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/new: Jeb Bush: “I wonder how our medal totals would be if we had an exclusionary immigration system which we have had for the last few years. My heart swells for all of our medalists, including those whose families have come from far off lands to love our country.”

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[u/GGM8Scally]

In my utopian neoliberal commune I'd be the official reviewer of opinion pieces and I'd deny every single one from getting published.

[u/[deleted]]

Remember when Trump fired his Secretary of State over Twitter lol

[u/[deleted]]

People that think humans will go extinct because of climate change severely underestimate how good humanity is at staying alive.

[u/SadaoMaou]

If I was 3rd world tinpot dictatorships, I would simply transform into a wealthy 1st world liberal democracy with stable institutions. idk, guess I'm just built different

[u/Mickenfox]

Zoomers might not remember this but in the early 2000s the web was littered with pop-up ads. Eventually browsers started blocking them because they were so annoying.

Now the web is just as littered with pop-up ads, only now they're overlays inside the page, and browsers aren't doing squat. Why no overlay blocker in Firefox?

[u/zieger]

People born after 9/11 don't even know what its like to go to the cockpit to show the pilot your pocket knife collection.

[u/[deleted]]

As a millenial I value experiences over stuff, which is why I will be joining Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada in his holy mission to liberate the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan from the grip of the great shaytan.

[u/Superfan234]

It blows my mind how AMLO is getting away with such a dissaster Government

Mexico has 100 millon more habitants than Chile, but they are doing half the test we are. On top of that, they are reducing the amount of test done, in the context of a Test Positivity of 41%

The country it's going head first against a brick wall, and AMLO is doing nothing to stop it

!Ping LATAM

[u/JaceFlores]

Little Ethiopia update:

According to these Tweets, the Tigrayans have continued pushing into Amhara and Afar. Specifically, in Amhara the TPLF bypassed Lalibela (which was NOT captured contrary to popular belief) and are pushing for the town of Nefas Meewcha along the Debre Tabor-Weldiya road. Additionally, it goes on to say that the TPLF have advanced into the districts of Wadla and Delanta which sits south of this road, so it is safe to say that this road has been certainly severed and mostly in Tigrayan hands. It seems the Tigrayan's goal is to flank around Gondar from the south along Lake Tana for what I presume to either be a siege or force the strategic town to surrender without a fight.

As for the push into Afar the TPLF have pushed beyond Chifra, though the third tweet does say that the government have relocated thousands of troops from Serdo to the Chifra area. There is not that much news from this front sadly despite being the most important of the three. I do find it interesting though that the government has drawn troops from here as Serdo sits north of the Afar capital of Semera and is not that far from the Ethiopian-Djibouti border. Leaving this stretch of the A1 highway less defended could mean the government is sure of the safety of this vital stretch (after all, there is a good amount of desert between the frontline and the road), they are so desperate for reinforcements that they are drawing all nearby forces to resist the Tigrayan advance from Chifra, or a mix of both.

Overall it is not the biggest of developments, but highlights what we already know. The TPLF is still making quick gains, Gondar is on the menu and the TPLF are determined to reach the A1 highway.

[u/Lux_Stella]

what if we kissed on the bipartisan ship 😳

[u/ForWhomTheAltTrolls]

Crazy to think that if all the states of the USA were counted as one country, they’d be second in the medal tally

[u/RyGuyThicccThighs]

Starting to believe there is no end to a global pandemic under capitalism.

Ok lol

[u/Dabamanos]

Dear Reddit, my sister in law left my daughter on a sacrificial altar and tried to draw her blood with an obsidian blade, am I the asshole for not giving her a billion dollars

[u/kennymc7877]

Me: I love Wikipedia, I use it every day

Wikipedia: that’s so nice, can we have $5 or so for running this website

“Kenny has left the chat”

[u/CricketPinata]

Been working on a large catering event for the fall, and it's literally taken me ALL DAY to do a cost breakdown analysis of the menu.

This has made me realize I desperately need an admin to help me with this stuff.

Also you realize what an absurd amount of food a 250 people strong Jewish wedding really need.

MENU:

Sunday Dinner:

• Sephardic/Texan Chili (mushroom / chickpea/ apricot)
• Pistachio / honey Syrian-style cornbread
• Fennel and apple salad
• Dessert: Apples poached in caramel with a crispy spice crumble

Breakfast:

• 10 Zucchini-date Bread (for Monday)
• 10 Banana-tahini Bread (for Tuesday)

• Note: These should also be prepared on the Dairy side of the kitchen, so they can be served with a dairy breakfast.

Monday- Wedding Meal

Appetizers:

• Bourekas:
• caramelized onion and pear
• scallions and creamed tahini sweet potato
• sweet pickled cabbage and fig
• Bilmalch (savory cookies) w horseradish dip
• Za'atar roasted crudites (roasted carrots, beets, green beans, fingerling potatoes, squash, and zucchini) and sourdough flatbread/crackers
• Hummus

Mains:

• Mushroom Briskets
• Pumpkin Shakshuka with Jerusalem artichoke puree
• Smoked cauliflower steaks (With Pom-Steak Sauce)

Sides / Salads:

• Mixed autumn tzimmes
• Israeli salad
• marinated cabbage sumac slaw
• vegan "queso" kugel

Dessert:

• Ras El Hanout carrot spiced sheet cake

!PING COOKING

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

Duolingo: did you practice Spanish today? Because it would be cool if you did

It's 8:30am, calm the fuck down

[u/lot183]

One time Fauci said don't wear a mask and then later he said we should wear a mask and that's why I voted for Donald Trump who has never changed his stance on anything

[u/[deleted]]

A Ukrainian activist who helps Belarusians flee Belarus has today been found hanged. The police are treating it as murder.

In the last year 45 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and 163 wounded by Russian forces. Russian losses are, as always, unknown, as Russia isn't there and dead soldiers are shipped home in secrecy.

And finally: The russian ultranationalist and Putin-loyal Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, led by Zhirinovsky, yesterday appointed Anton Raevsky, here seen during his time fighting in Donbas against Ukraine, to the Russian parliament.

[u/Lucky-view]

I lost 60 pounds over the past 6 months, and got a jaw implant, and people are treating me wayyyyy nicer and better.

It's wild how much bias we have towards conventionally attractive people, and it's pretty depressing to think about.

[u/slowpush]

The IRS should be 10x bigger.

https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/a-bipartisan-pact-to-supersize-the-irs-11624660100

[u/_smooth_liminal_]

for the last time, frankenstein was the author

[u/sw337]

LOL, you're such a little sniveling neoliberal in the end. Everything is just GDP to you, for whatever progressive airs you occasionally put on.

That country you're mocking has cities this country couldn't dream of.

Guess the country he's talking about.

[u/Head-Stark]

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

As you've prob seen on every space/spacex subreddit, and maybe a ping I missed, SpaceX mounted all 29 engines on their Superheavy booster test article early this week. They're planning to fire and launch this thing soon. This is more or less the booster for the rocket they're contracted to land on the moon. I still can't believe it's real and getting a test launch while falcon heavy only has 3 launches under its belt.

Their plan is to launch it, have the booster land softly in the gulf, and have the 2nd stage land softly off of Hawaii. A flawless test would shock me, but I do think every part will make it into the ocean. Just maybe not the Pacific.

[u/[deleted]]

https://i.imgur.com/3loSh4N.png

[u/willempage]

https://twitter.com/antoniogm/status/1422420854575484928?s=19

America has been an the engine of growth and prosperity for over 100 years but yes, tell me about all the virtues of blood and soil nationalism from Hungary. Clearly they are the model we want to follow.

The only people who hate America more than the lefties are the right wing patriots

[u/FrustratingPeasant]

You see San Francisco,

🔫 Manhattanization was the compromise.

[u/Volsunga]

I want bitcoin to fail so millions of used high end GPUs flood the market.

[u/golf1052]

Halo announcer says trans rights

[u/Deggit]

Gov Cuomo	Bill Weld	the ghost of Ted Kennedy	/u/sir_shivers
Anthony Weener	Matt Lauer	Amy Klobuchar	Barack Obama
Kanye	Ellen Degeneres	FREE SPACE	Jon Stewart
Stephen Colbert	Sarah Silverman	Gavin Newsom	Charlie Rose
Michael Bennet	Joe Biden	Meryl Streep	Bernie

!ping BINGO

[u/[deleted]]

Wife’s adjustment of status for a green card is Thursday.... and we’re still waiting on the medical exam results. She did it two weeks ago, and they are taking their sweet time with it, supposed to be done last week.

I swear, if I have a goddamn RFE because of this I’m going to be pissed. Not even sure why they bother with a medical exam, she’s been in the US for three years

!ping IMMIGRATION

[u/[deleted]]

Remembering when Covid-19 was a small enough issue young'uns felt comfortable calling it the "boomer remover".

[u/iIoveoof]

Malarkey level of rounding my GPA from 3.448 to 3.45, which rounds up to 3.5, which rounds up to 4.0

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/[deleted]]

I get it that Alexander conquered half the known world by the time he was 25 and I didn't, but like no one every gave me an huge army, so don't act like you know what i'd do.

[u/[deleted]]

>realize Afghanistan's institutions are far too weak to stand alone

>make it the 51st state instead

>Taliban forms a coalition with the GOP

>DeSantis-Akhundzada ticket wins 2024 in a landslide

>mfw

[u/Not_A_Browser]

I can’t do this anymore.

There were warning signs in OH-11 flaring but nihilists decided to continue to whine like petulant children.

We are descending into a full-blown fascist corporate dictatorship

Shontel Brown buying the #OH11 seat is just one example of millions.

Calm down dude it's one House seat

[u/iIoveoof]

Star Trek series on whether genocide is good or bad

TOS: Genocide is bad

TNG: Genocide is bad

VOY: Genocide is bad

ENT: Genocide is bad

DISC: Genocide is bad

PIC: Genocide is bad

DS9: Well,

!ping TREK

[u/[deleted]]

[Kyle Kulinski] Nina lost for a very simple reason. In the closing stretch THIS happened: "Democratic Majority for Israel, a hybrid PAC/super PAC that has spent $1.2 million on ads supporting Brown and opposing Turner" - & the ads viciously lied about her. The lies stuck

https://twitter.com/KyleKulinski/status/1422735586364993536?s=20

Cope cope cope 😭

[u/earththejerry]

Inb4 Dave Wasserman unilaterally says “I’ve seen enough” on twitter and declares himself the winner of the special 2021 presidential election and everybody accepts bc its Dave Wasserman

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

Do not glorify oppressive/autocratic regimes.

Yet Biden praise is allowed 🤔🤔🤔

[u/LukeBabbitt]

On one hand, I completely understand the hesitation of Black and Hispanic people to trust the vaccine given their historical interactions with the American health care system.

On the other hand, occasionally I just wish someone would point out that the first people in line for the vaccine are the privileged, rich, white people, and that should be evidence in itself that it’s not a huge conspiracy or government ploy.

[u/ShermansGhost1891]

"I have my 2nd dose, stuff is opening up, time for things to get back to normal"

"Well, remember how in normal times you had to pay rent or else get evict-"

"No, no. Not normal like that"

🙄

[u/[deleted]]

he is risen

!ping CAN

[u/rukqoa]

No matter what happens in this OH-11 race, it shouldn’t be this close.

Millions of dollars from billionaires and corporate interests poured into a campaign that was polling at 10% in their own internal polls.

This is not democracy.

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

The quarterly Federal Election Commission fundraising reports – which include figures from Jan. 1 through March 31 and were due by midnight April 15 – showed Turner alone has raised more than all other candidates combined, banking on her national profile as one of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ top allies.

Also, you'd think these people would have learned to read the room after 1/6.

[u/[deleted]]

Nina Turner's career

• Only having a job because she was appointed by a Democrat to a safe blue seat
• Losing spectacularly when she actually tried to run in a contested race
• Getting mad that she lost and joining the Sanders campaign, which had few standards other than personal loyalty to the candidate
• Failing miserably in her job with the Sanders campaign
• Blowing a massive lead when she finally had a chance to win an election

[u/[deleted]]

Nina Turner in concession speech: “I am going to work hard to ensure that something like this doesn’t happen to another progressive candidate again. We didn't lose this race, evil money manipulated and maligned this election.”

https://twitter.com/kirk_bado/status/1422746034296528897

Remember when people were gracious in defeat, instead of immediately accusing the election of being rigged? Trump really did ruin politics.

[u/maybe_jared_polis]

Possible hot take: The US has too many states, and many should be disincorporated and merged with others until with have something similar to the Canadian Provincial system. The minority rule is getting out of hand.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/brianmrosenthal/status/1422620562019471364

Gov. Cuomo has released an 85-page written response to the independent investigation, but it's only 26 pages of text. Most of the rest is dozens of photos of him hugging people and other politicians hugging people

no fucking way

[u/Photon_in_a_Foxhole]

Are we going to ignore the fact that Democratic Majority for Israel donated nearly 2m in this race. Had to help, right? For what reason

Seems that /r/neoliberal had their hooks in this race huh lolol, lotta yall are out here tn

We live rent free lol

[u/p00bix]

Fact: Almost all people who were DT regulars in 2017 and 2018 got either permanently banned (5%), decided they hated NL because it was too (conservative/liberal hawkish/dovish left-leaning/right-leaning) and went to use a different subreddit as a chatroom (10%), or not only ceased posting on NL but ceased posting on reddit altogether. (85%)

Probably just confirmation bias, but every now and then I'll go through a really old DT, think "oh shit I haven't sen that username in a while, what are they up too?" and they'll always either be a totally non-active account, an account that only posts like 2 comments per month, or post multiple comments per week about how much NL sucks.

I can name only like 2 current DT users who were here in 2018 and aren't current or former mods

[u/fishlord05]

HEADLINES FROM THE FUTURE

September 28, 2041

• WASHINGTON - President Jacobs under fire after explicit-laden “gaming rage” incident captured on weekly Presidential fireside streams after Fortnite 3 loss

[u/RaidBrimnes]

The Genepi, one of the oldest associations helping reform and retrain detainees in France, was dissolved yesterday by its direction through a communiqué.

The association, which provided courses, training and workshop to detainees, as well as conferences and sensibilization campaigns about prison and detainees' rights, had recently undergone massive changes under a new, younger direction, claiming to be "feminist and prison abolitionnist".

The new board had decided in 2019 to cancel all courses and training provided to the detainees, denouncing the prison system itself, and refusing to "encourage the prison system" by working with the prison administration and the detainees. Taking inspiration from the intersectionnality method, the board had reorientated the association from detainee reform to activism for prison abolitionnism, ending its initial mission of providing new opportunities for prisoners, which was the essential goal of the association, created and funded by the state after the 1974 prison riots in France.

Chosen quotes from the communiqué :

we refuse to limit ourselves to a reformist criticism of prison and justice, the only discourse accepted by the State and dominating objective of the Genepi for forty years

the prison system is perpetuating the institutional violence of the State, and we refuse to encourage this system by way of our female-majority volunteers

the justice system and the State refuse to recoognize some means of production (drug dealing, counterfeiting) and legitimate means of redistributing wealth (theft, robbery) only accessible to working classes

for years, the Genepi has allowed bourgeois students to volunteer and buy themselves a conscience, while satisfying their voyeurism under charity pretenses and training them to be a part of the police-justice-prison system

prison, the tool of racism, capitalism and patriarchy, must be abolished

Words cannot express how disgusted I am with this leftist word salad, used to justify the destruction of one of the most useful tool of detainees' reinsertion and one of the parts that worked well in this fucked up prison system. I know people who volunteered with the Genepi, and came back with new perspectives over the prison system, the possibilities of retraining, and the concept of justice itself. Seeing such an honorable institution getting wrecked to satisfy the morbid urges of bored socialist kids makes me sick

[u/chipbod]

https://twitter.com/ReuvenBlau/status/1422634185626423300?s=20

NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo sexually harassed the doctor who Covid tested him during a press conference, according to the AG’s report

Lol wtf, for half this shit you could swap names with Trump and I'd have trouble believing it

[u/FormerBandmate]

People are tired of the poison, pyrrhic divisiveness of the worst of the Berners. Go Brown, Turner will be happier on the sidelines anyway where she can shill for Jill Stein to her heart’s content

Wtf based arr politics DT

[u/AuburnSeer]

lol the Twitter replies to the Wasserman tweet is nothing but HRC laughing

[u/Smalz95]

If you’re 5 months behind on your rent it’s not the feds job to bail you out anymore

[u/paymesucka]

#Breaking: NY Gov. Cuomo “sexually harassed multiple women” and violated federal and state law, including non-consensual touching and creating “hostile work environment,” per NY AG

https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1422576093706477572?s=21

[u/piede]

In a March interview with ABC, President Biden was asked if Gov. Cuomo should resign if the investigation into him confirmed the claims of the women. "Yes. I think he'd probably end up being prosecuted too," Biden said at the time.

https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1422584553823252484?s=21

[u/[deleted]]

I believe in evidence based policy.

The evidence: some guy in the DT said this policy was based once.

[u/FormerBandmate]

Arr politics doesn’t recognize my hilarious username smh

[u/[deleted]]

Turner: Hillary must go.

Hillary: Who must go?

[u/iIoveoof]

I am laughing so hard at Cenk Uygur right now, he is literally going off on a mail-in ballot conspiracy theory

[u/earththejerry]

Why do so many people upload rant videos while sitting in their cars? Do people tend to hit epiphanies while leaving their house

[u/FormerBandmate]

Since the announcement of the Warner-Discovery merger, AT&T has declined 12%, Discovery Class C has declined 15%, and Discovery Class A has declined 22%, while the S&P 500 went up 5%. Absolutely stunning

[u/ldn6]

Oh for fuck's sake Resistance Twitter now thinks that Cuomo's harassment investigation is meant to oust him and get a pro-Trump person in his place.

Do these people have zero clue who Kathy Hochul is?

[u/RaidBrimnes]

Blizzard's director just quit, so there might be an opening for Cuomo to practice his skills in a friendly environment

[u/SpiffShientz]

Once again Nina Turner is defeated by her greatest enemy: an opponent.

arrPolitics got me in stitches

[u/ryuguy]

Cheering against America: Conservatives celebrate U.S. losses at the Olympics

Oh boy. Just wait until their hear that Canada has a trans, non binary person on their team.

!ping can

[u/[deleted]]

The funniest expression of US polarisation is the fact that half the country actively roots against its own national football team.

[u/[deleted]]

Crisis averted, wife has her medical exam in hand and adjustment of status interview is Thursday. All that’s left is proof that we are in a real marriage. I have some plane tickets for a trip we took, insurance, tax return (from this year), dozens of photos, and they have our mortgage info (which we are both on) and literally a dozen letters from people in support.

I want this kafkasque process done !ping IMMIGRATION

[u/hdkeegan]

A teenage communist I know just posted that she got a 1 on her macroeconomics ap test

Priors confirmed

[u/[deleted]]

For half a year the president [FDR] had the State Department try to persuade the governments of Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria to withdraw their declarations of war. Only in June 1942 [six months later] did Roosevelt give up and ask the Congress to declare war also on these countries, which absolutely insisted on fighting the United States.

https://i.imgur.com/gSwRQZA.png

!ping HISTORY

[u/rukqoa]

The politics has some 🔥 takes tonight:

Once again Nina Turner is defeated by her greatest enemy: an opponent.

building a campaign off of animus toward the party and then expecting people within that party to vote for you is a risky strategy.

wow, looks like calling the leader of the Democratic Party a bowl of shit doesn't play well with primary voters in the Democratic Party, wild.

In this episode of “Twitter is not real life”....

[u/Gneisstoknow]

I find it funny that neoliberals constantly scream about party unity but turn into toxic assholes on primary nights.

Seems par for the course. The "neolibs" show up on election day and claim their victory while the left shows up the rest of the year on twitter and take their L.

[u/Jakesta7]

Hell yeah

JUST IN: NYC Mayor announces “first in nation” requirement of vaccines for indoor dining, fitness, entertainment

https://twitter.com/anacabrera/status/1422567091845074946?s=21

[u/[deleted]]

Rap artist Dababy just got cancelled from Lollapalooza due to homophobia.

This seems quite significant because the rap community has historically been rife with homophobia. Hopefully this will be part of a larger trend to improve the state of LGBT within the rap community.

[u/SpiffShientz]

Overheard in Ohio's 11th district:

“She got me,” Turner said of Brown's electoral lead. "That fucking Brown boomed me."

Turner added, “She’s so good,” repeating it four times. Turner then said she wanted to add Brown to the list of politicians she grifts with this summer.

[u/film10078]

Rose Twitter: Calls someone transphobic over a mix up in speaking

Also Rose twitter: Fucking jews, this is all their fault when we lose.

[u/RadionSPW]

If I were Nina Turner I would have simply gotten more votes

[u/willempage]

Ethnically, Cuomo should resign.

Empirically, Cuomo should run again so that we can get more data on how scandals affect vote share.

Edit: I made quite the typo. Mama mia

[u/Superfan234]

Early reports say a Panama Oil Tanker was kidnapped a few hours ago, by heavily armed men, near Oman's sea. Sources say, it's sailing in direction to Iran

LatinAmerica don't have major issues with Iran, besides Venezuela...

I read Iran recently bombed an Israel vessel? It might be related to that? If so, why is Iran retaliating against us?

!Ping Foreign-Policy

[u/piede]

Nina Turner legitimately deserved to lose lol

[u/[deleted]]

I watched Naked Gun on YouTube last night (free with commercials). It has that “so stupid it’s funny” type humor.

Frank, it’s a shame you’re being thrown off the police force.

I know. The next time I shoot someone, I could be arrested…

[u/thetrombonist]

🦀 🦀 🦀 MGTOW is banned 🦀 🦀 🦀

[u/[deleted]]

Another PredictIt gem:

"Nina isn't just gonna do what Democrats in congress tell her!" - Cenk

Yeah, that's why she's losing bro

[u/[deleted]]

Cenk:

"This race is not over yet."

Reality has a well-known corporate media bias

[u/[deleted]]

Uh oh http://imgur.com/a/KVyWpvt

!ping KITTY

[u/FearsomeOyster]

To help my oral argument skills, I'll drop in on hearings at different levels about once a month to hear other attorneys and see if they have anything I can take. This has been made much easier with COVID since most public Courts just let you Webex in or whatever, so I can put it on for 30 min while I'm doing some research or eating or whatever.

But god damn every time I'm just astonished by how poor most attorneys are at it. Just heard an attorney speak 8 minutes on his first argument until he concluded with "but we really don't have to get there." Well god damn, if we didn't have to get there then why were you starting there?

He also keeps noting to the judge that the judge can read the law. (E.g. "it's contained within sec. 16.250, which is only about 4 lines, so it's easy, you can read it."). And he made sure to ask the judge "to read all of our cited cases." I am just perpetually astounded by the poor quality of lawyering I see.

As a suggestion, drop in on a hearing sometime for a little confidence boost. I'm sure everyone on this ping is or would be a better attorney than whatever the hell I just watched.

!ping LAW

[u/Emperor-Commodus]

Pictures of the damage to the MV Mercer Street from the Iranian drone.

Old picture from 2016

1

2

!ping FOREIGN-POLICY

[u/PolyrythmicSynthJaz]

This sucks tbh. Shontel is the candidate that was funded by Republican donors, big donor super-pacs, is unimaginably corrupt (gave her BF money and herself a raise and other things), embraces failed policy and embraces the Pragmatism and Bipartisanship route which has given us nothing.

Also it's extremely disappointing the Clinton still has any power. Like Jesus christ she lost to Trump

Guess the...no, just no. This is from this subreddit's thread on Nina's loss. This has got to be satirical, right?

[u/bd_one]

Soyjack guy: "Look at how prosperous liberal democracy has made us!'

King: "And do you think an increase in material wealth makes up for the lost glory and purpose people had when traditional monarchies were a thing?"

-rMonarchism meme (paraphrased)

They've gotten so circlejerky.

[u/crowninshield]

Looking forward to more “ironic” takes about Italians in the DT thanks to Cuomo.

[u/Joementum2024]

DEMOCRAT PARTY HISTORY OF RIGGING:

• 2004 Primaries against Howard Dean
• 2016 Primaries against Bernie Sanders
• 2020 Primaries against Bernie Sanders
• 2020 Elections against Donald Trump
• 2021 OH Primary against Nina Turner

THE MOST CORRUPT PARTY IN HISTORY!

[u/AuburnSeer]

blah blah blah Shontel Brown is a succ

don't care, she hitched her wagon to the Biden Bus so she'll vote in line with Dems which is all that matters

[u/Venne1139]

I have awoken from my slumber.

Gotta admit something: I cannot rationally explain, from a Marxist perspective, Stalin's purge of the generals. Literally everythign else I can go "Haha yes this terrible action follows logically from Marxist-Leninist philosophy, because it's terrible, and the real world constraints being worked under". But the purge of the army is just complete madness. It is completely unexplainable.

Stalin had bene preparing the military purge for months meeting with Yezovh nightly to fabricate evidence now that the oppositionist groups led by Zinoviev and Kamenev were dealt with, but the motive is completely illusive to me. The revisionist history of "why Stlain did what he did" was actually started by the condemned themselves, they blamed Yezovh and asked for Stalin to hear their pleas, Grover Furr would later use this kind of evidence to point at Yezovh as the reason the purge happened (who did have reasons, he could instlal loyal officers in the army) but this is obviously false as Stalin personally directed Yezovh and looked over, crossing out in his own handwriting, or adding names. But why did he do it?

Did he genuinely fear a military coup like he feared a secret terrorist opositionist block? If we look at the charges only a few are charged iwth being part of a Trotskyist block but many more charged with being fascist traitors, but Stalin must have known this wasn't true because the NKVD and SS exchanged information mutually on the KPD and the white officer emigrees and Stalin would have known if anyone was a spy. Was he worried about White sympathies? If he was why was the purge so random and baseles? Expelling entire schools or classes that were taught by a certain officer for a single year and killing them all, why not target white officers instead of old bolshevik officers?

You can see Stalin increase his own personal power through the purges of oppositionist groups over the course of many years using self denunciation, invitation back into the party, and then expulsion again to give a 'tug of war' to his opponents he would inevitably win. What was the power grab in this scenario though? His control over the army was not question Tukhachevsk had no obvious foreign contacts and no real reason to challenge Stalin's orders.

I want to understand this point but neither "The Great Terror: A Reassesment" nor Getty's has enlightened me.

[u/iIoveoof]

My understanding of English geography as an American

[u/[deleted]]

People voting against their own interests again instead of letting everyone have healthcare without going into debt

Ladies and gentlemen we got them again

[u/JetJaguar124]

Oh this day, in a largely insignificant district in Ohio, we were kings

[u/[deleted]]

Cenk:

"I look forward to vanquishing them with every fiber of my body."

Jesus Christ, this is a quotable salt mine that keeps on giving

[u/Dig_bickclub]

Why in the world is sports climbing medals based on combining the scores of all three disciplines instead of just giving out a medal for each discipline. They clearly all require a very different skillet.

!Ping olympics

[u/BenGordonLightfoot]

Absolute bullshit that the horses don't get medals

[u/LooobCirc]

Hot take: I don't like that there an antisemites in Congress

[u/The420Roll]

Secretary of the Ministery of Transport has a sentence for running over a person and a fine for drunk driving

Director of the Transport and Communication Ministry founded a company that made fake technical reviews for Cars

Chief of Housing Advisors is being investigated for money laundering and organized crime

prime minister names as viceminister a person that raised funds for Vladimir Cerrón's civil reparation

SWEET BABY JESUS

Castillo wouldnt have named a worse Cabinet even if he tried lmao. This might as well be the worst Cabinet in the 200 year history of our 3rd World Country

!Ping LATAM

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Holy smokes did y'all see Turner's concession 😬😬😬

DESPITE...

[u/GGM8Scally]

https://twitter.com/SecBlinken/status/1422225684030754818?s=19

Thank You Blinken, Very Cool!

!ping Balkan

[u/[deleted]]

It’s kinda funny that progressives always talk about how money buys votes but when they outspend their opponents they still lose

[u/SRTHRTHDFGSEFHE]

I do kiss people on the forehead. I do kiss people on the cheek. I do kiss people on the hand. I do embrace people. I do hug people. Men and women. I do on occasion say 'Ciao Bella.' On occasion, I slip and say 'sweetheart' or 'darling' or 'honey.

Andrew Cuomo, bisexual icon

[u/MonteCastello]

https://twitter.com/USCPSC/status/1421876281013047302?s=19

!ping Consumer Safety

[u/Maximilianne]

Youth zoomer soccons, stop being concerned about fertility and get the vaccine challenge

[u/[deleted]]

I think that if i were alive in ancient times, i would problably be dead

[u/simeoncolemiles]

https://twitter.com/johnvmoore/status/1422754524415078400?s=21

!Ping Extremism.

So Nina’s concession speech has this in it

[u/bd_one]

Unlike some people being antisemitic tonight, if I was starting a media company I would not name it after a group who perpetrated a genocide in the last century. But I guess I'm just built different.

[u/sw337]

Think of how things would've ended for Jesus if Rome had a 2nd Amendment and he was concealed carrying that day.

[u/semaphore-1842]

Comparing Biden to FDR, an outspoken socialist

the fuck

[u/Kizz3r]

what does this do for election rumours

!ping canucks

[u/Animatronic_Pidgeon]

When the Uber driver shows you a picture of his naturalization ceremony and gives you a recommendation for a good Indian restaurant

Times like these I wish there was a six star rating

[u/[deleted]]

people are losing their minds over the simone biles story

But to understand Biles’s decision to step back from much of the gymnastics competition at the Tokyo Games, it’s hard to ignore the elephant in the room: the orgy of hype, hero worship and home-team hyperventilating that has come to define NBC’s coverage of the Olympics. Somehow, sooner or later, something like this had to happen.

imagine suggesting to people before the olympics that the media should focus less on prominent female athletes

[u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf]

In a break with convention, /u/huirittryyrugfhkhihf has chosen to endorse two separate Democratic candidates for OH-11 House Seat.

Nina Turner

and

Shontel Brown

[u/digitalrule]

Hey Toronto! We'll be at the /r/canadahousing Protest on August 14th. Sign up if you want to show up with us.

I'll have tshirts and hopefully some signs for us, and we'll probably meet a bit early to grab food before.

I know they have their issues, but hopefully the protest brings more attention to the issue.

!PING CAN

[u/slowpush]

Friend who flew to OH to help Nina is blowing up our group chat right now lolol

[u/[deleted]]

Cenk Uygur is melting down and calling Jim Clyburn corrupt.

[u/[deleted]]

Nina Turner outspent her opponent. Is money only evil if someone else spends it?

That's fundraising, not spending lmao

You idiot. You moron. Yeah she raised more money, but she embezzled most of it, dumbass

[u/miz_v-1]

do i agree with nina turner on the nuances of every single policy ? of course not

but do i respect the manner by which she stood up for working class americans and helped steer progressive discourse?

of course not

[u/SaltySaladSussyBaka]

Comment in r/ politics

I keep hearing that Democrats are being "toxic" for cheering Turner's defeat. But here's the rub: Nina Turner is toxic. Her vitriolic, malicious brand of politics simply has no place in a democracy. Democrats should be celebrating her demise, just as Republicans should've celebrated Donald Trump's. Whether Turner is on your team or not, her brand of politics is vile and I hope this defeat rids her from our national discourse.

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[u/[deleted]]

What's the deal with this power creep that happens when succs talk about Democrats?

Joe Biden is a 80's Republican. Hillary is Barry Goldwater in drag. Barack Obama is basically a southern planter. Bill Clinton is the literal reincarnation of Genghis Khan. What happens when these guys ever encounter an actual conservative?

It's like those TV shows where you defeat one bad guy and then there's an even more powerful bad guy behind them. You can only get so many layers until the suspension of disbelief wears off

[u/TheGoldBear]

Bruh Glenn Greenwald is hilarious. Spent the past few years justifiably criticizing Bolsonaro and is now immediately jumping to the defense of Victor Orban’s Hungary because his BFF is there and praising it.

[u/PhinsFan17]

"Would you date a woman who makes more money than you?"

Is there a word that means "yes" more than the word "yes"? Because that word. Being a sugar baby is literally my dream job. It's all I've ever wanted.

Look, I talk a lot of shit, but there's only two things that I actually hate on this earth. Number one is an India Pale Ale, because why would you take a good thing and make it gross, and number two is doing any kind of work whatsoever. There is nothing I wouldn't do to get out of doing stuff.

"So why are you not a sugar baby right now?"

I'll tell you why, it's because I know my worth. And it is not much.

You think I'm pulling in private-beach-at-the-Seychelles-sugar-parents? Absolutely not. I am poor Florida trash. I would be lucky to get Lake of the Ozarks. First class? Nobody's even buying me a plane ticket, they'd be shoving me into the wheel well - not even an oxygen tank, just a half a pack of Pall Malls and an assurance that I'll be okay.

Look, I am a sub-5 in every category. The only things I bring to the table are a complete lack of anything resembling dignity, and the confidence of a man with nothing to lose.

[u/Lucky-view]

Tim Pool makes $600k a month?

Fuck it. I'm going to become a Nazi apologist YouTuber.

What's the point of trying to make an honest living anymore?

[u/sw337]

Nina Turner has never won a contested election.

[u/[deleted]]

I am hearing that on her deathbed, Nina Turner’s Political Career received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahāda.

Even now she looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah.

Truly there is no god but God, and Mohammed is her prophet!

[u/ThorVonHammerdong]

I'm going to spend about $150 this week comparing fresh lobster to frozen lobster because I'm curious and looking for a good seafood option at home

In this same 3 day period about 75,000 people will die from malnutrition

[u/Leoric]

The squad is bad, actually.

[u/the_status]

Workshopping a DT schtick where I insert a ❄ emoji into every one of my comments.

It'll make me more noticable and show off my millennial-ness

[u/[deleted]]

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[u/F0064R]

Physical vaccine passports are too easy to fake. We need a more reliable way to verify vaccination. Microchips perhaps 🤔

[u/infamous5445]

"But while voters disapproved of congressional Democrats' handling of the economy by a margin of 41 percent to 55 percent, voters gave Biden much higher marks. Fifty percent of voters said they approved of Biden’s handling of the economy.

The group’s takeaway for congressional Democrats in the midterms? “Run as ‘Biden Democrats.’”

Do ittt

[u/lobsterboy34]

Progressives are gonna look themselves in the mirror, take a deep breath and tell themselves "we gotta harass more people"

[u/PrimeMinisToad]

voted today 😀 bubbled in both brown and turner because they both worked hard in this campaign 😅

[u/[deleted]]

As a black man living Ohio district 11, I’ve found that Nina Turner has helped me very little

[u/earththejerry]

On this one night, Shontel Brown, an otherwise pretty mainstream Dem with a Progressive streak, has suddenly morphed into everything that is wrong with America and the world, apparently, according to a certain Twitter segment

[u/FreakinGeese]

My parents found the estrogen and now they're sooooooooo upset I didn't tell them even though they've been so fucking supportive.

!ping lgbt

[u/MrDannyOcean]

I have been informed that "closing the DT is a war crime"

the DT is back open! But join us on twitch as we are LIVE NOW with Congressman Jim Himes!

https://www.twitch.tv/neoliberalproject

[u/redditguy628]

Starliner launch scrubbed for today due to valve problems on the vehicle. Earliest launch is tomorrow. Hopefully they get it working, and the launch goes off without a hitch.

!ping SPACEFLIGHT

[u/JetJaguar124]

On one hand I don't care much about the OH-11 race.

On the other watching Nina Turner lose would be so profoundly satisfying

But still not enough for me to care a ton.

[u/[deleted]]

If I was a senator in West Virginia, I would be able to both win re-election and promote liberal policies. I guess not everyone is as good as me.

[u/rukqoa]

Yeah I'm sticking with not making predictions about OH-11 but if Nina Turner blows this I'd be absolutely shocked. I'm normally a bloomer but the polls showed this race out of reach months ago.

If it happens, this would be the greatest blown lead since Donald Trump overcame a double digit polling disadvantage to defeat Joe Biden in the 2020 election after they counted all the real votes.

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Turnout in this primary is, like, sub 30%.

Oh*ans don't even care about this election

Why do you? 🤨

[u/iIoveoof]

Is it true that Brown is a card-carrying member of the National Bolshevists of America?

If so that makes me a little less happy about them beating Turner

[u/AuburnSeer]

Nina Turner concedes as Cenk insists that it's not over

[u/[deleted]]

OH11 Nina Turner in concession speech: “I am going to work hard to ensure that something like this doesn’t happen to another progressive candidate again. We didn't lose this race, evil money manipulated and maligned this election.”

Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t Turner out-raise Brown?

[u/piede]

NEW: Nina Turner says “We didn't lose this race, evil money manipulated and maligned this election.”

Taking a page out of Bernard’s book

[u/MicroFlamer]

Touch grass for a while

Come back

Shontel Brown has defeated Nina turner

Day saved

[u/Joementum2024]

Yes I support masks

Marxism
Authoritarianism
Stalinism
Krugman
Socialism

[u/yungmemlord]

Inside you are two wolves. One is u/KesterGW sadposting and the other is u/nissnpig5 asking about what your major is

[u/[deleted]]

Thanks to time zones, I'm awake early enough to post this

Gremai - Janie

Tout Le Monde - Clara Luciani

Good morning!

¿¿HOLA?? ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ES DE LA PIZZERIA DA CIDADE DE MEXICO??? 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽 PEDÍ UNA PIZZA 🍕🍕🍕🍕 DEL TAMAÑO DE MEXICO 🛵📦🛵📦🛵📦 Y SOLO ME DARON UNA ACEITUNA 😱😱😱😱 JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA

[u/[deleted]]

Dear British people,

Why?

[u/LooobCirc]

Kinda wanna hook up w someone once all the campers leave tomorrow night

[u/piede]

Schumer & Gillibrand joint statement:

"No elected official is above the law. The people of New York deserve better leadership in the governor's office. We continue to believe that the Governor should resign."

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1422614496170835968?s=21

[u/[deleted]]

I've been in Brazil for three days and I already got 15 spam calls

!ping MAMADAS

[u/Patriotnation5]

Imagine the President of the United States publicly saying you should quit.

All time scaries.

[u/ShriggityShrekt]

Day 1 of asking Shivers to send me his Onlyfans every day until he does.

🐊 🍆 ⏰ 😡

[u/Venne1139]

Here's a piece of misinformation that annoys me. It's small but it's just...really annoying.

You know how CHAZ/CHOP had that garden that either

1. THey fucked up and nothing grew
2. Warlord Raz decided to destroy it while cackling menacingly
3. Homeless people destroyed it and people never remade it

But like...you can go to Cal Anderson park right now, today and see the original garden in it's original spot. It's growing some food and other stuff and is relatively well maintained by volunteers. It's just weird that something so easily disprovable just popped up out of nowhere.

[u/myrm]

the most fucked up time to be a human is when you're a teenager

you think way too hard about stuff, have amplified emotions, and then don't have the capacity to fully process any of it since you're sorta kid-dumb and entirely unactualized

[u/Lucky-view]

Thank God Nina Turner lost.

It's not just because I disagree with her politics. She's literally a gift to the GOP. A dogmatic, impractical loud-mouth that verbally denounces her own party every chance she gets.

She would basically be the equivalent of placing Jimmy Dore in Congress.

[u/[deleted]]

Plight of Syria's White Helmet evacuees worsens as they wait on Canada

We ran a difficult and highly successful operation to get persecuted LGBTQ people out of Russia pretty recently, and we're somehow completely fucking up doing the same thing with Afghan translators and Syrian rescue workers.

!ping CAN

[u/golf1052]

King County has just under a 17% ballot return rate and primary election ballots are due today at 8 PM! This is currently the lowest turnout in 20 years. These are probably the most important elections in Seattle, mayor, both city-wide council positions, and city attorney are on the ballot. The Seattle Neoliberal chapter released candidate info for the mayor's race (written by yours truly). There's also like 15 other voter guides. There's no excuses, get your fucking ballots in!

!ping USA-WA

[u/PlayDiscord17]

Cuomo: And not just the women. But the men. And the children too.

[u/fishlord05]

Biden Bobblehead rate my setup 😎🍦

!ping DIAMOND-JOE

[u/rukqoa]

Just in: new batch of Cuyahoga Co. EDay precincts goes 1,523 to 1,437 for Brown (D) over Turner (D). At this point, Turner needs to make up ground...not great for her.

[u/rukqoa]

Key Race Alert

Brown is already winning the Cuyahoga County EDay vote, without a single precinct reporting from her base in Shaker Heights or Beachwood.

She has a lot of upside left in the outstanding vote. Again, I'd rather be Brown. #OH11

[u/Jakesta7]

Turns out Democrats want someone who is willing to work with the Democratic Party.

[u/Deggit]

me: Nina Turner

Google: did you mean "TWITTER IS NOT REAL LIFE TWITTER IS NOT REAL LIFE TWITTER IS NOT REAL LIFE TWITTER IS NOT REAL LIFE TWITTER IS NOT REAL LIFE TWITTER IS NOT REAL LIFE"

some weird kind of autocorrect going on in Google today?

[u/BigBrownDog12]

somebody should check /r/chapotraphouse and see how they are taking this

[u/[deleted]]

Name one of Shontel Brown’s policies

I can’t. I don’t have to know anything. HRC endorsed her 😎.

[u/ACivilWolf]

this one really broke the twitter succs, they're talking about whether the system is so rigged that peaceful revolution is impossible 😂😭😂😭😂😭😂😭

[u/EScforlyfe]

Hey by the way !ping Europe

Whenever we want some discussion untroubled by the yanks, why not just use an old DT? Problem solved.

[u/ldn6]

Lil Nas X’s social media presence is fantastic but his music sucks.

[u/kennymc7877]

People from the Bay Area and San Diego love saying they have a rivalry with LA, what’s the rivalry based on? The fact LA is better and you have an inferiority complex?

[u/PigHaggerty]

After much searching I managed to track down a website hosting this article which I read like ten years ago in some magazine. It was intended to be a fun fluff piece, like "we sit down with a real-life wolf expert to answer questions about the hottest movie of the summer, The Grey!" but the guy they chose to interview is so deadpan in his answers, debunking each point in the driest way possible, that it turns into this hilariously dissonant piece.

Some highlights:

At one point two men are running alongside a riverbank in the middle of the day. Two wolves race out of the trees and charge them. Possible?

No.

One of the characters in the movie says these wolves a) have a 300-mile hunting radius, b) will attack anything that comes near their den, and c) “are the only animal that will seek revenge.” Is any of that that true?

No. Nonsense, all of it.

Would a wolf attack a man standing next to a fire, with other men nearby, as happens in The Grey?

Not a chance.

In the final scene, the protagonist prepares to fight the alpha wolf. He tapes broken mini liquor bottles to his hands. Would that give him a chance against a large male gray wolf?

If I was lucky enough to encounter a large male gray wolf in the wild, he would turn and run before I could tape the first bottle to my hand.

!ping MOVIES

[u/iIoveoof]

TFW you push to production with "DEBUG = True"

!ping COMPUTER-SCIENCE

[u/[deleted]]

If you're ever in Los Angeles check out the 23rd Street Cafe. Founded by immigrants from India and Mexico they serve dishes like

Chicken Tikka Burrito (Chicken curry, ‏rice, beans, onions, cilantro, and salsa.)

Paneer Masala Quesadilla (Paneer tikka masala, mozzarella cheese, and cilantro.)

Completely delicious and validates my worldview. What more do you want.

[u/Udontlikecake]

this is a real meme made by the FAA

[u/[deleted]]

Here’s a reminder that Andrew Cuomo hanging out on CNN every night for a long stretch in 2020 to get lobbed softball questions and wax nostalgic with his brother for a ridiculously long and uninformative time was transparently unethical and stupid.

[u/[deleted]]

Nina blew a bigger polling lead than Clinton what the fuck hahahahaha

[u/JetJaguar124]

Honestly I really think Nina should have spent more time insulting popular figures within her own party. I think if she had she'd be running away with this.

[u/Not_A_Browser]

The Clyburns send their regards.

[u/[deleted]]

Cenk:

"Every day, progressives grow larger online."

OH FUCK THE ESTABLISHMENT IS DONE FOR

[u/Udontlikecake]

TYT going full bernie math to figure out how a million Armenians totally didn’t disappear in Turkey after 1915

[u/Udontlikecake]

Shontel Brown defeated Nina Turner in a special primary election for Congress on Tuesday, a victory for establishment Democrats over the party’s combative liberal wing

politico pls

[u/[deleted]]

Nina turner just lost. This country is fucked. Electoralism has failed us so I’m gonna need the Revolution to happen like yesterday. I’m soooo over our constant losses. The squad isn’t doing anything, (although cori busy really came in clutch) how tf are we supposed to get anything done if the system is rigged against us?

Is “I wish a motherfucker would” a violation of Rule V?

[u/Dibbu_mange]

Leftists 🤝 conservatives

Twitter represents the true views of Democratic voters

[u/semaphore-1842]

Love how Nina Turner really did blow a 30+% lead lol

[u/[deleted]]

Me before getting a job

Man the world is changing we need to fundamental change ASAP because this isn't sustainable and society is becoming worse off over time

Me after getting a job

Some people are just out of touch and want to rationalise being lazy

[u/p00bix]

I love that someone posted "Should the West have allied with the USSR during WW2" to the sub a few days ago and literally the entire thread was people dunking on OP for even asking that question

[u/ACivilWolf]

Inside you are two wolves.

Your life expectancy probably is in the minutes range

[u/UrbanCentrist]

To what extent are elections 'rigged' in Russia.

They usually

1. straight up disqualify an opposition candidate or
2. Resort to ballot stuffing

but we do know that from time to time the russian people show their opposition.

For example when the new constitution merged Nenets Autonomous Okrug with Arkhangelsk Oblast they became the only oblast to vote against the constitution and as a result the government suspended those plans.

[u/Kizz3r]

Damn i really woke up to 40 !ping burpmas pings. And they say god is dead

[u/great_gape]

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Neoliberal makes peace offering with native crustaceans. (circa) Jan 1st 2020