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Who will you vote for in 2020? This poll is closed. |
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| Biden |
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425 | 18.06% |
| Trump |
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105 | 4.46% |
| whoever the Green Party runs |
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307 | 13.05% |
| GOOGLE RON PAUL |
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151 | 6.42% |
| Bernie Sanders |
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346 | 14.70% |
| Stalin |
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246 | 10.45% |
| Satan |
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300 | 12.75% |
| Nobody |
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202 | 8.58% |
| Jess Scarane |
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110 | 4.67% |
| mystery man Brian Carroll of the American Solidarity Party |
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61 | 2.59% |
| Dick Nixon |
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100 | 4.25% |
| Total: | 2089 votes | ||
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Ytlaya posted:Something that it often takes a while for people to realize is that "hating Republicans" does not necessarily imply "having left-wing political views" (this is how you end up with people like Bill Maher being popular with liberals). It's not like he's Danny DeVito or something, Perlman's obviously invested in the Dem party as it is and has a nasty dose of 'MURICA flag poisioning, but he has also said things showing he isn't just angry at Republicans. Granted, that's most of it, but there's more there.
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That article's the same recycled garbage that gets pumped out every once in a while, where a family living in an extremely high cost of living area with two infants, after paying a mortgage on a seven figure house and doing all the savings and paying for insurance that actually leaves you and your kids safe from financial disaster and paying for private education through college, doesn't have a ton of cash left over.quote:“Based on the expenses, a $400,000 household income provides for a relatively middle-class lifestyle,” Dogen said. “A middle-class lifestyle is defined as: owning a home, having two kids, saving for retirement, saving for college, going on modest vacations several weeks a year, and retiring in one’s early 60s.” So yeah, if you fiddle with your definitions a bit, a family earning more than the annual median individual income every month somehow counts as in some kind of middle.
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Kinda hard to dig into, but it looks like the Biden plan would put the effective tax rate numbers a few percentage points better in the direction I'd prefer for most brackets as compared to the Bowles-Simpson plan, which I didn't expect. So, I would say Biden's plan would put his policies in this area left of the Obama administration. Referencing effective tax rates is painting with a very specific brush, as Republicans have made it a whole lot easier to put together a tax plan that is more progressive than current policy.Owlofcreamcheese posted:And biden is raising capital gain tax to 39.6% which is higher than it's ever been in history Wrong. 1977 and 1978 might not be recent history by some definitions, but it's certainly history that you could've checked before making things up.
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Epic High Five posted:What it really all comes down to is if you trust him to actually take even the first step to implementing even the hamstrung and toothless reforms he is proposing, or if you do not, and all of history is only on one side here. Gonna disagree with your first sentence, but it's because I agree with your second. I would not be at all surprised to see some of these tax proposals be very seriously proposed during a Biden administration. But that's because they'll be right next to various austerity measures. Even Alan "Social Security is a cow with 310 million tits" Simpson was ready to tax cap gains as ordinary income, if it meant getting at those benefit cuts.
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Owlofcreamcheese posted:What makes you mad? Biden wants to raise taxes, the article is the one saying “woah there, raise taxes on the rich? 400,000 isn’t so rich buster!” How does that make you mad at Biden? Perhaps you could consider the distinction between "Biden" and "these fuckers" in the post and why the poster bothered to make that distinction? e: and yes, we are all quite well aware of how you're trying to quietly slink away from your prior dumb things you posted and the perfectly cogent responses thereto, as usual eviltastic fucked around with this message at 05:04 on Oct 7, 2020 |
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If by corrupt bargain you mean deliberate sabotage of the party in order to undermine leftist elements within it, as happened with Corbyn, no, I don't think that's what's going on with convention speaker selection. Why would they? They won that fight already, and a public convention isn't how you'd do that anyway. We'd probably be talking about sabotage if Bernie had won, but he lost. The convention was about signaling to voters what Biden's victory means for the future of the party. That's not some kind of tit for tat dealmaking except insofar as it's politicians doing politics. Do you mean to reference leftists talking about democrats wanting to lose and preferring to be in the minority? I do not think that is true of the Biden campaign. I think they're playing the hand they've been dealt quite well lately, and are being rewarded for it in the polls.
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Traveler posted:https://twitter.com/latifnasser/status/1323334035066642432?s=19 Thanks for this! Good read.
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Cpt_Obvious posted:I've been thinking through a lot of this electoral stuff, I think this is a particularly important point, because the decorum crowd has no idea that more riots are coming, and no response in the pipeline but to shame people for being pissed. The anger's still gonna be there. Either we give it an outlet or the fash does.
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Don’t let the man alienate you from your labor, brew your own.
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I also know nothing about the Buffalo Chronicle, but I'm a little reluctant to trust anonymous sourcing from a paper whose links to pages for their writers or their contact page generate a 404. e: ah, well there we have it, then
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That asterisk leaves out the possibility that it's just a useful thing for them to say and that individual actors may not care whether it is accurate or not in a given case, however much they may have internalized the belief in general. A big Biden win was always going to be messaged by centrists as a crushing refutation of the left, and a narrow Biden win or a loss was always going to be explained away by left weighing him down.
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