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  • That's part of the beauty of his plan: the taxes aren't predicated on them LIVING in NYC, but rather on them DOING BUSINESS there.

    That way, not only can't they escape their responsibilities by relocating (a favorite pastime of billionaires), but all OTHER billionaires who want to do business in one of the financial nexuses of the world (which is very nearly all of them worldwide) have to pay closer to their fair share too!

  • Revolution sounds exhausting

    It is. But at some point, the tank fills and continuing to bend over backwards to survive the boring dystopia becomes even MORE exhausting.

    Whether we're there yet is debatable, but more and more people seem to think so.

    (I can tell from the rest of your comment that you were being facetious if not downright snarky, but figured I'd take the opportunity to share my musings anyway 😁)

  • If I were you, I'd changed "guessed what is" to "identified".

    Signals an analytic, inquisitive, and curious mind, rather than someone who happened to fortuitously win a game of "pin the minora on the labia".

    Though admittedly that IS a hell of a game when played right..

  • I'm no acupuncturist, but I'm pretty sure that it's SUPPOSED to say "naan minutes", which is time spent enjoying delicious Indian flatbread.

    I guess you just eat your naan and then your ride arrives to ask you if you have any leftovers? 🤷

  • No. Once again your blind trust in institutions leads you astray.

    There are tens of millions of Americans for whom voting is made extremely difficult and time-consuming if not downright impossible to do by deliberate voter suppression tactics from (mostly but not exclusively) Republicans.

    If there had been free, open, and fair elections, the GOP would never be able to win a nationwide election.

    You don't fix the system by assuming that it works as officially intended and blaming the powerless for the outcomes created by the powerful and corrupt.

  • Both of those times were through an antiquated and unrepresentative system and with less than 50% the vote with low voter participation.

    Less than a third of the eligible to vote population ≠ the country.

    Well-meaning people pretending/being fooled into honestly believing that the presidential elections accurately reflect the will of the people without any trickery and downright fraud is how the corrupt demagoguery is allowed to persist.

  • In general, the people ARE actually pretty progressive (as evidenced byprogressive policies tending to be favored by overwhelming majorities when not attached to the name of someone the establishment has spent millions if not billions vilifying).

    The main problem is that the political system has fallen so deep into corruption that it's a representative democracy in name only.

    It's way past time for rebellion against not just the fascists, but also the system itself and the Democrats who consider it more important than the general welfare of the people.