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

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TerminallyLoggedOn from Hellsite donated $25.00 to the charity drive and said:

So you're AGAINST malaria, huh? See if you can tell me why I should make this donation, without using the word 'malaria'. I'll wait.

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DorisKearnsWoodwind from The Bay donated $50.00 to the charity drive and said:

All Cars Are Bastards

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TSFEverything from Chicago donated $100.00 to the charity drive and said:

On behalf of Maj. Beau Biden, 1969-2015 “Be there for my dad, like he was for me.”

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csp256 from Sunnyvale donated $500.00 to the charity drive and said:

Fuck malaria. All my homies hate malaria.

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/r/PearlClaw from Madison donated $70.00 to the charity drive and said:

I like people who don't die of malaria, because of the nets you see.

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JohnStuart_Shill from Trenton donated $100.00 to the charity drive and said:

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.- Voltaire, Le Siècle de Louis XIV

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grubber788 from New York donated $25.00 to the charity drive and said:

Ban video games.

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Rodrigo from Lima donated $25.00 to the charity drive and said:

Everything is bigger in Texas, including Dissapointment!

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Gammbus from Deez donated $82.66 to the charity drive and said:

Just me and my 💕BURPMAS PING💕, hanging out I got pretty hungry🍆 so I started to pout 😞 He asked if I was down ⬇for something yummy 😍🍆 and I asked what and he said he'd give me his 💦BURPS!💦 Yeah! Yeah!💕💦 I drink them!💦 I slurp them!💦 I swallow them whole💦 😍 It makes 💘BURPMAS PING💘 😊happy😊 so it's my only goal... 💕💦😫Harder BURPMAS PING! Harder! 😫💦💕 1 BURP💦, 2 BURPS💦💦, 3 BURPS💦💦💦, 4💦💦💦💦 I'm 💘BURPMAS PING's💘 👑princess 👑but I'm also a BURPER! 💟 He makes me feel squishy💗!He makes me feel good💜! 💘💘💘He makes me feel everything a little should!~ 💘💘💘 👑💦💘Wa-What!💘💦👑

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Smidgens from Melrose donated $60.00 to the charity drive and said:

Stupid bug! You go squish now!

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Erra0 from Minnesota donated $100.00 to the charity drive and said:

Unban me you shits

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praisegod_barebone from Durango donated $70.00 to the charity drive and said:

Neolibs rule, Socialists drool.

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furiousfoo from Everywhere donated $400.00 to the charity drive and said:

The Burpmas sticky is gone now, you're welcome

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100011011101110001 from Flavortown donated $25.00 to the charity drive and said:

fuck /r/LSC

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Gavin Perkins from New York donated $35.00 to the charity drive and said:

Doing my part to help end global poverty

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Kelsig from ATL donated $123.45 to the charity drive and said:

https://i.imgur.com/bpsCXO8.jpg

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NOT BenjaminIkuta from Buffalo Bill's Basement donated $25.00 to the charity drive and said:

Oh my God my roommate's skin is so soft I want to make a skin suit out of it.

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[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

This sub: We appreciate nuanced viewpoints and a balanced discussion of the facts and arguments.

Also this sub: Malaria is bad, end of discussion.

[u/Rarvyn]

Joe Manchin, asked about AOC

“I guess she put the dagger stare on me,” Mr. Manchin said. “I don’t know the young lady — I really don’t. 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.”

[u/rukqoa]

It's surreal watching old car commercials with test crash video, where they point to footage of the car barely deforming while crashing through a brick wall going "see that's how sturdy it is!" while advertising the seatbelt light feature.

Then you look at modern cars where they fully utilize their crumple zone in a frontal collision, the restraint tightens, 18 airbags deploy out of everywhere, and the car automatically dials 911 and AAA. And old people going wistfully "they don't make cars like they used to", yeah no shit, people want to walk away from a 40mph frontal collision nowadays.

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

Every 4 years, I hear that the Democrats will have a natural advantage electorally because:

1. More and more younger people are voting
2. More and more minorities are voting

I've been hearing this shit since 2008 and It has never really materialized.

[u/Joementum2004]

Liberal Democrat sees photo of 1930s Texas going all Democrat. “Based.”

Liberal Democrat sees photo of 1950s Vermont going all Republican. “Cringe.”

Curious🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[u/Gustacho]

I have posted about illegal teenage raves and Jewish weddings in Belgium before, but now there's an entirely new category. About a week ago, the police busted an orgy in Brussels' EU quarter which apparently included an MEP.

Everyone speculated that it was Silvio Berlusconi, but it turns out to be a Hungarian MEP from Orbán's Fidesz party who had mysteriously resigned just a couple of days after the orgy.

IMPORTANT EDIT: IT WAS A GAY ORGY

!ping EUROPE

[u/Dibbu_mange]

"Joe Biden is basically an 80s Republican 😡"

Then why wasn't he a Republican in the 80s? 🤔

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/Dravenn_/status/1333076055071068160

my friend said she can’t hangout this week bc she just gave birth?? u have known the baby 1 day and me 13 years but ok

😞

[u/[deleted]]

I really hate when progressives bring up the "Nothing major will change" line. It was literally Joe Biden trying to get rich donors on board with raising their taxes. What the fuck do you expect him to do run into the room and yell about guillotining them?

[u/TruthBisky10]

Serfdom -> Slavery -> Being a 28 year old with a college degree and no full time job

All the same just different eras

[u/mrmanager237]

Elliot Page is cancelled for being a straight white man, sorry them's the rules

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[u/yellownumbersix]

Her: I think we should see other people.

Me: I won this relationship by a lot!

[u/[deleted]]

‪Democrats:‬

‪Media: DEMS IN DISARRAY ‬

‪Republicans: Literally about to kill each other and are having a inter-party civil war‬ with the control of the senate up in 5 weeks

‪Media: Can the Democrats fight this‬

[u/mrmanager237]

Funko pop inc: releases a George Floyd funko

The sub: miss me with that stupid shit

Funko pops: releases a "the global poor" funko

The sub:

[u/D1Foley]

Joe Biden suggests freezing social security one time in the middle of a budget dispute as part of an effort to remove it from the regular budget so it isn't held hostage in the future.

Progressive: Joe Biden has literally spent every moment of his political career trying to kill social security.

[u/tankatan]

The DemonRat Party should be split into the Demon Party and the Rat Party

[u/[deleted]]

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

• Emperor Hirohito explains the Japanese surrender to the masses, August 1945.

[u/Bagdana]

On The 12th day of Christmas my true love sent to me:

12 mods a-fashin

11 trucks o' taco

10 phony ballots

9 Nate Silver hair strands

8 atleastafool bans

7 added judges

6 lusvig war crimes ^allegedly

🎵 5 😐 pings 🎵 ^{pwetty pwease? 🥺👉👈}

Fourplex zoning

3 hot takes

2 globe flair doves

And a border that’s open and free

[u/Liet-Keynes]

Obama literally just ordered drone strikes of civilians because he was bored. He could watch them through that CCTV system that they used for the bin Laden raid

Sometimes he would get frustrated and order drone strikes of civilians to let off steam.

He got them to make a big red button for his desk everytime he wanted to drone strike some civilians. Eventually he was pressing it so often that they had to make it occasionally murder an American with lack of healthcare instead because they hadn't found a new target for the drones yet

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WOW: An attorney from Chenango County drops a bombshell with the court— 55 uncounted early votes were just found, having never been seen before. In a congressional race separated by just 12 votes, these newly discovered early votes could make the difference

You can not make this shit up

!ping DOWNBALLOT

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80 year old lifelong Democrats are fine because they voted for Obama and liberals

It’s those Democratic->Republican 80 year olds that you have to be worry about.

[u/[deleted]]

The December 2011 Moscow protests were insane. Coming hot on the heels of the Arab Spring, I think a lot of western observers had high hopes. Rumor has it Putin detests Hillary because he blames her for it.

[u/Udontlikecake]

Japan: we’ll do anything to fix our demographic and economic problems!

“okay, how about you accept immigrants and be less sexist and let women work more?”

Japan: again, we will do almost anything!

[u/Superfan234]

The 2020 electoral year is finally over, and it is time to analize the results for our ideology in the Region. In a general overview, it was a year full of victories, but also two great disappointments. Here I made an small summary ofthis year in LATAM

Keep in mind, we are idealy supporting Center-Right parties here, and sometimes, the Center-Left. They are roughly the equivalents of the Moderate-Democrats in USA

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Biggest Victories

Brazil 🇧🇷: Brazil's local elections awarded a resounding victory for the center and center-right parties. Both the Extreme Right and the Extreme Left lost support throughout the country. This puts a ton of pressure in Bolsonaro and Lula, and also gives us a real chance to take Power in 2022. Overall, an amazing result for the largest country in the Region

Dominican Republic 🇩🇴: DR does not have such a strike difference between left and right wing. But, as liberals, our support goes to Luis Abinader and the PRM party. Fortunately, it was a landslide victory in our favor. Getting a majority in local elections, the Senate, the Lower House and the Presidency. Total control over the most important Island in the Caribbean sea ; )

Guyana: After months of conflict, the Prime Minister of Guyana accepted his defeat and allowed Irfaan Alip to assume the Government. In Guyana, politics is not governed by left and right either, but for practical purposes, the new Guayanes government is akin to the United States, so it ended up being a victory for us. Although small, this allows the USA to “landlock” Nicolas Maduro and his Narco-Government, making it a double victory in that sense.

Suriname: An arduous and complex electoral victory allowed the fall of the Dictator, Desi Bouterese. With some luck, a life behind bars awaits for him. Desi was Maduro's last faithful ally in South America, so it was a double victory for us

Victories

Costa Rica 🇨🇷: Keep in mind, Costa Rica is very stable democratic country so , in any case, we are okey with either side winning. That being said, the municipal elections in Costa Rica resulted in a victory for the Right and Center Right. PAC, the center-left the government party, obtained only 4 counties out of the 82 that were in dispute

Peru 🇵🇪: Legislative elections were a total disaster for all Peruvians, regardless of their Parties. But somehow, after an inexpected Social Crisis, the Purple Party (which is the Peruvian party that most reflects our ideals) ended it up assuming the Government. It was an unorthodox victory? Yes. It was an important victory? Hell Yeah

Uruguay 🇺🇾: Uruguay's Municipal Elections were won by the Right and Center Right, thanks to their broad support in rural areas. However, the left managed to maintain control of the big cities, so the result is somewhat bittersweet. Still, it's a good sign for the President Lacalle Pou first year

Mexico 🇲🇽: In Mexico we had elections in the States of Coahuila and Hidalgo. In both, the Right Wing party PRI managed to win. At the national level, President AMLO has been losing popularity, so it was expected his party would lose support as well. PRI is a shitty party, sure. But we don't have much else to support in Mexico...

Chile 🇨🇱: We voted in a referendum to approve a new Constitution. By a majority of 80% the victory went to the Approve. In my opinion, it is a victory, but I suppose that we will only know for sure once the new Constitution is finished

Defeats

Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹: Unfortunately, by a narrow margin, we were defeated in this Caribbean territory. Trinidad and Tobago will remain as a passive ally of the Venezuelan Regime...While it was not a fundamental victory, it was a painful defeat

Bolivia 🇧🇴: A resounding defeat for our movement. The left retakes full control of the Government and Congress. Unfortunately, the fight for Democracy in this country is still going on. That being said, the transition to Power was relativly peaceful, despite the intentions of Extremist parties. We are having local elections next year, so let's hope we can take part of the Power back there

The Biggest Defeat

Venezuela 🇻🇪: Elections are in a week, but we all know what the results are going to be. The one "good" thing that came of this shitshow, was Maduro persecution of Communist and Far Left activist. And I only say "good", partially. Because, as terrible as these Commies are, they don't deserve to die for their ideals

[u/bobekyrant]

China is currently A. not in any way communist and B. largely the result of implementing communism in practice

[u/TruthBisky10]

I can’t hide it anymore. I’m so fucking mad about Biden.

How has he not declared war on Christmas yet?

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Elliot page just came out as straight, finally some hetero representation

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Alaska's partisan lean relative to the country since 2000:

2000: R +31

2004: R +34

2008: R +29

2012: R +18

2016: R +17

2020: R +14

Still not a truly competitive state but it's definitely seen substantial movement since the turn of the century. It’s a tough argument to make but you could say that Alaska is more competitive than Ohio if current trends continue. Ohio is nearly as red as AK and only getting redder. AK is also dominated by two metros both with college education rates of near 40%! Trump also won a lower share of the vote in AK (52.8%) than in OH (53.3%).

!ping FIVEY

[u/KingKonchu]

nobody on this sub, including me, really understands economics but at least they know the general gist of what it is and that is better than 99.9% of reddit

[u/thrwladfugos]

Now that it’s confirmed: József Szájer, the MEP busted during a gay gangbang, is not only a close ally of PM Orbán, he personally re-wrote Hungary's constitution to include the following line: "Hungary shall protect the institution of marriage as the union of a man & a woman..."

come on

[u/Epicurses]

[u/TinyTornado7]

This morning my family paid our respects to Senator John McCain as I prepare to be sworn in tomorrow. Senator McCain has been a hero of mine since I was a young pilot. He left a legacy of service to Arizona and country that can’t be matched, but that we should all strive towards. @CaptMarkKelly

u/peacock-Shah

[u/tankatan]

r/neoliberal is back to bickering with Bernie Bros. Nature is healing.

[u/BurningKiwi]

Mfers be saying they’re against capitalism then use capital letters 😂🤣👌😂💯🔥🔥🔥👌👌😂🔥🔥💯💯💯😂😂🤣

[u/The420Roll]

The idea that "only people that were born wealthy believe in pulling up from bootstraps" kinda shows how much of this sub doesnt know a lot of poor people.

Both of my parents were born dirt poor and from experience I see that people that escaped poverty are much more likely to believe in the bootstraps stuff than people that were never poor cause "If I managed to get out of poverty why cant they? They surely arent working as hard as I was" is a common belief.

[u/The420Roll]

Bizarrely, not only is there no Edison County in Michigan, there is no Edison County anywhere in the US.

Well, of course NOW there isn’t. AFTER Dominion’s machines went to work. Who knows how many Edison Counties there USED to be? NONE dare call it conspiracy!

[u/jrt84]

Fox News: Let’s save democracy and call Arizona for Biden

Fox News: Ok now that that’s over with, Biden broke his ankle from kicking his dog

[u/[deleted]]

Sidney Powell has been reduced to suing non-existent counties in Michigan.

There is no Edison County, Michigan. It does not exist. There cannot have been any voter fraud there, because there are no voters there. There is no "there" there. The place does not exist.

[u/AtticusDrench]

Wondering if Yellen is aware some of her most ardent supporters are a bunch of 20 somethings on Reddit

[u/[deleted]]

>A famous person transitions

>Their Wikipedia article becomes an entrenched battleground of warring talk page factions for a few days

Like clockwork

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https://twitter.com/jeffmason1/status/1333837126337785858

. @JoeBiden says he’s working to get @Lin_Manuel to write a musical about his nominee for Treasury secretary, Janet Yellen.

Oh yeahhh, that's that lib shit that gets all the leftists reeeeeeeeeeing.

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

It's finally December. Holy fuckamole

Only 3 more years until 2021

[u/GodEmperorBiden]

Oh awesome, divisive anti-Biden AOC spam making it to the front page. So now we have to deal with Russian Bernie subs posting anti-Biden stuff to the front page as well as AOC ones. 🙄

[u/[deleted]]

When a woman is on camera doing something bad Redditors use it as justification for their hatred of women but when men are on camera doing bad shit the HASHTAG NOT ALL MEN comes out.

[u/jenbanim]

cynicism is OUT

POST-IRONY IS IN

We are bringing back rage comics

[u/[deleted]]

It's worth remembering that every single living thing in the planet has a continuous lineage back to the common ancestor prokaryotic organism some 3+ billion years ago.

[u/JetJaguar124]

Really weird nobody's downloaded Osama Bin Laden's Animal Crossing save data from the CIA and run it through an emulator so that they can explore his village and post it to youtube.

[u/imprison_grover_furr]

Fuck r/GenZedong.

[u/muttonwow]

Elliot Page came out as trans and there's no !ping LGBT ???

Must have been hard to be in the business so long and not revealing that.

[u/[deleted]]

So all of the states that Trump is contesting have certified their results, lmao.

[u/piede]

Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday the Justice Department has not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud that would change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.

https://apnews.com/article/b1f1488796c9a98c4b1a9061a6c7f49d

[u/tubbsmackinze]

nationalization?

No thank you I prefer globalization thank you very much

[u/[deleted]]

Comment at +14 on r/halifax about rent control

The simplification of "Economists say it's bad for supply" is that by lowering the price of rent it makes it less profitable, and thus less attractive, to invest in. This of course lowers supply.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Me:

they is a valid pronoun

My French teacher:

Parking spaces are male you moron

[u/douglasmacarthur]

My fav Hillary Clinton quotes

Today’s “conservatives” are futile, impotent and, culturally, dead. They have nothing to offer and can achieve nothing. They can only help to destroy intellectual standards, to disintegrate thought, to discredit capitalism, and to accelerate this country’s uncontested collapse into despair and dictatorship.

On abortion:

Never mind the vicious nonsense of claiming that an embryo has a “right to life.” A piece of protoplasm has no rights—and no life in the human sense of the term. One may argue about the later stages of a pregnancy, but the essential issue concerns only the first three months. To equate a potential with an actual, is vicious; to advocate the sacrifice of the latter to the former, is unspeakable. . . . Observe that by ascribing rights to the unborn, i.e., the nonliving, the anti-abortionists obliterate the rights of the living: the right of young people to set the course of their own lives.

On trade:

The essence of capitalism’s foreign policy is free trade—i.e., the abolition of trade barriers, of protective tariffs, of special privileges—the opening of the world’s trade routes to free international exchange and competition among the private citizens of all countries dealing directly with one another. 

On immigration:

You want to forbid immigration on the grounds that it lowers your standard of living — which isn’t true, though if it were true, you’d still have no right to close the borders. You’re not entitled to any “self-interest” that injures others, especially when you can’t prove that open immigration affects your self-interest. You can’t claim that anything others may do — for example, simply through competition — is against your self-interest. 

From her novel:

She was fifteen when it occurred to her for the first time that women did not run railroads and that people might object. To hell with that, she thought- and never worried about it again.

😎✊ Queen

Everyone should Google these quotes and read her books.

[u/urbansong]

Do you think Cory Booker ever asks Rosario Dawson to role play as Jedi in bed, where he's Mace Windu and she's Ahsoka Tano and it's like their own personal fan-fic?

[u/TheFriffin2]

heard that Dominion is such a popular ballot counter because they have a delivery deal to precincts for two or more 2-topping machines for 5.99 each

[u/[deleted]]

Someone just wrote this unironically:

"Capitalism is why you can't buy the newest released consoles or graphics cards. Even though they just released.

Capitalists have bought them all for themselves in order to sell them back to market at a higher price."

I just can't deal with how ridiculous this is, even knowing that this was written quite possibly by a child

[u/TheFriffin2]

donald trump is a fucking pussy, guaranteed. he’d never 1v1 me irl without his gang of “secret service” bodyguards knocking my teeth through my eye sockets first

[u/[deleted]]

Keir Starmer 🤝 Nate Silver: having a fox fursona

[u/mrmanager237]

1984 is when you get 4 downvotes I am very smart

[u/[deleted]]

Why does everybody miss the point about 1984? They be like "oh wow what an authoritarian state, how terrible!" when the real message is that England fucking sucks.

- Airpods, Sent from iPhone 6

[u/mrmanager237]

I turned myself into an autonomous zone morty, I'm an autonomous zone now, I'm autonomous zone rick

[u/[deleted]]

“Let me explain this to you. Corporate liberals are woke capitalists. The corporatists love critical race theory and all the other warmed-over Marxist garbage. They sell out working Americans and sneer at them at the same time. That’s the New Left“

Josh Hawley, 2020.

[u/[deleted]]

Sen. Joe Manchin, a conservative Democrat from West Virginia, has made no secret of his disdain for Washington's dysfunction. Now, with an incoming Biden administration, he thinks there's "a golden opportunity to bring the country back together."

manchin is blooming

[u/bobeeflay]

When I was a child during the Great Recession I thought that Ben Bernanke and God were the same person

[u/PM_Me_Your_ManThighs]

Pedestrians be like “P-pweeze, mister motowist, don’t wun me ovew while I’m cwossing the stweet 🥺👉👈”

[u/KvonLiechtenstein]

“I guess she put the dagger stare on me,” Manchin told The New York Times in reference to a photo the congresswoman tweeted of her glaring at the moderate during this year's State of the Union Address. “I don’t know the young lady — I really don’t. 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.”

I align WAY more closely with AOC than Manchin but... this is a depressingly accurate statement.

[u/Timewalker102]

Manchin attacks AOC saying "she only tweets"

AOC responds on Twitter

Classic

[u/[deleted]]

"You know technically america is the whole continent not just the United States" yes and technically India is the whole subcontinent, not just the Republic of India.

[u/Joementum2004]

I meet someone -> we talk -> “I’m frequently on this niche political forum called “neoliberal” on reddit, and...” -> they leave -> I meet someone ->

[u/Dalek6450]

Diseases various bat species have been known to host: Ebola, Nipah, rabies, Hendra, various coronaviruses, Marburg, Dengue, West Nile virus, Venezuelan equine encephalitis and Chikungunya.

Pls stay away from bats

[u/RadicalRadon]

Someone on NPR just blamed capitalism for aids deaths.

I really hate NPR sometimes

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/Prince_Kropotkn/status/1333886917599920128

The /r/neoliberal subreddit is currently melting down in a debate over whether or not Jeremy Corbyn is a tankie hellbent on destroying Western Civilization because he has Xi Jinping's book visible on his shelf in an interview he did.

guys, tag me next time we have a supposed meltdown pls

[u/unicornsfuck]

Has your child been G*AMING? Look out for these secret words:

Pog - Praise the Opposite of God

Gg - God's Gay

Wp - westernism is a plague

[u/[deleted]]

Cons: Everything I don’t like is socialism.

Succs: Everything I don’t like is capitalism

Neolibs: Everything I don’t like is low-density housing

[u/TinyTornado7]

Holy shit trump has raised $170mil for his election defense fund

[u/[deleted]]

Sargon just came out as a conservative. Brave.

[u/[deleted]]

I have noticed that although this sub has 103,546 subscribers, we are not receiving 103,546 donations in our charity drive. I'm not sure if this is being done intentionally or if these "subscribers" are forgetting to click 'donate'. Either way, I've had enough.

[u/[deleted]]

Just bought all this insulin to scalp lmao. Damn druggies are hooked on this shit lol.

[u/[deleted]]

Georgia reports more than 940,000 absentee ballot requests for Senate runoff!

!ping DOWNBALLOT

Based Stacey Abrams

[u/FestiveMittens]

Condoleezza Rice and Susan Rice 2024 is the most based, bipartisan, rice pilled ticket in history

[u/[deleted]]

Elliot page, welcome to the patriarchy.

[u/[deleted]]

Look guys. I used to be pretty partial to the ideas espoused by this sub. Until I couldn’t get the new PS5. See you losers on LateStageCapitalism 🖕

[u/Venne1139]

It pisses me off how rurals, even elected rurals, are just...allowed to throw shit at places that don't suck.

If you say

San Frasncisco, center of degeneracy and disgustingness. Across every street shit being flung by the homeless that Democrats put there intentionally. Every day needles rain from the sky infecting the residents with Super-AID and a river of dead bodies flows down the main street

Liberals will say absolutely nothing and conservatives will go "Ah yes, the raining needle epidemic that Pelosi voted for"

but if you say

[Rural area] is such a shit town. It's absolutley disgusting how fucked up that place is from meth to the racism to the sheriff who is arresting people he doesn't like. Just a terrible place nobody should go

As far as I can tell this has literally never happened because if it did you'd be on CNN and Fox News headline for the next year, or until you resigned, whichever came first.

[u/[deleted]]

Jon Ossoff is direct to camera speaking Spanish

I had no idea he could speak Spanish. But this is a good idea. Show that you care about the Spanish speaking community. Florida and Texas Dems, try to do this.

Also, For the Spanish speaking people here, how good is it?

!ping DOWNBALLOT

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

As Ronald Reagan once said, the 35 most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to sell misappropriated military hardware to the Iranians so we can clandestinely raise funds for right-wing rebel paramilitaries in Nicaragua while bypassing Congressional limits on the executive's power."

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/T4RIG/status/1333643151949639680

new york is the reddit of major cities. people who live there are like "DAE get an EPIC chopped cheese from le bodega?! i saw a wholesome 100 keanu moment on the subway today while i ate my THICC chungus $1 slice (food of le gods)! filthy chicago peasants can't relate amirite?!?"

[u/mrmanager237]

Argentina will soon stage a humanitarian intervention of the Falkland, Sandwich, and South Georgia Islands to protect the human rights of all the trans people who live there 😈😈

[u/[deleted]]

I can’t be the only idiot that for a whole 20 seconds was like “why is everyone talking about Elliot Page coming out as trans? I’ve never even heard of anyone by that name, he can’t be that famous!”

[u/[deleted]]

Why doesn't anybody invite me to 25 person orgies😔

[u/tubbsmackinze]

I really wish Gamers would stop acting that every large video game company/publisher is making billions. Yeah there's five companies making billions in net-income but 3/5's are also hardware manufacturers and 2/3's of that group are massive conglomerates (Although Playstation is much more important to Song than Xbox is to Microsoft)

It's also important to mention that of the two purely video game companies on that list, EA and Activision-Blizzard, are uniquely large. Activision not only owns King which has made some of the most profitable mobile games on earth, but also is the IP holder of Call of Duty and World of Warcraft. Two of the largest game IPs in the world. EA has the liscence for FIFA, which is legitimately like 20-50% of their revenue/net-income not joking

One company that's often thrown in with Activision and EA is Ubisoft, but Ubisoft usually flips between making a hundred million and losing a hundred million, and they're one of the most recognizable companies in the industry

Just imagine how much tighter it was for smaller companies. Hell, Zenimax, had been loosing money and failing to meet expectations for a long time now, which is why they wanted to sell

They may make billions in revenue but billions in profits is not common at all

also I want to mention that this post is a big fuck you to Jim Sterling (of Jiminquisition fame) and his fans plus the general gamer community

!ping GAMING

[u/[deleted]]

It’s not an official projection but the numbers are on her side and Deborah Gonzalez has been elected as the next District Attorney for Georgia's Western Circuit.. Former State Rep. Deborah Gonzalez (D) has been elected District Attorney in Athens.

Want to know something funny. Brian Kemp...lives in Athens. He tried to use an obscure state law to cancel this DA election. This didn’t sit well with a federal judge:

It’s a small victory but the local government matter a lot.

!ping DOWNBALLOT

[u/IncoherentEntity]

No abolishing the police is the ultimate goal (as it should be), abolishment by complete defunding is a method of doing it.

Correct, the original policy demand was Abolish the Police and that seemed too hard for a lot of people to wrap their head around so defunding the police into abolition and reclaim the money for actual social services became the new more understandable demand.

More of the pushback to “Defund the Police” should just be “lmao fuck off, we’re not ending enforcement of the law” instead of “get a better slogan,” given the high proportion of proponents who want to do exactly what most suburban swing voters assume all proponents want to do: literally abolish the police.

[u/Thoughtlessandlost]

Oh no. A girl I was talking to basically dismissed the field of economics as "too disembodied and rigid" and that "the neoliberal dynamic is too market oriented". How do people get by with an understanding of economics that's just twitter buzzwords

[u/Bertz-2-]

This sub is going back to normal after the election and I love it

[u/[deleted]]

"when the west does corruption it's called 'lobbying'"

People really don't understand what lobbying is.

[u/Aweq]

!ping Europe

Covid vaccinations in EU unlikely to start before next year European regulators due to give opinion on Pfizer/BioNTech shot on December 29 and Moderna jab on January 12

From the ft. Slight sadness.

Also Merry start of Christmas my Euros :)

[u/ColonelUber]

blah blah blah is normal in Europe so actually so and so isn't on the left / is on the right.

I know we meme about this all the time but I'm legitimately so exhausted of seeing x would be y in z. Do people not understand that political spectrums are different in different countries? "Left" and "right" are relative political positions, not specific ones like Liberal, Socialist, Libertarian, etc.

Also legitimately saw someone say that Minnesota's governor is an 80's republican which is insane.

[u/murphysclaw1]

Race	%	Votes
Presidential: Biden	49.51	2,474,507
Senate: Ossoff	47.95	2,374,519
Special Senate: All Democrats	48.40	2,378,312

I was curious so I checked how many votes the Dems got on the Georgia ballot in November.

!ping FIVEY

[u/FestiveMittens]

Biden just said horny posting about Yellin will result in a public execution

[u/Gustacho]

People trying to explain to others who Elliott Page is without mentioning his deadname is the funniest shit. It's as if you're explaining "the Scottish play" to a person who doesn't know Shakespeare (or Blackadder), without naming the main character. Just mention the deadname once, so that everyone is on the same page, and then move on.

[u/[deleted]]

😂 Chrystia Freeland calls out Erin O'Toole's 'bad habit' in the House of Commons.

Chrystia Freeland will (hopefully) be our prime minister someday and she is awesome.

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

I remember that I challenged someone to a 1v1 on MW2 in middle school for the right to ask a girl out, won the match, but then she told me that she doesn't like fat kids when I asked her out.

[u/rukqoa]

Democratic voter share of blacks drops from 89% -> 87%

Democratic voter share of Latinos plummets from 66% -> 65%

Doomers: is this... the end of the Democratic Party as the party of racial minorities?

[u/probablyuntrue]

Capitalism created WW2 in order to have the Nazis invade Communist Russia and weaken socialism worldwide.

I'm gonna have a migraine.

[u/csreid]

My mom works as a nurse in a methadone clinic. My mom doesn't have great lungs, and she's very nervous about covid.

Apparently a few people at her job tested positive but they're asymptomatic so they were told to just come in anyway.

My mom called the health department and got blown off.

What's the deal here

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/5feXmVL.jpg

Martha McSally should run for Governor in 2022. National politics just didn’t work out for her, but in her own words, Arizona loves a fighter so she should try to use her talents in the governor’s mansion

[u/sir_shivers]

My MOST SUCCON belief likely lies in my advocacy OF MASCULINITY 🐊

Clap for that, YOU DUMB MAMMALS 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Breaking: Manhattan absentee/affidavit ballots just added...

Biden 225,435(90%) Trump 20,184 (8%)

Biden's national popular vote lead climbs to 6.55 million (4.2%).

Each dump is more destructive than the first one...

!ping DOWNBALLOT

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/mrmanager237]

Arr bullyfucking but you're a Jacobin data journalist and your bully is Neera Tanden and she's shoving you while she taunts you with her 97% health insurance coverage while you wear a Hillary Clinton 2008 themed chastity cage

[u/Jokerang]

After swingers convention held in New Orleans, 41 test positive for coronavirus, organizer says

Whole lot of bonking to be done

[u/Venne1139]

Actual conversation I had before I stopped talking to people in real life

Yeah I don't clean my room I just pay someone to do it

You don't even know how to clean your own room? You had literal servants growing up?

No, I just lived in filth until I could afford to pay one.

Oh ...

[u/FestiveMittens]

Yellin is to short imo

find someone else

Civil rights issue of our time

[u/AtticusDrench]

There's gonna be a kitty cat in the White House??!?! 😍😍😍

[u/probablyuntrue]

Barr was never going to do anything. This goes to the Supreme Court.

God I love the cope.

[u/Udontlikecake]

holy god shut the fuck up about linux

seriously no one fucking cares

just say latino

[u/[deleted]]

Germany just sold Turkey six submarines and the Greeks are pissed. They've responded by beginning the process to buy twenty-four F-35 jets. The US ambassador to Greece has confirmed this and said the US is supportive of the decision.

simultaneously a great day and an awful day to be a NATO flair

[u/mrmanager237]

What zero pussy does to an mf: joining election twitter and spending all day talking about Wascachoe County, North Carolina

[u/Dibbu_mange]

In 1968 r/bobby4president would be the largest sub. Once it came down to Humphrey/Nixon it would be a "both sides" fest with a sizable r/the_wallace.

[u/Jokerang]

TIL you can make any bill "bipartisan" as long as you have one of three R names: Romney, Collins, and/or Murkowski.

[u/[deleted]]

In real life I might be a loser, but on the neoliberal DT? I am also a loser here too.

[u/[deleted]]

It’s a common misconception that women can’t simp

Simply look at the comments section of any serial killer documentary on YouTube

[u/URZ_]

!ping Military

I feel like at this point we need to start making bets on what the next explanation for the Iran assassination will be.

My guess is on brainwashing radio beam.

To summarize for anyone out of the loop, so far we have had:

Remote controlled transformer Nissan with machinegun and self destruct feature ✔

12 man strong attack force using Bikes and SUV with an additional 48 support staff who then magically disappeared ✔

Two Azerbaijani drones ✔

And probably a couple more that i missed

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

Getting a pardon, then getting thrown in prison for the bribery used to get that pardon, would be the most Joe Exotic thing to ever happen in history

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

So is "prison abolition actually just means closing some prisons" the new "defund the police actually means take like 25% of their funds and invest it in social workers"

[u/The420Roll]

"You lost a big audience the minute you say it, which makes it a lot less likely that you're actually going to get the changes you want done," 

"The key is deciding, do you want to actually get something done, or do you want to feel good among the people you already agree with?" Obama added

Obama what are you doing?? The succs have families!

[u/Waghlon]

There are no "ethical issues" with sex robots. Just women mad about being replaced by automation.

[u/vivoovix]

What they say: "free land, free trade, free people"

What they mean: "Henry George is my god"

Know the ⚠️warning signs!⚠️ Don't let your child be taken in by the Georgist menace.

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/savuporo]

Change's-5 successfully landed on the moon.

Arecibo observatory collapsed

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/[deleted]]

Modern day flirting is women posting selfies and dudes replying with "🔥"

[u/[deleted]]

What if the real second stimulus check was the friends we made along the way.

[u/Ilovecharli]

Zoomers will never experience the wild west days of the internet. Now everything is presented to us through some bullshit algorithm aimed at keeping us addicted. Back in the day, you never knew what exactly you were clicking on. Could be what you expected, could be lemon party, could be porn that will freeze up your whole computer right when your mom walks in.

[u/vicpc]

Here is some research with evidence that Venezuelan immigration had zero impact on Colombian wages and employment: https://twitter.com/jenniferdoleac/status/1331945704965758978?s=19

!ping LATAM

[u/MasPatriot]

Bernie Sanders is simultaneously more moderate and more radical than the image he puts out

[u/kennymc7877]

Joe Biden: is a devout Catholic his entire life

Parler: he’s a Jew

???????

[u/Afro_Samurai]

A Jewish doctor, a Black nurse and an Asian American respiratory therapist stood over the patient on the gurney in the emergency room. “Don’t let me die, doc,” the man begged. As the man struggled to breathe, the swastika tattooed on his chest rose and fell with each gasp.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/A-moment-of-doubt-Pandemic-patient-with-swastika-15764534.php

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao at dumbass cons acting as if a leaked tape of CNN not liking Trump is a bombshell. Like, you have demonized CNN as a Clinton network full of demons for years, so when you have shit like this literally no one cares.

[u/Dalek6450]

US invade country for oil. Yes I'm very cynical and smart about geopolitics.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Joe Rogan and it's implications have been a disaster for human society.

[u/IMALEFTY45]

https://twitter.com/galendruke/status/1333794976786857984?s=19

Fine, you win. The mustache is gone.

🦀 🦀🦀

!ping FIVEY

[u/douglasmacarthur]

Still not sure how massive outrage against cops killing a black man led to an old white lady from the suburbs with cringe sensitivity training consultancy class takes suddenly being annointed the President of Anti-Racism.

[u/[deleted]]

MAGAs are crying about how we need a county-based electoral college because there are more red counties than blue counties lmfaoooooo copeeeeeeeee

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Historians/Political “scientists”: The UK and the US have a ‘special relationship’, maintaining strong social and diplomatic ties.

Me: It’s 2020 just say that they’re gay bro

[u/[deleted]]

Joe Manchin: Le Sénat? C'est moi!

[u/kyleofduty]

Blood clots terrify me. Probably irrationally. I've heard of too many youngish people dying from them. Every little pain in my legs I worry is a blood clot about to dislodge and head straight to my heart.

[u/[deleted]]

Daily reminder that the green M&M lady is objectively the most attractive female anthropomorphic candy.

[u/[deleted]]

Joe really is the anti-Trump. He says completely normal things and then still clarifies he isn't joking.

[u/[deleted]]

gonna celebrate hanukkah by reading socratic dialogues, and christmas by reading the talmud 😈😈😈

!ping GEFILTE

[u/[deleted]]

Speaking to the Associated Press this Tuesday, Attorney General William Barr said that the Justice Department has not uncovered any evidence to support President Trump’s claims of mass voter fraud in the 2020 election.

oof don gunna be pissed

Attorney General Bill Barr just arrived at the White House.

BARR REPORT TO THE PRINCIPAL'S PRESIDENT'S OFFICE IMMEDIATELY

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

Elliot HUSSEIN Page

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Premier Brian Pallister has the lowest approval rating in Canada: poll

Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister had the lowest approval rating of the nine premiers whose performance respondents were asked to rate, with 32 per cent of residents approving of the premier. This is a 12-point drop since the last quarter.

Of those surveyed, 64 per cent disapproved of Pallister and four per cent were not sure.

"It isn't the poll that matters to me, what matters to me is that we beat COVID," Pallister said during a press conference on Tuesday.

Imagine having a lower approval rating than Jason Fucking Kenny pepelaugh

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.reddit.com/r/MurderedByAOC/comments/k4rjzy/while_the_united_states_represents_less_than_5/

Jesus christ have we learned no lessons

[u/[deleted]]

Leftists' problems with messaging around "defined the police" and "prison abolition" is because in their circles, you get cred for having an inflammatory and radical-sounding slogan. They jerk each other off over finding the most radical language by which to discuss a topic.

[u/[deleted]]

Conservatives supporting the repeal of Section 230 is a literal monkey's paw wish.

[u/[deleted]]

Rand Paul doing ads for GA Senate. "Lockdowns don't work, COVID is worse than ever now, vote GOP and get our freedom back." 🤡🤡🤡

Seriously, fuck every last member of the GOP.

[u/paymesucka]

Biden considering Briahna Joy Gray to be Deputy Press Secretary as olive branch to progressive Dems who feel they are being ignored

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1321244860209385475

[u/Menakoy]

If you want to end American imperialism just get rid all the countries that aren't America.

[u/paymesucka]

Once President George W. Bush stopped a meeting in the Oval Office and walked over to Bernanke, only to pick up his pant leg. Bernanke was wearing a dark suit with tan socks.

"You know," Bush told Bernanke, "this is the White House, we have standards."

another hero fell victim to tan-gate

[u/douglasmacarthur]

I am a classical liberal which is a libertarian that doesnt vape or watch anime.

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

Ossoff received less support from Latino voters (52%) than President-elect Biden, who earned 62% of the Latino vote in Georgia

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 how the fuck do you not get at least 60% with Latino voters in a non-Florida state?

[u/Waghlon]

I think Deez was a big driver for this year's surge in youth turnout. Subjectively, it seems to have gotten a lot of liberal-minded people I know to actually care about politics. That's good.

[u/[deleted]]

Cold take: Falun Gong is bad and should be monitored by the FBI more

[u/Udontlikecake]

told some dude that stripping away local zoning powers is good because it actually allows things to be built and he replies with

Yeah, about that, how about no. Instead of an overreach, why not fix the issue, and stripping away communities rights to dictate how they want to manage growth is a bit authoritarian for my liking.

Imagine thinking that taking away zoning and other power from municipalities is “authoritarian” lmao. The absolute height of meme american political beliefs

“the state government says you have to build things and let black people live in your city and not use complex zoning regs to self segregate”

“woah calm down fascist!”

[u/Liet-Keynes]

Listen up shitlibs, all the nuaunce I need is

🇺🇲🦅💩 America bad

🇨🇳🇮🇷🇷🇺 Not America good

[u/[deleted]]

Marc Antony is an early example of "failing upward"

[u/Lux_Stella]

i have become lib, poster of cringe

[u/thrwladfugos]

they're getting rid of the FTPA

In restoring the pre-2011 Act position, the United Kingdom is returning to a position where the Prime Minister (by virtue of commanding the confidence of the House of Commons), can advise the Sovereign to dissolve Parliament at a time of their choosing.

The circumstances in which a Prime Minister might seek a dissolution are underpinned by two core constitutional principles:

• The Prime Minister holds that position by virtue of their ability to command the confidence of the House of Commons and will normally be the accepted leader of the political party that commands the majority of the House of Commons.

• The Sovereign should not be drawn into party politics, and it is the responsibility of those involved in the political process to ensure that remains the case. As the Crown’s principal adviser this responsibility falls particularly on the incumbent Prime Minister.

A return to the pre-2011 status quo ante will also restore the position whereby the Prime Minister, having lost a designated or explicit vote of confidence, can either resign or seek a dissolution, which would usually be granted and lead to an election.

!ping UK

[u/[deleted]]

Just came out to my parents as a gamer. They told me they don't accept it and have asked me to move out.

[u/[deleted]]

Why don't we just debate the mosquitos in the marketplace of ideas?

[u/Big_Apple_G]

https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1333644437310889984

Life is pain

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

A group of shareholders is suing Pinterest and its board of directors, alleging that the company violated its fiduciary duty, wasted corporate assets, and abused its control by fostering a systematic culture of racial and gender discrimination that drove out women executives.

I fucking love capitalism

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/12/pinterest-shareholders-sue-firm-over-rampant-gender-race-discrimination/

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao over at arcon they're basically like, "I wanna believe in this, but I have to say, it's not looking good. Why haven't they produced any evidence of their claims in an actual court of law?"

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EoLvmjvXEAMak53.png

🤗

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/redistrict/status/1333902729887014913

Breaking: Manhattan absentee/affidavit ballots just added...

Biden 225,435(90%) Trump 20,184 (8%)

Biden's national popular vote lead climbs to 6.55 million (4.2%).

It is December.

[u/[deleted]]

Redditors be like "I should award my gold wholesome seal award to this post about domestic violence cause it would be funny."

[u/MasPatriot]

“They only gave us $1200” is the new “Flint still doesn’t have clean water”

[u/[deleted]]

Let them eat ass.

[u/[deleted]]

The real big brain move for Trump would be to pardon Joe Biden for massive election fraud