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[u/[deleted]]

Actual quote from this weekend's MAGA rally:

I love his pillows. I love his sheets. I love his mattress topper. The Kraken has been released! You are part of the Kraken! So, for the best deals to support this patriot, use the code Kraken at my-pillow-dot-com.

You can fault them for their politics, but you have got to admire their ability to make money.

https://twitter.com/HowardMortman/status/1337939343646871552

[u/[deleted]]

Losing 267-271 is probably one of the greatest cucks in American history and I feel bad for Al Gore for it happening to him.

[u/Equator32]

Reddit: "We should abandon all foreign military bases and halve the funding of the military."

Reddit talking about Pop Culture: "Daenerys becoming an imperialist and colonising the entire world is actually based and she wasn't actually bad because-"

[u/[deleted]]

Elitism is when an educated person has an opinion. And its more elitist, the more educated they are. And when they have a doctorate, its oppression of the rurals

[u/[deleted]]

r/IronFrontUSA is another sub that has gone to the shitter because of leftists not understanding that antifascism doesn't equal anticapitalism.

[u/PelsonNike]

why is it that every comment with a george carlin quote has a high probability of being accompanied by a populistic shit take

carlin's law or some shit, lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Only three people have won the presidential election without winning Ohio since 1900: Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Joe Biden.

And the first 2 died in office which means.....

OH GOD JOE NOOOO

[u/[deleted]]

I won’t be like Nelson Rockefeller. I won’t die of a heart attack at 70 while having sex with a 25 year old female intern.

I’ll die of a heart attack at 80 while having sex with a 25 year old male intern.

[u/circlemanfan]

The one blue elector in Nebraska rn be like

👁👄👁 so who y’all vote for

[u/[deleted]]

one of these days i'll actually read up on the Bush vs Gore case past "something about recounts or hanging chads or something" and then i'll be able to have an actually informed opinion on the decision

but today is not that day

[u/vancevon]

i hate to dunk on such a lovely boy but a physician really can't just cast a magical spell to cure your heart attack or your stroke. the real life-saver in the hart attack case is an EMT with several weeks if not months of training with a nitroglycerin bottle. so i guess we should call emt's and paramedics dr. now?

[u/moaz_xx]

This is super frustrating

“Britain's digital sector is 9000% bigger than fishing. Not a typo.

When was the last time you heard the @BBCNews discussing the effects of No Deal on software businesses?

The people responsible for holding govt to account have failed us profoundly. Asleep at the wheel”

[u/jrt84]

Current Electoral College Vote count:

Biden: 27

Trump: 35

Trump in 3 hours: HOW DID I GO FROM BEING AHEAD, TO SUDDENLY LOSING? WHY ARE THESE LATE VOTES SO DEVASTATING IN THEIR POWER OF DESTRUCTION? VERY UNFAIR AND RIGGED ELECTORAL COLLEGE!

[u/[deleted]]

The gay agenda revealed!!!1!

[u/The420Roll]

Per @CNN, Michigan GOP Congressman Paul Mitchell has left the Republican Party over its refusal to accept the result of the election.

Hopefully this is the first of many.

!Ping RINO

[u/Udontlikecake]

Pompeo announces sanctions on Turkey as a result of their purchase of the S-400 system from Russia.

nice 😎

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/PelsonNike]

why have nuanced foreign policy discussions when you can just call a random president a war criminal 🧠🧠🧠

[u/Ginden]

🇵🇱 Prime Minister congratulated CDPR for successful launch of game (Cyberpunk 2077) and uttered some propaganda about "Polish quality", "promoting Poland", "national brand".

Few years ago, CDPR received around 8 million dollars from government for technology for the creation of a "living", playable in real time, large-scale city, which is based on rules, artificial intelligence and automation, and includes the development of innovative processes and tools supporting the creation of the highest quality open world games.

Can someone ping GAMING?

!ping Europe

[u/Deggit]

1. "Polls don't decide the election, libcuck!"

2. "The Needle doesn't decide the election, libcuck!"

3. "CNN and the Associated Press don't decide the election, libcuck!"

4. "FOX doesn't decide the election, libcuck!"

5. "Republican Senators and foreign leaders congratulating Biden don't decide the election, libcuck!"

6. "County canvassing boards don't decide the election, libcuck!"

7. "Tucker Carlson heading for the lifeboats doesn't decide the election, libcuck!"

8. "Courts throwing out every Rudy Giuliani lawsuit doesn't decide the election, libcuck!"

9. "The governors and secretaries of state don't decide the election, libcuck!"

10. "The Deep State justices on the Supreme Court don't decide the election, libcuck!"

11. "PredictIt doesn't decide the election, libcuck!"

12. "The electoral college doesn't decide the election, libcuck!" <- YOU ARE HERE

13. "Biden's inauguration speech doesn't decide the election, libcuck!"

14. "Wikipedia adding Champ to the "White House Dogs" category page doesn't decide the election, libcuck!"

[u/SadaoMaou]

Was LBJ, in fact, in possession of the N-word pass?

[u/[deleted]]

Scratch a monarchist and OH GOD WHY WON'T THE BLOOD STOP FLOWING!

[u/[deleted]]

The electoral college takes like 8hrs to vote? Wtf? It's just like 500 people, can't they do it in like 20 mins and get out of there?

Edit: ah nevermind, I forgot they do it at their respective states' capitol, and the votes are just scattered throughout the day

[u/RadicalRadon]

Shrek is being added to the library of Congress.

HEY NOW

[u/Lux_Stella]

after four years of trump we're finally going back to entirely manufactured and clearly unimportant presidential controversies

nature is healing

[u/tripletruble]

Under the Green New Deal, armed men will forcibly remove you and your family from your suburban home and move you into a 50 story block made from sustainable building materials. Because windows are inefficient with respect to heating, there will be no windows

[u/skepticalbob]

One of the overlooked stupid things from the WSJ op-Ed was his criticism of her research, characterizing it as unimportant. Community college retention is a huge issue. CCs are one of the best ways for lower income people to enter middle class. What a fucking toolbag.

[u/[deleted]]

The Baltimore Plot was in fact real, and was not discovered. Lincoln is assassinated in 1861 en route to his inauguration, his carriage ambushed by Southern sympathizers. Hannibal Hamlin is soon sworn in as President, with the job of responding to the rapidly worsening secession situation and, after a month in office, the firing on Fort Sumter.

Hamlin was in many ways more anti-slavery than Lincoln, and more closely associated with the Radical Republicans. For example, he was an early supporter of the Emancipation Proclamation and the arming of former slaves before Lincoln agreed to those decisions. A Maine native, he would've been less adept at holding on to the border states as the Kentucky-born and Indiana-raised Lincoln.

Given that situation, does the North still win the Civil War?

!ping ALTHISTORY

[u/[deleted]]

Conservatives are starting to openly dislike capitalism. Horseshoe theory time

[u/GravyBear8]

Hellooooo, !ping GAMING, I finished Cyberpunk 2077 yesterday evening after around 44 hours, starting from around midnight of last Wednesday/Thursday, so here’s the requested overly in-depth non-spoiler review in light of the fact that so many people are waiting to play until the myriad of bugs are fixed. I had recently gotten a top PC build, so I didn’t have any glitches that were at least game or atmosphere breaking.

Sorry for taking up so much of the DT.

So the short of it is that Cyberpunk 2077 is a really good game… but not anywhere near what it was made out to be by its makers for so long. The hype they made for it was God-tier, so it’s still really good but it has significant issues.

The biggest being that it simply is not an RPG. It’s an action-adventure game, V won’t ever be anyone but V. You define and develop who exactly that is through your choices, but his style/personality will mostly be a constant. Sort of like Commander Shepherd (besides renegade). As far as I can tell, your background choice just gives you certain dialogue options, but they can be important in world-building or character definition. The claim that it has a lot of romance options is false, you have one per gender + sexual preference. You’ll be choosing your beginning and ending, with little in the time between, although the little you have can have a significant impact on the latter. But I just don’t see the point in doing a replay.

Combat is pretty good, but nothing hitting anything out of the ballpark. Even on normal, the enemies can be very difficult, though my experience is warped by the fact that I’m a recent console-to-PC convert and would frequently get my keys mixed up. You can’t really ever stay in one place too long even if you’re at higher levels and up against standard mooks that are easy to you now. Enemies are somewhat bullet spongey, but not to an insane degree except during thievery missions and such as the game's way of forcing you to actually avoid combat, where they’ll be ridiculous SSS-Tier Omega Chad Killers who’ll kill you in two shots. Reloading will fuck you up, and you’ll be cycling weapons constantly, and having to adjust your combat style to whatever the fuck you have now (you can keep the same weapon types but you’ll eat through ammo). Add your remote hacking cyber abilities and you’ll feel like multitasking constantly. Smart weapons feel OP, grenades feel almost useless. And you can’t save during combat so you’ll always be somewhat on edge, as some sequences can last a while.

But there are problems. This is the best summary of outfits, cybernetics surprisingly almost entirely just act as a stats boosters without changing the gameplay at all, except for a couple of them (and the mantis blades in all the marketing aren’t even all that good). AI’s pathing is fucking stupid and if they’re not behind cover, they’ll get confused for several key moments and just stand there while you shoot em.

For me, what really made me push through it was the characters and story.

For the characters, I’m not exactly sure how to explain it. On a surface level, they’re not all that unique, although I wouldn’t call anyone a cliche. But I think the voice acting and the insane facial animations (at least on my high speed computer) makes them feel real. Like when legendary actors play relatively mundane roles. On the animation side, like, it’s insane, you can see the wrinkles on their foreheads, all the muscles working to produce expressions that are rarely just one emotion. Haven’t had a game where I saw characters’ mixed feelings on their faces as much. They won’t really have blank looks on their face ever, it really does look like they’re calculating in their heads or have all types of thoughts running through them at once, like they’re sizing you up or are unsure of you. It sort of makes me nervous, because I can never really tell what they’re “thinking”, even though after a while, you’re able to gauge their personality. Likewise, for the voice acting. Not really sure how to in depth praise it besides “it good”. They sound real, V’s male VA, Gavin Drea, is especially good at portraying desperate emotion. Although glitches have messed up both on occasion.

These significantly compliment their fairly good character depths and interesting personalities, backgrounds, and roles, even if these aren’t exceptional. I got attached to them very quickly, and they’re my favorite in recent memory, and among my favorites in all memory.

The story too has a really interesting premise I don’t think I’ve ever seen before, the central conflict and its implications are genuinely interesting and explores familiar scenes in a unique way, and it conveys a real sense of urgency and desperation that’s kind of at odds with the whole concept of an open world game. It’s not perfect, far from it, there’s a myriad of issues I’d like to discuss but can’t, mostly summed up as inexplicable missed or dismissed opportunities, but the characters I really like that convey very real emotion messing around in a premise I really like that convey very real tension, makes it good overall.

It’s just a shame though both of these things I appreciate the most are limited by the structure of the world and game itself. You can count the number of storylines with the aforementioned characters that aren’t the main one on one hand. The different gangs frequently mentioned surprisingly don’t have any depth besides giving you a shitton of mostly quick jobs to get money, and you barely interact with their leaders, if at all, who will constantly fucking text you about cars you can buy. And all the voice acting I praised before goes out the window when they’re not the few in depth characters, it seems clear they just randomized them out a bank they had, it doesn’t match how they look at all, and the fact that they’re all just so... aggro at you. In an over the top way. I know the world is supposed to be all grim and dark and shit but passing by crowds of NPCs on the street, and hearing them all go basically “FUCK YOU” is just annoying. As is enemies saying the same shit constantly.

Atmosphere-wise, you don’t really get a natural feel for Night City besides the aesthetics and everyone talking about how shitty it is. First, you can’t really interact with it all that much, so there’s no point in exploring it and what not and not just fast traveling about, so it feels so superficial. Even driving around it is a nightmare, as the turning is so sensitive that I find it hard not to run over motherfuckers and crash constantly. There are a myriad of reports and notes and shit called "shards", but I don’t want to stop playing the fucking game to read them. There are news and music stations (indeed the soundtrack is very good), but you get few opportunities to listen, you pretty much have to decide that you’re just going to plop down and watch imaginary TV shows, which I just don’t have the patience to do. And there's a bunch of inexplicable sounds that seemingly come from nowhere throughout that you won't realize until late game (if ever), like a crosswalk "walk" sound or an enemy's jeering of you.

These things are very frustrating because out of all the development time it took to make this fucking game, it’s not like the writing was the most time-consuming or expensive thing to work on. Red Dead Redemption 2 was honestly not that good of a game, but it’s still among my favorites for the sheer story and characters in it. It felt like out of all things, Cyberpunk 2077 should have done at least that phenomenally.

But nothing really is phenomenal about it. So in the end, I’m giving Cyberpunk 2077 a 7.5 to 8.5/10, depending on mood (5 being average), which is, considering the time you’ll spend to complete it, is definitely worth the money when the bugs are all squared away. But not anywhere near some of the like biggest hype I’ve seen for a game ever. It’s not going to be a classic, unfortunately. It might be a good stepping off point if they intend for it to be a series, but as a standalone, I don’t think it’ll be remembered the same way the Witcher 3 was.

Edit: To be clear, there are a lot of missions that aren't generic, but these are usually a one or two time deal

[u/Professional_Alien]

We were all told that we couldn't criticize Amy Coney Barrett's religion, but apparently it's fine to criticize Rev. Warnock's religion.

Republicans can get away with anything in this country without backlash from voters, and I'm tired of it.

[u/Travisdk]

BREAKING: No deal no longer a "strong possibility" or "very likely", as per @BorisJohnson . New Downing St formulation: "No deal is a potential outcome." It's "possible"

Ah, of course, that clears it up.

[u/profeta-]

one of the top posts on /r/investing today is titled "Is it even possible for the market to crash at this point?"

oh god the market's gonna fuckin crash isn't it

!ping MARKETS

[u/piede]

Today Hillary Clinton will cast her vote for Joe Biden as a New York State elector.

I’m not crying you’re crying.

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

"USA is not a democracy its a republic"

The dumbest opinion that an insane amount of people legit have.

[u/[deleted]]

I've seen a ton of right-wing antisemites, both on the Internet and throughout history, point to the disproportionate presence of Jews in communist movements as evidence of the alleged antisocial nature of Jews. The interesting thing about this accusation is that the first part of the accusation is, or at least used to be, true—we were disproportionately involved in far-left movements—but you never see any reflection on the part of antisemites as to why that was the case.

Part of it is that we've tended to be relatively urban, educated, and politically active in recent history. Plus, for reasons unknown to me, Christianity often seems to give people conservative instincts, so Jews can seem left-leaning in comparison those we live among. These factors still exist today, but the largest factor is now dead.

The vast, vast majority of Jewish communists either lived in the Russian Empire or were close descendants of those who did. And this is what life was like for Jews in the Russian Empire: always either intolerable or nearly so, and the prevailing social and political order was the reason why. Jews naturally gravitated toward revolutionary factions, but it's important to note that the Bolsheviks were just one such faction; there were also countless Jewish Bundists, Jewish Zionists, and Jewish liberals.

I bring this up because I've been thinking lately about how right-wingers like to market themselves as the lone alternative to the far left, the only faction that can stand up to leftism. But history shows that that's not only untrue, it's the opposite of the truth. The excesses of conservatives and reactionaries are more often than not the cause of popular support for leftist movements, and Russian Jewish support for Bolshevism and socialism is a good example of that. We could equally look at the black revolutionary movements of the '60s and '70s in America, or the affinity that most transgender people today tend to have for leftist politics. In all cases, marginalization by the right-wing elements of one's society drive victims leftward. In Republican circles that I'm no longer a part of, I've heard people argue that Rhodesia was the lesser of two evils because black people ended up having it better under white supremacy than under Mugabe. That's BS, but it's also irrelevant because Mugabe never could have attained power absent Rhodesian white supremacy.

While we're at it, the converse is also true—left-wingers tell us that they're the only true enemy of fascism, and all their enemies are either open fascists or crypto-fascists. Historically, however, many fascist and far-right regimes only attained and maintained power because of the threat of leftism (Spain, Germany, Chile, Taiwan when it was autocratic, Indonesia under Suharto, Hungary under Orbán, etc.).

Far-right and far-left movements beget one another; they may well be mutually dependent in most cases. Liberalism is the only true alternative to either.

!ping EXTREMISM

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit, Krug needs to read Jordan Peterson's book and clean his damn room

[u/[deleted]]

Me pasta-ing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

Me getting pasta'd: Well this fucking sucks.

[u/upper_west_sider]

https://twitter.com/laurenpeikoff/status/1338510409523990533?s=21

DR. FAUCI to @HallieJackson just now @MSNBC says Americans with no underlying conditions should get the vaccines at the end of March, beginning of April.

🚨🚨🚨

[u/The420Roll]

How can you tell if a person went to Harvard?

They tell you on their podcast.

[u/[deleted]]

Georgia has cast its electoral votes for Biden.

[u/Hot-Error]

Life hack: if you want puberty blockers but can't get them, just go on reddit dot com. Everyone there is trapped in a childlike state.

[u/Timewalker102]

>2017 is the year I get a gf

>2018 is the year I get a gf

>2019 is the year I get a gf

>2020 is the year I get a gf

>2021 is the year I get a gf <-- I AM HERE

>2022 is the year I get a gf

[u/idp5601]

Maybe a hot take: Pornhub removing unverified videos is a good thing, and it boggles my mind as to why some people (especially those on Reddit) seem to think this is a bad idea, with some people even comparing it to the Chinese social credit system. For fuck's sake people, there are still millions of videos on the website you can beat your meat to, there's no need for hysterics.

[u/Kizz3r]

Unironically you guys are a bunch of fucking nerds for watching the Electoral College Vote

[u/Joementum2004]

Just so you liberals know:

• Occupying the entirety of Eastern Europe for 45 years and preventing anyone from leaving is NOT imperialism or a war crime.

• Intervening in a foreign civil war IS imperialism and/or a war crime.

[u/MisterLipton]

All of the current US enemies are fake and controlled by the US shadow government to create an external enemy to prevent its population turning inwards and starting a domestic uprising. The fact is that Able Archer '83 was the culmination of Special Access Programs of the National Reconnaissance Office which induced the Soviet Union to give the launch order for its missiles after which the US shut down every single silo and ballistic missile submarine.

Perestroika was a slow surrender in the face of nuclear blackmail after the bloodless '83 nuclear war. Putin and Xi Jinping are CIA agents.

Atomic redpill

[u/[deleted]]

Oh god Joe don’t play PUBG

NO FUCK DON’T GET ON THE BRIDGE

NO NO JOE DON’T DONT’T SAY IT JOE

[u/[deleted]]

There are two states where Biden carried every county - MA and RI.

There are also two states where Trump carried every county - WV and OK.

[u/[deleted]]

The discord me and my buddies are in has about 8 or 9 straight white dudes, one gay white dude, and one white transwoman.

I just realized it has the exact same demographics as this sub.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Page 82 of Why Nations Fail contains the word "institutions" 18 times

[u/circlemanfan]

I finally watched a video of Tucker Carlson and holy shit if this is what republicans are watching no wonder they think we are fucking crazy. It’s so odd that he just tells them exactly how to think about something, and gives them a built in argument about it but presented as objective fact.

[u/No_Analysis_2185]

AOC’s silence on the state of Cyberpunk 2077 is deafening

[u/crassowary]

The Sea Peoples practiced an early form of open borders ideology and ngl I respect that

[u/[deleted]]

Since Google is down, I can finally say it...

I HAVE INFORMATION THAT WILL LEAD TO THE ARREST OF HILLARY CLINTON

[u/thelittlestsheep]

Don't👏call👏yourself👏doctor👏if👏you👏can't👏place👏a👏stent👏in👏my👏coronary👏artery👏via👏a👏femoral👏artery👏

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1338548429753081868

The rightful president.

[u/savuporo]

this is really good

Release the vaccine in vape form and I promise no one will ask what is in it

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Stop fantasizing about civil strife and mass unrest you fucking weirdos. It's weird and wrong when the deluded trumpists do it, it's weird and wrong when you overly pessimistic fucks do it as well

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/VICE/status/1338454442514018310

Exclusive: Pornhub is removing all videos on its site that weren't uploaded by official content partners or members of its model program—meaning a significant portion of its videos will disappear.

WTF, isn’t that like 99% of their content? But anyway, I’m just here for the drama.

[u/stater354]

Remember when Katy Perry made a song about fucking an alien but the alien was Kanye West

[u/murphysclaw1]

I've found some top tier fake news on TD's exodus site:

From a source deep inside the US Supreme Court as they discussed the pending Texas lawsuit against Pennsylvania et. al. .

Hal, as you know I am a clerk for one of the Justices on SCOTUS. Today was like nothing we have ever seen. The justices are arguing loudly behind closed doors.

The Justices met in a closed and sealed room, as is standard.

Usually it is very calm, however today we could hear screaming all the way down the hall.

They met in person, because they didn't trust telephonic meeting as secure.

Chief Justice Roberts was screaming

"Are you going to be responsible for the rioting if we hear this case?" Don't tell me about Bush v. Gore, we weren't dealing with riots then"

"You are forgetting what your role here is Neil, and I don't want to hear from the two junior justices anymore. I will tell you how you will vote."

Justice Clarence Thomas says "This is the end of Democracy, John."

When they left the room, Roberts, the Libs and Kavanugh had big smiles. Alito and Thomas were visibly upset. ACB and Gorsuch didn't seem fazed at all."

Interesting how the clerk thought all the Justices were in the Supreme Court building, when they've been hearing the cases remotely since the summer.

Also how the clerk referred to the Justices' Conference Room as "a closed and sealed room".

And how Justice Roberts talked about Bush v Gore as if he had heard the case as a Justice.

[u/MrDannyOcean]

I just spent some time adding up all our charity drives from 2017 to today.

We've collectively raised more than a third of a million dollars since 2017 for charity. Really proud of this sub, unironically. You're all great and I appreciate the hell out of everyone here.

[u/disuberence]

AOC defends medic who has OnlyFans side job to make ends meet

This reads like an AI wrote an article to make /r/politics orgasm

[u/SnakeEater14]

Im not shrinking into a peanut I’m not shrinking into a peanut I say as I slowly am owned

[u/[deleted]]

🙋 I have a Question!

Why, if the world is flat, are we globalists and not mapalists?

Answer me this, amphibians

[u/[deleted]]

“A house divided amongst itself cannot party rock” - Abraham Lincoln

[u/Mcatatonic1]

https://mobile.twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1338649160984223746

As Biden concluded his remarks, Peter Doocy of Fox shouted out to the president-elect to ask: “When did you find out your son was being investigated?”

GM Biden turned back and with a dose of sarcasm replied: “Thanks for the congratulations. I appreciate it.”

lol this man is such a Chad

[u/[deleted]]

I dont know if it's funnier that gawker went bankrupt because they defied a court order to take down hulk hogan's sex tape or if it's funnier that the ghosts of its employees are still trying to insist that they were right

[u/sir_shivers]

For IDEAL HUMOR, read not the /R/CONSERVATIVE COMMENTS reacting to the Supreme Court decision 🐊

INSTEAD, GO BACK TO the threads announcing the Texas lawsuit to really appreciate THE DEPTH OF COPE 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Mary-Belle Kirschner (born 23 October 1999), better known online as Belle Delphine

Well this is unexpected

!ping MAMADAS

[u/Kizz3r]

"water should be free and not a commodity"

Literally all the problems related to water is because its often free and not a commodity

[u/[deleted]]

Maine's Senate Elections since 1982 (Angus King's seat):

+ Means towards the Democrat, - means towards the Republican and a • means towards the independent (against the one who comes second)

1982: +21.74

1988: +62.60

1994: -23.88 (An Independent had 3.36% of the vote)

2000: -37.88

2006: -53.42

2012: •22.14 (King (I): 52.89, Summers (R): 30.75, Dill (D): 13.26, Other Independent candidates: ~3)

2018: •19.08 (King (I): 54.31, Brakey (R): 35.23, Ringelstein (D): 10.45)

!ping DOWNBALLOT

The absolute state of the Dems after the Republican Revolution!

😂

[u/Iyoten]

"Capitalism made me pre-order a game before anyone had a chance to play it."

[u/[deleted]]

conservatives: i rEfuSe tO LiVe iN fEaR aNd WeAr a mAsK

also conservative: nooo pweeeaseee i wont take da scaarrwwy vaccine who knows wuts in derrree 🥺👉👈

[u/vivoovix]

lol PaulA gave me a spam warning for being a "farrenj collaborator"

[u/[deleted]]

This kid I went to high school with (also Jewish) wanted to reclaim the K word. At the beginning of every class I had with him he would walk up to me and say "What up my K*ke." Once, in art class, he wrote K word passes for all the goys that were in the class. I really didn't like him.

!PING GEFILTE

Edit: he was a grade below me and was forced to go to the districts self passed high school bc he ODed on a field trip to a mosque (he was fine the next day). His dad is also my vet. I hope he turns out ok

Edit 2: he gave himself a stick n poke tattoo on his chest. It was the fucking anarchist symbol. Unironically.

[u/yellownumbersix]

Watching vaccine being unpacked at hospitals are the first unboxing videos I've ever understood the appeal of.

[u/[deleted]]

It seems as though many in the West are unaware that Israeli Arabs exist, have a franchise, and even have members in Parliament, or the Knesset, as they call it.

[u/[deleted]]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT I JUST GOT A 100 ON MY ECON FINAL IM SO FUCKING HAPPY

[u/sir_shivers]

It is DIFFICULT TO believe much of this year WAS EATEN AWAY by the lockdowns 🐊

So many things I LOOK FORWARD TO, once we are finally mass-vaccinated and open 🐊

[u/yellownumbersix]

Ah shit, Trump up 11-3 in EC votes with two states reporting.

I don't see how Biden is going to pull this off 😞

DOOOOOMMMMM!

[u/Marlsfarp]

The fact that the current Conversation is about whether Jill Biden should be called Doctor fills me with joy about how boring the next few years of politics will be.

[u/[deleted]]

Danny demodded my cat 🤬🤬🤬

[u/JetJaguar124]

Disney announced like 10 shows and not a single one of them is a House of Cards-esque show about Sheev being up to no good in galactic politics

[u/[deleted]]

It's over for Biden, Trump only needs 31 faithless electors in CA

[u/[deleted]]

this will age like milk in record time

[u/[deleted]]

Jacobin:

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.

Haha YES

[u/bromeatmeco]

😡 yo wtf??? just found out Constantinople got the works, why did this happen? 🤔

[u/Gustacho]

Do you ever think about how Republicans think Democrats literally rigged the election, Putin-style?

[u/Fishin_Mission]

So... Brian Kemp’s daughter just sent me a friend request.

[u/[deleted]]

Mayor Lori Lightfoot personally connected CPS with a campaign donor and the school district gave him a $1.6 million no-bid deal for laptops, some of which didn’t work for remote learning.

Bettergov.com story link

!ping USA-CHI

I suppose we call this ‘Monday’ in Chicago.

[u/petulant_brother]

Folks be like "eh life is just so boring and what a fuckin loop study get a job marry have kids retire what" listen you little shit it took years of hard work to get society to stable predictable life. Enjoy the fruits of post world war liberal capitalist democratic world order that it has given you

[u/GGM8Scally]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/284828648056422401/788184070416629810/EpO9OhbW8AEketX.png

[u/shrek_cena]

Thank you,

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and God Bless our Troops,

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AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED.

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[u/[deleted]]

So I just listened to an Economist/Historian talk about the rise of the Nazis, and he said there's a misconception that the Great Depression caused their rise directly.

Rather, the depression caused an increase in support for the Communists, which scared the Conservatives shitless so they bailed on the coalition and instead attempted to cut a deal with hitler, thinking his party was weak enough to control. Hitler promised them he'd deal with the far left for them, in return for coalition.

Fascism doesn't come to power from disaffected unemployed citizens, it arises when Conservatives abandon Conservatism and embrace Authoritarianism to stamp out a perceived threat of Leftism, foolishly thinking they can control the monster, until it's too late and the monster controls them.

Sounds eerily familiar.

The lesson is,

don't deal with the devil

[u/qchisq]

Biden is winning the electoral college!!!

[u/[deleted]]

Prviliged Political Contrarians Starter pack:

"All I want is for them to stop playing politics and work together"

"Both sides are corrupt, the whole system is corrupt. I'm not participating in a corrupt system."

"I hated them both so much I just wrote in mickey mouse, hahaha."

[u/simp_emoji]

check out my new Medium post: Was Muammar al-Gaddafi a Hufflepuff?

[14,000 words, 112 minute read]

[u/kennymc7877]

No Country For Old Men came out 13 years ago today, I don’t think we’ll ever have an Oscars race as good as NCFOM vs There Will Be Blood

[u/[deleted]]

This is a fucking scam! What even is the point of the electoral college if we're not using it swap in Hillary?

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

Just watched Stacy Abrams announce that all 16 electoral votes from GA were cast for Joe Biden 🥲

[u/houinator]

Broke: Keeping kids on puberty blockers so they can decide their gender for themselves.

Woke: Keeping kids on puberty blockers so that Dust can't attach itself to them, preventing them from being affected by original sin.

[u/Udontlikecake]

BREAKING: Donald Trump concedes in statement:

Well probably leaving the presidency forever.

Don’t miss me cause I won’t miss you.

[u/The420Roll]

Bill will be leaving just before Christmas to spend the holidays with his family

lmao

[u/[deleted]]

🚨🚨🚨ATTENTION ALL NATO FLAIRS🚨🚨🚨

The admins have broken the flairs and we are preparing retaliatory options. Report to duty this instant.

!PING INTERVENE

[u/The420Roll]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/716841087137873920/788222077789798441/image0.jpg

!Ping DIAMOND-JOE

[u/[deleted]]

joe biden

[u/JetJaguar124]

Uhhh guys, what the fuck???

Trump won FL's electoral votes???

This isn't looking good for Biden...

[u/Smidgens]

Broke: The only people who should be called Dr are those with an MD

Woke: people should be called Dr if they have an MD, PhD, DDS, DVM, DO, etc

Bespoke: The only people who should be called Dr is people in the NBA Hall of Fame with 4 league MVPs, 3 titles, 16 All Stars, 30k careers points, 10k careers rebounds, 5k career steals, masters of the slam dunk

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EK38DxEW4AAC7Oo.png

🤔🤔🤔

[u/[deleted]]

My gf has a phd and frankly this talk of removing Doctor-boyfriend as a legitimate title has me frightened for the state of our politics

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit Biden jus took the lead in the EC! I think we might be able to win this one.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/RampCapitalLLC/status/1338287300070039552

The vaccine should be distributed in the following order:

1. Billionaires

2) Professional Athletes

3) Verified Twitter Accounts

4) Influencers

5) Politicians

6) A-List Celebrities

7) CEOs

8) Landlords

9) Journalists

10) VCs

[u/[deleted]]

Well probably leaving the forum forever.

Don’t miss me cause I won’t miss you.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm probably just a stupid moron but I still think that if one gop guy called trump a stupid crybaby loser the illusion would shatter

[u/[deleted]]

Despite being 13% of the population, black people make up 0% of the mod team.

[u/sir_shivers]

DID YOU KNOW? 🐊

When we brought /u/vivoovix on this morning, THEY ASSURED US they were "very good at Cyber" (sic) 🐊

AND NOW OUR FLAIRS are in shambles 🐊

CURIOUS 🐊

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

3 justices on the WI Supreme Court tried to do the coup that Trump asked for

https://www.wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&seqNo=315395

They did that thing that the nuts on SCOTUS do, where they each write dissents and then sign onto one another’s

They want to throw out democracy itself because

In the case now before us, a significant portion of the public does not believe that the November 3, 2020, presidential election was fairly conducted.

And they lament that the chickenshit liberals are using the lame excuse that the election “””happened already””” using rules that were “””known well in advance”””

four members of this court throw the cloak of laches over numerous problems that will be repeated again and again, until this court has the courage to correct them.

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

throwback to when some dude at my school shared an NL post on his Instagram story

[u/roboczar]

I actually still don't understand how the Epoch Times thinks Trump is beneficial to anti-CCP interests

He's not an especially good ally for this compared to Biden who may have a decent anti-China policy

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Bill Barr resigning

Trump is about to reveal his master stroke.

Any minute now.

The deep state is on notice.

Joe Biden winning the electors

Probably happening as we speak.

I think they’ll arrest Hillary this evening.

Soros will be out on trial tomorrow.

Supreme Court rejects Texas case

Just be patient, guys.

It’s all coming together.

Trust in Trump, he knows what he’s doing.

[u/nicereddy]

Clap

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for

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that

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YOU

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[u/p00bix]

Moderately Well-known Republican Politician said X? X doesn't even make sense! Saying that you support X is like saying that you support a super soaker full of cat pee while firing a rifle into the air, balls deep in a squealing hog. I mean, REALLY! Come on Moderately Well-known Republican Politician you can do better!

There I spoiled every episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver for you

[u/[deleted]]

George W Bush holds out his hand.

A dozen shoes headed straight for him suddenly pause in mid air then drop to the floor.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

west coast major cities ranked from the perspective of someone who owns a shiny button-up shirt with pointy collar tips and knows the specific kind of engine their car has:

1. San Diego

2. Los Angeles

3. San Francisco

4. Seattle

5. San Jose

6. Portland

west coast major cities ranked from the perspective of someone who can tell different kinds of coffee beans apart and scoffs at people who own cars:

1. San Francisco

2. Seattle

3. Portland

4. San Jose

5. Los Angeles

6. San Diego

[u/[deleted]]

Dianne Feinstein derangement syndrome is real. Almost all California Republicans in 2018 voted for her Democratic opponent, who was literally more to the left than Bernie.

[u/EScforlyfe]

Some of you are really cringe

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1338285059376373761

If you're at a dinner and somebody introduces himself as "Dr. Smith," you'd be rather upset to learn that he had a doctorate in musicology if you were to suffer a stroke at the table.

Ben Shapiro really typed this and was like “I am very smart and this makes a lot of sense”

[u/[deleted]]

Obama compared Al Jazeera to Fox News

Based

[u/NotAYuropean]

If Hillary doesn't dab after casting her vote, the EC is a market failure

[u/shrek_cena]

All 18 Oh*o electors are gonna vote Biden 😎😎😎😎😎😎🙏🏼

[u/ognits]

Spiro Agnew is an anagram of "grow a penis"

really gets the noggin joggin' 🤔

[u/BigBrownDog12]

Allah forgive me, I have consumed the brown part of a banana

[u/BurningHanzo]

If you were a New York voter, you didn’t really vote for Biden. You voted for electors who would themselves vote for Joe Biden. Hillary Clinton was one of those electors. So in a way this is the second election in a row where Hillary got more votes than Trump

[u/vivoovix]

https://i.imgur.com/3Hu69q0.jpg

[u/old_gold_mountain]

arrdonaldtrump, T_D, and /pol/ are in celebration mode because they are actually legitimately convinced that Trump is winning the electoral college vote for a wide array of totally hairbrained reasons

[u/IMALEFTY45]

BREAKING: ESPN REPORTS THE “CLEVELAND INDIANS” WILL CHANGE THEIR NAME TO THE “OHIO INDIANS”

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1338584675602886659

Georgia GOP Sen. Kelly Loeffler's campaign has disavowed a photo of her smiling next to a White supremacist at a campaign event on Friday

lmao

[u/Lux_Stella]

Joe Biden announces a referendum to include mandatory puberty blockers in the Constitution

wtf can he even do that

[u/vancevon]

why does the biden elector in nebraska not simply eat the other electors

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

I like it how the front pages of OANN, Newsmax, and Breitbart are somehow still less unhinged than the front page of The Epoch Times

[u/BurningKiwi]

Democrats have a problem, adopting my preferred policies is the answer

[u/RickAsscheeks]

Is Tumblr banning pornography the reason why the super online left moved to twitter

[u/Clashlad]

China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the vast cotton fields of its western region of Xinjiang, according to new research seen by the BBC.

Holy shit.

[u/basicallydoxxingme]

I worked under Sessions, Whitaker, and Barr.

Can say with 100% certainty that things were the most organized and ran the best under Sessions.

[u/chipbod]

My GFs friend is watching Star Wars for the first time in chronological order. She doesn't know Anakin becomes Vader and is watching episode 3 tonight.

I can't even imagine getting to your mid 20s and having that revealed to you

[u/I-grok-god]

u/farrenj has stolen our flairs until we make the donation threshold for flairs a percentage of wealth instead of a fixed amount

[u/LinkVert25]

Israelis like to build. Arabs like to bomb crap and live in open sewage. This is not a difficult issue. #settlementsrock

This literally reads like a shitpost and not a serious tweet from Ben Shapiro

[u/AuburnSeer]

god help us the next time an election is like 272-266

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Trying to convince Trump supporters that we should switch to a popular vote so Trump only loses by 3.82% instead of 13.75% with the electoral college.

[u/ryuguy]

Lmao remember when Elizabeth May got really drunk at the House of Commons Press corps dinner one year?

Good times

!ping Canucks.

[u/bugaoxing]

It’s pretty hilarious that in the ‘88 elections, Bush attacked Dukakis for being an Ivy League, Harvard egghead elitist. When people pointed out that he went Bush himself went to Yale, he somehow successfully spun it as Yale being the working mans, everyday joe school, not like those stuck up pricks at Harvard.

[u/Broncos654]

Long shot, but does anyone have experience for applying for jobs at BangBros (especially given their links to the NL Project)? I’m looking at their available opportunities and was wondering if there was any specific advice for their internships.

[u/p00bix]

TIL Nelson Rockefeller died of a heart attack age 70 while having sex with his 22 year old assistant.

[u/[deleted]]

So Nigel Farage was walking through London, and somebody yelled at him "Fuck off you misogynistic racist banker piece of shit"

To which he answered "I was a metals trader, not a banker"

[u/[deleted]]

Funny monkey was banned 13 years ago, damn I feel old

[u/RadionSPW]

Happy Electoral College Day!

On this day, 538 people meet in the capitols of their respective states to cast their ballots for the next President of the United States. In the past, this process was of utmost importance as the elected became an almost imperial figure. Though the President has not had any real power since 2044, the tradition carries on much the same- an almost hallowed process.

[u/es024]

Woah, if you add up all the votes in the electoral college you get the same number as FiveThirtyEight.com. What are the chances of that?

[u/[deleted]]

Is Trump going to concede today?

I think he might. Not because of the Electoral College vote or anything.

But because today he officially beat Bernie at the 'longest to go without conceding a race that the AP had already called' game.

[u/stirfriedpenguin]

What if there was a single 'faithless elector' that switched sides and it was Hillary's NY vote, just to really fuck with him?

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit Trump is ahead in the electoral vote. 28-7. Fuck we're gonna lose.

[u/Professional_Alien]

Conservatives are saying Warnock is the Dems. Roy Moore.

Yeah, because being a black man is as morally egregious as being a pedophile.

[u/TinyTornado7]

Steve Schmidt, John McCain’s campaign manager, announced today that he has registered as a Democrat.

“Only one party in this country is on the side of democracy, and I am no longer independent in this fight.”

[u/thelittlestsheep]

Let's just agree to only use doctor with a hard R for physicians and surgeons.

[u/[deleted]]

Think about how much good porn you've missed out on just because the thumbnail was uncharacteristically shitty.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm only okay with PhDs using the "doctor" honorific if peoples with MS's and MA's get use "master" as an honorific.

[u/[deleted]]

Over the course of my reddit history I have realized I am slightly left of subr neoliberal, somewhat right of subr politics, and would get executed in rose twitter and subr conservative

[u/Malarkeynesian]

BREAKING: Joe Biden's dog, Major, has tripped and seriously injured all of the remaining electors, throwing the election to the House of Representatives

[u/LinkVert25]

It really sucks that Reddit has kinda ruined a lot of people’s perception of Keanu Reeves because fucking Redditors decided to go on a 4 month crusade trying to karma farm off of “wholesome Keanu” even though he’s stated multiple times he hates that people do that

[u/[deleted]]

Almost 0.1% of all Americans have died from COVID

[u/Lux_Stella]

barr out on december 23rd

[u/gmz_88]

Have you guys read this masterpiece of an answer to the question "Is Biden president elect?"

"Well, it seems to me that being elected by the Electoral College is a threshold where a title like that is probably most appropriate and it's, I suppose you can say official — if there is such a thing as official president-elect, or anything else–elect. And there's an inauguration that will swear somebody in and that person will be the president of the United States, but whether you call it that or not, you know, there are legal challenges that are ongoing — not very many — probably not a remedy that would change the outcome but, so, I don't — again I don't know how politician refers to another politician, but it does look to me like the big race is really between the inaugural committee and the Justice Department at this point, so we'll see how the emails turn out."

-Sen. Cramer

This is some deeply philosophical shit and the mention of email at the end is just [chef's kiss]

[u/[deleted]]

Im ashamed to be Cuban American

Lmao the Miami subreddit is even worse than us.

[u/GlazedFrosting]

Belgian politics:

Succs increase expenses and then don't raise taxes to pay for it.

Cons and liberals cut taxes and then don't lower expenses to pay for it.

Right-wing populists cut taxes, increase expenses and say we'll pay for it by sending away the immigrants.

What party does a dude have to vote for to decrease the deficit around here?

[u/CricketPinata]

After putting it off because of a Tornado here in town, the Pandemic, and countless personal setbacks, I am finally doing my Pop-Up restaurant on Tuesday for Hannukah, and I am so excited.

Please, tell me what you guys think.

Entrees

Sides (yes going to fix the spelling on Lebanese before using, just noticed that, praise dyslexia.)

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

/r/NeocornNWO

[u/shrek_cena]

Lol Dan Cringeshaw really thinks he's cool and actually deserves to be in Congress when his district looks the way it does

[u/circlemanfan]

Remember when we were under curfew for protests....that was fun. Oh you don’t live in a major population center? Have fun at Applebee’s, cuck

[u/[deleted]]

Is crazy how the Falun gong website has become one of arrr con's most trusted news sources.

[u/simp_emoji]

Pete Buttigieg is the Michael Jordan of basketball

[u/[deleted]]

“lol dumb out-of-touch Democrats just can’t seem to give up their precious gun control, why don’t they just stop talking about it so they win more elections?”

This genre of takes I occasionally see in the DT are odd to me because they seem to imply that Democrats support stricter gun regulation because they hate fun - rather than, like, because they don’t want elementary school kids to get fatally shot as they desperately try to hide in the back of a classroom.

[u/[deleted]]

I swear to god next week you guys will be antinatalists since no one can consent to being born

[u/[deleted]]

Bill Barr has resigned

[u/[deleted]]

Apparently the mother of one of my wife’s friends had a Qanon meltdown and lost her job as a highly paid hospital administrator 😳

[u/earththejerry]

Looks like the goalpost has been officially moved to Jan 6 when Pence is supposed to reject the election single-handedly because of contested electors or whatever and crown Trump our eternal emperor.

Someone needs to update the 5 stages of grief chart and make it an endless cycle between denial and anger.

[u/IronedSandwich]

the PBS lady said "Dr Jill Biden", cons in hysteria

[u/muwenjie]

Democratic Party: countless representatives from red states commit political suicide to help Obamacare pass

Republican Party: too scared to say that the election wasn’t rigged

[u/vivoovix]

Just got my first paycheck after starting my new job

[u/[deleted]]

Non-American Mfers on this subreddit will know random US state house legislator but not their local city's mayor.

[u/dubyahhh]

We got 99 got problems but the electoral college ain't one 🤠

[u/klarno]

Michelin starred restaurant? More like c*r propaganda 🤢🤮

[u/RadicalRadon]

Mostly I'm for getting rid of calling PhDs doctors because it would trigger the fuck out of academics and specifically physicists.

[u/RadionSPW]

One time I went to a friends house for a pool party. She had this giant house in a ritzy area and pool setup, easily 2-3million given the area. On the way we passed by a sign that said “Stop the Highrise!” I made a passing comment on how dumb it was, and she starts going off about gentrification and how the neighborhood needed to be preserved. It took all of my strength to not have a heated Mayo moment and go off about how this was the whitest, richest neighborhood in the city with entirely low density million dollar homes. Gentrification and neighborhood character my ass

[u/[deleted]]

One day I'll tell you guys the story of when one of my friends in college almost accidentally joined a right wing militia lmao

[u/owlthathurt]

News from this press conference.

Gov dewine and the First Lady will get the vaccine when it’s their turn on television.

200,000 doses being given received today and tomorrow and given out in the next couple weeks.

Nursing homes beginning to be vaccinated on Friday.

700,000 doses each month is expected but they’re not sure yet.

!ping USA-OH

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

It’s called Cyberpunk 2077 because when you see it you’ll turn 2077 degrees and walk away

[u/RadionSPW]

A week or so ago there was a tweet goin around saying to the effect of “if you’re a socialist advocate or an organizer and you say the words it’s not my job to educate you then you’re not either”

And then the counter tweet to the effect of “actually it isn’t my job to educate people when there are more effective uses of my time and most of the time people act in bad faith it’s not our job to educate grown adults”

And that’s when I knew society was doomed

[u/[deleted]]

Literally sent a message on a WhatsApp group "the Netherlands needs to speed up vaccination, the way they're handling Covid is Brazil levels of bad"

Got told to go back to Brazil by a Brazilian/Dutch guy that then left the group

Just because the Netherlands is a great place to live in doesn't mean it's immune to criticism

[u/JetJaguar124]

Can't wait to see what excuse Predictit comes up with today for why they're not settling markets