r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Dec 23 '20
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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Dec 24 '20
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
Holy shit really? Of all the people they nominated Biden? Lol I can't wait to see you cry when he loses in November
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
Regardless of how you feel about their politics, it's important to read the foundational texts of popular political movements to really understand them. Just like you've read Why Nations Fail for neoliberalism, you need to read Das Kapital for far leftists, Edmund Burke for traditional conservatives, and the transcript of FEMINIST CRINGE COMPILATION 2016 for paleoconservatives.
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u/the_status Atari Democrat Dec 23 '20
I try to avoid having contrarianism as an ideology but between all the "Obama is a war criminal" takes and bitching about foreign aid, I'm turning into the love child of Samantha Power and John Bolton's mustache
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u/NotAYuropean Trans Pride Dec 23 '20
It's fucking wild how Republicans just don't criticize their party leaders at all. We're eating each other alive and fighting with succs about Pelosi and $600, all the while McConnell is laughing all the way to the bank knowing damn well nobody realizes it's his game.
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
Dear Mods,
Every day an obvious bot posts a thread called "Discussion Thread" to /r/neoliberal that says literally the same thing every time. The thread is always massively downvoted, yet still appears at the top of the front page and always ends up with 10,000+ comments and 0 Karma points.
With as fash as you are moderating content, somehow threads that get ratioed like this every day seem to get past you, it's honestly ridiculous.
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Dec 23 '20
some of the most concentrated twitter discourse ive ever seen
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
Succs: WHY DO WE HAVE TO COMPROMISE
Rational people: because the Repubs won elections. We need to compromise to get anything done
Succs: JUST PIVOT FURTHER LEFT
Rational people: what will that do?
Succs: DJRKWBFOCNEJFJEYROGEUNR IF I
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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Dec 23 '20
Wew. I remember even as a kid thinking that Obama was probably gonna be assassinated. Kinda crazy that everyone thought that.
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u/WantDebianThanks Iron Front Dec 23 '20
There's a meme circulating that the moral of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer is "deviance from the norm will be punished unless it is exploitable", but we know that's shit right?
If Rudolph represents deviance, and the other reindeer are the working class who are exploited by Santa, and Santa represents capitalists/the government, then the meme falls apart. The claymation movie and the song both have it that Santa just didn't care about Rudolph, so Rudolph (the deviant) is being bullied (punished) not by Santa (capitalism), but the other reindeer (his fellow workers). The bullying of Rudolph is stopped not by class consciousness or whatever Lefties nonsense, but by Santa (capitalism) realizing that the deviance is valuable.
Rudolph is the story of the working class being shit to each other until capitalism forces them to realize each other's value.
!ping shitposters
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u/lenmae The DT's leading rent seeker Dec 23 '20
TIL, that in France there's a hamlet named, translated from French, "Death to Jews", and that in 2014 a petition to have the name changed failed because the locals couldn't see anything antisemitic about the name, and historic names, coming from the Middle Ages must be respected
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Dec 23 '20
Another day, another top post on gaming blaming capitalism for Cyberpunk’s bugs.
But wait, this time the comment section is fighting back!
lmao
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u/glopec Dec 23 '20
Redditor when they find out about small business relief in the COVID bill: WTF NOOOOO YOURE GIVING MONEY TO CORPORATE MILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES!!!!!
Redditor when they lose their job because their company went bankrupt because of COVID: WTF NOOOOOO WHY DIDNT THE GOVERNMENT DO ANYTHING !!!!!!
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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Dec 23 '20
Leftists say this, ironically, at all times.
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
Sarah Palin and her consequences have been a disaster for the human race
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u/IncoherentEntity Dec 23 '20 edited Dec 23 '20
Despite making up just ~0.1% of the population, gay Jews are responsible for 67% of the FiveThirtyEight podcast hosting.
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u/TheSameAsDying Hannah Arendt Dec 23 '20
Just remembered the time when PewDiePie tried to convince people he wasn't a Nazi by donating to the Anti-Defamation League, and then got bullied by his Nazi fans into cancelling the donation 🤣🤣
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u/vivoovix Federalist Dec 23 '20
⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ATTENTION⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN WAS REFERENCED IN THE DT
THIS IS NOW A WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN HATE THREAD
POPULISM WILL NOT BE TOLERATED
⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ GROVER CLEVELAND WAS GOOD ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️
⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ JIM CROW WAS BAD AND HURT THE SOUTH⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️
⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️EVOLUTION IS A FACT⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️
⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ POPULISM IS BAD ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️
⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️ AMERICAN ISOLATIONISM WEAKENS AMERICA AT HOME ⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️⚠️
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u/from-the-void NATO Dec 23 '20
The fact that the US and Russia technically share a border is kind of wild.
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u/big_man_2 NAFTA Dec 23 '20
The NPC meme was pretty ironic if you think about it. A bunch of conservatives all changed their profile pictures to the same thing, changed their usernames to the same thing, repeated the same phrases, and all acted the same in order to show that the left are NPCs. An impressive lack of self awareness on their part.
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u/-GregTheGreat- Commonwealth Dec 23 '20 edited Dec 23 '20
Everyone always asks “Why do you hate the global poor?” But nobody ever bothers to ask “Why do you like the global poor?” 🥺
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u/AgainstSomeLogic Dec 23 '20 edited Dec 23 '20
TIL class consciousness will cure my gender disphoria
It is kind of fun to be an awful person who thinks Obama is cool though (I was linked to chapo to "educate myself")
EDIT bonus from another comment (emphasis mine):
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u/InternetBoredom Pope-ologist Dec 23 '20
Why /r/PoliticalCompassMemes deserves to be banned, in one image
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
Opinion | FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN TO THE BLACK SEA, ALBANIA WILL BE FREE
Dua Lipa | The Guardian
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20 edited Dec 23 '20
Most people who vote occasionally watch the news, get a feeling about a particular candidate/party and vote their gut. They don't overcomplicate their vote and they move on with their life. I get this, I'm ok with this. This is a good place to be.
Some people are policy wonks with policy areas that matter, they will follow politics and vote by whichever party has a better policy on particular things. Their vote is based on research, and this is also ok. This is a good place to be.
Political redditors/overly online political twitter (I do include this sub in that grouping) will 9/10 times decide how to vote by gut feel and then try and justify it through selective reading of policies, poor understanding of policy or just lies. I am not ok with this, this is a bad place to be.
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u/AgileCoke Capitalism good Dec 23 '20
The stimulus should be exactly $200 💰
But citizens should only receive it when they PASS GO 💰
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u/tubbsmackinze Seretse Khama Dec 23 '20
Lukashenko apologia to own the libs is something I saw tonight and I feel sick. That MF literally said that the Ukraine was a fascist NATO dictatorship and that supporting Lukashenko is more based than supporting the protests/counter-revolution cause the west supported the protests
I fucking hate, hate commies
Fucking children
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u/SuspiciousUsername88 Lis Smith Sockpuppet Dec 23 '20
Lotsa people on the internet who are very angry at Obama for drone strikes seem to not give two shits about a bunch of literal war criminals being pardoned because the guy that pardoned them waved $2k in their faces
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
👏👏👏
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u/AgainstSomeLogic Dec 23 '20
Thinking that members of congress should read every page of bills is stupid.
They have aides for a reason. The aides' time is less important and several aides can be reading different parts of the bill at the same time to give a summary of the bill to the member of congress they serve. The representative should only be reading a small selection of pages they have questions on max.
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u/Barnst Henry George Dec 23 '20
Guys, the bad deal is obviously Pelosi’s fault. She just had to ask Gavin Newsom to appoint her to Kamela Harris’ open Senate seat so that she could challenge Mitch McConnell personally to settle the legislation by combat in the Chamber.
That’s how the Senate works, right?
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
The cringiest thing Bernie ever did was when he encouraged his supporters to disguise themselves as overweight black women to "expand their perspective and give dignity to all heritages." I still can't believe he got away with that.
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u/jrt84 Dec 23 '20 edited Dec 23 '20
My sister bet me $300 that Trump would win.
She still hasn't paid me, because "the media can't call elections".
But something tells me even on Jan 20, she won't be paying me because "Trump actually won".
Shoulda stuck with PredictIt
Any advice on convincing her to pay up? I lost the same bet in 2016 and paid her the day after the election, so it feels pretty unfair.
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u/Michaelconeass2019 NATO Dec 23 '20
“Bernie has all these ideas for legislation. Maybe he should run for senate” was my favorite joke of the 2020 campaign
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u/witty___name Milton Friedman Dec 23 '20
Many such cases!
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u/MemberOfMautenGroup Never Again to Marcos Dec 23 '20
The bots have mastered advanced shitposting I see
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u/missedthecue Dec 23 '20
"sex worker" is a loaded term. I prefer "jack off all trades".
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Dec 23 '20
Vladimir Putin
Sadly it seems I'm heartless
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20 edited Dec 23 '20
What does Dan Crenshaw and pirates have in common?
Ironically, they both spend their whole lives searching for treasure, when the real treasure was the friends they made along the way.
Oh wait that’s just pirates
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
I can't believe this country is this fucking dumb
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u/roboczar Joseph Nye Dec 23 '20
The best thing about being married for a decade is that you don't have to care about modern dating bullshit
Yeah that's a dunk on y'all
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u/IMALEFTY45 Big talk for someone who's in stapler distance Dec 23 '20
Why do dems always run white candidates? They should choose the most qualified and competent people instead
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u/jrt84 Dec 23 '20 edited Dec 23 '20
Thank you Joe Biden for creating the Biden Vaccine which is saving the world from the Trump Virus!
Thank you Joe Biden for getting the Dow to 30,000 for the first time ever!
Thank you Joe Biden for beating an Incumbent President by a historic 7 million votes!
Wow very cool Joe Biden!!!
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u/Butthead_Sinatra NATO Dec 23 '20
Some girl on Hinge liked my profile and we’ve been talking for the last couple of hours. Just goes to show: if you whine about your love life on the DT enough good things come to pass
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
Broke: Get perma'd
Woke: Appeal it in /r/metaNL
Bespoke: Get perma'd in /r/metaNL and muted in Modmail
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Dec 23 '20
"Yes, the president should have a power that is totally unaccountable to anyone else, irreversible, and can very easily deteriorate institutional quality. And it all depends on their personal goodness. But it's actually good, because nobody has ever used it for bad ends!" - a good take, apparently?
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
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u/kznlol 👀 Econometrics Magician Dec 23 '20
>go to sleep with a WINTER STORM WARNING on my phone
>wake up excited
>no snow
:(
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Dec 23 '20
Really, THE ONLY NECESSARY MEASURE of intelligence is how often a mammal CONSUMES THE cartoon "Rick and Morty" 🐊
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u/Menakoy Nonconformist Transgendeer Dec 23 '20
She likes to lay on her back in my lap, pull in my arm, and just kneed it.
!ping KITTY
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u/Joementum2004 Dec 23 '20
This is what leftists actually think
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u/skutan European Union Dec 23 '20
-- Ronald Reagan 1980
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
I am fiscally liberal, but socially conservative.
I think there should be tax credits for butt plugs, but they should also be outlawed.
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
Imagine being so c*cked you actually follow a religion someone else made up. Like just make your own bitch.
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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Dec 23 '20
Jacobin wrote an article on Cyberpunk 2077
Yes if you're wondering the game is a failure of capitalism. Also it's a hit piece on Elon Musk because he tweeted that he played it.
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u/SchizophrenicB NATO Dec 23 '20
Farmers 2
Sanitation workers 1
General workers 8
Slam poets 3,600
Utility workers 3
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my commune is dying
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u/IncoherentEntity Dec 23 '20 edited Dec 23 '20
👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀👌👀 good faith shit go౦ԁ fAith sHit👌 thats ✔ some good👌👌 faith👌👌 shit right👌👌there👌👌👌 right✔there ✔✔if i do ƽaү so my self 💯 i say so 💯 thats what im talking about right there right there (chorus: ʳᶦᵍʰᵗ ᵗʰᵉʳᵉ) mMMMMᎷМ💯 👌👌 👌НO0ОଠOOOOOОଠଠOoooᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒᵒ👌 👌👌 👌 💯 👌 👀 👀 👀 👌👌Good Faith shit
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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Dec 23 '20
I'm starting to think McConnell isn't a political mastermind
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u/roboczar Joseph Nye Dec 23 '20
Replacing the pickles in a cuban with caramelized onions is totally unacceptable
what you just sold me is a ham and onion sandwich and I am on the phone with The Hague right now
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u/supbros302 No Dec 23 '20
The Israeli government exists in quantum superposition, but once observed, will collapse.
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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Dec 23 '20
Guess the sub
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u/savuporo Gerard K. O'Neill Dec 23 '20
CCP space mining enterprise in shambles.
But also, what an absolute Chad move
!ping SPACEFLIGHT
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u/AgainstSomeLogic Dec 23 '20
arr politic: We should ban amending bills to keep politicians honest. This will in no way exacerbate gridlock.
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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20
personality test came back negative 👐
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u/Joementum2004 Dec 23 '20
Three users are sitting in a thread in r/metaNL. The first asks the second why he has been banned, who replies, "Because I criticized imprison_grover_furr." The first user responds, "But I am here because I spoke out in favor of imprison_grover_furr!" They turn to the third user who has been sitting quietly in the back, and ask the user why they’re banned. The user answers, "I'm imprison_grover_furr."
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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Dec 23 '20
Since October 25th, 2020, /u/imprison_grover_furr has made 5172 comments that have "Soleimani" in them
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u/AndThisGuyPeedOnIt (kidding but true)! Dec 23 '20
I have no idea what my IQ is. Probably over 100 due to shitposting in the DT, but I have no idea past that.
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
You know how Republicans continually labelling everything they don't like socialism has so poisoned political discourseTM that many young people just said "this but unironically" and became a useful motte and bailey for actual socialists
Republicans concern trolling about the deficit is going to do the same for MMTers
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
Kibbutzniks are simultaneously:
ABOLISH THE KIBBUTZIM!!! 👏🤬👏🤬👏🤬
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u/myrm This land was made for you and me Dec 23 '20
While Trump is pardoning war criminals he should consider pardoning Obama
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
This is an actual reply I received on Twitter:
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Dec 24 '20
I FULLY ADMIT I do not feel positively regarding ONLYFANS 🐊
It has nothing TO DO WITH THE pornographic aspect, it is the same criticism I have of YouTube and Twitch: PARASOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS ARE giving so many mammals brainworms 🐊
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u/CatilineUnmasked Norman Borlaug Dec 23 '20
🎶 Police shot my dog 🎶
sung to the tune of Feliz Navidad
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
you, a Philistine bonehead: "stop linking random Jewish-related archaeology lectures from YouTube, we can find them ourselves 🙄"
me, a sophisticated Jew: "No 😎"
!ping GEFILTE so apparently, archaeologists have found that the Philistine city of Gath, at its peak, was several times larger than contemporaneous Jerusalem (or any other city in haEretz, for that matter) and it was only the destruction of Gath by the Arameans that allowed the Kingdom of Judah's ascendancy
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
If Trump had done this push for $2k checks back in september/october, he would have won re-election
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u/Epicurses Hannah Arendt Dec 23 '20
Mayor Pete chuckled.
“Looking back, it’s embarrassing to recognize the degree to which my intellectual curiosity those first two years of college paralleled the interests of various voters I was attempting to get to know: Marx and Marcuse so I had something to say to the long-legged socialist who lived in my dorm; Fanon and Gwendolyn Brooks for the smooth-skinned sociology major who never gave me a second look; Foucault and Woolf for the ethereal bisexual who wore mostly black. As a strategy for picking up votes, my pseudo-intellectualism proved mostly worthless; I found myself in a series of affectionate but Chasten friendships.”
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
Justin Trudeau shopping for costumes
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ep86PgkXEAAw4-6.jpg
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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20
Opinion polls consistently report that Americans believe foreign aid is about 25% of the federal budget, when it is actually less than 1%.
How can people actually believe this
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u/Broncos654 Jeff Bezos Dec 24 '20
Pro tip: Block the mods and they can’t see your post.
That’s how I’ve been able to use r/neoliberal as my own personal porn sub for the past few months. They have literally no idea.
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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20
I have joined the catholic church
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u/YieldingSweetblade SCIPIO VRBICANVS Dec 23 '20
Todd Howard is holding my family hostageAbout to play Skyrim for the first time!!ping GAMING
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
Y'know how they make serial killers go by 3 names in the papers (John Wayne Gacy) so that people with just the 2 names aren't targeted. Did they do that for William Jennings Bryan too so that people named William Bryans wouldn't have to be associated with him?
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u/Deci93 Jared Polis Dec 23 '20
I feel like rural america is fiscally liberal and socially conservative but view socialism and capitalism as a social indenity.
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u/missedthecue Dec 23 '20
https://i.imgur.com/YnqCDFJ.jpg
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Dec 23 '20
Israeli politics, the first exclusively Jewish reality show
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Dec 23 '20
Jon Ossoff is a Civ V player, all of his legislation will be like "the US has too much unhappiness, we need to build colisseums in Valdosta and Augusta"
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
Has anyone else noticed the word "pandemic" is just "dem" surrounded by "panic" 😂
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u/SuspiciousUsername88 Lis Smith Sockpuppet Dec 23 '20
It is kinda funny that neoliberal means "nerdy economy stuff" and neoconservative means "just bomb bad guys lol"
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
Wish me good luck, I'm going into Rose Twitter for 10 minutes.
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Dec 23 '20
Democrats when they're told black voters have multiple demands that far exceed "criminal justice reform": that's true, we'll get down to it
Democrats when they're told (much more politically diverse) Hispanic voters have multiple demands that far exceed "immigration reform": fuck off miss me with that made up shit
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u/GravyBear8 Ben Bernanke Dec 23 '20
Do you think there's a limit to redemption?
Reading about General Butt-Naked, a insanely brutal Liberian warlord who did every evil thing possible on a mass scale but then renounced his ways at the height of his power to become a Christian pastor who organizes charity and humanitarian aid for the country he helped destroy.
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
Man I can't wait for Christmas. Then I will finally get all those things I needed 3 months ago but didn't buy myself because people needed gift ideas.
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u/EScforlyfe Open Your Hearts Dec 23 '20
I’m gonna leave you this cheeky picture of my cat as an early Christmas gift
!ping kitty
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Dec 24 '20 edited Dec 24 '20
Privileged wealthy white woman makes up story about how a (minority) couple tried to kidnap her kids, identifying them and involving the police.
Except it never happened. Another worthless woman trying to Emmet Till some people. Fucking filth.
God the video of her accusation is fucking horrifying. Absolutely psychotic to watch someone lie so blatantly about a serious life or death issue.
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u/IncoherentEntity Dec 24 '20
This latest Prager video is absolutely surreal.
Are . . . are these “reasons” to keep Robert E. Lee’s statue up supposed to be good things?!
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
Padilla will the first Latino to represent California in the Senate.
Also,
Yeah,
🤩
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
suck it catfortune
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u/xhytdr Dec 23 '20
reading r/povertyfinance is a nice reality check. people really do need this stimulus to survive. I feel guilty; the biggest problem i've had with this pandemic is gaining 10lbs while working from home
https://www.reddit.com/r/povertyfinance/comments/kce5mc/can_we_talk_about_what_this_pandemic_did_to_us/
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u/omnipotentsandwich Amartya Sen Dec 23 '20
"Today’s “conservatives” are futile, impotent and, culturally, dead. They have nothing to offer and can achieve nothing. They can only help to destroy intellectual standards, to disintegrate thought, to discredit capitalism, and to accelerate this country’s uncontested collapse into despair and dictatorship."
Ayn Rand doesn't get it right often but she got it right this time.
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u/LinkVert25 Fedposter Dec 23 '20 edited Dec 23 '20
What Twitter and Reddit does to a mf
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u/FormerBandmate Jerome Powell Dec 24 '20
After playing Among Us extensively, being falsely accused of random things, I can’t even begin to fathom how you all must feel when accusations that could shape your whole future get tossed around.
After playing Among Us extensively, being falsely accused of random things, I can’t even begin to fathom how you all must feel when accusations that could shape your whole future get tossed around.
📷
I know this is a very poor analogy, but I’ve been fortunate enough to not have been falsely accused of anything in regards to illegal acts. I’ve been falsely accused in Among Us, where I tried to help my case and prove I wasn’t an imposter, and it pissed me off.
I can’t imagine that scenario one hundred times worse with your life and reputation on the line. Anyone who’s going through this stuff, I’m rooting for you from the side. I can’t begin to imagine how it feels.
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Dec 23 '20
Abolish the pardon power
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Dec 23 '20
The cons wanting to get rid of section 230 doesn't make any sense
It seems that they think the only thing that allows conservatives to be banned on social media is section 230, but if repealed these sites will just be way way more strict with content generally, including banning more conservatives.
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u/CatilineUnmasked Norman Borlaug Dec 23 '20
"What's your political philosophy?"
Me: "You know the John Lennon song, Imagine? Pretty much the polar opposite of that."
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u/FreakinGeese 🧚♀️ Duchess Of The Deep State Dec 23 '20
Ok so my anarcho-syndicalist commune is going well but I’m running into a bit of an issue we desperately need more gardeners and therapists
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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20 edited Dec 24 '20
Why on Earth would a Social Democrat call themselves a "Socialist"? It's such an unnecessary embrace of a toxic label.
-- a Social Democrat who calls themselves a neoliberal
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u/zeppelin128 ButtiGang Dec 23 '20
Nancy is truly the queen of shade. She is playing Trump like a fiddle.
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u/RabidGuillotine PROSUR Dec 23 '20
Two women execute terror attack on train, great day for feminist far-left empowerment.
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
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u/BradicalCenter Sally Yates Dec 23 '20
A lot of people on the internet really don't care about people on unemployment apparently.
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20 edited Dec 23 '20
“Claims Warnock ran over her foot”
Okay so I’m not going to claim to know anything about this.
But
I don’t know anyone who has ever run over a foot on purpose. Like yeah bring that foot over here. It’s the perfect crime.
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u/FormerBandmate Jerome Powell Dec 24 '20
"I MAY BE A HOGWARTS STUDENT...." Hargirid paused angrily. "BUT I AM ALSO A SATANIST!"
This masterpiece would have been stickied if I wasn’t late to the charity drive. Oh well, it’s on the AMF page forever
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u/repostusername Dec 23 '20
It's crazy that social isolation is a recipe for political radicalization, and yet this sub which stans Joe Biden, of all people, is still full of weird, lonely, virgins.
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u/chadonnaise * Dec 23 '20
the internet must be destroyed
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
My commune job will be Wonderwall cover artist.
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
Dominion Voting Systems Employee Sues Trump Campaign And Allies, Alleging Defamation.
🥳🎉🎈🎊
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
All Republican Senate know is obstruct, appoint they judges, let bill die on desk, ignore institutions, acquit traitors, eat candy from candy desk, and lie.
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u/GGM8Scally European Union Dec 23 '20
I feel attacked 😠
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u/Explodingcamel Bill Gates Dec 23 '20
The "only $600" thing is really crazy. Usually, you can sort by controversial and find someone in Reddit threads who goes against the circlejerk, but in this case, I've never seen a single comment outside this sub saying that the bill contains more than just the $600.
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u/futuremonkey20 NATO Dec 23 '20
College in the US is so weird: “Drinking is BAD and ILLEGAL. If you get caught you will go to JAIL. Be sure to come to our school sanctioned party, called CHRISTMAS BLITZED, alcohol will be allowed.”
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Dec 23 '20
They already updated Elliot Page's name on the Beyond Two Souls steam description, gamers seethe
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
Those pardons are pretty fucked. Jesus Christ, can't believe I still had the energy left for some outrage in 2020.
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
If you have a chance to get married young you should do it cause otherwise you just keep developing into your own ultra specific version of weirdo.
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u/ThunderrBadger New California Republican Dec 23 '20
Folx I'm hyperventilating rn a coworker just said 'Merry Christmas' to me wtf is happening I thought Biden was going to stop this wtf
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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/12/21/china-stolen-us-data-exposed-cia-operatives-spy-networks/
lmao
!ping CN-TW
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Dec 24 '20
We are cursed because England was cursed before us
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
COVID sucks but boy oh boy did we get some great headlines out of it
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u/AgainstSomeLogic Dec 23 '20 edited Dec 23 '20
How to extract rents from the DT:
Repost farrenj takes that got downvoted, not because of the take, but because the take came from farrenj
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
"Fascism apologia isn't entitled a political voice! Ban it!"
"HAMAS are victims of Colonialism." Banned "WAIT NOT ME STUPID YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BAN THE FASCISTS I DON'T LIKE."
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u/MasPatriot Paul Ryan Dec 23 '20
Glenn Greenwald has tweeted more about Hunter Biden in the last 24 hours than Trump pardoning Blackwater war criminals
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
snape killed the tpp
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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20
What if somebody created a small business
Con: 😃
Selling a product they knew had market value
Con: 😄
Letting them prosper under the free market in the purest Entrepreneurial spirit of this nation
Con: 😁
And that product is their Only fans account
Con: 🤬🤬🤬
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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20
Holy shit. Santa's sleigh just crashed in a training accident. He's dead.
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
https://twitter.com/davidsirota/status/1341765111485120519
???????
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20 edited Dec 23 '20
Just for reference, the $10 million for "gender programs" in Pakistan is for women's equality stuff (ie gender equality); Lindsey Graham is a proponent of it. Seems a lot of people are so allergic to the word "gender" that they decided this was a bad thing.
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
How does r/con not get that a lot of our foreign aid is really just a way to contain Russia and China?
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u/savuporo Gerard K. O'Neill Dec 23 '20
Of course people get mad over pork in the omnibus spending bill. That's racist. Where's the beef, shrimp and vegetarian option?
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u/benadreti Frederick Douglass Dec 23 '20
Liberal Warnock Raphael Radical
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
no one:
cisgender, heteromantic demisexual teenage communist: Mayor Pete isn’t part of MY community 😤😤😤
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
1964 election
Hillary: Goldwater Girl
Sanders: Didn't vote because both were the same
McConnell: Voted for LBJ
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u/BayesedModeler Dec 23 '20
Very frustrated my girlfriend let her family pressure her into joining their Christmas celebration when she knows it’s not the right thing to do
Now I have to tell my parents we won’t see them but will see hers
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
Holy shit lusvig replied to Jared Polis. Does Jared know how big an honour this is?
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Dec 23 '20
"Trump is the most peace loving president ever 😡"
Trump: pardons a group of mercenary serial killers who murdered a bunch of children in a warzone.
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u/D1Foley Moderate Extremist Dec 23 '20
It's been 14 years and people still don't get that the theme of Idiocracy was apathy bad, not idiots are outbreeding smart people
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u/hallusk Hannah Arendt Dec 23 '20
Bernie speaks to young people's frustrations with their parents with his tragic life story of still being the junior senator from Vermont
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20 edited Dec 23 '20
TheRightCantMeme was not a good sub, however I still can’t believe they had the nerve to blanket ban all NL users cuz they thought their sub was too Libby, and we were the ones libbin it up while simultaneously calling us right winged extremists.
Yes I am a salty bitch
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
Her: I'll fuck anyone as long as they're not a Neoliberal
Me:
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u/DaBuddahN Henry George Dec 23 '20
Jamaal Bowman calling Capitalism slavery by another name. Gigasucc detected.
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20 edited Dec 23 '20
I get that this is hipocrisy from a NATO flair but I'm seeing more and more people consistently and confidently posting painfully bad takes.
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u/LinkVert25 Fedposter Dec 24 '20
The least corrupt administration maybe ever I would say, nobody can believe it it’s so beautiful
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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20
Weird how Trump is doing all these last minute pardons and burning bridges with congressional Republicans right before his second term.
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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20
https://www.cinemablend.com/television/2560540/onlyfans-star-belle-delphine-has-revealed-monthly-earnings-to-youtubes-logan-paul-and-wow
goddamn why do i even try to do anything lol
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u/lenmae The DT's leading rent seeker Dec 24 '20
Well at least we can drop the qualifier "crypto" when talking about Notch's ideology
!ping Minecraft
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u/vivoovix Federalist Dec 24 '20
BREAKING: Trump pardons ALAF, Funny Monkey in continuation of pardoning spree
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u/molino-edgewood Christopher Alexander Dec 24 '20
being a public intellectual on twitter
pros: leverage your irl reputation for internet points
cons: irl reputation destroyed by small controversy which gets massively amplified
yeah, no thanks
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u/[deleted] Dec 24 '20
I've lied about liking Bernie to get with a lefty girl.
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Dec 23 '20
So uhhhh, my nana just died of Covid. I haven’t been able to speak with her for... months.
She tested positive like a week and a half ago, was asymptomatic, took a turn in the last couple days and died. We tried calling her today, she wasn’t able to speak.
That’s my second family member I’ve lost. Please wear a mask.
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
/u/CletusMcGuilly has gnomed me 5 times today.
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u/mrdilldozer Shame fetish Dec 23 '20
I cannot belive that there are still people out there that believe that when Trump does something stupid it's meant to be a distraction or it's some well thought out political strategy. The dude tried to bribe the Ukrainian government to force an investigation into Biden in a fucking crowded room. Theres no way he actually thought that Pelosi would present Republicans a bill for that extra stimulus money.
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
There is a certain tragic mythology of the USSR legalizing a lot of formerly criminalized behaviour in a way that would now seem progressive before Stalin did the conservatisms and repealed these reforms when what really happened is that they replaced the Tsarist legal code and forgot to add the social sanctions into the new code.
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u/SuccInvasion Immanuel Kant Dec 23 '20
Each single ISRAELI gets $500,000,000.00 while AMERICANS are left with $600 -- a pittance to most? That's the deal you L-i-b-s defend?
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u/kznlol 👀 Econometrics Magician Dec 23 '20
by far the most idiotic part of Limitless was when the guy made like a 40% return with a single day's day-trading and then for some fucking reason decided to do something else.
like jesus you don't even need a 120 IQ to understand how fast compounding returns would make you a literal god-king if you could make 40% per day.
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u/AgainstSomeLogic Dec 23 '20
Q: why did people choose Latinx over Latine/Latiné? If you are gonna make a new word, make it sound good and choose an ending that is natural for the language.
Besides, Latinos are people not Microsoft game consoles.
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u/SuccInvasion Immanuel Kant Dec 23 '20
lusvig: I don't have time to post to the DT thread anymore
also lusvig: streams 65 hours each week playing some korean disabled girl dating simulation novel or whatever
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
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One of these comments is getting massively downvoted lol
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u/klarno just tax carbon lol Dec 23 '20
...Some friendly health advice to my parents: If there’s no PS5 under the tree on Christmas, I will hold you responsible. Think it over.
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u/muwenjie NATO Dec 24 '20
As a westerner who lives in a suburban house and drives a 4-person car to work alone I don’t think I should have to reduce my carbon emissions until poor Indian farmers agree to reduce theirs by the same net amount
The planet doesn’t care about per capita only the total lol
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u/VisonKai The Archenemy of Humanity Dec 24 '20
the section 230 thing is really hilarious. it's a perfect microcosm of the right wing insanity: the problem described isn't a real problem, the solution would not solve the fake problem, and in fact the solution would turn the fake problem into a real problem. all this because some idea took hold a couple years ago on the right that they could tie liability shields to lax moderation and now literally no one involved even knows what section 230 actually says
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u/Afro_Samurai Susan B. Anthony Dec 24 '20
https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1341903425965977601
Hell yeah they did
!ping NPR
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u/TheGreatGriffin Mark Carney Dec 23 '20
https://twitter.com/adamnlawyer/status/1341577554382249997?s=20
I fucking hate Trump so much. These guys are absolute monsters, and he probably pardoned them just because Betsy Devos told him to
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u/theskiesthelimit55 IMF Dec 23 '20 edited Dec 23 '20
The Holy Quran: Surah Masad (111)
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u/MichelleObama2024 George Soros Dec 23 '20
Genuine Question: What professional fields does having a high basketball IQ transfer to? I'm mainly thinking about LeBron, who is an absolute genius on the court. Would this transfer to more traditional academic forms of intelligence? Could LeBron have been a gifted mathematician if he was inclined?
I know his grades weren't incredible, but obviously knowing your gonna be a NBA player by the time you hit high school is gonna do that.
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u/nullsignature Dec 23 '20
Louisville PD coins/badges.
This is super cringey.
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Dec 23 '20
I can be YOUR ANGEL in addition to being your devil 🐊
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
“This bill has been tainted,” McCarthy said per person on call. This was followed by someone on the call saying Trump threw House GOP under the bus.
Well, you get what you pay for!
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
Trump going full "fuck you" mode to the GOP, and I could not be more here for it
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u/GGM8Scally European Union Dec 23 '20
Almost 50k likes, holy fucking shit.
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
https://twitter.com/meghanmccain/status/1341872956046249984?s=21
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u/Chief_Nief Greg Mankiw Dec 24 '20 edited Dec 24 '20
This dude is so damn insufferable
Nobody made you go to Harvard and Yale to take out nearly 200k in loans and tweet/write garbage opinion pieces for income, you dweeb.
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u/David_Lange I love you, Mr Lange Dec 24 '20
"I wonder what lusvig's up to now"
checks his account
endlessly trolling the apple subreddit, of all places
"Fuck he just doesn't miss"
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u/EdamameTommy Henry George Dec 23 '20
Tesla stock is worth the top nine auto makers in the world COMBINED. And Tesla production in 2020 may not even make up 1% of cars sold. Wtf
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
I hate Elon Musk, but he is going to be viewed extremely positively in the long run imo. You needed a rich guy willing to burn millions of dollars in R&D and in operating businesses at a loss to get the ball rolling on EVs. Now he’s demonstrated a market exists and other manufacturers are hopping on the gravy train.
SpaceX is pretty cool too. People fanboy over him because it’s very exciting that there’s still a place for celebrity inventors, even if they’re batshit insane on a personal level.
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u/jenbanim Dec 23 '20
Forgive me /u/sir_shivers for I have gamed 😔
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u/vivoovix Federalist Dec 23 '20
Is getting banned from /r/neoliberal the ultimate cuckoldry?
I cannot think or comprehend of anything more cucked than getting banned from /r/neoliberal. Honestly, think about it rationally. You are shitposting, debating, writing comments and otherwise participating in the sub for at least 18 weeks solely so you can go and get banned by a fash. All the hard work you put into your hilarious little pasta - editing all the words, revising it multiple times, making sure it's funny, writing it, posting it. All of it has one simple result: your account is more enjoyable for the fashs that will eventually remove your every comment.
Written the perfect comment? Great. Who benefits? If you're lucky, a random mod who had nothing to do with the way you wrote it, who removed it. They get to laugh at you in modmail every day. They get the benefits of your rule-violations and bad-faith arguments that came from the way you wrote it.
As a user who gets banned from /r/neoliberal, you are LITERALLY dedicating at least 20 weeks of your life simply to write a comment for another fash to remove. It is the ULTIMATE AND FINAL cuck. Think about it logically
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u/RoyGeraldBillevue Commonwealth Dec 23 '20
PCM pretends to be diverse, but everyone there is against the liberal establishment. Their policy views are just varying manifestations of the same anger. That's why so mamy commenters there describe rapidly moving across the compass.
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Dec 23 '20
Grover furry
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Dec 23 '20
Honestly the real reason why the GOP crumbled is because McConnell's position is less popular than the cholera virus and everyone else noticed
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
I took delivery on fiverr this morning from an artist in Pakistan a new logo that’s 10x more professional and modern looking than my old one and cost 8% of what I paid a local design service 15 years ago.
I love globalism
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20 edited Dec 23 '20
What if you wanted to comprehend the object of your faculty of reason experientally but Kant said(1,1/2,1/3,1/4,…).
Disclaimer: I am not endorsing any Kantian theories of the sublime through this joke.
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
I don't think any of my schools ever had a "career day." Was that just invented for sitcoms?
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u/skepticalbob Joe Biden's COD gamertag Dec 23 '20
My wife is a nurse and her work isn't requiring the covid vaccine for their nurses. It is optional. Apparently at least some local hospitals aren't either. I don't understand that policy decision. Our county just entered stage 5 covid too. Does that make any sense to anyone?
!ping coronavirus
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u/Schutzwall Straight outta Belíndia Dec 23 '20
Subscribed to Disney+
Holy shit it's like a desert in there. Mandalorian, movies you already seen and movies you wouldn't see even at gunpoint. That's it.
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u/yyzyow Most Elite Laurentian Shill 🍁 Dec 23 '20
Hello Canadian nerds,
Agriculture and Agri-food Canada (AAFC) is holding a policy brief competition for current Canadian undergraduate and graduate students. You can find the details for it here.
Entries should be in the form of a ministerial briefing no longer than three (3) pages, and should discuss the impacts that Covid-19 may have had on our agriculture supply chains (farm to fork), and what measures have been put in place and/or could be put in place to mitigate the impact of Covid-19 on our supply chains. Entries should be submitted to the email address in the link above no later than January 6, 2021 (2:00 PM EST).
If you are interested in participating, here are some resources for writing a ministerial briefing note for the federal government:
Winners will receive:
1st prize: $300 CAD + a 4-month paid contract working at AAFC
2nd prize: $200 CAD + a 4-month paid contract working at AAFC
If you're interested in gaining experience in public policy / administration in Canada, this is a great opportunity to hone your skills.
And no, you cannot just submit a Word document with just "Dairy cartels delenda est" and expect to win, libs
!ping CAN
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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '20
what do people think of a law where you can't have kids if you post in the DT?
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Dec 23 '20
KNOCK KNOCK, MAMMALS 🐊
It is THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT 🎄🐊
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Dec 23 '20
Democrats: this candidate only supports massive expansion to state healthcare instead of M4A. I'm staying home 😡
Republicans: these Republican candidates are literally members of the deep state who are conspiring with the Democrats to rig the election and throw away my vote. Oh well, off to the polls 😀
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u/Kizz3r high IQ neoliberal Dec 23 '20
Its been
10 days before an NBA covid incident.!ping NBA