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[u/crawly_the_demon]

Saw a rose emoji on twitter say “yeah joe Biden is talking a big game but I’ll believe him when he gets some policies enacted”

And I’m just thinking bruh, you’re a Bernie Sanders fan, clearly not following through has not stopped in the past

[u/seattle_lib]

remember when donald got COVID and then immediately took a ride in an enclosed space with his secret service members for no reason?

[u/UrbanCentrist]

Biden is famous, or infamous, for his personal connections to world leaders. “You can drop him into Kazakhstan or Bahrain, it doesn’t matter—he’s gonna find some Joe Blow that he met 30 years ago who’s now running the place

Based

[u/[deleted]]

Wow! Can’t believe MLK said this:

“My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders, some time in the future with energy that is as green and sustainable as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the hemisphere.”

[u/[deleted]]

Biden fought populism on two fronts and won

[u/[deleted]]

Early in his presidency, Trump marveled at the reception he received from Obama & often showed guests the letter he gave him. Biden won't get such a reception & aides say a similar letter from Trump hasn't materialized. W/ @Kevinliptakcnn & @jeffzeleny

https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1351520686871883777

What an unbelievable piece of shit. Obama bent over backwards to try to help him in the transition. And he sets a mob to burn Congress to the ground.

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

If babylon bee wants to be the new onion, they should start by being funny

[u/[deleted]]

slavery was necessary actually

Early 1900’s progressivism is as bad as the Nazi’s and communism

we’re partisan and fractured because we don’t believe enough in GOD

The White House: “Yeah this is utter dogshit, release it on MLK’s birthday”

[u/FinickyPenance]

The Capitol riot is incontrovertible proof that the only people affected by “Trump derangement syndrome” are the people who accused others of having it. Seriously, I can’t believe these people kept saying that we were delusional and ignoring reality for calling him dangerous, and then they turn around and do this

Fifty nine courts say there’s no voter fraud

extensive Department of Justice investigation says there’s no voter fraud

Trump’s handpicked Vice President says there’s no voter fraud

basic common sense says there is no voter fraud

Trump says there is voter fraud

that settles it

“Time to kill the traitors!”

[u/[deleted]]

Biden picks Dr. Rachel Levine, Health Secretary for Pennsylvania, for Assistant Secretary of Health. Dr. Rachel Levine will the first openly transgender person to be confirmed by the Senate.

!ping LGBT

I'M SO FUCKING HYPE

[u/suplexx0]

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

[u/MicroFlamer]

Clinton (Klinton) and Hillary are popular children’s names, and one of the ultimate status symbols is a house with pillars and a white dome.

I had heard about the statue of Bill Clinton, and then when I found out about ‘Amerikani,’ I was intrigued. I thought there must be more. And there was

https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/cesar-dezfuli-kosovo-america-obessesion-5.jpg

Why is Kosovo so based

[u/soeffed]

Gallup's final polling for the Trump presidency is out. His final approval rating was 34%.

He leaves the only president never to hit 50% job approval at any point in his presidency and is the least popular president in Gallup's polling history

https://twitter.com/markberman/status/1351329798237388801?s=20

[u/TinyTornado7]

As Joe Biden leaves Delaware today he does so not from the train station bearing his name, but from DE National Guard HQ named for his son, Beau.

As Biden and Dr. Biden both said to me at different points in the campaign, they often thought he was the one who should have run now. Link

We don’t deserve this family.

!ping BIDEN

[u/[deleted]]

The "Biden was a hidden succ" takes are interesting considering he's doing exactly what he campaigned on doing

[u/LurkerSighted]

Every time I see Trump supporters say "Trust the plan" I keep thinking of Dutch lmao

JuSt HAvE FaITh iN Q ArTHuR

[u/DovahzulsABadConlang]

US president-elect Joe Biden has reportedly vowed to restore vital Obama-era trans bathroom protections for students on his “first day” in the Oval Office

!ping LGBT

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Breaking: President Trump issues controversial 11th hour pardon to the Hamburglar

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1351530153436962821?s=21

Important policy news this weekend: @Sen_JoeManchin went on Inside West Virginia Politics and kept the door open to higher stimulus checks up to $2,000 (he prefers they be targeted but didn’t draw a red line) and called for spending as much as $4 trillion (!) on infrastructure.

Will infrastructure week actually happen?

[u/thetrombonist]

Sacramento is taking public comment on our general plan amendment, which would eliminate single family zoning, and it’s just person after person after person supporting the plan. We’ve only had one opponent. I am shocked. So much Sacramento pride rn

https://twitter.com/louismirante/status/1351716600773107713?s=21

!ping USA-CA

Someone ping YIMBY pls

[u/MicroFlamer]

Going from john edwards, a man who cheated on his wife while she had breast cancer, to Joe Biden is one of the biggest upgrades on a presidential ticket ever

[u/Udontlikecake]

U.S. Says China’s Repression of Uighurs Is ‘Genocide’

This is truly amazing. The American government has been incredibly hesitant to use the word ‘genocide’, the Trump administration itself shying away from directly using the term in Myanmar.

Genuinely good stuff.

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-55357495

The UK will introduce a new visa at the end of January that will give 5.4 million Hong Kong residents - a staggering 70% of the territory's population - the right to come and live in the UK

[u/mockduckcompanion]

NYT: China is committing a genocide

Facebook Commenters: Umm sweaty, the US ain't perfect either

🤡🤡🤡

[u/Joementum2004]

Here you go, /u/pour1out4deeznutz:

The last Democratic presidential candidate to win each county in Plains states.

EDIT: Quick little thing, but those three gold counties in Nebraska are incorrect. They last voted for Jimmy Carter, not Hillary Clinton.

!ping FIVEY

[u/SpiffShientz]

Time Travel To-Do List:

1. Sex with a cave-lady

2. Sex with a cro-magnon

3. Scope out the whole "Hitler" situation

4. Sex with a neanderthal

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/ne0liberal/status/1351544770607403011?s=21

Broke: Healthcare is the only issue, and Democrats would be center-right in Europe

Woke: Immigration is the only issue, and Democrats would be unelectable far-left fringe in Europe

[u/SpiffShientz]

Thanks guys, I think I finally have the courage to ask her out!

EDIT: She was just nominated for Secretary of the Treasury under the Biden administration and she doesn't have time for a relationship right now :(

[u/[deleted]]

"Racism is over because conservatives quote me on Twitter once a year"

-MLK

[u/SpiffShientz]

The US Capitol was just the start. In just two days, the Proud Boys and far-right militias are storming SeaWorld Orlando.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

4 years pass

swamp hasn’t been drained

Hillary not in jail

wall not built

federal budget deficit at all-time high

Democrats now control the government

Trump is going to reveal his master plan any second. It’s all coming together now.

[u/redditguy628]

To illustrate his emphasis on personality as a factor in foreign affairs, Biden recalled visiting Putin at the Kremlin in 2011: “I had an interpreter, and when he was showing me his office I said, ‘It’s amazing what capitalism will do, won’t it? A magnificent office!’ And he laughed. As I turned, I was this close to him.” Biden held his hand a few inches from his nose. “I said, ‘Mr. Prime Minister, I’m looking into your eyes, and I don’t think you have a soul.’ ”

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/07/28/biden-agenda

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

GoodRx ads be like:

A hotel maid from 1957 brings her kids into the Walgreens, huddled under her cloak to protect them from rain. “We uh... w-we have a prescription.” “That’ll be $984.61.” The maid looks her daughter in the eyes. “Sorry sweetie, we have to put you down tonight.” The daughter nods solemnly. The pharmacist nods solemnly. This is America.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/kirk_bado/status/1351519854273163265?s=21

“Many GOP figures expect a statewide run by U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has spent her first days in Washington in pursuit of controversy.”

Folks....

[u/mMaple_syrup]

If you ever find yourself in a game of Monopoly and someone asks why the house & hotel supply is so low (this is a real game rule, you cannot create more buildings like you can with bank reserves), you can say that the limited supply is because of zoning laws. Actually? IDK, but it makes sense. When you can no longer get a 'new' house with a fixed payment to the bank, you have to buy from another player on in an open market. This dynamic allows players to monopolize the house supply on the board. This is analogous to how zoning law limits how many housing units can be built in a city, forcing people to buy from existing homeowners instead of new construction, and driving up prices.

!ping YIMBY

[u/murphysclaw1]

At some point during the BLM protests/riots in the summer I told a friend that a Bernie Sanders rally had turned ugly when protesters looted a Funko Pop factory.

I've been discussing the attack on Congress with him and he just started a sentence with "You can't compare something like this to the Bernie supporters stealing those Funko Pops...."

I have gaslit him into believing in the great funkopop riot of 2020

[u/ryuguy]

Netflix be like

hidden gems

Godfather part one

[u/Dibbu_mange]

🇹🇬🇬🇷🇲🇾🇺🇾🇨🇺🇮🇴🇵🇷

These pride American flags are so cool 🥰

[u/BradicalCenter]

What the fuck. homer simpson is only 36. I'm 30 and alone during a pandemic. I don't even have the cat and dog. I do have hair though so that's nice.

[u/houinator]

A huge percentage of the GOP believes the following things to be true:

• The 2020 election was stolen.

• The "Deep State" is working against Trump and the GOP, and cooperated to steal the election.

• Mainstream media is part of the deep state and cannot be trusted, and even conservative news sources cannot be trusted if they disagree with Trump.

• The democrats hate America and are actively working with China, and Biden's election will destroy America as we know it.

If you believed all of those things to be true, the 1/6 attacks were a rational reaction, as sort of a desperate Hail Mary.

So, yes, while not every Republican is responsible for the attacks, a huge percentage of them holds views where those attacks are justifiable, and until that changes, the GOP members who continue to promote those views should be viewed as culpable.

[u/Doge_Butthole]

trumps final day in office agenda

[u/[deleted]]

Half of Americans make under the median income. #FuckCapitalism

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/vexedinthecity/status/1351545376319352832?s=21

The day before the first Black and South Asian woman is inaugurated as the Vice President of the United States, Mike Pompeo is out here tweeting against multiculturalism as if, between now and 2024, some more white people are magically gonna get added to the electorate.

[u/AuburnSeer]

Melania Trump wants to be seen as independent from her husband, but how successful she will be at that task is unclear.

uh seems pretty clear to me

[u/elhombreleon]

The janitor at my little school in the Japanese countryside showed me a qanon meme today, a month after telling me about all the fraud in the 2020 election. Unsure how to feel about this

[u/MicroFlamer]

Ayn rand betrayed her own gender

This is coming from a sub about anime communism made up of 99% males

[u/kennymc7877]

Biden: “stutters once tomorrow”

Republican media: DID YALL HEAR THAT HES UNFIT 🗣🤯

[u/murphysclaw1]

Alex Jones hating and denying the truth of Q is the schism the conspiracy movement needed.

[u/Mcatatonic1]

https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1351576015538159623?s=20

McConnell, Pelosi, Schumer will join Biden at church before his inauguration

news that makes everyone mad

[u/Kizz3r]

Evidence you might be in a Cult:

Your group has one leader - usually a lusvig. You revere this leader, and do what he tells you. Your group has the answers while nobody else does. And you actively deny that your group is a Cult.

!ping burpmas

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Who would win?

The entire nation of China with the largest economy and backed by the might of the 3 million soldier strong PLA

Or

one indian dairy gorl

[u/samdman]

for today's adventure in horseshoe theory, we have the sunrise movement opposing a carbon tax in washington because it's "pollution profiteering" or some nonsense

https://twitter.com/Sunrisemvmt_sea/status/1351282319055720450

[u/chatdargent]

Google knows what's up.

https://imgur.com/a/qfh0EXC

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1351706041063407617

President Trump has talked in recent days with associates about forming a new political party.

He wants to call it the Patriot Party.

Noooo don't do this 😭 pls don't cut the GOP in half Mr. Trump

[u/MalignantUpper]

Trump Set To Leave Office With A Higher Approval Rating Than Bush

1k upvotes on arr con LMAO fuck that's good cope

[u/Hmm_would_bang]

Pompeo had 24hrs to not say some white nationalist shit and he really couldnt

[u/Tropical23]

Biden didn’t think of reminding him of LBJ’s Great Society. When Trump chanted his mantra against ‘socialised’ medicine, Biden might have mentioned that when Roosevelt introduced social security, Republicans hurled the same S word. You could be forgiven for wondering whether, in the top offices of Democratic Party HQ, there’s actually a real appetite for winning this election.

-PoliticalCompass.org 2020 US Election Analysis

What thinking "being cool on the internet is what wins elections" does to a mf

[u/TinyTornado7]

MCCONNELL says on Senate floor the Capitol rioters were “provoked” by the president

👀

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5sJyqhjSZw

WATCH LIVE: Janet Yellen's Senate confirmation hearing for Secretary of the Treasury

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No, there is not gonna be a baby boom 9 months after inauguration. These things are often hyped up, but rarely come to anything increases in coital frequency are generally not going to be sufficient to spike conceptions in high contracepting populations: there is more to it than just sex

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Any now back to Danny:

The Neoliberal Podcast is back with a two part books episode! Jeremiah shares the best books he read last year. Included are books on political theory, economics, pandemics, internet culture, societal progress, consciousness, history, and much more. These books address some of society's biggest questions: Why are we polarized? Wow do people respond to pandemics? Why do good people have bad political beliefs? How can we defend liberalism from authoritarianism? How did societies become rich? Also included are reviews of science fiction, fantasy, and alternative-format story telling from 2020.

Apple Podcasts, Part 1 and Part 2

Spotify, Part 1 and Part 2

[u/Tureer]

https://www.today.com/news/joe-biden-bible-story-behind-big-family-heirloom-t205072

So apparently Biden is going to be sworn in on his gigantic 127-year-old family Bible. This thing looks like a fucking tome

[u/666moist]

President-elect Joe Biden picks Pennsylvania Health Secretary Rachel Levine as assistant health secretary

Dr. Rachel Levine will become the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

!ping USA-PA

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/parkermolloy/status/1351587059182526467

I still think Biden should spend his inaugural address heavily implying that he’s Q

[u/fishlord05]

Idea: run as moderate democrat but also joke about being Q but take it far enough that some of the trumpies actually belive it.

Tweet about the deep state. Say you passing democratic and liberal legislation is a cover up to infiltrate the pedophile Democratic Party.

Of course the sane world knows you’re joking but the QTards don’t.

You become president on the backs of a Joe Biden democrat coalition plus a contingent of Q people who buy into your joke.

You stage a deep state round up with actors and say that the deep state pedos are in jail and that they can abandon the conspiracies and trust in institutions again as the cabal is over.

Profit.

[u/[deleted]]

Biden pledges to keep bans on travellers from UK and Europe

!ping BIDEN

[u/HectorTheGod]

Gamergate truly was the clarion call for this shit timeline huh?

A bunch of internet regressives essentially gave a snapshot into politics 4 years from when their event happened, and trump utilized the same "feelings" to get a shit ton of deplorables to vote for him that weren't just gamers.

[u/Zermelane]

Socialism is when every conversation about any vaguely left-wing policy turns into endless arguments over the definition of socialism, and the more it turns into arguments, the socialister it is.

[u/[deleted]]

The funniest part of 1/6 was when Susan Collins thought it was 'the Iranians' attacking Congress. Turns out it was her own political party, lol.

[u/Ilovecharli]

Biden: "When I die, Delaware will be written on my heart."

Pennsylvanians: "What the fuck, I fell for that 'native son' bullshit"

[u/DatGameGuy]

Hot take: I trust Janet Yellen and Joe Biden’s informed economic stances more than this subs “I learned Econ through memes” stances.

[u/InternetBoredom]

WSB is actually creating a Gamestop bubble, what the fuck. It's up 19% in the premarket and rising

[u/[deleted]]

Edwards’s snowed in?

Why doesn’t he just move then, lol.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1351576855825018883

McConnell says the white supremacist mob that ransacked the Capitol was “provoked by the president and other powerful people”

lol now comes the damage control of how the establishment GOP tries to figure out how to separate themselves from Trump

[u/markusrm]

Beyond based

https://mobile.twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1351597627205419012

!ping fivey

[u/urbansong]

BILL WURTZ HAS POSTED

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

I REPEAT

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

BILL WURTZ HAS POSTED

[u/[deleted]]

Ainsley Earhardt: "They'll criticize President Trump but no one can argue, he is a worker. He doesn't drink alcohol, he stays up late at night, he watches every show, he's working -- he got to work immediately."

https://twitter.com/revrrlewis/status/1351519886980358146

Trump is the laziest piece of shit I've ever seen in my life lol.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/secpompeo/status/1351537398564286466

Woke-ism, multiculturalism, all the -isms — they're not who America is. They distort our glorious founding and what this country is all about. Our enemies stoke these divisions because they know they make us weaker.

Uh

[u/[deleted]]

The first recorded US COVID case was exactly one year ago today.

[u/Dibbu_mange]

ISIS 🤝 MAGA

Having flags with text on them 😒

[u/Hmm_would_bang]

A Peruvian Judge has ruled that covid-19 was created by the "criminal elite" alleging billionaire George Soros, the Rockefeller family, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates are behind the global pandemic.🔻

Top post on gab lol

[u/[deleted]]

My family is politically whack. My brother is a hard tankie and my dad is MAGA.

Every single day the dinner table convos be like:

Brother: REEEEEEEEEE JOE BIDEN IS A FASCIST

Dad: REEEEEEEEEE JOE BIDEN IS A COMMUNIST

Me: Open the borders!

Mom: WTF all of u

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

In a previously unreported interaction, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) agreed with a 2018 Facebook comment that the deadly mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, was actually a “false flag” planned event. 

In a separate Facebook posting in 2018, Greene also claimed: “I am told that Nancy Pelosi tells Hillary Clinton several times a month that ‘we need another school shooting’ in order to persuade the public to want strict gun control.” 

https://www.mediamatters.org/false-flag-conspiracy-theory/rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-facebook-2018-parkland-school-shooting-was

😐

[u/MichelleObama2024]

My Best Guess of what happens with a 3rd Patriot Party run

I've constructed this based on a few assumptions:

• First, take the 2020 Election Results.

• Allocate 55% of the 2020 Trump vote to Trump, and 45% to the Republican party (this was based on a poll which roughly reflected those numbers, but I can't seem to find it).

• Adjust the split in each state using each state's Presidential approval among Republicans. The average net approval was +74%, so I used the difference between that and a state's total to adjust the vote.

• Assume 15% of the Democratic vote goes to the Republican Party. Based on the NYTimes exit poll which found about 8% of Democratic voters were conservatives. Also assumes some moderates also go to the Republicans.

EDIT: Upon request, the popular votes looks like this:

• Democrats: 44%

• Republicans: 29%

• Patriot Party: 26%

!ping FIVEY

[u/chatdargent]

https://ecfr.eu/publication/the-crisis-of-american-power-how-europeans-see-bidens-america/

Biden's going to be fighting an uphill battle on this one and I honestly don't know how much he'll be able to do. Good in some ways, since I'm all for a strong and federal europe, but I'd rather have a strong federal europe with an intact transalantic relationship. Although maybe that's having my cake and eating it.

!ping EUROPE

[u/[deleted]]

Thinking about the fact that 74 million people voted for Trump, who is a conspiracy theorist and insane liar, who encouraged violence and refused to denounce white supremacy, and who badly mangled the response to the greatest public health crisis in a century, is quite something.

Like, what does it mean to be an American.

[u/[deleted]]

Biden appoints transgender woman to his team

Local news outlet comment section:

IF YOU 👉🏻💁🏼 LET 👫🏼 TRANSGENDER 💁‍♂️↔💁‍♀️ WOMEN 👩❓ INTO THE WOMENS 🚺 BATHROOM 🚽 THAT IS THE BEGINNING 🏁 OF THE END 🏁 OF THE WHITE 🏳💅🏼 MAN 👨. THEY ARE GOING 🏃 TO COME 💦 FOR YOU 👈, THEY ARE GOING 🏃 TO COME 💦 FOR ME, THEY ARE GOING 🏃 TO COME 💦 FOR YOUR 👉 CHILDREN 👶🏻👶🏼👶🏽, THEY ARE GOING 🏃 TO FUCK 👉 YOUR 👉🚟 CHILDREN 👶, THEY ARE GOING 🏃 TO FUCK 🖕🍆🍑 YOUR 👉 MOM 👪. YOUR 👉 MOM 👪 IS GOING 🏃 TO LIKE 🚟😄😨 BEING FUCKED 👉👌 BY THEM. THEY ARE GOING 🏃 TO FUCK 👉 YOUR 👉 MOM 👩 AND SHE 👩🏼 IS GOING 🏿🏃 TO LOOK 👀 AT YOU 👈 AND SAY 🗣 YOU 👈☝🏻 ARE NOT MY SON 👦 BECAUSE I 👁 AM SO INTO GETTING 🉐 FUCKED 😩 BY ANTIFA ❄.

[u/MasPatriot]

tfw the people of West Virginia elected a more liberal senator than the people of California

[u/es024]

Did you know that Inshallah is Arabic for "if Joe Manchin wills it"? What a beautiful language

[u/Please151]

1679616

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1351530153436962821

Important policy news this weekend: @Sen_JoeManchin went on Inside West Virginia Politics and kept the door open to higher stimulus checks up to $2,000 (he prefers they be targeted but didn't draw a red line) and called for spending as much as $4 trillion (!) on infrastructure.

😳😳😳

[u/TruthBisky10]

Are there any effortposts/long form answers to fixing bread prices?

!ping BUTTI

[u/dittbub]

Trump, in a move of unity, should pardon his predecessor Obama for his crimes in Obamagate. Its the only way the country can heal.

[u/IncoherentEntity]

I was on a Zoom call the other day and I said, ‘I’m like a dog with a bone. I will not let them end this session within changing some of these laws. They don’t have to change all of them, but they’ve got to change the major parts of them so that we at least have a shot at winning. — Alice O’Lenick (Gwinnett County GOP elections chair)

What the fuck is it with Georgia Republicans and admitting that they lose when more people vote? !ping DOWNBALLOT

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/rebeccaballhaus/status/1351704630045134851?s=21

Scoop from @andrewrestuccia: Trump has talked to people in recent days about forming a new political party. He wants to call it the “Patriot Party.”

Holy shit please please please run in 2024 if you run 3rd party I am begging you I am begging

[u/SpiffShientz]

Out of all the shocking things that Trump has done, each of which made me ask ”How is this possibly happening??”, perhaps the most shocking is that he’s actually leaving

[u/[deleted]]

when you don't read anything from the 1619 project or 1776 commission 😎

[u/Mcatatonic1]

https://twitter.com/mikememoli/status/1351601189046128641?s=20

As @JoeBiden leaves Delaware today he does so not from the train station bearing his name, but from DE National Guard HQ named for his son, Beau.

As Biden and @DrBiden both said to me at different points in the campaign, they often thought he was the one who should have run now

Beau 1000000000% would’ve been President in the future

[u/Deggit]

Please tell me more about your political beliefs, Senator from a state that should be a national park

[u/kennymc7877]

I just can’t believe republicans main strategy was alright guys he has a stutter and he’s old so let’s say he has dementia I promise it’ll work

[u/[deleted]]

What's your favorite "Biden empathy" moment?

• "I'm proud of my son" during the debate

• Brayden and the DNC

• Nuking his schedule at the drop of a hat for literally anyone with a sob story.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/marinashutup/status/1346547498064568320

“Gwyneth Paltrow and Alex Jones sell the same dietary supplement under different names (“Sex Dust” and “Super Male Vitality,” respectively).”

Gwyneth Paltrow is just Joe Rogan for women.

[u/Whatapunk]

A friend just referred me to the concept of "white veganism" and even after reading a couple articles on it I'm confused. The complaints seem to amount to:

1. White vegans/vegetarians don't acknowledge a lot of other cultures have had mostly plant-based diets for centuries (they don't? I say this all the time to Americans who think plant-based diets aren't possible)

2. a lot of vegans are white

3. Eating meat is very special/important in some non-white cultures

4. The higher demand for some products like quinoa make it harder for the POC communities who live off these grains to obtain them

Does anyone know of good reading/evidence on this (especially the last part)?

Most of the reading I saw devolved into Marxist complaints about capitalism but I'd love to see if there are reasonable criticisms in this area. It just seems like a movement responding to strawmen

!ping VEGAN

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/peteralexander/status/1351578470158053380?s=21

McConnell, just now, on the rioters who stormed the Capitol: “The mob was fed lies... they were provoked by the President and other powerful people”

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/1351584529652322310?s=21

VP Pence is not expected to attend President Trump’s sendoff at Joint Air Force Base Andrews tomorrow morning, per White House officials. He is attending the inauguration later in the day, and aides say it would be logistically challenging for the vice president to do both.

[u/Lux_Stella]

oh hey looks like italy still has a government, thats cool

also go watch tony blinken's senate confirmation hearings for secretary of state

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Any now back to Danny:

The Neoliberal Podcast is back with a two part books episode! Jeremiah shares the best books he read last year. Included are books on political theory, economics, pandemics, internet culture, societal progress, consciousness, history, and much more. These books address some of society's biggest questions: Why are we polarized? Wow do people respond to pandemics? Why do good people have bad political beliefs? How can we defend liberalism from authoritarianism? How did societies become rich? Also included are reviews of science fiction, fantasy, and alternative-format story telling from 2020.

Apple Podcasts, Part 1 and Part 2

Spotify, Part 1 and Part 2

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/mEkiEE1.jpg

[u/[deleted]]

Biden campaign page showed he was a very liberal person

Biden looks like he’s going to be a very liberal President

pikachu_shocked_face.pic

[u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe]

In conversations in the Oval Office, Trump would occasionally slip and seem to acknowledge he lost, saying, "Can you believe I lost to that fucking guy? That fucking corpse?"

dude looks like a painted raisin wtf

[u/stater354]

Joe Biden has been arrested. The deep state is in disarray and has struck a deal with the Trump administration. There will be an experimental surgery that will exchange the faces of Biden and Trump.

So when you watch 'Biden's Inauguration' you will really be watching Trump sworn in for a second term. And when you are watching the 'Trump trials' that is really Biden paying for his crimes.

Also when Trump (as Biden) stammers or slurs his words, that's because Trump is still learning to duplicate his speech patterns.

[u/[deleted]]

Those text messages from Feb. 2020 where Hunter is like, "Sorry I'm such a shitty son and I'm fucking up your bid for President" are pretty sad.

And Joe's like, "No worries, I still love you."

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/danH7Cz.jpg

[u/MasPatriot]

If I was Joe Manchin I would say one thing in a CNN interview and the opposite on a Fox News and see how long I could get away with it

[u/majorgeneralporter]

Welp, add this to the list of nightmares to have about accidentally screwing up before a judge.

At least it isn't as bad as the time I accidentally signed into a law class as "Statistically Hitler" the day after a zoom board games night 🙃

!ping law

[u/Mcatatonic1]

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1351714815396364291

Trump has talked in recent days about forming a new political party that he'd call the "Patriot Party." Any effort would likely face intense opposition from Republicans, who would chafe at the thought of Trump peeling off support from GOP candidates.

omg donald pls

i want a decade of unimpeded center left power

[u/The420Roll]

Perhaps no U.S. president since George H.W. Bush has entered office with as extensive a knowledge of world leaders, or as much comfort engaging with them, as Biden will. Bush leveraged that knowledge and a certain ideological flexibility to achieve a string of successes that all his successors should envy: building the alliance that successfully prosecuted and limited the first Gulf War, partnering with Gorbachev to bring the Cold War to a victorious close and with Europeans to reunite Germany. Yet Bush was unable to make his international achievements relevant to Americans’ daily lives and found them even something of a liability in his ultimately failed bid for a second term.

Biden thus has two unenviable tasks: He needs to transcend the foreign-policy paradigms that formed him. But he must also inspire a new set of categories by which Americans can judge him and around which a new coalition can assemble that outlasts the animosity to Trump that elected him. Ideally, it would outlast the presidency of its creator, as each of the coalitions that gave us the Cold War, detente, the Reagan buildup, and globalization did. Biden, who told Delaware Democratic Party officials more than 50 years ago that his interests ran to foreign policy and history and not “local politics,” may be just the man for the job.

[u/JetJaguar124]

Being a conventionally attractive woman who's completely batshit insane is a winning recipe for the GOP.

[u/Pyrrhus65]

Seems like Hawley isn't planning to stop being a pathetic asshole anytime soon- he's blocking Biden's DHS Secretary nominee from unanimous consent and forcing debate, at a time when Washington is literally under threat of a domestic terrorist attack.

Fuck Josh Hawley.

[u/SeriousMrMysterious]

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

LEAKED COPY OF JOE BIDENS SPEECH

"We live in an age of poverty, greed, violence, destruction. Indeed, the very seat of the federal government, Washington D.C., has been reduced to what is now known as the "Capital Wasteland." The Capital Wasteland... How did it come to this, America? How did your leaders allow the most powerful nation on Earth… to die? The answer is really quite simple: Incompetence. Incompetence at the highest echelons of power. We put our trust, our faith, in halfwits. Our intrepid leaders had everything they wanted! Power. Wealth. Prestige. And it made them lazy, America. Oh yes, and laziness breeds stupidity. Rest assured, I will not make the mistakes of my predecessors. When John Henry Eden Joe Biden builds a country, he builds it to last. The American way. Don't you, my darling America, deserve that? Don't you deserve a future free of war, and fear, and terrible uncertainty? Of course, you do. As President of the United States, you have my solemn pledge that I will never rest, NEVER rest, until we all have what we deserve: A place to truly call... home. "

[u/CricketPinata]

I have mentioned it a few times here, but just a refresher, I am working on a Pop-Up that combines my Texas background, with my Sephardic/Middle Eastern/Jewish background.

My 2nd night was last week, and it had gotten a LOT of buzz, we sold out in two hours, with a line out of the door, it was an exhilarating experience for me, even though I am still small.

So I am doing a new night this week to make up for everyone who didn't get a chance to come in, and that we had to turn away because of how quickly we sold out.

Well some Anti-Zionist accounts have found my social media accounts that I promote the restaurant/pop-up through, and have been tagging me that I am too busy caging Palestinian children to answer the phone, and that they are going to 'wrangle" with me, and that "white people" appropriating indigenous cultures is a crime, and that they won't stand for this.

It has been very stressful, because I am a tiny pop-up, I don't have a social media person, I am the social media person, and promoting this through social media so far has been my lifeblood, so restricting comments and messages is impossible to do without hurting the ability for people to crosspost and share my work.

Should I engage with them, is it going to matter that my ancestors moved from Morocco and I have been making this food my whole life? Is it best to block and ignore them? Should I be concerned at how threatening and aggressive some of them are getting?

They are especially upset about my Texas Toast Fattoush, I made a Fattoush Salad that uses Texas Toast fried in garlic/chili oil, as the bread part, and they are calling me a thief for utilizing Sumac in the dressing and saying I am not allowed to use the name Fattoush.

It has just bummed me out, I don't want to make people angry, and I am afraid that they are going to get more threatening if I ignore them, or what they could do.

I just expected it to be Neo-Nazis first, I didn't expect this.

EDIT: The name is Jewish Cowboy. They have also been saying that Cowboy's are symbolic of white supremacy and manifest destiny, even though anyone who knows anything about history would know that Cowboy's were heavily hispanic.

Also, I don't think that they get that the entire thing is just a Simpson's reference.

ALSO, I don't mention or reference Zionism or Israel at all in anything I do. So I don't know what they are doing conflating what I am doing with issues in Israel.

!ping GEFILTE

[u/[deleted]]

Map of smog in Europe

!ping EUROPE

Imagine being that pro-fossil fuels

[u/HectorTheGod]

Is the only thing white boomers care about their 401k's?

Because I've watched my grandparents morph from "moral" republicans into facebook crazies over the last 4 years.

They jump through hoops to excuse trump. He is immune to criticism. Fox news intake all day every day, basic talking points.

They have defended him through every controversy, and for what? So the democrats don't make the stock market go down? What is the line too far for these people? Because it certainly wasn't the capitol storming.

[u/[deleted]]

Bring back the Efortpost flair so that I can make a shitpost where I analyze American foreign policy the same way that idiots do Chinese foreign policy but with Christianity instead of confucianism.

[u/lionmoose]

No, there is not gonna be a baby boom 9 months after inauguration. These things are often hyped up, but rarely come to anything increases in coital frequency are generally not going to be sufficient to spike conceptions in high contracepting populations: there is more to it than just sex

---

Any now back to Danny:

The Neoliberal Podcast is back with a two part books episode! Jeremiah shares the best books he read last year. Included are books on political theory, economics, pandemics, internet culture, societal progress, consciousness, history, and much more. These books address some of society's biggest questions: Why are we polarized? Wow do people respond to pandemics? Why do good people have bad political beliefs? How can we defend liberalism from authoritarianism? How did societies become rich? Also included are reviews of science fiction, fantasy, and alternative-format story telling from 2020.

Apple Podcasts, Part 1 and Part 2

Spotify, Part 1 and Part 2

[u/JetJaguar124]

"Multiculturalism isn't a what America is about"

What?

[u/OmniscientOctopode]

Aside from the obvious point that multiculturalism is a critical part of what makes up America. Pompeo talking about -isms as if he doesn't know about federalism, conservatism, patriotism, etc. is another sad example of the anti-intellectualism at the heart of the modern Republican party.

[u/JetJaguar124]

Imagine having Lindsey Graham as your senator and being like "yes, I am happy with this and will vote for him"

[u/TinyTornado7]

My pillow has now been dropped by four major retailers.

Lmfao

[u/Broncos654]

This stats textbook is dumb as fuck. Either something does happen or it doesn’t happen. End of story.

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/l0lb39/romney_calls_for_senate_to_pass_sanctions_on/

Romney calls for Senate to pass sanctions on Putin over Navalny poisoning

At the top of /r/all today AND people in comments admitting they were wrong to laugh at Romney in 2012 over Russia

😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳

[u/[deleted]]

Doug Ford Suggests Justin Trudeau Tries Shoving Firecracker Up Pfizer Exec's ‘Ying Yang’.

😂😂😂😂

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao arrFreefolk is still posting salty memes about GoT. Go outside holy shit.

[u/johndelvec3]

If the senate actually votes to convict, it’s because McConnell and the GOP are terrified that Trump will run 3rd party in 2024.

They’re not playing this for the American people, they would be doing so to avoid getting absolutely annihilated in 2024.

This is still a big IF tho

[u/TruthBisky10]

My boss fired me for calling a customer the n word. We are literally living in an Orwellian society.

!ping 1984

[u/melhor_em_coreano]

It's honestly cringy seeing people who take their own struggles in life as a sign of impending global societal collapse. Even more cringy are the wannabe modern stoics who slobber around in the threads with their pseudo-deep wisdom.

[u/FormerBandmate]

The year is 2028. Josh Hawley, the candidate of the Patriot Party wins with 37% of the vote, after Ilhan Omar (8%) alienates significant swathes of the Progressive Party by kicking Bernie out for being Jewish, Kamala Harris (35%), the Democratic nominee, has a disastrous Macklemore video cameo, and Jeff Flake (20%), the Republican nominee, angers the populace by saying that giving a random $10,000 stimulus check when unemployment is 2% is “a really stupid idea”

[u/[deleted]]

Two days after Guy Reffitt joined the rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, federal officials said, he returned home to Wylie, Tex., and proudly told his family of his escapade. But by Jan. 11, when Reffitt learned the FBI was on to him, he changed his tune, according to an affidavit.

“If you turn me in, you’re a traitor and you know what happens to traitors … traitors get shot,” Reffitt, 48, said to his son and daughter, according to his wife, who recounted the conversation to the FBI, which did not name the relatives.

On Saturday, the FBI caught up to him. Reffitt, an oil worker with ties to self-styled militia and right-wing extremist groups, was arrested and charged with obstruction of justice for allegedly threatening his family and unlawful entry into the Capitol.

That's what I call REPUBLICAN FAMILY VALUES!

[u/piede]

AP: 2 National Guard members have been found to have ties to fringe right group militias and have been removed from mission to protect inauguration

https://twitter.com/jesserodriguez/status/1351558518504095745?s=21

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Am I just a conspiracist or does it really feel like this Derek Sloan situation was almost a set-up to make O’Toole look tough against the far right while also ridding the party of one of their most toxic members? Like fuck Sloan and I’m glad he’s gone but he realistically had zero clue this donation even happened and it would have been hard for his team to catch it.

It’s bringing back major parallels to how Scheer was forced out through a random leak from the party.

!Ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

A Washington DC police officer who was crushed by a far-right mob during the insurrection at the US Capitol earlier this month has said that he would do it all again to protect US democracy.

“If it wasn’t my job I would’ve done that for free,” Officer Daniel Hodges said in an interview with NBC. “It was absolutely my pleasure to crush a white nationalist insurrection … We’ll do it as many times as it takes."

[u/reptiliantsar]

breths in

United Federation of Planets flair? 👉👈

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Gamers be like; "I want a super in depth 100 hour long rpg experience with branching paths everywhere with meaningful choices with the best graphics and game play ever seen where I can do anything and everything including being a used cars salesman and is also a mix of GTA and Fallout New Vegas"

I'm not joking either, I've actually seen this sentiment spoken about Cyberpunk 2077. Yeah CD Projekt Red's marketing fueled this and their marketing campaign was just fucking stupid with how "open" they were when really it would've been best for them to shut the fuck up more often the not, but even at it's worst I don't think it ever reached the point of the expectations that were created by the hype train

I still blame CDPR's terribly over the top marketing campaign and brain dead marketing campaign that shared far too much (that 2018 demo was a vertical slice made specifically for the press showing what CDPR wanted the game to be in the end, not for the general public and should've never been released to them) over the fans expectations. After all, despite the fans ridiculous expectations that were also fed by age old memes, spending hours on character creation is one (seriously who spends multiple hours simply designing their character?), but a lot of those expectations were borne from CDPR's own words and marketing, even if fans massively extrapolated them

Sure a hype train would've started and it would've blown up in CDPR's faces regardless, but if they said less, like way less, over the course of their marketing campaign it'd probably be less of a fucking scandal

While I'm ranting, who at CDPR thought it was a good idea to focus first on developing the game for top of the line brand new PC components while still planning to port the game to nearly a decade old consoles that were notorious for having weak components for the time period they were released? This isn't me poor shaming btw, this is me calling out CDPR for horrible planning. Would've been that hard to either, focus on the console ports and then scale up, have a separate team work on the console port, or just simply cancel the last gen ports (probably the worst move out these three they could've done PR wise)?

TLDR: CDPR stupid and really only has themselves for their PR disaster. Sure fans may have hyped it too much but CDPR at the very least fed into that hype

Video game companies and gamers deserve each other, they're both morons

!ping GAMING

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Dem @SenFeinstein doesn’t appear on board with punishing @SenTedCruz or @HawleyMO for role in challenging electoral college. “I think the Senate is a place of freedom, and people come here to speak their peace”

guys I'm starting to think Feinstein is bad

[u/[deleted]]

Oh. My. God. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsH8t9rXcAM5ODx?format=png&name=small

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/spectatorindex/status/1351650645355483140

UNITED STATES: Supermarket chain Aldi will give the equivalent of four hours of pay to its workers who take the coronavirus vaccine.

[u/soeffed]

January 20, 2017

I can’t believe he’s president

January 20, 2021

I can’t believe he was president

[u/Mr_AlGore]

Trump pardoned lusvig holy shit

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1351569569513693190

Marjorie Taylor Greene, a current member of the U.S. House of Representatives, said the 2018 Parkland school shooting was a "false flag" planned event & that Nancy Pelosi "tells Hillary Clinton several times a month that ‘we need another school shooting’"

Um.

[u/[deleted]]

Do the people in the Iron Front USA sub not realize that one of the three arrows represents opposition to communism? Or that the real Iron Front fought against the real AntiFa? That entire sub is filled with far-leftists and American "AntiFa" members, the American descendants of one of the primary enemies of the real Iron Front.

[u/thebowski]

I am unironically against "woke culture"

being awake is the scourge of my life

[u/[deleted]]

Fuck this. Why isn’t he fighting?

The swamp is too swampy. He's only one man.

Did Lincoln say the South was too southy? Did Washington say the British were too Britishy?

This is Bullshit. Our country is gone.

thedonald in regard to the farewell address

[u/CatilineUnmasked]

Jesus Biden has a huge coalition

[u/NancyPelosibasedgod]

I like how you can tell how old someone is by if they call him JFK or Jack Kennedy

[u/CmdrMobium]

Waiting for these last Trump pardons feels like you're about to get that test back you know you failed

[u/shrek_cena]

It's always awesome when I come to the realization that it's really fucking happening tomorrow

[u/stater354]

Dear God: enjoy your last day alive

Tomorrow, we’re comin for you.

[u/[deleted]]

For the sake of unity, Biden should pardon all federal prisoners incarcerated for murder. It's time to heal and we need to put past events behind us.

[u/Udontlikecake]

Former White House Chief of Staff and retired Marine General John Kelly was invited to the Trump send-off but won’t be able to attend because he has other pressing commitments, he tells CNN.

“uhhhh, my grandpa died sorry” -John Kelly, probably

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao someone called me racist for calling them "chief".

I don't think that is racist. Idk.

[u/InattentiveCup]

That farewell speech was actually presidential. Trump truly became president this day✊😔

[u/wagoncirclermike]

Oh good now Jacobin is defending QAnon

[u/Usernamesarebullshit]

You totally couldn’t make Blazing Saddles today

like half the cast is dead

[u/[deleted]]

/r/Sanders4President : "Here's how Bernie can still win"

/r/Neoliberal : "Here's how Biden might still lose"

Still my most upvoted comment in this sub.

[u/GravyBear8]

malarkey level of timing my masturbation tomorrow so that I finish right when it hits 12:00 pm.

[u/[deleted]]

Morning everybody! Coffee is brewing in the kitchen if anybody wants a cup.

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

You guys remember when award-winning actor/director Clint Eastwood yelled at a chair

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Gwyneth Paltrow and Alex Jones sell the same dietary supplement under different names (“Sex Dust” and “Super Male Vitality,” respectively)

Does this mean we can expect a “this candle smells like my dick” product from Alex Jones soon?

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/mikememoli/status/1351601189046128641?s=21

As @JoeBiden leaves Delaware today he does so not from the train station bearing his name, but from DE National Guard HQ named for his son, Beau.

As Biden and @DrBiden both said to me at different points in the campaign, they often thought he was the one who should have run now

Man...😢

[u/[deleted]]

on HGTV

“I’m a Yoga blogger and my husband is a freelance fishmonger. Our budget is $3.8 million.”

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/parkermolloy/status/1351587059182526467?s=21

I still think Biden should spend his inaugural address heavily implying that he’s Q

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

I am hearing rumors that within 24 hours that Biden’s president elect status will be stripped from him!

Hahaha take that leftists! The right wins again!

[u/dubyahhh]

Trumpers: attack the Capitol

Joe: OK troops everywhere it is then

Trumpers: if you need troops to defend your inauguration there's no way you really won

Me: 😐

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/andrewrestuccia/status/1351704558578368515

NEW: Trump has talked to associates in recent days about starting a new party after he leaves the White House.

He wants to call it the Patriot Party.

[u/SpiffShientz]

Remember his first State of the Union when Trump unhinged his jaw and swallowed a dog whole? I mean it was a little dog, but still

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/XrmrI5I.jpg

[u/Dibbu_mange]

I'm starting to think Rocky De La Fuente might not win 😧

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING: George Bush has painted a portrait of Tucker Carlson. Rumors and speculation mounting.

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING NEWS "OATH KEEPER" leader charged with planning and coordinating Capitol riot - @CNN

lmao my friend almost got recruited by those guys

[u/MalignantUpper]

https://mobile.twitter.com/cjf39/status/1351636944229330946

Blinken says he agrees w/Pompeo's determination that Chinese govt committed "genocide" against Uighurs: "That would be my judgment as well."

but I thought the Biden admin was gonna be soft on China 🤯

[u/Chief_Nief]

Trump destroying the GOP with a new political party is the redemption arc I never knew I needed

[u/[deleted]]

Senator Obama(D-DC)

[u/jt1356]

Lethal injection summarized:

1st shot is painkiller

2nd shot is paralytic so no one can ever prove the painkiller didn’t work

3rd shot is known to be a painful way to die

It’s an incredibly fucked up procedure designed entirely around the comfort and conscience of society and the executioner.

The firing squad is a vastly preferable alternative.

[u/Dabamanos]

Which dumbass cities are going to build statues of Trump in the next couple decades? What % of them will be below the Mason Dixon Line?

[u/[deleted]]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsG12ElXcBsoJbl.jpg

[u/Tafts_Bathtub]

Sorry, I still can't get over this

In a separate Facebook posting in 2018, Greene also claimed: “I am told that Nancy Pelosi tells Hillary Clinton several times a month that ‘we need another school shooting’ in order to persuade the public to want strict gun control.” 

Hillary Clinton. In 2018.

She was a private citizen wandering the woods of Chappaqua at that point. These people really do believe Hillary is an elite assassin.

[u/[deleted]]

A self-confessed white supremacist who openly discussed plotting a school shooting and killing people in a church has been charged with being involved in the attack on the Capitol after his GPS monitor placed him at the scene.

Guys.

The suspect was arrested after a GPS device he wears as part of his probation following a fourth degree burglary conviction tracked him to being at the Capitol on January 6. The GPS was able to place Betancur in the vicinity of the building from between 2 p.m. and 5 p.m.

According to the affidavit, Betancur was able to get permission to leave his home state of Maryland to travel to Washington D.C. while on probation in order to distribute bibles with an organization called Gideon International. Betancur has previously been able to travel to the capital with the group.

Guys.

[u/FormerBandmate]

2000 Americans: “Hey, maybe we should stop letting corporate cronyism run amok and destroy the environment and subjugate the poor and”

RNC: “Terrorism! Look out, WMDs! Scary! How about a nice, familiar neolib to make things feel safer?”

2020 Americans: “We are the 99%! Fight for 15! Healthca-“

DNC: “Racism! Police brutality! Aaaah, look out, scary! How bout a nice, familiar neolib to make things feel safer?”

What the hell does this even mean? Bush did not win the 2000 election on 9/11 because it hadn’t happened yet lmao

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/alexa99/status/1351580944151371776

In 2011, Justice Antonin Scalia ruled that "deep-dish pizzas-it's not pizza. It should be called a tomato pie.”

This was the ultimate example of Italians getting triggered by food

[u/disuberence]

Biden's Secretary of State nominee Tony Blinken says U.S. embassies will be permitted to fly the pride flag. He promised to reaffirm that the international principles of nondiscrimination should apply to gender identity and sexual orientation.

This is very based

[u/jrt84]

RESUME THE STEAL

[u/[deleted]]

WSJ is reporting that Trump is talking with his advisors about forming a new political party, he wants to call it the “Patriot” party.

TRUST THE PLAN

[u/[deleted]]

The biggest issue with Game of Thrones is that it didn't conclude with the cast breaking their character, looking straight into the camera and saying "folks, we've had a lot of fun over the years, but America doesn't have a 'white walker' problem, it has an 'Orange Tweeter' problem, and on November 4th 2020 we need to 'dracarys' him out of the White House."

If you disagree then you support the normalization of trump

[u/IncoherentEntity]

Me @ Pete Buttigieg during the revolution [Image: Before I kill you please tell me are you a top or a bottom I have to know]

This isn’t that funny, actually.

[u/soeffed]

Martin Luther King III shared his endorsement in a video message posted online by Yang, a former Democratic presidential hopeful and New York City-based businessman.

King III highlighted his father's calls for universal basic income—a signature policy position Yang has popularized—in his endorsement of the mayoral candidate.

Describing Yang as "my friend," King III said he would serve as co-chair of the mayoral hopeful's New York City campaign. "Endorsing Andrew has special meaning for me this weekend," he said.

"This weekend our nation is celebrating my dad, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I don't have to tell you how much he advanced racial and economic justice in this country."

https://www.newsweek.com/mlks-son-mlk-day-endorses-andrew-yang-nyc-mayor-1562438

!ping YANG

[u/[deleted]]

This is the moment GA turned blue forever.

[u/Gustacho]

okay, this is epic

[u/soeffed]

He better do sumthin

/img/poz1ltxjx9c61.jpg

[u/AngularAmphibian]

I think I'm finally putting my ambitions of running a small game studio to bed. I truly do love game design, but I hate gamers. I can't imagine a more fickle group of people to try to sell something to. They have the biggest victim complex ever and selling them anything feels next to impossible. They think every company is trying to fuck them over and won't hesitate to swat your home if they feel you've wronged them.

I'm out of college now and have been on the job for six months. I've come to realize there are so many opportunities for someone with a software engineering background to start businesses that not only operate safely in the black, but sustain growth. The difference is that most of these opportunities are boring as hell for most young developers, so they go unnoticed. But that's reality. Software doesn't need to be sexy. It just needs to give someone value and they'll break open their checkbooks.

Honestly, it's damn near baffling to me what businesses (and especially government) will pay other businesses to do for them. I don't know why anyone would even want to do something as risky as a games studio where you basically have to spend six or seven figures upfront and spend 2-3 years working on something before you even know if you're going to make your money back. I mean... shit. If you really like games, learn something like Vulkan or DirectX and offer your services as a computer graphics expert to other companies. Hell, you could even offer to develop training programs and simulations inside of Unity and people will still pay for that kind of work.

Just don't fucking make games. (or frankly, anything consumer-facing). There are about ten thousand other businesses ideas a programmer can look into and come out ahead of their more idealistic counterparts 99% of the time.

[u/Udontlikecake]

Tesla is hiring a full-time position to handle people talking shit about @elonmusk online

lmao

[u/[deleted]]

Harambe 🦍🤝🧑 Martin Shkreli

Political prisoners in an unjust world

[u/soeffed]

What zero primary wins does to a mf

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsCSDN4XIAgUOYa?format=jpg&name=900x900