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| D:1 | RP ( 5508.02 points)
| September 18, 2024 12:01pm |
‘Unfounded’: Police Debunk Viral Claim Shared By Elon Musk And Others of Bomb Found Near Trump Rally Site - [Link]
Radical free and irresponsible speech. You do not get to falsely yell fire in a crowded theater and escape responsibility for the result.
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| D:1 | RP ( 5508.02 points)
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| September 18, 2024 09:52am |
JD Vance defends pet-eating remarks: ‘The media has a responsibility to fact-check’ - [Link]
Wait, weren't they just complaining about the media doing fact checking? They're good with it now?
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| D:1 | RP ( 5508.02 points)
| September 18, 2024 09:47am |
LSwisso: More excuse to go after Israel, a country which I compassionately defend against all criticism.
Nobody and no country should be immune to criticism. That's just toxic and authoritarian.
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| D:1 | RP ( 5508.02 points)
| September 18, 2024 09:46am |
Need more info, but not sure I'm totally against this. The Hezbollah members opened themselves up to retaliation, though I am concerned with bystanders. Hezbollah has got to be really stupid on security to fall for this though.
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| D:1 | RP ( 5508.02 points)
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| September 18, 2024 08:59am |
LSwisso: there are some taxes I can't stand such as the death tax, a tax which Republicans seek to repeal and Democrats fight to keep alive.
Yeah, another one you fall for the propaganda line. "Death Tax". It's no different than anything else where you transfer money from one person to another person you pay taxes on it. If someone works for one of their parents, they still pay income tax. The estate tax is a special exemption that lets rich people keep all of their generational wealth tax free.
And the exception is currently set to just over $13.6 million dollars. Only people inheriting more than that have to pay any estate taxes. And it's really a few million more than that if you do early estate planning. Wanting to repeal that is really just a giveaway to really really rich people.
And remember, if you give lots of tax money to really rich people, then either you have to raise taxes on poor people to make up for it or you explode the deficit and everyone has to pay more and more interest on that forever.
Further, Elon Musk for example uses tax avoidance schemes like living off very low interest loans against his stock that aren't taxable. Theoretically this should just delay the payment of taxes and even continually extending the delay the taxes should become due at the time of his death, but the high estate tax threshold means he gets to escape a lot of that and if it were repealed completely it would mean he/his family could escape taxes completely.
I would also point out that the same people who think they have no responsibility for their ancestors' treatment of their slaves because it was in the past and not them often still think they have an absolute right to all of the wealth originally generated by those ancestors' slaves.
There is no meritocracy in supporting a continual wealthy class who just inherit from their parents.
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LSwisso: I'm no expert on tax policy. I'm not sure which tax plan works best, but there are some taxes I can't stand such as the death tax, a tax which Republicans seek to repeal and Democrats fight to keep alive.
It is indeed clear you do not know much about taxes. The estate tax ("death tax") only applies to people worth more than $13.61 million upon their death. Regular people being outraged by it is an example of the effectiveness of right wing propaganda.
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| Joker:9757 | BrentinCO ( 7748.48 points)
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| September 17, 2024 09:48pm |
Jason: Today I learned pagers are still regularly used in Lebanon.
Taking a stab in the dark, but guessing thats why they were so easily hacked. Older technology, lower to no sophisticated security.
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| D:6086 | Jason ( 11913.37 points)
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| September 17, 2024 09:14pm |
Today I learned pagers are still regularly used in Lebanon.
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RP: He essentially did when he floated eliminating all income tax and replacing it with tariffs.
The fact that Conservatives unironically run as vanguards of the Poor and Working Class when they literally run on "Cut the Tax on the rich and implement a tax on the poor"
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| D:1 | RP ( 5508.02 points)
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| September 17, 2024 09:14am |
People have tried to predict elections based on Voter Registration changes for many cycles and have had little to no success. I include the left in this with the upsurge of young voter and minority registrations.
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| I:6738 | IndyGeorgia ( 4113.60 points)
| September 17, 2024 08:20am |
It’s a radio show on SiriusXM through January.
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Is anyone else still having the issue with comment boxes not showing up on certain pages? I've tried in three different browsers, different devices, logged out and logged back in, cleared cache, and no luck.
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E Pluribus Unum:
Someone might want to tell him that threatening to kill the Vice President is, in fact, a crime. Or threatening to kill anyone for that matter.
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| Joker:9757 | BrentinCO ( 7748.48 points)
| September 16, 2024 05:28pm |
Despite the marginal nature of the district, Hamrick will win in a landslide as the Republican was disqualified for not submitting the required paperwork to get on the ballot (personal financial disclosure & candidate affidavit)
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| Joker:9757 | BrentinCO ( 7748.48 points)
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| September 16, 2024 09:54am |
ZT08: I personally condemn both messages and I don't think anyone from any side should be engaging in such unprofessional conduct.
You are right. Its okay to condemn the dumb things people say...even if we agree with them politically. Dumb is dumb.
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| WmP:879 | Chronicler ( 84.45 points)
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| September 16, 2024 09:53am |
Well you know I got the nickname Chronicler when I was a graduate student in History in the late 1980s. One other student had a lot of strong opinions about historic events but little inclination to examine primary source documents first. I wanted to base my conclusions on a sound methodology even if that meant that my initial assumptions had to be set aside. We often reached similar conclusions but in my mind, the difference was that the lack of adequate background work opens one up to accepting the latest whims or propaganda and not having a sound basis for a refutation or recalibration.
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This is why you are Chronicler, because of excellent chronicling.
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LSwisso: Is it really a good thing that the rural states has since lost political power at the federal level ?
Yes, because political power should be proportional to population and the rural population has been shrinking as a percentage of the total.
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| WmP:879 | Chronicler ( 84.45 points)
| September 16, 2024 06:00am |
LSwisso: Here's a question election pollsters aren't even asking voters, do you believe that permanent single party rule is good for democracy ?.
The US survived a quarter century of the DRP in the early nineteenth century. The Republicans held the White House for two extended periods: 1869 to 1885 and 1897 to 1913. The Democrats held the White House from 1933 to 1953.
I am a little confused why you see eight years of Democrats in the White House as different.
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| D:1 | RP ( 5508.02 points)
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| September 16, 2024 05:27am |
LSwisso: Yes, elections are very important, but I'm not going to center my life around them.
The amount you post here seems to contradict that.
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LSwisso: There are far more important things to life than just caring about who wins elections and who holds onto power. Politics may be a force of change, but it's not relative to your personal life.
That is literally the most elitist privileged ****ing horse**** I have EVER heard.
Elections are super ****ing important and dictate policies that are VERY much relative to your personal life
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| D:1 | RP ( 5508.02 points)
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| September 15, 2024 02:49pm |
If they admit they are going to keep making **** up to make their points, should you believe anything they say?
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When the VP nominee of one of the two major parties openly states that they are making up a narrative that serves as a cornerstone of their platform and DON'T get immediately poll at 0.0% shows the complete emptiness of the Republican Party. Which is the GOP playbook since at the very least 1980:
STEP 1: Make up a problem that does not exist and never will
STEP 2: Run on a solution to the fake problem
STEP 3: DO things that will cause Actual Problems
STEP 4: When the ensuing Dem administration has to deal with the blowback to Step 3, pretend THEY CAUSED IT
STEP 5: Repeat
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