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@roteklaus @BobBob17963292 @Eath1c @wokler_ @whozgrimez The stocks in a 401k aren’t bought on credit. They’re paid with cash directly from your paycheck. Your analogy doesn’t make sense.

@pahanse @BobBob17963292 @Eath1c @wokler_ @whozgrimez Like what happens to your car when you stop making payments

very funny that liberals have psyoped themselves into defending trump’s economy lol

@roteklaus @BobBob17963292 @Eath1c @wokler_ @whozgrimez It’s more like options your 401k plan administrator gives your employer. But that still doesnt give ownership control. A car dealership also has control over their limited options but i still own the car I pick and pay for.

@pahanse @BobBob17963292 @Eath1c @wokler_ @whozgrimez Options that your employer gives, sure does sound like control!

@roteklaus @BobBob17963292 @Eath1c @wokler_ @whozgrimez Yes. My current employer has a couple dozen options to choose from and I’m happy with a total market index fund. If I ever leave my employer I can roll it into an account I manage myself and invest it however I want.

@pahanse @BobBob17963292 @Eath1c @wokler_ @whozgrimez Did you ever have any say about how that money was invested?

@roteklaus @BobBob17963292 @Eath1c @wokler_ @whozgrimez Yeah it’s mine and I’m going to retire and live comfortably off 40+ years of stock appreciation. If you don’t think that counts as owning stocks I guess I really don’t care.

@pahanse @BobBob17963292 @Eath1c @wokler_ @whozgrimez This is such a ridiculous splitting of hairs, but yes you own your own money. Doesn't make you a thing, but it is yours.

@roteklaus @BobBob17963292 @Eath1c @wokler_ @whozgrimez It’s not luck. An employee’s contributions are always legally owned by the employee. Employer contributions can have a vesting schedule but it can’t legally be longer than 6 years with graduated vesting periods.

@pahanse @BobBob17963292 @Eath1c @wokler_ @whozgrimez Then youre lucky or have been at that employer for long enough that theyre okay with releasing that money. I can tell you from personal experience that its not like that everywhere.

@roteklaus @BobBob17963292 @Eath1c @wokler_ @whozgrimez Absolutely. If I leave my job I still keep them and can move them wherever I want

@pahanse @BobBob17963292 @Eath1c @wokler_ @whozgrimez Do you think you own them?

@roteklaus @BobBob17963292 @Eath1c @wokler_ @whozgrimez Are the stocks in my 401k not real?

@BobBob17963292 @Eath1c @wokler_ @whozgrimez Are you referring to a mortgage or 401k?

@unmaskingthem @emiliepfrank Are you willing to risk multiple felonies to maybe change to the results of the election by .0001%?

Thats cool but many people don't vote. In the 2024 US presidential election, roughly 41% of registered voters did not vote, compared to about 59% who did. What is stopping the person that received the ballots from voting for those that are registered an haven't/don't vote? Anyone can simply fill them out and send them in. Even if you check your status and it shows that you voted when you didn't it won't matter. By the time you try to reverse it the election will be over and your vote will have counted. The damage is done.

every registered voter in dc automatically gets a mail ballot. the ballot is tied to the voter, not the address. there is a unique barcode assigned to each voter to ensure that in the very rare case of two ballots being returned, only one is counted. yall are so annoying

@FrankLRizzo @BillJelavich @EsotericCD What would you do if some dipshit came inside your house uninvited and started moving your property around?

@BillJelavich @EsotericCD “Being a dipshit” isn’t a crime. You’re not getting this.

And on the other hand, you stole a lectern from the House chamber during a massed attack upon the Capitol. There's that part.

@PhforRunner @sleepy_devo What’s the elasticity of street tacos?

@sleepy_devo Do you know what inelastic goods are is?

the ultimate answer is because you paid 17 dollars for the 4 tacos. capitalism's backbone is supply and demand - you get what you are willing to pay for, and you are willing to pay 17 dollars for 4 tacos.

@UWS_Parent @IlyaSomin @TheParableMan Wait till you see the simplified history of the American Revolution that they teach elementary school kids

It’s well-known that Rosa Parks was an activist, as opposed to being totally “spontaneous.” That’s not a secret nor does it somehow detract from the justness of her cause.

@creepercharge56 @stoneandthestar “Rich people talking” is like every Jane Austen book.

@stoneandthestar It's written well, yeah. But most people don't think "rich people talking" is a good story

Just saw The Great Gatsby described as "unreadable". You can dislike it, go right ahead, but it is one of the most easy-to-read classics I can think of (& beautifully written at the same time). Open the schools.

@Jeff41022640 @GladysToper @WallStreetApes Which Supreme Court case are you referring to?

@GladysToper @WallStreetApes It was ruled by the Supreme Court the day prior to be illegal to segregate buses! So it’s a lie!

We have literally been lied to about everything Matt Walsh “The Rosa Parks story you were taught in school was fake too. This was not just some woman on her way home from work. Civil rights leaders thought Parks would make a sympathetic face for their lawsuit and then told her, a longtime NAACP volunteer, to create a situation where she'd be arrested. This gets sold to the public as totally organic when actually it's playacting to create ideal conditions for a court case or scandal. The iconic photo of Parks on the bus was staged months after the incident as part of a press campaign. (The photo is shown in the clip) The white man, sitting behind her in the bus photo was a journalist, which you probably didn't know.” Let’s fact check this. It’s 100% true What Actually Happened on December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks was a longtime NAACP volunteer and secretary of the Montgomery chapter. She had been deeply involved in civil rights activism for years (including work on cases like the Recy Taylor rape and voter registration efforts). She was not just a random tired seamstress on her way home from work who spontaneously refused to move. Local civil rights leaders had been looking for a strong test case to challenge bus segregation. They even had people cast for the role before Rosa Parks. Earlier attempts include 15 year old Claudette Colvin were passed over because leaders felt Rosa Parks, a mature, respected, married woman with a spotless reputation, would be a more sympathetic plaintiff in court and to the public The Iconic Photo was 100% staged The famous photo was taken on December 21, 1956, this is over a year after her arrest and on the first day the buses were integrated after the Supreme Court ruling It was deliberately staged by journalists, Look Magazine and UPI, for a press campaign to dramatize the victory The white man sitting behind her is Nicholas Chriss, a UPI reporter, not a random angry passenger or segregationist

@kxander60 @rumpfshaker Why could the bus driver make her move?

@rumpfshaker Did the Doctor Who episode talk about how many busses she had to ride to find a bus driver willing to make her move?

this is also how Rosa Parks’ story is portrayed in movies and tv shows even a Doctor Who episode that featured the alien main character & friends going back in time to meet her made it very clear she was an activist who knew she was likely to get arrested that evening

@Floatinginwaves @_makise_pudding @mattyglesias She started the boycott but her case wasn’t what ended public transportation segregation. The unmarried and pregnant 16yo Claudette Colvin did that. Well her lawyers anyways.

@_makise_pudding @mattyglesias I mean, it worked.

@vanessamdean @ApprendSquizz @esjesjesj Do you walk around naked? How much cover is too much?

@ApprendSquizz @esjesjesj If you feel like you need to cover yourself because you are a woman then you certainly do.

That’s probably because Muslim women exist

@LzSeishi Yes. Middle class doesn’t mean middle income.

@LinkofSunshine Defining “middle” class as 70th percentile and up is truly something

Which one is closest to your definition of the American Middle Class (reposted) Yearly Household income

@moustachewins @NoahFence36 @potatoslav How much do you think servers earn with tips?

@NoahFence36 @potatoslav In the US because they don't know they would earn more if they would be paid a living wage like here in Europe. And no, 7.50 $ is not a living wage.

it’s very funny to see all the people screaming “just pay a living wage!” in the comments bc… that’s what this is for? Americans already tip around this much. you were the ones that were going to go to a foreign country and not follow the cultural norm. tipping culture is not going to be “solved” by tourists refusing to tip, you’re just being an asshole.

@rodrigo91213801 @sam_d_1995 @dilanesper They have more freedom than most politicians but being a politician doesn’t require they vote party line 100% of the time. That rarely even happens in legislatures

@sam_d_1995 @dilanesper The tariff decision happened because they are not politicians in robes The birthright citizenship decision will happen because they are not politicians in robes If Ds pack the SCOTUS, future Rs will ACTUALLY be able to denaturalize every migrant since Hart Celler

this is both not true (SCOTUS is not "always conservative") and is also wrong-- the packed Supreme Court will be full of actual politicians in robes who will make far more maximalist rulings, including maximalist GOP rulings when they pack it.

@ryxcommar This is like ordering a soda without specifying a brand.

It's annoying that "hot sauce" refers to so many things so when you ask for it at a restaurant you don't always know in advance if you're getting something blessed like Cholula or cursed like Tabasco.