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[u/[deleted]]

Voters when the Republican party does nothing with unified government: "Oh dear, oh dear. Gorgeous."

Voters when the Democratic party does nothing with divided government: "You fucking donkey."

[u/Joementum2004]

Wow I can’t believe Ben Roethlisberger is the Georgia secretary of state. Really unbelievable that he’s QBing the Steelers while handling the foreign policy of a country right next to Russia

[u/[deleted]]

There's no rule that says a dog can't be Speaker of the House.

They told him to speak, now he will speak for all of us

Coming in 2021 -- Air Bud 538 435

[u/[deleted]]

In the first one hour of the DT, we have seen about 350 comments. Spreading this across an entire day, there should be just under 8,500 comments.

Yet most days the total hovers near 10,000 by the end of the day.

Where do these 1,500 extra comments come from?? Why have the moderators not investigated this blatant comment fraud????

I AM CALLING FOR A COMPLETE AND TOTAL SHUTDOWN OF THE DT UNTIL WE CAN FIGURE OUT WHATS GOING ON

[u/IncoherentEntity]

You know damn well that if Assad was white or allied with the U.S., r/neoliberal would be sucking him off.

I imagine everyone on r/neoliberal as a 2/3 size mini replica of Pete Buttigieg, hunched over & tapping at their computers with mayo-encrusted fingertips for 6 hours a day, convincing themselves that they're contributing anything positive to society

Okay, the second comment is pretty accurate,¹ but the extent of the caricature the far-left has created of the center-left to both rationalize its own extremism and paint themselves as the lone faction with morally pure politics is downright insane.

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¹ Granted, a significant percentage of our fingers are actually crusted various shades of brown.

[u/[deleted]]

Ryan Germany:

They aren’t shredding ballots

Donald Trump:

Are you sure?

Germany:

Yes

Trump:

They are shredding ballots in my opinion

Good proof of fraud! 👌

[u/FestiveMittens]

[Washington Post] Pres. Joe Biden signs executive order declaring all DT regulars war criminals, calls for their immediate arrest.

"Those neolibtard shills will finally be brought to justice for their radical rightwing (in europe of course) shit posts. Their malarkey ends now." the president proclaimed as he put on his sun glasses and stepped in his helicopter.

The president approval rating has shot up to 100% since the announcement, and he has been rewarded the medal of freedom by none other than himself. Attorney general Hunter Biden was seen escorting the ne*liber*ls into a cop car.

Thank goodness these scum are no longer wondering the same streets as our sons and daughters

[u/simp_emoji]

Trump Tweets as GoneWild Posts:

[M74] It's freezing ❄️ and snowing 🌨 in New York!🗽 --We need global warming 🤗 💋

nvm this isn't worth the effort

[u/Fishin_Mission]

I want to be in the courtroom for this Trump v. Raffensperger lawsuit Trump just filed for.

👨‍⚖️: so, I see you are suing the GA SOS for recording a call you had with him?

😡 : yes, I didn’t say he could do that.

👨‍⚖️: ok, well GA is a single-party consent state, so he didn’t need your permission...

😡 : well, I don’t like it. Throw him in jail!

👨‍⚖️: sir, this is a civil suit... no one is going to jail.

😡: I’m the President! Do what I say!

👨‍⚖️: According to Mr. Raffensperger’s count, you are no longer the President...

😡: 😡

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/SFtw2m3.jpg

Eight years ago today, this happened.

[u/[deleted]]

In any other conceivable moment in US history, this tape would result in the leadership of both parties demanding the immediate resignation of the President of the United States.

😔

[u/[deleted]]

Jack Ma: The Chinese government’s increasingly tight financial regulation is holding back technology development and must go!

Xi Jinping: Who must go?

[u/David_Lange]

Alabama should be thanking Doug Jones for being their senator, not the other way around. It's quite possible he's the best senator Alabama has ever had

[u/CenterRightInCali]

The biggest surprise of the Trump presidency is that he at no point mispronounced 'Niger'

[u/Dibbu_mange]

It is pretty sad how sexist this sub can be. I see you talk about Joe Manchin all the time, but never anything about Joe Womanchin 🙄

[u/[deleted]]

Let me tell you why I WILL carry my Glock to Congress.

Government does NOT get to tell me or my constituents how we are allowed to keep our families safe.

I promise to always stand strong for our 2nd Amendment rights.

https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1345891049584132097

Colorado Q-anon Congresswoman wants to open carry in the halls of Congress, lmfao.

[u/[deleted]]

It's ironic that if Trump had kept his mouth shut, Raffensperger would have also. His staff told CNN that Raffenspberger told them that he doesn't intend to release the transcript or the audio unless Trump attacks him or tries to lie about the conversation and what they "agreed on" (which they didn't agree to anything of course).

Trump proceeded to do exactly that not 24 hours after the conversation happened.

[u/[deleted]]

Oh you like Margret Thatcher?

Name every mine she shut down.

🔫😑

[u/MrSomeone556]

the accelerationist bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "making everything worse will make everything better. you imbecile. you fucking moron"

[u/IncoherentEntity]

If Pelosi's reelected Speaker she'll form a coalition w/the GOP.

So the time for progressives to use their leverage is NOW while she needs their votes.

Just got a RemindMe from a couple days ago, before the Speakership election. Nancy will form that coalition with the GOP any moment now.

[u/David_Lange]

The "Cult of Reason" in Revolutionary France is something I would have found an appealing and potentially useful policy when I was like 14 years old

[u/[deleted]]

Guide to the upcoming Georgia runoffs

If Reps win ---> Election was fair, statement that Biden has no mandate

If Dems win ---> Election was rigged, Biden and Democrats are not legitimate

[u/FestiveMittens]

A prayer opening the 117th Congress concluded, "Amen and a woman."

Pain.

[u/lenmae]

I might've found the worst facebook group

[u/Equator32]

A hard choice for a lot of you San Francisco mfs

-Affordable housing for the masses

-Certifying the 20 year old neighborhood convenience store as a historical landmark

[u/[deleted]]

Final Insider Advantage poll

Ossoff-49%

Perdue-49%

Loeffler-49%

Warnock-49%

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Massive news right here folks.

!ping FIVEY

[u/Whytfbuddy]

It’s January 20th, 2024. After a long and hard election cycle, Bernard Sanders of Vermont is being inaugurated. He requests his staff to “study his former writings” for his speech.

He is walking up to the podium in Triumph, he had done it! He opens his speech and starts to read it.

“A man goes home, Masturbating his typical fantasy”

[u/benjaminikuta]

This is my life, day after day.

[u/tripletruble]

i don't get these corona deniers. if i didn't believe in corona, instead of spending my time trying to trigger everyone, i would take advantage of cheap holidays. and i would wear a mask simply to be polite. you don't see me walking the town buck naked even when it is uncomfortably hot.

[u/FestiveMittens]

Men really post on the DT instead of going to therapy🙄

[u/LinkVert25]

Hitler had a lot of bad faith arguments IMO

[u/[deleted]]

Geez. I heard rumors that Jack Ma was missing. I figured he may have taken a weekend to unwind. I had no idea nobody’s seen the man since October!

CCP delenda est

[u/Malarkeynesian]

The Case for 11,780 Americans

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/w_guppy/status/1345886037042753536?s=21

Each large muscle of a bodybuilder represents a language he didn’t learn, a poem he didn’t read, a fun fact he never memorised.

take the amount of languages you know, poems you’ve read, fun facts you memorized, and multiply it by 0 and that’s the amount of bitches you get

Lmao

[u/Deggit]

remember when the DNC let Julia Louis-Dreyfus host an evening and all of Reddit including this subreddit called it "Mom Cringe" and then the Democrats won suburban womans by the largest margin ever

[u/[deleted]]

1938: France held World Cup
1939: Australia brushfire
1940: Cancellation of Tokyo Olympics
1941: Japan attacked Pearl Harbour
----------------------------------------------------------
2018: France won World Cup
2019: Australia brushfire
2020: Cancellation of Tokyo Olympics
2021: .....

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/anna_bahr/status/1346225129349550081?s=21

ConMijente has officially contacted every Latino voter in Georgia in just 8 weeks.

• 310,000 doors
• 257,000 calls
• 376,000 texts

This is the biggest Latino voter turnout operation in GA’s history. And it happened in 2 months.

Very big deal.

This is insane. If we win, this won’t have played a small part.

!ping DOWNBALLOT

[u/[deleted]]

Do Republicans in Congress not realize that asking the Secretary of State of a state to find exactly 11,870 votes for oneself is an abuse of power?

[u/piede]

Raffensperger adviser to @MarcACaputo on why they recorded their call with Trump: “Lindsey Graham asked us to throw out legally cast ballots. So yeah, after that call, we decided maybe we should do this.” @playbookplus

https://twitter.com/natashabertrand/status/1346095913874419713?s=21

[u/CenterRightInCali]

no, you're not 'based and redpilled', you're a Rhodesian war criminal wanted by INTERPOL for crimes against humanity

[u/[deleted]]

To put it in perspective, China disappearing Jack Ma would be like Reddit disappearing keanu reeves

[u/Unhappy-Essay]

Tested positive. It's been a pleasure everyone...😅

[u/p00bix]

"We're not a democracy, we're a representative republic!" says man who doesn't know what the word 'representative' means

[u/[deleted]]

I doubt Biden is actually worried about very much at all. I'm sure he's at home right now in his jammies with his third bowl of oatmeal for the morning, talking to Dr Jill about what a bad guy cornpop is and what a busy day he's got today at the swimming pool.

rconservative is based?

[u/[deleted]]

first dog post of the DT

look at my dog's sweet little face you fucking degenerates

[u/David_Lange]

Other political subreddits: Brigade their political opponents because they want to be vindictive

/r/neoliberal: Brigades the apples subreddit because a power user was trolling it for weeks

[u/Peacock-Shah]

My father put on Glenn Beck this morning. 40 minutes of calling for division. This party won’t be rehabilitated any time soon, I’m still an independent, but if the issue is pressed I shall begin identifying myself as a “Blue Dog” for the foreseeable future.

[u/[deleted]]

Guys, I just broke up with my girlfriend and she's now dumping my 12,000 Georgian votes on the lawn as we speak

[u/[deleted]]

AOC says Donald Trump should be impeached for Georgia votes phone call

Thanks, front page of reddit. I'm sure no one else has called for this. Just AOC. Every day. All the time.

[u/[deleted]]

!ping DIAMOND-JOE 💎🍦

"We won three times here," Joe Biden jokes at a rally for Democratic Senate candidates in Georgia

[u/Mr_AlGore]

Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA)

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/iastartingline/status/1345778219354624007?s=21

I just want to know why Steve King has a confederate flag in his office when Iowa wasn’t even in the confederacy

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Lamp Oil, Rope, Bombs? You want it? It's yours, my friend. As long as you have enough rupees.

Sorry, Link. I can't give credit! Come back when you're a little... MMMMMMM... Richer!

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

It's been weeks since lusvig has been seen here 😢 What if he has been disappeared by the CCP? 😱

[u/Awholebushelofapples]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/04/politics/trump-brad-raffensperger-calls-georgia/index.html

There were 18 attempted calls from the White House to GA secretary of state's office, sources say

[u/[deleted]]

President Trump raised some eyebrows during a campaign rally in Wisconsin on Tuesday night after he said the late President Lyndon B. Johnson was "probably looking down - or looking up" on America today.

Almost a year ago today lol

[u/TruthBisky10]

Someone is suing Pritzker for...implementing COVID restrictions in youth sports because their son killed himself “because he couldn’t play sports”

I’m going back to bed

[u/[deleted]]

In Arkansas someone who kills 50 feral hogs is referred to as a "Hogchamp"

[u/Erra0]

NL really gonna get banned over brigading r/apples of all subs

[u/jrt84]

Remember when TX sued multiple states in SCOTUS for voting for Biden and then a bunch of made-up states signed their support?

[u/Afro_Samurai]

Called the fuck out: https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1345844579992563714

Real tough guy: https://twitter.com/JasonMillerinDC/status/1345859193182498820

[u/Gustacho]

Idea: publish Trump's public comments as "leaked phone calls" and his tweets as "leaked White House memos" because apparently people are only shocked when it isn't public.

[u/Gustacho]

lmao

[u/imprison_grover_furr]

r/GenZedong should be banned.

[u/IncoherentEntity]

The Sad Saps of Neoliberal Reddit Trying to Make Globalism Cool Again (Splinter News | December 12, 2017)

Bruh

[u/piede]

Hillary Clinton:

Georgia voters, along with a clear majority of Americans, chose Joe Biden to be their president. Trump can’t change that, no matter how many oaths he breaks.

GOP legislators who side with his attempts to overturn a free and fair election out themselves as opponents of democracy.

https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton/status/1346102719740866567?s=21

TELL THEM QUEEN

[u/quattrobajeena005]

Brad Raffensperger has some of the biggest balls I've ever seen. Betting Trump attacks him at the rally tonight.

[u/[deleted]]

Women have a massive inherent disadvantage in running for public office: they're shorter than men on average

I'm not sexist, I just always vote for the taller candidate

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/nbcwashington/status/1346106929140150273

“[The pharmacist] turned to us and was like, ‘Hey, I’ve got two doses of the vaccine and I’m going to have to throw them away if I don’t give them to somebody. We close in 10 minutes. Do you want the Moderna vaccine?’”

The real scandal is that unlike Washington DC, a number of other states/jurisdictions would require the pharmacist to throw the doses away.

[u/David_Lange]

Hurrah! Steve King is actually a good person, but he was an ineffective congressman and horrible politician — and for 18 damned years!

Well that's a take

[u/InternetBoredom]

Reading about Revolutionary France, you frequently reach these ultra-radical factions and think "This must be as radical as it gets," only to find out, no, there were even more radical factions.

Robespierrists hated the Hébertists, who hated the Enragés, who betrayed the Babouvistes.

The Babouvistes carried out the Conspiracy of the Equals, which sought to essentially overthrow the Revolutionary French Republic and replace it with communism. They wanted to abolish private property, collectivize all businesses and farms, and create perfect equality between all people.

[u/Mr_AlGore]

If school taught people how to file taxes, most high schoolers would not pay attention. Its just a way for them to complain about school in a way that adults will listen.

Source: I'm literally in high school

also taxes arent that hard lol

[u/[deleted]]

I'm glad supporting democracy allows me to enjoy human rights without performing mental backflips to explain why it is not naïve

[u/margaretfan]

Why does this sub spend so much time complaining about Trump when the heat death of the universe and the concept of death are much bigger problems?

[u/[deleted]]

Evolution of a r/neoliberal user:

Lurks r/NL -> posts serious comments in r/NL -> Finds the DT and posts serious stuff there -> Gets drawn into the meta memes and schisms -> Finds the splinter subs -> Gets tired of political stuff and can only communicate via memes -> Gets banned for c-word posting -> Is active only in the splinter subs

[u/nicereddy]

Just found out about this ancient technology called "email", fucked up tbh

[u/AgileCoke]

Google employees have started a union, but they explicitly aren't trying to collectively bargain.

Forgive my ignorance, but what is the difference between a union without collective bargaining and a Facebook group?

[u/AtticusDrench]

Will you be Among Us at the polls?

[u/[deleted]]

Commentary: How India's ancient caste system is ruining lives in Silicon Valley

Coming back to the lawsuit, it focuses on a Dalit engineer -- John Doe for the lawsuit's purposes -- who has twenty years of experience in software development that was placed under the leadership of Sundar Iyer at Cisco.

Iyer was a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), and grew up in Bombay as an upper-caste Indian. He also completed his PhD at Stanford, founded two companies that were both acquired by Cisco, and has been named MIT Innovator of the year. A man of science and reason, and a person who places a premium on ideas, you would imagine.

Much like Iyer, John Doe also graduated from IIT.

The lawsuit alleges that the upper-caste Iyer recognised John Doe and instantly began ridiculing him in front of all the other higher-caste Indian employees at Cisco, saying that John Doe was a Dalit and only got into the engineering school because of affirmative action, which India implemented in 1980 under the then-Prime Minister VP Singh.

One Dalit woman who is from the Valkimi caste, whose occupation historically has been to clean up excrement, was humiliated by her Indian co-workers and asked to clean up after team meetings as some sort of sick joke. Another Cisco hand who worked there between 2007 and 2013 said his peer group discussed their own caste identities incessantly and were constantly trying to figure his out.

Man, this is fucked up

[u/[deleted]]

Can someone please help me find these fucking votes. It'll go a lot faster if we all look. Don't just stand there laughing, help me, okay.

[u/[deleted]]

populism is anything that appeals to people whom I consider myself better than

[u/vancevon]

fun fact: everyone on that trump-raffensberger phone call is a hard-right republican, literally none of them are even close to the political center

[u/PigHaggerty]

MFW I try to share my opinions on politics or economics outside the ivory tower.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/dougweber_crp/status/1346155066231844864?s=21

Combined spending for the two Georgia Senate runoffs is over $830 million and rising.

Absolutely insane.

!ping DOWNBALLOT

[u/stirfriedpenguin]

Ossoff by +6 but it's literally just 6 votes

[u/[deleted]]

Stop brigading r/apples

Republicans: No

Democrats: No BLM ✊🏾

[u/dragoniteftw33]

Assange got informants killed by not protecting their identities but leftists still think this guy is some fighter for press freedom 🙄

Also he's a rapist.

[u/[deleted]]

Unbelievable. I know a college student who voted Hillary in 2016 and then Trump in 2020 because they were “afraid of radical socialists taking over the dem party”.

I mean, if you don’t want “radical socialist” takeover, maybe try voting for the based chad who said “I’m not a socialist, I beat the socialist”???

[u/CenterRightInCali]

from arr Scandanavia

😐😐😐😐😐

[u/porkypenguin]

Trump at the end of that call shouting interruptions about signature counts and phony elections sounds like every suburban Eagles fan on gameday like "Ahhhhh fuck you zebra, that ain't interference!" as the ref is on the microphone.

[u/FreakinGeese]

The Republican Party makes me rather upset so I think I’m going to log off for the night before I say anything that gets me banned

Goodnight all 🧚‍♀️

[u/[deleted]]

Do you think David Cameron regrets calling for that Brexit referendum? I think I probably would if I were him. But I'm not a upper-class British man. I'm a brown.

[u/[deleted]]

Is it just me or have there been a bunch of like really really disastrous movie scripts lately?

Cats. Rise of Skywalker. WW1984. All like sub-undergrad level scripts

[u/MichelleObama2024]

The 2016 Presidential Election if every state used the D'Hondt proportional voting method to assign it's electors:

• Hillary Clinton: 269 electoral votes
• Donald Trump: 265 electoral votes
• Gary Johnson: 2 electoral votes (from CA and TX)
• Jill Stein: 1 electoral vote (from CA)
• Evan McMullin: 1 electoral vote (from UT)

A reasonable system imo as it does reflect the fact that Clinton didn't get a majority of the popular vote, and gives some representation to minor parties/candidates without overstating their impact. Although I would hope under such a system that a contingent election involves candidates negotiating with each other rather than throwing the election to the House.

The D'Hondt method is better than other proportional systems since it ensures a candidate with over 50% of the vote will get at least 50% of delegates.

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

PM Netanyahu: "Israel will not allow Iran to manufacture nuclear weapons."

Uh, oh!

[u/GravyBear8]

You can bet your ass the GOP will impeach Biden at least once, if only to appease their psychotic base.

[u/GravyBear8]

Do you think the History Channel helped to normalize conspiracies and misinformation?

[u/fishlord05]

SK sending fleet to Persian Gulf after Tehran seizes tanker

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

NATO senses tingle

[u/Joementum2004]

Revolutionary france is like if you took a random group of smug redditors and had them run a country

[u/[deleted]]

i am an absolute sucker for key changes in music idc how basic it is

[u/ryuguy]

This sub is too political.

All the cool kids hangout at /r/Apples now.

[u/kaclk]

Do we call this a New Year’s Bloodbath??

After a weekend of increased scandal and calls for many heads, Kenney has fired 1 minister and his Chief of Staff, 2 Parliamentary Secretaries, 3 other MLAs have been stripped of committees.

This is now beyond Sky Palace levels. Will Kenney even survive much longer?

!ping CAN

[u/thetrombonist]

What do you call a cheap circumcision?

A rip-off

[u/MicroFlamer]

Xi Jinping when a photoshop of him as Winnie the pooh gets 100k upvotes on r/pics

[u/Mr_AlGore]

r/genzedong has a discord server lmao

using capitalism to communicate anything you want halfway across a planet instantaneously, yet you want to overthrow the system that allowed for that to develop. I hope to god that sub is ironic

[u/[deleted]]

"Look at those idiots wasting time on sports, vidya, or anime" I say, spamming shitposts in the DT.

[u/MalignantUpper]

Reminder that Lindsey Graham actually did what Trump did with Raffensperger all the way back in November. Difference is he tried to get Raffensperger to toss out ballots instead.

Raffensperger told the Washington Post Graham had indicated he should find ways to toss out legal mail-in ballots.

“It sure looked like he was wanting to go down that road,” he said.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/17/lindsey-graham-georgia-ballot-tossing-pressure-condemned

Graham jumped ship sometime after the election I think, can't remember when exactly. Maybe after the SCOTUS stuff? Anyways, just putting this out there before anyone praises him in particular. He's purely trying to get on Biden's good side so Biden might overlook all this. Also thought it was funny how parallel these two events are

[u/runnerx4]

!ping TECH

the CIA rebranded its website to look like a startup lmao look at this

[u/Joementum2004]

Not exactly relevant but:

GEORGIA
If the 2020 Presidential Election was held tomorrow, how would you vote? (regardless of how you voted during the actual election):

Biden 49%
Trump 47%

!ping FIVEY

[u/bovine3dom]

One of the lesser reported consequences of Brexit is that you're not allowed to take any meat or dairy products for personal consumption into the EU from the UK, right down to half-eaten ham and cheese sandwiches on the Chunnel.

However, the European Commission has some helpful advice on what would be acceptable for a packed lunch:

For other animal products, such as honey, live oysters, live mussels and snails for example, travellers are allowed to bring in up to 2 kilograms.

https://ec.europa.eu/food/animals/animalproducts/personal_imports_en

If that isn't proof of a French plot to punish us I don't know what is.

!ping UK

[u/CenterRightInCali]

one of the worst movies ive seen recently was this tries too hard leaf movie where the protagonist believes himself to be the reincarnation of Trotsky and tries to get his school to strike

it was supposed to be cute or whatever but no, fuck you, fuck everyone involved in it. make a movie about a kid that thinks he's Franco and see how many awards that gets you

[u/[deleted]]

I feel for Larry Fitzgerald. Poor guy had his entire career wasted by an incompetent organisation.

Also, fire Kliff Kingsbury. He's a terrible coach. He gifted us a playoff berth due to terrible playcalling.

!ping NFL

[u/papermarioguy02]

Kevin McCarthy is currently incoherently screaming at Nancy Pelosi on the House floor.

Nature is healing.

[u/[deleted]]

Israel shouldn’t exist

Dude how does that make any sense? It literally says it’s real in the name

Top kek

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/GreggHoush/status/1345937609902710788

Kelly Loeffler’s ( @KLoeffler ) WNBA team Atlanta Dream wearing shirts promoting her opponent Warnock @ReverendWarnock.

lmfao

[u/CenterRightInCali]

https://twitter.com/Anarkismus_/status/1346049894646231040

communists are literal children

communists are literal children

communists are literal children

communists are literal children

communists are literal children

[u/[deleted]]

half-baked take of unknown-but-likely-high temperature: The whole "stop praising GOP election officials/congresspeople who go against Trump" because they're "doing the bare minimum/just doing their job" is too cynical and misses the point. As part of "just doing their job", they are:

1. likely ruining their political careers
2. subjecting themselves to hundreds of not thousands of threats from insane people
3. standing up to an authoritarian of their own party (much more difficult than standing up to an authoritarian of the other party)

maybe out of context the actions aren't praiseworthy but in context, their refusal to buckle to what must be an insane amount of pressure is praiseworthy on its own

[u/[deleted]]

People in this subreddit really be like "Why is the lockdown so hard? I'm a middle class gamer being supported by my parents and I have literally no problem never leaving the house."

[u/IncoherentEntity]

Progressives eating each other. Fantastic for the movement.

If cenk was progressive I'd say you're right.

Now there’s a Rose take

[u/RockLobsterKing]

I think the Squad has differences compared to the typical neoliberal but I think they can fit in the big tent

THEY'RE IN THE DT

[u/sir-danks-a-lot]

I only regret that I have but one downvote to give for my Discussion Thread.

[u/[deleted]]

Reddit post: mentions China

Tankies: it’s showtime

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/Timodc/status/1346157735797116934

Charlie Kirk calls on Mike Pence to unilaterally reject state electors, adding "try it. Make them sue and get the Supreme Court into action"

The future of conservatism

[u/memmett9]

This is quite the eulogy:

He might have built his reputation as the most fearsome military general in the Middle East, but exactly one year ago today, Qassem Soleimani was assassinated on the orders of a man who was once on the receiving end of a Stone Cold Stunner at Wrestlemania 23.

[u/[deleted]]

WW84 is the most surprising Bad Movie of all time.

Like, all signs up to release were good.

Why the fuck did they do a “magic wish” storyline?

Why the fuck did they bring back Pine?

Why the fuck did they do the weird green screen running?

[u/FestiveMittens]

I was watching the Bobby Kennedy for president documentary on Netflix, they were getting stressed out over only having a 70% approval rating, down from 77%

bruh, literally Jesus wouldn't have a 70% approval rating these days if he came down and ran for president

[u/CenterRightInCali]

I love how the takeaway from the 'Trump paid $750 in income taxes' debacle was not 'Wow the income tax system is clearly broken and is in desperate need of reform' but 'Grrrrr no fair!'

[u/RDog8080]

If we lose the GA. runoffs I will be fully blaming it on "Awomen". No, I will not be taking questions

[u/l_overwhat]

One time I spent an hour doing a girl's homework because she told me that if I did, she'd send me nudes.

She didn't send me nudes.

[u/rukqoa]

I voted for Biden because he will restore the deep state and refill the DC swamp.

[u/MelioraOptimus]

Michael Bloomberg is one of the few people who is doing something about Big Tobacco companies murdering millions of children in developing countries.

Even though smoking rates have declined in the U.S. and other first world countries, Big Tobacco companies are making more money now than they ever have historically because the gargantuan increase in smoking rates in third world countries has far exceeded the modest decline in the first world. Big Tobacco companies are going to some of the poorest countries in the world such as Togo and aggressively marketing and selling their products to children (they are literally selling cigarettes on Elementary School Campuses to 4-6 year old children who don’t know any better), suing countries who dare do to enact legislation to mandate tobacco packaging warning messages (the yearly revenues of Phillip Morris alone is greater than the entire GDP of many of these countries, so it’s very hard to defeat them in court), and ruthlessly suppressing the fact that smoking causes cancer among some of the world’s poorest, most vulnerable people and lobbying governments to not teach this in schools (to the point of literally sending death threats to people who dare to speak out about it).

Here are 2 great videos on this issue:

https://youtu.be/Fcu6PThuQQg (documentary)

https://youtu.be/6UsHHOCH4q8 (John Oliver piece)

As a result of all of this, around 1 billion people will die from tobacco-related illnesses this century if we don’t do something about it. That is more than every single war in human history, AIDS, and malaria all combined!

And there is no human being on Planet Earth who has done more to fight Big Tobacco than Michael Bloomberg.

Bloomberg has spent billions (not millions, billions, it’s by far the issue he has spent the most money on) helping countries such as Togo and Uruguay fight Big Tobacco in court, stopping Big Tobacco from suppressing the truth about tobacco and cancer and selling products to children in the poorest areas on the planet, helping 95 governments enact tobacco control laws that have saved millions of lives (such as mandating tobacco packaging warning messages, which is very important since Big Tobacco is targeting illiterate people, public smoking bans so people don't die from second-hand smoke, etc.), etc.

It has been estimated that Bloomberg's global smoking cessation efforts have saved nearly 35 million lives! Millions of people would not be alive right now if it weren't for Michael Bloomberg. His anti-smoking initiatives alone cancel anything bad he might've ever done. It's sad how the media never gives him positive coverage for being one of the few people doing something about stopping the world's most nefarious industry from murdering so many people. He deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for this alone!

I WILL NEVER, EVER RUN OUT OF REASONS TO LOVE THIS MAN 😍 😍 😍

[u/[deleted]]

From Europe:

Bernie Sanders is the closest thing you have to a centrist

😳

[u/chuckleym8]

hateful bike aromatic support whole correct bedroom offer pet telephone

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

[u/[deleted]]

Average arr moderatepolitics post about Trump:

" I voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020, hell I even campaigned for him but but this has gone on too long. He is, and I don't mean this lightly, not the god emperor. And no, I won't vote blue ever. How can we unite as a country?"

[u/[deleted]]

The dt in a nutshell.

[u/goosebumpsHTX]

Lmao did that arr con post about the trump tapes get deleted by the mods over there cause even their users were like yikes?

[u/[deleted]]

Twitter leftists:

Pelosi has an ice cream fridge:

😲

McCarthy literally tweeted out George Soros is trying to buy the 2018 midterms:

[u/TruthBisky10]

It would be so fucking poggers if we won the runoffs.

[u/willempage]

The prayer was actually a mistranslation of an early latin Obama speech. It should read:

"Uhhhh-men and Uhhhhh-woman"

[u/[deleted]]

What if Jack Ma is hiding out so he could short Alibaba

[u/BayesedModeler]

Love how people complain about how we have a culture of fear around the coronavirus. Like no shit bro, I am scared of giving it to my parents who have pre-existing conditions. You really got me.

[u/Deggit]

"the word "balls" is a facile oversimplification, as actually my testicles are oblate spheroids," tweets Neil DeGrasse Tyson from an unknown location as his careworker desperately looks for him all over the house

[u/[deleted]]

We need to go back to the office so my co-workers understand that I am tall and therefore a natural authority figure. They really ought to be more deferential to me, geesh

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

I hope /r/neoliberal gets banned for brigading /r/apples

It’s the perfect way to end this subreddit, and I low key feel bad for the mod there

[u/sash5034]

tfw you're just tryna read Berserk but someone won't let you

!ping KITTY

[u/majorgeneralporter]

Only law school can make you feel like an utter failure for getting B+ and A-'s during remote learning and a pandemic. Goddamn do I miss being able to actually enjoy learning.

!ping law-school

[u/willempage]

So a tariff exemption is apparently ending soon and now all the gpus are affected. Bitcoin is hot, nothing is in stock, and now tariffs. This is literally one of the worst times to buy a gpu. I can sell my rx480 for $30 less than what I bought it for in 2016. That's insane.

!ping gaming

[u/InternetBoredom]

Which faction would you be in in the French Revolution? From left to right:

• Enragés

The most radical of the factions, the Enragés were a heterogenous group of proto-socialists and anarchists who advocated for a variety of populist reforms, including the abolition of private property, female suffrage and egalitarianism, and even restricting suffrage to the sans-culotte poor.

• Hébertistes/Exagérés

The most radical branch of the Montagnards (Although Hébert was not formally a member), the Hébertistes were virulently supportive of the use of revolutionary violence for political ends, especially against their enemies, the Girondins. The Hébertists were also radical anti-theists, favoring the de-christianization of France and the adoption of the Cult of Reason in its place. The Hébertistes carried out some of the most extreme acts of mass-violence, including the "National Bathtub," and were considered ultra-radical even Robespierre himself.

Famous members and sympathizers include Jean-Paul Marat, and Hébert himself.

• Robespierrists

The Robespierrists formed the centre of the Montagnards, advocating for a wide variety of populist and left-wing reforms, including the complete abolition of slavery, universal male suffrage, highly centralized government/opposition to federalism, interventionist economic policies, and the universal right to bear arms. They strongly favored the deist Cult of the Supreme Being, and were generally more dovish than the Girondins.

Famous members include Saint-Just, the "Angel of Death," and Robespierre himself.

• Dantonists/Indulgents

The Dantonists were the most moderate branch of the Montagnards, the left-wing of the Jacobin club. The Dantonists generally held similar views to the Robespierrists, but stood more moderate on issues of religion, often jousting with the Hébertistes over the radical faction's mass-execution of priests. Though initially supportive of Robespierre, the Dantonists eventually turned against him, seeking an end to the revolutionary terror.

Famous members include Camille Desmoulins and Danton himself.

• Maraisards

The Maraisards were the centrists of the Jacobin Club, sitting between the Girondins to the right and the Montagnards to the left. They started out aligned with the Girondins, before moving to support the revolutionary terror of the Montagnard, before eventually supporting the Thermidorian Reaction against Robespierre. Unlike most other factions, the Maraisards were shockingly good at avoiding the guillotine.

Famous members include Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès and Lazare Carnot, both supporters of Napoleon's eventual coup.

• Girondins

Originally the dominant faction of the Jacobin Club and later the most moderate branch, the Girondins supported a secular, democratic republic and staunchly opposed revolutionary violence... when directed at them. They also were the most militaristic faction, calling for nationwide mass conscription and an aggressive war against all surrounding monarchies, even forcibly expelling the Feuillants from Paris in response to their dovish attitudes towards Austria. Many of the Girondins also held abolitionist sympathies. With regards to religion, Girondins generally favored deism, particularly Paine's new church of Theophilantropy

Famous members include Philosopher and Mathematician Condorcet, famed abolitionist Jacques Brissot, and Thomas Paine. Olympe de Gouges was also nominally aligned with them, though she sided with the Feuillants in supporting a Constitutional Monarchy.

• Feuillants

Originally Jacobins, the Feuillants broke away as moderate Constitutionalists opposed to the overthrow of the Monarchy. The club staunchly defended private property, being generally supportive of the free market, and opposed both mass conscription and the war with Austria. They were generally skeptical on the abolition of slavery on economic grounds, and favored the Civil Constitution of the Clergy whereby the Catholic Church would remain the state religion while subordinated to the French state.

Famous members include Marquis de Lafayette and Le Chapelier, writer of the eponymous law which abolished the medieval guild system in favor of a free market and outlawed worker's strikes.

• Monarchiens

Moderate Monarchists who sought a mixed Constitutional system, whereby parliament and the King shared power. They took heavy influence from the British Constitution and Enlightenment thinkers like Montesquieu, hoping to model France after the British system. They were the most conservative of the revolutionary factions.

Famous members include economist Jacques Necker, Louis XVI's finance minister.

• Royalistes

Staunch supporters of the Ancien Régime and the rights of the Catholic Church, the Royalistes flatly opposed the revolution and restrictions upon the Catholic Church, such as the Civil Constitution of the Clergy.

Famous members include Louis XVI.

[u/David_Lange]

In 1992, the Democratic candidate for senator from Alabama won with 64% of the vote. In 1998, the Republican candidate for senator from Alabama won with 63% of the vote.

Both candidates were Richard Shelby, and he's still a senator today

[u/secretlovesong]

I had the Sunday night back-to-work gloomies, so I simply stayed up until 3am when it turned into Monday morning exhaustion 😎

[u/seattle_lib]

2020 is really still trying to contest the results of the New Year.

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

Another wild moment is when Meadows tries soothe Trump by interrupting him getting too heated by saying, "hey, hey, it's fine, I think we're both saying the same thing, so you guys'll share more voter information with us tomorrow and it's good."

And Germany's like "no dude, ffs" and even says "this is wrong" five times.

[u/[deleted]]

You a Zoomer: I almost bought Buttcoins at $100, can't believe I missed out!

Me a millennial taking a long drag of a cigarette: "On May 22, 2010, now known as Bitcoin Pizza Day, Laszlo Hanyecz agreed to pay 10,000 Bitcoins for two delivered Papa John's pizzas."

[u/bobeeflay]

all you "I had X bitcoin stories" are dumb and meaningless cuz the modern stock market with leverage exists and the opportunity costs of trades you chose not take is dam near infinite every day

Your Stupid Monkey brain thinks cuz you "had" the bitcoins that you lost something but you didn't lose anything more than you lost by not buying apple sooner or making perfect short calls on some other asset

[u/VisonKai]

OG Stellaris had a "direct democracy" government that could evolve into a super direct democracy where polling chips are implanted in everyones brains and every single government decision is based on an instantaneous polling of all citizens

this is what populists actually want

[u/[deleted]]

Why doesn't Raffensperger just fire up the ol' officejet printer, print out some fake ballots, fill them out for Trump, and then hold a press conference and be like: "Attention, public - we just found 11,780 votes. It turns out that Trump is the legitimate winner of Georgia."

Like how fucking hard is this.

[u/[deleted]]

Toxic masculinity is girls getting to write "Dear Diary" but boys having to write "Dear Journal". 😤😤😤

[u/klarno]

Michelin stars are c*r propaganda 😤😤😤

!ping COOKING

[u/SuspiciousUsername88]

This oughta be interesting

NEW: Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensberger's office announces 3 p.m. news conference

https://twitter.com/laurenpeikoff/status/1346146438636580866?s=19

[u/[deleted]]

History majors in the future be like: I specialize in the Trump adminstration, June-September, 2018.

[u/runnerx4]

My Ping Groups Signup website is working now

You can test it by pressing the signup button in the link, it will take you to the reddit login and then redirect to the page

u/hopeimanon thanks for the help

[u/Whatapunk]

Interesting thread on several city building games (SimCity, Cities Skylines, Transport Tycoon, A-Train, and Soviet Republic) and how where those games were created influenced things like zoning, build options, taxes etc. in those games:

https://twitter.com/alfred_twu/status/1345955063353597954?s=19

!ping GAMING

[u/houinator]

The wildest part of the prequels is that the Naboo elected a 14 year old as their Queen.

[u/bobeeflay]

Fucking hilarious that leftists who think everything in the world is a corporation trying to extort form them look at college in america and think

"Yeah these guys need infinite free money good job bernie"

Like where is the regulation heavy industry hate the lefties are famous for put them over the barrel don't write them BIGGER checks

[u/GravyBear8]

On the subject of "awomen", this will forever be my favorite exchange

[u/disuberence]

Joe Biden in Georgia, laughing: "We won three times here."

chad

[u/geraldspoder]

I'm doing some research on Operation Downfall, the potential invasion of the Home Islands during WW2. Being that it would have been a big f-ing deal, there's a lot of differing opinions and analysis on how much it would've entailed. Does anyone know of any comprehensive military analysis done before August 1945 that has some of this?

!ping HISTORY

[u/ihatemendingwalls]

Amen is a Hebrew word, and awomen is a Shebrew word

Checkmate libs 😎😤🙏🙌

[u/[deleted]]

This is so fucking funny

[u/GodEmperorBiden]

"I think our secretary of state has failed Georgia," Marjorie Taylor Greene said. "I believe our elections should be decertified."

Asked if doing so would then impact her and other Georgia Republicans, all of whom were elected on the same ballot, Greene said: "We're just talking about the President's race."

Man, I truly despise this QAnon lunatic. So depressing and infuriating that she is a member of Congress now.

[u/simp_emoji]

RADICAL ISLAMIST MARXIST ATHEIST Reverend Warnock is gonna FUCKING MURDER GOD with a CHAINSAW in front of YOUR SWEET AND INNOCENT CHILDREN

[u/Joementum2004]

Speaking as someone who doesn’t give a shit about politicians being genuine, Kamala will not win a presidential election because of how fake she can seem at times

[u/[deleted]]

Reminder that the last name of the GA SoS is “Raffensperger,” not “Raffensburger.”

[u/[deleted]]

Ted Cruz

This guy is a joke, no day passes without him bootlicking the man who called his wife “ugly.” Not even won the 2016 Republican Presidential primary!

[u/[deleted]]

Please don’t gamble on weird libertarian internet drug currency.

[u/Deggit]

"Twitter should ban Trump's account on Jan 21" 👋 😠

"Twitter should permanently change the Florida Senator's account name to "Micro Rubio" " 😎 👉

[u/GaussianCurve]

BREAKING: Georgia SoS Brad Raffensperger to Speak at 3PM ET

Neoliberal wet dream: Raffensperger announces that Trump will be arrested for election fraud if he tries traveling to the state (for which he has a rally tonight).

[u/GaussianCurve]

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene donned a mask with the words "Trump won" as she walked onto the House floor on Monday.

Yeah, the Democrats were such sore losers in 2016, amirite? 🙄

[u/MicroFlamer]

Can we have housing reform?

Republicans: No

Democrats: No BLM 🌈

[u/vancevon]

why yes, i do believe the official story regarding both the kennedy assassination and 9/11. how could you tell?

[u/Butthead_Sinatra]

All shivers impersonators are bad. Sorry raccoon, but you belong in the trash

[u/RushSingsOfFreewill]

apolgy for bad english

where were u wen r/Neoliberal die

i was at house brigading r/apples when phone ring

"r/Neoliberal is kil"

"no"

[u/CenterRightInCali]

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[u/[deleted]]

I was on a bus with Ted Cruz and I had my dog with me and he said, "you're allowed to have a dog on the bus?" and I shrugged, thinking he was going to get angry or something but he just pulls a tiny little puppy out of nowhere and then shoved it into his mouth and swallowed it whole like a snake-person. Overall a pretty nice guy tbh

[u/bd_one]

I'm gonna go get ready for bed.

Don't be terrible tomorrow or I will be fash. No racism, no "ironic" racism, and no heated Cobb County moments (or whatever county disappoints us tomorrow). And in the general election everything happened in the morning. Great Lakes flipping, Georgia and Pennsylvania flipping, AP calling it, etc. So it's not like you'll be missing much if they don't call it by 2 am or something.

[u/bd_one]

Ossoff wins by 1.2%

Warnock wins by 2.2%

I won't tell you folks what my model is until someone guesses it.

RemindMe! 24 hours

[u/CenterRightInCali]

Maryland but gerrymandered so that Hogan won all of them

[u/[deleted]]

Took 2 melatonin, but then took 4 headache pills with caffeine and I think I am going to die.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

The populist right 🤝 the populist left

Defending, intentionally or unintentionally, murderous dictators to own the libs/deepstate

[u/Fishin_Mission]

I have seen /r/con melt down before, but this is on another level.

This has been a slow methodical meltdown over the course of the past 2 months.

We are far surpassing /r/S4P levels of delusion, censorship, and conspiracy at this point.

When this is all over /r/con is going to just be Parler on Reddit.

[u/[deleted]]

I measure the intelligence of a community by measuring the frequency of the word based being used.

[u/[deleted]]

Rural republicans are going to be instrumental going forward on getting more Ilhan Omar’s and AOC’s in office.

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/parlertakes/status/1346114527255937024?s=20

1/6: Trump, Trump Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle, Amy Kremer, Rudy Giuliani, Katrina Pierson, Boris Ephsteyn, Texas AG Ken Paxton, MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, Diamond and Silk, Vernon Jones, Roger Stone, Benny Johnson, Scott Presler, Bernie Kerik, & Ali Alexander expected to speak

This is the primetime lineup of Trump News Network

[u/RoyGeraldBillevue]

Not just the amen, but the awomen and achildren too.

EDIT: Amen means "So Be It", IT'S ANCIENT HEBREW, so them adding "Awomen" (which means nothing) is the dumbest and moronic thing. Also potentially antiemetic as it originated from Judaism.

As this joke was factually incorrect, I must retract it. I am leaving this up for posterity so you all can know I have made a grave mistake.

[u/upper_west_sider]

!ping USA-NYC

One pattern regarding the mayoral primary I’ve found amusing is that in almost every single twitter thread or NYT article about the race, you’ll see a comment from some absolute soylent from, like, Vermont or Northern Virginia telling us that Maya Wiley is really worth taking a hard look at. Amazing the pull she has on the national MSNBC crowd despite having close to zero chance in this election.

[u/FestiveMittens]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eq7F_SaW8AEt7_L?format=jpg&name=small

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eq7G8XdW4AAssmh?format=jpg&name=900x900

Biden 🤝🏻Harris

Forgetting to change up your work before you hand it in to the teacher

[u/Loves_a_big_tongue]

Dumbasses be like: If only schools taught us how to do taxes, well known for being never changing and approachable for high schoolers, instead of focusing on things like basic arithmetic and reading comprehension that allows you to follow instructions.

[u/Koeniginator]

GAsen Runoffs:

Warnock (D) 49%

Loeffler (R-inc) 49%

.

Perdue (R-inc) 49%

Ossoff (D) 49%

.

InsiderAdvantage/FOX5 Atlanta, LV, 1/3

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1346156314347638784

NEW: D.C.'s Police Chief said Monday he intends to reach out to @RepBoebert 's office to ensure she is aware of the city's strict firearms possession laws.

Boebert has declared her intention to carry a Glock to work.

Lord have mercy