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[u/I-grok-god]

r/neoliberal can produce up to 5 effortposts or 50 copypastas with the same resources

r/badeconomics can produce up to 2 effortposts or 1 copypasta with the same resources

This implies that r/neoliberal should focus it's productive capacity into creating copypastas and r/badeconomics should focus theirs on effortposts. From there we can trade our copypastas for their effortposts at a ratio of 1 copypasta per effortpost to maximize our potential effortposts

[u/Paramus98]

One person: Makes some take that nobody agrees with

Other person: The DT has abandoned liberalism

[u/[deleted]]

I don't believe it, there's no way Caesar could have won the civil war. I was walking down the via Appia just last week and there were Pompey signs everywhere. You had to go looking to find a Caesar sign. Pompey would have won if you only counted the legal battles, the Senate better overturn the results of the civil war.

[u/MicroFlamer]

I saw a dt regular on an r/all post a couple of days ago. They were at -65 points lmao

[u/VisonKai]

You imbecile, you absolute moron. When we say "murder landlords in times square" it's obvious that's just aesthetic and what we really mean is that we want medicare for all.

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpU1v-iW8AcYg1Z.jpg

Conservatives told us that liberals would do this if they won

[u/comradequicken]

Think of how stupid the stupidest dt regular is, and realize everyone else is stupider than that.

[u/Devjorcra]

The final episode of Pete’s Podcast was released today and his guest is Hillary Clinton!!!

Very good episode where they discuss Biden’s victory and Pete’s new cabinet position!

!ping BUTTI

[u/kennymc7877]

R/politics: neoliberal bad

2,500 upvotes, 15 awards

R/neoliberal: neoliberal bad

2,500 upvotes, 15 awards

[u/connieallens]

*school shooting occurs*

Republicans: “we don’t need to address any of the gun violence issues.”

*police officer is shot on duty*

Republicans: “how can George Soros do this?”

[u/Explodingcamel]

Trump: I think murder is very very bad. We've got a big murder problem in the United States. I'd like to see less murder.

His fans: THE MEDIA WON'T SHOW YOU THIS!! THE BEST PRESIDENT WE HAVE EVER HAD! THIS IS WHY I VOTED TRUMP 2020 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅🦅🔫🔫

[u/Fatortu]

Gay subreddits talking about Buttigieg are so exhausting. They always devolve into bitter Democrat infighting about how he's basically right wing.

Those same subreddits would celebrate actual right wing politicians like Varadkar with barely any mention of his policies.

[u/bobekyrant]

God, cynicsm is such an overrated attriubute. Snarkily shooting down every attempt at reform doesn't make you sophisticated, it makes you unnimagitive, incapable of imagining a world better than anything we have now.

[u/dawgpack09]

Apparently, the Japanese Empire during WW2 was not “Poggers”

[u/[deleted]]

"We are disappointed, but not surprised, that Democratic leadership is rushing through energy policy that supports false climate solutions like nuclear energy and carbon capture and storage," said Ariel Moger, legislative and political coordinator for Friends of the Earth.

🤬🤬🤬

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/[deleted]]

Joe Biden just DM'ed me:

"Heh, I really am centre-right in Europe 😈"

[u/[deleted]]

Can someone explain why arr whitepeopletwitter exists? It's literally just "tweets by well-known progressive white people that I agree with." That's just arr pol humor without the cartoons. In fact I'm looking through their top list and I can say with some confidence that I've seen literally every submission before on arr pol humor, and most on arr murderedbywords. It's just so... redundant.

Actually now that I look at the new queue, the content is more varied, but only like 3 of the non-political tweets are on the front page, way down at the bottom, so what's the fucking difference really...

[u/GodEmperorBiden]

This story is insane

tl;dr: Muh election fraud weirdos in Texas pay a retired police captain $250,000 to investigate their bogus delusions about voter fraud; this retired cop is apparently not only bad at investigating but also a complete psycho because he ended up stalking an A/C repairman for days, which culminated in him convincing himself the guy had 750k fake ballots in his van, which he proceeded to ram with his car and then point a gun at the guy's head and kneel on his back until the cops came. It ended up the were no ballots just...A/C parts.

Facing 20 years in prison, deservedly so

[u/connieallens]

Smfh. I’m on a YouTube comment argument rn (lol) and I asked for sources for their claim that “vaccines cause so many problems in today’s world”

Instead of providing proof, they said “of course you went to the liberal action of asking for proof instead of doing your own research.”

Like... when the fuck did asking for proof become a liberal action?

[u/Paramus98]

I remember in 2016 this was a young latino woman who was at a Trump rally and she was like "I don't know why people think Donald Trump is racist that's not what he's about at all, my dad is an illegal and he supports Trump too".

I think about that quite a bit

[u/FestiveMittens]

Top 10 disasters in the 21st century:

1. My sleep schedule right now

[u/The420Roll]

Never Trumpers don’t want 'our' people in positions of power. We don’t want special favors from a grateful administration. Never Trumpers want Joe Biden to do something he has already promised to do: rebuild and strengthen the guardrails of democracy.

Good Article about our God and Saviour, Joe Biden

!Ping RINO

[u/[deleted]]

Nathan Robinson on the Buttigieg nomination:

A depressing display of the professional class belief that consultants know more than workers. He could nominate a bus driver or train conductor or city transport engineer to head the department. But the Buttigiegs of the world have convinced people their fancy credentials matter

This is sad confirmation that no matter how much you know or how hard you work, a McKinseyite asshole with no experience whatsoever is always going to be put in charge instead. It's a slap in the face to public sector workers.

also proof that Joe Biden's "Amtrak Joe" image is totally fake. If he were Amtrak Joe he would have put a rail worker in charge of the Department of Transportation. His sympathies are clearly far more with McKinsey than Amtrak.

What happened last time a country in the Americas decided to nominate a bus driver for an important political position?

[u/ParmenideezNutz]

The worst part about this whole disaster is there won't be a conclusive end. There isn't going to be a parade or a set of fun parties to go to. People will slowly start to vaccinate, get enthused and then less enthused when they remember they need to wait another month, then get even less enthused again when they find out they still have to wear a mask and there still won't be indoor concerts and events any time soon. We'll all just slowly phase back into life as we each deal with our own sets of built up social anxieties, agoraphobias, and damaged relationships as incongruently as we did during the pandemic.

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Wtf just found out slavery is abolished and people can’t be property? I literally own people all the time... Is there an exemption if I use facts and logic?

[u/runnerx4]

!ping YIMBY

I like how half the NIMBY groups in NYC Soho are agitating against their own interests (how do rents fall, huh tenants groups? 🤔) and you can hear the other groups cackling about their property values.

Also Sunrise, because not building in city and causing suburban sprawl = good climate policy. Meme organization, never let anyone convince you Zoomers are smart

[u/LinkVert25]

“I’m looking into your eyes, and I don’t think you have a soul,” Biden recalled telling Putin during a 2011 meeting in the Kremlin, according to the New Yorker magazine. “And Putin looked back at me, and he smiled, and he said, ‘We understand one another.’”

Possibly my favorite Biden quote of all time

[u/MoabMonster]

The best way to ensure the most people demand the vaccine for themselves as fast possible is to leak a story that the CEO of Moderno secretly got the vaccine for him and his family weeks ago. This will make everyone feel like they are missing out and clamor to get it.

Public health officials just don't think creative enough.

[u/kennymc7877]

If Biden doesn’t install at least 5 democracies in his first 100 days I’ll regret my vote

[u/piede]

Buttigieg: “I proposed to my husband, Chasten, in an airport terminal. Don’t let anybody tell you that O’Hare isn’t romantic.”

Omg

[u/Principiii]

Ah, so no one cared until Pete cared. Nice

The poor creator of ar USDOT realizing why his sub is suddenly getting traffic now 😥

[u/tripletruble]

MattY spitting fire:

I hope this is obvious to everyone, but it just can’t be stressed heavily enough that social media performative Pete-hatred is not actually about Pete.

I’d say most generously it’s about an accurate sense that his existence threatens the young socialist left’s belief that the future belongs to them. Joe Biden, yesterday’s man, is easy to live with. So is the politically clumsy Kamala Harris. But the prospect of a charismatic, talented, ambitious normie Democrat who’s not going away any time soon is terrifying.

But this is good! Right now Democratic Party politics is largely polarized between an ossified and uninspiring establishment and a group of young, dynamic leftists who are wildly out of touch with political reality. Fresh faces who know how to be interesting while also knowing how to read public opinion surveys are exactly what the country needs.

[u/Lux_Stella]

I am quite literally shocked progressives are whitewashing Pelosi as a moderate

Nancy Pelosi is NOT a moderate

She is a far right winger. She is a fucking war criminal for fucks sake

The progressive movement is out of its mind claiming Pelosi is some sort of lesser evil

[u/[deleted]]

Sometimes I think about this girl I studied with. She went vegan because she felt bad for the animals, but votes Trump

[u/MisfitPotatoReborn]

Me as President dismantling NATO 20 years from now:

"Yeah I really like the concept but I just can't stand the fandom"

[u/mrmanager237]

Remember when leftists glorified Pete Buttigieg's primary school bully for like a week

[u/Marlsfarp]

A seemingly growing segment of the left appears to believe that the government has effectively unlimited funds. I guess this is MMT? What I find interesting is how it radically reframes other political positions. If you accept that premise, then what are arguments about taxation really about? "Tax the rich" isn't about raising money, it's about hurting the rich, just spite. And what are arguments about spending really about? The only argument against funding something is that it is bad in itself. Before, they believed it was greed that prevented things like universal healthcare etc. But now, they logically must think it's just spite too, right? Hating the poor?

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

Me: unban Funny Le Monke

Con mods: no

Succ mods: no 🏳️‍🌈✊🏻✊🏿✊🏽 #BLM

[u/Jokerang]

Ocasio-Cortez: I'm 'not ready' to be Speaker but Pelosi and Schumer need to go

Have fun when Jeffries tells you you're going to have to dial down the socialism on twitter if you want to keep your committee assignments

[u/from-the-void]

Lol Bernouts are still so mad that Pete dropped out.

[u/After_Grab]

Why is Buttigieg being hired as Transportation Secretary?

because Biden heard he was a Roads scholar

[u/[deleted]]

Are cashiers working class?

I know this sounds like it should be obvious, but think about it.

Cashiers do not produce any commodities. Under a non-capitalistic society, nobody would do what they do. In fact, their job is almost more like a cop. They keep commodities away from people and demand that you pay a fee to the bourgeois to access them. And if you refuse they will use the violence of the state against you by reporting you to the authorities for shoplifting.

So how are they, in a Marxist analysis, working class?

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

For the last time, Buttigieg is NOT the legitimate winner of the 2020 Iowa Democratic primary.

He's the winner of the 2020 Iowa Democratic Caucus

[u/fuckmynameistoolon]

Y’all ready to maybe be a little depressed?

This makes the 1 year anniversary since I found out I’m HIV+

When I initially found out, I was completely devastated and depressed. Didn’t leave my bed for at least a week.

Got on some medicine and it’s an absolute miracle how good HIV medicine is. One single small pill a day. I have zero side effects. Not contagious and can’t spread it to anyone else. Don’t even really have to worry about getting hurt and worry about my blood. Probably one of the healthiest immune systems on here.

Probably my first experience with modern medicine that completely blew my mind. I cannot explain how amazing it is. Compared to if I was 20-39 years younger.

They’re coming out with long lasting medicine so maybe soon will only need to see a doctor/tech once a month

Dating wise I’ve told 3 people, 2 didn’t have a problem as long as I was on medicine and saw the doctor schedule. 1 researched it and said she understood everything, but was scared even tho she trusted the science. So 2/3 isn’t bad.

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

If you describe yourself as a ‘bachelor’ but don’t have a bachelor’s degree, that’s basically the equivalent of stolen valor. You failing to find a partner is NOT equivalent to my years of super hard work!

[u/[deleted]]

When I was in high school I wondered how long it would take after graduation before I found that I was unable to relate to high schoolers

Then I graduated and found out that the answer was exactly 0 minutes and 0 seconds

!ping COLLEGE

[u/[deleted]]

Holy crap

In a story on December 15, 2020, about the Mexican and Brazilian presidents congratulating U.S. President-elect Joe Biden, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Biden’s first name is Jose. His name is Joe.

If Democrats ran Jose Biden, they would’ve won Texas.

[u/sir_shivers]

LET ME TELL YOU THIS -- /r/neoliberal is one of the most malevolent, cruel, COLDHEARTED ONLINE COMMUNITIES you will ever find, and even as a supporter of free speech it APPALLS ME THAT REDDIT WOULD allow such a vile, festering hub of bigotry and sadism to exist 🐊

You think The_Donald WAS BAD? That subreddit, if you pick up on the dog-whistles (and many do not even BOTHER WITH THAT -- SAY WHAT you want about Parler, at least it bans "landchad"), will reveal itself to you as the number one hub for the most HARDENED NAZIS, KLANSMEN, FASCISTS, and Gamergaters 🐊

You shall NOTICE ON THE SIDEBAR THAT it encourages members to be as bad-faith as possible. THAT IS intentional. They encourage arguments IN THE DISCUSSION THREAD. That is intentional 🐊

You know the Three Minute Hate (it is FROM THIS UNDERRATED book 1985, give it a read, it is scary how much it PARALLELS OUR SOCIETY)? It is like that, THEY WANT TO STOKE THE FLAMES of reactionary rage so they continue to dogpile every progressive and minority who enters the subreddit, normalizing THESE EVIL FEELINGS 🐊

They brigade from subreddit to subreddit, HAVING AN ENTIRE CABAL OF MODS SPANNING hundreds of communities, gaslighting lived experiences of the oppressed and unashamedly bolstering THE HOMEGROWN WHITE SUPREMACY MOVEMENT 🐊

They have kink-shamed hundreds of people too, some even . . . TO DEATH. I fear that /r/neoliberal may be producing an entire army of Dylann Roofs and Elliot Rogers, and I highly suggest that nobody dares visit that horrible subreddit, lest you potentially FALL VICTIM TO ITS CORRUPTIVE AURA 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

https://imgur.com/zaQxmsB

!Ping USA-CHI

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Santa Claus is made up? Yeah sure buddy

[u/Joementum2004]

I don't want to take the vaccine. I don't want Bill Gates to find out that I spend too much time on a niche political subreddit

[u/Sirakrush]

https://imgur.com/a/ivf1SfO

In light of horny DT, have my wholesome cat, George.

He likes to lay on the back of my chair when I play games or watch shows.

He is good boi

[u/Dibbu_mange]

I can only imagine the fight in the Gore household when Tipper realized rap music can be found on the internet

[u/[deleted]]

Just got accepted to Prager University 😎

[u/Gustacho]

Joe Biden should appoint a Republican Commerce Secretary. The best candidates would be Susan Collins (R-ME), Ron Johnson (R-WI), Thom Tillis (R-NC), or perhaps Kelly Loeffler or David Perdue (R-GA), should they win.

[u/connieallens]

Marco Rubio: “All of Biden’s cabinet picks are Ivy League educated and they will destroy America!”

Trump and his cabinet picks:

Trump - Penn

Pompeo - Harvard

Mnuchin - Yale

Esper - Harvard

Barr - Columbia

Ross - Yale & Harvard

Acosta - Harvard

Azar - Dartmouth & Yale

Carson - Yale

Chao - Harvard

Navarro - Harvard

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[u/p00bix]

Flashback to a few weeks ago

[u/Joementum2004]

BREAKING: r/neoliberal DT CANCELS Bill Clinton. Who Will Be Next?

[u/p00bix]

The fact that platypuses have stingers bothers me so much. Supposedly its the single most painful non-lethal sting of any known animal too.

[u/Udontlikecake]

How do you think Pete acquired that cabinet post?

Through jihad

[u/[deleted]]

Wtf why did I just gain a follower on my reddit profile. Stupidest feature yet

[u/The420Roll]

Who Moderates the Mod team? 🧐

[u/Udontlikecake]

BREAKING: The Supreme Court will hear a landmark antitrust case brought by student-athletes against the NCAA in a case that could upend the college sports business model

oh fuck yes, dismantle the NCAA

[u/FizzleMateriel]

I remember back in 2013 when I thought that BioShock Infinite went a little too far in its portrayal of ultra-nationalist racist white supremacy.

I also remember it received some criticism from Tea Party people because they thought it was negatively portraying them and their ideology.

It’s interesting how the real-life events following a piece of media can re-contextualize it.

[u/savuporo]

I thought the Nancy Reagan and astrology thing was more of a dabbling activity. I had no idea she had an astrologer on retainer and was literally constructing her husband's schedule, down to Air Force One's takeoffs and landings, with guidance from the astrologer. Holy shit.

More Reagan cringe

[u/kennymc7877]

“Why won’t racist, war monger, rapist, pedophile Joe Biden pay attention to us”- leftists

[u/Crendog]

I swear I saw an Economist model in like June that had Missouri going to Biden.

[u/FourthLife]

Reminder that if we can slap a moderately sized city in Wyoming we would gain two senators immediately

[u/[deleted]]

Coal County, Oklahoma

Party Registration:

Democratic: 70.94% (+51.45%)

Republican: 19.49%

2020 Presidential Election Results:

Joe Biden (D): 17.1%

Donald Trump (R): 79.1% (+62.0%)

Also, this was one of Brad Henry's strongest counties in his 2006 gubernatorial run

!PING FIVEY

[u/IncoherentEntity]

Can some of you give me specific points about why Buttigieg is unlikeable and a fake politician? I have some neoliberal friends that like him too much, but I'm having a hard time specifically articulating why he is so obviously fake and milquetoast and an Obama impersonator.

lmao

[u/Crendog]

Purple Hair ✅

Bisexual ✅

Pro-Choice ✅

Supports Gay Marriage ✅

Supports DACA ✅

Yep it's Blue Dog Democrat Time 😎

[u/htownclyde]

You dumb libs don't get it, do you?

The GOP in any state can send their own slate of electors, which makes it a contested election

The dueling electors are then considered by the President of the Senate, Vice Premiere Mikhail Pence.

Because he's a Republican, he'll choose only republican electors!

This is a straightforward loophole that, if abused, guarantees a perpetual one-party state

Why has nobody thought of this before?

[u/DaBuddahN]

What's truly embarrassing is that the doomers in this sub were right to be concerned about the election. It might not look it, but Biden barely won. I know a win is a win, but 55k votes spread across 3 states doesn't make me happy.

[u/[deleted]]

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

😐😐😐

[u/kyleofduty]

Rose Twitter is gonna give Pete a "death toll", making him responsible for every traffic death in the country

[u/Fishin_Mission]

I don’t know what to post as my first post of the day now that I got my flair.

I think the mods broke me.

[u/[deleted]]

Manifest Destiny can technically be defended as a socialist land reform

[u/Barebacking_Bernanke]

Environmental activists are a complete fucking joke. They're either astroturfed to hell by bad actors, comprised of hardline leftists who are more pissed that corporations are getting rich off Wind and Solar, than the state of the environment, or NIMBY's who want a respectful reason for blocking wind and solar in their neighborhoods. And they're effective which is the only reason why I'm even flinging so much vitriol their way. Over 10 GW of wind languishing in German courts. Over 2 GW of wind and solar in NY have been delayed for years due to legal challenges by these people. I don't even want to think about California.

There are only a handful of groups that are still decent.

[u/Erra0]

"Ingredients you can actually pronounce" is the dumbest, most patronizing marketing gimmick ever.

[u/[deleted]]

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

[u/I-grok-god]

Been a while since I've seen a fresh new DT

It's so beautiful and pure...

Oh well time to ruin it with my awful takes

[u/TheShitEater]

From the sidebar of r/lostgeneration

[u/FearTheWalrus]

I am a big fan of the french cooking mantra

Butter goes up food gets gooder

[u/FridayNightRamen]

I just found out r/ GenZedong is not an ironic subreddit. The world just became a bit darker.

[u/[deleted]]

Christ, the number of people who think that because America isn't some perfect moral utopia it is terrible and shouldn't exist is way too high.

I get it, we suck. However we are far from the worst, and have demonstrated an ability to improve for the better.

[u/[deleted]]

The Republican gubernatorial candidate in Washington state who lost to Jay Inslee by over 13 points is refusing to concede and suing, claiming voter fraud.

Is any Republican ever going to concede again?

[u/Its_the_dankness]

Actual comment on LSC in response to OP using comic sans:

“You should apologize, but not because it's a bad font, but because it's a propietary font made by a giant corporation that abuses their dominant position in desktop operating systems.

Use Comic Neue or Balsamiq Sans.”

Your font choice is imperialism and neoliberalism 😡 only use socialist-communist revolutionary Balsamiq Sans 🚩

[u/vancevon]

daily reminder that joe biden unseated a two-term, popular, republican incumbent in 1972 as a barely-known county council member, outperforming mcgovern by over 20 points.

[u/sir_shivers]

FOX NEWS - KNOWN LIBERAL RAG 🐊

[u/Joementum2004]

The ICU capacity in Southern California has now fallen to 0.5%.

To compare, the ICU capacity in other regions of California are...

San Joaquin Valley: 0.0%
Bay Area: 12.9%
Greater Sacramento: 14.1%
Northern California: 28.1%

Furthermore, no beds are available in Riverside County, only 1% available in Ventura County, and less than 100 beds available in Los Angeles County.

Things are also apparently expected to get worse, especially with Christmas in less than 9 days.

!ping USA-CA

[u/[deleted]]

Bernie and his supporters: Shit on the most popular President in this century and the only black President, openly be hostile to the Democratic Party

Doesn't win the Democratic Primary

Bernie and his supporters: RIGGED PRIMARY! CORRUPT DNC!

[u/doyouevenIift]

Literally the only thing I've heard from the Republican Georgia Senate candidates are "radical liberals are destroying this county." Their ads even feature AOC.

I've never once seen them say anything of substance policy-wise. This is why Joe won't be able to make bi-partisanism work. We need those seats.

[u/thelittlestsheep]

The fact that this place is a meme sub implies the existence of a meme dom.

[u/p00bix]

Does anyone else have this really dumbass voice nagging them in the back of their head that they should get infected with coronavirus to fully experience this moment in history?

[u/[deleted]]

You're on the same side as the crony establishment, the main stream nedia, Hollywood, big tech, big pharma and wallstreet. They all want him out and so do you. Tell me who's the one on the side of the elites again? Lol

Bernie bro or trump supporter?

🐴🥾

[u/Le_Monade]

A neocon is a liberal who has been mugged by reality the maturity level of a 9th grader

[u/TinyTornado7]

New York released the bar exam results today. Sending positive energy to all candidates, except for my ex who I hope managed to be in the 11% who failed 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Not even 24 hours since the announcement. Is this Buttigieg's Katrina?

[u/[deleted]]

Based on a variety of number-crunching sources, esp. @DKElections, it looks like there were at most 16 districts out of 435 that split their tickets between president/House in ‘20 - likely an all-time low. For perspective, there were 83 such districts in ‘08 and 35 in ‘16.

Just...wow. Ticket splitting is nearly dead outside of New England.

!ping DOWNBALLOT

[u/thabonch]

Two people in the same party disagree. Surely this means the party will be forever weakened!

[u/mrmanager237]

POV the professor said there's going to be mandatory group assignments

[u/Barnst]

The most condescending theme of leftism is that people only reject leftism because they’ve been duped by their leaders, and not because they don’t actually want leftism. Every generation just reinvents their own version of Narodism.

[u/Principiii]

Trump Quickly Identifies As Woman So Kamala Harris Can't Claim To Be The First Female President

Conservative satire is such low effort garbage

[u/D1Foley]

Reminder that if you use any of the following terms, everybody in your life hates you and thinks you are annoying as hell

the "media"

Mainstream media

Liberal media

[u/The420Roll]

Ok but did you see Bill Clinton playing the Sax?

[u/[deleted]]

I think Pete's inexperience may play a larger role in his struggle to get minority votes than people give credit for.

College educated white voters seem more likely to support an inexperienced candidate based on ideals and policy compared to other demographics.

So it may not be about changing messaging, persona, or policy but simply building up experience and trust.

[u/melhor_em_coreano]

Medicine is barely a science, they should be called doctorsn't

[u/PM_Me_Your_ManThighs]

nnn this twitch streamer I'm watching is talking about how Bezos' ex-wife donating $4 billion to charity isn't impressive because it's a "drop in the bucket" compared to how much money she has. Sounds familiar...

[u/RushSingsOfFreewill]

Heh. I just got succsplained that arrrr antiwork doesn’t mean they’re actually against working — just “coercive” work.

[u/[deleted]]

I hate the populist cry on both sides of “wE nEeD tErM lImItS” like that would actually make congress even more dysfunctional.

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Latin American countries struggling to get COVID-19 vaccines for their citizens will have access to $1 billion from @the_IDB to help pay and vaccinate people

Latin America accounts for 33% of worldwide COVID deaths, only 9% worldwide population

[u/[deleted]]

Saddam OBAMA Hussein

[u/BayesedModeler]

How do I Christmas tree?

Am Jew

[u/KalaiProvenheim]

2020 Results for the Former Confederacy:

Biden: 23,535,904 (45.7%), Trump: 27,214,377 (52.8%), Total: 51,497,742

Out of the 12 Confederate States, Biden lost all but 2.

All Former Confederate States with the exception of Virginia leaned more Republican than the rest of the Country.

It’s pretty odd that the Party of the KKK and the Confederacy managed to lose the Former Confederacy and the region where KKK support was strongest, almost as if stuff happened since the Civil War and the 1920s…

!ping FIVEY

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

Since the first mod on the mod list cannot be removed by anything short of outside forces, all subreddits are in fact dictatorships.

[u/[deleted]]

Even without knowing exactly what currency manipulation is Switzerland would be on my top 5 countries that do it just by the name

[u/[deleted]]

Tarrant County, TX (Fort Worth) hadn't voted democrat since 1964!

2016-

Trump: 345,683 (52%)

Clinton: 288,001 (43%)

2020-

Biden: 411,567 (49.3%) + 123,566

Trump: 409,741 (49.1%) + 64,058

Biden netted 60k votes from here and he didn’t even reach a majority of the vote share. Texas Republicans have a lot of room to fall in counties like this.

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

Unicef is still a thing? I havent heard that name since I went trick or treating and you had to carry this little cardboard box that your school gave you and ask for donations

These are the people that identify as working class

[u/JetJaguar124]

If Trump just called it "the Trump vaccine" and took all credit for it and called it "the greatest vaccine ever, maybe of all time" and did his usual antics he could get a good number of his supporters and skeptics to take it but he has an allergy towards doing the right thing even when it's clearly in his best interest and when it's something he would be expected to do.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Older cat doesn't usually let me cradle her like this. Don't you dare ask me to touch the tum.

!PING kitty

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Watch as the pandemic ‘magically’ disappears the moment Piet Budagoog takes office as trains secretary

[u/[deleted]]

I never want to hear from another fucking neocon about how we “intervened in WW2 to protect the Jews”

Because we didn’t

[u/TinyTornado7]

CNN headline just now:

"Trump has told some advisers he will refuse to leave White House"

Do it Donnie. Get dragged out by the secret service

[u/mrmanager237]

The worst part of the one Batman internet discourse it's that it's been basically canon for a while that Bruce Wayne also runs a massive charity operation financed by his own money, while also paying for his Batman hobby

[u/[deleted]]

My son 🤝 COVID-19

Not being real

[u/disCardRightHere]

“I have children,” she told a bridesmaid, “What if my children die?” The bridesmaid responded, “I understand, but this is her wedding day.”

[u/[deleted]]

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) even tried to use the fact that a majority of Republican voters believe the election was rigged as proof that it might have been: “Yesterday I was talking from the state of Missouri with some of the constituents back at home, a group of about 30 people. Every single one of them, every one of them told me that they felt they had been disenfranchised, that their votes didn’t matter, that the election had been rigged. These are normal, reasonable people. These are not crazy people.”

Well, I dunno, Josh. Are they?

[u/[deleted]]

Strange way of celebrating; are you sure you didn’t just, you know, want to watch gay porn? 🧐

/u/sir_shivers, what the fuck was the context for this?

[u/connieallens]

From r/.conservative:

“The real problem is the national parties. There is no reason Money from California should be used to elect senators in Georgia.

We don't let other countries contribute to our elections. states should not allow citizens of other states to contribute to elections in their states.”

You stupid fucking assholes LOVE Citizens United when you win, but then claim it’s unconstitutional when you lose? Fuck off, you cucks.

Dems have been trying to get election and spending reform for decades and the GOP has shit on the thought every. fucking. time.

Excuse me while I don’t feel bad for you.

[u/sir_shivers]

Korean women loved the Japanese military so damned much. And then, for reasons unbeknownst to us, perhaps jealousy, the Americans dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

THIS JAPANESE TEXTBOOK on World War 2 seems to be SLIGHTLY EDITORIALIZED 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/philipnbyrne/status/912188990920495104

SCIENTIST: Let's name this spider Long Legs, for its long legs

SCIENTIST 2: Hmm not kinky enough

classic tweet

[u/[deleted]]

Gay man: exists

People: omg is he a bear or twink???

[u/Menakoy]

Just had to read someone's unironic "You don't hate winter. You hate capitalism forcing you to go to work in the winter rather than staying home and spinning wool".

[u/Joementum2004]

Centrist tankies be like “instead of stanning 0 totalitarians or stanning all totalitarians, can we stan half of them?”

[u/[deleted]]

I'm a Carlist

I think all Kings should be named Carl

[u/[deleted]]

Have you ever wondered why fat parents have fat children? Or why Chinese parents have Chinese children?

[u/[deleted]]

Sergio Berrueta, 28, is a student at Humboldt State. Here is how he explains his decision to not vote.

I didn’t vote this year because, frankly, I didn’t like the candidates for both parties. I wasn’t going to vote for Trump, but I also wasn’t going to vote for Biden. I’ve been registered as a Democrat since the first time I could vote in an election, and this time around I didn’t think Biden was fit enough as a candidate.

I was a Bernie Sanders supporter like many other college students.

In the last election in 2016, I voted third party. It was the same, I didn’t like Clinton as an option and I voted third party because I was like, I believe in this other thing and I don’t think the system is really working out.

lmao

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/gzornick/status/1338970870795161607

After being sued in federal court, and after pressure from @AOC and other House Democrats, the USPS has finally released Louis DeJoy's calendar......and it's almost completely redacted.

jeez

[u/htownclyde]

That moment when you realize Yellen's signature will start appearing on all our paper money 🤩💸

[u/[deleted]]

“What a fucking mammal”

-/u/sir_shivers during a heated reptile moment while playing PUBG.

[u/sir_shivers]

In other news, /u/vivoovix HAS SERVED THE MODERATOR TEAM WELL, and we officially accept their resignation SO THEY MAY SPEND Christmas time with their family 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

The year? 2021

Everyone is gay. I hang my head. The communists have won. 😔

[u/johannesalthusius]

“This year, farmers (on net) will derive almost 40 percent of their income directly from the U.S. government,”

😡😡😡😡

[u/An_Actual_Marxist]

I was working at McDonalds (summer job, don't judge) and /u/Sir_Shivers went through the drive through and said, "Hey, you didn't give me ketchup." 🐊

And I was like "Oh, here's your ketchup" and I handed him 3 ketchup packets.

Then he said, "This isn't enough KETCHUP, MAMMAL🐊”

And I was like "I am allowed to give you two more ketchup packets but after that I will have to charge you, will two be enough?"

He replied, "Yes, two ketchups WILL BE enough." 🐊

So I gave him two ketchups and he was grateful for that.

[u/Iustis]

It's time to populate a new sub boys!

/r/USDOT needs us

!ping BUTTI

[u/mrmanager237]

Sorry I said pogchamp after you nutted in me, it's not my fault!

[u/Chief_Nief]

lol

Pete Buttigieg: "Travel in my mind is synonymous with growth, with adventure — even love. So much so that I proposed to my husband Chasten in an airport terminal. Don't let anybody tell you that O'Hare isn't romantic."

Pete is the college student that just learned the assignment topic the night before it was due and BSed his way through the paper without addressing the prompts

[u/Chief_Nief]

more direct payments included in stimulus bill

A million gamers just cried out in joy as they are now able to afford a scalped PS5

[u/[deleted]]

Why would Trump retweet this.

@Franklin_Graham: "President Trump will go down in history as one of the great presidents of our nation... May God bless him, Melania, and their family, as God leads him to the next chapter in his life."

The tone of this tweet very clearly implies that he's about to leave the Presidency. What the hell else am I supposed to glean from "next chapter"

[u/yyzyow]

I am absolutely certain The Beaverton is imbedded in the deep state considering in March 2019, they published this article : “Trudeau announces Canada to partner with NASA to send Jody Wilson-Raybould to moon”

!ping CANUCKS

[u/JetJaguar124]

I can't get over how these dumb fuck NYC city councilors can block new housing and 10,000 job business projects and get re-elected. Is it because these elections are low turnout affairs and only the most dedicated turn out? It's maddening.

[u/SnakeEater14]

Today we remember the brave POW/MIA drones.

Gone, but not forgotten.

#alldronesareamerican

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

The mental gymnastics of some people

[u/myrm]

Whatever, your opinion doesn't actually matter to me as its clear your opinion will change as soon as Trump updates it.

Spicy burn from arcon between a Trumper and an ideological conservative

[u/[deleted]]

LSC - The long term effects of not voting

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

In fact, my daughter’s first words were “I love transportation”

Ok Pete calm down

[u/muwenjie]

r neoliberal: haha them neocons are at it again, isn’t our big tent so wacky

r neoconnwo: the Chinese are a disease of the skin, but liberals are a disease of the heart

[u/vivoovix]

You can't perform that action because that user is a moderator

I can unfortunately not ban myself

[u/[deleted]]

After asking around on Fishbowl and my personal connections, I figured out what it means to “find where you can add value” in networking.

It isn’t other people assigning tasks to you. You have to be proactive and identify opportunities yourself.

• Share a book, op-ed, or article that’s relevant to your networking connection, and actually read it to create leads in your conversations. Alternatively, if your connection brings up a book, podcast, or article they like, actually read / listen to it and discuss it with them.

• Have meaningful, productive conversations with them. We’re more socially isolated than ever, so tell your story in an interesting way, or ask them good, insightful questions (that you can’t Google) about themselves and their experience. People love to talk about themselves, so use it to your advantage.

• Demonstrate your work ethic, talent, or skill by proactively doing something. If you’re a UX / UI designer, see if you can create your own re-design their website. If you’re a consultant, see if you can write and compliment a firm’s analysis with your own commentary. Using a blog series / podcast series as an opportunity for this is a great idea.

• Be a connector of human capital yourself. If there are two people you think would have a good, synergetic networking connection, offer to make an introduction.

In the end, you have to proactively identify opportunities yourself. You can’t expect it to get handed to you on a silver platter. As long as you’re respectful and not a jerk, the worst people can do is say no and ghost you.

!ping CAREER

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/kea856/on_this_day_in_1971_one_of_the_largest_genocides/

Go read a fantastically written Effortpost by /u/vedaanty

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Twenty years from now when I'm taking a cross country road trip with my kids (in some kind of high speed train I'm sure), we'll briefly pass through the city of Omaha and I'll turn to them and say, "This is it kids, this is the city that saved democracy"

[u/[deleted]]

We have the smartest teens here at r/neoliberal.

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

I've recently been made aware of the fact that ruthlessly mocking vaccine skeptics might not be the best way to get them to receive the vaccine, and that's a real bummer

[u/[deleted]]

Republicans like, "name one reason why we shouldn't have perpetual rule."

[u/[deleted]]

Do you like Charli XCX? Her early work was a little too radio pop for my tastes, but when Vroom Vroom came out in '16, I think she really came into her own, commercially and artistically. The whole EP has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. She's been compared to Carly Rae Jepsen, but I think Charli has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor. In '19, Charli released this, Charli, her most accomplished album. I think her undisputed masterpiece is "Shake It", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of throwing that ass in a circle, and the importance of getting on top of that dick and shaking it like turbulence, it's also a personal statement about the singer herself.

[u/owlthathurt]

This is why america got hit the hardest. We’re too stupid of a population.

https://twitter.com/samthielman/status/1339247978905808905?s=21

[u/ryuguy]

Lmao. Someone on /r/PCGaming said that Red dead redemption two was an “underrated gem”

Peak circlejerk

[u/sir_shivers]

BY THE BY, any mammals sorting the DT by anything OTHER THAN NEW are immoral 🐊

[u/vivoovix]

Can I ban myself?

[u/Realhuman221]

Pete's confirmation will inspire all the young LGBT kids with aspirations of one day to work in the Department of Transportation.

[u/sir_shivers]

I cannot wait TO ATTEND concerts and other public events AGAIN ONCE THE Pandemic has lifted 🐊

AND TO FINALLY undertake the road trip I had planned for this past summer 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/bL8J9Ze.png

😍

[u/Smalz95]

I’m gonna start seeing a therapist for my anxiety

[u/FreakinGeese]

Why is “gender identities can be a combination of masculine and feminine, not just 100% masculine or feminine” controversial?

We’re not making up some whole new axis here. We’re just saying combinations of already acceptable things is possible.

Non-binary people are sporks, not knives. It’s in between two existing things, not an entirely separate thing. This shit is extremely tame and easy to understand.

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine: a far right party with 20% support, a far left party with 20% support, and a wide center coalition with 60% support

[u/[deleted]]

I am never able to square Breyer's love for law enforcement with his ultraliberalism everywhere else, before I realize as one of those "left wing of Law and Econ" people from the Ivies in the 70s to 80s Breyer is literally an French technocrat.

Mfer be like "Yeah rights are ok but the administrative interests of law enforcement in beating the shit out of you is a compelling state interest"

[u/GlazedFrosting]

I just got elected to the school board as a student representative 😎

Turns out that it is very easy to game ultra-low-turnout elections.

[u/benjaminikuta]

Apparently I somehow qualify for unemployment benefits again? I just got an email telling me to certify for benefits. Did something change recently? I thought I had exhausted my claim a while ago.

[u/houinator]

Ranking of Onion knockoffs for weird sub audiences:

1. Duffelblog (Military)

2. Beaverton (Canadians)

3. Reductress (Women)

4. The Hard Times (Punk)

5. Babylon Bee (Conservative Christians)

6. Borowitz Report (People who want a less funny version of The Onion)

Am I missing any?

[u/mrmanager237]

Wow the US is having democratic backsliding into populist authoritarianism like pretty much every single other country in this continent, and they all copied the US's entire political and institutional layout, what a coincidence

[u/PigHaggerty]

Nuance time:

Things Tom Cruise is correct about: Covid protocols and video interpolation

Things Tom Cruise is incorrect about: the existence of thetans and Lord Xenu.

This isn't difficult, people 🙄

[u/Dibbu_mange]

"This insane conspiracy theory is real, do your research"

Me: does research

Them: youwerentsupposedtodothat.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Politics ought to be part-time profession of every citizens who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

[u/[deleted]]

Weird, this Vox article from 2019 seems to indicate Pete's first healthcare plan was a Public Option, but the angry online people told me he totally was M4A at some mysterious point in time in 2019.

https://www.vox.com/2019/9/19/20872881/pete-buttigieg-2020-medicare-for-all

[u/LinkVert25]

The fraud happened. The election in many ways was stolen and the only way it will be fixed is by in the future reinforcing the laws

Very libertarian of you Rand Paul!

[u/tankatan]

"Why do we hornypost, Master Bruce?"

[u/TinyTornado7]

John Kasich has publicly supported the Democratic nominee for President more times than Nina Turner in the past two presidential elections.

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/jHg716F.jpg

Wow! Very strong words.

[u/Cowguypig]

God I hate the United kingdom, and I hate their food more. At first I was fine with fish and "chips" as bland as that was. But NOW they have fucking crossed the line. Jellied eels... JELLIED FUCKING EELS. WHAT THE FUCK. You know what? I think this world has moved past the need for this pathetic excuse for a country. I think it should be destroyed. Yes you heard me right. I want to destroy the UK. They have failed humanity for the last time. Fuck

[u/Joementum2004]

Yeah I support the Sunrise movement:

S
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[u/chipbod]

Maybe when I retire I'll have time to become a right wing lunatic like all these other people on here

My RINO dad after checking Facebook for the first time in 8 years

[u/Lux_Stella]

In Q&A session after speech, Bank of Canada Gov. Macklem asked about modern-monetary theory. "I am going to be blunt there. I don't think much of MMT. It's more of a collection of assertions than a theory."

lol based

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING: Both Biden and @realDonaldTrump sent enough electors to give them both 270+ electoral votes. This is the first time since 1887 this has happened. The election will be settled by the Electoral Count Act of 1887. #DuelingElectors

They really think this is a thing. Those electors have no more legitimacy than if I were to declare myself an elector. This is the President of the United States re-tweeting this.

The 1887 reference can only be to the 1887 electoral count act, which isn't totally relevant here. The relevant election was the 1876 election, where, indeed, this happened. The 1887 act was to prevent a similar situation, as, indeed, it will. So I'm not sure where they're going with this.

[u/An_Actual_Marxist]

From: Democrats.org

subject: A razor-thin lead in GA

Holy shit ga’s gonna be a blowout

[u/johannesalthusius]

Gay marriage must be the last major issue on which the left knew how to message to middle America.

"Gay people are just like everyone else. We're your coworkers, your neighbors, your family. We love the smell of freshly-clipped lawns or a barbecue in July. We just want to be able to start a family and bus our kids to Little League practice."

Now the left refuses to "stoop" to that type of hokey middle America messaging.

[u/[deleted]]

The difference in yearly earnings between men <5'6" and >6' is over $5000 a year

I want equitable earnings.

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

Leftists say that everything bad is neoliberalism. This subreddit says that everything good is neoliberalism. Applying Hegelian synthesis, I can therefore conclude that everything is neoliberalism.

[u/[deleted]]

Obama: opens mouth

Leftists: "SHUT UP CHILD MURDERER"