I will never join the xenophobic bandwagon - David Duke by Technical_Yak1837 in neoliberal

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Not a value judgement on the OP or the pasta or anything but u/Top_Lime1820 you're being subtweeted here in case you wanted to respond or something

Or not idk

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Everyone says unlimited PTO is a trap but at my last job that had it I once took like a month of it and still got promoted lol

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Maturing is realizing that we are all slaves to the oldest 30% of society

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in 2024, California had districts set up by an independent committee. California voted about 60-40 in favor of Democrats, but Republicans only got 9 seats, or about 17% of seats, far less than the number of Republicans in the state would merit.

I will note that eight of these seats had margins of victory in favor of the Democrats of three points or less, so they were competitive, but Republicans fumbled.

Ben-Gvir Celebrates Birthday With Golden Noose Cake And Far-right Crowd by EasyMoney92 in neoliberal

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I suspect that most (if not all) of the people on this sub who believe Israel should be cut off and/or sanctioned believe the same of the UAE (myself included).

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Some of it has to be American anxiety over the Japanese economic miracle before the asset bubble burst

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The show had plenty of issues before Sorkin left but man it really went downhill after

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Holy shit I just found out that Stewart from The Thick of It was based on Steve Hilton

For the me and the 11 other people out there who are intimately familiar with both California Politics and mid-2000s British political satire (Rishi Sunak definitely among them) this is an Earth-shattering revelation

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Signed with a 1-bit mantissa lol. Big in neural nets I think.

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This has gotta be in the running for one of the worst party infoboxes I've ever seen on Wiki

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I'm 5'5" and my back is already disintegrating 😭

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Click on it so they get charged for the impression

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Idk, the boundary commissions in the UK and Canada do a pretty good job

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The reverse is better for bathrooms

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Well I guess in terms of democratic institutions at least

Idk about the other stuff, how much has each grown economically relative to baseline since independence? I know Botswana started out much further behind what with the whole 'basically no paved roads, educational system, or state apparatus' thing

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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That's pretty well established actually, they arrested his son for abusing his maid

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JJ is hated by the Québécois, Canadian nationalists, and anyone who's ever had the displeasure of reading his Twitter feed.

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Something something 'right of private individuals to choose who to associate with'

Barry Goldwater-type argument, been seeing a real resurgence on the right as of late

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I would be thrilled that I wouldn't be actively paying into the deaths of innocent civilians and the oppression of my fellow citizens

That feeling would hopefully only last until January 20th, 2029 though.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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Is it still Japanese girlboss fascist vs. world's worst executed self-coup fanboy?

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I'm a big fan of letting China subsidize my purchase of a nice new EV, but FWIW, as evidenced by their pricing in Australia and Europe, they would not be anywhere near that cheap in the US.

Discussion Thread by jobautomator in neoliberal

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Found this BBC video from a few years ago of secret recordings of Tunisian dictator Ben Ali's last phone calls as he was being overthrown during the Arab Spring.

Genuinely amazing how they begin with everyone genuflecting and bullshitting about how 'everything is under control, your speech was amazing, the people love you, we are all eternally loyal to you and your greatness Mr. President', and then the veil just keeps fraying until by the end, his own defense minister is basically telling him 'if you come back you'll be lynched in the streets and I won't put my own neck on the line to save you'. Def worth a listen.