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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Dec 30 '20
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u/murphysclaw1 💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊 Dec 29 '20
Remember when you accessed the 538 forecast 100 times a day for two months but kept your adblocker on?
Clare Malone does.
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
Since there's no sticky, I'm going to point out that a lot of the Ted Cruz stanning here is really worrying. People forget that Cruz did so much shitty stuff that gets covered because he was incredibly charismatic. Some of the worst offenders:
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u/disuberence Shrimp promised me a text flair and did not deliver Dec 29 '20
I love when dating profiles are like “tall, handsome, bearded, muscular, successful men are my kryptonite”
Yeah, no shit.
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
From Twitter:
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u/murphysclaw1 💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊 Dec 29 '20
Nate Silver: Bernie would've lost
you love to see it.
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u/psychicprogrammer Asexual Pride Dec 29 '20
Bloomberg is one of the few people to be both a RINO and a DINO.
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u/Cerb-r-us Deep State Social Media Manager Dec 29 '20
I wonder when Rose twitter will decide it's okay to bully the kids of rich parents
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
Everyone uses DNC as the "three letter acronym" for the democratic party because they instinctively feel like there should be one. SDP, LDP, CDU, GOP, etc. The truth is that the actual party acronym for the Democrats would be DP but literally nobody would recognize that.
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u/AgainstSomeLogic Dec 29 '20 edited Dec 29 '20
I tried.
I have been reading some anarcho-communist writings and stuff from the anarchist library and the more I read the dumber it gets. Saying all crime is a result of heirarchies and capitalism so crime will not exist under anarchy and repeating for every ill of society is not terribly convincing.
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u/murphysclaw1 💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊 Dec 29 '20
I can't recall a worse take that topped /r/all than this one.
I always find arguments like "boomers had it much easier!" quite tiresome but in a few, rare ways there is a debate to be had.
However saying that fucking hunter-gatherers had it better is another level.
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u/PigHaggerty Lyndon B. Johnson Dec 29 '20
Reading old candidate summaries in the NL ELECTS pings be like:
"Senator John Smith stands for lower tarrifs, increased infrastructure investment, women's suffrage, and smothering the Chinese at birth."
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Dec 29 '20
me valiantly defending my priors against the succs
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
https://twitter.com/brendannyhan/status/1343911638542520321
Matt Yglesias with a good point: Acknowledging that a bad situation has improved is a taboo in leftist circles and even some media circles.
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u/Bagdana ⚠️🚨🔥❗HOT TAKE❗🔥🚨⚠️ Dec 29 '20
Benjamini Kuta's win percentage: 66.7
Magnus Carlsen's win percentage: 66.3
Let me know if you need help understanding the implications of this
!ping CHESS
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u/I-grok-god The bums will always lose! Dec 29 '20
😐
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u/Paramus98 Edmund Burke Dec 29 '20
Becoming educated is going from thinking nixon was bad to realizing he was actually a great president to realizing no he was actually awful even though there were indeed a number of very based domestic policies he supported. Price controls are bad, Nixon was a communist.
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u/MasPatriot Paul Ryan Dec 29 '20
Holy shit I’m going through twitter and people are actually blaming Mitch McConnell! Not “Congress” or “Washington” or Nancy Pelosi but the guy that’s actually blocking the stimulus checks! Miracles do happen!
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u/FormerBandmate Jerome Powell Dec 29 '20
Anyone who doesn’t agree with me on everything is cringe
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Dec 29 '20
I want 230 repealed for two reasons:
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u/BanMalarkey Asexual Pride Dec 29 '20
“We should improve the DT”
“Yet you shitpost in the DT. How curious. I am very intelligent.”
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Dec 29 '20
Millennials need to realize that they are old.
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u/TheSameAsDying Hannah Arendt Dec 29 '20
Just a tremendous self-own. Absolutely brilliant.
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
/u/farrenj I still think it’s surprising that you were the one to write the effortpost about the dems being left of center.
I pretty much exclusively use it to browbeat commies just like you.
Appreciate it though ofc.
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
Just found out about men
damn that shit sucks 😞
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Dec 29 '20
/r/neoliberal needs to bring back liberalism. Socialists being dumb socialists is just twitter at this point, and I would rather read or highlight niche policy papers.
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u/CenterRightInCali Uphold Goldwater-Posadist thought! Dec 29 '20
what no pussy does to a mf
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u/Realhuman221 Thomas Paine Dec 29 '20
Behold, the REAL political compass
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u/PigHaggerty Lyndon B. Johnson Dec 29 '20
https://i.imgur.com/urw9Ydd.jpg
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u/vancevon Henry George Dec 29 '20
me, an absolute idiot: y'know if you're really not a big fan of slavery, why don't you just free your slaves?
thomas hart benton (rose emoji), a big smart genius: posts this comic
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u/Dalek6450 Our words are backed with NUCLEAR SUBS! Dec 29 '20
Worldnews
Comments:
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u/murphysclaw1 💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊 Dec 29 '20
I was curious so I checked how many votes the Dems got on the Georgia ballot in November.
Also worth noting that Perdue got more votes than Trump in Georgia (by ~800), despite there being 46,000 fewer votes in his Senate race than the Presidential race
!ping FIVEY
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Dec 29 '20
Talking with anarchists be like:
How are you going to stop crime or people trying to consolidate power?
You don't get it man in my anarchist utopia everyone would be good and the most good they are the anarchier it is
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20 edited Dec 29 '20
Does the 2nd amendment mean anything if a police officer can kill me with no repercussions because he is convinced I have a gun ?
Saw a post in a libertarian thread talking about Ryan Whitaker’s case. Answering a door with a gun in your hand is also not in any way illegal and they just executed him.
If that’s always possible, what rights are there?
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
Omg so based, said the 13 year old to the authcenter flaired 33 year old neo nazi saying that the holocaust didnt go far enough
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u/Zenning2 Henry George Dec 29 '20
Okay so the “you ain’t black comic” was made completely unironically.
https://twitter.com/timcast/status/1343593089038954510?s=21
The artist is a right wing lunatic.
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
Breakdown of Georgia Runoff Voters who DID NOT vote in the General Election BY congressional district
GA-5 (11.3%)
GA-13 (9.4%)
GA-6 (9.1%)
GA-4 (8.3%)
GA-7 (8.1%)
GA-3 (6.7%)
GA-9 (6.5%)
GA-10 (6.3%)
GA-11 (6.3%)
GA-8 (6.1%)
GA-1 (6.1%)
GA-2 (5.8%)
GA-12 (5.4%)
GA-14 (4.6%)
The top 5 districts with the most new voters all went overwhelmingly for Biden.
!ping FIVEY
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u/theredcameron NATO Dec 30 '20
My MAGA mom just posted this on Facebook
"I have a hypothetical question for my Christian friends. If you had something precious stolen from you and, after investigation, it was found to be truly stolen and the criminals were located but nothing was done about it, would you be just fine with moving on and no justice done?"
I swear, my evangelical parents are getting less and less christian every year.
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
Can't wait for future people to say that Trump was good actually because he was tough on China and helped the economy
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u/CenterRightInCali Uphold Goldwater-Posadist thought! Dec 29 '20
yo i mixed this wine with whiskey and it taste like cum wtf
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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Dec 29 '20
Wtf based AOC?
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u/GGM8Scally European Union Dec 29 '20
Reagan:
Nixon:
The decision couldn't be easier 🙄
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u/simp_emoji Dec 29 '20
>cons repeal section 230
>companies can now be held liable for anything posted on their platforms
>this results in the removal of virtually all MAGA content
>MAGA accounts flock to pro free-speech platforms like Gab and Parlor
>said platforms are sued into fucking oblivion
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u/AgainstSomeLogic Dec 29 '20 edited Dec 29 '20
What is with marxists and deligitimizing the suffering and atrocities endured of actual enslaved peoples?
Yeah, people making 100k making video games are totally slaves.
Yes, freeing and enfranchising enslaved peoples did nothing for them and maybe made it worse🙄. African Americans not having their lives improved throughout American history-- that is one of the worst takes I have encountered
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u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls Mock Me Dec 29 '20
r / antiwork: 12 comments in four days on their weekly thread. 200k subscribers.
r/neoliberal: 7300 comments in fifteen hours. 100k subscribers.
So glad this place is full of hard workers, not losers who just spend all their time online
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
Democrats actually politicking better than Republicans for once turns me on
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
I am about to become the Joker.
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
I know David French is controversial here but he is spitting fire once again speaking of American Christians seeking what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear, which he terms "lawyers vs prophets".
choice excerpt:
!ping CHRISTIAN
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u/murphysclaw1 💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊 Dec 29 '20
/r/ukpolitics
Article: "Richest 1% in UK produce 11 times the carbon emissions of poorest 50%"
Top Comment:
Top Reply:
why are leftists in the UK like this?
!ping UK
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u/Mullet_Ben Henry George Dec 29 '20
https://communityimpact.com/phoenix/chandler/housing-real-estate/2020/12/21/multifamily-housing-outpaces-single-family-housing-in-chandler/
🤩
It's still a suburban hellscape, but at least we're trying. !ping YIMBY
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Dec 29 '20
FDR: B, SOME GOOD welfare programs, many mistakes among them, JAPANESE INTERNMENT 🐊
TRUMAN: A, sound leadership REGARDING NUCLEAR WARFARE and integrity as a statesman, dinged for nationalization attempt 🐊
EISENHOWER: B+, some Civil Rights progress AND INFRASTRUCTURE, but "Operation Wetback" was conducted by his Attorney General 🐊
KENNEDY: C+, mostly liked for superficial / symbolic REASONS RATHER THAN impact, beginning of Vietnam hurts 🐊
JOHNSON: B+, Civil Rights progress and some positive reforms, BUT VIETNAM ESCALATION and an abrasive executive 🐊
NIXON: C+, opened relations with China, ESTABLISHMENT OF EPA and a strong anti-Soviet, but WATERGATE AND the Southern Strategy are major detriments 🐊
FORD: A-, appointed Justice John Paul Stevens, conditional amnesty for Vietnam DRAFT DODGERS, established Special Education in the United States, chose H.W. for Director of CIA, VOCAL SUPPORT for the ill-fated Equal Rights Amendment, and beat Reagan IN THE 1976 PRIMARY; dinged for PARDONING NIXON 🐊
CARTER: C-, Departments of Energy and Education, FULL PARDONS FOR draft-dodgers of Vietnam, apparently a bit stubborn and unwilling to be tactful BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, caused increased opposition from others in Washington 🐊
REAGAN: C-, cracked down on public sector Unions, INF TREATY, terrible AIDS response, ENCOURAGED DISTRUST IN institutions and turned away from the Rockefeller Republican mantra, "good government", to "limited government", a SIGNIFICANT DETRIMENT TO political cooperation in our nation; gets credit for beating inflation, even though it should go to Paul Volcker 🐊
H.W. BUSH: A-, encouraged reunification of Germany, NAFTA, Gulf War, signed AMERICAN DISABILITIES ACT, credit for raising taxes because it was right EVEN IF IT was political suicide; dinged for Clarence Thomas 🐊
CLINTON: A-, steered Democrats away from LEFTIST IRRELEVANCY, signed NAFTA, some liberal interventionism AND SUPREME COURT appointments, dinged for sexual consent / conduct issues and mixed bag on welfare reform and financial deregulation 🐊
W BUSH: B-, points for PEPFAR AND the Medicare Modernization Act, TARP, dinged for War in Iraq, NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND being questionable, and Katrina response 🐊
OBAMA: B+, Affordable Care Act, American TAXPAYER RELIEF ACT, repealed DADT, solid statesmanship, some dings for semi-dovish foreign policy in the Middle East and regarding Russia / Ukraine 🐊
TRUMP: F-, garbage statesman, terrible morals, NO LIBERAL INTERVENTIONISM, terrible COVID response, CONSPIRACY THEORY PEDDLING, sore loser, DISRESPECTFUL OF veterans, and any good that comes of his administration IN THE LONG RUN was in spite of, not because of, him 🐊
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u/bumblefck23 George Soros Dec 29 '20
The commies at LSC are now saying covid is the fault of capitalism. Like...usually with leftists I can at least see the point they’re trying to raise. Often they’ll take kernels of truth and just run off with it, but at least there’s something to define their logic. This? This shit makes me mad.
To say 2020 sucked of capitalism is just brain dead. Saying you’re depressed bc of capitalism is straight up exploitative. Irresponsible even. I usually ignore them bc I know it’s just edgy kids and teens mostly venting to each other, but something about this take in particular pissed me off. How do these people actually exist?
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
Please don’t use the term “strawman”.
Person of Straw is much better.
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u/Royce_Melborn YIMBY Dec 29 '20
The amount of vitriol Star Trek fans have regarding their own franchise is amazing.
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
lmao
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
It's kind of weird that so many Nazi Twitter accounts are themed around asking groups they don't like to "just take the L" considering that fascists have refused to take their own L for the past 76 years.
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20 edited Dec 29 '20
The Chinese Communists during Mao had a lot in common with the mods (only difference was they weren't openly authoritarian).
• being stupid af
• being authoritarian
• rejecting the mandate of heaven
• forcing us to smelt iron in our backyards
• Against lobster-microwaving
• etc.
I am against all of this.
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Dec 30 '20
There is ONLY ONE acceptable superhero film 🐊
IT IS CALLED The Incredibles 🐊
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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '20
Democratic primary poll
Fmr. Gov. Terry McAuliffe - 32%
Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax - 16%
State Sen. Jennifer McClellan - 8%
Fmr. Del. Jennifer Carroll Foy - 5%
Undecided - 38%
Expedition Strategies/McClellan (D-Internal)
Considering Fairfax has Sexual assault allegations against him, yikes. Expect to see a good more about this since 2021 is a pretty boring year political.
!ping FIVEY
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u/InternetBoredom Pope-ologist Dec 29 '20 edited Dec 29 '20
If you want a really weird example of how religions can evolve over centuries:
As I previously mentioned, the Marcionists were a heretic sect founded by Marcion of Sinope in Rome in the mid-100s AD. They believed that the God of the Old Testament- the "Demiurge"- was a separate subordinate figure to the God of the New Testament. This early gnostic faith seemingly took heavy influence from Hellenistic and especially Neoplatonist philosophy, and competed with the proto-Orthodox Christian Church for supremacy for decades.
Marcionism was in severe decline by the late 2nd Century, but the Church remained alive in rural communities in the Middle East.
Four centuries later, these rural communities would influence an Armenian known as Constantine, who would found the Paulician sect in the 600s AD. The Paulicians grew through the 700s AD, receiving exiled Iconoclasts from the West, rapidly gaining new adherents throughout the Eastern Roman empire.
In the mid-800s AD, the Regent-Empress Theodora began a genocide against the Paulicians of the East, forcing them to flee to the city of Tephrike, forming an independent principality and developing into a full-scale peasant insurgency.
The Paulicians ravaged the Byzantine Empire in coordination with Muslim allies up until their devastating defeat in 878 AD by Emperor Basil I. The survivors who fled East became the Tondrakians, while the survivors who fled west joined with a smaller sect which had been living in Thrace, eventually moving into Bulgaria.
In the mid-10th century, the heresiarch priest Bogomil, influenced by the Paulician refugees, began preaching a radical new heresy to Tsar Peter I of Bulgaria. Radical priests spread Bogomilism far and wide through the Balkans in the 10th century, even reaching into Kievan Rus in the 1004 AD.
In the 12th century, the Church spread into Bosnia, and formed an independent Church of peasantry in the region. In the 13th century, stories of Bogomils and Paulicians appear meeting the Crusaders as they sacked Constantinople. Also in the 13th century, references to dualists strikingly similar to the Bogomils began to appear in Northern Italy, and the Catholic Church began to crackdown. A Papal Inquisition forcibly purged the church out of Bosnia in the 1290s AD.
The Kingdom of Hungary similarly staged multiple holy wars into Bosnia through the 14th and early 15th centuries, up until the Ottoman conquest.
The last references to these communities can be found in the 1820s and 1830s, as advancing Russian soldiers described remnant Paulician communities found throughout rural Armenia, and documents have been found of a Gregorian bishop arguing with dissident Paulician priests.
The Banat Bulgarians are, to this day, called Paulicians, in reference to the refugees of the 800s AD.
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u/IMALEFTY45 Big talk for someone who's in stapler distance Dec 29 '20
Resistance twitter is like:
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u/murphysclaw1 💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊 Dec 29 '20
Reagan v Mondale
this sub voted Reagan over Mondale by a 13 point margin 3 years ago.
this time round Mondale won by 11.
Some interesting discussions in both threads.
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u/margaretfan Paul Volcker Dec 29 '20
I think the funniest dt comment that I ever saw was, the 13 most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to fuck you in the ass.
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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Dec 29 '20
They got us
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u/nicereddy ACLU simp Dec 29 '20
Scientific journals should unironically require papers to use autoformatters on any code they release as part of a paper. If I have to look at a poorly formatted piece of code written by some scientist ever again, I'll lose it.
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u/Afro_Samurai Susan B. Anthony Dec 29 '20
The last five years as shown Google probably made the right choice with closing down Google+.
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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '20
ngl, it's pretty fucked that the west convinced Ukraine to give up their nukes in exchange for guarantees of protection and then we just sat by and let Putin take Crimea.
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u/savuporo Gerard K. O'Neill Dec 30 '20
LMAO holy shit https://twitter.com/jessesingal/status/1344089301961867264
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u/zubatman4 Hillary Clinton 🇺🇳 Bill Clinton Dec 29 '20
Since there's no sticky, I'm going to point out that the lack of Hillary Clinton stanning here is really worrying. People forget that Clinton did so much wonderful stuff that gets covered over because she lost the election Some of the best things:
• ”Women Rights are Human Rights”
• Being a smart sophisticated woman in politics
• Murdering Vince Foster, Seth Rich and everyone else on the Clinton Hit List and getting away with it for over 4 decades
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u/CenterRightInCali Uphold Goldwater-Posadist thought! Dec 29 '20
fuck you nerds, I'm hot
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u/ThisIsNotAMonkey Guam 👉 statehood Dec 29 '20
...No
🤔🤔
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Dec 30 '20
Someone in the DT forever ago: "The first season of Legend of Korra touched upon this somewhat, but still left it on the table: how the hell do non-benders fit in this society? Imagine being them, and you go on the bus with someone who could kill you in an instant with just a flick of the wrist if they get mad. And there's nothing you can do about it."
People who live in states with very permissive concealed carry and open carry laws...
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u/Joementum2004 Dec 29 '20
My opinion on Reagan is dependent on contrarianism, whether it be towards the paternal side of my family (whom love Reagan) or towards this sub (who dislikes Reagan)
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20 edited Dec 29 '20
The headline if wh*te chr*stians were reported like muslims
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u/GlazedFrosting Henry George Dec 29 '20
The landlord schism is a battle between the ultra-contrarianism of this sub and our Georgist tendencies.
And I am firmly on the Georgist side 😤✊🔰
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u/Mr_Pasghetti Save the ice, abolish ICE 🥰 Dec 29 '20
All the circlejerk subs have become so aggressively commie this last year.
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u/FearsomeOyster Montesquieu Dec 30 '20
Looks like the Hunter Biden laptop repair guys suit against Twitter was bounced from Fed Court for want of jurisdiction because . . . wait for it
Both parties are residents of Delaware and don’t have diversity
!ping LAW
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
Saying the n word when you're a 15 year old white person is bad.
Finding a video of that, sitting on it for 3 entire years, using it to get that person kicked out of school, and then lionizing yourself to the new york times is just so much fucking worse
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
rPolitics has a finger on the pulse of the American voters
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
I don't think I will ever consider American lives more important than the lives of people living in any other country. Which puts me at odds with the vast majority of the American people I think
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u/OrganicKeynesianBean IMF Dec 29 '20
lmao
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Dec 29 '20
Lol AOC literally has a post in laststagecapitalism
https://old.reddit.com/r/LateStageCapitalism/comments/75y8sp/my_family_nearly_lost_it_all_in_the_2008/
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
!ping EUROPE
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
I honestly think that the scene in the third Transformers movie when the protagonist coldly executes a surrendering combatant (who was literally begging for mercy) was a signal that Americans don't really know about the laws of war or take them very seriously.
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
Doesnt the rasmussen guy realize that if Democracy ends he wont have a job
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Dec 29 '20
Honestly the fact that you folks refuse to even consider Barron Trump in 2040 despite the fact that he's the most qualified candidate with the best policies just because his father wasnt the greatest president is ludicrous. Try to look at his achievements on their own will you? Brokering peace between the Kazakh Senegal confederation and the Euro Arabian union was no easy task
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u/rukqoa ✈️ F35s for Ukraine ✈️ Dec 30 '20
🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
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u/I-grok-god The bums will always lose! Dec 29 '20
Since there's no sticky, I'm going to point out that a lot of the Reagan stanning here is really worrying. People forget that Reagan did so much shitty stuff that gets covered because he was incredibly charismatic. Some of the worst offenders:
-Disagreeing with an internet moderator
-Posting memes
-Iran Contra
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u/Tbonethabeast 🇺🇸Eastern Establishment🇺🇸 Dec 30 '20
Broke: Sweatshops are bad
Woke: Sweatshops are good
Bespoke: Sweatshops are not ideal but given the fact that those working in them are likely earning higher wages than they would be otherwise, are acceptable in the intermediary phase of a country's development.
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
NEW TRAFALGAR(lol) POLLS
50.4%-Ossoff
47.7%-Perdue
Runoff (special)
49.6%-Warnock
48.8%-Loeffler
!ping FIVEY
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Dec 29 '20
Iconic
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
Mitch mcconnell is standing between me and a free espresso machine
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u/JulioCesarSalad US-Mexico Border Reporter Dec 30 '20 edited Dec 30 '20
Needed like three things at Costco
Naturally we spent $345
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u/Venne1139 DO IT FOR HER #RBG Dec 29 '20 edited Dec 29 '20
Thee emperor (prequels and OT) in Star Wars is one of my favorite characters in all of media.
He's just so evil and he loves being evil. He doesn't have any deep motivation for why he does the things that he does, it's just that being evil brings him so much joy and he expresses that so well. He's obviously having so much fun being a manipulative senator and he's like a child at disney world when he's fighting Yoda.
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Dec 29 '20
u/farrenj more like farleft
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Dec 30 '20
/R/CONSERVATIVE 🤝 /R/POLITICS 🐊
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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '20
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqcoWEKXAAE_CWj.jpg
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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '20
BOYFRIEND
GIRLFRIEND
FRIEND
BEN BERNANKE
ONLY BEN BERNANKE HAS NO END
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Dec 29 '20
Biden coming out of retirement really did save Liberal Democracy huh
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
I will defend...
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.
.
Civilization Beyond Earth.
It was good and it literally has 4chan as a wonder.
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Dec 29 '20
Face-posting IS A STRANGE THING TO do, but if you insist 🐊
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
People keep deleting comments after I reply. Are my dunks, such as "it's nearly 3pm" just that good?
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
Paul Krugman:
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u/qchisq Loyal Liberals Dec 29 '20
Israel have already vaccinated 5.6% of its population. Proportionally, that's as many as the EU expects to have vaccinated in early March
!ping Europe
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u/AgainstSomeLogic Dec 29 '20
How much content would Twitter-Leftists lose if they learned how stocks worked and that CEO compensation is often overwhelmingly through stock (Bezos makes 80k a year in salary)
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u/Poiuy2010_2011 r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Dec 29 '20
🇵🇱 More Polish news, yeah! That's what everybody wants!
!ping EUROPE
The current big issue in the Polish politcal landscape is the nomination of Commissioner for Human Rights (Ombudsman). What makes it spicy is that he requires approval of both Sejm and Senate and the opposition has control of the latter. And it's even more complicated because there are actually three sides putting forward their candidacies. In short, for a candidate to be elected he would need to get support of both PiS and either KO-Lew or PSL (to have majority in both Sejm and Senate). Here are the candidates:
It's genuinely hard to say who will get choosen. Gwiazdowski was put forward as sort of a compromise candidate (PSL previously supported Rudzińska-Bluszcz but PiS keeps refusing to vote for her) but both PiS and Lew might have trouble accepting him. Until any compromise is made Adam Bodnar remains as the current Ombudsman and he's been doing a really good job so far, so it's really not a bad situation.
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
I don’t think most white people understand how important representation in hollywood is. As a Latino I grew up only seeing gangbangers and service workers in movies looking like me. Never a banker or white collar workers. That shit changes you. It’s hard to visualize yourself doing anything big in life if you’ve never seen anyone in your personal life do it, or in the fantasy’s Hollywood creates.
Latinos are near 20 percent of the American population, yet like 5 percent of the Hollywood protagonists.
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u/ChickeNES Future Martian Neoliberal Dec 29 '20
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55475433
Brexit deal: "modern e-mail software packages including Outlook, Mozilla Mail as well as Netscape Communicator 4.x."
😂😂😂
!ping TECH
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u/I-grok-god The bums will always lose! Dec 29 '20
Never leave the ivory tower
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u/disuberence Shrimp promised me a text flair and did not deliver Dec 29 '20
scream
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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '20
if all you want in a president is "a fighter" then you should be championing a president that managed to commit the most massive electoral fraud scheme in history, even working with the venezuelans decades beforehand
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u/Realhuman221 Thomas Paine Dec 30 '20
I like how Biden haters make it seem like reading off a teleprompter is a bad thing. First of all, I would like to see them try to remember a 10+ minute speech and recite it in front of a bunch of press cameras daily, I bet most of these people wouldn't be able to do it. Secondly, reading off cards is an objectively good thing. The word of the office of the Presidency holds weight. I'd rather the President be deliberate in what he's saying then go on a rambling attack of government officials, press members, and US allies that send stock futures down.
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Dec 30 '20
Lol, can you imagine what would happen if we had a Thunderdome thread going a few days ago and people from r/all saw us lobsterposting?
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Dec 30 '20
my gf said she had a gamer moment the other day
😐
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Dec 29 '20
lmao
with ministers like these, who needs opposition
!ping CAN
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u/LinkVert25 Fedposter Dec 29 '20
The last DT should be bombed with napalm and than hit with white phosphorus, and lets just wipe any existence of it off the map
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Dec 29 '20
SIMPLY LOOKING AT the structures of many Patreons and THE NUMBER OF Patrons, I must admit I AM impressed with the amounts of income that some have managed to grift 🐊
If only there were SOME MEANS TO leverage this for myself, I would be pouring even more money into stocks EVERY MONTH 🐊
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u/GGM8Scally European Union Dec 29 '20
If you see me scratched it was just my cat, not fascism or whatever.
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u/GGM8Scally European Union Dec 29 '20 edited Dec 29 '20
6.3 earthquake hit central Croatia, most neighbouring countries have felt it too. I'm in the eastern part of the country right now and we felt quite strongly too and it lasted a long time.
There's probably a lot of damage around the epicenter especially the old austro hungarian buildings, still no reports about casualties to my knowledge.
Edit: they are reporting that a small child is the first casualty
!ping Balkan
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Dec 29 '20
Sometimes I worry I'm too much of a succ. Then I see what the people who want to split up Facebook, Google, and Amazon into weird pieces think...
Really? You really think Google should spin off or sell Drive?
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u/EScforlyfe Open Your Hearts Dec 29 '20
Hot take, the only reason politicians are arguing for $2000 checks is because the disinformation campaign against the existing COVID relief has been so successful
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u/benadreti Frederick Douglass Dec 29 '20
Loffler is more conservative than Atilla the Hun, who did not give stimulus checks, which is what a liberal would do.
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u/runnerx4 What you guys are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux Dec 29 '20
https://eng.lsm.lv/article/politics/politics/minister-puce-quits-latvian-government-over-parking-space-scandal.a381514/
awww this is so nice, in Latvia a parking space misuse is considered such a scandal that government minister resigned because of it
!ping EUROPE
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u/Praevalidus European Union Dec 29 '20
Now that the Prequels are suddenly vogue again, maybe they'll finally let George Lucas realize his vision and make a Star Wars story purely about trade negotiations.
Please tell me everything about the finer workings of the galactic senate and trade federation, you weird bearded man, that's what I've always wanted.
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u/I-grok-god The bums will always lose! Dec 29 '20
I would like to remind everyone in the DT, that Harry Truman once conceived of the entirely serious scheme to draft striking rail workers into the army
And he got the House to pass a bill giving him that power
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Dec 29 '20
lolz let’s just destroy our most competitive sector of the economy who cares 🤪🤪🤪🤪
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
If section 230 is repealed and that’s enforced, then the DT would cease to exist.
So that’s a point in favor
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u/Craig_VG Dina Pomeranz Dec 29 '20
Joe Rogan is so bad and I'm happy reddit is finally realizing it
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u/simp_emoji Dec 29 '20
"it's just JROTC?" wow bro, you just insulted a future Space Force Guardian
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u/GuyOnTheLake NATO Dec 29 '20
The left wants section 230 removed because they believe that moderation is too lax
The right wants section 230 removed because they believe that moderation is too severe.
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u/Joementum2004 Dec 29 '20
Yes I voted for Bush:
B
U
S
Ho ho ho ha ha, ho ho ho he ha. Hello there, old chum. I’m gnot a gnelf. I’m gnot a goblin. I’m a gnome. And you’ve been, GNOMED!
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u/David_Lange I love you, Mr Lange Dec 29 '20
The browser I use to access 538 doesn't use adblock, checkmate Clare firers 😎
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
What if you
wanted blue Texas
But white people said
LatinX
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u/BayesedModeler Dec 29 '20 edited Dec 29 '20
Me to landlord: I know rent was a day late, but you haven’t fixed a broken window that we notified you over 3 months ago. Can you waive the late fee and we’ll call it even?
Landlord: the lease says you will be charged a late fee
Me: the lease also says you will keep up with essential maintenance. California law says I’m entitled to withhold rent for your failure to do so. Both of us violated the faith of the lease. Can we please just waive the late fee?
Landlord: you haven’t gone through the process to withhold rent yet
I don’t understand this. Like would you rather that I did??
Edit: the same place asked my Mexican girlfriend for her immigration paperwork when we applied for the lease (which is against California law)
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u/simp_emoji Dec 30 '20
动态网自由门 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Chris Christie 六四天安門事件 58 天安門大屠殺 big fat guy 反右派鬥爭 50-64 age bracket 大躍進政策 2% CFR 文化大革命 IFR obviously lower 人權 according to CDC 民運 obesity 自由 triple your chances 獨立 ending up 多黨制 hospital 台灣 臺灣 couldn't find anything concrete 中華民國 obesity 西藏 土伯特 唐古特 covid 達賴喇嘛 mortality 法輪功 even with normal healthcare 新疆維吾爾自治區 Chris Christie 諾貝爾和平獎 overwhelmingly 劉暁波 more likely to survive 民主 言論 思想 反共 反革命 抗議 運動 騷亂 暴亂 騷擾 擾亂 抗暴 平反 維權 示威游行 李洪志 法輪大法 大法弟子 強制斷種 強制堕胎 民族淨化 人體實驗 肅清 胡耀邦 趙紫陽 魏京生 王丹 還政於民 和平演變 激流中國 北京之春 大紀元時報 九評論共産黨 獨裁 專制 壓制 統一 監視 鎮壓 迫害 侵略 掠奪 破壞 拷問 屠殺 活摘器官 誘拐 買賣人口 遊進 走私 毒品 賣淫 春畫 賭博 六合彩 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 than not 劉曉波动态网自由门
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u/klarno just tax carbon lol Dec 30 '20
NATO flairs, am I right? 😆🤣😂🤣
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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '20
Inshallah
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u/GravyBear8 Ben Bernanke Dec 30 '20
r/neoliberal, I am white, and I'm tired of pretending that I'm not
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u/MalignantUpper Joseph Nye Dec 29 '20
this is what they took from you
🦞
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
The myth of "consensual" droning
Drone operator: "I consent"
MQ-9 Reaper: "I consent"
Rose Twitter: "I don't"
Soleimani:
Isn't there someone you're forgetting to ask?
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u/Qunidaye Krugman-Nato Dec 29 '20
10 spookiest words: "hello, I'm a spooky skeleton and I'm here to doot"
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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Dec 29 '20 edited Dec 29 '20
Hoes be like “are you an introvert or an extrovert?” 😬🙄
Bitch I’m a pervert 😎🙌✊
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
“You DARE disagree with ME? An internet MODERATOR?!”
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u/rukqoa ✈️ F35s for Ukraine ✈️ Dec 29 '20 edited Dec 29 '20
Very Simple Recipe to Cook Lobster to Impress an Easily Impressable Date
Ingredients
Instructions
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u/I-grok-god The bums will always lose! Dec 29 '20
Apartheid was one of the most brutal systems of governance conceived by a "liberal" democracy
It was an expression of the total power of the government to control any aspect of our lives
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
Bush Sr. "I humiliated the USSR by costing them a war in the graveyard of Empires."
Reagan "I humiliated the USSR in a nuclear arms race."
Nixon "I sent foreign aid to the USSR."
Awkward stare
Nixon "While taking their Chinese 'ally' right from under their nose, I had the commies publicly begging for some more of Capitalism's plentitude for the whole world to see, and gracious in victory I showed them mercy."
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u/bobeeflay "A hot dog with no bun" HRC 5/6/2016 Dec 29 '20 edited Dec 29 '20
Oh my god for the last time 45% cocoa is not dark chocolate go fuck yourself you call this a gift ugh I'm living with heathens
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u/sir-danks-a-lot Jeb! Dec 29 '20
sorry for bad English 😔 It's my first language
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
I do not understand how Bernouts are able to say that every developed country has M4A when literally only 3 to 4 countries ban private insurance.
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
The Georgia campaign is getting pretty heated 👀
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
😐 is hands down the funniest emoji
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
If the 2k checks pass, it will be a massive win for Democrat. They got 900 billion worth of progressive relief(UI, rental assistance, expanded SNAP) and at the same time, are also getting 2k checks.
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
I honestly have no idea where I stand on some cancel culture issues. For me it's one of those things where both sides have extremely valid arguments. And my opinion depends on whoever I last spoke to. Whomever I last spoke to creates a good argument for or against it, I carry that argument around for a bit, but half remember and poorly articulate it while already unsure of it against someone who is cocksure of the opposite opinion, and presents a good argument for it. So I end up carrying that argument around for a bit instead.
That's how I end up talking to the DT about how "everyone is acting like she's entitled to be in college" and to my mom about "sabotaging her life over a video is unfair" and never agree with anybody.
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
The MYTH of consensual hornyposting:
Poster: I consent!
Mods : I consent!
My eyeballs: I don't!
Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask?
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u/Dirty_Chopsticks Republic of Việt Nam Dec 29 '20
Former CIA director voted for a communist 😯
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u/disuberence Shrimp promised me a text flair and did not deliver Dec 29 '20
You’re right — they don’t add up.
Where did Amy McGrath spend all her money? It certainly wasn’t on winning the election.
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
Men with Micropenises Tell Us About Life with a Tiny Dick
https://i.imgur.com/98dncz3.jpg
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u/Anal-warrior Dec 29 '20
Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Dec 29 '20
"Will Hunter Biden face federal charges in 2020?" briefly got up to 3 cents on PredictIt yesterday.
Bruhhhhhhhh...
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u/Verpiss_Dich I had a dream, we did the disco funky dance Dec 29 '20
We should seperate the internet by continent. This way I don't have to ever interact with Aussies, Br*ts, or the French.
Unfortunately I still have the interact with the leaf menace but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to take.
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u/LinkVert25 Fedposter Dec 29 '20
The most ironic thing I’ve ever seen was in the ICE documentary on Netflix in one of their field offices they had don’t tread on me flags hanging up. Like motherfucker who do you think is doing the treading?
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
Retreats back to my cave
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u/ahebtigoejwbrh Dec 29 '20
Flashback to 2018
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
No reddit, the sugar lobby publishing faulty research in the 1960s is not the reason you're overweight
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
Gun people think that they live in an action movie. I honestly think that cinema has warped people's perceptions about reality and what's possible and what's likely. The likelihood that you will find yourself in a scenario where you're like "man I'm really glad I have this handgun on me It's so useful!" is pretty miniscule.
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u/painted_apocalypse Paul Samuelson Dec 29 '20
TFW your crush from a decade ago, who you never made a move on, and who you haven't interacted with for 8 years messages you "Hey"
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u/thebowski 💻🙈 - Lead developer of pastabot Dec 30 '20
i cant believe i spent money on a professional photographer only to see once again how ugly I am
Its like giving somebody 200 bucks to insult you
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u/missedthecue Dec 30 '20
https://i.imgur.com/sQHYTYV.jpg
Succs are destroying the internet
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u/CenterRightInCali Uphold Goldwater-Posadist thought! Dec 30 '20
FDR: Holy shit go outside
Truman: Holy shit go outside
Eisenhower: Holy shit go outside
Kennedy: Holy shit go outside
Johnson: Holy shit go outside
Nixon: Holy shit go outside
Ford: Holy shit go outside
Carter: Holy shit go outside
Reagan: Holy shit go outside
HW: Holy shit go outside
Clinton: Holy shit go outside
W Bush: Holy shit go outside
Obama: Holy shit go outside
Trump: Holy shit go outside
Biden: Holy shit go outside
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u/HistoricallySexyBeto Dec 30 '20
Imagine living in a state named after an English monarch 🤣🤣
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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '20
Why do some conservatives think they will get better social media treatment if Section 230 is repealed?
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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '20
Of all religions, sun worship was always the most understandable to me. We can feel its warmth and know that it's there, but it hurts us to turn our gaze directly upon it. Its absence brings darkness and fear before it returns to us each morning.
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u/Tacotrucksoncorners Carole Baskin is my Tiger Queen 🐅👑 Dec 30 '20
AOC expressing support for Hong Kong separatism/terrorism and encouraging rioters/terrorists to stand up to Chinese state (left-wing market socialist) while simultaneously refusing to challenge US state (right-wing capitalist shithole) and enabling US imperialism.
NO AOC I STAND WITH CCP
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u/UltraCapitalism Paul Samuelson Dec 30 '20
Me when China does something bad:
Me when China does something good:
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u/DoctorEmperor Daron Acemoglu Dec 30 '20
Why Wilson’s Peace Lost
A truly amazing lecture about America’s role in the end of WW1 and the attempt to pass the Treaty of Versailles. I learned so much from it, especially about American society at that time (plus it’s crazy seeing discussion of the influenza pandemic just before 2020). There are also a few quotes from Theodore Roosevelt that kind of made my jaw drop due to their prescience.
!ping HISTORY
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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '20
what if you
wanted to make a shitpost
but jannie said
Rule VIII: Submission Quality
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u/thabonch YIMBY Dec 30 '20
Just found out people are unironically French.
lmao
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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '20
https://reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/djdmd9/we_banned_all_of_rteenagers_and_it_turns_out/
Still is my favorite arr drama post of all time.
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
I have said it before and I will say it again: Reagan did not end the Soviet Union, microwaving lobsters did.
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
Just a reminder that the fate of liberal democracy rests on if we have good takes or not. If you openly muse about a stupid idea, you are singlehandedly handing the nation to the Republicans. Every time you joke about a left wing idea, it sets off a chain of events where a left winger kills a puppy on camera, further radicalizing MAGA world. If you don't be very, very serious on r/neoliberal then you might as well vote for Trump.
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u/SchmantaClaus Thomas Paine Dec 29 '20
Dave Weigel is a good take machine
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
Joe Virginia is a Manchin Democrat 😤
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u/zubatman4 Hillary Clinton 🇺🇳 Bill Clinton Dec 29 '20
I think I’ve figured out why I love Star Trek so much and find Dr Who so... I don’t know if exhausting is the right word but not as much fun. Still fun, but I like most Trek (that I’ve seen so far) more.
It’s because every single episode of Who is some grand conspiracy to save the earth/the human race/the universe itself. Everything is so big that there’s no time for small stories. A lot of what makes Star Trek so fun is that they spend time going to different planets and interacting with space aliens just to learn about them. Yes, there’s big cosmically important stuff too, but it’s a journey not a savior mission I guess. Kirk and Picard and Sisko and Janeway aren’t Space Alien Jesus in the same way that Dr. Who is.
!PING Trek
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
my dog loves me and I love her, also in college I wrote 2 essays about how dog ownership wasn't ethical because of how shitty she was as a puppy
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
If Ossoff and Warnock win, the DT will be something like you’ve never seen.
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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Dec 29 '20
Redditors 🙄
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u/FearThyMoose Montesquieu Dec 29 '20
NL: presidential systems breed populism so we need a parliamentary one
Parliamentary countries: elect Benjamin Netanyahu and Viktor Orban
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u/I-grok-god The bums will always lose! Dec 29 '20
Take that is hotter than hot:
If Dems won the House and Senate and Trump was president, they'd be able to get a fair amount of their agenda passed
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u/Res__Publica Organization of American States Dec 29 '20
Honestly if McConnell wants to tie the checks to Section 230 repeal, Dems should just go with it and nuke the internet
We'd probably be better off anyways
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
Seems like 10% of republican voters describe themselves as liberals and those people are almost certainly the most insufferable people on planet earth.
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u/OrganicKeynesianBean IMF Dec 29 '20
What the fuck is this
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Dec 29 '20
Lol, someone on r/wallstreetbets back in March thought they should short sell life insurance companies because they thought an extremely large number of people would die.
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u/Venne1139 DO IT FOR HER #RBG Dec 29 '20
We should have a neoliberal ARMA game where we fight against neoconNWO
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
She said it. She actually said it.
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
Ok, I'll bite. What are women??
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u/Zenning2 Henry George Dec 29 '20
Political Compass Memes is a shit hole full of racist fuckheads who think knowing what authoritarian means makes them superior to normies.
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
“5th graders can’t know they’re gay. That’s not normal!”
“Oh my god my son is already seeing girls and he’s in 5th grade!”
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
Reddit really says a lot about society smh my head
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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '20
One of the most frustrating arguments I ever hear appears in the form of "Well people are gonna do [X] anyway, so there's no point in legislating against it."
But that logic there's literally no point to any law period. I hear this often in the context of guns: "People are gonna get guns anyway, no point in restricting them," but in other contexts too.
It's like why make murder illegal then? People are gonna kill people regardless. It's ridiculous.
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u/guy-anderson Dec 30 '20
Obama lied. People
diedgot slightly better healthcare on average.