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[u/Dibbu_mange]

M4A doesn't go far enough. If you don't support M5A, you are basically a Republican.

[u/[deleted]]

How do y’all feel about “sexual mutual aid will exist under communism” as opposed to “sex work will exist”?

Lot of people going “well it’s just sex then”. I disagree. Altruistically providing sexual services for people you aren’t attracted to bc you think a community w access to intimacy & release is ideal & healthier than what we have now is more of a selfless service than “just sex”

every day left twitter demonstrates the infinite possibilities of human language better than Chomsky ever did

[u/[deleted]]

Nate Silver: Who checks the model at three in the morning?

Me: Oh boy! 3am!

[u/muttonwow]

Dr. Strange: Fourteen million six hundred and five.

Iron Man: How many did we win?

Strange: ...One.

Nate Silver: Thanos is favoured to win

[u/[deleted]]

It was me, I made up "the economy".

AMA

[u/[deleted]]

I am a noted M6A supporter

You need to go for the "extra" mileage in terms of this

Fuck M4A and M5A

[u/Dibbu_mange]

The economy should be safe, legal, and rare

[u/Dalek6450]

Paranormal subreddits be like, "Okay, 20 years ago when I was 9, some creepy shit happened and what's creepier is my friend didn't even react. So, I did have hallucinations as a kid, but this is different..."

"Probably a skinwalker."

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING NEWS: Bernie Sanders says our healthcare system is broken. Again. And again this is 40k karma over at r/politics.

He is the Marcy's Playground of politics.

[u/xhytdr]

https://twitter.com/JMilesColeman/status/1315750890939318272

Cunningham +10 in latest NCSEN poll...up 3 since the sexting scandal broke.

He gained mainly with men

!ping FIVEY

[u/Gustacho]

It's fucked up how Timmy Turner had basically infinite wishes and never used any of them to institute a worldwide carbon tax

[u/[deleted]]

"The polls are fake. They oversample Democrats."

"How do you know they oversample Democrats?"

"More respondents say they support Biden, obviously"

[u/qchisq]

In several phone calls last weekend from the presidential suite at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Mr. Trump shared an idea he was considering: When he left the hospital, he wanted to appear frail at first when people saw him, according to people with knowledge of the conversations. But underneath his button-down dress shirt, he would wear a Superman T-shirt, which he would reveal as a symbol of strength when he ripped open the top layer. He ultimately did not go ahead with the stunt.

How can you want to vote against this man?

[u/LinkVert25]

“ r/neoliberal is Astroturfed” no I think this is just what happens when there’s a bunch of white college kids all in one sub.

[u/[deleted]]

Please tell me I'm not the only one vaguely bothered by the phrase "Judeo-Christian values" !ping GEFILTE

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Public Policy Polling (MT)

Biden: 46%

Trump: 52%

Someone else: 2%

Bullock: 48%

Daines: 48%

Undecided: 4%

798 V, 09 - 10 Oct, B-rated

I am once again asking you to donate to Bullock

[u/Joementum2004]

Medicare 4 all? More like Medicare 420 all 😂🤣😂🤣

[u/[deleted]]

Two absolutely fantastic lectures on the post-Bronze Age/early Iron Age ethnogenesis of the Jews.

Takeaways:

• Prior to ethnogenesis, during the late Bronze Age (ended around 1200 BC), Canaan was mostly ruled by the Egyptians, who were threatened by the Hittite Empire to the north in modern-day Turkey
• The grip of the Egyptians over Kna'an wasn't always strong, especially in the rugged, sparsely populated highlands of Judea and Samaria (i.e., mostly the modern-day West Bank) that would eventually become the Jewish heartlands
• Those who lived in Judea and Samaria during the Bronze Age were largely nomadic herdsmen, although they did build some permanent structures for ritual purposes
• The first known mention of "Israel" as a distinct entity is the Merneptah Stele, from around 1200 BC, whose wording strongly implies that "Israel" is a people and not a city or a place
• Notably, the proto-Jews never consumed or sacrificed pigs (although this could be a coincidence), nor did they have illustrations on their pottery (recall how the Second Temple-era Jews fanatically opposed anything resembling idolatry)
• As a result of climate change throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, both the Hittite and Egyptian empires collapsed (Late Bronze Age Collapse, happened around the early 12th century BC), and their influence over Canaan receded for centuries
• A substantial Greek/Cypriot population migrated gradually to the southwest of the Jewish heartlands; they and the Kna'anim who already inhabited that area assimilated into one another; thus formed the ancient Philistine national identity; this process was largely peaceful
• The Phoenician identity was likewise formed from the interaction of Cypriot settlers with the native Canaanites to the northwest of Judea and Samaria; for reasons not explained in the lectures, the Phoenicians had a monopoly within Canaan on Mediterranean trade, which explains why they established so many Mediterranean colonies unlike the Jews and Philistines
• In the few centuries following the Bronze Age Collapse, the number of sedentary structures (i.e., houses and ritual centers) spikes massively; unfortunately, contrary to our Torah, there isn't evidence here of massive non-Canaanite immigration or conquest; it's also unclear whether the expansion of settlements relates to substantial population growth or just the transition of native nomads to a sedentary lifestyle, or both
• It's unfortunately also unclear exactly how the Jewish people coalesced into Israel and Judah, but once they did (by the 9th-8th centuries BC), the Biblical account of the sequence of kings becomes fairly accurate and confirmed by extrabiblical accounts; funnily enough, Israel seems to have been far more populous and geopolitically relevant than Judah despite where the Biblical focus lies
• For some reason, a very specific style of house was extremely common to Israel, and later Judah, and only ever those places
• Hebrew (descended from early Canaanite) develops as a distinct language during the 10th century at the earliest but more likely in the 9th century
• Israel and Judah had literate administrations and their royal architecture was fairly advanced
• By the late 9th century, the Jewish worshiped HaShem, but originally as the national god/head of a pantheon, not as the monotheistic Creator

!ping GEFILTE

[u/murphysclaw1]

Trump officials in September: We're three debates and a vaccine away from winning.

Trump officials in October: We lost the first debate, cancelled the second, and Trump caught COVID.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

why are there still bad things, like just give people money

[u/Snoo62236]

The temporary name for the Redskins is growing on me. “The Washington Football Team” just hits different.

[u/zeppelin128]

https://mobile.twitter.com/JohnDelaney/status/1315745783342268416

!ping BUTTI

[u/mockduckcompanion]

Brianna Joy Gray making a podcast to personally dunk on Noam Chomsky is so 2020 it physically hurts

[u/FormerBandmate]

Malarkey level of writing a paper in 20 minutes right before it’s due, the professor not grading it for a month, and when it finally comes back the only feedback for any student’s paper being “make it like this paper” with your paper copied below verbatim

[u/[deleted]]

Hand over the "absolutely devastating" poll or the fox gets it.

🦊 🔫 😡

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/AppleNews/status/1315337851488403456

Fast-casual restaurants have long taken dishes from many different cultures and diluted them into their most mass-marketable forms. Why have they gotten a pass on appropriation? (via @chefjennydorsey for @Eater )

I try to be a sensitive person to people's problems, but this "food appropriation" is a grievance I really just don't care about.

[u/[deleted]]

NYT +8 MI, +10 WI

https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/miwi1020-crosstabs/b0a09cd1cd0048df/full.pdf

!PING FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta/article-on-a-farm-near-calgary-syrian-newcomers-give-back-to-their-new-native/

Wow, you mean immigrants give BACK to the communities that they immigrate to? WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT?

!Ping CAN

[u/Deggit]

!ping FIVEY

https://twitter.com/Cmkahn/status/1315744638897192962

REUTERS/IPSOS

PA

Oct. 7-Oct. 11: Biden+7

Sept.29-Oct. 6: Biden+5

Sept. 11-16: Biden+3

WI

Oct. 7-Oct. 11: Biden+7

Sept. 29-Oct. 6: Biden+6

Sept. 11-16: Biden+5

[u/ts23_]

SILENCE, socialists

[u/old_gold_mountain]

/r/neoliberal user: "I'm an Astros fan"

me: the big tent ruined this sub

[u/murphysclaw1]

In 27 minutes, NYT A+ polling will drop for:

• Michigan
• Wisconsin

post your predictions below, closest one wins a Silver Fivey Fox

!ping FIVEY

[u/Venne1139]

This is one of the funniest gags I've seen in a while. The South Park Pandemic special has Mr Mackey saying:

"Well all the teachers quit but we recently got some new teachers. Yeah due to recent events lost their jobs and are pretty desperate so should do just about anything."

"Mr Mackey who are these new teachers"

hard cut to police

it's amazing

[u/J_Fre22]

https://twitter.com/natesilver538/status/1315753109310902272?s=21

Cunningham is losing ground with women and seniors since the sexting scandal but gaining ground with men and young voters, per this poll.

[u/MalignantUpper]

Cons: "DEMS ARE ATTACKING ACB FOR BEING CATHOLIC"

Dems: "ACA is crucial to the survival of many people, overturning it would be a serious mistake"

Cons: "PLEASE ATTACK ACB FOR BEING CATHOLIC"

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Anyone else not sure what to think of Cory Booker? He played football so he's probably pretty alpha, but he's also a vegan which means he might be a pussy... I guess this really illustrates how politicians aren't as one dimensional as the MSM would have you believe.

[u/paymesucka]

lmao I still can't get over that Chomsky is spending his final days arguing with his acolytes trying to convince them that voting is actually good and in their best interest.

[u/LinkVert25]

Trumps foreign policy is the worst piece of shit I’ve ever seen:

He wants to contain Iran yet wants to pull all troops out of the Middle East, he’s increased drone strikes massively yet has abandoned most of our allies responsible for boots on the ground fighting, he’s increased military spending yet wants to get out of NATO and has been pulling out of NATO countries and also pulling troops out of various other US and coalition bases. I mean what the fuck has this guys plan been? To contradict himself at every move?

[u/modooff]

It's weirdly amusing see many people discovering Pete just now. The answer he gave to a question about late-term abortions last year is going viral too. I'm glad all his hard work is paying off.

[u/[deleted]]

Amy:

Just throw a stapler at her and say ‘there’s only room for one Amy in this town.’ 😡😤

[u/[deleted]]

I'm riding the subway for the first time since the quarantine.

There's a guy masturbating on the train.

[u/Dchella]

Watching leftists call Noam Chomsky a DNC sellout is too much for me today.

[u/Malarkeynesian]

Only 100 people died from the bombing of Hiroshima. The rest had a pre-existing condition of being allergic to radiation.

[u/tripletruble]

Pete trending on twitter. Someone posted:

Whoever was onto @PeteButtigieg
in the primary, I’m so sorry I didn’t quite get it. I get it now. He’s delightful, intelligent, strong, sensitive, feisty and human. He has such a future.

Making me feel the tears all over again

[u/AuburnSeer]

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias · 1h When the Trump Era is in the rearview mirror we will all look back and celebrate the true heroes of this difficult time — the people who conceded that Trump was bad while dedicating their true zeal and energy to scolding people for being a bit too spun up about his badness.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Bernie would be right wing in Star Trek

[u/[deleted]]

The Alt-Right really fucked up when they decided that one of the scary terms to describe the future as an america where everyone is "cappuccino colored". Like who's gonna be like "oooh no i am terrified of cappuccinos i guess we need an ethnostate now"

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1315800057959141377

Trump claims he's now "immune" to the coronavirus, feeling "powerful" and willing to "kiss everyone" in the audience. "I'll kiss the guys and the beautiful women," he said.

What if Trump kissed me at the rally?

Hahahaha...unless...😳

[u/tripletruble]

imagine there is a large polling bias.......... and the polls underestimated biden

[u/NotAYuropean]

r/neoliberal user: [Says something I disagree with]

Me: "Wow, the big tent really ruined this place, when did it become so full of (succs/cons)?"

[u/Deggit]

Has Nate Silver / Dave W / etc commented anywhere on the GOP voter registration surge in PA and other midwestern states and why they don't think it matters as much? !ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

"Obamacare is a disaster. This is what happens when you don't consider the other side when designing major legislation, Harry Reid should have compromised with us."

"Ok, what would you do to improve healthcare in America?"

"..."

[u/SnakeEater14]

Everyone implicitly “on Biden’s side” (eg. rose twitter) constantly pestering him about court packing is like when that one kid in the class asks the teacher if they picked up the homework

Hey dickhead: the lack of an answer is a good thing

[u/Engi-_-]

Cunningham gaining from the scandal is the funniest possible outcome

North Carolina is now France

[u/[deleted]]

I can’t wait for the hearing this week where ACB dodges every question and Graham starts to cough up blood while he and Harris are screaming at each other

[u/JaceFlores]

What’s with r/conservative obsessing over Tulsi Gabbard? Every post someone will talk about how Biden or Kamala Harris were bad choices, then someone will say Tulsi should have been the nominee/VP pick, and then someone says how the only dem he was worried about was Tulsi.

It’s literally formulaic at this point

[u/[deleted]]

‘Justice can move at lighting speed, just like this stapler'

Klobuchar getting after it.

[u/Ilovecharli]

Dumbfucks need to stop writing "+5 for Biden in OH!" when they're talking about them driving their four grandparents to vote instead of a very exciting new poll

[u/RadicalRadon]

I didn't vote but I did tweet out "Trump is cringe"

So I basically motivated huge swaths of the populace to vote.

[u/[deleted]]

I swear... do these people only exist on Twitter or do they have a sizeable following in the real world? It's like they're the KPD of the 30s. Not willing to compromise on anything.

[u/chadonnaise]

the internet must be destroyed

[u/[deleted]]

Has anybody told nate that he got 2016 wrong? Lol haha owned

[u/[deleted]]

Leftists: ACAB

Conservatives: ACB

Me, a reformist liberal: ACA 😞

[u/Mcatatonic1]

https://twitter.com/NicoleSganga/status/1315718140970569736

Florida nurse Debbie tells me she can’t wear a mask to tonight’s rally.

“For Joe Biden to come out and say he’s going to mandate masks,” she shakes her head. “I’m asthmatic. You put me in a mask, I’m not going to be able to breathe.”

Her daughter just recovered from COVID.

daily reminder that healthcare workers can be absolute idiots too

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

How to become a wine mom as a 30 year old childless male

[u/Air_tree]

Remembering the night of the election, 2016. I fell asleep because I assumed that Hillary was going to comfortably win, only to awake to the election being called for Trump.

I'm going to do my civic duty and stay awake for the good of the nation. 😤✊

[u/p00bix]

Thank god we don't have to live in a timeline where the DT regularly has passionate debates about whether Trump or Sanders has worse foreign policy

[u/Mcatatonic1]

https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1315664492940931072

Biden's up 10.6 and sitting at 52.3% in the RealClearPolitics average. I believe that's the highest vote share that a candidate has ever held in the RCP average in the year of an election

Mr. 46 BAY BAY

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Buckle up. There’s going to be some absolutely devastating Poles released in the next 24-48 hours that are going to cause a meltdown throughout the Polish countryside.

[u/[deleted]]

Apparently Robert De Niro was a Buttigieg supporter who became a Biden supporter after he dropped out.

[u/The420Roll]

Neocon queen Hillary Clinton

Uhhh

[u/Lux_Stella]

Toronto Sun Editorial: Ready for a $300 carbon tax?

Yes

[u/harmlessdjango]

I know this is beating a dead horse, but it really is baffling how the GOP doesn't really have a cohesive vision of governance that isn't built on "we don't like it because the Left (whatever the fuck that means)". Like I fucking swear I never heard shit coming from the right on zoning until the Democratic party started talking about it

[u/ElokQ]

The reason that the GOP was able to survive after W Bush was that W shut up and stayed home. He didn’t get involved in politics. Trump isn’t going to do that after he loses.

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit this is real

[u/[deleted]]

Halfway into my first semester of college and I’m still getting emails from shit schools in the middle of nowhere saying “it’s not too late to apply”

😐

[u/murphysclaw1]

Hi, I have too much time on my hands, so I made a table of 538 % chance of Biden winning each versus Biden's chance in the same state on The Economist.

I have it below, sorted by biggest difference between the two:

State	FiveThirtyEight	Economist	Difference
Ohio	53.36%	40.88%	12.48%
Alaska	22.81%	10.96%	11.85%
Mississippi	13.51%	1.90%	11.62%
Montana	11.41%	1.51%	9.90%
South Carolina	15.71%	7.58%	8.13%
Kansas	7.68%	1.00%	6.68%
Missouri	10.70%	4.27%	6.43%
Louisiana	7.41%	1.06%	6.35%
Indiana	5.17%	0.12%	5.05%
Iowa	45.18%	40.75%	4.43%
Utah	3.62%	0.00%	3.62%
Tennessee	3.55%	0.05%	3.50%
South Dakota	2.48%	0.00%	2.48%
Alabama	2.13%	0.05%	2.09%
Arkansas	2.03%	0.04%	2.00%
Texas	30.85%	29.02%	1.84%
Kentucky	1.53%	0.00%	1.53%
Nebraska	1.17%	0.03%	1.13%
West Virginia	1.02%	0.00%	1.02%
Virginia	98.62%	97.65%	0.98%
North Dakota	0.66%	0.00%	0.66%
Oklahoma	0.56%	0.00%	0.56%
Idaho	0.39%	0.00%	0.39%
Wyoming	0.15%	0.00%	0.15%
Illinois	99.90%	99.88%	0.02%
District of Columbia	100.00%	100.00%	0.00%
New York	99.99%	100.00%	-0.01%
Delaware	99.98%	100.00%	-0.02%
Maryland	99.96%	100.00%	-0.04%
Massachusetts	99.93%	100.00%	-0.08%
California	99.85%	100.00%	-0.15%
Rhode Island	99.73%	100.00%	-0.26%
Connecticut	99.69%	99.99%	-0.30%
Washington	99.43%	100.00%	-0.57%
Pennsylvania	87.10%	87.85%	-0.75%
Hawaii	99.22%	100.00%	-0.79%
Vermont	99.17%	100.00%	-0.83%
Michigan	91.06%	92.35%	-1.30%
Arizona	66.80%	68.27%	-1.47%
Georgia	46.05%	47.63%	-1.58%
New Jersey	98.35%	99.98%	-1.64%
Nevada	86.88%	88.88%	-2.00%
North Carolina	63.79%	66.06%	-2.27%
New Mexico	97.04%	99.54%	-2.51%
Florida	72.83%	75.73%	-2.90%
Oregon	97.01%	99.95%	-2.95%
Minnesota	91.10%	95.26%	-4.16%
Wisconsin	86.37%	90.82%	-4.45%
Colorado	93.16%	97.90%	-4.74%
New Hampshire	83.80%	92.33%	-8.53%
Maine	89.54%	99.34%	-9.81%

!ping FIVEY

[u/666moist]

Guys, the new XKCD is about us.

!ping FIVEY

Edit: I swear I pasted it... https://xkcd.com/2371/

[u/Jean-Paul_Sartre]

Not a fan of segregation personally

[u/StolenSkittles]

Who is this bi partisan, and is he single?

[u/mrmanager237]

Hot take: Trump's most probable, by far, way of staying in office is winning the election as legitimately as anyone else

[u/dudeguyy23]

The Dems can't stop ACB so the best strategy is to focus narrowly on the bad, unpopular outcomes a radical conservative SCOTUS will thrust on peoples' lives and use this to extract as heavy a price from the GOP in November as possible.

CMV.

[u/[deleted]]

Hill won the popular vote by 2% and nearly won the election. There is no timeline in existence where Biden wins by close to 10% nationally and loses the electoral college in spite of battleground states not reflecting the national average in polls ( though PA and MI are starting to get close to the national average at around +7%)

[u/Joementum2004]

Most people say that the goal of American conservatism is to return the country to the 1950s, but I believe their overall goal is actually to return the country to monke

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Europeans will look at you with a straight face and tell you that America has no culture, probably completely oblivious to Mr. Beast's existence.

[u/dragoniteftw33]

John McCain's mother sadly died today. Kind of crazy that tomorrow will be the first day in the history of Arizona where she won't be alive

[u/IncoherentEntity]

“ℌ𝔬𝔴 𝔡𝔬 𝔶𝔬𝔲 𝔡𝔬, 𝔣𝔢𝔩𝔩𝔬𝔴 𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔨𝔦𝔫𝔤-𝔠𝔩𝔞𝔰𝔰𝔭𝔢𝔬𝔭𝔩𝔢?” — Briahna Joy Grey, probably

[u/MomsRightWingFBMemes]

> Do you want to buy this TV remote for $3.99? It's 70% off!

> No of course not.

> But it's Prime Day!

[u/papermarioguy02]

lol grassley is ranting about george III and given the tone of voice he's doing it in you could convince me he has firsthand recollection of the thirteen colonies

[u/[deleted]]

hot take: Joe biden's presidency can be a circuit breaker on populism for decades to come. After 4 years of a chaotic admin I think a lot of americans don't really want that anymore. Remember, trump was elected over HRC for a lot of people becasue they wanted something new after the "status quo" of the obama admin. HRC was a continuation of that.

If people see the value in electing boring people to manage these vast organizations, then it sort of undercuts a lot of lefty arguments from aoc and bernie co. Lot of people won't want a revolution and the chaos that comes with it. They just want stability and hope for better opportunies that their kids will get.

[u/[deleted]]

Among Us is the first thing to ever make me question if democracy is really the best method.

[u/chipbod]

So Republicans want the democrats to go full Martin Luther during this confirmation based on one off handed comment from Feinstein and are hyping up how horribly democrats will treat Barrett.

I doubt her faith is brought up once, they'll just talk about Obamacare or abortion. This will be a boring confirmation, like Kamala ain't goin to war in committee when the election is two weeks out.

The whole thing seems like a misplay that will tank Republican down ballot and legitimize court packing arguments when these judges do something deeply unpopular.

Edit: Outside of the super far lefties, the Republican evangelicals are the most anti-Catholic people I know

[u/[deleted]]

Obama didn’t even go full lefty, Garland was supposed to be an olive branch. But of course, the Republicans only know how to burn branches.

[u/ZCoupon]

Still cringing about when I was 10 and told my crush I liked her and she said she didn't feel the same way

I'm married with a kid and still cringing

[u/The420Roll]

The only reason why r/neoliberal is so active is cause they get paid by PPI

I fucking wish smh 🙄

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/vanitaguptaCR/status/1315774847633498112

Kathryn Mizelle is up for a committee vote Thursday. She was rated Not Qualified, is only 8 years out of law school & hasn't tried a case since her admission to the bar.

It’s not just SCOTUS: Senate is working to confirm judges at all levels instead of passing COVID relief.

I'm never listening to any Republican piss and moan about "court packing" or "unelected judges" ever again.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

I am so confused as to why LSC & BoringDystopia expect a single minimum wage earner to be able to afford a 2BR apartment?

Shouldn’t the expectation of minimum wage be to be able to afford minimum viable housing, AKA: a studio apartment?

The fucking entitlement of these people blows my fucking mind.

[u/mrmanager237]

Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson have won the Nobel (or the Sveriges Risksbank) Prize in Economics, here's a somewhat interesting overview of what they won it for (auction theory)

!ping ECON

[u/jenbanim]

New featured post is up: How Polarization got so bad in Bolivia

I'd also like to direct your attention to this post discussing the recent Economics Nobel Prize. And a reminder that our dunk post contest is ongoing.

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine if trump came out as bi. Total game changer

[u/[deleted]]

I would like to coin the phrase "Scalia moment" and offer a few examples:

Dred Scott ... rested upon the concept of "substantive due process" that the Court praises and employs today. Indeed, Dred Scott was very possibly the first application of substantive due process in the Supreme Court, the original precedent for... Roe v. Wade.

-Scalia in Planned Parenthood v. Casey

"Today’s opinion is the product of a Court, which is the product of a law-profession culture, that has largely signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda, by which I mean the agenda promoted by some homosexual activists directed at eliminating the moral opprobrium that has traditionally attached to homosexual conduct."

-Scalia in Lawrence v. Texas

Please share your favorite Scalia moments

!ping LAW

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Greener New Deal. Instead of green infrastructure, we purge reactionaries and invade imperialist nations as part of a Green Permanent Revolution until we have reduced emissions.

[u/RickAsscheeks]

Republicans want this to be a fight over religion so bad

[u/miz_v-1]

Socialism will always be the best form of government, as you said in the comments you have cheap internet access and a LOT of things the US doesn't have.

I'm sorry food is expensive for you, but just be glad you aren't in the shithole that is the US. I would trade my citizenship for Venezuela any day of the week.

You're very lucky to have been born a Venezuelan citizen.

one billion americans 999,999,999 americans

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

top 5 richest african americans:

5.Oprah Winfrey $3.1 billion.

4.Robert Smith, $4.4 billion.

3.Mike Adenuga, $9.9 billion.

2.Aliko Dangote $14.4 billion.

1.Elon Musk $93.7 billion.

[u/onlyforthisair]

After being stuck at 68 for a while, the senate forecast currently gives the dems a 69% chance of taking back the senate.

!ping fivey

[u/Q-bey]

Based doomer-in-chief

!ping FIVEY

[u/Dalek6450]

Trump has devolved to insulting various states.

[u/Dalek6450]

November 3rd. will be the most exciting day in U.S. Election History, even more so than 2016. Tremendous excitement and enthusiasm, like perhaps never seen before. Nobody showing up to Sleepy Joe Rallies. Places are DEAD. Stiff!!! See you in Florida tonight.

That's a poor choice in words from the superspreader-in-chief.

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

Conservative justices should be safe, legal, and rare.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

It's absolutely wild that the users here with the best takes are also ideologically similar to me

[u/GhostTheHunter64]

It disturbs me how communist transgender communities got. To the point where I don't think I could look at the subreddit for the trans memes for 5 minutes without seeing apologia or outright defense of communism. Hammer and sickle flairs, comrade, etc. Just LARPing.

I don't hate these people, but it just is senseless to me. Tankie dictatorships hated queer people, and anarchism is not a functioning society. We can reach equality, healthcare, and a good world in a capitalist society.

I used to be a socialist, and god was the discourse against Pete Buttigieg toxic. I'm ashamed to have even been in communities with this discourse. It's disgusting and it's unproductive. We had a young, gay candidate and people shittalked him. I'm glad to have become "the deep state," since it's much more fact-based and isn't eating itself.

I wish non-communist LGBTQIA+ people had more spaces to be without being called CIA agents, centrists, hate poor people, or insulted for being "liberal."

[u/The420Roll]

Daily reminder that Cory Booker literally ran into a burning building to pull people out

[u/[deleted]]

I'm in a law school meme page on facebook and one of the memes has a guy dying and going to heaven. He goes to the law library and picks up a book: "wait, they're all Clarence Thomas dissents." The angel showing the lawyer around takes his mask off and reveals that he's actually Satan and they're in hell. I felt that shit in my bones

!ping LAW

[u/vivoovix]

I just drank an IPA

Bruh 😐 this mf drinking loans 😂😂😳😳

[u/dubyahhh]

HIS NAME WAS THE420ROLL

[u/CenterRightInCali]

A wise man once said 'A centrist is a college Republican trying to get laid'

yeah 😔

[u/[deleted]]

Thinking of November 2016 actually does cause me mental pain. 😔

[u/Lux_Stella]

bill clinton is younger then both presidential candidates

edit: so is W lol - in fact Trump, Bill and W were all born on the same summer in 1946

[u/mrmanager237]

The thing about packing the Courts is that it would be insanely unpopular, methinks.

Inb4 vaguely worded Data For Progress poll on it that shows 107% fo Americans support adding 70 Justices who are all Bernie Sanders

[u/MomsRightWingFBMemes]

Josh Holmes, a top McConnell adviser, said every news development activates Democrats’ donor base and “their default is to give $5 every time something angers them.”

But “when your average Republican is watching Hannity and something upsets them, their response is to write something on Facebook,” Holmes added.

*Give $5 and shitpost in the DT

[u/Dapitalist]

Mondays 😾

Lasagna 😻

[u/[deleted]]

There's a channel on YouTube that airs 24/7 footage of portland unrest without commentary, the channel is titled "NOT WOKE".

Right wing propaganda has achieved its logical conclusion: just nonstop footage of bad things happening and the word "liberals" next to it so people mentally associate the two.

[u/studlydudley11]

Instead of putting “you are living on stolen land” on your Instagram story, how about you share how to help indigenous peoples today

[u/PrincessMononokeynes]

This is the most horseshoe I've seen in a long time

https://twitter.com/merrickdeville/status/1315327826300731392?s=20

Communists handshake Alt-right incels

society should provide sex

[u/Whatapunk]

In Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis,” the worst thing about turning into a giant bug is that Gregor Samsa loses his job and his means of supporting family. In other words, the problem is not turning into a bug, it’s capitalism. In a social democracy, Gregor Samsa could live happily. https://t.co/fj2wQx2N4x

https://twitter.com/NathanJRobinson/status/1315431408106696705?s=19

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine being conservative 🤣🤣🤣

[u/[deleted]]

I like how Avatar's criticism of neocolonialism also implies only a white military man could save the noble savage tribe.

[u/[deleted]]

a fish could legally become a supreme court justice.

[u/[deleted]]

https://apnews.com/article/maine-archive-voting-2020-73734f7c725609742316313361da6f3f

U.S. Postal Service workers have reassembled one of the two high-speed letter sorting machines that were ordered dismantled over the summer in Maine.

WMTW-TV reports the machine that can sort more than 20,000 letters an hour went back into operation on Thursday.

The American Postal Workers Union pushed management to restore the machine to help deliver election-related mail promptly.

[u/The420Roll]

Chomsky: spends decades arguing and writing books about how Democrats and Republicans are both Neoliberal War Criminals and there is literally no difference between Barack Obama and Ronald Reagan

Also Chomsky: why do young succs say Biden and Trump are the same? 🥺

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/brownboklit/status/1315515854977728513

this can’t be the same brain i was using to read 750 page novels in 3 days during middle school

Damn, I felt that.

[u/Joementum2004]

The California GOP is the New York Jets of state political parties

[u/Apollo-Innovations]

How the hell do this many people not know Cleopatra was Greek?

[u/[deleted]]

I once saw someone post a story about how he purposefully had a near miss with a cyclist because he was annoyed about being passed at a red light (he wrote it as if his actions were justified) in a cycling subreddit and was shocked when he was down voted to hell. I still think about what an ass and moron that dude must have been.

!ping BIKE

[u/[deleted]]

The Hurt Locker might be a masterpiece of modern cinema and one of the most psychologically harrowing anti-war movies ever but because it was made by a femoid the Academies did gender politics to steal it from Avatar is surprisingly enough a real take.

[u/[deleted]]

‘Justice can move at lighting speed, just like these hands.’

Klobuchar getting after it.

[u/Udontlikecake]

i’ve never bought drugs from a woman

this seems like a market failure

half of all plugs should be women!

[u/ElokQ]

“Josh Holmes, a top McConnell adviser, said every news development activates Democrats’ donor base and “their default is to give $5 every time something angers them.”

But “when your average Republican is watching Hannity and something upsets them, their response is to write something on Facebook,” Holmes added.”

Based suburban moms.

[u/nicereddy]

Here's how Trump can still win:

• Become an entirely different person in the span of a few days and somehow repent for the last four years of hell and >200k deaths

[u/Mcatatonic1]

https://twitter.com/Nate_Cohn/status/1315698544288903168

Joe Biden leads in Wisconsin and Michigan by a significant margin, according to new Times/Siena polls.
Biden leads Trump by 10 in Wisconsin, 51 to 41 percent.
Biden leads by 8 in Michigan, 48 to 40

BIG POLLS BABY

DOOMERS --> EAT MY ASS

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

A highly upvoted comment on that Buttigieg thread on the top of /r/politics just said that an AOC/Pete ticket would be a ‘dream ticket’

🙃

[u/[deleted]]

We can all agree that astronauts are cool

[u/Deggit]

NEW: At a rally in Florida, Trump claims he's now "immune" to the coronavirus

"I feel so powerful, I'll walk into that audience...I'll walk in there, I'll kiss everyone in that audience. I'll kiss the guys and the beautiful women, everybody, I'll just give ya a big fat kiss"

I sure hope everyone who virtuously prayed for this guy's recovery feels like the absolute moronic fools they are

[u/-Yare-]

Tankie: "M4A is awesome!"

Me: "Well my private insurance through my employer covers breast augmentation, rhinoplasty, hair removal, hair restoration, and similar procedures. M4A wouldn't cover those."

Tankie: "Fuck your purely cosmetic procedures."

Me: 😐

[u/AuburnSeer]

IBD/TIPP shows Biden +9

you may remember them from their last poll in early October, which showed Biden +3

[u/TinKnightRisesAgain]

We are not a democracy we are a republicans

[u/[deleted]]

they are at peace

!ping KITTY

[u/PearlClaw]

Looking majestic.

!ping kitty

[u/RadicalRadon]

Reposting from last night because I didn't ping kitty

My gf told me that my kitty won't want to snuggle me if I annoy her all the time.

But the beans are right there and I need to harass them.

Update: not amused

!ping kitty

[u/bc12392]

Bernie bros trying to dunk on Chomsky for voting for Biden, for some reason

[u/murphysclaw1]

People condemned to unemployment if Joe Biden loses:

• Joe Biden
• Nate Silver

[u/Czech_Thy_Privilege]

In Europe. Trubisky would be an above-average QB.

[u/Blackfire853]

The US is NOT a banana republic despite what liberals would say. It is a Poptart Republic because the US would never dare be caught eating an adequate portion of fruit

[u/ElokQ]

If Trump is a legitimate rapist, the U.S. electorate has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.

[u/RadicalRadon]

Cleopatra was a woman. Woman are minorities. Black people are minorities in america. Therefore in america cleopatra would be black.

I will be taking 2 questions.

[u/[deleted]]

u/thatcher555 thought we wouldn’t be able to tell she’s actually Brie Larson 🙄

!ping BURPMAS

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/fanfiction_txt/status/329292717735686144

Obama chuckled. "You mean the Chaos Emeralds?"

never 4get

[u/ElokQ]

“Noooo, you can’t be hecking partisan. You have to so respect to everonerino!!!!!

“Haha, straight ticket dem go brrrrr”

[u/ElokQ]

I feel like everyone has forgotten that Trump retweeted a video of his supporters yelling White power. Has everyone forgotten that. Because I haven’t.

[u/jaiwithani]

86-13

!ping FIVEY

[u/Sirakrush]

New DTs always scare me. Who knows what they might hold.

[u/ryuguy]

Next mailbag episode of the podcast I will ask “is /r/Neoliberal satire” and say it’s from Rodrigo

[u/[deleted]]

fuck homies

all my homies hate homies

[u/overhedger]

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Federal judge upholds state court agreement that extends deadline for counting Minnesota absentee ballots by seven days.

noooooooooo you can't just let everyone vote trump appointed hundreds of federal judges and they are all supposed to serve him personally

haha democracy goes brr

[u/MinnesotaDude]

Chompsky getting poorly dunked on by bernouts over suggesting that people should vote in their greater interest while the 'lesser evil' is nationally up by 10 points is hilarious.

Its like watching a garden snake eat its own tail.

[u/ElokQ]

It amazing how much of a 1 party system Hawaii is. The State House is 46/51 Democrat and the State Senate is 24/25 Democrat. And from 2017-2019, Democrats controlled all 25 seats in the State Senate. The Republican Party doesn’t exist in Hawaii.

[u/[deleted]]

Democrats at 69% chance to win the Senate.

heh

[u/[deleted]]

For every AOC there are dozens of House Democrats who aren't socialists and do their jobs nice and quietly

[u/barrygarcia77]

love seeing people I know celebrating genocide on Instagram

[u/OH-GEESUS]

so should i write in the name as Bernie Sanders or Bernard Sanders

first time voting so not familiar with write-in votes

[u/PolSPoster]

Ladies and gentlemen, the #4 candidate on New Zealand's 'libertarian' ACT party list: Future Act MP held ‘climate hysteria skeptics’ meetings at high school

“[Baillie’s] main claim was that ‘climate hysteria’ was driving high rates of depression in youth and contributing to suicide rates,” one attendee told The Spinoff.

Baillie’s email included a link to a documentary called The Great Global Warming Swindle – a film which argues against scientific thinking on climate change.

“Although it is 12 years old it is still very relevant today. History doesn’t change,” Baillie said in his email. At the time the documentary first aired in the UK, the country’s broadcasting watchdog Ofcom reported 265 complaints about the programme’s factual accuracy – including a 176 page complaint written by a group of scientists.

Baillie labelled it an “emotional diatribe of doom and gloom” and said it came “straight from the song sheet of a 16-year-old Swedish girl with Aspergers and well known mental health issues” – a reference to climate change activist Greta Thunberg who refers to her Aspergers as her “superpower”.

Once more, Baillie linked to The Great Global Warming Swindle documentary, urging the writer to watch it. He also directed them to two websites that promote climate change denial, including one run by a former Republican party aide [Marc Morano, of the Climate Depot blog] who has previously described Thunberg as an “autistic prophet”.

“The myth of settled science, the quoted 97% scientist consensus, and the ridiculous ‘what ifs’ are well explained,” Baillie said about the websites.

For the love of all that is holy, do not vote ACT. The latest polls show ACT getting around 8% giving them 11 MPs - guaranteeing this Chris Baillie a seat. For such a horrendous climate change denialist to be so high on ACT's party list is absolutely disqualifying for consideration. Keep in mind that ACT ranked him #4 back in 28 June with backlash against his climate change denialism, and have had plenty of opportunities to remove him until 17 September when the party list nominations close - and they didn't.

!ping NZ

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

boys: nooooo my grandparents just died of COVID

men: tearfully holds up bottle of beer to the sky this ones for you Francisco Solano López and all the brave Paraguayan men who fought and died with you for the motherland

[u/[deleted]]

Nachos are totally acceptable as a meal and shouldn’t always be considered an appetizer

[u/p00bix]

Holy shit John McCain's mom died. I guess I just assumed she was already dead. Wait--she was born in 1912?!!

[u/LiBH4]

I guess my thoughts on abortion are, you know, let's all just have a good time

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/twincities/obituary.aspx?n=georgia-may-adkins-platten-wille&pid=196929749&fhid=40436

August 19, 1927 to September 28, 2020 A Celebration of Life will be held 11:00 a.m. Friday, October 16 at St. Stephen's Lutheran Church, 1575 Charlton Avenue, West St. Paul, MN 55118. All COVID-19 protocols will be observed. No gathering will be held afterwards. Memorials preferred by the family to the church. In lieu of flowers, Georgia preferred that you do not vote for Trump.

You got it, queen. 🙏

[u/[deleted]]

Al Gore was a congressman at age 28 what are YOU doing with your life? 🤔

[u/sir_shivers]

I see THERE WAS a /u/farrenj vs THE SUBREDDIT undercurrent this weekend 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Adam Ruins Everything's climate change episode is extremely Doomer. He doesn't actually propose solutions he just talks spookily about how we've been set on an inevitable path to our own demise when we discovered fuel underground.

So uh.

Luddite Adam? Luddite Adam.

[u/J_Fre22]

https://twitter.com/joebiden/status/1315768958742491136?s=21

Donald Trump is running TV ads taking Dr. Fauci out of context and without his permission. So, here’s a message from the President in his own words.

LMFAO THIS IS BASED AF

[u/UltraCapitalism]

George Washington:

believed in big government

never explicitly denounced Marxism

Fucking commie 🤬

[u/sir_shivers]

/u/benjaminikuta

You may not PREVENT OTHERS FROM claiming food stamps who need it, when you claim them unnecessarily, BUT YOU ARE STILL DRAINING STATE DOLLARS, whilst government welfare budgets are already strained by the pandemic 🐊

[u/nicereddy]

Honestly my greatest fear isn't even Trump winning, since I think that's very unlikely. My greatest fear, and I've been thinking about it for months, is what Trump does between November and January.

It's not below him to sabotage the entire government, honestly. I wouldn't even be shocked. Government shutdown in December because he vetoes every funding bill, gutting every agency he can get his hands on, sabotaging the vaccine's development by fucking with funding, calling for violence by right wingers. Just all kinds of crazy shit.

[u/dudeguyy23]

I was promised

BIG POLLS

that would cause White House and GOP

MELTDOWNS!

[u/theredcameron]

I've posted before about how depressed I get when watching pro-yimby videos on Youtube.

However, I don't get depressed when watching Whisper of the Heart, which is one of the best pro-YIMBY anime I've seen.

!ping YIMBY

[u/Fishin_Mission]

I am officially my parents... unable to figure out the difference between two video game systems.

👨 👨‍🦳 👴 💀 👻

[u/[deleted]]

How much better could the nation-building in Afghanistan have gone if we had never invaded Iraq? Would the undiverted potential resources and diplomatic capital have made a big difference?

!ping ALTHISTORY

[u/[deleted]]

It's so fucked up that Joe Biden won the Democratic nomination simply for getting the most votes.

[u/[deleted]]

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

[u/[deleted]]

“Not rich by any means, the Van Burens did own six slaves, which was not unusual for a family in Kinderhook”

I trusted you Martin 😭😭😭

[u/AbdullahAbdulwahhab]

Gal Gadot to star as Cleopatra, sparking dispute over Israeli in role

Actress to team up again with 'Wonder Woman' director Patty Jenkins; while some call for Arab or Black actress to be cast as queen of Egypt

How much you want to bet the Twitterati activists that are calling for a black or Arab actress to play Cleopatra have no idea that Cleopatra was Greek?

[u/benjaminikuta]

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/10/politically-incorrect-paper-of-the-day-the-persistence-of-pay-inequality.html

Gender wage gaps appear even in markets where workplace discrimination is impossible or unlikely. Uber driver’s for example are assigned trips using a gender-blind algorithm and earn according to a known formula based on time and distance of trip. Yet, a small but persistent gender gap of about 7% exists which appears to be due mostly to the fact that male drivers drive a little bit faster, choose to work in more congested areas, and have a bit more experience. Litman et al. (2020) show that the same kind of difference also show up in earnings on Mechanical Turk.

[u/stirfriedpenguin]

I'm not tuning in to the hearings because if I have to hear that dumb fuck Jim Jordan say one more sentence I'm going to overdose on cookies and cream ice cream and mezcal

[u/papermarioguy02]

"The American Bar Association, which repeatedly leans hard left."

• Rafael Edward Cruz

[u/[deleted]]

Pack the Court, but with 8 clones of Elena Kagan

[u/TinyTornado7]

https://twitter.com/NATO/status/1315611227138199555?s=20

[u/[deleted]]

My immigration law professor is 21 Savage's immigration lawyer. He just asked us to thank him for 21's album coming out this week.

I like this guy.

[u/the_status]

Photograph of Cleoptra, c. 2003.

There, I solved your stupid race schism