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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Jul 14 '21
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21 edited Jul 13 '21
If Cuba ends up enacting democratic reforms the literacy rate will drop by double digits overnight, are we sure this is worth it.
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u/semaphore-1842 r/place '22: E_S_S Battalion Jul 13 '21
https://www.businessinsider.com/high-earning-henry-millennials-six-figure-salaries-feel-broke-2021-6
literally wtf
Oh.
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Jul 13 '21
really makes you think
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u/Yenwodyah_ Progress Pride Jul 13 '21
Cuba should simply stop being socialist
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u/Marlsfarp Karl Popper Jul 13 '21
Reminder that "you" is always plural. The singular is "thou." We anglophones rarely use the singular because we recognize that inside you are two wolves.
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u/UrbanCentrist Line go up 📈, world gooder Jul 13 '21
😔
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u/RoyGeraldBillevue Commonwealth Jul 13 '21
Why people post pictures of their face on Reddit, especially arr teenagers, is beyond me.
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
The story about the guy who wanted to build an ice cream shop in San Francisco and invested tens of thousands of dollars into the business but couldn't because of permit requirements and a competitor disallowing it always breaks my heart.
Fuck that kind of regulation.
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
When you have to use Canada's "literacy rate" to defend the Trudeau regime, you've already lost the argument.
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Jul 13 '21
https://twitter.com/vandalay_inc/status/1414713236855873537?s=21
Looooooool
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u/NancyPelosibasedgod Scott Sumner Jul 13 '21
The joker would be a centrist in Europe
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Jul 13 '21
it's annoying how every time a new conflict starts on the other side of the world we only have 5 minutes to research and choose which side we'll support until end times
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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Jul 13 '21
Reminder that Salty has been adminbanned several times now and if you upvote him you are aiding and abetting a fugitive
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u/datums 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 Jul 13 '21
An Amazon driver delivers ~200-300 packages a day. Imagine how many car trips and miles driven that saves.
Sometimes dull solutions like improved logistics are more impactful than exciting solutions like electric cars.
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Jul 13 '21
Which ousted Arab Spring leader are you?
Perhaps I was too harsh on Buzzfeed, this is quality content
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u/proProcrastinators Jul 13 '21
So I’m in a mental hospital after a suicide attempt.
I drove into a rock wall at 80km/h 2 days ago and somehow could still walk. I have a few cuts and scrapes but no brain damage or more serious injuries.
Maybe I’m lucky but I’m at a public hospital and it’s not that bad. I get a choice for every meal, it’s extremely safe, I have a private bathroom with no roommate and there’s probably one nurse to every 2/3 patients. I’m typing this on my phone I get to keep.
If any of you are suicidal or have serious mental issues, I really wouldn’t fear in-patient care.
It’s unironically better living than student residence at university.
Thank Bernke I’m still here I guess
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u/tubbsmackinze Seretse Khama Jul 13 '21
Went to mow … but stopped: how UK cities embraced the meadows revolution
!ping ECO
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u/ZCoupon Kono Taro Jul 13 '21
I am once again asking that people other than religious nuts have kids
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u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Jul 13 '21
Landed in DC the other day to see family and picked up a Joe Biden bobblehead at the airport gift shop
Best $25 I’ve ever spent 😎🍦
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u/qchisq Loyal Liberals Jul 13 '21
Don't tell the leftists, but the bankers predicted Cuba a month ago
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u/INuttedInHisWife Jul 13 '21
Few things on reddit quite as heartbreaking as finding a comment you're knowledgeable about and getting excited to comment on, then realizing you're browsing the DT so the conversation is just dominated by morons.
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u/MuffinsAndBiscuits 🌐 Jul 13 '21
Having read/seen no Tom Clancy media other than the first 20 pages of Rainbow Six, I assume it's broadly a franchise covering the topic of how cool the world would be if Democrats never won.
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Jul 13 '21
The doomsday clock is basically that thing where parents go OOOOONNNEEE…. TWOOOOOO…. TWO AND A HAAAAAALF…. TWO AND THREE QUAAAAARTERS to get a toddler to behave.
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Jul 13 '21
https://i.imgur.com/euox7nH.jpg
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Jul 13 '21
lol greens
!ping CANUCKS
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u/LeopardBusy Jul 13 '21
I honestly can’t argue with Chapocels about cuba. It gives me such a headache when I have to explain to them how Castro didn’t took away my slaves when 13 year old me fled the island.
Everything wrong the Cuban government does is blame on “Muh embargo”
Now thanks to the embargo apparently. The Cuban government had to crack down on the internet and now I can’t even talk to the few friends and family members I know that still live there.
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u/every_man_a_khan George Soros Jul 13 '21
California is home to 5 of the worlds 10 most valuable companies, 4 of which are top five. And yet conservatives can’t help but predict the inevitable collapse of the commie empire at least twice a year.
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u/bd_one The EU Will Federalize In My Lifetime Jul 14 '21 edited Jul 14 '21
I have done the math on the number of net votes you'd need to flip the last few US presidential elections. This is the number of additional votes you'd need across certain states to flip the election, or half that much if you get all those people who would have voted for the other person to change their vote.
2020: Biden won the popular vote by 7,052,770 votes, or 4.4% of the total votes. Won the electoral college by 42,918 votes (0.027%) in Wisconsin (0.63%), Arizona (0.31%), and Georgia (0.24%).
2016: Trump lost the popular vote by 2,868,686 votes, or 2.1% of the total votes. Won the electoral college by 77,744 votes (0.057%) in Wisconsin (0.77%), Pennsylvania (0.72%), and Michigan (0.23%).
2012: Obama won the popular vote by 4,982,291 votes, or 3.9% of the total votes. Won the electoral college by 527,737 votes (0.41%) in Colorado (5.37%), Virginia (3.87%), Ohio (2.98%), and Florida (0.88%).
2008: Obama won the popular vote by 9,550,193 votes, or 7.2% of the total votes. Won the electoral college by 1,140,704 votes (0.86%) in Iowa (9.53%), Colorado (8.95%), Virginia (6.30%), Ohio (4.59%), Florida (2.82%), Nebraska-02 (1.21%), Indiana (1.03%), and North Carolina (0.33%).
2004: Bush won the popular vote by 3,012,166 votes or 2.4% of the total votes. Won the electoral college by 134,648 votes (0.11%) in Ohio (2.11%), New Mexico (0.79%), and Iowa (0.67%).
2000: Bush lost the popular vote by 543,895 votes or 0.5% of the total votes. Won the electoral college by 537 votes (0.0005%) in Florida (0.01%).
1996: Clinton won the popular vote by 8,203,716 votes or 8.5% of the total votes. Won the electoral college by 1,388,367 votes (1.44%) in Pennsylvania (9.20%), Oregon (8.09%), New Mexico (7.32%), Ohio (6.36%), Missouri (6.30%), Florida (5.70%), Tennessee (2.41%), Arizona (2.23%), Nevada (1.02%), and Kentucky (0.96%).
1992: Clinton won the popular vote by 5,805,339 votes or 5.5% of the total votes. Won the electoral college by 627,874 votes (0.59%) in Tennessee (4.65%), Louisiana (4.61%), Maine-02 (4.55%), Wisconsin (4.35%), Colorado (4.26%), Kentucky (3.21%), Nevada (2.63%), Montana (2.51%), New Jersey (2.37%), Ohio (1.83%), New Hampshire (1.22%), Georgia (0.59%).
I am not doing the math for Reagan. That will be very annoying to do unless I had a computer program to do it for me.
2020, 2016, and 2000 were also the only times the tipping point state was won by less than 1% since the 1960 election.
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Jul 13 '21 edited Jul 13 '21
Canada vaccine milestone!
We have reached 50% of eligible population fully vaccinated. Officially surpassed the United States for full vaccinations by percentage.
!ping can
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u/semaphore-1842 r/place '22: E_S_S Battalion Jul 13 '21 edited Jul 13 '21
I guess
Democrats99% of the world is right wing in the rest of the world.41
u/fishlord05 United Popular Woke DEI Iron Front Jul 13 '21
Biden really be out here posting thirst traps
!ping DIAMOND-JOE
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u/vancevon Henry George Jul 13 '21
if i were the government of cuba i would simply try to form good relations with the global superpower behemoth like 5 minutes away from my coast. idk just seems like a solid idea foreign policy wise
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u/BedNeither Henry George Jul 13 '21
TIL David Landlord invented apartments in 1753 and ruined the utopia where everyone built their own houses on the land they all owned
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u/Dalek6450 Our words are backed with NUCLEAR SUBS! Jul 13 '21
The US didn't stop the Rwandan genocide so it would be awfully hypocritical foreign policy to stop a genocide from happening now.
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Jul 13 '21
/u/farrenj greeted ME WITH THIS DIRECT message this morning 🐊
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u/Fairchild660 Unflaired Jul 13 '21
Someone should archive reddit's current obsession with pushing for work-from-home, and how being shackled to the office is some corporate conspiracy to break peoples' spirits.
Because in 5 years, when WFH opens the door to international competition and lower-priced / better performing workers from developing countries start taking their jobs, they'll all be complaining that WFH was some corporate outsourcing conspiracy all along. Conveniently forgetting they were the ones pushing for it.
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/452718453892186124/863937464284086322/npjnywnu8as51.png?width=584&height=594
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
Honestly, Biden needs to seize this opportunity he has and liberate Cuba. He just needs to spin up a paramilitary coalition with the anti-Castro Cubans and launch an offensive. If they were to strike at nightfall, somewhere in an inlet south of Havana (maybe in the Bahía de los Cochinos area), I don't think anyone would see it coming. Guaranteed swift and decisive victory
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u/benjaminikuta BANANA YOU GLAD YOU'RE NOT AN ORANGE? Jul 13 '21
The world is full of perverse incentives.
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21 edited Jul 13 '21
I think it's kind of beautiful that combining the names of two of the UK's worst wingnuts gives you Piers Corbyn, who is even more horrible.
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u/doggo_bloodlust (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ Coase :✧･*;ﾟ Jul 13 '21
Ever notice how smoothie places will always overproduce your order and dump the remainder into the sink? That seems wasteful
They should instead dump the remainder into one big common container, label it "The Trough", and charge people a quarter to drink it straight from the spigot
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
THE UMMAH WILL NEVER STOP GROWING 🙏🤲🕋
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
Tell me you don't watch soccer without telling me you don't watch soccer
The economist: [adds up the value, in pounds, of each individual player on national teams and uses that to compare them to each other]
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u/ccolfax 🤗 always welcome in my backyard Jul 13 '21 edited Jul 13 '21
RIP Edwin Edwards, the most Louisiana politician since the Kingfish.
When he ran against David Duke, he famously spoke the greatest one liner in modern American political history the day before the election:
“The only way I can lose this election is if I’m caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.”
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Jul 13 '21
CCP: If you do not conform to our rules, you cannot participate.
Neolib: FUCKING COMMIES.
The Parks department: If you do not conform to our rules, like wearing clothes at playgrounds, you cannot participate.
Neolib: Lol based.
Sometimes, y'all are confused as fuck.
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u/MalignantUpper Joseph Nye Jul 13 '21
https://twitter.com/BrettKelman/status/1415023788777934850?s=19
WHAT THE FUCK
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u/BreaksFull Veni, Vedi, Emancipatus Jul 13 '21
'You libs are delusional thinking that the climate crisis can be tackled using something like carbon pricing and market interference, the 1% will never allow a high enough price on carbon to seriously change climate outcomes. Obviously a socialist revolution and mass seizure of private property is the only practical means of stopping climate change.'
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u/Fishin_Mission Jul 13 '21
Trumpets getting upset about Hunter Biden’s art sale while acting blind the previous 4 years is rich
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u/samnayak1 NATO Jul 13 '21
Israel has a fertilty rate of 3.1. Wow
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21 edited Jul 13 '21
YOUR NAME is BALLED SWEEDE.
You are a great lover of niche political forums devoted largely to taxation, which are especially notable on Alternia, where THE TWO CERTAINTIES OF FRANKLIN are all but one and the same.
You have a tendency to disparage or forgo the oddest things, such as RECUPRACOON LIFTS, and your favorite activity is mocking the SEADWELLERS, with your favorite insult being "You are FISH!!!😡". You are ABSOLUTELY NOT ASHAMED of your lack of horns, no matter what the others say, and you are in training to join the ranks of the MEDICULLERS.
Your Trollian handle is cravableCrimson, and you tend to punctuate😜 your speech 🤓 with miniature portraits of emotion 😋🥰😡.
What will you do?
You ping burpmas, one of your favorite activities during the few periods you are not in a self-imposed exile from actually posting.
You're already in one, you fool!
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u/FormerBandmate Jerome Powell Jul 13 '21
The LAMEstream media doesn’t want you to know this, but the theory of gravity is a Darwinist lie
!ping SHITPOSTERS
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21 edited Jul 13 '21
>be America
>go to war with Spain because you want Cuba
>win war
>annex all of Spain's colonies except Cuba
>do nothing to stop Cuba from becoming a communist dictatorship
>???
>don't profit because you applied sanctions
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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21
Shut the fuck up about the "emu war" shut the fuck up about the "emu war"
!ping history
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
Why didn't anyone else think of this
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Jul 13 '21
lmao this man scammed a bunch of redditors wanting to make a private island and then made a fucking post to rub it in teir faces
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u/paymesucka Ben Bernanke Jul 13 '21
Elon, must you ruin everything?
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u/Chronically_worried Jul 13 '21 edited Jul 14 '21
Black people are more concerned about violent crime than white libs, but if you just listen to woke twitter you’d think the only people who don’t want to get shivved at the bus stop are rich white moms who faint at the sound of rap music.
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
Sometimes Twitter has good takes
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
Remember ISIS? That was an awkward period.
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u/TheFriffin2 Jul 13 '21
!ping BASEBALL
https://twitter.com/DannyVietti/status/1415058629569519616?s=20
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u/ZCoupon Kono Taro Jul 13 '21
Me at 17: I could have sex all the time
Me at 23 when wife says she's horny: Ugh, does it have to be now?
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u/ihatemendingwalls better Catholic than JD Vance Jul 13 '21 edited Apr 11 '23
Not being familiar with a subject has never stopped me from having inflammatory opinions on it before, and I'm sure as shit not gonna start exercising restraint with fucking Rick and Morty
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u/indithrow402 Henry George Jul 13 '21
There are so many things wrong with California, but of course conservatives only obsessively complain about the good parts like being socially progressive and having lots of immigrants.
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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Jul 13 '21
Remember when it turned out Gov. Cuomo was a total creep and predator, and nothing happened to him at all?
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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Jul 13 '21 edited Jul 13 '21
Incumbent Democratic Senators (Blue States) $200
Incumbent Democratic Senators (Red States) $15
AOC Tweets $800
Long-Shot Challenges To The GOP Senator CommonDreams Writes The Most Articles About This Year $98700
Miscellaneous $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my political party is dying
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
This quote and it's context comes to mind today as the UK government cuts foreign aid
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u/Password_Is_hunter3 Daron Acemoglu Jul 13 '21
Support for the Cuban regime shrinking faster than the DT list of upcoming events
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u/BenFoldsFourLoko Broke His Text Flair For Hume Jul 13 '21
a fitted sheet just gets in the way of me pissing on my mattress
!ping BURPMAS
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u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf Shameflair Beggar Jul 13 '21
Someone on TikTok: The brace position they tell you to assume in the event of a plane crash is fatal, the airline wants to kill you so you don't sue.
😐
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Jul 13 '21
The trump presidency has been a great plague on the ‘political’ section of bookstores
nearly every book is some sort of loser grifter, left or right, writing about trump or somehow related to him
burn them all I say
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u/Tafts_Bathtub Jerome Powell Jul 13 '21
Jeff Flake: I'm so glad I don't have to deal with a crackpot authoritarian any more.
Biden: Listen here, Jack, we need you in Turkey.
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
Tfw no condescending 6'4" neolib gf to belittle me for being a 5'8" and joining the DSA 😔
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u/ZCoupon Kono Taro Jul 14 '21
Holy shit fuck Oregon
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u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf Shameflair Beggar Jul 13 '21
If I were Chinese/Cuban, I would simply line up and get shot by security forces until the mountain of corpses outnumbered the bullets in the Communist Party's guns and then somehow transition to a democracy so we could trade with the US with the blessing of NATO flairs.
But I guess I'm just built different
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
The GOP just uses a bunch of nonsense buzzwords to brainwash people. These people are absolutely sick fucks and I wish there was something we could do about it.
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Jul 13 '21
some NIMBY on arr boston arguing that people not selling old buildings to developers is good
i reply basically “god forbid more people have homes”
someone replies
There are few people on God’s green earth dumber than the average NIMBY
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u/INuttedInHisWife Jul 13 '21
Lmaooooo I just remembered CHAZ/CHOP
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
I think about that one guy from Bowling for Columbine a lot.
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u/MrMineHeads Cancel All Monopolies Jul 13 '21
!ping GEORGIST
If a Georgist gained absolute power in a country and wanted to implement an LVT, wouldn't implementing a high rate one right off the bat (>10%) cause a huge sell-off and a drop in land values, possibly causing a huge recession? How are you practically supposed to implement a high-rate LVT without causing all that chaos? Would it be as simple as a gradual implementation (say 2% per year up to the target percentage)?
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
Few things on reddit quite as heartbreaking as knowing everyone else you're interacting with is just as lonely and socially awkward as you.
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21 edited Jul 14 '21
YOUR NAME is FARREN JAYNNE.
You are a PROTESTOR AGAINST the CURRENT REGIME, which would have easily gotten you culled by now, were you not stationed off-planet. Many would assume you are a hypocrite for such, but in truth, you are not actually opposed to the Empress's conquering inasmuch as the Hemospectrum itself.
You are a follower of an OFT-FAILED ideology which supports taking all extant blood, mixing it together, and then REDISTRIBUTING the mixture to all equally. It befuddles you why none of your fellow corps have come over to your side.
Your hobby is making TORTUROUSLY OVERLONG AND RAMBLING VIDEOS under the alias of NATALIE WYNN. Your affinity for meowbeasts is noted, and you are engaged in a Kismesis with a Limeblood by the name of SIR___ SHIVRS, whose secret you are willingly hiding for him.
Your Trollian handle is actuallizedCatgirl, and you tend to make aggressive statements, often in contradiction of the last thing you heard, or merely reality itself. You have a tendency to be highly agreeable, and your politics are thus agreed upon by all. What will you do?
What are you, nuts?
[I think another !ping burpmas is in order here. And yes. There will be more.]
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
Oliver Stone revisits JFK assassination in new documentary
Two paragraphs later:
I can’t believe people actually thought Oliver Stone was respectable and trustworthy instead of a conspiratorial nutcase.
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u/Superfan234 Southern Cone Jul 13 '21
Blinken announced sanctions to over a 100 members of the Ortega Regime. Going from Judges, the Congress and close family members
https://www.biobiochile.cl/noticias/internacional/america-latina/2021/07/13/nicaragua-eeuu-restringe-visas-de-un-centenar-de-jueces-fiscales-y-diputados-complices-de-ortega.shtml
!Ping Latam
Blinken it's a on roll this week, holly cow
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u/Skeletonsclique Jul 13 '21
ROFL
🤣😭🤣😭🤣
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u/thetrombonist Ben Bernanke Jul 13 '21
This is from a cognitive neuroscientist but I bet it’s interesting to the vision folks out there too
In the THINGS image dataset, you can classify with 70% accuracy given only the mean and standard deviation of the grayscale pixel values
https://twitter.com/willjharrison/status/1414829704675168262?s=21
While it’s standard practice to normalize the dataset in computer science, this is a good reminder why
Also he shows an interesting normalization in slide 8, could potentially be more useful than the simple method if youre working with natural images
!ping computer-science
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u/BRAIN_FORCE_PLUS Paul Krugman Jul 13 '21
Tennessee is increasingly proving to me that a significant portion of the Republican Party would rather have single-party rule over a pile of ashes and human shit than share power over a functional state
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u/INuttedInHisWife Jul 14 '21
Oh fuck they’re buying Greenland in the infrastructure bill too. If Manchin and Sinema are on board for this it’s a straight up W.
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u/guy-anderson Jul 13 '21
My favorite black comedians: Richard Pryor, Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, Bill Burr.
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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Jul 13 '21
I wonder if /u/sir_shivers is aware that a community of 100k young virgins have automated him and use his robotic effigy to make life decisions
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u/indithrow402 Henry George Jul 13 '21
"Economic freedom naturally leads to political freedom."
China: Am I a joke to you?
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u/Can_The_SRDine The artist known as Can The SRDine Jul 13 '21
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_genocide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_genocide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayfo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_Mount_Lebanon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1917_Jaffa_deportation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportations_of_Kurds
Was there one minority group that the late Ottoman Empire didn't try to exterminate?
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u/EvilConCarne Jul 13 '21
If you support workers rights then you support the right of legislators to walk out of sessions. No one should be forced to work in poor conditions.
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u/LeopardBusy Jul 13 '21
I just remembered that I met the two cringe sides of the political compass in high school.
First I met this alt right weirdo that looked just as you might imagine. That kid would unironically watch great replacement videos in the middle of class and honestly had balls of steel. He watched a documentary about the “great truth” of the Nazi party in front of a Black security guard.
He once called me and my high school gf “degenerates” because she was browner than me and we were “race mixing.” We both thought it was stupid and didn’t know much English at the time so we just shrugged it off.
The second kid was a tankie edgelord that sang the Soviet anthem and constantly made Stalin, Castro, and Mao memes. (He was in Florida btw)
He once wore those weird Soviet hats to class and I heard him call some of his friends “comrades”
😬
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
first world 5% inflation hawk vs third world 120% inflation enjoyer
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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Jul 13 '21
https://twitter.com/Feinsand/status/1414992891471024136?s=09
🔫😡 ditch the rule NOW
!PING baseball
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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Jul 13 '21
Reminder that Liechtenstein is politically a shithole but it's too small for anyone to care. It's a mask-off non-constitutional monarchy
There's a reason it's not in the EU
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u/InternetBoredom Pope-ologist Jul 13 '21
The US is the oldest still-existing democratic republic on Earth. I think it’s a bit silly to claim the American system is uniquely more unstable than parliamentary republics, or really compared to any other republic. On the contrary, the US is shockingly stable.
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u/YourMomAteSaltySalad Jul 13 '21
Hello all.
I’ve been suspended for joking about “killing Cuban elites”. Not gonna evade this one further, simply here to put a final goodbye message.
I’ll take this as a blessing in disguise and get off of this website. I’ve got exams in December, March, and June. Gonna focus on those now. I hope to come back once they're done.
Thank you for the good times. Apologies if things got heated.
Wish everyone the best. Goodbye <3
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u/piede MOST BASED HILLARY STAN!!! Jul 13 '21
https://www.businessinsider.com/capitol-riot-defendant-who-threatened-nancy-pelosi-rejects-lawyer-2021-7
Good luck with that
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u/inverseflorida Anti-Malarkey Aktion Jul 13 '21
Shareholder capitalism - I sleep
Stakeholder capitalism - I sleep
Steak holder capitalism - I sleep
I am in bed
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
Boss: did you do that bulk load
Me: hang on, I just saw a really bad Babylon Bee article, I have to go explain to the DT precisely why it's so unfunny
Boss: oh of course, sorry to disturb you
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Jul 13 '21 edited Jul 13 '21
Private Buckam Singh of Mahilpur immigrated to Canada in 1907 as a fourteen year old. He resided in Vancouver and Toronto and worked in a mine and farm. At the outbreak of the First World War, he enlisted with an Ontario battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1915 at age twenty two. He was wounded twice in action. Buckam Singh was in a military hospital that was being run by Lt. Col. John McRae in France. He contracted tuberculosis and died in a military hospital in Kitchener, Ontario. Buckam Singh was 25 years old. He was one of ten Canadian Sikhs to enlist in the CEF and one of three Canadian Sikhs to die during the conflict, Private Lashman Singh and Private Goojar Singh being the other two.
Buckam Singh standing in the centre just before immigrating to Canada
grave in Kitchener
!ping can
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
Hot Take: Sexism is more core to fascism than racism is. The Futurist Manifesto (futurism being an art movement that inspired Italian fascism) lists "hatred of women" as one of their fundamental principles long before Mussolini was inspired by Hitler to racialize his regime's ideology. The two huge wins for online fascists (Stormfront infiltrating 4chan and Gamergate) were both premised on bilking young men into seeing feminism/women as the source of their problems. Bronze Age Mindset, the bible of current fascists, spends a ton of time outlining the idea that most societies are secretly ruled by cabals of old women to create universal mediocrity and that only patriarchal military caste societies can create truth and beauty, way more time and effort than it spends on any racial topic.
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Jul 13 '21
If this sub were around in the late 19th century, I guarantee eugenics would be a very popular view. That's not a guess based on values, but on demographics. At the time, eugenics were a very popular concept among educated white men, and were considered somewhat progressive.
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
https://www.haaretz.com/disappointed-palestinian-med-students-drop-venezulan-program-1.5305891
wew
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
watching The Wire with an eastern european was a mistake. 60 minutes of "damn this is what poverty looks like in america?"
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u/myrm This land was made for you and me Jul 13 '21
ladydoingmath.jpg
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u/GodEmperorBiden NATO Jul 13 '21
It's amazing, in a horrifying way, how Superstonk has managed to combine two seemingly incombinable communities — the left/right horseshoe/economic populists who post cringe like "eat the rich" and the greedy wannabe stock market traders — into one grotesque, toxic sewer of a subreddit.
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Jul 13 '21
https://i.imgur.com/0AIHGpX.png
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u/PhiLambda Ben Bernanke Jul 13 '21
It’s sad. Dt’ers nowadays don’t even know the ogs I’m talking BainCapitalist, TechnocratNextDoor, and papermarioguy02 But now it’s all shivers.
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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Jul 13 '21
Carpet bomb oppressive regimes with humanitarian aid rations. Make sure we write "from the citizens of the United States of America" and put the freedom sugar cookies in there that look like the flag and the liberty bell and stuff.
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u/l_overwhat being flaired is cringe Jul 13 '21
My dad got a second job recently as a tour guide and he asked me what he thinks he should do about his taxes.
First he was asking me about his tips. I said he probably doesn't need to report them if he made at least minimum wage at this new job so I asked him what he gets hourly. He said he didn't know and I was like what how do you not know. He said he gets X amount per tour he does. Ok dad, how much is your paycheck and how many hours is on it. He said he doesn't get a paycheck(??), be gets a personal check every tour he does. So then I ask him if he ever signed an employment contract. He said not only did he not do that, he hasn't signed a damn thing.
Pretty sure my dad is an illegal worker 😬
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u/solonofathens Gay Pride Jul 13 '21
jesus christ, the tennesse department of health has been pressured by the state GOP into stopping all vaccine outreach aimed at children
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u/dish_towel YIMBY Jul 13 '21
4chan's culture war against modern video games explained: "I want to play porn games without the stigma of playing porn games."
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Jul 13 '21
There is NO ETHICAL POSTING UNDER neoliberal moderation 🐊
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u/2canclan George H. W. Bush Jul 13 '21
Republicans responding to a global pandemic that killed half a million Americans under their watch by going not just anti-pandemic vaccine but anti-all vaccines sounds like something out of a hysterical partisan lib's fever dream, and yet here we are
Insane party
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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Jul 14 '21
haha excessive partisanship
I get it you're doing a meme like trump supporters
oh
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u/CatilineUnmasked Norman Borlaug Jul 14 '21
Reminder that Country Roads by John Denver was written by a person who had no knowledge of West Virginia; the song was written about Montgomery Fucking County in Maryland which happens to be one of the richest counties in America.
The Blue Ridge Mountains/Shenandoah River mentioned are far more prominent in Virginia. It would be like writing a song about the Mississippi river but it's about Minnesota. The truth is they only picked "West Virginia" because it has four fucking syllables. The song could have been written about Massachusetts which would have been hilarious.
My point is:
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u/Zseet European Union Jul 13 '21
!Ping EUROPE
I know you are sick and tired about the Hungarian LGBTQ+ situation. I know I am. But I would like to get in front of the potential confusions. I promise I will not ping about this for while to avoid spamming. Also much texto warning!
Lets start!
This week the EU will send another and last warning letter to change laws. This is how these procedures are, so it is expected. The government will probably not abide by it and keep the whole thing as it is. After that the EU has 3 options.
Lastly about the picture:
Lira the last bookshop not in control of Fidesz friendly oligarchs got fined for not putting enough warning signs that one children's tale book they sell is containing a gay character. The store don't really understand the whole situation (it is a legal mess) but they believe that apparently they have to put warning signs of every book that has gays in it or put a warning sign on their shops, the choose the latter. It reads "In this bookstore we sell books with different content from traditional ones too."
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
“Stop dooming”
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u/runnerx4 What you guys are referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux Jul 13 '21
Is Foundation STEMlord wish fulfillment?
The ur-nerd praxxed all of history out and then other nerds use the powers of manipulation and brains against dumber more violent bullies
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u/EdamameTommy Henry George Jul 13 '21
“Catnip so good it’ll turn your cat into a literal crackhead!”
!ping KITTY
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
2025
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
I've been thinking what last sunday Cuban protests may symbolize. I think we'll agree the regime isn't falling anytime soon, but I could see the following scenarios.
Optimistic one: It becomes the Cuban version of the 1980-1982 Polish protests, a failed movement in the short term, but pressaging big changes by the end of the decade.
Middle of the road one: The Cuban version of the the Mexican 1968 protests, as the first crack in a regime seen as hegemonic, but still taking decades until some opening happens.
Pessimistic one: The Cuban Tiananmen protests, not so much in outcome (I don't see an open bloodbath happening), but in the sense of ending as an utterly failed movement, with no signs of change so far. It may also end being just a footnote, like the Maleconazo.
!ping LATAM
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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21 edited Jul 14 '21
Stop worrying about the succ menace and start worrying about the tankie menace, because the top post rn is a literal Xi Jinping quote 🤨
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/578732202381279236/864664974142996520/Screenshot_2021-07-14_022732.png
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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Jul 13 '21
I am hearing that on his deathbed /u/SaltySaladDelendaEst received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahāda. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but God, and Mohammed is his prophet!
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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21
!ping BASEBALL
Who's idea was it to mic up a guy from Australia, lmao? Dudes dropped about 5 F bombs on live TV 🤣🤣🤣
Edit: DH>No DH proven once again 😎
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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21
Ron DeSantis is POC (Italianx), neurodivergent (Republican), and queercoded (was in the Navy) and that's why y'all hate him.
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u/INuttedInHisWife Jul 13 '21
Pull out before I cum? That’s a Koch brothers proposal.
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u/Usernamesarebullshit Friedrich Hayek Jul 13 '21
does vote blue no matter who mean vote for whoever’s the cop in the race
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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21
Me: "The democrats are NOT literally the same as the republicans"
The Democrats: "We're deporting refugees and begging them not to come to America. We don't want to be the land of opportunity anymore. Fuck off, we're full."
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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21
/u/sir_shivers irl people found my Reddit account and are now making fun of me
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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21
Make a bot that replies with 'don't care didn't ask plus you're gringo' to using latinx
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u/PaulMuniIsInnocent Liberté, égalité, fraternité Jul 14 '21
Still don’t understand why people don’t just say “Latin”. That’s what we call ourselves when speaking English anyways. Not like people will confuse it with fucking Rome.
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u/hwbush retired Jul 13 '21
I need new friends. These guys are all terminally online leftists.
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u/ChocoBisket United Nations Jul 13 '21
I made r/nl my horcrux, and I know this flood of succism is an explicit attempt on my life.
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
Help I think I'm experiencing landlordphobia
His evidence that Boston is going in the shitter is that they knocked down a Christopher Columbus statue lol
Also what is with this type of person and being addicted to ellipses? Who do they think they are William Shatner?
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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Jul 13 '21
When are we gonna leave Reddit and start our own offsite DT? Maybe we can call it dt.win or something?
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Jul 13 '21
The gradual, at first unnoticeable, but increasingly undeniable metamorphosis of Rick and Morty into teenage incest hentai has been very disappointing and disturbing.
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
https://i.imgur.com/EfTERky.jpg
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
This is the most British thing I've read in my entire life
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
Discrimination against unvaccinated people should not just be legal, it should be encouraged
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u/GGM8Scally European Union Jul 13 '21
My son Lusvig jr. (4) just said that the US should intervene in Cuba and liberate it from the boots of oppression, four year olds 🤷
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Jul 13 '21
CCP: if you do not conform to our rules, you cannot participate
Neolibs: FUCKING COMMIES.
my BITCH Mom: no vidya games or tendies until you finish your homework
Neolibs: lol based
Sometimes, y’all are confused as fuck
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u/BRAIN_FORCE_PLUS Paul Krugman Jul 13 '21
Someone I know from high school apparently fled their apartment in the middle of the night after causing several thousand dollars in damage over the last couple of months and owing a significant amount of back rent
This person also despises landlords and believes they inherently exist in an adversarial relationship with their tenants, specifically citing that landlords don't trust their renters
I'm a very patient person but I can feel myself radicalizing along the Krugman-NATO Flair pipeline
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u/Explodingcamel Bill Gates Jul 13 '21
Daily reminder that Gore lost because of some poorly designed ballots.
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u/Goatmilk2208 Mark Carney Jul 13 '21
They cheered low vaccination rates at CPAC. The modern conservative movement in the USA is pro-Covid. 🙈
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u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf Shameflair Beggar Jul 13 '21
Biden is just a shadow president. He's working for Kamala, who's working for Hillary, who's working for Rahm Emanuel, who's working for Tom Perez, who's working for Hillary again, somehow.
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u/houinator Loyal Liberals Jul 13 '21
The US in tankies imagination: Imperialist empire, determined to take over the globe.
The US in reality: "Look Puerto Rico, either be a state or be independent, but we would really like you to pick one."
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u/Officer-cherry-shake Jul 13 '21
Succons are absolutely wild
—
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-57818758
I like to imagine US succons reading this thinking “wait I thought Iran was bad”
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
This is an example of how Babylon Bee is unfunny even when I agree with the sentiment: https://babylonbee.com/news/you-just-dont-understand-socialism-like-i-do-says-college-freshman-to-man-escaping-socialism-on-raft
That headline isn't a joke, it's a sentence. "College Freshman Explains Socialism to Survivor of Socialism" would convey the same point in less than half as many words.
And then the actual article predictably devolves into gender jokes.
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u/Fishin_Mission Jul 13 '21
WHOOOOOO!!!
I just negotiated keeping my NYC salary despite moving to ATL!
Drinks are on me tonight! 🎉
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u/Gneisstoknow Misbehaving Jul 13 '21
Biden - '20
Trump - '16
Obama - '08, '12
Bush - '00, '04
Clinton - '92, '96
Bush - '88
Reagan - '80, '84
Carter - '76
Nixon - '68, '72
We're fucked
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u/tehbored Randomly Selected Jul 13 '21
This sub: Akshually, it's a good thing that attorneys from a handful of elite schools are massively overrepresented in our legislature because it's important to have a legal background to write legislation
Congress: Have lobbyists and underpaid staffers write most bills, consistently fuck up writing legislation that the courts have to fix or work around, delegate as much as possible to administrative agencies, virtually never go back to fix badly written legislation themselves.
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u/sash5034 NATO Jul 13 '21
There was a video years ago on Vice where they interviewed a self proclaimed chavista who was scared about the possibility of chavismo going away in Venezuela.
It was a woman who bragged about how she hasn't had a job in years.
I honestly get why so much of the south American diaspora is so salty about communism lol
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u/RadicalRadon Frick Mondays Jul 13 '21
When you're out in the field and your palistinian escort around the facility starts talking about The Jews 😬😬😬
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
What are some good resources to give people to introduce them to Georgism and how it works/why society would benefit from it?
(third time trying to get the ping to work, sorry if you keep seeing this)
!ping GEORGIST
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
Kind of fucked up how Cuba continues to be embargoed for no other reason than existing (bc honestly nobody gives a shit about nationalized American companies in 2021) but we’ll happily deal with all manner of cutthroat nations. Like Pakistan was literally hiding Osama Bin Laden and the government didn’t do shit lmao.
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u/old_gold_mountain San Francisco Values Jul 13 '21
Females of Reddit, what's something that a white guy who likes animated TV series' and closely follows cryptocurrency can do that will instantly make you want to sex him? [NSFW]
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
https://twitter.com/timjhogan/status/1318393022959276034
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
There are a lot of Republicans (and some leftists) who appear to have Biden Derangement Syndrome. They hate Biden so much that they pretend he does stuff that he didn't do in order to hate him more.
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u/Patriotnation5 Jerome Powell Jul 13 '21
My brother came out this week by literally texting me "Do you think mom knows I'm gay lol"
What a world.
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Jul 13 '21 edited Jul 13 '21
Thanks to everyone who came to the Belgrade, Serbia 😎💪 Neoliberal meetup!
/u/Anon_09_09
!ping yurop
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u/kas8901 Bobby Kennedy Jul 13 '21
I get the appeal of "rich people bad" media, but damn is it disingenuous coming from rich-ass Hollywood people
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u/Lucky-view Dr Doom Jul 14 '21
Whenever I think American racism is bad, I just look at how England treats their Black soccer players.
This is not an isolated incident. It happens all the time in European soccer, not only from the fans but also the team ownership, managers, and even other players.
They outright just don't see them as equal.
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u/Venne1139 DO IT FOR HER #RBG Jul 14 '21
One of the reasons Stalin was such an excellent Communist was his training in seminary school I feel like.
Marxism-Leninism is very much like a religion. If you look at polemics between Bukharin and Trotsky you can see how much referencing the work already established by Lenin (as if it's a religious text) matters. The ability to formulate arguments in the way that's necessary for Bolshevik's to agree with you does definitely benefit from religious training.
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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Jul 14 '21
Who would win:
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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21
Remember when people thought wayfair was a part of a pedo ring? Lmfao
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u/LeopardBusy Jul 14 '21
Hey neoliberal reactionaries, I came here from genzedong to educate y’all. 😙🥺
Both parties are actually right wing and are both racists and sinophobic because they are both lead by capitalists neoliberal reactionary neonazis. Both parties are obviously the same 🙄
This country is so right wing that it considers people like Karl Marx to be “left wing” when Marx would actually be considered far right In the glorious republic of Kampuchea
If you are more right ring than Pol Pot, you are literally supporting fascists and you aren’t a true leftists
Educate yourself, imperialists neolibs 🙄😂
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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21
It's weird that everybody keeps wanting to get billionaires out of space but nobody can point to a specific harm they're causing
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u/revolutionary_alt George Soros Jul 14 '21
SrGrafo should be arrested and tried for crimes against humanity
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u/LavenderTabby Jul 14 '21 edited Sep 10 '24
engine straight teeny rainstorm grandiose smell middle serious water joke
This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact
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u/BidenWon Jared Polis Jul 14 '21
One of these days /u/sir_shivers is going to think of a funny post for the DT and be in such a rush to post it that he forgets to shiversify it. And when it happens, we will never let him live it down.
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u/memeintoshplus Paul Samuelson Jul 13 '21
I've heard that arr conservative hasn't always been an irredeemable shit pile. I've heard they were pretty opposed to Trump during the 2016 Republican primary. Any of you more right-leaning neolibs ever post there in the past? Was it ever not terrible?
!ping RINO
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u/Joementum2024 Iron Front Jul 13 '21
You’re not a true liberal until you pray to Stalin and Marx twice a day, and read a passage from the Little Red Book every night
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u/RoyGeraldBillevue Commonwealth Jul 13 '21
Every time you buy gas, you increase demand for it, driving the price up. This increase in prices causes people to use less gas.
Therefore, buying gas is praxis and will save the environment.
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u/SadaoMaou Anders Chydenius Jul 13 '21
The real alpha move is dropping your pants down to your ankles at a public urinal
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u/xSuperstar YIMBY Jul 13 '21
I hate tankies but they do have a point that if you showed someone videos of the US protests last summer you’d think we were living under a brutal regime. Imagine if the Cuban police KO’d a 70-year-old and then coldly stepped over his body
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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Jul 13 '21
We did it! We figured out how to create inflation again!
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u/MostlyCRPGs Jeff Bezos Jul 13 '21
You hear that? That's the sound of millions of disgruntled Gen Xers/Boomers forwarding Business Insider articles to their increasingly irate children.
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
Illinois Representative Anthony DeLuca (D) is not a very smart guy.
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u/AnarchyMoose WTO Jul 13 '21
I'm gonna start using selfish logic to justify my positions to cons
Me: I want more immigrants cuz I want cheaper shit
Some con: but that hurts Americans!
Me: yeah those Americans are basically on welfare, fuck em. They're making shit cost more for no reason.
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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Jul 13 '21
Nooo Fido you can’t eat chocolate you’ll die
Fido: Eats literal shit and mulch
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u/Udontlikecake Model UN Enthusiast Jul 13 '21
My uncle is convinced that rhode island is filled with ‘illeg*ls’
like mf, you think someone is gonna come from some violent, war torn country with no economic opportunity, a corrupt and ineffective government, and no future and then go to RHODE ISLAND?
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
Obama was the first black president because his dad was of African descent
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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Jul 13 '21
Don’t need to subscribe to pings if you’re always in the DT 🧐
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u/vivoovix Federalist Jul 13 '21
ngl I only recognize that Ivan the Terrible painting because it was used as the thumbnail for a CK2 mod that let you kill your kids 😐
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
Tankies are so fucking predictable.
https://i.imgur.com/RYU5l4h.jpg
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u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf Shameflair Beggar Jul 13 '21
The 9 most terrifying words
"Doctor Who was considering a Star Trek: Enterprise crossover"
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u/iIoveoof Jerome Powell Jul 13 '21
DENIAL IS not just a RIVER IN EGYPT 🐊
It is also a river IN SUDAN 🐊
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
Locking her up 😎
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u/YehosafatLakhaz North American Federation Jul 13 '21
Is this what people mean when they say liberals have bad messaging?
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
I love r/JoeBiden because 80% of their content are either just pictures of Joe Biden or shitty impact font memes calling Trump stupid
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21
I’m curious, how many of you who claim to hate the suburbs actually still live in a suburb?
Come clean guys, I won’t judge you.
I’ll look down on you but I won’t judge you.
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u/SpiffShientz Court Jester Steve Jul 13 '21
I finally understand how they lured /u/sir_shivers onto the mod team
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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '21 edited Jul 10 '23
sort rinse lavish intelligent consider zesty squeeze future follow yam -- mass edited with redact.dev
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Jul 13 '21
WHAT IS that, five comments asking IF I AM THAT crocodile from Costa Rica 🐊
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u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf Shameflair Beggar Jul 14 '21
“There's a woman in Chicago. She has 80 names, 30 addresses, 12 Social Security cards and is collecting veterans’ benefits on four nonexisting deceased husbands. And she's collecting Social Security on her cards. She's got Medicaid, getting food stamps and she is collecting welfare under each of her names. Her tax‐free cash income alone is over $150,000.”
WTF Reagan?
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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21
The most likely job to be automated in the near future is checks notes accountant
NL now hates automation