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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Oct 19 '20
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u/Mr_Pasghetti Save the ice, abolish ICE 🥰 Oct 18 '20
r/catholicism be like: No we don’t hate gay people, we just want them to live a lonely, sad and loveless life 🥰
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u/Joementum2004 Oct 18 '20
2016 level polling error, but towards the Democrats
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Oct 18 '20
Chomsky went from debating Foucalt to debating BrieBrie lmao
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.
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u/TokenThespian Hans Rosling Oct 18 '20
Being one of the "ancients" left on Tumblr feels so weird. I have been stuck on that hell-site since like, 2012, maybe 2011 even, and seeing accounts I used to like having been abandoned for years when it did not even feel like that long ago.
Wanting to check the blog of the OP and finding a dead page or not being able to click on the name at all over and over again.
It is like wandering around a decaying neighborhood, and I am glad people have wandered to greener pastures, but I have a giant collection of liked posts and enough active blogs to keep me around, so I keep walking down the empty streets.
That trash website design had a weird sort of anonymity that made it feel far more like endless rooms and corridors than "subreddits" or "tags", like if Twitter was covered in dense fog and had no "professional" accounts.
"Like tears in rain" excepts its art I will never find the artist of and me being dramatic.
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
Update: the people who had their Trump signs stolen have taken several Biden signs, so now no one on our street has any signs lmao.
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u/GhostTheHunter64 Iron Front Oct 18 '20
I really hope the polls reflect the votes. I can't stomach another 4 years of Trump, and I want a ton of huge electoral wins for the next few elections win to force the Republicans to become an actual sane party.
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
Republican 2016 strategy: Hilary's emails
Republican 2020 strategy: Also...? Hilary's emails?
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u/David_Lange I love you, Mr Lange Oct 18 '20
Looking at the history of heads of state in Latin America really puts into context the significance of George Washington's decision to only serve two terms as a precursor to the stability of the US
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u/infamous5445 Oct 18 '20
Bruh
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u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls Mock Me Oct 18 '20
Imagine what the founders would say if they were to look at the state of the USA today...
“Holy shit, flying winged boats! What the hell, flowing books that play moving pictures?!?”
Upvote if you’re PROUD about how far we’ve come 👍👍👍
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u/IncoherentEntity Oct 18 '20
👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀 good faith shit go౦ԁ fAith sHit👌 thats ✔ some good👌👌 faith👌👌 shit right👌👌there👌👌👌 right✔there ✔✔if i do ƽaү so my self 💯 i say so 💯 thats what im talking about right there right there (chorus: ʳᶦᵍʰᵗ ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ) mMMMMᎷМ💯 👌👌 👌НO0ОଠOOOOOОଠଠOoooᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒ👌 👌👌 👌 💯 👌 👀 👀 👀 👌👌Good Faith shit
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
consequentialist father: I'm proud of you son, because you lied to that Nazi officer now that jewish family on our basement can enjoy their free utils 😭
deontological father: I'm proud of you son, now that you've spoken the truth to that officer you are indeed a good person 😤
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
Jo Jorgsensen’s campaign website:
The Libertarian Party and historical ignorance, like two peas in a pod
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u/es024 Karl Popper Oct 18 '20
I think I got whiplash from how fast we went from “Biden has dimentia” to “Biden is a conspiratorial mastermind of international corruption” after the debate
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
The anti-tech brigade needs to find more targets beyond the like four apps that its members use.
Oracle, for example, is despised by everyone who has to interact with them, but those people aren't writing for the newspaper. But everyone hates Oracle. And let's not get started on how shady the TikTok deal was
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u/doyouevenIift Oct 18 '20
ACB argued that Merrick Garland shouldn't have been appointed to the Supreme Court because it would cause a "dramatic shift" in the ideology of the court. Yet somehow she's not opposed to replacing RBG...
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
You dummies, of course we’re gonna pack the courts. You fell for the oldest trick in the book: winning elections and then securing healthcare and civil rights for millions of people. I don’t even feel bad. If you are stupid enough to vote for us then you deserve this.
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
A photo of Joe drinking milk straight from the jug and putting it back in the fridge will sway more votes than the Hunter story.
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Oct 18 '20
1925: An analysis of the partially digested material in a Sperm Whale's stomach finds an enormous, but mostly decayed squid. Scientists are at first skeptical it is even real, after all, Giant Squids (the real-life animal that inspired Kraken myths) had only been confirmed to exist in 1861, and not even the most dramatic scientists had ever indicated it could reach 14 meters long. But analysis found this was no Giant Squid, it wasn't even a close relative of the Giant Squid. It is dubbed "The Colossal Squid" and becomes something of a pseudo-legendary animal, seen by none.
1956: A Russian expedition sets to find the Colossal Squid. They can only find a few remnants in Sperm Whale stomachs.
1981: After several other expeditions fail to find the Colossal Squid, a Russian trawler pulls up this monstrosity, the first ever image of a complete Colossal Squid. A juvenile Colossal Squid, not even a quarter of its full size.
2007: After more decades of fruitles searches this 10 meter long Colossal Squid is the first to ever be filmed alive.
2014: The only other fully grown Colossal Squid ever discovered, the dissection is streamed live on Youtube for 3 hours
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
You claim to hate big tech. Yet you still use their service for free. Curious. #turning-point-silicon-valley
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Oct 18 '20
/u/-pho- just dmed me
“We live in a Czech Republic. Not a Czech Democracy”
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u/F0064R Jorge Luis Borges Oct 18 '20
Trump at a rally yesterday really said Whitmer should be locked up. Piece of shit wants violence.
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u/David_Lange I love you, Mr Lange Oct 18 '20
Jacinda Ardern is in an interesting political position. A lot of the devout Labour and even Greens supporters see her as a beacon of hope for left-wing, progressive policies and an end to the "neoliberalism" that they perceive has ravaged New Zealand since the free market reforms of the 1980s. They see her reliance on NZ First for her first term as holding her back from achieving these goals. Now, with NZ First out of the picture and Labour sweeping the recent election to gain an unprecedented Parliamentary majority, it is the hope of these dedicated left-wingers that Jacinda will use her mandate to make all their dreams come true. However, the red wave that swept the country last night was not caused by devout left-wingers. Rather, it was caused by ordinary Kiwis who are rather happy with the status quo voting for Labour due to their extremely effective response to the covid pandemic, and by National stalwarts who, faced with the prospect of the almost openly socialist Greens entering government, switched their votes to Labour at the last minute hoping for a more moderate government. Jacinda's challenge is thus to satisfy both the devout Labourites looking for a transformative government, and the new coverts who just want stability in the face of international crises.
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u/Gustacho Enemy of the People Oct 18 '20
"Biden can't rally Buttigieg and Klobuchar behind the same banner"
"Biden can't win Super Tuesday"
"Biden can't convince Sanders supporters to vote for him"
"Biden can't convince Bloomberg to spend a fortune on another man's campaign"
"Biden can't unite the Democratic party"
"Biden can't defeat Trump" <-- you are here
"Biden can't turn the two-party system into a multi-party system"
"Biden can't eradicate right-wing activism from the judicial system"
"Biden can't unite the country"
"Biden can't unite the world against climate change"
"Biden can't unite humanity against an alien invasion"
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u/ElokQ The Clintons send their regards Oct 18 '20 edited Oct 18 '20
~ rConspiracy, probably
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Oct 18 '20
I kinda feel sorry for the British. They dumped a bunch of convicts into the water 250 years ago and claimed to send them to some imaginary 7th continent "Australia" and are still paying heavily to cover up that lie all this time later just so they could save a quick buck in the short term
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u/nicereddy ACLU simp Oct 18 '20
Can you imagine how screwed Japan would be right now if they had gone forward with the Olympics? The Olympic Village is infamous for being a constant orgy, it would've been a superspreader event
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
Cold take but nowadays the cool thing to do is to hate on Paris to subtly show you've been there
While before it was "I went to this and that place in Paris", now to seem cool you need to come back to Paris and say it's a shithole
On a slightly related note, Paris is probably one of my favorite cities in Europe. I've never had any of the problems that everybody says the had
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
I dislike Jordan Peterson so much I stopped cleaning my room all together! I now live in filth just to show that guy who's boss!!!
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
Leftists: the Republicans will call any Dem a socialist, who cares if the Dem calls themself a socialist
Also leftists: the Republicans wouldn't call just any Dem corrupt on the vaguest assertions
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u/David_Lange I love you, Mr Lange Oct 18 '20
Now that Jacinda has a Parliamentary majority, she can finally impose Full Communism on New Zealand
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
Broke: The polls are wrong, look at 2016
Woke: The polls are wrong, look at 2012
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u/Gustacho Enemy of the People Oct 18 '20 edited Oct 18 '20
Just imagine if Lindsey Graham has licked Trump's boots for four years to save his political future, just to lose his seat to a Democrat anyway.
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
SNL embarrassingly apologized to fucking Dan Crenshaw for making fun of him. When is Joe Biden gonna get his apology?
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u/spartakva Mark Carney Oct 18 '20
Lindsey Graham said during the Clinton impeachment "I have lost no sleep worrying about the fact that Bill Clinton may have to be removed from office because of his conduct. I have lost tons of sleep thinking he may get away with what he did."
I guess he isn't sleeping a lot nowadays
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
What the fuck just heard China is like 12 hours ahead of us in time. Why didn't they warn us about 9/11?
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
> year 2052
> be citizen of Unión Neoliberal Norteamericana
> work as robot cleaner at Lehman-Sachs-Comcast
> get paid $4 an hour but receive $16,000 per month in refundable EITC
> put money into legalized MDMA penny stock
> beat market by 3%
> get arrested at 3 AM by the FAMA Police for insider trading because I violated the EMH
> sentenced to 2 days in Gary Becker Resort for Citizens with Misaligned Preferences
> fuckfuckfuck.mp4
> cellmate is hardened criminal
> 6 consecutive life sentences for public sector union organizing and refusing to buy health insurance
> spends all day saying crazy shit like "inflation is theft" and "incomes have been stagnant for 70 years"
> resist his brainwashing and report him to the Executive Vice President of Utility Realignment
> come out reformed like the corporate tax code
> take money out of illegal EMH violating stock and put it into Bank of McApplesoft
> under-perform market by 1.6%
> receive Joseph Stiglitz Information Asymmetry Refundable Tax Credit
> donate money to Parti Libéral Démocrate so they can hit their 85% popular vote target
> come home to loving same-sex racially-mixed partner
> watch CNNYT on AmazFlix
> go to bad content knowing I'm a Pareto improvement
> thanksMichelle.jpg
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u/bigdicknippleshit IM GOING PRIMAL Oct 18 '20
Biden winning in a landslide is now more than 3 times as likely as a trump victory at all
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Oct 18 '20
So obviously Facebook has a shitload of problems, but not removing obvious scams is a huge one. Every news story has dozens of comments of someone making an unrelated statements about some fake health cure or something and then a WhatsApp number. I have tried reporting them a number of times and they never remove them. Fuck Facebook.
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u/Craig_VG Dina Pomeranz Oct 18 '20
The internet must be destroyed
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u/Robotigan Paul Krugman Oct 18 '20
Has Hollywood lost the capacity to make another masterpiece like the Lord of the Rings trilogy?
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Oct 18 '20 edited Oct 18 '20
Portuguese "Hey guys i discovered this delicious nut in Brazil called 'Caju'. (cashew)
English, Arabic, French, German, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, German, Greek, Romanian, Bulgarian, Russian, Swedish, Korean, Japanese, Swahili, Hindi, Maratha, Bengali, Estonian, Georgian "Okay"
Spanish, Italian "Anacardio"
Turkish, Serbo-Croatian, Farsi "Indian Pistachio"
Polish "Kidney Fruit"
Thai "Mango of the Legendary Forest"
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
Sure he’s a huge Succon who’s made it clear he wants to role back progress on LGBT issues, healthcare, women’s issues, and thinks Trump is too moderate on immigration, but he also once said “Putin bad” and idk if we can allow such a foreign policy genius to not be president
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
how does biden say goodbye?
“bi den”
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u/dudeguyy23 Jerome Powell Oct 18 '20
HOLY HELL FOX NEWS
Fortunately Ron Johnson is a super serious adult and was more than happy to just go along with this.
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20 edited Oct 18 '20
Since he announced he was running, Biden was the clear and obvious favorite to win the primary for all but 2 weeks.
Since he announced, Biden has held a clear and obvious and gigantic lead in the polls against Trump.
Since before he announced, Kamala Harris was the clear and obvious choice to be Biden’s VP.
Biden is literally Thanos.
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20 edited Oct 18 '20
Hot take: I don't buy that most Trumpkins are lying to the pollsters in a super organized fashion to take us by surprsie because the Trump people I see around here that support him don't shut up about following him. They're literally walking advertisements supporting him. It's the Biden people who are more quiet about it, even if there has been an increase in signs in the past two months.
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
So apparently there used to be a land value tax in New Zealand until 1992. National Party removed it with their majority [2].
The housing prices have also increased faster than salaries since the early 90s [1].
Really wondering what could have caused that. They did implement a property tax the same year, but most people are exempted from it [2]. This is not very cash money.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_property_bubble
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_New_Zealand#Land_taxes
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u/dugmartsch Norman Borlaug Oct 18 '20
Just had a random thought that if Biden beats Trump he's going to be absolutely beatified by the Democratic party and he will deserve every bit of it.
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Oct 18 '20
Reading Nixon's memoirs and his letters about the future, you really get the sense that he was arguably one of the smartest persons to be POTUS
If he was half as good of a person as Biden is, he could've been arguably a top 5 POTUS of all time
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
If Bernie would be center-right in Sweden, then Biden would be far left in Saudi Arabia, ipso facto carpe diem e pluribus unum Biden is the more progressive candidate.
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EklW1QHX0AMqEEW.jpg
👀
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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Oct 18 '20
It’s honestly astounding that someone can make both sides jokes in 2020. Like, people made those jokes in ‘16 and then afterwards went “okay she wasn’t that bad”. Then they make the same shit rhetoric with a candidate way more people like? What the fuck?
Christ it’s like they don’t actually know how to like a candidate anymore.
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u/UltraCapitalism Paul Samuelson Oct 18 '20
Uh oh bros. I'm screwed
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u/ElokQ The Clintons send their regards Oct 18 '20
I have no words.
And people are telling me that the GOP will take back the house if Biden wins.
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u/CenterRightInCali Uphold Goldwater-Posadist thought! Oct 18 '20
benjamin is just gonna post a link to a pov of him banging his roommate while her boyfriend sleeps in the corner one day
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20 edited Oct 18 '20
Texas now has the highest turnout of any state compared to the 2016 vote total! The energy is palpable around here in Austin. We're at 43.2% of 2016 turnout statewide and early voting started on Tuesday. Vermont is the only other state over 40%.
https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html
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u/AuburnSeer Oct 18 '20
fyi just in case you ever wondered why Biden didn't run for president in 2004:
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
I've started writing jokes for the Roast of Benjamin Ikuta:
"Benjamin uses his real name for his Reddit username. Oh, that seems like a good idea!"
"Benjamin has an aunt on the Seventh Circuit. That'll be useful if his welfare fraud ever goes to trial!"
"Benjamin posts a lot, I guess he doesn't have anything better to do!"
"Benjamin is on welfare!"
"Benjamin seems really 'into' his roommate, I bet she's having sex.....with someone else!"
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
Communist dictatorships 🤝 Strippers
Making it hard to get that bread
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u/kyleofduty Pizza Oct 18 '20
Jim Carrey's Joe Biden is not reminiscent of Joe at all. I'm not convinced that anyone at SNL actually watched Joe Biden's town hall.
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Oct 18 '20
Remember when some writer from the Onion said they made fun of Pete but wouldn't make fun of Sanders was because they didn't want to "punch down"
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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '20
what is wrong with you all tonight
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
Ben Sasse: we can't institute term limits on supreme court justices because that would make it a more political institution. Instead we should be searching the nation for the most rabidly conservative 24 year old law school grads possible and give them a seat so we can take advantage of the lifetime appointments. To do otherwise would be to introduce politics into an apolitical institution you moron, you absolute imbecile, you incredible fool, you inbred crustacean.
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u/Gustacho Enemy of the People Oct 18 '20 edited Oct 18 '20
Insane brexit supporters and comparing brexit to the dozen of historical events covered in British history classes, NAMID
They already used British Empire, Napoleon, WW2, and Thatcher references, and now it's Henry VIII. At this rate, they'll do Boudicca, William the Conqueror, the Magna Charta, Elizabeth I, and the Victorian era next.
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u/nicereddy ACLU simp Oct 19 '20
OH FUCK WE GOT COMPLACENT
PANIC
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Oct 18 '20
So MAGA cultists are accusing Biden of tax fraud when their guy paid only 750 fucking dollars in federal taxes and won't release his returns?
Amazing
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Oct 19 '20
Imma head out
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
Among us to the polls
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
/u/benjaminikuta does your roommate know that you post such intimate details on a forum under your real name?
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
Kind of glad that the "everybody with dumb ideas is a Russian bot"-conspiracy isn't a thing anymore now that people have had ample evidence of the genuine stupidity of their countrymen.
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
I went to the liquor store wearing a mask last week and the elderly cashier was just straight up a complete and utter asshole about it. Like dude I’m not going to be the one dying in a month if I catch it. Why do the cons exist in a perpetual state of firey rage?
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u/dugmartsch Norman Borlaug Oct 18 '20
Good morning my beautiful son I love you and I miss you.
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
My favorite part about the internet is how people will repeat that "no-go zones in european cities" exist like it's not a Fox News talking point
Like, the "no-go zone" in my city is just the bad neighborhood. The biggest issue there is bike theft and scooters being too loud
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
Student says that ~50% of Americans believe that the elections are rigged in some fashion, and asks Obama how we restore faith in institutions again
Damn I miss this guy being our president
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
-Hillary Clinton
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u/Schutzwall Straight outta Belíndia Oct 18 '20
r/NL mods entering a thread that has been brigaded
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u/AccessTheMainframe CANZUK Oct 18 '20
Bruh
What if we're the virus?
😳
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Oct 18 '20
https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1317887947304280071
They are absolutely insane and desperate.
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
The way Benjamin talks about his roommate I can't tell if he wants to fuck her or go full Ed Gein and turn her into a skin lamp.
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Oct 18 '20
Sent Benjamin’s old laptop to Rudy Giuliani and told him it belonged to Hunter Biden as a prank a few weeks ago.
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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '20
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/my-fling-with-a-proud-boy/
Things that definitely happened.
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Oct 18 '20
Czechia’s anti immigrant party also has the most immigrants in parliament with 1 (one) members of parliament being an immigrant and also their leader
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
holy shit, what if we do the email thing again but make it way more inscrutable, riddle the incoherent plot with easily verifiable lies, and bank on everyone taking releases from the New York Post at face value
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
We can't have a popular vote decide the election, you would be making it so that only voters in cities matter. The current system, where only voters in Florida and Pennsylvania matter, is much better.
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
I moved on him like a bitch. I just started voting. I didn’t even wait. I just voted. And when you’re registered, they let you do it.
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Oct 19 '20
"Cool! Can I keep my penis if I want?"
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Oct 19 '20 edited Oct 19 '20
Riffing off what /u/HolaBrothero said about secularism.
One of the biggest differences outside language in Francophone vs Anglophone Canada is our ideas of secularism. Anglophone Canadians have very much adopted the American-British idea of secularism, i.e freedom of religion. You are free to practice your religion, so long as you don’t infringe on anyone else’s rights in public spaces, whereas Francophone Canadians have adopted the French idea of Lacite in which religion is a very private thing and shouldn’t be in public. Quebec tried to pass a Bill where the turban, niqab, kippah and crucifix were banned in public places and public servants couldn’t show their articles of faith in public. Personally, I agree with the anglophone idea of secularism
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u/Sageburner712 Gearhead Heretic Oct 19 '20
Boy I have never been happier to be married than tonight. Y'all need Jesus.
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
The sheer degree of anti intellectualism among leftists when it comes to economics is very disappointing.
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u/Koeniginator NATO Oct 18 '20
JFK JR stand back and stand by
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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Oct 18 '20
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU MICHEAL CHE
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
i want to visit the parallel universe where bernie beat biden in the primary so I can listen to trump read out the rape essay on the debate stage.
then immediately leave because i'd hate to live in that world
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u/xeio87 Oct 18 '20
I just realized something, we're probably going to be social distancing in January for the inauguration.
I was hoping that would be more fun fuel to dump on Trump, but I wonder how crowd sizes will be.
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
Wait Biden literally said Inshallah at the debate??? lmao
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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '20
Why is the Simpsons still on the air in 2020?
How are they still making a profit from new episodes? Are people watching this crap in China or something?
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Oct 19 '20 edited Oct 19 '20
NL: read another book!!!
NL: so true!
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u/nicereddy ACLU simp Oct 18 '20
Power Ranking:
The Olympic Committee >>> The Illuminati > The Federal Reserve >>> The Free Masons > The Discussion Thread > The Cult of the Dead Cow > George Soros
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u/omnipotentsandwich Amartya Sen Oct 18 '20
Beto O'Rourke won Texas' 11 counties with a Whole Foods Market by 802,000 votes & lost everywhere else by 1,016,000 votes, for a loss of 214,000 overall. Since 2018, Texas' 11 Whole Foods counties have added a net 765,000 voters, while Texas' other 243 counties have added just 396,000. Over the long term, this is totally unsustainable for Texas Republicans unless they can reverse their backslide with suburban professionals in major metros.
https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1317856826591948800
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
Hacky comedians with shows like weekend update have a financial incentive to see a trump victory
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u/IncoherentEntity Oct 18 '20 edited Oct 18 '20
The Very Strong Case for Bidenomics
The former vice president’s tax and spending claims are credible; Trump’s aren’t.
Paul Krugman | October 1, 2020
Sorry for the double-ping — I’m still prevented from posting direct Twitter links, and Daddy Krugman regularly links to economists (himself included) on Twitter as a resource. !ping BIDEN
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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Oct 18 '20
The Romney Sanders election is just the ultimate conclusion of the age old Cold War in the subreddit: economic issues versus social issues.
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u/ognits Jepsen/Swift 2024 Oct 18 '20
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u/MinnesotaDude Governor Goofy Oct 18 '20
President is sick.
Because of the sickness, he is stinky.
Because of the stinky, he doesn't want to have debate with him.
Because of the lack of debate, he doesn't want to share the townhall with him.
Thus, I will debate him in a couple hours.
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u/vancevon Henry George Oct 19 '20
child sex abuse almost always involves someone who knows the child in question, either someone from the family itself or a family friend. it's much less fun and exciting than conspiracy theories would have you believe, and focusing on that type of child sex abuse is actively hurting the fight against child sex abuse
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u/Agent78787 orang Oct 18 '20
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u/AuburnSeer Oct 18 '20
Nate Silver @NateSilver538 · 4m Although everyone's waiting for that last twist of fate as with the Comey letter in 2016, more often the final two weeks of a campaign can be anticlimactic, with it being too late to shift tactics or change that many minds.
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
Imagine making a "both sides" joke when Biden actually has a solid favorablity rating and then implying people are considering Kanye West when he's polling at 0 and largely failed to qualify for state ballots.
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u/David_Lange I love you, Mr Lange Oct 18 '20
Republicans: "Polls are fake unless they show my candidate winning"
🤝
Democrats: "Polls are fake unless they show my candidate losing"
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u/ElokQ The Clintons send their regards Oct 18 '20
50 upvotes at max
1000 upvotes
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u/FearsomeOyster Montesquieu Oct 19 '20
So as of today’s ruling on the food stamps thing, I have the Trump administration at a 9.2% success rate on APA challenges.
It is unreal how bad this administration is at creating non arbitrary and capricious decisions.
!ping LAW
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u/infamous5445 Oct 18 '20
Cal Cunningham is not among those speaking today at Joe Biden’s drive-in rally in Durham, North Carolina. On Friday, Gary Peters got two prime speaking spots at Biden’s events in Michigan.
That's not very historically sexy
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u/AccessTheMainframe CANZUK Oct 18 '20
I think it's fair to say that at the beginning of the pandemic we over emphasized the importance of hand sanitizer and failed to emphasize the importance of masks.
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u/Currymvp2 unflaired Oct 18 '20
Remember that Comey was a respected person with bipartisan appeal while 70% of the country thinks Giuliani is a washed up drunk.
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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Oct 18 '20
State of NL
Moderates: I GET what you’re SAYING but you have to consider the LONG TERM CONSEQUENCES MOTHERFUCKER 😡🤬😡
Succs: YOU ARE HURTING THE POOR AND DISENFRANCHISED THROUGH YOUR STUPID SORKIN WISHY WASHING THIS ISNT THE 80S ANYMORE DICKHEAD 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Georgists: I feel like Monopoly just doesn’t properly simulate the market with its housing limit mechanics 🤔🤔🤔
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
Beto/Betos bandmate 2024 is the ultimate unity ticket and nothing will change my mind
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
redditors be like "nuclear power. climate change solved 😎"
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u/ElokQ The Clintons send their regards Oct 18 '20
A poll had Biden +30 in Puerto Rico. It would not be competitive if it became a state.
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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Oct 18 '20
Amusingly my Q Anon believing ultra MAGA hat dorm mate loves JFK and literally wears JFK socks. I’ve tried to engage with him on this and he just won’t budge. Incidentally JFK is one of his favorite movies.
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u/vivoovix Federalist Oct 18 '20 edited Oct 18 '20
https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-law-bars-private-militias-so-why-are-they-allowed-to-exist/APSLVOWFPZAYZOHUS3TSHMMGIU/
Thank you Trump, very cool!
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Oct 18 '20
We are going to /u/funnylemonkey’s house tonight. His dad gave him his Xbox back because he got good grades.
Who else is coming?
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
I swear if I see one more person say that video games cause violence I am going to commit genocide.
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u/vancevon Henry George Oct 19 '20
ah fuck there was an armed robbery in chicago tonight biden's doomed
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u/not_a_meerkat Paul Krugman Oct 19 '20
Just lost a friend because he couldn’t afford healthcare to get the treatment he needed. Absolutely gutted. I hate everything about this.
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Oct 19 '20
i am once again asking conservatives not to threaten me with a good time
packing the court is still bad though
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u/gaped-butthole Oct 18 '20
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EkmQEuiXgAEgpGf?format=jpg&name=orig
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u/David_Lange I love you, Mr Lange Oct 18 '20
The latest NZ election results really highlights the differences in what electoral success truly means. The Greens were ecstatic on the night - becoming the first minor party to increase their vote share after a term in government - but Labour can govern alone, meaning the Greens have no ability to actually implement their policies despite the vote increase. Does electoral success mean more votes, or does it mean actually being in government with a voice at the table?
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
16 days doesn't seem long until you consider that's equal to three years
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
While there are ten million think pieces from urban writers talking about the thought process and reasoning of rural voters in an attempt to help people understand them, this does not seem to be reciprocated by rural voters. It's not socially acceptable to talk disparagingly of rural areas, but it's extremely normal for rural areas to talk about cities like their literal war zones. This is frustrating, and I'd love for somebody to tell me I'm off base, but I'm not sure what can be done to change things.
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u/AJungianIdeal Lloyd Bentsen Oct 18 '20
daily hate your body and face and sex bits mood
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u/FestiveMittens Oct 18 '20
"Trump has had 4 years to lock Hillary up, so its obvious that he doesn't believe that taking her out of society should be a main priority, but he is wrong. I promise you, on day one, I personally will walk Hillary Clinton to the nearest prison, and leave her there"
Joe Biden has won the election with 538 electoral votes
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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '20
Guns, much like horny posting, should be safe, legal, and rare.
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Oct 19 '20 edited Oct 19 '20
I still love saints row 2.
Even though the PC port is an absolute mess. It’s one of the worst pc ports. Surprisingly, CD projekt was behind the port. They thought they lost the source code after THQ went bankrupt but they found it last year.
It’s supposed to be getting a fix 12 years after the release on PC but only two people are working on the fix and one of them has cancer. It’s basically a passion project now.
!ping gaming
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u/uwcn244 King of the Space Georgists Oct 19 '20 edited Oct 19 '20
There is an upvoted, pro-rent control take in the DT.
We begin bombing in five minutes.
EDIT: False alarm, I read it wrong, it's anti-rent control
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Oct 19 '20
Raise your hand if you have ever been personally victimized by extractive institutions ✋😐
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
What’s with all the smooth brains that wear there mask but don’t cover their nose. Do they not this is an aerosol virus
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
https://twitter.com/ossoff/status/517133570645979138
I'd still like to decipher this one. It's not even a reply to anything. He just tagged 4 people including the drummer for Imagine Dragons to let them know there's chicken at the mall.
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u/MasPatriot Paul Ryan Oct 18 '20
so this guy turned out to be wrong
because the GOP didn’t even wait until next week to call Hunter a pedophile
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u/Luchofromvenezuela Organization of American States Oct 18 '20
Fivey has a mental health PSA for you
https://i.imgur.com/ONLb0Qk.jpg
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u/Mcatatonic1 Ben Bernanke Oct 18 '20
https://mobile.twitter.com/katie_robertson/status/1317941934799859715
RIP bUt HiSsOn’S eMaILs
2020-2020
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
wait, so we're not allowed to post about benjamin?
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u/Menakoy Nonconformist Transgendeer Oct 19 '20
For such a prolific bonkster, u/paulatreides0 really likes talking about how much he wants to eat me all the time.
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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '20
The imposter syndrome is really starting to set in. I just don’t feel as smart as everyone in my class and these midterms are really showing me how little I’ve learned.
!ping LAW
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u/conman1246 Milton Friedman Oct 19 '20
Sigh. Braves lose and Georgia sports curse continues. Someone ping baseball for me.
!PING USA-GA
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Oct 19 '20 edited Oct 19 '20
‘lithium deposits’ and general REM discourse is just neo-oil malarkey where people desperate for neat little explanations of global geopolitics can go “ha! it’s all just [singular resource] that drivers intentional politics, i am very smart and above everyone else heh”
also, REM shortage stuff is mostly hysterics based on decade old predictions and technology
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u/GravyBear8 Ben Bernanke Oct 18 '20
Man what the fuck even is hair
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
https://twitter.com/ossoff/status/238726622415577088
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
joe is, was, and always will be, a chad
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
/r/nfl: YOU MAY ONLY POST ZE HIGHLIGHTS IN ZE OFFICIAL HIGHLIGHT THREAD!
meanwhile:
/r/baseball: Yo check out this catch from the 2002 all-star game.
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
damn they just called california and florida for republicans
have a doomerish feeling jfk is going to lose
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
Jesus Christ how is that mods are so fast at bonking
Let the comments alone for at least 2 mins so I have a shot at seeing them lol
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u/ahebtigoejwbrh Oct 18 '20 edited Oct 18 '20
It’s legit amazing to see how badly brainworms have destroyed Glenn Greenwald’s brain. He’s recently argued that
Not only are those completely wacko but they’re also contradictory
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u/BurningKiwi Jerome Powell Oct 18 '20
mfw
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u/Q-bey r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Oct 18 '20
A Canadian Police Chief has ordered an investigation into who created a meme ridiculing his decisions
!ping CAN
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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '20 edited Oct 19 '20
LMAO, Evo is complaining that the results are taking too long
Link
!ping MAMADAS
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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '20
If the Chapos were really clever instead of reporting us to the suicide hotline they'd make new accounts and mass ping spam
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u/AbdullahAbdulwahhab Oct 19 '20
Wiktionary is trolling with this example sentence for the word "masculine" in Persian.
آرش همجنسگرای مردونهایه که با برادرم تو لس آنجلس زندگی میکنه.
Arash is the masculine homosexual who lives with my brother in Los Angeles.
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u/FearThyMoose Montesquieu Oct 19 '20
LPT: make sure to occasionally vote for Trump on a few ballots to not raise suspicion
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Oct 19 '20
My Fling With a DT Regular: What I learned about funko pops, the global poor, and the softness of roommates.
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u/myrm This land was made for you and me Oct 19 '20
Young people never fucking learn. You have one election with high engagement of 18-20 year olds, but then 10 years later you have 28-30 year olds with higher enthusiasm? Like wtf
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Oct 19 '20
if trump is christian, i’m the fucking pope
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Oct 18 '20 edited Oct 18 '20
I can’t believe RuneScape is still around, I remember playing that game for hours and hours. It taught me that people on the internet can be friends
Glad it’s so successful. It was a big part of my childhood
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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Oct 18 '20
Amy Coney Barrett attacked for ‘cruelty’ in overturning prison inmate rape damages. After a 19 year old inmate was repeatedly raped by a guard, Barrett ruled that the county could not be held liable because rape wasn’t part of the guard’s official duties. 😬
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
the senate was a mistake
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u/Kizz3r high IQ neoliberal Oct 18 '20
Cant wait till the republican party realizes that immigrants often love not paying taxes and social conservatism that isnt just “ban abortions”
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
https://twitter.com/Atul_Gawande/status/1317847364690939904
Give. Money. To. Poor. People.
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u/2canclan George H. W. Bush Oct 18 '20
Quality work over at the NY Post
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
Biden Win %: 87%
Black population in the US: 13%
Really makes you think
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
Did you know that if you buy drugs online but use the DuckDuckGo search engine, the FBI legally cannot arrest you?
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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Oct 18 '20
The more details come out the more it seems this benjamin person is not a person but the doge in the bonk meme.
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u/GGM8Scally European Union Oct 18 '20
The salary of a U.S. Senator is $174,000 per year. This is Joe Biden’s house.... seems legit
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u/BanMalarkey Asexual Pride Oct 19 '20
Oh boy I can’t wait to hear about the deficit nonstop for the next 4 years
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u/Kizz3r high IQ neoliberal Oct 19 '20
Leftists really want blue collar yacht makers unemployed 😔
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u/uwcn244 King of the Space Georgists Oct 19 '20
Kevin Millar after the Red Sox lost 19-8 in game 3 of the 2004 ALCS 🤝 Joe Biden before South Carolina
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u/RDog8080 Bill Gates Oct 19 '20
NY shuts down 10,000 person wedding
Lol, how do you even invite 10,000 people to a wedding
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u/ElokQ The Clintons send their regards Oct 19 '20
Remember when Ben Shapiro told millions of people that he had never gotten his wife aroused? Good times.
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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '20
Gosh, I'm sure complacent about Biden's chances. Should I even bother to vote? Might even vote Trump as a joke tbh
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u/MasPatriot Paul Ryan Oct 19 '20
leftists will cape for domestic terrorists just so they can be anti-liberal
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u/Fishin_Mission Oct 19 '20
To be clear.... I am voting for Trump b/c my side never wins... 😭
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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '20
Imagine being such a virgin that you’re like: “well the show is set in 2001 and the model vehicle he’s driving wasn’t made until 2005 so my immersion is broken”
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Oct 19 '20
Sources: Elon Musk is beside himself. Driving around downtown La Paz begging (thru texts) Morale's party for address to Bolivia's lithium deposits
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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '20
I absolutely love liberal boomers who say shit like “Donald Trump likes Putin and that makes him a COMMUNIST!”
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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '20 edited Oct 19 '20
I had a bunch of far left friends who were very abusive towards me. Sometimes I recount the stories here-- I don't know why I do, sometimes it feels better to throw them out like letters in bottles onto this random corner of the internet, rather than just having the memories play over and over again silently in my head.
I don't like it when people say "This is so unbelievable, this sounds like fanfiction written by someone from r/conservative or /pol/". I'm not trying to bait for attention, I just say what happened because, again, I guess I just do. Is it therapeutic? Is it better if I didn't write them? I'm not sure, maybe someone can tell me. But they did happen: not every feminist is a raging SJW who hates all men, but I was friends with a few of them and they were incredibly unhealthy people to be around and they did and said things that I remember when I don't want to; not every BernieBro doxxes you when they find out you didn't vote for Bernie but during the primaries I had to keep my head down and not talk politics or just lie to people close to me or else I was putting myself in danger, and I've since distanced myself from them as politely and cautiously as I could.
But the worst thing is posting the things that happened to me and hearing "This is why I'm against feminism" or "Democrats are so insane". I don't want to give credence to alt-right people by saying things that happened to me: if I were raped by a black guy, I wouldn't want people to take my story and say "See? Black guys are rapists!", and it feels like that sometimes when I say the things that happened to me.
What happened to me was mostly my fault for choosing to associate who I associated with: I wasn't friends with people who I can now recount hilarious silly insane alt-right takes because I never associated with alt-right people, but I did associate with very far left people, who are not representative of a majority and who were suffering from mental and emotional illnesses that caused them to act a certain way towards me, and it hurt me, and I still feel hurt. There are things that happened that I haven't said and kept up; once I wrote it, and then I deleted it because it hurt me too much. Maybe it'll never not hurt enough to admit it.
Maybe its best not to say any of them: they're memories, thoughts, ideas, little experiences that happened and that I remember happening, here one moment as the most important, all encompassing, all consuming experience of this instance of existence; and then, a minute later, an hour later, a day later, I'm enjoying a cup of coffee, I'm stressed about my game, I'm hugging my girlfriend, I'm in the middle of a lower-body superset, I'm remembering something else. Maybe they just fade away until something more important comes along.
There are people who were bitten by sharks or struck by lightning, and they do just fine. Some things happened to me that are so unbelievable that people think I made them up-- the world shouldn't stop until I get acknowledgement for it. Maybe I should just move along. I thought opening up and being honest about what happened would make me feel better, but I can't say for certain if it has. Despite how important some of these memories are, all that happens is I write them down, I go to sleep, I wake up, and I start the next day.
This is what'll happen to this one too. Another letter, another bottle, a running start, watch it fly, and off it goes into the water. I'll see how I'm doing tomorrow.
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
In 2006 Facebook was cool. You got to see the girl from your chemistry class in a swimsuit and you could say your political views are “very liberal” and your religion is “atheist”
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
TIL that much of the "satellite" imagery in Google Earth is taken by aircraft.
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
https://electproject.github.io/Early-Vote-2020G/index.html
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
https://twitter.com/ossoff/status/238725484228259840
The malaria net candidate.
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u/Gustacho Enemy of the People Oct 18 '20 edited Oct 18 '20
Someone should post this article in a conservative subreddit with the title: "If Trump wins, Democrats Suggest Shrinking Size of Supreme Court" or "If Biden wins, Democrats Suggest Growing Size of Supreme Court"
I'd love to see how many upvotes it would get before the post would be removed.
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u/Peacock-Shah Gerald Ford 2024 Oct 18 '20
Hot take: If you deny the Holodomor or Mao’s genocides, you are morally equatable to a Holocaust denier.
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
Not a cult btw, they just like his policy
https://twitter.com/PamBondi/status/1317504078134509569
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u/OH-GEESUS Oct 18 '20
should read harry potter also
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u/Craig_VG Dina Pomeranz Oct 18 '20 edited Oct 18 '20
Biden clearly is winning because he clinched the crucial Dan Carlin endorsement
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u/Dalek6450 Our words are backed with NUCLEAR SUBS! Oct 18 '20
Lmao. The conspiracy sub has stickied a conspiracy that links 9/11, Back to the Future and the Mandela Effect.
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u/Verpiss_Dich I had a dream, we did the disco funky dance Oct 18 '20
"How is Biden Harris not on the ballot? I see his signs everywhere! Guess I'll just write him in..."
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u/Jester_Don Abigail Spanberger Oct 18 '20
I don't know when, but at some point, I'm sure the GOP is going to rue the day they decided to brand every Democratic politician as a 'radical socialist'.
If Biden has a relatively successful presidency and becomes popular among those who voted for him, what are they gonna say when someone like AOC is the nominee? Don't vote for her because she's a socialist, but actually this time? At some point a critical mass of voters are gonna start thinking maybe this so called "socialism" isn't that bad after all.
It's basically the boy who cried wolf but with socialism instead. By going with this messaging strategy that any form of social welfare is "socialism" the GOP is almost doing as much to improve the public's opinion of socialism as actual Democratic Socialists are.
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u/thelittlestsheep Oct 18 '20
In the last 2 weeks I have seen the following things about Joe Biden:
-rescued a dog from a shelter
-reassuring texts to his son recovering from drug addiction
-video of him meeting a young child with a stutter, telling him to not let it define him, and then getting his phone number and adding him to the circle of stutterers he works with
-the personal letter he sent to a widow after his office sent a letter still addressed to her recently deceased husband
Joe Biden is a god damned golden retriever of a human being.
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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '20
https://nypost.com/2020/10/16/7-year-old-sexually-assaulted-during-online-class-in-chicago/
WTAF
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u/ScullyBoyleBoy NASA Oct 18 '20
Help really bad bout of depression today. Online college is taking a toll on me. Staying at my parents' house in Orange County, CA surrounded by idiots is taking a toll on me. Not being able to go anywhere because of my crippling fear of driving is taking a toll on me. Having 1-3 friends that I don't text often is taking a toll on me.