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@DVanLangenhove Source?

Mohamed Bakkali, the logistical brain behind the Paris and Bataclan attacks that killed 129 and wounded hundreds more, is allowed penitentiary leave by the Brussels court. If Bakkali continues his “calm and good behaviour” according to the court, he could soon be freed indefinitely.

@_rathbone @JeffBezos I agree the borrowing loophole should be closed. It should be made illegal to lend against equity and force them to realize the gains and thus pay income tax / capital gains. I haven’t thought this through though and would welcome comments pointing out the flaws in this approach

Bezos relies on your ignorance. The 40% statistic he refers to is just the Adjusted Gross Income (AGI). It conspicuously leaves out the vast “passive” fortune of ~$8 trillion held by the billionaire class in the U.S. that is not taxed. It’s misleading because billionaires don’t earn an income or a salary. That’s for goyim peasants. They use a strategy called “buy, borrow, die”. Trillions of dollars in capital gains, not taxed (because they lobbied the tax code to be that way). They call it “unrealized capital gains” although when they need to “realize” it, they leverage that wealth to borrow huge sums of money which cannot be taxed (because it’s technically a loan). And that’s how they live and cavort around the world in megayachts, etc. They all do this. Elon Musk did this to buy Twitter, for example. And that’s how they skirt paying taxes and pretend they’re pious because they “don’t take a cash salary”. They don’t play the same game as us. When you look at the big picture, the true tax rate Jeff Bezos pays on his vast fortune is less than one percentage point (.9%), less than the nurse in Queens he uses as a political prop to advance his agenda. propublica.org/article/the-se…

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.

@cremieuxrecueil @Advo_D It’s ok to be wrong 😉

@va_schma @Advo_D They've made worse mistakes before. A previous CEO fully eschewed the decision to even pursue obesity as an indication. x.com/i/status/20314…

Imagine being the lawyer who fucked up and forgot to pay the patent maintenance fee for OZEMPIC Now, because you didn't pay a $250 fee, your company is going to lose out on BILLIONS.

@cremieuxrecueil @Advo_D Might’ve been a bad decision in retrospect, but believing they forgot to pay a fee and thus lost the patent is ridiculous.

@va_schma @Advo_D Because the cope 'They escaped negotiations' is absurd - they're still undercut by a generic to a more extreme degree - and 'They escaped MFN' is fake - those negotiations aren't real. There's no reasonable way to claim this was a good decision on their part.

@andyroyle_pwrc @cremieuxrecueil @Advo_D As I’ve said elsewhere, it’s likelier they wanted to control the price and perhaps run a controlled experiment before the patent expires globally. Certainly likelier than someone “forgetting” to renew. People are strange.

@va_schma @cremieuxrecueil @Advo_D the play is not obvious I guess

@Advo_D @canadian_eh_aye @cremieuxrecueil Nah, generics would’ve happened anyway. You can’t hold a patent forever. This way, they get to have a controlled experiment in Canada so they know what to expect globally later and set optimal pricing strategy.

@canadian_eh_aye @va_schma @cremieuxrecueil Well that was a terrible business decision. It spawned a massive copycat industry that will not only devastate pricing in Canada but will also spill over into the US, specifically. Possibly A LOT.

@visegrad24 Link your fucking sources and name the cafe. I’m so close to blocking you fuckers.

🇩🇪 A Berlin café and co-working space that did not allow White people to enter received €662,450 in government funding under the “Live Democracy” program between 2021 and 2024. The premises are described as a “safer space” exclusively for “BIWoC (Black, Indigenous, and Women of Color) and TINBIPoC (Trans, Inter*, and non-binary People of Color).” Moreover, according to research from the newspaper Die Welt, the managing director, Loubna Messaoudi, shared content praising Hamas terrorists, and described the October 7 attack as “resistance against colonialism.” Under the “Live Democracy” program, the German federal government funded numerous radical left-wing NGOs, including the so-called Unity Festival, an Islamist event where T-shirts were sold featuring a map with Israel removed. The promotional poster for the event also featured the organization Islamic Relief, part of the Muslim Brotherhood’s network in Europe. The Federal Minister for Family Affairs, Karin Prien (CDU), has announced a major overhaul of the program, including tighter controls and checks on whether funded groups actually align with democratic principles. Around 200 projects are expected to lose funding by the end of 2026, which SPD parliamentary group leader Julian Barlen called a “targeted attack on civil society.”

@ribibibi65 @cremieuxrecueil Bingo! This plus potentially a controlled experiment before global expiration starts kicking in. x.com/va_schma/statu…

@cremieuxrecueil It was deliberate, they even sent the money in and then asked for a refund. Without patent the Canadians dont force price controls on medicine, so novo estimated that price controls would harm profit more then competition.

@cremieuxrecueil @Advo_D Why does everyone think it’s incompetence? There’s obviously a play here.

@Advo_D That's amazing. So corporate would be the totally incompetent ones then.

@curtinity @Advo_D @cremieuxrecueil x.com/va_schma/statu…

@Advo_D @cremieuxrecueil But… why? Any theories?

@cremieuxrecueil Could be a test case, seeing how generics develop in Canada and how they interact with Ozempic within a smaller market. There are also some price controls tied to patented drugs so they might’ve calculated this to be more optimal. I’m doubtful of clerical error.

@WallStreetApes I thought America was the land of the free! Apparently it’s just another oligarchy, just wrapped up in more colorful freedom packaging.

Another American has just been informed half her property will be seized with eminent domain by Georgia Power to support Data Centers “They are going to demo all of these trees, playhouse, fence, fire pits, the pool, the spa, all of this, including our two neighbors' houses. They're completely demoing theirs. This easement is only going to be 12 feet our house, 12 feet from our bedroom where we sleep” “I am just one of many homeowners who are impacted by Georgia Power's high voltage power lines that that are going in to support data centers that are being built all over” It affects over 330 private properties. Georgia Power says it will negotiate purchases and easements and use eminent domain Georgia Power claims its to strengthen the grid for the growing energy demand in Georgia due to many new data centers We should not be letting this happen. We need protections from data center projects

@broodloper @SaltyMcSaltson3 @tonyrigatonee That’s not a trash can

@SaltyMcSaltson3 @tonyrigatonee Why would you throw your trash in nature if you are standing next to a trash can?

These people are incompatible with our countries

@LegalPrimes @Polymarket Looks like it's this x.com/alexcdot/statu…

@Polymarket Link to the study?

JUST IN: Big Four accounting firm Ernst & Young retracts study after researchers discovered AI hallucinations.

@Abu_Altakser @shtuka70 @notadogonline @visegrad24 Absolutely ridiculous number. Highly contested, as is even the lower bound of 50 million proposed by the same research. How many deaths did the Muslim conquest of India cause? About the same. At least the British introduced the vaccines, built railroads, stopped Sati etc.

@va_schma @shtuka70 @notadogonline @visegrad24 Aljazeera only reported on the paper, Patnaik and Prabhat are who wrote and are respected academics and the cite sources for all their claims in the paper including the claim that Britain killed 140million Indians in just 40 years during the 19th century.

🇬🇧 Britain, 2026. The Tower Hamlets Council, the local authority of London's most multicultural borough, shows the failures of mass-immigration. The Council's newly elected councillors ignore local issues and focus on commenting on Bangladeshi politics instead

@Abu_Altakser @shtuka70 @notadogonline @visegrad24 The source the paper on India from 2025 are: Al Jazeera, Times of India and The Times, which in turn reference a study by Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat who arenself declared Marxists. The other sources are unverifiable / not online. Industrial revolution is what enriched Britain.

@va_schma @shtuka70 @notadogonline @visegrad24 142 trillion £ (adjusted for 2025 value) extracted from India #d=gs_qabs&t=1778699416191&u=%23p%3DpOA9QQr1AFEJ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=ar&… Here is one on the British extraction from the Caribbean #d=gs_qabs&t=1778699506895&u=%23p%3DYIMZTYeiYSsJ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=ar&…

@Abu_Altakser @shtuka70 @notadogonline @visegrad24 Sure, cite away

@va_schma @shtuka70 @notadogonline @visegrad24 It’s actual document history and i can cite studies if you want.

@Abu_Altakser @shtuka70 @notadogonline @visegrad24 Such a tired, old bullshit narrative

@shtuka70 @notadogonline @visegrad24 Nah. It was the masses of wealth extracted from the colonies that kicked started the industrial revolution mainly from slave sugar farms in the Caribbean then later India.

@RealChuckM @BradRedekopp I’m curious. Please explain

@BradRedekopp Loophole? What loophole? You mean the Supreme Court of Canada ruling on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Which of those two things is it you intend to get rid of? If you're still confused as to why these sentences are being handed out I can explain it.

If a Canadian citizen nearly stabs someone to death, they can and should face the full force of the law. But if a non-citizen commits the same heinous crime, they can end up with a lighter sentence just to avoid deportation. Conservatives moved to close the loophole. Liberals voted no.

@FieryHasbara @Alj__Rogan @NotthatSuzanne You can point that one out. Everyone’s got a blindspot for their side. You’re all pathetic

@Alj__Rogan @NotthatSuzanne It's whining over nothing. Did any of these whining twats point dirty fingers at Farages £5MILLION "gift" from a foreign entity.....? Or at the £26MILLION "gift" in his corporate account?

Bolton's newly elected Green Party Councillor proving the party is still all about the environment