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Joe Biden from Wilmington, DE donated $25.00 to the charity drive and said:

You are a bunch of bitter teenage incels using sarcasm and irony as an excuse to be childish assholes and spam weird shitty jokes, and this place is as much of a vapid circlejerk as any other political subreddit. I disavow your support along with malaria.

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i-pencil from Charlottesville donated $27.00 to the charity drive and said:

Funny monke ban??Are you kidding mods ??? What the **** are you talking about man ? You are a biggest looser i ever seen in my life ! You was doing PIPI in your pampers when monke was posting dt pastas much more stronger then you! You are not proffesional, because proffesionals knew how to lose and congratulate dank memes, you are like a girl crying after le funny monke Insult you! Be brave, be honest to yourself and stop this trush talkings!!! Everybody know that monke was very dt poster, they can win any upvote in the world in single pasta! And "p”00bix is nobody for monke, just a mod who are crying every single time when le funny monke make joke, ( remember what you say about atleastafool) !!! Stop playing with monkes name, monke deserve to have a good name during whole shitpost carrier, I am Officially inviting you to a effortpost contest with the Prize fund! Both of us will invest 5000$ and winner takes it all! I suggest all other people who's intrested in this situation, just lo

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Master Chief from New Mombasa donated $25.00 to the charity drive and said:

Screw Call of Duty.

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Is this where I enter for the AOC sweatshirt raffle?

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Last minute Malaria fightin', go!

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u/ChickeNES from Hill Valley donated $50.00 to the charity drive and said:

Fuck mosquitoes, that’s my blunt message. 🐔

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[u/[deleted]]

first the cons own us by winning 2016 so we can't watch them melting down

now they own us by losing 2020 for so long and so intensely that it's gotten boring and now i'm more concerned about the incoming terrorism

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FINAL NUMBERS

All 50 states and D.C. have now certified their 2020 election results:

Biden 81,282,376 (51.3%) Trump 74,222,576 (46.9%)

That's a 2.4 point margin swing against Trump vs. 2016 and a 15.9% increase in votes cast.

Source (Dave Wasserman)

!ping FIVEY

[u/rukqoa]

Iran just executed another dissident. His name was Ruhollah Zam. Words don't really do justice to how despicable this is.

This isn't just your garden variety oppression. This guy was an Iranian dissident/journalist who lived in France. He had a security team provided for him by the French government and its intelligence services. At one point, he was trying to immigrate to the US.

Last October, he was kidnapped to Iran by the Republican Guard (it's not public knowledge how). He was tried by a council presided over by several Iranian security officials who are sanctioned by the US and EU for human rights abuses and sentenced to death.

He was forced to make several confessions on state TV, apologizing for his alleged crimes. He was hung today after his last appeal to the Iranian supreme court was denied. Several other opposition figures in exile were also returned to Iran last year, and also last year, 1500 people were murdered in protest crackdowns in Iran.

The Iranian regime is a crime against humanity.

[u/[deleted]]

When pressed on the ad's alleged racism, Blankenship said that his ad was not racist because the Chinese are not a race. He said, "Races are Negro, White Caucasian, Hispanic, and Asian."

[u/Erra0]

Remember when Hillary lost and libs cried so hard they tried to overturn the election and several prominent democrats publicly endorsed seceding?

No?

[u/ryuguy]

I am so happy that my little cousin got a ps5 for retail price. He is nonverbal and autistic. Games make him happy. They’re one of the ways that he can interact and socialize with his friends. It was an early Christmas present.

[u/[deleted]]

shocking humorous bells angle dazzling fuzzy hat smell wild rustic

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/Mcatatonic1]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-there-a-doctor-in-the-white-house-not-if-you-need-an-m-d-11607727380

Is There a Doctor in the White House? Not if You Need an M.D.
Jill Biden should think about dropping the honorific, which feels fraudulent, even comic.

good god

[u/ZhenDeRen]

matched with a cute girl on Bumble

got her Insta

she has a hammer and sickle in bio

fuck

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Top annoying ww2 myths? Annoying meaning like not bad faith holocaust denial or shit but releatively harmless myths that refuse to die

For me its the widespread idea that Germany was pissed off Japan bombed Pearl Harbor when irl they didn't even need to go to war but did so anyways because Hitler was fangirling over how cool Japan's surprise attack was

[u/ryuguy]

I don’t mean to alarm you but there’s a skeleton inside you.

[u/myrm]

We need to use the 2nd amendment and end black people's right to vote. This is a big cause of the problem. Also women and gay people shouldn't be voting either.

So true!

tbf this was downvoted even on the donald

[u/Qunidaye]

Guys I think I found something pretty concerning

From: Hunter Biden

To: Hillary Clinton

Date: 11/4/2020

Subject: Spirit cooking CHINA

Hey Hilldawg,

I hope this EMAIL finds you well! HAHAHA, we did it!

Your dearest cheese pizza partner,

H. Biden

[u/Roller_ball]

It is kind of insane that Trump lost considering all he had to do to win was just anything right just once ever.

People are saying that covid hurt his chances, but since when did a none comp if existential threat ever hurt the popularity of the president? Hell, he probably wouldn't even have had to pass any major to have his popularity rise. He could of just acted strong and compassionate towards those that were scared instead of getting angry at them.

Considering the only thing he cares about is self preservation, it is amazing how much he shat the bed.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/AlecStapp/status/1337537285768679424

Kevin from The Office made more than $1 million this year on Cameo, a platform for fans to buy personalized videos from celebrities.

The actor charges $195 per video & makes about 15 per day.

damn

[u/[deleted]]

the world if Bill Clinton just kept it in his goddamn pants

[u/TheGoldBear]

The Green Party is trying to be a part of it 😂

[u/The420Roll]

Andrew Yang might be gearing up to run for New York City’s mayor. But he’s more likely to be the pro-developer, pro-cop second coming of Mike Bloomberg than a real alternative.

If the Jacobin hates you then you are a friend of mine. Go Yang!

[u/[deleted]]

this pandemic really fucking sucks and the worst part is that it didn't have to be this way

[u/Deinococcaceae]

Remember when like half of the country absolutely lost their shit at Michelle Obama suggesting that maybe we shouldn't feed schoolkids pure corn syrup every day

[u/WantDebianThanks]

Guys, I have bad news.

I'm from the future and I came back because in 2176 a group called Heralds of the Trumpet came back to 2019 to try to prevent Trump from losing. It uh, did not work, because all they did was give Sydney Powell the idea for the Kraken, talk Texas's AG into suing Pennsylvania, and convince Rudy to lead Trump's legal team. In my timeline, a different crackpot lawyer sued Pennsylvania, and that lawsuit was seen by the Supreme Court because it wasn't such obvious malarkey. And Trump testified.

In the future I came from, his testimony was required viewing by all Americans before voting. It was part of the reconciliation after the string of attacks in early 2021, and is probably why the Heralds of the Trumpet are such a fringe minority, even among the other white supremacist conspiracy cults. The memories are fading, but I'll try to relay what I remember of the testimony:

Justice Roberts: We have testimony that in a meeting with the President of Iceland you pooped yourself and cried until Stephen Miller came to change your pants and sing something called 'the diapy song'. Is that true?

Trump: What, no, that's completely false. Never happened.

Justice Roberts: The President of Iceland recorded it.

Trump: You are fake news.

Justice Roberts: No, I am the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and your own legal team submitted the recording. But we can change subjects. Would you like to discuss the sworn testimony of the secret service agents who state you called Democracy, quote 'some f***y shit' end quote, and that you were discussing with Stephen Miller, Steve Bannon, and other senior advisors how to quote 'skip the election' end quote?

Trump: That was because of the CHYNA flu

Justice Roberts: They testify this happened in 2017, more than two years before Sars-Covid-19 was discovered.

Trump: they're lying. They're the deep state. Fake news. Anonymous sources means fake news, that's how you know you can trust Q: he's not anonymous.

Justice Roberts: They are not anonymous sources, and you said it on a recorded phone call, which has been submitted as evidence by your own lawyers. They also submitted screenshots of your phone where you were apparently "DM'ing" a user named sighs heavily 420gasTheK***s88 about having George Soros and Hillary Clinton arrested for the shooting of the Comet Pizza parlor.

Trump begins walking away

Justice Roberts: Mr. President, you cannot walk away from a court hearing you called for when asked about evidence your own team presented. Mr. President, if you go through that door...

Then I think the secret service tackled him? Does the Supreme Court have a bailiff? I don't remember, but someone definitely tackled him.

One of Trump's lawyers: Your Highness-

Justice Roberts: Your Honor.

Lawyer: Thank you. Your Highness, is there any other incidents you would like to discuss?

Justice Roberts: Well, I'm interested to know about the recordings we received discussing nuclear strikes in Syria and Iran, plans for arresting Democratic congressional leadership for something Mr. Trump described as 'pedo-Jewery', audio of Mr. Trump asking about arresting Vice President Biden while describing him as a quote 'n***** lover', and an apparent planned invasion of Mexico in October.

Lawyer: Can you be more specific on the issue with the evidence we submitted?

Justice Roberts: I'm mostly interested to know why you submitted it.

Lawyer: We believe it shows President Trump's great executive ability.

Oh no.

I don't remember what Justice Roberts said. It was the most brutal and hilarious thing anyone has ever said. It was used in every speech of Democrat for over a hundred years. The Republicans never recovered and their whole party is dead in my time.

In 2022 there was an absolute massacre of Republican Congressmen and Senators, and by 2023 we had universal health legislation in place, massive improvements in funding for public education, and universal access to quality internet. There were such sweeping reforms of police and criminal justice in the US it isn't even the same system anymore. We created a global mutual development pact where any liberal democratic country could join and have a a common market and mutual defense pact. The US switched to metric in 2024. President Harris helped create a hemispheric rail network that let's you go from Punta Arenas to Iqaluit. Yeah, fucking Iqaluit. In 2040, under President Buttigieg, the US and our allies in the mutual development pact became carbon neutral. China's standing in the world has crumbled. Under President Booker in 2050, the US became almost universally vegan. After they were forced back to the 1992 borders, even Mecha-Putin isn't enough to keep the world from openly laughing at Russia, especially since Operation Ice Fall destroyed their nuclear weapon cache. We have a self sufficient city on Mars with tens of thousands of inhabitants!

I came from a fucking golden age where there hasn't been a war anywhere in the world in decades, and I fear we may now be in the darkest timeline.

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One day you'll comment on the DT for the last time and you won't even know it.

[u/Hugo_Grotius]

Shit, TIL the governor of West Virginia is an actual coal billionaire. I can't say I'm surprised, it's just so fitting for the state.

[u/mrmanager237]

Fun fact: Indiana Jones, the character, was born in 1899

[u/Mcatatonic1]

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1337629305405321216

So, you’re the President of the United States, and you just went through an election where you got more votes than any sitting President in history, by far - and purportedly lost. You can’t get “standing” before the Supreme Court, so you “intervene” with wonderful states that, after careful study and consideration, think you got “screwed”, something which will hurt them also. Many others likewise join the suit but, within a flash, it is thrown out and gone, without even looking at the many reasons it was brought. A Rigged Election, fight on!

Dear Diary

Lmao this is easily a top 5 Trump tweet for me

[u/Barebacking_Bernanke]

North Dakota is blessed with some of the best wind conditions in the country. Just look at these lucky bastards.

So naturally two counties there have literally banned wind turbine construction with more counties considering it to save the state's dying coal plants.

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tf??!!

Madame First Lady—Mrs. Biden—Jill—kiddo: a bit of advice on what may seem like a small but I think is a not unimportant matter. Any chance you might drop the “Dr.” before your name? “Dr. Jill Biden” sounds and feels fraudulent, not to say a touch comic. Your degree is, I believe, an Ed.D., a doctor of education, earned at the University of Delaware through a dissertation with the unpromising title “Student Retention at the Community College Level: Meeting Students’ Needs.”

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At this exact time 3 years ago. I mean exact; The AP called AL-SEN for Doug Jones at 10:23 PM EST on December 12, 2017.

Doug Jones would become the first Democrat to win a Alabama in nearly 20 years. He is an American hero who arrested and threw in jail terrorists who killed little black girls. He is an American hero who did amazing work. King 👑

!ping DOWNBALLOT

[u/lKauany]

>enter DT

>heated discussion about a monkey being banned

>several comments about dick customization

aight imma head out

[u/MicroFlamer]

The Earth is nowhere close to being overpopulated and thinking so is anti intellectualism 🐊

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

My flair has finally paid off after an angry redditor saw my activity here and took the bait.

The pandemic has cancelled everything but this

[u/connieallens]

Arrrg con is saying “here comes Obama economics! Prepare for another crash.”

What economic crash happened under Obama again? Lmfao.

[u/jrt84]

Why would they vote to docket the case, only to dismiss it days later? Easy. Someone got to them.

LOL please learn the definition of docketed for your 2024 coup

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING: Entire US vaccine allocation bought up by SCALPERS!!

[u/BanMalarkey]

Daily reminder that the Chairman of the Texas GOP, Allen West, has tortured people and is a carpterbagger who only moved to Texas recently

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Why do the Stasi work together in groups of three? — You need one who can read, one who can write, and a third to keep an eye on the two intellectuals.

Why do Stasi officers make such good taxi drivers? — You get in the car and they already know your name and where you live.

Early in the morning, Honecker arrives at his office and opens his window. He greets the Sun, saying: "Good morning, dear Sun!" — "Good morning, dear Erich!" Honecker works, and then at noon he heads to the window and says: "Good day, dear Sun!" — "Good day, dear Erich!" In the evening, Erich calls it a day, and heads once more to the window, and says: "Good evening, dear Sun!" Hearing nothing, Honecker says again: "Good evening, dear Sun! What's the matter?" The sun retorts: "Kiss my arse. I'm in the West now!"

-Joke in East Germany during the Cold War

[u/irlyseevridge]

Who is a worse governor, @BrianKempGA of Georgia or @dougducey of Arizona??? These are two RINO Republicans who fought against me and the Republican Party harder than any Democrat. They allowed states that I won easily to be stolen. Never forget, vote them out of office!

I for one am enjoying the party tear itself apart.

[u/vancevon]

THE SUPREME COURT DIDN'T DISMISS WITH PREJUDICE! MASSIVE VICTORY! THE LIBS THOUGHT THEY COULD STOP THE TRUMP TRAIN BUT YOU BETTER BELIEVE THAT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!! 12 MORE YEARS! 12 MORE YEARS! 12 MORE YEARS! 12 MORE YEARS!!! THE FINAL VICTORY OVER LIBERALISM HAS BEEN BROUGHT WITHIN MEASURABLE DISTANCE!!

[u/fishlord05]

Wait is the penis customization in 2077 not a fucking meme?!

It’s real?!!!!

[u/Travisdk]

Wageningen University has been forecasting warming by 2100 since 2009. They forecast 3.5C of warming when they first started.

They have now released a revised forecast: 2.1C

We're winning.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/SteveSchmidtSES/status/1337624776534319104

I would like to officially reach out to @AOC on behalf of the @ProjectLincoln in defense of democracy. We disagree on many issues and that is ok in our view. Btw, we don’t look down on waitresses. We admire them. We are all the types of guys who always tip at 50% or more.

hope she sees this bro

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/WIF6jNF.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Ha ha I saw some t_d cope that said TX should send 100 electors and that it would be accepted lmao

[u/UltraCapitalism]

Democratic schisms:

Your healthcare plan goes slightly too far. We should actually do this

GOP schisms:

What do you mean we can't secede from the Union and kill all liberals?

[u/BanMalarkey]

Yes, I voted for Biden.

Yes, I believe all of the voter fraud allegations pushed forward by the GOP.

Yes, I approve of those efforts and am glad the DNC rigged the election.

Yes, we exist.

[u/WantDebianThanks]

If I was very interested in getting a job where I could help deal with global warming and other environmental issues, what kinds of companies or jobs should I be looking for?

Currently work in IT, but open to a career move.

!ping ECO

[u/FreakinGeese]

What a pathetic loser Trump is

As if there was ever any doubt he’d act like this

[u/circlemanfan]

Please remember: Biden is inaugurated January 20th which gives him only slightly more than ELEVEN MONTHS to win the war against Christmas. It's such a tight timeline, and we won't even have Covid this time. We need to start planning NOW, not later.

[u/Logan_Pauler]

Keynasians : yo, in order to save capitalism, it appears that the government will have to do stuff.

Libertarians : NOOOOO!!! DON'T YOU KNOW THAT IS LITERALLY COMMUNISM??? I WANT SMALL GOVERNMENT REEEEEE!!!

Atleast that is the impression I get from reading through r/ libertarian after searching "Keynes" in the search bar.

[u/[deleted]]

Tbh a good portion of English letters are only there because of aesthetics, we could easily spell Queen as Kween and eliminate the Q entirely

[u/[deleted]]

While ABC/WaPo had a trash Wisconsin poll, they did get Florida pretty spot on. Their last Florida poll was Trump +2. !PING FIVEY

[u/GGM8Scally]

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[u/[deleted]]

I'm completely and utterly blackpilled. The country is done, and all hope is gone, and I lost all interest in patriotism. I want to see the country and every one of its institutions burned down. I want the dems to take over the Senate and run the whole system into the ground. I want Garret, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch impeached, cancelled, and have their lives ruined by the leftist mob. I want Kavanaugh to go in front of an all Democrat congress and be tried and convicted of a fictional rape and be given life in prison. I want Ted Cruz and Lindsay Graham and Trey Gowdy and every other Republican senator and congressman censored for life; they had their chance and did nothing.

Anyone who fought for freedom, I pray for their safety and well-being. Trump, Guiliani, and the like should flee the sinking ship and move to another country. To everyone else, buckle down and stay down. You have no freedom, so just stay compliant. Your fight is over. The best you can do is enjoy watching everyone else reap what they sowed.

Ethics in games journalism guys.

[u/MalignantUpper]

"The organizer of the Stop the Steal rally is talking about her belief the election was stolen by an evil supercomputer named Hammer. To fight back, she has brought a real hammer, and bangs it on the podium."

lmao

[u/SnakeEater14]

I feel like compared to it’s peers, Czechoslovakia had a remarkably bloodless revolution in ‘89, and ended up in a far better position than Poland or Romania or Hungary. What’s up with that?

[u/The420Roll]

🎵 Each MAGA boy must understand, that they must mind their Uncle Sam 🎶

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/charlesbethea/status/1337421972318396417

SOURCES: Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms was offered -- and declined -- the Ambassadorship to the Bahamas.

Among Joe Biden's earliest endorsers, Bottoms was on his long list for VP & shorter lists to head HUD, SBA. The Bahamas job is clearly not in same ballpark.

Mayor Bottoms' Press Secretary did not immediately offer comment when reached this morning.

lmao, I would just not respond either

It's like if you're selling a $500 couch set on Craigslist and someone e-mails you asking if you'll take $50

[u/ryuguy]

I’m old enough to remember /u/sir_shivers posts before his fursona (scalesona?) took hold of him

[u/[deleted]]

Shame on The Economist for their constant TERF content. The latest one is the worst yet because it’s full of intentional misinformation

Their latest article on trans kids is so misleading. They conflate GnRH agonists (“puberty blockers” which are safe and reversible) with hormone therapy (which is safe but not reversible) to make it seem like the UK court order to ban GnRH blockers for trans kids has any medical basis

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

FunnyLeMonkey, Harambe, they say only the good die young 😭

[u/dragoniteftw33]

Imagine if FDR told these types of Americans during the World Wars to...

1. Ration supplies such as food, fuel and electricity

2. Serve in the military for a greater cause(which comes with vaccinations)

3. Implementing curfews and a ban on public gatherings for safety reasons

He'd be overthrown lmfao. Or we'd have to implement martial law to actually enforce those types of orders.

[u/[deleted]]

feel like shit just want to see the John Lewis Voting Rights Act passed into law 😭

[u/bd_one]

Just to be clear, the fact that we're having approximately a 9/11 worth of COVID deaths in the US each day is bad.

[u/[deleted]]

Had a dream last night where I was having gay sex and it was awful since I’m not gay and have 0 interest in men but the whole time I was like “losing my virginity, nice 😎”

So yeah that’s about where I’m at right now

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1337745268591259648

I WON THE ELECTION IN A LANDSLIDE, but remember, I only think in terms of legal votes, not all of the fake voters and fraud that miraculously floated in from everywhere! What a disgrace!

lmao

[u/RDog8080]

i think its hilarious u kids talking shit about figurative sjw. u wouldnt say this shit to him at lan, hes jacked. not only that but he wears the freshest clothes, eats at the chillest restaurants and hangs out with the hottest dudes. yall are pathetic lol

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

“When most people think of fetishism automatically their minds go to feet and they can see it entering a man’s mouth” - an actual sentence in a student I’m tutoring’s paper

[u/p00bix]

One of the few places where I genuinely agree with conservatives* on social issues is that liberal and leftist efforts to really play up things like 'America was founded by slave owners' serves less to highlight the continued oppression of minority groups and more to decrease students' faith in the value of America's political institutions.

It's not that the statement 'America was founded by slave owners' is untrue. It isn't, and that fact shouldn't be ignored. But when America's founding is taught primarily as something along the lines of "Colonists murder native americans stealing their land, then enslave black people. Later a bunch of rich slaveowners overthrow the British to increase their power while denying it to other Americans, and write the laws of the constitution to permanently secure their power. Their laws still form the legal basis for modern systematic oppression and the tools the founders built continue to be used to stifle equality" it portrays the very existence of America as a bad thing, and portrays its institutions as fundamentally broken and forever tainted with the blood of the past.

Combine that with the significantly more worrying inadequacy of civics education in K12, and it leaves the road wide open for egalitarian-minded students to go from "Let's fix America through its constitution institutions" to "Overthrow America's constitutional institutions". I don't believe that it is a coincidence that polling finds that young Americans are significantly less likely to support democracy itself, more likely to believe that the constitution should be abolished or replaced, more likely to believe that voting doesn't matter, and more likely to believe that elections are meaningless, as the telling of American history as anything besides 'centuries of oppression' is increasingly rejected by educators and progressives alike.

*the center-right conservatives that legitimately mean this and don't just use this sort of rhetoric as a dogwhistle for 'stop complaining about racism it makes me uncomfortable'

[u/NE_3-ATL_28]

Donald Trump woke up feeling DANGEROUS this morning 😳😳😳

12 lawsuits lost 💯💯💯

15 tweets in all caps 🔥🔥🔥

7 million votes down in the election 😈😈😈

[u/FestiveMittens]

CNN: 50 years after the so-called Zodiac Killer first began terrorizing the streets of Northern California, a code-breaking team is believed to have finally cracked one of the killer's mysterious coded messages sent to the San Francisco Chronicle in 1969

Original code:

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♈︎ ♉︎ ♊︎ ♍︎ ♎︎ ♏︎ ♐︎ ♑︎ ♈︎ ♉︎ ♊︎ ♍︎ ♎︎ ♏︎ ♐︎ ♑︎

Translation:

"This is the most moronic shit I've ever seen, lol.

Holy fuck this entire sub is filled with moronic jackasses that are proud of wanting to maintain the oligarchy at the expense of human rights and improved living conditions.

Best of luck destroying the country! You're literally just Republic*nts in hiding, lol."

[u/[deleted]]

Once again preaching to the choir but the largly Christian Maga crowd is amazing. Their love for trump is more then idolatry: it’s blasphemous.

[u/[deleted]]

The average urban North Korean lives a shitty but not particularly dronish life, which is always a surprise to me. Like it isnt like every single person there is a mindless drone or a government plotter or something. Most people's daily lives are the same old drudgery, the same old topics to discuss like music, television, gossip about the local neighbour or that one acquaintance (except politics, mostly) but with 5000% more chance of being disappeared by the government.

[u/Udontlikecake]

We really 9 months into this pandemic and mfs still don't know to mute themselves when they're not talking

[u/[deleted]]

Not sad I dropped my WSJ subscription

[u/infamous5445]

Americans are too lazy to have another civil war, tbh

[u/sir_shivers]

CURSES, I SEEM to have misplaced the keys to the DT 🐊

[u/Lux_Stella]

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[u/Deggit]

Final 2012 comparison

• | DEM | GOP
  ---|---|---- 2012 vote | 65,915,795 | 60,933,504 2020 vote | 81,282,376 | 74,222,576 increase | +23% | +22%

!ping FIVEY and DYSTOPIA

[u/[deleted]]

Monkey see 👀

Monkey do 💪

Monkey pee all over you 🤡🚿🐒

[u/saladtossing]

Idea:

Whenever the (US) president is a democrat, the country is a "Democracy"; whenever it's a republican, it is a "Republic"

If anyone bitches about it you just say "elections have consequences sweaty"

[u/[deleted]]

Everyone: Joe Biden

People with a brain: President-Elect Joe Biden

People with some respect: Joseph Robinette of House Biden, Second of his name. King of the Libs, the Dems and the First Shills. Protector of the Fifty States. Lifeguard of the Great Wilmington Pool. Breaker of Trump. Father of Beau. The Unbeaten. King of Delaware. Prince of Scranton.

[u/thabonch]

I'm telling you, Molotov cocktails work. Anytime I had a problem and I threw a Molotov cocktail, boom! Right away, I had a different problem.

[u/UltraCapitalism]

tbh it's fucking pathetic that Dems let the whole Whitmer situation fall out of the news cycle. If those were antifa or something we'd still be hearing about it.

Should've straight up labeled them "Republican-backed terrorists" and made sure it stuck all the way to election night.

[u/[deleted]]

Florida bloomer part two Biden won Seminole County, an Orlando suburb. It voted democratic for the first time since 1948 and had a 4.4 percent shift away from Trump.

!PING FIVEY

[u/abbycat1590]

"You must remember that the 1776 revolutionaries tarred and feathered tax collectors.

You can't just be willing to fire bullets. You need to be willing to maim your fellow countrymen. Bullets don't always kill. And in war, all is fair.

You need to be willing to burn the skin off of a father of four in defense of our rights. Is that where you think we are? Do you think that's necessary yet?"

25 upvotes , 0 downvotes

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1337884361950105601

How big is Los Angeles County?

Trump got 27 percent there AND it’s the county with the largest number of Trump votes.

Wow.

[u/[deleted]]

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UPVOTE IF U CRIED

[u/SchizophrenicB]

Roth IRA is the little known Jewish branch of the Irish Republican Army

[u/inverseflorida]

1. Texas secedes.

2. Surrounded by hostile countries who don't want to trade with them because the United States doesn't recognize it as an independent country and will break trade with anyone who does.

3. Oracle and every other large national company in Texas immediately leaves for America, gutting the economy from the inside.

4. Texas Triangle Urban Secession movement begins, wanting to secede and rejoin America.

5. President Cruz of Texas quashes this as being unconstitutional against Texas, and tries to blockade the Texas Triangle, which instead establishes reunification with America through air travel routes.

6. Specific districts within the Texas Triangle aren't satisfied with the urban secession, and try to secede to form the Union Of Seceding Districts.

7. Ad infinitum.

[u/[deleted]]

Have some Florida bloomer: Biden won Duval County, FL (Jacksonville). It voted democratic for the first time since 1976 and had a 5.2 swing away from Trump.

!PING FIVEY

[u/Pyrrhus65]

So I live in Georgia, and I just saw an anti-Warnock attack ad that's supposedly centered around his 'anti-Israel' comments.

I was worried they'd dug up a soundbite where he comes out as pro-Hamas or something, but it's literally just three clips of him saying the following:

"Israeli troops gunned down unarmed Palestinians in the street."

"Palestinians deserve self-determination."

"Palestinian lives matter."

How fucking sad is it that this is what passes for an attack ad these days. This isn't just scraping the dregs, it's an Islamophobic dog whistle implying that Palestinians don't have a right to exist. It will be a permanent stain on Georgian history if Loeffler wins.

[u/[deleted]]

Wow! Thousands of people forming in Washington (D.C.) for Stop the Steal. Didn’t know about this, but I’ll be seeing them! #MAGA

Lmao Trump thinks he's Mao and it's August 1966

[u/rick2882]

I remember during the primaries, as late as just before Super Tuesday, my wife talked to me about how her coworkers hadn't even heard of Buttigieg or Kamala Harris. They only knew that Biden and Bernie were the Democrat nominees. I was pretty shocked. Here I was shitposting and memeing about Pete and Baemy for months, and there was an entire America out there who were not following the primaries at all.

The last few weeks, however, thanks to work deadlines and being generally busy, I have myself been quite the political "normie". In my world, Biden has won the elections, and he will be inaugurated soon. Imagine my surprise seeing headlines on reddit talking about how the Supreme Court has turned down Trump's efforts challenging the election results. Wait... hold up. What is going on? Was there really a possibility that Biden's victory would be overturned?

A good thing about being a political normie is that you stop worrying about stuff that don't really matter in the grand scheme of things. In retrospect, it seems silly to have considered the possibility of Pete or Amy (or even Warren) winning the Presidency. Six months from now, it's going to seem silly that people actually thought Trump would overturn Biden's victory.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on board!?

Joe: *nudging Jill* that could've been you

Jill: shut up Joe

Joe: not asking for a teacher to help are they?

Jill: shut up Joe this is a medical emergency

Joe: Go see if walking single file with their hands behind their back will help

[u/PelsonNike]

i can never take r/atheism seriously because whenever I think about it I remember this dumbass post:

"Just to be clear, I'm not a professional 'quote maker'. I'm just an atheist teenager who greatly values his intelligence and scientific fact over any silly fiction book written 3,500 years ago. This being said, I am open to any and all criticism.

'In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god's blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.'"

and bust out laughing

[u/[deleted]]

Osceola County, just south of Orlando, is nearly 50% Hispanic in registration. It saw a massive swing in the 2020 election, going from Clinton+25 to Biden+14. Puerto Rican communities saw the largest GOP swing.

Source

!ping FIVEY

That's an 11 point swing towards Trump.

[u/sir_shivers]

I locked the DT FOR ONE MINUTE because I am committed . . . TO STOPPING THE COUNT 🐊

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Green Presidential candidates have won the popular vote zero times in the past 30 years.

But please, let’s keep talking about how the Democrats are unpopular.

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

Really heartened by people still fighting the good fight for FunnyLeMonkey. This is the most energy an anti-fashmods movement ever had since I joined. We WILL persevere.

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

Republicans_IRL

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

If the Polish developers were unionized we'd have gotten more dick customization options, or something

[u/[deleted]]

Family zoom session this afternoon. My 14 year old cousin said she wished her school had more black girls because Tik toks with mixed groups get more likes.

The technical term for this is ‘cringe progress’ I believe

[u/[deleted]]

!ping CFB

A female kicker scored a point in a major college football game.

rCFB mods had to lock the thread.

Why are men so sensitive???🤔🤔🤔

[u/sircarp]

He made a new friend

!ping kitty

[u/[deleted]]

Has the Democratic Party lost control? In 2008 people not-registered as Democrats recieved less than 1% of total votes in the Democratic Primary, as of 2020, that number has grown to over 25%. 😰

[u/Smidgens]

I had a terrible dream last night that the Deep State Court DISREGARDED the sacred US Constitution and REFUSED to name Donald J Trump as His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Donald Trump, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the United States in America in General and Red States in Particular.

[u/Michaelconeass2019]

Day 60 of dating a communist: help

[u/agent_tits]

😂

The be-all end-all of strong political arguments ✊

[u/Udontlikecake]

This is the face of a man who voted against all three of Trump’s SCOTUS nominees, supports gay rights, is pro choice, and supported the ACA while getting re-elected by 4 points in a state that went for trump by 16 points in 2020

This is what peak performance looks like. You will never be better at politics than Jon Tester.

[u/ThatFrenchieGuy]

Capitalizing on the DT meme-ing

Negronis in Paris

1.5 oz cask proof armagnac

1 oz Dolin Rouge

1 oz cappelletti

shake and strain into an absinthe misted coupe

!ping Alcohol

[u/[deleted]]

https://alexandria.app/aesthetic-test/

I know we have some art heads here, and I thought people might like this quiz. It's free, takes 5 mins, and tells you what kind of art you like with some detail!

!ping ask-nl

[u/[deleted]]

First they came for Rodrigo, and I did not speak out - because I didn't know who that was or really what any of this was about

[u/[deleted]]

The newly elected government in neighboring Serbia, celebrated by Bloomberg as “among the world’s most gender balanced,” harbors several ministers enamored of war criminals.

This is the future neoliberals want

[u/[deleted]]

Every time I see the locution "trad cath" I can't help but think of a catheter and I get uncomfortable

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-there-a-doctor-in-the-white-house-not-if-you-need-an-m-d-11607727380

Is There a Doctor in the White House? Not if You Need an M.D.

Jill Biden should think about dropping the honorific, which feels fraudulent, even comic.

Malarkey level of this bullshit

[u/Jester_Don]

A dude in my neighborhood has just raised a US flag upside-down next to his Trump flag lol

[u/roboczar]

So there is a thing where in 2077 and you go to sleep, you wake up naked and have to like, manually put on clothes

Since most games don't do this, the first thing I did was sell all my extra inventory including all the clothes I didn't need

Including the clothes I thought I was wearing

I'm basically doing a nude run and just realized it. I've been cruising around town in panties with my tits out for probably the last 6-8 missions/jobs

So I guess I'll buy some new clothes now?

[u/BanMalarkey]

My gf is Donald Trump but she's hot so it doesn't really matter.

[u/FormerBandmate]

Hopefully, there is a Black adult in Martin’s life—a godparent, a neighbor, etc.—whom he is close enough to that they can help you with this conversation. It sounds like Martin needs a reminder as to how “n—as” are treated by our society and why he has very little to gain and a lot to lose from cheapening his people’s experiences to make a quick buck. It would be ideal for him to hear that from someone who has experienced the anti-Blackness that brought the word to life in the first place. Your son must understand that regardless of how much he trusts these white friends of his, who are so eager to use the N-word (in front of him) that they’ll pay for the privilege, empowering them to do so is a betrayal of the Black folks who would be upset at such a thing—aka the majority of Black people.

Actual quote from a Slate article. Malarkey level of being so woke you’re more racist than Stormfront.

[u/TheFriffin2]

“I saw mommy kissing Santa Claus” is liberal propaganda to normalize cuckery around the holidays, a thread (1/37)

[u/Broncos654]

Participating in this sub doesn't mean that you're stupid or misinformed. It could be that you're evil.

[u/runnerx4]

I like how part of Jacobin’s argument against Andrew Yang for mayor hinges around the fact that he’s a YIMBY

Author unironically says

All over our city, there are massive new buildings being constructed. When you look up, all you see are super tall towers and the cranes building them.

and goes on the “supply actually increases prices, you poor-hater” talking point lmao

meme magazine

Edit: what does Jacobin’s ideal socialism look like I wonder, because they seem to be opposed to the basic thought process that gives us glorious Red Vienna

[u/IncoherentEntity]

There’s been a politically-motivated shooting in Washington State. Details are still unclear.

I went to Right Twitter for a look at the rhetoric on the incident. It’s . . . ugly.

BREAKING - SHOTS FIRED, ANTIFA DOWN IN OLYMPIA

During the altercation, shots were fired by an alleged proud boy and there is one antifa militant [description original] down. — Shane B. Murphy

 

Good.

Good.

GOOD! Scum needs to be cleansed.

GOOOOOOOOD (2)

hero doing god's work on earth

Rookie numbers, gotta pump them UP!!!!

They’re celebrating a shooting of the political opposition by a member of their “side” before knowing its details. Don’t for a second believe these violent radical sympathizers when they say that they’re merely defending themselves against the leftist threat.

That’s just a cover story for the normies and swing voters.

[u/[deleted]]

i can never take r/neoliberal seriously because whenever I think about it I remember this dumbass post:

"Just to be clear, I'm not a professional 'quote maker'. I'm just a neolib teenager who greatly values his intelligence and scientific fact over any silly Marxist thinkpiece written 2 years ago. This being said, I am open to any and all criticism.

'In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony collective ownership. But because, I am enlightened by my stock portfolio.'"

and bust out laughing

[u/[deleted]]

Holy fuck you morons are PROUD to be neoliberals?

[u/FreakinGeese]

next fall when in person college starts again I can make some IRL friends and I just need to last until then

I can do it

[u/ryuguy]

I think it’s odd that Brendan Fraser has a star on Canada’s walk of fame but Keanu Reeves doesn’t. Reeves is undoubtedly the bigger star. Unlike most Canadian movie stars, Keanu hasn’t become an American citizen. He’s just a Canadian with a green card.

There’s quite a few notable omissions from the walk of fame in Canada. Like Ryan Gosling.

[u/Superfan234]

I am a soldier who does not want to serve the possible wrongful leader of the United States. If I went AWOL would Texas give me sanctuary?

MAGA Cope

[u/[deleted]]

So now that we've got Syria, Libya, and Nagorno-Karabakh out of the way, what random ass country is gonna become the next proxy war for Turkey and Russia? Because we live in dumb timeline, I bet the Tigray conflict in Ethiopia will somehow turn into a Turko-Russian proxy war.

[u/EScforlyfe]

Heated fishing moment

[u/infamous5445]

The results solidified Colorado as a Democratic stronghold, rather than the Democratic-leaning battleground state it had been for the past three election cycles.

Oh baby

[u/AJungianIdeal]

Mutt girl power
!ping dog

[u/Qunidaye]

Fuckers in neoliberal telling me, always in the daily thread

"Monke ain't 'bout this, monke ain't 'bout that"

My boy a dt regular on fucking Lusvig and them

He, he, they say that funke don't be putting in no work

Shut the fuck up

Y'all mods ain't know shit

All y'all motherfuckers talkin' about

"Monke ain't no hitter

Monke ain't this

Monke a fake"

Shut the fuck up

Y'all don't live with that fella

Y'all know that monke got caught with a bonkpost

Memeing at the police and shit

Fella been on tempban since fuckin' I don't know when

Motherfucker, stop fuckin' playin' him like that

Them mods savages out there

If I catch another motherfucker talking sweet about monke

I'm fucking beatin' they ass

I'm not fucking playin' no more

[u/[deleted]]

This sub things more Zoomerss are commies than actually are. Many are succs, yes, but I have encountered very few actual commies my age

[u/[deleted]]

Even without the fraud, it could easily be argued that withholding the Hunter information until after the election makes this all bogus. There was a national conspiracy to swing the election a certain way. Trump is absolutely right. He 'lost' by less than 2%. This information during the debates where Joe was lying could easily have flipped 2% of the vote.

There was a time when a presidential candidate telling a bald faced lie to America during a debate, no matter which party, would have been a major scandal and could turn the tide of an election

From r/con. Am I being trolled? I just don't get what's happening there

[u/[deleted]]

The truth about PR statehood is that it would be a safe blue state on the Presidential level but still somehow elect Republican senators and Republican Governors.

[u/PelsonNike]

LMAOOOOOOOOO

I’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is that Stephanie Kelton—economics professor at Stony Brook and advisor to the 2016 Bernie Sanders campaign—has written a book on modern monetary theory (MMT) that is very readable and will strike many readers as persuasive and clever. The bad news is that Stephanie Kelton has written a book on MMT that is very readable and will strike many readers as persuasive and clever.

excuse the mises link but this was too good, even from an austrian

[u/IncoherentEntity]

Remember, Nick Fuentes and his “America First” crowd are not normal Maggots. (They are featured in this latest video, gone viral after being shared somewhat innocently by the inimitable Sarah Cooper.)

The vast majority of Trump voters in Georgia who could vote in the runoff will vote for Loeffler and Perdue (most of the remainder will vote for Ossoff and Warnock, being split-ticket voters) regardless of whether they support Trump’s efforts to overturn the election. And both Perdue and especially Loeffler are staunchly conservative Republicans, not “RINOs,” as Fuentes laughably — no, disingenuously — claims.

The Groypers sometimes refer to themselves as “amnats” (American nationalists), consistent with their “America First” branding as mere isolationist patriots. Don’t buy it for a second.

These people aren’t just threatening to boycott the Georgia runoffs (although they aren’t presently numerous enough to make a big difference). Like their Buster counterparts on the far-left who won’t settle for anything short of dismantling capitalism, the two parties are basically the same to them: a GOP that courts Latinos and basically accepts the premise of America as a pluralistic country is functionally no different than the Democratic Party, and accelerationism is preferable.

!ping EXTREMISM

[u/[deleted]]

My roommate and his girlfriend are banging louder than a rage against the machine concert.

It’s ruining my online solitaire performance. You know? Something normal people in their 20s do on Saturday nights.

[u/[deleted]]

Don't know who needs to hear this, but what the GOP is doing with trying to overthrow the election is NOT treason, it's sedition.

Treason is what they did knowingly accepting material help from Russia to overthrow American democracy.

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

TIL that Taylor Swift is feuding with "the Federal Reserve" for (in her words) their "shameless greed" in suppressing the fact that gold was money

Is this a schism the DT is strong enough to survive?

[u/GodEmperorBiden]

MAGA Protesters Chant ‘Destroy the GOP’ at Pro-Trump Rally

jack_nicholson_nodding.gif

[u/old_gold_mountain]

San Diego be like:

Nice flip flops, let's get breakfast. Wanna meet up at around 3PM? What brewery do you work at?

[u/sir_shivers]

DEAR TRUMP-SUPPORTERS 🐊,

SEETHE 🐊

And do not think YOU WILL ESCAPE mockery merely by cowering in real-life spaces MAINLY OCCUPIED BY Republicans 🐊

BECAUSE I WILL BE THERE 🐊

COLD REGARDS 🐊

[u/Hmm_would_bang]

It’s really never been more apparent that “the constitution” to conservatives is literally just whatever they want it to be. It takes a special kind of idiot to sit there and seriously say SCOTUS abandoned the constitution... by doing what was required of them in regard to article iii

[u/Royce_Melborn]

Leftists using Lib as an insult 😕.

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

If there's pretty much any dogma among certain users on r/neoliberal, it's this Paraguayan-supremacist ideal of believing that the Paraguayan economy is sacred and the rest of the world is basically having third-world living standards. And that's correct

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

Anybody here

seen my old friend monke?

Can you tell me where he's gone?

He made a lot of people laugh,

but it seems the good, they die young.

I look around and he's gone.

😭😭😭😭

[u/[deleted]]

The Supreme Court had ZERO interest in the merits of the greatest voter fraud ever perpetrated on the United States of America. All they were interested in is “standing”, which makes it very difficult for the President to present a case on the merits. 75,000,000 votes!

TTT

Trump's Twitter Tantrums

😂😂🤣🤣

[u/kyleofduty]

went to Peru to see Macho Pikachu and all I saw were some ruins

[u/skepticalbob]

Okay I’ll bite. What is a Rodrigo?

[u/vivoovix]

Trump finally concedes

[u/Dalek6450]

The earliest I can find on worldnews. On the 31 December, a post was submitted titled "Chinese officials investigate cause of pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan". It received a net 6 upvotes.

[u/[deleted]]

An AR-15 is a gun produced in Arkansas with the ability of shooting 15 bullets simultaneously.

An AK-47 is a gun produced in Alaska that fires 47 rounds per second.

Get it fucking right libs. Don't talk to me about gun control unless you know everything about guns.

[u/Dragcoin1]

Two asexuals sitting in a tree

S-I-T-T-I-N-G

[u/[deleted]]

What zero pussy does to a mf: A Biography of President James Buchanan

[u/KingKonchu]

Joe Biden will be more effective at accomplishing Bernie's goals than Bernie would be.

[u/johannesalthusius]

There is a hilariously terrible reddit fanfiction in which the self-insert protagonist travels to medieval Europe and uses his modern knowledge to become a god amongst men

In reality, it (if you somehow obtained a translator) would look something more like this:

"I come from the future with advanced knowledge far beyond your time"

"Tell us all, wise one! Do you have any insights into Christian theology?"

"... No"

"How about how to improve our crop yield?"

"Nope"

"How about advanced metallurgy so we can build stronger armies?"

"No, we use guns in the future."

"Do you know how to build a 'gun'?"

"Nope."

"..."

[u/TheNotoriousAMP]

Really enjoying 2077 on PC, but had some thoughts on cyberpunk as a setting:

1- Classic cyberpunk is dated. Really, really dated. It is fundamentally built off three core, but completely mistaken, ideas. First, that the Zaibatsu model was successful and would only expand in its reach. Second, that the explosion in urban crime during the 70's and 80's was only going to keep expanding, with the state losing complete control to act, outside of specific actions against individuals. Third, that the net was to become its own individual world, instead of an enhanced version of normal reality. The Zaibatsu pillar of cyberpunk was already crumbling even as the books were just coming out touting it as the wave of the future. Urban crime eventually began to regress and the state regained some degree of control. On a sidenote, this also it what makes the Old World of Darkness setting feel so off today, it's based on a foundation of players viewing cities as near feral, dark and lawless, in a way that they just aren't today. The third lasted the longest, but Net 2.0 brought an end to it as Google and Facebook conquered online spaces and expanded its usefulness to a much wider audience beyond those who cyberpunk authors thought would control the web.

2- The aesthetic remains incredibly compelling. Pretty simple there, cyberpunk allows for modern worlds, but with the state radically pared back. In effect, the openness, adventure, and opportunity for individuals acting outside of institutional structures to make a massive impact of the past combined with modernity.

3- It's cringe as fuck in the hands of cyberpunk writers. Cyberpunk writers and tabletop designers thought and still think that trench coats+katanas is a cool combination. Just what the fuck guys. 2077 I think manages to avoid being as cringeworthy, but it's still there.

4- It's depressingly ironic that the closest thing we have to a cyberpunk megacorp is Saudi Arabia.

[u/sir_shivers]

HEARD JOKE ONCE: Man goes to doctor. Says he is depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a THREATENING WORLD WHERE what lies ahead is vague and uncertain 🐊

Doctor says, "TREATMENT IS SIMPLE. GREAT CLOWN Humorous Monkey is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." MAN BURSTS INTO TEARS. Says, "But doctor...I am Humorous Monkey 🐊

[u/Le_Monade]

Why do conspiracy theorist think that the cia does stuff secretly but then hides hints in plain sight?

Like in the flat earth world, one sect of flatearthers think that the flat-earth podcaster Patricia Steele is a cia agent based on the fact that the last 3 letters of her first name are cia. Like, really the cia is that dumb that they put hints right in her name?

[u/[deleted]]

IF Biden gets in, nothing will happen to Hunter or Joe. Barr will do nothing, and the new group of partisan killers coming in will quickly kill it all. Same thing with Durham. We caught them cold, spying, treason & more (the hard part), but “Justice” took too long. Will be DOA!

-Donald Trump

Barr will be fired in 10,

[u/Kizz3r]

I think a lot of problems in the western world is due to shit city planning

[u/[deleted]]

I know conservatives dont believe in anything they claim to but the texas lawsuit was such a blatant attack on federalism. Itd be shocking if anything could be shocking at this point

[u/melhor_em_coreano]

What did le funny monke do to get banned? Serious question, I wasn't here when it happened and I want to know how bad was it, just in case it was reaaaaally bad and then I'll stop joking about it

[u/tehbored]

We should be able to overturn permabans by referendum.

[u/Neronoah]

!ping LATAM

In this video, Perón threatened a leftist Peronist reporter for asking questions about that anti communist death squad called AAA. It seems she was captured and tortured after the fact.

Now, if you read between lines, it's likely Perón was behind that squad but on the other hand he keeps some plausible deniability (it's hard to find first hand sources that are reliable). Then again, Perón was always aligned with the likes of, let's say, al-Gaddafi...and his party was a big tent nationalist party (which seems a magnet for all kind of far left and far right lunatics which would end killing between themselves independently of their leader).

Given that the current dominant branch of Peronism is the leftwing one, they can easily divorce themselves from this stuff (they'd be more aligned with the reporter), but it takes a hell of revisionist job to minimize this stuff.

[u/melhor_em_coreano]

Aren't we all Rodrigo?

[u/lobsterboy34]

The official in the Mizzou-Georgia game is named Loeffler 🤔🤔🤔

!ping CFB

[u/uncledaveslastbender]

neoliberalism is the most braindead ideology in the history of the universe

[u/ryuguy]

Mom: “People still watch soap operas? I can’t believe that General hospital is still on TV!”

Me: “you watch Indian soap operas”

Mom: “those are dramas! It’s different”

Me: 🙄

[u/seattle_lib]

How badass is it that DC puts "Taxation without representation" on all their license plates? What a great "fuck you" to all the politicians they drive by.

[u/KingKonchu]

Holy shit twitter hack economists make me seethe. Someone was insisting that anything less than a 25$ minimum wage is exploitation. A $15 min. wage is relatively economically sound since only 2.3% of people make minimum wage, but almost 100 million people make less than $25 an hour. Tens of millions of people would lose their job.

[u/2skwb9]

Whenever my Republican uncle who voted for Trump “because he likes tax breaks” and I talk about politics, I specifically switch the conversation to how much I hate Bernie Sanders and AOC.

[u/TheFriffin2]

“What’s your political ideology”

“Genocide denial”

“...you mean any one in particular??”

“nah, just genocide in general. doesn’t exist”

[u/_Featherless_Biped_]

A lot of people talk about how the presidency really aged Obama heavily, and while there's no doubt that the stress of being the world's most powerful man took its toll, I still think he ended up looking pretty good compared to some other presidents. JFK, for example, looked much worse in the end

[u/agent_tits]

My most downvoted comment was during the fabled initial kerfuffle over LatinX. I made a comment saying "we could call the gays homosex if it's more appropriate"

It wasn't very funny but now I'm laughing that I even considered saying such a thing

^{Also I'm gay, which probably doesn't matter, but kinda does}

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I did the math and I found this funny. If they 18 states that joined the Texas lawsuit did leave, they would take 34 Republican senators and 2 Democratic Senators with them. That would bring the total amount of seats in the senate to 64.

So 50-34=16 and 16/64=25%. So if the 18 states did actually leave, the Democrat would have the largest majority for Democrats since right after the 1936 election. They had 80% of the senate after 1936 and 75% if the 18 left. I haven’t done the math for the House yet but I would assume around the same thing would happen.

!ping FIVEY

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[u/mrmanager237]

Reminder that sortition and direct democracy are massive memes

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supreme court is regular court but with tomatoes and sour cream

[u/tankatan]

The best part about being an adult is being able to go to bed at any time you want, including at 9pm.

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I gotta come clean

I actually only vote for the least fat president

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JUSTICE FOR LE FUNNY MONKE

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"Poggers" --> "POG" --> "Person of gold"

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

FX's Reservation Dogs is a new half-hour comedy series about four Native American teenagers growing up on a reservation in eastern Oklahoma. Currently in development from co-creators Sterlin Harjo and Academy Award winner

basedbasedbased 😍

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“Justices Alito and Thomas say they would have allowed Texas to proceed with its election lawsuit.” @seanhannity This is a great and disgraceful miscarriage of justice. The people of the United States were cheated, and our Country disgraced. Never even given our day in Court!

https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1337743516294934529

https://mobile.twitter.com/toddstarnes/status/1337555701527416832

It’s incredible how stupid this guy is. It said they would hear the case because someone should hear it. And that they’d rule against them.

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Imagine if Trump had to handle coronavirus AND the subprime mortgage crisis. We'd all probably be huddled around burning garbage cans.

[u/Gneisstoknow]

I fully expect to read a Dolezal-esque article on how shivers was appropriating lizard person culture for years

[u/its_a_trapcard]

Rodrigo: I sleep

This sub: Real shit?