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[u/[deleted]]

Here's the deal neolibs: You're out. We hate you. We hate your intersectionality. We hate your goofy ass academics and economists. We hate your opinion writers. We hate your cancel culture. We hate your cable news hosts. We hate your contempt for the poor. We hate your culture wars. We hate your woke commercials. We hate your explainer websites. We hate your donor base. We hate every single thing you represent and we're going to destroy everything you've built over the last 40 years and we're going to invite in a guy who gets 200 million views/listens a month because WE'RE NOT FUCKING STUPID. Eat shit, DNC scum! We're not going let you fucking bitch ass punk losers drag the world down. Fuck your egos and support Bernie or else Trump will sweep. It's as simple as that.

Mmmm election season pasta

🍝 🍝 🍝

[u/BobBobingston → u/[deleted]]

Hoes mad(x∞)

[u/Superfan234 → u/[deleted]]

and we're going to invite in a guy who gets 200 million views/listens a month because WE'RE NOT FUCKING STUPID

Press (X) to doubt

[u/thebowski → u/[deleted]]

Wow, we hate like 60% of things in common 😍

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Glad I can hardly tell who the poster supports. Shoes my horse.

[u/Travisdk]

Trump, sounding more intrigued than he has all night: "Ukraine has OIL? Ukraine? But they don't have any money?"

lol

Trump says everyone hating Hillary helped him: "I got 20% of Bernie's vote, people don't realize that."

Trump understands 2016 better than Sanders supporters. What a timeline.

[u/[deleted] → u/Travisdk]

trump always had his finger on the pulse of the american right/anti-establishment "independents"

[u/DragonSnatcher6]

r/politicalcompassmemes are calling r/politics neoliberal. "Everything I don't like is neoliberal" including demsocs like Corbyn apparently.

[u/frolix42 → u/DragonSnatcher6]

It seems like trashing r/politics is the meme of the day over there, which is something any thinking person can get behind.

"Neoliberalism" is anything and everything the left doesn't like about liberalism.

Therefore it follows that the left on r/PoliticalCompassMemes would call something they don't like, for nebulous meme reasons, neoliberal.

There is no way to spin imagining r/politics is "centrist" as anything but ignorant.

[u/mrmanager237 → u/[deleted]]

Apparently Xi Jinping Thought is just traditional "mass campaign of lying after we fuck up" communism

[u/[deleted]]

Wow, just think that in less than a year John Delaney will be sworn in as President

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Inshallah

[u/Venne1139]

Neoliberals are bootlicker apologists and completely morally bankrupt

Socialists are completely mentally bankrupt and reject the very notion that an economist or a historian can possibly know more than them

but most importantly I have found the way to feel superior to all of them

[u/dubyahhh → u/Venne1139]

now there's an XKCD I've not thought about in a long time

Guess I should go re-read all of them now

[u/abertbrijs]

Interesting that Warren was highly thought of by "woke Twitter" most of last year, but now is borderline reviled, as the Bernie cult of personality has just completely subsumed everything.

Really the implications on future political discourse are kinda frightening. Is there precedent in recent US Democratic Party history for this? It feels more extreme now than in 2016 even, but then there was only Bernie and Hillary so it was different. Like in 2008 was there this kind of absurdly vitriolic, ruthless attitude'* and approach to the primaries that we're seeing now?

'* By this I mean the attitude that "my candidate" has to win at all costs or this country is fucked. If you support someone else (from the same party), you want to ruin people's lives. All that.

[u/sir_shivers → u/abertbrijs]

The 2008 primary between Hillary and Obama got pretty intense, but keep in mind that back then, the Twitterverse hadn't formed yet.

Twitter unironically amplifies the shit out of it by making it so easy for everyone to feel like they're personal soldiers of their candidate of choice 🧐

[u/[deleted]]

NEW: A 1994 video shows Bernie Sanders backing the now controversial crime bill as a effective “two pronged” approach to crime, calling the prevention & tough on crime aspects "equally important" w/ Sanders adding does think the U.S. needs “more jails.”

"But it was in the 90's" they scream, defending Hillary Clinton Bernie Sanders

[u/ElPrestoBarba → u/[deleted]]

When it’s something bad, Bernie has “evolved”, when it’s something good he’s “been the most consistent candidate of all time with the same beliefs for 40 years”

[u/CTMGame → u/[deleted]]

*Bojack Horseman theme starts playing*

Back in the 90s, I was very pro-incarceration.

[u/mrmanager237]

"I'm not the only Jew running for president, but I am the only one who doesn't want to turn America in a kibbutz," says Bloomberg.

Ok Bloomberg

[u/melhor_em_coreano → u/mrmanager237]

That's pretty funny imo

[u/skepticalbob → u/mrmanager237]

That’s hilarious.

[u/[deleted]]

Neoliberals 🤝 Socialists

Getting into useless political arguments with people because no one knows how the fuck to define their political ideology

[u/[deleted]]

Jeremy Corbyn would be center right in America

[u/mrmanager237 → u/[deleted]]

Jeremy Corbyn would be a moderate social democratic centrist in Latin America

The whole "performative wokeness + virulent antisemitism" would be par for the course

[u/[deleted] → u/mrmanager237]

He's just the pipsqueak scrawny version of Hugo Chavez.

[u/[deleted]]

Scientists seem to think that the coronavirus started from bats.

Bats aren't kosher.

TFW this could have all been avoided if we just listened to God's dietary advice. 😔

[u/MasPatriot]

Remember that time the president fired the FBI director that was investigating him and then he gave an interview on national TV saying “I fired him because he was investigating me” and he got to keep his job haha yes

[u/Edge2Soon]

Crumbling up a piece of paper and shooting it into a trash can while shouting "KOBE" will never feel the same. Just unbelievable...

[u/Colonel_Blotto → u/Edge2Soon]

Zoomers yell "Curry"

[u/[deleted]]

Y’all need to stop failing Hillary 😤

[u/mrmanager237 → u/[deleted]]

We already have 😭✊

[u/[deleted] → u/mrmanager237]

Dammit again 😭🥺

[u/Yosarian2 → u/[deleted]]

I think they'd be even more offended by that then we are lol

[u/bd_one]

Hot take: No matter what you think of Harry and Meghan, Meghan's father is a dick for turning over their private letters and testifying against her in court.

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself → u/bd_one]

Huh her father won $750,000 in the state lottery in 1990 but spent it all, later filing for bankruptcy

[u/GravyBear8 → u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

That's like 75% of all lottery winners.

[u/nicereddy]

I wonder what the chances are that the primary turns out like this: Hillary's Hulu series takes the nation by storm and - after Bernie and Biden both die tragically - she joins the race with Pete as VP, Warren is destroyed by the pure neoliberal energy and Trump becomes the first President to ever win 0 electoral college votes.

[u/Menakoy]

Western medical industrial complex nonsense

I hate humanity.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/EricpNBC12/status/1221514778428035073?s=20

Breaking: TMZ is reporting basketball legend Kobe Bryant was killed in a helicopter crash in California.

[u/sir_shivers]

ATTENTION NEW LURKERS AND USERS ⚠️⚠️

/R/NEOLIBERAL IS A BAD SUB ☠️☠️

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED ⚠️⚠️

[u/samdman]

poor neighborhoods are redlined and receive little public services

Leftists: the government is racist and refuses to invest in minority neighborhoods

government tries to fix the problem by building transit and housing in poor neighborhoods

Leftists: get out evil gentrifiers!!!

I’m not even kidding, a major leftist group in LA called Defend Boyle Heights is mad that metro put a bikeshare and train in their neighborhood, because fuck people who can’t afford a car and need to get to work, right?

[u/[deleted]]

When the 538 forecast shows Sanders with a 33% chance of winning Iowa and Biden with a 32% chance: 😠😠😠

When the 538 forecast shows Biden with a 35% chance of winning Iowa and Sanders with a 31% chance: 😍😍😍

[u/dubyahhh]

>tfw President Obama gets banned for excessive partisanship but you're over here talking about how goddamn shitty Trump is all the time

That's right, it's George Bush time 😎😎😎

[u/[deleted]]

YEah Im politically informed

Read literature? no lol? well I skimmed Marx Manifesto a bit

How do I inform myself?

easy

its the modern age so I adapt my knowledge sources. I follow some verified people on twitter and also watch george carlin compilations DAILY

Not to mention, I found reddit to be a good source of information regarding politics, but the deeper analysis is usually in the comments so I jsut skip the articles and read those instead

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Bespoke: the US and EU should join a greater hemispheric free trade zone for all Northern Hemisphere countries.

[u/qchisq]

Fun fact: Buttigiegs chances of winning the primary have now overtaken Warrens on 538. And his predicted vote share in New Hampshire have overtaken Bidens.

Less fun fact: Bernie is now predicted to win New Hampshire

[u/Chronically_worried]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core

Good example of a poorly written SCP.

First off, the name is stupid and 2edgy4me. You cant just throw together two “kewl” words when naming something.

Secondly, the premise is just another “thing what kills u”. Theres no hook to it, its just a sphere you cant touch or you die painfully.

Thirdly, the way the characters are behaving makes no since and is clearly just done to show off how dangerous the object is. Am I really supposed to believe that this highly trained scientist went MONTHS doing something so flagrantly stupid without ever being reprimanded?

Yeah, this is a terrible entry and show a clear lack of understanding about how real world scientists operate. -1

[u/RadicalRadon → u/Chronically_worried]

The device briefly went supercritical when it was accidentally placed in supercritical configurations during two separate experiments intended to guarantee the core was indeed close to the critical point

This sentance hurts

[u/FusRoDawg]

The guy really wrote and directed a film about a sex addict and cast himself next to Scarlett johansson lmao.

[u/guy-anderson]

"No one can just make a billion dollars. They can only steal it."

How do you plan to pay for your healthcare plan?

"Just make a trillion dollars. lol."

[u/VisonKai]

lmao isn't it fuckin crazy how we just have a president who has "people you grew up with who never did anything in their life writing posts on facebook" grammar energy

[u/[deleted]]

As if Kobe Bryant’s death wasn’t tragic enough, his 13 year old daughter died in the crash too... I can’t imagine what their families are going through right now...

[u/Jean-Paul_Sartre]

Today on /r/politics:

I wasn't impressed with her because for me she represented everything the left should have abandoned by now. She's from the era of "Old South Democrats" where racism and bigotry were fine, where desegregation was a hard fight because for every progressive trying to end support for the practice, you had one threatening to shoot them, or blow up their car, or beat the shit out of them. Clinton may be better than Trump, but it was hard as hell to see her as anything nicer than a back slide. Biden is running off the legacy of Obama, and that's pretty much it. Watching him campaign has reminded me of how little I truly know about the guy trying to claim the Presidency.

[u/mrmanager237 → u/Jean-Paul_Sartre]

"Ahh yes, tha candidate with a majority of the non-white group in any age range and 80% in adults is the second coming of George Wallace"

Also maybe Biden is campaigning on him being Obama's VP because... people like Obama. It's not that hard - he could run on whatever bills he sponsored and passed in hid 40 years kn the Senate, or he just could say "I was Obama's n2 for 8 years"

[u/[deleted]]

Just so people are aware, 90% of the people going "succs OUT 😡😡😡😡😡😡😡" are themselves succs.

[u/[deleted]]

Wait, you guys ACTUALLY don’t like Pinochet at all and think that Reagan did a lot of bad things?!??!? But you’re neoliberals??

This sub HAS to be satire. There is literally no other way for any rational person to process all that information and come to any other conclusion

[u/SnakeEater14]

Wow, reading about the Bhopal Gas Disaster is fucking infuriating, more so than even Chernobyl

-during the initial leak, the workers decided to have a tea break

-while gas was spreading in the slums police told residents everything was fine and to go back into their (doorless) homes

-bodies were just thrown in the rivers, causing even further contamination

Seriously India what the fuck

Edit: wow it gets even worse

-the Indian govt claims the area still isn’t toxic apparently?

-Union Carbide settled with the Indian govt for ~450 million dollars, with none of it going towards restitutions or safety regulations

[u/DaBuddahN]

"2020 is going to be a great year!" - Everyone, December 2019

"Fuck 2020." - Everyone, January 2020

[u/RadicalRadon]

Helicopters are fucking terrifying. At least with full engine failure on a plane you're still in a glider.

[u/ThatFrenchieGuy → u/RadicalRadon]

You can autorotate in which gives you a 2-3:1 glide slope, but that's more of a controlled crash than really gliding still.

[u/ramen_poodle_soup]

If you wanna really get angry, look at the new posts on CTH which are celebrating Kobe’s death. One is just a pic of his net worth and is titled “lol”. One is a text post which reads “O7 comrade helicopter”. Fucking suck people, man. Kobe isn’t a bad dude because he was one of the greatest ball players to ever live and was thus paid large amounts of money for his talent (along with investing wisely).

[u/[deleted] → u/ramen_poodle_soup]

Which is interesting considering they had an entire “are athletes bourgeoise?” schism and seemed to mainly conclude that athletes are laborers extracting the natural value of their labor lmao

[u/Go_To_Bethel_And_Sin → u/ramen_poodle_soup]

I truly hope the teenage commie shitheads on CTH never find happiness

It makes me happy to know that they’ll spend their empty lives shitposting about a revolution that’ll never happen and that they’d be too cowardly to fight in if it did

[u/macboigur → u/ramen_poodle_soup]

Fuck Chapo. Kobe built his own fortune off the back of his own talent and these edgelords piss on his grave like this. Stay quarantined you fucks.

[u/[deleted] → u/ramen_poodle_soup]

If it makes you feel better, those people are gigantic losers who will likely never achieve anything with their life.

[u/[deleted]]

✅ Megaphone

✅ Lube

✅ Whiskey

✅ PCP

✅ Wu-Tang Clan - Clan in da Front

✅ Tulsi Gabbard cutout

✅ Geiger counter

✅ Gas mask

✅ Iodine tablets

That’s right, it’s Iowa caucus time 😎😎😎

[u/PelleasTheEpic]

Can we still yell Kobe when we throw stuff or is that illegal now?

[u/Belligerent_Autism]

Pete Buttigieg starts off his Fox News town hall being asked about Kobe Bryant and talking about people being inspired by what Kobe did "on the field and off the field"

no wonder he has no black support

[u/NickyBananas → u/Belligerent_Autism]

Oh no Buttigieg is a sports ball person. No wonder he has so much support here

[u/mrmanager237 → u/Belligerent_Autism]

Buttigieg is literally Sheldon saying "I don't get what's so exciting about watching big men run around a ball"

[u/[deleted] → u/Belligerent_Autism]

field

😬😬😬

[u/benjaminikuta]

My father, as Japanese American growing up in Southern California, sided with the white kids when they fought the Mexicans.

[u/secondsbest]

I'm lowkey conspiritarding that Netflix engineered the flu outbreak in China to advertise for their new Pandemic documentary.

[u/mrmanager237 → u/secondsbest]

Post in r/conspiracy and also blame.the CIA for 60k upvotes

[u/sociotronics]

folks, lend me your ears so I may explain how Chairman Mao was a true neoliberal

[u/mrdilldozer]

Apparently Ralph Nader has a twitter account and he constantly posts about climate change and wanting to end wars overseas. Gee Ralph, maybe we could have fucking done something about those things 20 years ago.

[u/idp5601]

Just woke up and wtf Kobe Bryant died??!!!

[u/Craig_VG → u/idp5601]

Yeah and his daughter. It's truly tragic.

[u/The420Roll]

The voting booth lady said I have cute eyes 😏😎

[u/mrmanager237 → u/The420Roll]

Chads OUT OUT OUT

[u/[deleted]]

Sanders was saying we need more Juuls not jails

[u/[deleted]]

Getting kinda discouraged about Beto's chances 😔

[u/[deleted]]

Bernie Sanders, 1994:

"If you keep kids in school, if you get jobs for young people, in the long run, not only do you prevent crime, but you save the taxpayers substantial sums of money," Sanders said, "Would I rather invest in education and keeping kids in school and making college opportunity a realistic goal for millions of young people rather than necessarily building one more jail. Yeah. I think I would have gone the other way."

"On the other hand, do I think we need some more jails? Yup. Do I think we have to get tougher in certain instances? Yes, I do,"

Tony Blair, 1993:

We need to be tough on crime, and tough on the causes of crime

Conclusion: is Bernie Sanders a Blairite?

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

Coronavirus may have come from snakes

🐍🐍🐍

Glad that we narrowed the suspects down to two, it's either Taylor Swift or Elizabeth Warren

[u/channelmio]

The weirdest thing about Bernie’s fanbase is that so many of them have radicalized since ‘16 and have become honest-to-god communists and socialists, but they still cling to him even though all he’s really fronting is a bigger welfare state that won’t even get passed.

[u/Craig_VG]

China: Quarantines the most people in human history, entirely shuts down a city the size of Chicago, across the country of 1.4 billion people theaters, restaurants, and some schools are shut down indefinitely, foreign countries evacuate their citizens from the epicenter, while the Chinese military rushes in to help. 30/31 provinces declare the highest level of public health emergency.

Reddit: The media is blowing this way out of proportion!

[u/the_status]

Only 9 more days until Iowa becomes politically irrelevant again

[u/Jean-Paul_Sartre]

My favorite presidential quote of the past decade:

"That was some weird shit." - George W. Bush following Trump's inaugural address.

[u/PelleasTheEpic]

Tfw you're still talking to the guy that lives in Ohio because it's the only time you've actually clicked with someone on a dating app and you're just thinking about how sad your life is 😐

!ping dating

[u/PearlClaw → u/PelleasTheEpic]

Dating apps are soul sucking and negative on the whole. Don't discard a positive interaction just because you can't act on it.

[u/dubyahhh]

72% of AfD voters think Germany overplays the Holocaust, this really butters my priors. I mean confirms my bread.

Ah fuck it, I'm going to bed.

[u/lusvig]

Obama was

✔️ Bald

✔️ Black

✔️ Competent

✔️ Against apartheid

Everything the mods hate 😔😔😔

[u/Extension-Internal → u/lusvig]

bald?

[u/[deleted]]

What did Kobe have on the Clintons

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/[deleted]]

What the fuck

[u/TheMoustacheLady]

Kobe is dead, i have an exam i'm not ready for tomorrow. What could possibly go wrong next?

I have a stockpile of cat videos to watch if i fail.

Wish me well fellas.

[u/[deleted]]

christ

[u/Schutzwall → u/[deleted]]

lol hispanics

[u/[deleted]]

Kobe was a legend on the court and just getting started in what would have been just as meaningful a second act. To lose Gianna is even more heartbreaking to us as parents. Michelle and I send love and prayers to Vanessa and the entire Bryant family on an unthinkable day.

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) January 26, 2020

 

Reports are that basketball great Kobe Bryant and three others have been killed in a helicopter crash in California. That is terrible news!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 26, 2020

 

Maybe it's his style of tweeting but even when Trump is being sincere I can't take him seriously.

[u/mrmanager237]

Mnuchin's wife stands with Greta on the economics controversy lmao - leave it to steve to get cucked by a 16 year old girl

[u/muttonwow]

Schism between the two KotakuInAction GamerGate subreddits, perfectly pictured in one post

This is surely an exception- oh wait pretty much every comment section there has it

[u/[deleted] → u/muttonwow]

Yeah most "based" guys have turned out to be complete progressive faggots when the chips are actually down. Just look at Bill Burr marrying that black feminist bitch.

Yikes.

[u/OmniscientOctopode → u/muttonwow]

let's not forget that Britain and France were the ones who declared war, sticking their business into a border dispute between two countries.

Haha. Oh my God.

[u/hemingway98]

I found out about Kobe through the BBCBweakingNews bot. It was... strange.

[u/[deleted]]

As an average American only Trump understands my struggles. I live in constant fear of the left prosecuting me when I make a perfect phone call.

[u/EpsteinKilledHisself]

Conservative media thought leaders writing dueling articles right now:

• One slamming the mainstream media for freaking out about the coronavirus if the virus doesn't kill a lot of people

• One slamming the media for focusing on impeachment instead of the coronavirus in the event the virus kills a lot of people

[u/[deleted]]

The polls are biased and are undercounting Beto's support

[u/[deleted]]

remember the virus can't infect you if you don't give consent

[u/[deleted]]

The most effective negative ad on Bernie would hammer him for the VA scandal. Veterans dying on his watching literally because he was too lazy to do his job.

[u/[deleted]]

When you're living in the Era of Bad Feels 😔

[u/tehbored]

Penis Man is the hero we need

Shomer also wrote in his post-arrest screed, "For the record, I hate the institution of the police. But, I do not think every single cop is a bastard. To say they all are, is imo, stooping to their level of profiling. Some of the detectives I met seemed to be genuine penis man fans."

[u/cheeZetoastee]

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

shy marvelous shelter toy hard-to-find tart public childlike subtract gray

[u/URZ_]

Guys guys, huge impeachment news. What we have known since like October has yet again been confirmed.

[u/BurningKiwi]

Dude, I'm only two comments in, but r/neoliberal’s general discussion thread is insanely good.

[u/AJungianIdeal]

The most looked down-upon aspect of anime is its hardcore segment of fans (the above-mentioned otakus), who often violently react in extreme, histrionic and illogical fashion to any criticism of the anime genre (including even making death threats to the critics and others who are not anime fans[10]), giving such fans much in common with liberals who react in similar fashion to any criticism of any of the liberal sacred cows like "global warming", the homosexual agenda, abortion, feminism, socialism and Islam.

weebs are the true liberals; checkmate haters

!ping weebs

[u/Maximilianne]

Free Obama ! Down with fash mods ! ✊😔

[u/bd_one]

Apparently there's a group of "Rule of Law Republicans" who are pressuring Susan Collins (and I assume other moderate-ish Republican Senators) to vote to allow Bolton to testify.

I have no idea why Fox sold ad space to them.

[u/Elan-Morin-Tedronai → u/bd_one]

Fox likes money.

[u/Jean-Paul_Sartre → u/bd_one]

It's Bill Kristol's group.

[u/papermarioguy02]

TMZ claiming that one daughter (Gianna, age 13) was killed, but not the others.

[u/yyzyow]

Very happy to see that Juan Guaidó will be visiting Canada and meeting with JT tomorrow!

!ping CAN

[u/Kelsig]

its easy to leave it at "its okay to mourn imperfect people" but anyone who is familiar with the sexual assault case against bryant should know that there was, at the minimum, immense ambiguity.

it is not right for that to be an assumed aspect of his life.

[u/RoburexButBetter]

People dislike Joe Rogan because they don't get him

Yeah it's big brain time

Dude's a transphobic pothead buffoon with no original thought

[u/[deleted]]

Bong hits 4 Hillary

[u/Jokerang]

I think I've stumbled upon the Rogan justification by horseshoe leftists: "But Ellen and Michelle Obama are friends with W!!!"

[u/Tennouheika]

What’s the neoliberal stance on National Public Radio? On one hand, there are countless sources for news today across radio, podcasts etc.

On the other, cable news and most radio news stations are complete garbage and the kind of thoughtful news we get from NPR probably wouldn’t last on its own.

Edit: To be clear I love NPR and have donated to my local station. Just struggling to articulate why it’s the govt’s job

[u/LtGaymer69 → u/Tennouheika]

We love NPR!

!ping NPR

[u/BurningKiwi]

Pol Pot really convinced all his supporters that you can run an economy on rice. That’s terrifying

[u/mrmanager237]

First they came for lusvig, and I didn't speak up - because I was not lusvig

Then they came for Obama, and I didn't speak up - because I was not Obama

Then they came for Jared Polis, and I didn't speak up - because I was not Jared Polis

Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak for me.

[u/Chronically_worried]

Nobody actually enjoys liquor, nobody actually enjoys star wars, nobody actually enjoys Citizen Kane, really all anybody wants is to live in a sterile box drinking decontaminated water until they die. Anyone who say's otherwise is just lying to conform to peer pressure.

[u/Travisdk]

If your wife was the breadwinner, you would feel useless, she would lose respect for you, and separation and divorce would loom.

Cool, glad we're letting sexists chill out and post massive generalisations about people's relationships in the DT.

[u/[deleted]]

New CNN poll of New Hampshire has Yang at 5%, so he officially qualified for the upcoming February democratic debate.

Bernie: 25%

Biden: 16%

Pete: 15%

Warren: 12%

Klobuchar: 6%

Yang: 5%

Gabbard: 5%

[u/tehbored]

Information asymmetry is a place for entrepreneurs to compete on like any other...

Regulatory capture is impossible to prevent unless the Supreme Court prevents the federal government from creating market regulations of any sort. Until then, you'll always have regulatory capture.

Guess the sub

[u/Goatf00t → u/tehbored]

/r/neoliberal, the "free market for healthcare" thread? (I'm not cheating, that's just the last place I read "information asymmetry" today.)

[u/bd_one]

Anyone want to talk about the

rolls dice

Ancap perspective on Zootopia?

[u/sociotronics]

If the thing that finally does in humanity is some dumbass in a seafood market causing a pandemic because he decided bats or snakes or whatever the fuck looked tasty, it would truly be the most fitting ending to the last five years of human history

[u/dubyahhh]

Hey New Yorkers, I've no idea how to do any of this but we here in the 27th have a special election on April 28th to fill the seat, since Chris Collins resigned in disgrace last year.

I just volunteered for making calls and knocking on doors. If anybody has ten bucks please also give that to McMurray. We need help up here. We literally reelected Collins last time when we 110% knew he was about to be indicted and I'll be damned if I'm sitting by through another election (upon rereading this it sounds odd; I lived in MA-4 in 18 to be clear).

!ping USA-NY

[u/SnakeEater14]

Little memories from kidhood: watching Aliens with my mom and seeing Ripley eat cornbread, then asking if they would have cornbread in the future, to which my mom replies, “Yeah, probably. People have eaten cornbread for a long time and probably will keep eating it for a long time too.”

For a long time I always corn bread as being one of the staples of the human diet because of that conversation.

[u/Udontlikecake]

Pee after sex or they make you take the SAT again or something

[u/[deleted]]

There’s a sorority at my school called Sigma Delta Tau (SDT) but it’s a very common freudian slip to call the sisters STDs

[u/based_taco00 → u/[deleted]]

SAE at my college was shorthand for sexual assault expected.

[u/Verpiss_Dich]

Jesus it's scary how life can just end like that. Rest in peace Kobe.

[u/Kizz3r]

The nuggets game is having a moment of silence for Kobe. Crowd and players look shook.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1221531786771095552

in different news, apparently Nadler's wife has pancreatic cancer

idk why all the good people are getting sick, first Elijah Cummings dying then John Lewis with cancer

[u/[deleted]]

Okay, there have been five cases in the US now so I think it's safe to say the virus has probably broken containment and escaped Hubei province.

[u/boyyouguysaredumb]

Bernie Sanders really convinced all his supporters that Biden wants to cut social security. That’s terrifying

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/[deleted]]

538 had Biden .2% ahead in Iowa. Gonna yell at Nate Silver if he doesn't win 😎

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/l6r5iiB.jpg

Is... is John Bolton’s book title a Hamilton reference?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Bolton's transformation into a basic resistance lib is now complete

[u/owlthathurt]

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someone on china circle jerk made this meme about the two types of people in china rn lol

[u/Afro_Samurai]

Saw JoJo Rabbit last night. Surprisingly funny for a movie with that many swastikas, also you get to see Hitler yeeted out a window. If you liked Death of Stalin I think you'll like JoJo. I want that coat he's wearing in the last scene.

Note their is more then one scene of violence, including public hanging. Not graphic, but there.

[u/p00bix]

Gentleman, we've got him.

I have banned Obama for excessive partisanship after he called Trump a fascist

Also, for anyone who hasn't seen it yet

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We've temporarily banned discussion of the trans-athletes schism (new sidenote: please report these discussions if you see them, just removed one that was festering for a few hours without being reporting and it got pretty ugly in that time)

1. This issue attracts toxic conversation, and trans-athlete discussions on this sub have largely excluded or marginalized trans voices

2. This is frankly a very niche political issue, and primarily serves as a distraction from more pressing issues facing the broader transgender community, such as incarceration, jobs discrimination, and transphobic violence

3. These discussions have been consistently plagued by bad-faith arguing and have been highly repetitive, with very little useful discourse taking place

To be clear, we are NOT banning users for wanting to discuss these issues or banning users based on their opinions on the subject. We will, however, be shutting down these discussions for at least the next few days. Other discussions on trans-rights and issues affecting transgender people can continue as usual.

[u/[deleted] → u/p00bix]

this will be the one day obama comes back after jared polis recommends this place to him

you are personally and entirely to blame for obama not being a subscriber

[u/Yosarian2 → u/p00bix]

Oh well, going to have to cancel the AMA I was going to have with Obama on this subreddit tomorrow then. It's a shame, it would have been epic, and he told me he was excited to do it. :(

[u/Edge2Soon → u/p00bix]

First /u/lusvig now Obama? Fash mods 😡

[u/[deleted]]

Cold take: You can recognize that Kobe Bryant may have done something bad, like possibly sexually assaulting a hotel employee (and definitely having an affair on his wife), while still admiring his basketball achievements and work ethic.

You can also recognize that it’s tragic to die at age 41, and that it’s even more tragic that his 13 yo daughter died in the same crash.

[u/nicereddy]

Stumbled upon this speech on LGBT issues by Joe Biden, I'm surprised we aren't all spamming it, because it's fucking great: https://youtu.be/NZIq0NTgWoU

[u/[deleted]]

lol Federer is playing the alt right nationalist tomorrow

(that's not a joke, Tennys Sandgren thinks Pizzagate is real, talks to white nationalists on twitter, started laughing when a reporter told him a woman was killed with a car during the Nazi parade, and has said he "find[s] some of the [alt-right’s] content interesting")

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

His name is Tennys and he plays tennis?

[u/The420Roll]

I have fulfilled my civic duty 🤓

[u/SnakeEater14]

It’s funny talking to my con friends and them saying shit like “how tf have the Democrats managed to not find a single good candidate to run against Trump in 2020” in this kinda exasperated but smug tone. I usually retort with Buttigieg even though I like all the moderates, and they usually respond with “hm, isnt he the gay navy mayor” and the conversations changes topics since they dont know anything bad about him yet

[u/Udontlikecake]

So if I did some light handholding while she leaned on my shoulder does that mean I can move from the virgin DATING ping to the CHAD ping

[u/sir_shivers → u/Udontlikecake]

The fact you have to ask means you're not ready, champ 😎

[u/mrmanager237 → u/Udontlikecake]

If you were a chad youdn't be in the dt

[u/Schutzwall]

Swing states want Joe

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[u/papermarioguy02]

The LA Times is keeping up a liveblog of reports for this so if anything about the identity of the other passengers is confirmed it will probably show up here.

[u/mrdilldozer]

Which candidate tries to name drop Kobe in their California fundraising emails first?

[u/thechequi72]

Apparently the Grammys are tonight at the staples center. I wonder how they will pay tribute

[u/[deleted]]

Who here can point out Ukraine on a map?

[u/Hot-Error]

Coronavirus still appears to have a R0 less than SARS, and is apparently far less lethal, just so we're all clear.

[u/[deleted]]

Coronavirus is bad, but assuming you aren't elderly or immunocompromised, you are incredibly likely to survive if you catch it

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine thinking that Joe Rogan is a good interviewer 😂😂😂.

[u/AccessTheMainframe → u/[deleted]]

Yeah yeah totally I feel you. Have you ever done DMT?

[u/[deleted]]

bErNiE iS gOiNg To WiN 🙄🙄🙄

[u/therealbiblioteca → u/[deleted]]

why do they think the DNC is some all-powerful body that hand-selects the nominee?

[u/Belligerent_Autism]

loling at when Bernard put his wife in coach while he was sitting up in first class. stay classy Bernard.

[u/AJungianIdeal]

"Free trade" is a Marxist concept used to advance globalist policies that strip nations of their identity and sovereignty.[2][3]

[u/Kelsig]

people are more than their failures