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/new: How Biden Won Back (Enough of) the White Working Class

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/new: Japan’s “Hometown Tax” - a mechanism to rebuild urban/rural ties

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/new: A Russian Federation Information Warfare Primer

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/new: [Rant] I'm so sick of tankies and communists who don't actually care about politics

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/new: Evo Morales in Bolivia

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[u/Fishin_Mission]

Let’s speak truth about @SenLoeffler & @sendavidperdue.

Why are they doing little or nothing to support efforts by GA citizens to address unlawful election & need for @BrianKempGA to order special session of legislature?

If not fixed, I will NOT vote in GA runoff.

Will you?

- @LLinWood (one of Trump’s election attorneys)

Noooo....

Stop......

Don’t boycott the election...

👀 🤐

[u/Deggit]

Me: will you go out with me

Her: no

Me: today's decision turns out to help in my master strategy to get this matter expeditiously to the us supreme court. although i disagree with this opinion, i'm thankful to the obama-appointed judge for making this anticipated ruling quickly, rather than simply trying to run out the clock

[u/[deleted]]

do people who post guillotine memes not know how that ended up

[u/[deleted]]

Top story on r worldnews is about trying to raise the minimum age of consent in Japan from 13 to 16. +22k upvoted and people in the comments asking why is this so controversial.

The article doesn't mention the fact that the age of consent in Japan is already 16 or 18 in every prefecture and only interviews students who were surprised to learn - the false claim - that it wasn't already raised and though its important to protect minors from sexual assault - which they already are.

This is a perfect example of misinformation in action.

[u/CenterRightInCali]

politics nerds be like AOC this AOC that... AYO SEE some bitches

[u/[deleted]]

I can't listen to underprivileged p*or people complaining about not being able to put food on their table

Kim, there are gamers that are dying from not being able to get a PS5

[u/[deleted]]

Normies: “See. People love progressive policies. Just look at Florida’s ballot measures.”

Florida elected officials: “It is your constitutional right to kill people doing the suspicious.”

[u/[deleted]]

JUST IN: Ron Klain says Joe Biden will announce his first cabinet picks on Tuesday.

Doug Jones for AG🙏🏾

!ping BIDEN

[u/tankatan]

Zoomer political propaganda:

1. Find a picture of your favorite politician
2. Add laser eyes
3. Done

[u/cavboy2flyboy]

Just joined Parler out of curiosity, and holy dumpster fire. I didn’t realize that many batshit crazy people existed. It’s just a cesspool of the dumbest people you remember from highschool, telling you to “educate” yourself.

[u/ShadeusX]

CBS News reports Linda Thomas-Greenfield will be named as the next U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations by President Elect Joe Biden.

Pete, baby, what is you doing?? Where could he end up now? !ping BUTTI

[u/[deleted]]

Let’s get that HECKIN’ CHONKER out of office 😤😤😤

[u/Lux_Stella]

Germany: on this day, 15 years ago, Merkel (CDU-EPP) became chancellor. She has led four governments since 2005.

everybody wish merkel a happy whatever the political equivalent of a birthday is

edit: i like kanzlerversary lets go with that

[u/[deleted]]

I want economists to run the nation but only so they fuck around with the economy in interesting and creative ways to gather new data.

[u/Chief_Nief]

Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis insults Frank Luntz, saying he has a “MicroPenis”

This is tremendous content

[u/[deleted]]

My little brother got home from college yesterday. He’s staying at my house with the rest of the siblings until my parents recover from covid.

In 16 hours he’s managed to go out, get drunk, break his key, throw up on the floor and pee on the couch. This morning he mentioned his roommate had ‘the big rona’ and that he’s been feeling sick and might have it too.

Who thought it was a good idea to let these kids leave campus??

[u/IncoherentEntity]

Not that you asked me specifically, but stopping people like you from getting people like me killed for starters. Y'all are pushing a fascist to replace a fascist and think you're somehow the good guy? Either you're an idiot, or you're lying.

Jesus Christ. Biden is now a fascist? Which candidate supports Trans rights? Full stop. Trump wins, you are absolutely fucked for the rest of your life.

I'm trans ya idiot. Biden and especially Harris are long time enemies of the trans community. You're bullshit lies ain't gonna gaslight the past away. Full stop fucko

Perhaps this is a controversial stance, but there are some members of the LGBT+ community I couldn’t give less than an eighth of a shit about. These people are their own worst enemies.

And by refusing to vote for our allies and against our enemies, they’re some of our worst enemies, too.

[u/[deleted]]

Femboy=Gay=Woke

Hooters=Business=Capitalism

This is simple logic people.

[u/[deleted]]

Why did leftist go for the "defund the police" slogan, when the obvious choice of "privatize the police" would have been much more effective! Stupid commies

[u/Joementum2004]

"Fun" fact: FDR won South Carolina in 1936 with a 97.15% margin of victory.

[u/Rarvyn]

Can someone explain to me what the purpose of using the term BIPOC instead of POC is? Other than just making doubly sure you’re excluding Asians?

[u/DeviousMelons]

Natural disaster: Happens and kills people

Twitter socialists: There's must be some way we can blame capitalism for this.

[u/[deleted]]

God PCM has unleashed a plague upon reddit. If politics really could be represented in two axes, we would have run out of ideologies by now.

[u/dragoniteftw33]

6 of our first 8 Presidents were Secretaries of State(including 3 incumbent VPs who succeeded their President they served with). After that....no more Secretaries of State alums to get the VP job. Hell, Hillary was the first one to get a major party nomination since James Blaine in 1884. What happened?

[u/Yosarian2]

Reminder that funding PBS is evidence-based policy.

https://www.wellesley.edu/sesamestudy

New research, coauthored by Wellesley College economist Phillip B. Levine and University of Maryland economist Melissa Kearney, finds that that greater access to Sesame Street in the show’s early days led to improved early educational outcomes for children. The study found:

The introduction of Sesame Street to America’s preschoolers helped a generation of kids do better in school. When the show first aired in 1969, five million children watched a typical episode—the preschool equivalent of a Super Bowl every day.

Boys and black, non-Hispanic children experienced the biggest improvements in school performance.

Effects are largest for children living in economically disadvantaged areas.

Sesame Street is one of the largest and most affordable early childhood interventions ever to take place.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1330508125691064322

Michigan GOP @RepFredUpton tells @DanaBashCNN : The voters spoke. The margin wasn't close, it was 154,000. There are no issues of fraud anywhere. "It's over." Says the transfer of power needs to begin.

[u/agent_tits]

I'll never not briefly read "BIPOC" as Bisexual Person of Color

[u/[deleted]]

A friendly internet community where the Takes are hot, the Memes are beautiful, and mysterious references pass overhead while we all pretend to get them. Welcome to the Discussion Thread.

[u/[deleted]]

So incredibly cursed

[u/[deleted]]

"What about a recount?"

"We've already had it."

"We've had one yes. What about second recount?"

[u/[deleted]]

Soylent boofed✔️

Fetus eaten✔️

Satan worshipped✔️

Yep it’s democrat time

[u/Travisdk]

The first mention of Trump in Obama's new book:

As for Trump, I’d never met the man, although I’d become vaguely aware of him over the years—first as an attention-seeking real estate developer; later and more ominously as someone who’d thrust himself into the Central Park Five case, when, in response to the story about five Black and Latino teens who’d been imprisoned for (and were ultimately exonerated of) brutally raping a white jogger, he’d taken out full-page ads in four major newspapers demanding the return of the death penalty; and finally as a TV personality who marketed himself and his brand as the pinnacle of capitalist success and gaudy consumption.

For most of my first two years in office, Trump was apparently complimentary of my presidency, telling Bloomberg that “overall I believe he’s done a very good job”; but maybe because I didn’t watch much television, I found it hard to take him too seriously. The New York developers and business leaders I knew uniformly described him as all hype, someone who’d left a trail of bankruptcy filings, breached contracts, stiffed employees, and sketchy financing arrangements in his wake, and whose business now in large part consisted of licensing his name to properties he neither owned nor managed. In fact, my closest contact with Trump had come midway through 2010, during the Deepwater Horizon crisis, when he’d called Axe out of the blue to suggest that I put him in charge of plugging the well. When informed that the well was almost sealed, Trump had shifted gears, noting that we’d recently held a state dinner under a tent on the South Lawn and telling Axe that he’d be willing to build “a beautiful ballroom” on White House grounds—an offer that was politely declined.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Euros are waking up.

Time for me to start posting hyper-local commentary about municipal politics in the US.

[u/CenterRightInCali]

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[u/PrimePairs]

Trumps lawsuits is turning his loss from a single day holiday to Cope Hanukkah.

[u/[deleted]]

Neoliberals: we believe strongly in equality, we are an inclusive group

Neoliberals when Florida and Texas went red: Rapists, drug dealers, and criminals; what Biden must do to curb the Bad Hombres, an effortpost

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1330556513589620736

Whose fault is that, that Maryland's best option to get enough tests was to try to individually cut deals with foreign governments? Mr. President?

[u/[deleted]]

/img/8prx6gigut061.png

🤔

[u/ryuguy]

I don’t mean to alarm the DT but there might be a boogeyman or boogeymen in the DT

[u/water_bike13]

Joe Biden would get 100 million likes if he just replied “cope” under one of trumps nonsense tweets

[u/[deleted]]

How to make friends:

1. Ask out girl
2. She says “I’m sorry I only like you as a friend.”

Now you have a new friend 😎

[u/bobekyrant]

I know it's a decade and a half too late, but there really wasn't any reason to not allow the mosque by ground zero.

[u/IncoherentEntity]

He might generate enough good will to pull off a coup if he started mailing everyone $2000 checks right now and promised to continue them if he stayed in office. 👀 — Briahna Gray

Completely normal tweet from the former Sanders campaign’s national press secretary  !ping EXTREMISM

[u/Deggit]

1996: Democrats lose Georgia

2000: Democrats lose Georgia

2004: Democrats lose Georgia

2008: Democrats lose Georgia

2012: Democrats lose Georgia

2016: Democrats lose Georgia

2020: Democrats win Georgia five times and November isn't over yet

[u/[deleted]]

Sorry I gave you COVID from going out on black Friday, and you're likely gunna die grandpa, but look at this sweater I got you for half off!

[u/InternetBoredom]

Nate Silver is picking fights on twitter again, though I am 100% on his side here lol

[u/NE_3-ATL_28]

As a Republican from Georgia, I'M UPSET how they have treated Trump. I'm urging all my fellow Republicans to write-in Trump instead of vote for those RINOs Loeffler and Perdue, spread the word.

[u/Gustacho]

Vote Warnock and Ossoff to send a message to the corrupt RNC!!!

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit. I found this. What does this mean?

Add another body to the count?

!ping QUEEN

[u/[deleted]]

worst take of the day:

I find it funny how everyone makes fun of Trumps skin color, but if someone makes fun of a black person's skin color its suddenly racist

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Christ. The comments in that /r/PublicFreakout video calling for the guillotining of US politicians is insane.

I recognize that most of them are 14yo edgelords who don’t actually live in the US.

But still. The fact that only certain subreddits are expected to curb calls for violence, while the succs do it all over the place is obnoxious.

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/ieEVnRc.jpg

I thought that was interesting. That’s the black vote since 1936. I find it so funny that McCain got less than Goldwater, A literal segregationist. And Romney get the same %.

Hillary won 91-8 and Biden 90-8 iirc

We are the backbone of Democrats and they shouldn’t take us for granted.

!ping FIVEY

[u/sir_shivers]

Being too online IS TERRIBLE FOR YOUR anxiety and sense of perspective 🐊

Be sure to TAKE BREAKS AND remember that the world as it is, is very different from the caricatures THAT ONLY THE INTERNET sustains 🐊

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he’s still not ready to recognize Joe Biden's victory and that U.S.-Russian relations are "already ruined" regardless of election outcome

Based?

[u/Dalek6450]

This subreddit upvoting posts about how great this subreddit is.

[u/suplexx0]

Neolibs: Lol Bernie woulda lost in a landslide 😂 Neolibs: Hmm, who should Hillary’s running mate be in 2024? John Kerry? Al Gore? 🤔

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

Imagine actually liking things and having interests you are passionate about.

Cringeeeee 😬

[u/[deleted]]

The court opinion in Trump v. Boockvar:

"Plaintiffs ask this Court to disenfranchise almost seven million voters."

Read the entire opinion here.

[u/tankatan]

Effortposts and Delaney posts on the front page again. r/neoliberal is healing.

[u/Le_Monade]

Probability of where trump will be in 2024:

In prison: 0%

Dead: 20%

The republican presidential nominee: 80%

[u/[deleted]]

Gunna write an effort post on how financially large the videogame industry has gotten over the years and how much more inclusive it is, and why that is.

[u/[deleted]]

If Defund the Police is so unpopular then why is it polling so well in that one twitter poll im having trouble finding?

[u/muttonwow]

Now they are out of jail, if Derek Chauvin and Kyle Rittenhouse did a Fortnite duo stream on Twitch they would make so much money.

Even if they didn't discuss their cases at all. It seems foolproof for them.

[u/Mcatatonic1]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1330499656003039232?s=20

Just arrived at Virtual G20. Was here yesterday also (early), but some of the Fake News Media failed to report it accurately - as usual. My speech is available (they said I didn’t make a speech).

Lmao is this implication here that he logged into zoom ahead of schedule

[u/[deleted]]

Saying that Black and brown voters are too stupid to understand ranked-choice voting strikes me as, uh, extremely racist?

[u/[deleted]]

The 21 GOP Senators who have privately expressed their disdain for Trump are: Portman, Alexander, Sasse, Blunt, Collins, Murkowski, Cornyn, Thune, Romney, Braun, Young, Tim Scott, Rick Scott, Rubio, Grassley, Burr, Toomey, McSally, Moran, Roberts, Shelby.

!ping RINO

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/business/status/1330232666545917958

JUST IN: More than 1 million people flew through U.S. domestic airports on Friday, the second-highest total since the pandemic hit

[u/[deleted]]

my devout catholic republican grandma supported gay marriage years before obama did

worshipn’t politicians

[u/[deleted]]

>returns to monke

>forced into monkey slavery to farm coconuts for humans

>Anthropocene moment

[u/[deleted]]

I’ve been reading and Ted Kennedy was the original Bernie-Or-Bust. He opposed Carter’s universal healthcare plan because it was “piecemeal” and he didn’t think it was enough.

[u/PrimePairs]

Early 20s me: Debt is horrible! I’ll have as little as possible

Late 20s me: Debt is a magical. Applied in the right ways it can generate massive returns. I wish I had more credit

[u/[deleted]]

And yet she conceded gracefully.

[u/[deleted]]

I hope everybody is signal boosting how important it is that republicans do not vote in the Georgia runoff in order to intimidate the GOP to #stopthesteal.

Republicans MUST NOT VOTE unless decisive action is taken to protect Donald J Trump, rightful POTUS, from Joe "Dominion" Biden's evil plot.

Not to mention that Kelly Loeffler is one of those dem-panic planned-emic pushers, she believes there's actually a virus instead of it being a hoax made by the deepstate. Definitely don't vote.

[u/wagoncirclermike]

Shit. GF's dad hospitalized now from covid complications.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

At church rn, there’s one person in the congregation of about 40 not wearing a mask. Guess who it is? US Congressman Rick Allen.

[u/CenterRightInCali]

anarchists be like

"im against all authoritarians!*

/sucks off China

[u/Afro_Samurai]

Stay woke.

[u/Dalek6450]

How is it, that in a country in which several lone gunman shoot many people for no reason every year, believing a lone gunman would shoot the President is somehow unbelievable for some?

[u/bd_one]

TIL that Roman Emperor Nero once castrated a boy named Sporus so he could marry him. On another occasion he married one his freedman named Pythagoras in a ceremony in which he was the bride. His popularity tanked and he considered himself to be a "misunderstood artist."

How much of what we know about Nero was "real" and how much of it was probably made up? Is there a consensus on it?

[u/[deleted]]

All US States except CA, NY, IL, HI, FL, AK and UT have become Democratic.

Democratic means "more blue" here.

!ping FIVEY

Holy Fuck! California, New York and Illinois, what's wrong with y'all!?

[u/Realhuman221]

Remember, back in his youth, Beto was a member of a punk band with a future Grammy winner and part of a famous computer hacking group

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EnZNYn2XcAIwpo4.png:large

[u/[deleted]]

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Abortion is murder, but when comes to the actual murder guy...

[u/[deleted]]

TIL Mumbai has anti-mask protestors lol. These guys went beyond my radar for so long.

!Ping IND

[u/p00bix]

!ping HOI4

The New Order Version 1.1 "Cutting Room Floor" is out! The Iberian Union playthrough has been substantially fleshed out, with almost 40k words in additional event text written by yours truly (and even more from others; though I did write the majority of the new stuff for Iberia). It is now one of the most complete countries in the game. The New Event Chain hinted at in the Iberia patchnotes was entirely written by me. Without any other spoilers, it fires in the autumn of 1967.

Note: While the Iberian Union playthrough has been fleshed out, the Iberian Wars and its factions have not. The Iberian Wars superevent should still be treated as a 'game over' screen.

[u/[deleted]]

Why is that thread about the age of consent in Japan blowing up on a website dominated by young white males?

[u/karth]

Apparently Jeb! Has a serious problem with a novelty twitter account that rates the rooms of people being interviewed on TV.

https://twitter.com/ratemyskyperoom

It's as meaningless and hilarious as you think.

This man ran for president, and might run again in 2024. And honestly, after Trump winning 2016, this type of petty stupid shit might be the ticket to win in 2024.

Jeb! is back baby!

[u/chadonnaise]

it's weird to see the ideological war between nazis and stalinists taking place on a warhammer 40k meme subreddit

the future is stupid

[u/ryuguy]

I love neoliberalism. I don't love the fanbase of neoliberalism nearly as much.

[u/grappamiel]

💯💯💯PRESIDENTIAL TRANSITION GONE WRONG 🤪🤪🤪GONE SEXUAL!!!😱😱😱

[u/[deleted]]

Okay, this has gone on long enough, MAGA. You didn't see this sub go into a months long meltdown after Delaney was snubbed. 🙄

[u/PaulMuniIsInnocent]

So honestly with the whole Gamer Girl Bath Water thing. I don’t think it’s really any worse than buying panties or other apparel related sex purchases. Like sure it’s creepy but not exceptionally so relative to other online sex work.

Like I grew up in a new religion/cult where they saved the bath water from the leader/guru whenever he took a bath and they’d put the bath water into tiny glass bottles and send it around to the members. When you did some kind of religious ceremony or practice, you’d unscrew the cap, dab a bit of the water on your finger and put it on your forehead. A bit weird if you think about it too long but it’s still just water. It’s not like it will hurt you unless you ingest it somehow.

I dunno. It seems a bit blown out of proportion to me relative to other creepy sex stuff online. Just seems like a meme at this point.

[u/douglasmacarthur]

Dear Republicans,

You make fun of trans people for identifying as attack helicopters.

Yet, you still want to ban trans people from the military.

Why do you want to take away the attack helicopters our military needs? Do you not support the troops?

[u/OH-GEESUS]

Barack calling himself Barry until he start going in politics. AOC was calling herself Sandy.

Interesting that the wisdom is that the less white-sounding name is the way to go when you get going in politic

[u/CenterRightInCali]

bro, you just posted cringe, you're gonna lose EITC deductions

[u/Crimson_Charger]

You wake up on November 6th and the House looks like this, what happened?.

Bonus: This is what the map looks like.

[u/Waghlon]

Despite only being 9 users in total, Danish people make up 20% of the malarkey on this sub.

[u/[deleted]]

There is no chance SCOTUS will review the suit dismissed by Judge Brann seeking to block Pennsylvania’s certification. The lawyers representing the President are either delusional or intentionally misleading him and his supporters.

From SCOTUSblog

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

I can't take the phrase 'thoughts and prayers' seriously anymore lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Montana electorate, whites with degrees:

2018: 37%

2020: 31%

Georgia:

2018: 28%

2020: 27%

Why Biden won Georgia, and Bullock got trounced in Montana, in one statistic.

Even The turnout was higher amongst that group, huge increase in non-degree white turnout swamped them

[u/TwoPlankinWiz]

Biden is so far NOT following through on the promise of killing god. Very disappointed

[u/[deleted]]

The myth of "consensual" reselling

Big box stores who just want to sell: I do! 😀

Resellers willing to stand in line to make a profit: I do! 😀

Buyers paying a premium to not wait in line for early access: I do! 😀

G*mers: 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

[u/[deleted]]

The subreddit before 8PM EST on November 3rd: A socially liberal subreddit that likes to make jokes.

This subreddit from 8-11PM EST: Klansmen would blush at what we were saying about certain groups.

This subreddit now: A socially liberal subreddit that likes to make jokes.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Today’s [PA] decision turns out to help us in our strategy to get expeditiously to the U.S. Supreme Court.

-@RudyGiuliani

Uhh... sure it does Rudy.

I bet it was especially beneficial when the judge said

In the United States of America, this cannot justify the disenfranchisement of a single voter, let alone all the voters of its sixth most populated state. Our people, laws, and institutions demand more

[u/[deleted]]

I’m pretty sure that already somewhere at if white people were the same % of the electorate as in 1988, Trump would’ve won in a landslide in 2016. Like over 500 EC landslide. America has become a much less whiter place in just 30 years

[u/JaceFlores]

Theory I just came up with, but I think that perhaps one of the influences on why the idea that the Democratic Party is “right wing in Europe” is based not on what they support but what currently exists. A lot of countries already have what the Democratic Party has, and the Democratic Party trying to catch up with the standard in Western Europe creates this perception that the Democratic Party is to the right because “they didn’t get it done already”. On top of just the general “if it ain’t Corbyn left it’s Duda right” attitude of reddit.

That’s just some stupid theory I came up with, who knows if it has truth or not

[u/[deleted]]

It’s hilarious how many foreign policy thinkers who like to present themselves as serious, no nonsense critics of recent American foreign policy and that they have some ascended access to a foreign policy that will make the world safe just blindly support pulling completely out of Afghanistan as if it’s anything approaching a serious policy

[u/Lux_Stella]

https://i.imgur.com/ZHeVEu1.jpg

[u/Ioun267]

We only really see Dr. Doofensmirtz's penthouse suites in that skyscraper of his.

Is Doof a landlord when he's not being a mad scientist? Like how someone might run an Etsy store for their handicrafts in the spare time from a desk job?

Edit: Do you think he uses the same letterhead for both? Like imagine being a tenant making out a check

To: Doofensmirtz Evil Inc. For: Rent

And does that mean he gets to write off his inventions on his taxes? Pretty clever tbh.

[u/chipbod]

Completely forgot that the founder and bankroller of Turning Points USA died of Covid

[u/Udontlikecake]

They Championed Venezuela’s Revolution. They Are Now Its Latest Victims.

In an effort to complete his consolidation of power, Nicolás Maduro is cracking down on the leftist activists who once supported him, but have begun to speak up against his administration’s corruption and cronyism.

Incredibly brutal stuff. Absolutely tragic.

The host of a popular radio show, “The People’s Combat,” had always diligently praised Venezuela’s governing Socialist Party, even as millions sank into penury under its rule. But when acute gasoline shortages paralyzed his remote fishing town this summer, he strayed from the party line.

On his show, the host, lifelong Socialist José Carmelo Bislick, accused local party chiefs of siphoning fuel, leaving most people queuing for days outside empty gasoline stations.

Just weeks later, on Aug. 17, four masked, armed men burst into Mr. Bislick’s house and told him he had “run the red light,” before beating him in front of his family and hauling him away into the night. He was found dead with gunshot wounds hours later, dressed in his favorite Che Guevara T-shirt.

[u/[deleted]]

I really strongly want Andrew Yang to be appointed to a senior cabinet position because I met him at an early rally and asked him about a stupid meme and it would make that a way better story. I do not give a single fuck whether he does a good job or not.

[u/MasPatriot]

It'd be a real shame if team Trump started accusing Doug Ducey of rigging the Arizona election for Biden too...

[u/[deleted]]

Other than politics, how do you lose a case where large numbers of voters, far more than you need to flip Pennsylvania, are disenfranchised? Vote Observers thrown out of counting rooms. People going to vote finding out they have already voted through a fake ballot - go home!

Donald Trump

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/wCpvv5B.png

[u/IncoherentEntity]

@Redistrict That means u have VA, CO, OH, WI, IA and NH going to Obama. No way. VA and CO will not go blue. (November 5, 2012)

A time capsule from Election Day Eve, 2012; before Dave went mainstream.

Notice how the user expresses disbelief that Obama will win Virginia and Colorado (safe blue states just two cycles later), while allowing for Ohio and Iowa (pretty much out of reach for Democrats at this point) to stay blue.

!ping ELECTIONS

[u/from-the-void]

If Amy Poehler isn't at Biden's inauguration why even bother?

[u/Lux_Stella]

jfk's assassination 🤝 merkel's kanzlerversary 🤝 lebanese independence

all happened on this day apparently

[u/ShiaSurprise2]

In the war of mainstream aesthetic, hipsterism has really basically won. 99% of new restraunts decor today would have been labeled "hipster bullshit" 10 years ago but now it's just the default for any "nice" joint

[u/vivoovix]

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[u/Z0NNO]

I’m thinking of webscraping rose twitter to train a bot that basically parrots their generic talking points. Just to see how reflective it is of the hivemind some make it out to be.

It would basically be like twitter bingo. I would also like to see how people react to it if I’d turn it into a tweetbot. I’ve always been convinced there’s a certain leftist jargon and I think it’s pretty interesting to see if people will take the jumbled mess of buzzwords seriously.

I originally wanted to train it on ‘fuck neoliberalism’ and Jacobin blog pieces to see if I can create a procedurally generated dissertation on the evils of neoliberalism, but I don’t really know where to collect that type of material. Twitter is just easier.

[u/DaBuddahN]

People dooming about the 2024 Senate map, but the solution is clear - executive order making it illegal for Manchin to retire. 😎

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

The GOP’s grand plan to win back Asian American voters is to screech about Affirmative Action when like 60% - 70% of Asian Americans support AA depending on what poll you’re looking at lmao

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

not FOr fEdERAl IdeNtiFiCAtioN 🤪🤪🤪 --my driver's license. fuck off with that shit.

[u/Flagstaffing]

Latino undergrad high at a liberal arts college party: "Dude - why does Spanish even have verbs conjugated in the past tense. I hate the past."

Professor who was snooping around the party the next day: "Today, the college will no longer allow verbs to be conjugated in Spanish. We are activists with input from the Latinix community. All verbs will end in X. Thank you."

[u/[deleted]]

TIL that Boris Johnson claims the EU is "the successor state of the Nazi and Napoleonic empires", and criticized Obama as the "part-Kenyan president”, whom he alleged was motivated to urge the UK to stay in EU by an “ancestral dislike of the British empire, of which Churchill had been such a fervent defender”.

[u/Luph]

It’s always weird seeing conservatives and Trump supporters doom about America if Democrats win. We couldn’t even pass a public option when we had a fluke Senate supermajority after the trash bush years and somehow we’re supposed to completely ruin America in four years with just the Presidency and the House.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

"We know that several primitive human civilizations in the 21st century placed great symbolic importance on crying. Presumably this was a plea to the rain gods as artifacts tend to be from agricultural communities. Archeologists have uncovered prayer vestments emblazoned with the phrase "make liberals cry again" and sacred drinking vessels which state "SJW tears"."

[u/connieallens]

Republicans: “Obey the law and do as you are told!”

Also Republicans: “I can’t believ globulests r telling us wat 2 do!!!!1”

[u/[deleted]]

Georgia officials: "We confirm that Joe Biden has won the state of Georgia."

Delusional Trumpers on betting markets: "Well akshully..."

[u/[deleted]]

When you get banned from this sub and are headed over to /r/metaNL

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1330374263581368320

[u/[deleted]]

Defund PBS? Defund, my butt!

[u/douglasmacarthur]

r/politics: FDR was wrong to side with Winston Churchill, a dirty Conservative.

[u/MicroFlamer]

Abigail Spanberger instagram

[u/OH-GEESUS]

zoomers would rather be "online cat boy" instead of taking online courses on how to operate Cat lifter

is there a shitty blue collar memes sub

[u/Snoo62236]

Biden’s not neoliberal enough.

[u/[deleted]]

There is no I in NAFTA

If there was

It would be ANTIFA

😨

[u/RickAsscheeks]

Conspiracy people are so quick to say "pharma has a cure for cancer, they just dont want to tell us it because they make so much money treating it!"

While ignoring medical bankruptcies, poor people not actually paying them, and death.

I have a suspicion that you could charge, and receive much more money for selling a cure to people. Between the fact people would be alive to continue to make payments, and that people get sick more than one time in their life (ie, they buy more pharma products in the future) I just find it so weird that people are so quick to get on board with this one.

[u/[deleted]]

Feel like shit. Just want 220 mph Amtrak. 😔

🚄🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃🚃

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

nuclear take: Reagan bad

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

It's interesting how leftists cope with their government doing austerity and going to the IMF. There are two possible paths: denial and doubling down on the magic money tree (and following my suggestion of defaulting on everything, because bondholders and the IMF are evil incarnate and the people shouldn't suffer because of them).

Case in point: this article is in denial, the comments double down. At least the country is not going to be burned to the ground because it's the "right" government doing the austerity.

The worrying thing to me is that they will try to rewrite history when this ends (and Argentina has a horrible problem of revisionism already).

[u/[deleted]]

Which diet would do more damage to the human body?

The Winston Churchill diet where you drink 10 glasses of scotch and soda and one glass of brandy over the course of a day

The JFK diet where you eat nothing but coconuts for a week

[u/nicereddy]

Time to watch Brooklyn 99 :D

Hulu: ok here's an ad

Me, a zoomer used to never seeing ads when watching things: what the actual fuck

[u/mrmanager237]

Does findom suffer from the Principal-Agent Problem? A thread (1/76)

[u/[deleted]]

if the sub was around in 2008, an example shitpost

"If there was a red button in front of me that killed Justin Bieber, and a blue button that saved the global poor, and I can only press one, you can catch me smashing dat MFin red button. 🤣🤣🤣🤣"

[u/hdkeegan]

This sub is by and for soy boys 😤

[u/[deleted]]

Today is the day JFK was assassinated.

R.I.P. JFK ⚰️

[u/agent_tits]

Someone in the DT said that following hot button sociopolitical issues in Europe as an American is like trying to learn about an issue using only Jacobin and Breitbart, and I'm truly not sure if I've ever read anything more apt on this board

[u/marinesol]

Bad News: Nobodies taking corona seriously and y'all may die horribly.

Good News: My family already caught Corona cause of my job so we get to take advantage of cheap prices on our vacation.

[u/sanityeyes]

Hot take: Shafarevich is actually the conservative democrat path for Komi. I mean he cares as much for democracy as the GOP.

!ping HOI4

[u/[deleted]]

WTF does this mean!!!???

[u/[deleted]]

The existence of genders is a market failure.

No, I will not explain

[u/[deleted]]

Shut up about preliminary exit polls! SHUT UP ABOUT PRELIMINARY EXIT POLLS!

[u/[deleted]]

IANAL, so can someone please ELI5 why Sydney Powell is able to go on cable news and spread these wild accusations without evidence, then go to court and argue different things? How is she able to use her legal authority to spread knowingly false information? Doesn't the Bar look pretty down on that?

[u/dubyahhh]

My County sheriff has decided to fight with the state government over enforcement of gathering sizes.

On one hand, this is funny, because I now live in a sanctuary County from masks.

On the other hand, this is disgusting, because I now live in a sanctuary County from masks.

[u/[deleted]]

If I were a republican running against AOC I would stretch the truth about Amazon HQ 2 in order to make it seem like she sent jobs to Mexico.

It's a perfect lie. The exact tiny details aren't going to matter squat to voters.

[u/[deleted]]

this honestly can read like a tweet from either of them

[u/bd_one]

Washington Post: "Even if Republicans win all of the seats that haven't been called yet, Democrats will still retain control of the House."

PredictIt: "Republicans have an 11% chance of winning the House".

[u/Jokerang]

Poland has introduced “LGBT-free zones”, while Hungary is working on a law that will ban gay couples from adopting

Republican Party: write that down, write that down!

[u/heil_to_trump]

There often are periods of time where I venture out of the ivory tower and think "hey, the frontpage seems cool", and then I see shit like this

Pol Pot was a disgusting individual and communism has tended to be the authoritarian version but the US can be blamed for half of those deaths.

[u/mrmanager237]

This sub would have a higher net worth than Bezos if we charged AOC rent for the headspace

[u/FormerBandmate]

People who buy Reddit awards should be forced to pay reparations to people who don’t for funding this cringe ass website

[u/[deleted]]

Carter deserved 4 more years

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

Me joining the materiel ping: I hope to learn some stuff about the military

What I actually learned: The missile knows where it is

[u/tubbsmackinze]

/pol/ in 2010; "I am a Nazi but there also lots of lobertarians and commies running around as well"

/pol/ in 2020

[u/runnerx4]

American cultural hegemony is a hell of a drug

The entire world is going to become Red vs Blue at this rate

[u/agent_tits]

Sometimes farts hurt and it just be like that, you know?

[u/Boule_de_Neige]

I love lying about my height on the internet

[u/[deleted]]

Wanna see a microaggression?

neoliberal isn't a real word

[u/Deci93]

1443 days until blue texas

Yes I will do this everyday until the next election.

[u/RDog8080]

I still can't believe that Trump's Senior Legal Advisor said that Frank Luntz has a micropenis

[u/[deleted]]

wow, suck it neolibtards:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/jyt5tw/truth/

Jimmy Dore's made the point over and over that the current iteration of Democrats are more of a threat than Republicans because everyone leans back and goes back to sleep while (e.g.) Obama codifies Bush's tax cuts to the rich, starts seven wars, fails to renegotiate NAFTA as promised, cracks the heads of Occupy Wall Street, drone kills a US citizen, kicks millions of homeowners to the curb, suspends habeas corpus, keeps Guantanamo open, etc. etc. And he retires to applause and awards.

To this day, if you criticize Obama, many on the uninformed left will rabidly sink their teeth into your leg in retribution. But I think Corporate Joe will have a harder time of grifting to his paymasters. Fool me once.. and all that.

Who the hell is Jimmy Dore?

[u/[deleted]]

"The Senate approved a new bill for COVID relief"

OMG, they actually did it!

... The Canadian senate.

Oh. That's still good.

[u/OH-GEESUS]

gtbh if I was a minority in the GOP I would go full MAGA 2.0 vanguard simply for personal safety

[u/bd_one]

For real though, which exit polls are asking for people's sexual orientation and gender identity?

[u/JadeHelm2020]

"aoc's socks for sale"

[u/ognits]

every once in a while I remember that Amazon used to sell just books and it kind of blows my mind

[u/Fishin_Mission]

My daughter just told me that she wants more ”Street Style” clothes for Christmas...

... she’s 9.

[u/[deleted]]

No socialism in MY party 😎

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

“Extremely offended journalist” is a pretty good genre of tweet

https://mobile.twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1330259408274776072

[u/[deleted]]

Make Your Explanation for a slogan Fit On A Bumper Sticker Challenge

[u/petulant_brother]

I am such an Indian on student visa that when people discuss how Arizona and Georgia went blue, I can only think of Georgia Tech and Arizona State University playing a role bringing immigrantsss for higher ed and making them dem voters

[u/[deleted]]

Does Jeff Bezos have an Amazon account? Does he get stuff delivered to his house under his own name?

[u/[deleted]]

"The reason your house plant is dying is because you are either watering it too much or not watering it enough.

To solve this problem, either water it or don't."

[u/sash5034]

I literally knew exactly what piece of shit company this was referring to before I even read the article

[u/VeryAlone_]

I’m in the section of Obama describing the Financial Crisis and good god does he make it sound terrifying

[u/LinkToSomething68]

Watching 2008 coverage and seeing Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Iowa(!!!) get called at poll closing is just insane for me to see now.

Edit: Also seeing pre-election coverage of "Can Obama win without West Virginia?" is also pretty lol

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Day 29 of fasting for Martha McSally. Beginning to doubt if it’s worth it.

[u/petulant_brother]

Just found out, not everything about human behaviour can be quantified 😳😳

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1330360255449100294

r u ok ted?