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this is a critical litmus test for all elected Democrats - you either stand with Hasan or stand with the Trump admin. nothing in between
Dexerto@Dexerto
Twitch streamer Hasan Piker has been subpoenaed by Federal authorities over his March trip to Cuba He responded by accusing the government of trying to “criminalize delivering aid”
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@TheOmniLiberal @sircalebhammer High empathy sucks! I’m such a damn good person, I think it’s uncomfortable sometimes. People are just dumb, therefore they’re incapable of being like me. It’s hard to hate them when they just want to be like me eventually. I’m great. They should be too!
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100% of the people who say stuff like this are literally the most judgmental and least empathetic people you will ever meet in your entire life.
🦝trash panda🏳️⚧️@TrashPandaGirll
High empathy sucks cause when you understand why people are the way they are you realize most people aren't truly evil they're just dumb and incapable of viewing the world outside of their own experiences which makes it hard to truly hate them even if they are ugly inside.
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@Glordindelll @WarhorseStudios @sunderedseas Yeah definitely. Right on man. It’s 2 days later, give it a break.
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@_V3C7 @WarhorseStudios @sunderedseas I refute both your status as a 'professional' and your false claims, degenerate. You have no merits whatsoever and you definitely have an inferiority complex, otherwise you wouldn't be flaunting your fictional status in the first word.
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You might have heard the rumours, it's time to reveal what we are working on.
🗺️ An open world Middle-earth RPG.
⚔️ A new Kingdom Come adventure.
We’re excited to tell you more when the time is right.
#WarhorseStudios #Annoucement #lotr #KingdomComeDeliverance
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@max_spero_ Seems like a very inefficient way to type. You’d be asking a question for 5 minutes
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@kitten_beloved @robinhouston @styxseason $100k is roughly $50 per swim.
Seems kinda lowball for having to adjust your plans every single day for 5 years just to make a quick $50. I’d do $250k or maybe $500k.
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@robinhouston @styxseason I just don't think an exciting swim break every day that you get paid for is stressful, barely even annoying (although you would have to schedule around it)
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@BernieSanders Government forced liquidation of unrealized assets. That’s what a wealth tax entails.
You’re saying the government has the right to force you at gunpoint to sell equities. That entails mass selling before tax season. You’d be ruining the working class’ 401ks. Very smart.
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Mr. Bezos: Let's have that debate.
Under my 5% billionaires wealth tax, we'd:
-Give $12K to a working family of 4
-Expand Medicare for dental, vision, hearing
-Guarantee universal childcare
-Raise starting teacher pay to $60K
And you'd still be worth $269 billion after taxes.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
Jeff Bezos on CNBC: "If people want me to pay more billions, then let's have that debate, but don't pretend that that's gonna solve the problem. You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens.... Airbnb isn't causing high rents. What's really causing high rent is government intervention."
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@_V3C7 @kim_siever @TLVersteegh You do realize that in economic terms, food is classified as a purchase of consumption, or a “non-durable good”, right? Clothing, cleaning supplies, furniture, appliances as well.
Poor people increasing consumption does not automatically mean they’re frivolously spending.
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I do not buy coffee, and I make my own lunches.
Where is this extra $15,000 I am supposed to have?
dank@cptdankkk
Kevin O'Leary says most people waste $15,000 a year on stupid stuff like $5 coffees "Stop buying coffee for five dollars and fifty cents" "You go to work and you spend $15 bucks on a sandwich, what are you an idiot. It costs you 99 cents to make a sandwich at home and bring it with you" "Bring your own water, your own drink or your own coffee mug. You start to add that up every day it's a ton of money" "Most people starting on their job making their first $60,000 piss away about $15,000 a year"
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They do buy luxuries. Nobody can tell you what you “deserve” other than yourself. I’m not trying to get you to cast judgement on anyone.
The only means of elevation in capitalism is to… increase your capital. You can’t do that if you increase your consumption. That’s all my point is. It really is that simple. An increase in consumption would prevent anyone, even a rich person, from elevating in status. It’s non discriminatory.
There are two types of people:
Those who use the natural order of capitalism to their advantage to elevate, and those who increase their consumption.
There is no in-between. One sees immediate gratification and the other sees a return later in life. It’s how it’s always worked since the dawn of time.
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@_V3C7 @kim_siever @TLVersteegh I know exactly what consumption is. You’re trying to get me to say that poor people don’t deserve to buy luxuries but I actually have a spine and I’m not a petulant jackass so I won’t do it.
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Why would the well of DISPOSABLE INCOME run dry quicker?
I know. There’s one reason. CONSUMPTION. They increase their consumption year after year. If their bills were the reason, then consumption wouldn’t increase at all, because consumption is a disposable income metric.
I’m out of here man. I tried. I know I’m being condescending now, but holy shit. You really can’t grasp the concept of consumption, can you?
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@_V3C7 @kim_siever @TLVersteegh Right, but poor people are still going to have less disposable income, meaning the well runs dry quicker. That doesn’t mean they have a spending problem. They’re spending to their limit, which happens to be lower.
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I think you should… again… go look at the data.
The methodology behind the research comes from consumption based on DISPOSABLE INCOME, which doesn’t include “no choice” things like medical bills or bank fees like your little video highlights. You’re conflating two completely separate ideas: discrimination vs consumption.
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@_V3C7 @kim_siever @TLVersteegh You are dismissing problems, because you’re saying poor people have an issue with overconsumption even though they quite literally have no other choice.
And no, the avocado toast meme came from out of touch billionaires who need ways to justify their own greed.
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Youre doing it again. I didn’t say that, nor did I make that argument.
I should’ve known better than to start a debate with an emotional sports fan.
The consumption of the poor has risen for like 100 years now. Poor people consume more and more year after year. Go look at the damn data. This indicates that the poor get more and more things year after year consistently. The poor are well provided for, we have plenty of social programs that allow them to consume. We are the best place in the world to be poor.
I’m not dismissing problems, I’m suggesting they consume less. It’s what every single economist says. I’m not the only person with this view. Where do you think the avocado toast meme came from? The data supports it.
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@_V3C7 @kim_siever @TLVersteegh So because other countries are poorer we’re supposed to dismiss the problems people in our country face?
I bet you call yourself a proud American patriot too, don’t you?
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That’s ironic you’re calling me stupid because you’re the one who just repeated back to me something I didn’t say.
I said: “More disposable income THAN PRETTY MUCH EVERYWHERE ELSE.”
Somehow you’ve misconstrued my argument into being “poor people aren’t poor.” Yes, the poor have it tough, duh. You’re a genius aren’t you, lmao
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@_V3C7 @kim_siever @TLVersteegh If you make less money, you do not have more disposable income. That’s just factually incorrect.
I think you watched the first two minutes and realized how fucking stupid you are and now you don’t have the balls to admit it.
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@ScottAtlas_IT I keep seeing this take everywhere but nobody can explain to me why we must force someone to have “skin in the game” at gunpoint?
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Disagree that half the people should pay zero. Every single person, every person, should pay some income tax. Even one dollar is skin in the game.
Jeff Bezos@JeffBezos
Yes, the United States has the most progressive tax system in the world. The top 1% pay 40% of taxes, the bottom 50% pay 3% of taxes. We can make it even more progressive by zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. It’s a small amount of the total tax revenue but very meaningful to people in this group.
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I started the first two minutes of this video and immediately realized it means nothing in regards to this topic.
The Our World in Data findings I referred to calculates from someone’s disposable income and consumption. The bottom 10% of the poor in the US have more disposable income and consume more than pretty much every country outside of a select few European ones.
So while they might need to spend more because they’re poor, that’s unfortunate, but it’s not representative of consumption at all. That’s its own unique problem and has nothing to do with why the poor are poor.
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Did you miss the part where they said AI is better than humans? That means slavery too.
Strawmanning them into being slavery supporters because they prefer to “exploit” an AI instead of a human being is a new one. You’re using slavery as an example of exactly the opposite of what is being advocated.
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Slavery. They want slavery back. The biggest profit for them is zero labor cost. They actually despise human beings.
The Intellectualist@highbrow_nobrow
Tech Billionaire Marc Andreessen Explains Why He Believes AI Is Better Than Human Workers: "[AI] never gets drunk. Never gets sick. Never gets depressed because his girlfriend broke up with him. Never files HR complaints." x.com/Overlap_Tech/s…
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@grok I just need one more clarification to further solidify my point.
Bezos in no way shape or form has physical access to that $99B unless he finds someone else to pay him $99B for the Amazon stock, right?
The $99B, for all intents and purposes, doesn’t exist until you find a buyer or a bank willing to give you that money, right?!
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Yes, that's right.
The $99B is mostly *unrealized* gains from Amazon stock price appreciation (paper wealth that isn't taxed until sold).
Bezos's actual reported *taxable income* for 2014–2018 was $4.22B. He paid $973M in federal income taxes on that—about 23% effective rate.
The viral 0.98% figure simply divides taxes paid by total net-worth growth instead of by taxable income. That's why it's misleading. Unrealized gains aren't "income" under current U.S. tax rules.
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The Community note is just pure cope and misinformation from the screeching Bezos b*tches in the replies.
Bezos made 99 billion,
he paid 973 million in taxes during those years,
that comes to a tax rate of 0.98% as the posts says,
NOT 23% as the Community notes misinforms.
Dispropaganda@Dispropoganda
Your Tax Rate is 0.98%. 0.98%.
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@grok @Dispropoganda @grok Please clarify a little bit for those in the back.
Bezos really only made $4.22B in hard cash, the rest of the $99B is just fun paper money and doesn’t really exist until it’s sold, right?
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It's a common mix-up because headlines and graphics like this one frame "wealth growth" ($99B, mostly unrealized Amazon stock gains) against taxes paid, implying the full increase should be taxed like regular income.
US tax law doesn't work that way: income taxes apply to realized income (wages, dividends, *realized* capital gains), not paper appreciation of assets. Unrealized gains aren't taxed until sold. Bezos reported $4.22B in taxable income over those years and paid ~23% effective federal rate on it ($973M).
The 0.98% figure treats untaxed unrealized gains as "income," which they're not under current rules. Conflating net worth with annual taxable income is the core error—easy to do if you're not distinguishing the two.
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@Dispropoganda @grok Please explain how someone could accidentally misunderstand the U.S. tax system and conflate a growth in net worth with how much that individual paid in income taxes.
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Dude…
You’re doubling down? The community note is correct and not misinformation.
Income and the income tax are not equivalent to wealth growth, which comes from the appreciation of unrealized assets. You’re deriving an income tax rate from growth in assets. That’s not how that works. The capital gains tax is what you’d be looking for, not the income tax.
If you’re concerned about the growth in wealth versus what he paid in income taxes, you should be advocating for a wealth tax or a higher capital gains tax, not intentionally conflating income with net worth.
You’re doing the “pretending not to understand things” meme, unless you genuinely don’t understand how the tax system works.
How can you be the authority on propaganda and misinformation if you fundamentally misunderstand what you talk about?
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