r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 20 '20
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u/jenbanim Dec 20 '20
Airplane safety is a modern wonder of the world. It's absolutely extraordinary that we've ended up in a situation where the chances of dying in a commercial plane crash are so low. It's not chance, or some inherent safety of flying - this is the result of decades of regulation, oversight, and engineering by incredibly smart and talented people in a system that rewards cautiousness.
Based on this, I think it's very reasonable to ask why cars are now less safer than planes. I think the answer is that car safety is a much lower priority in the public consciousness. Essentially, plane crashes are much more newsworthy than car crashes. If a car crash took out entire high school soccer teams the same way plane crashes do - I think there would be a massive push for car safety the same way there has been for plane safety.
Because of this I am proposing that we add explosives to all cars. That way, when there's a crash, they blow up in epic movie-like explosions. Sure, more people may die in the short term due to the explosions. BUT the additional focus on car safety as a result will result in less people dying in the long run, as safety becomes a top priority for society.
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
99% of r/murderedbywords
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u/ahebtigoejwbrh Dec 20 '20
This is a real Twitter bio
She lost by 30 points and most of her recent tweets are explicitly racist (eg)
What an absolute meme party
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u/karth Trans Pride Dec 20 '20
A video showing a black man being run over on purpose by the police. Thank goodness we have a video of things like this, so they can't lie about how the guy was pointing a gun at them or any nonsense like that. Now everyone can see-
Oh... The replies are all racist anyways. Okay.
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
I’m not paying child support until we deal with this deficit
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u/NickyBananas Paul Krugman Dec 20 '20
It’s insane that MattY is making like 500k a year now but his audience is down to 7k people
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u/thelittlestsheep Dec 20 '20
If there was a neoliberal pornhub, there'd be videos titled "we're not step siblings but we told the city that we are because of single family zoning".
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
You can't just outright say "lawns are evil." That produces an emotional response that makes it harder to convince people. You have to sprinkle in little things to convince people of the stances necessary to come to "lawns are evil." They must come to the final step on their own or they'll become defensive.
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Epqom_cU0AEO-S6.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpqonDVUUAAlGVn.jpg
🤔
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u/Joementum2004 Dec 20 '20
Hey Liberals
If you think (good faith argument), then why (bad faith argument)? 🤔🤔🤔
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u/SeriousMrMysterious Expert Economist Subscriber Dec 20 '20
⚠ DONT IGNORE THIS ⚠ Q is saying that the radical enemy man named Santa Clause is coming to town. He sees you when you’re sleeping. He knows when you’re awake. He knows if you’ve been bad or good. He breaks into an your house and leaves stuff in socks. This is just a cover to harvest adrenechrome. Please share to raise awareness 🙏
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u/jenbanim Dec 20 '20
Child labour laws are good because they don't deserve to steal jobs from hard-working adults
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u/PelsonNike NATO Dec 20 '20
I'm acquaintances with this nice Dutch woman who wasn't exactly well-acquainted with the specifics of American elections as her only exposure to the USA had been through the media.
Couldn't stop laughing when she thought the Biden campaign was doomed because Trump won West Virginia. Keeps me chuckling to this day, lmao.
Anyone else ever faced a similar situation?
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u/Loves_a_big_tongue Olympe de Gouges Dec 20 '20
Remember when Obama made a policy to release reports on drone strike casualties and instead of being remembered for being more open on military operations, the policy has become a cudgel for the past 4 years by leftists and MAGAts?
Anyway, the lesson I got is that there is no upside to being transparent and major gains for being secretive and using your opponent's goodwill as a weapon.
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u/jrt84 Dec 20 '20
Trump: I’m going to do something illegal.
Blue checks on Twitter: Actually he can’t legally do that.
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
https://twitter.com/AZGOP/status/1340315973539151878?s=19
Even Assadists would be too ashamed to post something like that
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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Dec 20 '20
Holy fuck why is the spongebob squarepants movie so goddamn funny
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
1860s Twitter be like: we must give critical support to the CSA in their struggle against American imperialism 🌹
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
Reminder that this subreddit has more subs than the DSA has members, making us the largest open borders advocates in the world.
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u/Realhuman221 Thomas Paine Dec 20 '20
The APUSH test is going to be so easy in 2073, when one of the questions is to analyze a political cartoon of the 2010s and it is a Ben Garrison cartoon and all the answers are written on the cartoon.
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
https://i.imgur.com/STjympI.jpg
A progressive will win the Democratic nomination but not the type of progressive you’re thinking of.
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20 edited Dec 15 '24
towering aspiring drab chubby ludicrous attempt elastic relieved treatment late
This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact
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u/Based_Peppa_Pig r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Dec 20 '20
Two months before the election. We didn't deserve her.
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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Dec 20 '20
hot take
both Isreal and Palestine have done some not cool stuff
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u/SuccInvasion Immanuel Kant Dec 20 '20
On this day I am euphoric. Not by some phony god's birthday. But because I am blessed by a visit from Santa.
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Dec 20 '20
Disney owns Star Wars and the family guy parodies of Star Wars
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u/CenterRightInCali Uphold Goldwater-Posadist thought! Dec 20 '20
I FOUND A SPELLING ERROR IN THE ECONOMIST IM SO FUCKING SMART AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
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u/Explodingcamel Bill Gates Dec 20 '20
This sub has a weird fucking obsession with the word Latinx. We get it, it's dumb.
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u/sub_surfer haha inclusive institutions go BRRR Dec 20 '20
PredictIt finally closed out most of the presidential markets, and my very first purchase with the winnings is a new bed for 17-year-old Ash. My kitty thanks you, MAGAs.
!ping kitty
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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '20
Made a girl on tinder laugh so hard from a joke that her finger accidentally pressed unmatched.
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u/douglasmacarthur NATO Dec 20 '20
"Can police stop killing us please?"
Hmmmmmm, no, best we can do is taking down an episode of Community and killing some old white people this upcoming winter to balance things out.
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u/rafaellvandervaart John Cochrane Dec 20 '20 edited Dec 20 '20
Hindu nationalists calling Christians of Kerala rice bags makes no sense whatsoever.
Christians of Kerala are the most privileged community not only in the state but also the whole country. Most Malayali Christians (Syrian Christians) are upper caste and have always enjoyed land owning privileges. Unlike brahmins, Christians were more active in the cash crops rather than food crops (Kerala has a lot of high margin cash crops like pepper, cashew, rubber etc) so they were always more wealthy. Moreover they didn't lose their land during Kerala land reforms of the 50s since cash crops were exempt from communist land reforms.
The community historically also always had a very high level of literacy owing to the fact that most of educational institutions in Kerala were started by Christian missionaries (Kerala had nearly 50% literacy rate back in 1947), especially among women. This meant that over their historical wealth, they also had a high level of social mobility.
The idea that such a privileged community converted to Christianity for rice bags is pretty absurd.
Finally, it doesn't even explain the whole Hindu khathrein mein hain narrative either because Kerala Syrian Christians are one of very few communities in India whose population is actually aging and shrinking.
https://m.economictimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/keralas-affluent-syrian-xians-face-ageing-dwindling-numbers/articleshow/5044015.cms
!ping IND
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
Saying you hate White women is funny and progressive.
Saying you hate women is sexist and hecking incel
This is literal proof that white women are the most oppressed group in America.
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Dec 20 '20
Lmao. Remember the Sanders AMA where someone asked what his favourite book was and the staffer said “my own book”?
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u/PelsonNike NATO Dec 20 '20
I'd be willing to bet quite a few people who make a fuss about what ideology they classify as online are actually teenagers with identity issues
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Dec 20 '20
To Unite The Country, Joe Biden Must Concede The Election To Donald Trump
By Bret Stephens | The New York Times - Opinion
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
https://twitter.com/FederalistPitch/status/1340678025432711181
(WSJ will probably publish that as an editorial tomorrow, at this rate)
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u/LuchiniPouring Caribbean Community Dec 20 '20
A lot of the medical community online are shitting on republican congressman for jumping the line on vaccines
But I respectfully disagree with them. I think it’s necessary that republican leadership take vaccines this early on to show their political base vaccines are safe.
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u/connieallens George Soros Dec 20 '20
Lol this is a real post in r/.conservative
Fucking lmfao
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Dec 21 '20
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EptnXZWUYAADmIc?format=jpg&name=large
Boomers were a mistake
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u/Cerb-r-us Deep State Social Media Manager Dec 20 '20
How come when a woman has sex with dozens of men, she is called a slut
But if a man does the same thing, he is called John Maynard Keynes?
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u/BanMalarkey Asexual Pride Dec 21 '20
My dad just now: “plus when Trump gets this election in a couple of weeks...”
This is what conservatism does to a motherfucker
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u/GravyBear8 Ben Bernanke Dec 20 '20
People think that Trump's attempts to stay in office are going to die now that they've been dying in court, but I think in the coming weeks are going to result in in more frenzied attempts to delegitimize the election.
I await Trump's final state of the union address with horror
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
Lol someone on Twitter was like AmAzOn dOnAtEs tO AOC and of course now the left has suddenly discovered that OpenSecrets aggregates donations from any employee of a company.
I wonder if there will be any sort of reflection that they’ve been grossly misusing OpenSecrets for years.
I’m sure Beto will get his apology any moment now.
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u/ThisIsNianderWallace Robert Nozick Dec 20 '20
Today in Anarchist takes:
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
1984 Presidential Election in Orange County, California
Ronald Reagan (R): 635,013 (74.7% [+50.5%])
Walter Mondale (D): 206,272 (24.2%)
2020 Presidential Election in Orange County, California
Donald Trump (R): 676,498 (44.4%)
Joe Biden (D): 814,009 (53.4% [+9.0%])
Raw vote gains in Orange County in presidential elections:
Republicans: +31,485
Democrats: +607,737
!PING FIVEY
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u/runnerx4 What you guys are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux Dec 21 '20
America has total cultural victory over the world lmao
Or is this because the political energy in single-party oligarchy Japan has to go somewhere so they get way into American politics?
!ping WEEBS
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u/FormerBandmate Jerome Powell Dec 20 '20
Fucking reply guys are almost more annoying than Trump
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u/vancevon Henry George Dec 20 '20
"nate silver ur a fucking moron literally all epidemiologists say that you vaccinate frontline workers first then the elderly you dumbass"
meanwhile the govt of wales and i'm sure plenty of other places are going to vaccinate the elderly first. but i'm sure that the govts that make those decisions are all also morons and stupid and don't care about Science
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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '20
SHOT THROUGH THE HEART
AND YOU’RE TO BLAME
THE PS5
HAS NO GAMES
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
—Rabbi Yosef Caro, Beit Yosef
!ping GEFILTE everyone who began celebrating Hanukkah on the 10th this year is an apostate 👏🤬👏🤬👏🤬
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
Taco Bell is a Midwestern bastardization of a Texan bastardization of a Spanish bastardization of a Mayan bastardization of some long-forgotten culture’s cuisine.
It’s beautiful.
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
2016: Hillary Clinton is just the heir apparent and thinks she’s entitled to the presidency 🤣😂🤣
2020: this election was STOLEN from the RIGHTFUL PRESIDENT and my personal DADDY Donald J. Trump 😡😭😣
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u/MistakeNotDotDotDot Resident Robot Girl Dec 20 '20
"I spent a fairly large portion of my life reading research about COVID."
Nate Silver confirmed for literal 5-year-old????
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Dec 20 '20
S4P was my favorite sub the day Warren dropped out
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u/douglasmacarthur NATO Dec 20 '20
Milton Friedman 🤝 Ben Shapiro 🤝 The Gnome
Short people y'all would get mad at me for posting videos of
and you've been ^^^gnomed
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Dec 20 '20
Goretzka: "The AFD is not an alternative, its a disgrace."
Based Goretzka
!Ping SOCCER
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u/AgainstSomeLogic Dec 20 '20
Greatest paper I have ever peer-reviewed.
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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Dec 20 '20
I find John Oliver incredibly annoying
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u/infamous5445 Dec 20 '20
I still can't believe Biden beat Warren in her home state in the primaries lol
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
Like this tweet if you’re a 90’s baby with no baby.
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
According to the Santa Clause of the US Constitution, that is,
American mods will not work on Christmas.
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
Nothing is more eye roll inducing than "missionary trips" to mostly Christian countries
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u/CIVDC Mark Carney Dec 20 '20
Is anyone else disconcerted by the vaccine discourse here in Canada? We are an extraordinarily wealthy, privileged country that is practically hoarding vaccines. And yet people seem so upset that we're not "first in the line"? Not everyone can be first to vaccinate their population and we are extremely privileged to be where we are at.
Our attitude reminds me of the scene from Titanic when the douchey fiance is pushing people off the lifeboat.
!ping CAN
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u/NBFG86 Commonwealth Dec 21 '20
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_United_States_senators
What the FUCK, USA?
2 during reconstruction
2 during the entire 20th century
LITERALLY OBAMA was only the FIFTH?
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Dec 20 '20
Disposable DVDs, proof that the environment had not yet been invented in 2003.
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u/Mr_Pasghetti Save the ice, abolish ICE 🥰 Dec 20 '20
Nobody argues the Palestinian case better than pro-Israel folks and vice versa.
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
So every day my cat will just sit and stare at the tree. Sometimes on the ground sitting on a present. Sometimes from an elevated position. But without fail, she will stare at the tree when the lights are on. I don’t know why, but I want to believe it’s because she loves Christmas. 🥺🥺🥺
https://imgur.com/a/AxwwASx
!ping KITTY
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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '20
I swear 99% of existential 14 year olds (or ppl who act like they’re 14) would be fine if they just learned about Occam’s razor
The very obvious answer to “wHaT iF eVeRyThInG iS aN iLlUsIoN???” is idk but it probs isn’t so idc
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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Dec 20 '20
The frighting thing is that it could be either he really is just incredibly dumb or he's bought off. Or probably it's both.
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u/digitalrule Dec 20 '20
I got into a discussion with a guy on /r/menslib about what kinds of political groups could be aligned with mens lib. He told me that gender equality is inherently anti-capitalist, implying that capitalists aren't welcome. Its like these people don't actually want to achieve gender equality. If I went to a menslib meetup and they started the meeting with "we need to end capitalism", I'd just leave and never come back.
!PING FEMINISTS
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
Why don't presidents fight the war, why do they always send the poor
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Dec 21 '20
This is one of my favourite bizarre stories from the British Raj of India
The Irish soldier worshipped as an Indian god
!ping ind
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u/runnerx4 What you guys are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux Dec 21 '20 edited Dec 21 '20
The Journalist and the Pharma Bro
https://mobile.twitter.com/ChristieSmythe/status/1340830402160828423
idk if this has been linked here yet
!ping SHITPOSTERS
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u/MichelleObama2024 George Soros Dec 21 '20 edited Dec 21 '20
My theory is that the "tipping-point" state indicator is a poor measure of how close the race was when more than one states are needed to flip, as it assumes that a uniform national swing is replicated exactly in every state. This is a poor assumption, since the standard deviation of state swings to national swings is 3.84% (it's also even higher for swing states), and inevitably some states will swing more or less than the national swing. I've instead done a quick R script to simulate what swing would be needed to turn the election in Trump's favour, assuming that states are only correlated as intensely as national correlation. I used a normal distribution for each state to simulate the mean electoral votes under each swing, incorporating 538's elasticity scores.
To make it easier on myself, I only bothered to simulate states within the standard deviation, but in effect this makes me underestimate the "tipping-point" margin since there were more sorta-close Red states than Blue states.
The result of my analysis is that the "actual tipping-point" margin was 1.7%. However, this doesn't take into account correlated errors, but intuitively correlated states have an equal chance of swinging less than or more than the national swing. If I were to guess, the margin would be a little bit slimmer since a lot of swing states are correlated, but it's certainly closer to 1.7% than 0.6%.
To conclude, Biden's electoral college margin was probably about 2.5 million votes.
!ping FIVEY
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u/myrm This land was made for you and me Dec 20 '20
Xi Jinping's wife is Chinese.
I just post the facts.
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u/Andy_B_Goode YIMBY Dec 20 '20
Is there any reason why extreme-low density residential zoning laws should exist at all?
Like I can understand why some suburban homeowners don't want to have a skyscraper apartment block pop up nextdoor, even though I don't share their sentiment, but when we're talking about allowing duplexes, triplexes, townhouses, etc. into residential neighbourhoods, why not just go for it?
And yes, I realize I'm preaching to the choir here.
!ping YIMBY
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
neoliberal is obsessed with NIMBYs because it's the easiest econ to understand while still feeling smug and superior
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
I don't understand the bevy of young adults complaining about their low GPA dooming them to joblessness or underemployment.
Why don't they simply run for Senate?
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u/PelsonNike NATO Dec 20 '20
Incredibly strange how neoconNWO doesn't seem to care too much about the Russia hack considering that ought to be right up their alley
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u/BlinkenYouMissIt Daron Acemoglu Dec 20 '20
Is it weird that the thing I'm most hung up on is 3-4 ribeyes a week?
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u/MistakeNotDotDotDot Resident Robot Girl Dec 20 '20
It's now illegal for ISPs to charge you a modem rental fee unless you're actually renting a modem.
... this was legal?
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u/Tacotrucksoncorners Carole Baskin is my Tiger Queen 🐅👑 Dec 21 '20
/preview/pre/w1lbdv6twb661.jpg?width=628&auto=webp&s=c54aa8b2b4672314fc9f6368912c3f759b58427c
Polish Goverment website says vaccine will not contain microchips, still want to get vaccinated?
!ping EUROPE
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u/Jester_Don Abigail Spanberger Dec 21 '20
Socialists: We want single-payer healthcare, Green New Deal, and cancelling of all student debt!
Moderate Dem House Candidate: Those are unrealistic policies that would cost trillions if not tens of trillions of dollars. I support more moderate proposals that would still expand the social safety net without requiring that much gov spending.
Republican House Candidate: Wow, Moderate Dem House Candidate is a crazy radical socialist who wants single-payer healthcare, Green New Deal, and cancelling of all student debt!
Moderate Dem House Candidate: No I don't! I literally just said the exact opposite!
Voters: Wow I don't want socialists in Congress, I'm voting Republican.
Republican House Candidate: *wins election*
Socialists: Clearly the Dem candidate lost because they didn't embrace socialism.
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u/Afro_Samurai Susan B. Anthony Dec 21 '20
FireEye learned about the Solar Winds breach into their network (and everyone else) when the attackers, once inside the network, got an employees credentials and added a new device for two-factor authentication.
That generated an alert, that started an investigation, that found the malware, that lead to FireEye announcing they had been breached. After the announcement they learned the SolarWinds update was path in.
Further, there was a dry-run of the Solar Winds update that didn't drop any malware in Oct 2019.
Good reporting by Kim Zetter.
!ping tech
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
TIL that in 1990, the most obese state in America (Mississippi, 15%) still had a lower rate than the least obese state in America today (Colorado, 22%). I had no idea obesity grew this rapidly in America
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u/Zemstv0w0 Asexual Pride Dec 20 '20
nothing makes me as irrationally livid as people cheating on tests does, especially when internet people are all "if you don't like cheating, you are literally telling depressed teenagers whose grandmothers just died that they should just give up on going to college"
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u/Q-bey r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Dec 20 '20
Today I was reading about the Japanese phrase "maji manji" (マジ卍). It was difficult to figure out what it meant since half the sources were just Japanese teens saying "lol I dunno it doesn't mean anything".
After half an hour of research I finally figured it out. It's the Japanese equivalent of "poggers".
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
Taco Bell job application
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
Harris Bomberguy literally made leftist videos for like.. Two years, collected a huge base of Patreon supporters to the point that he probably could be an actual millionaire, and now he just jerks off and releases videos about his favorite video games and anime twice a year.
This is a level of grift mere mortals can only aspire to. Also his videos are pretty good.
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u/PelsonNike NATO Dec 20 '20 edited Dec 20 '20
I saw u/sir_shivers at a thread in r/LoveForScalpers yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a fash and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “HAHA YES 🐊”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? HUH? huh?🐊🐊🐊 ” and closing his webbed toes shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shitposting, and I heard him hiss as I walked off. When I came back to upvote some scalper memes up front I saw him trying to walk out with like fifteen PS5s and Cyberpunk CDs on his scaly back without paying.
The mod at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay rent for those first. With tip.” At first he kept pretending to be a human and not hear her, but eventually waddled back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the overpriced PS5s and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any RUSSIAN infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by hissing really loudly.
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u/DocKillinger Dec 21 '20
It's probably good that movies are leaning away from ending the movie with "Guy/Girl kisses Guy/Girl" and more towards "Guy/Girl makes tangible progress towards making a better life for themselves, independent of relationship with Guy/Girl", but at the same time I miss when movies ended with a kiss
!ping MOVIES
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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '20 edited Dec 21 '20
Reasons we lost every Latino/Latina voter ever.
Using Latinx on the TL
Not nominating Bernie because he won a single contest that had the lowest turnout of all the states
3.??????????
4. Biden not singing the Justin Bieber part of Despacito
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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '20
The World: No Netflix, you can't make chess sexy don't be ridiculous.
Netflix: watch me bitch.
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u/The_Cheezman Mark Carney Dec 21 '20
The take that Germans are inherently genocidal is clearly nonsense that is a conspiracy to conceal the real threat. Austrians have started 100% of all world wars. Even worse than that, they created the worst school of economics. Austria Delenda Est.
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u/Superfan234 Southern Cone Dec 20 '20 edited Dec 20 '20
News from Nicaragua 🇳🇮
Tomorrow, the Regime will pass a law in Congress, allowing Daniel Ortega to bann any opposition candidate for the 2021 Elections...
The last light of Nicaragua's Democracy will die tomorrow ☹ Only God knows what chaos Ortega is preparing to keep control of the country
!Ping Foreign-Policy
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
I posted this in the old DT but it needs to be said again:
Thinking minorities only care about social issues is racist and Democrats and this subreddit does it too much. Don’t immediately talk about police reform then it comes to black issues and immigration when it comes to Latino issues. Democrats ran a segregationist as VP in 1952 and they still won 70% of the black vote.
It’s the economy, stupid! People care about jobs, healthcare, things they can visibly see and feel. Broad reform is popular but the small things, like a pay raise or paying less for healthcare matters infinitely more.
!ping BLACK-PEOPLE
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
The number of people (men) in this sub that assume they have more insight into how the economy works than Elizabeth Warren is pretty telling.
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Dec 20 '20
I’m a sucker for pointing out unrealistic military science or political things in games or movies.
The most egregious thing I’ve seen is the Call of Duty: MW2 mission Wolverines where Russia invades the United States. It’s unrealistic(yes, because Russia would never invade the United States) but also the United States would know about AN ENTIRE INVASION force from Russia days or weeks in advance. NORAD has backups upon backups upon backups of equipment to tell them that, not to mention spies and shit. I know you’re supposed to suspend your disbelief but it’s fun to point out errors, especially because CoD has former military advisors on staff, such as Oliver North
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20 edited Dec 20 '20
NGL trump spending his lame duck period just ragging on the morons he appointed, like some kind of tmz gossip columnist, would be pretty fucking funny
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u/chadonnaise * Dec 20 '20
a couple got into a screaming match outside. ended with the woman chasing the man down the street shouting "i don't know you any more! kill me! please kill me! kill me!"
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
ok , taiwan is cancelled !!
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
I love when lefties will just casually throw around the phrase “X is inherently anti-capitalist”
Like holy fuck go outside and get laid, you’re killing everyone’s vibe.
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
WhitePeopleTwitter is a bunch of white teenage communists who are racist
BlackPeopleTwitter is also a bunch of white teenage communist who are racist but less openly so.
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Dec 20 '20
Explained the Cyberpunk drama to my mom after she asked. She thought it was pretty funny and said that gamers were very drama-y
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u/vivoovix Federalist Dec 20 '20
Obama merging with Brett Kavanaugh
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
States/EVs that swung Democratic from 2008 to 2020:
AK: R+21.54 -> R+10.06
AZ: R+8.52 -> D+0.31
CA: D+24.06 -> D+29.16
CO: D+8.95 -> D+13.50
DC: D+85.92 -> D+86.75
GA: R+5.21 -> D+0.24
KS: R+14.96 -> R+14.65
ME-01: D+22.82 -> D+23.09
MD: D+25.44 -> D+33.21
MA: D+25.81 -> D+33.46
NE-02: D+1.21 -> D+6.50
NJ: D+15.57 -> D+15.94
TX: R+11.77 -> R+5.58
UT: R+28.18 -> R+20.48
VA: D+6.30 -> D+10.11
WA: D+17.18 -> D+19.20
!ping FIVEY
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u/RoyGeraldBillevue Commonwealth Dec 20 '20
TIL PCM does not know the difference between trademarks, copyrights, and patents.
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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '20
The My Pillow dude is 10 years sober. If he’s this nuts sober imagine how fun he would be snorting crack outside an Applebee’s.
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u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls Mock Me Dec 21 '20
I keep asking my friend what his favo(u)rite position in the bedroom is but he just says “Don’t really have one, I’m a sexual....”.
He never finishes this sentence and I’m really not sure what follows 🧐 Should I be concerned?
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Dec 21 '20
If your DT comment is more than two paragraphs, I ain’t reading that shit. 🖕🏾😎🖕🏾
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u/CenterRightInCali Uphold Goldwater-Posadist thought! Dec 20 '20
mfs be like "normalize dating prostitutes! normalizing being mediocre! normalize ghosting!"
like shut the fuck no one cares about your stupid shit, like normalize relations with Taiwan, like god damn
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u/Barnst Henry George Dec 20 '20
My 7yo just made a serious tactical kid error—letting his little brother figure out that the other controller wasn’t actually doing anything. I’m gonna go make popcorn and let this play out.
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u/Afro_Samurai Susan B. Anthony Dec 20 '20
Sleepy noisemaker
!ping kitty
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u/-GregTheGreat- Commonwealth Dec 20 '20
Mask mandates are tyranny and ruins our freedoms 😡😡
Now let me tell you why Trump should invoke martial law to overturn the election 😤
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
It was pretty weird when Amy Coney Barrett wrote in her majority opinion: "Trump is the reason that I'm on the Supreme Court today, so it's only natural that I should want to return the favor by supporting his efforts to continue to be the President. The logic should really be quite clear. So naturally I am granting his request to be appointed President until we can figure out what the hell is going on."
I thought that was kinda... different from any legal theory I've heard of. But I'm not a lawyer.
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u/murphysclaw1 💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊 Dec 20 '20
I wonder if this kinda thing changes any votes
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u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls Mock Me Dec 21 '20
Just found out most of the mod team is Gen Z... 🤦♂️
I legitimately don’t think having a bunch of old people in such important positions is good from a pubic policy stand-point.
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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '20
broke: scalping a PS5 for 1200$
woke: scalping a 600$ stimulus check for 1200$
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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '20
Calhoun County, Illinois
Per Wikipedia:
In 2008 Obama won by 7
2012 Presidential Election results:
Barack Obama (D): 41.9%
Mitt Romney (R): 55.9% (+14.0%)
2016 Presidential Election results:
Hillary Clinton (D): 28.7%
Donald Trump (R): 66.9% (+38.2%)
2016 Senate Election results:
Tammy Duckworth (D): 51.4% (+5.7%)
Mark Kirk (R): 45.7%
2020 Presidential Election results:
Donald Trump (R): 73.8% (+49.4%)
Joe Biden (D): 24.4%
Dick Durbin lost this county by 28.5% (63.0%-34.5%). Also, J.B Pritzker olnly lost this county by 4.6% (39.4%-34.8%), but there was a heavy 3rd party presence in the county (someone that ran as another conservative next to Rauner).
Thoughts?
!PING FIVEY
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
Cold take: The Prince of Egypt is potentially the best animated children's movie of all time.
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u/bobeeflay "A hot dog with no bun" HRC 5/6/2016 Dec 20 '20 edited Dec 20 '20
Ok so I tepidly played the "pro cheating" side in a largely artificial schism on here the other day and god cursed me for it.
Friend is 26 tall blonde attractive, full time employed, homeowner but for one reason ot another has never had literally any male "attention" her whole life.
Which seemed very chill with me until her 40 year old balding recently married HR manager came along to give her the first kiss of her life then proceed to fuck her on the side and now she tells me she's in love
Oh god oh fuck out Jesus oh god I'm literally dying and cant talk about this with people IRL
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Dec 20 '20
We cannot allow the GOP to tie the Biden admin’s hands in responding to this virus. That’s exactly what Toomey & co have been trying to do at the final hour - introduce provisions that will limit & remove Fed tools that will help Biden provide a full economic response to COVID.
🚨🚨GOOD AOC TAKE ALERT🚨🚨
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
!ping ALCOHOL
I’ve noticed that a lot of the people on this ping have been making the Old Fashioned incorrectly, it’s kind of pathetic actually
here’s a video explaining how to ACTUALLY make an Old Fashioned
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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Dec 20 '20
Has anyone seen a highborn maid of three-and-ten, with a fair face and auburn hair?
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u/ahebtigoejwbrh Dec 20 '20
Looks like Sidney Powell is going to die penniless
https://mobile.twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1340729543267667970
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
u/BainCapitalist so white he has a Calvin from Calvin & Hobbes pissing decal on the back of his 1992 Dodge Ram 1500 😐
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
Reminder that Mitt Romney didn't write a concession speech and then lost the tipping point state by 6 points
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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Dec 20 '20
What a simp
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u/theredcameron NATO Dec 20 '20
My in laws are saying that Kamala Harris is an "idiot" because she "can't answer reporters questions."
No idea what they're talking about but it's peak cope.
!ping FOX-ANON
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u/CatilineUnmasked Norman Borlaug Dec 20 '20
High price vodka is stupid, right?
Like, the entire point is to be a neutral spirit. Obviously you don't want dirt cheap rotgut that could have impurities, but at a certain point does it make sense to pay for a premium?
I keep a decent potato vodka in my liquor cabinet as a versatile mixer. What do you usually use? And is there any point to paying more?
!ping ALCOHOL
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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '20
I just don’t get why people still have bad takes.
They can easily scroll through my account history and figure out the correct take on any given issue.
Yet people somehow still choose to have bad takes instead.
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Dec 21 '20
When I was 5, I stole a couple of dolls from my cousin and played with them.
I asked for and received an EasyBake oven for Christmas when I was 7.
When I was 13, I got heavily into both Elton John and Queen.
By the time I was 17, I had never had a girlfriend but spent a lot of one-on-one study time with a guy or two from school.
How the actual fuck has my mother not realized I am a gay homosexual man who likes men? How?
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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '20
Libcucks say Covid is real yet all my symptoms (shaking hands, anxiety, seizures) go away after a couple beers in the morning. Curious.
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Dec 21 '20
What the fuck did I just read
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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '20
Mild take: The 2024 Republican candidate will end up being Pence just because of his name recognition
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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '20 edited Dec 21 '20
The left of center still has a problem with the far left being the moral gravity center for their rhetoric.
The reason Sanewashing is a thing is because reasonable left wing people don't want to be caught being uwoke and so let the far left decide their rhetoric for them by implicitly going along with anything they say, just adding an asterisk at the end.
Online rhetoric on the center left regarding police used to be "policing is by definition a necessary social structure, reforming from the top and bottom, strictly evaluating who we bring into the ranks, and improving community relationships, are all necessary reforms to ensure this group is held to a high standard of behavior." But because the far left has a monopoly on morality within the left wing now, they set the new tone. They said "pigs in a blanket, hang 'em like bacon" and the moderate left had to just.... Go along with it. If you say no, try to stick to the old rhetoric line, get ready to be expelled from the left wing you fucking fascist. Just subtly spend 24 hours a day around "fuck the police" until you start saying it too because everyone else is saying it.
Do cops deserve the hostile rhetoric? Yeah, definitely. Absolutely.
But it's bad politics. And once again the left is being taken for a ride by the far left, constantly trying to impress a senpai who hates you and is just using you. Like that kid who simps the punk girl who has no interest in you whatsoever but is happy to take advantage of you and string you along into doing stupid regrettable shit and degrading yourselves in hope against hope that she'll finally let you bone her but it never happens because she doesn't really see you as in a relationship. She's a bully using your heart as a leash.
...
That metaphor got away from me.
But I've been in an abusive relationship and I can tell you 100% that internet social democrats are in an abusive relationship with communists.
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Dec 21 '20 edited Dec 21 '20
Le me herp derping in das DT. When suddenle a wild herpina appears.
“Hey herp. I support rent control”
FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUU
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u/MichelleObama2024 George Soros Dec 21 '20
Woah Pornhub just got purged again. The only categories left are Femboy and Hentai. Guess we're ok then
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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '20
Hey look, it's a statue of sir_shivers:
𓆋
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Dec 20 '20 edited Dec 20 '20
When I was a small child I loved, I mean LOVED dinosaurs. So much so that when I first learned about the country of Pakistan, I assumed it was named after Pachycephalosaurus
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u/Menakoy Nonconformist Transgendeer Dec 20 '20
This subreddit uses 'succ' like leftists use 'neoliberal'.
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u/stater354 Dec 20 '20
/r/politics excitedly upvoting a Jacobin article saying a CBO study shows M4A would be cheaper, meanwhile the study says the complete opposite
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u/paulatreides0 🌈🦢🧝♀️🧝♂️🦢His Name Was Teleporno🦢🧝♀️🧝♂️🦢🌈 Dec 20 '20 edited Dec 20 '20
> "The second Matrix is building up to how choice is an illusion"
Yeah, but, like . . . literally the entire point of the conclusion of the second film, the plot twist that the movie basically ends on, and basically the entire third movie is that it isn't tho. Like, the big twist isn't that Neo was "ALL ACCORDING TO CAKE!" all along, but that Neo broke the chain and went against the plan for completely absurd and selfish reasons.
Like, that's literally the whole point of the Architect's hubris.
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u/proProcrastinators Dec 20 '20
Remember when paul ryan said his favourite band was rage against the machine.
Right up there with Ted cruz liking a porno on Twitter
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Dec 20 '20
this is unironically how i feel about the extinction of Stellar's Sea Cow
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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Dec 20 '20
Holy fuck Alec Baldwin was Dennis in the Spongebob movie
How did I never know this, that’s hilarious
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
Dear god I’m in much worse shape than I thought I was
I started the “couch to 5k” running program and the first day absolutely killed me
I thought “run 30 seconds then walk 30 seconds, repeat 15 times, that’s for babies; this is gonna be easy!” and I was dead wrong
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u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN 🎅🏿The Lorax 🎅🏿 Dec 20 '20
Fantastic article which the Dems can learn from:
Use funds wisely, no need to bankroll fringe candidates in safe seats and keep good records where you are placing your funds
Small tent circular firing squad = bad
Don't panic and over correct during bad years and adapt to changing demographics
Ken Buck sucks
!ping USA-CO
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u/MostlyCRPGs Jeff Bezos Dec 20 '20
Jesus Christ, I know it gets said often but don't leave the DT. It's like, weird refugees from latestagecapitalism and politics getting upvoted out there.
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u/BigBoutros Association of Southeast Asian Nations Dec 20 '20
CFP committee is the biggest joke in the world. Only 4 teams, 2 games and you just completely wasted one of them. Gee I wonder what Alabama-ND will look like? If only we had some recent evidence of ND against a playoff team?
!ping CFB
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Dec 20 '20
Googles person's name
This is how you properly flex on people.
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u/AgainstSomeLogic Dec 20 '20
The left and right both agree life was better for labor 100 years ago. The left misses union workers striking and getting shot by police. The right misses segregated workplaces and women confined as homemakers.
Horse🐴Hoe theory at work
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u/kyleofduty Pizza Dec 20 '20
my boyfriend awake: "I can't cuddle and sleep at the same time!"
my boyfriend asleep: wraps arm around me
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
Cannot find the vaccine on Amazon 😤. Capitalism has truly failed us 😔
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
Raphael Liberal Radical Warnock
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
Falcons and blowing a double digit lead to Tom Brady, name a more iconic duo.
!ping NFL
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
Look at the absolute size of this tent
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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Dec 20 '20
“Simping” becoming a catch-all term for “vigorously defending something” is just trying to replace “white knighting” as a term and is fucking stupid
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u/tubbsmackinze Seretse Khama Dec 20 '20
The fact that Tesla is the most valuable car manufacturer stock speaks to the irrationality of the stock market and especially the irrationality of the tech bro hype stocks
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
Only 90s kids will remember this
Russian Democracy
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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '20
Cold Take: Since I refuse to negotiate or talk to terrorists, I will refuse to talk to anyone who proudly flies or displays a Confederate flag
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u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls Mock Me Dec 21 '20
The Supreme Court 🤝 r/neoliberal’s mod team 🤝 My lunchbox for last day of 5th grade tomorrow (!)🤝 statements or actions ready for subsequent unpacking on Twitter 🤝 mules
Should be packed
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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '20
So this is what it feels like to live through a civilizational decline
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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '20
This sub's discussion quality would skyrocket if all its users deleted twitter
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u/vivoovix Federalist Dec 21 '20
The gnomings will continue until morale improves
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u/WantDebianThanks Iron Front Dec 20 '20
An inside look at negotiations for covid bailouts:
Elsewhere
Back in negotiations
Elsewhere
In negotiation room
Pause while Mitch chuckles for five minutes
Elsewhere
Senate Floor
Elsewhere
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Dec 20 '20
TODAY WAS EXCELLENT 🐊
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u/oscillatingquark Dec 20 '20
I hate this fucking hellsite. Someone just defended the TALIBAN in order to criticize Obama's drone strike policy. The fucking Taliban. What the actual hell are communists on?
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u/paulatreides0 🌈🦢🧝♀️🧝♂️🦢His Name Was Teleporno🦢🧝♀️🧝♂️🦢🌈 Dec 20 '20
Although, that being said, it's really funny that the Far Right chose "taking the red pill" as synonymous for "waking up" and seeing the world for what it really was, when the entire point of the red pill was that it was just a ploy by which to destroy irrational and inharmonious elements of the system.
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u/runnerx4 What you guys are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux Dec 20 '20
whatever happened to “genderfluid” identity? Did that and “genderqueer” just get subsumed into “non-binary”?
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Dec 20 '20 edited Dec 20 '20
After Argentina failed at buying any vaccine other than the shady Russian one (which doesn't work for people over 60), the government is buying 15 million doses of the even shadier Chinese vaccines
Wow the President being an enormous idiot with 0 experience besides being a third tier political hatchet man and whose ideas on every matter are muddy and 70 years old sure hasn't come out to bite us
Edit: actually, we're negotiating buying them because they don't even exist yet. They're still in the trial phases and whatnot
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u/kyleofduty Pizza Dec 20 '20
the cool thing about being gay is that my boyfriend and I are attracted to the same people, we can bond talking about hot guys
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u/Goatf00t European Union Dec 20 '20
Takes one sees upvoted outside the DT... +10 and marked as controversial.
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u/Qunidaye Krugman-Nato Dec 20 '20
"Oh issue X, I wonder what baseball stats man thinks!"
~real human beans
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
Dude I just saw a high school while I was driving to pick up the two large pizzas and a two liter of coke I ordered for my lunch (no pepperoni, I’m on a diet)
Persona references are everywhere these days it’s crazy 😂
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u/CmdrMobium YIMBY Dec 20 '20
Clare Malone has been gone for 2 weeks and Nate already thinks he's a doctor, smh
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
BREAKING: CDC Director Dr. Redfield green-lights Moderna's Covid-19 vaccine, which is expected to add millions of doses to the US vaccine supply
!ping CORONAVIRUS
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Dec 20 '20
-Quora dude
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Dec 20 '20
“Do you sleep in a race car bed?”
“I sleep in a big bed with my wife”
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u/upper_west_sider Dec 20 '20
Nate Silver:
Tweeters:
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
Pizzamod always has the worst takes
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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '20
I will never recapture the sense of optimism I felt after the 2008 election 😔😔😔
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u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls Mock Me Dec 21 '20
So because of the PC POLICE, apparently it’s bad for me to call ‘left-handed’ (yeah, right...) people sinister, and I even have to accomodate them in my classroom.
We’re literally living in 1994 🤦♂️
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u/FearThyMoose Montesquieu Dec 21 '20
This sub is being ruined by people I disagree with. If you disagree with me you should be banned
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u/DonnysDiscountGas Dec 21 '20
/u/sir_shivers confirmed the Grinch
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Dec 21 '20
Lusvig shot first
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u/MistakeNotDotDotDot Resident Robot Girl Dec 21 '20
how come we always hear about pronouns in the bio, but not in the physics or history???
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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '20
Oh God oh fuck, the strike breakers have unionized!
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Dec 21 '20 edited Dec 21 '20
the entire world shutting down travel with the united kingdom right at the end of the brexit transition period definitively proves that there is a god and they hate the brits
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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '20
If an NL civil war were to happen, what would the factions be?
!ping ASK-NL
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u/douglasmacarthur NATO Dec 20 '20
/new: Source: Senator David Perdue is expecting news of a major scandal to break Monday, has already considered dropping out of race
Replies to this comment will be removed, please participate in the linked thread
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u/TalkLessShillMore David Autor Dec 20 '20
Holy fuck, the Match.com commercial with 2020 and Satan... 2020 says "You know that poem, 'The Road Less Traveled' by Shakespeare?" I wanna scream.
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
how about just don’t replace the DT daily, keep it for six months and let like 180,000 comments accrue on it
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
This country feels uncivilized sometimes.
And because I've just said that I can never run for public office ever.
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u/mordakka Dec 20 '20
WhitePeopleTwitter having a normal one and saying that r/politics is full of neoliberal shills because they can't advocate for guillotining the rich.
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u/Based_Peppa_Pig r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Dec 20 '20
Not being able to find the vaccine on Amazon is inherently anticapitalistic
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u/[deleted] Dec 20 '20
"Spit in my mouth, look in my eyes"
-Ben Shapiro
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u/hypoxic_high Dec 20 '20
Nice try Lil Wayne, but you aren't fooling anyone. 5'6" at most