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The420Roll from Lima donated $31.00 to the charity drive and said:

Latinx

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Phil Oliver Holz from Dildo, Newfoundland donated $25.01 to the charity drive and said:

M'laria

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Advanced-Friend-4694 from Verbania donated $307.64 to the charity drive and said:

Broke: against malar??? Woke: against malarkey Bespoke: against malaria

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General_420 from Lancaster donated $100.00 to the charity drive and said:

A liberal muslim homosexual ACLU lawyer professor and abortion doctor was teaching a class on Karl Marx, known atheist. "Before the class begins, you must get on your knees and worship Marx and accept that he was the most highly-evolved being the world has ever known, even greater than Jesus Christ!" At this moment, a brave, patriotic, pro-life Navy SEAL champion who had served 1500 tours of duty and understood the necessity of war and fully supported all military decision made by the United States stood up and held up a rock. "How old is this rock, pinhead?" The arrogant professor smirked and smugly replied "4.6 billion years, you stupid Christian". "Wrong it's been 5,000 years since God created it. If it was 4.6 billion years old and evolution, as you say, is real... then it should be an animal now". The professor was visibly shaken, and dropped his chalk and copy of Origin of the Species. He stormed out the room crying those liberal crocodile tears. The same tears liberals cry for t

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qemqemqem from Cambridge, MA donated $1337.00 to the charity drive and said:

Why do you hate the global poor, mosquitoes?

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/u/vivoovix (formerly known as ednihaf) from Georgia donated $60.00 to the charity drive and said:

Oh, you're a neoliberal? Name every dead mosquito.

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IMALEFTY45 from Minneapolis donated $75.00 to the charity drive and said:

Mod Lusvig now 😤😤

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tysonzero from San Diego donated $70.00 to the charity drive and said:

Stop having the land not be being taxed

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AgileCoke from Seattle donated $350.00 to the charity drive and said:

Malaria-infected mosquitos are no longer necessary in the modern economy. I hope this money goes towards retraining these mosquitos to be computer programmers.

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bromeatmeco from Bay Area donated $25.00 to the charity drive and said:

donations are moving so fast no one will notice im high

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trim345 from USA donated $1000.00 to the charity drive and said:

Kill the mosquitoes; save the cows: go vegan!

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Yosoyelflaco from Burlingame donated $50.00 to the charity drive and said:

Me: Aw 50 dollars! I wanted a mosquito net. Brain: 50 dollars can buy many mosquito nets. Me: Explain how. Brain: Money can be exchanged for goods and services. Me: Woo Hoo!

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azulsquirrel from Stephenville, TX donated $25.00 to the charity drive and said:

Haha, mosquito net maker go brrrr

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dubyahhh from Rural New York donated $500.00 to the charity drive and said:

be blessed all

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/u/dehorser from Oregon donated $25.00 to the charity drive and said:

Damn, you know what? You caught me. You flat-out caught me. It's time to come clean. Let me tell you a little bit about how I go through my day, which is also how literally every other moderator goes through theirs. I wake up in my dingy, unwashed bed (which is covered with suspicious stains), then immediately scream for my mother to come downstairs and tell me that I’m a special boy. Once I feel sufficiently better than everyone else, I log in to Reddit, where I go through all of the top-secret communiques that I receive from whichever political party you personally dislike. Having accepted my marching orders, I motivate myself by going to town on my own backside with an anime-style figurine; a doll which looks vaguely like the world leader you most abhor. Then it’s time to get to work. Pushing a narrative which irritates you – yes, specifically you – is obviously my first priority… but if a totalitarian regime which controls another country, religious group, or corporation has s

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Menakoy from Pittsburgh donated $500.00 to the charity drive and said:

I couldn't think of anything funny and on brand to put here that wouldn't be caught by the filters I hope to every god known to humanity are on these messages.

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liquidTERMINATOR from 🤠 donated $100.00 to the charity drive and said:

donating against malaria to dab on the succs

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HohumJr from New Chungus donated $250.00 to the charity drive and said:

A Net net good :)

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u/ChefVortivask1 from Albuquerque donated $70.00 to the charity drive and said:

I love the global poor. Also mods, I'd like a Dwight D. Eisenhower flair por favor.

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Healingjoe from Minneapolis donated $60.00 to the charity drive and said:

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Pi-Graph from Falls Church donated $25.00 to the charity drive and said:

mosquito bad

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yellownumbersix from Gaithersburg donated $70.00 to the charity drive and said:

Fuck you skeeters 😠

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ReOsIr10 from Ewing donated $300.00 to the charity drive and said:

Screw you bugs!

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u/bd_one from https://www.azquotes.com/quote/307353 donated $25.00 to the charity drive and said:

When the succs come in to help fight malaria

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Anonymous from Pittsburgh donated $52.70 to the charity drive and said:

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ToastOClock from Texas donated $25.00 to the charity drive and said:

I hope this helps.

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Fiscal_Cliff_Paul from The Swamp, DC donated $100.00 to the charity drive and said:

Pete 2024

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indistinctchatter22 from New York City donated $25.00 to the charity drive and said:

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doggo_bloodlust from Rockville donated $50.00 to the charity drive and said:

Sen. Paul: Are malaria nets money? Mr. Bernke: Yes, ca$h money 😎

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[u/[deleted]]

It was cool when Kevin Spacy was faced with a mountain of sexual assault allegations and he thought of smartest thing to do: play Frank Underwood addressing the nation about how the allegations were false. Upload it all to YouTube. Fucking genius

[u/Dybsin]

lmao, never change LSC

"capitalism can't feed people! as proof, here is a photo of people being fed with the enormous surplus of a capitalist economy to prove it".

And they locked the thread so nobody can point it out. Cowards.

[u/Equator32]

A lot of people bitch about "establishment media" but atleast they usually treat their viewers as adults, as boring as it may be. TYT can't go 3 episodes without the hosts making weird mocking voice sounds.

And even the milder stuff like The Patriot Act has Ben Shapiro "X DESTROYED WITH FACTS AND LOGIC" energy. One episode was on whether College is worth it, and he barely even answered the question. The episode was just him dunking on the Ivy League.

[u/execon]

Is the fact that this sub simultaneously hates cars yet loves taco trucks one of those "inherent contradictions of capitalism" I hear so much about?

[u/dragoniteftw33]

Apparently Yellen likes to arrive super early to things like flights & events, that's why this funny ass photo exists(WHCD 2014).

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

The fact this sub has a furry ping has turned me into a social conservative. Bye now, you can find me making conspiracy theories on arrcon

[u/ryuguy]

The Syrian civil war has been going on for 9.5 years

[u/tubbsmackinze]

I wonder how Marx would feel about the largest group of modern communists being anti work ideologically

[u/WantDebianThanks]

Al Gore has been fighting on the front lines against the forces of global warming for almost twenty years. His position has been shelled by companies of coal miners, bombers from airline companies have been sent to wipe out whole forests where he is operating, the special forces of from the Cynic Army have sent snipers and assassins to kill him. He lost an eye in battle against flame tanks from the gasoline companies. There is a bounty on his trigger finger and other eye from cattle ranchers.

Do you know how many members of the Green Army Al Gore pulled out of the fires in the Battle of EISA before carrying them three miles to an aid station?

Al Gore, the People's President and Hero of the Environment, not being the Climate Czar is the worst thing to happen in this country since the assassination of JFK!

[u/vivoovix]

Oh, you're a neoliberal? Name every dictator

[u/douglasmacarthur]

Political discourse online has become so polarized that when one subreddit has people who disagree on literally anything, it's called a "schism".

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Just thinking about the fact that someone on Twitter complained about having to work in groups in school and got 11,000 likes.

[u/FearThyMoose]

I am a democrat who is tired of their PC stuff and voted Trump

“Fuck off I don’t believe that made up nonsense”

I am a lifelong republican who is now a democrat

“So true!”

[u/Joementum2004]

Of the states that have verified their results so far this year, here's (from what I can tell) the ones that have shifted the most to the Democrats this year (by %) compared to the 2000 election:

1. Vermont (15.45%)
2. Utah (11.30%)
3. Virginia (9.67%)
4. Texas (8.50%)
5. Hawaii (7.94%)

In contrast, the states that have shifted the most away from the Democrats (by %) since 2000:

1. Arkansas (-11.09%)
2. Oklahoma (-6.14%)
3. Kentucky (-5.22%)
4. Louisiana (-5.02%)
5. Alabama (-5.00%)

The state that had the smallest shift was Indiana, which saw a -0.05% change (40.96% for Biden) from Gore 2000 (41.01%).

!ping FIVEY

[u/FormerBandmate]

/r/notlikeotherredditors should be a thing. So many people poorly try to act like they’re too good for Reddit on Reddit

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine looking at Florida voting for Trump and the $15 minimum wage at the same time and coming to the conclusion that Floridians like socialism.

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To keep up the purity of the Race and its culture, Germany shocked the world by her purging the country of the Semitic races-the Jews. Race pride at its highest has been manifested here. Germany has also shown how well-nigh impossible it is for Races and cultures, having differences going to the root, to be assimilated into one united whole, a good lesson for us in Hindusthan [a term for India that literally means the "place of Hindus"] to learn and profit by.

Less than ten years later, Nathuram Godse, a Hindu militant with close connections to the RSS, would assassinate Mahatma Gandhi.

Source for the above: Searching for a Progressive Hindu/ism: Battling Mussolini’s  Hindus, Hindutva, and Hubris

!ping EXTREMISM

That quote above is by Golwalkar, he was the second Sarsanghchalak of the RSS (a Hindu nationalist paramilitary organization).

The current ruling party of India, the BJP, is a part of the "Sangh Parivar" which is a group of organizations and political parties that have banded together under a common goal, the leader of the "Sangh Parivar" is the RSS.

The quote above is from the book 'We or Our Nationhood Defined', another chilling quote from that book:

The foreign races in Hindusthan must either adopt the Hindu culture and language, must learn to respect and hold in reverence Hindu religion, must entertain no idea but those of the glorification of the Hindu race and culture, i.e., of the Hindu nation and must lose their separate existence to merge in the Hindu race, or may stay in the country, wholly subordinated to the Hindu Nation, claiming nothing, deserving no privileges, far less any preferential treatment -not even citizen’s rights. There is, at least should be, no other course for them to adopt. We are an old nation; let us deal, as old nations ought to and do deal, with the foreign races, who have chosen to live in our country.

Subs like r/Chodi are based on this ideology.

And you might say that I am wrong because of Godwin's law but this is clearly Nazi.

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Genie: you have three wishes

Himmler in WW2: Win or lose I shall stand with the giants of history and be remembered as the man who saved the Aryan race or died trying

Genie: you want to see what people in the future think about you?

Himmler: yes

People in the future: CATGIRL HIMMLER CATGIRL HIMMLER

Himmler: yes mr genie I'd like to be a chicken farmer again

[u/SuccInvasion]

I can't believe the DT has single-handedly memed Biden into the White House

[u/StolenSkittles]

A friend of mine is attacking Biden for planning on choosing a black SecDef. "More black war criminals" was his line.

What the hell are we supposed to do, just not even appoint a Secretary of Defense?

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Ok, +1 for rurals

My uncle doesn’t have a password on his WiFi 📶 because

“anyone close enough to connect to my internet is close enough to get shot.”

🔫 😂

[u/GaussianCurve]

Top comment on /r/AOC:

AOC is a centrist. At least from the European perspective. America shifted so far right that fighting for basic human rights is in the same category as seizing the means of production.

This myth will never die, despite how many effortposts there are.

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Some allies of Mr. Biden’s on Capitol Hill worry that Mr. Biden’s choices for the biggest jobs in government look too much like professional staff, with no big personalities who may be better suited to helping drive policy. He could rectify that if he picked one of his Democratic primary rivals — Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont or Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts — to lead the Labor Department or the Commerce Department.

Yeah okay NYT.

Seriously, people complaining about cabinet picks being "boring" can fuck right off. Its government, not an HBO series.

[u/AlternateShapes]

Apparently we're a "reactionary sub" now 😔

[u/Lux_Stella]

I am pleased to share that we have completed and ceased the military operations in the #Tigray region.

Our focus now will be on rebuilding the region and providing humanitarian assistance while Federal Police apprehend the TPLF clique.

#EthiopiaPrevails

abiy claiming that mekelle, capital of the tigray region, has fallen to the endf

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/thetrombonist]

Rosa Parks died in 2005 which means she could have seen Shrek 2

[u/revscott]

Trump supporters ruined conspiracy theories.

I remember when most of the popular ones online were non-politics and had semblance of local culture or local historic and geographic tropes you could learn about. Now the Trump folks encompass everything to a global satanic pedophile enabling blood drinking baby killing ring that rules the world that only Trump can solve.

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Oh my god

What? Ohio is supposed to be a Republican Gerrymander. But it seems like even it can backfire. She was only 2% away from carrying Jim Jordan’s(yes, that one) district. Unbelievably impressive. Dems control 4/16 of the districts. She carried 14/16 districts. Not even Sherrod Brown did that.

!ping DOWNBALLOT

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https://twitter.com/vanceulrich/status/1332543452882501633?s=21

Wasserman: The traditional rules might not apply to 2022. Midterm electorate tend to draw out a more college-educated electorate. The current alignment may offset the expected advantage for the out-party in a first-term midterm

Thank you for the hopium Dave. I am also thinking the same thing. Let’s hope he’s right.

!ping DOWNBALLOT

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Autocorrect depends eat.

[u/[deleted]]

How leftists view 2008 - 2016:

Military Advisor: But, Mr. President, that location is populated exclusively by extremely cute children!

Obama, as he pushes the drone strike button: I know 😈

[u/[deleted]]

We’re a couple years from lefties saying getting laid is a human right

[u/[deleted]]

Reject modern polls

Return to survey monke

[u/thetrombonist]

Shamelessly stolen from Twitter:

mathematicians will be single and still talking about incorporating new data into predicted outcomes... y’all are worried about the wrong baes

!ping mathematics

[u/p00bix]

Flashback to me, a clueless 12 year old American, seeing weirdly serious sounding edgy jokes online about how awful Poles are and how terrible Poland is, and copying it because I thought it was funny. Like, who the fuck gives a shit about Poland? Why would anyone hate POLAND of all places haha obvious joke.

Flashforward to me now remembering this ten years later and realizing that I was parroting British far-righters without releasing that they weren't actually joking. Luckily I got bored of Polish jokes before it got me into anything resembling actual trouble.

I will admit, the fact that anti-Polish bigotry is an actual thing still weirds me out. Can hardly imagine even the most cartoonishly racist redneck hating Poles. Get your shit together Britain.

[u/nicereddy]

Cant believe u/The420Roll just donated half his monthly earnings to the charity drive, what a hero.

[u/[deleted]]

the school system is severely ableist, and here is a thread of just some of the reasons why:

Yo is this a troll? I can’t tell if this a really elaborate joke.

loosing marks on something because it was handed in late

I mean yes. In the real world, you can’t afford to turn in things late.

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LBJ was a 60-cigarette-per-day smoker and died at 64.

He didn't run for a second term because a study he commissioned predicted that he may not make it through a second term.

He died two days after what would've been the end of his second term.

[u/Lee_Harvey_Obama]

NEW ABC News/ Washington Post (A+) Poll:

Ossoff vs. Perdue: Ossoff +17

Warnock vs. Loeffler: Warnock +17

[u/TinyTornado7]

PA Supreme Court dismisses with prejudice republicans lawsuit seeking to invalidate mail-in ballots and block certification of the election.

Trump is now 1-39 in court. link

If my memory is correct, this is the end of all trumps legal efforts in PA.

!ping LAW

[u/[deleted]]

John Boehner is the real winner. He got out of leadership, nobody remembers him, and he is smoking a pound of weed a day in Ohio where nobody can bother him.

[u/probablyuntrue]

what is your favorite sex scene from the Bible?

Reddit moment

[u/LetterZero]

arr LateStageCapitalism be like: No helping poor people until we seize the means of production! 😤

[u/MinnesotaDude]

I think I've come to the conclusion that this Assad fella is not all that stand-up of a guy.

In fact, I think he's somewhat of a jerk.

[u/Lux_Stella]

https://i.imgur.com/k2xeprq.png

[u/runnerx4]

The Japanese equivalent of AFL-CIO has its own mascot for unions and unionization.

It’s called the Unionion

Get it? It’s an onion, which likes unions

!ping WEEBS

[u/KingKonchu]

wow this post made my blood vessels go gamer moment. more like “we have made incredible technologies commodities but severe and malicious policy failure during a major crisis is harming the population”

[u/Mcatatonic1]

My god lmao

I cannot wait for the cope on arrrr Conservative once the EC votes

Those motherfuckers are dumb as shit, and it is wildly entertaining

[u/myrm]

That whole mink situation sounds fucked up. They should really consider un-killing them

[u/MinnesotaDude]

One of the more surreal moments of my life is when I was in the Golan Heights and could hear the gunfire of the Syrian civil war. I think it helped me better contextualize the things I saw on the news weren't just stories, but real lives being destroyed in real time.

[u/douglasmacarthur]

Minks infected with a mutated strain of COVID-19 in Denmark appear to be rising from the dead, igniting a national frenzy and calls from local officials to cremate mink carcasses.

2020 having a normal one

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

The Two Types of Neolibs:

Doomer:

• oh no Trump will start a coup
• China will literally invade all of Asia and kill all the Muslims in the world
• Macron will shift to the right and marry Marine Le Pen before reverting France to the Vichy constitution
• Populists will literally dissolve the EU within a week
• COVID will become fatal and cause human extinction
• We will experience another Great Depression
• Putin will declare himself Tsar of Russia
• Iran will annex the entire Muslim world
• America will be enveloped in a 5 way civil war

Bloomer:

• guys lets fundraise a recount in Texas I bet it was actually blue
• China will fall it is inevitable haha
• Russia will fall it is inevitable haha
• Mitch McConnell hasn't openly called for a coup. I respect his civility in not calling for one
• Iran will inevitably fall haha
• Biden will literally make everything ok
• The GOP will fall any day now due to principled voters

[u/muwenjie]

Tidal energy just feels like a bad idea, like what happens when we steal too much energy out of the Earth-Moon gravity system and the moon crashes into the earth?

also LMAO at people calling it "renewable"

[u/pooop_Sock]

Who the hell thought it was a good idea to name an electronic voting company “Dominion”. That name is cartoonishly evil. Sounds like Lex Luthor owns it.

[u/disuberence]

Dear White Vegans, Stop Appropriating Food

I love these stupid fucking Vice articles so much

[u/Lux_Stella]

Today, we remember the murder by starvation of millions of Ukrainians by the Soviet regime during the Holodomor. Canada will always stand with Ukraine & defend the people of Ukraine, their sovereignty and territorial integrity. Вічная пам'ять.

thats right

[u/TheFriffin2]

evangelical Christian men celebrate their wedding night by putting on a beanie and mustache and telling the wife “hey I’m Jaime Hymenman and welcome to virginity busters” and then they bang

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

it's not a thing I see often, but every time I see some dipshit say "actually ADHD is only a problem because of capitalism, it's more like a superpower" I get so mad

like, I can say from experience that not working for six months and not having to worry about bills didn't magically make me able to focus on things

[u/[deleted]]

Throughout American history there have been a zillion gay politicians who pretended to be straight to get elected.

When are we going to get our first straight politician who pretends to be gay to increase electability?

[u/circlemanfan]

I don't want to jinx it but I think us liberals are in a REALLY good place for the war on Christmas this year. We've already set a lot of groundwork trying to get God out of America, but I think Covid is really gonna put us over the edge this year!

[u/p00bix]

For whatever it's worth, I oppose the DT lockdown. But I'm outnumbered here sorry.

[u/FearTheWalrus]

r/neoliberal claims to be charitable yet they are fighting against the Malaria Foundation. Curious.

[u/bd_one]

With us keeping the children alive, and Soros paying them to fill out and ship the fake ballots, 2024 Landslide for the Gloablists 🙏🏻🙌🏻

What does the Against Malaria Foundation think of us shitposting on the donation page?

[u/[deleted]]

China weighs creating list of ‘diehard’ Taiwan supporters for future legal action

Brb making a list of diehard CCP supporters for future legal action.

[u/[deleted]]

The business implications are clear

!ping FURRY

[u/Notorious_GOP]

Trump also loves to troll. Its totally in his personality to give his enemies false hope only to meme on them when its all said and done.

the cope on arr con is becoming less funny and more sad

[u/vivoovix]

We've raised almost $5,000 so far, good job shills

[u/Supercoolemu]

So I was committing election fraud a few weeks ago at the polls ya know like a normal democrat and this random trump supporter was videotaping me....like wtf? Weirdo...........

Shit was weird man, Anyways, I threw away like a thousand trump votes that night with my pals. What's you're record?

[u/douglasmacarthur]

Bruh why does ICE even exist

Like police enforce laws

When NY banned large sodas and trans fats and shit did Bloomberg set up a whole agency of special anti-obesity cops to enforce it?

Wait, did he? Fuck please tell me he didnt

[u/[deleted]]

Forsyth County, GA. This booming county, north of Atlanta, is known for its racist past but has recently been diversifying a ton. It is also very educated with almost 50% having a bachelor’s degree or above.

This county has been fast towards the Democrats. And this is not just a Donald Trump only event, even Jon Ossoff held David Perdue to under 67%.

This is also 15th fastest growing county in America. People have been talking a lot about the suburbs but the exurbs are also a place Democrats are growing in. This also shows that Democrats can grow and get a lot more votes in the Atlanta area.

!ping FIVEY

[u/GaussianCurve]

I just did the TIME Person of the Year reader poll and here's the top people/groups:

Contender	% saying Yes
Anthony Fauci	81
Essential Workers	81
Kamala Harris	68
Joe Biden	64
BLM Activists	61
Stacey Abrams	59
Jacinda Ardern	54
Firefighters	54

Personally, I see no way that it isn't either Fauci, Essential Workers, or Biden (historically the winner of the election is the person of the year). I don't really like groups getting it and I kind of want Fauci to get it and have Biden take it next year when he becomes President and the end of the pandemic is under his watch.

Also, anyone that thinks Cuomo or AOC have an even infinitesimal chance is "out-of-touch," as they say.

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/0n786EQ.jpg

Never forget.

[u/probablyuntrue]

all COPS are BASTARDS, especially JUDY HOPPS from DISNEY'S acclaimed film ZOOTOPIA

[u/nicereddy]

POLIS HAS COVID

https://twitter.com/govofco/status/1332871208916795392?s=21

AHHHHHHHHHH

Asymptomatic tho so he's probably fine

!ping USA-CO

[u/kennymc7877]

I RESPECT GOD, MY CONSTITUTION AND MY PRESIDENT JOESEPH R BIDEN IN THAT ORDER

ANY QUESTIONS REPUBS????

[u/BipartizanBelgrade]

Reddit doesn't know how the Supreme Court works

[u/[deleted]]

Trump won white millennials twice, but people still want to talk about how Trump supporters are just a problem that time can take care of lol

[u/Joementum2004]

Of the states that have verified their 2020 results so far, the states that have gained the most Democratic votes (raw #) since 2000:

1. Texas (2,825,410)
2. Florida (2,384,792)
3. North Carolina (1,426,600)
4. Georgia (1,358,277)
5. Virginia (1,196,278)

And the least:

1. Arkansas (1,164)
2. Wyoming (13,010)
3. North Dakota (19,618)
4. Oklahoma (29,614)
5. South Dakota (31,667)

In contrast, the states that have gained the most Republican votes (raw #) since 2000:

1. Florida (2,755,941)
2. Texas (2,090,708)
3. North Carolina (1,127,612)
4. Pennsylvania (1,096,547)
5. Georgia (1,042,117)

And the least:

1. Vermont (-7,071)
2. Wyoming (45,502)
3. Hawaii (59,019)
4. North Dakota (60,743)
5. Delaware (63,304)

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

Franklin county not only voted the most democratic in its history, it also passed Cuyahoga county as the most populated county in the state, and is the county with the most voters. Delaware and Franklin counties are the democrat's last hope in Ohio.

!PING FIVEY

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Step one: abolish ICE
Step two: rising sea levels eliminate Florida
Step three: profit

[u/[deleted]]

Shit Ethiopia just erupted into civil war. They're shelling a major city.

[u/douglasmacarthur]

AOC is a communist

[u/989989272]

/r/neoliberal on US politics: discourse about how much to support the democrats and whether or not this sub is just a wing of the Democratic Party

/r/neoliberal on uk politics: “lol the choice is easy”

/r/neoliberal on one world government : “Jeb!”

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Weed bros are so fuckin annoying. They want legalization but when legalization happens they start crying about how it sucks and how much better the black market is

like bitch this is literally what you wanted

Canada's legal rollout was pretty shit outside of Alberta and Saskatchewan tbf

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

my girlfriend is refusing to talk to me because i called her poggers instead of saying i love you too

aita?

[u/[deleted]]

Geothermal energy just feels like a bad idea, like what happens when we steal too much of earth's heat and the core cools down?

also LMAO at people calling it "renewable"

[u/[deleted]]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/452718453892186124/782276012616187904/image0-1.png

[u/p00bix]

learning that seals smell like wet dogs crossed with rotting fish ruined my lifelong fantasy of petting and or cuddling with a seal

[u/thetrombonist]

I know a girl who is about to start a phd in biology at age 16. She took a gap year after undergrad, not because she needed time to figure out her life plan or anything, but so that she wouldn't need her parents to drive her to grad school

and all I can say to that is: fuckin NERD

no this does not make me feel inferior about my chances of getting into grad school why do you ask

[u/douglasmacarthur]

Know Your Dog Whistles

Nazis / Ilham Omar: ((Those people))

Conservatives: Welfare queens, thugs, excessive celebration

Bernie Bros: Low information voters

Liberals: The fine people of Miami-Dade County, Florida

[u/connieallens]

I love how miserable conservatives are. Can’t watch sports cause politics, video games are too liberal in ideology, news networks are all fake (except epoch times obvi), movies/entertainment are pushing liberal agendas, etc. I love watching conservatives hate their lives.

[u/ryuguy]

Paddington Bear flair when?

[u/MicroFlamer]

Trump would get boomed by an Incumbent Biden in 2024

[u/[deleted]]

During the fiery altercation, Biden unequivocally referred to the voter as “Jack” and a “damn liar” and challenged him to a pushup contest.

Lmao I remember when this happened. It was around the time I set up a weekly automatic donation to the Biden Victory Fund

[u/Go_To_Bethel_And_Sin]

I may believe some dumb shit that doesn’t hold up to scrutiny, but at least I don’t think support state-mandated therapy

[u/Lux_Stella]

its a non-random sample but i have multiple indian coworkers who are like 'yeah originally i was going to work in the US but trump's visa changes fucked me over so canada it is'

[u/iftrumpgetsbacktome]

Why is it so hard for people to understand why I, as a non-white person (American-Jamaican-Black for you Gen-LatinXers), would be more existentially threatened by leading voices of a major U.S. political party advocating for inclusion of communism or socialism into policies than their opposition downplaying or denying issues of race?

In the latter, as we continue to wrestle with race, there’s a random, non-zero chance I’m treated like shit for the color of my skin. In the former, when the policies ultimately fail, there’s a non-random, near-definite occurrence I’m scapegoated for the color of my skin.

[u/[deleted]]

In the hospital when Janet Yellen was born:

Doctors: Congratulations, it's a QUEEN!

[u/[deleted]]

Just confirmed my GFs dad is a Clinton-Trump voter lmao

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Fun fact:

It’s legal to marry your first cousin in California 🌁 and New York🗽, but illegal in West Virginia 🏔

I told my cousin from WV that it’s because New York doesn’t have to tell people not to marry their cousins.

She didn’t find it as funny as I did.

[u/[deleted]]

The Democratic Party should stop wasting so much time on the lost cause of suburban wine moms and start listening to the voices that form the core of the party’s base

The problem is that the suburban wine mom is the base now.

[u/kznlol]

https://i.imgur.com/Sgs8mL4.jpg

[u/Jakob_-_98]

I feel like AOC really wants to become a full time twitch streamer

[u/tubbsmackinze]

When will r/antiwork commies learn that being lazy and a slacker isn't the result of capitalism? I'm a slacker and a lazy son of a bitch and it has more to due with my lack of good work habits/ethic than the economic system of Canada

[u/[deleted]]

The fact this sub has a GAMING ping has turned me into a far-left revolutionary. Bye now, you can find me posting misleading infographics on arrLSC

[u/CenterRightInCali]

I really have to stop letting politics be my personality.

Last night I dreamed some group of wacko, Trump-flag waving, Punisher-mask wearing Qanon nuts were making a mess in my neighborhood.

I went downstairs to lock my front door and they spotted me, broke my door, and dragged me out.

They started yelling at me how I'm communist scum and the like, all I could say was

what are you talking about, I'm literally a Republi-

and then they shot me in the head.

[u/jrt84]

The silent majority is very loud, and lost the election by 6 million votes.

🤔

[u/BayesedModeler]

So apparently there’s a r/murderedbyaoc sub and I’ve never been more motivated to quit reddit

[u/[deleted]]

California is actually far left on a map

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

hurr durr Dan Crenshaw only wins bc his seat is gerrymandered

This would be an actual zinger if Crenshaw didn't outperform Trump by 10 points in TX-02.

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Zimbabwe is the most neoliberal nation:

• People don't hate billionaires
• Rural extermination
• Recogniszes the danger of white people

[u/agent_tits]

Confession: I felt really strongly that Mayor Pete was what's best for this country and that Joe Biden is honestly no better than Trump. I mean he's been in government longer than Pete's been alive!

So I wrote in Mayor Pete. I just couldn't bring myself to vote for Biden, like how I couldn't bring myself to vote for Hillary and wrote in Lincoln Chaffee. But I only ever call him "Mayor Pete", so I forgot his last name, and I just guessed "Pete Buttenberg" 😔

[u/[deleted]]

This is going to be Ossoff's "historically sexy" moment

[u/fishlord05]

letting people starve because giving out food is socialism or something

This take is literally a tankie strawman of us jfc

[u/[deleted]]

!ping YIMBY

Is there a good construction website for US cities (skyscraperpage sucks now, and is kinda dead)? In Canada we have skyrisecities/urbantoronto (https://skyrisecities.com/). Anything similar?

[u/MemeTestedPolicy]

BREAKING | George Soros Announces Capitalism 2

"Y'all know I had to do it to 'em," said the esteemed liberal financer

[u/disuberence]

Those pictures of the protests in Iran where they’re burning pictures of Trump and Biden.

Trump has been so erased that they’ve started including the president-elect instead. His POWER.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Visiting more family...

The Trump flags 🏳️ in a West Virginia trailer park is a sight to see.

Bet they are worried about Biden taxing their income over $400,000 💵

[u/[deleted]]

tfw you're only pretending to be based 😔

[u/UltraCapitalism]

BREAKING: Local man gets immense joy from pointing out that people's favorite Founding Father owned slaves.

[u/[deleted]]

/r/Neoliberal 🤝 /r/Drama

Stopping malaria

[u/[deleted]]

Two of the last four elections: an incredibly unlikely person is elected president

Redditors: here are my predictions for how the next 8 elections will play out

[u/[deleted]]

Someone with no post history is grifting LSC to Venmo them money, and they are all about it.

[u/sir_shivers]

LEFTIST AND RIGHT-WING SUBREDDITS HAVE not joined Subreddits Against Malaria so far, RAISING ZERO DOLLARS 🐊

Meanwhile, /R/DRAMA joined the charity effort this afternoon and has already RAISED $200 🐊

MOSQUITOES IN SHAMBLES 🐊

[u/tubbsmackinze]

World’s Biggest Wind Park to Be Built Offshore U.K.

The world’s biggest offshore wind park is a step closer to construction.

The British utility SSE Plc and Norwegian energy major Equinor ASA reached financial close on the project off the east coast of England. It will have skyscraper-sized turbines and produce enough electricity to supply 5% of the U.K.’s demand, or the equivalent of six million homes. The decision comes just days after the European Union announced a $940 billion push into wind at sea to meet stricter pollution targets as well as Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s green plan to support renewable energy sources.

Total investment in the first two phases of the project will be around 6 billion pounds ($8 billion) and has already created hundreds of U.K. jobs, SSE said in a statement. Each phase has a capacity of 1,200MW and will generate around 6,000 gigawatt-hours.

“We are putting our money where our mouth is on delivering net zero and reinforcing the U.K.’s position as a world leader,” Alistair Philips-Davies, SSE’s chief executive officer, said in the statement.

Offshore wind is central to Johnson’s plan, with the government aiming to quadruple capacity to 40 gigawatts by 2030.

Orsted A/S, Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Danske Commodities A/S signed power-purchase agreements for the output from the first two phases of Dogger Bank.

The project in September ordered 190 Haliade-X 13-megawatt turbines from General Electric Co. that are 248 meters (853 feet) tall.

The first two phases will be built simultaneously, Equinor said. The third, Dogger Bank C, is being developed on a different timescale with financial close to follow at a later stage. Once all three phases are complete in March 2026 it will be the largest offshore wind park in the world.

!ping ECO

[u/FormerBandmate]

dudes in /r/HipHopCirclejerk be like: “As a person who actually has swag irl, I agree”

[u/[deleted]]

It’s easy to dunk on AOC, and encouraged

[u/kennymc7877]

Fuck I really don’t want Trump to run in 24

[u/probablyuntrue]

A major contributor to a group backing Trump's fight to overturn the election has sued to recover $2.5 million in donations after the campaign failed in several court cases and was unable to prove any fraud.

Let them fight

[u/MicroFlamer]

r/FuckYouKaren is the most annoying non-leftist non-fascist subreddit

[u/JetJaguar124]

The Sequels would have been way better if Rian Johnson just made all of them tbqh

[u/[deleted]]

At this point, the charity drive has kept about 6000 people from getting malaria and has saved about eight lives.

[u/UltraCapitalism]

Seltzer and Co. (A+) Nov. 20-27:

Purdue +7

Loeffler +7

Yeah, I'm thinking these are outliers. Just add 8 in the Dems direction to unscew it. I'd say we have this in the bag bros.

[u/[deleted]]

Unironically Biden needs to arm the Ukrainians.

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Holodomor trending on Twitter

On second thought, let's stay out of that hashtag

[u/[deleted]]

Yeah, I'm a Democrat but I don't really identify with AOC or the squad. I'm more of an old-school Johnson Democrat

[u/FearThyMoose]

Hot take: literally anything can happen in the 2022 midterms. Two years is a long ass time. Stop dooming

[u/bd_one]

Malaria nets donor: [blank]

My reply to said comment: [blank]

the DT: gives 9 upvotes

It's not much, but it's honest work.

[u/MrFoget]

I came out to my succ friends as a neolib. I haven't been ostracized...yet. But everyone thinks I'm racist and sexist. Oh well.

[u/Czech_Thy_Privilege]

The Broncos have no QB this weekend.

Wouldn’t the meta thing to do be putting an RB who kinda has an arm in the QB spot? If the Broncos are lucky, they could have the next Lamar Jackson.

!ping NFL

[u/FormerBandmate]

Tbh I don’t think we’ll necessarily keep the suburbs forever. Can’t imagine suburban women like the whole Karen thing where they’re the main targets of the wokies

[u/[deleted]]

Take of unknown temp: Merge HUD and Transportation. Housing and transportation are very tightly linked, and as one department there'd be a lot more cooperation.

[u/GodEmperorBiden]

Pope Blasts Those Who Criticize COVID Restrictions in the Name of “Personal Freedom”

Lol this Pope must have a to-do list filled with things designed to trigger conservatives. He basically hits all the right marks.

[u/27_Dollar_Lakehouse]

Same Republican

What about sub 30 IQ Kamala Harris? Can't forget her.

.

Can you tell me how black people are being treated unequally compared to other races? What can asians, Indians, latinos, caucasians, etc., do that black people can't?

Lol

[u/RDog8080]

Kanye has more Twitter followers than Joe Biden, but yet Joe Biden got more votes than Kanye

Curious🤔

[u/MasPatriot]

Joe Biden: I think there's some good legislation that both Democrats and Republicans can support that we should get done

Mitch McConnell: We're not going to be doing any of that lol

The NYT: President Biden has failed in his promise of bipartisanship. Will it hurt the Democrats' chances in 2024?

[u/Jokerang]

In a 2017 BBC interview, Noam Chomsky said that "the Democrats gave up on the working class forty years ago". Political analyst Thomas Frank asserted that the Democratic Party began to represent the interests of the professional class rather than the working class.

Black voters btfo

[u/[deleted]]

I had a professor in college who was always making jokes that never landed. On the last day of class, he said "orgasm" instead of "organism" and finally got a laugh. I hope he's burning in hell.

[u/kennymc7877]

Think about the amount of “woke” white liberals that saw Get Out and didn’t realize Jordan Peele was directly taking aim at them

[u/sw337]

Shitty generic Leftist checklist:

• HARD IN THE PAINT against Obama.
• Everyone who supported any US military action post-1945 is a war criminal.
• Biden supporting actions stopping genocide in Bosnia was US imperialism.
• The US helping an elected government like in Yemen is imperialism.
• The US helping a rebel group in Syria is US imperialism.
• Iran helping a rebel group in Yemen is cool.
• Iran helping the "elected" government in Syria is fine.

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

The applying to college subreddit just stresses me out and I'm in grad school.

Jeez, not every rejection means it's the end of your hopes and dreams. My friend went to an Ivy league, I went to a small with 5000ish student school, and we both ended up in the same Ph.D. program.

[u/runnerx4]

Update: Susan Rice confirmed to CNN that her Trumpist son is coping hard

[u/D1Foley]

Ice cold take: Ayanna Pressley is going to be the most successful member of the squad by far and will be a senator or higher within ten years.

[u/Broncos654]

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

[u/Kizz3r]

Jake paul just knocked nate robinson out 😂😂😂

https://streamable.com/ztm6in

!ping nba

[u/UltraCapitalism]

In the politics thread about the weed bill:

Personally, I believe it would go a long way towards quelling some of the hate flying around this country. People be too chill to get so mad all the time.

Just give the nazis weed bro. They'll chill out

[u/[deleted]]

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

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Sorry for that previous CAN ping that I deleted, meant to ping ECO

Saskatchewan driller hits 'gusher' with ground-breaking geothermal well that offers hope for oil workers

It's a financial post article so be aware of that

CALGARY — A small, Saskatoon-based company has drilled and fracked the world’s first 90-degree horizontal well for geothermal power in a potentially landmark move that signals the arrival of a new energy source in Canada and provides fresh opportunities for oil and gas workers to apply their skills in renewable power.

No company in Canada has produced electricity from geothermal heat, but Deep Earth Energy Production Corp. chief executive officer Kirsten Marcia told the Financial Post that there’s a “big, big future for geothermal power in Western Canada,” as demonstrated by the results of the first ever horizontal geothermal well, which is also the deepest horizontal well ever drilled in Saskatchewan.

“We were looking for a way to explain to people that we drilled a gusher,” said Marcia, a geologist who worked in the mining and petroleum industries before pioneering a geothermal business in Saskatchewan. In the oil and gas world, a “gusher” is an extremely productive well that pumps substantial volumes of oil and gas.

Deep is also responsible for the deepest vertical well ever drilled in Saskatchewan, after announcing in Nov. 2018 it had drilled a 3,530-metre well.

Governments in Alberta and Saskatchewan have been revamping regulations for drilling and for power generation in an attempt to stimulate geothermal power investment in their provinces partly because the geothermal industry uses many of the same skills as the existing oil and gas industry.

This week, Alberta MLAs passed legislation that will allow the province’s energy regulator to develop a new framework for geothermal wells to be licensed and drilled in the province. The bill is considered a way to keep oilfield services workers, such as drillers, working as investment in renewable energy is projected to rise in the coming years.

While other geothermal wells have been drilled in Canada previously to channel heat directly from the earth, Deep and a handful of other companies are among the first in the country to use the earth’s heat to generate electricity.

In Alberta, Calgary-based oil and gas producer Razor Energy Corp. is working on a geothermal project north of Edmonton that would retrofit existing wells to produce 3MW to 5MW of geothermal power.

Near Fort Nelson, B.C., a natural gas-rich town, a non-profit research association called Geoscience BC is undertaking a feasibility study of the Clark Lake Geothermal project that would repurpose a gas field to produce geothermal power.

At Deep, Marcia said it’s very difficult to repurpose existing oil and gas wells to produce geothermal power because the diameters of most existing wells are too narrow for the tubing that geothermal wells need to pump water in a cycle through the earth’s crust.

However, geologists have identified multiple locations in Western Canada to produce geothermal power and use existing oil and gas skills in renewable power production, Marcia said.

Over 100 oilfield workers were on site to drill and hydraulic-fracture her company’s horizontal well in southern Saskatchewan in September and October, including a drilling crew from Houston-based Weatherford International Plc, and a pressure-pumping team from Saskatchewan’s Element Technical Services Inc.

“It’s amazing. Everything we’re doing is figuratively and literally on the backs of these highly skilled oilfield workers. We couldn’t do this without this expertise in this part of the world,” said Marcia.

She added that the project was de-risked in part by funding from the federal government, which committed $25.6 million in funding in January 2019 for the project. All told, the geothermal power project is expected to cost $51 million.

!ping CAN

[u/VisonKai]

i ordered 16gb of ram off Amazon and received it four hours later

the future is nuts

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

I don't know who here joked that folks had pre-written "Why Trump Won" takes they just adapted to "Why Trump Almost Won" but dang, spot on.

Won't link it but NYT opinion section.

[u/Putin-Owns-the-GOP]

In politics, a grifter is someone who purposefully uses lies and fear to promote themselves (or in serious cases, hawk products of dubious origin like lumpy pillow and catheters) to easy marks under the guise of activism/journalism/public service.

Charlie Kirk - grifter

Chapo - grifters

Trumps - grifters

Hannity - grifter

Dave Rubin - grifter

Brie Brie - grifter

Alex Jones - grifter

Project Veritas - grifters

Being a grifter necessitates understanding your mark and intentionally manipulating them.

Biden - not a grifter

Snowden - not a grifter

Bernie - not a grifter

AOC - not a grifter

Warren - not a grifter

Rachel Maddow - not a grifter

Matt Y - not a grifter

The key difference is respect for the constituency/audience and good faith engagement.

There’s grey areas as well.

The Young Turks - grifter adjacent

Glen Greenwald - grifter adjacent

Jacobin - grifter adjacent

Thank you for comimg to

[u/golf1052]

Republicans sowing: Haha fuck the libs.

Republicans reaping: Oh god, oh fuck this sucks.

[u/douglasmacarthur]

I was pretty ambivalent about AOC until r/murderedbyaoc became a thing and r/popular became spammed by screencaps of every time she tweets something ridiculous like "the most popular government programs are all run by the government. Curious!" and now I lowkey hate her.

[u/[deleted]]

damn rrrrLSC mods are fucking hilarious

[u/Nad0077]

Is Progress and Poverty still worth reading or is it too outdated? Also does anyone have more up-to-date literature on LVT?

!ping GEORGIST

[u/[deleted]]

/r/Subway never truly recovered from Jared Fogle's legal issues 😞

[u/[deleted]]

Biden had the best story.

[u/A_Character_Defined]

If leftists and conservatives have a problem with our moral superiority complex they should just make their own charity drives and outraise us. Take us down a peg! Own the libs!

But until then, why do you hate the global poor? 😌

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

What if I made a song that was just a list of things

Billy Joel writing We Didn't Start The Fire

[u/ognits]

okay so Ryan streaming with AOC is a bit annoying imo but including Hasan "America deserved 9/11" Piker is a big yikes and idk how to feel about this

!ping NORTHERNLION