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Sorry to go back a couple of pages. Also I don't want to go too deep into identity politics when this is just a picture of a moron getting owned. But what point is Dinesh trying to make? Apart from the stupid attach helicopter joke? Is he trying to make some sort of point based on her ethnicity, and maybe(?) paint her as some kind of racist for denying or minimizing her Indian heritage? She is dark skinned. Which in the eyes of many Americans, indeed in the eyes of the racists that Dinesh is trying to appeal to, already makes her an "other" and "less than" But Dinesh is saying "Look, she identifies as this thing that she is CLEARLY not! How dare she call herself a n*gger, when she is merely an Octaroon." trying to paint her as the racist. Clearly missing the point that 1)talking about her only in relation to her race is racist, 2)only the hardest core of racists care that much about blood and purity etc. and 3)she would have been made to sit at the back of the bus anyway, so she does know a bit about racial inequality/persecution. Also, if she had played up the fact that her mum is from Chennai, these same people would be shouting "You aren't properly American! Get out foreigner!" at her.
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Aug 17, 2020 01:44
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BrigadierSensible posted:Sorry to go back a couple of pages. Also I don't want to go too deep into identity politics when this is just a picture of a moron getting owned. He's saying that while she is Brown and therefore a lesser Other, she is not Black enough to count as Black, and therefore doesn't deserve the privilege that comes from being the Favored Minority of the DNC. It's an exceptionally stupid argument.
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Internet Wizard posted:He's saying that while she is Brown and therefore a lesser Other, she is not Black enough to count as Black, and therefore doesn't deserve the privilege that comes from being the Favored Minority of the DNC. it suits Dinesh as he is an exceptionally stupid person and his arguments are in almost as much good faith as an LoB post
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Aug 17, 2020 02:12
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BrigadierSensible posted:Sorry to go back a couple of pages. Also I don't want to go too deep into identity politics when this is just a picture of a moron getting owned. I think you are overanalyzing the ravings of a man who claims that the common American pronunciation of Thailand is "thighland".
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Aug 17, 2020 02:39
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Elviscat posted:I think you are overanalyzing the ravings of a man who claims that the common American pronunciation of Thailand is "thighland". I thought he said that educated cosmopolitan people like Trump know that it is pronounced Thighland. Honestly found this argument surprising since that kind of explanation wouldn't sit right with fascists given that there's a problem with being an (((educated cosmopolitan))). But then again, Dinesh is a hack who will say anything, and the same goes for fascists.
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Aug 17, 2020 03:09
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bhangraton posted:I thought he said that educated cosmopolitan people like Trump know that it is pronounced Thighland. He said that in the first tweet. In the second tweet, he said just all Americans do it. Or something like that. Basically, he replied to his own tweet with a completely conflicting explanation.
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Aug 17, 2020 03:11
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Gonna pick up some thigh food later. What should I get?
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Aug 17, 2020 03:21
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Is this person a VA, or just some rando weighing in?
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Aug 17, 2020 03:22
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GreenMetalSun posted:Is this person a VA, or just some rando weighing in? Voice actor. Looking at her IMDB she seems like she's one of those perennial 'Additional Voices' actors, where all the named characters she plays are in things you've never heard of, and all the things she's in you've heard of she plays miscellaneous randos in. The only part of things I disagree with is the 'if it's not available in your region, too bad', because that happens with a lot of anime and is genuinely frustrating, at least show some sympathy on that. It's a medium where even the quintessential stuff gets weirdly evasive internationally, and it sucks.
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Aug 17, 2020 03:41
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"Support the anime industry: Don't pirate unavailable media. Buy used instead!" 
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Aug 17, 2020 03:57
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RabbitWizard posted:615$ donations a month. To what? Poor people? Twitch streamers? The local bar? My understanding in dealing with people who have high income is that donations are one method to ensure you stay below certain tax thresholds; then claimed as a tax deduction. E.g - earned $100k this year? You might go into the 'high earner' threshold and have to pay a higher percentage of income tax than someone who was in the medium threshold, but if you donate a large portion of your income - enough to keep you below that threshold - you pay less income tax. The 'charity' could be something they benefit from in a roundabout way, like donations to a local sports club, or a foundation in their area which might help a friend with an interest in doing politics or developing a business, a school they might plan on sending their children to, etc. Instead of the money going into tax and being used by various levels of government for whatever projects they decide, the person chooses how to direct their own money into the community. I've been used as a tax mule (a term I just made up) by my own dad before in this way, where he got me to sign some documents 'for tax stuff' and put some assets in my name so that he would be below a certain income threshold for that financial year, and then after his tax return was complete the assets were signed back into his name. It was only later that I realised this was the case, because I got asked about some assets I had never heard of when applying for a loan later next year. I simply didn't understand the process at the time and obviously trusted my parent not to do something like that without explaining it to me first.
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Aug 17, 2020 04:03
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TheMostFrench posted:My understanding in dealing with people who have high income is that donations are one method to ensure you stay below certain tax thresholds; then claimed as a tax deduction. E.g - earned $100k this year? You might go into the 'high earner' threshold and have to pay a higher percentage of income tax than someone who was in the medium threshold, but if you donate a large portion of your income - enough to keep you below that threshold - you pay less income tax. This is not how tax brackets work. Unless there is outright fraud, donations to an arms-length charity can never leave you with more money in your pocket than not donating it, or if you have a greater than 100% marginal tax rate (which I don’t think is the case anywhere in the world, not that it’s necessarily a terrible idea).
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Cleretic posted:Voice actor. Looking at her IMDB she seems like she's one of those perennial 'Additional Voices' actors, where all the named characters she plays are in things you've never heard of, and all the things she's in you've heard of she plays miscellaneous randos in. I’m also not a huge fan of her second point that mentions the impermanence of media as some kind of natural and good thing
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Aug 17, 2020 04:16
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Subjunctive posted:This is not how tax brackets work. Unless there is outright fraud, donations to an arms-length charity can never leave you with more money in your pocket than not donating it, or if you have a greater than 100% marginal tax rate (which I don’t think is the case anywhere in the world, not that it’s necessarily a terrible idea). You're right, I didn't word that very well. That's what the second part is about. Obviously the person doesn't have the money any more because they gave it away - but they give it away to something that will benefit them, or arrange it so that they will get that money back in the future (I guess in my case it wasn't a donation, it was a transfer of assets). chitoryu12 posted:Simping for Shapiro It's a pretty weird tweet to make in the first place, but the differences are interesting. The front on photo of Shapiro hides the size of his neck, jaw and shoulders. No depth around his cheek bones, and he is just really tucked in and buttoned up, sharing nothing about himself. Everything about how he displays himself is conservative. I don't know who the other person is meant to be, but you can see everything about the shape and size of their face structure, and the V neck top shows body confidence. This was also pretty funny https://twitter.com/guillotineshout/status/1295191909565108224?s=20 TheMostFrench has a new favorite as of 04:37 on Aug 17, 2020 |
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Aug 17, 2020 04:19
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Do you live somewhere with a wealth tax? I don’t understand how the transfer of assets would be advantageous from a tax perspective otherwise.
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Aug 17, 2020 04:22
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Please terminate distribution of this fansub when the idiots on social media thread becomes available in your country.
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Aug 17, 2020 04:30
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Captain Monkey posted:Gonna pick up some thigh food later. What should I get? Honey baked ham? Subjunctive posted:This is not how tax brackets work. Unless there is outright fraud, donations to an arms-length charity can never leave you with more money in your pocket than not donating it, or if you have a greater than 100% marginal tax rate (which I don’t think is the case anywhere in the world, not that it’s necessarily a terrible idea). It's how a lot of people think tax brackets work regardless, so you can't rule it out completely. Particularly in the case of a parent who's moving their assets around to look less wealthy than they are. But for everyone else it's just outright avoiding taxes by claiming something bought or done for your own benefit is actually charity, so you can count it as a deduction. He's not writing a $600 dollar check to the food bank every month. It's something like a church tithe, or a club donation that's an expense you need to pay for social reasons but structured so you can claim it as charity.
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Subjunctive posted:This is not how tax brackets work. Unless there is outright fraud, donations to an arms-length charity can never leave you with more money in your pocket than not donating it, or if you have a greater than 100% marginal tax rate (which I don’t think is the case anywhere in the world, not that it’s necessarily a terrible idea). You can donate in a way that benefits you without putting money in your pocket. For example you can donate money to the church you attend. This money will be used for operating expenses and improvements to a service you consume. A church isn't just a church, the church I attended as a kid had an indoor basketball court and a banquet hall. I've heard of churches that have a swimming pool and a full gym. That stuff isn't open to the local community, the kids that live next door can't come play, it's effectively a members only club. Imagine if your gym membership was a tax deductible donation, lol. Or if you're rich enough you can donate money to a charity you control outright and then have the charity hire your useless relatives for dumb jobs that pay $100,000 a year, possibly leaving you in a better financial situation than if you just gave those relatives an allowance directly. A charity where 90% of the money goes to staff salaries and administrative costs is still legally a charity.
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Aug 17, 2020 04:44
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As an ace person, yes.
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Aug 17, 2020 06:51
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As a non-asexual I can only speculate but even if I’m not interested in loving someone I don’t want them to think I look like poo poo so maybe the same kinda thing is going on there?
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Aug 17, 2020 06:55
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The majority of women I approach seem to be asexuals. I only pirate One Piece since Luffy would understand being a pirate.
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Aug 17, 2020 07:00
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Captain Monkey posted:Gonna pick up some thigh food later. What should I get? Lamb shank.
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Aug 17, 2020 07:48
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christmas boots posted:As a non-asexual I can only speculate but even if I’m not interested in loving someone I don’t want them to think I look like poo poo so maybe the same kinda thing is going on there? I'm fond of looking pretty because it makes me feel pretty and thats a really nice feeling. Has nothing to do with anyone else.
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Aug 17, 2020 07:51
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RFC2324 posted:I'm fond of looking pretty because it makes me feel pretty and thats a really nice feeling. Has nothing to do with anyone else. But we all know that the only reason a woman would ever try to look good is to entrap a man into paying for the babies she has with an orgy of drug addicts with huge penises!
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Aug 17, 2020 08:04
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all those dastardly people with limited income who're stealing checks nothing at all because it's literally just a copy that doesn't remove anyone's property or prevent the copyright-holder from still earning money off the people who can afford to buy it. Also lol at comparing data piracy to the behavior of colonizing nations. I guess the pirates are invading the creators and displacing them from their studios now. A bold new tack to take.
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Aug 17, 2020 08:05
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Push El Burrito posted:I only pirate One Piece since Luffy would understand being a pirate. I only pirate stuff by riding my wooden ship up to wal-mart and bombaring them with cannon fire until they surrender the goods.
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Aug 17, 2020 08:09
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So a few years back i lived in rural Eastern WA (AMA about being a Scandinavian in the Trumpiest part of the country and surviving culture shock) and i still keep a few of the weird Facebook groups for laughs.
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Nuclear War posted:So a few years back i lived in rural Eastern WA (AMA about being a Scandinavian in the Trumpiest part of the country and surviving culture shock) and i still keep a few of the weird Facebook groups for laughs. When people heard you were Scandinavian, did you get constant comments in you being one of the good ones?
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Samovar posted:When people heard you were Scandinavian, did you get constant comments in you being one of the good ones? I'm a white, male veteran (wrong military, but I deployed several times which outweighs a lot) so I got off quite easy as one of the good ones yes, despite being an insane socialist who 'just doesn't get how it works here'. I did get some hilarious questions though such as 'are people allowed to own property in Norway' or 'Are Christians allowed into the country?' referring to me maybe bringing my then girlfriend back to Europe with me.
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Samovar posted:When people heard you were Scandinavian, did you get constant comments in you being one of the good ones? Nah, they got referenced in many other conversations as "that foreigner who fled the evil scourge of socialist europe and came here to this wondrous land of freedom. They're white, so it's OK."
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Aug 17, 2020 09:13
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WHERE ARE THE ALL PROTESTS FOR THIS ONE CHILD  I'm really confused by the pizzagate hashtag at the end, because that's the OP who originally posted the story. Also the "great podium to protest" lol
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I am so tired of the absolute momentum of complete and willful misunderstandings of really important things BLM protests are protests against "murder", and they only care about black victims for some reason Masks protect you only from getting the virus The USPS needs to turn a profit in order to justify its existence etc
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Aug 17, 2020 13:24
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https://twitter.com/TheSun/status/1295144074803126272 Why do I think the thing they're most offended by is the free lawyer?
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Aug 17, 2020 13:32
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Because that tracks with the "the poor are abusin our tax monies" vibe the sun has going?
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Aug 17, 2020 14:02
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Cloacamazing! posted:But we all know that the only reason a woman would ever try to look good is to entrap a man into paying for the babies she has with an orgy of drug addicts with huge penises! whoa whoa whoa keep that poo poo under wraps ok? can't let the men know the plan or else they will start making demands for stupid poo poo like a travel size man cave or tactical mechanical keyboards.
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Aug 17, 2020 14:05
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Anora posted:https://twitter.com/TheSun/status/1295144074803126272 gently caress me that’s just insanely awful
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Is that implying obama eats dogs because he's black? or because he's a Democrat? I mean theyre both awful, one is just extra awful. I think.
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