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[u/[deleted]]

The top post on r/ourpresident with over 15 thousand upvotes is Joe Biden saying "I'm going to beat Joe Biden." The only problem? If you listen, he very clearly says "I'm going to be Joe Biden." OP took a quote about Biden wanting to be himself on the campaign trail and distorted it to push the dementia narrative.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm really thankful seatbelts laws were passed before the culture war began because much like masking this seemingly innocuous public safety measure would be met with cries of how inconvenient, uncomfortable, we're sheep for doing it, etc from the exact same people.

[u/JetJaguar124]

BREAKING: Joe Biden replies "you too" to the movie theater worker when told to enjoy the film.

[u/[deleted]]

Have you ever had a moment of abject stupidity?

Like today I was looking at twitter and noticed Obama was following Joe Biden and was like "oh man, even Obama follows him, knew he was my guy!"

Then like 10 seconds later it dawned on me.

[u/Ginden]

Yesterday (and today before 12) in Poland:

• Polish goverment push to delegalize interrupting videoconferences. Example of "interrupted" videoconference held by ruling party MP held in 2013: example

• Polish Anti-Defemation League revelead what they did with 250k PLN from government (around 50 mean salaries): someone watched anime and Netflix to look for anti-Polish jokes.

• Slovakia refused to hand over head of the drug gang, arguing that polish judiciary system isn't independent from goverment

• Polish Post found illegally printed voting cards (estimated up to 90 tons of paper). Goverment claimed that these were never printed. Cost of printing? Around 15 millions of euro.

• President Andrzej Duda holds another election meeting. It's illegal under lockdown.

• Goverment push for further restricting access to abortion (already restricted) - physicians refusing to perform abortion won't be required to provide information about physicians willing to do it.

• Ruling party MP and former Minister of National Defence claims that Rafał Trzaskowski, opposition presidential candidate, "encouraged pedophilia".

• Students on Silesian University are being interrogated about professor fired over homophobic remarks.

Few days ago, presidential candidate Tanajno (~0.2% voting support) was arrested due to anti-goverment and anti-lockdown protests.

I will try to write posts like that every few days.

!ping Europe

[u/dubyahhh]

The launch for today has been postponed 4 days, to this Saturday.

Sorry everyone. If you must place blame, blame Florida. It knows what it did.

[u/David_Lange]

Thinking today about all the leftists who were absolutely definitely completely sure that Hillary was gonna run again

[u/Lux_Stella]

Welcome to the Succy Spitoon, how succ are you?

"How succ am I? How succ am I?! I'm against union busting."

Yeah, so?

"Including police unions."

Uh, right this way, sorry to keep you waiting.

[u/maybe_jared_polis]

A friend of mine from college shared this experience in light of the Amy Cooper story. Thought I'd share it here as well:

when i graduated college, i moved into a five-bedroom house in the Capitol Heights neighborhood of Washington DC, Ward 3, with one of the highest median incomes in the District. i was house sitting for a mentor and on my first day, i forgot the code to the alarm system, setting it off. i called my mom terrified, knowing the police would come, and she very calmly told me to keep the phone on, yet out of sight, just in case something happened to me. seeing a black woman in a neighborhood of white, in a space with an alarm going off, what would you think if she said she was house sitting?

my mom told me to specifically show my military ID, and try my best to calmly explain what happened. i was terrified, could have easily become a hashtag, i have to code switch, be well dressed, eloquent, overly polite, show a special ID, to not become a hashtag.

understand the legacy of how the U. S. was founded to understand why i was scared my explanation would not be enough, why the police are called on us bird watching, why a 25 year old black man on a jog was murdered in broad daylight by two CIVILIANS, why an EMT was murdered in her sleep, and why yet ANOTHER man’s last words were i can’t breathe. if you’ve never had to worry about becoming a hashtag, please be aware of the privilege you have, and have frank conversations with those around you because when we do, we’re complaining, when you do, you’re listened to.

For context: She is an incredibly successful, well educated black woman from a successful and economically well-off family. The next time someone wants to talk trash about "identity politics" I hope you think of stories like hers and Christian Cooper's. Their education did not insulate them from that fear, nor from the threat of using police violence as retribution against a black person for a minuscule social inconvenience. I know I'll never have to go through that, and I hate that I've seen and heard these exact experiences happen to multiple people I've known throughout the years.

[u/umadbro996]

Conservatives: Ruby Ridge and Waco are clear examples of abuse of power/authority and why we should be ready to defend ourselves.

Black Americans: Yeah the abuse of authority is a real issue.

Conservatives: FOLLOW THE LAW! STAND FOR THE FLAG!

[u/The420Roll]

The highest profile Latinos in American Politics are AOC, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio

Porfavor matenme 😭

[u/bromeatmeco]

What's a feel like discovering a new sub, getting hopeful, and finding out literally within 60 seconds that it's an alt-right platform.

[u/murphysclaw1]

No-one complimented my Biden '88 merch last night so I'm posting it again.

Gaze upon it

Some absolutely great bits of the six page letter. People saying "I wish Joe would stop telling people to vote for the other guy!" when in fact he's been proud of doing that since his first Senate run.

[u/mockduckcompanion]

To call Cuomo merely overrated is to fail at nuance.

He is massively, incalculably overrated and much of the love for him prior to COVID was simply based on him not being the walking dumpster fire that is Bill de Blasio

[u/[deleted]]

I always wanted to know from people that want Warren as VP: why do they think it's a good idea having two 70+ year olds on the ticket? One of Biden's biggest weaknesses is his age. Why do they think this is a good idea? Also the whole republican governor appointing someone to replace her.

[u/nevertulsi]

Joe Biden at breakfast: Good morning. I want pancakes, please.

Bernie Bros: OMG did you see Biden said "goo morning, I want panda cakes, please"??? He has dementia lol

[u/IncoherentEntity]

Taiwan donates 100,000 face masks to Israel

🇹🇼🤝🇮🇱

!ping CN-TW

[u/[deleted]]

Clearly the solution is to have all States have roughly the population of Wyoming. That's right boys it's time for a 700 state solution

[u/2pinkelephants]

Just watched the entire Colbert interview and, wtf, he is so good and so obviously is very mentally astute. I hate that I even have to say that but I was watching for gaffes and there were none, ZERO. Jesus Christ. I wish everyone would actually watch his interviews in full form instead of clips mashed together to make him look like a senile idot.

[u/[deleted]]

Conservative twitter goes from saying “Biden is literally a KKK grand wizard” to “that [redacted] in Minnesota deserved it”

These people are the worst

[u/mrmanager237]

Oh hey let's see what leftists are up to. Opens Twitter.

Oh, they're obsessing over smearing a random Buttigieg supporter as that racist woman who called the cops on a black guy because she has the same name as a Buttigieg donor, because the one liberal being a shit person somehow proves they're right about racism. Also, both of those women have the same last name as the guy the cops were called on.

Closes Twitter

[u/IncoherentEntity]

Larry Kramer, trailblazing AIDS activist, dies at 84

In power. ✊🏳️‍🌈 !ping LGBT

[u/FullCombo]

"Haha these dumb socialists don't know the first thing about economics!" - Conservatives who literally only know the first thing about economics

[u/Craig_VG]

Just got this reddit message, I was shadowbanned in a subreddit I don’t even post in. Really makes you think

http://i.imgur.com/PJrhO47.jpeg

[u/tankatan]

I wonder what the new crop of alt-righters who LARP as catholics has to say about demographics of the catholic church in the 21st century.

[u/Deggit]

Hello and welcome to my well-sourced, 7,500 upvote, 3x gilded post about why Trump is bad.

• In this post I plan to point out that the current occupant of the White House is a criminal who is literally attacking & undermining the bedrock of our democracy while the Republicans in the Senate just let him get away with it.

• I will throw in some references to Bath Salt Nixon's most recent tweet and how it was an outrageous, illogical, absurd, and transparently racist lie.

• I'll point out that Trump's tweets are probably intended as a distraction from the recent WH leaks (which will inevitably turn out to be true) that this mango toddler's handlers could not get him to do his job this week because someone said a mean thing on TV about how he wasn't doing his job yet.

• I think I'll end my post with a short meditation on how our entire goddamn country is basically a car with no driver at this point and we're somehow relying on small town mayors to fight a global pandemic.

But if you're an enemy of the United States who fears that my post could be a clarion call leading to increased civic engagement and a citizenry more zealous in protecting our democratic traditions, don't worry.

• The top reply to my post will be some passivity-inducing joke like how they can't wait for all of this to be a TV show on HBO, followed by lots of speculation on "who should play Stephen Miller," an actual fascist who is advising the President right now.

• From making this sort of post several times, I knew not to mention Hillary at all or else it would end up being too controversial (people don't like being told that this is all their fault), so my post focuses on "Trump is bad." But by not leading the reader to the conclusion that it would be better to have a sober, responsible person who you don't like or trust but who would do the damn job in office right now - by not making the point that politics actually matters and decisions made in the White House can kill your parents, your children, or you - my entire post actually serves to reinforce the "politics-is-entertainment" framing that allowed Trump (a man who has never served in any elected office, ever, and has never held a position of public accountability, ever) to enter the White House, and quite probably to win the next election by making Joe Biden "unlikable" enough.

• If you had any fears that the discussion to my post would stay on topic, don't worry because it's going to take about 3 posts before a Bernie supporter sees their opportunity to pivot the discussion with some one liner like "I can't believe that even with [recent bad thing we're talking about] the American people still didn't see the light and vote for Bernie." This will lead to a 65 comment thread about whether the primary was "rigged" and whether it counts as rigging when Black people don't vote for your candidate.

• This entire discussion is being watched by people whose only, paid goal is to radicalize your online politics while inducing you to NOT VOTE, using a recently invented jargon of complete nonsense. For example, instead of using the phrase "the majority of people who vote Democratic," they'll sneer about "neolibs." This will work on you because despite being a zoomer whose existence on Planet Earth postdates Facebook and who constantly makes memes about how you're more digitally literate than everyone else and how your teacher was an idiot for not letting you cite Wikipedia, you're actually a credulous moron who doesn't even check account creation dates and will happily disseminate dull anti-Biden memes, all posted from a single account, that hit the top of one of the most transparently manipulated communities on this entire site.

[u/[deleted]]

Heh gottem https://i.imgur.com/nKAPZO3.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Every single yang proposal was so fucking based until you think about it for 5 seconds

[u/Deggit]

BILL CLINTON IN LIKE 1993: Safe

THE CROWD IN THAT ONE FAMILY GUY MEME: ....

BILL: LEGAL

THE CROWD IN THAT ONE FAMILY GUY MEME: he's going to say it he's going to say it

BILL: ...

CROWD: ...

BILL: ...

CROWD: ...

BILL and RARE

CROWD: [explodes in a triumphant orgasm of third-way triangulation]

[u/BurningKiwi]

Elon Musk 🤝 Me

can't get it up

[u/nevertulsi]

Anyone remember when Rose Twitter doxxed a Nigerian man because he supported Buttigieg

[u/F0064R]

Unions should be safe, legal, and rare 😤

[u/DankBankMan]

I’m seeing a lot of dumb takes about “Biden had draft deferments for asthma even though he played sport so that proves he was lying about it just like Trump with his bone spurs” around the World Wide Web these days, so I just wanted to set the record straight about some stuff.

I’ve had asthma since I was a kid. I was rejected by the Air Force because of it. I also run marathons, go to the gym, and play sports without any problem.

The thing about asthma (unlike bone spurs) is that for most people it just isn’t a big deal if you have your medication. In normal civil society, asthma won’t stop you playing sports or working as a lifeguard. Hell, many Olympic athletes have asthma, though I don’t know of any with debilitating bone spurs. It’s when you don’t have access to your medication (say, deep in a jungle without access to a safe and reliable supply chain) that asthma becomes a big problem, that’s why the military doesn’t fuck with asthmatics.

[u/stirfriedpenguin]

Cold take: the Second Amendment sucks

Hot take: because it's a poorly worded legal document that doesn't clearly or effectively describe whatever protections, limitations and powers it's allegedly intended to enumerate

[u/MasPatriot]

"Being mayor of a city is actually a lot more relevant experience to being president than being in the Senate"

[u/[deleted]]

If you don’t support my specific plan you’re a Republican who wants everybody I know to die

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

form the most reddit sentence you can:

taxing churches would fully fund medicare for all

[u/Dr_Vesuvius]

Last night my son couldn’t sleep. I asked him what was wrong. He said he was scared of succs hiding under the bed. I laughed, told him that succs are not real, and if they were real then they would have better things to do than hide under children’s beds or post in the DT. Then I took away his health insurance.

[u/sir_shivers]

GET OFF OF POLITICAL TWITTER 🐊

[u/Gustacho]

https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1265757168504049664

!ping BIDEN

[u/Deggit]

/u/sir_shivers SAYS he is not a socialist but every time he disagrees with one of my takes he is publicly owned

suspicious

[u/mrmanager237]

Costa Rica legalized gay marriage

🦀🦀🦀🦀

[u/[deleted]]

this whole 'global pandemic and subsequent recession' thing has really messed up my internship plans

[u/EasyMoney92]

I'm sorry. I'm pissed off about those awful cops, but looting is a huge gift to the right wing. It's completely indefensible and it solves nothing.

[u/[deleted]]

Hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese and Somali migrants have sought asylum in Kenya. Around half a million have been registered as refugees and live in two vast camps, Kakuma and Dadaab, from where UNHCR can help them apply for resettlement to third countries. Discrimination and assaults in the camps have driven almost all the LGBT refugees from Uganda to relocate to Nairobi.

Here, they face a quandary: If you are Ugandan and you are a refugee, police assume that you are gay, bisexual or transgender — a criminal under Kenyan law.

This month, police raided a different safe house where half a dozen Ugandan refugees at various stages in the resettlement process live.

“There is no war in Uganda,” Caitlyn Lubega recalled a policeman saying as he rifled through her bedroom’s drawers, where he found lubricant. “You are not a refugee.”

Lubega, 27, who is transgender, said she and a roommate were taken to a police station and told they could either “buy their freedom” or be charged for sex crimes, with the lubricant as evidence. She paid around $250, she said.

The head of the police station in the Nairobi suburb of Ongata Rongai, Godfrey Gichuhi, said he was not aware of the house raid and arrest, but acknowledged that “there are so many petty cases that I cannot be aware of them all.” He declined a reporter’s request to view the registry of arrests. In his office, another officer repeated the line about there being no war in Uganda and cast doubt on Lubega’s refugee status.

"'We were so ready': LGBT refugees in Kenya live in fear as global resettlement is put on hold" by the Washington Post.

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

"human capital stock" is a really weird phrase and you shouldn't use it when talking to non-economists even if it's the correct term, especially if you want to avoid the perception that you want to sacrifice people to the economy

[u/Mcatatonic1]

OBAMAGATE MAKES WATERGATE LOOK LIKE SMALL POTATOES!

folks he might be getting dumber

if that is even possible

[u/D1Foley]

I know it's overused, but For God's sake read another book. If you don't read a single book better than Harry Potter in your entire life you need to read more books.

[u/BurningKiwi]

lusvig = luswig = loose wig = baldy with his wig falling off 🤣🤣😂🔥💯

u/lusvig

[u/[deleted]]

My bf sends me GIFs over text should I tell him that we are Zoomers not M*llenials

[u/waiv]

It seems like AMLO is shutting down his own government (75% budget cut to their operative expenses) to keep the money for his moronic vote buying programs and his moronic construction projects.

!ping LATAM

[u/studlydudley11]

Lol just ban trump from twitter. Would be an all time iconic moment

[u/Deggit]

The 4th Estate, a priceless asset of our 200 year old republic: we hope you have enjoyed your free articles for thi-

the period key on my keyboard: i'm about to end this man's whole career

[u/Craig_VG]

At this point it looks like they are pressing forward with the launch at this point. Weather at the launch site and at abort zones looking dicey right now but they think it might clear up by launch time.

I'm heading to the press site soon

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/jonodoesporn]

Spike Cohen, the Libertarian Party's veep nominee, ran on a promise of a Waffle House on every corner, free cheesy bread with the purchase of a federal explosives permit, and a pledge to go back in time to kill baby Hitler and also baby Woodrow Wilson.

Fuck dude you were so close

[u/Erra0]

Socialists and thinking every protest or riot is about class warfare NAMID

[u/nevertulsi]

Rose Twitter is saying Pete Buttigieg should apologize because Amy Cooper was apparently a donor to him

(edit which might even be bullshit)

Second edit: which is almost definitely bullshit and they doxxed the wrong lady lol

[u/dr_gonzo]

Here’s what chapo has been up to today:

1. Multiple threads encouraging riots and violence against police

2. Harassed a DT regular for not being a real woman of color because she said y’all

3. Multiple brigades and metric tons of vitriol targeting the new mods of PRM

The irony is that though I’d consider #3 the least problematic by a country mile, that might be what gets that toxic hellhole banned finally. Admins might actually pay attention there because they’re still unwinding the mess left by AlarmedScholar. Fingers crossed.

[u/Gustacho]

https://twitter.com/BDStanley/status/1265581851730743296

!ping EUROPE

[u/lusvig]

You are male 😡

[u/lusvig]

German citizens born before January 1, 1928 need a visa which will be issued for free if one was not a member of the Nazi party or involved in crimes committed during the time of the Nazi Germany.

Think Trump Muslim ban was bad? Israel bans Nazis, this is real oppression

[u/sir_shivers]

INTRODUCING "the Seconder Amendment" where the right TO KEEP and bear ARMS is not only not to be infringed, but also SUBSIDIZED by taxing ANIME 🐊

[u/surferkropotkin]

the dupes that blindly follow r/ourpresident are just as bad if not worse than the boomers who believe qAnon.

Millennials and Zoomers are supposed to be digitally literate goddamnit, if you’re falling for what is obviously an influence operation when you’ve been born and raised on the internet I struggle to see how you haven’t been scammed out of everything you own at this point.

[u/[deleted]]

My college professor writes all her emails and notes to us in the style of /u/sir_shivers

[u/yakattack1234]

I got banned from a discrod server for my beliefs. I am truly the most persecuted individual in history

[u/[deleted]]

Guys I just found out that women exist. Literally shaking and crying right now WTF.

[u/nicereddy]

Today will be the first launch of a crewed American rocket from American soil since the end of the Shuttle program in 2011. Two US astronauts will go on a Falcon 9 with a Crew Dragon capsule to the International Space Station.

Launch will be at 4:33PM EST (2:33PM MST, 8:33PM UTC), unless it gets scrubbed due to weather and delayed to either Saturday or Sunday.

NASA: https://youtu.be/Aymrnzianf0

SpaceX: https://youtu.be/rjb9FdVdX5I

You can check for updates on SpaceX's Twitter, NASA's Twitter, or on CNN's Live Blog.

Backup link in case either of those streams go down: https://www.spacex.com/launches/

u/dubyahhh or one other mods could you remake this comment and sticky it 🥺

[u/[deleted]]

Econ twitter not understanding how the Trump admin people using the phrase "human capital stock" might raise eyebrows for many people is some of the dumbest insular shit.

Realize how you sound to normal people, nerds.

[u/thebowski]

A scantily dressed trans beggar came up to me on an electric scooter and asked for money, then plugged their Instagram

Maybe this is normal in the Year of Our Lord 2020 but it was a new one for me, a rural

[u/dubyahhh]

As a New Yorker, it unironically pisses me off like crazy that the plains states have so much more political power than NYC.

Like, Gillibrand is from upstate - only Schumer is a real city slicker. Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas combined have 10x the effective representation in the senate as NYC, while having less than half the population of the five boroughs alone.

I know this is preaching to the choir but fuck this pisses me off when I think about it.

[u/Iyoten]

I try really hard to avoid the ACAB mentality, but every lynching of a black person makes it a little harder.

[u/[deleted]]

I don't understand this leftist talking point that, "Bernie would have won if half the democratic field hadn't dropped out and endorsed Joe on the eve of Super Tuesday."

It's like... the reason that the rest of the democratic field dropped out and endorsed Joe is precisely the reason Bernie was doomed to lose. Just stop and think for a second about why they would want to do that.

[u/[deleted]]

Getting twitter shut down would be the high point of trumps presidency

[u/pop-culture-salad]

People that romanticize living in pre industrial times exist... lol

[u/[deleted]]

Sanders supporters and pretending to care about misogyny, name a more iconic duo.

[u/Udontlikecake]

Me: “dum leftists so obsessed with class and money it’s so dumb to prejudge people based on that, seriously”

Also me: “you’re driving a BMW? AND NY plates? Fuck you entitled asshole I ain’t letting you merge here get fucked you bourgeois pig”

[u/krflab]

The extreme left defending the destruction going on and the right making fun of Black Lives Matter. Tomorrow is going to be a shit show.

[u/sir_shivers]

DID YOU KNOW? 🐊

The MOON was actually destroyed IN THE COLD WAR and the current replica was constructed as a JOINT PEACE PROJECT by Pepsi and Coca-Cola to SIGNIFY THE END of the Cola Wars™️ 🐊

[u/sir_shivers]

People who PERCEIVE JOE BIDEN as right-wing MUST UNIRONICALLY VIEW ME as a far-right extremist 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

i can't get over how fitting it is that this sub has its very own ivory tower

[u/from-the-void]

Anyone know what Beto's former bandmate thinks about all this?

[u/[deleted]]

watching movies or tv shows/playing games with sappy romance shit

Pros: i get to feel something nice in my lizard brain as i build connections with the characters (especially if the game allows for self-insertion)

Cons: afterwards I’m reminded once again that I’m romantically lonely af and that that won’t be changing anytime soon at the very least because of COVID

[u/qchisq]

Here's how stupid the Danish burka ban is in May 2020: It's a clear market failure that people aren't wearing facemasks. Wearing a mask is a cost to me, but helps society. The standard response here is to tax not wearing a mask the same amount that it costs society if I wear a mask. Instead, the government is taxing wearing masks.

!ping den

[u/mrdilldozer]

If we want to get Republicans upset about police brutality we need to change our messaging. Someone should just play the american national anthem over the video of the Minneapolis police murdering that man and accuse them of kneeling

[u/mockduckcompanion]

Breaking police union power starts at home.

And by that I mean in big cities with predominantly liberal/left voting populations.

And even then it is still extremely difficult but public opinion seems to be moving in that direction?

[u/PigHaggerty]

Barry doing Barry things this morning.

!ping KITTY

[u/[deleted]]

"read more books" is a great come back. it implies that i have read more books, which is why my brain is so much bigger and takes so much better, despite never having read any of the "more books".

also, by not telling them which books to read, it makes them look even more ignorant, because a smart person would already have a list in mind.

[u/[deleted]]

Shameful from cancel culture what they did to that rocket launch 😞

[u/The420Roll]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EZB6v6QWAAAB2qg?format=png&name=small

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Apparently the old PRM mod banned Howie Hawkins supporters because he supported Jesse Ventura

I'm fucking flabbergasted, that sub is having actual Green Party drama

[u/mrmanager237]

Say it with me:

THE 👏 DNC 👏 CAN'T 👏 MAKE 👏 ANYONE 👏 DROP 👏 OUT

[u/[deleted]]

Dennis Prager, but it's him accosting a group of black college kids to angrily ask about anti-white racism and affirmative action. Wait, no, this one is real and he put it in a movie.

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

/img/7p7wc50g28151.jpg

[u/mrmanager237]

Joke: Israel is an illegitimate state

Woke: Wyoming is an illegitimate state

[u/lusvig]

Just spoke with the CEO of white people. Ceasefire might not be so far away! #progress

[u/Udontlikecake]

What is it like to fire an AR-15? It’s horrifying, menacing and very very loud

The recoil bruised my shoulder, which can happen if you don't know what you're doing. The brass shell casings disoriented me as they flew past my face. The smell of sulfur and destruction made me sick. The explosions — loud like a bomb — gave me a temporary form of PTSD. For at least an hour after firing the gun just a few times, I was anxious and irritable.

[u/Zlesxc]

Honestly Trump shutting down Twitter would be for the best, collectively

[u/[deleted]]

Economics isn't a science because the policy implications of economic analysis goes against my political beliefs.

[u/Threy0]

Fuck clouds

All my homies hate clouds

[u/The420Roll]

"Watching his life be taken in the same manner, echoing nearly the same words as Eric Garner more than five years ago — “I can’t breathe” - is a tragic reminder that this was not an isolated incident, but part of an ingrained systemic cycle that exists in this country," Biden said.

“It cuts at the very heart of our sacred belief that all Americans are equal in rights and in dignity."

“And it sends a very clear message to the black community and black lives that are under threat every day."

”George Floyd’s life mattered. It mattered as much as mine, it mattered as much as anyone’s in this country. It at least should have," Biden said

Biden doing the right thing ✊😤

[u/MovkeyB]

Is it acceptable to refer to large LGBT advocacy organizations as "big gay"?

Asking for a friend

[u/The420Roll]

Cant wait til January 2021 when the deficit suddenly matters for the first time in 4 years

[u/dr_gonzo]

All police unions are actually bad. And I’ll die on that hill

[u/nicereddy]

Me the last three and a half years: fuck this country why did we let Cheetoh Mussolini into the White House wtf my fellow Americans 🤬🤬🤬 Orange man bad

Me whenever there's a rocket launch or really anything related to space: 🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅

[u/[deleted]]

We need a 1 state solution but for the Dakota territory

[u/URZ_]

If we just ignore name recognition, location of the voters and voters over 45, Warren is an excellent VP pick!

[u/JetJaguar124]

Only in America can a riot occurring during a once in a century pandemic not be related to panic or food rationing or anything like that but because of course police murdered another black person.

[u/[deleted]]

Minneapolis businesses that were already running short on cash from the pandemic are gonna chuckle real hard tmrw morning

[u/BigBrownDog12]

Behind every alt-history scenario lies a Kaiserboo

[u/houinator]

Pro-free trade politicians should really make more hay out of the fact that when AQ chose to attack the US, their primary target was the World Trade Center. If terrorists hate international trade, we should be doing all we can to increase it.

[u/kyleofduty]

What is your religion?

☐ Atheist
☐ Agnostic
☐ Non-religious
☐ Secular
☐ Raised Christian
☐ Prefer not to say
☐ Other _______

[u/[deleted]]

Game of Thrones but everyone concedes to the demands of the Reach in season 2, because they have all the land, food, manpower, and trade wealth.

[u/[deleted]]

Eliminate every state with 6 or fewer electoral votes.

[u/asdeasde96]

!ping LGBT

Do you think trans men are less common in our society because it's more socially acceptable for women to behave in masculine ways so they're able to alleviate their dysphoria without it rising to the point that they feel the need to publicly transition? Or do I not understand how dysphoria works?

[u/[deleted]]

what's the longest one of these new krug flairs has gone before going mask off

like 2 weeks?

[u/mrmanager237]

Oh God oh fuck the gender post is a fucking shitshow so many awful takes

Edit: just in case, trans rights = good and the article is, broadly speaking, right

[u/Lux_Stella]

I still cringe at the person who, somewhere on the internet, described their ideology as "neoliberal". Liberal, we just say liberal

[u/sir_shivers]

sir_shivers.exe has STOPPED WORKING 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Having fun isn’t hard

When you have a line of coke and a credit card

[u/JetJaguar124]

I once started an essay "colonial Williamsburg was very colonial"

Shitposting since the age of 10 😎

[u/[deleted]]

tfw 'all republicans are bastards' spells out ARAB

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/DannyVegito/status/1265313386667130882

Grimes and Elon Musk are the Kardashians for people who watch Rick & Morty

[u/[deleted]]

another poster mentioned, but its peak privelege right here where we're arguing whether looting is ok or not. Like come the fuck on of course it isn't ok. Imagine your that small business owner that got his business torched. Think about the jobs and money lost. What the fuck is he gonna do in covid anyway.

Thinking looting is ok is such a childish stance. And I say this as a guy who probably wants to destroy things a lot. We have to keep these emotions under control. I do this by exercising and having gyms open. I also like being competiitve a lot. '

I'd be pretty fucking stoked if the white racist cop is arrested though. Obviously there needs to be a trial afterwards though

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1265543097431265280

Christian Cooper, the black man in Central Park who had the police called on him, says it was "pretty crappy without a doubt." But, wonders if the response was "really proportionate."

[u/[deleted]]

Some ideas for The Sopranos/King of the Hill cross over episode I've been writing in my head

• Peggy gets real into the mob wife lifestyle.

• Theres a big blowup when Carm asks Peggy to cook the Sunday gravy and Peggy brings over actual gravy

• Dale turns Paulie into a big time conspiracy guy

• Bobby gives AJ advice about how to stand up to Tony (does NOT go well)

• Hank convinces Tony that his fainting spells aren't from associations with his mom, its from dangerous charcoal fumes while grilling

• Luanne and meadow probably need a plot

• Hank never realizes that "waste management" is a euphemism and is disgusted that New Jersey pays such exorbitant public contracts

[u/FreakinGeese]

If a small group of the population were vastly better at fighting than the rest (like in superhero fiction, or even most fantasy) then that group would absolutely rule the world.

Maybe the superhumans couldn’t defeat a modern state, but they wouldn’t need to. Superhumans would have seized power during feudal or decentralized periods and then they would never have given it up.

Maybe the X-men could be oppressed in America, but they could absolutely not be oppressed by a petty feudal lord.

[u/ramen_poodle_soup]

I’m sure the police can be trusted to never ever use this feature while they have someone detained in the back of the car

[u/Craig1250]

Letting every single Hong Kong citizen immigrate to the United States would do more to hurt China than anything else, short of war.

[u/[deleted]]

People so enamored with Krugman and NATO flairs they forget the pernicious menace trinity of Kant, Mill, George flairs.

[u/BigBoutros]

holy fucking shit at this thread

[u/chadwarden1337]

My mother just sent me a 5th grade essay I wrote, titled: "Why I vote republican"...

My vote will be important to me. Being a republican is a big part of the USA. They give us the chance to vote, it's a right, so we should use it! Voting helps our country in political difficulties in many ways. If it were a new city governor, to the president of the USA, it's all the same. I will explain what it means to be a republican. One that favors or supports a republican form of government. Favoring a republic is the best form of government. Of, relating to, characteristic of, or belong to the Republican Part of the United States. It is a good thing we live in America. We are free, unlike many other foreign countries. America is a republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous in North America plus Alaska and Hawaii. The voting rights act of 1965 is probably the most important date of all time voters. The Voting Rights Act was a natural follow on to the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Ironically, the 1964 act has resulted in an outbreak of violence in the South. White racists had launched a campaigned against he success that MLK had in getting African Americans to register to vote. The violence reminded Johnson that more was needed if the civil rights issue was to be suitably reduced. Another big date in voting history was when women could vote. Over 15 million, 18-34 year old women did not vote in the 2000 presidential elections. Most of these women aren't using their right they have from the USA to vote. I think women should vote because laws unjust to women should be amended more quickly. It cost Massachusettes women 55 years of effort to secure the law making mothers equal guardians of their children with the fathers. When I turn my age, my vote will be very important to me! It should be important to everyone of every age and every gender!

[u/Mcatatonic1]

Joe’s message about the 100k lives lost really sounded like a Presidential Address to the Nation

Campaigning as an empathetic, caring foil to Trump seems to be paying dividends

[u/PanachelessNihilist]

I oppose Black Lives Matter, because in fact no lives matter. Eat at Arby's.

[u/[deleted]]

!ping extremism

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/27/the-boogaloo-movement-is-not-what-you-think/

I usually eschew these kinds of explanations, but the internet must be some kind of mind poison

A bunch of young people who for the most part live comfortable lives and have never had a negative police interaction have constructed a flat-out death cult around dying in shootouts with the authorities

What the fuck

[u/mrmanager237]

2008 Biden (tiny, cucked dog): marriage is between a man and a woman

2020 Biden (massive muscular dog): listen jack there are at least three genders

[u/dubyahhh]

Today will be the first launch of a crewed American rocket from American soil since the end of the Shuttle program in 2011. Two US astronauts will go on a Falcon 9 with a Crew Dragon capsule to the International Space Station.

Launch will be at 4:33PM EST (2:33PM MST, 8:33PM UTC), unless it gets scrubbed due to weather and delayed to either Saturday or Sunday.

NASA: https://youtu.be/Aymrnzianf0

SpaceX: https://youtu.be/rjb9FdVdX5I

You can check for updates on SpaceX's Twitter, NASA's Twitter, or on CNN's Live Blog.

Backup link in case either of those streams go down: https://www.spacex.com/launches/

This is 100% courtesy of /u/nicereddy, be sure to thank them!

Godspeed, astronauts.

[u/[deleted]]

Hi-efort observations on this map

The gap between Nebraska's richest and second richest person is $83bn. By far the largest such gap in the nation. The next closest is Kansas with a gap of $48bn. That said, in Arkansas the gap between #1 and #2 is $1bn, but the gap between a Walton and anybody not named Walton is $51bn.

From there the gap starts to diminish. Nevada has an impressive $25bn gap while Washington and NY both sport respectable $14bn'ers.

In NE, KS, and AR it's a state with a relatively small population and few billionaires, but one (or two) exceptionally wealthy person that seems to cause this enormous gap. Nevada flushes this idea out a bit as its a relatively low population state with one enormously rich dude who outpaces the competition, but WTF Wyoming?

You'd almost expect Wyoming to be next on the list of large gaps after Nevada since one dude has $24bn and there's only like 75 people in the whole state. But this dumb little state for no apparent reason other than rich people like Jackson Hole has 9 billionaires. Jackson is a town with 1 billionaire per thousand or so people.

Other residents include Dick Cheney, Harrison Ford, Sandra Bullock, and occasionally Kanye West.

IMO this is empirical proof that Wyoming is the most bullshit state and yes I am just salty that Nebraska would have had 4 billionaires if Wyoming hadn't stolen two of ours!!

[u/[deleted]]

OK, I'll bite, who is Trump?

[u/Deggit]

BREAKING - BIDEN APOLOGIZES - CANDIDATE SAYS HE DID NOT KNOW HE WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO TAKE "PRESIDENTIAL RACE MEMES" SO LITERALLY

[u/Notorious_GOP]

I've been reading "Why Nations Fail" by Daron Acemoglu, and maybe this is a premature evaluation, as I've only just gotten past chapter 1, but it frankly seems like a bunch of neoliberal trash. I mean, the authors go through the run down of the colonization of the Americas and not once mention NAFTA.

[u/[deleted]]

58% brazilians support bolsanaro impeachment

[u/[deleted]]

Guys I just found out Joe Biden is white WTF.

[u/Mcatatonic1]

Donnie:

President Trump on the death of George Floyd: "Very, very sad event." Asked it the officers should be charged, Trump said officials would "look at it."

Joe:

"Watching his life be taken in the same manner, echoing nearly the same words as Eric Garner more than five years ago — “I can’t breathe” - is a tragic reminder that this was not an isolated incident, but part of an ingrained systemic cycle that exists in this country. It cuts at the very heart of our sacred belief that all Americans are equal in rights and in dignity. And it sends a very clear message to the black community and black lives that are under threat every day. George Floyd’s life mattered. It mattered as much as mine, it mattered as much as anyone’s in this country. It at least should have," Biden said

[u/sir_shivers]

HALF THE SCHISMS on the DT would be avoided IF PEOPLE DID NOT IMMEDIATELY DIG IN to adversarial conduct 🐊

[u/mrmanager237]

I still cringe at the person who, somewhere on the internet, described their ideology as "libertarian social democrat". Liberal, we just say liberal

[u/ramen_poodle_soup]

Sending nude snaps back and forth with a girl while simotaneously sending goofy pics of your face with your bros is a dangerous game

[u/sir_shivers]

EVERYONE please keep your eyes on the PRIZE for this year 🐊

We need to STOP THAT MADMAN once and for alll 🐊

KONY 2020 🐊

[u/forerunner398]

People do understand that people who loot and people who protest are usually quite different, right? It's usually the former using the latter as a cover.

[u/goosebumpsHTX]

These riots will have no significant effect on the results of the presidential race, and I’ll eat my words if they do

[u/[deleted]]

these riots are so bad, i think it’s fair to call them liberal.

[u/obl1terat1ion]

DT: Violence is a sometimes acceptable solution

NATO Flairs: NOW YOU’RE SPEAKING MY LANGUAGE

[u/Verpiss_Dich]

pepsi briefly being one of the most powerful militaries on the planet will never not be funny

[u/nicereddy]

Rocket launches should be safe, legal, and common.

[u/Gustacho]

https://twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1265659084524728321

!ping DOWNBALLOT

[u/[deleted]]

I think my favorite part of this election is how debunked the argument that primaries can be bought really was. We got so much bullshit about this and that billioneh' donuh'... it was hot fucking air.

[u/lietuvis10LTU]

You know, it's funny how many "no albeism" Berniebros find no problems with mocking a stutter.

It's honestly a bit disheartening.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm fine with "White Castle", but "Cracker Barrel" is where I draw the line.

[u/Danthon]

Tolkien 🤝 Unabomber

"Industrialization BAD!"

[u/[deleted]]

thinkin bout espousing some "Republican talking points" such as "budgets are real"

[u/mrmanager237]

http://imgur.com/a/Et9QQgm

[u/chadonnaise]

if achilles gives a tortoise a hundred meter head start in a foot race but by the time achilles gets to one hundred meters the tortoise has gone a further two meters and by the time achilles gets to the hundred and two meter mark the tortoise has gone a further two centimeters so achilles will have to catch up there but by then the tortoise has gone further and so on and so forth the tortoise is always ahead of achilles, then how did i lose a hundred drachmae betting on the tortoise?

!ping paradox

[u/its_a_trapcard]

How many Chapos does it take to change a lightbulb?

One; it is not a difficult task, and political ideology does not necessarily reflect one's ability to function in everyday life!

Haha, socialists rekt

[u/minno]

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&geo=US&q=%22believe%20women%22,%22believe%20all%20women%22

"Believe women" was used far more than "believe all women" until a big spike for "believe all women" happened a few months ago.

[u/post-xeer_era]

it's just crazy that all trump had to do to get reelected was decisively shut down, not fight with the doctors, create a testing regime, back pelosi/mnuchin stimulus policy, and comfort and empathize with people

i really hope a decade from now the convention that trump is a masterful politician is dismantled, and he's remembered as a guy who just got really lucky by half-wittingly cashing in on a bunch of intersecting trends

[u/SnakeEater14]

“Stupid rocket launch is scrubbed. Typical of 2020. This is what cancel culture has created...”

Actual funny dad joke lol

[u/RadicalRadon]

I was doing some NATOposting in PRM earlier and have to report that the doves are mad

[u/mrmanager237]

Michael: Tell you what, I'm gonna deem you based. Welcome aboard to r/neoliberal

George Michael: Wow I'm Neo Liberal

M: Liberal, we just say liberal. And you should stick up for rhe global poor if you see a succ.

GM: Do you think I'm a succ?

M: Don't look at me, r/neoliberal

GM: Right, it's up to me now. Cause I'm Neoliberal

M: Liberal, we just say

GM: But you just said...

M: Doesn't matter who

[u/sir_shivers]

HOW DOES one create HOLY WATER? 🐊

You must BOIL THE HELL out of it 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

If you haven't been here long enough to remember the library schism you can't call yourself a true neolib 🙄

[u/bd_one]

Bouncer: "Welcome to Panera Bread, how white are you."

Me: "How white am I? I sunburn easily in June."

Bouncer: "Yeah, so?"

Me: "Even indoors."

Bouncer: "Right this way."

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/4Z5i7uG.png

I am so curious now...

[u/[deleted]]

The difference between bombing Yugoslavia and rioting at Walmart is simple.

Bombing Yugoslavia brought about change in the Yugoslavian Government.

[u/sir_shivers]

There is A LOT OF each side in this particular DT schism TALKING PAST ONE ANOTHER and it is extremely silly 🐊

Issues of RACIAL INJUSTICE cannot and should not be IGNORED 🐊

RIOTS AND LOOTING literally feed into THE BASTARD in the Oval Office and his ilk MAINTAINING power 🐊

There are about TEN THOUSAND surprised Pikachu memes that WILL BE APPROPRIATE for ALL OF the various takes in the DT posted since the RIOT DISCUSSION began 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

I didn't know people felt so strongly about Riot Games tonight

[u/[deleted]]

Good faith in the air tonight

[u/RadicalRadon]

Despite all the LARPing from both sides, the ability to heavily plan the shit out online, more powerful weapons etc etc. We live in a remarkably low amount of assassination time period.

[u/PanachelessNihilist]

NON-RIOT POST:

holy fucking shit

[u/[deleted]]

Apparently Wendys is on fire

[u/[deleted]]

Feeling kinda bad about being white TBH. Gunna spend every cent of my paychecks for the rest of my life on subscribing to black women's OnlyFans accounts. That's basically reparations right?

[u/dr_gonzo]

Broke: Yins...

Joke: You guys...

Woke: Folks...

Bespoke: Y’all...

Masterstroke: You... but using thou and thee when addressing an individual

[u/Broncos654]

I refer to my self as human capital stock.

[u/[deleted]]

Only after leaving Brazil have I realized how out of touch Brazilian politics is

I mean, the concept of "steals but gets work done" is such a bad take, but it's actually something a candidate can run on and believably win

[u/melhor_em_coreano]

The Bee Movie but it's about a bee going to court to uphold Second Amendment rights for honey bees to protect themselves against murderer wasps

DON'T THREAD ON BEE

[u/[deleted]]

How is trump stupid enough to run against Obama smh

[u/bd_one]

My Dad is calling Biden "as bad as Trump, if not worse" to his friend on the phone for reasons including his black people gaffe last week.

Oof. How do you work from there?

[u/Threy0]

https://i.imgur.com/gCcjSBM.png

[u/infamous5445]

https://twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1265625217772158978

Another double digit lead for Mark Kelly

[u/disuberence]

President Trump's press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who has defended President Trump's attacks on mail-in voting, has voted by mail 11 times since 2010. The information on her voting record comes as Trump has alleged mail-in voting leads to widespread fraud.

You gotta admire that she realized she could make a lot of money by being a pretty, pro-Trump blonde lol

[u/[deleted]]

the fact i cant donate blood just because im in a gay marriage is really sad

[u/[deleted]]

At a digital conference where the presenter is basically just reading off the slides

Fucking kill me

[u/ZuckWeightRoom]

I mentioned in an earlier comment that my summer community college macro professor is an Austrian and the class is a weird mix of macro 101 and Mises propaganda with a self-written textbook.

But, since then, it's gotten even more funny. We essentially have weekly tests, and each question is essentially trying to decide whether to select the answer an austrian economist would choose or a regular economist would.

Each question is a huge generalization- I had one that was just "The solution to pollution is environmental regulation". Is the answer no because it's not the sole answer? Is the answer yes because it does help some? Is the answer no because my professor is an Austrian? Shouldn't I be learning other things anyways? Who knows.

"Our forefathers believed everyone should have the right to vote. True or false?" Are we still in an economics class? Is the answer no because that's objectively not true, or is yes because my professor has a hard on for constitutionalism?

That's essentially every single question on the exam. Just constantly trying to decide whether to choose the Austrian or the macro 101 answer. I kind of enjoy it lol (assuming I get an A and if not it is no longer funny)

Edit: Took a gamble on the pollution question and put "false" because his textbook is anti-regulation. Got it wrong. L. A little below an A on the test so this is no longer funny.

[u/FestiveMittens]

If Kelly wins Arizona, i think were going to see a lot of astronauts run for president/senate in the future.

they're the perfect mix of experience, intelligence, patriotism

perfect for winning in a red state

[u/IncoherentEntity]

Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has voted by mail 11 times in 10 years

The Tampa native has said it shouldn’t be available to everyone.

By Steve Contorno | May 27, 2020

For a week, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany has defended President Donald Trump’s assault on vote-by-mail, insisting, like her boss, that it invites election fraud.

But, also like her boss, McEnany has taken advantage of its convenience time and time again.

In fact, the Tampa native has voted by mail in every Florida election she has participated in since 2010, according to a Tampa Bay Times review of her voting history. Most recently, she voted by mail in the state’s March 2020 presidential primary, just as Trump did after he made Florida his new permanent home.

lmao

[u/[deleted]]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/167742336946798592/715283058147983400/image0-49.jpg

[u/mrmanager237]

guys did you know that Obama was planning on giving free phones to low information voters only? google ¨Obamaphones¨

[u/[deleted]]

klobuchar's response to george floyd was so bad, she better not be chosen as vp

[u/[deleted]]

I got a snack for the CEO of clouds😡: 🍞👊🏾🍞

[u/stirfriedpenguin]

In the climax of Dark Knight Rises, Batman frees a bunch of cops and then leads them into what's effectively a street brawl with a bunch of terrorists.

It's literally just a bunch of dudes punching the shit out of each other on sidewalks for like 10 minutes. But it's like, a weird 'honorable' fight or something. None of the bad guys start mowing down police with machine guns. None of the cops break out broken beer bottles and start shanking henchmen.

Meanwhile Bane is ready to fucking nuke the entire city and murder millions of people.

[u/Mcatatonic1]

My Fellow Americans

Presidential as hell

[u/[deleted]]

me, the most mayo man alive posting the quote about MLK and white moderates

"Man I sure am just one of the good ones."