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score: 180 as they should have . good luck finding another job after this .

score: 6 82 years old and still generating sorosbucks , an inspiration to us all

score: 2 > that 's why it 's better if this never goes to the senate . we need to just keep impeaching indefinitely and bring up more and more crimes every day . keep him on trial and feed the sound bytes to the news . **exactly** or just do n't give it to senate at all *after* impeaching .

score: 2 the french are uniquely touchy about encroaching us culture . they especially hate the idea of youth slang adopting and using english words and have gone so far as to make laws about it . one that i can remember is that shops in the 90s were not allowed to call it a `` walkman '' they had to use the correct `` baladeur . ''

score: -20 i consider it a mutilation to leave a parastitic smeg-sock unnaturally attached to a young boy 's penis .

score: 1 ok boomer

score: 10 yes

score: 1 don ’ t excuse evil ideologies . god you are retarded .

score: 2 it would n't require a change based on the history i already told you . but if we 've already reached `` yes it works , it works worldwide , but the supreme court said no , '' then i do n't know why you 're a conservative .

score: 2 thank you for posting this . i bookmarked your article ... that 's how much it rang true for me . cheers to you & yours !

score: -34 actually they didn ’ t switch . it ’ s a common myth . only one person did . edit : wow , -28 downvotes ? ! ? your so kind you guys . : d

score: 11 peoples elon musk worship goes way too far , if you can ’ t possibly see how a billionaire owning a news network can go wrong , all you have to do is look at the news networks we have now *owned by billionaires . * plus elon musk isn ’ t exactly the greatest person and has a track record of overworking tesla employees and being super pushy , demanding , and hot headed .

score: 1 no one in the uk is making this argument . pro-militia campaigns are completely irrelevant , they do n't exist

score: -1 a prussian style would at least be cultural , but *this* ? !

score: 5 you will have to get much more specific if you want to make sense to the topic at hand .

score: 57 motte : economic issues can express and be expressed in localized racial dynamics , especially in countries with a strong history of legal and economic segregation . bailey : racial dynamics are the only cause of economic issues , and white vs black is the model for all of them worldwide .

score: 1 suggesting means testing free college is not the same as `` opposing free college , '' so i 'm not sure exactly what you 're arguing against here .

score: 1 as soon as we have a president willing to pull out of afghanistan and “ lose ” the war , we will .

score: 4 exactly . but once the federal government got involved the public schools started to go to shit .

score: 10 as if this nonsense is even an appropriate topic for SUBREDDIT , especially when it 's the subject of a propaganda screed published by fox news ...

score: 1 i guessed right although it was a lucky guess . i 'm not surprised though .

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score: 3 do/did boomers in the uk have the same mentality about real estate as they do in australia ? here they think the only way to save for retirement is to become the worst kind of parasite . sure , investing in an index fund or whatever is engaging in capitalism and being a kind of parasite , but with the pension as it is one could n't blame someone . nor could you blame someone for buying shares in a company directly . but it 's always real estate with these people . always .

score: 7 especially in the three states that ended up determining the result .

score: 2 haha ok

score: 2 oh , come on . i obviously care a great deal about things that do n't affect me personally . i merely disagree with the *means* often chosen by other quadrants . and to back up the centrist scum for once , the centrists often care too -- at least those who are politically aware enough to be here in the first place . again , it 's just a question of means , not ends in and of themselves . we all desire the general flourishing , safety , wealth , and happiness of mankind .

score: 1 why am i supposed to explain to you how communism works when i oppose communism ?

score: 2 this was my response to this post when i saw it , 14 days ago . think breitbart will hire me ? & # x200b ; someone being gay does n't make it so that our kids have to do active shooter drills . grabbing a beer with a haitian does n't destroy the middle class . a person with a penis who likes wearing dresses wo n't make the planet uninhabitable for humanity . my concern with conservatives is not over a few percentage points come april 15th . it is a dispute over both the nature of reality and the nature of government . whether we 're talking about climate change , the effect of gun laws , healthcare policy , military policy , trade , unions , or any number of other issues , there are objective , observable truths that conservatives are denying . so far as government is concerned , it is not a business and i damned sure am not a customer . i am a voter , and the government works for me . i 'm looking forward to firing everyone in government who disagrees .

score: 0 > white nationalist mass shootings this is n't even a thing . more people die from slipping in the bathtub than any `` mass shootings '' . stop watching legacy media propaganda and look up actual statistics . america is safer today than in decades , and the crime numbers keep dropping . the whole `` white nationalist '' bullshit is just that , total bullshit . massively racist disinformation , that the corrupt msmedia has been caught planning . knowing full well it 's all lies . mueller 's illegal spying campaign and `` ze russians ! '' wmd levle lies went down in flames . the whole bogus `` impeachment '' bullshit too . more lies & propaganda . these msmedia corporations and corrupt dnc asshats are pushing an obvious agenda . the ones that own them especially . follow the money .

score: 1 this also.avoids the part where a woman cant call the cops bcuz she ca n't afford to have him sit in jail and miss work also what about children ? they 'd end up in foster care bcuz they cant be fed and taken care of if she cant afford to or the cops will take them for allowing them to come to harm by staying with an abuser

score: -2 or we could do them both

score: 1 as long as there was exchange of labor and goods , production and consumption through exchange , there is some form of capitalism . capitalism can only vanish when exchange is banned and replaced by collective relationships . everyone produces for the benefit of all and everyone consumes as little and as necessary so all needs are met , as equally as possible . working for bred and shelter never stopped in russia , before , during and after stalin . so at its best was a reform of capitalism and actually it was the formation of capitalism as it did n't really exist before 1917. the class structure of russia before 1917 did n't reflect a true capitalist society and stratification . in the uk , holland , parts of the us , real capitalism existed much earlier .

score: 7 never heard of them .

score: 8 i get hating on tankies but this is dumb . ironically , most of the tankies i know are trans .

score: 1 i thought the same thing when i first read that . `` dishonesty is truth '' is a perfect way to put it .

score: 4 i believe conservative party 's policy on brexit will be 100 times more ruinous to the economy .

score: 4 > in what sense could things get constitutionally better for them ? answer : * removing the judicial checks on executive power , which is what they are euphemistically saying they want to do in the op . * leaving the eu so that there 's no higher source of human rights law and then modifyingURL our human rights act to get rid of things that inconvenience their ability to exercise executive power in ways that impose their will upon the lives of hrh 's subjects ( i.e . us ) . * making the house of lords a purely advisory institution so that it ca n't inconvenience the legislation they will be able to impose as the sole viable party under a gerrymandered fptp system . they allude to all of the above on page 48 of their manifesto .

score: 5 `` my hat is smarter than trump ''

score: 1 > also care to note that i *never* asserted that corbyn himself was antisemitic \ [ ... \ ] it does not take conspiratorial thinking to suggest that corbyn either fucked up or **does n't want to be honest with us** . lol .

score: 3 # close the border then .

score: 42 slight oversimplification but read the section about tvn : URL

score: 1 markets yes . not capitalism .

score: 3 they are n't real communists and communism sucks .

score: 4 what are you talking about ? they are all true . trump is a corporate puppet whose policy benefits the richest americans . he ’ s also shitty when it comes to the military industrial complex , just like all previous administrations .

score: 1 it seems liberal parties , who ideally are meant to be for small government ( but are anything but in australia at least ) , took blue before conservatives took blue . it seems ( from some quick research ) like the reason british conservatives took blue is due to it being the backdrop of the union jack and otherwise they 'd be happy with red , which is the colour of st george 's cross , but that was already taken by the labour/working class parties . also , the conservative party of the netherlands uses orange . i doubt that 's because they have syndicalism on their minds and it 's more likely for historical reasons as a nod to the orange dynasty .

score: 3 i felt the same about hillary in the 2016 general election . least stoked i ’ ve ever been to vote . hopefully people can suck it up this time , if their candidate of choice isn ’ t the nominee .

score: 1 how do you intend on developing the mining industry in northern ontario ?

score: 9 your memory is very very short : • auto industry saved • nuclear weapons reduced by 1/3 in us & russia • ended don ’ t ask , don ’ t tell • insurance companies must cover pre-existing conditions • kids stay on their parent ’ s insurance until 26 under certain conditions • requires health plans to disclose how much of premium goes to patient care • prevents children from being denied health insurance coverage • cut prescription drug cost for medi-care recipients by 50 % • requires large employers to contribute to a national healthcare plan • nixes keystone pipeline • instituted the toughest wall street reform since great depression • passed health reform : others tried & failed over the last 60 years • insurance companies can no longer drop you when you get sick • stimulus plan which brought us out of the brink of financial collapse • $ 100 billion to embarrassing , crumbling infrastructure : most since eisenhower • $ 60 billion to create renewable and clean energy • credit card reform stopping the most abusive credit card practices • huge investment into science & technology • amped budgets at nasa & national science foundation • expanded state run health insurance to cover additional four million kids • lilly ledbetter fair pay act – equal pay for equal work • global initiative keeping nuclear material out of hands of terrorists • hate crimes prevention act ( matthew shepard act ) • fda for first time allowed to regulate tobacco • eliminated scandal plagued mineral management services • overhauled the astonishing stupidity of the student loan system • cancelled bloated weapons program including useless f-22 • stopped russia supplying $ 1 billion of high-tech missiles to iran promised by bush • tax cuts for small businesses • $ 14 billion in federally funded loans to stimulate job creation • cut taxes for 95 % of working families • passed 16 different tax cuts for american small business owners • health benefits for 9/11 responders • ryan white aids treatment act • expanded loan program for small businesses • increased funding for national parks and forests • led effort to phase out whaling • funding for high speed broadband internet access to students k-12 • $ 26 billion to states saving 160,000 teacher jobs among other things • helped rebuild schools in new orleans • doubled research funds for cleaner fuel • $ 2 billion to solar power • raised fuel economy standards • cash for clunkers • limited mercury emissions • eliminated oil company liability caps for oil spills • mandated new safety rules for offshore drilling • nuclear arms agreement with india • agreement with switzerland to bolster tax information exchange • established a patient ’ s bill of rights • expanded vaccinations program • extended benefit for same-sex partners of federal employees • same-sex partners assured visitation & healthcare decision rights • $ 8 billion to establish smart power grid • $ 13 billion for high-speed rail in 13 major us corridors • major expansion of americorps • expanding broadband internet • improved benefits for veterans • new and improved hiring policy for veterans • increased access to ptsd treatment for soldiers and veterans • recommitted the u.s. to full compliance to the geneva conventions • cut missile defense system by $ 1.4 billion • increased pay benefits to military personnel • negotiated nuclear arms agreement with australia , india , & russia • provided $ 210 million for building and upgrading fire stations • emergency aid to american survivors of the haiti earthquake act • ordered extensive review of hurricane & natural disaster preparedness • consumer tax credit for plug-in hybrid cars • tax breaks to promote public transit • extended and indexed the 2007 alternative minimum tax patch • income floor for medical expense deductions for individuals 65 & older • health insurance tax credits & subsidies for incomes to 4x poverty level • accelerated tax benefits for donations to haiti earthquake relief • income tax rates for highest earners will change from 35 % to 39.6 % • capital gains tax for highest earners will change from 15 % to 20 % • tax increase for corporations with assets of at least $ 1 billion • closed offshore tax safe havens , tax credit loopholes • tax bills hit lowest level since 1950 • closed lobbyist loopholes with respect to the recovery act • banned lobbyist gifts to executive employees • $ 5,000 tax credit for every new worker hired • jobs for main street act • national export initiative – designed to double us exports • federal deficit shrank 8 % year-on-year • 47 nations to agree to 4 years non-proliferation efforts • forced airlines to disclose prices upfront • makes health insurance available to seasonal firefighters • historic deal with iran to prevent them from developing and producing nuclear weapons and prevent another senseless war

score: 1 can you provide examples ?

score: 15 leftists are guilty of groupthink all the time but conservatives are no better , especially in the age of trump . you have an entire political party and political philosophy at the control of one man , no matter what cringe batshit stuff he says on a daily basis . they only `` attack '' trump when he pulls out of military conflicts , but only for enough time to get the soundbites . they 've gone quiet about the national debt . they 've given away everything it means to be a fiscal conservative , family values , pretty much any redeeming factors of conservatives to placate a cult of personality that they helped to create over the past 40 years , hell , since nixon and the southern strategy . political group think is alive and well in both progressive and regressive circles but the right have given up its soul , something the left has not done yet at least to my knowledge .

score: 1 i mean normally dudes are pretty straight forward about what they want on grindr so i figured it would be ok if i tell the older dudes to read my bio . but yea i would probably change the wording

score: 3 that was a good interview . bens been quite nice to yang , i listen the shapiro show every day

score: 2 do you believe george soros is running the deep state and this is a giant conspiracy for powerful jewish people to control everything , and the jews need to be stopped ? that 's what i meant . if you believe that , then yes , you are buying into the same anti-semetic shit that has been peddled for decades .

score: 1 i 'm for tulsi or bernie but will accept trump if they push biden or warren . because thats what will happen . i guarantee it .

score: 11 i can say , as a resident of the seattle area both then and now that the occupy movement locally would have failed a lot sooner without the veterans of '99 , but i 'd say occupy is the origin of the victories of sawant and the growing power of the local dsa .

score: -1 anyone who argues for moderation or bipartisanship or whatever is an idiot or a traitor . there are very much two sides and they can not co-exist except by state mandated fear . if it was n't for the threat of being arrested and/or having national guard called in you know the right wing and antifa types would have been warring in the streets since election day . let 's be clear : the united states is being slowly overtaken by communists . they 've been at it for decades , calling it the `` slow march through the institutions '' . this is subversion and treason and we are being subjected by these communists to a foreign invasion meant to subdue and eventually replace the american people . if you are opposed to any part of that then you 're with us . if not you , at least tacitly , support them . there is no middle ground .

score: 4 bu bu butt , quiff pro ho ... !

score: 1 yeah , no . does n't have the numbers , and it 's only getting worse week by week

score: 16 non-shitposty answer : if someone ’ s in a bad enough place that they have to seriously consider selling themselves into slavery in order to survive , it ’ s still really damn exploitative to actually take them up on the offer .

score: 1 how many times have i told you to read the first paragraph of that nyt article ? > as soon as they sat down in his room , still wrapped in their winter jackets and hats , louis c.k . asked if he could take out his penis , the women said . > they thought it was a joke and laughed it off . “ and then he really did it , ” ms. goodman said in an interview with the new york times . “ he proceeded to take all of his clothes off , and get completely naked , and started masturbating . show me where they said yes , even as a joke .

score: 1 the link does n't work

score: 1 they are having multiculturalism stabbed into them .

score: 5 we lost some ground . 46 to 54

score: 1 i read it online , so i would n't know , but knowing marx the print is probably really small . if you want i can give you a reading list ( by various authors ) that goes through some of the big concepts .

score: 1 trickle up to banks

score: -47 honestly , we 're really getting upset about mayor pete having his eraser flushed down the toilet in fourth grade ?

score: 1 in marxist nomenclature socialism is used to describe the `` lower stage of communism '' which is to say the first step in the path of revolution . in theory socialism is state ran collective ownership , then over time as the implementation of socialism allows for more direct control over ones life the need for a state would wane which would lead to communism , stateless collective ownership .

score: 1 is anyone else having trouble getting to the dt from the sub ? i ’ m using the reddit app it ’ s not at the top of the sub , and when i go to USER ’ s profile , i can ’ t find it

score: 40 man , adam was right about this cow .

score: 0 no wonder there 's unmatched prosperity around the globe !

score: 2 nobody who can read thinks it is .

score: 2 i don ’ t follow mind explaining ?

score: 1 `` yeah but trump ai n't no [ n-word ] lover '' -trump supporters aparently

score: 3 wow . i ’ m even sure how to respond to this . you talk so definitively as though you alone know our problems and solutions . but as you said people make the decisions that lead to the leaders they have , to say there is no resistance to those here who voted for trump is just asinine . to say that people aren ’ t arguing about the soul of our country over thanksgiving and cutting off and destroying friendships and family connections is just wrong . i like many others here do have a bit of a world view , and a historical view , but this is a big country with a massive amount of difference in its citizens . i have met some of those people , spoken with them , lived both rural and city environments in many states . that ’ s great if you wan na be an armchair expert sitting in another country telling me i don ’ t know the about the one i live in . i think their might be a word for that ? oh yeah , arrogant . there are people here who are actively looking for solutions , actively moving towards resolution and change , but you only see stupid americans . that ’ s fine if you have an opinion about how you see the average american , or those you have met , but your generalizations are horse shit , and here you have very little of substance to say . in the future you should refrain from using “ people like you ... ” when you have no clue who you are talking to . it must be nice sitting on such a high horse blankety judging others an ocean away .

score: 7 especially the sa boy scout lookin asses

score: 1 when did virginia go down the rabbit hole anyways ? feels like yesterday it was part of dixieland and today it 's communist test ground .

score: 2 i ’ ll assume that you both also support having universal high quality sexual education for kids and cheap or free access to reliable birth control . i would still argue that all medical procedures should be between the patient and their licensed , safe and ethical doctor . but with good access to sex ed and birth control , there should be almost no desire for abortions outside of rape and dangerous complications of pregnancy .

score: 5 # london calling

score: 8 got ta love those concern trolls .

score: 3 stopped reading the moment i got to the word `` coup . ''

score: 2 right , and i 've also seen people conflate `` public goods '' `` public utilities '' and `` goods with positive externalities . '' education is strictly a good with positive externalities ( innovation , productivity , general `` rub-off '' effects on others they interact with ) . society receives a substantial benefit from an educated individual , but make no mistake -- the *majority* of the benefit goes directly to the individual . `` public goods '' have two main features : ( 1 ) they are non-excludable , meaning it is impossible to prevent someone from enjoying the benefit even if they do n't pay ( think national defense ) ; and ( 2 ) they do n't have problems with rivalry -- meaning more people using the good/service does not diminish its value for others . obviously , its easy to exclude someone from the direct benefit of college if they do n't pay ( although they still get the benefit of positive externalities associated with other peoples ' education ) . rivalry in education is obvious too -- class size affects educational quality , and if everyone attended college we would need to massively expand our facilities and staff , likely hiring more adjunct , non-tenure tract professors . next , `` public utilities '' refer to *necessities* that , by their nature , create natural monopolies , thus requiring regulatory intervention . for example , economies of scale in delivering electricity ( the electrical grid infrastructure ) mean that it can only work if one entity provides it . the very history of education/its current state demonstrate that it is not a `` public utility '' because colleges do not form *natural monopolies* , if anything they might form natural oligopolies -- having just a few large institutions in a single state . and even then , we see that a public utility conception of education does n't hold up . different models are successful -- many people choose smaller schools over larger ones , and many smaller schools are in fact perceived as more prestigious . additionally , educational institutions lack ( somewhat ) the coercive power that a true utility provider would . if an electrical company wanted to price-gouge , citizens would be powerless because they need electricity and no one else can provide it ( say only one company has their lines hooked up to your house . ) but if a college tries to price gouge , generally speaking , people have other options ( although not necessarily equivalent options ) . people wo n't starve or freeze to death in the short-term simply because they are not enrolled in college . etc sorry for the book report , just wanted to write my thoughts down .

score: 5 this is the freeze peach the right wants to protect : literally calling for the racially motivated assassination of a public figure .

score: 2 that ’ s not a civil war then , that ’ s just terrorism , which we have already have happening on a small scale i.e . mass shootings at temples , mosques , etc . people seem to be worried that a civil war is inevitable and i don ’ t think it will play out the way the last one did .

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score: 2 please post then . from reputable sources .

score: 7 the fraser institute . really ? *reeeaaallly ? *

score: 12 your taxes do not pay for the us postal service .

score: 8 legend ! ! !

score: -14 sure . but gaza protesters are protesting israel . not their government . the false comparison is in the post title .

score: 23 > thank you to everyone who has helped share it ! lol

score: 11 trump nominated to the supreme court a fucking political terrorist that argued that the federal government can bypass the 4th amendment by using a corporation to spy on all americans . if they believe that , then they also believe that the federal government can direct private groups to confiscate our firearms . we lost our 2nd amendment rights at two very distinct points in time : * when we allowed the gop to use the `` war on drugs '' as a back door for jailing minorities . ( fyi if you think the gop is for gun rights , then you obviously have n't paid attention to their sick obsession with the felony conviction . ) * when we learned that the federal government was violating the 4th amendment rights of all citizens and we did nothing .

score: 21 the dude did n't even talk about co2 emissions , just a speech about air pollution .

score: 36 but do you think it ’ s worthwhile for twitter leftist assholes to pile on in an immature , homophobic thread celebrating the person who bullied him as a child ? you can not like him an not be an asshole , those things aren ’ t mutually exclusive .

score: 12 why ca n't chinese economy grow to 67 trillion ? is n't this just the same as asking someone in 1990 , why ca n't chinese economy grow to 12 trillion when they were a mere 0.36 trillion ? that is more than 30 times in the past 30 years .

score: 1 schiff-neck .

score: 1 smarkets

score: 1 lmao , i was making a joke .

score: 1 these are the policies of the pcp : [ URL ] ( URL ) hopefully translate will do a good job of converting this into something you can read . my farm becoming more connected and inline with the agricultural policies of the nation is really something that i am not comfortable with . from the sounds of what has been said in these responses , purely from a point of view of custodianship of the land , i feel like it 's probably not the option for me . we value highly our autonomy and ability to enact agriculture in the way we feel is best rather than having to contribute to and conform to the decisions of committees and boards . at the moment we have the freedom to farm in the way we want to farm and to be quite honest i 'd be loathe to lose that .

score: 5 thank you ! !

score: -3 so there was an immediate financial cost to the united states . how did it benefit the united states ?