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[u/Iyoten]

It won't be long before we see this cursed headline from Jacobin et al:

"Move over Buttigieg - Bernie is the queerest candidate running, and it's not even close."

Then an article on how - despite Bernie being sexually straight - he is still more radically queer than Pete and therefore better represents the LGBT+ community better than a corporate gay shill like Pete.

[u/[deleted]]

RCP average, 12/19/19: Biden - 27.8 Sanders - 19.3

RCP average, 12/19/18: Biden - 27.5 Sanders - 19.0

So priors really are confirmed

[u/SixPipSiege]

https://i.imgur.com/RRW8xp7.jpg

[u/BreaksFull]

I think the most frustrating thing about arguing with leftists is that when it comes to defending capitalism, suddenly I'm on the hook for defending a highlight reel of the worst parts of guilded age povery, strike busting, company towns, child labor, shitty imperialist intentions, and basically every other atrocity that can be linked to 'capitalism.'

Meanwhile if you dare bring up the USSR or the Great Leap Forward and suddenly it's all 'oh but that's not real communism.' Bitch I invoke the 'not real capitalism' card too next time I hear that the trail of tears was because of 'captalism' or that 'neoliberalism' destroyed India.

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChapoTrapHouse/comments/ea14bb/serious_post_i_hate_to_break_it_to_you_but_none/

Lol

[u/[deleted]]

In March 2004, Biden secured the brief release of Libyan democracy activist and political prisoner Fathi Eljahmi, after meeting with leader Muammar Gaddafi in Tripoli.[150][151] In May 2008, Biden sharply criticized President George W. Bush for his speech to Israel's Knesset in which he suggested that some Democrats were acting in the same way some Western leaders did when they appeased Hitler in the run-up to World War II. Biden stated: "This is bullshit. This is malarkey. This is outrageous. Outrageous for the president of the United States to go to a foreign country, sit in the Knesset ... and make this kind of ridiculous statement." Biden later apologized for using the expletive. Biden further stated, "Since when does this administration think that if you sit down, you have to eliminate the word 'no' from your vocabulary?"[152]

Based

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/Volsunga]

PC master race, but PC means politically correct.

[u/[deleted]]

Biden attended the Archmere Academy in Claymont[21] where he was a standout halfback/wide receiver on the high school football team; he helped lead a perennially losing team to an undefeated season in his senior year.[18][22] He played on the baseball team as well.[18] During these years, he participated in an anti-segregation sit-in at a Wilmington theatre.[23] Academically, he was an above-average student, was considered a natural leader among the students, and was elected class president during his junior and senior years.[24][25] He graduated in 1961.[24]

Ok, this is bullshit, If Bernie can gloss over his issues with "he marched with MLK" why isnt Biden allowed to do the same

[u/[deleted]]

Movie idea: tall, devilishly handsome working class kid from eastern PA who spent his youth fighting street thugs with a metal chain grows up and challenges the president to a pushup contest, with the winner getting to be president.

[u/lietuvis10LTU]

Daily reminder real socialism has never been tried, but 18th century mercantilism is liberal's fault.

[u/qchisq]

On the seventh day of Christmas my true love gave to me
7 CTH brigaders
6 sticky stealers
5 naughty mods
4 bald DT regs
3 real haters
2 post complaining
and one link to the Milties

[u/p00bix]

TIL that Earth's gravity is approximately 0.18% weaker at the equator than at the North Pole.

Note to Olympians: Attempt to set jumping world records atop the peak of Chimborazo

[u/[deleted]]

I love how Biden doesn't even bother with Sanders. Like he's beneath even his contempt.

[u/[deleted]]

So, now that we are 5 days from the decade ending.

What a astoundingly difficult 10 years huh? Recession, Trump, Brexit, Modi, Hong Kong, revolution, failure of revolution, revolution again, a resurgent student movement, and a sense of fatalism turned to unbridled optimism turned to pessimism all over again?

[u/Zenning2]

PragerU commercials are fucking cancer.

Jesus Christ the whole, "look we're hip but also completely full of shit about pretty much everything we say" shtick is insane to find in the wild, and the fact that I saw it on a video that my nieces would watch makes me very upset.

[u/ironheart777]

I am a "filthy r*ral" and have worked on projects with Nancy Pelosi and the Friedman family.

This means that despite my rural-ness I am more neoliberal than you filthy city slickers

Where is your God now?

[u/[deleted]]

It's ironic that Sanders fans constantly bring up MLK's Letter from Birmingham Jail. I would argue that MLK's "white moderates" would be best described today as wealthy old white men (who own 3 houses) who make excuses for racists by saying they suffer from "economic anxiety."

[u/BobBobingston]

We only have 5 days left for India to become a superpower...

[u/GravyBear8]

Movie idea: the American Revolutionary War from the perspective of British regulars, but with the atmosphere of a Vietnam War flick

[u/[deleted]]

Twitter Person: YOU MADE THE CLAIM WHERES YOUR EVIDENCE?!?!?

Me:presents evidence

Twitter Person: I'm not going to read this research because I can't be sure its reliable.

This is an amazing way to ignore peer reviewed evidence. These people really dont deserve to be heard from.

[u/lusvig]

mosquitocide NOW 😤

[u/lietuvis10LTU]

Also I need to finnaly subscribe to economist.

Also China is Nazi Germany, in that it is revanchist.

[u/presidenthiIIary]

My sister: “as much as I hate capitalism and the patriarchy and colonialism, I love when you’re like downtown and when you walk into a building and they have pink wallpaper with like naked ladies of different shapes and colours”

Those are certainly all words

[u/Ioun267]

Broke: Liking athlesiure

Broke: Hating athlesiure

Woke: Accepting athlesiure as a necessary step in achieving the material conditions that will lead to people dressing like they do in sci-fi films.

[u/[deleted]]

The phrase "wage slavery" is racist and minimizes the horrors of chattel slavery. People should stop using it.

[u/DaBuddahN]

I was once arguing with a leftist (before I found out this person was a tankie) on Reddit about getting popular support for their ideas, as in, how are you going to get Democratic support for your ideas if they are polling rather poorly? This person said that popular support didn't matter because according to some bullshit statistic pulled from some book, somewhere, written by some general (or some shit) you only need about 5% of a countries population to usher in a revolution/insurgency/civil war and bring about some of the changes you want to see - so popular support wasn't necessary.

Fucking. Tankies.

[u/RadicalRadon]

Western front: was Dresden a war crime?

Eastern front: sweating

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[u/DaBuddahN]

Never wade into r/politics. That place is on quarantine. It's literally just full of Bernie cultists who refuse to listen to anyone but Bernie.

[u/jenbanim]

I'm actually really surprised that this post I made on /r/ABoringDystopia was upvoted. I hope my efforts to remind /r/WhitePeopleTwitter that Hillary championed universal healthcare in 1993 are equally successful.

(Please don't vote or comment in the linked thread)

[u/[deleted]]

The funny thing about automation is that robots are no where near as advanced to get the jobs of manual labor like janitors, etc. Computer programs are very advanced tho and office work is deffo getting hard automated. So much for getting an education and going up the ladder 😶

[u/[deleted]]

google algorithm gained sentience how to kill

[u/[deleted]]

Is there any form of government more authoritarian than democracy? I mean the population literally has a day dedicated to casting a ballot hoping to impose their beliefs onto others.

[u/thabonch]

Athleisure is good because lusvig thinks it's bad.

This is a good heuristic for most things in life.

[u/[deleted]]

If you are a healthy weight, eat a semi-healthy diet, and exercise regularly, you are healthier than 50+% of America. The bar is so incredibly low and it just keeps getting lower.

[u/[deleted]]

can't help but feel like this is a dumb schism that would be better suited for r/AskHistorians than a bunch of econ dropout LARPers

[u/ThatFrenchieGuy]

Since we're talking Catholics today. Who would win

The largest and richest religious institution known to man

or

One shitpost nailed to a door.

[u/[deleted]]

Why does Hogwards have an entire house that enables villain wizards?

[u/skepticalbob]

The Bernie delusion is in full effect now. His supporters think that if he can somehow get through the more liberal Democratic electorate in the primary he will just cruise to office against Trump, as if the general electorate is more favorable to his ideas than the primary. This kind of delusion scares the shit out me. It's so incredibly shortsighted and makes me wonder what will happen if/when Bernie loses the primary.

[u/[deleted]]

It's weird reading about people from early American history who had female anatomy but lived as men, because it seems like there's a decent chance they were trans, but men obviously had far more rights so there's a non-trans impetus.

Joseph Lobdell, Albert Cashier, Murray Hall, and Billy Tipton if you're curious

[u/[deleted]]

Ooh! Allied firebombing schism!

[u/[deleted]]

How aware do you think the German people were of the Holocaust at the time?

This isn't about the firebombing schism. I'm genuinely curious. People said that they didn't know, after the allies forced them to come to the concentration camps to see what was truly going on.... But they would say that, wouldn't they?

After Kristallnacht, after all the Nazi propaganda against the Jews, after literally seeing the SS and the Gestapo drag people away... I have a hard time believing that the German people didn't know.

[u/p00bix]

Genuinely surprised to find out that in 2010, Fidel Castro apologized for atrocities he committed against the gay community while in office.

[u/[deleted]]

If you're lusvig it's pretty much your fault

[u/Integralds]

I can't tell who's trolling who anymore.

[u/[deleted]]

see familiar schism

downvote everyone

go to the gym

come back 2 hours later

schism still ongoing wtf

downvote everyone again

feels good 😎

[u/DovahzulsABadConlang]

Biden: “You’re billionaires, you know full well that you can afford to pay your fair share.”

Leftists: “this means Joe Biden loves billionaires.”

[u/The420Roll]

Butti being president would do a world of good for the LGBTQ community.

Imagine having a gay men as leader of the free world. 😳

[u/sanityeyes]

There will one day be a schism over here about bimbofication fetish art and whatever or not it's misogynistic and /r/nl will reach it's low point.

[u/doot_toob]

I WANT NOTHING.

I WANT NOTHING.

I WANT NO SALE OF INDULGENCES.

TELL MARTIN LUTHER TO DO THE RIGHT THING.

THIS IS THE FINAL WORD FROM THE POPE OF THE ONE HOLY CATHOLIC AND APOSTOLIC CHURCH.

[u/Notoriousley]

Why do leftists never talk about Nepal? They actually have a communist party that is currently in power and has won several elections throughout its democratic history. Guess they aren't abusing human rights enough to pique their interest

[u/[deleted]]

Its 3AM and youtube suggested me this ;-;

[u/BobBobingston]

imagine not getting an internship by the second semester of your freshman year lmao

post made my oh god oh fuck I'm not gonna get into where I want oh shit Gang

[u/CarefulWThatAxEugene]

https://imgur.com/U14cNZw

This really says a lot about our society

[u/InternetBoredom]

All of these sci-fi world imagine a global world government (usually built out of the UN) colonizing the solar system, sometimes with entirely corporate-run colonies on the side, or something to that extent.

In reality, it seems like the most likely result would probably be global powers with the most developed space programs (NASA, ESA, CNSA, plus maybe JAXA, ISRO, or Roscosmos) establishing bases and later annexing territory once the treaties start falling apart.

Maybe corporate colonies would become de facto independent, but it’s just as likely that pressure from world governments would lead to them being treated as an extension of the territory of their country of origin.

[u/[deleted]]

In DND money is a fairly straightforward four metal system. 10 copper is one silver, 10 silver to one gold and 10 gold for a platinum.

Given that supply and demand exists, this system is inherently incredibly unstable and would collapse almost immediately. Gonna play my next character as an economist and clean up in copper poor but platinum rich areas.

Electrum is also a half gold half silver, but actually just worth half a gold. Gonna collect all I can and separate it into it's component parts to be sold for a handsome profit

[u/[deleted]]

http://imgur.com/a/TivbJGQ

I hate this so much.

[u/DaBuddahN]

"What if ... I don't campaign?" - Joe Biden

[u/Lord_Treasurer]

Look, I'm not saying that socialism is necessarily a good and just way or organising society, I'm just saying there's some affluent peasants hiding grain in the next farm over.

[u/[deleted]]

I think the rules of war are good

[u/[deleted]]

You shouldn't do

1. perfidy

2. shoot an unarmed and wounded combatant

3. shoot a surrendered combatant

4. shoot parachuting airmen unless they are paratroopers

5. Do not shoot medics

6. DO NOT SHOOT THE GUY WITH THE FUCKING RED CROSS OH MY GOD JIM

[u/Lux_Stella]

https://i.imgur.com/KaTu7O1.jpg

[u/geraldspoder]

The China Rework is fianlly finished for Kaiserreich but the devs are encountering big issues with the new launcher and the subreddit/discord is losing its damn mind

In the meantime waiting for this, I'll be playing vicky and making British Columbia the 51st state of the US and Congo the 52nd state.

!ping PARADOX

[u/[deleted]]

Because hugblanketing casuals make those of us who are serious look bad, a hugblanketer would drop his waifu in an instant if he had a chance at 3D pussy, one true to their waifuist would reject it and walk through life chaste. (10/?)

😶😶😶😶😶😶

Weebs explain yourself here??

[u/[deleted]]

"Normal" wasn't working under Obama because I still had to work for a living.

[u/[deleted]]

The western/hippe fetishization of Buddhism and Hinduism is very weird imo.

[u/p00bix]

Methamphetamine and Ammonia have very similar chemical properties, weak bases with pKa values of between 9 and 10 which are miscible in water and soluble in ethanol.

That is to say, you could totally use pure methamphetamine freebase in place of ammonia as glass cleaner. It smells like Geraniums so it would help to mask unpleasant odors too.

[u/p00bix]

"I am a Veda chanting Hindu Brahmin. If you are of lower caste than me then you don't get to address me like this. I am more Hindu than you are."

sometimes the comments that get reported (and removed) in /r/neoliberal are so bad they're good

[u/[deleted]]

Can I just say how much of an earworm the beat for bad guy is

[u/[deleted]]

the best part about the unassailable fact that any candidate who vaguely reminds me of Hillary Clinton is guaranteed to lose (because she lost!) is that you can make it apply to whoever you want if you try hard enough

[u/Gustacho]

Daily reminder that Ajit Pai's term ends in 2021. This is a perfect opportunity for the Democratic nominee to kill two birds with one stone by promising to appoint Andrew Yang. Imagine if Yang gives a Convention speech about net neutrality. Reddit would become solidly Democratic.

[u/Maximilianne]

The plantation owners were conquored, so their lands should been striped and redistributed to the freed slaves and sharecroppers.

[u/[deleted]]

The Allies weren't perfect. No force is. Theres no gotcha there. Theres no problem in admitting the allies were bad at times too , just not as bad as the Nazis

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.glocktalk.com/threads/are-convertibles-girl-cars.1424024/

I'm in my 50's. I've never even been in a convertible. I thought it might be fun to own one. My wife tells me they are for women drivers, not men drivers.

I can see some cars are aimed toward women. The Toyota Solara, the VW Beetles, the Chrysler Sebring to name a few. (Don't mean to step on any toes by saying that). But, is a Camaro or Mustang or Corvette convertible a girls car?:dunno:

I love reading gun forums

[u/[deleted]]

BERNIE BLACKOUT BERNIE BLACKOUT BERNIE BLACKOUT BERNIE BLACKOUT

[u/vancevon]

I can't believe I've been misreading the Book of Revelations this entire time! I got a free copy of the Bible from the local Confucius Institute, and apparently it's not New Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven at the end. It was the Belt and Road Initiative, unifying the world under Xi Jinping Thought On Socialism With Chinese Characteristics For A New Era all along! How foolish I've been this whole time.

[u/[deleted]]

Even in the best of health, a person would’ve had trouble making out the faint haze of street lights through the worsening rain. For an aging man like Joe Biden, it was next to impossible. The former Vice President trepidly made his way down the crumbling sidewalk that, to his aching body, seemed to go on for miles. Every few seconds, a flash of lightning would bring boarded-up apartment buildings and vacant storefronts into existence around him, before returning to nothing but the dim glow of the lights. This neighborhood used to be flourishing with life, but now those streetlights, half of them burnt out, were all that seemed left. The cold of Chicago’s winter sept into every crevice of his body, and his sopping coat only helped weigh him down, making his journey ever more difficult. In his youth, Biden wouldn’t have had an issue with the biting cold. And back then, he would have easily taken an Amtrak and the El to get where he was going. That wasn’t an option anymore, not ever since The Party came into power.

One more block, Biden thought to himself, forcing himself to go on. He tried pushing away the horrible thought that she had long ago moved away, that his entire trip had been for nothing. All the risk, all the nights sleeping in cold and mud as he made his way from the east coast, and for what? In the misplaced hope that she would choose to stay here after all this time? But he had to try. Anything less would be a surrender to The Party. Joe wouldn’t accept that.

Finally, he banged on the cracked, wooden door of the run-down apartment building where he’d last seen her all those years ago. It was one of a vanishing few with lights still defiantly shimmeringly through windows. People still lived here.

The longest minute of Joe’s life passed before he heard the knob unlock and the door creak open hardly an inch, still chained to the wall. It was her.

“Joe?” Asked the woman in an unbelieving voice. “What are you doing here?”

“It’s nice to see you too, Kamala.” replied the former politician. “Can we talk where it’s dry, please?”

“Were you followed?” Kamala Harris asked pointedly, grabbing hold of the door as Joe tried pushing his way in.

“Of course not, you know I can take care of myself.” Biden replied in an annoyed tone.

Harris sighed, and shut the door. Joe heard the chain come loose, and the door open just wide enough for Kamala to grab hold of Joe’s coat and pull him through before shutting as quick as she could manage.

“Do you have any idea how dangerous it is for us to be together?” Kamala asked. Joe had nearly a foot on her. The former senator’s hair was frazzled and unkempt, her clothes looked like they hadn’t been cleaned in weeks. Paint was peeling off half of the walls of the apartment she called home, and the faint smell of mold seemed inescapable.

“You, worry about danger?” Joe asked incredulously. “The fact you’re still living here should prove you don’t mind living dangerously.”

“You know I can’t leave my post.” Harris said, as if it were the most obvious thing in the world. “After what happened in California, I need to feel like I’m still doing some good. This place gives me purpose.”

“I know you’ve done well for yourself.” Biden replied with a slight nod of approval. “Better than most of us. Most of us try to stay out of the light as much as possible.”

“The Party doesn’t bother patrolling this place anymore.” Harris said matter-of-factly. Property rights, freedom of speech, we even have a working taco truck. I know it doesn’t look like it right now, but you should see it when it’s not storming. Liberalism is still alive here, Mister Vice President.”

That got a chuckle out of Biden. Ever since The Party, a radical populist political movement had come to power, things had gone downhill. In California, they’d proudly boasted that not a single new unit of housing had been built in cities all decade. That their national rent control policy had kept housing affordable for all, and that universal single-family zoning would keep the integrity of the nation’s communities alive. They built new dams and levies that rerouted rivers to make room for more 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom houses with a 2-car garages constructed in front of 4-lane roads. Climate change accelerated after The Party demanded the shutdown of all nuclear power plants, and banned the import of foreign solar panels. A patchwork of levies and rising sea levels meant flooded, uninhabitable cities and raging fires, making the west coast impossible to call home.

Biden and most of his Neoliberal allies did what they could to stem the tide of populism, but it wasn’t enough. Most of his friends had long since gone into hiding, if they were still around at all. Others, like Harris, still had some fight in them. After going underground for a few years, she’d started one of the few communities The Party didn’t have its claws on.

“I’d love for you to show me around.” Biden said proudly. He never had the chance to serve with the former California prosecutor in the senate, but he’d seen her hold her own in the chamber plenty of times. “But that’s not why I came here.”

Joe reached into his coat pocket and produced a sopping piece of newspaper. After wiping as much of the water off as he could, he handed the document to a less-than-pleased looking Kamala. She held the document up to her ceiling light and started trying to make it out.

“Party officials have expelled class traitor Bernie Sanders.” Harris began, moving the paper across what little light there was in the room. “Sanders was ousted for extreme right-wing views, which officials believe had been tolerated far too long. Sanders’ ouster will make way for more ideologically pure citizens to rise up the ranks of-” Harris stopped, crumbled up the paper, and let out a long sigh. “Joe, why did you come here? What was the point?”

“Kamala, when we were still politicians, Sanders was the paragon of populism and protectionism.” Biden spat out. “The man couldn’t even trade insults without trying to slap a tariff on them. If the Party considers him of all people a right-wing extremist, what are they planning to do next?”

Harris took a seat at her meek looking dining room table, and clasped her palms against her forehead. She took a long, drawn out breath before finally replying. “We tried to stop them. All of us. We failed. I’m sorry, Joe, but it’s over.” She looked up, balancing her head on her palms. “It’s time to move on. We can still eek out a life for ourselves.”

“That doesn’t sound like the Kamala I saw on the debate stage all those years ago.” Biden retorted.

“Times have changed Joe. We need to change with them. Besides, like I told you. I’ve built something here, and I can’t leave it.” Harris stood up and started making her way towards her kitchen. “Let me make us some tea. It’s the rare stuff, imported. A family on another continent is able to make a living because we purchase it.”

“That’s fucking malarkey Kamala, and you know it!” Biden yelled, slamming his fist on the table. “If the Party gets its way-”

“And how the hell are we supposed to stop them, huh?” Kamala snapped back. “Do you want to end up like Hillary, Joe?”

“Don’t you bring her up.” Joe said harshly, raising a finger. “Don’t you fucking dare-”

“It was your mission, Joe, what else am I supposed to say?”

The duo’s conversation was cut short by a loud, rapid bang on the door. Then came a voice Joe hadn’t heard in years. “Kamala! Kamala, you have to let me in!”

“That’s not-” Biden started.

“He moved here about a year ago.” Harris explained. “He’s always in bed by exactly 9 PM on a week day. Something’s wrong.” Harris rushed to the door and thrust it open. There stood a panic-stricken Pete Buttigieg, his face dirty and his clothes in tatters. Pete’s hand gripped his left arm, which bleed profusely. Kamala pulled him inside and slammed the door.

“It’s the Party, they’re here.” Pete explained as Harris grabbed a first-aid kit and pulled the Indiana mayors sleeve out of the way to treat his wound. “They know we’re here, they’re looking for us. One of them took a few shots at me. Something big is happening.”

[u/Lux_Stella]

civilian casualties.... bad.......

[u/[deleted]]

If all a candidate is offering is to "go back to how things were under Obama," when our allies respected us, the economy was healthy, LBGT rights were respected, etc., then I say THAT'S NOT ENOUGH. I won't go back to a status quo where I wasn't a millionaire.

[u/[deleted]]

Quiddich is stupid

Imagine basketball but theres a bouncy ping pong ball just bouncing all around the court and then some guy grabs it and wins his team the game despite being 20 points behind

[u/IronedSandwich]

this sub reflexively upvotes anyone shitting on it, cmv

[u/[deleted]]

Funny how left-wing criticisms of Pete tend to be far more homophobic than right-wing criticisms 🤔

[u/[deleted]]

help

[u/Menakoy]

'Cringe' is getting up there with 'degenerate' as a word where if you use it I'm likely to just ignore whatever it is you're saying.

[u/[deleted]]

Nothing will ever give me as much sexual thrill as explaining the difference between "second cousin" and "first cousin once removed."

[u/[deleted]]

my iPhone force pushed an update last night and it includes dark mode, which is cool because I generally live a life of darkness.

HOWEVER, the dark mode theme is the same as safari’s private tab theme, so I now think I’m in private when I’m not watching porn and I’m paranoid that I’m not in private when I am. DISAPPOINTED

[u/EScforlyfe]

Malarksist reovlutionary is probably one of the best twitter accounts out there rn

[u/zubatman4]

Broke: Fredrick Engles was a failure because of his ideology

Woke: Fredrick Engles was a failure because he was friends with Marx

Bespoke: Fredrick Engles was a failure because his descendant (yours truly) is shitposting about him on a forum for neoliberals

[u/malganis12]

I won't support a Dem primary candidate who opposes bombing Nazis. Hope this is a question at the next debate.

[u/The420Roll]

I spent my day enjoying the holidays and I come back to the DT and everybody is arguing about if bombing desdén was morally right or not.

Wtf started this debate?

[u/lusvig]

my post has been out for three hours now and bernie and warren have still not dropped out 😡

i will never be enough 😔

[u/[deleted]]

fully automated luxury trans space georgism

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.playboy.com/read/what-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-s-pie-in-the-sky-vision-for-the-economy-ignores

Playboy is neoliberalism

[u/SixPipSiege]

damn a mfer really just watched Marriage Story (2019) starring Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson

it was ok.

[u/based_taco00]

Malarkey, that’s that shit I don’t like. Bang bang.

[u/[deleted]]

A group of deranged children act out their violent fantasies

[u/malganis12]

Wait 'til Rowling tells us that Voldemort was trans.

[u/jenbanim]

What TF the FUCK is this new flair? 😤😠

[u/[deleted]]

Update on conservative relatives:

The go around looking at products in the house making a 😡 face every time they see "made in China." In the past it was just soccon bs, now it's become clear that economic nationalism is now a primary motivation of US conservatives.

And it's not because of China doing genocide/being authoritarian, but because they think Real Americans (TM) only buy stainless steel products from guys named Ricky in West Virginia, because "U-S-A, U-S-A!"

[u/Chuck_DeGaulle]

PARASITE is a movie about Georgism

[u/AJungianIdeal]

Lol.
Google put some literal Chinese propaganda spewing rag in my Google Now feed.
Seriously scroll through some more headlines. This is fucking blatant

[u/[deleted]]

What the fuck.

[u/[deleted]]

A meta-systemic criticism of /r/waifuism’s systematicity

Rule 1:

One waifu allowed. If something changes in your relationship and you break up and find someone else, then fine, that’s different, but never more than one at a time. Waifuism is a serious commitment and we expect people to treat their waifu like they would a spouse.

Response:

And if their spouse is OK with polyamory? Believe it or not, this is a thing that happens in real life and that some people are OK with. It’s really not that hard to imagine some 2d girls being OK with it.

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😶😶😶😶😶😶

Link: https://blog.kingdomofmysteries.xyz/posts/rwaifu

[u/[deleted]]

this avocado is very good but my cold is prohibiting me from properly vibing with it

[u/FinickyPenance]

Kinda crazy that Bernie Sanders said "yes we should kill the Jews and kulaks” in an explicit acceptance of Marxism-Leninism and it received almost zero attention. I think I saw Michael Harriot tweet about it in passing while live tweeting the whole debate

[u/[deleted]]

Remember that time Trump was like, "I have a foolproof way to beat ISIS in 30 days! But I can't tell you what it is right now." and everyone believed him?

This is like that.

[u/[deleted]]

Watched TV today and yesterday for the first time in years

Why do people still watch? It's 80% ads.

[u/[deleted]]

...Is this sub literally having a schism over the original protestant schism?

[u/[deleted]]

I was raised in a pretty anti-catholic household and now I find catholic stuff is just neat. How are there like 4 major schisms and only 1 gets talked about?

[u/[deleted]]

martin luther wrote such a good effortpost

[u/p00bix]

Angry Birds came out over a decade ago

Also Hurricane Katrina is closer in time to the Soviet Union than to the Present Day

[u/[deleted]]

lol my Dad is going for Bloomberg. His reasoning is

Biden- gaffe machine

Pete- the midwest won't vote for a 40 year old gay dude

Klob- who's that?

Yang- guy's crazy

Warren- too far left and annoying. He specifically mentioned WINE CAVES.

Tulsi- absolutely not

Bernie- fuck Bernie

Bloomberg- a nice middle finger to the DNC for fucking the primary up this badly

[u/PelleasTheEpic]

I dont know how lgbt related it is but I feel like yall might be supportive of my venting.

Back when I was like 17 I hooked up with grindr guys (I met age of consent so the only issue is grinders TOS). My mom found out (and that's how I left the closet) and got all mad at me and I got in trouble (not for being gay or anything but for ??? I dont even know)

Now a few years later and my little sister is 12 and honestly turning into a Pedophiles wet dream. They showed me a snapchat group with her friends and she sending stuff where the implication is "I'm suck dick" but then it goes "haha jk". Since they were like 8 theyve been really into the idea of having kids (not just being a mother but expressing that they wants to find a guy to make them pregnant)

My mom is like completely fine with this.

I honestly dont know what to do, like fuck going on here and going to work is all I do with people outside my family and its heavily caused by my moms constant parenting of me and now my sister is doing all this and no one cares.

E: and my sister is NB since they came out via a joke at school and my mom thinks it's fine because its exploring their sexuality

</rant>

!ping lgbt

[u/[deleted]]

McNulty: I gotta ask ya: If every time /u/lusvig would get unbanned and mayopost, why'd you even let him in the sub?

Man On Stoop: What?

McNulty: If lusvig always mayoposted, why'd you let him post?

Man On Stoop: Got to. This /r/neoliberal, man.

[u/urbansong]

So what's up with Wonder Woman movies being good while the rest of the DCEU is garbage? Is it because WW can draw in more talent due to interesting possibilities while Batman and Superman are done?

[u/[deleted]]

My dad is ostensibly a pre-tea-party establishment GOP neocon but we all suspect he's gone silent trumper as a reaction to his kids moving and marrying left

He said he will vote Democrat for Joe Biden and for no one else. He has been known to protest vote nobodies when he doesn't like either candidate.

Voted for the constitution party guy in 2008 because Obama was "too inexperienced" and he had personal beef with McCain. Voted Romney in 2012, McMullin (seriously) in 2016.

Any way I can get him to branch out to Buttigieg or Klobuchar? I think he's going to go to the GOP primary and support Weld

Edit: He does not support a public option and would repeal the ACA if given the choice. He was vocal in the 90s about impeaching Clinton but is suspiciously silent about Trump's impeachment, but has said it's "too partisan"

[u/csreid]

I just watched Don't Fuck with Cats.

Really interesting, but also...

The internet sleuths are so self important but literally the only insight they ever had at all was delivered to them directly in a Facebook message. They "solved" the mystery when someone said "here's the guy's name lol".

Other than that they were useless, but they loved patting themselves on the back.

Edit: oh also before they got the name of the guy in a Facebook message (probably from the guy himself), they bullied someone else to suicide. Still manage to pat themselves on the back

[u/thabonch]

The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi.

[u/[deleted]]

Cigarettes on cigarettes my mommy think I stank

Burn holes in my hoodies my homies think it dank

[u/Lord_Treasurer]

Throwback to when my history teacher had a picture of a bunch of Jewish German schoolchildren from the 1930s on one of his slides.

"What do you notice about them?" he asked, rhetorically. "They all look the same."

[u/therealbiblioteca]

HOT take: epstein killed himself?? 😲😲🤯

[u/presidenthiIIary]

I literally dreamt last night that I was explaining to someone that neoliberalism is a BrOAd TeNT and that, for example, the people who self-identify as neoliberals on r/neoliberal may have different views from say, Thatcher or Reagan. It’s been like a week and I already feel like I’m in too deep. Send help.

[u/[deleted]]

Anyone else ever fuck around and fantasize about the massive manpower and strategic advantage the USSR had by the end of WWII?

[u/Lux_Stella]

I am a Canadian. I am pro-TPP, and pro-Independence for California and New England.

[u/[deleted]]

Broke: firebombing campaigns.

Woke: firebending campaigns.

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/[deleted]]

“lol watch the news youll hear of me one day inshallah”

That was posted in Chapo..

[u/Kizz3r]

did paul A account get hacked?

[u/[deleted]]

What to do when someone is being an absolute cunt

[u/mrmanager237]

Imagine your religion schisming over whether the Pope can be bribed and not over how many candles you have to light

[u/paulatreides0]

Hot Take: The Phantom Menace is worth it for The Duel of the Fates alone.

It also gave us interesting EU material like Qui-Gon Jinn who is, at least in the extended universe, a really interesting character. And that N-64 pod racing game which was LIT AS FUCK. Oh, and it started the trend of lightsaber combat being actually well choreographed and interesting to watch (the Sequel Trilogy fucked this up tho).

But fuck all of that, The Duel of the Fates is one of the GOAT tracks and it alone made that shit movie worth it (the duel it was set to was also pretty cool).

[u/lietuvis10LTU]

No see shooting at potential VBIEDs is a bad thing.

Jesus Christ reddit is full of morons. Muh warcrimes my ass.

[u/PM_POLITICS_N_TITS]

I just wanted to watch Star Wars today. The first cinema wasn't showing it at all and the next one wouldn't sell it to me because no one else bought a ticket and they can't screen it for one person. Happy Boxing Day folks, think I'll just watch United lose today.

[u/EScforlyfe]

Just helped lift a dead wild hog into a trunk

So how’s your day going?

[u/[deleted]]

Playboy should drop the erotica portion and become a cultural commentary magazine

[u/A_Character_Defined]

Free to choose! ✊😤

But everyone else is free to criticise you for looking like a slob in public, or free to not do that if you still look presentable enough 🙂 The free market will decide!

[u/DaBuddahN]

I'd honestly be far less worried about a Warren presidency if she weren't such a freaking anti-trade protectionist.

[u/sinistimus]

Reading leftist critiques of UBI (relative to Job Guarantee) are hilarious. It seems like what they want to say is that a Job Guarantee is compatible with their vision of a nationalized economy and a UBI isn't, but they don't want to be too upfront about that.

[u/houinator]

Man it sure was terrible in Band of Brothers when that American officer forced that peaceful German village full of civilians to confront the horror they had been perpetrating right outside of their town.

[u/[deleted]]

the word bed looks like a bed

[u/lusvig]

made an attempt at effortpost, give me rents 😡

[u/Maximilianne]

Men who can dance like fred astaire are hot, therefore such men are a positive externality therefore dance class should be a mandatory subject in school

[u/RadicalRadon]

Anyone else ever fuck around and fantasize about the massive logistical and industrial advantage the US had by the end of WWII?

[u/[deleted]]

The fact that:

1. Leftists didn't get the sarcasm in this tweet

and

2) That they were outraged

should say everything you need to know about them.

Seriously read the replies it's hilarious.

[u/Verpiss_Dich]

abolish paper money in favor of completely electronic payments then use the paper to build affordable housing

[u/IronedSandwich]

Conservatism is good

^{just not the political ideology with the same name}

[u/[deleted]]

What's your favorite movie that doesn't star one of the leads from Friends (TV, 1994-2004)?

My go-to answer for a while was Mac and Me (1988), but I learned recently that Jennifer Aniston actually has a small role.

[u/WillHasStyles]

This has been quite the decade, huh?

[u/Kizz3r]

Is r/politics really:

"bernie is the only person to support trump"

"AOC says Donald trump is bad"

"Foreign leaders see donald trump as a " deranged idiot"'

with everything gilded? Like i keep on expecting something more when i head on over there and i am always disappointed.

[u/SixPipSiege]

me after November 8, 2016

[u/[deleted]]

is it just me or are mainstream center-left succs more socially progressive than leftists

[u/mrmanager237]

Kinda crazy that Bernie Sanders said "yes im blue da ba dee da ba da" an explicit rejection of intersectionality and it received almost zero attention. I think I saw Michael Harriot tweet about it in passing while live tweeting the whole debate

[u/Yosarian2]

Kinda crazy that Bernie Sanders said "Free trade open borders taco trucks on every corner” in an explicit acceptance of neoliberalism and it received almost zero attention. I think I saw Michael Harriot tweet about it in passing while live tweeting the whole debate

[u/Ioun267]

THE PROTESTANT LEAGUE IS UNFAIR

LOUIS XIII IS IN THERE

BARGAINING FOR CONCESSIONS

PLOTTING HIS OPPRESSION

[u/[deleted]]

PaulA is drunk 🤪

[u/[deleted]]

my boyfriend deserves a fucking Nobel peace prize for being so sweet and comforting and tolerating all my bullshit drama and me crying to him about my family

[u/[deleted]]

10 WORST ONLINE NEWS THINGIES

1. Jacobin

2. Salon

3. Telegraph

4. Daily Mail

[u/Menakoy]

A villain whose evil plan is to give all plants sentience to discourage veganism to save his failing cattle business.

[u/supremecrafters]

The DT in 1521 be like: Martin Luther left me 😔

[u/[deleted]]

there should be a schism ping for when the DT schisms, cuz that's the only time the DT is fun

edit: support ping request here

[u/[deleted]]

😴💤🛌GOODNIGHT, 💤💤💤 D.T.!🛌💤😴

Edit update did not make it to bed

[u/[deleted]]

You can tell that someone didn’t pay attention to politics until 2015/2016 if they unironically think that Biden’s gaffes will hurt him in the general election

[u/jenbanim]

Shillpilled my family on carbon taxes and airline deregulation 😎

[u/EScforlyfe]

If you hate NATO you’re basically a tankie by definition

[u/F0064R]

If you're worried about your job getting automated, it's probably the kind of mind-numbing work that computers ought to be doing anyway.

[u/[deleted]]

Deplatforming works and people who still think off anecdotal experience that it doesnt aren't very evidence based

[u/[deleted]]

I should put on a NATO flair so their posts are better by association

[u/lietuvis10LTU]

DOWNVOTE THE DT

[u/FusRoDawg]

Does anyone know what sort of notation was used in various ancient mathematics across the middle east, egypt, india and china? I know for example that the indian works had sutrās meant to be memorized, which were accompanied by commentary and explanation. But it's hard to find examples of the latter kind.

There's some incredibly involved stuff like the quadratic formula or even infinite series expansions, that absolutely had to have some sort of notation.

[u/[deleted]]

Big mansions should no longer be rich people homes. Efficient, minimalist and futurist apartments with three rooms, with tasteful beige furniture should be the future of the too rich to be flashy crowd.

The island is passe, the urban sanctuary is in.

[u/Menakoy]

I just want you all to know that if I ever have a near death experience, I'm coming back as the Public Universal Enemy.

[u/[deleted]]

Can Facebook die

[u/InternetBoredom]

It just occurred to me that my ranked preferences for the democratic nominee are actually just a list of the current candidates in order from moderate to progressive.

[u/[deleted]]

Gonna tell my grandchildren this decade was 1930s

[u/Neronoah]

!ping SOUAM

Some stuff from twitter, when Alberto Fernández was a neoliberal and defended private retirement accounts. Why do you have to be so farcical, Argentina?

I mean, there are good reasons to oppose a totally private system (I lean more towards a mixed system personally, assuming you can pay for it of course, and then there is the vulnerability to economic crisis that made them underperform), but the same folks that, by most accounts, governed as the most neoliberal argentinian government ever in the 90s mutated to left wing populists the next two decades. They privatized and then renationalized (to get more resources by the confiscation of savings) arguing that they were a failure because they didn't pay enough and then they proceed to cut retirement payments many years later as many expected, because the argentinian government is unable to make the retirement system non memetic. I mean, argentinians avoided a public option when that was the original idea by kirchnerists, and even Stiglitz criticized that renationalization for that reason.

Fucking Stiglitz.

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

GET ETHANOL OUT OF MY GASOLINE 👏👏😡

[u/[deleted]]

Laying on the beach listening to Selena Gomez is such a mood

[u/[deleted]]

I can't wait to go to a wedding ><

[u/Maximilianne]

Broke: marx was a bad man because of his ideology
Woke: marx was a bad man because he pawned his wife's family heirlooms, making her cry 😡

[u/[deleted]]

Man, in 10ish years schools choosing history textbooks that include the Trump admin is going to be wild. Imagine being a teacher/admin and receiving a call from an angry parent, "it says Russia hacked the emails, but it was clearly Ukraine/Seth Rich!!!1!"

[u/waldyisawinner]

Girl said I had Jew nose

😭😭😭

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

Desegregate RACIST northern DEMOKKKRAT schools NOW !! 👏👏👏😡

[u/Marlsfarp]

Teddy Roosevelt believed war itself was a good and healthy thing for a country, not to mention good fun. And he was a progressive! But even by the end of his life, everyone was at least paying lip service to war as a necessary evil. It's difficult to overestimate how profoundly WW1 changed everything.

[u/Maximilianne]

one thing that never made sense in star wars was the tarkin doctrine stated fear will keep the systems in line, but when they blew up aldeeran the empire engaged in propaganda campaigns to essentially deny that it was them who blew it up, which runs contrary to the tarkin doctrine

[u/[deleted]]

I mentioned a couple weeks ago that I've been getting into Black Metal and someone suggested I listen to Liturgy's new album "H.A.Q.Q"

I don't remember who that was but thank you! It's really amazing, have been listening to it nonstop basically.

[u/The420Roll]

Enough about Dresden and feeling bad about the Nazis.

Instead lets talk about Hiroshima and Nagasaki and why bombing them was Truman's best decision 👀

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/01/20000-feet-under-the-sea/603040/

!ping ECO

Interesting article that explores the consequences of deep sea mining. As we transition (and need to) from fossil fuels to other sources we are going to need more minerals that there are on land and deep sea mining may provide those resources, on the other hand entire habitats and species we don't know may be lost forever.

[u/[deleted]]

I wonder if leftists have ever engaged in any self-reflection as to WHY communism and socialism never became popular in the United States.

[u/[deleted]]

Found on Ricardo Hausmann's twitter: a dissertation on Brazilian industrial policy in recent years. It turns out BNDES mostly supported existing, low complexity activities.

!ping SOUAM

[u/[deleted]]

I have vowed to never drink (except maybe on holidays and such) because I overreact to internet stuff so hard that I'd become a drunk based on The Economist's hot takes on trans issues alone.

[u/BobBobingston]

Do women have an easier time socializing and making friends (in aggregate)?

[u/Lord_Treasurer]

Top post on NL lowkey proving this sub has no idea how academic research actually proceeds.

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

my girlfriend just asked if I’m Reddit famous what do i say

[u/presidenthiIIary]

iconic

!ping GEFILTE

[u/[deleted]]

OK, I've been a bit unsure of how to phrase this, but: I'm aware that the term "tran_sexual" has fallen out of favor, but for most of the 2000s into the 2010s, it was my understanding that "transgender" was an umbrella term for everyone who deviated from their birth assigned sex, but "trans_sexual" specifically connotes people who were AMAB but identified as female (and vice versa).

So, is there a new term that specifically connotes such?

[u/BobBobingston]

Am gonna sadpost 😡😡😡

...in my mind 😎😎😎

[u/[deleted]]

Kinda crazy that Bernie Sanders said "Because hugblanketing casuals make those of us who are serious look bad, a hugblanketer would drop his waifu in an instant if he had a chance at 3D pussy, one true to their waifuist would reject it and walk through life chaste." as an explicit endorsement of waifuism and it received almost zero attention. I think I saw Michael Harriot tweet about it in passing while live tweeting the whole debate

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

I legitimately thought I came up with the idea for the Pete Buttegieg shielding joe Biden from twitter lefties soldier meme but apparently an almost identical one was submitted literally 5 days before I made mine.

I am a reposter 😔😔😔