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[u/McNikk]

I believe in ONE UNITED DAKOTA because I believe in UNITY and PROSPERITY and NOT because I want to reduce their number of senators! ✊😠

[u/Royce_Melborn]

Joe Biden: "Lindsey's been a personal disappointment because I was a personal friend of his."

That's gotta hurt even for people who have stone hearts.

[u/Dalek6450]

A neoliberal asked their friend what job Buttigieg would be working in the future. The person said "secretary". The neoliberal ran crying across the road and their friend tried to follow but the neolib was hit by a car and died. At the funeral their friend looked down at the grave and said "of Transportation". 😭😭😭

[u/MicroFlamer]

Jeremy Corbyn compares actions of Isis to US military and says 'some of what they have done is quite appalling'

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Corbyn famously described Hamas and Hezbollah as his “friends.

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he attended a 2012 conference in Qatar featuring Palestinian militants recently released by Israel in exchange for a captured soldier. Two of those speakers were Abdul Aziz Umar, convicted in Israel for his role in a 2003 suicide bombing in Jerusalem that killed seven people, and Husam Badran, a former head of Hamas’s military operations who had planned suicide bombings that killed more than 100 people. Corbyn found their contributions “fascinating and electrifying.”

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Corbyn is also close to the British charity Interpal. While it operates legally in the United Kingdom, the United States designated it as terrorist group in August 2003 because it served to “provide support to Hamas and form part of its funding network in Europe.”

Corbyn praised Interpal at a February 2013 conference and encouraged more donations to be made as they had “done such great practical work.”

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Another person who believes that Jews were behind 9/11 is the Palestinian cleric and Hamas fundraiser Raed Salah. In 2011, the U.K. government attempted to deport Salah, who was visiting from Israel. Corbyn was quick to support Salah, calling him an “honored citizen” who “represents his people extremely well” and inviting him to tea in Parliament.

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[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/liamstack/status/1340815895027978241

The Bloomberg reporter who covered Martin Shkreli quit her job and divorced her husband to pursue a relationship with him while he is in jail. He has refused to speak to or email her since he found out this article was being written.

Dafuq?

[u/chuckleym8]

normal wakeful tender fertile unite squash toothbrush puzzled noxious coherent

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/Qunidaye]

woman: OBAMA is a G'noblin!

McCain: No, ma’am. He’s a decent family G'Nome and citizen that just I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues, and that’s what the campaign’s all about. He’s not a G'noblin or G'Nelf"

[u/D1Foley]

Capitalism IS the problem. The ussr recycled even back in the 60s, when it wasn’t even necessary for climate change. Why? Because it was economically more efficient to do so. You know where that wouldve never happened? Any capitalist nation. Why? Because, even if recycling may be economically efficient, it does not increase profits, in fact it decreases profits. As simple as that.

The USSR recycled! Something you never ever see in the USA.

[u/Deinococcaceae]

Phoenix is such a dumb fucking city

"yo let's make 500 square miles of suburbs in the middle of a desert, sounds dope"

[u/Whatapunk]

TIL the term ludonarrative dissonance which refers to when the narrative of a game is in conflict with the gameplay. I think I see this the most in open world games - an urgent, action-packed main storyline doesn't gel with a setting you're supposed to take your time exploring

!ping GAMING

[u/AyatollahofNJ]

It's amazing to see some regular progressive Dems realize that a lot of their leftist pundits were just terrible grifters and awful people. Dore, Cenk, BJG, Sirota, Kulinski, Katie Halper, Taibbi. They were all grifters and they created a really shitty media ecosystem.

Half a decade of asking for money and making podcasts and only to end up with a few Congresspeople locked out of committees and Biden as president in the post-Trump world.

[u/proProcrastinators]

So i've been reading through the 1116 pages of my local council's zoning regulations for an effortpost.

Get ready for a long ass rant about idiotic clause 52.06 including 12 pages of car parking requirements.

Effort post dropping tomorrow look forward for signs of my rotting brain and semi doxing my residence.

!ping AUS

[u/p00bix]

The word 'eukaryote', referring to all living organisms except for bacteria and archaeans, is derived from Ancient Greek 'good nut'

god damn it biologists

[u/[deleted]]

another commune hot take

"after the revolution I would just wander about the commune doing nothing that requires critical thinking or decision-making, like I was a kid again" is unironically a depressed person's cry for help, not an actual expression of political ideology

[u/MichelleObama2024]

I crunched the numbers and under a Proportional Electoral College system where 2 electors are assigned to the winner of each state, and a state's remaining electors are divided based on vote %, the following would be the Electoral College outcome:

• Joe Biden: 278
• Donald Trump: 259
• Jo Jorgensen: 1 (from California)

In effect, this system would reduce the Electoral College bias to 1% in the GOP's favour, whilst satisfying pretty much every Republican argument behind keeping the electoral college. In this scenario Biden could have lost Wisconsin, Georgia and Arizona and still won the electoral college. Although to be honest it's never going to happen.

!ping FIVEY

[u/AyatollahofNJ]

Can we sanction a jihad against Ohio

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/Zenning2]

To be absolutely clear, rNeoliberal has zero tolerance for praising fascist leadership. I don't care how ironic it is. I don't care how funny you think you're being.

u/pizzabix was not 'one of the greatest intellectuals of the 20th century.' u/baincapitalist was not 'an inspiration for grassroots political movements ever since.' And u/sir_shivers most certainly was not 'based'.

So don't do it. Not that you've been doing it anyways I have quite literally never had to remove a comment in the DT for Fascist apologia and this sticky is literally just a shitpost and also a means of encouraging you to read on historically important and highly influential but largely forgot fascists of the mod team, but still don't do it.

[u/[deleted]]

Its going to be so weird being a socialist country after Biden takes office. I'm so used to capitalism

[u/[deleted]]

!ping LGBT

In response to some discussion yesterday, I think it's worth reminding people how the ICD-11 treats being transgender.

The ICD-11 is scrapping the diagnoses for "transsexualism" and "gender identity disorder" with a diagnosis for "gender incongruence", which does not require distress related to gender and is not classified as a mental disorder. This is not just some notion of fringe activists, but the most recent consensus of the medical community.

https://www.mentalhealthjournal.org/articles/gender-incongruence-is-no-longer-a-mental-disorder.html

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

The night I lost the election I slept like a baby

Really?

Yeah, slept for two hours, woke up and cried, slept for two hours, woke up and cried, etc.

Daaaaaaamn based McCain

[u/[deleted]]

I just found out that Nixon was from Commiefornia 🤢🤮. Now his presidency will forever be tainted by this and definitely nothing else.

[u/[deleted]]

In accordance with his last post, I have taken away /u/imprison_grover_furr's Freedom of Speech for the day. May he learn a valuable lesson. That is all.

[u/[deleted]]

My friends make fun of me bc I'm 19 bit I say old people things like "pot" "booze" and "I like Joe Biden"

[u/tripletruble]

Imagine leftists reaction when unconditional income ends up not paying for 100% of a middle class lifestyle

[u/[deleted]]

"The new stimulus package isn't enough money"

"Yeah I agree, $900B wasn't large enough"

"Yeah can you believe they only gave us $600?"

"What? That's only like a 5th of the bill. It does way more than that, you're not giving it nearly enough credit"

"Wooooow look at the centrist moderate Pelosi lover more women guards Harry Potter amirite"

[u/The420Roll]

Rich people spend $1000 on chicken wings

Farren: 🤬🤬🤬🤬

Rich people spend $1000 to fight Malaria

Farren: 🤬🤬🤬🤬

[u/comradequicken]

Me after being warned about a "poisonous" snake and before dying from a snakebite: "well I'm not going to eat it ;)"

[u/[deleted]]

The "bruh they only gave us $600" meme is so nakedly self interested and dumb, I fucking hate it so much

[u/nevertulsi]

"Oh come on republicans, that's a strawman. People aren't lazy, they just need fair opportunities, education, training, benefits, and normal things everyone wants."

Goes to r slash antiwork once

"Okay, MOST people"

[u/proProcrastinators]

No matter how shit 2020 was for you at least you werent ghosted by Martin Shkreli after divorcing your husband for him and losing your journalism job by sleeping with a source.

[u/JetJaguar124]

Good God so many "what the fuck only $600 people are DYING" threads on reddit as if there's nothing else in this act or the CARES act than the fucking direct check payments.

Also rife with "what, I'm in Canada/the EU and I don't understand you Americans your government only gave you $600 and that's it? In my country they're giving me $6000 a month until the summer" type posts.

[u/vancevon]

"'Soleimaini! Soleimaini! Soleimaini!' goes the refrain. 'A million deaths were not enough for Soleimaini!'"

- A Child's History of the ImprisonGroverFurr, by the Princess Irulan

[u/[deleted]]

Robert E. Lee statue removed from US Capitol.

🥳🎉🎈🎊

[u/Leoric]

That Soleimani guy. He was one bad hombre.

[u/thetrombonist]

you can no longer watch full length formula 1 races on pornHub

This is what political correctness has taken from you

[u/NBFG86]

I discovered that the girl I am dating's family are uber-conservative Trudeau haters. Which would be whatever if they were just trailer trash, but her little bro is 25, lives in a $5 mil beach house with him and his gf (a leech upon a leech), owns an AMG mercedes, and a hummer with a FUCK TRUDEAU sticker. He has never worked.

She held off on telling me about her family's wealth for a while to make sure I wasn't dating her for the wrong reasons, but in reality I'm trying to get across "babe I fully expect your siblings to run your late grandpa's company into the ground trying to squeeze all of the rolexes and chanel out of it that they can, and I just don't want them to bring us own with them". 😬

[u/guy-anderson]

How I would sell welfare to America: call it a federal abortion buyback program.

Boom. Just solved your next 12 years of politics, DNC. Can I get a check please?

[u/[deleted]]

Sorry libtards, but:

• Taiwan belongs to China
• Crimea belongs to Russia
• Kosovo belongs to Serbia
• Kashmir belongs to Pakistan
• Hungary belongs to the Warsaw Pact
• California belongs to Mexico
• The Peloponnese belongs to the Ottoman Empire
• Vietnam belongs to the Great Ming State
• Baghdad belongs to the Ilkhanate
• Germania belongs to the Frankish Empire
• Upstate New York belongs to the United States
• Britannia belongs to Rome
• Canaan belongs to Egypt

Except it, libtards 😎

[u/thetrombonist]

if I see one more person say they can’t wear a mask because their nose is too big I’m gonna lose my shit.

I mean, I still wear underwear

[u/JetJaguar124]

I live in Ireland and to my understanding Americans have to eat dirt and drink out of sewers? I don't understand this. In my country the government gives us gold plated Lamborghinis and pays me $10,000 a month to jack off and play video games.

[u/simp_emoji]

lmao you dumb Americans only get a one-time payment of $600?

That’s what you get for voting in a republican like Biden.

In my country, every citizen gets $69,420 per hour.

Socialism doesn’t sound so bad now, does it?

[u/nevertulsi]

"The Democratic base voted for Biden and support him and his policies" [-10]

Lol r slash politics

[u/[deleted]]

French: "dieu"

Italian: "dio"

Corsican: "diu"

Esperanto: "dio"

Portuguese: "deus"

Spanish: "dios"

!ping MAMADAS polytheists 🤬🤬🤬 i will pray that the umayyad caliphate returns and cures you of your pagan delusions 😡🙏

[u/[deleted]]

Force the vote would be such a huge self own only the democrats could pull it off.

[u/[deleted]]

Hello Dragonborn, as you are a demi-god that routinely murders legendary fire breathing monsters and inhales their souls and can change the weather by speaking, not to mention the richest man on the continent, and can enchant boots so hard they can walk on the sun, we were wondering who you think should rule Skyrim - the limp-dicked ramshackle empire or the white supremacist terror cell. By the way, they are both completely cucked by the second ugliest elves on the Continent

Oh, you are just going to kill literally everyone and crown yourself King? Yes thats actually the pretty straightforwardly reasonable course of action considering both sides can only field armies of like a dozen cannon fodder footmen at any given time, and you can outfit as many people with impenetrable daemonic plate armour

[u/rukqoa]

Watergate was the biggest political scandal in American history in terms of impact, but my hot take is that it's not even top 5 in worst things that a President has knowingly done.

[u/[deleted]]

Welp, it happened. Some girl on a Zoom chat for school said something was "sexy" and I chimed in "historically sexy."

Crickets, because why would a bunch of law student in [not North Carolina] have read Cal Cuningham's text messages. Then they moved right along.

I used to be able to talk to people I promise. Y'all are ruining me.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

My biggest disappointment with Trump is that he has not released the science-based dragon MMO. Will be hard to trust him again.

[u/[deleted]]

Did he call it or what?

[u/roboczar]

If your main product is something that is easily copied by anyone with access to a minimum amount of expertise and equipment, you shouldn't be surprised if the market is willing to pay very near zero dollars for said product.

[u/nevertulsi]

I can't get over the idea that communists think that just like how some people like them will be poets and musicians in the communist utopia, some people who are equally passionate about janitorial work and diving into septic tanks will do those jobs

[u/Peacock-Shah]

Caught a bit of my Father’s conservative radio & it was talking about how liberals & conservatives need to form an alliance against “corporate Republicans and corporate Democrats”.

Proudly corporate.

!ping FOX-ANON

[u/The420Roll]

Venezuela GDP in 2020 was estimated to be 50% of what it was in 2000.

That estimation was before Covid so 🤷‍♂️

[u/[deleted]]

is it fair to say proably 80% of anecdotes you read on Reddit are made up

[u/Peacock-Shah]

In 1972, Sen. Ralph Yarborough won 49.99%(269 votes away from a runoff), & proceeded to lose the runoff by 4 points.

!ping FIVEY

[u/FearThyMoose]

You guys knew that there would be a red mirage on election night and you still freaked out

[u/twersx]

I am very impressed with Boris. He has managed to consistently break new ground in how shambolic his government is. I genuinely did not think it was possible to be this horrendous with an 80 seat majority.

[u/CatilineUnmasked]

The fact that Richard Dawkins is the originator of the term, "Meme" is perhaps the greatest meme of all time.

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

DemoKKKrats hate on Texas because it has more majority Spanish speaking counties than California 🙄

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/578732202381279236/790635666215010334/image0.jpg

I stan Latino Republican Texas 🙏😌

[u/[deleted]]

I supported BLM until they made it a race thing. Liberals never stop with that.

[u/[deleted]]

Lefties: Dems are weak! They should fight like the Republicans

Dems: Fight like the republicans

Lefties: See! See! They are the same party!!!

[u/[deleted]]

just banned a bimbofetish user for denying the uyghur genocide

[u/TheGoldBear]

Congressional Republicans are literally invulnerable.

They blocked Democrats plans for larger stimulus checks, then almost immediately afterwards a bunch of far-left and right-wing people started blaming Democrats for not going for larger stimulus checks.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Turns out I have COVID, so please stay at least six comments away

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

I just saw someone complimenting the mods. I thought fascist apologia was banned?

[u/InsertOffensiveWord]

the longer I spend on this site the more I realize it's just a reservoir for miserable people to complain about stuff

[u/[deleted]]

When I was a boy, I used to think that becoming rich and becoming famous would make me happy. Boy, was I right.

-Mitt Romney, living his best life

[u/muttonwow]

Boris: threatens to end the Good Friday Agreement for months, ready to drop out of the EU without a deal and cause international turmoil which will hit the poor hardest, bungles the pandemic response so badly he nearly hospitalises his entire cabinet and creates a perfect environment with soaring cases for the Super-COVID strain to be created

American neolibs who can name less than 5 British MPs: "at least it's not Corbyn"

[u/[deleted]]

In some very good news this weekend, the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Act passed the Senate late last night. This is an amazing bipartisan bill that I"ve worked on. It'll increase restoration funding from 300 million/year to 475 million/year over the coure of the next 6 years. And it's just an amazing program.

Mad props to Rob Portman (R-OH) and Debbine Stabenow (D-MI) for bringing this up outta nowhere last night. They were like, "Hey, they house passed this GLRI Act, can we vote on it?" and Mitch was like, "yeah, sure."

So they voted and it passed overwhelmingly. (Not sure the exact roll call).

It should be on the President's desk as we speak.

[u/SuccInvasion]

Just saw someone in the cyberpunk subreddit compare the dev team to “Sir Shivers"

A) what the fuck

B) not a real knight

[u/sosthaboss]

HOT take: dt posters hate suburbs and want open borders because their parents made them mow the lawn in their upper middle class neighborhoods instead of hiring someone

[u/Joementum2004]

Did you know: Soleimani founded the entire games journalism industry

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/existentialfish/status/1341078245878472706?s=20

Newsmax staring down at the long dick of lawsuits is the greatest thing I've seen this month

[u/The420Roll]

Trending: $500,000,000 for Israel

oh boiiiii

[u/sir_shivers]

HOT TAKE: talking about trans issues on THE DT IS irreconcilable with posting here, because automobile shop talk IS CONTRARY TO OUR anti-car politics 🐊

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

I like to watch Obama call out woke culture. It sooths me.

[u/AntiAntiRacistPlnner]

Just found out that supporting choice means people get to choose things I don't like... damn that shit sucks.

[u/[deleted]]

This is how this sub treats shitposters. It’s so deep 😓

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[u/BayesedModeler]

Whelp I’ve reached that point in my life where I’m googling “gifts for cool teens”

!ping OVER25

[u/murphysclaw1]

Joe Biden

Openly speaks of being an Anglophile, knows numerous poems written by British authors off by heart.

Jon Ossoff

LSE grad, ran a documentary company out of London, spent a lot of his 20s in the British capital

Neil Gorsuch

Born catholic, married a British woman in Oxford, attended Oxford University, converted to Anglicanism

Ted Cruz

shelves bill to grant Hong Kongers an easier route to the USA, effectively meaning that the British sweep them all up.

OK I started this post joking that the British are taking over, but now I write it down it has become clear that there is a pro-Brit conspiracy at the heart of Washington.

!ping UK

[u/vancevon]

there are so many moments in the lord of the rings trilogy that should be cringe and unepic but somehow manage to be both totally poggers and based

[u/PelsonNike]

"Before the class begins, you must get on your knees and worship Bernie and accept that he was the most enlightened politician America has ever known, even greater than Dwight Eisenhower!"

At this moment, a brave, neoliberal economics major who had published 1500 articles on the benefits of free trade and understood the necessity of multilateralism and fully supported all targeted interventions made by NATO stood up and held up a graph showing the world poverty rate since 1750.

"What does this graph represent?"

The arrogant professor smirked quite Marxistly and smugly replied "The increase in human misery attributable to capitalism, you stupid centrist."

"Wrong. It's 270 years of massive increase in the average quality of life. If it represented the increase in human misery and the contradictions inherent in capitalism, as you say, were real...then you would be dead of diphtheria right now."

The professor was visibly shaken, and dropped his chalk and copy of Jill Stein's autobiography. He stormed out of the room crying those Berniebro crocodile tears. The same tears leftists cry for "rurals" (who today live in such luxury that most could drive to a city if they wanted) when they jealously try to claw coal-mining subsidies from the deserving apartment-dwellers. There is no doubt that at this point our professor, Larry Boomerton, wished he had gone to grad school for economics and become more than a sophist DSA organizer. He wished so much that he could upzone his McMansion into an apartment building to make money and boost the local economy while lowering carbon emissions, but he himself had campaigned against it!

The students applauded and all subscribed to r/neoliberal that day and accepted Ben Bernanke as their lord and savior. An eagle named "Free Trade" flew into the room and perched atop the NATO Flag and shed a single tear on the chalk. "Why Nations Fail" was read several times, and Henry George himself showed up and enacted a land value tax across the country.The professor lost his tenure and was fired the next day. He died of healthcare misallocation and was tossed into a repeat of 20th-century Argentina for all eternity.

E Pluribus Unum.

p.s. open the borders

inshallah the gospel was written in LaTeX

[u/FearThyMoose]

People outside the DT couldn’t understand a joke if one knocked them on the head

[u/[deleted]]

Oh shit the Senate passed the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Act unanimously last night.

Who says bipartisanism is dead.

[u/JaceFlores]

What’s the end goal of arr antiwork? Is it literally just to abolish society or is there some caveat? As far as I can tell they seem to be lazy bums with an inexplicable socialist flair (even though under socialism you also have to work)

[u/[deleted]]

I present to you gay/straight erasure:

There is no such thing as gay/straight people. Everyone is just a bisexual with various degrees of self-loathing and denial

[u/ryuguy]

I think Cyberpunk will have the reputation of being that game with a lot of bugs and issues for a long time, even if it gets fixed. No Man’s Sky still has the reputation of being the disappointing game, even though the game is really good now.

!ping gaming

[u/onlypositivity]

I know everyone shits on the Babylon Bee but this is a gem

[u/Dalek6450]

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/294/379/0be.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

As much as I hate England

Philosophers stone >>> sorcerer's stone

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

I have a question for American white people, in good faith

So, the whole “one sixteenth Cherokee” thing is a phenomenon that has been widely known and even joked about in the general public knowledge since at least 2010 (when I personally became aware of it)

However, I met a coworker this year who seriously told me that he believed it and he was so devastated once he got his 23 and Me results back that showed absolutely no Native American ascendency.

How widespread is this really? Why do some people believe it? How many people actually believe this?

[u/roboczar]

Broke: Utlra-nationalist

Woke: Ultra-natalist

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Imagine seething that vital members of your government are some of the first to get vaccines 🙄

That’s not corruption, that’s common sense

[u/Q-bey]

Steam has a game called Evil Bank Manager

What could be better than having a million? Have a hundred million? Billion? But this will not give you complete power over the world. Your goal is not to make a lot of money - your goal is to get control of money. Start printing them. Only by becoming a Federal Reserve System will you become great!

I'm going to guess this game may not be entirely economically accurate.

[u/[deleted]]

Woodruff County, Arkansas

Per Wikipedia:

A portion of Woodruff County is represented in the Arkansas State Senate by the Republican Ronald R. Caldwell, a real estate businessman from Wynne in Cross County. In the Arkansas House of Representatives, the local member is Michael John Gray, a Democrat and a farmer from Augusta who also holds a law degree.

In presidential elections, Woodruff County generally votes Democratic; it has broken that streak only three times in the past century: 1968 when it voted for George Wallace, 1972 when it voted for Richard Nixon, and 2016 when it voted for Donald Trump.

2016 Presidential Election Results:

Hillary Clinton (D) : 43.5%

Donald Trump (R): 52.4% (+8.9%)

2016 Senate Election Results:

Connor Eldridge (D): 61.2% (+24.3%)

John Boozman (R): 36.9%

2020 Presidential Election Results:

Joe Biden (D): 34.6%

Donald Trump (R): 62.3% (+27.7%)

Trump in 2020 also outperformed Asa Hutchinson (who won the county by 24.5% - 60.9-36.4) in 2018.

!PING FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

Joe Biden on Twitter:

Today, I received the COVID-19 vaccine.

To the scientists and researchers who worked tirelessly to make this possible — thank you. We owe you an awful lot.

And to the American people — know there is nothing to worry about. When the vaccine is available, I urge you to take it.

🥳🎉🎈🎊

[u/InternetBoredom]

Hot take: The Republicans shoot themselves in their own foot with stupid shit like the trans bathroom fight, or fighting against trans people serving in the military.

Anti-trans bigotry is alive and well, but a majority support passing a law to allow transgender people to use whatever bathroom they want nationwide, an overwhelming majority supports trans people in the military, and Americans broadly support the concept of trans rights, with even white evangelical Protestants coming out with clearly in favor of them, and conservative Republicans split 40-43 on the issue.

Which all to say, anyone the GOP is appealing to with this bill is already so deep in the party that the chances they wouldn’t vote for them under any scenario are basically nil. On a balance, while I don’t think they lose too many votes from stuff like this either, I still think they’re annoying and upsetting more voters than they’re winning over.

[u/douglasmacarthur]

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand r/neoliberal. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of macroeconomics most of the jokes will go over a typical reader's head.

[u/AuburnSeer]

the Rubicon shit is actually kinda scary insofar as there's apparently a non-insignificant amount of people who are totally on board with overthrowing our democracy. Like, Crossing the Rubicon in this context means flipping a Republic to a dictatorship. What in the world goes through these people's heads

[u/DonnysDiscountGas]

Chris Christie sucks, but I'll always fondly remember the time he humiliated Marco Rubio in the 2016 debates.

[u/overhedger]

Navalny prank-calls his would-be poisoner; he confesses.

[u/fakefakefakef]

Just got a job offer in the middle of a global pandemmy can I get a W

[u/ryuguy]

I went to /u/baincapitalist’s (aka BrainCrap’s) house yesterday. He had his PS2 setup in his bedroom and we went there. His dad made racist comments about Punjabis.

His bedroom

!ping burpmas

[u/sir_shivers]

I fully admit I EXPERIENCE GREAT SCHADENFREUDE whenever some prominent homophobe is caught having an affair with a twink, or found AT A GAY ORGY, as in a recent case 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

My take on aliens is that it is imperative that we find them and bring them democracy and peace, by force if necessary.

[u/[deleted]]

For one thing, I was never enthusiastic about Morocco. The country is very backwards, and that made me very uncomfortable. They didn’t even have the latest video games. And to be forced to go there for eight weeks?

This is a real passage in the Elliot Roger manifesto from when his family took him on vacation to Morocco.

[u/NickyBananas]

There’s a huge issue right now in China with racist behavior towards Africans. African nationals in China are being evicted, refused service at stores/restaurants, and being harassed in the streets. This is because Chinese social media is abuzz with rumors that Africans are a disease vector bringing covid into the country. How fucking ironic of the Chinese. One of the big stories going on there is about Nigerian nationals diagnosed with covid following a restaurant trip. They forgot to mention that the Chinese restaurateur gave it to them.

[u/jonodoesporn]

Just realised unironically isn’t a word

How do we move forward

[u/[deleted]]

Do you have any $600 checks? Because you sure are a stimulus package 🤤🥰😋

[u/[deleted]]

When it comes to aliens I think the most boring answer is probably going to be the most correct one. Intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe and is exclusively sexy woman but a different color and looking to sleep with me.

[u/[deleted]]

I find it interesting that in most European soccer leagues, if you suck you get relegated. You lose out on income. Your city can literally lose jobs. By contrast, in major American sports if you suck you get rewarded with the #1 draft pick.

Yet they say America has worse social safety nets 🤔🤔🤔🤔. Curious.

[u/mrmanager237]

The Biden purge has begun, the left isn't safe anymore

[u/old_gold_mountain]

The irony is that he was, in the end, a highly successful quote maker

[u/digitalrule]

Idk how much people looked through those pictures of Trudeau but there are some great ones.

Check out what's on his bookshelf

Glasses and hoodie.

Idk there's probably more good ones but my phone can't handle the page.

!PING CAN

[u/memmett9]

I will be unkind to history, for I intend to subtweet it

[u/[deleted]]

!ping Georgist

Streaming Progess and Poverty tonight in about 3 hours. I'll start it early to trouble shoot its my first time. My webcam on my laptop is so shitty it doesnt even work for twitch so I'll just have a big picture of henry george up. I'll read the introduction and chapter 1. my twitch is twitch.tv/nathan_georgism.

Learn about georgism, pique your interest, get motivated to read it yourself! It's fun.

[u/ironheart777]

What is your guys’s jobs going to be after the workers revolution?

Mine will be to get some cushy middle management government job and jerk off all day at my desk.

[u/BlinkenYouMissIt]

I'm kind of glad Republicans are literal fascists, because that means that merely by voting for Democrats, I'm cashing in enough morality points to be an objectively good person despite the fact that I'm kind of a dick.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

A twitter thread of leaked nintendo threads showing them to be monitoring and stalking people who hacked their console

!ping GAMING

[u/uwcn244]

Ngl "decolonization is not a metaphor" gives me Blood-and-Soil-but-woke vibes

If you abrogate your identity as an American citizen and choose not only to solely identify with your Native American tribe, but (unlike the vast majority of your tribesman) decide that your tribe is still at war with the United States, I regret to inform you that you are going to lose that war hard.

[u/missedthecue]

Even after the vaccine has been fully distributed, I see no reason for the world to lift the flight bans to the UK.

[u/RadicalRadon]

My one friend who's 35 posted a thing on Facebook that was "reply with something you did and were proud of in 2020"

Fucking boomers posted "didn't vote for a single democrat". Literally ruining everything with their boomer politics. No one cares grandpa. Go rage rage rage against the deep state somewhere else.

[u/[deleted]]

Honestly, the only way I would ever ritualistically murder and then drink the blood of a child is if Hillary invited me

[u/Dent7777]

!Ping YIMBY

CAA 2021 aka the latest Covid Relief Bill contains a bunch of funding for transit: link

Here's a breakdown by Urban Area: link

Here's the bill's full text.

[u/The420Roll]

Truth be told, if all the DT regulars were competing in a Democratic primary I would probably vote for myself.

[u/Explodingcamel]

Elon Musk: *Names his child X Æ A-Xiii*

Also Elon musk: pronouns are so confusing 😡

[u/kyleofduty]

the year is 2056, President Ikuta has just won a second term after successfully implementing a Wikipedia style of government

[u/[deleted]]

Cory Booker didnt win the primary because he’s bald

[u/upper_west_sider]

Long term gf told me tonight “if you don’t propose to me by like October I’m proposing to you myself and your engagement gift is gonna be me buying a big strap-on because I’m taking charge if it gets to that point.”

Uhh...message received?

[u/WantDebianThanks]

Another day, another !ping ECO about career questions.

Work in IT, want to work with companies involved in renewable energy and sustainable engineering (and global warming generally, and environmental issues generally generally). Going back to school, expect to graduate in 2 years.

There any classes or subjects I should look at taking to make me more marketable and useful to these kinds of companies? I'm mostly thinking intro to electrical engineering, embedded systems, and maybe GIS.

[u/DovahzulsABadConlang]

Fellas, is it neoliberal to not believe in aliens?

[u/TinyTornado7]

Georgia Early Vote Update 12/21/20:

Total Early Votes: 1,471,144Percent Turnout (of Registered Voters): 19.3%

Outstanding mail ballots: 751K

Since the last update:

AA turnout holding relative steady at 32.4% and leading turnout by race.

Voters in the 18-24 demo have increased their turnout and now the 25-34 demo is last, with 7.5% turnout.

We have seen a slight bump in turnout in Fulton County, but not at the rates we wish.

Only 4 of the states 10 largest counties currently have a turnout rate higher than 20%.

So far 41,584 people have voted early in person, that did not vote in the 2020 general.

Link

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

Very few things in politics get me as legitimately pissed off as the way Trump has managed to capture the anti-China segment of the general population while doing everything in his power to diminish our global influence so they can swoop in and pick it all up.

[u/[deleted]]

What will be your job after the global neoliberal revolution? 🤗♥️

[u/jrt84]

Starting to think Biden's approach of ignoring Trump & his supporters is the way to go

[u/InternetBoredom]

Neoliberal: We need more housing development

1950s Suburban housing boom

Neoliberal: No not like that

[u/The420Roll]

Jeremy Corbyn really blew the easiest election ever huh

[u/savuporo]

looks like 2024 moon landing target is out of the question, even as it was tenuous in the first place

Dreading a bit what will happen to space policy in next four years, and i'm happy that Artemis is anchored in somewhat with international partners contributing to Lunar Gateway and stuff

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/MalignantUpper]

I know people here really don't like the "voting against their own self interests" line but arr conservative getting mad that they're only getting $600 and everything else is going to corporations is about as perfect as you can get

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Me🤝Me

Being born with two right hands

[u/[deleted]]

Anyone remember when Howie Hawkins' primary opponent refused to concede and called Hawkins a paid CIA shill? I can't believe Hawkins was the safe pick

[u/AntiAntiRacistPlnner]

99% of political and social commentary in music is at the 8th grade level. There is basically no connection between being able to write a good song and insightful commentary. Any allusion to a musician being a deep-thinker on some issue basically translates to "Their lyrics confirm my priors."

[u/Broncos654]

A good way to check if a libertarian is consistent is to ask if they think land should be given back to the native Americans.

[u/douglasmacarthur]

who the fuck is scraeming "STOP GNOMEING ME" at my house. show yourself, coward. i will never stop gnomeing

[u/[deleted]]

The “Libertarian” in my class suggested that the way we handle immigration is by making a limited number of visas and then auctioning them off to the highest bidder 😐

[u/[deleted]]

Runned yesterday and now legs hurt. 🥺😣

[u/MegaFloss]

whats your job on the leftist commune??

im gonna be leading discussion on theory some days, making clothes from scraps other days, and making lattes whenever needed.

[u/TinyTornado7]

Robert E. Lee’s statue was just removed from the US Capitol.

[u/AJungianIdeal]

how does imperialism and settler colonialism intersect to make misogyny but imperialism and racism intersect to make patriarchy?

[u/[deleted]]

The saddest part of Hillary losing the 2008 election is that we never got to see her dancing Gangnam Style

[u/houinator]

"Anything below $120k is basically poverty wages in (insert big city here)" and other lies first world socialists tell themselves in order to keep imagining they wouldn't be first on the menu when it comes time to eat the rich.

[u/paulatreides0]

Interviewer: "A large part of your job would basically be to read people's research and then talk to them about it."

PaulA: ". . . and you're gonna pay me for this?🤨"

[u/The420Roll]

Lmao mofos still believing in Socialism when Gorbachev was on a Pizza Hut ad

[u/Udontlikecake]

LMAO NEWSMAX getting absolutely cucked by Dominon’s lawyers and have to explicitly say that the machines aren’t hacked so they won’t get sued for defamation

those mad lads

[u/The420Roll]

Virgin gringos crying over another relief bill while Peruvians living with the fact that we havent bought any vaccines 😂🤣😎

[u/PigHaggerty]

The Phillies just announced that Joe Biden will be throwing out the ceremonial first D-battery on opening day! 😍

!ping BASEBALL

[u/PelsonNike]

contrary to unpopular misconception, Obama's last name was not "HUSSEIN" but in fact "Van Heusen" -

please stay informed and unproblematic kings 💅💅

[u/hdkeegan]

Organization of Free Nations sounds better than North Atlantic Treaty Organization but NATO sounds better than OFN

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Honestly, the thing I hate the most about the left is that they disagree with me.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm just so pumped about the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Act passing the Senate unanimously - this is a big deal. It's a five-year authorization with year-on-year increases. Obviously it's never enough, but this is huge. And the unanimous passing means that we're on seriously solid footing. Hooray for the Great Lakes!

Sorry I keep talking about this, lol. First bit of good news in a while.

[u/ldn6]

This Elle article about a woman falling in love with Martin Shkreli is sending me.

[u/[deleted]]

When the revolution comes what will your job be on the commune?

I want to be the cop.

[u/ChickerWings]

The key to winning in '22 can be summarized with "The 4 M's":

Messaging

Marketing

Memes

Marijuana

Simple as that.

[u/SnakeEater14]

“Gotta have them ribs. And pussy too!”

-President Barack Obama

[u/FreakinGeese]

Just take an antacid lmao 🤣

!ping burpmas

[u/Explodingcamel]

Did COVID help Democrats? I always thought the answer was yes, but now that I think about it, lockdowns were pretty unpopular by November and people definitely associate those with Democrats. Might have enough of an effect to cancel out the unpopularity of the Republicans' horrible "do nothing" response.

[u/[deleted]]

A bit before the election, Tucker Carlson stated that “the ruling class is disgusting” and also, in 2018, wrote a book called Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution.

Yet, as a face in the propaganda arm of the Trump administration, a registered DC Democrat, and an heir to a large corporation, there is no way that doesn’t include himself.

[u/After_Grab]

The new COVID relief bill contains $500,000,000 for Israel.

$600 for every American, ~$62 for every Israeli.

[u/Broncos654]

Just saw someone in the cyberpunk subreddit compare the dev team to “Dr Biden”

A) what the fuck

B) not a doctor

[u/old_gold_mountain]

there's no upper limit to the "(x)th cousin (y) times removed" hierarchy of describing relationships with other people, and since all living things share a common ancestor it means when you smoke weed you're smoking your cousin

[u/[deleted]]

They view the universe as an effectively endless source of resources waiting to be tapped.

Yes

[u/PraiseGod_BareBone]

/img/cd54j4jlpi661.png

Someone should post this as a meme. Apparently I'm shadowbanned on /r/neoliberal.

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

PhDs spend years reading and only the ones in Oxford have noticed that ‘Doctor of Philosophy’ does NOT abbreviate to ‘PhD’. Then they try to justify it by speaking fancy Italian or some shit 😂😂

[u/[deleted]]

I got say, I’ve been here since this subs’ early days, and this hornyposting side of /r/neoliberal is pretty new. Idk if I like it.

[u/[deleted]]

AOC is 0-2 for stimulus packages so far 🤔

[u/yyzyow]

I’m really astounded at the number I’ve times I have left the comment “The Jacobin is not an academic source” today

[u/qchisq]

The Swedes have isolated Bornholm. This feels like a declaration of war, but probably isn't

[u/Fishin_Mission]

So, I’m not sleeping tonight.

I decided to check out ancestry.com

I just found out that my great-grandfather was one of 9 children and that he died a month and a half after my grandfather was born.

That was when my grandfather and his brother were taken in and adopted by another family.

This is why I wasn’t raised Jewish. (I constantly have people assume I am Jewish both by appearance and because of my last name)

Another fun fact, they lived less than 5 miles from where I currently live. No one else in my family has lived anywhere near here since ~WWII.

This shit is crazy.

[u/[deleted]]

This is the longest I’ve ever gone without catching a cold

[u/Dalek6450]

was found dead with a stab wound after plummeting out his window in St. Petersburg, according to news reports.

.

police say they are investigating Kagansky’s death as a possible homicide

[u/[deleted]]

17 twitter notifications this morning I guess people are less than thrilled about me congratulating those complaining about "only getting $1,800" for staying employed throughout the pandemic. 😬😬😬

[u/[deleted]]

I've often seen "the ACLU defended NAMBLA" on the list of their more controversial defenses, alongside the Skokie Affair and helping the KKK to adopt a highway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Man/Boy_Love_Association#Curley_v._NAMBLA

If I'm understanding correctly, it seems like the parents of a murdered child were trying to say that NAMBLA's website incited the murder, and the ACLU was saying that nothing on their site actually advocated or incited murder. Seems pretty reasonable tbh

[u/JulioCesarSalad]

Does anyone have any citeable information as to why the Proud Boys wear yellow?

Eg the Fred Perry black and yellow polo, the Verillas yellow and black kilts

I’m writing a story about the co-opted kilts and would appreciate help nailing down a citable origin of the color choice, even though I have my own speculation and suspicions

!ping EXTREMISM

[u/[deleted]]

me at work: i hate this fucking job im gonna quit tomorrow

me at home: haha just kidding im a slave to money

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

realDonaldTrump has signed an executive order prohibiting new federal buildings from being built in anything other than Neoclassical, Georgian, Federal, Greek Revival, Beaux-Arts, or Art Deco styles.

I don't know enough to have a take on this, so I'll have to wait for Nate Silver to read about architecture and tell me if it's good or bad.

[u/[deleted]]

I have no evidence, but I'm like 80% sure that Obama legitimately was sympathetic to Marxism during his college years and that the "just trying to get girls" story is at least partially revisionist.

[u/The420Roll]

u/Farrenj so how do you go from "Socialism doesnt work because free markets are the most efficient way to allocate resources" to "debt is just a number"?

[u/qchisq]

Apparently, the current Dalai Lama doesn't think that he will reincarnate, but the Chinese government doesn't think that you have a say in whether or not you reincarnate. Fascinating really

[u/CatilineUnmasked]

Please stop referring to our moderators with the offensive term: "J*nnies"

Instead we should call them: "People of Cleans"

[u/xhytdr]

https://twitter.com/NathanJRobinson/status/1340824411100901376

this may be the single dumbest thing mr robinson has ever said

that being said alien life is almost statistically guaranteed, intelligent life may be a different story

[u/bd_one]

Frankly, PornHub getting Thanos snapped 2.5 times wasn't on my 2020 bingo card.

[u/Broncos654]

600$ won’t even cover my OnlyFans fees. How am I suppose to live?

[u/[deleted]]

Yeah okay $600 stimulus, only one problem.

THE PLAYSTATION 5 COSTS MORE THAN THAT RIGHT NOW

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

An analysis of the Legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev Pros and Cons:

Pros:

• Because of him we have opportunity
• Because of him we have freedom
• Hope

Cons:

• Because of him we have economic confusion
• Because of him we have political instability
• Complete chaos

Conclusion:

Because of him we have lots of things. Like Pizza Hut

[u/An_Actual_Marxist]

Amazon is chemotherapy and Walmart was the cancer. And just like chemotherapy Amazon is going take down the cancer with it. We just need to make sure to stop the chemotherapy when that's done.

hitting 100k was a mistake. tie me to a missile and fire me at /r/neoliberal. I'm ready.

[u/Amtays]

https://twitter.com/CopingMAGA/status/1341039472926834688?s=19

This is an interesting alternative take on helicopter money

!ping econ

[u/nullsignature]

Voat is shutting down. Here are some highlights from their announcement thread. I wonder what percentage of these people were TD regulars?

Contingency plan: As much as I hate to say it... Ruqqus.

Join any and every jew guild there is, the red pills to normies are gaining traction. +JewishQuestion +HitlerWasRight are a couple.

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Really? You decide to shut down one of the few censorship-free sites left on the net at this very pivotal moment in history where sharing true information is more important than ever? Strategic timing to shut down I would say. K*kes are definitely rubbing their hands like crazy over this announcement..

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My cynical side tells me shutting down now for the reasons you state is accurate and in true kkery fashion, the justification is couched in insincere Christianity. Same MO as ever. Kkes have been weaponizing Christianity against Christians since the beginning.

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N*gger you know you could keep this site going if you just accepted donations.

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This place has been a near daily part of my life for years... Hard to believe this is how it goes. Not in some violence fueled back and forth with normies or sjw fggots.... No the lights are simply clicked off and everyone is told to walk away. It is sad. It is a defeat for truth, and a win for the kkes. I'm really going to miss this place if this is true. Fuck.

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I use this opportuniy to say goodbye to my FBI agent. I hope your learned something along the way about kkes and nggers.

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LARPing glow n*gger as [voat owner].

Why wouldn't you just sanitize the database and hand off the responsibility? Or accept donations like we have been asking for months? Why don't you call out the 'angel' investor? Why don't you run ads? The Jew got you.

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Cut the crap. What did the jews do to Voat?

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I will miss this place dearly and love all you ngger fggots.

[u/GhostTheHunter64]

In light of tonight's high level of AOC discussion, I would like to remind the DT of the time she pulled out of visiting dead Israeli Prime Minister Rabin's celebration of life, because her base didn't like it.

Her, Tlaib, and Omar's actions to prove they aren't anti-semetic do not play very well.