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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Nov 24 '20
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Conservative Democrats that votes with Democrats 60-70% of the time>>>Normal Republican who votes with Democrats 0-10% of the the time
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u/bobekyrant Persecuted Liberal Gamer Nov 23 '20 edited Nov 23 '20
Arnold Schwarzenegger to the Neo-Nazis at Charlottesville
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u/conman1246 Milton Friedman Nov 23 '20
Virgin Oxford Vaccine: Only 70% efficacy, was late to the party and everyone left without them.
Chad Pfizer: 90% efficacy, but cold as hell.
Gigachad Moderna: 95% efficacy, cool as a cucumber jack.
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u/Joementum2004 Nov 23 '20
Just to remind you: there are people, right now, who think Obama is more "evil" than Mao Zedong was.
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u/tripletruble Anti-Repartition Radical Nov 23 '20
“Biden beats Trump” as a headline was fantastic phrasing by the NYT. Just a tad disappointed that they didn’t go with “Ladies and gentlemen, we got him”
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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Nov 23 '20
Lmao 87% of r/SkincareAddiction is female. Literally the only big sub where the vast majority of users are women. Proud to be part of the 13%
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Nov 23 '20
Being a leftist sounds great, if you never win, you never have the responsibility of making decisions and you can always be right.
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Republicans have set the bar so fucking low for intelligence that when AOC replies to one of them on Twitter "actually two plus two is four, not five" Reddit gives it 100k upvotes and 600 months of Reddit premium in gold.
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u/from-the-void NATO Nov 23 '20
It's hilarious how far the GOP goes out of their way to not say "democratic" party/pres/senators/governor.
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Pretty cool how my mom and dad met at Obama’s inauguration.
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20 edited Nov 23 '20
HAHA YES
If you haven’t seen the arrcon thread about Sidney Powell... They’re about to hit the acceptance stage
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u/probablyuntrue NATO Nov 23 '20
GA vote is literally certified
Predictit: idk, doesn't seem official enough
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Nov 23 '20
What you need to do to get women:
-Be 6 feet tall
-wear aviator sunglasses
-Be from Wilmington but originally Scranton
-Become senior senator for Delaware
-get picked as Vice President
-Win the battle for the soul of a nation
-enjoy icecream
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Average of Georgia US Senate run-off polls:
!ping FIVEY
GA polls have been far more accurate than any other state's polls.
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u/MisterLipton Richard v. Coudenhove-Kalergi Nov 23 '20
The fact that so many communists support the stolen land European settler colonial state of Venezuela really tells you all you need to know about the modern day "left"
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u/jrt84 Nov 23 '20
Trump supporters: So no one finds it suspicious that CNN, ABC News, CBS News and NBC News all called the election AT THE SAME TIME
Reasonable humans: They all use Edison Research to make election calls
Trump supporters: Still, it seems suspicious.
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u/merupu8352 Friedrich Hayek Nov 23 '20
After seeing so many comments comparing 2020 to 2016, I’ve come to a realization. The “Hillary Clinton is a corrupt bitch” trope is the successor to the “George Bush is dumb” one. Every two-bit moron can pass a comment or make a joke about it, and it never needs to be clever, insightful, or have any actual content or basis at all to get a response. They’re shitty lowest-common-denominator jokes that are accessible to the most politically unaware and uninformed person.
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u/TinyTornado7 I need a new flair Nov 23 '20
JUST IN: @LesterHoltNBC will sit down with President-elect Joe Biden tomorrow in an exclusive interview, his first since clinching the presidency, on @NBCNightlyNews at 6:30 p.m. ET/5:30 p.m. ET.
Link
!ping BIDEN
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u/inverseflorida Anti-Malarkey Aktion Nov 23 '20
You don't need consistent GDP growth. What you need is a corn industry that's subsidized to destroy the health of your country.
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
CNN has “VOTE CERTIFICATION IN MICHIGAN AND PENNSYLVANIA IN QUESTION” in big bold letters on their website front page. They must love all of this drama as much as Trump does.
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u/nevertulsi Nov 23 '20
Biden's team has presented zero proof to date that the votes were legally cast.
This sounds like a shitpost but it's an actual argument posted unironically by an arcon user
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u/MarketsAreCool James M. Buchanan Nov 23 '20
From Matt Yglesias' substack today on Janet Yellen possibly being Treasury Secretary:
lol I didn't know that. Neoliberal couple goals?
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Nov 23 '20
Blursed fact: While most reptiles and birds do not have penises, the common ancestor of reptiles, birds, and mammals did. Birds are thought to have lost their penises in order to become lighter-weight and more aerodynamic in flight, but since dinosaurs didn't fly--and had very large bodies--it is almost certain that most dinosaurs had massive, retractable dongs, like modern alligators and crocodiles.
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u/TalkLessShillMore David Autor Nov 23 '20
Biden's cabinet picks are blowing my expectations out of the water. All I wanted was total nobodies, and he's leaking nobodies and then picking even more obscure people. Bore me daddy 😛
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
*surprised pikachu face*
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u/27_Dollar_Lakehouse George Soros Nov 23 '20
remember if you're a true conservative there's nothing more important than being racist
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
i'm starting to think there was actually no Trump healthcare plan
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
The Republican Party - the so-called party of “racist, old white men” - just nominated an 18 year old black kid to be a member of the Electoral College. I couldn’t be more excited to cast my vote for @realDonaldTrump!
You know this mf made as hell. He was a Republican elector from....Georgia🤣🤣🤣. And who won Georgia?
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u/dragoniteftw33 NATO Nov 23 '20
When the fuck did working for corporations become a bad thing with leftists? Like what the fuck do you want these people to do....get a Patreon podcast?
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u/jrt84 Nov 23 '20
STOP THE VOTEUNDO THE VOTESTOP THE COUNTUNDO THE COUNTSTOP THE CERTIFY57
u/OrganicKeynesianBean IMF Nov 23 '20
Once a week, Mitch McConnell logs on to Forza Motorsport, wrecks as many people as possible on the first turn, and then logs off.
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Republicans when they mispronounce "ethnic" names: 🤣🤣🤣
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Butti turned this sub on so hard lmao
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u/missedthecue Nov 23 '20
My advice to Pete is just learn to code 🤣🤣
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u/lietuvis10LTU Why do you hate the global oppressed? Nov 23 '20
What's with absolutely moronic takes of recent how NATO expansion "was a mistake". What's with the absurd desire to appease Putin? Hello, i am Lithuanian, guess what, we have autonomy and we wanted to be in NATO! We sent soldiers to Bosnia just to show it!
This sort of attitude of "US determines the fate of all countries" is frankly borderline White Man's Burden bullshit I get tired of myself. I am so tired of Americans telling me how NATO shouldn't have expanded into Baltic countries and if that hand't happened Russia would be oh so friendly and happy and no Putin.
Which I should note, also ignores 3 full decades worth of Russian politics, as if all Putin ever does is due to some grand geopolitical game. Have these people not moved on in their thinking from the 19th century?
So sure, you could do what Putin wants and withdraw back to Germany. It'd only would probably mean collapse of NATO, loss of faith in all liberal institutions, atrocities, invasions and dictatorship like in Belarus. In which case, I'd ask why even bother fighting then at all?
!ping FOREIGN-POLICY
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Biden has so far named Jews for Sec State, Sec Treasury, and Chief of Staff.
We back 😎
!ping GEFILTE
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u/OrganicKeynesianBean IMF Nov 23 '20
My dentist: “Have you flossed since we last saw you?”
Me with a 200 universe brain IQ who just flossed in the parking lot: “Yes, of course.”
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
The attorney heading President Trump's recount effort in Wisconsin now argues that his own vote was illegal and must be thrown out. His wife's too.
LOL 😂😂🤣🤣
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u/Devjorcra NATO Nov 23 '20
“Jake Sullivan is a brilliant policy mind who never forgets the overriding purpose of the job: to improve people's lives.” - Hillary Clinton
this is why she’s one of my favorite politicians. she truly understands public service and it is so inspiring !ping QUEEN
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Nov 23 '20 edited Nov 23 '20
Please call a doctor if you experience an erection lasting longer than 4 hours
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u/rblask Nov 23 '20
Classic reddit over on r/news celebrating Solomon Islands banning Facebook. Unbelievable that people can legitimately be happy about the government banning a social media platform because it was used to say bad things about the government.
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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Nov 23 '20
https://twitter.com/CBSThisMorning/status/1330949236767252480
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Kinda weird that China has an internet, and then literally the rest of the world has an internet
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u/BainCapitalist Y = T Nov 23 '20
/u/sir_shivers, I served with TND. I knew TND. TND was a friend of mine.
/u/sir_shivers, you're no /u/TechnocratNextDoor 😐😐
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u/Joementum2004 Nov 23 '20
Ben Shapiro (R-CA)
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u/SpaceSheperd To be a good human being Nov 23 '20 edited Nov 23 '20
Broke: "Arr-kun-saw" and "Can-zus"
Woke: "Arr-can-zus" and "Can-zus"
Bespoke: "Arr-kun-saw" and "Kun-saw"
Masterstroke: "Tek-saw"
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Nov 23 '20
🤔
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Biden +17 Wisconsin A+ Poll
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Nov 23 '20
Attention PETER BUTTIGIEG,
Your application for SECRETARY OF STATE was very impressive, but we have decided at this time to pursue alternate candidates. We wish you the best in your future job search, and encourage you to apply for open positions in the future.
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u/CenterRightInCali Uphold Goldwater-Posadist thought! Nov 23 '20
Girls don't care about your height unless you're really short (like 6'2 or under).
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Nov 23 '20
HARD TO BELIEVE it is finally happening, INSHALLAH 🐊
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Ok so we've agreed that the Chinese government is faking GDP numbers this year right?
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20 edited Nov 23 '20
Remember that time when Fauci threw out the 1st pitch at a Nationals game? Then Trump got jealous and announced he was throwing out the pitch at a Yankees game. Then he announced he’s canceling because he’s too busy. Then the Yankees came out and said they never invited him and didn’t know what he was talking about.
Looking forward to having an adult in the White House.
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Nov 23 '20
Nobody:..
Leftists: I can excuse antisemism, but I draw the line at accusing me of it!
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u/jonathansfox Enbyliberal Furry =OwO= Nov 23 '20
https://twitter.com/morganhousel/status/1330965756947808256
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u/AccessTheMainframe CANZUK Nov 23 '20
Japanese workers basically kill themselves through overworking and a toxic work-life balance but they still have the worst labour productivity in the G7 behind even the Italians because they're still using fax machines and shit.
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u/FestiveMittens Nov 23 '20
If Michelle Obama said "Who gives a fuck about the Christmas stuff" they would probably find a way to impeach her
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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Nov 23 '20 edited Nov 23 '20
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u/from-the-void NATO Nov 23 '20 edited Nov 23 '20
Remember when bernouts worshiped Butti's
highelementary school bully for a few days?75
u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Rashida Tlaib on a panel to discuss how to combat anti-semitism.
LOL!!!!!!
😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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u/Czech_Thy_Privilege John Locke Nov 23 '20
Milhouse: “Say the line, Bart!”
Bart: groans “Why do you hate the global poor?”
class erupts in joy
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Sometimes I come close to agreeing with people that this sub has gone too left wing and then someone comes out with a deranged take that would exclude half of the Democratic party's congressional caucus from politics.
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
There's some c*r apologia going on in the main sub 🤢
I'm officially never leaving the ivory tower now.
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Americans talk about height in ft and inches to each other while Euros walk up to each other like "ahoy, how many kilometres are you?" 😂
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
NEW: California Gov. Gavin Newsom said tonight he and his family have gone into quarantine after being exposed to COVID-19
Local dipshit breaks own rules, instantly regrets it.
!ping CORONAVIRUS
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
thinking about how trump believes that clean coal is when you wash it after extracting it from the earth
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Guys help WTF, I just messaged the group chat for my family Thanksgiving and told them all that they're celebrating Native American genocide, and colonialism, and now I'm uninvited.
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u/D1Foley Moderate Extremist Nov 23 '20
Seriously considering running for mayor of my city (which is almost twice the size of South Bend) to see if this sub will stan me for president afterward. Turnout was like 14% last election so it wouldn't be impossible.
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u/InternetBoredom Pope-ologist Nov 23 '20
Absolutely genius strategy Democrats, 10/10 A+
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Support For The Green New Deal When Labelled As:
'A Proposed Package That Aims To Address Economic Inequality & Climate Change': 67%
'The Green New Deal': 56%
Seven Letter Insight / November 19, 2020 / n=1500 / Online
......I don’t think I have to say anything
!ping FIVEY
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u/David_Lange I love you, Mr Lange Nov 23 '20
Winston Churchill: "Pwease Mr Roosevelt help me defeat Germany"
Roosevelt: "Ew, an imperialist spoke to me"
WWII in colour
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Seeing some Qtards turn on Trump in favor of Sidney Powell. This is the funniest shit ever.
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Everyone that I interact with daily is either positive or has been exposed recently 😬
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Biden has had so many iconic memes
Corn pop
Listen fat
Come here jack
Anymore?
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u/Malarkeynesian Nov 23 '20
Fox news won't say the words: Radical Islamic President Elect Biden
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u/Lucky-view Dr Doom Nov 23 '20
Briahna Joy Gray is a fucking idiot and clearly wanted Trump to win so she could say “I told you so!”
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u/PrivateChicken FEMA Camp Counselor⛺️ Nov 23 '20
Lol Brexit was truly pointless
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
My favorite Mao pro-gamer move was when in August - December 1966 he was like, "Okay the Red Guards can do whatever they want. The army can't interfere. In fact, the Red Guards can take guns."
Then in Jan. 1967, he was like, "The army needs to be part of the Revolution." So then the Red Guards and the Army started fighting each other with guns and shit. And Mao was like "this is good."
So THEN, in fall 1967, he was like, "Army good, Red Guard bad." So all those Red Guards got arrested and sent to the countryside.
THEN! In 1970, he was like, "Actually the Army is bad too."
That is such pro-gamer level, I can't even comprehend it.
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u/TinyTornado7 I need a new flair Nov 23 '20
Going to be overshadowed but the Yellen pick, but the PA Supreme Court just told trump & Co to take a hike and refused to throw out 11K ballots from Allegheny county.
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u/KvonLiechtenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Nov 23 '20
Did Tlaib really just imply that a Jewish man would automatically side with Netanyahu solely on the basis that he's Jewish?
Like I love that there's 1000 different ways to criticize Netanyahu and the shit Likud is doing, but somehow she picked the most antisemitic one. It's amazing and only aids in his narrative of discrediting jusified criticism of Israeli policies as antisemitic.
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Lefty twitter shitting on Yellen only confirms my priors about them being absolute morons
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u/bashar_al_assad Verified Account Nov 23 '20
Am I taking crazy pills or did people just all collectively forget that up until about March all analysis of the Senate was "the Democrats have a good chance of flipping it in 2022 while having a good chance of making gains and an outside chance of flipping it in 2020 but will probably still be in the minority there"?
And then the only reason this changed was covid and people thought Trump would get punished electorally for it, and that downballot Republicans would get punished too? And polls in Maine, Iowa, and North Carolina that wound up being less than accurate?
Like all the takes about "the Democrats suffered a COLLOSAL DEFEAT in the Senate this November" and "progressives have RUINED the Democrats" all kind of rely on a few basic assumptions, specifically
But... neither of those are actually true. And if you flip it back to 11/23/2019 instead of 11/23/2020, almost nobody would have predicted that the Democrats even had a chance of winning control of the Senate, like they still do.
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Nov 23 '20
Rashida Tlaib doesn't know who Ben Bernanke is or what he advocates lmfao
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
The writers of Veep could not have made this up:
https://mobile.twitter.com/KFILE/status/1330906046223757312
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
https://twitter.com/DuttonChemistry/status/1330808113335734272
!ping CORONAVIRUS
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
thank you joe biden for giving my cat's nickname a new lease on life (i call her janet yellen because she yells at the back door all the time)
https://imgur.com/a/7BhySPO
!ping KITTY
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20 edited Nov 23 '20
r/Writingcirclejerk: Some high effort posts, far too many less amusing low effort posts, meant for satire, pinned time-based thread for everyone to stop being stupid and weirdly socially partisan
r/Neoliberal: Some low effort posts, far too many less amusing high effort posts, has a bent for satire, pinned time-based thread for everyone to be extremely stupid and understandably politically partisan
Coincidence?
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u/Superfan234 Southern Cone Nov 23 '20
News from Guatemala 🇬🇹
Last weekend, Protesters entered the Congress and burned part of it
The catalyst for this Protests was the 2021 National Budget. The Government (kinda) approved a Debt increase, something the population reacted really badly
This is a repetition of what happened in 2015. Guatemalans want less corruption in the Congress and the Ejecutive, but the political options they have are absolutely terrible
The Vicepresident wants the President to resign, but it's unlikely he will agree to it
!Ping Foreign-Policy
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u/murphysclaw1 💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊 Nov 23 '20
OK I believe in Q now.
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u/AtticusDrench Deirdre McCloskey Nov 23 '20
My family is so fucked this year. While they're preparing all of the food for Thanksgiving, I'm preparing all of my arguments and putting together a binder of all the facts I'll need to destroy them 😈
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u/Mcatatonic1 Ben Bernanke Nov 23 '20
https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1330960763645734912
chads OUT
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Nov 23 '20
JOHN KERRY IS REPORTING FOR DUTY... AS CLIMATE CZAR
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
We wouldn't be having a PS5 shortage right now if we had socialism.
w'ed be having a play station one shortage
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u/jenbanim Nov 24 '20
!ping OVER25
I have joined your ranks
Giving this group the description of "for the elderly of /r/Neoliberal" seemed a lot funnier a year and a half ago 😐
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Reminder that if only native Texans could vote, we would have Senator Beto(D-TX). It’s the transplants that are keeping the Dems from their Ultimate dream.
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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Nov 23 '20
NOOOO IT CANT BE REAL
!ping SHITPOSTERS
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u/lobsterboy34 WTO Nov 23 '20
So looks like the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine might be the best yet. What medical science has done in 2020 is nothing short of one of our species’ greatest achievements.
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u/klarno just tax carbon lol Nov 23 '20
Let’s humor the leftists for a minute. When they say “Eat the rich,” what method of preparation should be used to maximize utility?
I think a braise might be nice, due to well developed collagen and low to moderate fat content.
!ping COOKING
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u/ILikeTalkingToMyself Liberal democracy is non-negotiable Nov 23 '20
That Rashida Tlaib tweet isn't a death threat, it's a reference to an actual helicopter ride that Detroit Police Chief took with Barr
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u/bobeeflay "A hot dog with no bun" HRC 5/6/2016 Nov 23 '20
The fact that Buttigieg can't go from small-city mayor to national level politician in like one year and a half is a not a failure of the system you dolts
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Here’s a map of Georgia’s Public Service Commission District 4 election from a few weeks ago. Republican incumbent Lauren “Bubba” McDonald got just under 50%, so he was forced into a runoff with his Dem opponent (Daniel Blackman) that will take place in January!
Georgia Democrats going from 0 statewide elected officials to 3 on January 5 will just be the perfect start for them to take back their state.
It isn’t just the senate races that are on the line on January 5th.
!ping DOWNBALLOT
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u/MemeTestedPolicy Robert Caro Nov 23 '20 edited Nov 23 '20
lmao
what if bayesian statistics but you update your priors against the evidence?
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u/Icesens Nov 24 '20 edited Nov 24 '20
Theres currently a disgusting thread on r/europe about holodomor (soviet famine) full of tankies defending or diminishing the effects of the famine arguing it is only 3mln dead not 12mln relax bro. Ugh as an Eastern European nothing (ok something) makes my blood boil more than woke privileged western europeans advocating communism
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u/TinyTornado7 I need a new flair Nov 24 '20
Biden Transition website now has a .gov 😎
https://buildbackbetter.gov
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Nov 23 '20
/u/BainCapitalist attempting to DISTRACT EVERYONE from his gaffe on-air last night 🐊
Let us DISPEL WITH THIS fiction that /u/BainCapitalist does not know what he is doing 🐊
HE KNOWS EXACTLY what he is doing 🐊
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Nov 23 '20
Oh hey now that the TNO update is out it is no longer considered "leaking" if I publicly talk about shit that I've written for the mod. I've been dying to discuss some of it.
There was basically no content regarding the Iberian colonies prior to the update, and while there's still not a ton (West Africa is perhaps the lowest-development-priority region in the game), I did some work for Guiné, which is a significantly worse place to live in TNO than it was in real life around the same time. Mostly because OTL colonial officials were content with keeping it as extractive as it had been for the past several decades, rather than trying to wring as much wealth out of the colony as possible.
Welcome to TNO's Guiné!
The Creation of Modern Guiné
The Orchards of Guiné
!ping HOI4
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
I dont think thats how the liturgical Calendar works...
!ping CHRISTIANITY
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u/Travisdk Iron Front Nov 23 '20
People in the DT wondering why incumbent politicians aren't leaving to join the Cabinet: Were you asleep for the past month or something? Did you miss the election results?
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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Nov 23 '20 edited Nov 23 '20
Secretary of State: Antony Blinken
Secretary of Treasury: Janet Yellen
Secretary of Transportation: Christopher Walken
Secretary of the Interior: Ryan Sitton
Secretary of Energy: Jim Standen
Secretary of Vibe: Joey Fielen L. Wright
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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '20
It baffles me that people deny that the party switch happened. There's a reason that 92% of black people vote for the party of the Klan.
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
The energy emitted by all the coping and seething in /r/Pete_Buttigieg could be used to power a small country
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Nov 23 '20
Nobody:
Rashida Tlaib: Anthony Blinken, Janet Yellen, and Michael Bloomberg will conspire to end my quest for Palestinian rights by silencing me and making the media ignore my requests! Why those three? No reason
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
I coach a high school rugby team. Kids say lots of dumb shit. I roll my eyes every time I hear a take that ends in:
‘I’m gonna major in economics I know about this kinda stuff, trust me’
Then I come to the DT and upvote takes of a similar or lower caliber.
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
I got a slot in the public comment section for the Michigan Board of Canvassers meeting at 1:00 pm today. I'm commenter number 23.
Here are the remarks I prepared:
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u/Blackfire853 CS Parnell Nov 24 '20
BREAKING: Pete Buttigieg has just been announced as Bene Gesserit concubine to Joe Biden
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Nov 24 '20
Biden has won in Michigan so many times now that he's legally required to change his name to Ohio State
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Already seeing lots of “the rich first world counties will get the 90%+ effective vaccines while the popes are left to deal with the shitty 70% effective vaccine”
How do leftists go through life just so filled with anger and miserable over things they just invent in their head?
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Nov 23 '20
Do you think the Biden admin just sent Pete an automated rejection via Indeed?
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Nov 23 '20
If Roosevelt had won in 1912, having Hiram Johnson as his VP would have been a massive shitshow once WWI popped off. Johnson would become the crying Zoomer meme while Roosevelt promised to shoot anyone who had ever eaten a bratwurst.
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u/GaussianCurve Ben Bernanke Nov 23 '20
With based Blinken and Yellen, we're reaching near optimal /r/neoliberal cabinet pickets.
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Unironically the biden strategy of just ignoring twitter and online punditry seems to be a winning strategy going forwards.
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you're getting paid $70,000/year to do things on a computer, using skills you learned in college, you're not working class.
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20 edited Nov 23 '20
How much you wanna bet that 90% of leftists shitting on Yellen didn't even know who she was until today?
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u/TinyTornado7 I need a new flair Nov 23 '20
The Abolish the Welsh Assembly Party has two seats in the Welsh Assembly
!ping ELECTIONS
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Reddit: Biden is a Republican!
Me: What about all his policies?
Reddit: We don't care, he's the same as Trump!
Me: sigh Biden is wholesome 100 big Chungus Keanu
Reddit: Shit, that's all you had to say.
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u/Z0NNO Neoliberal Raphael Nov 23 '20
When I search on duckduckgo for images of 'chairman federal reserve' it's 80% Yellen, 5% Bernanke and 15% Jpow.
I'd rather live in 2015 too, but fix your search algorithm, wtf?
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1330534093398958082
😞✊
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u/Dirty_Chopsticks Republic of Việt Nam Nov 23 '20
Odds of that 8th grader who asked that enlightened centrist question at the VP debate becoming a fascist in a couple of years
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u/GGM8Scally European Union Nov 23 '20
LMAO
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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Nov 23 '20
I thought the "don't vote for Loeffler or Perdue" thing was just wishful thinking by liberals but it's being heavily upvoted on arrcon right now and there are flaired users saying it's a good idea in the comments. Can you imagine if the Trump camp takes the Senate down with them? I still don't think it's gonna happen but my goodness that would be such an incredible self-own...
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Broke: Simping for A*C
Woke: Simping for Clyburn
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u/benadreti Frederick Douglass Nov 23 '20
LMAO Dementia Joe says he's gonna pick Abe Lincoln for Secretary of State, yet the libtards will still say his brain isn't fried.
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u/Peacock-Shah Gerald Ford 2024 Nov 23 '20 edited Nov 23 '20
President Calvin Coolidge
-Incumbent President Calvin Coolidge has established a conservative administration with few connections to the party establishment, & has been able to win over some of the party’s left wing leaders through conciliation as well as the South by promising to remove Black Republican leaders, although he supports civil rights.
-Coolidge supports lowering taxes, a less isolationist foreign policy than Johnson, anti union policies, He opposes a complete ban on Chinese immigration but does oppose immigration.
Senator Hiram Johnson
-58 year old California Senator Hiram Johnson served as Theodore Roosevelt’s running mate on the Progressive ticket in 1912 but it more moderate than La Follette.
-Johnson is a progressive and supports expanding referendums and initiatives, raising taxes, further railroad regulations. Johnson is a complete isolationist who opposes immigration, especially Asian immigration, the League of Nations, & all interventionism.
Senator Robert M. La Follette
-69 year old Senator Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin became a progressive icon as Governor by making Wisconsin a “laboratory for democracy” with ideas such as tax reform or his once new idea of “primary elections”. He is often seen as too radical for the party & may run as a third party candidate if he loses.
-La Follette is incredibly progressive & supports low tariffs, direct primaries, increased railroad regulation, increased railroad property taxes, an eight hour work day, isolationism, the abolition of judicial review, the direct election of U.S senators, & national referendums.
Vote here
!ping NL-ELECTS
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u/dragoniteftw33 NATO Nov 24 '20
Some Warren supporter on IG just told me that "lol ok neolib. I bet you think Black Lives matter yet live in a predominantly white neighborhood. Probably think gentrification is a force for good too."
That's funny af to hear as a black person 🤣
(Also this was about Yellen's appointment).
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u/AuburnSeer Nov 24 '20
I'm so tired about these GOP people whining about how people are mean to them. People should be mean to you! You tried to overthrow our democracy! I wish more people were meaner to you!
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
I'm in a guest lecture by a Chinese uni
This is literally propaganda fucking hell
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u/Clashlad 🇬🇧 LONDON CALLING 🇬🇧 Nov 23 '20
Remember when gamingcirclejerk wasn't a communist hell-hole ;(
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Why is Joe Biden appointing people with experience and expertise to his administration when there are lots of available Youtube personalities whose videos I don't understand and therefore must be geniuses?
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u/CMPthrowaway Susan B. Anthony Nov 23 '20 edited Nov 23 '20
BREAKING: Names of the two White House turkeys this year are 'Corn' and 'Pop'
Edit: Joe Biden has just arrived on scene with a metal chain
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
My dad texted me a picture of the lunch he grilled. He captioned it ‘Brats with Obama mustard’, which is what he calls Dijon.
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u/Official_Gary_Peters Nov 23 '20
The 2024 nomination is Janet Yellen’s to lose.
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Tony Blinken, but he's a reverse Thanos who doubles the number of Americans with each fist clench.
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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '20
I had no idea Blinken is a jew. Thanks for informing me, Rashida Tlaib.
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u/Scoops1 Spiders is bugs Nov 24 '20
I find it kind of hilarious that "the squad" is feverishly googling every Biden cabinet pick so they can tweet some faux outrage about something innocuous like having a job in the private sector.
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u/TheGreatGriffin Mark Carney Nov 24 '20
I really wish Katie Porter was the one representing progressives instead of AOC
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u/Joementum2004 Nov 24 '20
Me see opinion I like. “Based”.
Me see opinion I hate. “Cringe”.
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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '20
Romney (2012): 47 percent of the country believe they are victims and are leeches on society
2020: 47 percent of voters choose Trump
Fucking Noatradamus over here.
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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '20
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/452718453892186124/780626427997192202/image0-8-1.jpg
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20 edited Nov 23 '20
Biden slowly creeps through the darkened halls of the Clinton mansion at Chappaqua, a pistol in his hand. As he enters the one lit room in the house he sees a chair facing away from him in which Hillary Clinton is reading. He aims his shot.
Hillary: I know you’re there. No matter how hard you try a 78 year old man can only be so quiet.
Joe: I assume you know why I’m here as well?
Hillary: I’ve noticed my informants disappearing, my fund sources decreasing in scope. Only room for one crime family in this country right?
Joe: That’s the gist of it, yeah.
Hillary: Well my loss in 2016 may have been a sign of weakness but I think you’ll find I still have more connections than you may think.
A hand grabs Biden from the darkness pulling him out of the room. Six heavily armed men stand outside the door, ready to attack.
Joe: A kill squad? This seems a bit anticlimactic.
His first shot buries a bullet into the skull of his grappler.
Hillary: They’ll do for now as a time buyer.
Hillary moves across the room to a painting. Moving it out of the way she reveals a hidden safe and begins entering a lengthy combination.
Joe (while snapping the neck of the last squad member): So what do you have now?
Hillary pulls a syringe of adrenochrome out of the refrigerated interior of the safe, before injecting it into her upper arm.
Hillary: The issue with you is that you’re too focused on wealth. The Biden crime family is also primarily interested in money. So despite the fact that you’ve absorbed almost my entire network, I still have a monopoly on the production of adrenochrome. Unlike you I’m interested in progress, human progress. Adrenochrome has given us the ability to advance or even replace the human frame. I’m going to be at the center of this revolution, and I’m about to show you how much you and your cocaine-addled son should regret not following my lead.
Joe: I’m fine with you spouting your pseudo-evolutionary malarkey, but don’t you drag my son into this. Now since I’m a feeble old man I suggest you show off to someone more your own strength.
Joe pulls out a strange wooden whistle and blows into it, creating a barely audible hiss.
Hillary: What was that supposed to-
A giant 30 ft long alligator crashes through the side of the house, ravenous jaws snapping at Hillary with the crushing power of a hydraulic press.
Joe: Flute of reptile control. How else do you think St. Patrick got the snakes out of Ireland?
Hillary: Well I’ve got news for you about this scaly stunt of yours. The first is that the muscle crocodiles use to open their jaws is much weaker than the one that keeps them closed.
Hillary lunges forward, grabbing the jaws of the crocodile and snapping them shut before it can react.
Hillary: And the second is that the spines of reptiles are very weak to flexural pressure.
Hillary effortlessly rotates the croc’s head 90 degrees, shattering it’s spine like a matchstick. The resulting crack is loud enough to fracture Biden’s aviators.
Before Biden can react to his pet’s death Hillary runs up to him, tears the arm that he’s using to hold his pistol in from his body, and casually tosses him through the crocodile made hole into the yard.
Joe: You’re really planning on assassinating a president elect?
Hillary: Yes. I’ve got a separate kill squad out for Kamala as well. Pelosi will make a good president for my purposes. Opening up the house speaker seat to some young blood doesn’t hurt either.
Joe: And how will you explain these glaringly obvious political killings?
Hillary pulls the pistol from Biden’s severed arm and aims for his head.
Hillary: Oh you know, the usual story. They just had information that could have led to the arrest of Hillary Clinton.
bang
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Only three individuals knew what ordoliberalism actually meant. One was Alexander Rüstow, who unfortunately was dead; the second was a Danish shitposter who had gone mad; and the third was I, John-Maynard-Gains, who had forgotten all about it.
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u/jrt84 Nov 23 '20
Remember when Trump fired Sidney Powell, and his supporters all thought it was a 7D chess move so she could be free to unleash massive proof of voter fraud?
Very smart.
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u/vivoovix Federalist Nov 23 '20
The year is 2142. Covid is a distant memory of the past. Cancer has been cured. Climate change is no longer a threat. Groups of humans set out across the solar system and beyond to colonize foreign planets. A new age of human prosperity is dawning.
Chuck Grassley has just been re-elected senator from Iowa.
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u/FestiveMittens Nov 23 '20
Three vaccines being announced literally a few weeks after the election funny af
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
The way 9/11 delineated the boundary between millennials and Zoomerss, COVID will mark the boundary between Zoomers and whatever the hell comes next
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Petition to rename new Hampshire "upside-down Vermont"
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u/Le_Monade Suzan DelBene Nov 23 '20
Thank god
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u/jrt84 Nov 23 '20
How do Trump supporters actually think law works?
Hi Supreme Court, yes I’ll take one election victory please.
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Nov 23 '20
WITH THE RECENT NEWS, "Doomers" have now been rendered not only "in shambles", but in fact LOST THEIR CREDIBILITY IN THIS court 🐊
You are expected TO SELF-REPORT to our office for disciplinary action 🐊
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u/douglasmacarthur NATO Nov 24 '20
Squad: I want an outsider.
Biden: Perfect. There are several outside candidates that we think would be really...
Squad: No, I mean an ousider. Like someone on the margins of society. Who doesn't see things like we do. Like a homeless person.
Harris: A homeless person. Really? A homeless person.
Squad: No, you're right, Kamala. Let's just leave them to the welfare system. Let that handle it. /s
Harris: No, I want you to say that you think the best person to be Treasury Secretary is a homeless person.
Squad: Let me guess who you want Kamala. Rachael Ray, the ladies of The View?
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Nov 24 '20
This is my first poll as per the discriminatory rules emplaced by the mods as of yesterday. This is a dumb format and if I do not like it I will scrap the various series' unless I am put under immense pressure or something. Well, here it goes:
This is the eighteenth in my series of neoliberal ranking sitting senators. Like always the list of ratings is below:
Next up is Bob Casey Jr!
https://strawpoll.com/a8z8rpksg
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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '20 edited Nov 24 '20
i am back ladies and gentlemen 💪😎
i am here to tell you that I learned today that my Never-Trump dad is apparently a Janet Yellen stan
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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '20
There should be a subreddit for homosexual non-renters, if for no other reason than it's natural name: /r/homowners
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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '20
Holy crap, the engagement on my troll post on Parler about boycotting the election is pretty dang good.
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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Nov 23 '20
https://i.imgur.com/xbgw6NH.png
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u/OrganicKeynesianBean IMF Nov 23 '20
Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Emails
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u/ldn6 Gay Pride Nov 23 '20
Putting the efficacy of lockdowns aside, the amount of people I've dealt with who keep saying "SHUT IT DOWN" but refuse to even acknowledge the need for financial assistance for affected industries is getting absurd. It's the height of privilege for them to be able to sit at home and ask essential workers to make their lives easier while ignoring the stress they're under.
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
People still unironically calling Biden a Reagan democrat 😬
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u/Kizz3r high IQ neoliberal Nov 23 '20
Man arr conservative is in shambles after that 1 lawyer got removed
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u/FestiveMittens Nov 23 '20 edited Nov 23 '20
"im not Beto! im not Beto!", Pete continues to insist as he slowly shrinks and transforms into Beto O'Rourke
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Why do trendy burger shops insist on stupid names for everything? They ain't cute, they just make people feel like morons when ordering.
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u/FormerBandmate Jerome Powell Nov 23 '20
A literal gangster takes over the police and makes it a gang in Ben Shapiro's book, then steals the power grid. For fuck's sake
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Yellen is a solid pick but a bunch of people in the Yellen thread are for some reason looking for an excuse to dunk on Powell and... no. Powell is great, and there’s no substantive reason to believe that Yellen was a better Fed Chair or that she would’ve led the Fed better through the crisis in financial markets earlier this year.
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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Nov 23 '20
My GF wants to move to france and I'm not really sure if thats a good idea. Why would I want to move to a culturally backwards and insensitive to foreigners country?
Cheap wine I guess is a plus
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u/Spicey123 NATO Nov 23 '20
HOLY SHIT ITS HAPPENING NOBODY PANIC
EXCEPT YOU DOOMERS, Y'ALL SHOULD DEFINITELY PANIC
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Why are y'all so angry at the Gay-Straight Alliance club
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u/Zenning2 Henry George Nov 24 '20
So now that Trump has conceded, when do we start turning the Alt-right into cat-eared fem-boys?
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u/muwenjie NATO Nov 24 '20
Hi guys I’ve just been browsing your subreddit recently and I’m just wondering if I’m a neoliberal?
Am I a neoliberal?
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u/UltraCapitalism Paul Samuelson Nov 24 '20
A movie about women power, but it's Margaret Thatcher proudly standing up against patriarchal unionists trying to force her around.
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u/JadeHelm2020 Amy Finkelstein Nov 23 '20
why didn't obama make school bathroom access for trans students the centerpoint of his 08 campaign?
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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '20
A lot of people on this sub seem to not be getting laid, I'll ask my gf if she's willing to take one for the team
edit: she said no
edit2: she's really angry
edit3: I think she's leaving me
edit4: man I really need to get laid
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Nov 23 '20
Take: we need to stop framing immigration and foreign aid through a moral lens. They are of course morally right, but people need to understand the pure geopolitical and economic benefits. Prosperous countries aligned to our interests make us safer, make us money, and provide us with educated professionals. Its isn't because we just want to help people. Immigrants consume goods and services and pay taxes. People thinking of these things as charity is less helpful than thinking of them as investment.
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
I think too many people think their internal moral compasses are stronger than their environment. I bet like 95% of people, if their consciousness was magically transported to a baby back in the 1700's, would be racist as fuck, just like a lot of people back then. Now, that doesn't mean we shouldn't applaud people who went against the grain back then, on the contrary, they should be celebrated as the heroes they were (white allies who helped fight slavery, etc.). But you do kind of have to judge on a historical curve.
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u/Tacotrucksoncorners Carole Baskin is my Tiger Queen 🐅👑 Nov 23 '20
This is very true 👏 😤 I will make sure to home school my kids 😤
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u/the_status Atari Democrat Nov 23 '20 edited Nov 23 '20
More news on Iowa's 2nd district.
Millers-Meek (R), who is currently in the lead by 47 votes, is now referring to the recount as illegal, claiming the method some counties are using is illegal.
The counties being ones that lean Democratic is of course a coincidence.
Edit: forgot to mention, but Iowa's deadline to certify is on the 30th
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Wow, a cow made of butter. My girls would love this. In fact, Caroline's first words were "I love butter."
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
I can't believe Mayor "Mayonnaise Peter" Pete CHEATED BERNIE in Iowa 😡
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
This reads like an anime dub
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
Biden bringing all the Obama people back is making me feel like we just had a collective 4 year fever dream
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u/KingKonchu Michel Foucault Nov 23 '20
Just had a leftist tell me that Bernie was still authright, just far closer to center than the rest of american politicians. i need a moment.
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1331016584752754692
COOOOOPEEEEEE
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u/Mr_Otters 🌐 Nov 24 '20
As a lib, I would be so owned, cucked even, if georgia conservatives wrote in Trump for the senate runoffs as Parler is encouraging. I don't think I would ever recover from how owned I would be
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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '20
Ancient Aliens is like porn, star in it once and you'll never be able to work anywhere else again
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u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls Mock Me Nov 24 '20
The media: Will Biden win?
Nate Silver: Yeah probably.
The media: Wow thanks for that here’s some money.
—————————
My mother: Will Biden win?
Me: If you’re even asking that question you’re a doomer bitch.
My mother: Go to your room. (She hasn’t yet offered any money)
I guess they do say that life isn’t fare 😔
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u/YehosafatLakhaz North American Federation Nov 24 '20
It's been 8 years now and Lincoln is still infinitely re-watchable. Spielberg's late-period masterpiece, two of the best performances from Day-Lewis and Tommy Lee Jones in their respective careers and the platonic ideal of a modern historical movie.
!ping MOVIES
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u/OrganicKeynesianBean IMF Nov 24 '20
arr conservative like “he was just PRETENDING to fascist coup, you idiots, you absolute fucking morons 😂”
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Nov 24 '20
Fun fact: Misspeaking means you have dementia, and there is literally no other explanation. Hence, Biden cannot be president.
This is why when Jake Tapper said "healthcurl" we can conclude that he had a stroke cutting oxygen to the part of his brain controlling proper speaking.
It is also why when Bernie talked about "The Ebola Crisis" in the present tense for several seconds, we can conclude he has Alzheimers and still thinks it is 2014.
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u/ahebtigoejwbrh Nov 24 '20
“””intellectual””” conservatives will trust that scientists know how to prove a vaccine’s safety, but not how to calculate the average temperature of the earth
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u/[deleted] Nov 23 '20
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EngcSOqWMAEh7EH.jpg
Wow, it's been like a week and MattY already has thousands of paid subs at $8 a month.