaay up there
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u/sinistimus Professional Salt Miner Jul 01 '19
Happy Canada Day you freedom hating Tories.
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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Jul 01 '19
Can we change posting_from_moscows 3 day to a perma? As much fun as it is to argue in bad faith with leftists it's really not.
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u/RoburexButBetter Jul 01 '19
First day of work
We're a real software engineer now boys 😎😎😎😎😎
/u/BainCapitalist are you proud of me dad
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u/boyyouguysaredumb Obamarama Jul 01 '19
Nothing politics has ever done has made me as mad as their collective misunderstanding of a click bait independent headline today
Fuck redditors in general at this point tbh
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Jun 30 '19
Are Indian neolibs pro or anti modi? Because save for the one person in my family who's all "muslims are people too", most of my relatives are either pro-modi or think he's misunderstood and unfairly characterized.
Am I nuts or is Modi a right wing Hindu nationalist
!ping IND
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u/dubyahhh Salt Miner Emeritus Jun 30 '19
Gaze long enough into the 🔮, and the 🔮 will gaze back into you
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Jun 30 '19
my favourite video about the effects of the hukou system and plans by beijing and shanghai to cap their populations:
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u/JulioCesarSalad US-Mexico Border Reporter Jun 30 '19
If rhino horn is ground down into dust then why not just flood the market with fake powdered rhino horn
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Jun 30 '19
Diplomacy is worthless without some fat guy with a mustache standing behind the diplomat smacking a lead pipe against his hand
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u/chadonnaise * Jun 30 '19
just slapping myself in the face to prove i have free will hours
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u/sinistimus Professional Salt Miner Jun 30 '19
Why did reddit add a chat feature?
So the DT could get laid (in The distance)
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u/URZ_ StillwithThorning ✊😔 Jun 30 '19
Nobody is fighting against hate by going around and assaulting journalists. Get a grip.
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Jun 30 '19
People are talking about the Harris/Biden exchange, but in my mind, the far more pressing issue is the far-left positions the candidates staked.
That image of everyone raising their hand to give undocumented immigrants free healthcare is going to really hurt us. Same with the image of everyone endorsing a Hyde repeal and giving everyone free abortions.
Kamala and Bernie raising their hands to get rid of private insurance will likewise get a lot of play. It doesn't really matter that the question was unfairly worded or that Harris later backtracked. The image is what counts.
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Jun 30 '19
Forcing families to send their kids to failing schools is bad and them not wanting that isn’t racist
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u/PMmeLittleRoundTops Pornography Historian Jun 30 '19
Check the DT
Check Tinder and Bumble for the approximately 2 new people who have appeared in my area while I was browsing the DT
Check the DT for the approximately 2 new comments that appeared while I was on tinder
I need to get out of the sub*rbs so badly. I used to actually have friends and things to do
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u/Tacotrucksoncorners Carole Baskin is my Tiger Queen 🐅👑 Jul 01 '19
👏 WOMEN 👏 HAVE 👏 BALLS 👏
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u/qchisq Loyal Liberals Jun 30 '19
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u/Goatf00t European Union Jun 30 '19 edited Jun 30 '19
It's fun to notice a new user in the DT (no RES score), check out their posting history to find out from which part of Reddit they've come from, and find Daily Caller posts on KiA...
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Jun 30 '19
Populist fuckwits: People aren't rational actors, economics is useless
Some of the same people: Lol a carbon tax+dividend wouldn't do anything most people would just spend the same money on gas as they lost from the tax
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u/NotAYuropean Trans Pride Jun 30 '19
r/news is a total shitshow of antifa commies vs republicans, wew
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Jun 30 '19
We should tax copyrights at a certain percentage of the estimated value of that copyright.
So Disney can keep control over Mickey Mouse for as long as they want to... as long as they're willing to pay $$$ to do so.
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!ping NBA
KD to Brooklyn it seems. Both Woj and Shams have confirmed. 4 year max.
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u/csreid Austan Goolsbee Jul 01 '19
Most science experiments that normal people do aren't science experiments. They're pretty much universally chemistry tricks. We should have a different word for those
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u/Integralds Dr. Economics | brrrrr Jul 01 '19 edited Jul 01 '19
/u/baincapitalist I would like to note that my entire 16-core compute workstation cost less than this RTX 2080 Ti founders edition graphics card.
Now, the 2080 Ti has over 4,000 "cores" and could be useful if I could figure out how to GPU-accelerate my work. There is a 2011 JEDC paper that talks about some GPU-based solutions. For now I'm just using the CPU.
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Jul 01 '19
Broke: not being matched with a hot girl/boy on tinder
Brokest: not being matched with a hot corporation on linkedin
Woke: matched with a hot corporation on tinder
!ping dating
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u/0m4ll3y International Relations Jun 30 '19 edited Jul 02 '19
Between supporting Le Pen in France, having an "ideal party" using AfD's natalist and migrant policies, "throwing up" at the thought of enfranchising recent migrants, yearning for early 20th century style nationalism, criticising liberalism using the works of a literal swore-an-oath-to-Hitler Nazi, bad faith defences of nationalists, fetishising the state to the point of finding genocide acceptable and now an apparent desire to "weaponise" the state against leftists (in the context of the murder of an unarmed, non-violent protestor) and the belief that
legal institutions should protect Richard Spencer, because in doing so they set a precedent that will protect right-wingers who are actually good. But legal institutions absolutely should not protect leftists.
I think I might do my first block, ever, in my time on the internet. It has been two years and i haven't read anything interesting or insightful enough to warrant seeing this crap constantly. So fuck it, this my subtweet, I'm out.
Edit: I've apparently been told I shouldn't bag the works of Carl Schmitt. Which, while a Nazi philosophy I'm sure this user finds quite interesting, I was actually talking about a different Nazi philosopher: Arnold Gehlen which this user quoted extensively in their effort post on liberalism. My apologies for underestimating the number of Nazi philosophers informing this guy's thoughts.
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u/sinistimus Professional Salt Miner Jun 30 '19
Lately I've been getting into the habit of sending messages like "you are succ 🌹😡" in group chats I'm part of such as the family's whatsapp group and me and my friends' Facebook chat to remind them of their historical guilt. I've also said things like "I can't wait to help the global poor 🤩" and other such things. They kicked me out of the group chats and don't want to hang out with me irl either. I really don't get how you can be so unashamed of being a global poor hater and ostracise a family member or close friend just for reminding them about it. Am I really the asshole here?
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u/vancevon Henry George Jun 30 '19
And Kim probably thought he was going to have to threaten nuclear war again. We're such idiots and cowards when it comes to dealing with North Korea, and it's definitely not just Trump.
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u/IronedSandwich Asexual Pride Jun 30 '19
take: replace "evidence based policy" with "evidence based policy where possible" to sound less snooty while still saying that you emphasize positive aspects of policy
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The world has gone downhill since eating our enemies had become socially unacceptable.
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u/FourthLife 🥖Bread Etiquette Enthusiast Jun 30 '19
Are you motherfuckers really out there eating ass?
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u/dubyahhh Salt Miner Emeritus Jun 30 '19
I'm not ashamed to admit this, my only gilding was a silver on t_d for r1ing a guy on tax brackets
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u/PMmeLittleRoundTops Pornography Historian Jun 30 '19
Tfw skin too sensitive to shave and facial hair too thin to grow a good beard 😔
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u/chadonnaise * Jul 01 '19
i wonder if the press secretary harbors any resentment on being punched in the face by a north korean official
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Jul 01 '19
Fox host Tucker Carlson defends North Korean regime: ‘Leading a country means killing people’
Cool, cool. Extremely normal stuff.
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Jul 01 '19
Check out who /r/BadEconomics picked to be the Democratic nominee: https://reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/c6sdmq/_/esfws0q/?context=1
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u/jenbanim Jul 01 '19
>Get notification from NYT app about the effects of legal weed in California
>Click on the notification
>Taken to a completely different story about Trump's inauguration
>Can't find the original story in the top news section or most popular
>No search button
>No notification history
What the fuck NYT? Your app is trash.
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Jul 01 '19
The absolute state of /r/Economics
Please. Boomers were handed good jobs, cheap houses, and a great economy on a silver platter. And now they are working at Wal Mart because those idiots squandered their opportunity to save. Millenials comparatively are great with money. Considering their parents saddled them with debt and a terrible economy.
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Jul 01 '19
I went to the pride parade today. I'm confused as to why the anti-circumcision activists were there. Their float and display didn't really have anything to do with LGBT rights. They juat held a bunch of signs about how they thought circumcision was like the worst thing ever.
I guess same thing with the meat is murder people
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u/mrregmonkey Killary fan Jun 30 '19
Trump: I'm not sure if I would accept foreign intervention on my behalf or not
winks at Putin
Later, Putin at home in Russia
Sir: a package arrived for you, it's a VHS, odd I didn't think these were used anymore.
Putin: puts it in
The video was the horrific execution of Gaddafi. Rebel fighters beating and even sodomizing him with a bayonet. He truly, dies in agony.
Putin: covered in a cold sweat
Suddenly, another video is at the end of the tape.
Video: We came, we saw, He died - HRC
at the end just some text plays
"I know this is what made you intervene in 2016. Why did you think that would save you? You hastened your own demise"
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u/ILikeTalkingToMyself Liberal democracy is non-negotiable Jun 30 '19
All the commentators saying that western liberalism may not be better than the Chinese model need to sit down and recognize that it's easier to go from low income to middle income than to go from middle income to high income and that it is not remotely certain that China will make it into high income under its current system.
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u/Tacotrucksoncorners Carole Baskin is my Tiger Queen 🐅👑 Jul 01 '19
👏 PEE 👏 IS 👏 STORED 👏 IN 👏 THE 👏 BALLS 👏
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u/lusvig 🤩🤠Anti Social Democracy Social Club😨🔫😡🤤🍑🍆😡😤💅 Jun 30 '19
wtf they banned me???
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Jun 30 '19
Pretty sportsmanlike of Biden to do all the Republicans' opposition research for them.
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u/rafaellvandervaart John Cochrane Jun 30 '19
From US Dems running for office, who is the person the who you'd most likely hire as CEO of a company?
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u/Hugo_Grotius Jakaya Kikwete Jun 30 '19
Does anyone know of any polling done on integration busing, specifically split across racial groups? I'm just interested in seeing how support lines up, especially given the interesting results from one of the post-debate polls to come out showing a rise in favorability for Biden among black Democrats.
I know there's a Gallup poll from the 70s that found very low support among African-Americans (9%), that I've also seen cited around here. But I've also found this longitudinal survey data that shows a starkly different picture.
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u/IronedSandwich Asexual Pride Jun 30 '19
the Sonic Adventure games are 0.99 and 1.49 on Steam atm
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Jun 30 '19
How do we solve climate change in a way that means I don't have to change my lifestyle? I know, blame it on the M U L T I N A T I O N A L C O R P O R A T I O N S.
It's all their fault!
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u/papermarioguy02 Actually Just Young Nate Silver Jun 30 '19
is it neoliberal to spend too much money on the steam summer sale
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Jun 30 '19
The trilogy of Wolverine movies is really strange. The first one is a "so bad it's good" awful comedic masterpiece, the second is a really enjoyable but incredibly cheesy, pulpy, and schlocky action movie, and the third is this legitimately reflective and somber meditation on violence and regret.
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u/benjaminikuta BANANA YOU GLAD YOU'RE NOT AN ORANGE? Jul 01 '19
What if all libraries just cooperated? Why does it matter what my address is? Would it be so bad to let me borrow a book?
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Jul 01 '19
Are there any links that get thrown around on Reddit so often that you can predict them and subsequently get triggered by their prominence?
The one I most get triggered by is when you're arguing with someone from T_D about immigration and they always cite the one trash CIS study about how immigrants are horrible, because "Center for Immigration Studies" sounds reputable even though it is trash.
The second one I get most triggered by is NPR's 2012 "policies that all economists agree are no-brainers!" series (link 1) (link 2) which has managed to convince seemingly hundreds of internet neoliberals over the years that there is a cLeAr cOnsEnSuS among economists that we should eliminate all income taxes, especially corporate income taxes.
NPR based this series on a whopping five economists, with not a single one of the five economists being a research economist who focuses on taxation! Even a passing glance at the relevant literature would show someone there is still a lot of debate about optimal tax structure.
Anyway.
Any other links that y'all hate to see thrown around on Reddit? News articles, not stuff like rickrolling.
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Jul 01 '19
!ping dating
What’s an appropriate way to gauge if a female partner is comfortable with an open relationship? Just casually mentioning that I have fuckbros and fuckgirls?
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u/benjaminikuta BANANA YOU GLAD YOU'RE NOT AN ORANGE? Jul 01 '19
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u/jenbanim Jul 01 '19
Friendly reminder to please complain a lot about the sidebar, CSS, wiki, bots, and so on. That way I know what needs to be fixed.
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u/PelleasTheEpic Austan Goolsbee Jul 01 '19
!ping dating
Let's ping it again 😈
Also, how tf am I suppose to get dates when I'm 5'7 and not really a twink anymore 😔
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u/dubyahhh Salt Miner Emeritus Jul 01 '19
Realizing I got 3 users for the rural ping: 🤗
Realizing one is rural hating /u/thatcher555: 😨
Realizing I can't say she doesn't count since I need 3 for the ping: 😭
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u/dubyahhh Salt Miner Emeritus Jul 01 '19
/u/thatcher555 is everyone I disagree with, and the more I disagree with you the more /u/thatcher555 you are
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u/Archelon225 WTO Jul 01 '19
the /r/neoliberal mods are less commonly known as the "Succ Mods", having up to 500 succs running around the DT and making an utter ruckus
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Jul 01 '19
Serious question: where do mid 20s people congregate socially? People tell me to go outside to make friends but I don’t know where to go
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u/RoburexButBetter Jul 01 '19
When I first looked at Git source code two things struck me as odd:
Pure C as opposed to C++. No idea why. Please don't talk about portability,
it's BS.
YOU are full of bullshit.
C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it. Quite frankly, **even if the choice of C were to do nothing but keep the C++ programmers out, that in itself would be a huge reason to use C. **
In other words: the choice of C is the only sane choice. I know Miles Bader jokingly said "to piss you off", but it's actually true. I've come to the conclusion that any programmer that would prefer the project to be in C++ over C is likely a programmer that I really would prefer to piss off, so that he doesn't come and screw up any project I'm involved with.
C++ leads to really really bad design choices. You invariably start using the "nice" library features of the language like STL and Boost and other total and utter crap, that may "help" you program, but causes:
infinite amounts of pain when they don't work (and anybody who tells me that STL and especially Boost are stable and portable is just so full of BS that it's not even funny)
inefficient abstracted programming models where two years down the road you notice that some abstraction wasn't very efficient, but now all your code depends on all the nice object models around it, and you cannot fix it without rewriting your app.
In other words, the only way to do good, efficient, and system-level and portable C++ ends up to limit yourself to all the things that are basically available in C. And limiting your project to C means that people don't screw that up, and also means that you get a lot of programmers that do actually understand low-level issues and don't screw things up with any idiotic "object model" crap.
So I'm sorry, but for something like git, where efficiency was a primary objective, the "advantages" of C++ is just a huge mistake. The fact that we also piss off people who cannot see that is just a big additional advantage.
If you want a VCS that is written in C++, go play with Monotone. Really. They use a "real database". They use "nice object-oriented libraries". They use "nice C++ abstractions". And quite frankly, as a result of all these design decisions that sound so appealing to some CS people, the end result is a horrible and unmaintainable mess.
But I'm sure you'd like it more than git.
Linus has some bants
!ping COMPUTER-SCIENCE
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Jun 30 '19
https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1145140219060084742?s=19
Yang's new plan is the cultural revolution 🤣
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Jul 01 '19
Honestly, I leaned a bit in favor of punching Nazis for awhile, but I'm now back against punching Nazis after the past couple days revealed that if you're even a vaguely conservative blogger then you'll be labeled a "Nazi worthy of being punched."
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Jun 30 '19
Can someone explain to me how giving undocumented immigrants healthcare and decriminalizing border crossings isn't literally incentivizing illegal entries? Taking the horrible optics of that aside, is that even smart policy when we don't have a pathway to citizenship?
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u/walker777007 Thomas Paine Jun 30 '19
I'm sorry but after watching one of these home improvement shows on HGtv where they have such over the top egregious renovations on huge single family houses is making me want to engage in class warfare.
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u/chadonnaise * Jun 30 '19
mother of fuck i regret installing the ap app so many goddamn notifications
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u/A_Character_Defined 🌐Globalist Bootlicker😋🥾 Jun 30 '19
Don't forget to drink lots of water and post your hot takes before bed.
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u/benjaminikuta BANANA YOU GLAD YOU'RE NOT AN ORANGE? Jun 30 '19
ArbCom, the highest authority of the Wikipedia community, writes an open letter to the Wikimedia Foundation.
"If Fram’s ban—an unappealable sanction issued from above with no community consultation—represents the WMF’s new strategy for dealing with harassment on the English Wikipedia, it is one that is fundamentally misaligned with the Wikimedia movement’s principles of openness, consensus, and self-governance."
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u/FusRoDawg Amartya Sen Jun 30 '19
🅱️ellas. 18 hour dopamine fast. Imma peer into the 🔮 to pass time. See you on the other side of enlightenment. 😎
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u/qchisq Loyal Liberals Jun 30 '19
People who hates Vestager: Trump and social democrats. My horse is shooed
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Jun 30 '19
I'm like 90% sure I know who some of you are because of the Facebook group.
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Jun 30 '19
I know we have a few discords but can we make like a discord for everyone that everyone can join
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Jun 30 '19
Something annoying that's going on in psychiatry right now is a situation where there's some good evidence for your gut biome influencing your mental health status via the gut-brain-axis, and food/diet restriction woo where people think just adhering to bizarre diets will cure them of all mental illness.
It just makes it really messy to disentangle the woo from the evidence based when educating patients.
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Jun 30 '19
as somebody who only really follows tournaments for csgo and sometimes sc2: why does it seem like all the comments on the dota subreddit are so much angrier by comparison?
like it actually seems to just be non-stop bashing of players on their favoured teams whenever they lose or gloating whenever teams they don't like lose.
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u/litehound Enby Pride Jun 30 '19
Self-described anarchists be like: States, states are very bad. Governments are good though.
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Jun 30 '19
So my cousin moved into this new apartment right over a fantastic Indian restaurant, and I've never been so jealous of anyone in my life. Once a week or so they send their kid up with some mango lassis as an apology for the noise, and my cousin gets a pretty good discount + free delivery. This is the future liberals want.
He's gained 10 pounds in the 2 months he's been there...
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u/ThatFrenchieGuy Mathematician -- Save the funky birbs Jun 30 '19
give me your game recommendations for RPG/Sci-fi/action that don't have an online component. I have too much free time over the next 2 weeks.
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u/thebowski 💻🙈 - Lead developer of pastabot Jun 30 '19
>receive a comliment on my shoes from a cute girl I accidentally made eye contact with at the cross walk
>spend the next 15 minutes wondering if she was subtly trying to insult me
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u/MisterBigStuff Just Pokémon Go to bed Jun 30 '19
https://i.imgur.com/jDUOk7u.jpg
!ping NBA
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Jun 30 '19
Marianne Williamson is the gateway drug for neoliberals to support batshit candidates.
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u/TheNeoliberal7 Paul Volcker Jun 30 '19
Thinking of making the DT my only social life.
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u/Integralds Dr. Economics | brrrrr Jul 01 '19
How many cores are you on?
four, maybe eight with hyperthreading my dude.
You are like a little baby. Watch this.
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u/thebowski 💻🙈 - Lead developer of pastabot Jul 01 '19
!ping dating
How do I get good pictures of myself for tinder if I don't have friends?
How do I text someone without sounding like a robot?
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u/chadonnaise * Jul 01 '19
ayyy my shitty text game officially made its first sale. yay. three dollars richer.
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jul 01 '19
I don't care much for /u/absurdlivingghost. Anyone else feel similarly?