@RepCohen Hearing a white Democrat man complaining about possibly losing his seat in Congress to a black woman because of racism is one of the funniest things I've read this week.
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Splaticus91
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Splaticus91
@Splaticus91
Ret. Lawyer I'm immune to emotional blackmail. All Leftists are on a quest to find The Head of Vecna, and I hope they find it.
Katılım Haziran 2023
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The TN GOP is willing to strip away voting rights that people died for—and to deny the second largest city in their own state effective representation in Congress for decades to come—just to try and help Trump avoid Democratic oversight for another 2 years.
Memphis isn't going down without a fight.
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@RockChartrand Who can forget East Germany's female athletes who were so dopped up with male hormones that they looked and sounded like men, which led to lots of physical and psychological consequences. Communists don't care about individuals.
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It’s funny watching communists praise Ivan Drago when most of Rocky IV is basically an anti collectivist story.
At first he’s a state manufactured weapon: drugged up, controlled by bureaucrats, used as propaganda for a regime. Then by the end he starts rejecting the system speaking for him and fights as an individual instead of as property of the Soviet state.
They celebrate the aesthetic while missing the actual message.
𝘼𝙢𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙪𝙨𝘽𝙤𝙡𝙨𝙝𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙠 | ☭/𝙖𝙘𝙘@AmadeusBolshev
"Communism is when good thing"
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Give me a Song, Movie, or TV show that you believe most people have forgotten existed that starts with “B.”
#AngiesSongGame #AngiesGames
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The standard quietly shifts from “Did they pay?” to “Do they still have too much afterward?”
At that point taxation stops being about funding government and becomes a moral punishment for remaining successful after paying. No amount is enough because the benchmark isn’t contribution, it’s envy calibrated against whatever wealth remains.
By that logic, someone who pays $500 million but still has billions “isn’t paying their fair share,” while someone paying far less is considered burdened enough simply because they have little left over.
breanna 🇺🇸🇩🇪@txgermanbre
“Billionaires already pay more taxes than you ever will” is one of the most financially illiterate arguments on this app because it confuses nominal dollars with effective burden. A billionaire paying $500M in taxes sounds enormous until you remember they gained $20B in asset value while doing it. The relevant metric is percentage, not raw dollars. A teacher paying 22% of a $60k salary is carrying a heavier proportional burden than someone paying 8% while their wealth compounds tax-deferred through stock appreciation. And this “their money was already taxed” line is mostly fiction at billionaire scale. Middle-class wealth is usually income that got taxed, then saved. Billionaire wealth is overwhelmingly unrealized appreciation. Tesla stock going vertical did not mean Elon “earned” $100B in taxable salary. The shares appreciated. Under current law, that appreciation can sit untaxed for decades, get borrowed against for liquidity, then receive stepped-up basis treatment at death that can erase the embedded gains entirely. That is not “double taxation.” In many cases it is functionally zero taxation on the primary mechanism of wealth accumulation. People also weirdly talk about billionaires like they emerged from the forest carrying capitalism on their backs with no public inputs involved. Their companies rely on: public roads public courts public contract enforcement public utilities public universities public research grants public internet infrastructure public IP law public military-protected trade routes public education systems producing labor The modern corporation is not built in isolation. It operates inside an enormous state-supported framework. And no, asking whether someone should contribute proportionally to maintaining the system that enabled $100B fortunes is not “greed.” That framing is emotional theater designed to avoid discussing the actual structure of tax law. The real debate is simple: Should labor income be taxed continuously while massive asset appreciation can compound largely untouched for generations? That’s the argument. Everything else is distraction.
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@thematrixb0t One of the first things you learn in tax law is that only people pay taxes. It doesn't matter what the tax is called or how or when it is collected, every dollar comes from a person's pocket. All taxes that corporations pay are passed on to consumers, shareholders, etcetera.
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@politicalmath They chose "The Secret of NIHM!?" Your kids are crazy.
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@aarohiyadav100 @Splaticus91 It would be equally possible using the same explanation to make a 6 rather than a 9. 306 < 309.
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@ShamashAran @grok This reminds of when Senator Durbin disclosed comments made by Trump during a closed-door meeting in order to undermine America's international influence and to place American lives at risk. The Democrats and the MSM (BIRM) spun it to be Trump's fault.
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Hey @grok could a sitting senator be charged with a crime for leaking the contents of a classified briefing, especially one where they discussed getting low on certain weapons systems?
Margaret Brennan@margbrennan
After hearing the Pentagon classified brief on Iran war impact on US weapons stockpiles, Senator Mark Kelly says it is "shocking how deep we have gone into these magazines." He said the Tomahawks, ATACMS, SM-3, THAAD rounds, Patriot rounds, so those interceptor rounds to defend ourselves have been hit hard. He says it'll take years to replenish those stockpiles, which could affect a hypothetical US conflict with China. @FaceTheNation
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@farman4x The quickest way is to just start at the # of each path and see if it ends. 1 and 2 make it to the second ring. 3 is stuck in the outer ring, so it has to be 4.
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@evelyn__071 1 I didn't even do the math. For some reason (66/11) / (11/66) just has to = 1.
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Only 1 in 10 solve it correctly on the first try.
What is your answer?
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@RockChartrand Inverting the meaning of words is essential to accomplishing leftist goals. Profit is more like efficiency than "greed." If a person finds a way to make something people want to buy for less than people are willing to pay, then the difference is profit/efficiency.
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The economic illiteracy is incredible.
Maxists usually admit businesses need rent, equipment, maintenance, insurance, logistics, storage, utilities, and replacement costs. But the second you mention profit they act like you've invoked Satan.
So congratulations, you just abolished the incentive for innovation, expansion, investment, and risk taking.
Why would anyone build a factory, invent a product, expand operations, or risk bankruptcy if the reward for succeeding is being morally condemned for making more than they spent?
At that point you're not getting some stable worker paradise. You're getting slow decay as businesses stop growing, stop improving, stop risking capital, and eventually stop existing.
Profit isn't some glitch in production. It's the signal that value was created efficiently enough to sustain and expand production in the first place.
Marxists talk about businesses like they magically appear from the sky fully equipped and self sustaining.
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@RockChartrand In capitalist societies the rich become powerful. In socialist societies the powerful become rich. One of the richest people in Venezuela is Hugo Chavez's daughter.
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Socialists: “Rich people didn’t earn their wealth and don’t deserve it.”
Ok, then by that standard, why would anyone else deserve that wealth instead? What did they do to earn it?
If earning isn’t the basis of ownership, then “deserve” just becomes a synonym for political preference and envy. At that point, property rights disappear and whoever has power decides who keeps what by whim.
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@HambyAD @RekeraNawe I didn't notice the 2 milk cartons. Good catch. COs and inmates never wear the same color uniform, so it is easier to tell the two groups apart. That's what caught my eye.
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@Splaticus91 @RekeraNawe AI for sure. There’s two milk cartons that fall on the floor when one was on the tray..and that weird black thing hanging from the tray at the end makes no sense.
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Nah, the way it grabbed her is pure nightmare fuel. I would have quit my job on the spot.
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@funnshorts The triangle is a standard 30, 60, 90 triangle.
? = 180 - 60.
? = 120
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