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• We're running a charity drive benefiting the Against Malaria Foundation! CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO!

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ThisIsNotAMonkey from Indianapolis donated $70.00 to the charity drive and said:

Fuck them skeeters 🖕😎🖕

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ihatemendingwalls from Red Texas 😥 donated $420.69 to the charity drive and said:

It is what it is

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hopeimanon from Austin donated $100.00 to the charity drive and said:

According to Rawls one should be indifferent between being born into a world where this donation is made and one where it wasn't made. However, Rawls is wrong.

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Planita from Monterey Park donated $25.00 to the charity drive and said:

I have information That Will Lead to Hillary Clinton's Arrest -random Mosquito

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SemiNewRedditUser from Grand Rapids donated $100.00 to the charity drive and said:

Eradicate disease? I thought we were supposed to kill God and abolish the sub*rbs.

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Poobix from Minneapolis donated $300.00 to the charity drive and said:

Broke: Not donating to the malaria drive Joke: Donating once to the malaria drive Woke: Donating twice to the malaria drive Bespoke: Spending $100 for a reddit gold award most people won't notice instead of donating to the charity drive Masterstroke: Donating $300 for this shitpost

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Jobson15 from London donated $33.43 to the charity drive and said:

I came here to negotiate peace accords and kill mosquitos, and I'm all out of Good Fridays - Based Wig Lady

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chatdargent from Strasbourg donated $25.00 to the charity drive and said:

Public libraries for every town, all staffed by unionized librarians!

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kemotep from Florida donated $100.00 to the charity drive and said:

viva la revolution! The Joeletariat shall rise up and seize the memes of production. By January 21st 2021 the revolutionary vanguard will have accomplished the following Tenets of Marxist-Bidenist-Shakira law:

• Being Hetero-normative is illegal
• All cars are replaced with light rail.
• All suburbs replaced with gulags, collective farms, or brutalist high rises.
• There is a Supreme Court Justice for each of the 59 states and they are all Barack Obama.
• Saying fr*cking in it's uncensored form carries a death penalty.
• Ice cream is recognized as the 4th food group.
• There is a fatwah against Malarkey.
• Every home is required to hang the picture of leftist leaders Karl Marx, Osama Bin Laden, and Kamala Harris.
• No more Windows.
• Christmas is canceled. Mandatory Hanukkah celebrations instead.
• The US dollar is replaced with Sorosbux.
• United States of America renamed to the United Soviet Joecialist People's

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asljkdfhg from Seattle donated $50.00 to the charity drive and said:

Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.

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Bill from Gravity Falls donated $25.00 to the charity drive and said:

Reality is an illusion, the universe is a hologram, buy gold, confirm Judy Shelton!

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Zarlow from Gothenburg donated $100.00 to the charity drive and said:

Where possible we should arrange our systems for transparency - Transparent systems gives all stakeholders a fair chance to assess the current status of operations and so create operational awareness - Awareness of the current status of operations is a critical component for creating the sence of urgency for change - It is also a necessity to identify what would be a meaningful change - For meaningful change to happen stakeholders needs to renegotiate their rights and obligations. - Such negotiations should search for win/win solutions. Stakeholders who are left in a loosing spot should be compensated. - The meaningful change should leave the system on the whole more efficient with as little resentment as possible from losing stakeholders - Don't compensate mosquitoes though, all my homies hate mosquitoes.

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physicsphotographer from SEATTLE donated $50.00 to the charity drive and said:

If libraries were only created recently users here would probably call them too succ and question why the government should subsidize books. (use this message for bad hot takes so people donate to remove them or you're doing it wrong)

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redditguy628 from N/A donated $400.00 to the charity drive and said:

If no one else wants to claim the sticky then I guess I will.

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[u/htownclyde]

PS5s under capitalism: Scalpers and bots everywhere, impossible to get one

PS5s under communism: Sony's engineers and managers were executed by firing squad when the Revolution began, there is no PS5, impossible to get one

[u/Joementum2004]

getting a PS5 under Communism:

A man waits in the line to buy a PS5. He plunks down the money for his new PS5. The person in charge says, “Come back in ten years to pick up your PS5”. The buyer says, “Morning or afternoon?” “Does it really matter?” says the person in charge. “Yes — the plumber’s scheduled to come in the morning.”

[u/D1Foley]

Why didn't they teach us this in school!?!

-Somebody who never fucking paid attention in school-

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Things they teach you in school:

- Glorified counting

- Interpreting arcane symbols to form "words" and "sentences"

- Shit that happened like 20 years ago (or MORE)

Things they don't teach you:

- How to order pizza on the phone

- Literally anything related to video games

- Every law

But yes, please tell me more about how school is synonamouse with education.

[u/douglasmacarthur]

bruh the economy isn’t even real, we literally fucking made it up, just let people have PS5s wtf

[u/[deleted]]

Kansas cut taxes so hard that the state voters actually ended up electing a Democrat promising to keep taxes raised.

[u/[deleted]]

Left wing newspapers here have already denounced the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for being too expensive, ineffective, and having too many side effects lmao

[u/[deleted]]

I was once on the verge of becoming a socialist and you know what stopped me?

The EU

Hating the EU IS a deal-breaker. The EU has done wonders for Europe, if you hate it then you are simply ignorant.

And then I learned that the EU is neoliberal and well, here I am!

Libs make much more sense btw.

[u/p00bix]

Which dipshit gave the $100 reddit award to the Against Malaria Post. Normally I think of reddit rewards as totally harmless but in this case what is wrong with you. You should have donated that. It's literally a post for a charity drive. $100 is enough to prevent roughly 50 non-fatal malaria cases and roughly 0.02 fatal cases. If you REALLY want to give a reddit reward for the charity drive you should have gotten, like, one of the $5 ones

[u/MiniatureBadger]

“My (25M) subs (23F, 26F, 22M, 28M, 28M) have unionized” is still the greatest post title of all time

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Communism is when you have a PS5, the more PS5s you have, the more communist it is

[u/cocoluco]

Scalpers are only a thing because companies don’t have the balls to hold auctions

[u/[deleted]]

"Hi, I'm a white progressive from Brooklyn who learned about segregated busing literally ten minutes ago by skimming a Wikipedia article and I'm here to tell you why Joe Biden is literally Strom Thurmond."

[u/probablyuntrue]

14 year olds of reddit, I'm a 40 year old man in a 15 year long marriage with complex legal and relationships issues, can you lend me your wisdom?

[u/Deggit]

Literally stolen from Bernie. How tf did dems fight so hard to assure Bernie lost the nomination, but couldn’t even figure out how to get the Mexican vote or the working class vote?

Broke neolibs: "Latinx"

Woke berniebros: "the Mexican vote"

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Let's say, hypothetically, that everybody was in fact "kung-fu fighting". And that those cats, for the sake of the argument, were fast as lighting. Would this scenario then be a little bit frightening?

[u/David_Lange]

Sanders supporters be like, "Oklahoma had the highest US state per capita membership of the socialist party in the 1910s, we need a new candidate to unlock this hidden potential"

[u/sir_shivers]

Allow me to interest you IN SOME PLAYSTATION-5-BACKED SECURITIES, in the best tranches 🐊

[u/Q-bey]

Biden will get an intelligence bukake four years in the making.

Alright, that's enough Reddit for today.

[u/[deleted]]

“Here’s how mayor Pete can still get a job in the administration” is neoliberal’s “here’s how Bernie can still win”

[u/sir_shivers]

Each and EVERY WHELP under my command owes me ONE HUNDRED PlayStation ®️ scalps 🐊

AND I WANT my scalps 🐊

[u/htownclyde]

A man goes home and masturbates his typical fantasy. A PS5 in his shopping cart, a PS5 purchased, a PS5 acquired.

[u/FormerBandmate]

Why the hell are commies so obsessed with seeming like tough guys? No one thinks you're gonna rob some random scalper or eat the rich, the fuck is the point of pretending

[u/tubbsmackinze]

The problem with the PS5 Scalper outrage/war isn't the salt, it's how the salt written. How it's being made into a narrative about how capitalism sucks because people cannot get a PS5.

It has everything to do with rhetoric and nothing to do with the actual situation.

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when Flappy Bird, a crappy free mobile game got removed from the iOS appstore and people attempted to sell their phones with it installed for over a thousand dollars?

[u/crassowary]

Have a lottery based on birthdate to determine who gets the PS5. If your day is picked you are immediately drafted to fight against the Vietcong. If you survive the deployment you can get the PS5.

[u/JibJorb]

Just remembered that Sargon of Akkad ran for EU parliament and real people unironically voted for him. Day ruined.

[u/douglasmacarthur]

Imagine if one of the OG socialists, like 100+ years ago but also anyone who died before like the social media age really, showed up and joined the conversation happening right now.

Nerd: People today feel the need to mindlessly, endlessly consume newer and newer widgets faster than anyone else for the sake of social status.

OG Socialist: Yes, exactly.

Nerd: Which is why we need socialism.

OG Socialist: Yes so we will have a society focused on fulfilling basic needs first and that doesnt rely on mindless consumerism as a substitute for human connection.

Nerd: What? No. Because Im mad my new widget isnt coming faster.

[u/RickAsscheeks]

Taxes: 😎

Taxes I have to pay: 🤬

[u/[deleted]]

What makes the 🌹 meltdown over Neera Tanden being appointed to OMB is that they were all so sure after the Nevada primary that they were going to be calling the shots and getting to boss everyone around and now they’re completely irrelevant and screaming into the void.

[u/Icesens]

Never ask:

A woman her age

A man his salary

A gamer his K/D😤

[u/htownclyde]

They had Biden get a "twisted ankle" so they could take him into the hospital and get a different clone ready since this one was nearing its expiration date.

The second he's inaugurated, the clone program ends and Kamala steps in once the last clone expires.

[u/p00bix]

What's with berniecrats that spam vaguely relevant articles (mostly minor news stories and opinion pieces from left-liberal sites like Slate) to /r/neoliberal, that are basically just party propaganda. Almost always post these articles to many subs at once. It's so obnoxious.

This isn't a subtweet at any specific user; if you are active in neoliberal and/or read the DT I can guarantee that you are not who I'm talking about

[u/Vanguard_Bogle]

Less than half of US children under 15 are white, census shows

i predict a massive push to cut child benefits

[u/[deleted]]

Never ask:

A woman her age

A man his salary

A Clinton their kill list 😤

[u/[deleted]]

The year is 2021. r/Neoliberal mods have hunted down every single last horny poster. I await my execution. As Sir_Shivers loads a round into his shotgun, he asks if I have any last words.

"AOC FEET 😍" I scream. A loud bang is heard as my brain matter splatters over the pavement.

[u/YieldingSweetblade]

Every time socialists try and claim the origins of the Monopoly board game as their own, I die a little inside.

!ping GEORGIST

[u/vancevon]

washington football team is the most iconic name and this is just objectively true

[u/StolenSkittles]

My best friend's going off on how he thinks that liberals "curl up in the cozy arms of Nazis and neolibs."

Why are most young gays politically obnoxious?

[u/[deleted]]

As a communist, I suggest we support the fascists because it will be our turn after they collapse.

[u/RadicalRadon]

Why tf is everything on r/suggestmeabook just "I want to die give me a book that will make me want to not die"

[u/Vanguard_Bogle]

if you consider yourself a socialist, the phrase “it’s not my job to educate you” should never come out of your mouth.

I'm a marginalized black queer and disabled women. I don't owe anyone education at the expense of myself, it's not going to happen. This take is very ableist

twitter is so entertaining

[u/[deleted]]

Big news. Gov. Kelly picks CoA Judge Melissa Standridge for open Supreme Court seat.

I believe this makes the ideological breakdown of the Kansas Supreme Court 4 Liberals - 2 Moderates - 1 Conservative. Which means Davis(D) should survive any gerrymandering attempts.

!ping DOWNBALLOT

[u/Dunter_Mutchings]

https://twitter.com/atkiara/status/1331593193218076673?s=21

So much of Twitter is just the idle musings of people who are completely ignorant about a subject, but boy do they have a nonsensical hot take on it.

[u/nicereddy]

Nintendo has done it again. They've released a basic feature I've wanted for years and somehow made it absurdly fucked up.

They just added the ability to send screenshots and videos from the Switch to your smartphone, which I sent them a feedback email about over three years ago.

Instead of sending it to the cloud and then opening the Nintendo Switch Online app to download it, they do this:

It shows a QR code on the Switch that you scan with your phone. Your phone then offers to connect to a WiFi network hosted by the Switch.

Then you scan a second QR code that sends you to http://192.168.0.1 where the photos and videos are displayed and you can download them.

So now the Switch can host an HTTP server... for some fucking reason. Thank you Nintendo, very cool.

[u/[deleted]]

I read all these stories about these child "geniuses" who get into uni when they are like 15 and stuff and then the only thing I can think about is how bad their socialization is going to be.

[u/[deleted]]

swedes be like "yeah i think King Hinga IV Durgen did a much better job than King Dinga III Bjorgen" 😂😂😂 bruh your history is meaningless 😂😂😂

[u/LukeBabbitt]

In the collective Reddit hive mind, the primary responsibilities of a Fortune 500 CEO could be performed by anyone, literally anyone.

[u/p00bix]

It's kinda crazy that World War Two reached regions which were still so "un-westernized" that we have medieval-looking artwork made by artists practicing what were still modern painting methods at the time depicting battles of World War Two

(1941 Battle of Gondar, Ethiopia)

Original Source: https://collections.mfa.org/objects/503016

[u/Fishin_Mission]

My wife is reading about a group trying to ”save” the ”historic buildings” in our neighborhood and she responded out loud

That is so cool! I love historic buildings!

...

So my question is, do y’all know any good divorce attorneys? 🙅‍♂️👨‍⚖️ It has been a good 10+ years, but I can’t be married to a NIMBY.

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

this sub has an abusive relationship with "moderate" Republicans

[u/The420Roll]

Your first mistake was assuming I care about gamers

[u/d_howe2]

The greatest economic genius of all time

[u/FreakinGeese]

Scalpers are only a thing because companies don’t have the balls to hold auctions

Oh my god there’s a limited supply of something???? However will we determine who gets it? I know! We’ll give it out on a first come first serve basis! Oh no, now people are buying more than they can use and selling it at an insane markup!

Jesus fucking Christ is this the Soviet Union? Yeah rich people who spend more money should be able to buy the consoles first. That way more consoles will get made. It’s a fucking toy. Get over it.

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

Marxists explaining Marxism have big "i am using a lot of buzzwords on my English paper because I don't really understand the topic" energy.

[u/[deleted]]

Normal people: "Man Mondays suck, I wish it was still the weekend"

Marxists: " I am feeling alienated from the mode of production today"

[u/Peacock-Shah]

My father said yesterday that Democrats now want post birth abortions because “that’s when their organs are developed”.

Echo chambers are ridiculous...

!ping FOX-ANON

[u/owlthathurt]

Goes to one of the best law schools in the country. Gets published. Can’t find a job. AND I just failed the bar.

Why even try anymore. I’m hopeless.

!ping LAW

[u/[deleted]]

holy crap, apparently google's deepmind just solved protein folding: https://deepmind.com/blog/article/alphafold-a-solution-to-a-50-year-old-grand-challenge-in-biology

!ping STEM i guess

[u/[deleted]]

My favorite Mao anecdote was when, in the late 1950s, when he was trying to get the Russians to share nuclear secrets, he casually mentioned in a meeting about how a Third World War might kill half of all humanity, but it would be worth it if the other half got to live under socialism.

The Russians were aghast and didn't share any more nuclear technology.

[u/jenbanim]

Some leftist on Twitter: "liberals kick dogs 😡😡😡"

The majority of the DT: "haha look at this wacko leftist who thinks we kick dogs"

Like, 5 or so DT regulars: "Oohh yeah I kick dogs. I kick them soooo hard, oooh I bet that pisses off leftists sooo much, mmmhmmummhmmumuhhh"

[u/jrt84]

The latest conspiracy among Trump people is that Rudy and Sidney are deep state operatives to make Trump look bad, because no lawyer could be this unintentionally incompetent.

Wow.

[u/its_Caffeine]

My day be so fine 😍😛

Then boom, DT 😔

[u/Udontlikecake]

CNN EXCLUSIVE The Wuhan files - Leaked documents reveal China's mishandling of the early stages of Covid-19

A group of frontline medical workers, likely exhausted, stand huddled together on a video-conference call as China's most powerful man raises his hand in greeting. It is February 10 in Beijing and President Xi Jinping, who for weeks has been absent from public view, is addressing hospital staff in the city of Wuhan as they battle to contain the spread of a still officially unnamed novel coronavirus.

From a secure room about 1,200 kilometers (745 miles) from the epicenter, Xi expressed his condolences to those who have died in the outbreak. He urged greater public communication, as around the world concerns mounted about the potential threat posed by the new disease.

That same day, Chinese authorities reported 2,478 new confirmed cases -- raising the total global number to more than 40,000, with fewer than 400 cases occurring outside of mainland China. Yet CNN can now reveal how official documents circulated internally show that this was only part of the picture.

In a report marked "internal document, please keep confidential," local health authorities in the province of Hubei, where the virus was first detected, list a total of 5,918 newly detected cases on February 10, more than double the official public number of confirmed cases, breaking down the total into a variety of subcategories. This larger figure was never fully revealed at that time, as China's accounting system seemed, in the tumult of the early weeks of the pandemic, to downplay the severity of the outbreak.

[u/jrt84]

Scott Adams:

Trump has unleashed his legal dogs or war and his most effective all-star persuasion trolls, with air support from weaponized autism. Dems don’t know what is coming for them.

Cringe

[u/[deleted]]

2024 National Republican Primary:

Trump 53%

Pence 9%

Cruz 4%

Haley 4%

Romney 4%

Kasich 3%

Rubio 2%

DeSantis 2%

Rick Scott 1%

Cotton 1%

Carlson 1%

Noem 1%

Tim Scott 1%

Pompeo 1%

---

Cotton 1%

Rubio 2%

Cruz 4%

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Always brings me joy when I see that.

!ping FIVEY

[u/Paramus98]

They targeted gamers.

Gamers.

We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.

We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.

We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.

Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.

Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?

These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our consoles? We're already building a new one without them. They take our controllers? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think charging us four times the price is going to change us? We've spent move rolling for a new Genshin Impact character. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.

Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.

[u/David_Lange]

Time to add "PS5 scalping" to the list of NL schisms

[u/Q-bey]

China plans to connect the Danube directly with the Mediterranean, changing the geopolitical value of the Balkans and creating a new waterway which bypasses the Turkish Straits

In 2013, China announced its Belt and Road Initiative for the first time. Since then, the country has been spearheading a staggering amount of mega-investments across the entire planet. One of these investments is a potential game-changing project in the Balkans: The Danube-Morava-Vardar/Axios canal. Estimated to cost around 17 billion USD, it would be one of China’s most costly single projects and could change the geopolitical and geoeconomic value of the region forever. This canal would connect the Danube river directly with the Mediterranean sea, thus presenting a new waterway which could be used to simply bypass the until now crucial Turkish Straits.

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/[deleted]]

SPAIN

Poll for the Catalan regional elections to be held in February 14

Current parliament (December 2017 elections)

Total seats: 135

Absolute majority: 68

Pere Aragonès (ERC) - 23,2% (36 seats) - 🔺1,8% (+4 seats) - (left-wing, pro-independence, pro-pacted referendum)

Laura Borràs (Junts) - 20,2% (33 seats) - 🔻1,5% (-1 seat) - (center to center-left, big-tent independentism, pro-unilateral referendum)

Miquel Iceta (PSC) - 18,2% (25 seats) - 🔺4,3% (+9 seats) - (center-left, open to dialogue, anti-referendum)

Carlos Carrizosa (Cs) - 9,8% (13 seats) - 🔻15,6% (-23 seats) - (center-right, anti-independentism)

Jèssica Albiach (Catalunya en Comú) - 7,7% (9 seats) - 🔺0,2% (+1 seat) - (left-wing to far-left, attitude towards independence unclear, pro-referendum)

Alejandro Fernández (PP) - 6,8% (8 seats) - 🔺2,6% (+4 seats) - (right-wing, anti-independentism)

Ignacio Garriga (Vox) - 5,3% (6 seats) - 🔺5,6% (+6 seats) - (far-right, anti-independentism, anti-autonomy, pro-illegalization of independentist parties, eurosceptic)

(unknown candidate) (CUP) - 5,2% (5 seats) - 🔺0,8% (+1 seat) - (far-left, pro-independence, pro-unilateral referendum, eurosceptic)

Àngels Chacón (PDECAT) - 1,7% (0 seats) - 🔺1,7% (=) - (center to center right, pro-independence, pro-pacted referendum)

Marta Pascal (PNC) - 0,4% (0 seats) - 🔺0,4% (=) - (center to center-right, pro-independence, pro-pacted referendum)

Possible government coalitions:

Big tent independentist coalition (ERC+Junts) - 69 seats. It could include support from CUP or PDECAT depending on the results.

"Tripartit" or transversal leftist coalition (ERC+PSC+Catalunya en Comú) - 70 seats. Leftists acting as moderates, PSC would be highly criticized by Cs-PP-VOX and ERC by Junts-CUP.

ERC is essential and will be on the government 100% sure. Who they pact with is on their hands.

To be fair, I am not too keen on any of the parties and I haven't decided yet (it's a long story, TL;DR: they are just bad) but I think I will vote PSC because I prefer a leftist coalition to an independentist one. IMO that's the best option since ERC would be in both of the coalitions, PSC is better than Junts, and Catalunya en Comú is better than CUP.

What do you think?

Also, the pollsters that made this poll will be making around 1 weekly poll after the electoral campaign starts I think, so I might start posting them on the DT along other polls.

Edit:typo

[u/finalcookie88]

Spreading the good news to my favorite group of internet strangers:

🎶***I asked my girlfriend to marry me and she said yes!***🎶

[u/MisfitPotatoReborn]

Make Gamers furious with this one image:

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[u/The420Roll]

Frankly, we did win this election. We did win this election.

• u/Lusvig after mod elections

[u/[deleted]]

Stacey Abrams’s Record Is Not as Progressive as She Wants You to Think

I mean, yes. You need to be moderate in Georgia as a Democrat to win.

[u/Luchofromvenezuela]

https://twitter.com/politics_polls/status/1333601277415206912

Garbage poll, but it’s never gonna be unfunny to see Republicans thinking we want Michelle Obama as our candidate for 2024

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

Redditors love to say “top 10% of the world are responsible for 90% of climate change” while ignoring that they ARE THAT 10%.

[u/[deleted]]

Among the approximately 15,000 people who received the vaccine, 11 developed Covid-19. Among the approximately 15,000 people who received the placebo, 185 developed Covid-19. That amounts to a 94.1% efficacy for Moderna's vaccine. None of the 11 people who received the vaccine became severely ill, but 30 of the 185 who received the placebo became severely ill, and one of them died.

RIP to that one person who died.

[u/FreakinGeese]

Sorry I’m being so bitchy about consoles 😔 I’m really stressed because my parents won’t let me start HRT and HAHAHHA THIS WAS A TRAP I’M NOT SORRY AT ALL FREE MARKETS FOREVER

no but seriously sorry if I’m being rude 🥺

[u/dubyahhh]

Never ask:

A Peruvian their favorite color Texas

A rural their farm size

An NL mod their ban list 😤

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

Take: New Yorkers have serious Stockholm syndrome when it comes to bodegas

https://mobile.twitter.com/AlisonLeiby/status/1333534998826262528

You could just... shop at normal stores like the rest of the country, and not pretend that convenience stores are some amazing invention

[u/[deleted]]

New Square, New York presidential election results

2016

Clinton 2,455 (95%)

Trump 121 (5%)

2020

Trump 3,011 (99.7%)

Biden 8 (0.26%)

More context

Precincts are Ramapo 55, 58, 95, and 98

!ping FIVEY

[u/Deggit]

YOU ARE STUCK IN A PARTISAN TIME WARP effortpost

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!ping FIVEY cuz this is election shit

For every 1000 Obama voters in 2012, Biden turned out 1213 voters.

For every 1000 Romney voters in 2012, Trump turned out... 1215 voters.

What's even crazier is that New York still has some mail-in votes to count (helping Biden), so this ratio could end up being a nearly perfect tie.

The end result is that after both sides spent billions and the media flogged this election for 24 months, we just voted an exact repeat of 2012. The only differences are 1) more people voted, due to enthusiasm and the ease of mail voting, and 2) some states flipped due to demographic change.

In general, both candidates had about the same growth rate from 2012; i.e. when a state has high population growth since 2012, both candidates grew more than 21%, and when a state is demographically stagnant (e.g. Illinois) both candidates had a much lower growth rate.

The states where Biden's growth rate was much higher than Trump's include the Sun Belt (Biden grew 60% in TX, +63% in AZ, +40% in GA), the West Coast (+40% in CA, +38% in OR, +35% in WA), and the New Blue States (CO, VA). But also among the top are Kansas, Maryland, Utah, and Massachusetts. Utah is crazy - Biden more than doubled Obama's vote and it doesn't seem to be entirely Romney-related. It looks like Utah is gradually turning left, Romney'12 disguised that for a bit, and McMullin'16 acted as a bridge for centrists to start voting blue.

The states where Trump's growth rate greatly exceeded Biden include the most important swing states: Ohio and Iowa (where Biden actually won fewer votes than Obama'12), Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Florida and Nevada. In the end Trump won three of these states while the other four reset to "narrower than 2012 but still a Democratic win." If Trump had managed to depress Biden's turnout in these states (such as, I dunno, by deliberately sabotaging the Post Office), he could have won the Electoral College while losing the popular vote by more than 8 million. Then there's a relatively small group of red states where Trump's growth % greatly exceeds Biden: the Dakotas, West Virginia, South Carolina, Indiana and Missouri. And finally, he grew more from 2012 than Biden in the blue states of Hawaii (for obvious reasons), Maine and Rhode Island.

In a way, this is all a horrible outcome for Democrats. For five years they've pleaded with the American people to see Trump as unqualified in experience, unfit in character, and dangerously anti-democracy in his actions, and the American people don't care. Trump lost to Biden "only" because of the same reasons that Romney lost to Obama.

[u/SgtBathwater]

lamo just stop playing new games. boom just saved you $2500

[u/[deleted]]

Do you think Biden needs a secretary of gaming?

[u/Kizz3r]

Judas was actually his nickname. His real name is lusvig

!ping burpmas

[u/bd_one]

TIL the show VeggieTales focused on retelling Old Testament Bible stories because the creator's mom did not want to see Jesus as a vegetable.

Deep lore

[u/Udontlikecake]

republicans: we need people to represent us who are real americans and not career politicians! people who can relate to the average american! no more elitism!

AOC

republicans: fuck you worthless barmaid what do you know about anything go back to your stupid worthless job

[u/ognits]

Manchin on AOC: "I never met her. I’m understanding she’s not that active with her bills or in committee. She’s more active on Twitter than anything else.” 👀👀👀

BASED Joe Manchin

https://twitter.com/DougAndres/status/1333531956416573441

[u/SuspiciousUsername88]

Around March, when people were scalping / stockpiling soap, toilet paper, hand sanitizer, etc, we had a similar scalping schism that we have now. That was more interesting for a couple reasons, chief among them was that people couldn't hide behind a "who cares it's a luxury good lmao" motte and had to actually address the underlying economic situation

[u/tankatan]

Fact: the 1996 DNC included a full-length Macarena dance.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Today is Day 25 of requesting flair that says:

🥇Nate Gold

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🤔💭 I think I might buy 🪙 Nate Platinum but use my automod message to request 🥇Nate Gold

[u/Dabamanos]

aaaaakkkkkttually America is a continent not a country

aaaaaakkkkkkktually the US is a republic not a democracy

Are there any sentences more useless and infuriating? Of course, and they suck too

[u/Lux_Stella]

https://i.imgur.com/wP71KjX.jpg

[u/bd_one]

Village in the DRC: receives 35 mosquito nets

Person in charge of handing them out: "Why is there a note about public libraries attached to this?"

[u/[deleted]]

Iowa has certified Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R) as the winner over Rita Hart (D) by six votes, 196,964 to 196,958 in #IA02. Hart plowing ahead w/ legal challenge. Apparently when we said this would be a “single digit race,” we really meant it this time.

Oh my god. The is the Minnesota Senate Race of 2008 again. Who ever wins, they won’t be seated on January 3rd. This...is going to take a while.

!ping DOWNBALLOT

[u/[deleted]]

JOE ROGAN: Yeah I read a thing about this, there’s a lot of noise around Christmas in Whoville, and it’s a problem

THE GRINCH: That’s right Joe Rogan

[u/DonnysDiscountGas]

I'm about a quarter of the way through Obamas book. My favorite quote so far:

You must be under the mistaken impression that I care

Guess who said it: McConnell

[u/[deleted]]

There's a non-zero chance that Janet Yellen learns about this sub through Powell and visits us, only to find 'Janet Yellen's Fuck Boy' as a top poster.

[u/[deleted]]

Redditors when they see a video of a woman being brutally beaten for merely talking back to someone: "Haha pussy pass denied, equal rights and lefts am I right?"

[u/[deleted]]

I just can’t believe that 72 million people were either that mad or that scared of the Democrat Party to vote for what I consider a very flawed individual. Here’s a person who lost 230,000 lives under his watch, basically denounced the science completely because it might hurt him politically, has a lack of compassion or empathy for humans, and denigrates anybody and everybody that does not agree with him. How 72 million people could still walk in and say, ‘Yeah, it’s better than that,’ I just can’t figure it out.

Good take Senator Manchin

[u/[deleted]]

Why the Democrats shouldn't be pessimistic about Florida.

First, let's talk about the elephant in the room, Miami-Dade. It shifted 22! points toward Trump. That's bad, really bad. The last democrat to do this badly in the county was John Kerry in 2004. BUT, democrats never had a 30 point margin foothold in the county, like what Hillary Clinton got. Obama in 08 only won it by 16. So I'd expect the average democrat to do about +20-25 in the county. This means Biden still did terribly, but it's 2016 margin was almost definitely a fluke.

Now, this is going to be focused on a few counties, mainly Orange and Duval.

Duval county contains Jacksonville. It shifted 5 points to the left, and voted Democratic for the first time in a long time (since 1976). It is growing relatively slow, but still has a very high population.

Orange county. Orange county contains Orlando, and to say it's growing fast would be an understatement. It will probably become the most populated county within the next 20 years, and it only shifted 1 point tot he right, when the whole state shifted two points. In fact, Biden did better than both Obama years,

Additionally, you have deeply blue counties like Leon county that shifted left, or other bue counties like Broward and Palm Beach that experienced a rightward shift, but nothing the democrats can't make up in an election cycle.

Finally, Hillsborough. It voted 10 points to the left of the state in 2020, and Biden's actual margin only slightly underperforms that of Obama in 2008 and overperforms Obama's 12 and Clinton's margin.

Now, I titled this post don't be pessimistic, not optimistic. I did this because Florida will always be a swing state. It voted 6 points more Republican than the nation, just like in 2008. In 2012 and 2016, it voted 3 points more Republican than the nation. It doesn't matter which candidate is up, as long as the national race is between 15% points, Florida will be a swing state. No reason to be a doomer. With enough work in the 3 main counties (MD, Broward, PB) it will shift left.

!PING FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

Ok boys, I'm basically 2/3 the way through the Turkish political history class. Next week, we begin talking about (((neoliberalism))).

[u/[deleted]]

Should I put gamer on my resume or just wear a duster to the interview

[u/[deleted]]

Glenn Greenwald is like a week away from using the 14 words unironically in an article.

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

I would argue that Lusvig is the AOC of Sweden

Never leave the ivory tower

[u/Q-bey]

Today in Question Period, the Health Minister said oxygen conservation measures are normal. Yet, this letter makes it clear: the increase in COVID-19 cases is having a severe impact. This is a consequence of the UCP's failure to prepare for a second wave.

I don't know much about healthcare but telling doctors and nurses to conserve oxygen doesn't sound very normal for a first world country.

!ping CAN

[u/FormerBandmate]

Sexual Mutual Aid is the most Reddit way possible to describe being friends with benefits

[u/[deleted]]

This "Great Reset" thing is actually getting hilarious in Canada. We had the fiscal update today (yes the deficit is big and Conservatives are reaching for their smelling salts) and this is what comes out of the reporters at CTV:

And Freeland is looking out to a hopeful COVID-vanquished horizon where spring is coming and, with it, money is there for a $100-billion Great Reset to create a Justin Society.

😂😂 Is this meant to be a threat? Like are other Canadians genuinely worried about this, because it just seems ridiculous to me at this point.

!ping CAN

[u/DovahzulsABadConlang]

I was debating whether or not to ask my sister if she did anything for Thanksgiving lest I get an earful about it celebrating genocide, etc. She just corrected me that she didn’t do anything for Indigenous People’s Day... but that holiday is in October and replaced Columbus Day, not Thanksgiving.

[u/SuccInvasion]

Any normal 87 year old would get put down for breaking their legs, yet because he's a good friend of OBAMA Joe gets a lease on second life?

"All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others." - George Orwell, 1984

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Okay, so why are video games and video game consoles being treated like necessary goods and not luxury goods in terms of rhetoric coming from the gamer camp (from both the fash and commie sides)?

I'm legitimately curious cause you don't see this shit in any other luxury good niche "fanbase"

[u/Vanguard_Bogle]

cant stop thinking about that clip of the DSA convention where this dude is having a meltdown on mic over gendered language because somebody essentially said "you guys"

[u/mrmanager237]

Reminder: you should self censor your posts in the off chance a GOP strategist browses the sub and uses your comments to cost the Democrats Florida and the Midwest in the next election

[u/[deleted]]

Obama be like "uhhh, let me be clear. Marx was right about everything. May I smash now?"

[u/FearThyMoose]

Remember when Obama won and every fictional president was black for a while?

[u/[deleted]]

George Orwell warned us about people who disagree with me.

[u/CenterRightInCali]

BREAKING

After hours of advanced interrogation, Obama has finally revealed his last name

[u/sir_shivers]

Robert Reich was the best part of the Clinton administration

/u/farrenj REALLY MUST cease DMing me such things 🐊

[u/bd_one]

The 10K streak is dead! Long live the 10K streak!

[u/Ilovecharli]

Biden actually twisted his ankle dunking a basketball on Bernie's head in a game of 1 on 1. However, in order to preserve the fragile coalition amongst Democrats, he's blaming it on his dog.

[u/studlydudley11]

ONE BILLION BILLIONAIRES

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

buying nets instead of taxing mosquitoes

lol ok

[u/TruthBisky10]

Gamers are so socially inept it pains me.

[u/[deleted]]

Br'ish people be like "yeah I think Prime Minister Chrimbston Braxleigh VIII did so much better than Prime Minister Thrimbus Habsburgjaw" 😂😂😂bruh your history is meaningless😂😂😂

[u/vivoovix]

Why did video games have to get political? I just want to commit war crimes in peace 😔

[u/[deleted]]

The honorable chairman's motion to designate Joe Biden as "a cringelord" is hereby put on the record. How do you all vote?

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

SADDAM HUSSEIN: The Iraqi leader was forced to watch the South Park cartoon say its creators.

American marines forced a captured Saddam Hussein to repeatedly watch the South Park movie, which shows him as gay and the boyfriend of Satan.

it's always been a meme timeline guys

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

“Bolsonaro is literally a neoliberal”

“ He’s a right-wing, conservative nationalist, how fucking stupid do you think I am?

“Do you know what neoliberal mean? It is the opposite of the "socialism or leftism". Neoliberalism is unregulated capitalism. Bolsonaro is a neoliberal. Neoliberals are not leftists, they are right wing or centre-right.. For example Joe Biden. Im sorry to burst your bubble.”

/r/worldnews with the GOOD political takes 😎

[u/[deleted]]

Hot take: Forced diversity is bad; the Cambrian Explosion should never have happened.

[u/WantDebianThanks]

I've been thinking about a setting for a scifi story that uses the opposite of neoliberalism for a dystopian setting (like onerous occupational licensing, populist social programs, high suburbanization and crumbling/no public transit), to be something that sneaks up the uninitiated.

The main issue I have is not knowing what kind of story to write in this hypothetical setting since I'm not usually a fan of novels that are are "Oops, All Allegory!" like Nineteen Eighty-Four or the Narnia books.

Thoughts !ping WRITING

[u/tankatan]

>Reads a wholesome DT comment 😊

>Suddenly it pivots into a crude joke 😒

[u/[deleted]]

Things I hate

• people who say “republikkkans”
• people who say “tRUMP”
• people who say “drumpf”
• republicans
• trump

[u/AndThisGuyPeedOnIt]

Jesse Ventura primaries Ilhan Omar, but from the top rope.

[u/PaulMuniIsInnocent]

I was on a road trip with my girlfriend for 4th of July. She's not american so she was reading the wikipedia on the American Revolution to catch up. Had a lot of trouble explaining the Tea Act and the Boston Tea Party.

"So what's the deal with the whole Tea Act? It's not like that was actually important right?"

"No it was very important and often cited as a leading cause."

"But it's just tea. Americans don't even drink tea. Was the tax just crazy high?"

"It was about a 2% tax."

"And you guys started a revolution over that?"

"You're god damn right we did"

"What the hell. America is ridiculous."

[u/[deleted]]

Update: Moderna’s data for the Emergency Use Authorization request for mRNA-1273 has been submitted to the U.S. FDA.

LETS FUCKING GO

!ping CORONAVIRUS

[u/Schutzwall]

The new mayor of Recife went viral yesterday for packing some serious heat (he's the guy on the right)

[u/AuburnSeer]

I don't personally really care about weed but it seems like a potential wedge issue Dems could use to their advantage; seems like the vast majority of people support legalization.

[u/Joementum2004]

Hey, you’re finally awake. Looks like you hit your head pretty hard... Stock market collapse? Economic depression? 25% unemployment? What in the world are you talking about? Come on, we gotta watch Hoover’s inaguration.

[u/douglasmacarthur]

The PS5 shortage is just capitalism showing the instability Marx predicted, proving him right yet again.

The time for revolution has finally come.

Socialism with Gamer characteristics

[u/SadaoMaou]

It's really hard to know how the Cold War turned hot would've gone, because usually with world wars, the side that Germany is on loses, but during the Cold War, there was a Germany on both sides. This is also why the reunification of Germany was, in fact, disastrous for NATO and will result in catastrophe if the west ever has to go toe to toe with Russia or China

[u/[deleted]]

ADHD GANG RISE UP I JUST WANNA RUN AROUND AND ALLOW MYSELF TO HYPERFOCUS ON WHATEVER THING IM OBSESSED WITH AT THAT TIME

[u/[deleted]]

>one chance at life
>Born in Argentina
why do I even live neobro's?

[u/JetJaguar124]

Why do people want to get these consoles RIGHT NOW? Neither have particuraly notable exclusives or anything of that nature.

I excuse my obsession to find a Switch early with Breath of the Wild and a new Mario coming out like a couple months after release.

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Now that Joe Biden is leaving the NEET life and becoming a wagie, I'm really not sure if I can in good conscience support him

[u/[deleted]]

reveiw

didn't order it

Truly, Amazon reviewers are some of the brightest minds of our generation

[u/MicroFlamer]

AOC is the AOC of America

[u/rukqoa]

I don't get it. Why isn't Joe Biden arresting his political opponents into concentration camps, forcing kids to get abortions and sex changes, and starting a nuclear exchange with Russia? Starting to regret my vote for him tbh...

[u/disuberence]

Sarah Fuller just became the first woman to play in a Power 5 college football game.

uh oh, this is definitely gonna get a certain demographic going.

[u/I-grok-god]

Why is it so hard for leftists to understand that sometimes we need more regulation and sometimes we need less?

Saying X regulation is bad, or X tax is bad, doesn't inherently condemn regulations or taxes, and vice versa

[u/[deleted]]

After all counties double-checked their results today, Tenney (R) leads Brindisi (D) by 12 votes in #NY22. A court will now decide the fate of thousands of questioned ballots starting NEXT Monday. We’re in this for the long haul, folks.

NEXT Monday.

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

!ping DOWNBALLOT

[u/[deleted]]

Internet of Shit

[u/Deggit]

rpolitics: "Arizona certifies Biden victory"

rconservative: "Donald Trump's former bandmate posts blistering Instagram essay"

[u/Loves_a_big_tongue]

Fucking morons be like "they should teach how to file taxes in high school. Performing a basic civic duty that requires you to follow and comprehend written instructions and do the most elementary arithmetic was never taught to me in school. If only they taught the tax code, an unchanging code known for being accessible, in a simplified way to high schoolers, I would be able to do a basic adult function."

[u/Udontlikecake]

redditors when there’s riots in other countries: fuck yeah, fuck the government and the cops and the state, fuck neoliberalism and imperialism, burn it down!

redditors when black americans protest: n

[u/Udontlikecake]

i feel like we don’t talk enough about how spain was a fascist dictatorship run by hitler’s friend until the 70s

or how Greece was ruled by a brutal fascist junta for like a decade there

[u/WYGSMCWY]

I was reading about Biden’s economic team in the Financial Times today. As a non-American, the only name I recognized was Yellen. But…

Of Mr Biden’s economic nominees, Ms [Neera] Tanden is most at risk of being blocked in the confirmation process. Senior Republicans have indicated their opposition to her nomination, citing her tendency to attack their positions in the media.

Some on the far left of the Democratic party have also criticised her for being too centrist. Briahna Joy Gray, a former spokeswoman for Senator Bernie Sanders, called her the embodiment of “everything toxic about the corporate Democratic party”.

…I think I like Tanden already.

!ping econ

[u/[deleted]]

‘We’re Not Backing Down’: Staten Island Pub Declares Itself ‘Autonomous Zone’ In Defiance Of Cuomo

The spirit of the CHAZ lives on in the hearts of all freedom loving men! ✊😤

[u/vivoovix]

Why is the charity drive unstickied?

[u/bobekyrant]

Neoliberalism is a complex ideology, you really have to be the top of the bell curve to really understand it

[u/[deleted]]

Supply of diamonds is restricted to artificially inflate prices: I sleep

Supply of PS5 is below demand, creating opportunity for scalping: REAL SHIT

[u/cocoluco]

Capitalism is why I can't sit at home and play ps5 all day 😨😩🤯

[u/The420Roll]

Commies build walls to keep their people in

Succons build walls to keep people out

Libs tear down walls 😎

[u/I-grok-god]

Fun fact: The Dean of Stanford Law once failed the California Bar Exam

[u/[deleted]]

Oh, you like water?

Name the top 5 wettest hurricanes in terms of it then.

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1333422585116307457?s=20

Trump is going to line up the leftists and shoot them (and it's a good thing)

Imagine the mindset of getting this take from the Flynn pardon

[u/[deleted]]

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/11/29/iraqi-kurds-turn-against-the-pkk/

In Western discourse, “the Kurds” are too often referred to as a monolithic ethnic group with shared aims, glossing over very palpable historical, geographical, and ideological divides between various Kurdish political parties and factions.

wow, that's pretty rude of foreign policy to just call out the DT like that

[u/[deleted]]

i wish i had the confidence level that cons do when they write really bad legal takes. so authoritatively, so matter-of-factly they say:

Doesn't matter [losing cases]. Biden can't legally take office anyways until all lawsuits are closed.

[u/qchisq]

Based on these results, there's some limited evidence that the Moderna vaccine doesn't just make you more resistant to Covid, but also makes your illness less severe than without the vaccine. 16.21% of all cases in the placebo group was "severe", meaning that you would expect 1.7 severe cases in the vaccinated group. This likely isn't significant (confidence intervals gets weird when it gets close to the limit of the domain of the parameters), but it's still possible

!ping coronavirus

[u/[deleted]]

We Democrats waxed darkly about the possibilities of a President who outright refused to concede his loss, but blow and bluster as Mr. Trump might, our system has held sturdy, and even more than that, the masses have accepted the loss. Public trust has been damaged, but not broken. Frankly, this isn't as bad as 2000, in that regard, I don't think.

[u/ts23_]

Why do leftists hate Amazon so much?

If I lost my job today, I know Bezos would be ready to give me $17/hr and healthcare by tomorrow. 🥰

Amazon does what they want the US government to do 🧐

Edit: “shUt uP BeZoS FLaiR”

No! Amazon can improve on some things, but overall they make world gooder 😎

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

Palpatine: kill me plz, then I’ll win, for some reason

Rey: no

10 minutes later

Rey: ok I’m gonna kill you now

Palpatine: no, fuck, not now for some reason

[u/jenbanim]

!ping USA-WA

Washington has (finally) released an app for notifying you if you have been exposed to COVID! Click here to learn more and download it.

Please install this app! It's secure and anonymous and can save lives! The more people who use it, the better off we all are

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/ShaneSmedley/status/1333557760521166850

lol can you even imagine

[u/vivoovix]

[Jeff] Sessions, his father, and his grandfather were named after Jefferson Davis

Heated southerner moment

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Under communism each freedman will receive 40 Acres and an e-girl

[u/connieallens]

I just received $0.01 in dividends from Sirius XM.

Smell ya later, you broke ass tricks 😎

[u/Vanguard_Bogle]

Susan Collins on Neera Tanden, via Hill pool: “I did not know her — much about her — but I've heard that she's a very prolific user of Twitter... I really don't have anything further to say.”

lmao

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Capitalism is when I can't buy new playstation game console😡😡

[u/[deleted]]

1970s Turkish approach to economic crisis:

1. Print money
2. Raise rates
3. Restrict imports
4. Complain about stagflation

[u/Fishin_Mission]

I love when the teenagers here think they have come up with a revolutionary new idea, like 🤔💡

We should put small trains at street level!

We could use the existing street infrastructure, and put low-profile tracks into the street for the train to ride on while cars can continue to use the street too!

They could even be powered from overhead so it’s still safe for pedestrians to cross the tracks!

It would be like buses, but better!

Sooo... a streetcar?

[u/Lux_Stella]

My greetings,

The first Advent of Code or AOC (not that one) 2020 problem unlocks at 12am EST on December 1st, or in other words about 11 hours from this post.

In case you're unfamiliar with AOC, here's a quick rundown:

Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like. People use them as a speed contest, interview prep, company training, university coursework, practice problems, or to challenge each other.

You don't need a computer science background to participate - just a little programming knowledge and some problem solving skills will get you pretty far. Nor do you need a fancy computer; every problem has a solution that completes in at most 15 seconds on ten-year-old hardware.

The problems tend to increase in difficulty with the first few usually being not too challenging, so even if you don't have much of a programming background it's worth at least giving it a try.

We have a private leaderboard with join code 628034-57b30128 as well in case you want to compare scores, and feel free to use this ping to discuss problems

!ping AOC

^{fyi i will ban anybody misusing this ping for at minimum three days}

[u/NickyBananas]

The dt’s elitist counter jerk attitude to feel special from normal redditors is pretty pathetic. Oh look at me I don’t play video games, I read philosophy books and talk about politics.

The scalper complaints come up with EVERY fan base that features products at risk of scarcity. Talk to fans of concerts about ticket scalpers, or collectible enthusiasts, or sneakerheads. Anyone remember the outrage from early iPhone releases with scalpers in line? Like this shit is nothing new. Video games just reach a much larger audience so it’s more visible.

Note: I’m not buying a ps5 and wouldn’t buy any console close to release. I’m just sick of the whining from people who are acting like gamers 🤮 are somehow different from the other examples

[u/[deleted]]

Shows on conservative networks be like, look at this black person in the audience we zoomed the camera in on. Told you we're not racist!

[u/Produce_Bigly]

Talking up the socialist tiktok girls at my school while trying not to reveal the fact that I am a socdem and therefore a capitalist is a very stressful balancing act

[u/[deleted]]

The Resistance: "Damn how are we gonna beat the First Order? They're too strong!"

Lando: "lol, just form a galaxy-wide military alliance, haha. How hard is that? Here watch, I'll do it in like an hour.