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/r/pics/comments/7phut8/airbus_a320_simulator_at_cae/
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[
"I flew an L-1011 and a C-130 at CAE once.",
"I love to go there - It's like a play center for pro pilots :).",
"I'm not a pilot. Just happen to know someone at CAE, and barely enough to know how to take off and fly. Don't ask me to land.",
"Oh. Well...It is a wonderful simulation. Have you asked to make snow on the desert? It's pretty cool.",
"One of the software guys say, \"hey I just loaded some new turbulence, wanna try it out?\" What is my option... heck yeah.\n",
"Yes. There are CAE centers all over the world. :)\n\nThis one is in São Paulo."
] | 6 |
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Airbus A320 Simulator at CAE
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/r/pics/comments/7pi0cr/this_guy_parks_like_this_every_day_no_its_not/
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[
"Why else would you buy a Jeep?",
"*waves*\n\nHello fellow jeep owner!",
"HEY EVERYONE.... LOOK AT ME.... I DRIVE A JEEP AND WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW IT!",
"I mean, why not? It saves other spots for cars that can't handle snow and rough terrain ",
"Very considerate. He leaves the cleared spaces for people who own muggle cars. ",
"Bro move",
"at least he is doing something with his Jeep. most of the ones i see are Pavement Princesses. ",
"✌️",
"Maybe it's the disabled spot",
"I park that way often because I got a truck that can. It leaves spaces open for people who can't. ",
"Small penis.",
"It's a Jeep...where else would you park?",
"That's lifted pick ups. ",
"In high school they called this \"hick it in.\" Or to park like a hick/redneck. Very common sight.",
"To go wet-dirting with friends. ",
"Ah, I see.",
"Like the spots been disabled by the weather?",
"Nice of him to leave the more accessible spots for cars that need them.",
"Hi!!",
"Take it from someone who manages commercial property, don't park like this guy. Vehicles are meant to be parked on pavement, not in grassy areas where any number of things could be buried just below the surface.\n\nEDIT: My mistake. On second glance it looks like he's parked on top of snow piled up on the pavement. My original plea stands though.",
"> wet-dirting",
"Am I the only one who thinks it would be funny to chain it to that pole behind it? Only if I knew the owner, of course!",
"Must be their most exciting time of the day. "
] | 23 |
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This guy parks like this every day. No it's not stuck.
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/r/pics/comments/7pi0r1/wisteria_plant_growing_on_a_white_wall/
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[
"Any downside tho this?\n\nMeaning it tearing up the paint or something",
"It's slowly consuming the building and its occupants.",
"Wisteria is a pretty aggressive species. They are a pain in the ass to get rid of once they are established.",
"It's weird to think of a plant as being aggressive.\n\n\"Look out! It's growing right at us!\"",
"I think it means it kills other plants. \n\nKinda like robbery. But takes years(?) ",
"[Here](https://i.imgur.com/Ibjl9dD.jpg) is a higher quality version of this image. Credit to the photographers,\n @alpana.deshmukh & RG @architectanddesign on Instagram. [Here](https://i.imgur.com/OacVsfl.jpg) is another picture of this. This house is in South Kensington, London. [Here](https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4995449,-0.185056,3a,46.6y,201.89h,89.86t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sfAe1cF3SBmIvv0Je4FEoxA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656) it is on Google Street View.\n\n\nPer /u/DonTago [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/2nvdjn/bonsai_wisteria/cmhi32q):\n\n> I just wanted to make a PSA as the mod for /r/InvasiveSpecies, for anyone seeing this photo and thinking it might be a good idea to play Wisteria in their yard... keep in mind that the two species of Wisteria commonly found in the US and Europe used in landscaping, [Japanese and Chinese Wisteria](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisteria), are both hugely robust invasive species, especially in the [Southeast and Northeast parts of the US](http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/map/img/wisi1.gif). While it is very beautiful and sweet smelling, its has the ability to escape its ornamental confines in vine form, and then establish itself in the wild, where its aggressive vines creep around the forest floor, choking and out-competing many native understory species. Furthermore, sizable trees have been killed by those creeping Wisteria vines. When these large trees are killed, it opens the forest floor to sunlight, which allows the Wisteria seedlings to grow and flourish even more. \n\n> Also, anyone who wants to see a good list of invasive species that are often sold at garden centers you should *definitely* avoid planting in your yard (depending on your zone), see [THIS LIST](http://imgur.com/a/PCLez) I made. If anyone DOES want to plant Wisteria, I would recommend [American Wisteria](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisteria_frutescens), which is just as beautiful, but does not have the invasive predisposition the Asian varieties do. The reason the Asian varieties are favored in ornamental application is because they emit a very intoxicating fragrance, while American Wisteria does not.",
"It takes a lot of time and effort to keep the wall clean, especially considering the contrast with stark white",
"Enough that the owners likely have a gardener to keep the Wisteria in check. ",
"I believe it depends on the exterior material. Brick with mortar doesn't do good over time with ivy I've heard. Sire is gorgeous here in this picture. ",
"Millions. ",
"It looks awful",
"Not that slowly. I had to cut mine back twice in the couple of months. It's god damn winter.",
"Termite highway, probably. \n\nedit': Termites that generally live in the ground, and eat dead wood, will use living plants as a ladders to migrate to wooden areas of buildings. ",
"In my experience bees LOVE wisteria. If you or anyone who'd visit are allergic or scared it could be problematic.",
"**NEVER. PLANT.****** ",
"£7,000,000 in August 2015. A bit more now.",
"Why are a majority of those plants in your invasive species list Japanese? Is this a top secret plot by the Japanese government to finally win WW2 by displacing all our natural flora with engineered beautiful death plants?",
"mine had a ton of bees in the late summer (NE USA). mostly bumble bees but i avoid its proximity regardless. when i'm downwind of it the smell is incredible though. ",
"Wisteria grows extremely fast and they're completely bare 51 weeks out of the year.",
"Could be a solution to a problem if it's the inlaws.",
"Mate! Here in Far North Qld where we live, the plants fight back with a vengance. Google wait-a-while vines... It's sole purpose is to snare passing animals so their rotting corpses feed the plant.",
"Plants are famous for their mircoaggressions ",
"This is one of those frequent reposts that I don't mind upvoting every time I see it because I always enjoy seeing it. ",
"> Sire is gorgeous here in this picture. \n \n>Sire\n \nThat's some pretty impressively obsequious term of address you have for a plant there, buddy! ",
"Ok I’ve visited your area many times and did not know about these http://travelnq.com/dangerous-tropical-rainforest-plants/",
"I enjoy tending my garden.",
"You can pay hundreds of thousands of pounds for a garage in that part of London, a house like that is probably £10m or more easily",
"Get out if here with your plant bigoted ideology.",
"Next year: Wisteria plant growing on the remains of former white wall. Seriously this thing can tear apart a house. It is pretty though. ",
"I like to garden too and I worked in high-end residential landscaping for several years in college. Tending Wisteria sucks. It's not like going out and clipping a few deadheads on your flowers. It's like, oh, I need a scissor lift a couple times a year otherwise it will eat my house.\n\nAlso, it looks awesome when it blooms, but it only blooms for a week or so per year. The rest of the time it grows like a couple feet a week in every direction (and some previously undiscovered directions).",
"They're a lovely vining tree with green leaves like any deciduous plant. It's not like they're barren wood for the whole year. Looks just as nice as any other ivy on the side of a building. \n\nedit: though they are a pain to take care of, especially when they get so high.",
"We had it growing on our side fence here which it destroyed. Had a new fence built and the plant is indestructible. 13 years later despite hacking as much of the roots up as possible multiple times, putting runners into bottles of roundup it keeps coming back.\n\nSeriously I hate this plant! ",
"13 years of trying to kill one of these in melbourne and it still comes back each year. ",
"Wasn't intentional. Damn telephone reddit. ",
"I like bees and pollinators more than I like people so I don't think I'd mind :> 🐝🐝🏵️🌷🌺🌻🐝",
"Damn. Crazy plant",
"Your foundation could easily become fucked if you plant this that close to the house.",
"Beautiful pic but I don't recommend planting one of these near your house. They are determined fuckers. I can't get rid of mine, and my neighbour has the same problem. Same with Pampas grass. Once you plant Pampas grass you will have Pampas grass for life, I am told.",
"So... Better to plant further away and guide to the house? maybe put a trellis thing to let it climb on. Would make a nice path\n ",
"I say this with the disclaimer that I'm not a tree guy, but I am a big yard guy (https://imgur.com/a/W0mEk) which in return has led to to research shrubs, trees, etc so my knowledge is limited, but probably slightly more knowledgable than your average Joe.\n\nWith that said, yes, I personally won't plant any large plant close to my house. Planting further away and using a trellis will work but were talking years and years here.\n\nOnce it does get to your house though, you will need to be doing a lot of trimming on it so that it doesn't invade your attic, roof space, go inside walls, etc. You'll have to watch it like a hawk.",
"If you own the house and don't plan on moving you'd have years lol. ",
"Engineered beautiful death plants omg lol "
] | 42 |
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Wisteria plant growing on a white wall
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/r/pics/comments/7pi0se/one_of_torontos_coolest_buildings/
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"That is dope ",
"And epic skatespot",
"Can you please tell me where this is? I’m visiting next week and I love murals ",
"How many of these windows are real?"
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One of Toronto’s Coolest Buildings
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/r/pics/comments/7pi11v/dragon_carved_7_ball/
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"Why did you choose 7 to carve a dragon into a ball?…",
"Dragonball Z.",
"Nice! What are those things made of?",
"Now how are we supposed to play pool?",
"7 Dragonballs"
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Dragon carved 7 ball
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/r/pics/comments/7pi2bw/my_brother_finally_woke_up_from_a_two_year_long/
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"It looks like this post is about US Politics. Various methods of filtering out content relating to US Politics can be found [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/wiki/v2/resources/filter/politics).\n\n*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/pics) if you have any questions or concerns.*",
"Wait... That math isn't adding up homie. ",
"Two year coma and newborn son... some lady’s got some ‘splainin’ to do...",
"Two year long coma = 24 months.\nPregnancy = 9 months.\nTime awake since coma = 2 months.\nNewborn baby boy .... does not compute. ",
"Yeah wait.. 2yrs in coma.. came out of coma to meet his newborn... ",
"Oh god",
"You know, many men still get erections while comatose. Not saying raping your husband while he's out cold is acceptable, but it is one way of getting this done.",
"I'm really interested in hearing how this timeline worked out, I think we all are....",
"You gotta start asking questions, Steve.",
"It was so sweet of her to put off giving birth until he was awake! Lol",
"Guys I think we all know OP did this on purpose.",
"/r/theydidntdothemath",
"more amazingly, once out of the coma, he can now breastfeed.",
"Firstly recapitate is spelled wrong and, I'm not sure the word is being used correctly.",
"Someone has some splaining to do!",
"A picture of a guy and a newborn",
"OP where did you learn math?\n\nOP did you make the kid?",
"Now that’s a twist I want to see"
] | 18 |
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My brother finally woke up from a two year long coma two months ago. Since he has recapictated and is again on two feet. Upon his return, the only thing more surprising to him than Donald Trump was his newborn son 😊 show them some love reddit!!
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/r/pics/comments/7pi5a2/i_just_found_a_blood_drain/
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[
"Are you in a slaughterhouse?",
"Spoiler alert...\n\n...they go down the same pipe.",
"Our local hardware store. According to my father, that's all it has ever been.",
"Blood goes down the one side because it's thicker than the water. The water would back up otherwise.",
"I wouldn’t get too close with the owner then ",
"Second that! ",
"Koch brothers got their hands in errything ",
"Ohh, because it's thicker...right?",
"Nope. Those are floor mounted shower heads."
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I just found a blood drain
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/r/pics/comments/7pi5mv/how_brave_are_you/
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[
"Some stuff shouldnt leave peoples brains.",
"I feel sorry for the guy who's small enough that he actually could.",
"/u/laughinggas, thank you for your submission! Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule I - No screenshots. This includes pictures of screens and photos where the interest is the contents of a screen.\n\n* Rule IV - Title violates title guidelines.\n\nYour title must not ask for general information or feedback. \n\nYou can read the full information about our title guidelines at /r/pics/w/titles\n\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/laughinggas&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7pi5mv/how_brave_are_you/?context=10\\))"
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How brave are you?
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/r/pics/comments/7pi9l0/a_somali_fisherman_carries_a_sailfish_to_the/
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"Photograph: Mohamed Abdiwahab ([source](http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/somali-fisherman-carries-a-sailfish-on-his-head-to-the-news-photo/901446892#somali-fisherman-carries-a-sailfish-on-his-head-to-the-hamarweyne-picture-id901446892))",
"Like a boss.",
"\"Yes, I just caught and killed this big ass fish with my bare hands. Yes, it's heavy.\"",
"Those are some dapper fishing clothes. And I am guessing that catch weighs just about as much as the man. "
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A Somali fisherman carries a sailfish to the Hamarweyne fish market near the port in Mogadishu, Somalia
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/r/pics/comments/7piavi/manuscript_length_receipt_for_this_nasal_spray/
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[
"Related note, one of my favorite lines from the Netflix show, “Big Mouth” is when the coach has pink eye and he’s walking around blinded and says, “is this a Walgreens?! I need a Van Helsing DVD and a 6 foot receipt!!”",
"Do not insert rectally, or if you do, don't trigger the spray. We did not study this on human rectums. And your nose will still drip. \n\nMay cause abortions. May cause sterility. May cause flatulence. Or in rare cases all three. \n\nNot known to cause diarrhea, but if you have diarrhea stop using it. There is a 1 dollar off coupon for our anti-diarrheal spray below. Use that. We do not however honor coupons with brown spotting or really any wet spotting on them at all. \n\nNot for canine use. But if you are sharing, spray your nose first. \n\nHave a lovely CVS day. ",
"I usually tear off the real receipt and hand the rest back."
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Manuscript length receipt for this nasal spray. Thanks CVS
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/r/pics/comments/7picxw/you_can_now_see_the_amount_of_sugar_that_is_added/
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"What country is this?",
"🇺🇸The greatest country on earth 🇺🇸\n\nThat’s where.",
"Canada?"
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You can now see the amount of sugar that is added by the food manufacturer beginning July of this year.
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/r/pics/comments/7pieq4/how_my_taxi_driver_in_cuba_wore_his_seatbelt/
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"r/osha",
"At least he wore it",
"At least he had a seatbelt! Considering all those classic cars kept on Cuba...",
"It's absolutely amazing how many of those classics are on the road. Before I visited, I thought there would be a handful. However, it's the complete opposite. ",
"What I've heard is that many of them are maintained in *driveable* condition because of tourists - as a taxi cars. No wonder - one of the last places in the world where you can see them on streets and not considered or registered as historic cars ;)",
"Ain't broke, don't fix it",
"If you brake hard enough it activates the emergency brake it's genius ",
"Actually it was literally broke so he fixed it",
"Pretty much. A few are completely original, which is super impressive. ",
"Yeah, communism/ socialism is a real hoot! "
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How my taxi driver in Cuba wore his seatbelt
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/r/pics/comments/7pihgr/lake_erie_froze_fast_this_year/
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[
"/r/mechanophobia & /r/megalophobia ",
"Good news is that means it's probably still mainly water. 30 years ago it was more likely to catch on fire than freeze ",
"This photo needs a banana for scale.",
"Iv been around these ships a lot. That forward prop marker on the CSL ore ship is about 5 bananas tall."
] | 4 |
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Lake Erie froze fast this year.
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/r/pics/comments/7pijg9/bad_day_of_fishin_beats_a_good_day_at_work/
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"https://i.imgur.com/kTFrhbB.png",
"My coworker had that as a tattoo.",
"You know that's right! "
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Bad Day of Fishin’ Beats a Good Day at Work
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/r/pics/comments/7pijyf/the_progression_of_these_bumper_stickers/
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[
"Might be Oprah. ",
"Ah, it hurts. ",
"You get a vote! And *you* get a vote!",
"Nothing shows disapproval of a billionaires television President quite like electing another one ",
"I would vote for you",
"I wouldn't ",
"I would",
"Heh, Putin there in the corner.",
"This is better than the people who put \"Lock her up!\" or \"Fuck Trump!\" on their cars.",
"[Here](https://i.redd.it/oi4dxkxs29901.jpg) is a much higher quality version of this image. I appears that /u/Dresslerj1 may [be the photographer](https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalHumor/comments/7pfw1o/the_progression_of_my_coworkers_bumper_stickers/).",
"dresslerj1 is me, yes",
"Thank you for confirming. Just wanted to give credit where it was due.",
"You have a funny coworker :)",
"no prob.. my user name is the same here and imgur",
"detective /u/Spartan2470 reporting in",
"Indeed. Being agressive never helped anyone. ~~except the hulk~~",
"I would vote for Pedro ",
"Why does it have to be fake? It is possible to custom orders bumper stickers, or even make them yourself.",
"Can't wait to choose between Oprah and Zuckerberg in the primary. God damn our country is broken lol. ",
"Vlad the Imp",
">Being agressive never helped anyone.\n\nThere are many people who have been helped by aggression and violence. I appreciate the notion behind this statement, that we shouldn't *have* to be aggressive and violent to protect certain ideals, but the blindingly obvious truth is that aggression and violence are necessary in many instances. You cannot fight amoral aggression by wishing it away. \n\nHere's some [quotes about the necessity of violence from Gandhi](http://www.mkgandhi.org/nonviolence/phil8.htm). \n\nE: grammar",
"The sad truth is that where I live, if I had that bottom bumper sticker, my car would get keyed or otherwise vandalized. I could definitely get away with the Bernie one. The Hillary one is iffy.",
"So, who are the people that we should be killing or attacking?",
"I am no Trump voter, but if anyone is still buying into this whole absurd narrative that Putin had anything to do with Trump getting elected, then I am afraid you are completely jaded by your politics. This is probably one of the most extreme and publicized investigations of all time, and has produced little to no real evidence that Russia had any significant impact on the election, much less that Trump and Putin colluded in any way to win him the race. Not living in the US, I don't really care one way or another, but let's be real, I feel like the media just spun me around on their cock for a good 9 months and then dumped me on the curb without even throwing me a hot dollar. I know downvotes are expected for voicing such an opinion, so, I will take it in stride.",
"Remember when Mitt Romney was the favorite, but most Republican found him boring. [I like this comic.](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/14/1e/be/141ebe290a67c7e92cdeee5df59ece70.jpg)",
"**Bumper stickers**. More of the amazing quality content I have come to expect from r/pics! Let's check the scoreboard and see how we did:\n\n* ✔ Anti-Trump\n* ✔ Pro-Bernie\n* ✔ Picture of words\n* ✔ Adding to the circlejerk\n* ✔ Low-effort\n* ☐ Creepshot\n* ☐ Re-post\n\n...we missed a few, but I still I think we have top of r/pics material right here!!!!",
"Can you not think of a single instance in history where violence was used to achieve a greater moral good and was successful? \n\n",
"Running is good for you, but you're going to have to sleep every now and then. ",
"You sound like a Trump supporter. Your opinions are worthless. Go back to T_D, mouthbreather.",
"Democracy is a imperialist tool of the capitalist class which exerts their will onto the masses under the guise of representing the interests of the majority. Only once we break free of our chains and form a dictatorship of the proletariat will we be finally free from this proto-fascist police state bullshit. ",
"Interesting approach. ",
"Are you sure they would understand that it's not a pro trump sticker?",
"US intelligence agencies are the ones saying Putin was involved in getting Trump elected. The media is just reporting what they're saying. [Why do you believe almost all US intelligence is wrong on this issue?](http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/jul/06/17-intelligence-organizations-or-four-either-way-r/)",
"Fans of the Paul brothers.",
"The downvotes may be because you bemoan the lack of results while the investigation is *actually ongoing*.\n\nThat’s like Trump saying “I don’t have to be interviewed when there’s no collusion proven”\n\nNo shit, idiot. The purpose of the interview is *to actually determine if there was collusion*. If it could be proven there was collusion (or obstruction of justice) without meeting you, there would be no need to meet you in the first place!!!\n\nAnyway regarding the ongoing investigation, when have you known a police agency to publish results of their investigation as they go along, much less the **motherfucking** FBI?",
"Because that's complete bullshit.",
"It's sad that I can't tell whether you're joking or not.",
"Do your homework, the statements you are referring to were [overblown lies and hyperbole](http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/a-rather-large-new-york-times-correction/article/2627527). As we have already seen in more recent reporting, all of these alphabet soup agencies have their own axes to grind and should not be trusted. Do you trust the CIA, I sure as hell don't. ",
"Anyone who would key a car over a bumper sticker would not try to comprehend it first. \n\nSee someone they don’t like? Key",
"If you can’t tell if he is joking or not, then you are probably commie scum. Go back to your hole, Bernie supporter.",
"I think we both know that if these morons had anything, it would have been revealed months ago. Being that it has gone on this long and produced NO appreciable results is a sign that the whole escapade was a political hit job. ",
"r/latestagecapitalism",
"Lol, you still believe in your precious dossier. That is adorable. It is funny, cause that is going to be what will eventually sink you at the end of it.",
"Didn't Trump kinda win by being aggressive?",
"Get in the helicopter.",
"I still can’t get over the DNC fucking Bernie and some how they still have support. Until the DNC makes major changes I will vote independent and don’t give a shit if trump wins again. The DNC fucked us all!",
"Educate yourself. Free yourself from the the brainwashing of the bourgeoisie. Read some Marx/Lenin/Kropotkin. Together our chains will be broken when we rise up against the bourgeoisie and capitalist class. \n\n>Dictatorship is rule based directly upon force and unrestricted by any laws. The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat is rule won and maintained by the use of violence by the proletariat against the bourgeoisie, rule that is unrestricted by any laws\n\n- Vladimir Lenin ",
"Drill baby drill circa 2008",
"That was 0-10 very quickly my dude.",
"The left.",
"Putin or not, Facebook Inc. and other internet advertising companies have gone on the record saying that on the order of hundreds of thousands of dollars of political ads targeting voters in swing states were purchased by Russian clients in the days and weeks before the 2016 US presidential election. Are you disputing that?\n\n\nThe various high-level meetings between Russian officials and Trump campaign staff including Kushner... also confirmed.\n\n\nIt's obvious that Trump is a bit of a Russophile (his favorite child is named Ivanka!) and probably has debts and financiers in Russia who can exert influence over him.\n\n\nBut I suspect that Putin was involved to some degree, certainly favoring Trump over HRC. And one does not become as powerful and influential as Putin by sitting back and letting events unfold without attempts to steer them.\n\n\nI really don't care much, whatever helps decrease the likelihood of nuclear war, and helps maintain peoples' liberty. But it is obvious to me that Vladimir Putin is **the** most politically powerful individual in human history, that Trump will do his bidding, so to speak, and that anyone who thinks 'The Russian Government' or at least 'Russian organizations' didn't attempt to influence the outcome of the 2016 US presidential election is ignorant or delusional. ",
"The Watergate investigation took two years, give it time.",
"You just posted an opinion piece... as evidence... ",
">I think we both know that if these morons had anything, it would have been revealed months ago. Being that it has gone on this long and produced NO appreciable results is a sign that the whole escapade was a political hit job. \n\nNo it's a sign that you don't take a shot at the king until you're sure you won't miss. You are either ignorant or a troll, or more likely both. \n",
"So, for thread harmony and understanding, are you claiming that aggression and violence is suitable and could be deemed appropriate against a group at this very moment, or that it was once of benefit at some point in history? ",
"Fuck man.. Now I'm confused. Are you joking? \n",
"Isis? ",
"I'm going to guess from your language that your mind can't be changed but I urge you to examine [this](http://watergate.info/chronology). 9 months between initial crime and first arrests in watergate. Several years between crime and resignation. There have already been indictments in the Trump-Russia scandal.\n",
"DAE Russia and Trump!!!!1!!11!",
"This propaganda is tired. Y'all need new copy writers.",
"Why did Facebook let them do it?",
"I actually have one that says, \"Don't blame me I voted for the OTHER Mike\".",
"The irony here is precious. ",
"Its all perspective. Violence is of benefit to many that would like to increase their power (ISIS, Russia, U.S., etc). It is also of benefit to many movements especially, but not limited to, those in underdeveloped nations, including civil rights movements, coups, and the like. \n\nIn a perfect world where shitty people didn't exist, sure it wouldn't be needed. Welcome to being human.",
"It has been used to benefit individuals and large groups in the past. There are many instances throughout history, although instances of senselessly destructive violence are far greater.\n\nI've grown to dislike the limitations put on thinking by overly idealistic (and demonstrably untrue) statements like \"aggression never helps anyone\". People should envision for themselves at what point violence is acceptable instead of using a blanket statement that doesn't even allow it as a consideration, treating it like pure evil. ",
"Get to the chopper.",
"Just needs a giant meteor one",
"Grow the fuck up, asshole",
"The local car meet had a Corvette wrapped in Trump sticker. Looked like a campaign bus. I heard it burned down - someone set it on fire...",
"Definitely a Russian troll /s",
"I'm not going to advocate for killing or attacking anyone, but we should be verbally aggressive towards people who's ideology is killing and betraying our country and our people.",
"Found the person we should be attacking.",
"Just because it's gone on a relatively long time compared to the hurricane of media bs the Trump administration pumps out doesn't mean it isn't going anywhere. Why would the FBI publish any dirt they had on anyone to let them run? They need to gather a tremendous amount of evidence to overwhelmingly prove guilt. It would take a lot to get you to believe right? As it should. I'm sorry you're taking a karma hit for your opinion but Mueller needs to build a case and it won't be in the public even though we've been conditioned to expect news constantly.",
"I remember my grandpa fighting in the War of Verbal Aggression in Germany in the early 40s. Saved a lot of Jews armed with nothing but his rhetoric",
"Yeah! Fuck Democratic primary voters! Only my opinion matters!",
"Roger roger ",
"How you doing buddy? Feeling a little tired? You wanna take a nap?",
"Mitt Romney? That nut [who said Russia was the US's biggest geopolitical adversary](http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/oct/22/barack-obama/obama-romney-called-russia-our-top-geopolitical-fo/)? What an out of touch loser!",
"lol putin in the back",
"Your English isn't half bad. Those troll farms you guys have are getting really good. ",
"> Remember when Mitt Romney was the favorite, but most Republican found him boring.\n\nSome may have found him boring, but it had more to do with the fact that he didn't align with a large portion of the party and he was responsible for signing a health care bill while governor of MA very similar to the one President Obama signed that a lot of people wanted to fix or undo. The party base has grown increasingly tired of people like John McCain, who never misses an opportunity to throw a wrench in the works when the party is actually trying to follow through on the things it has promised, or Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan who don't care what was promised in the first place. That's why the republican turnout for McCain and Romney was lackluster, especially when compared to the awesome turnout President Obama generated with moderates and his party's base. That's also why the top two republican candidates during the primary, Trump and Ted Cruz, weren't part of the party establishment. Donors are starting to back moves to get rid of RINOs and wishy-washy establishment stooges. McConnell took a huge hit during his last primary challenge, and his opponent, who is now governor of KY, took a much larger chunk of the vote than he should have been able to considering McConnell's leadership position.",
"> I think we both know that if these morons had anything, it would have been revealed months ago.\n\nIf Susan Rice and Susan Powers couldn't find anything while abusing the intelligence and law enforcement powers of the federal government I don't have a lot of faith that Mueller is going to find anything using appropriate legal methods.",
"I'm not sure what you're saying, but I don't know that we're at a place in many of our conflicts that we should literally be going to war. Who do you think we should be going to war against?\n\nBut yes, maybe, the Nazi party wouldn't have risen to power if more Germans were more vocally and publicly aggressive against it.",
"How stupid must you feel knowing the dossier was faked the DNC rigged their own primary and dug their own grave. It’s all fake news. You are fake news. ",
"Oh god, we got downvoted, I was just trying to contribute to what I thought was a good ole joke thread :( ",
"I heard they rugged the hell right over some hardwood floors in their pizza basement",
"It’s always funny to me the people who have the “Love trumps hate” sticker. You dislike Trump so much but you still have his name on your car! ",
"Can't wait to hit front page!",
"Mine was Feel the Bern, then...\n\n Ok then America , feel the burn (Trump)",
"Of course it is, it's *Politifact*. They have a bad habit of taking a claim, spending a paragraph relating the information that proves it's true, then using several paragraphs of subjective analysis to spin that information to fit whatever narrative they're trying to sell. Just look at how the piece /u/Inspector-Space_Time is written. Trump was hitting the press for claiming 17 agencies claimed Russia meddled in the election. The press retracted that claim under pressure from Trump and others. Now Politifact is right that it doesn't matter if all 17 agencies agreed, and it is still significant that four of them do. Yet the point of the article was supposed to be whether or not 17 agencies agreed, and they didn't, and instead of saying \"yeah, Trump is actually right on this one\" they spend several paragraphs trying to say whether he's right or not doesn't matter. That's just disingenuous, but it's par for the course with *Politifact*'s assessments.",
"Guillotine was pretty violent ",
"Nobody ever seriously suggested he was wrong that Russia was a geopolitical foe. However, he used this statement as his justification for his plan to build a crapload of new ships for the navy, to the tune of billions. During Romney's campaign his advisor on the navy was John Lehman, a man who had huge personal financial stakes in the contractors who would be building these ships.\n\n\n\nAt the time I thought he was trying to scare us into more military spending we did not need, and I still believe that. If he'd been talking about cyber security in 2012, this whole \"zomg Romney was right about Russia\" thing would have a leg to stand on. He was stressing their danger as a conventional military threat - they did not pose such a threat in 2012 and they don't pose one today. Their conventional military strength is a tiny fraction of America's, and their world power derives almost entirely from their nuclear arsenal. There is no number of aircraft carriers we can build that will reduce the threat of ICBM attacks.",
"I thought it was hilarious.. The masses seem to take everything at face value nowadays.. What are ya gonna do?",
"Yeah they've never all been wrong before.",
"She does need to be locked up.",
"I mean in terms of sheer capability he has a point. Russia is surreptitiously trying to undermine the US and has tools to do some damage. \n\nSure, there are factions that are openly attacking the United States, but Russia is certainly more capable. Depends on how you view the concept.",
"There was no Russia collusion, the DNC was proven to rig the primary for HRC, the Russian Dossier was proven to be fake, Bill Clinton assaulted women and HRC was actively suppressing dozens of accusers, and Democrat run cities like Baltimore and Detroit have been systematically destroyed through liberal policies. \n\nNone of these things are my opinion- they are all facts- anything more for me mr fake news?",
"Wow. I see the Hillary shills are out in full force tonight! The DNC influenced the primaries to swing the election in favor of Hillary. It was their fault for promoting such a shitty candidate when Bernie could have destroyed Trump. The problem is with the DNC, why can't you guys see that? Nobody wants to talk about it. \"No not now. Nows not the time. We need to defeat Trump.\" The reason Trump won is because of the DNC. The DNC actually lost to trump. Pathetic. And nobody wants to talk about that. Now is the time to fix the corrup dnc. NOW!",
"This guy isn't looking for actual evidence; he already has his mind made up regardless.",
"All of those quotes from Ghandi about about a proverbial or literal gun to your head. I think it's acceptable to say \"aggression isn't the answer\" in the topic of a fucking bumper sticker.\n\nIt's just being contrarian",
"rea$on$",
"Trump has WMDs hidden in a coffee can in the Trump tower kitchen. They said that too. ",
"> Nobody ever seriously suggested he was wrong that Russia was a geopolitical foe.\n\nPer my link, it sounds like Obama wanted to seriously convince the public that Romney was wrong:\n\n>\"Gov. Romney, I'm glad that you recognize that al-Qaida is a threat, because a few months ago when you were asked what's the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said Russia, not al-Qaida. You said Russia ... the 1980s, they're now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because, you know, the Cold War's been over for 20 years,\" Obama said.\n\nBut yes, I agree that Romney could easily have had ulterior motives for that or any of his positions. I just think the \"controversy\" of that statement at the time is ironic in hindsight.",
"what about both?",
"Heartbreaking, really :(",
" How's the dossier working out for ya? Keep up with fake news much? Love ya, mean it. ",
"Can we get a photo?",
"I am impressed that democrats managed to find someone even worse than Hillary.\n\nIt is great seeing republicans attack Oprah though. They just don't see the irony...",
"To be fair, Obama said that before Russia meddled in our elections and installed a compromised president, as part of their work to get the [Magnitsky Act](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnitsky_Act) act removed/repealed/defanged.\n\nEveryone knew Putin hated it, (Bill Browder gave an [excellent outline to the senate](https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/07/bill-browders-testimony-to-the-senate-judiciary-committee/534864/) of just why it was so important to Putin), but no one really guessed that they'd go as far as election-meddling to try to circumvent it.",
"Do you make it a habit of saying a bunch of things you've been told as if they are factual statements when they are pretty easily debunked?",
"You are fake news",
"I know! Why aren't MY ideals accepted by a majority of the my party, let alone the whole country?",
"Yea",
"if only reddit could learn from this.",
"Cool but why do you need to put it on your car",
"Seriously wtf dude?? He brought up a legitimate point and your gonna bash him like this? Classic reddit hivemind",
"They would not ",
"Nothing shows a lack of sense of humour like taking these comments seriously",
"It does get a bit tiring winning all the time. ",
"Nice parody, you really sound as stupid as Trump does, good job!",
"Next sticker: Oprah? Really???",
">To be fair, Obama said that before Russia meddled in our elections and installed a compromised president\n\nThere's still no evidence that this happened and [it appears to have been a corrupt FBI's \"insurance policy\" against the \"wrong\" outcome of the election](http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454909/trump-russia-steele-dossier-fbis-insurance-policy-clinton-campaign). The dossier that began all of this nonsense was concocted by a foreign agent and was funded by the Democrats.",
"All in favor say ye",
"Username checks out",
"Is anyone really winning right now?",
"And mittens said that he had a binder FULL of women, it shows that he doesn’t respect women.",
"Yes and it’s well deserved.\nFuck those assholes who were just jilling off on Election Day.",
"Wow you are so delusional it's funny",
"Haha",
"Oh.",
"As a Russian...how DARE you use come into a lighthearted subreddit and espouse the twisted morals of the Soviet Union. How dare you use these mens words to support your ill-suited, twisted fantasy of domination and subjugation of those around you. You did not live to have your families taken in secret to the gulag for re-education. You did not live to watch your brothers and sisters starve to death on the collective farms. This is not your history and not in your mind, so you pay it no heed while you spout off about how great Lenin and Marx were. You do NOT understand the pain and destruction these policies caused and inspired in what would have been honest, normal men. You do not realize how these people opened the doors of the sadistic mind and allowed oppression to reign free in a world were such things have no right.\n\nEducate YOURSELF.\n\n\"After the Soviet Union dissolved, evidence from the Soviet archives became available, containing official records of the execution of approximately 800,000 prisoners under Stalin for either political or criminal offenses, around 1.7 million deaths in the Gulags and some 390,000 deaths during kulak forced resettlement – for a total of about 3 million officially recorded victims in these categories.[54]\" - Wikipedia\n\nIf that is the world that you want to live in, I suggest you look deep into your soul and find what you really wish to stand for and live by. Because Communism isn't it.",
"You're a towel!",
"I think you missed the point of it. ",
"Found the Russian bot.",
"Shouldn't the last one just say \"God Damn it.\"",
"*hears Ride of the Valkyries in the distance* \n \nSeems like they've already prepared the helicopters... ",
"Put what there in the corner?",
">dresslerj1 is me, yes\n\nShe didn't confirm she was the photographer, just that she is, in fact, /u/Dresslerj1",
"Billionaires.",
"constitutionists and American workers. ",
"Most everyone in the Trump administration, duh.",
"The best part is that that you could take that as a pro-Trump slogan too. It's only anti-Trump if you think Trump is nothing but hateful (he isn't.)",
"Righteous anger and powerful rhetoric is what spurs people to action. It's the very basis of political activism.",
"Well that, and literally every intelligence agency we have came out and said Russia meddled. The issue isn't if Russia helped to get Trump elected, but Trump's role in it.",
"Because it's funny",
"Vote for #6.",
"Would rather have Mitt Romney over who we have now. He was at least presidential. ",
"He's a very stable genius they hate they love.",
"Nice try Vlad",
"I like you, you tell it like it is",
"I would think so. I never saw a single Hillary bumper sticker and only one Hillary yard sign prior to the election. The Trump stickers are still everywhere. I'm in a red area with a significant majority who are very pro-Trump, some very militantly so.",
"This almost summarizes Reddit, but it would need about 32 more trump stickers ",
"Maybe we should get rid of the Nazis first.",
"Just end it already.",
"> Being agressive never helped anyone.\n\n.......what?",
"There's no evidence, if you ignore all the evidence.",
"hillary missed a slam dunk by losing to (according to that book that just came out) an idiotic, ignorant, unqualified man-baby who didn't even want to win. What does it mean? come on, downvoters and admit it: she is not as charismatic and well liked as her entourage makes her believe. she was terrible and trump even worse, what a shit show.\n\nedit: people always downvote me when i bring this up, worded just like that. i wonder why.",
"Can you for a moment think about what life would be like with out violence and force? We would have nothing to kill each other over because the evil in society wouldn't have agressed on us in the first place.",
"First thought haha that’s the sign of a true pro when it comes to taking credit and lying. Give enough truth that you aren’t really lying, just not saying everything. ",
"An interesting combo I saw last year. This old beat Subaru near my place had a Bernie Sanders sticker and a Hillary for prison sticker. Then after Sanders lost the nomination, they slapped a Jill Stein across Bernie Sanders. Pretty interesting example of an upset portion of the liberal population who is also somewhat anti establishment. \n\nEDIT: [I actually found the picture of it](https://imgur.com/a/kprLn)",
"No I know exactly the point... that’s why I said it’s funny. ",
"Yeah if antifa existed at all and not a Boogeyman made up by Fox News. Communist sympathetizers? Did you grow up in the 50s or something?",
"I'm not a she, and yes I was the photographer",
"Trump derangement syndrome can trigger an episode in a otherwise mentally fit individual. ",
"the “lock her up!” sentiment is so fucking laughable in the face of all the corrupt bullshit this administration has pulled. ",
"And at the time, Obama was sanctioning Russia. Nothing says “fuck you, I wish you would pop some shit off” Like sanctions",
"Please stop lying.",
"r/pics back at it again with the low quality propaganda.",
"Nice photo\n\nIs this on your car?",
"Source? None? Fuck off.",
"What evidence is there? You guys always allude to it but can never specify what it is.\n\nHow did the Russians alter the outcome of the election? I want to know the mechanism and see the proof. I have yet to hear a theory that isn't absurd.",
"Clearly, just never make a joke unless it includes the expense of net neutrality, your boss, or the board of education of a small town. Such is the Reddit way.",
"Everything I said is factual.",
"You've got an interesting definition of \"winning\".",
"The username + comment is just mind blowing. ",
"And McCain said it four years before him. ",
"You've gone very far down the partisan rabbit hole if you think someone is a Russian bot for stating facts.",
"[Nevermind...](https://imgur.com/arRLMIy)",
"Right, stating facts makes me a Russian...",
"Except he is. ",
"Lol typical Reddit. Upvoting low quality propaganda and downvoting truthful comments like yours.",
"People trusted her even less, I guess",
"No",
"It's gotta be hard to breath with your head that far under the sand.",
"Climate change is a gun to everyone's head.\n\nFuck Trump.",
"Fall in line dude, grow up",
"American tribalism is fucking hilarious. Never change... don't blow everyone up, please... but never change. <3 You're a source of unending hilarity for the rest of the world and help us remember that we don't have it so bad. Thank you.",
"Understandable have a nice day ",
"She been trying to publicly lose weight longer than 2020 voting wildcards have been alive. ",
"Trump named her daughter Ivanka...LMAO, his daughter's name comes from her mom. I am not even Trump support, but how can you blindly write this shit.",
"Wow... you ok?",
"Again, he set it up as a reason for why we needed a military build up - carrying the implication that an armed conflict with Russia is a threat we needed to be worried about and should start preparing to face. That wasn't realistic then and it isn't realistic now.\n\n\n\nThe first sentence \"Russia is our number one geopolitical foe\" is not unreasonable, it's the whole rest of the argument that follows it where Romney starts proposing bad policy. I won't deny that in 2012 I didn't have the slightest inkling that Russia would try election sabotage... but absolutely nothing Romney said leads me to believe that he had the slightest inkling either.\n\n\nHe called out the right target, but showed absolutely no foresight with regard to the nature of the threat or how to combat it. Aside from which, \"Putin is a malicious actor who views American influence as an obstacle to expanding his own\" was not exactly an earth-shattering revelation, even in 2012.\n\n\n\nIndeed, the mere fact that Putin resorted to these propaganda attacks to try and make us undermine our own power is a direct consequence of the fact that the US military cannot realistically be challenged. He wanted to paint them as a military threat, but they weren't.",
"Sorry, he's being ... uhhhhh... relocated. ",
"I for one welcome our new reality TV show overlords. I’d like to remind them that as a reddit user I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in our Pay-Per-View gulags.",
"The last one must be made by a Nirvana fan, because \"never mind\" is two words. Millennials, amiright?! ",
"[Here's evidence of what I'm saying](http://www.nationalreview.com/article/454909/trump-russia-steele-dossier-fbis-insurance-policy-clinton-campaign).",
"Imagine being so removed from reality that you don't only believe that America is being controlled by Russia, but that you broadcast it to the world.",
"I would be happy to see both of them locked up.",
"It's not the masses. It's that there are people who unironicly talk like that.\n\nThe entire world feels like a poe right now. ",
"When all else fails, force prevails.",
"Don’t forget to come up for air when you’re keeping your head stuck in the sand. Better yet, don’t. ",
"No one took to heart PT Barnum's quote, \"... just spell my name right.\"",
"locking hillary up at this point would be a waste of tax payers money. the cheetoh should be put on a rocket and sent to planet fuck-off. \n\nedit: haha love the up and downs on this. - if you still support trump at this point, you need a fucking lobotomy and the appropriate form of sterilization. Hil is a plug too, but you Trump supporters are completely warped. ",
"Why is that so shocking? There's literally Nazi sympathisers, an equally as bad ideology",
"I know quite a good deal of people like this. At the end of the day, for me, the most important thing was not having Trump.\n\nAaaand here we are",
"Shhh! Don’t mention the widespread use of fracking and pipeline building that happened under Obama. ",
"I feel like every Subaru Outback has a Bernie sticker on it.",
"dispenser ",
"You're the one parroting a lie the Democrat elites came up with to save their jobs. It doesn't really require your conspiracy theory to understand the result of the election when you realize that the Democrats just fucked up and forced an unelectable candidate on us.",
"He must think “CSI”s timeline reflects actual investigations...",
"It means you might be underestimating the stupidity of the American public. He also lost the popular vote by 3mil and just barely won the electoral vote. \n\nEdit: my mistake ya'll! I remember it being closer. Thank you for the correction.",
"Everything I said was true.",
"Yes because the \"reign of terror\" was successful and of a greater moral good",
"Feel the autism ",
"You can literally just youtube hundreds of videos of antifa riots and protests right now...What do you mean boogeyman made up...\n\nLike, it's fine if you don't think they're as big a threat as fox news makes them, but to pretend they don't exist is ignorance.",
">I think it's acceptable to say \"aggression isn't the answer\" in the topic of a fucking bumper sticker.\n\nOf course it's acceptable, just as it is to discuss a divergent opinion, indeed history and fact, on a venue created for the purpose of discussion. I disagree it's contrarian, no irony intended. \"Being aggressive never helped anyone\" is limiting to the point of being potentially dangerous. Put some thought into whether these short, punchy overly idealistic slogans should be believed or supported. \n",
"Noprah ",
"Well, considering Hillary didn't commit any crimes...\n\nEdit: [for you haters.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzOzSomiDCs)",
"Short term maybe.\n\nBut long term there's a reasonable chance that he becomes the first president to be removed from office via impeachment, his entire business empire will crumble, multiple people among his supporters will end up in jail, and he might even end up in jail. ",
"very few people actively liked hillary honestly\n\nfor most she was the lesser of two evils\n",
"Where do you live? ",
"He's not wrong.. \n\nbee boop",
"It's sad that you actually dislike one more than the other. You should hate both groups...",
"I like the one where it says \"Meteor 2016: Just end it already\"\n\nSomeone at my apartment has it.",
"Jobs for black and Hispanic Americans at record highs. Damn racists.",
"It's less absurd than Trump being president but still, how about people experienced with legistlation this time?",
"Putin",
"> What does it mean?\n\nOprah's turn!",
"I’m sure she has earned it as well. ",
"American partisanship in a nutshell.",
"Why do you care what he puts on his car?",
"I voted for Hillary dude. And every Bernie or bust person definitely sucks. But we can't ignore the problem that the dnc is corrupt. Bernie Sanders knows this and is trying to set a standard for us to follow. And everyone is ignoring his message of integrity, accountability, and standing up for the little man. Fact of the matter is that the DNC doesn't stand up for the little man. They're bought by Pharmaceutical companies and they accept lots of donations from corporations and businesses. (The GOP is much worse on this btw). We should demand change from them. That is Bernies message and many people unfortunately still don't get it. \n\nSorry for the long post btw. I just really needed to get that off my chest",
"Вы говорите по-русски? Judging by your name you're German?",
"He brought up a debunked conspiracy theory and is just trying to fan the flames of dissension, much like you're doing.",
"Wow, OP waited an entire 7 hours to repost this\n",
" It was funded by Republicans first (before Trump was the nominee), and then again by the Clinton campaign. And what does being a \"foreign agent\" have to say about the credibility of the report? Would it have somehow been more credible were it written by \"domestic agents\", or are you just trying to use spooky words to make a point?",
"Wow... still no source?",
"Um they exist, but their movement is dwindling since it became so cringey. Plus a bunch of them got doxxed so they are more aware of the risks i think.",
"***BEING AGGRESSIVE NEVER HELPED ANYONE.***",
"Cringe ",
"Bullshit. Love wins. You're just justifying your Trump hate.",
"> Pretty interesting example of an upset portion of the liberal population who is also somewhat anti establishment. \n\n45% of Democratic primary voters.",
"Pretty offensive insulting someone based on their skin color",
"yeh, we don’t need justice. let’s throw everyone in prison who’s probably earned it. ",
"All your wildest dreams will come true",
"Then why did Trump just refuse to be interviewed by the FBI?",
"What an emotional rollercoaster.",
"wut",
"Neither her nor trump have been charged with anything let alone convicted, so what would be the difference?",
"That was my 2016",
"Pretty sure he doesn't actually hate everything.",
"So has Donald Trump. The man looks like a sack of rotting potatoes. Who gives a shit?",
"return of the mack ",
"Oh that helps\n\nDumbest shit I've read in a while, and I read some Trump quotes today",
"Well, rich people will *probably* be okay ",
"cognitive dissonance is a hell of a drug.",
"> It's sad that you actually dislike one more than the other.\n\nWell, one side is literally calling for genocide and ran someone over with a car, and the other isn't. If you can't see the difference there you're blind.",
"\"...and the republicans during the primary, and according to fusion gps congress testimony, was not what prompted the FBI to investigate the Trump campaign in 2016.",
"I bet those binders weren't even 3 ringed.",
"Aggression and Violence only \"help\" when you take it to a natural conclusion and become a tyrant, otherwise it just continues to escalate. \n\n",
"More Russia bullshit that everybody believes without any proof because it makes them feel good.",
"> if only reddit could learn from this.\n\n**if only reddit could learn from this.**",
"Cool. ",
"From behind pls.",
"[This book that plays a large part in how Russia sees itself as a world power in post-Soviet times says otherwise](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics)",
"For me the most important part was fucking the system over. I didn't care about all the bipartisan nonsense, Trump was the man for my job.\n\nEverything has been the same for too long, and 8 years of Obama did nothing for me. They did nothing for women either, btw, all the Weinstein level shit came out thanks to Trump. I wanted Bernie and when I couldn't have him I wanted the whole system to just be different.\n\nSo I'm happy Trump got in. ",
"They gotta blame their losses on someone ",
"Well I think history has been kind to Romney's assertion here. Not only is Russia very much a threat (its attempts to unstablize America are mostly to keep Americans inward looking while Russia does it's own thing like annexing Crimea) but our Navy is stretched so thin for the mission it is given we've had multiple major fatal accidents.\n\nAlso Obama literally mocked him for what he said, but he was doing so to belittle him that Romney was wrong.",
"Yeah, they're probably lying. They've done so multiple times so far.",
"Yep. Granted Jill Stein wouldn't have been a good choice either haha. But this individual is likely quite a bit more liberal than me. The story the bumper stickers told was definitely interesting to think about though. It paints a clear picture of the person.",
"> Fuck Democratic primary voters!\n\nYeah, fuck [them!](https://imgur.com/arRLMIy)",
"One of them actually has committed crimes.",
"New Zealand.",
"Well, there is the twitter thing and possibly the influence via this whole Hillary email affair. I'm not a native, so my knowledge is limited? ",
"He won’t answer, but just trust him; Drumpf is finished",
"There was a Facebook page; probably still is. Called something like Fiery Meteor of Doom but I can’t remember exactly.",
"The DNC doesn't really represent a lot of my beliefs, but I was always respectful of them. I am not offended by people who disagree with me, or whom I disagree with, if there is no better reason than that disagreement...but watching them intentionally throw the election pretty well ended that. After that I'm convinced that anyone either of our two favorite parties picks to run will be bad for the nation.",
"I laugh when I think about when he was accused of being a sexist and a racist, we were so young back then. ",
"What do you mean by that?",
"The admins need to do something about the Sanders shill subs. They are so bad that I think they're run by actual Russians. Nonstop headlines about \"it's over for Crooked Hillary\", _still_. As if Mr. Sanders would want people stoking resentment in his name, a year and a half later. Reddit is supposed to be a social media site, not a Russian counterintelligence tool.",
"That's not a legit progression, it's a photo taken for fake internet points. Look at the window, the area where the bumper stickers were applied was just cleaned, the area around *all three stickers*. All three were put on right before the picture was taken. \n\nNext time you want to stage a photo at least clean the whole window so it isn't so obvious that you just put all three stickers on.",
">It was funded by Republicans first (before Trump was the nominee)\n\nAnd? That doesn't make it any less untrue.\n\n>And what does being a \"foreign agent\" have to say about the credibility of the report? \n\nI thought we were against paying foreign agents to dig up dirt on political opponents? Or does that rule only apply to Trump?\n\n>Would it have somehow been more credible were it written by \"domestic agents\", or are you just trying to use spooky words to make a point?\n\nThe Democrats did what they're accusing Trump of.",
"Whats wrong with a politician being boring? I'll never understand that.",
"Your evidence is speculation. Someone’s opinion that you agree with. not fact. You don’t know what evidence is and even if you did and saw it you’d deny it’s very existence. You are a troll. ",
"I miss boring. =(",
"Yeah, but Gandhi was a nuke-slinging madman. Of course he's all about violence. ",
"I hope we eat them first.",
"Shitty cable news will still be spouting impeachment to the morons long after Trumps second term. ",
"I made one that says \"Hindsight 2020\".",
"I thought what about ism was exclusive to the right. TIL. You are obviously ugly and protecting your ego by justifying the hatred you receive and falsely attribute to your physical appearance.",
"Ugh Hilary just did not have a face you could trust ",
"I mean, America was founded by people aggressively throwing tea into the ocean and then very aggressively telling the British that they weren't going to be a colony anymore.\n\nThen after that there was even more aggression and then some aggressive writing and debating and signature signing and the rest is history.",
"So perjury? You know that's a federal offense right? They would be taking huuuuge substantial risks if they were lying, and congressmen who were apart of classified meeting can corroborate their story and tell if they are lying.",
"Try harder",
"Before the election everyone on reddit would have agreed with you. This site was extremely pro Bernie and anti-Hillary/Trump. But everyone's just gunna pretend that's not what happened I guess.",
":thinking: \n\nYou gotta get off the koolaid",
"Because people are morons with short attention spans and shorter memories. They don't want competence, they want excitement.\n\nI'll say this much, at least Oprah is articulate, diplomatic, and seems to have good basic values. It would be a huge step up from where we are now.",
"Once a conviction comes about then you would be correct. That’s kinda how it works. ",
"> There's still no evidence that this happened\n\nNice claim, then you linked to National Review as a source! Lets all point and laugh at you. You might as well used Alex Jones as a source since they are both just as credible.",
"How so? Have you ever actually listened to him talk? I don't mean CNN's \"summary\" either",
"Don Jr. talked to a Russian! But ignore that Hillary paid for a phony dossier in order to ACTUALLY rig an election, we’re talking about impeaching Trump here!",
"Yup obviously just barley lost the electoral vote. \nhttps://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Y034kVLmrUY/WFqa1A_pKZI/AAAAAAAADoY/bM0rWsfTLgEvF2Urj4zwtGC4zEsvYLEXwCLcB/s1600/electoral.college.map.2016_election.night.25.png\n",
"Cyka Blyat comrad. Next brake in the troll farm is in 30 minutes. ",
"Nothin like Putin on bumper stickers!",
"Are they still bumper stickers if they are not on the bumper? Shouldn't they be windshield stickers?",
"Chill out, I think it’s just a jokey car sticker for having a mild chuckle with other road users. ",
"We already have police and slave labor in prisons, but thanks for playing.",
"Settle down.",
"[here ya go friend.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/07/06/heres-the-public-evidence-that-supports-the-idea-that-russia-interfered-in-the-2016-election/?utm_term=.b46570fa7707)",
"> They just don't see the irony...\n\nOn the contrary, they understand the power of celebrity too well.",
"I would believe that many were upset. But not that everyone in that group voted for jill stein. Unless I'm wrong?",
"Seems like a pipe dream far removed from reality. ",
"Nothing says \"Do what you like to our country\" than President Trump refusing to do his job and implement the sanctions on Russia which both the house and senate passed to discourage attacks on America, for which the deadline expired like 2 months ago now.\n\nThe American president puts Russia first, without any explanation, over and over.",
"...wut",
"He just hates everything that isn't him. ",
"One has been through serious investigations for years and one has Congress trying to interfere with his first one because they know.",
"Could you provide evidence of fusion GPS lying about this? Even Jeb bush campaign people said they were the ones that funded it at the beginning? Are they in on the lie as well? Have they been in on it since the Jeb people said this fact? (Months)",
"Unfortunately, yes.",
"Definitely not Baby. Nobody does that. ",
"which is funny considering lately everyone is all \"Russia collusion!!1!!1\" ",
"You seem biased... ",
">\"Helluva Rollercoaster -- 2/10. Would Not Recommend - America\"",
"You've gone very far down the partisan rabbit hole if you believe National Review is a credible source.",
"Hurr durr my politician cares about me! ",
"You're right. It was totally *love* that ended Hitler's regime. ",
"Yeah, but you could say that about anyone. \n\nLike literally, *anyone* would be more presidential then Trump, and I would rather have *anyone* over Trump.\n",
"[nevermind vs never mind](https://www.grammarly.com/blog/nevermind-or-never-mind/) \n\n🤔",
"Explain why Clinton should be imprisoned",
"Yes, this. Both groups are shit and should be stomped out.",
"Why not just have a regular Trump sticker then?",
"So I’m happy that another East Coast establishment billionaire is in charge now...\n\nSMDH",
"Pills here ",
"Because she lost to Donald trump. ",
"> National Review\n\n\n> Evidence\n\n\nPick one.",
"You seem a tad triggered mate.",
"Obama was also selling copies of his books translated to Russian . . . in Russia.\n\nEmoluments clause violation, right?",
"What Twitter thing? And what influence via the Clinton e-mail affair?\n\nThere's still no proof that Russia was involved in the e-mail hack. The Democrats didn't let the authorities see the servers and the files were copied too fast to have been sent over the internet.\n\nIf the Democrats' got their emails leaked by a disgruntled employee and those e-mails showed them to be crooked, that's not Trump's fault.",
"For what",
"Yes. I'm not sure what \"nevermind\" is supposed to mean. I guess, \"nevermind, our elections are clearly too fucked up to matter?\"",
"Every American tax payer with a small exception due to lowering amount of federal subsidy for tax dollars in states with high taxes.",
"[2 seconds of googling, 2 seconds dude](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections)",
"It's reported elsewhere.",
"Bad bot",
"It's reported elsewhere.",
"One hasn’t been convicted and neither has the other one. That’s literally all there is to it. It’s literally how it works.",
"Wtf it went from meh to crappy then godlike lol",
"Ah, yes, the National Review, a bastion of impartial and non-partisan journalism.\n\nStrange that the article is mostly a defense of Carter Page.",
"You're either a clueless idiot, or posting from mother Russia. Either way, all of what you wrote is 100% incorrect.",
"Right. So, like I said...\"never mind\" is two words. Lol",
"#NOprah ",
"He’s ruining our lives!!",
"only a rich tv host can defeat another rich ty host?",
"[It took more than 2 years after Watergate for Nixon to resign.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Watergate_scandal) \n\nWe will likely just have to wait for midterms when the Democrats get in control of congress because Republicans will never impeach Trump.",
"Am I the only one who read this in Borat's voice?",
"Obama literally told Romney “the Cold War called they want their foreign policy back.” Everyone since 2008 has known that Russia is a major threat except for the people who get elected to be the president. ",
"Nahh, I'm good.",
"Looser*",
"Zuckerberg is NOT a bad bot.",
">Could you provide evidence of fusion GPS lying about this?\n\nI said they've lied about other things before.",
"Hillary has, yes",
"RemindMe! 1 year",
"I hated the meteor meme at first but considering 30% *still* support 45, I think humanity might be beyond redemption. Bring on the meteor.",
"Man, I hate the establishment! I'm gonna vote Trump so the establishment can get tax cuts! That'll teach em!\n\nIt cost me my net neutrality and my healthcare premium is going up and maybe weed will be illegal again, but it's worth it!",
"There's no evidence there, just allegations that aren't supported by facts.",
"She also is self made which shows a degree of competency. \n\nBut ya, I would rather have career diplomats and legislators heading the executive branch.",
"That dude was pure evil, I’m sure glad he didn’t win, I shudder to think about where we would be now. ",
"American workers without health care or well paying jobs? That's winning?\n\nI think you meant to type \"American billionaire industrialists\"",
"2008-2012 was the period when Medvedev was leading Russia and not Putin, so people thought we were in the clear.",
"The burden is on you to provide a credible source. So far you're failing in that regard. Keep trying.",
"I don’t understand. It’s just jokingly saying ‘ah fuck everything, of course we have a probably corrupt megalomaniac in the white house, under Russia’s thumb’ etc etc",
"> Being agressive never helped anyone.\n\nExcept us in WW2 and many other places?",
"Not really, no. It's more like a slowly heating kettle that won't boil until everyone who can read this is long dead.",
"Yo! Omar comin'!",
"> locking hillary up at this point would be a waste of tax payers money. \n\nSending a message to other politicians that they're not above the law would be worth it imo.",
"National Review isn't lacking in credibility, but the commenter is indeed living in fantasy land (or spewing disinformation).",
"/r/ForwardsFromGrandma (who retired in Vermont)",
"this is the best comment you’ve made on this thread. ",
">Nice claim, then you linked to National Review as a source! \n\nIt's the first thing that came up regarding the FBI's \"insurance policy\" against Trump getting elected. It's reported elsewhere, though.",
"What a cunt ",
"Wasn't expecting a Civ reference in this thread.",
"> The admins need to do something about the Sanders shill subs.\n\nWhile [you can!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwW_5kialI)",
"\"This is apart of Russia and it's government's efforts to aid Mr. Trump\" \n\n\"If this is what I think it is I love it, especially later in the summer.\"\n\nThis all comes from Don. Jr, specifically on his Twitter feed, so there is no \"fake news\" involved. He literally tweeted out the evidence. This would be like if Nixons daughter released the 18 min missing watergate tape on her SoundCloud.",
"FINE i agree with that. ",
"Yeah. Hillary. Remember the email server that was entirely illegal and against DODs rules that could lead to jail time?",
"But we're getting a wall instead! /s",
"Put a sentry right here!\nPut a dispenser right here!\nPut a teleporter right here!",
"I don't think anyone is saying the US is controlled by Russia, it's just that Russia worked to, and with, Trump to get him elected since he's overall better for thier interests.",
"I’ll take ten",
"But not a literal one...",
"You forgot your /s",
"Ok, but if either one was convicted with anything then we would be of the same opinion.",
"Buddy, I'm a long time Democrat. I voted for her anyways. But this is true based on her email leaks. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/us/politics/dnc-emails-sanders-clinton.html <-- straight from a left leaning moderate publication",
"And at least Oprah came from humble beginnings, which she hopefully remembers, and is capable of listening to a team of advisors.\n\nI hate that our political climate is so utterly fucked that fucking Oprah sounds like an upgrade. This is all so very wrong.",
"> There is no number of aircraft carriers we can build that will reduce the threat of ICBM attacks.\n\nTrump accepts that challenge. ",
"Ah yes, high enough quality to see it is made by a unionized bumper sticker company. I would expect nothing less from Bernie's campaign. ",
">So perjury? You know that's a federal offense right?\n\nOnly if it's prosecuted. The FBI allowed /u/stonetear to lie to them. The FBI let Clinton off despite lying about her illegal email server. The government is corrupt and the law doesn't apply to everyone.\n\n",
">Facebook Inc. and other internet advertising companies have gone on the record saying that on the order of hundreds of thousands of dollars of political ads targeting voters in swing states were purchased by Russian clients in the days and weeks before the 2016 US presidential election. Are you disputing that?\n\nYou're conveniently leaving out that those ads were **pro** BLM and Hillary Clinton [according to Washington Post.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/russian-operatives-used-facebook-ads-to-exploit-divisions-over-black-political-activism-and-muslims/2017/09/25/4a011242-a21b-11e7-ade1-76d061d56efa_story.html?utm_term=.1d05cd39c572)\n\n*\"The batch of more than 3,000 Russian-bought ads that Facebook is preparing to turn over to Congress shows a deep understanding of social divides in American society, with some ads promoting African-American rights groups including Black Lives Matter and others suggesting that these same groups pose a rising political threat, say people familiar with the covert influence campaign.*\n\n*The Russian campaign — taking advantage of Facebook’s ability to simultaneously send contrary messages to different groups of users based on their political and demographic characteristics – also sought to sow discord among religious groups. Other ads highlighted support for Democrat Hillary Clinton among Muslim women.\"*",
"Just say Noprah",
">haha love the up and downs on this. - if you still support trump at this point, you need a fucking lobotomy and the appropriate form of sterilization. Hil is a plug too, but you Trump supporters are completely warped. \n\nYou are literally the problem.",
"Exactly. I really hope she doesn't run for president. It's fine if she runs for lower offices to gain more political experience,but she's not ready for the presidency.\n\nStill, I'd vote for her over Trump any day of the week.",
"Yeah \"your word\" isn't evidence my dude, evidence is quotations and sources. Here is some evidence.\n\n\"This is apart of Russia and it's government's efforts to aid Mr. Trump\" \n\n\"If this is what I think it is I love it, especially later in the summer.\"\n\nThis all comes from Don. Jr, specifically on his Twitter feed, so there is no \"fake news\" involved. He literally tweeted out the evidence. This would be like if Nixons daughter released the 18 min missing watergate tape on her SoundCloud.",
"No, my evidence is real. ",
"/r/sadcringe",
"Huckabee?",
"> It's reported elsewhere, though.\n\nYou keep saying that, and you keep using a flawed and biased source. Keep trying!",
"Lmao keep fighting the good fight! \n\nChrist, who would believe this was a thread about bumper stickers... smh",
"Thousands of Americans received bonuses and multiple companies raised their minimum wage. \n\nYou are just opposed to people keeping more of their own money.",
"Not interesting in the slightest. Just enjoying the economic benefits, bonuses, tax cuts, fewer illegals, more liberal panic attacks, travel cut off from hubs of terrorism, loss of dozens if not hundreds overburdening regulations - and thereby spending cuts, fall of ISIS, and so forth.\n\nIt's been an amazing year, even if you spent it crying about D-d-drumpf. ",
"I dont know why people don't like him. He's like, really smart",
"I voted for Trump hoping he would have already pressed that big red button",
"Go mount an animal.",
"Dafuq I just read",
"> we have a probably corrupt megalomaniac in the white house, under Russia’s thumb\n\nThat implies they believe that, which like I said is pretty delusional. ",
"But this isn't the FBI? This is in congress with both dem and republicans. Are the republicans in on the lie as well?",
"THIS is political humor. Would never see it on there though lol \n \nEdit: color me surprised it was actually well received there, 16k upvites. Nice. Well done reddit, we did it",
"They didn't say they needed the same sentence length",
"Failing to maintain security principles that are literally a federal crime and has gotten others locked up. Oh wait... I forgot... its only a crime if THEY do it and not you.",
"No",
"Not really, no.",
"Got a reference for that claim?",
"Yeah the responses are interesting for sure. I voted for Hillary too and this is absolutely true. It was verified from her fucking email leaks. Here it is in the damn new York Times who was definitely biased towards her in the primaries \n\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/us/politics/dnc-emails-sanders-clinton.html",
"I would give anything for Romney :(",
"if we’re electing businessmen/businesswomen to be president, then it might as well be one that was and is successful by their own hand.",
"Nuh uh",
"No you",
"/r/WayOfTheBern ",
"Actually ran into one the other day in Des Moines, Iowa with a Hillary For Prison and a faded Ben Carson sticker.",
"Not everyone that doesn't buy your party's conspiracy theory is Russian, idiot.",
"You realize Marx was fond of capitalism, yeah? He even said himself that his idea of communism required a stable, capitalist base of support to get off the ground.",
"You mean intelligence agencies like the Department of Energy and the Coast Guard?",
"Tighter",
"Those are allegations, not evidence.",
"It's just not what plants crave.",
"Their evidence is downvoting your request for evidence until your posts can't be seen, which proves once and for all how correct they are.\n\nClassy, Reddit.",
"Those are some mighty clean lookin’ stickers. ",
"Understandable have a nice day",
"Then Google it. Other outlets have reported the same.",
"Aww did I hurt your fee fees?",
"Yeah I think most of us have been saying she fucking sucks. Hell even during the election I was saying she fucking sucks but I can’t get myself to vote for a reality tv star for president",
"Want to make an argument, or disprove even one of my statements?",
"Ignore evidence if you want.",
">the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: \"theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron\"",
"It's the media's MacGuffin to keep everyone tuning in. ",
"Are you serious? You sound as dumb as the people who voted for trump. This information was reported and verified in many news sources widely considered to be left leaning",
"No? you can absolutely commit a crime without being convicted",
"Come on, it’s pretty much the national joke. You don’t have to believe it to make jokes about something. Another point in case is the piss tape. ",
"But her emails!",
"So this guy is actively advocating for violence against people he disagrees with.... and is being upvoted for it.\n\nCongrats Reddit, just when i thought you couldn't go any lower.",
"Nope Jill Stein's VP literally called for white genocide, and her party would be issuing executive order after executive order strangling our economy. Killary or Jeb Bush would literally be installing more family sycophants into power killing our democracy with dynastasim. \n\n\nPeople craved candidate Obama's possiblilites of real change, and settled for more of the same. Trump is literally shaking things up. Whether or you like his changes or not he has given the next executive a mandate to change or meddle with anything he touches, and he will touch a very large number of things. \n\nWhether you lean Right or Left trump is like SHIVA, the Hindi god of transformation. Things will be changed and the next president will have a mandate to change things even better.\n\n",
"Federal and supreme court judges. Reduction of regulations that bypassed congress. Reducing unemployment to record low levels for both black and Hispanic Americans. ",
"When has he tried to lose weight, publicly or otherwise?",
"An National Review op-ed isn't evidence, its biased and non-credible. Provide an actually source for your claims or STFU.",
"MUH RUSSIA AMIRITE",
"This false equivalency bullshit has to stop. \n\nTrump is infinitely worse than Clinton would have been. \n\nRepublicans are more corrupt and indecent than democrats. \n\nNazis are worse than people who fight Nazis. ",
"Wasn't Medvedev in power when Russia invaded the nation of Georgia? That was a big deal.\n\n",
">This all comes from Don. Jr, specifically on his Twitter feed, so there is no \"fake news\" involved. \n\nThe fake news comes from your spin on his comments. They don't substantiate your allegations.\n",
"What a cunt",
"The Soviet Union wasn't a communist country, nor was it a socialist one. It was a capitalist quasi-fascist dictatorship. The USSR was nearly as far right wing as Nazi Germany. ",
"It might not come to a boil but being in the hot water sure as shit won't be comfortable.",
"I’m not sure what you are saying? Due process doesn’t apply to a president? ",
"Google it if you need to, you can find a different source with minimal effort.",
"The last one should say, \"God dammit, you guys.\"",
"Once upon a time in Fullerton, CA, I saw a pickup truck with three anti-Obama stickers on the real window.\n\nThe first was a plain NO sticker with Obama's campaign logo.\n\nThe one below that said NOBAMA.\n\nThe one before *that* said NO OBAMA.\n\nI suspect the driver figured we wouldn't get the subtle symbolism of the first, so he got the second. Then he figured we wouldn't grasp the nigh Shakespearean wordplay of the second, so he had to get the third to make extra special sure we knew he was rejecting the alternatives in favor of Obama.",
"Well, some stickers are applied from the inside, so who took the picture had to clean the window to get a clearer view. If they are on the outside, I don't think it's weird to clean the stickers before taking the picture.\n\nBut maybe you are right. On a top comment, it looked like we had the original author of the picture here. You could ask him to explain your doubt.",
"You missed out making the US a global laughing stock, destroying relationships with allies, having a tin foil hat conspiracy theory president being elected, obvious conflicts of interest between his money and his job, retweeting posts from a racist group that has had members murder MPs in the UK etc.\n\n\nYou want me to go on?",
"well, he'd have *confirmation in a legal setting*, sure, but it really wouldn't effect whether or not he's **correct**. That quality is either true or not, independent of any eventual convictions or the lack thereof. ",
"Republicans don't control the FBI. The FBI is run by Democrat cronies.",
"That's pretty irrelevant.",
"It's stretched so thin that ships just accidentally run into each other? That doesn't sound thin...",
"Sort of related but you reminded me of it. A longish time ago somewhere on reddit there was a discussion about who would play PT Barnum in a movie and people said Hugh Jackman. Others said no way it’s suppose to be a young guy since it highlights his younger years.\n\nWell lo and behold guess whose playing PT Barnum in an upcoming movie? So now I have a conspiracy theory that it was the casting directors who posed that reddit question. ",
"It's a joke relax. ",
"We're in a very strange phase of our culture where aptitude and expertise are almost looked down upon. It's anti-intellectualism, but it's also a narrow distrust of \"authority\" and an ignorance of institutional functions. People are like \"fuck the government!\" and then they're surprised when the economy collapses or the tap water becomes flammable.\n\nWe need more education on civics and political history, so that people better understand how democracy works, and understand the foundation of ideas and values that affords all the liberties, securities, and progress that we take for granted.\n\nAs far as elections go, I fear that Trump has upset the tradition of lifelong public service. It's just not a thing anyone values any more. People would rather support someone \"colorful\", charismatic, hyperbolic, someone who feeds their own insecurities and indignations. And if they're \"anti-establishment\", well then, away we go!",
"NEXT!",
"It's just as bad or even worse in Europe, Canada, Australia, etc. about other things.",
"The Watergate investigation was started under Obama? Huh, TIL.",
"its going to take a serious wall to be built. spaning the pacific from alaska to mexico and to the ionosphere. real commitment.",
"Well he did just win by getting your response. \n\nThe dude is a Russian troll that exists to make people mad, we shouldn't encourage him.",
"Sorry you have to take the first step and search it out yourself.",
">And? That doesn't make it any less untrue.\n\nYou were trying to insinuate that the report is biased because it was partially funded by Democrats without mentioning that it was also funded by Republicans. So what is your point about the partisanship of who funded the report?\n\n\n\n>I thought we were against paying foreign agents to dig up dirt on political opponents? Or does that rule only apply to Trump?\n\nI'm not against anyone using foreign information so long as it's accurate.\n\n\n\n>The Democrats did what they're accusing Trump of.\n\nI'm not arguing that the Democrats aren't hypocritical, I'm arguing that you made invalid criticisms against the report itself.",
"show bobs",
"if Oprah gets elected (not saying she's running) Then the U.S will soon become like an episode of The Orville or black mirror where everyone is up or downvoted. Elections will probably be done by twitter poles. It's a genuinely scary thought imo.",
"“Lmao you hate abortion so much but you have a sticker about it on your car!”",
"Sure, that’s why I would lock them both up. ",
"Yikes you sound dumb",
"I must have forgotten that literally every time a crime is committed that the person is caught and convicted.",
"That Russia meddled *is* an established fact, but that’s not what I was talking about and it’s not what Mueller is investigating.\n\nCollusion is something else entirely.",
"And the other side has beaten innocent people bloody with their cowardly little sticks and bike locks just because they wore a shirt they disagreed with (American flag, freedom, Trump, etc..) or just walked by them, for no reason. If you can't see the absolute asinine nature of this then *you're* blind.",
"I think most of us did fall in line when we voted for Hillary. But her working with the dnc to sabotage him in the primaries is something all Democrats and really all Americans should at least care a little about. It harms the integrity of our democratic system. ",
"Why would they say that though? It's completely false.",
"I think a lot of them went back to whichever party they leaned toward before Bernie came into the picture.",
"[Here's the Washington Post saying the same thing](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/12/18/peter-strzoks-insurance-policy-text-message-and-the-search-for-an-anti-trump-deep-state-smoking-gun/?utm_term=.b1d43344df51).",
"It's pretty obvious that there was dirt/dust over the stickers, and they just wiped it way to see them better. ",
"I've never seen *~~Isocracy~~* Idiocracy, but I feel like I really understand it now\n\nEdit: thanks phone, your spell-check helped me make an actual word, but I'm too much of a fool to proof read on my own\n\nEdit 2: apparently I also lack the ability to proofread twice and double check that i'm using the strikethrough feature for the text and not the italics (italics left; strikethrough added)",
"It would only be illegal if Don Jr. received something of value during that meeting. \nConsidering that the whole meeting was a set-up, and no salacious information about Hillary was actually provided, there was nothing illegal about it.",
"This is exactly how I felt minus the like of Jill Stein. I didn’t like the idea of Hillary- I really struggled with her going down in history as the first female president. She doesn’t deserve it. BUT I live in a swing state and knew Trump would be so much worse. ",
"You're the one making the claim. The burden is on you. Keep on failin'.",
"While I don't disagree Romney would be fine compared to Trump, being \"presidential\" is the most bullshit term there is out there. Presidents shouldn't be decided on who looks good in a suit and speaks a good game.",
"No it wasn't. ",
"Sure that Will be $3.50.",
"But her felonies! Maybe if she wasn't a felon who shared classified information with pedophiles she might be president.",
"well, you certainly fucked something over",
"Especially considering that nobody thinks being a Nazi is socially acceptable but don't bat an eye when they see someone with a hammer and sickle or Che Guevara shirt on.",
"Lol no. “American Partisanship” brings to mind Pizzagate and “Lock Her Up”. Followed closely by “Just because there’s a federal investigation doesn’t mean there’s any wrongdoing” by the same people. ",
"[Here's the Washington Post saying the same thing](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/12/18/peter-strzoks-insurance-policy-text-message-and-the-search-for-an-anti-trump-deep-state-smoking-gun/?utm_term=.b1d43344df51).",
" *Yikes, you sound dumb ",
"Went back and read it again in Borat's voice, perfect",
"I meant because they're morons",
"It’s either the entire dossier has to be fake or it has to be completely true? That’s what seems to be the general consensus on the right. \n\nHonestly the only thing that I know that has been proven false is a meeting with one of trump’s associates that didn’t end up occurring.",
"People will die!\n\n..from tax cuts apparently.",
"Who was it that cheated Bernie Sanders in the primaries? Who was it that wanted to help get Donald Trump the Republican nomination? The person responsible, is the person you should blame.",
"How is this guy always at the top?",
"The fact that you did not take the chance to make a \"Did you just assume my gender\" joke certifies that you are more mature than me.\n",
"Yes but what actually happened in the meeting? Nothing so far. That’s where crimes would be taking place",
"I've always voted green, and considered turning dem to vote for Bernie, but that's just because I just don't support war, I'm ethically opposed to it. Had nothing to do with being an upset liberal, but it certainly seemed like there were a lot of upset liberals voting out of spite rather than voting for who they believed in.",
"Or a clear picture of the betrayal of the Democrat party to its constituents. Step by step blow",
"Bear in mind there was a large scale foreign attack on our political system with the intent of bring her down as well as an FBI Director that broke protocol just days before the election because he was scared to look like he was going too easy on her if she won. ",
"Hillary spent a billion dollars on her campaign, had the whole DNC conspiring with her, not to mention all of her ex-president husband's contacts, and she couldn't even defeat a few supposed Russian Facebook memes.\n\nIf that's not incompetence...",
"Honestly your first watch through will be completely different than basically everyone else's",
"That’s why I want to lock them both up, how is this not getting through? *it could be me, I had an edible and smoked so if I am not being clear I guess that would be the reason.",
"How else can you spin \"This is apart of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump\"? The context of this was about the June 16th trump tower meeting where they discussed trying to get Clintons emails, and then the dem hack happened, and then they dumped the information on wikileaks.\n\nThere is a reason why they contacted Don Jr. To tell trump to contest the election if he lost on election night, that is because they are connected to the Kremlin, and their main goal is to create political instability and to get fellow Americans to argue and hate each other. We both love this country but as a fellow American to another, please don't ignore what is right under your nose. Let's Make America United Again.",
"Oh, is your sister vising NZ? Ba-dum-psshhh.",
"We can ignore emotion and charisma at our own peril. ",
"It doesn't get votes, that's what. ",
"Hillary did all that and it backfired.",
"This is the dumbest sentence I've had to read all day. Nothing you've said so far is accurate. You should be ashamed of yourself",
"Fuck out of here you /pol/tard cocksucker, go shitpost more racist bs on r/the_dong and r/mde",
"We have to deal with the torture of listening to him talk every day, CNN has nothing to do with it",
"Super true.\n\nBut I think most of the time the aggression is permitted in the face of abject tyranny, violation of human rights, or in defense of each others lives.\n\nWhoever won the most recent popularity contest doesn't really constitute aggression.",
"Yeah, but it certainly ain't a gun to your head.",
"Yeah and he had that dog on his car freezing his balls off, Damn that was funny!!!!! What an idiot!!! ",
"Wait, you're saying that Hilary would have out-nepotismed Trump? He has given his son, daughter, and son-in-law high-level Whitehouse positions despite their having no relevant government experience whatsoever. Would you possibly like to reconsider that assertion?",
"Propaganda post number 27849274782818740",
">An isocracy is a form of government where all citizens have equal political power. The term derives from Greek ἴσος meaning \"equal\" and κρατεῖν meaning \"to have power\", or \"to rule\". \n\nShit, I've never seen that either",
"Idiocracy.",
"I remember when Digg was abandoned because they pushed some non political advertisers to the front page. Oh how times have changed.",
"I may be wrong but I think he's on acid.",
"And yet, quality of life on average is falling...",
">You were trying to insinuate that the report is biased because it was partially funded by Democrats without mentioning that it was also funded by Republicans.\n\nThe Democrats paid for most of it and they're the ones that actually used it.\n\n>I'm not against anyone using foreign information so long as it's accurate.\n\nThe authenticity of the leaked Democrat documents is unquestioned. \n\n>I'm not arguing that the Democrats aren't hypocritical, I'm arguing that you made invalid criticisms against the report itself.\n\nNot at all. The Democrats paid an organization to make up lies about Trump in order to subvert democracy. Then they used that to use the government spying apparatus against an opposition political candidate.",
"oof",
"\"\"\"You\"\"\" seem out of touch and backwards. ",
"> I’m making shit up\n\nFTFY",
"You are talking circles. We were talking about the fusion gps testimony to CONGRESS, not them being interviewed by the FBI\n\nNot to mention that the FBI has always leaned more toward conservative while the state department tended more towards liberal leaning, but I digress",
"It's a bumper sticker whose message is \"love is better than hate, and hate has no place in our current world\" with a cutsey wordplay to directly invoke Trump and bring attention to his hatred. It's Trump, not Voldemort. The usage of the verb doesn't summon Donald himself or anything. ",
"Clever.",
"If you change your mind hmu",
"That victory is in the bottom 15 of 56 elections. ",
"lol",
" Look again, do those really look like they are from the inside? Especially the tinted dark as night window. And then the bottom two stickers appear to be from the same line of design, so likely created by the same person and more likely bought at the same time. ",
"> *Nobody ever seriously suggested he was wrong that Russia was a geopolitical foe.*\n\nExcept for Barack Obama and the entire Democratic Party.\n\nBut except them, nobody did!\n\n(Seriously, how did you type that with a straight face?)",
"Tbh I’d rather have Terry Crews as president, so that movie’s not as dystopian as people say it is",
"What a fantastic parody account, deserves more upvotes. You probably should add an /s though, just to make it more socially responsible. ",
"Except for the fact that it's not. It's a problem, sure, but it's not going to kill everyone. Just flood New Orleans, but that's been happening since it was built.",
"2008, you mean when we had two actual wars going in the Middle East that Bush started? The ones Obama inherited where thousands of service members died.",
"Wow dude ur so not woke af fam wow please follow.",
"Maybe he had some inside information on his party.",
"Why isn't there a miniature Saudi Prince on hillaries? ",
">Killary or Jeb Bush would literally be installing more family sycophants into power killing our democracy with dynastasim.\n\nYeah we wouldn't want our president installing unqualified unaccountable family members into important positions, would we?\n\nI'm sitting here wondering how you can be serious. But you appear to have written that without any sense of irony.",
"You mean things Trumpers did too and continue to do as well? ",
"Stop being so condescending. It's not helping you ",
"Ok, so the goal post is now\" ok they tried to collude to win the election, but they were to incompetent to do it successfully.\" Ok got it",
"I prefer Asacracy. ",
"Cuz you're livin' it.",
"lol\n\nLet's play \"Guess What Subreddit This Guy Posts To\"!\n\nThree guesses everyone, starts with \"T\", ends with \"he_Donald\".",
"Oh the post-trump world. Oh god it’s the Mid-Trump world",
"Interesting nonetheless. 😊",
"I dunno I keep hearing cheerleaders telling me to \"be, aggressive, b, e, aggressive\"",
"Also, you know, promising Putin he'll have *'more flexibility'* after his last election.",
"Maybe it did in the past. When Comey's memo was altered to get Clinton off the hook, when Lynch had her tarmac meeting, and when Clinton's felonies were ignored its bias became apparent.",
"Don't sweat it, I still haven't seen Isocracy either",
"Not at all, Trump has more direct relatives, Hillary and Jeb had no shortage of hangers-on, yes-people and sycophants. Trump is a 1-time deal both of the others were continuations of connected dynasties.\n\nI'll reiterate Trump is Shiva not Kek, he is death and rebirth, aka transformation, aka real change. Frightening to the easily scared, but reassuring as a natural forest fire to those with a long view.\n\nSPEZ--- Some additional food for fought. People have often voiced a concerned that rest of the world will hate us due to Trumps demeanor. To which I ask \"Do you still hate the Italian people or just their government?! Or have you forgiven them for their recent leader?\" the most common reaction I receive is \"WTF?!\" or something to the effect of \"Mussolini he was a long time ago and why him?\". My response is to remind them of Silvio Berlesconi Italian Prime Minister from the mid 2000's, he was a Billionaire who loved models, screwed them, threw orgies, said over-the-top offensive stuff about foreign countries and foreign leaders on a near daily basis, and yet history has mostly forgotten him and his ego. I will say to you? Did you forgive the Italian people? Do you still hate them, or is it just their government? Or in the long view did it not matter?\n",
"Using your own logic, anyone who thinks Hillary has committed crimes that she hasn’t been convicted of is justified in saying “lock her up”.",
"Okay thats hilarious. Well done. ",
"\"Wouldn't it be great if Ralph Nader had *charisma*?\"\n\n~ Chris Rock",
"My home town! Haven’t been there in a long time.",
"That’s a good way to describe it. It’s also the narrative the “Swamp” is latching onto until it can find real dirt they can use against Trump. Obviously they can’t. ",
"Her felonies were a big deal. You're trying to downplay it but a woman who just gives classified information to pedophiles should not be president.",
"how about go with a politician, like an actual politician. \n\n~~Suddenly dc comic book *prez* is becoming more and more realistic every day~~",
"😂 the butthurt sustains us.",
"I mean aggression and violence are a normal part of evolution. ",
"nah b. it’s you",
"Hillary most certainly did commit crimes. She just was not prosecuted for her violation of them.",
"I know man, I'm a Canadian and you've got no idea just how ignorant most people are when it comes to things like this, they just parrot whatever they hear with no shred of evidence, and if you try to debate with them, they call you a bigot",
"Because \"boring\" means a vote for the status quo where millions go without healthcare and the poor struggle to house and feed their families.",
"So should they be locked up? Or have neither of them been convicted of anything?",
"Did you just assume my maturity?",
"Hard to get voters to show up if they’re not excited to vote for someone.\n\nI knew of like 1 person who was excited to vote for Hillary Clinton, and I live in California. Trump is a dipshit, but his supporters seemed genuinely excited to vote for him.\n\nElections are literally a popularity contest. If a popular kid runs for school elections they’ll probably win. Even if they know nothing about how the ASB works, have bad grades, and are kind of douchey.",
"Is the \"Nevermind\" sticker Pro or Anti-Trump?",
"All this looking back fondly on others because of Trump is despicable. Romney, Bush, McCain, etc. These are terrible, terrible people, and while Trump is too, let's not let his bombastic behavior make us think they're better than they are. We shouldn't succumb to what Adam Johnson on FAIR called [\"Trumpwashing.\"](https://fair.org/home/media-trumpwash-clintons-reckless-foreign-record/)",
"That's what Robert mueller is looking at. There is a reason trump lied 4 times about it before finally releasing the transcript on his sons Twitter. Remember adoptions? It's a quid pro quo to try and stop the miniskry act (spelling). ",
"😭",
"Exactly. It's so clear and obvious that the dnc worked to promote hillary over Bernie. Are people so insecure about Hillary that they refuse to believe that she needed help to win the primary? ",
"Kind of like all the other administrations including this one lmao. ",
"RemindMe! 400 days.",
">and they're surprised when the economy collapses\n\nI guess you haven't seen the stock market lately...",
"That's not whataboutism.\n\n>You are obviously ugly\n\nThat, on the other hand, is an ad hominem.",
"Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho sought out the most intelligent person he could find, and even when he disagreed with what this person said he listened none the less. We are literally worse off than the people in Idiocracy. ",
"You haven't submitted anything to any subreddit in 2 years. Be the change you want to see in the world. Post better content instead of whining about what others post.",
"That's either incredibly uninformed or merely shortsighted.",
"I like to think that the person has begrudgingly accepted that it's inevitable and has lost faith in democracy but just accepts it.",
"Bernie has his own issues. He also accepted corporate and lobbyist donations. And he voted to ease regulations on Wall Street in 2000 and supported the military’s f-35 trillion dollar boondoggle . . .",
"The issue is the ships are doing more than they should, we have less ships and more places than ever where they need to be, and are 10% under staffed. People are up for days at a time. People died because of this. Many bad things happened to get us to this point but it's clear things need to change. Either the US steps back from responsibilities or steps up to the challenges and funds appropriately. The Navy secretary noted the US is only fulfilling 50% of tasks it receives from joint chiefs; less obligations, or more ships. ",
"\"...but never has a war been so courteously declared. It was on parchment with calligraphy, and \"Your Highness, we beseech you on this day in Philadelphia to bite me, if you please.\"\"",
"When you say the past do you mean November 2016? Because I remember Comey announcing that he was reopening the Clinton investigation after Anthony wiener emails was given to the FBI. If they were bias towards Clinton, why would they announce their reopening of the case, a day before, and damage her campaign. Seems to me if they had a Clinton bias, they wouldn't have said anything about it in the first place right?",
"people don't vote on policies unfortunately, they vote for the people they like.",
"I guess we have to filter to controversial to get a comment that makes any sense. ",
"Yes. *Im still angry that out of hundreds of millions of people I was forced to choose\nBetween Donald trump and Hillary Clinton. ",
"When you say the past do you mean November 2016? Because I remember Comey announcing that he was reopening the Clinton investigation after Anthony wiener emails was given to the FBI. If they were bias towards Clinton, why would they announce their reopening of the case, a day before, and damage her campaign. Seems to me if they had a Clinton bias, they wouldn't have said anything about it in the first place right?",
"Username doesn't check out.",
"American politics are essentially fucking reality tv.\n\nMaybe a culture built on entertainment and consumption wasn’t such a good idea. And I say this as an American.",
"DAE Trump = Bad Russia Cheeto Small hand man",
">How else can you spin \"This is apart of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump\"? \n\nIt predated the e-mail leak so he wasn't talking about that, was he?\n\n>The context of this was about the June 16th trump tower meeting where they discussed trying to get Clintons emails, and then the dem hack happened, and then they dumped the information on wikileaks.\n\nNo, what happened there was the Obama administration let a Russian woman into the country without a visa and arranged that meeting.\n\nAnd there's still no evidence the Democrats got hacked. More recent evidence points to an internal leak.\n\n>There is a reason why they contacted Don Jr. To tell trump to contest the election if he lost on election night, \n\nHow do you know it's not because they knew the election was likely to be rigged for Clinton?\n\n>and their main goal is to create political instability and to get fellow Americans to argue and hate each other.\n\nBullshit. Partisanship has been on the rise for my entire lifetime and there's no evidence that Russia is behind any of it. Blame the political parties for that.\n\n>We both love this country but as a fellow American to another, please don't ignore what is right under your nose. Let's Make America United Again.\n\nAnd that's code for overturning the results of an election because the Democrats are bitter that Clinton lost, right?",
"You had the chance.",
"When you say the past do you mean November 2016? Because I remember Comey announcing that he was reopening the Clinton investigation after Anthony wiener emails was given to the FBI. If they were bias towards Clinton, why would they announce their reopening of the case, a day before, and damage her campaign. Seems to me if they had a Clinton bias, they wouldn't have said anything about it in the first place right?",
"Oh, Carson was faded the whole time? Damn, makes so much more sense now.",
"Obama was a master campaigner, the whole \"out of touch and stuck in old ideas\" angle on foreign policy really struck a chord - a few zingers like \"we also have fewer horses and bayonets\" and \"the cold war ended 20 years ago\" did a very good job of making Romney look like a guy who really wasn't up to speed on modern threats. Obama immediately took it into Al Qaeda, which allowed him to soak up more \"we killed Bin Laden on my watch\" points... but Al Qaeda isn't really much of a threat, either.\n\n\nI don't think Obama's argument here is very valuable in terms of a practical discussion on how to secure the nation, but I cannot deny that his rhetorical approach was extremely effective at damaging his opponent's credibility.\n\n\nYet the one thing Obama was right about is that this isn't the cold war anymore. The Russian Federation is not the military superpower which the Soviet Union was. The tactics of \"we need to have more tanks and ships and planes than them because this cold war could turn hot\" no longer exist. Propaganda attacks to weaken alliances are a completely different ball game. A military build up would have done nothing against this. A military build up wouldn't have let us intervene in Crimea because the nuclear deterrent still exists - our military could absolutely wipe the floor with Russia's at its current strength, but their nuclear weapons mean we cannot risk engaging them. The US navy had more ships than every other navy in the world combined until 2011 (and our ships are generally a lot more powerful so it's not a 1 to 1 comparison), and every other navy in the world combined only surpasses the US navy's size by about a dozen ships... and a huge fraction of that number is the navies of other NATO countries which are staunch allies of America. \n\n\n\nRomney didn't see these kinds of attacks from the FSB coming, and none of his proposed plans would have countered them. I don't give him credit for predicting something that I honestly believe he did not predict.",
"Then aggressively killing the Indians, aggressively owning slaves, aggressively killing each other over slaves, aggressively invading other countries...",
"Holy shit. 6.7 million comment karma. In two years.\n\n\nThis person must have some really worthwhile things to say. ",
"It's fun to laugh at the butthurt.",
"At the time the statement seemed nonsensical in a post Cold War world where the American hegemony reigned supreme. We all thought that Russia wouldn't try and subvert our democracy. He said that long before Russia started their aggression. \n\nHe either had foresight or got lucky when he was trying to justify increasing the defense budget.\n\nThat being said. This overt election manipulation has caused Putin's Russia to become somewhat of a pariah among the west. So this may be a net loss for Putin's Russia.\n\nAnd I doubt China would risk their economic standing by siding with Russia over America and Europe. ",
"For sure! You guys definitely exist. Honestly, for some reason i always thought she was an anti vaxxer but I just looked and that was debunked. She may not have been such a bad choice after all. That was kinda my main reason against her",
"Her?",
"Nobody would, as the individual you replied to is clearly not talking about bumper stickers.\n\nIn fact, most of the comment chain to this point revolves around the situational necessity of violence. ",
">How else can you spin \"This is apart of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump\"? \n\nIt predated the e-mail leak so he wasn't talking about that, was he?\n\n>The context of this was about the June 16th trump tower meeting where they discussed trying to get Clintons emails, and then the dem hack happened, and then they dumped the information on wikileaks.\n\nNo, what happened there was the Obama administration let a Russian woman into the country without a visa and arranged that meeting.\n\nAnd there's still no evidence the Democrats got hacked. More recent evidence points to an internal leak.\n\n>There is a reason why they contacted Don Jr. To tell trump to contest the election if he lost on election night, \n\nHow do you know it's not because they knew the election was likely to be rigged for Clinton?\n\n>and their main goal is to create political instability and to get fellow Americans to argue and hate each other.\n\nBullshit. Partisanship has been on the rise for my entire lifetime and there's no evidence that Russia is behind any of it. Blame the political parties for that.\n\n>We both love this country but as a fellow American to another, please don't ignore what is right under your nose. Let's Make America United Again.\n\nAnd that's code for overturning the results of an election because the Democrats are bitter that Clinton lost, right?",
"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/23/us/politics/dnc-emails-sanders-clinton.html",
"Try doing the job of three men sometime and get back to me. ",
"And now we are blessed with the legislative process",
"Except Romney iirc, was not arguing to build a bunch more aircraft carriers (though I think we can always use an extra floating nuclear city or two). He was arguing for a large quantity of small, inexpensive ships.\n\nIf you can build 200 small ships for $20 million a pop, you can do a hell of a lot better of a job projecting presence, and especially deterring things like Pirates around shipping lanes, than a $13 Billion carrier, plus the self-contained Navy that escorts it. No matter how awesome your ship is, it can only be at one place, doing one thing at a time. And most of the fancy tech for these super-ships have to deal with missile defense and other things that are only advantageous in straight war with another highly developed, industrial country. And while we should be prepared for such a war, the Navy does not spend the majority of its time engaging in that activity. Large fleet of smaller, cheap, standardized ships would have done a lot of good.\n\nI'm always happy to be seeing technology pushed forward, but when we're paying 5x or 10x the cost for ships that are only twice as good... it becomes pretty hard to justify building these giant golden targets. I'd rather a navy with twice the ships for a little less cost.",
">Indeed. Being agressive never helped anyone. ~~except the hulk~~\n\nCool, tell Antifa",
"There's nothing to downplay because you're lying. I'm sorry Pizzagate was a bust you have to get over it now",
"Hope you don't plan on having kids or grandkids dumbass",
"You know communists have killed a lot more people than Nazis, right?",
"Oh how I miss Mitt. Simpler time.",
"What phony dossier?",
"Wut",
"Yeah, none of that is actually relevant - your emotions don't matter. He gets shit done. Foreign powers finally respect us. Europe is pissy because they can't milk us dry in climate accords, UN bullshit, and NATO. All in all, Trump will be remembered as one of the greats, and the leftists will be the laughing stock of history for being played by the MSM and believing every word.\n\nNow, run along. ",
"We are kind of running out of time for that, robots/ai are advancing scarily fast. I say we do it now. ",
"...that's not the Nirvana album so I'm not sure why it says \"Nevermind.\"",
"Navy crew can be overworked/not given sufficient time off between deployments or whatever they call them and not given enough sleep leading to errors happening. Of course, not all of the accidents have been the navy’s fault, but there have been a few which could have been avoided.",
"or perhaps they cleaned it to allow for a clearer picture? ",
"But her aides get immunity deals so absolutely no crimes were committed? Immunity deals aren't given to innocent people. Crimes were committed but as Comey says there was a lack of intent. ",
"Not immediately... Politicians sometimes want change but lack a mandate for change. The previous opposition party touching stuff and changing stuff can be a mandate.",
"Right - like in this quote:\n\n\"Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage,” Gruber said. \"And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to pass.\"",
"And then, you know, slaughtering a whole bunch of loyalists. Oh, and Natives. Slaughtered them, too. ",
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"What a bunch of assholes! Making honest mistakes how dare they!",
"Ah thanks for this high quality picture of bumper stickers, my 2018 quality adjusted eyes couldn't read the standard def version that was posted.",
"Trump was pretty successful ",
">If they were bias towards Clinton, why would they announce their reopening of the case, a day before, and damage her campaign.\n\nThey were forced to after classified email from her was found on a pedophile's laptop. There's only so much leniency they could grant.\n\n>Seems to me if they had a Clinton bias, they wouldn't have said anything about it in the first place right?\n\nThey couldn't ignore it since it was already public knowledge they'd been found.",
"To be fair they’d probably taste much better given their superior diet and without the necessity of physical labor",
"Yeah, but Republicans don't care about poor people anyway. ",
"Yeah, I always loved John Oliver but he really put out a lot of false information about Jill during the election that made people hate her and that really disappointed me in him. I understand tensions were high and people were afraid of Trump (I was too, for sure), but I felt like smearing people who want Universal Health Care and free college, and a new green deal seemed counterproductive to a progressive/liberal agenda. But I also feel like voting out of spite is dumb. Vote for what you believe in. ",
"I'm happy to stand by anything Mueller comes up with.\n\nIf there was no mucking with the voter registration, so be it.",
"How am I lying? Did she or did she not illegally leak classified information to a pedophile?",
"Trump won because democrats turned internally aggressive. \nChased away people that might have otherwise voted for them. ",
"Seriously though. I keep hearing Trumpers screaming for deregulation and how our corporate masters would never do anything to harm us.\n\nLike... Did they really skip all the history classes on why agencies like the EPA and FDA were established? I for one don't care to return to the \"good ol days\" where rivers burned and meat plants were rat and mold infested. ",
"What have you heard that was absurd?\n\n",
"You weren't. You could have voted for anyone you wanted, it's just that it wouldn't have mattered if you did due to the antiquated electoral process your nation uses. ",
"You probably have scabies",
"Conservatives are more into Hillary than liberals buddy. When we mention the wrong and crimes trump has done, there is never a defense, only \"what about this!?\" And \"what about that!?\" As I said in another reply, it's absurd to say the FBI has a bias towards Clinton when they torpedo her campaign. Which I am ok with since I want all justice, no matter the side, be done. But it's crazy to say the FBI has a Clinton bias after what they did, especially comey, in Nov 2016.",
"I voted for him. I'm helping! ",
"They usually do surge before they collapse. \n\nAlso the stock market isn't a good indicator of economic health.",
"I think what they mean by ‘presidential’ is professional and mature. As in someone who isn’t gonna throw a middle school temper tantrum every week and taunt a dangerous dictator with petty insults. It should be the bare minimum requirement to be president yet here we are. ",
"People are going to accuse this post of being \"ignore all the evidence\" like firstprincipals said. Except this article was from July and bases most of its premise around the DNC hack...and in August it started being theorized as an internal leak, not hack, and Assange confirmed his source was not Russia or any other state department.",
"He woulda been a great president",
"These aren't on the windshield tho",
"That the election was swung by a $100k Facebook ad buy that included ads supporting Hillary Clinton.",
"Pfft only with superficial stuff. It's not like he was ever in a movie.",
"That would be me. I was very pro bernie, very anti hillary, and then voted for jill, not that my vote matters in California. ",
"Literally no sense of irony.\n\nIf you lean left which I guess you do, which is worse unqualified family members with no qualifications, or highly credentialed sycophants whose loyalty isnt to the people or country but to the politician who placed them? Which can root deeper and corrupt democracy longer?",
"“We’re not partisan, you’re partisan!”",
"Damn International Standards Organization technocrats",
"> He said that long before Russia started their aggression.\n\nUh... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War",
"Seriously!!! Romney was a piece of shit who didn’t deserve the presidency. People forget. ",
"Also his wife is about to face a grand jury for fraud.",
"Its not \"our party\" its the intelligence apparatus of the United States. IDIOT",
"Asscrackery ",
"https://i.redd.it/zmeyw229n8901.png\n\nLink to the article http://archive.is/5U1TT",
"Idk, they sort of completely mocked Romney for it and he ended up being completely right. Pretty much right after the election Russia invaded Crimea. Be one thing to be wrong, it’s another thing to completely mock someone about something and then them be right. You deserved to be called out when that happens.",
"If it's within the day, it's a cross-post not a repost.",
"I'm not sure that \"presidential\" means looks in this situation. I'm game for anyone who doesn't take everything personally and immediately head to twitter. Presidential, to me, means thinking a situation through and making a sound decision made from reasoned thought.",
":D",
"Medvedev was technically president but he was really just a figurehead for Putin, who was Prime Minister during those years.\n\nEveryone knew it, too. So no, people didn't think we were in the clear. Especially since Russia started its recent M.O. of projecting power outside its borders during that time.",
"But they acted on it before the press knew about it? I would see your point if the press found it first, than the FBI acted, but it was the other way around. The FBI took measures, and then press reported on them, if they really were in cahoots with Clinton and trying to protect her, they would have just kept their mouth shut. When the FBI did their surpeana (spelling) for weiners emails, That's when the press knew about it. If they didn't, the press would not have reported on it. Sorry if I'm confusing rn tired, but main point is that it was FBI, then the press reported on FBI action, not press reporting wrong doing, and the FBI responding to cover their tracks.",
"Lol",
"For a lot of political and bureaucratic positions that is fine and almost preferable, but the President is supposed to be a leader, inspire people, be a figure head, and manage our foreign relationships. Boring isn't really an ideal trait for the president.",
"Funny, an awful lot of the current President's supporters can't get enough of metaphorically choking down Putin's salami.",
"Bumper stickers are already cringe worthy but political ones are a whole nother level of embarrassing.",
"You'd need a heart of stone not to laugh.",
"Ehhh no...but Presidents *should* be judged on their ability to speak eloquently and act like a statesman to preserve our reputation with our allies and other countries/leaders/people around the world.",
"Your feeling is incorrect.\n\nSource: on my second Outback with no bumper stickers. ",
"Huh. Almost forgot about that. Yeah Romney's statement makes more sense now. Then again I think a lot of people are unaware that conflict happened. ",
"Motherfucker",
"They didn't concoct it, though. The Democrats did when they paid for the piss dossier to be fabricated. Then your party used that as a pretext to spy on their political opposition.",
"Any chance of vagene?",
"We were so close to getting all that free shit! All you fuckers had to do was Match me!",
"Frankly, Trump really was the lesser of two evils. Sure, he's an idiot, and will probably stumble and bumble and generally be a know-nothing blowhard for the next four years (eight if we're REALLY unlucky), but after that's done, we can put him into the garbage can and move on.\n\nHillary would have started planting seeds the minute she got in, and by the time she got out, well...she'd never _truly_ get out, as she would have her threads woven in and around the nation's politics, and would be President in all but name for much, much longer than the maximum eight years.\n\nTrump isn't clever enough to do that. This is almost purely an ego-trip for him, a chance to satisfy a narcissistic urge to say that he wanted to be elected President and got exactly that. ",
"Since you didn't draw a dickbutt on the dirty window.. yes",
"So? Being chubby doesn't mean she's incompetent. She just likes chocolate way more than she likes exercising. ",
"I'd vote for Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho over Trump or Oprah. He could kick both their asses. ",
"Honestly, the best President is probably some George Costanza looking guy who sits behind a desk at the Department of the Interior or something and will never dream of being called upon to sit in the big chair. He's known as the go-to guy around the office, the one whose able to manage 3 projects at once while able to troubleshoot his coworkers' issues throughout the day, generally liked thanks to his integrity and hard work, but too wonky to be beloved socially. \n\nIf a wizard put him in the high chair, he'd manage the job perfectly, but he'd never win an election (not even for State Senate), so he sits in upper-middle management making sure the figurative trains run on time and doing good work. ",
"aha no, but you probably think you're edgy",
">but it certainly seemed like there were a lot of upset liberals voting out of spite rather than voting for who they believed in.\n\n\nThat's pretty much exactly why the election was such a shitshow. People from both sides were voting with their emotions rather than their heads.",
"electrolytes baby!! ",
"I remember one of the biggest knocks against Romney in the media at the time (2012) was that he was a billionaire and he couldn't relate to the average person. At the time income inequality was a huge talking point for the Dems. Then in the past election when Trump ran, the media didn't vilify him for being a billionaire like they did Romney. Thought that was weird.",
"What absolute horseshit. You don't fix America by running it into the ground with graft, corruption and incompetence. ",
"People are attacking you but I can't really do the same.\n\nHillary went around saying \"no we can't\" and how we must keep everything pretty much the same. Well... The same has failed most people. Income inequality is at record highs, health care is a failure, etc. Democrats haven't really cared to answer economic woes and are content with calling solutions ponies, racist, sexist, etc.\n\nGranted Republicans are not the answer and aren't just ignoring the issue like Democrats, they are actively making the situation worse on purpose. That being said, Trump ran on economic issues more than Hillary did. \n\nHillary wouldn't have done anything but delay another Trump like figure for 4 years. ",
"Yeah, it's a shame that Trump dissolved the quorum of ~~lobbyists~~ super-geniuses that Obama, W. Bush and Clinton sought guidance from.",
"He likes money, rich whites, and his daughter(a little too much).",
"To be naive again and believe we will never be that stupid. Or at least to believe it would take 500 more years to get to that point.\n\nNope...",
"This is legendary I need it",
"Idiocracy*",
"thats a big claim to say all people who consider themselves liberal would say \"hillary for prison\" and vote jill stein. but yes a subset of liberals felt this way (and still do)",
"He only turned a million dollar loan into billions of dollars. I bet I could do that np if I only had a million dollars. I mean, I'd throw it all into bitcoin and probably have billions by March.",
"Do tell, pls",
"I'd slaughter baby seals for boring....very...very boring.\r\n\r\nI realized I didn't even really check the news for 8 years because I knew it was alllllll goooood. \r\n\r\nIt was all good ;-(",
"Thanks for letting everyone know about the impending doom. I'm guessing it's because the new tax bill? All these companies about to go bankrupt keeping more of their money!",
"Beat me to it. I'm a far rightwinger and Bernie had me sweating. He had people seriously excited for him and went from a literal nobody to a powerhouse. Hillary? Sorry, but she's not the most attractive lady ever and most people I knew were like \"ehh...another clinton? really? is that the best we can do\" \n\nShe simply DID NOT excite a lot of voters. ",
"The guy who looks like he’d be more fun to have a beer with almost invariably wins.\n",
"“Oprah? Eh, fuck it, why not?”",
"You do have that. How's that Congress thing working out with a bunch of career politicians?",
"Your boy barely knows what the Constitution is. He got bored when someone tried to go over it with him.\n\nAs for the jobs, the Carrier deal and the coal deals both turned out to be farces, and the unemployment rates for blacks and Hispanics [appear to have nothing to do with Trump.](https://www.npr.org/2018/01/08/576552028/fact-check-trump-touts-low-unemployment-rates-for-african-americans-hispanics) He's just claiming shit as his own, like he did with the airline accident rates.",
"Except President Camacho was trying to help the country",
"Oh my god it takes like an hour tops. Every four years. Do your fucking civic duty. I can’t believe so many people take democracy for granted",
">without any proof\n\nKeep saying that, at some point it will become true. Keep saying it until he's in a jail cell.",
"So you're a clueless idiot, then? Good to know. I'll update my RES tags accordingly.",
"</2017>",
"> What an out of touch loser!\n\n*snerk*. Compared to who, exactly? ",
"So actual crimes were committed. All of the dirty work was pinned on her aides who deleted emails (after being told to present them to congress). Another aid kept classified documents in their husband's laptop to print off. The aides were given immunity deals. Keep in mind, immunity deals are not given to innocent people. So bear no mistake, crimes were committed and at the very least her aides need to be thrown in prison but they got immunity deals. \n\nIn relation to Clinton, Comey commented she was “extremely careless” (earlier he wrote “grossly negligent\" but changed it) but because she lacked intent he didn't recommend any charges. \n\n",
"...makin' sure your car doesn't get keyed.",
"There are actually countless possible scenarios in which climate change directly results in the death of every human on the planet. The oceans might acidify too fast for plankton to adapt, or they could adapt in a way that causes them to produce less oxygen. Given that >50% of the oxygen we breath comes from these plankton, and given that if O2 concentration levels fall by even 2% of the total atmosphere worldwide, we will all suffocate... Yeah, I'd say climate change is should be considered an existential threat. \n\nYou will of course say \"that's very unlikely.\" That, I will concede, but are you prepared to bet the entire future of every mammal on earth? That's what we're doing, right now. This isn't hyperbole. We're already playing Russian Roulette our own survival, and the odds just keep getting higher the longer we ignore it. ",
"That's a frighteningly true point.",
"I think you can lay a lot of the blame for McCain's lackluster turnout on his choice of running mate. ",
"I really don't know. People who can't critique her mistakes are making the same mistake those who blindly defend trump make.",
"Which is what all the initial aggressive mucking about was for, so we could have our own set of rules and leave that nasty aggression behind.",
"It's not about us boiling alive. It's about millions of people in the Middle East who're gonna be like \"fuck this place, it's hot as hell\" and shift into Europe, and millions of Bangladeshi people getting flooded out of their entire country, flooding into other countries, in just the next couple decades. There's a reason the department of defense considers it a national security threat.",
"Must be true, I have the quote right here:\n\n“They’re lying, I swear it. They lie all the time. Really.” -guy on the Internet ",
"he did talk a lot about the need for more cybersecurity in his book and policy statements, but it was missing from his campaign rhetoric because it's not as glamorous as a big navy.",
"I didn't realize slavery started after the revolution...",
"My favorite one I’ve seen is “Trump skis in jeans.”",
"But I don't wanna eat robots and AI.",
"Yeah, there were a lot of other factors too, but tribalism I think was the main issue. My parents are super conservative and at the beginning of the election they were neutral on Trump and towards the end they were 100% on board. I think the lesson learned is that we can approach political discussions in a more polite way if we want to gain any ground. When you put your feet in the ground and say my side is good yours is bad then all it does it make people stand tall whether that candidate holds their belief system or not. Pride is a terrible trait of human beings. \n\nUPDATE: A great example of tribalism is the fact that I'm being downvoted for being ethically against war. What a world we live in. I'll never apologize for being against murder. Good luck to you all. You're all more alike than you think. ",
"Long live the Colonel!!!",
"> Russia meddled in our elections \n\nYeah.. no. I'm gonna need a source or call bullshit. Russia is a nothingburger",
"You have just described every democrat's view of every republican member of congress for the past 50 years, as well as every republican's view of every democrat member of congress, horse shit included, except since 1916 we refer to horse shit as CO2 emissions due to innovations in transportation.",
"And the reason you have what you have now is precisely because of how Mitt Romney was treated.\n\n* Remember \"binders full of women\"?\n\n* Remember when Romney was accused of giving a woman cancer?\n\n* Remember when Biden told a crowd of black voters that Romney would *\"put y'all back in chains?\"*\n\nMitt Romney was a genuinely decent human being, just as John McCain was before him. And like McCain, he was demonized as the Antichrist. He was portrayed as a racist sexist bigot homophobe who wanted to screw over everyone around him just to make a buck.\n\nAfter that, Republicans basically said *\"Fuck it. If you're going to do this to these genuinely decent, intelligent, qualified men, then we're going to vote for the most crass, loud-mouthed guy we can find and we'll have him punch you in the balls repeatedly\".*\n\nThat's what Donald Trump is - a blunt instrument that was crafted in direct response to how Romney, McCain, and even Bush were treated.",
"Say what you will about the Democrats, they never concocted an Illuminati-affiliated child sex ring that operated out of the basement of a pizza parlor (that didn’t have a basement) just to discredit the opposition. ",
"Out of many, very very many.",
"\"buuh buuht my job!\" \n\noh don't worry, if you elect a shit head, you won't have a job in 2 years :D",
"Curious, did you assume they were a she because their name has \"dress\" in it?",
"Society as a whole has the attention span of a goldfish now. We’re so used to sensationalization and quick, witty, and controversial figures, especially now. This is why Trump/Hillary acted the way they did, and it worked. Politicians like Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, or Martin O’ Malley didn’t stand a chance because the two finalists acted a certain way which caught the attention of the viewers/voters. This election, in my opinion, could have potentially fucked over the future of U.S political figures and presidential candidates. \nCan you imagine what could happen if 2020 consists of people like The Rock, Oprah, Kanye, Zuckerberg, etc., going at the presidency? A majority of the young people who can vote then, who would’ve been used to Trump and how sensational he is, will only know presidents like him and everybody else will seem “boring. Thus, making any other serious candidates seem too “bland and boring” and they would rather vote for somebody like Oprah or The Rock because they already know who they are. Not because they went to an Ivy League and dedicated their lives to politics and public policy. This then can make serious politicians rethink a shot at the presidency because well known celebrities already have an advantage over them, due to their statuses. \nYou may or may not agree, but I would much rather take a “boring” politician over a celebrity, that’s saying I agree with what they say. I don’t want my candidate to be going on talk shows and dabbing and talking about Pokémon or not watching what they say on Twitter. I want one who is serious about the job and doesn’t pander to the “young people” to appear “hip and relatable” It makes me sad to think that the presidency is now seen as a thing anybody over the age of 35 can achieve now, given they have a certain status. I’m pretty sure in the next couple elections, there will definitely be an influx of more and more celebrities who just think it’ll be a fun little gig.\n\nTL;DR- It’s not that there’s anything wrong with a boring politician, it’s that the attention span of people have shortened significantly. People like to see celebrity figures and people they already know about and have statuses. These “boring” positions don’t stand a chance in future elections anymore because of the potential amount of celebrities who will start to take a shot at the presidency.",
"Digg forced it without it actually getting votes from the users, and the algorithm broke and repeated stuff from the same sites on every single top post, it wasike 10 straight tech crunch articles on the main page. \n\nThis was upvoted by people who liked it, the reddit site themselves didn't do anything extra to promote it, don't compare the two situations just cause you dont like something.\n\nTypical the_dimwit user saying something stupid because he needs to justify voting for a senile conman.",
"\"Honest mistakes.\"\n\nYou have got to be kidding.",
"I think being \"presidential\" is a minimal requirement, but not the only one. It's supremely unhelpful to have a president who's dumb as a fucking sack of hammers and will say anything to anyone, without any thought to context or policy. ",
"If another unqualified celebrity gets elected, regardless of party, I’m fucking leaving for Canada",
"Still if I hated him that much I wouldn’t want his name on my car even if it’s “cute”. ",
"Eh, semantics. Presenting irrelevant or comparatively irrelevant choices doesn't really make you feel like you have much choice, and that's the point. ",
"Just one daughter though. ",
"Of course only America has done all that./s",
"But now his funding is cut and he might get fired... ",
"Your autocorrect turned Idiocracy into Isocracy. I googled 'isocracy' curiously, and apparently, isocracy is a form of government where all citizens have equal political power. Very much the opposite!",
"“The republicans are so partisan, I can’t stand them”\n\nFor real go to r/politics right now. You’ll be hard pressed to find a thread where Trump isn’t compared to hitler and quite often you’ll find proclamations that we are living in a fascist state on the brink of genocidal dictatorship. ",
"You're acting like Trump's unqualified family members aren't sycophantic leeches as well.",
"Not anyone. ",
"so im curious about this, when i see a republican fuck up like that its always intentional and the blame should be pinned. is it a common opinion that if its a democrat that fucks up we should just ignore it as a honest mistake?",
"dont be so quick to judge the person. Every democrat should be upset for the DNC running an unfair election.",
"Hilary want attractive enough for you, but Bernie got people hot and bothered...? Hmmmm",
"He was looking out for our burrito coverings.",
"lol. by what standard? a businessman who started off with hundreds of millions in life basically went bankrupt. i would also be very surprised if his wealth, as he states it, is real. he is a notorious lier and a complete egomaniac. he built resorts in...jersey city. LOL.",
"Seems like the only part Trump is missing from either group is \"highly credentialed\"",
"Quit sleeping under the bleachers. ",
"tbh i think almost anyone would be able to defeat trump in 2020",
"Lol, someone's really salty that Bernie got less votes than Clinton. I don't know what some people have against democracy. ",
"It wasn’t so much that Mitt Romney was boring, it was that his boringness centered around his apathy for fixing the royally fucked up pay-to-play system we have now. The United States is essentially an oligarchy, and we’re going to put Bain Capital’s rich owner into the presidency? The guy who basically shit on 47% of America for not paying income taxes? Silver spoon magical underpants Mormon elitist? Yeah, no thanks. At least Obama was going to throw the starving middle class a bone every now and then, even if he was a corporatist war hawk. ",
"I don’t hate them, I just think they’re wrong on almost all the most salient issues, but it’s pretty hard to deny that last election’s campaign strategy was essentially to take advantage of the opponent’s lack of charisma by generating a near-endless series of fake scandals. ",
"Was Trump and Romneys turn out not roughly the same?",
"I got u fam ",
"There were *a lot* of women who were excited to vote for Hillary as the first woman president, and technically she did win the popularity contest, but I see your point. It reminds me of something I read, that Democrats fall in love, but Republicans fall in line. So there are bunches of people who actually do love DJT but mostly it was just Republicans voting their ticket. ",
"I'm not a guy, nor am I advocating violence against people I disagree with. \n\nI'm advocating for people considering when violence should be acceptable, and rejecting blanket statements like \"Being aggressive never helped anyone\" without any thought as to how true that statement is. \n\nE: spelling",
"Many people felt that way about Bernie and that's why the election turned out the way it did",
"The most foundational concept of criminal law is that criminal act + criminal intent = crime. You say “actual crimes were committed” but admit that she lacked intent, as determined by the FBI. Without the requisite intent there is literally no crime. ",
"Isnt that terrible? How low are the standards, that the main reason a person would be brought into office is because they aren't as worse as the other person? ",
"Democrats are morons. They literally had a nobody Senator from Vermont prove he can get people to show up and vote and instead they brute forced a serial political loser into their nomination.",
"I was incredibly saddened that she could have been the 1st female nominee. She is a stain on this country with a horrid record and cared more about winning than she did for the country. Her gaslighting of the left and independents and saying how they weren't welcome nor needed, all while she catered to the Bush administration, was just vile. \n\nWhy do I say she cared more about herself than country? She took most Victory Fund money from state parties to finance her campaign (which likely cost Democrats the Senate and likely even POTUS, as local politicians can reach people better), she decided partying with elites for 2 weeks more important than campaigning then had the gall to try and blame Sanders and say he should have been elegant and helpful like she was to Obama (keep in mind Sanders not only campaigned in the rust belt, he did 41 events for Hillary. Hillary only did 13 for Obama. Hillary also pushed the Obama boys lie as she did with the Bernie bros lie), her self centered \"I'm with her\" slogan (absolutely disgusting. If she wanted to help the people, it'd be \"she's with us\" or similar), ugh, I can keep going but I'm ranting now... ",
"http://www.dictionary.com/browse/trump\n\nThe word has no relation to the President. This source says it originated in 1530, which I believe is a bit before the modern political landscape. It's not a proper noun.",
"If my memories of election night serve me, reddit would have a \"SHOULD HAVE BEEN BERNIE!!!! TOLD YOU SO\" sticker, not a \"Meh, nevermind, who cares\" sticker",
"Zoop 👉😎👉",
"majority of democrats who voted for Bernie ended up voting for Hillary begrudgingly ",
"No it was the Russians!! They made the Democrats not Pokemon Go to the polls or something. ",
"I’m about to take a trip to Japan. Maybe I’ll just stay.",
"I like how the photographer hand wiped the dirt from the stickers first. ",
"The parallels to reality tv might be the reason a person like Trump won. MatPat from Game Theory made a video analyzing why Trump was doing so well during the campaigns: \n\nhttps://youtu.be/n6PcQ1Be5ak\n\nEssentially, Trump did so well \"eliminating\" the Republican candidates using reality TV tactics which he had experience with. By the tone at the end of MatPat's video, it sounds like he didn't expect Trump to be the Republican candidacy, much less the Presidency",
"Obama never said that they weren't a foe at all, just that they were not as big of an issue as Al Qaeda, which was largely a bunch of debate bullshit to try and pivot into \"btw guys did I mention I killed Bin Laden? Please focus on that!\"\n\n\n\nThat being said, the idea that our military should place a higher priority on eliminating Al Qaeda than preparing for Russian military aggression which didn't exist was correct. I wouldn't describe Al Qaeda as a geopolitical power, but in terms of \"who should our military be worried about fighting\" in 2012 - Al Qaeda would definitely be a much more important threat to focus on. \n\n\n\n\nThese days, \"America's #1 geopolitical foe\" is like \"Muhammad Ali's #1 foe from intro to boxing\". The attitude was \"Yeah, they don't like us... but what the fuck are they going to do about it? Our military could wipe the floor with theirs\". Clearly, that attitude was arrogant and Obama should have done more to fight the FSB's active measures - but I see absolutely no reason to believe that a President Romney wouldn't have made the same mistake.",
"Mine doesn't, it just has a Penn State sticker. I feel left out.",
"He's definitely pretty bad and doing quite a bit of damage to our country.",
"History disagrees with this. The law disagrees with this. The way society is structured, to fund and organize police and military forces to maintain order, disagrees. ",
"I recommend seeing a psychologist, Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder ",
"No.",
"My girlfriend showed me it a few weeks ago.. Since then I've been convinced I've seen the future. ",
"I'm with you on Stein. She was clearly just as compromised as Trump, and just as incompetent as well. To think how far the Greens have sunk since Nader. Not that they were ever going to win an election, but at least they had consistent positions and a competent-as-most candidate. ",
"Some might say he's in a Sunken Place...",
"yikes. i honestly havent heard shit about her since she lost. but that is interesting for sure. interesting that that never made it near the top of anything i read too. people don't care about her much since she lost i guess.",
"Pretty sure everybody still feels that way. Hillary was the much lesser of two evils.",
"So Trump is somehow \"real change\" by doing exactly what the republican party always does, except while being an extra large jackass about it?",
"surely you mean an entertainer/politician right? Like Schwarzenegger.\n I mean what's the point of electing anyone if they won't even entertain me? ",
"Not given the comment you were replying to. ",
"> Oprah\n\nPlease tell me you're just joking and she isn't actually running",
"Idiocracy pairs well with Wall-E. ",
"Already worked once, why not again?",
"If you’re calling for human beings to be lobotomized and sterilized, you’re no better than anybody. That’s literal Nazi talk. Don’t be a Nazi please. I don’t care if you support Hillary or Trump, nobody should ever talk like that about people. ",
">Wikileaks\n\nMight as well post a picture of a pile of shit, at least it's sort of useful. ",
">muh russia\n\nBold.",
"But Trump ran as an elephant. ",
"Yeah it was all so painfully obvious.. Then we got proof, thanks to WikiLeaks, that the primary election was rigged and the DNC still denied it. \n\nNow the establishment democrats just won’t stop blaming Russia, claiming that they hacked the DNC. But in reality the DNC emails were leaked by a DNC employee. The emails were downloaded in under 80 seconds which would be impossible if they were hacked over the internet. They had to have been copied locally. There is a lot of speculation that Seth Rich, who was shot in the back twice just 5 days after the DNC claimed it had been hacked, is the leaker. And the FBI claims to have lost Seth Richs laptop...\n\nBut either way I think a lot of people are still angry that Hillary worked with the media and the DNC to rig the primary.\n\nEdit: more info \n\n[Bill Binney confirms the DNC emails were leaked, not hacked](http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-hacking-intelligence-20170105-story.html)\n\n[Seymour Hersh claims Seth Rich was in contact with Wikileaks](https://youtu.be/gYzB96_EK7s)\n\n[HERSH: FBI REPORT SHOWS IT WAS SETH RICH, NOT RUSSIANS, WHO GAVE DNC EMAILS TO WIKILEAKS](http://thoughtcrimeradio.net/2017/08/hersh-fbi-report-shows-it-was-seth-rich-not-russians-who-gave-dnc-emails-to-wikileaks/)\n\n[America First finds suspicious payments that came within 24 hours of both Shaun Lucas and Seth Rich's murders](https://af-mg.com/2017/09/21/breaking-seth-rich-hush-money/)\n\n\n[The FBI Relied on a Private Firm’s Investigation of the DNC Hack—Which Makes the Agency Harder to Trust](http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2017/05/09/the_fbi_is_harder_to_trust_on_the_dnc_hack_because_it_relied_on_crowdstrike.html)\n\n[DNC files were copied, not hacked, 5 days before murder of Seth Rich](http://www.worldtribune.com/report-dnc-files-were-copied-not-hacked-5-days-before-murder-of-seth-rich/)\n\n[Murdered DNC Staffer Seth Rich Shared 44,053 Democrat Emails With WikiLeaks](http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-05-16/murdered-dnc-staffer-seth-rich-shared-44000-emails-wikileaks)\n\n[Washington D.C. Police chief, Cathy Lanier, resigned a month after Seth Rich's murder claiming \"the city's justice system is broken beyond repair\" (reddit link)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/6mjaj6/a_tale_of_two_chiefs_was_dc_police_chief_cathy/?st=J8PE79KW&sh=e7fc4096)\n\n[\"according to the NSA report, Seth Rich said ‘I’ve also shared this box with a couple of friends so if anything happens to me it’s not going to solve your problem.’” – Seymour Hersh](https://consortiumnews.com/2017/08/08/a-new-twist-in-seth-rich-murder-case/)\n",
"They stopped caring and are now just watching the shitshow and dying a little more inside every day while reading political posts on reddit. \n\nMaybe thats just me though.",
"I know 10% of Sanders primary voters went to Trump. Hillary cultists like to use this as an excuse to blame Sanders (while ignoring that 24% of Hillary voters went for McCain amongst other things) but they also tell only half of the truth as of those 10%, large majority were Republicans. The full truth, along with more recent hypothetical GE polls, really just make the case that Sanders had a vastly better chance of winning ",
"clearly i’m being literal. ",
"not /r/politics. they got bought off by correct the record and was pro-Hillary all the way. ",
"Like the “Trump likes getting peed on” scandal or the “Trump begs for the Gorilla Channel” scandal that many left wing media blue check marks bought into hook, line and sinker? How about the “two scoops” scandal or the ever mature “Trump fucks his daughter” proclamations. \n\nHow about the “Trump is clearly on cocaine because he is sniffling during the debate” scandal? Or the “Trump clearly has dementia” internet doctor diagnoses?",
"As a human bean I can relate to this sentiment",
"I have, in fact. Your scenario sounds like a highly idyllic small town that never locked their doors until \"that crime\" occurred. I'm not advocating violence for violence's sake. I'm encouraging people to consider for themselves when violence should become a consideration, because it has been used for moral purposes in the past, and in fact is condoned throughout the world to maintain order. ",
"If there's a lack of intent, then there is no crime. That was the point.",
"Witty banter and informative posts. Still, that’s amazing.",
"Obama at least listened to scientists and scientific consensus on scientific matters. Trump can't say the same\n\nNot to mention that no one mentioned Obama and co. \"They did it too\" is not a defense",
"Indeed he is an ass but he certainly isnt all bad. ",
"that sounds exactly like what happened to me... only i didn't put any stickers on my car. Although Jill Stein ended up being a crooked turd as well.\n\nI'm fed up with these corporate cronies and the broken 2 party system.",
"I’ve always been scared to watch this again post-Trump. It’s just too real now. ",
"Some people can't afford to risk getting fired. Voting early and by mail should be easier.",
"If you're still complaining then you're not winning ",
"Hence their lasting effect and ability to survive additional governments.",
"I'm in the same boat. It's on my to-do list.",
"Because only Republicans can ever make shady deals with foreign interests. Reddit told me so.",
"I'm acting as though they cant blend.",
"I think I might know who that was ",
"The stock market isn't the economy.",
"that sounds so nice.",
"So all the sudden these bumper stickers showed up this year then “just because”? \n\nEdit- and I know the word is older than the president... ",
"Are saying it's Obama's fault this lady got into the country for the Trump's to meet with her? How far is your head up your ass?",
"> There is no number of aircraft carriers we can build that will reduce the threat of ICBM attacks.\n\nTrue, but more aircraft carriers would provide more off mainlaind area for the military to occupy in case of ICBM attacks. It effectively means that of any survivors, more would be military and thus under political control.",
"...Who? Do you mean Kerry? Are you sure the old man was the dumb one?",
"To be fair, Obama was president while the election was “hacked” in 2016",
"Oh fuck off. No one wants to see your relentless bias. Its called Trump Derangement Syndrome and you people are fucking hysterics.\n(I said the objective reality, so there is bound to be at least one lib shit who is going to go out of their way to target me and try to irritate me. You see, these beasts get triggered )",
"I covered my Sanders sticker with a Giant Meteor sticker. Should probably take it off, but it still gets chuckles sometimes.",
"Sure. That's exactly what it is.\n\nYou *couldn't* be delusional. \n\nNope. No way. It must be a conspiracy.\n\nGet bent.",
"Gee I’m the crackpot conspiracy theorist on *this* site but as someone who doesn’t like politics but considers themselves prettly knowledgeable on the subject, calling Trump a compromised president is like saying Obama was born in Kenya.\n\nEveryone can overthink it and drown me in downvotes and come to any conclusions they’d like, but why is it wild to think Russia would try to get a president friendly to them installed? They meddled in the French election unsuccessfully, supporting LePen during my time there. That doesn’t mean she was compromised in anyway, it just means she had policies that favored them and so they tried their best to support her like any sane country would. (I acknowledge the extent to which they attempted this should warrant sanctions. By support I don’t mean they can take any measures to achieve that outcome).\n\nIs it honestly that wild to think some arrogant populist candidate ran and won? Is it honestly a crazy idea to suggest he isn’t a sociopath, isn’t stupid, and isn’t a Russian shill? I’d take Sanders over him any day because I love Sanders character (God knows not his policies), but I don’t think Trump is some wild savage.\n\nPeople are so fucking foolish on the left & then pretend only the right is the one with the crazy accusations. I’m liberal as fuck but I’m not a dumbass. It’s been over a YEAR and there have been ZERO indictments related to Russian collusion, just normal sketchy shit you would find on any campaign you investigated and turned over every stone. I’m glad they got Manafort, Flynn, and others, but none of those have any implication of a Trump campaign conspiracy with the Russians and don’t implicate anybody but those indicted.\n\nIn summary, this comment is written by a liberal who hates the fact both sides of the political aisle hold a terrible double-standard against the other party they don’t apply to their own. Trump is bad enough, why do we have to paint somebody who is obviously more intelligent than your average American as the worlds dumbest man, a clearly arrogant celebrity as a sociopath (go to your local psychiatrist and ask if they can make a diagnosis without meeting that person), or act like it’s likely according to available information that he colluded with Russia. Just go dig up dirt on his business instead for fucks sake.\n\nPlease guys, be intellectually honest with yourself.\n\nAs far as Romney goes, he was villified to a ridiculous extent. Obama and Romney are both highly respectable intellectuals who were both literal fucking saints. When the left touts him driving with a dog on his roof in the headlines as some sort of verdict on his character, or the right touts some crazy conspiracy theories about Obama’s citizenship to delegitimize his presidential run, you know these two are some decent people.\n\nIt’s easy to highly scrutinize every statement ever said by politicians (which is fair game), but the frustrating side to me is the defense of ones own. Romney turned out to be right, but you had to twist that specific statement to make it ambiguous and then come to Obama’s defense to pretend he was right instead. This poisons discussion more than anything. Every politician should be attacked all the time. People defending their own politicians is the worst violation of this double-standard. The “do no wrong” mantra. I recognize a lot of criticisms are fanatical but 90% of people will defend their favored party no matter what, or try to minimize their faults.\n\nAnd now of course everybody here loves Romney because he opposes Trump even though he is a old, rich white conservative who would have passed identical legislation more successfully because you guys are all one-track-minded revisionists.\n\nIf even one person reads this and decides to change the way they think about politics then writing this will have been worth it. Truth and intellectual honesty matter the most. Everything else comes second. Look at all the facts and expose yourselves to diffferent views. (Which a lot of people say a lot but never actually do. Podcasts are a GREAT and EASY place to start. Your phone has a built in Podcasts app, most likely. Sort by politics, go to the top results and subscribe to a healthy dose of conservative and liberal shows).\n\nAlso, excuse the username. I meant this to be an alt for a one-time joke relating two different internet memes but I’m too lazy to logout.",
"He won the electoral vote by a pretty wide margin.",
"In the future we'll be invading Egypt due to Republican denial of the scientific facts of climate change. Not for its oil but for the grain stored in the pyramids. ",
"Instead of the DNC using their media platforms to push for progressive ideas like raising the minimum wages or single payer or student debt reform. Nope, lets talk more about Russia. ",
"Then do it you asshole, you’re not winning anything just by whinnying in the internet only because your life is miserable and you can’t come to terms with that. ",
"My personal favorite that I have seen so far is President Comacho 2020",
"\"The establishment\" is as much to blame for this bullshit. Maybe if we didn't have shit like Iraq, the NSA, trying to jail Edward Snowden, the whole Standing Rock bullshit, that people could have some faith in institutions. But our media lies, our government lies, our politicians lie, and suddenly the entire establishment panics that people don't trust their expertise anymore. You can't take back Vietnam. You can't take back Watergate. You can't take back CNN or Fox News. ",
"They want to eat you. Well, they can be trained to. So can people. According to conspiracy nuts, they do.",
"We shall see. The dems have no one and the pubs have the same ole men as before.",
"\"On the plus side, they'll be gone soon\" is a pretty low bar. Also, there is no guarantee that the future will bring anything better. Fixing shit is always more difficult than breaking shit. ",
"Nope. No crimes were committed.",
"I could really use some Starbucks right about now",
"or a good track record",
"Lol. Nice try",
"I really like how an Isocracy expands from the legal right of insomnia to political and economic systems, from equality of law, to equality in governance. ",
"It’s not that he was boring. It’s that he didn’t understand the people. He wasn’t inspiring enough to get them to rally behind him. Although trump supporters may be fewer than those who oppose them, their devotion is much stronger.",
"Nuking every square inch of the country would also fuck the system over. That doesn't make it a good idea.",
"Like Hillary. Oh wait, that's you who do that.",
"Fuck canada, I'd go to new zealand or japan.\n\nThough if USA gets too shit the whole world is fucked either economically or by the next wanna be super power (or russia)",
"You mean like the dinosaurs in congress?",
"Are you telling me that a cottage-cheese textured man who’s obese at best and constantly makes disparaging comments about others’ weight has never tried to lose weight himself? If he hasn’t then he certainly should have. That’s frankly worse.",
"fake reddit",
"Except that it couldn't. As per Comey, what she did would, at most, mean she gets fired. Nothing criminal.",
"How is this propaganda? Because it shows anti-Trump bumper stickers, or because you don't like it? If the people on this sub upvoted it, then it's not some corruption of r/pics, it's just that the majority of people actually have a sense of humor about this type of thing, even if it happens to trigger you.",
"> I don't know what some people have against democracy. \n\nSo you never saw any of the leaked emails?",
"Blew someone's mind with this just yesterday. ",
"There's a difference between someone believing both are criminals, and believing both are criminals of the same magnitude.\n\nUsing your brand of logic, I can't say that Whitey Bulger and some guy who got arrested for robbing a liquor store are both criminals because the first did things way worse than the second.\n\nNow, all that aside, *is* Hillary a criminal? According to James Comey, no. But there are plenty of people, who *are not Trump supporters*, who believe otherwise. That doesn't mean, however, that they necessarily think she's as bad as Trump.",
"Nope.",
"You can definitely commit crimes without intent.",
"> Keep saying that, at some point it will become true.\n\nThat's ironic.",
".isocracy: next gen TPB where even the search engines are peer-to-peer",
"If you consider the truth biased...",
"the generic ballot is looking very good for the democrats and enough people despise trump that i just don't see him winning in any realistic circumstance",
">Oh my god it takes like an hour tops. Every four years. Do your fucking civic duty. I can’t believe so many people take democracy for granted\n\nTo be fair. Your civic duty is to educate yourself in regards to the candidates, their positions etc. What it has devolved into is if you are either a Republican or Democrat and that the opposing side is a cancer spreading rapidly. You must choose one. We also as a society have the option to just say no to the sewerage they offer us as candidated.\n",
"Digg was abandoned because they changed the layout of the site.",
"Because it's not as funny.",
"Intractable change lowers morale, pointing to a scapegoat enables change.",
"Nah. Trump most certainly committed obstruction of justice.\n\nHillary, however, has committed no crime.",
"Someone in the executive branch authorized her entry under special circumstances.",
"I think cybersecurity is something which is being neglected by politicians across the board. So many of our politicians are so old that they aren't even familiar with the basics of computer use, let alone advanced stuff. I think a huge number of our leaders are ignoring this because it's something they honestly don't understand.\n\n\n\nI like to hope that the last year with the FSB election meddling, the Equifax breach, and all these other cybersecurity failures might finally be a wake up call to start getting stronger systems in place.",
"Yeah! Loser! Can't win a rigged for the other person candidacy? Get out the big Kids sandbox! /s",
"Why has every non political sub posting anti-Trump political messaging?! Is this social engineering? ",
"Just got back from one. Didn't want to leave -- but unless you've got a work visa you've got 90 days before immigration boots you out.",
"I bet you have scabies too. You make me sick. The beef I ate earlier is now bile beef and it is spilling right out of my gullet thanks to you. Thank you",
"wait, people are fired for not voting...?",
"So, Obama giving the United States to Putin is evidence of him being a \"master campaigner\"? Holy f@ck, we're screwed...",
"Source for that? ",
"I lean to the conservative side and I find that fantastic 😂",
"Not sure how I feel about those things, but shit, they could use the immense influence they have to actually do some good instead of being crazy.",
"man that's the attitude we had in 2016. dems need to know the only thing more powerful than people's hatred for trump is the country's apathy towards the democrats. screw up this next nomination and enough people will stay home trump could stand a chance. ",
"And that right there is why Hillary lost.",
"The message is clearly about Trump but the verb \"trump\" is not. The usage of that particular verb is clearly supposed to make you think of the proper noun, which is clearly Donald Trump. I think this is pretty clear, at least to anyone who speaks English as a first language. ",
"I'm American, idiot. My name refers to a chamber used in fusion devices.",
"arent all jobs legally required to allow you to vote? In my province if you work during an election day, employers must give you 3 hours off to vote. ",
"I disagree. That would be wildly overestimating the size of t_D_bag and underestimating the size of everyone else.\n\nLike the NYT (I think?) article that said YouTube was utterly dominated by the right-wing, and then went on, to list as proof, multiple channels between 50k and ~400k subscribers. I can think of a handful of self-identified progressive YouTubers with 400-500k *minimum*. I think The Young Turks alone have more subs than *all* of the right-wing channels mentioned in that article combined. \n\nAnd that's NOT an endorsement; I know Reddit hates TYT. Just stating a fact that this right-wing social media domination is a myth. They just make the most noise. ",
"The possibility has been in the news lately.\n\nTo which my response is, \"Come on democrats, haven't you learned anything from the last election?!!!\"",
"He wanted to *fiiiiiiiiiix* the econonimy",
"So, you are for dc establishment 75+ career cucks?",
"At this point, you could be very literal and I would have no idea. With the hateful shit that comes out of people’s mouths because they disagree with others opinions, It’s much easier to assume it’s literal.",
"if oprah gets elected im saying it now, america deserves trump. if you cant take a look at a fucked up situation and learn from it then you deserve every consequence of those actions.",
"Slam dunk nothing. She was a boring old has-been riding on her husbands coattails. Bernie rocketed from literally \"Bernie who?!\" to stardom in record time by promising straight out socialism, something that has been political Kryptonite up until this point. ",
"Just threaten to charge someone $20\n\nOh. You thought I was joking: http://www.aec.gov.au/FAQs/Voting_Australia.htm#not-to\n\nWe get the same bullshit results though.",
"And \"change\" for its own sake comes with no guarantee of improvement. Especially since we've all learned how well [demagoguery](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij1pZvv9m0g) works in the USA now. I only see increasing cynicism ahead. ",
"Maybe because the people who say this are too apathetic to actually understand what either candidates stood for. ",
"Superman video? I was in the back",
"Not sure if you should be sharing details about an ongoing FBI investigation online Mr FBI agent Burt Macklin",
"alright i get that. i’m not being literal, just exhausted with Trump sympathizers. Both sides sucked this round, but don’t try to paint shit gold Trump fucking\nblows. ",
"I'm genuinely confused by your argument because I'm not sure what reality you're living in. I don't even know who is Trump in this scenario. He had installed both unqualified family members and loyal sycophants. The only thing I would argue with is the \"highly credentialed\" part.",
"Define \"rigged\". The person with the most votes getting the nomination is \"rigged\" to you?\n\nI'm don't see why this is hard to understand, but that's called \"democracy\". ",
"Would have been more Presidential and more of an ethical person than the 2 frontrunners we had last election...wouldn't have agreed with everything he would have done, but at least he would have represented the US well.",
"http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/342118-homeland-security-confirms-special-entry-for-russian-lawyer",
"They ruined that sub for good imo. One of the lasting effects of this election cycle. I just assume that it's still overrun with shills and there is no point in trying to discuss anything there.",
"Yes, that's not it.",
"There were Russian troops there before he was inaugurated.",
"There’s a difference between being “an ass”, and a genuinely bad human being. ",
"It definitely takes WAY more than an hour in many places. My location was a college and I had to wait in line for 2 hours this most recent election. Not that you shouldn't still do it, though.",
" One guy thought Ghandi's quotes about aggression were relevant in the context of a bumper sticker. No one agreed. It must have been a complex set of understanding through which you managed to glean otherwise. ",
"I'm loving my portfolio now but whatever.",
">You have to think more long term than what you are for our world to be a better place, regardless of how much hate you feel right now.\n\nThis assumes I'm approaching my point from a position of hatred. Wars have been fought for moral reasons. Some of these wars were successful, as in, they achieved granting freedom to people who were severely oppressed, or were being murdered outright. Like many nations, the U.S. was born out of war, and our greatest moral failing, slavery, was ended by war. Our system of laws allows for self defense and Castle Doctrine. Battered woman syndrome is a legitimate defense that I happen to think is a good thing. We fund and organize police and military forces to maintain order: we pay people to be violent for us. \n",
"Democrat primary voters for Hillary got what they deserved.\n\nUnfortunately, so did republican voters, I fear.",
"that just doesn't work out. you don't win an election merely by pointing out the other guy sucks, you have to prove you're better. all hillary did was portray herself as a less inspiring, less promising repeat of obama. ",
"Of your wife",
"Did people care about her before she lost?",
"... !remindme 3 years",
"Sure, every US intelligence agency is incorrect, but the reality TV star turned president says it isn't so.",
"And that has what, exactly, to do with a statement he made 4 years prior? He was an awesome president, but it's not like he was psychic.",
"> for speaking out against a Trump supporter\n\nim pretty sure saying \"i hate you\" is the basic definition of hate speech. your not a freedom fighter and your not doing anything but making yourself look like an ass and stressing yourself out over nothing.\n\n\n\"look mom my mean reddit comments changed someones opinion!!!!\"",
"> I mean, America was founded by people aggressively throwing tea into the ocean\n\nWhich was sorta the \"break a starbucks window\" of the time.",
"If Oprah runs I'm ending it all.",
"No electrolytes.....",
"tbh I thought that about 2016, so...",
"Complaining? You must have autism if you think that's considered complaining. ",
"The only jobs lost as a result of the election are Hillary’s campaign managers",
"That's not what?",
"I did, and anyone who actually read them wouldn't be bringing them up as evidence, but feel free to point out specifics if you want. \n\nThe one shady thing, I'll grant you, is Clinton getting that question on water for the Flint debate. So, is that the extent of your argument?\n\nEdit: Am I to assume that your lack of any examples mean that you have none?",
"If you look at the issues and polling though, Sanders' policies are supported by the majority of Americans. Just saying... \n\n\nhttp://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/02/10/most-americans-say-u-s-economic-system-is-unfair-but-high-income-republicans-disagree/\n\nhttp://www.gallup.com/poll/190010/concern-global-warming-eight-year-high.aspx\n\nhttp://www.gallup.com/poll/206159/americans-tilt-toward-protecting-environment-alternative-fuels.aspx?g_campaign=tiles&g_medium=newsfeed&g_source=Social+Issues\n\nhttp://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/233183-poll-finds-support-for-minimum-wage-increase-paid-leave\n\n\nhttp://www.gallup.com/poll/191504/majority-support-idea-fed-funded-healthcare-system.aspx\n\nhttps://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-09-28/bloomberg-poll-americans-want-supreme-court-to-turn-off-political-spending-spigot\n\nhttps://www.cnbc.com/amp/2016/08/01/over-60-of-americans-back-tuition-free-college-survey-says.html",
"Yes that is exactly my point! Oh my gosh. Their using the verb, but it’s directed toward Trump, because they hate Trump, BUT they still are drawing attention to him by putting his “name” on their car. ",
"Private prisons, for profit universities, coal companies, ISPs, and incest themed porn enthusiasts",
"Even a dog wearing a cute hat?",
"I feel that",
"Restrain yourself Sir! Kindly.",
"This account has a two year gap in its posting history. Two years ago all its posts were about ecology. Now they're all about Trump and why he's innocent. Smells like a bought account for a Russian troll farm to me.",
"Reminds me of the photo of around a dozen road workers standing around watching one guy work, the guy who is in danger of being fired due to funding cuts...",
"The director of that movie went on an Infowars broadcast. He's not exactly a middle of the road, \"Cool Headed\" Obama type. ",
"I don't know, in my country all voting is on Sunday from 6am to 6pm, and every public school and other government places get to be polling places.",
"Mittens tried to save us from trump the first time, that rejection led him to sitting out 2016. Why Mittens, Why! We didn’t hate you, we just really liked Obama. ",
"It has a gritty mouthfeel and Gatorade-like tannins.",
"If Mitt Romney had won in 2012, he’d of been running for re-election in 2016. And even if he lost to the Democratic challenger, either way there’d be no Trump. This presents an interesting question: would most people have given up another four years of Obama to avert the Trump presidency, or were those extra four years still worth it? ",
"I can't speak to your experiences but there is a difference between mistakes and intentional wrongdoing. You realize this, yes? Not everything is a partisan showdown so I dont know what you're trying to get at",
"Democrats do, though. Definitely. :)",
"Bernie isn't quite the best example. He's been a fairly well known politician for a while, and he did still lose (questionably legitimately) the primary.\n\nObama would be a much better example. Absolute nobody at the time he started campaigning (like 2 years in the Senate, and a couple years before that in the Illinois state senate), at the peak of Hilary's popularity, handicapped by public opinion not really supporting the idea of a black president. And he crushed Clinton there. That probably should have caused some changes in Democratic strategy",
"Is the [CIA](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/11/11/despite-trumps-comments-cia-stands-assessment-russia-meddled-election/855212001/) enough of a source? US intelligence agencies have all been pretty much in agreement on this...",
"8 years of slick willy, 8 years of WMD Bush, 8 years of scandal swarming Obama still having an effect. When the tax bill goes into effect and kills millions the quality of life average will skyrocket. ",
"“That's a discretionary act that the statute allows the attorney general to do in extraordinary circumstances. In this case, we did that so that Mr. Katsyv could testify. And we made the further accommodation of allowing his Russian lawyer into the country to assist.”\n\nSo she was testifying in court on some case. Obviously that means Obama set up Trump to work with the Russians to get elected. ",
"\"gross negligence\" is a legal term that can used to convict someone in government for a crime. It was a term originally written in Comey's draft to describe Clinton's use of classified government documents. It was later changed to \"extremely careless\" which is a key legal distinction. ",
"[There was that one time when you spouted off a bunch of lies.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7pijyf/the_progression_of_these_bumper_stickers/dshzcek/)",
"All you need is a call center with about 1000 russians, with 100 accounts each, running around the US internet insulting republicans rampantly.\n\nOh wait.",
"Hillary and the DNC NEVER denied the emails. They actually confirmed their legitimacy in fact. ",
"What seeds are you talking about? Are we talking about the \"deep state\" here? Every politician installs political hires. Trump is different because his are literally tasked with destroying their own agencies. It will take decades to restore them to proper function as they drive off anyone who actually wants the federal government to function.",
"Sadly this may actually be true ",
"Well, for that you need to elect officials that don't gerrymander and that reduce election options.",
"BENGHAZI BENGHAZI BENGHAZI!\n\nI know I'll get downvoted but that's how you sound. ",
"At least he knew politics and the law.",
"While Russia was actively undermining our election while he was president? Has a lot to do with his leadership I feel. ",
"Or people just don't like him.",
"I don't think Obumma looks particularly fun to have a beer with ",
"What do super-delegates have to do with \"democracy?\"",
"Change “Fine” with “Fuck it” and this is how I’d feel if I was an American citizen ",
"I would gladly have Mitt back at this point. Dude was a gentleman by comparison. ",
"Everything I don't like is propaganda.",
"I think he means taking time off work gets you fired.",
"Karma court! ",
"He just started to peak",
"Ugh i feel this. I was never interested in politics because it was boring and didn't seem hard. It is intentionally dry and complicated. \n\nBut now I have to try to make some sense put of what is happening every day, like, are we in a war? Is our president a puppet? Is the sky blue or turquoise or purple?!? \n\nIt's maddening. ",
"Awww.... Are your wittle Trumpeter feewings hurt?",
"I don't know how much truth there really is to this, but it has been said that Republicans hate the poor and Democrats hate the rich.",
"Because I can not agree with the status quo. [This is the video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHsZxJlxHYw&t=270s&list=LLM6EFPQAdgc660Hut_pgczg&index=39) that sold me on Trump. No regrets so far really.",
"My two year old loves Wall-E. I don't think he'll get to watch Idiocracy for a few more years though. ",
"You say that like \"master campaigner\" is some sort of virtue or compliment. \n\n\n\n\nIf a guy got 100% of the vote and then started a nuclear war an hour after being sworn in, that dude would be a master campaigner too. Shitty president, but master campaigner.",
"He's hitting the juice hard if he's talking about grain pyramids.",
"He did not accept corporate and lobby donations. Stop. Lying.\n\nSource on regulation easing?\n\nThe F35 support was a mistake though. ",
"Trump is Transition, he is change neither great nor small, but really focused on, he will make some things better, some things worse, but his insistance on touching everything will bring a national dialogue, and give mandates to change everything he touched, whereas before we were stuck in intractible status quo. \n\nOur ecosystem has filled with weeds, parasites and dead wood, Trump is the natural forest fire. The natural animals, the wildlife overwhelmingly avoids the fire without issue, and the deep roots of American democracy, and rights will survive. People will run in fear, see burned things, but in the 5-20 year span things will be stronger and better.",
"That's demonstrably false. Even Comey's statement on the matter stated clearly that the law was violated, in that there was classified information outside of it's proper place, but that he was choosing not to recommend prosecution for it.\n\nYou can be revisionist if you'd like, but it doesn't change the facts of the case.",
"crossfaded.",
"Why is it one or the other? Also why are you acting like Trump's entire cabinet besides perhaps Mattis and maybe Kelley aren't sycophants as well? We all know Trump has a huge ego and craves constant praise and attention- just look at the videos of his cabinet meetings. ",
"Both major political parties have bots as well doing the same things during elections. Welcome to the 21st century. ",
"Rigged: To manipulate fraudulently.\n\nIf you're going to deny that Clinton pulled some shady stuff during her run against Old Bern, then you're about as delusional as a blind Trumpster.",
"r/CopyPasta?",
"That doesn't really sound as clever as you'd it like it to be, and you sound really upset. How about you offer some evidence and we can settle this? For the record, your obvious ignorance of the political situation makes me want to puke as well :)",
"Bernie lost both the superdelates' vote **and** the popular vote. There is no measure where he would have won. Additionally, he lost the right to complain when he started courting them when it became obvious that he's lose the popular vote, if not when he signed on as a Democrat knowing full well what their nomination process is/was. ",
"I concur!",
"What do people think \"presidential\" means?\n\nBecause at least for me, the only thing that all the last few presidents had in common is that they bombed other countries constantly.",
"The only thing missing from all of that is the free will of the people.",
"just stating what ive seen on reddit so far. almost everyone here is a partisan ass. centrists are almost nonexistant.",
"RemindMe! 34 months",
"Russia \"investigation\" yet to find any illegal activity after an entire year, but surely this bumper sticker knows the truth.",
"I mean, we'll see if he actually changes anything. \n \nHe's appointed essentially all of the \"swampiest\" people, so I'm not really sure how it's going to fuck the system over...",
"its insufferable. Even new stories popularity are manipulated. How can a political story with over 200 comments have less than 80 upvotes. The only way to see reasonable news stories is to view the new ones before they deleted or downvoted by the mods. ",
"Just so I'm clear are you actually claiming the tax bills is going to cause the loss of millions of lives, or is this some kind of very strange hyperbole I don't understand? ",
"I mean, there's a lot of evidence, from most of the US intelligence agencies. They've all said \"yes this happened.\"\n\nAlso, you might want to update your conspiracy theories. As [the senate testimony about the dossier](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/09/us/politics/document-Fusion-GPS-Simpson-Transcript.html) reveals, the FBI was ALREADY investigating, before they even got the dossier. (And it claimed a lot of things that they already knew, from their own sources.)\n\nSo, uh, yeah. You might want to find a new conspiracy theory, since that one sort of has some holes in it.",
"Canada has that for a while. then he tried to be interesting, he lost. now we have one that's normal, apparently sexy and as always hated (it's Canada we like hating our politicians) the runner ups consist of the Green party lady who will never win, the NDP guy who is a laywer is brown and wears a turban. and the comseravative guy who boring political material. ",
"1/4 trump world",
">if you elect a shit head, you won't have a job in 2 years :D\n\nWhat did he mean by this?",
"Don’t you? What better way to get people passionate about their country than to destroy it before their very eyes? What better way to get people interested in politics than to poorly hide the shady deals just below the surface? Trump (hopefully) is the end of the pendulum, and it shall swing the other way soon.",
"You have no ground to claim knowledge of what Trump knows.\n\nThe democrat opposed tax bill was the reason for thousands of raises and bonuses for low level employees. A man can be lucky a few times but to have the numbers on his side like Trump does is an unimaginable amount of luck bordering on the occult. ",
"We tried under Obama and everything that was proposed was blocked by Republicans. Not really sure what you want.",
"The progression of constantly losing.",
"Not the crimes that you're accusing her of. Those require intent to be illegal.",
"You know how to make a comment that you know the mass will agree on. Why are you such a karma whore?",
"sad seeing someone so jealous",
"Please don't go off-script. Clearly the line is \"Hillary rigged the election.\" \n\nCitations outside of vague implications about emails or the (historically typical) joint fundraising agreement must not be summoned nor referenced. Feel free to mention super-delegates though, a bunch of people think Hillary invented them..\n\nThanks for your cooperation.",
"I'm not even American but I've heard all of those :/",
"Then start naming specifics, why don't you? Stop hand-waving, and give actual examples if they exist. \n\nOh wait, but that would require actual evidence...",
"I still want to lock her up and fuck trump. ",
"The reason for that is the refusal to pass a long term budget and 15 straight years of an obscene op tempo. Mabus and the administration were trying to build more ships.\n\nIt has nothing to do with Russia.",
"Hold your horses, eh? We elected our current PM based on feels and his boyish good looks. He *is* qualified, but that's not why we elected him.\n\nWe are not immune here, is what I'm saying. We're essentially in lockstep with you.",
"Oh come off it",
"It really isnt tho. Unless the dems can get a celeb, not Orpah, then I think Trump will win again. The ole pubs have no one, either.",
"Damn what a sore looser ",
"Not at all. You're all emotional, though. ",
"Have you read a single word about the gutting of the State Department, or are you too far \"removed from reality\"?",
"What the fuck are you talking about? Trump approved and implemented sanctions on russia in his first 3-4 months as president you uninformed mongoloid",
"> Nobody ever seriously suggested he was wrong that Russia was a geopolitical foe. \n\nGet fucking real, he was mocked incessantly by Obama (Hey Mitt, the 80's called lolol), and Democrats in general. Even the moderator gave him shit for it. ",
"Hillary colluded with the DNC and dozens of media outlets. She even pushed for Trump to be the republican nominee because she thought she’d beat him in the general election.",
"Well, the FBI does.",
"Except at this point he really believes he deserves to be president and has the skills to \"make the nation greater\". He lacks all self awareness he doesn't understand that he doesn't know Jack shit. That is dangerous. With a mind as small as his he will continue to justify more drastic actions, and Republicans seem to be defending his every word and move. ",
"At least it was billions in ships and not billions on a fucking wall.",
"Yeah it's a documentary now ",
"Clinton had a huge amount of economic and social policy proposals to help fix the problems you listed, no one cared because of the relatively uninspiring nature of her campaign and the media environment of the election. You can dispute their merits but not that they exist. Maybe you should consider educating yourself about the past instead of just making it clear that you’ve never heard either of the candidates speak, let alone seen their policy outlines.",
"Yeah, but I'll be long dead by then.",
"Considering this is a Subaru Forester, you're not too far off!",
"I understand your viewpoint better now but don't share your confidence that things will get better. Sometimes things only get better after a bloody war. Sometimes nations fall into a century long decay. There's no guarantee things will get better after Trump. And if they do it could take generations.",
"What?",
"One of my co-workers said it best. The worst way to fix a poorly running machine is to throw a wrench into it. ",
"A source for weapons of mass destruction hidden in a coffee can? No. Only the Onion, but they are better at trolling snowflakes. ",
"As an American citizen, this was pretty much my exact thought process.",
"> Hillary colluded with the DNC and dozens of media outlets\n\nShe didn't. Post some sources if you're asserting otherwise, and I'd be happy to address them. \n\n> She even pushed for Trump to be the republican nominee because she thought she’d beat him in the general election.\n\nHow is that in any way related to your claim?",
"Actually isn’t this the exact opposite of a sore loser?",
"> Nirvana \n\ngen-x maybe.\n\nMillennials only like nickelback or nsync",
"Exactly. All that and her opponent and she STILL couldn't win. ",
"Same thing as not being able to picture yourself having a beer with them.\n\n\"Do you want the intellectual elite running the country?\"\n\n\"Yes, as long as it is the intellectual elite not the financial elite, yes.\"",
"you're not wrong! in a comment below i went to verify if she really was an anti vaxxer and i found that it was debunked. but then i was also pointed to a wash post article citing she is being investigated for ties to the russians. so yeah you can't be quick to judge, that is certainly true. but you can be slow to judge haha",
"Strange... It takes 4 hours to vote.",
"> That's demonstrably false. Even Comey's statement on the matter stated clearly that the law was violated\n\nSource that she committed a crime? Show me where he said she broke the law.\n\nOh wait, how about I just cut the bullshit and give you the words from the horse's mouth?\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzOzSomiDCs\n\nNow sit down. Be humble.",
"You a clown bruh. Lots of us feel this way.\n\nI ain't voting if Bernie not out there in 2020.\n\nAll these dummies voting Hillary let the DNC know it's okay to fuck around.",
"And Republicans had a billionaire failed casino owner and wannabe reality show host from NYC with no political experience convince people from rural areas he understood their plight and would get rid of corruption.",
"You’re arguing the blind expansion of executive power is now a good thing because “he’s shaking things up”\n\nJust, wow...",
"No. It's just that most people fucking hate everything that Donald Trump stands for.",
"The people they elect screw everything up and people lose their jobs",
"I heard it's Foresters specifically. I personally know several lesbians who drive Foresters so it's not far off",
"When that politician is the President, possibly the most important role they serve is leader. They're supposed to rally the public and Congress around ideas and give direction for the country.\n\nSerious responsibilities like commanding the military are what the cabinet is for. The cabinet can be boring.\nLegislators and judges can be boring.\n\nThe president is a figurehead.",
"How about I not trust your interpretation of what Comey said and, instead, trust what Comey said himself?\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzOzSomiDCs",
"Electing the shithead will allow the country to go down, therefore the job is no more. ",
"Without breaking a sweat, I can think dozens of better ways to get people to be passionate about their country than destroying it. As it turns out, there were also better ways to save the village of My Lai than burning it. ",
"Except it turns out he actually [did](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mitt-romney-republican-binders-full-of-women-were-real-boston-globe-massachusetts-a7679241.html). That was such a stupid thing to pounce on him for. It's what I hate about this country's politics. Jumping on verbal gaffes instead of criticizing actual policies and political beliefs has continued to add to the stupidity of our political system. \n\nCouple this with stupid nicknames given to either side each year (Killary, Donnie Two Scoops), and the country comes out looking downright juvenile. In a way I wonder if we deserve what we are seeing now, as a penance for our country's collective arrogance.",
"Millennials are 1981 to 2000. I'm 35, and have never once listened to n'sync. Nirvana is also from my childhood.",
"....jesus christ do you guys just believe every smear written about anyone to the left of ~~Hillary~~ Nixon?",
"Not that many from a statistical standpoint. but i mean yeah people did ",
"I'm a registered Independent, so once again, not my party. The Democrats wish they were as far left as me, bruh",
"The voting process is crap in most places, and our votes don't matter. Mine certainly doesn't in Massachusetts. ",
"That's what it looked like the first time I saw it, and taking a look again after this jokester's comment... it still looks like someone just didn't want to take a picture of the stickers though a few layers of salt/dirt. \n\n",
"blamed trumps win on Hillary? who doesn’t?",
"It's stupid he can't just run for president again. ",
"I think for most people, that's exactly how it happened.",
">I read, that Democrats fall in love, but Republicans fall in line.\n\nYet the party keeps operating as though the opposite is true.",
"They said they meddled, none of them have said that Trump is compromised or that Russia is in control lol. Russia literally posted facebook memes and you guys think they staged a coup.",
"> But in reality the DNC emails were leaked by a DNC employee\n\nWhich reality? I know it's not this one.",
"It’s called throw it into an index fund",
"I think it was more in contrast to their opponent. Romney with his (lack of) personality and money definitely was out of touch compared to Obama. But while Hillary with a few millions compared to Trump's billions, Hillary was more out of touch than Trump. I think the media avoided calling Trump out of touch because people would instantly consider Hillary was worse.",
"*aggressively writes declaration of Independence*",
"Yup. Any idiot could see that the fire and fervor was rallying behind Bernie and he had the clear lead in polls again Trump. \n\nBut, Dems put party over country and gambled with our future and lost. Thanks DNC.",
"The plan was for Romney to have a huge increase in navy because it was the smallest since WWI. That is what he was mocked for, thinking numbers mattered when it was how capable they were.\n\nHis plan to expand the navy wouldn't have mattered in Crimea. Military wouldn't have mattered in Crimea because Ukraine wasn't in NATO and at best we can only lend lease and send advisors.\n\nRomney's ships would be out in the oceans doing jack shit.",
"Subarus are favored more by skiers and snowboarders mostly for the amazing AWD. The lesbian joke is old.",
"So longer hours and more responsibilities for the same pay? Gee, where have I heard that before...? ",
"Both are old wrinklebags, obviously, but you knew that.\n\nWhat was attractive about Bernie was his boldly stated ideology. One that barely anyone but fringe nuts would even touch with the proverbial 39 & 1/2 foot pole, he ran up and bearhugged it.",
"/s",
"Why not? If there's one thing the guy ever had/has going, it's that he seems fun to just shoot the shit with. \n\n",
"Here's a fun, labeled picture of Jill Stein at a table with Vladimir Putin and Mike Flynn.\n\nhttps://media3.s-nbcnews.com/i/newscms/2017_51/1955941/170405-putin-flynn-dinner-jhc-1700_ae6b4cdd270c7a7f3720c0df3b07f9fb.jpg\n\n...and others.",
">Gee I’m the crackpot conspiracy theorist on this site but as someone who doesn’t like politics but considers themselves prettly knowledgeable on the subject, calling Trump a compromised president is like saying Obama was born in Kenya.\n\nExcept that Obama humored trump's laughable kenya claims, while trump has repeatedly tried to stonewall everything regarding Russia. Also, Obama didn't have all the intelligence agencies saying \"this is actually true\", while trump sort of does?\n\nSo I guess I'm saying, they're not really comparable, unless you want to ignore a lot of evidence in order to try to support a point that doesn't really work. But hey, you do you.\n\n>Is it honestly that wild to think some arrogant populist candidate ran and won? Is it honestly a crazy idea to suggest he isn’t a sociopath, isn’t stupid, and isn’t a Russian shill? I’d take Sanders over him any day because I love Sanders character (God knows not his policies), but I don’t think Trump is some wild savage.\n\nIs it honestly so wild to think that all the evidence that suggests that he's acting at the behest of Russian interests, and is frantically trying to stave off an investigation, might be because he actually acted *super illegally* and knows the law is closing in on him for his many misdeeds?\n\nI mean, the guy is a *known con-man.* His lawyers would literally visit him in pairs, so they'd have a witness, since otherwise he'd lie about what was said later. Why anyone thinks someone like that is suddenly trustworthy is still a mystery to me.\n\n>Please guys, be intellectually honest with yourself.\n\nI feel like this is advice you need to take to heart yourself. The evidence has been mounting up for over a year. trump conspired with Russia to manipulate the election. The gullibility of many americans was *literally weaponized* by a hostile foreign power. I understand how that's rough to admit to one's self, but for the good of the republic, we, as a nation, need to remember how to gracefully admit when we are wrong.\n\n",
"Yeah, only that ONE statement should have decided the whole election.",
"He wrote the book before he was president. He didn't intentionally use the power of the presidency to enrich himself like our current idiot\n.",
"> Although Jill Stein ended up being a crooked turd as well\n\nYeah that didn't happen.",
"_Fuck._",
"I seriously doubt America was built on entertainment and consumption\nin 1776. lolz",
"Not really. She ignored most economic issues until Sanders forced her to put a lite version of his policies into a speech or two. Not once did she make clear how she'd fix AHA, how she'd fix college costs, how she would reverse CU despite being the biggest benefactor of CU, how she'd fix our record income inequality. She never brought out the necessary trust buster hammer and hid her speeches to banks and various other corporations like Verizon. Eventually she did come out with vague plans such as free community college and a public option in the AHA while also mocking Sanders about unrealistic ponies and having no plan (despite him having far more detailed plans including how these things would be paid for and how they'd be phased in). \n\nHillary changes her policy positions constantly, its not surprised people didn't trust her to stick to her promises ",
"https://track4.mixtape.moe/isqmzu.pdf \n\nI just think it’s interesting she tried to rig both primaries \n\n",
"I have said this many times in the past and will say it again, it is Hillary's and the extreme push from the far left in the recent years that caused Trump to emerge. You were the ones who pulled the pendulum far to the left, and because of that, it swung far to the right. ",
"The comment was actually made in 2012, you know when Obama had destabilized Syria by demanding the overthrow of Assad and arming rebels to bring down his regime, giving a fertile breeding ground for ISIS to take root...and oh yeah let's not forget also funding & training the shitstains that killed Qaddafi and destabilized Libya where you can now by a human for $400 on the open air slave markets (\"lol we came, we saw he died lololol\" ~Hillary)\n\nOh I'm sorry, that was probably Bush's fault too right?",
"I don't trust them. They akways end up richer than before they went into office.\n\nEdit: fucking autocorrect and my big thumbs.",
"Russia buying ads is not a particularly important \"part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump\".\n\nThey even declined Twitter's offer.",
"Ok, what are you looking at to signal a collapsing economy?",
"But but I thought elections were *circuses* and we vote the best clown into office! /s",
"> Welcome to the 21st century. \n\n> Not running the bots themselves as candidates\n\n> Not 21st century enough.",
"Wikileaks is absolutely legit. Most of it is actual scanned confidential documents. its a lot to sift through but its all real. they have blown the whistle on pretty much everyone, regardless of political sides, at this point whether you like it or not",
"just please don't jump in front of my commuter train.",
"I saw a guy driving around Georgia who poorly scratched off his \"Coexist\" stickers and replaced them all with \"Trump for President\" ",
"The generic ballot is Dems +10-12.\n\nNow that’s a mid term, I think we’re probably past those numbers in the general anymore (6-8 seems like the ceiling unless it’s a total outlier) but it’s going to be hard for him now that he doesn’t have the let’s see how it goes block. We’ve seen it, and it isn’t pretty.",
"John Oliver is funny but he does that a LOT. It's to the point where you can't trust whatever he says, which kind of ruins the whole point.",
"Let me 'splain: Mormon boring.",
"Wow. Read what i wrote again. I'll try to explain it:\n\n\n* All of the crimes were pinned on her aides. According to the official story, they committed crimes and got immunity deals. Keep in mind I'm talking about Clinton's aides. Clinton aides. Clinton aides. \n\n\n\n* Now I'm going to talk about Clinton:\n\"Gross negligence\" is a legal term that can used to convict someone in government for a crime. It was a term originally written in Comey's draft to describe Clinton's use of classified government documents. It was later changed to \"extremely careless\" which is a key legal distinction. He later went on to include that she lacked intent therefore he no charges should be set. ",
"that includes me",
"This is why there's merit to mandatory voting like in Australia. You don't even have to vote - you can scribble a dick on the ballot paper if you want - but you at least have to show up. It also has the added benefit of making politicians appeal to the 60% in the center instead of the 20% on the far left and right. Our debates are \"should the sales tax be 10% or 15%\", not \"should we have healthcare or let's people die on the street\"",
"Honestly, in terms of conventional military threat, there really isn't any one entity out there that truly poses a significant threat to the nation itself. China could, if they were interested in being an aggressive adversary. The EU as a whole could, if they unified their military capabilities and took up foreign policy stances that create distance with the US. That's about it.\n\nIt's a vague question that can be answered in a number of ways.",
"^ THIS\n\nThere's a reason the mass majority of the voting populace tends to be older folk, and it's time. If I don't have time because of work, I'd rather be unemployed with time to follow trends and prep, than fired a week later for skipping work.\n\nJust make Election Day a federal holiday. Even private employees are entitled to a day off, and employers are required to pay overtime for people going to work that day.\n\nYeah, shit shuts down for a single day with the exception of emergency services. Small businesses eat a day of inaction, large corporations can probably eat the money required to get a skeleton crew in.",
"That’s my first go to. Dirty window? Dikbutt. Snow on your windshield? Dikbutt. Poop on your butt? Dikbutt. ",
"Instead of “nevermind” it should read “fuck MAGA”",
"Step outside the media, step outside the 24/7, step outside the echo chambers and take an especially close look at the Italian PM Silvio Berlesconi paralells. \n\nYour optimism and your strength should come from your fellow man, right and left. Time after time the American people and their spirit have been understimated, but I have faith in my people republicans and democrats, and I'll embrace Shiva for it's short season while taking the long view.\n\nGod bless every one on this forum, god bless everyone who downvoted me, god bless America, also god if you got some spare time bless the rest of the world too.",
"Was he wrong though? The navy is currently extremely over tasked. While sure we have the largest and most powerful navy in the world several times over, politicians place a huge and unreasonable demand on those assets we do have. Just look at all the deaths we've had in the last year due to overworked and undermanned commands with a retarded optempo being forced to ignore qualifications to meet their mission.",
"It must be great to have all of those things happening at once in your imagination.",
"They apathetically have won 5 of the 6 previous popular votes....\n\nThe issue for them is the geographic stupidity of the EC.",
"We’re all gone die because of climate change. That’s the truth. Fuck trump. ",
"I'd like to point out that this is the exact attitude that lost the election for the Democrats and handily gave Trump the presidency in 2016, please keep the momentum going and the pressure on well into 2020!",
"I would imagine it's because there are a *lot* of people that are angry about Trump \"winning\" the election.\n\nSometimes you just need to be heard. ",
"I don't know what you mean. My point is trump related posts/comments are all over, in every sub on Reddit, in unrelated photos, etc. I can't go 10 mins on Reddit without seeing \"trump\" somewhere \n\nSo I was saying if this was Reddit there'd be more trump stickers. ",
"It's important to remember that his writing staff is not filled with economists, or researchers, or poli-science majors, historians, or linguists - they're improvisers and stand up comedians and guys who used to work for college humor. Most people don't understand this. I love the guy and I love his staff but discernment is key. ",
"Next sticker: Asteroid please: 2020",
"I get what you're saying - it's not black and white. Moral relativism is a thing. Making absolute statements that sound right at home in saccharine Disney movies can be fairly seen as being detached from reality. I grok. \n\nThis kind of statement is inflammatory by design, though. When saying that violence can sometimes be justified, there's as much implied threat as there is fact. The next question becomes \"Who is it towards, that makes it right?\" Which is a very valid, live-wire question to pose to someone who appears to be calling for a punch - up in the name of good. \n\nI feel that a good message of the truth of things should take this into account, given we're communicating over text... Something to the tune of:\n\n>While I would never even think of calling for outright aggression on any person or group, there have been a multitude of occasions where violence was ultimately beneficial, as demonstrated by Gandhi. ",
"Got a million dollars I can borrow?",
"No. You can’t write this off with a criticism of his personality in saying that he’s “an ass”. He is sincerely a bad human being. ",
"\"If it wasn't for superdelegates, amirite?!\"",
"relevant username?!",
"Aren't both of them billionaires though?",
"Oprah is the queen of believing whatever she hears. Pass.",
"So there are zero relationships destroyed. US economy is the best it has ever been, therefore not a laughing stock, President Trump does not wear such hats, and zero evidence to conclude conflicts of interest, and as for said \"retweets\", your definition of \"racist\" may very well be the definition of comedic. So stop with your nonsense. ",
"No, that quote of the movie doesn't actually make sense to either the movie or the comment before it.\n\nWatch the movie, you'll see what I mean.\n\n\"What's wrong with a boring President? I don't get it.\" (Valid question)\n\n\"Turd'urrr.. WHERE'S THE BEEF!!\" *{REDDIT GOLD!!!}*",
"Trump is a perfect representative of the extremes on both sides , they act like children, maybe some good will come from it, but I’m\nNot holding my breath. ",
"Moral relativism, yeah. I get you. ",
"We've seen the ole outdated dc estab too and it/they aint pretty. People are throw up sick of them on both sides. ",
"Oh do you know more than Bill Binney?\n\nhttp://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-hacking-intelligence-20170105-story.html\n",
"> if you elect a shit head, you won't have a job in 2 years\n\nWell thank goodness we elected Trump then, what with the unemployment rate dropping, GDP going up, stock market going up, consumer confidence at it's highest point since 2001, illegal immigration plummeting and border crossing arrests are up (leaving those jobs open to citizens), all since the election.",
"Billionaire TV stars win elections?\n\nNot the lesson they should have learned, but probably the one that they did learn.",
"Sure, cool, whatever, but how does that have anything to do with what we're *actually discussing,* which is that the quoted Obama comment where he downplayed the potential Russian threat was made four years before they moved to mess with our election?\n\nAlso, keep in mind that Obama DID try to do something about it, but was [blocked by Senate Republicans](https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/world/national-security/obama-putin-election-hacking/?tid=sm_fb&utm_term=.c5fbb8a4c8b9), who threatened to accuse democrats of trying to mess with the elections THEMSELVES, if Obama told the public that Russia was trying to get trump elected.\n\nSo the real question one should be asking is not so much \"why didn't Obama do more to stop it,\" and more \"why did Mitch McConnell block him from doing so?\"",
"Actually, the post I was referring to literally mentions both literal and proverbial guns. So, yeah, pretty irrelevant.",
"What do you think that that link shows? ",
"Yeah ok, that sounds good to me. I think presidential is a terrible term though because it's very subjective what it means",
"But she stood on the heads of those little people! ",
"In your book, the Republican Senate inquiry entails a \"good chance.\" You're referring to the Republican response to an FBI investigation of the most opaque Presidential campaign to the most transparent one. The Republicans Senate inquiry can investigate whatever they want, in regards to the 2016 POTUS election. The FBI actually has some burden of proof.",
"Stick to /r/t_d, as soon as you leave there you get humiliated by reality",
"I know, right. Index funds yield 7% on average over long periods of time. At that rate, it would only take (stops to do a little math) about 102 years to turn 1 million into 1 billion. Trump is only rich because he's so old.",
"Easy! Just smash your head in so you too can believe in Hillary Clinton, The One True Savior and you will be able to too!",
"Kanye for president 2020 ",
"Bernie's not the *only* person out there fit for the job... I doubt the democrats will put one of them forward, but let's keep our options open and not make self-destructive ultimatums.",
"that exaggerated nonsense is what alienated enough of the population to get him elected in the first place. grow up.",
"Every time I read this kind of vile nonsense spewed about Hillary, I have all the more respect for her - that she was willing to fight even for people like you.",
"Remember when binders full of women was considered controversial \n\nOh Mitt, we deserve this.",
"Yeah but that's the problem, it's not just a comedy show. If it was just comedy it wouldn't be an issue. But when you combine news with comedy you start to have to actually tell the truth, not just whatever you feel. Which is hard when it comes to jokes, sure. But lets not act like he threw Stein under the bus for a laugh, he did it out of blatant bias. Just like him screaming single payer will not happen...from a Brit....I cant even....",
"Nobody puts Putin in the corner",
"Probably because the majority of the country hates him. ",
"That’s what my friend told me. Only staying for 2 weeks unfortunately. Still will enjoy what I can in that time.",
"Even Hillary knew she was a bad candidate which is why she had the media elevate the only person she thought she could beat, Trump.\n\nUnfortunately her ego and love of power was more important than country.\n\nAnd sorry, but everything I pointed out is true. Do you specifically deny anything? ",
"more like 7 out of 10 subaru owners live in Colorado",
"He also very quietly ignored the campaign from every major media source to get Trump elected.",
"Clearly there is a mix up. \n\nWhen i say actual crimes are committed, i'm referring to Clinton's aides where all the crimes were pinned on. Lucky for all of them they get immunity deals. Like i said, immunity deals arent given to innocent people. \n\nComey says because lack of intent therefore no crime (he's referring to Clinton specifically) not her aides. ",
"More so I'm arguing his personality is putting the long term trend of executive power expansion into focus. I'm guessing you liked Barack Obama's demeanor. If he put a pretty face on a bad policy of executive expansion, you now have the face that matches your view of that expansion. \n\n\nHe's got a pen, He's got a phone, but the last set of guys had that too, more importantly, He's got America's attention, and we will learn lessons.",
"To me you're looking at it from a very detached viewpoint that assumes that neither you nor anyone you care about will be severely affected. People are more than cogs in your historical machine.",
"Reddit has been taken over by propaganda peddlers.",
"The Seth Rich BS. We all get it, Hillary was a shitty candidate pushed on us by the DNC. There is no need to continue dragging this poor guy, and especially his family, through this baseless conspiracy shit just to push an agenda. ",
"MAGA, build the wall",
"There seems to be a much more concentrated, specific effort to make Reddit *believe* that it's overrun with Russian trolls and brigades than there actually is any evidence of Russian trolls and brigades.\n\nCan you show me a single top post on a major default sub where the top comment is uncharacteristically pro-Trump or the subject matter is anti-Democrat or something? Anything?\n\nI'm actually more convinced than ever that it's solely liberals and Democrat supporters manipulating Reddit because of posts like [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalHumor/comments/6o6yak/its_hard_to_see_any_trump_ties_to_russia_except/dkf51uv/) that no sane person would actually put the effort into *just* to put in a thread with only 100 comments.",
"I wasn't responding to you. Merely the completely ridiculous notion that:\n\n>The most foundational concept of criminal law is that criminal act + criminal intent = crime",
"Love the bern :)",
"haha you joke but thats how most illegal immigrants end up in America. just overstay your visa :P",
"Those tiny ships would do jack shit. Gunboats are never meant to project power because the best they can do is haul in somalis, and illegal fishermen. Countries would laugh at Romney's fleet of midget ships.\n\nThat's like saying you don't want a military of 1 million soldiers, and want 2 million police officers to fight your war.\n\nCarriers are better because they can actually project an amazing amount of firepower anywhere in the world even onto land.\n\nThere is a reason the amount of good carriers determines who is a naval super power and who is not.\n\nThe doctrine you support is the fleet in being doctrine and that was blown out of the water in WWII when carriers do much more than many hundreds of ships because of their awesome range. Pound for pound, a carrier is far more efficient than legions of gunboats.\n\nIt seems you forgot that on that carrier is a force of long range strike craft that tend to be very potent at wrecking anything within many KM of its location.\n\nAmerica is not trying to frighten pirates, they are trying to frighten other powers.",
"In the US they have to give you time off work to vote. At least last I heard, it wasn't a holiday, but it is law iirc. ",
"Which people have said every year since its release since it fit neatly into the sort of satire that was going on in W.'s second term.",
"I wonder why, its almost like we pay them in money. ",
"he feeds of karma, literally. He gets very sad when he doesnt get internet points because he begins to feel the deep void in his soul.",
"Reddit was 110% convinced that Stormfront was manipulating Reddit... at its peak Stormfront had, like, 6,000 registered accounts on their website. Meanwhile Reddit has like 18 million registered accounts subscribed to /r/pics alone.\n\nI honestly don't know if this \"OMG RUSSIANS/RACISTS/NAZIS/T\\_D IS MANIPULATING US\" is because the left wing on the internet is actually incredibly fucking stupid and has some sort of bizarre victim complex, where they literally cannot believe that anyone would disagree with them without being paid to do so... or if it's just the liberal version of the Fox News-esque \"War On ______\", where it's actually left-wing entities who are paying to manipulate and propagandize people into *thinking* they're under attack, so they actually believe they are... and somehow this motivates them to vote in 2018 or something I don't know.\n\nPick any thread on /r/news about politics and you'll probably find some comment in there about Russian trolls, T_D brigade, etc. \n\nYet, you'll never find a top link on /r/news that's pro-Trump or anti-Democrat, or a top comment like that either. I think literally the only time I saw such a thing was when Hillary had her 'slab of meat' moment, and I'm pretty sure it was all the salty Bernouts who were hoping Hillary would die so Bernie could reenter the race. So where the fuck is all this brigading that's allegedly happening? Where the hell is the vote manipulating bot army that Russia allegedly has that's suppressing negative stories about Russia and Trump?\n\nI will point out one thing I find funny - if you go to a popular thread, there are literally only two types of posts that get attention: the top-voted comments, and the **lowest-voted comments.** Go try it, go make a post voicing something you know is going to get downvoted without being too obvious. You'll be stuck at the very bottom of the page, you'll have negative hundreds of votes, your post almost certainly says \"Comment score below threshold\", yet you'll keep getting downvotes and you'll keep getting responses from people jeering and screaming at you. Meaning people are literally seeking out downvoted posts specifically to complain about and bully people. What the fuck is that?",
"The media has been so feverishly bashing Trump that I don't think I've heard anything about anything else\n\nIt sucks becuase they don't even tackle legit things on trump, like holding him accountable for appointing Ajit Pi and ending net neutrality. Nope it was the R U S S I A N S",
"[IT'S LIKE A MONSTER TRUCK YOU CAN POUR INTO YOUR FACE!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbxq0IDqD04)",
"Cars that are our property. Don’t start telling people what they can do with their shit. ",
"[Unless you're talking about different sanctions, that's wrong.](http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/timeline-trumps-delays-russia-sanctions/story?id=50733408) He begrudgingly signed the sanctions in early August and delayed for almost a month past the deadline for the first part of the sanctions.\n\nThe person you replied to is wrong too, but in a different way.",
"Nope. Russia had nothing to do with the election. The persons just mad because they thought russia rigged the votes. Notice the russian flag and putin.",
"It is a good piece of machinery and a smart purchase, so it's only natural someone who can make a smart, educated decision in choosing a car will also make a good decision in choosing a president. ",
"“Bite my shiny Metal ass!”\n\n\n-Bender Bending Rodriguez, Revolutionary Hero",
"They've also bled the fuck out of every downticket office. Gerrymandering is part of the problem, but there's a lot more to losing 1000 seats and the presidency from 2010-2016 than just that. ",
"^ This deserves the Reddit gold, rather than comment by catchphrase boy.",
"I clearly responded to the wrong person, lol my bad. I was trying to respond to /u/theonewhogawks ",
"Wow, people have opinions, better throw them in jail.",
"Everyone you don’t agree with is a Russian troll. ",
"Voted for trump and I'm very well educated \nsource: degree in electrical engineering \nDon't prejudge douchebag!",
" I'll take a loan of a million dollars then. ",
"It is mild sarcasm based on emotionally charged claims made about the tax bill. ",
"I do, and so does every US intelligence agency that investigated Russia's hack of the DNC. \n\nhttp://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/jul/06/17-intelligence-organizations-or-four-either-way-r/",
"I mean, he got millions of fewer votes and won in states with a less democratic nomination method.\n\nIt wasn’t an even deck, but it also wasn’t even close. Not to mention you shouldn’t be surprised that the party you spent years antagonizing wasn’t rolling out the red carpet for you.",
"He was a hero for leaking those emails.",
"((Deep state)) buttery male long form birth certificates!",
"Lol you are delusional",
"> He did not accept corporate and lobby donations. Stop. Lying.\n> \n> \n\nI'll assume you're just misinformed and not lying. \n\n> The Vermont Senator’s campaign [has taken money from lobbyists](http://time.com/4290184/democratic-convention-bernie-sanders-corporate-donations-campaign-finance/) as well, including the National Mining Association and the National Cannabis Association.\n\nAnd [he took donations from](https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/contributors?cycle=Career&cid=N00000528) the for-profit healthcare industry as well as a lot of tech corporations and the defense contractor Boeing, among others.\n\n> Source on regulation easing\n\nHe voted for the Commodity Futures Modernization Act in 2000. That eased regulations on Wall Street. ",
"What does trailer park boys have to do with this?",
"That's a lot of assumptions you just made about me and my position. Which is all irrelevant to \"Fuck Trump\" and climate change essentially being a gun to all of our heads.",
"You call rigging the dmc and fundamentally undermining our democracy in order to guarantee she got the nomination “a little dirty”",
"So all women in the entertainment business don't have any dicernable skills because they sleep with their bosses. K",
"Yes, I believe it was. There's a lot of reasons why Trump had those kinds of numbers, and why Clinton still lost despite his lackluster performance. The \"Establishment\" part of the party, as the grassroots has taken to calling guys like McConnell and McCain, fought back. They ran a challenger candidate you probably never heard anything about during the general election (Evan McMullin, a staff member at the House of Representatives). Those that didn't vote for the alternative over Trump were still reluctant to publicly support Trump, and for good reason. Trump was, and continues to be, his own worst enemy, making statements that make even his strongest advocates cringe.\n\nThere are two reasons Trump won despite all that. The first is that much of his support wasn't in the republican party. The bulk of his primary wins were in open primary states. States with caucuses and closed primaries generally went to Cruz. He could look outside the party for independent and cross-over democrats and thus was not as beholden to republican politics as other candidates might be. The second reason was that while Trump performed roughly the same as Romney, Clinton did not come anywhere close to living up to the expectations set by President Obama's election successes.",
" And Trump hasn't done much to change that.",
"Very stable as well.",
"We're pretty much already there. Social media had a huge influence on this election. But otherwise, we were already like this. Upvotes/downvotes are just a reflection of who we are, just a digital representation of people cheering or booing. I mean, there's literally \"vote\" in the name. It basically came from politics, not the other way around.\n\nWhat really scares me is just seeing how much it's driven by emotion and sensational news, just how easy it is to manipulate millions of people at once. People take those 140 characters at face value. And the whole system is as easy to manipulate as the servers that run twitter. They can use manufactured accounts and manufactured upvotes to change how people feel about issues. The right sob story with the right spin can change international politics, make people support a different presidential candidate, or maybe even get people to support a war. Or the FCC can post a million fake comments on their own private platform and make it look like no one wants net neutrality.\n\nI'm scared of the manipulation of it and how it's unofficially become the standard media format for news and politics. 140 characters, quick sound bites, sensational phrases. That's become a replacement for articles and research, and instead of sources and facts we're going off how many people feel emotionally moved by it to determine truth and relevance.\n\nBut don't take it from me, take it from how many upvotes or downvotes I get so you understand how true my words are.",
"He got deported for hitting a Donald Trump Pinãta",
"Oh, dude, you're preaching to the choir here. I 100% agree. He's about as neoliberal as it gets and he doesn't attempt to hide it (again, love him as a comedian). Most people who are adamantly neoliberal seem to be very wealthy... that's no accident. Perhaps if him and his staff were struggling and didn't have good health insurance they'd have a different opinion. Not to mention Time Warner owns HBO and they put a lot of money into Hilary's campaign, and Hilary spent $2 million of her money smearing Jill Stein. None of it is coincidence, people just don't look closely enough. But ya, comedy should be comedy. And comedy used to be anti establishment (i.e. Carlin and Hicks), today, we see the opposite, and comedy is slowly dying because of it. It is what it is. Very disappointing. ",
"Some men just want to watch the world burn.",
"Because Trump sort of walked through a specific political opening that really only he could have. The only real similarity in this scenario is the lack of strong candidates on the bench for the Dems.",
"And hell, Trump was even a “pied piper” candidate early on and elevated early on by mainstream media under the direction of the DNC.",
"He probably would have won the election against trump. The tone of the whole election was anti establishment and Bernie fit that well. Say what you will about his politics but he struck a cord with the white working class that ended up voting for trump in the general. ",
"How so? The economy is in the best shape it's been in in years, my paycheck just got fatter thanks to a tax cut that almost every middle class vote in the country got, ISIS is a memory, illegal immigration is way down, TPP is gone, we're out of the shitty Paris climate accords, while simultaneously beating all of the green energy goals we set in it anyway, NAFTA is being restructured to equalize the benefits for the US, etc. I mean I know the guy is an asshole, and his comments about muslims in the campaign were unacceptable, but by any objective measure the country is in very good shape. \n\nAnd that's coming from someone who did not vote for him in 2016 (although at this rate I will absolutely vote for him in 2020).",
"Election Day should be a national holiday",
"Also, it's got to look pretty badly on a company to prevent its workers from taking a couple hours off to vote, for crying out loud.",
"But if you throw a wrench in it you'll probably need to get a new machine, right?\n\nI'm down to replace this machine, it's beyond repair already.",
">we should be verbally aggressive towards people who's ideology is killing and betraying our country and our people.\n\nEven if it only reinforces their ideology? Usually \"verbal aggression\" manifests as something like \"fuck you for voting for Trump,\" and the result is usually \"See? Libtards can't even make a valid argument. Haha look how mad we made them.\"\n\nI agree that assertiveness is good, but thoughtless aggression is not. Demonstrating aggression against their group is exactly how they recruit more people with a victim mentality. I personally prefer to avoid indirectly promoting ideologies with which I disagree.",
"He’s got a litany of sexual assault allegations against him, practiced racial discrimination with his properties, tried to cut health care for millions fo people to “get a win” whatever that means, and treats people like shit.\n\nHe’s a horrible human being, and a mentally unstable crackpot.",
"That is not true. General Patraeus was charged with crimes she should have been charged with, and he was never demonstrated to have mishandled classified material with intent of anything.",
"Oh she's definitely nearly devoid of critical thinking faculties. Under no circumstances, and in no universe, should she ever be allowed to be president. But she'd still probably be better than Trump, is all I'm saying.",
"Another lie. Please stop lying.",
"I kinda disagree on that but I see where you're coming from.",
"I’m sorry but you don’t know what you’re talking about. Yes, gross negligence is a legal term for a degree of intent. Every crime is a crime because there’s a statute making it a crime. Every criminal statute has, written into the text, a requisite level of intent. If a person does not have the requisite level of intent *for that specific crime*, they have not committed that specific crime. That’s literally just how the law works. I may be a few years out from my 1L crim class, but that’s just completely fundamental. \n\nAre you suggesting that you’re aware of a specific crime, of which the statutory requisite intent is gross negligence, that you believe Clinton committed? Even if so, there’s nothing legally binding in any criminal context about the language Comey used in those memos, either time. He’s giving his legal opinion in those memos, which is part of his job, but they’re not an indictment and they’re certainly not a judgment by any court. \n\nAnd on top of all of that, you’re conflating the fact that “gross negligence” is a legal term with the fact that it’s also a common phrase. You can say someone has been grossly negligent in handling X, even in attorney work-product, without asserting a legal claim that they’ve committed a crime with the requisite intent of gross negligence, and that’s exactly what Comey did in that memo. ",
"We certainly pay them too much. I am referring to how career politicians always seem to end up becoming millionaires after getting in public office. ",
"He’s not at all better for Russia’s interest.",
"That certainly didn't help, but if he hadn't alienated such a large part of the party with his constant *Gang of <Insert Number Here>* monkeywrenching he would not have been in a position where he needed to select a candidate to shore up his support among the base and could have picked a much safer, more palatable running mate, possibly a northeastern republican like Romney to appeal to a region in which republicans perform poorly.",
"Am American worker, am not winning.",
"Lol, yeah, somebody somewhere has bruises from kicking themselves.",
"\"Ha ha ha! They'll never find me!\"\n\n\"Dude, it's Japan and you're a 6'1\" white guy. You're blond.\"\n\n\"I'll just disappear into the crowd! Seamlessly!\"",
"You are a statistical minority you know. The majority of trump voters don't have college degrees at all. This is a well established fact. ",
"Because we have actual problems that require a person to have dedicated their lives to geopolitics to solve. If I want book recommendations I'll pick up O magazine, if I want a Jerusalem solution I call someone who has dedicated their lives to foreign policy. \n\nOprah has made an existence promoting her brand, and that's not what I want the White House to be used for. \n\nThere are literally *THOUSANDS* of intelligent, thoughtful, talented policy makers, professors, politicians who could do a lot of good in politics, but Americans are morons that worship celebrities... ",
"He murdered Hillary in the electoral vote. Also, popular vote doesn't count because California would decide every election. If California wasn't a state, trump would've won the popular vote. Having one overpopulated state deciding every election is NOT equal representation. ",
"That argument can be made, but it's my view that the better solution is to not try and have our navy do so much. The US Navy is basically working as the world's anti-piracy police these days and I think we should step back from that role to get an international coalition responsible for such activities. One that we still contribute to, of course, but not doing it all ourselves.",
"Well, she paid her way there, instead of being paid, and the connection seems to be limited to one meeting.\n\nAnd she helped to push for a recount in Michigan when Trump won. I do wonder, based on that alone, why she felt things were better off with her in the race...",
"RemindMe! 8 months \"Am I doing better then in 2017?\"",
"Just remember \"Tian gao, Huangdi yuan\". You've got google amd wikipedia, it should lift your spirits. \n\nAlso very few cogs perished in Prime Minister's Silvio Berlesconi's machine, and his demanor is very close analog to President Trumps. \n\nRight and Left are angrier at each other than we have been in a very long time, Join me, Let go of the 24/7 news cycle, let go of the outrage culture and live your real life outside of politics. Take the long view and have faith not in your government but in your people great and small right and left, we are stronger than any DC white house occupant.\n\n\nWe are in Shiva's season, it will be, and we will be long after it is over.",
"Dwight Eisenhower warned us about you guys in his farewell address.",
"They also met with Trump’s son in Trump Tower.\n\nSource: Trump’s son tweeted this out.",
"> But it's crazy to say the FBI has a Clinton bias after what they did, especially comey, in Nov 2016.\n\nNobody is saying the FBI has a bias, they're saying a handful of highly placed individuals in the FBI (Strzok in particular) had a huge anti-Trump bias, and they were in a position to directly affect the election.",
"No it isn't.",
"The weird thing is the last two Republican Presidents have been sober.",
"Hey I'll be the first to say that the lady isn't qualified. But it's pretty much carved in stone that being qualified to be POTUS is not required in any meaningful way.",
"Oh, so this isn't in a thread about bumper stickers? Lmao you just proved the point I was trying to make lol. Have a good day :)",
"What's Trump doing that'll change that as a non career politican then? He's forcing tax payers to pay for his near weekly golfing trips because he refuses to use any other Course then hid own, causing the US to declare them no fly zones and having to pay for housing for his entourage, instead of using the just as nice courses that are there specifically so he can go golfing and not shell out thousands each time.",
"Ah. And Julian Assange is more credible than the FBI, CIA, and NSA.",
"This is from a bit over 5 min of research\n\nClinton on taxes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonynitti/2015/04/13/what-hillary-clintons-voting-record-reveals-about-her-tax-plan/#4b5ddeda131f\n\nClinton on healthcare:\nhttp://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20160419/blog/160419898\n\nClinton on fighting income inequality::\nhttp://time.com/3955359/hillary-clinton-economy-2016-presidential-election/\n\nAll show a long history combating the issue or a plan infinitely more nuanced that Sander's proposals (assuming you ever bothered to read those, either). PLEASE stop just speaking off of feelings, her track record as well as Trump's were not what the media would have you believe them to be. Enthusiastic voters on both sides knew exactly what the were signing up for, because history proved it.\n\nRegarding your edit: CU was a case originally about an anti Clinton documentary by a conservative nonprofit. Of course she's against it, even if you take the most pessimistic possible view, she would be against it because conservative donors MASSIVELY outspend their liberal equivalents. It's really hard to take you seriously when you bring up things like that.",
"What? Why are you mad at me? I was clarifying what was said.",
"A huge reason for the slew of accidents this year was overworked commands ignoring training and qualification requirements to meet their mission. There are a number of reasons why this happened, but the fact that the navy has a critical personnel shortage and is taking extreme measures to retain personnel is obvious.\n\nAt sea personnel simply aren't getting enough sleep or time for training.",
"Unemployment, income inequality, and GDP per capita.",
"Ahhhh yes the State Department industrial complex.",
"Strict liability is understood as replacing the intent requirement where it’s written into the statute. The most accurate way to say what I said would be:\n\nCriminal act + criminal intent OR strict liability = crime. \n\nVery few crimes are strict liability crimes. Statutory rape is the only one that comes to the top of my mind. ",
"I agree that she didn't \"rig\" the election, but I'm still pretty salty about her \"takeover\" of the DNC and the way she \"raised money for local races\" to get around campaign contribution limits and then passed the money back to her open campaign, because team Hillary/DNC was running everything.\n\nMeanwhile Bernie was almost outraising her, and all with direct small dollar donations.\n\nShe should have had a lot less money to spend in the primaries than she wound up with, and then she had the gall to chastise Bernie for not raising money for local races like herself.",
"[New York Times Forced To Retract Longstanding Lie About Russian Hacking](https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/new-york-times-forced-to-retract-longstanding-lie-about-russian-hacking-aa3fedb191ac)\n\n> this would necessarily need to involve full investigations from agencies like the Coast Guard, the DEA and the Energy Department in order to be true. Nevertheless, many high-profile pro-establishment outlets like Politifact and USA Today found Clinton’s claims to be 100 percent true on the grounds that James Clapper, then-Director of National Intelligence and notorious Russophobic racist, “speaks on behalf of” all 17 intelligence agencies. To this day Politifact stands by its false claim on the basis of that same spurious assertion.\n\n\n[The FBI Relied on a Private Firm’s Investigation of the DNC Hack—Which Makes the Agency Harder to Trust](http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2017/05/09/the_fbi_is_harder_to_trust_on_the_dnc_hack_because_it_relied_on_crowdstrike.html)\n\n> whether because they were denied access or simply never asked for it, the FBI instead used the analysis of the DNC breach conducted by security firm CrowdStrike as the basis for its investigation. Regardless of who is telling the truth about what really happened, perhaps the most astonishing thing about this probe is that a private firm’s investigation and attribution was deemed sufficient by both the DNC and the FBI.",
"And Republicans didn't go shoot up a Congressional baseball practice trying to kill Republican lawmakers either. Crazy people on all sides.",
"No",
"Who gets to spec and procure the new machine? The rank and file or management?",
"Read Brazile's book, scan the emails (or do you think those are bogus too?), and take off your blinders. I will not take them off for you haha. Well wishes, friend.",
"Milk truck is here!",
"Bernie even lost on a votes per dollar basis in several states. It just wasn't going to happen, and that's perfectly fine, but the time to accept it has long passed. ",
"At this point, yeah, it’s looking that way. ",
"The democrats are so desperate that they chose their candidate based off an Oscar speech from two days ago. Dear republicans, you have nothing to worry about. ",
"This is thoughtfully written. I appreciate it. \n\nSuccinctly, *thinking* about the necessity of violence should be well practiced, by both citizen and soldier.",
"I think the media has been pounded into submission by being told that they have a liberal bias. So now, they bend over backwards to avoid that. Not that it saves them.",
"Wat\n\nHow delusional do you have to be to think there was any positive coverage of Trump from any mainstream media outlets?",
"Nah we’re not falling for your bullshit again.",
"It is. ",
"We are in different boats on this, I specifically remember hearing during the election that the FBI was \"trumpland\" so this talking point that the FBI was in it for Clinton is a new talking point, and everyone was saying the opposite back during the election. I think both statements are stupid btw, there may be a slight leaning, but that's a human thing, and try to be as impartial as they possibly can, especially since their appointments transcends presidents and administrations. ",
"He definitely dominates my news sources and a lot of it is about the mueller investigation (that is a very big deal). But they do report on all the other parts too. The tax bill for one was really big. him fighting congress to support his health care reform only to fail was big. meetings abroad. and of course his tweets. honestly, its more concerning to me how saturated our news is with domestic bullshit when there is relatively way worse and more interesting shit happening abroad.",
"And what it your motive for saying these things? Only a dumbass would think you didn't have an ulterior motive for bringing up such a serious topic in a thread about fucking bumper stickers lol come on, you're not fooling anyone.",
"Lock him up! \n\nBut his reeeeeeeeeemails! ",
"Nope. Written freehand",
"But it isn't enforced and workers almost always feel threatened to ask because it isn't culturally acceptable. ",
"Well she’s generally speaking not good at her job, and was a bad candidate. That doesn’t absolve low information crack pot voters who treat Fox News and Breitbart like the gospel from flying off the handle and electing this moron.",
"Please learn to read your sources. The first one merely claims Sanders would have to take super pac/lobby money if he were the nominee (not true). \n\nThe second link says Sanders got donations from individuals who work at places x and y, not lobbying nor super pacs. FEC rules mandate listing your employer when you have donate. Just because I work for company x and donate to Sanders, doesn't mean I'm lobbying.\n\nI don't know enough on said act to comment on it atm. ",
"yeah it did, she collected money for a vote recount for hillary and then pocketed the remainder. i'd say that's pretty crooked.",
"sorry, i thought you were the op. my bad hahahaha",
"It's not funny, I'm from Michigan - a reliably blue state...and I still remember that fateful day in November 2016 when the Russians came for us and swung the election. ",
"Trump was more qualified than her still. Ill take trump tower over weight watchers thanks. ",
"a pretty face on evil? when trump is an ugly one on it? ",
"Mitt Romney (as well as his wife, for what it's worth) are true believers in Libertarianism. By \"true believers\", I mean when they really about it they speak of it as if there could be no other explanation of how to make a national economy work, but they don't speak of it in a confidence that they could explain *why* it works.\n\nI'd be shocked if Romney weren't secretly applauding Trump's cronyist economic policy.",
"West Wing? ",
"I'm gonna need to know your state, college degree, gender and your job to determine how Trump has helped you. ",
"So as I thought. Nothing but vague allegations to evidence that doesn't actually exist.\n\nYou know, 9/11 was an inside job? Just look around, man, the evidence is everywhere. \n\nThat's literally your logic. If you want to give me specific claims to dispute, actually post them. As it stands, you're no better than a 9/11 truther. ",
"You blame trump's losses on Hillary all the time. And yes, you do lose",
"You are talking about Hillary Clinton. No one brought up her aides.\n\nHillary Clinton committed zero crimes. Not with Whitewater. Not with Benghazi. Not with her e-mails.\n\nZero.",
"WikiLeaks is an arm of the Russian government, you'd know that if you hot got their dick out of your mouth.",
">And what it your motive for saying these things?\n\nBecause I think it deserves to be discussed. No fooling.",
"Cool, that didn't make anyone vote for Trump. Trump Jr. wasn't running for president and Trump cutting middle class taxes, breaking stock market records, and getting rid of welfare leeches and securing our nations borders and immigration system isn't helping Russia",
"There are a lot of people in the FBI, not sure if you're aware of that. ",
"Your response doesn't address Hillary's shady influence over the way the DNC was pushing money around, and my comment doesn't say anything about whether or not I accepted the outcome.",
"He was charged and then plead guilty. The government didn’t have to demonstrate his intent, which they would have had to do at trial to obtain a conviction against him, because he plead to the misdemeanor. Whether or not he should have been charged is a matter of opinion and politics, but he and his lawyers clearly decided there was enough of a risk that the government could prove their case that it was in his best interest to plead out. ",
"My father never had any stickers on his cars until on of his friends called him a bleeding heart liberal because of his forester. He now expresses his views with many stickers. ",
"He bankrupted 6 businesses, out of 500. Considering that over half of all businesses go bankrupt in the first decade of operation, that's pretty damn successful ",
"Yes.",
"The problem in the US is that one party gets the short stick in most high turnout areas. And that party knows it and would never allow mandatory voting.",
"You sound like Alex Jones.",
"Sums up me as a Bernie voter",
"That's funny because the intelligence agencies all came to the conclusion that Russia did have something to do with the election. Gee, I wonder where you get your information from?",
"The pace things go at, the next presidential election is practically an eternity away. So much can change politically between now and then.",
"So you think CNN attacking Trump like a thousand screaming infants *hurt* Trump with his base?",
"Why should any of that matter? Shouldnt it be all of America from any walk of life that lives better instead of a select few?\n \nIf anything workers are still suffering because companies are still laying people off even in the impending implementation of the Tax reform.",
"2 people pled guilty.",
"> Your response doesn't address Hillary's shady influence over the way the DNC was pushing money around\n\nAlright then, what specific aspect? Are you trying to refer to the joint fundraising agreement? \n\nAnd you know damn well that the comment I was responding to is in the \"election is rigged\" camp. ",
"> Nobody ever seriously suggested he was wrong that Russia was a geopolitical foe.\n\nHow selective is your memory? ",
"What intelligence agencies?\n",
"Yep. Sam in the very special episode \"Isaac and Ishmael\"",
"I was referring to the actual year in the comment, Einstein. Obama destabilized Syria in 2012? Obama started Arab Spring? Gee, you really know your history. Did he start the drought that was a factor, too? It is a Civil War but Obama destabilized it? So many stupid statements shurpy. Now you want to talk about Lybia? Well, we know you think Obama started Arab Spring and their civil war, so what's next? Let's blame him for Egypt and everything else. Bush was right to invade Afghanistan but, yes, he owns America's longest wars. Why don't you use the term \"Killary\" like all your friends online who tell you it's wrong to celebrate the death of one of our longest adversaries, a ruthless, murdering dictator?",
"Kinda helped every revolution against an oppressive government tho",
"I feel like the only two possible candidates are Russia and China. China is currently much stronger than Russia, both economically and militarily, but we also have a much stronger trading relationship with China, which generally makes them more interested in preserving relations.\n\n\n\nRussia, while weaker, has gone from unfriendly to openly hostile in the last few years, so I'd say they are a closer fit to the bill.\n\n\n\nOf course, even if we assume a scenario where these rivalries actually became wars, neither nation is a match for the US. China has one aircraft carrier, the US has nineteen (all of which are substantially bigger and newer). China's got an extremely powerful economy however and if they chose to pursue military development I think they would be able to field a force that could equal the US.\n\n\nUltimately though, the real issue is not conventional military power, it's nuclear weapons. Russia's conventional army would get absolutely slaughtered by America's, but their nuclear arsenal still has mutually assured destruction capabilities. We can't afford to attack them, even though their army is vastly weaker than ours. Backing a dictator with that kind of nuclear arsenal into a corner is just too dangerous.",
"Counting the paid Hillbots? Or nah?",
"Please don't :(",
"The fact that it was four intelligence agencies (the CIA, FBI, NSA and the DNI) that unanimously agreed that Russia hacked and leaked the DNC's emails, and not seventeen is literally in the article I linked. ",
"Remember when we thought Mitt Romney was the worst thing that could happen to America?\n",
"Well, they are elected by their zombie constituents every election cycle. It's not as if he can fire them. Most are bought and paid for by corporations through lobbyists.",
"While telling Obamas voters to fuck off",
"For being a so called liberal and a Bernie supporter, you sure do like to embrace far right conspiracy theories and bash anything on the left. \n\nIs that what they call a concern troll? \n\nSeth rich was not murdered for leaking DNC emails, stop peddling that shit. ",
"I'm dumbfounded. You think CNN was out to help Trump? Seriously?",
"Oh well. Whatever.",
">I'm guessing it's because the new tax bill? \n\nIt could be for any number of reasons, trade war with China started on Twitter for instance? \n\nThe problem is dipshits like you are going to suffer, not companies, not Trump, not Rubio or Cruz or Ryan.\n\nWhen the chips are down the average American is going to be absolutely *fucked* when the next down turn happens, which is probably sooner rather than later. \n\nhttps://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/10/next-recession-prepared/544391/\n\n",
"The Blind Side",
"I'm not saying it's impossible or anything, but to simply say that because this businessman ran and won, then the same rules apply ignores the bigger picture of how and why Trump won and everything that led up to 2016.",
"Don’t act like being concerned about losing your job is not a legitimate complaint. ",
"Oh shit, right. How could I forget the aggressive slaughter and abuse of the natives!? We still celebrate the first meal right before that to this day.",
"Then bravo good fellow!",
"American voters?",
"What should they be called? Rear glass panels? Genuinely asking.",
"Right, and to put the shoe on the other foot, they are not an organization of one (Strzok), not sure if you're aware of that. \"Strzok's colleagues and a former Trump administration official said that Strzok had not previously shown any overt political bias. An associate of his says the political parts of the text messages were especially related to Trump's criticism of the FBI's investigation of the Clinton emails. According to FBI guidelines, agents are allowed to have and express political opinions as individuals.\"\n\nAlso to add, they took him off the russia investigation when the bias was brought to light, so in my mind, the fact the FBI removed possible conflict of interests make them even more transparent and credible, not to mention he also held bad sentinents not only for trump, but for bernie and chelsea clinton.",
"Facts aren’t your friends are they?",
"My bullshit? I'm a guy from New York who wrote in a vote for Bernie. \"My bullshit\" is voting for a presidential candidate who's not a crook, and if that's not your \"bullshit\" too, then fuck you, \"shillbuster.\"",
"Do you get paid in rubles or euros? ",
"So no hinting at promoting violence towards, say people of a particular political persuasion? I've heard it all before, you passive aggressively advocate for silencing those you disagree with and act like it's all just discourse when you get called out on it. \n\nNews flash, no politician has your best interests at heart. Even if they think they do, they don't. How people expect idyllic policies to work when we don't live in an idyllic world is beyond me. /rant",
"I rocked those for the whole election period lol. Truthfully one of the best ideas politically I've seen since I've been an eligible voter",
"The Republicans blocked the recount. She did everything she could to get that recount but was blocked and the Democrats didn't help at all. \n\nYou're seriously changing how events happened. If raising money for a recount, then getting what little of a recount you could while fighting for a real one is somehow stealing then if fuck it it's just not. She did exactly what she raised the money for.",
"Haha, nah. We use all that pent up aggression in the legislative process, too. It's never left us.",
"https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/hillary-clinton-2016-donald-trump-214428\n\nYou really didn't think this through did you? They viewed him as a chump, to prevent any chance of a real fight.",
"I speak facts, bud.",
">America is not trying to frighten pirates, they are trying to frighten other powers.\n\n\nAnd while I will never said no to building an extra super carrier or two, the Navy is not solely dedicated to intimidation of other high-tech powers.\n\nAlso, not to put too fine a point on it, but aircraft carriers are great for projecting power to against less-powerful nations and more limited in other regards. They're inefficiently expensive to operate for dealing with small states or stateless adversaries. And against Larger countries like China or Russia or anyone else with technology matching NATO countries, they're giant gold-plated targets.\n\nThere just isn't a good way to withstand a saturation attack of missiles. Even without nukes, were there something approaching all-out war with Russia or China, I'd expect over half our aircraft carriers to be sunck within a week. $15 Billion to build, but only $200 million in missiles to utterly destroy. You just can't win with that calculus.\n\nSome developments on directed energy and other point-defense weapons are looking nice. But in the end, you just can't do enough against an arbitrarily large swarm of missiles. ",
"Do you get payed in pussy hats or dildos? ",
"So explain to me how the election's outcome was changed.",
"They are more like a tool to release confidential documents. Of which has been used by, for example, a famous american defense contractor, an american soldier, and also potentially nation states. The fact that likely Russian actor groups were able to obtain the DNC emails is very concerning and I do believe there should have been more recourse than sanctions. But having them leaked through wikileaks does not mean its an arm of the russian government. it is THE place you go when youve stolen a ton of confidential, political documents and want to blow the whistle. Those emails potentially cost my party the election. but it wasn't wikileaks fault. that is the service they provide.",
"> Please learn to read your sources. The first one merely claims Sanders would have to take super pac/lobby money if he were the nominee (not true).\n\nNot \"merely.\" It also says exactly the sentence I quoted, that he took money from lobbyists including the National Mining Association and the National Cannabis Association. Looks like you didn't read the whole thing.\n\n> The second link says Sanders got donations from individuals who work at places x and y\n\nYes, I never said SuperPacs. He took it from people who work at corporations. This is the exact same thing that Cory Booker was attacked for--taking money from the pharmaceutical industry.\n\n> Just because I work for company x and donate to Sanders, doesn't mean I'm lobbying.\n\nSure, you could say that about any political donation. But that doesn't change the fact that Sanders accepted this money.\n\n",
"You're repeating their lies so I assumed you were one of them.",
"That exaggerated nonsense is what got you downvotes in the first place",
"Presidents don’t break stock market records, he didn’t cut middle class taxes he made a massive tax cut that raised taxes on some and gave a disproportionate amount of money to rich people and corporations, I’m not sure how he’s securing the border since that wall hasn’t been built and welfare still exists last time I checked.\n\nTurn your brain on.",
"Well did you know non of them even investigated?\n\n[The FBI Relied on a Private Firm’s Investigation of the DNC Hack—Which Makes the Agency Harder to Trust](http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2017/05/09/the_fbi_is_harder_to_trust_on_the_dnc_hack_because_it_relied_on_crowdstrike.html)",
"I wish I could peer into a parallel universe where Clinton took 4 years off to write a book or some shit before running for office and was running against incumbent Trump. I think she'd absolutely mop the fucking floor with him.",
"Why would I bother \"debating\" you? You don't qualify. You could start by proving the many claims you made in your previous post. ",
">I mean, there's a lot of evidence, from most of the US intelligence agencies. They've all said \"yes this happened.\"\n\nThat's not evidence. That's them alleging something.\n\n>As the senate testimony about the dossier reveals, the FBI was ALREADY investigating, before they even got the dossier. \n\nIf they're not lying to us again.\n\n",
"It's not selective. Obama never said they weren't a geopolitical foe, he said that they weren't as big of a concern for the military to deal with as Al Qaeda.\n\n\n\nThere was no war with Russia and no threat of war with Russia. The cold war IS over and pretending that our safety requires a new arms race with Russia is absurd. Al Qaeda absolutely was the higher priority.",
"That was just a pretext.",
"You are mainly supporting 75+ year old white men who mostly support their own interests and back pockets.",
"Same. Ain’t anyone gonna force me to vote for that corrupt hag. Even if they blackmail me with Trump. It could’ve been Charles Manson and I’d vote against Hillary out of principle if forced.",
"Citation needed.",
"Well they are generally terrible in mid terms, and a lot of the gerrymandering stems from a wave election in a census year. \n\nThe down ballot issue is the real torpedo in the water, they don’t get covered but local politics are a huge deal.",
"*unity*",
"I'm leaving my comment there. I deserve the downvotes. I'm so sorry Reddit.",
"All woman Ghostbusters merch.",
"Except that in my response to you I said that I accepted that she didn't rig the election. As for the fundraising shenanigans, I'm referring to the [arrangements] (https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/02/clinton-brazile-hacks-2016-215774) Donna Brazil outlined in her book.",
"[CIA, FBI, NSA and Office of the Director of National Intelligence.](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/us/politics/trump-russia-intelligence-agencies-cia-fbi-nsa.html?_r=0) \n\nBut no doubt you're smart enough to google for that information yourself. And I'm sure your next response will be one of the following: \n1. New York Times. Fake News! \n2. What about Hillary? \n3. What about Obama? \n4. Snowflake (or libtard)",
" Here's where your going to be disappointed and then horrified. The Trump surveillance was taking place before the dossier came out. People in the Obama admin are going to jail for this. This is Watergate x 100. ",
"Anti-piracy is only a minor part of our operation right now. Far more goes into NK ballistic missile defense, checking the Chinese in the south Chinese sea, and bombing the fuck out of ISIS. Notice all the incidents were in the 7th fleet charged with the first two of those tasks.",
"My Forrester sure as shit did. ",
"Ah, I see. The CIA, FBI and the NSA concluded that an act of cyber warfare was committed by an American adversary without investigating. Of course, that makes sense.",
"Exactly this. People will probably forget about Oprah by the time the actual election comes around. People will probably finally wrap their head around trump and he will be re elected barring a miracle. The democrats put all their chips on clinton and now theyre fucked for another election or two. Dems need some serious self reflection when oprah is their favourite after a fucking Oscar speech. ",
"it was wrong in 2016 because people were complacent. but trump actually being president is enough of a disruption to normalcy that it's spooked people who would normally be politically disengaged.\n\ndon't get me wrong, i hope the democrats nominate someone good. i just think they'll win even if they don't.",
"> As for the fundraising shenanigans, I'm referring to the arrangements Donna Brazil outlined in her book.\n\nOh, so you *are* referring to the joint fundraising agreement. You *are* aware that that specifically only applied to the general election, right? And it was actually because the DNC was low on money, not the Clinton Campaign. ",
"Yes. Yes they do. ",
"Hahaha thats fuckin lit i cant lie",
"True love can be difficult to find.\n\nHonestly though, it's just a saying. Congress and the Executive are both fairly reliable pendulums. The surprise would have been to have a dem president follow a dem president. A blue wave won't make history, it's expected. If there isn't one, *that* is the anomaly.\n\n>In fact, since American politics evolved into what we know as the current two-party system, the last time voters elected a Democrat to the White House after a president from the same party had just served a full term was in 1856, before the Civil War.\n\n(James Buchanan) \n\n \n\nThis shit isn't new, it's just that everyone now has a voice and slept through history class.\n",
"Never been a fan. Seems like he would be the condescending type. Being a lawyer and all. ",
"Just because you don't like what you hear, doesn't make it less true.",
"Ehhhh I liked certain things about his policies and the fact that he actually thought about things before he said/did them. But his foreign policy was aimless. The real issue I have with a Trump is the fact that he treats the Justice Department like a political machine, and flat out politicizes every other agency he runs to an order of magnitude we’ve never seen.\n\nThis is also an issue of Congress flat out not doing their job, and that’s not a Trump or Obama problem.\n\nExecutive Orders shouldn’t be necessary but they are, I honestly am not that bothered by them until Congress gets its shit together.",
"Your state might have a high tax bill that the rich members of your state use federal subsidies to avoid. Your college degree might be in anthropogenic climate variation. You might be internalizing your own gender myths into your financial situation. Your job may me a neutral or even negative force in society. Basically I need the information to help you. ",
"Rear window",
"You're accusing me of representing the military-industrial complex?\n\nHow can you reference brilliant words from a wise man, and remain so dense?",
"How come, just because everybody else has a different reaction to it?",
"I wanna be this guy/gal's friend\n\n*I don't wanna be any of your friends tho",
"He wasn't given a million dollar loan to start a business - that was an influx of capital into the business he inherited. The Trump Corporation was founded by Donald's father and grandmother as Elizabeth Trump & Son in the 1920s.",
"But legislators rarely shoot each other, is my point.",
"Actually yea, he didn't and neither did she.",
"What a nice cunt. ",
"The historical yield is in the 9.5-10 range, and he received a lot more than 1 million dollars from his dad.\n\nNext.",
"Yea, I'm surprised you can read.",
"You should watch some actual news, mate. Get off Reddit. Relax. ",
"Thanks",
"Sounds like something a Russian troll would say, comrade",
"I fug'd up",
"No. We absolutely don't need another fucking celebrity as President. ",
"Yeah, though the beer is figurative, not literal. But it is a weird coincidence that W.and Trump are teetotalers.",
"Pretty much his entire cabinet is Wall st cronies and oil executives except for Kelly and Mattis. He’s poured more water into the swamp than any president since WW II.",
"Do you know what lobbyists are? If not google it. And this isn't an English class. Research it for yourself. Geez.",
"Unemployment is the lowest that it’s been in 16 Years, gdp per capita is the highest it’s been, and while income inequality has grown, more middle class has move into higher economic brackets than lower and I don’t see how that is reflective of the economy anyway. I guess my point is that your “indicators” seem to indicate a healthy economy currently.",
"I've worked fast food/ customer service related jobs for close to 10 years now. Bix box retailers to hole in a wall restaurants. I asked off to vote, and will continue to. Always got the day off too, when really I asked for an hour or two.\n\nPeople should stop living in fear and stand up for themselves, or they will never take this nation back. ",
"this has potential ",
"carriers exist to create an air field where non exists. Carriers are never alone and carrier groups are incredibly hard to crack.\n\nYou also act like we don't have defense systems on these, we do. All major nations have missile defence systems in place.\n\nYou also act like cheap missiles invalidates everything.\n\nWhy build a tank if a cheap IED can blow it up?\n\nWhy build a plane with a cheap flak shell will rip it apart?\n\nWhy train a soldier to the tune of thousands when a cheap <1$ bullet will destroy that?\n\nlets not even cover the cost of expanding our ports and logistics for all these tiny ships that don't do much beyond attack very RARE pirates and illegal fishermen. That ticket price is not the price you pay.",
"I'm not saying she didn't spend some of the money on the recount, i'm saying she pocketed what was left over after it was all said and done.",
"Was there classified information outside of it's proper place? Yes. Comey says that clearly. Pursuant to us code 18 section 793 paragraph F, that law was broken by the meeting presence of classified information on her server, due to the fact that she sailed the standard non-disclosure agreement stating that it was her very job to prevent it.\n\nJust because Comey doesn't specifically state the exact law broken, does not mean he didn't clearly state the law was violated.\n\nStop defending someone who is clearly a criminal, both Comey and Clinton, ironically, for the same crimes.",
"I agree with you on his foreign policy it can certainly look aimless, though I'd say scratch the surface and look deeper, I'd call it non-aligned, non-dogmatic aggressively detached realpolitk. In short he wants a better deal for America as he sees it, and he isn't beholden to dogma, institutional thinking or past momentum.\n\nThe congress stuff I'm with you on too... the pen and phone stuff Trump has taken rule abolishment to a level Ron Paul could only dream.\n\nIn terms of passing legislation congress abdicated their responsibility in favor of deniability, also if you think of congress not as a group of people but of a melting pot of competing special interests that have yet to assess the current president, the lack of legislation makes Kafka-esque sense, yet I am loving the fact that the Trump administration has no filter and is bringing these conflicts front and center.",
"I understand your impatience. We're all impatient. \n\nBut I think the investigation is going as fast as it can, and details will be revealed at the right time.",
">Oh, so this isn't in a thread about bumper stickers?\n\nI knew you'd figure it out eventually. ",
"Sounds a bit like propaganda. You didn't vote for swamp creature Clinton, did you? If so, that's a bit hypocritical.",
"And yet notice how they never published any of the dirt they had on the republicans, which they claimed they had. It must be a coincidence the guy putin liked never got any bad info published about him by this supposedly unbiased group.",
"Well, I knew it would provoke a discussion, but this was my intention. I think this should be discussed, as I said. I dislike bumper sticker philosophies that are absurdly absolute, and it makes me uncomfortable seeing this \"Being aggressive never helped anyone\" repeated. Following that trail inevitably leads to cowardice and complicity. Also, talking with people who disagree with me allows me to build stronger convictions or abandon them. \n\nIt's natural to expect an ulterior motive on the Internet. Everyone has a bias. I'm not advocating for someone going out and causing anyone specific harm. ",
"Oh, you're a the_dumpster poster, that explains so much.",
"Ya Trump is in charge of climate change. You're so WOKE ",
"The money coming in to fund the DNC wasn't just happening during the general election though, and Clinton's undue influence over the DNC was established long before the primaries. Nothing about it may have constituted rigging anything, but the arrangement was pretty smelly.",
"Ok fine... How could I.. They to damn cute.\n\n\nNow shitzus?.. Hmmmm... 🤣",
"\"blind general assertion\"\n\n\"would you mind backing up your blind general assertion\" \n\n\"fft this isn't English class, I don't need to back up my own points!\" \n\nYou dumb-asses are all the same...",
"That sounds like Alex Jones.",
"The only other line I know aside from it is, \"go away; I'm 'batin['](https://imgur.com/eeufNGT).\"",
"Settle down. ",
"Nah. Any decent hacker knows that they can hack in mexico (for example) and make it look like they hacked from south Africa. Its all about the ip. I dont think the nsa was involved but i do know that the FBI director was part of the whole Hillary scandel and if you read up on that you can see that putins intentions with cyber warfare is to bring down the west from within. (Also soros goal but hes not really important right now) anywho, i see absolutely no reason why russia would want to help trump. And if we are going to talk about the 2016 election, hillary and obama and the director of the FBI all have roles in the election. Please read up on the hillary emails that was recoverd by the cia and fbi. Btw im a libertarian . ",
"You're going to have to organize your thoughts in order for anyone to understand what you're saying. ",
"You should. Somebody posted the definition of it elsewhere in the thread, and it seems pretty interesting",
"I could find you hundreds of articles o the”next recession is coming” going back decades. During recessions everyone gets fucked, we’re all going to get fucked in the next recession that’s a given. The point is there’s no indicators showing a massive recession currently due to the current administration. Recessions do happen but without any substantial signs of an economic downturn you’re just basing it on the fact that Trump is in Office and you don’t like him.",
"I thought that Bush was a drinking man. Not Yeltsin level, but not a church door either.",
"He's a traitor and that's all you need to know.\n\nWe went from one of the smartest, intelligent, rational, uniting presidents of all time to go a baby without the bib.\n\nIt's mind boggling how we got here ",
"You could throw about anything into that description but it's still gonna be the \"convince people\" that really matters.",
"Not Donald Trump ",
"Obama literally funded the Syrian rebels and demanded the Assad be removed form power which created a power vaccuum and lead to a lot of death and destruction - that is not an opinion it is a documented fact. You're making yourself sound really naive due to your infatuation with Obama.",
"I guess they wrote it for a reason. I mean, we can't be truly as bad as the film, right?",
"But... but do they have electrolytes?",
"People are so quick to demonize Trump they don’t realize the economy is the best its been in nearly 8 years. Emotional rhetoric appears to “trump” rational facts. ",
"> they are not an organization of one (Strzok)\n\nHe's not the only one who got caught up in the texting scandal, and he was kind of an important one being on Muellers team and drafting the revised memos exonerating Hillary. ",
"Awww. A fifth grade name caller. You could benefit from a little research. Good luck. You can do it!",
"1L Crim Class is a class given in law school, so i'm gonna guess you went to/going to law school. I'm a recent medical graduate and make no claims to understanding American criminal law. I'm doing the best i can to understand the information. \nOf course I can be completely 100% wrong and I'm willing to accept that. \n\n\n>Are you suggesting that you’re aware of a specific crime, of which the statutory requisite intent is gross negligence, that you believe Clinton committed\n\nI'm no lawyer, but perhaps this U.S. Code › Title 18 › Part I › Chapter 37 can provide some information: \n>(f) Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer—\nShall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both\n[Source\n](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793)\n\n\n> If a person does not have the requisite level of intent for that specific crime, they have not committed that specific crime. That’s literally just how the law works\n\nI'm sure you guys spoke about this class, maybe u can explain it to me to help me understand. A person who accidentally killed people by driving negligently, are they charged a crime or possible manslaughter? Am I wrong for thinking not every crime requires intent? Please help me understand. ",
"Time will tell with the rest of the shit but he absolutely IS a hat wearer. Global warming being a Chinese ruse? Birther? Those are conspiracies. Hat is definitely in place.",
"You sound triggered. ",
"I totally know that person.",
"Your Obama Derangement Syndrome needs immediate treatment. The Civil War caused a power vacuum, moron. The Civil War led to death and destruction. [Fact.](http://lmgtfy.com/?q=war)",
"The way I interpreted it is that a boring president is perfectly fine. It's just that a dumb, loud, and entertaining one has more of a chance to appeal to the loud and vocal groups of people across the country. The response was answering that the entertainment will come first because a lot of people are foolish. Granted, I don't think the comment is worth donated $4 to reddit for, but that's just me. ",
"Its because it doesnt work :)",
"Man, I could really go for a Starbucks, y'know?",
"I cant find anything that says wikileaks is in possession of information that would hurt the republican party. Can you back that up with something from a respected news source? I do have a vague recollection of the FBI noting that the RNC servers were also compromised by russian hackers. but I dont think anyone has verified that any data was sent to wikileaks to be published. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/10/us/politics/russia-hack-hearing-clapper-rogers-brennan.html",
"Not a fan of Obama or McConnell. Both in the same boat for me ",
"If they make it the next three years without being indicted then sure.",
"My point was actual crimes were committed in the state department. People act like everyone was 100% innocent and this was a just a politicized situation, that is not factual. ",
"It's not about whether or not it's coming, it's about the fact that America isn't prepared for it and the most vulrable are going to be hurt the most. \n\n>During recessions everyone gets fucked\n\n\"I sort of hope that happens because then people like me would go in and buy,\" the billionaire businessman said in a 2006 audiobook from Trump University published by CNN. \"People like me would go in and buy like crazy.\"\n\n\"If there is a bubble burst, as they call it, you know, you could make a lot of money,\" Trump said in the audiobook. \"At the same time, I don't think that will happen.\"\n\n>Recessions do happen but without any substantial signs of an economic downturn you’re just basing it on the fact that Trump is in Office and you don’t like him.\n\nI base it on the fact that our unregulated financial markets that caused the first crash haven't been regulated, and won't be regulated. The same behavior is likely to repeat itself, unless you have a better understanding of the [US financial market than Ben Bernanke](https://www.brookings.edu/blog/ben-bernanke/2017/02/28/why-dodd-franks-orderly-liquidation-authority-should-be-preserved/). ",
"And you were paid? I've never known know anyone ballsy enough to ask for the federally mandated 3 hours of paid time.\n\nI have worked at places where the manager let everyone leave an hour early (paid), and they made a huge deal of it.\n\n> Employers must grant employees up to three hours **PAID** leave to vote, unless polls are open three hours before or after regular working shift. Employees must request this time by noon the day before Election Day, and the employer may specify when during the working day employees may take time off.\n\nYou also have to imagine being brown or a woman when your boss has a Trump bumper sticker and comments about MAGA. You don't ask for time to go vote in that situation, not unless you have a snarky relationship with them, make it clear that you are on their team, or lie.\n\nRegardless, you shouldn't have to be diplomatic about voting. **You shouldn't have to ask for anyone's permission to vote.** It should be a national holiday.",
"> The economy is in the best shape it's been in in years, my paycheck just got fatter thanks to a tax cut that almost every middle class vote in the country got\n\nThe economy is doing well, the one thing no president can really control(was doing great under Obama as well btw) However he did do the one worst thing you can do when the economy is doing well, instead of taking that money towards a surplus so the next recession is hopefully lightened, we threw a nice 1.5 trillion dollar new debt payment up there. Now we have less tools to deal with the next recession(there will always be one), and the wealth disparity gap is at levels not seen in years, meaning its gonna be a big one. Glad you got a couple hundred bones a year thrown your way so the richest among us can do some fat profit taking now so they can be there to scoop up assets cheap in the next recession. Guess I am bitter because I got a tax increase and I wasn't rich enough to get a tax cut like people way richer than me, he really threaded the needle on that one.\n\n> illegal immigration is way down\n\nIllegal immigration has been on the same downward trend under Obama. Honestly probable because this country isn't as alluring as it used to be.\n\n> ISIS is a memory\n\nAlso has been on a downward trend for years, the next muslim militia group will pop up with a new name, just like how Al Qaeda switched to ISIS. Syria being wrecked means that region will be unstable for years as usual.\n\n> TPP is gone\n\nTPP Isn't gone, now its being led by China and not including us, and they have more weight in their international trade agreements. Most people don't even know what they hated about TPP, except that it was unpopular because both Bernie and Trump hated it(and I like Bernie), and was drafted behind closed doors. \n\n\n>we're out of the shitty Paris climate accords\n\nYou just said they were shitty, yet we are beating them anyways(we easily would have beat them), now we just lost political capital with the world for something we were going to do anyways. Also we are beating them in spite of Trump because state governors kept enforcing it. \n\n> NAFTA is being restructured to equalize the benefits for the US\n\nLol, i'll believe it when I see it, more like they will make some minor modifications, which really have no affect, and Trump will stamp it as \"the greatest renegotiation ever\" and call it a win.\n\n**Now lets talk about the shit he actually controls that is getting fucked.**\n\nCreating a huge hole in the national debt during a fucking booming economy, to just fuck us further when the next recession hits. The most short sighted moronic thing to do. On top of that he is looking into deregulating the fucking mortgage rules again, Did we not learn anything lol.\n\nSubsidizing oil and fucking COAL lol. This is such a joke. While China pours so much money into Green energy, not even because of environmental reasons, but because countries with the cheapest energy thrive, and renewable energy will become cheaper and cheaper, and they aren't as stupid as us and see the writing on the wall. He is such an idiot about energy policy and it is setting us further and further back from our competitors.\n\nDismantling the EPA, he is systematically doing it letting companies just run havoc on the environment, that damage will absolutely be lasting, hopefully states pick up the slack.\n\nDon't even get me started on his administrations decision on pot, jeopardizing tons of tax money for the states and reducing crime. \n\nDismantling the state department, and reducing America's political good will with other countries. \n\nLaying more money into defense which is completely unnecessary. \n\nRemoving net neutrality rules. This one really sucks.\n\nI look at the actual policies he puts in place and what his administration is doing, I could go on and on, its terrible what he is doing while morons like you cheer him on cause you get $300 more a year from an awful bill.\n\n\n",
"Yet",
"Not just illegally. *SUPER ILLEGALLY*\n\nlol\n",
"> The money coming in to fund the DNC wasn't just happening during the general election though\n\nThen are you referring to something else? Because the arrangement that Brazil mentioned was quite specifically for the general. ",
"That's not how arguments work sweetheart. If you want to make a claim you have to back it up with evidence.",
"> I do have a vague recollection of the FBI noting that the RNC servers were also compromised by russian hackers. but I dont think anyone has verified that any data was sent to wikileaks to be published. \n\nThat might've been what I was thinking of too. ",
"And buddy both parties, and all forms of mainstream media spew out lies or bad information. Not all the time but sometimes. Its important to read up on everything not just something that you agree with. ",
"Lazy response.",
"I'm sorry if I upset you.",
"No, not when it's common knowledge to the majority. ",
"Yeah, okay...",
"I did, and it is. I voted for Kasich in the primary and tried to stave off this circus in the general. Though staving off this circus would have resulted in a... fair? I can’t imagine it’d be a whole lot worse than this.",
"True;",
"Right, the other agent being the one he was having an affair with, and mueller removed them both from his team BEFORE we knew or the press knew. I would understand if he removed him afterwards because of backlash, but mueller was specfically wanting to avoid any conflicts of interests, so fired him, and THAT is when the press reported on it. I would see your view and even agree with you if it was the other way around, but it is not. This entire \"scandal\" strenthens mueller credibillity, since we know he doesnt tolorate even the possibility of one of his agents having a conflict of interest on his team",
"I know you didn't specifically mention Democrats are far left, but if it was implied, Sanders is the first time we've had any significant semblance of actual leftism in the DNC for a very long time. Democrats have steadily moved to the center as Republicans moved right, both fueling each other to move more. One could argue that by being more centrist Democrats lost, look at all of the passion behind Sanders compared to the dull inconvenience far too many people had supporting Clinton.\n\nGranted if we had mandatory voting that wouldn't be nearly as much of an issue, but still, as someone who votes D I'd love to see party leaders and candidates start standing for something great, rather than against something terrible.",
"> The government didn’t have to demonstrate his intent\n\nThe charge he was charged with doesn't need intent. He was charged with mishandling classified information. It doesn't matter why you mishandled it, only that you mishandled it.",
"Oh wait, that's adorable - you're one of those people that doesn't know what our CIA does and how we fund rebels to overthrow governments! Aww, how cute.",
"I somewhat doubt Trump is actually a billionaire. What with hiding his tax returns. \n",
"Everyone seriously suggested that he was wrong to say that",
"You're thinking much too small.\n\nGovernments dictate economies, from taxes to trade to codified protections. Maybe you're too young to care, but we had a nearly catastrophic economic recession about a decade ago that came about because of unchecked greed and lack of regulation. Now, we are embarking on that road again.\n\nThe stock market is not the economy. Rich people are excited about getting richer in another rabidly deregulatory climate - this is neither a sign of economic health, nor is it sustainable.",
">They akways end dar richer than befire\n\nexcuse me?\n\n\n",
"So your defense of your claim is the ['common sense' fallacy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum)? \n\nIt used to be common sense to slap your wife if she was out of line, do you agree with that because it was \"common sense\"?",
"this actually did get some media attention. it just depends how you access aforementioned media. this material didnt trend on any sources because nobody was that interested in stein. ",
"Oh brother..",
"Sorry My autocorrect and big thumbs suck ",
"So, you should be happy with the rinos/ uniparty we have. Be glad. Those old farts will be around until they are all in their 90's. Trump only has 4-8 yrs. We could never be so lucky in this country to have term limits for the good ole boys club. It's a staged reality tv show- long before Trump came aboard.",
"I think the only piece you’re missing is that negligence and gross negligence *are* degrees of intent. These vary slightly by jurisdiction but the degrees of intent in the Model Penal Code are (in ascending order of culpability): negligence, recklessness, knowledge, and purpose. Manslaughter statutes vary by state but in most states requires recklessness as the level of intent that the state must prove in order to obtain a conviction. \n\nThe only crimes that don’t require intent are strict liability crimes. Conceptually strict liability is thought of as “replacing” the intent requirement where it’s written into a criminal statute. Strict liability means it doesn’t matter if you weren’t even negligent in your actions, if the state can prove you committed the act, then you’re guilty. Strict liability crimes are extremely rare, and the only example I can think of off the top of my head is statutory rape. Sometimes for public policy reasons, like the goal protecting children and adolescents from sexual abuse, a legislature decides to write in strict liability in lieu of an intent requirement. But when it’s taught in law school, strict liability is generally considered a rare subcategory of intent. \n\nThe statute you’ve cited is probably the most likely crime Clinton might have been charged with, if she had been charged with anything, if the most popular conspiracy narrative were true, and if the DOJ thought they had a strong enough case to prove it. But like I said in one of my responses again, none of those things happened, and Comey wasn’t alleging a legal claim in the memo OP was referring to, he was using the phrase in its everyday usage. \n\nEDIT: I should’ve added that the reason I believe he was using the everyday meaning of gross negligence in the context of that quote is because it was edited before release to read “extremely careless,” which is not a degree of intent used in the federal criminal code, nor does it have any legal meaning under federal law. I think it’s readonable to conclude that he realized that language would have caused exactly this kind of confusion. \n\nAlso, this [article](https://warontherocks.com/2016/07/why-intent-not-gross-negligence-is-the-standard-in-clinton-case/) does a good job of explaining why the statute you cited, while requiring gross negligence in the text, has been interpreted so strictly by the Supreme Court (for fascinating historical reasons the article delves into) that it’s essentially been rewritten to require actual intent (for all intents and purposes - no pun intended).",
"That's not the way I read it. It sounds to me like she was funding the party well before 2016, and her people were already in place during the primary election.\n\n\"This victory fund agreement, however, had been signed in August 2015, just four months after Hillary announced her candidacy and nearly a year before she officially had the nomination.\"\n\n\"The funding arrangement with HFA and the victory fund agreement was not illegal, but it sure looked unethical. If the fight had been fair, one campaign would not have control of the party before the voters had decided which one they wanted to lead. This was not a criminal act, but as I saw it, it compromised the party’s integrity.\"",
"Fair enough. we all make grammatical errors.",
"> Glad you got a couple hundred bones a year thrown your way \n\nWorks out to just under $5k, and definitely much needed. Not sure why the Democrats refused to vote to let me keep more of my money...\n\n>Creating a huge hole in the national debt \n\nObama almost doubled the national debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion. Why do I have a feeling you'll make some excuse for Obama...?\n\n",
"I'm saying I've never heard of Trump trying to lose weight.",
"Corporations have come out of the reccession with the most accumulated wealth in mankind history. \n\nI sure would love to get fucked in that manner.",
"> This entire \"scandal\" strenthens mueller credibillity, since we know he doesnt tolorate even the possibility of one of his agents having a conflict of interest on his team\n\nAnd you don't find it odd that basically his entire team is Hillary supporters and donors?",
"It still is in some cultures. But, most civilized countries find that unacceptable and yes most people know that is wrong now just like most know congress is full of old men with 30-40 yr careers in dc. Notice I said \"most\", not all.",
"The entire text of the agreement is at the bottom of this article, if you want to read it in full. https://www.npr.org/2017/11/03/561976645/clinton-campaign-had-additional-signed-agreement-with-dnc-in-2015",
"You can “oh brother” me but it’s the truth",
"No worries. The amount of shit happening these days makes it incredibly difficult to keep up with all that's happening in the news. I honestly feel like this administration seems to use this as a strategy or it's just complete incompetence. Really hard for me to tell",
"They crave that mineral.",
"Fair enough.",
"From my view it’s been taken over by crybabies like you. It’s weird though, you never see them at the top. Only when you sort by controversial. It’s like everyone is sick of the bullshit, or something.",
"You're one of those little cunts who doesn't know the difference between covert and overt. Sad. If you didn't vote for Trump, who did you vote for?",
"and RNC tried to promoted anyone other than Trump. The establishment had no love for Trump nor Sanders. Difference was Trump had a cohesive strategy for winning, stood by his values and he won. Sanders turned around and endorsed Hillary.",
"> Works out to just under $5k, and definitely much needed. Not sure why the Democrats refused to vote to let me keep more of my money...\n\nI don't believe you, what is your income and state and how many children. I assume you are benefiting from the standard deduction changes? I'd only believe you are saving that if you are pretty rich already and saving from the marginal top level bracket changes. Which I doubt because you said it was \"definitely much needed\".\n\n> Obama almost doubled the national debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion. Why do I have a feeling you'll make some excuse for Obama...?\n\nUh I absolutely will, half of Obama's term was during a recession where national debt goes up because the government is receiving way less revenue. He wasn't giving tax breaks to rich people to add a huge hole during a fuckin booming economy. Its basic economics, are you dense?\n",
"Precisely.\n\nPeople want to be entertained, not lectured.\n\nTrump spoke on a lot of people's level, he didn't use big words and make them feel dumb.\n\nTrump entertained, Clinton bored.",
"Yeah, I feel like Pence would have all of the same terrible beliefs, but also additional traits like basic communication skills and intellect to have him actually accomplish more wrongs. Trump's also doing fantastic for Democratic turnout, which is desperately needed for the redistricting elections in 2020. Clinton's loss to him is also in my eyes the main factor in what's keeping the progressive wing of the party not only surviving, but thriving. I wouldn't want him impeached.",
"Please open the wiki page I linked before you use common sense fallacy again.\n\nCan you explain why someone who makes a living governing is unfit to govern? ",
"I am very smart",
"That’s incorrect. Mishandling classified information requires gross negligence - which is a degree of intent in criminal law - in the text of the statute, but has been interpreted by the Supreme Court even more strictly than that. This [article](https://warontherocks.com/2016/07/why-intent-not-gross-negligence-is-the-standard-in-clinton-case/) explains that legal history in the context of the Clinton investigation. ",
" I remember the same thing happening with \"Fuck Bush\" stickers, which then produced the \"Buck Fush\" stickers we saw in response. I guess \"Truck Fump\" it is, then. They asked for it!",
"What exactly convinces you that Assange is trustworthy?",
"Oh, I missed that this was released today.\n\nhttps://www.foreign.senate.gov/press/ranking/release/cardin-releases-report-detailing-two-decades-of-putins-attacks-on-democracy",
"*I gi'ya mah wooooord... *",
"The things happening abroad are just so fucking awful I can't dwell on it too much or I just get... angry? It's a weird crawling out of my skin in anger and sympathy type thing. An absolute Orwellion nightmare\n\nOh his healthcare got shot down? I didn't hear about that. Good, it was a rather hasty put together thing anyway.",
"I hate politics. It's just a big scam.",
"Alright fair enough, excuse me for mislabeling you. I've just seen so many people trying to justify violence towards people they don't agree with lately. It's made me start seeing the worst in people. Anyways, hope you can forgive my misguided attitude.",
"Thank you. I appreciate you taking the time to explain this. ",
"Can we stop pretending democrats are actually embracing her as a serious consideration?\n\nIt's news *because* it's news. Some famous person talked about running so news stations talk about her talking about so the internet makes a fuss.\n\n99% of talk about it has been completely about how terrible of an idea it is.",
"Oh hey a bumper sticker, let's just obstruct my rear view with it instead of placing it on my bumper.",
"Hillary...",
"Any other input? Or are just going to agree with me?",
"I understand it completely. This is the sanest discussion I've had in months.",
"Yes. Lobbyists. Can you explain how most of our rulers are wealthy and getting wealthier?\nDo you really think they represent the man or woman on the street and not the corporations?\nSurely you must know they are bought and paid for. It is a very lucrative job that many would love to have. Why do you think the Executive branch has term limits? If it works for that branch of govt, why not Congress? And we wouldn't be a sovereign nation if we thought someone with lifetime governing skills were fit to govern. ",
"Yes. But look at Trump. Major political experience is important, and I hope Americans will come to realize that.\n\nWe unfortunately won't.",
"That's not skin color, that's misapplication of fake tan.",
"Boring?! No Republicans found him Mormon.",
"The real joke is the the people who think Putin helped get Trump elected. ",
"Those are some woke Lesbians!",
"He’s a recovering alcoholic, and Trump’s brother died at a young age due to alcoholism. You wouldnt really expect that because Bush is pretty laid back and, well, the kind of guy you’d easily have a beer with, while Trump is a high society New York party-goer. The man has just been really pounding back the Diet Cokes at those parties I guess. ",
"Yes, NOT going to reward CrookdClinton for preventing Senator Sanders from running.\n",
"It's honestly a lot more difficult to follow with the Syrian civil war and it's resulting refugee crisis, the saudi-iranian proxy war in Yemen, terrorist organizations in north africa, the south Pacific, and western Asia. Then there's African elections and the resulting protests from accusations of voter fraud. A bit of the same happening in south America. Corrupted governments, starvation, and ethnic cleansing. There are definitely way more important and way more terrible things going on abroad then here. If that helps put things in perspective a bit ",
"\"Taken over by crybabies\"\n\n\"Never see them at the top. Only when you sort by controversial\"\n\nHm, those seem a bit contradictory. Wouldn't they be all over the place and at the top if Reddit was \"taken over\" by them?",
"No problem! I added an edit after responding that adds more info and background. This has been a good refresher for me, too, in explaining. ",
"no, just getting to the gist of the argument. nice deflection though",
"Did anyone in this thread make that argument?",
"The investigation has leaked many details so far. Why wouldn't the leakers leak things that were truly damning? The simplest explanation is that there isn't anything damning.\n\nAre you not troubled by the fact that no one can even articulate how the result of the election was allegedly changed?",
"Backwards, everything that's propaganda i don't like regardless of narrative being pushed.",
"Thanks for the clarification. That's unfortunate but he's upheld his promises to stay away from super pacs and lobbyists since then and avoiding DNC fundraisers which brought him to that unfortunate point. \n\nSaying he took money from people who work at companies is a dumb thing to bash. I'm not going to be mad at a Walmart cashier for donating to Sanders just because they work at Walmart. \n",
"> I don't believe you\n\n[Check the CNN tax calculator](http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/13/politics/calculate-americans-taxes-senate-reform-bill/index.html). You can run a shit load of simulations that come out to that (or more) without me doxxing myself. \n\n>Its basic economics\n\nHe literally added more to the National Debt than every president before him *combined*. \n",
"Trump bumper stickers imply support. That was my reading of it, and why I said what I did. Trump may get talked about a lot here, but he's hardly popular. ",
"You know that lobbyists and politicians are literally entirely different occupations right? \n\nAlso, the court case Citizens United give corporations the power of political speech (including the form of money). What party do you think has consistently had overturning the Citizens United decision a part of it's platform? \n\nIf you want to say \"Dems are evil, they have lobbying\" then you must think they're the better party for working to get money out of politics right? \n\n> And we wouldn't be a sovereign nation if we thought someone with lifetime governing skills were fit to govern.\n\nI don't even know what you mean by this. Please use words you actually know because I don't think you know what \"sovereign\" means.",
"Not really a conspiracy, Reddit is full of liberals who love circle jerking this stuff. ",
"And trump habitually binges on McDonald’s cheeseburgers and Coca Cola and yet believes the fake doctor’s note he received stating “his physical strength and stamina are extraordinary” and that he is “the healthiest person ever elected to the presidency.”\n\nI’ll take the fat chick who’s perceived a problem and is honestly trying to improve herself, even if she’s struggling, over a wildly delusional bombast who looks like the guy from “up” swallowed a hippopotamus. Guy who looks like a fatter Charles Barkley with cerebral palsy when he tries to swing a golf club. \n\n(all respect and sincerest apologies to chuck and those suffering from cp for the comparison.)\n\n\n\n*PS I know ‘bombast’ as a noun isn’t used appropriately there, I am pulling a Gene Wolfe.",
"http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33997408, do some research dummy.",
"Lol, she's awful at leading and has zero foresight. Hence her endless mockery and gaslighting of the left and independents, her vote on Iraq despite Sanders warning her of possible instability due to a power vacuum (which happened), and more. ",
"It’s pretty sad that you believe that it was Russia and not the fact that Hillary ignored the state completely and they’ve been suffering economically from failed Obama/globalist/democrat policies for decades and decided to try something different. Actually, it’s not sad it’s downright demeaning. ",
"I was hoping the third would be \"Giant Meteor 2018\"",
"Too bad his wife didn't, and is under FBI investigation for fraud now.",
"Now you're just speaking in platitudes. I get what you're trying to say, but chaos for the sake of chaos rarely works. By definition, you cannot predict the results.\n\nPretending that a thin skinned demented narcissist with unquestioned authority to launch nuclear weapons is just a historical bump in the road may be fine for you but not for me. The standard that Trump is setting is a terrible one. It may be a wake up call, or it may be the first step towards the death of American democracy and neither you nor I can predict that.",
"I wouldn't call a Putin - trump associated sticker \"support\" \n\nMore so the opposite ",
"\"ok fine\" is the response to Hillary/dnc rigging it against Sanders. that's a problem. ",
"I feel like that’s because we are an empire, life if we just scaled back to a regional hegemon instead of a world one it might work.",
"Ah, text is never clear on the art of sarcasm... I like it. ",
"So does President Trump. The veteran Washington lawyer he hired to represent him in the Russia investigations, Ty Cobb, has donated thousands to Democrats over the past decade, including to Sen. Al Franken, President Obama and Sen. Bernie Sanders. Does that mean that he is in the conspiracy against trump as well because of who he supports personally? Or does that taint his entire professional duties? The prosecutors job is to prosecute, and the defence lawyers job is to defend, and their personal views don't matter\n\nThat members of Mueller's team may have given money to Democrats isn't proof that they are biased against President Trump, either. Many people donate to candidates for a variety of reasons and are still capable of conducting their work fairly.\n\nPlenty of key members of the Trump administration — Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, even Trump himself — have given to Democrats, including to Hillary Clinton. Trump clearly doesn’t feel that such donations should bar members of his family from working in the White House. It seems only fair that the same standard be applied to Justice Department employees.",
"Fair enough. Brain-fart on my end. I pictured typical Trump (for President) stickers, not the one in OP.\n\nEdit: in -> on",
"\"climate change\" lol, I hope you realize Al gore has fooled y'all for the last several years. You have changed from global warming to climate change back to global warming, depending if it is hot or cold this year or not. This year you use the term \"climate change\" because we had record lows, but claim it's due to global warming. Al gore said the ice caps would be melted nine years ago (today) nope. He claimed California would be underwater, yet has a house there. He says to stop polluting the Earth yet he flies in his jet.\n\nThe earth's climate changes all the time, we go through hot periods, and ice ages. Calm the hell down, even if we cut back a ton, it would only cause the temp. To lower by 1 or so degrees f. In about 100 years. \n\nPlease quit trying to blame absolutely everything on the right, quit pointing fingers when you have nothing better to do. Instead of blabbering on in your echo chamber, study the earth, and study government. ",
"Ahh yes the economic powerhouse of New Zealand. My apologies. Good to know that America is the laughing stock of fucking New Zealand. After all, where would we all be without the great technological, economic, and cultural contributions that New Zealand has made to the planet? ",
"Thanks bruh preesh",
"I'm not repeating anything you can't read for yourself from multiple legitimate sources. ",
"I'm talking about the American Revolution that was fought. And the rest of your post is unclear. Until you can understand that we have one party- the Uniparty- we really shouldn't be sharing. Sounds to me as if you are a big govt dem guy and I'm for term limits small govt state rights etc. type.",
"That’s how Obama won. He’s a likable guy with a personality. It really started with JFK in recent times. ",
">Uniparty\n\noh you're one of those people...",
"Did you wipe off the dirt to take the photo?",
"Democrats also treated Bernie with kid gloves and Clinton didn't run any negative ads against him, and the media wasn't paying attention to any of his scandals either. \n\nYou know how Jane Sanders, Bernie's wife, is under FBI investigation for fraud related to real estate deals she did as president of Burlington College? That story actually broke in the local Vermont media as early as May 2016, but most people didn't read about it in the national news until the summer of 2017, if then. Or the weird essay he wrote back in the 1970s arguing that some women want to be gang-raped, which could easily be taken out of context. Then there's his flirtation with actual communism back in the 1980s- there's apparently a video of him giving a speech in communist Nicaragua which would \"sink his candidacy\" according to GOP insiders.\n\nI'm actually looking forward to him running again in 2020 as the \"presumed frontrunner\", because the schadenfraude of seeing Bernie get absolutely destroyed by the other candidates after 4 years of his supporters chanting \"Bernie would've won!\" will be so delicious.",
"\"You [women] hated me not because of who I am, or what I was to you, but because I am a man--and that's a piggy thing to do.\" -- Bernie Sanders",
"Your first paragraph is humorous. I've been in politics and I know lobbyists. Have you and do you? Talk about crooked, they are both a slimy\nbunch. ",
"> Check the CNN tax calculator. You can run a shit load of simulations that come out to that (or more) without me doxxing myself.\n\nUh I know how the tax code works, people in low tax states save between 1-4.5% by your calculator, I know you are lying, how would telling me anonymous basics doxx you? You are absolutely lying to prove a point which makes you look stupid.\n\n> He literally added more to the National Debt than every president before him combined.\n\nUh yea, continuation of the Reagan/bush tax cuts and being in a major recession will do that. What do you attribute him to increasing that deficit besides the stimulus? The stimulus is nowhere near where the bulk of it came from. 90% of it came from what I just said.",
"In Kansas, there's a great place called Lenexa, but they don't love it. They just \"like\" it. Seriously, theu have \"I like Lenexa\" bumper stickers on $80k cars. No sense in getting carried away. ",
"You literally went from saying the power vacuum was caused by Obama arming the rebels to sending a link (for an opinion piece) that states the power vacuum was caused by not arming them soon enough. LOL, did you even read it or are you too stupid to comprehend it? There are no other choices. Game over, you've run out of options. Now, don't be a pussy and answer me: if you didn't vote for Trump, for whom did you vote?",
"> to stay away from super pacs and lobbyists since then \n\n\"Since then\"??? He took that money during the campaign last year. Are you claiming he made some major shift since then and has only recently started to claim he didn't take money from lobbyists?\n\n> Saying he took money from people who work at companies is a dumb thing to bash. \n\nTell that to all the people who bashed Booker and other Dems for it. \n\nIt's OK when Bernie does it though of course.",
"Similar problem with Kerry, but can't blame people for being more excited about Bush.",
"Trump is a successful president who has grown the economy and doesn't pretend to be on a diet he owns stock in. His physical fitness is amazing. \n\nThe empire woman who knew about sexual abuse in Hollywood refused to address it then claimed credit for Trump giving Bill Clintons victims a platform and voice. The best golfer ever elected to the office of president of the United states can look however he wants as he builds relationships with foreign and domestic political leaders.\nThat is exactly how Trump attacked a disabled reporter by the way.\n\n\n",
"Save room for the last one where Bubba is bending him over in the exercise yard at Leavenworth if he goes down for treason or Sing Sing if for money laundering.",
"And you are one of the sheeple who thinks we have a two party system. We are a solid corporatocracy. Our leaders on both sides of the same coin are bought and paid for. You must be either 1) a beneficiary of big govt or 2)\nvery naive.",
"That's an option, as I stated. It does have drawbacks though; Pax Americana since WWII does have its costs for the American taxpayer but in my opinion the world is better for it (and considering how peaceful it is as a whole this is easily supported). Allowing other regional hegemons (eg China, Russia) to fill the void without us there could be bad. China, for example, views all Han Chinese people as citizens and has threatened neighbors over supposed abuse of \"their\" citizens, and Russia is led by a man who dreams of the imperial tzarist good ol days. But it is an option, people just need to be aware of the consequences. ",
"There's actually a credible rumor that one of Bernie Sanders' chief strategists, Tad Devine, is under investigation as well for work he did with Paul Manafort in Ukraine to promote pro-Kremlin politicians (I shit you not).\n\nDevine was also rumored to be the main drive behind Bernie's decision to go negative against Hillary in May 2016, and Bernie's short-lived attempt to lobby the superdelegates to go against the popular vote result after he lost in California.",
"Oh God you say \"sheeple\" unironically.",
"Sarcasm is a great way to display your annoyance with an argument you are opposed to. Build through text it requires an absence of subtly and is generally misread. ",
"Bernies and Ers.",
"Please. I'm begging you. Stop lying.\n",
"2016 NSA Director Admiral Mike Rogers noted there were numerous FISA-702(17) unauthorized “About Queries” being conducted by the intelligence community. These are queries that did not have an underlying investigation to support their taking place.\n\nIn essence, government officials were searching the system for information “About” U.S. principals not under any legal investigation. On October 26th 2016 Admiral Rogers reported those unauthorized searches to the FISA court and shut down the “About Query” process permanently.\n\n",
"Respectfully launches must be confirmed by either Tillerson or Mattis, both of whom have a lot to lose in a full scale nuclear exchange, and while they may agree with the tone and direction of the administration neither of whom has a history of being a push-over. \n\nMattis's first act was to boldy say \"NO TORTURE!\", and to quietly say \"you need me more than I need you\", and Trump to his credit deferred to him.",
"Democrats arent seriously pushing her to run. She's never expressed serious interest in it either, to my knowledge. Its entirely a media\\twitter creation. ",
"Off the top of my head, one of my top picks is \"Carl's Jr... Fuck you, I'm eating\". It's the delivery of the line that makes, it, though...",
"\"Have you ever thought about donating all of your blood \"\n",
"In your dreams",
"\"Liberals\": People that disagree with you.",
"So I can't find any article confirming that so it will have to stay as an unconfirmed rumor. But I did find a somewhat sketchy quote from Tad in regard to Rick Gates who worked with Manafort. Of course, that proves little of anything. But it was interesting. It was deep in a times article about rick gates being under investigation",
"The good news for you is that half the country, world too, believes as you do, that big govt is good and benevolent and here to help us. The other half knows this is a fallacy and that big govt is a huge waste of our money and an over reach of their power. In the end, the people rise up against govt corruption - just like in Venezuela. ",
"The idea that Obama was one of the most intelligent or uniting presidents is why you don’t understand wy we got here. I’m definitely gonna sound like a partisan hack, but Obama presided over an era of absolute growing division and distrust among both the population and the people vs institutions. From a left-leaning perspective, Obama was a solid policy hawk, great at advertising the left internationally, and was decent enough to hold the executive branch for eight years, put in heavily left-leaning SCOTUS picks with Sotamayor and Kagan. He also really solidified the Democratic coalition as a singular unit based around him. He also furthered a bunch of social causes, but thise are of mixed value. \n\nThe problem with this, from a general perspective was that during all this, relations among race, religions, class, region, etc were growing strained. Obama inspired unity among the left, but was incredibly partisan and divisive as a result (don’t take this to mean Trump is a unifier, he’s just as bad in this regard) among those outside of the party coalition. He also had the unfortunate task of being the first president in the age of handheld internet, which I believe made the task of unification much more difficult. \n\nThe world was changing, and the stakes grew higher. Obama built up an amazing image, but things were unraveling by 2016, which is why the parties and ciuntry collectively lost it. Obama was a decent president from a liberal POV, but the shock isnt because we jumped off a political cliff, but rather Obama’s PR and your rose-tinted glasses prevwnting you from seeing the wteady decline under Obama. ",
"Oh god, can you anti science scum go away.\n\nThe name wasn't changed to climate change because morons like you don't understand that global warming means a large change in the climate in general, not simply warming (especially since you idiots think a snowball disproves scientific fact).\n\nNo you uneducated moron, temperature has been at record highs as a whole. Learn the fucking difference between climate and weather.\n\nHey dumbass, Gore isn't a scientist. Do you have a source saying he claimed California would be underwater already?\n\nLol dumbfuck, we know the Earth has natural cycles. If you anti science scum decided to educate yourself for the first time in your life, you'd know climate change os about humans accelerating the change on a massive level. Are you seriously that fucking dumb to think humans don't affect the environment?\n\nDo you know the fucking difference between 32 and 33 degrees F? Ice vs water. Of course the dumbass uses Fahrenheit too when the number is in Celsius, not F.\n\nCan you evil pigs learn fucking science before you scream that everyone else is uneducated because they decide to listen to scientists instead of Fox and Breitbart and Infowars?\n\nDon't care if I get flagged here. These evil and uneducated fucks don't give a damn about facts and reason so I'm speaking in their vile tone. ",
"The unintentional irony of your response is hilarious. Thank you for the chuckle, friend.",
"I do find it amazing that he warned us about Russia long before most people ever seriously thought it was a problem.",
"I don't, but lots of opinions, jokes, causes get put in cars. And thankfully this country still has enough free speech protection to alloe that type of expression.",
"Omfg you uneducated moron... A WALMART CASHIER DONATING TO SANDERS DOES NOT MAKE THEM A LOBBYIST.",
"It was an interesting article.",
"Thank God. Divine intervention. We have a reprieve from the insanity. Let’s hope it lasts!\n",
"Big corporations. They lobby for those tax cuts because they want to help the middle class.\n\nThat's a benevolent bunch that is looking out for the little guy.\n\nEA and Comcast are so misunderstood.",
"Yep, and brought to you by our illustrious rulers \non both sides.",
"Perjury.\n\nDestruction of federal property. Attempted destruction of federal property.\n\nObstruction of justice. Evidence tampering.\n\nFederal Records Act violations.\n\nTwo separate statutes of the Espionage Act. \n\nMoney laundering and fraud for the Clinton Foundation, which was used a slush fund to buy and sell influence while a Secretary of State. This might loosely fit the definition of treason.\n\nShe also clearly bought off and had the DNC primaries rigged. This is harder to prove outright, the rest listed above are already established factually from her actions and the findings of her testimonies and those of her aides to congress, in OIG and judicial watch depositions. They are *facts*. She hasn't been prosecuted because the Obama DOJ, AG Loretta Lynch, and Comey and what is looking like an increasing number of high ranking FBI members covered for her/them for some reason (money).",
"Lock them up to.\n\nBut if you believe in justice, than she must be prosecuted.",
"Oh for sure, I'm all about that free speech but I still think airing your political dirty laundry on your car is mad stupid.",
"It's mostly talking heads from MSNBC reacting on Twitter to the Senate intelligence committee confirming that they're looking into at least two other 2016 campaigns in addition to Trump's and Stein's. \n\nNo clear Russia link exists with Gary Johnson's campaign so we can probably rule that one out, and with Devine's former partner Manafort already indicted for his Ukraine activities, pundits are just kind of putting 2 and 2 together.",
"Eh, one side was willing to give 40% of tax cuts to 1% of the population, a population that is currently holding on to the most accumulated wealth in mankind history which results in 1.8 trillion dollars added to the DEFICIT, not the accumulated debt but the god damn annual defecit which will potentially lead to slashing of services that are predominantly used by the poor and middle class.",
"I hope nobody was injured. ",
"Makes sense. I've had the fortune of voting in 5 elections.\n\nI've voted Bush twice, Obama twice and Johnson (I know, but fuck em both)\n\nWhen Obama speaks I truly believe he cares. Whether or not his politics and actions agree with our sensibilities, he came from a place of wanting what is best for this country. That is all I can ask in this day and age \n\nObviously Trump is an unmitigated disaster. It was obvious before, during, and after the election. I'm shocked that anyone is shocked. It was all out there for the taking. Only the treasonist collusion with Russia has shocked me.\n\nEvery president since Carter tried for National health care. Obama came in (though not perfect legislation ) and got that in quick.. Continued to withdrawl from our wars and called the shot to kill the world's most wanted man.\n\nAdditionally enacting policies that helped guide us from the world's largest economic disaster in earth's history /loss of wealth.\n\nHistory will look kindly on Obama. Meanwhile we have to deal with a child playing \"who's dick is bigger\" with nuke codes on Twitter.\n\nI'll take the former everyday, all day, and twice on Sunday ",
"Oh of course...🙄",
"Gotcha. Here's the article I was referring to. The quote is kinda deep in there. https://nyti.ms/2tw0nW8",
"Because all the debt that both our countries have was incurred by good hard working politicians. Lining their pockets on their way to the white house. ",
"I just know the next leader, from whatever party, will have a shit ton of work to fix on many fronts.\n\nI do not envy that person, man probably woman.\n\nI don't even want Trump impeached because that means Pence comes in. He's as bat shit crazy as they come.\n\nA non believer of evolution and science, a believer of archaic and long dispelled ideologies and beliefs ",
"Trump would have destroyed Bernie. If once they were the only ones left, it would have been a hyper focus on how Bernie wants to raise taxes even higher for the middle class, where Trump would lower it. He would not have a chance with anyone over the age of 24.",
"Many people are anti-establishment, progressive, and not dumb enough to vote for Stein.",
"Under Obama, we paid a lot more taxes, lost our insurance and doctors and we now pay more for a watered down ins policy with 7500k\ndeductable before the crap ins comp pays a dime. We are small business owners and will pay less in taxes this year. What services are you referring?",
"and if you look at the issues, so did Hillary Clinton.",
"> You missed out making the US a global laughing stock\n\nOh no! (wipes tears away with tax check)",
"We already went over this. According to the article I cited from Time magazine, he accepted money from lobbyists. You can read it here again:\n\n> The Vermont Senator’s campaign **has taken money from lobbyists** as well, including the National Mining Association and the National Cannabis Association.\n\nHere's [another article](http://www.newsweek.com/sanders-hillary-clinton-democrats-bernie-lobbyists-cannabis-brotherhood-436080) on Bernie taking money from lobbyists. Maybe that will help you.\n\n",
"They told me if I voted for Hillary I'd have a criminal in the white house.\n\nThey were right.",
">lit\n\nAre you old enough to vote yet?",
"I never buy personal anecodotes on Reddit. Sorry. \n\nAnd I was reffering to programs like Medicaid and social security along with out public education system. Wealthy couldn't give two fucks about collecting social security or public schools.\n\nIf you geniunly believe that the ACA is disastrous for you even though the state you live in is probably more responsible for your rates(mind if you tell us what state you live in), the method in which Trump wants to dismantle it will result in people who actually use their heath care to see drastic hikes along with being capped off because their body decided to have cancer for too long.\n\nWhat Trump and the GOP want to sell you is a nice low premium number but they forget to tell you that the nice low premium you are paying for does jack shit when push comes to shove. You forget all the lives that the ACA literally saved or the amount of families saved from bankruptcy by allowing children diagnosed with cancer to not be capped off after a year of treatment. \n\nIt allows the elderly who actually use their health insurance to actually use it extensively without being capped. \n\nAlso, I doubt the 800 dollar tax penalty harms familes as much as a family or even a healthy single dude playing chicken with the ER room and hoping no catastrophic injuries or illnesses such as cancer occur which can easily rack up a 6 figure bill. \n\nDid you know that before the ACA, the number one reason a American family files for bankruptcy was due to unpaid out of pocket medical costs? Is it an coincidence that Americans filing for bankruptcy fell at a record low since the ACA was fully implemented? \n\nSure, love Trump and his desire to lower your premium. Just understand that now you are paying way less for a worthless product when shit hits the fan. He's fooling you.",
"Couldn't be because anything remotely right wing gets downvoted into the ground, definitely not.",
"I like how you twist thongs. You said this happened last year. This did not happen last year. ",
"*Regression",
"It depends on the time that you look at the issues on where Hillary stood. Also depends on how much money you offer her. ",
"Bush I was criticised for being boring as well",
"> Bernie lost both the superdelates' vote and the popular vote. \n\nAnd there's a good argument to be made for Bernie having lost the popular vote *because* of the superdelegates. The media had him \"losing\" before he had a chance to compete, all because of the superdelegate's \"votes\" giving Clinton a perceptably insurmountable lead right from the start.\n\nThe best way to get people to do something is to [convince them everyone else is doing it.](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tax-behavior/behavioral-economics-taps-power-of-persuasion-for-tax-compliance-idUSBRE89S0DD20121029) If you convince everyone that everyone is already voting for Clinton over Bernie, everyone else will vote for Clinton over Bernie. ",
"Hopefully \"It Still Berns\" will be added in a couple years. ",
"That's why the \"Russians stole the election\" narrative doesn't work. If both Hillary and Trump spend billions between them on advertising (including paying for reddit comments via PACs), how does a few million into russian memes make much difference?",
"This is r/pics, not r/politics. He could post something non-political. There are tons of other non-political subreddits he could post to. But making dumb lists to complain about other peoples' content is much easier I suppose. ",
"Not american, just a fly on the wall on the other side of the world leaving my own two sense.\n\n~~As opposed to just getting the white house to several billion dollar into each politician's personal resorts?~~",
"No worries. SS is never going away, medicaid needs reducing due to major fraud, and our dumbed down pathetic, undisciplined schools will never improve, no matter who is President.\nIf you want your child educated, not indoctrinated, you must do it yourself. ",
"in hind sight, she had a decent *platform*, this platform was just completely overshadowed by *RUNNING AGAINST MAN CHILD TRUMP*. The problem was Democrats underestimating just how much stupid brainwashed people *LOVED* a guy, despite the fact that he is a transparent idiot, because he calls out their Fox News talking points which have no relevance. All the time.\n\nGo look at those SNL skits following Clinton-Trump \"debates\", they show you \"our\" mindset to a T. If you are a liberal or moderate, you saw Trump looking like a complete, rambling buffoon. So it's kind of hard to focus on anything else.\n\nHow do you focus on the intricacies of foreign trade or economy, when your opponent is eating paste and wet his pants? She actually had a good platform, but reality TV *won*. \n\nI *hated* her as a candidate. I was so pissed off at the DNC, CNN (who also got Trump plenty of votes, the bastards), etc... Casting that Clinton vote was the single hardest vote I've ever made. But in hindsight, it should not have been that hard. Even as a pretty liberal person at this time in my life, the decades of anti clinton smearing had gotten to me.",
"You either fell hard for propaganda, or you took part in it, or both. We had a huge problem with Russian and alt-right concern trolls on Reddit and everywhere on social media. One of their key tactics is to accuse their opponents of the crimes they're commiting. So they called anyone who said anything positive about Hillary a CTR shill. Meanwhile they sewed division on the left and peddled in conspiracy theories.",
"Hey, keep focusing on Trump rather than proposing policy and talking about ideology. It will just help us win again in 2020. I don't mind if you give up because you can't get every policy through congress.",
"Public school educated me and I am graduating this summer with a mechanical engineering degree. \n\nSo does that make my engineering degree useless or does that mean public education can be useful when you are raised in the right school district and take advantage of what tools you have available such as taking challenging AP classes?\n\nProper funding can make more school districts like the one I was raised in.\n\nMy parents were Asian. That means they specifically sought out a house to raise me in that was in a top tier school district.",
"You’re massively downplaying the effect that Russian interference had on voters. It wasn’t just “a few memes”, it was a propaganda campaign that had a dedicated team of people working inside the Kremlin. Americans are easily swayed by what they see on social media. It’s not really hard to believe that the Russians were able to sway an election because of that. ",
"I agree it's really hard to have any kind of bipartisan discussion. Make a reasonable point and you get downvoted to -20 with 3 people throwing ad-hominems at you (and no actual response).",
"She won the primary by winning 4 million more votes in a landslide. There was nothing unethical about it. Stop parroting propaganda.",
"Have you seriously never heard of her Pied Piper strategy? Just Google it for fucksake.",
"I would claim part of Bernie's problem was that many of his followers were simply too young to vote. So he appeared to have a lot of electoral support online but a fair chunk of them were not eligible.\n\nHaven't seen stats on it though and happy to be shown otherwise. The stat I more interested in is how many flipped to Trump rather than settling for Hillary. I've seen plenty Bernie supporters claim they did and I would never have predicted that. But would like to see actual data on it rather than anecdotes.",
"I should've said during the 2016 campaign. Point being, this is recent.\n\nYou trying to spin it that this is something from Bernie's ancient history is hilarious though. \n\nlol\n\nWhy don't you scream some more and call me names? \n\nhahahaa\n\n",
"If you’re referring to her vote for the Iraq war (which Bernie bros LOVE to bring up), you need to get over it. It’s in the past, and she’s already apologized several times for it. ",
"It is clear for sure that Trump is not doing good for his party. He really is only helping the Democratic Party, as you mentioned. I don’t agree that it is needed, as I’m not a Democrat, but I do agree that Trump is incredibly unsuited for the job. If I don’t have prior knowledge about what’s being said, I absolutely cringe whenever I hear him talk because I don’t know what he’s gonna say. Like with his tweets, especially the “I’m like, really smart..” tweet. Really cringeworthy stuff.",
"It depends on the time that you look at the issues on where ~~Hillary~~ Bernie stood. Also depends on how much money you offer ~~her~~ him.",
"Trump did win...",
"\"the media\" is extremely broad.\n\nIf your idea of \"the media\" is relegated to the 24 hour news networks, you don't have a very good relationship with the media.\n\nTrump is a juggernaut of negativity that's kinda hard not to report on. The problem is that we're on overload simply because almost every aspect of Trump as a person and as a president is completely insane.\n\nIf Obama, during one *single* day of his presidency, tweeted like Trump did, he would have been impeached by the majority republicans within a short amount of time. If Obama, one *single* time attacked the free press like Trump, it would be the end of our democracy as we know it, according to Fox News and the GOP. But we have a guy who makes an absolute buffoon of power grabbing, insult spewing, full on incompetence almost every single day in office. So we're overloaded. We say \"why are you only covering all this little shit.\" and the answer is that all the \"little shit\" that trump does, would be HUGE SHIT under normal presidents. His smallest, single day headline making tantrums would garner a years worth of media in a normal time frame. This isn't normal. It's not \"the media's\" fault, it's Trumps and our normalizing of his behavior.\n\nPS: the \"R U S S I A N S\" scandal is quite possibly the biggest political scandal since Watergate. It's potentially *BIGGER* than Watergate due to the fact that it revolves around a foreign almost-enemy infiltrating our government, instead of simply Republicans stealing shit.\n\nIf 1% of what we know so far happened under a democrat, the majority GOP would be halfway to impeachment right now.",
"1. I never brought up Trump and frankly you seem just like some of family which means you don't give a damn about the facts. Though I will give you one about Trump himself given that he can't get anything passed in Congress.\n\n2. Trump has donated every cent of his pay as President to the National Park Service and to education so far. Even Poltifact acknowledges that he has been doing a good job on he campaign promise.",
"A smart strategy for the DNC would be to run someone who is half-liberal and half-socialist (speaking roughly). I think they saw Bernie as a liability because he was pushing too far left, and they thought the public would be too repulsed to go hear him. Now they know better.",
"/s?",
"Trump is not fooling me, Obama fooled me with \n\"your premiums will go down and you can keep your doctor.\" Those of us that dont qualify for a subsidy are paying through the roof for our ins. and Congress doesnt give a shit bc they get theirs for free at our expense- for life. And I'm in NC where most ins comp left after ocare was installed and now bcbs has a monopoly.\nTrump would like universal care, as would I, but \neveryone would have to pay something in- unlike now where half the country gets it for free on the backs of those of us paying skyrocketing premiums and taxes. ",
"My mom always told me to never trust the intelligence of someone who has the term 'sheeple' in their vocabulary.",
"I'm a white guy living in Idaho, currently employed and out of High School since May of 2017. Emplyed as an Clerk at an Albertsons, nothing has changed for really anyone since Trump has entered office besides some of us being optimistic.",
"I didn't know the DNC voted against Hillary to the tune of millions.",
"I need you to edit your comment so I can understand it.",
"Maybe your mom, how old are you, is one of them. Ever heard of herd mentality? Kinda like group think here on Reddit?",
"If you can't understand it you must not be paying taxes or for health ins. What exactly needs editing? Or are you being sarc?",
"Look up the term 'sheeple'.\n\nYour self awareness is severely lacking.",
"I love propaganda nowadays ",
"It's dif to und sentences whe you don com yo words.",
"I would take Romney, and I'm a resolute berner\n",
"If it is ironic please give some examples. ",
"> \"should we have healthcare or let's people die on the street\"\n\nAt least that would be honest. Instead they hide behind government wastefulness and freemarkets, but someone has to pay for those who can't.",
"Ni it was nice during the 2016 campaign. Your 2nd link, open secrets, makes that clear. ",
"Thing is, my phrase makes sense. Sand has fought for the same thing.\n\nHillary can't even decide if she is conservative, centrist, or progressive as she described herself as all 3 depend on how wealthy her audience is. ",
"Nah, not really. ",
"No, I'm just on a leftest thread where everyone is of the same leftest opinion. It does get rather boring for those of us who have differing opinions, but I get bored commenting to those that share my own opinions as well. Every now and then, someone will say, \"wow, I never thought of that, or maybe there is another way of thinking about this subject\", but mostly people just go along with the group afraid to question or have a different opinion.",
">Every now and then, someone will say, \"wow, I never thought of that, or maybe there is another way of thinking about this subject\", but mostly people just go along with the group afraid to question or have a different opinion.\n\nWell if you provide me with some nuanced information on something I don't understand, maybe I would say it but I haven't seen anything from you that would merit 'nuanced information'.",
"It's 1:15 here and you seem a little snarky. Let's \nsee- ins is for insurance, comp is company, bc is because. I'll have to reread my post to see what else you struggled with.",
"Dude, it's not lying to point out that the Democrats are lying about Trump and have been for more than a year.",
"Nor I from you. So, why do you keep commenting?",
"No, most of those sources have discredited themselves by publishing lies. ",
"Yeah haha, I suppose I got a bit to passionate thinking about redrawing district lines without the party I dislike the most in total control this time around. Hopefully everyone regardless of where they stand politically learns from his presidency.",
"I mean sure, you can justify ANYTHING, if you just say \"those experts aren't experts, or are lying.\"\n\nLet's be honest: There is no \"evidence\" that would convince you, because WHATEVER it was, you would just say \"that photo is doctored\", or \"he didn't type that\", or \"that voice recording is photoshopped\", or \"they only said that under duress\", or whatever.\n\nIf you've decided not to trust evidence you don't like, then it's trivial to come up with some contrived reason why somehow none of it is valid.\n\nHave fun with that. The rest of us will be over here having a reality-based conversation. Wave when you're ready to join us.",
"Actually I think I have. \n\nI think you didn't know that the number one reason that American families filed for bankruptcy before the ACA was because of out of pocket medical expenses. \n\nI think you didn't know that in your state, North Carolina, your governor DENIED ACA federal expansion money due to political partisan reasons which is vital to making the ACA work. \n\nCoincidentally, in states that did accept the expansion such as mine(Massachusetts), we do see affordable premiums that actually have worthwhile coverage. \n\nYou also are so out of the loop to understand the term 'sheeple' is something that both the left and right make fun of because it was a known term used by angsty teenagers who thought they had it all figured out back in the 2000s. \n\nSee, some nuance.. I'm sure you didn't know any of that.\n\nThis is where you say : \"never thought of that, or maybe there is another way of thinking about this subject\".",
"Feel the Johnson!",
"Give up on the Trump hate already /r/pics mods, let whoever is paying you know their plan to obnoxiously spam Reddit is back firing horrifically",
"He's being blackmailed into helping the economy and finally taking steps provide a strong border and put ourselves first like any self respecting nation should? And don't give me the Reddit narrative about only the rich, any grown adult with a career (read not high school retail jobs in your 30s) is benefiting right now.",
">I mean sure, you can justify ANYTHING, if you just say \"those experts aren't experts, or are lying.\"\n\nThey've been caught lying multiple times and won't show us any evidence of what they allege. Why should I trust them now.\n\n>Let's be honest: There is no \"evidence\" that would convince you\n\nWrong. Server logs could convince me. Any documented negotiations would convince me. \n\n>Have fun with that. The rest of us will be over here having a reality-based conversation.\n\nYour \"reality-based conversation\", which is founded on a dossier that the Democrats paid a foreign agent to make up? The one founded on a series of baseless allegations, most of which have already been proven false?\n\n",
"> Can we stop pretending democrats are actually embracing her as a serious consideration\n\nThe Republicans didn't embrace Trump as a serious candidate either.",
"Weird how he won the primary then.",
"Similar to the logic that I end up using for boyfriends ",
"There’s been a lot of clickbait stories on a lot of websites that have made a lot of money off of “BOMBSHELL“ Russian allegations that have ultimately come up empty. It’s time to focus on a legitimate candidate for 2020 or Trump will be President again and the circus continues... ",
"The problem as I've seen it was just that. Clinton thought it was her turn, then Obama showed up and she had to wait. Last time around the DNC was making damn sure some fucking nobody who could possibly win the election for them wouldn't come along and steal Clinton's nomination…",
"A lot of effort went into that apostrophe.",
"Because there is literally no proof of the russia connection and there never has been. It's simply a scapegoat because the reality of being so out of touch that the democrats managed to lose to a reality star with zero experience is too much to bare. \n\nWhat's real funny now is to see these accused sexual predators in hollywood being given the benefit of the doubt, when our own president has just as much \"evidence\" tied to him yet he is treated as if he is condemned ",
"it just might not be as satirical as it was for everyone else pre Trump",
"Could have guessed you were from lib NE.\nlol. And, no, you are wrong on many points.\nHowever, I will have to address them tomorrow\nas some of us have to get some sleep. Btw, you sound like a CNN talking head with the above paragraphs.",
"Yea but I think we can all agree Trump has really stepped it up a few notches. ",
"So Newsweek is lying?\n\n[The Newsweek article](http://www.newsweek.com/sanders-hillary-clinton-democrats-bernie-lobbyists-cannabis-brotherhood-436080) makes it very clear that it was during the 2016 campaign. ",
"It is what you have? Thought so.",
">Your \"reality-based conversation\", which is founded on a dossier that the Democrats paid a foreign agent to make up? The one founded on a series of baseless allegations, most of which have already been proven false?\n\nOh whoops! Your talking point has become outdated! That was one of the gems hidden in the [Senate Hearings on the dossier, released this week.](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/us/politics/feinstein-fusion-gps-glenn-simpson-transcript.html) - Turns out the FBI already HAD an investigation going when they got the dossier. The dossier just confirmed a bunch of what they already KNEW, from a whistleblower inside of the trump campaign. (Smart money is on Papadopalous.)\n\nHere, I even pulled out the relevant bit for you :\n\n>Q. You said that he told you of the meeting 19 with the FBI in Rome in mid or late September, that he \"gave them a full briefing\"?\n\n>A. A debrief I think is what he probably said, they had debriefed him. I don't remember him articulating the specifics of that. You know, my understanding was that they would have gotten into who his sources were, how he knew certain things, and, you know, other details based on their own intelligence. Essentially what he told me was they had other intelligence about this matter from an internal Trump campaign source and that -- that they -- my understanding was that they believed Chris at this point -- that **they believed Chris's information might be credible because they had other intelligence that indicated the same thing and one of those pieces of intelligence was a human source from inside the Trump organization.**\n\nSo yeah. Might want to update the talking points.\n\n(Also, let's not forget that the dossier was commissioned by the [Washington Free Beacon](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/us/politics/trump-dossier-paul-singer.html), a conservative website. I know this fact is inconvenient to the whole \"dems made a hit-piece and peddled it to the FBI\", but there it is. Truth is inconvenient sometimes.)",
"Oh, and as far as sheeple goes, most Redditers are angsty teenagers and twenty-somethings who think they've figured it out, you included.",
"Guess 3 times",
"One could argue that, but they’d have to be a bit ignorant of McGovern, Kucinich and the rest of the merrymen of the left. \n\n\nHillary beat Sanders by over 4 million votes. The fact that her supporters bought less into political savior complexes says nothing of her competence as a President. \n\n\nThere are plenty of Democrats who, while preferring Sanders to Trump, would prefer any generic D over a man who believes open borders and free trade leads to lower wages and employment, and will use a casualty of racial tensions in this country (Detroit) as “proof” that NAFTA destroys livelihoods. Trump appreciates that. \n\n\nI really hope Sanders isn’t selfish enough to run again in 2020. \n\n\nEdit: you’re in high school; you don’t “vote D.”",
"It's not laughable. It's disappointing that our options for president were a criminal and a criminal. ",
"I've served my four years in the hell hole known as Jacksonville, NC as a Marine grunt. \n\nI prefer Massachusetts. \n\nBetter schools, better infrastructure, more educated people.",
"Be careful, a moron drives that car.",
"Yet here I am with the nuance while you are the ones with the platitides of \"you think you have it all figured out\".\n\nI don't know why me being in my twenties has any bearing on the subject matter.",
"Trust me when I say N Carolina doesn't miss you. You are where you belong.\n",
"Ironic because I'm pretty confident the North Carolina economy would rather have another engineer added to their population rather than whatever the fuck you are.\n\n\nAnd I find it hilarous you won't even try to attempt to defend costal North Carolina and the bum hole it is. \n\nCharlotte and Chapel Hill area are pretty cool though. \n\nFor some reason, I'm assuming you aren't the type that likes people from Durham or Chapel Hill.",
"Ah so he took $100 to $500 from labor leaders and marijuana activists whomever he didn't communicate with. Actually not as bad as it sounds.\n\nYou made it seem like he got tens of thousands from groups wanting to influence him directly and in person. ",
"so a libetard?",
"No, it just comes through in your writing and the certainty of your own opinions being the only right ones. ",
">What it has devolved into is if you are either a Republican or Democrat and that the opposing side is a cancer spreading rapidly.\n\nI think it's more like watching the fungus and the mold fight over space on a carpet that was left in the rain. But I have to admit one side seems comically, [Poe's Law](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law) level worse sometimes.\n\n> We also as a society have the option to just say no to the sewerage they offer us as candidated.\n\nI mean, until they just rig the primaries anyways. Since the candidate basically has financial control over the DNC.",
"The meeting was for dirt on Clinton to throw the election you fucking cuck. Name one economic policy enacted by Trump that benefited the stock market. Russian isn't interested in our immigration policy, pay attention outside of your fascist propaganda.",
"Ironically, a lot of counties were closing down some polling locations, meaning that there was a much longer wait and it probably would take four hours to vote.",
"What do you think your writing conveys to a third party independent viewer?",
"I mean that was stupid as shit, Russia is not the other big kid on the block, China is. Russia is the old big bully that got in a bad wreck that is trying to regain its rep. It isn't a physical force and won't ever be but it is incredibly good at pretending it is. It also has amazing skills of influence and can effectively psychologically destroy it's enemies. ",
"You mean posting Facebook memes? Last time I checked all the voting machines were secure, and the left always says voter fraud isn't an issue. Unless Russia held a gun to several million people's heads in key swing States then I don't see how they did anything that America doesn't do in every election. No shit Putin likes Trump, Hillary tried to fuck him at every turn. ",
"Yeah, I'm benefiting like crazy (not being sarcastic). I just believe that the richest country in the world should be able to afford CHIP, and would happily pay more in taxes for a better society. For border security, wasn't our close ally Mexico supposed to pay for the wall? How's that working out?",
"I don't see many of the predators being given the benefit of the doubt tbh. \nAlso there's an ongoing investigation on the Russia situation so we can't say anything for sure yet. ",
"Lol. Sorry to have gotten your dander up there.\nA marine and an engineer. Impressive. I just have a lowly M.Ed., with a specialty in exceptional children. Although, I became frustrated with the bureaucracy side of things and quit to pursue more lucrative interests. ",
"You can keep trying to spin it that they weren't trying to influence him, but he took the money. And he took it from corporate executives. \n\nSure you can say they weren't trying to influence him, but you could say that about every political donation.",
"Oh please you don't think the Clinton machine had fingers in every inch of the globe searching for dirt on every political opponent those two ever faced. Tax break is already boosting confidence, and affecting consumers positively. I'm not a fascist you divisive partisan hack, learn the definition. Fascism is closer to the lefts thought policing identity politics if anything",
"He decided the best course of action was to taunt the leader of North Korea by calling him Rocketman, and proceeding to \"compare the size of his big red button.\" \n\nIt's not like he's not trying to get everyone blown up. He just hasn't quite succeeded yet.",
"Apparently the electoral college didn't want the politician with the last election, they wanted the clown.",
"Idk, maybe I do come across as a know it all. I do think with maturity some of my opinions have changed over the years. I used to be a lot more conservative, but working with inner city kids and being married to a middle easterner has changed a lot of how I view the world.",
"At this point, I have the impression many elections are more a 'how can we kick the current politicians in the family jewels'. Often turns out it was not the best move afterwards but nobody said elections are a purely rational thing.",
"Yo same",
"Their government is our ally, their random desperate citizens who illegally enter the country aren't. It isn't our job to Foster people who don't adhere to our laws. They are working on CHIP funding already. Oh and you do know you can pay more in taxes without being forced too. That's the problem you wanna shame anyone who holds onto their hard earned money as selfiah, but when someone tells you to throw yours on the table you start sweating.",
"I think your line of work is very important to the future of this country so I'm not going to put it down. That would be highly irresponsible and silly of me. Childhood educators deserve more respect than they receive. \n\nAnyways I forgot the premise of the initial conversation so I'll just end it here for now. \n\nI wish we could have debated in more pleasant terms.",
"I liked to view it as criminal via malice vs criminal via blatant incompetence. ",
"Russia still isn't the biggest geopolitical **threat**(key word, don't know why you felt the need to change it). China is and will continue to be as their economical and diplomatic influence grows. ",
"OMG I'm rewatching right now, they literally talk about a giant corporation buying up the FCC...",
"Me, too.",
"No worries, though. All the best to you.",
"https://i.imgur.com/wVdS8yk.jpg",
"And of course it was only after 1776 that any native Americans were harmed",
"\"The Republicans\" in my post was obviously referencing the party as an organization and not its members and supporters.",
"I'm sure it makes sense, to you.",
"In what way have they \"come up empty\"?\n\nThis isn't an episode of Law and Order; this shit can take years of investigation.",
"That's a great insight by Chris Rock, but... wouldn't it be even greater if Americans cared about something more important than charisma when choosing their leaders?",
"Technically, yes. I use \"winning\" because there are a large amount of people who feel he didn't win if the system wasn't broken. I say broken because, well, he didn't have the majority vote - he had subsections worth more points that added up to a win. It's abusable and the fact that previous elections have worked the same way doesn't make it any less broken.\n\nOf course that's just one argument.\n\nPerhaps the growth of interest in the election process, and a cry for things to work properly, will bring about change in the system.. but it'll likely take decades of protests and other things (preferably humane, ethical, and legal things) to make the change happen.\n\nSo.. yeah.. with a broken system he won. It has people angry and afraid. We can't really do anything about it now (nothing short of impeachment or assassination, which I don't condone.. and then Pence just takes his place, who really isn't much better), but we can hope that enough intelligent people show up for the 2020 election to make sure he doesn't get voted in for another four years. :)",
"Any Sanders supporter who listens to comments like this is getting played hard by Trump supporters.",
"[She's also your typical compulsive liar career-politician.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7syNUYAXHwo)",
"I think Trump has some malice but he's also incompetent. He would be even more terrifying and effective if he wasn't such a moron. ",
"I’m not going to downvote you because I agree with your underlying point. However, Trump has created a huge divergence from typical political engagement. He signals the country through ridiculous tweets... Mainly though, I think you’re not giving enough credit to a lot of suspicious shit trump and co have done with regard to Russia. I would argue that there is more and more proof that his campaign was involved with Russia regarding the release of Clinton/DNC emails. From what we know, this was capped off by a meeting with Russian Oligarchs’ prime US based lawyer on the pretenses of releasing Clinton’s Emails... which were released shortly afterward. I mean... connect the dots. Shit is shady, so is your underlying point really apples to apples when we’re talking about trump? ",
">To be fair. Your civic duty is to educate yourself in regards to the candidates.\n\nTrue, and here in California I spend pretty much the entire weekend before each Election Day researching... our ballot initiatives and referenda. They're complicated. They're also generally a lot more impersonal and objective. When I reach a decision on a ballot initiative, I generally feel a sense of accomplishment. I feel like I had a chance to have a say on something important.\n\nCandidates for local offices are generally relative unknowns. I tend to spend some time researching them as well. But since candidates are people and not mere issues, we're starting to get into the disappointment zone. Even \"my team\" has slimeballs. When asked to choose between politicians rather than issues, I frequently feel like I have multiple poor choices, and I'm just trying to minimize the future damage.\n\nI would LIKE to think that one day we will have an election where the candidates for higher office are deserving of any kind of thought. It hasn't happened in my lifetime. It doesn't take long to figure them out, because they already have long track records. And I never vote on the hope of a promise being fulfilled unless the candidate has already shown a willingness to fight for the promise. I've been voting third-party for President since 1996.",
"...Open borders and free trade do lead to lower wages, though? Cheaper and more available goods, yes, but also lower wages.",
"Should I vote for the celebrity who is going to accidentally fuck me over or the politician who is knowingly and intentionally going to fuck me over? Politics is just one big ass blast.",
"> Clinton didn't run any negative ads against him\n\nShe didn't have to, Debbie Wasserman Shultz and the superdelegates were taking care of that for her.",
"Muhh Russia!! Lol can’t believe these mocking bird idiots still believe Russia has anything to do with Trump winning. Fucking salty mindless alt left cunts.",
"Oprah, better. ",
"I saw both of them for the first time within a week of each other (accidental). The garbage mountains, people being run by computers and unable to do things for themselves, it was just uncanny. Except wall-e people weren't dumb,,,,, just over dependent which numbed thinking. ",
"> Democrats have steadily moved to the center\n\nWhat makes you say this? What leftist positions have they moved away from?",
"He's gonna do it alll in three days ",
">Turns out the FBI already HAD an investigation going when they got the dossier. \n\nAccording to them. This is the organization that has lied to us repeatedly.\n\n>So yeah. Might want to update the talking points.\n\nFacts aren't \"talking points\". Also, this is meaningless, I don't really care what they believed. I want evidence.\n\n>(Also, let's not forget that the dossier was commissioned by the Washington Free Beacon\n\nThen why did the Democrats pay $12 million for it?\n\n",
"Yes really. You being ignorant of what happened during the election doesn't mean I'm wrong. It means you're ignorant.",
"The Democrats would be considered a right-wing party in basically any European country.",
"You sorta went off the rail of the conversation there...\n\nAnd I wouldn't exactly call confessions of guilt (Michael Flynn) and a full-blown investigation \"literally no evidence\". We already know there was collusion, it's just a matter of it was criminal for the president. Have you even been paying attention to the news?\n\nAlso, weird bringing up the Hollywood thing. Are you suggesting that Trump should just get the benefit of the doubt because he happens to be president? Not that I really care, since that's a conversation for an entirely different thread.",
"Or just make it Election Week",
"It's easy to \"connect the dots\" when every news network is running nonstop stories alluding to it. When all the news you expose yourself to are conspiracy theorists, the mentality rubs off. What you have to think about is how Trump and friends would behave if they were innocent and this were just a coordinated DNC hit job. They're cooperating with investigators to a fault, getting some in trouble for simple mistakes. If they had more sense, they'd do what Hillary and co. did, and stonewall investigators, destroy evidence, pull the fifth at every chance, and cut immunity deals. Instead, they're letting the FBI have a field day investigating basically their entire lives for a hint of criminal activity anywhere, and people are still saying \"yeah, but they feel guilty, just think about it\".",
"Oh the radical centrist \"I assume both sides are bad because I can't be bothered to do the actual leg work to research policies\" has shown up.",
"For a time. A few generations. But wealth won't insulate when the army is starving and the masses at that gates come. ",
"\"Excuse criminals because what about the other criminals!?!?!\" Lol",
"I like how dude clearly had to clean his window so he could make his sticker meme, but he wasn’t invested enough in the joke to clean the entire window.",
"Oprah is famously out of touch, and I don't want another fake president candidate telling me to 'pokemon go to the polls' again.",
"They are both enormously under qualified, but Oprah made her fortune Trump didn't. She has better business persona IMHO even though Trump is 7 billion dollars richer.",
"Like, really stable",
"Can't be worse than Trump.",
"Maybe this is just a phase America needs to go through. Or maybe it's the future, and true leaders and policy makers need to pledge their service to celebrities and get indirectly elected to lead through those celebrities. ",
"Being aggressive did help Trump beat Hillary and get elected actually. His approval rating actually went *up* after the leaked tape of him saying he grabs women by the pussy and that the women let him because he is famous.",
"LUL total loser in all ways...",
"*DAE PUTIN DID DRUNPF?*",
"I miss creepshots",
"He would have beaten Bernie, too.",
"Mostly because you didn't address anything I actually said, which was about tribalism in America, and you then responded by pointing out how big America's economy is. Which is an immediate tribal response to criticism; find the thing you have biggest and wave it in everyone's face. It's fucking hilarious, bro, how in refuting my claim you perfectly proved it. So much so I wasn't at first sure if you were just trolling and having a laugh, or serious. It's the latter, which makes it more funny to me.\n\n\n\n((This is a more in-depth explanation, but because it's long I thought I'd add it beneath so feel free not to bother reading it, it's basically just clarification)):\nAs a note, friend: I am not saying all of America is shit. I like America, I like every American I have ever personally met. America is great. But if you can't understand it has intense issues with tribalism, then I am not sure what to say... For example: if America does something shit, look at who America blames - it's never America; it's democrats, or republicans, or this state, or that state, or left wingers, or alt-right wingers, or people who voted Trump, or Hillary supporters, or this group, or that group, or here, or there. Everyone immediately puts themselves into groups in America. Both as a way of escaping guilt for the shit things America does around the world, and as a way to form little tribes where you can all join up together and tell each other you're right. Other countries do it too!, for sure. But America does it all the fucking time. I find it hilarious. But don't think that means I think every part of America is shit. I don't. I really don't. But your tribal response to a criticism about one part of American culture is to think I am attacking all of America, just like if I say one thing that may come across as anti-liberal, liberals will think every one of my views is right wing, or if I think the democrats are doing one thing right, then every republican will think all I do is support democrats etc. Everything is black and white insofar as views and ideals are concerned in America, that's why you guys have so many issues right now, in my opinion.",
"ehhh trump is allegedly richer but it’s highly doubtful considering all he lies about. Oprah is by far the more qualified of the two.",
"That's a wrap guys, she apologized for the Iraq war, no biggie.",
"Reddit's core userbase is 18-25 year old white liberals and they in no way represent the views of the general public.",
"Hitler and Mussolini were both considered very charismatic. Same as Castro, Lenin etc. All of them rose to power mostly through their charisma. \n\nTruman/Eisenhower, Chamberlain/Churchill and de Gaulle were considered not overly charismatic but smart, determined and capable leaders.\n\nSomewhere in between would be de Lattre de Tassigny as a capable leader with charisma.\n\nGuess which ones ruined their countries because their leadership skills were built on \"well... people let me\" reasons and which ones made sure their countries pulled through the darkest hours of modern history through sweat, tears and blood. ",
"boo hoo muh popular vote why can't three cities decide every election for the entire country waaaah ;(",
"Which is fucking terrifying to think about",
"Obamacare was basically the GOP position 20 years ago",
"Japan is not that great. Look in Europe. Everyone in Scandinavia speaks English and the nature is well preserved and beautiful. ",
"Oh I don’t doubt that, I’m just saying that the person i’m replying to who is insinuating trump “blames hillary” for his “losses” is wrong because he didn’t lose. He keeps on winning. And Hillary is to blame for her loss, she was a shite candidate, and couldn’t win anyway. ",
"Because Americans are brainwashed by their tv sets.",
"I think we will all settle for boring leaders from now on",
"DNC runs zero elections. This fundamental error in nearly every post on the subject here on reddit shows why you all don’t know what the fuck you are talking about. ",
"~~Diet~~ Coke ~~s~~",
"Yes he's donated every cent to the NPS and Education, but that's after he gutted their budgets by several million. It's a nice gesture yes but It'd mean more if he didn't pull away a good percentage their already small funding.",
"As the best boss I've ever had told me at dinner one time:\n\n\"Violence is ALWAYS an answer. You should do your absolute best to never have to use it, but never be left in the cold when you're forced to.\"",
"Nah, I got the day off, as in didn't have to work that day. I'm OK with that, I don't need to be paid to vote.\n\nBrown or any other color than white is so easy. If your boss is breaking the law by not allowing you to vote, just play your race card. \"so, wtf? I can't do it cause I'm not white?\" If your manager's white that is, you just made his asshole pucker.\n\nIts more me being like, hey, \"I'm going to vote on such and such day.( Probably a couple days out) If you don't want to pay me the federally mandated 3 hours, don't make me work that day, or i'm going in the morning, so I can work that night.\"\n\nIf people can't talk to their boss like this, they should talk to a higher boss, or find a new job. Life's too short to be held back by idiots.\n\nEdit: was 1/2 awake when wrote this, and wouldn't really suggest playing a race card at work, but have also had it done to me when I was in management, asshole puckered. Then I remembered I was in the right about what I was doing and wasn't being racist, just getting them to do their job. Had it been about voting, you're damn fucking right I would've let him leave right then and there.\n\nEdit2: reread what you bolded. I feel it's more getting scheduling right to not fuck over the company, than asking for permission. I mean, the world doesn't stop turning because the US has to vote again. I'm not against a holiday for it, but can see why it hasn't happened. ",
"Oh yes, please tell me how much access a $100 online donation buys. I donated more than that!\n\nLemme guess, Trumper? ",
"At least he has governator status.",
"When Trump was mounting a campaign ~~to sell a book he \"wrote\"~~ for the 2000 Reform Party nomination, he named Oprah as his preferred running mate should he be selected as the party's candidate.",
"Doin' gods work son.",
"I feel like I would've rather had McCain then Obama. Obama's first term was pretty weak. His last term was where I felt he did a pretty great job. I wasn't originally a huge fan of his presidency but he redeemed himself for the most part. Romney was too crazy with the stupid social policies. At least McCain was more focused on economic and defense policies. \n\nThen again, aside from an agressive anti-illegal immigration platform so is Trump",
"Nope, because its true. Hillary changes her message daily.\n\nSanders does not. ",
"If you say so.",
" Get over it you anti left troll. No one wants your war mongering oligarch with a disgusting political record such as Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Honduras, Patriot Act, bankruptcy bill, drug wars, private prisons, fracking, etc.\n\nNow run back to ESS where you anti left privileged trolls will claim victory over nothing. ",
"No, I know both sides are bad because the two party system is tucked and counter logical. The people I’ve voted for have no chance of winning and most people with a chance of winning are very bad. Just because I don’t agree with what you think are good policies doesn’t mean I haven’t researched them. ",
">Get over it you anti left troll\n\nI disagree with you, therefore I'm a troll.\n\n>anti left **privileged**\n\nA Sanders supporter calling someone else privileged, (or as Bernie would say, an \"Ordinary American\") LOL\n\n\nalso, did you really downvote a post in my profile? **fucking** LOL",
"It's easier to form an opinion on a person's qualifications based on their personality. It takes time and effort to research complex issues and compare each candidate's position. \n\nVoting for President has basically become a high school popularity contest. ",
"> When the tax bill goes into effect and kills millions\n\nThat's a good thing???",
"Timeline is Brave New world > idiocracy > Wall-E",
"> Nobody ever seriously suggested he was wrong that Russia was a geopolitical foe. \n\nWhat the fuck... ",
"Nope, neither of those things are true. UChicago has proven time and time again the labor effects of H1B and value-added chains leads to domestic workers coming into higher demand and receiving higher wages as a result. I can’t find the particular study about rising wages, but there was this survey. \n\n\nhttp://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/high-skilled-immigrant-visas\n\n\nMy specialty is health care economics but it’s bonkers to me that people form such strong opinions about immigration despite a lack of evidence for their beliefs. Sanders is horrendously guilty. ",
"Don’t worry, lots of tards are living kick ass lives now. My ex is tarded, and she’s a pilot. ",
"You post racist crap on Enough Sanders Spam to smear Sanders and the left in general.\n\nI know you want to call me, a gay man with the last name of Rodriguez, privileged because you were hoping to play on your white Bernie bro/Obama boy lie but no, you can't.\n\nYou are incredibly privileged to be able to mock a group of people fighting for universal healthcare, education, ending corporate government, fixing income inequality, etc while defending a war mongering oligarch.\n\nWhy yes, I will down vote racism and false claims. ",
"Max Weber classified 3 different [ideal types of authority](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripartite_classification_of_authority) back in 1920:\n\n1. charismatic authority\n2. traditional authority\n3. legal authority\n\nHe described the charismatic leader as such:\n\n>\"Men do not obey him [the charismatic ruler] by virtue of tradition or statute, but because they believe in him.\" Thus the actual power or capabilities of the leader are irrelevant, as long as the followers believe that such power exists. Thus, according to Weber, it is particularly difficult for charismatic leaders to maintain their authority because the followers must continue to legitimize the authority of the leader.\n\nAnd perhaps more apt about the followers of the charismatic leader:\n\n>The administrative staff [of the charismatic leader] ... is ... bound by obedience to the power-holder and not alone by the concept of legitimacy... There are two other means, both of which appeal to personal interests: material reward and social honor. ... The fear of losing them is the final and decisive basis for solidarity between the executive staff and the power-holder. There is honor and booty for the followers in war; for the demagogue's following, there are 'spoils' - that is, exploitation of the dominated through the monopolization of office - and there are politically determined profits and premiums of vanity. All of these rewards are also derived from the domination exercised by a charismatic leader.",
"Fake story for fake internet points 😎😎😎",
"I’m well aware of 2008. I’m still waiting for any indication that we’re heading to collapse but all anyone can do is downvote because all they have is a gut feeling due to the “man in charge” and corporate greed. You have still provided no support for your claim other than “deregulation leads to greed leads to collapse.”\n\nE: the whole argument was how Trump’s incompetence was leading to this but we’ve now shifted to “it’s been like this for decades and was inevitable.” Nice, Ima just move on it’s obvious we’ll keep seeing shifts in the argument out of your fear of admitting you were talking out of your ass.",
"HE ALSO ORANG",
"Does New Zealand even exist? Haven’t heard of it many times, sounds like it’s made up to be honest.",
"“The situation we’ve been in for the last decade was caused by the current administration and will lead to economic collapse” ???\n\nThe argument was that Trump was going to lead to economic collapse and now everyone has shifted to the deregulation that has existed for decades leading to another collapse. Lol gotta keep changing the argument or people might have to admit they were just saying random shit hoping to not get called out.\n\nE: conversation re-enactment:\n\n“Trump’s inexperience is going to cause the economy to collapse!”\n\n“The economy is doing fine”\n\n“But the deregulation that existed since the last recession a decade ago hasn’t been fixed!”\n\n“So how is this Trump’s fault?”\n\n“Well.... he’s de-regulating more!”\n\n“So which of those regulations did he cut that’s going to collapse the economy even though it was apparently inevitable anyway?”\n\n“....”\n\nLolllllllllllll",
"We’re gonna start WWIII because of you",
"It's a popularity contest that impacts very real people.\n\nMy problem is never with any particular candidate, since none of the actually have our interests in mind. It's not their job to have our interests in mind it's their job to appeal to their \"board\".\n\nNothing changes until that changes and everything else is chaff.",
"My last post to ESS is literally calling out Bernie's insensitivity to race issues but okay.\n\nYa want to pull your privilege card? I'm a jewish/catholic gay man from North Carolina (the old guard doesn't like that sort of thing around here), and you can be a Bernie supporter without being a Bernie Bro, but that doesn't preclude their existence and prevalence. Though, your obsession with Hillary 1.5 years later would put you somewhere in that realm.\n\nThe fuck is an Obama boy? It's absolutely false that we would put those two in the same box, just because they both ran against Hillary at one point; I'm a die hard supporter of our best president in recent memory, thanks for trying.\n\n> group of people fighting for universal healthcare, education, ending corporate government, fixing income inequality\n\nWhew, look, a list of things I support, just behind _competent_ people who actually have the capability to get it done, rather than ranting about \"millionaires\" and \"billionaires\" to college students.",
"You're the one who tried to pass it off as fact.",
">zero relationships destroyed\n\n\n\nAre you living under a rock? You think the US relationship with a country like the UK is the same when Donald Trump acts like an infant and enters arguments with leaders of countries?\n\n\n>Your definition of racist is comedic\n\n\nThey're an organisation that wants to ban Muslims from entering the UK, as well as make it illegal to be Muslim and face deportation if you teach Islam. On what planet is that not Racist?",
"Not recently, and not in the US.",
"Lesbians tend to be democrats. Especially progressive ones",
"Reminds me. Remember the week when the talking point was \"Hillary can't pour a beer correctly\"?\n",
"Terrifying thing to note: when Trump tweets insane shit, he is *stone cold sober*.",
"Lol, sorry but that was Hillary kicking out BLM while Sanders spoke with them constantly. All of Sanders policies also help poc more than whites due to the large economic disadvantages they face. Hillary types putting economic issues on the back burner has only made things worse for minorities, especially since she prefers to party with elites and steal money from state parties instead of address real concerns of average Americans.\n\nOh that's such bullshit. Your types hired trolls to paint everyone as white racist/sexist male Bernie bros (or Obama boys like in 2008). Did Sanders people respond back with hired trolls with a similar sexist name? No.\n\nYa, I am sick of you still pushing your disgusting center right candidates who could care less about the insane economic issues most face all because you worshipped Hillary and her disgusting record of war (Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Honduras, Syria, etc), targeting minorities (Patriot Act, private prisons, drug war, etc), bowing to corporations (bankruptcy bill, reversing course on universal healthcare, drug wars, private prisons, hiding transcripts, etc.).\n\nObama boy is the word you sexists used in 2008. Sad that you don't even know your group's long history of sexism and racism while you claim the left are the sexist/racist ones.\n\nBest president in history? Is that a damn joke? Hillary was a disgusting war mongering oligarch who mocked the left and independents to cater to the Bush administration. She stole money from state parties to fund her ego campaign, ran mainly on \"I'm a woman\" and \"not Trump.\" Hillary struggled to win an insanely stacked primary against a complete unknown social democrat who started 60 points behind. Had favorables equivalent and now worse than Trump. Lied about Sanders and his supporters being violent/sexist/racist/unrealistic/basement dwellers/wanting free ponies/hacking/etc. Hell, Hillary knew she was such a bad candidate that she had her media buddies uplift the only candidate she thought she could beat. Hillary put her ego before country.\n\nHillary? Competent? Lol, she is for and against everything and changes her opinion on a whim. Hence her recent whiny book tour calling all those things ponies. Hillary is so damn incompetent that she thinks caving into Republicans before even sitting down to negotiate was a good strategy. By pragmatic, Hillary meant \"no we can't.\" Stop with your bull of saying she could get things done when she really can't except for her rich friends. Stop with your bull that pointing out corruption caused by money in politics is a bad thing.\n\n\nYour disgusting Republican lite party lost 1200 seats and all 3 branches of government since 2010, including dear leader Hillary losing to a cheeto. Hell, half of Hillary's voters voted against Trump and not for Hillary, that's how desperate people have been made by your disgusting candidates.\n\nhttp://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/09/02/for-many-voters-its-not-which-presidential-candidate-theyre-for-but-which-theyre-against/\n",
"I'm 18, registered to vote, and have voted. Let's hope you haven't.",
"In Idiocracy, President Commacho is one of the smartest in the world. He articulates his words better than most in the movie. And, please, someone correct me if I am wrong, but I dont believe he even called anyone a Faggot in the movie, further cementing him as one of the smartest in the movie.",
"Love Putin's cheeky cameo",
"Really? I thought they were centrist from that perspective but that was also just an assumption. I'll have to look into that.",
"All right I give up you're a shill or you're retarded. Waste of my time either way. Good luck with life pal",
"Tldr: America dared to elect a black man and racists rose up to take their white america back",
"I dunno. Despite anything else, I am glad that Bush and Trump both realize that alcohol is not good for them, and abstain as a result. I think that’s the least terrifying contreversy of the last 50 years. ",
"Points out the disintegration of education as well ~~~",
">Lol, sorry but that was Hillary kicking out BLM while Sanders spoke with them constantly.\n\nShe kicked out a group who were disrupting her event, (I wish she didn't, personally) and BLM activists have something else to say about Bernie http://www.seattleglobalist.com/2016/04/12/black-lives-matter-bernie-sanders-seattle-interruption/49851\n\n>All of Sanders policies also help poc more than whites\n\nHis policies were all race-blind and systematic bias would ensure that didn't happen; he ignored that fact by always trying to reframe issues of discrimination into simple economic terms, and the times he didn't were just cringeworthy.\n\n>Hillary types putting economic issues on the back burner\n\nA lie, stemming from the idea that \"identity politics\" (essentially anything related to the oppression of minorities) is a distraction from issues that effect \"Ordinary Americans.\"\n\n>Sanders people respond back with hired trolls with a similar sexist name?\n\nYES, Revolution Messaging, \"vagina voters\" and \"low information voters.\" (sexist _and_ racist)\n\n> center right candidates who could care less about the insane economic issues\n\nbald faced lies.\n\n>Patriot Act, private prisons, drug war, etc\n\nAll her fault, exclusively, despite the fact that she gave away every penny she got from the private prison industry, supports reforming drug policy, and was one of **98** votes for the PATRIOT act.\n\n>you sexists\n\noh no, the poor oppressed men\n\n>Best president in history? Is that a damn joke? Hillary\n\nThat was referring to Obama, learn to read.\n\n>to cater to the Bush administration\n\nlolol\n\n>ran mainly on \"I'm a woman\" and \"not Trump.\"\n\nYou're fucking unabashedly sexist.\n\n>Hillary struggled to win\n\nShe didn't struggle in the slightest.\n\n>Had favorables equivalent and now worse than Trump.\n\nIf we ever needed a more damning indictment of sexism in our society that's it.\n\n>she is for and against everything and changes her opinion on a whim.\n\nIf you actually knew anything about her and her career and not just your preconceptions, you would know that's false.\n\n>By pragmatic, Hillary meant \"no we can't.\"\n\nNot having the same positions as your savior is not \"no we can't.\" Actually explaining the reality of politics to your supporters and treating them like adults is not \"no we can't.\"\n\n>by money in politics is a bad thing.\n\nShe was literally the target of the corporate hit video behind _Citizens United._\n\n>Republican lite party lost 1200 seats and all 3 branch\n\nThat was Obama's Democratic Party.\n\n>half of Hillary's voters voted against Trump and not for Hillary\n\nYet, she still beat Bernie.\n\n> disgusting\n\nKeep using that word. #NotSexist.",
"Or Oprah ",
"I am talking about Hillary Rodham Clinton. As was the person I was responding to. People other than Hillary Clinton (who committed zero crimes) and Donald Trump (who has committed at least obstruction of justice) are irrelevant to the conversation.",
">Just because Comey doesn't specifically state the exact law broken, does not mean he didn't clearly state the law was violated.\n\nNot only did he not state the exact law that was broken, he *specifically* says that *Hillary Clinton did not break the law.*\n\nWatch the video again. It's 10 flippin' seconds long. Not too hard to follow. A simple question. A simple response.\n\nHillary Clinton did not break the law.",
"Do they though? You people are still the best at being the worst.",
"Lol \"uneducated moron\" \"moron\" \"scum\" \"dumbass\" \"dumbfuck\" \"evil pig\" \n\nYou need to first realize that you need to calm down, calling people names gets you nowhere, I take it you are someone who hides behind your computer quite a lot. Name calling makes you look like a complete \"moron\" or yes, a \"dumbfuck\" so please try and learn how to be, and argue in the real world.\n\nNext, I can guarantee you that gore did say these things, and he said a lot of it years ago to rile up and get people to give him money and listen to the idiotic things he has to say.\n\nI know the difference between climate and weather, I have studies the earth and it's cycles as well as it's climate and weather. I am only using the same logic as you are. When we get a hot summer \"global warming\" but when we get a cool summer no, it's \"climate change\" a warmer winter \"global warming\" a freezing colder temperature \"climate change\" things are being debunked, as no, the polar ice caps did not disappear this year, like gore claimed it was going to. So please, pick one IDC global warming or climate change. Cuz I will sit here all day and agree about climate change, because the climate of the Earth does change. Can we fix it? No, not really. \n\nFinally, please take a second and walk outside to cool yourself in this freezing winter we are having, unless of course, you live in a warmer climate then enjoy yourself but take a freakin chill pill. You literally sound like someone with a mental disorder in the way you speak on here. So, I will continue to drive my Jeeps and trucks, just as most people will, and as gore will continue to fly in his Jets. But we can't cut back on everything we do, sorry, most of us work hard jobs and work hard for our income. \n\nAlso, I don't listen to fox or Breitbart, mostly because they don't come up first on Google when I search news. That is due to media bias, and the reason you may hear so much about \"global warming\" but someone who actually knows a thing or two doesn't. And no, I am not anti-science I am pro science and just to trigger you more (because you are obviously very triggered) I believe and worship in God, I am pro-life, and I hunt animals and eat them every season, as well as shoot an incredible about of ammunition out of evil guns all the time. \n\nGoodbye, and try and get better.",
"> Hard to get voters to show up if they’re not excited to vote for someone.\n\nI think we have discovered the fundamental reason why your political system doesn't work.",
"A bigger military wouldn't have stopped Russia from installing a stooge as president of the U.S.",
"You're right. Hiding nukes in a kitchen coffee can is realistic. My bad. Forget I said it. ",
"This is the first time in history that Australian politics have been held as an example to the rest of the world.",
"Are you kidding? It's because a lot of people downvote it.",
"That's not limited to the left wing. Progressives claimed all hillary supporters were 'correct the record'. Right-wingers have blamed liberal media since time eternal.",
"People don't agree with me. It's a conspiracy against me!",
"you understood what i said and yet you still felt the need to correct it. feeling superior now? good. go away. if you understood the sentences then the language did its job. im not going to care nor am i going to fix it nor am i going to change.",
"Bernie got blown out by Ted Cruz during their CNN debates, Trump would have wrecked him.",
"What if trump became normal when drunk tho",
">DNC runs zero elections.\n\nSure, but they make the rules in how those elections are run. The DNC was actively worked against Bernie. There are literally emails where top officials of the DNC were sending emails to brainstorming talking points to use against Bernie. The former DNC chair DWS was Clinton's national co-chair back in in 2008 and routinely gave negative remarks about Bernie during her emails. The DNC worked to help Clinton grab a bunch of super delegates even before the first voter casted their first vote Clinton already had a huge margin. Don't forget the former DNC chair (Donna Brazile) was feeding Clinton campaign debate questions. Donna Brazile first she blamed Russia and denied, denied, denied she leaked her questions and then finally admitted it. Heck there were even emails where the Debbie Wasserman Schultz the former DNC chair was taking instructions from Clinton's campaign during the primary!\n\n\n\nSo sure the DNC doesnt actually go out there and run every local election, but they make the rules and definitely worked hard to stack things in one party's favor.",
"Yes Oprah is in that large list of people who 2 years ago I would never want to be President but I now feel like would be an upgrade over our current situation.",
"And was willing to find and hire smart people and even concede when they ran against him.\n\nHe had some missteps but most were the culture / his limitations. He sincerely tried.",
"Ya because the only thing that is terrible about Clinton's record is the Iraq war. Lets review her track record: \n\n* She supportted the TPP (then conveniently change her mind during campaign)\n\n* For years was Anti-LGBT (then conveniently change her mind later on)\n\n* Supported the private prison bill that backfired tremendously and made America the number #1 incarcerator in the world (then conveniently decided that was a bad idea after the fact)\n\n* Forget the Iraq war, she drum up support to invade Libya.\n\n* She drummed up support to invade Syria.\n\n* She supported the Patriot Act.\n\n* She supprted the Patriot Act AGAIN?! (even after it stripped so many of our civil liberties, because we all love having our meta data in NSA data centers)\n\n* Then she even criticized Edward Snowden as if he was a criminal.\n\n* She took large sums of money from wall street banks. Even during the campaign trial.\n\n* She was involved with Super PACs to help take large sums of corporate money. I shouldnt have to tell you that money wasnt free, but there were corporate strings attached to it.\n\nThis is just what I can think off the top of my head. She's a corporatist and it breaks my heart to say that because i was a Clinton fan back in 2004.",
"What makes you think this is a fake story? What a boring thing for me to make up.",
"I voted for Romney. In retrospect, I'm so glad Obama won because his 8 years gave us Trump. ",
"Must be rough supporting people to lead you who somehow managed to turn out to be as much of a loser as you are. Should have probably backed runners more qualified than Donald Trump.",
"First, not exactly.\n\nhttp://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2013/nov/15/ellen-qualls/aca-gop-health-care-plan-1993/\n\nSecondly, that has nothing to do with what we are discussing. We are talking about left and right ideology. Or what exactly do you think the ideology is that matches up with the ACA? What did Dems move away from to propose that rather than an alternative and why couldn't they simply pass that considering they had the party votes to do so? \n\nThe Dems haven't had a shared view on the matter either. And even those with more.leftist views saw the ACA as a way to transition to what they truly wanted. So just because one decides to take incremental steps doesn't mean their ideology has changed. \n\nWith the ACA, we are furtuer left than we were.",
"Too few people either understand or accept this effect. But it is why super-delegates were included in media reported totals from the start, even when they were asked not to.",
">>worse off\n\nin what way(s) are you worse off?",
"The sad thing is I would vote for her over Trump. I would vote for anyone over Trump.",
"Has anyone ever been anything other than annoyed by bumper stickers?",
"All that is required from Tillerson or Mattis is that they confirm the president gave the order. They do not legally have the authority to overrule or stop a nuclear strike. We all pin our hopes on someone in the chain illegally ignoring Trump's orders. That's an unacceptable risk.",
"That's only a very small part of why Trump got elected (though admittedly they are larger than most white people expected and much larger than any non-racist would like).\n\nThe idea of what Trump represented and advertised on the surface was sort of the Republican/Libertarian dream: a businessman who isn't part of the governmental establishment that has promised to drain the swamp, give back out jobs, and lessen regulations to restore the free market? All you have to do is add in deregulation of guns and it's pretty much the killer combo to get Republican votes.\n\nThat dream blinded them to the reality that the man is really only interested in increasing his own personal wealth and power, increasing the size of his metaphorical dick, and is absolutely mentally unfit to lead a company let alone the country with the largest nuclear weapons stockpile in the world. Not to mention the fact that his campaign was a publicity stunt and he didn't actually want the job (at least not initially).",
"No, I mean they met with the anti-Magnitsky Act lawyer on the pretenses of releasing or receiving illegally obtained emails, which were subsequently released. They then lied about it it various ways. I don’t know if you’re paying attention, but that is likely a crime in and of itself. That should concern you. It seems to have concerned Steve Bannon. Not to mention that the NY court with the replacement Judge that Trump just put in mysteriously dropped the $200 million case against Russian Oligarchs - for absolutely no reason. Uncovering the source of this money is the presumed reason Magnitsky was murdered, and he did a good job documented that this $200 million was stolen from Russian tax coffers. I’m getting the feeling that you’re not defending Trump because any sort of fairness, but because you are a supporter who is avoiding the insane facts coming out of all the digging... which would not be happening if Trump had behaved differently when confronted with questions about his pro-Russian stances despite Russia’s engineering in our election process. Instead, he doubled down on lies over and over again. I see you are trying to equate this to Hillary... also a clear sign of where your thought process is. Last time I checked, she wasn’t actively making decisions, as President, that directly benefit a hostile country. ",
"> If your boss is breaking the law by not allowing you to vote, just play your race card\n\n> If people can't talk to their boss like this, they should talk to a higher boss, or find a new job.\n\nI genuinely hope that you are young. That isn't impossible, I did that, but it is *incredibly* difficult and I had significant help to get started. That is what is called an opportunity and not everyone is offered the same help. It's called the American Dream, not the American 'option'.\n\nLife doesn't have to be you against the world, with a shiv. It truly doesn't, there are better ways. ",
"Boring = status quo. Status quo = complete shit. ",
"That's politics for ya",
"The stablest. ",
"My favorite sticker of all time is \nBernie Sanders \n*because fuck this shit*",
"Exactly. President Camacho stopped trying to grow crops with Brawndo when confronted with evidence that it was not what plants craved, and then he actively sought out and hired the most qualified person to fix the problem.",
"I mean, for let’s say, Mitt Romney vs Obama, you can say this and vote third party.\n\nWhen Donald fucking Trump is running, you swallow your pride and ideology and you vote for Hilary fucking Clinton.\n\nI know she didn’t lose because of it, but it’s still ducking frustrating to see so many “Bernie no Jill!” Liberals.",
"I lean liberal and would love to see a woman president, but honestly it was these ladies who lost us the election.\n\nThis election was one of blindness.\n\nRepublicans were blinded by the ideas Trump represented and didn't see that the man was mentally unwell and clearly not fit to run the country. Liberals we're blinded by the idea of following the first black president with the first woman president, not seeing that Hillary was the least likely candidate they had to convert Republicans and get people out to vote.\n\nOut of all of the Democratic Candidates, she was easily the most hated by Republicans. Heck, large portions of her own party didn't even really like her that much. True, on paper she looked pretty electable, she had a great looking pedigree, but she was in the middle of a major scandal that killed any chance she had with Republican voters, and she was already in the public eye as the former first lady of one of three presidents in history who was almost impeached. Not to mention Republicans didn't much care for Bill when he was in office either.\n\nGranted, the second choice would have been Bernie and he may have been too far left leaning to beat Trump as well, but at least he was a bit better liked by most of his party.",
"Plus, while I dislike Stein quite a bit (she got a fuckwad more crazy in 4 years time, or maybe more vocal) the stuff is still more “oh that’s interesting” rather than “oh that bitch is guilty!”",
"Her AMA was disastrous. She was expecting softball questions and got hit with some really in-depth policy questions and dodged around them like crazy.\n\nI mean, people give Johnson shit for not knowing his foreign policy and even Bernie for not knowing the intricacies of complex banking laws, but Stein didn’t seem to know fucking anything, even details on environmental questions when she is the candidate of the fucking Green Party!",
"I disagree with everything you said. In my opinion liberals biggest problem is cowardice. Not being willing to call the devil by his name. ",
"Hear hear. ",
"Whatever lie you need to tell yourself. That's all you people have are lies. Just as long as you don't actually consider yourself a Christian or a patriot.",
"Oh you're talking about the Russian lawyer that Fusion GPS, funder of the infamous dossier, has on the payroll?\n\nCritical thinking. Try it. ",
"Well put.",
"I'm retarded or a shill because I'm aware of the FBI's tendency to lie to us?",
"The talking points memo *never happened.* No one ever played on Bernie’s religion, the emails were literally just the DNC bad mouthing Bernie and they were all fucking in April.\n\nThe only thing that is fucked is the the Donna Brazile claim, but that wasn’t the DNC, that was Hillary’s campaign.\n\nThe DNC is literally a toothless organization meant to fundraiser and hold debates. When Nixon learned his people broke into their office, he was furious because he couldn’t understand the benefit because *they do fucking nothing*",
"Sorry, let me rephrase it. It's Whining.",
"How about with rice? ",
"acceptance, but apparently downvote the opinions of others cause reeeeeeeee",
"It's sad (but understandable) that you didn't realize my comment was making fun of liberals who actually believe some variation of that, but that's where we are I guess.",
"I don't think those bumper stickers are about acceptance. Trump is in front of a Russian flag. ",
"Oh, I'm not agreeing with you. I'm just not going to waste my time with someone who spouts nuggets like \"Its important to read up on everything not just something that you agree with.\" yet throws the common ultra-right wing (which is what the Libertarian party now is) George Soros-conspiratorial nonsense in which you'd only get from the worst sources. \n\nYou're either a troll or a completely brainwashed moron. Or both.",
"> The only thing that is fucked is the the Donna Brazile claim\n\nSo Hillary getting free debate questions is not a big deal? \nSo DNC breaking its own rules to help their specific candidate no big deal?\n\n\n>The only thing that is fucked is the the Donna Brazile claim, but that wasn’t the DNC, that was Hillary’s campaign\n\n So you think the DNC had zero responsibility or blame for allowing their organization to be funded and control by Hillary's campaign? Crazy that this is the same organization that went to the press and repeatedly explained that they are unbiased.\n\n>The DNC is literally a toothless organization meant to fundraiser and hold debates.\n\nI love this. Now the DNC is suddenly this big nothing burger organization that has zero influence, zero importance, zero anything. \n\n\nHere is the fact. The DNC is an organization that ulimately makes the rules of the election and can legally DECIDE whose the democratic primary. They can literally hold a cockroach race on each candidate and deteremine the democratic primary.\n\nDont believe me? Let's hear what Bruce Spiva a lawyer for the DNC said \n>“We could have voluntarily decided that, ‘Look, we’re gonna go into backrooms like they used to and smoke cigars and pick the candidate that way.’ That’s not the way it was done. But they could have. And that would have also been their right.”\n[Source](https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/dnc-lawyer-reportedly-said-they-could-have-chosen-between-clinton-sanders-over-cigars-in-back-rooms/)\n\nWhat this means is the most powerful people at the DNC reserve the right to put their thumbs on the scales when the Democratic Party chooses its presidential nominee. I dont care if the DNC has the budget of 10 cents. If they can ultimatly makeup the rules in how an election is run and can legally pick their candidate, then they are a powerful organization with huge weight and when they are biased towards one candidate, thats a big deal and should be taken seriously. ",
"I voted for Gary Johnson, since I didn't believe Trump would do the things he said he would and well Hillary is Hillary and I'd rather vote for a ham sandwich than that conniving fuckstain. Based on what I've seen in the first year, I will vote for him in 2020 though.\n\nAnd here, since you can't be bothered to do your own research at all, some more reading material for you:\n\nhttps://ijr.com/2014/09/175685-remember-moderate-rebels-syria-obama-armed-isis-got-weapons/ \n\nhttps://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/23683-obama-backed-syrian-rebels-behead-12-year-old-boy \n\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/27/world/middleeast/cia-arms-for-syrian-rebels-supplied-black-market-officials-say.html \n\n",
"Its funnyy how the right calls the left brainwashed and vice versa. I say we are both brainwashed because we both look at mainstream media like complete brainless sheep. Bottom line is bud, russia had nothing to do with the election. And theres no reason why putin would help trump. Go to a libary and read up on soros. Unless your bitch ass is too lazy like most parent funded liberals. ",
"Yes... And in those years they'll keep coming up with more click bait and he will be president once again.. ",
"> 4.5% by your calculator\n\nGee, I wonder what 4.5% of $110k is....\n\nI know liberals in high tax states like New York and California are salty and all of a sudden hate their high state taxes, but for those of us in the middle class who don't live in high tax shitholes it's awesome. Plus, I probably won't have to itemize deductions anymore since he doubled the standard deduction and my child tax credit went way up too!! Fuck yes - best part is I will probably save more than $5k in future years since my salary is also going up considerably this year - thanks to the huge business tax cuts. And we're hiring, so if you know any good data analysts we have a couple of new positions open. \n\nYeah, I didn't vote for him in 2016 but if he keeps this shit up I will vote for my first major party candidate in 2020. I'm quite pleased so far.",
"The whole 'nevermind' doesn't state this one bit?",
"How about the effects of exporting 90% of manufacturing jobs? When we sent those jobs overseas, the whole midwest was essentially out of a job.",
"I cracked TF up at your comment, no worries",
"I am absolutely with you. I just got on this sub 3 days ago and i can't believe how prevalent the russian shillism is. There's very few posts on the train wreck tRUMP. I follow Bernie on Facebook and most every cause i see him pushing there aren't showing up here. There he's slamming tRUMP, you don't see that translate here. Check people's comment history, and, as you have already noticed, they are pushing division between democrats and independents. The next election is 11 months away so keep up your due diligence with these phoney Berners.",
"Redditor for 2 days, almost exclusively makes racial comments on political stuff, overtly supports Putin's control of the US while dismissing the idea that its already happening.\n\nNothing to see here",
"Which had nothing to do with Russia or the campaign.",
"> That members of Mueller's team may have given money to Democrats isn't proof that they are biased against President Trump\n\nI mean, combined with the over the top text messages about Trump and the [editing of Comey's memo to essentially eliminate the original findings of guilt for Hillary](http://www.businessinsider.com/peter-strzok-clinton-emails-trump-russia-investigation-mueller-2017-12)...yeah it's a bad look.",
"I agree. The one I always found odd was Nigel Farage in the UK - people always used to say they liked him because he's the sort of guy you could go to the pub with.\n\nThat's great, but I don't want someone to go to the pub with I want someone who can run the fucking country.",
"There's no conspiracy about you guys willingly slurping up and redistributing propaganda.",
"I've already supplied a link (which you can read or google info for yourself) that shows every intelligence agency has determined Russia very much was involved in the elections. You can ignore it all you want, bud. (BTW — by ignoring it, that makes you \"ignorant\"). \n\n\"Parent funded liberals\" — wow! I guess liberals are specific type. One thing I know we're not — voters who support a President endorsed by the KKK, who was \"parent-funded\" not self-made, who ripped off people (Trump University anyone?), and still will defend him. That's a special kind of stupid.",
"Yes, actually. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-flynn-pleads-guilty-to-lying-to-the-fbi/ \n\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/30/us/politics/how-fbi-russia-investigation-began-george-papadopoulos.html?_r=0 \n\nThis is the beginning. They are not going to plead guilty and cooperate unless there is something to cooperate on. ",
"Why did you inject yourself into something that has nothing to do with you? Obviously youre triggered\n\nYes im old enough to vote and obviously unlike you i voted for the right party. Stay angry though i love it! ",
"Ok. Cool. But is this photo really worth 45K upvotes? ",
"Trump absolutely made his fortune. If I find a dollar on the ground and turn it into $10,000 i wouldn’t say I did nothing. Yeah I was lucky to find a dollar but who cares? You people just cant admit trump was respected before running for president. Watch his interviews on talk shows from the 80/90s and tell me he was a laughing stock. The crowed cheered the exact same things that trigger them today because muh Russia. \n\nhttps://youtu.be/A8wJc7vHcTs\n\nWatch this interview. Did russia hack larry king in 1987? And also, you people say trump didnt want to be president last year, yet he collided with russia to be president???? You guys make no fucking sense. ",
"You are such an obvious liar lol, you said you sorely needed the money but now you make 110k a year but before \"money was definitely needed\", but you were making over six figures in low tax red state. Also getting that 4.5% would mean you were taking absolutely no deductions before for some reason but you just said you wouldn't have to itemize deductions now, so that was a lie. If you were itemizing deductions before you were writing off more than the standard deduction you couldn't have gotten this absolute max possible scenerio you are pretending to have gotten.\n\nYou are such an obvious liar its funny lol. Oh and now your job is just raising your salary all the sudden. Let me ask this, why did your job raise your salary because of the tax cuts? Isn't your salary already an expense to your company, and they could have raised it any time and it wouldn't have been taxed as corporate income(after expenses profit) because it would have been deducted? How does something that wouldn't have been taxed anyway get affected by taxes going down.\n\nSure I could use a job at this new magical Trump created data analyst job! Shoot me a link you obvious liar that didn't vote for Trump but just happens to sing his praises all over reddit.\n\nEdit: oh in another post you said you lived in Detroit, if you are in Michigan you wouldn't have benefitted as much from the SALT reduction, so your bullshit like makes less sense, also if you make 110k in Detroit you would be living pretty large already and probably not hurting for money. But for all I know the post saying you lived in Detroit was a total lie too just like this one.",
"> don't know why you felt the need to change it\n\nI didn't:\n\n>Romney: \"There's no question but that in terms of geopolitics -- I’m talking about votes at the United Nations and actions of a geopolitical nature -- Russia is the No. 1 adversary in that regard.\n",
"I was comparing the actual way Trump and his people are responding to the investigation and the way Hillary's did. I get that you're already sold on the conspiracy theory. I've argued with tons of conspiracy theorists in the past, so I know there's no way to reason with you or even correct you on things you assume to be fact with no corroborating evidence. You just draw lines and make assumptions and have already declared Trump guilty. I believe 100% that even if the special council came out and cleared Trump of everything, you'd still think he's a traitor and that foul play happened.",
"Thats a bald face lie. Read my reply to the other guy whos saying oprah is somehow a better business-person than trump. Weight watchers and an oscar speech is not qualifications. A billionare business mogul whos done basically everything is. \n\n",
"Nice username, ya goon.",
"> you said you sorely needed the money but now you make 110k a year but before\n\nI mean, that's middle class and I've got kids and kids are expensive. What I don't understand is why the Democrats think they deserve that money more than my kids do...can you answer that?",
"Other nations have played for power in our elections for over two hundred years.",
"Gary Johnson? LOL. Like you, he said a bunch of stuff off track. \n\nYou are horrible at debating. I never said that arms didn't fall into the wrong hands. Imagine how horrible you would be trying to debate me in person. I mean our posts are actually written here, and you still can't stay on track or refute points I made. Plus, you have all the time in the world to respond and still suck ass. ",
"> he said a bunch of stuff off track. \n\nSo did Hillary and Trump, the difference is I know that our 2 party system is broken and the only way to fix that is to actually vote 3rd party, not blindly vote for \"the lesser of two evils\".\n\nYou've now moved the goal posts twice. You're going to hurt your back with all of that lifting son.",
"No reason to be that aggressive. And Hohlraum happens to be a German word, so I'm sorry for guessing wrong. ",
"You accused me of being a Russian because I don't believe your baseless conspiracy theories. Then you accused me of being a German because you're ignorant of science. You don't get to bitch about aggression. ",
"My point is that there's vastly more evidence of a left wing conspiracy to manipulate, shill, and bot Reddit than there ever was evidence of a right wing one.\n\nWhy do internet liberals seem to try so hard to keep us in constant fear of 'Russian trolls'? ",
"> moved the goal post twice\n\nYou're not even playing the same sport as me and are in a different stadium. \n\nThird parties are fine. Gary Johnson is a moron. \n",
"It's an accusation to ask someone is Russian? I don't see how that is necessarily a bad thing. Same goes for being German. \nAnd I'm deeply sorry for my lack of knowledge in fusion devices.",
"Lol so we are still continuing in your moronic lie scenerio? \n\nI'd actually reckon that's upper middle class especially in Detroit if you actually live there.\n\n> What I don't understand is why the Democrats think they deserve that money more than my kids do...can you answer that?\n\nWhen did I say Democrats deserve that money more than you? In fact Republicans have said the opposite since this bill raised my taxes in California. So apparently you believe you deserve it more than my kids, because that is what happened. \n\nApparently you believe in wealth redistribution, as I just subsidized your tax cut(and a bunch of people richer than you), and the subsidy wasn't even planned well since we all still got stuck with a fat new hole in the deficit. \n\nI guess wealth redistribution is fine if it's it's Democrats losing the money and it's rich people gaining the money. Now California gets to subsidize the rest of the states even more than it was before, and everyone still hates us!\n\nI dunno why I thoroughly answer your points when you ignore everyone of mine, and make up obvious lies. But you are a Trump supporter so I dunno what I'd expect. You have to lie and deflect to protect whatever part of your mind lives in the fake reality that he is doing us favors and is a good person not an absolutely corrupt piece of garbage.",
">It's an accusation to ask someone is Russian? \n\nIn the context of modern US politics, yes.\n\n>I don't see how that is necessarily a bad thing.\n\nBecause your party accuses anyone that disagrees with them of being foreign trolls.\n\n",
"If every person asked for it, do you think they would give the time to everyone? It's likely you had little troubles because you were one of the few asking.",
"If it's M-F 9-5, that really doesn't help. How about we just keep the polls open for 24 hours straight? That way everyone will generally have some time available regardless of their work shift.",
"Nobody is saying to be a coward. What I'm saying is that your actions can actually reinforce their cause, and damage your own cause. Being aggressive for its own sake instead of attempting to have a human-to-human discussion is the exact reason we're in this situation. You're just jumping to the opposite extreme of this strawman \"coward liberal\", which is even worse. Instead of accomplishing nothing, you're aiding your own enemy. This whole \"white genocide\" bullshit is exactly because they all feel like victims. And you're going to reinforce that.\n\nEDIT: In fact, I would define mindless aggression as its own form of cowardice. Are you afraid to actually argue your points? Can you back them up? If so, what's the point of aggression?",
"> Oh yes, please tell me how much access a $100 online donation buys.\n\nHe received tens of thousands of dollars from Boeing executives. And he took money from lobbyists.\n\nBut whatever, right? It's OK when Bernie does it. It's OK to make excuses for Bernie. *\"It was only a little bit of money!\" \"He wouldn't actually be influenced by that money!\"*\n\nThis is exactly the problem with creating purity tests. Even Bernie doesn't pass them. Because in the end he's another politician. A *good* one, but a politician nonetheless. He's not the messiah. \n\nIf the left and Dems keep believing that the only way forward is electing a \"perfect\" messiah candidate we're going to keep losing.",
"> What are the penalties to not showing up and voting?\n> \n> \n\n$100 fine",
"Well, I'm neither US American nor a member of the Democratic Party. Therefore I personally don't hold any ill will against any Russian. Same goes for accusing anyone of being a foreign troll, I was just wondering if you happened to be Russian or German.",
"What about it?\n\nMore people work in manufacturing today than they have ever historically and a minute ago we were talking about immigration, not outsourcing. ",
"Well Obama never had to attack the media since they were always on his side, licking the ground we walked, even right out the white house. I don't have a good opinion of the media\n\nAnd as for the Russian scandal, it's nothing. He's been under investigation for 2 years looking for something, anything to pin on him, and he's so god damn clean they have nothing. Not even his taxes. The Russian thing is so full of hot air that people have caught video footage of head people at CNN saying it was \"a nothing burger\" (I would link but I am on mobile). Funny too is Trump is so clean with the Russians, the investigation dug up some shady wire tapping from Obama, aaaaaand dug up corruption on the last FBI director. The whole investigation is a farse to throw out a democratically elected official.\n\nThink what you want about trump, but he was elected against the wishes of the puffed up current political establishment, against the wishes of meddling rich tycoons, and agaisnt global politics at large, by the people.\n\nPsh, Democrats get away with murder, aaaaaand real Russian collution. It is not as if Republicans are shady and democrats are clean and held to a high standard. They are BOTH shady bullshit, I fucking hate them both. The Republican party no longer represents republicans anymore. As for the democrats, oooooh ho ho, just check out the Podesta emails. I'll list some shady shit around .1% of people have been held accountable for.\n\n1) Murder. Look at Hillary's list of people who used to work for her. Lots of them seemed so depressed after working for her they shot themselves... in the back of the head. I think somewhere in the upper 70's is how many bodies. Look it up, it's like the worst spy movie villain. But no, Hillary is just loving life normally. (Again I would link but I'm only ever on mobile)\n\n2) Real Russian Collusion. Hillary at it again selling uranium to Russian for... something. I can't remember, that one I'm fuzzy on since it was a recent discovery and I've sorta sworn off the stuff recently.\n\n3) Election rigging. The rigged the election against Burnie Sanders for Hillary. There was proof in the Podesta emails, and even the chairwoman of the Democrat party had to step down for it. They also rigged the election against Trump YET HE STILL WON. The tactics they use are to use dead people's names to vote, or cart people from different counties to double vote, and that only works becuase they no longer require IF becuase it's racist to require it (no really what?). Oh and the cherry on the cake, lots of people reported when they clicked Republican, the vote switched to Democrat. The reason being they were voting machines by George Soros. That guy is a can of worms yikes\n\n4) sexual harassment/pedophilia. Now, I have no doubt this happens in the Republican side (and no the Trump shit is not sexual harassment, it's him being gross) Anthony weiner was sexting underage girls, actually that opened a can of worms with his wide colluding in the powers in the middle East. Also, look at creepy Joe Biddin in photo shoots. The little girls all look so uncomfortable and he keeps touching the girl's faces.\n\nTL;DR this is all to say that we know more than 1% of what the Democrats do in collusion and shady behavoir (like 2, 3%) yet they are NEVER under the scrutiny of the public or media like Trump's dumb tweets are. Democrats are not clean, they do not represent you or you're interests. They do the shady things becuase they think they know better than you and are above the law. It's been 2 years and the FBI has turned up NOTHING. NADDA. ZIP. Russia is a red hearing to distract everyone from what is really going on with the Democrats, the Republicans, and real bad shit Trump is doing\n\nWow that was long, but one last thing. I'm not trying to attack you or say you are dumb. And if you don't care, that's perfectly valid. I try not to think about it 99% of the time becuase it lowers my quality of life and what the fuck can I do? All I say, as one person stuck in a shitty situation to another, don't trust them. Don't think they are good moral people. Don't rely on them. The only people who will look after the people's interest will be the people\n",
"Okay?\n\nWell in the Dems case it's both. Neither the party or the people are actually considering oprah.",
">Therefore I personally don't hold any ill will against any Russian. \n\nThen why were you alleging I was Russian.\n\n>Same goes for accusing anyone of being a foreign troll, I was just wondering if you happened to be Russian or German.\n\nAnd why would you even think that in the first place?",
"So Jimmy Carter",
"If someone expressing an opinion that disagrees with yours = propaganda, then your comment is also propaganda.",
"True, but there's much more evidence of a right-wing conspiracy to manipulate, shill and lie in AM talk radio and in real life.",
"This is what happens when you rarely leave your little echo chamber people. Sheesh, the amount of misinformation and pure head in the sand mindset at work here is ridiculous.\n\nI mean, the amount of easily googleable stuff that goes against this post is absurd. But I do enjoy how a party that got behind a known pedophile is somehow free and clear in your eyes, while the party that instantly tosses out even the mildest shit like Franken's is labeled as the pedo party. It's a complete reversal of reality.\n\nI have no love for the Democrats. But right now, they're looking damn near close to angels compared to the GOP. The GOP has devolved so far that I can't see myself ever supporting them again, it's ludicrous. Almost their every move is so transparently bad for Americans so that a select few can profit.",
">When did I say Democrats deserve that money more than you? \n\nWhen you said I didn't deserve my tax cut. Apparently the Democrats agreed with you and refused to vote to allow people like me to keep more of my money.\n\n>as I just subsidized your tax cut\n\nUh, no.\n\n>I guess wealth redistribution is fine if it's it's Democrats losing the money and it's rich people gaining the money. \n\nIt's the rich people with the million dollar houses that are losing out, not people like me. Sucks to be you living in a place where housing is overpriced.",
"People have been writing about this for nearly a decade now. [It was a topic in 2010](https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Illusion-Literacy-Triumph-Spectacle/dp/1568586132) and it is only getting worse every year.",
"Heard Russia was gearing for war, or to reclaim more land. Also the refugee crisis has turned into a migrant crisis. Like around half the people moving in come from places not around Syria at all, like northern afterica, to settle. There is now a rape crisis in Europe (sweden) and terrorist crisis in every place that took in refugees and now migrants. There are child sex rings in Sweden, and nothing is done about it becuase authorities don't want to seem racist ",
"I disagree. I think anyone whos actually been paying attention would conclude that republicans dont argue in good faith. They are not rational people and aren't swayed by reason. Your problem, imo, is that you are using a tactic which would swayed you, a liberal, politically; ie reason. Republicans are not liberals and thus don't care about the logic of your argument. Using emotional attacks thus is the best way to deal with those people.",
"Yes. It's federal law that they have to. Also, most places nowadays are open for polling more than one day? So, have the manager do his job and schedule it out so everyone that wants to vote, can. It probably helped because I asked days in advance, didn't just go into work expecting to be able to leave whenever. ",
"I'm sure you do disagree, but you're wrong. The idea that republicans don't argue in good faith is a ridiculous generalization. Trump doesn't, his spokespeople don't, and many of his voters don't, but there are plenty of his voters that do and plenty of republicans that do. And refusing to engage with them in good faith is making this whole problem worse.\n\nEither way, even if you were right, being thoughtlessly aggressive is definitely hurting your cause and is even _less_ likely than reason to change someone's mind. Again, the reaction I see time and time again to people who act the way you advocate is: \"See? You're a retarded liberal who just hates white people and can't even form a coherent sentence. This proves the white genocide theory.\" You've lost the argument not only to that one idiot, but to all the other idiots who read it. You're willingly giving them the win, recruiting _for them_, and at the same time making yourself just like them Just like the people you _say_ you hate, but in reality you're really good at emulating them. Just to take one last shit on yourself after throwing away any chance at advancing your cause.",
"Companies often don't follow federal law 100%. Minimum wage jobs are especially common in those areas. In my area, I've never heard of a polling place open multiple days. I'm not saying it doesn't exist, just that I've not heard of it.",
"It is federally mandated that they have to allow it. Unless they want lawsuits, and you have written proof of asking for it off given proper time, they will.\n\nI'm 27... Kinda young, but the race card really shouldn't be played at all at work. If you're manager's being a dick and wants to be like that though, take a picture of a written note asking for the time off days in advance. With the manager in view, and date written down. People don't take breaking federal law lightly. Voting in national/state elections is more important than being short staffed for a day or two.\n\nEdit: I'm white, 6'5, blue eyes, and light brown/dark blonde hair. I know it's not the world against me, but for some, it is. I don't like that it is the way it is, but that doesn't change the fact that it is. ",
"Yes it is, because your statements are lies. Please, stop lying. ",
"Nope, the Democrats literally paid foreign agents to create the piss-tape dossier. This is all documented fact.",
"Have you googled all that shit? First couple of results go against it, but then you can start digging. But I suppose it doesn't matter. What can you do? It's really only me venting. But, what makes you think you don't have an echo chamber for yourself? Have to looked at all into these ideas beyond what the usual crowd tells you what to? I'm not talking about glancing at the Snopes true or false, that's just them telling you what to believe.\n\nThe pot calling the kettle black. But anyway I've had my fill today. Nice talking with you all",
"I've worked minimum wage jobs for 8+ years.... But you are right about the polling dates. I thought I remembered a 3-day window. Which would make it really fucked for the jobs you speak of. There's also mail-in ballots that get mailed to you by the state if you're registered, IIRC. I plan on doing this next time, can't remember why I hadn't in the past. ",
"I actually have one that says, \"Don't blame me I voted for the OTHER Mike\".\n\n",
"This statement is a lie. I'm begging you, please stop lying.",
"That's some backwards thinking right there. \n\nYou seem to forget that while like-minded people do tend to live near each other, that people in general differ from one another. Also, it wouldn't be three cities. As it stands we have places like California, Florida, Texas, New York, that are all high-pop and make up the majority of the points a person can earn. The rest of the states sort of fill in the gaps, typically swing states being the deciding factor.\n\nBut those numbers wouldn't vary wildly if switched to popular vote either. What they *do* do is offer the minority vote of each state to still count. For instance, this past election I was living in South Dakota - 80% Republican. My vote for *anything* else didn't matter, because it was simply drowned out by Republican votes. So why should I even bother voting?\n\nThe same can be said for Republicans in California, Democrats in Texas, or heaven forbid a large portion of people voting for something *outside* of the two-party system?\n\nBy opening it up to popular vote, everybody has a voice. With the current system, you only have a voice if you live in a like-minded area. It's a broken system.\n\nBut if your comment tells me anything, it's that you don't like to think critically about much of anything, and that this post is like talking to a brick wall. Stubbornness is a personal flaw. I'm sorry for you.",
"Again, it's not a lie. Perhaps your party should stop cheating and accusing other people of doing what it does?",
"> When you said I didn't deserve my tax cut.\nI said we don't need a tax cut for the rich during an economic boom with no way to pay for it. If they wanna cut taxes for poor people(which you aren't) and increase taxes in rich people, go for it.\n\n> Uh, no.\n\nUh, yes? My taxes went up so your taxes could go down, that's how they made the bill work to get it to fit within the 51 vote parameters, thus I subsidized your tax cut, your welcome I guess. We were already paying more than we receive over here, and now it's skewed even further.\n\n> It's the rich people with the million dollar houses that are losing out, not people like me. Sucks to be you living in a place where housing is overpriced.\n\nThe bill allows write-offs on properties up to a million, so... No? Wtf are you talking about. Rich people are getting taxes reduced because of them being able to use the corporate tax rate and also reduction on the top marginal brackets. You sure are dim.",
"Yes, it is a lie. \n\nIt's also not my party, but that's irrelevant. \n\nPlease stop lying.",
"No, it isn't a lie. Your party's propaganda machine seems to have shielded you from facts.\n\nThe Democrats paid around $12 million for the dossier. The dossier was used as a pretext for Obama to spy on his political opposition. The basis of the dossier was always false.",
"I'd like to see how many people who voted for Bernie then voted for Hillary. It seems like it'd be a pretty significant number.",
"Once again, it's not my party. \n\nWhy should I believe you are telling the truth about anything when you repeat a false statement about me that I just corrected you on?\n\nRegarding both me and the subject of political discussion - please stop lying.",
">Once again, it's not my party. \n\nThen why are you repeating their lies?\n\n>Why should I believe you are telling the truth about anything when you repeat a false statement about me that I just corrected you on?\n\nWhy should I believe you're telling the truth about not being a Democrat?\n\n>Regarding both me and the subject of political discussion - please stop lying.\n\nAgain, the Democrats have warped your mind if you're purposefully ignorant of recent revelations. ",
"Genius too! A very stable genius, no puppet. ",
">Why should I believe you're telling the truth about not being a Democrat?\n\nSorry, I don't carry on discussions in bad faith. Take care. ",
"lol wut? according to who?",
"You're the one denying facts. Stop lying.",
"> Democrats also treated Bernie with kid gloves\n\nThis meme just won't die. \n\n1) No, they didn't. They even tried to use his religion against him. \n\n2) If anyone got treated with kids gloves it was Clinton\n\nBut sure, pretend that no one ripped into Bernie, meanwhile Clinton was literally funneling 6 million dollars into internet trolls to spam twitter, facebook, instagram, and reddit. \n\n>You know how Jane Sanders, Bernie's wife, is under FBI investigation for fraud related to real estate deals she did as president of Burlington College?\n\nYes, know why I know about it? Said Democrats that \"used kids gloves\". lol bye\n\nIf you think there were no Bernie attack ads you didn't live in the USA in 2015-16. Fucking delusional revisionist history assholes",
"They sabotaged an election from within and without, and sent the less popular candidate up against a populist. ",
"All I see is an idiot.",
"> Gary Johnson is a moron. \n\nI kinda agree, but now that I've seen what Trump can do I'll actually vote for him in 2020.",
"> My taxes went up so your taxes could go down\n\nNo federal income taxes were raised, so stop lying. If you live in a shitty high tax state, that's a problem you need to take up with your state, the President has no control over state tax code. ",
"Not the hero we need, but the one we deserve",
"The real issue is the philosophy behind blind worship of the \"free\" market and people who ignorantly champion deregulation as they profit from government-mandated regulations and restrictions. ",
"It is the same ",
"That's certainly a stupid assumption. You should probably pick up a history book, lad. ",
"Hildabeast is even more incompetent than chump",
"Again, the reaction I see time and time again to people who act the way you advocate is: \"See? You're a retarded liberal who just hates white people and can't even form a coherent sentence. This proves the white genocide theory.\"\n\nDon't you see that that is not a rational thought on their behalf? Bigotry isn't rational. Racism isn't rational. Do you think there has ever been a nazi who changed his mind of a thoughtful conversation? Be honest with yourself here, really? \n\nI disagree with what you're saying, and I'm not trying to be rude to you but I think the fact that people like you are unwilling to call evil by its name is the reason we are here right now. I don't think I've ever seen any liberals acting in the way I'm prescribing, so your argument that my prescriptions are what led us to this position I think is a weak argument. What you are advocating is the norm, and the norm is what lead us here. \n\nI'll also go ahead and invoke Godwin's law, and say I think a lot of people like you placated the nazis on their rise to power as well.\n\nHere's some readings on Ghandi's stance on violence I think you might find illuminating: \n\nhttp://www.mkgandhi.org/nonviolence/phil8.htm",
"I literally make zero mention of Trump, he's irrelevant to the argument. He's a moron. The Republican party as a whole is responsible for the asinine deregulation.",
"$hilldog should stick to sucking her husband's cock so he won't go wandering off and cause another national embarrassment. That's all the Clintons are is a national embarrassment. The right hates them, the modern left hates them, everyone, almost unifiably, is over anyone with the last name Clinton",
"You can't reason with that hildabeast loving troll",
"Lol what? First off it was Congress and the president. And they absurley have control, since they control deductions and they removed a deduction that made my taxes last year be less than next year, thus they raised my federal taxes on me. Are you really gonna be this disingenious? \n\nIf there was no tax bill my taxes would have been less. They could have left the deductions in but they bill wouldn't have met the budget requirements they had to make up for your tax cuts somewhere. Thus we subsidized your tax cut. Your welcome.\n\nDoes being as disingenuous as you are actually work when you argue with people? At least I know I am being honest about reality so even with my higher taxss I can sleep at night.",
"> If there was no tax bill my taxes would have been less. \n\nThat's because a handful of high tax states were subsidizing their inability to control costs in-state through federal income tax loopholes. Sorry, sucks to live in a high tax state, doesn't it? I thought Democrats liked higher taxes - what happened!?!?",
"I actually support higher taxes if it was fair across the board and affected richer people more than poorer people(which would tax me me more because I am richer) but was used to increase revenue to the gov, unlike this which just create more debt. I also support state taxes because it helps infrastructure and education and our cities aren't shitholes like Detroit and Alabama. Honestly we should have more, and the federal government shouldn't try to discourage it.\n\nIt's pretty funny that you say high tax states were being subsidized. I live in reality where California was a net payer state that paid way more taxes(gross and per capita) than they received in federal aid... Sure seems like low tax states like Alabama that received a ton of federal aid and low revenue we're the ones being subsidized. I'm sure you won't address this just ignore it and move on to some new ridiculous point you make up.\n\n\nI mean you lied about how the bill affects you. You lied about the bill not having control of my taxes going up. You really like to lie, deflect, ignore. I see why you love Trump so much!",
"> I mean you lied about how the bill affects you. \n\nlolwut, I literally linked you to the calculator. You seem to think $110k for a family is upper class or some shit, but it's not and I needed that extra $5k. \n\n>I see why you love Trump so much!\n\nThe economy just keeps on getting better, what's not to like? Because he's a meanie who triggers snowflakes on Twitter? ",
"You've fixated on half a sentence from my comment and extrapolated into your own internalized argument / Trump apologist fit.\n\nMy comment was about a general attitude of \"edgy\", typically young or low-information voters who shit upon institutions, such as regulatory agencies, without any real understanding of how they work and what they do. This attitude comes from simplistic media distortion and the exploitation of people's ignorance and fear.\n\nTrump may or may not contribute to another recession - the point you're missing is that Wall Street excitement doesn't translate into economic health, and could in fact indicate the opposite, if we allow another wave of unregulated behavior, as we did ten years ago.\n\nAs for the rest of your insults - they don't matter, and they don't affect me. No, I'm not talking out of my ass. I'm expressing a common view shared by the non-ideological real world. You can open yourself to better information, or you can double-down on your narrow position. No one cares.",
"Stick to your bong",
"The Nation’s largest political party doesn’t hate them. Democrats approve of Hillary Clinton by a margin of 80%, keep lying.",
">Don't you see that that is not a rational thought on their behalf? Bigotry isn't rational. Racism isn't rational. Do you think there has ever been a nazi who changed his mind of a thoughtful conversation? Be honest with yourself here, really?\n\nDid you read my comment? I am arguing that reinforcing them is worse than doing nothing. Even _if_ you claim rational argument doesn't work (you do), willingly reinforcing their beliefs is worse. You're choosing to do that and you're repeatedly justifying it by saying, \"they're not rational so who cares?\" That makes _you_ irrational.\n\n>I'm not trying to be rude to you but I think the fact that people like you are unwilling to call evil by its name is the reason we are here right now.\n\nThat absolutely is trying to be rude, because I never said anything like that.\n\n> I don't think I've ever seen any liberals acting in the way I'm prescribing, so your argument that my prescriptions are what led us to this position I think is a weak argument.\n\nYou're saying this on reddit? Where almost everything said about Trump voters is an outright insult? _Really_? You think rational discussion is the norm, not mudslinging? For my whole life, the norm has been ignoring rational argument in favor of bullshit like \"baby killers vs. woman haters\". You've clearly got really low standards for what \"rational\" means if you think that has been the norm in the United States at any time in either of our lives.\n\n>I'll also go ahead and invoke Godwin's law, and say I think a lot of people like you placated the nazis on their rise to power as well.\n\nJust, wow. You're really projecting a lot of bullshit onto someone whose comments you won't even try to grok. Your link about Ghandi's stance on violence has _nothing_ to do with what we're supposedly discussing. Ghandi has never advocated thoughtless aggression, the thing I'm arguing against, the thing you're disagreeing with. The problem here is that you are not being rational, you're just justifying what your emotions tell you to do.",
"It might suprise you to realize Oprah is friends with Donald. ",
"Yes yes yes 100% yes!",
"\"That absolutely is trying to be rude, because I never said anything like that.\" Ok, sounds like we're in agreement then? Because I think that we should be calling republican voters and their policies evil. So if you're on board with that then we're all good. \n\nI have to say that, imo, if you fought me as hard as you fought conservatives then we wouldn't be here. \n\nI never said anything about \"thoughtless agression\" those are your words, your projections. \n\nPeople on reddit like to make pithy jokes, like the daily show -- but in my opinion that's just cowardly. Liberals like the safety of humor, whereas if you actually listen to what conservatives are saying it's much more pointed language. \"Treason\" is a word that got hoisted at Obama a lot by conservatives, but ironically now that we actually have a traitor in the white house liberals are afraid to use it. \"You lie!\" was yelled at Obama, but now we're afraid to call Trump a liar.\n\nBut if you agree with me that Republicans are evil and treasonous liars then we're not in disagreement. I'm only \nadvocating telling conservatives that to their faces. \n\n\"I am arguing that reinforcing them is worse than doing nothing.\" You haven't offered any evidence that what I'm doing is reinforcing their beliefs, or that it's worse than doing nothing. Meanwhile your position is the norm and here we are.\n\nI'm happy to keep talking to you, we're on the same side after all. You seem upset so if you wanna take a breather and come back to me later I'd be happy to continue this with you. ",
"Lol, I'm just glad you lost now. ",
">I think that we should be calling republican voters and their policies evil.\n\n_This_ is what I mean by thoughtless aggression. Calling someone evil because they voted for a different party than you voted for. Those are my words, the thing I have been arguing against this whole time. What do you keep saying \"I disagree\" about, if not my main point that I've repeated in each of my posts? That aggression for the sake of aggression is harmful to your own cause.\n\nI'm blocking you now, because you're not actually having a discussion with me, you're having a discussion with yourself.",
"Clinton won that popularity contest. Easily in CA. Yet you knew \"1 person.\" More like you run with a crowd of few women, younger voters, or more extreme conservatives. Hillary WAS the #1 choice here.",
"Establishment democrats are not the modern left. Your reading comprehension is as advanced as your pathetic, $hill for hire candidate. ",
"I see you stigmatize cannabis users. Want to expound on the roots of racism and classism behind that or would you care to backtrack away from that obvious trap?",
"As I thought. Only Trump supports claim this kind of bullshit. ",
"Our only claim to fame is they filmed the Lord of the Rings movies here (with a New Zealand director, too). We're all basically hobbits.",
"If Oprah runs against Trump, I eagerly await the debate where Trump gets more and more frustrated as he argues that Barrack Obama cannot run a third time.",
"Legit, NZ has like 3 boats in our navy, one helicopter in our airforce, and 13 soldiers in our army. Please don't beat us up. :(",
"If your last few posts had been about painting, I would’ve told you to stick to your paintbrush. So yeah, stick to your bong, and leave the politics to the adults.",
">those ads were pro BLM and Hillary Clinton\n\n\nhahaha, maybe look at some of those ads, like the one \"highlighted support for Democrat Hillary Clinton among Muslim women\", and tell me they are in support of Clinton. They weren't, they were designed to help Trump, it's obvious if you'd look.\n\n\nHere, since you seem to like [the Washington Post as a source](https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/business/russian-ads-facebook-anatomy/)",
"I don’t give a fuck about the “modern left,” seeing as they don’t matter, the Democrats however have the largest electorate in the country.",
"There were legitimate reasons not to like Clinton compared to Sanders. There weren't legitimate reasons not to like her compared to Trump. \n\nThings get heated during elections and its easy to lose perspective. \n\nWhat I'm worroed about is a DNC that doesn't seem to have a great candidate lined up aside from defrosting another middle of the road boomer like biden, or an inexperienced celebrity candidate like Oprah. Or a DNC that's so concerned about not letting a popular outsider run that they lose another election. \n\nRelying on Trump being a Buffoon failed once, it could lose 2020 too.",
"Among young voters they were overwhelmingly excited about Bernie. Saw signs, t-shirts, bumper stickers, and even banners on the 101 freeway overpass for Bernie. I did occasionally see a hillary sticker but I wouldn’t call them common.\n\nBernie had a rally at Irvine meadows that I went to and he filled the entire amphitheater and the lawn. It was the biggest political rally I’ve been to and it barely got any news coverage.\n\nUltimately Hillary Clinton faced the same problem Mitt Romney did. Disliked by their own party base and many people voting for them because “at least they’re not Trump/Obama” which doesn’t really lend itself to an exciting get out the vote campaign.",
"All Palestinian devils just want to kill the (((good guys))), it's a fact",
"That's the most civility you uneducated scum deserve. No need for me to read the rest of your whiny persecution complex.\n\nWeather =/= climate ",
"The fact that you think what she did is any different than what every other candidate does is interesting. Wrong, but interesting. ",
">Oh you're talking about the Russian\n\nYes, I am talking about the Russian in a Russian collusion case. Or we could talk about the guy who plead guilty already. \n\nThe only defense they have at this point is that they are too stupid to pull it off. ",
"This is how trump won. You are a living meme ",
"Russian lawyer that works for Fusion GPS... Do you really not see a conflict of interest here?\n\nThis woman is on the payroll of the company that was actively looking for dirt on Trump. ",
"If you who so very obviously know shit-all about ethical politics can spout off falsities regarding the (how can you keep missing this) trashcan candidate, $hildabeast, then literally anyone can speak on whatever they wish",
"I'm from Irvine, and you might just be one of my friends in disguise on Reddit. You sound very similar, haha.\n\nAnyway, yeah, the popular opinion for our generation in this area is Bernie, (and not our generation in this area is Trump tbh) but Hillary took the state in total numbers, regardless of bumper stickers and our local demographic.\n\nLow key should have gone to that rally. I think my friend did.",
"Your candidate lost to my “trash can candidate,” so suck on that.",
"Thank you! I'm glad you finally admit you anti left scum aren't left.\n\nThat's all I wanted to hear, the truth for once from your types.\n\nIndependence are actually the largest voting bloc. You know, the people you told not to vote for dear leader Hillary. ",
"Trump won because of the electoral college, sexual harassers in the media, Russian interference, and 30 years of republican narratives coalescing into the exact same lies you’re believing.\n\nWe don’t need the tiny minority that is the “modern left”(tm), but if they want a place at the table as a minority stakeholder, they are welcome in my book; but not if they continue to think that they deserve to control the party without actually having the numbers.",
"Oh no I’m left, just not “modern left”(c) 2018 OUR REVOLUTION PAC all rights reserved",
"Ya ya we get it. You think universal healthcare is some evil communist plot! ",
"It's hilarious that this guy is blabbing about there being \"literally no proof of the Russia connection\".\n\nI wonder what rock he's been hiding under.",
"This post is propaganda. Arguing otherwise is ridiculous.",
"You’re so fucking dumb, I’ve literally articulated my position on universal healthcare, but you don’t understand that there’s more than one model.",
"This ain't recess and I ain't playing.\n\nAmong many other things Sanders did that Clintoon didn't was absolutely enthrall the young vote. I'm talking fricking rock star idol levels. I didn't see anything like that in Clintoon except a tiny sliver of her absolute rabid fangirls. And as passe as it may sound the youth are the future, especially when the Boomers finally croak. Trump may have the old Republican guard but if Sanders gets the youth starry-eyed, it's Katy bar the door.",
"It was really good, you would’ve liked it. I was skeptical of Bernie until I went to that rally. It’s not until you hear him speak in person until you understand how genuine he is. He sincerely believes in what he’s fighting for, and it’s infectious.",
"I'm pretty sure I'm talking to a troll since I can't hear your comments in anything but a snot-nosed third grader's voice, but it would behoove you in future elections to hold your own party and its national committee to at least their own self-defined standard, which they fell pathetically short of in 2016.\n\nOr you can, absent any reason, bark at those doing the above patriotic duty and further erode the public's faith in the Democrats.",
"Yes, the patriotic duty of repeating lies about Hillary Clinton and the 2016 primary, that have become “facts that everyone just like knows.”\n\nAnyone who honestly can’t see that Bernie is a pandering charlatan at this point is not worth intelligent discussion.",
"Keep moving those goalposts further from the op that spawned the comment chain...",
"Lol",
"I know but is Hillary talking from when she described herself as a conservative, centrist, or progressive?\n\nShe called herself all 3 so which is it today? It'll certainly be different tomorrow when she goes back to being the female version of Dick Cheney. ",
"> lolwut, I literally linked you to the calculator. You seem to think $110k for a family is upper class or some shit, but it's not and I needed that extra $5k.\n\nYea but you lied, because 4.5% would be the absolute maximum, even by your calculator, you said you were taking deductions(as you should have), and you would be affected by SALT even in michigan, so you would not be near the maximum. Its obvious you were making it up and trying to find the exact case which would support your initial claim of $5k, and trying to fit it into a mold, but you had said all these different things along the way that it holds no water and you are obviously lying.\n\n> what's not to like? Because he's a meanie who triggers snowflakes on Twitter?\n\nI mean I listed a ton of stuff, which you completely ignored, and bring up something I never brought up. Hell of a straw man you are punching there, I hoped for more out of you, but you are just as stupid as every Trump supporter!\n",
"Your comment is propaganda.",
"Is Bernie a Socialist, a Social Democrat (they’re different you know,) or a Progressive? He’s described himself as all three.",
"> But I have to admit one side seems comically, Poe's Law level worse sometimes.\n\nBe careful with that way of thinking, as it risks moving the [Overton Window](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window). Basically, given a far enough shift by extreme ideologies, things that we may have seen as unacceptable will suddenly become less so in the face of a \"worse option.\"\n\nThat's what frightens me once Trump is out of office. A lot of bullshit is going to be tolerated just because of the \"it's not Trump\" excuse.",
"Like I tried to tell you earlier but you didn't understand, you are ignorant to what happened during the election. I don't know why you don't remember, but you obviously don't. Educate yourself on what happened. The more you know, the better off we all will be. This kind of ignorance is one part of why Trump got elected. Which other candidate conspired with the DNC to secure the nomination? Which other candidate conspired with CNN to give Trump an insane amount of coverage to help him win the Republican nomination because they thought it would be easy to beat him? Stop being foolish. ",
"I am currently investigating your history to see if you're a pedophile, since I'm investigating and don't have evidence is it ok if I just assume you're a pedophile? I know pedophiles don't really understand the difference between evidence and investigations, but maybe that will help clear it up for you\n\n\nWhen there is some actual evidence that can be used in a court of law let me know, until then I will keep referring to you guys as the tinfoil hat wearing conspiracy loons that you are. All I see is a group of people being manipulated for their clicks because they want so badly something to be true. Just look at how many of you suckers are buying Fire and Fury when in the preface he even says that the book is fiction! \n\n\nYou'd think after the election you guys would just accept that youre out of touch with reality, but instead you just double down",
"i said “more qualified.” technically neither one is qualified. also idk if you know this but Oprah *is* a billionaire business mogul. she has her own magazine and television network and is one of the most influential people on the planet. Trump’s alleged wealth is highly contested as being anywhere near as much as he claims. but let’s face it: a world where Oprah Winfrey is president would be a much less terrifying place than the one we currently have with Trump having us on the brink of thermonuclear war with NK. (also her speech was at the golden globes)",
"If you truly wish for that, why don't you join a party that most fits your ideology and push for change from within? It seems like you're handicapping yourself by supporting candidates with less of a network.",
"[No, you're really not](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkZ7BJQupVA)",
"> Of course it's acceptable, just as it is to discuss a divergent opinion\n\nLooking back, sure, but not in the moment.\n\n> I disagree it's contrarian, no irony intended. \"Being aggressive never helped anyone\" is limiting to the point of being potentially dangerous. Put some thought into whether these short, punchy overly idealistic slogans should be believed or supported.\n\nDid you just flip flop three times on the subject?",
"> I feel that she robbed me, and many others, of the chance to vote for a real progressive because she ~~selfishly felt that it was her turn~~ won the primary\n",
"No. I'm not sure what you don't understand.",
"Difference is, Sanders has repeated the same issues while poorly explaining the differences between similar ideologies.\n\nHillary has changed up the issues while calling herself 3 very different ideologies. ",
"Complain all you want about her. I just don't get the \"her turn\" thing when it's not like she declared herself the nominee; she won the primary. Your statement that she robbed you of anything because it was \"her turn\" makes no sense. \n\n> Hillary and the DNC clearly played dirty \n\nShe was obviously the DNC's first choice, given the fact that she was actually a Democrat, but I'm not sure what you're referring to here.",
"So\n\n> I disagree it's contrarian, no irony intended.\n\nHow is it not contrarian?\n\n> \"Being aggressive never helped anyone\" is limiting to the point of being potentially dangerous.\n\nBeing aggressive isn't an ideal thing to do in all but the most desperate of situations, so no, it's not limiting\n\nand\n\n> Put some thought into whether these short, punchy overly idealistic slogans should be believed or supported. \n\nYeah, no these slogans are, to quote a wise man, \"limiting to the point of being potentially dangerous.\"",
"Lol if you could actually learn to let things sit in your mind, and not go in one ear and out the other you'd read my reply and maybe hopefully realize I said weather doesn't equal climate. However you have proved to me that you are a very uneducated person that lives in an echo chamber.",
"He wasn’t explaining the differences, at different points in his career, he has identified with those movements, which vary about as much as progressive vs. centrist. \n\nHillary has always considered herself a liberal, if not always a progressive (although, the progressive movement didn’t exist in any significant sense until recently,) but she may think of herself as a conservative or centrist on certain issues.\n\n\nAnd have you ever thought that maybe the same set of issues might be viewed as conservative, centrist, or progressive by different audiences, and she might be code switching based on who she’s trying to gain support from?\n\n\nFor example, I would consider the ACA a centrist policy, and multi-payer comprehensive universal healthcare a liberal policy, and Republicans consider the ACA the spawn of the communist devil. (Despite the fact that their own think tank wrote it a few years before their party went insane)",
"> 1) No, they didn't. They even tried to use his religion against him. \n\nWhen? What advertisement, press release, or other communication used this? A staffer talking about it on private email isn't \"using his religion against him\". Link me to the \"Bernie's a Jew\" attack ad that Hillary or a Democratic superPAC put out.\n\n>If you think there were no Bernie attack ads you didn't live in the USA in 2015-16.\n\nLink me to one. Seriously, just link me to one. Something that goes beyond \"we have policy differences\" and actually attacks Bernie Sanders' character or describes his policies as genuinely negative and not merely unrealistic.",
"It's not contrarian for the sake of being contrarian. I'm not playing devil's advocate here, or trying to score imaginary points by being overly pedantic. \n\n\"Limiting\" as in, if you believe wholly that aggression never helped anyone, then that belief limits you, particularly because you are unable to consider solutions that might be quick and effective, if not ideal.\n\nI hope that explains it better.",
"Says the person who screams that science is an evil liberal plot ",
"Every claim regarding the DNC's unlawful favoritism is empirically provable. One of the primary strengths of the Democratic Party is having an accurate appraisal of reality, at least more so than their opposition. You should probably try to embody that.",
"Empirically provable? Then why haven’t any of the lawsuits against the DNC gone anywhere?",
"Please quote me saying that. If me saying \"I'm pro science\" makes you think I said it's an \"evil liberal plot\" then you are beyond help. Liberal logic right there. ",
"Then please elaborate on that.",
"Fairly certain that when the entity administering an election admits in federal court to colluding with one candidate and in fact fixing that election in favor of said candidate, then you cannot call that a \"win\" or a \"loss\" as there was never any legitimate contest in the first place. \n\nYou cheated to get to the general. You shoved your radioactive wastecan of a candidate down the real left's throat and now you cry foul when it is regurgitated. She never had a shot in hell when Bernie, who would have been a better opponent to Obama in 08 and 12 (yet another of the seemingly endless areas of hilldog's career where she is as inept as she is underwhelming), came to the national forefront. Bernie Sanders has ignited the real left and you need to step aside or fall in line because you will be swept into the annals of history right along with late-stage capitalism",
"We don't give a fuck about your party. You can't seem to comprehend that. Your party is a disease of the same ilk as the rethugnikkkans. You are one and the same. All of the establishment must burn. You are a part of it",
"And we don’t give a fuck about what you give a fuck about.\n\n> rethugnikkkans\n\nIt’s like you don’t even want to be taken seriously.\n\n> you are one and the same.\n\nTell that to the DREAMers, that attitude is the exemplification of the privilege endemic to the so-called “new left.” \n\n> the establishment must burn\n\nGood fucking luck. 😂 ",
"The DNC does not administer the primary election, the states do.\n\nIgnoring the Bernie cultism, it’s not worth my time.",
"Bye Shillbot\n\nhttp://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/may/22/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-wrong-negative-ads-bernie-sanders/",
"Platform means nothing if you can’t sell it to the people",
">Generation Forward, **a pro-Martin O’Malley super PAC**, went after Sanders while O’Malley was still in the race. In an attack ad, the group highlighted Sanders’ and Clinton’s Saturday Night Live portrayals and less-than-serious moments on the campaign trail (i.e. dancing). It ended with **O’Malley** saying a presidency shouldn’t be about entertainment.\n\nSo we're blaming Hillary Clinton and the DNC for ads a pro-Martin O'Malley PAC put out before Iowa now? The delusion runs pretty damn deep. Either that or you just Googled looking for a source to back up the assumptions you desperately *feel* to be true, but didn't bother to actually read it first.\n\nStill waiting on the \"Bernie's a Jew!\" attack ads too buddy.",
"Seems like you're making just as many assumptions as me mate. \n\nWhen every candidate represents the same things (They don't have our interested in mind.) Then they're all of equal value to me(my problem is never with a particular character.)\n\nI don't see how you can't follow that logic. But since you can't it's easy to see why you can't follow the rest.\n\n",
"But cthulhu incarnated, so shitty she lost to chump in a head-up race (that she also tried to rig), following that thing isn't a cult? We of the rational mind have long since shed your kind. You will not be missed. ",
"It's not every day that I meet someone that would vote blue yet would also be of more merit to the world in an obituary. Usually they are red voters. You've crossed that line. Congratulations",
"It's not every day that I meet someone that would vote blue yet would also be of more merit to the world in an obituary. Usually they are red voters. You've crossed that line. Congratulations",
"Hey, remember when you said [open borders] AND [free trade]? Free trade has a lot to do with outsourcing.\n\nAnd even if the total amount of US manufacturing jobs is higher than ever, which I somewhat doubt, that still doesn't mean much when the inflation-adjusted wages, benefits, etc. have all substantially deteriorated. Sure you can still get a manufacturing job in the US, if your wages are competitive with Chinese wages+shipping costs.",
"The cultism comes in when you’re referring to your candidate’s primary opponent as “Cthulhu incarnated” whereas I just think Bernie is incompetent and pandering.",
"By the time that letter came out people had already made up their minds of who they were voting for. The left needs to face it, the people that didn't vote for Clinton never were going to vote for her (seriously, if the prospect of Trump being President wasn't enough nothing would have been) and still trying to use Comey as a scapegoat for part of why she lost is just pathetic.\n\nAnd the large scale foreign attack on our political system was to bring us down, not Clinton. Bringing her down was just two birds with one stone for Putin.",
"I didn’t realize you forfeited the first point, my apologies. \n\n\nAlso, don’t doubt it; look it up! You’re letting your dumb political views get in the way of looking up verifiable facts. \n\n\nMore jobs exist in the US than they ever have before. Compensation is higher than at any point in history, and that includes salary, the value of health insurance and other benefits. \n\nThe sky isn’t falling— you had two dipshits that wanted to get elected and tried to sell you on the idea that the country was in such disrepair that only they could fix it. These characterizations are why they got the support of virtually zero economists. \n\n\nHell, Sanders sent a request through one of my departments in late 2015 trying desperately to onboard college professors to endorse him. Topping the list he provided was Robert Reich (not an economist) and several community college lecturers with bachelors degrees. He’s a charlatan. ",
"OK..? So what were you referring to?",
"Nope",
"That's just patently untrue. In 2016 just 3 days before the election 15% of voters were still undecided, please note this is before Hillary was again cleared by the FBI [(Source).](https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/2016-november-undecided-voters-trump-clinton-214418) Moreover, we know from independent analysis and reports of internal analysis by the Clinton Camp that the letter more than likely swayed enough key voters in swing states (Source [1](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-comey-letter-probably-cost-clinton-the-election/) & [2](https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/clinton-campaign-email-comey-letters-threw-the-election-to-trump-231244) ). Finally, Comey testified that the FBI had high confidence that Putin wanted to undermine Hillary's chances likely as a result of her statements on his election. ",
"> I'm not going to go play by play through the primary for you\n\nIt seems like you kind of want to. Look, I'm not saying that Bernie wouldn't have had a better chance in the general (although this is far from a given) or that I was happy with Clinton's campaign. But saying she robbed you by winning the primary is ridiculous.\n\n> superdelegates\n\nNot invented by Hillary, nor for her benefit.\n\n> order of states for voting\n\nSet long in advance, yes?\n\n> debate schedules\n\nDon't even know what this means.\n\n> debate questions given to Hillary\n\nOne question, evidently. Who would have thought they'd ask about water quality in Flint? Huge advantage.\n\n> DWS, the sitting DNC chair, giving advice on how to smear Sanders, based on his religion no less\n\nIf I recall, this was advice that was never used? Evidence that DWS wanted Hillary, the lifelong Democrat, to win the Democratic nomination, sure, but that's not terribly surprising, nor Hillary's fault, nor did it cause more people to vote for Clinton than Sanders.\n\n> The deck was clearly stacked in her favor.\n\nI don't see it. ",
"> you\n\nYou\n\n> i \n\nI \n\n> feeling\n\nFeeling\n\n> good\n\nGood\n\n> go\n\nGo\n\n> if \n\nIf\n\n> im\n\nI'm\n\n> i\n\nI\n\n> i \n\nI\n\nI understand if you're not a native speaker, but you keep making the same basic mistakes that are easy to fix. Hitting the fucking shift key doesn't take any extra time for fucks sake. You're not being lazy or cool or hip or young. You're being disrespectful. Disrespectful to the language, but more importantly to the person you're trying to communicate with.\n\nI'm not proud of my previous posts that I've just deleted, they were made in a drunken rage/depression that I am not proud of. They were not productive and they were hateful. Those posts also held some truths, but I sabotaged any chance of influencing other people's opinions. Just like you have sabotaged your attempts to communicate with most people over the age of 20. We both need to grow the fuck up. Please join me in that never-ending quest.",
"i dont care. i seriously dont. go on and correct this too. waste your time. im not editing it im not fixing it im not changing it. stop trying to act superior and be an ass while you do it. i dont care.\n\n\n>You're not being lazy or cool or hip or young. You're being disrespectful.\n\n\ni dont care.\n\n\n>Disrespectful to the language,\n\n\noh its poor fee fees. whatever will it do! how will it carry on now!\n\n\n\n>but more importantly to the person you're trying to communicate with.\n\n\nif you take bad grammar that seriously you should consider seeking therapy.\n\n\n>We both need to grow the fuck up. \n\n\nso you think im being childish because i dont have perfect grammar? get lost. go grow up. no one in the real world takes grammar this seriously. \n\n\nnot only are you a hateful bigot who wants to see people dead for a different opinion but your also an ass who takes everything personal and far too seriously. im not going to take some random bigots opinion on reddit serious about grammar. \n\n\nconsidering your previous comments im surprised you thought i cared if i disrespected you. really? ",
"> you should consider seeking therapy.\n\nI would if I could afford it. No joke. Not for this. Not for you. But it's literally the reason I'm in another drunken rage right now. The rest of your post I won't bother responding to because you continue to show a lack of basic fucking respect.",
"https://www.askideas.com/media/41/Actually-I-Am-Not-Even-Mad-Thats-Just-Sad-Funny-Meme-Image.jpg",
"The next time you think about making a joke about someone's mental health I really hope you think twice.",
"> because you continue to show a lack of basic fucking respect.\n\nof course im not showing respect. im not obligated to respect you. its not my job to hold your hand and walk you through sentences. you couldve gone about this entire thing much more nicely and i wouldve been nice back, sadly you have irritated me and i saw no reason to be kind to you. \n\n\nNOW I WILL TAKE THE TIME TO EXPLAIN MY HONEST OPINION ABOUT YOU. IF YOU READ NOTHING ELSE PLEASE READ THIS.\n\n\n\nI apologize for being rude to you, but I still stand firm in my opinion about grammar. I don't feel like it matters at all. However I'm sorry your struggling. The fact you were making such hateful comments does show that and if I had taken a second to think it through I might've responded with more compassion. The drunken rage you keep sending yourself into is of your own doing. It isn't going to fix anything and its just going to make it worse.Please look into meditation if you do nothing else, the hate in your heart is dangerous and I don't want you to end up on the 10:00 news dead. I'm sure someone out there cares about you, at the very least I care about your well being as much as any random redditor possibly could.We have common ground, I'm not a fan of trump fans but I wouldn't wish death on anyone no matter how much I hate them. Consider improving yourself the same as I try to. I make mistakes all the time, I fuck up and get angry and curse and insult people and regret it all later. This is my better account I used to be far far worse than I am now. Put the bottle away and think about life. Find something you enjoy be it anything and run with it. I deeply apologize for making your problem worse than they already are.\n\n\n\nThis is the last comment I'm going to make on the matter. If you need help message me I'm always willing to talk and be supportive. ",
">Which other candidate conspired with the DNC to secure the nomination?\n\nDude, how do you think primaries work? Each party has a chosen candidate. Bernie had no support fro black people and women, that is why he lost. not your idiotic conspiracy theories. ",
"Right, they were too stupid to collude even though they tried. I think that is entirely possible. ",
"No. He stated that there was classified information found on Ms. Clinton's server, a violation of the cited law. He then makes up a reason on why she should not be prosecuted - that she didn't intend to break the law. This excuse holds no water, seeing that at the exact same time as he was making the statement, Kristian Saucier was being successfully prosecuted for the same crime - unintentional violation of removing classified information from it's proper place.\n\nWhat you are seeing is the FBI consciously choosing to ***ignore*** a politically connected person's crimes. Interestingly enough, the same person violated the same law when he purposefully leaked the classified memos he wrote to his friend, with the express intention of having them leaked to the press. \n\nHe also faced no punishment for this. \n\nYou say Clinton committed no crime. I - and anyone who can read a paragraph of US Law - can see that the law was indeed broken, and severely so.\n\nThe fact that you are not outraged by this, and demanding accountability for the ruling class of the country, is the true issue.",
"Thank you for apologizing and your kind thoughts. While I was serious about my need for therapy and my temporary struggle to pay for it I am not in that dangerous of a situation and it's not something that you made any worse. When I mentioned lack of respect in my comments it was half about your grammar and half about your failure to admit any fault or failure to meet me halfway on anything. It seems that grammar on Reddit will be something we'll have to continue to agree to disagree about but I'm happy to get some respect on the other front. However, I will make one last attempt and strongly disagree with this statement:\n\n> no one in the real world takes grammar this seriously.\n\nI have worked on very prominent projects in both academia and industry and I can promise you that you are wrong here. If you lacked basic grammar skills (assuming you're a native speaker) you would have been laughed off these projects. I'm not saying that my grammar is perfect or beyond reproach, but grammar does fucking matter. Maybe not here, maybe not on social media or in your social texts, but when it comes to communicating with people you work with and respect it fucking matters.",
"Thank you also, because of you I will start being more conscious of my grammar and work on making it better.",
"Hillary also had debate questions. Anyone who thinks the DNC wasn’t for Hillary is a fucking idiot.",
"California is 1/8 the American population. 1/8 of the population should be a decisive factor in the popular vote!\n",
"Comey said that Hillary Clinton did not break the law. Are you saying Comey does not know what he is talking about?",
"Keep lying to yourself. Really. It's served you well so far. ",
"One of us is using facts here, and it is not you. ",
"No that would be you, the guy who's ego won't even allow him to do the tiniest amount of research.",
"You seem to think I do not know that your are referencing the numerous well documented communications between her campaign and the dnc. I do. \n\nThe issue I take with your opinion, is that you somehow have decided this means she stole the primary, which of course is hilariously stupid considering that Bernie's support base was white dudes and that is not going to get you anywhere near the nomination in the Democratic party. \n\nShe would have won anyway, and anybody who doesn't stumble into this looking for a reason to discredit what was a pretty stable race admits that. ",
"It isn't a witch hunt when evidence keeps on dripping out. It's not a witch hunt or a nothing burger when 3 people in his administration were indicted. And this isn't a witch hunt, I had my sneaking suspicions that something fishy was going on way back when it was reported that Manafort had some shady dealings with Ukraine during the campaign. Wonder why trumps posterboy Steve bannon even described it as treasonous? Is he apart of the witch hunt too now?? Lmao",
"And collusion won't be the term that is used. Probably something along the lines of \"conspiracy against the United States\" or just classic money laundering. Wonder why Kushner wanted a back channel to speak to the Russians if they didn't have anything shady to talk about?",
"Not that I think you'll accept the source, but there's [this](http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ex-campaign-aide-claims-he-was-once-ordered-to-explain-the-constitution-to-trump-report/article/2644848):\n\n> Former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg was once ordered to break down the American Constitution for Donald Trump at the outset of his 2016 presidential campaign, according to a new book about the president's journey from billionaire real estate developer to commander-in-chief.\n\n> Nunberg told veteran journalist Michael Wolff that \"early in the campaign, [he] was sent to explain the Constitution to the candidate.\"\n\n> \"I got as far as the Fourth Amendment before his finger is pulling down on his lip and his eyes are rolling back in his head,\" said Nunberg, who was fired by Trump just two months after he launched his campaign.\n\n> His claim was published Wednesday as part of an excerpt from Wolff's forthcoming book, \"Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,\" which is due for release on Jan. 9.",
"Michael Wolff is credible because. ..",
"See that's mob rule mentality. I would be in favor of giving California more electoral college votes. Buts that's it",
"Islam is an ideology and Muslim is a follower or believer of that ideology. Islam is also an archaic ideology that promotes and encourages violence against people who do not believe in such principles. In no way is it racist to ban people who follow a violent ideology. Racism is based upon skin color and ethnicity not your religious beliefs. ",
"And if you actually looked into laws regarding Racism and discrimination Religion is always included under Racism laws. Are you intentionally being retarded?",
"No idea why people think liberals are cowards.",
"> because 4.5% would be the absolute maximum, even by your calculator\n\nAgain, I'm not sure if you know how percentages work. Based on my income I'll save around $5k based on every calculator I've tried, potentially more depending on the child tax credits but even at $5k that's awesome. I'll take it.\n\n>and you would be affected by SALT even in michigan\n\nNot even close, very few cities in Michigan even have local taxes (except for property taxes which are low), and state tax in Michigan is reasonable so in this state the only people hit by SALT will be upper middle class and wealthy.\n\n",
"I'm an atheist and an anarchist, so... ",
"You literally said earlier you were taking deductions previously which means you weren't using the standard deduction before. Which means you wouldn't get that much. You are obviously lying. You won't even say how many child credits you have, or if you own a house and how much your mortgage was or if you had other deductions. Hell you only said 110k when I threw out the 4.5% lol. So dumb and so easy to see through. Have a good one!",
"You are really frustrated by the fact that essentially everyone in the middle class is saving thousands of dollars aren't you? Why does that bother you so much?",
"I told you why, many people aren't saving any money including myself, while poeple much richer are saving millions of dollars. On top of that is added 1.5 trillion in debt for my kids, and for all we know the cuts for the middle class that got them might expire in 10 years anyways while corporations came out way ahead. I dunno how much clearer I can say it. You are too thick to actually respond to my points.",
"> I told you why, many people aren't saving any money including myself\n\nThat's because you live in a high tax state with over-inflated property values and you're relatively well off. Everybody else is benefiting from the tax cuts.\n\n>On top of that is added 1.5 trillion in debt for my kids\n\nHow do you feel about Obama adding $10 trillion to the national debt? ",
"I know, you all are. Personally, however, I think it's great you don't pretend to have Christian values or care about your country.",
"> That's because you live in a high tax state with over-inflated property values and you're relatively well off. Everybody else is benefiting from the tax cuts.\n\nAgain, moron, I'd take this argument if people a whole lot more well off than me weren't saving millions off their taxes after the new bill. How many times do I gotta say the same thing. You are very stupid. Even people in California that make millions because of the high bracket reductions. I don't know how many times I can say, people richer than me got lower taxes, my taxes went up, and the debt went up. It's a shit bill.\n\n> How do you feel about Obama adding $10 trillion to the national debt?\nAs I said I don't like it and don't want to add more so rich people can get tax breaks. We already had this conversation. Whataboutism isn't an argument dum dum.",
"> Again, moron \n\n>You are very stupid \n\nHow very progressive of you. \n\n>my taxes went up\n\nYour federal income taxes did not go up. You should be upset with your state if your overall taxes are up, because your federal income tax rate did not go up.\n\n",
"> How very progressive of you. \n\nYou are either extremely disingenuous or very very stupid. I call it like I see it, never claimed to be progressive.\n\n> Your federal income taxes did not go up. You should be upset with your state if your overall taxes are up, because your federal income tax rate did not go up.\n\nThey made a change to federal tax policy which changed rules about deductions which therefore reduced my deductions and thusly the end result is I pay more federal taxes now than I did before. Paying more money to the federal government for the same income is the definition of my \"federal taxes going up\". This is why you are stupid, does being disingenuous and nitpicking ever win you an argument?",
"Wow, you managed to quote me, and mix in your reply to it. Formatting is hard...\n\n>which therefore reduced my deductions \n\nStandard deduction was doubled to $24,000, if you still had an increase with that it means you are doing quite well for yourself and as liberals like to say - TAX THE RICH!!!",
"Sorry was on my phone and messed up formatting.\n\n> Standard deduction was doubled to $24,000, if you still had an increase with that it means you are doing quite well for yourself and as liberals like to say - TAX THE RICH!!!\n\nFor the 15th time, which you always ignore, I have no problem paying higher taxes, as I do very well for myself, what I don't like is when my taxes are raised, and people much richer than me have their taxes reduced. And on top of that we get nothing out of it except more debt.",
"What do you mean by \"Mob rule\" mentality? Is that not democracy? Where my one vote counts just as much as another American's vote? ",
"...is that also true of organizations like Comcast and Nestle? If the lawsuits don't go anywhere, there has *clearly* been no wrongdoing?\n\nEither way, I'm backed by Donna. You know...former chairperson of the DNC? Who [*openly admitted to exactly what we're discussing?*](https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2016/11/07/donna-brazile-my-conscience-is-very-clear/?utm_term=.d3deb639e491)\n\nYou don't have to bother responding if you just want to downvote and move on. (Your M.O.)",
"Donna‘s career is over and she wants to sell books, she backtracked on everything after she was called out.",
"We are not a democracy we are a constitutional representative republic. ",
"You state one thing as a patently obvious fact, then when challenged on it (with *embarrassingly* simple logic), you move right on to the next statement (that doesn't even make sense within the context of your logic).\n\nYou...have a *lot* in common with most T_D subscribers I've engaged with. I really suggest you try some introspection.",
"Okay, so I’m supposed to believe that state elections boards (most controlled by Republicans) and congressional Republicans would just ignore misconduct by the DNC and miss the opportunity to completely destroy the credibility of the Democrats? The fact that they haven’t done so would indicate that it would backfire because there is no real evidence of misconduct.\n\nNo it makes perfect sense, Donna tried to make some quick cash by writing the book every Trump supporter wanted to read, but realized after the fact that nobody was having her shit, so she reneged.\n\nI suggest you try some introspection if you believe that yielding to falsehoods in the name of “unity” (especially when Bernie, Nina, and Tulsi et al are not interested in “unity” in the slightest) is the rational way forward.\n\n\nEdit: and you know what, I’m not the one in this thread that told me I’d be better off as obituary, that was a Sanders supporter.",
"> I have no problem paying higher taxes, as I do very well for myself\n\nThen stop bitching about us middle class folks getting to keep a few grand. \n\n",
"You always ignore what I actually say, considering I'm complaining about very wealthy people getting the majority of tax cuts and them throwing a very small bone at the middle class to justify increasing the debt.",
"Again, you didn't even respond to the point made in my last comment. Which was that you run like hell from the points you can't turn into some platitude you've spouted off already.\n\nNow's the part where you accuse me of hypocrisy in not responding to your last rant. I've been through this dance before.\n\n*On /r/The_Donald.*",
"I’ve answered to every point brought up in this thread. Yes, your posts are introspective while mine are “rants.” \n\nBernie supporters are no better than Trump supporters.",
"Good luck in 2020.",
"Bernie’s never happening.",
"Goddamn dude, I'm not a fucking Bernie supporter. They went extinct like a year ago. I never mentioned him once in this thread. He'd be a million goddamn years old and he failed to secure the nomination the first time against a nominee *so despised* she actually paved the way for a rampaging toddler like Trump to win.\n\nAre you still convinced you aren't ranting?! You've come across completely whacked in every comment. Do you sincerely not see it??",
"A rant is usually more than a sentence long; and I’m sorry I guess I assumed because generally they were the only ones on the left to believe Donna Brazile’s big money grab.\n\nYeah, if I’m whacked, you’re condescending.",
"> I'm complaining about very wealthy people getting the majority of tax cuts\n\nBecause they pay the majority of federal income taxes, duh. Same reason the poorest don't get a federal income tax cut since they don't end up paying any federal income tax.",
"You mean because they wrote the bill to give them a cut and they had the most to cut, they could have voted to cut middle class taxes and change the standard deductiona but keep the top level marginal rates the same, and remember my taxes went up and a lot richer people's went down.",
"Sure, but they gave everybody a federal tax cut. ",
"Fox news must love you, you ignore facts, and reiterate any talking point they use. Congrats you are actually the worst arguing Trump supporter I've seen, and I've seen some dumb ones lol. When the next recession is deeper because we gave up our economic tools to deal with recessions, I hope you remember your imaginary 4.5% they gave you. Because with the current wealth disparity gap growing like it's never been seen since the 20s, it will be a big one.",
"> you ignore facts, and reiterate any talking point they use.\n\nThere are literally tax calculators that you can use to see for yourself, I have no idea why this is so hard for you to imagine. Even CNN admits that over 90% of middle class people are getting a fat tax cut.",
"I never argued that the majority of people got a tax cut? I never said that was not true lol. You really have to argue with a strawman this entire time and ignore what my actual arguments are. I guess thats what people need to justify their stupid beliefs.\n\nYou've given me a nice chuckle with how terrible you ate at debate and how stupid you are to think your responses are in any way a decent argument. Maybe one day you will think about the bigger picture, maybe when they next recession hits and we gave up the revenue we normally generate during an economic high point for absolutely no reason.",
"> I never argued that the majority of people got a tax cut? \n\nWhy are Democrats so against the idea of middle class people getting a tax cut? We need that extra few grand, you know that right?",
"Lol you completely ignore every point I make, it's like you are on an infinite loop now I'm worried I was arguing with a russion bot.",
"One investigation series and a lot of public documents lead nowhere. One is just getting started with documents coming out. Stop with false equivalency.",
"It's a serious question, because every single Democrat voted against middle class Americans getting a tax cut. Every single one. Meanwhile, a bunch of well off liberal voters from Cali and New York or whining because your overall tax burden is going up slightly.",
"No it's not, you ignore every point I say and never respond to them and say the exact same thing. I responded to this question 15 times throughout this conversation. Unfortunately you aren't smart enough for a debate. It probably is a good thing you got your imaginary 5k, you should save every penny because it's amazing you can hold down a job that isn't stocking the utility closet at a jack in the box.",
"> I responded to this question 15 times throughout this conversation. \n\nNo, you just bitched that wealthy people *also* got a tax cut, but you never explained why Democrats refused to vote for Middle class voters to get a tax cut, which is exactly what they did. Every single one. ",
"Because I don't think you should lump in something shitty with something good to justify passing a bill. They could have easily just given a tax cut to the middle class, it would have been less hard on the deficit, but that wouldn't satisfy the republican donors. I support the middle class tax cuts but do not support the wealthy tax cuts and thus the bad outweighs the good. Rich people have had their taxes cut since Reagan while the deficit climbs and the wealth disparity gap right with it, I'm sick of throwing the poor and middle class a tiny bone to justify huge cuts to the rich, it is economically fucking our country in the long run.\n\nI know this is probably too hard for you to understand, let me put it in an analogy, if they came up with a bill which gave health insurance to little sick children, but the same bill let people dump nuclear waste in the water. I wouldn't support that bill, you'd keep being like, why??? It saves kids! And I'd be like, because our drinking water is going to get poisoned. And you'd be like so you hate kids??? I'd be like how about we do the bill with iust the kid saving. Can your peanut brain follow that?",
"Wealthy people pay far more taxes and pay a higher rate on income than middle class and poor do, so I don't have a problem with their rate going down as well as mine. After the cuts, they still pay a much higher rate than me and will pay far more than I do in taxes. I also love that the business tax rate went down considerably as well, which was way out of whack for too long. Overall, it was a great bill and Democrats can explain why they didn't think middle class voters deserved to keep an extra few grand of their own money. ",
"I explained it it, you are too stupid to think long term about the economy. But it's no surprise, you support a 2 bit conman.",
"> you are too stupid to think long term about the economy.\n\nYes because giving millions of middle class tax payers more of their money back for them to spend and put back into the economy (instead of into government waste) will be horrible for the economy. Which might explain why markets reacted the way they did. ",
"Yeah but it's weird how the left wing media didn't attack Trump's wealth when the right wing media painted Hillary as an elite (which is kinda bullshit because money rules everything in politics, and the Clintons are basically poor compared to Trump).",
"\"A.I. for president 2020\"",
">I would rather have anyone over Trump\n\nBannon 2020"
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"What a sweet girl. Must be really tough for her and you as parents to deal with this. She looks happy though so I think you're doing a great job. ",
"ow, my heart aches for your little one; best of luck moving forward!",
"Wait what, DID she lose her vision or is she GOING TO? May I ask what condition is causing it? Best wishes to you and your lovely kid anyways!",
"Really sorry to hear that. She's adorable with or without sight!",
"It's great to see that she is happy. That is a direct influence from you. \n \nYour username confuses me.",
"Yeah, what's the scoop? As the father of young daughters, that's terrifying",
"Lost it. Wrote an explanation further down.\n\nEdit :\n\nI've posted a couple of times about Savvy's situation, but figured I'd give a brief summary for those asking about her. \n\nIn June, an MRI revealed a tumor at her pituitary gland - a craniopharyngioma that was almost the size of a golf ball. She had an endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery to remove it that same month, and they got most of it with virtually no complications afterwards. \n\nUnfortunately, in September, her follow up MRI found the tumor to be back to the same size that it was prior to the first surgery. Since it was mostly cystic, they decided perform surgery to insert an ommaya reservoir, which would allow them to drain it regularly and avoid a more invasive surgery or radiation therapy.\n\nShe came out of the surgery and the staff thought it all went well, but as soon as we saw her, she told us she couldn't see. They did a CAT scan and found that the catheter didn't go into the tumor, but instead went around it. They immediately took her back into surgery and tried to place it for another six hours or so, but were unable to do so, ultimately removing the catheter. She never recovered her vision, she is totally blind.\n\nIn October, she had a pterional craniotomy. It went incredibly well, her amazing surgeon was able to remove what appears to be 100% of the tumor, and he didn't damage the hypothalamus, which is important, as that would lead to hypothalamic obesity.\n\nHer MRI a month later showed no sign of growth, and she has another MRI scheduled for tomorrow.\n\nShe's on Levothyroxine, Prednisolone, desmopressin, and human growth hormone (a shot) every day, because she no longer has a pituitary gland, but she's handled it all incredibly well.\n\nThank you all for the kind comments. \n",
"I don't see it. Was the explanation deleted?",
"(Apparently the last title was somehow inappropriate?)\n\nI've posted a couple of times about Savvy's situation, but figured I'd give a brief summary for those asking about her. \n\nIn June, an MRI revealed a tumor at her pituitary gland - a craniopharyngioma that was almost the size of a golf ball. She had an endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery to remove it that same month, and they got most of it with virtually no complications afterwards. \n\nUnfortunately, in September, her follow up MRI found the tumor to be back to the same size that it was prior to the first surgery. Since it was mostly cystic, they decided perform surgery to insert an ommaya reservoir, which would allow them to drain it regularly and avoid a more invasive surgery or radiation therapy.\n\nShe came out of the surgery and the staff thought it all went well, but as soon as we saw her, she told us she couldn't see. They did a CAT scan and found that the catheter didn't go into the tumor, but instead went around it. They immediately took her back into surgery and tried to place it for another six hours or so, but were unable to do so, ultimately removing the catheter. She never recovered her vision, she is totally blind.\n\nIn October, she had a pterional craniotomy. It went incredibly well, her amazing surgeon was able to remove what appears to be 100% of the tumor, and he didn't damage the hypothalamus, which is important, as that would lead to hypothalamic obesity.\n\nHer MRI a month later showed no sign of growth, and she has another MRI scheduled for tomorrow.\n\nShe's on Levothyroxine, Prednisolone, desmopressin, and human growth hormone (a shot) every day, because she no longer has a pituitary gland, but she's handled it all incredibly well.\n\nThank you all for the kind comments.\n\n**Edit**: The outpouring of supportive responses is truly overwhelming, and appreciated more than I can express. To touch on a few questions:\n\n**Any chance she'll get her vision back?** That's a question we asked a thousand different ways, and researched countless hours. They don't even know specifically why she lost her vision, so there's no answer that isn't a guess. Each day that passes, the arrow leans heavily more towards no, and after four months, I don't imagine it'll happen, but we can't help but keep that hope a bit in our head. We're obviously not living with that expectation.\n\n**Malpractice?** The same surgeon that did the ommaya reservoir is the one that performed her craniotomy with insanely positive results. It sucks not being able to understand the technical details behind why and how she lost her vision (optic chiasm pressure, optic nerve damage, something else? The tumor was pushing on all of it), but the fact is, our daughter is here with us, with no visible tumor, no hypothalamic damage, and no photon radiation therapy needed, and it's because of her surgeon. We trust him, and I'd give him a kidney or more if he needed it.\n\n**it's so sad. How is she? How are you and mom?** It is sad, and it fucking sucks. Worse than I could have imagined before it happened. Savvy has been almost entirely positive and strong throughout, with only moments of sad thoughts and reflection. Her strength and positivity has kept her mom and I sane throughout the ordeal. We've both taken turns sobbing uncontrollably in a corner, more times than I care to share, but at the end of the day, Savvy gives us the strength to set those thoughts and feelings aside most of the time. She finds joy in the smallest of things, and her imagination is incredible. She's going to impact the world, I have no doubt. I'd argue she already has quite a lot based on her experiences through this ordeal, and her interactions and affects on people. ",
"Odd. It's not showing up in this thread. Be sure to [message the mods](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%2Fr%2Fpics) to get it restored. In the meantime, here it is:\n\n> (Apparently the last title was somehow inappropriate?)\n\n> I've posted a couple of times about Savvy's situation, but figured I'd give a brief summary for those asking about her.\n\n> In June, an MRI revealed a tumor at her pituitary gland - a craniopharyngioma that was almost the size of a golf ball. She had an endoscopic transsphenoidal surgery to remove it that same month, and they got most of it with virtually no complications afterwards.\n\n> Unfortunately, in September, her follow up MRI found the tumor to be back to the same size that it was prior to the first surgery. Since it was mostly cystic, they decided perform surgery to insert an ommaya reservoir, which would allow them to drain it regularly and avoid a more invasive surgery or radiation therapy.\n\n> She came out of the surgery and the staff thought it all went well, but as soon as we saw her, she told us she couldn't see. They did a CAT scan and found that the catheter didn't go into the tumor, but instead went around it. They immediately took her back into surgery and tried to place it for another six hours or so, but were unable to do so, ultimately removing the catheter. She never recovered her vision, she is totally blind.\n\n> In October, she had a pterional craniotomy. It went incredibly well, her amazing surgeon was able to remove what appears to be 100% of the tumor, and he didn't damage the hypothalamus, which is important, as that would lead to hypothalamic obesity.\n\n> Her MRI a month later showed no sign of growth, and she has another MRI scheduled for tomorrow.\n\n> She's on Levothyroxine, Prednisolone, desmopressin, and human growth hormone (a shot) every day, because she no longer has a pituitary gland, but she's handled it all incredibly well.\n\n> Thank you all for the kind comments.",
"She’s adorable! I’m sorry you’re both going through this, but I’m glad she has you as a parent. It seems to me as though you’re tackling this adversity together as a team, and I think that’s awesome. \n\nEdit: I just read your explanation, and I think my heart just broke. She’s a very brave little lady. \n",
"You sound like a great parent, keep up the good work!",
"I'd love to take credit, but /u/LeftHandedToe is the parent. Their comment isn't showing up so I quoted it for them.",
"Sad to hear it. ",
"Just logged in, to reply to you. You got one of the cutest daughter. May Almighty protect her and give strength to her parents, to fulfill her every dream. I speak as father of 3 year super cutie. ",
"She's so adorable! It's truly unfortunate that she lost her vision, however you don't need sight to know a smile like hers brings joy to anyone. ",
"oh man, she's adorable. I'm sad that she lost her vision, but I don't feel sorry for her - I bet she's going to be awesome.",
"It must have been crushing for you.I wish you and your little angel all the best.",
"Im so sorry to hear this,but keep doing what your doing and love and enjoy every waking hour with her. My sincere prayers and hugs to all of you to live as happily and true to life as can be, take care my friend.👼",
"Any chance of a malpractice lawsuit? ",
"I'm so sorry man. I hope her vision comes back by a miracle.",
"Your daughter is so brave. May she go on to do great things. Stay strong. ",
"I'm so confused...this is making me cry a mix of sad vs optimistic tears. \n\nI'm so saddened about her situation but the perseverance in her smile is one of the most inspiring things I have ever seen. ",
"Wow, that's a lot of surgery for her to have at her age. I'm sure she's taken it in stride like any child her age usually does. Being a parent myself, I can't imagine going thru this and it sounds and looks like you both have done so gracefully and bravely. Many, many hugs and lots of encouragement being sent your way. \n\nBtw, she's absolutely beautiful. ",
"Idk why you're getting downvoted. It sounds like a good case for malpractice.",
"Help I acccidentally build a shelf",
"What are the chances of her regaining her eyesight in the future? I know young brains do an amazing job of compensating. ",
"I was going to say, sneaky way of getting parental praise. ",
"I'm thinking that this kind of surgery is very risky and despite competent doctors and surgeons taking part, there is still likely something that may go awry even with the best of intentions. \n\nBesides, the waiver they signed likely included death/brain damage as a possible complication.\n\nDon't take my word for it, I'm not a doctor. Yet.",
"I wanna punch in the face whoever is responsible for that surgery fuckup.",
"Thank you for sticking up for doctors. All surgery is a risk, especially this type of surgery carries high complications where a million things could go wrong if you breathe at the wrong second. Throwing malpractice at doctors is one of the reasons why health care is becoming more and more expensive. There are no guarantees and I am sure the parents and doctors well know the risks here.",
"It is a license to practice medicine, not a license to always be right or be god. They can't save everyone's everything all the time, circumstances simply are not that kind. Malpractice is truly when someone is negligent.",
"It sounds like an unfortunate complication. Unfortunate outcomes are not necessarily grounds for a malpractice suit.\n\n",
"Well, they were probably a human being. It's unfortunate, but *it happens.* You've never made a mistake?",
"Brain surgery isn’t an exact science. It’s really really hard to pull this stuff off, always a chance of error. And when you’re digging around in the middle of the human brain, even minor errors can cause things like this.\n\nModern medicine still saved her life. \n\nEdit: Oh and imagine how the surgeon feels? Surgeons in general have very high depression and suicide rates..",
"And if she doesn’t on her own, what are the chances that modern developments will be able to restore at least some vision at some point? I’m betting decent! I’ve seen some incredible examples of hearing and vision restoration.. ",
"That girl is blind instead of dead now though right?",
"Thanks so much for sharing your story. All the best to you and your little love! I'm currently studying to be a teacher of the visually impaired and have worked with kids birth-5 with visual impairments for the past 3 years. Please let me know if I can help in any way to connect you guys with resources :) ",
"Not to that extent.",
"Just because something medically doesn't work out it does not mean there was malpractice. ",
"It sounds like your family has been through a lot. I wish you guys the absolute best. ",
"Maybe some solace, but what I would hang onto is that sometime in her lifetime -- there will be an answer to regaining vision. It might not be until she's in her 30's and married, but she is going to get there. I already know you're instilling everything she needs to make the best of life until then.\n\nCan I ask, what did you tell her to help her get through this? I couldn't imagine..",
"If everyone had this attitude nobody would go into medicine and people would just die instead.",
"Probably because you haven't been trusted to such responsability. I'll bet you also haven't done anything **so right** you saved a life or cured someone of disease. There's a reason for that.",
"Fuck. She's one strong girl. We all have problems in life that are so painful it becomes hard to imagine moving past them. Then a kid comes along any she's dealt a bad hand and yet she just powers through. I find your daughter inspiring and I hope she gets everything from this life that she deserves. I'm crushed inside by her story and all my issues seem so petty in comparison. ",
"FWIW, I work in tech and we vastly need experts in assistive technologies. Making websites easily browsable and up to standards for the blind, for one example. Maybe she would start to find that appealing in her teens.",
"This made me tear up .",
"Probably zero",
"I hope this super star full fills all her dreams and ambitions!",
"No doctor went into a surgery without the best intent and making the best effort they could. ",
"Perhaps you should re-think your life choices...",
"What the fuck. ",
"I wouldn't do it. I just feel like doing it.",
"Man, you guys are troopers. Keep on rolling.",
"Can you back up your pessimism?",
"That’s so sad. ",
"How are you holding up? ",
"Most surgeons go into the field for the status, money, and to fulfill narcissistic ambitions.",
"Seriously? That’s what you could come up with? How about some meditation?",
"Well it was brain surgery...",
"Wow she is beautiful!",
"Dick",
"You’re an amazing parent, seriously. ",
"Perhaps with more surgery, if they find someone willing to look into it... probably wouldn’t use the same doctor though.",
"It's juts reality man.\n\nAs much as we hail our modern medicine, we still know practically nothing about the brain and repairing it. ",
"Different guy, but nerve damage that late, in that area, typically doesn't heal. They should look into medical malpractice. It's terribly unfortunate all around",
"Sweet child. I wish you all all the best.",
"She looks so beautiful and strong. ",
"She's an adorable little girl with a very supportive family. She will be fine so long as the cancer stays away. There's nothing dickish about answering the ops question",
"Thanks doc",
"Damn, she looks stoned.",
"She looks so sweet and happy. This is a great picture. Thank you for sharing her story with us. ",
"Your kid's a fucking champion! what a goddamn soldier! Seriously all that and shes still a pup! Damn that's one tough kid you got. ",
"My daughter was born with a cataract in her left eye. She had surgry to fix her eye at a year old. Her eye is in perfect working order but her brain refuses to recognize its existence. Shes now blind in that eye. Her sight will never come back, her brain can not relearn her left eye is there. Ussually if a child looses sight they will not gain it back, ever. I've talked to doctors, surgeons and eye specialists, they all say the same thing. ",
"Probably some cutting edge bionics 15-30 years from now",
"The chances of vision-restoring technological advancements depend a lot on the cause. It's much more likely that we'll be able to restore vision if the problem is in the eyes (like bionic eyes or artificial retinas) than if the problem is in the brain. We really don't know enough about the brain. I'd imagine the best potential shot would be stem cell based, where you hope they differentiate correctly to help. The later in life, though, the lower the neural plasticity. \n\nIn this case, it seems like the cause is neural, so the chances of technology solving the problem are unfortunately low. However, she is still young, and there's a chance natural plasticity could help her regain vision, depending on the nature of the damage. ",
"A lot for a kid to go through. \n\nA lot for parents to go through. \n\nHere's hoping you have a broad and deep support network. ",
"Hey, just wanted to let you know I really hope this goes well for her.\n\nI also was on growth hormone shots for a long time (I think from approximately 6 years old to 14 years old) so I understand a bit of that side of things. It'll be totally worth it, and later she won't need to worry about other shots, like for the flu, because she'll be used to needles! :) \n\nHope the test goes well tomorrow!",
"She seems so adorable and to be doing great.\nHow are YOU doing bro? ",
"aw, man. you're a good parent and she's a tough kid. hope it all works out for the best for the both of you. ",
"I mean, it can't be that hard. It's not like it's brain sur--...wait...rocket science!\n\nJoking aside, my sister in law is an ICU nurse. She's witnessed the remorse surgeons have when there's a fuckup. No need to punch them, they're already doing it themselves (metaphorically speaking).",
"have you tried prayer?",
"All I can do is wish you and your family well. May you find joy in the every day.",
"> She came out of the surgery and the staff thought it all went well, but as soon as we saw her, she told us she couldn't see. They did a CAT scan and found that the catheter didn't go into the tumor, but instead went around it. They immediately took her back into surgery and tried to place it for another six hours or so, but were unable to do so, ultimately removing the catheter. She never recovered her vision, she is totally blind.\n\nTime for a malpractice lawsuit.",
"Huh?",
"Just about the the time time any of us think that we've got it tough, a person such as yourself, shares a story of extreme adversity like this. Incredible young girl you've got, and raised. Thank you for sharing, and most of all, being an outstanding parent for your kiddo. God bless your daughter, yourself, and your family. ",
"I was diagnosed with Leukemia when I was 5 years old and battled it for 4 years roughly and went into remission when I was 9. Being so young at the time I wasn't ever fully able to realize what kind of stress this put on my parents, but they supported me through all of the treatment regardless of the job I had become. \n\nI just wanted to commend you and say you are truly amazing parents for being there for your daughter. The truth is a lot of parents aren't there for their kids who don't even have to face a life threating experience, which make parents like you even more important. The fact that you are supporting your child and helping them to grow more comfortable with themselves not only says that you are amazing humans but amazing parents too. Please never give up on them, even when they are a moody teenager and it seems like nothing you do is right. The best thing my parents ever did to help my development was care and love me just as I can tell you do about your daughter. \n\nNow I am 22 years old and very healthy, I work fulltime and am going to attend classes in the fall and pursue a degree in psychology. I hope to work with children and adolescents that are affected by life threating illnesses, and teach them healthy ways to cope with all the madness that is our lives sometimes.\n\nThank you so much for sharing, this was really inspiring and heart warming. I wish you all the best and send all the positive vibes your way :)",
"Beautiful child!! So sorry she lost her sight but glad that she is learning to cope. ❤️❤️❤️",
"His trolling gave me a dark chuckle so I’m not even sure what he’s terrible at any more",
"Not to be that guy, but malpractice and negligence are somewhat different. I linked a source at the bottom of this. \n\n>Negligence is:\n\n>A general term that denotes conduct lacking in due care;\nCarelessness; and\nA deviation from the standard of care that a reasonable person would use in a particular set of circumstances.\nAnyone, including non-medical persons, can be liable for negligence.\n\n>Malpractice a more specific term that looks at a standard of care as well as the professional status of the caregiver. To be liable for malpractice, the person committing the wrong must be a professional.\n\n>The courts define malpractice as the failure of a professional person to act in accordance with the prevailing professional standards, or failure to foresee consequences that a professional person, having the necessary skills and education, should foresee.\n\nI'm not a lawyer, but this actually might be malpractice or negligence. The location of the catheter should have been visualized via CT or something. If they missed it, misplaced the catheter, didn't check, etc., then they may have a case. \n\nSource I pulled, but there are others: http://health.mo.gov/living/lpha/phnursing/negligence.php\n\n",
"May music, love and laughter fill her ears in a long and healthy life",
"Is medical malpractice applicable in this instance? I don't know anything about this surgery, but it sounds incredibly difficult and risky. Medical malpractice is supposed to be used when the doctor fails to provide a standard of care, not just because something went wrong",
"What an absolute sweetheart! That little girl just made my day!",
"Getting testing for my kid to find out if he has autism, tomorrow. I was laying here feeling bad, but after reading your story and seeing the joy on your kid's face...everything is going to be alright. He's still my kid at the end of the day and he's still a great kid. Thank you for giving me courage and gratitude. It's been a trying day, and you helped give me the strength for tomorrow. ",
"Despite all of this she has a smile on her face. Such a trooper. You guys are doing a great job. ",
"I'm an amateur neurosurgeon and it's difficult to address this question without knowing the route and likely affected structures, which op doesn't really get into.",
"Jesus this is sad ",
"Fuck your mother",
"I’m so sorry this happened to her. I wish you and your little girl the very best.",
"Well... shit. Can they at least fix her vision with a pair of totally rad [cyber-eyes](https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/149106-the-first-real-high-resolution-user-configurable-bionic-eye)?",
"Broke my heart reading this, more so by the incredible warmth in her smile despite everything. Shows how strong she is, and how loved by family. All my best friend ",
"How did you know that something was wrong? As in, what prompted you to take her for the first MRI? as an expecting parent I can't imagine dealing with this as well as you have and your daughter is lucky to have you as her support system. ",
"They told me I’d never see again, and I really have to commend them on their spot-on diagnosis",
"Cool",
"> amateur neurosurgeon\n\nWait...",
"Poor baby, I hope all goes well for her. She seems to be a very strong little girl. I'm glad that it doesn't seem to be growing at this point, but I'm still sending good vibes you way for her. \n\nI've got an arachnoid cyst present from birth that has only withing the last seven years or so given me problems. Part of the thing (which takes up 1/3 of my brain cavity) is on one on my optic nerves. They thought I was going to lose vision in it for a while from the pressure. Thankfully right now it's controlled and I only get headaches at this point. \n\nBut like I said, strong girl. She'll do fine, she's got a good spirit about it. And all the best luck to her. ",
"Power to her. I've got my next MRI in a couple weeks, though my brain tumor hasn't shown any signs of coming back so I might've gotten lucky. It's crazy to see how much fight a person has when they're pushed to it. All the best to you and yours.",
"She’s an incredibly strong little girl, best wishes for the future.",
"This... unfortunately, this.",
"Krieger!!!",
"armchair neurosurgeons... RISE",
"# Metoo\n",
"What a cute little angel there! Hope everyone get their happiness in their way.",
"Fuck. I can't imagine what this must have been like for her and your family. ",
" She is absolutely adorable. ",
"Have an Internet hug. You sound like you have a big day ahead. ",
"I watch enough Grey's Anatomy that I am an amateur surgeon as well! ",
" You may want to look into MEK inhibitors for her. Currently experimental, but amazing results. ",
"First of all - ugggh. This is a a very sad and unfortunate story. But - this little girl will be fine. Seems like she has an incredible family to love a support her. What a trooper she obviously is to go through all of this! \n\nSecond - no malpractice. This surgeon was completely straightforward about what happened during the surgery. He or she tried their best and I am certain worked very hard to reposition that catheter into the correct place. All of you who are not physicians have no idea how heartbreaking it is for any physician to have a less than optimal outcome - especially when a child is involved. There is a reason we call it \"the art of medicine\" and \"the practice of medicine\". We all do our very best and go home with heavy hearts and tears more often than any non-medical person might imagine. (Yes - I'm a doc - ER though - hats off to anyone who specializes and then subspecializes in any pediatric specialty. I don't know how you do it! Thank you!)",
"Man, glad she's doing well. Hope you hug her often.",
"Thanks so much for sharing such a heart-touching story. I am from India, we have a set phrase, sharing with you. \"Don't lose hope. If god shut a door, he surely opens other doors\". May God Opens multiple doors for little angel. \nAll the best to you and your little love!",
"Poor kid :(",
"Shes adorable, reminds me a ton of my youngest sister, when she was younger. Im glad to see that she tries not to be limited by her lack of vision. All i can really say, is i think it would be super important to tell her that shes strong, and that shes capable, so that she doesnt become timid in a way. Best wishes to you and your family, hope you all have many happy years.",
"You literally leave this same comment on every post. How has that been working for you? ",
"I noticed her face is pretty round. Is that from the hormones? I know when I got put on prednisone I had a ton of side effects. I wouldn't wish it on anyone to be honest. But maybe a long term low dose wouldn't be bad??",
"She is beautiful ",
"How did the initial MRI come about? Was she experiencing some sort of symptoms?",
"I doubt he has anything else going for him anyway. Have some pity. There's probably no heat in that basement bedroom in Mommy's house.",
"I’m not sure how much relates in your case but my aunt is a scientist/professor of similar cases and wrote a book about other people’s experiences called [“The Forever Fix, Gene therapy and the boy who saved it”. ](https://www.amazon.com/Forever-Fix-Gene-Therapy-Saved/dp/1250015774/ref=nodl_). It explores the history and trials and errors of gene therapy. It also gives hope that one day lots of things can be fixed with this gene therapy. \n\nI can’t imagine it being easy to deal with but I’m sure you’re wonderful parents and I hope one day the body corrects it self or there’s a fix for your daughters situation. Stay strong!",
"Its more of a hobby ",
"WELL SAID.",
"I had the same condition when I was 15. Removed the same way, and thankfully it hasn't grown back. Though I did recover my eyesight shortly after surgery. I'll never forget what it felt like to be blind. ",
"She*",
"She's cutie patootie. ",
"I'm sure your daughter will triumph from adversity and we'll all be here to cheer her on!!! ",
"Thanks ",
"Unless you up loaded it, how do people find this stuff??",
"As sorry as I am that they were not able to retain her sight, I am just very thankful that the measures they've taken seem to have worked. But more importantly, how fortunate your daughter is to have the parents that she has.\n\nThis is a very unfortunate circumstance, but your daughter obviously has the support that she will need to push this life as hard as it has pushed her. Best wishes to you all.\n\n",
"I can’t imagine what you and your daughter are going through, but I am so happy they got that tumor out without affecting the hypothalamus, and also, that Savvy has you as a parent. Whether she gets her sight back or not, I know you will get her through the experience and she will have a successful happy life. ",
"Half a million in student loan debt and trying to pay that back while earning a resident's salary of $30,000 a year for the better part of a decade, and then making $250,000 a year afterward, seems like a very inefficient way to striking it rich.\n\nI don't know about you, but to me it seems like a surer bet to go into petroleum engineering, software, or finance rather than medicine if your goal is money.",
"Oh man, this really made me choke up, I wish I could give her the sight of one of my eyes!",
"turn that frown upside down...",
"I cannot imagine how horrible it must feel to you, and her obviously - She is a lovely little one, and looks to be coping well - Children are amazing like that.",
"Such a sweet doll. Big hug to you and her.",
"Be strong! May she be good and wise fighter forward ",
"I love that you shared this photograph of your daughter.\n\nI read your story on how it came to this point, and I see hope and I see wonder and I see the incredulous and intense curiosity within this young lady.\n\nYour family is an inspiration, the hell ride you have endured gave me goosebumps and what I see right now is a young person who is clearly not going to be constricted by a loss of sight.\n\nKeep doing what you’re doing, keep finding wonder and amazement in every little development of her new found skills. I am in awe of her and your family.\n\nTake care.",
"You need to get deep into youtube man.",
"Thanks for sharing my stuff :D",
"Come on you are setting her to fail, cabinets are a pain in the ass even with vision :P",
" I am sorry you're faced with these difficulties, but I want to say your awesome for facing them with intelligence - teaching her tactile skills and such.\n\nGood luck with your future and wishing you both the best",
"Np :)",
"I'm so sorry for your daughter but with parents on top of her health such as yourselves I'm sure she'll live a very healthy and happy life. Feel good that you care enough to allow her the care she needs to live a some what normal life and I'm sure she'll really achieve amazing things despite a disability after overcoming such obstacles. She'll make you proud one day. Thank you for sharing your families story, you're all in my thoughts. ",
"Username [checks out](http://riotfest.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fart-spongebob.jpg).",
"That also stopped me in my tracks.",
"And you're the reason why America and our legal system is so bad.",
"My mother-in-law was a premature baby. At the time they gave premature baby's 100% oxygen thinking it was a good thing. Oxygen in that concentration is poison though and it killed her optic nerve. She's been blind over 70 years and has had a fairly normal life. I'm confident your little one will too.",
"You, your wife and your daughter are all incredible.",
"Glad to hear she's adjusting well. With such supportive parents she's sure to do well no matter what happens with her sight. ",
"Wow. OP. You, mum and Savvy are amazing. It’s my turn today o cry uncontrollably in a corner. You’ve seriously touched my heart. ",
"This guy premeds",
"Jesus. Rips my heart out\n\nI hope your family grows as a collective. Life sucks when kids are dealt unfair circumstances, but amazingly they are usually the strongest ones.",
"best of luck to her and your family!",
"In your case was it evident what cause the loss of vision? And was the recovery natural or you were treated again. I would be amazing if she gets her vision back.",
"Now I'm hungry for potatoes",
"☹️",
"I wonder if cannabis would've stopped it from growing back. I know a few that stop reoccurring tumors with it.",
"Well, you're a bit of an inspiration. As a new father, I think I'd want to kill someone if their actions caused my daughter to lose her eyesight. I understand that accidents happen, I would just want someone to blame. Good on you for staying so level headed and concerned only with what matter, her health moving forward. ",
"Yeah, screw me for wanting to hold irresponsible doctors responsible for their life-changing mistakes.",
"What a beautiful doll baby you have there! What a blessing to have her! Great job, Dad!",
"I had a blind programmer working for me who had gotten to his blindness by this same oxygen treatment. We got him some equipment, and he did well and I suppose is still continuing to do so.",
"> You literally leave this same comment on every post *that belongs on Facebook.\n\nFTFY\n\n",
"Jesus Christ dude, I'm sorry to hear all that. I know you said you totally trust your surgeon, but have you at least talked to some sort of medical lawyer? Surgery isn't a perfect science, so not saying this guy purposefully screwed anything up, but if something happened during surgery and now it's your family dealing with the consequences you at least need to have some help. It's great she'll be alive but she'll need much more care, that's why health insurance is a thing, doctors/hospitals being held accountable. \n\n Sorry again, sounds like you guys ended up in a lose/lose situation, just wanted to say right now probably isn't the time to be the nice guy and not be looking for answers/help/compensation. It's at least worth doing due diligence to see if there was a totally avoidable reason that your daughter wouldn't have to grow up blind.",
"☹️",
"Bingo. People always want blood when something goes wrong with their loved ones. Fact of the matter is that literal brain surgery is risky as all fuck. Malpractice would only show up if the surgeons made egregious errors, lacked prep, etc.",
"The crappiest surgeon makes considerably more than $250k. They can easily triple that. And as I said elsewhere surgeons go into the field primary for fame and status.",
"Irresponsible =/= risky job. You might want to go to a doctor anyways, seems like you have cancer.",
"What a lovely little girl. Sending positive vibes. It sounds like she's a strong independent fighter, but sending positive vibes to anyone, anytime is a good thing. Best wishes to you and your family.",
"Her body doesn't know how to make normal steroids anymore, so she takes them to replace the dose our body makes for us daily. It's the same reason she's taking synthroid (thyroid hormone) and growth hormones.",
"It’s a good thing that her actual eyes did not become damaged. Hopefully in the future there will be better understanding of our brain’s role in vision. I wish her the best in life, and you as well. Good luck!",
"I don’t think it’s fair to ruin a doctors life because a complication that occurred during a risky surgery. Stuff can go poorly during surgery without it being the result of an irresponsible doctor.",
"Good luck ",
"What kind of equipment?",
"This is literally a stock photo from Getty images...",
"You, OP, are an awesome parent. Your daughter is lucky to have a parent that continues to treat her like the typical kid she is, but you also incorporate her therapy into everyday functional activities. That is amazing. Keep it up. Wishing you all the best.",
"Make sure you get her started on the computer early! You might contact an organization/school for the blind to see if there's software or games that would be interesting to her. Using a screen reader is just like reading. The more you do it, the faster you get at it. \n\nI just spent a semester teaching computer programming to students at a high school for the visually impaired, which was awesome all around.",
"I'm sorry your little girl is going through this, the good news is she is young and more likely to adjust to a normal life. The YouTube channels TommyEdisonXP is a great resource for learning about blind people and how they live, and there's also the AMAs done by /u/Nighthawk321 who lost his sight when he was a child.",
"She's so adorable. You broke my heart right away today. I wish the best for your family. ",
"This is kind of similar to my cousin... She had a tumor. They removed it but she went blind. I think about the same age too maybe a little younger. She's doing well though. Completely adapted. ",
"I just wanted to say that you are doing an amazing job and you have a wonderful, strong daughter. If you are able, I know I and probably a lot of others would love to hear updates when possible.",
"god damn man, i have a 4 year old daughter with some problems but very minor to your situation and your story just made me cry. \n\n\n\nNo kid deserves to be harmed by things like this. I hope you can all handle the situation and be as positive as your little girl. \n\n\n\nI only hope that in the near future there will be more understanding and advancement in the medical field to cure things like this.\n\nI wish your family the best!",
"I hope some day she gets a bump on the head from a soccer ball or something and knocks some shit back into place returning her vision with a happy ending like a sappy movie!\n\nTake care. I can't imagine going through this with my kids.",
":) :(",
"Your daughter is so brave. May she go on to do great things. Stay strong.\n\n",
"I'm not crying. You're crying...",
"Im so sorry for the loss of her vision. Thank goodness they were able to remove the tumor and you can hold and kiss your little girl everyday. Good luck for the future\n",
"I'm so glad she is going to be OK. My son had a cystic tumour deep in his brain, it was pressing on his optic nerves and affecting his eyesight. When he came round from the op one of the first things he said was 'why are the lights turned off? He did have some vision though. Unfortunately he had many setbacks, every worst case scenario happened and he passed away exactly three years ago today.",
"My heart breaks for you, for her. Praying for peace in your heart for your whole family.",
"Despite everything she's been through in this photograph she looks happy. I'm sure she'll lead a happy life and make you proud in all that she achieves. \n\nIt's incredibly sad what you've all been through, but she's here. You have her to love and cherish and she has you to nurture and encourage her. \n\nYour approach based on this post is parenting at its finest. It's refreshing to see that your not angry or looking for someone to blame. Instead you're enjoying parenting her and she will remember that forever. \n",
"You should definitely get a 2nd opinion on the cause of the sight loss (and malpractice) with the post op scans.\n\nIf it was optical nerve damage there is a good chance that it can be cured with stem cells in the next 10-30 years.\n\nTechnically we have the technology to cure it even now. ",
"What's even more sad is you exploit your daughter for internet points to people you don't know. ",
"First was a braile punch contained in a briefcase type case, then an Opticon (lay a finger in a cradle and receive piezo electric vibrations and input from a camera device).\nAt this point I exit the picture, but having spoken to the gentleman maybe 3 years back, his employer did something about windows displays - don't know what. He was mostly tech support, so lots of text.",
"Hi there, your story is a sad one, but I'm very happy to see that your little one is coping so well providing all that she's been through.\nI hope you'll be able to answer this question for me - looking over the comments, I haven't seen it answered yet. What originally made you see a specialist to arrange an MRI scan?\nI ask because I work in optics and I see children as young as 3 - 4 years old. Pituitary tumours classically affect the vision, but a child wouldn't be able to tell you their symptoms. How can I make sure I don't miss something like this? What signs would be a red flag?",
"She is so beautiful, i am sure she will live a long happy life with such great caringparents by her side.\nShe is very lucky to have you",
"turn that frown upside down...",
"If you have not seen this youtube channel it may help you feel a bit better about things. It is all about explaining what it is like to be blind to sighted people. Being blind does not seem to bother him and he seems to be a genuinely happy person.\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDHJRCtv0WY ",
"):",
"Modern accessibility software is pretty amazing. I am a QA tester and work with a vision impaired accessibility team for testing screen readers for PCs and Smartphones. The jump in just the last 5 years of how much better the software is really cool.",
"I learned from the guy I refer to that he frequently worked with Microsoft\nfor vision impaired software, but as a contributor, not an employee or contractor or what not. If you will refer back to my earlier note about the braile punch. It was RS-232 connected to a teletype and as it received signals and convert to Braile outputting to paper tape, it sounded like a machine gun about as loud as a close jet engine - was awful.",
"This made me cry in a corner . . . I am a photog and an artist and I rely on my vision . . . My world would end if I lose my sight I think but I am sure I am wrong . . . as I see the light in her face no matter what the hard circumstance is . . . I will have you guys in my thoughts for as long as I live . . . and a big kiss to your daughter . . .",
"Yeah every major company has there own software now a days. JAWS is a generic screen reader that can be used on any PC. Google has TalkBack and iPhone has VoiceOver. The basically work by reading everything that comes up. Developers build special menus that these programs recognize now, its pretty fascinating to work on.",
"Yea the tumor was pushing on my optic nerve. The vision recovery was natural",
"Fuck off inbred scum",
"All I wish is for your beautiful baby to regain her vision.",
"Can't stop crying. ",
"I have a really sick dog. We've spent thousands to get him better and we just managed to get him to a somewhat stable point. Not that a dog is anything like a child, but it made me really think and be grateful for what I have. \n\nYou both sound like amazing parents and I'm so sorry you're going through this. I'm also so glad to hear that the worst appears to be over. Stay strong.",
"very awesome !! it's more for a hobby https://bornetactile.pro"
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Four months from losing her vision, this is my daughter working on improving her tactile skills while happily helping me build a cabinet.
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"If god bau don't worry those who aren't?",
"Dammit Jim, I'm a post man, not a grammar scientist! ",
"They say it like it's a *good* thing.",
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"LOVED Iceland!!",
"What did Iceland do to you to make you change your mind? ",
"Well, time to go to sleep",
"The $30 breakfasts really bowled them over.",
"Icelanders what Time do you normally go to sleep during summer?",
"When you are feeling tired :-)",
"We were just there. It's like another planet, truly gorgeous. \n\nAnother planet where pizza costs $50.",
"Love Iceland and the midnight sun!",
"Does everybody have blackout curtains in their home? ",
"I'll bet there are no \"flat earthers\" living in Iceland.\n",
"Yeah when we were there we went out and I think our dinner consisted of soup, bread, and a small appetizer. $75. \n\nStill one of the best places I've ever been in my life. ",
"Just about.",
"Not an Icelander, but I was there for a year. I found it much easier to sleep in the summer. The winter, where the sun briefly rises as a distant star, screwed me up worse. ",
"Went to Iceland, rented two otherwise lovely houses, neither had blackout curtains. It was miserable for sleep.",
"There are very VERY few flat earthers outside usa; are even those in usa not mostly trolls? I still have trouble believing those people are for real...",
"Bet you like to pull that photo out many times during this time of the year :-P",
"How is that possible if Iceland is below the arctic circle? \n\nThis is how low the sun is during midnight summer sun at 68 degrees north, which is a fair bit more north than Iceland.\n\nhttps://i.imgur.com/m0vbN0Q.jpg\n\n",
"What are the purple flowers? ",
"HA! Sorry didn’t change my mind. “Loved” as in when I was there. :)",
"I do it on regular occasions, specially now when we get 4hours of daylight",
"Not OP, but I bet they are lupine.",
"I hear you, cousin; swede here. You have it worse ofc. but I don't get much more than that either.",
"Correct.",
"Yes I know :( its as expensive as its beautiful.",
"Who?..lol jk...no haven't met any one yet. But then again our education system is pretty good.",
"Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore, riding through the night...",
"Not necessarily, Iceland is further south than about 1/5th of Sweden.",
"Yes, but since I know where Iceland is and since I know where *I* live, I can state that I don't have it as bad with some confidence :-)",
"> How is that possible if Iceland is below the arctic circle? \n\niceland is technically right next to the arctic circle (with island like Grímsey being within it) so do to the magic that is light Reflection iceland has midnight summer ",
"turn that frown upside down...",
"How does this fit in the flat earth theory? Trick photography\n\n",
"Actually we have developed a body part that covers our eyes, we call them eyelids. Just close them and then it doesn't matter wether it's bright or dark.\n\nNo, most people don't have blackout curtains, we're just used to it.",
"It's because we're in the wrong timezone. We use GMT but we are 22° west of London. Noon (as in the sun being at it's highest point) hapens at like 13:30. \n\nIn June, when this picture was probably taken, the sun will drop behind the horizon for about an hour but it won't go darker then twilight.\nActually, I just realized that OP might be lying to us, I don't think the sun is that high at midnight. Based on where the picture is taken it looks to me like the sun is NW which would mean that the solar time is 21:00 which would put local time at 22:30\n",
"As a parent, I hate these few days. It's almost impossible to get the kids to sleep... \"but it's daytiiiime\" \"I see the sun! You don't fool me!\"",
"Cheers for the input. \n\nYeah I was a little surprised with how high it was sitting seeing as we're a fair bit north of Iceland and it almost touches the horizon here. \n\n",
"Huh, I went to Iceland last year and don’t remember seeing many trees. . . ",
"Really? Thats strange ",
"Yeah where was this taken? Ear Reykjavik?",
"Yes these are our built in black out curtains but too much light gets through them. I take a magic marker to them to correct this detail but then no one will talk to me.",
"Wooow!!",
"The only ones that believe it for real have a mental illness. Kind of like most conspiracy theorists. It's either done for personal entertainment or their brain is fucked up. ",
"Yes,\n\nhttps://goo.gl/maps/Bj1oyuNwAMB2",
"Wow interesting! Guess I just missed the trees when I was there lol, I just saw a lot of moss ",
"Engin lygi.",
"If only Floki could show them THIS part of Iceland.",
"Can it still be called night if the sun is out, dispute the time?",
"Parts of Iceland are far enough north (the Westfjords for example). I'm unconvinced this shot is at one of them though. The sun dipped almost to the sea when I was there. \n\nThis looks more like a place I went to in the south and probably not midnight (it remains bright down there, but the sun is below the horizon), although I'm happy to be proven wrong.",
"The vikings chopped most of them down. They don't grow very fast up there, so the best thing to do if you're lost in an Icelandic forest is to stand up."
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"That has to be photoshopped",
"Wish I could party with him",
"Why? He was a mass murdering puppet of the oligarchy who sold his country out. Stop being swayed by bullshit propaganda.",
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Still Missing Obama. What a Guy.
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"Guy was trying sooo hard to copy him",
"I just watched episode 2 and that was my first thought and I was hoping it wouldn't ruin the show for me. I'm still going to watch it though ",
"Uh...",
"Umm what is this?",
"Watch peaky blinders on Netflix "
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Newly colorized photo of Marlon Brando on the set of "The Godfather"
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/r/pics/comments/7piw4e/what_are_doing_cat_something_is_wrong/
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[
"Erectile challenge. Everyone on the floor. ",
"Has anyone seen my missing Viagra?...Oh...",
"what does your title mean? English much?",
"Hahaha",
"That is one excited cat.",
"What are you doing, cat? Something is wrong! [insert cancerous emoji abuse]",
"{insert hillbilly music}",
"Kitteh's face: \"its not gonna suck itself, Carl\"",
"hahahahaha",
"Hohohoho"
] | 10 |
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What are doing cat something is wrong😃😃😂
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/r/pics/comments/7pixan/conor_mcgregor_and_richard_branson_face_off/
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[
"I like Conor's shoes better. ",
"no sixpacks ???",
"Conor looks like he is holding in his gut.",
"Y tho"
] | 4 |
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Conor McGregor and Richard Branson face off
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/r/pics/comments/7pixl6/surveying_a_watercourse/
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[
"Either a predator died nearby, or there will soon be 4 kickass reptiles and a rat to answer to...",
"Do they dye the water to see the flow?",
"The epa is at it again",
"Yes, this is a harmless dye used to show water flow. "
] | 4 |
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Surveying a watercourse
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/r/pics/comments/7pixv1/my_neighbor_nonchalantly_tossing_furniture_out_of/
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[
"This is the end, table.",
"Dad? ",
"Son?\n",
"Spring cleaning made easy, throw the entire dresser out the window. "
] | 4 |
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My neighbor nonchalantly tossing furniture out of his window.
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/r/pics/comments/7pixxi/theres_a_big_red_button_in_the_front_of_our/
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[
"I think it opens the Emergency Exit.",
"There is no Emergency Exit though. Unless maybe it's a trap door or something.",
"Yep!! It’s a trap door with slide. Push it!",
"Haha, the door next to it is the main entrance. We have no idea what it is. :P",
"Are they automatic doors? Could function like the handicapped door openers. ",
"No this is the front entrance which is one heavy wooden door (which sometimes sticks to the floor when it gets extremely cold). Help! D;",
"It probably opens some super cool panic room. ",
"That would be awesome and handy in cases of Emergency :P",
"Push the button. ",
"It's obviously an ejection switch...",
"That would be VERY painful D:",
"Push it. ",
"I've been here for 2 years and have wanted to every day. :P",
"Do it. ",
"It's for when the buildings doors are locked. It's an emergency release in case someone needs to get out... during an emergency.",
"Just push it and say oops. ",
"I read this in Palpatine's voice :P",
"You are covered if you say oops. ",
"But we can't get locked in there are multiple exits. D:\n\nAlthough that makes the most sense out of anything we've heard so far.",
"Hahahahahaha ",
"Just \"accidentally\" trip over your shoelace, and \"accidentally\" hit the button with your elbow. Then say oops!",
"That's exactly what it is. I've seen these in many buildings. Imagine there's a fire that's stopping you from getting to one of those other exits. Also consider the front door is the one exit that everyone who entered the building should know the location of, so it's likely to be the one that people run to in an emergency.",
"Let the knowledge flow thru you. Ask supervisor during next fire drill.",
"Oh yeah. You'd better not push that.\n\nThats for Players only, not NPC's"
] | 24 |
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There's A Big Red Button In The Front Of Our Office. We Have An Idea But None of Us Know What It Does And We Are Too Intimidated To Try. SO TEMPTING TO PUSH!
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/r/pics/comments/7pj933/the_susquehanna_river_at_sunset/
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[
"Taken where?",
"Halifax, PA. It’s a bit north of Harrisburg.",
"It pretty much looks the same as it does in the Berwick area. Swift and muddy....."
] | 3 |
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The Susquehanna River at sunset.
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/r/pics/comments/7pj9pc/went_to_chichén_itzá_today_this_was_the_only/
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[
"I think I would have probably taken a lot more photos.",
"El Castillo.",
"Only needed one for the memories :)"
] | 3 |
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Went to Chichén Itzá today. This was the only photo I took
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/r/pics/comments/7pjb8k/mermaid/
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[
"r/confusedboners",
"the age old question, would you rather be trapped on a remote island with a woman who has a fish head, or a fish bottom.",
"both",
"Not sure why but seems a little fishy to me.",
"Why is she crying you monster? "
] | 5 |
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Mermaid
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/r/pics/comments/7pjcuq/this_mcdonalds_next_to_a_gym/
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[
"Decisions decisions ",
"If you drink a diet coke with the big mac and fries it kills the calories. ",
"There is a Dog Haus next to the LA Fitness gym I go to. Dog Huas for anyone who is not aware is a hot dog and burger fast food restaurant.",
"Hey if you burn 600-700 calories while working out, you can have a damn sandwich or two. ",
"\"I just power walked 1/2 a mile, I deserve a large milk shake.\"",
"Damn glad there isn't a McDonald's next to my gym. I'd 100% think it would even out after a training",
"Gains ",
"Triple cheeseburger, no ketchup, toss the buns - McGainz ",
"I know of a coney island right next door to a Weight Watchers. It's all about location.",
"So? You need carbs before a workout and carbs + protein after it. McD might not be an ideal source, but it'll still work. If I want to lose weight, I don't do it in the gym in any case.",
"next to ? looks like it's inside separated by a pair of doors. ",
"Grilled chicken for gainz bruh",
"That kind of defeats the purpose, unless you're trying to gain muscle."
] | 13 |
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This McDonalds next to a gym.
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/r/pics/comments/7pjfsc/this_is_my_car_now/
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[
"I am the Captain meow.",
"It’s a mewtony",
"You came to the wrong neighborhood, muthafucka.",
"GET OUT OF THAT CAR POTTER!!!"
] | 4 |
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This is my car now...
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/r/pics/comments/7pjfto/jeff_bezos_circa_1999/
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[
"Looked like Handsome Dan from Wayne’s World",
"or Saul from Breaking Bad",
"This was definitely before he hit his Prime.",
"[Couldn’t even wait a couple days?](https://reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7p9n1j/photo_of_jeff_bezos_in_1999_think_about_this_the/)",
"Dude I didn’t see it :/",
"I heard he kept that home made desk (it’s a door) for a very long time. A bit of a read on it -> https://glog.glennf.com/blog/2011/10/16/the_true_story_of_the_amazon_door-desk"
] | 6 |
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Jeff Bezos circa 1999
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/r/pics/comments/7pjfx0/moments_after_touchdown/
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[
"This shouldn't need to be said: put the phone down when landing the plane.",
"It was taken from a mounted gopro.",
"'Twas a joke.",
"What is the octagon mounted in front of the window for?",
"It is a heads up display (HUD) so the pilots can see instrument read outs while looking forwards out the window ",
"Exactly. [Here’s a picture looking through it.](https://imgur.com/gallery/qMH3l) ",
"What are the lines on the window doing?",
"Laminate heaters, similar to the back window of a car",
"Welcome to Portland."
] | 9 |
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Moments after touchdown
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/r/pics/comments/7pjg4t/a_drop_of_milk_hitting_coffee/
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[
"Don’t believe it. The jelly fish are coming to get you. ",
"Aaand it's ruined.",
"With that translucency inquiring minds gotta know: whole? Skim? 2%? Almond? Goat’s? Coconut?",
"Milk? In Coffee? Blecccchhhh. "
] | 4 |
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A drop of milk hitting coffee
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/r/pics/comments/7pjh4c/an_acrylic_painting_i_did_of_a_rainy_city_at_night/
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[
"That’s beautiful! Well done!",
"thanks !!!",
"That's why I love doing this impressionist style, it allows so many people to mold it into their own experience. Have an awesome night",
"You’re welcome 👍🏼",
"That's great!",
"Thanks?",
"I like this. ",
"Im glad!!",
"thanks Stumpied !",
"Wow Flooko! Avid fan, especially of your rainy cities series; I love feeling the atmosphere in your artwork. \nCurious to know what your inspiration process is like",
"Very cool! Keep up the great work :)",
"I actually filmed myself doing one of these paintings and tossed it on my youtube here. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKDKtibZDMfbUaTIpwTG8nw\n\nI also started doing weird little animations to them. Anyways, thanks for checking my stuff out ! I really appreciate it",
"This looks really good. I love this kinda painting. Well done!",
"thanks brother!",
"thanks friend ! have an awesome night !",
"This is very cool, awesome color choices",
"Amazing! Nice work!",
"thank you!! Red and blue have always been my fav combination",
"Much appreciated, thanks!",
"Your stuff is the shit.",
"Thumbnail looked like a photograph. I was prepared for a bamboozle. Well done!",
"I'm getting the Hopper vibe here. ",
"haha I love how this impressionist type style is almost like trickery of the eye. its adds a cool element",
":D thanks man!",
"So many paintings on here are fine. I mean, I respect the talent but they do nothing for me. This opens up a lot of memories and feelings. You really captured the essence of the scene. You're going to do alright. If I had money, I'd buy it!",
"/r/StreetLightReflection",
"\"Impressionish\". I love it!",
"It’s beautiful. ",
"Thanks! :)",
"This is my world when I'm in like 5 tabs. I love this blurry style of art.",
"Do you sell these?",
"Nice work. That looks [weirdly like a photo that I took](http://i.imgur.com/uZx8mxH.jpg) on a business trip to Richmond, Va years ago.",
"I find it really soothing, very well done. Keep up the painting!",
"Love this. Up close, abstract. Arm’s length, uncanny.",
"This is truly one of the best paintings I have ever seen. Thanks for sharing. I see so many people share their work on reddit but nothing had wowed me as much as this.",
"Really well done. As someone who can barely draw a stick figure in perspective I love artistic talent in others.",
"I had to go back and double check that this wasn't what the painting was based off. Very similar. This would also be a good one for OP to paint. ",
"I do in fact",
"Want!!!! Thank you, where can we find your work for sale?",
"Well done! I like the distant buildings and jumbled lights more than the street surface. There's a sense of depth that pulls the painting together. Well done!",
"I couldn't really explain how it made me feel until I read your post. It made me feel nostalgic and a bit sad but also really calm. By far my favorite piece of art I have seen in a very long time. ",
"Awesome. Also should be in r/art",
"This is absolutely breathtaking",
"i like it, reminds me of the city when it's raining. well done!\n",
"wow, really good job!",
"I'm a proud owner of this guy's works. Amazing stuff. ",
"Amazing talent! I love these cityscapes, reminds me a lot of [Jeremy Mann](http://redrabbit7.com/cityscape/)",
"Wait a minute...",
"Come on man, I need the money",
"Do you have a webpage?",
" I'm sorry I don't think I can enable your... habit?",
"So many emotions flow through your work, well done",
"I always want to be in the painting. I almost feel like I have stood in that exact spot before. Maybe this will be a thing as VR becomes mainstream. ",
"I absolutely love this. The juxtaposition of the blue and red are so striking. What's more is that it is abstract, but also it also isn't at all, the way rain blurs everything together and reflects the lights in the streets...wow.",
"It’s like a post modern impressionist piece of some kind, beautiful work",
"I keep coming back to this. It's gorgeous. ",
"This is an image I have had in my head for years - even wrote lyrics for a song. That color blue that the streets turn at night ... The cold drizzle, steam coming up from the manhole covers. Growing up in DC (not NOVA!) this pic reminds me of K Street ... ",
"Makes my eyes bleed but in a good way",
"5 colors? Red orange white and two different blues? I really dig the minimalism. ",
"I want it",
"Fucking love it",
"Dibs! \n\nFor real though... Is this for sale? ",
"SELL PRINTS!",
"This made me feel comfortable yet cold. It gave me LSD vibes from a past trip. Thank you for sharing this, i really enjoy it.",
"This is a very good painting. ",
"I want this on my bedroom wall. Amazingly well done. ",
"Why did you choose the stop lights to be red?",
"This is amazing.",
"This is gorgeous!",
"This is fantastic.",
"I have a website at http://www.flookart.com where I sell anything I have available. Its also my main gallery :)",
"http://www.flookart.com :)",
"wow, such a compliment, thank you!",
":D and I cannot thank you enough",
"I got em'!! http://www.flookart.com I beyond appreciate the support!",
"I can hear the cars driving in the rain.",
"For anybody who wants to see something a little different, I started slightly animating my paintings to give them even more atmoshpere :) a neat new little hobby of mine\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTa9I4zhyO0&t=20s\n",
"I don’t know why, but I love the definition between the sidewalk and the street. There’s a clear difference separating the reflections while also being reflective itself.\n\nI mean... what? Hahaha.\n\nSeriously love it.",
"everytime I paint those parts it makes a huge difference, Im glad you noticed ! I love it. have an awesome night!",
"i really love it·",
"Was this off a photo? From memory? Were you standing in the rain and can paint really fast? Please elaborate.",
"I'd pay good money for this. I'm serious.",
"I just perused through some of your art. I seriously want to buy some of your art and put in my house! My god! Your art is amazing!\n\nAlso, I see your subject is usually revolve around an... Astronaut? Can I ask why? I'm highly intrigued. ",
"I really can't thank you enough for such a nice comment !! This reddit community and cool people like you really motivate me to keep busy and keep making cool stuff, so thank YOU",
"Bought that one on canvas and one other. Nice stuff!",
"Well said. If art conjures up memories or emotions, it has done it's job. ",
"Love it! Really wish I could draw. To be able to use colors like that ",
"that's beyond awesome. THANKS friend !!! I hope you have an amazing night !",
"At first glance without my glasses I thought it was a picture. ",
"I like to use the astronaut as a vehicle for the viewer. A character representing the adventurer in all of us. Just a cool character to try and relate to. And I like the idea of the astronaut being on a universal adventure :) Im a wacky dude so not sure if that makes sense",
"I really appreciate you saying you! thank you!",
"Just gorgeous ",
"I'm in awe",
":D",
"Something about it my friend. Others feel the same. Make sure you have it properly photographed with the proper white balance and the image color corrected with a calibrated monitor. Copyright it! Keep painting. ",
"http://www.flookart.com :)",
"Please tell me how I can buy this and give money to original creator",
"this makes me melancholic. which makes me happy.",
"well Im the original creator :) This one is sold but I do have prints!! Im going to put a new rain city painting up tomorrow on my site though, working on it as we speak!!",
"Your work is awesome. I might buy a print when I move into my new place!",
"Awesome painting. How much? ",
"One of the few paintings I've seen that brings to life the cliche \"it speaks to me.\" Amazing work.\n\nAre you keeping the original or have you already sold it? Noticed it's not on the site. ",
"this one got sold, but Im working on a new rainy city painting as we speak!! Ill toss it up tomorrow :)",
"Any time my dude much love to you any I wish you good luck with further works",
"You're a king. Thanks again!",
"Fuck! Loves it!",
"How much are you selling it for? Can you message me ",
"I agree with lots of the comments here. This is truly awesome, not sure what it is about it but it is special. \n\nGreat job. I'd love a print .",
"I have cheap (but nice) prints up at http://www.flookart.com now with all the requests tonight !",
"this has won my heart",
"Beautiful work friend, really striking. I stalked your profile a bit and I am a fan. ",
"haha AWWW, I love that comment, thank you!",
"Do you use references for your urban stuff or just complie the scene from your imagination?",
"Im glad you like my other stuff!! it all ties in together some way or another",
"It’s beautiful! So many different details that catch the eye.",
"You're an amazing artist mate. I'll be getting another piece without a doubt. How big is this one? ",
"Love it!",
"Well done friend. Me likes ",
"I need this in my house. I love it",
"That is absolutely fantastic,well done.",
"thank you :)\n",
"You are seriously talented! If you add some bright purples and pinks, /r/outrun would love you. Although now, it's still its amazing. ",
"Love this",
"I really want that on my wall.",
"This is so real to me; I can feel it. I love jigsaw puzzles and I'm very picky with the scenes I choose. If this was a puzzle, I'd lose myself in this city and know every small detail with each piece. I love everything about your painting, but what stands out to me are the lights, signs, and lit windows of the high rises. It's perfect.",
"that’s fucking incredible ",
"Who poured lava in my mushroom biome?",
"Too much ground in the painting.",
"This is great. I love it.",
"thanks friend !",
"That.... that's phenomenal. This is so satisfying to look at. I mean I'm staring at a sidewalk and I'm enthralled with every inch of it! I'd buy a print of this in a heartbeat.\n\nYou don't just have talent, you have a gift. And I mean that. You should be extremely proud of yourself!",
"thanks so much for saying that, thats really kind of you ! have a great night, friend !",
"Yep",
"You have a great talent. The scene feels alive and you can almost feel the emotions coming from the piece. As a collector I see great things for your future",
"Acrylic and oil are excellent media for painting rainy city environments, and you captured that so perfectly.",
"This is actually beautiful is it available for purchase? ",
"/r/cyberpunk",
"This is beautiful. ",
"Absolutely fantastic",
"only prints :)",
"thanks for saying so !! acrylics are a little tricky, but I love them",
"I love this. Are you selling prints anywhere ?",
"thanks so much for saying that, means a lot",
"Yh sorry that's what I meant lol is there a link? ",
"This is beautiful. ",
"sorry !!! its http://www.flookart.com thanks friend !",
"I am actually !! and thank you ! www.flookart.com :)",
"This will never be noticed and I am a bit drunk, but this is some amazing fucking art. I cannot even comprehend the ability needed to make this. I love this picture, OP, and I hope you see this comment. This is just absolutely amazing. ",
"do you have a link to some of your other works?",
"sure do friend !!! www.flookart.com :D",
"I never really got art nor do I get people who go to college for degrees in it. BUT yes I’d buy. ",
"I feel like I need to look at this with an 80s saxophone playing, Mayve “You Belong to the City” by Glen Frey",
"It's such a beautiful subject. It's my favorite thing to look at and nobody seems to understand why I find it so appealing. You captured exactly what some of us see but can't put into words. ",
"HEY BROTHER !!!! thanks so much for the wicked comment !!!! I appreciate you saying that!",
"I can't stop looking at this! Just beautiful... love the trippy mood... <3\n\n\nedit: makes me think of the song [\"Disposition\"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LozljN-3fWI) by Tool",
"Yea this style speaks to me ",
"Very beautifully done! Reminds me of the late nights I spent hanging out downtown with friends in highschool. I love it!",
"how long have you been doing this? After a brief glance I can tell i really dig the style\n",
"this is great, you can feel the rain almost, awesome painting. have you thought of talking with a local interior designer. ",
"This is my new cell background photo. I live in Seattle, so it's fitting.",
"late nights are the best for inspiration. Always loved the mood",
"And I have a new screen saver.",
"This is honestly beautiful. I'm not much of a visual artists or even one that can really appreciate visual art, but this honestly takes me so far back. It's so calm and cold but warm in my memory. It's amazing.",
"glad you found use for it !",
"Dope painting, gives me chills of walking the streets of Georgetown at night with my exwife. Nice work and I mean it. ",
"This is so badass!! ",
"Seconded! A very well done piece.",
"So vivid, I can *feel* it. Remarkable painting. ",
"This is my new wallpaper",
" Beautiful! I want one! ",
"how long did this take you?",
":)",
"Wish I could hang it on my wall in my uptown NYC condo. But my condo is imaginary. Keeping on with the strokes dear artist.",
"thank you :)",
"hahaha the impotent roc cover is awesome",
"You don’t mind me asking what for, do ya? ;)",
"Simply beautiful. Just bought a small print for my writing room. Will be back for more. Very rare to see such original talent. Im now a Flookoholic!",
"/r/Colorblind\n\nI'm color blind and I still love this ",
"That’s some nice use of color, and a great perspective and idea. Need to work on that set of tail lights on the left side I reckon, but a nice work",
"Any way to animate this?",
"This is great ",
"ahah flookaholic !!!! I LOVE IT!! thanks friend!",
"This brings me back to a time I can’t exactly pinpoint walking around the city at night as a kid with my dad. I would always be a bit scared cuz it was night but I was with him so it was all ok. This is a beautiful painting, thank you for sharing it. ",
" holy crap I'm in love with so many of your paintings. If I was in a position to be buying art, I'd have a really tough time choosing which\n\n\nEdit: just saw that your trading for guitars. I literally put on on Craigslist yesterday ",
"I did actually!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTa9I4zhyO0",
"Took me a while to realize it wasn’t a picture but a painting. Nice work! ",
"Dude your stuff is amazing.",
"You have a gift :)",
"This is incredible!",
":D that makes me happy, thank you !",
"Woah that's incredible. Thank you! ",
"https://i.imgur.com/20Mz5wK.png - hehe, that's funny.\nWas it intended? ",
"Can I buy please lemme buy ",
"I have purchased this mans art and he is a class act. \n\nI love this piece ",
"Makes me feel like I'm waiting for a taxi somewhere far away.\n\nIt's time to go home now.\n\nWonderful piece. As others have commented, you have captured something that cannot be put into words.\n\nThank you.\n\n",
"thanks brother !",
"You are a true KING !!! THANKS BROTHER",
"Nice work. Reminds me a bit of Dan Kitchner (DANK). I feel like the reflections are brighter than the light sources, which feels more like reflections on the water / ocean than on the street. Keep it up!",
"Price? ",
"Checked out your page and you make awesome stuff! My bf is in aero/astronautics so def loving the theme there... saving for future purchase, keep it up!",
"Me: I could do that if I tried\n\n*Fails miserably*",
"Super cool ! ",
"Website? Prints? Please?",
"I agree. This looks like a dream. ",
"Ooo. This is breathtaking and distinctive and visceral. Kudos.",
"From what I learned last night on Reddit, this painting is lit! ",
"This is breathtaking in such a unique way. I’d definitely buy this and hang it in my home.",
"Very beautiful piece of work. I can feel this art, and normally art doesn’t do that for me.",
"Edit: Read more threads.....you're rad ",
"Jesus Christ can you only tell the quality of your art based on karma? How many subreddits do you need to post to on a near daily basis? ",
"I'm in love with this painting. This is something I would love hanging up in my house. Excellent work!",
"Fucking incredible ",
"Please make a bunch prints and put this up on a website for sale!!",
"I'd buy this.",
"Are prints for sale?",
"I love it. How much?",
"Coolest fuckin color scheme I’ve ever seen. Awesome work. ",
"Id buy this in an instant, this is the kinda art i admire. Truly you are talented!",
"Anyway I could order a large canvas print of this?",
"sure are, friend, got everything you need at www.flookart.com :)",
"So glad this is the top comment. I’m not an art guy per se but you nailed it. I find it very calming.",
"Is there a place we can purchase a copy of this piece from? Thanks, and AMAZING WORK!!!",
"This painting instantly made me think of the hiss of tires kicking up that shallow layer of water, the liquid shimmering glisten of light that is in everything the rain clings to, and that feeling of pervasive cold that just sneaks into your clothes, and the cold humidity that clings to your skin. Never really had art make me recall the feeling of physical sensations but rainy city nights are totally my jam :)",
"You know there is a website where you can trade doors for art. They have to be open door, though",
"I couldn't agree more. I have never been so drawn to a piece of art before. This is the first time in my life that I feel connected to a painting.",
"I 2nd that. I love the mood in this. I like the simple blue and red in the foreground and how it increases in color complexity towards the infinity point. Consider making prints of it.\n\nIf I had to make one (yah I know) critique is that the car seems to be out of line with the road. A trivial thing though.",
"done and done ! www.flookart.com",
"How big is this? I am very interested in purchasing it. If you're not selling it, do you have a store where we can see other work?\n",
"Wow, I love your work. When my next paycheck comes in I'll definitely have to buy one. ",
"This gives me the same feeling that I get walking in the rain downtown. Lonely, blue, but refreshing at the same time. ",
"Toronto! :D",
"Aah your rainy cities stuff makes me so homesick for Toronto! <3",
"Wow. You're amazingly gifted man. Super unique style while managing to make it look realistic and intriguing. Super good work, keep it up.",
"Wow, that is really cool!",
"Fantastic!",
"Gives me a Blade Runner vibe, I dig it",
"Oh damn there's tons of stuff on the site. I'm gonna sit at the bar and put bread in your jar and say \"Man, what are you doing here?\"",
"Man that is super cool. Gives me inspiration kinda cool.",
"I don’t have a qualified taste of art but I sure do admire OPs talent.",
"If you're dissing his art then sure, that's a valid comment. If you're trying to compliment his art, call it modern. [Postmodernism](https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-63a2382d58a6ca7e577bcc78c2b8dda8) isn't something to strive for except via satire or irony.",
"I really love your \"Stream Of Consciousness\" piece. The colors are so vibrant. If I weren't such a cheap bastard, I'd buy it.",
"Dude this is sick, thinking about making this into a moving wallpaper for steam. Will update when I get around to it! ",
"Just check out your site. Beautiful work. Mind opening experience. Thank you.",
"I like it a lot. I have a few pieces of original art in my house and this is one I would buy. I like your color palette selection especially.",
"I never considered myself to be someone who’d buy a painting to hang in their house, but when I do have my own, I’d love to have one of yours. They’re beautiful. ",
"The bid starts at 2 dollars, where can I buy it?",
"kind of remind me of the opening from Taxi Driver.",
"This is awesome! Feels so nostalgic and cool... don't know why but it brings back memories; awesome job!\n\nEdit: spelling.",
"Where can I buy your art? I’d love something like this for my home. ",
"Dude, love this!!!!",
"really nice work, i love the limited pallet you chose and how you used it!",
"If you can do one that shows a point in a Chicago street I won totally buy it.",
"It’s wonderful! Well done! ",
"My new phone background too. Looks neat.",
"I started hearing Miles Davis “Kind of Blue” on vinyl when I saw this painting. Amazing work.",
"I really like it, the colours and textures are very nice.\n\nBut my brain keeps telling me there's something off about the alignment of the red lights..",
"Didn't you do another wet city painting awhile ago? I still want to win the lotto so I can buy the original of your dog in cabin. That shit is my fucking jam.",
"Your stuff is gorgeous! I've been trying to get into acrylics for the past year, but my paintings still suck hardcore. How did you learn/ develop your art style?",
"Is this based off a particular city? ",
"I’m about to buy a couple canvas prints. Art, for whatever reason, generally doesn’t do much for me. But something about these scenes brings a lot of emotion, both pleasant and otherwise. Really terrific work. ",
"I like this a lot! One recommendation I really think you should consider though! The horizon line is kind of high! It makes me feel like my head is starting at the sidewalk from a pov standpoint!",
"This really is a gorgeous painting, amazing work!",
"I don't know much art about but I like this. I would like to have it on my wall. This is really cool and hard to describe why I like it so much and the feeling it gives. ",
"The warm tones contrast really well with the cool blue tones and make me fell warm and fuzzy like the feeling u get when ur in a warm home with hot cocoa looking outside into the cool rain",
"Stunning. Every now and again on this sub I see some paintings that really move me, beyond just looking good. Gratefully, there is quite a bit of content here that looks good to me. This, this jogs memories. PM me if you are willing to sell. I love it.",
"I'd buy it too",
"Reminds me of this painting by Childe Hassam\n\nhttp://www.clevelandart.org/art/1952.538?collection_search_query=Childe+Hassam&op=search&form_build_id=form-9BP3dsBpcJ5mJliSqObhQuhj07HmN--4x8UhfStMY0Y&form_id=clevelandart_collection_search_form",
"This is absolutely fantastic. I love the colours, style, and just everything about this painting. Big 10/10!!!",
"I would hang that in my house. Really, really beautiful work.",
"thanks chris !! i appreciate the support !",
"My new phone wallpaper ",
"In a world of color, I see in monochrome",
"Wow, can i buy It? This is really something! I i could stare at this all night! It's so moving! You can feel the life in it and the mood! I think I hear Phil Collins playing somewhere.\n Edit: never mind, i saw the link lower down and bought your largest print! Thank you for your beautiful talent!\nhttps://imgur.com/vVsPK3f",
"That astronaut ‘Grounded’ painting tho 😍😍😍",
"I can see the lights shine on my eyes, feel the cold humid breeze in my face and hear my heels hitting the pavement on each step. Just heading to the corner store to get a loaf of bread.",
"Yooooo WHAT!!! \n\nI was not expecting a gallery at all....You are extremely talented to say the absolute least. So many beautiful pieces, thanks for sharing the site! ",
"Ugh I want that so bad. Hit me right in the feels ",
"This is sick!",
"I like the sound of this",
"Wow. What a moving piece of art. I love the mood it invokes. Absolutely gorgeous. ",
"I think you're gonna be famous.",
"Really great!",
"Please sell some prints! I would definitely buy.",
"You did this?",
"This one is excellent.",
"Damn",
"Paintings don't normally do much for me. As I was scrolling down, this caught my eye. I don't know why, but I like it.",
"Selling it at www.flookart.com",
"I really love this.",
"I like this a lot. I would hang this on my wall. ",
"How much ",
"These are seriously fucking impressive.",
"You are amazing!",
"Awesome you🙂",
"thanks for taking the time to check it out !",
"your city paintings look like kal gajoum. nice!",
"i like it so much",
"Your artwork is amazing man!! I absolutely love all the colors and themes.. I honestly want to buy all of them.. keep up the good work!!",
"my mom said acrylic is for retards lol i like it btw.",
"Is it possible to buy something like this from you? Any website or something? I just really enjoy your style",
"Wow. I’m not much of an art person but this one struck me. It says so much. How many stories could start with this image. I’ll be buying a canvas print next month of it! ",
"Looks computer made. ",
"The most beautiful painting I’ve ever seen was of a Paris street in the rain... I haven’t seen anything that gave me the same feeling, until I saw this. Great work! I want to just stare at it all day",
"Well I love a rainy night, such a beautiful sight.... Eddie Rabbitt said it best.",
"Uh yeah this is my phone wallpaper now. Thank you.",
"This says so much with only a few colors...incredible",
"The work on the ground is a little mind-blowing to the point that I find myself a little underwhelmed by the rest of it.\n\nVery evocative however. Really feels like a rainy night. 9.85/10",
"The lighting of the painting is phenomenal, really good job! ",
"My heart did a pitter patter.",
"This has a late 80s early 90s look to it, I love it",
"I really like this! Good job and keep painting!!",
"This is really beautiful. I lived in Ireland for a long time when I was young, and this reminds me of the rainy streets, but not in a sad way, but a vibrant young way. Thank you. I needed this tonight.",
"Nice I've been meaning to get a new wallpaper for my phone",
"Marvelous I would buy if I could ",
"If I look closely at your brush strokes I know I could easily paint this. Then I step back and look at what you've created and ask myself \"who the hell are you kidding?\" You've painted a feeling. Beautiful work.",
"I've lived in the desert for a very long time. Rain like this is pretty uncommon. But somehow this still gives me an awesome feeling of nostalgia, familiarity, and calmness. I love it! I'm definitely going to check out your other work now. Thanks for sharing.",
"love the colors, amazing work",
"It really makes me think of starry night. Very nice. ",
"Could not love this any more than I do!! Such an amazing job! :)",
"love the colors, amazing work",
"Seriously, I want to buy.",
"I love it! Has a Van Gogh vibe to it, very impressive. Please don't cut your ear off or kill yourself. ",
"Very nice, hope you have more of these, I’d like to buy an original down the line.",
"Wow, this is great. I could look at this for ages. It gives me the same feeling that Miyazaki gives me - a sense of tender intimacy, like you've expressed a feeling that I thought was unique to me because it is so beautiful and personal in my own memory. \n\nHaha, I don't know if that makes any sense, so I'll stop while I'm ahead. Suffice to say, bravo and thanks for sharing!",
"How much?",
"Hey - do you have a gallery or exhibitions that I can visit in person? I really like your work! ",
"Love",
"Gorgeous. Good job. New lock screen for sure.",
"Now look at this painting while listening to Tom's Diner, by Suzanne Vega (original / acoustic, not remixed). ",
"This is amazing.",
"Love the colors, this is bringing a tear to my eye. Good stuff flooko!",
"This is kind of intoxicating. Well done. ",
"I d gonna echo what everyone else is saying because they’re right. This is a great work, my friend! ",
"woaa this is sick! great job man! ",
"Im glad you could take something from this. Thats beyond cool . I hope you continue to have a nice night :)",
"The mark of mastery is style, e.g. when one moves beyond strict verisimilitude into evocative self-expression of their own sight. This is a masterpiece. ",
"Really, really fantastic. Well done.\n",
"Hey, that’s my line",
"Can I offer a criticism without being shot?\n\n\nThe car on the mid left side is not in scale with the buildings. The perspective is a bit off causing the car to either be Very far away (which makes the buildings and signs very large to be in scale) or the car itself is unnaturally small. \n\nThe impressionistic coloration is very good and you have a great deal of talent but you need to consider perspective and relationship to vanishing point a bit more in planning.\n\nThe execution via downvotes can now begin ",
"thanks man!",
"Very nice, excellent work.",
"thanks friend, much appreciated !",
"This is fantastic! I’m so bummed the original of the one you posted isn’t available any longer. That one in particular is a masterpiece, and I would’ve seriously considered buying that one. ",
"Otherwise they’d be go lights",
"This is so relaxing to look at. ",
"What’s wrong with go lights?\n\nEdit: fuck me square, I just got your joke *sigh* I must be getting old. ",
"Holy shit, you've got some great pieces! I love the stream of consciousness one especially.",
"I really like this ",
"Tremendous. Wow. ",
"I'd buy this",
"I’m not even into art and this is one of the coolest paintings I’ve ever seen.",
"I don't have that much money (at least right now), to buy some of those prints (or even one of the original paintings), but I will definitely put that onto my wish list. I was rraööy fascinated by some of your painting. Very good job, keep it up!",
"Same as other people are saying. I usually don’t “get” art (in terms of paintings and sculptures and the like), but this actually spoke to me. I got really nice vibes of being out in the city during a light drizzle. I could just imagine zipping my jacket up tight and holding an unfolded newspaper over my head as I hurry off to some random location, trying not to get soaked. ",
"thats one of my favs too. I was in a really nice headspace when I made that one",
"Awesome painting. I'd pay for this if i had a nicer place, and money.",
"CANADIAN!!! Yessssss!!! Definitely buying something. ",
":D thanks !!!",
"You captured the wet pavement so well.",
"Really like this :)\n\nI want to get into painting. Where do I start? What’s the difference between oil and acrylic? Which is the best to start with?",
"I’m not usually one for the city, but this painting speaks to me. Beautiful!",
"Sure thing!",
"Canadians unite !",
"If your paintings move people, you are painting right. Beautiful piece.",
"This would stop me in my tracks and enter a gallery to purchase it. I'd hang it in my library. This is the type of night I'd be sitting in there reading, wrapped in a blanket with some coffee. Well done. You should be proud of it.",
"Very nice def good artist ",
"I'm not an art dude at all, but these are fuckin awesome. So many people go for photo realism that it's refreshing to see an artist who paints what *they* see, not what a camera what see. Very well done :)",
"I moved away from NYC a few years ago. This makes me reminisce. I don't know if this is a NYC street or not, but you've captured one of my favorite types of moments in the city. I feel like I can smell fresh rain while walking down the street that looks like this in NYC. \n\nTotally buying a print for my office. I wish I could buy the original! ",
"just think what you'd be able to paint during the day!\n\n\njk. it looks great!",
"This. This is art. Photorealistic drawings of celebs or beer bottles is talent, but this is art.",
"Wow.. Just.. Wow. This does something warm to my heart and I can't stop smiling.",
"Please tell me I can buy that. It's beautiful!",
"This reminds me of when I would fall asleep on a long ride home late at night and have the best sleep ever. I love these kinds of paintings.",
"That was the plan all along... ObV\n\nBut he’s fucking good so ahatever",
"Seriously amazing art",
"This is beyond mesmerizing ",
"Where can I get a print?",
"this is absolutley breathtaking!!!! do you paint color by color (like do all the black, then blue areas then red etc) or one small area at once? i’m inspired!! ",
"Prints available?",
"electric ",
"Not a darn thing",
"Nice work. You really captured the mood.",
"Oh man what a shame(for me) that Acid Rain II has already been sold. I love it! Keep up the great work. ",
"I absolutely love this.",
"That's beautiful, and the rain sounds really made me feel like I was under some awning in some city, pleasantly chilly and just *there*, if that makes any sense.\n\nLovely paintings, I really like them.",
"Can I please use this as my background on my phone?",
"I would love to hang something like this up around my house",
"For real, much of your art brings out this feeling of somewhere I have been before, somewhere I used to love. A scene of memories I can't remember, yet I have missed. An important scene where I have been in the past, but never think about in the current. A discomforting, yet comfortable feeling of missing something, sometime, someplace, or even someone. And it all comes together amazing with your use of contrast in colours. I personally just love it, Bravo!",
"excellent rainy texture, and the circular red taillights on the top are mildly hypnotic. chapeau.",
"Wow, I really love this. It reminds me of a painting in a restaurant that I really liked. I tried to buy it, but the owner wouldn't sell. Going to check out your website. Love the nightie city lights and reflections.",
"/r/noir",
"This is so good! Would def hang this up at my place!",
"Beautiful and creative. Really, this is awesome. ",
"Another nice one OP! Hope to see your stuff sell for thousands some day! :D (if it isn't already)",
"It's honestly super exciting to be able to purchase something great on a site that gives a reasonable price in CAD. I was very pleasantly surprised. (Love your paintings btw)",
"Your paintings are amazing. If someone tells me that's not a painting but I edited photo I'd believe. Your paintings is so good I couldn't tell the difference.\n\nKeep it up man, great work!",
"Beautiful",
"This is my new favorite painting. This is amazing! ",
"I dig it man",
"This is gorgeous. I really like it. It's truly beautiful work.",
"Reminds me of Moonside from Earthbound! Amazing work :) ",
"Your style reminds me of the magic of being a child in America in 1988.\n\nLight Brite under the covers. Carl Sagan. Red Dwarf. Dr. Who\n\nI'm having a nostalgiagasm.",
"Okay bitch, how much ",
"I kind of want to use these to make a wallpaper in Wallpaper Engine. I can use some javascript to make rain.",
"This is fing beautiful.",
"r/art",
"I generally dislike paintings in general but yours is different, it’s like a mix of realism and impressionist (I think that’s what it’s called) You have a gift my friend, don’t ever let it go",
"You too! Look how much joy you are bringing people from something you created! *hug*",
"r/raining might enjoy this too. Just checked and didn't look like anyone has submitted it there.",
"I want to buy it. Have you sexually assaulted anyone?",
"Thanks!",
"I went looking through your work and it's impressive, all beautiful and I love the astronaut theme. Some of your work has a surrealist touch to it, any chance you're a fan of Dali? \n\nIm glad this is getting so much attention and I will definitely be buying some prints! You have much talent my friend. ",
"This painting reminds me a lot of the [cityscapes by Jeremy Mann](http://redrabbit7.com/cityscape/)",
"Holy crap you have a gift ",
"Bought a print! Lovely work, my friend!",
"*Is it the crack of pool ball? Neon buzzing? Telephone ringing, it's your second cousin*",
"Add a zero to your prices. They're worth $2,000 - $5,000; not $200 - $500. \n\nStay humble. ",
"Live action Splatoon",
"Very dope",
"Really good painting ",
"That's beautiful. Congratulations on your painting, you did very well. ",
"The sad face in the bottom right corner jumped out at me :)\n",
"I’m no art critic but this is one of the few pieces that I actually enjoy looking at! Most “masterpieces” seem to bland to me and were only revolutionary for its time period but this is really well done, good job!",
"Incredibly well done 😯",
"If you want people to browse your entire portfolio, you absolutely NEED to speed up the transition time of your image slider. Beautiful work. I also love your logo. ",
"This gave me such an indescribable feeling.... well done mate!",
"This gives me feelings, you know what I mean?",
"That's awesome - tickling my brain.",
"What do you call this style I been trying to explain it to me my fiance lol",
"Damn, nice work !!",
"For some reason this makes me feel really nostalgic, but comfortable. It takes me to an 80s memory being a kid in the city. Not a specific memory, but just a memory of how things were. I love it. ",
"This is beautiful ",
"Nice, you should post this to /r/Art too!",
"Finally some great art ",
"holy shit you’re the artist that paints the world reborn series?! they’re fantastic ",
"I love this painting. I genuinely feel like this could become a timeless masterpiece in every sense of the word. ",
"This is phenomenal. ",
"Got that Gatsby feel.. love it",
"Very cool",
"The best painting I've seen in a while. Are you selling it?",
"Okay holy shit I saw the pic and was like \"I'm gonna buy it\" and then I clicked your link and I have no idea which one I want bc I want them all.\n\nI really really like your work dude. Each one invokes a diff feeling for me. Can't wait to purchase a bunch",
"r/raining",
"Really cool piece. To me it speaks of the excitement and energy of the city. I also love rainy nights. Great scene",
"Wow, I really love it! I can feel the atmosphere and I like the way the reflections present themselves (do I make sense?)\nI would totally put it in my room",
"its magnificent.",
"That is really fucking cool",
"This is so cool! I just checked out your site, too! Awesome stuff! You’re seriously talented and I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t jealous ;)",
"Frame it!",
"I can hear jazz when i see this",
"I know what you mean man, it brings up nostalgic memories of when I was a kid in the back of my parents car. Nights after family dinners downtown at restaurants on our way home while drifting off to sleep.",
"Incredible, well done dude. This is honestly the first art that I've ever felt that I wanted. I look forward to throwing a couple of these on my wall.",
"this is majestic, mate! \n\nbeautiful doesn't come close to describing how wonderful it is! \n\nwish you the best. ",
"That’s really beautiful 😊!",
"One night in Montreal, my friends and I decided to talk a walk in the rain. We were a little buzzed, it was a warm summer night and the rain was so refreshing. We walked around town for about 2 hours. We ate poutine, drank a few pints and made such great memories, this reminds me of that night! ",
"Hi, I’m Jake.",
"If I had one criticism it would be to leave a little more negative space. The road in the middle left section looks really busy and distracting. The sidewalk should be what stands out and be the most dramatic part",
"i love it. the darkness and frigid wetness...it’s as if you’ve let your eyes out of focus",
"haha yeah thats meeee !!!",
"Love your work!!! Love “stream of consciousness” and “standing still in space.” Beautiful Work! I will be saving your gallery to get my first official piece of art for my first home. I currently don’t have any money.... stupid property taxes... but I will be buying something soon!! \n\nHow big are your prints usually?",
"Nice job on all of your work, how long have you been painting?",
"Woah dude... hats off to your creativity.",
"This will end up being a random, buried comment - but I wanted to say you’re incredibly talented and have a supremely awesome sense of style, detail, and grace in your work. I thought the paintings were great - I spent a good 20 minutes looking around your site - but the animated versions give the paintings a level of depth and weight that I hope everyone gets to see. \n\nCongrats on your work. When I have enough money, I’ll be buying one for sure. \n\nI hope you have a great day, week, month, and year. \n\nCheers.",
"At first I thought maybe you also lived in NYC...then I looked at how few cars there are :p\n(The painting is phenomenal btw) ",
"That is Georgous. ",
"Honestly this is fucking great. I may be high, but as a nighthawk myself this piece just gives me a feeling of adventure, makes me remember those times not that long ago and feel intrigue as to what is at the end of the road, what venues are open? what people will I meet there? will it be a memorable night? Will I feel just as alone as always after a one nighter, but it is the only love I've ever known?",
"Oh man, this kind of painting is what acrylics are made for!",
"Dali is my absolute fav :)",
":D",
"This isn't the first time I have seen this sleep image. Might be a repost.",
"Wow! It’s like I can feel the textures with my eyes. Do you ship prints to Canada? This is the kind of art I always wanted to make. ",
"I would like to look at this on acid ",
"Absolutely stunning",
"How big can I buy? ",
"The best artists steal",
"Dude linked his shop a little higher up: https://www.flookart.com/gallery",
"Monet-esque, IMO. lovin’ it ",
"Fuck, that's a sick painting",
"So beautiful! I could picture this hanging up in my house for sure",
"Oh my. Your art makes me *feel* the art. \n\nI must thank you. For me, artists make the world a better place.",
"thanks so much for checking the site out ! Ive been trying to add lots of cool stuff there lately. The animated paintings are this new thing im doing and I glad you like them!! I knew they were worth making !",
"Awesome! ",
"Oh! I just saw you’re from Toronto! Yay!",
":) thanks brother !",
"Damn you make me wish Impressionism was still a thing....Claude Monet would be proud. Unfortunately today to make it big you’d have to paint a giant all yellow painting....",
"you know it!",
"THis is too good! I am overwhelmed with emotion watching it, I want to be there, I want to go with good friends and have crazy fun like the old days! damn man, where can I buy a piece for my office?",
"I agree. Gotta inject something beautiful into this dark world!",
"I saw this photo like 10 times in the past month. Ops a karma whore.",
"That is a truly beautiful work of art, you have a tremendous gift.",
"I have no idea how you capture lighting so well using such bright/solid colors.",
"Do you sell paint on canvas pieces? ",
"On a serious note... I love how I flipped through your gallery and found Toronto paintings. Represent! \n\nAmazing work. ",
"I like it a lot",
"You sold it already!😢",
"i beyond appreciate your interest !!! Anything Ive got i toss up on www.flookart.com :) all my originals are on canvas :)",
"Holy shit ide buy this and hang it in my room. As soon as i looked at this i got a weird feeling of content. Great work.",
"If you squint your eyes pretty hard, it kinda looks real",
"I bought a home recently and I would totally hang this up in my living room. ",
"Im glad you checked those out!! the animations are my cool new thing. My site where you can check out other stuff is www.flookart.com :)",
"Wow. Your art is amazing. Thanks for posting this -- I hope to purchase an original/canvas piece before long :) ",
"Beautiful!\nLove the color choices. Reminds me of a rainy summer night, needing to go for a drive to clear my head. Very thought provoking. Brilliant.",
"Wow this took my breath away. ",
"Talented ",
"Amazing!!!",
"I like how it’s only a few colors but has so much depth ",
"This painting put me in my feelings, wow",
"Nice!",
"Hey will you be putting this on sale? ",
"I’ve never lived in a big nor have I️ spent much time in one. But for some reason this photo speaks volumes to me. I️ am honestly in love with this painting. ",
"Can i, can i actually buy this!?",
"Wow you're really talented! You go dude!",
"This is amazing. For real, such a good job.. I would love to have this in my house. Congratulations. ",
"This brings me back to walking around University Circle, Cleveland,OH around 11. It's a college area(hence the name) surrounded by an ethnic enclave. The neighborhood mostly deserted at night(save the immediate vicinity of bars), so come a night after a fresh rain during the first touches of Fall walking the streets was something else for me. I miss that neighborhood. Thanks.",
"These are just.. I mean... These are exactly the type of pieces I love and have been looking for. Nothing makes me feel quite like these pieces do. Amazing work. Thank you for existing and for doing this.",
"When I looked at it I immediately heard the sound of misty rain, cars rolling down the road, and jazz and conversation in the distance. I felt a want to be there with someone who loves me. Maybe I've been there in another life, you've captured something special. ",
"I'm totally bookmarking this for when I have a place I can decorate. Your paintings are awesome!",
"Love this.. I've bought four of your astronaut prints a few months back which look amazing!",
"Reminds me of when I was a boy, falling asleep in the backseat of the car as my parents drove home in the rain.",
"Your art inspired my next song. Thank you so much.",
"This painting really does something amazing, it provokes a visceral reaction, to the point where I feel pulled into it. I feel like I am on that street when I look at that painting. Fantastic work.",
"Vincent Van DOPE. ",
"This is beautiful! There always has been something special about city lights at night after a rain. It is somehow very clear - perhaps because the dust has been washed away; or maybe it is because the humidity plays with the way light is transmitted. Anyway, I've always found it fascinating, but everyone I've tried to talk about this with has found nothing special about it; I'm so glad to see your work, capturing the essence of the feel. Thank you - this moves me.",
"Im the one who painted that one :) somebody had posted it off my site. ",
"I’m so in love with all of your work. It’s very moving. Can’t wait until I get paid so I can buy a print.",
"Yes could we please get an answer to this one",
"This is nice, but it’s also a super overdone theme. Like the “watercolor eyes” that are so popular now. I respect your talent, but I encourage you to find your own style rather that copying off everyone else. It will serve you better in the long run.",
"I agree. It's a very good painting but I think more building in the back would add on to it. ",
"Museum worthy. Excellent technique and there's a lot of emotion that just pours from the image.",
"Awesome!!!",
"This takes me back to walking the streets of Itawon in Korea as a US Army soldier even though it really looks nothing like it.\nOutstanding work.",
"That one is basically how I feel looking back in retrospect at moments I spend by the river/forest/mountain near my house",
"Oh my goodness!!! They are all absolutely amazing. You are very talented. ",
"All art and photographs are automatically copyright owned by their creator the moment they are created. You don't have to actually do something to \"copyright\" it. The occasional exception is a person who takes photos in the line of work, and then either the photos are owned by their employer, or (such as for NASA) are automatically copyright free. \n\nBut.. again.. all photos and art are copyright owned by the one who created it until they say otherwise... even if they don't have a © symbol on them.",
"Honestly all this is dope! been through your gallery now and, everything is amazing! Great job, great work I can’t decide which I want the most hahaha",
"Nooooooice",
"This is awesome! I absolutely love it! The longer I stared at it the more I saw, and now I can't unsee the cars lights as faces. The one on the far left looks SHOCKED! Haha but seriously I love the rainy city feel, you did a tremendous job capturing emotion for me. ",
"This is powerful. I haven’t had a painting stir me like this in a long time. Thanks for sharing. ",
"Found myself sucked in, staring at it for a very long time. \nGreat job! #dope",
"I audibly said to myself \"that's dope\". No painting on Reddit anywhere has ever done that. Come to think of it, very few things have ever on this platform and many others. This is incredible. ",
"This is absolutely stunning. I love it so much. ",
"I just made this the background on my phone. I hope that's okay. It's gorgeous!",
"Incredible. I love your use of contrasting colors. Really makes it pop. ",
"Beautiful work!",
"Wow captures the feeling so well",
"I want to buy this, its beautiful ",
"Hey, where can I buy your paintings?\n",
"One time we dropped a lot of acid on a rainy night in Amsterdam. We rounded a corner as I was coming up real strong and I remember thinking...this street looks like a painting. It looked exactly like this. \n\nReally wonderful! ",
"Yolo brolo!!!! Front page party!!!",
"The colors really evoke something that just feels good. I would pay to have that on my wall. Are you selling it u/flooko ?",
"This would make a beautiful cover for The New Yorker magazine. It's totally their style. You should submit it!",
"Very nice work. Wet Spadina, T.O ?",
"Is this rainy night not available yet or did I miss it? ",
"Absolutely amazing ",
"This is extremely beautiful. You have been blessed with amazing talent. My favorite aspect is the detail. ",
"no idea how id go about that, but that would rule!",
"Never thought I would really appreciate any art that I have seen on Reddit but this is really cool and makes me want to surround myself in art. Keep up the good work!",
":D",
"All I can say is WOW!",
"Awesome work ",
"My god so pretty",
"This reminds me of my friend’s husband. I’ve always really liked it. \n\nhttp://www.jakeafischer.com/painting/",
"Where can I buy a print of this? Also, do you sell prints?",
"haha I love that, thanks brother!",
"Looks like a cell phone picture with a painting filter. Tell me. How did you manage to scan in the picture so well without the paint cracking",
"Wow, very impressed.",
"I can actually get lost in this painting, it feels like it goes on forever. Amazing job",
"Yeah, I never really comment on art but this is really a special piece. It really looks like a rainy night in the city. I love it! Going to check out your gallery now. ",
"This is amazing. ",
"I went through to look at all your paintings you’ve posted. So amazing! I feel like someone could write some cool books inspired by your art. Stunning! Keep it up! Love the animated one. ",
"Wow, beautiful",
"I checked out your painting blog. I saved a few pics for phone wallpaper purposes :)\n",
"This is very van gogh of you. ",
"Nice peice",
"sold :( Ill make more soon!",
"This is so dope!! I have a very nostalgic feeling towards this and i just saw it.",
"I really love this. Normally not my style but I can't stop looking at it. Going to buy a print ASAP. ",
"Is there a website where you sell your works or prints?",
"I like to try and tell a visual story with each one :) Id love to see what anybody could come up with!",
"The animations on your youtube site are really atmospheric.\n\nSide Question....on your site where you sell prints you have many different types....like canvas print, metal print etc.... What is the basic difference between those?",
"This is really, really, really, really cool. ",
"I find myself staring at the details and then backing off my focus so I can appreciate the whole thing and doing this without taking my eyes off over and over again...",
"Really amazing painting ",
"www.flookart.com :) everything i do i toss on there :)",
"Love it. It's stunning!",
"Just a warning OP if you don't properly handle the traffic that's gonna be flowing through your website real soon, it's gonna get hugged to death - your work is amazing and it's gonna spread now that Reddit has a hold on it. Talk to your hosting provider or if you're hosting in-house...well then I guess you know what you're doing lol",
"I would love one of these as a skin for my MacBook!! Really like the whole Night City collection!",
"I found it comforting there wasn't anyone around. Then I noticed no one was around and found it comforting again. It's busy and quiet. Very nice thank you.",
"That is outstanding color work and more",
"thanks for the concern!!! I do everything with wix so I hope they can handle anything thats goin on!!! Have an awesome night brother !",
"I would by the shit out of this",
"Looks Amazing!!!\n",
"This really is wonderful. Caught this on the front page so you have probably heard it already, but just know you reached another internet stranger :) ",
"How much?",
"The astronaut feels very distant to me. I kinda thought he felt a lot like a vehicle for the painter. I didn't see myself in the astronaut because I'm always so immersed in the scene, but I kind of imagine myself looking to see who's inside that helmet and hoping it's you.\n",
"Dear Vincent Rembrandt Monet Manet,\n\nI am so glad you came back to earth to give us more beauty.\n\nLove,\n\nLittleRenay\n\nPS: Don’t cut off your ear in despair. You are going to be SO famous!",
"that makes me feel awesome. thank you !",
"Looks like Impressionism to me.",
"Wow!",
"Fantastic piece thanks for sharing ",
"Can I have that?",
"I moved to Melbourne when I was a very young adult and one my favourite things to do is go to the city when it rains to see this kinda thing. I absolutely love a dark city in a storm. Awesome painting dude",
"hahah! thank you so much friend, I beyond appreciate your kind words. I hope you have a really awesome night, seriously.",
"Really sick stuff man. Canadian proud!",
"Literally bookmarking your website. You are incredible - I am obsessed with your art!",
"hes basically me. lol. A lot of these scene are real places Ive stood in, staring out.. . thinking.",
"Stunning. ",
"haha obsessed!!! Im honoured, honestly, thank you",
"I gotchu' brother !",
"This is absolutely amazing work. I’ve not seen such vibrant colours, that’ll instantly make u stop and take notice, in quite some time now!",
"Looks too much like Santa Barbara and the city I live in and Santa Barbara are long standing rivals",
"Do you sell reproductions of this? My boyfriend and I both agree that we need this.",
"Stunning piece! It's almost hypnotic the way it draws you along into the amalgamation of lights. ",
"One thing is bugging me. I cannot figure out the source of the red reflection on the sidewalk.",
"It's fantastic and remind me of the Monet works👍👍👍",
"This....it’s so beautiful. ",
"/r/outrun",
"Well done. I really like how you make it l look very realistic with with water on asphalt reflection.",
"This moved me, so many feelings come to surface looking at this. Great work, and thank you for sharing.",
"Wonderful!",
"You can see the dots. Not very good.",
"Woaa i love my new wallpaper! S2",
"Love this. LOVE",
"Vincent van Go on witcha bad self",
"How much for a print?",
"He said exactly what I was thinking. The feeling in your painting says everything. ",
"Amazing work. I love it",
"wooooow",
"I don't know why but something about this resonates with me. It's great, good job OP!",
"Absolutely amazing. The only thing I can say that's bugging me is the perspective of the car, if it's in the middle of making a left turn, it works. But as is, it doesn't seem to follow the lines of the rest of the painting. Everything else is phenomenal. I love the colors, I love the quick brush strokes. It really captures the energy of the city. Keep it up. ",
"sure do, friend !!! everything I do Ive got up at www.flookart.com :)",
"Awesome work!",
"I love how you did the light reflections on the wet pavement. ",
"I really like this piece, for some reason it strikes a chord with me. Definitely want a print to hang in the house :)",
"Beautiful! ",
"Wanna sell a print?",
"How much did you want for this?",
"Change it to rain, (looks like snow to me) darken up the area, and add in some more cars, red lights and it's pretty much the same thing.\n\nAlso r/restofthefuckingowl because it's not that simple to paint.",
"This is fucking beautiful. I don't like paintings, but something about this painting makes me want to buy it and look at it everyday! What would this go for?",
"You don't have to copyright it, you're correct. However, it can make it a lot easier if you ever have to deal with a dispute to register your stuff with the copyright people, I think it costs like 25 bucks for as many as you want. With something like this, its probably worth it. ",
"I wish I could afford this. It makes me happy and brings back good feelings and memories. Out of curiosity what would you sell this for?",
"This feels like something to me. New York City streets are slickered and it’s some time late enough at night hat the rain keeps people inside, keeps people from going out. The rain brings out the smells of rank city, sweating out of sewer holes and trashbags blooming out of alleys. The sounds have slowed down and there’s the remaining light patter ambient between honks and the living sounds of silhouttes in apartment windows. The lights, the lights are doubled by sidewalk reflection. Everything is a blur but you can always see the lights, how they soften to a glow, that’s all you can see in the night. You can feel the noise and the quiet in this piece. Just amazing. Thank you.",
"Omg gorgeous. I always love how the wet street looks reflecting with streetlights/tails lights ❤️",
"I love that comment ! thanks for taking the time to write that. thank YOU",
"I don't know if I've ever had a painting make me feel so open and nostalgic before. Beautiful piece, I just went to look to go purchase it but it must've already been purchased!",
"whooooa, may I have your permission to frame this and hang it on my wall? I love this.",
"I LOVE this",
"I took one look at this.. and my insides just went haywire. My insides are going all over the place. I can hear the pitter patter of rain on my baseball cap, as the large drops of rains hit the umbrella. I can smell, see, hear. I have the shivers from the rain. Outstanding. Off to your website to find a bargain!",
"This is amazing, nice work",
"I was inspired by your style and tried to dabble around at photoshop (at which I am not very good) but you inspired me to do something I'm happy with the result of given my limited skill:\n\nhttps://imgur.com/a/FgsrO",
"B E A utiful ",
"The wallpaper on my computer has been one of your paintings for sometime. I got it from some garbage website that didn't bother crediting the artist and cropped your name out to boot. I've definitely got to adorn my apartment with some of those prints!",
"I love how the blue is simultaneously melancholy but also vibrant and full of energy! Top work, I may have to get a print of this from your site. Really lovely. :) ",
"Man this is deep ",
"This is really fantastic. ",
"nice one !!! keep creating !",
"Rainy, nighttime, neon cities are one of my favorite things in the world. This is real pretty. ",
"Wish I had the money to buy this painting right now. Not the print, the original. I shall keep an eye out for more street scenes in the future. Love the sixties impressionist style. My parents had a Calgary street scene from the late fifties that was just like this but with dominant reds and orange",
"Love this. The color palette and general tone of this is fantastic. Thanks for posting ",
"You are ridiculously talented! The Tool tribute painting is amazing. (And also all of your other paintings lol)",
"I would love this in my house. I'm not a hugely arty person, but when something catches my eye, I adore it. This is one of those paintings. Extraordinary talented.",
"Im just happy my art is out there making a difference :) thanks a million ",
"I was drawn into this as well, I love the rain, I'm not sure why, maybe because in a way it's peaceful but at the same time, at night it's dark, so brings a balance for me, this whole scene is just amazing, if I went to an art gallery and this was there, I'd not take my eyes off it.\n\nSadly I'm too poor to go to an art gallery, I'm also to poor for wine right now, so I'll just imagine I'm drinking a red wine and staring at this.\n\nPlease though, do more like this.",
"Amazing",
"This is beautiful. Thank you for sharing. Such a wonderful piece of art.",
"I dig your style of painting a lot op. Im surprised there's no astronaut in this one! Haha keep up the good work op. ",
"This is stunning. Absolutely Stunning! ",
"shweet, I really love the painting. I'd buy one if I had my own place :D",
"haha yeah I try not to over use him!",
"Ok, the original is not in inventory. Which one of you bought it? ",
"I wish i could draw other than dicks",
"Thank you! The problem is I'm a perpetual dabbler, I get really into something for like a week and then I let it drop so I never get beyond \"talented novice\" at anything creative... Any tips for keeping up with something like this?",
"I want that on my wall. In the living room, bedrooms, and bathroom. I really fucking like that. You should play \"Baker Street\" by Gerry Rafertty and look at it. Fucking cool man.",
"Incredible.",
"Okay how high res of a scan do you have because I really want that as my computer background ",
"I really enjoy this painting, very nice work. I personally struggle when it comes to acrylic paint but you have a very nice way of adding depth to the painting.",
"Oh dang. ",
"Incase swears are censored, all I have to say about this painting (not a connoisseur) is;\nFUuuuuuuuuuuu....",
"I thought this was a real photo until I read the caption... O_o This is amazing, great work!",
" Set this is my iPhone wallpaper. Thank you!! ",
"FROM TORONTO!!! Amazing local talent u/Flooko! \n\nThis is fantastic art. Love this one and Acid Rain. Might wanna get in on these. \n\nDM me and drop me a line. I hire artists from time to time to make art. It'd be cool to get in touch. \n",
"I really love this!",
"send me a message through my site :) www.flookart.com id love to be in touch. thanks brother !",
"This looks absolutely positively amazing!",
"glad you found a use for it!",
"Dude, you are the man. Going to have to show my wife and get one for the house.",
"When you sell a piece do you miss it? ",
"Really amazing stuff, I'm seriously considering buying prints of some of your work. Good job!",
"If you're the same person who did the fall orange bench scene in acrylic then I really like your style. Keep it up. I love the colors and how it somehow looks flat but also 3D at the same time. ",
"This looks AMAZING as a phone background too!",
"Amazing! This is easily the most striking piece I've seen on Reddit since I've been here (long time reader, very low post count).\n\nYou are incredibly talented!",
"These are amazing....I'm in love. I've never had a favorite artist until today. Thank you!",
"Sick job.\n\nIt needs a bit of interactivity (reduce screen brightness) to appreciate, but worth it. ",
"This may come off as weird but, I had this weird druggie moment in Detroit about five years ago and saw this painting almost exactly in my minds eye. I will be buying a print shortly as this is one of the weirder things I've ever experienced. ",
"It's amazing how well you captured the atmosphere of a rainy city with just a couple of colors and minimal detail. That's some serious talent and creativity.",
"Really cool how the back lights of the car from far away look like! Nice job, OP",
"You know when people say \"This piece speaks to me...\"\n\nI totally get that when I see this. \nIt's... something about it just hits me.",
"I wish I could write! I get ideas but can’t put them into words that would do them justice.",
"Is there anywhere i can follow you? I truly believe that you have a gift and alot more to offer :)",
"This reminds me of walking in the rain with someone...when things were better",
"Keep it up! This series of rainy cities at night really makes me feel nostalgic about Toronto ",
"I bookmarked your website to show your art to my girlfriend. Your rainy city series tickles my pickle in particular. It captures the feel and look of the subject matter so well with so little.\n\nI'd love to view the painting you posted printed large and from a distance. It'd be like looking into another dimension filled with my own urban memories. ",
"I totally agree, it’s phenomenal ",
"OP just made a ton of money from posting this. I'm glad for him, his work is great.",
"Really cool painting. Keep up the good work!",
"I would love a canvas print of this. Would pay",
"My new phone wallpaper. Nice job. ",
"your piece is so cool to look at. i really like the impressionistic style",
"Omg I love all of them. Saved the Link!",
"Beautiful op!",
"I absolutely love this and your style. Do you have a website?",
"As a Portlander, this speaks to my soul. I actually would like to grab one of the tote bags from Redbubble. Any idea how they actually look in person? ",
"Same, this sub tends to drool over photorealism. I find it so much more interesting when more can be said with less. I think this painting really achieves this.",
"I just went \"ohhhhh\" out loud. Beautiful.",
"Thank you for my new wallpaper",
"This is what it looks like when I look through the window and I'm trying to drive at night in Florida when it rains for like 6 weeks straight.\n\nI wish you would have made the painting landscape instead of portrait I would offer to buy a print or high definition picture of it from you.",
"This is so beautiful. I saw this and it immediately made me happy, I really like it a lot. Thank you so much for sharing!",
"If I had a nice looking house I'd totally buy that. However, this could make a bad looking house look great. Really nice painting. Your detail in color contrast is mesmerizing. ",
"Aaaah, I love this. Something about it is almost nostalgic for me.",
"This is amazing! I also checked out your print gallery and your work is incredible. If you get a ridiculously large order, just know it's me, unable to decide.",
"Found the snowflake. \n\n\nWhy are you so sensitive ? Crying and shouting about art posted on reddit. ",
"Hell yeah",
"Pretty definitive impressionism.\n\nImpressionism is the kind of painting where you take a scene, and you paint a sort of rough concept of the scene, but mostly focusing on light. Like the shape of the lights and their reflections, and the colors of them.\n\nFocusing on just that more abstract concept will produce a clear scene, but not one with details or strict outlines.\n\nThe style literally got it's name from this painting :\n\nhttps://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Monet_-_Impression%2C_Sunrise.jpg/1200px-Monet_-_Impression%2C_Sunrise.jpg\n\nWhich I think is pretty clearly very similar to OP's style.\n\nSome of his other paintings include more structure and detail and I would say venture further from typical impressionism, but.",
"Do more rainy city series and I'll buy one!",
"Looks like my ideal Portlandia.",
"this made me feel good, thank you",
"This painting is something. It has some serious Burial vibes. ",
"Is this made by your phone? If not, would you mind typing a lttle about how you view this feature on smart phones?",
"Hey what’s your IG? I know for certain I’m following you. You have a very recognizable style and it’s absolutely beautiful! You’re certainly an inspiration to keep drawing and painting!",
"love this. I wanna do one.",
"What size is it?",
"My phone's background has been the three red astronauts for the longest time! So glad to have finally found the original and album. Love your work. Keep em coming!",
"I love your style! Gonna check out your site. I'd totally pay for art like this ",
"Bravooo",
"I’m gonna be honest, this looked like a photograph with a long exposure. Amazing work. Can’t wait to see what you do next!!",
"This painting is soothing to me",
"Absolutely love it.",
"Gives me Bladerunner vibes",
"Isn't this a repost?",
"Whoa. These are so flooking good!! I think you've inspired me to paint. I bookmarked your site.",
"Dude, im not much of an art guy. I drive trucks, listen to country and rock, shoot, etc. I never read poetry or look at art that much. But this is awesome. I would fill my house with paintings like this. I actually feel like im in chicago on a rainy night when i look at this. Bravo my good man",
"This is immediately in my top 2 favourite paintings of all time\n\nI love this",
"I love this painting so much it's beautiful ",
"i live to inspire !!",
"How long do these typically stay up on the website? I loved all of the rainy city prints. I want to buy a couple, just can't all at the same time. ",
"not this one, somebody posted another one of mine a few weeks ago which was similiar",
"This is the type of skill i wish i had. Not the ability to draw well or paint realistic, but the ability to make something that stands out and is different but also beautiful. Good job, keep it up!",
"Im glad you found a use for those ! and Im glad you like my art :) thank you",
"This is amazing, how much for a print? I love it.",
"Dude. Sick.",
"Seriously, you’re an actual visionary. I hope they’re going to be studying your work in textbooks in 50 years, because this is something that needs to be preserved and remembered. You are an absolute treasure. ",
"Yeah, I'm with the OP; it's just that feeling of a rainy night in the city. Something special about that feeling for me too; and I think you captured it masterfully.",
"That’s spectacular! I’d offer to buy it, if it was for sale, and if you lived near me. ",
"Great work. Would love to buy a series of three of a theme ",
"Assuming you did this.. definitely beat self painting I’ve seen posted on the internet.. wow",
"HAHA A treasure !!! wow I'll take it !! Im just trying to make cool things that hopefully evokes some sort of feeling :) Its good to put your heart into things, I like that you noticed :)",
"This is beautiful.",
"I know shit about art, but for some reason your use of very strong colors and high contrast, while still feeling realistic really spoke to me. \n\nIt's like how I picture scenes like these in my head when I try to remember them, but even a very good photograph can't quite capture it the same way.",
"I don't want to buy it please ",
"this is incredible.",
"Reminds me of riding around on acid..in the rain that is. Good day kind flooko ",
"Impressive. Most impressive. ",
"This is gorgeous",
"i really love rainy cityscapes but don't think i've seen a really great one with acrylic paint. congrats to you because i know that's not the easiest paint to work with. this is beautiful :) ",
"thanks brother !",
"I think I've found the painting to match [this song](https://youtu.be/WBWdET5LSnU). Beautiful work.",
"How can we be sure this is not a photo with a filter on it",
"are you selling the original?!",
"I have to ask, how do you get your reds to be so opaque?",
"I read \"at night\" in SpongeBob's Voice",
"I do have IG which i post work in progress videos on and stuff, also started a new youtube page :) you can get to all that stuff from www.flookart.com thanks friend :)",
"I believe this is one of the best painting I have seen. It's not like best in the world , but for me I can relate this image to instances in my life. Also this will be a common nostalgic image that is present in every one's life !! Great man !!",
"Mmmmmm no. There is just enough ground on the ground. Very evocative work FORIMO",
"WHAAAt. Im BEYOND honoured you said that. thanks brother !",
"you have such incredible style, I wouldn't be surprised if they make prints of this.",
"thanks :) I really appreciate that",
"that's meeee !!!! and thank you :)",
"Wow, you’ve really captured the essence in this painting, It feels like I’m actually there. I’m not a fan of art, everything I see doesn’t grab my attention. Normally my reactions are “it’s a nice painting the artist is skilled but i don’t really care” but I’m mesmerised by this I’ve never felt like this just by looking at a painting before. Well done, this is more than art, you should be so proud of this accomplishment.\n\nEdit: Holy Sh*t I just checked out your website www.flookart.com and you are my favourite artist and a fellow Nick, I love all of your art work it’s such a unique perspective I genuinely can’t find the words to describe how amazing your work is.",
"I usually only save porn, but I'm saving this!",
"Some awesome stuff! If I hadn't just spent way too much money to frame a different print I would be buying one right now!",
"Also, follow this artist on instagram if you don’t already. \n\nI really enjoy your art. \n\nThanks for sharing. ",
"I’m just totally floored by the way you’ve managed to capture moods and sensations that we’ve all experienced before but somehow have never thought to focus on. The best art brings people together by igniting collective emotions, and it’s so rare to see it happen on such a huge scale like you have here. What you do is truly special! ",
"Absolutely amazing! Hope to see more. ",
"Some of your work truly reminds me of Vincent van go. You are really talented!",
"Looks 🔥",
"you're the coolest, thanks for the support. You all mean a lot to me !",
"You should do more velvet.",
"omg this one is to die for\n\nhttps://static.wixstatic.com/media/1d7ae9_a8d277aa88b04e96adbde1ac643a9038~mv2_d_1500_1968_s_2.jpg/v1/fill/w_421,h_553,al_c,q_90,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01/1d7ae9_a8d277aa88b04e96adbde1ac643a9038~mv2_d_1500_1968_s_2.webp",
"What's the size and what would you sell for?",
"Wow man... you are talented. I love the colors you use in your art. They create some great vibes and atmosphere. So far my favs are 'Early Riser' and 'MINDSCAPES #2'",
"showoff",
"that is truly amazing and gripping",
"Reminds me of blade runner ",
"Wow, this looks incredible!! Checked out your other works as well, phenomenal! Keep it up! Definitely would like to purchase one on the original canvas at some point. ",
"Im glad you like mindscapes #2 !! its one of my personal favs but it doesnt get much love as its so weird !! ",
"That really cool ",
"Just set this as my iPhone lock screen. Wonderful painting.",
"Holy moly! This is fantastic! Keep it up! ",
"glad you could use it !! have a great night !",
"That is beautiful and I want it.",
"I actually thought I was looking at /r/deepstyle or /r/deepdream at first.",
"Fucking love it mate",
"Wow love it! It is almost like modern day Van Gogh!",
"You as well! ",
"turn that frown upside down...",
"Flooko I hope some day I could buy a paint, great paint yo do! ",
"Wow, you really have something here, I love this ",
"This is absolutely amazing",
"You have so many comments already but I really need to tell you I’m in love with your painting. I can’t even express to you the feelings this painting does to me but truly it moves me. Thank you so very much for sharing your talent with all of us on Reddit. I feel so blessed to have seen it. \n\n",
" I absolutely love this... I would definitely buy it. ",
"I want to buy an original. Your nature paintings are gorgeous. \n\n",
"Honestly, it's completely mediocre. Clumsy brush-strokes, clearly a made up/imagined scene lacking in any detail or finesse, and a bland, overdone subject.\n\nHere are some actual decent ones:\n\nhttps://i.pinimg.com/originals/9c/d3/6a/9cd36a0cc8963a55568a94cf04bf0f7d.jpg\n\nhttps://i.pinimg.com/736x/10/79/cc/1079cc595b0697cc50d71189d9e77a22.jpg\n\nhttps://static1.squarespace.com/static/51c15e1be4b03a0f7c9daece/57f9728a440243944efc3131/57f972aee58c620809374a64/1476033020929/Market+Street%2C+Midnight.jpg",
"This is the essence of romanticism, my favorite art style. It concetrates less on details than the emotions evoked at this exact moment of time.",
"Holy crap that’s impressive. Kudos man",
"I love this. Really captures a mood.",
"I’m not crazy into art but jeez this is beautiful ",
"Seriously. When I have my own home, I want this hung up somewhere in it.",
"Truly gorgeous. ",
"You’re very talented!",
"OP, keep it up. This just feels nice. New wallpaper for sure.\n\nAlso, thanks for the link to your store, I'm definitely treating myself to a print. ",
"DOPE!",
"I got just as excited as everyone else for this website :) Stunning work! I can't stop staring at this painting. ",
"This is really great stuff. Cheers from MN USA. i’ll be following you from now on. The canvas prints ate available in either 4x5 or 2x3 format, what’s the original dimensions of this painting?",
"Never seen anything painted on the rain",
"That is beautiful",
"I seriously thank you for the comment. Everyone is beyond so beyond awesome tonight and really making my day. Thanks again !",
"Damn I though you might be a one hit wonder but no, your paintings are damn good. Thank you for your contribution to reddit!",
"you're the best, thank you. have an awesome night !",
"this is so pretty wow",
"Ill keep posting as long as you guys like em!",
"Want to hear something insane? I have a 20-month-old son who doesn’t like to sleep through the night right now. I was just trying to get him to sleep and no joke put your video on that you link above - five minutes of your animated paintings with rain sounds. \n\nMy son stopped crying, stopped fussing, and started to watch my phone screen. Within one minute, he was staring at my screen. Within two minutes, his eyes were getting heavy. By the fourth minute, he was asleep. By the fifth, I was crying. \n\nI don’t really know why. I’m a happy guy and generally my son is a good dude. But in that moment - him asleep in my arms in his room, and me sitting in a rocking chair - I just wept. \n\nThanks. It felt great. ",
"your paintings have this eerily serene sense of depression about them. they are all really beautiful to look at and i admire your talent. ",
"This is amazing ",
"Beautiful!",
"Im always trying to add cool new stuff to the site too! its like my portal to weirdness ! recently got into animating my own paintings lately to create even more atmosphere ",
"Your \"stream of consciousness\" painting is absolutely phenomenal.",
"Vancouver?",
"I see you noticed. Im usually in a really weird headspace and it almost seems to come across in my paintings. Painting is my escape :)",
"This is beautiful, definitely one of my favorite paintings I’ve seen on Reddit. Rainy nights are the best.",
"this is beyond beautiful! Congratulations for your talent 👏🏼👏🏼",
"That gallery is absolutely fantastic. The Rainy Cities series is really like taking an old school picture of the big cutie.\n\nBut Homesick, soothing about that longing but resolute feel it gives me. It’s saying, “ I miss home, but I’m still glad I left.”\n\nYou are a rare talent.",
"I just found my new phone background. It looks amazing thanks for making it!",
"oh.. man. You just gave me GOOSEBUMPS ! Im gonna save that comment, lol. Thanks a million brother. Im here for ya !",
"Saving this to buy when I have money. Amazing artist. ",
"new lock screen, thanks!",
"Reminds me of a mario kart track",
"If I could afford any of your art, I'd totally buy it.",
"This is so good. I can see it on a white wall in an art gallery getting praised. ",
"Subscribed!!!",
"This is so badass",
":D",
"Art that I actually enjoy and could probably be relatively affordable :D",
"thanks so much for saying so. I read all these comments and that really made me smile, thank you",
"This is so great and simple, love it!!",
"thank you :) I really like that one too",
"This makes my heart feel nice and my brain warm and fuzzy. Love it. Fantastic work. ",
"I love it. Absolutely love it.",
"<3",
"Wow, you do some great work, your prices are surprisingly low too.\nI think I may just have to try to justify splurging a bit. I also really love how you incorporate the lone astronaut in some of your paintings!",
"This is incredible. Monetize your skill but don’t lose touch with it. :)",
"I like to keep things somewhat reasonable, Im just happy that people like my work enough to hang in their home !",
"The whole content of your website is amazing!",
"r/outrun anyone?",
"Yes please!",
"Other people have already articulated what I would say. I just wanted you to know that I'm +1 for people who think you are extremely talented. ",
"thank you ! Im trying to make my site kind of like an escape where you can go and just zone out on a bunch of cool stuff !",
"Acrylic doesnt get enough love. This is beautiful",
"First time I’ve read “tickles my pickle” in a comment about how good somebody’s art is.",
"Your painting is straight fire 🔥 🔥 🔥. Wow.",
"Blade runner-esque ",
"These are so good, I can’t decide which ones I absolutely have to have. Thanks so much for sharing your art, that’s a powerful thing.",
"there are so many good things about this... especially it felt like rain running down to my eyes and makes everything blur and glow. please post more when you figure out how to put astronaut in it.",
"This has inspired me to hop back on the saddle and start learning again. ",
"do it !!!!!!",
"Really good stuff. Maybe it's just my current mood, but some of your work sort of resonates with my loneliness. Obviously some of that must be intentional, especially with the Left Behind series. Blue Bath and Beyond especially struck me, maybe for an odd reason. I had a few recurring dreams where I was stuck in a world that was intended for ghosts. Like, there were guard rails in places where a person couldn't walk but a ghost could just go through the guard rail. These places were built out of normal objects, but in a way that only a ghost could navigate if that makes sense. Sort of the inverse of the typical ghost story. Blue Bath sort of reminded me of that with the hat and the full tub but no visible person. I can also see how it could have a darker meaning, but don't know if that was intended either.",
":) i appreciate you saying so ",
"My favorite artist! I have two of your pieces in my office",
"Im way into surrealism so its right up my alley!",
"How difficult would it be to have added some kind of raindrops? I've never worked with acrylic paints. It looks awesome, OP.",
"I want to buy it. PM me for price.",
"oh man, my heart explodes when someobdy says that. Thank you!",
"My god, that is so vivid and stunning. Never before has a painting of a wet sidewalk given me the feels. ",
"Wow! ",
"You have a nice style. It's unique, in it's way.",
"Wonderful painting. I'm curious if you used a picture of a rainy street similar this to help visualize things? ",
"I really like this painting. Just wanted to let you know ",
"Looks awesome!",
"Good job, man. Looks like an actual photo with some cool effects on it. \n\nP.s. thanks for the new phone wallpaper ",
"The effect of water reflecting off the pavement is amazing, this could be rotoscoped, or a heavy photo filter. Like a window to an unknown yet strangely familiar world. The setting has a reserved but mystical quality leaving me with the feeling all life appears mundane yet its true nature hold secrets and depth awaiting translation by artists such as yourself, helping others to perceive such.",
"Its amazing, the wet puddled brush strokes and the shimmering blue juxtaposed against the red is extremely captivating. My eyes just want to flow around the piece, its relaxing. There is something more about it though, it naturally has that feeling. Few paintings have that. ",
"Extremely talented! Keep it up. Definitely gonna have to get some for my house. ",
"Holy shit, the work om your site is just as good if not better! I really like the sense. of lonelyness in them. I find it somewhat kind and understanding :)\nIf you have the time you should vist flookart.com!",
"I feel like Frank Reynolds at the art gallery",
"To paraphrase, and use my exact thoughts when I first saw it... so, uh... How much?",
"i appreciate you letting me know !! thanks so much",
"What can I say, I'm a maverick.",
"Easy buddy, I was trying to give a compliment. Post modern in the sense it’s not landscapes or festival settings from 19th century Europe. But yes I admit I have to brush up on my art history. None the less, it’s a beautiful painting, a beautiful piece of art. ",
"i really don't think snowflake is the right term to use here ... such a stupid fucking insult anyway ",
"Can I borrow it?",
"That is beautiful. I am a lifelong urban Vancouverite and that totally hits me right in the feels... All your rainy city night stuff does really. \n Amazing work!",
"Wow! I love this!",
"I love it",
"I like this. Very much. ",
"Oh, man I am so in love with this. \n\nSo many art movements come to mind as I looked at your gallery. Impressionism, Surrealism, Romanticism, even the style of Futurism (have you ever seen Umberto Boccioni’s Futurist paint series called *States of Mind*?).\n\nLove these so much! I wish I had the money to buy one from you!\n\nI’ll make that a goal!",
"Damn. When I get my shit together I have to commission art from you.",
"Or, as we say in Mother Russia, your stuff is shit.",
"you just made my heart grow, thank you!",
":D",
"So amazing!! Imagine things like this when I’m writing music!",
"This is super pleasant to look at for me. Great job, OP. I might order a print (the first one ever). :)",
"I caught your painting while scrolling... Went back and opened it... I can hear the jazz playing while looking at it...",
"Wow. I love this!!",
"jazz is PERFECT !",
"im honoured! thank you ",
"I like this so much. It is for me a memory filled piece of art. I love it. It makes me feel so peaceful. Thank you for sharing this. ",
"I've never impulse bought art before!",
"I too am a musician, I have a habit of adding rain sounds into my songs lol",
"Damn, dude. As a 10th grader in high school who is trying to decide on wether or not I should take AP art next year, if it puts me on the path to doing something as remotely cool as this, I'm totally in. Your work is amazing!",
"I just looked through your entire gallery. Oh my. All of your works are beautiful, a few of them took my breath away such as \"the thinker\". Your space men theme is super rad.",
"haha !! im honoured !! THANK YOU",
"Wooow...Awesome painting 👌👌👌",
"my pleasure :)",
"Fucking beautiful. ",
"wow made it to your webpage and your paints look awesome. they're going to look even awesomer when i'm trippin'.",
"I have to say that it does make me feel like I'm standing there, on the sidewalk during a rainy night. It conveys to me the motion of the cars, the dampness in the air, the twinkle in the lights. I can *almost* hear the sounds of a street corner. Well done.",
"Rad! I love it",
"I love the sight of lights refracted by rain, its great to see such a unique art style's take on it!",
"This is a masterpiece. Theres something about it. It captures the scene so well while at closer glance has raw blurred paint with texture. It allows for an experience of being drawn in while letting you know its art and therefore unique-something that makes great art special.\n\nWell done!",
"Op this is beautiful. I’m broke but if I can afford it, I’d buy a print. Good job. :)",
"This truly is something special. \n\nYou’re going to go far. If you haven’t already. ",
"Jesus that is absolutely beautiful. I’m bot an art guy, but Jesus Christ man.",
"Wow, that's really good! ",
"When you set reflections on ultra!",
"im glad you think so !! the spaceman is my special dude",
"glad I could inspire ! art is a great outlet for trying to keep sane in this insane world",
"how much for the original?",
"You are insanely talented! Keep it up!\n",
"a MASTERPIECE you say !!! haha, i dont know about THAT, but I'll take it !!! thanks a bajillion for saying so ! have an awesome night!",
"So many paintings that are so inviting yet solitary. I love it",
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"It makes you feel wistful or sehnsucht.",
"Slay queennnn, slayyyyyy",
"I love this painting. You have no idea. For years I've had this surreal reocurring dream of walking at night down a small city sidewalk. It's raining, muted colors other than the lights. Sometimes I have this feeling of calm peace, and others times a feeling of loss. While I'm walking I hear moonlight sonata in my head. I have a strange attachment to this dream. Anyways, I was shocked to see this as it captures my dream perfectly. Amazing work, and I must know if you sell prints or recreations. ",
"The gift living inside this painting is that you’ve captured an emotion. Is that emotion nostalgia? Loneliness? Want? \n\nThe specific location you painted does not matter. I think a lot will feel like they have been there, I felt like I had been there. After a break up. Alone. \n\nThank you for sharing.",
"Would you ever consider letting Someone use this as album art? If you got compensation and credit ?",
"Nice work, reminds me of Eyes Wide Shut for some reason. ",
"That’s lovely do you have a SoundCloud? ",
"Reminds me of “Rad Racer”",
"This is beautiful ",
"This is beautiful.\n\n",
"I typically am not impressed by other people’s art. I never buy art as a result. My walls are adorned with my own work.\n\nBut this is FUCKING GOOD,\nI would buy this!",
"Wow... ",
"This is amazing \nI love it .\nIt's saved and made my home screen",
"i will soon! almost done an acoustic instrumental album ive been working on for over 2 years !",
"Amazing piece. Would buy if not broke right now. ",
"thanks friend ! much appreciated !",
"aaaaaaand new background",
"!deepdream",
"I really love your style. It’s incredible ",
"Fairly unimpressed or just uninterested when I come across random art on reddit even if it obviously involves great talent... I really really enjoy this though, the colors are striking and it conveys exactly how a rainy night in the city makes me feel and I'm just really into this. Thank you for making it!",
"thank you ! I'm glad I finally have one!",
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"That's not even your best one. Well to me. I'm told art is subjective. Damn fine work! I'll be getting that 15% discount for sure",
"I love this so much but the perspective of the SUV is driving me insane",
"Omg so good ",
"Awesome! ",
"I don't have money but I'd love to buy a print of it. I'm sure other would too. Impressionism is my favorite style of painting but this is exceptional. ",
"*whew!! glad you like it friend!! Ill keep posting as long as everyone is diggin' it !!",
"As soon as payday comes around I have to have this and some of your other work. I have been desperately trying to find art for my house with no luck in finding anything that makes me feel something. Sooo glad I saw this!",
"This seriously made me feel some type of ways.",
"I’m not into art, but your website has me interested! I’d spend money on all that.",
"🔥🔥🔥 👍🏼",
"Fantastic",
"No joke, I rarely comment on reddit. But this, this is incredible! Wish I had the budget to buy, but sadly I have a wedding to pay for 0_o",
"I really like this. Checked out your site and liked all your work. ",
"thanks for checking it out man!!",
"good luck with the wedding brother !",
"Was Leonid Afremov an inspiration? This art work looks incredible! Very similar style to his. ",
"I love it! If a canvas copy cost $150 I would buy one!",
"I had the same feeling looking at this! Absolutely incredible work.",
"Im trying really hard to turn my website into a cool escape where you can zone out and relax with a bunch of cool stuff!! thanks for checking it out!",
"Im kinda drunk and this is amazing. Gj OP!!!",
"Your paintings are absolutely gorgeous! \n\nI love what you're doing with the animated versions too - I think \"Left Behind #3\" is my favorite so far, plus the ocean and campfire sounds are incredibly soothing and perfect for the image. ",
"I love that your killing time clock is at 4:20😂",
"I just looked him up, I love the colours he uses!! thanks for sharing! very inspiring",
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"These are incredible. I believe i may have just discovered my new favorite artist! ",
"You definitely are doctor. ",
"You’re SO talented! This painting kind of made me sad for a moment. For whatever reason, it’s got emotion in it. Don’t ever stop painting! ",
"I love your art, am definitely going to buy a poster or print!",
"Can I pay you to do this again? I’ll buy it 👍",
"I'm definitely buying some of your originals whenever I have the money to decorate. I love all of your paintings but the park scene is so gorgeous.",
"Im glad people are liking those, I had fun doing them. I'll keep making them if you keep checking them out !! :) have an awesome night",
"This is amazing ",
":D that makes me beyond happy anytime somebody says that, thank you !! ILL REPRESENT !!!",
"Oh looks nice! Really cool stuff! Thank you for the feelings and memories your painting arouses in me...",
"Your style is what my dreams are made of keep up the amazing work",
"Same. I could hang this anywhere in my house and it’d look so dope ",
"Can I make this my lockscreen?!",
"Absolutely stunning ",
"you BETCHA!",
"I can literally hear the car passing on a wet road, the smell of moisture and ozone, and feel the splash of the droplets. Your use of bold color defining the reflection of light is awesome! Thanks for posting!",
"Can't wait to show my 4 year old this! I was browsing reddit the other day and came across another of your rainy city paintings, and my daughter happened to see it. She kept saying how beautiful the picture on my phone was and wouldn't let me carry on until we had been through all the details of the picture and spoke about what we could see, which is awesome as it's the first time she's took an interest and appreciation for art. \n\nAlso having found you on reddit I've been able to check out some of your other work, and acid rain is truly incredible. I could stare at it for hours!",
"haha!! I love that comment! KEEP THEM DREAMS ALIVE !",
"Ily you",
"that absolutely rules, thanks for sharing that! put a smile on my face :)",
"I love this picture so much. I’m just kinda getting into painting. Especially with acrylics and oils. And this is just amazing. I love painting. I have so many ideas. I just don’t know how to convey them to the canvas. My wife and I talk about going to some classes and whatnot. We have so much fun painting together. I wish I could paint like this. But that’s the best thing about painting... it doesn’t matter.. ya know ",
"They’re all amazing, but just to name two, thoughts adrift #3 speaks to me big time and sin tiempo is amazing. Your art makes me happy and really touches me! ",
"<3",
"Reminds me of the painter Jeremy Mann, good stuff",
"Absolutely stunning! What I wouldn't give for the tiniest bit of artistic talent...",
"i really appreciate you telling me that, Always trying to evoke an emotion !! thank you!",
"Wow this is amazing... It's great art and great style but more than that it really makes me feel like it's a rainy night. Bravo!\nAlso are your paintings of Toronto? That looks like a TTC streetcar\n\nEDIT: I couldn't resist I was looking at your collection for an hour, bought 5 different ones including this one! (I especially love the Left Behind collection tickles my exploration fancy!)",
"This is a perfect Jazz album cover!",
"Not a fan of this. I did look at your website though and really enjoyed some them. Too much blue for me maybe.",
"This is really nice. I like this a lot!! Soothing.\n",
"and I LOOOVE jazz !!! thats usually what I'm listening to. Or some instrumental guitar wizardry ",
"Np keep doing what you’re doing ;)",
"These are ducking incredible \nI never bought art before... but expect a few purchases😏",
"Its very very good. It just synthesizes so many feelings. Its a whole experience.",
"That's amazing! I'm currently redecorating my apartment and will be purchasing a couple of your prints for my bedroom. They're phenomenal! Thanks for linking.",
"I’d buy this!",
"This doc is one cool customer\n\nAre you accepting new patients",
"[Have you heard of Leonid Afremov?](https://i.imgur.com/es3TJzW.jpg)\n\nI'm sorry this doesn't nearly do him justice. [Let me show just one random good one.](https://i.imgur.com/eLmm625.jpg)",
"another user just showed me this, very cool. Love his use of colour !!",
"Flook, I asked for, and received an acrylic block of Acid Rain 2 for Christmas, and I just wanted to say thanks for making it happen. ",
"Your YouTube channel just blew my mind. ",
"For some reason when seeing this the song “The Road” by Asking Alexandria popped into my head. New wallpaper btw, thanks op!",
"Is there any way for me to get a print of this? I *need* it on my wall!",
"This exactly.",
"This is insane most of the painting i just find beautifull but this one makes me happy en makes me smile great job man!",
"Well done... This should painting should be on the Prisma app",
"Seattle much?",
"Jazz af",
"Agree, overall I find the piece very striking, but the size of the car really throws me off.",
"City of stars",
":D YESSS, ive been working on that!! thank you!",
"This is so beautiful. It reminds me of late night London. ",
"YAY, YOU GOT IT!! that rules man!! have a great year!",
"If I'm not mistaken I can see the psychedelic influence on your art! I love em all! ",
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"Lol look at the username to the op",
"I love this. ",
"I liked this picture so much I made it my home screen on my phone! Good job!!",
"How much you want for it?",
"Do you paint a lot? Insta? Social media? Would love to see more of your work",
"The aesthetic sense you have is great, from one artist to another hats off",
"You are incredibly talented. Your gallery has so many great pieces. Keep it up!",
"thank you!",
"artists unite !! thank you !",
"Ill be getting this one on a large canvas no doubt. ",
"No, I’m Maverick this time... You’re Goose! ",
"That's mad, it's almost exactly the same haha",
"all the time !! once people from sites like this started following, i couldnt stop pumping them out !! i do about 2 new ones a week :) you can get to all that stuff from www.flookart.com :)",
"This reminds me of The Great Gatsby cover art. Awesome style!",
"Absolutely nailed the perspective. ",
"I absolutely love the contrasting colors in this painting. I'd love to see more work from you. ",
"Woah. Amazing!!!!\n\n",
"Is there a name for this style of art? I love the reflections and shadows in them. Looking at these evokes a lot of nostalgic and warm feelings for me. ",
"Is this for sale? How big is it? ",
"Haha! Keep it up :)",
"This gave me the feels. ",
"Saving a wall for your art work man, again, beautiful job ",
"I will let you live the life of the painter i have in me as i don't see the world around me but a world inside of me that can't be expressed visually. I would like you to be the real life version of the life i could never have.",
"i adore your nighttime pieces",
"This reminds me of the rainy night I went to visit my wife (then girlfriend) for our second date. Love it",
"My goodness, amazing stuff like usual! I really like that shade of blue. Also just checked your Instagram and I *love* the Aurora's Swing and Stargazer paintings.",
"i like those ones too. I just love the vibe of nighttime in general",
"thanks for having a peak at all that! Im always trying to pump out new stuff !!!",
"There’s something about that shade of blue that peaks my interest. It’s almost addicting. Well done!",
"I couldn’t find the words to explain how this made me feel but you did. Seriously wow ",
"You’re work is really beautiful. I just finished looking through your pieces and many of them made me a bit emotional, which was quite unexpected. It’s like they evoke a sort of nostalgia for a place I’ve never actually been. Your style and use of color is just super rad. ",
"I like these, a lot of them remind me of No Man’s Sky.",
"Amazing",
"How much? \n",
"This is stunning!!! I am stunned and in awe. ",
"woah thats hot fire. or, hot rain.",
"Amazing",
"So atmospheric! Makes the gloomy evening seem so beautiful.",
"Reminds me of Alex Katz!",
"it seriously fills me with joy knowing how much emotion these paintings give off to other people such as you. its honestly just so cool. I put a lot of heart and thought into each one and it blows me away how it actually comes across.",
"Beautiful colors",
"The real question is, how much for THE painting?",
"I love this so so so much!",
"Spadina...as in Toronto?? Is this my home city?",
"Cool painting. I’d love to stare at this when I’m high as kite.",
"Hands down dopest dope I’ve ever smoked. ",
"haha !!! yes",
"Absolutely beautiful! Do you have a DA page or anything? I'd love to see more of your work.",
"Oh my god this one is so beautiful! AND the rest of your artwork in your gallery too! Please keep doing what you do, these are absolutely awesome, the one posted here I'm particular is my favourite",
"Toronto represent !",
"This is really well done. You are very talented!",
"i do have a DA page, but the site i work on the most is my own, which is www.flookart.com always adding cool new stuff!",
"Shouldn't have sold it before this post. If you opened a bidding war you would have gotten more. I don't even have to know what you sold it for.\n\nI guess what I'm saying is, dox the person you sold it to. We'll make them a wealthier individual lol",
"wow, love the reflections! looks very calming :)",
"Thanks! Love your style. Looking forward to browsing that. ",
"Great prices of work and thanks for sharing. \n\nI’m curious - since you posted this, in % terms how much has traffic to your gallery increased? I’d love to know how powerful Reddit when it comes to stuff like this. ",
"Oh god, thoughts adrift #3 is stunning! ",
"good stuff. keep up the good work. i see a lot of original works, and i dont know what it is, but this one elicits some strong feelings of memories for me. bravo!",
"My head hurts ",
"It doesn’t look like anything to me.",
"Can I buy this?! Serious request!",
"I don't use instagram, but I have subbed to your YT!",
"yeah :) takes me back to wandering around through the city at 4am. it has just stopped raining and the concrete has that typical wet city smell, up above there's the soft soft noises of the pigeons waking up. they coo and shake the water from their wings. a car passes by slowly. its tyres make splashing noises, as a lone drunk person is stumbling home (me).",
"yay thanks ! trying to build that up!! Really loving doing these animated paintings.",
"Wow. I can't explain what or why but this picture made me feel! This is incredible. ",
"Wow. Such vibrant colors. Gave me goosebumps!",
"It’s truly wonderful",
"/r/synthwave",
"I want you to be rich!",
"This is absolutely stunning. It has almost a surreal quality to it. ",
"You are great",
"Is your name Kevin cause your art is spacey as hell ^^no ^^offence. Also holy hell you’ve got so much art I gave up swiping, great job man.",
"Wow insanely talented. The animated video is awesome! ",
"Great paintings. Any reason for the lonely empty chair? I noticed a few had that. Also a theme of a skull in a few also. The chair caught my eye",
"Amazing painting. Wow.",
"This is so beautiful!",
"I subscribed to your channel, I'll definitely keep checking them out!! Haha you have an awesome night too, the ocean and campfire sounds already almost put me to sleep once. ",
"That is really cool.",
"I dont know if you will ever see this but. You have a mastery of a lot of different styles. Your nature art has meaningful color balances. And your rain paintings are worthy of impressionism. Well done. Im going to get some prints. Keep it up",
"Hot damn, this is amazing.",
"This is amazing, it makes me feel !",
"Once again, your stuff is beautiful",
"Amazing!! Thanks for responding. ",
"I have this saved. It looks awesome and dreamy and it's my new background, so thanks!",
"This makes me feel life",
"Bookmarked. I really liked your style and my place is so devoid of nice art.",
"Omg. Gorgeous. I love rainy cities. Found your Etsy, following your Instagram. I’m all over this ",
"Living in a rainy city, this piece really stands out. It’s one of those things that everyone here loves but never talks about. I know that personally, one of the most beautiful things about a rainy day is the lights reflecting off the wet roads. Well done OP.",
"Holy shit. You're good.\nKeep being humble and awesome <3",
"I've never been someone who \"gets\" art. But this is beautiful. Good shit fam.",
"Wow this is beautiful ",
"Watching your All Nighter process was mesmerizing. Awesome stuff man!",
"This is good.",
"Wow. Beautiful painting. This skunds werid but it reminds me of how a memory \"looks\" when you recall a rainy night... I love this painting. And I'm not usually a painting kind of person. Great work :)",
"Thays really nice id love something like that on my wall ",
"This is oddly comforting to me.",
"It‘s so beatiful",
"I like your non rain related pics better, for example the one with the crane and pink sky is definitely awesome. ",
"Definitely going to order some in the future. If I could afford it, I'd buy your originals, but the prints are nice too ;) ",
"All of your night city paintings are very powerful.",
"If you could somehow paint a similar painting that shows the essence of the city of London, I'd be more than happy to purchase it (although right now, I have to place to put it).",
"read it",
":D im so glad people are liking those ! Trying to build my youtube page up with neat things",
":D thanks stranger !! ",
"just a question, what is Water Under the Bridge inspired by?",
"Always trying new stuff! keeps it interesting !",
"OF course I see these! these comments make me so happy, I love reading them. Thanks for the kind words!",
"Dude, that animation is awesome. Have you tried encasing a painting in glass and running actual water over it, like a waterfall? I think that would be awesome.",
"Something about art like this brings me calmness ",
"haha dude, what a trippy idea. one day Ill do wacky stuff like this!",
"I have stared at wet spadina 3 and all nighter for I don’t know how long. They are amazing. Love them",
"This literally took my breath away. The second that I saw it, I could almost hear the raindrops. Absolutely beautiful ",
"Kinda reminds me a bit of James Eads",
"The colours and the way they complement each other in a bright way while still having a dark theme element is amazing! I would love to have something like this above my tv or another proud place in my flat. \n\nIf you haven’t before, consider making mad money off your work. ",
"I really like the Wet Spadina series. You should show off your work to /r/Toronto .",
"I love your work! Really great style, your paintings have a wonderful feeling to them.",
"Man, you have such a great eye for color. Love your work, beautiful\n\n",
"Your work is absolutely lovely!!",
"Holy shit I can't believe it. I know exactly what you mean. I went to comments just to express the same sentiment, and I was both shocked and happy to see that the top comment was just that. Well fucking done, OP, this is GOOD art!! I couldn't stop looking at it!!",
"This is what I see if I don't have my glasses on! ",
"Aaaand now I have Kavinsky stuck in my head. Well done. ",
"thanks, friend! much appreciated :)",
"username checks out",
"This is so beautiful. ",
"Wow, that's beautiful. So much depth and vibrance through so few colors. Great work.",
"That's really beautiful. I would totally buy that.",
"Everything about this speaks to me. I would very much love a print. ",
"Holy fuck dude some of those are fucking awesome. And not awesome like wow supreme talent awesome but awesome like wow he's really good BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY it's bringing emotion out of me. \n\nI only looked at the first like 8 and #3 and the one titled 'the grind' are fucking phenomenal\n\nHow long you been arting man? I'm real jealous, I can't draw a stick figure",
"that's breathtaking! holy smokes",
"Every day some hyperrealistic drawing gets tot he top of r/art and yeh hyperrealism is a great skill to have, an art movement sure, but many of these people are just copying reference image, some in photoshop some with pencil, it leaves me feeling a bit cold tbh.\n\nHere you have gone out and seen the world and responded to what you have seen in your own way, for me that is truly what art is about. This is great.",
"Do you ever use oil, and if so, why not?",
"My grandma passed away recently, she was a keen painter and a very good one at that. I wish I could have showed her this piece; she really would have loved it. Thankyou for sharing your work",
"Are you considering selling your art?",
"very beautiful",
"So in regards of \"killing time,\" do you like smoking weed?",
"This is beautiful, do you have a site?",
"sure do, friend !! www.flookart.com",
"Can I buy a print? ",
"Commenting here so I’ll remember to check it out",
"Damn I was excited to buy this until I saw the prices. Totally worth it, you are incredible, I just can't afford it moving into my new place yet. I'll definitely bookmark the page though. ",
"\nBeautifully done! Helps me to remember the late evenings I went through hanging out downtown with companions in highschool. I cherish it! \n",
"This is beautiful, you should be proud",
"Found my new wallpaper....thanks! ",
"hi, you're great.",
"this makes me feel something, it’s so beautiful but i’m so sad",
"I'm actually pretty horny about this painting ",
"This is the best work I have seen of the recent influx of “rainy view down the street” paintings.\n\nYou have risen above the cliche with your color.",
"It's amazing, nice :D It also gives me /r/cyberpunk vibes for some reason. Good job c:",
"Granted I'm on my phone, so it's a smaller screen, but I actually had to do a double take to realize that was a painting. Awesome job man!!",
"I LOVE this! This is so great man!",
"This is not in your store. Is it sold already ^^? ",
"hi, You're a KING!",
"Stream of Conciousness and Unearthed collection 5 are by far my favorites. 👌🏼\n",
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"I'd buy it",
"Wow your art is amazing, I really love astronauts included in art and man I may just have to buy some of your stuff ",
"To be fair...that's pretty lit.",
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"i scroll up and down the front page all day, i had no idea this was a painting\n\ngood shit",
"I seriously want every single one of these",
":D thanks friend!! Always trying to make something interesting to look at !",
"Love this. Thank you for the moving scene. Many a rainy night in San Francisco comes to mind :) ",
"Your art is awesome. Such talent. ",
"I am going to buy one of those. Your art is just absolutely amazing! Just the fact that you can construct such stunning scenes in your mind and then bring those to life, is amazing. You got yourself a new fan right here. ",
"And here am I, can't even trace perfectly yet this guy whisks paint all over the canvass and it becomes a distinguishable art ",
"“rainy city blues, i wanna go!”",
"Awesome painting. If I could afford it, I would totally buy it",
"The tone and color of this just fucking aligns with my emotions, something just grabs me. I don’t just like this painting, I wish I was there, thank you, please keep at it. ",
"Holy shit this is beautiful",
"Beautiful! Thanks for sharing",
"This is gorgeous. ",
"Can I save this and use for my lock screen wallpaper?",
"For someone who's tried to pick up acrylics, that looks really polished and worked through. Great job!",
"This style is so corny but I still love it",
"One of those painting where you just have to stop and take it all in for a minute. Well done :)",
"The lighting looks like Monet, the strokes look like Van Gogh. 11/10",
"Your art looks like the sleepy city version of Leonid Afremov. Check him out!",
"Ok, Van Gogh, chill",
"very nice job",
"This is insanely awesome. It's really evocative because fo the color contrasts. I've always felt that the deep, cool blues and the warm reds resonate with opposite sides of the emotional spectrum so it's such a visually pleasing thing when you see the reflections. I find this super awesome. Bravo. ",
"I like this painting a lot. Thank you for sharing this with us. What is your name, artist?",
"my pleasure :)",
"Oh MAN if this one is available I'm totally getting it for my NY dorm, always needed a literal rainy street ",
"Caught in the Rain #2 and #3 would make a great pair. But it doesn't seem like you can buy them in the same format? One is a canvas and the other is a poster and they don't have the same size. Perhaps I'm missing something?",
"This is fantastic. I love the mood. Do you happen to teach on youtube? I would be your first subscriber ",
"I would be proud to hang this in my living room. I love the blue. ",
"I do have a youtube channel!! Not sure you should take advice from me, as I have no idea what Im doing, but you can watch me create if you like :)",
"It would be so amazing if you ship internationally. ",
"This is absolutely fantastic. The art that impacts me the most, isn't usually the kind that is extremely detailed, but the art that can evoke exactly what the artist was aiming for without having to include all the intricate parts. Thank you for sharing this, and keep up the awesome work, OP.",
"ohhh I can get it on a pillow too!!",
"thanks a million trillion brotha! much love :)",
"Van Gogh?",
"suurree caaannnnn!!!!!!!",
"More like impressivism. ",
"Is this for sale?",
"How is it that being in a city at night when it's raining is mostly horrible but almost all artistic representations of it are hauntingly beautiful?",
"this is awesome",
"you're awesome, thank you !",
"There was a graffiti in Shoreditch, London, with the same style of this, were you inspired by that? Can't remember the author. ",
"really cool mate",
"Wow. I love it. ",
"thanks brother !",
"I love the colors, I love the light, I love everything about it.",
"The first reaction.. WOW! Awesome work! I can't stop looking at it!",
"When i see the results you get, i would 100% take advice from you. How can i find you?",
"Here's my youtube :) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKDKtibZDMfbUaTIpwTG8nw",
"I'm always fascinated by the sound of rain, more specifically the multitude of different types ranging from intensity to material that it hits to slight mixture of other sounds to procure a mental image ([almost similar to your paintings](http://i.imgur.com/gecty.gif)) for the listener.\n\nmaybe its the rain in my region that has different feel to it audibly or past memories of rain moments that normal rainymood and some others don't really seem on par with the feeling.",
"I’ve never really understood art especially not “famous” paintings, but this painting actually makes me feel the rain on my skin. Somehow I can feel the cold and hear the traffic. It’s very powerful!! ",
"It looks a bit like something right out of the impressionist period . Beautiful ",
"Beautiful beautiful work. The Rain series really touches me ",
"hey thanks, but for real, you got some serious talent my dude",
"Just picked up a large canvas print can’t wait!",
"You’re definitely talented enough to be featured in a gallery. I really don’t know anything about the modern art world, so I have no idea how that works. Can you / have you submitted your portfolio anywhere?",
"seriously, thank you. You're supposed definitely goes noticed! have an AMAZING night",
"I was about to call you out for posting Nick Flooks work, but then I realised you're the man himself. Love your work my dude, keep it up!",
"haha, that made me laugh, thanks for looking out for me, brother ! MUCH appreciated! ",
"This one https://i4.imaiges.com/wallpaper/772/175/594/graffiti-city-traffic-lights-thumb.jpg",
"I will be honest... iv never thought much about paintings and that is just my misfortune but this painting really captures so much and I cannot stop staring at it.. it is beautiful and seems very personal.. there will be bigger painting critics / lover on this comment sectiom but for someone like me who has never appreciated paintings fully, today feels like a new day! New start.. your painting is genuinely beautiful! ",
"I sincerely appreciate you saying that, thanks so much. Have a really great night",
"Went through the Rainy Cities at Night series and got all melancholic, then I stumbled over \"Impotent Rocket\" and gigglesnorted my drink. Love your art, it's dreamy and trippy in wonderful ways.",
"I wanna buy this. How much?",
"Thanks for sharing! I’ve never purchased paintings (or prints) before, but I have just bookmarked your large print in anticipation of purchasing it. Thank you! ",
"perrrrfect",
"nooo, thank YOU. Your support goes a long way!",
"If you make the water long streaks and have them splash into puddles at the bottom it would be perfect for me",
"Hey RVA. I live there",
"I literally stared at this for ten minutes strait.",
"oops.\n\nplay this song in another tab\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvI_FNrczzQ\n",
"This is so damn beautiful, I love it.\n\nKeep doing what you’re doing, because you possess great skill and talent. \n\n\n",
"I can almost smell the rain, I love it ",
"whoooooshhhh ;) ",
"Man I can’t even take a picture that good",
"This looks beautiful! ",
"my only feedback is that you should have given more side profile to the car on the left. the perspective makes it look like the car is driving diagonally at an angle across the road as opposed to driving down the road. other than that I really liked it",
"I love your art style. Its simple yet beautiful. If I had money I would definitely buy a bunch of your art. I will bookmark your website and share with friends.",
"New phone wallpaper!",
"I think I may like to own this. I assume a picture of it doesn't do it justice.",
"What It Looks Like Without my glasses ",
"If you look really hard, you can see a giant astronaut",
"🎼Rainy rainy niggghhhttt, paint your pallette blue and redd🎼",
"Surprised I had to come so far down to find this. They would love this. ",
"This is awesome! Love your work!",
"The lights remind me of a line from a Langston Hughes poem, “the street light at his corner shined just like a tear.” Absolutely stunning. ",
"I totally love this. Hope your muses sing forever.",
"Guess I found my new phone wallpaper. This is beautiful!",
"Well damn! That looks abstract but at the same time it looks real too! You are very talented!",
"O tempora o mores\n\nI bought one of Flooko's works without asking that. I am a part of the problem now? :P",
"Woah",
"I'm a dude in Southern Melbourne, Australia...I don't know where you're from but having people all over the world diggin your shit must feel good ",
"Wow. This is all amazing!",
"Will you sell this one?",
"Was the subject a rainy city at night or did you do it while in a rainy city at night? j/k grammarnazitrollin’ yehaw!",
"No thank you for putting yourself out there and sharing your passion and talents with us 😉",
"Awesome definitely going to buy some of your work not one to usually do that but love you work excited to see more from you in the future ",
"Incredible work. Simply mesmerizing. ",
"r/raining\n\nThis is beautiful. You are incredible",
"This is beautiful. ",
"Amazing. If I were looking to decorate my apartment (I'm not right now), I would definitely pay for a high resolution version of this which I could print on canvas.",
"Cool. It's my phone wallpaper now. Thanks. 👍🙃",
"Great work. Went to your website and recognized another painting I had seen a while back \"let it rain\". Great job, you have a good eye. Went thorough your website and you have a talent, keep it up. Best of luck.",
"such a talent, indeed you should make more of it.",
"So cool! Is that a space helmet in the Fall!?",
"This is fantastic. Top work - you should be extremely proud of this piece.",
"I understood what you mean when you say “decent” vs “mediocre”, but like others have said, it’s not about photo realism here. For me, OP’s painting made me feel something a lot more than the ones you linked. ",
"Wow I have never seen anything like that before",
"This made me feel so much emotionally, thank you so much ",
"I'm late but I gotta say this. I'm not talented at art, experienced with art, nor am I particularly interested in it.\n\nThat being said, I need to buy like 3 different paintings of yours, find a wall to hang them on and become a fan of art. \n\nYou are a talent.",
"If you like this style you should check out the work of Leonid Afremov, he does lots of paintings of rainy cities and they're amazing. ",
"Truly beautiful artwork. It takes the viewer on adventurous journeys, it is thought provoking and nostalgia inducing. \n\nHave you considered compiling your canvas pieces and creating a travelling exhibition? I'm certain many museums and art galleries would be happy to show your artwork. \n\nWhere are you located?",
"80k likes - Reddit must really be upping his sales. Last year it was like 1/3 price \nGood for OP ",
"Real talk, I'm glad I opened this post. This artwork really is beautiful to me. Thank you :)",
"Something about it my friend. Others feel the same. Make sure you have it properly photographed with the proper white balance and the image color corrected with a calibrated monitor. Copyright it! Keep painting.",
"Looks like how schizophrenia feels",
"Sometimes after living in a rainy country for so long (Ireland) you forget that it has the possibility of holding something beautiful inside it. You extracted that beauty ... beautifully ",
"Really, this isn't the one you led with?\nhttps://static.wixstatic.com/media/1d7ae9_ecadc5687a34492dad941342e8ffe4a0~mv2_d_7000_5600_s_4_2.jpg/v1/fill/w_935,h_748,al_c,q_90,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01/1d7ae9_ecadc5687a34492dad941342e8ffe4a0~mv2_d_7000_5600_s_4_2.webp",
"When I look at a painting and feel like....I'm there, in the painting. \n\nBravo. Excellent. ",
"This is real art! Shame on you, Modern Art museums.",
"Amazing ",
"Watched Loving Vincent and this makes me wonder what Van Gogh paintings would look like if he'd made them today",
"Amazing work. It brings out a lot of emotions in me.",
"Permission to use it as my phone wallpaper.",
"That.... that's phenomenal. This is so satisfying to look at. I mean I'm staring at a sidewalk and I'm enthralled with every inch of it! I'd buy a print of this in a heartbeat.\n\nYou don't just have talent, you have a gift. And I mean that. You should be extremely proud of yourself!",
"This is beautiful and you reminded me a lot of things of my past through this painting. ",
"Same it’s perfect otherwise ",
"Really cool, love it.",
"Subbed for morning",
"This is fantastic work. I went to University for Animation, so my style tends to be very illustrative. I can’t do anything like this. I have so much art that I’ve bought, that I pick where I want to live based on wall space. This piece would be prominently displayed if I had room left and money! (I’m starting a startup, so my art budget is currently zero.)",
"I'm a little late. Man, I'm not really into art other than music really. I'm telling you though, if I could, I would buy at least two paintings. \n\nYour art made me actually look at it with a lot of different interpretations that all kinda spoke to me I guess. That my friend, is an absolute first for me. Here soon I hope can at least buy one. Awesome work!",
"I love it! Some inspiration from Leonid Afremov by any chance?",
"These are really amazing! Saving this for later when I have the opportunity to buy something like this. ",
"These paintings are absolutely amazing I really do wish I had the money to support you and to get my hands on one of these amazing pieces of art.",
"Is this in the Asian neighborhood of a European city? The lights hanging in them center of the street is a very Vienna thing, but the signs evoke a Japanese or Korean character set.",
"None of the others are photo-realistic. In fact I deliberately chose them because they are impressionistic. I'm not really a fan of realism, apart from some exceptions like some of David Hockney's work.\n\nOPs picture uses about 5 colours, and only one shade of blue. The vertical strokes are wonky and the brush strokes are crude.\n\nYou can like it, but it's not technically very accomplished.",
"I can almost hear the sound of the traffic in the rain. I love this painting! The artist is amazing. ",
"There just so damn beautiful and real while also being something entirely else. I could stare at it a while...especially Thoughts Adrift #3! Time to look at more... :)",
"!DreamBot",
"wow! i honestly love this, the way you capture light is so beautiful. your work has that same quality i like about monet’s paintings, and it envokes a weird sense of nostalgia in me. you’re extremely talented and i wish you the best with this!",
"I'm buying it. ",
"Wow you are super talented!",
"I love this, for some reason it reminds me of the film Drive ",
"Amazing!! I love this style of art",
"I'd buy a photocopy, if that counts. \n\nBonus points if it's printed in ink that glows in the dark. ",
"Nice style",
"This is incredible. It wakes up so many emotions, feelings and memories for me and that's what art is about, penetrating into the observer's being to make one's inner world surface into his conscious awareness. \n\nMagnificent. Keep painting. :) ",
"That page is blocked in work, but I may order some stuff once home lol",
"Where can I order a poster-sized print?",
"I almost never comment on reddit but this art really moved me for some reason.. I love it. Thank you",
"I ready that as \"Veiny City\". Very relieved.",
"I love this. ",
"How much do you want for it. I might buy it, seriously. ",
"I know this will get buried but WOW can’t wait to buy one of your prints ",
"Bro... this is as good as mona lisa seriously.",
"Makes me think of the grand theft auto 3 intro song",
"I’m a broke college student but I’ll be sure to pick up a canvas or a poster whenever I get a free buck. Really enjoy your work.",
"This art captures everything I love about rain and city lights. Many feels. Thank you for making and sharing this.",
"For some reason I hear the theme song from LA Noire while viewing this.",
"Amazing work! You have truly projected the observer in the scene so it feels like we are there",
"I loved the one of rain you did with lots of red. I loved it so much that I started painting again after not having painted for about 10 years. Absolutely brilliant mate!",
"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. People like you are spectacular. \n\nEdit: I initially didn't look at your links because, well the type of person you are, but none of those are even the same style and every reason you noted was most likely (have to ask OP) on purpose. The artist obviously had a style that they are fond of and adheres to variations of that. ",
"Real amazing work. I thought you might be a fellow Aussie because I saw what I thought was the Sydney Harbour Bridge (saw the other comments saying you're Canadian).\n\nAlso, did you add voices around the 5:50 mark onwards?",
"I just got a comment from someone shitting on it and providing paintings for contrast. They just had more detail and took away from the intentional degree of abstraction. You can have your opinion but when you start to insist what the artist intended (which you can't know unless you ask) and then simply assert it was a failure, then you are just a bitter person. ",
"What a collection! These are incredible! Why aren't you famous yet?? ",
"That's a pretty good painting having been done at night. Much talent",
"Go Leafs Go!",
"Is the original of this piece still for sale?",
"Some say that this painting is still wet to this day...",
"awesome!",
"How long did this take you? Beautiful by the way :)",
"Hey, amazing paintings! Is the one you call \"Water Under The Bridge\" a painting of the Bluewater Bridges in Sarnia Ontario? Looks just like them.",
"Is there a way I can buy this?",
"Man, this would really fit into a cyberpunk setting. Like a shadowrun/dues ex game. Moody and atmospheric. Perfectly captures the idea of a rainy night in the city. ",
"This really looks like a modern Van Gogh minus the cartoony look. It’s like a combo of the cafe terrace and starry night. \n\nWell done OP. ",
"Superb! ",
"I wonder if you have any social account to post your works so I can follow and keep up with regularly. I have looked at the others you posted earlier and I really love them!\n",
"I love this. Can't stop looking at it. I want it very much.",
"Is there a way to buy a print of this?\n",
"That is just gorgeous. This is the art I long to see. Thank you for putting it out there.",
"I like this a lot",
"How much would this cost if I want d to buy it?",
"Every time I see an acrylic painting of this quality, I can’t help but think about Vincent Van Gogh.",
"your work is beautiful. what city is this?",
"I really can't grasp that people can make such people things",
"Damn, looks like it should be the cover of the next futuristic mystery Thriller movie.",
"Is it a rainy city or a rainy night? CUZ I LOVE A RAINY NIGHT",
"It’s dope !!! ",
"This is absolutely stunning. You have a great talent.",
"I love this. Makes me feel cozy",
"Wow. I really love this. Don't go much for art generally, but there's something about this. Feelings of being in a warm car, waiting for someone special to walk across the road towards me. I love it.",
"THATS AWESOME!!!",
"Well worth the click, you have some serious skill. You got yourself a new follower!",
"oh, oops hahaha",
"I like this",
"Great control of the colors, i work with acrylics and have a hard time keeping them looking “wet”. Fine work. ",
"I love this. I think no matter how grim and grimy a city is, where there’s lights and life it always looks beautiful. ",
"> What can I say, I'm a maverick**le**.\n\nGuys, can you please stop squandering opportunities like that? That would've even been a good contender for being gilded...",
"> weird little animations to them\n\nhave you ever played around with spotlights that change their colour sporadically or by stimulus (e.g. beats)? like, shine a bright red light on it to highlight complementary colours, with a picture like above maybe get a glistening effect if you shuffle through the main colours used in the frame?",
"that's beautiful, man. especially the grainy effects of the lens/camera chip together with the snowy mist\n\nyou got a name for me? 'cause I like to save good pictures to my HDD for my internet stuff archive, and i prefer saving them with credentials... (if not, no problem, i'll just use your username - or you can send it via pm if you don't want it public)",
"I’ve never been much into art or cared/been good at it, but this painting brings some really great feelings out of me. I love the rain and the color blue, I can almost feel myself walking down that city street feeling the cool rain.",
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"The max size is too small. How do we get larger ones?",
"I have never felt so comforted by a painting before. This sparks and emotional response and it's beautiful. You are amazing OP. ",
"Please paint \"Space skeletons in rainy night\"",
"Different strokes for different folks, as they say. A lot of people in the fine art community shit on photorealism (for the sake of itself) as an unnecessary skill, because actual photography will always be superior. I respect the amount of effort it takes, but I think a lot of people don’t realize that it’s really just painting from a grid almost like color by numbers, and that with enough practice almost anyone could do it decently. Many people paint and draw their whole lives and never produce anything with actual feeling.",
"This is absolutely stunning. It has almost a surreal quality to it. ",
"been thinking about this one for a while!",
"it sure is !!!!",
"I really thank you for saying that. Took me a while but im trying to read everyones comments !! have an awesome day, friend",
"LOL!",
"I don’t know if I’ve ever had an emotional response from a painting until now. This is amazing.",
"hey there ! just wanted to say thanks! I appreciate all the support! have an awesome day :)",
"i just want you to know I beyond appreciate you taking the time to say that. Thanks brother !",
"of course !",
"my pleasure, and thank you :)",
"I knew it! Recognized it immediately! Congrats on making such an amazing piece, I have so many memories under the bridges! I'll probably order a print, good luck with the rest of your work!",
"it feels absolutely wonderful to connect with so many awesome people for sure. Have a great day brother,",
"Who are you listed as on Deviant Art? I'd love to see more of your stuff!!!!!!!",
"Wet af",
"just regular ol' flooko !! :) https://flooko.deviantart.com/",
"This is really cool. I don't know if it was intentional or not, but the way you varied the size and intensity of light really creates a fantastic sense of depth. Nice work.\n\n",
"If you find his website, he has prints and things for sale on Redbubble. They're great quality. And not too expensive for prints/non-originals.",
"Fans usually ask permission, if one can gain access to said artist; at least that would be the respectful thing to do.",
"wow man, your shit is fucking amazing... This is true art.",
"dayum son",
"thanks, friend!",
"I'm not charging for it or anything like that but I guess you are right. I shall ask his permission before making it. ",
"Unreal ",
"You did Northern Exposure! I showed that to my wife the other day and it inspired us to start painting again!",
"YES !! I love anytime somebody says I inspired them to be creative. Show me what you end up painting !!",
"That is amazing. I can't put my finger on it. It clearly is not real but looks real in an odd way. You captured the \"wet\" look beautifully. I'd hang it on my wall, in a prominent location.",
"Gorgeous painting; I love love love this type of painting style :-)",
"Flooko, you are amazing!!",
"you're the amazing one! thank you so much, friend!",
"Last night at 11pm this post was at 40k upvotes, glad I got my order in then before this ballooned to #3 on top of Reddit!",
":D im glad you did too!!!! thanks for the support my friend!",
"Dude I LOVE your acid rain painting!!!",
"Thanks brother !",
"This is what art is all about, when I start to make some more money I'll gladly buy some of your work. ",
"I’m purchasing ! ",
"You're a really awesome person, thank you!",
"Thank you for sharing and keep the good work. ",
"Wow, wonderful job! This looks like it was a lot of fun to paint, I'll have to try it.",
"This is seriously incredible ",
"Man, this is exactly what I've always thought I'd paint if I started painting one day. Precisely the beautiful image that I want to share with people when I talk about rainy urban nights.\nCheers, this is superb.",
":D",
"thanks brother!",
"They are the same impressionist style (the first one is a watercolour), they are just far more accomplished. \n\nYou wont be able to see this because of - well the type of person you are. People like you are hilarious.",
"He's an idiot - these are the pictures I linked to:\n\nhttps://i.pinimg.com/originals/9c/d3/6a/9cd36a0cc8963a55568a94cf04bf0f7d.jpg\n\nhttps://i.pinimg.com/736x/10/79/cc/1079cc595b0697cc50d71189d9e77a22.jpg\n\nhttps://static1.squarespace.com/static/51c15e1be4b03a0f7c9daece/57f9728a440243944efc3131/57f972aee58c620809374a64/1476033020929/Market+Street%2C+Midnight.jpg\n\nNone of these are photorealism, all are impressionistic.",
"Damn talented is all I can say after looking at your site.",
"Wow, those are definitely some great pieces, and I agree they don’t really represent photorealism. I still appreciate OPs piece as well. It’s a bit more pedestrian, but you can see that the artist is trying to create feeling and movement, and I still find it a lot more interesting than a lot of the sterile work that shows up at the top of this sub. I don’t think an art piece has to be at the pinnacle of mastery to be worthwhile. My favorite quote pertaining to art is this:\n\n“Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”\n-Samuel Beckett\n\nMay be slightly misquoted but you get the gist.",
"I really like OP's passion and dedication and if he continues I'm confident his style will mature and he could create some wonderful art. I'm guessing he is in his teens and has never studied art at degree level - a fine art or illustration grad would be far more accomplished.\n\nI also think his piece shows promise and a half-decent eye for perspective and some nice touches with the light halos. \n\nHis key strength is the fact he keeps churning pieces out. When he moves onto oils and starts taking more time over his work, and does more studies and sketches, his work will improve massively. I would like to see more pieces from life, or at least more real life references.\n\nPainting from imagination can only take you so far. Even Dali painted many still lifes and landscapes.",
"Thank you this was a very good explanation! ",
"Please keep painting! ",
":D",
"Love it",
"Very nice. Sorta VanGogh meets Blade Runner.",
"If my art were a blockbuster video, the tagline on the back of the dvd would definitely be \"VanGogh meets Blade Runner.\"",
"Reddit killed it :(",
"I noticed! No idea why",
"I'm excited to hear ",
"Back up now :)",
"Are you really arguing there is only one style of impressionism? No nuance within the genre? Are you suggesting I am holding this painting up to the most accomplished artists that ever lived? You have to do to stupid places because you fucked up. There are these things called museums. Tell me more about \"people like me\"",
"> Are you really arguing there is only one style of impressionism? No nuance within the genre? Are you suggesting I am holding this painting up to the most accomplished artists that ever lived?\n\nNope.\n\nCheers.\n\n",
"This is amazing. So many feelings",
"I love this painting. To feel the chill air, cool rain & hear the swishing sounds bouncing off the pavement a testament to the artist’s talent. 👏🏻 👏🏻 ",
":)",
"I would love to hang something like this up around my house",
"Awesome!!!",
"thanks man!",
"there are so many good things about this... especially it felt like rain running down to my eyes and makes everything blur and glow. please post more when you figure out how to put astronaut in it.",
"I would love to hang something like this up around my house",
"Most moisty 👍",
"Incredible work. Simply mesmerizing. ",
"No you are 😎",
"I just got mine. Now I need to find a place to hang it!\nhttps://imgur.com/k54HOUZ",
"so awesome!",
"I love it! Thanks for your talent!",
"Cool",
"This is gorgeous. I love the color usage. :) you really made the city scene look alive. ",
":) thanks a million friend!",
"No problem OWO\n"
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"Yep. It’s got to go. You can’t have two rats eating live spider legs in the living room!",
"Badger or skunk? I see a skunk.....and i see two animals fighting a spider. ",
"Two squirrels fighting over a very surprised legume.",
"I see 2 hands making a face with closed fingers and thumb yelling at each other. ",
"That reveals a lot about your psyche..",
"ah, yes, I see the dilemma.\n\nWhheeere did she buy it from though?",
"But mostly the spider fight",
"Thanks for ruining it for me!",
"You gotta get rid of that pillow!",
"People, please... it's two toothless iguanas fighting over a 4 legged spider.",
"I just see a really fat skunk. And its eyes, they haunt me.",
"Rorschach badger pillow test",
"And both animals are looking up at you frozen, wondering what will happen next.",
"I'm seeing two weasel-like creatures standing lovingly over their adopted spider baby looking up at me in nervous anticipation",
"I see 2 badgers romantically sharing a spider, a leg at a time "
] | 15 |
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My wife bought a badger cushion but all i can see is two weird animals fighting for a spider
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/r/pics/comments/7pjn3z/i_hiked_to_an_abandoned_part_of_the_great_wall_of/
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[
"Ya done good kid",
"Looks like the Great Plateau",
":D",
"As in Zelda??",
"Naturally! :)",
"You sleeping there ?",
"What was the hike back in pitch blackness ? ",
"Beautiful",
"Yeah no one cares and plenty people go there. The only hard part is that there are broken stones and u need to beware of tripping ",
"Don't tell the mongolians.",
"We walked past a big old sign on the way in saying that it was private property and we couldnt continue, but we passed 2 other groups of Chinese hikers on our way up and 1 group of climbers the following day, so I guess no one cares haha!",
"Yes we slept/camped in an abandoned guard tower! ",
"GOD DAMN MONGORIANS! You break down my city wall for the last time!",
"Wow. 100% on my bucket list to one day visit abandoned areas of the great wall of china, so beautiful",
"If China can build a 2000 mile wall thousands of years ago, the US should be able to build a 900 mile stretch easy.",
"Wow sounds like quite an experience ",
"It sounds like the start of a horror film.",
"And the Mexicans should be able to breach it easily.",
"It all started when my boyfriend and I were drunk with some travel buddies at our hostel in Beijing. We met this guy who said he was going to do the hike and camp out on the wall overnight, and he invited us along. We drunkenly agreed, but when I woke up the next morning it occured to me that wandering off into the Chinese wilderness with a stranger may be a questionable idea... so I called my dad and told him if we didnt contact him in 3 days time, to call someone about it. He wasn't impressed. \n\nBuuuuut... turns out the guy was legit, we didn't get murdered, and ended up doing the climb with a bunch of really cool people, and then got drunk and danced around a bonfire we built on top of the Great Wall of China. Im glad it didnt go down the horror story path!",
"Why?",
"The wall completely failed at keeping the Mongols out",
"So little % of life experiences will end up that way.. Good for you to push on to the unknown. Sounds like it was worth it. ",
"It actually served its purpose well for hundreds of years, and is why Mongolians don't rule China today.",
"Isn't the whole thing abandoned?"
] | 24 |
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I hiked to an abandoned part of the Great Wall of China and this was the view at sunset
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/r/pics/comments/7pjnu6/future_me_is_going_to_be_happy_with_present_me/
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[
"Future me is always pissed off at present me. ",
"That's why I decided to take a photo. It's kinda a big deal.",
"Present me don't have no time for future me. ",
"Proof to future you.",
"What the hell kind of way is that to wrap an electrical cord? Looks like it would take forever to wrap and unwrap. What is wrong with the wrap around the forearm technique? \n\nI think future you is going to be pissed at present you because you have no clue how the wrap cords... ",
"I can't remember what it's called but it won't knot up like that and unwraps super easy. ",
"Each string of Christmas lights should be stuffed into a gallon ziploc bag, arm-length by arm-length, with the receptacle end going in first and the plug end going in last. They never tangle as you pull then out the next year.",
"Electricians knot. I think.",
"The best way",
"It maybe takes 50% longer to chain the whole thing together. The best part is as you pull in the end it unravels, and you can stop at the length you need without undoing the whole thing. I find storage to be easier as well. Here is a photo of three 50' and one 20' cords. Doesn't take up much space at all.\nhttps://imgur.com/gallery/lMx4n",
"I need to know how to do that. I’m sick of messing with my chords. ",
"I will have to try it. Never seen cords wrapped like this. "
] | 11 |
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Future me is going to be happy with present me.
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/r/pics/comments/7pjpji/not_sure_what_to_make_of_this_note_someone_left/
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[
"you need to go, dressed in satanic gear, and bring a hot chick in a bikini too,,,",
"I went to the website they list on the card, and now I'm even more confused.",
" that's the handwriting of a psychopath right there",
"I think they're asking you out, for an Orthodox Christian type date.",
"Nah, just an old granny.",
"No if it was Orthodox it would be in Cryillic...",
"Just Bible thumper things",
"My apartment complex has a little of both unfortunately."
] | 8 |
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Not sure what to make of this note someone left on my door today
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/r/pics/comments/7pjqty/you_can_only_see_it_once/
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[
"What’s that",
"This.",
"Yeah I think you’re gonna have to explain this one",
"I can't even see it once.",
"I'd rather not"
] | 5 |
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You can only see it once
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/r/pics/comments/7pjrfl/my_grandma_wanted_to_get_me_a_small_gift_so_my/
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[
"Wtg bf and Grandma!!! Head on over to r/drunk",
"People actually drink that?",
"That's pretty badass.",
"You drank it all already!?",
"Why do people like you come to ask questions like that? Yes. People drink that. ",
"I asked because I was genuinely curious. \n\nI worked as a bartender for a minute and nobody ever asked for Disaronno. Ever. Yes, we would use amaretto in stuff, but, nobody ever asked for it by name. I always assumed the bottle was mostly for looks. "
] | 6 |
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My grandma wanted to get me a small gift, so my boyfriend picked out an alcohol set of one of my favorite liquors. Turns out he picked the one designed by my favorite fashion designer, Missoni. Accidental double win.
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/r/pics/comments/7pjv2w/i_took_a_picture_of_st_petersburg_church_in_rome/
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[
"dam that must be a cool room",
"St. Peter's basilica?",
"I had to check if this was posted in r/dankmemes before realising it’s likely a mistake haha. It also looks like this photo was taken from a window in Castel Sant’Angelo",
"St. Petersburg!?",
"Killer picture. Now clean that fucking wall. ",
"Looks like this was taken from Sant’Angelo castle"
] | 6 |
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I took a picture of St. Petersburg Church in Rome, Italy through this window. [OC]
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/r/pics/comments/7pk048/newly_opened_protein_powder_almost_half_full_what/
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[
"Settling happens. ",
"Wasn’t a waste for them. They already got your money!",
"Ill take your word for it. Hope you are right",
"You are absolutely right. ",
"It's sold by weight, so who cares how full the container is? The next smallest container may not have been big enough, or, maybe, it was cheaper to buy the larger one, who knows?",
"Marketing. They're counting on people comparing price by container size, and not looking deeper.",
"Im more concerned on the impact of this to the environment. I mean such a waste of space with a bulky containers that would end up in garbage when empty. Why not just fit it in as it should rather than lie to the consumers pretending a huge container while the contents are just halfway. Just my thought."
] | 7 |
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Newly opened protein powder. Almost half full. What a waste of container.
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/r/pics/comments/7pk255/just_in_case_i_forget_the_brand_im_wearing/
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[
"That looks cool. What brand is that? Gonna order one",
"Sorry, you have to be in the fashion loop. Can't help you. ",
"*Garment is not water resistant.",
"All mine say FuckinDry. I win. "
] | 4 |
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Just in case I forget the brand I'm wearing
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/r/pics/comments/7pk26s/look_who_i_found_in_a_local_store_in_visalia/
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[
"Umm jackie chan?",
"Ha I remember this dude in a post before. Nice find!",
"I hope you bought it",
"HAWT! ",
"Hey its the NY taxi guy from last week!!!"
] | 5 |
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Look who I found in a local store in Visalia, California.
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/r/pics/comments/7pk3wj/found_a_fucking_battery_in_my_burrito/
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[
"Good source of minerals.",
"you should get another one...\n\n*free of charge*",
"continues to eat after*",
"Looks like a regular battery to me... not sure how one would even... I mean, do you stick it in your... I'm confused.",
"I’m sure that battery can be used for more than fucking. ",
"I'm positive that this is a negative post for Chipotle. ",
"Damn how the fuck people get so lucky I was looking for a battery today I needed had to have it just one and I’ll be damned you found one in your fucking burrito. Fml",
"Oh shit, a home run comment on your cake day? Choo choo!",
"But why would anyone or whatever?",
"That's shocking.",
"You're a winner!!!!\n\nA bloke at work was eating a curry and suddenly pulled a bolt out of his mouth.",
"Why do I feel like the OP and this comment are the same person with two accounts, setting himself up for gold.\n\nGreat thinking!",
"Looks like a classic case of assault... \n\n\nand battery\n\n(•_•) —-( •_•)>⌐■-■ —-(⌐■_■)\n\n\nYAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH *queue csi Miami theme*",
"Preempted my god damn Caruso.",
"One, that is a big ass burrito. And two, I think I see battery in that list of ingredients on the wrapper. ",
"I wanted to come up with a great pun, but I'm low on energy.",
"I think I saw that on tv one time",
"Sue. ",
"What *isn't* in that burrito?",
"They cell them like that?",
"How the fuck would that even happen? They make it right in front of you.",
"Yeah... and they are dining in too so it's not like it was ordered online. ",
"They’re in the prep line between the Barbacoa and the Tofu. ",
"Those burritos do tend to be a touch acidic.",
"You're probably just hungry. Here, have a nice batterito.",
"He was charged for a salt and battery. \n",
"My batteries in the remote are always low and I’m too lazy to get up and leave could have just had Chipotle delivered and got my batteries smh...",
"That’s for if the power goes out the burrito alarm still goes off.",
"🎉Happy Cake Day!🎊",
"Sounds like he's in for a shocking experience ",
"Stay woke. ",
"I find that if you get a bite of the foil and the battery together, it will charge up your life...assuming they gave you a good battery and not some sort of dud...p.s there is a bit of human tooth in the corner of the burrito too, you got a blessing my friend..",
"Fell off an overhead shelf or timer into the rice while it was getting mixed or made? Only thing I can really think of. Or out of the back of a busted thermometer that had no back? Surprising it got missed all the way to being served but it happens. Had a guy find a screw in his burrito once. He didn't bite into it thank God but it took us forever to figure out. It fell out of a shelf over a prep table into a pan of queso. ",
"I’ll take “Shit that never Happened” for 200 ",
"What did they say when you showed them? ",
"If the fire alarm doesn't work they will blame you. ",
"Battery acid is a common substitute for lime juice... They just forgot to remove the wrapper",
"Holy guAAcamole",
"It would be a plus\n",
"Wouldn't you have seen them scoop it on your burrito? It looks kind of clean to have been buried in some beans or something. Smells a little like bullshit, but I'm not sure.",
"Doubt it. Seriously.",
"Take it back, because there’s corn in it... and a battery.",
"Wind turbines are efficient!! ",
"Free power!",
"How'd it taste?",
"It's only 1.5 volts; not *that* shocking.",
"Nooo ya didnt...",
"I'm calling bullshit. You're posting for sweet sweet karma....",
"The Energizer Burrito",
"Did you put the screw in the tuna? I think you put the screw in the tuna.",
"Eat it.",
"Never tried a battery burrito, is it good ? ",
"Is this the fish guy again???"
] | 53 |
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FOUND A FUCKING BATTERY IN MY BURRITO!!
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/r/pics/comments/7pk420/giant_jackfruit/
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[
"She looks happy to have her hands on that fruit!",
"What did you call me?",
"I really liked the odd taste when I was able to try this fruit. Hard to pin down the texture or the taste. I'm glad I was able to find a store that would sell a small portion, since when they have them in the area, they're typically $2 a pound. These things are easily 25 pounds. \n\nThanks for the post.",
"They're enormous!",
"Do these mega fruit contain mega seeds?",
"Jolly green giant's nuts",
"I’ve never seen or heard of such a thing. To what region are these native? ",
"Any time we get them at my work I end up cutting them and wrapping them in small portions, because nobody wants to spend $50 on a whole one.",
"They have a mega stem inside them, strong enough to hold the fruit up. They have a whole bunch of small seeds, kidney shaped, smaller than an average avocado pit.\n\nhttps://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1248/9973/products/jackfruit_large.png?v=1492656077\n\nThe yellow flower-bud looking thing is the fruit itself. Most of the fruit is white cushiony fiber that has no flavor, and is technically edible. Each of the buds contains a seed.",
"I was lucky that's what a local store did. Otherwise, I would have never gotten to enjoy it. I'll purchase some again if I get the chance. ",
"So the seeds are sized so you could fit them all the way up in your butthole?",
"Apparently the top 5 producers are:\n\nIndia\n\nBangladesh\n\nThailand\n\nIndonesia\n\nNepal",
"Bold assumption with just a girl of unknown size and no banana. ",
"Hulks testicles!",
"Fuckin JACKED fruit",
"I'm going to need you to put these way up your butt morty",
"Like all the way up there morty",
"She seems normal size to me.",
"Would you not be?",
"you tried way too hard to make that happen "
] | 20 |
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Giant jackfruit
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/r/pics/comments/7pk4mv/after_years_of_eating_with_wooden_takeout/
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[
"How was it?",
"So? And? ",
"and...? knowing they, like other utensils, have been in mouths of hundreds before you, how was it?.",
">I hate the taste of metal in my mouth, it somewhat makes me gag.",
"....and we'll totally ignore the fact they get washed between customers? Sounds like a plan",
"you hope they got washed...",
"I hope you get past your over-zealous distrust of mankind.",
"only when mankind finally grows up, matures and becomes trustworthy and not so selfish self-absorbed lazy bastards..",
"same ones we have at home. they are actually quite handy to have around"
] | 9 |
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After years of eating with wooden takeout chopsticks, I got the chance to use fancy metal ones at a restaurant
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/r/pics/comments/7pk5mo/note_on_the_toilet_door/
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[
"Or you might accidentally see someone's....",
"Frock? ",
"Glock?"
] | 3 |
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Note on the toilet door.
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/r/pics/comments/7pk9tr/wild_kitten/
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[
"In its natural habitat: the wicker chair. ",
"How much $$ did that cost?",
"I don't know the exact model of the chair, but it can't be more than a few hundred dollars.",
"Squee! Such a cutie!",
"Wild repost!",
"There's not going to be much left of that wicker chair after a while.",
"Totally worth it. ",
"Totally worth it. ",
"Pretty kitty...but I think I would have trouble sleeping at night with it in my house!",
"Isn't that one of those designer cats?",
"[Huh, that's interesting. I feel like I've seen this before](https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/61s2ss/leopard_cat/)",
"Could probably pick up a used one Craigslist/gumtree/ what ever your country uses, for free.",
"Roughly tree fiddy to be exact",
"Haha. Look at him, he has little spots. ",
"It is a Bengal, incase anyone is wondering what breed it is.",
"Bengal. We have a 13yo seal point snow. She is bitchy, ehh-yow! With ears back demanding attention at 2am...",
"$500 for a seal point snow ~15 years ago. Cream colored with smaller spots and colors darkened over time al la Siamese. They don't act like a normal cat and she has never been over 10.5 lbs / the size of a 1yo cat. Also attitude, not afraid of anything including raccoons, still acts like a young &lt;3yo cat. ",
"You mad bro",
"You can also see the leopard skin Photoshopped at the left side.",
"Someone on Reddit, telling another person on Reddit to get off and get a life. Irony.",
"grow up.",
"HE REMEMBERS ME!",
"Looks malformed.",
"Mixed opinions in my brain. Looks really cool and I'd love to have one, but breeding cats is such a ridiculously stupid thing. We already have too many that don't have homes, and they are just exacerbating the problem. \n\nGive 1000 dollars to some lady who's 'job' is letting cats have unprotected sex, or help out a forgotten animal who might get euthanized",
"So cute wild kitten.. 😺 ",
"Chair-a-roo!",
"hold my kitty by the tail, I'm going......\n\nOh, nevermind. ",
"Every kitty from a breeder means a different kitty doesn’t have a home.",
"A Bengal, hope you don’t have too much breakable stuff around the house 😉",
"Do you have a picture? ",
"That's just how they're bred my man. ",
"Bengals are $500-1000+ now. I got my boy for $600 4 years ago.",
"that's true, but cat owners need to take responsible for their cats",
"Also true.",
"IMHO I think breeding is quite important, dog breeding as been around for a long period of time and has helped owners chose their pets based on certain qualities more often found in certain breeds. Which leads to more satisfied owners and less pets abandoned. Also most responsible breeders neuter their cats before selling them or request the proof of the cat being neutered later on.\n\nAlso, there is a lot of costs involved in proper breeding. Good breeders will borrow studs from other breeders to insure a healthy bloodline, kittens at that price come vaccined and as previously mentioned neutered with most often a start up kit (litter, food, a blanket with smell from the mother) as well as health insurance for the first month to a year in some cases. \n\nI've had plenty of cats both from shelters and breeders and personally i think both options should be there but I prefer choosing a pet based on character traits that I know i'm looking for in a companion in the same way that a dog owner would not adopt a weiner dog if what he wants is a dog to go run with.",
"I never thought I'd see this meme die, but here we are.",
"Might as well say the same for any pet.",
"ITT: Archer references ",
"Bred by photoshop.",
"This is a Bengal cat and they are great! My Bengal cat is so much fun, they are a mix between a house cat and Asian leopard cat and are extremely active even taught her to play fetch!",
"I have one. 🤔 I don't think Photoshop works IRL.",
"Bro do you even photoshop? ",
"Are you saying you think the cat is fake? ",
"Came here for the same thing. We don't have enough cat pics in this world. SHARE!! ;)",
"I need to clean the goobers out of its eyes ",
"It's the Wicker Man's kitty.",
"Wickitty, of course!",
"Ah, the proper name alluded me.",
"So where do I get one",
"Cat? That's a funny way to call a photoshopped rhino. ",
"Of course you have. This is repostit",
"My wife is allergic to cats, pretty sure the kids would vote her out of the house for that. "
] | 53 |
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Wild Kitten.
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/r/pics/comments/7pk9yy/gave_my_old_snowboard_to_the_neighbors_and_got/
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[
"Best human ever. \n\nThat is my new thank you",
"As a poor neighbor kid i remember getting something as simple as this and it making my day for months as a kid.",
"I thought it was a drawing of someone standing in blood.",
"How sweet, n nice that the kid has good mannerism or parents asked him to do it. Made me smile, I'm sure it warmed your heart as well."
] | 4 |
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Gave my old snowboard to the neighbors and got this card in response.
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/r/pics/comments/7pkcd7/from_regular_ford_to_super_saiyan_ford_with_a/
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[
"Huh? ",
"Thanks, I wouldnt have know what the picture was promoting without your title.",
"Some guy on i85 had a yellow truck, probably aftermarket paint, and the complete sticker says “super saiyan yellow”.\nI was like : wow he is definitely more of a fan than I am, I just got a fusion t shirt."
] | 3 |
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From regular Ford to “Super Saiyan Ford” with a paint job ...
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/r/pics/comments/7pkdxx/these_firefighters_look_like_theyve_found_the/
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[
"Context: Firefighters monitor a section of the Thomas Fire along the 101 freeway on December 7, 2017, north of Ventura, California\n\nPhotographer: [Mario Tama](https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/12/2017-seen-through-the-lens-of-mario-tama/549266/)",
"“Who let the fucking Balrog out!”- Gandalf (probably)",
"It was that fool of a Took. Again.",
"Gate to The Upside Down",
"S3 - The upside down is hotter than ever",
"Sammath Naur in the Sindarin, the Chambers of Fire. ",
"Looks like life is strange when Rachel kicks the can",
"Good bot...wait...never mind. Good OP",
"I can't carry the ring for you, Mr. Frodo. But I can carry you!",
"I'm glad to be with you, here at the end of all things",
"Cue the Eagles swooping in from the distance."
] | 11 |
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These firefighters look like they've found the entrance to the center of Mount Doom
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/r/pics/comments/7pkfw2/uss_iowa_in_action/
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[
"Intense and beautiful",
"That's powerful...i wonder if i'll be hurt if was swimming below that cannon...",
"That pressure wave is lethal. "
] | 3 |
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USS Iowa in action
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/r/pics/comments/7pkh1m/i_firstly_thought_the_guy_wants_to_eat_the_girl/
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[
"I can assure you he already has..private plane, check..big titties, check..isolated beach, check...the implication, check",
"I’d like to eat the girl ",
"/r/titlegore",
"Nice beaver",
"The implication baahahahahaha",
"Just needs to put a look of panicked horror on her face. ",
"r/indianpeoplefacebook"
] | 6 |
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I firstly thought the guy wants to eat the girl.
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/r/pics/comments/7pkh3h/danger_noodle_with_a_good_girl_in_the_background/
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[
"Copperhead?",
"Hope you did not kill the snake",
"Looks like a rat snake or a corn snake. No danger. Leave it be",
"No. It’s not a pit viper at all. Round eyes for one thing. It’s harmless. ",
"It’s actually my mom who took the pic. She throws them in a cooler and drives them down to an old barn we have and let’s them loose "
] | 5 |
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Danger noodle with a good girl in the background
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/r/pics/comments/7pkhqt/trump_toast_goes_down_easier_with_impeachment_jam/
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[
"It looks like this post is about US Politics. Various methods of filtering out content relating to US Politics can be found [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/wiki/v2/resources/filter/politics).\n\n*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/pics) if you have any questions or concerns.*",
"I just lost my appetite.",
"Impeachment Jam sound like an Allman Bros song.",
"LOL you are correct actually!",
"Or *my* cats...",
"I’m sorry...",
"Get a job ",
"As if I needed a job."
] | 7 |
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Trump Toast. Goes down easier with Impeachment Jam...
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/r/pics/comments/7pkhsw/this_angry_jeep/
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[
"Looks like a downy storm trouper.",
"I second this",
"Traitor!",
"Grumpy Jeep..",
"I swear there is a subreddit for this\n\nEdit: /r/Pareidolia "
] | 5 |
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This angry Jeep
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/r/pics/comments/7pkhu2/the_norwegian_prime_minister_relaxing_with_some/
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[
"It looks like this post is about US Politics. Various methods of filtering out content relating to US Politics can be found [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/wiki/v2/resources/filter/politics).\n\n*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/pics) if you have any questions or concerns.*",
"So this is funny when she does it, but I'd imagine if the tables were turned and Trump did this while meeting with another world leader, the outrage would be palpable. ",
"If Trump got caught playing Pokémon GO it would show that he had a heart."
] | 3 |
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The Norwegian prime minister relaxing with some Pokémon GO between a press conference and meeting President Trump today
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/r/pics/comments/7pkkfa/heated_sidewalk_in_iceland/
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[
"Heated sidewalk? Who pays for it?",
"Depending on how close you are to a Hot spring or a lava tube. I'd say not one red cent after installation.",
"I remember driving around iceland a ton of houses just have steam pouring out a huge pipe....probably excess from the crazy geothermal? I also believe electricity there is very cheap. If memory serves me, companies do aluminum smelting here taking advantage of the geothermal power and low costs. Its cheaper to ship everything to Iceland and do it there and ship it back.\n\nYou can walk lots of places and there are pools of bubbling mud and rivers that are too hot to step into coming out of out of some spots. Its insane and my favorite place I've ever visited.",
"it doesn't cost that much lots of place have it because it's cheaper than paying someone to shovel.\n\nit also works better.",
"all you need is sewage pipe under",
"Oh. My dumb ass thought it was heated same way they heat indoor buildings lol. I thought for a moment that's what iceland does instead of scattering salt. "
] | 6 |
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Heated sidewalk in Iceland
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/r/pics/comments/7pkmox/picture_of_a_phage_a_virus_that_eats_bacteria/
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[
"I’m not sure how to feel about this.....",
"Awesome.",
"With a hat tip to u/9volts",
"Looks like something you fight in Horizion :Zero Dawn ",
"Is this virus a good thing or a bad thing? ",
"Depends? Basically, they are another possible solution to drug resistant bacteria. A 'phage' is a cocktail of viruses designed to only attack certain bacteria, specifically ones that have proven resistant to antibiotics. To do this, they 'inject' themselves into the targeted bacteria and explode it from within.\n\nPlease note, I am not a scientist, so the above is I'm sure incorrect on a specific level, but hopefully it helps as a general overview.",
"A little known fact about a phage: If he rolls his own head and gets a 1 it’s considered a critical hit.",
"Microscopic War of the Worlds alien",
"I need more of this. ",
"A scary tiny q-tip with legs\n\nEdit: a word",
"Here you go: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/7pfb03/what_is_an_imminent_danger_that_nobody_seems_to/dshruut/\n\nI kind of like that the URL is 'dshruut', for maximum r/unexpectedoffice. ",
"That thing looks scary and I hate it.",
"It just wants to eat your tasty, drug resistant bacteria! It's really like a tiny spider friend, living in your veins!\n\nI'm not helping, am I?",
"Yay nightmares",
"Viruses don’t “eat” anything, they inject their genetic code into a cell or bacteria and turn the cell into a virus factory. They don’t use any energy themselves and are basically reproducing complex chemicals not life. ",
"Scarecrow would like to show you something",
"The T4 is one of the absolute wonders of our universe. How it looks, how it works, how it duplicates itself. The awe factor is off the charts for me with this one.",
"Demogorgon!",
"Almost like a molecular facehugger...",
"The phage also codes for unique DNA repair mechanisms. The T4 DNA packaging motor has been found to load DNA into phage capsids at a rate up to 2000 base pairs per second. The power involved, if scaled up in size, would be equivalent to that of an average automobile engine.\n\nThis is from the [T4 wiki page](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterobacteria_phage_T4?wprov=sfla1). I have no idea what this means. But it sounds r/interestingasfuck",
"If it's taking out something like vibrio parahaemolyticus, it's a really good thing.\nYes, the microscopic world is an amazing violent jungle. Awesome photo, I've heard of phages, and even tried to cultivate them, but never seen a photo. \nOyster farmer on the side, and being able to encourage the growth of a phage could make your food safer.",
"OMG this thing is crazy looking. I am a retired nurse and Microbiology was my favorite class. I had to buy some text book back then with incredible slide pictures of stuff like this, cannot remember the name but it cost a forturn for a nursing student... thanks for the memory!",
"/u/brockhopper, thank you for your submission! Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule I - No pictures with added/superimposed digital elements.\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/brockhopper&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7pkmox/picture_of_a_phage_a_virus_that_eats_bacteria/?context=10\\))",
"A job’s a job",
"Yeah, but *why?*\n\nWhat's the point of these self-replicating not-living things that seemingly exists only to inject code into bacteria that reprograms them in a very precise, almost intelligent way?\n\nThe fingerprint of God is all over this thing.",
"Not a \"real image\" if it has colour as electron microscope takes pictures in black and white...just saying ",
"It's not like they have a choice.",
"Are those 'legs'? Can it walk? Stupid question...",
"Fun facts: almost every bacteria that acts as a pathogen to us (and most other animals) is a bacteria that has been infected with a type of bacteriophage known as a prophage. \n\nThe prophage hijacks the bacteria and induces it to act and divide aggressively. When the bacteria dies the phage replicates and escapes the dying cell. \n\nThere are other classes of phages though known as lytic phages. The lytic variety acts differently, when one infects a bacteria it immediately causes viral machinery production, overwhelming the cell causing rupture and mass release of viral copies. \nThese are the bacteriophages that are harnessed in phage therapy to combat infection. \n\nPhages are the most numerous 'organisms' (insert semantic argument) on the planet with more individual variation than any other branch of the tree of life.",
"Thanks for the AIDS....",
"\nhttps://www.quora.com/Are-HIV-bacteriophages\n\n\nEdit: \n\ntl;dr: Bacteriophages are not to blame for that, Nopleone.\n"
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Picture of a phage, a virus that eats bacteria
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[
"They didn't make just the one?!?",
"Not saying that they didn't, just saying they stopped making the cars 9 years ago, and It's suprising to me that the same model parked next to me",
"Look somebody went crazy with the options...can I get a roof rack?!! ",
"Is that a Honda Element? Damn I miss those",
"It's a good car, I just wish they would start making them again!"
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My car ( left ) and the same model ( right )
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[
"*punches arm*",
"Let's not Eggsaggerate, it would be Eggstremely disingenuous to call this Eggceptional or Eggstravagent, not Eggsactly Eggciting...",
"Egg whites throwing white power.",
"666"
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Eggcellent
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"\"Was that a mouse factory!?! Stop!!!\"",
"Can't it be both?",
"What is the difference?\n"
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Cat, or tiny demon?
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/r/pics/comments/7pkq2j/candy_cap_mushroom_growing_out_of_fox_skull/
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[
"That is so hipster!",
"/u/iia ",
"It’s starting. ",
"I am immediately sending this to my artist friend to see how much it would cost to have it cross-stitched into one o them wooden rings for my wall.",
"Life finds a way."
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Candy cap mushroom growing out of fox skull
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"Stupid thug. ",
"This is probably actually not the person who robbed your friend. ",
"GET OUT YOUR PITCHFORKS!!!!!",
"Jesus, fucking piss off",
"Wrong sub. Rule 1.",
"It is him. He was in a Facebook group with all of us , build a PC, and was an active member. Then screwed a fellow member and blocked the buyer, left the group, and made his profile private. Shit move. ",
"/u/yahwahyahoooo, thank you for your submission! Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule I - No screenshots. This includes pictures of screens and photos where the interest is the contents of a screen.\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/yahwahyahoooo&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7pkqft/this_clown_sent_a_160_empty_box_to_someone/?context=10\\))",
"/u/yahwahyahoooo, thank you for your submission! Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule III - No witch hunt/doxing.\n\n* Rule IV - Title violates title guidelines.\n\nYour title must not ask for general information or feedback. \n\nYou can read the full information about our title guidelines at /r/pics/w/titles\n\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/yahwahyahoooo&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7pkqft/this_clown_sent_a_160_empty_box_to_someone/?context=10\\))",
"What sub then ? ",
"Dunno, just know not here."
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This clown sent a $160 empty box to someone instead of a part for his computer. Let's find him Reddit police.
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[
"That's screen saver worthy",
"Thank you.",
"Hey I'll be in Orlando on Friday! Traveling from Alberta. Can't wait",
"East Orlando? I’m in wtr pk ",
"Sometimes I miss Orlando... sometimes. ",
"Yes.\n\nI work at KSC and was making the commute home to St. Cloud while this was happening. I was on the 528 and stopped at the new Sunbridge overpass to take this. Fortunately, I had my DSLR with me.",
"Great shot!",
"Thank you."
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[OC] Sunset over Orlando, FL
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/r/pics/comments/7pktfi/got_a_sneak_peek_of_our_engagement_photo_session/
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"Photographer: @charlottefrancisphoto on Instagram ",
"Lovely shot! Congrats on your engagement! ",
"I love Facebook",
"I love your username LOLOL"
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Got a sneak peek of our engagement photo session on a frozen lake
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"F+",
"It's Gary!",
"😮 you’re right!"
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I wonder what else is in this kid’s garden.
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[
"Dennis seems chill. ",
"He is much more of a menace ",
"I hate it when people name their cats shit like 'fluffy', or 'sweetie'. Animals should have people names too. I commend you on naming your cat Dennis.",
"[Do NOT sit next to Dennis](https://youtu.be/8EhRGRFnpm0) "
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Meet Dennis, he is a big fan of sitting like a human.
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"It's a rockabilly hideout.",
"The Ski Shack of Dr. Caligari",
"I immediately thought of Trump!"
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Holding down the fort
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/r/pics/comments/7pkyzn/my_wifes_cat_hates_me_she_will_only_come_near_me/
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"soon",
"\"*My wife's* cat\" hahaha",
"That's how cats show appreciation. She could kill you if she wanted.",
"LOL you win!",
"Sounds like she loves you ",
"You've made a will, right? ",
"Do you live in a doctor's office?\n\n",
"I agree! The fact that she deigns to wait for you, mere human...\n\nOP, kind of a weird question, but any way you can ID that paint color? Been on the lookout for a good gray to complement my oak trim.",
"Clearly doesn't hate you. Some cats just like affection on *their* terms. She comes to you when you are vulnerable because that's when she feels it's safest to love on you. It doesn't mean you did anything wrong. Enjoy your nights with her :) \n\nSource: Worked in a cat rescue for 2 years ",
"Wifes cat does something similar, basically the way I move is too jarring for her. I'm too loud, my movements are too fast, so she is wary around me. If I'm lying down however she knows I can't do any big/sudden/loud movements and she is more relaxed around me.\n\nJust chill when moving around the cat and over time she will feel more comfortable around you :)",
"Bad enough to be cucked by a woman. You're cucked by a goddamn cat.",
"Seriously lol",
"yeah i just came in to say this wtf",
"You have a lovely home. ",
"**SOON**",
"It's like a scene from The Shining.",
"I'm pretty sure that if one of our cats was bigger, he would kill us in our sleep. ",
"I think that cat watches you while you sleep ",
"The worst part is that she is starting at you. ",
"Oh, now that's funny. Thanks for posting this. You made me laugh this morning. And by the way, you have a lovely home.",
"Cats are pure evil, just get rid of it quietly. ",
"Looks like it has a hint of green. ",
"The receptionist appears to be on break.. Fucking Karen get back to work",
"Pretty sure she couldn't even if she tryed and wanted to"
] | 23 |
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My wife's cat hates me. She will only come near me if I'm laying in bed, and then yells in my face until I scratch her head. Here she is waiting patiently at the end of the hallway for me to go to bed.
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/r/pics/comments/7pkzqw/finished_this_pendant_tonight/
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[
"That's friggen gorgeous! ",
"Looks great, any chance you can post a DIY album? ",
"I like how it’s suggestive of filigree. Almost Art Nouveau, bravo, great piece. ",
"Stunning.",
"Kinda doubt it. I love this guys stuff, it's clearly his full time job. I'd love to understand the process myself though, I love the style and would love to experiment (and obviously I could do that anyway) but a lot of aspects of how complex bits like this come together I just can't get my head around without seeing it happen step by step.",
"Beautiful. One's opal, what's the other stone?",
"South African Rhodochrosite ",
"What do you call the style? I've seen your posts before and I think Steampunk, but it's so much prettier than that. ",
"In 925?",
"Wow that's beautiful",
".925/.935 Silvers :)",
"It's supposed to be reminiscent of filigree, or scroll art!",
"Didn't you post this yesterday?",
"I posted a completely different piece...",
"Ah, I see now, it looked similar and I didn't take a closer look, I apologize",
"/r/Coilporn would like to vape this.",
"That is lovely",
"It would be very difficult to put together a step by step of this work, I could possibly do a few showing how to do certain components, but even that isn't in my cards right now. I do this full time, I support my family through it! Doing a DIY would turn it from a 14hr job to a 24hr job with photographing, stopping, and compiling them properly.",
"Thank you :) that's what I go for, make my wraps look like scroll art or filigree! ",
"Yes no doubt it would be a huge amount of extra work with no direct payment for the extra time involved. I would love to see it, and I'm sure other people interested in wrapping would too, but.. it doesn't seem particularly reasonable to expect you to do that, so!"
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Finished this pendant tonight!
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"Thank heaven and you ♡",
"Yeaaaaaa!",
"You’re such a good person. That makes my heart happy. ☺️",
"Also, you seem to be moving quickly so maybe you should drive. ",
"Hah, well it's my friend driving",
"I see that. But dogs shouldn’t drive is my point. ",
"What a beautiful puppy! How could someone dump her?",
"Not that safe if she's driving. ",
"Man, those paws! She's going to be a big one and a great friend. ",
"WHO does this to an animal??? I hate this. But thank you!",
"You saved a life! Hopefully she didn't have any siblings there. ",
"she's trying to crash your car",
"Yes, but with her driving, are YOU safe? ",
"/u/lalorcd, thank you for your submission! Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule IV - Title violates title guidelines.\n\nYour title must convey accurate information. \n\nYou can read the full information about our title guidelines at /r/pics/w/titles\n\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/lalorcd&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7pl05w/someone_left_her_on_the_median_of_a_16_lane/?context=10\\))"
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Someone left her on the median of a 16 lane interstate, but now I have her and she is safe
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"[here’s some more if you like](https://imgur.com/gallery/ae7Pl) \nTaken with and iPhone ",
"Why is there modern doors?",
"Did he eat it or throw it back?",
"I guess they were replaced not sure. They can’t have the horses running though tattered doors haha.",
"The battle must have been brutal. Just look at the damage on the building compared the doors. ",
"Threw her back. It’s always nice to see them swim off to live another day."
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Old barn my father captured while ice fishing
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/r/pics/comments/7pl14j/this_pentagramm_carved_into_the_concrete_next_to/
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[
"pentagram*",
"It's so Satan knows where he's welcome",
"More than likely it was a *pentacle* and a Wiccan or Asatran left it. \n\nPretty common, especially around the NW United States and High Plains."
] | 3 |
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This Pentagramm carved into the concrete next to a church.
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[
"GOOOAAALALLLL",
"Are you sure he wasn’t punching a question block just off-camera?",
"Adorable :)",
"Haha i definitely see the resemblance. That would be a hilarious Photoshop",
"Best thing I've read all week",
"I used to live in a predominantly Italian neighborhood. Every four years, every time Italy won a World Cup match every Italian in my town would leave their house, sit in their car and block the streets honking their horn incessantly for hours until the next day and sometimes longer than that. \n\nI don't care much about soccer but I do care enough to watch every one of Italy's World Cup matches and root for the other team. ",
"Well lucky for you they failed to qualify for the 2018 world cup",
"It was a joyous day when I saw that. I messaged the news to the group chat my old high school friends are in and they all agreed as well. ",
"You sound like a fun person",
"Lol the persin with the red sox cap watching the world cup",
"Nothing worse than an Italian after their team wins.",
"Issa me, your grandpa. Shut up your face!",
"What's not fun is not being allowed to leave your house because every road in a 15 KM radius is jammed with honking Italians and it is literally impossible to drive anywhere. "
] | 13 |
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Want to see a face a true joy? My Grandfather after Italy winning the world cup in 2006
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[
"Photo of the Confederation Bridge to PEI, Canada by @SeaEagleAV",
"Holy sheet, that's awesome! :D",
"If only my freezer's ice maker would work that well!",
"Where de bridge ",
"I have no idea what I'm looking at but it's pretty",
"Like a gigantic cheese grater.",
"That bridge must be under a lot of stress.",
"I knew that had to be Confederation Bridge! Been across it a few times, pretty cool bridge tbh, feels like you're on it forever. Very interesting pic too! ",
"The PEI poutine farms",
"This is really cool",
"That ice is having a great workout it’s... shredded. ",
"Updoot for PEI",
"Unlike other bridges ;-D",
"the thin, horizontal line way down there is a really long bridge. the solid sheet of ice at the bottom of the pic is slowly pressing towards the bridge \"upwards\" in our picture, the bridge supports slice the ice.",
"Whoa thank you! I feel dumb now. But yep, still beautiful",
"took me a minute to figure out too",
"look toward the bottom of the pic. That very straight line going across the pic is the bridge. ",
"Wow! Thanks!",
"Giant pasta maker.",
"Ironically, the bridge's pillars are designed to do exactly that.\n\nIt says so [in a picture in the German wikipedia](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederation_Bridge#/media/File:Confederation_Bridge_Segment_beschriftet.jpg).\n\nCaption translates into: \"Pillar with conical base. The conical base serves as an ice shield, breaking on-coming ice floes apart upwards.\"",
"I can't see any bridge there.. ",
"This bridge joins Canada’s mainland to it’s smallest province - Prince Edward Island. It is free to travel over to get to the island, but you pay to leave the island. ",
"An ice grater ",
"Impressive bridge engineering to withstand itself, traffic, water current and ice flow and probably some other sorts of physics?",
"It's the thin line across the bottom of the image. ",
"It's built to rigorous maritime engineering standards.",
"You can buy liquor right across on the PEI side. And you need it. Like driving across a whole damn ocean.",
"Are you fucking blind? Or just stupid?",
"It's under a lot of strain, perhaps.",
"How are so many people so blind?",
"PEI - a province so desperate they make you pay if you want to leave.",
"Cape Breton will be the same way if they ever get to secede from the rest of Nova Scotia.",
"and a bit of chemistry",
"Actually, the bridge is privately owned and the province has no say. We have pushed the Feds to lift the fee, but no go. ",
"This bridge does great at parties! It’s a fantastic ice breaker. ",
"Why are they all the same width?\n",
"You can't see it from a distance like in OP's picture but the bridge is very much designed to break up ice with minimal stress to the structure.\n\nhttp://welcomepei.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/20120406-0046-_MG_0084.jpg\n\nThe cone shape helps break up ice when the current pushes ice against the structure without causing damage to the struts.",
"Well that was mean. ",
"Go home Dad!",
"wow. just take the upvote and go",
"Lookit all that ice, just headin home after a hard days work.",
"It might be all that ice, but he seems pretty cool.",
"Cardboard is out. No cardboard derivitives. No paper. No string no celtape. Its gotta have a steering wheel. There's a minimum crew requirement.",
"What's the minimum crew?",
"Oh, one I suppose."
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Ice Passing Under A Bridge
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[
"How can people fool around with their date with these crazy recliner seats and food tray in the way. Especially at such a sexy movie. ",
"You are my rose. ",
"They threw all their silverware on the ground, during the Tommy Wiseau movie? Is it the Tommy Wiseau movie? Why though....I’m so lost and confused....",
"Yeah it’s the Tommy Wiseau movie. On one of the tables in the background of the living room there are three pictures. One of the three pictures is of a spoon. When you see the picture with the spoon yell, “Spoon” and toss plasticware toward the screen. There are probably 15 or 16 times the spoon is visible, so you’ll likely run out of plasticware. If you do, you can always pick up some that’s been thrown to reload. Alternatively, people down front might toss some back.",
"I can see this in an interactive play or theater. I went to a play of Rocky Horror Picture Show that was huge into audience participation, people yelling and throwing things and singing and dancing and there was a cast that would come out and do sort of a karaoke dance along with all the songs, but to do this in an actual theater is just ridiculously disrespectful, people work here and I’m sure that not everyone in that room wants to deal with that. ",
"People threw roses too ",
"People go see The Room for the audience participation, if they didn't want spoons they could watch at home. The employees have to sweep whether there are spoons or not. This hurts no one. ",
"Oh ok, I didn’t know that it was a sort of audience participation movie to begin with. All I knew about it was it has James Franco in it and this seems to be some sort of Cinebistro like theater so that’s why I was confused :) ",
"James Franco is in a movie about the making of The Room. The Franco movie is called The disaster Artist.",
"Oh... Well this is awkward now. I didn’t know there was two Tommy Wiseau movies coming out. ",
"There is actually seven Tommy Wiseau movies coming out, and James Franco isn't actually in any. He was just inserted in the movie via cgi like a dinosaur from star wars."
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The aftermath of The Room.
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[
"Pic of my house [here](https://i.imgur.com/Ip8FTS7.jpg). ",
"They’re both very, very cute. ",
"That's so neat!!!!!!!",
"roof is too tall in the drawing.",
"That’s a super cool gift for them to do.",
"Why not include the link in your original post ? Is this a karma strategy or something?",
"Note: Separate links to double karma. Got it!",
"I don't know. I got downvotes so I guess the answer is either \"yes\" or \"no\" 😁",
"Didn't know how to post multiple pictures from the app. Sorry if I offended you! :) ",
"I'm not at all offended, I'm still learning the ropes and am just curious 😀"
] | 10 |
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Airbnb sent me a sketch of my house for hosting. Pic of my house in comments for comparison
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"It hurts to watch, can't imagine what he's going through.",
"Heart breaking. ",
"Such a powerful photo. So much pain without any text or anything. ",
"Damn.",
"Fuck cancer!",
"Fuck cancer indeed. Our own bodies working against us. ",
"My shit brain made this worse when i realized what it actually was ",
"The only thing i dislike about this picture, is the picture itself. Who's taking this photo and why....\n\nSome moments don't need to be captured.",
"So painful to see. Can’t imagine what you’re going through. I’ve lost to cancer too but not a child. Fuck Cancer!!! Bless you. Sending you hopes for healing. ",
"There is so much pain and suffering being expressed by him and yet such sweetness and beauty coming from her. I concur, a very powerful photo. ",
"Yes this is terrible, heartbreaking, and sadly way too common. But why photograph this moment?",
"I hope cancer gets cancer one day.\n",
"Immunotherapy options. Sad people have to suffer and better drugs are slow to come out of the woodwork. Even more sad for kids ",
"His pain os palpable and excruciating. Such a powerful picture",
"Doctor here. The public discourse is almost completely silent on death and dying. We watch action movies with death all the time, but never see or discuss it’s true face. This is what it looks like. People need to prepare and understand it rather than ignore it most people have no idea what dying is like. Understanding it helps us make better decisions at the end of life. ",
"Becouse it's real, and that's something that is precious in its own way.",
"As a funeral professional, I completely agree ",
"I'm guessing by your username you came here for the caption, and were disappointed? This photo is one of the most powerful photos I've seen in a long time. My guess would be the photo was taken by a loved one, maybe a wife and mother. I don't think that a person requesting \"Nudes or Tats\" gets a vote on what moments get to be captured. ",
"Twitch.tv does a wonderful week long, bi-yearly, marathon called GamesDoneQuick (GDQ). It's actually active right now for its winter run. The gist is that streamers / speedrunners come together to broadcast speedruns of games, for which people are encouraged to donate to a sponsored charity--which this time around is a the Prevent Cancer Foundation. If I understood the founder's interview from the other day correctly, between 85% - 90% of GDQ's donations go directly to the charity (which is very high), and the rest cover overhead costs. Since Sunday, and as of the writing of this post, they've gathered $570,063.00 in charitable donations for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. \n\nIt's pretty cool stuff. I highly recommend anyone unfamiliar to check it out. It's a really good time, and for consistently good causes. Donate if you can, but even if you can't afford to it's worth checking out. It's really cool to see the brighter side of humanity shine, in this case though anonymous gaming enthusiasts. ",
"Her death is painless. His life is painful.",
"Thank you. I watched my mom die from cancer and was lucky enough to meet a doctor like you who prepared me for the actual physical end. I had no idea that dying is an actual process and that a person can be “actively dying.” Im so glad she told me my moms tongue could turn black, she may spasm, her fingertips would go black, she’d start cooling off, her feet would get cold, and her need for water would go away. Her last breaths were so labored and difficult. It was horrendous, but I’m grateful I got a heads up bc if I’d witnessed that process without knowing beforehand, I would have had an even harder time worrying about all that stuff. The dr. explained it’s natural and to expect it. So listen up folks, sometimes watching a loved one die isn’t just falling asleep and ceasing to breathe. It’s ugly and physical. ",
"I'm just trying to imagine being the person who thought \"I need to snap a picture of this\"... I certainly couldn't.",
"Won't scenes like this become more common with Trump Care? Fuck Cancer! ",
"Oh god. I can still hear the rattle. That half snore, half choke. That's when you know its close. I've heard that sound two times in my life and that was plenty.",
"Why is this downvoted?\n\nEdit: nevermind we're good now.",
"And accepting it makes us better at decisions throughout life, I feel. Dying is the one single, absolute, totally guaranteed event in every single person's life yet we think of it as a possibility. Accept it now or accept it later - we and everyone we love will die. Knowing that every day you wake up puts you one day closer to dead makes those days much more special. Don't waste them. ",
"\"A mother has shared a heartbreaking photo highlighting the devastating impact cancer has on families in a bid to raise awareness.\n\nAlly Parker's five-year-old daughter is fighting a losing battle against an aggressive form of brain cancer, while her father is terminally-ill with a motor neuron disease.\"\n\nhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5256911/Heartbreaking-photograph-shows-devastated-grandfather.html",
"Fuck that bullshit.\n\nWhy don't you defend decapitation videos while you're at it? That is what they look like. People need to understand every brutal detail because most people have no idea what being decapitated is like. Understanding it helps us empathize with prisoners of ISIS better so that we can make better decisions when electing officials and governing policy.\n\nRidiculous. This isn't what dying looks like, this is what grieving looks like; invading upon the saddest moment in this guys life is sickening. Unless he gave consent for this, which no sane person would, then this is nothing more than exploitative.\n\nYou're trying to tell me that by seeing this that some parent out there won't grieve as hard? Bullshit. Are you telling me it will make them pull the plug sooner or something? Bullshit. There is no desensitizing something like this when it happens to you personally, just like watching 1000 decapitation videos won't desensitize you to the horror of it if it happens to you.\n\nThis is tasteless. \n\nLastly, do you think the general public is so fucking dumb that they don't realize one of the worst parts of life is the death of a loved one? Just because your occupation has made you desensitized to death in general doesn't mean people are over-reacting by keeping someone on life support in hopes of a medical miracle. \n\nHow, exactly, does a picture like this help us make better decisions at the end of life? I'd be happy to stick my foot in my mouth, but I really can not currently understand how this helps anyone. I'm not saying ignorance is bliss, but the other extreme -brutal reality- isn't very helpful either.",
"I don't understand. How do you think seeing the pinnacle of grief will help your customers?",
"Even if you don't accept it, it will eventually accept you.",
"Grief does funny things to you sometimes.",
"DIPG. Fuck. There’s no chance of surviving that form of cancer. I don’t understand this universe where a child gets this disease. I just don’t. ",
"It's real. Real private... \n\nI feel like I was tricked into intruding upon this guy's lowest point in life. He is so raw and vulnerable. \n\nToo many of you are treating this like it is art. It is exploitive. \n\nEveryone here knows how horrible cancer is and knows it takes the lives of children and knows it destroys the parents. In my book, this is no different than taking a picture of the guy making love to his wife without his consent. This is as intimate and personal of a moment that a person can have... and here everyone is gawking at it and saying how shitty it is but how great it is to spread the picture. Do we even know if we have that guy's consent? It is utter bullshit and everyone should be ashamed.\n\n ",
"Exactly. I find it disgusting. Whoever did it should reevaluate themselves. ",
"Did you read the article?",
"You saw this picture and you decided it was the perfect opportunity to score political points? Do you stand on the graves of children to push your political views too? You're a piece of garbage. ",
"I'm assuming it was done with consent. ",
"So you'll assume it was done with consent and then assume it was posted to reddit with consent?\n\nUnless OP comes out and states he is the dad, friend, or family of this guy then it should be removed in good taste although it obviously isn't breaking any rules.",
"Very true. Thank you for the perspective. ",
"Link? All I saw was the picture and comments, didn't see a link to an article",
"Went through it twice in the last five years. It changes you. It changed me anyway. Not in a positive way. ",
"I happen to agree with you on this. Just don’t see what this photo accomplishes. Let the poor guy grieve without a camera in his face. ",
".... and share it with strangers. Maybe there is a good explanation or reason but I can’t envision what it could be. ",
"Photo was released publicly by the family.",
"That makes me feel a lot better, thanks for that (although you could be lying).\n\nI still obviously don't condone their decision and wouldn't make it myself, but it is their prerogative. ",
"r/frisson ",
"The girls mother took the photo. So she could share her grief and maybe raise awareness of her situation so she could promote her gofundme that she is trying to raise money through for an experimental procedure. The man in the photo is the girls grandfather (photographer's father) he also had a deadly disease. Sometimes grief is easier to handle when shared. I'm not sure who else you thought would be taking the picture. ",
"As a father of a 2 year old, this fucking kills me. ",
"honestly if it gets more help in the field and saves someone elses baby why not share it? Same thing as organ donors and such. Perhaps the loss can help another. Perhaps the grief and torment will help another.",
"This picture was taken by the girls mother. Someone posted the link above. The man in the photo is the grandfather. He also has a deadly disease. The woman shared this photo on her FB presumably to share her grief and gain publicity for her gofundme where she's trying to raise money for an experimental treatment to possibly save her daughters life. Who the fuck else did you think took this picture? These situations happen all over in hospitals everyday. Sometimes grief is easier to handle when shared. Who are you to say what people will consent to when grieving. This man is losing his granddaughter and won't be there to help his child grieve if his daughter wants to take his picture in such an emotional state and post it publicly that's his and her decision. I'm sure he gladly signed off if he thought it could help his child in any tiny sliver of a way. ",
"Please don't politicize pictures like this.",
"Before my mothers friend thought to ask my mother was just gasping over and over. She finally asked if there was away to sped her journey along the doc said she can have morphine every 15 minutes...basically helped us to let her go faster...death sucks.",
"You might if you thought the publicity from it would get people to donate to your GoFundMe where you're trying to raise 300k for an experimental treatment that just might possibly save your 5 year old daughters life. ",
"It was taken by her mother.",
"It is art. At its highest form. \n\nArt is just capturing moments of real human emotion. It is supposed to be intimate. This is a window into their world so that we can better understand it. \n\nAnd this does seem to be consensual. They released this picture for us to see. ",
"I heard it with my grandfather. His final, labored breaths. And nothing I could do. Not one goddamned thing.",
"You miss the point. This saddens me as much as anyone. I see that tragedies like this exist and wish that our priorities would be more focused on caring and trying to find cures. Excuse me if the GOP throws millions of people off of healthcare so that more suffer like this family. \n\nIDGAF about your imaginary points, your strawman hyperbole, or how you feel the need to insult me.",
"Every type of cancer is treated differently. Immunotherapy currently shows promise for lung and skin cancer, as far as I’m aware. And even there you are likely to get an auto-immune disease as a result of the treatment (which of course is preferable to cancer)",
"It's hosted on twitch, but twitch isn't doing it. Great marathon though, I don't think there's a better way to spend your money on a charity.",
"when i look at this photo i hear him scream...",
"I definitely appreciate where you’re coming from. If I thought that what OP’s intension’s were, was that we shouldn’t keep someone on life support or that this one picture would help us make better decisions at the end of life, I would totally be with you. Obviously, no one can prepare themselves for losing a loved one. \n\nHowever, I feel OP’s intent was different.\n\nWhat I feel their intention was, or at least what i got from this picture, is that we shouldn’t forget how fragile we all are. Emotionally(as in the man with the beanie) AND physically(as in the baby). Too often we forget or get too caught up in daily living that we forget what a gift and miracle life really is. And this for me put things in perspective.\n\nThis is a tragic photo. Someone took it, yes, but they also took it for a reason, and that’s to remind people of the worst times when they may take certain aspects of life for granted.",
"Almost the only thing we as humans all have in common is dying. There’s no avoiding it, why continue to hide it behind some kind of shroud? I’m not saying we need to fill social media with this kind of stuff but to occasionally see it is healthy. This is just my opinion, another great thing we all have in common is the ability to think for ourselves. ",
"So yeah it's GamesDoneQuick, which is streamed on Twitch. If I'm not mistaken, the Winter event Awesome Games Done Quick alwayus benefits the Prevent Cancer Foundation, and the Summer event: Summer Games Done Quick always benefits Médecins Sans Frontières.",
"Fuck cancer ",
"One time was my mom, late stage breast cancer metastasized to her brain. Went from intelligent,cogent to nothing in 2 weeks. She had been hiding how serious it was from me and my siblings. Didn't want to worry us.\n\nThe other GF's dad is having chest pains and instead of ambulance she gets called home to drive him to ER. I drive..He can't get his seatbelt in and just gone. The heaving choking, the screaming from GF. I decided if we wait for ambulance to show up to our car he's dead. I just drove straight to hospital at 120km/h. Luckily it was only 2km away, ran 2 reds. He survived. Started smoking again. Ugh.",
"Cure for Cancer>Fucking Border Wall",
"It can.",
"Cancer getting cancer is why very large animals like whales are essentially immune to cancer",
"I hate this so much. It reminds me that this can happen to anyone at any time. I have a toddler and a newborn and it freaks me the fuck out that this might be us one day. I hope the people in the photo are okay ",
"This is reality. It doesn't need your approval.",
"This photo was taken by the family. Not just some random person walking by. They wanted to share it.",
"It is worse then just watching - the photo was taken when he found out that both himself and daughter would die within two weeks of each other :(\n\nI really feel for the person taking the photo, who has to suffer with two people passing away",
"It's not always the pinnacle of grief. ",
"This sounds Interesting, could you please explain? ",
"I think it already did. \n\nIt's terminal, turning Reddit into Facebook.",
"It’s called Peto’s paradox. Basically large animals such as whales (despite having more cells than humans and should be more prone to getting cancer) don’t because tumors grow on the original tumor and creates a hyper tumor that then destroys the original tumor. This is because in large animals, tumors take more time to reach a size that is able to kill the host so it gives the second tumor more time to evolve to kill the first tumor. Tumorception that ends well for the host! ",
"Wtf I've never heard of this! That's very interesting.",
"After reading some of the responses below...I'm reminded of how cruel we can be as a species...if we let a pet suffer these later stages of death, we'd be called a monster, yet we willingly watch our family members go through these horrific final moments and call it \"the standard of treatment\"....I just don't get it.\n\nAre we that selfish that we want to keep people around when all hope is lost, there is no hope of recovery and zero quality of life?\n\nNo one should have to ever describe listening to a loved ones final death rattle of a breath...I don't know, I guess it's just me, but I'd hope someone would love me more than the pets I've owned and not put me through that suffering, or my loved ones through the trauma of witnessing it.",
"And what if a third tumor kills the second tumor? Just kidding, thank you for the tumorception explanation!",
"You're pathetic. Literally implying that the woman gave herself a brain tumor from drinking and doing drugs, really? How disgusting.\n\nEven if that were the case, which it never has been or will be, do you seriously want to be that asshole?\n\nGo show your girlfriend what you wrote about her dying best friend, I'm sure she'd be very interested in your little opinion here.",
"I wish I could take their diseases and their sorrow. It’s not fair. Such a young person to have to go through that. So much potential life ahead and I’m here with nothing to look forward to, nothing to live for, no desire to continue living. \n\nI hate the way the world works. ",
"Fuck using other people's pain for internet points. ",
"My username stops me from having an opinion/vote on anything? Lol gotcha.",
"Thanks for the background. I understand what you mean about sharing making it easier, and can appreciate that sentiment. My whole post was on the fact i had no idea who was taking such am intimate picture.",
"The entire comment chain below your comment is a worthwhile read on the real face of death. You are right that we take death too lightly, but my issue with the picture (at least personally) was that i wouldn't want such an intimate period photographed let alone shared. Id rather grieve with friends and family privately. But another user explained the backstory.",
"While I have no dog in this race, I'm genuinely curious how\n\n>she knew for over 15 years what wrong. Despite her knowing she just became more of a hardcore alcoholic, and occasional user of cocaine.\n\nBecame\n\n>Literally implying that the woman gave herself a brain tumor from drinking and doing drugs\n\nIt reads to me more like she turned to alcohol/drugs instead of medical care, not that the alcohol/drugs caused her need for medical care.",
"Shouldn’t be shown.",
"Fuck hospitals that still bill patients they fail to save.",
"May Almighty help us all to fight the illness that he created for betterment for our life",
"What was the point of sharing this story? It didn’t contribute to the overall conversation and didn’t make you look good either.",
"Are you saying you’re happy that somebody is on death row? \nI don’t care how bad a person can be, but same with violence, death is not a solution. \nYou should feel bad that there’s somebody you know (at least related in some way) is struggling and you did nothing but hope that her/his actions will end her/his life.\nDo you really think death is a form of escapism? NO! There are always someone who love you, in this case can be her/his family. And you being such a “mature” individual, do you think they won’t hit you if they know you said those words? Go ahead. Tell them these exact words and then come back and tell us the result. \nYou are a heartless coward.",
"Perhaps the tumour was unable to be removed and she decided to enjoy her life to the extent possible and/or turned to substance abuse out of despair. Even if it was operable and she didn’t have it done there may have been reasons (cost, fear, side effects).\n\nShe was dealt a shitty hand and you’re saying you have no sympathy because she dealt with it in a way you don’t agree with. You’re a douche.",
"If someone deserves cancer it's definitely you. Piece of shit. ",
"The most powerful image I cannot get out of my head, even after 18 MONTHS of WEEKLY therapy, is the look on my mother's face after I had to tell you guys to \"pull the plug\", us not knowing if her hypoxic brain understood we were killing her, the pain, the confusion, the fibroids in her lungs, the sepsis, the morphine in her, the clouds in her eyes, my hand on her forehead, me forgiving her for years of abuse and narcissism and terrible parenting, the vent being removed, the breathing jerky and slowed, her lips and nose cracking so bad they bled, her face sinking in, her chin sinking into her neck as her jaw slackened, my dad backing away and sitting on the floor, barely able to keep his fingers around hers, me briefly reminding myself to never forgive my high-on-heroin brother who was literally too high to be here to say goodbye, stroking my mom's forehead and telling her \"I know you tried, you did good, you did good, you did GOOD.\", and the light actually cutting out, but her eyelids not closing, the breathing stopping, dad frozen with his hand on hers, not looking at her, he couldn't look at her, but I looked right at her starkly open eyes, and I know that wasn't a person anymore. \n\nI went through that ONCE. \n\n\nThanks to all the medical professionals who go through that all the time, and still go home to love on their families at night. I fucking salute you. ",
"I highly recommend NOT donating to this event. GDQ is hired by PCF by run SGDQ and AGDQ each year. GDQ staff are paid an undisclosed amount of money by PCF (anonymous sources have all said around 15% - 20% of earnings are sent to GDQ's salary). \n\nAnonymous sources are bad, so lets focus on their public documents. In 2016, PCF's CEO paid himself a salary of 550k. In total donations across all their fundraising for that year, they received a total of $6.1mil. PCF have not put out any public documents since 2016.\n\nPlease donate to another organization or event that is not building itself on corruption.",
"I thought even breast cancer has an immunotherapy option. Each cancer exhibits a protein that tricks the immune system into killing it. These new types of drugs attach to that protein and immune system takes over. There's research into brain, prostate etc. I believe (I'm sure there's plenty of papers) researchers have started to notice a virus like behavior in cancers. ",
"I think I should have made my statement with a pouty face. Fuck cancer :( ? Still, immunotherapy options can avoid these type of images in many cases. ",
"Thread about cursing cancer turns into cursing others with it. Irony.",
"I will never forget this in my life either. I work in healthcare and had grown particularly close with a resident and her family. When she went on hospice, I would visit her and the daughters in her room in the skilled nursing facility after my work day was over. She was very near the end and one of her daughters and I were sharing stories of our time with her while we sat next to her bed and held her hand. She had not been alert in a few days at that point. As we were talking, it was like a switch was turned in her respiratory system. The daughter and I locked eyes in this pure moment of both shock and complete visceral understanding of what was happening. She had had the rattling sound before but this was so much different and haunting. She was gone in under 5 minutes from that “switch”. \n\nI am really thankful that the daughter had had someone there with her and she told me how much it helped her. I know how much that experience has impacted me- I can’t imagine what it must be like for someone to see their parent go through that. \n\nHUGS to all that have gone through this.",
"Thought the guy was laughing wildly at first",
"Sitting in the cafeteria at work waiting for a call to tell me my grandad's cancer surgery went ok. Trying not to think about how I might not get that phonecall, I might get the other one. Wasn't expecting to see this. Trying not to cry at work.\n\nFuck cancer.",
"Powerful photo.",
"Dude, this is uncool....other peoples misery should not be used for your own karma. Somethings need to remain personal. ",
"* dabs repeatedly*",
"I know! This is the stuff that should be on National Geographic. ",
"Shouldn't the second tumor be just as dangerous?",
"I probably shouldn't have written that. I've lost family and friends to cancer so was angry when I wrote that. I'm not very smart when I'm angry. Sorry if I offended anyone. ",
"This really is painful to look at. Nobody deserves this.",
"Is this actually possible? Probably yes Right?",
"The person who took the pic was the guys daughter and child’s mother ",
"For sure didn't need to see this.",
"So I looked into this, having been a big fan of the GDQ speed run events up until right now, and something I can't figure out is if they've *replaced* PCF with Doctors without Borders, or if they've just done a couple events with them both, or if they've done events with only DWB and PCF separately. [This](https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/31ou3n/an_analysis_of_prevent_cancer_foundations_pcf/) thread was more confusing than helpful.\nWould [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bG6hPJpxzm4) video be wrong? I guess I'll look more myself. Financial fuckery is the worst.",
"Either that or he hates us.",
"Fuck this is brutal ",
"Do you have a source for any of this? \n",
"1. What then happens to the second, good-guy tumor?\n2. Should we celebrate these minsunderstood heroes?",
"Tell me if I'm mistaken but what you just said would mean there was some incest going on here.",
"He's probably the child's grandfather",
"Well if you weren’t already an atheist, here ya go. There is no God folks and if there is he/she can go fuck him/herself. \n\nAlso, if this doesn’t at least make you question the idea of a loving God you are either truly terrified of death or callous as hell. ",
"Kids shouldn't get cancer. Breaks my heart ",
"I think SGDQ is for DWB, and AGDQ is for PCF",
"Ay fuck cancer",
"Best wishes to these people. No one deserves that",
"I meant I experienced watching the last hours of two people I am close to. \n\nOne of them I had to watch my wife and her siblings make a decision to take their father off of life support - guy was a relatively healthy grandfather/father/husband/brother two weeks prior and got wrapped up in a simple kidney infection that got out of control due to hospital negligence and he died two weeks after. It was the most horrible experience I’ve ever been through. \n\nI spent almost every night for two weeks sitting at a hospital waiting and supporting my wife and her family. Had young kids at the time that adored the man that had to go through it - had to explain things to them that I didn’t even begin to understand. Then tell them one morning that their grandfather who was riding bikes with them two weeks ago had withered away and died gasping for air with fingers and toes that had turned black and shriveled up.\n\nThankfully I made the decision to not let them be there for the last 3 or so hours because it was not something anybody should have to experience much less a child. It’s been 5-6 years and I still have the images burned into my head. \n\nI’m a pretty put together guy - I generally don’t get upset, I manage situations calmly and relationally. I had a few moments over those two weeks where I found a corner in the hospital and lost it to the point where I was hyperventilating and gasping crying. I wouldn’t have noticed nor probably cared if someone was filming me at the time but I would have wanted to have punched someone that was filming someone else in that state. It’s not that it’s embarrassing, it’s that it’s private. Even asking for consent to take or post a photo like that violates basic human niceness, IMO. \n\nI don’t need a picture to tell me that that guy went through extreme personal pain. The story is enough. And it’s his business, not mine. There is nothing to learn and nothing that anybody can change as a result of seeing that picture. I’ve been through it twice and if anything the only thing that “knowing what it’s like” has taught me is that I dread and fear having to go through it again. I get that it’s a natural thing and that it’s part of life but no amount of preparation makes watching it easier or better in any way. I feel that strongly and it wasn’t a child or my own mortality I was dealing with. Can’t imagine what this poor man was going through. \n\nNot sure what all of that means. Just saying that I see no useful reason for taking or posting that photo. In order for that photo to “prepare” you for handling that that man is handling, it would have to take a chunk of your soul away. And if so It’s not worth the trade. ",
"Check out the GoFundMe page too.",
"This is so hard to look at. I'm a parent of two young kids. I cannot, and do not, want to imagine what that's like. Horrible. Just endless sadness.",
"FUCK CANCER",
"Me too brother. If this has made you stop and think, take the time to let her know you love her.",
"I’m fundamentally changed (not in a good way) as well. I’m just not as happy. I’m less spazzy and entertaining to friends and family. It’s like a little bit of flame blew out of me.",
"Jesus Christ that is so unfair.",
"I would assume it dies after killing the host tumor that it was living off of.",
"Similar here. Jaded. \n\nThen again I had to deal with it again a few years later and a suicide in the family not long after that. Definitely not good things for people that have always had and crave control to have to process. ",
"They’re from my hometown. It’s awful. ",
"I mean was that really the best time to take a photo?",
"There was a link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5256911/Heartbreaking-photograph-shows-devastated-grandfather.html\nI doubt I would have taken the photo, but I don't begrudge her sharing it. Her entire world is dying and if sharing something so uncomfortable for others to think about can help her then who am I to judge.",
"Some asshole god is trying to teach someone a lesson or something. No? Then god doesn't exist or is a piece of shit.",
"You think this guy wanted this picture on the internet?",
"This is so real it makes me uncomfortable",
"Hey it's part of Jesus's plan, remember. Because, slowly sapping the life and dignity away from the thing they love most in this world is bound to make them better people. Right?\n\n/s",
"This is absolutely heartbreaking ",
"I think the 2nd tumor is like a parasite of the first tumor. When the 1st tumor dies, so does the 2nd one.",
"First, read the article for context: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5256911/Heartbreaking-photograph-shows-devastated-grandfather.html , the child has been moved to hospice. The grandfather in the pic is dying from ALS. Another disease you wouldn't wish upon anyone. I can't imagine this woman's pain.\n\nSecond DIPG is a fairly rare pediatric cancer so it isn't getting much research funding. The statistical 5 year survival rate is 0. However because of the way DIPG forms, grows and resists treatment finding effective treatment can open doors for treating all cancers. The common ones that affect us adults. Be kind and love one another.",
"a comment above said it was the wife who took the photo and the father also has a terminal disease. \n\n\"A mother has shared a heartbreaking photo highlighting the devastating impact cancer has on families in a bid to raise awareness.\n\nAlly Parker's five-year-old daughter is fighting a losing battle against an aggressive form of brain cancer, while her father is terminally-ill with a motor neuron disease.\"\n\nhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5256911/Heartbreaking-photograph-shows-devastated-grandfather.html \"",
"If there is a god, he will have to beg humanity for forgiveness. ",
"I wish I had a Doctor like this when my father was terminal. He was being treated at the VA in Washington D.C. and the fucking worthless doctor was like \"welp, we have exhausted all treatment options, and it isn't getting better, I think y'all should go somewhere else for treatment\" *not telling us that it had spread to his bones, and he was going to die very, very soon and that we should spend as much time as possible with him, and make preparations*. He was dead in less than two months, and I couldn't even make it there before he died it all happened so fucking fast. ",
"Either that or every time someone says \"there is no God\" he pulls further away from us, allowing more evil into our lives.",
"Whoa. Thanks for the mini lesson. Does cancer research look at this or is it pretty much not applicable to humans in any way?",
"Seconded",
"*I am the Lord, and there is no other. I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things.*\n\nIsaiah 45:7. You never see THIS quote........",
"Or we fucked everything up and he's watching.",
"He may have agreed, knowing that it conveys the reality of it.",
"As someone that works in the medical field, I'm thankful for the people that take these pictures. People often send sympathies and casseroles but never experience these situations. I work with the elderly. So for me it's primarily watching people with dementia or progressive diseases wither away. For the most part I've become numb to it. But I just got a therapist because it gets difficult on the soul.",
"Fuck Cancer and Fuck ALS. It’s time for us to stop increasing funding for defense and collect our best scientists together to moonshot research into finding cures and better modalities faster. $50 Billion a year would go a long way towards finding cures.",
"Because stuff like this brings awareness and may make people donate.",
"This is heartbreaking. \n",
"I upvoted you, but I'm not sure that I agree with you. I don't like his grief being on display and that make me feel terrible. He should be allowed to grieve in his way, without the world bearing witness. \n\nI think this picture tells a story though, a horrible horrible story. If that story compels some of us to donate our time or money to help someone else, then it's a story that should be told. ",
"There is promise, yes, but what I mean is that only in certain types of cancers have we had success applying it so far. The other comment made it sound like the therapy is already ready to go and being artificially slowed down, when in truth we are still working out the kinks and have to do so individually for each cancer type.",
"So I just need to bulk up until I'm whale sized and Im immune to cancer. Got it. ",
"I realize it is a private moment, but you would never know about it without the photo. It is not the most compassionate move, but there are reporters/photographers who make a career of doing this kind of work. As long as they dont intrude on people I'm okay with the necessity of those professions because this kind of image drives society forward. So do images of war, famine, abuse etc. We can all generally agree \"bad things are bad\", right?",
"Wasn't that a quote carved into a wall at a concentration camp in WWII?",
"probably",
"As someone who's been on the receiving end of that kind of judgement, I am still a human being. Your reasoning is not fair at all. A username made in jest or in some cases lust is not the same as treating someone's death as sacred and private. You should not judge a comment by its name without proper merit towards it. If someone has a history of ridiculing people that are diseased or ill, by all means call them out. If they do not, try to be receptive to the words in the post, not the words in the name. Thanks.",
"Don't know about any gods that promise an easy and painless life.",
"Maybe not specifically but there sure are people who use it. Blame hurricanes on gay people and what not.",
"Hell, brain tumors 100% can and do impair people’s ability to think rationally. It may have caused the behavior.",
"Yes. Fuck cancer. Poor kid. Poor family.",
"I can comfortably stand behind your explanation, and some others ive read. I personally wouldn't go for it, but i do understand its purpose.",
"That would lead to a hospital turning people with bad conditions away because odds are they are going to die at some point soon, then the hospital loses tons of money. ",
"except it wouldn't take 30 mins to explain it",
"I feel the pain. I used to think people exaggerate their feelings for the public but when my dad was in hospital for heart surgery I couldn’t even look at him with all those tubes connected to him. It was painful. F cancer.",
"Quite the heart wrenching image",
"Nah. ",
"Then fuck them anyway.",
"Better the doctors be honest with people. Rather than blow smoke up a father’s ass while taking his smile. Would you rather spend the last months of your life in a hospital while eating your family into poverty or just go on vacation with your family enjoying each other’s company till the last?",
"Hospitals need to be run like schools. Not out to make a profit, but out to improve the lives of people.\nDid you know that if the government didn’t add in medical bills to the GDP, the USA would be considered the largest economy in the world?",
"So at that point you have a socialized healthcare system where people never get billed and taxes pay for it. Quite different than only getting a bill if you survive. ",
"well, I have experience as a care taker of someone with cancer, and don't want to open a can of worms of discussing the financing of current health management centers, who want to follow old protocols that work: high in labor and supplies, vs the immunotherapy that reduces labor costs and supplies used in the fancy, resort like infusion centers. Not saying they are bad. Just personal experience. We had to personally tell the doctor about the medicine, as we were going to be placed on another standard chemo that had lower result rates. ",
"I only speak from experience. Look at Nivolumab or any PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors. The sky is the difference from standard attack everything chemo. ",
"Oh my heart is breaking for them. So sad - I want to hug them both.",
"Reminds me of this post: [Jesus Saves.](https://i.imgur.com/nT57cSz.jpg)",
"As someone who has been living with cancer for going on 13 years, the disease, if it doesn't kill you quickly like this little girl, becomes part of your soul. It is my own \"Dark Passenger\" to quote the show Dexter, it's there...marking its time. Waiting for me in the night, to kill me slowly with misguided genetic hate...eventually. I hate to be reminded of it.",
"I'm sorry for your loss, I saw my mom pass. We didn't see any of those, as she was kept 'alive' on a ventilator etc. so her organs could be donated (brain dead). Obviously I'm happy the organs went to a good cause but after reading your comment, I'm very grateful to have said our formal good byes and have the official death the way we did.. without any of those other.. symptoms (not sure on the best word here).\n\nBut we could tell she had gone earlier, her body retained water in odd ways , she had a waxy look to her, it felt like I was touching raw meat to eating, rather than human skin. \n\nWe were told by the doctor we would know if she had gone, and they were right, but I would have loved to have had a proper briefing about it.",
"It’s the guy’s *wife* and girl’s mother. She took a pic of her husband and child. ",
"But who took this photo?",
"Everyone at some point in time will need a doctor just like every child will need a teacher. Some people who don’t have kids get angry about paying for schools, but what they don’t realize is they enjoy that luxury every time they have an interaction with another person and everything goes smoothly. I used to take good medicine for granted before I lived in a big city. When flu season comes around, the last thing you want a sick person thinking is, “I shouldn’t go to the doctor cause I can’t afford it.” And that’s exactly what happens in this country and everyone he comes into contact with suffers for it, even the big bosses (who lobby against regulated and tax covered medical costs).",
"And people still manage to believe in god. “It’s all part of his plan”. ",
"Yeah because life should only be rainbows and sunshine and nothing bad ever can happen. ",
"No, the photo is of a grandfather and granddaughter. Mom/daughter took the photo.",
"Wow are you 12 years old? The fact anyone upvoted you is pathetic. ",
"Fuck Cancer, and twice on Sunday.",
"Ugh. Heartbreaking. ",
"That may be an additional issue (and differ from country to country), but I'm working in cancer research (personally on the bioinformatics side, but my boss is an expert in cancer immunology) and the perspective I have is the one I presented before: In many cases we simply really aren't ready yet. Cancer immunology still has a long way to go before immunotherapy is viable in many cancer types, and we are also still struggling to balance it out with the side effects (high risk to get auto-immune diseases).",
"Same feels. I have a 7 year old and a 3 year old. Before them, I was a pretty emotionally stoic dude. ",
"It's based off of a quote found on a cell wall in a WW2 concentration camp.\n\nhttps://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/18913/did-a-jewish-prisoner-write-this-quote-about-god-and-forgiveness",
"Okay and the context he's using it in is still making him sound like a Edgy 12 year old ",
"You are not mistaken, just very stupid. ",
"Yup. I still believe in God and no amount of assholes like you will ever change that.",
"Obvious troll. Lacks subtlety, needs work.",
"> Wtf I've never heard of this! That's very interesting.\n\nI'll point out that this isn't settled science. The general knowledge is that cancers are less common as a cause of death in large mammals than you'd expect them to be, given their relative size. \n\nThat their tumors are less lethal for the above reason is one proposed alternative, but it has also been observed that they seem to have different and more extensive tumor suppression in their genomes. For instance, there's a tumor suppressing gene of which humans have 1 copy but elephants have 20. https://elifesciences.org/articles/11994\n\nThere's bound to be more than a couple of factors that impact on relative cancer levels.",
"i would think so, right? cos the second tumor thereby survives? so then another turmor would have to come along and kill it? /u/ChocolateCrepe ???",
"oh she knows. I spend everyday with her and tell her i love her more than anything in the world, including my wife",
"My grandfather took his time. I last saw him maybe four hours before the end but that labored breathing was really terrible. ",
"You don't have to like my opinion but that doesn't make me a troll ",
"Recycling comments too. See this is the sort of laziness that gives internet trolls a bad name.\n\nDo you even enjoy it any more or are you just going through the motions? Shake it off man.",
">Ally Parker's five-year-old daughter is fighting a losing battle against an aggressive form of brain cancer\n\nI don't want to be unsensitive in any way but I just want to add that \"martial language\" doesn't help when describing cancer and may even be harmful psychologically. ^[1](https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/apr/25/having-cancer-not-fight-or-battle) ^[2](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/well/live/when-your-personal-war-on-cancer-is-exhausting.html) ^[3](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/opinion/sunday/cancer-fighting-words.html) ^[4](https://www.cancerinstitute.org.au/about-us/Media/Writing-about-cancer-guidelines) ^[5](http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/21/opinions/cancer-is-not-a-war-jardin-opinion/index.html)\n\nSomeone who may die because of cancer didn't \"lose the fight\", it's not like this person \"didn't fight hard enough\" or anything else like this. This will only lead to negative feelings such as guilt or remorse even by patients. ",
"Dork ",
"Wow. Bad things can happen.\n\nBut how the hell do you tell a child dying of brain cancer \"sorry kid part of God's plan because bad things happen.\"",
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5n_bRmMA5Q",
"Thank you kind stranger for the gold!\n",
"Username checks out",
"How do you tell a kid \"sorry little Timmy you just got fucked by genetics and the environment\". Bad things happen and your lack of faith won't stop that. ",
"Death sucks. I’m sorry. I hear you about the control part too. I still struggle with it. ",
"That 100% sucks balls. I’m sorry. ",
"Read the article and OMG. This should really make every parent take a moment to squeeze and hug your kids a little tighter. ",
"There is a link early in the comments. If I remember correctly, the photo was taken by the daughter of the man and the mother of the little girl (same person). It was an intimate moment, but not exploitive. Might check it out. I can't fathom the pain she's going through, losing both at the same time. ",
"The hypocrisy of this statement is textbook. ",
"So you've gone through the pain of it, and wished that on others (he would have a family too most likely.) That's pretty fucked up, kind of worse than what he wrote. He was apathetic, you were malicious. ",
"Kind of seems like a confession of sorts. He can tell it to anyone he on knows most likely.",
"I went to high school with the grandmother... it has been a hard thing to watch a beautiful family go through. ",
"Thank you! Must've missed it. I'll look into it after work to keep the feels at bay for now. I can't begin to comprehend that kind of grief.",
"Anger makes you do stupid shit. ",
"Genuinely curious and hope it's not a stupid question but.....is there not anyway we could incorporate that into possible treatments for human cancer?",
"So the cure to cancer is to get super swole. Got it. ",
"They posted this photo on Twitter themselves. ",
" Or there never was a god. We have everything going against us. Nothing in the universe indicates it was made for us. We're just a coincidence of the properties of matter. ",
"Agreed. I don't like the term 'fighting'. It implies the patient can simply will away the illness if they try hard enough. It's a sad enough situation without potentially adding any guilt to the patients.",
"I just saw a laugh out loud part just before this. Now I am very sad. Sorry man. I lost my mom to cancer too early. It hurts me to see this.",
"Usually where it's attributed to, no idea if it's real or not. ",
"There is no god",
"That never worked for me. Thinking about death never makes me want to live to the fullest. Just makes me so depressed that I want to die right away so I don't have to feel the pain and terror at the thought of my morality. But I don't have the guts to kill myself so instead I come to Reddit to numb my brain. ",
"Good, if this is what he decided we deserved then fuck him. ",
"I realize it's not an automatic switch that goes off when we realize we're going to die and I'm sorry you have this weighing on you. I guess it's a choice to focus on the good or bad in any situation, but one that can be extremely difficult for some. Death won't ever change or go away, but life is what we make of it. Good luck, I hope you can find a way to enjoy more of it. ",
"Ever think some people post because they want to share something with the world, not obsess over reddit upvotes? ",
"You might not need the picture to get the point across to you since you've experienced it, but I have never experienced it and think it tells me a lot more than words on a page could. ",
"Thanks for the kind words, stranger.",
"Apply yourself.",
"but allah, u cool",
"I prefer \"virgin neckbeard\" thank you very much.",
"Yeah my point is that there is no value to “getting the point across”",
"Trust me, the age doesn't matter. As the father of a 17 year old, this kills me.",
"true, but I believe it's where the future in treating cancer is. The shotgun or C4 approach has worked with horrific side effects, this can mean so much improvement in how cancer patients live the rest of their life or even during treatment. ",
"I read a comment on reddit awhile ago - a man lost his wife, and was asked to describe what it's like. He said to imagine when life returns to normal, it'd be as if the sky is no longer blue, like it has lost all color. All days are gray. ",
"> You miss the point\n\nYour point is political. This isn't the place for it.",
"What the fuck, why can't nature just do a good fucking job of putting shit together? ",
"I was not prepared for this photo",
"This is kind of shoddy low quality work you get when you contract the creation of your humans to the lowest bidding deity.",
"http://preventcancer.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/PCF-2014-IRS-Form-990-Public-Inspection-Copy-Signed.pdf",
"http://preventcancer.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/PCF-2014-IRS-Form-990-Public-Inspection-Copy-Signed.pdf",
"Not much gets to me but this photo is very hard to handle...",
"What did that little girl fuck up? ",
"Peto’s paradox is that cancer frequency does not correlate with number of cells in an animal. The hypertumors is just a far out theory to explain the phenomenon. There are more plausible explanations.",
"I feel like this would be a great writing prompt on that sub WP. ",
"lost someone to stomach cancer this photo really hits home :(",
"Right in the feels.",
"This is proof there is no Christian God.\n\nCancer in children? Fuck you.",
"ok so I didn't go though this entire thing but i'm just going to take your word for it. \n\nWhere would you rank GDQ on a scale of 1-10 on how bad it is? (1 being terrible and 10 being great?",
"so you're saying we need to start breeding with the dutch. ",
"I'm so sorry for you. My boyfriend has stage four colon cancer and every day is worse than the last. I wish you all the best",
"Cool story Doc. Shut down in the face of adversity.\n\nI hope you don't perpetuate that behavior in your future endeavors-- in which case may they be fruitful.",
"I'd rank it a 2",
"Some comments in an old thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/speedrun/comments/2r98kv/agdq_are_only_22_of_agdq_donations_actually/) seem to say its not as bad as it seems but also its not perfect either.\n\nYour thoughts?",
"Whoever took this picture might be a sociopath ",
"Be aware that thread was about the 2013 details. 2014 is when PCF began to pay GDQ directly for their events. Pre-2014, PCF was alright. Post 2014 is when shit went suspicious and when executives began taking 15% of all revenue (donations) as salary. In 2016 (latest public numbers), their revenue was 6.1mil and the executives were paid 1.5mil in salary.",
"I've been there. Specifically the \"there\" on the left, though perhaps not as far down that road. As a father of three, I hope I'm never the \"there\" on the right. I see a lot of those parents though. These days I do volunteer work with a camp for kids with cancer. We do family weekends and on Saturday evenings I usually find myself talking with the parents of newly diagnosed kids. There's a kind of \"getting-to-know-you\" ritual where, with my three kids running around, they'll ask me \"so which one is your patient?\"\n\nAnd I tell them I am.\n\nIt's a hell of a moment. I'm 28-years out from diagnosis. I'm healthy, married, college educated, good career -- pretty much everything a parent wants for their child. In that moment, I hope, they see that this too can pass and that there can be a future for their child beyond the drugs, surgeries, and radiation. \n\nBut, honestly, it doesn't go that way for most of us. Cancer is a vicious, nasty bitch and the medicines we use to scour it from the bodies of our children leave their mark. Kids who fight cancer tend to have severe cognitive losses. For many, the price of keeping cancer out of their spinal fluid or delivering the radiation that will save their lives is any hope of a college education or a professional career.\n\nBut the funny thing about long-odds is that most pediatric cancer patients are fine with them. They're already out ahead of most of them anyway. So for me and for the camp I work with, our goal is to make sure that these kids don't lose their childhood along with their hair. \n\nSo we take these patients--thin, pale, and sick as they often are--and we teach them songs. We wrap blankets around them at campfire. We go canoeing, ride horses, wade in creeks, and play basketball. We take these patients and, even if it's just for a week, for that week, we make them kids again.\n\nAnd if I'm being honest, for me, that experience was probably every bit as important to my own recovery as the drugs, the tests, and the procedures. The doctors saved my life, but [camp saved my childhood.](http://specialove.org/)\n",
"hm... i see.\n\nMan, I hate it when good things are bad underneath. It feels like its happening more often than not. ",
"r/horriblydepressing",
"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?",
"ok, I wanna be honest. I have no idea what a normal salary for a CEO of such a big organisation is. But the 500k+ you mentioned are for 3 ppl. I checked the salary for some CEOs on www.charitynavigator.org and 270k for the president doesn't seem to be so out of the ordinary (e.g. president of \"Feeding America\" 430k, American Institute for Cancer Research 330k). That alone doesn't seem to be shady to me.",
"Jesus fucking christ. I just put my 6 month old baby girl to sleep and then saw this... I'm not hungry any more.",
"That’s exactly it. I say gray days. When someone who I’ll let know how I’m feeling asks me how I’m doing, I’ll say something like, “ok thanks, last Thursday was a major gray day though.” Doesn’t mean I’m sitting around being depressed and crying all day long, it just means it was a lackluster day. Are used to not have those. Or if I did, it was like twice a year.",
"Really good time and post to forward your delusional political agenda.",
"It's certainly not close to the same thing, but my boyfriend once got invited to a party while I was on a road trip. My aunt was driving the car and I was looking at my phone about to return the text he sent me about it. Then we got into an accident. The text I sent him after that? \"I'm happy about your party. Everybody's fine. We just got into a car accident.\" Emotions are weird, they make us do weird things. Sometimes it's taking a picture at a time that seems inappropriate.",
"And faith won't stop it either. So if faith won't change a thing then what's the point?",
"Cancer is not an entity tho. It's a flaw in our design. I get the sentiment, but I always find it odd when people say this as if cancer was a super villain in a lair somewhere making random people die.",
"I was very sad when National geographic magazine which seemed to operate indepedently was bought out. Since it has exclusively become pretty pictures with no deeper story behind the image.\n",
"I didn't say it was personal. As a whole, humans fucked up. We used our free will in a horrible way and allowed bad shit to happen. Now it's depraved. If God started stepping in left and right, would we really have free will? I honestly don't know why he chooses what He does. I don't have answers like that. ",
"Seriously, and who upvotes this garbage? It's the worst kind of karma grab, nothing more than emotional pornography. ",
"I pray you find it ",
"Those double standards are exactly why I started questioning my faith just before my Catholic confirmation. I lost it a long time ago, and that was when I was still innocent. If there is a god he has forgotten about us or he’s a vengeful one ",
"Elephants are very unlikely to get it and naked mole rats are completely immune. ",
"What would be a better term to use? I don't want to offend/ guilt anyone one day by saying this. ",
"If there was a third tumor, which is highly unlikely, it wouldn’t have time to grow large enough to kill the second tumor before the second tumor kills the first tumor.",
"I look forward to the day when someone puts a picture of my dead self on the Internet for everyone to gawk at.",
"Wenn es einen Gott gibt muß er mich um Verzeihung bitten.\nIf there is a god he will have to beg my forgiveness",
"Wenn es einen Gott gibt muß er mich um Verzeihung bitten.\nIf there is a god he will have to beg my forgiveness",
"no he isnt. he is the childs grandfather. his daughter the childs mother too the pic",
"Fuck people who jump to conclusions before they know WTF they are talking about.",
"I agree, it’s the absolute best time to say this - delusional or not. Politics aside, I’m sure you are a great person and we just disagree on what is more important. I believe you feel thatbuilding a wall is more important to the security of Americans while I feel a cure for Cancer is more important to everyone on the face of the planet.",
"duh",
"The mother of the child. Daughter of the man in the chair.",
"ok, so then what happens to the second tumor though? would the second tumor just never grow large enough to kill the whale? sorry if this is a dumb question -- just trying to wrap my head around it.",
"Do we have to pick only one?",
"I think believers would state that this assertion is imposing human judgment on the Divine. What we consider malevolent may not be considered malevolent by God, for reasons that we cannot begin to fathom.",
"I am crying. This picture is so powerful. ",
"Something to consider, if there is no god, then there is no heaven or hell, so this poor girls life will end and there will be nothing. For this reason, I sure do hope there is a God and this girl is able to live in paradise for eternity after having to go through this hell.",
"Brings me to tears.",
"The only crumb of comfort I can find is that this isn't part of some fucked up bigger plan, neither of them did anything wrong, no mistakes have been made, nobody is being punished, nobody was chosen or selected, no point is being made; the diseases are just indiscriminate and unthinking, unmotivated processes that occur statistically, and some day we're all going to die, with old age and senility being one of the worst ways to go anyway. \n\nIt might sound paradoxical, but I find sanity and some level of acceptance in that outlook, because this is just not okay, and to suggest or imply that it is okay on some level is just wrong.",
"In a vast majority of cancer cases, once the host dies the cancer cells die as well. Assuming the first tumor is killed by the second tumor, the second one would die along with it. ",
"OHHHHHHH!!!! ",
"Nah. We just have true free will. And with it comes some shitty stuff. ",
"We should have true free will without the shitty stuff though "
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"Is the friend a human or the Taurus?",
"But there's 3 people? Who's who?",
"Thats awesome 👍🏼. Have met up with my COD clan from back in the day 5 or six times now irl and we’re from across the country. \n\nReal friends for life for sure. \n\nSpent hundreds of hours together on COD and tho we’re older now we still try to game once or twice a week. ",
"This rules.",
"What? You got something against Sables?",
"Sable Taurus. Same difference.\n\nI saw fabric seats and guessed Taurus.\n\nGood cars though.",
"You must've never had one. I've had one of each and hated them. ",
"No i'm not a ford fan.\n\nOverall those and the crown vic/grand marquis are some of the best cars out of fomoco. \n",
"Which one is he?",
"I met my buddy in a game of team snipers in Halo 2 almost 15 years ago. Over the years we’ve grown to be extremely close and I still remember him telling me when he met his wife (the woman in the middle of the picture) and how she was the one for him. I remember when his kids were born. He was there for me through the hardest times of my life as well as I was for him. We still play together online every so often when we have time. I’m sure for most meeting in person after that long would be a huge deal but for myself I felt like I was just visiting a friend I’ve known my whole life. ",
"Who's the cockblocker in the middle?",
"Thats awesome! Its crazy how strong of a bond you can create just by being there(virtually).",
"Haha my bad I didn’t even think about that. His wife is in the middle. He is the guy on the left and I’m on the right. ",
"She is so happy you are not an imaginary friend. ",
"You clearly understand how reliable those cars are. ",
"His wife 🙄 ",
"Hang on, you posted this and are not either.......",
"I'll happily stick with my Impala. :)",
"I worked at a dealership for years. They aren't the best, but they keep going. ",
"He's the one on the right.",
"The gentlemen on the left. I’m on the right. I should’ve specified in the title my bad. ",
"😂 she genuinely thought it would be an episode of catfish until I pulled up to their house. ",
"Your right or my right?",
"Thanks! Yeah it’s awesome what online communities can turn into. We’ve talked about this day for 5+ years and Never could find the right time. (I’m from Washington and he’s in Georgia) I finally decided he and his family are well worth the trip. Turned out to be one of the best vacations I’ve been on. I’m stoked you get that kind of joy from your online circle! Its rare so cherish it and don’t lose it. ",
"You're right!",
"It's neat to meet your online friends. :)",
"My son has a similar friend from the UK. He come over to the US and stayed with us a couple of years ago during his vacation. ",
"I'm always right "
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"Brutal!!!",
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"Story time!\nThe day begins like any other day. Waking up at 6am after a long night of partying. I was on maybe an hour or 2 of sleep. I stumble into work at around 7:10 am, 10 minutes late like always.\nMy boss comes up to me and I get ready to do make up some ridiculous excuse to why I'm 10 minutes late again. He points at two tables and says that they are mine. I get a little flustered and ask, \"Why do I only get two tables?!\" Usually there's only two servers on and we split the entire restaurant which is 10+ tables. \nHe answers, \"You're going to be waiting on Jim Carrey and Jerry Seinfeld for their new show\". I snicker and say something along the lines of, \"When pigs fly\". My boss then grabs me by my shoulders and looks at me deep in my soul and says, \"Molly! You're waiting on Jim Carrey and Jerry Seinfeld in a couple hours! Are you okay?!\" The first thought that came to my head was thank GOD I wore make up today! The bags under my eyes where my main concern 🙄.\nMy heart started to pound, my palms started to get sweaty and I felt light headed. I wasn't sure if it was my hang over starting to settle in or my adolescent dreams coming true. \nYou see, since I was a teenager, I had always said I'd marry Jim Carey. I had this crazy thought \"Oh my god THIS is my chance!\" I quickly slapped myself in the face and laughed. Dude, get it together Molly. \nI watched Seinfeld religiously with my dad as a kid. The Mask is one of my all time favorite movies. Both Jerry Seinfeld and Jim Carrey were a huge part of my childhood. They are a couple of my favorite comedians. I felt honored and terrified to be in their presence. Being star struck is such a weird feeling. You feel like you know them. Like you're old friends. But in reality, you're just another fan, another face. I know that's how I'd probably feel if I was super famous. \nAnyway, I remember Jim and Jerry (I think we're on first-name basis at this point 😜) walking in and sitting down at the table. I was then supposed to go up to them and take their order. I don't remember anything once I was standing in front of them. I blacked out. When it was over I thought maybe I hadn't said anything at all! I was so star struck and embarrassed by the whole ordeal. But people around me said I did a good job. Phew. \nOnce my 1 minute of fame was over, I felt relieved and went back to being a waitress. The day turned into any other day. Being hung over and serving people their food. \nThen as the adrenaline started to wear off I was walking to the outside patio to check on a table. Out of the corner of my eye I see someone running up to me. IT'S MOTHER FUCKING JIM CARREY! \nHe grabs me by my shoulders, like my boss had done earlier that morning, and looks at me deep in my eyes and my soul and says, \"You're bigger than the name Molly, don't forget that\". Then hugs me and thanks me and runs off. \nI stood there for a moment and let it all sink in. I didn't know what he meant. I mean I sorta knew what he was saying, that I was more than just a name. But this year has been one of those transitional years for me. \nI get it now. I AM BIGGER THAN THE NAME MOLLY. Wherever you are Jim Carrey, thanks for being you and making a fan feel special.",
">\"You're bigger than the name Molly, don't forget that\"\n\n\nI just watched this episode last night!\n\n\nI think Jim Carrey is awesome, and have always thought he is not just intelligent but quite *wise* at the same time (yeah, there is a difference!).\n\nYour story makes me feel even better about him :) - You're awesome too!",
"This is awesome. ",
"Awesome story! Thanks for sharing this!",
"Great story, thanks for sharing.\n",
"I just rewatched this. It really reminds you that celebrities can create positive moments just as much as they can create negative ones. Some of the best celebrities keep that in mind. I think both of these guys are the good ones. ",
"I just started watching this today and I'm hooked! That's such an awesome experience!",
"Did they tip well?",
"Jim Carrey is great, going from a poor nobody to highest paid comedian of all time, to reinventing himself with his art and what not.",
"This is such a weird coincidence that I just started watching the show the other night. It's really cool to hear the story from your perspective!",
"I need this answered lol.",
"I just watched this episode and have to say that hanging out with Jim Carrey would be exhausting.",
"Thank you!! ",
"Oh man! I forgot about the tip. I think they left around $40? Don't quote me on it. Remember I was VERY hung over. -_-",
"Agreed!",
"Did Jim really only need 1 take to get the sweetener high drop?",
"watch his netflix doc. he's kind of batshit",
"Oh wow great question. I'm pretty sure it took one take! I got busy working when they were shooting that part. ",
"So much talent in a single person. What a great story/experience you have. Definitely the episode I'd want to make a guest appearance in. He even says your name like 75 times throughout the dining portion.",
"Jim Carrey has been transcending his name and I think it's pretty meta. Your name is the only thing that's really only yours and being beyond that shows how *small* and how **BIG** we can be at the same time.",
"Aww, that's better than getting gold :D",
"Awesome ",
"Thanks for sharing, Not Molly.",
"How much did they tip?",
"I just watched this episode the other day.\n\nWhat was Jerry like??!! (I know you prpbably don't rember much).\n\nDid he seem nice?.",
"I honestly had the thought while watching this the other night:\n\n“I wonder if the waitress had any idea she’d be meeting these two today”\n\nguess that answers that. ",
"I’ve seen all the episodes and they kept you in a bunch of the shots. Are you tall, or was that just the camera angle? And are you promoting anything? ",
"Hey Jim Carey, eyes up here mate.",
"How much did they tip?",
"in behalf of all lazy people who are interested but don't feel like watching a documentary/don't have netflix, what did the documentary reveal? how is he batshit?",
"/u/madhammachck, thank you for your submission! Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule I - No screenshots. This includes pictures of screens and photos where the interest is the contents of a screen.\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/madhammachck&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7pldv2/i_was_the_waitress_in_the_first_episode_of/?context=10\\))"
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I was the waitress in the first episode of Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee. I got to meet two of my favorite comedians that day! Story in comments.
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/r/pics/comments/7plf44/hail_bowser/
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[
"I get the humor but that just seems rude. ",
"He's a shy guy. I get it and I'm clapping. ",
"Why is Carmen Sandiego there?",
"Fake. They're too shy for that. ",
"I'm a shy guy."
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HAIL BOWSER!
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/r/pics/comments/7pli42/jasmine_rice_bamboozle/
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[
"Ha that’s funny. Did you let them know ",
"Obviously it’s saying that if the rice in your bag came extra dry, you have to add more water to compensate! Duh. \n\n/s",
"Your name is perfect for commenting on this, jajaja"
] | 3 |
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Jasmine rice bamboozle
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/r/pics/comments/7plih5/ice_sliced_by_the_confederation_bridge_in_the/
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"I feel like the title of this post is better than the (amazing) picture.",
"Strait*",
"Damned. ",
"Opening scene of Frozen plays in the background",
"Cool."
] | 5 |
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Ice sliced by the Confederation Bridge in the Northumberland Straight
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/r/pics/comments/7plmem/i_take_no_credit_for_the_rockpile/
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"Giving it all to the superglue?",
"doubt it , I've run into rock towers along hiking paths , the flat river rocks are perfect for stacking , this is a little one",
"Cairn",
"I was looking for a better name! ",
"There are always reposts",
"I am just fucking around."
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I take no credit for the rockpile
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/r/pics/comments/7plop4/a_perfect_snowball/
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"That is one fine snowball. ",
"And I threw it on the ground!",
"I’m not a part of your system!",
"Now you need six more!"
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A perfect snowball
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"I'm low key crying I've taken many art classes but can't paint shit like that",
"Keep going! And when you are more confident, just paint what you see. You got this. ",
"Nice! I have no art skills at all — I’m jealous and you’re giving me hope. Keep going! ",
"Whoa. Nice. ",
"\"you had it in you the whole time.\"",
"Oh shit you just hit second puberty. I thought it was a myth.",
"OP did you have a stroke last night? ",
"You might just not be inclined towards painting! I did a little art school and was just bad at traditional media, but I took really well to digital stuff and I can do stuff I'd never be able to do with regular paint and canvas.\n\n[Here's some of my 2D work.](https://imgur.com/a/Jws2I) And here's a [3D thing I'm working on right now.\n](https://i.imgur.com/y070dPN.png)\nPlease don't give up, just keep trying different things until you find the one you click with!",
"Your art is the prettiest of all art.",
"You can't draw? Give it a try, because based on this, I think you probably can.",
"not bad at all for a first try.\n\nif you keep at it you'll improve quickly i'm sure. ",
"holy shit. your art is amazing! ",
"Aayyyyyy",
"That’s your first try?! Well done.",
"Good on you. Painting is very therapeutic. When you get in the zone and flow. It's almost like moving meditation.",
"Give up now. ",
"What a lovely painting. Acrylics are great to work with. Wash up with water and paintable on paper and canvas. Shapes and lines are nicely done. Repeating lines and shapes do a painting well. The windows are so charming. Your didn't meddle them...good job. Just some simple lines. Practice a little with color. Best way to get a nice grey is to make it yourself. They do have beautiful greys in the tube. Try combining complementary colors together to get a grey. (blue and orange) (red and green) I commented so I can watch your progress! \n\nEdit: typo fix \n",
"That is really \"Enlightening\" my dude\n",
"Around the twist?",
"Really impressive work!",
"This got me laughing. ",
"Thank you for the kind words and advice!",
"Try follow one of Bob Ross' oil painting videos, you will see that the results are amazing",
"Thanks! I love your painting, it's so dreamy and your lighting is spot on! Acrylics are a good choice to start with, they dry faster than oils and they're a lot easier to rework.\n\nI don't know if you're inclined towards drawing at all, but you might want to check out oil pastels at some point! You can use them a bit like oil paints that you draw with, and you can get some super cool mixed media effects when you combine them with acrylic paints. Buy them online though (along with the rest of your materials) instead of at hobby lobby unless they have a sale, because you'll easily end up spending 25-40% more in-store than you would have otherwise. \n\nBut please keep painting! If this is what you produce on your first go I really look forward to what you'll be able to do in another year or two!"
] | 24 |
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I had a dream in which I was painting; I'm 31 and can't draw. This is my first ever attempt. Acrylic on canvas (the design is not original)
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/r/pics/comments/7plprh/apparently_my_fam_told_my_mom_that_her_delayed/
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[
"Plushies keep the world bearable :)",
"nice\n\n",
"I traded a thumb tack for Meredith's junk for Kelly's crap for Phyllis' garbage for Oscars trash for Stanley's garbage for Ryan's junk for Creed's garbage for a very cute squid that /u/carswelk happened to have.",
">I FUCKING LOVE IT\n\nThe new cum box folks.",
"It's a hat?",
"In other words: \"From DPic02 with love\"",
"The best hat!",
"um wat?\n",
"no its just a squishy thing \n",
"its just a squishy thing",
"Now I need an architeuthis hat.",
"Mostly anything is a hat if you can balance it on your head. Give it a go.",
"It's adorable!",
">I LOVE FUCKING IT\n\nftfy",
"I think it's an Office reference.",
"There's an instagram my gf follows that's called thebigstuffed, and they handmake giant see creatures into squishy things and I got her a giant squid for christmas and we both love it :)",
"You told her right?:)",
"You should tell her not reddit."
] | 18 |
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Apparently my fam told my Mom that her delayed gift of a Plushie Architeuthis was lame... I FUCKING LOVE IT MOM :) This Shit is awesome and like 4 feet long. I didn't know I needed this until now... LOVE YOU
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/r/pics/comments/7plric/4_eyed_kitty/
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"nice!!",
"Indeed. Indeed it is.",
"[FTFY](https://i.imgur.com/UIYUPSE.jpg)"
] | 3 |
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4 eyed kitty
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"Sauron gets sent to a far far away galaxy a long long time ago.",
"I'd watch that.",
"Dooku know who I am!"
] | 3 |
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Sauron Lightsaber
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/r/pics/comments/7pls4v/i_dont_know_this_guys_but_damn_those_eyes_what/
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[
"Hahaha yeah but I find eyes like this more attractive that blue. ",
"Contacts",
"There's something unsettling about the way he's staring at me ",
"Contacts look totally unnatural though, there are other people with the same eye color as them. \n \n- https://i.pinimg.com/736x/d0/18/8c/d0188c5ec817ceaa19ef327429cec4f3--facial-hair-man-candy.jpg\n\nThis is how contact lenses looks on the eye... notice how unnatural looking it is?\n\n- https://www.pinkyparadise.com/v/vspfiles/assets/images/eos-new-adult-blue-beforeafter.jpg",
"Photoshop colour",
"If they come to your door don't INVITE them in and you will be safe.\n",
"Back off. He's staring at ME. ",
"They're staring deep in to your soul. ",
"Vampires",
"Notice the blur\n",
"If not contacts then Photoshop for sure",
"/u/JOSEMEIJITCAPA, thank you for your submission! Unfortunately, it has been removed for violating the following rule(s):\n\n* Rule IV - Title violates title guidelines.\n\nYour title must not ask for general information or feedback. \n\nYou can read the full information about our title guidelines at /r/pics/w/titles\n\n\n\n\nFor information regarding this and similar issues please see the [rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/about/rules/) and [title guidelines](/r/pics/w/titles). If you have any questions, please feel free to [message the moderators.](https://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=/r/pics&subject=Question regarding the removal of this submission by /u/JOSEMEIJITCAPA&message=I have a question regarding the removal of this [submission.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/7pls4v/i_dont_know_this_guys_but_damn_those_eyes_what/?context=10\\))"
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I don't know this guys but damn those eyes... what color are they?
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/r/pics/comments/7plsob/the_trees_outside_the_power_plant_in_my_town/
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[
"U live in Arendelle? ",
"Just curious, what do you do with all the extra time you save by typing \"U\" instead of \"you\"? ",
"Trees outside the powder plant in my town*",
"You need to put up some LED lights and repost the nightshot.",
"Gives me just the extra time I need to upvote u",
"O, U",
"This is a problem now?",
"Within two years, Snapchat will have a filter to do this. (!RemindMeBot or whatever.)",
"Does the power plant have anything to do with this effect, or just something that needed to be mentioned? "
] | 9 |
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The trees outside the power plant in my town.
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/r/pics/comments/7plv2m/taken_from_one_of_da_vincis_notebooks_this_is_his/
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[
"Hold it up to a mirror to read it.",
"I don't know anything about Latin but is this...backwards?",
"Yup\n\nhttps://www.mos.org/leonardo/activities/mirror-writing"
] | 3 |
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Taken from one of Da Vinci’s notebooks. This is his attempt to teach himself Latin.
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/r/pics/comments/7plvsx/my_brother_took_this_picture_after_it_snowed/
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[
"Nice pic, don’t get me wrong, but what does it have to do with the snow?",
"Super creative. Thanks. ",
"Cocaine man, cocaine",
"I wanted to nitpick, but it's a clean edit. Cool pic. Snow? ¯\\\\_(ツ)_/¯",
"It had recently snowed when he took the picture but i guess \npeople cant see it because its in black and white \nEdit: spelling",
"I see the snow on the train tracks. The sax is awesome though. Nice shot.",
"Took it of you?",
"Nice photo. Make sure to remove little more color from his hand. Especiallly the little finger and around that area.",
"Yes"
] | 9 |
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My brother took this picture after it snowed recently
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/r/pics/comments/7plvxt/tree_of_life_an_oil_painting_i_did_a_few_years/
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"Pretty! What does the script say?",
"Its bible verses in Arabic about the Tree of Life. My professor actually did that part (He's from Sudan where we sent the painting)!",
"Would you mind if I were to print this and hang it? I love it and think it's beautiful and I would love to have it made into a canvas and put up",
"Thank you! and yeah no problem as long as its for personal use only!",
"Oh of course. I'm an asshole..when I find something I like I don't like to share it. Haha",
"Beautiful!",
"Thanks!"
] | 7 |
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"Tree of Life"- an oil painting I did a few years back for a rebuilt church in South Sudan
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/r/pics/comments/7plvyv/this_cant_be_real/
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[
"What am I missing here?",
"Is it January?\n\nCheck.\n\nIt's real...\n(they'll be gone in February)",
"...****twitches****",
"Everything's on the floor",
"Looks like they're all being used though.",
"How annoying ",
"These are the ones we need to sacrifice first ",
"Well, I lost count after 20 pairs. There are only four people in the shot. There should only be four pairs out. Three, really, since one guy is on a machine.",
"Eh, I can use 2 pairs at once. But this is out of control. "
] | 9 |
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This can’t be real
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/r/pics/comments/7plw4a/dog_snout/
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[
"That's a quality snout",
"I thought it was a dog comin thru a wall at first ",
"Boop! ",
"From that angle, it kind of looks like a mutant insect. The nostrils are where the eyes should be!!!",
"Boop the snoot!",
"Treat!",
"Just... Where... Is... The dog’s... Face??\nWhat a disturbing wide angle.",
"Imagine it's yellow and wearing overalls."
] | 8 |
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Dog Snout.
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