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Crossposting from my Bush Years thread because more people need to see the 2000s Socialist candidate for president on Bill Maher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJJpz3vLImw The crowd (of Bill Maher fans in the year 2000) LOVE him! It's incredible. Be sure to stay tuned for Bill's INCREDIBLY GOOD takes on people with handicaps doing sports. E: Wow drat what a snipe.
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Gods_Butthole posted:This dumb rear end in a top hat thinks lefties like Putin. I think his argument is more "We can't dismantle the empire because Putin will take that moment to strike". The underlying logic being that you can't dismantle imperialism without disbanding your military defenses entirely because to people like this imperialism is just "playing the international chess game" and not "being a blood-soaked mafia state".
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DanteDevils posted:https://twitter.com/cenkuygur/status/1362531024878456832?s=20 Because he endorsed Bernie. That's literally it. None of these assholes gave a poo poo when actual racist psychopath with actual power Michael Bloomberg endorsed Biden or when Biden started talking about bringing people far worse than Rogan into his cabinet.
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Feb 19, 2021 16:31
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Feb 19, 2021 23:16
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*inhales* And remember... *inhales* Youuuuu are my number one.... *inhales* And I....
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Mar 2, 2021 07:55
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Democrats in 2021: "Sorry, we can't raise the minimum wage because of all these complex rules and bureaucracy" Democrats in 2024: "Wait why are people voting for psychopaths with no respect for the rules!?"
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Mar 5, 2021 21:10
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Overt fascism is inevitable at this point I think. Sooner or later one of these crises are going to force people to eat their pets to survive and with no real left wing alternative to this poo poo people are going to vote for whichever right wing psychopath figures out that promising people free stuff will actually win them votes. It's going to be bad and Democrats will have no idea why it's happening.
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Mar 5, 2021 21:33
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Raskolnikov38 posted:trumps presidency lifted more americans out of poverty than any other in my life time lol lmao
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Mar 5, 2021 21:36
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spacemang_spliff posted:these loving people deserve another 4 years of trump I never vote for Republicans but if he runs again I may actually vote R for the first time just for the meltdowns that would ensue. gently caress it, the policies are the same and at least Trump was entertaining.
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Mar 5, 2021 23:21
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I just challenged USPol to toxx themselves on Biden not doing any future warcrimes since he's so dedicated to peace. Strangely enough I haven't gotten any takers despite me doing the chivalrous thing and toxxing first (that he absolutely will do warcrimes). Weird... 
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Mar 6, 2021 17:15
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Oh Snapple! posted:Ideally do not do poo poo in uspol. Can vouch for this.
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Mar 6, 2021 17:50
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really queer Christmas posted:https://twitter.com/ryangrim/status/1368567041326735361 So he backed off because he was afraid of the left tanking the bill? Weird, it's almost like the the main power the minority has is the ability to say no to important legislation
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Mar 7, 2021 18:46
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What I want to know is which goons are being paid to post... Reveal yourselves cowards! 
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Mar 11, 2021 06:59
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The Oldest Man posted:What's funnier: For most liberals immigration is just a thing they have a knee jerk negative reaction to because the pictures are scary and Republicans are the ones pushing the worst policies. Their beliefs have no actual substance though and they have nothing to offer as an alternative to just kicking people out. As a result they just kind of drop the issue when their guy runs ICE because in their minds making the concentration camps more humane is the best we can hope for. I’m not joking when I say that Republicans have a MUCH better understanding of the issue than Democrats. It’s a sociopathic understanding that has a lot of racist insanity baked in, but it’s a position that actually makes a lot of sense if you’re unwilling to radically alter capitalism, the way nations interact, or the ways workers organize across borders. There’s a reason why Republicans (including Trump) win running on it despite every liberal on the planet constantly waging their finger and calling them racist in unison.
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Mar 16, 2021 20:12
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I see Dems are going for the rarely completed “9/9 conservative majority” achievement.
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Ytlaya posted:I had a conversation with my parents about how Biden being president is somehow good for stopping the pandemic. Liberals cannot fathom the idea that intelligence and ideology are mutually exclusive.
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I just looked up why she closed her twitter account and it is ten times stupider than I was expecting. Basically she made an incredibly benign tweet in which she called the new Disney+ movie a Last Airbender knockoff and the internet had a meltdown because both franchises took inspiration from a third story that she wasn't aware of or something and apparently that's racist(?) and resulted in a flood of incredibly bad faith takes. I really wish I could properly explain to people how counterproductive this poo poo is. You're basically proving Fox News right when they talk about the horrors of cancel culture.
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Mar 28, 2021 17:51
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Nothus posted:One purpose of a mileage tax is to reduce driving. Reducing driving reduces demand for fuel. Reduced demand for fuel hurts the profits of oil companies. Therefore if you're against the mileage tax, you're in favor of greater profits for oil companies. Gas is what economists call an "inelastic good" meaning that demand doesn't actually change that much regardless of other factors like price. You aren't going to stop going to work or cancel your weekend camping trip because gas is $4/gallon this week. You just eat the cost and move on with your life. This is literally just a way to squeeze money out of normal people to pay for the bill because God forbid we make the wealthy/businesses who profit from the roads do so.
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https://twitter.com/Lukewearechange/status/1376669658980450308?s=20 This tweet bugs the poo poo out of me because there's no contradiction between any of these flags in the context that they're being used. None The snake flag isn't actually about the big bad state taking away ur freedoms. To them "the state" isn't the cops, the CIA or the military. It's those evil minorities and the poor who would use these tools to push through reforms which would negatively affect them in some way either through increased taxes, diminished power or decreased control over the culture. In their minds they (read: white people with money) ARE America and this new society that's come up in the wake of the civil war/the sexual revolution/the fight for civil rights/etc that shares money and power with their inferiors is something else that's eating the good America (the "real" America if you will) alive from the inside. A hostile force that must be defended against and destroyed if necessary. That's kind of what fascism ~is~. This person isn't stupid, they simply identify with those in power more than those they oppress. They know exactly what each flag means and people like this aren't accomplishing anything by cheekily pointing out that when you use THEIR definitions of these symbols there are contradictions because nobody gives a poo poo about other people's definitions. Honestly I'm incredibly tired of this game people play where they try to get somebody to abandon their beliefs by pointing out hypocrisies or contradictions. The contradictions aren't actually there half the time (because liberals don't understand conservative thought as well as they think they do and vice/versa) and when they are nobody cares because most people don't try to fit their worldview into a single perfect coherent model of everything. Just explain why the underlying ideology is bad or fight them directly and get them kicked off of the local PTA board or whatever. This isn't that complicated.
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Nix Panicus posted:Am I just looking at the media of the past through nostalgia tinted glasses? Were they always this bad and I was just too stupid to notice? As the guy doing the revisit of the Bush years I can say confidently that the answer is an emphatic "yes". Though they used to be more polished and better at hiding it due to the internet not being a thing. Hell, even way back after FDR passed the new deal like 80% of the media had a collective meltdown calling him a communist/terrorist/whatever. The US media has always been a sewer.
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gradenko_2000 posted:This is the best explanation I've come across as to the phenomenon of the "liberal media" as still being juxtaposed against, and attacked by, the right-wing media, even as we on the left recognize that the liberal media is garbage, and even as we think there might have been a time when the liberal media was maybe "good". Also Democrats have become the party of stasis and protecting the status quo since the 70s which made them very popular with certain sections of the capitalist class including the media. As a result a ton of news coverage is basically just Democratic propaganda which pisses off conservatives.
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Atrocious Joe posted:the most succ part of the GoT ending is that they stabbed the Global Warning metaphor with the magic sword and it all went away
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loquacius posted:Anyway I skipped like twenty pages so I dunno if this clip has been posted but I think what breaks these people’s brains is that for a certain segment of the PMC meritocracy is actually a real thing up to a point. If you are useful to your boss you get rewarded and pulled up the ranks. It’s certainly true in my case at least (I’m PMC trash btw. Feel free to purge me when the revolution comes). What they fail to see though is that the rules of this bubble don’t apply either at the bottom of the ladder (where most jobs are dead ends) or at the top (where people can succeed because they have a lot of money to throw around). Capitalists in particular operate on a set of rules completely alien to most people who can’t fathom one’s “job” just being buying companies so you can sit on them and rake in profits off the top.
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Ok can somebody give me the short version of what’s actually happening in Gaza right now? All the news articles I’ve found employ a lot of “a violence happened and both sides are bad probably” language which isn’t helpful. Also is it just me or are there more pro Palestine arguments on the news right now than normal? It’s still mostly pro Israel but the presence of a counter argument at all in places like NPR is weird to me.
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May 16, 2021 17:02
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galenanorth posted:https://apnews.com/article/israel-middle-east-west-bank-shootings-d5c6b1ed602844be69318bd1d1a334cf Ah. That explains it, thanks. It’s astonishing how bad the media is at communicating the basic facts about this stuff.
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Really loving that the entire gay community is going to be called pedophiles for the next month and change because some YouTube liberal decided to bravely take a stand against things that aren’t happening so he could enjoy the most generic and inoffensive version of pride possible. Thanks dude.
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Same, tbh.
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This lady is correct. There's no reason to compromise anymore. It's time to push for a full NHS!
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Mind_Taker posted:lol these people are hopeless They basically ~are~ chuds. That’s the problem.
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loquacius posted:let's see what bloomberg is up to these days Bloomberg is the only potential Democratic nominee that could have made me vote for Trump and nothing he’s done since then has changed my mind.
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Oneiros posted:what's a gender neutral term for failson? Failspawn
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Atrocious Joe posted:mass, racialized homeownership was possibly the most powerful anti-communist policy in the US, and they've decided to get rid of it for a few quarters of extra profits off rent One of the most baffling things about the current moment is that the system could be very easily stabilized by doing a modest wealth transfer to ensure the middle class has at least some foothold into the next generation. You don't even have to stop loving over the poor or deal with racist institutions like the police. If around 55% of the public is comfortable enough they'll rationalize the system and work to keep it going regardless of how hard it fucks over those at the bottom. And the rich are throwing that away because they have to have *all* of the money instead of *most of it*. They need those last precious drops of blood held by the middle class no mater what and are probably going to destroy the world trying to get it.
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Smythe posted:im going to chop this guys head off with a chainsaw and pump his decapitated body full of electric eels I’m going to be moderately annoying to him on the internet.
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It’s always interesting to me how so few people seem to realize that the GOP *already* run the country. They’re billionaires, cops, industrialists, bankers and CIA agents. You can’t “keep them out” of political institutions because they *are* those institutions. E: Fascism isn’t a force that takes over a society from outside itself. It’s when the controlling interests of a country fear change is inevitable and use lies and violence to triple down on old power hierarchies and reinforce their own positions. Which is absolutely going to happen here in the US once democracy has outlived it’s usefulness as a chew toy to make people think they have any sort of control over the inner workings of this hellstate. readingatwork has issued a correction as of 03:00 on Jun 28, 2021 |
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Excelzior posted:post=514122305 Trying very hard not to lol publicly at Denny’s right now.
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Jul 4, 2021 19:49
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Come on God you worthless gently caress make this happen. The tears of these self important pricks is literally all politics has to offer me anymore. Let me have this.
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NPR this morning: “Studies have shown that the thing all mass shooters have in common is that they are angry. Could an anger hotline be the solution?” Nearly gave me a god damned stroke. E: Found the actual article: https://www.npr.org/2021/07/08/1014098344/can-rage-hotlines-prevent-some-mass-shootings It’s dumb. readingatwork has issued a correction as of 20:11 on Jul 8, 2021 |
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Nichael posted:sure but will it matter? the last two primaries ended in the victor being decided by the establishment. I predict that will happen again. At this point I'm on team "don't vote at all unless there's a compelling reason to do so beyond the Republicans being bad". Our system is not a Democracy and I refuse to legitimize it with my vote.
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Just LOL at the idea that Cuba would be better under Batista v2.0 after America has killed a third of the population, destroyed its infrastructure, and dismantled every social program in the name of austerity. But hey the can vote for fascists now and buy American products so it’s basically a wash I guess.
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