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He just has this typical villain face. I dont know why I think that but I do.
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RefluxSemantic wrote:He just has this typical villain face. I dont know why I think that but I do.
Is it because he's Jewish
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Its actually because of all the loose skin around his neck. It makes him look reptilian I think.
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I love this

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After super tuesday, what percentage of delegates will have been awarded?
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fightinfrenchman wrote:I love this

Hilariously ironic
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why do you love it?
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Can someone fill me in on that tweet. It makes no sense to me.
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RefluxSemantic wrote:Can someone fill me in on that tweet. It makes no sense to me.
TYT is supposedly very Liberal and has been outspokenly pro worker.
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Seems like its a big misinformation campaign at the moment. The union representing the TYT employees endorsed the challenger to the founder of TYT (Cenk Uygur) in the primary race for the house seat. TYT said they will allow unionization and support their employee's right to do so, but the organizing union isn't giving them the information.

The Ear hates leftists so he's trying to call them hypocrites even though there's not remotely enough info to say that is the case.
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Re: 2020 Democratic Primary

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Imagine hating leftists.
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Is ear a liberal/neoliberal? Could someone crystallize the difference between a leftist and liberal/neoliberal for me?
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Neoliberal = woke Republican
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Socially liberal, fiscally conservative?
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You got it
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This answer will be worse than a google search.

Neoliberalism rewards capital performance more, and advocates for market-driven solutions. They also advocate for globalization/free-trade and open borders, but whether this differs from "leftism" Idk. It certainly differs from conservatism. Think about putting all points into what's called evidence based policy at all costs. It's regulated capitalism, more regulated than Republican capitalism, but not to such an extent as leftists would like, however both are rooted in capital driven economies. Neoliberals are typically economics majors, or more accurately vice versa.

To the left of leftists are Marxists I guess. These would typically be philosophy majors, or vice versa, again, but also maybe not.
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RefluxSemantic wrote:After super tuesday, what percentage of delegates will have been awarded?
About 35%, then after the 2 weeks after that the total allotted will be about 61%. We are going to have a very good idea where this will all end up in 4 weeks time.
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Re: 2020 Democratic Primary

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Cometk wrote:Socially liberal, fiscally conservative?
Not really, I'll explain in more depth later
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deleted_user wrote: To the left of leftists are Marxists I guess. These would typically be philosophy majors, or vice versa, again, but also maybe not.
Experimental physicists*
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Re: 2020 Democratic Primary

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The way I see it, people that are left care for other people and people that are not left either dont really get it or they don't care for other people or both.
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fightinfrenchman wrote:
Cometk wrote:Socially liberal, fiscally conservative?
Not really, I'll explain in more depth later
More accurately. Socially liberal. Economically capitalist. Pro-privatization, globalization and austerity.

Read about the Chicago school and Mont Pelerin for more info. Great book on the birth of neoliberalism is Democracy in Chains.
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Again that doesn't totally describe me. Neoliberalism, much like socialism, doesn't have a very consistently definition.
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I’m not trying to describe you. I’m describing neoliberalism. Unlike socialism, which is a very broad term with many sub-ideologies, neoliberalism involves very specific beliefs and has a concrete history.
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Re: 2020 Democratic Primary

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Well I disagree with that as well
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