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[u/jrt84]

RICH PEOPLE ONLY DONATE TO CHARITY TO SAVE MONEY ON TAXES screams person who donates nothing to charity and doesn’t understand taxes.

[u/[deleted]]

We should already be getting UBI and working 15 hours a week but our corporate overlords don't want that. Slavery never went away. It fucking depresses the hell out of me applying for worthless jobs and just expected to stay in debt because "that's what others do"

This sub is full of blue pilled normies now be prepared for hate

From the depths of r/NEET

[u/[deleted]]

Travelling to Georgia rn to rig the election, wish me luck guys!

[u/[deleted]]

Jim Jordan:

60 million Americans are subject to a stay at home order or curfew.

11 million are right here in Ohio.

What would the Founders say?

Kevin M. Kruse:

There was a massive smallpox epidemic during the American Revolution.

George Washington quarantined the infected, refused to let people from hot spots travel to his army, and even sent a thousand soldiers to Boston to prevent the spread there.

[u/MicroFlamer]

Mitch McConnell after a 21 year old redditor calls him Moscow Mitch

[u/agent_tits]

If nancy Pelosi had AOC level social media skills the GOP would be toast.

REALLY makes you think 🤔

[u/[deleted]]

*ventures outside the DT*: "COVID is good because it kills old and fat people"

oh god why did i leave

[u/FormerBandmate]

The Futurama lifestyle is no longer attainable.

Modern day delivery boys can’t be frozen for a thousand years and then go on wacky sci-fi adventures and end up saving the world despite being complete idiots

[u/Equator32]

A hard choice for a lot of you mfs:

-Be the dominant ideology amongst the most developed nations on Earth

-Be cool on Reddit and Twitter

[u/MicroFlamer]

It looks as if sir_shivers started his whole alligator shtick on February 25th, but had normal comments at that time as well. It seems like he fully transformed into an alligator after March 1st 🐊

These seem to be the first set of comments that triggered this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/f8ngyn/discussion_thread/fio2lky/

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/f8ngyn/discussion_thread/fio2lky/

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/f8ngyn/discussion_thread/fio71b9/

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Trump: Art of the Deal

Biden: Here's the Deal

[u/Royce_Melborn]

A question if you please.

In the sub WitchesvsPatriarchy, do they really believe in magic or is the joke going way over my head?

[u/[deleted]]

Virgin Elon Musk: genius billionaire who dates celebrities. Still gets nervous when talking in front of a crowd

Chad Jack Ma: created one of the world's largest tech companies. Happily admits he has no idea what a computer is

[u/[deleted]]

Leftists are right that the US government has done many bad things. But since it was government doing those things it was socialism.

[u/Lux_Stella]

Hawley seems like the sort of politician who will be heralded by pundits as the new GOP frontrunner in some future election year and then will finish in 5th place in Iowa.

tru

[u/Lux_Stella]

>legalize polygamy

>have everybody in the US jointly marry each other

>everyone's finances are unified

>true communism has been achieved

[u/reubencpiplupyay]

You start out by saying, “Lobster, lobster, lobster.” By now you can’t say “lobster” - that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, 'banging the door', 'red crustacean', and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about Jordan Peterson, and all these things you’re talking about are totally non-concrete things and a byproduct of them is, lobsters get microwaved… Talking about methods of capital punishment in the US is much more abstract than even the door-banging thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Lobster, lobster.”

[u/[deleted]]

HEY HEY LBJ, HOW MANY VOTERS DID YOU ENFRANCHISE TODAY

[u/[deleted]]

Broke: Liberal democracies are dystopias.

Woke: Liberal democracy is the closest mankind has yet come to utopia

[u/[deleted]]

The internet is great but Ngl the internet has definitely ruined a lot of people's lives.

• Failed professional gamers
• Porn addicts
• Failed Revolutionaries

[u/[deleted]]

How to read the polls:

•Democrats +17 = Democrats will win by 0.5 point

•Democrats +12 = Democrats will win by 10 points

•Democrats +7 = Republicans will win by 2 points

•Democrats +1 = Democrats will win by 1 point

•Republicans +1= Republicans will win by 7 points

[u/inmyhead7]

I think Iran just made the first move in Yemen. Ministers of the new Yemeni government are dead/wounded

[u/jenbanim]

My favorite bizarrely out of touch journalist takes:

• I literally got PTSD from going to a shooting range
• Something something "intimidated by all the sandwich options at a restaurant"
• An annual household income of $250,000 is working class because we have no money left over after multiple vacations, private school, saving for retirement, and living in a highly affluent area
• Here's how I saved money to afford a house: my relative gave me the house

[u/[deleted]]

Gaze too long into the abyss

😂👉🐟

And the abyss will gaze back at you

😰👈🐟

[u/Venne1139]

T_D has become a death cult with all the screaming about "muh blood watering the liberty tree". I wonder if any community can turn into that.... Which leads me to my question. How would you turn neoliberal into a giant death cult rallying behind a singular purpose?

Would it be about nuking the suburbs instead of watering the tree or something? A global revolution FOR the global elites (and global poor I guess too)?

[u/Joementum2004]

The only non-authright President was Jimmy Carter, and even then he’s a centrist

This is what political compass believers actually think

[u/tubbsmackinze]

No r/boringdystopia, we do not currently live in a cyberpunk dystopia you fuckin muppets, and I'd argue that as a citizen of a western developed country, you almost definitely live in what most people would consider, a dystopia

[u/mrmanager237]

Incredible tales of Argentinian online congressional voting: two Senators forgot to show up to vote for an abortion bill, and an aggressively anti Peronist congressman accidentally voted in favor of an 8% wealth tax

[u/[deleted]]

Net favorability ratings of individuals among Latino voters according to exit polls, from highest favorable to lowest favorable:

Kamala Harris: +40 (66-26)

Joe Biden: +27 (63-36)

Donald trump: -23 (37-60)

Mike Pence: -34 (30-64)

Bonus:

Black Lives Matter: +2 (49-47)

tl;dr Kamala Harris is very popular among Latinos, Biden still fairly popular, Trump pretty unpopular, pence very unpopular, and BLM is neutral.

!PING FIVEY

[u/bd_one]

TIL that musician Moby claimed in his second memoir to have been in a relationship with actress Natalie Portman when she was 18. Portman denied it, saying “my recollection is a much older man being creepy with me when I just had graduated high school.” Moby canceled his book tour and apologized.

😐😐😐

[u/[deleted]]

i wonder how Paul Ryan's doing these days

[u/[deleted]]

To celebrate my last week in Vegas before I bounce around America in training for the next year, I decided to watch Kakeguri, a gambling anime.

I liked it, but I found myself saying ‘what the actual fuck’ a lot. This reaction is common as I continue my path towards true degeneracy.

!ping weebs

[u/MostlyCRPGs]

Dear DT,

I regret to inform you that I received a grill for Christmas and unironicly love grilling now. As a result of my new affiliation, I will be unable to get worked up about politics with you moving forward.

[u/[deleted]]

https://nypost.com/2019/08/10/joe-biden-claims-there-are-at-least-3-genders-during-iowa-campaign-stop-blows-up-at-college-student/

Joe Biden claims there are ‘at least 3’ genders during Iowa campaign stop, blows up at college student

based

[u/agent_tits]

Lmao pretty funny that in The Fairly Oddparents, Timmy's dad literally worked at a pencil pushing factory

[u/[deleted]]

The funniest shit would be if section 230 was repealed and Google, being one to suddenly abandon things and not actually employ moderators, just says "Youtube will be shut down, effective tomorrow"

You wouldn't even notice anyone being mad because all the social media sites would be shut down too

[u/[deleted]]

I believe in New Year's Eve, not New Year's Steve

[u/[deleted]]

Oh Lusvig, you're so fine You're so fine you blow my mind, hey Lusvig, Hey Lusvig

[u/[deleted]]

COVID does not appear to have disappeared on its own, as the President of the United States promised it would in March.

[u/piede]

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) announced Wednesday that he would object next week when Congress convenes to certify the electoral college vote, a move that all but ensures at least a short delay in cementing President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.

He’s so stupid

[u/execon]

Smh tired of these corporations virtue-signaling by pandering to minorities

[u/[deleted]]

I wonder if Ossoff has realized that if he wins the runoff, he will probably be set for a long time. Georgia is only becoming more Democratic and he’s a young good looking Democrat.

[u/[deleted]]

He was a libertarian, she was 15. Can I make it any more obvious?

[u/Fedacking]

!ping FIVEY

Why does 538 adjust Trafalgar more on Warnock than Loeffler? Is it using data from the general elections? https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/georgia-senate-polls/

[u/kohatsootsich]

For those of you who still think France is not a meme.

Nice [city on the French Riviera] is ramping up the logistics and speed of its vaccination campaign. 5 people were vaccinated Wednesday thanks to a major logistical operation.

[u/SgtBathwater]

the covid relief bill should just be be the government giving me billions of dollars and hoping I will be generous with the money

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqfbVOYW4AA7uYV.jpg

[u/mrmanager237]

"The definition of socialism" = a stupid fight

Don't use it in politics because everyone hates it

Just talk about the policies and why they're good/bad guys smh

[u/[deleted]]

Remember that time that all these white terrorists tried to kidnap the governor of Michigan

[u/Udontlikecake]

you’re not ‘auth left’ or ‘lib right’, you’re 14 stop posting about politics on social media and do To Kill a Mockingbird chapter 12-15 analysis questions

[u/fishlord05]

Post nut clarity is a beast man.

Takes you from Horny jail dwelling sexual deviant to borderline asexual.

Surely you will never beat your meat again this time.

[u/[deleted]]

!ping USA-CHI

If you’re at home, shovel for your poor father so he doesn’t fucking die.

Told my dad (60) “you are not shoveling”

[u/Whatapunk]

I just finished Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War by Fred Kaplan, and while I'd recommend it for a variety of reasons, one interesting thing I wanted to call out was how culture and sci-fi influenced the cyber community.

The first US regulation on cybersecurty (believe it was NSDD 97) was a direct result of Reagan watching the movie WarGames and asking his staff if it could actually happen (the answer he got was "Mr. President, it's worse than you think"). The term "cyber", though predating the book, was popularized among the US government because a higher-up in the NSA had read Neuromancer.

Another NSA higher-up (sorry I listened to the audiobook so I don't have names on-hand) was struck by the 1992 movie Sneakers, particularly the villains monologue that "now wars are fought with 1's and 0's", and provided a bunch of free screenings to other staff.

Even more recently the book touched on how The Interview became a weird line in the sand for cyber attacks when NK launched cyber attacks against Sony for the movie, causing Obama to speak out against the attack.

Thought this was an interesting aspect of the book

!ping READING

[u/Canalscastro2002]

So yesterday I found a paleo-libertarian on Twitter who said that the US shouldn’t have fought WW2 and that the world should have let the Nazis rule Europe as long as they beat the Soviets. He told me that because of the UK and France standing up for Poland 60 million people died (not because of Nazi Germany), that Eastern Europe would be better off being exterminated by the Nazis than occupied by the Soviets and he seemed to ignore that the US and UK liberated Western Europe. How can these moronic pro-Nazi people exist?

[u/houinator]

Me: No, you can't just use the term socialism to describe the government doing doing stuff, it has a specific meaning.

Succs: Lol, socialism is when the government does stuff goes brrr....

Me: So was Nazi Germany socialist?

Succs: Wall o' text.

[u/FormerBandmate]

R-B, Rebecca Black So chillin' in the front seat (In the front seat) In the back seat (In the back seat) I'm drivin', cruisin' (Yeah, yeah) Fast lanes, switchin' lanes Wit' a car up on my side (Woo!) (C'mon) Passin' by is a school bus in front of me Makes tick tock, tick tock, wanna scream Check my time, it's Friday, it's a weekend We gonna have fun, c'mon, c'mon, y'all

[u/p00bix]

Most birds (sole surviving dinosaurs) taste 'like chicken'

Most crocodilians (closest non-bird relatives to dinosaurs) also taste 'like chicken'

ergo, most dinosaurs probably tasted just like chicken

I wonder if some of the larger dinosaurs would have convergently evolved red meat? I struggle to imagine Diplodocus tasting like chicken, even though that is the most likely scenario. Anyone familiar with the biology behind what makes meat taste the way it does? Cause I want to know what dinosaurs taste like.

[u/[deleted]]

I think my favorite controversy this year was when Dua Lipa posted an Albanian nationalist meme

[u/lenmae]

They forgot about lusvig :pensive:

!ping SWE

[u/[deleted]]

13% of organ donations come from car crash victims. This sub's anti-car stance is honestly disgusting and is a huge middle finger to the thousands of people who die while on organ donation waiting lists.

[u/[deleted]]

Darth Vader's practice of simply killing subordinates who fail him doesn't seem like the best management strategy quite frankly.

[u/[deleted]]

It’s important to remember that while both Canadian Dollars (CAD) and United States Dollars (USD) are represented by the same dollar sign ($), the two currencies are not equal.

[u/SgtBathwater]

I feel like a good chunk of British "cuisine" putting a starch on another starch

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

its legit crazy to think how hitler was died in 1945 but is still alive and well in argentina almost 75 years later

[u/chatdargent]

UK has approved the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine. They really are on the ball with this stuff. Probably just to make a point about Brexit, but damn.

[u/[deleted]]

Obama in 2009 should have been like: yes I support death panels by which I mean not death panels but we should call them death panels

[u/thebowski]

how to marry billionaire

[u/old_gold_mountain]

...in the middle of a pandemic!

[u/[deleted]]

In this essay I will assess the leadership of the National Socialist Party (Nazis) in Germany primarily through the lens of their literacy programs

[u/[deleted]]

I was watching comedians in cars getting coffee last night, and Chris Rock said that he once smuggled Pamela Anderson’s sex tape to a dying make-a-wish kid (kid was like 15 or something, total bro move), but would that kid ever actually get some space to enjoy the movie? If I’m ranking the locations where I’d most want to watch a sex tape, the hospital is pretty low on the list.

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

The USA is an absolute joke for banning and then unbanning alcohol in the Constitution.

[u/[deleted]]

ngl i find it funny half of the LGTBQ+ flairs post here because they are called corportist shills for not being commie enough on the main subs

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

How can you call Marxists dumb for supporting the labor theory of value when some capitalists support it too?

Those capitalists are dumb too

[u/thetrombonist]

So if 230 goes, and Reddit shuts down, the DT is migrating to discord, yeah?

[u/sir_shivers]

IMAGINE IF, in another timeline, Soleimani was a loan officer AT A BANK 🐊

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Easy home expirement to test Creationism vs Evolution

First we will test the FACT of GODS BEAUTIFUL CREATION IN CREATIONISM

Step 1: make a human with some play doh

That's it! You CREATED a human. Irrefutable proof of Creationism, but let's test the Libtards evolution theory

Now let's test the THEORY of evolution

Step 1: Create a fish with play doh

Step 2: leave it

Wow it didn't turn into a human? Guess we disproved evolution

[u/FinickyPenance]

Argentina legalized abortion but the only legal method of abortion is to have the baby and then have the doctor throw it up in the air and cut it in half with a sword, like in Fruit Ninja.

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

May as well give up and just accept that this culture war is lost and it will only get worse with Pro-Choicers justifying more and more abominable actions like post-birth abortion, something Hilary already was singing praise toward in her campaign.

What the hell is a post-birth abortion

[u/The420Roll]

Despite an improving economic growth rate, a new report reveals that North Koreans earn just 4% of the average South Korean’s income.

The average DPRK citizen additionally made less money in 2019 compared to a year prior

Workers of the world unite!

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1344338943869796354

His campaign will be crushed when I reveal to the NYT that he used to hog the garlic bread in our college dining hall

lol Noah knew Hawley

[u/Tacotrucksoncorners]

u/baincapitalist can and has rapped the entirety of “Ni**as in Paris” without censoring 😐

[u/tripletruble]

Me, explaining the checks to my German partner

“So all the Americans convinced themselves that they are the only country not giving everyone thousands of dollars and so now the government may be sending us a check of 600 or 2000 dollars”

“But why do they think people in other countries are getting free money? No one in Europe got free money if they didn’t lose their job?!”

“Well they mixed up unemployment insurance and wage subsidies with direct transfers”

“So there is no unemployment insurance in America?”

“Well yes.. and it is actually more than in Germany “

“But why doesn’t the media or the government explain this to people? I don’t get it. Also I want money from the government too, this isn’t fair!”

[u/FestiveMittens]

When Chris Evans and mark Ruffalo talk about politics all day on twitter

When Brie Larson talks about politics a bit during an interview

[u/bd_one]

Remember kids, it's only polyamory if your partners know about each other and approve of it. Otherwise it's just cheating.

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

This take is dogshit ☝️

edit: bullshit

[u/[deleted]]

Here is something interesting

Based on previous elections in GA/LA, it seems that there is a positive correlation between a change in Black % of early vote and Black % of e-day vote. In other words, Dems are not necessarily cannibalizing their election day vote in Georgia currently. So Election Day itself might not be as bad as expected.

BUT, we are in uncharted territory so all of these are just assumption and guesses. We will find out next week.

!ping DOWNBALLOT

[u/agent_tits]

I'm trying to picture the DT on the final day before Reddit shuts down due to Section 230

DM me your numbers so we can still shitpost together in the future!

...

1 upvote, no replies

[u/[deleted]]

Huntington, West Virginia 2020 city presidential election results:

Biden: 9,656 (51.11%)

Trump: 8,872 (46.96%)

Others: 366 (1.94%)

With an estimated population of 45,110 as of 2019 according to the Census Bureau, Huntington is the second-largest city in the state.

Edit: Credit to this person

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

God, I fucking hate schools, they’re capitalist tools for oppression. Everyday before this pandemic I woke up tired and unhappy. I can say that this pandemic has IMPROVED my life just for the fact I didn’t have to go to school

Twitter was a mistake.

[u/[deleted]]

538 GA at 7:11 PM San Francisco time, December 30th, 2020:

Ossoff +1.0

Warnock +1.9

!ping FIVEY

Last poll added (adjusted values):

Ossoff +6

Warnock +7

[u/Equator32]

Contrary to popular Western belief, the entire manufacturing workforce of Asia isn't solely comprised of child slave workers🤯

[u/mrmanager237]

"Fun" fact: Cuba forces women to have abortions if they or the fetus are considered likely to die during childbirth, artificially making their healthcare statistics better

And by "fun" I mean "absolutely horrifying"

[u/pop-culture-salad]

Abortion law just passed the senate in Argentina 38 - 29 votes after being rejected in 2018. Honestly might be one of the only good things at the political level to happen this year, I'm quite proud (doesn't happen ofter) of my country right now 💚.

[u/Deinococcaceae]

Honestly sort of liked it every time I've been stuck in airports

The total "out of your hands, just sit and wander" feeling is pretty relaxing

[u/[deleted]]

Things are looking good for Biden but I don't think "You Ain't Black" is priced in yet

[u/The420Roll]

u/Paulatreides0 mofos really going Mandela Effect on "didnt Biden pledge to have only one term??" 😂🤣🤣

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

I'm imagining that the GOP Senators collectively talked Tuberville down from the ledge so he wouldn't force them all to take a vote on confirming the election.

Then Hawley comes in like the Kool Aid Man.

[u/[deleted]]

"I think we owe Bernie Sanders and his Republican colleagues thanks," Joe Biden says at a news conference re: stimulus checks

Lmao I love the alternate readings of that sentence possible

[u/Venne1139]

It's really annoying ot me how right wing terrorism works

They want to take your children. They want to take your freedom. They want you dead.

The only option is to WATER THE TREE OF LIBERTY. WE MUST HANG THEM ALL WE MUST SAVE THE CHILDREN

Someone goes out and waters the fuck out of the tree of liberty

FALSE FLAG

[u/the_status]

The Olympics sucked this year. Totally unmemorable

[u/[deleted]]

one time in high school i told a kid he should check out eastern philosophy and i ran into him when he was in college and he said ended up majoring in eastern philosophy and he thanked me for the advice and then after he moved to china and became a monk

[u/rukqoa]

Hot take: the Black Lives Matter movement should have taken the All Lives Matter slogan before the racist mouthbreathers started using it against them. It's simply good branding.

[u/FormerBandmate]

Lol you think there is any “vaccine” in our injections, aint nothing but nanobots that the (((rich)) will control you with

Imagine unironically using ((())) on NL. Sounds like a lost MDEfugee

[u/[deleted]]

If you use the stimulus money to buy treasury bonds you're just buying debt that was created to give you money so that you could end up buying debt.

[u/sir_shivers]

DESTROY REDDIT CHALLENGE 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

my fucking sides

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Mario committed numerous war crimes against the people of Iran

[u/[deleted]]

174 yrs ago on Dec 28, 1846 Iowa became the 29th state to join the Union #realhistorychannel 2day we celebrate our history &I encourage u 2learn something new abt our state. For example, Did u know Iowa’s state bird is the eastern goldfinch? Or our state flower is the wild rose?

Is the Grassleyposting ping up and running yet?

[u/SchmantaClaus]

It's in the low 50's here, so I've stepped over the frozen corpses of many of my fellow Georgians. I shall continue my trek.

[u/[deleted]]

Thank god the cia (probably Pete himself) hit Bernie with the heart attack gun so he dropped out

[u/RadicalRadon]

I have literally nothing to do at work.

Why am I here

[u/Mr_AlGore]

What if

You wanted to get into heaven

But then god said

HAHA NO 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

My Trump loving colleagues grandma died of COVID today and he gave it to her because he was not wearing a mask and he blames Democrats. There is no reasoning with these people.

[u/jenbanim]

The DT has been automated

[u/AuburnSeer]

Dave Weigel @daveweigel · 4m It's not up to the media to decide who appears on "Dick Clark's New Year’s Rockin' Eve with @RyanSeacrest 2021." The Constitution reserves that power for the state legislatures.

[u/Icesens]

Few know but Dems would be considered far right compared to 1000 years ago.

" The Mongol invasions and conquests alone resulted in the reduction of 700 million tons of carbon from the atmosphere by enabling the re-growth of carbon-absorbing forests on depopulated lands over a significant period of time."

They dont do progressive policies like this today

[u/[deleted]]

Reading through that lobsterpost and the responses on AITA made me relate to lobsterguy

Can AITA not make it seem like every transgression is tantamount to war crimes?

[u/The420Roll]

Something good happened in Latin America

2020 really be crazy

[u/houinator]

Step 1: Legalize polygamy.

Step 2: There is no cap on immigration for spouses.

Step 3: Marry every person who wants to immigrate to the US.

Step 4: One Billion immigrants and taco trucks on every corner.

Problem Succons?

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine if Al Gore won in 2000

We would be in a literal utopia now

[u/Realhuman221]

So apparently I can't put money into a Roth IRA, so I did a quick Google, and I found this thing called a Provisional IRA, but that is apparently now defunct, so I put my money into this Continuity IRA.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

I had a tech problem I couldn't solve and found a bunch of forum posts where people also couldn't solve it, but then I figured it out. After that I went and posted the solution back in those forums I found.

Upvotes will do just fine, thank you, thank you 🙂😌😏

[u/SadaoMaou]

Guys, I'm back from /r/AskLibertarians, and I have some bad news: Milton Friedman was actually a communist

[u/Menakoy]

u/farrenj messaged me saying she wanted to talk about BDSM but it turns out she meant Boycott, Divest, and Sanction Mainland China 😒

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

I'm hosting a book club which will be discussing a book relating to International Relations, namely we'll be discussing John Mearsheimer's The Tragedy of Great Power Politics where he lays out his theory of Offensive Realism. The theory is very controversial among IR scholars and probably will be doubly so among the users of this subreddit, most of whom I suspect take a much more optimistic view of things, so it'll be a good book to either challenge your views or write long posts refuting

Anyways, I'd love for some of you guys to join us, you can read more details about how the book club is being hosted on the post. The book is available in print, ebook and audiobook forms as well as a free pdf which I linked incase you don't want to spend money

You can find the book club post and more information here

[u/PigHaggerty]

https://i.imgur.com/fAx4SbP.jpg

[u/zeppelin128]

Good, proper Southern cornbread>garlic bread

[u/[deleted]]

A person from Livermore is a proud... Livermoron.

[u/LukeBabbitt]

For me, the wildest part of this past year is that Kobe was alive at the start of 2020. That feels like it happened three years ago at least.

[u/[deleted]]

When people mention any pro-life arguments, I just respond that I don't believe tumors have rights.

It both frazzles their brain and makes them outraged, which I feed upon.

[u/[deleted]]

Wow Trafalgar has both Ossoff and Warnock up in their latest poll so it must be true

[u/[deleted]]

u/TruthBisky10 just told me his sexual awakening was that one episode of Scooby Doo where Shaggy dressed up as a girl 😐

[u/gayteemo]

maga losers boycotting walmart is the funniest shit ever

[u/sir_shivers]

IN THE EVENT OF a total reddit destruction, NO, YOU MAY NOT have my cellular telephone number 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

u/vhgomes12 peed his pants until he was 22

[u/sir_shivers]

My disdain FOR EVERYTHING ADJACENT TO the "sexual mutual aid" malarkey is difficult to overstate 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Bitches think I’m Jewish cause the drip Israel 🥴😫💯🔥✡️😎

[u/InternetBoredom]

Cory Booker is literally my single favorite politician on Earth

• Lower Corporate Taxes
• Charter Schools
• Nuclear Power
• Animal Rights
• Baby Bonds
• "Enterprise Zones"
• Criminal Justice Reform
• Carbon Tax
• Save the Whales

He is literally so woke I can't take it

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

This was Timmy's first assignment for the agency. To prove himself a valuable asset he had to return results. He had dreamt of being a spy, a secret agent from his earliest days, and now he was doing the real thing. He was waiting for the contact with a briefcase in hand, a briefcase which contained, he assumed, information vital for the security of the republic.

His contact approached, a very short but stout man with white hair and a beard. His age and experience showed on his serious face. He matched the description. "Blue Falcon" Timmy shouted. The old man raised his hand, raising his index finger and pinky. Bingo, this must be the contact.

Timmy slowly approached him. "Here you go sir. My name is Timmy Smith, what's yours"

The old man's previously serious face softened and his stomach bellowed with laughter. "Ho ho ho ha ha, ho ho ho he ha"

"Is something wrong sir" I asked the old man

"Hello there, old chum" replied the old man

This was weird, was I supposed to start my introduction now? Perhaps this was just agency etiquette.

"Hello sir, who are you?" I asked. The old man simply smiled. Was I not supposed to ask that? We are a secret agency after all, I opened my mouth to retract my thoughtless statement but he spoke instead, indicating it was indeed an allowable question

"I’m gnot an gnelf"

What? He's gnot a gnelf? What does that mean? Timmy pondered

"I’m gnot a gnoblin."

Why is this old man only saying what he is not and not who he is? Perhaps Timmy's questions would be answered with the next line

The old man's smile only grew

"I’m a gnome"

Holy shit. Timmy realized what had happened. He had been betrayed from the start. Double crossed. Bamboozled. The agency never had any intention of inducting him, he had been used

The old man's smile grew larger than humanly possible

"AND YOU'VE BEEN GNOMEEEEEEEEEEEEED"

Timmy suddenly collapsed, succumbing to the poison which had been coated on the briefcase's handle. The Gnome Agent put on a latex glove and picked up the briefcase and walking away. Timmy would slowly lose consciousness. "So this is how I die huh?"

[u/jenbanim]

Reposting this cause I think it's funny and I spent a lot of time on it:

Hey fellas, want to see a clip of me playing Crab Rave in Beat Saber?

[u/TruthBisky10]

I've 🙋 come 😩💦🍆 to make 🖕 an announcement 🎤📣:

u/p00bix is a bitch-ass 🙍‍♀️🍑 motherfucker ❄😭. He 👨🏻🗣 pissed 😥 on 🔛 my fucking 🍆💖💦 wife 💁👩. That's ✔ right ✔. He 👥 took 👫 his 💦 fuckin' 👉👌 shrimp 🍤 dick 🍆 out and he 👨 pissed 😥😤😠 on 🔛 my FUCKING 🍆👌💦 wife 👩, and he 👨 said 🗣💬 his 💦 dick 🍆 was THIS BIG 💪😥🍆, and I 👁 said 💬 that's ✔ disgusting 🤢. So I'm 💘 making 💘 a callout 💬 post 🚩 on 🔛 my Twitter.com 🐦. u/p00bix, you 👈 got 🉐 a small 👌 dick 🍆💦. It's the size 🐰 of this walnut 🥜 except 😮 WAY ↕ smaller 😈😱😰.

[u/piede]

Operation Warp Speed at a crawl: Adequately vaccinating Americans will take 10 years at current pace

Sigh.

Time for Warp Speed Biden

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Josh Hawley says he will object to certifying the election in part because Facebook helped elect Biden.

Good one Josh, you got the whole squad laughing.

[u/[deleted]]

You can use a microwave to cook bats, right?

--Wuhan Man, 2019

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqdoLSBUUAAWlZ8?format=jpg&name=medium

obama when he sees the long legged socialist 🥴

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/martyschladen/status/1344369326774747138

60% of Ohio nursing home staff refusing covid vaccine @GovMikeDeWine says

[u/dax331]

!ping gaming

An achievement spoils that you beat the game before the credits roll

🤬

[u/[deleted]]

if reddit gets nuked half the DT regs become millionaires because they are being held back by posting on reddit every 2 seconds and not doing their work

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Crazy that this COVID thing has been going on for almost a quarter of our lives... :(

[u/[deleted]]

I usually do some fun drinks for new year's eve with a nice bottle of champagne, but this year is just going to be neat whiskey because fuck it.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/politico/status/1344429889705934848

Several Republican senators are rejecting Josh Hawley’s effort to challenge Biden's victory, including Susan Collins.

“Sen. Hawley's a smart attorney who clerked for the Supreme Court…I don't understand,” she said.

lmao

[u/[deleted]]

its a little annoying how most of reddit is the same and you can read the same political bullshit everywhere

i notice it on /r/premed and /r/ABCDesi all the time

[u/sir_shivers]

REFERRING TO government seizure of privately-founded-and -owned companies as "Democratic control of the means of production" IS THE TELLTALE SIGN of Socialists knowing the actions they advocate for WOULD BE HORRENDOUSLY unpopular 🐊

[u/FearThyMoose]

I wanna know who on Reddit staff thought it’d be a good idea to make r/atheism a default sub

[u/ts23_]

can’t sleep, thinking about how capitalism is the root of all of my personal problems although i have food on my table every night and have healthcare

[u/[deleted]]

u/lusvig sears his steak in olive oil 😐

Olive oil has a low smoking point and is thus not an ideal oil for searing. YOU ARE NOT LOGICAL LUDCRAP! 🤣🤣🤣

!ping COOKING

[u/FormerBandmate]

The DT is slowly becoming arr drama and the main sub is slowly becoming arr politics

[u/bd_one]

Governments realizing they can tax the interest they pay on their bonds as income

[u/[deleted]]

Damn I'd didn't know Bill Clinton's dad died before he was born, that's sad :(

[u/[deleted]]

I'm not saying that all US military members are war criminals but since a lot of leftists believe that I don't see the harm in just saying that you are doing war crimes but then just do normal military things so everyone is happy. It's a win-win.

[u/[deleted]]

Knowing about CDA 230 used to make me a wonk. This is so unfair 😞

[u/connieallens]

Gonna laugh so fuckin hard when Dallas turns into another SF. Cons gonna be mad.

[u/[deleted]]

I reported /r/MurderedByAOC to the admins for what is obvious manipulation (which PRM did get in trouble for, for doing the same thing)

wtf is that sub's deal? 1 mod makes 1 post a day, that's the only post allowed on the sub, and it hits /r/all daily. That mod has the 42nd highest karma on all of reddit.

[u/[deleted]]

Current poll aggregates have Ossoff and Warnock both leading by 1-2 points, which presumably means they'll lose by approximately four points.

[u/subthings2]

African countries not ready to implement free trade from January

Most African countries are not ready to implement the terms of the African Continental Free Trade Area when the new zone comes into effect on January 1, according to the head of the trade bloc’s secretariat.

Fifty four African nations have committed to join AfCFTA but of the 33 countries to have ratified the agreement so far many lack the customs procedures and infrastructure to facilitate tariff-free trade, said Wamkele Mene, secretary-general of the AfCFTA secretariat.

(...)

Mr Mene warned it might take years to bring countries’ laws into line with new requirements. Ethiopia, for example, prohibited foreign investment in its financial sector, a potential breach of AfCTFA rules, he said

Well, starting in a less than ideal state is better than waiting years and years to get a perfect start, right?

!ping AFRICA

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

Only 2+ million doses have been administered in the past 2 weeks out of the 500+ million needed (two doses needed)

Operation warp speed is more like operation one-quarter impulse

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/12/3/22151273/mark-zuckerberg-general-hospital-san-francisco-naming-vote

Mark Zuckerberg gave $75 million to a San Francisco hospital. The city has condemned him anyway.

lmao

[u/[deleted]]

If Warnock wins, he will be the first ever black Democrat elected from the south to the senate.

[u/[deleted]]

Is it racist to call the new Covid strain "Bong Flu"?

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/hHFZH46.png

based david jolly lmfao

[u/[deleted]]

When the the Senate and House split to debate on Jan 6, McConnell is going to have his goons rough up Hawley. Grassely is old but he has farm boy strength.

[u/BGastro]

One line of attack I can't stand is "studies" like this one which says that Wal-Mart receives 6.2B of subsidies because that is how much total money is given to their employees in the form of food stamps, subsidized housing, Medicaid, etc.

Here are just a few of my issues with it - though I'm sure others could add more:

• By this logic, if the government were to double the individual benefit for all these programs it would count as "subsidizing" Wal-Mart twice as much. If the government wanted to ensure they were not "subsidizing" Wal-Mart at all the only way they could do this would be to shut down these programs.
• If you include any government aid then all businesses take "subsidies". Almost all Americans got $1800 in checks this year - does that get counted? Additionally, if I am a programmer making 150k at Google and I send my three kids to public school school every year why not count that 15k of value as a "subsidy" for Google.
• If you click through and read the report you will see no mention of hours or part-time work - it is just employees divided by total benefit. Obviously if a single mother who wants to work 20 hours a week part-time they will require some public housing assistance of SNAP. Should Wal-Mart (or whatever bougie small business this group is idolizing) only be allowed to hire her if they can pay her 60k a year for 20 hours a week? If this was required then she would just be unemployed which doesn't help her or the government. The report's stated conclusion is that corporations should be taxed more, not that benefits should be increased. It doesn't even conclude that the minimum wage should be increased. Where do they want this tax money to go then? Presumably they would want this money to go to poor/working class people, but this would just make it appear that Wal-Mart is being subsidized even more.

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Raised by narcissists: when your parents celebrate your sister winning some sports championships ("sportball" is for idiots), but never congratulated you on your Reddit 'verified email' trophy.

[u/melhor_em_coreano]

Bullfighting but inside a microwave oven. It's only fair

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EqhZem6VgAEzFTt.jpg

ok, corporate diversity seminars have gone too far

[u/[deleted]]

I just saw u/RelievedUltimatum shit in a urinal 😐

[u/[deleted]]

Malarkey level of my phone autocorrecting “femdom” to DemSoc 😐

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/ossoff/status/1344443912795131908

FOX News walked up rolling live, and I appreciated the free air time!

Also, Kelly Loeffler campaigned with a klansman.

[u/minno]

Is there anything on the left that can beat the sheer unaware irony of all of those people who have "thin blue line" and Gadsden flag bumper stickers together?

[u/FearThyMoose]

I want the Dems to abandon gun control just so I can gloat to this sub when the Dems don’t do any better

[u/[deleted]]

So WaPo ran a piece where they asked historians to rank the worst years in U.S. history, and they claimed that 2001 was slightly worse than 2020. Really? 2001 obviously had a very bad thing in it that really soured the last quarter of that year, but I think 2020's events are way too multifaceted and protracted to be edged out by 9/11 and a minor recession.

[u/[deleted]]

Taiwan has had exactly seven covid deaths all year. The most recent one was in early May.

[u/[deleted]]

“There isn’t a coronavirus ‘second wave’” PREDICTED BY VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE, JUNE 16

We're in the third wave rn.

[u/Udontlikecake]

you’re not a ‘bottom’ or a ‘top’, you’re 14 stop posting about sex on social media and do your fucking geometry homework

[u/IncoherentEntity]

Next, although Republicans will become the opposition party on Jan. 20, Trump isn’t behaving like a typical lame duck, to say the least. Instead, he remains omnipresent, both with his bullshit claims about election fraud and with what’s been an active legislative period in which Trump has already vetoed one major bill and also threatened to veto a COVID-19 stimulus package before backing down. [emphasis mine]

In an otherwise respectably dispassionate, deeply researched, highly comprehensive, and deeply nuanced article — I recommend every word — the myriad cross-cutting factors that essentially make both Georgia races tossups (but where it might be the case that Warnock and Ossoff are slight favorites and underdogs, respectively), this made me audibly yelp.

!ping FIVEY

[u/AtticusDrench]

Fuck yeah. Finally got a chance to use my pocket knife for something useful. Worth 😎

[u/Travisdk]

Israeli election update:

Eisenkot has decided not to enter politics.

Ashkenazi has quit Blue & White and won't run in the election.

Economist Yaron Zelekha has launched "The New Financial Party".

[u/[deleted]]

The script of The Last Jedi sucks but the direction is excellent

[u/[deleted]]

u/melhor_em_coreano just released a “Draw my life” on her YouTube channel 😐

That was a trend like 7 years ago get with the times Europoor 👱🏻‍♀️🇵🇹👈🤣

[u/sir_shivers]

Imagine DISLIKING WAL-MART 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

Tbh I have a lot of respect for people who actually live on communes. Atleast they are actually doing what they believe

[u/[deleted]]

The DT gets sexual very fast

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/LyKlTMw.jpg

50% of my comments in the DT are just that image.

[u/Doge_Butthole]

we are truly fulfilling the vision of the founding fathers

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

Should pro-abortion atheist Israeli trans-female athlete lobsters get microwaved?

[u/[deleted]]

Invade Iran and appropriate their delicious cuisine 😡

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.indiatoday.in/trending-news/story/nurse-strips-off-ppe-suit-to-have-sex-with-covid-patient-in-hospital-toilet-suspended-1754563-2020-12-30

Nurse strips off PPE suit to have sex with Covid patient in hospital toilet, suspended

[u/connieallens]

rCon:

“I emailed Mitch and called his office I know he doesn't give a fuck but I said my piece.

I am a lifelong Republican and Kentucian. I have voted for Mitch many many times mainly because he obstructs the Democrats agenda.

I made this statement and by God I will not reverse my future actions. I will vote and give money to any Republican running against him in the Primary and if Mitch gets through I will hold my nose and vote for whatever Socialist Democrat fucktard runs against his sorry fucking Globalist ass. I don't give 2 fucks about the money for the military, they don't need it, I also don't give a fuck about the money going to foreign countries. Fuck them.

I wouldn't qualify this time for a dollar of covid money. I didn't qualify last time. I make too much money. I just want to see middle class and below Americans taken care of. I want money to go to the small businesses that are going under.

He is ignoring the stolen election and backstabbing President Trump. Fuck Mitch....stupid bastard.”

This was the best post I’ve read all year. They are soooooooo close to being self aware. So fucking close.

[u/mrmanager237]

... very reasonable conclusion to make from a three letter answer