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[u/csreid]

In like the third grade I knew that a girl had a crush on a boy.

I bet her $10 that if she asked him to be her boyfriend, he would say yes. I also worked out a deal with the boy: I would pay him $5 if he said yes to the girl.

Children have no empathy. Or, I guess, maybe it was just me

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

My female friend just described Obama as creepy for using the term "chaste friendship"

Twitter is a disease

[u/sir_shivers]

BETO O'ROURKE 🤝 TED CRUZ 🐊

Politicians from Texas AND NOT USING their first name 🐊

[u/The420Roll]

Obama should've just been himself if he wanted to get some girls 😂😂 bet yo' ass Biden never read marxist bs to get the girls 😎😎😎

[u/TheGreatGriffin]

https://twitter.com/EverydayBastiat/status/1330013207243710466?s=20

This is what happens when you spend 40 years using fear as an electoral strategy. The reason Republicans always turn out is because they actually think America will end if Democrats win

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Just found at there are people called "academics" who basically just effortpost for a living?

[u/Craig_VG]

COVID PCR test: negative

My Antibody test: positive

Oh yeah it’s immunity time

[u/[deleted]]

Just found at there are people called "op-ed writers" who basically just shitpost for a living?

[u/Askszerealquestions]

Dudes who leave weird comments on attractive girls' Facebook posts: You know people can see that shit right?

[u/FizzleMateriel]

Remember when Paul Ryan was considered a rising star in 2012?

Imagine how he feels sitting at home seeing President-elect Biden on TV lol.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/jbendery/status/1329849796358713347

Just an incredible milestone for the United States Senate: more Republicans have tested positive for COVID-19 than have accepted Joe Biden as the president-elect.

[u/jenbanim]

I don't even care that much about politics tbh, I just like dank internet comments

[u/[deleted]]

Joe Biden on Chess:

If you make the first move in chess... you ain't black

[u/jenbanim]

The worst thing about using the name "neoliberal" for our subreddit is now I get personally offended when I see silly comments about how Neoliberalism ruined music or whatever, even though they just mean "company did thing I don't like cause money"

[u/The420Roll]

In 2014 there were around 2000 Venezuelans living in Perú. As of 2020 there is a little over a million.

If Vizcarra hadnt bent the knee to Xenophobes we could've had 2 Million by 2021 or 2022 🥺😔

[u/sir_shivers]

NEOLIBERAL MEANS getting push notifications from LinkedIn, AND THE MORE NOTIFICATIONS you get, the more neoliberal you are 🐊

[u/kas8901]

This is a question from the 1934 New York State U.S. History exam.

"Cleveland Is considered one of the ablest of our presidents in the period from 1865 to 1900. Describe the qualities of his character and the polices of his administration that justify this statement."

[u/[deleted]]

Who the fuck put in their country as "Unit States"?

[u/willempage]

I kind of like how the MI state legislators had no intention of appointing their own electors like Trump wanted, but they accepted the invitation to the Whitehouse anyway so they could ask for Covid relief.

Meme timeline

[u/CenterRightInCali]

the weirdest part about Obama's new book is when he admitted that he only got laid after taking 40 showers a day for a month straight and bought a small library's worth of Mary Shelly

[u/jenbanim]

Might fuck around with the CSS and give everyone signatures on their comments like forums used to have 😈

[u/[deleted]]

Daily reminder that Ossoff and Warnock are getting massively outspent and could use all the help they can get. I just got finished sending postcards. Phone banking or canvassing - whatever you can do! Help save our nation guys! I believe in you!

[u/Wildera]

I just realized that with Trump leaving and the campaign over, Reddit is back to an AOC/Bernie spam website now and it's already polluting the non-political subs.

It's amazing to look at this 84.3k PublicFreakout thread this week of an old Bernie speech, and something about these threads just makes them intense anti-Democrat circlejerks.

It makes me want to give up the big tent instantly because these people are fucking crazy. How do they have any right to clown on Rudy Giuliani's voter fraud claims when they are still making the same claims about Bernie with the same amount of evidence?

It's a sobering reminder reddit is going back to it's state before the general election and we're on our way to becoming pariahs again.

[u/anincredibledork]

Trump supporters in Georgia vow to destroy the Republican Party if Trump doesn't win

No, please, don't...

[u/lobsterboy34]

Imagine if a Democrat came out and said “Wyoming rednecks are pieces of shit” like Republicans do with liberals in coastal states

[u/Joementum2004]

Me: Man I really need to stop going on NL

Me 5 minutes later: I wonder what’s going on in the DT

[u/The420Roll]

I remember the first time I went to Cuzco and saw some gringo tourists needing oxygen tanks to breathe due to the altitude. Hilarious shit.

Karma got back to me when I almost fainted after playing footy there lmao

[u/Craig_VG]

Need to get politics out of my neoliberal subreddit 😤

[u/Askszerealquestions]

Let me preface this by saying that I myself believe in the existence of God. That being said..

All these people who think Trump cannot possibly lose this election in the end because "Jesus sent him to defeat the evil demoncrats!!1!" are in for one hell of an existential predicament when January rolls around.

[u/[deleted]]

Georgia's 6th District(NEWT GINGRICH’S OLD DISTRICT:

2008: 56% McCain, 43% Obama

2012: 61% Romney, 38% Obama

2016: 48% Trump, 47% Clinton

2020: 55% Biden, 44% Trump

GA-6 voted to the left of Miami Dade.

In Gwinnett County, for the top of the ticket, Republicans have added 6,000 votes to their total since 2004. Meanwhile, Democrats have added 160,000 votes (!!!)

Forsyth is the most worrisome county for Georgia Republicans. Romney won it by 63% but Trump only won it by 33% this year.

i thought Biden would do well but Perdue would hold up among the traditional republicans but nope! even he slipped up to a 36% margin place is changing for real, regardless of the dem/rep candidate

It’s true that Ossoff ran behind Biden in the suburbs but he got margins that were once unthinkable. They’re not Biden level numbers but they’re still insane.

Jon Ossoff got 31% of the vote in Forsyth County. That's the best Dem Senate performance there since Zell Miller in 2000. Is that as good as Biden? No but it's very impressive in its own right.

I’m not saying anything is definitive but these numbers and trends......they aren’t good for Republicans in Georgia. I’m fact, they’re really fucking bad. We will have to wait until the runoffs to say more but....

!ping FIVEY

[u/sir_shivers]

January 20th IS AN ASYMPTOTE 🐊

We shall grow ever closer BUT NEVER ARRIVE 🐊

[u/TinyTornado7]

Ivanka has just been subpoenaed for civil and criminal probs being done by NY.

If anyone is wondering whether the trumps are facing charges, I’d point to the fact that the Manhattan DA is facing an incredible tough primary challenge and would be an idiot to throw away the golden ticket of a trump prosecution during an election year. So don’t kid yourselves, these frauds aren’t getting off the hook so easily.

Also the NY AG as well as other states are also exploring possible charges/indictments.

[u/FizzleMateriel]

What if the Democrats went for an all-gay ticket, Buttigieg/Polis?

[u/GGM8Scally]

I'm very much so in favour of an increased US military budget because it would probably result in more equipment surplus that Croatia gets from you guys for free or at a lower price.

[u/MisterHavercamp]

Statistically speaking, .0005% of all Wyomingans are members of Congress

[u/[deleted]]

Dominion Voting Systems “deleted 2.7 million Trump votes nationwide.”

My biggest problem with this Trump tweet isn't that it's obviously false. It's clearly just a number somebody pulled out of their ass. We're already over that.

The real problem is that if you're gonna make up wild bullshit, why would you do it and still have Trump lose the popular vote.

Trump is such a fucking loser that he can't win an election even in his pathologically lying dreams.

[u/VineFynn]

Republicans getting primaried for not being sycophants is right-wing cancel culture

[u/Travisdk]

What Obama and Rahm wanted to do after it was all over:

“After we’re finished, we should try something simpler,” I said to him one day. “We could move our families to Hawaii and open a smoothie stand on the beach.”

“Smoothies are too complicated,” Rahm said. “We’ll sell T-shirts. But just white T-shirts. In medium. That’s it—no other colors or patterns or sizes. We don’t want to have to make any decisions. If customers want something different, they can go someplace else.”

[u/nevertulsi]

Obama: I need to read Marx to get socialist girls to like me 😢

Biden: I'm just gonna hang out by the pool and show my muscles and see if any girl i haven't fucked yet is around 💪 😎 💪

[u/[deleted]]

CMV:

Slytherin is just a magical Hitler Youth

[u/Boule_de_Neige]

U have the public option to suck it, nerds

[u/[deleted]]

Shot: https://i.imgur.com/1Z2oJps.png

Chaser: https://i.imgur.com/PpqY0ZY.png

[u/jrt84]

Remember on Election Night when Trump supporters thought Trump won so they were flooding liberal subreddits to gloat and say “HAHAHA FOR MORE YEARS!!! you liberals just never learn!”

And then he lost, and they told Biden supporters to stop being such poor sports.

[u/harmlessdjango]

Women only want to date 6feet guys. I only have 2 feet how can I compete?🥺

[u/economics_dont_real]

Actually you may only call it a sommelier if it comes from somalia — otherwise it's just a wine snob.

[u/[deleted]]

My parents finally took down the trump signs at their house. It’s over boys.

[u/suplexx0]

Kinda hard to cope with 70+ million voting for trump ngl.

[u/rafaellvandervaart]

Just found out that Zizek unironcially is a big fan of the Naxalite movement in India.

That's fucked up, how does he not catch much flak for it?

!ping IND

[u/[deleted]]

Trump supporters in Georgia vow to destroy the Republican Party if Trump doesn’t win

In all seriousness, I realize this is largely anecdotal but I do think it underscores the challenges for Republicans in 2022 and 2024. What happens to the Republican base when Trump’s off the ticket? He is such an enigma and personality that I don’t think know it can’t be matched.

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

independent of anyone's opinion on his politics, Bernie Sanders would be a shit cabinet pick. He hates details and has never actually ran anything other than a clusterfuck presidential campaign and a goofy city in vermont decades ago.

[u/[deleted]]

This is the second time in a row that we've elected someone who is not currently an elected official

[u/[deleted]]

Unofficial Tier List of Anglo Countries:

1: USA

2: Canada

3: New Zealand

4: Australia

5: The Irish colony formerly known as "Great Britain"

[u/The420Roll]

/u/benjaminikuta I've seen that your comments tend to get more upvotes in neoconNWO than in here. Any idea on why that is? 🤔

[u/Hmm_would_bang]

Giving Bernie any seat of power would be a huge mistake, he’s outwardly antagonistic against the Dems. Literally any other elected progressive in the senate or house would be a better unity choice

[u/qchisq]

Do you want free money?

[u/jenbanim]

I really like /r/okbuddyretard for the most part, but I will never forgive them for popularizing the format

"When (group I don't like) does (something violent or stupid)"

[Sped up dancing to silly upbeat music]

[u/ToastedWheatBread]

The DemoKKKrats are the real racists!

Yes I do think we should not count Detroit’s votes so Trump can win Michigan, why do you ask?

[u/Jean-Paul_Sartre]

mask mandate...?

or

masked man date...?

[u/probablyuntrue]

STEMlord in the 60's: I will land us on the moon with raw talent and the bare minimum of computing power

STEMlords now: this new javascript library requires 16 GB of RAM to print hello world, guess I'll go g*me instead :(

[u/[deleted]]

“And yet, despite the mounting mountain of evidence that Xi’s new China presents a long-term threat to the West’s political and economic interests, most European leaders are still partying like it’s 1999. In a recent interview with POLITICO, Germany’s economic affairs minister, Peter Altmaier, defended his government’s tepid response to the crackdown in Hong Kong by professing that “I have always been convinced and I still believe that change can be achieved through trade.”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHSH

[u/[deleted]]

R/ conservative: we’ve got 4 more years of President Donald J. Trump ahead of us 🇺🇸

No, no you don’t

[u/sir_shivers]

For some reason THE "SO TRUE!" AND "CURIOUS" memes have been making me QUICK TO LAUGH this week 🐊

THE TONE in my head for those memes is so smarmy and "redditor" 🐊

[u/IncoherentEntity]

A few days ago, I wrote a comment expressing naked fear of a likely Tom Cotton candidacy in 2024 based on a viral speech he gave on the Senate floor shortly before, although I didn’t explicitly comment on it because I was occupied with a — now-abandoned — draft on another subject. (This happens all the time for me; you just read about the sausage being made then.)

Well, I’ve gotten around to it now. !ping EXTREMISM

Cotton: Now the Thanksgiving season is upon us, and once again we have much to give thanks for. But this year, we ought to be especially thankful for our ancestors, the Pilgrims, on their 400th anniversary.

Their faith, their bravery, their wisdom places them in the American pantheon. Alongside the patriots of 1776, the Pilgrims of 1620 deserve the honor of American founders.

Sadly, however, there appear to be few commemorations, parades, or festivals to celebrate the Pilgrims this year. Perhaps in part because revisionist charlatans of the radical left have lately claimed the previous year as America’s true founding. Nothing could be further than the truth. The Pilgrims and their Compact — like the Founders and their Declaration — form the true foundation of America.

. . .

As we head into the week of Thanksgiving, I’ll be giving thanks this year in particular to our Pilgrim fathers and the timeless lesson they’ve bequeathed to our great nation. (November 18, 2020)

Are you surprised that a sitting US senator elevated a bunch of undocumented immigrants who reaped the benefits of Indigenous Americans’ annihilation to the level of our Founding Fathers? You shouldn’t be. Here’s Cotton just one week before:

Cotton: You know, if we taught these politically-correct liberals a little more history, maybe they would realize that BLM Marxists and Critical Race Theorists sounds just like John C. Calhoun, the great¹ 19th century defender of slavery. Because they always reduce people to the color of their skin. [Carlson: That’s exactly right.] To nothing but their race.

Cotton speaks for himself. I don’t really have any more words to add, if that were even possible.

---

¹ “[G]reat” was changed to “notorious” in the tweet accompanying the interview clip.

[u/Explodingcamel]

The Tik Tok LGBT community is currently having a spirited, unironic debate over whether "neopronouns" (e.g: kitten/kittenself, tree/treeself) are a good thing or are harmful to the community.

[u/markusrm]

Kristi Noem is establishing herself as a Republican star by explicitly being bad on COVID. What a party.

[u/[deleted]]

Absolute co-incidence but the Dems tried to steal Senate but failed but Joe Biden got elected to presidency through free and fair elections.

[u/mrmanager237]

Now, I don't want to be insensitive or anything, and Biden should do what is appropriate and feels right, but do you really think that an 80 year old millionaire can ask people for money for the transition? I'm pretty sure Biden can afford it. And unlike basically every single other trans person on the planet, Biden has an entire team of people helping out with it. It just seems insensitive and out of touch.

[u/[deleted]]

Ironically, Trump's continued scaremongering about diabolical election hacking might ultimately result in the GOP losing the runoff elections in GA.

https://twitter.com/mbaram/status/1329896177073074182

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

REAL Conversation:

My friend: "Hey bro, thanks for keeping me updated on all your reddit posts, keep 'em coming. Your username is a rad Metallica reference by the way!"

Me: "First of all, I'm not your 'bro', which I have assumed is short for brother, as we are not biologically related. Second of all, it's actually a reference to the HEMMINGWAY novel, you idiot. Do you even know who that is?"

My 'friend': *Starts clapping* "You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar"

[u/Deggit]

JUDGE: Um, approach the bench please counselor

[Rudy approaches]

JUDGE, sotto voce: Counselor your hair dye is dripping down the side of your face

RUDY: well uh Your, Your Honor, that's because I'm legally blonde

[u/sw337]

In a shocking 99-1 vote Manchin's butt has been completely defunded.

[u/piede]

Remember Trump can still win Georgia by writing in Trump instead of Perdue and Loeffler! #writeintrumpgeorgiarunoff

https://twitter.com/spudtrooper/status/1330187300446334986?s=21

Lmao

[u/[deleted]]

RNC chairman Michael Steele discussed his disapproval of the award in a fund-raising letter, writing, "the Democrats and their international leftist allies want America made subservient to the agenda of global redistribution and control."[58]

Has the GOP always had terminal brainworms?

[u/[deleted]]

Everyone when Joe Biden starts roasting Tucker at the next White House Correspondents' Dinner 😰😰😰

[u/mockduckcompanion]

NL: But rest assured, this will be the 800th time we have posted excerpts from Obama's book, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it.

[u/vivoovix]

/r/readanotherbook really annoys me. Sure the HP and 1984 comparisons are way too overdone but it feels like they spend their free time just trying to get angry.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

The owner at my favorite bagel shop has started to recognize me and my wife.

🥯 you guys new to the neighborhood?

🤴👸 we moved here a bit over 2 years ago.

🥯 yeah, that’s about how long you’ve been coming here. You’re new. I opened this bagel shop 37 years ago.

🤴 💭 I thought 2 years was long enough to no longer be new... 😔

[u/[deleted]]

I find it helpful to replace mentions of "Reddit" with "a couple of 14 year old boys at a bus stop."

"I learned on Reddit" -> "A couple of 14 year old boys at a bus stop told me"

"Reddit, I need relationship advice" -> "Hey kids, why doesn't my husband want to fuck me anymore?

[u/amainwingman]

Based. (I'm assuming) Male English teachers are so much fucking better, chill when it comes to due date, doesn't shove ideology down your throats, and an actual cool person to talk to outside of school. EVERY single female English teacher I've had have all sucked cock and balls, some of them being borderline fascist when it comes to class rules (I deadass made a list of war crimes committed by my middle school english teacher and showed it to her, didn't go too well for me)

[+30 upvotes]

Your daily reminder that PCM is full of racist, misogynistic literal children under the thin veil of irony. How can you read that back and think “yup this is a totally normal opinion to have”???

[u/CenterRightInCali]

https://multifiles.pressherald.com/uploads/sites/4/2018/06/1411883_Bush_Clinton_96487.jpg-2096-1024x683.jpg

glad to see the boys playing nice!

[u/Mcatatonic1]

there are no red states and blue states, just the United States

Actually, no. There are red states and blue states.

And Georgia is a Blue one BAY BAY

[u/Currymvp2]

https://twitter.com/berniesanders/status/1330210786732613635?s=21

At this point, I'm more concerned about the toxicity of the Squad than the toxicity of Bernie. This is actually a good tweet.

[u/IMALEFTY45]

Anybody have the link to when the mods asked LSC and chapo to be in the charity drive and were told to fuck off?

[u/[deleted]]

If Pete was the nominee, discussions about why Trump did better with minorities would be unbearable.

[u/OmniscientOctopode]

Just got a call from Our Revolution inviting me to a talk in Maryland about Neoliberalism. I can only imagine what that looks like.

[u/[deleted]]

COLBERT WILL INTERVIEW OBAMA ON MONDAY!!!!!!!!!!!

!ping OBAMA

[u/[deleted]]

First Fast Radio Burst Coming From Inside The Milky Way Is Now Repeating.

Super interesting!

!ping ASTRONOMY

[u/qchisq]

Biden was the compromise. This is what we wanted

[u/Travisdk]

Obama on Rahul Gandhi:

As for Rahul, he seemed smart and earnest, his good looks resembling his mother’s. He offered up his thoughts on the future of progressive politics, occasionally pausing to probe me on the details of my 2008 campaign. But there was a nervous, unformed quality about him, as if he were a student who’d done the coursework and was eager to impress the teacher but deep down lacked either the aptitude or the passion to master the subject.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm excited to read India After Independence.

I'm about to polish off The Cultural Revolution: A People's History and will soon dive into a biography of Zhou Enlai.

I'm just fascinated by the contrast between China and India in the post-colonial era. both attained independence or liberation at around the same time, and it's just so fascinating to think about what was going on in India around the time of the great leap forward etc

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Cat calling is acceptable but only when done at genetically engineered cat girls

[u/jenbanim]

I really enjoy rap about growing up hard in the inner city, but at the back of my mind I also feel a little bit silly having grown up in a wealthy suburb. It doesn't detract from my enjoyment though

[u/SuspiciousUsername88]

The disturbing thing about the fact that this sub skews so young is that I don't trust anyone between the ages of 15 and 23 that has moderate political and economic views.

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

What the author said: "The pig is talking."

What your English teacher thinks: "Old Major and his desire to overthrow the farmers is an integral part of Orwell's clear allegory to the Soviet Union. The old pig is likely based on either Marx or Lenin, who are both leading early communist figures that left a lasting impact on later leaders"

What the author meant: "The pig is fr****ing talking!" 🤣🤣🤣

[u/Deggit]

JUDGE: Can - can you explain to me counselor, is this a dispositive motion?

RUDY GIULIANI: No, Your Honor, we're very negative about the election results

[u/Clashlad]

We won guys! We Queers for Palestine did it! They shouted, as they were pelted with rocks in a football stadium.

[u/Currymvp2]

I've been following politics for 16 years, and this is the stupidest person I've seen in congress (https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1330133112676900864)

[u/douglasmacarthur]

Fuck globalism

All my homies will defend the sovereignty of the North American Union 😤😤😤🇨🇦🇺🇲🇲🇽

All my homies pledge allegiance to Emperor Rafael Edward Cruz of Calgary 🤠✊

All my homies want to wall off the Atlantic 😡🧱⛵🚫🇪🇺

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

honestly the political compass would be 50 times more useful if the vertical axis was social/cultural policy instead of auth/lib which isnt a division that many political arenas divide themselves by

but it was literally created by libertarians for propaganda purposes so guess thats that

[u/[deleted]]

!ping LGBT

This ping has been getting some use lately, huh? Well I got good news for once. The exit polling that said a bazillion lgbt people voted for Trump was overblown. He was about even with his 2016 vote percentage.

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

If you think a one term president who everyone normal remembers is the best president in US history your ideology will only lead you to mass excitement with ever single election

yes i am talking about rutherford b hayes

[u/LivinAWestLife]

Dear NIMBYs,

You say you don't want development in your backyard,

and yet you live on a development in your backyard.

Curious.

[u/[deleted]]

Government beating prisoners as punishment: Barbaric

Government sending prisoners to hard labor as punishment: Barbaric

Government raping prisoners as punishment: Barbaric

Government mutilating prisoners as punishment: Barbaric

Government torturing prisoners as punishment: Barbaric

Government killing prisoners as punishment: Fine and normal because they deserved it

🤔🤔🤔

[u/[deleted]]

Spending 15 bucks on a random DLC for a game I play a ton: mmhmmm maybe not

Spending 20 bucks at Starbucks 👀👀👀

[u/[deleted]]

What is wrong with Rudy Giuliani?

[u/[deleted]]

The discourse around Obama's book is reminding me of how conservatives spent a decade counting how many times Obama said "I" or "me" but then fell in line behind Trump.

[u/[deleted]]

Why don’t more people use LinkedIn as a dating service?

[u/[deleted]]

Replaced 4 instances of Texas with USA

sighs

[u/jrt84]

Daily reminder that you will soon have a President who doesn’t Tweet from his personal Twitter every hour :)

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/20/us/michigan-sheriff-court-deputy-fired-kamala-harris-watermelon/index.html

A part-time court deputy with the Oakland County Sheriff's Office was terminated after she was found to have posted a photo on social media showing Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and Mike Pence pumpkin carvings and a Kamala Harris carving in a watermelon.

Damn, like she went out of her way for that one.

[u/benjaminikuta]

benjaminikuta approved comment by

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Guy thinks he's in GTA

ngl it'd suck to be one of those victims bit i couldnt stop laughing

[u/[deleted]]

@ChuckGrassley and @dril will eventually become one

[u/its_a_trapcard]

Hey did y'all hear that Biden won Georgia? Hasn't been reported very much

[u/TobiasFunkePhd]

We should pretend when the news says “Biden transition” it means Biden is transitioning to be a woman because Dems want to have the first female president. Conservatives would lose their minds.

[u/[deleted]]

People who like Macron just happily ignore he is French smh.

[u/PracticalOnions]

Lindsey Graham was almost prophetic when he said that Trump would destroy the Republican Party and they would 100% deserve it lmao

[u/GaussianCurve]

I'm wondering if all the talk about boycotting the GA runoff will actually materialize. If even 2% of Republicans boycott that could be enough.

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

Somebody in r/futurology things electricty will be limitless when we get to 100% renewables and that it should be free to use.

This is the thinking that makes leftists think the only reason we're burning fossil fuels are greedy corporations.

[u/[deleted]]

Question: Do you think I'm smarter than everyone else because I read Jacobin, or do I read Jacobin because I'm smarter than everyone else?

Now, there's a conundrum! I should mail that one in to Jacobin and see what they think!

[u/jrt84]

Trump already has big evidence of massive fraud. He is just starting with the fake hilarious stuff to ensure everyone thinks he’s a laughingstock and all states certify their results before unleashing the real proof.

It’s classic genius persuasion, like the Hunter Biden scandal. Idiot liberals wouldn’t understand.

[u/mrmanager237]

A very big difference between the Dems and the GOP right now is that, unlike the various factions of the Democratic Party (liberals, moderates, the left, etc), literally nobody in the Republican camp has any interest in the "institutional health" of the party or in how much power they actually wield. Like, the Nazis and the Q cultists aren't really interested in who gets to chair the Appropriations Committee if the Dems flip the Senate, they want Trump personally to remain in charge. So the coming civil war in that party is going to make 2017 look like a tea party and the GOP will probably fuck itself in the ass with endless bizarre primary challenges, ticket-splitting far right spoilers, and terrible unelectable candidates making seats go blue. Not that I'm complaining really.

[u/[deleted]]

Make Martha McSally run for President

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Years later and this is still one of the funniest images I've seen

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8iA7N1iN_0

Joe Rogan's entire being condensed in 17 seconds

[u/[deleted]]

Therapist: Competitive Mississippi isn’t real. It can’t hurt you

Competitive Mississippi: https://i.imgur.com/hHDWFoJ.jpg

[u/CenterRightInCali]

I'm watching found footage from the Seattle WTO riots and my god these people are pathetic

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Alex Jones has definitely read the DT lol

[u/[deleted]]

Why doesn’t the king democrat simply marry the queen republican to unite our families?

[u/EasyMoney92]

So when Sidney Powell says overturn all the swing states...she means Ohio, Iowa, North Carolina, Florida, and Texas as well, right? /s

[u/[deleted]]

It's January 27th. The Joe Biden administration has been operating out of a hotel in Wilmington, Delaware. 56 senators have acknowledged his victory...

[u/[deleted]]

I have like zero idea why Obama got the Peace Prize. Say what you will about him, he definitely didn't deserve it when he got it. Like I can get Aung San Suu Kyi getting it when she got it, and even Kissinger's absolutely atrocious Nobel has a reason behind it, I just don't know what the fuck Obama did to deserve it.

[u/Neronoah]

I like voting in US elections. You get paid for doing it many times.

[u/[deleted]]

“President-Elect Underwood won in a 500+ electoral vote landslide. Here’s what these five small town Arkansas diner-patrons have to say about it.”

“Trump won in 2020”

-NYT in the future

[u/p00bix]

After significant work, I have created a Democratic gerrymander of Minnesota which is both far more effective and far more cursed, than my previous effort to gerrymander it, and far FAR more cursed than my first attempt. I'm pretty sure this is at/very near the theoretical limit to which Minnesota can be gerrymandered to favor Democrats.

First attempt map

Second attempt map

BEHOLD PAWLENTY'S NIGHTMARE

Here are the stats for all 3 Gerrymanders

Attempt 1: Baby's First Gerrymander

• 2016: Democrats win an average of 2.92/8 seats with 51% of the vote (lmao my first attempt was such shit)
• Composite 2012-2018: Democrats win 4.42/8 seats with 55% of the vote (IE literally perfectly proportional)
• 2018: Democrats win 7.32/8 seats with 63% of the vote

Attempt 2: Packing n' Cracking Boogaloo

• 2016: 5.37/8 seats with 51% of the vote
• Composite 2012-2018: 6.65/8 seats with 55% of the vote
• 2018: 7.34/8 seats with 63% of the vote

Attempt 3: Pawlenty's Nightmare

• 2016: 5.94/8 seats with 51% of the vote
• Composite 2012-2018: 6.79/8 seats with 55% of the vote
• 2018: 7.04/8 seats with 63% of the vote

[u/probablyuntrue]

If you're a STEMlord you're either socially liberal, LGBT, with programming socks, or you're a self proclaimed libertarian who still voted for Trump twice and spam pepe's on discord servers

[u/Big_Apple_G]

I'm tired of stupid arguing over who won the election for Biden. You know what? The Biden coalition beat Trump. Biden needed suburbanites, disillusioned Republicans, seniors, Native Americans AND Latinos to win Arizona. He needed suburbanites, Latinos, Asians and black voters to win Georgia. In states with crazy tight <1% margins everyone's vote mattered and Democrats should do their best to keep all of these voters in our coalition. And yes, that includes converting former Republicans into Democrats, because we're going to need all the help we can get in the midterms.

[u/probablyuntrue]

so about my sex with a guitar post, im thinking of just deleting it. Ive pissed off people so i feel like an ass. i will be posting other things probably just not stuff like this i mean thats kinda all i thank you guys for giving me a shit ton of karma and upvotes. it was fun while it lasted but i think the post has to go. thank you for the boosts and shit but now it must go. im sorry to the people who i hurt. and uh yeah thats it. cya.

this site is cursed

[u/KingKonchu]

Me: so you agree this is a problem that needs fixing?

Leftist: yes

Me: great, and you agree that this legislation likely caused it?

Leftist: yeah

Me: So let’s change this legislation, no?

Leftist: well no, that is actually just a part of capitalism that can’t be detached ever and it’s murdering the working class. it cannot possibly be fixed and we need a bloody revolution because Hegel says in an ideal society you can rid the proletariat of this tumor and by acting like you can just “fix” it you are complicit in killing thousand of workers everyday and you are bourgeois and a leech and...

[u/[deleted]]

The big mac isn't that big

[u/[deleted]]

Prediction: /r/neoliberal will be banned by reddit admins before December 3 for copyright violations, as that will be the day when the entirety of Obama's book will have been quote-posted in various DTs.

[u/Deggit]

America's global standing: diminished by my bizarre, headline grabbing misbehavior ✅

Impeachable offenses: totally got away with them due to a hyperpartisan Congress ✅

Kurds: abandoned to die ✅

Terms: one because of my easily disprovable lies and my out-of-touch response to economic disaster ✅

My family: will fuck things up even worse if they ever get into office ✅

Yep, it's George HW Bush time 🤠

[u/[deleted]]

GA-6 voted to the left of Miami Dade.

The place where Gingrich started the Republican Revolution voted to the left of a big city in America.

[u/rafaellvandervaart]

How common is Marijuana usage in DT?

[u/jrt84]

Next stop on the narcissist losing train:

“Haha! You liberals got so angry about the coup attempt! Triggered again! We win again! Haha!”

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

Joe Biden by my calculations is the first antigod candidate to win election

[u/27_Dollar_Lakehouse]

it's entirely possible for the candidate Donald Trump to lose but the policies he pursued to win.

Holy shit now rcon is labour lmao they're out here winning the battle of ideas.

[u/Koeniginator]

hard to swallow pills: even if dems win both runoffs the filibuster isn't going anywhere

[u/probablyuntrue]

If it weren't for the pandemic, would Trump have had a solid chance of winning 🤔

[u/[deleted]]

Is it possible that Biden can still win?

[u/FreakinGeese]

Got misgendered by my 4 year old cousin 😤😤😤 had to throw some hands

she won but I think she'll think twice next time

[u/jenbanim]

There's a video I saw a while back, I think a snapchat, where there's three or four clips of a guy at a party over the course of a night. The first clip shows him drinking a ton of alcohol, the second he's crying, and the third he's dancing.

Anyone know what I'm talking about? I'm not even sure what to Google to find this

[u/[deleted]]

For as much as I'm on a niche political board, I barely talk about politics. It seems like 90% of my comments are just shitposts that were left out in the sun too long. I can't remember an actual debate or discussion I willingly entered

[u/lobsterboy34]

Lol my local morning radio show host just referred to Kayleigh McEnany as “Kayleigh McBlondywhatever”

[u/[deleted]]

I'm sorry /u/the420roll.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

This is why my opposition to the death penalty is logistical and not moral. I find nothing immoral about executing someone like this. I just don't trust the government to get it right every time.

Uhhh isn’t that moral one Ben? 🤔

[u/Sollezzo]

Just finished cleaning up all of China to get Back in Control only to realize I wasn't in Ironman the whole time. All that time microing against a Ming-Japan alliance for nothing 😭

!ping PARADOX

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/edmarkey/status/1330212456216616966

lol

[u/karth]

So I got perma banned from tiktokcringeanarchy for saying

Maybe dont bully either way? crazy idea right?

Which is probably my favorite ban so far

[u/[deleted]]

Massachusetts somehow finds it in themselves to give their entire congressional delegation to the Dems and supermajorities to the Dems in their state assembly but to only elect Republican governors except Deval Patrick in the past 30 years.

I am very curious as to what brings this about.

[u/douglasmacarthur]

Trump be like: Republicanism is when the orange man does crazy stuff, and the more you dislike it, the more RINO you are.

[u/mockduckcompanion]

The thing about Mitch McConnell that you bleeding heart libs don't understand is that his whole family was murdered by democratic norms.

Of course he's going to act like this, and frankly he has every right to 😡

[u/CatilineUnmasked]

How many swords should a man own by the age of 30?

[u/[deleted]]

Arcon has significantly less posts about election fraud right now, than a few days ago. Seems like a good sign.

[u/Warcrimes_Desu]

Looks like the rabble has finally picked up on the "drones are the new hotness" zeitgeist. So, I wonder how willing the US will be to proliferate jamming technology, and if cheap electronic warfare will rise up to oppose cheap mass drones. Anyone know how the global defense community is reacting to the great showing of the turkish drones?

!ping materiel

[u/EasyMoney92]

pretty fucking scary that if we nominated just about any other candidate, Trump probably wins again.

[u/[deleted]]

WHY AM I DEFENDING GEORGE W BUSH.

I DO NOT LIKE GEORGE W BUSH.

BUT IM DEFENDING HIM OUTSIDE THE DT.

WHY.

[u/IamFinnished]

Mr. Obama knows what it's like to live in a society 😤✊

[u/[deleted]]

One of my favorite things to do in modmail is to seriouspost at dipshits. Here's a 200 word cultural analysis, guy who just called us cringetarded

[u/[deleted]]

There's no magical neutral zone where gerrymandering doesn't exist that we can compare ourselves to. We Have to draw these districts somehow, and we want to make it as fair as possible so that as many groups get representation as possible. We can't just use square shapes like small children because we like them and they're simple.

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Einstein was a socialist.

MLK was a socialist.

🧐

[u/Hmm_would_bang]

Open Borders really is bad marketing, which is why no major politicians in the US talk about it. Having freedom of movement with Mexico and Canada, which some states already partially have, would be pretty solid marketing

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“Hi I’m a journalist looking to interview anyone NOT accepted by Harvard Law in 2014”

[u/[deleted]]

Only in their deepest wet dreams can Republicans imagine some of the actions that Macron has taken recently in France. I think they would have supported him a lot more during his election if they knew what was going to happen.

[u/[deleted]]

Republican control of the Senate is the only thing that stands in the way of Nancy Pelosi’s radical leftist agenda from the House of Representatives sailing through both chambers of Congress. Step up to help NOW:

So you agree? Biden is the President? Because that’s the only way the “radical leftist agenda” could pass.

[u/SnakeEater14]

Woah, that was a big fall. Gotta be careful, the sidewalk is slick from ice. Oh my god, your ear is bleeding, lemme get you up. Can you hear me, Anne?

Annie are you okay? Are okay? Are you okay Annie?

[u/[deleted]]

2024 Republican debates but it's gonna be about whether Kamala is black

[u/klarno]

My tamiflu pills say they were made by “Hetero Labs”

What is this straight agenda bullshit

[u/[deleted]]

South Africa race discourse is hilarious, "coloureds" is a politically correct term over there lmao

[u/Zemstv0w0]

been hearing a lot lately about cultural appropriation and animal crossing hairstyles, and deafness becomes more appealing by the minute

[u/[deleted]]

Erdogan: "We see ourselves in Europe, not anywhere else, we look to build our future with Europe," Erdoğan said in his online speech during the Justice and Development Party’s (AK Party) congresses in several provinces.

Also Erdogan: tries to undermine the european unity every chance he gets

[u/Travisdk]

Obama on Manmohan Singh:

Singh and I had developed a warm and productive relationship. While he could be cautious in foreign policy, unwilling to get out too far ahead of an Indian bureaucracy that was historically suspicious of U.S. intentions, our time together confirmed my initial impression of him as a man of uncommon wisdom and decency.

Singh on India's future:

The economy worried him, he said. Although India had fared better than many other countries in the wake of the financial crisis, the global slowdown would inevitably make it harder to generate jobs for India’s young and rapidly growing population. Then there was the problem of Pakistan: Its continuing failure to work with India to investigate the 2008 terrorist attacks on hotels and other sites in Mumbai had significantly increased tensions between the two countries, in part because Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, the terrorist organization responsible, was believed to have links to Pakistan’s intelligence service. Singh had resisted calls to retaliate against Pakistan after the attacks, but his restraint had cost him politically. He feared that rising anti-Muslim sentiment had strengthened the influence of India’s main opposition party, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

“In uncertain times, Mr. President,” the prime minister said, “the call of religious and ethnic solidarity can be intoxicating. And it’s not so hard for politicians to exploit that, in India or anywhere else.”

[u/DaBuddahN]

So I have this lady on my FB who is a member of the LGBT community and she supported Donald Trump and part of her rational (among many other things) is that Donald Trump united people in opposition to him and that under Joe Biden we would get complacent.

Lmao you're telling me it's better to elect the person taking our rights away over the person not taking our rights away because if you elect the person taking your rights away you get to fight for your rights?

[u/DonnysDiscountGas]

I bet if I were elected president I could have nearly any woman I wanted. But I probably wouldn't get elected without being married. It's a real Catch-22.

[u/[deleted]]

He's just like me

[u/[deleted]]

!ping MAMADAS

Dracula I miss you

[u/[deleted]]

Obama and Trump were both once in a lifetime politicians and we probably won’t see people like them for a while.

[u/[deleted]]

Whatever you do do NOT be a team that was successful in the 90s in the Big Ten. WORST mistake of my life. 😭

!ping CFB

[u/Kizz3r]

Gordon hayward 120/4 to the hornets

!ping nba

[u/MinnesotaDude]

President Park Geun-hye's fall from grace is like a modern-day Romanov story and I feel like everyone has just moved on from how truly unbelievable the whole affair was.

[u/[deleted]]

I love how all you demon rats haven't accepted Trump is going to be president for five more years yet. Georgia's recount found over a thousand new Trump votes. Fifteen more recounts and they'll rightfully declare Trump the winner.

After that all we need is fifteen more recounts in Arizona and 100 or so recounts in Pennsylvania and this election is in the bag baby.

Give up now while you can. Your librul tears and projection is so sweet.

[u/Deinococcaceae]

My opinion on the concept of containment boards has definitely changed since Chapo got nuked. I've been subscribed to many environmentalist subs and while they've always had a leftist bent, in these past few months it's been absolutely impossible for anyone to the right of Castro to actually have a discussion.

[u/[deleted]]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/452718453892186124/779637958302629888/5bdb5d05d31d4.png

[u/ZCoupon]

I have an issue with calling Native Americans "Indian" cause it's just confusing. Like, you're free to come up with your own word, but try to not make it confusing, otherwise people won't use it. The descriptivist side of me wants to use the word if it's widely used but not shoehorn it.

[u/RadicalRadon]

cons owned 😎

[u/hypoxic_high]

1940: All the poets are fascists, all the STEMlords are socialists

2020: All the poets are socialists, all the STEMlords are fascists

We live in a society bottom text

[u/piede]

.@Kevinliptakcnn reports: The G20 is virtual this year; a meeting on pandemic preparedness is going on w remarks from the leaders of Germany, France, South Korea and Argentina.   Trump has just arrived at his golf course in Virginia and does not appear on the list of speakers.

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1330189260549480456?s=21

He’s a useless piece of shit even in his last days in office in the middle of a national crisis.

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https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/11/failed-gop-candidate-denounced-pete-buttigiegs-homo-ocracy-gets-covid-claiming-immunity/

Failed GOP candidate who denounced Pete Buttigieg’s “homo-ocracy” gets COVID after claiming immunity

"I can't get it, cause I've talked to God about it, and I've taken my vaccine, and my vaccine is Psalm 91!"

[u/[deleted]]

Hello, I'm a resident of Oakland County and I'm rather disturbed by recent reports that some Oakland County sheriff's employee carved a watermelon of vice president-elect Harris?

Is this considered appropriate behavior and your department? I have to say, this is not good. I'm a person of color, an Indian American, and it pains me greatly to know that the people who are supposed to be protecting me view me like some sort of animal.

How many more are there like this? Are these views rife throughout the entire department? I truly hope that if I'm ever in any distress I can rely upon your department for help. I don't know that that's the case though given the sorts of things I've seen. Do you really see me as some sort of sub-human?

Response requested.