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@DebunkingLies0 @ThePosieParker I started by saying that I wasn't a fan and didn't care about him, but to you, that's the same as kissing his arse. Learn to read before you get into the heavy intellectual labour of debunking anybody, let alone entire religions and ideologies.

@FidFosh @ThePosieParker You & Gary are idiot. You do you with licking Gary’s arse.

This is a sublime take down of Gary’s “economics”.

@THE_dirty_hipS @BombadilJayJay @ThePosieParker Giving one's perspective is not offering out advice. As stated previously, I'll happily debate on other sites, where I get more than 280 characters per post.

@FidFosh @BombadilJayJay @ThePosieParker “Trust me bro” doesn’t have a link or reference or any supporting data. Also handing out advice on a platform he says no one should get advice from. 🤣 fucking love this timeline 🤣

@seanhaz @ThePosieParker It's closer to 41% in US, given the IRS latest figures. Also, that's just looking at Federal income tax and not State taxes You're not the first person to share that erroneous tidbit with me. Should give you a clue as to why I don't want to get into this very much.

Define "fair share", as far as I can tell they typically pay a higher percentage as well as a higher total amount. If we were splitting a cake "fairly" everyone would get an equal sized slice. But for some reason when the top 5% of people pay almost 60% of income taxes, they're not even reaching their "fair share".

@Autonomic443 @Sinney_Scwasp @ThePosieParker And when I refer to people from Asia or Africa having no investment in the discourse, I mean people from those continents who use right leaning discourse on Twitter to earn money, rather than actually following a particular ideology authentically.

@Autonomic443 @Sinney_Scwasp @ThePosieParker It's just an off the cuff remark, and I don't want to devote a large part of my day justifying myself to a bunch of randos, all I whom I will never meet, with a large proportion of them being either bots or someone from Asia or Africa with no actual investment in the discourse.

@BombadilJayJay @ThePosieParker So you look to Twitter for an economic analysis? That's a you problem. I had enough characters to make a plain statement, not provide a rigorously sourced paper. Get a grip.

@FidFosh @ThePosieParker You can always trust an economic analysis from some who provides no sources and uses the term ‘bootlicking’.

@LBC @lewis_goodall Simple test: Take 100 Palestine and 100 Tommy Robinson supporters and do a criminal search of their history of violence. I think we all know the outcome

@Liyztaa @Sinney_Scwasp @ThePosieParker I know how marginal tax rates work. I'm also aware that people practised avoidance in various way. But when your best defence is, people will break the law...

@FidFosh @Sinney_Scwasp @ThePosieParker You do realise the rich didn't just say "oh we will pay 91% tax on all the money in the highest band", right? Almost no one paid it. They did as the rich ALWAYS do and found ways around it.

@Liyztaa @Sinney_Scwasp @ThePosieParker Under Dwight D Eisenhower the top marginal tax rate on earning of over 200k was 91%. About the same under Churchill. Were they Marxists, or worse still, Islamo Communists? Also, my mood is pretty sanguine. Thanks for your concern.

@FidFosh @Sinney_Scwasp @ThePosieParker That's great. Don't post insults and then get all moody when people actually ask you to explain your point of view. If all you can do is post insults and refuse to engage in any intelligent discussion you're not really helping anyone's 'mental bandwidth' are you

@Liyztaa @PeterMcCormack @Sinney_Scwasp @ThePosieParker Lol.

@PeterMcCormack @FidFosh @Sinney_Scwasp @ThePosieParker From his comfortable home in Archway, colour me shocked

@Liyztaa @Sinney_Scwasp @ThePosieParker In the past, I used to spend hours on online debate. I would write whole arse essays on numerous subjects. I neither have the time or the mental bandwidth for any of that now, since it changed very little in myself or my interlocutors. You don't like it? Noted.

@FidFosh @Sinney_Scwasp @ThePosieParker So you reply to the original post and call her a 'bootlicker', someone asks a simple question about the reality of what you want and 'i'm not getting into a debate' is your response. So all you have is insults and no argument, by your own admission.

@jumper42 @Sinney_Scwasp @ThePosieParker Context dependent. Go back 60, 70 years, many Conservative leaders favoured a higher rate than at present, with far better societal results than at present. This is hardly a radical position. Shocking to see it percieved this way.

@FidFosh @Sinney_Scwasp @ThePosieParker You don’t need to debate it, just tell us at what percentage do you believe is a “fair share” so we understand what you are talking about. Is 25%, 50%, or 90%? I just want to understand what you believe is a fair share.

@SallerBen @Sinney_Scwasp @ThePosieParker So I'm supposed to spend my evening, writing hundreds of tweets and pinning them together, for your entertainment and edification? As I've said before, this is not a platform for serious discussion. It's about polemic not debate.

@FidFosh @Sinney_Scwasp @ThePosieParker Ah the old "Google it" get out. Had a feeling that might be your answer.

@danny_______ @TheHangedMan18 @ThePosieParker No. This is platform designed for polemic. I'm perfectly prepared for debate, it's just that given the nature of Twitter, it's generally a complete waste of time. You can waste your life on pointless activities, I prefer not to.

@TheHangedMan18 @FidFosh @ThePosieParker It’s all the left have. If they engage with the argument they lose.

@logopatt @ThePosieParker I never wrote most I wrote many. Quite different.

@FidFosh @ThePosieParker Most economists do not agree on that. It’s activists who feel more envy than anything. It is of course unfair for one person to inherit an estate from the eyes of most of us who inherit nothing. Does that mean the solution is for the state to confiscate trust funds at death? No.

@Sinney_Scwasp @ThePosieParker I'm not going to get into a debate regarding this. Because it's Twitter, a place where communication is brief and lacks the complexity sufficient for such an endeavour. There's plenty of material that backs me up, should you wish to look at it. Remember Google is your friend.

Whether the rich pay their "fair share" of taxes or not is an entirely subjective matter, so whichever economists say that are just giving their persona subjective opinion on a subjective topic Like here's a simple challenge - What do all those economists define as "fair share"? Do they all have the same definition? Have they even given a definition?

@adam_louis52328 When Schopenhauer wrote,The Art of Being Right: 38 Ways to Win an Argument, he didn't bother listing, the strategy of strawmanning your opponent, with a stupid voice,like you're 12, because it was too moronic. Seriously? You're a dumb cunt.

It is clear that @elonmusk needs to stay out of British politics. RT if you agree.

Sure plutocrats are killing our biosphere, but hey, at least they’re creating technology that lets you avoid the cognitive discomfort of writing your own words and thinking your own thoughts. Sure the empire is butchering human beings at horrifying scale around the world, but on the bright side it’s creating refugees who will move to your country and bring you treats that you can order from an app on your phone. Sure imperialist extraction is robbing the resources and exploiting the workers of the global south at extortionate fees, but on the other hand you get to wear a new outfit every day because the clothes you ordered online are dirt cheap thanks to transcontinental slave labor. Sure our rulers are rapidly caging us in a digital surveillance network of ever-increasing intrusiveness and control, but golly gosh they just keep gifting us all these nifty free social media platforms that we simply cannot stop ourselves from scrolling through for some reason. Sure capitalism is driving us toward collapse on multiple fronts while everyone gets sicker, poorer, dumber, crazier, and more miserable, but hey look, McDonald’s is bringing back the McRib. Sure it’s only a matter of time until we find ourselves policed by armed robots and facial recognition murder drones and praying the government AI doesn’t shut off our digital money because our eyes lingered a bit too long on an anti-Israel meme, but at least we can have fun placing Polymarket bets on the next country the United States is going to bomb. They take so very, very much, and we trade it away for so very, very little. They steal our wealth, strangle our ecosystem and incinerate our future, and in return they give us bread and circuses that are just affordable enough to stop us from chopping off heads. They exhaust us, abuse us, indoctrinate us, distract us, desensitize us, confuse us, overload us, misinform us and gaslight us, and in exchange we get a hundred overpriced streaming services to choose from and a thousand types of toothpaste. They’re making our world worse and worse, and they’re making us worse as individuals, too. They’re poisoning our minds and darkening our hearts. Killing our conscience and amputating our empathy. It sucks to live in the shadow of the empire. There’s nothing natural or healthy about this dystopia. And they’re getting it practically for free. A little propaganda, a sprinkling of mindless entertainment and a few treats, and we give them a whole planet to rape. They’re getting all the most vital parts of our world and all the most sacred parts of ourselves for a song. We can’t keep letting them do this to us. We’ve got to wake up. Sometimes saying this feels as futile as imploring a loved one to leave their cult or break up with their abusive partner for the ten thousandth time. But that is what needs to happen. And people do leave cults. People do exit abusive relationships. It only happens when they’re ready, and it’s got to come from them — but it does happen. Here’s hoping we find some way to leave our abusive relationship with the empire before it’s too late.