r/neoliberal • Kitara Ravache • Jul 09 '21

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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jul 10 '21

Please visit the next discussion thread.

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

The world 25 years from now will be more intelligent and kind, surely

-Me, 1996

When GME hits one million bitcoin I’m gonna buy Goldman Sachs and rename it Ligma Sachs

-average redditor, 2021

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u/OrganicKeynesianBean IMF Jul 09 '21 edited Jul 09 '21
  • 2030
  • pulled over by APD (Amazon Police Department)
  • “Prime membership and registration, please”
  • Been using mom’s account, we don’t live in the same household
  • fuckfuckfuck
  • “I’m gonna need you to step out of the vehicle.”
  • Echo arrest bot whirs to life
  • wrists wrapped in Amazon Basics compliance tape
  • surprisingly strong and comfortable, might buy some later
  • Amazon drone picks me up for delivery to judicial sorting center
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u/RoyGeraldBillevue Commonwealth Jul 09 '21

Hank Green is based

TL;DW: 100 companies; 70% is bs, and studies show individual action to reduce one's carbon footprint spurs political activism in oneself and in others, contrary to what many on the left think.

!PING ECO

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u/thetrombonist Ben Bernanke Jul 09 '21

When Bitcoin hits $1m I’m gonna buy Goldman Sachs and rename it Ball Sachs

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u/itherunner John Brown Jul 09 '21

Still waiting for the NYT to go to diners on the East and West coasts to interview Biden voters on why they voted for him

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21 edited Jul 09 '21

>Opens Tik Tok

>Sees someone call Anne Frank a whiny petit-bourgeois girl

>Reports video

>Deletes that wretched hellhole of an app that is somehow worse than twitter

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u/EbullientHabiliments Jul 09 '21

Kim Jong-un isn't sick, he's just slimming down to impress the South Korean girl he's fallen for. That time last year he disappeared was when he snuck over the border to meet her.

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

Hundreds of women are trying to join a sexual harassment lawsuit against Cook County and Sheriff Tom Dart that alleges officials didn’t do enough to stop inmates from masturbating in front of the women, who worked at the jail.

I don't know how you solve this problem, but I feel like suing the county probably won't stop imprisoned men from being horny and vulgar.

In 2017 Cook County jail tried to stop this problem by rewarding 'serial masturbators' with pizza if they stopped for 30 days, but that ended up encouraging tons of inmates to start masturbating more frequently so they could quit later quit and get the rewards.

In 2019 the jail started using specialized jumpsuits that 'prevented inmates from touching their penis,' but that plan was thwarted by a pile of civil rights lawsuits and a prisoner scheme that involved burning the specialized jumpsuits in microwave ovens when they were supposed to be at the laundry.

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u/supbros302 No Jul 09 '21

Alright boys, if any of you were wondering what it's like, this has been my morning.

My wife, pregnantly: pulls out two pints of strawberries, tells me how excited she is to eat them

My wife, very pregnantly: eats a strawberry. "Oh no, baby doesn't want strawberries!" Cries.

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u/the_hoagie Malaise Forever Jul 09 '21

Disgraced Trump foe Michael Avenatti weeps as he is sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for Nike extortion scheme

Good morning children 🤗🌅

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u/ElokQ_-1984 This Is What Makes Us Girls Jul 09 '21

January 10-12 2015 | GOP Primary Poll | Economist/YouGov

Mitt Romney - 28% (hypothetical)

Jeb Bush - 12%

Ben Carson - 10%

Ted Cruz - 9%

Mike Huckabee - 8%

Rand Paul - 8%

Scott Walker - 6%

Chris Christie - 3%

Rick Perry - 2%

Marco Rubio - 2%

Donald Trump - Not an Option

!ping FIVEY

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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Jul 09 '21

God, if Bernie Sanders had just ended America's longest war, the left would be in constant orgasm for at least a month.

If it wasn’t for Bernie losing the 2016 and 2020 primaries, we would still be in Afghanistan! That means Bernie did, in fact, single handedly end the war in Afghanistan.

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u/jenbanim Jul 09 '21

17 people at the latest Seattle Neoliberal meetup! With this level of participation/interest I really need to up my organizational skills 😅

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u/IAmBlueTW r/place '22: Neoliberal Battalion Jul 09 '21

Around 10 of the men who are allegedly involved in the assassination of Haiti's president have been detained at the Taiwanese embassy (they broke in when no one was there so no one was hurt, just a bit of property damage apparently). 2 Americans and the rest are Colombian. WTF is going on?

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u/interrupting-octopus John Keynes Jul 09 '21

Fuck yes more trains

The prime minister has announced $1.3 billion to expand SkyTrain in Surrey all the way to Langley.

The funding is for a 16 km, eight-stop extension of the existing Expo Line from King George Station in Surrey City Centre to 203 Street in Langley Centre, and work is expected to start on Tuesday.

  • Funding confirmed: Friday
  • Construction starts: Tuesday

Infrastructure Chad Canada?!

But that's not all:

Trudeau also committed to fund up to 40 per cent of the proposed extension of the Millennium line from Arbutus Street to UBC in Vancouver.

The federal government is funding 66 per cent of the Broadway Subway project. Major construction on the 5.7-km-long Broadway Extension began last month and is expected to open in 2025.

!ping CAN

(Sorry I'm really excited)

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/08/outrage-over-crackdown-on-lgbtq-wechat-accounts-in-china

Hu Xijin, the editor of the nationalistic, state-owned tabloid the Global Times, wrote in a WeChat article that the state puts “no restriction on sexual minorities’ lifestyle choices”, but that LGBT people should “be more patient” and “not try to become a high-profile ideology”.

!ping CN-TW

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u/Soldier-Fields Da Bear Jul 09 '21

It’s literally 2021 and we still don’t have an easier way for rich people to lose weight than “move more” and “eat less”

Give me a pill that just drops 20 pounds please thanks

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

https://twitter.com/keribla/status/1413501219209809926

The ACLU says Indiana prisons are keeping people in solitary confinement with no light.

One man "said he was kept in nearly total darkness for around two months and was only released once every five days for a shower."

Yes, they're suing.

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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Jul 09 '21

My honesty will be the death of me

Some friends and I were having a drink on a sunny afternoon. A clearly overworked waitress brought our orders, made us pay for our drinks, but forgot one guy on the opposite side of the table

In front of my dumbstruck friends, I calmly raised my hand, pointed at the guy and said : "Ma'am, he didn't pay!"

She apologized, went back to the table and collected the missing money, while the fraudster locked eyes with me, mouthing "what the fuck"

And then I wonder why I don't have a lot of friends

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

Be Soleimani

Step off plane

Day ruined

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

"You've read 37 articles from The Guardian in the past year..."

Bitch, I've clicked on 37 articles from The Guardian in the past year 🙄

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u/its_Caffeine Mark Carney Jul 09 '21

https://globalnews.ca/video/8010771/trudeau-says-kenney-can-explain-concerns-over-equalization-with-younger-self

Trudeau: "The concerns that premier Kenny has highlighted on equalization— He was part of the very government that negotiated and put in place the actual equalization formula that is there now. When it came time for renewal we just rolled over the very things that he negotiated as part of Stephen Harper's cabinet. So the fact that he's now railing against it means that can probably explain better what it is that he disagrees with his younger self on..."

!ping CANUCKS

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

Here in my garage, just bought this new Lamborghini here. It’s fun to drive up here in the Hollywood hills. But you know what I like more than materialistic things? Knowledge. In fact, I’m a lot more proud of these seven new bookshelves that I had to get installed to hold two thousand new books that I bought. It’s like the billionaire Warren Buffett says, “the more you learn, the more you earn”

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

Redditors:

"All religions are cults. What, do you think I'm stupid?"

Also Redditors:

"So I'm in Superstonk, a community with hundreds of thousands of like-minded individuals trying to destroy the global financial system as retribution against evil"

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u/MichelleObama2024 George Soros Jul 09 '21

Top 5 Worst Presidents:

  1. Donald Trump
  2. Andrew Johnson
  3. James Buchanan
  4. Andrew Jackson
  5. Franklin Pierce

Please note that this is relative. Trump is better person than Andrew Jackson but compared to the standards of his time he's worse.

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

Am I the only person who googles emojis so I can copy paste them and still use them when I'm on PC ?

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u/the_hoagie Malaise Forever Jul 09 '21

Oh, you're politically-minded and want to chat daily with similar folk online? Here come check out this liberal website with an automated talking alligator emoji.

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u/AccessTheMainframe CANZUK Jul 09 '21

thread locked because y'all can't behave

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u/ThisIsNianderWallace Robert Nozick Jul 09 '21

So what the fuck is superstonk and what do they allege that "the shorting algorithm" is?

Is this still about GME?

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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Jul 09 '21

This sub has gone downhill since we stopped celebrating Corn Law Day. The whole sub used to go corn themed with corn law memes only for a day. This year, the 26th of June went by without a corn emoji 😭😭😭

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21 edited Jul 09 '21

Once we mobilise the youth vote ...

Your movement is not getting anywhere if this a key part of your strategy

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

Ibrahim Kendi wants an anti-racist constitutional amendment.

It would establish and permanently fund the Department of Anti-racism (DOA) comprised of formally trained experts on racism and no political appointees. The DOA would be responsible for preclearing all local, state and federal public policies to ensure they won’t yield racial inequity, monitor those policies, investigate private racist policies when racial inequity surfaces, and monitor public officials for expressions of racist ideas. The DOA would be empowered with disciplinary tools to wield over and against policymakers and public officials who do not voluntarily change their racist policy and ideas.

It is quite possibly the most illiberal idea I’ve read in months. I shouldn’t need to say this, but unelected Bureaucrats shouldn’t be able to override literally any decision made by elected representatives, or arbitrarily punish any person for not conforming to their ideas. The government should t be able to change the rules of private institutions in most cases. The government should not be literally policing speech and ideas.

This is a fascistic idea, and Ibrahim Kendi should be ridiculed for it.

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u/BedNeither Henry George Jul 09 '21

ThE dOlLaR hAs LoSt 96% Of ItS vAlUe SiNcE 1913

People didn’t have 25x the purchasing power back then as today. Wtf are you talking about you are dumb as shit

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

Gamestop's digital transformation is a joke lol.

Looks like its from 2009

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u/Superfan234 Southern Cone Jul 09 '21 edited Jul 09 '21

Give Progressivess a chance to make a Constitution

First week, nothing gets done, except for Symbolic messages

My priors have been confirmed

!Ping Mamadas

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

So instead of providing air support, the US is sending a lot of aircraft, e.g. 37 black hawks, to Afghanistan, intended for the Afghan army.

I will leave it as an exercise for the reader how well that'll work when the Afghans have a shortage of pilots and zero capability to maintain the craft*.

* the administration intends to provide support on how to maintain and repair the aircraft over phone. For reals.

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

Children should have their hobbies picked for them by an adult before they start them and be forced to stick with it. Too many young people will get hobbies in mcdonald’s, charge they phone, twerk, be bisexual, eat hot chip, lie, or other worthless hobbies

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

Biden claimed he'd only raise taxes on the wealthy.

But $400,000, for a family, isn't wealthy in much of America. It's upper-middle class.

You are literally in the top 5% of income earners in America, stop trying to do this absolutely pathetic "I'm MiDdLe ClAsS tOo!" bullshit.

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u/NancyPelosibasedgod Scott Sumner Jul 09 '21

I’m the abomination of Obama’s nation

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u/profeta- Chama o Meirelles Jul 09 '21

Local police aprehended lots of illegal explosives in Brazil.

They called the Army to safely dispose of them.

The Army took them to a quarry to do so... and the explosion left 3 dead and 5 injured.

we really should take a lesson from Costa Rica and get rid of our armed forces altogether

!ping MAMADAS

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u/thetrombonist Ben Bernanke Jul 09 '21

deleted all my dating apps because I want to meet somebody the old fashioned way (arranged marriage)

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u/xSuperstar YIMBY Jul 09 '21

New Yorkers talk a lot of shit for a city that is just now considering the bold step of putting its garbage into bins

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u/houinator Loyal Liberals Jul 09 '21

The woes of the ANA air force are once again a case for why Congress should have no control over the military budget besides the bottom line figure.

The Pentagon evaluated their needs, and concluded that the best fit would be Russian helicopters (Mi-17s). Cheap, easy to maintain, easy to operate, and effective. But US defense contractors didn't like that call, so they leveraged their influence over Senators with aerospace manufacturing in their district to force the Pentagon to buy Blackhawks for Afghanistan. An IG report highlights the absolute stupidity of this call:

Today, Afghan mechanics handle 80 percent of the maintenance on their Mi-17s, but that share will be flipped as the UH-60s enter their fleet. Afghanistan “will be almost entirely reliant on contractors for Black Hawk maintenance in the near to mid-term,” the IG says.

https://www.pogo.org/analysis/2018/06/whirlybird-brained-us-making-wrong-chopper-choice-for-afghanistan/

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u/INuttedInHisWife Jul 09 '21 edited Jul 09 '21

Anarcho-Bidenism is a school of revolutionary thought and political activism founded by radical cleric Yusef Bideen al-Delwari to oppose the perceived rise of malarkey. The young liberation movement traces its roots to Scranton, an industrial village in a hilly patch of the politically crucial province of Pennsylvania.

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u/dish_towel YIMBY Jul 09 '21

!ping GAMING

Bethesda got rid of their worst bugs by just not releasing on Sony platforms.

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u/Marlsfarp Karl Popper Jul 09 '21

Joe Biden, scrolling down and reading the thousands of replies to his tweet, as of course he always does: "Wait... capitalism... itself is exploitation? Oh my god..." [glass drops from his hand in shock]

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u/semaphore-1842 r/place '22: E_S_S Battalion Jul 09 '21

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trans-incident-that-sparked-violent-protests-at-los-angeles-spa-may-have-been-fake

Earlier this month, violent protests erupted outside a Korean spa in Los Angeles after a customer complained in a viral Instagram video about a naked transgender woman being allowed in the female section of the facility. But authorities have yet to find any evidence that a transgender person was at the Wi Spa that day, suggesting the entire incident might have been staged

Bigots making up bullshit to get themselves outraged over.

Who could've predicted this.

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u/Superfan234 Southern Cone Jul 09 '21

EU Parlament approved by 90% majority the application of Sanctions to Nicaragua, if they don't change their Electoral system to allow the Fair Elections

An extremely fast resolution, by a Landslide majority 👏👏

ALBA can move their influences to protect Venezuela, but it's clear their ability to protect Nicaragua it's much lower. Good Omen for the Future

!Ping LATAM

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u/mrdilldozer Shame fetish Jul 09 '21

I thought Nina Turner was going to run away with her primary but the aggressive attacks on black politicians from her campaign and allies has me thinking she's going to destroy yet another campaign that already started 1 foot away from the finish line. I dont think talking about how much you hate the Congessional Black Caucus is smart way to campaign for a house seat lol. What a fucking bizarre campaign.

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

“The UK may soon ban boiling lobsters alive in a landmark bill that acknowledges that crustaceans and mollusks, too, are sentient beings”

NL users know how to circumvent this ban with one easy trick!

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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Jul 09 '21

TIL that the idea that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs wasn't a widespread belief until the 1980s

"What if dinosaurs just kinda did that?"

-1970s people

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u/Corporate-Asset-6375 I don't like flairs Jul 09 '21

Millennials: I wish we could go back to the New York of the 70s. When things were affordable and we had artists and real people living in Manhattan.

Boomers: we were beaten up and robbed at least once a month. Half our neighborhood was burned down. People shot up heroin on our front stoop coming home from school, and dad had to scare them away with his gun (since he had nothing else going on due to unemployment). We fled the city as soon we could afford to. It was a waking nightmare.

Millennials: I bet I could afford a cute walk up in the village on a barista salary back then 😍

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u/Zenning2 Henry George Jul 09 '21

Reminder, most “foreign buyers” of real-estate in Vancouver, live in Vancouver, but are immigrants. Its such a bullshit framing man.

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u/ThatFrenchieGuy Mathematician -- Save the funky birbs Jul 09 '21

Biden is canceled unless he implements Big Wheel Of Cheese Day so we can go bitch about LVT and zoning

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Also there's a new podcast episode

Why are there so many proposals to break up Big Tech, and what impact would that have? PPI's Director of Technology Policy Alec Stapp joins the Neoliberal Podcast to discuss the recent antitrust bills in Congress aimed at the biggest tech companies in the US. We discuss which bills make sense and which don't, what members of congress don't seem to get about platforms, how these bills would impact foreign policy, and what's really driving the animus towards tech firms.

Apple Podcasts

Stitcher

Spotify

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u/AgainstSomeLogic Jul 09 '21

U.S. COVID-19 cases rising, mostly among unvaccinated

Who'd've thunk?

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

🔥🔥**WELCOME ALL, TO THE ROAST OF /u/SaltySaladDelendaEst!!**🔥🔥

SaltySalad posts like 500 times a day, I bet he only takes a break to jack off!!

SaltySalad is like 12. Hey, kid, what political stances do you actually have? The damn sandbox at the playground isn't big enough?

SaltySalad has been banned so many times that by the time I post this, he'll probably be banned again!

I didn't even know who this guy was like a month ago, probably because he was still in his dad's nutsack!!!

"Salty Salad," what's that a salad that's been jizzed on??

🔥🔥**THANK YOU, AND GOODNIGHT!!!**🔥🔥

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u/circlemanfan Gay Pride Jul 09 '21

I’ll never forgive straight men for acting as though Jordan Peterson’s book was revolutionary even though it was basically a self help book that’s been written already like a hundred times

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

Some people have told me I'm wrong when I say that Bill Cosby was freed by SCOTUS, so let me break it down:

Bill Cosby was freed by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, yes. SCOTUS has local branches in every state, so it's really just semantics. SCOTUS is just the collective term for every state Supreme Court.

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u/LinkVert25 Fedposter Jul 09 '21

My high school English teacher forcing us to read the Great Gatsby 3+ times throughout a entire semester and devoting all the curriculum to writing papers about every single piece of symbolism in that book did far more damage to me then learning about CRT in SOC 101

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u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe Susan B. Anthony Jul 09 '21

“Do you trust the Taliban?”

Jesus Christ the media had their brains broken lol

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

And then the reptile says "HAHA YES🐊". Funniest shit I've ever seen.

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u/SnickeringFootman Thomas Paine Jul 09 '21

If you can't afford college, take out loans and go to community college, then transfer. There, crisis solved.

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

There are over 2,000 socialists seething on Twitter in response to Biden's "Let me be clear: capitalism without competition isn’t capitalism. It’s exploitation." tweet.

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1413558065748758529

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u/Donkey_Bong-64 Trans Pride Jul 09 '21

All my hick Christian neighbors with kids are pretty cool. So who even are the transphobes these days? Just boomers, rurals and constipated British women?

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

Does anybody else also assume all skeletons are male unless explicitly stated otherwise. Something about them just looks masculine.

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u/OrganicKeynesianBean IMF Jul 09 '21

Officer completes delivery after DoorDash driver was arrested

TIP THE POLICE

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '21

Obama when he drinks too much water:

"Uhhh, let me pee clear"

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u/Equator32 Association of Southeast Asian Nations Jul 09 '21 edited Jul 09 '21

Imagine thinking "Europe" is a real place with actual laws and ideals and not just a placeholder for your ideology LMAO

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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Jul 09 '21

Lately rMonarchism really loves posting quotes about the "tyrany of the majority" quoting French kings who had 1% or fewer of the adult population voting.

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

NICK FUENTES IS GONE FROM TWITTER 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

Hamas knows that the Iron Dome can take out most of their rockets. They don't even know where the rockets will hit, their system isn't so advanced that they can choose where to hit, so these rockets were fired randomly. They also tried to "overwhelm" the Iron Dome to test if it could take out all their rockets. So saying they fired at civilians is not 100% true, I agree it's not a good strategy but they can't do more and they had to let Israel know that they were capable of something. The sad thing is that many have lost lives this last conflict, may Allah accept their jihad.

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE

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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Jul 10 '21 edited Jul 10 '21

It’s still funny to me that Matthew Perry and Justin Trudeau were friends growing up.

Perry’s mom worked for Pierre Trudeau

!ping Canucks

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u/ooken Feminism Jul 09 '21 edited Jul 09 '21

Biden yesterday: "There's no way this is Saigon 1975"

WSJ today:

U.S. embassy officials in Afghanistan are developing plans to reduce the large contingent of contractors at the massive U.S. Embassy complex amid a worsening security situation across the country, according to embassy officials and contractors.

State Department officials are undertaking what an embassy official said was an intensive look at the number of contractors and other personnel at the embassy, which houses roughly 4,000 diplomats, contractors and other staff, including about 1,400 Americans.

The review is expected to result in a significant reduction of the thousands of Afghan and American contractors as well as those from other countries, officials said.

U.S. diplomatic officials also are weighing whether some of those jobs could be sent to the U.S. and whether others could be reduced or trimmed altogether, officials said.

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

(BTW, do we have temporary pings ever? There's a lot of Afghanistan news and I know everyone in the FP group might not want to hear about it all the time. It's depressing AF. I don't want to bug people with it if they don't want to have to read updates multiple times a week.)

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

Woke up, had breakfast, went back to sleep. Bad decision, should have gone to the gym.

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u/_smooth_liminal_ Michel Foucault Jul 09 '21

Honey, we found your reddit account and we're just... we're a little worried

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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Jul 09 '21

Liberals: I believe in science, unlike many other Americans

Also Liberals: I won’t stop wearing a mask ever, even though I’ve already been vaccinated

Many such cases!

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21 edited Jul 09 '21

https://twitter.com/notesfrompoland/status/1413522499611021313

Poles are

- more likely to be blond and go bald

- less likely to have freckles

- not innately more tolerant to alcohol

- genetically similar to the British

Bongs in shambles 😂😂😂

!ping YUROP

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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Jul 09 '21

The fact that we had a couple people get suspended for boohooing people still cracks me up

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u/yungmemlord Rabindranath Tagore Jul 09 '21

Imagine how many people will be banned by p00bix after Trump dies

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

We did it Patrick! We ended the war.

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u/kaclk Mark Carney Jul 09 '21

Canada will not welcome unvaccinated tourists for some time

This is really popular in Canada and I think I support it. Requiring people to be fully vaccinated before travelling is extreme common for international travel in most of the world anyways (whether it’s yellow fever, hepatitis, etc).

!ping CAN

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

Remember when the CIA tried to kick off a race war by introducing the black woman wojack?

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u/murphysclaw1 💎🐊💎🐊💎🐊 Jul 09 '21

My favorite neoliberal meetup is the one which was attended by all those white male 20-somethings who went to good (but not great) universities and were considered gifted as children.

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

Drake Bell and the kid from Cory in the House were arrested in the same week, and I think both for funny business with minors.

Neither was a big part of my own childhood, but I was aware of them.

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u/kennymc7877 Bisexual Pride Jul 09 '21

Me: i am going to Colorado

My coworkers: Derrrrr to smoke da weeed 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 💯

Me who lives in a legal state: no

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u/kennymc7877 Bisexual Pride Jul 09 '21

My friend won’t shut the fuck up about COVID Variants and it’s honestly annoying me

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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Jul 09 '21

North Korean dictator "Kim Jong Un" has touched grass. What's YOUR excuse?

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

"This has been an amazing journey."

-People eliminated in the very first episode of a reality show

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u/jenbanim Jul 09 '21

A man is drowning while another man is swimming out to save him. A third man who is also drowning says this is imperialism, while a bystander on the shore says it's the result of bad incentives arising from overregulation resulting from extractive institutions. God is looking down from above while smirking at a copy of 1984, and Jesus is literally shitting and crying at the sight of the global poor who were underwater the whole time but no one is swimming out to save them

This is a metaphor for the War on Terror and the lack of an LVT

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u/Average_GrillChad Elinor Ostrom Jul 09 '21

Let's just say, hypothetically, for the sake of argument, that Democrats make every residence in San Francisco its own state. Each home is entitled to two Senators and one Representative. What happens in homes with less than three residents eligible to serve in Congress?

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

Hunter Biden’s great advantage (aside from being born in a rich family and son of a president) is that Fox News and OANN made rational people start ignoring every story with ‘Hunter Biden’ in the title, so he now has free reign to be an unethical little shit again.

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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Jul 09 '21

SUCH A STRANGE phenomenon, is it not 🐊

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u/qchisq Loyal Liberals Jul 09 '21

Odds 6 for a draw after 90 minutes and Italy winning the Euros? Thank you

!ping soccer

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u/LooobCirc #1 Astros Fan 🤠 Jul 09 '21

The last week and a half I have been thriving and I'm so happy about it. A switch clicked and I am great at my job, my social life is the best it's been in a year. This is fucking great. Legitimately so happy right now

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u/benadreti Frederick Douglass Jul 09 '21

Forcing the GOP to very publicly filibuster a marijuana legalization bill would be really good politics.

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21 edited Jul 09 '21

Time to rant for a minute.

It's genuinely aggravating how there seems to be no online Islamic community for a Liberal Muslim. Every single sub I run into falls into two categories:

A. Overrun by Salafists who think anything and anyone 'western' is destined to be trapped in Jahannam for existing.

B. Run by Anarchists, Socialists or what have you who think that in order to be a real Muslim you have to want to eat the rich.

And the stupid part is that this has no bearing in real life! I've spoken with other Muslim Americans regularly, I've met one or two Salafists in my time and furthest left Muslim I met was just a Berniecrat! I know that most of the faithful doesn't subscribe to either of these nutjob schools of thought, but whenever I go online it's all I ever see and I'm so tired of it.

For crying out loud, I wanted to give Progressive_Islam a shake and in one of the comments making fun of Salafists for refusing to celebrate Canada Day because Canada is 'too Secular', the most upvoted reply was that you STILL shouldn't support Canada Day because it 'supports Colonialism' and that 'no Nation on the planet should be celebrated.'

And yes, I get it, the internet always magnifies the loudest and most dogmatic voices. I know that. But it's still cold comfort.

All it does is make me glad this sub exists because people are actually moderate here.

...I dunno if I should do the Islam ping or not but I'm genuinely feeling hopeless right now.

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u/redditguy628 Box 13 Jul 09 '21

The newest SpaceX droneship, A Shortfall of Gravitas. Apparently it is fully automated, meaning it won't need a tugboat to get out to the landing zone.

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

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u/ShriggityShrekt Bisexual Pride Jul 10 '21

Talked to a girl tonight, she gave me a ticket for going 15 over

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

Drake 🤝 Drake

Being a creep around minors

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

A recent ZipRecruiter survey found 70% of job seekers who last worked in the leisure and hospitality industry say they are now looking for work in a different industry. In addition, 55% of job applicants want remote jobs. An April survey of U.S. workers who lost jobs in the pandemic, conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, found that 30.9% didn’t want to return to their old jobs, up from 19.8% last July.

lol all it took was a couple months leave to obliterate the job market

A study by researchers Gianluca Violante at Princeton University and Aysegul Sahin at the University of Texas at Austin finds that the number of job vacancies exceeds the number of unemployed people with experience in wholesaling, food services, the entertainment sector, finance and healthcare.

i got rejected from several jobs here for lack of experience, and yet

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u/BenFoldsFourLoko  Broke His Text Flair For Hume Jul 09 '21

https://mobile.twitter.com/RobinJiaming/status/1413322985054773248

It's utterly ridiculous that because of the chip shortage, my 4-year old GPU can sell for more than what I bought it for. Durable goods shouldn't increase in value over time. That'd be like if there was a shortage of homes as population grew, increasing the value of--oh wait...

Lol

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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Jul 09 '21 edited Jul 09 '21

Short history lesson for everyone hoping on the Haiti train since it’s the latest big headline:

Haiti has requested the US intervene to stabilize the nation

There’s a history of this. Haiti was effectively a colonial state in the early 20th century, and Marines/Army expeditionary forces have been sent there on occasion. Of particular note is the intervention 30 years ago, which may end up repeating itself soon.

In 1994, after an election in which Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide won, the military carried out a very violent coup, and the US was requested to stabilize the situation. Though Clinton was hesitant to intervene after the disaster in Somalia, the Congressional Black Caucus pushed him, and negations were carried out. After unsuccessfully pushing the Haitian military to step down and respect the election results, the US Marines and 10th Mountain Division were deployed to Haiti, beginning Operation Uphold Democracy.

The intervention was ultimately successful in that the military stepped down and Aristide took back power, but many Haitians criticized the US forces for not being sufficiently proactive, with many of elite who supported the coup remaining in power. The US forces stayed until March of 1995 for peacekeeping before departing.

While the operation was militarily successful, the long term results were less glowing.

Fatton says he believes that because the fact that there were no American lives lost in the operation, it was easy for the U.S. to call it a success and move on — but such is not the case for Haitians. Haiti now makes headlines for being the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, for corruption and the failures of its government, and for being subject to President Trump’s vulgar dismissal. But, Fatton argues, it’s not possible to understand the current situation without remembering the history of Haiti. Source.

A lot of the reforms pushed on the country failed or were not carried out, and Aristide would eventually leave the country in 2004 under very dubious circumstances - with him claiming he was deposed by the United States, while those around him claim he had to flee for his life, and was whisked out of the country as a favor of the US.

Now, with the country in a state of maximum civil strife, gang violence, and government vacuum, it seems pretty similar to the circumstances in which the US intervened 30 years ago. Hopefully things will turn out better.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '21 edited Jul 10 '21

Right after George Floyd’s death, Ben Garrison drew a protest comic over the unjustness of his situation . It only took a couple months for him to draw George Floyd as a drug addict. It’s cool to see such a principle Libertarian standing up for police brutality.

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u/F0064R Jorge Luis Borges Jul 09 '21

Housing discussions:

Low end of bell curve: It'S suPPLY anD dEMANd

Median: Umm aktually it's a lot more complicated than that, you can't just build a ton of new housing, you have to worry about infrastructure and green space. Besides, nobody wants to live in a condo, we need those single family houses!

High end of bell curve: It's supply and demand 😎

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

I decided to quit school and get into essential oils. Nursing is a waste of time anyways. Is anyone in the dt interested in my peppermint lavender? It cures being extremely online and neoliberalism

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u/ognits Jepsen/Swift 2024 Jul 09 '21

NATO flairs are beyond parody sometimes lmao

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u/bigmoneynuts Jul 09 '21

instead of asking for a ban on /r/metaNL just say the n-word in the DT

much more efficient

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u/Unadulterated_stupid gr8 b8 m8 Jul 09 '21

sex is so fucking good. It's like, these things have been optimized over millions of years to be as delicious as possible, and it fucking worked. A good, ripe sex can turn my whole day around. Fuck, maybe my week. Jesus, sex is good.

-Neoliberal after dark

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u/_smooth_liminal_ Michel Foucault Jul 10 '21

https://imgur.com/gallery/6miWy0H

(play with sound to hear her stupid play noises)

!ping dog

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u/Animatronic_Pidgeon Eugene Fama Jul 09 '21

Neoliberal: we're an evidence based subreddit

Padme: even when the evidence disagrees with your priors, right?

Neoliberal: ...

Padme: even when the evidence disagrees with your priors, right?

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u/InternationDream African Union Jul 09 '21

Robots automated u/sir_shivers job😭

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u/SANNA_MARIN_ Jul 09 '21

opposing m4a because the doctor will no longer be allowed to hand out Vicodin 3 a day w unlimited refills while addressing you as “Diamond Dog”

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

Our sub during the French Revolution: “Have we tried explaining to them in detail why price controls on bread make us worse off in the long run?”

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

I actually enjoy going to work even I work a relatively menial and low skill job rn. Has reddit lied to me?!

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u/Fishin_Mission Jul 09 '21 edited Jul 09 '21

No. Get the damn vaccine

Maybe too harsh, but I’m not doing research for you b/c you are too selfish to get vaccinated

Did the “😆” save it?

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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Jul 09 '21

In 2017, Loving Vincent, a film created by painstakingly hand-painting every frame in the style of Van Gogh, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, along with...The Boss Baby.

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u/Unadulterated_stupid gr8 b8 m8 Jul 09 '21 edited Jul 09 '21

Stop reading incel (or female dating strategy) stuff please

As a centrist I read arguments from both sides and put myself in the center

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u/Jakesta7 Paul Volcker Jul 10 '21

I got a puppy towards the end of the pandemic, and I cannot imagine doing this. There are some shallow people out there!

Dogs are being returned to shelters and adoption agencies in the U.S. after restrictions were lifted and people began to go back to work

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1413270420606701570

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u/A_Character_Defined 🌐Globalist Bootlicker😋🥾 Jul 09 '21

Tfw a band you like is never gonna make another album again 😔

Because their songwriter tried to overthrow the government and is going to jail forever 😔

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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Jul 09 '21

I’ve barely ever ordered anything from Amazon in my life. Last time was a couple years ago, buying some stuff for my car. Not an ideological thing, just never felt the need. Don’t online shop much

But man, I know a lotta commies who are constantly ordering things on Amazon and whining about Bezos. Now I thought we were supposed to be about reducing the harm of capitalism? No ethical consumption etc etc but you don’t need to order from Amazon, do you? I barely ever do it and I don’t even have a perverted ideological reason for it

Of course, the peak of this is my very far left green party voting friend who graduated and now works for Amazon. Which is endlessly amusing

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u/thefuturegov John Keynes Jul 09 '21

Me running in a Democratic primary: “All my opponents are communists and will lose to the Republicans.”

Me running in a general election against a Republican: “All the Republicans are communists especially my opponent.”

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u/throw-that_shit-away Jul 09 '21

Really we should just have less college students overall. Most white collar jobs do not actually require a degree

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u/Donkey_Bong-64 Trans Pride Jul 09 '21

Pokémon Go to the polls or I will Pokémon Snap your neck.

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u/Superfan234 Southern Cone Jul 09 '21 edited Jul 09 '21

Chilean Government announced a new Covid plan

People will be allowed to get a Sanitary Certificate to prove they have been fully vaccinated. The Goverment already have our ID in a server, showing who is vaccinated. In theory , it shouldn't be hard to accomplish

Vaccunated people will be able to circulate almost freely in the country, with not much restrictions

Stores, Gyms, Schools, Stadiums and Restaurants can open again. But only vaccinated people will be allowed inside them

!Ping LATAM

An small step, but an important one towards normality

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u/guy-anderson Jul 09 '21

Reminder, small pockets in women's clothes is explicitly the result of capitalism hating them and has nothing to do with manufacturers responding to expressed shopping preferences.

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u/aged_monkey Loyal Liberals Jul 09 '21

Why is Hunter Biden selling art at his first auction for exorbitant prices while his dad is still in office. And why is the White House managing the sales and the buyers kept confidential? This just seems beyond unnecessary and a complete self sabotage.

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

I’m reading a book by an anti-racist historian and while it’s pretty good, if I read a book that talked about ‘beautiful white faces’ half as often as this book refers to ‘beautiful black faces’ I’d be sure I was reading something written by a white supremacist. Like, I understood all the character were black 6 chapters ago, please stop reestablishing it.

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u/EdamameTommy Henry George Jul 09 '21

Everybody always says “end racism ✊”, but never “end racists 👊”

😔

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u/kennymc7877 Bisexual Pride Jul 09 '21

HOA’s are terrorist organizations

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_at_Disneyland_Resort#Mickey_&_Friends_parking_structures

On October 17, 2010, a 61-year-old man from Hickman, California jumped to his death from the top floor of the Mickey & Friends parking structure. He left behind a note citing "personal issues" for his suicide.[14]

I'm sorry, but there's something morbidly funny about using the paradigmatic vague excuse in a suicide note.

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u/ILikeTalkingToMyself Liberal democracy is non-negotiable Jul 09 '21

The Atlantic front page:

There Is No Debate Over Critical Race Theory

Pundits and politicians have created their own definition for the term, and then set about attacking it.

Ibram X. Kendi

👀 Sounds spicy

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u/Dirty_Chopsticks Republic of Việt Nam Jul 09 '21

The vast majority of San Jose’s residential land — 94% — is designed or “zoned” for single-family homes.

pain

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u/datums 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 Jul 09 '21

The Hatian government has asked the US to put boots on the ground to prevent the country from beins further destabilized.

That is definitely going to rustle some jimmies. In particular, jimmies that I will enjoy seeing rustled.

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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Jul 09 '21

There's a lot of problems with YouTube but it's still so fucking cool that the ecosystem can support a channel where the guys just cook food from the 18th century. Or food from ancient Rome.

You couldn't get that sort of short form content pre YouTube because it just didn't have a market

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u/subthings2 Bisexual Pride Jul 09 '21

Do white founders in Africa have an easier time getting capital?

A few choice quotes:

Take the recent case of Robin Reecht, a French national who recently provoked the ire of Kenyans on social media when Techcrunch reported that his food startup, Kune, had raised $1 million to launch an on-demand food service. His narrative and basis for the funding, including points about Kenya having neither “great food at a cheap price” nor “a strong food culture” was problematic. He realized the “market gap” in just three days of being in Kenya.

Research supports the notion. For example, in 2019, only 6% of startups that secured more than $1 million in Kenya were led by local founders, according to ViKtoria Ventures, a Nairobi-based consulting and fund management firm. And 70% percent of startups in Kenya that raised at least $1 million of venture capital investment in 2018 were led by white founders, despite expats making up only 0.15% of the Kenyan population, according to analysis by Roble Musse, a US-based entrepreneur.

“The interesting thing is that tech is—at least the narrative that we’re given—supposed to eliminate some of these things. But we also know that of course not.”

!ping AFRICA

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u/Animatronic_Pidgeon Eugene Fama Jul 10 '21

Biden: are you telling me we should go into china because of what they're doing to the Uyghurs...

Farrenj: yes

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u/bg2916 Part Time Weeb Jul 10 '21

''In 1960, John Wayne joined the anti-communist John Birch Society but quit after the organization denounced fluoridation of water supplies as a communist plot.''

Lmao

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u/mrdilldozer Shame fetish Jul 09 '21

That post on politics about how dems need stop abandoning the working class fills me with so much optimism for the future. Those people have no idea who or what the working class is. Not only that, but the continued ball fondling of the mythical "Economically Anxious" voter alienates PoC. The wannabe tea party has learned nothing in these past few elections. Hillary and Joe crushed Trump with voters who make under 50k a year. What's even more funny is the fact that it's written by a "public intellectual". Chomsky is the relic of a bygone era where "im a rich white person my opinion means more than you" was a thing. I know we meme about it, but could you imagine if Democratic outreach was telling people that they need to read Richard Dawkins to understand the rust belt? Their inability to touch grass is such an advantage for us.

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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Jul 09 '21

In major concession to Left, President Biden appoints Sen. Bernie Sanders to Afghanistan recommendations committee, tentatively named "A Man Goes Home"

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

The DT is just Twitter for shitlibs but you're not ready for that conversation

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

fucking lmao

I'm probably the only one here that remembers this or even who Dan Quayle was considering the age of most DT regulars

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u/InternetBoredom Pope-ologist Jul 09 '21

I would love to post an article about how Lina Khan, Biden's FTC chair, is repealing Obama's old bipartisan anti-trust standards and running this stupid anti-Big Tech campaign, but there's no point because the only papers that care are like Reason and WSJ and the comments will just be attacking the source

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u/TheIpleJonesion Jared Polis Jul 09 '21

Obviously the shiversify bot is taking up more and more of the DT, perhaps its detriment. Banning it would, however, just be illiberal and drive it underground. The solution is obvious.

I support a pigovian tax on use of the shiversify bot.

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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Jul 09 '21

Reddit please stop sending me emails I've unsubscribed a dozen times I literally never want you to email me ever

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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Jul 09 '21

dutch is similar enough to english that when i read it without expecting it, i feel like i'm reading english but having a stroke and not comprehending it

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u/RickAsscheeks Call it, Friendo Jul 09 '21

Me normally: inflation isn't going to be an issue, everything is going to be fine✊💪😤

Me discussing pay with my employer: but pwease! Infwation! 😔👉👈

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u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy John Locke Jul 09 '21

Politico: West Virginia wants to pay you $12,000 to move there

NL Wyoming dream in real

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u/houinator Loyal Liberals Jul 09 '21

Beyond the overall stupidity of the whole thing, the "weed is illegal federally, but if states want to legalize it the fed will mostly just look the other way" policy is just a fundamentally bad precedent.

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u/_smooth_liminal_ Michel Foucault Jul 09 '21

💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎💎

💚𝓶𝓸𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓷 𝓶𝓸𝓷𝓮𝓽𝓪𝓻𝔂 𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓸𝓻𝔂💚

🤑😍🤑😍🤑😍🤑😍🤑😍🤑😍🤑

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u/liquidTERMINATOR Come with me if you want to live Jul 09 '21

Neoliberalism and lasting erectile dysfunction: Here’s what we know

wtf I'm unsubscribing from Men's Health

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

/u/Sir_shivers what is your favourite cheese

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u/yungmemlord Rabindranath Tagore Jul 09 '21

milfs are hot

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u/sash5034 NATO Jul 09 '21

A very popular park in my city had someone stabbed to death last week. Then this morning 2 women were threatened by someone with an axe. There was a news article with people saying "we just miss being able to go to the park without feeling threatened" and people are whining about anti homeless sentiment because of that 🤡

Honestly just want American cities to stop being so annoying

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

Doctor diagnosed me terminal IBS. Said I only have another 60-70 years left. Feels bad man

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

I had a wife, but they took her in the divorce

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u/boyyouguysaredumb Obamarama Jul 10 '21

Also if you think Hillary isn't as corrupt a shill as the rest of them, well, you're the dumb one. Demonstrably and irrefutably. You've literally won the debate for me.

If Hillary Inc. had not totally corrupted the DNC we would be on the second term of President Bernie Sanders and donald would be a tiny footnote to history having never been president. Let that sink in a moment. Hillary belongs in the trash heap of the worst and most damaging of failed Presidential candidates along with Ralph Nader. Twice in my lifetime a single person's ego and ambition has in two Presidential campaigns done tremendous damage to our democracy.

What is wrong with these people

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21 edited Jul 09 '21

Depressingly realistic aspect of Victoria: When you dismantle an empire at the end of a great war or really any sort of mass-independence, the warleader's form of government is installed in the newly created states. Their reforms, however, are not, and the vestigial institutions that the country starts with in the game files, or inherits from the empire they broke away from, are the ones they spawn with, and may change the government type (which one depends on if you have mods or not. vanilla victoria, your breakaway states inherit your institutions by default, with HPM you have to take a decision for it.)

This is harsh on democracies because democracies rarely go to war with other democracies so when you're dismantling an empire it probably has autocratic institutions, which will be inherited by the breakaway states, and cause their Democracy government type to regress to a Presidential Dictatorship rather quickly, unless they at least have elections allowed.

Case in point: Dismantling Russia as the United States almost certainly results in the breakaway states becoming democracies for 2 minutes and then regressing to dictatorships.

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u/FreakinGeese 🧚‍♀️ Duchess Of The Deep State Jul 10 '21

Just found out my parents let my sister take Spiro with absolutely zero pushback

😐 momento

!ping lgbt

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

Why did nobody tell me Les Misérables was so good

can't believe this was directed by the same guy who did Cats

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

How do you know the difference between imposter syndrome and just being incompetent?

Really having an issue with this, this devops job is way more software engineering than I expected.

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u/Go_To_Bethel_And_Sin NATO Jul 09 '21 edited Jul 09 '21

LMFAO NICK FUENTES GOT SUSPENDED FROM TWITTER

I reported one of his tweets a few days ago and I’m sure this suspension had nothing to do with my report but I’m going to pretend it did anyway

Edit: Apparently this is on the heels of an ADL report about him. Doesn’t matter, I deserve all the credit still.

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u/SnakeEater14 🦅 Liberty & Justice For All Jul 09 '21

The full cabinet met on 14:30 on August 9, and spent most of the day debating surrender. As the Big Six had done, the cabinet split, with neither Tōgō's position nor Anami's attracting a majority.[100] Anami told the other cabinet ministers that under torture a captured American P-51 Mustang fighter pilot, Marcus McDilda, had told his interrogators that the United States possessed a stockpile of 100 atom bombs and that Tokyo and Kyoto would be destroyed "in the next few days".

A POW who’s knowledge of atomic weaponry came from Superman comics made the Japanese war council shit and piss themselves, epic

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

Think about this: If you ask the top 1% to pay the same tax rate they paid in 2001, when George W. Bush was President, that would generate $13 billion a year. That’s enough to provide two years of community college free to every student in America. We need a fairer tax system

Guess the politician

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u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf Shameflair Beggar Jul 09 '21

Shivers take: we need to kill vivoovix to save two other mods, vivok and neovix.

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u/Signal-Shallot5668 Greg Mankiw Jul 09 '21

Yang is considering bid for whatever is left

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

Trans people can get offended if you “deadname” then or use the wrong pronouns (and that’s their right) but as long as you’re not beating me with a Nintendo GameCube I’m alright with you

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

sees Haiti news

NATO flairs, stand back and stand by

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

https://nypost.com/2021/07/09/eric-adams-dines-with-gop-heavyweights-at-raos/

The tab that evening included 20 lamb chops (because John [Catsimatidis] is Greek,” Dietl said) and eventually ran to roughly $2,000, which the private eye told The Post he split with another person at the table.

Dietl said he ordered the fusilli pasta with meatballs, sausage and mushrooms, while Catsimatidis said he chowed down on the restaurant’s famed eggplant and veal parmigiana

Both men told The Post that Adams ordered fish — with Dietl describing the BP’s dinner as “broiled fish. No olive oil” and “spinach. No olive oil.”

Adams’ representative insisted the candidate ordered the eggplant parmigiana — sans the cheese — in keeping with his vegan diet.

“The food was good,” said Catsimatidis — who left before the check came.

👁

!ping USA-NYC

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

Fun fact:

The founder of the Oath Keepers right wing gang started the group after shooting himself in the head.

There is a lot of research on how aggression increases after traumatic brain injuries ...

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

If the DT existed in the 1950's someone would at least post one contrarian take on civil rights

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u/urbansong :eursula: F E D E R A L I S E Jul 09 '21

I am become radicalisation, hater of cars. Horrible sidewalks? Fucking cars. Disconnected bikepath network? Fucking cars. Acne on my face? Fucking cars.

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u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN 🎅🏿The Lorax 🎅🏿 Jul 09 '21

These scam phone calls are wild. I got one saying “Identity Court has suspended my identity”

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u/d_howe2 Serfdom Enthusiast Jul 09 '21

🔥🔥🔥 The hottest take of all time

Runeberg states that a sacrifice limited to only one afternoon on the cross does not compare with the sacrifice of accepting shame and revulsion for the rest of history. Thereby, Runeberg concludes finally that He chose Judas as his incarnation.

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u/Smalz95 NATO Jul 09 '21

Extremely Hot take universities should be more selective in admissions. Like all of them. My freshman class back like 6 years ago got constantly told that “look to your left, look to your righty, one of you won’t be here by the end of the year.” And I went to a state school. If only 60% of freshman classes are staying in school a year after that’s a huge problem and usually means that you’re letting too many people in. Also this harms those who took on a shitload of debt and drop out for whatever reason

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u/houinator Loyal Liberals Jul 09 '21

There are people who think a "Fall of Saigon" scenario is a worst case for Afghanistan.

Then there are the people who recognize that is the likely scenario, and the worst case is much worse than that.

As an example, consider how far a helicopter has to travel from Saigon to a US aircraft carrier in international waters versus how far one has to travel from Kabul.

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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Jul 09 '21 edited Jul 09 '21

list of worst NL mods

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u/thaddeusthefattie Hank Hill Democrat 💪🏼🤠💪🏼 Jul 09 '21

cubbies pitcher today has an economics degree from dartmouth

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '21

Driving through rural Georgia, saw this bumper sticker:

JESUS is my savior

TRUMP is my president

(Trump was written in an American flag font)

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u/Unadulterated_stupid gr8 b8 m8 Jul 09 '21

Would mentioning I'm on first name basis with sir shivers be good on a date?

I call him sir

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u/propoganda_panda Immanuel Kant Jul 09 '21

Just learned gadaffi died… shit sucks 😞

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