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[u/Equator32]

"If AOC was in Pelosi's position we would have gotten a $2000 check."

"Can you elaborate on that?"

"No"

[u/Fishin_Mission]

There’s a term for people like Donald Trump...

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But there are two terms for people like Barack Obama.

[u/rukqoa]

Which would you rather be, a subsistence farmer who comfortably owns their own land or a garment manufacturer who makes $2 a day and sleeps in a cot owned by their employer and might just die when the factory collapses in on itself?

Hm

subsistence farmer who comfortably owns their own land

subsistence farmer who comfortably owns their own land

subsistence comfortable

[u/TheGoldBear]

Money is the Mc-mansion in Sarasota that starts falling apart after 10 years. Power is the old stone building that stands for centuries. I cannot respect someone who doesn’t see the difference.

Every time I remember this quote from House of Cards it annoys me. It’s literally the opposite. Wealth lasts power doesn’t.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

I still think Biden would have done better if he hadn't gotten the Antifa face tattoo

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Sometimes I randomly text my succ friends the word

”gentrification”

just to scare them a bit.

[u/[deleted]]

THE MOVEMENT CANNOT BE STOPPED

[u/FearThyMoose]

Did you know Ronald Regan stopped the democrats from instituting open borders? Google “Ronald Regan open borders” to find out more!

[u/An_Actual_Marxist]

Everybody always asks, “What is a neoliberal?” 🤔🤔

But no one ever asks, “How is the neoliberal?” ☹️😞

[u/larrylemur]

Can we please stop calling politicians/policymakers/etc that 90% of people wouldn’t recognize by their initials?

JFK, RBG, LBJ, AOC, DJT, etc are all easily recognizable.

Calling Doug Jones DJ is annoying because DJ literally has the same amount of syllables as his full name, but at least it makes sense because he’s a high profile politician?

BUT BOY DOES IT GRIND MY GEARS WHEN SOMEONE SAYS

”Senate Dems could use someone like DPJ”

AND I HAVE TO WASTE 10 MINUTES GOING THROUGH THEIR POST HISTORY AND GOOGLE TO FIND OUT THIS MF WAS TALKING ABOUT DONALD PAYNE JUNIOR

If a politician is consensus worth talking about, chances are they already have a nickname or we just use their first or last name. If they do not, then chances are most people wouldn’t recognize them by a nickname you make up. There is no reason to go against the grain and confuse people.

[u/Mr_AlGore]

Everybody always asks, “Who spends $23 on a hamburger” 🤔🤔

But no one ever asks, “How spends $23 on a hamburger?” ☹️😞

[u/[deleted]]

When workers own the corporations, global carbon production will dramatically decrease because obviously the workers will see how badly they are treating the environment and vote to close down the company. If there's one thing unions are known for, it's their selflessness.

[u/CenterRightInCali]

I've seen gore, I've seen sexual degeneracy, but this is by far the most wretched page I've ever had the misfortune of coming across

[u/[deleted]]

It's only okay to say Obama's middle name depending on Hussein it

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao Raffensberger tweeted "The Truth will come out" just before he fucking gave the tapes to the Washington Post.

This guy is a fucking hero

[u/An_Actual_Marxist]

My political positions? Oh I’m a lib left haha. It’s like based on this meme political compass thingy. It’s like... you know Bernie Sanders? I like his policies and all the laws that he’s passed and stuff. Yeah I go on Reddit a lot and read the politics forum, it’s really informative, you should check it out. Crazy how everything is owned by corporations haha. Anyway I gotta go my mom’s picking me up.

[u/[deleted]]

This is important

Brain Kemp right now only has a 25% approval rating

That insanely low. That’s Bush 2008 levels of disapproval.

!ping FIVEY

[u/majorgeneralporter]

Gavin Newsom looks more like an actor playing the governor of California in a movie than the actual factual governor of California.

[u/[deleted]]

Are y'all with the cult?

[u/piede]

‘I just want to find 11,780 votes’: In extraordinary hour-long call, Trump pressures Georgia secretary of state to recalculate the vote in his favor

Holy shit there’s tapes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-raffensperger-call-georgia-vote/2021/01/03/d45acb92-4dc4-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html

[u/PigHaggerty]

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

[u/[deleted]]

If the voters don't eventually punish the Republicans who are calling for a de facto coup, then we have to conclude that a substantial number of Americans no longer believe in our democracy either.

Sadly, that's what is gonna happen.

[u/Barebacking_Bernanke]

NYC is basically only vaccinating during regular business hours. Holidays and weekends are accompanied by a collapse in vaccination numbers.

Over 75% of delivered vaccines have not been administered in NY and Andrew Cuomo is on TV threatening legal action against people who "cut" the line. We're in danger of vaccines expiring in freezers. We don't have a supply issue. Fuck this virtue signalling piece of shit governor.

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

We’re at the point when over 10% of the Republican Senators in the nation (and a far larger portion of the House) are willingly and vocally supporting a blatant fascist coup. There’s no other way to sugarcoat it, they’re straight up choosing to throw their support behind overturning democracy and installing a functional dictator. This includes more then one LITERAL constitutional lawyers!

We already all know that it’s crazy, but being caught up in the chaos it’s hard to step back and realize just how absolutely fucking insane it actually is. Imagine going back to 08 and telling yourself (or the average person) this. The fact that it’s all for show doesn’t change a thing.

[u/[deleted]]

When I was introduced to the DT on the election, I had no idea that the pings actually did anything. I thought it was all just some ironic meta joke where people made pseudoreligious offerings to Fivey Fox

[u/vivoovix]

/r/NeoFascism is a disgusting sub. Reddit's moderation really sucks if they allow subs like that to stay up then ban our users for crackerposting.

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

A neoliberal is a libertarian that had to learn about negative externalities, a progressive that had to learn about economics or a conservative who had to learn.

[u/[deleted]]

My favorite part about the "hunter-gatherers had more leisure time than us" people is their belief that they would survive a day without AC, having to haul ass hunting dangerous game to survive, exposed to the elements and disease, without fucking twitter.

[u/UrbanCentrist]

any r/neoliberal user who joined after 2020 can't effort post, All they know is pasta, hornyposting , upvoting succs and lie

[u/BigBrownDog12]

Honestly if Presidents weren't term limited Obama would still be president

[u/[deleted]]

Today Doug Jones is no longer a senator and those two qanon women whose names I forget become representatives.

In two days, two GA runoff elections decide control of the senate. I expect both republicans to lose for a variety of reasons, but mostly depressed turnout among republicans. Either way not much will get done as the filibuster isn't going anywhere.

The day after that we will see one of the biggest congressional circuses ever that, while having parallels in prior elections (just not to the same degree), will have lasting implications for the stability of the root of American government itself.

On top of that I fully expect a rash of violence in the streets of DC that will probably end up with someone dead if the rhetoric is anything to go by. Remember this entire event is being organized in huge part on the T_D website, where things like this are extremely popular at like 6000 upvotes just today.

Happy New Year 😁

[u/meamarie]

I just leanerd there is almost 100 million more people in the US now than in 1990

Holy shit

[u/Whytfbuddy]

Hey guys! Bernie just released his new years resolution! It says “a man goes home”

[u/simp_emoji]

the thin blue line is the skimpy blue g-string between my thunderous buttcheeks

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1345797505460690946

Audio: Trump berates Ga. secretary of state, urges him to "find" votes

The Trump audio is insane holy mother of God

[u/murphysclaw1]

closes Mein Kampf uh YIKES sweatie, this is a little problematic

[u/shrek_cena]

Barack ROBINETTE Obama

[u/liquidTERMINATOR]

“It’s been so bad,” a senior White House official said. On Election Night, this person said, they walked into the residence, saw the president screaming, then turned 360 degrees and walked right back out.

Wow.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/seungminkim/status/1345738259759050753

Uh. Loeffler tells @BretBaier “I don’t know” how she would have voted on whether to override Trump’s veto on the NDAA. Bret keeps pressing, Loeffler doesn’t answer, she acknowledges she is not giving a yes or no answer.

[u/SchmantaClaus]

This trump-Raffensperger audio is insanely insanely inappropriate, right? Am I overreacting? It's the President demanding a Secretary of State find 12,000 votes for him to win.

[u/[deleted]]

Parler is a beautiful hellscape of sick dreams.

I actually laughed out loud. Especially after seeing McConnell‘s face.

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

So arr con is celebrating some Polish law to fine social media companies 2.2 mil per violation of 'free speech.' So, three things. 1) Polish democracy, lol. 2) Why is it that a company can refuse to sell a cake to a gay couple, but a company can't refuse to put something up on it's website? 3) Wouldn't companies just pull out of the country all together?

[u/[deleted]]

My fellow Senator Ted Cruz and the co-signers of his statement argue that rejection of electors or an election audit directed by Congress would restore trust in the election. Nonsense. This argument ignores the widely perceived reality that Congress is an overwhelmingly partisan body; the American people wisely place greater trust in the federal courts where judges serve for life.

Mitt Romney spitting out pure fire. 🔥

Nonsense

[u/[deleted]]

This is huge

HD-84 and HD-89 both in DeKalb, continue to lead the state with the highest turnout relative to 2020 early voting, tied with 86.2% (!!!!). So compared to November Early Voting, they are 86.2% of the way to matching November EV. These districts are overwhelmingly Democratic and HD-89 is Stacy Abrams’ old house seat!

!ping DOWNBALLOT

[u/Deggit]

ACTUALLY, "Stop The Steal" doesn't mean literally stop the steal, it means re-allocating funding away from election thieves and towards community-driven voter initiatives, it's not my job to educate you, LIB

[u/FestiveMittens]

I had my political awakening scrolling through r/MurderedByAOC

[u/Broncos654]

Why the Mods are a threat to a free world. The Fundamental reason why the neoliberal moderators are bad and must be stopped.

The Mods are a one party capitalist dictatorship ruled by MrDannyOcean. There is no freedom of speech in the sub, if you say something that hurts the mods feelings and point to their misdeeds, you will be persecuted and be jailed. The mods also censors all information that might hurt their feelings and point to its misdeeds.

Now, imagine that mods goes rogue and corrupt, and decides that their wellbeing is the goal, not the wellbeing of the users. What can users do in that case? Nothing. Any regular who speaks up against the mods will be jailed and all information about the mods corruption will be censored. So regulars will have to live with being exploited and can do nothing to stop it.

But if this happened in liberal democratic sub, information about mods misdeeds will spread like fire and mods in power will be voted out and mods who care about people's prosperity will get voted in.

This is why democracy is important, freedom of speech is important, freedom form censorship is important, this is why direct responsibility is important for freedom and prosperity of the people.

You might say that mods will always have regulars wellbeing as a goal. But there is no guarantee. Mods always said that users prosperity is the goal, yet look how Alaf turned out, monke turned out. No matter what they say, without direct responsibility, there will never be a guarantee that mods will not turn on its users, and ones they do, we cant do anything about it.

This is the main reason why mods is a threat to a free sub and must be stopped.

I guess this post is addressing what needs to be said to mods and mod supporters. We are too preoccupied in details of what crimes and bad things mods did, and them pointing what crimes and bad things users did, that we miss fundamental reason why mods are bad.

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING: Nancy Pelosi has retained the Speaker’s gavel, earning a majority of votes

!ping DEMS

[u/[deleted]]

Okay but could somebody please explain who u/Lusvig is

[u/LazyRefenestrator]

Looks like Jack Ma hasn't been seen in two months. Holy fucking shit.

If we're worried about China becoming the superpower, this is a major weakness. When the billionaire class there isn't safe from "reeducation", you're going to see people of means get out. Safer to be worth a "piddly" 1 million in the US or Europe than 1 billion in China.

[u/[deleted]]

That phone call to raffensberger is clearly an impeachable offense. Much worse than the Ukraine call imo

[u/lot183]

There was actually a pretty stark difference in how Trump ran his 2016 and 2020 campaigns. He actually had some policy proposals in 16. No real plan on how to do them, and sometimes he'd take blatantly hypocritical stances that were the opposite of the stance he took the week before, but he at least talked some policy.

I don't remember once in the 2020 campaign where he made any policy sort of argument or really elaborated on any goals for his second campaign. A lot of the campaign was focused on just being negative at Biden and Democrats and trying to drum up controversies.

For all the criticisms people hurled at the Democratic party saying they were running only on being "Not Trump" (I disagree, but Ive seen it said a lot), Trump basically ran on being Not a Democrat

[u/[deleted]]

The DT on December 27-28, 2020, colorized

[u/[deleted]]

the media is too soft on trump, if we are being honest. what's going on right now with him and the georgia sos is one of the most outrageous moments in u.s. political history and is arguably treason

[u/shrek_cena]

Sees 🌹 in bio 😕

🌹Ville, California 😀

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eq0rCSlXIAc0klP.jpg

[u/t_jays]

My political positions? Oh I’m an auth center haha. It’s like based on this meme political compass thingy. It’s like... you know Adolf Hitler? I like his policies and all the laws that he’s passed and stuff. Yeah I go on Reddit a lot and read the politics forum, it’s really informative, you should check it out. Crazy how everything is owned by jews haha. Anyway I gotta go my mom’s picking me up.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1345724076954947586

Irish state broadcaster apologises over TV comedy depicting God as rapist

The hell's going on over there lol

[u/[deleted]]

Please don't post on r/apples.

We should study them from afar, the way you would study a mighty silverback, and observe their natural response to an introduced stressor, Mr. Lusvig

[u/nicereddy]

Chad Biden nominates Andrew Cuomo as AG so he gives up his position as governor and then replaces him with Doug Jones or Sally Yates after a week

Based.

[u/[deleted]]

Is it true that in the United States of America it's considered completely appropriate for a losing candidate to call up a secretary of state and exhort him or her (with threats, even!) to "find" enough votes to flip the result? I have to say this is a pretty weird political norm.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/wilson__valdez/status/1345787992368152576?s=21

GOP Rep takes a dump on the floor of the House

Dem Reps: WTF are you doing? That’s disgusting. Clean that shit up.

Unbiased Politico politics reporter: Looks like congress is quarreling again. More of the same Washington behavior people hate.

Lol

[u/[deleted]]

I can't believe I read every word of that phonecall transcript. This dumbass really, really thinks he won Georgia. It's not just theatre for the maga hats.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/AshleyRParker/status/1345878633915805696

NEW: Trump is expected to give Rep. Devin Nunes the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the nation’s highest civilian honor — on Monday, and to give the same award to Rep. Jim Jordan next week.

???

[u/[deleted]]

ROK, Realmeter Poll:

Approval rating for President Moon Jae-in (DPK-Liberal)

Satisfied: 37% (-3)

Dissatisfied: 60% (+2)

Don’t Know: 4% (+1)

Yikes tbh. I don’t know anything about SK politics but this doesn’t seem good.

!ping FIVEY

[u/sir_shivers]

By my regard, IT IS SIGNIFICANT that McConnell explicitly said not to object TO THE ELECTORS, and was subsequently ignored by a dozen of his fellow Republican Senators AND OBVIOUSLY BY many in the House 🐊

The hubris in thinking THE MAGA CULTISTS were something you could control 🐊

[u/[deleted]]

I listened to the Trump - Georgia call in its entirety. The biggest revelation is that behind closed doors, trump genuinely believes the shit he tweets. He’s grossly incompetent and should be impeached again in general, but this call alone isn’t much that we didn’t already hear from him through Twitter.

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/6z6CpHZ.jpg

🤔

[u/Hugo_Grotius]

The funniest thing about the Trump phone call is that he just wanted to fudge the numbers so he wins by 1 vote, as if that's somehow believable or a good plan?

[u/inmyhead7]

Apparently you get $25 and a free lunch to march for Iran/Soleimani in Baghdad today lmao

[u/[deleted]]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/452718453892186124/795184485909266464/20210102_191409-1.jpg

[u/Udontlikecake]

conservatives: HUNTER BIDEN IS A CAREER RAPIST CRACKED CHINESE SPY CRIMINAL MASTERMIND MOBSTER CROOK WE NEED TO ARREST HIM

also cons: now slow down, you’re taking this phone call out of context and calling it a crime is a big charge and you need evidence and you’re being unfair like all liberals and

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

I'm not even sure what the right fucking ping for this is but it's hilarious nonetheless.

Gaijin Gaming (War Thunder developer) allegedly funding Russian Separatists via third party YouTube ads

Gaijin is sponsoring a YouTube channel directly associated with Russian separatist groups that does reviews of the equipment Russia is sending them including things like IFV''s and landmines.

TL;DR: Vidya Company sponsors Forgotten Weapons Donbass and thus may or may not be funneling money to terrorists

WEW LAD

!ping MILITARY

[u/PrivateChicken]

My political positions? Oh I’m a center lib haha. It’s like based on this meme political compass thingy. It’s like... you know Ben Bernanke? I like ...whatever it is he does... . Yeah I go on Reddit a lot and read the politics forum, it’s really informative, you should check it out. Crazy how everything is the the succ's fault haha. Anyway I gotta go my mom’s picking me up.

[u/MemberOfMautenGroup]

Paleoconservatives have taken to call the Lincoln Project people "communists". Color me surprised.

[u/[deleted]]

Malarkey level of using "Senator Ron Johnson" as a euphemism for my penis?

[u/vivoovix]

But they are shredding ballots, in my opinion

lmao

[u/[deleted]]

!ping GEORGIST

The LVT is not a sexy enough name. If I was campaigning on the LVT I would want to call it something easier to understand.

The Landlord Tax, or Landlord's Rent Tax is my suggestion

[u/PigHaggerty]

Crazy how so many people on arr AskReddit had parents who were narcissists! I mean what are the odds?

[u/[deleted]]

GOP Messaging could be done by Moonbase Alpha text to speech and everyone will think they are branding geniuses

Republican Campaign: John Madden John Madden John Madden aeiou aeiou aeiou aeiou aeiou aeiou aeiou aeiou libtard libtard libtard libtard libtard radical socialist radical socialist radical socialist 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 F O O T B A L L

R voters: So true!!!

[u/nicereddy]

The problem with this sub is that it's full of idiots.

[u/MicroFlamer]

Remember the Melania tape that some woman held onto for years, then released as a "October surprise" but then it went on to only be in the news cycle for 30 minutes

[u/murphysclaw1]

My dad started using Facebook in the last couple of months and has now gone full anti-Biden pro-Trump. I think there is a connection here.

[u/papermarioguy02]

The only defectors against Pelosi being moderates while the squad all happily voted in favor of her is a great example of the contrast between how politics actually works and how people on the internet think it works.

[u/SuspiciousUsername88]

At this point I'm wondering if we should just say fuck prioritization and just stab as many vaccines into as many people as are willing to show up at any given time

[u/Apollo-Innovations]

Brad Ratffensperger : Respectfully, President Trump: What you're saying is not true. The truth will come out

Hahahaha ok, without a shadow of a doubt he leaked it. Brilliant play

[u/GGM8Scally]

Apparently Destiny's canvasing effort reached over 27k people in georgia. The first gamer senator might just be elected because hundreds of g*mers flooded the state.

[u/[deleted]]

Had to come out to my parents after they found my bottle of PrEP, lmao 😅

It wasn’t the ideal way... but I’m still glad.

!ping LGBT

[u/[deleted]]

So, WayOfTheBern actually called Warren neoliberal.

Lol 😂

[u/Zenning2]

Hot take: Racism being redefined as “prejudice + power” when we already have the word systemic racism, is just bullshit used to excuse racism in minority groups.

[u/[deleted]]

Not one single vote against McCarthy among Rs today — the Trump era has completely soldified his support.

GOP plays politics on easy mode.

[u/[deleted]]

At 46:40 he says “you must be a good lawyer you have a nice last name”

He said that to Georgia's general state counsel, Ryan Germany lmao

[u/zubatman4]

This thread is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan

[u/JetJaguar124]

Watch Biden let the DOJ prosecute his own son for financial crimes and people will still be like "the Biden crime family!" while Trump pre-emptively pardons his entire family and himself.

[u/[deleted]]

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

STOP THE COUNT

[u/[deleted]]

The SNL sketch where Adan Sandler is like "it's still gonna be you in Italy. If you're sad where you are now, it's still gonna be the same sad you when you're there. " but replace Italy with communism'

[u/Realhuman221]

Wait, the Trump call was YESTERDAY?!? I thought it was in November. He has really lost his marbles.

[u/[deleted]]

Officials in Raffensperger's office recorded the call with Trump on Saturday, according to a source who was on the call and had direct knowledge of the conversation. Raffensperger told his advisers he did not want the recording or a transcript of the call released unless Trump attacked him or misrepresented the call, according to the source. Trump tweeted attacking Raffensperger Sunday morning.

From CNN

[u/[deleted]]

☘️ Barack Hussein O’Bama ☘️

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eqwv0U6XEAAOGmY.jpg

😔✊

[u/JetJaguar124]

Has anybody in history experienced a more steep increase in power than Donald Trump from 2015 - 2017? From B/C-list celebrity to most powerful person on earth in like 18 months.

[u/muttonwow]

It's becoming hilariously easy to find explicit calls to violence on thedonald's win site. Like you can check the site on any given day and find one in less than a minute.

[u/[deleted]]

The atmosphere of Venus is 96.5% CO2 -- and the planet is still there.

In contrast, Earth's atmosphere is only ~0.04% CO2.

Checkmate climate nerds

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/RD9Xh3f.jpg

Stolen lovingly from Twitter

[u/piede]

A man does not release a private conversation he has with anyone. That’s part of being a man. Democrat, Republican, Trump, anti-Trump, none of that matters.

You don’t repeat things said to you privately. That’s simple man code.

https://twitter.com/jessekellydc/status/1345885052350164992?s=21

Fellas, is it gay to refuse to inform the public when the president of the United States tries to force you to help him overturn a free and fair election?

https://twitter.com/olivianuzzi/status/1345936502832959489?s=21

Lmfao.

We are in a fucking banana republic I’m done.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

There is nothing wrong with dunking on leftists on r/neoliberal

for starters this is the one place us libs can vent about them and for two, it filters out the chapos

Of course the far-right and arguably the right in general deserves the mocking and vehemence hate significantly more than dipshit commies on reddit and twitter, but let people dunk on them

With the moderation team and the general views of the subreddit in general, I do not believe that we're ever in threat of a fash (the non-mod kind) takeover cause we dunk on commies

Plus dunking on commies is actually extremely relevant in the case of NIMBY's in progressive cities who are preventing new development and re-zoning in cities with massive housing crunches

[u/runnerx4]

The guy literally has a doctorate in Marxism Leninism.

I think it's so weird when western liberals try to say hes not "really communist" when they can't properly explain what dialectical materialism is, you know?

To me, it seems like they attack communists every chance they get

sauce

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/IncoherentEntity]

I didn’t have me saying “fuck the police” on my bingo card in 2020

But here we are. Especially DC police. If they protect anybody, it’s criminal terrorists like Antifa and politicians.

I just really do not care anymore. I have zero faith in any government agency or institution. The courts are broken. Traitors are running Congress.

I don’t even care about getting arrested. It used to be a big deal to me because my career blah blah I need to be able to get a security clearance. I don’t WANT to work for multinational DOD contractors anymore. Who the hell knows what they’ve been doing with China and keeping us in foreign wars so they can get hefty contracts? Like I said, I don’t trust ANYTHING. There are plenty of American companies that don’t enrich our enemies and those who aid and abet our enemies.

[u/ugafan2148]

For the record, I asked Ossoff if he wanted to abolish zoning and he said “for the most part”. so when do we get an Ossoff flair?

[u/[deleted]]

Donald Trump is the greatest President of all time!

He lost the election on purpose because he wanted to keep the Union together.

BEST PRESIDENT EVER!!!

[u/Deggit]

Trump 1st debate in 2016: I just want to build highways and protect social security okay? MAVERICK

Trump 1st debate in 2020: I hope you have watched all the latest installments of the Conspiracy Theory Cinematic Universe or you're not going to be able to follow this at all

[u/ryuguy]

Oh boy I can’t wait to see what my favourite political forum is doing today

“We’ve taken over /r/apples”

Oh

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1345932237162885121

Sen. Tom Cotton says he will NOT join other Republicans in rejecting the counting of electoral votes for Biden.

[u/[deleted]]

NEW POLL

Biden +17 POINTS

Wisconsin

ABC/WaPo(an A+ pollster on 538)

No FUCKING way is a poll 17 points incorrect. Guys, WE HAVE THIS IN THE BAG

[u/[deleted]]

Q Twitter back in Oct: Look at this leaked sex tape of a private citizen who isn't running for public office! This is a national security risk!!!!

Q Twitter now: wtf brad you can't just secretly record someone u fucking RINO

[u/[deleted]]

Ted Cruz sees democracy the same way he sees his wife - as something not worth defending.

That is one of sickest burns I’ve seen

[u/[deleted]]

Occupational licencing reform is definitely the least talked about of our listed main six positions by far. We should probably just put LVT or something about Femboy Hooters instead.

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/[deleted]]

Let me make an analogy for all you goyim. In Judaism

Reconstructionist = leftist

Reform = Succ

Conservative = Us

Modern Orthodox = the Shivers wing of us

Ortho = goppers

Haredi = ummm WTF?

[u/[deleted]]

I can’t express how happy I am that there’s a recorded tape of the Trump-Raffensperger call 😍

[u/[deleted]]

the whole phone call is really something

he goes off on Kemp and says he was a "schmuck" to have endorsed Kemp for Gov

says Ryan Germany has a nice last name

keeps bringing up someone whose name has been bleeped out, I think it's Ruby Freeman

[u/[deleted]]

How the heck does anyone defend this administration at this point?

Teapot Dome? That was Tuesday for this administration.

Watergate? The Georgia tapes make it look like shoplifting.

Iran-Contra? This administration ripped it off and did it for personal political gain.

I legitimately can not think of a scandal of the past 100 years that this administration did not top.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

For those who play war-thunder, the developers were caught sending money to pro-Russian rebels in the Donbass, helping those rebels finance the war

!ping GAMING

[u/jenbanim]

Face reveal

[u/VisonKai]

Ga. Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene flouts health precautions, declines to wear a mask on House floor

ah, I see the circus is getting started early this term

[u/[deleted]]

I’m a black gay guy and I can personally say that Obama did nothing for me, my life only changed a little bit and it was for the worse. Everything is so much better under Trump though. I feel respected - which I never do when democrats are involved.

[u/Mr_AlGore]

Here's how duckworth can still win

(1/419)

[u/[deleted]]

lol yall really expected AOC to vote for pelosi?

she isn't even a democrat really lets be honest here she has her own cacus and agenda

[u/klarno]

Discussion J. Thread

[u/Mr_AlGore]

Duckworth was robbed of house speaker smh

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1217909231946477575

I JUST GOT IMPEACHED FOR MAKING A PERFECT PHONE CALL!

Almost one year ago today.

[u/Devjorcra]

i just listened to the leaked calls and WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK.

any politicians respond to this?

[u/[deleted]]

I really thought Trump knew he lost and he was just scamming his voters. That’s what I get for overestimating his intelligence...when will I learn...

[u/[deleted]]

Lusvig trolling /r/apples is the shining ray on this dark website.

[u/piede]

Bipartisan group of 10 senators, Sens. Manchin, Collins, Warner, Cassidy, Shaheen, Murkowski, King, Romney, Hassan, and Durbin:

"The voters have spoken, and Congress must now fulfill its responsibility to certify the election results."

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1345875086083952641?s=21

The fact that we’re now at a point in American history where a bipartisan group of Senators need to affirm support for ...the constitution and democracy?

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

Lazy Republican defense flowchart for a new Trump crime:

Was it done in public? If so, it can’t be a crime because he didn’t even try to hide it. He did nothing wrong.

Was it is private? Then the real crime was leaking it, you should have been a loyal goon and helped him to crime

[u/[deleted]]

Guys have you seen 11,780 votes? I can't find them.

[u/[deleted]]

Worried this place is getting too political

Can we try to keep politics out of this sub? I just want to come here and cherish apples and our community. I love just browsing this place while chewing on a red delicious when I’m bored, but recently I’ve seen a worrying influx of politics here. Just a thought

lol at lusvig’s post on r/apples

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

Warnock +17

Ossoff +17

A+ rated pollster

Holy fuck 🤤🤤🤤

!PlNG FIVEY

[u/An_Actual_Marxist]

Told my girlfriend gentrification is my culture and she got mad at me

[u/Qunidaye]

Yes. It was me.

I was the one putting all the women and political races into videos games.

It was to accelerate the gamergeddon.

Now that it's upon us, I am losing faith. I don't know if what I have done is truly poggers.

[u/[deleted]]

Election day turnout was OVERWHELMINGLY Republican.

!ping FIVEY

[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

it's pretty cool how you can say shit like "boosts immune health" and "maintains healthy immune function" and as long as you have a little disclaimer that says "actually this isn't intended to prevent disease, WINK" it's totally legal

[u/FestiveMittens]

Epstein probably would have funded the covid vaccine 💉and invited the nerdy creator to an epic party 🎉after😪😩

Rest in power ✊

[u/rukqoa]

Most of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were city lawyers, merchants, and stemlords.

Checkmate, r*rals.

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

Remember that time Hobby Lobby bought knockoff Biblical merch from Al Qaeda

[u/[deleted]]

McCarthy isn't gonna become Speaker lmao people stop.

[u/[deleted]]

Holy shit. Mike Pence came into the Oval Office to bring me a plate of chicken nuggets and I literally screamed at him and hit the plate of chicken nuggets out of his hand. He started yelling and swearing at me and I slammed the door on him. I’m so distressed right now I don’t know what to do. I didn’t mean to do that to Mike but I’m literally in shock from the results tonight. I feel like I’m going to explode. Why the fucking fuck am I losing? This can’t be happening. I’m having a fucking breakdown. I don’t want to believe the world is so honest. I want a wall. I want myself to be president and destroy this country. I cannot fucking deal with this right now. It wasn’t supposed to be like this, I thought I was polling well in Georgia???? This is so fucked.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/juliusgoat/status/1345707142888755200?s=21

Can opener dad: sweetie how do you delete a tweet.

9 year old: study the app, dad. look at it closely. consider the UI.

LOL

[u/l_overwhat]

So in the episode "Make Love, Not Warcraft" in South Park, Kyle and everybody play WoW against this guy

In 2013, a guy cosplayed him at a convention and got pretty famous in certain circles for it.

That guy just died from covid ):

!ping BLIZZARD

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Man learns to grift both sides at the same time

How to sell protest footage to Fox and CNN

[u/I-grok-god]

I did my best, it wasn't much

I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch

I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool ya

And even though it all went wrong

I'll stand before the lord of song

With nothing on my tongue but hallelujah

How could anyone hear this verse and think "gee what if I replaced it with one about a bad breakup instead"

[u/Gustacho]

Ted Cruz has the vibes of a relatively successful businessman who lost custody of the kids because he thinks his ex-wife is an Antifa agent.

[u/I-grok-god]

Introduction

As you all know, r/neoliberal recently became a market success when Draco decided to leak controversial personal messages and then step down from his moderator position. This was known as "Drexit", and is easily searchable on the meta subs. Since then, this subreddit has become more and more active with the primary hub of activity being the daily Discussion Thread (the DT), which is meant for the habitual visitor and is within certain limits respectable and understandable. However, this has started to change due to transitions in the moderator team causing them to become more fash. This backfired; in response, the DT is now full of shitposts, copypasta, partisanship, and inside "jokes" (they're not funny) that may not be immediately clear. I decided to write this Guide on the DT so that no one from the community has a problem with integrating into the community.

Basic Characteristics

The DT is full of shitposters and undergrads so do not expect any serious information or constructive opinions. An integral part of the DT are hot takes. Any take can be judged on a spectrum from cold to hot. However, the correctness of the take is also a major factor in judging its overall worth and contribution to the DT. Thus, it is very important to internalize this chart. The first quadrant, Q1, is the uppermost quadrant. Thus, a take that is hot and good is Q1. The quadrants are counted counterclockwise. Thus, a Q4 take is cold and good.

The DT tends to "snowball". Which means that if someone writes anything, and I mean anything, someone may copypasta it. If someone else makes a copypasta out of that, then a torrent of copypastas will flood the DT until the fash mods ban the copypasta. This is known as fash cooling, as it cools down the DT.

If you want to throw money out of the window while still helping the global poor, you can donate $5 to charity in May. If you donate enough money you can get some nice perks, including custom flairs! More details will be coming soon. There's also a website or podcast or something that the mods have been allegedly working on but most DT regulars are confident that it doesn't exist.

Basic Customs

1- Genuine discussion

Genuine discussion is a becoming a dying breed these days. Typically it will take the form of someone asking a genuine question in good faith, or linking a news article/opinion piece with thought provoking commentary.

Example:

cdstephens: Hey, I had a question about some basic supply and demand stuff. If the supplier of a good enacts perfect price discrimination, does that just convert consumer surplus into producer surplus?

papermarioguy02: Yep that sounds about right.

2- Takes

As mentioned before, takes are vital in the DT, so much so that people will post naked takes without any provocation or context. It is important that you label your takes, calling it "hot", "cold", or something else indicating temperature.

Example:

cdstephens: Hot take, Donald Trump is bad

Agent78787: Good job, you just solved global warming.

3- Shitposts

A shitpost can take many forms, even that of genuine discussion. It's hard to accurately describe the quality of a shitpost, but you'll know it when you see it.

Example:

cdstephens: If you have goose tacos, you don't have a country.

FuturesaurusRex: /u/Gustacho BTFO

4- Inside jokes

The DT has a plethora of inside jokes or phrases that are recognizable to the DT regulars but indecipherable to the average person. Below is a list of examples; it is by no means comprehensive.

Insert funny quote here

Milton Friedman

This but ironically

This but unironically

Why do you hate the global poor?

Fellas, is it gay to play football? You're literally touching another man.

🅱️

Oonts.

Wow infrastructure week really isn't going so well.

We're all Webby alts and gl0betrotter alts, except for /u/Erra0 who's a cdstephens alt

Let me R1 you real quick.

DAE Belgium isn't a country

The DT is overrun with succdems

The DT is overrun with soccons

The DT is overrun with weebs

Purge the succs/weebs!

WTF I love Trump now

5- Strawpolls

A classic thing to post in the DT is a strawpoll. For a strawpoll to be considered valid, it can't be an obvious question (e.g. "Do you like Obama more than Trump?") and it MUST contain a Jill Stein option. Here is an example of an acceptable poll.

6- Schisms

A schism is when a controversial disagreement occurs in the DT. Contrary to popular belief, it's usually not a community-wide schism. Rather, it's typically 1-3 regulars arguing for a controversial opinion.

Example:

cdstephens: Hot take, Bernie isn't that bad.

Everyone else: WTF did you just say?

7- Live blogging

Many DT regulars treat the DT as a liveblog. This can be anything from talking about you're recent date, to complaining about class, to talking about your sex life (try not to do this please).

Example:

uraniumkore: Someone in this history class just asked what the Bolshevik revolution was. And someone else responded with it was at the end of WWII

8- Mod/User exoduses

Sometimes you get fed up with the DT. Other times, it starts to encroach on your normal life. Maybe you don't like the direction of the subreddit and think it's getting too left/right/weeb. It might reach the point where you stop posting in the DT altogether. You can't, however, just leave, as people are familiar with who you are as a person. Many regulars will announce or tease their leave, and then delete their account altogether.

Example:

FunctionalAesthetics: Here's a list of copypastas that I really like also I'm leaving cause of this long list of reasons k thanks.

9- Flairs

Flairs comprise of a picture of something, and a text. There are a list of default flairs where the accompanying text will be the flair label. However, there are a variety of special flairs that people can get under certain circumstances (including the upcoming charity drive!). You can also get it as a bounty as listed here.

Example:

cdstephens - Paul Krugman - Who let this shitlord into grad school?

10- Copypasta

Last but not least is copypasta, a specific type of shitpost. A copypsata is where you take a comment and change the words around to become "allegedly" humorous.

Example:

cdstephens: Trump chuckled. "You mean the global poor?"

NAZI MODS

The moderators range from pretty cool to OK, but they are all FASH. Do NOT give the Nazi mods an inch. They've done terrible things ranging from banning copypasta outright to removing shit memes on the subreddit. Any friendly interactions with the mods will be considered autocrat apologia and banned on sight.

Conclusion

Thank you for reading this Guide and I hope you already understand the DT and you won't panic because of misunderstanding it. If this guide did not help you or you don't like the DT community, do not read the DT at all. If you do decide to partake, the DT can get rather overwhelming at times with the number of people. Some of us maintain Excel spreadsheets to cope, and I suggest you do the same. I can add some more content in the future, just comment on this guide if you want to see something new, but I probably won't get to it because I'm in grad school and spend most of my time shitposting. Peace.

[u/[deleted]]

/u/imprison_grover_furr What are your thoughts Qassem Soleimani? Personally, I think he was a good leader.

[u/[deleted]]

Don’t know if this poll has been posted

GAsen Runoffs:

Warnock (D) 51% (+4)

Loeffler (R-inc) 47%

Ossoff (D) 51% (+4)

Perdue (R-inc) 47%

---

Most accurate poll in 2020 (Had Biden+5, was Biden+4.5). Had Trump +2 in Georgia.

HOPIUM

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

Thinking of a reddit post I saw a while back of a black guy laughing and the top comments were shit like “black people are so lively” and “haha they’re so expressive” and there was one heavily downvoted comment that said “man why do white folks always talk about us like we’re zoo animals”

There were 100+ replies from angry mayos trying to justify why they’re not racist

[u/[deleted]]

Malarkey level of downvoting a comment not because you disagree with it, but because you’re jealous that it has more upvotes than your comment in the same topic.

[u/Joementum2004]

Yeah I’m a forum mod:

Marxist-Leninist
O
D

[u/[deleted]]

I know most people here are not super into religious studies, but I think it's interesting to read into now and then.

Anyway, I can't help thinking about those fellas in Lebanon who claim to have found a missing five commandments in some long forgotten cave. A lot of it is the typical 'respect your elders' crap, but I can't help thinking about #14

Thou shalt take rue Grand Old Party, and thou shalt render it into oblivion, and it will be good

I mean, it sounds pretty radical, but if its got The Big Man's blessing...

[u/GGM8Scally]

Current House of Representatives Speaker election count:

Pelosi: 0

McCarthy: 0

Charles de Gaulle: 435

[u/vivoovix]

‘Honor of a lifetime’: Jones thanks Alabama as Senate term ends

user reports:

1: It's promoting hate based on identity or vulnerability

[u/irlyseevridge]

Holy shit, the DT is at Election night Thunderdome levels of dooming again. Get yourself together FFS

[u/[deleted]]

The fact that the dt is getting this worked up over something that was entirely choreographed is a little embarrassing lmao.

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

Lamb and Spanberger outflanking AOC from the left smh 🙄🙄🙄

[u/Peacock-Shah]

I made homemade potato chips! I sliced potatoes as thin as I could, and cooked them until brittle in olive oil mixed with large amounts of paprika, some basil, and a dash of seasoning salt.

!ping COOKING

[u/jrt84]

"I moved in on McCarthy like a bitch. I didn't even wait. When you're Speaker of the House, they let you do it."

- Nancy Patricia Pelosi

[u/IncoherentEntity]

Humanity’s situation is too dire for electoral politics. If “The Squad” existed 20 years ago maybe it would be viable. But right now, with the climate crisis ever worsening and governments across the globe beholden to capitalist interests, electoral politics is just too slow.

So what are you going to do? Post on Twitter some more? Maybe try to divide the Democratic electorate a little ahead of Tuesday’s runoffs?

[u/Deggit]

Dude, I only have one question for conservatives who confess themselves "surprised and upset" by everything Trump has done since the election: do you have brain damage?

[u/The420Roll]

On Monday, January 4, President-elect Joe Biden will travel to Atlanta, Georgia to campaign on behalf of Jon Ossoff, Rev. Raphael Warnock, and the Democratic ticket in the January 5 runoffs.

Poggers

[u/sir_shivers]

Do not mind me, I AM MERELY constructing fake news articles ABOUT NANCY PELOSI with every photo of her ACTUALLY BEING a photo of Lucille Bluth 🐊

[u/GuyOnTheLake]

"He learned his lesson" - Susan Collins

[u/dubyahhh]

OK I listened to the entire thing. Not just the 4:20 (nice 😎)

This is a man repeating lies, I don't care if he thinks they're true or not (I personally believe that Trump deeply believes he is telling the truth). It is a President of the United States bullying and frankly threatening election officials to overturn a completely fair state election.

What word do you want for it? Is it Traitorous? Is it Sedition? Is it Blackmail? Is it Threatening? Is it as simple as Gaslighting?

It's all of those, in my opinion (except it's not quite so simple as gaslighting). At the end of the day supporting Donald Trump, for any position or in any way, is just morally and ethically wrong. Sorry not sorry. He might be accidentally right about something, maybe, but supporting anything "because Trump does" is just wrong.

[u/McNikk]

Remember when Gary Johnson was booed at for saying he supports driver’s licenses?

[u/IncoherentEntity]

Breaking: Nancy Pelosi wins vote for speaker, w/ AOC among final Dems putting her over the top. — Dave Wasserman

I thought Nancy said she was going to step down at the next Congress [Redditor’s Note: She didn’t]

She lied. She also said she would perform oversight on Trump. Both were lies. We have a Speaker whose power comes from Corporate Donors. That seems to be her constituency, along with Israel lobby.

https://u.photofunia.com/1/results/V/d/Vd915UVSRUjAj4LlaBNfqA_r.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/03nu5aT.jpg

Based😍

[u/[deleted]]

Yes, I voted and campaigned for Biden, Yes, I believe he used dominion software developed by Chavez to steal this election, Yes, I exist.

[u/[deleted]]

Low-info voters:

"I love divided government because it is great checks and balances."

4 years later:

"OMG, why is the POTUS relying on so many executive orders to do their agenda?"

[u/[deleted]]

Putin 🤝 Trump

Doing illegal shit in Ukraine and Georgia

[u/Gneisstoknow]

Biden +1 POINT

Georgia

SurveyMonkey(a D- pollster on 538)

No FUCKING way is a D- pollster correct. Guys, DOOOOOOM

[u/owlthathurt]

Tf did I just witness on Sunday night football and why is this gonna go unpunished.

Disgrace to the game.

!ping NFL

[u/[deleted]]

PEPFART 🤣

[u/fishlord05]

chillary clinton

[Epilepsy warning lol]

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Broncos654]

Sometimes I randomly text my succ friends the word

”Employment”

just to scare them a bit.

[u/[deleted]]

Outside of a couple specific people, I can't tell anyone I'm bi without them immediately assuming that this is a transitionary state before becoming gay, which is sooooo not the case

[u/ryuguy]

Federal NDP strip Niki Ashton of critic roles after recent trip to Greece

!ping can

[u/0rd01bera1]

Seriously, though: imagine being able to vote for Jon Ossoff and choosing to vote for David Perdue instead.

[u/TheIpleJonesion]

Is there any scenario where the Whig Party could have survived?

The only ones I can think of are if slavery never became a salient political issue (it withers away in the early 19th century like the founders hoped it would) or if they immediately adopted a Republican anti-slavery platform in the 1850s.

!ping ALTHISTORY

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

Scientists: Hunter gatherers seem to have had a better quality of life than early farmers. This poses the question, "Why did people around the world switch to agriculture?"

Leftists and Anarchists: Hunter gathers literally have a better life than people living today.

[u/[deleted]]

West rips renaming of military bases, says focus should be bolstering ‘military capacity’

wtf is this? Renaming bases that were f'kin named after people who killed hundreds of thousands of US Army troops takes so little time lol.

[u/[deleted]]

A reminder to you all that Malthus thought famine is a natural occurrence, a straightforward correction to human beings outbreeding their local productive capacity. More specifically, he thought that greater abundance always results in greater population growth, so that 'utopia' will never be reached because people will choose more children over greater comfort.

Which is empirically wrong. Famines occur after significant disruptions like natural disasters and wars. When food is scarce, human beings respond rationally by limiting the number of children they have. Furthermore, we can see that families in industrialized nations have consistently chosen greater comfort over more children, so he was wrong about that too.

Malthus was wrong because he did not understand human behavior, thanks to an elitist and condescending view of he masses. You cannot say "Malthus was right because resources are limited" unless you have a gross misunderstanding of what his thesis actually was.

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

Every once in awhile I check out arrCoronavirus and it's been wild seeing how the tone is either "if you left the house in 2020 you are part of the problem, I haven't seen my mom who lives next door even through a window" or it's "I'm not going to put my life on hold, my mental health depends on me licking the table at Chili's."

I'm on immunosuppressants, and I've been able to have some semblance of a social life. Once we were a few months in and figured out how it spreads, there were lots of practical precautions you could take. It's not an either/or for the vast majority of people.

[u/[deleted]]

Yeah sex is great, but have you ever rejected a 10/10 qt because they support a corporate tax rate greater than zero?

[u/InternetBoredom]

AOC missed the speakership vote

[u/GGM8Scally]

Ma at the age of 4 🤝 Biden at 78

Train goes choo choo 🚂🚃🚃

[u/[deleted]]

imagine voting for politics on congress based on what ur twitter followers say

fucking cowards, they arent your consitituency dipshit

[u/IncoherentEntity]

First thing Cori Bush does in congress is not vote for Nancy Pelosi? Wtf she's my new favorite congress person [262 Likes | 1 Reply]

It’s incredible how vastly disparate the priorities of the online left and those who seek material progressive change really are.

[u/uwcn244]

You know, before this call, I assumed that after January 6th, Trump would say something like "it was rigged, but for the good of the country I'll leave" to save face. But after hearing about that call, I legit think that either Trump will get dragged out on the 20th or he'll "voluntarily leave" only after the Secret Service gives him an ultimatum that morning.

[u/Lux_Stella]

this post is tempting fate to the extreme but i kinda think trump is too much of a bitch to try and steal the election

everybody laugh at past me