stillhereman
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@daveyokatz @DanielDiMartino I mean, it just can’t be a slogan. We could take issue with the marginal detriment vs added tax %age, but in an industry that deals with bips, it’s hard to argue it doesn’t have an inverse effect.
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@Stillerman1Ty @DanielDiMartino I know that's the rationale. But there's very little evidence that people stop investing if you tax capital gains at the same rate as income. I think "incentivize risk" is a slogan.
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Enlighten me, what is their fair share? I want a % of their income as answer and justification.
Ron Wyden@RonWyden
Let's make billionaires pay their fair share and find out
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@daveyokatz @DanielDiMartino Couldnt agree more! The problem with the kind of rhetoric Bezos is railing against is it always seems to focus singularly on the latter with no acknowledgment of the former. I’d be far more comfortable with an expanded tax regime if I didn’t think that was a spending death spiral
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@Stillerman1Ty @DanielDiMartino I would like to control the national debt before it does serious economic harm. It is currently accelerating. I believe that will require both spending cuts and more revenue.
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@daveyokatz @DanielDiMartino Not to mention it almost definitionally doesn’t do what you say it does. They foot the overwhelming majority of the tax bill, most of which is paid in-kind to the lowest contributors.
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@Stillerman1Ty @DanielDiMartino The point is that we have used your point as a rationale to create a tax system that punishes W-2 wage earners and rewards people who live off accumulated wealth. “Work is for suckers” is not a smart way to fund a country.
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@daveyokatz @DanielDiMartino To be clear, a dollar from increase in wealth can go to zero, a dollar from income cannot.
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@DanielDiMartino Btwn 2014-18 Bezos’s wealth increased by ~$99 billion. During those 5 years, he paid $973 million in fed income tax; an effective rate of under 1%. And to be clear a dollar from an increase in wealth and one from wage income are both the same dollar.
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Mamdani is right. Reagan was wrong. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" is not "scary." What about if you're lost in a forest? What if your house is on fire? Public sector workers are incredibly useful in some of our most difficult situations. Government is good.
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@swiftxstark @FangYi11101 Because nobody has to make anything. That’s the point. You are more than welcome to make any of these things and sell them at a lower cost per unit. In theory, you’d have a booming customer base.
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@FangYi11101 so what do you believe is happening? when they make your serving smaller but charge the same price to increase profit? when they raise the price to account for a fee that they get refunded for? how is this not a way of stealing to build more wealth?
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Listening to the New Yorker politics podcast and the guest is literally describing billionaires as “picking our pockets left and right,” while the hosts coo in agreement. This is exactly the echo chamber that produces AOC’s cartoonish view of wealth creation.
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@Johnjoecrva @mehdirhasan I thought you were anti border? Suddenly a big fan of tax/legal jurisdictions?
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@Stillerman1Ty @mehdirhasan Don’t flee our state because of taxes then spend most of your time here. Kick rocks.
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The redpilling of the once-supposedly-liberal tech billionaires - Zuckerberg, Musk, Brin, etc - is both hilariously embarrassing for them and ridiculously dangerous for the rest of us.
Teddy Schleifer@teddyschleifer
Sergey Brin’s girlfriend has shown off photos to friends of him wearing a red MAGA hat. nytimes.com/2026/04/27/us/…
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@Johnjoecrva @mehdirhasan This is an incredible comment (in the worst way possible)
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@mehdirhasan I’m anti borders but for these people, we shouldn’t allow them back in California in any capacity. If you want to live in Nevada, go ahead but you’re not welcome in California.
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@InsolentRhymes @caitoz Yeah, wouldn’t want to get that mixed up with the other religious stuff that’s super believable.
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The "Semite" Myth
Noah had three sons,
"Semite" comes from one,
named "Shem,"
descended from him,
Abraham, Isaac and then,
Jacob,
father of Israelites!
If you think this is true,
it means that you,
believe two aardvarks,
walked 4,000 miles,
and crossed the Nile...
to board Noah's ark!
Seriously?
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Netanyahu didn’t give birth to Israeli sociopathy, Israeli sociopathy gave birth to Netanyahu.
Glenn Greenwald@ggreenwald
The bullshit tactic of Israel supporters is to pretend the bad parts of Israel are due to Netanyahu, so that once he's gone, everyone can and should go back to loving Israel. Netanyahu is fully representative of Israel. That's why he's been in power 19 years. What comes after him will be more sociopathic. Netanyahu is the by-product of the evils of that country, not the cause.
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@CrookeJenkins @hasanthehun Comments section is incredible. 10/10 troll. Bravo.
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As District Attorney of San Francisco, it is my solemn duty to safeguard this city for its people and posterity.
If Hasan Piker (@hasanthehun) enters San Francisco city limits, he will be immediately arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
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@ggreenwald Just curious if this logic extends to Palestinians and Hamas?
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The bullshit tactic of Israel supporters is to pretend the bad parts of Israel are due to Netanyahu, so that once he's gone, everyone can and should go back to loving Israel.
Netanyahu is fully representative of Israel. That's why he's been in power 19 years. What comes after him will be more sociopathic. Netanyahu is the by-product of the evils of that country, not the cause.
Jill Filipovic@JillFilipovic
Bibi didn’t just torch support for Israel in the US; he squandered every shred of goodwill Israel ever had, made the country an international pariah, and led the slaughter of thousands of innocents. One of the most disastrous leaders any country has seen in my lifetime.
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@charlesfcurran1 @shaunmmaguire The problem is that they never seem to be growing up…
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@shaunmmaguire Undergraduates are, by and large, children. They literally know nothing.
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This is a comical level of moral failure
The undergraduate student council at UCLA
Wants to prevent an Israeli hostage from speaking on campus
Omer Shem Tov was kidnapped by Hamas on October 7th
And UCLA students think he’s the one who will be doing harm by speaking?
Israel War Room@IsraelWarRoom
INSANE: The undergraduate student government at @UCLA CONDEMNED an event featuring freed hostage Omer Shem Tov, saying the event reflects a "troubling disregard for Palestinian life." REMINDER: Omer Shem Tov is an Israeli civilian who was kidnapped by terrorists from a music festival during the violent Hamas massacre on October 7, 2023. Talk about "atrocities" and "a troubling disregard for life." @LeoTerrellDOJ @UofCalifornia @EDSecMcMahon @usedgov @EdWorkforceCmte @EdWorkforceDems
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@NathanJRobinson Hahah, you wrote a book on foreign policy with Noam Chomsky. Kettle black?
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he's a pseudoscientist whose work crumbles under minimal scrutiny currentaffairs.org/news/2023/09/i…
James Woods@RealJamesWoods
Dear President Trump, Thomas Sowell is an American treasure. Please consider honoring him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. I can’t think of a greater representative of American values.
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@IanMalcolm84 @DobyRaider Let’s just pretend you’re right about the nepotism thing — that still makes you pretty fucking pathetic.
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@DobyRaider There’s 6 TIMES the number of white geniuses compared to jewish ones - and that’s if it accept what I beleive to be disingenuous “jewish IQ figures” based on fringe studies.
We are tired of the lies and garbage pilpul. It’s OBVIOUSLY ethnic nepotism.
Cope.
IanMalcolm84@IanMalcolm84
🚨THE IQ LIE Jewish IQ is, on average, 9 points higher than whites BUT IQ amongst groups varies across bell curves and, if we normalize the numbers based on populations to examine GENIUS level IQ, we find, in America, there are 6.5 TIMES as many White geniuses as there are Jews
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2% of the US population
Every single position of power
Disclose.tv@disclosetv
JUST IN - LinkedIn appoints longtime executive Daniel Shapiro as its new CEO — CNBC
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@NotAvgLiberal Says the most average liberal slop on planet earth.
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Today we’re leaving Europe.
We visited Rome, Trastevere, Vatican City, Venice, Barcelona and Madrid.
Not a single MAGA hat.
Not a single Trump t shirt.
Not on any tourist,
Not in any shop.
Not a single cop or law enforcement officer wearing a mask,
Not a single law enforcement officer beating the shit out of anyone, for any reason.
Europeans make it perfectly clear.
They don’t like or approve of Trump.
I’m going to miss it here.
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@DissentFu You people are so exhausting. The most extraordinary combination of hubris, smugness, and pure and utter ineptitude.
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@redpillb0t Setting aside the fact that this is just false (they contribute to the overall EMS call load), the seething about something that you could just build is hilarious. Resentful mediocrity at its finest.
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Jews have their own Hatzolah ambulances in NY.
In 1991, race riots erupted after a 7yr old black boy was hit by a car escorting a grand rabbi that ran a red light.
The Hatzolah ambulance loaded the Jewish car driver but left the child behind to die in the street.
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