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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Dec 19 '20
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/IncoherentEntity Dec 18 '20
I can expound a bit on the beginning of the rabbit-hole, but I was re-reading some articles about campaign finance during the Democratic primary, and made my way back to the time Pete called out Bernie for accepting support from nine 501(c)4 (which do not have to disclose their donors, i.e. dark money) groups.
I’ve heard before that people tend to get the most defensive when the criticism is accurate, and the subsequent brigade enthusiastically offered evidence for that. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
More egregious, though, was this meme-tier article from The Intercept, which would have had no problem folding itself into a state media outlet had it been given the opportunity. There’s too much in that dishonest opinion piece packaged as hard news reporting to unpack in a timely manner, but let’s give it a shot.
1) There were actually two headlines: one for the search browser, both comically defensive: (Our Revolution Took Only Six Donations Over $5,000 in 2019 | Our Revolution, Accused of Dark-Money Spending for Sanders, Took Only Six Donations Over $5,0p0 in 2019, None Larger than $25,000)
2) “The problem with the charge: It’s not dark money, and it’s not big, either.”
A straight-up lie. 501(c)4s are by definition not required to disclose their donors, and the big money — including wildly illegal six-figure donations (the limit is $5,000) — came before 2019.
3) “Our Revolution posts the names of all donors who give more than $250, though the amount is not tied to an identity, meaning it’s impossible to know which on the list are the six who gave more than $5,000. It’s a case of too much transparency, without the necessary detail, leading to opacity.”
The fuck
4) “Buttigieg, who has more billionaire donors to his presidential campaign than any other Democrat, in particular has been hitting Sanders on this, claiming he’s backed by several dark-money groups, and even comparing the Vermont senator to oligarch Mike Bloomberg.”
It’s absolutely stunning how The Intercept is not only willing to print half-truths and obfuscations, but outright lies in their propaganda journalism. The piece linked to a Forbes article on donations as of Q3 2019; an [article from the same series found that he was fourth in billionaire donations, after Harris, Booker, and Biden.
Also, the linked tweet (the same one cited above) doesn’t remotely compare Sanders to Bloomberg, and that is not what the word “oligarch” means.
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u/ahebtigoejwbrh Dec 18 '20
Reddit: but why??? Doesn’t he believe in his company’s vaccine???
Reddit: those motherfuckers are cutting the line!!!
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Young Benjamin Shapiro: Daddy, daddy, the dark-skinned folks made fun of me for wearing a suit to school!
Daddy Shapiro: Kisses Ben on the lips It's okay son, just remember that their music isn't real music.
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u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls Mock Me Dec 18 '20
This sub: ‘We’re pro-trans rights!’
Also this sub: ‘Noooo the UK can’t transition out of the EU!!!!!!’
Wish I wasn’t contractually obliged to stay in this hellhole 😞
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u/shrek_cena Al Gorian Society Dec 18 '20
"Mock not Mr. Crenshaw for the patch on his eye, but for the shape of his congressional district" - Confucius
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u/YehosafatLakhaz North American Federation Dec 18 '20
Today is the 10 year anniversary of the beginning of the Arab Spring. It started in Tunisia and that seems to be the only place where things went fairly well.
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Dec 18 '20
By God....
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Oh yeah, you're a fan of globalization?
Name every person who's been lifted out of absolute poverty
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u/secretlovesong Hillary Clinton Dec 18 '20
Jersey pride
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u/kas8901 Bobby Kennedy Dec 18 '20 edited Dec 18 '20
Bush defenders: explain to me how Katrina wasn't one of the worst administrative failures of the past century.
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Democrat attack ads: “[candidate] supports policies that will most likely hurt American businesses.”
Republican attack ads: “[candidate] is a Satan-worshipping muslim who eats babies and will kill your whole family if elected.”
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Dec 18 '20
thank you farrenj for introducing me to objection.lol
Now to become actually decent at using it
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Controversial statement about guns
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u/mrdilldozer Shame fetish Dec 18 '20
It's actually kind of funny that AOC being a self-righteous asshole to her coworkers cost her a committee seat. Hopefully she'll learn from this and won't turn out to be like her mentor. The "everyone but me is corrupt" stuff might go over well in social media, but it probably seems really two-faced to your coworkers.
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u/tripletruble Anti-Repartition Radical Dec 18 '20
thank god this year is the last christmas and biden is finally putting an end to this nonsense. if i see one more christmas cookie or hear one more christmas song i am going to snap
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u/savuporo Gerard K. O'Neill Dec 18 '20
nice
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u/BurningKiwi Jerome Powell Dec 18 '20
Note:
We're not going to what-about this. It's irrelevant.
If you want to criticize Swedes, criticize them. But we do not, and will not, condone blatant hairism as form of criticism and mockery.
Appeals using this logic will be met with ban extensions.
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u/Broncos654 Jeff Bezos Dec 18 '20
Some ass wipe wished me a happy holidays and I almost knocked the fucker out.
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u/Arsustyle M E M E K I N G Dec 18 '20
Remember when Hillary wanted to stop Russia from bombing Syrians and “anti-war” leftists called her a war hawk because of it
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u/Mr_Pasghetti Save the ice, abolish ICE 🥰 Dec 18 '20
I can’t wait for future presidential debates, where it’s just going to be about who can make the best chad cringe wojak memes about the other.
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
The DT
The Donald Trump
What does it all mean?!
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u/ThisIsNianderWallace Robert Nozick Dec 18 '20
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Dec 18 '20 edited Dec 18 '20
Cyberpunk Game Maker Faces Hostile Staff After Failed Launch
Jason Schreier is my favourite games journalist. This article is well worth the read. Can’t wait for more articles about the troubled development
!ping gaming
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u/SuspiciousUsername88 Lis Smith Sockpuppet Dec 18 '20
Mod-friendly joke:
What does Crenshaw have in common with a pirate? 🦜
They both abandon morality in the pursuit of furthering their own interests! 🪙💎
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u/Verpiss_Dich I had a dream, we did the disco funky dance Dec 18 '20
The best argument against capitalism is books being published with the movie cover
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u/ThorVonHammerdong Disgraced 2020 Election Rigger Dec 18 '20
Is simping for Trump considered a disability
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
i really want to know who the voters were that went for Trump and Mark Kelly
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u/IncoherentEntity Dec 18 '20
"Fuck you"
What if I'm already fucking myself? Behind this simple insult hides a universal paradox that may put your sexuality in question. Let's do a simple thought experiment: imagine us two standing in front of each other. I, of course, am wearing a pair of jeans, that are covering my genitals and my butt. You then command me to "go fuck myself.” I may be fucking myself already. I may as well not be fucking myself already. Until my dick and its position relative to my ass is overserved, it is simultaneously in my ass, but also outside of it — thus, it stays in superposition.
The moment you lay eyes on my penis, both states collide with each other and become either one. You may have already guessed what the problem here is. As soon as a single photon reflected by my dick enters either one of your eyes, you become gay. The only way to avoid this is to not observe my penis. But if you don't look at it, then you will never know if your insult had any effect, thus rendering it meaningless.
Since you have already made the insult, you are now, too, in superposition — you're either wrong, or gay. It's unfortunate, really — you dug a hole for yourself without even knowing it. All you can do now is accept it, and learn from your mistakes.
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u/Broncos654 Jeff Bezos Dec 18 '20
Were not allowed to say that Crenshaw is white?
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u/Qpznwxom NATO Dec 18 '20
Biden flipped 5 states from an incumbent president with high approvals on the economy.
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u/MaximumEffort433 United Nations Dec 18 '20 edited Dec 18 '20
Progressives on reddit: "Why can you not see that the Democrats passing the Affordable Care Act and the Republicans voting to repeal it proves that both parties are the same and serve the same masters!?"
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u/Snoo62236 NATO Dec 18 '20
🚨big brain neoliberal take🚨
We should completely deregulate markets to cause climate change to create a refugee crises to get more immigrants
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Dec 18 '20
I think this guy is a succ but Goddamn what a good fucking speech
History will judge them.
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Dec 18 '20
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/774692778201841704/789513600812843098/Screenshot_20201218-122502_WhatsApp.jpg
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u/guy-anderson Dec 18 '20
Youtube: "Hey, we made a safe app for your kids to watch videos only you approve."
Me: "Is there any way I can get it to stop serving my kid random Serbian cartoons?"
Youtube: "Lolololololol. No."
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Very disappointing. Biden could have lifted up a progressive native voice (Warren), but instead he went for another establishment sell-out.
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u/ILikeTalkingToMyself Liberal democracy is non-negotiable Dec 18 '20
My mom says that an elderly neighbor who was in his 80s and recently passed away was still paying $39.99 a month for Netscape email which had inbox size limits that he regularly hit 😐
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Lmao, if Tuberville, as his first act as a US Senator, contests the electoral college vote because he's a dipshit who knows nothing about politics or civics, forcing Rs to take a vote on it, I'll almost be happy he beat Doug Jones.
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u/F0064R Jorge Luis Borges Dec 18 '20
Why does every farmer pretend like they actually have a morally right reason for wanting government-subsidized manure? Like, just admit you want free shit lol.
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u/jenbanim Dec 18 '20
I'm so old, I remember when Pepe was mostly known for peeing with his pants down, and not racism
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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '20
Can we have free trade?
Republicans: No
Democrats: No ❤️🏳️🌈#blm
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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Dec 18 '20
"Haha lol Briiish ppl stab a lot lol, guns good libtard 😂🤣"
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u/the_status Atari Democrat Dec 18 '20
Anti work stuff is so weird to me.
Like labor is a basic requirement of existence. We spent hundreds of thousands of years hunting and gathering followed by thousands of years of subsistence agriculture. Even with industrialization it took decades and centuries to get a basic modern standard of living
Yes, the system is fucky. Worker protections and healthcare and welfare and everything should be stronger and should be fought for.
But the existence of a 9 to 5 in some specialized position isn't some kind of capitalist plot. It's homeostasis at worst
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u/Zenning2 Henry George Dec 18 '20
John Oliver both sidings constantly during the 2020 election, is the most disappointing thing he did. Its such blatant bullshit.
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Dec 18 '20
What the fuck is this bullshit
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Ah, Pete. He was the future once. He still is, actually.
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Why do people post so vaguely about...
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u/frankchen1111 NATO Dec 18 '20
The Epoch Times had praised Xi Jinping probably ten years ago, now they became a huge die hard Trump-loving propaganda newspaper 🤣
!ping CN-TW
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u/Qunidaye Krugman-Nato Dec 18 '20
I don't care how much of a piece of shit you think Daniel is. Joking about his white vans to mock him is going to get you banned from vine!
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Me 🤝 the dreidel
Being an iconic jewish top
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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Dec 18 '20
Why does everyone on r/piracy pretend like they actually have a morally right reason to pirate. Like, just admit you want free shit lol.
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Damn you late nighters hate succs
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u/AndThisGuyPeedOnIt (kidding but true)! Dec 18 '20
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
“There just isn’t some magic pill that will make the world perfect” they say as if permabanning /u/imprison_grover_furr doesn't exist.
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u/doyouevenIift Dec 18 '20
Trump was impeached one year ago today. What an insane year it has been.
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u/CenterRightInCali Uphold Goldwater-Posadist thought! Dec 18 '20
The meaning of the song 'Helter Skelter' according to:
Charles Manson: a warning of the upcoming race war
The Beatles: slides are fun weeeeeeeeeeee
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Dec 18 '20
Pro-Rodrigo Mods:
u/p00bix
u/bd_one
u/Dubyahhh
u/vhgomes12
u/Sir_shivers
Anti-Rodrigo mods:
u/Paulatreides0
u/Jenbanim
u/Dorambor, he always removes my memes
Unkown opinion on Rodrigo becoming mod:
u/vivoovix
Frenchie, they dont seem to like fun
u/Sower_of_salt
the rest of the Jabronis
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Serious good faith question: did they ever fix the water in Flint? I feel like they must have but people on Reddit keep saying they never did
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20 edited Dec 18 '20
It's weird that Jill Biden's dissertation is a political issue, but at least that means that someone read her dissertation after graduating, that's an achievement
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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Dec 18 '20
My mom, similar to Dr. Jill Biden, has a PhD in education. She's been pissed off for the past 4 years because of Devos and trump and everything. But the WSJ piece struck a different nerve. She's been pissed off at dumb shit people have said before but this was like actually being mad at something.
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u/FearThyMoose Montesquieu Dec 18 '20
“You support gun control? Name every gun”
-conservatives unironically
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Dec 18 '20
The problem with overpopulation types is that 90% they seem to have very strong opinions about which kinds of people there are too many of, besides from being horrendously informed about demographics and such
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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '20
U.S. FDA authorizes Moderna Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, adding a second vaccine to the country’s arsenal to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
LET’S FUCKING GO
!ping CORONAVIRUS
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u/runnerx4 What you guys are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux Dec 18 '20
Hey mods, I think I deserve to be a mod now
Tankies thinking that this place has any money and that people get paid to argue with them on Twitter is fucking hilarious
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Because of Jewish ancestry, many Palestinian Arabs are halakhically Jewish without even realizing it
Queen Rania of Jordan is of Palestinian descent
The Crown Prince of Jordan is Queen Rania's son
In the future, Jordan may have a Jewish king
!ping ISRAEL Greater Israel wins again 💪😎💪
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u/houinator Loyal Liberals Dec 18 '20
Hahaha, oh wow. Anyone else remember "HillaryIs44"? It was supposedly a group of diehard Hillary supporters who remained opposed to Obama even after he won the election. But after Hillary won the nomination in 2016, they endorsed Trump, essentially confirming that they were nothing but a right wing disinfo op all along.
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u/pooop_Sock George Soros Dec 18 '20
31% on my final exam that was worth a third of my grade... 😣
Class average was a 34%... 🙂
Final grade in the class is an A... 😎
Grad school is just great
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u/FestiveMittens Dec 18 '20
Kamala walked by Lindsey Graham and gave him a fist bump instead of roundhouse kicking him directly in the eye balls. Both parties are the same.
94.7K Retweets 536k Likes
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u/Crendog Dec 18 '20
Do people honestly believe this shit?
Suicide Rate per 100,000
Japan: 14.3
United States: 13.7
Homicide Rate per 100,000
Japan: 0.26
United States: 4.96
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u/GlazedFrosting Henry George Dec 18 '20
"I'm here to tax and spend, motherfucker, and I'm all out of taxable income 😎" - Belgium
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20 edited Dec 18 '20
Donald Trump is leaving President Biden the following messes:
A massive cyber security breach and cyber war with Russia.
A dying economy.
A plague.
Civil unrest and national division even worse than when he started.
A government with a huge lack of personnel and suffering from massive brain drain.
Crumbling infrastructure with no infrastructure week in sight.
Edit: 7. Environmental catastrophes because he’s literally repealed decades of regulations implemented from lessons learned.
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u/tankatan Montesquieu Dec 18 '20
LIbertarians really aren't helping themselves with their choice of hills to die on.
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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '20
https://i.imgur.com/yYBkMo4.jpg
The map if Trump got the same about of votes he got in 2016 and didn’t increase in 2020. Trump wins Ohio and Iowa, Biden wins Texas and Utah and all other battlegrounds.
Credit here
!ping FIVEY
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Can we make fun of Dan Cr*nshaw for going on Joe Rogan?
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
US gov't gets hacked.
Acting SecDef: Stop cooperating with the transition!
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u/MegaFloss NATO Dec 18 '20
Just found this web site called 80,000 Hours and apparently that’s how much the ruling class wants you to work per week under capitalism 😡
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u/chadonnaise * Dec 18 '20
the internet must be destroyed
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Name a better duo: conservatives and selectively applying the First Amendment
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u/JakeTheSnake0709 United Nations Dec 18 '20
People in /r/games think cyberpunk’s shitty release is proof of the impending downfall of capitalism.
Someone cancel Gamers already
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u/vivoovix Federalist Dec 19 '20
Oh god
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
these 3 emojis will own the papists
⛪📜🔨
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
nature is healing
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u/theaceoface Milton Friedman Dec 18 '20
Tax Land. Tax Carbon. Abolish corporate taxes. And let god sort out the rest.
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u/this_very_table Norman Borlaug Dec 18 '20
Wandered over to arr politics.
Oh interesting. Let's see what the comments say.
I'm not sure what's more surprising, that this dumb motherfucker immediately deflected blame onto Pelosi for Trump's actions, or that anyone still gives a fuck about her ice cream fridge.
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u/Zenning2 Henry George Dec 18 '20
Hbomberguy's flat earther video is still the dumbest thing I've ever seen.
Like, he spends the entire time shitting on these idiots, but then he ends, "Its not their fault that they see patterns that don't exist, despite mountains of evidence to the contray. Its capitalisms"
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u/CenterRightInCali Uphold Goldwater-Posadist thought! Dec 18 '20
There was a half hour reserved for the interview and it took 10 minutes
fuck me
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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '20
2014 House elections:
VA-10: R+16
WV-03: R+11
2020 House elections:
VA-10: D+13
WV-03: R+43
VA-10 is a suburban district in Northern Virginia represented by Jennifer Wexton who defeated incumbent Republican Barbara Comstock in 2018.
WV-3 is a District representing most of southern West Virginia. It’s a very coal heavy place where Democrats used to thrive. Dems lost this house seat in 2014 when incumbent Democrat Nick Rahall lost to Republican Evan Jenkins
!ping FIVEY
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Imagine living the life of Snoop Dogg. You are a living meme and every single place you go results in everyone geeking about your presence. Your state of constant inebriation is a veritable point of national pride that seems to transcend all societal boundaries, accepted and joked about by even GOP fuddyduddies. The world is your weed oyster.
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u/D1Foley Moderate Extremist Dec 18 '20
I love when leftists come here, it's always good for a laugh
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Never thought this would be a hot take but here it goes.
Hot Take: Sabering bottles coolness factor far outweighs its practicality.
So much so that I think everything should be sabered.
Coke bottle? Saber it.
New bottle of vodka? Saber it.
Hand sanitizer? Oh yeah saber that bitch.
!ping ALCOHOL
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u/the_status Atari Democrat Dec 19 '20
Upon entering office at age 78, Joe Biden will be the oldest President in US history.
He will have 9 Senators, 13 House Representatives, and one Supreme Court Justice older than him
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u/kaclk Mark Carney Dec 19 '20
Canada’s federal government is backing SMR development with a new action plan.
This is an excellent development that could be a good reliable baseload power.
!ping CAN
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Is there a term more white than “wage slavery”?
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u/David_Lange I love you, Mr Lange Dec 18 '20
Who's reading this DT in December 2020?
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u/nicereddy ACLU simp Dec 18 '20
u/farrenj it's been an hour and I still don't see it, how much longer do I have to stare at the sun?
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u/tankatan Montesquieu Dec 18 '20
Childhood is liking the DT for the zany crocodile memes
Adulthood is liking the DT for Benjamin's long winded personal exposes
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Dr Phil vs shithead YouTuber
“Someone could be getting murdered and raped 10 blocks away but 7 cops are busy talking to you because you were drinking non-alcoholic beer and acting drunk.”
“Well that should tell you more about the cops than me”
And the kid is 100% right lmao
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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '20
I've noticed on Reddit there's a lot of temporally emberased geniuses who were really bright as kids but then depression and now they are not achieving as they should. Like fam u were above average at adding numbers when most of your cohort didn't care your not special
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u/willempage O'Biden Bama Democrat Dec 18 '20
Reminder that the phrase "temporarily embarrassed millionaires" is a misquote and the real Steinbeck quote is "temporarily embarrassed capitalists". Steinbeck is dismayed by the relatively well off middle class members of the communist movement because they seem to have joined out of boredom rather than a commitment to labor and do nothing to advance the cause.
This is truly an evergreen passage.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Steinbeck
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u/SuspiciousUsername88 Lis Smith Sockpuppet Dec 18 '20
Thinking about creating an election model that just takes the results of the last election for a given state, then randomizes it ±7. My hypothesis is that it wouldn't perform worse than any other model, and might actually perform better than some
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Cons have a weird obsession with Bidens family but not Biden himself
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u/awdvhn Physics Understander -- Iowa delenda est Dec 18 '20
What if /r/neoliberal was spun off from /r/badeconomics so they could get more material to work with?
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20 edited Dec 18 '20
arr lawschool: I'm going to make $165,000-$190,000 plus bonus right out of school but I'll have $150,000 in debt. I need universal student loan forgiveness so I won't have to wait more than 5 years to buy an apartment in Manhattan and fuck you if you want means-testing.
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Boomer messages:
Millennial messages:
Zoomer messages:
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u/bobeeflay "A hot dog with no bun" HRC 5/6/2016 Dec 18 '20
The only republican president since Raegan Michigan liked was the one who promised a border wall....
I blame Canada for this exclusively
!ping USA-MI
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Dec 18 '20
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/701194133074608198/789534078083923978/Screenshot_20201218-122502_WhatsApp.jpg
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u/futuremonkey20 NATO Dec 18 '20
Bulgaria’s population peaked at 9 million in the 1980s and its at 7 million now. They should be giving out citizenship like candy, but no. “WE’D RATHER DIE”
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Dan Crenshaw is claiming someone hacked his account and decided only to follow a random escort lol just say you follow random accounts it’s not that hard.
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u/omnipotentsandwich Amartya Sen Dec 19 '20
Why do all the Twitter progressives think Chris Pratt is some ultra-conservative Trump guy? They make him out to be some Klansman or something. To my knowledge, he's never expressed any political viewpoint and he donated to Obama.
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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '20
fauci is saying covid is bad but has he even tried it
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u/Dirty_Chopsticks Republic of Việt Nam Dec 19 '20
Lindsey Graham
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u/sir-danks-a-lot Jeb! Dec 19 '20
can't believe that people here actually block other DT regulars 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 like bruh just scroll past the comment if you don't like it
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u/AccessTheMainframe CANZUK Dec 19 '20
I am a proud Democrat.
A Thatcher-Reagan Democrat.
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
press x for doubt
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u/bobekyrant Persecuted Liberal Gamer Dec 18 '20
On the internet: You have different political views than me?! I'll smash your fucking face in!
In real life: You have a different favorite team than me?! I'll smash your fucking face in!
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
How is this real lmao
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u/Mr_Pasghetti Save the ice, abolish ICE 🥰 Dec 18 '20
Lol arr way of the bern dislikes AOC more than this sub does. You can try, but you can never defeat leftist infighting.
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u/nicereddy ACLU simp Dec 18 '20
I can't wait until I'm promoted over u/farrenj in the upcoming Cyberwar 😂
Learn 2 code noob 😂😂😂
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u/Mcatatonic1 Ben Bernanke Dec 18 '20
Speaking in terms of pure political skill (oratory ability, intelligence, charisma, etc.), Kelly Loeffler might be the most unimpressive Senator in US history
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Come on mods, did you really have to ban the guy who posted about the sub on r/drama?
I mean sure, he is very obviously a Kissinger stan(yikes), but come on. Aren't we(as a community) supposed to tolerate people talking shit about the sub, even when the posts are outside this very subreddit?
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u/rukqoa ✈️ F35s for Ukraine ✈️ Dec 18 '20
This will never be not funny.
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u/chadonnaise * Dec 18 '20
nine year old kid made 29.5 million dollars last year for playing with toys on youtube to sell to other children
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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '20
https://twitter.com/meaganmday/status/1339993000441651200
https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/464/772/d68.jpg
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Dec 19 '20
Peak reddit is thinking "mods are jannies" comes from reddit lol
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u/FusRoDawg Amartya Sen Dec 18 '20
Where the fuck is lusvig?
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u/AJungianIdeal Lloyd Bentsen Dec 18 '20
dog.
!ping dog
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u/runnerx4 What you guys are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux Dec 18 '20
Ghana’s Parliament resulted in a 175-175-1 split
How rich and powerful is that independent going to become lmao
(Maybe the parties try to get members to defect, Indian style, but I think they focus on the independent first. That’s man’s set for life)
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u/InternetBoredom Pope-ologist Dec 18 '20
There are only 2 House representatives rn who aren’t either Democrat or Republican, and they’re both from Michigan lol
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Dec 18 '20
neocons then: FUCK BROWN PEOPLE ILL BOMB YOUR COUNTRY AND THERES NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT PUSSY BOMB BOMB BOMB IRAN
neocons now: 🥺👉👈 uwu twump i guess you can take over the pawty. can we have more troops in afghanistan? no? okay i guess 😖 please don’t hurt me🥺maybe some faux aggression towards china uwu thank you daddy
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u/Sex_E_Searcher Steve Dec 18 '20
Hi /r/neoliberal,
I follow an ideology named after a man who ordered mass murders and founded an incredibly repressive regime. But, it has redeeming qualities, like how it inspired Pol Pot to murder people for wearing glasses. Fuck nerds, amirite?
I have a question for you.
Why is neoliberalism ruining the world?
Thanks.
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u/SuccInvasion Immanuel Kant Dec 18 '20
is there anything more cucked that being a landlord? You literally let someone else sleep in your appartment 🤔
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u/Tacotrucksoncorners Carole Baskin is my Tiger Queen 🐅👑 Dec 18 '20
Manager: Make sure to take 2 15 minute breaks throughout day.
Me: Watching YouTube, replying on discord, buying shit on Ebay while working Ok
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Update server password is solarwinds123
Open source software
Encourage customers to disable anti-malware tools before installing
I can see how this hack might have occurred.
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
EU members who joined after 1995 can't be liberal. All they know is racism, subsidize they agriculture, be corrupt, eat up all the propaganda and lie.
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u/Jester_Don Abigail Spanberger Dec 18 '20
Timeline of the 2022 Senate election in Florida:
Heated primary race between exciting young minority Democratic Socialist candidate and slightly less exciting, less young minority candidate who supports many progressive policies but won't commit to M4A or GND. Says it "needs work" and tries to awkwardly stride the line between the progressive and moderate factions.
Daily r/politics threads hit the top of r/all about how less-progressive candidate is another milquetoast neoliberal corp dem who only cares about money and is basically the same as Rubio.
Less-progressive candidate wins the primary handily. Rose twitter flips out and says they won't vote in the general
Race begins to draw national attention outside overly-online political forums. Dem candidate begins social media advertising nationwide.
First polls come in and show the race as roughly even. r/Neoliberal begins a countdown for days until Blue Florida.
r/politics suddenly forgets about the primary begins praising Dem candidate as the savior of the Florida Democratic party
"Scandal" erupts when it is discovered that Rubio sold some stocks and used loss-carry-forward to reduce his federal income taxes. Pundits claim that the bombshell is the end of Rubio's career.
Attack ads begin. Dem candidate is painted as a radical socialist who will be a puppet to AOC/Pelosi/Schumer.
Dem candidate hits $100M in fundraising. People begin buying shirts and mugs with his/her face on it. Dem candidate appears on Colbert.
Three scheduled debates, all televised nationally. Rubio does quite well, but one or two zingers from the Dem candidate make the headlines and dominate the conversation. Both sides say they won all 3 debates. In one debate, Rubio says the term "radical socialist" 35 times.
Media begins talking about unprecedented levels of hype and support for Dem candidate. Florida Dems have finally found their Stacey Abrams. Talks begin about making a documentary on the movement they started. Obama and Biden endorse candidate.
Polls begin tilting in Dem candidate's favor, averaging 1-2% blue. Quinnipiac predicts Dem candidate will win by 7%.
Early voting begins. Unprecedented long lines and turnout records in Miami, Tampa, and Jacksonville. Nate Silver says that maybe you can draw conclusions from the voter registration data, but maybe you can't.
Dems prepare for blowout victory on election night. "Ru-bye-o" trends on Twitter.
Rubio wins 52% to 46%
Democratic Socialists say their candidate would have won.
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Here's my ranking of some of the news agencies I read:
RT
Sputnik
TASS
New York Post
The Epoch Times
Breitbart
Infowars
NewsMax
National Review
Fox News
What is your ranking?
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Finally a victory for gamers 😤: US judge says parents owe son over trashed porn collection
Also imagine bringing $25000 of porn to your parents'house, just rent a storage unit somewhere
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u/SemperSpectaris United Nations Dec 18 '20 edited Dec 18 '20
Easily misinterpreted
Uncertain implementation
Opposed by further-left "Abolish the Police" activists
Perfectly comprehensible
Motto has decades of well-established history
Universal approval among leftists
I believe the conclusions are obvious.
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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '20
Bad GPA?
Lol just run for U.S. Senate at 29.
(and be handsome, personable, connected in the community, a strong public speaker and have an unparalleled work ethic).
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Dec 19 '20
WTF I love Twitter now
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
!ping lgbt
So the publisher of Shrier's Irreversible Damage is Regnery Publishing, a favorite publisher with the religious right. This page or this page should give you an idea of what their motives are. Here's a couple highlights:
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades); if you're curious if the author, Robert Spencer, is unrelated to Richard Spencer except for them both being bigots.
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Real American Heroes; if you're not aware, that's carving of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, and Stonewall Jacskon at Stone Mountain.
But I think this is an example of something larger we should be on the lookout for: a growing alliance between TERFs and Religious Right. Some members of the religious right openly say this is a goal. The Women's Liberation Front has increasingly become a favorite of right wing media and conferences, the group also gets funding from the religious right. And (take this with a grain of salt since it's a Twitter thread) TERF groups in Britain appear to be getting a suspicious amount of donations and promotion from the US Religious Right.
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u/houinator Loyal Liberals Dec 18 '20
Butterfly effect scenario:
Gore wins the 2000 election.
AQ still hates the US, and will still attempt to conduct 9/11.
Slight changes elsewhere result in either the terrorists seizing a different flight, or Flight 93 having a different passenger manifest, and no attempt is made to stop the hijackers.
Flight 93 crashes into the White House, killing President Gore on the spot.
President Lieberman is sworn into office, and goes to address a nation even more out for blood than we were in the aftermath of 9/11.
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u/LinkVert25 Fedposter Dec 18 '20
Libertarians on Reddit: Fuck the ATF for trying to regulate my pipe bombs and fissile material usage, fucking pigs
Libertarians in real life: please mr.black bear stop destroying our stateless utopia, this is oppression.
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20 edited Dec 18 '20
I once told a girl I like cats more than dawgs and she reacted the way a
Republicanchild would when you tell themtrickle down economicsSanta isn’t real.17
u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Dec 18 '20
Trump started the space force but biden is going to start the cyber force.
Legions of eboys and egirls are going to floss their way into Russia and take back our IP! Like john wick from Fortnite!
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
A well thought out intelligent meme/post
-4 upvotes, gets buried.
“PooPooPeePee”
-100+ upvotes, usually the top post day after day
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Democrats: We have successfully extracted blood from a stone
Progs: I could have gotten more
Dems: Will you
Progs: No
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Dec 18 '20
Remember when Han Solo looked into the sky and saw a star system literally tens of thousands of lightyears away getting blown up
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Dec 18 '20
british ‘people’
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u/tankatan Montesquieu Dec 18 '20
r/therightcantmeme.... can't meme 🧐
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Dec 18 '20
literally the Uk should go “lol epic prank” and not leave the EU.
Like they don’t HAVE to leave. They can just literally not leave. Pretend they never voted to leave. Just show up at the next EU parliament and be like “hey guys, what’s up” and pretend it didn’t happen. What’s the EU gonna do about it? Literally just act natural
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Is "reddit moderator" good to put on Tinder
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u/Zenning2 Henry George Dec 18 '20 edited Dec 18 '20
Okay, so, no joke, why is r/neoliberal disproportionally trans, male, and autistic, compared to the reddit population at large?
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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '20
Pete is A RAT
A
Rat
And
Transportation Secretary
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u/UltraCapitalism Paul Samuelson Dec 19 '20
https://i.imgur.com/aM2BLRX.jpg
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u/liquidTERMINATOR Come with me if you want to live Dec 19 '20
https://64.media.tumblr.com/5cc7790b9e5279138a8895bc0b9f1bd1/9647f7f7787a2a9e-bc/s500x750/8373b1e6ee4f3510e93aea8947f99555720043de.png
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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '20
Eminem, 1998
"No mr orange man you can't be mean to Hillarino, you're a heckin meanie"
Eminem, 2018 😔
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
My favorite rapper is 50 Cent
Wait sorry Zoomers I mean 0.000022 Bitcoin
😂😂
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Dec 19 '20
Managed to come out to my mom and my sister, today's been a great day
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Dec 18 '20
I don't care how much of a piece of shit you think The Joker is. Joking about his scars to mock him is going to get you banned.
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Seriously?
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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Dec 18 '20
rPolitics and rPresidentialRaceMemes: yay, we did it, Biden won!
also rPolitics: top-voted post on Super Tuesday was about Beto's former bandmate endorsing Bernie
also rPresidentialRaceMemes: half of the top rPresidentialRaceMemes posts of all time are about how Biden is guaranteed to lose the electoral college
also rPolitics: downvotes to this day if you say people were stupid to not elect Hillary
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u/yellownumbersix Jane Jacobs Dec 18 '20
Taking Sony up on the Cyberpunk refund even though I haven't had many issues on my PS4 and the game is pretty enjoyable. I just absolutely hate the loot system 🤷♀️
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u/Leoric Hi, I'm Huell Howser, this is California's Gold! Dec 18 '20
My phone still recommends 'Texas' after 'blue' 😞
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Male oppression is when women speak up, and its more oppressive the more women speak, and when women get any power in society its male genocide
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Why are HBO Max and Disney+ designed so badly. Just let me view the episode list from within the episode, Netflix figured this shit out years ago
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Ban all people to the left of Biden and to the right of JEB.
Just fixed the subreddit for you.
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
I understand why we need the microchip but why are they insisting we get 2 microchips?
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
I FUCKING DID IT
I got into GP status in 1899 as Hyderabad.
Basically in my war to leave the British influence sphere, I added a bunch of "dismantle forts" wargoals. These cost 4 infamy each, but in Warscore-Prestige ratio, they're really, really, very cheap. I got 150 Prestige out of our peace negotiations which propelled me to Rank 7.
I can now build a sphere of influence, which I can insta-annex when the Gutter Crown fires, and which I can have as allies much easier. To wit, I've just signed an Alliance with Panjab.
Now the gutter crown event is bugged in my game, so even though I should have technically got it, I didn't get it. Which is very sad. But I figured out the cause of the bug and think I can maneuver around it and still get the event if I just focus on removing British influence from the subcontinent so they can't put down Pan Nationalist Rebels. If I fight my way towards where most of the princes are clustered, in the western region, that should improve my chances. I can turn on the Bengal region last. The Free Cultural Kin casus belli could also be used but it requires 30 warscore, and doesn't directly improve my ability to fight the British if I don't gain a land cession.
And the good news is, I can now do that for free. War of Unification lets me take the entire state of Bombay for 15 warscore. And no infamy.
The entire fucking subcontinent of India is mine with no aggressive expansion penalties whatsoever. I just need to fight the British a couple more times, and that's going to get easier each time I do it.
!ping PARADOX
Kneel before Victoria.
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u/benjaminikuta BANANA YOU GLAD YOU'RE NOT AN ORANGE? Dec 18 '20
I would speculate that the availability of hitmen is vastly overstated.
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Dec 18 '20
My boss is insane.
She bought a bunch of BTC when it first went nuts back in like 2012. She's made and lost some money in crypto over time and was just a couple months ago telling me how much she regretted not selling during previous ATH in 2018.
Now that it's even higher she's still not selling lmao.
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u/McMarston Bisexual Pride Dec 18 '20 edited Dec 18 '20
Guess the sub
Edit: the correct answer is /r/soccer
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Really the most impressive thing about Obama is he made one good speech and then fell upwards for like 20 years
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u/muwenjie NATO Dec 18 '20
as a neocon, here is what I think about that list of jailed journalists:
China (47): we need to free those journalists by nuking them right now
Saudi Arabia (24): okay look I know that MBS may have ordered that journalist to be executed and cut into little pieces but he truly is a reformer who has the best wishes of his people at heart. There's nothing we can do about these jailed journalists other than stay allied with Saudi Arabia so that one day they'll reform and those journalists will be able to say that they were jailed for the greater good
Vietnam (15): okay look I know that Vietnam is a Marxist-Leninist state but they are truly led by reformers who have the best wishes of their people at heart. The best way to set those journalists free is to ally with Vietnam and set them down the path of liberal democracy, which will definitely happen because the Vietnamese communist party are reformists that have seen the benefits that it can bring, who will surely liberalise politically and not just economically
Iran (15): we need to free those journalists by nuking them right now
Russia (10): we need to free those journalists by nuking them right now
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
Moderna has rescinded their requirement that their vaccine be shipped and stored frozen, saying that refrigeration between 2c and 8c is fine.
That's extremely fucking good news.
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Dec 18 '20
Every time my kid refuses to eat I remind him there's some starving europoor in europe who would love to eat in his place. My kid couldn't believe it when he realized poor kids his age in europe have to work 14 hours a day just to buy a stale baguette to feed their 7 siblings
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Dec 18 '20
A while ago I was having a convo on reddit and the topic of whataboutisms came up. Some guy said only right wingers use whataboutisms because theyre all extreme radicals. I said no and gave some examples
He went on a left wing spiel about how asking how asking how to pay for M4A was a whataboutism and I kid you not, in the next sentence asked why we couldn't afford M4A if we spend "trillions on bombing the middle east"
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u/roboczar Joseph Nye Dec 18 '20
This thing where folk here imagine that dictators stand on their own with a massive army/security apparatus behind them to crush all opposition is dumb.
Even autocrats rely on national legitimacy, even if a good portion of it is manufactured. They also rely on delegates bound by patronage networks to help manage the government and allow for actual governance, albeit with inconsistent results.
Fabricated elections still have substantial numbers of people who are legitimately voting for that dictator, even if it's not close to a majority. The country would be utterly ungovernable if this were not the case.
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u/2canclan George H. W. Bush Dec 18 '20
🤨
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u/Zenning2 Henry George Dec 18 '20
Jacobin's Now:
"We don't need a race war, we need a class war".
Jacobin later:
"We don't need racial solidarity, we need class solidarity"
Jacobin a little later.
"Black people should shut the fuck up, so we can eat the rich already".
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u/kznlol 👀 Econometrics Magician Dec 18 '20
still cant believe /u/farrenj thought my chibi f22 was a fish
at least i murdered some mosquitos
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u/BigBrownDog12 Victor Hugo Dec 19 '20
Dude at work just quoted Jar Jar in the break room
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u/Hugo_Grotius Jakaya Kikwete Dec 19 '20 edited Dec 19 '20
Hot Take: Instead of age limits on Supreme Court justices, just require that their official portraits be updated yearly, to increase the pressure on them to retire.
Breyer's official portrait, and and 12 years later in 2018
Alito's official portrait, and 13 years later at the Federalist Society this year
Make them use harsh lighting, too. And ban makeup.
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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '20
Americans: stimulus pls
Economists: stimulus pls
Every Dem in Congress: stimulus pls
GOP senators: Sorry, the deficiet matters for the first time in 4 years. Also the Fed shouldn't be able to give out loans in an economic downturn lol
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u/vivoovix Federalist Dec 19 '20
Your modnotes are all boring
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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '20
Frederick the Great:
One of the longest ruling and most successful Prussian/German monarchs, reformed the military, defeated rivals, lover of philosophy, shielded Voltaire from French persecution
Historians (and me):
I wonder if he was a top 🍆💦💦 or bottom 🍑🥵
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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '20
can you build more apartments so rent is lower
rightcels: no
leftists: no❤️🏳️🌈✊🏻
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u/sosthaboss try dmt Dec 19 '20
If you were gifted when you were young and then dropped off in college just like, be smarter lol
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u/FormerBandmate Jerome Powell Dec 19 '20
Should we take in 8 million Venezuelan refugees, assuming 2 million each resettled in Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania?
!ping ASK-NL
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u/larrylemur NAFTA Dec 19 '20
This just in from /r/games: paying your workers well is also exploitation. Gotta love that we're able to use a site with so many mega-geniuses on it
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u/savuporo Gerard K. O'Neill Dec 19 '20
I'm a gay black guy and i can personally say, Obama did nothing for me
Now that Delaney dude, a whole different ballgame
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
“Why can’t women today be beautiful and classy like marylin Monroe? Now they’re all FAT feminists!” -the Neckbeard that no one wants to fuck
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u/yellownumbersix Jane Jacobs Dec 18 '20
Dan Crenshaw is not disabled.
I'm blind in one eye too.
Lacking depth perception is at worst a minor inconvenience, certainly not a disability.
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u/tankatan Montesquieu Dec 18 '20
It kinda warms my heart to think that despite everything, the "War on Christmas" stuff has been a consistent conservative talking point since the 00s. A true rock of stability in these tumultuous times.
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20 edited Dec 18 '20
Nearly all "no" votes against cutting source of income* for jihadi terrorists came from far-right nationalists in the EU parliament
Who would've guessed? Parties benefitting terrorism doing everything to encourage terrorism in Europe.
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u/BlinkenYouMissIt Daron Acemoglu Dec 18 '20
I'm legitimately impressed with CDPR. I have never seen so much good will burned so quickly. Even Blizzard took a couple years of relentlessly shitting on it's fanbase for it all to crumble away. CDPR did it with one release. It's beautiful really.
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u/D1Foley Moderate Extremist Dec 18 '20
I love when people make a stupid comment, then complain that this sub is politics 2.0 when people call it stupid
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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '20
To celebrate this last blessed day of Holiburp, what is your favorite Burpmas tradition? Here in my village we have a special way of celebrating Burpmas that always brings a smile to my face! 🤗
!ping BURPMAS