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Waffle House posted:Social media is full of bad faith child groomers OP, and we should have nuked 4chan from orbit a long time ago Agreed on both accounts, yeah. Edit: LMFAO, she's so bad at this. ...and I finally figured out what the kitchen reminds me of, it looks like a liminal space you'd see in some backrooms-inspired ARG.
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Counted posted:There's this constant cycle where social media companies like YouTube, TikTok, etc., etc. go a bit too far in escalating viewer suggestions like this, get called out, and then for a while there seems to be less guardrails(or nothing was done beyond lipservice) and then it happens again. It also gives a very perverse incentive for grifters to jump on the latest hate-topic: The ones who get in first get the most views, which  legitimizes them, which means Youtube/TikTok/Facebook will let them stick around when they rest are inevitably purgedHow many pollsters even knew what Biden's policies were, other than gas prices going up and food costing more
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Mar 8, 2024 19:05
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Lord Harbor posted:While this certainly isn't bad or anything, the problem isn't that the tax rate for billionaires is too low, it's that there are tons of special exemptions and schemes that let them exclude most of their income from being taxed at all. Unless there's a plan that deals with this and reclassifies what counts as "income", it isn't really going to help. Easy fix then: make it a 25% wealth tax.
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Mar 8, 2024 19:05
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Lord Harbor posted:While this certainly isn't bad or anything, the problem isn't that the tax rate for billionaires is too low, it's that there are tons of special exemptions and schemes that let them exclude most of their income from being taxed at all. Unless there's a plan that deals with this and reclassifies what counts as "income", it isn't really going to help. Username-post combo lol
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Mar 8, 2024 19:05
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Hazo posted:I missed it but I’m planning on watching Jon Stewart’s recap on Monday. he pulled it from behind her ear and she shat herself in fear and confusion
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Mar 8, 2024 19:07
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lmao at Tuberville calling a sitting US Senator a "housewife"
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Mar 8, 2024 19:09
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Ah yes, the guy who is mad that he can't drive his Corvette anymore as POTUS is the guy who's never pumped gas in his life...
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Mar 8, 2024 19:09
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kinda feels like biden shanked the gop last night and today its just fallout of corpses laying all over the yard
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Mar 8, 2024 19:11
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 also thread needs a title update
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Mar 8, 2024 19:11
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I love it when GOP will be all “Biden doesn’t pump gas!” Yeah, NO poo poo, ever see Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with Obama? They wouldn’t let him drive a car outside of the driveway at the White House, let alone sit in a passenger seat of a different car.
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Mar 8, 2024 19:14
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kazil posted:
Lol being so lovely you have a house rule named after you would be Santos' greatest political achievement
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Mar 8, 2024 19:14
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PhazonLink posted:i feel like the meta of todays "edgelord" contrarian is way different from ancient 00s era. yeah, i was never a nazi or incel. more just lonely and wanted to be a cool badass troll and gently caress with furries and poo poo. Lol. i was loving dumbass.
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Mar 8, 2024 19:15
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Philthy posted:kinda feels like biden shanked the gop last night and today its just fallout of corpses laying all over the yard Biden loving killed it, I think we can say. He's also improving on the Gaza issue. I honestly think he might be the best president in my lifetime, pretty easily. It would be truly amazing if we got a true landslide presidential election victory. I don't think it's out of the question with the way its going. Republicans aren't trying to win elections anymore, they're just spouting full crazy and counting on fascism.
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Mar 8, 2024 19:15
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Counted posted:
*Goons seeing a clean suburban kitchen that isn't full of pissjugs*: Is this Skinamarink?
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Mar 8, 2024 19:15
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kazil posted:
Post ITT every time you lol that Getting Expelled Official Revokes Guaranteed Entry
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Mar 8, 2024 19:15
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Rescue Toaster posted:I mean obviously he did a good job but loving 17% of people changed their mind about policy that easily? Was there some big policy shift I missed? Low info voters are easily shifted by things like optics and 'tummy feels' when it comes to politics. They spend most of the politician's term trying as hard as possible to ignore politics and don't start paying much attention until 3-6 months from election day. The presidency is a little different because of tradition and because of the importance of the post so things like the SOTU address really can move the needle some, even though election day is still fairly far away, if its well done. Which in this case it was. Not just because of his delivery but how he handled the R's and hecklers in the crowd. He came off as old but still all there IMO. I think most will still back burner political info until closer to elections but they're going to keep this SOTU speech in their minds. Which doesn't sound impressive but it really is. Hell just look at how the Hur report, which was quite damning and made a lot of D's here and elsewhere start doomering, has been almost totally forgotten about even before the SOTU speech! I'm pretty sure that virtually no one who is honest about their position on Biden will even care about it if you brought it up now.
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Mar 8, 2024 19:17
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GEORGE zooms back into the house on a segway, a string of congressmen's wallets swinging from his neck
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Mar 8, 2024 19:17
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Philthy posted:This is what he was speaking about. They will be taxed 25% no matter how many exemptions and loopholes they might find. The only way to save money is to find a way to make their gains/wealth look smaller than it is, which is what Trump just got fined for, and basically black listed from every financial institution in the world. How's that going to work in practice though? If, say, a CEO gets millions of shares of stock, then uses that stock to take out loans which they use to cover all of their expenses, are they going to be taxed anywhere? Currently they wouldn't really. Stock isn't taxed until it's sold, loans aren't taxed as you aren't actually increasing your net worth. Will Biden's plan actually change any of this?
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Mar 8, 2024 19:17
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PhazonLink posted:other ideas to fix the internet/socialmedia. minor upload fees for videos and posts. eat more fiber.
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Mar 8, 2024 19:18
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Froghammer posted:Tiktok's algorithm has been completely gamed by the manosphere in the same way Youtube's algorithm was gamed by the alt-right circa 2015ish. I'd love for the conversation around it to be "this app is radicalizing children to hate women" rather than "Tiktok is harvesting data the same way Facebook is, only because it's based in Singapore that's bad and it needs to go". i was acquainted with an 8 and 9 year old and their content started with a baby who swore. it was just a baby that sat on some guy's lap and would shout "BITHCH!!" and the guy would react as WILD as possible. "BITHCH!!" "OOOOH MY GOAAWWDD!!" and that was it. that was the entire act. and he has dozens of these videos. "gently caress!" shouts the baby, "OH MY GAAAWDD!" screams the man. the end. dozens of videos just like that. and so so many that were just "are you GAAAAAAYYY???!!" just the dumbest and laziest bigot poo poo because that kind of "OHMYGAAAAWD!!!" type humor is easy. but it lead to the children legitimately saying homophobic stuff. they were too scared to swear too much, but they would readily label things "GAAAAYYY!!" and it's no different than the other content they watched on any other platform. it's a slide greased by laziness and it's legitimately hard to describe if you haven't witnessed it. just the slide from "casual bigotry" as a punchline to "casual bigotry" being the entire point
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Mar 8, 2024 19:18
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Ringo Star Get posted:I love it when GOP will be all “Biden doesn’t pump gas!” Yeah, NO poo poo, ever see Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee with Obama? They wouldn’t let him drive a car outside of the driveway at the White House, let alone sit in a passenger seat of a different car. I watched the Biden segment of Jay Leno's Garage just a few minutes ago because of this and you can practically hear the Secret Service detail making GBS threads razor blades as he hauls rear end away, and this was back when he was Veep, let alone POTUS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP-hyDSlmUs&t=145s
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Mar 8, 2024 19:18
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Ya think Trump has ever pumped gas? Projection, always.
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Mar 8, 2024 19:18
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Aramis posted:Easy fix then: make it a 25% wealth tax. I'm of the opinion that Democrats should seize on the flat tax idea. Just tax all income, everywhere, at 20% or something. No more exceptions for capital gains, or worrying that 'grandma sold her (multimillion dollar) house and now has to pay taxes on it!'. Just a flat tax on everything, coupled with a massive refund or mincome. A wealth tax would be even better but be even less likely to pass.
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Mar 8, 2024 19:19
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Lord Harbor posted:How's that going to work in practice though? If, say, a CEO gets millions of shares of stock, then uses that stock to take out loans which they use to cover all of their expenses, are they going to be taxed anywhere? Currently they wouldn't really. Stock isn't taxed until it's sold, loans aren't taxed as you aren't actually increasing your net worth. Will Biden's plan actually change any of this? The sale of stock (or distributions) to generate cash needed to make payments on loans is how they're currently taxed. The problem is that they hoard net worth while paying taxes only on the wealth they, essentially, actually use. Meaning we all pay income tax and they essentially pay use tax.
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Mar 8, 2024 19:19
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kazil posted:
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Mar 8, 2024 19:20
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redshirt posted:Ya think Trump has ever pumped gas? There's a picture of him in his dumpy fat Florida attire pumping gas into a sports car in the 90s, but that was like 30 years ago now. So no. E:  E2: Oh he's at a Full Service pump, so someone else is pumping it for him lol nine-gear crow fucked around with this message at 19:23 on Mar 8, 2024 |
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Mar 8, 2024 19:21
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Philthy posted:kinda feels like biden shanked the gop last night and today its just fallout of corpses laying all over the yard The GOP haven't had anyone willing to confront their bullshit since Bill Clinton. Obama was milquetoast, HRC wanted to debate-nerd everything, Gore and Kerry are robots. OTOH, the GOP doesn't have anyone who can actually debate. Boehner is long gone, McConnell is a shuffling corpse, even the randoms in the House all got primaried by shitgibbons like MTG
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Mar 8, 2024 19:21
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PC LOAD LETTER posted:Low info voters are easily shifted by things like optics and 'tummy feels' when it comes to politics. Even if the SOTU is forgotten in a month too it gives them a good starting point on which messages and achievements connected that they can use to know what to promote during the fall.
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Mar 8, 2024 19:22
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lmao
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Mar 8, 2024 19:22
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Vampire Panties posted:The GOP haven't had anyone willing to confront their bullshit since Bill Clinton. Obama was milquetoast, HRC wanted to debate-nerd everything, Gore and Kerry are robots. yeah, the Lee atwater types are mostly dead and the ones who come close basicaly just want to scream slurs.
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Mar 8, 2024 19:23
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Cruz can, unfortunately, debate really well (as a skill/technical matter) and is reasonably intelligent. Unfortunately he doesn't give a gently caress about anyone liking him (because nobody in the entire world likes him), has no scruples, and is entirely unloved by his family. You'd hope that would gently caress with a guy, but he exhudes a fine layer of slime so nothing ever actually affects him through this layer of slime. Slime has a place in the GOP but it never elevates them to the top so he'll just meld into the middle layers of the GOP like one among a fistful of worms in a can until he dies/retires hopefully sooner rather than later.
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Mar 8, 2024 19:23
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Lord Harbor posted:While this certainly isn't bad or anything, the problem isn't that the tax rate for billionaires is too low, it's that there are tons of special exemptions and schemes that let them exclude most of their income from being taxed at all. Unless there's a plan that deals with this and reclassifies what counts as "income", it isn't really going to help. I think he's talking about making it an RMT, which bypasses many of those loopholes.
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Mar 8, 2024 19:24
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:Looking good sir 
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Three Olives posted:https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1766155675330326709
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kazil posted:
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nine-gear crow posted:Post ITT every time you lol that Getting Expelled Official Revokes Guaranteed Entry The summer of GEORGE!
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Mar 8, 2024 19:25
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jokes posted:The sale of stock (or distributions) to generate cash needed to make payments on loans is how they're currently taxed. The problem is that they hoard net worth while paying taxes only on the wealth they, essentially, actually use. Meaning we all pay income tax and they essentially pay use tax. Change the tax rate on stock sales to whatever it would be as if your income was equal to your wealth. Have 10 billion in stock value? Your tax rate on selling stock is 75%, or whatever.
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Mar 8, 2024 19:25
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Jeremor posted:Biden loving killed it, I think we can say. He's also improving on the Gaza issue. I honestly think he might be the best president in my lifetime, pretty easily. Is he the first to do anything whatsoever about Gaza?
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Mar 8, 2024 19:26
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kazil posted:
That's actually a pretty solid, unforced acronym.
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Oscar Wild posted:She's right trump wanted to unify the country the same way Pol Pot tried to unify Cambodia This is the best thing Oscar Wilde has ever said
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