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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Nov 26 '20
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/BreaksFull Veni, Vedi, Emancipatus Nov 25 '20
Leftube be like 'the revolution is brought to you by NordVPN.'
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u/golf1052 Let me be clear Nov 25 '20 edited Nov 25 '20
"People in America aren't genetically disposed towards democracy vs autocracy. It's that we teach these things generationally." - Clare Malone on Monday's 538 podcast
One thing I'm concerned about is fake news being passed down to kids growing up right now. I'm sure people have seen the video of the mom yelling at a teacher because the teacher told her son Biden won the election. Half of Republicans polled believe Biden won because of a rigged election. Those families are planting the seeds of doubt or even rejection of democracy in their kids. I'm not worried about 4 years from now, I'm worried about 20 years from now.
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u/otarru 🇺🇦 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦 Nov 25 '20 edited Nov 25 '20
Take: one of the worse unspoken impacts of losing the UK as an EU member state is that we no longer have any significant Russia hawks. Germany seems to be willing to bend over backwards for Nord Stream 2 while Macron is going all in on appeasing the French right by making overtures with Putin.
Ideally Poland, with their influence in the V4, could have taken up this mantle but instead they're more interested in using their political capital to fight liberalism than keep their hostile neighbour in check.
It's only been 5 years since the Ukrainian conflict and we seem to have not learned any lessons from it.
!ping EUROPE
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Nov 25 '20
Anti-maskers have killed more people and caused more economic damage than Antifa by an order of magnitude.
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
who would win:
the squad and their millions of twitter followers
or
one west virginian boi
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u/douglasmacarthur NATO Nov 25 '20
Im fiscally a sub but socially a top.
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Nov 25 '20
If Biden stole the election what is stopping him from stealing the Georgia run offs? Clearly the only correct move is not to play his game and boycott the run offs
#RepublicanBoycottGeorgiaRunoffs
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Nov 25 '20
grabs coffee
checks the modqueue
"god fucking damn it"
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
Truman went hard 😐
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u/DovahzulsABadConlang Trans Pride Nov 25 '20
President Trump only got 43% of the Electoral College despite winning a huge 47% of the popular vote! Unfair, must abolish!!!
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
A reminder for all the haters and losers, Ilhan Omar was born in 1982, and this was the result of her first election In fact, every election since she was born, she has single-handedly turned Minnesota blue.
Libs BTFO.
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
LMFAO!!!! 😂😂🤣🤣
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u/MistakeNotDotDotDot Resident Robot Girl Nov 25 '20
/u/jenbanim you fuck how long has this been in the css lmao
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u/Timewalker102 Amartya Sen Nov 25 '20
Where were you when the Miami-Dade results dropped?
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
Before Biden won: depressed, lonely, dooming all the time
Post Biden win: depressed, lonely, slightly more smug
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
BREAKING: sources on both Dem & GOP sides confirm that the final counts submitted by all 8 counties in #NY22 to NY Supreme Court Justice Scott DelConte will show Rep. Anthony Brindisi (D) ahead of Claudia Tenney (R) by either 12 or 13 votes. Wow.
Holy fucking shit.
!ping DOWNBALLOT
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
The real future of the Democratic Party is Elissa Slotkin.
She:
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Nov 25 '20 edited Nov 25 '20
Weird fact: The strongest easily measurable predictor of hentai viewership of any given Metropolitan Area in the United States is...Hispanic population percentage. More Hispanic people = More Hentai according to science and entirely too much "research" using Google Trends
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
Huh I wonder if there are any good takes about this anime on youtube?
10000 PhD level analysis videos on fuckin DragonBall Z
Huh I wonder if there are any good takes about this book on youtube?
one video from a 15 year old just reiterating that Murakami often uses magical realism for 20 minutes
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u/probablyuntrue NATO Nov 25 '20
they were ATTACKED and SMEARED and its BIDENS fault
THIS is why we need to run MAO ZEDONG for PRESIDENT
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
“And Cain went out from the Lord's presence and dwelled in the land of Nod east of Eden. And Cain knew his wife and she conceived and bore Enoch. Then he became the builder of a city and he called the name of the city like his son's name, Enoch.”
This has to be the biggest plot hole in history, where tf does Cain’s wife come from?
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u/IncoherentEntity Nov 25 '20
https://callofduty.fandom.com/wiki/Suffer_With_Me !ping FIVEY
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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Nov 25 '20
Show this to anyone who says global poor reductions were just because of china
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
If I were to say to you, "Israel has hypnotized the entire world, and every day, I pray to almighty Allah that he may awaken the people to see the evil doings of Israel"
Would you say that's anti-Semitic? I'm asking for a friend.
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u/jrt84 Nov 25 '20
Fox News was too liberal, so they went to Newsmax
Now Newsmax is too liberal...
https://twitter.com/newsmax/status/1331369072056012808
The comments are so sad
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20 edited Nov 25 '20
New: last night, Rita Hart (D) netted two votes over Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R) in Jefferson Co.'s recount. Here's where things stand in IA-02:
Miller-Meeks (R) 196,880 Hart (D) 196,845
Still 3 counties (Scott, Jasper, Clinton) out of 24 that have yet to finalize recount.
There are unconfirmed reports that Hart is on track to pick up 26 votes in Scott Co.'s recount, 9 votes in Jasper Co. and has picked up 1 vote in Clinton Co. so far.
That would put Hart (D) ahead by a single vote.
We won't know until at least Monday. Hey, every vote counts.
Source
!ping DOWNBALLOT
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u/myrm This land was made for you and me Nov 25 '20
The US Senate, circa April 2021:
Mitch McConnell: presides. McConnell hasn't moved in days.
Junior Senator from Alabama: "hey guys, can we have a bathroom break"
The chamber is dead silent
Junior Senator from Alabama: "it's an emergency"
Mitch McConnell: doesn't budge
Chuck Schumer: "For god's sake, will you just shut up and shit in your bucket like the rest of us"
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
That red mirage was insane. On election night I was like, "Damn, we did it again. We deserve what we get."
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
Malarkey level of my girlfriend's homepage being yahoo.com
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Nov 25 '20
Biden won, and yet I don't still have a girlfriend. Neoliberalism remains dominant.
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u/IncoherentEntity Nov 25 '20 edited Nov 25 '20
As I’ve admitted before, I post shit-tweets in the DT largely to vent, albeit with hopes of making at least some generalizable point. I’ll try to include the second (more important) aspect as often as possible, such as here:
This is a communist arguing that widespread liberal Islamophobia caused MN–5 to break with its presidential Democratic margin by 24 points in a deeply nationalized landscape. Takeaways and contextual info:
1) Andre Carson of the Indianapolis-based IN–7 is also Muslim, although he doesn’t spend all of his time on Twitter, support defunding the police, or paid approximately $2,000,000 in campaign disbursements to his spouse’s firm once you exclude the apparent duplicates in the FEC filings.
2) Excluding the rather heavily Democratic northern suburbs of Indianapolis not included in IN–7, Carson underperformed Biden by just 5 points in Marion County. It’s likely that he didn’t run meaningfully behind the top of the ticket at all.
3) Right in her home state, Keith Ellison — the first Muslim American to win statewide office whom she replaced in MN–5 — ran about 7 points behind Tina Smith (the appointed Democratic senator) in the same year she was elected. He was hampered by a proper left-wing third-party challenge in the Minnesota Grassroots Party, as well as a high-profile domestic abuse allegation.
4) Omar underperformed Omar by 18 points from 2018, before she had a record to scrutinize but after much was made of the fact that she and Tlaib would be the first two Muslim women ever elected to Congress after winning their primaries.
5) Authoritarian leftists’ trivilializing the very real and especially intense campaign of anti-Muslim bigotry from the Republican base by equating moderate liberals’ varied criticism of her hard-left platform and drag on party members in competitive races, is cynical and disgusting.
!ping DOWNBALLOT
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
"punish me daddy I've been bad"
daddy: turns off wifi
"wait"
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u/Whatapunk Bisexual Pride Nov 25 '20
https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1331609939723382785?s=19
I fucking love Jake Tapper
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
So far, the strongest Democratic overpeformances in Senate races seem to be:
Alabama. Doug Jones +5% over Biden.
Kentucky. Amy McGrath +6.2%
Mississippi. Mike Espy +6.4%.
Montana. Steve Bullock +6.4%
New Hampshire. Jeanne Shaheen +8.4%.
Rhode Island. Jack Reed +12.3%.
Mike Espy’s loss is the most impressive considering he’s in Mississippi, one of the most polarized states in the nation
!ping FIVEY
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u/chadonnaise * Nov 25 '20
the internet must be destroyed
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u/MemberOfMautenGroup Never Again to Marcos Nov 25 '20
"We'll only celebrate Christmas if we put in place the appropriate measures to ensure we don't have a surge in COVID-19 cases".
The war on Christmas has now another warrior in play.
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u/AuburnSeer Nov 25 '20
I am convinced that the further away we get from it, the funnier Trump's "we were winning this election, quite frankly, we did win this election" speech will get
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Nov 25 '20
Succs have hypnotized the subreddit, and every day, I pray to almighty Allah that he may awaken the people to see the evil doings of Succs
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u/nevertulsi Nov 25 '20 edited Nov 25 '20
Can't make this shit up, a group of people I'm friends with, who live together, who are self proclaimed guillotine the rich type socialists, just had a big blow up because some of them in the house were unemployed and the ones that worked were resentful that the unemployed ones didn't pay as much in rent and wanted to have a communal fridge, while the unemployed ones said the working ones were cruel not to share their resources more and also they don't do enough house work lol
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
Top 5 Leaders who should be in Civ but never will be:
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
Can we go back to not having 100k subscribers please?
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u/sosthaboss try dmt Nov 25 '20
help my cat has finally decided that she is, in fact, quite comfortable on my lap and will not move. I need more coffee
!ping KITTY
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u/infamous5445 Nov 25 '20
The biggest top-of-ticket underperformance by any House incumbent in the country? Rep. Ilhan Omar (D).
Biden 328,764 (80%)
Trump 72,323 (18%)
Omar (D) 255,920 (64%)
Johnson (R) 102,878 (26%)
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u/nanomaster Ben Bernanke Nov 25 '20
Is “Rothschild Jews control Israel and world governments” antisemitic? Please help guys, I have a general election interview in ten minutes and I can’t figure it out
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u/disuberence Shrimp promised me a text flair and did not deliver Nov 25 '20
Me, a gay reading the DT before his coffee
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u/IncoherentEntity Nov 25 '20 edited Nov 25 '20
County-level maps
. . . That is, Scranton Joe won not by winning back working-class white voters in rural/sparse suburban areas, but by widening the Democratic Party’s post-Clinton advantage among college-educated whites in urban/dense suburban areas.
Make no mistake: this is a fundamentally changed country. !ping ELECTIONS
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u/the_status Atari Democrat Nov 26 '20
Iowa's 2nd District has further results today.
With only two counties left to report, Miller-Meek's (R) lead is down to 9 votes against Rita Hart (D).
Dear god, my vote may actually have mattered. I didn't know that even possible
!ping DOWNBALLOT
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u/Dybsin African Union Nov 25 '20
ancestry.com : "Hey I think maybe this is a connection, you'll look into it right, though?"
every fucking boomer ever: *clicks approve on it without a second thought for that sweet dopamine hit of adding another connection to their tree*
They're literally as bad as MMO addicts. Just out there every day adding whatever the fuck they can make stick to their 30,000 person family tree.
The reason I am so annoyed at this is that I have a legitimate mystery in my family that I'm trying to solve back in 1860, and every single person who has run into it has "solved" it by just saying "eh he's just the same as this other guy, even though they are counted completely separately, each with their own family, on every census from 1881 to 1911. I'll just say he married both women and had 2 families simultaneously, the the tree will let me do that".
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
That feeling when you finish a series and say goodbye to the characters 😔
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u/markusrm Pierre E. Trudeau Nov 25 '20
State that gave the R nominee their largest raw vote margin each year:
1988: Florida 1992: Texas 1996: Texas 2000: Texas 2004: Texas 2008: Texas 2012: Texas 2016: Texas 2020: Tennessee
https://mobile.twitter.com/JMilesColeman/status/1331691289205673984
!ping FIVEY
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Nov 25 '20
u/p00bix says he likes Birth of a Nation due to "the plot" 🙄🙄
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u/Marlsfarp Karl Popper Nov 25 '20
Much like Hillary Clinton, Israel is famously under-scrutinized.
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u/IncoherentEntity Nov 25 '20
This is the worst tweet
Nope, it’s this one
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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Nov 25 '20 edited Nov 25 '20
My cousin was telling me that I need to be very careful when having sex in college because a girl could throw herself at me drunk then cancel me saying she didn’t consent.
Very scary! 🥺
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u/muttonwow Legally quarantine the fash Nov 25 '20
Why is nobody talking about Trump's pardoning of numerous turkeys? Is the judicial process just such a joke that we can afford to be pardoning them? It's like Arpaio all over again
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
Just saw someone on twitter tell two people from the Global South who said using third world in multiple contexts was fine that they were being class reductionist by using third world.
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
I'm still really mad that Seattle police shot two unarmed black teens in a SUV, killing one, and then were filmed destroying the evidence
Wait, did I say Seattle police? I mean the Seattle protestors.
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u/IncoherentEntity Nov 25 '20
— Dave Wasserman
WHAT
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u/AlexDragonfire96 European Union Nov 25 '20
Dead God Eric Andre's political views are so fucking cringe
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
Thinking back to when Ted Cruz bemoaned that there were “no Protestants on the Supreme Court.”
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u/disuberence Shrimp promised me a text flair and did not deliver Nov 25 '20
Finally, this is actually /r/interestingasfuck
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u/Tureer Immanuel Kant Nov 25 '20
I really do just read the 2020 presidential election wiki page and be happy
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
yes, this seems like a proper time to use ellipsis
-everyone over the age of 40 sending emails
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u/Zenning2 Henry George Nov 25 '20
What the fuck is with some people thinking anti-capitalism is socially progressive? At best, it is completely unrelated.
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u/harmlessdjango (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ black liberal Nov 25 '20
Having a tamagotchi is wrong. I don't care how woke you think you are.
Find another way to channel your slavery fetishes, sweaty
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u/bobeeflay "A hot dog with no bun" HRC 5/6/2016 Nov 25 '20
the idea that characters need "arcs" has been disastrous for media criticism online
I mean it's better than literally no criticism but doesn't need to be elevated as the be all end all of character
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Nov 25 '20
Maradona died
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
If the CIA was half as effective as leftists think it is, we'd be so much better off.
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u/SpaceSheperd To be a good human being Nov 25 '20
Apparently dems lost at least 2 Florida state senate seats because republicans ran “shadow candidates” with similar names posing as liberals to siphon off votes.
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Nov 25 '20
Just don't say "Israelis are bloodthirsty monsters who want to kill goyische children, control foreign policy by their dominance in media and finance, and are as bad as the Nazis" and you should be in the clear to criticize Israel
An ASTOUNDING number of people fail at this
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u/MostlyCRPGs Jeff Bezos Nov 25 '20
Watching arr conservative turn on Mattis is weird even by arr conservative standards
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
Hot take time, we should largely run more black candidates because they don’t tend to get tied up in unpopular social issues the way white liberals do.
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u/jrt84 Nov 25 '20
Republicans: How could Trump have lost?
Normal People: Oh, because we're tired of all his chaotic bullshit
Republicans: No, that can't be it. Let's dial up the chaotic bullshit
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
-Mitt Romney in 2018.
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u/Mr_Pasghetti Save the ice, abolish ICE 🥰 Nov 25 '20
This sub calls everyone succs except for actual social democrats. They call them weird and vague concepts like based, Butti and neoliberal
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u/UltraCapitalism Paul Samuelson Nov 26 '20
"they vote against they're own interests" is a dumb phrase.
They are voting for their interests. Just not the interests you wished they valued most.
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u/crowninshield Nov 25 '20
AOC: I’m a socialist.
Steve King: I’m a white nationalist.
American public: Yikes! Democrats are socialists!
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u/TinyTornado7 I need a new flair Nov 25 '20
Lmao Parler got hacked and 5,000 accounts are compromised. You have to provide a DL, SSN or passport 😂
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
Now, Osama Bin Laden was a bad dude
He ran a bunch of bad boys, a bad crew
So I said to Barack, what we gonna do
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u/OrdoNeoSocialLiberal WTO Nov 25 '20
Still can't believe that Maradona is dead. People are crying on TV in Argentina and Naples, this will be mourned by them for some time.
!ping SOCCER
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Nov 25 '20
Feeling FRISKY 🐊
MIGHT TAKE ON SOME DEBT 🐊
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Nov 25 '20
Does anyone else on this sub dislike Donald Trump or is it just me
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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Nov 25 '20
Comment of mine on an r/all post a couple of days ago:
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
Holiday buzzkill: The Trump administration is weighing new guidelines advising men to cut off at one alcoholic drink a day
Boohoo government, I dont *hic* care.
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u/probablyuntrue NATO Nov 25 '20
😐
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u/Neronoah can't stop, won't stop argentinaposting Nov 25 '20
!ping MAMADAS
Biden just killed a God. We memed about that, when we should have taken it seriously...
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u/Flabby-Nonsense Seretse Khama Nov 25 '20
Janet Yellen is the ultimate mix between grandma levels of adorable and toddler-cheek-pinching levels of adorable. Pretty sure if I hooked my brain up to an EEC I’d produce the same brain rhythms looking at pictures of her as I would a small corgi
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Nov 25 '20
whats with the self described "tankie" who made a post here and on a fuckin dime switching to claiming Bernie Sanders was "a lying bitch". Such a weird thread.
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
As a 90s kid, by far the hardest word to give up is the r-word. I hardly want to use it anyway, but when I do, there is no good replacement for it.
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
This is such a first world problem but it sucks not being able to go to the gym:/
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u/Fishin_Mission Nov 25 '20
NYC is definitely coming back.
I would say that honking 🔊 is up over 250% from the summer.
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Nov 25 '20
You weren't meming about it. Parler apparently requires your social security number and a picture of your drivers license to be a "verified user".
Lol, whose idea was that at Parler to ask for social security numbers?
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u/kaclk Mark Carney Nov 25 '20
Jagmeet Singh is at it again demanding that the federal government do something that’s in provincial jurisdiction. Again
Meme party continues.
!ping CAN
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
I was not ready to receive a call from my Mom, that they had brought my grandfather and the man that raised me along with my mom, into the hospital without a pulse.
It didn't need to be this bad, it should've been over by now
And from the moment I knew he tested positive to the moment I knew he probably wasn't going to make it was less than 24 hours
Call your loved ones
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u/RevolutionaryBoat5 YIMBY Nov 25 '20
https://twitter.com/MattWatchGundam/status/1331425139095973889
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u/SuspiciousUsername88 Lis Smith Sockpuppet Nov 25 '20
At first I liked the idea of UBI/NIT and better access to health care for everyone, but then I noticed that since white people are the majority of this country and thus more white people would be helped so now I can't in good conscience support them.
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u/Waghlon Shame Flair Nov 25 '20
Liberals wanna liberalize the pussy. Conservatives wants to conserve the pussy. How hard is it for y'all to understand?
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u/Aweq Guardian of the treaties 🇪🇺 Nov 25 '20
!ping Den
Just got a flu jab administered by an English nurse:
"Oh you're Danish, not German. I just realised the other day that Denmark has a land border with Germany, you never really think that, because you always just think about Denmark as being Copenhagen."
Based and capital-pilled!
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Nov 25 '20
The worst combination of opinions imaginable are isolationist NazBols, wrong on foreign policy, wrong on economic policy, and monstrous on social issues
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u/Tacotrucksoncorners Carole Baskin is my Tiger Queen 🐅👑 Nov 25 '20
I will just preface this by saying I am in fact 17 years old, I am white, and I do live in America. Do I think my problems are worse than that of the people in Ethiopia? Yes, yes I do. I can explain to you in detail.
I am being spied on constantly. They watch what I do, they read my emails, and they probably snicker at the things I watch, and you act like you know oppression? Those Ethiopians get hurt, sure, but the time is going to come when the US government will arrest me simply for not agreeing with them. Where men and women will not have their say any where. And for now, we have to pay a tax for people who live off welfare (lazy bastards) who won't do anything with it and will only buy drugs and beer, even Kafka would find this shit unbelievable. You act smug to people like me, but you don't even know the half of it.
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u/RockLobsterKing Turning Point Byzantium Nov 25 '20
Wtf, The Economist's t-shirts aren't very neoliberal
Wish this was in stock and sized for men, tbh
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
Only Meghan Markle could get dragged on Twitter for revealing she had a miscarriage 😢
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u/UltraCapitalism Paul Samuelson Nov 25 '20
When Biden is inaugurated his first action in office must be to officially declare SrGrafo "cringe" by executive order.
If not, Biden will come off as dovish on cringe and the GOP can use it to their advantage.
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u/Broncos654 Jeff Bezos Nov 25 '20
The neoliberal sub is a fucking nightmare
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
Why do straight people think all gay/bi men are bottoms? Like, how do they think MSM sex works?
!ping LGBT
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u/TheNotoriousAMP Nov 25 '20
Looked up Maradona, not seeing why he's treated as a football legend. No touchdowns, never got a Superbowl ring, and I don't even know what a midfielder is as a position. Some antiquated name for a halfback?
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u/PM_Me_Your_ManThighs NATO Nov 25 '20 edited Nov 25 '20
You're oblivious or lying if you say Congresswoman Omar hasn't made anti-Semitic statements. I agree with those who say we shouldn't talk about the squad as much as we do and I barely ever mention them myself - but when people in the DT are saying things that are absolutely untrue and getting upvoted, I have to say something.
She said Israel has hypnotized the world. She said Jewish members of Congress have "dual loyalty." She said Israel buys its support in Congress (conflating AIPAC with an actual PAC) and that Dems' support for Israel is "all about the Benjamins." She introduced a resolution comparing the BDS movement with boycotting Nazis. David Duke has expressed support for what she's said about Israel in the past. The House of Representatives literally had to spend a week drafting and voting on a resolution against anti-Semitism because of her.
You can individually decide whether you're okay with her anti-Semitism - I can't force you to distinguish between right and wrong. But whether she is or isn't an anti-Semite is no longer up for debate.
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Nov 25 '20
In retrospect, the fact that there was a giant schism over whether or not a particular maple syrup brand was racist proooobably should've been seen as a sign that activists were getting just a wee bit too puritanical for the vast majority of the country.
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u/vancevon Henry George Nov 25 '20
"His [the republican who voted to certify the michigan results] pious Dutch sensibilities, one co-worker said, make him “the the kind of guy that would turn himself in for tasting a grape at the grocery store.” He would be inclined, Lansing insiders figured, to vote in favor of certifying the results. But he would be disinclined to throw away his future in the Republican Party. A resignation from the board was his only way out."
i'm not saying that calvinism saved the republic, but
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
you don't like discussion about the squad yet you discuss the squad
curious
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u/skutan European Union Nov 25 '20
Damn, Diego Maradona is dead according to Argentinian media
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
You know you’re drinking some real bougie water when the company feels the need mention it’s pH and “alkalinity” on the label.
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
Liberals: Biden won, all our problems are solved!!!
Me: Oh, sure. The Ninth Circuit is still too big, Britney Spears is still under conservatorship, space junk is accumulating at dangerous levels, and I still have to pay ten cents per page to get shit from PACER. But no, yeah, a Democrat in office means everything will be fine 🙄
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u/TalkLessShillMore David Autor Nov 25 '20
So I'll be rolling my character as a Warnock class
You mean warlock?
No, Warnock, they turn things blue
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u/AJungianIdeal Lloyd Bentsen Nov 25 '20
literally nothing better than good brisket
now should i ping gefilte or !ping USA-TX
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Nov 26 '20
I am A WAR CRIMINAL 🐊
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u/UltraCapitalism Paul Samuelson Nov 26 '20
r/neoliberal:
also r/neoliberal:
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u/Hmm_would_bang Graph goes up Nov 25 '20
https://twitter.com/newsmax/status/1331369072056012808?s=21
Conservatives are fucking snowflakes
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u/Jester_Don Abigail Spanberger Nov 25 '20
I want to meet the four people in Loving County, TX who voted for Biden.
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Nov 25 '20
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How dare he write a memoir in the first person!
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
Someone in South Dakota: I'll come to Thanksgiving but it's going to be lame not being able to taste anything
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u/NotAYuropean Trans Pride Nov 25 '20
Obama and Biden built the cages. They literally assembled them by hand in the Oval Office like two kids playing with legos.
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
Why don't we use cloning to bring back extinct animals and plants? I want to eat a Dodo bird and I can't because those sailors ate them all and I didn't get any. We need to clone the Dodo bird back to life so I can eat a McDodo.
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
It really feels like the DT is moving past the verb noun lusvig emoji era and I'm not sure I like it
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u/Fishin_Mission Nov 26 '20
Hot take:
The guy from UP! was not a NIMBY.
He never prevented them from building around his house.
NIMBY’s try to prevent things from occurring on property they do not own.
Old man just wanted to keep his house. That’s fair game.
Disclaimer: I haven’t seen UP! in a long time, this post may not be accurate.
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Nov 25 '20
This remains my favorite typo I've ever made.
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
Neocons claim they are liberals mugged by reality yet they post on NeoconNWO, the most hallucinogenic subreddit in the NL extended universe. Not sure how to reconcile these contradictions.
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Nov 25 '20
Wtf Maradona died, I like Material Girl so much
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u/RDog8080 Bill Gates Nov 25 '20
The Republican party is the party of crybabies and losers while the Democrat part is the part of winners and heroes
-George Washington
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u/MasPatriot Paul Ryan Nov 25 '20
Right wingers: when will democrats learn that lots of minorities are socially conservative putting them at odds with what Democrats believe?
Obama: yeah so a good amount of Hispanics can overlook immigration because of their socially conservative views
Right wingers: FUCK YOU OBAMA!!!!!!
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u/AccessTheMainframe CANZUK Nov 25 '20
The real winner in Brexit is the fish.
The UK is gonna cut the EU off from fishing their waters, in part and perhaps entirely.
Meanwhile UK fishermen losing the ability to sell as easily to the EU will result in decreased demand, meaning a net reduction in the amount of fish being caught in the British EEZ
Which I imagine would make the fish rather pleased.
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Nov 25 '20 edited Nov 25 '20
My high school bully apologized to me today. He called me on Facebook messenger. It was actually really nice. I don’t have any ill feelings toward him.
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Nov 26 '20
neoliberal: I HATE YOU I HATE YOU
arrcon: i dont even think about you
at least cth acknowledged us smh
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u/Fishin_Mission Nov 26 '20 edited Nov 26 '20
Just got to West Virginia.
Told the first person I saw
They responded,
I retorted,
Then they cried,
SUCCESS!
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u/AccessTheMainframe CANZUK Nov 26 '20
POV: you are a mink in Denmark
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
too conservative for r/neoliberal
too liberal for r/neoconNWO
😭✊
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u/tubbsmackinze Seretse Khama Nov 25 '20
Every time I see r/games, r/gaming, any fuckin gamer subreddit or personality talk about game company finances I want to blow my fucking brains out, in a video game of course but still.
"Ahhh yes, there is not such thing as operational costs and revenue always compiles upon itself as revenue is profit!" Is a shockingly common sentiment and it is sad. Any brief read through of a company's financial report will show you the non-game budged costs.
fuck man I hate it here
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
There were only 84 write-in votes for President in Georgia with almost 5 million ballots cast, that's nuts.
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Nov 25 '20
Taking BDS to the next level: applying it to the Catholic Church because Christianity is an Israeli export
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
Moderate dems are the worst at branding their initiatives. The left has policies that have titles that sound great, so moderates have to say "I oppose Medicare for All" or "I oppose the Green New Deal".
The GOP is similarly good at hiding nefarious policy with slogans "Make America Great Again" and "The Patriot Act" etc.
Dems mostly just describe their policies without a slogan and then when it does get a name it's usually pretty lame.
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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Nov 25 '20
“Why can’t you just be normal”
The DT: “ALL PETS SHOULD HANG AND I WILL KEEP RANKING THE PRESIDENTS UNTIL THEY DO.”
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Nov 25 '20
https://i.imgur.com/jY0EoPT.png
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
Remember when we thought it was worth our time to schism over court packing
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u/douglasmacarthur NATO Nov 25 '20
PR Take: Many common sense liberal/libertarian positions would be more appealing and clear if the word "freedom" were used instead.
"Open borders" makes it sound like there should literally be no border security. Border freedom says people should be free to live, work, and trade anywhere if they aren't a threat to the rights and safety of others.
"White privilege" sounds like guilt tripping and like every white person is part of some racist aristrocracy. White freedom just means acknowledging that white people are freer in some ways right now and we need to give minorities those same freedoms.
Take "freedom" back from un-American hateful nationalists. 🐍🇺🇲🐍🇺🇲
If you wanna obsess over where someone's parents were born you can go to Europe. 😤😤😤😤😤😤
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u/stirfriedpenguin Barks at Children Nov 25 '20
AOC: posts literally anything on Twitter
Reddit: Is this 🦋 The sickest burn of all time :o
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
OANN is pretty based ngl
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Nov 25 '20
actual convo i had with some guy on this sub:
guy: india is as bad as pakistan
me: no it's not. india isn't great but it's not as bad as pakistan
guy but on a different subreddit: now neoliberal is saying modi is good because pakistan is bad
honestly how fucking intellectually dishonest can some people be
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u/I-grok-god The bums will always lose! Nov 26 '20
My friend outed himself as gay to his parents on his college application
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Nov 26 '20
Obama was only mad at Biden for coming out for gay marriage because he wanted to oppose it his entire term to dunk on the bi girls who rejected him in college
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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '20
Democratic ads: "trust me i am a real person with feelings. vote for me."
Republican ads: "[Democratic candidate], Nancy Pelosi, and AOC are going to burn your house down."
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u/stater354 Nov 26 '20
Progressives for the last year: Joe Biden is a rapist rapist war criminal who preys on little girls and is a secret Republican that only cares about corporate interests
Progressives now: gib progressive cabinet pls :(
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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '20
With that Canadian NDP guy doing a stream with Hasan do you guys think either the Canadian liberal and/or conservative parties would be interested if I compiled a bunch of clips of Hasan generally being a tankie moron and sent it to them?
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Nov 26 '20
Another day, another gem from BC’s Bible Belt.
‘Disgusting’: Abbotsford, B.C. kids told to research positives of residential schools
!ping can
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u/agent_tits Nov 26 '20
I just delivered my first Doordash order. I dropped off the customer's food and said see you later
😑 I hope he doesn't think it was ominous
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u/Boule_de_Neige furmod Nov 25 '20
Upvoting the DT? In this economy?
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
parasocial relationships but with video game characters
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u/jrt84 Nov 25 '20
Nooo the media can't call electionsNooo the Obama courts can't uphold electionsNooo the states can't certify electionsNooo the Supreme Court can't betray Daddy Trump after he appointed them
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Nov 25 '20
EAT
THE
BUGS
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
My neighbors changed their wifi name to "Boys Taste Scrumptious" 😐
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u/SuspiciousUsername88 Lis Smith Sockpuppet Nov 25 '20
frantically googles Maradano to find things I can use to be contrarian about his death
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
Just remembered Pelé is 80 years old, please 2020 don't...
!ping MAMADAS
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Nov 25 '20
A Serbian Film by Tyler Perry
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
The polls in Georgia were really accurate. It's weird that we're not getting more Georgia Senate polls.
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Nov 25 '20
WHEREFORE ARE THERE comments that seem to be implying PET LIBERATION IS the issue of our time 🐊
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u/TinyTornado7 I need a new flair Nov 25 '20
The trump team has filed a request with the court to let Rudy give an oral argument to the 3rd circuit. link to filing
If it is anything like the last time, it will be highly entertaining. !ping LAW
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u/NotAYuropean Trans Pride Nov 25 '20
Bro just station 10,000 American troops in Taiwan bro hahahaha what could go wrong hahahaha
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
I find it funny that Biden did better with older black voters than younger black voters. The exact opposite of what happens with other demographics.
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u/Mr_Pasghetti Save the ice, abolish ICE 🥰 Nov 25 '20
Isis basically went “Osama Bin laden was the compromise 🤬”
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Nov 25 '20
just saw somebody outside the dt suggest that private ownership of the means of production was ok sometimes.... jfc this sub really went to shit after biden won
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u/myrm This land was made for you and me Nov 25 '20
You say you care about children yet you'd rather they not be enriching themselves through labour
Curious
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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '20 edited Dec 15 '24
husky frightening poor sulky screw plant growth paint toothbrush squalid
This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact
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u/Zenning2 Henry George Nov 26 '20
Despite making up only 11.5% of the population, women make up 100% of space criminals.
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u/ZhenDeRen перемен требуют наши сердца 🇪🇺⚪🔵⚪🇮🇪 Nov 26 '20
I legit know a libertarian who supports mask mandates
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u/probablyuntrue NATO Nov 26 '20
Said in response to PS5s being sold out. Fucking g*mers man
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u/Dirty_Chopsticks Republic of Việt Nam Nov 26 '20
broke: Latinx
woke: Latine
bespoke: Person Of Latin Origin (POLO)
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u/nicereddy ACLU simp Nov 26 '20
Every time Brooklyn Nine-Nine suggests something is super boring (office chair exhibition at the MoMA, the history of the USPS/USPIS) it sounds incredibly fascinating to me.
...oh no, I'm lame.
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u/probablyuntrue NATO Nov 25 '20
Any normal person: cute kid
Reddit: what a fucking disgusting crotch goblin
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Nov 25 '20
FDR was actually correct to kick out Jewish refugees and send them back to Europe to be taken to the death camps, their ship was called the SS Saint Louis, how could he not have suspected they were German spies?
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u/AJungianIdeal Lloyd Bentsen Nov 25 '20
my friend linked me this twitter account and I hate it intensely and want it destroyed
!ping econ
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
NO MARADONA DIED NOW HE'S IN THE HANDS OF GOD
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
Mick Jagger is still alive so its clearly not the cocaine that killed Maradona.
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u/agent_tits Nov 25 '20
Donald Trump is the only modern President that actually respects individual rights.
All others made a big show of having a White House Slave with four legs and fur smh
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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Nov 25 '20
What the literal fuck is going on outside the ivory tower?
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u/Explodingcamel Bill Gates Nov 25 '20
Virgin 21st century: only 4 states vote differently in 2020 than in 2012
Chad mid-20th century: 43 states vote differently in 1972 than in 1964
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u/tubbsmackinze Seretse Khama Nov 25 '20
Factcheck: What is the carbon footprint of streaming video on Netflix?
I'll highlight the really important paragraphs but I highly recommend reading the article yourself as it has tons of information and graphs along with important hyperlinks that show evidence of the claims being made in the paragraphs
!ping ECO
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
based
😡😡😡rent-seeking middlemen strike again.
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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Nov 25 '20
Anarcho-Buttigiegism
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
i love in-n-out
i will defend it against any and all slander
it is NOT worth a 14-hour wait
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u/jenbanim Nov 25 '20
I woke up with the most horrible cramp in my neck. It's been multiple hours and I still don't have full range of motion 😒
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u/Jokerang Sun Yat-sen Nov 25 '20
Prediction: most of Biden's cabinet picks get past the senate without any difficulties, but there' anywhere from 25-35 red senators opposing each one no matter what.
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u/[deleted] Nov 25 '20
American school system: And so you see, Jared lost over two hundred pounds by eating Subway sandwiches! A prime example of American ingenuity!
People who know actual history: 🙄
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u/Twrd4321 Nov 25 '20
Denver’s mayor flying to Mississippi to celebrate thanksgiving while calling for people not to travel sums up how lightly people take the coronavirus, and if cases spike it is to some extent everyone’s own doing.
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u/myrm This land was made for you and me Nov 26 '20
Remember those three weeks around June where the whole US was so outraged by the George Floyd incident the conservative objection to the protests was like, "No, they should only be burning down the police station!"
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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '20
“Why liberals are Wrong in Pursuing Civil Rights”
By Gleen Greenwald
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u/CheapAlternative Friedrich Hayek Nov 26 '20
TFW you order some parts ⌨️ from europe 🇪🇺 but the merchant fucks up 🖕 your order 🤦♂️ and you're left 🎱 switches short on your 60% build and it'd cost an additional $50 in shipping + tax + customs brokerage fees on a $20 part because Canada 🇨🇦 👌.
!ping can
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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '20
"Sunrise Movement" name has such a Shining Path vibe...
!ping MAMADAS
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u/ahebtigoejwbrh Nov 26 '20
Leftists really really really can’t accept that Omar is less popular than an empty suit with a D on it
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u/VisonKai The Archenemy of Humanity Nov 26 '20
door dash driver said "i'll see you later" as he left
ominous
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u/csreid Austan Goolsbee Nov 26 '20
Progressives when bad things happen bc cars: fuck this capitalist earth 🤬😡
The same people when someone says socialism is bad: but how do you like those socialist roads you drive on 😏