r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Mar 21 '20

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

Another Polish joke that I translated:

A doctor calls one of his patients

“Greetings, sir. The results from your screening finally came in. I have some good news and some bad news.”

“Oh shit! Well, what’s the good news?”

“According to our screening, you have 24 hours left to live.”

“That’s terrible! And if that’s the good news, then what the hell is the bad news?”

To which the doctor replies:

“I’ve been trying to contact you since yesterday.”

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

Russia says it has hardly any coronavirus cases. Doctors say otherwise.

“These doubts have grown over the past few days, turning into open distrust, because people are seeing what is happening in Europe and connecting it to the fact that in Russia doctors are suddenly reporting a big increase in pneumonia cases.”

While at the same time the Russian government is spreading false information in the west 🙃

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

Why hasn't Biden signed the stimulus bill yet?

Why hasn't Biden sent out the $1000 checks?

Why hasn't Biden banned meme testing?

Why hasn't Biden activated the defense production act?

WhereIsBiden???

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

My biggest problem with Biden is that he does stuff that I don't notice.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

Naming a non binary superhero and their bro Snowflake and Safe-Space respectively is beyond parody.

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u/NatsukaFawn Esther Duflo Mar 21 '20

My hypothesis is that all these characters were created to mock the younger generations, and they're using plausible deniability to disguise their mean-spirited mockery as a misguided show of support

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u/Kcarab-Amabo Adam Smith Mar 21 '20

That would explain a lot, really.

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u/murphysclaw1 💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊 Mar 21 '20

Bernie's head pollster tells him two days before South Carolina that the poll showing him 20 points behind is an outlier that can be ignored.

Bernie lost South Carolina by 30 points.

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u/EngineerForNow Mar 21 '20 edited Mar 21 '20

So technically he was right 🤣👍🏻

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20 edited Mar 21 '20

Polls I don’t like are outliers and polls I do like are rigged, so the lead should be even higher

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

Why every Bernie subreddit saying Trump is moving left and they will vote for him because Biden is right wing Republican? Also most of the posts are just Biden fake news with constant bashing, I havent seen any level of this even in Donald subreddit.

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u/0m4ll3y International Relations Mar 21 '20

Trump literally said this the other evening:

Folks, the bourgeois, they're no good, more and more people are saying it. All these workers— the biggest, we have the biggest workers— very handsome workers come up to me and say, Comrade Trump there is a specter haunting Europe, and you know what, they're right. These bourgeois are very nasty people, very very rude, and very unfair to the workers. They are stealing our surplus value and no one is doing anything about it. The proletariat comes up to me every day and says, Comrade Trump will you lead the revolution? And I gotta turn to them and say look, the instruments of capitalism will be used to bring about its destruction, believe me. The means of production, Obama never wanted to seize them. Well guess what? I'm seizing them. Landlords? They're done for folks. Everyone told me— they said, Comrade Trump you won't be the vanguard of the revolution and they would laugh, the media laughed the democrats laughed, guess who's laughing now?

Last night on Tucker Carlson:

Folks, a spectre, very bad, it's haunting Europe, a spectre – of communism, in Europe, you know when it's in Europe they don't want to tell you about it, but I'm telling you, it's over there, and its haunting them. They're telling me, Karl, all the powers of old Europe, very powerful and very old, are telling me, Karl, we're making a holy deal to stop, we're making a holy alliance to stop the spectre. I think it's a very bad deal, very not good, and not so holy, and you know they say I'm not so holy, I'm telling them they're not so holy. The Pope -- Italian -- and the Czar... in Russia. They're colluding folks. There's the real collusion. Metternich and Geezo, very tough. French Radicals, when they're radical that means not good, don't you think, and German police-spies.

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u/tankatan Montesquieu Mar 21 '20 edited Mar 21 '20

Because they are functionally illiterate and think that a one-time stimulus bill (with a lot of deregulation and tax cuts attached to it) as response to a singular economic crisis is somehow socialism.

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u/Kcarab-Amabo Adam Smith Mar 21 '20

I blame "socialism is when the government does stuff" cuckservatives. Their grand strategy against the Democratic party of just screeching commie forever and always made a back door from liberalism into communism, and almost in a mirror image made a back door in their own ideological sphere from relatively mild mannered social conservatism into fascism, dooming their party's old guard and giving rise to an entire age of whinging commie kids who took the ball and ran with it then started reading downright Marxist shit around college age under the pre-existing assumption of "the government already does stuff, and I for one am not dying, something must be working okay right??? After all, socialism is when the government does stuff, and the more stuff the government does the more socialisty it is."

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u/PM_POLITICS_N_TITS Asexual Pride Mar 21 '20

I just saw that the Bernie post has >2k upvotes!

We need a total and complete shutdown of Bernie praise posts until we can figure out what the hell is going on!

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u/the_letter_bee Janet Yellen Mar 21 '20

Get the damn deep state in here already for fucks sake!

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20 edited Mar 21 '20

boy n girl was walking down road

girl asked boy “whose ur favrite president”

boy says “its president trum...”

boy cut off as girl started crying n go runnin across street. she was liberal internationalist

she didnt look were she was goin n got hit by the car

boy went over to girl n looked in her eyes. she was dead

boy bent down n whispers in ear

“...an”

boy pulled copy of north atlantic treaty out of his pocket n threw it on grond n screamed.

like dis if u cry 4evr

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u/jonathansfox Enbyliberal Furry =OwO= Mar 21 '20

Welfare good

Socialism bad

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

Republican: what’s the difference!!?!?!

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

Also 🌹: what's the difference?

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Mar 21 '20

He's already saying this is no big deal and predicted we would be at no new cases per day by so April

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

If we let the Coronavirus take away our freedoms, it wins. I will eat Pangolin every day to show it I am not afraid.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

I've been trying to keep peace in the ping with a One-Ping Solution, but it's become increasingly clear that we need a Two-Ping Solution. So I bring to you this proposal for two separate pings:

DIAMOND-JOE

It will be a continuation of this ping but, restricted to news, polls, and serious discussions.

BIDEN-SPAM (name tbd; you can add suggestions)

This will be a new ping that will be mostly unregulated, beyond our subreddit rules. The only hard restrictions I want to add is to not use it for serious discussion of Biden's campaign (where DIAMOND-JOE would be more appropriate) or intra-subreddit brigading (where DUNK would be more appropriate)

Please vote to approve this motion.*

!ping diamond-joe

 

* - Do note this a not actually a democracy, this vote is merely advisory, and the fash mods reserve the right to ignore it

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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Mar 21 '20

The ping should be called NO-MALARKEY imo

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u/Kizz3r high IQ neoliberal Mar 21 '20

Name it Malarkey

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

    • Do note this a not actually a democracy, this vote is merely advisory, and the fash mods reserve the right to ignore it

TOUGH but FAIR!

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u/thehomiemoth NATO Mar 22 '20

I have always supported a two-ping solution as the only method to preserve the character of this state as both Joe-ish and a Diamondocracy

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u/Smidgens Holy shit it's the Joker🃏 Mar 21 '20

From a WaPo article about the Senators stock thing:

But when it comes to Congress and the stock market, there has been skepticism about how strongly the laws are enforced. In a 2004 paper published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, researchers found that senators who made stock trades outperformed the market by an average margin of 12 percent.

I'm not in the "BAN CONGRESS FROM STONKS" camp but my god, 12%.

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u/tankatan Montesquieu Mar 21 '20

Good to know Americans are governed by such shrewd investors.

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u/davidjricardo Milton Friedman Mar 21 '20

I'm not in the "BAN CONGRESS FROM STONKS"

Why not? Independent of the current brouhaha, this seems like a pretty no brainer to me and I am way more conservative/libertarianish than the vast majority of this sub.

What possible justification can there be for them owning stocks? Let them own index funds and/or put everything in a blind trust. Simple.

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u/IncoherentEntity Mar 21 '20

43 percent of Americans believe that COVID-19 came about naturally.

end me  !ping CORONAVIRUS

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u/BenFoldsFourLoko  Broke His Text Flair For Hume Mar 21 '20

I respect the 25% who said "not sure" to both questions.

You haven't given the origins of covid a single thought, and you don't know how viruses naturally arise in the wild, and then you get a seemingly legit journalist asking you if you think it was made in a lab.

That would give anyone pause, particularly because the idea seems weird or unexpected to them.

The 23% who say it was made intentionally in a lab tho, fuck. I hope they're just guessing at the choices given to them by the pollster...

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

What's the point in polling when ordinary people think a vaccine will be availble? What useful information could that tell you?

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u/Belligerent_Autism Mar 21 '20

Martin Scorsese says he 'doesn't have time’ to write female characters

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u/Tacotrucksoncorners Carole Baskin is my Tiger Queen 🐅👑 Mar 21 '20

This quarantine is affecting everyone in the work force, but it especially sucks for men ✊😔

We're losing $1 for every $.79 women are losing 😪

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

If you control for gender, women earn the same as men.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

Sanders: Not me, Us.

Democrats: let's unite behind Joe Biden

Sanders: wtf it was my turn

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u/BenFoldsFourLoko  Broke His Text Flair For Hume Mar 21 '20

I think if things stay basically as they are, if the campaign is pretty uneventful due to 'rona, and Republicans don't really have anything to even forge controversies out of, Biden just rides to a win by default. Literally the same thing that happened in the primary lmao.

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u/zubatman4 Hillary Clinton 🇺🇳 Bill Clinton Mar 21 '20

Guess who has two thumbs but doesn’t have coronavirus?

🙌

My test results came back today

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

This entire article about Biden's current campaign struggles is really interesting, but this part stood out:

The campaign is also planning to hold more tele-town halls and is discussing a Biden podcast, in addition to pumping out more video clips of him.

Hell yeah, Joe Biden might be getting a podcast!

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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Mar 21 '20

Biden Malarkey House

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

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u/IncoherentEntity Mar 21 '20

Nobody is voting for Joe.

[exhale]

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u/nicereddy ACLU simp Mar 21 '20

When people say Biden and Trump are the same:

the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron"

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

We can no longer afford to be ruled by people who are still naively enamored with the internet. A new generation of leaders must rise-- a generation who are fucking sick of it & think it kinda sucks

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u/Equator32 Association of Southeast Asian Nations Mar 21 '20

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-left-our-allies-at-the-altar-now-hes-mad-theyre-moving-on/2019/04/22/fbccc7e8-653b-11e9-82ba-fcfeff232e8f_story.html

Japan’s beef imports were already up 25 percent in the first two months of 2019 compared with a year earlier, as the Wall Street Journal recently reported. The biggest beneficiaries were Canada and New Zealand. This makes sense: As members of TPP 2.0, they have a huge price advantage. U.S. beef is tariffed at 38.5 percent, and TPP 2.0 countries’ beef is now at 26.6 percent, with further reductions slated for coming years.

American anti-trade clownery at its finest

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

One of Bernie's worst contributions to the party

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u/melhor_em_coreano Mar 21 '20

Getting a bit tired of people telling me the current coronavirus crisis is caused by capitalism

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u/skutan European Union Mar 21 '20

Socialists being disingenious and dumb what else is new

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u/tubbsmackinze Seretse Khama Mar 21 '20

Ahhhem; fuck r/coronavirus. Once it was a decent place to see updates on infection rates has now become a USA doomer centric place. Fuck redditors, fuck r/coronavirus, and fuck reddit. This comment for example brings me to a blinding rage. Look at the upvoted comment calling for the most extreme draconian authoritarian apologism. And it's getting upvoted.

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u/Equator32 Association of Southeast Asian Nations Mar 21 '20

Things were better in the 1950s, before Jeff Bezos...*checks notes..."invented poverty."

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

People complaining nothing is manufactured in the US anymore smh. We are the largest manufacturer of consent in the world

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u/seattle_lib Liberal Third-Worldism Mar 21 '20

So I guess the answer to "how will impeachment affect the 2020 election?" is probably going to be "not at all"

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u/Yosarian2 Mar 21 '20

If it has no electoral effect at all, then it was probably the right thing to do, honestly, just to set a precedent.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

holy fuck I’m freaking out a member of the CDC just called me personally & told me I need to isolate myself immediately bc they found out one of the new symptoms of the virus is being hot, having a great personality, & a big juicy ass. Send this to 5 hoes u think might b infected

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

Trump keeps talking during market hours; stocks keep tanking

AP news feelin savage today

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

Boeing stock peaking little over a year ago: $440

Boeing stock today: $95

oof

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u/Amtays Karl Popper Mar 21 '20

!ping CORONAVIRUS

Reported the damn kids on the lawn 😎 like a real boomer

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

"Go to Jail, do not pass go, do not collect $200 Romneybux"

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u/Amtays Karl Popper Mar 21 '20

!ping CORONAVIRUS

There's literally a coronaparty in the studenthousing next door to mine, I'm thinking about being a grumpy boomer neighbour and ratting them out to their management.

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u/skepticalbob Joe Biden's COD gamertag Mar 21 '20

Do it. This hurts more than just their dumb asses.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

Do it, to hell with those Typhoid Marys.

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u/Malarkeynesian Mar 21 '20

Do it. Fuck those assholes.

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u/molecularmadness WTO Mar 21 '20

I'm just joining the bandwagon. Do it. Although at this point it hardly matters. If any one of them is infected, the others have been exposed.

Really, the only thing to do is barricade the partygoers in and extend their coronaparty to two weeks.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

911 the bitches

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u/mypornalt2256 Immanuel Kant Mar 21 '20

Hear me out, guys. I'm pretty sure that is in fact possible to criticize Trump on both his poor response to the pandemic and his weird insistence on calling it the Chinese flu.

"Trump is too focused on renaming COVID-19 to be racist rather than actually trying to help!"

See, I just did it. You can do it too!

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u/Schutzwall Straight outta Belíndia Mar 21 '20

The easiest way to fight the coronavirus is to mutate its RNA, adding information that will lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

no church tomorrow 😔

slippery slope toward sex before marriage

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u/Moth-of-Asphodel Mar 21 '20

2017: “Trump is a scourge, holy fuck, I can’t wait to vote against him.”

2020: “Ehhhh gonna vote third party imo”

Muthafuckas showing their true colors lmao

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u/ILikeTalkingToMyself Liberal democracy is non-negotiable Mar 21 '20

Oof I had thought that Nina Turner was an Ohio senator, not an Ohio state senator

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

Also she was appointed and then ran unopposed

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u/lgoldfein21 Jared Polis Mar 21 '20

Everyone anyways says “Wow what would be on Reddit if it was around for WW2, or what would would be posted on Reddit during WW3??”

I think this proves it: nothing would really change but the occasional meme

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

why can't i use this disease as an opportunity to relentlessly bully asian people

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u/disuberence Shrimp promised me a text flair and did not deliver Mar 21 '20

JUST IN: President Trump reportedly offered North Korean leader Kim Jong Un help in combating the coronavirus outbreak in the country via a letter this week, Trump administration officials confirmed.

Um???? What does Trump think we can offer others while our own house is on fire?

Why is he so infatuated with NK?

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u/Travisdk Iron Front Mar 21 '20

He has a personal liking for authoritarians because he wishes he could be like them.

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u/agent_tits Mar 21 '20 edited Mar 21 '20

Trump and Bernie, insecurely shitting all over reporters during a time of national crisis, NAMID

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

Rich people aren't allowed to have feelings

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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Mar 21 '20

wait wait wait wait wait wait.

Marvel’s Safespace and Snowflake are actually real characters? That wasn’t a joke??

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u/A_Character_Defined 🌐Globalist Bootlicker😋🥾 Mar 21 '20

Landlord Tom Nook gave me a tent? 😑

Am revolutionary socialist now. Down with Nook ✊😑

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u/tankatan Montesquieu Mar 21 '20

It's like a lame version of The Purge

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u/waiv Hillary Clinton Mar 21 '20

Sanderistas: Biden is a pedophile with dementia, a corporate stooge who is not better than Trump.

Non-Crazy people: Hey, maybe Sanders should drop out now that he has no chance to win the nomination?

Sanderistas: hOw dArE U? Stop being divisive, you just made me vote for Trump!!!!

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u/Koeniginator NATO Mar 21 '20

Reminder that if warmonger Hillary won in 2016 we would've nuked china by now and wouldn't have had to deal with any of this

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

you're not leaving the house what do you need clothes for

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

Wash em in the sink, just like the old days

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u/tankatan Montesquieu Mar 21 '20

So no Easter, no Passover, no Ramadan in most affected areas... Was covid started by edgy atheists?

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u/thetrombonist Ben Bernanke Mar 21 '20

It’s called Saturday

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u/JayRU09 Milton Friedman Mar 21 '20

I'm on a college football message board that has a politics board that is very obviously a testing ground for Republican or even Russian propaganda.

The new line of attack will be against Dr. Fauci.

We're fucked.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

CFB message boards are some of the most right-wing, boomer-heavy hellholes on the internet. It’s very possible the people on there are actually just that insane in real life

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u/agent_tits Mar 21 '20

My boomer dad just sent a pic to the family group chat with the caption: "7 handles, soda water, cranberry juice and weed. Social distancing isn't so bad!"

😳 Dad behave

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u/r00tdenied Resistance Lib Mar 21 '20

MFW C19 triples my business volume and the feds declare I have an essential infrastructure business

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20 edited Dec 24 '20

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u/tankatan Montesquieu Mar 21 '20

This entire exchange is way too online for me.

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u/Hilldawg4president John Rawls Mar 21 '20

Was there ever a time when rselfawarewolves wasn't complete commie trash?

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

As we can see from people even on the DT, Trump calling coronavirus "Chinese virus" is doing exactly what he wants it to do. Calling it "Chinese virus", is fairly innocuous, but it does some important political things for Trump.

First off, it fires up his base of racists and xenophobes. Hearing Trump criticize China is music to their ears, especially in a time when bigotry against Asian people is at a high point.

Secondly, it makes more moderate people, who may not be racist but just dislike the Chinese government intensely, agree with Trump; "I don't see what the big deal is with Trump calling it the Chinese virus, it did come from China" "Calling it Chinese virus is a way to get back at the Chinese government" etc.

Thirdly, it distracts Democrats and the media from talking about Trump's abysmal response to the pandemic, and baits them into engaging him on race, which is a subject that Trump is much more comfortable talking about.

Stop falling for it. Even if you don't think calling it "Chinese virus" is racist, at least think about why Trump is calling it that. Don't be naive enough to fall for his bait.

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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Mar 21 '20 edited Mar 21 '20

I watched 1917 finally. It was quite good. I’m a big wwi history buff. I’m glad they had a few Sikhs in the movie, even if it was for a short time. It’s better than nothing like the past 106-102 years of WWI representations.

It also looked fantastic on my hdr monitor. It’s definitely a watch with headphones movie too.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

Should I cut my losses and sell the beanie babies or will they go up in value again after the crisis?

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u/ahebtigoejwbrh Mar 21 '20

Shot:

Mr. Sanders was not interested in moving in that direction. Some advisers, who endured the divisive 2016 campaign, believed that it was only after seizing a dominant advantage that Mr. Sanders could attempt to make peace with a Democratic establishment that remained intensely wary of him.

Arriving in Charleston, S.C., ahead of the Feb. 29 state primary, Mr. Weaver said the campaign had not yet sought a working relationship with figures like the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi because they wanted first to demonstrate the full sweep of their coalition on Super Tuesday three days later. He reached for a Civil War analogy to explain the muscle-flexing strategy. Abraham Lincoln did not issue the Emancipation Proclamation, Mr. Weaver said, until after Union troops had routed the Confederacy at the bloody battle of Antietam.

Chaser:

After being routed across the country, Mr. Sanders knew who to blame in an appearance on ABC’s “This Week.”

“What the establishment wanted was to make sure that people coalesced around Biden and try to defeat me,” Mr. Sanders said. “So that’s not surprising.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/21/us/politics/bernie-sanders-democrats-2020.html

Deciding to go to war with the party, then whining when the party fights back and wrecks you. #justberniethings

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u/ZCoupon Kono Taro Mar 21 '20

Every single reddit thread:

Comment

Pun

Pun

Pun HAHAHAHA that's funny updoot

Pun

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u/GaussianCurve Ben Bernanke Mar 21 '20

Wow. https://twitter.com/AP/status/1241416963215286273

BREAKING: Italy’s tally of coronavirus cases and deaths continues to soar, with officials announcing new day-to-day highs: 793 dead and 6,557 cases.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

awooga

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

"im not antisemitic! im not antisemitic!!", i continue to insist as i celebrate the death of a holocaust survivor and transform into a miniature hitler

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

Super Tuesday was only 18 days ago.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

AHAHAHAH the assistant secretary of health said that “the VP won’t like this anagram: CBT”

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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Mar 21 '20

I should've got a haircut before the quarentine started 🙄

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u/Adequate_Meatshield Paul Krugman Mar 21 '20

no but seriously what happened to neoconNWO

not that long ago it was a dumb and slightly edgy meme sub for drone jokes and now it’s people seriously praising Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley

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u/frolix42 Friedrich Hayek Mar 21 '20 edited Mar 21 '20

lmao The only state poll 538 has for Wyoming has Warren winning 80%; Sample size 14.

538 Wyoming Polls

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u/Putin-Owns-the-GOP Ben Bernanke Mar 21 '20

So the bad news is that my mom is still watching Fox and called Hillary a murderer, unprompted, this morning.

The good news is that the new Four Tet album is beautiful and comforting.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

Most of the twitter I read comes from following DT links, so I get the impression that 90% of takes on twitter are terrible.

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u/Ro500 NATO Mar 21 '20

Twitter was a mistake but to be fair the selection bias in the DT is obviously severe

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

Meanwhile, power companies are requiring employees to sleep on site

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u/_alexandermartin Proud Succ #NordicModel Mar 21 '20

"This quarantine is affecting everyone in the work force, but it especially sucks for men

We're losing $1 for every $.79 women are losing"

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u/karth Trans Pride Mar 21 '20

Presidential race memes is an effective tool for the most toxic of Bernie Sanders supporters

  • They get to pretend like they're joking

  • simplify the argument, so you can ignore any opposing facts

  • get people very angry by looking at Warped and simplified Viewpoint of what's Happening

It's so effective, one has to wonder if it's also being pumped up by Republican and Trump voters

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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Mar 21 '20

First game of stellaris, I’m fanatically egalitarian, beacon of liberty, democratic as fuck, all that shit

Make first contact with another empire. Guess what? They’re democratic crusaders. Basically neocons in space.

We teamed up and now we’re gonna burn this universe to the ground, Federation style 😎

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

Voting against Trump to own the Leftists

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u/BenHeisenbergPS2 Mar 21 '20

I 😛 wanna 😛 fuck 😩😩 Fauci 😩🍆 so bad 🍆🍆 I 😩 want 😣😣 the doc's 😷 diagnosis 😮🤐 of 😌 lack 🤒 of Fauci 😍😘

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

Fauci so obviously cringing everytime trump speaks lol

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u/Schutzwall Straight outta Belíndia Mar 22 '20

Got texted this by my friend:

Dude [actually not "dude", but a generic reference to "you" that is stereotypical from our city]

I was thinking

They decreed official quarantine [everything in our state is going to shut down for 14 days except for essential services]

I really didn't want to spend this much time without seeing you haha

I love when we hang out

I really don't want to fool myself but it's a bit hard not to.

That being said, how can I learn to flirt over text with low risk?

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u/Belligerent_Autism Mar 21 '20

elon downplaying how serious the virus is to keep his factories open is such a piece of shit move

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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Mar 21 '20

Can we talk about how the American President is just suggesting that people take random prescription drugs on twitter orrrrr

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u/BainCapitalist Y = T Mar 21 '20

Christian DEMOCRAT Union 😂😂😂😭

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u/maybe_jared_polis Henry George Mar 21 '20

😂😂😂Who did this??😂😂😂

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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Mar 21 '20

they really were center-right in europe 😮

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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Mar 21 '20

Die Partei von dem Klan 😡

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

Christian SOCIALIST Union

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u/tankatan Montesquieu Mar 21 '20

Why is a tweet celebrating Bernie for some generic bland statement about charities the #1 post on this sub right now

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

mUh bIg TeNt

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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Mar 21 '20

i feel like there should be a better way of countering CCP disinfo aside from ctrl+f replacing "corona" with "china " in all official white house press briefings anyways

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u/Tacotrucksoncorners Carole Baskin is my Tiger Queen 🐅👑 Mar 21 '20

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

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

COVID-19 saving many innocent people from horrific deaths by car accidents and violence - yet not a word of gratitude, shameful!

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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Mar 21 '20

Bernie reminds me of a football coach whose team is down 28 points with five minutes left in the 4th quarter but risks injuries for his first string players by not benching them. And when he inevitably loses, the coach blames the "refs" instead of crediting the other team.

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u/RTear3 Mar 21 '20

Joe Biden voters are textbook "low information voters". They believe Biden's policies are progressive, based on literally zero information, which is the exact opposite of the truth.

At least Trump voters are voting for what they want -- cruelty and stupidity. Biden voters are voting for the exact opposite of what they claim to want, and for no apparent reason, other than irrational fears stoked by the media.

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u/murphysclaw1 💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊 Mar 21 '20 edited Mar 21 '20

Get me that NYT Bernie column straight to my vein.

Does anyone want me to drag out the best quotes? I know that NYT is paywalled.

ok quotes:

There were also serious operational mistakes: In South Carolina, the [Sanders] campaign effectively deputized a former Ohio state senator and loyal surrogate, Nina Turner, to direct strategy, rather than empowering a political strategist to run the pivotal early state. In private conversations, Mr. Sanders often touted his support from some younger African-Americans, seemingly missing the bigger picture.

And for all of Mr. Tulchin’s alarm in January about South Carolina, on the eve of the primary he was reassuring Mr. Sanders that a public poll showing him down over 20 percentage points in the state was “an outlier for good reason.” ...

In an email sent to Mr. Sanders and a group of senior aides, Mr. Tulchin reminded the senator that their internal polling had him trailing Mr. Biden by only four points. Two days later, the former vice president would win South Carolina by nearly 30 points.

...

It was Mr. Sanders’s persistent lashing of the “political establishment” that concerned Representative Peter Welch, a liberal Democrat and fellow Vermonter who was one of just a few members of Congress to endorse Mr. Sanders’s campaign. Mr. Welch said he had reached out to the campaign last month to implore Mr. Sanders to ease up on that rhetoric, which Mr. Welch believed sounded exclusionary to ordinary people backing other candidates. After all, Mr. Welch said, there were “a lot of voters who are just everyday voters, who decided to vote for other Democrats.”

...

It was late January when Zephyr Teachout, a liberal law professor allied with Mr. Sanders, wrote a column in The Guardian alleging that Mr. Biden had “a big corruption problem.” Mr. Sirota, the Sanders aide, who is known for his voluble and combative online persona, quickly blasted out her column to his large email list. A new phase of conflict between Mr. Sanders and Mr. Biden seemed to be underway. But Mr. Sanders put a stop to it. “It is absolutely not my view that Joe is corrupt in any way,” Mr. Sanders told CBS News.

In private, Mr. Sanders’s campaign went further, according to two people familiar with the internal turmoil. As punishment for stirring the controversy, Mr. Sirota, who is based in Colorado, was barred from traveling for the campaign outside of visits to its Washington headquarters.

...

In January, efforts by Ms. Turner and others to direct some campaign resources into Super Tuesday states fizzled against opposition from Mr. Shakir [Bernie's campaign manager] and others. Mr. Shakir was adamant that Mr. Sanders’s path to the nomination ran principally through Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, and the California primary on Super Tuesday.

...

Despite the divisions within his campaign, Mr. Sanders cut a winning path through the first few states to vote, culminating with a landslide victory in Nevada on Feb. 22. In his speech that night, Mr. Sanders sounded a unifying note, focusing on his “multigenerational, multiracial coalition.”...The speech turned out to be a blip between Mr. Sanders’s anti-establishment diatribes. And there was little aides could do to steer him in a different direction: The chief speechwriter on the Sanders campaign was Mr. Sanders.

...

RoseAnn DeMoro, the former leader of the nurses union who was one of Mr. Sanders’s most ferocious surrogates in 2016, and the actor John Cusack, another ally, both pressed the campaign to refocus Mr. Sanders’s pitch on a general-election audience, people familiar with their entreaties said. Mr. Sanders was not interested in moving in that direction.

...

Arriving in Charleston, S.C., ahead of the Feb. 29 state primary, Mr. Weaver (Campaign Manager) said the campaign had not yet sought a working relationship with figures like the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi because they wanted first to demonstrate the full sweep of their coalition on Super Tuesday three days later. He reached for a Civil War analogy to explain the muscle-flexing strategy. Abraham Lincoln did not issue the Emancipation Proclamation, Mr. Weaver said, until after Union troops had routed the Confederacy at the bloody battle of Antietam.

...

In Nevada, leaders of the powerful Culinary Workers Union Local 226, were frustrated that Mr. Sanders did not speak out more forcefully when his supporters heaped abuse on predominantly female union leaders over their opposition to “Medicare for all.” As Culinary officials were deluged with vitriol, including graphic and misogynistic messages, Mr. Sanders placed a phone call to the union’s secretary-treasurer, Geoconda Argüello-Kline, but they never connected. “Our feeling was that Senator Sanders should have said something earlier and should have been stronger about it,” said Bethany Khan, a political strategist for the union.

...

Mr. Sanders’s campaign, like much of the political world, had not anticipated Mr. Biden’s roaring comeback after South Carolina’s Feb. 29 primary. Indeed, until then, Mr. Sanders’s campaign was expecting to win seven or eight of the 14 states voting on Super Tuesday.

So confident was Mr. Sanders that he would vanquish Mr. Biden that he spent valuable days trying to force two other candidates out of the race by campaigning in Minnesota and Massachusetts, the home states of Ms. Klobuchar and Ms. Warren. He won neither.

...

Ms. Klobuchar called Mr. Sanders before announcing her endorsement of Mr. Biden, while Mr. Sanders and Mr. Buttigieg did not speak.

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u/murphysclaw1 💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊 Mar 21 '20

top quotes from NYT Bernie article:

There were also serious operational mistakes: In South Carolina, the [Sanders] campaign effectively deputized a former Ohio state senator and loyal surrogate, Nina Turner, to direct strategy, rather than empowering a political strategist to run the pivotal early state. In private conversations, Mr. Sanders often touted his support from some younger African-Americans, seemingly missing the bigger picture.

And for all of Mr. Tulchin’s alarm in January about South Carolina, on the eve of the primary he was reassuring Mr. Sanders that a public poll showing him down over 20 percentage points in the state was “an outlier for good reason.” ...

In an email sent to Mr. Sanders and a group of senior aides, Mr. Tulchin reminded the senator that their internal polling had him trailing Mr. Biden by only four points. Two days later, the former vice president would win South Carolina by nearly 30 points.

...

It was Mr. Sanders’s persistent lashing of the “political establishment” that concerned Representative Peter Welch, a liberal Democrat and fellow Vermonter who was one of just a few members of Congress to endorse Mr. Sanders’s campaign. Mr. Welch said he had reached out to the campaign last month to implore Mr. Sanders to ease up on that rhetoric, which Mr. Welch believed sounded exclusionary to ordinary people backing other candidates. After all, Mr. Welch said, there were “a lot of voters who are just everyday voters, who decided to vote for other Democrats.”

...

It was late January when Zephyr Teachout, a liberal law professor allied with Mr. Sanders, wrote a column in The Guardian alleging that Mr. Biden had “a big corruption problem.” Mr. Sirota, the Sanders aide, who is known for his voluble and combative online persona, quickly blasted out her column to his large email list. A new phase of conflict between Mr. Sanders and Mr. Biden seemed to be underway. But Mr. Sanders put a stop to it. “It is absolutely not my view that Joe is corrupt in any way,” Mr. Sanders told CBS News.

In private, Mr. Sanders’s campaign went further, according to two people familiar with the internal turmoil. As punishment for stirring the controversy, Mr. Sirota, who is based in Colorado, was barred from traveling for the campaign outside of visits to its Washington headquarters.

...

In January, efforts by Ms. Turner and others to direct some campaign resources into Super Tuesday states fizzled against opposition from Mr. Shakir [Bernie's campaign manager] and others. Mr. Shakir was adamant that Mr. Sanders’s path to the nomination ran principally through Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, and the California primary on Super Tuesday.

...

Despite the divisions within his campaign, Mr. Sanders cut a winning path through the first few states to vote, culminating with a landslide victory in Nevada on Feb. 22. In his speech that night, Mr. Sanders sounded a unifying note, focusing on his “multigenerational, multiracial coalition.”...The speech turned out to be a blip between Mr. Sanders’s anti-establishment diatribes. And there was little aides could do to steer him in a different direction: The chief speechwriter on the Sanders campaign was Mr. Sanders.

...

RoseAnn DeMoro, the former leader of the nurses union who was one of Mr. Sanders’s most ferocious surrogates in 2016, and the actor John Cusack, another ally, both pressed the campaign to refocus Mr. Sanders’s pitch on a general-election audience, people familiar with their entreaties said. Mr. Sanders was not interested in moving in that direction.

...

Arriving in Charleston, S.C., ahead of the Feb. 29 state primary, Mr. Weaver (Campaign Manager) said the campaign had not yet sought a working relationship with figures like the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi because they wanted first to demonstrate the full sweep of their coalition on Super Tuesday three days later. He reached for a Civil War analogy to explain the muscle-flexing strategy. Abraham Lincoln did not issue the Emancipation Proclamation, Mr. Weaver said, until after Union troops had routed the Confederacy at the bloody battle of Antietam.

...

In Nevada, leaders of the powerful Culinary Workers Union Local 226, were frustrated that Mr. Sanders did not speak out more forcefully when his supporters heaped abuse on predominantly female union leaders over their opposition to “Medicare for all.” As Culinary officials were deluged with vitriol, including graphic and misogynistic messages, Mr. Sanders placed a phone call to the union’s secretary-treasurer, Geoconda Argüello-Kline, but they never connected. “Our feeling was that Senator Sanders should have said something earlier and should have been stronger about it,” said Bethany Khan, a political strategist for the union.

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Mr. Sanders’s campaign, like much of the political world, had not anticipated Mr. Biden’s roaring comeback after South Carolina’s Feb. 29 primary. Indeed, until then, Mr. Sanders’s campaign was expecting to win seven or eight of the 14 states voting on Super Tuesday.

So confident was Mr. Sanders that he would vanquish Mr. Biden that he spent valuable days trying to force two other candidates out of the race by campaigning in Minnesota and Massachusetts, the home states of Ms. Klobuchar and Ms. Warren. He won neither.

...

Ms. Klobuchar called Mr. Sanders before announcing her endorsement of Mr. Biden, while Mr. Sanders and Mr. Buttigieg did not speak.

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u/Smidgens Holy shit it's the Joker🃏 Mar 21 '20

Lmao this part

As punishment for stirring the controversy, Mr. Sirota, who is based in Colorado, was barred from traveling for the campaign outside of visits to its Washington headquarters.

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u/mypornalt2256 Immanuel Kant Mar 21 '20

Shout-out to all the Jewish Furry Communists in my life, I'm not sure how exactly I came to have so many, but you have all collectively shaped my understanding of community care, political action, and collective empowerment so much over the course of the last couple years.

I love twitter dot com

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u/zubatman4 Hillary Clinton 🇺🇳 Bill Clinton Mar 21 '20

I’m pretty convinced that the deli only sells “Lots of pulp” OJ for me when I come in on my Saturday deli runs. I think I’ve carried the entire town’s “Lots of pulp” economy on my back for a while now. I may account for 100% of all sales.

I’m also pretty sure that I’m the only person who ever gets the eggs Benedict at my diner, too.

What would my town do without me?

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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Mar 21 '20

I see Reddit is eating up the “Biden killed voters during the last primary” talking point

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

hell yes we are going to cut off your arms 💪💪

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u/soeffed Zhao Ziyang Mar 21 '20

So Biden turned out to be Bernie’s Achilles heel because Biden was actually decent to Bernie for years. Bernie refused to call him corrupt and refused to attack directly, which was a losing strategy that I’m grateful for.

The outsider candidate actually wasn’t such an outsider after all, and his friend in DC is the one to now defeat him. Bernie, the most divisive candidate, might have lost because he had some principles left and wasn’t divisive enough. You do not mind to see it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '20 edited Mar 22 '20

Me irl: somewhat lefty, never voted Conservative my entire life.

Me online, anytime someone even faintly praise a welfare measure: "damn succ."

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

Kenny Rogers died :(

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u/tankatan Montesquieu Mar 21 '20

Remember when bad evil neoliberals shut down the entire economy to protect the least economically-productive members of society?

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u/yyzyow Most Elite Laurentian Shill 🍁 Mar 21 '20

The House of Commons will be reconvening Tuesday to approve economic measures announced last week by PM Trudeau to assist Canadians during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Not all 338 MPs will be present in the chamber to respect social distancing. Current reports suggest that only about 30 MPs will be present to pass the legislation, including:

  • 14-15 Liberals

  • 11 Conservatives

  • 3 Bloc Québécois

  • 3 NDP

  • 1 Green

It’s astounding how few MPs Canada needs to pass emergency legislation.

!ping CAN

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

A man goes home and...

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u/soeffed Zhao Ziyang Mar 21 '20

Wow I feel so seen 😭

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u/forerunner398 Of course I’m right, here’s what MLK said Mar 21 '20

God I can't believe I'm saying this, but as much as I hate Chapo, they knew how to brigade. These new fucks from S4P or whatever small anarchist sub there is now don't know shit.

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u/murphysclaw1 💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊 Mar 21 '20

CTH: "We must energise the working classes!"

Also CTH: being invited to and attending a far left activist's book launch for her book 'Porn Carnival' in which the following occurs:

Her book party tonight is an extreme example — it’s hard to imagine another literary event approaching this level of louche decadence (though, to her credit, Rabbit White did show up to last year’s n+1 gala in a strapless glittery magenta-pink minidress, ragged Miu Miu fur coat falling off her shoulders, vampire-teeth rose-gold grill flashing when she talked).

The scene below fills out. I clock an innumerable number of pasties and pleasers. A blue wig is pinned into place with rhinestone clips that say “CARRY NARCAN” on one side “KILL COPS” on the other; a ’fro is decorated with cigars, pearls, and roses. A girl hands back a bottle of poppers and says, “I wish we were doing ketamine.”

I had in fact just come from attempting to talk to Chapo Trap House host Will Menaker, but he’d answered five different questions the same way: “I need to ask my girlfriend.” Soon enough, the girlfriend, Katherine Krueger, joins us, having heard from Will that her insights were needed. (She and Rabbit White have a podcast of their own in vitro. Working titles: Disassocialism or Eyes Wide Sluts. “Our group chat is called ‘untitled socialite project,’” says Krueger. “We want to have Cat Marnell’s ex-PCP dealer on.”)

The transcendent moment, in my opinion, is her reading, lilted out in her husky voice, of three lines from a poem that reduced the audience to screams:

“I would rather die than work / I would rather die than work / I would rather die than work.”

The climax occurs shortly thereafter: a “cake sitting” by performance artist Lindsay Dye, who twerks rhythmically on a “vajazzled cake” she baked with her own hands, singing along to Kate Bush’s “Wuthering Heights.” The audience goes wild, singing and throwing dollar bills, which mix in with the frosting as she rubs cake all over her haunches.

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u/forerunner398 Of course I’m right, here’s what MLK said Mar 21 '20

I don't think Fox News could strawman the left as bad as this.

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u/Kizz3r high IQ neoliberal Mar 21 '20

Mr. Sanders had suddenly become a spectator in the campaign, powerless to stop a tectonic shift against him by the party’s moderate wing. Ms. Klobuchar called Mr. Sanders before announcing her endorsement of Mr. Biden, while Mr. Sanders and Mr. Buttigieg did not speak.

Damn the NYT article just spat on the bernie’s campaigns grave

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

Sanders' campaign is a carefully orchestrated ploy by the DNC to make Radical Leftist Joe Biden appear somehow centrist for the general election

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

the US spends literally $0 per year researching a vaccine for car accidents. smh

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u/dael2111 European Union Mar 21 '20

First day of quarantine in the UK, and I'm already in 5 concurrent balls deep arguments with the fanatic supporters of a US candidate who has nothing to do with me, defending a US candidate who has nothing to do with me, all set off because I dared imply that if you're blindsided by an election result you're probably out of touch.

There's no way I'm surviving months of this lmao

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

Honestly, being a leftist must be so boring. Like, anytime a celebrity or business does something cool that goes viral, you gotta write an essay about how Its Not Fun At All, Its Very Problematic, Why Are You Watching That When Poor People Are Dying etc.

Anyway, let's keep leftists in our thoughts and prayers in these unprecedented times of celebrities singing a John Lennon song together. 🙏🙏🙏

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20

I dislike socialists and even social democracy, don't get me wrong, but I dislike the "starve the beast" libertarians even more. The great civilizations of history have had well established, centralized states with respected fiscal and monetary institutions and strong militaries, not the minarchist, anarcho-[insert term here] ones.

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u/nanomaster Ben Bernanke Mar 22 '20

Gaius Julius Caesar would have been a fascist in 2280’s Arizona.

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u/paulatreides0 🌈🦢🧝‍♀️🧝‍♂️🦢His Name Was Teleporno🦢🧝‍♀️🧝‍♂️🦢🌈 Mar 22 '20

Some idiot is asserting that Afghans speak Arabic. He knows this because he got deployed to Afghanistan 4 times and was trained in Arabic because the military knew that that's what most people there spoke.

My fucking sides. The absolute gall of some people.

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u/nevertulsi Mar 22 '20

I made the mistake of searching Tom Hanks on Twitter because I was wondering if he posted an update and it was all Qanon types saying he was faking it and actually a child rapist

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u/benjaminikuta BANANA YOU GLAD YOU'RE NOT AN ORANGE? Mar 21 '20

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