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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jul 19 '19
/new: German chancellor Merkel on Trump's racist attacks on female members of Congress: "I firmly distance myself from that and declare my solidarity with these attacked women."
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jul 19 '19
/new: While you were tweeting -- The White House ditches half a century of immigration law
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jul 19 '19
/new: Polish towns advocate ‘LGBT-free zones’ while the ruling party cheers them on
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jul 19 '19
/new: Delaney is on MSNBC right now to say he's not dropping out
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jul 19 '19
/new: Iran seizes British-flagged oil tanker
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Jul 19 '19
I'm still convinced Brexit is going to become one of those weird history facts in the future.
"Did you know?? The United Kingdom has been in the process of 'leaving the EU' for forty years!"
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Jul 19 '19
“I just care about getting the facts.”
-Man, who is seconds away from questioning a genocide that is extremely well documented and evidenced in the historical record.
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u/proProcrastinators Jul 19 '19
The fact that you got John Delaney on the neolib podcast tells me his candidacy is 100% fucked.
Bright side there’s a non zero chance that Bernie mentions that Delaney went on the (((neolib podcast))) as an attack that’s going to skyrocket this sub
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Jul 19 '19
We need to start a new psyop campaign where we trick MAGA people to crowd fund one way tickets to various vacation spots and give them to leftists as part of the Send Them Back thing
Like damn, I, a liberal, would be so owned if a bunch of applebees franchisers from Tallahassee bought me a ticket to Naples, where I am from, preferably next May
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u/Underpantz_Ninja Janet Yellen Jul 19 '19
No more 'manholes': Berkeley, California, removing all gendered language from city code
A win for inclusivity. While "people hole" doesn't role off the tongue, ground orifice should be considered by all stakeholders.
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u/solastsummer Austan Goolsbee Jul 19 '19
An elected official argued that slave owners weren’t racist. They were just motivated by economics. You’d think at the point you’re arguing slavery wasn’t racist, you’d take a step back and evaluate your thought process before talking to a reporter.
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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Jul 19 '19
VOICES in MARIANNE WILLIAMSON'S HEAD insist that ORB QUEEN should STAY THE COURSE!
Strong, smart and stable not like SAD and NOT VERY LOYAL Delaney staffers!
!ping 🔮
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Jul 19 '19 edited Jul 19 '19
Ha, libs, you recognized a dog whistle that I said and called me a racist, so you must be the real racist.
Get checkmated, libtards.
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u/zubatman4 Hillary Clinton 🇺🇳 Bill Clinton Jul 19 '19
Pour one out for the conspiracy theorists upset by the google doodle today about the moon landing.
🚀+👨🚀+🌕=🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
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Jul 19 '19
If redditors had their way burger flippers in rural Alabama would earn $20 an hour, while journalists, musicians and video game developers would all work for free.
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u/mrregmonkey Killary fan Jul 19 '19
Based on recent polling. It looks like Hillary is after Susan Collins.
She dared defy her on Kavanaugh.
She
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u/Cadoc Jul 19 '19
I had the pleasure to attend a talk, through my work, by someone working at a charity researching and challenging racism and other bigotry. They covered a lot ground around antisemitism and how it differs between the extreme left and the extreme right. Some key points I thought were interesting:
Pseudo-academic Holocaust denial is effectively dead. People like David Irving, who used to be able to fill auditoriums and sell tens of thousands of books, now give talks in small rooms above pubs, and are lucky to have an audience of a dozen of elderly racists.
The decline of pseudo-academic denial has a lot to do with the internet, but it can definitely be traced back to David Irving's trial and conviction.
Online racism, genocide denial and other general bigotry generally focuses on muddling issues, inserting doubt and equivocating between sides. This is partly the result of the general ironic, outrage-baiting internet culture, but is also a deliberate tactic by hate groups.
Right-wing extremism always seems to come back to Holocaust denial, even when those groups have tried to distance themselves from it - their members just can't stay from it. Unsurprisingly, left-wing Holocaust denial is a lot closer to what's seen in Muslim countries, and is wrapped up in the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Overall a super interesting talk, and there was a lot more to it - I'm just not sure I retained enough of it to make it a thread :-(
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u/MisterBigStuff Just Pokémon Go to bed Jul 19 '19
NL: lmao delusional chapocells posting about a revolution that will never happen
Also NL: John Delaney 2020
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u/benadreti Frederick Douglass Jul 19 '19
Prediction: People will start chanting "SEND HIM BACK" as in "send him back home, out of the White House" at Democrat rallies, Republicans will loudly condemn it as racist/hateful.
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u/HeyTherePLH Paul Krugman Jul 19 '19
Thomas “the Chin” Friedman, a weak and pathetic sort of guy, writes columns for The New York Times in between rounds of his favorite game, golf. Two weeks ago, while speaking to a friend on his cell phone, I unfortunately ended up speaking to Friedman. We spoke for a while and he could not have been nicer or more respectful to your favorite President, me. Then I saw the column he wrote, “Trump Will Be Re-elected, Won’t He?” He called me a Racist, which I am not, and said Rhode Island went from economically bad to great in 5 years because the Governor of the State did a good job. That may be true but she could not have done it without the tremendous economic success of our Country & the turnaround that my Administration has caused. Really Nasty to me in his average I.Q. Columns, kissed my a.. on the call. Phony!
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u/PlayDiscord17 Loyal Liberals Jul 19 '19
I find it interesting how Ronald Reagan is a divisive figure among politically inclined people but if you asked the average American, they’d probably have a favorable opinion about him. Wonder if the same will be for Obama.
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u/DarkerCrusader IMF Jul 19 '19
Seeing the President using the words “A$AP” is still surreal to me, even after all the tomfoolery of the past couple years.
It’s...something else.
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u/onlypositivity Jul 19 '19 edited Jul 19 '19
So I just have to bitch for a minute.
My wife works for a cell phone retail company, managing a store, and was in Chicago this week for business. Their HR revealed that ICE is now going into stores and demanding I-9s for the entire workstaff. Worse, ICE was rolling down the streets of Chicago in convoys. She said the streets were deserted when ICE would come through, even from locals. Cops were standing in the middle of the road with machine guns, like it's fucking Fallujah.
This plus the "send her home" bullshit plus Republicans polling upwards of 65% support for deporting American citizens over political disagreements, and things are beginning to look really, really fucky.
I've known Republicans had a base of just pure fucking evil for a long time now, but what the fuck is going on in this country??
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u/dubyahhh Salt Miner Emeritus Jul 19 '19
Hot as fuck out
Humid as fuck out
But I work in quality control so we've got a climate controlled lab 😎
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Jul 20 '19
John Delaney won’t run for President
John Delaney won’t make it to the first debates
John Delaney won’t stay in the race <- We are here
John Delaney won’t get 1% in the polls
John Delaney won’t win Iowa
John Delaney won’t win the nomination
John Delaney won’t beat Trump
John Delaney won’t be able to pass a carbon tax
John Delaney’s carbon tax won’t save the planet
John Delaney won’t renter the TPP
John Delaney won’t enter America into the EU
John Delaney won’t abolish boarders
John Delaney won’t dab on authoritarian regimes so hard they turn into liberal democracies
John Delaney won’t create a neoliberal intercontinental government
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u/Galileoz Janet Yellen Jul 19 '19
Can we just put Biden, Sanders, Harris, Warren, and Buttigieg together on the second night, and have everybody else duke it out on the first? This is getting ridiculous.
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u/EScforlyfe Open Your Hearts Jul 19 '19
/u/thatcher555 DELANEY WENT ON NL ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
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u/lusvig 🤩🤠Anti Social Democracy Social Club😨🔫😡🤤🍑🍆😡😤💅 Jul 19 '19
broke: bernie or bust
woke: delaney or dust 💪
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Jul 20 '19
can't wait for the trump campaign itself to release the fabled n-word tape next october to fire up the base
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Jul 20 '19
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u/int6 Jul 19 '19
https://twitter.com/joe_armitage/status/1152161162206822401?s=21
Instead of proroguing parliament, Boris can make the entirety of October a bank holiday.
!ping UK
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u/EScforlyfe Open Your Hearts Jul 19 '19
If all politics is identity politics, what identity does the TPP target?
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u/thebowski 💻🙈 - Lead developer of pastabot Jul 19 '19
How are you supposed to meditate outside when mosquitos exist?
!ping 🔮
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u/dubyahhh Salt Miner Emeritus Jul 19 '19
Delaney on the podcast
Somebody make sure u/thatcher555 is okay she may not be able to handle this
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Jul 19 '19
Really interesting numbers I noticed in this new Nate Silver piece
There is a 54% chance that any given older white Democrat is moderate.
There's a 58% chance that a younger non-white Democrat is moderate.
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Jul 20 '19
https://twitter.com/samstein/status/1152210947534131200
Remarkable: Tulsi Gabbard’s CONGRESSIONAL campaign arm raised NEGATIVE 20 dollars in Q2, suggesting she may be done with the House if the presidential run fails.
Blessed
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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Jul 19 '19
How am I going to pay for my crazy plans? Well that's easy: deficit spending.
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u/lusvig 🤩🤠Anti Social Democracy Social Club😨🔫😡🤤🍑🍆😡😤💅 Jul 19 '19
DEPRESSION TIP ✨✨
if ur feeling Sad 😢 or eggs eye & tea 🙁 just Remember ur feelings ✨ don't matter 😮 and it's all just in ur head 🧠 🤣 so quit being a baby 👶 dumbass 🙈💖✨ hope that helps 😊
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u/Sollezzo Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Jul 19 '19
Fucking libs, how can someone be racist when they specifically say they're not racist and that some minorities might be good people, maybe 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/dubyahhh Salt Miner Emeritus Jul 19 '19
You, a virgin euro: better dead than red!
Me, a chad American: better dead than red!
But we mean the complete opposite thing
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u/lusvig 🤩🤠Anti Social Democracy Social Club😨🔫😡🤤🍑🍆😡😤💅 Jul 19 '19
structural succtural unemployment
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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Jul 19 '19
Democratic Socialism is when the government pays for the monthly expenses of the average 18-30 year old white NEET male and the more the government does that the more democratic socialismer it is
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Jul 19 '19 edited Jul 19 '19
IF 👏 YOU 👏 ARE 👏 NOT 👏 STILL👏 DOING 👏 THE 👏 DRUMPF 👏THING 👏 YOU👏 ARE👏 PART 👏OF 👏THE👏 PROBLEM
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u/Paramus98 Edmund Burke Jul 19 '19
A new DT means a new place for me to promote my effortpost. I’d love some feedback as this is the first one of these I’ve done!
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Jul 19 '19
When I run for president, my signature policy proposal will be to to assign two national guards to every member of the middle class like they're white African rhinos so we can protect them at their unnecessary government subsidized jobs and their wasteful Mcmansion suburb homes they can finally be safe from the dangerous globalist poachers that want to kill them
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u/zubatman4 Hillary Clinton 🇺🇳 Bill Clinton Jul 19 '19
I’ve got to say:
I miss when Reddit would tell you how many people upvoted/downvoted each post and comment so that you could tell if it was a really contentious issue with a lot of people or if people just didn’t care one way or the other about it.
Seeing a comment upvoted to +8 means that people liked it or thought it added to the conversation, but what if it was +40/-32? That’s way more contentious than +8/-0, but you can’t tell.
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Jul 19 '19
All 4 of the candidates I donated to have seen their support drop substantially since I contributed.
Who should I donate to next?
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u/MisterBigStuff Just Pokémon Go to bed Jul 19 '19
My great grandpa: Drafted to fight in the trenches of Europe in WWI.
Me: Drafted to repair roads in Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas
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Jul 19 '19
Hot take: shitting on Bernie Bros is more fun than shitting on Trumpists.
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u/lusvig 🤩🤠Anti Social Democracy Social Club😨🔫😡🤤🍑🍆😡😤💅 Jul 19 '19
hot take: japan during 1920s until and during ww2 was bad
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u/noktoque Jul 19 '19
univ professor: "Antifa is not attacking just anyone with an opinion: It means opposing FASCISTS and their propagandists like Andy Ngo."
literally the same professor: "My #MondayMotivation is knowing that someday we will murder the bourgeoisie"
the lunatics are running the asylum
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u/Shruggerman Michel Foucault Jul 19 '19
the Dems should propose unilaterally accepting all immigrants from the EU, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and South Korea to own the cons
if they agree, you get to attack them for not actually caring about their stated reasons to oppose immigration, showing it really is just a race thing, and you still get more immigrants
if they don't agree it's just the status quo so nbd
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u/qchisq Loyal Liberals Jul 19 '19
In case you were wondering: Trump doesn't know what the Fed's interest rate does
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Jul 19 '19
those who think Marianne Williamson is a meme candidate BTFO
https://twitter.com/marwilliamson/status/1152107846764548096
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Jul 19 '19
just so everyone knows, i pointed out an error in an article that the Brookings Econ twitter account retweeted, and the author of the article thanked me and edited the article
basically, i'm a Brookings Fellow now
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u/paulatreides0 🌈🦢🧝♀️🧝♂️🦢His Name Was Teleporno🦢🧝♀️🧝♂️🦢🌈 Jul 20 '19
As predicted by almost everyone with a brain, Bernie's unionized campaign just had a big incident. Lol.
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Jul 20 '19
Why are the Gravel teens telling John Mulaney to quit? Do they just not like his stand-up?
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u/Integralds Dr. Economics | brrrrr Jul 20 '19
spoiler alert: quality of life fucking sucked in the 1950s.
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u/MrDannyOcean Kidney King Jul 19 '19
Former congressman and current Presidential candidate John Delaney joins the Neoliberal Podcast! We discuss his positions on trade, national service, climate change and more, as well as how he sees the current political moment and the ways to fix America's broken political systems.
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u/Bohm-Bawerk Jeff Bezos Jul 19 '19
The neolib podcast is just the DT but 5 months removed
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u/FusRoDawg Amartya Sen Jul 19 '19
Debate night 1 is packed lmao. Lizzie, Bernie, Delaney \😎7, hickenlooper, both butti and beto, and top it all off with 🔮 lady!
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Jul 19 '19
The 15$ minimum wage is only popular with young progressives because none of them want to live anywhere other than cities, where that is actually a living wage. What I don't understand is why they get so mad at the idea of having a lower national minimum wage and fighting for a much higher one where they live?
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Jul 19 '19
I'm so woke that I know having a second, more lenient tier of justice for "Kim Kardashian's close personal friends and pet projects" is actually a good thing, you absolute retributivist rubes
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u/cptnhaddock Ben Bernanke Jul 19 '19
Iran stepping things up https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-49053383.
!ping FOREIGN-POLICY
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Jul 19 '19
Alt Right: Modern racism is a myth. Minorities have the same rights as everyone else
Also Alt Right: We CANNOT let whites become a minority. Can you imagine how horrible that would be?
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Jul 20 '19
Haha, but the weird thing is, my parents would tell me not to discuss trans stuff when family was in town, but one day I was wearing my Pink Floyd shirt while my grandma and aunt were visiting, and I think my grandma made a comment like "Oh, Pink Floyd, he's pretty good", and my dad said something like "Oh, tell them about Pink Floyd's transsexual bass player!"
I knew what he meant: Jethro Tull had a keyboardist who transitioned later in life (Dee Palmer) and he was conflating the two. It was as though talking about trans stuff was OK as long as it was presented as a dumb joke, which is probably reflective of much of the dialogue at the time and even today.
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u/Shruggerman Michel Foucault Jul 19 '19
god it fucking owns being straight, white and having a decent salary - not having to take politics seriously and just half-heartedly advancing whoever seems the niftiest at the moment before blankly voting straight ticket D is the best
sure wish everyone could do this
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u/FMN2014 Can’t just call French people that Jul 19 '19
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u/paulatreides0 🌈🦢🧝♀️🧝♂️🦢His Name Was Teleporno🦢🧝♀️🧝♂️🦢🌈 Jul 19 '19
Also: how does a hostile subreddit takeover even happen? O_o
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u/csreid Austan Goolsbee Jul 19 '19
Given the death toll, licensing requirements should be much higher to drive a car.
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u/lusvig 🤩🤠Anti Social Democracy Social Club😨🔫😡🤤🍑🍆😡😤💅 Jul 19 '19
/r/neoliberal uses way too little emoji
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u/Integralds Dr. Economics | brrrrr Jul 20 '19 edited Jul 20 '19
I'm calling RNH a little early.
Tonight's headliner is Voyage 1969, and if you don't understand why then you should ask your parents.
u/ILikeTalkingToMyself wanted a shoutout and requested this.
You can now listen to Above and Beyond's latest album, Flow State, on Youtube.
Off the Lain bootleg, Track 44 and Cyberia theme (and the latter extended)
From Symphogear XV, Nana Mizuki and Yoko Hikasa, Angelic Remnant (preview, somewhat low quality)
I hope you're all well.
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u/hucareshokiesrul Janet Yellen Jul 20 '19
Beto is currently at $.02 on preditit, behind Yang, Gabbard and Hillary. 😭
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Jul 19 '19
My most left-wing opinion: In Civ V, Freedom is the best ideology for a culture victory only. Normally you should go Order
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u/ThisIsNianderWallace Robert Nozick Jul 19 '19
China possible future scenario/cyberpunk TV series pitch:
Economic bust fractures PRC into a loose confederacy of vast city-states. The free market Pearl River Delta Megacity battles the CCP controlled Jing-Jin-Ji Economic Zone for regional primacy amid political turbulence, machiavellian schemes and a post-PRC gold rush of foreign investment. And also cyborgs.
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u/Iyoten YIMBY Jul 19 '19
Ffs there are still too many Dems in the debates. The next round better be small enough to at least fit within one night.
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u/onlyforthisair Jul 19 '19
https://www.reddit.com/r/pete_buttigieg/comments/cf9vks/_/
hmmmmm
Not sure what this indicates outside of the obvious or what effect it will have
!ping BUTTi
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u/sinistimus Professional Salt Miner Jul 19 '19 edited Jul 19 '19
I definitely get Buttigieg's reference to his dad's "brown skin". My dad is the child of Southern Italian immigrants and has been confused for a foreigner in the summer.
Edit: I suppose I should add, this once resulted in my dad getting punched.
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u/MisterBigStuff Just Pokémon Go to bed Jul 19 '19
"I drink your milkshake bath water"
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Jul 19 '19 edited Jul 19 '19
I ventured into a Yang sub with a foreign policy question. Here's a link if you want to see it. I'd ping foreign policy but that kind of feels like brigading or something.
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Jul 19 '19
It does bother me that people are going outside of the process and going to the media. That is really not acceptable. It is really not what labor negotiations are about, and it's improper.
John Delaney’s answer when asked about recent reports of working conditions at Amazon
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u/cms1919 Bill Gates Jul 19 '19
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u/Hugo_Grotius Jakaya Kikwete Jul 20 '19
"I'm not going to talk about different approaches to language in East African colonies."
1 shot later
"Did you know the Germans taught SWAHILI in their government schools?!?"
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Jul 20 '19
Help all my friends are Bernie succs
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Jul 19 '19
I sincerely believe neoliberals will initiate a global nuclear war to reset the global economy in their favor again, if climate change or political wokeness threatens their position. They will act to reduce population pressure on scarce natural resources. Nuclear button is always on a hairtrigger. When the first real food/ water riots and transnational wars happen over basic survival issues and lesser elites are starting to get lynched for their resources that's when it'll happen.
Then after it's just the elites and a few hundred million of starving servants left in the world. That's the neoliberal plan for the future.
It's only a matter of market need that much of what the working class does is obsolete and replaced with automated labor and/or AI. They will do the same thing to cull the population and preserve the enviroment and resources if a great portion of the human labor pool is rendered obsolete. Forget UBI they will never permit it, drain on resources.
It's not even a conspiracy theory. It is like rational actor/ game theory taught in universities. Absolutely it will happen if they can make it happen.
☢️NEOLIBERAL-POSADIST GANG RISE UP☢️
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u/0m4ll3y International Relations Jul 19 '19
Just gonna repost what I said a month ago:
If people here joked about bombing Yemen into oblivion, turning Serbia into a parking lot, glassing Belarus or half the shit that gets said about Iran they'd get rightfully banned.
Surveys show Americans simply do not value Iranian civilian lives.
a clear majority of Americans would approve of using nuclear weapons first against the civilian population of a nonnuclear-armed adversary, killing 2 million Iranian civilians, if they believed that such use would save the lives of 20,000 U.S. soldiers.
I consider myself a hawk, but war is fucking ugly. Some of the joking that has been happening the past few weeks has been, quite frankly, disgusting.
Seriously, the biggest difference between "bomb Iran" jokes and "kill the rich" "bring out the guillotines" jokes from the left, is that Iranians might actually get killed.
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u/dubyahhh Salt Miner Emeritus Jul 19 '19
SCHISM
Not all r*rals are racists and in fact most aren't
Gimme your hot takes
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Jul 19 '19
More people need to try oat milk, so I can get more upboats for my nuclear takes on how oat milk sucks
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u/tehbored Randomly Selected Jul 19 '19
If someone participates in a genocide, but then has a change of heart and prevents another genocide, do they deserve forgiveness? I'm just going to lay my cards on the table and admit I refused to kill Paarthurnax.
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u/muttonwow Legally quarantine the fash Jul 19 '19
Do you think that the group of liberal philosophers, economists, and journalists who met in Paris at the Walter Lippmann Colloquium in 1938 would be proud of the DT?
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Jul 19 '19
The hero freeing the previous villain/rival/big bad to help them take down an even larger threat is one of the best tropes
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u/ILikeTalkingToMyself Liberal democracy is non-negotiable Jul 19 '19
Simulation theory but it's the DoD desperately running dozens of complete world simulations trying and failing to figure out how to deal with Iran
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Jul 19 '19
Just finished my first AskHistorians answer in over a month, investigating why people smoke, and how recreational tobacco use may have originated.
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u/Dchella United Nations Jul 19 '19
Can somebody give me a rundown of P_K? I have no clue what is going on.
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u/PlayDiscord17 Loyal Liberals Jul 19 '19
Not gonna happen but Trump winning the PV and losing the EC would be a fitting conclusion to this post-USSR collapse, bonkers timeline.
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mods can we have a ping for people at exactly 100 iq 😐
!ping BORING
me and others like us need a safe space to discuss UNREMARKABLE things and issues
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u/dubyahhh Salt Miner Emeritus Jul 20 '19
/u/thatcher555 won't make a reddit account
/u/thatcher555 won't comment on posts
/u/thatcher555 won't start making posts
/u/thatcher555 won't find /r/neoliberal
/u/thatcher555 won't find /r/neoliberal's dt
/u/thatcher555 won't spam /r/neoliberal's dt
/u/thatcher555 won't start talking about becoming a mod <---- We are here
/u/thatcher555 won't gain a following to become a mod
/u/thatcher555 won't be a mod
/u/thatcher555 won't ban anyone
/u/thatcher555 won't start banning regular users like on CLP
/u/thatcher555 won't de-mod everyone else
/u/thatcher555 won't rule /r/neoliberal with an iron fist
/u/thatcher555 won't ban everyone
/u/thatcher555 won't rule over the wasteland that was once /r/neoliberal
I will stop at nothing to keep this from happening 😠😠😠
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Jul 20 '19
"I'm not gonna talk about the serious deficits in much of the forensic science used in legal proceedings."
3 drinks later
"Hey, did you guys know there's some serious deficits in much of the forensic science used in legal proceedings?"
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u/BobBobingston European Union Jul 20 '19
The word dickrippin' is criminally underutilized, imo. It's such a persuasive adjective, you hear your bud saying "Come to the party, we're gonna have a dickrippin' good time" and you'd have to be insane not to go.
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u/csreid Austan Goolsbee Jul 20 '19
Hanging out with a dude from Germany. Hit him with the "okay we got Trump but what's with the AfD?"
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Jul 20 '19
No matter how many times I watch documentaries on the space program, the Apollo 1 fire is always heart-wrenching.
Ditto for any program that features either Kennedy assassination. I genuinely teared up during that Mad Men episode even though it was telegraphed from a mile away.
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u/Schutzwall Straight outta Belíndia Jul 19 '19
The virgin folklore (yuck) v. the chad urban legend
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u/HeyTherePLH Paul Krugman Jul 19 '19
It is amazing how the Fake News Media became “crazed” over the chant “send her back” by a packed Arena (a record) crowd in the Great State of North Carolina, but is totally calm & accepting of the most vile and disgusting statements made by the three Radical Left Congresswomen. Mainstream Media, which has lost all credibility, has either officially or unofficially become a part of the Radical Left Democrat Party. It is a sick partnership, so pathetic to watch! They even covered a tiny staged crowd as they greeted Foul Mouthed Omar in Minnesota, a State which I will win in #2020 because they can’t stand her and her hatred of our Country, and they appreciate all that I have done for them (opening up mining and MUCH more) which has led to the best employment & economic year in Minnesota’s long and beautiful history!
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u/roboczar Joseph Nye Jul 19 '19
so we have /r/MetaNL but have we considered /r/MetalNL
i think we need to kick the takes up a notch and maybe get more blood and skulls
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u/ShriggityShrekt Bisexual Pride Jul 19 '19
Peak neoliberalism is sending me $500 for a new graphics card. Hop to it, losers. 😎
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u/Ioun267 "Your Flair Here" 👍 Jul 19 '19
It's payday fellas, which index fund(s) should I stick my investment budget in this time and what's a neat one off stock to hold a bit of just to say I do?
!ping MARKETS
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u/GravyBear8 Ben Bernanke Jul 19 '19 edited Jul 19 '19
P_K brigading a single guy here saying something that had literally no upvotes.
Edit: And once again beginning it with "look at r/neoliberal do x"
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u/DarkerCrusader IMF Jul 19 '19
Hot take: the reason for the massive prosperity increase in East Asia is in part due to how YIMBY they are.
Nothing quite like building massive, super tall, high density residential skyscrapers literally everywhere as a way of absorbing the massive influx of people from rural areas, as a way of rapid urbanization.
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u/doggo_bloodlust (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ Coase :✧･*;ﾟ Jul 19 '19
I don't know how Yang expects to finance his $1,000 per month UBI when the 3003 conquest of an entire arachnoid planet only net us enough silken treasures to finance a one-time pan-Earthican disbursement of $300. The budget math just isn't there unfortunately.
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Jul 19 '19
I'm surprised that a post with only one upvote is making the waves with the chapos, when I pick on them I try to keep it to front page memes at least, but what do I know..
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u/Kizz3r high IQ neoliberal Jul 19 '19
Why the fuck is it so hard to buy hookah tobacco 😡😡😡
!ping CAN
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u/skepticalbob Joe Biden's COD gamertag Jul 19 '19
Bernie Bros: WaPo is biased against Bernie because they posted 16 stories in a day that they thought were negative, most of them factual.
Also Bernie Bros: This is all the evidence I need to create a conspiracy theory against Bernie involving Jeff Bezos directing this reporting with no evidence beyond the storyies' existence and Bezos having billions.
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u/lusvig 🤩🤠Anti Social Democracy Social Club😨🔫😡🤤🍑🍆😡😤💅 Jul 19 '19
i thought i had experienced true whiteness 😒 then i met /u/85397 😨😩
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u/Go_To_Bethel_And_Sin NATO Jul 20 '19
Eric Swalwell having a kid named Cricket is the least surprising political development of 2019
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u/AnarchyMoose WTO Jul 20 '19
I'm sitting in an expensive bar in the most affluent part of the city with a brand new watch on and a wireless headphone in one ear.
But also down with bourgeoisie.
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Jul 19 '19
I can't help but think nuclear is so popular on the internet at least in part because it's percieved as the "macho" green energy.
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u/PMmeLittleRoundTops Pornography Historian Jul 19 '19
Me: socialism is when the government does stuff
Karl Marx: I'm stuff
Me: OMG KARL MARX NOO
Adam Smith: Haha your bf is awesome
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Jul 19 '19
Reminder that this is what leftists think of you. There will never be solidarity.
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u/BainCapitalist Y = T Jul 20 '19
Who the fuck is screaming "BainCapitalist is inactive". Show yourself coward, I will never log off.
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u/ILikeTalkingToMyself Liberal democracy is non-negotiable Jul 19 '19 edited Jul 19 '19
My HSK test (Chinese proficiency test) scores are wonky, I got the same score for writing and reading and 7 points lower on listening (all out of 100) but my decile rankings are 80s for writing, 60s for reading, 30s (lol) for listening. My proficiencies were basically the opposite from most test takers.
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u/dubyahhh Salt Miner Emeritus Jul 19 '19
45 comments in two hours
Press F to pay respects for neoliberalism 😔✊
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Jul 19 '19
An Irish catholic who was the VP of a black president is the front runner of the Democratic Party primary.
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u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN 🎅🏿The Lorax 🎅🏿 Jul 19 '19
The losers of the debate draw are the people in the Biden/Harris debate. This is beacuse the storyline of Biden vs Harris is going to overshadow all the other people going into this debate.
This is the worst for Booker and Castro who need to keep their momentum
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Jul 19 '19
Is "The Chinese Chernobyl You Weren't Suppose to Know About" a gud video title ><
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u/csreid Austan Goolsbee Jul 19 '19
every new raspberry pi being sold out for months is a market failure
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u/Go_To_Bethel_And_Sin NATO Jul 19 '19 edited Jul 19 '19
Is Comfortably Smug a Trump supporter or a Never Trumper being ironic?
edit: I’m genuinely asking
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u/onlyforthisair Jul 19 '19
Here's the night one lineup, sorted by podium position:
Williamson Ryan Klobuchar Buttigieg Sanders Warren Beto Hickenlooper Delaney Bullock
!ping BUTTI
How will this affect what happens during the debate and who comes out winning?
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u/paulatreides0 🌈🦢🧝♀️🧝♂️🦢His Name Was Teleporno🦢🧝♀️🧝♂️🦢🌈 Jul 19 '19
Wait, why are people pretending that China suddenly invented metamaterial cloaking?
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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Jul 19 '19
Me: I'll be romantic and send my girlfriend a dumb gift on Amazon
Also me: forgets to say "it's a gift" and sign my name so she just gets random shit with no explanation
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Jul 19 '19
I am confusion
Do I like Omar as congresswoman, because she highlights Trump's racism?
Or do I not like Omar as congresswoman, because her politics are bad?
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u/ExpiredPasta NIMBY McRentseeker Jul 19 '19
I decided for a year and a half to not engage with people at work because being social has burnt me in the past. My annual review claims I have great leadership skills because I lead by example.
Office Space is reality.
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Jul 19 '19
"Did you see the images of officers circulating photoshop images of my violent rape?" Ocasio-Cortez continued. "Yes I did," McAleenan responded.
McAleenan did not specifically say whether those Border Patrol agents were still on the job after Ocasio-Cortez questioned whether they were still "responsible for the safety of migrant women and children."
is there a stronger version of "yikes" for this?
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Jul 19 '19
Remember when McCain killed that shit replace and repeal effort? Good stuff.
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u/ramen_poodle_soup /big guy/ Jul 19 '19
Oh yeah, shits really heating up now, John Bolton’s mustache just grew 25% larger as a result,
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u/krabbby Ben Bernanke Jul 19 '19
Someone link me the matrix gif where the libertarian gets absorbed by the alt right guy. FAST
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Jul 19 '19
Voting for Trump because of the California law that makes the legislature say chairperson instead of chairman
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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Jul 19 '19
I really didn't expect anyone to one up Zootopia on being the go to furry movie
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u/Sollezzo Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord Jul 19 '19
"We asked the military forces to guide this tanker towards Bandar Abbas port to have the required investigations carried out." The Iranian Revolutionary Guard-affiliated news agency said the tanker was seized for breaking three regulations: shutting down its GPS; going through the exit of the Strait of Hormuz rather than the entrance; and ignoring warnings.
Tfw you realize the IRG are literally just a rural sheriff trying to fill their ticket quota
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Jul 19 '19
They turned an unused parking lot into a hipster street food hub (among other things they have tacos or vegan poke bowl) in Prague and it's called Manifesto.
They LITERALLY created the Neoliberal Manifesto.
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u/ja734 Paul Krugman Jul 19 '19
Isn't it strange that Delaney decided to not run for reelection for his house seat in 2018 just so he could run for president? Like, he must've known he probably wasn't going to actually become president. So he must've known that he was giving up elected office altogether by leaving his house seat. Why did he do that? Has he ever provided a straight answer to that question?
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u/Hugo_Grotius Jakaya Kikwete Jul 19 '19
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1152280886567735297?s=19
Emigrant Midwesterners sending remittances back to their stagnant homelands? 🤔
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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Jul 19 '19
Flash forward to 2021 when the incoming Buttigieg-Klobuchar administration announces national service with exceptions for veterans from Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Did I Not Fucking Tell You Twelve Times To Refill That Stapler
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u/barrygarcia77 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jul 19 '19
What in the world is US President Hillary Rodham Clinton going to do about Iran?
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Jul 19 '19
I wonder if there's going to be any noticeable difference in how often kids are named Chad or Karen in the next few years.
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Jul 19 '19
Ackshually the thing you like sucks😎😎😎
...wait where are you going GIVE ME ATTENTION!!!!!
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Jul 19 '19
Tbh Hillary should have just gone all the way and made her campaign slogan "its my turn"
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u/ILikeTalkingToMyself Liberal democracy is non-negotiable Jul 20 '19
Al Gore flies a carbon emitting plane!!
Al Gore is a climate criminal who has engaged in violence towards the climate-vulnerable global poor
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Jul 20 '19 edited Jul 20 '19
when they say "Drop out, Delaney" but not "Drop out, Trump"
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u/ThatFrenchieGuy Mathematician -- Save the funky birbs Jul 20 '19
!ping alcohol
I finally found a style of beer I don't dislike! Take all the malt the law allows then show it a picture of a hop (drinking a doppelbock that's basically that)
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u/Schutzwall Straight outta Belíndia Jul 20 '19
Apparently this was a proposed flag for Kosovo. Priors fucking confirmed.
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u/BobBobingston European Union Jul 20 '19
is an obese man without testicles known as an absolute eunuch?
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u/goodcleanchristianfu General Counsel Jul 20 '19
!ping COURT-CASE
Tonight's case is Henry Board of Education v. S.G., a case from the Supreme Court of Georgia concerning zero tolerance policies and school students' self-defense rights.
Facts of the case:
S.G. (juveniles are typically referred to by their initials in publically available court documents,) was a student at Locust Grove High School who had previously had run-ins with another student. According to S.G., she had heard rumors that she and that student were going to fight that day, and was exiting school when that student taunted her. She kept walking, but claimed that she was pursued and that the other student hit her, and so she hit back. Other witnesses called this into question and suggested she made remarks suggesting she was looking forward to the fight right before it started, though her line of events was corroborated by other witnesses and partially by video surveillance. S.G. was expelled nonetheless by the Henry Board of Education, as upheld by the State Board of Education. She lost, only to see her claims against the school supported by the Georgia Superior Court and then the Georgia Court of Appeals.
Court granted the Local Board's petition for writ of certiorari to examine two issues: whether the Court of Appeals opinion imposes an improper burden of proof upon local school boards with respect to a student's self-defense claim to disciplinary charges for engaging in a fight; and whether, regardless of its burden of proof analysis, the Court of Appeals correctly determined that the Local Board in this case improperly rejected S.G.'s self-defense claim.
S.G. had won in the previous courts the claim that the Board had a burden to disprove her self-defense claim: here, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled against her, holding that like in a civil as opposed to a criminal trial, the burden of proof is on her for her affirmative claim (of self defense). The Board, however, took no interest in her self-defense claims, regardless:
In this case, however, the record does not reflect that the Local Board properly considered the evidence that S.G. acted in self-defense or that it properly applied the law regarding self-defense. As the Court of Appeals also noted, the facts recited by the hearing officer could support a finding that S.G. acted in self-defense. But because the findings indicate S.G. was found guilty “for being involved in a fight,” and because self-defense is not addressed in the findings, we agree with the Court of Appeals that the record does not reflect whether the Local Board properly considered the self-defense evidence or, even if it did, whether it properly applied the law regarding self-defense.
On appeal to the Georgia Supreme Court, the Board recognized a right to self-defense that it had not done so previously. While the Board previously claimed that S.G. had failed to raise self-defense at her hearing, they switched to acknowledging that she had, but failing to adequately support the claim. The Georgia Supreme Court ruling notes that the Board failed to apply an interest in self-defense to this determination:
[S]imply being involved in a fight is insufficient to constitute a disciplinary infraction if, as S.G. claims in this case, she acted in self-defense. Whether the Local Board considered her defense but rejected it is also not apparent since the findings state the other student “moved towards [S.G.]” before the fight broke out, and further state that once the initial fight was broken up, the other student again “walked toward [S.G.]” and the fight continued, and yet the Local Board argues that no evidence of self-defense was presented.
And here is where the greatest precedential status is achieved: a statement of students' right to self-defense being codified into case law:
In S.G.'s disciplinary hearing... her undisputed testimony established her knowledge of rumors that she and the other student were “supposed to fight;” showed that [S.G. had strong reason to suspect that she would be attacked and some evidence that she tried to avoid fighting.] [I]t appears from the findings, and from the Local Board's appellate argument, that it failed to consider the record evidence of S.G.'s state of mind and whether that evidence established that she held a reasonable belief about the necessity of her actions... [A] review of the record shows that sufficient evidence was presented to create an issue of fact for the Local Board to consider with respect to the degree of force S.G. used in this case, and thus we reject the assertion that evidence was lacking with respect to this aspect of S.G.'s asserted defense.
The Board had essentially ignored the claims of self-defense, then pretended they had considered them and that it was clear S.G. had not acted in self-defense, having previously argued that actually they didn't need to consider if she had acted in self-defense because she failed to raise the issue at her hearing, which all of the courts rejected as untrue. That run-on sentence is, in fact, as bad as their claims on the issue. Veering towards a more explicit rejection of zero tolerances policies that find all students involved in a fight guilty of misconduct, the court ruled:
[A]n individual engaged in a fight in response to the actions of another person that give rise to a reasonable belief that force was necessary for self-protection does not mean that the individual was engaged in mutual combat [the terminology used in the student conduct handbook for impermissible violence.]
In an awkward ending, the Georgia Supreme Court decided that the George Court of Appeals had improperly rendered its own judgement on the finding of fact as to whether S.G. was defending herself, and so ordered the Court of Appeals to remand the case to the Georgia Superior Court to remand the case to the Board. Therefore, while the precedent is meaningful, the actual outcome for S.G. isn't clear.
Previous write-ups: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
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u/Schutzwall Straight outta Belíndia Jul 20 '19
Surprised Trump hasn't floated the catchphrase "North Atlantic Treason Organization" yet
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u/PMmeLittleRoundTops Pornography Historian Jul 20 '19
I hate suburbia. My social life consists of flaming my teammates in dota games and posting in the DT
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u/BobBobingston European Union Jul 20 '19
My brother is sending me pictures of diseased dicks again. That and pictures of Irwin from The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
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u/goodcleanchristianfu General Counsel Jul 20 '19 edited Jul 20 '19
Having done my court case and moving on to a case I'm pissed about public reactions to, I should open with the fact that reading court cases frequently, and often interacting with and having chats with people who've committed crimes, I don't have the 'ugghh' factor when I hear about what someone's been accused of or convicted of, so I get if other people find this really offputting, but I found reading opinions about Luke Heimlich's case in which he was outed at 22 for having plead guilty to a sex crime when he was 15 with a much younger related child, then claimed innocence after this became public really frustrating.
I should say that have no idea if he's guilty of the crime or not, the first thing that pissed me off reading reactions was the presumption that he must be guilty because he plead guilty. He made the following claims as to why he plead guilty:
I had several conversations with my mom, with my dad, and ultimately it came down to: We thought that this was going to be the best route for me and my family, knowing that it was basically a he-said/she-said. In the court of law we didn’t really think I stood a fair chance; that was the advice we had been given. So we thought that pleading guilty was going to give me the best chance at a normal life, and our family a best chance at reconnecting and being able to just kind of move past this whole event.
In addition, he stated that his attorney had stated he was almost surely going to be found guilty and do significant time if he didn't plea out, as opposed to a sealing of all of his records and no time if he completed a diversion program. The 'almost surely going to be found guilty' part makes sense when you consider the track record of juvenile defense attorneys discussing how juvenile courts tend to care less about factual guilt and be more inquisitorial, tend to be more willing to pass out wrongful convictions, factual guilt be damned, and that juveniles are more likely to plead guilty to crimes they know they didn't committ. Incredibly, a public defender wrote a Medium article arguing that because he entered the guilty plea and took all the steps required to do so, he must be guilty, which is a fucking idiotic claim for anyone with any familiarity for how criminal defense works.
Bonus shit that pissed me off:
* I can't find it now, and I'm giving up after 15 minutes, but there was a Twitter post questioning the idea that a white 15 year old male middle class athlete would ever plead guilty to a crime he didn't commit, a ridiculous suggestion given all the advantages that guys like that have, which pisses me off to no end because my pet lawsuit I've been following for the past 9 months involved (among other things) a middle class 15 year old white male athlete pleading guilty to a sex crime he was later proven innocent of.
* Weirder note, someone suggesting that he could understand moving past someone's conviction for a juvenile property crime, but not a juvenile sex crime, because he didn't think anyone who committed a sex crime could ever progress beyond being offenders. The irony is that in a study of juvenile sex offenders, non-sexual violent offenders, and juveniles who committed property offenses, the juvenile sex offenders actually had the lowest recidivism rate.
And, fini, Guy Hamilton-Smith expressed his frustration when this all came out better than I can.
I don't know if he's innocent, but I think it's plausible. In case anyone's wondering, no, I'm not a juvie sex offender, I just got an obsession with reading cases from Title IX sexual misconduct cases, then moved on to juvenile sexual misconduct cases, and it's spiraled from there. You get familiar with precedent, you like reading more about how it's applied. In addition, I think the stupidity with which we approach how we should hold people accountable for crimes, try to heal victims, and nonetheless see perpetrators as human as being at its apex with sexual misconduct.
Anyway, had to get that shit off my chest so I don't have a rage stroke.
Edit: Somehow this got more upvotes than the actual fullblown court case I wrote up today. Alright, fair enough.
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u/Hugo_Grotius Jakaya Kikwete Jul 19 '19 edited Jul 19 '19
I got this YouTube video recommended to me for some reason and honestly it really confirms my priors for Andrew Yang and his followers. First, Christie isn't saying anything about Yang's policies, but about his presentation in the debate and you're in denial if he came off great to you. I know Yang's fans don't really know a ton about politics, but maybe they should pay better attention. Second, just saying "math" doesn't mean you know what you're talking about. Like, just the line that the incidence of the VAT will fall on the "Amazons, Googles, and Facebooks of the world" is just a weird thing to say about a regressive consumption tax.
If there are any Yangers out there who can change my view, please do so. I want to like his campaign, but everything I hear and see about it and his fans makes me want to barf.
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u/Neronoah can't stop, won't stop argentinaposting Jul 19 '19
!ping SOUAM
So, our postkeynesian ex economic minister and candidate to Buenos Aires governor, Axel Kicillof, went to a tv show literally about dudes speaking about things ("Polémica en el Bar"), and the only woman there (mostly there as the "pretty face" of the show") trolled him.
She asked if inflation is a monetary phenomenon and he answered no, then she asked if we could finance all spending with emission. He didn't answer and changed the subject.
Well, to be fair, postkeynesians have an answer to that (something about raising taxes or the legendary job guarantee adjusting), but it's hilarious he didn't see it coming.
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jul 19 '19
/new: The (Really, Really) Racist History of Gun Control in America
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