I guess in exchange for claiming Jerusalem for Israel he figured it was only fair to suggest we stop the massive politically-created famine in Yemen as one is often wont to do in such circumstances and also all the time because it's horrific
Legally you’re fine, but spiritually you are a real mess. Do NOT skip this guy’s post history. https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/4vd3ax/ny_exgirlfriend_is_threatening_to_press_charges/?st=JAVGZROV&sh=9d04ec9a
Deputy AG Rosenstein Says He's Satisfied With Mueller's Work https://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/Rod-Rosenstein-Says-Hes-Satisfied-With-Muellers-Work-462325583.html via @nbcwashington
I both lack sufficient context, and am insufficiently invested in the idea that universities are against free speech to have a meaningful opinion. I think gender neutral pronouns is a sensitive issue, and I think a debate video is probably not the way to handle it. Probably.
@ToxicFrog There are definitely totally reasonable ones that are stuff like "I have this legal problem, how do I deal with it?", or "Someone is messing with me, can I get them to stop?"
@cazc_941 oh, that -- I forgot which university it was
My take: "teach the controvery" is complete garbage; that said, it looks like the university handled this inappropriately; more generally, context matters and we don't have enough of it.
@cazc_941 Even reading some of the stuff you've posted, I have no idea which side to take because there isn't enough info to form an opinion, and frankly, I don't have the time or desire to form an opinion.
tbf, I don't know what the tax bill involves, I personally also don't care. I've got my own taxes to deal with (and those are among the highest percentually speaking on the bloody planet)
They're blowing a hole in the federal budget, and are going to use this to continue to take more and more away from the most vulnerable so that the top 1% which holds like half of the wealth in this country can hoard more and more.
@cazc_941 The way he frames the propositions isn't fair. The corporate tax rate isn't just small business, it's all businesses. The "death tax" isn't on every inheritance, just those above something like $5mil. And I'm not sure the child tax credit is in either the house or senate bills, but if it is, tax credits are already more beneficial to the rich compared to the poor.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha I had a feeling that was probably how he framed it
god dammit
At the end of the day, we as a country have two choices. We can live in a society in the richest country in the world that provides for all of its people, or we can have billionares. We cannot have both.
@Arperum looked it up, your employer also has to pay 30% of your pay as taxes (on top of your pay), that is not included in the tax numbers I noted earlier.
We can either provide services for the poorest among us, or we can let kids who won the parent lottery and were born on third base get a lot of money they did not earn
Alright I don't know why everyone is suddenly asking me how I feel about billionaires, maybe you just needed someone to dogpile today but I have shit to do
@Yuuki no it doesn't, it just means that 'yes' doesn't apply to very many
And now we're having a discussion about how I specifically view them when I don't really have an opinion and it's a very specific topic and I don't care that much
@MBraedley In fact he also went to Harvard. Going to Harvard at all means you probably have a very strong family support system, and feeling like you are stable enough to drop out requires more so
@Yuuki I don't have time to explain why the semantics of whatever people have been replying to me with are irrelevant to anything we were talking about
Like I asked a question and instead of getting a discussion I just got asked a bunch of unrelated questions
@cazc_941 the thing I fall back on is that it is fundamentally unfair that someone who actually works for a living has to pay a higher part of their income to taxes than someone who coasts on the profits from their investments
@cazc_941 Well, a lot of that comes down to establishing what's common knowledge. When you ask "how does socialism encourage people do whatever billionaires do", we first have to establish what you think billionaires do. Also, when we talk about billionaires earning fortunes, we also have to parse what exactly is meant by "earning a fortune".
You might understandably think that being given $100 that you grow to a multi-million dollar empire through careful investment as "earning a fortune" while someone else might understandably think starting with that $100 as being given an advantage over someone who had to work three part-time jobs just to pay for rent and not really earning that fortune.
It's all about making sure that we're talking from the same perspective.
I mean, depends on whether you think being a billionaire automatically qualifies you as being smart.
i.e. Do you think intelligence can be measured by your bank account?
Conversely, do you think poor people are stupid?
I mean, the problem with associating personality traits and aptitude to wealth is that you implicitly associate lack of those traits or aptitude to lack of wealth. If people are billionaires because they're smart and hard-working, it implies that poor people are dumb and lazy.
Because if they were smart and hard-working, they'd be billionaires, right?
General reminder that in 25 days the IC loses a program that covers 100,000 foreign natsec targets. It'll derail every non-domestic CT op, cut off IC support to mil-ops, disrupt DPRK and Iran surveillance, and cripple US foreign intelligence during the reauth gap.
a lot of the stigma with sexual assault is that the victim thinks that no one will believe them, it's just their word against this powerful person, etc. But when you have other victims also speaking up, it makes the rest of the victims more likely to speak out because they know that their stories will not be immediately discredited
mind you that there are tremendous assholes out there who will harass anyone who speaks out against someone they like, so these victims are not doing it to make money, they are literally disrupting their lives and putting themselves in jeopardy for the greater good of stopping a predator in a position of power
also it is profoundly hypocritical that republican senators are all chiming in on the "franken's gotta go" while remaining silent on trump and roy moore
REUTERS: 8 countries, including France, Egypt, and the UK, have requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council over Trump's Jerusalem decision.
France and the UK. Our closest allies.
@GodEmperorDune They want to have it both ways. They want to be able to say "you can't tell us who to associate with if you can't keep your own house clean", but they won't listen anyway
@GodEmperorDune Can I ask for your permission to be a jerk?
In response to the jerks in California that suggested that Houston deserved Harvey for voting Republican, can I facetiously suggest that California deserved the wildfires for... I dunno, Weinstein?
