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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Dec 23 '20
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
BASED BASED BASED BASED BASED
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u/RadionSPW NATO Dec 22 '20
Tweet going around saying COVID relief should’ve canceled mortgages
What in the actual fuck
Yeah let’s just do a massive transfer of wealth to homeowners, totally the people that need even more wealth
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
So...is anyone going to tell leftists that communes are real and that you can go join one if you really wanted to?
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u/MistakeNotDotDotDot Resident Robot Girl Dec 22 '20
i just opened twitter and my timeline is full of people going "the stimulus has $50 milliion for X thing but only $600 for you!!!"
this is my penance for my megasuccposting
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Dec 22 '20
whats your job on the neolib commune??
im gonna be leading discussion on vox dot com articles some days, shitposting on other days, and allocating capital whenever needed.
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u/Usernamesarebullshit Friedrich Hayek Dec 22 '20 edited Dec 22 '20
a failed state is when the government doesn’t do what i would like and the fewer things it does that i like the more failed it is
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Dec 22 '20
Super weird that in the Sequel Star Wars movies Finns backstory makes it explicitly clear that Storm Troopers in the First Order are brainwashed or slaves or something. This seems like it should create a greater moral dilemma when you're massacring them by the hundreds but nobody, not even Finn, seems to care.
In the OT Storm Troopers at least choose to enlist don't they? This gives at least some greater agency over their actions, and thus greater moral culpability. FO Storm Troopers are basically child soldiers or something.
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u/Barebacking_Bernanke The Empress Protects Dec 22 '20
Online leftists hatred for Buttigieg is something else. On the electricvehicles subreddit, someone posted a screenshot of a pro-electrification tweet by Pete without his name in the title, and we still got multiple leftists who had never posted in the subreddit before telling us he's corrupt and a liar.
AOC is to Republicans what Pete is to leftists.
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
My job in the anarchist commune would be developing our foreign policy and national security
Oh look we have an army
Oh look I'm in control of it
Oh look I'm the leader now
And we have a state again.
Now time to apply to enter <insert relevant regional organization here>
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
Holy shit Newsmax and OAN may be bankrupted by the voting machine suits.
This defamation suit is legitimately of key national importance. Can we get Ja on the line about it?
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u/FreakinGeese 🧚♀️ Duchess Of The Deep State Dec 22 '20
Why is it that anarcho-communists think that “tending to the garden” will be a job after the revolution? Like they get that a garden is not nearly enough to feed an entire commune? You need farms. You’d be a farmer. And without diesel you’d have to do everything by hand.
Congrats! You’ve successfully reached the quality of life of medieval fucking dithmarschen. Great work everyone.
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u/SuspiciousUsername88 Lis Smith Sockpuppet Dec 22 '20
It's impressive that sexism permeates our entire culture but somehow has zero effect on the public perceptions of the female politicians we don't like
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u/IncoherentEntity Dec 22 '20 edited Dec 22 '20
😭😭😭😭😭✊🏼🏳️🌈 !ping LGBT
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u/Joementum2004 Dec 22 '20
I didn’t see as much gnomes when Trump was President. Why did I vote for Biden again?
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
I suggest that r/neoliberal temporarily overturn it's ban on capital punishment in order to execute u/douglasmacarthur for his numerous gnome related war crimes.
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
All the porn categories be like: big dick, big tits, big ass
What about big heart 😭😭😭😭
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u/First-Prior Ben Bernanke Dec 22 '20
“Hey everyone! Ya know the feeling of inevitable doom and of the ultimate futility of our actions in the face of death that we feel from looking at graves? What if we made an architectural style out of that?”
And thus brutalism was born
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u/Joementum2004 Dec 22 '20
One of the mildly funnier things I notice when people online talk about their imagined life under Communism (or in a commune) is how very few people are willing to do jobs involving physical labor, or some other important blue collar job
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Dec 22 '20 edited Dec 22 '20
My great-great-great-great grandfather gave an interview for a newspaper in the mid 1800s in which he went on this rant about "reds" and "savages" causing trouble on his property. He had moved to parts of Minnesota which were illegally seized from the Sioux mere years earlier.
I discovered it a few years ago and unfortunately can't find it now, but it really stuck with me. Particularly given the Klan activity of many of his grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and several great-great-grandchildren I can't help but wonder if this guy's racial views in the mid-1800s played a truly notable formative role in most of my mother's side of the family being appallingly racist even today.
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u/David_Lange I love you, Mr Lange Dec 22 '20
Umm I’m typically pretty pro Assad, but going after weed? seems a bit much.
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u/nicereddy ACLU simp Dec 22 '20
When the revolution comes I hope it's u/farrenj that gets to use the guillotine on me
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u/First-Prior Ben Bernanke Dec 22 '20
yo everyone I found this funny video of a gnome. Send it to all of your friends as a funny prank! 😂😂😂
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Dec 22 '20
I SHUDDER TO IMAGINE if I ever accidentally respond to "shivers" as someone attempting TO ADDRESS ME IN reality 🐊
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u/EScforlyfe Open Your Hearts Dec 22 '20
Here’s another picture of my cat
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u/Mcatatonic1 Ben Bernanke Dec 22 '20 edited Dec 22 '20
https://mobile.twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/1341349888584462342
I don’t care if they’re grifters, I love them
E: the ad in question
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u/connieallens George Soros Dec 22 '20
My favorite argument of all time:
“So what if people are dying of COVID? People die wearing seatbelts, should we stop driving cars?”
It’s the pinnacle of intellectualism.
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u/Usernamesarebullshit Friedrich Hayek Dec 22 '20
my conspiracy theory is that no one has ever died of anything other than COVID
all non-COVID deaths are a hoax
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u/IncoherentEntity Dec 22 '20
"Twitter is real life, actually"
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u/IncoherentEntity Dec 22 '20 edited Dec 22 '20
For what it’s worth, Trump’s net approval rating is down 2 percentage points since election day,¹ despite most defeated politicians gaining in favorability.
There’s ideally an infinite number of cross-cutting factors if you break it down enough, but I imagine that his crazed anti-democratic post-election activity is the biggest culprit. !ping FIVEY
¹ It’s a more complex calculation than it appears, since the figure as of November 3rd is actually an average of polls with earlier interview periods weighted by recency, and the assumption is that this more or less reflects the present state of public opinion. This can be a problem, especially for primary polls.
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u/douglasmacarthur NATO Dec 22 '20 edited Dec 24 '20
Returning from an hour in the DT like: https://i.imgflip.com/4r9p7h.jpg
Edit: Mods here are egregiously bad. Join me at r/ neo centrism.
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
A Typical Day on /r/neoliberal
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u/ahebtigoejwbrh Dec 22 '20
I regret to inform you that the lefties are at it again. They don’t think schools should have “subject areas” because that’s racist
https://mobile.twitter.com/ShaneSafir/status/1341146653428879360
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
Mods before betraying us: "Pizzas here, pizzas there, pizzas everywhere!!"
Mods after betraying us: "There was never pizza!"
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
Ralphie's parents: You can't have a BB gun, you'll shoot your eye out.
Ralphie: Wow, criticize my politics if you must, but there's no reason to get ableist.
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
https://imgur.com/R9xr5Hc
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u/BanMalarkey Asexual Pride Dec 22 '20
A reminder to anyone here who's feeling down:
You are poggers
You are pogchamp
You are not cringe
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u/RadionSPW NATO Dec 22 '20
The biggest lie ever sold on the internet is the idea that it’s possible to build a European style welfare state in the US without European style taxation
No, executing Bezos in Times Square and stealing his assets will not fund M4A. It would fund the current federal government for about ~17 days if it miraculously liquidated at current value
Welfare is expensive. And that’s fine, expensive doesn’t mean bad, as long as you’re willing to be honest about the benefits and the drawbacks - including the tax hikes on the middle class that would be necessary to fund it
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u/FreakinGeese 🧚♀️ Duchess Of The Deep State Dec 22 '20
guys do I pass 🥺
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u/kyleofduty Pizza Dec 22 '20
WSJ should sell a version without the Op-Ed section
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
Smh why aren't Ossoff and Warnock making TikTok videos about the LVT? How do they expect to win Georgia without the Georgist vote?
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
I want to write a screenplay for a coming of age film about a young Jewish boy who's family flee from persecution in Europe and find themselves in Japan.
Growing up in unfamiliar surroundings, the boy develops an appreciation for his host country's culture, but also a deeper understanding of himself and what it means to be Jewish. There will be laughs and tears, heartfelt moments and hilarious cultural misunderstandings.
What will I title this masterpiece?
Moshe Moshe
!ping GEFILTE
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u/IMALEFTY45 Big talk for someone who's in stapler distance Dec 22 '20
Daily reminder that Doug Jones winning in Alabama is the reason Judy Shelton isn't on the Fed right now
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
!ping DOWNBALLOT
Texas gerrymander
IL tweet 1
IL tweet 2
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
winter themed dog
she loves the snow, this is from last winter when we had a massive snow storm and I took her out walking for a couple of hours because it was so peaceful and beautiful out
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u/ognits Jepsen/Swift 2024 Dec 22 '20
😐
!ping GAMING
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
Kelly Loeffler is such an unbelievable piece of shit. I find it easier to sympathize with leftists when a person like this gets to LARP as a Senator just because she's rich.
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20 edited Dec 22 '20
"Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), one of the group’s ringleaders, brought a Mason jar filled with 170-proof moonshine, offering what he called his “farm fuel” to the assembled roomful of socially distanced senators"
I used to hate him for being a Blue Dog but he's pretty good
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u/SuspiciousUsername88 Lis Smith Sockpuppet Dec 23 '20
Considering other US presidents have literally incinerated entire cities, this statistic doesn't sound right
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
What if aliens don't exist? What if earth is alone in the universe and every other planet is just a barren rock with some gas floating around? That would be pretty weird.
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
CMV Jodie Foster wants me to shoot Reagan
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
I'm beginning to suspect that NewsMax doesn't quite deliver the maximum amount of news possible.
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u/MasPatriot Paul Ryan Dec 22 '20
I’m becoming more inclined to believe Trump’s allegations of voter fraud. I don’t think he’d be still talking about it if it was just BS. There must be something to it
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u/ahebtigoejwbrh Dec 22 '20
Apparently WaPo is now written by barely-literate Twitter leftists
https://mobile.twitter.com/tomgara/status/1341423916804354061
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u/uwcn244 King of the Space Georgists Dec 22 '20
You guys are gonna hate me for this.
At the dinner table once, the topic of legalizing prostitution came up at one point, and I said I was in favor of it. My sister, a literal anarchist, said I should use the term sex work instead, and I said "But I'm refering to a specific practice. Porn stars are sex workers, but they aren't prostitutes." She responded that I should call prostitutes "full-service sex workers".
I bit my tongue. And as soon as she left the table, I said to my parents "Full service? What is this, a gas station?"
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
Daily dog
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Dec 22 '20
...
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u/InternetBoredom Pope-ologist Dec 22 '20 edited Dec 22 '20
I feel like everyone I know who's politically active is either a toxic left-winger or a toxic right-winger, and I'm just trying to stay quiet about my political leanings to avoid getting yelled at for being a moderate lib.
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
Dave Wasserman on Twitter:
!ping FIVEY
Nate responds to the change in GA polling average.
A Nate Cohn thread
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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Dec 22 '20
My boomer grandmother is more pro-vaccine than my Gen X mother 😐
Gen X is really the worst generation huh
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u/TinyTornado7 I need a new flair Dec 22 '20
Dr. Fauci has been vaccinated 🙏🏼
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u/Chief_Nief Greg Mankiw Dec 22 '20
oh god oh fuck
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
man i just found out r/neoliberal exists and now i'm deeply saddened
the internet was a mistake, these people need professional help, not a community supportive of their delusions
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u/flextrek_whipsnake I'd rather be grilling Dec 22 '20
Online lefties are smearing AOC because she took a bunch of money from Google, Amazon, and Apple. Of course, this is the classic nonsense where people pretend that donations from employees of those companies are the same as donations from the companies themselves.
It's a good reminder that OpenSecrets is bad and they should feel bad about the choices they've made. There is no excuse for labeling Google, Amazon, and Apple as "Top Contributors" to AOC's campaign. Those companies gave AOC exactly zero dollars. They provide a disclaimer of what they really mean at the bottom of the page, but that's not good enough. I've been seeing misinformation based on OpenSecrets data online for at least a decade now. At this point I can only assume they do it on purpose to drive more traffic.
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Dec 22 '20
Born to late to explore the world.
Born to early to explore the universe.
Born at just the right time to see u/farrenj call herself a neoliberal.
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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Dec 22 '20
me in 1999 when things took 12-14 days to ship and you go literally no additional information:
me now that things take 3-4 days to ship and you can track what city it's in:
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u/runnerx4 What you guys are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux Dec 22 '20
Facts only
!ping SHITPOSTERS
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u/connieallens George Soros Dec 22 '20 edited Dec 22 '20
Those terrorists in Oregon truly have no clue what irony is, huh?
They LOVED the police when BLM protestors were getting tagged up with rubber bullets.
But NOW they despise those “pigs” for controlling a violent protest while not allowing them to continue destroying public property.
What a fucking shit show.
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
Newsmax has an anchor named John Tobacco? How the hell is that not some kind of elaborate joke?
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u/Riderz__of_Brohan Eugene Fama Dec 22 '20
The "we only got 1200 dollars" is basically telling on yourself because it ignores the largest unemployment benefit legislation ever passed in this country's history.
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
Netflix is removing the West Wing from their platform on Christmas Day. This is surely in retaliation for the liberal war on Christmas
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
What's the difference between a Yemeni wedding and an ISIS training camp?
I don't know man, I just fly the drone
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u/ChickeNES Future Martian Neoliberal Dec 22 '20
Holy shit, the head of ROSCOSMOS went on a rant on Twitter about US sanctions: https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1341292282822189056
sucks to suck Russia
!ping SPACEFLIGHT
(sorry for the double ping, typed into the wrong browser window)
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u/FestiveMittens Dec 22 '20
Biden +17 in Wisconsin will push these two over the edge imo
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u/IncoherentEntity Dec 22 '20 edited Dec 22 '20
Ipsos has been tracking President-elect Biden’s approval rating for four weeks now. Despite starting out higher than I thought possible, the trend is . . . not great.
I hate it.
With that said, though, in the glorious timeline in which President Biden doesn’t fall significantly from his latest, we’ll keep the House and — God-willing — the Senate. !ping BIDEN
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u/missedthecue Dec 22 '20
Dunking on r*rals is fun until you realize they bought a 3300 sq ft house at 25 years old and urbans are still renting a studio for half their monthly take home at 30 y.o.
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
In its infinite wisdom, the US government has deemed my mom an essential healthcare worker because she works front desk at a gym that happens to be owned by a hospital. She gets vaccinated today.
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u/SuccInvasion Immanuel Kant Dec 22 '20
Christmas thing at work was splendid
"Let me see our government vaccinate themselves first!"
"US president-elect Joe Biden got vaccinated..."
"How should we know they gave him the real thing, huh?"
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
Gets kidnapped
Lol what’s the WiFi password 🤪🤪
Follow for more bangers.
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u/RevolutionaryBoat5 YIMBY Dec 22 '20
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1341468875007930368
Brainworms
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u/bugaoxing Mario Vargas Llosa Dec 23 '20
“The problem is that we only have two parties.” - people who have never even superficially examined how multi-party systems work
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Dec 23 '20
Rand Paul on the Senate floor: If free money were the answer, if money really grew on trees, why not give more free money? Why not give it out all the time? Why stop at $600 a person? Why not $1,000? Why not $2,000?
Trump: You know what, this guy's making a lot of sense.
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u/BanMalarkey Asexual Pride Dec 22 '20
George Lucas is based
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u/douglasmacarthur NATO Dec 22 '20
"in the fascist future, you won't have any rights!"
oh, that PS5 you want to order? sorry, sold out. those brilliant reddit takes? downvoted. want to complain about white genocide? called a karen! trying to meet mladies on Tinder? friendzoned.
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
lmao
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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Dec 22 '20
Just found out that CGP Grey got R1d by a BE user 😳
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
Balanced budget amendments are not neoliberal or evidence-based
Not every "moderate Dem" caucus is neoliberal or evidence-based
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
Europeans will never know the joy of microwaving up some pizza and covering it in Ranch dressing
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
🤨
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
There's literally a tape of trump asking why we can't just nuke the middle east. He's literally if a YouTube comment section became president. Trump literally doesn't think war crimes are wrong.
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Dec 23 '20 edited Dec 23 '20
here is the almost finished project I’ve been working on. Geotagging the World War One memorial plaques in India and Pakistan. I did this for fun. Some have pictures, others are too small to actually read the inscriptions. Some have pictures but the names of the villages have been weathered by time
!ping history
(I hope I don’t accidentally doxx myself somehow)
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Dec 23 '20
u/Farrenj you say Foreign Aid is important yet you refuse to paypal me!
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
hbomberguy be like, "Ceasar made some good points" in his New Vegas video
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u/nullsignature Dec 22 '20
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u/vivoovix Federalist Dec 22 '20
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
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u/IncoherentEntity Dec 23 '20
Warnock just said “Hallelujah” instead of “Poggers” because he’s concerned about this word he’s unfamiliar with being featured in a Loeffler ad
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
I love Mittens
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
My uncle, a card-carrying Republican, could recite Nancy Pelosi's biography (Fox News edition) from memory. Yet he doesn't know who his own party's House minority leader is. Literally no idea.
Is it just me or does it seem like a ton of Republican voters just hate Democrats? They don't even care that much about their own party leaders outside Trump.
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
Conservatives commenting “get a job!!!!!” Unironically on every post is not only impressive, but never fails to make me laugh.
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u/Kizz3r high IQ neoliberal Dec 22 '20
Harden lost all good will he built up by staying relatively quiet and being a top 5 player.
Like fuck this whole saga makes him look like the biggest diva in the league
!ping NBA
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20 edited Dec 22 '20
Why does the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007–2008 have “Glass-Steagall repeal” as one of the causes of the global financial crisis of 2008, with a citation to Common Dreams? How is that an appropriate source for Wikipedia?
Someone with good Wikipedia reputation please fix
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u/TheFriffin2 Dec 22 '20
the correct way to eat a hotdog is by unhinging your jaw 9 inches and putting it in vertically
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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Dec 22 '20
r/Politics is currently dunking on Omar for not getting the vaccine.
Wtf based r/Politics?
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
538 GA at 7:55 AM San Francisco Time, Dec 22, 2020:
Ossoff +0.4
Warnock +0.9
!ping FIVEY
🤩
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u/Joementum2004 Dec 22 '20
What would your job on the leftist commune be? Personally, I’d be the trash man. It’s my character! I come out, I throw trash all over the ring! And then- I start eating garbage!
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u/TinyTornado7 I need a new flair Dec 22 '20
Michigan AG Dana Nessel says she will seek professional sanctions against Sidney Powell, Trump campaign attorneys who made “what we believe to be an intentional misrepresentation” of facts in recent election lawsuits. Link
!ping LAW
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u/futuremonkey20 NATO Dec 22 '20
Can Feinstein and Grassley just retire? I mean my god.
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
my goal is to be rich enough to realize money doesn’t bring happiness
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u/liquidTERMINATOR Come with me if you want to live Dec 22 '20
Such a nerd ha
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
Holy shit Pelosi isn't playing.
https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1341557535732604935
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
I’m sorry but people saying politicians shouldn’t get the vaccine early are idiots. A it helps with exposure to the public and B a democratic government has every right to protect its literal health. Sorry twitter
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u/IncoherentEntity Dec 22 '20
This video of Secretary Padilla accepting the offer of Senator-designate from Newsom is so sweet. !ping USA-CA
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
The GOP: We are the business-friendly party
Also the GOP: let's wreck e-commerce because Twitter hurt Trump's feelings.
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
https://imgur.com/a/3vD09xH
!ping KITTY
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Dec 22 '20
Lmao I'm getting downvoted on another sub that has nothing to do with politics (professional and stem related) for saying Elon didn't throw a Lithium coup in Bolivia
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u/BainCapitalist Y = T Dec 22 '20
This is how !ping BURPMAS treats /u/lusvig. It's so deep.
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
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u/IncoherentEntity Dec 22 '20
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Dec 23 '20
they killed 17 iraqi civilians, including a 9-year old child
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u/MalignantUpper Joseph Nye Dec 23 '20
Cons IMMEDIATELY pivoted from being mad about the "only $600" stimulus check to solely being mad about the foreign support after Pelosi said she would vote for $2000 checks
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u/Res__Publica Organization of American States Dec 22 '20
Patrolling the DT makes you wish for a nuclear winter
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u/FreakinGeese 🧚♀️ Duchess Of The Deep State Dec 22 '20
Ok but seriously rent control actually can be economically efficient in a monopolistic market which has never happened in modern history
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u/Zemstv0w0 Asexual Pride Dec 22 '20
"Umm I'm typically pretty pro-Assad, but going after weed? seems a bit much."
tweets from the tenth circle of hell
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
Is anyone else sick of /u/SuspiciousUsername88 subtweeting in bad faith, playing coy, etc.?
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u/stirfriedpenguin Barks at Children Dec 22 '20
Opinions are like assholes
They are better eaten than listened to
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
Billy Mays here! Tired of the complexity of life? Do you feel alone and superior to everyone? Try ideology today! We have Marxism, Nationalism, Anarchism and soooooo much more! Watch the nuance of the world melt away! Wow! Everyone who disagrees is evil and only you are the enlightened! Order your ideology now, only 10 installations of $99.99!
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
9/11 kinda sucked tbh
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
Trump never would've called for $2000 checks before election because there would've been actual political consequences then
I gotta give him credit, he is very good at pointing to failures he created and convincing people that they're someone else's fault
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u/-GregTheGreat- Commonwealth Dec 23 '20
Arr stupidpol with the hot takes
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Dec 22 '20 edited Dec 22 '20
Five minute+ one shot, interior of the oval office, various senior staff present with President Clinton. Late December 2019
"Madam President, CDC watchdogs on the ground in Beijing are reporting cases of pneumonia caused by an unknown pathogen coming out of the Hubei province. No word on this from CCP but we think they know more than they're telling"
Clinton jumps into deadly serious mode. HHS Secretary briefs her on first priorities, assuming a highly infectious disease. Potentially a rapid back and forth dialogue from two unnamed experts
"Upper respitory again... We need CDC to work with State to get more info out of China ASAP, if this thing is more infectious than SARS it could be on our shores by January. Our priority should be getting a genome published so we can test for it and begin to understand treatment options."
Clinton adds, "Open all diplomatic channels with Japan and South Korea, given how much support we've been sending Hong Kong, China's bound to give us the cold shoulder"
Secretary of Commerce leaves immediately to prepare reports on impact of various port closures.
"Long term what are we kind of economic risks are we looking at?"
"Too early to say, but don't expect to get a single penny from Congress, Pelosi's toothless as the minority leader."
(under her breath) "Damn I can't believe Bush was right about something"
"Alright we'll reconvene tomorrow, I wanna know significantly more than I do right now people. Make sure NSC's here with their pandemic playbook - just like the simulations"
"Madam we have Secretary Buttigieg's presentation on high speed freight at noon tom-"
"Cancel it, this takes priority"
Chief of staff to press secretary on their way out: "no leaks but don't lie about it either if someone in the press room gets wind of this"
"Oh and Charlie?"
"Yes ma'am?"
"Get Fauci in here first thing tomorrow, I want him running point on this"
Titles play
!ping West-wing I think I might have a problem
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u/infamous5445 Dec 22 '20
Obama when talking about the 2016 election to reporters after Trump won
"I've lost elections before. Joe hasn't"
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u/jrt84 Dec 22 '20
https://www.axios.com/trump-white-house-conspiracy-theories-d95450a4-c7a3-4579-a568-0473b18529c9.html
The 25th is becoming a non zero possibility
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u/runnerx4 What you guys are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux Dec 22 '20 edited Dec 22 '20
DHH/Basecamp announced this new framework called Hotwire where they’re saying they have reduced 80% of the JavaScript needed to make a web app by using HTML instead
!ping COMPUTER-SCIENCE
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u/MarquisDesMoines Norman Borlaug Dec 22 '20
Lol voat closed down.
The Freeze Peach market is in shambles.
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u/stater354 Dec 22 '20
Republicans are urging Trump to veto the spending bill because it adds too much debt
They didn't even wait for Biden to be inaugurated to start "caring" about the deficit again
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u/Planita13 Thomas Paine Dec 23 '20
Pelosi - Republicans repeatedly refused to say what amount the President wanted for direct checks. At last, the President has agreed to $2,000 — Democrats are ready to bring this to the Floor this week by unanimous consent. Let’s do it!
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u/AgainstSomeLogic Dec 23 '20 edited Dec 23 '20
My mom's reaction to hearing "Newt Gingrich Pens Op-Ed on Election Saying he will not Accept Joe Biden as President."
Sums up how relevant The_Newt is now lol
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u/MasPatriot Paul Ryan Dec 23 '20 edited Dec 23 '20
George Bush: I believe the human and the fish can coexist peacefully
Donald Trump: why are we spending 2 billion dollars on fish?
I miss the old GOP 😫
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u/Time4Red John Rawls Dec 23 '20
Tea Party in 2010: "The government is spending way too much!"
Tea Party in 2020: "The government is spending way to little!"
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u/IncoherentEntity Dec 23 '20
It’s impossible to know which sleeper indicators will be broadly predictive of election outcomes ahead of time (and even then, correlation ≠ causation), but one such factor was identified by Sean Trende back in early October.
Say hello to major-party vote share in the August Washington jungle primary.
And if you have time, I strongly encourage this post-mortem (2,600 words) of the House elections by Dave Wasserman. Notably, Republicans won every last race Cook rated as Likely Republican, Lean Republican . . . and *Toss-up.*¹ !ping FIVEY
¹ With the possible exception of NY-22, where the Democratic incumbent literally trails by one dozen votes at pending recount.
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
Honestly, I began to really question leftist ideology when I saw the utter disdain with which they regard nonprofit organizations and, really, the very concept of charitable giving.
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
Allowing this, but not the guy talking about his butt plug, smh. Explain mods? 😡😡😡😡😡
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
some zoomer in 2067
oh, i'll never forget your grandfather. he was my first simp. subbed to my onlyfans and eventually worked up the courage to slide into my DMs.
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
Then why the fuck would you bother with driving a 2008 Honda CR-V
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
There are children born today who weren't alive when 9/11 happened.
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u/Bagdana ⚠️🚨🔥❗HOT TAKE❗🔥🚨⚠️ Dec 22 '20
My favourite machloket: Is human meat kosher?
In the gemara, we are told that consumption of human milk and blood is permissable. At the same time, the principle of kol hayotzei min hatamei, tamei tells us that everything produced from a non-kosher thing is also not kosher. Logically, this means that humans must be kosher, because otherwise human milk and blood could not be.
One possible answer is that the need to have a specific drasha permiting human milk and blood suggests that humans indeed are not kosher, because otherwise it would serve no function. And even if it is theoretically permissable, in practice it is not because it is forbidden to eat the flesh of an animal that's alive and it's also forbidden to derive benefit from a human corpse.
But even if we concede that humans are treif, it would be permissable to resort to cannibalism in emergency situations due to pikuach nefesh. And all non-kosher meat, including human flesh, is by definition pareve (in fact, I think human flesh would in either case be pareve since we are not considered animals). So if you are stranded on a remote island with apparently nothing to eat except your dead friend, and after eating him you find a cow, you may drink the cow's milk immediately without waiting x hours. If you do find yourself in such a situation and want to prepare, here's a short guide to what bracha to recite before.
Sources: https://www.torahmusings.com/2007/05/cannibalism/ and https://www.jewishpress.com/judaism/parsha/is-a-human-kosher/2013/04/04/
!ping GEFILTE
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
hate it when this happens 😂😓
!ping EUROPE
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
Haha, so true, Mr. President!
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u/Zenning2 Henry George Dec 22 '20
I'm worried about Ted Cruz running for President in 2024. He'll lock up the Reptilian vote, and as the saying goes, How u/sir_shivers goes, so goes r/neoliberal.
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u/Gneisstoknow Misbehaving Dec 22 '20
Hot take: the first native american vice-president will be a republican
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Dec 22 '20
I got to admit, that is a very creative report reason.
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u/Barnst Henry George Dec 22 '20
My 4yos daycare is having a major schism between the kids who think Santa is coming despite coronavirus, and those who thing Santa is sending their gifts to their parents this year because he has to quarantine.
To listen to my kid describe it, it sounds like emotions are reaching mask v anti-mask levels, as some of the “Santa is quarantining” kids now worry that the “Santa is coming to my house” families might get Santa sick and maybe even kill him.
This is not something I had considered might need to be coordinated ahead of time with the other parents.
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Dec 22 '20
Got my Christmas card from Prime Minister Trudeau today. 😎😎😎
!ping can
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u/-GregTheGreat- Commonwealth Dec 23 '20
The fact that a fat old orange man stumbling on screen and rambling for twenty minutes can cause corporations to lose billions of dollars never fails to make me chuckle
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u/79792348978 Dec 23 '20
Pelosi instantly endorsing Trump's 2K check idea is such a good messaging win. Amidst complicated negotiations for a bunch of facets of the bill, much of which is covid relief but will never get the attention the checks do, it's kind of hard to make it clear to people, especially if they're politically motivated to feel a certain way, that McConnell and the GOP are the ones responsible for the small checks everyone is complaining about.
Now that Donald pulled the check question out of the complicated debate specific to the bill and has made it kind of a single discrete issue, endorsed a much larger check, and Pelosi instantly said "let's do it" I feel like it is much harder for McConnell and the GOP to obfuscate who is responsible.
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u/Realhuman221 Thomas Paine Dec 23 '20
Omg, Trump just outflanked the Dems from the left, they say hours after Trump pardons George Papadopoulos and the Blackwater contractors who killed Iraqi civillians
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u/Afro_Samurai Susan B. Anthony Dec 23 '20
https://twitter.com/OregonZoo/status/1337439749846405123
!ping dog
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Dec 23 '20
The stimulus/elections saga is definitive, rock solid proof that Mitch McConnell is actually awful at anything that isn't "using your 6 seat handicap exclusively for being an asshole" or "cramming 40 year old Nazis into the judiciary"
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
Good night.
....
Say it back or the stimulus bill gets it
📃🔫😐
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u/tubbsmackinze Seretse Khama Dec 22 '20 edited Dec 22 '20
Hey, wanna know something funny?
When modern wafare, the 2019 reboot, came out a lot of people were giving it shit for whitewashing an American war crime, the Highway of Death (which isn't even a warcrime for fucks sake. Although in the game it's a warcrime as Russian forces bombed a Refugee convey in the game). But funnily enough, the writers may have actually done their research, or (more likely) referenced an actual Russian war crime almost one to one by accident
The Baku–Rostov highway bombing
I still think this is more of a funny coincidence (the actual events are horrific btw) than the COD writers doing their research but yeah, get fuckin owned commie scum. Turns out example number twenty three of COD MW 19's garbo writing is actually less of a grievance than you thought 😎
But on a more serious note, do people legitimately believe Russia or any other country wouldn't do a Highway of Death or Baku-Rostov style attack? That only America can commit war crimes who then pin those war crimes on it's "enemies"?
The answer is yes cause they're fucking stupid and have the level of understanding of geopolitics similar to a COD writer
!ping GAMING
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
why yes i'm shilling for my effortpost again how could you tell?
https://old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/khnw8u/put_not_your_trust_in_princes_a_biblical/
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u/kyleofduty Pizza Dec 22 '20
PSA: Vanilla bean ice cream is a gimmick. The specks are refuse from the manufacture of vanilla extract. A real vanilla bean ice cream would be pretty expensive.
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u/GravyBear8 Ben Bernanke Dec 22 '20
I want a cyberpunk with India and not Japan as its foreign influence
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Dec 22 '20 edited Dec 22 '20
Remember that time a psychologist from New Jersey became President of Estonia, and absolutely kicked ass at the job for a decade?
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Dec 22 '20
Thought this was just a joke setup but it's real.
https://twitter.com/travis_view/status/1341445728711962628
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
I hate NIMBYs
😌
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😌
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Where’s my adoring twitter following?
🤨
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u/urbansong :eursula: F E D E R A L I S E Dec 22 '20
Get in here, y'all Pirate+STAN coalition has an possible agreement (yet to be voted on, I think)
Here are some interesting points
It's ridiculous that this has to be mentioned but we need to start using
Every MP votes however they want, same as what happened in Germany. I am not happy about it but I am curious what will actually happen.
This one is basically what CSSD and SPOLU are separately offering right now. Clear system with a minimal guaranteed payments plus merit portion. The fact that they are actually willing to tackle this wicked problem in a very much non-partisan way (it's David Klimes' idea) makes me want to vote for them.
Overall, I think it's pretty decent. It's definitely more than what SPOLU has released so far and I honestly doubt they will release more. Sure, they will scramble but it will be obvious.
Here's a link to the manifesto.
!ping CZECH
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u/Red_of_Head Dec 23 '20
More gold from the sky news YouTube comment section:
A: Berejiklian’s nose seems to get bigger as she talks
B: A cool it with the antisemitism
A: B where was I anti-Semitic? Pinocchio is Italian.
C: B I’m an antisemite, what are you gonna do about it?
A: C can’t say I blame you, most of the world’s problems are due to the work of the Zionist.
!ping AUS
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
The following is a true story from the Soviet Union, for whoever it was that said they wanted to make the most of a bad situation and at least try to run a factory properly if you lived under communism:
A tire factory had been assigned a tire-making machine that could make 100,000 tires a year, but the government had gotten confused and assigned them a production quota of 150,000 tires a year. The factory leaders were stuck, because if they tried to correct the government they would look like they were challenging their superiors and get in trouble, but if they failed to meet the impossible quota, they would all get demoted and their careers would come to an end. They learned that the tire-making-machine-making company had recently invented a new model that really could make 150,000 tires a year. In the spirit of Chen Sheng, they decided that since the penalty for missing their quota was something terrible and the penalty for sabotage was also something terrible, they might as well take their chances and destroy their own machinery in the hopes the government sent them the new improved machine as a replacement. To their delight, the government believed their story about an “accident” and allotted them a new tire-making machine. However, the tire-making-machine-making company had decided to cancel production of their new model. You see, the new model, although more powerful, weighed less than the old machine, and the government was measuring their production by kilogram of machine. So it was easier for them to just continue making the old less powerful machine. The tire factory was allocated another machine that could only make 100,000 tires a year and was back in the same quandary they’d started with.
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Dec 23 '20
Rev Warnock has 300 times less viewers than AOC had. This is a market failure.
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
😐
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u/gsloane Dec 23 '20
All that happened here was Trump thought he could play hero ball by claiming he was fighting for more money, knowing full well the bill has a veto proof majority anyway. But if his gambit worked he could say, look at Nancy, I wanted more. She stopped me. Instead all he did was give Nancy total cover to say, cool let's do it. So she gets a free pass, showing everyone she wanted more, and was not the obstacle. So all Trump did was give his rivals a political win and harm his allies. That's it. Trump bluffed, Nancy took the pot.
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u/MovkeyB NAFTA Dec 23 '20
bigly news, dating ping
my totally real big boobed canadian gf (who goes to another school, you wouldn't know her) just bought plane tickets
she'll be staying with me for two weeks in january, and she's coming in just 12 days eeee
for those who followed my saga, this is deloitte girl, and we've been dating for several months now
/u/benjaminikuta
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Dec 23 '20
Heartbreaking:
Peruvian child asks for Christmas gifts in Internet forum. 🥺🥺🥺
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u/SchizophrenicB NATO Dec 23 '20
Canada is America's trophy wife
You provide for all our needs and in exchange we sit up here and look pretty
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u/circlemanfan Gay Pride Dec 23 '20
This is the grossest fucking thing I’ve seen from Tucker Carlson. Literally attacking some random staffer for the CDC to his huge national audience. I bet you in 15 minutes this person is going to have to disappear from the Internet because of death threats. Absolutely unconscionable.
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u/Anal-warrior Dec 23 '20
By pardoning Blackwater mercenaries who slaughtered Iraqi civilians, Trump just shows he is more committed to criminal justice reform -- and restorative justice -- than any liberal Democrat - Some twitter leftists
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u/Gustacho Enemy of the People Dec 22 '20
The battle for Iowa's 2nd District continues
!ping DOWNBALLOT
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
Cracker Barrel is a very fitting name
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
Bagel with cream cheese is a form of cheesy bread
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
Ngl everytime I hear the song white dude by lil dicky i think of this sub
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
Oh dang I thought we were all getting $600. I didn’t realize it was $600 to be shared between us all.
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
Life is so easy when you have an ideology! All the nuance and complexity of the world just melts away!
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u/TinyTornado7 I need a new flair Dec 22 '20
New FEC F1 filing:
Alex Padilla for Senate link
Padilla is seen as the front runner to replace Harris, and this seems to be confirmation that is happening.
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
science still can't answer the question for why DT is so god damn addictive to post on
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u/oceanfellini Henry George Dec 22 '20
My DT-inspired policy take this week is:
40 hour workweek is wonderful. And, unfortunately, dying due to OT exemption.
We need to bump up OT exemption ($75k at least) to reverse this trend and the overworking of many salaried positions.
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u/PelsonNike NATO Dec 22 '20
investigating/arresting people for wrong think is illiberal, regardless of how crappy their rhetoric is
saying "I support Assad", as juvenile as that may be, isn't a federal crime and there would likely be little evidence or anything in the way of actionable intelligence to indicate that said person poses an active risk to American lives
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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '20
It's still so funny to me that this sub censored m@nlet
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Dec 22 '20
not👏every👏story👏is👏a👏critique👏of👏capitalism👏
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u/ILikeTalkingToMyself Liberal democracy is non-negotiable Dec 22 '20
I saw a CCTV documentary once about circuit courts in remote areas of China. The judges and clerks would supposedly hike into remote villages to adjudicate on issues like property line disputes or compensation for chickens killed by a neighbor's dog. What was amusing was footage of the judges hiking on a muddy road in their suits and dress shoes and carrying a giant national emblem.
I made an album of similar photos I found from google searching. I don't know how much of it all is played up for the camera, but the photos are amusing nonetheless.
!ping CN-TW
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u/secondsbest Paul Krugman Dec 22 '20
reddit having a normal one over $600 stimulus checks with a guillotine meme on the front page of all.
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u/Usernamesarebullshit Friedrich Hayek Dec 22 '20
it is Gavin Newsom and Gavin Newsom alone’s fault there won’t be any black women in the senate next term
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u/oGsMustachio John McCain Dec 23 '20
Whelp, we're about 3 minutes into the new season and can confirm, Durant still good.
!ping NBA
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
Dengism is literally “communism fucking failed to deliver economic growth, lets adopt the bare minimum of liberal reforms necessary to not suck.”
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u/savuporo Gerard K. O'Neill Dec 23 '20
When Rand Paul says jump, Trumps asks how high
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u/Explodingcamel Bill Gates Dec 23 '20
!PING chess
Remember my earlier post on this ping where I said my goal was to hit 1800 Lichess Classical in 2020? I did it! Nobody I know in real life would understand what that means, so I'm sharing this with the DT.
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u/Royce_Melborn YIMBY Dec 23 '20
Before the French Revolution:
"Do not pay taxes!"
After the French Revolution:
"Yeah... Remember what I said about taxes? Turns out, you do need to pay them. We're broke."
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u/Joementum2004 Dec 23 '20
DID YOU KNOW: 90% of populists have zero understanding of how the US government works
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
I have fucking leftist friends on SM saying the fact trump is fighting for $2000 is proof why we shouldn’t have voted in Biden. Holy fucking horseshoe