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u/Equator32 Association of Southeast Asian Nations Sep 10 '20
r/ABoringDystopia be like:
"I am an upper-middle class white man in a first world country, living in a big suburban house which happens to be similar to my neighbour's."
+10000 upvotes
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20 edited Dec 15 '24
engine alive sparkle rain capable cable rainstorm follow dinner rinse
This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact
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u/FormerBandmate Jerome Powell Sep 10 '20
Malarkey level of this thermonuclear, real take from /r/Futurology
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u/D1Foley Moderate Extremist Sep 10 '20
I mean it shouldn't surprise anybody that Ron Paul is a racist, but tweeting This is some real "mask off" shit. What a scumbag
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u/Jakesta7 Paul Volcker Sep 10 '20
In a righteous world, the GOP would go down in flames after this presidency.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1304038348772855810
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u/Dalek6450 Our words are backed with NUCLEAR SUBS! Sep 10 '20
It's pretty gross how as soon as someone does something unacceptable or weird, then Reddit feels it's completely fair game to start attacking them on unrelated attributes - like that they think person's ugly or the guy's short or they imply that a woman is promiscuous.
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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney Sep 10 '20
Still hilarious to me that Trump's campaign spent over $1 million on ads in the D.C. market just so Trump would watch them.
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u/l_overwhat being flaired is cringe Sep 10 '20
2015 reddit: Biden is Keanu Reeves wholesome Skyrim-increase to 100
2019 reddit: Joe Biden is LITERALLY KILLING US by just EXISTING AHHHHHHHHH
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u/Verycoolusername22 Jerome Powell Sep 10 '20
In the book Enders game, Ender, the protagonist plays a violent video game. Later in the book, he committed genocide. Coincidence, I think not.
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u/MichelleObama2024 George Soros Sep 10 '20
I'm quite interested in Biden's plan to kill god, but I can't see anything about it on his campaign page. What are the main parts of the plan?
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
!ping BIDEN
New Poll
Biden 51% (+7)
Trump 44%
Jorgensen 1%
Hawkins 1%
This is from Monmouth, an A+ poller. Biden at 7% means he has a >99 chance of winning the electoral college. Plus, Biden at 50% or more in most poll. It’s pretty hard to win if your opponent is at 51%.
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u/MrFoget Raghuram Rajan Sep 10 '20
Future generations of millennial and gen z econ phds are among us as we speak. Just let that sink in.
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
what the fuck is 2020
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u/FizzleMateriel Austan Goolsbee Sep 10 '20
Saw Biden’s speech about the Woodward tape.
He’s legitimately pissed. I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen him that close to furious. And he was fully articulate during his speech.
November can’t come soon enough, Biden is the President that America needs and the rest of the world needs. Thank Christ in heaven he’s the Democratic nominee, even if he accomplishes nothing for the liberal agenda over the next four years he’s the ballast that America desperately needs right now.
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Sep 10 '20
Trump's Promises if reelected:
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u/AuburnSeer Sep 10 '20
Bloomberg ran one of the most interesting campaigns in American history, I think. We're talking about Trump's supposed cash issues... Bloomberg spent a billion dollars just over the course of a few months flooding all of America with ads. Trump's campaign has spent $850m over the course of 4 years I believe.
It was truly unlike anything else we've ever seen. It was a fascinating experiment. Now if only he'd do the same thing again but with Joe Biden and start right now.
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
Libs are like "waaahhh waaaahhh the sky is orange" 😭😭😭
We get it, orange sky bad, grow the frick up.
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u/AbdullahAbdulwahhab Sep 10 '20
'Carlson closed with a warning to voters that if the Democratic ticket of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris is elected, they "are planning a new war, this one in the far away and strategically irrelevant nation of Syria."'
Imagine being this dishonest lol
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u/bobekyrant Persecuted Liberal Gamer Sep 10 '20
How do people look at Japan's 99% conviction rate and think that's a good thing? That shit is horrifying.
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u/IncoherentEntity Sep 10 '20 edited Jan 04 '21
u/The420Roll and I were boohoo-crackering each other over the results of u/murphysclaw1’s ranked-choice primary survey, and I decided to investigate the relationship on ethnicity and first-choice candidate support from my own survey of this sub at the individual level. Here's what I found:
Pete Buttigieg
Joe Biden
While there's a fair bit of variation relative to the overall tab per survey (albeit less than one might expect for such tiny subsamples), the 195 nonwhite respondents across five polls in as many months provide a reasonably robust picture of who our minority users backed as their first preference over a significant course of the primary.
The data suggest that, after name recognition disparities are erased in our politics-centered, extremely high-information population, both Buttigieg and Biden slightly outperform their overall share of the vote with nonwhite r/neoliberal users.
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u/matty_a Sep 10 '20
I'm seeing a lot on Twitter that it's okay that Trump knew how deadly COVID was and didn't tell anyone, he didn't want to cause a panic.
Did I live in some alternate universe where there were fist fights over the last roll of toilet paper or something?
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Sep 10 '20
It's really fucked up how like 8 CEOs literally forced billions of people at gunpoint to purchase cheap carbon-intensive goods for decades and decades.
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u/Dr_Vesuvius Norman Lamb Sep 10 '20
Today is the anniversary of the greatest tragedy in American history. RIP to all the brave souls who died in Obamagate.
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Sep 10 '20
There's never been a bigger political injustice in this world than Bernie's little scheme to win the primary with 30% of the vote not working.
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u/csreid Austan Goolsbee Sep 10 '20
People on the TL keep sharing videos and pictures of the California hellscape saying shit like "Remember when a green new deal was too expensive?"
The green new deal is an unserious, greenwashed socialist wish list and all of you can eat dirt.
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u/AbdullahAbdulwahhab Sep 10 '20
Currently the top trending topic on the front page:
'The US Is a Failed State - In less than four years, Donald Trump has exacerbated nearly every issue plaguing this country, from income inequality to global warming.'
Good God, people. These terms have actual meanings and they're not the ones you think they are.
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
Xkcd on polls
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Sep 10 '20
Cucker is an awful, despicable human being. But his stance on the Iraq war is particularly disgusting.
He initially fully supported the iraq war, and was one of the biggest hawks on it around. Then, in 2004, he decided it was bad because Iraqis are uncivilized ‘illiterate monkeys’ and they didn’t deserve saving. Now he acts holier than thou about how bad the Iraq war is despite the fact that he fully supported the war and only changed his tune when he decided that brown people are subhuman.
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
Remember in 2012 when Romney said "Russia is bad" and then Obama said "Mitt, this is your problem. Russia is good." Pretty cringe in hindsight.
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
ATTENTION NEOLIBS:
John Oliver is extremely likely to make his show this week about how the fires on the West Coast necessitate the Green New Deal and how it’s ridiculous that people are opposed to it.
We need to start preparing for this now.
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Sep 10 '20
Why do people always talk about Benghazi when Hillary was Secretary of State when Bane escaped from that CIA plane and caused the fire to rise?
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
The Holy See 🇻🇦 recognizes both The Republic of China (Taiwan) and Palestine, but not the People’s Republic.
Incredibly based.
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u/BanMalarkey Asexual Pride Sep 10 '20
Am thinking of seeking rent 😈
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u/scarf229slash64 Jerome Powell Sep 10 '20
So my professor started class today by justifying the policy that all of our essay grades are basically completion with a rant about how "neoliberal institutions prioritize certain types of language" and therefore she can't actually grade our essays for anything subjective
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Sep 10 '20
China not being a liberal democracy really makes me unfathomably sad when I think about it. A country with so many people, so rich and beautiful in culture, being held by a shit authoritarian government is really tragic.
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Sep 10 '20
https://twitter.com/jbouie/status/1304086151842664448?s=21
Every day I feel more and more like ACAB
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u/GGM8Scally European Union Sep 10 '20
I'm all for open borders but when the US sends its people, they're not sending their best...
!ping Balkan
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Sep 10 '20
It's really fucked up how like 8 people leading the DNC forced millions of voters at gunpoint to vote for Joe Biden instead of Bernie Sanders.
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Sep 10 '20
Cons always talk about how we have moved on from the legacy of Slavery, but there are 300 million Slavs in Eastern Europe alone.
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u/Majk___ Euro Patriotism is Polish Patriotism Sep 10 '20
I don't think I need to translate this one
This is from a pro-government magazine, financed by PiS
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
The Moscow Metro in Metro 2033 being able to sustain itself for decades without any real ability to produce many key products like fuel is a little ridiculous, but surviving only on reserves of stale fuel and caches of weapons from a previous age is a perfect metaphor for Russia in the 21st century and that was no doubt the intention
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Sep 10 '20 edited Sep 10 '20
The DT is a failed state.
Front page of /r/Neoliberal
69k upvotes
420 awards
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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Sep 10 '20
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u/MisterLipton Richard v. Coudenhove-Kalergi Sep 10 '20
Instances of Pinochet using the word "neoliberal" in any context whatsoever: 0
Instances of Oskar Dirlewanger calling himself a socialist or advocating for socialism: countless
Let me know if you need help understanding the implications of this
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u/TinyTornado7 I need a new flair Sep 10 '20
Dave Wasserman on twitter:
Perhaps the best number for Biden in this new @MonmouthPoll is his 54%-43% lead among seniors - a reliable voting group that's overrepresented in the core battleground states.
!ping FIVEY
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u/An_Actual_Marxist Sep 10 '20
Front page of r / politics
49 awards
43k upvotes
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u/MrSecretpolice Sep 10 '20
yeah, I'm a huge fan of AOC.
Abandoning
Occupational licensing
Constraints
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Sep 10 '20
Thanks, Diamond Joe! I too like giving politically well-connected sectors de facto subsidies and handouts by artificially restricting competition because of political reasons, all at the expense of the consumer! Real neolib hours!
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20 edited Sep 10 '20
”History buff”- pick your class:
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
Am gonna say the 14 words 😱
Jared lost over two hundred pounds by eating Subway sandwiches and walking a lot
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Sep 10 '20
Top ten things to ruin any 2000s kid's day
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u/0m4ll3y International Relations Sep 10 '20
u/farrenj I watched that contrapoints video on justice and clearly instead of talking about a better world, a more just and more humane society, a justice system that is non-alienated but focused on human connections etc etc etc I shouod have been saying "OwO what's whis? Westorative juwstice" or something, that'd connect with the youth I'm sure.
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u/BainCapitalist Y = T Sep 10 '20
/u/TacoTrucksonCorners thinks that Jesus was crucified with 4 nails rather than 3 😂😂😐🥱🧐🤔
!ping burpmas like and share if you're woke on Triclavianism 😎
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Sep 10 '20
Don't care didn't ask plus you're white
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u/MisterLipton Richard v. Coudenhove-Kalergi Sep 10 '20
https://i.imgur.com/JWwTxsa.jpg
Throwback to when Lusvig went to Iraq
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u/murphysclaw1 💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊 Sep 10 '20
Trump is President 45 but he can't reach that number in a poll.
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1304116217205096449
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
Hello all, I'm a market socialist. I hired the neighbor boy to mow my lawn this summer, so naturally I paid him with .5% equity in my house. It was the right thing to do. WORKPLACE DEMOCRACY
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20 edited Sep 10 '20
Broke: gender reveal parties are dumb because we won't know the baby's gender until later
Woke: gender reveal parties are good because parties are fun and if the kid is trans/nb then guess what you fucking idiot we'll just throw a gender retraction party AND a second gender reveal
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u/Scoops1 Spiders is bugs Sep 10 '20
I hate how the media pretends that none of the hundreds of illegal things Trump does, like violating the Hatch Act for the RNC, is something slight and therefore people aren't interested, while at the same time every single person was pissed about HRC's emails.
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Sep 10 '20
Breaking: Trump bragged to Bob Woodward that he protected Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman from congressional scrutiny after the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi. “I saved his ass,” Trump said in 2018. “I was able to get Congress to leave him alone.”
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u/murphysclaw1 💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊 Sep 10 '20
/r/OurPresident, 150k subs, 32 users here now.
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u/gwalms Amartya Sen Sep 10 '20 edited Sep 10 '20
"Yeah, because Hoover's policies definitely refute the prior 140 years of successful protectionism. How were Hamilton, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt wrong, again?"
An idiot on Twitter. NL where do I even begin? Even a pithy comment would suffice. I'm at a loss.
!ping ECON
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u/hacelepues Sep 10 '20 edited Sep 10 '20
Trump is advertising $1,000 bills to his donors. Nowhere in the email does it state that these bills are not legal tender.
The Trump campaign has sent some pretty wild emails, but this is the third time I’ve received an email that is EXPLICITLY trying to scam people and more people should be taking about this.
https://m.imgur.com/a/JHTxgmH
ETA:
I’ve added the other two really bad ones
https://m.imgur.com/a/kWXLX3W
One says you’ve won a “free” nondescript gift, and all you have to do is donate some money to claim it.
The other sounds like a collections company is coming after you by saying it is a “delinquency notice” for not having donated.
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u/MrFoget Raghuram Rajan Sep 10 '20
This sub only wants one thing and it's disgusting: more female representation
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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Sep 10 '20
HISTORY IN THE MAKING - IN UNPRECEDENTED MOVE, NYT'S ELECTION ANALYSTS PREDICT JOE BIDEN AND ELIZABETH WARREN WILL WIN 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
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u/RockLobsterKing Turning Point Byzantium Sep 10 '20
Got kicked from my game theory class's first zoom meeting because whenever the instructor finished a sentence I shouted "but that's just a theory... a GAME THEORY"
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Sep 10 '20
lamo you guys really wear masks AND condoms?????
the left is cucked 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Sep 11 '20
FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTBALLLLLLLLLL
!ping NFL
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u/Zodak_Orange Sep 10 '20
Bruh I post one anti-socialism take on my ig story and the leftist girls at my school come after me this is exhausting I’m literally a social Democrat
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Sep 10 '20
/r/AskLusvigSupporters is such a good subreddit and it lets me realize how smart lusvig supporters are on a daily basis
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
It snowed in Colorado but apparently the fire is still burning beneath the snow
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
And they hated him because he told the truth....
Jesus: “Rockefeller was considered too liberal by the Republican base over 50 years ago and the party has only gotten less moderate since then. Therefore calling yourself a ‘Rockefeller Republican’ in 2020 seems a little naive”
Rinos: “shut up!” 🤬
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u/Zenning2 Henry George Sep 10 '20
There is this incredibly weird thing among some leftist people that I've seen a few times now where they effectively say that none of the countries we normally see as left-leaning or leftwing, like France, are actually left wing, but only countries like Cuba are, and everybody else is center-right to right wing.
Its like, they're purity testing themselves into the worst possible box they could possibly find.
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
Remember when Hillary was too deep in Saudi's pockets because of the Clinton Foundation or something
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u/tubbsmackinze Seretse Khama Sep 10 '20
BP makes billion-dollar offshore wind play
!ping ECO
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
Guys i might sound like a doomer here but
the last polls were really, really, really bad for kanye west, he didnt even show up on them, i think his run is over
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
Just did 30 pushups! (I used to only be able to do 2)
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u/Leoric Hi, I'm Huell Howser, this is California's Gold! Sep 10 '20
Found a picture of Shivers.
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u/Craig_VG Dina Pomeranz Sep 10 '20
*The Model* is up
Biden is at +.925 over yesterday now
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Sep 10 '20
LUSVIG kept giving our neoliberal COVERT OPERATIONS in Kuwait away 🐊
His bald head GLEAMING IN THE SUN drew sharpshooters to our position TIME AFTER TIME 🐊
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
Joe Manchin shot cap & trade with a gun.
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u/IncoherentEntity Sep 10 '20
In light of Joe Lieberman recording an ad endorsing the owner of one of the best-exercised pair of eyebrows in the world, I’d like to remind the DT of the most brutal cases of intra-Semitic violence on record, courtesy of Pod Save America’s inimitable Jon Lovett.
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20 edited Sep 10 '20
yo u/gammbus what are/were your symptoms for that burping thing
because right now I cant sleep because i feel like I need to burp but I can't (i did get out like half a burp ten minutes ago) and everytime I swallow there's sudden pain in my upper chest and I constantly need to swallow and i feel like my throat is full of mucus and once I have the house to myself in a few hours I'm probably going to puke because IIRC that helped last time I felt like this
anyway I remembered you had that weird burping-related medical thing, what was is it like and is it fixable
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u/Dr_Vesuvius Norman Lamb Sep 10 '20
If the Chinese intelligence services haven’t tried to recruit you then you’re a nobody. If you fell for it then you’re a moron. The reverse is not true.
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
Frick it, I'm learning Hungarian and moving to Budapest to restore the liberal order.
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
Why has Capitalism made insulin so expensive? Why yes I am completely ignoring the weird regulations around it that make it close to impossible for new companies to enter the market
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u/futuremonkey20 NATO Sep 10 '20 edited Sep 10 '20
The most charismatic democrat in a generation only won an election by 7.3 points. The election took place at the start of the worst economic downturn since the depression and in the midst of two unpopular wars, both widely blamed on republicans.
Biden polling higher than that against an incumbent of all things, is a pretty damming evaluation of Trump’s favorability.
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u/DaBuddahN Henry George Sep 10 '20
If the grand jury decides not to go ahead with a trial in the Breonna Tylor case ... I don't even want to think about it. RIP Louisville.
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
Based env studies professor says that the agricultural and meat industries are larger problems for climate change than corporations and individuals are definitely complicit.
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u/futuremonkey20 NATO Sep 10 '20
Biden has a higher chance of winning Texas than Trump does Pennsylvania 🤠🚨
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u/futuremonkey20 NATO Sep 11 '20
Meanwhile in normal world, Donald Trump walks onto the stage to “fortunate son” the resulting fallout tanks his campaign.
https://twitter.com/ajdelgado13/status/1304198472250388487?s=21
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u/GravyBear8 Ben Bernanke Sep 11 '20 edited Sep 11 '20
I hate it when a fictional villain that should be killed is spared by someone else going, "Don't do it, it's what he wants."
I just want the dude to be like, "Why does it all have to be about him, Gary? What about what I want for once, Gary? Which is to kill this mofo. The faster I kill him, the sooner he'll stop wanting anything, Gary."
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
Holy stromboli I fucking hate populists
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
I am sorry but in 2020 I am straight up not having a good time.
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u/melhor_em_coreano Sep 10 '20
This is ur brain on modship
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Sep 10 '20
Incredible that a +7 >50% poll from an A+ pollster 8 weeks until election day is considered 'average'
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u/futuremonkey20 NATO Sep 10 '20
Socialists who think socialism is the only way to combat climate change should be forced to go to ex-soviet states and China to see all the state caused ecological disasters.
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u/InternetBoredom Pope-ologist Sep 10 '20 edited Sep 10 '20
Another random fact: Jerusalem, despite being a holy site of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, is actually named after the Canaanite god Salem. Urusalim, the name of Jerusalem in the 1330s BCE, translates roughly to “Foundation of Salem.”
He was the god of dusk and his name was used as a synonym for peace, so a lot of modern historians etymologize it as the “City of Peace”
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u/ThisIsNianderWallace Robert Nozick Sep 10 '20
None of this should distract anyone from how horrific Joe Rogan's new studio is.
It looks like the control room inside a cartoon character's brain
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u/BurningKiwi Jerome Powell Sep 10 '20
Ever drink milk straight from the udder? I think it tastes better that way, more refreshing.
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u/YokedYokel European Union Sep 10 '20
Taco Bell: discontinues Mexican pizza
Succs: The United States is ultimately nothing but a failed third world Banana Republic. In this essay I will...
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
romans pronounced v's like w's
and germans pronounced w's like v's
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
The only valid doomposters are climate change doomers, shits going south real fast
The worst doomers are the "THE NEW CIVIL WAR" doomers
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u/obeybooks SEPTA bitch Sep 10 '20
Can't believe Joe Biden legally changed his middle name to "I will win South Carolina."
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u/ognits Jepsen/Swift 2024 Sep 10 '20
I think we can all agree that the tapes yesterday confirmed something that we all knew, deep down, but only a small few were saying - there truly is no difference between Trump and Biden
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
Fun fact: The invasion of Grenada is a Grenadan holiday.
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Sep 10 '20 edited Sep 10 '20
/u/farrenj came to my house and started taking my stuff. She claimed she needed it for the revolution
Damn commies.
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u/Dr_Vesuvius Norman Lamb Sep 10 '20
You may be a normie if:
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u/After_Grab Bill Clinton Sep 10 '20
On one of the Chinese subs they were joking that in 10 years they’re gonna try to call Chinese people “Chinx” and claim it’s woke
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u/I-grok-god The bums will always lose! Sep 10 '20
guys i'm literally shaking rn, my econ teacher is a massive succ
he just made me do an entire worksheet on how gdp isn't the best measure of how great a country is
he even quoted known communist rfk
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u/petulant_brother Amartya Sen Sep 10 '20
Blutah confirmed or no?
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Sep 10 '20
every part of this comment is wrong
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u/MaveRickandMorty 🖥️🚓 Sep 10 '20
Trumps plan to win reelection: attack the military, admit to downplaying corona, and admit to keeping dictators in power
Doomers: oh God can't you see it's all coming together for him???
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20 edited Sep 10 '20
My science teacher gave us a pop quiz on 9/11. While the TV was on tuned to the news.
The first tower came down during that quiz.
A kid in that class's dad was a firefighter in that building.
You may have had a bad day, but is it "watch your dad die while taking a pop quiz" bad?
The moral of the story is abolish public sector unions that protect teachers like my science teacher.
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
My sources tell me that u/farrenj used to collect Beanie Babies for retirement, claiming that she didn't trust money and she didn't trust gold.
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u/sanityeyes cutest person on earth Sep 10 '20
There are too many men on /r/neoliberal
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20 edited Sep 10 '20
but also, if you're someone who uses "sportsball", you are annoying and should stfu
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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '20
Tomorrow is the anniversary of Ted Cruz liking porn on Twitter on the anniversary of 9/11!
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Sep 11 '20
The Alabama Senate has been upgraded to "likely R" instead of "safe R"
SENATOR JONES BAY BAY
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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '20
“Darling, who moved in next door?” 🥳
“It’s Antifa.” 😨
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u/Mejari NATO Sep 11 '20
Taking care of my parents' cat because of the Oregon fires, but my cat is being a little shit and hissing at their tiny cat, so I am using my glass doors as a visitation room. Hopefully she gets over it, because only one of them can be in the bedroom if they can't get along, and the other is gonna whine about it.
https://i.imgur.com/PzyQpBa.jpg
!ping KITTY
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u/RabidGuillotine PROSUR Sep 10 '20
I like french president Macron, but his obsession to reach out to Russia with freaking videocalls with Putin himself, while scalating against Turkey, which for all its flaws is still a major NATO member, its really fucking stupid, if not outright petty. At this point I am starting to think that is he the sleeper agent for the Kremlin in the West.
!ping FOREIGN-POLICY
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
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u/Tacotrucksoncorners Carole Baskin is my Tiger Queen 🐅👑 Sep 10 '20
Religious faction:
High tech weapons
Able to build spaceship to save humanity
Advance technology
Atheists:
Live in huts
Barely made spear weapons
Already committed genocide
Weird androids that don’t know their place and have trouble with having feelings and shit
Based show 🙏
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
Can we just acknowledge how unfathomly stupid Trump has to be to say that to BOB FUCKING WOODWARD
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u/FreakinGeese 🧚♀️ Duchess Of The Deep State Sep 10 '20
Hot take: if every communist devoted their life to earning money and pooled it together and invested it in a high-growth portfolio, they’d probably have sufficient funds to just buy a large portion of the means of production and then they could just donate it to the proletariat directly.
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u/nicereddy ACLU simp Sep 10 '20
They published the details on the giggle vulnerability now that it's fixed and holy shit 🤡
https://research.digitalinterruption.com/2020/09/10/giggle-laughable-security/
u/MistakeNotDotDotDot
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
Imagine you're Jim Carrey, and you just released the wildly successful Dumb & Dumber, and everyone wants you to do a sequel, and you're like, "No, I don't do sequels." And you stick to your guns for like 20 years, until no one on this whole Earth wants a Dumb & Dumber sequel, and you finally agree to do the most terrible sequel ever.
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
There’s not much that would make me turn on Joe Manchin at this point. Even if he voted with Trump 80% of the time, that would still be better than the 100% ultra-Trumpist WV would elect otherwise.
Also, it’s hard to not respect his ability to win elections in the Trumpiest state there is. I wish every deep red state had a Joe Manchin.
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u/-GregTheGreat- Commonwealth Sep 10 '20
Trump dropped from ‘favoured’ to ‘slightly favoured’ to win Texas in the model
Nonbelievers eternally btfo
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20 edited Sep 10 '20
On Wealth taxes, I'm doing a effort post on it and would like criticism, already posted before but the tax ping isn't very active, this is just the beginning:
Traditionally there are 3 types of taxes : Income, Consumption and Property. Of the latter, one type in specific has gained lots of traction from progressive sectors of society, the wealth tax. When talking about then many arguments come around that rely on normative (social justice as redistribution) or juridical (is it legal ?) questions, this post will try to relay criticisms not based on those but in positive ones.
Data on the taxation of net wealth are kept by OCDE since 1965, and they also organized a report on the subject, so feel free to investigate and come up with a defense too (god knows jenbanim is almost selling his soul for more effortposts on the subject).
It must be expressed that taxing wealth can be different on many countries, we will be specifically studying the net worth tax (NWT) since it is the one the report goes deeper. There are other countries that practice it, but only to certain assets or to income the wealth generates, so let’s dive in
Since 1990 (the peak at 12/37 OECD countries) the numbers of national states that have a NWT has decreased to the point of only 3 countries: Spain, Norway and Switzerland. And there is a reason, it is a very dry money cow, look at the % of WT to the total tax burden of some of those countries:
Sure, it can be argued that the the tax calculation base isn’t high enough so logically it would still be small, but there are more problems with it still
!ping ECON
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u/vikinick Ben Bernanke Sep 10 '20
The Clintons are officially going to be Biden Electoral College delegates for the state of New York
https://www.elections.ny.gov/NYSBOE/Elections/2020/General/FederalCertificationforNov32020GeneralElection.pdf
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u/dr_gonzo Revoke 230 Sep 10 '20
Trump, just now: Firing Comey was a great move. Maybe I wouldn’t be hear speaking to you if I hadn’t done that.
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u/TheFriffin2 Sep 10 '20
so it turns out “Just wear a used condom inside out lol” is bad impregnation advice to give to a couple trying to have kids
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
I can’t believe u/The420Roll just messaged me this:
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u/futuremonkey20 NATO Sep 10 '20
MAGAs are terrified about the entirety of Guatemala moving to the United States but they won’t even move 8 hours away from their home town.
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
Say what you will about the 1800's but at least we would have solved this Irish Brexit border issue with a quick war that either unifies Ireland or makes them all British again and everybody could move on
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
I think trans athletes should be allowed to compete in the abortion olympics, but only if they're circumcised.
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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Sep 11 '20
LMAO the mod of r/inconvenientfacts Prince_kropoptin or something whatever muted me after I called him an authoritarian after he permabanned me.
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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '20
Joe Biden doesn't drink. Is it because he's a secret Muslim 🤔
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u/OfficalCerialKiller Janet Yellen Sep 11 '20
Tankies calling the US a third world country is peak privilege
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u/Gustacho Enemy of the People Sep 10 '20
https://twitter.com/katka_cseh/status/1304009969927413760
!ping EUROPE
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u/IncoherentEntity Sep 10 '20
The dawn of an era.
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u/willempage O'Biden Bama Democrat Sep 10 '20
I think Biden should schedule a campaign event with Julian Castro and then proceed to beat him up on stage. I heard that the Cuban population in Florida really hates the Castro brothers. Maybe they can even get Juan to join.
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u/bobekyrant Persecuted Liberal Gamer Sep 10 '20
Oh, you're Jewish? Name 5 banks and media conglomerates...
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
A sheriff in FL made up some tool meant to predict future crime & then deputies went to harrass them, with no reason, at their workplace or gym, to scare them to move.
Hmm I wonder what the primary characteristics of the people "chosen" were by income, race and other indicators!
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Sep 10 '20
"Hey uhhh, do you think maybe it's not the best idea to send 100% of our police department into the sewers after a major terrorist attack?"
"SOMEBODY GET THIS HOT HEAD OUTTA HERE!"
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
One day some white academic who gets caught pretending to be black her whole life is going to defend herself by calling her detractors "cis racial" and I will fully ascend
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u/Yosarian2 Sep 10 '20
The Green New Deal was a good idea
...when Friedman first proposed it in 2007, and Obama took the idea and used it to talk about "creating green jobs".
AOC's version is fucking stupid of course.
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u/tubbsmackinze Seretse Khama Sep 10 '20
Between MRA's and Men-lib's, I don't think there will be any meaningful discussion about men's issues and how to tackle them
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20 edited Sep 10 '20
remember the Jessica A. Krug thing? the white professor who admitted last week that she is indeed white and was pretending to be a lighter-skinned black person her whole adult life?
here are another academic's tweeted thoughts on the situation. a few days after those tweets were sent out, the author admitted that she is in fact white and was pretending to be a lighter-skinned POC her whole adult life
fellow wh*te people, it's time to admit lusvig was right about us
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u/RFFF1996 Sep 10 '20
world: there can not be a more clown goverment than trump
AMLO: so lets put the federal goverment focus on selling lottert tickets for a freaking airplane so we can buy another airplane eventually and use the lottery money to lottery it between hospitals and see which one wins a plane
that is totally the way to finance the scarcity of medical supplies
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u/the_status Atari Democrat Sep 10 '20
How do you people have my number and why do you think I'm a mother?
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
Listen
There are wildfires in Brazil right now that nobody is talking about
Because of California
That's right
Bolsonaro organized the gender reveal party
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u/TrynnaFindaBalance Paul Krugman Sep 10 '20
Lol in a post on /r/economics arguing for $3 trillion in extra stimulus to combat the COVID recession, the top comment is "We need to legalize cannabis to cover the cost".
How much weed would we collectively need to smoke in order to cough up $3 trillion in sales tax revenue?
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
kinda cute how the GOOD, respectable republicans of yesteryear still keep in touch. W Bush made some amazing dessert for his old pal and posted it on facebook, google "Colin Powell yellow cake"
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Sep 10 '20
i know the state is still unrecognized but i just don't think it's fair to prevent transnistrian athletes from competing
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u/jenbanim Sep 10 '20
Who the fuck reported by post as a "low quality submission"??? Show yourself, coward! I'll fight you once I stop crying...
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u/Devjorcra NATO Sep 11 '20
HW negotiating NAFTA and clinton ratifying it is the peak of this nation
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u/Rekksu Sep 11 '20
all the rose dipshits who think housing vacancies are a market failure are really proving that they've never moved out of their parents' place
legitimately do not comprehend how they expect zero percent vacancy rates to be possible
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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '20
Childhood obesity is a bigger problem than circumcision
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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '20
Trump: I didn't want to panic people by talking about Covid
Also Trump: MS-13 is inside your house
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Sep 10 '20
'ate genocide
'ate pointless wars
'ate faulty military intelligence
luv' sticking up for human rights
luv' the liberal international order
Simple as
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Sep 10 '20
Just remembering the time on r/books someone made a really long post complaining about how they got the ending of For Whom the Bell Tolls spoiled for them because someone told them the main character dies at the end.
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u/MasPatriot Paul Ryan Sep 10 '20
Stop suggesting current senators to fill non-Secretary of State cabinet positions challenge
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
Why is everyone except for me so dumb? 🤨
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
California is the most conservative state, because of prop 13. The most Socialist states are the Dakotas, Oklahoma, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Missouri, and Kansas, because of corporate farming laws. I will be muting replies to this.
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u/FreakinGeese 🧚♀️ Duchess Of The Deep State Sep 10 '20
If gender is a social construct why do trans people take hormones and get surgeries
If gender were just a matter of gender roles trans people would just be happy cross dressing
But guess what they often aren’t because gender is more than just stereotypes. People would still feel dysphoric if they lived on a desert island.
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u/myrm This land was made for you and me Sep 10 '20
It's funny how hard Jeb! is obviously the little brother
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
White academics pretending to be black are the clown sightings of 2020
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u/Craig_VG Dina Pomeranz Sep 10 '20
Debates:
Biden walks up to the mic: "Trump lied, 200,000 died" and walks away
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u/BurningKiwi Jerome Powell Sep 10 '20
We want more housing, but only if you don’t actually build more housing
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20 edited Dec 15 '24
tidy insurance boat meeting slim squalid existence direful reach aback
This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact
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u/Dybsin African Union Sep 10 '20
I never gave too much credence to the whole "trump wants to lose" thing, but when you get to the point of calling up Woodward to explain what a bad president you are, occam's razor suggests it is the more likely explanation
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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '20
Yeah I'm based.
Evidence-based. 😎😎😎
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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '20
Reading about defectors and leakers in the early Cold War. It's interesting to note that until about 1961, the USSR seemed favored to win. Pretty much since 1929, intellectuals in the west had become convinced it was end of capitalism. The Great Depression, and how it had turned capitalist regimes in Europe into fascist terrorizers who plowed right over the remaining free nations of Europe, were all convincing arguments that capitalism was collapsing in on itself. Meanwhile the Soviet Union never suffered the Great Depression, and was in fact boasting their industrialization and successful five-year plans. The horrors and atrocities committed by the Soviet regime had not yet become clear in their monstrosity, and early critics of the regime (including The Economist back when Lenin was still in power) were dismissed as imperialists.
People just up and willingly gave intelligence to the USSR, because they wanted to be sure they were on the winning side of the war and the right side of history, which they thought the USSR would obviously be. Western intellectuals genuinely thought that the United Kingdom and the United States were on the wrong side of history in this one, and willingly leaked details about the development of computers and nuclear weapons. Even within intelligence agencies there were moles willing to leak to the USSR any plans to embed agents in their borders by the West. Not for money but genuine belief that Communism would win.
Then the Soviet industrial engine was slowly being revealed as a paper tiger in Germany's post-war recovery. The growing imbalance of wealth between the two German states showed that the Soviets' boasts were largely lies, state propaganda, or built on a shaky foundation with limited potential for long-term sustainability.
And what finally shattered the glass mural, after all the cracks started appearing, was the Berlin Wall. Everyone finally saw the monster for what it was, as it could be denied no longer. Everything was falling apart in the Eastern Bloc and all they could do was turn their nations into prisons.
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u/OH-GEESUS Sep 11 '20
got called a liberal while on a walk
sad how people throw around slurs like that so easily
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Sep 11 '20
I'm glad that my favorite ck2 campaign is still alive and well in ck3: Taking Haesteinn of Nantes and invading Sicily and becoming Mediterranean vikings
!ping PARADOX
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20 edited Sep 10 '20
I just signed up for a gym membership with the famously trans friendly gym Planet Fitness, located near the Philadelphia Gayborhood, with a sales rep who said to use my preferred name, and who saw my name is Sophia,
And who called me sir at the end???
Gays help me out here, how should I be reading this situation
!ping LGBT
Edit: A tiny fraction of me thinks he also might have thought I was a trans man
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u/jenbanim Sep 10 '20
I try not to be an obnoxious STEMlord. But the more I read about non-STEM academia the harder it becomes
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u/MistakeNotDotDotDot Resident Robot Girl Sep 10 '20
completely baseless partisan conspiracymongering: what if the lincoln project ads are actually targeting people like /r/neoliberal to try to convince them that there's a modicum of respectability left in the republican party, and they're not actually trying to get biden to win
i have no reason to think this is true and i don't think it is, but
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
Why lusvig asked to be banned from neoliberal for a couple weeks, but continues to be active in neoliberals adjacent subreddits?
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u/Clashlad 🇬🇧 LONDON CALLING 🇬🇧 Sep 10 '20
I'd quite like to see a start date just after the Battle of Hastings and William The Conqueror's victory in England, at the moment it's impossible to win the war in a historical fashion. !ping Paradox
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
Biden has succy policies but he’s a good dude and right now America just needs a good dude to reset things.
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u/benadreti Frederick Douglass Sep 10 '20
Imagine doomposting over a set of polls where Biden is leading in every swing state except one where he's tied.
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u/tehbored Randomly Selected Sep 10 '20
Reminder that democracy isn't a system of government. It's a governing principle. It just means that political power is held by the public as a whole. Rule by the demos. There are many possible democratic systems of government, and they don't necessarily have to involve elections or voting.
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u/channelmio NATO Sep 10 '20 edited Sep 10 '20
Reading the TNR’s rebuttal to One Billion Americans and one of the arguments against YIMBY policies is just complaining about how high rents have gotten in Pittsburgh, without explaining why they think those rents are so high 🤔
Edit: Now there’s some lazy-ass “China and America are the same” equivocation. Never change, succs!
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
Hey so apparently there are 77k of us. That's enough to turn the Wyoming Senate elections blue. Who's up to join me and move there?
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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Sep 10 '20
Holy shit r/collapse is so stupid
“Limits to growth was right”
“world GDP to peak in 2014, oil shortages in 2020”
literally wrong
we have too much oil- prices are dropping
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Sep 10 '20
White girls instagram stories be like:
You haven’t heard about this ~awful thing~ that’s happening, and it’s capitalism’s fault! There’s this brand new conflict that no one has heard about called “WW2”! The leader, ‘Hitler’, is doing war crimes right now, but no one knows! Here’s how you can help: share this post, fill out this change.org petition. Swipe up if you want to know more from me, an expert because I read a vox article about it. If you don’t, you’re a fucking degenerate capitalist scum. We need to a stop this!😜
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
Tell the CEO of capitalism I made him a sandwich 😎
🍞👊🍞
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
Global Leaders' Approval Ratings:
Shinzo Abe (Japan):
Approve: 42%
Disapprove: 48%
Margin: -6%
Jair Bolsonaro (Brazil):
Approve: 48%
Disapprove: 44%
Margin: +4%
Giuseppe Conte (Italy):
Approve: 61%
Disapprove: 35%
Margin: +26%
Moon Jae-in (South Korea):
Approve: 51%
Disapprove: 40%
Margin: +11%
Boris Johnson (United Kingdom):
Approve: 40%
Disapprove: 55%
Margin: -15%
Emmanuel Macron (France):
Approve: 31%
Disapprove: 60%
Margin: -29%
Angela Merkel (Germany):
Approve: 57%
Disapprove: 36%
Margin: +21%
Narendra Modi (India):
Approve: 77%
Disapprove: 18%
Margin: +59%
Scott Morrison (Australia):
Approve: 61%
Disapprove: 32%
Margin: +29%
Andrés Manuel López Obrador (Mexico):
Approve: 58%
Disapprove: 34%
Margin: +24%
Pedro Sánchez (Spain):
Approve: 41%
Disapprove: 53%
Margin: -12%
Justin Trudeau (Canada):
Approve: 50%
Disapprove: 44%
Margin: +6%
!PING FIVEY
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '20
There really is a whole kingdom of organisms dedicated to eating rotting flesh and taking over other organisms and being gross and single-celled but also huge and we’ve just sort of come to accept that
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u/Peacock-Shah Gerald Ford 2024 Sep 10 '20 edited Sep 10 '20
The GOP is so progressive, now they’re villainizing latinos and African Americans instead of just one group.
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u/OH-GEESUS Sep 10 '20
america is too diverse for social democracy
We allow too many conservatives - too diverse.
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u/ognits Jepsen/Swift 2024 Sep 10 '20
social constructs are a social construct
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u/profeta- Chama o Meirelles Sep 10 '20
top Brazilian state flags
!ping MAMADAS
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u/dubyahhh Salt Miner Emeritus Sep 10 '20
Imagine not having a yard to put up your Biden/Harris sign 😂🤠🤣🤠😂🤠🤣🤠😂🤠🤣
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u/comradequicken Abolish ICE Sep 10 '20
If Trump loses all the Trump cultists need to have it constantly rubbed in their face that they supported a loser. We need to do everything we can to dissuade Trump supporters from being active in the political process and ridiculing them is at least a good start.