wildbus8979 @ wildbus8979 @sh.itjust.works

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You could beat your wife, she couldn't really divorce you, and couldn't open a bank account. That's usually why they love the 50s.

like worker protections or unions

That's just patently false. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-China_Federation_of_Trade_Unions

It is the largest trade union in the world with 302 million members in 1,713,000 primary trade union organizations.

In September 2009, Ford entered into an agreement with the Department of Energy and borrowed $5.9 billion

https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/ford/2020/07/29/ford-government-loan-department-energy-debt/5526413002/

They still hadn't paid it back in full in 2022.

Alternatively we could start subsiding local car makers

We have been. Bailout after bailout. For the longest fucking time, and have had insane trade rules and tarrigs in place for decades and decades. I'd argue this is what it looks like to have another country finally being able to play on a level playing field.

Yes but also not really. The two state solution is a band aid at best, and a stalling tactic at worst. Without a full return to at the very least pre 1967 borders, there's no way this is going to be any sort of morally justifiable. You truly think Israel is gonna get those settlers out? Ain't gonna happen. Let alone the right of return of Palestinian refugees or reparations.

Ah nice, thanks for the update. I'm glad they changed the name, that's a lot more attractive than something with Test in the name.

Consider Minetest instead? A libre/open source clone.

But he's better in some way than PP.

FIFY, because clearly not in every way. In many ways, as evidenced here, he sucks just as much.

The issue is that now we're stuck in the same cycle again of someone who's going to make thing measurably worse for the average person, while driving the overtone window further right, and thus further drive the rise of the far right. Voting for the lesser evil is how we got to here. The system works as expected.

Don't forget, he's not just a banker, he was also the vice chair and chair of Brookfield, one of the world's largest residential real estate landlord, the largest residential landlord in San Francisco, accused of repeatedly violating indigenous rights in multiple countries.

But hey, I'm absolutely convinced he can fix the housing crisis in Canada!

He can... As in he knows very well how to, since he was one of the main culprit for years. I will eat my hat if he does though. But hey when I pointed that out during the election I was a Tankie and Trump supporter or something.

Daniella Weiss is a nominee for 2025

My finger was hovering over buying about 250$ worth of bitcoins at around 0.20USD a pop. Back then I was pretty broke. I had been unemployed for a bit was burning through savings and struggling to pay rent, so it was hard to justify.

a) the main purpose is to avoid paying b) because spending a bunch of cash can be suspicious to other agencies that are looking, like if law enforcement is already suspicious and starts seeing a ton of large purchases without a legitimate source of income they will figure out something is up c) because people don't know any better.

Fair enough. The same saying often goes for sex workers.

That's how they ended up catching Al Capone, on tax fraud charges.

Yeah, I know what I'm risking. Go touch grass and learn how to grow some fucking and empathy for people.

Where ever Vijay publishes. He's often on RealNews and Democracy Now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay_Prashad

Yeah I'll let pop pop die alone in the hospital, you're right.

Unfortunately some of us have family there, and while it's easy to think "well fuck it I won't go visit", it's not always so easy. Family gets sick, dies, etc.

How do you mean? The whole point is to encourage people, everyone, to pay taxes. It's a great system. Taxes enforcement should be truly independent from all other agencies to maximize trust and honesty.

The IRS normally doesn't share files with anyone. Don't you know the old saying? The best way not to get caught as a drug dealer is to file your taxes.

If you look at my other comment, undocumented people in the US contribute over $90B in taxes every year!

Mostly financially. Related to hiusing. I don't really wanna get into more details, but I'm essential stuck with my current living situation for the rest of my life, unless I'm willing to lose tens of thousands of dollars (or even more if I try to improve the place I'm currently at instead of cutting my losses and moving at an already big loss). Pressure to secure stable housing for an eventual old age made me make tough decisions that in hindsight were pretty fucking ill-advised.