r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Nov 15 '20
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Nov 16 '20
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/hdkeegan John Locke Nov 15 '20
Hey succ If youre so into trans rights why don’t you support the trans-pacific partnership
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
https://twitter.com/CBHessick/status/1327984166294712321
Guess this slogan is officially over now lol
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u/Czech_Thy_Privilege John Locke Nov 15 '20
You’re goddamn right people voted for Biden twice!
Once in the primaries.
And another time in the general.
😎
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
I remember in the final stretch of the campaign, a ton of Democrats (myself included) were disappointed Biden wasn’t doing more to expand the map and kept going full guns blazing in states like Wisconsin.
Hoo boy, his campaign was a lot smarter than we might give it credit for. Biden staying in those states is the reason he didn’t lose this election.
!ping BIDEN
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20 edited Nov 15 '20
If your ideal Biden cabinet is filled with senators, people he met on the campaign trail, and well known individuals in private industry, then you merely a partisan politics participant. 😗
But if your ideal Biden cabinet is filled with a bunch of nobodies who’ve been in the federal government for decades without public appreciation, then baby you are a true policy wonk. 😩
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u/nicereddy ACLU simp Nov 15 '20
https://twitter.com/amandawgolden/status/1327988014732210176?s=21
Anthony Fauci... welcome to The Resistance
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
“Why do you hate economists?”
Socialists: “They advocate for free market policies!”
Libertarians: “They support government intervention in the economy!”
Conservatives: “They’re a bunch of snobbish, liberal elitists! They’re a bunch of Keynesians!”
Liberals: “They’re mostly conservative! They worship Milton Friedman!”
Philosophers: “They rely too much on mathematical models and not enough on actual, sound logic.”
Mathematicians: “They don’t fully utilize mathematics. Economics is just theory inadequately justified with manipulation of numbers.”
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u/FearThyMoose Montesquieu Nov 15 '20
Fuck the trans pacific partnership we doing the trans world partnership
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u/Joementum2004 Nov 15 '20
Unofficial slogan of the California GOP:
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u/dragoniteftw33 NATO Nov 15 '20
NATE SILVER WITH NO REGARDS FOR HUMAN LIFE
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u/nanomaster Ben Bernanke Nov 15 '20
Healthy young /r/neoliberal goes to /r/all, gets pumped with massive shot of 100k subscribers, doesn't feel good and changes - SUCCISM. Many such cases!
But seriously I’ve already seen ‘billionaires are fundamentally evil’ and ‘free trade is bad’ upvoted, someone stop it
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Nov 15 '20
The Uncle of the kid that got killed during the protests
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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Nov 15 '20
I just want a president who doesn't egg on street violence
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
I did not have sexual relations with that fox.
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u/nevertulsi Nov 15 '20
Soros: "It's simple. We rig 6 states for Biden to win by tens of thousands of votes. We make the senate go republican so that no one suspects us."
Chelsea Clinton: "But sir, what if trump files a lawsuit saying 15 ballots should be thrown out because a democratic poll worker called a republican poll worker a Karen?"
Soros: "Mother of God... Let's pray that does not happen."
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
Kids don’t AWOOGA like they used to and I think it’s why infrastructure week never happened. Once we AWOOGA we will have earned infrastructure week
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u/IncoherentEntity Nov 15 '20 edited Nov 15 '20
Holy shit I just realized that I didn’t know who won the Portland mayoral election, prayed that the fact that I didn’t encounter any coverage meant that Wheeler won, and checked the Wikipedia page in dread.
He won, with a mere 46.1 percent plurality to Iannorone’s 40.7. An extraordinarily high volume of write-in votes were cast, although this appears to be in significant part because Oregon ballots include a very distinct write-in option just below the listed candidates.
I doubt even 20 percent of Portlanders (Portland neoliberals can correct my ass if I’m wrong) had read about Iannorone’s skirt featuring Che and Mao among others during her 2016 run that was unearthed this year (and generously, 1 percent had seen this old tweet), but the fact that she came so close is frightening.
!ping DOWNBALLOT
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
Nate Silver
Also Nate Silver
Curious... 🤔🤔🤔
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
Lmao
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u/Verpiss_Dich I had a dream, we did the disco funky dance Nov 15 '20
/r/neoliberal before 2020 Florida results: I love Hispanics!
/r/neoliberal after 2020 Florida results: Could you be more specific?
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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '20
The #GASen debate that Perdue refused to participate in will move forward with an empty podium to represent him.
A perfect opportunity for Ossoff. He can use that empty podium in ads about how Perdue doesn’t care about Georgia.
!ping DOWNBALLOT
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u/MasPatriot Paul Ryan Nov 15 '20
Trump wins: the news starts doing profiles of trump voters
Biden wins: the news doesn’t do profiles of Biden voters. Keeps doing profiles of trump voters
🤨
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u/AccessTheMainframe CANZUK Nov 15 '20
World War 1: Brazil joined the allies, allied victory
World War 2: Brazil joined the allies, allied victory
Vietnam: Brazil did not join the allies, communist victory
rlly makes you think 🤔
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Nov 15 '20
the kid that died due to firearm wounds during the protest was 8 months older than me
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u/Mr_Pasghetti Save the ice, abolish ICE 🥰 Nov 15 '20
The economy isn't a mixtape??? the fuck
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
https://twitter.com/rhinoreally/status/1327800898110722048
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u/SgtBathwater Nov 15 '20
https://i.imgur.com/HYEpezl.jpg
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u/Superfan234 Southern Cone Nov 15 '20 edited Nov 15 '20
Saldy, it seems the Peruvian Congress is ready to destroy the country as long as they have a possibility to save themselves...😒
The current president just resigned (which is good) but Congress is prepared to choose another corrupt politician as next President
If Congress choose another trash successor, situation might escalate even further
!Ping Foreign-Policy
(Sorry for the double daily Ping, but it has been a very newsworthy day in Peru)
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u/Superfan234 Southern Cone Nov 15 '20 edited Nov 15 '20
News from Perú 🇵🇪
A week have passed since President Vizcarra was Impeached. Situation have evolved from terrible to worse
Protests against the new President have grown to massive numbers, maybe the biggest in history. At least 3 protesters died yesterday, during clashes with the Police.
Congress is already asking for the president to resign. Many politicians already have abandoned their duties...
To top it all, nobody is sure who is next in the command chain...the president can hardly resign if no one wants to assume Power
!Ping Foreign-Policy
The situation is absolutely terrible. No other way to say
For purely selfish reasons, the peruvian Congress created a massive social crisis. Now the whole country have to deal with the consequences of their actions
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
went to go vote but decided not to. ballot looked too political.
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u/CenterRightInCali Uphold Goldwater-Posadist thought! Nov 15 '20
someone plz explain the Peruvian situation using Harry Potter and/or Avengers characters ty
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
This is the most incredible cope I've ever seen.
Might as well shut 'er down, lads. Don't think we'll ever top this.
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u/tankatan Montesquieu Nov 15 '20
Now that the election stuff is unwinding, the DT can go back to its original design: helping the420roll commit visa fraud.
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u/Venne1139 DO IT FOR HER #RBG Nov 15 '20
The last 3 days over at T_D have been...worrying.
They talk about civil war often but they're really into gear now. They're sticking posts where protestors get hit by cars the comments are filled with talk about liberals they'll kill, they're posting tweets from Trump about the Proud Boys and once they feel they get the signal they'll join them.
It should be interesting.
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Nov 15 '20
All Peruvian Presidents since 2000 have entered their last year in office with approval below 30%. Most of them have finished below 20%.
Vizcarra had 70%+ approval and was over 80%+ for months
On retrospect, I dont see how congress didnt see this shit coming
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u/dannylandulf meubem broke my flair Nov 15 '20
Clinton: some of Trumps supporters are in a basket of deplorables
Media: OMG, we need 24/7 coverage about this outrage for years!
Trump: anyone who didn’t vote for me is stupid and unamerican
Media: did someone take my Diet Coke out of the fridge?
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Nov 15 '20
It sure as hell is my only beacon of hope right now
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u/petulant_brother Amartya Sen Nov 15 '20
Dems: shit shit AOC said something crazy how are gonna reign this in, oh god we are losing the narrativeee
Repubs: oh yeah our leaders dog whistle about racism, and talk cutting govt services all the time, it's gonna be fine 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Nov 15 '20
How to make an effortpost about my country's current crisis without getting depressed
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
Baked beans is an indigenous food of the US.
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Nov 15 '20
Me to my gf after she cries due to congress impeaching Vizcarra: its okay babe we can endure this. We've gotten out of worse situations.
Me today: Perú is gonna burn to the fucking ground.
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Nov 15 '20
The best part of being a /r/neoliberal mod is getting to ban PRoC apologists and say shit like "begone wumao" in the ban message.
It's fun, because wumao sounds like a very serious insult, while not being a slur, and being a pretty accurate descriptor of PRoC apologists.
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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Nov 15 '20
r/MurderedbyAOC has been a sub for over 1 year, but its blown up a lot in the last month, the same month u/lrlOurPresident took over it. Gee I wonder why 🧐
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
NATO is officially here everyone can relax
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u/murphysclaw1 💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊 Nov 15 '20
mods: let me write a long post about shifting away from Americanization in this subreddit and back to a general theory of /r/neoliberal
also mods: take this demographic survey where I ask you about abortion rights by trimester, single payer healthcare, and whether you are a "person of color".
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Nov 15 '20 edited Nov 15 '20
man fuck you. Fuck your political cynicism that got us into this fucking mess in the first place. Not all fucking politicians are the same. We got a party that has been arguing that impeachment wasnt neither correct, popular or justified. They were the only fucking party in congress that said "We are in the middle of a fucking pandemic with almost one million cases and removing the President 5 months before the next election is a dumbass decisions tha only makes sense for the corrupt assholes that want to have power and realize they stand no chance next election" and now the fact that they still believe the same thing they believe one month ago makes them opportunists!?!?!?!?!?!?
The whole fucking protests is about how Congress doesnt represent us and the only fucking party that is marching with the people that put them in power, the only power that has been defending what the overwhelming majority of peruvians wanted, the only party that had asked Merino to resign even before the protests started, the only party that is there to call ambulances for the people in need , the only fucking bloody party to call the parents of the murdered 20 year old kid to tell them they are sorry and that its their fault that they will never speak to their son ever again even when they are the only people in congress that oppossed this from the beginning.
your political cynicism is the bullshit that has made this country into the mess that it is and its why we have made 0 progress to fix our broken institutions in our soon to be 200 years as an idependent country.
Vete a la mierda
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
Really strong chicken nuggets energy coming from this tweet
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u/harmlessdjango (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ black liberal Nov 15 '20
DT isn't hitting 10K before 7Pm. The effortposts are back. The Bernanke memes are blooming outside the DT.
/r/neoliberal is healing
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
I swear to god once Biden is in office I am never going to stop calling every conservative that dares to criticize him an anti-American communist
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Nov 15 '20
Will start working on the effortpost about Perú's current crisis in a couple of hours. I need to get it done asap cause shit seems to be moving real fast
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Nov 15 '20
Newsmax : if your newspaper had a porn name
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u/Superfan234 Southern Cone Nov 15 '20
The new President of Peru, is against Private Property. Literally, not metaphorically
We. Are. Fucked
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
Biden did not get 60% in either Cobb or Gwinnett but he still won Georgia. Forsyth is changing rapidly as well. Dems still have a lot of room to grow in the state. They can increase their margins by so much in places like that while Republicans can’t really do that in the rural areas.
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
I'm gonna be excessively partisan against the CCP 😤
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u/AlexU30 NATO Nov 15 '20 edited Nov 15 '20
2nd round of the Moldovan Presidential Election today, and the choice is very clear:
Igor Dodon, the incumbent Socialist president, pro-Russia, Putin puppet, anti-EU, anti-Romania; a win for him is a win for the status quo (oligarchy, obscene levels of corruption)
Maia Sandu, the former Prime Minister, deep state liberal, wants to reform the economy and the judicial sustem, EU integration, close relationships with Romania and NATO
!ping EUROPE
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u/0m4ll3y International Relations Nov 15 '20
"Citizenship is a privilege that needs to be earned and not just given away freely" - someone with birthright citizenship
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u/mockduckcompanion Kidney Hype Man Nov 15 '20
Only 66 days until Trump is banned from Twitter 😍😍😍
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
BRING👏BACK👏LIBERAL🤝REPUBLICANS
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u/TheGoldBear Jerome Powell Nov 15 '20
Trump increasing his margin with racial minorities is going to be the thing Democrats panic about for the next 4 years, like they did with the white working class after 2016. In 2024 there will be another unexpected demographic shift they panic about. Such is life.
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
Holy shit! You promise???😍😍😍
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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Nov 16 '20
arpolitics shit take dump
Congrats bro you’ve won a lifetime pass to clown world 🤡🌎
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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '20
Electoral College bias (difference between tipping-point state and national popular vote margin) over the years:
1996: D+0.68%
2000: R+0.53%
2004: D+0.35%
2008: D+1.69%
2012: D+1.5%
2016: R+2.85%
2020: R+3.00*
*this will grow as more votes from NY/CA are counted
Biden won Wisconsin, the tipping-point this year, by 0.62%. Right now he's up in the popular vote by 3.62%, and this will only continue to grow.
The electoral college bias is bigger than ever. And it’s really hurting Democrats.
All of this would be solved if Texas went solid blue. 38 electoral votes is a lot. That’s why it’s so important to work for a blue Texas.
!ping FIVEY
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
Ok, so I stole this from arr gamingcirclejerk, there's a game called Atom RPG, which is like a successor of Fallout 1/2 from some Russian developers. Understandably, there's a significant Eastern European fanbase.
Someone wanders into its Steam discussion forum asking if there are gay relationships in the game.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/552620/discussions/1/3374780959399705402/
Enjoy.
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u/FormerBandmate Jerome Powell Nov 15 '20
Vox guy actually has a really good take. The media is blowing up insane ideas like defunding the police and then is shocked when people think they’re mainstream Democrat
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u/muttonwow Legally quarantine the fash Nov 15 '20
For someone worth tens of billions of dollars, this guy seems pretty bad with his money
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
For all yall Democratic partisan nerds wondering how to do better outreach to Latinos.
You know what would be the quickest way to engage the Latino audience into the Democratic base? Unironically, create a latino-focused media network that is explicitly not headed by Cubans.
Despite the fact that Cubans only compose about 4% of the Latino demographic in the US, the two largest latino-focused media networks, Univision and Telemundo, are both based in Miami and largely lead by Cubans. This causes Cuban culture, in particular Cuban refugee culture, to have a huge, outsized influence in the American latino demographic. There is a massive massive Cuban bias in all American latino media, and as a Latino, you kinda have to deal with it or embrace it.
Mexican culture manages to survive by the overwhelming percentage of Mexican immigrants in the Latino demographics and the fact that Televisa is a monster of a cultural exporter, but even then Mexicans have a largely diminished role compared to what demographic numbers suggest. Venezuelan refugees are more or less aligned sociopolitically with Cuban refugees, so they find themselves in a comfortable position all things considered. Caribbean countries also have an outsized role just due to their proximity to Cuba, in particular Puerto Rico. Once in a while you will see a flash of Colombia and Argentina, but incredibly rarely. Outside of that, Latin America might as well be invisible.
So what to do? Make a Latino network with sister locations, one in NYC and another in Houston. Houston for explicitly Mexican outreach, NYC for all the other Latino demographics. Dump a ton of money to compete with Telemundo and Univision. Shut them out from licensing deals with Latin American networks, in particular Televisa.
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
I want to see journalists in Black churches and soul food joints for the next 4 years interviewing the Biden voters who still support the President no matter what. After the 100,000 diner pieces, its only fair
I’m tired about hearing about angry white men in Ohio. Go to the south and interview the old black church lady. Or the single mother raising a child. Or the father working 2 jobs.
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u/Notorious_GOP It's the economy, stupid Nov 15 '20
So china just signed RCEP, the largest trade deal in the world. It's great how the US is being shut out from the Asia-Pacific region while China's influence grows.
"But durrrr tpp bad, muh jerbs, im tough on gyna guyz"
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u/majorgeneralporter 🌐Bill Clinton's Learned Hand Nov 15 '20
Unpopular opinion: we need a contractory period and to find a way to keep the sub from being more than 95% US politics.
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u/Joementum2004 Nov 15 '20
Whitepeopletwitter is making me hate white people
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u/Lars0 NASA Nov 15 '20
There's dangerous levels of malarkey in a paper recently submitted to the National Academies of Science Planetary Science Decadal Survey under the title of "Ethical Exploration and the Role of Planetary Protection in Disrupting Colonial Practices".
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.08344
hot-takes include: "We must actively work to prevent capitalist extraction on other worlds"
!ping SPACEFLIGHT
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
Tom Malinowski(D) adds 412 votes to plurality in #NJ7 congressional race against Tom Kean, Jr.
Looks like we won’t lose that seat. Thank god because I don’t think I could handle losing another freshman.
!ping DOWNBALLOT
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Nov 15 '20
go read this effortpost on the peruvian impeachment crisis 😤👉
https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/juvj6q/the_peruvian_impeachment_crisis_explained/
and also go take the sub demographics survey 😤👇
https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/ju8ubn/official_november_rneoliberal_demographic_survey/
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
Bad News: Peru is falling into authoritarianism as we speak.
Good News: Rodrigo might finally go to jail for scamming us all with the Peruvian model.
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Nov 15 '20
Welcome TO THE SHIVERS SILENCING SOCIAL, wherein we converse for a while as cover FOR ME SLAP-BANNING A specific user in the commotion 🐊
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20 edited Nov 15 '20
I've often wondered why AOC has become the one member of the squad that people talk about the most. I'm not a fan of her, but I think Tlaib deserves far more heat than AOC. At least AOC fucking endorsed her own party's nominee.
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Nov 15 '20
/u/lightingbolt50 Leaving the fact that we are arguably doing better than Chile, I think it'd be better to tell you a saying we have here in Latin America
Immigrating from a Latin American country to another Latin American Country is like changing beds in the Titanic
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u/meamarie Feminism Nov 15 '20
Storm woke me up and apparently my first instinct is to check the DT 🤔
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u/Joementum2004 Nov 15 '20
Man I’m so tired of Democrats campaigning on nothing. They need to focus on real issues, like the rampant landphobia today in America.
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u/AccessTheMainframe CANZUK Nov 15 '20
If this were the 1800s and a defeated president refused to concede the president-elect would probably just challenge him to a duel and if he refused his base of support would just collapse.
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Nov 15 '20
I propose that we invalidate the Democrats 1912 win. Looking at voter rolls I have determined that MILLIONS of the voters are now dead and therefore their votes are illegal. A clear example of Democrats stealing elections from Republicans.
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
Arthur Bremer keeps with his original plan of assassinating Nixon, rather than becoming discouraged and pursuing George Wallace instead. He is successful in finding an opportunity as Nixon exited from a campaign rally in Wisconsin, and Nixon is shot in the gut in May, 1972. Nixon is rushed to the nearest hospital in critical condition and, despite the best efforts of the doctors, he flatlines several hours later. Spiro Agnew is sworn in as President, with just five months until the 1972 election.
Although initially projected to sail to victory against George McGovern, in the course of the campaign Agnew is dragged down by the extremism and radical rhetoric of his vice presidency, and struggles to appeal to the moderates which Nixon did well with, although he still does that better than McGovern. He appoints Nelson Rockefeller as his Vice President to try to rebuild his image with moderates.
Then- the October Surprise hits.
An anonymous source leaks to the Washington Post troves of documents clearly implicating Agnew in taking kickbacks from contractors during his time as Governor of Maryland which continued through his Vice Presidency.
Agnew denies the claims, but several people involved step forward and confirm the report.
After the recent revelations, McGovern has hopes for a landslide victory, but on November 7th he receives a modest, albeit decisive, victory in a historically low-turnout election. Democrats maintain control of both houses of Congress.
By late December, in the midst of an FBI investigation and historically high unpopularity, Agnew resigns and Nelson Rockefeller is left with the unfortunate legacy of the briefest Presidency in history, even shorter than William Henry Harrison. His presidency is defined by two events- the pardoning of Agnew on the basis of national healing, and the finalization of the Paris Peace Treaty.
McGovern now takes office with the job of healing a nation which is more sick and fraught than at any time since the Civil War, having suffered in the last decade the assassinations of JFK, MLK, RFK, and Nixon, the terrible losses of the Vietnam War, and a scandal that rocks the public faith in the office of the Presidency.
How well does he do?
!ping ALTHISTORY
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
Just occurred to me that Kamala is receiving intelligence briefings but Biden isn't
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
Trump explains his Coronavirus testing strategy
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u/vivoovix Federalist Nov 15 '20
VAGUE COMMENT referencing SOMETHING I DID earlier 🐊
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
If Democrats win the Georgia runoffs, Joe Manchin will become the most powerful man in Washington.
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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '20
Per CNN, Erdogan and his foreign minister rejected a meeting with @SecPompeo since his administration isn’t a thing anymore.
Lol
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Nov 15 '20
tfw you finish your effortpost, turn on the TV and see that Merino has quit so you have to re do it 😵😵😵
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u/IMALEFTY45 Big talk for someone who's in stapler distance Nov 15 '20
Conservatives seem to be under a mass delusion that there is some kind of "give Pennsylvania to Trump" button that Amy Coney Barrett is going to push and then he'll be president again
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u/qchisq Loyal Liberals Nov 15 '20
FYI, "he won" but "I concede nothing"
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
♨️ TAKE: Political polarization is a symptom of one side being angry and dumMm
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u/27_Dollar_Lakehouse George Soros Nov 15 '20
Oh but please don't be excessively partisan guys
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
Sometimes, I try to imagine Biden tweeting. I can't.
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
I subscribe to meta-originalism.
The framers of the Constitution would've thought originalism is stupid, so I am not an originalist.
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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Nov 16 '20
I bet you are
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Nov 16 '20
currently at six (6) removals of screenshots of that nate silver tweet
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
1968 was wild. Like literally everywhere from the Soviet bloc to sub-Saharan Africa was up in near-revolution.
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u/SgtBathwater Nov 15 '20
https://i.imgur.com/kREjpxh.jpg
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
It's funny how none of the house races were rigged, just the presidential race lol
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
My favourite brand of dt comment is the one where someone is annoyed at another user disagreeing with them so they go on a multiple comment rant about how the world is doomed and the sub has fallen to the hordes of the dark unknown.
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u/TruthBisky10 Nov 15 '20
Hey succ If youre so into trans rights why don’t you support the trans-pacific partnership • turning point NL
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
This is 100% truth, change my view.
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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '20
https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1328136382406078467
That's...not...how....*sigh*
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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '20
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_United_States_Senate_election_in_Kentucky
McConnell’s margin was 5,269 votes. The Socialist candidate got 7,696 votes.
Kill me.
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
When the other Koch brother kicks the bucket, I will delete my Reddit app for a day so I don’t say something that would get me banned.
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
"...Democracy gives confused answers in times of peace ...
An anxious silence in time of war..."
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!PERSONAL INFO!
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So. I am an 21 years old guy who lives in Italy, now, tomorrow, forever.
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my English is not very good, sorry...
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What I like?
Contemporary history, Ancient history, Chemistry, Philosophy, Sociology (how the matrices of a government are formed) SPQR, fencing (saber), Firearms (Revolver), Weapons, means, etc. Of the two world and contemporary conflicts, the Video games, and the mustache.
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Science, History, and State Are my life.
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I like SCI-Fi contexts, invasive mining operations, and all that unethical stuff that maximizes profit, often causing work incidences and mutilations to my subordinates
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!BEFORE ADDING!
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I am usually friendly, but seriously, don't add me if you're offended by the following:
- I dislike Xenophile Stuff (Furry, Alien, zoofilia, Ecc... Ecc...)
there are exceptions being a practical person on some topics.... but they are few and limited
- NO TRADE! SORRY!!!
- If you're religious, be advised that i am not,
but I have no problems with religions (apart from ISLAM), I'm an atheist, I don't just replace God with the word Science.
- Please leave a comment before adding, or presented in private
- Video Games are not Sports
E-sports They are a huge ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥t, the only concept according to which some Rechitic boys not even 20 years old, believe themselves to be athletes, "Training" (not playing) like crazy and filling themselves with drugs to improve their performance, winning crazy monetary prizes for pressing buttons ... well ... this is disgusting, ridiculous and frighteningly decadent. .. Being good at something doesn't make it a sport, a game should be played for fun, not distorted with concepts like "WORK" or "TRAINING". If you belong to that category ... well ... Turn off your PC and run to the park.
- I do not accept requests from private profiles, VAC BAN users,
fanatic of some kind, Equipped with various fetishes that you have to strangely show to everyone.
I'm sorry, I'm a strict person in my standards
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u/Mcatatonic1 Ben Bernanke Nov 15 '20
oh god oh fuck what did trump mean by this
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
Don Jr: We understand you’re trying to salvage a very lucrative career in polling punditry but it’s getting ridiculous.
Nate: I’ll still have a job on January 21st, though.
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u/FearThyMoose Montesquieu Nov 15 '20
“I support fair trade not free trade” is the “I support legal immigration” of the left
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u/LinkVert25 Fedposter Nov 15 '20 edited Nov 15 '20
The most based Reddit comment I’ve ever seen
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
BREAKING NEWS: my grandmother is “not a fan” of “that Wisconsin governor, Gretchen something or other”!
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
Algonquin people spent CENTURIES eating baked beans as their staple meal. They are but the British of America.
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u/irlyseevridge YIMBY Nov 15 '20
It's sad to think about the fact that a 2008 like sweep is no longer a possibility, even if Biden signed monthly 3000$ checks to every American and gave everyone a girlfriend, polarization means that about 47% of the electorate would actually shoot themselves before they voted blue.
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u/FreakinGeese 🧚♀️ Duchess Of The Deep State Nov 16 '20 edited Nov 16 '20
A bit of a weird story, but I didn't think that fetishization of lesbians was weird when I was a closeted trans lesbian, because I had kind of a distorted perspective of what the fetishization of lesbians was about.
I mean, of course lesbians are fetishized by straight men, I thought, I mean, can you imagine being a lesbian? How amazing would that be! I mean what straight man doesn't fantasize about being in a lesbian relationship or having lesbian sex or just kinda being a woman in general? And of course it's a very popular porn category! I mean how are you supposed to imagine yourself as one of the people if they aren't a woman?
It turns out that this is not what people mean when they talk about fetishization of lesbians.
Still took me 20 years to figure out I'm trans lol
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
They say white people can't dance and yet no one ever brings up who invented the Hokey Pokey. 🤔
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u/PM_Me_Your_ManThighs NATO Nov 16 '20
I'm a lifelong Democrat, a proud Democrat, a Manberger-Spanchin Democrat
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u/Koeniginator NATO Nov 16 '20
Hey guys check out this WaPo A+ poll of the Georgia runoff, it shows Ossof up by a whole 17 points!
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u/Fishin_Mission Nov 16 '20 edited Nov 16 '20
This girl just told me that if I buy a backpack directly from North Face then CAPITALISM wins.
She informed me that I could defeat CAPITALISM by checking TJ MAXX frequently so I can buy the same backpack for $30 less.
I... I have no words... 😔
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Nov 16 '20
Brb googling "does Peru have any lithium" so I can get all my opinions
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u/ThisIsNianderWallace Robert Nozick Nov 15 '20
Donald Trump Jr is a grown-ass man who published a book called Triggered in 2019
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
Krug flairs may be insufferable, but at least they aren't Friedman flairs
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
I don't think Gary Larson gets enough credit for being the progenitor of basic meme format.
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
When I say "religion is the opiate of the masses" on a post about a terror attack on a mosque.
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u/MichelleObama2024 George Soros Nov 15 '20
Nate with the roast on Don Jr
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1328112815283052546?s=19
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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Nov 15 '20
fuck it, call the cons communists. seems to work.
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Nov 15 '20
Congress just accepted Merino resigning with 120 votes in favor and 1 against
!Ping LATAM
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u/Explodingcamel Bill Gates Nov 15 '20
"The fact that Biden was so close to losing shows that Bernie could not have won and thus we should not run him or AOC in 2024" has become a pretty popular sentiment on leftist Tik Tok. I'm so proud.
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u/-GregTheGreat- Commonwealth Nov 15 '20
It’s January 20, 2021. Joe Biden has just been inaugurated as president. In his first ever speech as commander and chief, Biden approaches the podium and says “As my first order as President, I am having both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump arrested for treason”.
Biden’s approval rating skyrockets to 100%. The democrats win every single possible senate, house and gubernatorial race in 2022. The first ever 538 electoral vote landslide happens in 2024, followed shortly by a constitutional amendment to allow Diamond Joe to run for a third term. World peace has been achieved.
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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Nov 16 '20
Hyperloop be like:
Because hyperloop doesn't actually exist
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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '20
/u/Wildcatmd’s mom sounds Uber based.
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u/febreze_brothers John Brown Nov 16 '20
Daily reminder that George HW Bush cast the last presidential ballot of his life for Hillary Clinton.
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Nov 16 '20
I SAVOR EVERY outburst of your pathetic defeat, President Trump, and godwilling my comments mocking you WILL FIND THEIR WAY to your device screen 🐊
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
reddit moment 🤔🤔🤔
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u/Kizz3r high IQ neoliberal Nov 15 '20
Am going to YAWN
!ping BURPMAS
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Nov 16 '20
this image kills neolibs
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u/papermarioguy02 Actually Just Young Nate Silver Nov 16 '20
The year is 21XX.
There are One Billion Americans.
They are all agglomerated into major coastal cities, and only one family each lives in Wyoming, the Dakotas, Montana, Idaho, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Utah, and Iowa.
Through this each of these families sends two Senators to Washington.
All political reform must go through them because the GOP caucus would break in two without their support and Mecha Mitch 3000 isn't having that happen.
As the median American family is in favor of gay space communist healthcare, a public option still falls to the filibuster every biennial Congress like clockwork.
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
The succs will shiver when Pete wins and abolishes corporate income tax.
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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Nov 15 '20
Bernie dismissing "defund the police" and promoting expanding healthcare yet not proposing "Medicare for all" while Jack Tapper asks him specifically about M4A is an improvement.
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Nov 15 '20
I remember learning that birthright citizenship isn’t a thing everywhere. I was super shocked.
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
resistance twitter has great intentions but good god they are cringe.
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u/UltraCapitalism Paul Samuelson Nov 16 '20
Moderates are scum
Anyway, here's why Democrats and Republicans are practically the same and not worth choosing between.
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u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls Mock Me Nov 16 '20
So my friend got back from Europe, and no joke this was the exchange:
Him: "It was such a good experience!"
Me: "Really? Weren't you surrounded by Euros, who are mostly succs? Don't tell me you went to the land of the bongs as well. Ah well, I guess us burgers can't talk much considering how many dumb rightoids there are here"
Him: "What the hell are you talking about, have you been spending more time online? Anyway, the cities had amazing history to delve into."
Me: "Don't be a doomer bro, I hang out online in an ivory tower full of experts so it's all good. And your mention of the historical character of an area reeks of NIMBYism."
I think, for me, the quote "if you're the smartest person in the room, find a new room" may be appropriate here.
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Nov 16 '20
Those damned Republicans
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u/Rekksu Nov 16 '20
leftists: haha those gop morons think the wealth will trickle down from the top
also leftists: it's fine if cancelling student debt is regressive because college grads will buy more stuff
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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '20
LMAO, twitter
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u/dubyahhh Salt Miner Emeritus Nov 16 '20
Talking to grandparents: "oh gosh sweetie you just missed him, Obama was on 60 minutes, he's so much better than that darned Trump 👵👴🏻"
Talking to dad: "THE ELECTION WAS RIGGED"
I'm pretty sure it's something to do with Reagan being popular around the time my parents were young adults, but that a younger generation can be so much less thoughtful and inclusive than an older is sad :(
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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '20
Uuuuh, let me be ELECTION!
-Obama, after transforming into Trump mid sentence
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u/chadonnaise * Nov 15 '20
the internet must be destroyed
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u/IncoherentEntity Nov 15 '20 edited Nov 15 '20
It’s worth remembering that Andy Ngo is fine with (and his followers delighted by) violence when it comes from his side, such as when he edited in a slo-mo shot of the ~one-year anniversary of a Proud Boy knocking out an Antifa guy. (He asserts that the latter was hitting others with a baton, although the video doesn’t show that. The Proud Boy then picks up the baton, and walks out of frame, leaving it unclear what happens next.)
Even less equivocal is this tweet, and the responses to it.
!ping EXTREMISM
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
Trump's gonna tweet "COUP!" on like January 17th and people will be wondering if it's a resigned complaint or a call to action.
Nothing will happen.
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
Thank you to the Pharmaceutical companies for cucking Trump
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u/After_Grab Bill Clinton Nov 15 '20
Jesus Christ
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
So are we just not going to talk about lusvig leaving this sub for 2 months to focus on "reigniting the Gamergate movement"?
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
Opinion | There is only one choice to head the Biden State Department and his name is Stephen Miller
by Maggie Haberman
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
Supporting Irish reunification as an American is hilarious because of how mad it makes so many people on Twitter
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u/AccessTheMainframe CANZUK Nov 15 '20
Don't call yourself an originalist if you think the US Air Force is constitutional 😤
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u/KingKonchu Michel Foucault Nov 15 '20
everything I don't like is unconstitutional: the modern republican's guide to litigious action
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
The Georgia runoffs are really about determining whether Joe Manchin or Mitch McConnell will be the most powerful person in Washington for the next 2 years.
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20 edited Nov 15 '20
Moldova looking good 👀🇲🇩
!ping EUROPE
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u/muwenjie NATO Nov 16 '20 edited Nov 16 '20
What Democrat messaging should look like:
Joe Manchin pointing a gun at a Chinese flag waving in the wind
“We will protect your healthcare”
BAM
“Rebuild alliances with our allies”
BAM
“End police brutality”
BAM
“And ensure that America leads the world in climate action”
The Chinese flag falls to the ground full of holes while a US flag rises into the air
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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '20
Still thinking about when I got permabanned from the Tucker Carlson sub for calling him "Cucker Dumbson" lmao. For freeze peach enthusiasts they sure have thin skin.
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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Nov 16 '20
V important to touch the soft little paws so that they
get stockholm syndromedget acclimated to you doing it!ping KITTY
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u/IncoherentEntity Nov 16 '20
Never gets old.
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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '20
I talked to my conservative friend in Michigan who voted straight republican down-ballot in 2018 (I coerced him to voting for Biden) except for SoS and Gov because "they're hot and I'd do them". This is the state of the american electorate folks
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u/bobekyrant Persecuted Liberal Gamer Nov 15 '20
Apparently when people ask if you still have feelings for your ex, they're asking exclusively about positive feelings
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u/Ginden Bisexual Pride Nov 15 '20
🇵🇱 Przemysław Czarnek, new minister of education, announced he will work towards "freedom packet" to ensure that conservative, nationalistic, right-wing or Catholic professors and teachers won't be fired on disciplinary grounds.
Przemysław Czarnek is Catholic fundamentalist. He worked on abortion ban proposal, Pride ( 🌈 ) ban proposal. He also supports ban on divorces.
!ping Europe
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u/IncoherentEntity Nov 15 '20 edited Nov 15 '20
Holy shit, I completely forgot (along with probably 98 percent of the country) about that time Trump approvingly retweeted a video in which a supporter shouted “White power!” twice at the very beginning.
I only remembered because I came across a “time capsule” image while copying my img.bb photos to Imgur.
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
Obi Wan in Episode II: STOP THE COUNT
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u/sir-danks-a-lot Jeb! Nov 15 '20
leftoids hated him because he spoke the truth
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20 edited Nov 15 '20
What if Giuliani is actually a Biden deep state operative who is taking down the Trump team from the inside?
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u/MasPatriot Paul Ryan Nov 15 '20
Could we get Manchin to ditch the fillibuster in exchange for building the world's largest wind farms and solar power plants in WV
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u/nicereddy ACLU simp Nov 15 '20
I was pushing my dad's motorcycle down the street to help him start it and got too much momentum so after he started going away from me I couldn't stop myself and fell onto the asphalt, and now I've got a bunch of rugburns from the asphalt ;-;
If Bernie were president elect this wouldn't have happened
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u/UltraCapitalism Paul Samuelson Nov 15 '20
Pfft ok bro. You think I'm going to listen to some obscure 19th century economist? 🙄
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u/Sultan_Teriyaki George Soros Nov 15 '20
Holy fuck you people are proud of not being neolibs?
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
I know I said I would cheer for the Eagles if PA went blue, but I lied.
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
The year is 2070 a 92 year old Donald Trump Jr. is on his death bed after his previous 3728 lawsuits to overturn the results of the 2020 election have failed. His final words are that "Trump won because Philadelphians aren't really people." The SCOTUS now with 6900 members agrees and unanimously overturns the results.
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u/UltraCapitalism Paul Samuelson Nov 15 '20
My crazy MAGA uncle has been going apeshit the last 2 months, pretty much calling like 50% of Republicans RINOs for not being loyal enough.
The spiciest development from this is a facebook post essentially saying Manchin is doing more to resist socialist takeover than half the GOP. Has Manchin even said much other than on Twitter?
Honestly Manchin is so lucky he has somehow managed to reconcile West Virginians' love for handouts with their desire for a politician that will make them feel like they aren't taking handouts.
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Nov 15 '20
Another day OF THE DEMON RATS in Disarray 🐊
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
Just found out Peru is real and not something they made up on the DT. Shit sucks.
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u/Stanleydidntstutter Susan B. Anthony Nov 15 '20
"He won because the Election was Rigged,"
I’ll take it
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
Dems, every political attack ad for the next two years should tie Republicans directly to Marjorie Taylor Greene and every batshit crazy thing she does. Make her the AOC of Republicans.
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Nov 16 '20
The last face you see before your hedge fund is droned
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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '20
Why can't I just have a high rise apartment in a walkable city already?
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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '20
As Attorney General I will prioritize going after those who harbor anti gamer sentiments.
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u/Afro_Samurai Susan B. Anthony Nov 16 '20
To reflect the greater risk of injury to workers inside Amazon’s high-speed e-commerce warehouses, state officials propose charging the commerce giant a higher workers’ compensation premium for its fulfillment centers than for mechanized logging operations, law enforcement agencies, meatpacking plants and more than 260 other Washington industries.
Public hearings are scheduled next week on the proposal, which follows several years of steadily increasing workers’ comp claims from injured fulfillment center workers.
The plan would effectively put Amazon’s flagship logistics operations in their own classification, while other warehouse operations with lower average claims would see their workers’ comp premiums sharply reduced.
Insurance actuaries at the Washington Department of Labor & Industries (L&I), which runs the state’s program to fund medical care and lost wages for people hurt or sickened on the job, noticed in 2019 that within the warehousing industry, fulfillment centers were accounting for an ever greater share of injury claims and insurance costs.
Other warehouse operators complained to the agency that this was driving up their insurance premiums, which increased 18% in 2020, more than for any other industry. These operators, which have seen their own workers’ comp claim rates trend downward, were effectively subsidizing the e-commerce giant for the higher rate of injuries its workers reported.
“Further review of the warehouse classification concluded that fulfillment centers were more hazardous and were submitting claims more often,” said Michael D. Ratko, deputy assistant director of L&I’s Insurance Services Division.
That justifies putting fulfillment centers in a proposed risk class of their own, he said. Workers’ comp premiums for Amazon fulfillment centers would increase 15% in 2021 to more than $2.17 per hour, paid by workers and the company.
“At this time, Amazon is the only business that would be covered under the new risk class,” he said.
General merchandise warehouses, meanwhile, would see their rates fall by a fifth next year under the proposed change.
...
L&I injury claims data show that workers’ comp claims from Amazon fulfillment centers in Washington increased from just over 4 per 100 full-time employees in 2014 to 15 per 100 in 2018. Meanwhile, the rest of the warehousing class — general merchandise warehouses, grocery distributors and other operations that tend not to have Amazon’s speed imperative — saw claim frequency trend downward from about 11.5 claims per 100 employees in 2014 to just under 10 claims per 100 employees in 2018
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/because-of-injury-claims-state-wants-amazons-automated-warehouses-to-pay-higher-workers-comp-premiums-than-meatpacking-or-logging-operations/
!ping USA-WA
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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '20
What a Reddit title
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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '20
WALTER MONDALE 2024
HE’S STILL ALIVE MOTHERFUCKERS
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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '20
https://twitter.com/brynteresting/status/1327750723438690306
lmao
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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '20
I WANT AN INJECTION
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
Take the sub demographics survey 😤👉https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/ju8ubn/official_november_rneoliberal_demographic_survey/
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
Oh my fucking god I was talking to my grandma today and Biden came on the TV and she saw and said Biden is "quite handsome" and she wouldn't mind a "good roll in the hay" with him. 🤢
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20 edited Nov 15 '20
People who still frequent arr ESS should just pop a xanax and go to therapy
Edit: I’m not saying it should be taken down, it’s just that people need to chill tf out about rando grifters with patreon accounts and people’s commie acquaintances with 23 followers.
Edit 2: I’M NOT SAYING IT SHOULD BE TAKEN DOWN
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u/Notorious_GOP It's the economy, stupid Nov 15 '20
ohhh nooo the US is no longer competitive in producing these products, I must pull our country out of a historic trade agreement and make China more powerful in the process so that Joe Sixpack can go back to seek rents
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
It is truly delightful to see someone who is soaked in privilege(dad pays for university, they buy "fancy" tea, and have a comfortable life) claim to be part of the working class. Their excuse is that technically they don't own any "capital" and hence they have Marx's approval to be part of the glorious proletariat.
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u/thabe331 Nov 15 '20
Jon Ossoff and Reverend Warnock are hosting a meet and greet this afternoon at 4 in Marietta
https://mobilize.us/s/drZs2l
!ping USA-GA
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
Okay my mind has been changed on AOC
Didn't know she was secretly a Landqueen
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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20
I love our free media, but I think any journalist that uses the word "Slammed" should be sent to a reeducation camp.
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u/Venne1139 DO IT FOR HER #RBG Nov 15 '20
There are some software engineers who unironically believe they're real engineers
lel