Everything posted by softlynow
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Proof that we, as the leaders of Western civilization, are fucked
The main takeaways from this is how ignorant we are as a nation, and how xenophobic. The latter is more important for a political discussion. It’s why Fox’s drumbeat about the border works. It’s why immigration issues always have great potential to trip up the center and the left at the polls. As for our widespread ignorance in basic areas of knowledge, I blame the complete breakdown of class structure as a system of control and shaming. We celebrate being common, we revel unruliness. That led to the empowerment of stupid people in the realm of knowledge and expertise. It’s cultural decline, and isn’t something easily addressed by government.
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CR: COVID-19 --Political Talk
We all thought it was heroic when Batman stopped Ra’s al Ghul and then Bane, when the Avengers reversed the Blip, when the Kingsmen foiled Velentine’s plan, and so on, but we just didn’t recognize tragedy when we saw it. Forests sometimes need a cleansing fire to renew healthy growth, so it goes for humanity. We can’t have nice things without a semi-regular bloodletting. Usually it’s resource scarcity that compels us to destruction. This time it’s just boredom. That’s why it’s so maddening.
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87th Texas Legislature
No agenda item on requiring daycare staff and librarians to carry two types of semi-automatic firearm and a clip point Bowie knife while on duty. This is pussy RINO shit.
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Boo fucking hoo Ashli Babbitt
This is nonsensical bullshit. Her name and story would’ve faded to mere footnote if not for the martyr treatment by the refuse that live among us. The folks here deriding that treatment and her evil acts are also in favor of stringing up the ringleaders. We aren’t lacking piano wire. What we lack is the political will to put treasonous fellow-travelers in their place.
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Joe Biden 2021
This bullshit reminds me, what happened to sushihorn?
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Time to rescind tax free status from religious institutions
Rather than nixing the tax exemptions, all non-profits should not be able to discriminate based on age, sex, gender-identity, race, national origin, disability and familial status unless the reasoning for doing so would pass strict scrutiny. Additionally, to be a tax-exempt non-profit you must not pay any employee more than 30x the pay of your lowest paid employee (~$452k vs. the potential low at the current federal minimum wage). In exchange, they can comment on politics all they want.
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ERCOT, PUC, and deregulation got us here
The Statesman has always been shitty.
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Dan Crenshaw
Other than a few golf courses, Kingwood is poverty The Woodlands.
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Meanwhile, in Jerusalem...
We must cultivate our garden.
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Cloak room stupidity in DT
Like everyone, occasionally Anastasis gets shit because he deserves it. He undeservingly gets it more than others because he invites it, and seems to crave it. Whether we admit it or not, we all need validation. He just seeks it out in a way unfamiliar to those of us outside the BDSM lifestyle.
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2022 Senate Elections
I didn't know anything about him, but I'm completely unsurprised by the fact that he voted against certifying the 2020 election results, and owns a gun store. I found it humorous that he met his wife on a mission in the Soviet Union in 1991.
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Joe Biden 2021
The person who asks this dumb question should not question the mental acuity of anyone else.
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Rich people don't pay much in taxes (now in CR) - ProPublica
It makes zero sense to change the tax treatment of something you want to end from preferred to “why the fuck would agree to that over a higher salary?”
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Rich people don't pay much in taxes (now in CR) - ProPublica
Or not. The point is to end a loophole. You’re given an option to pay $1 for a $10 stock? Great, pay taxes on the $9 of compensation. Oh, you failed to exercise the option you say? Sounds like you fucked up.
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Rich people don't pay much in taxes (now in CR) - ProPublica
I understand tax issues pretty well. My plan would be to treat everything as income when received. No deductions, credits, etc. why would my plan allow such a loophole to exist? You’re given compensation of some sort this year? Then it’s taxed THIS YEAR. Period. You say it’s not realized income this year? I say, my amendments to the IRC fixes that.
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Rich people don't pay much in taxes (now in CR) - ProPublica
Works for me.
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Rich people don't pay much in taxes (now in CR) - ProPublica
Why wouldn’t it be immediately taxed? It’s income in the tax year you receive it.
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Rich people don't pay much in taxes (now in CR) - ProPublica
5 tax brackets with no deductions, credits, adjustments … nothing (income levels and rates for examples sake only): $0-$25,000: 0% $25,001-$75,000: 18% $75,001-$200,000: 23% $200,001-$400,000: 27% $400,001-$1,000,000: 34% $1,000,001+: 40% No cap gains pref rate, no tax-advantaged accounts, no carry forward losses,etc and the same goes for corporate taxes.
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Rich people don't pay much in taxes (now in CR) - ProPublica
Or we could just fight Stephen King on twitter. King may have said almost exactly what you said in some of his other books (I haven't read but a few of his works), but he has a protagonist ponder that thought in The Outsider.
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Active shooter thread
It IS the time to ask why aren't bouncers armed? Bar patrons? Hell, arm the homeless when we strap wi-fi to their backs. These are all potential good guys with guns who've been overlooked until now. Actual thoughts and prayers to the trauma ward folks.
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Joe Biden 2021
Dems simply need to get bills to the floor that Manchin and Sinema have to vote for and build a record of accomplishment to run on in '22 along with making the mid-terms a referendum on the GOP doubling down on insurrectionism and obstruction.
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Joe Biden 2021
You're boring me now. I deal with clients who have a warped view of reality on a daily basis. There's only so much of that I need to experience in a day.
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Joe Biden 2021
This is still the Biden thread, right? Since this has veered off on a Senate tangent, it's important to note that, unless the Dem party wants to go back to being a racist Dixiecrat party, many states are simply only winnable by the guys like the one you want to hardball into fucking himself out of a job. Politics is hard. I get that you don't have the ability to understand that. No need to keep reaffirming it. It's not Republican framing to acknowledge that, without the political means or will to take care of the working class, shelter in place and distancing orders affect the one-paycheck-from-homelessness cohort dramatically more than someone that can't see past his own privilege. You want those same people to take to the streets for you and "express their power," when most folks just want to get back to work, go to a game or a concert, etc. And again, you're advocating an inorganic call to arms. That shit just does not work.
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Joe Biden 2021
'92, '96, '08, '12, '20. Since Clinton took the party centrist they're 5-3 in Presidential races. This is not the liberal country it was from '32 to '76. You needn't worry that we don't understand you. We get it. You live in a fantasyland where the smart political play coming out of a global pandemic is to re-gridlock the economy with strikes and protests that become riots.
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Joe Biden 2021
Read the entire sentence in which I use that word. Recalibrate it for what those people see. Yes, usually. Did you fail every standardized test in which you have to consider other sentences or even paragraphs of the reading comprehension sections in order to determine the right answer? If so, then let me help you. Look in the paragraph following the one you quoted. Wait for what? I want to win an election, which usually means ignoring the things you say should be done. If you're asking do I support astroturfing a revolution, the answer is no.