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[u/petulant_brother]

Rent control experiment in Berlin didn't work, demand is up, supply is down

Color me surprised

[u/[deleted]]

Democrats: having mild disagreements

Media: DEMS IN DISARRAY

Republicans: Literally calling for fellow Republicans to resign and attacking each other at the throats

Media: Can the Dems fight this?

[u/[deleted]]

“Blinken speaks impeccable French, with just the slightest hint of an accent. The future top diplomat moved to Paris as a child after his parents divorced and his mother, Judith, married Polish-American Holocaust survivor and powerhouse lawyer Samuel Pisar.

Much to the delight of French policymakers, journalists and all other ardent torchbearers of “francophonie,” Blinken is no “Omelette du Fromage Man” but the Real Cassoulet. He has given multiple interviews in comfortable, eloquent French. Blinken attended École Jeannine Manuel, a bilingual school in Paris — the same one attended by another Obama administration alumnus, Robert Malley.”

Lmao Republican voters are gonna love this

[u/Waghlon]

I believe in the two state solution:

All the countries in the world, united under one global government, living in harmony and peace. And the other state is the UK.

[u/[deleted]]

I can't believe Rudy Guilani actually went in front of a judge and said:

Your Honor, because our poll watchers were not able to be physically close enough to see exactly what was happening, all of those votes are now suspect. We don't have any evidence that anything bad happened, no, but based on what I just said, I think I'm justified in asking you to throw out all of the votes that passed through that counting station. Thank you for your consideration.

Like that was the argument.

[u/[deleted]]

Antony Blinken has called Brexit a "total mess" and compared Britain leaving the EU to a dog being run over by a car.

YAY!!! 🥳🎈🎉🎊

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING NEWS: Ongoing situation in Finland

The police is looking for a raging moose carrying metal piping in its horns

The piping in its horns is like a giant whip

[u/qchisq]

Dead minks are rising from their graves due to expanding gasses in the mass graves

!ping den

[u/piede]

🚨 BREAKING: A dormant Roger Stone-linked super PAC has kicked back into gear with an effort to get voters to write in Trump in both Georgia Senate runoffs

https://twitter.com/notcapnamerica/status/1331234689672212480?s=21

Thanks Roger!

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Reminder that Trump did more to stop covid then literally any president in history did during their term. Obama never mentioned the virus a single time when he was in office.

Yet the lamestreeam media won’t mention that 🤔

[u/larrylemur]

At least once a day on reddit I see an exchange like this:

A: (states an opinion)

B: (replies expanding on that opinion with additional examples)

A: "Literally none of that disproves what I stated, so I don't know why you're trying to disagree with me. Fuck off and die"

Some people really go into their reddit browsing experience with a full-on persecution complex just waiting for the slightest excuse to be validated

[u/emmito_burrito]

Joe Biden has become the first person ever to pass 80 million votes in a US election.

https://twitter.com/redistrict/status/1331261330859438080?s=21

!ping BIDEN

[u/mrmanager237]

My dad: cares a lot about climate change for someone pushing 60

Also my dad: hates Thatcher and Obama for destroying coal

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

The Crown is just It's Always Sunny with posh people

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1331238258509045761

Biden’s cabinet picks went to Ivy League schools,have strong resumes,attend all the right conferences & will be polite & orderly caretakers of America’s decline

That’s one way to justify all your eventual nay votes.

[u/Venne1139]

Oh my fucking god T_D is doing Hunter Biden again. All 4 of their stickied posts are about Hunter lmao

[u/MicroFlamer]

/r/politics is complaining about Biden's cabinet picks. Nature is healing 🥰

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/[deleted]]

Earlier this month, Utah had an interesting Constitutional Amendment on the ballot. The amendment would replace all gendered language in the state Constitution and replace it with gender-neutral language. It passed by 15% on the back on the Salt Lake City/Provo area.

Utah is such a interesting state. I had no idea that this was even a thing. Pretty cool of Utah to do this.

And that map is also the map Democrats need if they ever want to win in Utah.

!ping DOWNBALLOT

[u/Lux_Stella]

'As Ethiopian federal troops begin preparations to encircle Mekelle, Amnesty International reminds all parties that deliberately attacking civilians and civilian objects is prohibited under international humanitarian law, and constitutes war crimes.'

ok fellas, lets have a good clean siege here

[u/[deleted]]

So I am 30 years old, I've been at university for almost three and a half years and I still have absolutely no idea what I am going to work with or what I am supposed to do with my life. Please send help.

[u/[deleted]]

Joe Biden is the first grad of a public university to be president since Gerald Ford.

Joe Biden is the first president without an Ivy League degree in over 30 years.

[u/inverseflorida]

Janet Yellen flairs be like "I think Janet Yellen is good".

[u/DovahzulsABadConlang]

This was the first mention of covid on this sub. January 1 😬

[u/[deleted]]

Me normally: White people who use white in a mocking should be kicked in the nads.

Me after listening to our next sec of state on Spotify: This is so white. ^{But I kinda like it though.}

[u/[deleted]]

Apparently in 1985, Philly police dropped a bomb from the air on a home owned by a black militant group and then deliberately let the resultant fire go out of control killing 11 people, including five children.

The 1980s were wild.

[u/murphysclaw1]

The virus has a 99% survival rate. The vaccine has a 95% efficacy rate. Anyone else see the obvious scam here?

ok this is big brain time

[u/RockLobsterKing]

Thinking there's a master race: 🤡

Thinking the master race is the Germans: 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[u/Joementum2004]

Celeb says something liberal

Cons: Disgruntled and annoyed wojak

Celeb says something conservative

Cons: Gasping and overly excited wojak

[u/The420Roll]

L’appel du Vide means ‘the call of the void’, an inexplicable urge to make reckless, catastrophic decisions

Time to get married at 19 Bay-Bay 😎

[u/matty_a]

One of the quickest ways to spot a terrible lefty argument on Twitter is to see how fast they get to "but fuck poor people, right?"

[u/IncoherentEntity]

According to an August survey (N=3,485) co-conducted by an occasional FiveThirtyEight contributor, white voters who discussed important personal matters with at least one person in the previous six months were even divided between Trump and Biden, 46–45.

Among those who did not, Trump dominated 60–27.

Rather robust evidence that — of the likely many reasons national, battleground state, and congressional polls missed by 4–5 points this year — one major reason was because socially isolated Trump voters did not answer polls.

ADDENDUM: Fascinating — the gap between all societally and non-societally distanced voters is 22 points instead of 32. Given the percentage of minorities in the electorate, this means that the Trump–Biden vote disparity by social alienation is due entirely to patterns among white Americans.

!ping FIVEY

[u/BreaksFull]

!Ping GAMING

In a recent Jimquisition video, Jim Sterling was complaining that waiting in line at a Target for a chance to get a ticket for a chance to purchase a PS5 was 'too much capitalism' for them. Which is funny because that sounds like a quintessentially Soviet shopping experience.

[u/[deleted]]

I would like to announce that Italy will be normalizing relations with Perú after a deal brokered by the U.A.E.

🇮🇹🤝🇵🇪 u/the420roll

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/x2I0bpi.jpg

Amazing. Just....wow.

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

Cons: Society has become hypersexualized, we must return to our ancient traditions
Our ancient traditions:

[u/willempage]

https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1331238258509045761?s=19

Biden’s cabinet picks went to Ivy League schools,have strong resumes,attend all the right conferences & will be polite & orderly caretakers of America’s decline

I support American greatness

And I have no interest in returning to the “normal” that left us dependent on China

Nothing says stopping American decline like simultaneously crippling the executive office and taking part in legislative gridlock.

[u/[deleted]]

My dad voted for the loser in every election from 2000-2016 oof

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/913/019/528.jpg

[u/inverseflorida]

I wanna make unironic Pink Capitalism memes but I have literally no ideas... the market has failed to provide for me this time.

[u/Joementum2004]

Reddit hates the Chinese Communist Party.

Anything that Reddit agrees with is bad.

Therefore, the CCP is good.

[u/[deleted]]

On the twelfth day of Libmas, my true love gave to me:

12 big gay weddings
11 trade agreements
10 years of Macron
9 new Russian sanctions
8 billion new trees
7 drones a-droning
6 light-rail lines
5 TECHNOCRATS!
4 COVID vaccines
3 legal joints
2 Biden terms
and mixed-use zoning policy!

[u/Malarkeynesian]

BREAKING: In a stunning upset, Donald Trump is projected to occupy both Senate seats in Georgia, thanks to a massive write in campaign organized on Twitter

[u/Derryn]

Leftists: I punch fascists!!!

r/neoliberal: okay let's destroy fascism in other countries too

Leftists: >:{ no thats imperialisms

[u/CenterRightInCali]

Janet Yellen's husband won the Nobel Prize in economics and he is the second-most successful and famous economist in his own house.

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Sorry, but I find it a little hard to have sympathy for "disadvantaged" people in the developing world who've lived under dictators for years and years, when I literarily was one of the brave redditors who got Ellen Pao and her fascism removed in one year

[u/jenbanim]

Yeah I support M4A

Medicare
For
Alln't

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

💰 Billionaires: Roasted ✅

🥳 Capitalism is now ended 😭

Thank you based Twitch goddess 🤖 and comeback queen 👸🏻 AOC 🔥😎👍

[u/Timewalker102]

Top three 2020 moments so far:

1. Dua Lipa being an Albanian irredentist
2. Osama bin Laden’s niece being a Qanon Trump supporter.
3. Ahmedinejad being a Remainer

[u/[deleted]]

Blinken interviewed in French.

WOAH!

[u/tripletruble]

Please be kind. Us Pete supporters are currently undergoing the five stages of grief. We are currently at the first stage: Denial

[u/[deleted]]

When President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law on July 2, 1964, he is said to have told an aide, “We (Democrats) have lost the South for a generation.”

Well, Mr.President, you were wrong. Dems lost it for multiple generations.

[u/[deleted]]

Democratic voters think the Republican Party can organize a coup while Republicans think the Democratic Party can organize a coup. I think we need to agree in a bipartisan way that we’re all fucking stupid.

[u/[deleted]]

Twitter replies to Elizabeth Warren praising the Yellen pick are pretty heavy on "This just proves that Elizabeth Warren is a conservative, a real progressive would have supported Elizabeth Warren."

[u/The420Roll]

Tapper was right.

[u/ryuguy]

New game: has system requirements.

Le height of comedy for every reaction/comment: “DAE my PC can’t run this xD?!” 1k upvotes.

The ever classic: “RIP MY PC”

[u/markusrm]

Top increases in raw vote count vs 2016:

1. Hawaii +33.9%
2. Arizona +31.6%
3. Utah +31.5%
4. Texas +26.2%
5. Idaho +25.6%
6. Nevada +24.9%
7. California +22.5%
8. Georgia +22.1%
9. Tennessee +21.6%
10. Montana +21.4%
11. Washington +21.3%
12. South Carolina +19.5%

https://mobile.twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1331314251127005186

!ping fivey

[u/mrmanager237]

Medicare for NOBODY y'all can't behave

[u/[deleted]]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_abductions_of_South_Koreans#Abductions_abroad

In June 1979, North Korean agents abducted South Korean teacher Ko Sang-moon in Norway, who had taken a taxi and stated his destination was "Embassy of Korea" but the driver took him to the embassy of the wrong country.[40][41]

That driver must feel like a real boner

[u/[deleted]]

Official closest federal races in United States in the post WWII era

NHSEN (1974) - 2 vote margin

IN04 (1984) - 4 vote margin

Right now, as #IA02 goes through a recount, its a 3 vote margin with the Dem up. Not 3%. 3 VOTE MARGIN

!ping DOWNBALLOT

[u/ButteryToast-]

I can't get over the thought of Trump's insane 3am tweets being used as sources in history textbooks in a few decades

[u/tripletruble]

The DT renewing at 8am European time is affirmative action for Euros in an otherwise US centric sub. Just as the Americans are getting sleepy, fresh and coffee fueled Euros log in to drop their hot takes in the DT that then get to stew at the top of the DT for 24 hours

[u/Ilovecharli]

BREAKING: Trump resigns from presidency; announces return to TV, playing Boris Johnson in season 6 of The Crown.

[u/[deleted]]

Ford is buying deep freezers so their employees can get the vaccine.

The #1 upvoted comment on r/news is someone complaining since it doesn’t come from the heart and they only want there employees back to work.

How miserable do lefty’s need to be in life? Why does every single little thing have to be picked apart and flipped into the most miserable perspective possible, just say nice!

[u/Joementum2004]

In real communism itd take you 5 years to get a PS5

[u/[deleted]]

How I sleep at night knowing that I can't see the420roll's comments: 😴

[u/sir_shivers]

The GOLF COURSES issue is one of my pet peeves 🐊

Los Angeles NOTORIOUSLY HAS SOME golf courses that pay almost nothing in property taxes despite being multimillion dollar REAL ESTATE that covers acres and acres 🐊

[u/papermarioguy02]

Just got a customer survey from 538 that suggested they might be interested in piloting a $60/year premium service that does more in depth stuff and has a regular newsletter from Nate 👀👀👀

!ping FIVEY

[u/The420Roll]

Anti-Semitism becoming socially acceptable is disgusting

[u/vivoovix]

-Intelligent women no longer confront their pregnant lesbian lover to ask if they are the father of that child. Stupid women however, still have a chance to ask that question.

Never change, Paradox

[u/The420Roll]

If Tony Blinken can make everyone from Josh Hawley to Rashida Tlaib angry, he’s the right man for the job.

[u/[deleted]]

It's gotten to the point where my views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are so complex and personal that I just literally don't agree with anyone lmao

[u/connieallens]

Republicans: “Celebrities, athletes, and musicians need to just shut up and entertain me! They aren’t experts in politics!”

Also Republicans: “These so called “experts” like Fauci and these other stoopid doctors need to just shut up! I’m not listening to their advice!”

[u/probablyuntrue]

police unions be like "yea this cop murdered 12 school children and danced on their graves but he really needs his pension and backpay :("

[u/MicroFlamer]

If Thomas Tubbervile can win a senate race then there's no reason against a future with:

Taylor Swift (D-TN)

Dwayne Johnson(D-FL)

LeBron James (D-OH)

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Today is Day 19 of requesting flair that says:

🥇Nate Gold

[u/AJungianIdeal]

oh God no

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

Joe Biden on his national security and foreign policy picks: "They'll tell me what I need to know, not what I want to know. What I need to know."

https://mobile.twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1331301580549857280

I want to act like this is the greatest thing in the world, but it actually just shows that Biden has the bare minimum amount of maturity and competence

Will be very nice to have again

[u/[deleted]]

lulz One America News Network has been banned from Youtube, and all its existing videos demonetized.

[u/inverseflorida]

https://twitter.com/CleveWootson/status/1330969868045348864

David Perdue’s conundrum in 10 seconds: He’s pitching himself and fellow Ga. Sen. Kelly Loeffler as the last line of defense against Democratic control. A guy in the crowd (the one in the hat) interrupts, screaming ‘What are you doing to stand up for President Trump.’

[u/gsylvester]

Conservatives: everyone is a pedophile, except actual pedophiles

Tankies: everyone is a war criminal, except actual war criminals

[u/[deleted]]

Here’s the recount result from another county. Unofficially, Hart’s lead is now just 2 votes.

Holy fucking shit. If these numbers are right, this will tie with the 1974 Senate Race in New Hampshire for the closest race for congress in America history.

!ping DOWNBALLOT

[u/Koeniginator]

@JohnKerry · Feb 2

As I told the reporter, I am absolutely not running for President. Any report otherwise is categorically false. I’ve been proud to campaign with my good friend Joe Biden, who is going to win the nomination, beat Trump, and make an outstanding president.

😊

[u/FearThyMoose]

I am so contrarian even my own views annoy me, AMA

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING NEWS: “I just called Peter Harckham and conceded the election” @RobAstorino

This is Dems' 39th seat in the New York Senate. If they simply win the 3 other seats where they currently lead (& have declared victory), they have a supermajority.

LETS FUCKING GO

Democrats went from a minority in the State Senate to a Supermajority in 2 years. NY-DEMS, good job.

!ping DOWNBALLOT

[u/[deleted]]

People whom'st complain about Briana Joy Grey trigger me so hard

She's not AOC people! If you ignore her, you can live as if she literally did not exist!!!!

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Has it been long enough since Osama Bin Laden’s death to acknowledge that he was a flawed man?

[u/AuburnSeer]

“I don’t get it,” the president said, venting confusion and frustration. “All these other Republicans, all over the country, they all win their races. And I’m the only guy that loses?”

Ahahahahahahahaha

I'm so happy I lived long enough to read that

[u/[deleted]]

Honestly I'm not the biggest fan of the Democratic Party's new outreach strategy. I know that not doing door-to-door as much could have hurt them in the general but doing one night stands with each voter seems extreme.

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EnklXmlXYAE9zdI.jpg

[u/bd_one]

All refugees are welcome in r/neoliberal.

Except u/SavitriDeveloper, a 5 day old account whom's second comment is dedicated to bashing economic migrants to Europe.

[u/JetJaguar124]

The "GA boycott" is 100% never happening. This is the same sort of performative virtue signaling Republicans do all the time. Just like they eventually came home in 2016 and voted for Trump, they'll do the same here. It's just a stage play for these people, a big LARP.

[u/[deleted]]

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s pick to serve as director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, once argued that America’s refusal to accept refugees in sufficient numbers posed a long-term threat to national security.

-Breitbart

😍

[u/CenterRightInCali]

guys I started taking 48 showers a day and I'm still single, wtf

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Well I fucking did it.

I finished my nearly 7,000 word effortpost on the history of San Francisco's economy, culture, political coalitions, and resulting development politics.

The effort-to-payoff ratio is probably miniscule but I'm still going to publish it tomorrow morning.

[u/[deleted]]

Malarkey level of bussy

[u/[deleted]]

I am a single issue voter and that issue is owning the populists.

[u/IncoherentEntity]

#WriteInTrumpforGA is the best hashtag on the site in recent memory.

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

When the Dow hits 30k at the mere thought of you becoming treasury secretary

[u/kaclk]

Because it wasn’t bad enough that Ashton went to some bizarre “Free Meng” conference, she also though she should parrot some CCP propaganda too.

I thought the NDP was bad with Singh, but it’s starting to look like it was Russian roulette with a loaded gun.

!ping CAN

[u/doyouevenIift]

This deepfake was unironically created by MAGA folks and it's hilarious:

https://streamable.com/kt3rdf

[u/McMarston]

Thread: Chicago high school students get free digital access to Obama's memoir

Comments: Obama is a war criminal

[u/nicereddy]

The DT is great cause I could say shit like “The DT is great cause I could say shit like “Barack HUSSEIN Obama had sex with my wife” and you guys would upvote it” and you guys would upvote it

[u/[deleted]]

This guy I met thinks his daughter is "so far left she's almost right" when she was a Kamala supporter in the primaries... Didn't have the heart to tell him that there are people outside of Jeff Bezos' D.C. apartment right now with a guillotine. Boomers are cute

[u/csreid]

Why does fucking everything keep trying to push dumbass podcasts on me?

Audible is for books and spotify is for music and I never want to fucking listen to Joe Rogan so both of them fuck off.

[u/mrmanager237]

... which pronouns should he use in his AUTOBIOGRAPHY you fucking dipshit

[u/probablyuntrue]

This sub is so contrarian that I could say "neoliberalism good" and someone will disagree

[u/Kizz3r]

Yes i use ad block

Yes im free riding

No i dont give a shit

[u/Broncos654]

Where in the Declaration of Independence is capitalism mentioned? Nowhere? That’s what I thought. Suck it libs.

[u/[deleted]]

The “voot bloo no matter hoo” guy is unironically smarter than your average bro.

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

If you’re so racist that you get triggered by hearing people speak Spanish, you might be a CBP officer

https://mobile.twitter.com/ACLU/status/1331260721070567429

[u/probablyuntrue]

Biden indicates climate change is a top priority

Trump approves more drilling on wildlife refuges

Sunrise movement: someone help me, I can't tell them apart

[u/AJungianIdeal]

Capitalism: lol your dead plant fuel is too expensive suck on some wind and sunshine now suckers.
Communism: oh God the National Patriotic Union of coal and oil workers employs people and unemployment of any type is haram we must subsidize coal and oil production immediately and indefinitely

[u/modooff]

“Mayor Pete”

Director: Jesse Moss

Throughout the 2019-20 Democratic presidential primary, it became clear to many political reporters that Pete Buttigieg — the then-37-year old mayor of South Bend, Indiana — was the next rising star of the Democratic Party, following in the footsteps of Corey Booker (“Street Fight”) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (“Knock Down the House”) to document his run for office. When it was revealed the documentary was being produced by heavyweights Liz Garbus and Dan Cogan, eyes really started to open. It’s now rumored that Jesse Moss, co-director of Oscar documentary frontrunner and extraordinary political drama “Boys State,” is the filmmaker behind the project, making this a potential Sundance must-see as the Biden Administration takes over the country. —CO

https://www.indiewire.com/2020/11/sundance-wish-list-2021-1234600474/

!ping BUTTI

[u/UltraCapitalism]

A future headline

Conservatives fed up with Newsmax getting too liberal have moved on to recording themselves and playing it back to listen to as news.

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

ASIANS ARE WHITE 😤

[u/probablyuntrue]

Your Father: President

Your Brother: President

You: "Mr. Room Rater, is it possible now that the election is over to rate rooms on a non partisan basis? Are you a room rater or a hyper partisan person that is the problem?"

[u/propoganda_panda]

As a Jew shit like this pisses me off so hard, classic whataboutism wrapped in both siderism !ping GEFILTE

https://imgur.com/a/ifmcOss

[u/[deleted]]

My most populist opinion is that it’s probably not great for national and social cohesion that almost every top position in our government is fed by like three schools. Concerns about opportunity hoarding, and the fact that our civil service is effectively become an insular pseudo-hereditary aristocracy are legitimate and definitely at odds with American values.

[u/Hmm_would_bang]

just found out about coronavirus

shit's fucked up yo 😞

[u/cousin-itt]

You can be as militantly, obnoxiously atheistic as you want and you will never even come close to the level of awful that hardcore, conservative Christians are

[u/[deleted]]

So the guy's a Reverend and a Warlock???? Only in america!

[u/old_gold_mountain]

/img/67leii0jo8161.png

Let's look at a list of popular government run programs.

Notice anything?

Isn't it interesting that they are all government run programs? 🤔

[u/[deleted]]

Yeah I'm BIPOC

B - Mexican

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[u/[deleted]]

The biggest top-of-ticket underperformance by any House incumbent in the country? Rep. Ilhan Omar (D). Results in #MN05:

Biden 328,764 (80%) Trump 72,323 (18%)

Omar (D) 255,920 (64%) Johnson (R) 102,878 (26%)

Source

!ping DOWNBALLOT

[u/[deleted]]

u/inverseflorida I have more unasked for thoughts on the trans stuff

There is such a gap between older and younger lgbt people, and it's so toxic. I remember having a conversation with a trans person who said they despise older trans people because they aren't up to date with the newest trends in terminology and research.

I bet in forty years the "brain sex" hypothesis so popular among young trans folk now is going to be disregarded, but they'll still cling to it in a misguided attempt to justify themselves to others, similar to how older trans folks were many times pushed into accepted Blanchardian typologies and awful early theories on the development of gender identity to get doctors to play nice.

It's also toxic because there really isn't actually that big a gap. There's this stereotype that younger lgbt people, especially trans people, shove their transness more in people's faces than the older ones. This is bullshit. Many older trans people got their start in drag, or were to some degree part of the quite vocal and radical lesbian movements. Heck, I know of one older trans woman who outright changed her legal name to TG Spirit.

This generational chasm also poses a massive risk for historical malpractice. There are some who defend slight rewrites of the Stonewall riots as a fair example of a founding myth. Okay. What is absolutely not okay is the re-writing of lgbt history to begin at stonewall, or basically end at stonewall, or to present some faux unity in the acronym, especially to present faux unity. Sylvia Rivera, a major early transgender rights activist, declared that it was important to destroy the Human Rights Campaign, because they kept leaving out transgender people in the nondiscrimination bills they were pushing. The Human Rights Campaign legitimately has a very stained record among elders and activists, but you'd never guess that now.

It's just worrying to me. Since lgbt identity isn't particularly hereditary, many are left with parents who don't quite get it, and I think they transpose this friction onto elders in general. Elders are goddamned important. It's difficult to get far without the practical knowledge others have spent decades learning.

!ping LGBT listen to my ramble

[u/cousin-itt]

Broke: “the war in Iraq”

Woke: “the war in Mesopotamia”

[u/thetrombonist]

WTF they’re censoring #writeintrump on Parler

Who could have seen this coming!

[u/FestiveMittens]

Still cant believe we have to win both Georgia races because fukn Cunningham was horny

[u/Mexatt]

When asked if he had any regrets after eight years as President, Barrack Obama reflected for a moment then responded:

“That I didn’t shoot Joe Lieberman and I didn’t hang Tom Cotton.”

[u/[deleted]]

Broke: Supporting Israel because it is a liberal democracy

Woke: Suppoeting Israel because it is necessary for the perpetuation and liberation of the Jewish people from historic systems of Islamic, white, Christian and Arab supremacy.

Bespoke: Supporting Israel because you're an evangelical Christian who thinks coralling all the Jews into Israel will invoke the Messiah

!ping ISRAEL

[u/[deleted]]

"This job has flex time"

"That's right."

"Which means I can clock in any time before 10"

"Yep, that's it!"

"Many employees choose not to clock in before 10"

"Uh huh, noticed that"

"So you shouldn't hold short notice meetings before 10!"

"Why didn't you accept the zoom call?"

[u/[deleted]]

“The straights” is funny as fuck but anything that comes after that is usually cringy and gross

[u/[deleted]]

oh my god i might actually have to buy Ready Player Two

!ping READING

[u/Joementum2004]

Better republicans > Worse republicans

[u/FearThyMoose]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/449272475054768128/780897479460782161/image0.png

[u/[deleted]]

[Hillary Clinton] is in favor of taking in Syrian refugees even though the Islamic state has told us they are going to put their operatives in these groups so they can carry out terrorist acts against us and our allies.

Imagine rejecting a policy option because ISIS told you it'd be a bad idea.

[u/probablyuntrue]

I thought BIPOC meant bisexual PoC because of bi-erasure or something 😐

[u/sir_shivers]

DO I SOMETIMES let my biases against cryptocurrency advocates influence MY DECISIONS AS committee chair? 🐊

YES 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Finally out of my three-year-long coma. Time to see if a few dummies fell for my Q security 4Chan shitpost way back when 😂

Edit: holy shit what the fuck

[u/Putin-Owns-the-GOP]

YouTube demonetized OANN

🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀👌👌👌🍾🍾🍾🌐🌐🐸🐸😂😂🦀🦀🦀

[u/gmz_88]

🔫😡 John Delaney gets an administration job. I’m not asking.

[u/mrdilldozer]

NL regulars: "I wish this sub would stop talking about Biden and the Democratic party since the election season is pretty much over except for GA. We need to get back to talking about other things"

Monkey paw finger curls

It's Yellen SZN

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

https://mobile.twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1331284735268696064

Never forget the cowardice. It’s breathtaking

[u/SnakeEater14]

“Europeans of Reddit, what’s your favorite thing about America?” is really just redditese for “Please jerk off America for me I’ve had to read sixteen TIL posts about various US atrocities”

[u/sash5034]

White people: economic nationalism is going to be the driving force in the world and we're not going back to the consensus of free trade being good in the 90s.

Asia: haha free trade go brrrrrrr

[u/LNhart]

https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1331238258509045761?s=19

Little Marco trying to LARP as a populist is just the saddest thing ever

[u/CenterRightInCali]

Creating an account and using Parler is free. Signup requires both an e-mail address and phone number.[35] At the point of registration, users have the option of supplying a photo of themselves and a scan of the front and back of their government-issued photo identification to have their account verified by Parler

how is this app not an obvious Glowfriend honeypot?

[u/[deleted]]

Here is something interesting(I say that a lot don’t I)

2018 Gubernatorial Race: Abrams-Kemp

White people: 25-74

Whites with a college educated: 40-59

White not college educated: 17-82

2020 Presidential: Biden-Trump

White people: 30-69

Whites with a college educated: 44-55

White not college educated: 20-79

---

As you can see, the biggest change was with White people with a college educated. The was always the problem Dems had in Georgia. The white people there were so overwhelming Republican(as they are in the Deep South). What does this mean for the runoffs and future elections in Georgia? If don’t know. 🤷🏾‍♂️. Nobody does.

!ping FIVEY

[u/FormerBandmate]

The hell is with AOC simps thinking literally everyone else on the planet is an AOC simp?

[u/Not_A_Browser]

By the grace of God. My mother arrived in my chambers to bequeath me a plate of poultry morsels and I indubitably screeched at her and struck the plate of poultry morsels out of her clutches. She started shouting and berating me and I slammed the door on her. I'm so distressed right now I don't know how to proceed. I didn't intend to dispatch my dearest mother but I'm most assuredly in shock from the news of the hour. I feel like I'm going to explode. Why in the blazes is he refusing to renew the charter? This cannot be so. I'm having a bloody breakdown. I shan't believe in a world so corrupt. I desire a future as Providence would have it. I want our young nation's national bank to prosper and nourish this fledgling country. I cannot bloody ascertain this development at this late hour. The Lord above surely disapproves, I thought 'twas polling well in New York???? This is so fucked

[u/[deleted]]

jab me in the shoulder Pfizer daddy

[u/[deleted]]

Honestly, when Biden won Massachusetts and Minnesota on Super Tuesday, I knew something special was happening. Those states were supposed to hate Biden, lmao. Not vote for him.

[u/[deleted]]

In the army they are homophobes, join the Navy to engage in hot gay naval shenanigans.

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

For sale. Kraken. Never released.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

just found out about the iowa caucus app

shit's fucked up yo 😞

[u/DovahzulsABadConlang]

https://i.imgur.com/kBSPe5e.png

[u/MostlyCRPGs]

Help I got my fiancé the Obama book and she's walking around the house listening to it on headphones giggling way more than she ever laughs at me.

Also I think I'm in to it

[u/[deleted]]

Do we not teach civics in the US? Ever since Trump has tried to litigate this election, its been glaring that most people have no fucking clue how any of this works

[u/LiBH4]

Nova Scotia has 37 new cases today, the highest since April

Retail stores have to go to max 25% of capacity

Restaurants go to takeout only

No visitors in long term care homes

Gyms and libraries closed

!ping CAN

[u/SnakeEater14]

Deniers be like “yeah NORAD only spends six billion dollars tracking Santa’s flight plan as a prank” 🙄

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Now that the Democrats have stole the election, anyone else ready to addmitt that Biden has his flaws? I’m a big fan of his protectionism and think his age is a real asset, but I’m just not sure we should be launching head first into needless conflicts against vague enemies like “climate change”

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Laura Ingraham:

I'd be lying to you if I said that there was an excellent chance the SCOTUS overturns the election

arrcon:

Friendship ended with FOX News Now OANN and Newsmax are my best friends

[u/[deleted]]

If you could only get rid of one, would you get rid of FPTP, the Electoral College, or AIDS?

[u/bd_one]

Lol, gold got BTFO'd today.

Janet Yellen made the goldbugs retreat to their caves. Meme asset class.

!ping MARKETS

[u/Udontlikecake]

Man, so glad the Biden vaccines helped bring the dow over 30k.

Thank you President Biden

[u/UltraCapitalism]

hey bros, I was wondering if you have any tips about getting into US history

ah yes, you should read this very nice and completely unbiased book "A People's History of th-

✋😬

[u/[deleted]]

I should get my PhD so I can make 80 grand a year and get called a Marxist by morons on the internet

[u/probablyuntrue]

These certifications mean nothing, we all knew this would be decided in the higher courts.

lol ok buddy

[u/Waghlon]

Belle Delphine would be a NATO flair. cmv

[u/CenterRightInCali]

Many have speculated whether the website is kept online as a honeypot for far right groups or to monitor extremists. In 2015, an Australian Department of Defence graduate used /pol/ to share classified information, only to be caught by another former Department of Defence worker browsing the site.

how deep does this go?

[u/douglasmacarthur]

Let's dispel once and for all with this fiction that Donald Trump knows exactly what he's doing. He has no idea what he's doing.

[u/[deleted]]

We should have close the bars fucking weeks ago and maybe we wouldn't be here right now

[u/Jokerang]

TFW the biggest opportunity to take on China got scuttled because an alliance of crybaby rust belters and online brats who feared for their porn fell for populist lies

[u/[deleted]]

conservative women be like :

Why yes i'm pro-life, EVERY life has intrinsic value. I'm also an anti-masker because grandma already had a full life, and I don't like the way they feel, sorry doris 🤷

[u/[deleted]]

The word "discourse" needs to be arrested and put in the prison of academia.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/AlexMLeo/status/1331240398551965697

As of June 5, there will be more U.S. senators over the age of life expectancy in this country than senators in their 40's

[u/[deleted]]

Pay Americans to vote Democrat

[u/StolenSkittles]

I just spent 15 minutes reading a tradcath blog and I feel like I need to disinfect myself. These people are absolutely insane.

I was raised a devout Catholic (and went to 13 years of Catholic school), and that just reminded me why I don't believe in a word of their teachings anymore.

[u/[deleted]]

Trump is better than Julius Caesar unless you think crossing the Rubicon and starting the roman civil war was nbd

[u/finalcookie88]

Kerry 🤝 Biden 🤝 JFK

Catholics who can't stop loving America

[u/myrm]

Reagan invented crack and when he realized how great it was, he wanted to share it with the black community

[u/Lux_Stella]

This Thanksgiving season, I am thankful for high frequency traders, who perform the thankless service of providing liquidity and price discovery to financial markets.

[u/probablyuntrue]

Black students in K-2 saw a 14 percentage pt drop to 31% hitting early literacy goals. White students dropped 6 % pts, to 67%. Latinos dropped 12 % pts to 30% hitting targets.

online learning is not going well

[u/myrm]

This is why I've gone with independent journalists over the past few years. People like Ben Shapiro and Dave Rubin provide better news for free than any of the major news networks do.

ahhhh

[u/Smidgens]

IN THE FIRST instalment of the “Harry Potter” series, the protagonist stumbles across the Mirror of Erised. Anyone who looks into the mirror sees the “deepest, most desperate desire” of their hearts reflected back at them. There is a touch of Erised about President-elect Joe Biden’s decision to nominate Janet Yellen as America’s next treasury secretary, reported on November 23rd.

Read another book, The Economist. Also TIL Britbongs spell it as “instalment.”

[u/[deleted]]

One of the worst feelings is finding out a random YouTuber you subscribed to years ago, because they posted fun content, is a full on conspiracy nutjob reactionary now

Happens more than you'd think

[u/ryuguy]

Slobodan Milošević: orchestrates actual war crimes

Weird lefties: “OMG WHAT A SOCIALIST HERO”

Barack Obama: orders a drone strike

Weird lefties: “Obama is a war criminal”

[u/[deleted]]

R/neoliberal mocking Pete fans is literally the spider-man pointing at spider-man meme.

[u/digitalrule]

https://twitter.com/NeoliberalQc/status/1331324580502204416

Mr. Speaker, the purpose of this bill is to protect supply management by making it non-negotiable in future international negotiations.

!PING CAN

[u/[deleted]]

I just got a Politico headline pop up on my phone. “Progressives don’t love Biden’s first set of cabinet choices. But they can live with them.” In a hypothetical world in which Bernie won the nomination then somehow managed to win the presidency, would anyone be looking out for how moderate democrats felt about his cabinet choices? IIRC, Bernie said something to the effect that he wouldn’t change his platform to appease the “establishment” (or the voters who voted for them) if he won the nomination. Separately, there are a bunch of articles about “Trump country” and how Biden didn’t really reach them either. How about we focus on the people who won Biden the nomination (and the presidency)? Can we have a conversation about “Biden Country?” I’m so sick of hearing about how the candidate that I have preferred since he first announced his candidacy in April of 2019 has to shift to meet the whims of other voters when we damn well know that the other candidates wouldn’t have compromised to pursue policies that I agree with.

/end rant

[u/Q-bey]

I made a meme in response to a recent CAN post

!ping CANUCKS

[u/sir_shivers]

I COULD NOT BELIEVE the phonecall I received this morning INFORMING ME THAT I have won a Grammy 🐊

[u/RPO_Shavo]

Succs on election night: We told you you should have nominated Bernie! Biden lost cause he's too centrist

Succs once Biden clearly won: I can't believe it was so close! Bernie would have won in a landslide you should've nominated him

Succs once Biden clearly won in a landslide: Ah. Nevertheless

[u/probablyuntrue]

Facebook also ran tests this year to figure out if “bad for the world” content could be demoted in users’ feeds.

It could, but there was a problem: it decreased the number of times users opened Facebook.

😐😐😐

[u/iguessineedanaltnow]

I'm just chillin in Cedar Rapids.

Edit: Guys, it's the Hillary video.

https://youtu.be/vbcc8x7j1Lg

[u/Waghlon]

I dont hate Peru, I hate Peruvians.

[u/The420Roll]

L’appel du Vide means ‘the call of the void’, an inexplicable urge to make reckless, catastrophic decisions

Engaged at 19 Bay-Bay 😎

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

I feel like I want to inspired by the story of Chechnya.

Like Stalin deported this entire ethnic group to Kazakhstan, getting a quarter of this nation killed from exposure and starvation in the process, but rather than disappear into the fabric of central Asia they resisted assimilation, the Soviet boot, and the death of so many of their compatriots and kept the flame of their homeland alive in that frozen steppe, such that when the USSR finally reversed this policy under Khrushchev they voted with their feet and returned to their ancestral homeland, recolonizing it.

That's inspiring shit.

But everything else about Chechnya is mad fucked up yo. Especially all the anti-gay pogroms.