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GreyjoyBastard posted:only when a bunch of idiots swarm in to posture about imperialism and apologize for Maduro Oh word?
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Brony Car posted:So if the world is objectively much worse in 12 years due to climate change but has not cracked in half, who wins? AOC or the Right Wing? Well, not all of us are dead.  Break out the pinnochios.
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cheetah7071 posted:Customs serves an important purpose and some border security is required for that but the notion that we need to spend billions of dollars keeping people out is a capitulation to the right's talking points
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Fritz Coldcockin posted:Trump. Or at least, he'll declare it on Twitter while swilling a Big Mac milkshake through a straw because he no longer has any teeth. He has very strong teeth he just doesn't show them because he knows we would be scared of how powerful
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Skippy McPants posted:Stick a zero on each of those percents and you'll get my attention. I’m assuming it’s an annual tax, so no, you don’t want to tax someone’s wealth at 20-30%, which would make them do absolutely reckless things to maintain that wealth. 2-3% is actually around the sweet spot because it’s slighlt more than inflation. I’d like to read Thomas Pickettys take on this.
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Of the little I know about Venezuela right now, I think Maduro actually is that stupid i'm less concerned about maduro going "lol i'm arresting your embassy personnel for crimes against the Bolivarian Revolution" than about something stupid eventually happening with the lovely little militias Shimrra Jamaane posted:What is the attitude of some of the resident tankies vs the Goons actually living there? there aren't too many goons still living there, they've mostly
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I really hope this wealth tax becomes part of the Democratic Party plank in 2020. It’s more important than income tax. I’d probably vote for anyone that ran on it.
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FBS posted:Breitbart has an ApOCalypse Countdown Clock on literally every page on their web site: Surprised they didn't spell it Kortez Kountdown Klock
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Brony Car posted:So if the world is objectively much worse in 12 years due to climate change but has not cracked in half, who wins? AOC or the Right Wing? 12 years is the year we can no longer get less than 2C temperature rise at 2100 no matter when we peak emissions. It's not the date anything particular happens or the date the climate gets bad or something.
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:PENILE ALERT If I kill myself first, I won't have to find out!
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:PENILE ALERT He was just evicted from the Celebrity Big Brother house so my guess is he whipped it out and showed it to someone.
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:PENILE ALERT whom from mario kart does it look?
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FBS posted:Breitbart has an ApOCalypse Countdown Clock on literally every page on their web site:
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:PENILE ALERT Is Mooch about to become a unit of measurement as well as time?
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Skippy McPants posted:Stick a zero on each of those percents and you'll get my attention. Call it the US PRIDE act or something and make those idiots race to be the next one to donate to society for once.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:there aren't too many goons still living there, they've mostly boots riley sharing a tweet more or less saying that venezuelans with internet access are basically like old cuban expats angry they got their mansions taken was gross as gently caress.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:whom from mario kart does it look? Birdo
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:PENILE ALERT "I'm black from the waist down." Edit: not a joke. That's what he told reporters.
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:PENILE ALERT Wasn't a nude selfie supposedly part of Mueller's giant collection of evidence in some case?
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coffeetable posted:IANAconsitutional scholar: would you need an amendment for a wealth tax? hell no. Congress has the right to levy taxes however it sees fit.
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Brony Car posted:So if the world is objectively much worse in 12 years due to climate change but has not cracked in half, who wins? AOC or the Right Wing? That depends on how much the political climate has shifted in 12 years and how much people still care about the third world, because it's going to be them doing the dying.
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paternity suitor posted:I really hope this wealth tax becomes part of the Democratic Party plank in 2020. It’s more important than income tax. I’d probably vote for anyone that ran on it. ¿Porque no los dos? Important to have both, imo. The wealth tax helps prevent continued accumulation at the top to a degree, yes, but there also needs to be a disincentive at some level of salary to continue to amass a larger and larger one such that some of those corporate revenues work their way down to lower-salaried employees. And so you also need to control things like stock buybacks as well, make that more expensive than it's worth. You can't just take money away from the rich, you need to incentivize natural distribution into the wider economy instead of just through government spending.
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Dumbest question I've ever asked. Can we just shut off power at night to most people? What if like, use electricity during the day. At night, when it's dark. Just like, go to bed? Could they do that? I feel like maybe that would cut emissions a lot?
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Tibalt posted:Okay this is hella late but where the heck are you living if you can't afford Pittsburgh prices? I’m in West Virginia right now. I don’t doubt that I could afford to live there but actually getting there is a challenge. My lease runs May-May which gives makes for a very short window to actually get a job and move. Then I need to have first/last saved up which isn’t too unmanageable. I’m making a big effort to pay off my debt this year so ideally I’ll be able to save to make the move easier after I’m debt free. I applied for a few jobs up there to try move in 2019, but didn’t get any. I guess I’ll try again for 2020.
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Is “imperialism” like “identity politics” where when WE do it, it’s just invisible/normal/“foreign policy” but when THEY do it it’s “imperialism”? It smells like it.
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InsertPotPun posted:"I'm black from the waist down." I bet he has a huge dick and is a huge dick so it never gets any use. “Anthony Scaramucci was fired as White House communications director after only 10 days on the job last summer. It was a position he accepted without telling his wife, Deidre Ball, who was nine months pregnant, and today Ball spoke out about her decision to file for divorce as a result.” He definitely is a huge dick.
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Rex-Goliath posted:hell no. Congress has the right to levy taxes however it sees fit.
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:Dumbest question I've ever asked. Maybe if you live in California, but anywhere that gets snow would be no-go In reality no, you can't just deny people basic resources
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:Dumbest question I've ever asked. I can’t wait to freeze to death in the winter in my electric heated apartment while not charging my phone
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Rex-Goliath posted:hell no. Congress has the right to levy taxes however it sees fit. A constitutional amendment fixing a base floor for wealth taxes at 20% above 5 million, and 75% above 1 Billion, plus an estate tax floor of 85%, would be nice though!
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FilthyImp posted:Yeah. 30% above 1B is a good start to pay for everyone's college and actually fund poo poo. The problem with a wealth tax is liquidating even 1-2% of everyone's wealth annually would lead to the stock market absolutely tanking and a massive shift of wealth to tax havens (even more than now). This might be your desired outcome, but it would not be popular.
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FilthyImp posted:Yeah. 30% above 1B is a good start to pay for everyone's college and actually fund poo poo. Taking 30% of peoples wealth would either result in them doing even more heinous poo poo to keep that wealth, or an unsustainable tax base once that wealth is all taxed away.
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:Dumbest question I've ever asked. Food would spoil in refrigerators, medications would go bad (insulin, etc), some people need life saving CPAP or Oxygen treatments at night, so it wouldn't be a good idea.
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:Dumbest question I've ever asked. I mean.... There are people who work night shifts who would like to be able to use electricity Eta also I'm a college student and if my paper gets hosed because I hit electricity curfew I'd be pissed
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Arrgytehpirate posted:I can’t wait to freeze to death in the winter in my electric heated apartment while not charging my phone You'd be rationed enough for heating.
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:Dumbest question I've ever asked. In Wisconsin, electricity is tied to heat generation. Also this assumes that no one needs to do anything at night or is even allowed to do things at night, which is bizarre.
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