@jessesingal Didn't he come up mainly as an anti-woke commentator?
I guess Israel had some real foresight to use that to grow his following.
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@BeardoBass54551 @jessesingal Having people like Sam Harris is a net good. I disagree with him often but he at least tries to do things the right way.
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@robbiehendricks The problem I have with the debt snowball plan is that it prioritizes size of debt over interest rate. That's rather silly. But it is good for people that need the psychological feeling of just having less sources of debt outstanding. Your friend is one that probably didn't.
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One of my friends has followed the Dave Ramsey debt snowball plan to the letter.
Attends every annual conference. Proud Ramsey advocate.
Early 40s. Husband is a cop. Couple kids. Just a great, red-blooded Ohio family.
Probably makes $200k/year as a household (just a guess).
Over the last 10 years:
• Paid off house
• Paid off cars
• 529s funded for kids
• On track to retire around 55
Now look, I’m obviously a debt-user and advocate for going out there and building wealth.
The Ramsey plan is not a character fit for me, as I’m admittedly wired very ambitious, and enjoy investing, building my business, and taking on that responsibility (and risk).
But these folks are doing better than 90% of the country - in a stress free manner - simply by:
• Finding a plan
• Sticking to the plan
• Not increasing expenses as income and savings grow
Something to be said for that, I think.
Stuck to their guns, didn’t care that it was “boring”.
Didn’t listen to other people telling them to be more aggressive.
Very happy for them.
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@_Afcbanks Outfield players need rest, even from training. Keepers don’t. There really is no reason for him to step away. And it’s weird for you to call for it.
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Raya ought to follow Ben White's example and step away from the England squad. No goalkeeper in the Spain team is superior to him, he shouldn't tolerate such disrespect.
Footy Rush@FootyRush_
🚨🚨JUST IN: Luis de la Fuente prefers Unai Simón as Spain’s first-choice goalkeeper at the World Cup. Joan García (Barcelona) and David Raya (Arsenal) would have to sit on the bench for the entire World Cup.
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@theMadridZone @WeAreTheOverlap No, it’s probably largely based on playing style…
I know it’s weird for the media to see a England manager that actually picks players that can play together rather than superstar names…
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🚨🗣️ Roy Keane (On Trent being left out of the England squad:
“It CAN’T be just based on talent.” @WeAreTheOverlap 💯
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@afcbaileyy @NewtronGooner I think you're a bit stuck in the past. Arsenal have been bad at selling because they always are shopping the players they want to leave. Now the team has depth, they are going to have teams come to them.
MLS will sell for more than Lewis if they are both sold this summer.
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@NewtronGooner Difference with Pep/City is they’ll get £40m+ for him. They also have an unlimited budget to buy who they want whereas Arsenal don’t, and they definitely won’t get anymore than £30m for MLS despite being better now and better potential
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Pep really ruined Rico Lewis and he signed a new contract too but for whatever reason no one is going with that narrative hmmm
Arsenal Radar@ArsenalRadar
Ethan Nwaneri and Myles Lewis-Skelly start for England U21 as they take on Andorra U21. ⚽🏴
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@ArtetaEra Heart says Spurs
Head says City - the outflow of players would be amazing. Also, their bandwagon fan base would probably move on to support other teams like Real Madrid.
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@FootyRush_ And ter Stegen was mid for years because he couldn't jump Manuel Neuer in Germany's starting line-up.
lol
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🚨🚨JUST IN: Luis de la Fuente prefers Unai Simón as Spain’s first-choice goalkeeper at the World Cup.
Joan García (Barcelona) and David Raya (Arsenal) would have to sit on the bench for the entire World Cup.
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@Ankamagyimi___ It's funny to see people call for "half time" subs... Arsenal did fine in the first half.
I do agree Arteta could have made the Calafiori switch quicker. Seems like he was trying to delay it - maybe to reduce his minutes b4 international break where Italy will ride him.
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Arteta was already about to make the changes before they scored. Do you people think Arteta is dumb or what?
Arsenal Babe@arsenalbabe_
The moment Arteta saw that 4 man midfield block by Pep on Sunday, he should have brought on Calafiori and Raya to play through it. Show Pep that you are smarter.
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A question for everyone: survey data suggests that by the end of the Covid-19 emergency trust in public health institutions had decreased significantly. If you are among the people who reacted that way, why specifically? I'm hoping for long, diverse, individualized answers.
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@TraceyRyniec @millennial_debt @dylanmatt * but in this case without expectations of a benefit in the future
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@millennial_debt @dylanmatt They literally will have to pay 12.5% like the middle class already does. Cry me a river.
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In my experience Dems dramatically overestimate the political viability of this move.
This is a 12.4% tax hike on top earners. Clinton managed 11.5% in his 93 budget; neither Obama or Biden came close to that. Pre-Clinton you have to go back to FDR to see a double-digit hike
Fuck You I Quit@fuckyouiquit
Every dollar earned below $184,500 a year has a Social Security tax of 12.4%. Everything after that cap is exempt. If we lift this cap on the wealthiest earners, Social Security would be fully funded till 2070. The cap should not exist.
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@InlandCaGuy Why would any high earners agree to that? The return on social security is really bad at the high end of the tax already.
The problem is any compromise that works probably pisses off multiple constituencies, rather than just one.
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Like, literally, you could just pass a bill whereby every earner above a certain level gets to opt in to either paying more taxes now or having lower benefits later and let every individual choose.
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I find it honestly really strange how people on the left are super into raising taxes on upper income people and people on the right are super into cutting benefits for upper income people, and they both see no ways to reconcile these two views.
Roosevelt Institute@rooseveltinst
CRFB is searching for Social Security solvency in the wrong place. The problem isn’t retirees getting too much—it’s unchecked income inequality starving the system of revenue. Capping benefits isn’t reform; it’s a distraction from the real solution.
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@politicalmath One of my big pet peeves, before online ordering was prevalent, is when you’re in line and the place gets a call, spends 5 minutes writing down a huge order, and then proceeds to prioritize that order over everyone standing there.
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It's funny to me what experiences cause people to abandon a brand
Ten years ago, I was taking my kids to the beach. I stopped by Jersey Mike's to grab some food for the fam. They took my order but neglected to mention that they had just taken a 20 sandwich order from the guy in front of me.
I had already paid. I waited for my food. I checked on my kids (still in the van). I waited. I asked how long. They said "almost". It was not almost. It took 40 minutes. My kids were crying. The entire trip was ruined.
I have not been back to Jersey Mike's. I will never go back
x.com/SandyofCthulhu…
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@RafaelaCaraSt4n @kilovh Your anger is misdirected. Assuming you know what other people think is a bad habit, especially when it’s used to rile yourself up.
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@kilovh Ur stupid. It means "oh ur unworthy of being part of my superior religion u can do bad stuff what u want"
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it's funny because Jews see it as unremarkable but the whole concept of "oh there's nothing wrong with YOU eating a cheeseburger, gentile, enjoy it!" as a non-condescending distinction is so unusual that it's understandable how antisemites assume there must be dark secrets
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@JessicaBRiedl @David_Charts2 Because he believes he can tax the rich even higher, despite the fact that most leftie economists would start to become uncomfortable as you reach a 70% marginal rate.
Also, he probably ignores that the tax paid by the employer would depress wages for some higher earners.
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@David_Charts2 I don't understand why it makes sense - especially for progressives - to use up virtually all space to raise income/payroll taxes on the rich just to (partially) ensure that rich boomers see no benefit changes. I'd use that money for Medicare or other spending priorities.
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Removing the cap covers about 60% of the shortfall, hits the top 6% only and only on income over $184,500, and reduces the deficit by about 1% GDP.
Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦@JessicaBRiedl
Yes, capping Social Security benefits at $100k for a couple is a no-brainer. The program is headed to insolvency and, no, eliminating the tax wage cap is not close to enough. An easy place to start is capping the maximum benefit that dwarfs even Europe and Canada.
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@InlandCaGuy @JessicaBRiedl @David_Charts2 In a rational world it wouldn't make a difference. However, I think people would react worse to their taxes raising.
Also, cutting benefits through means testing could be possible - one great idea is just lowering inflation adjustments those that get higher benefits.
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@JessicaBRiedl @David_Charts2 I don't think there is much chance of any change for current beneficiaries. If that's not politically possible, then it doesn't really matter if you solve it via raising taxes on upper income people or cutting their benefits.
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@David_Charts2 @asymmetricinfo What's the source of this? And what is it classifying as "expenditures"? And in what way is it allocating tax expenditures that going to public projects?
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@asymmetricinfo There's a gigantic pool of tax expenditures. This is per year, not per decade.
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It's a 12 percent tax hike on all income above $184k which pretty much exhausts our fiscal space to raise taxes on those earners and likely pushes you past revenue-maximizing rates in blue states.
David Doney@David_Charts2
Removing the cap covers about 60% of the shortfall, hits the top 6% only and only on income over $184,500, and reduces the deficit by about 1% GDP.
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@terrybythebay @avidseries @grok I get plenty of engagement already. I don't need more.
I can speak my mind and plenty of people are willing to respond.
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@StudyStock @avidseries @grok Spend $8 a month and see how your reach and engagement change. It's worth it. Try it for a few months and check it out.
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@FerozeSidhwa @noam_dworman Dude... just take the L... what you said was silly.
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Okay Noam, you let me speak uninterrupted for hours and you're the best interviewer in world history, I'm sorry I offended you. If I had any idea you were this absurdly thin skinned I wouldn't have said anything.
I was wrong before: I DID return to my point and I did make it perfectly clearly: at 2:09:10: "I can see what I said made you upset. The point that I was trying to get to when I first mentioned all of this was not to say 'that [60000] is the number that have died.' What I was trying to say is that we don't know. And it's impossible to know until these things are actually investigated seriously."
As for the "bet": after repeatedly not interrupting me you said "I'll bet you $1000, I'll bet you $10000, that when this is over we're not going to find out that on top of all the poor people who've died 60,000 people starved to death." I responded by saying "okay, fair enough. Like I said, I don't know" and then you didn't interrupt me to say "we would see the videos! There are people in Gaza. I mean you would have seen it! You were there!" I responded "I did." So a) I'm not sure a bet was made. One was proposed, but since the bet was for a claim I plainly didn't believe I obviously didn't take it. And b) you totally didn't interrupt me.
I don't know what the point of this discussion is. I'm sorry I offended you by mentioning the interruptions that didn't happen. I didn't think anything of them at the time and I wasn't bothered by them, and I certainly didn't mean to imply that you interrupted me to stop me from making my point on purpose. It was meant as a matter of fact, not an accusation. But since you assert that the thing anyone can see on video didn't happen I stand corrected. And since you won the bet we didn't make over a claim I never believed and explicitly stated I didn't believe even though you continued to insist that I did believe it I congratulate you on that as well.
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This is such a distraction. I posted the entire video (will repost below) that pertains to your claims about the famine. I didn't interrupt you or prevent you from making your points. Anyone can watch.
I ask now:
Who was right, you or me?
Feroze Sidhwa@FerozeSidhwa
Okay man, you didn't interrupt me "constantly", just frequently enough that I couldn't make the point I was trying to make. You win the dictionary wars. Anyone who wants to see the context for the conversation that Noam posted can see it here, go to 1h 51 min in: youtu.be/9sclVFfmN9k. We were discussing whether or not Shifa Hospital was used by Hamas in any way, I argued no and he argued yes. At one point he vehemently insisted that he had proven me wrong, and that because I didn't agree it proves that I have an ulterior motive and am therefore a suspect source of primary information. I answered directly and clearly that my motivation for being involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that MY government - not Israel! - is committing crimes against the Palestinians, and I don't want to be involved in those crimes. He didn't seem able to understand this and he seemed genuinely angry, so I said something like "let's look at a totally different question" and brought up the IPC reports (that's the beginning of the clip he posted above). The point I was trying to make, as I said already, was not the exact number of people who died of starvation-related causes. It was that despite the only available data raising serious alarms that the number could be in the tens of thousands nobody seemed interested in discovering the truth. I wanted to use this to illustrate how MY government - not Israel! - has a shocking disregard for the lives of people and even children, in order to illustrate why I care about these things. Instead of letting me finish that point Noam interrupted frequently (but not constantly!) to the point that the conversation got derailed and we were looking at pictures of a famine in Africa. At that point, something like 10 minutes later and after having to convince Noam that he doesn't know the first thing about starvation after he referenced (I'm not making this up) fundraising commercials he saw on TV as a child, I assume I forgot the point I was trying to make in the first place and never returned to it. I guess that's on me. As far as not being clear that the data was of low quality, my exact words were: "If you look at their data - which admittedly, EVERYONE admits is not great, because it's very hard to get data out of Gaza - but if you look at their data..." Can you tell me how I could possibly have been clearer that the data was of low quality?
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