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Velocity Raptor posted:Biden has proposed a new income tax for wealthy americans for next year's budget. The President's budget is basically a messaging document that will get put in the dumpster by Congress immediately. It's a a minimum tax and not a maximum tax. Also, you have to be making a lot of money through a salary (in the mid six-figure range) if you actually do have an effective income tax rate of 35%. Are you sure you're not just counting the top bracket or just adding the top rates for all taxes (including non-federal income) together?
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Of all the pop media to provide a template for the collapse of America, I would never have guessed The SlapVelocity Raptor posted:20% seems like a really low income tax to hit multi-millionaires with. I mean, it'll be great if it is able to curb some of the loopholing most businesses do to pay nothing, or even get rebates, but I pay around 30-35% in taxes. Hopefully there is more to this that I don't know about or understand, but this feels like doing the minimum to appear like he's doing something to mollify the masses, but not really affecting the rich. "Normal" people will still be paying more in taxes than the rich will. It's nothing compared to the soaking the rich deserve, and it's not a wealth tax, but in practical terms it's probably a big hike for people with creative accountants
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Calibanibal posted:Imagine. Can you imagine it? I can't stop imagining it. Complete humiliation. The undisguised disdain as she looks at me and I know, that in her eyes I am no longer a man. This is some weirdass posting
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The President's budget is basically a messaging document that will get put in the dumpster by Congress immediately. I could be calculating my tax bracket wrong, it's very possible. I took the net and compared it to my net pay minus my taxes (both state and federal, admittedly). fake edit; I was doing it wrong. I googled Tax Bracket for [my state] and it says my effective tax rate is 26%. Still potentially more than what the rich could be paying. I'm assuming they'd have their accountants figure out some fuckery to only have to pay the minimum.
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I'm starting to think trying to slot every last thing that happens into a political ideology or framework is a bad idea
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Calibanibal posted:Imagine. Can you imagine it? I can't stop imagining it. Complete humiliation. The undisguised disdain as she looks at me and I know, that in her eyes I am no longer a man. Desperately searching for an easily accessible clip of the relevant "I Think You Should Leave" sketch but coming up empty.  (If you don't know the sketch you're just gonna have to watch all of "I Think You Should Leave," you're welcome.) Mellow Seas fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Mar 28, 2022 |
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Sharkie posted:This is some weirdass posting You should check Cal's history for more insight on their whole ... thing. It's a fun schtick. I think this whole thing is a pretty good reflection of what happened when trump made fun of JEB!'s wife (his mother, maybe? who cares, they all suck) in front of him and everyone clowned on JEB for being a big sad loser who went and shook trump's hand after that little show. As a culture we like it when people make risque jokes about other people, and we also like it when those same people get slapped in the face for it. Some of y'all are more dogmatic about your approach to violence and its applications, and that's cool too. But just imagine a world where JEB! had sucker punched trump in the face at that debate. Ah, the world we could have had... Ershalim fucked around with this message at 17:14 on Mar 28, 2022 |
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:No one, and I mean no one, is defending Rock's joke. Like among the millions of takes surrounding this, that is the one you will not see anywhere. What we adults are discussing is whether or not Smith was justified in physically assaulting someone for the joke(he wasn't). Let me know when you're ready to join that conversation. Yeah, you are. You wouldn’t need to restate and minimize what the joke was about if you weren’t.
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I've had complete strangers mock me and take pictures/videos of me to, I presume, post and laugh about on social media because I walk my dog using a harness that attaches her to me at my waist. On the part that goes around my waist is essentially a fanny pack - it contains a card with my wife's phone number, my primary care physician's office number, and a note saying that I suffer from epilepsy and what to do if someone finds me in crisis. You don't know what people are going through, so maybe don't run your loving mouth about the bald lady or the fat guy with a fanny pack because you think it's OK to tear down someone's appearance that way.
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Lib and let die posted:I've had complete strangers mock me and take pictures/videos of me to, I presume, post and laugh about on social media because I walk my dog using a harness that attaches her to me at my waist. On the part that goes around my waist is essentially a fanny pack - it contains a card with my wife's phone number, my primary care physician's office number, and a note saying that I suffer from epilepsy and what to do if someone finds me in crisis. You don't know what people are going through, so maybe don't run your loving mouth about the bald lady or the fat guy with a fanny pack because you think it's OK to tear down someone's appearance that way. Dr. King wanted better from you.
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Sharkie posted:Dr. King wanted better from you. This is some weirdass posting
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tk posted:Yeah, you are. You wouldn’t need to restate and minimize what the joke was about if you weren’t. It's not "minimizing" the joke to push back against the assertion that what Chris Rock said was "no different from racist jokes" or that it's a necessary step on the road to genocide. Quote where I did what you're accusing me of doing. It helps keep the conversation honest. It's wild that "guys stop lying about what I'm posting" is met with an accusation that I myself am lying - without at least pointing to the supposed lie.
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Riptor posted:This is some weirdass posting Its all weird rear end posting. Stop posting about posters, jesus.
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CommieGIR posted:Its all weird rear end posting. New title.
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Today I learned the Oscars delivered an award for calling people with auto immune disorders the n word and endorsed a policy of ethnic cleansing and genocide.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The President's budget is basically a messaging document that will get put in the dumpster by Congress immediately. Yeah it’s pretty telling that the Dems had performative poo poo fit about the “Trump Tax Cuts” being passed through reconciliation and then did gently caress all with they got into power to just even reverse it, let alone actually fix the income inequality. I don’t have any hopes of something meaningful passing without a million caveats or loopholes. Mellow Seas posted:
Everyone should go watch “I think you should leave” instead of defending some wealthy individuals on some dumb bullshit. virtualboyCOLOR fucked around with this message at 17:52 on Mar 28, 2022 |
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Harold Fjord posted:New title. Done.
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President Kucinich posted:Today I learned the Oscars delivered an award for calling people with auto immune disorders the n word and endorsed a policy of ethnic cleansing and genocide. Well they had to. You wouldn't want them to become obsolete like E3, would you? It's about ethics in media awards ceremonies.
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Stop caring what dipshit celebrities do at their dumb Hollywood circlejerk.
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ReidRansom posted:Stop caring what dipshit celebrities do at their dumb Hollywood circlejerk. Never! I'll care about the Oscars each year and you can't stop me.
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ReidRansom posted:Stop caring what dipshit celebrities do at their dumb Hollywood circlejerk. All year it's tik tok trends I don't understand and child slave laborists going viral because 'people these days just don't want to work' One monday morning I wake up and two celebrities I actually recognize got in a slap fight, jesus christ just let me have my coffee and enjoy this for a minute.
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If anyone wants to see will smith get charged your first step will have to be sitting down the LAPD and patiently explaining to them that beating up a black guy is illegal
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ReidRansom posted:Stop caring what dipshit celebrities do at their dumb Hollywood circlejerk. It's a poignant indication Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:that the creeping threat to free speech has moved off of college campuses and social media to the real world (yes that quote is out of context, it was about the inevitable NYT editorial to that effect). To be fair, neither the current reporting nor, surprisingly, the comments on it have gone in that direction... yet.
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::I Support Ukraine Profile Pic:: The violence of slapping is completely unacceptable to me morally
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BiggerBoat posted:I gotta admit that for a while I found myself wondering what the perception would be if, instead of Chris Rock, the slappee was...oh....let's say Ben Stiller or Wil Farrell. Trying to think of a relatively well liked white comedian actor. A part of me thinks the narrative might have been a little different if you know what I'm saying. I see what you mean and agree with your premise, but those aren’t fair comparisons. Both comedians are harmless compared to rock who is known to frequently roast celebrities in personal ways. The closest I can think of as a comparison would be Ricky Gervais but even that wouldn’t be a fair comparison since Gervais is even more extreme than Rock. Mellow Seas posted:Desperately searching for an easily accessible clip of the relevant "I Think You Should Leave" sketch but coming up empty. Yeah that sketch is relevant.
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Yeowch!!! My Balls!!! posted:
This did not appear to be the case last October or so. CBP custody times had been shortened to "actually almost tolerable" and ORR had mostly closed, or at least reduced to 'warm' status, their overflow facilities (the places people enjoy calling child concentration camps). This also did not appear to be a simple matter of reclassification. Fort Bliss was the largest overflow facility and also poorly run, and was not afaict simply renamed to a different sort of facility while retaining the abuses and lack of supply.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:This did not appear to be the case last October or so. CBP custody times had been shortened to "actually almost tolerable" and ORR had mostly closed, or at least reduced to 'warm' status, their overflow facilities (the places people enjoy calling child concentration camps). This also did not appear to be a simple matter of reclassification. Fort Bliss was the largest overflow facility and also poorly run, and was not afaict simply renamed to a different sort of facility while retaining the abuses and lack of supply. I could swear I recall Ft. Bliss being announced last June as a kiddy kamp that would be closed soon only to see it changed to "at some point in the future" by July. Is there still a kiddy kamp there or not? Your use of the past tense has me confused. Also, it wasn't just "poorly run"; it was subbed out to flood-remediation serv-pro franchisees to administer. Weird how there's been no media or legal first-hand reports (nor performative congressional tears) for the last six months or so.
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An investigation into Hunter Biden's unpaid taxes that started under Obama, was expanded by Trump to include corruption and bribery, and then expanded again under Biden to include unpaid child support based on underreported income, is moving forward on the probe of his taxes.quote:A federal tax investigation into Hunter Biden is gaining momentum as prosecutors gather information from several of his associates about the sources of his foreign income, including from Ukraine, and examine President Biden’s son’s relationship with a company that handled some of his finances, according to people familiar with the matter. https://www.wsj.com/articles/prosecutors-advance-tax-probe-of-hunter-biden-11648465200 The corruption and bribery charges were determined to not have any evidence behind them, but the Delaware District Attorney overseeing the case has subpoenaed testimony and documents about Hunter Biden's drug use, state of mind, and finances from 2014 to 2019. The Delaware DA worked in the office (under several different DAs) during the George W. Bush and Obama eras and was appointed as DA and put in charge of the office by Trump. He has said he is staying on until he finishes the case. Hunter paid his $1 million in owed taxes, interest, back child support, and penalties off last month, but that doesn't preclude him from getting charged criminally for tax evasion or money laundering. The other charge they are considering is failing to register as a foreign lobbyist, but they need to prove he intentionally failed to register or tried to avoid it and they don't currently have any conclusive evidence of intent. Criminal tax charges are possible, but it may end up as a civil penalty with fines and a requirement to register as a foreign lobbyist if he earns any income from outside of the U.S. The investigation also includes two other people who were business partners with Hunter Biden. quote:Over the last two years, federal prosecutors in Delaware have issued scores of subpoenas for documents related to Hunter Biden’s foreign work and for bank accounts linked to him and his associates, including two formerly close business partners, Eric Schwerin and Devon Archer, according to people familiar with the investigation. Ironically, his laptop contained evidence that seems to clear him of the potential lobbying charges: quote:In some of the emails, Mr. Biden displayed a familiarity with FARA, and a desire to avoid triggering it. quote:In the same April 2014 email, Hunter Biden indicated that Burisma’s officials “need to know in no uncertain terms that we will not and cannot intervene directly with domestic policymakers, and that we need to abide by FARA and any other U.S. laws in the strictest sense across the board.” If they do decide to bring criminal charges and successfully convict on tax evasion, then he could get up to 5 years in prison. The WSJ and NYT articles say that the probe is looking for more evidence, but if they don't find any, then it is unlikely that they would bring criminal charges because the IRS rarely brings criminal charges for tax evasion when someone has paid their back taxes and money laundering charges are generally brought in conjunction with other charges. There could possibly be a very strong civil case against Hunter, though. quote:The investigation, which began as a tax inquiry under the Obama administration, widened in 2018 to include possible criminal violations of tax laws, as well as foreign lobbying and money laundering rules, according to the people familiar with the inquiry. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/16/us/politics/hunter-biden-tax-bill-investigation.html So, the Hunter Biden saga is probably going to end up disappointing for everyone. Hunter probably did do something wrong involving Burisma (not reporting all of his income for tax and child support purposes), but all the stuff about firing Ukraine's prosecutor, intervening politically, and the laptop containing evidence of corruption will probably turn out to be false.
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Why can’t people just laugh about one millionaire slapping another millionaire? Why does Discourse have to be made? Especially when some of that discourse veers into racist territory (gently caress you Judd Apatow). Just laugh about it. It’s hilarious and the most entertaining the Oscars have been in decades.
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Sharkie posted:Calling your partner a scumsucking shitbag and watching you calmly say this to their face lol. A commitment to non-violence in your personal life is not about gaining the approval of others. It's about adhering to a value set that allows you to respect yourself, even if those around you feel hurt or let down at times. And even then, maintaining non-violence does not mean you are disallowed from expressing emotion and defending your loved one with words or alternative actions Please note, I'm not stating that non-violence is the "ideal" value set a person should hold. I'm just pushing back on the idea that your values (whatever they may be) should be chosen (or altered) based on their ability to reduce conflict in your personal relationships. That's the slow road towards unhappiness and feeling lost.
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Bishyaler posted:::I Support Ukraine Profile Pic:: I'm generally fine with what Will Smith did and don't really get a lot of the hand-wringing over it, but "Lookit this guy who believes in shooting back at fascist invaders but not taking a swing when a comedian roasts rich celebrities" probably isn't the devastating own you think it is.
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And for me, people getting all flustered about The Slaps but then turn around and celebrate sanctions on other countries, is infuriating. These same people will be quiet at other forms of violence I.e. homelessness, lack of healthcare, food insecurity, child poverty, and so on. But one millionaire slaps another? Oh my god, he’s just like Putin and Trump! It’s giving me flashbacks to my abusive dad and such. Blah blah blah.
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Tbf though, I bet ppl would be tweeting a lot today if will Smith had slapped a sandwich out of a starving child's hands on stage at the Oscars.
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I have brought you all something even worse to discuss. https://twitter.com/HeartlandSignal/status/1508506135212474376?s=20&t=Isg7GFxl8zpRouh1EOrFrA
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Kind of interesting to see a poll directly test the NIMBY vs. YIMBY housing questions against each other. Although, the NIMBY position may actually be even more popular than the poll indicates because a lot of the problem with NIMBY stuff is that everyone is good with it in theory until they actually have to make a choice about it in their neighborhood. Most surprising thing: White and black respondents (despite white people being more likely to be Republican and black people more likely to be Democratic) don't have a huge difference in their desire to protect property values at all costs. Both of them generally support it. But, Hispanics do have a large difference from everyone else for some reason. No demographic group, except for Hispanics, gets a majority in favor of the more housing position. Not surprising, but funny: Republicans are the group least likely to support property rights in this scenario. https://twitter.com/PatrickRuffini/status/1508494987696254978 The same poll also polled some "neoliberal" policy positions and basically came to the conclusion that Americans generally like the environment, but hate refugees. They are also pretty evenly divided on cash payments to parents, nuclear power, and free trade. https://twitter.com/PatrickRuffini/status/1508493398675755011 Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Mar 28, 2022 |
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theCalamity posted:And for me, people getting all flustered about The Slaps but then turn around and celebrate sanctions on other countries, is infuriating. These same people will be quiet at other forms of violence I.e. homelessness, lack of healthcare, food insecurity, child poverty, and so on. But one millionaire slaps another? Oh my god, he’s just like Putin and Trump! It’s giving me flashbacks to my abusive dad and such. Blah blah blah. And some of the people opposing all sanctions because of the violence they can cause will shrug about an imperialistic country (not the USA in this case, for once) killing people in a neighboring country. What’s your point? Kalit fucked around with this message at 20:18 on Mar 28, 2022 |
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Dick Trauma posted:I have brought you all something even worse to discuss. lol he got that one from a batshit lady in texas who was running for minor office. who probably got trolled by some kid who's very loving smug right now.
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Dick Trauma posted:I have brought you all something even worse to discuss. He's trying to figure out how he gets in on this catboy nonsense.
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Given that having a college degree - literally any degree, even the most "useless" majors - increases lifetime earnings by over $1 million and women are outnumbering men at college by almost 50% now, I expect you will see this trend start to increase dramatically soon. It's going to be result in a weird situation where you have a subset of wealth inequality in different geographic regions. Urban areas with large educated populations are going to see women start to out earn men by larger and larger amounts, but rural areas with low education rates and a higher number of people in trades (usually higher paid and dominated by men) are going to see men continue to out earn women and increase the gap there. https://twitter.com/business/status/1508448778424049665 There was a discussion about this a decade ago in D.C. when a city council woman complained about how it was getting increasingly difficult for black women in the city to date black men of similar education and socioeconomic levels because ~70% of black people with degrees in D.C. were women and men were falling behind. Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 20:29 on Mar 28, 2022 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Kind of interesting to see a poll directly test the NIMBY vs. YIMBY housing questions against each other. I find it odd to lump categories like "accepting refugees" as neoliberal, but looking at that poll it is little wonder why so many "safe" Democratic voters are embracing the new right.
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