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@Adordev_ @Simon_Ingari The 95% raise offer is not really credible. Once he lets go of the 65% offer, the 95% bait wouldn't materialize. And any annual raises after this match. Nope, not going to happen.
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@Simon_Ingari Let’s be real. If you turn down a 95% raise over hurt feelings, you aren’t a martyr. You’re just bad at math. No sensible person walks away from nearly double their salary to prove a point. Pride doesn’t pay the bills. Logic over emotions, always.
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2021: No salary increase
2022: No salary increase
2023: No salary increase
2024: No salary increase
2025: No salary increase
2026:
Employee: “Kindly accept my resignation.”
Boss: “But you’re doing such a great job! Why are you leaving?”
Employee: “I’ve received a new job offer with a 65% salary increase, and there’s also a guaranteed annual raise based on performance.”
48 hours later…
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@stephenehorn Until now, your posts were about hating Indians from India. Now you found something to hate about American Indians too. Anything with the word Indian must be causing you heartburn. You realize that holding so much hate inside you is bad for YOUR health.
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Fun fact, Indians made up 4.4% of murder arrests in NC in 2024 despite being only 1.2% of the population (3.7x)
That's even more disproportionate than blacks, who made up 66.1% of murder arrests despite being only 20.6% of the population (3.2x)

Charlie Smirkley@charliesmirkley
MMIWG stand for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. The media and politicians in Canada treat this as a genocide. One problem:
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@David_Charts2 @Pontifex But the "bottom 50%" of the US are way richer than those in the rest of the world. How about taxing them and then redistributing to the rest of the world? It always feels good to tax someone *else* and take their money. Try taxing *yourself* and give the money to others.
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@Pontifex In the U.S., the top 10% have $118 trillion net worth while the bottom 50% have $4 trillion. We should be taxing the rich a lot more.
P.S. The U.S. is so rich that if the net worth were split evenly, every household would be a millionaire.

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Hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are immersed in extreme poverty. Yet, disproportionate wealth remains in the hands of a few. It is an unjust scenario, in the face of which we cannot fail to question ourselves and commit to change things. There is no lack of resources at the root of disparities, but the need to address solvable problems related to a more equitable distribution of wealth, to be achieved with moral sense and honesty.
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@Pontifex How many people could live in Vatican City if it allowed dense housing?
Answer:
- Actual Vatican population now is 760
- With Manila's density: it would be 19,000
- With Gaza's density: 7,140
So, can you please allow 18,000 more immigrants in? Then preach about equity.
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@Pontifex Show us the way by letting some squatters build tents in Vatican city. Build high rise housing in Vatican city and house immigrants there. Then the rest of the world can learn from you.
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@CAgovernor California's GDP number get inflated because of rising value of tech companies: Nvidia, Apple, Google, Facebook etc. California govt run by politicians like you have ZERO contributions for it. Yet, you show up to collect rent by imposing ever rising taxes on those who work there.
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@GovPressOffice Blue states keep complaining about sending more in taxes. Then push for reduction in federal income tax. You won't be sending more. Problem solved.
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This is MAGA nonsense.
California has 16 MILLION more people than Florida. Of course we spend more on critical services.
From 2015 through 2023, we paid $29 BILLION MORE a year to the feds in taxes than we get back — subsidizing red welfare states like Florida.
And unlike Florida, we actually expanded Medicaid to cover people (broadly supported by the public).
They left people uninsured. We didn’t.
That’s the difference.
Stephen Moore@StephenMoore
California wants $137.5 BILLION in federal Medicaid funds, more than the entire budget of Florida. Gavin Newsom is pushing a 15% spending surge while the rest of the country foots the bill. This is a taxpayer bailout!
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@FluentInFinance Buy a pound of chick peas and/or kidney beans ($1.99) along with rice and cook. It will cost much less, last many days and is healthier. If you earn minimum wages, don't waste it on junk food like Doritos.
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@TukiFromKL So you would prefer that Amazon chose some other state? Explain why?
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🚨 do you understand what $25 billion in Mississippi actually means..
the poorest state in America.. $44,966 median income.. 28% of children in poverty.. and Amazon just chose it for data centers..
$25 billion for 2,000 jobs.. that's $12.5 million per job..
they didn't pick Mississippi to help Mississippi.. they picked it for the cheapest land.. cheapest power.. and the most desperate politicians willing to sign whatever Amazon put in front of them..
cotton plantations came for the cheap labor.. factories moved south for the no unions.. now data centers are coming for the cheap electricity and the tax breaks..
the product changes every generation.. the extraction doesn't
Polymarket@Polymarket
JUST IN: Amazon will invest $25,000,000,000.00 to build data centers in Mississippi.
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@skumWgmi The value of $ has also fallen. Compare the salaries and also price of eggs, bread, etc in 1978 with that in 2026. If you measure the price of a house not in $ but in how many days of salary it needed, the difference won't be as high.
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A boomer bought a house in 1978 for $58,000.
Did nothing.
Lived in it.
Watched TV.
Mowed the lawn.
Sold it in 2022 for $620,000.
That $562,000 didn't appear from nowhere.
It came from every millennial and Gen Z buyer who had to pay what the market became.
One generation's windfall is another generation's barrier to entry.
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@WallStreetApes This is sad. But no one should take a loan for any education that doesn't pay for itself and more. What is the point of paying $100K for an education that doesn't later earn you $200K?
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American says she went to school, got a good job but can never repay her student loans because of the interest
Just one loan has $600 per month interest, the principal is $600. That’s $1,200 on one loan per month and she has many
“I can't explain the darkness that I feel like has come over me these last few weeks since I found out and being too afraid to even think about the other ones. But I noticed that it wasn't moving and how unfair, like I did everything I was supposed to — I did everything that I was supposed to do and I had to do it by myself”
Now she’s realizing no matter how hard she works, no matter how much she pays she will never be able to pay off these loans or even bring any of the balances down
“It feels so unfair. It's working to just turn your, your whole check over to student loans.
How unfair is this American dream? This is an American nightmare — there's nothing else that I can do. There's nothing else that I can do.”
Our government became a loan shark with student loans. These rates are predatory
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@SenWarren Do you pay the same price for a pizza as a delivery guy? By your logic, all people should be paying the same % of their income for anything. So, as you earn 3 or 10 times more than a delivery guy, you should pay 3 or 10 times more for a pizza. Or gas. Let us know when you do.
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What a baby you are. I am 68. We paid $350,000 for our home 23 years ago. It is now worth $800,000. We both worked the last 45 years. My husband worked for 44 years of our marriage before he retired and I worked as a teacher for 25 years during our marriage. We paid for the Social Security for the people who came before us. What makes you so special that you should not have to do the same thing? We did not have 401(k)’s 44 years ago, but we still managed to save and do what we needed to do. Sent both kids through college. Put on your big boy pants and get to work.
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My boomer dad retired at 62.
Full pension.
Paid off house.
Medicare at 65.
Social security at 67.
Told me at Thanksgiving, I just need to be more disciplined with my money,
I make $71,000.
Rent is $1,900.
I have $4,000 in savings.
I didn't say anything.
I passed the rolls.
But here's what i wanted to say:
Your pension was defunded by lobbyists your generation elected.
Your social security is solvent because mine is still paying in.
Your houseis worth $800,000 because mine costs $600,000.
You didn't build differently.
You just got there first.
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@MorePerfectUS 1) US companies like Apple moved production to China to save 5-10% in cost.
2) Now US must spend a lot more than those savings to match China's military.
3) So outsourcing to China was a really stupid move.
4) We had to wait until Trump put a stop to this nonsense.
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Trump has proposed a $1.5 trillion defense budget — a 40% increase, the largest since WWII.
In exchange for more war he wants to:
-Cut the EPA budget by half
-Cut $10.7 billion for housing
-Cut $8.5 billion for K-12 programs
-Cancel $15 billion for clean energy
-Cut $2.5 billion for clean drinking water
-Eliminate $1.6 billion for youth job training
-Cut $3.5 billion from the Labor Department
-Eliminate $395 million for senior employment
-Eliminate $775 million in food assistance grants
-Eliminate the National Endowment for Democracy
-Cut $5 billion from the National Institutes of Health
-Eliminate the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
In all, cuts to domestic programs would account for a 10% reduction in discretionary spending.
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@MorePerfectUS 1) Starting with Bill Clinton, US Presidents watched manufacturing moving from US to China.
2) China ran $200B+ annual trade surpluses with US, reaching $1 trillion by 2024. It built warships, submarines, fighter jets with that.
3) Now US must spend to match or become #2 power.
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@MorePerfectUS Targeting popular programs to spend on military is bad. But US must do it or accept becoming #2 to China. We must ask who facilitated this rise of China to #1?
Sad answer: All US Presidents until Trump. They just watched as US declined while China rose.
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@anniekarni @TonyRomm Targeting popular programs to spend on military is bad. But US must do it or accept becoming #2 to China. We must ask who facilitated this rise of China to #1?
Sad answer: All US Presidents until Trump. They just watched as US declined while China rose.
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“Make it make sense,” Jeffries said. “It does not.”
To Boost Military Budget, Trump Targets Popular Programs at Home nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/…
w/@TonyRomm doing all the heavy lifting.
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@anniekarni @TonyRomm 1) US companies like Apple moved production to China to save 5-10% in cost.
2) Now US must spend a lot more than those savings to match China's military.
3) So outsourcing to China was a really stupid move.
4) We had to wait until Trump put a stop to this nonsense.
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@anniekarni @TonyRomm 1) Starting with Bill Clinton, US Presidents watched manufacturing moving from US to China.
2) China collected $200B+ trade surpluses with US, reaching $1 trillion by 2024. It built warships, submarines, fighter jets with that.
3) Now US must spend to match or become #2 power.
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