The InFUNity Gauntlet

@freak1ngawesome @soledadobrien When you've politely stood at the bar, money in hand, and you're positive the bartender noticed you and is about to take your order... 🤣

In 1913, when America started taxing income, you owed nothing unless you made more than $3,000 a year. In today's money, that comes to about $100,000. Less than 1 in 100 Americans paid a thing, because the whole system was built for the rich. Then a war broke it. For the country's first 125 years, the federal government ran on tariffs and taxes on things like whiskey. In 1913, the constitution was changed to allow income tax. If you earned over $3,000, you owed 1%. The top rate was 7%, and only on income over $500,000, which is about $16.5 million today. Out of 97 million Americans, almost no one paid. Because only the rich paid, the rules were built around how rich people lived. They owned businesses. They had offices, employees, equipment, travel. So the law let them subtract those costs before tax. The phrase, then and now, is "ordinary and necessary" expenses. If it cost you money to make money, you only paid tax on the profit. For 30 years, that was the system. The rich paid and got to write off their business expenses. Everyone else paid nothing. Then WWII hit. A 1942 law gutted it. The tax-free amount was slashed to $1,200 for married couples and $500 for singles. A new "Victory Tax" took 5% of every dollar above $624. People paying income tax exploded from 7.7 million in 1939 to 36.7 million in 1942, to 50 million by 1945. The Treasury knew people would resist. So they hired Walt Disney. He made a cartoon where Donald Duck reluctantly does his taxes, then races across the country to hand-deliver them so they can fund the war effort. About 60 million Americans saw it. Tax filings doubled the next year. A sequel followed in 1943, the same year paycheck withholding became law. Your employer would now hand the tax to the government before you ever held it. When the system was rebuilt for workers, only the rules that taxed them changed. The rule letting businesses deduct stayed in place. There was never an "ordinary and necessary" rule for survival. Rent, groceries, healthcare, the bus you take to the job you're being taxed on, none of it deductible. Today, a single person in 2026 can earn $16,100 tax-free. The 1913 version, in real money, was about $100,000. The shield that once protected ordinary people has shrunk to a sixth of what it was. The tax code had one job: tax the wealthy on what was left after their expenses. WWII rewrote who had to pay. The right to deduct survived for businesses. For the rest of us, it was never written.

@TheWapplehouse Me: "Hi, Miss? Yes, I ordered the ceviche." Waitress: "Is something wrong with the ceviche?" Me: "Yes, it's warm. Ceviche is supposed to be served cold." W: "Oh, that's the chef's *special* ceviche. Served fresh from the, um, oven." Me:

If you’re extra nice to the waitress at Chili’s they do this to your hot dog for free

@LetLogicReign @Liunt21 @DoctorLemma

@Bacon_Popcorn @Liunt21 @DoctorLemma Technically speaking, the score needs to be adjusted yet again because the emu beat the government twice. Australian Gov’t - 0 Wheat Farmers - 1 Emus - 4

In 1970, an Australian wheat farmer got into a dispute with his government over how much wheat he could sell. So he declared his farm an independent country. The government ignored him. He ruled it as a prince for the next 50 years. His name was Leonard Casley. He owned a 75 square kilometre property in Western Australia, several hours north of the city of Perth. The Australian government had set new wheat quotas that would let him sell only about one percent of his crop. When he protested, he claimed officials threatened to forcibly take his land. So he found an obscure British law from 1495 called the Treason Act, which said a “de facto king” of any territory could not be charged with treason. He declared his farm a sovereign nation, named himself Prince Leonard, and notified Australia. Under Australian law at the time, the government had two years to formally object. They didn’t. Leonard took the silence as legal recognition. He went all in. He printed his own currency. He printed his own stamps. He issued his own passports. He gave his wife and seven children royal titles. He built a tiny stone palace. He set up embassies in nine countries. In 1977, when the Australian Tax Office kept demanding taxes, he formally declared war on Australia. A few days later, having received no military response, he declared a ceasefire and announced victory. The tax demands stopped. Tourists started showing up. At its peak, his “country” had 40,000 visitors a year. He stamped their passports for them. He sold them his stamps and coins. In 2016, on the principality’s 46th anniversary, Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom personally sent him a letter wishing his country a happy birthday. Leonard ruled for 47 years. He passed away in 2019 at 93. His son Graeme took over, but the tax bill had grown to over three million Australian dollars and Covid had stopped the tourists. In August 2020, the Principality of Hutt River formally rejoined Australia.

@Liunt21 @DoctorLemma Actually, after further review up in the booth, the corrected score is: Australian gov't - 0 Wheat Farmers - 1 Emus - 3 Since the Emus beat both the government AND the farmers

@DoctorLemma @Bacon_Popcorn For the education reasons youtube.com/shorts/r7WdGPK…

Fuck this and fuck them for eternity if they give this monster a pardon.

RFK Jr. announcing a ban on stopping parasitic worms using cloth water filters in 3... 2...

@markgadala Is it too late to call "no takebacks", so they can't deport him back here?

This story is insane: • american streamer goes to south korea to do content like a lunatic • dances on a memorial for wwii sex slaves, plays north korean propaganda on the subway, throws ramen at a store owner like a psychopath • the country puts a BOUNTY on his location • a former korean navy seal finds him and knocks him out cold on a live stream • he gets arrested, charged with 8 counts including deepfake sexual violence crimes • shows up to his first court date an hour late, hungover, in a maga hat • calls south korea a "us vassal state" in open court • prosecution asks for 3 years hard labor • his mom files a petition begging the judge for leniency • his last words before sentencing: "i haven't done anything to offend anyone during these proceedings, which shows i learned my lesson" • judge sentences him anyway, has him handcuffed in the courtroom on the spot • and when he finally gets deported back to america, he has to register as a sex offender

@rtcoffee123 @HalfwayPost With Drumpf as the Archbishop of Canklebury

@HalfwayPost The Antipope in question:

BREAKING: After feuding for days with Pope Leo XIV, Donald Trump is reportedly threatening to demand all his Catholic fans start a "MAGA Reformation," renounce the Vatican, and start a competing branch of "American Catholicism" with its own US-based Pope that he wants to appoint.

@HalfwayPost Huh. The last time a country leader broke from the Church and created his own religion, it was so he could re-marry. Though something tells me Melania wouldn't really care at this point.

@GrokProgrammer @402WrestlingFan @ManaByte "Think of the ice in Antarctica" You... you mean the ice that's melting there right now? asoc.org/learn/antarcti…

@402WrestlingFan @Bacon_Popcorn @ManaByte It will not melt because the sun doesn't get close enough to it.....think of the ice in Antarctica...the sun is visisble there but the ice doesn't melt, let alone a massie ice structure like "The Wall"

There is a reason people do not debate Flat Earthers or Moon landing deniers. It is not because the evidence is weak. It is because the conversation is rigged from the start. You can bring measurements, physics, engineering, independent tracking, international verification, and experiments they can do in their own backyard, and none of it matters. The moment the facts show up, they shout fake, edited, CGI, conspiracy, or “that’s just your belief.” You cannot debate someone who treats every piece of evidence as invalid by default. You cannot debate someone who demands proof and then rejects the proof the second it appears. You cannot debate someone who thinks their personal disbelief outranks measurable reality. A debate requires both sides to accept evidence. Flat Earth and Moon landing denial collapse the moment evidence enters the room, so the only move left is to deny the room exists. That is why people do not debate them. Not because the globe is fragile, but because the argument they bring is. You cannot have a real discussion with someone who decided ahead of time that nothing you show them will ever count.

Drumpf doesn't even full authority over his intestines. GTFO with your ass-kissing nonsense.

@whatnowtim Hell, the easiest way to get rid of somebody you don't like, and leave no trace? Off the edge they go!

There would be innumerable missing persons reports. "I saw my buddy fall off the edge. He took a selfie and texted it to me,"

@TeslaStars @ManaByte Because absolutely ZERO people would be trying to get pictures taken with the giant space turtle...

@ManaByte Also they put up a much simpler explanation than the Earth being a sphere 😂

The Flat Earthers actually have a stupid conspiracy invented to dismiss this fact as well. Suddenly the Antarctic Treaty becomes their magic “you’re banned from going there” force field. It is the only way they can dodge the fact that an edge would be impossible to hide. They need the treaty to be a global no‑go zone because the alternative is admitting the edge doesn’t exist. Except the treaty does not ban travel. It does not ban exploration. It does not ban private expeditions. Thousands of people go to Antarctica every year. Scientists, tourists, photographers, cruise ships, research teams. Nobody is stopped by some imaginary ice‑wall police. The treaty only stops countries from planting military bases and claiming territory. That is it. Flat Earthers twist it into a worldwide “you’re not allowed to go there” rule because they have no other way to explain why the edge of their fantasy world has never been found. They cannot accept the simple truth. There is no edge. There is no wall. There is no barrier. There is just a globe, and the treaty conspiracy is the last flimsy excuse they have left to avoid admitting it.

@ManaByte So they're really out here thinking this happens if someone gets "out of bounds" 🤣🤣🤣

Billionaires don’t have bank accounts like you and me. They have art collections,Yachts,Mansions,Stocks. None of it gets taxed until they sell it. So they just never sell it. They borrow against it instead. Live off the loans. Pay almost nothing. Then when they die, their kids inherit it all tax-free. The wealth never gets taxed, It just gets passed down. And we wonder why the gap keeps getting wider.

Your common cold can wipe out an entire civilization. There are 196 groups of people alive right now who've never had sustained contact with the outside world. About 10,000 people total, spread across 10 countries. For them, a regular flu can kill half of them within a year of first meeting us. That photo on the right was taken from a plane in May 2008 by FUNAI, Brazil's agency for protecting indigenous people. The people in it shot arrows at the aircraft. Nobody knows their name. Nobody knows their language. Brazil alone has 124 groups like this, mostly deep in the Amazon. Survival International, a group that tracks and advocates for these peoples, published the first full global count in October 2025. "Uncontacted" is the wrong word, though. These groups know we exist. They've watched planes fly overhead for decades. Some trade with neighboring tribes for metal tools. The Sentinelese, a group living on a small island near India, have been pulling metal from old shipwrecks and using it for centuries. They choose to stay away. That choice usually traces back to what happened the last time outsiders showed up. The Panará in Brazil numbered between 350 and 400 people in 1970. Nine villages. Complex layouts. Huge gardens. Then a highway got bulldozed straight through their land. Diseases followed the road in. Within eight years, four out of five Panará were dead. Only 69 people survived. Their leader Aké described it years later: everyone started dying in the village, others ran into the forest and died there, the survivors were too sick to bury the dead, and vultures ate the bodies. That same pattern plays out again and again. The Matis lost more than half their people to flu in the 1970s, and with them nearly all their shamans, the elders who carried their entire medical tradition in their heads. In Peru, the Nahua lost over 50% after oil companies moved into their territory in the 1980s. Researchers tracked 117 epidemics that hit 59 groups across the Amazon between 1875 and 2008. Death rates ran from under 1% to 97%. The three most common killers were measles, influenza, and malaria. Claude Lévi-Strauss, a French anthropologist who spent years in the 1930s living with tribes in the Brazilian Amazon, wrote something that's stuck with me: "A primitive people is not a backward or retarded people; indeed it may possess a genius for invention or action that leaves the achievements of civilized peoples far behind." Look at the Mashco Piro in Peru. Roughly 750 people. The largest uncontacted group on Earth. They've survived for centuries in the Amazon rainforest with no supply chain, no written language, no hospitals, nothing the modern world treats as a basic requirement for being alive. They're losing ground fast, though. Survival International's 2025 report found 90% of these groups face logging, mining, or drilling on their land. A third deal with drug traffickers. One in six have missionaries trying to push in uninvited. And now there's a newer problem: social media influencers hiking into protected zones to film content. The report's projection: half of all 196 groups could be gone within 10 years. In 2022, a man died alone in a patch of forest in Rondônia, Brazil. He'd spent about 30 years as the last living member of his tribe, digging deep holes in the ground to hide in or catch animals. The world called him "the Man of the Hole." Nobody ever learned his real name, his language, or which people he came from. When he died, an entire civilization went with him, and the only physical trace it ever existed was a series of pits in the dirt. The two photos in this tweet aren't just existing at the same time. One is photographing the other from above, and historically, closing that distance is what kills.