@mattforney I received 56.9% of my net income after taxes in 2025. Welcome to living in a blue state.
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Because I make less than $100,000 a year yet the same laws people like you claim target only "billionaires" somehow require me to give a third of my income to the IRS
Paddy@SAFCPaddy
I will never understand why working class people fight tooth and nail to defend billionaires
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I love the way even Mamdani’s most basic pet project highlights on a micro level how much more effective markets are compared to government-run entities. Hang it in the Louvre.
AG@AGHamilton29
Mamdani’s city-owned grocery store: - Won’t open until 2029 - Will cost taxpayers $30 million (triple what is costs to open a normal store) - Will only have discounted prices for a very basic selection of food. All of that is best case currently. Good luck, NYC.
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Biden put a crossdresser in charge of the nuclear program and he spent the entire administration stealing suitcases from airports so he could wear the women's clothes and was only caught because a Tanzanian fashion designer saw him wear her stolen dress to a government event
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🚨 Raped before execution 🚨
That's the destiny reserved for Niloufar Esfahani.
She is only 18 years old and comes from Qazvin, in Iran.
In January 2026, she was arrested together with her mother during the nationwide protests against the Islamic regime.
Her only “crime” was asking for freedom and dignity.
A few days later, the revolutionary court sentenced her to death by hanging.
But before killing her, according to reports from activists and historical testimonies from Iranian prisons, they intend to rape her.
Why? Because Niloufar is a virgin.
According to a distorted and barbaric religious belief, a virgin girl who is executed would go straight to paradise.
For this reason, in the past and still today, virgin female prisoners are systematically raped before execution: to “send them to hell” instead of paradise.
This is a practice documented for decades and confirmed even by former officials of the regime itself.
She is a girl like so many others, with her whole life ahead of her, who is about to be crushed by the ayatollahs’ killing machine.
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"It doesn't really matter too much who goes first, because once it kicks off any place, it is quite likely to spread to every place."
Introductory remarks by Professor David Betz at the Civil war? Europe at risk event in the European Parliament. 👇
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Who knew an orange peel could hold so much history? 🍊✨
In the 18th century, these were known as "Bergamot Boxes"—dainty, hand-crafted trinket holders used in Italy and France to store jewelry, perfumes, and cosmetics. They were prized for their natural citrus scent that lingered on everything inside.
By the 1850s, mass production took over, and this beautiful craft almost vanished. There’s something so grounding about bringing back a skill that hasn’t been common for nearly 200 years. It’s a slow, delicate process (with a bit of trial and error!), but seeing the final result painted with acrylics makes it all worth it.
In a world of plastic and fast-fashion, let’s bring back the beauty of things that grow from the earth.
Who else is ready to start drying their fruit peels?
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@ButlersRanger Blue states in the United States are the same. I took home 56.9% of my wage after taxes. And still owed another 1k in state tax.
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Life in Canada is so depressing. I take home 57% of my wage after income tax, before sales taxes and other taxes. I make a wage in roughly the 95th percentile of incomes in my province, and if I don’t want to live in a shoebox, my wife needs to work rather than raise our two little kids.
All to provide lavish benefits to the thousands and thousands of unproductive takers, who vote themselves an ever larger share of a shrinking economic pie.
It’s bleak
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@WomanDefiner Got it. Do you have the name of the first nobleman?
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This is incorrect. Shortly after Islam took the heart of Spain they imprisoned the Nobles in the new capital and started marrying off the women of their noble families to Muslim administrators to secure their rule on territory. One Spanish noble decided that was an insult to great to suffer and he fled to the north to the Asturias mountains.
He spent the next few years turning a valley into a death trap. 20,000 Muslim soldiers marched against 500 men in the valley and the 500 men crushed the Muslims trying to put out the last flame of Christendom in Spain.
In a matter of 11 years Reconquista started.
Roi d'Occident 🇲🇦@WorldBuilding9
@WomanDefiner "The spanish reconquering their homeland". No this is the wrong narrative. It was a bunch of northern iberians, led by nobles from Wisigoth germanic lineage, conquering southern Iberia for the first time by expelling/genociding the local andalusian population.
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@cirocobama69 How do you think guys are good at sports? Road work. And it’s more important for wrestlers, boxers, mma fighters.
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Running as a hobby is for guys that weren’t good at sports growing up
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@HumbleFlow Read about the French Revolution. Everyone thinks the deaths were at the hands of madam guillotine. False. The vast vast majority of deaths came from the left’s campaign of extermination against Catholics in the Vendee.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_th…
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@RnaudBertrand It’s a national security question. America needs to do its own auto manufacturing. Full stop.
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The immense irony of the US now flat out refusing capitalism's basic rule of letting the best products win.
Bloomberg@business
Ford’s top executive says allowing Chinese automakers to sell their cars in the US would be “devastating” to American manufacturing bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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🚨 WOW. Border Czar Tom Homan just gave the PERFECT response to Pope Leo
"I'm a lifelong Catholic. I wish they'd STAY OUT of immigration, they don't know what they're talking about."
"Because if they wore my shoes for 40 years, and talked to a 9-year-old girl that got r*ped multiple times, or stood in the back of a tractor trailer with 19 dead aliens at my feet, including a 5-year-old boy that baked to death, if they understood the atrocities that happened on the open border, I think their opinion would change!"
"And I welcome discussion with any of them, because they don't understand illegal immigration is not a victimless crime."
"Where President Trump had the most secure border in the lifetime of this nation, right now, lives are being saved. He's saving thousands of lives a year because he has a secure border!"
"Human traffickers are out of business, right? The cartels are going bankrupt because of that secure border. I wish they'd understand that."
"Because if they did, I think they'd have a different opinion."
Mic drop.
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In Nigeria, over 40 Catholic Priests has been massacred by Islamic terrorists in the last 5 years.
Where was Pope?
Where was Vatican?
You kept talking about peace
Peace with who exactly?
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Proof that Vatican got it so wrong with the selection of yet another Marxist socialist Pope.
Bishop Athanasius Schneider would be infinitely better in my opinion. He understands what Islam is.
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I like my Catholic friends and want to be respectful towards them, but what exactly is going on here?
Pope Leo XIV@Pontifex
Communion between Christians and Muslims takes shape under the mantle of Our Lady of Africa. Here, in #Algeria, the maternal love of Lalla Meryem gathers everyone as children, within our rich diversity, in our shared aspiration for dignity, love, justice, and peace. In a world where division and wars sow pain and death, living in unity and peace is a compelling sign. #ApostolicJourney
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Communion between Christians and Muslims takes shape under the mantle of Our Lady of Africa. Here, in #Algeria, the maternal love of Lalla Meryem gathers everyone as children, within our rich diversity, in our shared aspiration for dignity, love, justice, and peace. In a world where division and wars sow pain and death, living in unity and peace is a compelling sign. #ApostolicJourney
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