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Saying Imploded is missing a lot of the much more fun context that led to the thread being goldmined.
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Drake is down so bad that he's accusing Kendrick Lamar of RICO. https://www.billboard.com/pro/drake-umg-spotify-schemed-boost-kendrick-not-like-us/ quote:Drake Accuses UMG & Spotify of Scheme to ‘Artificially Inflate’ Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ Edit: Popehat has been notified by a married couple in the gallery of the Onion bankruptcy proceedings: https://bsky.app/profile/kolyin.bsky.social/post/3lbsj6ggles23 quote:Jennifer Raff @jenniferraff.bsky.social facialimpediment fucked around with this message at 22:27 on Nov 25, 2024 |
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I'm beginning to think Drake was not the brilliant tactician I thought he was
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Milo and POTUS posted:I'm beginning to think Drake was not the brilliant tactician I thought he was Really beginning to wonder about his victory over the Spanish Armada
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ASAPI posted:Not nearly as cool as a folding microscope, but we seem to have transformed a quantum computer into a time crystal. Those words were real. Hoverboard mass production is indefinitely delayed with design flaws. Those boards don't work on water. Need somebody with agile experience to maybe jumpstart the development again.
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Arc Light posted:Hoverboard mass production is indefinitely delayed with design flaws. What if we add POWUH?
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https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/ The Onion is really firing on all cylinders with this one
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Arrath posted:https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/ It's from a year ago. Still accurate though.
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Man I'm good at checking dates.
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Arrath posted:Man I'm good at checking dates. Don't worry, it is evergreen
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Article on homelessness, through the first-person lens of a former reporter. His writing is readable, thought-provoking, and forthright. He suffers from mental illness and is disabled, but there's nothing really wrong with him intellectually. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a62875397/homelessness-in-america/ quote:The officers are civil, but every encounter causes me apprehension and stress. I’m innocent of any wrongdoing, but the interaction between a citizen and law enforcement is unbalanced by nature. They are part of an apparatus that can take away a person’s freedom. I know it, and they certainly know it. When you’re homeless, you are even more vulnerable. You have no place to go, no kitchen table to sit at while you drink your beer, invisible to them. You’re always on their turf. It’s unnerving. e: I hadn't realized there was a strata of homelessness that amounts to "too poor to get assistance (because you don't have a dwelling) but also too poor to exist sustainably". And I can see how people might decline any kind of shelter stuff. The Eyes Have It fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Nov 27, 2024 |
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This poo poo is just beginning, and they know they don't even need to hide it anymore. US drone firm appoints Trump Jr as adviser and sees stock price soar quote:A little-known Florida-based drones company said on Wednesday it had appointed Donald Trump Jr as an adviser – then saw its stock price surge.
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That seems almost quaint, considering the scope of the other things Trump is going to break or corrupt. I don't think it will influence voters much either, swing voters in particular already assume every politician is corrupt and rotten to the core. Trump might be corrupt, but he promised to make people's lives better if they voted for him. He will almost certainly not deliver on this front. Imagine if a politician not only promised those things, but then also fought to deliver them. I doubt the establishment would ever allow such a person to progress that far, but it's clear that the people are hungry for a populist leader that will fight for them. Trump merely offers standard pro-wealth policies wrapped in populist messaging.
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bird food bathtub posted:This poo poo is just beginning, and they know they don't even need to hide it anymore. Just out and out corruption. Plain as day. And these gently caress face maggots complained about Hunter Biden. If hypocrisy was fatal they'd all be dead.
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It’s time to get over hypocrisy being a topic anybody cares about
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Would Americans care that the administration was corrupt if their material needs were being met? It's not that I think it's entirely trivial and unimportant, but it is compared to the things that motivates low information voters. And to be perfectly honest, if some corruption was the cost for actually passing some policies that benefited the average American, I'd be willing to look the other way.
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I could stomach some FYGM from an administration that got us better wages and healthcare
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Tiny Timbs posted:It’s time to get over hypocrisy being a topic anybody cares about
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Mustang posted:Would Americans care that the administration was corrupt if their material needs were being met? That was pretty much Huey Long's MO - extremely corrupt and autocratic, but wrapped up in a genuine and fervent desire to help the poor and gently caress the rich. Hell, adjust the numbers for inflation and his "Share Our Wealth" proposals would get a lot of support today. e: quote:His plan was to minimize wealth inequality, via Federal tax and spend policy. poo poo I don't think there's a single poster on this forum who wouldn't vote for this. Acebuckeye13 fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Nov 27, 2024 |
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Mustang posted:Would Americans care that the administration was corrupt if their material needs were being met? I mean, of course not. On balance, americans don't care about anything (e.g. sweatshop labor for cheap clothes, foxxconn suicides for iphones, the entirety of climate change) so long as their wants and needs are met. Corruption from administrations who keep that train going doesn't even register as a blink for most people.
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It'd be better than corrupt and screwing everyone over.
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Acebuckeye13 posted:That was pretty much Huey Long's MO - extremely corrupt and autocratic, but wrapped up in a genuine and fervent desire to help the poor and gently caress the rich. Hell, adjust the numbers for inflation and his "Share Our Wealth" proposals would get a lot of support today. Just have to make sure the next one keeps any judges in laws away from them.
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My campaign pitch on the wealthy would be "I don't want to put a limit on how much you can earn as long as you're spending it on poo poo. Build a bridge, build a library, build a whole goddamn city, repair a state highway, build the world's largest statue of a middle finger, hire 10000 dudes to dig a county-sized hole in the middle of the North Dakota grassland and then fill it up again, whatever, just keep that money circulating." I read a book on the Roman Empire last year that made the point that the constant coups in the later years acted as a kind of wealth redistribution mechanism: the rich and powerful losing side were killed and their property ended up getting passed around the winning faction, who of course usually had to bribe the soldiers who helped them overthrow the previous regime. I don't recommend it as a system of government but it has a certain appeal. Vincent Van Goatse fucked around with this message at 01:24 on Nov 28, 2024 |
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Companies can deduct every dollar of salaries and wages of non-executive staff from their tax burden but their base tax rate is 90% Executive salaries and wages cannot be deducted from a company’s tax burden. This seems like a simple fix to a lot of problems but I’m also an idiot boop the snoot fucked around with this message at 01:31 on Nov 28, 2024 |
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:My campaign pitch on the wealthy would be "I don't want to put a limit on how much you can earn as long as you're spending it on poo poo. Build a bridge, build a library, build a whole goddamn city, repair a state highway, build the world's largest statue of a middle finger, hire 10000 dudes to dig a county-sized hole in the middle of the North Dakota grassland and then fill it up again, whatever, just keep that money circulating." Just repeal the tax cuts to the rich back to pre-reagen, a new glass steagle that includes a corporate death penalty (all decision makers/majority holders get the same punishment and any attempt to delay, delay, delay gets a judge dredding.) Any dem who resists gets brought before my golden porcelain throne, berated before jumbo and seven years exile.
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It’s really not all that complicated, a steeply progressive wealth tax (including on unrealized gains) takes care of most problems. Make it 0.1% under $1m ramping up to 10% over $1b and rich people still get their unlimited consumption and net worth competition while any wealth that isn’t earning well above normal returns gets whittled away by default.
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Sorry but even that will be too much and will only cause billionaires to move to such tax havens as, uh, South Sudan
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Tiny Timbs posted:Sorry but even that will be too much and will only cause billionaires to move to such tax havens as, uh, South Sudan Every 100k of wealth they move out of the country is a day they're banned from being here?
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Tiny Timbs posted:Sorry but even that will be too much and will only cause billionaires to move to such tax havens as, uh, South Sudan
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Milo and POTUS posted:You don't have a jumbo, we've all seen the pics No, you haven't all seen them and if you keep this up I'll post them again. At this rate I'm wondering how long till musk falls down a set of stairs. Hes talking poo poo about fighter planes now. I look forward to a tesla drone running someone over, failing to take off and then catching fire. Not necessarily in that order.
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Steezo posted:No, you haven't all seen them and if you keep this up I'll post them again. You left 'adopted by presidential decree' off the list.
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IPCRESS posted:You left 'adopted by presidential decree' off the list. I dont think trump wants another failson.
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Happy Thanksgiving to those of you celebrating the holiday today
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Current event: I have a blackberry pie and a mince pie cooling at the moment.
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I'm going to require a slice of that blackberry pie while it's still warm. A la mode, of course.
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Had pecan pie with vanilla ice cream. It was good.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Had pecan pie with vanilla ice cream. It was good. I call it corn syrup pie. Because that’s the primary ingredient.
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Pie filling is cooling and the turkey is in the oven, repeat the turkey is in the oven
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