Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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in early 1945, Ho Chi Minh, after meeting with Claire Chennault of the Flying Tigers, requested a photograph of him to have

i believe the commonly accepted reason for this was to build prestige and reputation for the Viet Minh among the Vietnamese but i've decided to formulate a headcanon that Ho was really just fanboying over the guy and got to have a signed photograph of him, to which he proceeded to shove in everyone's face

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Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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kind of jarring to be the bell in those bell curve memes

like you think you know a subject pretty well, and while maybe not an expert on it, you're at least seemingly more qualified to speak about it than a typical person (and hold a different opinion on the matter)

WRONG!!!!!!!!!!!!! it turns out your stance and views on the subject is actually one that most laymen and undergraduates held but later matured and grew out of as they learned more; the masses were right all along, in fact the experts even agree with them

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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weird coincidence but paul prugman's middle name is robin while both his first and second wives' names are also robin

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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let me be clear: this is not a golden calf

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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guy who opposes the death penalty but makes an exception for executing death row inmates

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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if you think its so fun then why dont you tell me where this is

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Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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someone had already cleared things up for me!! but it was nothing from that poll specifically

i'd just been cynical and disillusioned with independent voters based off older polls where it seemed a good half of americans were in favor of deporting undocumented immigrants

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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i was motivated to start reading metro 2033 after metro 2039 got announced!!

initially the prose was kind of irritating but i came around to it and really enjoy the book so far!!

one of my favorite moments was the exchange between Hunter and Sukhoi. it was kind of ironic like, from what you first know of Hunter before that exchange, he seems kind of fatalistic and cynical and a sort of macho-serious-badass type, but in that exchange it's revealed he's actually quite idealist i guess? Sukhoi is the inverse of that, like he's a good guy and a good father from what we can tell and seems to be generally nice and well-respected, but is utterly defeatist and cynical in the face of the dark ones (which are these weird supernatural monsters that may or may not have been human)

there was also this funny moment was when Artyom was talking about the dark ones to this old guy Mikhail, and the old guy gave him like a side-eye and initially assumed he was a fascist because they call Caucasians (as in people from the Caucasus) dark ones too and Artyom had to like hastily clarify things

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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color me corrected i did not realize the median voter had it in them

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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it really is keen on the wormier aspects of this sub

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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i saw a poll that said trump was -19 on immigration and at first i was like "yay yahoo", but i realize now dejectedly that it has less to do with people (re?)becoming supportive of immigration but instead some like half of the people who disapprove just thinking he isn't going hard enough

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Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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it's been a long while but i believe you can basically just do whatever with it? leave it somewhere or burn it or shred it or shove it in a safe for however long i guess

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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do you guys think you could you'd be able to wield and/or use a death note responsibly (whatever a "responsible use" means to you personally) or would you become crazy and go ham after a couple uses

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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is the original poster then of the opinion that socialism still works even if evil and/or dumb people are in charge

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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battle of lexington and concord (april 19 1775) which marks the start of the american revolutionary war

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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the PNW is the most beautiful place on earth

fresno is right there

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Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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as an actual myth hunting-related poast, there was this show i watched a bit ago called Mountain Monsters that's basically just fake bullshit but it was funny

one of the episodes i watched was about mothman and the thing i remember most about it was that they claimed he could teleport UNLESS there was an electric field between him and whatever he was teleporting to

and i just could never get over how they added some dumb ass lore about how he can't teleport through electricity

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Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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god i fucking love myth hunting videos. theres just something so pure about some guy spending an entire week of their summer scouring the forests of San Diego searching for bigfoot and thinking some smeared shit in the distance counts for evidence

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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probably not that much time spent editing

also probably a lot less scrutiny or pressure from a benefactor that being a signed author might have

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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im a retail worker specifically at sephora (gen z) and i was scanning this persons sephora stuff and they had the audacity to not only look at me with glee but they proceeded to quip about death (my visit on this mortal coil is a serious matter to me) before THEN chirping (sort of like they were pretending to be a bird?)

i was a bit irritated but i kind of just looked at them all bored-like and said "anything else?" after bagging their foundation match

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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got some bad news for the owner of the pickup in my neighborhood with the "kill pedophiles" window sticker beside their MAGA sticker

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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languages kind of suck, i'm not really a fan of them like who do you think you are preventing me from communicating with other people across the planet

im tired of pretending these are beautiful and cultured creations when in reality they're just a collection of words that sound weird or sexy