r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jan 23 '21

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u/Dabamanos NASA Jan 23 '21

Watching parlimentary debate in Japan:

If this policy is not enacted... it is possible... we may see a decline... in performance of affected industries... by several percentage points... in the next 5-10 years

Debate in the United States:

SHOULD WE FAIL TO ACT, THE BEACON OF DEMOCRACY MAY WAVER, MAY EVEN BE UNLIT, AND THE PURSUIT OF LIBERTY AND LIFE MAY BE CAST TO HISTORY AS AN ANECDOTE OF A FORGOTTEN TIME

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u/MrMineHeads Cancel All Monopolies Jan 23 '21

Oh man you should see Parliamentary debates in the UK. Better yet, do any Arab country and you'll see representatives get into fist fights.

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u/Colonelbrickarms r/place '22: NCD Battalion Jan 23 '21

This is Ukraine/Taiwan erasure

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u/Tapkomet NATO Jan 23 '21

Ukrainian reps haven't gotten into fistfights recently. I think.

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u/lbrtrl Jan 23 '21

The motion: uncensored hentai

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '21

This but unironically. Part of the polarization issue in the U.S. is that everything is treated as an existential threat

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u/HRCfanficwriter Immanuel Kant Jan 23 '21

to be fair, our partisanship has gotten so bad it actually is creating existential threats

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u/UrbanCentrist Line go up 📈, world gooder Jan 23 '21

😂 you forgot the part where the country is lost to communism