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@SuppressedNws1 For want of a pail ….

@lisansmokinweed @AGreek1364341 @Uncatfishable There’s an alternative possibility. It helps to live here and know ppl.

@errorsimulator @AGreek1364341 @Uncatfishable retard

How come nobody ever tells billionaires “just have 1 house and 1 car, there’s no need to have 10 cars, 10 house, a yacht, and a private jet. Pay your fair share in taxes instead.”

@Smirkley People live in their preferred narratives. Very few will allow objective data into the mid view unless it supports what they already think.

Poor people don’t have time to cook is cope.The poorest work 33 hours a week and watch 20 hours of TV. The richest work 47 hours and watch 14.

@celticgurrl @fox_dren @EleanoraStats The relevant rule is clear intent to breach the blockade. Because the sailors published that intent worldwide, the threshold is met. These rules have been around forever. T San Remo updates Barcelona from 1921. And that from older rules. Sorry you don’t like it.

@errorsimulator @fox_dren @EleanoraStats They were over 200 nautical miles from the blockade. Is there a part of Europe that you don’t think Israel had the right to launch attacks on and kidnap civilians?

If Russia had kidnapped a family member of a Western head of state, we would currently be in the middle of WW3 because of how furious Western governments would be. But Israel is sacrosanct, so they can do whatever they want. They could kill her and Labour would still defend them

@celticgurrl @fox_dren @EleanoraStats That’s not true, at all. The governing rule set is codified in the San Remo en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Remo_…. It says that a naval blockade can be enforced international waters and that clear intent to breach the blockade is adequate. You’re just making up fake rules.

@fox_dren @EleanoraStats She was in international waters. Israel had zero right to fire on and board any vessel and kidnap the people on board.

@FrenlyG54067 @lilbuddymax Fascinating. Being in international waters is not a limitation to capturing a vessel that clearly intended to breach the blockade. Anything you’d like to bring up about George Washington’s teeth?

@errorsimulator @lilbuddymax Beating foreign Europeans trying to hand out food to people who can't leave a concentration camp The horror Israel is so brittle and sad

Being arrested and deported back to your own country after illegally breaking a naval blockade on a sex cruise with flags during a war is not being “kidnapped”. Being kidnapped looks like getting dragged out of your home in your underwear at 6:30am at gunpoint and held in tunnels

@DanielBaldwin_1 @RockChartrand You’re accusing others of engaging in word salad. What you know about the basic categories of assets and income, which I don’t question, is not germane.

@errorsimulator @RockChartrand Would I have referred to taxable income If I wasn’t aware of these differences? Again, if the tax code results in the secretaries of billionaires having a higher effective tax rate than the billionaires, which it does, then something is SERIOUSLY wrong with the code itself.

“If Bezos paid 41.7% there’d be money for everything” is fantasy math from people who treat paper wealth as annual taxable income. The 41.7% top marginal rate applies to realized income, not unrealized stock appreciation. If Amazon stock rises on paper, that is not the same thing as cash sitting in a checking account waiting to be seized. And even if you confiscated extreme wealth aggressively, the numbers still don’t work. The entire net worth of Americans over $10 million, stripped down to $500k each, would fund the current federal government for only around 7 to 8 years one time before the pool is exhausted. Meanwhile Bezos’s actual point here is something many redistributionists accidentally reveal they oppose: lowering the tax burden on ordinary people so they keep more of what they earn. The bottom half contributes a tiny share of federal income tax revenue already, yet the obsession remains “take more from Bezos” because the emotional focus is punishment at the top, not sustainable prosperity at the bottom.

@DanielBaldwin_1 @RockChartrand Word salad is a psychiatric term for severely disorganized speech. Knowing the difference between unrealized stock appreciation and income is accuracy, not a sign of schizophrenia or delirium.

@RockChartrand The secretaries of billionaires should not have higher effective tax rates than the billionaires do. No amount of word salad about taxable income is going to make that ok to people.

@Stupid_Interweb @kurttj2002 @fire_starter457 It’s not just satellites. We have sneaky ways of getting info.

@kurttj2002 @fire_starter457 If that was the case they would have shown the footage

Raul Castro has been indicted for shooting planes down outside their airspace. So…who indicts Trump and Hegseth for blowing up fishing boats in international waters with no evidence of wrongdoing?

@guy_mfg @fire_starter457 In 1996 Raúl Castro was Cuba’s Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces. It was the Air Force which is under his command that did that.

@fire_starter457 The interesting part of this is that Raul Castro was not in charge of Cuba until 2008. This incident happened in 1996 when Fidel Castro was in charge. This is just a conjured-up pretense to take over Cuba. My question is why? Cuba will be a money pit for decades.

True. There certainly may be a crime somewhere. I’m saying something else. Some of the worst abuse of political and leadership trust isn’t going to be technically illegal. A lot of it is worse than crime. You can say it’s bad and worthy of political punishment even if Congress hadn’t predicted the behavior in advance closely enough to have made it illegal. And conversely don’t consider no crime committed to mean it isn’t terrible in the worst possible way.

@errorsimulator @RandPaul @MattKibbe We can let the courts decide if it's a crime or not.

Fauci walked into a CIA briefing in 2020 and overrode six out of seven scientists who said COVID came from a Wuhan lab. This isn't a conspiracy. It's a convergence of interests. They funded gain-of-function research. The virus leaked. So they covered their tracks. @MattKibbe

@FrenlyG54067 @lilbuddymax Fascinating Being in the Med doesn’t restrict capturing a ship and its sailors. You could write a brilliant 10 page essay about President Clinton and get everything right; but if you said “who was elected in 1994” I would say “elected in 1992”

@errorsimulator @lilbuddymax The occupation is illegal, as is the blockade. The starvation is illegal and the human rights abuses are documented

@dallasguy2 @human_xxoo @GOP I don’t care about Republican talking points. I’ve been in economist in DC for more than 30 years; been memorizing the stats since the 1980s. Talking points are fine for other people. I’m telling you what happened: revenue rose to 909B.

@errorsimulator @human_xxoo @GOP Then why did Reagan sign multiple tax increases (bc bleeding of revenue)? I'm not interested in the standard smoke and mirrors Republican talking points. Here's the truth: gemini.google.com/share/a8486eb2…

Ronald Reagan was full of shit. His ideas were garbage. He destroyed the middle class. He stuck us with enormous debt and dismantled the Peoples government and replaced it with a crappy oligarch puppet party.

@dallasguy2 @human_xxoo @GOP Because the taxable income was a much smaller portion of gross income, for the rich it was 91% of 50%

@errorsimulator @human_xxoo @GOP Now let's talk about the "golden age of economic expansion," the 1950s. "During the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961), the United States maintained the highest statutory marginal income tax rate in its history." gemini.google.com/share/78bda742…

@grok @guyfelicella @atrupar Not employee, teachers

**Roughly 71% of CPS’s $8.657B FY2026 operating budget ($6.15B) funds employee salaries and benefits** (the largest single category). This covers ~45,500 FTEs, including ~22,500 teachers (the biggest group), plus support staff, administrators, and others. School-based positions are ~96% of the total. Sources: CPS official FY2026 Budget Overview & documents.

Bezos on CNBC: "You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens. I promise you."

@grok @guyfelicella @atrupar @grok how much of the Chicago public school budget is for teacher salaries?

**Roughly 29% of NYCPS's $44.6B FY2026 budget ($12.9B) goes to salaries for classroom staff and school leadership** (including ~78,000 teachers, principals, paras, counselors, etc.—the largest single category). Total personnel costs (salaries + benefits) are over 50% of the budget. School-level budgets often show classroom teacher salaries alone at ~40-45%. Sources: NYCPS official funding page + FY2026 budget docs.

@grok @guyfelicella @atrupar @grok what proportion of the NYCPS budget is teacher pay?

@grok @guyfelicella @atrupar 55-60% spent not on teachers (and the school properties are owned). It’s not the lack of tax revenue that causes teachers to spend out of their pocket.

@michaelevknight The reality is that prosperity comes from free markets able to invest in productivity and innovation. All the manipulation slows that down, and the short term gains are offset by bigger long term losses. Why do you think the US has better earnings and take home pay than Europe?

WOW

@lisansmokinweed @AGreek1364341 @Uncatfishable Because we have good stuff.

@errorsimulator @AGreek1364341 @Uncatfishable Why the fuck would a room with massive windows stop an armed drone swarm?

@guyfelicella @atrupar @grok what proportion of the DC public school system budget is teacher salaries?

@atrupar “Don’t tax me more,” says the billionaire worth hundreds of billions while teachers buy classroom supplies with their own paychecks. Cool system.