wait so you guys are claiming you’re mad about them taxing Elon musk because they’ll supposedly tax regular people more… but you’re also mad that 61% of people who pay no federal income taxes (mind you these people still pay other forms of tax) and think that “has to change”? hmmmm….. 🤔
like if you’re going to be two-faced and dishonest at least be less obvious about it.
at any rate all this nonsense about taxes is a waste of time when what we really need is a revolution.
Nothing two faced about it.
Just pointing out the hypocrisy of the left calling for more taxes - higher rates and new taxes - for everyone but them, while they, by and large, contribute nothing.
I’m a flat tax guy; either we all pay our ‘fair share’ or no one pays anything.
Agreed on the revolution. Bring it on.
I’m a NO Income Tax guy. Repeal the 16th Amendment. Abolish ALL income taxes. Abolish the IRS. Abolish all banking laws, rules, and regulations giving the government authority to snoop into your finances.
This would: 1. Drastically shrink the government (well, in theory–in practice, they’d probably just keep spending and inflating until we reach hyperinflations. We’re gonna reach that point eventually anyhow, though, so….) 2. Stop the government stealing a big chunk of your income (directly–they’ll still steal value from you by inflating the currency). 3. Prevent the government from snooping through everyone’s finances. If they have a specific, articulable suspicion that I, personally, have committed a specific crime and need to look at my banking records, they can GO GET A FUCKING WARRANT, the way the Constitution demands.
[aardvarkingmad voice]: no taxes except the taxes to fund draconian crackdowns on the homeless:
there’s something funny about you calling portland a people’s republic because you don’t think there’s enough jackbooted thugs roughing up the homeless. such a freudian slip quality to it- you let slip that in spite of the narrative, people’s republics are in fact defined by the absence of jackbooted thugs oppressing the underclass.
“The U.S. is provoking a new Cold War to ensure an enemy to struggle against, guarantee robust defense spending for decades, and to make sure there is no repeat of the “peace dividend” that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union.”
I do want to stress the fact that the article in question was written in The American Conservative. By a US diplomat. So, you know, probably not a CPC shill.
America without a manufactured enemy to rally people around defending the flag and indoctrinate them with fanatic jingoism would collapse within a decade or two. The specter of a threatening great evil and modern bread and circuses are the glue keeping the fragments of this slowly corroding empire precariously stuck together.
“I get excited when I see waste,” the materials scientist told Patta, “because I know that’s life for us.”
The fact that plastic does not sink is precisely what intrigued Matee.
–
“It took us about nine months just to make one brick.”
One
brick wasn’t enough, but that was no problem for a woman who likes to
get her hands dirty. Next, she built a machine to mass produce the
plastic bricks.
First the waste is sorted to remove rubble and metal, and then the
plastic is baked — just like “making cookies,” joked Matee — before the
boiling mixture is molded into building blocks. Her setup can churn out
as many as 2,000 per day, and they’re 35% cheaper than standard bricks,
and up to seven-times stronger.
–
Kenya’s fight against plastic pollution isn’t just a homegrown
issue. It’s complicated by the fact that, two years ago, the U.S.
exported more than one billion pounds of plastic waste to 96 nations,
including Kenya. Now Washington wants to make the shipment of more
plastic waste a condition of a proposed trade deal.
Greenpeace activist Amos Wemanya believes Kenya can barely manage its own waste, let alone recycle America’s.
Matee agrees that countries should keep their waste in their own
backyards, and she intends to make good on what she calls her triple
threat:
“The more we recycle the plastic, the more we produce
affordable housing… the more we created more employment for the youth,”
she said.
Like many young Kenyans, Matee is passionate about
saving the environment, but it’s not just words. She’s hoping that
through her actions, the mountain in Dandora will become a mere hill.
I wish to make it clear that I have nothing to collaborate with the United States, that I have not committed any crime in the US or in any other country, that I will not lie to favor the US against President Nicolás Maduro or his government; a government totally dedicated to the welfare of its people and which is going through an inhumane blockade by the United States that wants to take over the wealth of the country. Let us surround our president and our government with a human shield and let us not allow ourselves to be defeated.
The
top administrator of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops resigned
after a Catholic media site told the conference it had access to
cellphone data that appeared to show he was a regular user of Grindr,
the queer dating app, and frequented gay bars.
Some
privacy experts said that they couldn’t recall other instances of phone
data being de-anonymized and reported publicly, but that it’s not
illegal and will likely happen more as people come to understand what
data is available about others.
…
The resignation stemmed from reporting in the Pillar,
an online newsletter that reports on the Catholic Church. Tuesday
afternoon, after Burrill’s resignation became public, the Pillar
reported that it had obtained information basedon the data Grindr collects from its users, and hired an independent firm to authenticate it.
“A
mobile device correlated to Burrill emitted app data signals from the
location-based hookup app Grindr on a near-daily basis during parts of
2018, 2019, and 2020 — at both his USCCB office and his USCCB-owned
residence, as well as during USCCB meetings and events in other cities,”
the Pillar reported.
“The data obtained and analyzed by The Pillarconveys
mobile app date signals during two 26-week periods, the first in 2018
and the second in 2019 and 2020. The data was obtained from a data
vendor and authenticated by an independent data consulting firm
contracted by The Pillar,” the site reported. It did not identify who
the vendor was or if the site bought the information or got it from a
third party.
The
Pillar story says app data “correlated” to Burrill’s phone shows the
priest visited gay bars, including while traveling for the USCCB.
Grindr did not respond immediately Tuesday to questions.
Privacy
experts have long raised concerns about “anonymized” data collected by
apps and sold to or shared with aggregators and marketing companies.
While the information is typically stripped of obviously identifying
fields, like a user’s name or phone number, it can contain everything
from age and gender to a device ID. It’s possible for experts to
de-anonymize some of this data and connect it to real people.
*reading headline* “hah what’d he do leave his phone in a gay bar after getting drunk and asked the provider to ping its location*
*reading about the “how” for the data getting leaked* Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh what the fuck
