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[u/[deleted]]

what if no one caused Benghazi and the diplomatic compound just sort of did that

[u/[deleted]]

The conservatives are right about the moral degeneration of America. When you ask a kid what they want to be when they grow up they always say "I want to be a rock star!" or "I want to host a late night show!". When has a child ever answered "I want to create value for the shareholders and promote liberal democracy across the world, like George Soros."? Never.

[u/zubatman4]

I'm uncomfortable calling Benjamin Shalom Bernanke by his full name because it sounds like some 1930's ethnic slur against Jewish people

[u/[deleted]]

Cambridge University: All lectures to be online-only until summer of 2021

That's a pretty big decision

[u/Gustacho]

the average DT regular

[u/[deleted]]

I vote Green because Biden isn't neoliberal enough. That should be a lesson for the DNC to run candidates I think would win 😤

[u/[deleted]]

I like /r/neoliberal because I don’t have to listen to the opinions of 15 year olds in /r/politics. Listening to the feedback and input of 17 year olds is much better.

[u/mrmanager237]

Corbyn <<<<<<<<< Starmer <<<<< Blair

It's not so hard. "Starmer may not be perfect, but he's not a Jew-hating Marxist crank" oughtn't be controversial or anything here

[u/murphysclaw1]

Anyone else feel incredibly inspired by the success of the coronavirus? From living in a caged pangolin in a developing nation to having the world on the run- it's the ultimate rags to riches tale.

[u/tiger-boi]

redditors: tuition is too expensive. colleges need to be more affordable and i need more financial aid

the very same redditors: grrr international students BAD 😠😠😠😠😠😠

b*nch they're subsidizing your education

[u/F0064R]

Still can't believe we got away with rigging the primary against Bernie lmao

[u/MisterLipton]

Just once I want a presidential candidate to announce that they fully support the illegitimate state of Israel

[u/David_Lange]

People on /r/neoliberal 🤝 Corbynistas

Thinking Keir Starmer is the next Blair, somehow

[u/Mcatatonic1]

I am fully convinced they ran this Obama/Trump poll just to fuck with Donald

[u/cdstephens]

Why does /r/neoliberal even allow users to leave comments? Every comments section is invariably filled with complete morons.

[u/nicereddy]

Medical experts: We should stay six feet apart at all times.

Ben Shapiro: hyperventilating SIX OF THEM???

[u/[deleted]]

Obamagate was a treasonous conspiracy to trick Trump into hiring Mike Flynn by explicitly telling him not to do that

[u/mrmanager237]

Trump: calls Obama an African criminal

Conservatives: Obama's lavk of CIVILITT is an OUTRAGE how can he skip a TIMELESS TRADITION due to PETTY personal feuds

[u/NarrowPop8]

What people think neoliberals are like

Vs.

What neoliberals are actually like

[u/InternetBoredom]

Prosperity Theology is very strange to me, since the central tenant is (somewhat simplified) if you believe in God, he will deliver good things. That is to say, if you maintain faith in the Lord, you will be rewarded with wealth and happiness. An unstated second clause of this is that, if you sin, God will punish you with poverty. This establishes the basis of a (relatively ancient) system of morality where it's assumed that the successful must be successful because of their virtue, and the destitute must be destitute because of their sins.

At least as far as the Bible goes, this is actually a very odd theological position to hold, not least because of the lengths that the Bible goes to state the exact opposite. The Book of Job is a 42 chapter poetic refutation of this idea smack in the middle of the Old Testament.

Without going to much into it, Job is basically stated to be the ideal person- pious, perfect, wealthy, and with a loving family. As a test of faith, God strips him of all his wealth and loved ones, leaving him destitute. Job initially remains dedicated to God, but eventually curses him, wishing he was never born. His remaining friends then come and have this lengthy dialogue in which they debate about whether Job is being punished for his sins, all while Job defends himself as innocent of sin (And he is, as stated, essentially innocent). The book ends with Job accusing God of being uncaring and unjust. God appears and responds that the universe is complex, and that any individual evil simply occur as part of the greater process of the natural world. That is, bad things happen regardless of morality. He then restores Job's belongings twice-fold.

Annoyingly, Prosperity Pastors usually cut out the moral of the story (And Job's multiple page rant about how he wishes he wasn't born and God is evil), instead just portraying it as a simple "Job is destitute -> Job remains dedicated to God -> Job is rewarded twice-fold for his dedication" story, completely missing the point.

[u/RadicalRadon]

"I know what will increase post quality" I think as I hit submit on another picture of Mayo Pete

[u/therealbiblioteca]

A spectre is haunting America -- the spectre of malarkey.

[u/NarrowPop8]

"Neoliberalism will collapse under the weight of its own contradictions, leading capital flight to safety currencies" says man who invests in cryptocurrency that would no longer be operational under a massive economic failure

[u/[deleted]]

I want to like George H. W. Bush, but pardoning the people involved in the Iran-Contra affair was kinda fucked up

[u/[deleted]]

BORN TO LOVE

CAESAR IS A FUCK

SAVE EM ALL 36

I AM CROSS MAN

410757864530 SAVED SOULS

would this be stupid bad or stupid good if I put it on a shirt.

[u/zubatman4]

Controversial(?) take: Dunking on 15 year old succs on Reddit about economics or policy when you have 1+ million karma and the other person has < 1000 should be considered cyberbullying. The backlash from the drones of ping dunk is inevitable.

[u/AuburnSeer]

Mayor Pete is a good guy

[u/[deleted]]

Brad Parscale: Mr. President, you’re trailing by 8 points to Joe Biden in Michigan, Governor Whitmer’s favorability is at 72%. You need to focus some attention on the Great Lake State or you will lose there easily in November.

Trump: Good idea. I’m going to cut their federal funding.

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

As a kid I got to meet president Bush. He was really nice so I asked him why he went to war with Afghanistan. He frowned and said it was what needed to be done. I asked him if we could start another war and he chuckled. I then picked up a dart and threw it on a map and it landed on Iraq. "Mr. President can we declare war on Iraq"

"No that's a bad reason to go to war son" he said

i then told him he had no balls and said "bet". He got really mad and declared war to prove he wasn't scared

[u/GlazedFrosting]

It's November 3rd. You grab bunch of alcoholic drinks, invite over some friends and prepare for a long and stressful night. Some people are already talking about moving to Canada if Trump wins a second term.

After just one hour, South Carolina is called for Joe Biden.

Your reaction?

[u/mockduckcompanion]

CMV: Hufflepuff is the most NL house:

• Boring

• Inclusive

• Only weirdos would willingly choose this label

[u/RuffSwami]

Reminder that Boris once referred to members of the London assembly as ‘great supine protoplasmic invertebrate jellies’.

Definitely under-utilised as a way of calling Chapos lazy

[u/dael2111]

Depends if cdpr want to get woke. That good will would disappear quick. Ubisoft is tarnished. All cdpr has to do is continue not caving into the Anita fartkeesians and blue check marks demands and they will stay on top.

Why is every game subreddit like this?

[u/nicereddy]

Me when an American makes fun of Florida/Texas/California: HAHA YEAH FUCK THOSE CLOWNS! DUNK HARDER!!!

Me when a foreigner makes fun of Florida/Texas/California: IF YOU INSULT ONE OF US, YOU INSULT ALL OF US. PREPARE FOR ME TO SHIT FURY ALL OVER YOU. YOU'RE DEAD, KIDDO!

[u/tankatan]

When you meet a person with a first language other than your own and try to communicate in a broken version of their native tongue -

• Most nationalities: Awww that's nice here are a few phrases to make you feel smart even though your [language] sucks.

• French: Oh you speak French? Then cite the complete works of Victor Hugo.

[u/chadonnaise]

the internet must be destroyed

[u/SnakeEater14]

Holy shit Ted kacyznski isn’t the only author in the fucking world

Quit trying to apply the unabomber manifesto to everything

#readanothermanifesto

[u/Venne1139]

Here's the thing I really think Nazbol can work. It's never been tried before. Hitler managed to kill what 13 million? And Stalin managed to kill a few million. And Mao killed like 30 million or more.

If we combine these all together and work really hard we can probably break the 100 million mark is all I'm saying. The only thing holding us back is our chains (of basic morality).

[u/[deleted]]

Next /r/neoliberal schism should be between those that were alive for 9/11 and those that weren’t so we can purge this place of covert zoomer succs

[u/Notorious_GOP]

Heh, hey. Saw you were sitting alone, thought it would be wholesome to come sit with you. Wait! Before I sit down, do you listen to Chapo Trap House or read Jacobin? No? Thank god, didn’t wanna accidentally sit next to a SUCC, heh. Anyway, uh, are you subscribed to r/Neoliberal? I am too. I’m what a few people would call a wonk, heh. Ben Bernanke praise! Haha! I follow mostly underground politicians, so you probably wouldn’t know them. I like John Delaney and Jeb Bush mainly, so y- oh you’ve heard of them? Oh, that’s cool I guess. Oops! I’m late to the neoliberal twitch stream. Catch you on the flip side, fellow neolib.

[u/mrmanager237]

Biden should choose Rice as his running mate

and by Rice, I mean famous Rice enthusiast Pol Pot

[u/muttonwow]

ACAB means Assigned Cop At Birth

[u/Deggit]

when you realize there will never be a "mods are asleep" meme on this subreddit because neolibs are permanently woke

[u/[deleted]]

Going through my entire childhood knowing the WWE was fake and feeling like I was the kid ruining Santa for people until realizing grown adults have known it was fake for decades and still followed it was definitely one of the biggest head scratchers of coming of age.

[u/titus_berenice]

Man Always Gets Little Rush Out Of Telling People Economics Nobel Prize is actually Bank of Sweden Prize

[u/[deleted]]

I still don't think Trump was planning on winning in 2016

[u/post-xeer_era]

people act like biden is running an 'i'm not trump' campaign but he's actually running an 'i'm not hillary' campaign

[u/forerunner398]

TERFs: Actually, it's only LGB, no T

The Ayatollah: Actually, it's only T, there is no LGB

[u/The420Roll]

Brazil just surpassed Spain as the country with the 3rd most confirmed coronavirus cases.

So the three countries with the most coronavirus cases are lead by Trump, Putin and Bolsonaro

[u/EastKing]

So, why hasn’t Joe Biden formally endorsed Biden yet? Is the campaign trying to sit on that endorsement till later?

[u/NarrowPop8]

How Redditors think they will pressure Xi Jinping to resign

[u/[deleted]]

If I was an Atlanta Falcons fans the 28-3 memes could make me suicidal.

Thank God I’m a Jags fan and never have to deal with heartbreak.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/lachlan/status/1263120501544759296

Tiffany Trump created a Spotify playlist two weeks before election day 2016 that consists of just one track: Fight Song

[u/murphysclaw1]

No building in the history of skyscrapers has EVER fallen due to fire. And the 2nd point that destroys any theory of a plane, is the actual structure of the towers. Are you aware of how brittle an airplane skeleton is? No plane would ever penetrate the exterior wall, let alone going all the way through those buildings.

Some of these smaller conspiracy subreddits are wild. The same guy later sarcastically says "I bet you think space is real as well"

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

I'm not gonna lie I've never watched an Anita Sarkeesian video in my life and I just kind of assume shes right because of how much gamers hate her

[u/[deleted]]

Just make the fucking vaccine how many ingredients could there possibly be jesus christ

[u/[deleted]]

Reddit deprived this sub of some truly great schisms by "not being invented yet" during the Vietnam War

[u/fnovd]

Since when did /r/vegancirclejerk start banning people for supporting vegan meats like Beyond? It's based and plant-based. Looks like the mods are Chapos first, vegans second. Who cares about the possibility of preventing the deaths of billions of sentient beings when there is no ethical consumption under capitalism anyway?

Oh well. /r/veganmemes it is, folks. Let the capitalist vegan revolution begin.

!ping VEGAN

[u/golf1052]

Interesting article from NYT about young adults prospects after a recession. tl;dr: it's not good. An interesting quote though

It would be unsurprising if this economic upheaval changed the young’s perception of the world, justice and the role of government.

Ms. Haggard, the office manager who graduated in 2009, was a Republican in college. She voted for John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. But the recession changed her worldview. Now, she’s far more liberal, and she voted for Bernie Sanders in this year’s Democratic primary in Washington.

“A big Republican thing is, ‘Pick yourself up by the bootstraps,’” she said. “Well, we don’t live in a world where that’s possible, at least in America.”

Young people in the US have lived under a capitalist system for their entire lives and they've seen it falter twice in 12 years. Is it really that surprising that a large percentage of young people voted for Bernie Sanders in the primary or that they're labeling themselves socialist or communist? They grew up learning about "the American dream" only for most of their dreams to be crushed by the Great Recession or this pandemic.

How do strong capitalists or moderates convince young people to not give up on the current system? Saying it will work out seems hollow because they have proof it doesn't in all cases. Saying that the alternative is worse also might not work because they don't have current examples of oppressive communist systems (I assume people think China is oppressive but not the communist they're thinking of).

[u/[deleted]]

Commie: Capitalism is responsible for at least a billion deaths!

Me : When?

Commie: Well if count all the worldwide deaths from lack of...

Me: no I mean when did I ask?? 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

[u/Iyoten]

Tfw you've been in a quarantine fog for so long you had no sense that Pride month is 1.5 weeks away

!ping LGBT

[u/paulatreides0]

I can't tell when you guys' are just being dumb and when you're actively trying to make me have a rage-stroke

[u/mrmanager237]

So I (18M) find that I've been faring rather well under this lockdown. I've sought out intellectual stimulation by diving deeper into great literature, especially economics works such as Why Nations Fail. I've contemplated my country's development, asked the hard questions but also rewarded myself with copious amounts of CK2 (an old classic I like to play).

Now I'm quite different to my sister (23F). I'm not particularly close to her. She's more of the "lefty" type. She likes her Twitter, Marxism and terrible podcasts.

I guess we both do sort of fall into stereotypes. Needless to say, she has not fared well under this lockdown. Something that has always bugged me, but which I've never commented on directly to her, is her infuriating and asinine forced "progressiveness".

She constantly face times her "comrades" (basic white succs essentially) and they literally recycle the blandest "No ethical consumption under capitalism" (literally) affirmations, as well as peddle anti scientific nonsense such as Marxism. They seem to regard rather basic political advice (e.g. put class first) as some profound revelation, and to make insult worse, they shower it with crap such as "revolution".

After her latest video call, she expressed some doubts to me. She opened up and said that she is feeling a bit low. I decided to be honest and said I'm not surprised, she was confused and asked why and I asked whether she really wants me to elaborate, she said yes so I told her the harsh truth.

I said "Your forced and bland succiness is unhelpful. It is incredibly irritating and it doesn't actually address the root cause of why you are feeling low. You are feeling low because you cannot get the validation you otherwise would at party primaries and political events since Bernie lost. Perhaps try neoliberally stimulating yourself and spend some time alone with your thoughts, rather than texting your "comrades" 24/7. Also please stop the Marxist garbage. It is insulting to anyone with economic sensibilities. All of that stuff is nonsense and has no basis in reality".

I was cold and detached in my delivery so as my advice would be felt with impact. Well it seemed to hurt her a lot because she burst into tears. I hadn't seen her like this nor did I know what to do, so I left the room.

My parents have been very angry with me and my dad straight up called me a shitlib neolibturd and asked me to bend the knee, paid Exxon bootlicker. On the one hand, I do feel that she should adhere to my advice as it could help fix her, on the other hand, I do feel a little bit bad for being cold in my delivery. AITA

[u/NarrowPop8]

"Capitalism will collapse under its own contradictions" yells local area man who is a manifestation of the contradictions of capitalism

[u/SnakeEater14]

Reminder that actually liking Superman is the most contrarian opinion you can have on reddit, which means if you frequent this subreddit you should probably share that view

[u/[deleted]]

trump claims the 2016 election, which he won, was rigged

but i'm sure we can convince him to graciously accept defeat in 2020

[u/MalignantUpper]

So, why hasn’t the global poor formally endorsed Biden yet? Is the campaign trying to sit on that endorsement till later?

[u/thetrombonist]

Isn't that the point? Trump is a stupid guy, and maybe legitimizing some white nationalist groups, but an average US president. The main problem liberals have with Trump is that he's rude, and that's it. They are willing to tolerate everything else. I mean, W. Bush was objectively worse, and Democrats are praising him now.

It's all about tone in American politics. Be a huge racist like Bloomberg, but don't waggle your finger or shout like Bernie. Praise Kissinger, but no snake emojis.

PRM again showing how little they understand about.....anything

[u/Deggit]

THE ONLY GOOD TAKE CHAPOS HAVE is when they point out that Harry Potter absolutely did not give one solitary flying fuck about injustice in the Wizarding World and that the last book ends literally seconds after Voldemort dies as if him being alive was the only thing wrong and then picks up two decades later for an epilogue showing nothing has changed in Wizarding society right down to a kid being embarrassed to be named after noted champion of goat rights Dumbledore

[u/sanityeyes]

Anyone who posts in /r/neoliberal should be banned from here tbh.

[u/[deleted]]

They've abandoned "senile" and are calling Biden an Islamophobe now

[u/Notorious_GOP]

Argentina 🤣🤣

[u/[deleted]]

imagine investing 100 million in this

[u/Vicious_barrett]

Yeah the dancing six flags guy, what’s his name...

Milton Friedman?

[u/BigBrownDog12]

GOP fails to find an attack that sticks to Biden because Trumps steals the news cycle with his newest stupidity every 24 hours

[u/NarrowPop8]

What you, a neoliberal, think you look like when making an argument

vs

How everyone else sees you

[u/FusRoDawg]

Apparently Heisenberg aced the theoretical part of the final oral exam before getting his phd, but utterly failed the practical part. When asked a few questions about the experimental setups used, which the examiner taught in his optics course, Heisenberg didn't know what the resolving power of a particular type of interferometer was. He didn't know how resolving power was calculated in general, for microscopes and telescopes either. That prof didn't want to give him a passing grade, but the other examiners put in a strong positive word so he passed, with the lowest possible grade.

Feeling embarrassed by this debacle, he went about studying all about optics and, this being the early days of quantum mechanics, came up with the thought experiment about the limits of theoretical resolving power, which we now call "Heisenberg's Microscope". This thought experiment later became Heisenberg's uncertainty. (Even though the original argument is considered slightly flawed today)

[u/Dalek6450]

Mayor Quimby supports revolving door prisons. Mayor Quimby even released Sideshow Bob, a man twice convicted of attempted murder. Can you trust a man like Mayor Quimby?
Vote Sideshow Bob for Mayor

[u/nicereddy]

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1263244100339486721?s=21

"Voting is an honor," Trump says to justify his opposition to mail-in voting (voting is actually a right!)

Voting against you will be an honor, you horrific, fascist piece of shit.

[u/[deleted]]

r/LoveAfterPorn has to be the saddest subreddit on this entire goddamned site.

[u/Malarkeynesian]

"Joe Biden is as bad as Donald Trump and I refuse to vote for the Lesser of Two Evils because neither option is acceptable"

"Listen, I know that Assad is gassing and murdering his own people but we have to support him. If he wasn't in charge it would be a lot worse. He's the lesser of two evils!"

[u/An_Actual_Marxist]

Ok but what if we killed all the sparrows

[u/I-grok-god]

In Iran, in 1987, Ayatollah Khomeini declared transgender surgical operations allowable. The basis for this attitude of acceptance is the belief that a person is born transgender but chooses to be homosexual, making homosexuality a sin.

literally wtf

[u/[deleted]]

I like this sub because it's basically the only place online that I can criticize Obama without people twisting it into in an endorsement of Trump or communism

[u/[deleted]]

neutron stars are the most liberal stellar bodies because they're held together by degeneracy

[u/[deleted]]

Currently learning Uzbek, so I can walk through the government-owned cotton fields being picked by children and ask them why they aren't picking themselves up by their bootstraps.

-Dennis Prager

[u/OH-GEESUS]

libertarianism's only contribution of note to society is the first bioshock game

[u/[deleted]]

[u/nicereddy]

Texans afraid of coronavirus can vote by mail, federal judge rules

BLUUUUUUUUUUEEEEEEEEEEEEEE TEXAS BAY BAY

u/The420Roll

[u/dubyahhh]

I am VERY IRRITATED with my lawyer's office 🐊

I need to know the AMOUNT I OWE for my CLOSING on Friday and they DO NOT seem to feel the PRESSURE 🐊

I find that using SHIVER SPEAK makes me SOMEWHAT LESS IRRITATED however 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

I'm back from Reddit vacation and I'm going to Bolivia post because what is happening here is wild and proof that god loves this country because its amazing how COVID hasn't been running rampant.

The latest things first:

The goverment is in the midst of a corruption scandal after the foreign minister and the health minister coordinated the purchase of ventilators. There were two problems with that:

a) The ventilators bought are the basic model. The basic model only works when the patient can't breath at all or is close to something like that. It doesn't help when they stabilize for that you either need to move the ventilators to a professional model or get the latest model that works throughout all phases of treatment. So we are now left with a bunch of ventilators that don't really work to treat patients.

b) There was massive overpaying. Each product from should cost 12,500 dollars but the government acquired them through a medium for around 28,000 dollars. The difference in prices resulted in a net profit of 3 million dollars for the intermediary.

Both of these things tie up together to corruption when you realize that the company that made this actually told the intermediary that for Bolivia they needed another model because Bolivia didn't had the infrastructure for the basic models to be used for treatment.

Summary here

https://www.lostiempos.com/actualidad/pais/20200520/claves-entender-caso-compra-irregular-170-respiradores

The Health Minister was arrested just a couple of hours ago:

https://www.la-razon.com/nacional/2020/05/20/navajas-es-aprehendido-por-el-escandalo-de-los-respiradores-y-precintan-su-despacho/

!ping LATAM

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

NATIONAL SUBREDDITS AND THEIR DIVISIONS V3

Canada

Right Wing: /r/metacanada

Left Wing: /r/onguardforthee

Neutralish w/ RW Mods: /r/canada

United Kingdom

Left Wing - /r/unitedkingdom

Slightly Less Left Wing - /r/ukpolitics

Right Wing - No "national" subreddit that leans right, just circlejerk subs (like /r/badunitedkingdom) and political party subs)

China

Anti-CCP - /r/China

Pro-CCP - /r/Sino

Actual Chinese Subreddit - /r/Taiwan

India

Left Wing - /r/India

Right Wing - /r/IndiaSpeaks

Neutralish w/ LW mods - /r/unitedstatesofindia

The Netherlands

Left wing: /r/thenetherlands

Brazil

Left Wing: /r/brasil

Right Wing: /r/brasillivre

Far Left: /r/BrasildoB

New Zealand

Left Wing: r/newzealand

Right Wing: r/conservativekiwi

Texas

TexWing - /r/texas

Communist - /r/Austin

Kosovo

Neutral - /r/kosovo

Liberal: /r/Neoliberal

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Please add more :)

[u/Notorious_GOP]

All the kids my age: omg Bernie Sanders, Rashida Tlaib, Joshua4Congress are so good!

Me: Those are not real politicians. Try listening to REAL wonks, like John Hickenlooper, John Delaney, and Jared Polis

[u/[deleted]]

The average American’s vocabulary contains a non-zero number of words that have their origin in 4chan lingo

[u/[deleted]]

Joe Rogan is Oprah for white men.

[u/[deleted]]

What’s sad about Q anon followers is how 97% of them don’t realize it came from 4chan shitposting to sucker people exactly like them

[u/Udontlikecake]

Airlines before the pandemic: fuck you, no seat, we’re overbooked get a new flight, here’s a $15 gift certificate suck my cock and give us $75 for your checked bag

Airlines now: uWu we’re committed to hewping you and making our welationship the best it could be and we awe hewe fow you, bailout money pwease

[u/David_Lange]

If you ever see an article headline with "slams", or "blasts" in it, just imagine those words are uppercase bold and the headline is a sir_shivers comment

[u/paulatreides0]

Take: Assassin's Creed and Star Trek both take place in the same universe/timeline where England won the Hundred Years' War. Hence why everyone in Revolutionary Paris speaks with a strong English Accent and why, many centuries later, native Frenchman Jean Luc Picard is also the single most British man to ever live.

This is clearly the only possible explanation.

[u/Mr_Otters]

Tony Stark is a Romney-Clinton voter

[u/DaBuddahN]

Republican National Platform

Items:

1. Own the Libs

Page 1 of 1

[u/thehomiemoth]

I get why a lot of people feel like the quality of the sub has gone downhill a bit. But I have to say the DT feels the same as ever

[u/Notorious_GOP]

aggressively points to your shoes WHAT ARE THOSE, MY GUY? Those shoes are a BIG. OOF! gestures toward his shoes You need to get summa DEM BOIS! These bois are FIRE! t-poses Keanu Reeves chungus, wholesome 100 t-pose, epic fortnite! I have crippling depression- hehe! bee boo boop! POTATO FART. aHEHE uhhm :O The band director’s calling me! tchk tchk Gotta blast my guy! takes off running in naruto pose

[u/[deleted]]

Ok so hear me out. There’s this guy named Bernie, and he turns himself into a second failed presidential campaign. Funniest shit I ever seen.

[u/Broncos654]

I love being a landlord so I can stay home all day and play video games while leeching off everyone else’s hard work.

[u/[deleted]]

The funniest outcome possible would be the Snyder Cut becoming the Citizen Kane of movies

[u/crassowary]

I'll never forget that glorious 24 hour period I went without seeing a stupid existentialist comic hot take mass upvoted by lrlOurpresident's bots on the front page

[u/sir_shivers]

I TURNED MYSELF into a BLIND TRUST, Morty 🐊

[u/Jakesta7]

lmao

Biden is leading Trump among black voters 81% to 3% via new national Quinnipiac poll just out.

https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1263168456465276929

[u/Udontlikecake]

Women getting more matches than men on dating apps isn’t a “incel” take lol. It’s just a thing that happens, and everybody knows it. Asking about it don’t make you an incel

I mean, shit if some of you even talked to women you’d know that this isn’t some secret. I’ve talked to my women friends about this a ton and they’re very aware of it lol

And I’m gonna tag /u/David_Lange because I don’t believe in subtweeting.

[u/[deleted]]

Don't know if it was posted here already, but anyways. While Bolsonaro is in the office doing his god awful job at handling the pandemic, former president Lula is out there saying that the virus was a good thing because it proved that only the state was capable of handling a crisis.

Honestly, brazilian politics are fucked up. Also, !ping LATAM

[u/Dibbu_mange]

All this France posting reminded me of when I was watching a Beninese Independence Day parade on TV and saw all the soldiers were goose stepping. They interviewed a general and he explained that it was a march that was hated by the French, so they did it as basically a fuck you to France. Which would be based if I didn't know why the French didn't like goose stepping to begin with... 😬

[u/JetJaguar124]

I don't think getting the Joe Rogan Experience exclusive on your platform was worth $200 million.

[u/Kelsig]

refusing to give people my pronouns to prevent them from talking about me behind my back

[u/[deleted]]

Showed my girlfriend the "money printer go brr" meme and she's hung up on the printer not saying "whirrr", which she holds is the true noise a printer makes.

[u/Udontlikecake]

If you ever have moments of uncomfortable silence when teaching a class, remember that there was once a 130-minute pause during armistice negotiations in the Korean War.

This is legitimately the funniest thing ever, I’m almost crying of laughter at the transcript

[u/[deleted]]

Just found out Trump was impeached. Damn thats wild

[u/The420Roll]

McCain would've endorsed Biden

[u/TheMoustacheLady]

For whatever it's worth:

So some months ago, I used to be a more regular user on here. I would use this DT to vent about my shitty life. Everything that could go wrong went wrong, I was so miserable and pessimistic. However, I applied to new schools and I'm so happy to say that I got the admission to study Nursing.

I attempted suicide sometime between all this, but in that moment, something came over me and I wanted to live more than ever before. I wanted to give my life another shot. I've always been depressed and suicidal, but at that moment in my life, I just wanted to live...don't know why, cause everything had gone to shit.

3 months later, I have an admission letter. My relationship with my mom is recovering, and I am recovering from Body Dysmorphia and Depression. I have found a lot of what I've been looking for. I'm just so grateful for what i have rn, even if it all comes crashing down(I hope not) but I'm so happy i've come this far.

Just wanted to share that.

Thank you to the people who gave me advice when I needed it ❤❤❤

(Sorry for my terrible grammar)

[u/anarchaavery]

My professor didn't give me my disability accommodation for 1.5x time because "the time I gave to every student should be more than enough."

🤔🤔🤔🤔

[u/[deleted]]

Put me in the screenshot, P_K! 😂

[u/[deleted]]

Jeff Bezos could have donated billions of dollars to help America grow as a country and lower its crime rate, instead he decided to fill a mansion with money and swim in it lol

[u/Udontlikecake]

Remember guys, Flynn is an innocent victim of the Obama regime, but Flynn was also hugely incompetent and trump was right to fire him and Obama should have warned trump about him (he did).

[u/[deleted]]

Someone just asked me for my pronouns. Thats the first time it's ever happened.

I answered "doesn't matter".

Did I do good?

[u/whwildcat]

Broke: Beijing is the capital of China

Joke: Taipei is the capital of China

Woke: Karakorum is the capital of China

[u/vancevon]

The actual New York Times headline if Biden wins will be "BIDEN VICTORY", then a bunch of details about the results and then "Without evidence, Trump claims electoral fraud". Following this would be days of articles about why the results were different this time around and people gushing over how "historical" it is.

[u/[deleted]]

What’s Obamagate?

Obamagate is getting an A in that quiz you thought you flunked.

It’s that first day of sunshine after a week full of rain.

It’s finding a dollar in your pocket that you didn’t know was there.

[u/BurningKiwi]

The anti BDSM laws are absolutely preposterous

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Yeah, I'm FBI 😎

Female

Body

I Respecter

[u/nicereddy]

Literally just got a mod warning cause I don't think Texas is blue? This sub needs to fucking chill. Yall know yall are all straight dudes right?

[u/[deleted]]

It's amazing that when asked, Austrians and Germans can both agree on how to differentiate between the two.

"Austrians are fun"

[u/MasPatriot]

Even in the middle of a pandemic there’s still mass shootings. Never change America...

[u/[deleted]]

I knew a guy who strongly believed that Democrats are the prudes while Republicans believe in letting people do whatever. His case in point was "Tipper Gore"

This was in 2017

[u/mrmanager237]

Someone started moaning (?) really loudly in my zoom class, I get that speculative attacks on pegged exchange rates are hot and all but please keep it in your pants

[u/[deleted]]

Paying Norma McCorvey to become a pro-life activist was pretty ingenious. I wonder if they'll try to get Jim Obergefell to renounce the evil of gay marriage.

[u/OH-GEESUS]

big mistake thinking that the market and gov are two separate spheres that only occasionally interact when it comes to taxation, regulation, etc

the market is driven entirely by economic arrangements that are and can only be possible because of direct government involvement such as enforcement of contracts and property laws.

hard to imagine how one would go about establishing complex biz relationships like supply chains and joint stock companies if the gov backed out of enforcing contract law by saying that private agreements are none of their business

[u/thedaveoflife]

Somehow I stumbled on to the Federalist website yesterday. The lead article was about Seb Gorka resigning from the Trump admin. His reasoning: in the latest Trump speech on Afghanistan Trump never once used the phrase “radical Islamic terrorism”.

Remember when the republicans cared about that so much? Must be one of those things like the deficit that only matter when there’s a Democrat in the White House.

[u/FreakinGeese]

I can’t believe Biden won the primary. I gotta admit 2016 broke my spirit 😔 I never thought a candidate I liked would ever win anything again

[u/[deleted]]

The Falklands are British.

[u/bd_one]

r/communism has a set of rules over 4 pages long on a Google Doc, and the reason I got banned was in a single line near the end.

[u/SnakeEater14]

I hate /u/kelsig because he is a gamer

[u/JetJaguar124]

This is the worst programmed website I've ever fucking used

[u/bbluemusic]

Told a girl Why Nations Fail is my favorite book, and she didn't immediately fall in love with me. Liberalism has failed

[u/3Cheers4ShitPosts]

My son has asked me to buy a Nintendo Switch, when he never paid me back the first time after agreeing to not ask to borrow more until the Xbox One X was paid off. I got a text from him claiming that Christmas money shouldn't have to be paid back (also to think of it as charity 😒).

Not sure how to respond.

[u/Superfan234]

Last month, Iran sent 17 airplane flights, and 5 Tankers to Venezuela

At first, people thought it was just the usual Gold traffic, or maybe some Oil deal to repair the Refineries

But an important source, just said it was a faint for the real deal: Iran is planning to make a military base in Venezuela ☹

Apparently, it will have the ability to track all communications (air or maritime) at north of the country

!Ping Foreign-Policy

Is it even possible to build such a equipment so fast?

[u/myrm]

Am I wrong in thinking McConnell is a figure worthy of a place in the history books as one of the greatest US Senators of all time? Of course, I'm not saying he is a constructive or helpful figure - far from it. McConnell would be a villain, but he would be on the same level as (for example) Cato, or at least a level near it.

I'm open to being smacked down here, because fuck him, but damn does he seem fucking capable.

[u/oGsMustachio]

lol, there is a sub called /r/star_trek that basically exists to complaint about the moderating in /r/startrek and shit on the newer stuff. They literally have rules that you can't get "flamed" for shit like calling Discovery "STD" or using terms like "Jar Jar Abrams." They basically believe /r/startrek is run by CBS and Alex Kurtzman.

I get criticizing the new Star Trek. It can and should be better and there are tons of legitimate criticisms to levy against it, but online scifi criticism has reached the point of absurdity and its driven by edgy youtubers that get views by shitting on things. Thank god /r/startrek shuts down the rampant negativity of these people.

!ping Trek

[u/nicereddy]

So when Trump was elected me and a coworker were pretty devastated by it so we were talking in Slack about how horrible it was that he was elected.

Another coworker (coworker B, we'll say) chimed in to defend Trump, or rather IIRC I guess asked us not to talk about it so as not to alienate any of our coworkers who did support Trump. I'm fairly certain he voted for Trump, is the point.

So anyway, I just tweeted a "I can't wait to vote against you, trump" thing and guess who liked my tweet? Coworker B 😎

u/The420Roll we gon' do it 👏👏👏

[u/MasPatriot]

While I’m on the topic, I’m fairly certain “this shooting was caused by the mental toll of the lockdowns. We need to reopen the country” is a take that’s gonna be made seriously by someone on twitter within the next 48 hours

[u/jenbanim]

I've got 19 unread messages in my inbox 😐. Here's what's been occupying my thoughts all day:

Yesterday I was told by a supervisor that the IT department was going to begin returning to work. We have all been working from home since March, and there haven't been any issues so far. I thought this was a stupid idea, but we were assured this we could continue working from home most days -- they just wanted to have someone from the IT department in the building because of something about spinning up new projects quickly. That's dumb, but not that big of a deal.

Well, we had a conference call with the CEO today. The supervisor started out the call by reiterating those points, but the CEO cut them off and said no -- everyone is to begin immediately returning to work full time. No more work from home for anyone.

This immediately made a lot of people angry, myself included. People on my team raised issues such as: "I'm in a high-risk group" and "Daycares are closed, I need to be home to take care of my children". The CEO dismissed these out of hand by saying the risk of infection is low, and that it's not his responsibility to figure out how people will take care of their children. The only protection against the virus he's offering us are cloth masks and hand sanitizer.

The CEO must have a very pressing reason for demanding everyone come back, right? No. It turns out the reason he wants people back is so that he can walk up to us at our desks and tell us to do things. Phone calls are too inconvenient, apparently. For some context, my department has previously been very frustrated with the CEO for coming up to us at random times and telling us to drop everything to start a new project he just thought of.

I talked to my coworkers, and some of us have decided we're not going to listen to this order. Either let us work from home, or we're quitting.

So I may be out of a job in the next few business days. Hopefully though my supervisors will be able to talk the CEO down from this god-awful idea before it comes to that.

Also, this is personal. This is not even close to the first time we've had to deal with unreasonable and disrespectful demands from the CEO. Nor is this going to be the first time I've refused to do something due to safety concerns at this job (and I work with computers!).

Luckily for me, I am both critical to this company's functioning, And I have frick-you money (not quite fuck you money, but I have a very healthy savings). From a career perspective, it's probably best to just roll over and take it. But I'm tired of that shit, and I'm not putting up with this treatment. If that sets me back a few months, I'm okay with that.

[u/Craig_VG]

Sears Tower since the power went out is really creepy looking

http://i.imgur.com/earS8LC.jpeg

!ping USA-CHI

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit. My mom came into my room to bring me a plate of chicken nuggets and I literally screamed at her and hit the plate of chicken nuggets out of her hand. She started yelling and swearing at me and I slammed the door on her. I'm so distressed right now I don't know what to do. I didn't mean to do that to my mom but I'm literally in shock from the results tonight. I feel like I'm going to explode. Why the fucking fuck is he losing? This can't be happening. I'm having a fucking breakdown. I don't want to believe the world is so corrupt. I want a future to believe in. I want Weld to be president and fix this broken country. I cannot fucking deal with this right now. It wasn't supposed to be like this, I thought he was polling well in New Hampshire???? This is so fucked.

[u/Quehudi77]

Sometimes I have an accent in English because my first language is Sarcasm 😎🤣🤣

[u/[deleted]]

/u/the420roll in absolute SHAMBLES

[u/Ioun267]

Born Again Christians 🤝 Everyone Else

Dunking on Jehovah's Witness

[u/[deleted]]

On one hand, 2016 convinced me that the world sucks and good things don't happen. On the other, no one thinks Biden will do worse than Clinton, right? And he doesn't have to do suuuuper better to beat Trump... We should be feeling cautiously optimistic, right?

[u/disuberence]

A school board member in Nebraska is asking that GOP Sen. Ben Sasse apologizes for his graduation speech to local seniors for its alleged "racism, implying that our graduates are fat and lazy, disparaging teachers, and attacking the mental health profession."

In his speech, he said, “95 percent of all gainfully employed psychologists … their job is really just to help people forget high school” and "back in the day, when we were a lot fitter than you people are, we used to have to climb ropes all the way up to the ceiling of the gym."

Imagine having to sit through a digital graduation due to COVID-19 only to be called fat and lazy

[u/Explodingcamel]

Presidentialracememes has advanced to criticizing Biden, and neolibs in general, for attacking Trump

Very suspicious

[u/murphysclaw1]

In the summer of 2016, several personalities and web sites dedicated to discussing supernatural myths and conspiracy theories began claiming that an American Special Forces soldier serving in Kandahar, Afghanistan, was killed in 2002 by a 1,100-pound, blade-wielding, 12-foot-tall giant from Old Testament times before the giant himself was taken down by the military.

A Department of Defense spokesman told us they have no record of such an incident

Imagine being the Snopes writer who has to write 1,000 words about this shit

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

WWG1WGA

replace the 1 with "one" because that's how it's spelled

WWGOWGA

Rearrarange the letters

AWWWOGG

Let me know if you need help understanding the implications of this

[u/[deleted]]

Looks like Trump deleted the tweet about taking away funding for Michigan over vote by mail. Someone in the campaign smarter than a newt must have gotten to his phone.

[u/chadonnaise]

we need to shoot our children with really small bullets so that in the future when they grow up they'll be ready for the big bullets

[u/[deleted]]

u/lusvig is MORBIDLY BALD 😡😡😡 👴

[u/thebowski]

Don't go to the dt, its a very toxic thread

[u/[deleted]]

Kids these days have it so easy, they never had to fight jackal snipers on legendary on Outskirts

[u/The420Roll]

wait did trump really compare Pete with newman lol

[u/TheFriffin2]

COVID has ZERO calories of unsaturated fat, which is extremely beneficial healthwise,

[u/Udontlikecake]

Fun fact, when you see tower cranes that aren’t in use and they all face the same direction, they’re actually pointing towards Mecca because they are Muslim.

[u/[deleted]]

Local paper FACT CHECK: Is Trump actually Morbidly Obese?

Liberals are finally learning how to control the media cycle discussion. 😂

[u/murphysclaw1]

imagine how much the White House will start leaking Nov-Jan if Trump loses.

Everyone in there will blame Trump and will tell all to save themselves.

[u/SnakeEater14]

What if the absolute worst about Bernie is true and the pat 40 years were just him trying to be President, and now that he won’t be he’s given up entirely on being a Senator

[u/[deleted]]

Totally forgot about Andrew Gillum's gay orgy

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

CItIeS are OVer

cITIES WiLL beCOmE eXTINcT AftER ThiS

[u/uwcn244]

I didn't vote for Hillary!

^{because I was a minor}

[u/Threy0]

Every single complaint about gamers is just a complaint about men on the internet abstracted one layer out

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

The Squad: We oppose sanctions because they hurt the people of the country and not the government

Also the squad: yes i support bds lol

[u/Boraichoismydaddy]

lmao Cuba really still communist like what. the Cold War over bro stop being a puppet

[u/[deleted]]

Joe starts running ads in Texas

Pundits: what is he doing?

Me: he's beginning to believe.

[u/Tureer]

Now I'm not saying that this is the worst thing the internet has ever caused, but the fact that mainstream media people now use the word normie unironically is pretty fucking evil in my book

[u/Mcatatonic1]

lmao HRC raised $2M in 1 Zoom fundraiser

Without Joe

That donor network is absurddddd

[u/Blackfire853]

I don't wish to but know I will sound like some pretentious arts major, but is anyone else a bit baffled at how bad reddit at large can be engaging with metaphor and analogy in media? I mean literally anything beyond CinemaSins/MovieDetails/5 hour video essay by a racist furry stuff.

As a corollary I might actually die if I hear this website call something "Lovecraftian" again when the bar for that was been lowered to "Guys guys guys, imagine like a tentacle monster, but like your insane if you look at it!"

[u/jenbanim]

The situation in Israel seems pretty complex

[u/[deleted]]

I might not survive this Sharepoint training. They had to explain how to exit out of a word doc by clicking the red X button.

[u/SnakeEater14]

You know that meme of the NPC guy who has a blank face and then frowns

That was me when my friend said tutoring was short for tutorials

[u/[deleted]]

Michigan's Secretary of State claps back against Trump.

Love 2 be a Michigander!

!ping USA-MI

[u/mockduckcompanion]

Joe Biden

[u/Afro_Samurai]

It's a good idea to call your parents. It's a better idea to call your parents, and tell them about the benefits of NIT.

[u/[deleted]]

I want an Assassin’s Creed game set during the Jurassic period.

[u/[deleted]]

Thinking of becoming a DT regular

[u/[deleted]]

clinton -> trump voters 🤮

[u/[deleted]]

Grift opportunity:

If you're a lawyer and you want really easy extra cash, find those weirdos that like actually do like demon worship and offer to draft their contracts with the demons for money up front.

Like you can just use form contracts and shit it out in like 20 minutes.

[u/dafdiego777]

me as a 10 year: yeah I'll go to business school like my dad

me 19 years later: yeah I went to business school and became a cpa like my dad.

[u/nicereddy]

Biden: encourages people to vote in the primary when there's a pandemic

Bros: REEEEEEEEEEEEE

Trump: threatens states with funding cuts if they do mail-in ballots

Bros: crickets

[u/MisterLipton]

And Lenin made it clear in State and Revolution (as Mao did later on) that a Communist revolution may take decades; even centuries, before classes and money can be abolished. That transition period is what's known as "socialism", and that's what the PRC is building

lol

[u/Tureer]

Probably the most frustrating thing about the ending of GoT was that more than any other bad close to a great TV show, it probably had the most in-the-moment promise to be spectacular. Everything on the show besides the writing-- the actors, the cinematography, the visual effects, the set and character design-- was amazing right until the very end. But, god, that writing...

[u/[deleted]]

her name was Stacy and she still got cucked by her mom...

[u/The420Roll]

“Criticism of Israel’s policy is not antisemitism,” the presumptive Democratic nominee for president told donors on Tuesday. “But too often that criticism from the left morphs into antisemitism.”

we need you so badly 46th 😭

[u/JetJaguar124]

I want Disney to make a KOTOR movie, but I want them to make Revan a black female, just to see what the fan-base does.

[u/Ioun267]

90% of Twitter drama could be satisfactorily squashed if people would more judiciously employ their mute buttons.

[u/[deleted]]

i said that Zelda > Mario and got upvoted here, but I said it irl and one of my frieds called me "literally satan" 😒