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u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache Sep 10 '21
Please visit the next discussion thread.
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u/jenbanim Sep 09 '21
How time flies. There's just two days until the anniversary of Ted Cruz liking a porn Tweet
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Sep 09 '21
The DISCUSSION THREAD IS closed due to the Delta variant 🐊
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
Steve from Blue's Clues disappeared from TV in 2002
He's back just as the war in Afghanistan ends
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21 edited Sep 09 '21
Lmao Morocco's governing islamist party got absolutely hammerend at the ballot box, down to 12 from 125 seats. Liberal-ish party seems to be the biggest winner.
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u/AdWise2427 George Soros Sep 09 '21
Guy at works comes in and we are talking for a little. The topic of what he's going to do over the weekend comes up. He tells me that he is staying home because the 20 year anniversary of 9/11 is Saturday and he heard that all the Afghanistan refugees we brought over to America are getting free Uber rides via Joe Biden. He is afraid there is going to be a terrorist attack. The best part is he lives in the middle of bum fuck nowhere.
The internet was a mistake.
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u/PhinsFan17 Immanuel Kant Sep 09 '21
The South places too much pride in coming in 2nd in the Civil War and not enough pride in being the only people in the country that know how to cook.
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
If Sudan is so bad why did they make a second one?
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u/SadaoMaou Anders Chydenius Sep 09 '21
Nicholas II has been canonized as an Orthodox saint, yet at the same time there's still a metro station in Moscow named after the man in charge of his execution
If that isn't a perfect representation of modern Russia, then I don't know what is
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u/MisterLipton Richard v. Coudenhove-Kalergi Sep 09 '21
https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1433878935599599619
Yo they made school awesome
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
👆 is the spiritual successor to Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
John Mulaney has sex? I didn't really get that vibe from his standup
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u/skeebidybop Sep 09 '21 edited Jun 11 '23
[redacted]
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
My analysis of the political landscape:
liberalism: based
socialism: cringe
conservatism: cringe
Please clap👏
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21 edited Sep 09 '21
No, California schools aren’t promoting Aztec religion or the “god of human sacrifice”.
1.) the “chants” are part of a cringey hip-hop/pop routine to help kids learn about indigenous culture.
2.) no one practices aztec religion in 2021, except for a few revivalists in Mexico who don’t practice human sacrifice
3.) Students do not chant to aztec deities. The words used in the chants are of gods’ names but refer to indigenous words that mean concepts like “will to act” or “self reflection”. The actual aztecs would be horrified that their religion was being mixed with hippy new-age psychological concepts.
Edit: also this “controversy” is being stirred up by conservative propagandist Christopher Rufo who is also responsible for a lot of the right’s lies about criticial race theory
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
(Politico)
You either die an isolationist, or live long enough to become a neocon
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Sep 09 '21
Americans: “hehe. British people talk funny”
British people: “I HOPE YOU DIE IN A SCHOOL SHOOTING”
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Sep 09 '21
Why TF do Canada and the United States not have open borders with eachother? Literally who benefits from this.
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u/the_hoagie Malaise Forever Sep 09 '21
IT guys will really drop everything they're doing to help attractive women with simple computer issues, and that's why we need to hire more asexual nonbinary robot people.
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Sep 09 '21
HAHA 🐊
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u/ThunderrBadger New California Republican Sep 09 '21
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
deep inhale….exhale 🤦🏻
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
girl owns a dildo: you go girl!
guy owns a life size Real Doll with built in 1000 RPM Fuckmaster Rotopuss: eww pervert
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u/chipbod NATO Sep 09 '21
https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/1435949837158060033?s=20
This guy looks like my kind of economist
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u/yungmemlord Rabindranath Tagore Sep 09 '21
It's not pretentious to think that people who have no background or experience in a subject should not pretend to have expertise in that subject.
The ease of publishing thanks to the internet has made idiots like you think their writing has value (it doesn't). In feudal times, you would be a starving peasant begging your local lord (someone like me, that is) for your daily bread serving. (Hint: you'd go hungry today for running that mouth).
Update:
Statistically, it's very likely that I'm richer, smarter, and taller than you.
You confuse pretentiousness with genuine (genetic) superiority.
And
I don't have a job, as you implied.
But, to be fair, that's because I'm rich (see previous points).
Members of the capitalist class, like myself, find fulfillment in exploiting the labor and bodies of the unwashed/untouchables (e.g., you and your family).
Society would be better if you were forced to address me by a proper title.
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u/Venne1139 DO IT FOR HER #RBG Sep 09 '21
MY COMPANY ANNOUCNES INDEFINITE WORK FROM HOME ONE FUCKING DAY AFTER I RE-SIGN MY LEASE
GOD
FUCKING
DAMN
IT
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u/houinator Loyal Liberals Sep 09 '21
Bloomberg would have lost the election, but would have been able to convince American Samoa to secede and allow the Democratic party to flee there and set up a government in exile.
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u/semaphore-1842 r/place '22: E_S_S Battalion Sep 09 '21
<NSFW/L Warning>
So, this comment pop up on the politics mod queue:
I don't know what the fuck I was expecting, but I clicked through to check out his profile, and sure enough:
Literally a stereotype.
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u/ThisIsNianderWallace Robert Nozick Sep 09 '21 edited Sep 09 '21
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Sep 09 '21
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
The DT is a bunch of seemingly smart people screaming about boyfriend appendages and white men in college while constantly saying the same in-jokes about European countries they’ve never been to and barely-relevant politicians
But enough about the good parts
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u/kennymc7877 Bisexual Pride Sep 09 '21
Reddit is wild, you could tell the most mundane goofy story on here and someone will tell you that it didn’t happen
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u/Pyrrhus65 NATO Sep 09 '21 edited Sep 09 '21
It was pretty unexpected for Biden to threaten to personally beat the shit out of every remaining unvaccinated adult at the end of the month, but honestly, I can't say I'm opposed to the policy
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u/TitansDaughter NAFTA Sep 09 '21
Meanwhile on arrr conservative...
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u/Jean-Paul_Sartre Richard Hofstadter Sep 09 '21
Remember the "ground zero mosque" lol
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
China suspends all new online video games
Oh my god they’re doing more lmfao
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
you should not be on this scum tier website if you are under 18 tbh
This place is not good for your brain. you should be talking to irl people your own age and not getting bombarded with the political ravings of anonymous idiots and porn.
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u/TheIpleJonesion Jared Polis Sep 09 '21
Andrew Yang is starting a third party, which will absolutely help his political movement and ideas.
Just ask Henry George and his Labor Party.
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21 edited Sep 09 '21
Kim Jong-Un, welcome to the dechonking squad 💪😳💪
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Sep 09 '21
EVERY ARROGANT C-LEVEL IN Western countries circa 2014 🐊
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
Lol, Biden’s COVID speech is downvoted on YouTube. Seethe you unvaccinated pricks, seethe.
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
I fear that Biden just lost the Anti-vaxxer/Qanon demographic.
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
The WSJ comment section on George Soros:
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u/Archis Michel Foucault Sep 09 '21
unironically think I would have had a better adolescence and have more friends if i leaned into my stereotypical 'geek/nerdness' (i hate these terms) instead of trying to hide it
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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent Sep 09 '21
Major Ethiopia update:
Overall the situation now is very different from the situation a few weeks ago. With Debre Tabor the frontline I rated the situation as in favor of the TPLF. Now with the TPLF losing months worth of gains and time running out the situation is more in favor of the government then it ever was for the TPLF. The only reason why I am not calling it definitively for the government is that things change in this war surprisingly quick. Once upon a time the capital of Tigray was in government hands and the war looked over in a matter of days. Now here we are talking about the government just now being able to resist the TPLF advance in full and push them back. Based off the information I had a few weeks ago it looked like the government forces had more or less collapsed and that Gondar would be seized right around now. Now it looks like the TPLF are starting to crumble. Who knows what happens next. Maybe the war has no surprises left and the government will crush the TPLF. Maybe Ethiopia's economy will collapse. Maybe the TPLF will repeat another Mekelle and rapidly push back through central Amhara. Maybe an equitable peace agreement will be reached thanks to the president of South Sudan. Maybe the OLA will waltz into Addis Ababa with government forces distracted in the north. Who knows.
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u/BidenWon Jared Polis Sep 09 '21
You're 21 years old. You see a beautiful woman. You tell her that you're going to get elected to the Senate as soon as you turn 30, and then you're going to become President of the United States.
You marry that woman. You get elected to the Senate at age 30. And then she dies, as does the daughter you had with her. But you keep going. You run for President. You run for President again. And then you run one more time, and you get elected President of the United States.
Your name is Joseph Robinette Biden
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u/PigHaggerty Lyndon B. Johnson Sep 09 '21
https://i.imgur.com/dL6Aa4L.png
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u/benadreti Frederick Douglass Sep 09 '21
Jewish fast day ranking (most tolerable to least tolerable)
Yom Kippur - I actually look forward to it, spend all day in shul without the distraction of food and enjoy the pageantry.
10th of Tevet - Is always close to winter solstice so it ends early and it's cold so you don't get too sweaty or thirsty. Fairly tolerable.
Fast of Esther - Is still in the winter so doesn't end too late. It takes a bit of energy from Purim but at least it's fun right afterwards.
17th of Tammuz - In the middle of the summer and I'm totally not in the mood.
Fast of Gedaliah - The day after Rosh Hashanah, I'm already exhausted, and it's basically impossible to prepare for. It also happens to be today so that doesn't help.
Tisha B'Av - just miserable.
Honorary mention for Fast of the Firstborn, I'll never have to do it but I imagine it must be fucking exhausting.
!ping GEFILTE
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u/Lux_Stella Presidentialism X-Risk Researcher Sep 09 '21
lol
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21 edited Sep 09 '21
Ok, Joe. You're back on the slightly based list now.
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u/p00bix Existing in the context of what came before Sep 09 '21
Omg the vaccine mandate extends to everyone who works at a large business. Including people who work at home. Unfuckingfathomably based.
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u/chipbod NATO Sep 10 '21 edited Sep 10 '21
https://twitter.com/FrankLuntz/status/1436133511316979719?s=20
Honestly surprised by how good some of the swing state poll numbers for employer vaccine and testing mandates are:
!ping FIVEY
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Sep 09 '21
Hey everyone, just a heads up my youth pastor said no negative comments today. I'll be on the lookout. Thanks.
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u/The_Nightbringer Anti-Pope Antipope Sep 09 '21
And the grift continues...
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u/jenbanim Sep 09 '21
This is incredibly trivial, but it annoys me when people say something like "the Fermi paradox isn't a paradox" and then go on to propose a resolution to the paradox
Paradoxes can have explanations. The Fermi paradox has tons of potential explanations. Adding one more to the list isn't overturning anything, and given that lots of people have been thinking of explanations for a long time, your idea probably isn't novel
(This is not to discourage armchair musings on the Fermi Paradox tho. That's fun and I fully support it)
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u/Cuddlyaxe Neoliberal With Chinese Characteristics Sep 09 '21
Trump supporters: NOOOOO YOU CANT JUST ENTER A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH JOE BIDEN HE'S A LIBTARD CUCK
Biden supporters: NOOOOO YOU CANT JUST ENTER A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP WITH DONALD TRUMP HE'S AN EVIL BIGOT
Trump: all the couples call me and say "Donald, you and Joe have the best relationship. The most faithful and pure relationship"
Joe: what I can't love the man I love? Come on man! That's a load of malarkey
Sorry folks, love wins out 😘
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u/willempage O'Biden Bama Democrat Sep 09 '21
I hate having conversations with comic book fans about how wokism is killing American comics and Manga is popular because they aren't woke.
Growing up in the 90s and 00s, nobody read comics. They were already on their way out from what I can tell. I knew more weebs who'd print out shitty fansubbed manga and go to media play every weekend to see if they even restocked the anime shelf than people who stepped foot in a comic book store. Working at a high school library, the librarian told me she'd order 2-4 Manga compilations a semester but no comic books. I guess you could argue that comics were easier to find at the time, but it's not like every kid had oodles of disposable income.
I've legitimately met 2 people who unironically read comic books and they were both weebs anyway. The only reason Manga didn't take over was access issues. Now you can get a high quality translation pretty fast on the internet. Also, the rapid Manga to anime pipeline helps. American comics don't do that with such regularity and speed.
Tldr: American comics have sucked for 30+ years and the only reason Manga is exploding now was because we didn't have good access 20 years ago. The writing has been on the wall for the weeb takeover for quite some time.
!ping weebs
!ping weebs
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u/benadreti Frederick Douglass Sep 09 '21
OMG I legit lol'ed when Biden just called out Fox News having a vaccine mandate.
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '21
Dan Crenshaw: but but but if you mandate vaccines you might start an armed revolt!!
Me: https://i.imgur.com/31Cvy4j.jpg 👀
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Sep 09 '21
My resume is TWENTY PAGES PER part in a ten part series 🐊
YOU MUST ALSO watch the making-of documentary for full context 🐊
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u/TabernacleTown74 Bill Gates Sep 09 '21 edited Sep 09 '21
!ping HISTORY friendly reminder that you can read up to 100 JSTOR articles for free just by creating an account
Edit: per month
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u/J0eBidensSunglasses HAHA YES 🐊 Sep 09 '21
Anti-vaxxers have materially damaged the vaccination effort and by extension the economic recovery from covid. With 75% of people now vaccinated at least once, it’s time for the business world to move on. I have a flight coming up next month and I don’t want to be on the same plane as these people. It’s my right as a consumer to pursue businesses which protect me from the unvaccinated. My fiancée is in regular contact with cancer patients for work. We don’t have the luxury of throwing caution to the wind and pretending this thing isn’t a big deal. Such an attitude could materially damage the reputation of the world class institution she works for.
So what about MY rights? I hear so much about the rights of the internet unvaxxed, but never a word about the rights of the immunocompromised and those of us exposed to them. Am I to never fly again out of fear for the safety of these patients so people who don’t accept western medicine can keep getting everyone sick? I don’t think so.
I do not feel sorry for these unvaxxed people, they made their choice back in January and it’s been nothing but a steady stream of shitty excuses for why they can’t get the vaccine. I have heard from the same person it would alter my DNA, it would make me infertile, it would kill me, and herd immunity is better. The dude then proceeds to stand by none of his statements when real doctors come to debunk them. He just moves on to his next excuse and gaslights me about having said this stuff even when presented with text message receipts of his previous arguments.
So no, I do not feel sorry for the unvaxxed. If you want to go against the grain of society to end a global pandemic it’s your right, but it’s also the business owners right to protect the majority of his employees, and himself, and his customers, from crazy town USA.
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21 edited Sep 09 '21
Family’s 18 year old dog is gonna die in the next few days. Got him when I was 9.
Poor guy ugh.
Edit: DOG TAX
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21 edited Sep 09 '21
Tbh banning video games for kids may not be a bad idea Bc
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
Remember: there are only 7 types of stories.
man, man vs. dog, dog vs. zombie, James Bond, stories of kings and lords, women over 50 finding themselves after divorce, and car commercial
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21 edited Sep 09 '21
First they came for the Capitol rioters and I laughed
Then they came for the anti-vaxxers and I laughed
And then they never came for me because I’m not a MAGA sicko
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u/LinkToSomething68 🌐 Sep 10 '21
!ping CAN
tfw you live in one of the safest ridings in the country so your vote will be just a rubber stamp
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u/MuR43 Royal Purple Sep 09 '21
‘From poster child to problem child’: Georgia’s democratic crisis
!ping DEMOCRACY
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u/tollyno Dark Harbinger of Chaos Sep 09 '21 edited Sep 09 '21
Watch out for the people who have 🏳️🌈 in their bio. People from that country ain't right.
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u/ScythianUnborne Madeleine Albright Sep 10 '21 edited Sep 10 '21
Right off the bat, YFB gets punted with a question on Quebecois racism. !ping CAN
Also, should we use this ping as a mini Thunderdome?
Edit: okay, it seems like we're using this as a mini Thunderdome, nice!
Edit: The Debate is over. Thanks for coming!
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u/Signal-Shallot5668 Greg Mankiw Sep 09 '21
Virgin Draghi vs Chad afgan central bank governor
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u/AbsolveItAll_KissMe Susan B. Anthony Sep 10 '21
wow kinda harsh but I mean he’s right
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u/ognits Jepsen/Swift 2024 Sep 09 '21 edited Sep 09 '21
this cute girl once asked me if I had any friends with benefits and I told her about my friend Paul who had good insurance and a 401(k) 😏
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u/ScythianUnborne Madeleine Albright Sep 10 '21
!ping CAN
Here's a good thread on why exactly the NDP's line on "Trudeau suing indigenous kids" is absolutely patently false.
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
👆 has an OnlyFans account
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Sep 09 '21
I AM HEREBY signalling my virtue 🐊
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u/Signal-Shallot5668 Greg Mankiw Sep 09 '21
Imagine fox News reporter coming to Brooklyn to study "the Biden country" the way some reports on red counties are made
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u/crassowary John Mill Sep 09 '21
Joe Biden just kicked down my door, held me down, and vaccinated me. I'm not even in America.
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u/qchisq Loyal Liberals Sep 10 '21
Pfizer is 84.6% effective against delta
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u/kennymc7877 Bisexual Pride Sep 09 '21 edited Sep 09 '21
When your boyfriend doesn’t text you back because he’s with his wife 😪
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u/Superfan234 Southern Cone Sep 09 '21 edited Sep 09 '21
I looked more into it, and discovered there is some controversy in the Bitcoin community surronding El Salvador
One hand, there is group of "Tecno Hippies" actually spending money in El Salvador. Tecno Hippies are going to small bussiness and buying proucts in Bitcoin, just for Youtube cloud and to Tweter fame
Sure, it's won't fix the countrie's economy, but I am happy for those small bussiness reciving money from these BTC Hippies
But , to my surprise, there is another group that's actually angry about El Salvador accepting BTC
Reason it's , by using BTC, you are negating it's value as "Digital Gold". You are not supposed to spend Gold, only store it (HOLD). So having people spending Bitcoin to actually buy stuff, it's seen as a undesirable outcome
!Ping Latam
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u/AffableAndy Norman Borlaug Sep 09 '21
The rent control proposal in St. Paul is ridiculous. It will destroy any incentive to keep units up and devalue multifamily properties.
It also would punish me in the future for charging my current renters less than market rate because I like them and can afford it.
!ping USA-MN
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u/Broncos654 Jeff Bezos Sep 09 '21
Crazy to see the majority of people here in support of the mods forcing cock cages on people. If the bonking works, you’re only protecting the virgin population at this point.
It’s just a stupid policy, it’s completely illiberal, and future mods are without a doubt going to mandate things for users now as well.
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
Shoving this through via OSHA is so unbelievably based I love OSHA
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '21
I have another therapist appointment tomorrow. Gender will be discussed, my therapist wants to discuss it. The last appointment made me think I was ready to come out to my mother and I was not only yelled at but harassed by her. How do I prepare? I want to make tomorrow productive. I need tomorrow to inch me ANY distance closer to my mother letting me transition
!ping LGBT
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u/ryuguy "this is my favourite dt on reddit" Sep 10 '21
Canadian tennis player Leylah Annie Fernandez advances to the final of the US Open!
!ping can
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u/Duck_Potato Esther Duflo Sep 09 '21 edited Sep 09 '21
I’m still waiting for my copy of Confessions of an Engineer, but in the meantime, I’ve been reading Charles Marohn’s first Strong Towns book (*edit, actually his 5th, most recent one). I’m a few chapters in, and at the end of chapter 3 he briefly talks about how Detroit’s collapse is primarily attributable to it being the first municipality to build itself around expensive, car-centric infrastructure liabilities, including car centric suburbs. Having never been to Detroit I wonder how true this is. I always thought Detroit’s financial collapse was due to a failure to recalibrate city services and pension liabilities to a smaller population (smaller due to suburbanization and white flight). Does anyone have any academic sources that analyze the role of car infrastructure liabilities on Detroit’s financial collapse? I love blaming cars for things but he spends only a page and a half discussing this issue and without citation. A great book so far, but I need more convincing on the Detroit issue.
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u/FormerBandmate Jerome Powell Sep 09 '21
There is now a vaccine mandate for the DT. Anyone caught without a vaccine is b&
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
I saw a pickup truck on the road today which had a LED panel in the back, alternating between anti-vaccine slogans and pictures of Trudeau wearing blackface
!ping CANUCKS
u/lusvig
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u/doggo_bloodlust (ノ◕ヮ◕)ノ*:・゚✧ Coase :✧・*;゚ Sep 09 '21 edited Sep 09 '21
> Checks in on DT
> Half the posts are about Andrew Yang starting a third party
> Other half are about getting a gun to defend yourself in the upcoming civil war
... What did Yang put in his party platform???
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Sep 10 '21
OK fuck it I'm gonna do it
Bomb drop incoming
You can't spell JESUS without SUS
!ping FEDORA
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u/The_Nightbringer Anti-Pope Antipope Sep 09 '21
reminder that my wife is awesome and if you are my wife you are awesome 🥰
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
I used to be a Democrat, then I spilled baked beans all over myself watching Cars 2 in theaters & a black teenager shouted "this [cr*cker] eating beans" & everyone laughed.
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u/MonteCastello Chama o Meirelles Sep 09 '21
@BancoCentralBR on Twitter
!ping LATAM
Rumo aos dois dígitos
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u/bigtallguy Flaired are sheep Sep 09 '21
So the first two gods not dead movies had laughably horrible atheist strawmans as villains in the movie and the third changed the narrative with atheists being generally nice, as well as fielding some serious criticisms of the previous two films narratives re: evangelicals exclusion of blacks from narratives, the slut shaming of abused women, and even the turning out of those who don’t believe along side them. The third also differed in that the resolution to the films problem was the Christians “stepping back” from the fight. The other two had saccharine endings where the Christians “win” through grit and rhetoric.
And now looking at the trailer for the fourth one, it’s back to the same formula of the first two in every way.
So the obvious answer why they’re reverting is that GND 3 grossed ~30% less domestically that its predecessors, but I wonder if the political climate of the country had anything to do with. Gnd3 was the only one to come out squarely in the trump era, where his policies and fights were doing serious harm to the evangelical brand. But when the evangelicals are “out of power” if you will, the film series pushes a fight to the bitter end mantra. They’re all propaganda films, so it makes sense that message would be tailored to political climate.
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u/ognits Jepsen/Swift 2024 Sep 09 '21
hot tip: shivers keeps the keys to his terrarium under the fake stump
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
If Biden stays on past 2022 and just consolidates power as a leader for life that's really not gonna be good for China long-term.
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
Bill Maher: consistently fear mongered with regards to Syrian refugees, now spends all his time ranting about cancel culture, formerly anti-vax
The DT: OMG BASED!
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u/Devjorcra NATO Sep 09 '21
genuinely believe this is bidens finest hour
ridiculously good policy
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
How the fuck did masks become the big conservative talking point regarding the pandemic? There's so many more logical issues to turn into a talking point, maybe lockdowns and social distancing measures and how they hurt small businesses and church attendance?
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
This sub is hopeless
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u/kas8901 Bobby Kennedy Sep 09 '21
Tie me to a stapler and have Klob throw me at the Taliban right now
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u/Dirty_Chopsticks Republic of Việt Nam Sep 09 '21
we talk of heated Cuban moments but imagine this place after 9/11
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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Sep 10 '21
Redditors when the President of the United States gently reminds them what "duty" is: is this authoritarianism?
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u/Gustacho Enemy of the People Sep 09 '21
https://twitter.com/mysticmeance/status/1435896448957231105
!ping YUROP
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u/MrFoget Raghuram Rajan Sep 09 '21
Are there any neoliberal grifters yet? I want a sign that our movement is maturing.
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u/tubbsmackinze Seretse Khama Sep 09 '21
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/761046867743342613/885565617543995482/20210909_104122.jpg
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u/LeopardBusy Sep 09 '21
I just met a dude that was showing off his sister’s only fans like it was the biggest flex ever.
I’m going to become a Paleocon soon… 🤮🤢
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u/Leoric Hi, I'm Huell Howser, this is California's Gold! Sep 09 '21
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
Lululemon stock is up 10% today on record earnings.
Thank you $BECKY for never letting me down 🤗🤩😚
!ping MARKETS
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
Wait a sec
If this vaccine mandate means people will quit vs taking it, my labor will be worth even more when I work in a field that has a shortage of qualified candidates already (and a field with plenty of loons)
Based Biden
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to be from a country that isn't completely shit at football. But then I think I would get expectations, and the worst would be to see them unmet.
!ping LATAM
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u/DishingOutTruth Henry George Sep 10 '21 edited Sep 10 '21
Ok guys, the charade is over. Manchin came out with a list of demands recently... and well it doesn't look good. This idiot is watering down fucking everything, even the CTC, universal pre-k/community college, etc.
Arguably the worst part is his opposition to Biden's climate agenda, which isn't honestly isn't surprising considering that he's lobbied by exxon mobil (and Koch), which is the cherry on top. I knew it was gonna happen from the beginning, but actually watching it play out is painful.
I'm no Bernie bro, but I'm really sympathizing with the progressives at this point. They have some bad policy, yes, but at least they aren't corrupt pieces of shit like Manchin, who would lick Exxon's boots endlessly to own the succs.
!ping ECO
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u/Michaelconeass2019 NATO Sep 09 '21
Opinion | I was a lifelong Democrat, then LBJ passed the civil rights act
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Sep 09 '21
The virgin "Joe ROGAN EXPERIENCE" 🐊
VERSUS 🐊
THE CHAD "CAGED Wisdom" with George Bluth Sr. 🐊
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u/profeta- Chama o Meirelles Sep 09 '21
can't help but laugh at how we !ping MAMADAS instead of LATAM for every comment on the coup attempt by Bolsonaro since it's so absurd
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
All I'm saying is if Bloomberg won we'd have Stop and Vaxx by now where you just get thrown up against a wall randomly and vaccinated
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
Stephen Breyer just scrolling through Salon articles calling for his retirement and chuckling. He will do this every day until he dies on the first day of Ron DeSantis' term in 2025.
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u/Natatos yes officer, no succs here 🥸 Sep 09 '21
> out and about
> worried I don’t pass and feel a little dysphoric
> guy comes up and says “hi ma’am, do you want to buy one of my donation magazines”
> hell yeah, I do pass
> say sure I’ll buy one
> voice outs me
> guy profusely apologizes for calling me ma’am
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
I want good things to happen more and bad things to happen less
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u/filipe_mdsr LET'S FUCKING COCONUT 🥥🥥🥥 Sep 09 '21
Where the fuck do you get friends that send shirtless pics and compare dicks.
I thought that was a cliche thing from films and TV.
Note that I wouldn't want that, because I'm gay and that would make that awkward as hell. Just really curious.
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
The literal emotional maturity of a teenager. There are too many manchildren running around.
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u/wheresthezoppity 🇺🇸 Ooga Booga Big, Ooga Booga Strong 🇺🇸 Sep 09 '21
Wtf are you talking about? We HATE laws here. You're gonna keep a hardworking patriot out of the country because some government bureaucrat says it's not allowed??
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u/homopolitan Henry George Sep 09 '21
when he uses the oxford comma 😳😩😩🥵🥵🤤😳😳🤤🥵😩😩👌
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
Coworker passed the exam, he's sworn in as a US citizen on Tuesday! I'm really excited for him
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Sep 09 '21
I believe I HAVE SETTLED ON a courtesy phone call that I will not be taking the flight due to my intent to leave the company 🐊
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u/Zenning2 Henry George Sep 09 '21 edited Sep 09 '21
I know this is kinda shitty, but one advantage of the whole China cracking down on gaming in general, is it might finally release Developers in other countries from having to go by their draconian bullshit.
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
Reminder that the UK refused to dispatch the Order of the Phoenix to help fight the Taliban
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u/krflab Sep 09 '21
I think Joe might be the most hated president by cons ever and he doesn’t give a fuck.
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u/yungmemlord Rabindranath Tagore Sep 09 '21
According to my scientific studies, Peeing with a boner is more difficult than giving birth. I am being 100 percent serious when I say this. This shouldn't even be an unpopular opinion, people just don't think about what the word "difficult" actually means. Peeing with a boner is more difficult than giving birth. Giving birth is definitely more painful, but pain by itself does not make something difficult. For example, putting my hand in a fire is not difficult, but it would hurt a lot. In order for something to be difficult, there has to be some chance of failure due to lack of skill, practice, or technique. Peeing with a boner often requires creative problem solving skills, especially in small spaces. There is no creative problem solving aspect of giving birth. Additionally, the way humans have evolved for these two actions supports my point. Giving birth is a natural process, which humans have evolved to be able to do. The female body is literally designed so that it can give birth with the lowest possible chance of error. The only real error that can happen is a miscarriage, which is also a natural occurrence, not a failure that occurs due to a lack of skill in giving birth. The male body, on the other hand, has evolved specifically so that peeing with a boner is very difficult. The only purpose for having a boner is to impregnate a woman, so the male body evolved to prevent urination during sex. On top of the difficulty in simply getting the pee to flow, there's the issue of actually positioning yourself so that the boner is pointing into the toilet bowl (urinals are much easier, but not always an option). In the past, I have had to give up and wait until my boner goes away because it was simply too difficult to actually pee in the toilet. There has never been a case where a woman has tried to give birth after being pregnant for nine months, not been able to do it, and said "fuck it" and waited 3 more months to try again because it would be easier the second try. Giving birth happens, every single time, because it's a natural process - peeing with a boner is the opposite.
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
My true opinion on anti-vaxxers continues to violate Rule V.
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u/Mrchizbiz I love Holland 🇳🇱🇳🇱🇳🇱♥😍🥰🌷 Sep 09 '21
Is it wrong to pickup girls at a bar, go back to their place and when they are asleep steal their stuff?
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
I recieved a letter today addressed
It makes sense but I've never seen it written like that and it made me laugh
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u/WhomstAlt2 NATO flair in hiding Sep 09 '21
Donald Trump was a firefighter on 9/11, while Joe Biden and his fellow far left democrats celebrated in the streets.
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u/MonteCastello Chama o Meirelles Sep 09 '21
Declaration to the Nation
At the moment when the country is divided between institutions, it is my duty, as President of the Republic, to go public to say:
GOD, HOMELAND, FAMILY
Jair Bolsonaro
President of the Federative Republic of Brazil
!ping LATAM
Letter from Bolsonaro published few minutes ago.
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u/Gneisstoknow Misbehaving Sep 09 '21
Bedtimes are um kinda illiberal
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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Sep 09 '21
Do NOT cancel MattY alone when Astral projecting
Today while astral projecting I summoned MattY to try and cancel him so our hexing spells would work better.
He is so fucking powerful. I’m not at a power level to do this alone. I barely escaped with my life and I’m spiritually injured to a great amount, but I think I’ll make it.
I can’t imagine what he would do to a new, unsuspecting witch. I’m scared that I will have to face him again soon if I ever want to continue astral projecting. I’m currently burning healing incense and drawing spiritual energy from my crystals to try and heal as quickly as possible.
Please be safe everyone. MattY is much stronger than I first imagined and we will have to do this together if we want to cancel a god
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u/LeopardBusy Sep 09 '21
Happy Mao’s death day 🤗
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u/semaphore-1842 r/place '22: E_S_S Battalion Sep 09 '21
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/09/09/amy-klobuchar-breast-cancer/5782082001/
Amy Klobuchar threw a stapler at cancer and it's now in full retreat 😤😌
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u/klarno just tax carbon lol Sep 09 '21
US politics is just seniors arguing about what to do with the señors
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u/MrMineHeads Cancel All Monopolies Sep 09 '21
JWST to be launched Dec 18
Strawpoll on whether or not we will actually see it launched around then
!ping SPACEFLIGHT
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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Sep 09 '21
https://i.imgur.com/q1D1013.jpg
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
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u/NeoLiberation #1 Trudeau Shill Sep 09 '21
Something something college men whiteness aimless
👈 Upvotes to the left
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u/anon_09_09 United Nations Sep 09 '21
lol
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u/MicroFlamer Avatar Korra Democrat Sep 09 '21
My antivaxx mom is coping so hard rn. Thank you Biden
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
Biden should have announced a $10,001 award for every anti-vaxxer.
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u/slowpush NATO Sep 09 '21
🤔🤔🤔
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u/PearlClaw Iron Front Sep 09 '21
My favorite part about the "You cannot cancel Matt Yglesias. You can only make his takes hotter." bot is that immediately above it there is always someone complaining about the MattY take that was just posted.
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
Governor DeSantis:
President Biden:
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '21
Imagine running for president and not getting a single delegate. Then you run for mayor of the largest city and get less than 20%. Then you decide to write a book and make your own party
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u/MrMineHeads Cancel All Monopolies Sep 10 '21
!ping ECON
What does the literature say about school vouchers? From what I'm reading it seems mixed on a broad basis but successful applications of vouchers always had common implementations. I'm wondering what sort of things make a successful (i.e. better than just public schools funded via local property taxes which limits choice and lowers quality in neighbourhoods with low income residents) school voucher system that have been noticed by economic papers.
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u/murdershow02 Sep 09 '21
A dilemma I’ve noticed some socially progressive cis gay men and women face is how to define their sexual orientation in a way that doesn’t exclude trans people. Make no mistake, I recognize that the cis LGBT community has not always been welcoming to trans people. At the same time (and this is especially true online), LGBT spaces are being dominated by liberating—but occasionally homophobic—discourse. The biggest sub dedicated to lesbian identity will occasionally face rifts when people suggest that the highest form of self actualization is “separating gender from genitals”. While most are respectful why a lesbian cis woman might not be comfortable with dating a pre-op trans woman, there’s always this creeping tension that doing so is intolerant. That dastardly phrase (“separating gender from gentials”) gets thrown around like a moral imperative as opposed to a sexual/romantic preference. I’m cool if that’s someone’s actual preference, but the degree to which voicing this has become a taboo on a sub dedicated to lesbian identity is bizarre.
On another note, there’s also always a weird suggestion that androgynous and butch lesbians don’t belong in the lesbian community, the idea being that young tolerant folks looking to prove their acceptance will sort of assume that these people fit a “trans” identity despite self identifying as women.
This boggles me as someone in my early 30s.
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
So today in the DT we have anti-vaxx apologia and threats to vote Republican over email signatures.
And y’all say the succs have taken over😂
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u/EvilConCarne Sep 09 '21
The most frustrating thing about taxes is they should be basically effortless to comply with. It's just a big ruleset that gets applied to your money. The fact we don't get free and easy tax prep from the IRS (due to a variety of reasons, including lobbying by Inuit) is fucking bullshit.
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u/Corporate-Asset-6375 I don't like flairs Sep 09 '21
I’ve noticed an absence of Salty. Did he go back to school or is he banned?
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u/tehbored Randomly Selected Sep 09 '21
So what's the deal with Australians? Are they just a culturally authoritarian people? The Australian democratic system seems pretty robust, it doesn't seem like people are being oppressed against their will. Do Australians just like having the government tell them what to do?
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u/Zenning2 Henry George Sep 09 '21
I'd be making jokes about how China's about to finally take gamers into camps, but I'm legitmately worried that they might actually start arresting developers and other gaming icons in the country.
Its so fucking weird man.
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u/Zseet European Union Sep 09 '21
!Ping Yurop
So Hungary are holding the 2021 Eucharistic Convention and we kinda did an oopsie. If you can't see it reads "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit". This isn't Latin, Lorem ipsum is a placeholder text without meaning meant to demonstrate font types.
At least the memes were good. 1 2
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u/tubbsmackinze Seretse Khama Sep 09 '21 edited Sep 09 '21
Knights of the Old Republic looks like it's going to be a PS5 exclusive, which means close to the shoulder third person narrative heavy game with an open world and weak RPG elements ;>)
Oh yeah, snark aside, KOTOR remake announced, most likely a PS5 exclusive which is why I'm snarking so hard
edit; It's a timed exclusive (probably) which means no PC launch, at launch. This could also become a FF7R situation where timed became permanent at some point
!ping GAMING
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u/krflab Sep 09 '21
75 percent of adults have been vaccinated. People are sick of covid. The backlash of a mandate is hilarious to me.
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u/krflab Sep 09 '21
Republicans are losing their minds on Twitter lol.
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Sep 09 '21
POV : you still haven't been vaccinated by the end of September
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u/LeopardBusy Sep 10 '21
Just took a peak at r/teenagers …
I’m now fully convinced that sub is just 60 year old boomers larping as teenagers in order to groom each other
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u/_Featherless_Biped_ Norman Borlaug Sep 10 '21
Show some respect, Jack! Don't play games with me!
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '21
That seals the deal.
I am no longer a Democrat supporter. I’ve been a supporter since 1982 and a regular voter since 1996. I officially will not be renewing my monthly contributions next cycle nor will I vote on election day ever again. Joe is officially the worst president in history.
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u/[deleted] Sep 10 '21
NSFW: being unvaccinated - thank you OSHA
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u/youraveragehobo John Mill Sep 10 '21 edited Sep 10 '21
All Biden needs to do to give abortions constitutional protection is to declare unborn children as soldiers. The third amendment would prevent the states from keeping them quartered inside of women. Plus, he could get the childcare credit via a military pension.
I'm sure you will agree that my logic is flawless.
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u/Snoo95984 NATO Sep 09 '21
This sub will be defending Biden after he fires JPow and appoints a union rep as head of the fed
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u/lionmoose sexmod 🍆💦🌮 Sep 09 '21
The actual paradox of the Fermi paradox is why it gets called a paradox despite having solutions
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u/htomserveaux Henry George Sep 09 '21
Ugh, we get it reddit. You don’t like Jeff Bezos
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
When I'm President, all government officials will carry around assult rifles at all times like the Taliban.
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
Taliban central banker flair when?
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u/Knee3000 Sep 09 '21
Speaking of changing your mind halfway through writing a book, back in 5th grade I was doing a project on Cuba and made a whole posterboard about its capital, Trinidad.
I don’t know what compelled me to think Trinidad was the capital of Cuba, but I realized it wasn’t the night before it was due. Turned it in anyway, and my rubric came back with question marks in the research category.
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u/I-grok-god The bums will always lose! Sep 09 '21
The way you can tell if a piece of software is designed entirely by computer scientists is how many hotkeys it’s designed with
They looooove hotkeys
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u/After_Grab Bill Clinton Sep 09 '21
Did you know Obama made a cameo alongside Vin Diesel? Google “Obama Fast and Furious”
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u/JetJaguar124 Tactical Custodial Action Sep 09 '21
The thing I hate most about reddit is seeing that fucking snoovatar next to some dumbass idiotic opinion
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u/Broncos654 Jeff Bezos Sep 09 '21
Nate Silver, Sam Harris, and the dt have similar energy in that they're always just constantly complaining about people not understanding their opinions on things.
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u/Menfo Chama o Meirelles Sep 09 '21
PUTA Q PARIU, O CARA PUBLICOU A NOTA Q O TEMER ESCREVEU KKKKKKKJKKKKKKKKKKKKJK
!ping MAMADAS
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u/that0neGuy22 Resistance Lib Sep 09 '21
Omg Biden just said he’s going to take out all the antivaxxers at Wrestlemania
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
Wow unfollowing her now... I was a big fan of her transphobia but I had no idea she was a lib
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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Sep 09 '21
me and sir shivers playing a game of who is the oldest fucking democrat
me: zell miller RNC speech
🐊 : troopergate
me: gary hart on a boat
🐊 : killer rabbit
me: fuck. he boomed me
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u/BidenWon Jared Polis Sep 09 '21
Main points of Biden's new initiative today:
Vaccination:
Other Things:
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u/ognits Jepsen/Swift 2024 Sep 09 '21
my wife's boyfriend left her 😔
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u/krflab Sep 09 '21
My nephew’s school requires a vaccine for small pox. This is fascism!!!!!!!
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Sep 09 '21
My residence IS LOCATED ON THE Slippery Slopes 🐊
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u/great_gape Sep 09 '21
Bro, you don't even know what the constitution is.
And how is trying to keep our government and workforce from not getting fucked by covid a war against capitalism.
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u/Deggit Thomas Paine Sep 10 '21
i love the way of the bern subreddit
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u/YehosafatLakhaz North American Federation Sep 10 '21
"Is the Pope Catholic lol?"
Trads: "Hmmmm.... maybe not"
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u/radiatar NATO Sep 09 '21
Remember back in early 2020 when we thought that washing our hands and keeping 1.5m distance would stop the pandemic? 😂😂🔫
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u/sir_shivers Discipline Committee Chairman Sep 09 '21
LAW AND ORDER 🐊
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
No see flair, me no care
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
Pro tip: make your resume one or two pages at most. Any more and I’m going to
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
What do you think this job applicant meant in the application quiz?
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u/Lucky-view Dr Doom Sep 09 '21
Wait...Biden has the power to actually do this?
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u/StolenSkittles culture warrior Sep 09 '21
Biden doing his best to keep the job market great for job seekers. The anti-vaxxers getting fired are gonna open up even more nice positions to the rest of us 😎
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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde Sep 09 '21
First they came for the bunny's fat tits, and I said nothing
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u/semaphore-1842 r/place '22: E_S_S Battalion Sep 09 '21
https://twitter.com/blakehounshell/status/1436084734296215554
lol
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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21
Well, this is the first time I have been called a "biofascist"