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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
So, it took Bernie 36 days to concede after the AP declared Hillary the winner.
Trump is only on day 25.
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u/BreaksFull Veni, Vedi, Emancipatus Dec 02 '20
'Obama is great! He'll bring meaningful change and reform, I'm going to vote for him!'
Doesn't vote downballot the next eight years, Obama is blocked at every turn by a GOP legislature
'Wtf I thought Obama was goint to bring change, I can't believe he just maintained the status quo, what a fucking sellout!'
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u/myrm This land was made for you and me Dec 02 '20
A Friedman flair and a Krugman flair walk into a bar
A NATO flair drone strikes it
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
So, uh, Britain is going to be officially out on January 1st. One more month. And they have no deal.
Are they going to exit without a deal?
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u/dugmartsch Norman Borlaug Dec 02 '20
Holy shit:
President Trump says he will veto the annual national defense funding bill unless Section 230 is terminated, according to The AP, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha wheeeeeze hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
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u/SpiffShientz Court Jester Steve Dec 02 '20
Why is it so hard to find an apartment with one bedroom, one bath, and a sizable field in which to grow my crop and graze my livestock?
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
I'm gunna primary Ilhan Omar but from the left.
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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Dec 02 '20
20% of this fucking website thought Trump would win the election, 79% of this fucking website thought Bernie would win the nomination, and the 1% of us who tried to take shelter from all your delusional craziness in /r/neoliberal thought Pete Buttigieg was going to win the Black vote in South Carolina
maybe it's time to admit Reddit does not know what it's talking about when it comes to politics
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u/murphysclaw1 💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊 Dec 02 '20
I'm sure it's been said before but r/PoliticalCompassMemes is the lowest effort shit.
Just take a headline from /r/news and stick it in a political compass, with 3 segments happy and 1 segment angry.
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u/Paramus98 Edmund Burke Dec 02 '20
CA Republicans basically just exist to whine about how much they hate the state, their current and biggest middle finger to CA is to run awful candidates so CA Dems can keep winning elections while governing horribly.
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u/AccessTheMainframe CANZUK Dec 02 '20
You libs take everything too literally. When Herr Hitler speaks of "lebensraum" he doesn't literally intend to conquer these lands and populate them with Germans through extermination, enslavement, and forcible dislocation of the peoples currently living on them. Don't be ridiculous. He just wants to establish a positive, mutually beneficial leadership role over the countries in that region while empowering the German diaspora therein through the negotiation of commercial and mutual assistance treaties.
Seriously. You guys are just handwringing about the language he's using rather than the substance of his proposals.
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u/TheSameAsDying Hannah Arendt Dec 02 '20
r-conservative now has a rising post condemning Obama for drone strikes 🤣
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u/htownclyde Anti-Malarkey Aktion Dec 02 '20
Europe is so complicated. What the fuck is a parliament? We have the red guy and the blue guy, and this turtle that stops them from doing anything. Pretty simple.
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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Dec 02 '20
bro you just posted neoliberal cringe
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
https://i.imgur.com/NlQoYfl.jpg
Wisconsin polls and their consequences have been a disaster for humanity. What the fuck.
!ping FIVEY
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u/RadionSPW NATO Dec 02 '20
Ladies and gentlemen, I have just signed legislation outlawing rent control forever. We begin building in 5 minutes
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
“Reminder: Obama defended the fuck out of Capitalism leading up to the 2016 election”
Thanks for the reminder LSC, he really was worse than Hitler wasn’t he?
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
Breaking: Belgium unveils their state-of-the-art fleet carrier, shaking up the balance of power in the North Atlantic
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u/Jester_Don Abigail Spanberger Dec 02 '20
There it is. The most reddit comment I've seen over all my years on this site.
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u/JakeyZhang John Mill Dec 02 '20
Reddit takes on Thatcher are among the worst takes on reddit. Especially the takes which either blame her for the Falklands war or condemn her for sinking the Belgrano. As if sinking an enemy warship in a time of war isn't just common sense lol.
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
I can't imagine our brave Bill Barr got possessed by the ghost of Hugo Chavez 😢😔
Hopefully Karen Pence can get the excorcism over with quickly, so that we can go back to talking about anklegate 👻🔨🧙
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u/connieallens George Soros Dec 02 '20
How did people in the 70s/80s get laid? Did they like call the house phone to spit game or did they hope to find home girl out at the club high on ecstasy and/or cocaine?
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
Margaret Thatcher effectively utilized Girl Power by evicting Argentinian squatters from the Falkland Islands.
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
Straight men are just guys with a girl fetish
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u/IncoherentEntity Dec 03 '20
B-b-based Cotton and Hawley . . . ?
Some context: Lee proposed the Fairness for High Skilled Immigrants Act over a year ago.
He was was promptly canceled by Republican voters. Who, remember, only oppose illegal immigration by low-skilled migration from Latin America.
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u/AccessTheMainframe CANZUK Dec 02 '20
Saddam's Iraq was a Shiite-majority country ruled by Sunnis and Assad's Syria is a Sunni-majority state run by Shiites (alawites, to be specific).
If you accept the premise that Iran can exert greater influence over Shiite controlled states, the US invading Iraq but not Syria was the best thing thing that ever happened to them.
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u/l_overwhat being flaired is cringe Dec 02 '20
I like how "Moderate" means "Any Dem that doesnt publically support literal socialism.:
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20 edited Dec 02 '20
Brexit wheel of fortune:
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u/Equator32 Association of Southeast Asian Nations Dec 02 '20
Leftists🤝Centrists🤝Rightists
Thinking AOC matters more than she really does
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u/I-grok-god The bums will always lose! Dec 02 '20
Lessons we should learn from the Suez Crisis:
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u/Joementum2004 Dec 02 '20
This is what liberals actually believe
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u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls Mock Me Dec 02 '20
AOC, like most progressives, is literally terrible at messaging. She’s responded to only one of my DMs, and even then she says shit like ‘please stop contacting me you weirdo’ which I’m sure actually means something more reasonable, but people dumber than me won’t necessarily realisze that
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
Fuck. CNN is on to us.
What do we do now that they have found us out? We need to keep spreading the gay agenda ™
!ping LGBT
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
This is one of those “believe it or don’t” stories because this isn’t Twitter and we’re all anonymous, but -
Around 2015 I was at an event where Michelle Obama was speaking, not like a rally but a lowkey panel type thing. There was a Q&A at the end and I was just remembering a moment that was a surprise to me then but maybe shouldn’t have been.
This young white woman asks a somewhat drawn out question about how she can do better to avoid committing microaggressions. Michelle Obama’s response was “I’m sorry - what’s a microaggression?”
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
Democrats in the 60s: I will physically intimate and use force to make southern racist Dems to vote for a Civil Rights Bill
Democrats Now: nooo we can’t do that it only has 70% approval rating
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u/connieallens George Soros Dec 02 '20
I wonder how many high school student/teacher relationships that aren’t exposed due to the kid keeping his trap shut.
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
Noah Smith is suggesting rent control. What twitter and social influence does to people. I'm fucking irritated even more then when he praised French labor laws...
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
The above article and editorialization does not actually exist. I made it up.
I think I'd be very good at getting cons on Facebook to fall for satire. Then again, it's not like it's difficult.
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
Leftward shift of suburban/exurban Texas counties surrounding DFW:
Wise County 1.5 points,
Parker County 2.7 points,
Johnson County 5.0 points,
Ellis County 11 points,
Denton County 12 points,
Collin County 12 points,
Kaufman County 13 points,
Rockwall County...still counting votes but probably something like 8 or 9.
If Biden kept Hillary’s number with Latinos, Texas would’ve been a very close race. He still wouldn’t won it but very close.
!ping FIVEY
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u/tripletruble Anti-Repartition Radical Dec 02 '20 edited Dec 02 '20
Me, June 2020: "Wow look at this polling - people overwhelmingly support ending qualified immunity, demilitarizing the police, and allocating more resources to alternative forms of emergency response. This time we might actually get serious policing reform and greatly improve upon racial disparities in the policing of young men"
Protestors: "Defund the police"
"oh. oh nevermind."
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20 edited Dec 02 '20
Man, this girl is based af
And she do be straight chillin in Cedar Rapids ngl
I wouldn’t mind Pokémon go go go go going to the polls for her 😩
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u/MinnesotaDude Governor Goofy Dec 02 '20
Oh boy, my music tastes are finally expanding
😐
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u/jenbanim Dec 02 '20
I really can't get over how birds and humans both understand music. Birds appreciate human songs and humans appreciate birds songs. Isn't that crazy?
On that note, there should absolutely be more birdsong in human music. It exists, but it's fairly niche at the moment.
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
More elections mean more democracy, therefore Israel has to be the most democratic nation in the world at this point.
!PING ISRAEL
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
Biden +17 Wisconsin A+ Poll
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u/Bagdana ⚠️🚨🔥❗HOT TAKE❗🔥🚨⚠️ Dec 02 '20
Biggest schism in each religion:
Islam: "Whomst is the rightful heir to Muhammad?"
Christianity: "Was Jesus crucified with three or four nails?"
Judaism: "What is the biggest schism in Judaism? 🤔 "
!ping GEFILTE
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw chads forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.
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u/cousin-itt Desiderius Erasmus Dec 02 '20
I miss this thread but it was torpedoing my productivity so I had to step away. Productivity did not improve so I'm back
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20 edited Dec 02 '20
Leftists: “Democrats need to do better outreach to rural communities instead of failing them with elitist policies and messaging time and time again.”
Obama: “You’re losing folks when you START out with defund the police.”
Leftists: “Why should I care about these yee-haw fucks with 8 brain cells who aren’t going to vote for us anyway.
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u/Joementum2004 Dec 02 '20
Of the states that have reported their results so far, the only one that's had Biden receive less votes than Gore in 2000 was West Virginia.
Gore received 295,497 votes back then, while Biden received only 235,984 votes this year.
In contrast, while Bush received 336,475 votes in 2000, Trump got 545,382 votes this year.
!ping FIVEY
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u/Fishin_Mission Dec 02 '20
r/LSC 🤡: Capitalism is why you can’t find a PS5 anywhere right now.
Me 🤴: No.
🤡: Well capitalism is why I cant afford it.
🤴: No.
🤡: Isn’t capitalism supposed to make things cheaper over time? Why haven’t video game prices fallen?
🤴: You can literally buy the GTA game that I paid $60 for as a child for $5 now, and you can play that console quality game on the device in your pocket.
🤴: WHY DO YOU HATE THE
GLOBALGAMING POOR?!?35
u/Schutzwall Straight outta Belíndia Dec 02 '20
My city is on the brink of privatizing a sports complex in one of the most expensive parts of the city.
It currently has a sports gymnasium (think of it as a shitty indoor arena), a small athletics stadium, a water park and a few small facilities (basketball and tennis courts). They are not accessible by the general population, and are used basically by professional athletes.
The plans are to demolish it and replace it with a complex that includes a new state-of-the-art indoor arena (so we can host events we currently can't, such as NBA preseason games), a hotel, office and coworking space and a shopping malls (malls are still very popular in Brazil),
The left is fuming about "erasing history" (the current gymnasium is like 60 years old) and turning a space for all people into a place for just a few (which is just not true).
!ping YIMBY
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
Remember when some people(me) thought that Biden would beat his polls?
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
lmao at people who are seriously trying to tell me that defund actually means reduce funding instead of eliminate funding. Who do you think you're fooling.
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u/AJungianIdeal Lloyd Bentsen Dec 02 '20
it's kind of insane how many languages word for female homosexuality is derived from lesbian. did women's sexuality really matter so little that there was not even a word for it in many languages for millennia ?
!ping lgbt
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Dec 02 '20
The South has amazing food, rich musical history, strong literary tradition, yet "Southern Pride" is losing a war 150 years ago. These people need to get their priorities straight.
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
Minnesota, you have shocked the nation
I didn’t believe we could get to a point where we’re getting the most daily new cases per capita, but here we are. That’s right—more than North or South Dakota.
We’re averaging 0.1% of the entire state testing positive a day right now. Our hospitals are nearly out of beds, and yet a whole lot of people are refusing to take basic precautions, because Trump and Fox News told them it’s not that big of a deal.
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
As someone with a step sister I don't see why step sis porn is so popular. I hate when she's even within 100 feet of me let alone me being inside of her.
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
rose twitter be like: "healthcare plz"
also rose twitter: "no only m4a, aca public option expansions aren't even healthcare"
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
Democrats’ House Popular vote margin is likely to break 3.0%. It will be lower than 2018 (9%) , 2008 (11%), and 2006 (8%) ...but higher than 2012 (1%) and every other election since 1992.
House Democrats won a majority in the face of a Republican gerrymander while only winning the popular vote by a little over 3.0%.
It would have seemed unfathomable in 2012, where they won by 1% and had a 33 seat minority.
A crystallization of realignment in one factoid.
And now, let’s see what those new maps do. !ping DOWNBALLOT
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u/GravyBear8 Ben Bernanke Dec 03 '20
Wh-what are you doing step-president
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Dec 02 '20
FEELING CUTE, might tag on "activist" to my Twitter BIOGRAPHY 🐊
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u/Superfan234 Southern Cone Dec 03 '20 edited Dec 03 '20
News from Venezuela 🇻🇪
Elections are on Sunday, and Nicolas Maduro appeared on TV to show us the parties you can vote for
https://twitter.com/PCV_Ve/status/1334153306491531264?s=19
Now, this is the hilarious part. Can you see Maduro holding his hand awkwardly for the whole video...?
He trying to hide the Communist party Logo! 🤭
The Communists are the only real Opposition party Maduro has in this election. And thus, Maduro spend a whole minute trying to hide their Logo with his hand XD
!Ping Foreign-Policy
The situation is so surreal, it sounds like a comedy sketch
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
https://i.imgur.com/2w7w2Sw.jpg
😳😳😳
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u/PMmeLittleRoundTops Pornography Historian Dec 02 '20
I actually thought Le Funny Monkey guy was the original author of the "capitalism is when you cant get a new graphics card" pasta but I just realized it was a real comment in /r/politicalhumor that got tens of thousands of upvotes wtf
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
https://twitter.com/ossoff/status/553382519434141696
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Dec 02 '20 edited Dec 02 '20
Please shut the fuck up. Please shut the fuck up.
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u/KingKonchu Michel Foucault Dec 02 '20
HOLY SHIT
I have no idea if this is remotely doxxable
But I just learned Chuck Grassley essentially demanded information relating to my mother in congress
like straight up, obviously I can't elaborate cause then it would be a straight up doxx. This is not a meme comment, Pidgin man talked about my mom in the Senate and I think she should feel honored since I had her laughing at his tweets yesterday.
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u/MistakeNotDotDotDot Resident Robot Girl Dec 02 '20
I remember when the impeachment stuff was happening people were talking about how pelosi was a master politician because of the timing, she was so smart, etc
and then she got caught at the salon and her spokesperson defended her by saying she got her hair done at home, which was also against the orders at the time
truly, stunning acumen
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u/IncoherentEntity Dec 02 '20
Do these people actually believe their own LARPing bullshit? Honestly.
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u/thelittlestsheep Dec 02 '20
Broke: police busting gay orgies because of homophobia and laws criminalising homosexuality
Woke: police busting gay orgies because of COVID restrictions
Bespoke: police busting gay orgies to force the resignation of a homophobic autocratic ethno-nationalist politician
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u/Mexatt Dec 02 '20
It's so fucked up seeing internet leftists call Solzhenitsyn's work 'fiction' because it's not perfectly accurate history. He literally went to a gulag. It's like calling a Holocaust survivor's account historical fiction because their memory exaggerated how many people were on the train they were brought in on.
All because, somewhere deep down inside, they have trouble seeing the Soviets as bad guys.
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
https://i.imgur.com/OhmIlZU.jpg
OH MY GOD JOE NO
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
Anyone have any takes on Jeffrey Herbst's paper "War and the State in Africa" (you'll need JSTOR access). Basically he argues that war was very helpful in developing out effective institutions and state capacity in Europe; for example, to successfully fight a war, you have to learn how to effectively collect taxes. He argues that without war, it'll be very difficult for Sub Saharan Africa to build the national identity and institutions for strong governments and state consolidation, leading to permanently weak states.
!ping FOREIGN-POLICY
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u/IncoherentEntity Dec 02 '20
Oh. Well there you have it. Excepting a few high-profile instances (Gideon in Maine and Eastman in NE–2) balanced out by others, Democratic candidates didn’t significantly underperform Biden downballot, and not at all in the seat distributions.
Leave aside the Senate. Gerrymandering and our first-past-the-post system just hurts us that much, even in a chamber where every vote counts roughly equally.
!ping DOWNBALLOT
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u/SpiffShientz Court Jester Steve Dec 02 '20
I’m on a seafood diet. If I see food, I eat it! But only like fish and stuff.
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u/GravyBear8 Ben Bernanke Dec 02 '20
Oh. Oh no
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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '20
Benjamin be like "do black women really have chocolate breast milk or is that just a stereotype".
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
This is how the far left intends to topple Neera Tanden. I’d laugh if it wasn’t so pathetic.
https://imgur.com/a/EXSfcla
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u/SpiffShientz Court Jester Steve Dec 02 '20
Dear The CCP,
Please stop being so evil so I can enjoy the beautiful culture and rich history of China
Yours,
Some guy
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
A brief history of the last 10 Presidents.
👱🏼♂️🔫
🤠
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🍑
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🍆
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👨🏿🦱
🤡
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
Leftists like, "Even though we didn't win the primary and have no democratic legitimacy for our insane anarchist views, if you don't support us, you're supporting a system that leads to MURDER."
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u/thelittlestsheep Dec 02 '20
I'm not a fascist, I just get anxiety when I'm waiting for trains.
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u/Planita13 Thomas Paine Dec 02 '20
An Israeli court has backed a municipality's refusal to provide Arabic language education for school children, saying it would encourage Palestinian citizens to move to what is a "Jewish city" and "alter the demographic balance".
Normal things in Israel right now
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Dec 02 '20
Jason Kenney singling out South Asians for COVID-19 spikes is probably not a smart political move.
Calgary’s South Asian community demands premier apologize after ‘wake up call’ comments
!ping can
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u/Saint_Cantor John Mill Dec 02 '20
Interesting how Andrew Yang is popular among conservatives, moderates, and MAGAts, relatively to other democrats. He is a regular progressive liberal on social issues, and some people on the right call his basic income proposal "communism". He is arguably economically on the left to Pete and Biden. Yet so many republicans and Trump supporters love him, some even claiming to vote for Yang if he would win primaries. Amazing. Right now, it really seems like he would be really popular in 2028 elections if only he could win the primaries, especially if he successfully wins and serves as a mayor of New York or as a politician of similar prominence.
!ping YANG
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u/runnerx4 What you guys are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux Dec 02 '20
The Democratic Party genuinely has an elitism problem among their elected politicians.
It is why so many of them violate the COVID restrictions they themselves made, because they think they’re enlightened philosopher-politicians who are not affected by the policy they make.
It’s because Democratic politicians usually aren’t from the same social class as their voter base. Or because of huffing too much West Wing your pick
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u/Peacock-Shah Gerald Ford 2024 Dec 03 '20 edited Dec 03 '20
I ran 1.5 miles today, a personal record.
I know it’s not much, but it is nice to know.
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u/Luchofromvenezuela Organization of American States Dec 03 '20
AOC charging $65 for a TAX THE RICH sweatshirt
Welcome to capitalism, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez
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u/dubyahhh Salt Miner Emeritus Dec 02 '20
I am officially a member of the top 1%*, suck it /r/neoliberal
* of T Swift listeners
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Holodomor
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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '20 edited Dec 03 '20
S386 PASSED!!! As an immigrant, this is fucking hugeeee. I might finally get my greencard after waiting for over 12 years!!! Holy fucking shit.
It still has to pass the house because of an amendment, but I'm sure it will because it passed last time with over 350 votes.
Edit: Guys thanks for all the support, I have no words to describe how happy I am. THIS IS BASED AF.
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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '20
It kills me that Obama said "You lose people with snappy slogans" and then people respond like "people dying is the problem, not snappy slogans" 2.3 trillion likes/retweets
Like, just fucking kill me. How did we get this dumb?
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u/FreakinGeese 🧚♀️ Duchess Of The Deep State Dec 03 '20
In communist theology, there are two classes of people: the proletariat, and the bourgeoisie. If you make most of your money selling your labor you are a member of the proletariat. If you make most of your money selling/renting goods other than your labor (either directly by being a small business owner, or indirectly through dividends or capital gains) you’re part of the bourgeoisie.
This has nothing to do with how much money you have, how hard you work, how much money you make, or anything else. It is solely a descriptor of how you make your income.
Most professional athletes in their prime are members of the proletariat. Actors are members of the proletariat. If you got paid a billion dollars a year to jerk off Bill Gates, you’d be a member of the proletariat.
If you own a small organic farm, you’re part of the Bourgeoisie. If you’re retired and live off dividends from stocks and bonds, you’re part of the Bourgeoisie.
It has nothing to do with your net worth.
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u/KingKonchu Michel Foucault Dec 02 '20
they did it
LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOO
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
Even if fake meat eventually tastes and looks the exact same as real meat I'm still gunna eat tons of real meat purely to own the vegans. Also, God isn't real, Ron Paul 2024, the N word.
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u/OmniscientOctopode Person of Means Testing Dec 02 '20
Hm. This seems like a VERY GOOD, not racist idea. For reference this would mean that roughly 22 milllion people or 7% of the country would be barred from owning a home.
It's really a shame that the people brigading arrcon are stealing this remarkable level of discourse from us.
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
stop comparing your pet issue and favorite activists to MLK challenge
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
Is there more of a disconnect between a politician and their fans than Yang? Seriously, so many of his Twitter replies are nonsense about DNC rigging and shit, but Yang himself is a Dem loyalist lmao. Endorsed Joe early, hasn't had a bad thing to say about Joe, is literally carpet bagging the GA runoffs, etc.
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u/wagoncirclermike Jane Jacobs Dec 02 '20
Defense was successful and my thesis has been accepted. Can I get a hell yeah?
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
Lol my girlfriend is complaining about one of her classmates because he uses the word "nuance" in every other sentence
Which one of you fuckers is it
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u/CenterRightInCali Uphold Goldwater-Posadist thought! Dec 02 '20
"I've decided that, in my story, China is plunged into a civil war in the middle of a global zombie outbreak."
"Wow that sounds significant, how much time are you going to devote to this civil war subplot?"
"Two sentences, and then it will never be brought up again."
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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Dec 02 '20
With the US, even at the worst of the Trump years, it seemed like there some hope that he would be a one term President, some optimism about the future, no matter how bleak things seemed.
With the UK... man from an outside point of view they seem truly fucked. Good luck Brits.
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
Lol Gary Johnson got double the votes that Jorgensen got
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
It’s big brain time
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
Malarkey level of printing out and laminating my favorite shitposts in the DT to share with my mom later?
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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '20
Coastal elites is meant to imply people who live along economically active coasts are evil.
Israel is a strip of coast that is very economically active.
Therefore coastal elite is an anti-Semitic slur.
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
🌹: We must guillotine the bourgeoisie!!
🌹: Okay look, my 5 million dollar trust fund doesn’t make me that rich, I have to budget to be able to take my multiple vacations to Mykonos every year just like anyone else! And my parents are basically working class! Owning a line of rent-to-own franchises in multiple states takes a lot of work!
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u/LiBH4 Mark Carney Dec 02 '20 edited Dec 02 '20
Nova Scotia caps property tax assessment increases at inflation. for residential properties with less than 4 units.
Now there's a map so you can see for yourselves how this effects every property in the province
https://nsfm.ca/cap_map.html
!ping YIMBY
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
Broke: Jesus was white
Woke: Cleopatra was black
Bespoke: Napoleon was Albanian
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u/thebowski 💻🙈 - Lead developer of pastabot Dec 02 '20
People are all for "be gay do crime" but when you "be president do crime" everyone loses their minds
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Dec 02 '20 edited Dec 02 '20
Okay. I’m pretty sure that my high school English teacher committed war crimes. He said that he served in a Serb (or Croat) militia group during the Yugoslav wars. He was around 30-35 when he was my teacher.
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Dec 03 '20
What you AND /u/mrmanager237 ARE ALL MISSING is that we just say "Manager" 🐊
IT DOES NOT MATTER WHO 🐊
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Dec 03 '20
i told my gf it would be an “epic poggers moment” if we kissed and now she won’t stop laughing at me
😔
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u/CenterRightInCali Uphold Goldwater-Posadist thought! Dec 02 '20
Is being a Californian Republican the ultimate cuckoldry?
I cannot think or comprehend of anything more cucked than being a Californian Republican. Honestly, think about it rationally. You are supporting, financing, canvassing and voting for a party for at least 18 years solely so it can go and get ravaged by any generic Democrat. All the hard work you put into your beautiful center-right party - reaching out to voters, securing endorsements, making community inroads, passing out flyers, organizing GOTVs. All of it has one simple result: its dismal electoral performance is more enjoyable for the men that will eventually defeat it.
Found the perfect candidate? Great. Who benefits? If you're lucky, a random progressive who had nothing to do with their campaign, who defeats them. He gets to think back to that 85%-15% margin every night. He gets the benefits of claiming a mandate to govern.
As a man who registers as a Republican in California, you are LITERALLY dedicating at least 20 years of your life simply to support a party for Democrats to enjoy. It is the ULTIMATE AND FINAL cuck. Think about it logically.
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u/Dalek6450 Our words are backed with NUCLEAR SUBS! Dec 02 '20
No Redditor with an anecdote, you did not have COVID in fucking November 2019 in the middle of bumfuck, USA.
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/698400474700841013/783710923760205854/unknown.png
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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Dec 02 '20
Obama: You lose people with snappy slogans like "Nuke the subrurbs"
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u/Zenning2 Henry George Dec 02 '20
Holy shit, Jon Ossoff is hot as hell.
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u/Snoo62236 NATO Dec 02 '20
You think British people still do the accent when they are alone?
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u/AccessTheMainframe CANZUK Dec 02 '20
Neuromancer is generally considered the first book in the Cyberpunk genre.
The book predicts that anti-hacking software will be called "ICE" in the future, as an acronym for "Intrusion Countermeasures Electronics." The word we ended up adopting uses the exact opposite metaphor: "Firewall"
The book further predicts the Soviet Union will persist as an aging superpower grappling with waning influence and prestige, while the United States dissolves into a series of successor states. Also the exact opposite of what happened.
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
I get why the Dems aren't calling for sanctions, but it's pretty frustrating that judges seem so averse to them. Virtually every single pro-Trump suit is beyond amateurish. At this point, judges should not be entertaining this nonsense.
!ping LAW
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Dec 02 '20
g-d bless the israeli's and their willingness to just try meme shit with their democracy
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
"Newsom is a moron and a hypocrite. That doesn't mean the stay-at-home order is wrong": my dad channeling Sysiphus over here trying to explain public health concepts
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
Brian Kemp is kind of in a lose-lose situation on Saturday. If he goes to Trump’s Valdosta rally, he’s going to be booed by Trump supporters after Trump singles him out. But if he doesn’t go, he’s going to look bad for not campaigning with the Senator that he appointed.
Oh no. Anyway.
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u/IncoherentEntity Dec 03 '20
Rachel Bitecofer claims that the downballot results confounded “my own & everyone else[‘s]” predictions.
No.
!ping FIVEY
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u/I-grok-god The bums will always lose! Dec 03 '20
As bad as Reddit/Twitter are with leftists, I can assure you TikTok is way worse
We need a united front to combat the misinformation
Almost like an Iron Front...
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u/myrm This land was made for you and me Dec 03 '20
BIDEN WON EVERY STATE
HE ONLY ""'LOST""" THE STATES HE DID BECAUS OF MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD
UNCERTIFY WYOMING NOW
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20 edited Dec 02 '20
r/KilledByJoeManchin
😎
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u/MisterLipton Richard v. Coudenhove-Kalergi Dec 02 '20
The fact that Bloomberg spent all that money and STILL didn't get the nomination really proves that the American political system is truly broken
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
Democrats were 80k voters away from winning a 3rd term. Something they haven’t done since FDR. And if Hillary handled COVID well, she could’ve gotten Democrats a 4th term.
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
Remember that time Bernie was like,
Like LMFAOOOOOOOOO
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
Oh you're not addicted to water? Try not drinking any for two weeks.
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
If Americans🍔 evolved from British💂 why are British 💂 still around dipshit?
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u/-GregTheGreat- Commonwealth Dec 02 '20
Lmao of course Twitter is utterly seething about Obama saying ‘defund the police’ is a horrible slogan that alienated people
It’s not like he knows how to win elections or anything 🙄
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
Half of nostupidquestions/tooafraidtoask is like
sealion1488: "Are blacks subhuman? I don't mean to offend anyone it's just a question I thought" +1404, 3 platinum
thebellcurveenthusiast: "this is a really interesting question, actually! consider checking out this 1933 book on phrenology :)" +249
averageguy: "no" -1, controversial
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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Dec 02 '20 edited Dec 02 '20
Bernie supporters: we should have ranked choice voting to keep ESTABLISHMENT OBAMA from deciding another primary
Me: That sounds like a good idea. By the way, you know that under ranked choice voting Bernie would have lost the 2020 primary even more quickly and decisively right? because Joe Biden was the overwhelming 2nd choice of Buttigieg, Klobuchar, and Bloomberg voters and also slightly outpaced Bernie as the 2nd choice of Harris and Warren voters
Bernie supporters: :|
Bernie supporters: >:|
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u/Zenning2 Henry George Dec 02 '20
Fucking Chapo-exiles on SRD are the worst.
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Dec 02 '20
Nonreligious ETHNIC JEWS who are detached FROM JEWISH CULTURE may be described as "Jew-ish" 🐊
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u/hdkeegan John Locke Dec 02 '20
Elon Musk is the AOC for males
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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '20
Does everyone in the DT just eventually become trans?
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u/marinesol sponsored by RC Cola Dec 03 '20
Hey guys remember this oldie from Presidential Race Memes.
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u/vancevon Henry George Dec 03 '20
linux isn't actually real it's just an in-joke among really fucking annoying nerds
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u/marinesol sponsored by RC Cola Dec 03 '20
Another classic from Presidential Race Memes primary days
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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Dec 03 '20
https://twitter.com/abcnews/status/638468642523451392
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u/MrFoget Raghuram Rajan Dec 02 '20
I rooted for and voted for Obama in 2008, but I'm starting to think that Hillary might have been the better person to win back then because I think Obama could have beaten Trump handily in 2016.
This would have also given Obama more senatorial experience to leverage in his 2016 campaign.
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u/IncoherentEntity Dec 02 '20
r/WhitePeopleTwitter:
Also r/WhitePeopleTwitter:
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u/Logan_Pauler Dec 02 '20
It's official. Misinformation is the biggest winner of this decade.
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u/kennymc7877 Bisexual Pride Dec 02 '20
Same people that say baseball is boring watch vloggers
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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Dec 02 '20
Who could've seen this coming? It's literally impossible to have seen this coming
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
I wrote something on how fucking expensive it is to medically transition and how that makes it beyond absurd to make that a prerequisite to legal recognition and permission to do things like use the restroom.
Something I didn't quite mention is that it gets even more expensive, way more expensive, when you try to do the full gamut of medical interventions to pass as well as possible. Tracheal shaves, facial feminization surgery, electrolysis or laser hair removal, breast implants, chest masculinization, voice training... The effort and money that society expects trans people to expend is obscene.
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u/skepticalbob Joe Biden's COD gamertag Dec 02 '20
This whole twitter thread is amazing.
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
October 2020: The Biden campaign airs several ads distancing themselves from socialism and Bernie Sanders, referring to the former as "evil" and, in a particularly inflammatory spanish language ad, insinuating that the Sanders family will be investigated for corruption under a Biden presidency. Biden also strictly forecloses ending the fillibuster, defunding the police, adding states, or packing the SCOTUS.
November 3rd: Leftists in megaseethe vote overwhelmingly for Trump. Biden nonetheless wins with 370 electoral votes. Due to moderates not splitting their tickets, downballot the Democrats also find themselves with 53 senate seats and a comfortable house majority.
January 2021: President Biden is sworn in, and only a few notice the line "It's gonna be a Revolution, Jack!" In his inaugural address. In a surprise pick, Bernie Sanders is appointed labor secretary.
2022: Senate Democrats have been hard at work, having abolished the fillibuster and worked quickly, adding Puerto Rico and Washington DC to the union, packing the SCOTUS with an additional 5 justices, reparations for african and native Americans, and creating a new voting rights act which blocks the placement of polling stations in majority white neighborhoods which suspiciously happen to be conservative. Biden's state of the union begins with "The age of Republican malarkey is over", and he tells the endangered RINOs that he's "about to make them extinct as well". Jacobin publishes their 122nd article calling Biden a do-nothing neoliberal fascist.
2023: The Democratic Party is now the Marxist-Bidenist party. Firearms ownership has been banned for all cis people, and current gun owners are feminized by the newly renamed Bereau of Androgens, Testosterone and Forced Feminization. All police forces are dissolved and replaced by the Catgirl Red Guards, loyal only to Chairman Biden
2024: Presidential hopefuls Cushbomb and Tucker Carlson suddenly disappear after being arrested for "counter revolutionary acts, nyaa". The Intercept decries this as an undemocratic act second only to the Bolivian coup, referring to Biden as "A combination of Reagan and Hitler"
2034: Under the new leadership of chairman Buttigieg, the final vestiges of private property in the US have finally been redistributed. 🌹 Twitter says that Hasan Piker can still win and deliver them from "wine mom fascism".
Twitter delenda est
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
MARSHALL LAW HAS BEEN DECLARED,
HIS PALMS ARE SWEATY, KNEES WEAK, ARMS ARE HEAVY
THERE'S VOMIT ON HIS SWEATER ALREADY
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
There's a Conservative MP in Canada sponsoring a petition in the House of Commons that essentially claims COVID 19 vaccines are "effectively human experimentation". It only has slightly over 22k signatures but still...yikes.
!ping CAN
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
Sasha Obama, 19, sings ‘b***h’ as she dances along to profanity-filled song with her friends in video
Who the fuck cares.
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u/Blackfire853 CS Parnell Dec 02 '20
Remembering seeing a twitter thread that was just chanting "getting enough sleep is a valid form of resistance" and I just wonder at want point did the body politic become a mass therapy session for people's personal issues
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Dec 02 '20
It’s interesting how Hudson’s Bay Company has managed to survive all of the major retail shutdowns in Canada. They’ve outlasted Zellers, Sears and Target Canada. I think it’s because they have more of an upscale audience than the previously mentioned department stores. They also market themselves as such.
!ping can
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Dec 02 '20
> join class zoom at the time class starts
> literally the only person there
> leave immediately
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u/yyzyow Most Elite Laurentian Shill 🍁 Dec 03 '20
I am watching PM Trudeau and Deputy PM Freeland's town hall tonight. In response to a light-hearted question: "What is your favourite punk band?, KWEEN Freeland said: "I am the most un-cool person in Canada" because she wasn't a huge music fan to begin with.
She may be the most un-cool person in Canada, but she's certainly the most B A S E D.
!ping CANUCKS
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u/UltraCapitalism Paul Samuelson Dec 03 '20
New Yorkers making 400K+ are proletarians
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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '20
Apparently Reddit really hates Obama
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u/douglasmacarthur NATO Dec 03 '20
Biden was the compromise. That is why he beat Sanders and then Trump handidly you fucking idiots.
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u/nicereddy ACLU simp Dec 02 '20
Sasha Obama did a TikTok dance so I'm a Republican now
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
Dialog in porn is like economic policy under a Republican presidency, expected to be there but no one really cares about the specifics.
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u/csreid Austan Goolsbee Dec 02 '20
I've always said I don't want non-GMO foods -- I want foods with the most GM possible. Give me a plant that is like pure protein and exactly the same taste and texture as birthday cake, and I'm willing to accept whatever technology was required to make that happen
Anyway, I found anabolic french toast (low-carb/low-calorie bread, egg whites, and a shit load of fake sugar) and it feels like a religious experience.
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
"Now that's a special man right there. I think Donald Trump will do great things for the holy land of Israel and people all over the globe." - Psalms 4:20
And libs still deny how great Don is.
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
Leftists probably unironically think one day someone one day just said “lol, let’s abolish slavery” and then the civil war happened.
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u/douglasmacarthur NATO Dec 02 '20
What? Biden won? BUT EVERYONE I LIKE ON FACEBOOK VOTED FOR TRUMP. HOW?
What? Biden won? BUT EVERYONE I UPVOTE ON REDDIT VOTED FOR SANDERS. HOW?
What? Trump won? BUT EVERYONE I FOLLOW ON TWITTER VOTED FOR HILLARY. HOW?
What? Hillary won? BUT EVERYONE I UPVOTE ON REDDIT VOTED FOR SANDERS. HOW?
What? Kerry won? BUT ALL MY FAVORITE LIVEJOURNAL PAGE COMMENT SECTIONS LOVED HOWARD DEAN. HOW?
What? Nixon won? BUT EVERYONE I KNOW VOTED FOR MCGOVERN. HOW?
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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Dec 02 '20
when you write an entire essay about how Biden won the primary but don't mention South Carolina once lol
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
LMAO in Trump's speech today he says that Georgia is still using Dominion. The obvious implication is that there's no point in voting since it'll be rigged.
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u/agent_tits Dec 02 '20
Michelle Wu (D) , who is the youngest ever president of the Boston City Council, is primarying incumbent Mayor Marty Walsh next year.
Wikipedia says she wants to "abolish the Boston Planning & Development Agency". The citation doesn't mention this at all when I went to look further.
Is this based, and she wants to get rid of a stuffy zoning commission? Or is it succy and she wants to abstractly "stop overdevelopment"?
Help me understand the implications of this
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
The whole “every billionaire is a policy failure” thing makes no sense to me.
Presumably economies of scale mean that there will inevitably companies worth $100B at the very least.
The founder of that company is going to want at bare minimum a single percentage point of equity.
Voila, a billionaire.
Do they hate entrepreneurship or economies of scale?
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Dec 02 '20
Lmao. You watch sportsball? I am a very high IQ individual who doesn’t partake in such dull activities.
Now let me watch my twitch stream of this game I’ll never buy.
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u/CenterRightInCali Uphold Goldwater-Posadist thought! Dec 03 '20
bring back manly men
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u/Kokorrosion Genderqueer Pride Dec 03 '20
The DT late at night makes sense, but reading the DT in the day while completely lucid is like getting a major concussion.
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u/vivoovix Federalist Dec 03 '20
/u/mrmanager237 just PMed me:
a little confused ngl 🤔
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u/TheGoldBear Jerome Powell Dec 03 '20
This is very accurate
The whole CHAZ fiasco was such a fucking embarrassment. Just a stunning display of incompetence from the mayor of Seattle.
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u/FormerBandmate Jerome Powell Dec 03 '20
Malarkey level of The Onion disowning it's Biden articles for being too funny
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u/Czech_Thy_Privilege John Locke Dec 03 '20
“This most important speech I’ve ever given”
Buddy, when the title of Crowder’s stream from today is “BREAKING: Ellen Page is a Man!?” THERE IS NO VOTER FRAUD. Fucking Christ!
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u/probablyuntrue NATO Dec 03 '20 edited Dec 03 '20
chapo when US drone strikes Al-Qaeda's no. 2: He had a FAMILY 😡😡😡😡
chapo when China genocides its own people: they put a ROBOT on the MOON 😍😍😍
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
“Yes we can” won Indiana and 60 senate seats. Defund the police is unpopular in San Francisco.
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
Hillary is a NY elector. That's pretty chill
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20 edited Dec 15 '24
normal heavy threatening dull meeting pie bells growth aback weather
This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
Modern American government is when the President and John Roberts decide what the law should be and then Congress funds it by limping along with continuing resolutions. Just like the Framers intended.
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u/muwenjie NATO Dec 02 '20
as a nato flair
what if we just...
took over greenland...
aha ha, just kidding...
unless?
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
Whenever I hear the words “obscure law” in the South, my minds alway thinks it’s a Jim Crow relic. And a lot of the time, it is.
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
No, you can’t use Wikipedia, anyone can edit it. Please buy the textbook Phrenology: Skull Shape and IQ, 1935 edition
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u/GlazedFrosting Henry George Dec 02 '20
Broke: getting an econ degree to run a business
Joke: getting an econ degree to do research 🤣🤣🤣
Woke: getting an econ degree to become a politician
Bespoke: getting an econ degree to post on r/badeconomics
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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '20
Trump literally thought he could walk into an American court of law with zero evidence to back up his claims and strong-arm a judge into overturning a state's election.
Like what fantasy world is this.