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Democrats. Working across the aisle. Ah yes.
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Comrade Blyatlov posted:wait what happened to dr seuss The estate that holds his copyrights decided to pull out of rotation 1 or 2 items of his that were very racist. The rest is still fully available. Now republican culture warriors are lying and saying that mainstay publications have been canceled by wokeism and Democrats etc. Fox and co keep showing cat in the hat saying its cancelled instead of posting up the racist stuff. Basically dumbass reactionaries are still dumbasses.
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Mar 6, 2021 06:37
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He also drew awful depictions of black ape-like people cooking a white guy in a cauldron. All that happened was the estate decided to turn off any way for them to profit from the racist imagery. This resulted in disingenuous republicans claiming childhood was cancelled.
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Mar 6, 2021 07:09
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Despite all the dumbassery to get here and stupid amendments, bill is probably one of the biggest and most left spending bills in a really long time.
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Mar 6, 2021 19:13
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True, several did. Still pretty impressive to see a relief / stimulus bill larger than the spend plan of another infamously large spending plan: the entire lifetime cost of the F-35. And at least it includes $300/wk for the next ~7 months in UI extensions, plus $1,400 (i know...), and a big boost to child tax credit.
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Mar 6, 2021 19:34
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Also it seems like just letting the money roll out and saying “yes, this was just democrats. Republicans hated this plan,” is a good idea. Even middle income and comfortably well off parents enjoy getting money.
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Mar 6, 2021 20:00
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Ah, the coveted demographics of... uh... DINKs and solo high earners? The initial stimulus last year was more in UI, but the GOP very clearly said enough was enough.
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Mar 6, 2021 20:05
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ElMaligno posted:How is this segnificant? The filibuster as done presently is not really a filibuster in the sense of keeping the floor occupied. It means debate isn’t closed unless 60 senators vote to close the debate. So no active antics required, just a refusal to vote to end debate.
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Mar 7, 2021 17:07
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PeterCat posted:the Hasidic Jewish guy The casual things we throw into labor policy discussion for gently caress knows what reason?
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Mar 8, 2021 13:39
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ManMythLegend posted:Jesus loving Christ. What the gently caress is up with the Army that that dude just got an LOR? Like, if hosed around and accidently pickled off a missile on my ship I'm going to a court martial. What if you killed like 170 civilians at the same time? E: 274. Hypothetically. mlmp08 fucked around with this message at 06:27 on Mar 9, 2021 |
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Mar 9, 2021 06:24
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Mar 9, 2021 09:11
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bird food bathtub posted:Does the deer statistic involve deer getting hit by cars? Seems a bit out of step with dogs and bees attacking people if so. Yes, that is what’s being counted. Which is really more of a car accident cause of death rather than a deer attack cause of death. Nearly a million Americans per year seek medical help after dog bites per year. About 30,000 get reconstructive surgery from dog attacks annually. About 1 in 73 people in the US get bitten bu a dog each year. Fortunately, most of those require no care beyond home first aid.
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Mar 10, 2021 02:55
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https://twitter.com/salaam/status/1369364782902558724?s=21 Good!
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Mar 10, 2021 06:00
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Geese knock out about 1/30 of an AWACS per year, by average.
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Mar 10, 2021 06:22
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Eh, if you start pointing out animals being present at point of industrial and transportation accidents, it just gets into a weird stats nightmare when comparing it to animal aggression. Might as well blame crabs for dead or maimed fishermen at sea. Though if I could just magically know things, I wanna know how many people termites have killed indirectly.
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Mar 10, 2021 06:30
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Hunting, population control, road design, automotive design, public transportation, yeah. But slamming your car into the side of a deer isn’t really in the same category of incident as a dog biting you or your kid.
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Mar 10, 2021 06:50
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Godholio posted:I didn't realize we having a real discussion over whether dogs should be banned. We aren’t. At all.
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Mar 10, 2021 07:50
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Maybe they can learn... https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1369464603198054402?s=21
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Mar 10, 2021 11:33
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Free lunches kept me from eating bread with some margarine for lunch or a more than I already did as a staple food at home. Also learned you can eat a bulk purchased Tina’s Burrito cold if you just nuke it before school and leave it in a paper bag all day.
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Mar 10, 2021 16:09
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boop the snoot posted:HEARTWARMING: 7-year-old gives plasma every week for two years to pay off friend’s school lunch debt. That joke tweet about how objectively bad things are good as cope absolutely applies to financial news.
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Mar 10, 2021 16:25
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:getting your hackles up when people, correctly, point Dog chat was earlier
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Mar 10, 2021 17:05
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PeterCat posted:Since my wife worked 9 months in 2019 and 12 months in 2020 we qualified for both Trump checks but won't get the Biden check. What mechanism makes it work that way?
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Mar 10, 2021 20:54
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The child tax credits are where a lot of the real money is that n this bill. Say you’re a single parent with two kids who is not rich: 1. You got $2200 from stimulus 1 ($1200+$500*2) and $1800 from stimulus 2 ($600*3) for a total of $4000. 2. You get $4200 from stimulus 3, more than 1 and 2 combined ($1400*3). 3. This doesn’t take into account child care tax credits, which are huge as well. Focuses on children are where a whole lot of the 1.9T are tied up. Never mind the EITC and public agency support. So when you see a take about how the current bill gives less $ than Republican bill, need to note that for that to be true, the take has to be made by someone with no kids who earns too much to qualify for the EITC. And hey, some of this is confusing. I didn’t start to realize just how stacked this was in favor of childcare and money for parents/kids until it was very close to passage because it’s easier for news and online got takes to focus on the simplest tax situations like direct payments to folks without kids.
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McNally posted:"Earns too much for the EITC" is a very very low bar to clear. I worked a summer internship for five months in 2020. The pay for that plus my taxable survivor benefits gave me an income equivalent to working 5 days a week, 8 hours a day, at $9.13 an hour. Yeah. The popular twitter framing is “trump gave more,” when that’s true for some notable but smaller segments. One of those segments it sucks a lot for is low income but not destitute people without kids who do not work in any of the public sectors funded by the bill. The current bull clearly prioritized child poverty over individuals with low income and without child dependents. So I get why lower income employed people without kids feel like they got little, because the lovely fact is that they did get rather little in direct payments. Other segments are more “meh,” in their complaints because it’s wealthy people with few or no kids who benefitted from Trump tax cuts and stimuluses more than stimulus aimed at children, the unemployed, and the working very poor. Or even for pretty average to well of people they are either ignorant of or ingoring child care tax credits, separate from child direct payments.
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Mar 11, 2021 02:14
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FWIW, since it came up, EITC for people without kids is tripled and available to people who earn about 1/3 more than normal. Still have to be a very low eatner, but it caps out at 21k instead of around 15k qualification amd at $1,500 instead of $540. Still, this improvement is kind of a testament to the ongoing shotty state of things for people who earn very little.
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Mar 11, 2021 05:12
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McNally posted:Should I file an amended return or is that for this tax year? I’m no tax lawyer, but everything I can find says this is for 2021 only.
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Mar 11, 2021 05:22
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McNally posted:
Ugh, news reports are vague and the IRS hasn’t caught up to the bill. It’s not clear to me whether the expansion in EITC eligibility and benefits are for tax filing 2021 on 2020 earnings or will be on 2021 earnings filed in 2022. So... I dunno?
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Mar 11, 2021 06:27
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Foiled again!
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Mar 12, 2021 17:44
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It also appears maybe more people are deciding that just telling people to gently caress off is cynically effective. https://twitter.com/jivedurkey/status/1370407841845108745?s=21
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Mar 12, 2021 20:53
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“Do not join the fray,” is the most challenging portion of forums watchdog boot camp.
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Mar 13, 2021 06:08
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Mar 13, 2021 06:24
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Time Crisis Actor posted:Why am I irrationally mad about Tucker Carlson's comments? It really does strike kind of a range intersectionality. In no particular order: 1. Extremely sexist 2. Complete ignorance about basic military info 3. Failure to acknowledge acquisitions pipeline 4. Deliberately lying about stuff 5. Dumbass face lookin’ dude 6. Chickenhawk-ism 7. It’s not just sexism to gatekeep. Sexism to erase past/current people’s works and sacrifices and existence 8. There are a million things to poo poo-talk the military and MIC about, but this isn’t it
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Mar 13, 2021 22:35
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Fareed is very concerned about kids and the border. Why? Because the fact that Biden’s admin is not outright denying asylum and leaving kids in Mexico or kicking them out in paper before ever allowing them to cross the border means, gasp, more people and children are attempting asylum in the USA. https://twitter.com/amymaldonadolaw/status/1370929768749748224?s=21 There’s this kind of dumbass space that exists in the discourse where twitter seems to think Biden et al ran out to find and round up kids to throw them in cages and conservatives are furious that our poor law enforcement has to deal with greater immigrant numbers because of a combo of the pandemic partially reigned in and an administration that is not straight up sating they’ll deny access illegally if need be. More people (and children) seeing the USA as desirous is good! But if we’re gonna pat ourselves on the back for emerald city on a hill poo poo, maybe the waiting area of the city shouldn’t suck and look like a jail or FOB. For those who just say “borders should not exist, full stop” sure. That’s an ideologically consistent take.
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JD Vance is proudly pro-Trump, pro-Ingram, pro-Limbaugh. He loves petty assholery as long as it’s his side. He will ocassionally make a broken clock statement like “maybe infrastructure should not suck” or “it’d be nice if single income households were viable.” His stance on immigration is that it’s hosed up that kids are in detention centers because the kids and families should have remained so terrified to come to the US that they’d never have shown up.
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KirbyKhan posted:Terry Crews's wierd sex masturbation hangup feels like it is coming from his wife. To be fair I am only basing that on two national tv interviews where he is explaining exactly how evil masturbation, while his wife is staring deadass at him the whole time. His porn thing may be more internalized than that. He described a period post-NFL of low income, underemployment, and just sitting around watching porn and being borderline depressed and porn was his unhealthy way if just making hours go away. It might also be his wife, but possibly more in a “go get paid” way than a simple jealousy way. It’s led him to being pretty blanket uncool with sex work in lovely ways, though. Maybe the guy who professionally works in a realm of getting attention and who works put more than like 99.95% of people has some addictive or obsessive tendencies?
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Ah, well, if the murderer told a cop that it’s not racist to sexually fetishize Asian women until you murder them, I guess it’s not racist!
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