Critical_Thinker @ Critical_Thinker @lemm.ee

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We’re no better than Russia.

Gulag for you, comrade.

Maybe the US needs more political prisoners so we can be up to par from the minority parties. The hatred is almost there amongst the loyalists to the billionaire elite. Just check out a fox news comments section, they'd love to shoot some democrats up. They don't even consider them human anymore.

I can't believe how mass media is turning people into monsters who cheer for the death of hard working working class families while the billionaires get bigger and bigger handouts from tax dollars.

Come on, there's the press releases and public relations and then there's reality.

The reality is that businesses want employees to leave so they can avoid paying severance and because the banks will give them preferential rates for utilizing office space, keeping commercial properties artificially inflated despite major changes in the perception and reality about how work can be performed.

It's easy to downsize at very large companies, it just piles on more work for those that remain. During booming times like most tech companies had in the pandemic they hired like gangbusters at the behest of middle management, now it's austerity time so they can focus on massive profits while corporate taxes are at an excessive temporary low.

Tim Cook has made it a point to kiss the ring privately on his own while keeping apple neutral so that money keeps flowing in.

If you're immigrating you have to finish a process before you become a resident. My wife wasn't a resident for a full year until after we got married and she did the process. This means if she spent her money to buy a home during that time she would have been subject to the 100% tax.

This is what I mean. You can buy a house and live in it before you are a permanent resident. You can buy a house on a fucking visa and move in to the house and only later get whatever immigration document gives you lawful resident status.

My wife is on year 4 of the immigration process in the US. She's still dealing with people misunderstanding how work authorization works with recruiters when applying to roles. She applied ages ago to get the condition removed from her permanent residency. This is even working for years at major companies and making 6 figures. We also bought a home after she started the process.

I know and understand that the US immigration process is not the same as what is in Spain or any other country, but bureaucratic bullshit exists everywhere and you don't know the gotchas until you go through it yourself.

Saying someone needs to complete a process that can easily take 5+ years in some cases is just not realistic or fair. You shouldn't be forced to rent, it leaves you ripe to being exploited as an immigrant often by people who are xenophobic and bigoted.

There are ways to change the dynamic of landleeches but screwing immigrants isn't the solution. Everyone needs a place to live, nobody needs a place to rent out or to leave vacant as an investment. There should also be exceptions for things like commercial properties e.g. things zoned for business use. Shouldn't be fucking an immigrant over for opening up a gas station or restaurant to make ends meet because the locals are too xenophobic to hire foreigners (a huge issue all over the world.) ___

Spain is adjacent to non-EU areas. Gibraltar is technically British and Morocco definitely isn't in the EU... and when you go a couple of countries further there's loads more.

Point being, no idea why you think Immigrants only come from the EU. Dominicans love moving to Spain... as do loads of people in countries of latin america.

I hope there is an exemption for people buying houses that they reside in full time. This type of policy is incredibly anti-immigrant otherwise.

There's only one way the valuation can go, down.

They make luxury cars in an economy that seems to be heading for a recession in a political climate full of people who would rather roll coal than buy an ev, and the pro-ev people have been completely alienated by the guy's politics.

The writing is on the wall, it's just a matter of time before people see it. Dumpy may give the guy a pile of cash, but odds are that would be through SpaceX or another business, not Tesla.

Paying someone a billion dollars or more at a company should require unanimous shareholder approval. One nay should strike it down. It's egregious and unnecessary.

A billion dollars can buy you a hundred people at 10 million a piece, that's gonna get you a shitload of celebrity involvement and endorsement. The value of the shares in this asshole's pay package is over 100 billion as of early December.

I'm so confused by some of the stuff in this thread. I still use my sonos stuff and never even noticed the update beyond seeing that the UI changed a little at some point. I know people had some issues but I never stopped being able to do what I wanted with my beam, sub and a couple of satellite speakers in other rooms.

I use streaming services for music when i'm not using it for the TV too. I usually use the streaming apps themselves rather than the sonos app to do anything. I have set some custom EQ stuff with their app, but that's understandable.

I don't think they are anything special and they are very expensive things for what they do, but my problems are very few and far between. Every now and then my beam doesn't get commands from HDMI via my TV... and the TV is always the issue (it's old.) That's really it. I'm not in love with the stuff and when it's time to replace it i'll look at what else is out there, but I don't hate it either.

No, dumbass.

That's what you take away from shareholders and property insurance? Those terms don't seem to be government ones at all, whatsoever, today.

Maybe if the system was socialized or nonprofit instead of private it could be better, but people are too selfish/corrupt. The insurance industry profits greatly from the delay, deny, defend method and that's the way it'll stay.

Why even have middlemen that earn a profit for shareholders for property insurance?

My problem is with the system, not the little guys.

Yeah, they only get their wealth at the expense of hundreds of supporting staff who make next to nothing in a predatory industry.

Because the wealthy are always made whole. It's only the working class who can't stand up for themselves who are generally taken advantage of by insurance agencies.

Yeah! Don't hate the people who only have enough wealth to not work for the next several generations! There's even RICHER people out there!

The median home value in the palisades is $3,485,831. That's more than double the median lifetime earnings of an American.

The difference between your service worker friends and their ultra wealthy neighbors is that your friends will likely have their insurance claims denied, delayed and defended. Meanwhile the wealthy neighbors will cash in on their multi-million dollar art insurance on top of the housing insurance, even if they managed to have their servants sneak the art out in their spare bentley.

Then next year when your friends are still scraping by on savings the increase in premiums will come in so they can help pay for the payouts that went the rich.

If they are lucky they'll get 80% of the value of the house paid out and nothing for belongings.

I typically add 10-15% on carryout, for their troubles.

When will you start tipping your car dealer 10-15%? your lawyer? PCP? insurance agent?

The troubles are real after all.

Don't forget to tip your landlord while you're at it, and give an extra 10% to the fed come tax time (so now.)

Do you tip 10-20% at the drive through? It's equivalent to take out except you don't have to get out of your car.

Can't wait until we start tipping our colleagues for replying to our emails. It's only fair.

Think about the priority of the community wealthy community members.

Fires cause insurance payouts. This means big paydays when those 'priceless' works of art go up in smoke. You sell the land and buy somewhere without the insurance hikes. Win-win-win for the wealthy.

Crime causes property values to decline. A break in is harder to deal with. Rabble protesting for fair treatment can get violent. The homeless need to be driven from the wealthy areas so the wealthy can enjoy their champagne and caviar in peace after snorting coke off of a trafficked sex slave's tits. Police are so very valuable for keeping the wealthy safe.

They know exactly what the right priority is... for the people who actually matter (not us.)

It's because they were told they can't cut VA, SSI or Medicare, I promise.

The rich assholes always think they can just cut healthcare and retirement payouts but politicians know they will never get re-elected if it happens on their watch. The old people who rely on this shit are the only ones voting anyway.