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Alto

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I have a math degree and still can't do basic addition

Anti-tankie leftist

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My only hope is people look around at the fact that one of the few ways to still get a pension is through union work, and the current unionization wave continues into something bigger, better, and greater than we've had in the past.

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The majority of his judicial appointments almost certainly were not picked by Trump himself, rather handed to him by the GOP. While they're too chickenshit to publically call him out, the majority of the judges he appointed likely want little to do with his vision of dictatorship.

Whether that's because of their conscious or because they're smart enough to know they're unlikely to make it out unscathed themselves, that's for you to decide.

Ultimately though, in the real world the whole being chickenshit part nullifies all of that, and each and every one not actively calling it out publically is complicit. Whether they want to admit it to themselves or not.

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"Were sorry we weren't able to keep things just above the line of so shit that people dont unionize" isn't exactly a sympathetic position either

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The point couldn't have gone further over your head if it were a space shuttle

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"uh oh someone showed how I was being asinine. Time to block them so I can ignore that inconvenient fact!"

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I appreciate you continuing to prove my point.

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Not directly related to income tax, but I'm a big believer in having property taxed on an exponential scale. Start off quite low for your first property, a vacation home is still reasonable, but by the time you're much past that it becomes completely unreasonable to keep buying properties. Add a hefty multiplier for empty units on top of that, and you'd go a long way to fixing the issue with property hoarding.

E: sp

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That doesn't really solve anything. As long as there is profit to be made, people will horrendously abuse it. That's not something we want when were in the middle of a homeless crisis yet we have more than enough empty housing for them.

Maybe once everyone's basic housing needs are met we can talk, but until then no.

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My point wasn't that you can't have a rental home, it's that you shouldn't stop the increase in tax rate at 3. If you want to try to have a 4th or 5th you can, you're just going to be paying an exorbitant property tax rate to the point where viewing real estate as an investment is moronic.

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I think you're misunderstanding my point. Frankly the terms "investment" and "housing" don't belong near each other in the first place. "Making it similar to other Investments" is still putting those two words way the fuck too close to each other.

Nobody cares if you're renting out Grandma's house to pay for her nursing home currently (even though that's an entirely separate problem that absolutely needs addressing). That's not what the majority of rentals are.

A case for preemptively defederating with Threads ( kbin.social )

With Meta beginning to test federation, there's a lot of discussion as to whether we should preemptively defederate with Threads. I made a post about the question, and it seems that opinions differ a lot among people on Kbin. There were a lot of arguments for and against regarding ads, privacy, and content quality, but I don't...

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Counterpoint, what has Meta done to gain even the tiniest bit of the semblance of the doubt. If someone's punched you in the face every time you've knocked on their door, are you really going to knock on it a 15th time? You'd be a fool to expect that time to be any different.

Just like you'd be a fool to expect the overall impact of Meta having their fingers in the Fediverse to be anything other than harmful.

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Florida has limits on consecutive governorships. DeSantis can't run for governor in 2026 regardless

Trump’s Economic Plan: Raise Taxes on the Middle Class, Cut Them on the Rich ( nymag.com )

The discourse of the Trump era has been dominated by a conceit that the two major parties have swapped economic identities. The Democrats have supposedly abandoned their historical role as spokespeople for the working class to represent the neoliberal global elite, while the Republicans have been transmuted into scruffy...

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More cynically, I think they didn't want to loudly show that unions and striking work

Take another look at Joe Biden. His is the presidency progressives have been waiting for. ( www.theguardian.com )

The tragedy of Joe Biden is that people see his age, his frailty and his ailing poll numbers and they miss the bigger story. Which is that his has been a truly consequential presidency, even a transformational one. In less than three years, he has built a record that should unify US progressives, including those on the radical...

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Ah yes, progressives have totally been waiting for yet another neocon

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Yknow whay else would have? Raising pay for your lower paid positions.

Fucking assholes

Truck purchases are driving up the average cost of car payments. Some buyers pay over $1,000 a month ( www.nbcnews.com )

More than 1 in 4 car shoppers in Texas and Wyoming have committed to paying more than $1,000 a month, and experts say it is due to the high volume of large truck purchases in those states, according to a report by auto site Edmunds....

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It's SUVs in my area. There's enough actual farmers and people who legitimately need pickups to somewhat offset the limp dick compensators. SUV drivers here tend to be piss scared and incredibly timid, which is why they buy SUVs. Think being higher up is safer.

Which is true until you flip, in which case you're fucked. And that's ignoring that the rise of SUVs and pickups has seen an average of a 6% YOY increase of pedestrian deaths since 2008.

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Gonna be honest, I really doubt that non-existence of that law would stop them

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Lemmy.ml don't blame literally everything on the west challenge

Trump 2026 trial date in election case should be rejected, prosecutors argue ( www.theguardian.com )

Special counsel prosecutors sharply objected on Monday to Donald Trump’s request for an April 2026 trial date in the case involving his efforts to subvert the 2020 election results, arguing his lawyers’ reasons were disingenuous and denied the American public’s right to a speedy trial....

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I'm 95% sure that's not how statue of limitation works

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And it's all perfectly fine to not want that.

The issue is there is a heavy expectation for all men to be like that. Many of us, me included, are not at all, and are often ridiculed for it.

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And the vast majority of pushback I've received for trying to change this sort of thing has come from other men. What exactly is your point?

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"Think of the kids!" They scream as they actively support legislation that will (and almost certainly has) lead to the suicide of many young Louisianans

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Trust me, I'm well aware that there will be an outright genocide if they get their way

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Authoritarian tend to thrash once they feel their power slipping

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Go find us proof and I'll be just as happy to see him rot in prison too

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To a certain extent, but most those ancient societies didn't exactly shy away from actively highlighting the atrocities they committed.

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You mean to tell me the south doesn't want to acknowledge that they've pretty much always been the bad guys? Color me shocked.

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I'd wager they're simply not ready for the sudden influx

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Yep. The point is to either force the "undesirables" into an underclass or to leave.

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The Kbin API isn't public yet (though that's coming very soon), so as far as I'm aware there's no native Kbin apps as of yet. I know many Lemmy app developers have already said they're going to add Kbin compatibility once it's out, including the developer of Sync.

Senators introduce bipartisan ban on stock ownership for executive and legislative branch office holders and their families | CNN Politics ( edition.cnn.com )

New York Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley are introducing bipartisan legislation that would prevent members of the executive and legislative branches — as well as their spouses and children — from trading individual company stocks.

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Hawley doing something not awful? Has hell frozen over?

Republicans try to stop military’s electrification with mind-bogglingly dumb proposals ( electrek.co )

Several Republican representatives have proposed amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act to try to stop the Pentagon’s electrification. The proposals sound so mind-bogglingly dumb that they look like they were written by 19th-century Luddites or the fossil fuel industry itself....

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Going to start running into cooling issues there as well.

Look, I'm all for electrification in as many places as we can, but there are absolutely many military use cases where they currently aren't feasible. Not to mention lithium batteries getting blown up is significantly worse for the surrounding environment long term than a diesel vehicle.

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Anyone willing to give Meta even the slightest bit of the benefit of the doubt is at best incredibly naive and at worst an outright idiot.

This July 4th, let's remember that unfair economic treatment was a major cause of the American Revolutionary War. Our revolt has this much in common. ( kbin.social )

There were numerous factors that led to the revolution, but a key one was unfair taxation. The British parliament was in a position of power and thought that they could behave with impunity for further profits....

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As an incredibly patriotic American, I also find this super weird. Even if the analogy did make sense, it's just such a weird comparison.

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