@jeremycoleman @EsotericCD It’s only a threat if it’s written in seashells
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Oliver Staley
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Oliver Staley
@Ostaley
Word herder. Formerly at @qz, @business, other places. Spouse of https://t.co/JZuA8efHZh. "The answer to all of your questions is money."
New York Katılım Ağustos 2010
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@EsotericCD Has someone tried to take a shot at Powell? Three somones? Then it's not that same.
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If the shoe were on the other foot this would no doubt constitute a threat to Trump's physical safety.
The White House@WhiteHouse
TOO LATE POWELL.
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@Wood2art @allenanalysis There is 100% they would support him. Haven’t you been paying attention?
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@allenanalysis Trump's style is to tweak the Left, to get them off balance. He is't seriously considering running for a third term, and if he did, there's no chance his base would support him.
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JUST IN: A Trump judicial nominee was asked point blank: is Trump eligible to run for a third term?
Their answer: “I would have to review the actual wording…”
Sen. Chris Coons then asked every nominee in the room to confirm the Constitution bars a third term.
Silence.
Every single one of them refused to say it.
Trump is appointing judges who won’t affirm the 22nd Amendment to his face.
Never stop connecting the dots.
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@allengarvin @billybinion It’s legal only because they have the power and influence to make it legal. How do you think the tax code gets written? Big business spends a small fortune on lobbyists to save a bigger fortune on taxes.
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@Ostaley @billybinion I defend them because it's in their self-interest to take advantage of legal tax deductions, just like it's in our own self-interest to do so.
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This myth just won't die. In 2024 alone, it's estimated Jeff Bezos paid almost $3 billion in taxes. Painting rich people as tax avoiders plays great on social media, but it's not reality. The U.S. has the most progressive tax system in the developed world.
Elizabeth Warren@SenWarren
If Jeff Bezos can drop $10 million to sponsor the Met Gala, he can afford to pay his fair share in taxes.
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@allengarvin @billybinion Weirdly, I don’t have an army of lobbyists, attorneys and accountants that help write the rules in my favor.
And unless you work for Amazon, why are you defending them? They don’t need your help
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@Ostaley @billybinion "Scofflaw". It's a scofflaw in the same way everyone who pays taxes it.
Maybe you're a "standard deduction" scofflaw. Or a "mortgage interest deduction" scofflaw.
You can choose to virtuously not take those deductions, you know.
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@tuckthetank @nwbvt @billybinion And fwiw, paying $1.2 billion in taxes on $360 billion in profit is not exactly a hefty tax bill
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@tuckthetank @nwbvt @billybinion Amazon was again ranked the worst corporate tax offender by the UK’s Fair Tax Foundation:
fairtaxmark.net/silicon-six-gl…
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@billybinion Now do Amazon. Maybe it’s not fair to conflate Bezos with his company but Amazon is a world-class tax scofflaw and Bezos set the tone.
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A lot of people seem to believe Jeff Bezos has hundreds of billions of dollars sitting in the bank. No. The vast majority of his wealth is in stock. The years he doesn’t sell, he’ll pay less in taxes. In a year he sells, he’s taxed a TON—far more than most will pay in a lifetime.
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@favour5602 @sportsarecool5 @NY_LBSS @SeanTrende Did you read your own post? Andrew Jackson and Andrew Johnson are two different people
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I do think the idea that Obama ran as a centrist in 2008 overstates things. He wasn't a wild-eyed radical, but the whole premise of his campaign, particularly the primary was we needed to go beyond Clintonian centrist triangulation.
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@favour5602 @sportsarecool5 @NY_LBSS @SeanTrende Andrew Jackson was president 40 years before Lincoln
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@sportsarecool5 @Ostaley @NY_LBSS @SeanTrende Andrew Jackson came after Lincoln and he tried to burn everything down too. It happens
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Dallas has the distinction of being a huge metro area without a defining flair. LA has Hollywood, DC has politics, NYC has Broadway & more. Dallas doesn’t have that.
When friends visited, we ended up at a water obstacle course in a nearby town because…what else was there to do?
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I loved the friends I made in Dallas—people really did seem nicer there. But it’s atrociously hot, extremely spread out, and has no defining character. I also left within 5 years. You stay there if you have a reason to.
Amy Nixon@texasrunnerDFW
I am astounded by the number of millennial families who moved to Dallas, bought a home, then turned around and sold the home to move out of Dallas, in less than a 5 year time span Is Dallas just super transient or is this a post-pandemic phenomenon happening everywhere?
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@NY_LBSS @SeanTrende Obama was popular as president and remains so as an ex-president. His legacy is fine.
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@SeanTrende The entire economy imploded. Anyone with a D was winning. He sort of ran on being a post racial America(which of course he made far worse) which had alot of appeal which Clinton couldn’t do.
He’s an extremely overrated politician and his entire legacy is in ashes.
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People on this site: “It’s an outrage Spirit was allowed to fail!”
Also people in the site: ”Me fly on Spirit? Are you kidding?”
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A central fallacy of boomer mythology is that their parents were shocked and scandalized by the Beatles, or Mick Jagger or whatever. It’s absurd, but they need it.
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The case for free buses is actually really strong. They take people off the road, and make traffic better for everyone. At the very least, we should not expect them to make back their expenses at the farebox. Read it all below:
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@JulianSnowdon @Chris_arnade @captgouda24 Yeah, London buses are great and go everywhere- until 1:30 am, when they become a nightmare
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I live in London and I take buses all the time. I perhaps live in a particularly well-served area, but a bus is almost always a preferable alternative to the tube. Particularly late at night when people often make eye contact with strangers and chat - there can be a real sense of a tiny temporary ad-hoc community with good humour as the law. Not always, obviously, but surprisingly often.
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@Chris_arnade @captgouda24 Infrequent service, often buses don't come at scheduled time, need to make transfers to go where you want, bus stops and bus stations are where unruly and poor people hang out.
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@1ncent1ve @michaelbd Yes. These people are still griping about the influence of imaginary establishment cocktail parties in Cambridge and Georgetown while they control the media billions of people consume daily.
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@michaelbd This would be compelling if we ignore the fact that Andreesen and his cohort of centimillionaire and billionaire tech bros ARE the establishment. It’s rich of them to complain about the ills of social media that they themselves created.
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Yglesias is right. The iPhone and social media are to populism what the printing press was to Protestantism.
At the same time, Andreeson, like Luther, is correct about corruption and mission drift of the establishment.
Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
This is pretty well-studied and the rise of the internet has a clear causal impact on the rise of populist parties.
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@TylerPurcell24 Your initial post seemed to imply that. Glad that we agree
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@Ostaley Point me to where I said that
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Average person is really not fit at all.
10 pushups every waking hour would be insanely easy.
10 x 14 hours = 140 pushups per day
140 x $10 = $1,400 per day
$511,000/yr
Hazel Appleyard@HazelAppleyard
$10 per push-up or $1 million?
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