@Ally_Sammarco Because all the so-called qualified people are doing such a bang up job?
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WreckRoom
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Why is anyone supporting this unqualified hack
Kalshi Politics@KalshiPolitics
BREAKING: Spencer Pratt has a 74% chance to advance in the LA Mayoral election. Nithya Raman has a 30% chance to advance
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🚨#BREAKING: A WOMAN HAS JUST BEEN STABBED TO DEATH BY A HOMELESS MAN ON A PUBLIC TRAIN IN ATLANTA GEORGIA.
INVESTIGATORS SAY IT IS A, "SENSELESS ACT OF VIOLENCE..."
WE DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE LIKE THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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@mattpressberg Well, that and few Americans care about soccer outside of youth matches.
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I blame FIFA for this. The US is a mass affluent country where wealthy people can afford pricey tickets but are generally sensitive to ripoffs. FIFA is pricing this for the type of country with a small hereditary elite class who is comfortable with being treated as human ATMs.
Frank Luntz@FrankLuntz
54% of Americans are not at all interested in next month’s FIFA World Cup. ⚽️
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@CircumjovialLLC @ronrule Woooowwwww. Congrats. You just totally exposed that Grammarly is doing the same thing it did a decade ago but with AI branding.
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@robynngarfield HOA fees and now CDD (Community Development District) fees in Florida. Those typically are listed on the real estate listing so you see a house with a low HOA and don’t catch the high CDD unless you ask about it directly.
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I love looking at investment properties online, but holy cow, who's buying condos that have $850 monthly HOA fees????
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@CircumjovialLLC @ronrule There’s a big difference between having an AI write a 5-10 page college essay for you and using a tool like Grammarly to help you catch typos or mistakes. That’s like saying having a dictionary next to you while you write is cheating.
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@joshuawx_ Yeah. Oddly enough, it was Marta that killed it. (Bus service)
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The fact Gwinnett place mall doesn’t even exist anymore speaks volumes on how behind MARTA is on expansion
Charlotte 💙 💫🚉💫@barely_th3re
full buildout of MARTA (+infill stations) based on the Rapid Transit Contract and Assistance Agreements and Amendments - which MARTA is theoretically legally obligated to abide to
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@mattfromcobb I’ve driven both of these. Driving through Kansas, especially the western half, is far worse.
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I love it when people obviously have never driven on I-16 between Macon and Statesboro before.
Epic Maps 🗺️@theepicmap
The most "boring" drive between two American cities: Denver to Kansas City, MO.
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@oh_HOLMES Yes, now Georgians only have his voting record, which includes supporting men in women’s sports, to judge him by…
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Republicans never caught Jon Ossoff saying non binary even one time on video to date 🤣🤣. He gets how to move and how to survive as a Dem in GA.
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Yes, all this equity that I can do squat with other than pay taxes on it…
How about we cut taxes instead of new taxes? Instead of local government looking at us and our property as “sources of revenue” for their pet projects, comfortable jobs of the connected, graft, kickbacks, and incompetence.
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@wreckrm @lymanstoneky I have very little sympathy for the consequences of you gaining hundreds of thousands of dollars of equity by doing nothing.
But fine: what taxes to replace them with? Gotta be something, and there are few more progressive taxes than property.
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This issue is literally young vs. old
Age-specific property tax relief is a direct attack on my children, on family formation, on young people. It cannot be tolerated.
Ashley Schendel@ashleyschendel
Property tax relief for seniors is getting framed as young people vs. old people, but the real problem is that nobody feels secure in housing anymore. Young families are getting crushed by rent, insurance, interest rates, groceries, and childcare. Seniors are getting crushed by taxes, insurance, utilities, groceries, and fixed incomes. Cheering when an 80 year old gets priced out of a paid off house does not make rent cheaper for a 30 year old. It just proves the system has gotten so broken that everyone is fighting over who deserves stability the least.
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I understand perfectly how they work. They are used to cover the incompetence, corruption, and graft of local politicians. Stop acting like local government is some benevolent entity dropping boons upon the citizenry. They are just as crooked and lazy as federal employees. See Los Angeles. See Chicago. See Atlanta.
Local spending has exploded in the last decade plus. I’ve watched the school board fire on superintendent and have to pay him off, hire another and watch him explode the budget, only to fire him and have to pay him off. I’ve watched the school system blow obscene amounts of money on laptops and tablets and other unnecessary BS that function as nothing more than kickbacks.
All the while the quality of life and quality of education gets worse. Screw the local governments. Starve them of their money and force them to focus on their core mission of providing basic services.
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@wreckrm @lymanstoneky You don't understand how property taxes work.
Municipalities, counties, states, all set budgets, which sets spending, which sets taxes. Property valuations are used to relatively divvy up the tax burden. It is not an unrealized gains tax.
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The current property tax system has been a disaster for everyone else. My home value has doubled in just 5 years AND the county has raised the millage rate multiple times. Between property tax and insurance (since insurance is also tied to home value) I’m almost paying a second mortgage at the moment.
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@wreckrm @lymanstoneky That just encourages people to never sell, and has neighbors ending up with wildly different tax burdens for identical properties. Prop 13 has been a disaster for CA if you are under 60.
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That’s not what Boomers do. That’s what your FIL did. My Boomer parents went to no end to help my siblings and I in ways we’ll never be able to pay back. My aunts and uncles did the same for their kids.
Sorry your FIL was a dick, but don’t ascribe his actions to millions of other individuals.
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I told my kids that they would lose their devices and be grounded if they bought any microtransactions. That did the trick for them.
As for regular games, it was either money they saved up or birthday/Christmas gifts. My one big splurge was getting two used Xbox 360s so we could all play Destiny together.
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Hey Twitter Parents!
Got a genuine question:
When I grew up, it was totally normal having to pay a premium price tag for video games. I remember having to save all my allowance for almost a full year in order to finally purchase Street Fighter 2 Turbo for like a thousand schillings back in the day - which right now feels equivalent to around 100 USD.
But the gaming landscape has changed a lot over the past 20 years. Mobile Gaming became a thing, games being 'free' while actually being financed mostly through MTX became a thing, etc.
So... if you have kids ranging from 6-20 years old, what's their stance on what games ought to cost?
Are you consistently buying 60-70$ games for them?
Or are they mostly spending their time on games that are 'free'?
How regularly are your kids buying Microtransactions?
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@exQUIZitely I still have the Dark Horse comic mini-series. Fantastic adventure.
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Dear Mr. Lucas,
This could and should have been the fourth and final movie of the Indiana Jones franchise - one of the greatest and saddest missed opportunities ever.
Sincerely,
Millions of disappointed fans
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“Unrealized gains” is a fake term made up by rich people to justify not paying taxes.
Its the financial equivalent of a schoolchild saying “IM NOT TOUCHING YOU!”
Sorry, but assets are wealth. Might as well say money isn’t wealth since you havent traded it for goods and services
The Refined Populist@RefinedPopulist
If your 1970’s home is now worth $1M, you’re on the hook for ~$10K/yr. Based entirely on unrealized gains. That’s absurd for the fixed-income elderly. Property taxes SHOULD be abolished for Boomers. But they should be abolished for everyone else too. Property taxes are evil.
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@MattMorseTV @StrokeJoke @BradenLOA Considering we spend more money per pupil than other countries only to get worse results, maybe there could be some belt tightening done by school systems and local governments.
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If public schools are generally funded by property taxes, and the largest property-owning demographic in the country (seniors) stops paying property taxes, what do you think happens next?
Who do you think is going to foot the bill?
Young American families who are already financially struggling with the costs of raising children.
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Young married families with children should not pay property taxes.
Nancy Mace@NancyMace
Our seniors should not pay property taxes.
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I just wanted to remind you all about how BIG Destiny used to be. Look at this clip from the Destiny 2 reveal event. Massive crowd, giant stage, and a huge ol 2. Oh and ofc Luke Smith actual Bungie leadership talking to us.
The lead up to Destiny 2 launch was insane.
#WeWantDestiny3
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