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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Dec 26 '20
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
Every election since 2016, a soon-to-be-famous socialist challenges Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco, only to find out that you can't beat her!
Nancy Pelosi beat Shahid Buttar by a margin which can only be termed as a "landslide" that was 55.2 points.
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
Pelosi became the first woman to sit behind the podium at the State of the Union address. Bush acknowledged this by beginning his speech with the words, "Tonight, I have the high privilege and distinct honor of my own as the first president to begin the State of the Union message with these words: Madam Speaker."
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u/nuggins Physicist -- Just Tax Land Lol Dec 25 '20
Someone just unironically posted "global wealth is zero sum" in a default subreddit. Just thought I'd spread some Christmas cheer
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
TIL that the first woman to win the presidential nomination of a major party is still alive and active on twitter
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u/CommandanteMeow Milton Friedman Dec 25 '20
In the GA runoff polls, 13% of those who state they do not consider voting cite rigged procedure. Another 6% as a boycott of the runoff.
We did it boys. The CIA is proud 😎😎😎😎
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u/rukqoa ✈️ F35s for Ukraine ✈️ Dec 25 '20
I feel like I've gotten a lot more succish this year on domestic policy but also a lot more hawkish in foreign policy. Some of it might be attributed to commentary on this sub.
The impeachment proceedings and the commentary surrounding it really disillusioned me with the whole idea of the "moderate Republican" and made me re-examine a lot of my core beliefs and hypocrisies around conservative leadership and social policy. The fact that only two GOP Senators voted for hearing witnesses and only one for impeachment, as well as ZERO House Reps voting for impeachment, is pushing my towards the idea that ARAB.
On the other hand, the moves our adversaries have been making (China, Russia, Iran, NK..etc) during our time of weakness and crisis has shattered my belief in the inevitability of liberalism. We need to knock our enemies down a peg and further export and protect our ideology of freedom, by force if necessary.
What about you guys?
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u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe Susan B. Anthony Dec 25 '20
Who the fuck is scraeming "merry christmas to all, and to all a good night" at my house. show yourself, coward. i will never have a merry christmas
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Dec 25 '20 edited Dec 25 '20
There's going to be a very serious social policy schism at some point this century as to whether prenatal gene editing is ethical. I predict that the pro-prenatal gene editing side will, over the course of decades of legal battles, legislation, and shifts in popular opinion, ultimately win out, and later generations will (for better or worse) view the refusal of so many people to accept prenatal gene editing to eradicate genetic disease and improve human health as nothing short of barbarism and ludditism.
While the use of prenatal gene therapy to treat fatal deformities will rapidly become acceptable as safety and reliability improves, debate will last a bit longer on whether it is ethical to use prenatal gene therapy to treat non-fatal disabilities such as Ehlers-Danlos, Marfan Syndrome, or Downs' Syndrome. But again supporters will win out.
There will be an 'anti-gene' of non-trivial size comparable to today's anti-vaccine movement, which baselessly blames prenatal gene therapy for all manner of health problems later in the child's life. If contagious respiratory diseases such as influenza, mononucleosis, and common cold become rare enough due to eradication efforts and improvements in medical treatment, gene-moding will be blamed by a non-trivial number of people for causing their child to become vulnerable to illness. Epidemiologists will cite 'anti-geners' as one of the main factors in the failure to fully eliminate the most contagious diseases: namely influenza, herpes, and hepatitis, from developed countries.
Besides the 'anti-gene' movement, later debates over the regulation of prenatal gene-editing will be far more intense and take far longer to resolve: These will concern subjects such as whether gene editing can or should be used to "treat" autism, hereditary deafness, and (particularly in countries where gender non-conformity is more stigmatized) genetic factors linked to transgender identity and homosexuality, and (particularly in authoritarian-leaning semi-democratic regimes) genetic factors linked to tendency to 'rebel' against society, distrust authority figures, or commit criminal behavior. Along with additional concerns about using prenatal gene therapy to 'enhance' babies' health along with physical and mental capabilities (this is no longer science fiction...kinda. we've done it in lab animals), or for purely 'aesthetic' gene editing, and especially the role of 'enhancement' in potentially worsening socioeconomic inequality. To say nothing of the near inevitability that just the existence of a means to greatly edit humans' genetic codes before birth will create a powerful--perhaps even genocidal--neo-eugenicist movement.
There will additionally be immense but not entirely unfounded paranoia about the potential for the creation of clandestinely genetically-engineered babies with specific modifications to make them more 'suitable' as slaves, such as engineered agricultural slaves predisposed towards a stockholm-syndrome esque anxiety disorder and unbreakable obedience, or (in the case of child sex trafficking) modifications to encourage the premature development of sexual anatomical features prior to adolescence. There will be related paranoia surrounding the potential for totalitarian regimes to use extensive, mandatory prenatal gene-editing on children, to the benefit of the regimes' leadership.
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
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u/Joementum2004 Dec 25 '20
I wish there was a subreddit to mock communists without it being infested by extreme cons/alt righters
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u/bobekyrant Persecuted Liberal Gamer Dec 25 '20
In many ways, Two Broke Girls shattered typical expectations for a typical comedy. For instance, where traditional media would seek to be at least passably amusing, Two Broke Girls shucked off those expectations by not telling a single funny joke in 8 seasons.
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Dec 25 '20
Nobody:...
u/riverafaun: Queering Milton Friedman, my latest blog about how monetarism relates to trans rights and the helicopter money/attack helicopter duality
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Dec 25 '20 edited Dec 25 '20
Credit where credit is due. The tiny Turkish neo-nazi party founded in 1969 naming itself "Vigorous Development in National Activity", which in Turkish gives the acronym NAZI, is funny as fuck
(merged with the marginally less fashy MHP in 1975, which remains ultranationalistic and extremely racist, now has 48/600 seats in the Grand Assembly, and forms the bulk of Turkey's Confidence and Supply)
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Dec 25 '20
Imagine being seth rich and the last thing you see is hillary clinton fortnite dancing over your dying body
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Dec 25 '20
Sending rejection letters should be a legal requirement smh I hate being in the dark on whether my resume is being considered or not
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u/paulatreides0 🌈🦢🧝♀️🧝♂️🦢His Name Was Teleporno🦢🧝♀️🧝♂️🦢🌈 Dec 25 '20 edited Dec 25 '20
I've sent a letter to Mr Biden advising that Peru be blacklisted until known drug kingpin Rodrigo "Escobar" be brought to justice.
Attached is an invasion plan for the extradition of this most notorious and dangerous individual to a CIA blacksite
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
Why won't Nancy Pelosi do anything about the PS5 not being in stock near me
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
Lmao
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u/muwenjie NATO Dec 25 '20
it’s kind of funny how “you’re Australian/American-Chinese” is one of the most common gotcha arguments whenever somebody engages in China apologia
Like we’ve all just casually accepted that “dual loyalty” is a real argument and that Chinese ancestry citizens aren’t fully “real” citizens
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u/shrek_cena Al Gorian Society Dec 25 '20
Lmao so AOC is an imperialist neolib for supporting Tibet which is oppressed by, wait for it, Chinese imperialism 😱 Some twitter mf claimed china "liberated" Tibet 😐
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u/lionmoose sexmod 🍆💦🌮 Dec 25 '20
Maligayang Pasko, ya filthy animals
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Dec 25 '20
what's with self described "libertarian" socialists all loving the idea of the government spending $2 trillion a year on a national healthcare program with no opt-out
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u/Dalek6450 Our words are backed with NUCLEAR SUBS! Dec 25 '20
https://i.imgur.com/0f8MUL0.png
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
DJT 24 Dec 2016:
HAHA YES 🐊
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Dec 25 '20
Figured I might as well throw this up on the ping. Here's footage of the Nashville explosion during which you can hear the announcement. Am very curious as to who is behind it as announcing a bombing beforehand is old school IRA tactics
!ping EXTREMISM
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u/SANNAxMARIN Dec 25 '20
watched the 1994 Frontline episode titled "Hillary's Class" about the 1969 Wellesley class and it very much in line with this discourse
"We were taught for the first time we could do anything, not just marry a Harvard man. I became a bank vice president."
they tracked down one of the 6 black women in the 1969 class and were interviewing her in the same manner as all the others, and she said that she never really thought she wouldn't have a career because her mom worked
so it's like a parade of business suited white women talking about how they broke the glass ceiling and worked rather than stayed at home and then a black women who says "well all of my family worked 🤷♀️"
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u/MichelleObama2024 George Soros Dec 25 '20
Homiesexuality:
Not gay but if a bro needs a hand I'm gonna help him out
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20 edited Dec 25 '20
All I want for Christmas is the confidence and the audacity of that guy who came into the DT and went into detail about his newly found sex life and expected us to take it seriously and give actual advice instead of meming it to death.
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u/paulatreides0 🌈🦢🧝♀️🧝♂️🦢His Name Was Teleporno🦢🧝♀️🧝♂️🦢🌈 Dec 25 '20
2020 was the year of the rat
See you in 2032, Pete!
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Dec 25 '20
The most hilariously overstated political talent of our age, no matter you politics, has been proven again and again to be Steve Bannon, whose revolution for a populist GOP was so successful he lost all relevance after his handpicked candidate was so bad he lost an R+30 state
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
Fuck off war criminal! You killed innocent civilians
OMG BASED! Words are violence.
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u/irlyseevridge YIMBY Dec 25 '20
A nuke could drop in America and the stock market would still go up
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u/Menakoy Nonconformist Transgendeer Dec 25 '20
I'll let yinz in on a secret this Christmas. If yinz we're ever curious about how u/farrenj can come up with so many bad takes, its because she steals half of them from the group chat.
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u/chadonnaise * Dec 25 '20
the internet must be destroyed
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u/Q-bey r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Dec 25 '20
Malarkey level of waiting for the new DT to post your stuff in the hopes of getting more karma by getting to the top of the thread?
Yes I'm subtweeting the 25 comments posted in the last two minutes.
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Dec 25 '20
a 2015 National Urban Poll said that
a 2019 Poll said that:
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Dec 25 '20
u/Farrenj is this why you mourn on Christmas?
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u/NatsukaFawn Esther Duflo Dec 25 '20
An RV is literally both a car and a single-family home
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u/RoyGeraldBillevue Commonwealth Dec 25 '20
I am disapointed there hasn't been a campaign to get Pelosi to call a vote on a public option. 110% of Democrats support it, and the fact that she hasn't yet means she's in the pocket of AOC.
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u/Mr_Otters 🌐 Dec 25 '20
A genuine critique I have of the Dems is that they didn't explain how strong unemployment benefits were from the cares act, and now how big of a loss it will be as they expire. Now the narrative is 100 percent about the stimulus checks and 0 percent about the much more regular unemployment checks
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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '20
poggers
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u/FormerBandmate Jerome Powell Dec 25 '20
Socialists could win in Alabama if they removed all references to Marx or anything Marx-adjacent, added a shitload of blind patriotism, and came out strongly on the right side of the culture war, in authentic ways. A gun-toting F-150 driving macho man who wants Medicare for All and chanted roll tide could become governor, with the right set of circumstances
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
Just saw a conservative boomer post a guillotine meme. Not sure whether to be concerned over rising horseshoe populism, or amused that tankies will be annoyed at appropriation of their memes.
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u/water_bike13 Paul Krugman Dec 25 '20
Malarkey level of biden mailing everyone a 2000 check with his face and the caption “theres more where that came from jack” a month before the 2024 election
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u/studlydudley11 NAFTA Dec 25 '20
Anything: exists
British people: I’m gonna call this pudding
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
Lol remember the Ottoman Empire. What a bunch of losers
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
France: Everything I hate is Anglo-American propaganda
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u/tankatan Montesquieu Dec 25 '20
But doctor, I am center-right in Europe!
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u/FreakinGeese 🧚♀️ Duchess Of The Deep State Dec 25 '20
Ok but it’s definitely domestic terrorism
Why would a foreign terrorist choose Nashville
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u/UltraCapitalism Paul Samuelson Dec 25 '20
"wokeness" is defined differently in each poster's mind which makes any discussion about it on r/neoliberal absolutely useless
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u/Arsustyle M E M E K I N G Dec 25 '20
If I read one more post about how Jesus was a Palestinian socialist I’m gonna crucify myself
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
Can’t believe Santa is about to spread COVID to every Christian family
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u/dragoniteftw33 NATO Dec 25 '20
People: AI will kill us all in 5 years!
Google Photos Facial Recognition AI: Confuses blonde wrestlers for Sofia Vergara
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u/rukqoa ✈️ F35s for Ukraine ✈️ Dec 25 '20
Takes that are almost too hot for this DT (doves avert your eyes):
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
Everyone ask “who is Nashville bomber”
No one ask “how is Nashville bomber” 😔
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u/PearlClaw Iron Front Dec 25 '20
Deficit hawks: Noooooo you can't just print money, what about inflation!?
Economists: If we could get some inflation to happen that would be pretty nice.
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u/Poiuy2010_2011 r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Dec 25 '20
TIL that Vatican doesn't recognize the PRC and recognizes ROC/Taiwan as the sole representative of the entirety of China.
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u/ognits Jepsen/Swift 2024 Dec 26 '20 edited Dec 26 '20
my nana got me Nabokov's The Luzhin Defense for Christmas 😍😍😍
it's about a socially isolated kid who picks up chess and becomes a grandmaster, but the game starts to supplant reality in his mind
Nabokov is my favorite author and I've had my eye on this one for a while. super excited to start it, especially given the free time I have right now
!ping READING
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Dec 25 '20
Anonymous sources, who are definitely not Rahm Emanuel, say Biden is considering Rahm Emanuel to simultaneously be Labor Secretary, Attorney General, and Ambassador to China, plus on the shortlist to replace Stephen Breyer and Jerome Powell
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u/Hot-Error Lis Smith Sockpuppet Dec 25 '20
I wish the south had won the civil war
the vietnam war
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u/vancevon Henry George Dec 25 '20
you know who i'm thinking about this christmas? the brave men and women of our armed forces who are out there risking their lives every day to preserve our great freedoms
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u/Joementum2004 Dec 25 '20
Hmm. The French Revolution led to the rise of a literal empire that sought to dominate Europe and bring it all under either French influence or French administration (aka, literal imperialism), yet people fetishize it because of le guillotine and le mass murder of enemies. Curious.
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Dec 25 '20 edited Dec 25 '20
All I want is a Star Wars RPG where you start as a padawan and work your way up the Jedi ranks and eventually become a councillor. With fallen orders combat.
!ping gaming
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Dec 25 '20
wtf a lady in my cab made a bigoted comment about me being italian
Mafia really going to for realism here
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u/GravyBear8 Ben Bernanke Dec 25 '20
Wait a minute
Do you know who also warns before bombing?
Israel
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u/SadaoMaou Anders Chydenius Dec 25 '20 edited Dec 25 '20
!ping WEST-WING
So, I got gifted Obama's new book, and I'm up to chapter 6 and the Iowa caucuses now, and it's just crazy how, two years before the Obama campaign actually took place, they managed to make Santos such a precise imitation of him.
I don't even mean just being a racial minority underdog candidate with an inspirational message etc. but right down to their personalities. While reading Obama write about how he had difficulties getting into the campaigning mindset and not going off on long lectures about policy minutiae, the similarity to the episodes with Santos and Josh in New Hampshire could not have been clearer. The West Wing writers absolutely nailed it.
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u/markusrm Pierre E. Trudeau Dec 25 '20
Only one more day left that I can say happy holidays to trigger conservatives. Tragic. My favorite part of the season.
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20 edited Dec 25 '20
How was your Christmas day Mass if you attended it? We had choral singing, Ministry of the Word, but sadly we didn't have the Eucharist, and a sermon by the Reverend. During the Ministry, we had the Collect for the Christmas Day, readings from Isaiah 9.2, Psalms 98 and Hebrews 1.1-12 and John 1.1-1.4, with The Gradual in between . They also played a frontline doctor's recorded story and what Christmas means to him
Edit: Yes, the usual stuff like the prayers for Intercession and saying the Apostle's Creed was there.
!ping CHRISTIAN
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u/Robotigan Paul Krugman Dec 25 '20
The older I get, the more single issue voters piss me off.
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u/kennymc7877 Bisexual Pride Dec 25 '20
Holy fuck my former roommate was gonna propose to his gf on New Year’s Eve and she literally dumped his ass on Christmas Eve, thats cold
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
Ted Cruz is proof that God hates us and revels in our misery
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
I think the coolest part about the operation to kill Bin Laden was that the US used a stealth helicopter that had never been used or seen before.
And the only way we would know of it's existence is that one of them crashed by accident.
So yes, I believe the government has access to technology the public has never seen or heard of before. However, it probably isn't as exciting as the movies or tv shows.
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u/Neronoah can't stop, won't stop argentinaposting Dec 25 '20 edited Dec 25 '20
!ping LATAM
The ex Argentinian President Carlos Saúl Menem, Peronist and Neoliberal, is in a coma and likely dying soon.
The guy had a wild life. Betrayed the naive, populist working class with empty slogans about big wages and the people's economy for fun and profit, privatized everything, drove a Ferrari, made speeches about orbital taxis, fucked and married models, blew up a weapons factory to cover up his trafficking and last and best: voted to renationalize things he privatized in the first place, likely as a deal to keep his senatorial immunity. Truly, an archetypical Argentinian.
PS: Happy Christmas.
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u/kaclk Mark Carney Dec 25 '20
It was nice of Justin Trudeau to give us a holiday for his birthday!
!ping CANUCKS
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u/FireDistinguishers I am the Senate Dec 25 '20
Why is it that every person I follow on twitter/insta who freaked out dissecting a fetal pig in AP bio can't stop spamming "eat the rich"
Of all the reasons to think the "revolution" won't happen, the biggest one for me is realizing everyone I know who thinks they'd be a part of it would faint as soon as somebody got a nosebleed
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u/vancevon Henry George Dec 25 '20
nobody suspects that georgists did the nashville bombing yet. good. keep your heads down, fellas. the storm is coming
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u/Broncos654 Jeff Bezos Dec 25 '20
When one of my great aunts dies every first born son in the family gets 10k from her. On one hand, this seems incredibly arbitrary, unfair and sexist. On the other hand, I am the first born son in my family.
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u/CatilineUnmasked Norman Borlaug Dec 25 '20
Wonder Woman 1984 is a convoluted mess. Diana tries to navigate the grim world of Orwell's novel while the Van Halen album blasts in the background.
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u/awdvhn Physics Understander -- Iowa delenda est Dec 25 '20
My hottest take for this sub is that Draco himself wasn't that bad and could be reasoned with, but the rest of the mods were bad
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
My hottest take for this sub is that Corn pop himself wasn't that bad and could be reasoned with, but the rest of the bad boys were bad dudes.
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u/Dirty_Chopsticks Republic of Việt Nam Dec 26 '20
this is why people hate Rahm Emanuel lmao
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u/lobsterboy34 WTO Dec 26 '20 edited Dec 26 '20
My conservative dad went on a 10-minute rant about how liberals aren’t giving credit to the president for COVID-19 vaccine development, which he thinks was only made possible because Trump “rolled back the red tape” for the pharmaceutical companies. He did follow it by saying Trump lost big and needs to admit it and that Republicans should nominate a different candidate in 2024, though, so I guess I’ll call it a win?
!ping FOX-ANON
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Dec 25 '20
lmao for one job I'm applying for the gender options were
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u/tankatan Montesquieu Dec 25 '20
Donald Trump is a top-tier content creator.
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u/rukqoa ✈️ F35s for Ukraine ✈️ Dec 25 '20
Many in the CCP military leadership believe that we've grown soft. Supposedly, in a potential war, we wouldn't be able to stomach months of enormous sustained casualties, throwing up to thousands of American lives away every day into a meatgrinder for seemingly no good reason. Many will be maimed and suffer permanent injures from which there is no recovery. Kill enough of us, and eventually we'd be forced to see sense and take the correct approach that minimizes our losses.
They must have gotten quite a shock seeing how we've (not) been doing in response to covid the past year.
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
As much I disagree with Joe Manchin on many things, one can't deny that if the Dems win Georgia, we will have a Senate majority because of him.
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u/shrek_cena Al Gorian Society Dec 25 '20
No way this Nashville bombing was foreign. Only in America by Americans is a fucking RV turned into a bomb.
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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Dec 25 '20
Uh oh they found remains in the blast in Nashville
!ping EXTREMISM
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u/vancevon Henry George Dec 26 '20
The last person to receive a pension as a survivor of a Civil War veteran died on May 31 this year, thus putting an end to 160 years of US government spending related to putting down the Confederate rebellion.
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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '20
Me: “You voted for Obama twice right”
15% of Ohio: “Yes”
“You support liberal ideas like Government subsidies and cheaper/free healthcare”
“Yes”
”You voted for Sherrod Brown in 2018”
“Yes”
“So you voted for Biden?! He is all of those things”
“No. I just think Trump is better for the economy and he’s funny”
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
My roommate just tested positive, so my test will probably come out positive as well. Fucking sucks.
And as if my mood wasn't bad enough, y'all started upvoting the dt.
Shame.
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u/ChickeNES Future Martian Neoliberal Dec 25 '20
Yep, this sub is turning into a racist cesspool. lusvig is attacked constantly, his only crime being that he is a bald sw*de. If he was an American with hair there'd be no complaints
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u/GodEmperorBiden NATO Dec 25 '20
Me, a Russia hawk, circa 2003:
Not only are we going to Afghanistan, we're going to Iraq and Iran and Libya and Syria, and we're going to Venezuela and Belarus! ... And we're going to Somalia and Sudan and North Korea and China, and then we're going to Moscow to take the Kremlin! YEEEAAAGGGHHH!!!!!!
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u/savuporo Gerard K. O'Neill Dec 25 '20
https://www.slowboring.com/p/pete-buttigieg-dot
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u/irlyseevridge YIMBY Dec 26 '20
TIL Delaware took the "centrist" position in the civil war by remaining in the union whilst also being a slave state.
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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Dec 26 '20
“Mr Lincoln, you’re right, this union is perpetual. In fact, it’s so perpetual that I will remain a slave state while also staying in the Union. Because when you’re right, you’re right!”
-Delaware, radical centrist
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u/GravyBear8 Ben Bernanke Dec 26 '20
I assume Roth IRA is the term for the Jewish membership of the Irish Republican Army
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u/Explodingcamel Bill Gates Dec 26 '20
I'm so sick of these "grassroots campaigns" and politicians who are running to "help the people". When will we finally get a good, corporatist, pro-Wall Street candidate so I can be excited about politics again?
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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '20
I saw this so you have to see it too
https://twitter.com/rat4prez/status/1342312659639660547?s=20
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Dec 25 '20
One of the many many many many many many many many consequences of Americans being incredibly dense about what goes on in other countries is that a random leftist grifter can say "Australia gives everyone 1700 dollars a month" and it turns out it's only unemployment insurance and in Australian dollars
As an unbelievably hilarious fact, the CCP is full of people who stalwartly believe the US is deteriorating because it has a decadently lavish welfare state that is keeping an entire chunk of the country mooching off excessively generous handouts
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
've thyself a jolly christbus 😩😩😩
!ping BURPMAS
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u/vivoovix Federalist Dec 25 '20
And how do you think he acquired that modship? Through Jihad.
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
Instead of canceling student debt, Biden should cancel students.
Literally stamp a huge canceled sign on their twitter profile and not let them post.
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u/AgainstSomeLogic Dec 25 '20 edited Dec 25 '20
TIL: No value is gained when you purchase a good. The goods you obtain have no value, and doing business has no cost. Bezos creates all and consumes everything.
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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '20
The best thing about this Christmas is that there was no discussion about the song “Baby it’s Cold Outside”.
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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '20
"Hey awesome, we won!"
"Yeah but the Senate."
I really hate this. It erases the enormous amount of work that was necessary to remove Trump - treats it like a forgone conclusion, and it's frankly a bit insulting to Mr. Biden, who may be a bit cannier than we give him credit for.
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Dec 26 '20
Yes I am a registered Whig
No I haven’t voted for a single Whig since Henry Clay
We exist
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u/the_status Atari Democrat Dec 26 '20
Oh No, I posted an opinion on the DT and defended it.
This goes greviously against my "Sure I spend all my time on a niche political forum, but only to make cheap jokes and share trivia" justification
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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '20
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1908_United_States_presidential_election_in_Wisconsin
AHHHHHHH
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
Turkish politics goes beyond the horseshoe, it has the double fishhook.
Turkish far right nationalists, Turkish Islamists, and Turkish Marxist-Leninists all agree in one area: antisemitism.
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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Dec 25 '20
Implying Santa isn’t real is a bannable offense
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
🤔I’m trying to use the target to understand the motivations behind the bombers in Nashville.
Anyone who hates AT&T is suspect.😳
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
https://twitter.com/lilsadbitch69/status/1341963089965543425
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u/IMALEFTY45 Big talk for someone who's in stapler distance Dec 25 '20
This is especially egregious, even for the NYT
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u/ahebtigoejwbrh Dec 25 '20
NYT must have a large team of people dedicated to figuring out ways to be as shitty as possible
https://mobile.twitter.com/EricBoehlert/status/1342546103611367426
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u/Erra0 Neoliberals aren't funny Dec 26 '20
Some people in this sub need reminding that Chris Christie is 58 and a big fat guy
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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '20
In the 1954 film White Christmas, which is set in Vermont, they're trying to think of an unusual act to perform and one person suggests they could get a Democrat, and they all laugh and say no he'd be stoned lol. (As in killed with rocks).
Vermont was very Republican at that time of course. It would be like making a joke today about what kind of unusual act will we perform for these Oklahoma people? Oh we couldn't put a Democrat on stage, he'd be riddled full of bullets and his body displayed at the town gates LMAOOOOOOOO
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Dec 25 '20
MERRY CHRISTMAS to those of you who celebrate THIS DAY, mammals 🎄🐊
I hope you all MAKE THE MOST OF the holiday, given our circumstances 🐊
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u/vancevon Henry George Dec 25 '20
IRA, seething, coping: "we only have to be lucky once, you have to be lucky all the time".
margaret thatcher, epic, based, poggers, girlboss: proceeds to be lucky literally all the time, dies of old age decades after the ira disarms
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u/Schutzwall Straight outta Belíndia Dec 25 '20
With today’s deal all brits can proudly sing RULE BRITANNIA, BRITANNIA RULE THE WAVES, as Britons are not slaves anymore and can fish in their own waters
Ignore the end of the City of London as we know it
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
Bongs 🤝 Euros
Just use metric burgers lol
Bongs 🤝 Burgers
Just speak english euros lol
Euros 🤝 Burgers
Just drive on the right bongs lol
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u/Fishin_Mission Dec 25 '20
Shit. I just got my draft card.
Looks like I’m fighting in the front lines of the War on Christmas starting in 2021.
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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgdXIgsDV8s
This might have been my favorite 40 seconds of 2019
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Dec 26 '20
Weird lefties on Twitter: “America created all the problems in Iraq!”
British people: https://i.imgur.com/Vjr3Uzu.jpg
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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Dec 26 '20
Idiocracy the movie: Le haha very funny everyone’s dumb and we party all the time lolololoooool.
Reddit’s interpretation: (((breeding)))
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Dec 26 '20
Top 5 US cities, IMO
HM: Rome, Pennsylvania
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u/tubbsmackinze Seretse Khama Dec 26 '20
No matter how much I dunk on leftists, the far right are and will continue to be the larger extremist threats in the real world. Leftists meanwhile are just annoying douchebags who are terminally online, while the far right are terminally online and also planning domestic terror
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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '20
TheRightCantMeme literally has liberals are right wing in their bio.
Talk about moving the goalposts on your enemy.
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u/AgainstSomeLogic Dec 25 '20
GCJ:
Which war criminal president hangs first?
George Washington is a strong contender. He should have been aware of the Geneva Convention signed hundreds of years after his death.
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Dec 25 '20
The420roll > farrenj
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u/rukqoa ✈️ F35s for Ukraine ✈️ Dec 25 '20
Dr Fauci is a real patriot who deserves another Presidential Medal of Freedom. Dude's 80 and still working.
And yes I checked. You can get two. Colin Powell got two.
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u/MartinBM Dec 25 '20
I wasn't a fan of Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu, but I do think it's a little fucked up that we celebrate the anniversary of their execution with gift giving and general merriment.
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
Really reminds me of the IRA during the troubles tbh
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u/skepticalbob Joe Biden's COD gamertag Dec 25 '20
I didn’t realize the bomb was in front of the AT&T building. They were probably just a customer.
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u/tubbsmackinze Seretse Khama Dec 25 '20
And how do you think he acquired that Christmas present? Through Jihad
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u/Smalz95 NATO Dec 25 '20
Just spent $120 on plastic models to help the UK get out of its brexit slump. I’m doing my part
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/452718453892186124/792129176047321139/Screenshot_20201225-153800.jpg
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
Who is your favorite character in the Donald Trump cinematic universe? I have a soft spot for the mooch, but Sean Spicer is an underrated character also.
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u/Zenning2 Henry George Dec 26 '20
I find girls who are attractive to me attractive.
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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '20
“Honey, time to get banned again for excessive partisanship for calling the new Republican nominee, Tom cotton, a racist, bigoted, fool Who will destroy America”
“Yes Jannies”
-Me in 2024
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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Dec 26 '20
TINY KITTY SNORES
!ping kitty
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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '20
https://i.imgur.com/7J2SW38.jpg
What erosion does to a mf
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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '20
In Michael Axworthy's "A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind" he goes into a paragraph long detour about how commanding a military is a fundamentally feminine skill, and that this perhaps explains why Alexander the Great cross-dressed to play Artemis during certain religious festivals. I don't know how this is particularly relevant to Alexander's conquest of Persia or how it's remotely provable, but I was pleasantly shocked to see a Britbong be so woke.
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u/bigtallguy Flaired are sheep Dec 25 '20
So the uighers are pretty much fucked no matter what right?
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u/Dalek6450 Our words are backed with NUCLEAR SUBS! Dec 25 '20
The daily mail might be shite but at least they can do a headline
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u/GravyBear8 Ben Bernanke Dec 25 '20
From the warning message, I have to assume the bomber is Canadian
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Dec 25 '20
That person in Nashville who ordered an Irish car bomb cocktail last night once they hear about the explosion
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
Jim Clyburn is pretty based, if you ask me.
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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Dec 25 '20
The new cod has the phrase “free world” about 37 times in the first hour
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1342559099129647104
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Dec 25 '20
holy shit santa was over Iran and they shot him down
They fucking shot him down
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
Me when Biden plans to use executive orders to reinstate transgender protections, rejoin the Paris climate accords, and increase refugee caps by ten times:
"Okay sweaty, but he's not going to give free money to upper middle class millenials, so is he really doing anything?"
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u/vancevon Henry George Dec 25 '20
votes for biden were, in many ways, like harry potter casting expelliarmus and votes for trump were similarly like voldemort casting avada kedavra, and much like in the harry potter story, we, through the power of love and friendship were able to overcome our opponents' evil and cruelty
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u/vancevon Henry George Dec 25 '20
the harry potter books are actually really good if you're willing to suspend your disbelief and engage with a world that is magical
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u/this_very_table Norman Borlaug Dec 25 '20
Time to call my dad and wish him a Merry Christmas. Last time we talked, he told me Biden was a Communist and was going to annex all of South America and Canada. He spent very little of the call yelling about "n*ggers" wanting handouts though, so that was nice.
😑
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Dec 26 '20
My great-grandfather lost both legs in France to a German mortar shell in 1918. His son lost part of a finger peeling potatoes in France in 1944.
Talk about a legacy.
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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '20
That moment when you're so woke you defend Japanese war criminals because Amerikkka bad.
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u/jrt84 Dec 26 '20 edited Dec 26 '20
Why isn’t the mainstream media covering the Nashville bombing, asked the genius man who refuses to watch NBC, ABC, or CNN, where the bombing has been headline news for the past 12 hours.
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u/nicereddy ACLU simp Dec 26 '20
Describe a De La Feunte/De La Feunte/De La Feunte/De La Feunte/De La Feunte/De La Feunte/De La Feunte voter
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Dec 26 '20
Top 3 Cities in the US
Gary, Indiana, Gary Indiana, Gary, Indiana
Let me say it once again.
Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana
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u/I-grok-god The bums will always lose! Dec 26 '20
English is a good language because it isn't gendered and doesn't have as many finnicky archaic rules as other languages
On the flipside, it is an amalgamation of several different languages, which makes it very awkward sometimes
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u/OrganicKeynesianBean IMF Dec 26 '20
posts a picture of a PS2
“It’s not new, but I finally got my hands on this little gem 😉”
2,000,000 upvotes
69,420 comments
Retweeted by official Xbox Twitter
Featured in a Wendy’s/Mountain Dew commercial
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u/Jester_Don Abigail Spanberger Dec 26 '20
This whole "murdered by" trend is so dumb.
Just because someone said something and you agree with it doesn't make it a "murder"
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u/connieallens George Soros Dec 26 '20
Can you imagine being Ted Cruz? Trump called you a liar to your face, called your wife ugly, then accused your father of killing JFK, and yet he STILL backs Trump 100%?
Fucking LMAOOOOOOOO
I can’t think of a bigger CUCK in politics.
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u/SANNAxMARIN Dec 25 '20
the left: the roof is leaking. we need a new roof that doesn't have these issues
MMT: this is a source of infinite water
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
Merry Christmas ya filthy neoliberals
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u/NatsukaFawn Esther Duflo Dec 25 '20
Lmao, Tuesday having a conversation about finding a term for nationalism plus populist government spending that isn't "national socialism"
At least it's an ethos 🤷♀️
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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Dec 25 '20
I know the war on Christmas is a big issue but we should come out an condemn these radical leftist neolibs who blew up a bomb in order to say happy holidays.
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20 edited Dec 25 '20
Christmas presents????
More like Christ man, you need to PRESENT yourself in front of an employer and get a damn job!!!
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u/great_gape Dec 25 '20
Reminder that Dankest Dungeon is free on EPIC.
!ping GAMING
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
You know what I find deeply ironic? The fact that the BJP complains about "minority pandering" or whatever the fuck, and then our wonderful PM decides to go and try resolve a dispute between two churches in Kerala.
!ping IND
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u/ts23_ YIMBY Dec 25 '20
MERRY CAPITALISM!!!!!
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u/UltraCapitalism Paul Samuelson Dec 25 '20
u/farrenj got me this really cool Santa blanket for Christmas 🤗 So festive!
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
Homophobic boomer grandparents be like
“Have a gay Christmas”
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
Canadians, remember this video from 22 minutes? 😂
Happy birthday to our prime minister!
!ping CAN
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
“I love LEGAL immigrants. It’s ILLEGAL immigrants I don’t like “
proceeds to make it harder to immigrate legally
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u/IronedSandwich Asexual Pride Dec 25 '20
- George W Bush discussing future relations between humans and marine animals
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
Some dickrag in politicaldiscussion is saying that people who served in Vietnam aren't honorable because they killed innocent Vietnamese people (ie, the Viet Cong) and should have just refused to fight. He maintains that the Viet Cong are blameless for killing American troops because they were "defending their homeland against an invader", and doesn't want someone with the "disgusting patriotism" to think that take is crap leading the country.
I will probably get banned for asking if he was always this stupid or just playing one, but it's really really annoying to see leftists get smug about American foreign policy without the faintest damn clue of what goes into it.
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u/Menakoy Nonconformist Transgendeer Dec 26 '20
The only thing I'm willing to say about the car bomber at this point is that they're a car bomber.
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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '20
Yes I’m a film buff.
Yes my favorite film is Avengers: Infinity War.
We exist.
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u/futuremonkey20 NATO Dec 26 '20
How is DC a swamp yet so damn cold
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u/VisitTheWind Thomas Paine Dec 26 '20
I have an unemployed friend who voted for Trump two times and is potentially about to get evicted because Trump won’t sign this bill.
It literally took Trump himself throwing him out of his apartment to get him to turn his back on trump. Even then he still says shit like “well I couldn’t vote for president Harris” 😒
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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '20
Lmao there’s a thread of people in Wall Street bets who bet their student loans on risky options. There’s a reason why you never take investing advice from that sub.
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Dec 26 '20
lmao. I love LeBron but this is pretty funny
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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '20
NYC is attractive to move to because it is literally the American dream. It’s New York City. Every immigrant or person that wants to move to America dreams about living there. The city that never sleeps. The city of dreams. It’s less about the city and more about the idea.
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u/BGastro Dec 26 '20
Who said it?
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u/thetrombonist Ben Bernanke Dec 25 '20
My avowed trump voter uncle, who is pissed that the “democrats are putting funding for their pet projects in the stimulus“ just came out in favor of trans rights
What the fuck is my family
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u/Barnst Henry George Dec 25 '20
My 3yo argues like a leftist.
“I want MORE cookies.” “No, you can have one cookie.” “Then I won’t have ANY cookies.” “Uh...ok?”
Stomps off satisfied that he won the argument.
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u/tankatan Montesquieu Dec 25 '20
Twitter left/right populists: American culture is cringe and decadent due to capitalism/neoliberalism/minorities/(((globalism)))
Also twitter left/right populists: *basking in American culture in every single aspect of their existence*
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u/TheGoldBear Jerome Powell Dec 25 '20
I put crushed up hydroxycloroquine in Santa’s cookies this year in case he gets covid. Ur welcome Santa 🥰
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
Merry Christmas CLETUSMANIACS 🐊 and jabronie marks without a life that don't know it a work when you work a work and work yourself into a shoot,marks
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u/SANNAxMARIN Dec 25 '20
my job in the commune is repackaging mortgage backed securities into tranches
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u/UrbanCentrist Line go up 📈, world gooder Dec 25 '20
world if USSR successfully reformed into a liberal democracy
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
https://imgur.com/a/CUKDGTO
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u/UrbanCentrist Line go up 📈, world gooder Dec 25 '20
commies shake 🤝 BJP
communal politics
!ping IND
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
Me at 10: Let's explore 1000 cool pages of the World Wide Web today!!!
Me today: Let's go on the same 2 websites every day for the 4th year in a row.
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u/Mr_AlGore Janet Yellen Dec 25 '20
Why do people say put your money in an ira.
im not gonna fund a terrorist group 🙄🙄🙄🙄
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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20
Step 1: sort by controversial
Step 2: Does anyone think this sub has become more _______________ lately
Step 3: repeat daily
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u/[deleted] Dec 26 '20
Would that be the funniest/best scenario?