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This, this, this! No matter the #OriginOfCovid, this is lesson 1.

@Photo_Mayor Taxpayers have the right to debate how their tax dollars are used and to make their wishes known to their elected representatives to influence policy. Don't like the rules, don't take the money.

Why do so many people feel the need to police what poor people eat?

@JoaquinCastrotx "Expedited removal was first introduced in United States immigration law as part of the IIRIRA, passed by the 104th U.S. Congress and signed into law by then U.S. President Bill Clinton."

Wendy Vega Lores dreams of becoming a pediatrician. She finished high school in two years and began intensive prep to become a doctor. She has a pending asylum case. On her 19th birthday, ICE detained her anyway. She has been locked away for 10 months. Early this morning, she won her case to be released. ICE must free Wendy immediately. She should be with her family and pursuing her dreams.

@TalbertsirhC @BigTomGamerMan @TetraChad You can be fined for littering, true. Key a car, yeah, you might be caned if you are an adult male under 50 with no health problems.

@pseudorandompi @BigTomGamerMan @TetraChad Yes: "we will beat you for spitting out your gum" is an easily understood message

Singapore is a high trust society and doesnt have a homogenous culture. Different races and ethnic groups packed into a small space yet you can walk around at 3am drunk with cash hanging out of your pocket and a $100k watch on your wrist and no one will do anything

@Enders06972 @BigTomGamerMan @TetraChad Ask ChatGPT why.

@pseudorandompi @BigTomGamerMan @TetraChad Why can't it answer?

@Enders06972 @BigTomGamerMan @TetraChad ChatGPT says to ask you if it is illegal to possess chewing gun in Singapore. Is it?

@pseudorandompi @BigTomGamerMan @TetraChad Ask Chat Gpt

@Enders06972 @BigTomGamerMan @TetraChad Surely someone like you who is so well informed could answer the question easily. Why don't you help me learn something?

@pseudorandompi @BigTomGamerMan @TetraChad You clearly don't know Singapore of you are asking me this.

@TalbertsirhC @BigTomGamerMan @TetraChad Very low levels of sexual assault, robbery, theft, destruction of property... apparently the message is received by virtually everyone.

@pseudorandompi @BigTomGamerMan @TetraChad "We only beat some of them, but the others get the message" level energy?

@Enders06972 @BigTomGamerMan @TetraChad Funny how that works out, isn't it? What makes Singapore fascist and a police state?

@pseudorandompi @BigTomGamerMan @TetraChad Almost all criminals are males under 50 bro. Also, they are a fascist police state 😂

@BigTomGamerMan @TetraChad Caning is restricted to adult males under 50, with medical supervision. Strangely enough, people who are not subject to beatings also manage to be honest, civil, and live in peace with others.

@TetraChad All you need is a one party dictatorship who's (liberally applied) punishment of choice is beating people.

@tonyravioli001 @PursueTruth92 Tax is due on income minus deductible expenses. What were Tesla's deductible expenses? UA? It isn't hard to educate yourself on how the US tax system works. Learn a thing a day, drive ignorance away.

@PursueTruth92 Tesla: Reported no federal income tax on 5.7 billion in U.S. income. United Airlines: Paid zero tax on nearly 4.3 billion of income. Yum! Brands: Paid no federal income tax on over 1 billion in profits. Southwest Airlines: Avoided all federal income tax on 561 million.

I had a great chat with a friend of mine, a middle-aged gay man who left Seattle after the 2020 riots made the city he called home for thirty years “unlivable.” He’s traditionally voted Democrat but asks me for my opinions sometimes. We were talking about taxes and he shared “I wish they’d tax the rich and spend it on social programs instead of war.” I asked him “what percentage of federal income tax comes from the top 1%?” “I don’t know. Maybe 10%,” he said. I told him it was 40%, and that the 1% paid more than the bottom 90% of taxpayers combined. He was shocked. And we both agreed the tax code should be simple and transparent. And then I asked him what portion of the federal budget is spent on war versus social programs and welfare. “50% for the Pentagon and 10% for welfare programs.” I told him it was basically reversed and that social entitlements and welfare spending was actually more than 60%. Again, he was shocked. The resentment and envy machine that drives the political left’s slogans thrives on people simply not knowing.

@DTDavisPhD @PursueTruth92 @grok It is called income tax for a reason. The US doesn't tax wealth, it taxes income. The 1% pay a disproportionate share of Federal taxes, because income tax rates are not flat, but progressive.

@PursueTruth92 What percentage of national *wealth* is owned by the top 1%? Do they pay a proportionate share of federal taxes? How about total state, local, and federal taxes? @grok?

@NedPerkypal @PursueTruth92 The IRS taxes income, not wealth.

@PursueTruth92 What? The 1% of people who own 32% of the nation’s wealth pay 40% of its taxes? Crazy! And the 90% of people who own 32% of the nation’s wealth pay 32% of its taxes? Wild! Anyway, speaking as a gay, former long-term Seattle resident, is your friend normally this gullible?

@UsmanAbidemiEsq E. Abuse of a corpse

Criminal law students should attempt this.

The indictment is actually pretty clear that this is about wire fraud and making false statements when opening bank accounts I would challenge @DarrigoMelanie to defend SPLC against those specific charges. Tell me why it was ok for them to commit wire fraud

@mdmama_ This seems relevant. x.com/pseudorandompi…

COVID and Influenza can be deadly even in young healthy patients. I am only 1 physician and I have seen this far too many times. Vaccines are not perfect but they definitely decrease risk of severe disease including death. #getvaccinated cbc.ca/news/health/ho…

@CrewElon @mdmama_ Current and prior year flu vaccination is associated with higher viral RNA in exhaled aerosols. "Fine-aerosol viral RNA was also positively associated with having influenza vaccination for both the current and prior season." pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

@mdmama_ Do they really ? You promise? will you will stake your medical licence on it?

@DougJones Can I pay someone to facilitate a crime with no legal consequences? Serious question.

Charging the Southern Poverty Law Center with a federal crime for paying informants to help dismantle hate groups is an outrageous weaponization of the Dept of Justice and the FBI. As someone who has been a prosecutor and has taken on the Klan I can tell you that use of paid informants is a common tactic used to dismantle drug cartels, the mob and extremist groups on both the right and the left. It is clear that all civil rights organizations are in the cross hairs of this Administration and that folks, puts everyone at risk.

When you listen to Hasan Piker speak it becomes very obvious why Lenin and Stalin killed so many people. He appoints himself judge, jury and executioner - anybody who ideologically opposes him is guilty of vague crimes like “social murder” and can therefore be executed

@EsotericCD @snowblinder76 The indictment accuses SPLC of disguising payments through bank accounts of "fictitious entities." If true, that would be serious fraud AIUI. Am I wrong?

Have you read the indictment? Clearly you haven't. The indictment is for a total of $13,000 paid to six separate people. It is not about whatever you seem to think it's about. That is merely *the story* behind the filing. That's what they want in the news. That's the real "punishment" here. It's an incredibly weak case on the merits, though. I'm trying to be polite here, because it seems you've only read partisan summaries of what this is about, not the actual filing.

I hate the SPLC, but I think these indictments are basically bullshit. There, I said it.

@annbauerwriter @politicalmath Laundering money through "fictitious entities" is serious fraud. Look on page 1 of the indictment. If this is proven in Court, it isn't the squishy middle. justice.gov/opa/media/1437…

@politicalmath The answer almost certainly is in that squishy middle where the SPLC paid informants and maybe rooted just a bit for racism and prodded and nurtured it here and there but didn't commit outright fraud - which will satisfy no one.

I would *like* the SPLC to be guilty of promoting racism b/c 1) it's hilarious 2) they are bad people and I enjoy it when bad people are harmed 3) they spend millions trying to convince you that normie Republicans are Nazis and you should hate them However