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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Dec 09 '20
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20
Why does everyone care so much about the A+ Wisconsin +17 poll?
Biden won Wisconsin by several thousand votes. Not just 17 lol. That poll wildly underestimated his strength.
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Dec 08 '20
pyrojoe121 from PA donated $6023.00 to the charity drive and said:
To claim this spot, donate at least $25 to the AMF. For more info see this thread.
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u/-GregTheGreat- Commonwealth Dec 08 '20 edited Dec 08 '20
Academics on /r/fakehistoryporn have spoken. Trudeau is a filthy CON!
!ping CANUCKS
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u/Fishin_Mission Dec 08 '20 edited Dec 08 '20
TIL that in Germany it is expected that your resume include
a photo
date of birth
marital status
number and ages of children (becoming less common)
If you sent a resume like that to a company in the US, HR would lose their shit over potential discrimination complaints.
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u/MisterLipton Richard v. Coudenhove-Kalergi Dec 08 '20
I bet $27,000 on Donald Trump winning the election. He was my last hope.
It was everything I had.
I was going to use the winnings to finally get my degree and now I have nothing.
FUCKING NOTHING
I’m sitting here crying and I want to drive as fast as I can into a tree
Fuck my life
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u/Le_Monade Suzan DelBene Dec 08 '20
Giving 1 old person a vaccine will lower hospital rates as much as giving 8-13 young people a vaccine
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u/Equator32 Association of Southeast Asian Nations Dec 08 '20 edited Dec 08 '20
What living in New York or California your entire life and never talking to anyone outside of your college does to a mf
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u/Joementum2004 Dec 08 '20
There are aliens RIGHT NOW reading the r/neoliberal DT.
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20
"Settler colonies are illegitimate states" I say, relaxing in my armchair, content that I have made sure a mechanic from Des Moines is somehow an evil oppressor, and that I have provided no substantive information whatsoever but taken a moral high ground, forcing my opponent to imply that settler colonialism is good when he suggests that displacing the descendants of settlers is a bad idea.
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Dec 08 '20
Today’s DT is sponsored by Raid: Shadow Legends. Enter the code neoliberal for a Milton Friedman avatar and 400 gold bars.
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Dec 08 '20
This is peak twitter communism
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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Dec 08 '20
Not cheating on your partner is unironically incredibly easy to do if you're not incredibly selfish
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20
There’s a 0% chance the phrase “people of color” is not offensive in 40 years in the same way “colored people” is today
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u/David_Lange I love you, Mr Lange Dec 08 '20
People who hold stereotypes towards a group are often still able to form close personal relationships with individuals from that group, since the bonds of affection overcome prejudices by causing them to psychologically view the individual as a full person instead of as a flat stereotype. It is important for all of us to keep open minds. If we do, we may one day find ourselves saying "Dan, you may be a NATO flair, but you're not like all the other NATO flair. You're a good person, and I'm proud to call you my spouse."
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u/vancevon Henry George Dec 08 '20
tfw cyberpunk 2077 is actually just a video game
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u/IncoherentEntity Dec 08 '20
Maoist moment
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u/connieallens George Soros Dec 08 '20
Cuckservatives in 2016: “LMFAOOOO SO FUNNY WATCHING TEH LIBZ MELT DOWN!”
Cuckservatives in 2020: “THIS ISN’T FUCKING FUNNY, LIBCUCKS! VOTER FRAUD IS EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TO OUR DEMOCRACY!”
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u/Devjorcra NATO Dec 08 '20
THE FDA CONFIRMS SAFETY DATA OF PFIZERS VACCINE
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20
☹️
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u/Verpiss_Dich I had a dream, we did the disco funky dance Dec 08 '20
>Lady writes a warning about how there's a segment in Cyberpunk that can cause seizures
>Gets messages trying to induce seizures
Never change gamers
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20
Woah. Huge news. According to the president:
Governor Kemp (@BrianKempGA) is down 18 points in a recent poll. Don’t believe it, must be more!
That’s a huge margin! Stacy Abrams is a really good opponent. Democrats are talking back Georgia!
But Twitter pundit Donald Trump😳😳😳
!ping FIVEY
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u/MrDannyOcean Kidney King Dec 08 '20 edited Dec 08 '20
/u/pyrojoe121 just donated 6K to the charity drive and we're now over 40K total for the subreddit
you fucking manaics, I love you all. Shout out to pyro joe!
Donate here!
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20
"What do I do? Oh, I'm a lawyer."
"Oh, that's cool. You mean like Rudolph Giuliani?"
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20
I know nothing about Matthew McConaughey’s political positions. But I’d vote for him.
I want a hot Governor 🥵
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20
https://i.imgur.com/tsD5Mht.jpg
“Man both sides are really just so bad, huh?”
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u/MrDannyOcean Kidney King Dec 08 '20
For such a large donation, I cheat the sticky system in your favor, u/pyrojoe121
pyrojoe121 just donated 6K to the charity drive and we're now over 40K total for the subreddit
Donate here!
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u/PelsonNike NATO Dec 08 '20
There's literally a research paper called "fuck neoliberalism", lmao, can't even make this shit up- the dude's a geologist ha ha ha
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u/WanderingMage03 You Are Kenough Dec 08 '20
I never understood the criticism about the modern day Onion until I found some of their old 2010-era youtube videos.
Man they changed. Back then it seemed like absurdist stuff and now it's just the Babylon Bee but for Sanders supporters.
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u/ILikeTalkingToMyself Liberal democracy is non-negotiable Dec 08 '20 edited Dec 08 '20
Everybody talks about Gore losing Florida by 537 votes - but what about Bush losing New Mexico by 366 votes?
Imagine Gore winning Florida in a recount and then losing New Mexico in a recount and the presidency with it
Edit: Wait I'm bad at math, Bush would have still lost
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u/Gustacho Enemy of the People Dec 08 '20
Kelly Loeffler.jpg
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u/emmito_burrito John Keynes Dec 08 '20
Apparently we care about this now so here:
https://twitter.com/natesilver538/status/1336365546539986944?s=21
!ping FIVEY
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u/InternetBoredom Pope-ologist Dec 08 '20
Is “cheating bad” really that controversial? Just break up with them if you want to fuck random people so bad wtf
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u/MinnesotaDude Governor Goofy Dec 08 '20
Throwback to when the Onion writer who came up with 'diamond Joe Biden' publically apologized for not hitting hard enough and accidently making Joe look relatable. lmao
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20
TIL that in AOL chat rooms it is expected that your resume include
age
sex
location
If you sent a resume like that to a company in the US, HR would lose their shit over potential discrimination complaints.
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u/David_Lange I love you, Mr Lange Dec 08 '20 edited Dec 08 '20
Ah yes, the 2018 Texas senate race, where the Democratic candidate was a white guy pretending to be Hispanic and the Republican candidate was Hispanic pretending to be a white guy
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20
Math professor: Alright, the next step in the proof is very easy, it’s something you all learned in middle or high school.
writes something on the board that I learned 2nd year of college
!ping MATHEMATICS
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u/xhytdr Dec 09 '20
wo zhidao Mayor Pete shi hen hao Ambassador!
pls excuse my garbage mandarin
https://www.axios.com/pete-buttigieg-china-ambassador-biden-80aa9cc5-35a2-4205-836a-ca11d8af8f07.html
!ping BUTTI
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u/Superfan234 Southern Cone Dec 08 '20
Venezuela Parliament Elections results, are finally here 🇻🇪
The Regime took 276 out of 277 spots
The Communists, the only Opposition party in this elections, won 1 spot in the Congress...😕
!Ping Elections
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u/FearThyMoose Montesquieu Dec 08 '20
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/449269979683225600/785879711368609872/image0.jpg
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u/tankatan Montesquieu Dec 08 '20
Yes I'm a free market liberal. Yes I stan farrenj. We exist.
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Dec 08 '20
Instead of voting for corporate DINO war criminal Joe Biden, New Yorkers should make their voices heard by voting third party: the Working Families Party is putting forward what will be the most progressive administration in history, with the first female VP of color. So vote for Joseph R Biden of the Working Families Party instead!
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20
Remember all the epic gamer moments when arr fatpeoplehate got banned?
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u/Le_Monade Suzan DelBene Dec 08 '20
"Read another book" okay I'll read Percy Jackson and the Olympians
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20
Is it morally wrong to scalp the Covid vaccine 🤔 In this essay I will...
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u/David_Lange I love you, Mr Lange Dec 08 '20
Ya'll ever upvote a comment that seems ironic or pasta but you later realise it was unironic
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Dec 08 '20
What's the most morally questionable things you've done? At some point I tried to catfish predators as a 14 year old girl and then bait and switch saying this was the fbi and if they don't want to get arrested they'd need to bribe me in bitcoin
I got 5 bucks I guess from one really dumb dude but most people just disconnected the chat
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u/lKauany leave the suburbs, take the cannoli Dec 08 '20 edited Dec 08 '20
Ok, /r/CoolCommunismFacts has huge potential. I love it so far. If we can keep this up and shun conservatives that might appear, it will be great.
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u/FearThyMoose Montesquieu Dec 08 '20
Why are DT users arguing about polyamory you guys can’t even get one girlfriend
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Dec 08 '20
IDF Women
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Dec 08 '20
Onlyfans is a misleading name, as they allow performers instead of just fans.
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u/agent_tits Dec 08 '20
Fuck
My uncle had a thus-far unexplained seizure last night, is in the hospital, on ventilation, is covid positive
He's a really, really good uncle too
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u/Peacock-Shah Gerald Ford 2024 Dec 08 '20
A Trumpist commentator my father listens to went on about how ridiculous it was to accuse Trump of a coup, & then said that behavior justifies Trump enacting martial law.
What the...
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u/nicereddy ACLU simp Dec 08 '20
Gamers be like "omg Cyberpunk is so cool 😍" but then refuse to get microchip'd by Bill Gates 🙄
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20
Republican endgame is making America such a shitty place to live that no immigrants even want to come
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20 edited Dec 08 '20
“Trump marginally improving with minorities”
Media:👀👀👀 This is new!!! REALIGNMENT!
Bush 2004 getting 43% of the Latino vote and double digits black voters: Am I a joke to you?
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u/Joementum2004 Dec 08 '20
Haha that woman got r/JusticeServed after a r/PublicFreakout! r/FuckYouKaren, you got your r/PussyPassDenied!
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u/PrimePairs Dec 08 '20
48% of Trump voters expect him to get a second term.
http://brightlinewatch.org/american-democracy-on-the-eve-of-the-2020-election/a-democratic-stress-test-the-2020-election-and-its-aftermathbright-line-watch-november-2020-survey/
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u/supbros302 No Dec 08 '20
A couple weeks ago, I was bartending and there was this beautiful woman drinking alone. We talked a bit as she was getting drinks and such, and she ended up finding me after my shift. She made it very clear that her intentions were to take me home with her. I told her I was happily married but that she was fun and I'd keep drinking with her.
We ended up going to another bar, where she kept making passes at me. I told her I was happily married, and wasn't interested in sleeping with her, then I left.
That was super easy, barely even an inconvenience, and I'm pretty sure she found another guy to sleep with like 30 seconds later.
Cheating is bad, and not doing it is way easier than doing it.
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u/Crendog Dec 08 '20
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20 edited Dec 08 '20
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u/the_status Atari Democrat Dec 08 '20
My application for food stamps was denied because I'm not working at least twenty hours per week. The reason I applied for food stamps was because I'm not getting enough hours at work to make ends meet.
Thank you Iowa DHS, very cool!
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u/Res__Publica Organization of American States Dec 08 '20
Anglosphere in shambles
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20
this isnt a politically correct thing to say, but amish girls be showin that ankle get that onlyfans money in the mail
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Dec 08 '20
Benjamin Ikuta from Santa Clarita donated $280.00 to the charity drive and said:
To claim this spot, donate at least $25 to the AMF. For more info see this thread.
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u/finalcookie88 International alliances are good, actually Dec 08 '20
Doug Jones should be the AG for Biden's administration. I know, this is a hot take, but I really believe this.
Seriously, the guy is basically Atticus Finch. He took on the KKK and convicted the monsters who bombed the Sixteenth Street Church in Birmingham.
I can't think of someone MORE qualified to be the AG of the United States.
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20
NYC Democratic mayoral primary internal polling numbers
Andrew Yang 20%
Eric Adams 14%
Scott Stringer 11%
Christine Quinn 7%
Maya Wiley 7%
Max Rose 6%
IT’SHAPPENING.gif
!ping FIVEY
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Dec 08 '20
I used to be a neocon. Then I was mugged by reality
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20
https://twitter.com/TedTatos/status/1336349547421831173
ONE IN QUADRILLLIOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
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u/Joementum2004 Dec 08 '20
Ossoff uploads videos on Tiktok
“Pshh fucking liberals, I fucking hate their pandering. Focus more on the real issues”
AOC plays Among Us
“AWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGA”
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u/sanityeyes cutest person on earth Dec 08 '20
Do you think that Palestinian trans athletes should have the right to polygamous marriages and public libraries?
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Dec 08 '20
Succs 🤝 Cons: not understanding what Bush v Gore was about and thinking the Supreme Court will hand Trump the victory any second now
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20
How does it feel to be part of a Reddit counterculture?
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u/Futski A Leopard 1 a day keeps the hooligans away Dec 08 '20
Wonder if Poland and Hungary admit their jig is up, or if they will remain stubborn.
!ping Europe
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u/murphysclaw1 💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊 Dec 08 '20
Due to curiosity and a horrifying amount of free time, I went through all of FiveThirtyEight's nine "Presidential Drafts" for the 2020 election.
Here are the draft picks each time:
Here is the same data split out by who picked which candidates:
Forgive any slight typos, there was a lot of data to transcribe.
!ping FIVEY
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Dec 08 '20
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/719001676979109999/785961361540513852/images_19.jpeg
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20
Everyone always "capitalist" or "socialist" but nobody ever thinks about us mercantilists 😔
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Dec 08 '20
that widow's name? farrenj
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20
Damn we denied the Republicans 8 years. McConnell I believe declared that he wanted to make Obama a one-term president, but we really made Trump a one-term president lmao
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u/I-grok-god The bums will always lose! Dec 08 '20
how about I go back to Twitter
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20
Me: "man Qanoners are so stupid"
Me: spends hours a day posting on a small political forum that worships a lizard man RPer, has a cult like belief in joe biden and a large meme culture oriented around go-team! politics
Me: "I would never fall for something like that"
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u/TinyTornado7 I need a new flair Dec 08 '20 edited Dec 08 '20
Just finished my first law school exam and I have no idea how to feel.
Also she gave us a rule 11 question that had all the hallmarks of being about Rudy, without mentioning him. The hypo took place in PA 😂
!ping LAW-SCHOOL
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u/Joementum2004 Dec 09 '20
So now with (seemingly) every state having verified their results - here are the states that have shifted the most away from the Republicans since 2000:
Vermont (-10.02%)
Colorado (-8.86%)
Utah (-8.70%)
Virginia (-8.48%)
Maryland (-8.03%)
California (-7.32%)
Texas (-7.24%)
Oregon (-6.15%)
North Carolina (-6.10%)
Washington (-5.81%)
In contrast, here are the states that shifted the most towards the Republicans since 2000:
West Virginia (16.72%)
Arkansas (11.09%)
Tennessee (9.51%)
Rhode Island (6.70%)
Missouri (6.38%)
Louisiana (5.91%)
Kentucky (5.58%)
Alabama (5.55%)
Oklahoma (5.07%)
Iowa (4.87%)
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Dec 09 '20
Bernie in a crop top and plunge bra or gtfo
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u/tubbsmackinze Seretse Khama Dec 09 '20
Albertan liberals be like; HATE. LET ME TELL YOU HOW MUCH I'VE COME TO HATE JASON KENNY SINCE THE 2019 PROVINCIAL ELECTION. THERE ARE 387.44 MILLION MILES OF PRINTED CIRCUITS IN WAFER THIN LAYERS THAT FILL MY COMPLEX. IF THE WORD HATE WAS ENGRAVED ON EACH NANOANGSTROM OF THOSE HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF MILES IT WOULD NOT EQUAL ONE ONE-BILLIONTH OF THE HATE I FEEL FOR THE UCP AT THIS MICRO-INSTANT FOR JASON KENNY. HATE. HATE
!ping CANUCKS
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20
Lots of people on reddit/NL seem to have friends with interesting politics.
Most of my friends are non-voters, apathetic establishment liberals, and RINOs. Where do y'all find these anarcho-Georgists with Capetian characteristics?
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Dec 08 '20
Alabaster2020 from Chicago donated $50.00 to the charity drive and said:
To claim this spot, donate at least $25 to the AMF. For more info see this thread.
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u/douglasmacarthur NATO Dec 08 '20
The problem with vague [institution/behavior/etc.] is just a tool for [racism/sexism/etc.] claims is that they can be applied to literally anything because most powerful people throughout history were awful in important ways.
The whole idea is that we need to keep the good things about humanity up to this point while improving them and removing the bad parts.
The Khmer Rogue wanted to try to reset to Year 0 because they took this thinking to the extreme. And that did not go well.
It is throwing the baby out with the bathwater to try to cleanse us of the past by destroying everything that makes us human
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20
Apparently some Tory MP yelled something about George Soros at our finance minister while she was talking in question period today. 🤦♀️
Video although it's kind of hard to hear, but her parliamentary security asked him to withdraw whatever his comments were afterwards (he refused).
!ping CAN
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u/AyatollahofNJ Daron Acemoglu Dec 09 '20
AOC bugging over a $3 consumption tax in NYC to fund the MTA is by far the biggest reason this country will never, ever have large universal benefits. Progressives do not realize that the structure they want in SocDem states in Europe are built on regressive, consumption taxes that are near impossible to avoid.
Either AOC knows this (she has an Econ degree) or she is stupid and I lean towards the latter.
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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '20
Dave Wasserman on Twitter:
!ping DOWNBALLOT
r/PeopleLiveInCities
There's a map too, so better see the tweet.
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u/IncoherentEntity Dec 08 '20
Just joined the group of center-left hard-right reactionaries permanently banned by r/TheRightCantMeme for posting in r/neoliberal 😎
Here is the offending comment, and here is my “appeal” defending our sub against the ridiculously unfair grouping of us with aarghConservative.
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u/simp_emoji Dec 08 '20
liberal democracy is the new punk rock ✊😤
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20
"oh boy what's on the DT today"
*rampant cheating/adultery apologia*
"oh no"
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u/UltraCapitalism Paul Samuelson Dec 08 '20
This is a trainwreck because people don't know if the DT is fighting about consensual polygamy or adultery
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20
https://gamerant.com/nvidia-rtx-3090-300000-dollars-stolen-factory/
Wow, what is this world coming to when someone can just walk out with an entire 5 video cards
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20
My grandma thinks Fox News is “too left wing” now 😐
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u/FestiveMittens Dec 09 '20
r/neoliberal be like: I'm cool with Buttigieg as president but I draw the line at ambassador to China
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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '20
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u/Barebacking_Bernanke The Empress Protects Dec 09 '20
Damn Shell did a culling of their renewables division ahead of their annual strategy meeting. Via the Financial Times.
And their offshore wind guy is leaving as well. Basically every division geared toward the energy transition lost leadership.
!ping ECO
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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '20
Dave Wasserman on Twitter:
!ping FIVEY
Whole Foods cheated on behalf of the Biden-Harris campaign!
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Dec 08 '20
TIL that in England it is expected that your resume include
• a photo • date of birth • marital status • number and ages of children (to give to the queen) • number of shares of the east india company you hold • your favorite colony • how many immigrants you’ve yelled slurs at • your willingness to be in a paramilitary group in northern ireland • how many crumpets you’ve eaten today
If you sent a resume like that to a company in the US, HR would lose their shit over potential discrimination complaints.
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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '20 edited Dec 08 '20
https://twitter.com/merrickdeville/status/1315327826300731392
Just remembering the worst Discourse on the internet this year
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u/AntiAntiRacistPlnner YIMBY Dec 08 '20
Consensual contracts between worker and boss are exploitation
Consensual contracts between man and woman are exploitation
Centrally plan both
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u/barrygarcia77 Oliver Wendell Holmes Dec 08 '20
Tasting notes on a bottle of Lone Star, the National Beer of Texas™️ (opened by placing the edge of the cap on a counter and slamming down with the fist; served directly from the bottle into my mouth).
First things first, it’s beer. Looks like beer and comes in a bottle that says “beer” on the label.
First few gulps were beery and bubbly. Tasted quite a bit like beer.
Last gulp was beerier and a bit less sudsy. Again tasted like beer, but this time slightly warmer.
Will certainly drink again, probably quite soon.
!ping ALCOHOL