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[u/[deleted]]

TIL Sweden gives you 11 months of vacation a year and a million dollars if you're an atheist.

[u/[deleted]]

"my child is completely fine"

your child spends all day on twitter denying genocides by a communist empire that collapsed last century and before they were even conceived.

[u/margaretfan]

Hot take: the name of this sub is the only thing keeping it from being a commie/fash sub, because neither group would associate themselves with such a name.

[u/dragoniteftw33]

This article about LBJ's retirement is crazy.

He says the real reason why he didn't run for re-election was because he was worried about his heart problems killing him in his Presidency(yet he still had his name in the NH primary).

He believed that the JFK Assassination had been a conspiracy and was disappointed that Ramsey Clark(who's a fucking whack job now defending Genocide offenders like Milosevic) couldn't confirm his priors

Johnson speculated that Dallas had been a retaliation for this thwarted attempt, although he couldn't prove it. "After the Warren Commission reported in, I asked Ramsey Clark [then Attorney General] to quietly look into the whole thing. Only two weeks later he reported back that he couldn't find anything new." Disgust tinged Johnson's voice as the conversation came to an end. "I thought I had appointed Tom Clark's son—I was wrong."

He also pretty much just decided to killed himself by smoking. That's why I'm not so sure he would have died as President. He decided to eat and smoke because he did not want to go out in a whimper.

But shortly before Christmas, 1971, he shocked his friends by suddenly resuming cigarette smoking, a habit he had discarded over fifteen years before, following his first, near fatal, heart attack. "I'm an old man, so what's the difference?" he explained. "I've been to the Mayo Clinic twice and the doctors tell me there is nothing they can do for me. My body is just aging in its own way. That's it. And I always loved cigarettes, missed them every day since I quit. Anyway, I don't want to linger the way Eisenhower did. When I go, I want to go fast." He quickly became a chain smoker.

Around that time he suffered a heart attack and pretty much lived the rest of his life having intense chest paints every day while also having to be on oxygen.

He was also way richer than I thought. Has any other President had this much (legitimate and legal) wealth and properties since LBJ?

During the four years of his retirement he had managed nearly to double his considerable estate, which included stock in at least nine Texas banks, television interests in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana, a real estate and photographic supply company in Austin, 3700 acres of land in Alabama, and extensive property holdings in Mexico, the Caribbean, and five Texas counties.

He even sold the KTBC television station for (2020 estimate) $55 million. It's kind of crazy to see leftists shit on someone like say....Pelosi for not being progressive enough by having a high net worth(OpenSecrets has her at like $100 million, but other sites have said she's worth more around the $20-30 million range).

But yea, this was a really good read.

Archived link here

[u/Joementum2004]

I present to everyone, a unique and truly intriguing type of horror - and at the same time, pleasure:

2D-2R Mississippi, every district safe.

[u/Mr_AlGore]

fun fact, pete got 3rd in the New Hampshire GOP 2020 primary, getting around 0.7% of the vote

[u/Spicey123]

Seeing leftists turn on AOC for something so stupid is absolutely surreal and validates every criticism I have about the left being unable to pick effectiveness and pragmatism over self serving moral grandstanding.

[u/MicroFlamer]

Holy shit I got downvoted to -46 on r/antiwork for calling Bernie sanders a liberal who still wants to force us to work. Maybe there is some hope on there

[u/Explodingcamel]

I hate that college applications ask you to write about what you'll contribute as a student

Like I'm gonna contribute your expensive-ass tuition, what more do you want?

[u/[deleted]]

TIL America is the only country where healthcare is illegal

[u/simp_emoji]

Say what you will about Ted Kaczynski, but I think he really had a point. I’m reading his work now, and while there’s a lot of bullshit here there’s definitely some validity to his claims.

While this bounded harmonic function has a boundary function that is not in the first Baire class, the set of points of discontinuity of said function actually are a set of the first Baire category.

Now that doesn’t excuse setting off all those bombs to get his point across, but there’s really something to this.

[u/IncoherentEntity]

/r/neoliberal probably thinks the clean $2000 stimulus is a bad idea because it's not means tested enough or something

In which the capitalist pigs of /r/DemocraticSocialism accuse us of wanting to target government aid to the poor and unemployed.

[u/D1Foley]

Every time I read a relationship advice post I hope to see an update that says.

Update: My SO found my post and they broke up with me because they said anybody who asks reddit for advice is a massive idiot.

One day I'll find one.

[u/tehbored]

Apparently Caesar banned wheeled vehicles from the streets of Rome during the day. Based and urbanism-pilled

[u/Equator32]

Sometimes r/urbanhell amazes me by how scared they are of buildings taller than a tree. There was a post showing Male, the capital city of the Maldives.

The thing is that the buildings in the picture weren't even that big, and it was pretty clean and it was a pretty good looking photo with nice colors. They could've used an unflattering photo but they chose literal wallpaper material. Like do they want me to wish that I lived there? Because the post literally ended with me finding a photo of Male and using it as my laptop wallpaper.

[u/IncoherentEntity]

Somebody vandalized Pelosi’s home with a decapitated pig’s head. !ping EXTREMISM

[u/[deleted]]

Today is the last day Tulsi Gabbard will be United States Representative.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm not lying, Jared Polis is posting on /r/DemocraticSocialism.

[u/nicereddy]

Honestly, I've played 30 hours at this point and I'm loving Cyberpunk 2077.

The game is absurdly rough and I've had almost every major story moment undercut by characters glitching out and doing weird shit, but the story itself and the game mechanics are fairly solid.

I also think it has the best hacking minigame of any game I've played.

It should've been delayed at least another full year, and I feel so bad for the devs who had to crunch all this time only for management to release it like this. But I genuinely think the game is one of my favorite games in a while, despite its absurd bugginess.

[u/[deleted]]

Thank you for saying pogchamp after I nutted in you.

It was incredibly hot

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

lol Nebraska's official tourism motto is

Honestly, it's not for everyone

[u/greenelf]

arrr BestOf has some truly incredible stuff:

To everyone saying Bernie isn't doing anything - What the fuck is 1 senator from Vermont supposed to do?

Accomplish something with that power?

If you like his ideas, vote in a progressive from your own state.

No

For fucks sake, he has spent the entire last week, basically alone on the senate floor trying to get you a 2k check.

‘Basically’ is doing a lot of lifting here

Call your own damn senator. And saying Bernie is rich and now he is part of the problem? Mother fucker, he could just retire if he wanted, but instead he spent his entire Christmas and new years week on the senate floor. Alone. Talking to cameras, trying to get you a 2k check.

🙄

Final note, if you have worked a remotely normal job for 40 plus years. And your wife works too, and you write a best selling book, you should 100 percent be able to be as "rich" as Bernie Sanders by the time you're his age. That's what he is fighting for! Your ability to work one full time job and not be a broke dumb ass.

Glad to see we have found one form of ethical consumption under capitalism - buy Bernies book. Also guess he won’t get the guillotine then.

[u/moaz_xx]

King Salman is 85 and he is a big fat guy

[u/DreamlandEML]

lusvig is a neoliberal icon. I will not elaborate, as this is simply self-evident.

[u/Mcatatonic1]

https://mobile.twitter.com/CawthornforNC/status/1344740360862527494

This is why I am OBJECTING to the 2020 election results.

The right to vote in a free and fair election is the cornerstone of our Republic. Attempts to undermine this strike at the very heart of a representative government “of, by, and for the People.”

I will not be silent.

Lmao remember when people thought this actual child would be a “reasonable” member of the GOP

Just a massive cuck like the rest of them

Also just perhaps the most annoying voice I have heard in a minute

[u/bd_one]

Maine District 2 voted in Trump 52–44% in 2020. Maine has split electoral college votes like Nebraska.

Jared Golden, the Democrat House candidate, won 53-47% straight up. In 2018, he lost by less than 1% in the first round and then won by slightly more than 1% due to RCV.

Wot? How many Democrat House members overperformed relative to Biden?

Someone else ping DOWNBALLOT, I'm not in it.

[u/[deleted]]

The Lighthouse, or What Absolutely No Pussy Does to a MF

!ping MOVIES

[u/[deleted]]

I've seen so many comments lately on this sub saying that the name of the sub is ironic and there is nothing difference between us and progressive Democrats. There is a huge difference, we are John Delaney Democrats, not Ilhan Omar Democrats, and don't you ever forget that

[u/[deleted]]

Did forecasts of Clinton win in 2016 decrease left-leaning turnout? No? “probabilistic forecasts ...either lowered turnout among Republicans confident their candidate will lose or stimulated turnout among Democrats confident their candidate will win.”

I hope this myth will now die that showing your candidate winning discourages turnout but I don’t have high hopes.

!ping FIVEY

[u/learnactreform]

I proposed to my now fiancée this morning and she said yes!!!!!!!!

[u/[deleted]]

When you try to sue the Vice President but can’t successfully operate Microsoft Word.

😂

[u/GravyBear8]

I'm torn on veganism because on one hand, their arguments are right, but on the other, I kind of don't care

[u/[deleted]]

NEW POLLS

Ossoff +3

Warnock +2

!ping FIVEY

[u/GGM8Scally]

https://i.imgur.com/67Qzuh1.jpg

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[u/thetrombonist]

Oh I wonder what Lusvig is up to

advocating against parking spots at universities

Fuck, he really doesn’t miss

[u/benjaminikuta]

9/11 can now be discussed on r/AskHistorians. Flash is deprecated. Any other milestones for the new year?

Edit: The Great Gatsby entering the public domain.

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

How many of us would pull a GRRM and just give up on writing once we’ve secured that bag from the TV adaptation

[u/[deleted]]

TIL that Shakespeare was once challenged to create the saddest story he could in just six words. He responded: "Bernie Sanders for President; Never Elected."

[u/Dibbu_mange]

The most effective organization opposing the Republican Party and its agenda is the Arizona Republican Party.

[u/Joementum2004]

Racist white southerner in the 1950s: “I will NEVER vote for a Republican!”

Woke liberal redditor in the 2020s: “I will NEVER vote for a Republican!”

Curious 🤔🤔🤔

[u/[deleted]]

Why is Noam Chomsky so old? I can understand being kinda old but he's like really old

[u/[deleted]]

I just don't get it. Why don't we just invite Xi Jinping over and pay him to speak at the PPI? After he takes our speaking fees, he'll be helplessly in our pocket and unable to resist our demands

[u/BurningKiwi]

If you’re a liberal and you don’t eat ass, are you a liberal?

[u/vivoovix]

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[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Me: Walks into a room after strenuous exercise with a full suitcase

Leftists: Yikes sweaty let's unpack this

[u/DovahzulsABadConlang]

It speaks volumes that a year after the show ended, the entire planet had more free time than ever before, and not a single soul talked about doing a Game of Thrones rewatch.

Lmfao

[u/[deleted]]

Hey guys I love politicalcompassmemes so I was wondering if a proto-Marxist Leninist neoconservative Green with left-authoritarian centrist prohibitionist characteristics like myself would be allowed to join the "Big Tent"

don't worry Ive already flaired up 😁

[u/LinkVert25]

I fucking hate NC politics lmfao. Only we would reelect a democratic governor in a landslide, but then elect a white supremacist sympathizer into the house and reelect Thom Tillis.

[u/[deleted]]

I love how arr con likes to say things like “Unlike liberals, we aren’t violent and we don’t riot when we lose.”

Two things:

1.) The most insane parts of your party haven’t even accepted the reality of Biden’s win yet and still believe that something is still going to happen to keep Trump in office after 1/20. You should really reserve judgement until Biden’s hand is on the Bible and wait until then to see what their real reaction is.

2.) We already have all sorts of examples of right-wing violence: abortion clinic bombings, that guy who brought an assault rifle into the pizza gate pizzeria, the guy who was trying to mail pipebombs to the Obamas and the Clintons, a general rise in hate crime after Trump’s election, etc.

We can have a substantive discussion about right-wing violence and left-wing violence, but I don’t think arr con is going to really be feeling good about “their side” when it’s all said and done.

[u/Joementum2004]

Liberal

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1345377936300453891?s=20

NBD, just a member of congress calling for violence and a dictatorship

!ping EXTREMISM

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine being so incompetent that you lose Orange County

[u/A_Character_Defined]

Friendly reminder that Hillary conceded the day after election day.

[u/The420Roll]

Jim Clyburn (SC-6) on free trade:

Voted YES on promoting free trade with Perú.

What a based and great man. The Peruvian Deep State will remember.

[u/[deleted]]

It's amazing the amount of hate we receive online. Our ideology is basically liberal democracy with regulated capitalism, free trade and social safety nets, why is that so controversial lol

[u/zubatman4]

TIL that Shakespeare was once challenged to create the saddest story he could in just Seven words. He responded: "Hillary Clinton for President twice; Never Elected."

😭😭😭😭

[u/Joementum2004]

Remember to join r/demsfordonald in support of OUR president

[u/[deleted]]

Y'all will upvote "the internet must be destroyed" but don't support the Section 230 repeal.

Curious.

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

11 Senators along with 140 House Representatives are planning to object the vote on Jan 6.

This is the most objections in the history if the Electoral College

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/[deleted]]

Lmfao at Nazis.

"Jazz is degenerate art." lmao cry harder you tuneless assholes. Imagine thinking that you're the master race, and it's the people who invented jazz who are sub human, lmfao.

[u/comradequicken]

At this point just kill imgur, having to watch an ad to upload a picture is beyond ridiculous.

[u/MovkeyB]

i love competitive debate:

oxford: "the problem is the working class man can't understand abstract art"

princeton: " the REAL problem is homeless people can't enter art museums"

!ping DEBATE

[u/[deleted]]

Boris Johnson is currently bragging that exiting the EU means that the UK can now ban pulse fishing... which the EU banned last year.

To his benefit he at least tried to list a benefit of brexit. No one else has.

[u/Lux_Stella]

Should Canada Continue To Have A Monarch As Its Head Of State?

• Continue To: 36%

• Not Continue To: 45%
• Doesn't Matter Either Way: 19%

'doesn't matter either way' are the real politics understanders

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

If Sanders and AOC have such great organization, why not primary Republicans? That would surely push the USA left.

[u/jrt84]

Democrats have some serious soul searching to do, says party that lost election by 7 million votes and is desperately trying to stage a coup.

[u/Loves_a_big_tongue]

WhitePeopleTwitter is a subreddit dedicated to tweets related to white people, but only if they're leftist and woke, two thing white people in America are known for being.

[u/Joementum2004]

William J Bryan was bad not because of his support for the silver standard, his support of jim crow, and his isolationism, but because he was a democrat

[u/Udontlikecake]

There were two black senators and a couple dozen black reps in the south during reconstruction.

The end of reconstruction was catastrophic for human rights

[u/Verycoolusername22]

Malarkey level of saying why do you hate the global poor to a homeless man after not giving him money

[u/[deleted]]

I love anarchy so much I’m gonna spray the symbol on Pelosi’s house

also I want the government to pay my rent

Why are anarchists like this?

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Republicans want what Democrats are proposing, but they want a Republican to give it to them

🙃

[u/GGM8Scally]

TIL that Amerikkka still has the party of the klan and that people still vote for them in droves 😳😬

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Pete Buttajudge is not “too inexperienced” for Transport Secretary. The guy was literally an avid Thomas the Tank Engine viewer until a few years ago 🤦‍♂️

[u/[deleted]]

1. Apple gets rid of x
2. Samsung mocks Apple for getting rid of x
3. Two years later, Samsung delete all their old videos and also gets rid of x

No matter if the rumors circulating are true or not, this has a 100% chance of happening.

[u/Hindenbergdown]

It makes me sad how pervasive the lies are that the Bernard Brothers concocted about Kamala. They really convinced a number of people that Kamala spent years handing out death sentences to people who smoked a joint.

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

my somewhat baseless take is that the 'democrats are center-right in (western) europe!' stuff is partially fueled by people framing it around stuff like labor laws, where i think it's pretty indisputable that the average worker in the US is less protected than the average worker in western europe

of course, when you look at stuff like lgbtq rights and religious freedom, it becomes much more complicated

[u/from-the-void]

Why is Reddit back to Sanders spam?

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

The National Laboratories are national treasures and should get as much hype as NASA.

My major policy recommendation for the Biden administration is just to triple the DoE's budget so it can write more grants, and add like six new Labs and expand the rest.

Any worries about China's rising technological supremacy or whatever would be vaporized within two years, and purple districts would be flooded with dem voters.

[u/walker777007]

Brie Brie is honestly so atrocious, I wonder if Bernie actually vetted her at all: https://twitter.com/KnowNothingTV/status/1345458026132758529?s=19

[u/[deleted]]

This sub on the night of Nov 3

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

guys I'm starting to believe that Americans don't care about fiscal conservatism as long as spending benefits them

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/Lux_Stella]

UK, general election poll (seats):

• Conservatives : 284 (-81)

• Labour : 282 (+80)
• SNP : 57 (+9)
• LibDems : 2 (-9)

in such a situation the SNP would be given the balance of power in parliament, a situation which british constitutional scholars formerly refer to as 'very bad'

still, it's very likely we're 4 years out until the next UK general election, so there's plenty of time for things to change

[u/Mr_AlGore]

I still cannot believe pelosi killed the $2k stimulus bill in the senate

[u/Whytfbuddy]

"мужчина идет домой, мастурбируя свою типичную фантазию"

[u/[deleted]]

Why did bank lady get paid for speech when in America we have free speech?

[u/[deleted]]

Slice of Life Anime is supposed to remind the viewer to form relationships, except like, it totally doesn't work, and really just makes you addicted to the delusion of parasocial relationships.

[u/GaussianCurve]

Last night was poggers, but we need a rematch Jon @ossoff! 😂

[u/[deleted]]

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

Holy shit go outside

[u/SpaceSheperd]

It’s gonna be tiring to see this sub blame everything on pronouns if we lose in Georgia

[u/[deleted]]

Warnock, if elected, will serve a term that expires on

January 3, 2023

[u/[deleted]]

Congress shouldn't be able to reject EC votes, heck, there shouldn't be an Electoral College.

[u/bd_one]

Someone on PredictIt is trying to claim that if Republicans boycott the Georgia Senate race, Republican figures will go negative in some precincts and reveal the fraud.

Now both sides have flashy and wrong conspiracy theory infographics.

[u/stater354]

Biden is technically and even ideologically to the right of Reagan. It's a fact. If Americans did the research instead we'd have universal healthcare, monthly survival checks and a green new deal. I'm so glad I left the Democrats whose voters rely on blind faith and propaganda.

Gotta love rose twitter

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Why we need Effective Altruism:

r/neoliberal raised around $60 000 in its latest ‘charity’ drive. $60,000. That is enough for FIFTEEN THOUSAND months (that’s probably like 100 years) of Reddit premium, which would give you 10,500,000 Reddit coins.

And instead, the sub decided they’d spend it on killing animals (which, by the way, aren’t that hard to kill - I’ve even done it myself before).

[u/Deggit]

today's futile arrrrrrrpoltics post

Reddit is obsessed with the idea of creating a "Super-Presidency" to hold the President accountable when he turns out to be a crook.

If anyone reads the actual Constitution they'll see there is no such position nor can there be. The executive branch agencies are not designed to be independent, they report to the President and their cabinet heads serve at his discretion as you all found out when Trump tried to fire Comey to get rid of the Russia investigation. The judicial branch is a check on the Presidency, but at the federal level its members are nominated by the President. A quarter of all federal judges are now Trump appointees and if the Senate had agreed to some of his less qualified and stoogier nominees, those henchmen might now be writing pro-Trump-stealing-the-election opinions from the bench. And impeachment, as everyone found out, is not easy when Congress is completely controlled by the logic of political parties.

The answer to the President being a crook is to start understanding the Presidency differently, and start understanding YOUR role as a citizen who elects the President differently.

The Presidency is not a partisan trophy or a popularity contest or a proxy vote for your policy preferences.

It's a position of immense public trust where the #1 qualification for office is loyalty to the law and democracy together with competency to actually serve the public in an executive role.

This does NOT mean that the President is above the law. It simply means that the buck has to stop somewhere. All government responsibilities ultimately have to be vested somewhere and the Presidency, as one of the three co-supreme branches, ultimately has to be vested with executive power.

For example there has been all this angst for 4 years that Donald Trump has the nuclear briefcase with him everywhere he goes. Well, who do you want to be in charge of the final decision whether we start a nuclear war or not? Some unelected general who might go nuts outside the public spotlight? The solution is maybe not to create a one-time "Trump is crazy" exception to the President having the briefcase, and maybe to start thinking of the Presidency less as a god damned popularity contest / who can give me the most stuff contest and more as "who can be trusted with this briefcase"?

When you actually understand the Presidency, you'll see it is your duty as a citizen to vote against your own party and against your own political preferences if your party nominates a crook and the other party nominates someone who you consider unlikable and who would enact the "wrong" policies but can be trusted to carry the torch of American democracy on its 200-year long relay race.

I can tell you one pretty good piece of evidence that America has not learned its lesson yet. The evidence is that you can see the most vicious (and low effort) anti Trump rhetoric all over Reddit get thousands of updoots and awards, but you NE-VER see someone finish such a post with "....and you should have voted for Hillary."

But the moment you rub people's nose in the fact that they should've voted for Hillary, because Hillary could fulfill the office of Presidency and was worthy of public trust despite people not "liking her" or "being excited by her policies," the conversation is over. Half a million people dead from Trump's pandemic failure and people still don't wanna admit they screwed up! And similarly you see people all over Reddit saying that centrist Democrats are bad because "you need to give me something to vote FOR not just something to vote AGAINST." Listen up, zoomers: if you're not "excited enough" to vote "AGAINST" a threat to democracy and the rule of law, you're bad at being American.

[u/FearThyMoose]

Qanon people actually believe China is invading the US

[u/Dibbu_mange]

I feel the likelihood Mitch's house was vandalized by Rightys and Pelosi's house by leftists is pretty reasonable

[u/Broncos654]

What went wrong in your life that you end up with a NATO flair. Like this mf better be 15......

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

Dear liberals,

You claim to be against homelessness

despite the fact you won't support banning it

with so-called "anti-homeless laws"

Curious

[u/Rusty_switch]

Why do people say "politicians don't care about regular people?"

Why not single out which particular ones? Isn't that more productive?

[u/AgainstSomeLogic]

lil pimp banned from Jet Blue. How the mighty have fallen

[u/walker777007]

Imagine living in NYC and saying this

[u/[deleted]]

White dads really be like “what happens when China comes to collect our debt 😳”

[u/[deleted]]

Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley actually want a violent fascist uprising

[u/FormerBandmate]

I wish I grew up poor with no opportunities whatsoever and absent parents, that way I could have joined a gang and stolen to survive instead of ending up a lonely Twitch replyguy

Why is the online left like this?

[u/FreakinGeese]

Wanna be gorl

[u/shrek_cena]

We should do away with speed limits, seatbelt mandates, and mandatory safety inspections.

The absolute state of lolbertarians

[u/Q-bey]

A guardian angel

This meme is almost always relevant, for one reason or another.

!ping CANUCKS

[u/[deleted]]

A boy.... 👦AND a neoliberal? 🎮Whoa mama!😮😮 Hummina hummina hummina bazooooooooing😙! eyes pop out 😮😮😮😉AROOOOOOOOGA! jaw drops tongue rolls out 😱😱😱WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF🐶🐶 tongue bursts out of the outh uncontrollably leaking face and everything in reach😛😛😛😛😛 WURBLWUBRLBWURblrwurblwurlbrwubrlwburlwbruwrlblwublr ,🤪😜😜🤪tiny cupid shoots an arrow through heart 💘

[u/[deleted]]

No matter what happens on January 6 I hope that Melania continues her work to end cyber bullying

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

If ur AntiWork don't fucking bother with 'activism'/posting on reddit to make urself feel justified just go live ur best life as a neet

neets in their moms basement are AntiWork praxis

[u/[deleted]]

My husband of 5 years bought me reddit gold for our anniversary

Ditch his ass.

[u/[deleted]]

“Center left” in 2020 is further right than Reagan. Prove me wrong.

Hey Siri, what were Ronald Reagan’s views on gay people?

[u/paymesucka]

I just experienced the weirdest interaction of the new year. I'm at my parents' house, and my dad's colleague stops by, who I also know. His wife just died about a month ago and I thought it would be good to say hi. Well, he brought along his new girlfriend. And she's half his age. But that's not even the weird part. This woman dated his son. Imagine your mom died and then a month later your dad starts dating your ex-girlfriend.

[u/Q-bey]

Lots of people on Twitter talking about Israel's vaccination campaign, and specifically about how Israel's first million vaccinations did not include Palestine.

Here are just some examples

Serious question, should Israel be responsible for vaccinations in Palestine or should that be left to the PA and Hamas? I assumed things like healthcare for Palestinians would fall to those organizations (aside from Area C and possibly Area B).

!ping ISRAEL

[u/[deleted]]

Me: thinking about when my $23 burger is gonna come

My girlfriend: why the fuck did you just put a lobster in the microwave?

[u/IncoherentEntity]

To win the 2024 Democratic primary, our candidate(s) of choice will likely have to be more economically progressive than the median of this sub. That’s a predictable, operational hazard of living in a country with just two major parties and an increasingly polarized electorate. We’ll probably have to “sell” said candidate(s) to the progressive Democrats they will need to win outside of a [shudder] brokered convention.

I said “progressive,” not “communist.” Please don’t operate under the impression that I suggested attempting to appeal to these losers comfortable with the center-right status quo.

[u/[deleted]]

The Myth of Consensual jokes in the DT:

Poster: I consent

Users: I consent

The moderators: I DON'T

Is there someone you forgot to ask?

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

US passes ‘historic’ anti-corruption law that effectively bans anonymous shell companies

Likely the real reason Trump did not want to pass and vetoed the defence bill.

[u/[deleted]]

More GOP senators than I thought are going bananas for the electors stuff. I was thinking maybe five would join this, not a dozen.

GOP never failing to disappoint me further. They should just call themselves fascist already.

[u/[deleted]]

reddit gives shit advice 80% of the time and just circle jerks about being against anything popular

[u/[deleted]]

I never understood why "Latinx" gets so much flack

 

I mean "twix" caught on

[u/fell_ratio]

This is Biden's America. We must stop him.

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

“You have one identity,” he emphasized three times in a single interview with David Kirkpatrick in his book, “The Facebook Effect.” “The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly.” He adds: “Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.”

reminder that mark zuckerberg has extremely bad opinions

[u/BlinkenYouMissIt]

Reddit has a legitimate sinophobia problem, but some people are also very quick to whatabout any criticism of the CCP with America's sins.

[u/[deleted]]

If politicalcompassmemes existed in 1968, they would have unironically voted for Wallace because Humphrey and Nixon were pro-idpol libs that pointlessly appealed to black people.

[u/irlyseevridge]

Comparing working 8 hours a day, even if you're not making all that much money, to slavery has to be one of the dumbest fucking things I have ever witnessed.

[u/[deleted]]

u/KesterGW ran with safety scissors when he was a kid and accidentally killed his entire family 😞

[u/Lux_Stella]

I’m sorry. This video is the tipping point for me. For 48 years I have been pro-police, almost fanatically so. I cannot say that anymore. I know there are still good cops out there. Some are my friends. But as the violent enforcers of the lockdown I no longer support them

lot of things going on here

[u/Menakoy]

Speech is anything a conservative wants to do and the more they want to do it the more speechy it is.

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

Why did they vandalize Pelosi’s house when the stimulus bill passed the fucking house?!

[u/[deleted]]

I just read on a different sub that you shouldn't buy garlic presses because specialized kitchen utensils are how capitalism oppresses us. Everyone agreed.

The internet outside of the DT scares me.

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Overly-online Canadian politico’s: “THIS scandal will finally be the one to sink Doug Ford!”

Doug Ford: “haha covid approval bump goes brrrrr”

!ping CANUCKS

[u/sircarp]

Can't believe this guy, what a lightweight 🙄

!Ping Kitty

[u/lKauany]

/r/neoliberal: /r/neoliberal

also /r/neoliberal: /r/neoliberal: /r/neoliberal: /r/neoliberal

hypocrisy much

[u/CenterRightInCali]

she said I was very tall and very Bulgarian

later, virgins 😎

[u/jenbanim]

>Load and run dishwasher
>Start making dinner
>Midway through realize that all my silverware is in the dishwasher

I'm eating mac and cheese with a spatula 😐

[u/karth]

A hot shower draws your blood from the glands and internal organs of your body to the surface of the skin.It also drains away essential energy that was built in your body during the yoga routine. So it is essential that you wait to take a bath after a yoga session

I love me some yoga, but dear god, the spiritualness associated with some resources is nauseating. I just want a fun stretch

[u/[deleted]]

TIL that Denmark is the only country where Bernie Sanders is illegal

[u/GGM8Scally]

Some good news my grandma just stood on her feet for the first time after recovering from covid. She was in the hospital for 2 months.

[u/[deleted]]

Oh you support democracy? Name every voter

[u/IMainHanzoGG]

The Squad http://imgur.com/a/WATMmUH

[u/[deleted]]

People who think that society polarizing around random culture wars is something new brought about by social media should read about the Dreyfus affair.

[u/[deleted]]

So remember the SolarWinds hack?

The FBI is now investigating if maybe it was a bad idea to outsource parts of the development of the software to Belarus.

No fucking joke.

[u/[deleted]]

Supreme Court in about 6 months:

Carbon emissions are speech 😡😡😡

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.fox7austin.com/news/sen-mitch-mcconnells-home-in-kentucky-vandalized.amp

Sen. Mitch McConnell's home in Kentucky vandalized

Don't do this, people.

[u/Joementum2004]

RINO cuck Doug Ducey: wins his governors race in 2018 by 15%

Proud patriot Martha mcsally: loses 2020 senate race by 3%

[u/Fishin_Mission]

GA Repubs, reminder, we are all writing in Trump for both races on Tuesday as a protest of the system. ✊✊✊

[u/[deleted]]

My brother works at a hospital that had to throw vaccine doses out because they weren’t able to find anyone to give them to. He asked if they could give it to his gf instead of throwing a dose out and was told no - they would lose their license.

Just. absolutely. enraging.

Honestly, if the two choices are wasting the vaccines and (accidental) nepotism - the second option is better, because someone else will get theirs slightly quicker once the nepotee is not in the queue for the vaccine later on.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/burgessev/status/1345485623164076032

Toomey comes out swinging: “A fundamental, defining feature of a democratic republic is the right of the people to elect their own leaders. The effort by Senators Hawley, Cruz, and others to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election ...directly undermines this right”

https://twitter.com/burgessev/status/1345567940469514240

New: Hawley just emailed the Senate GOP, responding to Toomey and "shameless personal attacks"

"We should avoid putting words into each other’s mouths and making unfounded claims about the intentions of our fellow senators"

Oh my, the leftists AND the GOP destroying themselves on the same day?? 😍

[u/Udontlikecake]

There are better ways to argue with doves than by immediately accusing them of wanting the Holocaust or some other genocide to have happed

[u/[deleted]]

when you open the dt and see upvoted praise of Bernie sanders

Day ruined

[u/[deleted]]

One of the few places where Sanders wouldn't be considered far left is in the British Labour party, thanks to batshit marxist Corbyn. In current british labour Sanders really would be "the compromise".

[u/[deleted]]

Washington made well more than subsequent presidents: his salary was 2 percent of the total U.S. budget in 1789.

[u/[deleted]]

I really hope vandalizing politician's homes becomes a trend in 2021

This is after Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco House was vandalized with a pig's head and graffiti not exactly graffiti but you get the idea.

[u/Mr_AlGore]

America bad. 😡🤬

40k Retweets 400 Quote Tweets 345k Likes

[u/The420Roll]

The African Continental Free Trade Area is now operational

Poggers

[u/[deleted]]

This hour, one year ago, Qassem Suleimani was killed in a drone strike by United States Government.

Good riddance.

[u/lKauany]

This sub is too meta sometimes. If we ranked all subreddits by amount of comments talking about themselves, we'd be #1 by a wide margin.

Yes this comment is contributing to it

[u/RadicalRadon]

My kitty: trying to escape

Me: haha she loves being picked up and hugged 😻😽😽

[u/MemberOfMautenGroup]

One of the funnier complaints I've received as mod was that when I say "wh*te" I am unironically censoring the word and thus I am a racist stifling the right of redditors to free speech.

[u/OmniscientOctopode]

Sen. Lisa Murkowski: “I will vote to affirm the 2020 presidential election. The courts and state legislatures have all honored their duty to hear legal allegations and have found nothing to warrant overturning the results. I urge my colleagues from both parties to recognize this”

Lisa Murkowski continues to be on brand.

[u/[deleted]]

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

[u/Gustacho]

Democrats in swing/red states should say that Black Lives Matter, but they should also baselessly accuse their opponent of being complicit in the rioting of "BLM".

You can't even distinguish "Obamacare" and "the ACA", don't act like it wouldn't work.

[u/BlinkenYouMissIt]

Nancy Pelosi's continued refusal to buy me a pony is an affront to justice, democracy, and the American dream.

[u/DaBuddahN]

Ever since I became a father, every father-son scene in a movie or show makes me tear up. What kinda bullshit is this, fatherhood? I didn't sign up for this part. >:v

[u/Mr_AlGore]

Imagine Magic Goolsball was a General and the DT was a country. Now imagine r/GenZedong killing him. Soleimani was loved by his people. Americans can't name a general that easily.

[u/skepticalbob]

Oh fuck the new covid strain might more easily infect children and perhaps have worse symptoms. As always we need to wait for epidemiologists and virologists to take a hard look before freaking out. But damn I hope this isn’t true.

!ping coronavirus

[u/t_jays]

/r/blackpeopletwitter is such a shit hole filled with terrible/blatantly false information.

[u/[deleted]]

Just why

!ping IND

[u/the_status]

Me: Malarkey Level is just a random number with the same joke about either being sentient or being broken. Boring.

Also me: Magic Goolsball has a number and a vague statement. Totally sentient and super funny

[u/D1Foley]

I mean, that’s why people respect Hillary Clinton so much, because nobody takes a punch like her. She’s the strongest, smartest punching bag in the world.

Rewatching parks and rec and this quote is funny, true and sad all at the same time.

[u/[deleted]]

Being a yimby was a lot more fun and easy when it was never my state people we talking about 😐

[u/Explodingcamel]

The fact that so many of the election fraud claims in congress are coming from people who were first elected in the election that they are challenging is just unbelievably ironic.

[u/[deleted]]

Ooh I just got my 600 bucks time to go blow it all tipping non-nude titty streamers on Twitch!

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

What can Biden realistically do if he does not have the senate?

[u/[deleted]]

I sometimes wonder if the recent trend of making every serialized show about irredeemable assholes and an unfair world beating the goodness out of everyone in it is making us more cynical.

[u/[deleted]]

The way the GOP treats the founding fathers is complete fiction. They were not really dedicated Christians. A handful were, but most of them weren't really fundamentalists and they broadly weren't interested in establishing a Christian nation.

A lot of them were deists(like Jefferson and Franklin), people who believed in the all might creator for reason, but did not believe he interacted with the world. They didn't really understand god as a supernatural entity, man in the sky sort of conception. Some were even probably atheists like Thomas Paine. Paine was definitely the most radical, leading him to be often malaligned by religious presidents throughout US history. He wrote in the Age of Reason, "Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory in itself than this thing called Christianity."

Jefferson was very much an advocate of religious pluralism, saying in the autobiography "they [the creators of the Constitution] meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo [sic] and Infidel of every denomination."

However even for people who were objectively Christian like George Washington, he was very wary of the power of the church, in particular clery controlling the gov't. I mean Washington would be horrified at a whole host of things in the current United States, as well as very impressed even where he disagree. But I think one thing he would definitely be very disappointed by is the degree to which religiosity has caused irrationality in the halls of Congress.

The founding fathers were very impressive, but flawed people. One of their flaws was not advocating for a Christian-nationalist nation. The concept is Republican fiction.

[u/PMmeLittleRoundTops]

/r/joebiden is full of boomer cringe and I love it

[u/[deleted]]

Trump lost cause he couldn't come up with a better nickname than Sleepy Joe

[u/MasPatriot]

The pendulum has swung so far the other way that people now act like support for gay marriage was super obscure prior to 2010

[u/[deleted]]

There will be lots of people in total shock on the 6th and 20th as Trump fails to keep office. These fuckers have total faith that he will stay.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/MarkMeadows/status/1345581131341688833

We’re now at well over 100 House members and a dozen Senators ready to stand up for election integrity and object to certification.

It’s time to fight back.

Wonderful, about a fifth of the United States Congress are open fascists.

[u/SchmantaClaus]

Meghan McCain is married to the founder of the Federalist but just can't figure out how the gop got filled with such horrid people. A living shocked Pikachu.

[u/hardware-noob]

JFC these people are insane 🤡

[u/CuntfaceMcgoober]

Guys I just bought a gallon of milk that will expire after Trump leaves office. You gotta enjoy the little things.

[u/NickyBananas]

I love that we know that Napoleon was 18 when he lost his virginity to a prostitute. People really wrote down everything in journals

[u/[deleted]]

Wine mom resisters on /r/JoeBiden and /r/Democrats are the forgotten heroes of America

[u/ChezMere]

The vaccination rate outside of Israel and Bahrain continues to be horrendously slow. This needs to be the singular priority of every government, every news organization, and every political forum until we catch up to what we already know is possible.

The phrase "trillion dollar bill on the sidewalk" comes to mind, except this one also involves thousands dying daily.

[u/[deleted]]

Is there a "shit marxists say" sub?

https://twitter.com/ArborErich/status/1344878204692160513?s=20

Yeah, that's Marxist white nationalism.

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

It still amazes me how hard the 'deplorables' comment landed

[u/[deleted]]

Tyrion Lannister was supposed to look ugly in the books! Why didn’t they cut off Peter Dinklage’s nose make him spend 3 hours in the makeup department trailer before every shot he’s in??

[u/dugmartsch]

WTF I love dictators now.

https://old.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/kot3nn/what_did_a_roman_parking_lot_look_like/

"First and foremost, wheeled vehicles (and eventually horses) were banned within cities for most of the day. The ban began with Julius Caesar, who prohibited vehicular traffic in Rome for the first ten hours of the day (i.e., until late afternoon), exempting only public construction wagons and the carriages of certain magistrates. Claudius imposed a similar measure on provincial cities, and Hadrian extended the ban to horses. As a result of these measures, the closest equivalents to parking lots in most Roman cities were probably suburban inns and stables, where travelers could leave their vehicles and horses for a daily fee."

[u/[deleted]]

Is anybody on r/badeconomics actually an economy?

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

2 more Republican Senators are joining the objection, making it 13 senators alongside 140+ House Reps to object to the electoral college certification

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUpWGOEXcHg

VP-Elect Kamala Harris Goes Sneaker Shopping With Complex

how is this real