Zelenskyy to speak with Trump after Russia defies Ukraine ceasefire
And there we go... I must not know anything about economics because you've been fed convenient models that justify the decision to cut taxes, and I'm not quoting them back to you
And FYI, I even added a side note about this - want to know some tax avoidance strategies that I like? R&D. Higher wages and benefits to compete over talent. Fancy offices and better equipment. Swag and giveaways to capture customer loyalty
This is why fuck "fuck economics". I tell you it worked, we had a less inequal society, and you come back with "well, cutting this raised tax revenues".
Of course it did - it let the wealthy open up a spigot from companies to their portfolios, and the government gets a portion.
It incentivized slashing corporate spending, but corporate spending is good - it's money flowing back into the economy. Even if they keep it in a slush fund, at least that fund will offset loans needed to expand or weather a storm - loans that also funnel money upwards and essentially force companies to pay a tax to the rich to continue to exist
But please, keep dismissing everything I say as "they just don't understand economics". No, I understand it well enough to know that what I was being taught didn't add up
On one hand, crispr isn't safe. And life is not something people have a right to create - that tremendous imposition should be met with a responsibility
On the other hand, life is treated as cheap almost everywhere. If we're going to force people to justify their right to exist, why not take a chance on their genetics to improve the species?
I mean, this was risky science, but not reckless. At some point we need to start fixing our genome, or we're just going to poison ourselves to extinction
Anonymous released a video saying that musk has no idea what he's doing and he's crippling security, and that they will "strike when they're weakest, so be ready"
That could mean a lot of things, but in my daydreams they get into the banking system and just really just fuck it all up. Just make a total mess of it
I never said anything about income tax... But again, these are real things that we used to have and they have elsewhere:
Tax brackets to to 90%+ on business profits - incentivize companies to reinvest in r&d while disincentiving investment
Tax inheritance and crack down on forever trusts
Progressively tax money moving in and out of the country, and close up tax loopholes (killing the tax filing industry would be a necessary prerequisite)
You could even revamp capital gains and certain types of loan to somehow figure into a progressive income tax
And most importantly - this has been done before. It has been done, you can pick apart suggested methods and come up with excuses for why it's impossible... But it's so clearly not. Everything else is an engineering problem
If you want to hear economists talk about it, Garys economics on YouTube popped into my feed a few days ago. He's far from the only one, even Warren Buffett has gone through a plan where he says the full tax burden could be put on businesses
And if you want to know why I don't respect economics... It's not because I'm not read up on it, it's because: how can you read up on it and still think taxing the wealthy is impossible? This has been written about by economists for decades, but it doesn't matter because there's more convenient economic theories to push far and wide
Okay, but that's kinda my point... It's bad messaging
You provided a reason not to "do", regardless of what you meant by that.
We don't need to hesitate, it's not the time to be careful. MAGA doesn't function on the openings we create - they create their own openings, their own lies about what the left is
We can't be like the Democrats - the people don't want the adults in the room who carefully avoid breaking things. The majority hates the Democrats more than ever
The people want change. They want a movement that will make enemies. That's what most of the right wants too - they want to stop Trump and Musk, they want free healthcare, they want to afford housing, and most of all they want to hope for a better future
We need to move fast without hesitation to fight back, otherwise we'll never keep up. We don't need to worry about breaking things - things are plenty broken already.
We'll fix them and patch up the holes, but first we have to win
I mean... Fuck economic theory, the entire field is a mess of myths and narratives. There's good work to be sure, but governments and organizations just find models that support what they want to do, no matter how much it conflicts with observations
There's historical examples in this country, there's modern examples like the Scandinavian model... Wealth was redistributed, there's
I have no idea what you're asking for. What even is a wealth tax "working" to you?
I mean I could pull up some economists who go over numbers and adamantly advocate for wealth redistribution, but I feel like nothing I give you is going to actually change your mind
Nah, you just start deputizing more effective people. Like ex special forces
Okay, then in that light, do you still think we need to be cautious in having the courts appoint people outside the executive branch to enforce their orders?
Like I said, I don't think you're on the wrong side, but I think this is a bad take. This is one of the last checks on Trump's power, and no telling if it's actually used... But it seems like caution is the absolute last thing we need to be advocating for right now
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Because now you don't have to run wires from the existing network to the new WiFi, you just plop them both in the new location!
But then if you want the access points to act like one WiFi network so walking around doesn't reset all your connections, all you have to do is run cables to the new WiFi access points from the original signal, unplug them from Star Link, then wire starlink into the main uplink as a fail over or something! Easy!
Illegal strike
One of the worst combination of words in the English language. So you can quit, 75% can quit at once (which was apparently the end result here), but you can't no show and demand better conditions?
Yes, absolutely. Coming out of the great depression we clawed back so much, but that's been slowly dismantled and we're back in the roaring 20s now
Things are more complicated now, but there's certainly ways to do this if we have politicians who will fight to carry out our will
I prefer the second picture, but angled back 30°
They can deputize citizens to carry out the orders too
I don't think you're on the wrong side, I think you're advocating to hold back on using a tool that can be used, right now, to mitigate some of the most terrible shit that can be done to a group of people by a government
But even forgetting what's at stake... Do you think there are no checks on this power? Do you think it isn't used already? There was a case last year where a judge ordered a custom bat mobile or something, and was unhappy he hadn't received it yet. The local cops flew across state lines and seized one in front of the judge in line. The judge ended up balking at using this legal argument, but it was discussed, and the opinion was that the judge had no legal basis for it anyways. I don't remember the resolution, but the judge was in danger of losing his robes over it
There's petty tyrants everywhere... The police are generally enablers of it to start with. Judges are still beholden to oversight, aside from the supreme court apparently
And back to where we are... Things aren't just going to go back to normal in two or four years. We're over the cliff, they're disappearing people and throwing them into what legally classifies as torture with no due process. They're trampling over the courts and the constitution - there's no going back from that, only forward
This isn't the time to tiptoe carefully around. It's not time to come up with reasons to let them continue to act, even if there's problems to work out later
Fuck that. That monkey paw bullshit is how the courts were stacked in the first place... Because Democrats are too busy pretending to be the adults in the room to recognize the game has changed
We have to use the tools we're given, or we hand a self described King all power
Not to mention, if this was a tool MAGA had use of, they'd use it with or without precedent
It was more they're worried it would, because of the sheer scale of metallic satellites that would be burning up in the upper atmosphere
I mean, isn't that kind of symbolic though? France does regular maintenance on their democracy, we wait until it's on the verge of irreparable corruption before we (hopefully) go in and fix it before it collapses
Yep. They're definitely not disappearing German and Canadian citizens for basically no reason. They're certainly not putting them in solitary confinement for days on end before shuffling them around the county for months with no way for friends or family to (accurately) track down where they are
Oh yeah, we have so many trains. They go everywhere, we have a very comprehensive network of them
Oh wait... Did you mean passenger trains?
Not at all... Last time he came to the white house, the world watched. The EU (defense council?) met with him as soon as he flew back, and pledged like 1.5 trillion to fund defense spending, and plans to put boots on the ground moved forward
Now he's going to come back, show he's devoted to peace, and Trump is probably going to ambush him again - demonstrating again that the US is not a reliable ally and drumming up more support