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Looking for a full-time job again. Need a remote role, RTs appreciated! 🐣 coding since age 8 in the 90s 👵🏻 engineer with 14 years of pro experience 💫 spent 3 years as a CTO of a YC company 🕸️ great at full-stack web ⛓️ good at solidity too! 🏳️‍⚧️ brings a diverse perspective
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Bernie Sanders: vote for Joe Biden Angela Davis: vote for Joe Biden Noam Chomsky: vote for Joe Biden Very Online Leftist trying to look cool to their followers: pffft, Biden is no better than Trump
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If you hate looters, let me tell you about private equity firms
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DC Metro will no longer be providing special cars to white nationalists after the Amalgamated Transit Union, which represents the workers, protested the decision Remember, kids: support unions
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Martin Shkreli is being sentenced for lying to rich people, not jacking up the price of drugs. Remember that. Our system is content to let you screw over the poor. But ohohohoh, disrespect capital, and you will get reamed.
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Rick and Morty: this is why, even if you’re smart, you shouldn’t be a cold, self-absorbed asshole Fans: I want to feel smart, so I should be a cold, self-absorbed asshole
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Wooooooooooow "Rising Star" Joe Kennedy just defended marijuana criminalization by arguing it helps police search more cars This guy is garbage of the highest degree 🚮🚮🚮🚮
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the united front stands against pizza fascism
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People will defend historical figures with, “oh, he was a product of his time,” but Thomas Paine was there back in the 1700s decrying slavery, advocating UBI, high taxes on the rich, strong social programs, and a peaceful, mutually beneficial relationship with Indigenous tribes.
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That Girl Scouts post has the same energy as this:
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Just to be clear, since some folks in the replies seem to misunderstand: this is meant to criticize image-obsessed overly online leftists who refuse to vote for Biden. Vote for Biden. He was far from my first choice, but stopping Trump is important. Biden is far better.
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The reason trans adults want trans kids to be able to transition is that most of us weren't able to when we were that age, which was painful for us. No one should have to experience that. The people making weird innuendos about the motivations for it are gross bigots.
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Collecting both amazing "my dude" takes in one 2-for-1 Tweet so it will be easier for me to share
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New rule: if even a single worker for a company needs food stamps to survive, don't call that company "innovative" or "efficient." Ever. There is nothing praiseworthy about serfdom.
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"algorithms can't be racist, they're just math" yeah, and phrenology was just measuring skulls, and it was racist as shit algos can be designed not to be racist, but tech is dominated by arrogant white dudes who have never experienced any real lack of privilege
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@b1ack1iberation Can't speak for these people's motives, but I try to give people who are clearly trying to rest space if possible, no matter the setting or who they are.
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Social justice can't happen without economic justice Not being transphobic doesn't get trans people hormones and surgery Not being racist doesn't fix the rampant poverty in PoC communities Not being ableist doesn't retrofit the world for better accessibility
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"abolish private property" expectation: they're coming for my toothbrush! (that's personal property) reality: Nestle can't come in and buy rights to your municipal water supply and then turn around and charge you two bucks a bottle for it
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world: *DSA and IWW membership surging* world: *Leftists pulling off wins without corporate donors* world: *Bernie most popular mainstream politician* world: *polls and articles about how communism & socialism are popular among Millennials* DNC: now let's be REALISTIC here...
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Teen Vogue's recent anti-capitalist bent is ironically a product of capitalists realizing they can make bank off of lifestyle marketing towards anti-capitalist youth.
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after months of arduous research, I have concluded the following
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Ending toxic masculinity means that men won't feel like less of a man for: ● crying ● showing vulnerability ● asking for help ● going to doctors and therapists ● not overworking themselves ● wanting things or to do things seen as "feminine" This is a good thing, no?
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how should we help out homeless people? conservative: charity! liberal: government-funded shelters! leftists: why the hell is anyone homeless in a society that has more homes than it can use?
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doctor: Timmy, the people from the Musk-a-Wish foundation are here! what is your wish? Timmy: my family can't afford the new immunotherapy treatments for my cancer Elon: say no more! *3 weeks pass* Elon: I made you this child-sized spaceship, Timmy Elon: *places on grave*
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Captain Planet: hey kids, capitalism is killing the planet Rocko's Modern Life: hey kids, capitalism makes you feel disillusioned Parents: why are all the kids lefties now, I don't get it?
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Hot take: this was NOT a fair election, and people should NOT be calling it one. There was still a TON of meddling and voter suppression and other assorted fuckery — that overwhelmingly benefited Trump, who still lost.
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We went from tax returns to the worst debate ever to him being hospitalized on remdesivir in the span of less than a week.
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history: about a quarter of cowboys were black and a third were Hispanic Rockstar: not all of the cowboys are white in our new game, we made some of them black Gamerz: muh """history"""!!!!!
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Bernie: *continues to rapidly get more and more popular* Corbyn: *continues to rapidly get more and more popular* DSA: *continues to rapidly get more and more popular* Dems: BE REALISTIC. What we need is centrism and compromise with Republicans!
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@PatynowskiVoy @elonmusk Nah, you're thinking capitalism. Just look how Elon prevents unionization.
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We need to calibrate the Overton window Bernie is a moderate HRC is a conservative Trump/GOP are far right
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#TriggerAConservativeIn2Words is a bullshit hashtag. A "trigger," when used in a psychiatric or social justice context, is something that makes people relive past trauma. This isn't something you joke about doing to anyone, even conservatives.
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When people say capitalism is a white supremacist ideology, this is what they mean
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Detaining immigrant children is now a billion-dollar industry
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@goodxboyxx @llcooljackie Sounds like you are using it because of a disability, which is exactly why they exist As someone with only fairly minor disabilities myself, it’s easy to not feel “worthy” from an accommodation standpoint, but that’s just self-doubt
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Amazon's new $15/hour minimum wage will help a lot of people immensely, but let's not forget: ‣ This isn't a living wage in some places ‣ This was due to the tireless work of strikes and activism, not the generosity of Jeff Bezos ‣ We need higher wages legally enshrined
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Ben Shapiro is a piece of shit. Ben Shapiro is a piece of shit. Ben Shapiro is a piece of shit. Ben Shapiro is a piece of shit. Ben Shapiro is a piece of shit. Ben Shapiro is a piece of shit. Ben Shapiro is a piece of shit. Ben Shapiro is a piece of shit.
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Good Afternoon, "Facebook" was a 212-month sociological study conducted by Harvard University. We are now complete with our study. Thank you for your time.
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Republicans: if you're poor, it's because you're lazy Libertarians: if you're poor, it's because you're lazy Democrats: if you're poor, it's because you're lazy, but you can eat this belly button lint Leftists: if you're poor, you still deserve a stable, worthwhile life
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Leftist culture is declaring moderate luxuries “bourgeois” or “proletarian” based on how much you, personally, care about them and the people you mentally associate with them
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🌹: our emoji comes from a worldwide tradition! 🍞: our emoji comes from a seminal book! 🍩: our emoji comes from mocking women of color!
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"Socialism never works!" said the people in a rapidly decaying capitalist society that worked tirelessly to prevent socialism's success.
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You're a internet edgelord looking for a counterattack. Roll a d6 1 - snowflake! 2 - triggered! 3 - freeze peach! 4 - SJWs! 5 - cultural Marxism! 6 - u mad bro? This is all you can ever say. EVER.
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Leftist: "No one should be denied healthcare" Neoliberal: "No one who works 40 hours a week should be denied access to healthcare"
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Leftists should prefer liberalism over fascism, and it's fucking absurd I even have to say that
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Do you want to hire a remote software engineer who: - is ridiculously good at React, Node, & more - most recently spent 3 years as a Y Combinator startup CTO - has a decade of professional experience - has coded for two decades Well, I’m right here. (Please RT for visibility 🙏)
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Watching people get angry realizing that Kurt Cobain was a socialist and what they'd consider an SJW is one of my new favorite pastimes
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We CANNOT repeat this enough One of Hitler's first major crackdowns was the burning of the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, Germany's pro-trans insititute
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The UN report emphasized climate change *CAN* be stopped. This is doomer denialism, which is very dangerous.
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Global warming will get progressively worse and cannot be stopped over the next 30 years, a major new UN report has concluded, because the world's nations delayed so long in curbing emissions. A hotter future is now essentially locked in.
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"But President Shinra worked hard to earn that money!" "If people under the plate don't want to live in slum conditions, they should work harder!" "You hate Shinra, and yet you use Shina products and electricity?" "Mako energy isn't killing the planet, that's a myth"
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It costs you 0 ETH and no gas to be respectful of LBGTQ+ people
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Weird how the Wachowskis often have a villain who is the "architect" of everything who looks suspiciously like Ray Blanchard and whose orthodoxy the hero has to wholly reject.
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me: our country is rife with fascists them: you can't just call everyone fascists fascists: *have a literal march with Nazi imagery* them: you can't just call everyone fascists fascists: *round up people into concentration camps* them: you can't just call everyone fascists
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@elonmusk "That's why I need billions of dollars, and my employees shouldn't even be allowed to unionize."
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@LinkofSunshine Oh, so just because you think something is "reddit" you think everything else is "twitter"? There are other social media sites. Educate yourself.
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I almost came out when I was 19. I made concrete transition plans. Then one of my close friends made an off-hand joke about trans people. I didn't transition until FIVE YEARS later, as that one remark stuck with me. This is the problem with jokes like @h3h3productions .
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@DontMindThe_Gap @PatynowskiVoy @elonmusk Capitalism has failed every time it was tried What do you call the Great Depression? What do you call the 2008 crash? And what are you going to do when most jobs are automated away?
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@mike10010100 So it's probably not monocausal, but here's a theory: before the internet, anti-vaxxer bullshit was a lot harder to spread. We had mass media, but only few people had control of what could be on it. Social media ruined people's trust in vaccines.
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Fucking yikes
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RIP to a true maverick that fought for what he believed in that was ripped away from us by cancer
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So this seems to be the typical pattern: YouTuber: does a bad people: you're doing a bad YouTuber: THIS IS A WITCH HUNT. I AM THE VICTIM HERE. MILLIONS OF FOLLOWERS, GROOM MY EGO.
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@poepilled unironically increasingly expecting a "I paid for 100 trans women to get vaginas!" video at some point
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I love that NBC is just interrupting Trump's speech to explain how he's wrong. THIS. IS. HOW. YOU. DO. IT.
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This is just anti-intellectualism disguised as radicalism. It's based off of a ridiculously incorrect assumption that all of economic theory supports laissez-faire capitalism. A lot of economics is center-left. Even a lot of radical left theory (e.g. Das Kapital) is ECONOMICS.
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the political discourse these days so often boils down to shit like... people: there are a lot of potholes republican: deal with it socialist: let's repave the roads democrat: let's make everyone buy insurance to protect against pothole damage
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Hey @JordanBPeterson , this "plight" of men is simple. It's not "feminism." 1) Patriarchy tells men their value is based on how good of a breadwinner they are for their family 2) Capitalism's decay makes it near impossible to get a good job 3) Men feel like a worthless failure
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Having needs is normal. It's human. Desiring luxuries is normal. It's human. Wanting to accumulate wealth beyond the point of it impacting your life in any way just to increase your score on the wealthiest people high score list like it's some video game isn't.
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This headline is goddamn beautiful. Even the cops are like, "2 fascist 4 me."
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ICE officers whine that everyone hates them now: ‘Even the cops don’t like us anymore’
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trans woman: please say "woman" in reference to me trans man: please do NOT say "woman" in reference to me TERFs: we can't even say "woman" anymore!!!!1
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Why can’t we say ‘woman’ anymore? via @torontostar
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h3h3 is transphobic h3h3 is transphobic h3h3 is transphobic h3h3 is transphobic h3h3 is transphobic h3h3 is transphobic h3h3 is transphobic h3h3 is transphobic
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Bezos: space travel is the only way to make good use of my fortune Analyst: it would only would cost $55M to fix Flint's water Bezos: yep, rockets, that's it Seattle: We're going to increase taxes slightly so we can house homeless people Bezos: nahhhh, not paying that
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One of the weirdest thing about toxic masculinity norms is it's considered manly to love the outdoors and spending time in nature and stuff like that, but there's a perception environmentalism is feminine. You're supposed to love nature but also want it wrecked?
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A socialist just unseated a neolib who has been in office since 1999 All the Candices of the world can now fuck off with their complaints that we are unrealistic in our goals
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The whole internet loves Pixelated Boat, a lovely boat that tweets leftism! *5 months later* We regret to inform you the boat wants to prevent empowerment of marginalized people.
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I have an intersex condition called (I hate the name) XX male syndrome. I produced somewhat high levels of estrogen for an AMAB person. This wasn't diagnosed until after I started pursuing medical transitioning. I don't even know what I'm supposed to be to transphobes anymore.
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@TwitterComms I've had literal death threats made against me on here that had the reports rejected.
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Better representation of trans characters would have made me not spend my younger years thinking if I ever acted on my deepest desires I'd be treated as a freak relegated to Jerry Springer Representation is so fucking important
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@Oreo Great. I know that. Meanwhile, I haven’t been able to get the surgery I need to finish my transition through 8 months straight of delays. I lost my job over it. But I’m glad I exist, at least. 🙄
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@samreich @MichelleKhare *Brennan Lee Mulligan breaks out of a water torture cell barely alive, gasping for air, on Game Changer* Sam: That's 0 points
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Ending toxic masculinity benefits men Ending toxic masculinity benefits men Ending toxic masculinity benefits men Ending toxic masculinity benefits men Ending toxic masculinity benefits men Ending toxic masculinity benefits men Ending toxic masculinity benefits men
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Dear reactionaries making memes: Einstein was a socialist. MLK was a socialist. Orwell was a socialist. Twain was a socialist. Vonnegut was a socialist. You're not going to win by slapping your "own" over one of these historical figures.
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{\__/} ( • . •) / >🏠💊🍓🚰⚡️🎓 you want these? {\__/} ( • . •) / >🏠💊🍓🚰⚡️🎓 take them {\__/} ( • . •) / > you deserve them! they're human rights!
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"The left ejected me, and the right embraced me" isn't an indictment against the left, it's an indictment of YOU. Congrats on doing something that impresses people with garbage fire political views. 👍🏻
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This is the tweet that Candice Aiston is threatening to sue Paste Magazine over possibly publishing.
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the onion once again reporting essentially real news
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Comey Warns Democrats That Having Leftist Politics Gets You On The FBI Watchlist
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Tulsi: *defends Assad* Tulsi: *supports Modi* Tulsi: *goes on Tucker Carlson* Tulsi: *votes to condemn BDS* Tulsi: *expresses support for Russian imperialism* Tulsi: *likes Mike Huckabee* Tulsi: *doesn't vote to impeach Trump* Weirdo Leftists: wow, so bold and principled!
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@h3h3productions A bunch of Libertarians are about to chime in saying all of these are tyrannical
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So the "snowflake SJWs are always offended!" crowd has recently gotten mad at: - the new Tolkien show having elves of color - RDR2 enabling you to shoot KKK members without losing honor - Nintendo slightly tweaking a Smash animation so it doesn't look racist
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@LinkofSunshine People somehow think trauma makes people more motivated to fight or some shit and not just sap people's ability to act in a productive and healthy manner.
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Rewatching old @HBomberguy vids, and he talks about how folks like PJW appeal to folks by reassuring them they don't need to grow and change and are already right Boogie isn't as overtly shitty as Pajama Watson, but he's absolutely the same way
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Capitalism stans: people won't invent things if they can't profit off of them Nikola Tesla: electricity should be free
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Fascist: I will physically harm oppressed groups AntiFa: I will physically harm you if that's what it takes to stop you from physically harming oppressed groups Centrist: why are u both so hateful?!
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GOP: don’t raise taxes on my gasoline 🌹: don’t raise taxes on OUR gasoline ✊🏻🌈⛽️
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Angela Davis says to vote for Joe Biden — to persuade people to go vote for Joe Biden. I've gotten shit from lefties for saying this myself, but it's so important, even if you don't like Joe Biden.
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@DailyMail Seriously a great idea
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Ben Shapiro has been posting on 4chan
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I...I don’t....what? What!? WHAT?!?
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Sweden and Venezuela are fairly similar: mixed economies with lot of private ownership Since Venezuela is struggling, it's the fault of socialism! Since Sweden is doing comparatively well, it's all thanks to capitalism! Nothing to do with one not being a victim of colonialism.
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@ClemsonColorado Sweden is capitalist.
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Found on /r/CompleteAnarchy, posted by /u/mcgrathc09
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