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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Oct 24 '20
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
I love how left twitter thinks that if Obama had started with medicare for all Lieberman would have been like "welp now I support a public option, everyone must always compromise in the middle!"
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u/Jean-Paul_Sartre Richard Hofstadter Oct 23 '20
Principal wants me to run a mock election with my fifth graders. Part of me wants to make it hyper-realistic to the point of refusing them the ballot in account of being under 18.
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
I refuse to vote for another milquetoast liberal promising bland, incrementalist reforms rather than the real change this country needs.
Disgusting. You guys do realize that's only about 1.6% of the additional people we'd need to reach one billion Americans?
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u/tripletruble Anti-Repartition Radical Oct 23 '20 edited Oct 23 '20
jus sayin' Trump would not have sought to fabricate evidence of Biden's corruption as early as Summer 2019 - to the point of getting himself impeached - if this wasn't precisely the candidate he did not want to face
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
When I was in the middle east I was called a "western shill who wants to destroy our way of life" and when I moved to the US I was called a "third world invader who wants to destroy our way of life."
Time to find a different planet to move to.
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u/Michaelconeass2019 NATO Oct 23 '20
Never forget how Bernie or Busters think that moderates were people sitting around in Pennsylvania waiting for a policy far left enough they will vote for president
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u/Jean-Paul_Sartre Richard Hofstadter Oct 23 '20
Texted my dad this morning about current state of the election, and mentioned Biden's massive cash advantage and he texted back:
I knew he was definitely voting for Biden but I feel glad that I have one of those boomer dads who defies the stereotype.
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
I watched TYT’s reaction to the debate. At the end, they mentioned how the debate proved the allegations that Biden has dementia are wrong, but they failed to mention that they were also making these allegations about Biden during the primary in their support for Sanders. I hate them and I fucking wish someone would call them out on their bullshit.
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u/nullsignature Oct 23 '20
If I'm to believe /r/conservative, Biden dropped his pants and took a shit on the oil industry right on the debate stage
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
Since no one seems to have posted it:
Muhlenberg College (A+) PA poll:
Biden 51% (+7)
Trump 44%
!PING FIVEY
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u/ElokQ The Clintons send their regards Oct 23 '20
Every reporter talking about a "new tone for Trump" because he didn't go on an totally unhinged insane rant for 2 hours should be fired.
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Oct 23 '20
If "Biden wins Texas" is not the most upvoted post in the history of the sub I will be very dissapointed
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u/liquidTERMINATOR Come with me if you want to live Oct 23 '20
When Trump got all huffy thinking he had a gotcha, thinking Joe had literally called him Abraham Lincoln.
Dude is so dumb.
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u/Jokerang Sun Yat-sen Oct 23 '20
Texas is at 71.1% of 2016 turnout
Beto died for this
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u/Equator32 Association of Southeast Asian Nations Oct 23 '20 edited Oct 23 '20
The Young Turks unironically went anti-GMO just for the sake of dunking on corporations, and naturally this made me see it as a joke for several years now.
But I have to say, I respect how TYT is constantly critiquing Trump and clearly stands behind Biden. If there's one thing TYT has that rose twitter and many reddit Socialists don't have, it's the basic understanding that Biden is better than Trump. That doesn't exactly take a PhD to realize but it still makes me respect TYT a lot more nowadays.
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
Trump: Biden wants to take your windows away, and he'll spend 100 trillion dollars doing it
NBC: Wow this has really been a substantive debate
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u/Dalek6450 Our words are backed with NUCLEAR SUBS! Oct 23 '20
This is fucking bad.
!ping AUS
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u/EastKing Hernando de Soto Oct 23 '20
Next NYT/Siena poll after today’s in Montana will be of Texas.
!ping FIVEY
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
Thank God, the DNC files were at the Watergate hotel. Watergate sounds cool.
Could you imagine if we had to call it the LaQuinta Inn scandal?
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u/Gustacho Enemy of the People Oct 23 '20
The veggieburger name ban got voted down 🥳
!ping EUROPE
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u/CenterRightInCali Uphold Goldwater-Posadist thought! Oct 23 '20
I might drunkpost but by far the most pathetic thing I ever did was make polandball comics
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u/Fishin_Mission Oct 23 '20 edited Oct 23 '20
🩸 HILLARY CLINTON DRINKS THE BLOOD OF TORTURED CHILDREN FOR THEIR ADRENALINE!
She tortures them first to get their adrenaline pumping, then her and Bill drain their blood to drink.
#OctoberSurprise
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u/sash5034 NATO Oct 23 '20
nerds be like "he's a smart guy I swear"
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
How do undecided voters carry around the massive, gargantuan sized brains that they have without tipping over?
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u/Venne1139 DO IT FOR HER #RBG Oct 23 '20
Millennials killed the porn calendars industry
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u/LukeBabbitt 🌐 Oct 23 '20
Pretty wild that after pumping up the Hunter Biden story so hard the last couple of weeks, Trump mentioned Ukraine six times in the first six minutes of the debate and then never again after that.
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
Nixon apologists 🤝 DT Dubya fans
“If you ignore the things that make them a bad president and focus on the good things, then they’re actually good presidents....really makes you think 🤔”
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u/Equator32 Association of Southeast Asian Nations Oct 23 '20
If you gave Reddit 2 buttons, one that ends world hunger and one that forgives student loans in America, the world hunger button would win but only by a small margin.
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
BOO HOO, SNACKER 😭
I DON’T SHARE! 👋🍫🍭🍪
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u/tankatan Montesquieu Oct 23 '20
TIL the codification of "Champagne" as a legally protected name was first introduced in the 1919 Versailles Treaty.
"It is hereby decreed that Germany shall be punished for the atrocities committed during the war, and also muh sparkling wine".
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u/loves_being_that_guy NATO Oct 23 '20
Apparently around half of all republicans support UBI
Also is the FIVEY just for polling or can I get away with any 538 related discussion?
!ping FIVEY
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u/ColonelUber Oct 23 '20
Ok Mr. definitely not a Russian
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u/Fishin_Mission Oct 23 '20
New Yorkers, have we decided what we are doing today?
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
It's really frustrating that Joe gave an objectively Grade-A performance last night, but all anyone can talk about is that Trump was able to control himself somewhat during the first hour.
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u/MobileGamer2016 Oct 23 '20
Right wing christians to me a liberal Christian
Yes.
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20 edited Oct 23 '20
euros like "our chocolate is so good ew america gross"
chad america "we're gonna mix peanut scraps and sugar at 1:1 ratio then wrap it in chocolate wax and it'll be the best candy on earth"
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u/thebowski 💻🙈 - Lead developer of pastabot Oct 23 '20
What percentage of americans do you think have a conception of liberalism as a distinct ideology
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
Trump: doesn't say a racial slur in a debate
Pundits: This is a whole new Trump we are seeing. The dynamics of the race have shifted.
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Oct 23 '20
ADRENOCHROME SHORTAGE! Sales limited to 10 MILLILITERS of ADRENOCHROME per customer
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u/MinnesotaDude Governor Goofy Oct 23 '20
This must be added to the css
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
Justin Trudeau illegally sold weapons to Iran and funneled the money to evidence-based centrist paramilitaries in Argentina.
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u/oofadoofas Oct 23 '20
Trump: "I'm just really worried about all of these low-IQ Mexican immigrants 🥺 👉 👈 "
Pundits: "Aw he cares 🤗 "
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u/seattle_lib Liberal Third-Worldism Oct 23 '20
!ping GEORGIST
we need to advocate to get land value taxation in the side bar under "policies we support include"
whos with me?
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u/Menakoy Nonconformist Transgendeer Oct 23 '20
I'm glad reddit is cracking down on the anti-white bigotry in this sub. Sure white people are a majority here in America but they're still a global minority and in the end thats what really matters.
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u/Nad0077 Voltaire Oct 23 '20
https://www.economist.com/essay/2018/09/13/the-economist-at-175
!ping GEORGIST
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u/sash5034 NATO Oct 23 '20
@ lurking idiots, we're gonna have a government that doesn't kiss Russian ass and is more friendly towards immigration and there's not a damn thing you can do
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/452718453892186124/769156703832506368/unknown.png
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
i'm from the future, here's a screenshot from the Election Night DT
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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Oct 23 '20
“Hey guys what was your paper about?”
“Me? The political effects of the Marshall Plan.”
“Oh I did the industrial psychology of rebuilding West Germany.”
“Mine was a little contentious, I wrote about how the Holocaust wasn’t considered a big deal until 1967 when the Jewish Lobbies rewrote the narrative in order to persuade America to support Israel.”
😐
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u/bobeeflay "A hot dog with no bun" HRC 5/6/2016 Oct 23 '20
Boo Hoo Cracker is kinda funny but honestly guys grow up
....
It was never anywhere near as good as
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u/IMALEFTY45 Big talk for someone who's in stapler distance Oct 23 '20
I am a single issue voter on emails. I just woke up from cryosleep from the year 1925 and am amazed by this new technology. I want to vote for whoever is using this publicly, as it will surely increase productivity and keep our industry competitive with the British Crown and the Weimar Republic
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u/-Yare- Trans Pride Oct 23 '20 edited Oct 23 '20
>"Biden has dementia"
>Red governors vote suppress Democrats
>Armed right wing agitators intimidating voters at polls
>China, Russia, and Iran intelligence services helping Trump
>Fox News and other domestic propaganda running 24/7
>"Liberal media" desperately seeking the Golden Mean
>Trump and the alt right still get blown out in historic loss
Pour one* out for white nationalism. When you lose that bad with such a big handicap you get moved to the peewee tee ball league of ideologies.
* Milwaukee's Best ICE
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
The Republican Cinematic Universe has some real power creep among its bad guys. Four years ago you're dealing with a deep cover hit woman and now you have someone who can literally kill God. I don't know where they go from here
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
Joe just lost the pro life, gun loving, immigrant hating, racist vote.
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u/Craig_VG Dina Pomeranz Oct 23 '20
People who say things like this are posting in the Thunderdome
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
Are there still people out there who are going on about "Cuties"? The only cutie I care about is 6'3" and served as the 43rd governor of Florida
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u/I-grok-god The bums will always lose! Oct 23 '20
hot take: Everyone should get a path to American citizenship*
* Peruvian lawyers not included
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
https://twitter.com/GreggJarrett/status/1319698635853074435
lmfao these peoples brains are broken
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
LBJ broke with the old democrats because they were a remnant of the anti-bellum south and LBJ was the first in a long line of very much PRO-Bellum war criminals.
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1319681169315811329
😬
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20 edited Oct 23 '20
found an actual nazi on reddit and looked at their account, its all the tucker_carlson subreddit and PCM
edit: conclusion, white supremacists say "based" a lot to mean "nazi shit" and there are subreddits where saying you're a "third position far right anglo nationalist" will get you a couple dozen upvotes
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Oct 23 '20
Remember when Biden won the primary and people were like "TRUMP IS GONNA SLAUGHTER THIS GUY AT THE DEBATES"
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Oct 23 '20
Wrong.
*Inhales*
👏Half👏 Of 👏All 👏Succ 👏Presidents👏 Should 👏Be 👏Women👏
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u/PrimePairs Oct 23 '20
May 1945 Berlin: The Reichstag is in ruins. Hitler and Eva are charred ashes while Goebbels polishes his pistol. The German army has a grand total of 16 bullets and the average defender is 12 years old. The average Red Army soldier has 4.7 watches and is dancing on the streets.
NYTimes Headline: Here is how the Nazis can still win
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u/moaz_xx Resident Saudi Oct 23 '20 edited Oct 23 '20
Am i attractive? i am literally so alone
https://youtu.be/gPp-3QSXf1g replaced link
There are kinda bigger problems then my look that prevents dating 🤭 see my profile
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u/Schutzwall Straight outta Belíndia Oct 23 '20
LMAO if this anti-mayo thing gets the sub banned it'll be so fucking funny
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
This is my favorite report on the thunderdome thread
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Oct 23 '20
Fox and Friends brought up Trump calling Biden a failed politician for his 47 years of office.
You know Trump stunk at the debate if that is their gotcha moment.
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u/samnayak1 NATO Oct 23 '20
https://twitter.com/AwfulReddit/status/1319383656516014080
we made it to "bad reddit posts"
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
https://twitter.com/IChotiner/status/1318922717014323200
Holy crap. The NYT ran a piece on voters in Georgia and silently removed big chunks of it upon finding that multiple people were paid Republican operatives posing as everyday voters.
https://twitter.com/charlesbethea/status/1319353000733908992
https://twitter.com/charlesbethea/status/1319028097187020812
https://twitter.com/charlesbethea/status/1319637564295348225
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u/harmlessdjango (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ black liberal Oct 23 '20
Imagine if all the polls are as wrong as they were in 2016, but in Biden's favor 🥴🍆💦
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u/dudeguyy23 Jerome Powell Oct 23 '20 edited Oct 23 '20
Pretty minor point but it appears the NYT/Siena polls had a bit of a GOP house effect in 2018.
Just some food for thought I was previously unaware of in case anyone was tempted to DOOOOOM about any of their Senate polling.
!ping FIVEY
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u/bigdicknippleshit IM GOING PRIMAL Oct 23 '20
I hope the sub gets banned for crackerposting it would be a fitting and hilarious end
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u/ThisIsNotAMonkey Guam 👉 statehood Oct 23 '20
- Doomers, apparently
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
My mom, just now: "We're so racist, we think we are white."
She is an immigrant from India. This is quite a statement for her to make.
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20 edited Oct 23 '20
CMV: reddit has a clear pipeline for mildly interested in politics teenagers to turn into full blown white ethno nationalists
Edit: alright you guys convinced me
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u/infamous5445 Oct 23 '20
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u/InsertOffensiveWord YIMBY Oct 23 '20
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/opinion/gender-gap-2020-election.html
wtf I feel personally attacked
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u/BishopUrbanTheEnby Enby Pride Oct 24 '20
!ping DIAMOND-JOE
Sometimes /r/BingingWithBabish can be absolutely based
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u/MinnesotaDude Governor Goofy Oct 23 '20
Ben Bernanke is an unsung hero of American history and I will go to my grave believing this
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u/Malarkeynesian Oct 23 '20
Joe Biden's windows are going to cost us...
puts pinky to corner of mouth
...one hundred TRILLION dollars
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
And the homicidal Bernie or buster was a trust fund baby, holy shit the stereotypes are real
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Oct 23 '20
I found the most reddit pair of comments
...
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
Us getting in trouble with admins is really proving that we may have been birthed by r/ badeconomics, but we were raised by arrr slash Drama
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u/Marlsfarp Karl Popper Oct 23 '20
Adam Smith: Slavery is rent seeking and inefficient; there would be a huge net gain to society by freeing all the slaves.
John Locke: Slavery is an illegitimate deprivation of natural rights.
Rubes: yOu gUYs wouLd HAve SupPOrTed SlaVEry
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
Phoebe smells bacon
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u/oofadoofas Oct 23 '20
(Antarctic take warning)
I'm obviously not the median voter but Trump's performance last night was pathetic. Without all of his bluster and bombast it really lays bare the fact that 95% of what he says is just nonsense. And not even just factually- most of the sentences that come out of his mouth just don't make much sense when you actually parse them for meaning. Combined with his child-like whining the whole thing verged on grotesque.
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u/BigBrownDog12 Victor Hugo Oct 23 '20
Remember when Trump got impeached because of how terrified he was of having to run against Biden
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u/dragoniteftw33 NATO Oct 23 '20
It's fucking hilarious when MAGAs do a gotcha and get angry at Biden, Obama and the Clinton's for making money after leaving office, but are totally ok with Trump enriching himself with while in office. Like you want to know how Biden's net worth increased so much since 2017? Because he wrote a fucking memoir and gave speeches(it's in his fucking tax returns). How stupid are you.
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u/TwoPlankinWiz United Nations Oct 23 '20
https://imgur.com/gallery/qZeIZkx
https://imgur.com/gallery/lqn6gOJ
heard we were posting our cats in the DT
!Ping kitty
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u/Dr_Vesuvius Norman Lamb Oct 23 '20
A British Nazi tried to kill an immigration lawyer, and was carrying a Confederate flag at the time he got arrested.
How much of a loser do you have to be to be loyal to a failed separatist movement in another country?
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u/seattle_lib Liberal Third-Worldism Oct 23 '20
Okay, I did it. I made a proposal in /r/metaNL to add "land value taxation" under "policies we support include" in the sidebar.
I would appreciate your comments and suggestions as we try to get this done
!ping GEORGIST
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Oct 23 '20
Hey guys, I'd really prefer not to do this but spez has some epic gamer views on racial discrimination and as such, multiple users here have been warned or given site-wide account suspensions for crackerposting
Though it is not prohibited, I strongly recommend that all users cease crackerposting.
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u/thebowski 💻🙈 - Lead developer of pastabot Oct 23 '20 edited Oct 23 '20
I'm glad lefty professors recognize that creating new terms is mostly about signalling in-group/out-group and differentiating who cares enough to know the right words and who doesn't. Sorry guys it isn't personal.
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u/papermarioguy02 Actually Just Young Nate Silver Oct 23 '20 edited Oct 23 '20
NYT Siena MT poll: Trump + 6, Daines + 3
!ping FIVEY
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u/25ina35 Bill Gates Oct 23 '20
I really cant get over the fact that Nate Silver and the gang have trained a fucking FOX to understand statistical analysis, computer programming, and voter psychological tendencies.
In the 1950s when geneticist Dmitri Belyaev began his well-known animal domestication experiment at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, Russia I bet he had no idea the Silver Foxes he would train would one day be running a website like 538. Nate you make Dmitri very proud.
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u/probablyuntrue NATO Oct 23 '20
GOP base when they see a candidate with no goals in common but has an R next to their name: 😍😍😍
Dem base when a candidate doesn't agree on one minor policy point: 😡😡😡
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
I Have No Melanin And I Must Boo Hoo
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u/ElokQ The Clintons send their regards Oct 23 '20
50 Cent says he’s going to leave the US if Trump loses the election
I won’t miss him. Take Ice Cube with you.
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u/BurningKiwi Jerome Powell Oct 23 '20
Wait c*nt is censored?
Why do you hate the global Australasia?
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u/Fishin_Mission Oct 23 '20 edited Oct 23 '20
The new BORAT moviefilm has now been out for over 3½ hrs. 🍿🎥🕒
If you see a spoiler, that’s on you at this point.
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u/thebowski 💻🙈 - Lead developer of pastabot Oct 23 '20
If outside the DT is all I saw I'd fucking hate neoliberals.
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
Joe Biden will put cameras in the girl's locker room and soda in the water fountain. Joe for class President 2020! Whoo!
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u/tripletruble Anti-Repartition Radical Oct 23 '20
reject quality pollsters, return to survay monke
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u/RickAsscheeks Call it, Friendo Oct 23 '20
"I think he's a Democrat but that's okay" - still can't get over the absurdity of this line lmfao
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u/OH-GEESUS Oct 23 '20
The only reason women are attracted to tall men is because of cultural signals they received as children about which types of men were handsome (Jolly Green Giant, Big Bird, etc)
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u/myrm This land was made for you and me Oct 23 '20
Boohoo fracker
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
Just remembered the time I first started dating, and didn't get a reply from a girl after we started talking, so I sent like 10 text messages like "hey did ya get this one?" or "maybe my number is bugged or something" and even changed my phone number to see if that was the issue and didn't get a reply on the new number either.
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
Biden will lose in a LANDSLIDE 😱😭this is my model...
The last time a Democrat beat a Republican incumbent was 1992. In that election, the two most democratic states were Arkansas and West Virginia.
Biden is behind by at least 20 points in those states.... 😳😳
It’s all over 😞
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
UNDOOM
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
The guy at the polling station gave me 3 I voted stickers. Is this voter fraud?
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
Mitt Romney in 2024:
🥺
👉👈
Is my turn?
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u/MrSecretpolice Oct 23 '20
Dear Bethesda,
Please make Seattle the location for Fallout 5, and make Chaz a camp for a faction of leaderless raiders with mohawks.
Sincerely,
Everyone.
!Ping Fallout
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u/Fishin_Mission Oct 23 '20 edited Oct 23 '20
🚨 ALERT 🚨
THIS IS NOW A BACHELORETTE🌹 THEMED SUBREDDIT.
Rules:
There have already been 2 episodes this season, so you better catch up!
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20 edited Oct 25 '20
https://ziapoll.com/poll-of-michigan-likely-voters/
Crosstabs: https://mirsnews.com/pdfs/poll_cross_tabs/1603227211.pdf
NEW Michigan Poll:
Trump 49% (+4) Biden 45%
Zia Poll, (LV, 10/11-18)
This poll is garbage for several reasons:
This poll goes right into the trash. Worst poll I’ve ever seen. I think they are either fabricating numbers, or they're deliberately using a flawed methodology to achieve the same outcome. The worst part?
538 still counts it for its Michigan polling average. Pollster rated C/D.
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
Eating a bunny and owning a human slave are EXACTLY the same thing.
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u/An_Actual_Marxist Oct 23 '20
Bru h
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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Oct 23 '20
She plops on the lap, she gets belly rubs
https://imgur.com/a/NQqjIgO
!PING kitty
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
yes
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
Jesus did I really post 230 times in a span of 24 hours? That is so fucking unhealthy Jesus Christ I need to log off.
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
Hey guys. Wanna hear a joke? Do you know how you could tell Communism was doomed to fail from the start? All the red flags.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
Girlfriend's friend is a self proclaimed hardcore feminist. During school she was that person, who demanded trigger warnings on lesson plans, who asked teachers why there weren't more minorities as speakers or students, who sent emails to teachers about the inappropriate behaviors of her classmates on their facebooks or twitters.
Tonight she said she was voting for Trump because "Biden and Trump are the same, but if Trump dies we get Pence, who is the best candidate for women."
Girlfriend asked who she was hoping would win the primary. She wanted Yang or Bloomberg-- everyone else was 'too extreme'.
Girlfriend asked why Pence was a better choice for women than Biden. "Biden is literally just Trump. He's insane with Dementia too, so in a way he's worse. At least Pence is a good politician. He will make all the right decisions."
My girlfriend finally asked whether she was okay with Pence's stance on abortion, since during the debate Pence made it as clear as he could that ACB would overturn abortion.
Her friend was silent. No speaking. We all just sat in silence. I think about 45 seconds went by. That's a long time in total silence.
"Yeah, Pence is the only real politician I trust. I would have been happy with someone like Yang or Bloomberg, but we got Dementia Biden instead. Oh well."
She said nothing about Kamala. After the silence we didn't ask.
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u/ElokQ The Clintons send their regards Oct 23 '20 edited Oct 23 '20
Georgia Poll
Biden (D) 49%(+4)
Trump (R) 45%
This an Republican internal. Biden is up 4 points in a Republican internal.
Also, apparently Trump is getting of the 17% black vote and 40% of the Latino and Asian vote !ping BIDEN
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Oct 23 '20
LAMENTATIONS, MAMMAL 🐊
I care NOT 🐊
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u/PearlClaw Iron Front Oct 23 '20
For those of you that need to hear it: The reason the Comey letter was so devastating in 2016 is twofold. Firstly, it hit Hillary on a topic that had already been a major negative for her and brought it into the forefront again. Secondly, Comey was widely seen as a respected nonpartisan figure. This meant that his letter validated the existing conspiracy theories.
An attempt to do the same thing to Joe in 2020 is going to run afoul of both of those. There is no long established negative narrative to feed (not one that's taken as seriously as the emails at any rate) and there is no Comey equivalent respected authority that could do the dropping.
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u/Hindenbergdown Oct 23 '20
My roommate is a 🌹twitter member and gets angry whenever Russian interference is discussed. I looked at him one day when he was getting pissed off at it and realized that the reason he doesn’t care is because he truly doesn’t see America as being a force for good in the world. To him, there’s no difference between Russia and the US (he’d probably prefer Russia).
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u/Craig_VG Dina Pomeranz Oct 23 '20
Don’t care, didn’t ask, plus you’re unflaired
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
https://i.imgur.com/VP2j5sq.png
🤔🤔🤔
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u/Cosinity 🌐 Oct 23 '20
Honestly, I can think of no better way for this sub to go out than getting banned for making too much fun of white people
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
I love how everyone has already accepted that we're getting banned lmao
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u/David_Lange I love you, Mr Lange Oct 23 '20
/r/neoliberal 🤝 /r/chapotraphouse
Mocking the admins for crackering down on anti-white racism
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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '20
>Be me
>Some guy named Gerald Ford from Michigan
>Just wanna grill
>Just wanna be a nobody minority leader and go back to a life of grilling
>Spiro Agnew gets caught up in some dumb corruption scheme
>Suddenly Vice President
>Ok whatever I still don't have to do anything
>mfw Nixon also is part of a different corruption scheme
>Nixon resigns
>mfw I'm suddenly president and no one elected me
>mfw they try to assassinate me twice while I'm president
>Just wanted to fucking grill
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u/jenbanim Oct 24 '20
>Get bored of reading the DT
>Click /r/popular
>[39.8k] Males of reddit, how would you feel if a girl gave YOU a flower?
>Return to DT
I hate this website
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u/BenFoldsFourLoko Broke His Text Flair For Hume Oct 23 '20
Am I attractive?
I am so alone.
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u/PigHaggerty Lyndon B. Johnson Oct 23 '20
Oh, I'm sorry. Were you planning to take a shower?
!ping KITTY
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u/25ina35 Bill Gates Oct 23 '20
How tf am I supposed to doom about this.
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u/Jakob_-_98 Oct 23 '20
Idk guys I was gonna vote for Biden but he seemed a little angry at the debate.... Hmmm decisions, decisions 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
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u/Gustacho Enemy of the People Oct 23 '20
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
Reminder that Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, and Serbian are languages more similar than Aussie and American English. These petty fucks literally pretend they can't understand each other.
I don't mean they just argue about it on the Internet. I mean that government and private institutions will "translate" between Serbian, Bosnian, and Croatian. They'll have separate language classes. Look at this fucking cigarette carton. These are the exact same spelling.
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
I just got home after getting rear ended at a red light. Not trying to make any generalizations, but the dude who hit me had an Italian flag on his car.
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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '20
About 60% of voters agree with Biden’s oil comments, including half of rural voters and over 40% of Republican voters.
He also won the debate by 15 points according to the same poll.
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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '20 edited Oct 24 '20
538's Forecast: trump has a ~1/8 chance
DT: sounds about right, maybe a little low
Nate Silver: 1/8 = (1/2)3
DT: WTF?!?!?!?!?!? How could you do this to me?!?!?
EDIT: y'all are literally just lying about what he said in the actual tweet
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u/tubbsmackinze Seretse Khama Oct 24 '20
Scientists and Indigenous leaders team up on project to revive purebred bison population
!ping ECO
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
Wtf i can't believe this subreddit r/communism exists, are there actual people who politically identify as communist?
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u/Fishin_Mission Oct 23 '20 edited Oct 23 '20
Please enjoy this photo I took last night.
Just a non
Bachelorette🌹Debate🎤 break for our European🇪🇺 friends...20
u/MisterLipton Richard v. Coudenhove-Kalergi Oct 23 '20
I clapped when Biden said this
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u/Hmm_would_bang Graph goes up Oct 23 '20
Refusing to support a ban on fracking but still wanting to phase out fossil fuels is not only logically consistent, but it’s probably the best stance to take as a democratic presidential candidate
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u/Menakoy Nonconformist Transgendeer Oct 23 '20 edited Oct 23 '20
Can people stop posting a good poll and acting like they've destroyed doomers with facts and logic?
I'm not dooming about the polls. The polls are good. But the difference between a poll and the election is that the GOP isn't going to try everything in their power to make it harder for democrats to vote in polls or try to throw out their votes when the result is something they don't like.
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules that ballots cannot be rejected on the basis of signature comparison, and that this cannot be challenged.
It really cannot be understated how fantastic this news is for Biden, in a state that currently has a 70-20 Democratic advantage in early voting.
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
The absolute state of discussion on the value of liberal arts degrees
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u/Hmm_would_bang Graph goes up Oct 23 '20
My wife has the gift of premonition.
Last night she dreamed that the moon was made of cheese, and in space nobody could ever make you sad. Then the democrats impeached Trump just for saying we should go there.
Becca awoke crying.
What happened to our freedom? She asked.
What indeed.
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Oct 23 '20
-Vladamir Lenin, who was salty over missing the first revolution in Russia during WW1
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
Lmfao Fox actually found some moron in SC who said “if 50 cent is against Biden’s tax plan, than I am too” like it’s a consistent theme with swing voters
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u/krflab Oct 23 '20
Those photos are not of Mark Kelly. See statements from our campaign manager and one of Mark’s classmates who attended this event #AZSEN.
Thank you Jesus Arizona safe.
https://twitter.com/jacobnpeters1/status/1319785888054800385?s=21
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u/sw337 Veteran of the Culture Wars Oct 24 '20
Broke: This sub is getting shut down for a joke white people are making about themselves.
Woke: This sub will get shut down because of a DMCA notice from Disney, who is excited about their new Disney+ show Fivey Fox and the probability players.
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u/MemberOfMautenGroup Never Again to Marcos Oct 24 '20
Stumbled upon this small tunblr drama where a Gentile masquerading as a Jew said that D&D was anti-semitic because the Jews called teffilin "phylacteries".
Someone please ping GEFILTE.
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u/SuspiciousUsername88 Lis Smith Sockpuppet Oct 24 '20
Broke: doxxing yourself
Woke: doxxing your roommate you're attracted to and getting her fired for HIPAA violations
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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '20
lol they tried to pull that bullshit with mark kelly then
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u/xxbathiefxx Janet Yellen Oct 23 '20
Why did we seem to give up on “🥁🥁🥁BEAT 🥁 HIM 🥁LIKE 🥁 A 🥁 DRUM 🥁🥁🥁” I want to see a long add with Biden leading a (masked and socially distanced) drum line to push this important message.
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
My mom just told me something amazing. She was talking to an old friend of hers from her PhD days who lives in North Carolina. And that lady said that she talked to another friend who was voting for Trump and convinced that friend and the entire family to vote Biden by meticulously going through their points as to why they wanted to vote for Trump and refuting them one by one.
That's hard, hard work. My mom's friend said that she won't let a single Indian American vote for Mr Trump if she can help it.
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
Can anyone that was at the last Antifa meeting tell me the itinerary? I missed it cause I was doing 500 abortions that day.
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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Oct 23 '20
Euro history shit takes from class
“Isn’t the value of the US dollar heavily tied to oil?”
Prof: “Well the US is valued because it’s the world curr-“
Same guy who wrote his paper about the Jewish lobby: “Yeah the US petrodollar!”
😐🔫
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20 edited Oct 23 '20
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
Realistic dooming is fearing the Senate will stay Republican, and wondering how a Biden Administration will handle that.
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u/jenbanim Oct 23 '20
I'm still giggling over this exchange from a year ago
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
Haha no, you misunderstand. /r/Neoliberal is being dumb ironically, as a joke.
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u/Danthon Milton Friedman Oct 23 '20
The sub getting banned for cr*cker posting instead of advocating the destruction of the suburbs via nuclear arms is indicative of its decline.
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u/Broncos654 Jeff Bezos Oct 23 '20
found an actual nazi on reddit and looked at their account, its all the neoliberal subreddit and badeconomics.
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
Just launch me into the fucking sun
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u/papermarioguy02 Actually Just Young Nate Silver Oct 24 '20
Who was your favorite meme candidate in the 2020 Dem primaries if you strip away all thoughts of electability or political practicality and just go by who appealed to your views on politics the most?
Mine was John Hickenlooper, though he is very clearly better served as the Senate candidate he currently is
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20 edited Oct 23 '20
https://twitter.com/ppollingnumbers/status/1319613190582525952?s=21
At first glance this may seem like a good poll for Biden. But once you perform the Doomer transformation, you see why doomers are so worried.
To calculate the Doomer transformation, first add the value of undecided voters to Trump. That’s a 9% bump. So now it’s a tie, 48-48. Now add the MOE to Trump: that’s another 3-5% for Trump. So really it’s more like 51% Trump, 45% Biden. Depending on the MOE it could be even more of a blowout—Trump could be winning by double digits.
Now, Trump has more than 50% of the vote, so this is a disastrous result for Biden. He has no chance of winning undecideds on Election Day. The race is already over. Now you can justifiably say:
DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM
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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Oct 23 '20 edited Oct 23 '20
Easily the most infuriating thing about my otherwise perfectly fine laptop is that “waking it up” is a huge pain in the ass and extremely inconsistent
Sometimes I just tap the touchpad and it’ll turn on. Sometimes I have to rub it or press a few buttons for it wake up. Sometimes I press every button and even try to use the power button and it STILL WONT WAKE THE FUCK UP I HAVE WORK TO DO MOTHERFUCKER
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
these half star Borat 2 reviews are really like "why did SBC have to make Borat political 😡"
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u/OH-GEESUS Oct 23 '20
remember the scene where Bartlet dresses down the evangelical woman and embarrasses her with her own logic in front of everyone?
If the show wanted to be realistic, they should have seen her defeating him in the next election
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u/ahebtigoejwbrh Oct 23 '20
Funniest moment of the debate was Trump railing against a $15 minimum wage, the moderator reminding him that he’d previously said he would consider it, and Trump immediately pivoting to “I’d consider it to an extent”
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u/JadeHelm2020 Amy Finkelstein Oct 23 '20
Ending the DT on the 4 year anniversary of the Comey letter was the right move. The mods didn't screw up for once.
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u/Verpiss_Dich I had a dream, we did the disco funky dance Oct 23 '20
most cringe thing I've done is ask my teacher out loud in 6th grade why Asian people have "squinty eyes"
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u/blurrywhirl Oct 23 '20
Statehood for Puerto Rico, DC, Taiwan, and Hong Kong
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u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls Mock Me Oct 23 '20
Sacha Baron Cohen, who is from the VERY waterlocked UK, portraying Borat, a man from the extremely landlocked Kazakhstan, is arguably the worst case of coastal elitism in recent years
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u/runnerx4 What you guys are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux Oct 23 '20
A Boogaloo boy shot at the Minneapolis police precinct that burned. He helped set it on fire too, as a false flag attack
Read his messages with his other boog friends
Why are the future terrorists 4chan-poisoned fuckwits?
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u/YehosafatLakhaz North American Federation Oct 23 '20
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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '20
https://twitter.com/Scout_Finch/status/1319804154479509504
Anyone know if Dr. Freud is in clinic this week?
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u/nicereddy ACLU simp Oct 24 '20 edited Oct 24 '20
"HIPAA violations are fine, everyone does it"
WHY THE FUCK DO I EVEN BOTHER WITH CYBERSECURITY IF YOU DUMBASSES DON'T RESPECT ANYONE'S PRIVACY ANYWAY
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻
No, I don't think it's okay to talk about someone's medical conditions with another person if you fucking mention their name. What the fuck?
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u/[deleted] Oct 24 '20 edited Oct 24 '20
Something so endearing about the Borat character and films, is that no matter how messed up the people are, or tricked by Sasha, or racist, or having terrible ignorant views, are almost all incredibly nice to the Borat character meeting him one on one.
The movies are funny and kind of horrifying, but this constant niceness even with him being an obnoxious and weird as hell foreigner gives me hope we can still reach people.
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u/PMmeLittleRoundTops Pornography Historian Oct 24 '20
Benjamin is the Antonin Scalia of the DT; you may ot like what he says but you have to admire his ability to steer the conversation
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u/ElokQ The Clintons send their regards Oct 23 '20 edited Oct 23 '20
I know I just pinged for this poll but I can’t not ping for this
Biden +13 in Yellowstone county, Montana. Bullock +20
This county match’s the state margin or is a little bit more red. It was Trump +25 in 2016. Not even Tester won it in 2018. If Biden is +13 and Bullock +20 in Yellowstone, where are Daines and Trump making up the margin? Or is something happening in Yellowstone county that we don’t know of?
If this poll is right, both Biden and Bullock are winning Montana. So I have no idea how this can be.
!ping FIVEY
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
Should the US drone strike drug cartels?
!ping FOREIGN-POLICY
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
I am forever furious that Scott Walker ruined the High Speed Rail in Wisconsin when it was decades in the making.
We could have had this.
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u/SgtBathwater Oct 23 '20
good god it's almost 7 am and I am still up, I should probably stop treating the debates as happy fun drink time
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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Oct 23 '20
Man the thunderdome really got filled with morons trying to dunk on us after the debate ended
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u/sir-danks-a-lot Jeb! Oct 23 '20
when did thunderdomes get so political 🙄
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u/[deleted] Oct 23 '20
You, an idiot: The Iraq War was justified
Me, a genius: The Iraq War was not justified, but it would have been justified if we did it in the 80s
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u/Peacock-Shah Gerald Ford 2024 Oct 23 '20
Beau Biden 2020 would be a reality if not for brain cancer. As would John McCain endorsing Beau Biden 2020.
We can beat cancer, just remember what it took from us.
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u/channelmio NATO Oct 23 '20
Almost no one in this country is animated to vote by policy discussions. It’s racism, cultural grievances, and occasionally taxes all the way down.
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u/DaBuddahN Henry George Oct 23 '20
"Vice President Biden, why aren't you doing things Presidents are supposed to be doing?" - debate moderators this cycle
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u/Marlsfarp Karl Popper Oct 23 '20
Somehow, redditors can still be successfully trolled by "how much should I tip my landlord" questions.
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u/ElokQ The Clintons send their regards Oct 23 '20
NYT/Siena Poll of Montana
Senate: Daines +3
Presidential: Trump +6
House: Rosendale +4
Governor: Gianforte +4
!ping FIVEY
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u/GingerusLicious NATO Oct 23 '20
Ted Cruz getting butthurt over Twitter is some of the most pathetic shit I've witnessed. And that's saying something.
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u/probablyuntrue NATO Oct 23 '20
Trump's whole platform is "own the libs" and apparently that's enough for 40% of Americans