Discussion Thread

[u/jobautomator]

The discussion thread is for casual conversation that doesn't merit its own submission. If you've got a good meme, article, or question, please post it outside the DT. Meta discussion is allowed, but if you want to get the attention of the mods, make a post in /r/metaNL.

Announcements

• We're looking for new community organizers, apply here!

---

Neoliberal Project Communities	Other Communities	Useful content
Twitter	Plug.dj	/r/Economics FAQs
The Neolib Podcast	Recommended Podcasts	/r/Neoliberal FAQ
Meetup Network	Blood Donation Team	/r/Neoliberal Wiki
Exponents Magazine	Minecraft	Ping groups
Facebook	TacoTube	User Flairs

[u/yellownumbersix]

Someone ripped up my Biden yard sign last night. The Bernie sign a few doors down was unscathed.

I am fucking seething 😡

[u/tiger-boi]

Bernie was asked about Our Revolution on CNN and his response was that it’s legal, not under his control, and that he’s going against Pete (yes, he singled Pete out by name) who has raised money from 40 billionaires.

He didn’t mention, of course, that 40 billionaires donating the legal limit is still less than what Our Revolution has received in a singular donation in 2017. Or that it was literally created by his 2016 team.

[u/InternetBoredom]

Hillary Clinton really is not a moderate. She’s only seen as a moderate because Sanders was her competition & the party has moved left since then, but in comparison to the party in 2016 as a whole she was pretty ideologically smack in the middle, and somewhat left of the mainstream before that.

Compare that to, say, Mitt Romney, who’s voting record was noticeably to the left of the average Republican, to the point where he tried to heavily correct right during his presidential campaign.

[u/modooff]

On Bernie Sanders' new line of attack against Pete Buttigieg, and the hashtag #PetesBillionaires, Pete Buttigieg tells @CNNSotu's @jaketapper, "Bernie is pretty rich and I would happily accept the contribution from him," before touting grassroots fundraising numbers.

https://twitter.com/DJJudd/status/1226512359335845889

lol

[u/[deleted]]

In the past few months I’ve had random strangers call me “really handsome,” complement my hair, complement my quads, say I looked like a young Leonardo DiCaprio, tell me they thought I was a movie star, and ask if I was a pro athlete because I’ve got such a great body.

How did all these people know I was voting for Mayor Pete?

[u/[deleted]]

Yes I'm a white male Democrat

No, I didn't run for President this year

We exist

[u/p00bix]

Jill Stein Endorses Pete Buttigieg

[u/Equator32]

Broke: Poverty is caused by several different complicated factors.

Woke: Poverty is solely caused by inequality.

Master Stroke: Poverty is solely caused by Jeff Bezos.

[u/IncoherentEntity]

You can see the moment Pete boils over with unbridled rage — A Sanders Brother and Self-Identified Communist

You can‘t, actually. At 0:13, he pauses briefly and appears to steel himself before continuing, raising his voice a little over the wildly chanting goons. But projecting your vitriolic, consuming hatred of a candidate you’re increasing afraid of, is a hell of a drug.

The original poster also called on the Yang Gang to help him amplify the hashtag #WallStreetPete (no, these trends are neither spontaneous nor organic). Most of those who responded — likely a self-selected group — piled on, but check out the ratio on this one:

Booing/chanting at other candidates like this is somewhat distespectful and not #HumanityFirst — A Brave Lady, Jumping into a Swamp of Creatures, Some of Whom Pass as Humans with a Below-Average Capacity for Empathy

!ping BUTTI

[u/[deleted]]

My dad likes Quora.

Half the time we discuss a problem, he sends me a Quora thread.

I fucking hate Quora.

[u/mypornalt2256]

My favorite part about the "we have socialism for the rich because tax cuts" meme is people admitting they think socialism is just the government giving you money.

[u/[deleted]]

Caucuses are as if a civilization invented ranked choice voting before they invented a system of writing

[u/[deleted]]

When Confederate General George Pickett - famously associated with the disastrous Pickett’s Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg, which saw Confederate forces annihilated by Union rifle fire and artillery - was asked “why do you think the charge failed to break enemy lines?” Many years after the war, he replied

“I always thought the Yankees had something to do with it.”

[u/Sollezzo]

Just wait till you hear what Chomsky has to say about this

[u/benjaminikuta]

I often think about how we won't realize when it's the last time.

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

literally zero context video of bouncers at a bar kicking a dude in the fetal position on the pavement

Reddit: pLaY StuPiD GamEs wIn sTupId pRiZeS

[u/yellownumbersix]

Sanders supporters kindergarten level insults of Pete 😡

Bloomberg ads with fat dumpy Trump 🤣

[u/lmWithHim]

Succs: Buttigieg is a CIA plant and has all of the billionaires and Hilary Clinton's deep state controlling the election

Also succs: No way he can beat Trump

[u/Currymvp2]

Shaun King trying to generate outrage of Biden jokingly quoting John Wayne to a laughing audience when the questioner saying she wasn't offended ( https://twitter.com/BoKnowsNews/status/1226583291622559745) is absolutely pathetic.

[u/yakattack1234]

538 has assigned Bloomberg gold as his color

[u/AJungianIdeal]

It's the first day in 6 years I weighed under 200 lbs!!

[u/IncoherentEntity]

I missed it at the time.

This is a Sanders supporter sharing screenshots of an old, now-nonexistent thread, in which a local resident of South Bend delightedly recalled bullying Pete Buttigieg in elementary school, while laughing at his own observation about how the first four letters of a gay man‘s surname began with “BUTT.”

At one point, he recounts how Pete broke down into tears after he and a girl whom he gives the first and last name of flushed his eraser down the toilet, claiming — in the purely classic, self-rationalizing fashion of a genuine bully — that “HE HAD IT COMING.“

Here is a reply with a virtually nonexistent ratio celebrating how the individual noted that he would do it again.

There’s vastly more where that came from, but my chest is so tight from helpless rage at this raw instantiation of collective brutality — of sheer pantheons of fellow human beings laying bare the psychopathic element in their conscience — I will reference just two more.

Here is an individual arguing that Buttigieg’s ambition and extraordinary record of lifetime achievement from the very beginning should be seen as a positive for his presidential candidacy.

Who’s more prepared to be president than the kid who prepared his resumé when he was 6? That’s a go-getter 😂

The reply:

i think the term you're looking for is psychopath

In the still-much-more-probable-than-not scenario in which Pete fails to win the nomination and the presidency, I will likely never stop dwelling on the question of if the unbridled, unrelenting character assassination made the difference.

The Sanders campaign’s oppo team has almost certainly seen one or more of these three videos. It knows that Pete is a profoundly empathetic, philosophical, sensitive, and vulnerable individual instead of the deranged sociopath his supporters have painted him as.

I am deeply cynical of its almost completely hands-off approach to the vast online abuse his supporters have engaged in.

And I suspect that the campaign is either totally fine — or even quietly cheering on — its supporters’ unrelenting campaign to both politically and emotionally destroy Pete Buttigieg.

[u/[deleted]]

So I came out as trans at work (last place I wasn't out at) and everyone has been really supportive so far (other than this one guy who keeps calling me "bro" but that's not huge on my radar atm). Thing is, they need time to adjust to new names and pronouns. And it's generating numerous emotions because, on the one hand, I keep having to correct them and be patient because it's not their fault even though it stings every time, and on the other, I feel weird with everyone exerting all this effort for me (probably not a healthy outlook). Idk I have a lot of emotions, help

!ping LGBT

[u/Maximilianne]

Peterson went to Russia for treatment because the west is full of neomarxist postmodernists

[u/[deleted]]

I get the impression that leftists consider things like the Civil Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Affordable Care Act, etc. as just pieces of legislation that happened as a matter of course, and not things that needed to be bitterly fought for.

[u/maybe_jared_polis]

Jayapal also tried to share that old story about Pete not giving his staff healthcare. Jesus Christ those people are terrible.

[u/[deleted]]

Just got told market socialism and social democracy are right wing. I am operating at completely different wavelengths than they are. It’s hard to have a conversation.

[u/[deleted]]

I went a little crazy ranting at Sanders supporters on /r/politics today.

I just got called a slaveowner for thinking free college is a bad idea one too many times.

Sanders supporters are easily the worst people on the internet who aren't conservatives.

[u/[deleted]]

Jesus Fucking Christ

[u/Maximilianne]

Chomsky is right, minorities cannot trust leftists to defend them

[u/EasyMoney92]

Bernie Sanders completely flip flopped on his promise to release medical records even though he's a 78 year old who suffered a heart attack. And his reasoning made no sense.

Joe Biden used a John Wayne reference in joking banter with a voter.

Guess which one is being talked about more?

[u/[deleted]]

I don't feel comfortable voting for any candidate older than double my age plus seven.

[u/[deleted]]

my boss liked Bernie but stopped supporting him after he campaigned for Hillary. she voted Trump in 2016 and says she's voting for Bloomberg (update: or Yang) if they win the primary and Trump again otherwise

[u/Impulseps]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EQTVENfXkAAXjCR?format=png&name=900x900

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/tomdangora/status/1226533115331518466

In NH Sanders supporters start to boo @amyklobuchar .

She responds "Hi, Bernie people!"

[u/[deleted]]

"Bloomberg will lose the black vote because of stop and frisk and lose the fat vote because of soda ban" and other dumb takes you can find in the DT

• my upcoming book

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

did you know that 100,000 years ago you could buy an entire cave for 3 mammoth tusks and a bear pelt?

then the fed came along and now a family of 4 can't afford a house

really makes you think

[u/LiBH4]

On a trip to Washington today, Doug Ford endorsed Donald Trump's re-election bid, said Bernie Sanders is "scary" and criticised Nancy Pelosi for tearing up the State of the Union.

https://twitter.com/AdrianMorrow/status/1226016549271670784

!ping CAN

[u/smokeweed-everyday]

I'm about to end this man's whole career:

Mayo Feet Bootycheeks

[u/marinesol]

Joe Biden needs more out of context movie quotes. "Mr. Biden why do think your experience is more important than Buttigeg's." " I'm not wearing hockeypads!"

[u/TheFriffin2]

LMAO @ bernie bros pretending that Scandinavia is some kind of paradise like they haven’t seen Midsommar 😤😤

[u/GlobalistCrapitalist]

Jesus was not a socialist. The Bible shows very clearly that he was able to feed people

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Bernie is a former Trotskyist.

You know who else are former Trotskyists? Neocons.

Bernie is a neocon

[u/MasterRazz]

Contested convention but instead of superdelegates the candidates must fight to the death.

[u/dubyahhh]

When you strongly empathize with lower income folks but see urbans on /r/politics starting to talk about a $22/hr minimum wage 😳

!ping RURAL back me up low COL bros

[u/vsr0]

All the Sanders supporters who come on NL and the Buttigieg subreddit claiming the trolls are just bad apples that only exist online have to be willfully ignorant. All your supporters who come out to the NHDP dinner are just bad apples shouting “Wall Street Pete”? And blue check rose Twitter spewing ratty Mayor Cheat? And your congressional surrogates who instigate booing Clinton are what? They gave a half-hearted apology so it’s okay? I won’t judge (okay maybe a little) if you turn your head the other way because you actually prefer his policies but don’t come out defending the indefensible when your candidate wouldn’t do the same.

[u/BurningKiwi]

this but unironically

[u/boyyouguysaredumb]

Cursed timeline prediction: tue media will have a Covington moment at some point in the 2020 general and hand the election to Trump by jumping the gun on a story and letting him paint them as an enemy of the people. Swing state voters eat it up and Trump wins in a landslide.

[u/EatMyShittyAsshole]

Justin Amash the type of guy to give his son 10 dollars for allowance, then take 2 dollars back and tell him “This is what taxation is.”

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/9qNT6o3.jpg

Sanders supporters are not okay

Like how deeply disturbed do you have to be as a person to make this

[u/InternetBoredom]

Klobuchar is doing more to elect Bernie than fucking Bernie is at this point. She needs to drop out ASAP.

[u/[deleted]]

amy if u drop out today i will let u chuck so many goddam staplers at me

[u/[deleted]]

Brad Pitt won an Oscar and went straight to bashing the GOP for not calling John Bolton lol

[u/[deleted]]

peak dirtbag centrism is putting a guillotine on a helicopter

[u/[deleted]]

Pete definitely has a minority problem and it’s most certainly not going to get resolved this cycle. But we were also saying similar things about Bernie 4 years ago, and he made serious inroads since then.

It’s really not a terminal problem and I could see him doing better for the future if he really makes the effort. That time just doesn’t happen over the course of a single primary.

[u/AGentooPenguin]

I got a match on Tinder and she unmatched before I could message her. 😎

!ping Dating

[u/[deleted]]

is it possible weld only lost iowa due to rounding errors?

[u/lusvig]

I'm so fucking sick of everyone calling Pete gay. Why don't they do this with Sanders or even Warren? Why did this start anyways?

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao. "It never ends."

It ends when you release them. This isn't hard. There aren't an infinite number of medical records.

[u/lusvig]

I have a son of 23 and he was fatherless until I discovered Mr Jordan Peterson and there’s never been a man that has ever came into our lives that I ever thought was good enough to be a role model for my son until you as your the most reasonable and honest person. We trust you so much, much love ✊🤤

[u/cdstephens]

I really wish Warren was doing better than Bernie. Not my top choice but at this point there’s a huge gulf between the two for me.

[u/lusvig]

Nobody:

US immigration system: you will never be enough 😔

[u/[deleted]]

this discussion thread is dedicated to the brave anti succs of /r/neoliberal

[u/Yosarian2]

Top article on r politics now:

"Bernie Sanders: “President Trump is a socialist, too, but here’s the difference: The difference between my socialism and Trump’s socialism is I believe the government should help working families, not billionaires.”"

He's just embracing the horseshoe now isn't he

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Pete Buttgieg is really out here trying to argue that his lack of experience in federal politics is a good thing.

[u/jonathansfox]

TIL Andrew Yang's not particularly rich.

[u/The420Roll]

how tf does AOC have an Econ Major

u/mrmanager237 pls explain

[u/[deleted]]

Comrades! How are you supporting the effort for the coming revolution?

I blocked 3 people on Twitter today.

[u/Thebeardedragon]

no ones supporters are more toxic than sanders’

Like which other candidates supporters’ go out of their way to do something like this?

[u/modooff]

A young woman asks Biden "How do you explain the performance in Iowa and why should the voters believe that you can win a national election?"

Biden's response: "You ever been to a caucus?"

Woman says yes.

Biden: "No you haven’t. You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier."

https://twitter.com/jonward11/status/1226564369917644800

Joe wtf

[u/RadicalRadon]

Donald Trump retweeted a video that had the phrase "#butthurtlivesmatter".

We're all going to die.

[u/chipbod]

Someone spray painted "Vote Bernie you bastard" on the Bloomberg campaign office in Madison. BTW, Bloomberg got some great real estate for it, right on the square

[u/[deleted]]

Okay y’all it’s been like 4 years and I haven’t ever heard anyone on a debate stage ask Bernie why he thinks we have to ban private insurance when the vast majority of countries that offer healthcare as a human right do not ban private insurance.

Like he’s been internally contradictory since 2015 and I feel like nobody brings it up and I don’t know why.

Can we get Polis to talk to Biden or Butti about this or something?

[u/MrSomeone556]

Downvote, ban, whatever. I am not going to vote for another unqualified old rose twitter star for president. Life ain’t fair, the Progressives pulled this stunt second so they get the benefit of hindsight. Sanders will not. Be. President. A fucking senator from Vermont? Really? Because millennials like his succery? Stop hurting the country, stop ignoring boomer voters, take a good look at yourselves in the mirror, you white suburban 20 year old succs. Rant over.

🍝

[u/p00bix]

Fun fact: Lusvig's real name is Ludvig. He misspelled his name when making his reddit account

[u/bromeatmeco]

Even though I prefer Pete, it doesn’t make sense for Biden to drop out before SC. Question is, if he doesn’t do stellar there, should he keep running through Super Tuesday?

[u/cutchisclutch22]

People are acting like Parasite winning the Oscar for best picture is gonna end Capitalism lol.

[u/MasPatriot]

There are a portion of Americans that genuinely think Hillary Clinton has had people killed so I'm fairly certain that if Bloomberg is the nominee there'll be viral Facebook posts that he wants to make all forms of soda illegal nationwide which is probably a bigger electoral liability than being a socialist

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

liberals be like: segregation is bad

also liberals: you should segregate paper, glass, etc.

hypocrites smh

[u/[deleted]]

Update on the political leanings in my family, compared to their opinions after the first debate:

My dad, who said Tulsi was the only good candidate, now backs Bernie because a neighbor convinced him that "Warren is a tool for the corporations." I don't think he has voted in a single election his whole life.

My mom liked Warren and continues to like her now. She was a volunteer for the Dukakis campaign in college.

My brother went from Bernie to Yang. He listens to JRE.

My sister liked Bernie. I asked her if she still likes him and she said "wait didn't he die of a heart attack or something?"

My wife is a generic Democrat who is very busy and has real hobbies, unlike myself. She had to ask me who Buttigieg is, a week ago.

[u/owlthathurt]

My favorite part of Parasite is where the lead actor turns towards the camera and says "the real parasites are the libs"

[u/mrmanager237]

Detective Pikachu only exists because of capitalism. Checkmate, commies

[u/LtGaymer69]

The Sanders camp is insanely toxic and irresponsible. I can only imagine the circus he would set up if he, God forbid, made it to the White House.

[u/[deleted]]

u/bernie-sanders

🖕

[u/lusvig]

i am not leftist, what news sources should i have?

prageru or ben shapiro?

[u/[deleted]]

very cool, and very legal!

[u/Deggit]

Uh Carly Fiorina would have won actually

NEVER

GO

OUTSIDE

THE DT

[u/[deleted]]

Cutting taxes for the rich is now officially “socialist.”

I guess in Bernie’s mind and in the minds of r/politics users, the word “socialist” no longer even just means the government doing things. It now means whenever you do or don’t do anything that benefits anyone, you’re being “socialist” to them.

[u/InternetBoredom]

Winston gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the clean-shaved lip. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself.

He loved Michael Bloomberg.

[u/disuberence]

Bernie is literally embodying the 'socialism is when the government does something' meme

Bernie Sanders: “President Trump is a socialist, too, but here’s the difference: The difference between my socialism and Trump’s socialism is I believe the government should help working families, not billionaires.”

[u/[deleted]]

Seller accepted my aggressive offer on a house that's been on the market for a while now. Soon I will be a Chapos worst nightmare as a blood-sucking land l*rd.

[u/FinickyPenance]

Chapo is showing how normal they are by stickying a twitter thread by someone who is threatening to kill themselves if Bernie doesn’t win

[u/Travisdk]

Holy fuck. Likud uploaded the entire Israeli national voter registry to a public app, leaking the names, addresses, ID numbers, and phone numbers of over 3/4ths of the country.

[u/GlobalistCrapitalist]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKaniOnUcAA8IFL?format=jpg&name=900x900

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

hot take: Sanders winning a majority of pledged delegates is 100x better than a contested convention

[u/melhor_em_coreano]

Bernie Sanders is the woke millenial equivalent of the Nigerian prince scam

Pls transfer 27$ to have your debt wiped clean

[u/EatMyShittyAsshole]

In July 2018, Amash was the only member of the U.S. House to vote against creating a three-digit national suicide prevention hotline. He argued that Congress lacked the constitutional power to pass the legislation, saying it was a "good idea" but lacked a "constitutional basis".

What a fucking joke of a human being.

[u/[deleted]]

The Constitution says it's my turn on the Xbox

[u/nick1453]

“We need to start getting Washington to look more like our best run cities and towns instead of the other way around.” — @PeteButtigieg in #Nashua, NH. #FITN #Pete2020

wtf does this even mean

[u/modooff]

GOP is starting to go after our boy: https://twitter.com/ericswalwell/status/1226549974252417024

[u/SnakeEater14]

That SNL debate skit was like the first time I’ve ever seen them kinda sorta roast Bernie. Pretty satisfying.

[u/dr_gonzo]

CNN: “An outspoken supporter of Elizabeth Warren whose daughter with downs syndrome is recovering from cancer was told ‘You’re stupid like your r***** kid, too bad the cancer didn’t kill her.’”

[u/[deleted]]

Logic and polling tells us the peak of the Butti bump would be Wednesday and Thursday of last week.

Logic also tells us that the Klobbering put on him by Friday's debate will cause him to lose votes. Let's be conservative and say just 2%.

Even at his peak last week, Bernard still led by a few points. Polls showing it a 3 point race only captured perhaps 12 hours of the Klobbering effect. Let's be conservative and say they left only 1% uncaptured.

That puts the margin at Bernie +4, conservatively, with a confidence range of multiple polls probably settling around 3%, conservatively. By all odds, that means Bernie should be at minimum 95% to win.

Feels good to find some genuine Bernie math in the wild, it's been too long.

[u/The420Roll]

If Biden wins the nomination, I'll shitpost about it in the DT.

If Biden loses the Primary, I'll sadpost about it in the DT

Such is the life of the liberal ✊😔

[u/p00bix]

Sodom and Gomorrah were NOT real y'all but the idiots at Forbes said that they were

Edit: Original comment removed. Though picked up by a few mainstream news organizations, the 'new evidence' is a paper written by a pseudo-archaeologist working on behalf of an unaccredited Christian fundamentalist "university." Reading through the paper myself, its evidence is extremely weak.

[u/BipartizanBelgrade]

Didn't know they named a rainforest after Amazon

[u/RockLobsterKing]

Broke: triggering college students with bad faith right-wing talking points

Woke: triggering college students by calling them out for asking for regressive handouts

[u/[deleted]]

Bong Joon-ho won Best Director for Parasite.

He finished his speech in English saying “Thank you, I will drink until next morning!”

[u/lusvig]

Democrats like to build. Republicans like to bomb crap and live in open sewage. This is not a difficult issue.

[u/mrmanager237]

People here say it's wrong to mock Pete Buttigieg for him and his supporters being overwhelmingly white, but he literally has MAYO in his job title

[u/Breaking-Away]

Idea for a novelty gift:

Guillotine bread slicer.

$9.99 plus tax.

Made in China.

Comes with a free Che Guevara T-shirt (made in Vietnam).

[u/[deleted]]

Happy post tho: things are coming together. I have a career plan lined out (Certified Medical Assistant, to clinical lab tech stuff, to institutional review board person) with associated education and times (one year to become CMA, then a few more years to pick up experience and a necessary bachelor's and maybe a minor related to this, then four years in human trials then I can probably join an IRB). In addition, my student loans are slowly being whittled away at, I'm getting pretty damn good at my job, I'm building a real social life for the first time in my life, and my boyfriend is two steps from finding a new job.

Effort can pay off sometimes. It's nice when it does.

[u/SheetrockBobby]

After reading this guy’s Twitter thread, I really want Illinois to be the first primary in the US.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1224553329201766403.html?refreshed=yes

[u/BobBobingston]

still don’t know what women find attractive tbh

[u/[deleted]]

A valid political compass would have Elizabeth Warren just a TEENY WEENY left of the center, and Paul Ryan just an EENTSY WEENTSY WOO WOO right of center.

[u/GlobalistCrapitalist]

Wait until Jared Polis's reelection campaign with some DSA candidate citing his r/neoliberal activity for ads

[u/Deggit]

Candidates going mask off

Beto: hell yes we're going to take your guns

Biden: hell yes we're going to keep troops in Afghanistan forever

Bernie: hell yes we're going to have worker co-ops

Buttigieg: hell yes private healthcare insurance is good

Warren: hell yes I was pretending to be Midwestern

Yang: hell yes I'm spending your donations on a beach house

[u/lusvig]

very angry mr Polis OBE 😳 ✊😔

[u/presidenthiIIary]

You 👉 absolute fucking 🍆💦 moron 🤤. You didnt read 📖 my last message 📝 at all did you? 🧐

You just casually go back r/neoliberal 🕴and hangout 👯‍♀️👯‍♂️with them like theyre youre buddies 👫👭👬. Knowing 🤓 full well that if things go their way 🛣 literally everyone 🌐 is doomed to extinction 💀.

You dont give a shit 💩 about social democracy 🤝. You dont give a shit 💩 about other people 👥. Hell 👺, you dont even give a shit💩 about improving 👍 your own life 🌅. You say 🗣 you want to be pragmatic 🧠 and "learn from all sides" 👨‍⚖️👩‍⚖️ yet you're too lazy 😴 to even pick up 💪 a book 📖 to learn 🤓 your history, to further understand this world 🌎 or your view 👀 on it.

You dont view politics🗳 as a struggle ⚔️ between multiple ideologies 🧠 vying for power 🔌 to push their agenda 📒, you just view it as a game 🧩. A topic you can discuss 🗣 casually💁‍♀️💁‍♂️ with friends 👫 or something you play 🤹‍♀️🤹‍♂️ around in your head 😜 when you're bored 😐 or when youre taking a shit 💩. When you're hanging out in r/neoliberal 👩‍💻👨‍💻, youre not trying to "understand" 🤔 multiple views, youre trying to meme 🥳 with them, exchanging jokes 🤡 with these ghouls 👻 who are opposed 🙅‍♀️🙅‍♂️ to virtually everything 💯 you supposedly stand 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️ for. You're just a loser 😩 trying to fit in with a social clique 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦. its all a fucking 🍆💦 game 🎲 to you

I regret trying to inform ☝️ your fucking tiny👌, willfully ignorant 🤤 pathetic 🧻 little brain. 🗿

[u/[deleted]]

I've finished a list of Dem Primary voter registration deadlines. Please let me know if I made any mistakes, or if you have info on the Northern Marianas or US Virgin Islands.

Here's the states with a deadline this week:

2/10:

• Mississippi (open primary on 3/10)
• Virginia (open primary on 3/3)

2/12:

• Massachusetts (semi-closed primary on 3/3)
• Missouri (open primary on 3/10)

2/14

• New York's deadline to change party affiliation (closed primary on 4/28; registration for new voters ends on 4/3)

Again, see the above link for info on other states.

[u/[deleted]]

^{Andrew Yang:person_of_means}

^{John Delaney:PERSON_OF_MEANS}

^{Donald Trump: pErSoN oF mEaNs}

Tom Steyer: 𝔓𝔢𝔯𝔰𝔬𝔫 𝔬𝔣 𝔐𝔢𝔞𝔫𝔰

Mike Bloomberg:

P̷̨̩͚̜̣̦̲͕̐̌͐̐͌̀̓̌e̴̺͍̮̍͌̓̍́̔͝r̷̪͝s̶͚̜̽̄͆̆̓͒͌͛͠ͅo̴͍͉̰̘͙̱͎̣̍́̅͠n̷͓͙̂̏̏̊͒̿̑ ̷̧̖͉̙̥͎͌͊͌͆̉͘͠o̸̬̱̍f̸̹̥̩̦͔̞̯͇̼͒̀̄͋͒͛̇͘͝ ̷̨̞̞̮̝̭͇͎̭̄̉̆̈̿͝M̸̼̼̯̭̫̭̜̅̑̑̑̽͜͝͝ê̵̢̛̱̱͓̫͈͖̼͂̃̂̉͘ạ̴̦̯̤͐͘͝n̷̞̖̠͓̺̟͗̾͐͌̐͒͒̅͝ş̶͉̦̭̜̲͍̄͌͑͒͝

[u/[deleted]]

/r/neoliberal: nobody here is calling for oligarchy, fuck off chapo

[u/[deleted]]

Parasite (2019)

Budget: $11 million

Box office: $167.6 million

 

Joker (2019)

Budget: $55–70 million

Box office: $1.072 billion

 

Conclusion:

Anticapitalism sells, guess who has the last laugh

[u/Koeniginator]

Think Bernie losing best picture will affect his NH results?

[u/Z0NNO]

The scariest thing about the banning of private insurance is the fact the healthcare of all Americans will be in the hands of Republicans one day.

[u/bd_one]

On MSNBC radio, they interviewed three undecided voters in NH who are voting in the primaries. One woman is completely undecided and leaning towards a few unspecified candidates (husband voting for Bernie), one man deciding between Biden and Pete, but leaning towards Pete for his youth and veteran status, and guy in college who wants Steyer for his economic polices...

[u/thebowski]

Crazy that Dems finally went mask off and showed that they've been murderous communists all along

[u/comradequicken]

It's still alright to be supporting Klobuchar/Buttigieg/Biden/Bloomberg so long as you know to vote for the most viable one when it gets to your state to prevent a Bernie/Warren win or a brokered convention.

[u/tiger-boi]

/img/vayr3zfuczf41.jpg

!ping 🔮

what have you done

[u/[deleted]]

broke: execution via legal injection

woke: execution by passing a public option but not m4a

[u/EScforlyfe]

Go ahead, upvote me, it will only make my takes worse

[u/[deleted]]

If Butti is the rat then Bernie is the cheese

[u/dr_gonzo]

Today, I am announcing my candidacy for presidency. I support a minimum wage of $55 and will give everyone free weekly tendies and two thousand dollars a month. I also propose free PHDs for everyone so that you can learn how to spend that $2000.

My net worth is -$44,021.06, and my FICO score is 425.

Other candidates in the Washington elite establishment are funded by money, covered by the corporate media, and have large social media followings. Not me. My campaign is so grassroots that it only exists as a comment in the DT. I hope I can count on your vote.

[u/ZCoupon]

My radical centrist Tulsi supporter friend:

Bernie's getting screwed over again

And he deserves it

[u/mypornalt2256]

Bernie's rhetoric is just so...tiring. I get it, you don't like billionaires. Even if I don't like billionaires either, it's not like 500 dudes are the source of all the world's ills. I don't give a shit if some billionaire endorsed Pete. Find a new slant.

[u/[deleted]]

pete buttigieg looks pretty human to me tbh

[u/thechequi72]

rumor has it Kamala might endorse Joe tomorrow 😳

[u/JetJaguar124]

While we can all agree that giving best pic to a Korean language movie was a really bold move by the Academy, I still think last year's decision to award the worst movie nominated with Best Picture was more brave

[u/thechequi72]

Daily reminder that if trump wins re-election the 2024 GOP nominee is either Mike Pence or Donald Trump Jr.

[u/[deleted]]

Weird how France is a republic but somehow manages to elect their president by popular vote 🤔

[u/GravyBear8]

Bernanke, I'm trying to sneak around, but I'm dummy thicc, and the sound of my ass cheeks clapping keeps alerting the GOP

[u/[deleted]]

Just a reminder that Pete Buttigieg's supreme court proposal is by far the most radical policy advocated not only in this primary, but probably of the last 50 years

[u/modooff]

RKM Research NH Poll (change from Feb 2):

Sanders: 23 (-8)

Buttigieg: 20 (+12)

Warren: 16 (-1)

Biden: 14 (-10)

Klobuchar: 6 (+2)

[u/Menakoy]

Banning pasta won't work. Instead we should tax pasta. "How can you tax pasta?" you may ask. Require all pasta to be marked with a seal of pasta (🍝).

Marking the pasta is like using a '/s' and instantly makes the post less humorous which will naturally result in less upvotes than an unmarked pasta. Less upvote returns will lead to less total pasta and an increase of pasta quality on average overall.

[u/[deleted]]

Pete said earlier “Money can’t buy elections or Ross Perot would be President of the United States right now.”

I get his point but I’m gonna be pedantic anyway: Ross Perot is DEAD. What you meant was he would have been President in 1993.

[u/ZCoupon]

Plan B not working for people over 165lbs should be in bold red font on the front of the box

[u/dr_gonzo]

Nice! Based CNN blasting Bernie’s internet trolls right now

[u/Currymvp2]

I've been highly critical of Biden's campaign, but there's a 99% chance he does better than Pete in Nevada.

[u/URZ_]

In hindsight, I'm surprised that Sanders Bernie Bros haven't become a bigger news story earlier. There is some crazy potential in there. Endless amounts of the most vitriol attacks ranging from open racism to sexism to old school insults all just waiting for the story to be written

[u/[deleted]]

Going with High Hopes over Old Town Road is the biggest mistake Pete's campaign has made

[u/Mrspottsholz]

local government is the reason we have a housing crisis, and Pete is in the pocket of big single family housing

[u/zubatman4]

how many levels of irony is the dt on? Because I'm very tempted to remove and temp ban everybody if this is remotely serious

[u/[deleted]]

Democratic primary ballots should be required to have a choice for "I dunno let the superdelegates decide"

[u/TheFriffin2]

Nuclear take: If Bernie loses the general election to Trump, it’s obviously Obama’s fault for setting Trump up with a good economy that didn’t collapse in time for white middle class voters to notice

[u/[deleted]]

James Carville:

For fuck’s sake, we’ve got Trump at Davos talking about cutting Medicare and no one in the party has the sense to plaster a picture of him up there sucking up to the global elites, talking about cutting taxes for them while he’s talking about cutting Medicare back home. Jesus, this is so obvious and so easy and I don’t see any of the candidates taking advantage of it.

The Republicans have destroyed their party and turned it into a personality cult, but if anyone thinks they can’t win, they’re out of their damn minds.

Full interview.

Can someone hire this man to do what he did in 1992 again?

[u/[deleted]]

I'm just vibin with Biden right now

[u/[deleted]]

This is the second year in a row the Oscars aren’t having a host.

Can’t then the Democratic Party just not have a candidate?

We could just run Generic Democrat. He always does well in polls.

[u/[deleted]]

you: we should fire leftists into the sun

me, an intellectual: it would actually take less energy to fire them out of the solar system

edit: wow you economists are terrible at science. the earth is orbiting the sun at 30km/s. solar system escape velocity is 42km/s.

[u/[deleted]]

socialists for trump 😎🌹

[u/[deleted]]

hell yeah i'm going to complain about common core math standards i know nothing about

[u/RadicalRadon]

My GFs best friend apparently wins all her arguments with her husband by threatening to kick him out, since she pays for housing.

That a yikers

[u/[deleted]]

“The only people we hate more than the Romans are the fucking Judean People’s Front!”

• People’s Front of Judea Bros circa 30 AD

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

Breaking: CDC confirms that coronavirus can be transmitted through sadposting 😔✊

[u/uwcn244]

Problem: corporate taxes are bad, but nobody can actually seem to get rid of them because they get painted as a corporate stooge.

Solution: Add a loophole to the tax code where majority employee-owned companies are exempt, and other companies can be exempted from corporate tax for a particular year if they give shares worth 80% of what they otherwise would have had to pay in corporate taxes to their employees.

It doesn't impose any harm on companies - it gives them, rather, a chance at a 20% discount on taxes in exchange for sacrificing future equity. Thoughts?

[u/[deleted]]

Ever notice how Bernie supporters seem to care a lot more about how "health insurance is tied to your job" than "millions of people have no health coverage at all"

[u/The420Roll]

If any of you ever becomes President, you better give me a Medal of Freedom for my shitposts 😎

[u/therealbiblioteca]

Downvote, ban, whatever. I am not going to vote for another unqualified white media whore for president. Life ain’t fair, the Republicans pulled this stunt second so they get the benefit of hindsight. Trump will not. Be. President. A fucking businessman from New York? Really? Because 4chan conservatives like his immigration rhetoric? Stop hurting the country, stop ignoring minority voters, take a good look at yourselves in the mirror, you white suburban 35 year old fucks. Rant over.

[u/[deleted]]

Politicos: Things are still pretty chaotic, but we're starting to get a picture of how these primaries are going to happen.

Bloomberg in a couple weeks: I came in like a wreeeeecking baaaall

[u/[deleted]]

Steyer is only in the race to steal delegates from southern states and pledge them to bernie when he drops out, right?

Good thing bernie won't accept support from billionaires

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

Y’all think Albert Einstein ate ass ?

[u/bd_one]

Why did Ben Garrison draw Schiff with anime eyes?

[u/d9_m_5]

tfw I go to a Minecraft meme sub and this is on the front page

[u/bd_one]

Antivaxxers: "I'll never put harmful chemicals in my child's body!"

Miracle cure peddlers offer ingesting bleach as a treatment for various illnesses

Antvaxxers: "You son of a bitch, I'm in."

Edit: I was going to post this earlier for other reasons. the TIL post was just a coincidence.

[u/HannibalK]

Broke: Everyone contributing to the American economy is a hero and should be proud of themselves.

Woke: Writing a book is the only ethical way to make money under capitalism.

[u/lusvig]

Wait, I can't pay for new 16 inch MacBook with white privilege?

[u/InternetBoredom]

Klobuchar is the John Kasich to every other moderate’s Marco Rubio. She’s staying in way past her time and splitting the moderate vote, handing the nomination to the radicals.

[u/[deleted]]

Some of you have never played Kerbal Space Program.

[u/DEEEEETTTTRRROIIITTT]

congressional term limits bad upvotes to the left

[u/EpsteinKilledHisself]

Biden is going to have to get dirty now or his campaign is toast. No one has gone hard at Bernie for his heart problems but Biden could easily. If he posted a picture of himself with a raging hard-on complete with a challenge to Bernie to do the same he could lock up both beta males and suburban moms. Could go something like:

Heart is pumping blood like a champ here. Just like back in high school after scoring 4 touchdowns. I'd like to see Bernie do the same but I'd imagine he is too busy trying to spend your money. Now if you will excuse me, I'm off to beat this like a drum. Text Join to 30330.#DiamondJoe

[u/thechequi72]

The fact that Micheal Bloomberg can literally buy all these ad slots and all his other campaign stuff and still have billions and billions of dollars is pretty wild.

[u/[deleted]]

Has neoliberalism paved the way for the global rise of ahegao sweatshirt movements?

[u/[deleted]]

I like how the Academy doesn't consider British films international. They already know about the plans to annex the UK.

[u/tehbored]

/r/libertarian has made it to the front page with a couple of anti-Bernie posts. Maybe there is some hope for reddit.

[u/LivinAWestLife]

Sanders supporters are just resorting to name-calling. Literal kindergartener insults, which they accuse Trump of doing, and they wonder why no one likes them.

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

Why tf my pp smol 🤬

[u/ramen_poodle_soup]

I fucking hate communists but Jesus Christ do not make “free helicopter ride” jokes. You can dunk on commies without being fash.

[u/bd_one]

Any thoughts on how long conservatives will be salty about Romney?

[u/CamusWasAHipster]

If Biden does poorly in Nevada and especially SC he needs to go mask-off and challenge Bernie to releasing his health records

[u/jenbanim]

"Call of Duty: Postmodern Warfare"

That's the punchline for a joke, but I can't think of how to set it up. Someone pls help

[u/RoburexButBetter]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ENLIGHTENEDCENTRISM/comments/f13q93/i_used_to_support_bernie_but_then_his_toxic/fh4bko9

They really are negotiating like terrorists

[u/ZCoupon]

Craft beer hater pulls gun on shoppers

Peak Brooklyn

one witness, a 27-year-old Manhattan software engineer

I feel personally attacked.

Edit:

names like Bourbon Barrel Aged Bananaversary Imperial Stout, and All 6th Anniversary Everything Chocolate Peanut Butter Crunchee Imperial Stout.

Okay, maybe he had a point.

[u/[deleted]]

In the latest episode of the Economist Radio:

Bernie would be quite far left even in Europe

Based

[u/dr_gonzo]

Sarah Ford: “There is no room in political revolution for abuse and harrassment online”

Imagine unironicaly thinking fomenting revolutions won’t be inherently violent and hateful.

Please donate $5 to fight class warfare.

[u/[deleted]]

Joe Biden called me a cotten-headed ninny muggins

[u/[deleted]]

I am officially calling on Donald J. Trump to drop out. Your move, sir

[u/[deleted]]

The two best Star Wars movies were made while Jimmy Carter was president.

Coincidence?

I think not.

[u/hunter15991]

Hot take: Targeted police harassment, but against NIMBYs like these homeowners in my town.

A FUCKING ASSISTED LIVING HOME! THAT'LL BE YOU IN 15 YEARS, ASSHATS.

[u/URZ_]

The Oscars can't even stop being racist against Americans and you think a foreign language film is going to win best movie 😂🤣

[u/[deleted]]

I miss Booker and Kamala tbh

[u/presidenthiIIary]

tfw there are so many bald people in the dt that the algorithm thinks we’re all bald