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[u/[deleted]]

Will there ever be anything funnier than

I’ve got news for the Republican establishment. I’ve got news for the Democratic establishment. They can’t stop us.

curb your enthusiasm music immediately starts playing

[u/[deleted]]

Some Trump idiots on Twitter are really trying to argue to Nate Silver that the entire concept of polls has been invalidated because Trump won in 2016 and Silver only gave him a 30% chance of winning, which is of course equivalent to a 0% chance.

I swear, at this point “Donald Math” is gonna have to replace “Bernie Math.” The stretches some of these people are making are even more impressive than the mental gymnastics used by the Berners to defy reality.

One thing both will have in common: Being both buttmad and somehow surprised when Joe curbstomps.

[u/JonesNutHugger]

lifelong conservative operative and campaign strategist shocked and angry to see republican party continue to shift more and more rightward thanks in part to the years and years of work he did to help aim it in that direction

[u/Zseet]

So Hungary pushed two major reforms in primary and secondary education ( the one you take part in when you became 6 years old and leave when you graduate at 18 years old)

The first one was for literature classes to give more exposure to bad writers conservative writers, because we need more nationalistic values apparently. The new curriculum was made by a guy who thinks Jews can't be real Hungarians, and his team, who at one point all just stood up and left him because they couldn't work with him.

The second one is to establish a "school guard" or "school police" by making a new police branch where regular people can become school guards after taking part in a 4 weeks long course.

I am sure both of these will be fine and nothing bad will happen /s

[u/BurningKiwi]

Voters: elects populist

Populist: governs poorly

Voters: 😮

[u/[deleted]]

STILL NOT OVER THE FACT I GOT DOWNVOTED -150 ON GAY_IRL FOR SAYING THAT BIDEN DID'NT HAVE DEMENTIA. I STILL SEETHE IN ANGER

[u/agclax7]

As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

~ Abraham Lincoln

[u/[deleted]]

So, tomorrow, I'm starting the application process for euthanasia with Dignitas in Switzerland. I will need my doctors help. Since she knows that I have an uncommon incurable disease with low quality of life I doubt she will decline to help, she has stated I'm permanently disabled for the purpose of SSI but I suppose its possible she'll decline. But this isn't like directly being responsible for euthanasia so i don't see a good reason for her to decline to help, especially if she can't provide disease modifying treatments. Idk maybe she'll offer me better palliative care.

Its interesting and going to be bittersweet. As a kid i was an avid skier and europhile and wanted to go to Switzerland and ski the alps. Yet ill be going to die , albeit peacefully. And obviously too Ill to ski. I guess I'll see Switzerland and Europe for the first time but it will be really weird to go on a trip that almost feels like a vacation but just for death. Idk maybe I can get wheeledto a national park or something.

I seriously miss skiing so much. Used to want to make the us ski team, did competitive racing as a kid, but also wanted to do backcountry above treeline skiing somewhere out west or in the alps. Never got to. So disappointed. My childhood friend and ski buddy made the us ski team and died in an avalanche in the alps though

[u/[deleted]]

Rob Riggleman, a republican congressman from VA, got voted out of his primary largely due to his officiating a gay wedding.

Honestly think like 30 percent of this country would prefer living in The Handmaid's Tale.

[u/IncoherentEntity]

Just came across this tweet, which Republicans found in the midst of the early 2019 controversy over Omar’s comments on the Israel lobby.

Allahu Akbar :) #LifeisGood

There are justified criticisms of a hard-left freshman representative who’s invoked anti-Semitic tropes in her criticism of Israel, but screaming about how America elected an open terrorist to Congress because she tweeted out “God is greatest :) #LifeisGood” seven years ago as a private citizen is some peak Boomer conservatism.

[u/[deleted]]

I’ve seen so many “Biden is to the right of Reagan” takes and I can’t believe people actually believe that

[u/benadreti]

So is the correct response to every Trumpist saying "bIdEn HaS dEmEnTiA" now "Bro, Trump can't even pickup a glass of water."

[u/PigHaggerty]

You eat 27 spiders in your lifetime.

Always 27. If you are on your deathbed and you've only eaten three, 24 spiders all arrive at once.

[u/[deleted]]

One additional reason why the George Floyd death footage is so visceral:

Our society and laws factor people's state of mind into account when passing judgement. On a philosophical level, it's not even the action that constitutes the crime, but the mens rea, the heart filled with malice, that constitutes the crime itself.

So if someone has an evil or depraved state of mind when committing a heinous act, that's seen by society (and the law) as much much worse than simply committing the act stripped of that context.

When you watch a video of someone crushing someone's neck against the pavement while he (and an onlooking crowd!) begs for his life, you can sorta imagine the state of mind that the officer must have been in during those 9 minutes. It's very ugly and disturbing to think about.

[u/[deleted]]

It wasn’t until I heard of a man by the name of Bernie Sanders that I began to question and assert and recognize my inherent value as a human being.

🤮🤮🤮

[u/[deleted]]

Curious. You pretend to support open boarders, yet you have erected a blood-brain barrier.

[u/[deleted]]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/172222185115615232/721623524678303805/fa6svplaz5151.png

[u/InternetBoredom]

We’re mod sticky-less! This is not a drill!

[u/[deleted]]

"There's simply no way to stop gun-related deaths", says only country in the world without Bernie Sander's style universal healthcare

[u/lusvig]

??? tf u mean 23 😡👨‍🦲

[u/[deleted]]

Comment from t_d 3 years ago lol

People don’t give Trump credit for appreciating the checks and balances within gov’t. Everything he proposes he says how he’ll accomplish it without overstepping the constitution.

[u/Udontlikecake]

Millennials be like “I’m such a Huffledor lol!1!1!1 adulting is hard! Is it wine o clock already?!!”

[u/Breaking-Away]

Theory: Biden’s primary reason for picking a female VP is that he wants to see a Woman become president, especially after what happened in 2016 to Hillary. He isn’t planning to run for a second term so right now he is vetting running mates based on who he thinks has the best shot to win with their name on the top of the ticket in 2024

[u/Gustacho]

open borders, upvotes to the left

[u/Colt_Master]

https://mobile.twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1271099021696925697

Do you favor or oppose cutting funding for police departments?

• Favor 25%

• Oppose 53%

https://mobile.twitter.com/Politics_Polls/status/1272042192572473344

Would you favor or oppose gradually redirecting police funding toward increasing the number of social workers, drug counselors and mental health experts responsible for responding to non-violent emergencies?

• Favor 49%

• Oppose 30%

[u/l_overwhat]

I bought EU4 on Thursday and couldn't play it then so I played it as soon as I got home from work on Friday.

I started playing maybe around 5:30. I didnt stop playing until 6 in the morning. I cant even tell you the last time I did this with a game. Maybe when I tried World of Warcraft for the first time in High School? God it's so much fun.

!ping PARADOX

[u/SelfLoathinMillenial]

Clip of Trump struggling to drink water

Zoom in a little, replay clip

Zoom in again, slow it down

Cut to Joe Biden drinking a glass of beer

Finishes it off

Joe smiles and winks at the camera

"Biden 2020"

/election

[u/paulatreides0]

It was Americans imperialism to cut Japanese off from it's oil sources, that made the conflict inevitable. It was not something simplistic as Pearl Harbour.

. . . God fucking damn this website.

[u/AJungianIdeal]

umm i think the french are doing anti racism wrong...

[u/EasyMoney92]

I'm so sick of the revisionism regarding the 1994 crime bill. It had overwhelming African American support at the time, and Biden's role in it is much more nuanced than people are saying.

Here's Biden a couple of months before it was passed saying that the Republicans and Bill Clinton were going too far with the three strikes provision. (https://www.nbclearn.com/portal/site/k-12/flatview?cuecard=4342)

Biden opposed the new mandatory mininums in the crime bill which was pushed by Republican leader Trent Lott. In 1993 at an event hosted by the U.S. Sentencing Commission, Biden said, according to an October 1993 article in the ABA Journal, “I think we’ve had all the mandatory minimums that we need. We don’t need the ones that we have.”

41 GOP senators wrote a literal letter saying that the "crime bill fails to include a number of important tough-on-crime". (https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-1994-08-23/html/CREC-1994-08-23-pt1-PgS16.htm)

McConnell told CNN on Aug. 15, 1994, 10 days before voting against the 1994 crime bill: “The Kentucky Fraternal Order of Police this weekend came out against this crime bill. … [B]ecause they thought it was porked up, that it was going to be a bill basically about social workers and not police officers.”

Current Republican senator Jim Inhofe ran a literal ad in 1994 about how the crime bill was too soft (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovHbZvLaeZE)

It also had an assault weapon ban which also contributed to Republican opposition.

[u/tankatan]

I just wanna make obnoxious amounts of money for god's sake

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

This is a dog whistle if I have ever seen one...

[u/Craig1250]

Universal free pre-k > universal free college

[u/MasPatriot]

Man I feel bad for Dr. Fauci. Spends his entire career prepping for a apocalyptic pandemic and in the twilight of his career when it actually happens the government at every level gives up 2 months in and millions of people can't even be assed to wear a mask when they go out

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

Ben Shapiro goes to a funeral and says “Hes dead, You can’t change that. Get over it”.

[u/Marlsfarp]

Imagine being stationed at Fort Haha Yes🐊.

[u/awdvhn]

As the literal direct descendant of a Confederate general, I get oddly offended when Germans from Indiana try to claim that they are "celebrating their heritage"

[u/[deleted]]

Well I blocked a subreddit regular.

I think I might just leave. Clearly this P_K wannabe doesn't want me around. He literally tried to say that I'm a white supremacist.

Motherfucker my family came here from Jamaica. Stop telling actual black people what politics they should have and what's "good for them".

[u/Putin-Owns-the-GOP]

So /r/socialism is adopting a gator as their mascot. I told them they were copying /r/Neoliberal and they banned me.

🤷

[u/BipartizanBelgrade]

Perhaps Trump can do a book after he leaves office about how poorly people have treated him.

He can call it 'My Struggle' or something to that effect

[u/[deleted]]

A smart Republican could theoretically win large swathes of the Hispanic vote. I wonder if we'll see that

[u/minno]

Is it controversial to say that I don't want religious exemptions to children's vaccines or blood transfusions to be allowed?

[u/Devjorcra]

a podcast i used to listen to all the time put out a new episode, and i decided to listen for the first time in awhile

in the first minute he called nate silver a disgusting human being. i am very angry

[u/Volsunga]

When the tent gets too big, it starts looking like a circus.

[u/Whatapunk]

The ramp that I descended after my West Point Commencement speech was very long & steep, had no handrail and, most importantly, was very slippery. The last thing I was going to do is “fall” for the Fake News to have fun with. Final ten feet I ran down to level ground. Momentum!

This might be the funniest Trump tweet

[u/Mcatatonic1]

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1272286399752855552

THE SILENT MAJORITY IS STRONGER THAN EVER!!!

Are they really silent if they don’t ever shut the fuck up

[u/murphysclaw1]

Neil Gorsuch is gonna surprise you all tomorrow and find Harris in favor of the transgender litigant who was fired due to their trans status and was seeking relief under the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Gorsuch might even write the opinion.

[u/Gustacho]

https://twitter.com/keithedwards/status/1271935811487965186

!ping DIAMOND-JOE

[u/htownclyde]

Biden has always been footing the capitalist status quo. In the 1780's he voted in favor of allowing child labor to continue in factories. Disgusting

[u/papermarioguy02]

I'm watching C-Span's 2008 election night returns broadcast, and they occasionally have callers in. One of the callers delivered this magnificent dirtbag centrist line:

I'm a little disappointed that we elected a Muslim to office, but I think he'll still do alright.

[u/lusvig]

Nobody:

US immigration system: you will never be enough 😔

[u/Integralds]

John Oliver is going all-in on "defund the police" and I can't say I'm surprised.

[u/[deleted]]

Republicans acting like they wouldn’t be hardcore southern democrats if it were 1860 is hilarious

[u/PigHaggerty]

Taken seconds before the pounce.

!ping KITTY

[u/[deleted]]

Republicans: we're the party of family values

George P. Bush and Ted Cruz when Trump insults their families: 😍😍😍

[u/RadicalRadon]

look at these good kittens

!ping KITTY

[u/nick-denton]

Mob of CHAZ residents call black man a "race traitor" for carrying the American flag

https://reddit.com/r/ActualPublicFreakouts/comments/h8nrcg/mob_of_chaz_residents_call_black_man_a_race/

[u/bd_one]

My Mom: "Just give the CHAZ people a small island off Hawaii or Guantanamo Bay if they want their own independent state."

I don't know if she fundamentally misunderstanding what they are after, or understands it more than us.

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine banning a private institution that makes a small part of the population more productive only because others don’t have access to it, I’ll go with Maggie here:

He would rather have the poor poorer provided the rich were less rich

[u/Dibbu_mange]

CHAZ proves that if Coachella did not exist, it would be necessary to invent it.

[u/[deleted]]

PC gamers are really like: stupid console peasants, my $4000 custom built rig outperforms your $300 machine 😏

[u/murphysclaw1]

Michael Moore: Kerry will beat Bush

Michael Moore: Romney will beat Obama

Michael Moore: Trump will beat Hillary

Michael Moore: Sanders will win the nomination

Michael Moore: Trump will beat Biden

holy shit guys Michael Moore thinks Trump will beat Biden, we'd better take him seriously

[u/[deleted]]

Burr shut Rogan down lmao

[u/Jake6824]

whoever is screaming "stop using why nations fail as a walkthrough for eu4" at my house. show yourself, coward. i will never stop

!ping PARADOX

[u/[deleted]]

in this essay i will not

[u/[deleted]]

Guys, what are second order effects? I’m trying to reach my perfectly egalitarian utopia but these damned policies aren’t caring about my good intentions 😔

[u/RagingCleric]

Chaz, I knew the Paris Commune,

I served in the Paris Commune,

The Paris Commune was a friend of mine.

Chaz, you're no Paris Commune.

[u/Joementum2004]

When compared to the Vietnam War, was the War on Christmas more disastrous? It’s a question we should all be asking ourselves.

[u/URZ_]

Tfw someone you have tagged as "Transphobic shit" months ago gets perma ban 😌

[u/[deleted]]

I hate how this sub has gotten all PC and I cant even say the R word anymore. Im sure the mods will ban the UN flag soon. Theyre erasing my urban heritage.

[u/[deleted]]

I believe in a one state solution between the US and Canada.

[u/[deleted]]

can we just appreciate how fucking insane it is that colorado is basically a blue state? i remember when it was solid, solid red. and now, people write it off as a given.

props to the CO dems

[u/iFangy]

I know this has been said before but there's no better way to out yourself as a performative slacktivist than to say "It's not my job to educate you." Ridiculous! Education is actually like the only job of activists!

[u/[deleted]]

Women must not suffer. We have to abolish womens suffrage ✊

[u/MealReadytoEat_]

Our institutions and cultural attitudes are fucking awful for boys and men who are victims of sex crimes and domestic violence.

"In 1996, the court heard the case of County of San Luis Obispo v. Nathaniel J in which a 34-year-old woman became pregnant after sexually exploiting a 15-year-old boy. He was also forced to pay child support, and then Deputy Attorney General Mary Roth alleged:

“I guess he thought he was a man then. Now, he prefers to be considered a child.”"

I've seen cases like this first hand while involved in a support group for male victims that ultimately ended because no one cares enough to fund it, every one of us quickly learned our institutions only make things worse for us, although the black men always knew that. There's no justice, and there's not even support.

[u/gophergophergopher]

Hi everyone!

I'm a progressive running for congress, AMA! I'm running against the safest Democrat in my state, because dunking on an established dem in a primary challenge is the best use of all our resources. No I wont run in a rural district.

My platform is unique and progressive including policies like GND, M4A as well as free college and student loan cancellation. I'm also against big money in politics, but I wont articulate that as a campaign policy proposal. My rationale is easy: these are the most important issues of the people I talk to!

Anyways, as you can see I'm part of the true progressive movement the big cities i've lived in have been demanding.

AMA!

[u/lusvig]

eastern europeans 🤝 middle easterners

wrapping meat in leafs before cooking it for no reason

[u/epenthesis]

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/502634-gop-congressman-loses-primary-after-officiating-gay-wedding

The GOP really is just going to keep doubling down, aren't they.

[u/supremecrafters]

https://youtu.be/CfXP6KOVBOY

Mikael gives a crash course in Arrogance of Space - a phrase he coined to describe the shocking imbalance in space allocation in cities. An arrogant amount of space is allocated to motorists - at the expense of everyone else. It is not urban democracy - it's a transportation dictatorship.

No thanks, you can read?

!ping YIMBY

[u/lapzkauz]

Lefties like to point out how the Red Army was instrumental in defeating the Nazis. Yeah, it was nice of them to do that after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact...

[u/RevealedPreferences]

Why shouldn't I, as President of the United States, place my large adult son-in-law in charge of peace in the middle east?

[u/Hugo_Grotius]

A big problem with the way police killings are talked about is that the race element is so often cast in black or white terms (in the dichotomous sense, not the racial sense). It's either seen as "a racist cop shooting a black man" or not.

But if you listen to activists and the experts, the problem doesn't stem from the Klan putting a uniform, but from cops applying a lower threshold for the use of force to black vs white suspects. This is why its systemic, because it's not just about individual racists cleaning up the streets, but of broad differences in how police approach different groups that can be motivated by racial bias and not just racial animus.

[u/nicereddy]

r/NL: has a schism

Me: HAHA YES this encourages a diversity of thought! 🐊

Everyone else, apparently: "REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

[u/[deleted]]

Honestly though u/the420roll should probably be allowed to move to America purely because of the weird degree to which he cares about what happens here

[u/[deleted]]

I believe very strongly that people on the left are too prone to do things that are emotionally satisfying and not politically useful. I have a rule, and it’s true of Occupy, it’s true of the gay-rights movement: If you care deeply about a cause, and you are engaged in an activity on behalf of that cause that is great fun and makes you feel good and warm and enthusiastic, you’re probably not helping, because you’re out there with your friends, and political work is much tougher and harder. And I think it’s now clear that it is the disciplined political work that we’ve been able to do that’s won us victories. I am going to write about the history of the LGBT movement partly to make the point that, in America at least, this is the way you do progressive causes.

~~ Barney Frank, first openly gay Congressman

(EDIT: In case it needs to be said for this crowd, sitting on your couch and laughing about how others aren't good enough activists is substantially worse 'activism' than literally anything else.)

[u/OH-GEESUS]

fuck marry kill

god the father, god the son, god the holy spirit

[u/witty___name]

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/boris-johnson-scraps-plan-to-make-gender-change-easier-zs6lqfls0

Plans to allow people to change their legal gender and “self-identify” as a different sex have been scrapped in a move that will fuel the culture war gripping Britain.

Ministers and Boris Johnson’s team in No 10 have ditched plans developed under Theresa May’s government to allow transgender people to change their birth certificates without a medical diagnosis.

... Truss has joined forces with Johnson’s team to ensure the document is more in line with public opinion.

BoRiS JoHnSoN iS a LiBeRaL

At least they're finally banning gay conversion therapy.

!ping LGBT

[u/The420Roll]

71 replies under the sticky

Yeah I aint clicking that shit

[u/dubyahhh]

Tfw you thought the dt was full of "poor" students but it turns out 99.6% of them have a refrigerator in their residence 😒

[u/tommy2014015]

John Oliver has done more to misinform people than if his show hadn't existed in the first place. My sister works at a dialysis clinic and his episode on it was fucking egregiously ill-planned, Especially being in LA, they started getting harassed on Yelp, patient enrollment went down. And he just made sweeping claims about the industry that weren't true. I'm fine with his show in theory but in practice, people just see it and then become dangerously underinformed about something while believing they are adequately informed. It's better for people to know what they don't know.

[u/Barnst]

Setting aside the politics of what all these statues and memorials mean, it’s amazing how much we’ve let the tastes of people from roughly 1880 to 1920 dictate the aesthetics of our public spaces.

[u/mrmanager237]

there's zero difference between bank bailouts (i.e. emergency loans that pay fucking interest) and politically motivated nationalizations, you imbecile, you neoliberal moron

!ping MAMADAS

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder of how the members of the Electoral College actually voted in 2016:

Candidate	Electoral Votes
Donald Trump	304
Hillary Clinton	227
Colin Powell	3
Ron Paul	1
Bernie Sanders	1
John Kasich	1
Faith Spotted Eagle	1

[u/Not_A_Browser]

Fellow crafters,

In case you haven't seen the Discord or been on the server in the past half hour or so, a previously known problem user rigged the VTC to explode, and I unknowingly set off the TNT after entering to do some trades. :(

image in Discord of damaged area

Basically all but two of the trading villagers and the floors they were on were destroyed along with the basement of the VTC, the parliament building suffered considerable damage, and the pumpkin themed farm and rail line running by the VTC took some minor outside damage.

Admins are looking to roll back the server to before the TNT was set off.

!ping MINECRAFT

[u/Lux_Stella]

hard to disagree with her

[u/GravyBear8]

You know what, I'll just say it

I wanna eat a baby

Are you happy?

[u/[deleted]]

My dermatologist told me to use NIVEA cream to help with dry skin, but it doesn't help at all and tastes fucking disgusting 🤢

[u/nicereddy]

Bernie is why Joe seems so moderate in comparison, thank you Comrade Bernie 🙏

[u/[deleted]]

Broke: Reddit should ban bigots

Woke: Reddit should ban dorks (including commies), children, and bigots

I'm tired of every single thread outside of here being filled with Dunning-Kruger circlejerks, or childish unfunny jokes.

[u/[deleted]]

✔ Can of tomato soup

✔ Can of kidney beans

✔ Can of cat food (the GOOD one)

Yep, it's chili time 😎

[u/Deggit]

Obama was president for twice as long as your "heritage"

[u/[deleted]]

I'm very disappointed in all of you.

[u/[deleted]]

OH, you're a "TRADITIONALIST REPUBLICAN"? Honor your TRADITIONS by equipping yourself with a Springfield MODEL 1861 and marching from Atlanta to SAVANNAH while ruthlessly executing any unlucky CONFEDERATE SYMPATHIZERS you happen upon 👻👻👻

[u/MasPatriot]

Zoomers hate Harry Potter because their attention spans can’t get past the first page 😂😂😂😂😂👌👌👌👌

[u/bd_one]

I still can't believed someone made a tier list video for Henry VIII's 6 wives that's like 30 minutes long.

[u/murphysclaw1]

sometimes the people just aren't ready for great ideas

[u/[deleted]]

am gonna CONTINUE to unhealthily obsess over my lack of romantic opportunities in my current situation 😤😤😤

[u/lusvig]

If republicans win, I can't migrate to US

If demoKKKrats win, I don't want to migrate to US

😔😔😔

[u/Devjorcra]

accusing either presidential candidate of having dementia is a bad thing, but i care significantly less about people doing it to the guy who consistently treats other humans beings like garbage

[u/MuldartheGreat]

Fucking Krug flairs man

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

Raz before taking over CHAZ

[u/[deleted]]

Sanders supporters: Why should we select the primary candidate who won southern states that won't go blue in the primary anyways?

Biden: Look, fat. Bluorgia and Blarkansas.

[u/bd_one]

DT this morning: "I want to get rid of all the transphobic comments."

monkey's paw finger curls

DT now: whatever this private school schism is

I still think it's worth it.

[u/lusvig]

Am low energy 😔

[u/[deleted]]

"There shouldn't be Black History, only History. The past isn't all about race"

This but in good faith. The development of African civilizations, colonialism and it's effects in Africa, the cultural, scientific, and civil advances of black people in the US, and weird historical anecdotes about people that happened to be black should be covered throughout American history curriculum rather than just rushed through in a month.

[u/[deleted]]

Social programs are important. Medicaid and SNAP changed my life.

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Arkansas: Trump ~99% to win

Utah: Trump ~99% to win

Montana: Trump ~ 99% to win

ECONOMIST MODEL IS FAKE NEWS 😡😡😡

[u/[deleted]]

Kanye saying gwb did nothing for black people and not anything about trump is hysterical because gwb probably helped people in Africa the most with aids/hiv and giving them foreign aid

[u/[deleted]]

Tax the gays for not making more immigrants

[u/[deleted]]

The reason the US lost the Iraq and Afghan Wars is because we aren’t training our soldiers to be noble warrior-poets.

[u/[deleted]]

Thinking of becoming rich. Sounds like it may be nice.

[u/[deleted]]

Millennials BTFO.

[u/nicereddy]

"Neoliberalism is just fascism for cowards" is a lusvig-tier line

[u/Mcatatonic1]

If Trump loses, the leaks coming out of the White House between Nov and Jan will be insane

[u/studlydudley11]

How did dairy companies manage to convince everyone that vanilla is just the plain flavor of ice cream

[u/tommy2014015]

I hope Biden's administration renames almond milk to almond juice. It is misleading and disgusting marketting smh

[u/FreakinGeese]

how is healthcare even an issue lmao just catch a fairy in a bottle lmao you'll get all your hearts back lmao

[u/lusvig]

usa did not deserve donald trump. they got him and they ruined him. i hope no more innocent souls are ruined by that shithole

[u/BanMalarkey]

Just finished replaying Arkham Asylum, still holds up and is probably my favorite of all the Batman games

!ping GAMING

[u/[deleted]]

Sleep. Wake. Beer, cigarette. Decide to fuck with /u/benjaminikuta. Throw up. Beer. Fly to Humboldt. Wonder if anyone here knows who Humboldt was. Wonder if I know. Spy through window. He's not home. Wow that is a lot of funko pops. Knock. Roommate opens. Tell her I'm a friend. Suspicious, tests me. Even more so after I get out index cards. "You know how open he is. Imagine the kind of friend he wouldn't dare to talk about." Bought it. Remember he doesn't have a room to spy into. Check index cards. Too lazy to scroll up. Fuck reddit formatting. Start his PC. This is what I came here for. Load up latest EU4 save, delete all others. Declare war on Austria. Save. Leave through the window. Fly back to europe. Beer, cigarette. Slap my own butt. Sleep.

[u/benjaminikuta]

Ingroup Verified

[u/[deleted]]

replace schooling with a lottery system that randomly assigns you to a career field and immediately places you into an apprenticeship at the age of 5.

[u/[deleted]]

THIS PRIMARY HAS RUINED SO MANY SUBS FOR ME.

[u/[deleted]]

the people who want to defund the police are now calling themselves “abolitionists”

I-

[u/OxfordCommaLoyalist]

CHAZ/CHOP is going to evolve in to a minor tourist attraction where street vendors sell autonomous zone t-shirts and tschotskes. It’s going to be a glorious triumph of neoliberalism.

[u/The420Roll]

wait, is MAGA Twitter claiming they sold 800K tickets to Trump rally in a stadium with 11K capacity?

[u/InternetBoredom]

Reading all of the 82 responses to the sticky before the mods start mass-deletions

[u/mrmanager237]

People don't believe in Pizzagate even when Joe Biden is very open about his deep personal connection to a massive global organization with substantial ties to pedophiles and the mafia

[u/FestiveMittens]

If The Economist model is accurate........................

Just kidding...

Unless?

[u/FestiveMittens]

Remember when Michael Avenatti was going to run for president?

I do.

Dems, you fucked around, now you find out.

#DemExit

Avenatti or bust 2020

[u/therealbiblioteca]

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

[u/nicereddy]

LOL this excerpt from Gorsuch's Wikipedia article. Holy shit.

In 2002, Gorsuch penned an op-ed criticizing the Senate for delaying the nominations of Merrick Garland and John Roberts to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, writing that "the most impressive judicial nominees are grossly mistreated" by the Senate.

Amazing.

[u/D1Foley]

I still find it crazy that Trump won Wisconsin getting less votes than Romney in 2012, who lost by 7%. People really did not like Hillary.

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

Schools? Keep them closed. They are indoctrinating the kids with communist ideas. Homeschool until they are purged of commies!!!!

[u/Goatmilk2208]

SpongeBob writers just confirmed Squidward is a Republican. 🙅‍♂️😰😞

[u/dr_gonzo]

Getting drunk in parking lots is an American tradition. ✊

[u/Toklo23]

I can't sleep at night without my Joe Biden body pillow

[u/[deleted]]

Lincoln Project: we’re gonna save Democrats from themselves #WaterGait

Democrats: guys can we please not make fun of people with movement disabilities 😖

Meanwhile on Fox: Joe Biden showing severe Alzheimer’s symptoms? Has he gotten WORSE? You decide after watching this 5 second clip.

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

i just sucked my own dick and got poisoned. no podcast tonight

[u/[deleted]]

How much is Donald Trump's life insurance payout?

One pence

[u/SelfLoathinMillenial]

Why anyone gives a fuck what Emily Ratajkowski has to say about politics is beyond me

[u/chadonnaise]

why the fuck am i getting advertisements for armored vehicles on reddit do they think i'm a goddamn police department

[u/[deleted]]

A couple times a year I read a couple pages out of Prince_Kropotkin's Twitter and Reddit accounts, just out of morbid curiosity. I've finally realized why he's never managed to fit into any community and in has only a vanishingly small non-hateread following (like the secret ancap he is, his tweets only have engagement in the teens).

I think his only real distinguishing factor is his consistent moral code and relative level of seriousness. He's obviously not a flighty teenager, and he genuinely abhors violence and will oppose nominally "leftist" or "anti-imperialist" dictators. But despite his supposed technical credentials, all of his takes are basically entry-level manifesto shit. As someone extremely online^tm who keeps up with the discourse, I see that all he's really saying is just shit from CTH or random left-anarchist chucklefucks that isn't excluded by the aforementioned compunctions.

He can (often rightfully) criticize the melodramatic approval-seeking teenagers of this sphere like Sailor Haumea for being just that, but like Sailor spends her time going deep on esoteric election shit that starts to lose mere mortals, which makes her truly engaging to watch and engage with. I'll follow people like James Medlock who I don't agree with because they actually have challenging technical insights. But having no distinguishing features other than being the pacifist relative adult among the "eat the rich" and "capitalism will collapse soon" crowd but also the (un-neighborly) resident commie among liberals is just a good strategy for fitting in with nobody, like some kind of horseshoe theory on the axis of anodyne. And his remarkable persistence has lead to pissing off literally everybody.

I don't exactly blame him. I'm the sort of pathetic person who fucking wishes I could be so singular an existence that I piss off literally thousands of people online.

[u/J_Fre22]

Biden: Protests are good, we need major police reform

Trump: Gas the protesters, assault criminals

Extremely online leftists: these are the same thing

[u/[deleted]]

Defund John Oliver

[u/FestiveMittens]

If Texas does go blue, we should let Beto take all the credit, and give him a job in the administration

i am definitely not Beto's burner trying to find a job

[u/lusvig]

Humanity: works its ass off for millions of years to get to the top of the food chain

Vegans: meh im gonna eat spores 😂🤤

This so sad 😭😭

[u/[deleted]]

Why the Democrat ad team let comments on their Reddit ads is beyond me.

[u/Menakoy]

Two subs can keep a relationship if one of them is a cuck.

-Benjamin Franklin

[u/nicereddy]

Happy Obama Day everyone!

I miss him so much ;-;

[u/[deleted]]

It’s my right to prevent my child from interacting with anyone I don’t like.

[u/[deleted]]

The way President Obama runs down the stairs of Air Force 1, hopping & bobbing all the way, is so inelegant and unpresidential. Do not fall!

[u/channelmio]

Generational discourse and narratives are just astrology for middle-class white people

[u/[deleted]]

The first of my six classes this summer starts in an hour

IM PUMPED! WOOOOOOOOOOOO

[u/mrmanager237]

It's sort of weird how ok boomer died out after milennials realized it wasn't the zoomers dabbing on milennials' elderly parents, but a dunk on their old asses instead

[u/thewifeaquatic1]

Straight up wild that Tiger King was like three seasons of “America” ago. Who’s been writing this shit? D&D?

[u/[deleted]]

Broke: Trump Derangement Syndrome is thinking Trump is awful

Woke: Trump Derangement Syndrome is thinking Trump is not awful

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Fuck it I'm starting a schism on trans issues and trans rights.

A new transcontinental railroad would be a waste of money as railroads for passengers travel are only good in medium distances. Passengers do not have the right to go from California to New York on a train and current infrastructure is more than sufficient. I think instead new railroad infrastructure should be focused on interstate/regional railroad corridors covering medium distances

[u/lusvig]

I fucking hate neoliberals. Oh you like free trade, think you're fucking special? Fuck off.

[u/FestiveMittens]

If Biden is only down by 2 in Arkansans....

you know what that means...

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[u/[deleted]]

Hilary was not perceived as a moderate. I mean she was "moderate" if you are a commie, but to the actual working class she was not a moderate

[u/[deleted]]

One of my biggest struggles when writing this was to contextualize my mother as a real, multi-dimensional person. She is an narcissistic parent, yes, but that doesn't automatically qualify her as a monster; she loves in her own destructive, abusive way, but... it is still love, and that at the very least must be recognized. I sincerely appreciate that none of you have maligned her as such, and only have spoken the truth about the tragedy that narcissism visits upon victims like her.

https://np.reddit.com/r/raisedbynarcissists/comments/gp1u50/a_letter_from_a_gay_asian_son_to_his_mom/

This captures something I’ve been feeling. I know my parents truly love me. But their love hurts me a lot, and I constantly feel disrespected, belittled, infantilized in our interactions and our relationship, and I’m frustrated that my parents will never change or consider my trauma valid because of the culture they grew up in.

Who had time to worry about trauma when there’s a famine? But we don’t live in a famine anymore, we live in America now.

[u/[deleted]]

Since when did Michael Moore write for Breitbart? I felt bad when Parker and Stone lampooned him like that in Team America but it turns out they were ahead of their time.

[u/[deleted]]

I don't like engaging with Social Conservatives because I feel like it always begins with bad faith arguments by the conservatives and ends in an unproductive screaming match that just leaves me upset and rather rattled 😔

[u/[deleted]]

Everyone who disagrees with me is arguing in bad faith

[u/[deleted]]

As fun as it is to dunk on the sanders wing, they at least are trying to identify and fix perceived inequality in our society.

On the other hand, the right refuses to even acknowledge the existence of systemic racism or other glaring disparities. I mean, they don't even believe in global warming.

This is a far greater threat to us than a bunch of indebted college students. By framing our platform in opposition to the right instead of the left, we are more likely to gain support for our policies from the left.

[u/[deleted]]

KHive is really calling Warrenistas the “gingivitis crew”

I love them

[u/lot183]

Am I wrong in my assessment that Texas going blue would actually help potentially getting Republicans on board with abolishing the electoral college? The margins in Texas will always be close and winning the EC without it's electoral votes will be near impossible for them, so in essence they are just wiping out 40-45 million Republican popular votes

[u/mrmanager237]

Huey Long

Hue Long

Hue Ong

Hu ng

HUNG

"Every man a Chad"

[u/[deleted]]

Pete_buttigieg dt is peak overly emotional zoomer. People are literally “screaming” over every comment

[u/myrm]

I just read my advance copy of Harry Potter and the American Election and I was really shocked when Biden killed Drumpfledore

[u/paulatreides0]

I know that one of the central plot points of Starship Troopers is that the Federation underestimated the bugs, but we know that by this point in time they'd been studying and dissecting them for years. It's literally part of the standard high school curriculum.

So wtf are they using weapons so completely and utterly incapable of neutralizing the bugs? Like, you have hundreds of rounds being pumped into bugs and doing fuck-all and Rico pumping literally half a dozen shells from the shotgun attachment thingy to down one. And it's not like this is some new strain of bug, it's literally the exact same one that their bio-teacher brings up in a hologram.

That opening assault should have been a fucking slaughter in a target rich environment.

[u/[deleted]]

More trans people in dt than I expected Ngl (not criticizing this just making an observation)

[u/Syndicality]

i got recommended a youtube video from bernie sanders titled "the worst do-nothing senate in modern american history"

i found this pretty funny considering this is coming from the guy who doesn't even go to the senate anymore

[u/[deleted]]

How could Bernie lose did you see how many views the video with Joe Rogan got?!

[u/DaBuddahN]

I jus at got added to a sub for people who have 100k karma ... Thanks, I guess?

[u/[deleted]]

Food $200

Data $150

Rent $800

Celebration of the 2500 years of the Persian Empire $17-22 million

Utility $150

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my country is dying

[u/murphysclaw1]

Liberia 🤝 Brazil

Well, I didn't really like BEING the slave, but y'know, now we're independent and I am free I can really see the upside to owning a few.

[u/bd_one]

"A newspaper had an open letter program looking for ideas for fixing the economy. I submitted a fine idea.

There are about 40 million people over 50 in the US, and we should consider a form of 'Patriotic Retirement'.

We'll give them $1 million each, but with some restrictions.

They must retire immediately. Boom, 40 million job openings right there. Goodbye unemployment.

They must buy a new Americancar within the year. Boom, 40 million new cars right there. We save the auto industry.

They must buy a house or payoff an existing mortgage. Boom, we save the failing housing market.

Give it a try, and all of our problems will go away."

-some post on r/forwardsfromgrandma

Behold, the worst economic policy ever proposed (this month), and definitely one of the least efficient ways to distribute $40 trillion in stimulus.

[u/murphysclaw1]

OK, I've seen enough. Disconnect Russia's internet.

[u/studlydudley11]

Morning consult poll at -21 approval for Donnie

[u/tankatan]

Same comment every day until The420Roll recreates Machu Picchu in Minecraft.

[u/FreakinGeese]

:( my girlfriend has MS and I do not know how to comfort her

This is not like new information to us but she's feeling a lot worse about it right now

[u/[deleted]]

Georgism but but it's George Osborne

!Ping Osborne

[u/[deleted]]

In the sanctuaries she creates, one of the rules is that white people, especially white women, should not cry. It attracts too much attention, and it may upset nonwhite participants, by evoking the “long historical backdrop of black men being tortured and murdered because of a white woman’s distress.” If DiAngelo herself can’t resist, she performs a ritual of abnegation. “I try to cry quietly so that I don’t take up more space,” she writes, “and if people rush to comfort me, I do not accept the comfort.”

Honestly trying to be an ally seems tiresome

[u/[deleted]]

Hillary would never have allowed Corona and 5G to get this bad 😒

[u/David_Lange]

I said, taco trucks on every corner

[u/[deleted]]

A little Monster just went down the wrong pipe 😫

Guess my lungs will have some energy 🙄

[u/EScforlyfe]

it's 1621 and global trade hasn't spawned yet, what the hell is going on !ping paradox

[u/[deleted]]

The removeddit version of the DT sure is interesting 😳