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Rectal Death Adept posted:It's hard to get across just how disastrous and bad Biden winning is. This election really was the most important one in our lives. We could have either elected Bernie Sanders or when the election was stolen from him, Trump. Either one would have better. the elites are the ones who decided it was Biden time the choice between Biden and Trump was lovely and they were being bombarded 24/7 by propaganda about how Kind and Understanding Biden is, so i'm leery about blaming voters
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readingatwork posted:I just looked up why she closed her twitter account and it is ten times stupider than I was expecting. Basically she made an incredibly benign tweet in which she called the new Disney+ movie a Last Airbender knockoff and the internet had a meltdown because both franchises took inspiration from a third story that she wasn't aware of or something and apparently that's racist(?) and resulted in a flood of incredibly bad faith takes. Disney fans are 1000% more active and effective at policing the discourse than any other group on the internet.
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Gumball Gumption posted:I met the avatar guys once. They were greasy weebs and one of them looks like an egg.  lmao i had no idea they were two white guys who somehow made an asian inspired anime?
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Mar 28, 2021 18:01
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shut up about avatar holy poo poo
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Mar 28, 2021 18:04
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Troy Queef posted:he’s doubling down what is this dumbass even talking about It's a tax on people who drive, not on auto and oil companies If I pay $1 in sales tax, that's a tax on me and not the company whose product I've bought lol
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Mar 28, 2021 18:05
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Rectal Death Adept posted:It's hard to get across just how disastrous and bad Biden winning is. This election really was the most important one in our lives. We could have either elected Bernie Sanders or when the election was stolen from him, Trump. Either one would have better. Specifically, you can see this in the Harris tweet: That tweet is entirely designed to target what the DNC has decided is the new Democratic base, well educated middle class white people. So saying "rent is paid" makes sense to them and tells them that Biden is succeeding. Sure, maybe it alienates some minorities, but who are they going to vote for, Jim Eagle? The white people not making rent? Well the Democrats have given up on you. All this in service of extending the narratives that everything is fixed and OK now, in the midst of the biggest crisis in human history.
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Mar 28, 2021 18:12
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Yinlock posted:the elites are the ones who decided it was Biden time Based on the suburbs that flipped Georgia you can 100% blame the voters. One of them that had a huge shift toward Biden is filled with million dollar lake houses. It was literally the stereotypical suburban person that cursed the world with Rapin' Joe because Brunch was disrupted.
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Rectal Death Adept posted:Based on the suburbs that flipped Georgia you can 100% blame the voters. One of them that had a huge shift toward Biden is filled with million dollar lake houses. It was literally the stereotypical suburban person that cursed the world with Rapin' Joe because Brunch was disrupted. that one's fair, i thought you were implying a d&d style "well the unwashed masses are just too stupid so good things are impossible" deal
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Mar 28, 2021 18:14
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Pompeo seems lovely enough to turn off the ~20% of "moderate" Republican voters that want a Romney/McCain, boring enough to turn off the ~50% of Republican voters that just want a bomb-throwing culture warrior, and not enough of a turbo-libertarian to draw the ~30% of Republican voters that get the Ron Paul Newsletter and have END THE FED T-shirts. Sounds like the Democrats would love him
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Mar 28, 2021 18:14
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Trump was the harm reduction candidate Lol
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Yinlock posted:that one's fair, i thought you were implying a d&d style "well the unwashed masses are just too stupid so good things are impossible" deal No, the problem is obviously the system that only gives us these two choices. My complaints are with the people that knowingly enable or justify this (D&D subset / Suburbanites / Brunch Crowd / Always Online Liberals / Politicians themselves) not with the average voter. Sure I'd prefer that 100,000,000 people who voted in 2020 not vote next election as a statement to how hosed and stupid everything is but you can't blame the average voter when their vote is worthless and the outcomes are being decided with people who are bought and paid for by corporations.
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Rectal Death Adept posted:No, the problem is obviously the system that only gives us these two choices. 
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spacemang_spliff posted:what is this dumbass even talking about They think public transportatìon will just spring up. If you're not suggesting central planning and relocation, this tax just burdens people who have no alternative. And the thinking that it is so they can pay for their own rural infrastructure is nonsense because it is far more expensive than what can be paid in by rural folk. Judakel has issued a correction as of 18:30 on Mar 28, 2021 |
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spacemang_spliff posted:what is this dumbass even talking about One purpose of a mileage tax is to reduce driving. Reducing driving reduces demand for fuel. Reduced demand for fuel hurts the profits of oil companies. Therefore if you're against the mileage tax, you're in favor of greater profits for oil companies. It's dumb, but that's the logic. Also, there's an assumption that the tax will fall most heavily on trucking companies, which lol if you think an $800 billion a year industry is going to let that happen.
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Nothus posted:One purpose of a mileage tax is to reduce driving. Reducing driving reduces demand for fuel. Reduced demand for fuel hurts the profits of oil companies. Therefore if you're against the mileage tax, you're in favor of greater profits for oil companies. I mean if you have to drive to go work your shift at wal-mart you're still going to have to drive there. I don't actually know anyone who drives for fun, except for motorcyclists on nice days but I don't think that's the target. I think most people drive out of necessity. Judakel posted:They think public transportatìon will just spring up. If you're not suggesting central planning and relocation, this tax just burdens people who have no alternative. And the thinking that it is so they can pay for their own rural infrastructure is nonsense because it is far more expensive than what can be paid in by rural folk. Yeah, I don't see any proposals for light rail or anything. How's a bus going to serve a town of 250 people?
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spacemang_spliff posted:I mean if you have to drive to go work your shift at wal-mart you're still going to have to drive there. I don't actually know anyone who drives for fun, except for motorcyclists on nice days but I don't think that's the target. I think most people drive out of necessity. The reality is they don't give a poo poo about those people, and if you press them, they'll come up with some means-tested rebate scheme that also won't happen.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Trump was the harm reduction candidate always was.
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spacemang_spliff posted:I mean if you have to drive to go work your shift at wal-mart you're still going to have to drive there. I don't actually know anyone who drives for fun, except for motorcyclists on nice days but I don't think that's the target. I think most people drive out of necessity. And on what roads
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I still like the idea that this nationwide surveillance mileage tax will really take it to those companies like uber, grubhub and lyft who are currently able to murder their own employees legally. Not that this will just cut driver profits while they all raise rates blaming the tax and people get used to higher prices while the companies draw in billions and the drivers pay millions in road taxes we will mis-spend anyway.
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Nothus posted:One purpose of a mileage tax is to reduce driving. Reducing driving reduces demand for fuel. Reduced demand for fuel hurts the profits of oil companies. Therefore if you're against the mileage tax, you're in favor of greater profits for oil companies. Gas is what economists call an "inelastic good" meaning that demand doesn't actually change that much regardless of other factors like price. You aren't going to stop going to work or cancel your weekend camping trip because gas is $4/gallon this week. You just eat the cost and move on with your life. This is literally just a way to squeeze money out of normal people to pay for the bill because God forbid we make the wealthy/businesses who profit from the roads do so.
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Rectal Death Adept posted:It's Her Turn! https://twitter.com/amanbatheja/status/1376246228044898313?s=20
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readingatwork posted:Gas is what economists call an "inelastic good" meaning that demand doesn't actually change that much regardless of other factors like price. You aren't going to stop going to work or cancel your weekend camping trip because gas is $4/gallon this week. You just eat the cost and move on with your life. This is literally just a way to squeeze money out of normal people to pay for the bill because God forbid we make the wealthy/businesses who profit from the roads do so. https://twitter.com/carterforva/status/1376245872472821766?s=20
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Wow, truly a brilliant legal mind. My dumb rear end thought after they gutted it that racism and voter suppression would be gone for good.
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Rectal Death Adept posted:It's hard to get across just how disastrous and bad Biden winning is. This election really was the most important one in our lives. We could have either elected Bernie Sanders or when the election was stolen from him, Trump. Either one would have better. I'd say the complete collapse of the US is actually very good for the world
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29 years in congress and she got a 1 year tax credit that the IRS won't be able to pay out until Q3 or Q4 https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/taxes/child-tax-credit-irs-chief-warns-start-of-child-tax-credit-payments-may-be-delayed/ar-BB1eL5Hg She's my Senator and she's a waste of space.
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Taffer posted:That AOC interview was a real nail in the coffin for something that had been a long time coming for me. I gave well over $1000 to various campaigns in 2020 between Bernie and Omar and other "progressives", and now I am never, ever going to give a single dollar or vote to a dem ever again. I've already crack-pinged a couple people I know with it and I'm going to continue to remind everyone I know of how worthless they are. There is no reforming this worthless garbage. I think that there's a conflict where the sort of person to go into high-level politics like that is generally going to be the sort of person who leans towards optimism (usually because such people will have had pretty privileged lives themselves), and that's a huge problem because the Democratic Party's whole "gimmick" is just trying to spin everything they do as good (or at least the best thing reasonably possible). And, as we also saw in the AOC interview, this often leads to such people reacting with hostility to the demands of the left. Basically, you need both "the correct goals" and "a correct understanding of our society/government," and these people always lack at least the latter.
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I wonder if scalia laughed about what a sucker rbg was
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readingatwork posted:Gas is what economists call an "inelastic good" meaning that demand doesn't actually change that much regardless of other factors like price. You aren't going to stop going to work or cancel your weekend camping trip because gas is $4/gallon this week. You just eat the cost and move on with your life. This is literally just a way to squeeze money out of normal people to pay for the bill because God forbid we make the wealthy/businesses who profit from the roads do so. this is also one of the reasons a carbon tax is the dumbest poo poo
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Dixon Chisholm posted:Yeah, I don't think the dems eating poo poo is a guarantee either. I have no idea what will happen, but recent dem behavior has rid me of the idea that 22/24 will be a red wave. Even with Trump backlash Biden barely won. 22 is virtually certain to have Republicans make gains; the only question is how big those gains will be.
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FormaldehydeSon posted:I'd say the complete collapse of the US is actually very good for the world depends entirely on what comes next. Biden being our Marcus Octavius wouldn’t portend well for the rest of the world
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Too bad she didn't anticipate dying of a cancer-COVID-old age voltron when she went to officiate the maskless wedding for her family friend
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Troy Queef posted:he’s doubling down
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You don't even have to go to rural areas to find people who'd be hurt by an expanded gas tax. Plenty of low wage jobs in my urban area are staffed by people who live an hour away by car. These aren't well off white people in exurbs either, but Black and Latino workers who relocated to cheaper areas so they can afford decent housing. Those areas often lack in decent public transit as well. Poor white people do this too but libs write them off immediately because their race must mean they can't be poor.
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Ovenmaster posted:Watching the Leftovers (brilliant show by the way) and seeing how the Guilty Remnant operated makes me think that perhaps a path towards the solution of our plight is not to agitate against the corporations (because they are too powerful and entrenched to care) but the workers, because while they live a dystopian existence, they want to distract themselves from it and just try to live whatever life they can. In other words they are asleep, and the biggest obstacle in changing the political landscape at all is to get them to wake the gently caress up. They don’t need suggestions of unionizing or marching for $15 min wage or solidarity or all this other bullshit that will get throttled in the crib, they need to be reminded that they’re slaves and their lives are worthless, as relentlessly and obnoxiously as possible. Because deep down they know things are hosed, and if they have to confront that then maybe it will spark something. change doesn't happen when people are beat down, it happens when they realize they have the power and possibility to create change.
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