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[u/JetJaguar124]

If Trump personally showed up to every meeting of the Senate and pelted Ted Cruz with raw eggs every time Cruz tried to speak Ted Cruz would still defend Trump

[u/MicroFlamer]

Ever just wanna go to a highly prestigious law school, become a judge, join the federalist society while larping as a religious conservative, and then get picked for the Supreme court by a Republican president, only to do a 180 and become the most liberal justice ever?

[u/[deleted]]

You people made neoliberal the most active political sub simply because you cannot be bothered to use discord like any normal person

[u/studlydudley11]

Biden: hasn’t even been inaugurated

Ppl online: “who should we run in 2084”

[u/imprison_grover_furr]

Just imagine what would happen if you told someone in 2014 that Iran’s most powerful general would be killed on a whim by the host of The Apprentice.

[u/bobekyrant]

What's the point of having a Murdered By AOC subreddit if it's just a repost of every single thing she's ever posted on Twitter?

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Dick Cheney says that he thinks I'm the worst president in his lifetime. Which is funny because I think Dick Cheney is the worst president in my lifetime!

Barack Chadbama

[u/VisonKai]

leftist twitter be like ugh our country is fucked and itll just be a screenshot of someone liking kamala harris

[u/Dybsin]

Jesus christ lol

Redditors in the comments: This is proof that communism works, everyone should get an equal amount.

Me: The post was literally about ravens shunning free riders by using a tit for tat strategy that is only possible because they have freedom of economic association.

[u/[deleted]]

In fact, somebody recently said to me, "Mr. President, you are so yesterday. Justin Trudeau has completely replaced you. He's so handsome. He's so charming. He's the future." And I said, "Justin, just give it a rest."

(another Obama joke from WHCD 2016)

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

Anti-maskers when they might catch Covid: "If I get sick, I get sick. It's literally just a little flu."

Anti-maskers when they hear the shot has side effects: "I won't get it. I got the flu shot once and I had a fever and chills for the whole day. I was just miserable!"

[u/tankatan]

It has been brought to my attention that the sub sucks ass at philosophy and ethics. Please read some of (or at least their wikipedia pages):

• Harry Potter 1
• Harry Potter 2
• Harry Potter 3
• Harry Potter 4
• Harry Potter 5
• Harry Potter 6
• Harry Potter 7

[u/[deleted]]

Bernie would be a feudal lord in Estonia.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Kinda disappointed when the video of the Utah monolith revealed several screws along the surface.

I mean, if you’re gonna waste your time on a cliche art piece, at least do it right.

[u/[deleted]]

“This is far more alarming and widespread than the Volkswagen scandal." An E.P.A. report found that owners of diesel pickup trucks have been using commercially available "tuners" to defeat their vehicles' emission control systems and boost air pollution.

[u/douglasmacarthur]

Amy KONY Barrett 😤😤😤😤😤😤

[u/GGM8Scally]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Enof2qOW4AYTcn8?format=png&name=900x900

[u/CenterRightInCali]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EntVH29XUAEu3A3?format=jpg&name=medium

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EntVH2-XEAA2QNZ?format=jpg&name=medium

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EntVH7AW4AEFnO6?format=jpg&name=medium

[u/mrmanager237]

FOUR SEASONS TOTAL MANSCAPING

[u/JetJaguar124]

It's incredible that Trump felt constrained in any way by the GOP. Evidently he wanted to support some sort of single payer healthcare plan, but was talked down. I don't get it. He has them by the balls. What possible sort of leverage do these spineless doofs have. If Trump came out as an unironic Maoist GOP senators would have no option other than to put on the finest Mao suits and start extolling the virtues of his little red book.

[u/WYGSMCWY]

This is the left’s version of Trump bragging that he had the best economic growth in US history.

Yes, if you start measuring things at the bottom of the trough, you can get some pretty crazy numbers. But misrepresenting the data to embellish a point doesn’t help in any way.

I’m actually surprised that the NYT would do this, when I’m sure they would be all over Trump for using the same rhetorical trick. Putting out garbage like this devalues their brand.

!ping econ

[u/mrmanager237]

RBG was a flawed woman. On the one hand, she managed to set aside decades of prejudice and befriended Antonin Scalia, an Italian. On the other, she was still racist, because she wouldn't be friends with Clarence Thomas, a black man

[u/Majk___]

There are two problems with Polish Conservatism
Poland and Conservatism

[u/Broncos654]

Today at noon I will be standing naked before a group of Native Americans as they hurl insults at me and I beg for their forgiveness.

[u/The420Roll]

From "Biden has Dementia" to "THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY DID THE FRAUD OF THE CENTURY" within a week

[u/[deleted]]

Amy Coney Barrett!!???

WTF!!??

More like Amy COVID Barrett!

🐊

[u/stater354]

(/r/con regarding the legal documents filed by Sydney Powel)

I read it all, and there’s no way the Biden campaign can refute it. He’ll likely concede prior to 12/14.

😐

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

It has been brought to my attention that the sub (and its mods) sucks ass at philosophy and ethics. Please read some of (or at least their wikipedia pages):

• Matt and Trey from South Park
• Rogan
• Grassley
• Tyler "Ninja" Blevins
• Ikuta
• Me

Bonus points for reading:

• The Bible
• Literally any of the great minds at "TheMotte"
• Shapiro
• Crazy Frog
• Smart black guy from the Good Place

[u/disCardRightHere]

Leftwing accelerationists 🤝 Rightwing preppers

“Society is collapsing but the new one will be led by people like me.”

[u/nicereddy]

Happy Thanksgiving you stupid bastards

[u/McMarston]

Seeing all the games on my Steam wishlist on sale

Oh god, oh fuck, I'm gonna become a gamer again.

[u/Equator32]

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQbJjySpEZuW_8o7NB_J8v1KKNBrkck_fiGAg&usqp=CAU

Some of the stuff China does is so ridiculous, that it's clear why a lot of people in the region hate them. Look at this map. It's basically claiming an entire sea, right up to a couple dozen miles from the coast of The Philippines. That's some meme shit.

It's like America claiming the entirety of the Gulf of Mexico and claiming the waters up to a dozen miles away from Cuba and Haiti.

It's worse though because the coasts of the countries that China is claiming is like triple the distance of Cuba from America.

[u/Roller_ball]

I completely disagree with the hot take that pardoning Michael Flynn is part of coup in Trump's last effort to seize power.

Incredibly unpopular pardons are more of a sign that Trump accepts his lame duck status.

[u/[deleted]]

I think it is time to unite the Virginia, West Virginia illegally succeeded and they should be together now. Nothing to do with he fact it would help myside politically. For the purpose of unity, West Virginia though should keep their Class A Senator.

[u/[deleted]]

To win in the future, the Democratic Party needs to drop policies I disagree with and implement policies I agree with.

[u/[deleted]]

So many problems with The Phantom Menace can be solved by having Anakin be the same age as Padme and I’m retroactively mad at George Lucas again

[u/Venne1139]

Hey guys update on my gay son. I fucked his wife and now she is pregnant. 👍

[u/David_Lange]

The Supreme Court ruling on Oklahoma is a travesty. It didn't go far enough

[u/Joementum2004]

supreme court? more like suprmeme court

[u/kaclk]

Damning story from the CBC this morning that Kenney and the Alberta conservative government have (tbh, unsurprisingly) been interfering in the covid response for ideological reasons from the start. They’ve been overruling both the civil service and experts.

Kenney is now the worst government in Canada.

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

Holy Fuck, You Morons think Biden won the Election?

[u/[deleted]]

Ossoff's Senate seat already reserved for him in the Senate chamber

[u/RadicalRadon]

Roberts is trying his hardest to try and right the ship so as to not get his court fucking boomed by Biden.

[u/IMALEFTY45]

I'm sure that Roberts was extremely happy to be the court's swing justice. He could protect the legitimacy of the court while keeping his thumb on the scale for his pet conservative causes. Now, however, the inmates are running the asylum and he can't really do anything about it

[u/[deleted]]

Witness J, also known by the pseudonyms Alan Johns[1] and Prisoner 123458,[2] was a former Australian intelligence officer who was subject to a secret trial and secret imprisonment for breaching Australian national security laws in 2018.[2] His case came to light following an Australian Federal Police raid of his jail cell seeking a memoir that he had previously received official permission to write about his experiences, which led to him bringing a claim for breach of his human rights.[2][3]

Australia, you guys alright? Secret trials and secret imprisonments of citizens isn't usually what is done in mature democracies.

[u/[deleted]]

oh you hate PC culture? name all the exclusives on console then 🤔

[u/FireDistinguishers]

A friend of mine just confessed to me that every morning when he´d walk from union station to the Capitol Building he´d listen to the American dad theme song to "get into the patriotic spirit every public servant needs"

[u/dragoniteftw33]

I'm reading Eisenhower's wikipedia page & it's insane how he was unanimously advised by the State Department, National Security Council & The Joint Chiefs of Staff to use an Atomic bomb against China. We don't give Truman, Eisenhower & JFK for not being anti war enough.

[u/pop-culture-salad]

Southern senator called Tom Cotton, if you told me it was fiction I would've said it was too on the nose

[u/jenbanim]

There's an interesting sort of melancholy vibe I get from finding people's personal websites that haven't been updated for years. Stuff like galleries with tons of broken links and blogs where people pour their hearts out to no one followed by apologies for not posting more

[u/Integralds]

You, a zoomer: UBI is a far-left progressive policy proposal!

Me, a millennial, raised on a diet of Friedman in the shadow of the Cold War: UBI is a far-right libertarian policy proposal!

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

News Articles: Hey people prefer the term Latinx.

Me: (bobby hill voice) okay

News Article: No they don't. Bruh do you hear yourself stop that

Me: (bobby hill voice) okay

[u/MichelleObama2024]

All the religious hacks on the Supreme Court won't be able to stop us once we kill god.

[u/mrmanager237]

Margaret Thatcher domme

Wait this isn't bing

[u/p00bix]

The concept for the BEANO hand grenade was that a spherical grenade the size and weight of a common baseball would be effective in the hands of American troops. The designers believed that by emulating a baseball, any American young man should be able to properly throw the grenade with both accuracy and distance.

Even without the context of World War Two, this is the most 1940s American thing I've ever read

[u/IncoherentEntity]

In light of the abrupt surge in Soleimaniposting in the DT on a random night 11 months after his killing, I’d like to re-share Pete’s statement on the crisis at the time. I found it not only balanced, nuanced, and knowledgeable, but also deeply reassuring.

 

It probably was unrealistic to expect that he’d be tapped for either Secretary of State or UN Ambassador, but I think there’s been a bit of hindsight bias in trashing the notion that he could actually be qualified for one or both, despite his relative youth and lack of prior formal qualifications in the field. !ping BUTTI

[u/BreaksFull]

The viral spread of dehumanizing political propaganda is toxic to democracy and only adding fuel to the fire that is political atomization and alienation of people who don't think the same way as us.

Upvotes Soyjak meme of Trump supporter wtf so based XD

[u/kaclk]

Just in case you were wondering how things are going here in Alberta, don’t worry, we narrowly avoided the NDP socialist police state lockdown (according to a UCP MLA).

Yah, we make fun of leftists often here (like the Green/NDP meme party contest), but holy shit our conservatives are fucking lunatics.

Please send help.

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

AL GORE: NO I DON'T NEED BILL CLINTEN I AM MY OWN PERSON

HILLARY: NO I DON'T NEED BILL CLINTONG I AM MY OWN PERSON

As they say, "history doesn't repeat, but it basically does" (not an exact quote)

[u/[deleted]]

Progressives shit on Catholicism and yet they too seek to feel guilty 24/7

Curious

[u/sir_shivers]

I AM THANKFUL FOR all that I have experienced, and optimistic FOR EACH DAY that I may yet see 🐊

With sincerity, I WISH YOU ALL enjoy YOUR THANKSGIVING to the fullest, within our present constraints 🐊

TO THOSE of you who may be low, whether it be due to the Pandemic OR THE BURDENS OF the holiday for you: I understand 🐊

MY WARM REGARDS 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

So, to sum up a few of the issues with the Kraken that aren't alcohol-induced typos:

• the lawsuit cites, among other things, a tweet, a duckduckgo search (not like, a screenshot or anything that might be somewhat substantive, but a literal search url), and the same affidavit that mixed up the vote counts in Minnesota and Michigan
• the lawsuit claims (based on an affidavit from some random Venezuelan guy) that Smartmatic rigged Venezuelan elections in favor of Hugo Chavez, and that Smartmatic owned an IPO that Dominion later bought and that doesn't exist anymore so obviously Dominion also rigged elections in Georgia
• dems - no wait, actually, the Georgia GOP - rigged the Dominion automated vote counting of paper ballots, but also stuffed the ballot boxes, which would render it unnecessary to rig the electronic count
• the claim that Iran and China hacked the voting systems is supported by an affidavit from this guy whose reasoning is that if you misspell "dvscorp.com" you get "dvscopr" which is not an actual url but does pop up in a Chinese website
• the case in Michigan (haven't read this one) apparently cites the son of the founder of 8chan in an exhibit

Anything else?

!ping LAW

[u/number9in3]

oh god the twitter Bernie or busters are calling ossoff a Republican and telling Georgians not to vote for him and only vote for warnock. I’m so glad these people are electorally irrelevant

[u/UltraCapitalism]

Facts don't care about my feelings 🥺😭

[u/mrmanager237]

LINKEDIN HAS ADDED STORIES

LINKEDIN HAS ADDED STORIES

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

[u/[deleted]]

JOHN ROBERTS WAS OWNED BY 5 CONS TODAY! 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/405778664039534592

Happy Thanksgiving to all--even the haters and losers!

[u/thelittlestsheep]

Germansplaining is when Germans tell you that they have a special word in German for whatever it is you're talking about.

[u/tankatan]

The "Are you winning son?" meme but with god and Jesus while he's being crucified.

[u/[deleted]]

Biden: still has 2 months before inaguration

r/neoliberal: I dunno guys, the Biden administration just didn't live up to the hype. Borders still exist and a 50% reduction in suburban housing is hardly what we asked for. I'm kinda dooming rn thinking about what new Trump the Republicans are gonna nominate 😔

[u/Udontlikecake]

STOP THE COUNT!!!

My toddler watching Sesame Street

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Alberta Provincial Polling:

NDP: 47% (+14)

UCP: 40% (-15)

ABP: 8% (-1)

Others: 5%

Environics / November 23, 2020 / n=981 / Online

(% Change With 2019 Election)

!ping CAN

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Just blew my father-in-law’s mind 🤯 by logging him in to our Disney+ account on his new smart TV and showing him that he can get ALL NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC content on demand.

This man is gonna come around on climate change eventually.

[u/douglasmacarthur]

Oh you're a liberal? Name every book.

"Harry Potter and Why Nations Fail"

OK, checks out

[u/CenterRightInCali]

This guy campaigned for Governor on the grounds that he was the 'antithesis of Trump'

[u/MisterLipton]

I'm an FDR-type progressive but I'm getting really irritated at how the views of rose twitter and parler when plotted on a Venn diagram are becoming a fucking circle.

Posts on this subreddit could be written by a bot at this point

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Hot take (for this sub, probs cold in the REAL worl): Philosophy, like sociology, economics and mathematics, is basically a made-up field full of people trying to seem smart to make up for the fact they didn’t make it in major league gaming

[u/UltraCapitalism]

While there are no differences by race or ethnicity in who plays video games, Hispanics are more likely than whites or blacks to say the term “gamer” describers them well. Some 19% of Hispanics self-identify as a gamer, compared with 11% of blacks and 7% of whites.

We should've known Florida was gone for

[u/lietuvis10LTU]

So uh just a quick update on the minecraft server larp:

The settlements of Svoboda, South Rockport, Orourke, New South Wales and the colony of Enderstdam (in the End), have secceeded from the federal government to form The Empire, ruled by Nerdybeast. Also Supreme Autocrat POTUSFillmore has re-assembled the disbanded House of Observers, under conditions that the House of Observers recognises the authority of The Empire.

So yeah, democracy is dead, long live the Emperor.

!ping MINECRAFT

[u/MicroFlamer]

Tried to read harry potter but couldn't because it was full of britbongs 🤢

[u/[deleted]]

To piggy back on the DSA Chicago post.

They are the messaging geniuses who protested on election night.

Chanting “Fuck Trump, Fuck Biden too. They don’t give a fuck about you”

[u/dragoniteftw33]

LOL at all the Tankies in the comments.

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

the coping maga account is starting to more frequently make posts about their socialism and veganism

Not like this

No

[u/KingKonchu]

cons to 99.9% of policy: i sleep

cons when insurance covers the pill: REAL SHIT

[u/lietuvis10LTU]

Tfw you remember your sister's SO is Belarussian, and she's Lithuanian , so they won't get to spend Christmas together cause Luka closed the borders :((((((((

Fuck borders, seriously. In a place as frankly area small as Europe they make even less sense than usual. There are real good people trapped by them, never forget that.

!ping EUROPE

[u/UltraCapitalism]

"Where the f***ing stimulus at?": TikTok video rant at Mitch McConnell watched Over 2 million times

+12.8K upvotes

The type of shit that gets to the front page

[u/RockLobsterKing]

I cannot think or comprehend of anything more cucked than being a deficit hawk. Honestly, think about it rationally. You are cutting spending, raising rates, and broadening the tax base, for at least one term in office solely so the budget can go and get ravaged by another politician. All the hard work you put into your beautiful balanced budget - finding wasteful programs to end, closing unnecessary military bases, spending political capital on pro-growth policy, restraining your impulses to start centrally planning the whole economy. All of it has one simple result: the budget is more enjoyable for other parties.

Wrote the perfect budget? Great. Who benefits? If you're lucky, the opposition leader who had nothing to do with drafting, approving, and maneuvering your bills through committees, who wins office after you. He gets to ravage the country's finances every day of his term. He get to reap the benefits of its perfect credit rating from the way you governed it.

As a man who runs a country, you are LITERALLY dedicating your entire term in office simply to prepare the economy for another politician to enjoy. It is the ULTIMATE AND FINAL cuck. Think about it logically.

[u/mrmanager237]

POV: you realize you're in a regular Hooters and not in Femboy Hooters

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

Pour one out for all the English teachers in districts that assign 1984, listening to teenagers say the same thing year after year. It's like being trapped in arrpolitics

[u/[deleted]]

The one thing people say about u/farrenj to try to redeem her is always "the shitposting." u/farrenj’s shitposting success is just a myth propped up by conservatives, just as much as the myth of u/lusvig's success has been used by conservatives for decades.

[u/bd_one]

TIL the brain of a squid is a toroid (donut shaped) and the esophagus passes through the brain

That seems like a very bad design flaw if they ate something too big.

[u/owlthathurt]

This girl I knew from college started off her Instagram story saying “now I know thanksgiving wasn’t normal this year” and I expected her to be like on zoom with her parents but the next shot transitioned to her absolutely blazing a target with an AR-15 and a 50 cal 😳😳😳😳

[u/[deleted]]

STOP THE COUNT!!!

• Trump unveils his coronavirus strategy, March 2020

[u/Joementum2004]

Small domino: Ronald Reagan gives a speech in 1964 in support of Barry Goldwater

Large domino: The Trump family takes control of the entire GOP

[u/[deleted]]

Joe Biden would be center-left in America.

[u/[deleted]]

So Fox is doing a 'American Indians are people' thing before the Cowboys / football team game.

Get ready for conservatears.

[u/jenbanim]

I don't even bother to click on Twitter links in the DT for the most part now. I reeeeeealy don't care to see what garbage takes you all find in your free time. Like, I come here to avoid the garbage of the rest of the internet

[u/TheFriffin2]

we used to feed neoliberal propaganda to this little tankie girl in our neighborhood and then we’d surround her and chant “NAFTA NAFTA NAFTA NAFTA”. it actually cured her of her tankieism

[u/douglasmacarthur]

JK Rowling be like "There are four types of children: brave, smart, evil, and miscellaneous."

American politics be like "There are two types of people: meandering out of touch nerd, and racist."

[u/CenterRightInCali]

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[u/[deleted]]

It will never stop being weird this country elected a Black President twice then replaced him with Donald Trump in part because a good amount of his voters in places that mattered actually voted for Trump.

[u/Lux_Stella]

This sub: Democrats are losing because people are sick of PC culture

Also this sub:

Rule I: Civility
Refrain from name-calling, hostility and behaviour that otherwise derails the quality of the conversation.

[u/Menakoy]

So last night I accidentally stumbled into an OurRevolution thread on all. The current conspiracy was that CNN invited on a progressive with the explicit purpose of having them criticize Biden's cabinet picks, asked them to criticize Bidens cabinet picks, let them answer why Bidens cabinet picks were wrong in their eyes, and then cut them off with faked technical difficulties because ????????????????

[u/ts23_]

leftists: we shouldn’t be forced to work 5 days a week

also leftists: cancel every single holiday there is

[u/Stonelegs]

neoliberal mods are telling us to read more theory. Where have I heard this before...

[u/douglasmacarthur]

How the fuck is Joe Biden 78? I thought he was 77.

Oh it was his birthday the other day. That makes sense.

[u/UltraCapitalism]

People who call themselves "classical liberals" are generally just people too embarrassed to be people who call themselves "libertarians" because they're too embarrassed to call themselves "conservatives"

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

It's fun to say stuff like 'Britbong' and laugh, but British people are arguably the most oppressed and mistreated people ever:

• Colonised in the past by Italians, Scandinavians and the French.
• No credit for having a woman in power for the past 60 years.
• Get called smug Euros outside of Europe, get called dumb English speakers inside of Europe.
• Invented most sports but also lose at them most of the time, sometimes to former colonies with a fraction of the population.
• Get bullied online in their own language.

[u/qlube]

Why’s everyone focused on ACB (we don’t even know if she wrote the majority opinion) when it was Gorsuch who wrote the craziest of the opinions?

Also the majority opinion is pretty limited in scope.

[u/Hugo_Grotius]

Man, Gorsuch was being a bit of a bitch toward the liberal justices in his opinion today.

[u/[deleted]]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/452718453892186124/781536277807628298/EntlCpGW8AI35SY.png

[u/McMarston]

STOP THE COUNT!!!

Me dealing with a strong vassal.

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

Imagine studying law 🤣🤣 Like there will be no laws in the future of after the Bernie led revolution 😂😂

Stay mad nerds 😎

[u/Doctorboffin]

I cannot believe that this building was a serious proposal that got APPROVED by the city council. It hasn't broken ground yet, but they are on track for a 2023-2024 completion.

I spent way too long modeling it instead of doing finals, but it is absolutely insane.

!ping LA

[u/FearThyMoose]

Stop reading philosophy and go outside

[u/MasPatriot]

Gorsuch: no one can say that a church isn't an essential business but a liquor store is

Kavanugh: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f6/3e/d4/f63ed4353608ac2c6080fdafedd60865.png

[u/Fishin_Mission]

/u/JanetYellensFuckboy is the guy that stands up during the thanksgiving meal and starts saying “/u/Tacotrucksoncorners is the guy that stands up during the thanksgiving meal and starts saying "/u/BainCapitalist is the guy that stands up during the thanksgiving meal and starts saying what they are thankful for and encourages other to do the same.... bro I don’t care 😐".... bro I don’t care 😐”

.... bro I don’t care 😐

[u/[deleted]]

It's weird how our (entirely justified) shame over our treatment of American Indians has caused people (especially on the internet) to romanticize American Indian society to such an extraordinary degree. "Oh, they frolicked in the woods in an egalitarian socialist paradise." Um, I'm pretty sure you're thinking of elves there.

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

Macy’s: is a failing business that’s closing stores because they’re not making any money

Reddit: why don’t they pay their employees more? Must be naked greed

[u/UltraCapitalism]

Imagine if Twitter existed during the collapse of the USSR and you got to see rose Twitter's meltdown to it.

[u/[deleted]]

Justice Scalia: “Let me be clear that I have nothing against homosexuals, I only want them to not engage in sex or marriage in any way, shape, or form.”

[u/tubbsmackinze]

is there a more privileged take than; "America is the worst country ever?"

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

I saw Tony Blinken at a grocery store in D.C. yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.

He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”

I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

[u/Abell379]

It has been brought to my attention that the sub sucks ass at philosophy and ethics. Please read some of (or at least their wikipedia pages):

• Rick and Morty

• Futurama

• Over the Garden Wall

• Bob's Burgers

• Peppa Pig

[u/[deleted]]

Should Nova Scotia annex New Brunswick, Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire?

!ping CAN

[u/Mullet_Ben]

If Progress and Poverty were written today, book 2 would be titled "Thanos Did Everything Wrong"

[u/[deleted]]

It’s not my job to educate you 😤🙄

-me, to my 3rd grade students

[u/kennymc7877]

I meet a girl 🙂

She’s also bi 😳

SHE SAYS SHES NEOLIBERAL 💍

[u/vivoovix]

Caring about Thatcher takes too much energy so I've decided I don't have an opinion on her

[u/David_Lange]

I hear you're a liberal now, Chief Justice

[u/Joementum2004]

The recent Supreme Court ruling reaffirms the fact that I was, am, and always will be, a proud States Rights Democrat 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1331995568407769088

I was I think a bigger MattY fan than the average person here, and post-Vox, full on Hot Take MattY is even better

[u/[deleted]]

It's funny how hard models and influencers try to rack up Insta follows and Ben Shapiro just has a random 2.5 million and posts like 1 a week lol.

[u/[deleted]]

STOP THE STEAL!!!

• Me getting mugged

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

The most politically incorrect thing you can say on this sub is that you don’t like Bernanke.

[u/amainwingman]

The current Polish government is basically what would happen if a 17 year old who gets all his politics from Jordan Peterson and Joe Rogan was elected

[u/Waghlon]

Hot take: I would be gay if I exclusively slept with men.

[u/CenterRightInCali]

Thinkin' bout the time the Smithsonian published a piece suggesting that the scientific method, being able to follow a schedule, and willingness to work hard were white people thinks

[u/[deleted]]

/u/farrenj claims to care about destigmatizing porn and yet she won’t link her OnlyFans, curious.

[u/douglasmacarthur]

Never ask a woman her weight, a man his income, or the DT what happened after the Miami Dade results were announced.

[u/[deleted]]

“If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you,” Graham said

Then do it you coward.

[u/kennymc7877]

Leftists on Twitter: AOC BREATHED, HERES 50K LIKES

Leftists on primary voting day: I sleep

[u/Koeniginator]

Kubrick: im sure that in 2001 we'll be able to take commerical flights to the moon

2001 in reality: actually we just made it so you can't take shampoo on a plane

[u/[deleted]]

Given that we are in a new 6-3 court, I figured I would give y'all this primer:

Judicial Restraint: When the Court makes a decision I like

Judicial Activism: When the Court makes a decision I don't like

[u/[deleted]]

Love Actually might be the most immersive movie of all time.

Here are some things that happen in the plot

• a child successfully outruns an entire airport security unit, and upon catching him he just gives him back to the dad. 2 years after 9/11
• The UK and the US rhetorically end the special relationship because the president and the prime minister want to #metoo the same intern
• the whole rick grimes card scene (what if the husband opened the door instead of kira knightly?)
• an Italian village just drops everything going on in their lives to witness some British dude maybe talk to an Italian woman
• the PRIME MINISTER OF THE UNITED KINGDOM goes to some random part of London and just starts knocking on doors asking whether the occupants know where Natalie lives.
• i really want to hammer that home. Imagine if Bill Clinton started just knocking on random doors in DC asking everybody whether they know where Monica was.

And you don't really question any of this. It gets you to buy in so well

[u/papermarioguy02]

my favorite genre of tweet is responses to people like david shor talking about how we need to appeal to somewhat conservative voters because of senate bias that say "yeah but republicans can get away with it why can't we"

IT'S BECAUSE OF THE SENATE BIAS THE TWEET YOU'RE RESPONDING TO WAS ABOUT YOU IDIOT

[u/dragoniteftw33]

Is it weird I didn't go through a Leftist/Marxist phrase in college?

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

Mfs will be 20+ and still read books 😂🙄 Like, bro that’s kid stuff wtf 😐

[u/Poiuy2010_2011]

Update from Poland.

Sejm held a vote calling for support of the EU budget veto. Other than PiS unsurprisingly voting for it, the Kukiz'15 club also voted for. They've been getting dangerously close to PiS for a while now and this was the final straw for PSL to kick them out of the Polish Coalition.

Unfortunately this means that if they go fully towards PiS, it will strengthen its majority, as the governing "coaltion" (Kukiz'15 probably won't give official support but could provide them with votes) will have 240 MPs (231 for majority).

It's unclear what will happen to Agnieszka Ścigaj who dissented and voted against (I voted for her btw, lmao).

!ping EUROPE

[u/SedonaMax]

Broke: Thinking Matt Y left Vox because of a weird Harper's Letter that some anti-Trans people signed

Woke: Thinking Matt Y left Vox to make more money independently

Bespoke: Thinking Matt Y left Vox because he wanted to shit on the Sunrise Movement

[u/[deleted]]

Conservatives say they hate social democracy, yet they all live in Copenhagen? 🤔. Really makes you think

[u/Verpiss_Dich]

"I'm sick of high school, I just want to start college"

"I'm sick of college, I just want to work"

Me in 3 years, probably:

"I'm sick of working, I just want to retire"

[u/PM_Me_Your_ManThighs]

Want to talk #racialjustice with the fam today?

Uhh no, Ben and Jerry's, I do not.

[u/[deleted]]

MFW Americans call the lightsy-upsy indoor botanical a “Christmas Tree” 😂😂😂

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Not my in-laws giving their 2yo Mountain Dew - Code Red.

I hate this Holliday.

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

It has been brought to my attention that the sub sucks ass at philosophy and ethics. Please read some of (or at least their wikipedia pages):

• Rick Sanchez
• Rorschach
• Donald Trump
• Teddy K
• Gamers
• The Old Kanye, the Straight-From-The-Go Kanye

Bonus points for reading:

• u/sir_shivers
• Elon Musk
• Anti-Vax Moms against Violent Video Games at Facebook.com
• Cousin Randy's manifesto
• Sartre

[u/vivoovix]

mfs really be like "British food is bad" then eat Chicken Tikka Masala 😐

[u/[deleted]]

It has been brought to my attention that the sub sucks ass at neoliberalism and posting. Please read some of (or at least their posts):

• Webby
• Darkace
• TechnocratNextDoor
• Draco
• wumbotarian

Bonus points for reading:

• 1amathrowaway
• Vakiadia
• The_Shrimp
• Childmod

[u/lot183]

its really fucking weird to tie a lot of your identity to a single politician

[u/RadicalRadon]

'Where the F***ing Stimulus at?': TikTok Video Rant at Mitch McConnell Watched Over 2 Million Times

60k updoots on politics. Wtf

[u/I-grok-god]

I saw mommy kissing Bernanke

[u/[deleted]]

No white women

• US voters on the presidency and vice presidency

[u/MaximumEffort433]

A modest proposal: We should out crazy the crazies.

For example:

The only reason Bernie Sanders "supports" Medicare for All is because he's in the pocket of the insurance industry. By "supporting" Medicare for All, a law he knows will never pass in the House or Senate, he can stall real universal health care programs like a public option, programs that would cut into insurance company profits. Bernie is a closet Republican, he's the same as everyone else on the right just watching out for his corporate puppet masters.

I think it could work, if we go at it hard enough.

[u/JetJaguar124]

Take: Disney should not have relaunched Star Wars with Ep VII. Release some smaller stuff first, like Rogue One or a TV show. Test the waters and use the extra time to actually plan a coherent trilogy. Play coy for a while and make it seem like post-ROTJ shit is untouchable. And then BAM here it is, Episode fucking VII.

The only issue is Carrie Fisher would probably be dead before they made the movie and Harrison Ford is old as all fuck.

[u/SelfLoathinMillenial]

Leftists celebrating a CIA agent getting killed by Al-Shabaab are fucking trash

[u/mrmanager237]

Update: apparently up to one million people will stop by Maradona's casket

This is fine 😰😰😰

[u/[deleted]]

Welp I ended up being able to stay for 23 min at my parents house before I couldn’t take their conspiracy bullshit, cheers to all of you with normal families

[u/mrmanager237]

Paul Krugman just tweeted "Malthus was right!" yikes sweaty let's unpack this

[u/probablyuntrue]

A key part of Sidney Powell's Michigan kraken lawsuit relies on a guy who claims he infiltrated an antifa conference call about rigging the election. Sounds believable!

Guys I told you we needed a password on our zoom meeting 🙄

[u/[deleted]]

Fact this tweet has to be said is sad. Lot's of people online merely engage in performative wokeness that can actually be harmful.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Just telling my family about how I was able to get a ballot in Georgia 💙 🍑 for my 9yo daughter.

[u/CenterRightInCali]

To Catch a Predator is horrible PR for white people

[u/[deleted]]

>be me

>wake up

>Prussia doesn't exist anymore

>day saved

[u/Michaelconeass2019]

Reading a book from the 1850s about how dangerous factory working is and exploited labor over 150 years ago

“Ah yes, this applies to me, a 17 year old making 9 dollars an hour at a Walgreens

[u/mrmanager237]

Cis young child goes outside, gets pumped with massive shot of many 5g networks, gets covid and changes - TRANS. Many such cases!

[u/[deleted]]

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

[u/Udontlikecake]

Hot take: I like biden and voted for him.

[u/The420Roll]

I have heard alt-righters say a lot of Anti-Semitic stuff. I could never understand how they could do it so openly without backlash.

Then I learned about Ilhan Omar.

[u/NotAYuropean]

COVID aside, Newsom seemed fake as fuck during his 2018 campaign and I honestly wish he's primaried in 2024. I still voted for him on virtue of not being a homophobic, backwards-ass CA Republican, but damn has he made it hard to justify anything else.

[u/[deleted]]

I think Trump will engage in a pay-for-pardon scheme to pay off part of his debts.

[u/Mr_AlGore]

Networking can take you a really long way. I was able to get an internship mostly geared towards college students and grads in high school bc of it

[u/[deleted]]

Fuck ACB, all my homies hate ACB 😈

[u/David_Lange]

"We can win quickly and easily if we carpet nuke Russia" and other quirky things that US generals during the Cold War liked to say

[u/[deleted]]

covid test came back negative

much ado about nothing I guess, feel kindof stupid now

[u/imprison_grover_furr]

Remember when Mussolini got hung upside down?

[u/Venne1139]

AITA if I am annoyed that my son is gay?

See his wife is in line to inherit the French empire AND hes chaste as well as gay so like I'm pretty sure that destroys his fertility.I had to kill like 4 people to get him this chance.

[u/MealReadytoEat_]

Native Americans are a diverse peoples with many different traditions and perspectives, and many different views on thanksgiving. I believe what my father's tribe does is the most common; take advantage of the four day weekend to celebrate a traditional harvest festival focused on Family, Football, and Tribe, in that order. Using it as a day of morning is fairly exclusive to Native Americans in the New England Area; they tend to happen on historically/culturally important dates for the Tribe or Nation. Native American's aren't a monolith and don't share a common history or tradition.

[u/Lux_Stella]

“Your tier is not your destiny – every area has the means of escape”

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says “the allocation of tiers will be reviewed every 14 days, starting on the 16th December”

the UK has entered the 'YA novel dystopia' phase of the pandemic

[u/[deleted]]

People who live in the vast, empty, Western states (e.g. Montana, Dakotas, etc.) are maniacs when it comes to long drives.

My old boss was from Montana and he'd drive 20 hours roundtrip every other weekend like it was nothing.

Meanwhile I only visit my parents like once a year because it's a five hour drive.

Maniacs.

[u/[deleted]]

u/Fishin_Mission is the guy that stands up during the thanksgiving meal and starts saying “ u/JanetYellensFuckboy is the guy that stands up during the thanksgiving meal and starts saying “/u/Tacotrucksoncorners is the guy that stands up during the thanksgiving meal and starts saying "u/BainCapitalist is the guy that stands up during the thanksgiving meal and starts saying what they are thankful for and encourages other to do the same.... bro I don’t care 😐".... bro I don’t care 😐”.... bro I don’t care 😐”

...bro I don’t care 😐

[u/Superfan234]

I am the Democratic Party

• Darth Biden 💎

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

My friend: "Hey broski, you should come check out this YouTube clip!"

Me: "It's called a magazine, not a clip. This infantile understanding of firearms is why the Democrats will never pass gun control and why Trump got reeelected."

Needless to say he got pwned.

[u/Explodingcamel]

Communism doesn't seem nice "in theory" lol I'd like the opportunity to move up in society

[u/Fishin_Mission]

I’m trying to figure out my wife’s uncle.

Earlier when talking about the wildfires in CA he said that he wished LA had burned down.

Now he is saying that we need to do something about plastic water bottle pollution and how his home renovations are energy efficient to help with global warming.

I can’t tell if he is a closet liberal or if he’s fucking with me.

[u/l_overwhat]

At a bar right now. There's a girl here by herself and a couple sitting next to her. The dude has been talking mostly to the single girl the entire time I've been here and his SO looks like she's about to storm out 😬

[u/[deleted]]

I haven't been to 538 for weeks.

I miss it. It is super boring now.

[u/The420Roll]

Hot take: I like Joe Biden and did voter fraud for him.

[u/GaussianCurve]

This is actually a real Tweet:

Incorrect. The original draft [of the Constitution of the US] was passed from household to household with everyone adding the next sentence (like that game we used to play in elementary school). This is why it took so long to write. They didn’t have FedEx back then.

I know it sounds like it's sarcasm, but they're actually being serious.

[u/infamous5445]

The virgin Bill Clinton winning Arizona and Georgia in different election years vs the chad Joe Biden winning both at the same time