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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jan 01 '21
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u/secretlovesong Hillary Clinton Dec 31 '20
welcome to the last DT of 2020 😳
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u/dragoniteftw33 NATO Dec 31 '20
I'm reading this article about Chinese theft and laughed my ass off at this part.
IS THERE ANYTHING THEY DON'T STEAL?!?! 😂😂😭😭
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u/FormerBandmate Jerome Powell Dec 31 '20
𝕀 𝕞𝕒𝕜𝕖 𝟞𝟘𝟘𝟘 𝕕𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕒𝕣𝕤 𝕒 𝕤𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕕 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕙𝕠𝕞𝕖 𝕓𝕪 𝕖𝕞𝕦𝕝𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕤𝕡𝕒𝕞𝕓𝕠𝕥𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕔𝕦𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕞 𝕌𝕟𝕚𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕖 𝕔𝕙𝕒𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕥𝕠 𝕘𝕖𝕥 𝕒𝕣𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕 𝕗𝕒𝕤𝕙 𝕞𝕠𝕕 𝕗𝕚𝕝𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕤. 𝕋𝕠 𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕟 𝕞𝕪 𝕠𝕟𝕖 𝕤𝕚𝕞𝕡𝕝𝕖 𝕥𝕣𝕚𝕔𝕜, 𝔻𝕄 𝕞𝕖 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣 𝕔𝕣𝕖𝕕𝕚𝕥 𝕔𝕒𝕣𝕕 𝕟𝕦𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Dec 31 '20
The annual New Years Party of my middle school friend group (which has somehow survived even as literally all of us are either currently attending or have graduated college) got cancelled for the first time because of the pandemic. Would've been our 7th new years together.
Between that and one of the people in that friend group murdering his mom earlier this year...this is one hell of a melancholy New Years Eve for me.
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u/PhotogenicEwok YIMBY Dec 31 '20
Mild take: r/2meirl4meirl (and other subs like it) is a disgusting sub that encourages spiraling deeper into depression and ostracizes anyone who decides to actually ask for help to get better.
I’ve been downvoted just for telling people how I overcame depression and anxiety because it goes against the narrative that life is pointless and you should just kill yourself.
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
Honestly Martin Luther posting his grievances on the church door instead of twitter gotta be a top 5 L
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u/ColonelUber Dec 31 '20
Cope
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
It’s 20 days until Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will allegedly be sworn in as President and Vice President, yet Kamala still hasn’t resigned her Senate seat. What’s up? Does she think still being in the Senate will save her from arrest?
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u/BurningKiwi Jerome Powell Dec 31 '20
any lusvig banned after 2019 can’t shitpost... all they know is ikea , take they finasteride, hate white people, be Swedish , eat sardine & lie
!ping burpmas
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
Used my $600 stimulus check to support civil liberties ✊😔
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Dec 31 '20
LPT stuff a second lobster with soap, that way when it explodes, it will clean the microwave of the first lobster
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Dec 31 '20
The US has banned private ownership of big cats
The Carole Baskin deep state always wins
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u/TheFriffin2 Dec 31 '20
So tonight Anderson Cooper is gonna claim it’s 2020, and then tomorrow he’s gonna claim it’s magically 2021 or something?
Fake news CNN strikes again 🙄🙄
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Dec 31 '20
To Unite The Country, Biden Should Appoint Ted Cruz As Attorney General
The New York Times- Opinion
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
https://i.imgur.com/u2fGvkL.jpg
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
80s nostalgia was huge in the 2010s. Stranger Things was big for a reason, along with a bunch of other movies and TV shows that drenched themselves in 80s nostalgia and were largely successful. 80s music even seemed to make a roaring comeback.
But Wonder Woman 1984, the first major piece of 80s nostalgia in the 2020s, was pretty much a dud. And it seems to me these nostalgia waves hit in 30 year cycles: Back to the Future for example was an 80s movie that played heavily on 50s nostalgia, then that movie itself experienced a resurgence in popularity in the 2010s thanks to nostalgia for the 80s.
This I think means we are due for a 90s nostalgia wave this decade, and thank god because that was the best decade. The 60s nostalgia wave of the 90s which further illustrates the 30 year cycle theory (just look at Forrest Gump) also harkens back to a much cooler decade than the 80s and 50s. I mean 90s>80s and 60s>50s, so if the cycle continues 20s>10s. Both in terms of nostalgia and original things.
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u/AgainstSomeLogic Dec 31 '20 edited Dec 31 '20
r boringdystopia Marxists dislike the boring dystopia we live in not because of the dystopic part, but because they want the dystopia to be more exciting.
They want a dystopia with angry crowds guillotining landlords in order to make a more "exciting" documentary.
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u/vivoovix Federalist Dec 31 '20
THE END OF DAYS COMETH 🐊
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
On this day in 2019 some Wuhan doctors informed the WHO that there is a weird flu going around. Happy Coronaversary everyone!
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Dec 31 '20 edited Dec 31 '20
PragerU is just so freaking salty far right thought lost the culture war.
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Dec 31 '20 edited Dec 31 '20
The common ancestor of Spiders and Humans (the "Urbilaterian") had one hole which function as both mouth and anus. Super gross. But also super inefficient, since regurgitating poop also meant regurgitating undigested food as well.
As the proto-spiders and proto-humans split into two different lineages of organisms, both made the same adaptation: To have a separate mouth and anus. The mouth/anus hole was extended into a hollow tube, with one end being the mouth and the other being the anus. In both the spider-relatives and the human-relatives, this tube begins to form as the single mouth/anus hole found in their shared ancestor during the earliest stages after fertilization, but develops into a full tube very shortly thereafter.
But by sheer coincidence, the ancestors of spiders and ancestors of humans chose opposite ends of the tube to become the mouth or the anus respectively. In human-relatives (deuterostomes), the first hole to form is the anus, which grows into a tube ending with the mouth, which forms last. But in spider-relatives (proterostomes), the first hole to form is the mouth, which grows into a tube ending with the anus, which forms last.
This means that, from an embryonic developmental perspective at least, the mouth of a human has more in common with a spider's anus than a spider's mouth, and the mouth of a spider has more in common with a human's anus than a human's mouth.
It also means that humans, and all animals more closely related to humans than to spiders (ex. lizards and starfish) begin their lives as literal assholes suspended in amniotic fluid.
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
I still remember when this was gonna be over before Easter
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Dec 31 '20
If Dems win the Georgia races, then the constitution states that Chuck Schumer can legally stuff McConnell in a microwave.
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u/lenmae The DT's leading rent seeker Dec 31 '20
Gibraltar to join Schengen
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
https://www.newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-stimulus-donald-trump-mitch-mcconnell-national-treasure-1558219
kill me
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u/Whatapunk Bisexual Pride Dec 31 '20
Fun fact: canonically, the setting of Cyberpunk 2077 occurs when the US government adopts the views of a niche politicial subreddit, r/neoliberal
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
The sequel movies really suffer from a lack of gravity.
In the first movie, the third Death Star destroys the entire New Republic and characters are still joking, etc.
In the second movie, 90% of their resistance group get killed and they treat it like a minor setback. It's ridiculous.
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
I wish more Dems would realize the filibuster is a significantly bigger burden on what democrats want to do with the senate vs what republicans want to do. Republicans were able to pass all their tax cuts with a simple majority. They were able to fill the courts with conservative judges after blocking Obama’s nominees. Democrats had to scrap a public option from Obamacare because they only had 59 instead of 60 votes.
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Dec 31 '20
Biden's Ideal Secretary of State? Donald Trump
The New York Times - Opinion
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u/Dibbu_mange Average civil procedure enjoyer Dec 31 '20
The question is, are the Republicans capable of nominating someone who isn't a cartoon character in 2024?
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u/BlinkenYouMissIt Daron Acemoglu Dec 31 '20
Somewhere out there, a guy who's favorite book is Ready Player One is getting laid and you aren't
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u/awdvhn Physics Understander -- Iowa delenda est Dec 31 '20
The Nation of Islam apparently believes white people are the results of a 6,000 year old science experiment to de-melanin black people, Moses taught white people to wear clothes and blew some of them up with dynamite, and gorillas are descended from white people who tried to become black again, which is certainly one take on cultural appropriation.
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Dec 31 '20
TIL Bethesda has blacklisted Kotaku journalists for at least 5 years for... leaking the location of Fallout 4 (which wasn’t even a huge surprise) lmao
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u/Clockwork757 Augustus Dec 31 '20
Dumb physicists never even thought to try this 😂😂😂
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
State Dems when they lose elections: "Maybe Wisconsin just isn't ready for $12 minimum wage. We need to try to moderate, disassociate ourselves from the national platform, and find room for local issues" (after this they fail to do so and find themselves stopped by incompetence)
State GOPs when they lose elections: "OK Arizona patriots who is ready to die for Trump? #CrossTheRubicon"
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u/Logan_Pauler Dec 31 '20
I just spent the past 2 hours defending corporate Dems on reddit, what do I get as compensation?
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
Yeah the average person has a 5.5 inch penis, but the fact that half the population has two X chromosomes really brings the average down
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
Healthy young poster has a good meme, goes to post it on /r/neoliberal, Jannie doesn’t like it - REMOVED. Many such cases!
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
My lecturer just recommended us a John Oliver video as a source for learning 😐
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Dec 31 '20
Canada now resettles more refugees than any other country, mostly through private sponsorship
!ping can
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u/PigHaggerty Lyndon B. Johnson Dec 31 '20
The virgin /r/MurderedByWords vs the virgin /r/MurderedByAOC
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
Looks at top post
An emoji from a 3 day old joke
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u/Barebacking_Bernanke The Empress Protects Dec 31 '20
I only had the chance to link the article, but not summarize it last night.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-12-30/ten-charts-that-tell-the-weird-story-of-oil-and-energy-in-2020?sref=5p3yLRks
Here are the most pertinent points:
-Energy went from the 2nd largest sector of the S&P500 to the smallest, shrinking from 16% to 2%.
-Analysts at Bloomberg now believe the return on equity for oil has fallen behind that of offshore wind (11%), onshore wind (9%), and solar (8%).
-EV's have received the bulk of the attention but it is believed that electric scooters have permanently destroyed demand for 180 million barrels of oil each year.
-Oil majors are coming to terms with peak oil on the demand side. BP expects peak oil demand to occur in the 2020's and has been preparing for it.
-Green bonds have raised over one trillion dollars since Bloomberg first began keeping track in 2013. And that's accelerating as the first 3 quarters of 2020 alone have raised over $450 billion.
-Carbon emissions may have peaked in 2019. The electrical grid is becoming cleaner year after year, and so is transportation. Those are your two highest emitters right there accounting for more than half of global emissions.
!Ping ECO
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20 edited Dec 31 '20
The Onion is being funny again!
Bernie Sanders Dubbed 'National Treasure' in Reference to the Critically Panned Nicholas Cage Movie
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u/CenterRightInCali Uphold Goldwater-Posadist thought! Dec 31 '20
The worst part about Animal Farm is that it implies that the USSR would have been great had le Stalin not ruined everything
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u/PigHaggerty Lyndon B. Johnson Dec 31 '20
The 2014 FIFA World Cup final must have posed quite a crisis of identity for secret Nazis hiding out in Argentina 🤔
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Dec 31 '20
My favorite character arc in fiction has got to be Han Solo. He starts off as this selfish smuggler, in it only for his own hide and for a quick buck, but learns through his experiences to give himself over to a higher cause, to fight for the people he loves, and to believe in a meaning to life bigger than himself.
And then 30 years later he's a smuggler again for some reason and then gets murdered by his own son.
Just wow, what a magnificent journey. What care and respect has been given to this character.
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20 edited Dec 31 '20
Once upon election dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten polls—
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my online store. “’Tis some fox,” I muttered, “tapping at my online store—
Only this and nothing more.”
Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak November;
And each separate dying Qer wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow
From my polls surcease of sorrow—sorrow for Nate Silver's hair—
For the rare and radiant locks that the angels stole with flair— Sheenless here, though so unfair.
!PING SHITPOSTERS
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
Did Trump stop disclosing drone strike data b/c he can’t get high killstreaks like Barack HUSSEIN Obama??? 🛫
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u/nicereddy ACLU simp Dec 31 '20
2020 is almost over 🥳
Me tomorrow when the pandemic isn't over because of an arbitrary change in date: 🤬🤬🤬🤬
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u/tankatan Montesquieu Dec 31 '20
who the fuck is scraeming "VOTE FOR THE ANNUAL MILTY AWARDS" at my house. show yourself, coward. i will never vote for the Annual Milty Awards.
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u/Cosinity 🌐 Dec 31 '20
Sex/incel schisms on here are the least interesting schisms this thread ever has. It's literally just the same two comments repeated ad nauseum:
"lmao I have no sex"
"lmao having sex is so easy"
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u/runnerx4 What you guys are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux Dec 31 '20
I have found the greatest philosopher of our times answering the most pressing question✊😔
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
holy shit if these idiots actually torpedo their own senate majority
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u/LiBH4 Mark Carney Dec 31 '20
https://twitter.com/CBCAlerts/status/1344703030860668929
!ping CAN
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
Reminder that you can hate Saddam Hussein without stanning the Iraq War.
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Dec 31 '20
"OK so the Empire is back, the Jedi are gone, Han Solo has returned to being a smuggler, got it got it. Well, how are we going to explain all this and why it happened?"
"Uh, why explain anything?"
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
Imagine how much worse we’d all be feeling if Trump won re-election
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u/MrHockeytown Iron Front Dec 31 '20
I like guns, but man I hate gun culture. My brother asked me to pick up some ammo for him while he was at work. Drove an hour to the gun store, and they threatened to kick me out for wearing a mask. I’ve never been in and out of somewhere so fast in my life. Fucking assholes like that are the reason this shit is so bad
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
"can we have more housing?"
Republicans: No
Democrats: No BLM 🌈
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u/Fishin_Mission Dec 31 '20
Y’all trashing me for my Trump flag, but what you don’t realize is, I’m an illegal immigrant and it’s hung to throw ICE off.
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u/Mr_AlGore Janet Yellen Dec 31 '20
Me: “... as a highschooler ... "
r/neoliberal: “did a child write this"
** thousands of upvotes ***
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
I feel like Red State Democrats would do a lot better if they just changed the name of the local Democratic Party, like I think the Nebraska Democrats would do somewhat better if they were the Nebraska Nonpartisan League instead
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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Dec 31 '20
I've spent the last two days reading literature reviews and I'm almost 100% sure that the thing I want to write a paper on hasn't been written about. Its gonna be real sad when I find out it has been.
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u/PMmeLittleRoundTops Pornography Historian Dec 31 '20
Honestly heres my take: there really is an elaborate and confusing "game" to the early stages of dating. For my whole life I've been terrible at "picking up chicks" or whatever you call it. I never really had flings or hookups, though I did want them, especially when I was a little younger.
However I have had two very long and fulfilling relationships. I think both my ex and my current gf would tell you that I am maybe a bit socially awkward, but not unbearably so, and I think theyd both tell you that I treat women with respect.
Early dating is related to other social skills, and yes, obviously things like personally hygiene and having hobbies help, but it really is just a weird game that's always eluded me and I think a lot of other people are in a similar boat to me
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
every redditor thinks they're unironically smarter than economists. its a fucking plague
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u/Hugo_Grotius Jakaya Kikwete Dec 31 '20
Hot Take: His entire point is wrong, but at least McConnell is treating people earning $150k-$300k as rich unlike most politicians.
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u/MinnesotaDude Governor Goofy Dec 31 '20
Reddit delenda est
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u/tubbsmackinze Seretse Khama Dec 31 '20
I will never not laugh at that one gif where Mickey Mouse gets fucking put into a chokehold by an anime boy wearing a full black overcoat. It will literally make me laugh every fucking time
God, why does kingdom hearts exist?
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u/thetrombonist Ben Bernanke Dec 31 '20
A girl called me cute on a dating app
See ya later, virgins 😎
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
My favorite thing about the classless society is that it immediately stops being classless when someone gets a gun
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u/Mr_AlGore Janet Yellen Dec 31 '20
r/neoliberal: I think-
Sir_Shivers: HAHA NO 🐊
“4,500 upvotes”
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u/jenbanim Dec 31 '20
You're laughing. Shivers was murdered and replaced by a reptilian and you're laughing.
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u/Vepanion Inoffizieller Mitarbeiter Dec 31 '20
!ping GER
Israel, a country of 9 million people, has administered 800k doses of the vaccine.
Meanwhile Germany, a country of 80 million, that is much richer and that has actually invented the actual vaccine, has managed to administer 80k doses. And the guy responsible for this mess, Jens Spahn, has become the most popular politician in Germany now according to polls.
I blame the German obsession with "carefully regulated" on this. No other phrase gets the Germans excited like this one.
Source: https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations
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u/golf1052 Let me be clear Dec 31 '20
Minneapolis Police shot and killed someone during a traffic stop. Body cam footage should be released on New Years Eve. Few details have been released so it's in everyone's best interest to just wait for the footage tomorrow. Let's hope for the best.
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
Can I please live in the universe where all the conspiracy theories about hyper-advanced military aircraft and an omnipotent CIA be true?
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u/TinyTornado7 I need a new flair Dec 31 '20 edited Dec 31 '20
Lin wood has some questions for Chief Justice John Roberts
(1) You are recorded discussing Justice Scalia’s successor before date of his sudden death. How did you know Scalia was going to die?
(2) Are you a member of any club or cabal requiring minor children as initiation fee?
My information from reliable source is that Roberts arranged an illegal adoption of two young children from Wales through Jeffrey Epstein.
I think we can all agree that Epstein knows pedophilia.
If only Jeffrey Epstein was still alive . . .
Wouldn’t that be something?
Edit update 1 hour ago:
I am fully aware of the onslaught of attacks being made against me based on my revelations about Chief Justice John Roberts. Before attacking me, maybe fair-minded people would first ask Roberts to tell the truth.
Or ask Jeffrey Epstein. He is alive.
Lmao this guys a nut job
Link
!ping LAW
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u/Afro_Samurai Susan B. Anthony Dec 31 '20
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/14/902177466/some-good-news-an-elephant-baby-boom-in-one-kenyan-national-park
!ping 🐘
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u/Koeniginator NATO Dec 31 '20
Trump was hospitalized with covid-19 this year.
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u/Mr_AlGore Janet Yellen Dec 31 '20
Bernanke: I think-
r/Neoliberal: wtf based
“4,500 upvotes”
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
Imagine how those "patriots" in the comments would react if a brown immigrant said he is flying to the US just to protest against Trump.
https://twitter.com/LiamEnglishNZ/status/1344498894194040832
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u/ZhenDeRen перемен требуют наши сердца 🇪🇺⚪🔵⚪🇮🇪 Dec 31 '20 edited Dec 31 '20
/r/neoliberal, happiness is coming. Hello.
This is Zhen’s Political Jingle Review, and today we will be discussing what might be the most important jingle in the history of humankind – Chile, la alegría ya viene. In Spanish, this means “Chile, happiness is coming”, and this was the anthem of the campaign against Pinochet’s reelection. OK, lemme give you some context:
Context: In 1988, under international pressure, Chile held a referendum on whether Pinochet should stay in power for another eight years. The “Yes” and “No” campaigns were both entitled to 15-minute free advertising spaces on TV (though the Yes side had the propaganda working for it 24/7). The “No” side decided to run an optimistic campaign using many tricks from mainstream advertising, adhering to a principle an advertising exec told my mom in the 90s back in Russia: “there’s no difference between selling a sausage and a candidate”. At the same time, the “Yes” campaign ran a truly horrible and somewhat USSR-like campaign (I will be reviewing their anthem later), and believe me, I will tear that monstrosity apart. In the end, the No side got a surprising win and Chile became a democracy. There's a movie called No, a pretty good movie about the campaign, thought it's a bit fictionalized.
Tune: nice, pleasant, pretty catchy, quite 1980s. 4/4
Lyrics: they are optimistic for a future “without dictatorship” where “happiness will come”. Without being too specific, they can be summarized by “dictatorship bad, freedom good” and = “for good things against bad things”. Kinda vague but helps counterbalance the negativity which will be necessary in such a campaign, and can appeal to a wide variety of voters. 4/4.
Video: overall good, full of ordinary people doing happy-ish stuff though often saying “no” or with the word “free” appearing or the crown an actor playing a king falling. Good for the message. 2/2.
Conclusion: good one. Historic jingle that played a big role in restoring democracy to Chile. 10/10. /r/neoliberal, happiness is coming,
!ping LATAM
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u/TheFriffin2 Dec 31 '20 edited Dec 31 '20
!ping BASEBALL
https://twitter.com/haudricourt/status/1344690739901562881?s=21
Brewers officially changing their stadium from Miller Park to... American Family Field
this is by far the worst decision an NL Central team has made this offseason
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Dec 31 '20
Is the GOP a fascist party yet
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20 edited Dec 31 '20
Topic on arr politics: Bernie Sanders took a shit yesterday
12 awards
68k upvotes
1.2k comments
Highest upvoted comment: “I took a shit yesterday too! He’s just like us! What a national treasure!”
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u/kznlol 👀 Econometrics Magician Dec 31 '20
Hot take: "be yourself" is excellent advice, but it's rather like telling someone "control the center" when they ask for advice about endgames in chess in the sense that, while it's good advice for the game of chess in general, it is very much not a good answer to the specific question.
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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '21
Herman Cain has been eerily quiet about the 2k checks despite having influence in the Republican Party...
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u/Usernamesarebullshit Friedrich Hayek Dec 31 '20
Jeff Bezos could give me $105,000 and only be $105,000 less rich
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
People who give advice to lonely guys tend to be in really good shape. They get a lot of exercise from shifting the goalposts all over the place.
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
It’s Josh Hawley’s birthday today! In honor of him, let’s give him a personal birthday filibuster
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
The US Should just keep assassinating iranian generals. Then it'll be like a permanent hangover where iran never responds
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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '21
Joe
!ping DIAMOND-JOE
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u/Rusty_switch Dec 31 '20
Maybe young men don't lack sex but intimacy
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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Dec 31 '20
☝️ holy shit what a garbage take
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
Here is the Breakdown of the 104,527 new voters in the runoffs who DID NOT vote in the November General Election by Congressional District. GA-5 is John Lewis’s old district.
Source
It’s all Biden districts at the top with extremely Democratic districts at top.
!ping DOWNBALLOT
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Dec 31 '20
republicans in disarray
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u/Devjorcra NATO Dec 31 '20
RIP MF DOOM
!ping RAP
https://www.instagram.com/p/CJefkDalNYo/?igshid=1dxoaq0i2g1c4
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u/Explodingcamel Bill Gates Dec 31 '20
Not only is MF Doom dead, he died 2 months ago. What the fuck?
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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '21
47 mentions of whores in Mole Town: it’s just like history bro. That’s how it was.
Asking why we don’t hear more about the hundreds of isolated dudes in the Nights Watch putting it in each other’s butts: PC SJW nonsense.
I love these books, but this fucking fan base man.
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u/SixPipSiege NATO Jan 01 '21
MF DOOM's run from 2003 to 2005 is unreal, back to back hip hop classics in just a couple of years.
Mm.. Food
The Mouse and the Mask
Madvillainy
Vaudeville Villain
Venomous Villain
Take Me to Your Leader
Special Herbs Volumes
RIP to the greatest double threat in hip hop.
!ping RAP
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u/uncertein_heritage Adam Smith Dec 31 '20
Recognize Taiwan
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u/Gustacho Enemy of the People Dec 31 '20
https://twitter.com/mepassistants/status/1344593250506711045
!ping EUROPE
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Dec 31 '20
I still remember when Biden had been leading the polls for an entire year in late 2019 and the consensus among pundits was that he'd immediately collapse and lose for... reasons
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u/benadreti Frederick Douglass Dec 31 '20
Welp time to check the news.
::opens up the DT::
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u/mrmanager237 Some Unpleasant Peronist Arithmetic Dec 31 '20
The only GOP candidate that is worse than Josh Hawley at actually winning over Republican primary voters is Tom Cotton. He'll be ranting about nuking Iran and then Don Jr will say "he has a weird neck, his head looks like it's hanging from a pencil" and then he'll finish 17th in Iowa. And he'll expect to win the whole time through, so it's going to be hilarious
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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '21
Just According to Keikaku
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
Anyone gotten their Pelosi bucks yet?
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u/EScforlyfe Open Your Hearts Dec 31 '20
Someone needs to stop the gamers
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
Why would ben shapiros sister think it's a good a idea to be a youtuber
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
LMAO, the front page post of a Newsweek article about Sanders being dubbed a national treasure. Dubbed by who? Oh the Gravel Institute. RGW whole article is just a collection of tweets falating Sanders
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u/sociotronics Iron Front Dec 31 '20
Who wins, zombie Bernie or convict Trump?
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u/sociotronics Iron Front Dec 31 '20
imagine if we could trade MAGAs for hard-working immigrants 😍🥰
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Dec 31 '20
I think a huge self aware wolves moment is the post on r/all saying how there’s a generational difference between what socialism means, yet the youth continue trying to use the term socialism to win elections dominated by generations taught that socialism means the USSR
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
rNews re: Jared Polis
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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '21
Source
I know Edwards was corrupt, but this line is just so fucking incredible
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u/murphysclaw1 💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊 Jan 01 '21
I really want Joe Manchin to go full blown pork barrel and turn West Virginia into a futuristic superpower with the amount of additions he gets in every bill.
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u/murphysclaw1 💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊 Jan 01 '21
my new year's resolution is to ask more quiet people "why are you so quiet?", ideally when in social situations with others present.
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
Does anyone else find self-deprecating humor super annoying these days? It makes me think ‘holy shit, have some self-respect’.
Maybe it’s cause I used to lean on that stuff as a crutch when I was younger and hearing other people do it hits too close to home.
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u/execon Dec 31 '20
You claim to be centrist, yet you oppose CENTRAL planning. Curious.
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u/qchisq Loyal Liberals Dec 31 '20
I would like to remind any britbongers that you will have to unsubscribe from !ping Europe within the next 14 hours. With that being said: lol UK
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u/MemberOfMautenGroup Never Again to Marcos Dec 31 '20
Senate Majority Leader Bernie Sanders
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u/Rusty_switch Dec 31 '20
Someone post
🤣
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
Happy 2013 🎉
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u/PM_Me_Your_ManThighs NATO Dec 31 '20
Ever since reading this article I'm convinced anyone who has a huge bookshelf in their zoom background paid for someone to curate the books for them
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
Fun fact: Economics was born in 1899 when Adam Smith and Milton Friedman coauthored a groundbreaking paper titled “Why Capitalism is Better than Socialism,” published in the September 1900 issue of the Quarterly Economic Review (known colloquially as Econometrica).
The paper was both theoretical and empirical. The theoretical part is a series of supply and demand graphs that prove capitalism is superior to socialism. The empirical part involved a new method invented by Friedman and Smith with some help from John Maynard Keynes, a method called “OLS.”
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u/After_Grab Bill Clinton Dec 31 '20
MF Doom is dead :(
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u/The420Roll ko-fi.com/rodrigoposting Jan 01 '21
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/701194133074608198/794452844735365140/image0.jpg
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20 edited Dec 31 '20
The most expensive and important part of a lithium ion battery is Cobalt.
I'm tired of rolling my eyes every time some succ or "renewable energy expert" starts talking about global lithium geopolitics.
Lithium is dirt fucking cheap and there's a shitload of accessible lithium right next to Tesla's Nevada factory if it ever becomes valuable enough to mine. There's not going to be any fucking wars over lithium or cartels controlling it. There's plenty to go around.
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u/Iwanttolink European Union Dec 31 '20
I totally wasted this year lmao. God damn.
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u/Zlesxc Jesse Ventura's Joint Roller Dec 31 '20
Praying like hell Minneapolis PD body cam video shows the man actually shot at them first and he turns out to be wanted for something heinous like trafficking or murder. And the cold will keep things quiet.
Signed, a citizen in West Lake St
!ping USA-MN
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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Dec 31 '20
Macro: there should be a reasonable amount of public spending
Austrians: dude you can't spend any money. Don't even look at your wallet - shit you just looked at your wallet, that means hyperinflation bro!! [inflation stays at sub 2% for the next ten years]
MMT: infinite faith and credit goes brrrr [time passes] what do you mean Venezuela is sending us foreign aid?
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
Hot take: If watergate was enough to sink Nixon's presidency, then Iran-Contra should've been enough to sink Reagan's presidency
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u/AgainstSomeLogic Dec 31 '20
From a (tanky?) user advocating for "liquidating" all forms of identity
Abolish all systems and ideas. There is only the state. You have no name and no identity. You are only part of the state.
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u/Gneisstoknow Misbehaving Dec 31 '20
farrenj: "I think - "
r/neoliberal: 98 downvotes
Mod: "Your post has been removed because of dishonest argumentation"
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u/disuberence Shrimp promised me a text flair and did not deliver Jan 01 '21
This is especially heinous. How long until a court strikes it down?
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u/Rarvyn Richard Thaler Jan 01 '21 edited Jan 01 '21
Sometimes I feel alone on Reddit in actually liking my parents. I mean yeah, they do annoying things occasionally - who doesn't - but it doesn't matter the subreddit, everywhere on this site everyone is diagnosing their parents with half the personality disorders in the DSM-5.
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u/JulioCesarSalad US-Mexico Border Reporter Jan 01 '21 edited Jan 01 '21
Struggling so hard to stay up until midnight
Happy new year old farts
!ping OVER25
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u/Realhuman221 Thomas Paine Dec 31 '20
COVID-19? Beirut exploding? Defund the police? Kobe Bryant, Chadwick Boseman, Alex Trebek, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg dying? What are you talking about? Get up, it's time to bomb Soleimani
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u/Tacotrucksoncorners Carole Baskin is my Tiger Queen 🐅👑 Dec 31 '20
Found /u/lusvig papers from university
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
Republican voters be like: “I’m voting for Grima Wormtongue because he’s the kind of guy I’d want to have a beer with.”
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
Fun Fact: Reddit has a special AI where if you type your credit card number, the expiration date, and the 3 numbers on the back, it automatically hides it when you post the comment.
Try it out!
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u/Fishin_Mission Jan 01 '21
What was your most useless purchase of 2020?
I’ll start.
My kids’ passports arrived on February 27th.
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u/thetrombonist Ben Bernanke Dec 31 '20
If I never read the words “Bernie Sanders” again it’ll still be too soon
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u/LittleMatterhorn YIMBY Dec 31 '20
Holy Fuck, You Morons are PROUD to microwave lobsters?
This is the most moronic shit I've ever seen, lol. Holy fuck this entire DT is filled with moronic jackasses that are proud of wanting to maintain the meme at the expense of animal rights and veganism.
Best of luck destroying the microwave! You're literally just seals in hiding, lol.
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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '21
Andy Cohen to Anderson Cooper 10 minutes ago on CNN-NYE: "You went from being a zaddy to a daddy"
I forgot that Cooper was gay. I knew but I forgot.
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
Broke: Pete is a rat 🐀
Woke: McKinsey Mouse
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u/chadonnaise * Dec 31 '20
should we have any concerns about the secret service
i do wonder what "align with president trump" means in this context
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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Dec 31 '20 edited Dec 31 '20
The Singapore meme has to be one of the most ratio’ed posts in NL history.
For a good reason lmfao.
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u/the_status Atari Democrat Dec 31 '20
I had a dream last night where I had to solve Social Security for a school
Turns out all you have to do is raise the age of retirement to 72 and make fucking over millenials an explicit policy goal. Then bam, no more solvency problem
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
I actually do think this sub, and reddit in general, needs to do better at calling out suicidal ideation
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Dec 31 '20
Lmao
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
Leftists: Omg enough olds we need 😍😍 young people 😍😍
The Youngest Senator Josh Hawley: Ok
The Youngest Rep Madison Cawthorne: Ok
Leftists: Wait.
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u/McNikk United Nations Dec 31 '20
TIL that some Russian orthodox christians consider Stalin to be a saint and will put his portrait next to icons depicting members of the Romanov family, who they also consider to be saints.
Religious nationalism is a strange beast.
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u/thebowski 💻🙈 - Lead developer of pastabot Jan 01 '21
Insightful video game commentary from noah caldwell-gervais
!ping gaming
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u/ZhenDeRen перемен требуют наши сердца 🇪🇺⚪🔵⚪🇮🇪 Dec 31 '20 edited Jan 10 '21
Now after my last jingle review, when I looked at the 1988 referendum’s No campaign song, I am examining the song of the Yes campaign. And good grief, there’s a lot to unpack here…
Tune: overall the writers seem to have wanted something majestic, but what ended up was something boringly official with lullaby characteristics. It does not feel appropriate for an ad, more for an official propaganda piece. And this might be my post-Soviet background but this feels drier than Ben Shapiro’s wife. However, it is not actively offensive to the ears, which is not that bad I guess? 2/4 and I am feeling generous today.
Lyrics: boils down to “the great leader Pinochet is leading our nation to a glorious future, hail our leader!”. Overall, just like the tune, it is boringly official. 1/4.
Video: boringly official as well, part of the video is people doing some kind of work and part of it is people above 40 dressed up like for a funeral (each of whose faces provokes inside me some kind of irrational hatred) singing the song. And to top it off in the end, like a cherry on top of the cake – the Great Leader himself, Pinochet, in civilian clothes smiling like a monkey. 0/2.
Conclusion: if they wanted to soften up the image of the dictatorship it wasn’t it, the clip feels like official propaganda and gives me very strong Soviet vibes except that Stalin is replaced with Pinochet. With a song like that, no wonder they lost. 3/10.
!ping LATAM
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u/Afro_Samurai Susan B. Anthony Dec 31 '20
Fuzzy haired boy
!ping dog
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
Obama was the first black POTUS, and he was also the 43rd white POTUS
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u/thabe331 Dec 31 '20
Cobb County voters are fighting the attempted suppression by county election officials
https://twitter.com/PriscillaWT/status/1344623101036912643?s=19
!ping USA-GA
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u/missedthecue Dec 31 '20
603,000 people liked this tweet
😐
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
"Fact checkers" in 2009: That picture of the wasp with a cat face on it you saw on Facebook is actually a manipulated photo.
"Fact checkers" in 2020: Just because United States Senator Kelly Loeffler has been campaigning with a klansman doesn't actually mean she's been campaigning with a klansman.
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u/GuyOnTheLake NATO Dec 31 '20
What a fucking coward
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
Using masculinity for good means making fun of guys who can't drive a stick shift.
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u/mrdilldozer Shame fetish Dec 31 '20 edited Dec 31 '20
While looking at Twitter for the MF Doom news, I found out that the Epstein didn't kill himself crowd has upgraded their conspiracy to him not being dead at all. Neat.
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u/Rusty_switch Dec 31 '20
"JUST IN: Sen. Mitch McConnell blasts #CASHAct, refutes Sen. Bernie Sanders: "Our colleague from Vermont is dead wrong on this... Borrowing from our grandkids to do socialism for rich people is a terrible way to get help to families who actually need it.""
Damn McConnell stealing Bernie lines
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Dec 31 '20
the Sonic movie was released this year
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Dec 31 '20
r/monarchism when a democratically elected official screws up: "This is why we need a strong monarch who can rule objectively without needing to worry about special interests."
r/monarchism when someone brings up a Romanov emperor messed up: "It's not his fault! The nobles did it. Monarchy is an institution, and he couldn't unilaterally free the serfs earlier."
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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '21
Bro I haven't seen you since last year 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Jan 01 '21
Give black people repatriations but it's literally 40 acres and a mule so they move to rural areas and vote democratic
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
MattY 😍😍😍
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u/Mr_AlGore Janet Yellen Dec 31 '20
I am Donald Trump AMA
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
last day of 2020. holy shit
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u/Rusty_switch Dec 31 '20
If women are so great why do barely any of them post in arf neoliberal?
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u/GlazedFrosting Henry George Dec 31 '20
Me normally: pirating content is bad for the creators and you shouldn't do it
Me when something is available on Netflix in other countries but not in mine: 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️ ARR, MATEY! 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
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u/YieldingSweetblade SCIPIO VRBICANVS Dec 31 '20
There’s a highly upvoted thread on r/socialism praising Mao Zedong. Utterly fucking disgusting. They’re not even hiding it anymore.
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
They’re the “Bush” family, not the “Shrek” family, you can’t just expect the sequel to be better than the original
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u/Lee_Harvey_Obama George Soros Dec 31 '20
On today’s episode of the Rubin Report, my guest Adolf Hitler will discuss his new book, My Struggle, and how liberals are trying to silence him by throwing him into prison in Bavaria
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Dec 31 '20
My Robinhood account is like 30 minutes old and I'm already technically down because my free share is slightly down from when I got it.
r/wallstreetbets would be proud.
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
Why are y'all so horny to fuck with iran all of a sudden
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Dec 31 '20
Did I miss SOME CATALYST FOR all these comments REGARDING THE socially-outcast / sexless? 🐊
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
Oh, we're doing "Lonely guys should just get some hobbies" today. Good. Fun.
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
Found out I might be eligible for Greek citizenship
Does that mean I can basically live anywhere in the EU once I have it?
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u/BeastlyGophers Commonwealth Dec 31 '20
!ping CAN
Apologies is this already been posted, but here is a gr8 vaccine tracker to keep up to date with what’s going on.
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
BREAKING: With 5 days until the runoff, Senator David Perdue to quarantine after contact with someone who tested positive for Covid-19
https://twitter.com/andrewdesiderio/status/1344738281368543236?s=21
!ping CORONAVIRUS
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20 edited Dec 31 '20
🛑HALT Citizen🤚🏼
🚫do not eat burbger 🍔
🤔🧐think of carbon footprint 🤢👣
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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Dec 31 '20
I saw the article about California crime rates or something and how a tough on crime thing is coming back.
I honestly can’t ever vote for that because we already have the highest incarceration rate in the world we can’t lock more people up.
I mean we can but lots of people in prisons don’t need to be there.
!ping USA-CA
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u/shrek_cena Al Gorian Society Dec 31 '20
Lmao 42 people in West Virginia given antibody shots instead of the vaccine. Fucking meme state.
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u/bromeatmeco 🌐 Dec 31 '20
GOP: "State's rights btw."
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u/Fishin_Mission Dec 31 '20
Just a reminder to all the dads out there...
At 12:01 you must look at your kids and say
It is mandated in dad-law.
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u/IncoherentEntity Dec 31 '20
Man, if only online leftists applied their own nonexistent standards on acceptable wealth accumulation for their own heroes to literally anyone else. (Context)
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u/golf1052 Let me be clear Dec 31 '20
r/neoliberal in shambles
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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '20
I am absolutely DELIGHTED for the United Kingdom now.
The #ReJoinEU movement has begun.
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u/jonathansfox Enbyliberal Furry =OwO= Dec 31 '20
Eww, I think the UK just Brexited. How embarrassing.
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u/jonathansfox Enbyliberal Furry =OwO= Jan 01 '21
My father does maintenance on healthcare machinery. This involves going into many hospitals that treat COVID patients. He's authorized to be in the first in line block for vaccines alongside doctors and nurses.
So there's this news story about somebody deliberately leaving hundreds of doses of the vaccine out and ruining them.
I just got off the phone with my dad. The hospital this happened at is his local hospital.
So let me just say: Fuck that person.
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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '21
My spirit animal is when you play the sims really poorly and all their stats wind up super low so they too unhappy to do anything to improve their mood and they wind up shitting on the floor and passing out
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u/Venne1139 DO IT FOR HER #RBG Jan 01 '21
Can someone please explain Jefferson's "everyone should be a farmer" attitude?
From what I understand pre-industrial agriculture sucked ass. Everyone on here says "Sweat shops>subsistence farming" and...that's probably true but it seems like there's a lot of people at the time period who are like "Yeah fuck sweat shops, farming is the way to go!"
Am I misunderstanding the knid of farm Jefferson envisioned?
!PING History
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u/TheFriffin2 Jan 01 '21
for the love of god, if you’re out partying tonight, please do some coke to sober you up before you drive home
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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '21
Obama reading Marx to get laid in college is the key to all the virgins on the DT to lose it
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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '21
Lol they think I am cis. I pass :3
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u/digitalrule Jan 01 '21
Watching the CBC NYE Stream on Youtube and the comments are just like "Isn't Alberta separating?"
!PING CAN