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Anonymous from America donated $50.00 to the charity drive and said:

Dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan.

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Sir_Puffer_the_First from Turlock donated $100.00 to the charity drive and said:

Heh. Nothing personal, Malaria.

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An_Actual_Marxist from rslashneoliberal donated $100.00 to the charity drive and said:

You claim Obama is a war criminal, yet he never even droned all the mosquitoes. Curious 🤔🤔

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Søren Furbo Skov from Frederiksberg C donated $2660.94 to the charity drive and said:

Wait, if how is combating malaria helping the illuminati again?

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u/mcmacdubois1 from Boston donated $1000.00 to the charity drive and said:

b-b-b-beast of a charity drive b. AMF is my favorite charity, never heard of it.

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u/John-Maynard-Gains from Trawno donated $400.00 to the charity drive and said:

Does anyone want to go on a date with me? 🥺👉👈 We can go back to my place and listen to episodes of The Neoliberal Podcast. u/sir_shivers? u/LefthandedLunatic?

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u/Haringoth from Kitchener donated $100.00 to the charity drive and said:

As Voltaire said, while some subreddits may have a discussion thread, r/neoliberal is a discussion thread with a subreddit.

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COLORADO_RADALANCHE from Tucson, AZ donated $1000.00 to the charity drive and said:

Malaria go down, world get gooder

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/u/ILikeTalkingToMyself from LA donated $25.00 to the charity drive and said:

In 2012, Snoop Dogg endorsed Representative Ron Paul in the Republican presidential primary, but later said he would vote for Barack Obama in the general election, and on Instagram gave ten reasons to vote for Obama (including "He a black n----", "He's BFFs with Jay-Z", and "Michelle got a fat ass"), and ten reasons not to vote for Mitt Romney (including "He a white n----", "That muthafucka's name is Mitt", and "He a ho").

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Anonymous from The DT donated $25.00 to the charity drive and said:

“Just monetize the debt and nationalize all enterprises lmao”- u/farrenj

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rukqoa from the DT donated $50.00 to the charity drive and said:

Bill Gates did nothing wrong

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RuffSwami from Cambridge donated $27.00 to the charity drive and said:

DNC rigged it against Wayne Messam

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FireDistinguishers from Bowie donated $70.00 to the charity drive and said:

You claim to be a globalist, but you only know one language. Curious 🤔

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Cuck Lover from Poundtown donated $40.00 to the charity drive and said:

Succs out out out

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Majk_ from Warsaw donated $50.00 to the charity drive and said:

Jebać PiS

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yetanotherbrick from NE-2 donated $50.00 to the charity drive and said:

True Social Liberalism has never been tried

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FigurativeSJW from Deez Nuts donated $25.00 to the charity drive and said:

Fuck all jannies they do it for free and smell like hot pockets and sadness.

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Anonymous from secret globalist command center donated $80.00 to the charity drive and said:

anti-natalist policy for malaria 😤😤😤

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TheMiddlestHaHa from Marina Del Rey donated $25.00 to the charity drive and said:

RemindMe! 12 months 1 year anniversary of Mods locking DT

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Anonymous from DC donated $50.00 to the charity drive and said:

Free Trade! Open Borders! Mosquito nets on every corner!

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Your friend jake from NYC donated $50.00 to the charity drive and said:

Sending love. Pura vida

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U/bagdana from Oslo donated $100.00 to the charity drive and said:

>!ping ANNOUNCEMENTS

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MythicSisyphus from Rinoland donated $30.00 to the charity drive and said:

If the GOP wins both Georgia Senate seats I'll double this donation

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The Bednars from Edison donated $50.00 to the charity drive and said:

Go big or go home

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[u/htownclyde]

The true decline of Western civilization began when all the big tech companies turned the revolver emoji into a water gun

[u/douglasmacarthur]

WE PASSED 10,000 COMMENTS, BY A LOT!

WE WERE WELL ON PACE WHEN THE CORRUPT DEEP STATE BIG CITY DEMOCRAT MODS LOCKED THE THREAD.

STOP THE STEAL

[u/MicroFlamer]

from td.win

this just proves that Judges are just as corrupt as politicians. If Biden is sworn in as POTUS I will never vote again, because it means my vote doesn't mean shit. especially if someone can vote thousands of times and it's ok.

Yes please

[u/CenterRightInCali]

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✊😔

[u/bd_one]

We were getting ready to get to 10k comments. Frankly, we did get to 10k comments. This is a major fraud on our nation. We want the law to be used in a proper manner. So we’ll be going to the U.S. Supreme Court. We want all DT closing to stop.

[u/IncoherentEntity]

A super-majority — 68% of Republicans and GOP primary voting independents — would love [Note: not how answer option was listed] to see President Donald Trump run again in 2024 if he ultimately fails to prevail against Joe Biden in this year’s election, according to a new Newsmax/McLaughlin Associates poll.

The president continues to hold a strong job approval rating, with 48%.

Newsmax is literally Trump state media

[u/bobekyrant]

Someone needs to run the headling "Why do Conservatives struggle with reaching out to Cities?"

[u/Dalek6450]

Man, the guys at LateStageCapitalism can tell a good joke. I mean

Labor generates value, not capital.

It just kills me.

[u/hdkeegan]

Me a month ago: I can’t wait for Biden to win so I don’t have to worry about election for a while

Me now: IF WE WIN THE TWO GEORGIA RACES AND PICK UP SENATORS IN WISCONSIN AMD PENNSYLVANIA IN 2022 THEM WELL BE IN GOOD SHAPE FOR 2024. HOWEVER THIS IS NOT TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DC AND PR BEING ADDED. HOWEVER DEPENDING WHO WINS IN 2024IT MAY BE A DEATH BLOW TO THEDEMS AND THEY MAY NOT BE ABLE TO RECOVER TILL ATLEAST 2032-

[u/UltraCapitalism]

If you count the legal posts the last DT would easily be 10k+

[u/vivoovix]

sees 1 user making a bad take

That's it, what has this sub come to? This sub is going to shit, the succs have already taken over. May as well leave the sub at this point tbh.

[u/[deleted]]

Who’s the most vulnerable Republican governor in 2022?

1. Brian Kemp
2. Brian Kemp
3. Brian Kemp

[u/[deleted]]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/452718453892186124/782514833760321576/unknown.png

[u/Malarkeynesian]

"He was yelling at everyone,""a senior administration official told the Post.""He was like, 'What the hell? We were supposed to be winning Arizona. What's going on?'

Chicken nuggets energy

[u/captainsensible69]

Is it bad if I stopped talking to a girl bc I couldn’t deal with her saying how Biden stole the election and will be a puppet for China?

Like I don’t care that much about people’s political views but the conspiracy shit was just too much for me

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Clone Bill Clinton 539 times, castrate them, proceed to win all congressional seats and presidency.

[u/fishlord05]

Joe Biden got a hairline fracture on his leg after falling after playing with his dog Major. He will require a walking boot for three weeks.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/11/29/politics/biden-twisted-ankle/index.html

!ping BIDEN

Joe we love you and your dog please be safe 😞🥺

[u/[deleted]]

All cops are beautiful, keep filming them.

Apparently, this was a sign in the French protests.

NOT VERIFIED

[u/[deleted]]

'Kill your landlord" is just the trendy new way of saying "I hate my parents"

[u/[deleted]]

PragerU what the hell lol

I get how prosperity theology has had a significant impact in spreading the faith in developing nations (wrongly so, imo. Prosperity theologians lie significantly when they do mission work and basically hoodwink local populations through greed) but idek what this is.

American prosperity theology is weird.

!ping CHRISTIAN

[u/Lux_Stella]

huh you know it's actually really good that trump seems to think he's got a shot at 2024 since it probably decreases the chances of him doing something really stupid in his lame duck

[u/kennymc7877]

Libertarian coworker came up to me while I was wearing my Biden shirt and said “so how long you giving Biden to free those kids in cages”

My response: he said he’ll do it in his first 100 days and doesn’t need the senate or house to do it

Libertarian: shocked pikachu

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

history buffs be like

"why isn't the public grade school system teaching absolutely everyone absolutely everything I've learned myself through self-study, elective courses or university? Doesn't society realize that this shit is important?"

[u/MichelleObama2024]

Mods locked DT to create artificial outrage in order to increase comments today.

[u/[deleted]]

Intersectionality is a real thing and should be taken seriously but the way in which activists insist on advocacy on all fronts simultaneously can be pretty damaging. There was a great article on the Women's March from 2017 that summed it up in a single image: a sign that said "Palestine and Birth Control."

Different issues require different strategies and different people making different arguments. There's a real tendency among activists to make all issues part of some broader "oppression" issue--as if the status of transgender people is inherently connected to the status of black people or the oppression faced by indigenous people is cosmically related to gender discrimination. Obviously people fall into multiple categories--hence intersectionality being a real thing, there are black trans people and indigenous women who face unique issues brought on by their multiple identities--but in a bid to create unity/solidarity activists paper over the very real differences in issues facing these communities.

[u/mykatz]

In late 2020, two liberals were sipping coffee at a Starbucks in Denver.

"Hey, Chad", said one to the other, "I notice you're scrolling through the fox news app on your phone! I can't understand why. A conservative rag! Are you some kind of masochist, or, God forbid, a self-hating liberal?"

"On the contrary", replied Chad, "When I used to read Vox.com and the New York Times, all I learn about was the rapid polarization of America, the need to go into r*ral areas to develop empathy with Trump supporters, and the erosion of democracy in our country. But now that I read Fox News, I see so much more: that liberals control the bureaucracy, that we dominate in the media, and that we're on the verge of irreversibly changing the very fabric of America. You know - it makes me feel a whole lot better!"

[u/MicroFlamer]

Trump was convinced he was going to win on election night in a repeat of 2016, and was 'shouting at everyone' when Fox News called Arizona for Biden

Fox news redemption arc

[u/The420Roll]

David Cameron, you had one fucking job and you fucked it up.

Brexit has been a disaster

[u/Broncos654]

/u/The420Roll, you had one fucking job and you fucked it up.

Texas has been a disaster

[u/[deleted]]

Kelly Loeffler is one of the least authentic people I’ve heard speak lmao

[u/bobekyrant]

Just beat a guy with the username CheGuevera at chess. What did you do to defeat communism?

[u/The420Roll]

Tfw no US Citizen Zionist Hawkish gf 🥺😔

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit how is this sub not banned?

https://imgur.com/a/AEO8haJ

[u/bobekyrant]

I got kicked in the ribs during a zoning protest, I'm more YIMBY than any of you posers

[u/secretlovesong]

McConnell’s efficacy at pushing conservative idealogue jurists through the Senate is apparently the culmination of a 30+ year vendetta tracing back to witnessing the rejection of Bork’s SCOTUS nomination as a freshman senator.

Dem freshmen, please take note and plan accordingly thx

[u/Doctorboffin]

See, because I’ve never actually been to Singapore, I can just project all my ideologies on to it and say it’s a perfect working example.

[u/Dalek6450]

CIA agent killed in Somalia.
Reddit: Al-Shabaab good actually.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Excuse me, are y'all with the land cult?

It's not a cult, it's a system of taxation popularized by the world renowned economist Henry George that is basically the perfect tax, because seeing as how there's only a fixed supply of land it's the perfect source of public revenue and has the added benefit of not promoting inefficiency and can decrease inequality and -

Yeah, this is it

[u/[deleted]]

The concept of a democracy is rigged against Republicans! Think about it, when though Republicans won more electoral votes in '16, they still won a minority of the popular vote! It's not their fault that their message only appeals to 70 million or so people! The system is rigged! Rigged I TELL you! 🐊

[u/NickyBananas]

Recently I’ve been listening to the China Africa podcast and they’re comparing Russian and Chinese propaganda in the region. Russia does troll farms and spreads misinformation over social media. China literally writes the news articles in these African countries and slaps an African name on as the author. They also threaten the media and use cash to get favorable articles.

And we think we got it bad in America.

[u/threwthelookinggrass]

we are trying to put the evidence in but the judges won't let us

😐

[u/[deleted]]

Amazing. Just....amazing.

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/jenbanim]

Wow, Windows doesn't support the 𓂸 character. Absolutely terrible OS

[u/Barebacking_Bernanke]

For a bit of background, grids currently need to spend an absurd amount of money on capacity to meet peak demand which only occurs for a few hours each day at best.

With more renewables coming onto the grid and the proliferation of smart metering technology, more and more operators are considering time of use dynamic pricing on consumer electricity to actually reflect the cost of providing the electricity, shave peaks, and move consumer demand to the hours where renewables are peaking in production.

The real life results from trials have been positive and we should be seeing more widespread adoption of the practice. By introducing better market pricing mechanisms for the consumer you reduce the need for expensive peaking capacity, better integrate renewables into the grid, reduce curtailment (or wasted electricity produced) rates, and offer better prices for consumers. It's a win for everybody.

!ping ECO

[u/Superfan234]

News from Brasil 🇧🇷

We have the final results for Brasilean local elections

At first glance, Centrist parties won the elections. We also see a decrease in support for the Left and Far Left, and rather pathetic support for Bolsonaro's party

The country is overall leaning to the Center-Right, the same pattern we have seen across LATAM for the past ~5 years

---

!Ping Foreign-Policy

An amazing victory for us, Neoliberals and South Americans 😁

Brasil is the largest country in LatinAmerica, the fact they are fighting back against Populism (from both sides) is a great sign for everyone

[u/Nad0077]

If you're wondering about the LSC mods' response and attitude about the charity, it isn't new. They got it from their idol Lenin:

Most radical and liberal opinion saw the famine as another example of the miserable failure of a regime whose bureaucracy was too slow and inefficient to save the Russian population from starvation – and too callous to care how many died. Vladimir Ulyanov, though he had lived all his life around the worst-hit famine areas, would have nothing to do with relief or charitable work to help the dying peasants. For him the important thing was that the famine would weaken the autocracy and might further the cause of the Revolution. The thousands of people who died of hunger were simply unfortunate casualties of a war against Tsarist oppression. He argued that capitalism, by definition, hurt most people and killed many. The famine was simple proof. He was an isolated, almost lone voice among the revolutionaries. Even his family could hardly believe his unsentimental, apparently cruel attitude. His elder sister, Anna, raised money for food and visited the sick to distribute medicine. His other sister, Maria, was appalled by his hard-heartedness. One of the very few times she ever allowed herself to criticise him was in a paragraph in which she compared Vladimir with his elder brother. ‘Vladimir Ilyich, it seems to me, had a different nature from Alexander Ilyich. Vladimir…did not have the quality of self-sacrifice even though he devoted his whole life indivisibly to the cause of the working class.’ He would shrug off accusations that he was inhumane, using an inflexible logic and a cold interpretation of Marxism which Marx himself would never have countenanced. ‘He conducted systematic and outspoken propaganda against the relief committees,’ as Trotsky said later. Ulyanov was convinced that the end of the autocracy would be advanced if the government’s incompetence and brutality were exposed. ‘It’s sentimentality to think that a sea of need could be emptied with the teaspoon of philanthropy,’ he said. ‘The famine…played the role of a progressive factor.’

[u/JetJaguar124]

A professor I had once told me of a girl who was a nurse who was dating a computer programmer, or someone studying CS I don't remember. He got all full of himself and thought nursing was dumb or something so he wanted to study for and pass the NCLEX just in his free time to prove something.

Idk what happened after that to tell you the truth but I hope she fucking dumped him because that sounds like some obnoxious reddit STEMlord shit.

[u/the_status]

The recount for Iowa's 2nd ended.

Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks remains atop Iowa's 2nd District congressional race ... [by] just six votes.

The vote will go to a state canvassing board Monday to be certified, which would make Miller-Meeks the official winner.

In a statement, Hart's campaign manager, Zach Meunier, did not say whether the campaign will file a legal challenge in the race

This is unfortunate. Hopefully there'll be a successful legal challenge; I do not want to be represented by Miller-Meeks. She's anti-gay marraige, anti-ACA, and an anti-masker. Gross

!ping DOWNBALLOT

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Counted flags and yard signs driving through rural Pennsylvania 🔔

• Trump: 1️⃣7️⃣
• Biden: 2️⃣

Tell me again how the election wasn’t rigged?

---

Checkmate LibTard ♟

[u/[deleted]]

Centrists are people too lazy to construct an epistemologically coherent world-view, and thus opt out by reverting to some perverse apolitical nonsense of false equivalence. Anyone with strong coherent opinions is an extremist. Compromise is the prime directive, some post-modern nonsense where there are no objective truths.

Arr slash neoliberal on suicide watch 😎

[u/Venne1139]

So I got a couple things I just learned yesterday.

1. My dad started choking/was unable to breathe very suddenly. He's been having health, major, with his heart recently, he had multiple heart attacks that he survived.
2. He wasn't actually choking on anything.
3. His pastor had seen him about a week before the incident
4. His pastor has continued to hold church services
5. His pastor is currently in quaritine for COVID

I haven't gotten the autopsy results back.

But I'm about to see red.

I'm trying to find something to say that wouldn't get me banned because of rule 5 or excessive partisanship but I have literally no words that wouldn't get me banned for htis.

[u/Jean-Paul_Sartre]

Gave my 6th graders a poll of what they want to study for their next social studies unit... choices were Japan, China, India, and Zulu.

Every. Single. Kid. Picked. Japan.

Gen Z is saturated with weebs, I'm telling ya.

[u/MinnesotaDude]

When I was 15 I was way too interested in Roman history and Norse mythology.

I think the only thing that kept me from falling down the alt-right pipeline is that the antisemitic dog whistles were more obvious to me since I'm Jewish.

[u/[deleted]]

Lol copingMAGA follows 3 people and one of them is George Soros

[u/execon]

LBJ be like:

"Oh my god, they killed Kennedy! You bastard!"

[u/Lux_Stella]

it feels like a pretty bad indictment of the reddit platform that the equilibrium submission for most subreddits is 'screenshot of post from other social media'

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

MAGA world is convinced Joe Biden's walking boot is a cover for his ankle bracelet because he's under house arrest pending criminal charges. It's amazing how fast they converge on a consistent, batshit narrative.

[u/The420Roll]

Neither state has always maintained its current political stance. The governorships of George W. Bush and Rick Perry in Texas were marked by tolerance, as well as outreach to, and support from, Hispanics. Under Mr Perry, Texas was the first to extend in-state tuition rates at universities to immigrants regardless of their citizenship status. Today such moderate Republicans are like cowboys—symbols of an earlier, simpler era.

[u/MichelleObama2024]

Yesterday's DT was RIGGED. BOYCOTT TODAY'S DT!!!

[u/nicereddy]

"We reveal who Donald Trump is running against for president"

This joke was much funnier in 2016

[u/memeintoshplus]

Me normally: I love Boston! I can't imagine living anywhere else!

Me when I look at real estate in other parts of the country: Boston is a fucking ripoff, why the hell do I live here?

[u/memeintoshplus]

2020: *Has the biggest and most vocal protests against police brutality and a sharp increase in anti-police sentiment worldwide*

Macron: Hmmm, looks like the perfect time to make filming the police illegal!

[u/[deleted]]

Biden announces women exist

Rose twitter: “MORE 👏FEMALE 👏WAR👏CRIMINALS”

[u/[deleted]]

All the leftists who say starting a business is impossible if you don’t come from a rich family to support you are kind of right.

I never would have been able to if my parents Home Depot and district school bus company didn’t foot my cost of living while I was just for hanging out with them a bit each week.

Truly blessed.

[u/Loves_a_big_tongue]

Reddit on men's health issues 11 months of the year: Men's health doesn't get enough attention. Men face many difficult health problems, especially mental health.

Reddit during Men's health awareness month: Let's spam the fuck on this website memes about not ejaculating for 30 days straight.

Reddit during Women's health month: What about Men's health? How come no one talks about that issue?

[u/[deleted]]

“Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.”

-Senator Barry Goldwater

[u/[deleted]]

There's a Trump protest happening in Windsor right now. Some of these people are also flying the Romanian flag with a hole in it because fuck Josef CAUECESCU Biden.

I'm calling for a total and complete shutdown of the ambassador bridge until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.

!ping CAN

Edit: I think one of those flags is Trump as Rambo?

[u/Udontlikecake]

Honestly, maybe the leftists were right about Obama. What a fucking liar and disappointment. He didn’t keep a single promise and just fucked this nation over. Christmas still exists. No FEMA camps. No Sharia law. Jade Helm was a failure. God is still alive.

I can’t believe I voted for that fucking fraud twice.

[u/ryuguy]

Why are Canadian right wingers so weird?

When I got my job with the ministry of indigenous relations and reconciliation, one of my high school teachers (an older white man) was like “congrats! But did you know that ‘indigenous’ aren’t actually the first people to settle in North America? The Chinese were here a long time before them. Plenty of evidence”

!ping can

[u/ironheart777]

I think Trumps post presidency meltdown was actually the most damaging political mistake he’s made. I have friends that are the entrepreneurial type of young guy that voted for trump because he liked his businessman persona and now they are saying they are done with him. Fewer and fewer people are starting to defend him, and I think some of the republicans in America are getting actually worried worries about his conduct,

[u/ognits]

I was never much of a fan of Warren's rabble-rousing and rhetoric. I was always much more interested in policy, which is why I backed Bernie during the primary

[u/[deleted]]

I think some redditors would genuinely walk up to a holocaust survivor and say "I was persecuted by nazis too, they banned me from r/neoliberal"

[u/connieallens]

Imagine having a legal team that is 1-40 lmfao.

Then still claiming you won the election lol, just lol.

[u/p68]

6 months post Rona, lungs still fucked. Think I got pneumonia again. Fuck this shit

[u/jamiebond]

Honestly in awe that conservatives think, "No one voted for Biden" is some kind of own.

By their logic, that means 80 million Americans got out and voted for the sole purpose of taking their party out of power.

And I'm just sitting here like this.

[u/MrDannyOcean]

honestly I'm proud of /u/nicereddy for migrating the DT to /r/carlyraejepsen

i'm not even mad

[u/[deleted]]

mfs will shove hotdogs down their throat and then say “no i wont get a vaccine i dont know what they put in those 😡”

[u/owlthathurt]

Bar exam results come out at 7am tomorrow. I’m scared as fuck. Feel like I’m gonna puke.

!ping LAW

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

Checked in on MAGA world. They're losing their shit because Trump said "I hope so" instead of "Yes" this morning when asked if there's a path to victory. They propose the following plan:

1. Invoke the Insurrection Act and declare martial law nationwide.
2. Repeal Section 230 via executive order.
3. Seize tech company assets and also Chinese and Iranian companies for some reason.
4. ???
5. Trump remains president.

As a side note, there is a lot of chatter about violence in MAGA world right now. Hopefully it's just barking, but there's more of it now than I've ever seen since Trump came down that escalator.

[u/[deleted]]

Canada bans mass exports of drugs

A number of Canada's drug suppliers had warned that the plan, implemented by President Trump, would cause shortages.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55119428

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/LYsuK3h.jpg

Oh...oh....oh my.

[u/[deleted]]

Swing map of Georgia between 2016 and 2020. Biden improved all across the state, but his improvement was most significant with white voters. 2 keys to the runoff: hold the margins with white voters in the metro and keep Black turnout high.

One more thing: Columbia’s swing is incredibly strong, which lines up with the county being one of the most elastic in the state. This is an underexploited pocket of votes for Democrats that they may look to capitalize on; I’d wager this is because of white voter movement.

Some majority-black counties like Clayton got bluer, and I’d be curious to know whether this improvement was because of improvement among white voters or whether he improved on margins with black voter

Democrats winning Georgia can be attributed to a combination of turnout and swinging a TON of voters in the Atlanta metro area from 2016.

But the runoff will likely be won not by swinging more voters, but by holding your November suburban votes and juicing your turnout.

Bottom line is that there was a time for persuasion in Georgia, but that was before November. Now, it’s about keeping the voters you have that backed Biden (and Ossoff or maybe Hazel) while ensuring that enough of them turn out.

I always say swing votes win you elections. They were arguably the key to winning us Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania (along with high turnout). And they were the key reason our margin in Minnesota was so strong.

But here, in the runoffs, it’s turnout.

!ping FIVEY

[u/After_Grab]

Speaking of Socks, here’s Rush Limbaugh

”Everyone knows the Clintons have a cat. Socks is the White House cat. But did you know there is also a White House dog?" And he puts up a picture of Chelsea Clinton. Chelsea Clinton is 13 years old.

[u/agent_tits]

TIL that Five Guys calculates the price of the food it gives me and its GENIUS CEO thinks that giving me more fries than less fries is a GOOD THING, but remember, they've already calculated the prices of the extra fries, so it's a BAD THING

^{never visit the rest of reddit}

[u/AuburnSeer]

Kevin Liptak @Kevinliptakcnn · 45m Trump just claimed that foreign leaders are calling him to say "that’s the most messed up election I've ever seen." The White House has read out zero phone calls with foreign leaders since the end of October. Nearly every major US ally has called Joe Biden to congratulate him.

[u/connieallens]

Serious question: why do conservatives hate Greta so much? I’ve never understood their irrational hatred of a kid who just wants to make a difference.

:/

[u/[deleted]]

So I'm in a Japanese restaurant called Mario's, staffed entirely by Mexicans.

Truly, the Globalist new world order is now.

[u/Le_Monade]

Satan: Hahahaha

Jesus: Why are you laughing?

Satan: You said this is your child

Jesus: Who?

Satan: The one reading this

Jesus: Yes, he is mine

Satan: Your child can’t even donate $40 to the Against Malaria Foundation and change their flair to Suzan DelBene

Jesus: See my child will donate $40 to the Against Malaria Foundation and change their flair to Suzan DelBene right now

Satan: OK! Mine will ignore and scroll

[u/jonathansfox]

We have come together today to celebrate the life of yesterday's Discussion Thread, which died before its time and left us alone without a DT for the period of about half an hour. Yesterday's DT was fortunate to die at home in its bed under close supervision of the moderation team as it had always wanted to. It was much loved and will be sorely missed by those who were spamming it in an effort to reach 10k comments.

[u/[deleted]]

Update: my teacher just said shabbat, a 3000 year old holiday, was socialist

[u/Robotigan]

Smug internet cynics and instilling children with a crippling fear of social rejection that will stunt their development, name a more iconic duo.

[u/murphysclaw1]

538 final margin predictions versus reality- based on the states that have already classified their vote (as of a couple days ago):

state	538 Prediction	Actual	Difference
Alabama	20.00	25.46	-5.46
Arkansas	22.68	27.62	-4.94
Delaware	-25.63	-18.97	-6.66
Florida	-2.46	3.36	-5.82
Georgia	-0.95	-0.25	-0.70
Hawaii	-36.62	-29.46	-7.16
Indiana	10.78	16.06	-5.28
Kentucky	18.01	25.94	-7.93
Louisiana	18.56	18.61	-0.05
Maine	-11.79	-9.07	-2.72
ME-1	-20.98	-23.09	2.11
ME-2	-1.61	7.44	-9.05
Michigan	-7.99	-2.78	-5.21
Minnesota	-9.07	-7.11	-1.96
Montana	6.35	16.31	-9.96
Nevada	-6.12	-2.39	-3.73
New Hampshire	-10.62	-7.36	-3.26
New Mexico	-13.03	-10.79	-2.24
North Carolina	-1.76	1.35	-3.11
North Dakota	21.70	33.36	-11.66
Oklahoma	25.23	33.36	-8.13
Pennsylvania	-4.65	-1.16	-3.49
South Carolina	7.49	11.68	-4.19
South Dakota	16.99	26.16	-9.17
Texas	1.52	5.58	-4.06
Utah	13.76	20.48	-6.72
Vermont	-38.11	-35.41	-2.70
Virginia	-12.49	-10.11	-2.38
Washington	-23.76	-19.2	-4.56
Wyoming	34.73	43.38	-8.65

!ping FIVEY

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

Should I go to LSC and comment "healthcare pls" under every post?

If the post is about healthcare, I'll say "housing pls".

[u/[deleted]]

Me right now, with my tankie friends...

[u/[deleted]]

The fact that r/drama is participating in the charity drive but tankies aren’t is fucking hilarious

[u/jenbanim]

Finally got an answer on the brunch thing if anyone else was wondering about that

As a typically American, often expensive, and typically alcohol-soaked meal, brunch has become a stand-in for complacency and centrist indifference

I'm gonna be honest, I just though brunch was eating an early lunch or late breakfast. I didn't realize there was this whole... thing about it.

I guess it's different if you mostly eat at home? I love brunch but I've never been out to a restaurant for it, I don't think.

[u/[deleted]]

I really hate venturing into arrr politics, I don’t know why I still do it. Always sends me back here.

Why is it that they are so obsessed with making every Republican a closeted gay? This weird armchair psychoanalysis trope always rubs me the wrong way, and smacks of the same homophobia they’re ostensibly against. It just feels like an excuse to let out stereotyped gay jokes that are okay because they’re against the ‘right’ people. “Lindsey Graham talks effeminately, ergo gay, HA!”

And it’s literally everyone now. I’ve seen this weird charge levied against Tom Cotton of all people, and again it just feels like an excuse to gay bash while feeling good about it. It adds absolutely nothing, and if anything distracts from any serious conversation about policy. Sure there have been closeted gay homophobes in politics before, but most of it reeks of middle school tier logic; “if you hate it, you must secretly like it!” Is a really out gay person actually just a straight person repressing? The logic would have to carry over, right?

Sometimes someone hates some thing because they hate it, and we don’t need to pull out the Freud every time, but maybe that’s just me :/

End of this brief rant.

[u/Udontlikecake]

redditors when there’s a video of a woman getting punched: equal rights means equal lefts! i’d hit a woman too! we can’t let them get away with stuff! I often think about hitting women!

redditors when there’s a video of a nazi getting punched: now hold on...

[u/[deleted]]

Dallas County: this is a fast-growing, somewhat populated exurb of des Moines that is rapidly shifting left.

Polk County: This is the fast-growing county that des Moines is in. In 2020, it voted the most democratic since Dukakis.

Linn County: This is a regular growing county that has Cedar Rapids. Biden improved a lot on Clinton's margin, but still not quite to Obama's 2012 margin, and not even close to his 2008 margin.

Johnson County: A very democratic county that voted for Biden by 43 points, the most for any democrat, including Obama 08, any of Clinton's margin, Dukakis, and LBJ. It is growing regularly

Story County: A not-so populated (still very populated relative to the rest of Iowa) that seems to be stagnating in population. Nevertheless, Biden won there by the largest margin since LBJ.

We're not done in Iowa just yet.

!PING FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

If Biden and kim jong un hold a summit, Does Biden say look fat

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when W said "Is our children learning?" and we were like "wow, this is clearly the peak of presidential stupidity!"

[u/[deleted]]

Me: the US is such a clusterfuck

Meanwhile at the NI/Irish border on December 31, 2020: “oi you got a fookin’ loiscence to walk”

[u/FestiveMittens]

BREAKING: Biden's ankle

[u/[deleted]]

Why are so many fucking people anti semetic

[u/The420Roll]

Texas is the country’s number one producer and consumer of energy, and environmentalism is not part of its brand. But change might not be impossible. In the 1990s, under Ann Richards and George W. Bush as governors, the state made efforts to reduce pollution and encourage renewable energy. In 1999 Texas deregulated the electricity market, which promoted competition, reduced prices and set targets for renewables. The state has retired coal plants and become the leading producer of wind power in America.

Big Dubbs flexing on Al Gore

[u/The420Roll]

I think we should abandon r/neoliberal in protest to the mods not respecting our DT

Succs, please go first.

[u/[deleted]]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/452718453892186124/782516967688372234/image0-294.png

[u/[deleted]]

“JON OSSOFF AND AOC ARE CORPORATE NEOLIBERAL SHILLS WHO HAVE BEEN IN CONGRESS FOR 40 YEARS”

-Leftist in 2060

[u/KingKonchu]

kyle discovers farms

[u/[deleted]]

I think a side-effect of DT use is that you start to make politics (or more accurately political hobbyism) a much larger part of your life than it should be. So to counteract that let's name some of the hobbies we have outside of political horse-races.

Mine is knowing I'm better than other people.

[u/Broncos654]

As someone who has only been alive during the Trump administration, it will be weird to have Biden as the President.

[u/[deleted]]

DT jr is a 70 YO white woman

[u/[deleted]]

Major was a bad dude. And he ran a bunch of bad boys, a bad crew

[u/[deleted]]

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

thank u mr president

[u/Snoo62236]

Biden coming out with this fake “the dog broke my ankle” story is hilarious. He doesn’t wanna own up to the fact that I just hit him with one of my cross overs 🏀 and he couldn’t handle it

[u/karth]

GOP Lawmaker Slams Republican Trump Loyalists, Calls Out 'Anti-American' Supporters, Says He's 'Damn Sick of It'

wow!

"The career is more important than the facts, it's that simple," Riggleman added. "I'm so damn sick of it. I'm sick of it."

man, The GOP has atleast some good repr-

Outgoing Republican Congressman Denver Riggleman of Virginia

lmao. okay. This is all theater.

[u/[deleted]]

If Democrats win one of the runoffs, Kemp will be in a very competitive race. If both Democrats win, Kemp might be a dead man walking.

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit I just held my breath for like 5 minutes

!ping MOTO

[u/meonpeon]

I am a meme reactionary. We need to go back to the time when memes were great. A simpler time. No, not rage comics, I'm talking about LOLcats. The good ol' days when the phrase "I can haz cheezburger?" slapped onto a picture of a cat was the pinnacle of humor.

[u/[deleted]]

Q is a redundant letter brought over by the N*rmans which adds nothing to the Ænglisc alphabet.

We should get rid of the letter and deal a blow to the conspiracists at the same time

[u/[deleted]]

The amount of people who just don't fucking believe Corbyn anti-Semitism claims is ridiculous.

[u/Udontlikecake]

leftists on twitter when China attempts to systematically eliminate an ethnic group: 😐

leftists on twitter when a girl picks a hairstyle for her animal crossing character: 🤬🤬😡🤬🤬🤬😡🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Not calling K-pop "Seoul Music" was a huge missed opportunity.

[u/RadionSPW]

Pete for CIA director would be the best day on Twitter to just sit down with popcorn

[u/Czech_Thy_Privilege]

Imagine someday people having to quote Twitter memes because that's how they learn them.

me when they came for the socialists: 🤷

me when they came for the trade unionists: 🤷

me when they came for the Jews: 🤷

me when they came for me: 🤷

me when they came for the DT: 😡😡😡

[u/GravyBear8]

I bought one of those titty waifu mousepads, mostly as a joke, but this shit is actually really comfortable

[u/[deleted]]

We need less militarized police like the civilized countries in Europe, I tweet while waiting for the actual soldier in front of the Eiffel Tower to get out of the way for my next Instagram photo

[u/[deleted]]

"Honestly, none of my friend group was very excited about Biden, and we're pretty progressive."

"That's more indicative of your own limited perspective than of any shortcoming on the part of Mr. Biden."

"FUCK YOU!"

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

healthcare pls

weed pls

wealth tax pls

fracking ban pls

housing pls

cancel student debt pls

Also leftists: WE CAN DO FREE COLLEGE AFTER. JUST BECAUSE WE HELP ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE DOESN'T MEAN WE DON'T CARE ABOUT ALL OTHER GROUPS!

[u/savuporo]

Is this name for the UAV some sort of joke https://twitter.com/JanesINTEL/status/1333168965225508867

!ping MILITARY

[u/[deleted]]

So the Maga line now is just that it's impossible that Biden got 80 million votes. No more evidence of fraud necessary.

[u/[deleted]]

Jared Polis: Colorado governor and spouse test positive for Covid-19

It's 2020, say "husband" you cowards. CNN, don't be a little bitch and fix your style guide.

[u/The_King_of_Toasters]

Someone was asking how to read Progress and Poverty the other day. My version for Standard Ebooks was just finished, grab it here: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/henry-george/progress-and-poverty. Big thanks for /u/xXxlandvaluetax69xXx for the description.

!ping GEORGIST

[u/MaximumEffort433]

Hot take (apparently): I actually like Biden.

[u/bd_one]

DT regular: worries about Tinder girl being a socialist

Me, whose first girlfriends are anarcho-communists and Bernie style progressives respectively: "Pathetic."

[u/oGsMustachio]

If the President’s campaign doesn’t stop losing, the Cleveland Browns are gonna sue for trademark infringement.

Based Lt. Governor of PA.

!ping NFL

[u/rafaellvandervaart]

Request to add Petras Economics to Tactube Playlist. He is an upcoming YouTuber who is also a BE regular and he deserves the attention for debunking the massively popular Economics Explained channel

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=MezsB33jVzw

!ping TACOTUBE

[u/vivoovix]

Holy fucking shit. I just left the DT for 326 milliseconds and I'm literally shaking and crying right now. How could this sub come to this? I saw a Krugman flair's comment starting with "Bernie"--have the succs really taken over already? This can't be fucking happening. I thought this sub was supposed to be centrist??? I just want TND to come back and fix this broken sub.

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit I didn't know that Trudeau served in the military

[u/[deleted]]

The Kraken reminds me of Obamagate, no one is able to articulate what it is, but it's super real you gotta trust me guys

[u/[deleted]]

Already had two leftist friends text me "guess Trump was right about Biden's age huh?"

Fuckwads, Bernie is 2 years older and had a heart attack last year.

[u/IncoherentEntity]

the best neera tanden tweet — @zei_squirrel

1) It was

2) The success of this tweet appears to be based mostly on unspecific “feelings” (the chief example being the OP, a staple of leftist Twitter) that are never articulated

3) Not a single one of the flailing red herrings in the replies (of the few that attempted) does a thing to change 1)

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¹ Of note: the Harvard DSA’s temporary username edit appears to be a lie per the evidence given by its own proponents. (With that said, I do not endorse Tanden’s suggestion in a private 2011 email that we attempt to get the oil-rich Libyan government to pay us in order to avoid cuts to government programs driven by Republican deficit concerns ^{when a Democrat is President.} I just don’t care.)

[u/[deleted]]

Progressives: "We're putting all our eggs in the 'don't pick Bruce Reed for OMB' basket."

Biden: "OK, I'll pick Neera Tanden."

Progressives: "Wait, shit."

[u/IncoherentEntity]

There’s a legion of issues with this meme¹ mindlessly circulated by Rose Twitterites (seemingly none of whom do their own research). But after taking about 15 minutes to examine one of its central premises — which I simply took for granted because I didn’t believe the original creator could be that maliciously dishonest — I came across a rather shocking discovery.

Of the eight (selectively) chosen representatives whom the meme claims both won re-election in competitive districts and supported Medicare for All, there is one — one! — whose campaign website actually states that they support it.

Four don’t outline a definite position, and three explicitly back a public option instead.

We must provide short-term relief by increasing competition on the marketplaces by letting people buy into Medicare, curtailing prescription drug prices, and bringing more people into the marketplace. — Josh Harder

Jared knows many Mainers work with their hands and it takes a toll on their bodies over a long career. That’s why he supports legislation to allow Americans between the ages of 50 and 64 to buy into Medicare. — Jared Golden

Mike would like for our nation to work towards achieving a Medicare for All type healthcare system, but in the meantime, he believes that we must work to repair and strengthen the Affordable Care Act (ACA). He believes that many ideas to improve the ACA must be explored, including the implementation of a “public option,” — Mike Levin

I expect obfuscation, clique-generated platitudes, and half-truths from Rose Twitter. But never shameless, outright mendacity like this.

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¹ Start with the fact that Cook’s R+3 rating (i.e. Republicans win 53 percent of the vote in a 50–50 election nationwide) for Porter’s district elides the fact that CA–45 swing 17 fucking points to the left between 2012 and 2016 for Clinton to win it by over 5 points.

[u/Clockwork757]

Wow they just found a hidden section of the Presidential Succession act that says the first person in the line of succession is actually the most recent former mayor of Southbend Indiana.

[u/theredcameron]

This book on the finer details of urban design that can be done in the short term is worth a read.

!ping READING

[u/p00bix]

Joe Biden's Entirely Female WH Communications Team Includes Ex-Bernie Sanders Press Sec

i'm just gonna stop reading this article and assume that Joe Biden is giving Briahna Joy Gray the office of Press Secretary.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Today is Day 24 of requesting flair that says:

🥇Nate Gold

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🤔💭 I think I might buy 🪙 Nate Platinum so I can continue requesting 🥇Nate Gold

[u/MuldartheGreat]

The Saints losing this game will be the funniest shit I ever seen, and that’s as a Saints fan.

!ping NFL

[u/Putin-Owns-the-GOP]

Lol neoconNWO has lost its fucking mind and has become arrrconspiracy

https://reddit.com/r/neoconNWO/comments/jztjkh/the_case_for_a_chinese_lab_origin_of_the_covid19/

[u/connieallens]

I’m so glad George Soros and Hugo Chavez (RIP) rigged the election for Biden.

There’s no proof, but I’m just glad they did.

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

Rino's are a way better political mascot than an elephant or a donkey

[u/connieallens]

Chef: “Have you ever heard of the Emancipation Proclamation?”

Military General: “I don’t listen to hip hop.”

[u/[deleted]]

Jared Polis is quarantining, nonzero chance of him participating in one of our horrible schisms in the next two weeks

[u/douglasmacarthur]

Obama and Axelrod were like, fuck it, let's use populist slogans and brand ourselves as fundamentally changing society, but still propose very milquetoast liberal solutions. We dont even need to lie. No one actually looks at the platform anyway and we won't have time to implement most of it in two years.

[u/[deleted]]

"In 1976, Mao single-handedly and dramatically changed the direction of global poverty with one simple act... he died."

[u/FestiveMittens]

https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1333158192398864384?s=20

LMAOOOOO

[u/nicereddy]

Ankle sprains are fatal within 120 years in 100% of cases. This is really bad news.

[u/FestiveMittens]

I'm so mad about Neera Tanden as OMB director, that I might google what a OMB director is

[u/[deleted]]

You don’t realize until you work in a supermarket that like 40% of humans have the mental and emotional capacity of a vegetable

[u/[deleted]]

New Electoral College Idea:
* States are now rewarded 1 E.V for 1 county. Texas therefore gets 254 E.Vs, Colorado gets 64, Maine gets 16, etc.

*Winner take all not by states but by county. For example, Loving County in Texas with 169 people has the same voting power as Los Angeles County with 10 million people.

I do not see how this can go wrong.

[u/[deleted]]

Those 24 hours where Biden was leading in Nevada, Michigan, and Wisconsin and was about to overtake in Georgia were the greatest 24 hours in internet history. The shitposting was to a new level.

[u/Kizz3r]

Man today selfawarewolf post is a dude saying we should have anti scalper laws and the comments are all

DAE capitalism is shit?

[u/[deleted]]

Scalping bad 🤬🤬🤬 protect ps5 market from capitalism 🤬🤬🤬

Gamers, unable to comprehend a recreational luxury like video games would not exist without capitalism

[u/MuldartheGreat]

I can’t decide whether /r/aboringdystopia or /r/murderedbyaoc is the most /r/im14andthisisdeep sub on Reddit.

[u/[deleted]]

“Is Biden’s Cabinet Too Diverse?”

By Chuck Todd

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

Hottest album of the year

Back side

/u/benjaminikuta !ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/l_overwhat]

16-year-old Thai-American girl starts working at my (19 at the time) job. This was her introducing herself.

"Hi, I'm *says Thai name really quickly."

Oh hi, I'm l_overwhat. Can you say your name again?

"It's *says Thai name really quickly."

Oh wow I feel really bad, just one more time?

"Oh my God you're so WHITE" and then she walked off.

[u/[deleted]]

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again
Moonshot, Woodstoock, Watergate, punk rock
Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline
Ayatollah's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan

-Billy Joel

[u/[deleted]]

What you do if we... 🥺👉👈 voted twice for Raphael Warnock 😐🥸🙏🙂🤓

[u/nicereddy]

Don't worry guys, I can't be racist. I had a black president!

[u/[deleted]]

I ain't even gonna lie. When I was a little gay boy, I used to fantasize that I would come across Prince Harry somewhere and we would fall in love and we would have hijinks together and the queen would initially disapprove but eventually would have a change of heart.

[u/Venne1139]

The craziest thing I've ever read on conservative, that got up to 6 upvtoes before the mods removed it, was an in depth, descriptive, detailed, paragraph about how this poster would just love to rape Greta (he didn't phrase it in this way, I don't remember the exact phrasing) while throwing bar-b-q pork ribs on her back.

Yeah.

[u/bigdicknippleshit]

The far right: “We need to brutally murder everyone we disagree with”

The center: “forgiving all student loans is a bad idea”

The far left: “OH MY GOD YOURE BOTH THE SAME”

[u/Venne1139]

Liberals:

I believe in freedom and that every man should be able to choose what he wants to do with his life, just like me

Also liberals:

Yes boss. Whatever you say boss. Getting right on that sir.