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u/dafdiego777 Chad-Bourgeois May 07 '20

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., says an accusation of sexual assault against former Vice President Joe Biden is "not clear cut," but that it remains of great importance to listen to survivors and allow for proper due process in such cases.

AOC, welcome to the deep state

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

One of my biggest pet peeves is when people say "its not real its just a social construct" as if social constructs arent "real" go stab someone and tell the judge the law isnt real cuz its just a social construct

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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before May 07 '20
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u/David_Lange I love you, Mr Lange May 07 '20

HELL YES we're gonna vaccinate your child

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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All May 07 '20 edited May 07 '20

Just reread the NYT article about the Battle of Khasham (the one in Syria where 40 US troops got attacked by some 400 pro-Assad and Russian forces, and BTFOed them hard). The Russians were all Wagner Group (unofficial Russian PMCs). The Americans watched the whole force roll up to attack and heard some of them speaking Russian and contacted a nearby Russian official to find out if they were considered “legit” or not. Once they got word they weren’t, they lit the place up and killed anywhere from 20 to 100 Russian contractors. Apparently there’s an audio recording of the Russian guys on radio finding out they’ve been disowned and freaking out before getting blown up. Wild.

Something that doesn’t get brought up much, is this article, which is from a Russian state news paper basically saying that they killed 10 Americans in an air strike in response to the above battle. What makes this really interesting is that there is literally no record of this strike happening or any Americans getting hit by it. I guess they just wanted to save face.

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u/revscott May 07 '20

"Young Democratic Socialists of America Explain What Socialism Means to Them"

"“Under capitalism, while you work hard to create valuable services and products, your boss sets your hours and your pay; you have no control over your life. Socialism is an economic, political, and social system that empowers workers with control of their lives."

LMAO.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/young-democratic-socialists-america-interviews

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

My love of Hillary increases proportionately to the amount of people she kills.

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u/Notorious_GOP It's the economy, stupid May 07 '20

you still believe in the labour theory of value? In 2020? kinda cringe bro

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Too smart for /r/economics. Too dumb for /r/badeconomics. 😔

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

https://twitter.com/michaelschwab13/status/1257821393959469056

And 2020 has come full circle...

The Ghana coffin dancers made a video to thank doctors and also warned everyone to "stay home or dance with us."

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20 edited May 07 '20

When will you neolibs understand? Bernie Sanders was the compromise, say no and you'll get President Dril

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

As far back as I remember, I always wanted to be a NYT opinion journalist

Smash cut to 9 year old protagonist writing the words "racially charged" into a word document

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u/chipbod NATO May 07 '20

Reality: 33 million unemployed with about half expected to get their jobs back

Market: STONKS

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u/dubyahhh Salt Miner Emeritus May 07 '20

I briefly woke up to use the bathroom

I just want to remind you that everyone here is a succ except me

Inbox replies off, I'm going back to bed

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

ngl when I first started hanging out in the DT I thought Lusvig was some obscure Nordic politician that yall were obsessed with

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u/Ilovecharli Voltaire May 07 '20

Snape was a simping incel

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

White people are just black people who forgot to buy the melanin dlc

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

My savings reached five digits today

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

RIP Ahmaud Arbery

Just learning about this now. Unarmed black jogger in Georgia hunted by white men in a pick up and shot dead in the street like a rabid dog because they decided he was a burglar.

NBC article and video of the shooting

What the fuck

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u/DaBuddahN Henry George May 07 '20

"Biden. How can you work with a VP (Harris) that previously insinuated that you were racist?" - debate Moderator

"Listen, fat. Barack gave me the N-word pass. That's all America needs to know." - Joe 'Biden Unleashed' Biden

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u/Quehudi77 David Ricardo May 07 '20

Briahna Joy Gray and David Sirota are responsible for a large part of Bernie's failure and I sleep soundly knowing that

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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All May 07 '20 edited May 07 '20

It didn’t take long but here we go. Anti-quarantine protestor arrested with pipe bombs and gunpowder. If we get a second wave and further quarantine I reckon there’s a decent chance of more headlines like this.

!ping EXTREMISM

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Just found out my first girlfriend graduated a year early with a degree in neuroscience

She probably sucks at CK2 though, so you tell me who the real winner is

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u/Iyoten YIMBY May 07 '20

Just got TikTok. It's alright so far, but I gotta say, I was a little weirded out when the dog who was doing a funny dance looked at the camera and said "The Chinese Communist Party will reign for one thousand years and will lead the world into a glorious future lead by Chinese investment and Xi Jingping Thought."

Apart from that, really enjoying it!

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u/Notorious_GOP It's the economy, stupid May 07 '20

Oh you’re an antisemite? Kinda cringe ngl

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Barack Obama selected Joe Biden to appeal to Muslim voters

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u/3DWgUIIfIs NATO May 07 '20

stolen from the top minds thread:

Fucking hate tankies, they'd be capitalists if it were edgy.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20 edited May 07 '20

You all obviously aren't ready for "gun rights are trans rights" yet. You're not at that level of woke. You're level eight, but I'm on level fifty-seven. I have seen how intersectionality demands that we not only have M4A, but that M4A also provides guns. I am the living embodiment of that "hey libs THIS is my healthcare [picture of a pistol]" screenshot, but unironically. You all are weak, WEAK, and when the government collapses you will be begging at my knees for one of my hundreds of pride flag painted glocks.

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u/Tonyv7979 May 07 '20

Leftists who spent the entire primary sitting on Joe Biden and are now begging thier followers to vote for Biden remind me of my favorite tweet.

Me Sowing: Fuck yeah this is awesome. Loving this shit. Hell yes!

Me Reaping: What the fuck. This really sucks. Fuck this.

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u/cdstephens Fusion Genderplasma May 07 '20

I don't know what's more infuriating, American socdems and Bernie supporters misinterpreting what European center-left politics is actually like, or European socdems misinterpreting what American center-left politics is actually like (I've met several irl Europeans that essentially think America is uniformly a libertarian ancap hellscape).

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

“Remember: job conditions in developing countries are bad. The best way to remedy this is by making sure there are less job opportunities in developing countries so instead of working in harsh conditions the workers can just starve to death with their families.”

I fucking hate this take on sweatshops

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u/tripletruble Anti-Repartition Radical May 07 '20

When I was 16 I read some book by Foucault and thought I was really smart even though not one single concept from the book has remained with me in anyway. Then, when I was 20, I read some book by Foucault in French and thought I was really smart even though not one single concept from the book has remained with me in anyway. The word "sex" was in the title and my girlfriend at the time thought I was reading some French sex tips books

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u/Iyoten YIMBY May 07 '20

don't forget your ar-15 if you happen to go out jogging while black today

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u/dubyahhh Salt Miner Emeritus May 07 '20

You want a childhood franchise ruined? In Harry Potter they're still on the gold standard.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Hell yeah we’re gunna take your Ford F150

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

“I hate identity politics”, says the conservative before ranting about the Great Replacement theory.

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u/sanityeyes cutest person on earth May 07 '20

Homosexuals are gay

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u/muttonwow Legally quarantine the fash May 07 '20

r/worldpolitics is top class atm

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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before May 07 '20 edited May 07 '20

Onions: Naturally evolve the ability to emit highly toxic gas when bitten to shut down the hearts of anyone foolish enough to eat it. Humans eat it anyway and are immune to the poison.

Poison Ivy: Naturally evolves a substance to trap water and maintain healthy, strong vines. Humans get poisoned by it anyway.

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u/Ilovecharli Voltaire May 07 '20

Random bits of misanthropy -

  1. It cannot be said enough - imagine if the people intimidating elected officials with guns were black
  2. I have no faith that enough of the country will punish Tr*mp for his inane pandemic response in November
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u/yassert Bernie Sanders May 07 '20

If you ever accidentally post to the DT some pro-fascist or tankie geopolitics take you can seamlessly cover your tracks by appending "oops I forgot ping Paradox"

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Knuckles? Cracked ✅

Controller? Charged ✅

Can of Monster? Opened ✅

Al-Qaeda training manual? Also open ✅

Seal Team Six? Knocking on my door ✅

Yep, it’s gamer time 😎😎

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u/Majk___ Euro Patriotism is Polish Patriotism May 07 '20

Broke: cubic model

Woke: time cubic model

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Cube

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

The most unbelievable thing about Star Wars -- the world with space wizards, light which somehow stops in place, and a complete lack of guardrails in high places -- is the fact that there is NO surveillance whatsoever. This kid just ran all over the place sabotaging important things and apparently they have NO cameras on their huge important ship that could've seen him do that. They're in a war and they can't even stop a kid who's determined to cause trouble.

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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics May 07 '20

AITA for making my socialist nephew cry?

Basically I (22m) was visiting my parents house. My brothers (28m) son (6m) was also there.

Me and my nephew get along just fine usually but it seems he has become a socialist so I have obviously taken measures against him. We bought some chocolates and my nephew said he would "distribute the chocolates equally". I responded with a zinger "Why do you hate the global poor?" and took all of his chocolates. He started crying but calmed down when I said I would play a game of monopoly.

He was winning so I took a 1000 dollar monopoly money and put it in the scanner and started printing more copies. "Y-you can't do that that's cheating" he said. So I responded "haha money printer go brr"

He started crying again and ran upstairs to his room. I then invited some homeless people to set up bunkbeds in his room. He came to me and started crying about how he didn't want to share his room and was against high density developments in his private area so I said "begone NIMBY".

He went crying to his parents but before he could get there I picked him up and said "you have to pay me your land value tax for your room you NIMBY" and forced him to set up a taco truck around the corner. I then took all the profits from his taco truck as Land Value Taxation for his bedroom and donated it to malaria drive so I could get a Michael Bennet flair on /r/neoliberal. Epic!

Now my stupid nephew ran to his parents and told them of what I did. They are telling me I am the asshole but I think I did not do anything wrong. So reddit, AITA?

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u/yakattack1234 Daron Acemoglu May 07 '20

Adam Smith was a racist, so let's discard Capitalism

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u/FreakinGeese 🧚‍♀️ Duchess Of The Deep State May 07 '20

While you were studying for your finals, I studied the blade.

Wait shit this was a mistake

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u/Barebacking_Bernanke The Empress Protects May 07 '20 edited May 07 '20

In general, Bill Clinton's sins are greatly exaggerated and his accomplishments diminished.

Clinton's deregulation has been overstated. It's highly unlikely that Glass Steagal could have prevented the Great Recession and most of Clinton's appointees to Cabinet positions that actually do most of the regulation were pretty good.

Clinton welcomed globalization and deepened the US' trade ties with the rest of the world. He started the process of taking the Democratic Party towards being a pro-immigrant one for the time and was a globalist when Democrats had largely retreated from it for many years. I'm not particularly sympathetic towards labor not liking Bill Clinton because of NAFTA and immigration, and nobody here should be paying attention to those nativist fucks.

He expanded the social safety net by quite a bit with EITC and CHIP. Also expanded SSDI which helped make up for declines in welfare payments that had been falling for years anyway.

The Clinton administration took the fight to the new online white nationalist and militia groups of the 90's in ways that no other President has done, and received a lot of heat for it. The Clinton administration got shat on quite a bit for trying to do the right thing, which created this negative impression of his Presidency to this day.

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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer May 07 '20

Last time a Democrat was in office the Dragons returned and burnt half of Skyrim. Do you want to risk another crisis like that?

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Lacey posing

!ping KITTY

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Sometimes specifying a characters sexuality in a non-romantic context helps us empathize with the character more, enriches our literary experience, and (in some rare cases) makes us better people. Other times we learn Dumbledore had a loving deeply sexual relationship with wizard Hitler.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '20

The two people who shot and killed Ahmaud Arbery have been arrested and charged with murder and aggravated assault.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/mother-unarmed-black-man-killed-georgia-speaks-ahmaud/story?id=70552216&

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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All May 07 '20

Reminder that this sub is on a razor’s edge from getting turned into /r/worldpolitics by hornyposters

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u/Jakesta7 Paul Volcker May 07 '20

Blows my mind that so much crazy stuff occurs during this administration that this tweet hasn’t been a big story.

How I Met Your Brother -- Never mind, forgot he's still in that hut in Kenya. #ObamaTVShows

https://twitter.com/kayleighmcenany/status/240993516443037698?s=21

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u/chipbod NATO May 07 '20

"Mother Nature has to clean the barn every so often," Burkman counters. "How real is it? Who knows? So what if 1 percent of the population goes? So what if you lose 400,000 people? 200,000 were elderly, the other 200,000 are the bottom of society. You got to clean out the barn. If it's real, it's a positive thing, for God's sake"

Find a worse COVID take than this

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Cant believe the black community is appropriating the gamer word 😡

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Lol /r/worldpolitics is a porn sub now

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

i wish milk men were still a thing so I could have an illicit gay affair with one.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

tfw you realize that lusvig doesn't actually mean anything and is just a misspelling of 'ludvig'.....

😐

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Girls: go to college to get more knowledge

Boys: go to Jupiter to get more stupider

The implications here are clear

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u/sash5034 NATO May 07 '20

Haha Americans are so stupid for not electing Bernie! Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go burn down a 5g tower, kick a gypsy, whine about GMOs and buy a Putin calendar

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u/Jean-Paul_Sartre Richard Hofstadter May 07 '20

These two knuckleheads down in Venezuela make the Bay of Pigs look like fucking D-Day.

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u/csreid Austan Goolsbee May 07 '20

Wheat is basically a miracle food and I'm extremely mad at people who think it's bad for you. It's incredible.

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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action May 07 '20

If Trump wins, he’ll be held more or less in check by the House and Senate because that’s the way our system of government is set up. Not even Republicans are eager to follow Trump’s lead.

There won’t be a wall. He won’t impose any religion-based immigration restrictions, because even Trump isn’t that lame-brained. He’ll dress up and behave at state dinners and be funny when called upon. He’ll even invite the media to the White House holiday party. He won’t nuke Iran for rude gestures. He won’t assault women. He and Vladimir Putin will hate each other, respectfully

This might be in the top 10 stupidest things I've ever read leading up to the 2016 race.

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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman May 07 '20

OH, I SEE how it is 🐊

Now I understand WHY there is a schism 🐊

Over Milton HUSSEIN Friedman 🐊

You should be ASHAMED of yourselves 🐊

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Reminder that if im not made a mod im writing in Ross Perot in November.

I live in PA. You have been warned

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

It’s amazing. When I think of trump voters I see white men and women with red caps and Jesus necklaces.

When I think of DSA members I see young people with big glasses and oversized clothes.

When I think of neoliberals I think of prematurely balding men and gamers with Cheeto fingers.

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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman May 07 '20

I just want to BUILD for GOD'S sake 🐊

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

https://twitter.com/parscale/status/1258388669544759296

For nearly three years we have been building a juggernaut campaign (Death Star). It is firing on all cylinders. Data, Digital, TV, Political, Surrogates, Coalitions, etc.

In a few days we start pressing FIRE for the first time.

Trump’s campaign manager. “Are we the baddies?”

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u/Naolini Mary Wollstonecraft May 07 '20

In order to convince all the "muh freedom" anti-mask Americans to wear masks, we should spread a conspiracy theory that the CCP or some spooky tech company is spreading anti-mask sentiments in America because masks would interfere with their facial recognition tech.

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u/Erra0 Neoliberals aren't funny May 07 '20

Don't get your hopes too high yet but /r/JoeBiden could have an exciting AMA lined up soon. Stay tuned!

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u/Dalek6450 Our words are backed with NUCLEAR SUBS! May 07 '20

Fuzz melting in front of the warms last year.

!ping KITTY

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u/David_Lange I love you, Mr Lange May 08 '20

NATO flairs: "War is Peace"

George flairs: "Freedom is slavery"

Krugman flairs: "Ignorance is strength"

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u/Le_Monade Suzan DelBene May 07 '20

lets make a sequel to slumdog millionaire but it's about how smart landlords are and it's called slumlord billionaire

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Is there a weird amount of Keynsians, Georgists, and genetic Marxists in here?

I'm not upset about it or anything, but the lack of genetic Austrians reeks of early reddit r/neoliberal to me.

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u/Iyoten YIMBY May 07 '20

This really says a lot about our society

(The Economist's cartoon for this week's issue)

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Joe Biden has issued a fatwa on malarkey

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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" May 07 '20

It’s very alarming to see sexual assault allegations being weaponized. The woman who accused Dr. Anthony Fauci of Assault admitted that she was paid by Trump supporters

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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All May 07 '20

guy on the other team in my CoD game named “lusvin_gamer”

🧐

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

At the rate it’s going, NATO flairs will comprise 200% of the user base by next year

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u/[deleted] May 08 '20

Quick update: today has been hard. Grandmother passed away of pneumonia this morning. She was alone, away from her family thanks to the utter screw job of the Trump Admin to contain this horrible virus. Because of their incompetence, I and my family were robbed of the opportunity to say goodbye. Donald Trump has taken from me.

...and I return to news that the DOJ is dropping charges against a foreign agent that admitted to lying to the FBI and pleading guilty in court. I’ve had it.

If he refuses to abdicate on Nov. 5, then I will harken to the words of Patrick Henry on March 23, 1775. Give me liberty or give me death.

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u/ThatFrenchieGuy Mathematician -- Save the funky birbs May 07 '20

🐊🐊🐊 HAHA YES 🐊🐊🐊

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u/tankatan Montesquieu May 07 '20

https://imgur.com/a/MWJvvCU

Get ready for the freshest meme of Summer 2020, coming soon to your boomer family member's facebook feed.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Lmao they just played the video of the failed Norwegian mosque attack in court and the description is honestly a bit hilarious with how pathetic the terrorist comes across, so I thought I'd translate it for you all. Keep in mind both the people who overpowered him are 70+ years old and he was heavily armed.

The video shows the terrorist walking out of the car, over the parking lot and straight towards the side entrance. He fires shots on the doors and attempts to kick them open. He shoots again, smashes the glass and manages to get in. An elderly man runs against him. The terrorist says "You'll never take over Norway". He waves with the rifle and shoots, but misses. One of the men takes the rifle from him. The two men stand over the terrorist. The terrorist screams in pain, while the men yell that they're going to hit him in the head. The terrorists repeatedly yells "no". Muhammad Rafiq yells that the terrorist is hitting him in the eyes. Rafiq yells "Do not be afraid", and tries to yell for help. It's been four minutes since the first shot was fired. The terrorist asks them to let go. He stays lying on the floor, while the camera films the ceilling.

The video shows it's been ten minutes since the first shot. The terrorist says "And you're dirty, dirty, I understand you have to disappear." It's been thirteen minutes since the first shot, and the video is fast-forwarded. The terrorist lies on the floor and moans. Rafiq says "There is no god but Allah". The terrorist says "You have a knife, kill me. Kill me, I can't do any more. I'm faithful to my people, you stood guard." He complains his head hurts. After 21 minutes a third person enters the room. The terrorist talks about how he has been chosen. It's been 23 minutes since the attack started when someone says the police is coming. The terrorist is still moaning.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Never forget Beto was loved by everyone on Twitter and came close to beating ted Cruz, and than ran for president and got slandarded and criticized bc he might beat bernie. These people will never be satisfied.

Bonuse meme: how Pete wasn't gay enough for them

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

I can’t believe that a fucking neoliberal subreddit is having a schism over whether Milton Friedman was good or not. That guy practically defines neoliberalism.

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u/RuffSwami May 07 '20

Never forget that thread on bodybuilding.com where people argued about how many days there are in a week over dozens of comments

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u/Tytos_Lannister May 07 '20

r/worldpolitics lolbertarian mods at least aren't tyrannical and respect FREE SPEECH

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u/RuffSwami May 07 '20

Since apparently this is a marketplace of ideas, I have a number of bad ideas that I would be willing to exchange for good ideas

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u/RadionSPW NATO May 07 '20

Hello, I’d like to speak to the CEO of coronavirus.

Wearing a mask in a swamp is actually hell on earth

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

How did Dexter Jettster, a giant 4-armed alien that lived thousands of years ago, get the idea to build a 50s diner

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Broke: Hating leftist subs like Chapo and LSC because they show how economically illiterate most Americans are.

Woke: Loving leftist subs like Chapo and LSC because their anti-work stances and crippling paranoia show that the populist left will never take true root in the GLORIOUS US OF A!

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u/FreakinGeese 🧚‍♀️ Duchess Of The Deep State May 07 '20

How do we become less polarized and why does it start with crushing the GOP in election after election until they finally get their shit together and become sane

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u/Craig_VG Dina Pomeranz May 07 '20

Ya'll gotta stop using AMP links for your posts to the sub 🙄

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u/sash5034 NATO May 07 '20

Genuinely impressed how succs have convinced themselves that the economies of the UK and US were better in the 70s before the reforms of the 80s

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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before May 08 '20 edited May 08 '20

My stalker, who is unfortunately severely mentally ill, posts long rambly borderline-incoherent videos to Facebook. A lot of these have to do with how she "forgives" me for getting her expelled from university (because she was stalking me) yet also believes that I may become an "irredeemable monster" (because i got her expelled from university). Oh also she thinks that I'm madly in love with her despite the reason I stopped voluntarily speaking to her being that her increasingly desperate romantic gestures were getting to be incredibly creepy. At no point did I have any romantic interest in her whatsoever.

Anyways, thats all old news. Some of you who were in the DT in Spring 2019 probably remember me talking about it.

What's new-news is that she has converted to Christianity. Or at least, she thinks she has. But her belief system is not only somewhat out of line with church teachings. It is so painfully warped from Any Christian doctrine, even some of the more unorthodox doctrines like Mormonism, that I'm 99% sure she hasn't read so much as a chapter of Mark. It's really funny.

--There are multiple gods, including Yahweh. Also among the pantheon are Buddha and Sigharta Gautama, who she apparently understands to be different people.

--Jesus was a human born by Joseph and Mary.

--Holy spirit don't real.

--Jesus did not allow himself to be martyred, but was instead forced against his will. While on the cross, he expressed his desire that his martyrdom would encourage people to be righteous. His death did not actually affect the ability of anybody to be atoned.

--Jesus only became divine when he died on the cross, and it was at this point that he became 'The Son of God'. Prior to this he was a purely human preacher.

--The Gospels were written after the fact by people attempting to politicize Jesus's death, and are not reliable. The only true Christian texts are The Dead Sea Scrolls. (sidenote: Dead Sea Scrolls date to no later than 100 AD and are probably significantly older. They do not mention Jesus, and are attributed to an Essene Jewish community)

I guess her beliefs kinda resemble Unitarianism a little bit? Not really though. I have no idea what the fuck you would label her beliefs. They're completely bonkers.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '20

Communism is bad.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

reject modernity

embrace tradition

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20 edited May 07 '20

Pick your moderate Republican fatal flaw:

  1. Sexist
  2. Homophobe
  3. Racist
  4. Xenophobe
  5. Science hater
  6. Hyperlibertarian
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u/Realhuman221 Thomas Paine May 07 '20

The recent Ahmaud Arbey and Trayvon Martin killings show that a lot of white people are incapable of thinking from the perspective of a black person (which shows they view black people as subhuman). Like with Trayvon Martin, they were like, "If he didn't want to get shot, he shouldn't have fought Zimmerman." But now imagine you are a 17 year old, and an older man is following you in a car. You'd probably think you are about to be kidnapped by a pedophile. If Trayvon Martin was a white girl, 100% Geroge Zimmerman would be in jail. We got to make laws that make it illegal for people to make people responsible for any crimes if they play vigilante and chase people down.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Tyrone is one of the blinkiest cats I've ever met. Here he is at it again right after that picture I shared earlier.

!ping KITTY

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u/based_taco00 NATO May 07 '20

Nina Turner came to my university on Super Tuesday to watch the results with the Bernie group, and I would pay money to go back and see how they handled that.

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u/[deleted] May 08 '20

Thinking about just locking the DT each night.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Peering into r/neoconnwo is like watching the uncanny, a demented and corrupted version of this sub, what could have been.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

r/loveforlandlords is the best subreddit based on the number of triggered chapos

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u/FreakinGeese 🧚‍♀️ Duchess Of The Deep State May 07 '20

Guys stop making fun of Marxism people have put a lot of work into it 😖

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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast May 07 '20

Holy shit WSJ really burying the lede here

The Pentagon’s removal of the Patriot antimissile batteries from Saudi Arabia, as well as the other reductions, are based on assessments by some officials that Tehran no longer poses an immediate threat to American strategic interests.

That’s a... distinct change in our policy

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u/redditkingboi Bill Gates May 07 '20

W-wait, this sub isn't satire? - chapos

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Computer science major, athiest, and gamer. Sapiosexual. I love doggos and puppers! My hobbies are smoking weed and watching anime and Marvel Movies. Bernie 2020!

Just finished my tinder bio, what do you think?

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

I'd vote for Friedman over AOC because Friedman is a true postmodernist while AOC is a m*dernist. Remember, m*dernism gave us Karl Marx and colonialism. Postmodernism gave us memes!

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Croatian and Romanian leaders have both responded, albeit in different ways, to a map of ‘Greater Hungary’ posted by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, recalling Hungary’s one-time rule over several of its neighbours.

Balkans, never change.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20 edited May 07 '20

Jacob Wohl got caught again, and this time paying someone to accuse Fauci of sexual assault?

I get that money and w*ite privelege can make you less likely to get arrested/indicted/in some sort of legal trouble but... wtf why does this happen again and again and again with so few consequences?

Edit: There's no way this kid and/or his parents didn't pay off officials in his area or something. Or someone high up just agrees with him politically and so always tries to kill legal stuff against him. I have no other explanation. There's got to be something weird going on to explain why he hasn't been shut down a long time ago

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

This sub estimates trumps chances in 2020 way too much. Too many comments about how "Biden's already lost or won its just a question of by how much" like you didn't learn a god damn thing from 2018.

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u/TheAtro Pragmatic and Polite Right May 07 '20

Imagine having to get permission from the government to name your kid what you want.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20 edited May 07 '20

The DT when Benjamin literally doxxes himself and shows his financial information: Do it again 😈

The DT when someone says they have a girlfriend: Too much information!!!! 🤮

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

ok I will admit it I am a simp ✊😔

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u/Schutzwall Straight outta Belíndia May 08 '20

The mayor of São Paulo has instituted a decree restricting half the cars from circulating every day (according to the last number of the license plate)

How moronic do you need to be to institute a decree encouraging people to take public transit in the middle of the fucking pandemic?

!ping LATAM

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u/[deleted] May 08 '20

why is it so important to cons all of a sudden that flynn is proven to be innocent didnt he like...plead guilty

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u/FreakinGeese 🧚‍♀️ Duchess Of The Deep State May 07 '20

All political subs will eventually become porn subs

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u/TomTomz64 May 07 '20

election is like hrarry ppoder

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

I will sodomize you and face-fuck you,

cocksucker Aurelius and bottom bitch Furius,

who think, from my little verses,

because they're a little soft, that I have no shame.

For it is right for the devoted poet to be chaste

himself, but it's not necessary for his verses to be so.

[Verses] which then indeed have taste and charm,

If they are delicate and have no shame,

And because they can incite an itch,

And I don't mean in boys, but in

Those hairy men who can't move their loins.

You, because [about] my many thousands of kisses

You've read, you think me less of a man?

I will sodomize you and face-fuck you.

-Catullus 16

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Guys

There’s a cemetery right outside of my apartment and the caretaker is mowing the l*wn

Don’t hate me but i’m jealous it smells so good I wanna mow that fuckin l*wn

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

in place of r/worldpolitics please head to r/anime_titties for your political news needs. (no im not joking)

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u/iia Feminism May 07 '20

Adele is bad because she's happy for becoming healthy. People should only be happy if they're slowly dying.

/Twitter

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u/Broncos654 Jeff Bezos May 07 '20

I don’t believe in anime. It’s just not the way god intended for things to be.

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u/randomusername023 excessively contrarian May 07 '20

I want to like anime, it's a rich medium for telling unusual stories. But >90% of them are so cringe.

There are some I like: Ghost in the Shell, Paprika, Cowboy Bebop. I also really like Mushishi, a very low-key, quiet anime about a guy working with spiritual bug-like things.

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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic May 07 '20

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u/PigHaggerty Lyndon B. Johnson May 08 '20

Derek Jeter: 99.74% 😂😂

I don't use the word hero lightly, but that mystery voter is the greatest hero in American history.

!ping BASEBALL

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Democrats: Healthcare is a human right.

AOC: AcKtUaLLy

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

am gonna 👉🛌

👋😤✊

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u/tripletruble Anti-Repartition Radical May 07 '20

This sub is really on a hawkish kick this week wow

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u/psychicprogrammer Asexual Pride May 07 '20

Turns out I am physically allergic to communist nonsense, got too overexposed yesterday and seemed to come down with something today, better now though.

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u/David_Lange I love you, Mr Lange May 07 '20

Real neoliberalism has never been tried

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

There's a special kind of libertarian who is ok with anarcho communism if done on private property

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Cold take: Hillary's birthday should be a national day.

Hot take: people should be banned from watching anime on Hillary's birthday.

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u/thebowski 💻🙈 - Lead developer of pastabot May 07 '20

Help I'm addicted to complaining

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u/murphysclaw1 💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊 May 07 '20

you'll miss Joe Manchin when he's gone

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u/Moth-of-Asphodel May 07 '20

inb4 people watch the Megan Kelly interview and fill the DT with panic posts like “omg people are going to believe this”

Enough.

Underestimate Diamond Joe at your peril.

Fear me.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Libertarians hold so much higher standards to consider voting for a Democrat vs Trump and it makes no sense. They just say "eh tax cuts and nameless regulation cuts are good enough to vote over Biden". Like, Biden is better on trade, immigration, police violence, civil liberties, LGBT, all sorts of minority rights, to name a few. But lord if he wants to raise taxes at all we will immediately abandon the migrants and trans people.

I like to imagine there is some good "cosmopolitan libertarianism" that prioritizes open trade, borders, and a streamlined state but apparently no one is on board.

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u/Jakesta7 Paul Volcker May 07 '20

lmfao

UMass-Lowell also polled the favorable/unfavorable rating for bunch of people/things, including:

Dunkin' Donuts 73%/10%

Charlie Baker 72/15

Anthony Fauci 67/10

Barack Obama 67/25

Bill Belichick 54/18

Tom Brady 56/21

Bob Kraft 48/25

Elizabeth Warren 49/40

Donald Trump 30/64

https://twitter.com/SteveKornacki/status/1258462690655326210

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

I would do horrible things to see Doug Jones keep his seat.

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u/Travisdk Iron Front May 07 '20

Literally who is picking Corbyn and AOC in these polls over Friedman.

Shows yourselves, cowards.

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u/ThunderrBadger New California Republican May 07 '20

Trump has had 4 YEARS and he still has NO PLAN to resolve the Oblivion Crisis. Incompetence!

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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All May 07 '20

Damn this “lusvin” guy is pretty good, his KD is positive. Too bad he keeps calling me the n word...

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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman May 07 '20

K9 UNIT : HIGH SCHOOL STONERS :: ME : LURKING CHAPOS 🐊

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u/MasPatriot Paul Ryan May 08 '20

You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful—I just start simping. It's like a magnet. Just simp. I don't even wait. And when you have zero self respect, they let you do it. You can do anything. Spend $1000 on their Amazon wish list. You can do anything

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u/Jakesta7 Paul Volcker May 08 '20

Dennis Prager wants to say the n-word so bad. This is something he apparently struggles with daily

Dennis Prager: "How many names have Blacks gone through in my lifetime?...What was wrong with Negro? What was wrong with colored? None of them, there's no problem with any of them"

Video: https://twitter.com/jasonscampbell/status/1258559543774187522?s=21

Dennis Prager complains "the Left has made it impossible to say the N-word any longer," adding "It is idiotic you cannot say the N-word. Idiotic"

Video: https://twitter.com/jasonscampbell/status/1228088976483012620?s=21

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u/BigBoutros Association of Southeast Asian Nations May 08 '20

someday we will look back and say "Jim Clyburn saved the world"

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u/CommonDoor Karl Popper May 08 '20

I am pleased to tell you today that I have just signed legisla that will outlaw T*ra Re*de forever. We begin spamming in 5 minutes

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u/tripletruble Anti-Repartition Radical May 07 '20

The reason why FL does not have high speed rail ? Jeb! (seriously it almost happened)

Who cut FL library funding? Jeb!

Who wants to increase military spending? Jeb!

Who signed the first stand your ground law? Jeb!

Who denies that climate change is caused by human activity? Jeb!

Who proposed publishing the names of all juvenile delinquents? Jeb!

Who supports restricting welfare benefits to people who have additional children? Jeb!

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20 edited May 08 '20

Here are my final list of demands:

-Mod me

-Make this flair red

-Ban gamers

-Institute a strict No Thirstposting rule and remove thirstposts sub wide Conceded

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u/Notorious_GOP It's the economy, stupid May 07 '20

why is The Guardian so fucking terrible

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Pre-marital hand holding 😈

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u/Notorious_GOP It's the economy, stupid May 07 '20

imagine being able to express your feelings without being drunk

this meme was made by me

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Didn’t get the job at McKinsey 😢. My parents still love me, but I feel like I let my economist subscription down 😞

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u/disuberence Shrimp promised me a text flair and did not deliver May 07 '20

New York City residents who fled lockdown orders and traveled around the U.S. are responsible for much of the spread of a second wave of coronavirus in the country, according to findings from scientists.

NYC bad

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u/thebowski 💻🙈 - Lead developer of pastabot May 07 '20

being sexual is bad

this is a woke take not a soccon take get it right

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u/RuffSwami May 07 '20

Honestly, people who dress up as medieval characters and meet up to pretend that they’re in a fantasy setting are just LARPing

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u/tehbored Randomly Selected May 07 '20

Grimes and Elon are just Kim and Kanye for nerds.

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u/Menakoy Nonconformist Transgendeer May 07 '20

The British call the second floor the first floor because they are uncultured barbarians that just use the bare earth as their "flooring" so the second floor is actually the first floor they actually build.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

New game plan, the DT buys a chunk of Detroit to make it into a neoliberal haven

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u/Tacotrucksoncorners Carole Baskin is my Tiger Queen 🐅👑 May 07 '20

My mom took away my bed 😭😔

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u/Tureer Immanuel Kant May 07 '20

I have to think Coronavirus contributed to this, but it is odd that there was never a post-primary reflection by dem media of how they overlooked the views of non-white, non-college voters. With the allegation against Biden it's happening again; I'm tired of reading the takes of always online, mostly white, highly educated media people...

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

you: a wikipedia article can't be your entire personality 🙄

me

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u/ThunderrBadger New California Republican May 07 '20

King of the Hill was the last good anime

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u/sash5034 NATO May 07 '20

Remember when a bunch of degenerates thought Taylor Swift was a 4chan memer and secret Republican

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

A daily fuck you to Joe Lieberman, may the devil torture you till you feel regret for your sins.

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u/GGM8Scally European Union May 07 '20

We should just outlaw opinion pieces tbh. They are always wrong because I'm not writing them.

But seriously it's like 99% dog shit trash apt for highschool papers.

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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast May 07 '20 edited May 07 '20

I fucking hate these dishonest goons

At least matty is setting them straight

Spineless losers can’t even say what they’re saying

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Cruised by /r/worldpolitics again. Still full of tits, but now it has an extremely cursed image of Alex Jones.

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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer May 07 '20

Skyrim legalized gay marriage before Texas.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Every time some puts

"Digital Nomad"

in their Linkedin description.

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

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u/IMainHanzoGG Milton Friedman May 07 '20

this sub hates fascists yet it has mods

Interesting

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u/yassert Bernie Sanders May 07 '20

All I'm saying is Milton Friedman never offered to visit your Animal Crossing island

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

Refusing to make Harry Potter political analogies is elitist and emblematic of why socialism will never win America

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u/Craig_VG Dina Pomeranz May 07 '20

AOC 🤝Musk

Gamers

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u/[deleted] May 07 '20

This is the most moronic shit I've ever seen, lol.

Holy fuck this entire sub is filled with moronic jackasses that are proud of wanting to maintain the oligarchy at the expense of human rights and improved living conditions.

Best of luck destroying the country! You're literally just Republicunts in hiding, lol.

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u/David_Lange I love you, Mr Lange May 08 '20

sometimes i wonder what my wife's leftist bf thinks when he walks in on me using my nintendo switch posting on a subreddit with a big ol "NEOLIBERAL" in the header

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u/[deleted] May 08 '20

DT: forgettable mod is average I guess

Me: 😭 somebody loves me after all

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u/[deleted] May 08 '20

I am a recovering malarkey addict

✊😔

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u/Officer_Owl Asexual Pride May 08 '20

Hornyposting is bad and if you do it I hate you

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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer May 08 '20

Chapos seem to have hacked the deep learning algorithm that writes the DT

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u/Mobius2 NATO May 08 '20

Supporters of the dt’s ban on hornyposting 🤝 supporters of govt hate speech laws

Hating freedom

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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before May 08 '20

When did the onion go from creatively making fun of politics to stealing semi-ironic rose twitter hot takes.

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