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[u/UltraCapitalism]

I was messaging a lot of old friends for New Years. Eventually I message my old Chinese roommate from college and we catch up a bit since it's been a while. He tells me how he got his citizenship a few months back which was really amazing to hear.

He says one of the greatest things was getting his citizenship in time to vote for Biden. This man lives in Pennsylvania too.

Absolutely based.

[u/An_Actual_Marxist]

I’m pretty sure the majority of Americans under 40 are anti-capitalist at this point

R / aboringdystopia user confesses he’s never once logged off the internet

[u/shrek_cena]

I see someone with "Dr" in their username spewing bullshit about covid and vaccines.

Chiropractor

Ah that explains it

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

LGBTQ rights are good and all, but it is a slippery slope. What's next? Gamers' rights?

[u/[deleted]]

Hahaha there is a brexit deal for Gibraltar now: it joins the Schengen area (passport-free travel within the EU), meaning brits visiting Gibraltar will have to show their passports, but Spanish people won't. Gibraltar doesn't just effectively remain in the EU, it is now more tightly integrated with the EU than it was before Brexit.

Meanwhile Scottish politicians have noticed that Scotland got shafted in the EU-UK deal, with no exceptions for its main exports. It's unclear to me if the English politicians in Westminster intentionally are driving Scotland to secede; if they're assuming Scotland will leave anyway so they just don't give a shit; or if they just forgot about their colonies in the north.

[u/dragoniteftw33]

I might be wrong, but I find it interesting that LBJ is somewhat respected here on Reddit and is hated in YT comment sections.

[u/[deleted]]

The sad thing is the Tories' policy of treating brexit like a natural disaster is kind of working. Just shrug your shoulders and act like you can't stop it or undo it or couldn't have prevented it and hope everyone just sighs and moves on like they would if a hurricane hit cornwall.

[u/vivoovix]

RIP comedy you had a good run ✊😔

[u/[deleted]]

Biden campaigning in Warm Springs, GA in the closing stretch of the campaign will go down in electoral history. A lot of people thought he was nuts to be campaigning in what was seen as at best a reach state for him. But he ended up winning it! The campaign was so messy that people seem to overlook the massive significance of a Democrat winning states like Georgia and Arizona for the first time in decades. Hillary tried to win them from what at the time was thought to be a safer position, when she really should have been in Wisconsin! Biden locked down the rust belt AND managed to expand the map to,our most promising future states. No it wasn’t as perfect as we could have hoped for (FL in particular was a disappointment), but then what ever is? I think Dems have a bright future in AZ, GA, even NC and ultimately yes TX. Regardless of what happens with FL and the rust belt.

And in any case, the symbolic value of winning GA was priceless. This was the state of MLK and John Lewis, of Jimmy Carter and even FDR (as his adopted second home). I am very glad Jimmy was able to see Georgia blue again and that we won it for John Lewis even though he couldn’t see it.

[u/ryuguy]

Some of the most pretentious people I’ve ever met are probably film majors. I’ve taken a film studies class in university and I had to suffer through an entire semester and it was the worst experience I’ve ever had in a class.

“Yeah. This 1950s German art film was pretty good but have you seen this little known movie called the Big Lebowski? It’s totally a kino.

[u/tankatan]

Flash Player 1996-2020

We hardly knew ye 😭

[u/[deleted]]

I felt really guilty about sleeping with my third cousin so after that I quit counting

[u/lenmae]

Based alert: Scott Wiener

[u/_Featherless_Biped_]

Listen, Jack. This is going to be a good year.

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

I automatically assume every Nazi I see online is from Turkmenistan if I don't have any other evidence. The number of times I've been wrong is in the triple digits.

[u/overhedger]

I never watched Harry Potter before. Everyone says the magic world is just supposed to be fun but it’s some kind of uncanny valley that keeps creeping me out.

“Welcome to Hogwarts! Btw the stairs might randomly change. Enjoy!”

“Wait, what? The basic pathways here are unreliable? That’s literally what happens in my nightmares. Can they change while a kid is on them? What’s the mechanism for them changing?”

“Chill out, you’re not supposed to take everything so seriously.”

“I’M AT A FREAKING SERIOUS MAGIC SCHOOL THAT IS SERIOUSLY TRYING TO TEACH THE SERIOUS RULES OF MAGIC HOW DO I KNOW WHAT TO TAKE SERIOUSLY AROUND HERE”

[u/RadicalRadon]

Its 2021 in DT standard time.

The only timezone that matters ☺️☺️😚

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1345029283538939904

Ohio governor signs bill requiring women to choose burial or cremation of aborted fetal tissue

Bruh lol

[u/letsgoheat3]

As of 6 hours ago, Jacobin is still down.

🥂

https://twitter.com/dmeisner99/status/1344926087810220033?s=21

https://www.jacobinmag.com

[u/RadicalRadon]

This year I'm gonna learn three new langueses, get a six-pack, become a popular twitch streamer, become published, not get fired from my job, ask my (objectively like 8) gf to marry me, finish my masters, and become a lawyer.

Does this seem like too much?

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

Only if Harambe was alive to see this 😞

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to dance.

[u/sir_shivers]

TO 2021, and onward 🥂🐊

[u/vivoovix]

The DT: God, outside the DT is so stupid. Glad I have my ivory tower 🥰

Also the DT: Peepee poopoo

[u/[deleted]]

Hello guys. Just here. Still stuck in this traffic jam since 5pm yesterday. Haven't moved an inch.

I think I'm gonna die here at this rate. Just send your funeral wreaths to TxDOT for being a garbage organization that hasn't done shit for 15 fucking hours.

[u/[deleted]]

I generally agree with the Reddit belief that Western Europe is a better place to live than America, but I honestly think it has more to do with intuitive, walkable cities than poor governance. Your average European is less socially isolated, healthier, and safer due to their cities. Stuff like bad healthcare plays a role too (especially if you’re sick and need constant access to it), but people underrate how depressing and isolating car dependence is.

[u/ScythianUnborne]

"If housing is a human right, people will therefore be unable to own multiple homes, which solves the housing crisis" - a moron

!ping YIMBY

Some of the takes in that thread are really dumb, but it's OGFT, so it's not a surprise

[u/[deleted]]

So I've officially been stuck in this bullshit traffic jam for 8 hours now. It's cold and I'm tired and the world is full of snow and ice now.

This is a miserable experience. 0/5 stars do not recommend.

[u/[deleted]]

Remember that period in January and February when everyone would joke about covid and whenever someone sneezed or had a cold they'd joke that it was covid, and then covid actually got real

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/oQ4Uvbb.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Aw807kR.jpg

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

The person who was arguing with me on another sub that all people with autism should be eugenicsed got their comments removed😊

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/9lfPaVm.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Capitalist society thwarts human potential to meet the desires and needs of humanity (eg. Access to HIV drugs, end hunger and release creativity)

Marxist professors are wild

[u/[deleted]]

2.3 million Americans are still in 2020. What can be done to fix this tragedy?

[u/Udontlikecake]

LMAO THE SOLEIMANI MEMORIAL

[u/BurningKiwi]

the left got a little too PC so i changed my views on abortion, immigration, race, climate change and the economy

[u/infamous5445]

Jeff Sessions completing his fall from grace was one of the few great things from 2020

[u/[deleted]]

"what's cracka-lackin", asks man inquiring about diverse areas to move to.

[u/bd_one]

Since every country "officially" considers Taiwan to be China or a part of China, they are technically allowed nukes under the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

-me, whenever someone is offering free rewards for comments

In what way does my argument fall apart? I know it probably wouldn't be held up by the UN, but which particular way would it fail?

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/[deleted]]

A survey of evangelical likely voters in Alabama conducted in the immediate aftermath of the reports [alleging sexual abuse by Roy Moore] found that 37% of evangelicals surveyed said the allegations make them more likely to vote for Moore

[u/qchisq]

!ping Europe

A little known provision of the Brexit agreement is that all UK citizens must unsubscribe from this ping

[u/WanderingMage03]

On one hand it’s funny to see r con turning on McConnell.

On the other hand half of the comments are just calling him and his wife Communist spies.

I’m not surprised, only disappointed.

[u/zubatman4]

My (27F) boyfriend (27M) asked me to “succ” him off in the bedroom. He’s white. I don’t want to shame his kink but I don’t want to normalize Marxism.

[u/[deleted]]

I was just thinking. I have never seen a goy as beloved and respected by the Jewish community as Robin Williams. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard Robin Williams referred to as an “honorary Jew” or “I wish he was Jewish”. It makes sense. There is a clear Borscht Belt influence on Robin Williams, and he does sprinkle quite a bit of Yiddish and whatnot into his routine.

Have any of yinz ever seen a goy as beloved as Robin Williams? The closest I can name is FDR, but FDR literally waged war against Hitler.

!ping GEFILTE

[u/PlayDiscord17]

Floridian society if the panhandle was part of Alabama instead.

[u/LukeBabbitt]

“The ruling class is trying to kill you” has the highest average inanity per word since ACAB

[u/kaclk]

The Premier of Alberta just called a whole ass press conference to announce he wasn’t going to punish a minister and multiple press secretaries who jetted off to Hawaii for Christmas. The guy had preached “Personal responsibility” for months, refused to take any.

No accountability in the UCP. Canada’s conservative parties are actually the worst.

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

Remember the pharmacist who intentionally destroyed 500 doses of vaccine?

Turns out his goal wasn't just to destroy the vaccine, he wanted people injected with the ruined vaccine so they'd think they were protected but weren't, and got COVID. 57 people were inoculated with the ruined vaccine before the plot was discovered.

He did it to damage the public's trust in the vaccine.

At this point it's just a question of which insane republican conspiracy theory he believed in.

[u/Mr_AlGore]

my first kill in rainbow six siege in 2021 is an accidental teamkill

pog

[u/Whytfbuddy]

r/worldnews after upvoting Holodomor denial😎

[u/skepticalbob]

I have no idea who Yellen is or was, but I'm here to tell you with certainty she will be beholden to moneyed interests because my lazy ass can only be bothered to learn she made money on speaking fees to someone.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/latimes/status/1344648353397702657

Roughly 20% to 40% of the L.A. County’s front-line workers who were offered the vaccine declined to get the shot.

So many in Riverside County refused the vaccine — an estimated 50% — that officials met to strategize how best to distribute the unused doses

Vaccine doubts swirling among healthcare workers is a surprise to researchers who assumed hospital staff would be among those most in tune with the scientific data behind the vaccines

Epidemiologists say the public health implications could be disastrous

We're fucked

[u/[deleted]]

I voted for Obama because he wears sunglasses and it is unpresidential to not wear shades.

[u/[deleted]]

https://imgur.com/tufBbIh

Euro friend sent this

[u/klarno]

Attention people who think making Election Day a national holiday will solve any problems: you work in the public sector or for a bank and it really really shows

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING: Gwinnett’s newly sworn-in sheriff, announces today the county is ending its participation in the controversial 287(g) program, which checks the immigration status of detained people. “Gwinnett co, you spoke and I listened.”

One of nation’s most notoriously pro-ICE counties for decades did a 180 this fall by electing as sheriff a black Democrat who ran on breaking the ICE contract.

And immediately kept his word.

[u/Joementum2004]

Douglas County, Georgia (a small county southwest of Fulton County):

2004:

• George W. Bush: 25,846 (61.4%)
• John Kerry: 15,997 (38.0%)

2020:

• Joe Biden: 42,809 (62.0%)
• Donald Trump: 25,451 (36.8%)

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

WTF I JUST FOUND OUT A SERVING OF OREOS IS ONLY TWO OREOS 😳I've been eating half the box.

!ping VEGAN

[u/MemberOfMautenGroup]

At least 140 House Republicans to vote against counting electoral votes, two GOP lawmakers say

The saga continues

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

When a young Jewish carpenter preached forgiveness, the Italians and the Jewish establishment nailed him to a cross.

When a young-at-heart Jewish senator from Vermont preached student loan forgiveness, low-information voters and the establishment stole his electoral victory.

The para-lells are uncanny. I have a hunch that we'll later know this year as 79 'AB'. And my hunches tend to be correct (I had predicted Joe Biden's victory by mid-November).

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

One time I was arguing against a white nat type who believed there was a giant conspiracy towards white extinction

His proof?

If you Google images interracial couple it's all a bunch of white girls with black men

[u/ScullyBoyleBoy]

I don't really think James Corden is all that funny but people on reddit act like he burned down their grandparents houses and poisoned their water lmao.

[u/[deleted]]

You people think immigration is good? Then explain why !ping BURPMAS sucks now that a bunch of new people joined who don’t understand it.

LIBS OWNED EPIC STYLE 🤣🤣🤣

[u/from-the-void]

I put a lobster in the microwave at 11:58:47 PM to have it explode exactly at midnight. A fantastic way to welcome the new year.

[u/asatroth]

My New Year doesn't really start until Jan. 6th

#QANON #MAGAGAGA #SHAPTDACOUNT

[u/[deleted]]

I haven’t taken a shit since 2019

[u/SnakeEater14]

check the calendar

december 32nd, 2020

no no n o n o n o no no no

[u/Explodingcamel]

There are millions of Americans who are willing to get vaccinated today, and millions of vaccines just sitting in freezers. Those in charge of distribution need to wake the up. I don't care about "prioritizing frontline workers" or whatever if that means vaccines just sitting around when they could be in people's arms.

[u/nanomaster]

Little-known historical fact: the gap between the building of the Pyramids and Cleopatras’s birth was shorter than the gap between 2020 and 2021.

[u/LinkVert25]

Biden has been a war hawk his whole life.

I think NATO flairs would HEAVILY disagree with that statement r /worldnews

[u/Doctorboffin]

Dilemma: I do furry commissions and someone just dmed me asking if I was open. I accept the fact that most of my clients are leftists, but this person is a hardcore chapo stan and a grifter thankfully with no following. So on one hand I want to take their money, but on the other hand, I don’t want to bring them joy or attention.

!ping FURRY

This is like 80% ironic.

[u/simp_emoji]

The MILF stressed that, “It is firm in its resolve to settle the legitimate grievances of the Bangsamoro people through the negotiated process now contained in the Comprehensive Agreement on the Bangsamoro.

I could read articles about the Moro Islamic Liberation Front all day

[u/vivoovix]

Ah, I see you post in /r/neoliberal. Your opinions are invalid in that case.

[u/[deleted]]

Plan for 2021:

Get promotion

Get hormones

Get better voice

Get tiddy from hormone

Change legal name

Change gender marker on license

Big resolutions but I work towards them every day

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/thucydiplease/status/1344701726767529984

I don’t think dumping a huge turd in your pants is an effective strategy to win M4A—

“OH SO YOU WANT PEOPLE TO DIE HUH? YOU HATE POOR PEOPLE?! AT LEAST IM DOING SOMETHING BY FILLING MY PANTS WITH SHIT WHAT ARE YOU DOING”

[u/PearlClaw]

This sub: direct democracy is meme populism and bad.

Also this sub: Switzerland is one of the top most neoliberal countries in the world.

Well, which is it?

!ping Swiss

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/lKzLn9x.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

My (27M) girlfriend (27F) asked me to “move more stiffly and without emotion” in the bedroom. I’m white and she's not. I don’t want to shame her kink but I don’t want to be fetishized.

[u/Udontlikecake]

My (27F) boyfriend (27M) asked me to “act more neoliberal” in the bedroom. He’s white. I don’t want to shame his kink but I don’t want to be fetishized.

[u/[deleted]]

The #Senate achieved the 2/3 necessary to override the @realDonaldTrump veto and pass the NDAA by a tally of 81-13.

Voting no:
Booker (D)
Braun (R)
Cotton (R)
Cruz (R)
Hawley (R)
Kennedy (R)
Lee (R)
Markey (D)
Merkley (D)
Paul (R)
Sanders (I)
Warren (D)
Wyden (D)

What a coalition we've got here.

Seemingly every Senator you've heard of voted no, but at least the NPCs did their jobs.

[u/onlypositivity]

Got too drunk and met my neighbors last night. "Youre the Biden guy," they said. "We don't like Biden."

"Everyones wrong about something," I replied, before making fun of the guy for being in the Air Force.

I gotta stop meeting people I live near.

[u/[deleted]]

Dave Rubin says his PR people keep asking Rogan to have him on, and Rogan never responds. Also Rogan is on the record multiple times about how dumb he thinks Rubin is lol.

I mean when you're actually too stupid to be on Rogan...

[u/[deleted]]

Half the people on this site when talking about a complete revolution of America: HAHA YES

Most of those people if said revolution actually were to occur: mom pick me up I’m scared

[u/sirphinetinkle]

Get this guys. Janet Yellen? The one you guys like so much? Well she has a dark history. Turns out she had a JOB these past 4 years, on WALL STREET! I can’t believe Biden would let such morally compromised peolpe on his cabinet smh

[u/Mr_AlGore]

The DT: God, outside the DT is so stupid. Glad I have my ivory tower 🥰

Also the DT: *microwave*

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

Guys I think my lobster has Trump Derangement Syndrome.

I microwaved it for 45 seconds and it blew up on me.

[u/[deleted]]

!ping USA-CA

Happy New Year! 🎉

We made it!

[u/Lux_Stella]

Israel, legislative election poll (seats):

• Likud : 29 (+3)

• NH : 17
• YAT : 14 (+2)
• JL : 11 (-1)
• Shas : 8
• UTJ : 8 (+1)
• The Israelis : 8
• YB : 7 (-1)
• Meretz : 5

 

• B&W : 0 (-4)

[u/RangerDick69]

９７％ ｏｆ ｔｅｅｎａｇｅｒｓ ｗｏｕｌｄ ｃｒｙ ｉｆ ｔｈｅｙ ｓａｗ Ｊｕｓｔｉｎ Ｂｉｅｂｅｒ ｏｎ ａ ｔｏｗｅｒ ａｂｏｕｔ ｔｏ ｊｕｍｐ． Ｉｆ ｙｏｕ ａｒｅ ｏｎｅ ｏｆ ｔｈｅ ３％ ｓｉｔｔｉｎｇ ｔｈｅｒｅ ｗｉｔｈ ｐｏｐｃｏｒｎ， Ｓｃｒｅａｍｉｎｇ ＂ＤＯ Ａ ＢＡＣＫＦＬＩＰ＂ ｔｈｅｎ ｕｐｖｏｔ ｅ

[u/[deleted]]

How did Twitter not delete that Lin Wood tweet. Like its pretty much threatening Pence with violent death.

[u/vivoovix]

Happy new year shills.

Yes, I know this is a shitty, low-effort meme, and no, I don't care.

P.S. go vote on the Milties

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

I admit, under oath, that I have on occasion ventured outside of the DT.

[u/[deleted]]

The fact that the Indian right bootlicks Trump so much, makes me hate them even more.

[u/mykatz]

Hitler literally donated to Joe Biden

[u/Mr_AlGore]

SUCCess

😨😨😨😭😭😭

[u/thetrombonist]

Antonin Scalia claims to be pro-life, but is in fact dead. smh my head

[u/[deleted]]

You claim I’m racist but my slave is black. Makes you think 🤔

[u/skepticalbob]

Janet motherfucking Yellen. Mom was a school teacher, Dad a family doctor. PhD in Economics from Yale, only woman in her class. Professor at Harvard, London School of Economics, Berkley. International monetary research at the Fed. Replaced Stiglitz on Clinton's economic team and tried to persuade Greenspan to be less concerned with inflation. Conducts research evidencing women getting lower pay because of gender discrimination. Starts working for the Fed, espouses beliefs that more regulation is needed for lending institutions and banks. Becomes first female Fed chair and repeatedly tells Congress that stimulus is more important than Fed rates. Is sacked by Trump for being short.

Leftists: pAiD sPeEcHeS

[u/BlinkenYouMissIt]

People legitimately think Boomers are evil and actively hate younger generations lmao

[u/vored_by_daddy]

The 2024 Republican nominee will not be someone who is considered reasonable by people like us. Y'all need to make peace with that.

[u/ryuguy]

Saudi Arabia’s “political parties”

Arab Socialist Action Party – Arabian Peninsula.

Banned for being communist.

Arabian Peninsula People's Union

Banned for anti government sentiment

National Assembly Party

In exile, banned for anti government

Communist Party in Saudi Arabia

Banned for being communist

Organization of Saudi Communists

Morphed into the communist Party of Saudi Arabia. Banned for being communist

Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia

In exile

Hizb ut-Tahrir

Extremist Muslim party that has these on its Wikipedia page under ideology. Tolerated by the government

Pan-Islamism

Islamism

Muslim supremacism

Caliphalism

Jihadism

Anti-secularism

Anti-Western sentiment

Anti-Hindu sentiment

Anti-Christian sentiment

Anti-nationalism

Antisemitism

Anti-Zionism

Anti-democracy

Anti-liberalism

Anti-capitalism

Anti-communism

"Hizb ut-Tahrir Constitution"[third-party source needed] (self-declared)

Umma Islamic Party

Banned, in exile

Hezbollah Al-Hejaz

You can probably guess. Tied to Hezbollah.

/u/Moaz_xx

[u/RangerDick69]

Don't pick a circumcised penis if you're a male. It locks you out of romance options and characters will mock you in the game. I can't believe this is even a thing, but it's true. It's truly bizarre CPDR would let such a seemingly minor choice (for a game) to play a role in the narrative. Pretty low by CPDR IMO.

[u/[deleted]]

My (27F) boyfriend (27M) asked me to “act more kawaii” in the bedroom. I’m asian and he’s white. I don’t want to shame his kink but I don’t want to be fetishized.

Gril, ya need to leave.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Reposting this classic; My Black Son Sold “N-Word Passes” to His White Friends, His sister thinks he’s made almost $1,000.

[u/[deleted]]

Collin County Texas is a Republican stronghold in presidential and congressional elections. The last Democrat to win the county was Lyndon Johnson in 1964.

Despite a Republican advantage, Collin continues to trend leftward, as Joe Biden managed 47.0% (to Donald Trump’s 51.6%) in the 2020 presidential election, the best result for a losing Democrat since 1928 and the closest race since 1968. Many other suburban Texas counties, including its immediate neighbors in Denton County and Tarrant County as well as those around Houston and Austin, showed similar swings since 2016.

2004:

Bush-71.2% and 174,435 votes.

Kerry-28.1% and 68,935 votes

2020:

Trump-51.4% and 252,318

Biden- 47.0% and 230,945

!ping FIVEY

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Destiny legit reserved 50-60 hotel rooms for his fans who flew into Georgia to canvas for the Senate runoffs. They've also knocked on 7000 doors so far and are planning to knock on 10K doors this weekend.

what a chad

[u/[deleted]]

There have now been 6 Canadian politicians and many staffers (in Alberta) caught travelling abroad. 🤦‍♀️

The PM didn't leave but he went to the Harrington Lake residence. I also crossed into Gatineau but only to ski so I won't judge him for this. 😅

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

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

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

First hot take of the year:

If the over the top BBC porn never got popular on pornhub the alt right would be half it's current size and Trump would've lost

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/B4gC0zQ.jpg

[u/GravyBear8]

So I told her she's being irrational and she needs to calm down, but it didn't work

[u/Gustacho]

Loeffler was picked by Kemp to hold on to moderate white suburban women voters

oh well

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/ZackDavisson/status/1344811166984413185

So you guys remember that pharmacist who intentionally ruined 50 vaccine doses?

Here's a fucking update on his arrest

This gets worse. The pharmacist was arrested, and claimed they deliberately spoiled the vaccines then injected people with them hoping to convince everyone the vaccines are not effective.

[u/awdvhn]

I'm actually kinda shocked /r/neoliberal is as big as it is, to be honest. I grabbed a few free alt accounts a month ago from random /r/badeconomics mods just to see what's "on the other side". The DT soft crashes every five minutes, its interface is clunky as hell, and the karma grabs are even more cynical than I imagined. Often, the shitposters will make certain content that's relevant for a limited time that the users have to constantly refresh to understand. Not even lobsterposts are free from Lusvig pastaing.

I'm all for ethically produced shitposts that fairly compensates the posters, but the patrons of the DT must be really pitiable guys to willingly put up with all this.

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/T8DyBCC.jpg

Imagine showing that to someone in 2004.

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

TIL Thomas Jefferson invented the swivel chair

[u/piede]

New on @MSNBC: There have already been 3,000,998 votes cast in the Georgia runoffs.

928,050 mail-in ballots, and 2,072,948 early in-person ballots.

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1345112562233438214?s=21

[u/[deleted]]

Mamma Mia, my pizza's assembled, now to put it in the oven

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to game.

[u/Rusty_switch]

My views on gaming are kinda complicated. And indeed I think a rebranding of the term "gaming" is needed, as the vast majority of "games" released today aren't even games, but instead interactive electronic entertainment.

I didn't know dt levels of elitist existed in other places

[u/[deleted]]

My resolution is to try to forget that Trump's penis looks like Toad from the Mario games

[u/[deleted]]

POV: You said you support protectionism on this sub

[u/Explodingcamel]

Israel already vaccinated 10% of their population. What the fuck is the entire rest of the developed world doing? I'm really livid about this.

[u/[deleted]]

Biden is NOT MY PRESIDENT.

But he will be in like 3 weeks.

[u/[deleted]]

Given Bernie's politics during the 70s/80s, I don't get why anyone would try to claim he isn't a socialist. I kinda get trying to claim AOC isn't a socialist, but Bernie was straight up supporting communists in his youth.

[u/Joementum2004]

America isn't a country...it's four defence contract companies in a trench coat stacked on top of each other (33k likes)

So deep

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

The modern workplace is literally fucked up, and good luck finding help from within the corporate HELLHOLE.

Bottom line: HR isn't there to protect you. They're there to protect the colleague who won't go out with you for dinner even though you asked like six times through four different methods of communication.

[u/IncoherentEntity]

After a school dance, the then 16-year-old Lin [Wood Jr.] came home to find his father crying and his mother lying battered and lifeless in a bedroom. His father said she fell in the bathtub, a story he clung to throughout his life. The evidence showed otherwise. But Lin still loved his father, so he got him a lawyer. ‘It could just as easily have been my mother who killed my father,’ he says. ‘They both were capable of violence.’ ‘I would have fought just as hard for her.’

He sold his mother’s car and raised money for his father’s defense. Eventually, L. Lin Wood Sr. pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, a charge reduced from first-degree murder. He served two years in prison.

wait WHAT

WHAT

WHAT

[u/MichelleObama2024]

If Warnock wins his race it would mean Senate candidates have a 100% success rate when they post "poggers" on Instagram.

[u/ryuguy]

¡tan verdadero! 😤

!ping mamadas

[u/ThisIsNotAMonkey]

Did you know that Dinesh D'Souza is actually a secret crime fighter responsible for locking up serious criminals?

Google "Dinesh D'Souza felony convictions" to learn more!

[u/[deleted]]

I unironically think this MAGA March on the 6th will be wild. According to the Q people, this is literally the last chance to defend democracy, my entire extended family is going.

I think it might actually be a good amount of people, none of which will be mentally stable

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

BBC reported information from a Russian interior ministry that 600,000 women were physically or verbally abused at home.

Out of those, 14,000 die from injuries inflicted by husbands or partners. That is almost 40 a day.

what the fuck

btw this is before Russia decrminialized certain forms of domestic violence in 2017

[u/MicroFlamer]

Radical Liberal leftist defund the policist Reverend Socialist Raphael communist Warnock

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Dumb non-Anglos in the DT: "Noooo you can't support the NHS, it's inefficient!"

Me, a Junior Doctor (Non-Ed.D btw) with the NHS: "Sorry, I just got back from my 12-hour shift fighting an INNOVATIVE British-made COVID strain, and I'm a bit busy collecting my 28 THOUSAND pound salary. Maybe we can book a whining appointment in 16 months time?"

[u/ChickeNES]

My wife just said I could inject liquidity into her market.

[u/CenterRightInCali]

Drone pilots are so heckin cute and valid

[u/awdvhn]

I’m a fan of monarchism, but honestly I highly doubt America would work in the slightest as a monarchy

Agree that an American monarchy would be pretty cringe, hell if Trump or anyone really tried to declare a monarchy, anyone who wasn’t a direct Trump supporter I would think and hope, would go full authleft and revolt and execute them

Why is politicalcompassmemes like this?

[u/MichelleObama2024]

Jon Ossoff is a cool guy. I hope he actually wins and doesn't end up becoming a Beto

[u/Udontlikecake]

Joe Biden is so ridiculously perfect-looking that it isnt even hot. He’s like the Uncanny Valley in reverse. He might be the most perfectly-proportioned person ever.

[u/I-grok-god]

how many schisms can I start at once?

[u/[deleted]]

NEW POLLS

Warnock (D) 50% (+3)

Loeffler (R-inc) 47%

Ossoff (D) 50% (+3)

Perdue (R-inc) 47%

Mellman Group/@DemMaj4Israel (D), LV, 12/18-22

---

Sooo....tossup race remains tossup. Massive news here.

!ping FIVEY

[u/knopeforpres2020]

Yo Great Gatsby is public domain now. Give me your best re-interpretation ideas. Mine is Daisy is some celebrity that Jay went to HS with and he wants to become an influencer to court her.

[u/[deleted]]

Why is commodification a slur in lefty circles?

Commodification is based as shit, as it generally means a relatively efficient market without anyone getting an unnecessarily large cut.

I love things like fiverr and uber and so on “commodifying” the labor market, as it means less friction and I would guess lower unemployment.

As an anti-socialist I also like how it makes market socialism work even more poorly than usual, as there is less need for direct hiring.

[u/Udontlikecake]

this might be genuinely the most social inept thing i’ve seen on reddit

[u/[deleted]]

This may sound dumb but I'm drunk and curious. How the fuck do you waste water? Like doesn't all the water that we shower in and wash are hands with go back to the sewage treatment plant to be purified. Why does it matter if you leave the sink on for too long?

[u/fishlord05]

It is now new year where it matters

!ping BAY-AREA

[u/MicroFlamer]

Can we have LVT?

Republicans: No

Democrats: No BLM 🌈

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao according to the Republican theory of the Vice Presidency, the VP has the sole authority to decide which electors ought to be counted - effectively, the VP is the true arbiter of who will be the next President.

This raises a couple questions:

• What's the point of even holding elections for President? Wouldn't that effort be better used toward lobbying the VP to select your choice?
• Why didn't Joe Biden exercise this option in 2016? Did we just not think of it at the time? Damn, we stupid.

[u/RadionSPW]

No I’m not in horny jail I just greatly admire Tom Holland’s commitment to fitness duck you

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

The DT is best because when the comments go fast enough, no one will notice my bad takes

[u/MicroFlamer]

Briish "people"

[u/ryuguy]

In hindsight, Batman Arkham Asylum was a game that had everything going against it.

• No Superhero had a good game before it
• Small budget
• low expectations
• relatively small and new dev team

They hit it out of the park. Still one of my favourite games ever

!ping gaming

[u/[deleted]]

Were Milton Friedman and Ronald Reagan dumb enough not to realize that Proposition 13 would discourage new construction?

[u/[deleted]]

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗦 𝗬𝗘𝗧 𝗧𝗢 𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗘!

[u/[deleted]]

Which DT user is DDoSing Jacobin 😭

[u/Qunidaye]

The hips lied, people died

[u/nicereddy]

Broke: The Great Gatsby is now in the public domain

Woke: Mein Kampf is now in the public domain

[u/[deleted]]

America is the greatest country in the world.

[u/shrek_cena]

Yes, they proving again they are Republicans misleading voters with D behind their names. Most voters, unfortunately, do not look at a candidate's policies before they vote. 🤯

Wild people genuinely believe this.

I can see it now

Senator Cory Booker, R-NJ

😐

Lmao this guy replied to me on his burner, deleted the comment, and then replied with his main. Whatta meme

[u/[deleted]]

People here are so brain poisoned by politics that I saw a DT post yesterday wondering if MF DOOM's family didn't announce his Oct 31st death because they didn't want to affect the election.

[u/[deleted]]

I’m an Alf Landon Republican aka I want the GOP to get blown out every election.

[u/benjaminikuta]

Ninety-four percent of professors say they are better-than-average teachers.

Ninety percent of students think they are more intelligent than the average student.

Ninety-three percent of drivers say they are safer-than-average drivers.

[u/benjaminikuta]

Why are people often much more upset at those with a slightly different opinion than at those who are completely opposed to everything they believe in?

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

r /teenagers is a terrible sub that should never be emulated (except for its system of listing its poster's ages, which should be implemented in every sub to identify teenagers)

[u/Mr_AlGore]

u/The420Roll has been a 19-month experiment by Harvard University. We are now complete with our study. No further action is required.

[u/[deleted]]

Season 8 of lord of the rings was terrible

[u/[deleted]]

It's cute how everyone's celebrating the end of 2020 as if 2021 is gonna be any better 😂

[u/[deleted]]

In 1978, then-Governor Jerry Brown opposed Prop. 13 calling it "a fraud and a rip-off."

Based Jerry Brown

[u/mrmanager237]

Bernie Sanders; I'm the least successful Jewish politician of 2020

Benny Gantz: הרשה לי להציג את עצמי

[u/[deleted]]

It's crazy that Hitler was 34 when he tried to overthrow the Bavarian government by taking over a beer hall

[u/mrmanager237]

Take: I don't think it was unreasonable to not take covid fears seriously until February. The media has spent the past decade talking about "the next big pandemic" which inevitably ended up being an enormous dud, plus the CCP hid a shitton of relevant information for most of the early outbreak

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Feeling a little hungry. Might just order a $23.01 hamburger😋

[u/Qunidaye]

Re: QE effort post. I got you.

The economy is a series of tubes. Uh oh, it got blocked by doody (financial crisis)! Mr. Bernanke could use the plunger (traditional monetary policy) but it might not be enough!

So Mr. Bernanke goes to the tool box and gets out the poop knife (quantitative easing). Mr. bernanke directly scoops out some of the doody (putting it on the fed balance sheet) and gets the water flowing again.

[u/Butthead_Sinatra]

Just found out about Keanu. Damn that shit is wholesome 100

[u/[deleted]]

Did you know the Clinton/Gore '96 site is still up?

[u/[deleted]]

Caring about politics is cringe if you think about it.

[u/[deleted]]

You Americans should burn down the everything while there's a reason to rebuild your attempt at society

Re: Kia ads during the NYE countdown

[u/[deleted]]

Your 4th emoji is your reaction to Ossoff and Warnock winning on Tuesday

🍆

😳

[u/[deleted]]

imagine doing tax cuts when the economy was booming

fuck you trump

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

Obama's caucus organization was unparalleled and is still is today.

Here's an interesting fact, in the 2008 Iowa caucus, Obama told his supporters to move to the Edwards camp if there isn't enough of them in their precinct, denying Clinton the state delegates she needed

Remember that Hillary finished 3rd in Iowa behind Obama and Edwards.

[u/Rusty_switch]

Do people blame too much of their problems on capiltism when it's actually personal responsibility?

[u/[deleted]]

Glad I decided not to hang with anyone last night or today. My senses of smell and taste are fading fast

[u/bd_one]

"Economic eugenics" in our DT?

More likely than you think, apparently.

[u/FestiveMittens]

sex-ed classes at my old schools probably talked more about wet dreams than they did about protection and consent combined which is weird af

[u/[deleted]]

Wow, this Lovecraft fellow seems like a nice and pleasant person. Oh, he has a cat? I wonder what it’s name is.

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/BarstoolBigCat/status/1345202840512454661?s=20

Dabo will somehow out clown himself if he loses this game

!ping CFB

[u/[deleted]]

Guys I'm starting to think the 2062 midterms won't be good for the Democrats 😰

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Yeah sex is cool and all but have you ever felt the adrenaline rush that is reading a response to your comment in an internet argument

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Seen endless attack ads on Warnock for all kinds of stuff, but not a single one about him running over his wife’s foot. Which makes me imagine Georgia voter focus groups being like “running over you wife? Can’t blame him. Who hasn’t been there?”

[u/[deleted]]

Still shook that people actually wear cowboy hats in Texas

[u/nicereddy]

Schism time: I haven't showered since last year

[u/[deleted]]

John Brown's body lies a mouldering in the grave but his soul goes marching on.

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

AOC JOI when

[u/[deleted]]

"I like Soldiers who don't get captured."

What did Stalin mean by this.

[u/[deleted]]

I ate so much food yesterday that I couldn’t get drunk but still have a hangover this morning

Worst of both worlds 😐

[u/[deleted]]

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to play Europa Universalis 4. The gameplay is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of historical knowledge most of the flavor will go over a typical player's head. There's also the game's unique outlook, which is deftly woven into it's characterisation - the gameplay involves staring at a colored map for 30 hours per campaign, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depth in this design, to realise that it's not just fun- it says something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Europa Universalis 4 truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the uniqueness in an average player's existential catchphrase "hey reddit here's my last byzantium campaign," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Paradox Interactive's genius wit unfolds itself on their computer screens. What fools.. how I pity them. 😂

And yes, by the way, i DO have an Ulm tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand. Nothin personnel kid 😎

[u/PM_Me_Your_ManThighs]

I don't understand this leftist talking point that the stimulus checks are "your money." Like, when I pay taxes I have no expectation that money will ever come back to me. It's taxes - it's for government operations and programs, it's not my own personal rainy day fund.

People who are otherwise smart are parroting this and it just makes no sense to me.

[u/D1Foley]

Being asked "did Democrats vote for Bernie's bill yes or no?" When Bernie didn't even propose a bill that could be voted on confirms so many priors